Show by delos wheeler lovelace ce consolidated features release side NEW YORK on the other side of boston from the selective north shore lies quincy the shipyard town it was there that capt cap t giles ches i marine m merchant ter stedman cadets cabets taught sea first learned tricks trick by master about ut tides salt tang and ships hes never strayed far from the sea since even now in his job of commandant of cadets cabets at the united states merchant marine academy the annapolis of the merchant marine at kings point 1 ili I 1 hes close to the blue reaches of long island sound the kings point school has been turning out officers to run the ships that get supplies to the fighters at the war fronts for a year now and the cadets cabets have learned navigation and discipline from a master captain stedman was just short of 20 when the united states entered world war I 1 a and nd he quickly left his native quincy for the deck of the coast guard cutter ossipee ossilee Ossi pee from august 1917 to january 1919 he was on the hazardous patrol between gibraltar and the british isles back in america he took a few marine engi engineering peering courses at massachusetts tech and speedily returned to sea this time in the merchant marine his heroic part in the rescue of 28 men from an italian freighter in an october gale in 1925 skyrocketed sky rocketed him to fame and the chief of the then queenly leviathan 0 SPRUILLE BRADEN was a hand w some bucko when he found himself a girl behind an aristocratic grille in chile and courted her for the world i i rall our oar cuban envoy like the old has considerable doug fair job heft family banks in m a seven reel thriller now he is too fat to be romantic hut but he has all his youthful assurance as he tells americans in cuba not to monkey with the is lands political machinery braden is our ambassador to cuba it is like him to have a topflight top flight diplomatic job so far as the records go he has been second rate only once at yale sale when he tried football he was fair to but no more elkhorn mont had failed to train him properly either for blocking or rushing but after he became a graduate mining engineer in 1914 he led the field he was 20 then A year later he had his charming bride in that southern land of tranquil mornings where the mountains get out of the map A few years after he had enough copper and oil to come back and swing against home grown competition here li he made more money out of rugs real estate steam shovels and in his early forties could afford to become president roose veldts roving envoy in latin america this took him from a handsome estate at riverdale rivendale on the hud son but the rewards probably compensated pen sated shortly he was minister to colombia then ambassador and now he and his family are in havana it is a considerable family and may explain his considerable weight five children plus diplomatic chores doubtless leave him no time for the handball that used to sweat his girth down COLONEL william tudor gardi ner has seen plenty of action and encountered plenty of excitement in his 51 years but nothing to maine folks folk are top his exi p ait oit with justly proud of brig gen colonel gar gardiner diner M ax x w e I 1 11 I 1 T a y 1 0 r which the north african censor n now 04 passes on to the public outwitting the germans to confer with marshal badoglio baroglio Ba doglio in rome just as our forces were about to invade the italian coast at salerno involved all the mechanics 0 an old fashioned melodrama and a few new ones too the residents ol of maine reading the news throw out their chests a bit for the gardiner Gar diners s are maine folk from way hack and have a town named after them more tudor gardiner is an ex governor of theirs raving been elected twice at the head of the republican ticket in 1928 and again in 1930 the fishermen and lobster men between boothbay harbor and penobscot bay still chuckle chuck leat at the way he be startled them when he went campaigning in a yawl sailing in with the tide out ol of a tog fog to sit atop a fish trap and talk politics |