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EIGHT MEDFOBD (0P.EG3N) MAIL TRIBUNE Fridsy, July 27, 1958 bumvors of knur Ship Collision Survivors Tell Of Experiences, Feelings at Sea Dona Count Bles Nearly By UNITED PRESS Quotas from -:,rv:vor- c-f An rlrfa Doria-Storkholm colls.'iwv. Ann Burrows. Univfrsit Wisconsin s'udr-rit- ' It was ? panic. It was hell " of Max Passant, D n gist: ''The few instnir-' v.fTP givrn in I'alian ppople couldn't u n d thprn." vi-r z-lo-1 ions yivf-n and mo-! c r s ! a n d never so, it. Paola Sergio of Soi;:h fVnd. Ir.d : ' We were going to bed. I ran out of the cabin and saw smoke in the corridors. V.V heard somebody shouting. 'Aban don ship!' '' Mrchftntv:!le. X.J.: 'Suddenly i'. ''he fe cirared. I don't know what y. would have done if that hadn't happened." Mayor Richardson Dilworth of Philadelphia: ' The slan'ma rif-cks werr- like ski slides and lots of passengers got badly bruised." Actress Rulh Roman: "All of a sudden, there was an explo sion like a firecracker I knew something had happen'-d but I didn't know what.-' Jerome Reinerl. Brookh n en gineer: "Kvorvhoriv had to et fi'-v.'il tr.e side bv r'r, : j- la'Uirrs Eetsy Drake, actress wife- of Cary Grant: "I was just gelling ready for bed when all of a sud den there was a big bang. Evrrv'hing flew across iht-room." Gay Barton of New Orleans: "Four of us were in the cocktail lounge when he heard a terrific crash. We ran outside and then waited two hours until we were rescued." Purser Anionio Comichi: ' Pas sengers behaved heroicallv." .Some oi some c; ladders. rr.eo nan '.' 'HI' rii.v and the Stanley Sanger of Baltimore-: "There are more people dead than they say. Don't let them fool you. A lot died in the cab ins whfire the Stockholm hit the boat under the bridge." Sidney G. Ellis of Sacramento. Calif., construction company of ficial: "There seemed to be con fusion between the officers of the Andrea Dona and the crewmen Mrs. Rosa Adragna of Pitts burgh. Pa : "I was sure that I was going to die, that everything was all over.'' Lena Scianninanic of New York: "I was afraid, all right, but not panicky." Conrad Mangels of Jackson ville, Fla.: "We prayed and we're thankful we were spared." Morris Novik, pi-e:,:rirn' of ra dio station WOV. New York: "There was no lar'-scaie panic 8nd everybody seemed to help one another," Dr. Franco A. Fusco. Genoa. 3taly, a Kulbnght scholar: "It cgs like a thunderclap. There as a great shock. We stood in (tiie dark, waiting for news. We Mrs. Delores Sejda of ('nos ier. Ph.- "We never did sec any crewmen. Nobody cor told es to put. e,n our life pp servers V. e didn't even know the siup wa., sinking. " Julia Strelitz of Marion. Ohio: "There was a double crunch as the Stockholm hit us on the sUir-i board side. It was like bumping into a dock." Kenneth F. Merlin of Darien. Conn.: The officers of the Doria did .a izood job " P'rances Aljinovic of Cleve land: "Naturally we thought about the Titanic." Charles Annino of Chicago: "It .'.as panic nut there and the crew acted awful." Mrs. Alexander Mackereil fc..fV'W t-"Al'W i Mil.'. !. II iflUWJ U.J.t,.U('.'')ll' i.J'J! M 3 to 5 Week Completion CLUiS & MOTELS PLEASE NOTE! Sfesy Low Prices due to Health Regulations. &mi ewners . . . 16o Aqua Chlor. available to ayxe gallon containers. NORTHWEST 1WIMM1NG POOL CO. 712 South Grape FW3 3-4340 Eveninqs 3-5664 Raising of Liner 'Next fo Impossible' Washington U R Navy sal vage experts said Thursday it would be "next to impossible" to raise the sunken Italian liner Andrea Doria from its grave 225 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic. The experts said the depth itself is no unstirmountable ob stacle The Navy onre brought a submarine up from more than 300, feet. But a Navy spokesman said "a submarine is comparatively easy to salvage. It's built to travel underwater anyway and can be made buoyant again without natch trouble. "But a ship the size of that Italian liner is nothing but a pile of junk when she hits bot tom," he said. Livestock grazing in farm tree plantings cause severe injury to the trees. The first