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41 Men From Lost Vessel Get Warm Welcome From Natives in Africa.NEW YORK. — Forty-one survivors of a medium-sized United States merchant ship, torpedoed and sunk in the Indian ocean several * months ago, reached the African coast after seven days in an open boat, only to be confronted by naked savages armed with big knives. Fortunately the savages turned out to be friendly and helped the seamen make their way back to civilization._ This was revealed by some of the survivors who had reached an East ..coast; port^. The sinking of .the ship .was officially announced recently by ■ the navy department in Washington. Fourteen men, 12 members of the crew of the merchant ship and two of the ten-man naval gun crew, are missing and presumed dead.Two Torpedoes nit.Cap#. XV. W. Kuhne of 460 Oakland avenue. West New Brighton, S. L, said that the ship was sunk by two torpedoes, which he believed jvere fired from a motor torpedo boat. While his crew and the naval gfinners were abandoning ship, he said, on© lifeboat was upset. The loss of life occurred among the men who were in it.All 41 survivors crowded into one of the three remaining lifeboats,abandoning the two others. Captain Kuhne reported that they suffered severely from hunger and thirst during the week before they reached land. When shore was sighted a heavy surf was running and he feared the crowded lifeboat might not make the beach.“But we started in and then about 20 natives came on the beach to watch us land, he told the Associated Press. “They had big knives hanging from belts. The belts were the only clothing they wore.Really Worried.The Africans helped the shipwrecked men to travel on foot and by boat to a town, from which they returned to the United States by smp and airplane.Dream Causes Reunion of Sisters Apart 40 YearsST. LOUIS.—A dream has united two sisters who had not seen or heard from each other since 1902, when they parted in Copenhagen, Denmark.in the dream, Mrs. Bhenhilda Brawshaw of Teaneck, N. J., said she visualized the name of her sister, Mrs. Em die Kasch, in the St. Louis telephone book.She obtained a copy of the directory, found the address of an Alberl Kasch and wrote him a letter, ex plaining fief desire to find her sister, who had married an Alberl Kasch in Denmark before departing for the United States 40 years ago. Mrs. Brawshaw came to this country two years later.The Albert Kasch listed in the telephone book proved to be Mra. Brawshaw's sister's son, and the letter brought the two women together here for a reunion.“It was like a new life to see her again,” said Mrs. Kasch. I had given her up for dead/*Longer Season for Duck Hon tingSeventy days of waterfowl shooting instead of 60, and legal hunting from sunrise to sunset instead of to 4 p. m.! That’s the big news in the 1942 Federal Migratory Bird regulations recently announced by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service. Other important changes include removal of special protection to the Atlantic brant, legal shooting of wood duck throughout the country instead of in 011J7 15 states as last year, and extension of the period during which legally killed waterfowl can be possessed to 30 days after the close of the season instead of 20. The bag limit for ducks is set at 10, including not more than
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Hopewell Herald
Hopewell, New Jersey, US
Wed, Nov 11, 1942
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