Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History

12 Sailors Hurt On Submarine S-49

After Battery Blows Up While Charging at Her New London Berth.

By the Associated Press.

NEW LONDON. Conn.. April 20.—Twelve men, members of the S-49, which was moored at a dock at the submarine base, were injured this morning when the after battery in the submersible exploded. All the men were taken to the base hospital. One man may die.

The submarine, which returned from the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., two weeks ago, had been moored at her berth and her battery was under process of being charged throughout the night. Escaping gas fumes are believed to have been the cause of the explosion.

Posted inDaily News True Crime

Car Strip Gang Roundup On

FOUR JAILED IN OPENING DRIVE

Six Autos Found Monday With Parts Removed; Officers Get Busy.

Throwing the entire force of the sheriff’s department into action. Sheriff Jim Stevens and his chief deputy, Alfonse Newton went out Monday to round up the biggest car stripping gang which has ever operated in San Antonio.

Finding of six cars Monday morning which had been stripped down to everything but the frame, brought about the determination to clean up the gang. Four arrests were made during the forenoon.

Posted inBiographical Daily News Local Histories

Bridal Couple Get Cold Feet And Audience Is Fooled

Rumford, Me. April 16.—(AP)—Brides are sometimes left waiting at the church and bridegrooms sometimes find themselves in the same predicament, but it was the audience that waited in vain here tonight when both bride and groom failed to appear.

The marriage of Miss Alice Randall of Buckfield, to Arthur Treworthy, 21 year old Oxford paper mill employe, was to have been the feature event of Rumford’s first annual style show and better homes expedition. Two thousand persons had assembled to shower the happy pair with blessings and gifts from the exposition exhibits.

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Air Piracy Case Is Lost

Zenith Concern Wins Against Government in Suit (By The Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Ill., April 16,.—The government lost its first air piracy case today when Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson found…
Posted inCivil Engineering Daily News Engineering

Superpower System To Girdle Country

Minnesota Power Light Company Part of Huge Transmission System.

Announcement was made last week that the Minnesota Power Light company is one unit in a great superpower system, which will link up all power lines of importance in the eastern half of the United States. When these connections are complete, it will be possible for power generating stations in Minnesota to come to the aid of power generating stations on the Gulf of Mexico, and vice versa. Thus the surplus power generated in Minnesota when waters are high here can be used to come to the aid of sections of the country where there is a generating power shortage. Instead of a huge power trust, the plan is being worked out through arrangements between the large power companies, and physical connection between their systems.

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Squibb’s Liquor 330 Cases Short

Check Shows Stock in Federal Bldg. Depleted, Sargent Tells Representative La Guardia After Inquiry.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY INFORMED

Ward Told to Take Criminal Action If He Feels It Necessary.

By Roscoe B. Fleming
Times Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 13.—The Squibb liquor stock in the Indianapolis Federal Bldg, is 330 cases short, Attorney General Sargent reported to Representative La Guardia, New York, today.

Sargent added that the shortage had been reported to District Attorney Albert Ward in Indianapolis, and that Ward had been instructed to review all the facts and to take criminal action if he felt it necessary.

Sargent’s letter follows a charge made by La Guardia several weeks ago that part of the liquor, transferred from the Squibb distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ind., had been removed from the Indianapolis building, while under charge of Federal Marshal Linus P. Meredith.

Posted inScience

Scientist Explains Extinction Of Bird

Heath Hens Practically All Gone Despite Efforts, Dr. Gross Says.

Illustration of male and female heath hens (James Turvey, 1835)

The several causes of the practical extinction of the heath hen, a game bird closely resembling the grouse, were set forth by Dr. Alfred O. Gross of Bowdoin College, at a joint meeting of the Audubon Society and the Biological Society of Washington in the National Museum last night.