Colonial Congress met in New York City Oct. 7, 176.1. Med ford Growers- for dependable, low-cost pest contr OS i these proved Du Pont fruit chemicals Sjse ascb -ff apples and pears with JNorf -gemmate" or "Zerlate". IJi'tlSB Sgieioa can make your fine-finish preqjrair mors profitable. Fruit gets proved protection combined with mild action. Theres' no russeting or scaid. And the mildness of "Fermate" or "Zerlate" pays another dividend . . . orchards using these materials have a history of improved production. Control bull's-eye rot with Du Pont "Zerlate". Profit from a higher yield of clean fruit plus lower repacking costs. 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Passports, Money, I Clothes and Other Valuables Missing New York 'U P) A thousand ! i survivors of the sunken Andrea Doria came ashore here in the I last 24 hours with a single thing I in common they had lost every ; thing. i There were burly Mike Ruti i gliano and gentle Sister Maria Collistus, suave Lucio Vizzini land vivacious young Delores Sejda. None of them owned more when they set foot ashore than they could carry in their hands. Mike Rutigliano carried a dirty bundle wrapped in news papers. "My shirt and pants." he said holding them high in his hand. He wore a pair of dungarees and a sweatshirt borrowed from a crewman of the He de France. Lost Clothes, Money "I saved my passport," he said. "But I don't have one dol lar or one suit of clothes. I don't even know where I'll sleep to night. Sister Collistus clung to a handful of letters and a rosary. Her habit was in disarray. But she was happy and cheerful. "We prayed aloud on this rosary while we waited for the lifeboats," she said. "I remember we prayed the Glorious Mys teries. It was Wednesday, you know. That is the day for the Glorious Mysteries." Has Place To Stay Sister Collistus said she felt lucky. We don't have any money but we have a place to stay. We have a reservation in the Mar tha Washington Hotel. I'm going there now." Lucio Vizzini wore the same suit, shirt and tie that he had on when he was dancing aboard the Andrea Doria. It was neat and well tailored . . . with a black oil streak across the back. "I lost my passport and my money, my baggage and my sou venirs," he said. "Do you know how much money I have. Look." He showed two one dollar bills carefully folded in an address book. Furs, Passport Gone "My uncle will meet me here. He'll take care of me. I don't have to worry," he said. Delores Sejda, a lovely 24-year-old blonde daughter of a doctor, carried only a pair of high-heeled shoes. "They're my mother's," she said. "But I don't know where mother is. She must have been picked up by another rescue ship." Delores said she had had 15 pieces of luggage . . . and saved nothing. "I didn't even save my glasses." she said. "It's hard to see with out them. All my furs, my pass port, everything is lost. But my father saved some money. He tucked it inside his life preserver." sings; Sea Rescue Operations Praised by Captain .verythin Gone New York -UP.) The man who directed rescue operations at the Andrea Doria for almost six hours said today it was a "miracle" so many were saved. Capt. John S. Shea, command er of the USNS Pvt. William H. Thomas, said that in his 30 years at sea he had never seen a rescue operation proceed so smoothly. "It is certainly unusual to get so many survivors off a sinking ship safely," he said. "If this happened four months from now it would be a different story. In cold weather there would be lives lost. You could bet on it." Shea said visibility was dead zero when his ship received an SOS message from the Doria. By the time we got to the ship fat 1:23 a.m. EDT) the visibility had cleared to three miles. "A thing like that would hap pen once in a lifetime," he said. "If the fog hadn't lifted when it did it would have been bad . . . very bad." The rescue ship Thomas sent two motor launch lifeboats to the Doria twice each and took off 158 survivors. Some they fished out of the water. Many Experimental Car Lost in Sinking Detroit U.R; A S100.000 "idea" car went down in