Sailors Drift After Ship Torpedoes and Hunger
Cox swain Donald Eaton of Meridian Idaho recounted a six day drifting ordeal after his merchant ship was torpedoed near the Caribbean. He kept scraps of tin foil from chocolate bars for the US scrap drive while 27 men endured water rations and lifeboat peril. A submarine passed close and later delivered cigars before a US destroyer rescued them on June 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
INS
Caribbean
United States
Donald Eaton
Meridian
Idaho
United ‘States Navy Armed Guard Center
Treasure Island
Eaton
Uni States
Galveston
Tex
Canal Zone
West Coast
Non-Farm Employment Registers Increase
Secretary Perkins reported a 435000 rise in non agricultural employment from mid June to mid July, lifting total employment to a new high. July employment was 3710000 higher than June and 2100000 above July 1941, with factory jobs up 257000 and gains across other major groups except trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Perkins
Wild west scene ends with lassoo mishap in Cedar Rapids
A Cedar Rapids street incident shows Emmett Hopkins dragged by a passing car after his lasso loop caught on the bumper. He suffered a skinned palm and burned thigh. The item also notes the first city mail delivery 50 years ago and local civic happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Emmett Hopkins
Fifth ‘Avenue
Hopkins
Twenty-fourth
City ‘Council
Instructing Navy Instrument School Chooses Jadrnicek
Lieut James R Jadrnicek son of Mr and Mrs K L Jadrnicek 144 Seventeenth Street SW is named among seven instructors for the Navy s first instrument flight instructor school at Atlanta Ga The program opens the first week of September and trains commissioned officers as instrument flight instructors to improve blind flying efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Atlanta
James R. Jadrnicek
K. L. Jadrnicek
Seventeenth Street
Jadrnicek
Atlantic Naval Reserve Aviation Base
Aviation Reserves
Bureau of Navy
Lieut. Jadrnicek
Grant High School
University of Iowa
University
R.O.T.C
Pershing Rifles
Naval Aviation School
Pensacola
Fla
Corpus Christi
Tex
Nazis Clamp Ban On Civilian Output
London AP reports Fritz Sauckel, Nazi labor commissioner, ordered immediate cessation of all civilian industrial production in occupied territories as relayed by an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Zurich on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Fritz Sauckel
Zurich
Appointed Dean of Women at Coe College
Miss Lola B. McCollough of DeLand Florida was named dean of women of Coe College by President Charles A. Anderson. She has served as dean of women at John B. Stetson University and Hillsdale College and holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and an MA from Columbia University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola B. McCollough
DeLand, Fla
Coe College
Charles A. Anderson
Miss McCollough
John B. Stetson University
DeLand
Hillsdale College
Michigan
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Stetson University
Miss McCullough
American Association of University Women At
Hillsdale
Women's League
Canadian Soldier Bound On Rail Spur Questioning
Private B. Schweigert aged 30 told police he was bound hand and foot and left on a railroad track Saturday night by two German-speaking men who questioned him about the Royal Canadian Army service corps camp in Red Deer Alberta. Engineer W Barrett of a northbound C P railway freight train applied brakes and stopped within inches of Schweigert before he was found unconscious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Deer
Alta
B. Schweigert
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
W. Barrett
Canadian Pacific Railway
Schweigert
Unclear crime tale from Red Deer drives to camp
Schweigert told police he met two men in Red Deer Saturday night who offered to drive him to camp but instead headed in the opposite direction with his feet wired to a rail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schweigert
Red Deer
Prisoner recounts assault at remote camp near track
The witness testified that two men gagged him tied him with wire and left him by the track with his feet wired to a rail. He heard the attackers speak German and is currently under observation in a local hospital.
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Schweigert
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John B. Northcott
Cedarapids Chamber of Commerce
Ceye ‘Rapids
Mert Hadley
Y.M.C
Tcretary
Ft. Dodge
Co- Rapids
Airdome
Seeason
de Wwe ‘Kroulik
Navy School
Lieut
Pkes
Copely
Dixon Claro
Bozen Cedar
Jergen
Kentucky
Priz. of
Iowa
Phillip
Wrine Dioness
Williams
Esks
Good Housekeeping Magazine
Absorbine, Jr
Mazda
Ston
Lee
Klek
Coe
Lola B
McCollough
Ohio
Portgomery Ward
Second ST. SE
DIAL
Golden Tobacco
HAY Moderis
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