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Tuwday. Augui 14, 1938
Sullivan To Miss
Several Programs
Southbury, Conn (U.R) TV
celebrity Ed Sullivan was con
valescing at his larm today, and
a CBS network spokesman said
he won't be able to appear on his
Sunday program for three or
four weeks.
Sullivan and his son-in-law,
Robert H. Precht Jr., were dis
charged from Griffin hospital at
Derby Monday, seven days after
they and two other persons were
injured in a two-car accident at
Seymour. The others remained
in the hospital.
No special announcement was
made of Sullivan's departure
from the hospital but a crowd of
admirers was on hand in the
parking lot as Sullivan, who slip
ped out a rear door, waved to
the crowd and signed autographs
before he got in a new automo
bile for the 21-mile ride here.
Precht was brought to the Sul
livan farm by ambulance.
AA ANNIVERSARY
Jackson, Mich. (U.R) The
Southern Michigan Prison chap
ter of Alcoholics Anonymous,
one of the largest AA groups in
Michigan, observed its 10th anni
versary recently. Several former
inmates who were members re
turned to address the anniver
sary meeting.
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FIRE BLOCKS MINE EXIT Firefighters battle blaze at
entrance to the Amercouer Coal Mine in Marcinelle, Bel
gium after a pit fire destroyed an elevator cable trapping
277 miners. Only 22 of the 277 were brought to the
surface. Nine of these were dead leaving only 13 known
to have escaped tile disaster. Rescue teams poured tons
of water down the main shaft despite the fact the water
might drown the trapped men.
Arctic Ice Continues To Hold
Mastery Over Ingenuity of Man
London (U.R) Again the ele
ments have humbled man.
He has tried and failed to con
quer the killer ice that encases
ships in costal coffins and drags
them under the sea
It has been more than a year
since ice sank the British trawl
ers Lorella and Roderigo. Forty
men died with those ships in one
of the most frightening and least
known of postwar sea disasters.
But a scientific campaign trig
gered by that catastrophe has
failed to check the killer. Invisi
ble ice waits in the wind of the
Arctic Circle to strike again.
De-icing paste and liquid,
steam and hot water jets, elec
trically heated rigging and shifts
in the superstructure all were
thought up and faulted.
Man's triumphant technology
that can crack ice off aircraft
with inflatable rubber wing
boots and warming ducts and
liquid sprays cannot offer a
shield to sailors caught like those
last year. They must die,- and
this is how ice kills:
It was Jan. 25, 1955. Skipper
S. Blackshaw drove head-to-hurricane
against a Force 12 wind in
the Lorella, 558 stout tons and
850 kits of fish in Jier hold.
Bucking, the blow off Black
shaw's bow plunged the sturdy
Roderigo, 810 tons skippered by
G. Coverdalesand both of them
sailing out of Hull.
It was 90 miles to the Iceland
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coast and the waves broke 40
feet high. They could beat the
waves and the brass barometer
that dropped to its basic point.
Thicker and Thicker
But they could not win their
fight that night against the arith
metic of the killer, for sea tem
perature dropped to 34 and air
temperature to 23. Sea water
freezes at 28.6. So they started
taking ice.
They couldn't turn away and
run from the weather. It was
head to wind or die, and full
speed ahead it had to be, or be
swallowed by the troughs.
They dropped the wheelhouse
windows and found ice six inches
thick. They beat at it with mar
linspikes and fought to get on
deck. But they couldn't get
around to use steam jets without
being blown away. They chopped
what they could with axes but
the waves broke over the bridge.
Ice swelled the forestay eight
feet thick and webbed, then
walled the handrails. Rigging
was a gortesque ice tent. The
whaleback thickened to a bulge.
At dawn both ships were
weighted down by 60-ton shells
of ice.
At 9 a.m. on Jan. 26 the Lo
rella radioed "We are badly iced
up top so cannot get much joy
out of wireless set. Position not
known."
