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Thursday, January 22, 1942Veteran Phofog Writes Of TorpedoingOff Sumatra, Of Thirst And SufferingAssociated Press(Another—this time one who coversman- ____________a world at war with a camera— has been the victim of an axis submarine attack. This time it is Frank E. Noel, 37, veteran photographer who has been covering the Singapore front, who writes a first-hand story of a topedoing off Sumatra).ii A ▲IAmerican SheepmenSay They'll SeeBy FRANK E. NOELPADANG, Sumatra, Netherlands East Indies, Jan. 20.—CP—and theWoolSuppliedSuffering from thirst ____blistering of a tropical sun, 28 of us out of a ship’s company of 77 arrived here today after a Japan-submarine sank our IndiaWill Take Lot of WoolClothe U. S. Soldiers,Civilians, Alliesesebound ship and spilled us into the sea five days ago.Our ship apparently was the first victim of Japanese submar-the Indianines operating in ocean. It was attacked ^ do and shellfire about midnight Jan. 14 some 270 miles off thewest coast of this Dutch Indies island.The shelling finished off an attack begun when a torpedo scored a direct hit on the vessel’s en- ^ LIldl Lue 10131 visioie supplygine room, killing five and injur- of aPParlt;?l wools for 1942 will being four of thp 9n estimated 1.138.700 nnn nm.nHcSALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 20.^—it will take a lot of wool toclothe this nation’s soldiers and civilians and the armies of herallies but America’s sheepmenwere declared today ready to produce it.That was the challenging statement that greeted arrivals for the 77th annual convention of the National Wool Growers’ association, beginning tomorrow.Figures prepared by F. R. Marshall, association secretary, showed that the total visible supplying four of the crew.Equipment Lostgh I suffered leg injuries I got overside in a lifeboat with some of my photographic equipment—most of it and all my •personal belongings are at the bottom of the sea.3n estimated 1,138,700.000 pounds,not including imports that may come from Australia. -— - w m wOf this amount, the office ofproduction management has proposed 400,000,000 pounds be consumed for civilian clothes, a figure slightly more than half of the1941 consumption, Marshall explains, and one sufficient, he feels to clothe the nation well “with-(The Japanese, having reached the Strait of Malacca along the 1Malay peninsula, across from the , * , . -.....-,,-east coast of Sumatra, apparent- I 0ut workin£ any serious har.'ihip ly have cut off the direct route from Singapore to India and now have put their submarines intothe Indian ocean to attack British shipping taking the roundabout but less exposed route west , of Sumatra.)arine cruised on thesurface for half an hour within 100 yards of our four lifeboats but made no attempt to shell or machine gun us.Then it fired five shells broad-on anyone.The remaining 738,7C,.:Cpounds, Marshall estimated, will provide uniforms, blankets and other needs for 5,000,000 soldiers, i Already, Marshall said army figures released last fall showed, supplies were on hand for approximately 5,000,000 fighting men—a number in excess of published figures of present intended strength for the United Statesside into the crippled ship and she sank by the stern.Two Boats Reach ShoreTwo of the life boats reachedarmy.*shore in the Batoe Island group, off the Sumatran coast north ofHigh Farm PricesFeared Likelyhere, yesterday. , _The other boats have not been DaIUM IjllCff RAUiIsighted yet, but they are believed I ■*''■•■111 l/llJl DUWIto be in the Siberut Island area of the coast.For the first two days all fourboats remained within hailing distance of each other, then highwinds and a rough sea separated them.The sun broiled us and we suffered from thirst since the lifeboat’s casks were smashed. Na-tiyes of a small island supplied uswith water, however.* * *WorkingFor Years Turning Gray TWorriediDENVER. Jan. 20—4JP)— Me who have struggled for years t make the gray dust bowl gree hope that, this time, war-irrFrank Noel is a native of Dal-hart, Tex., and worked on newspapers in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Chicago and Wichita before joining the Associated Press. Hehad been an CP) staff photographer in Buffalo, Albany, Miami and Atlanta prior to his presentforeign assignment. *-proved grain prices won’t crea swirling dust clouds.During the first World wawhole sections of semi-arid prai• ln Colorado and sever;?irZolning states were plowed u Wheat became king. It paid weLater, grain prices sank.nd stood idle. Dry years fclowed, -vinds carried the loostopsoil hundreds of milesavi , r — «««-» aw*aAll that taught the farmers
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