ttie At lantic ocean with the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Chrysler Corp. announced Thursday. The car. named the "Nors man," was more than two years in the making. It was on Chrys ler drawing boards for a year and it took another 15 months to hand-build it in Italy. The car was in the hold of the Italian liner 200 feet underwater off Nantucket Island. Mass. Chrysler said the car. a com plete loss, was covered by insurance. Designed by Chrysler Corp. engineering division, the car was built by Ghia of Turin. Italy classic sports car designers and builders. The car had no door posts but cantilever arches on each side held the top from the rear with the same strength of present cars with front posts. Rear body pan els were made of aluminum to reduce weight. The body was streamlined along aerodynamic principles. they took from the stern of the sinking ship, the last part of the stricken vessel to go down. Shea said it wasn't necessary to direct the lifeboats of the other rescue ships. He said they all displayed perfect seaman ship. The captain's report of the fog lifting at the exact critical time was born out by the sur vivors on his ship. "The fog was so thick you couldn't see the people on the deck," one survivor said. "After the crash we all began to pray. We prayed so hard. And then, as if in answer to our prayers, the fog lifted. The moon came out. the water was calm, and we felt hope again." TRIANGLE LAY I N G FEEDS Insure Summer Egg Profits . The United States drinks as much coffee as the rest of the world combined. Soybean prices have gone up about one-third since the 1955 harvest. The Pilgrims landed in Massa chusetts Dec. 22. 1620. Newscaster Doesn't Tell All in Describing Disaster New York U.Ri Edward P. Morgan left something out of his ABC news broadcast Thurs day night. Morgan, broadcasting from New York instead of Washing ton, told how relatives and news men waited anxiously for word of survivors taken from the stricken Andrea Doria. He told of how newsmen boarded the He de France off New York harbor. And how they were able to spot the survivors among the persons standing on the deck by seeing "here a shirt tail sticking out, here a banaged hand." He saw a friend, Morris Novik, who had been on the Andrea Doria and "threw my arms around him." Then he went to the liner's infirmary to see Mrs. Jane Cianfarra, wife of Camille Cianfarra, the New York Times correspondent in Madrid. Mrs. Cianfarra told him how the Stockholm had smashed into their cabin, splitting it in half. Mrs. Cianfarra's husband and two daughters were cut off in the other half and have not been seen since. They are presumed to be dead. Then he told of how He de France passengers donated shoes, clothing and money to the sur vivors. And the eyewitness ac counts of the tragedy. "It's a horrible thing but an inspiring thing to see how people react in a time of tragedy," Mor gan concluded. He did not say on his broad cast that Mrs. Cianfarra is his former wife, and that one of the two girls believed to be dead is his 14-year-old dauughter, Linda. But the story had still another unexpected development. When the Stockholm arrived in New York carrying survivors from the Andrea Doria, it was discovered that Linda was aboard and had miraculously escaped death. She had been injured and was taken immeditely to a hospital for emergency treatment. Nw Mount Rainier Measurement Slated Seattle !U.P' A new survey will be made of of Mount Rainier to more accurately mea sure the height of the great vol canic cone in the Cascade mountains of the Pacific north west, Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Preston P. Macy announced today. The present accepted height of Columbia crest, highest of the mountain's three summit peaks is 14,408 feet above mean sea level, Macy said. The elevation was determined by the geologi cal survey in 1913. However, it is believed that the employment of modern in struments and improved meth ods of survey will result in a more precise measurement, Macy added. 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