Ten minutes later the Roderigo
replied "Been full speed in night
to keep her up. Been trying to
get her round but no go."
Five minutes later, 9:15, Lo
rella reporting again: "Boat deck
solid with frozen snow. Had been
digging it out since breakfast.
Terrible lot on bridge top and
they are going up there at day
light if possible."
"Same here, George," Rod
erigo replied, "and the whale
back is a solid mass."
Last Message
At 2:35 p.m. the next message
from the Lorella drifted dimly
through the tempest. It was the
last message she ever sent. "May
day," she called. "Heeling right
over and cannot get back."
"Think Lorella was astern of
us somewhere," the Roderigo
flashed to shipping at 3:05. She
had a little more than two hours
left herself to live.
"We are also taking heavy wa
ter now," the Roderigo radioed
at 3:31. At 4:50 she sent a futile
call to faraway ships for mercy.
"We are listing badly to star
board and would like you to
come to us."
At 5:05 p.m. "She's going
over and can't get back." At 5:10
she sent her SOS.
"Heeling right over heeling
right over heeling right over
Resources Greatest
Asset, McKay Says
Salem (U.R) Development
of natural resources is the North
west's greatest asset, Douglas
McKay, Republican candidate for
U.S. Senator, told delegates to
the state Kiwanis convention
here yesterday.
"Our recreation and industry
both depend on wise use of these
resources," the former Interior
Secretary said.
In speaking of free enterprise
he said, "some people criticize
big business. I was taught that
anyone who starts a business is
to be respected as long as he is
honest. Some people frown on a
man who succeeds."
McKay told his audience two
things were necessary for the
preservation of freedom. He list
ed them as public education and
a place in the hearts of the peo
ple to continue our way of life.
Coon Will Step Up
Tempo of Campaign
Baker (U.P.) Rep. Sam
Coon will step up the tempo
of his campaign for reelection
this week before leaving Sunday
for the Republican national con
vention in San Francisco.
The Oregon Republican will
be principal speaker in a school
dedication ceremony in Fort
Rock Friday night. Coon spon
sored a bill in the 84th Congress
to permit the school district to
purchase federal land on which
to build the school.
The Congressman and Mrs.
Coon will attend meetings this
week at Baker, Fort Rock, John
Day, Redmond, Bend, and Lake-view.
Polk County Farmer
Resigned To Highway
Salem (U.R) A Polk coun
ty farmer whose protests against
j the construction of a state high
way across his property reached
the state Supreme Court earlier
this year, apparently has resign
ed himself to the fact that the
highway will be built.
Time for filing a petition for
a rehearing passed yesterday
with no action being taken by
the farmer, Joseph Harland.
The Polk County Circuit Court
had dismissed the case before
the Supreme Court step affirm
ed the lower court's decision.
please acknowledge." Then, "Go
ing over, going over" and a long
morse dash that stopped at pre
cisely 12 minutes after 5.
Two Vain Passes
American planes from Iceland
made two vain passes overhead.
The Roderigo's inflatable rubber
dinghy was the only remnant
found of the two ice-strangled
ships and the 20-man crews they
carried.
Marine insurance firms and
fishermen's guilds, shipowners
and Admiralty launched an ef
fort to conquer the ice menace
that widowed or orphaned 70
odd women and children at Hull
that January day.
They wanted to lower the
bridge but then they couldn't see
over the whaleback. They ex
perimented with de-icing by elec
tricity and it helped on flat sur
faces such as the front of the
bridge, but it wasn't very work
able on whaleback handrails and
boat deck.
Paste and steam had limita
tions The idea for tripodmasts to
replace rigging had snags when
applied to trawlers.
The researchers admit they
haven't found the answer.
Nevada Convention Delegate Breaks Hip
Chicago (U.R) A Demo
cratic national committeewoman
from Las Vegas, Kcv., and a
member of her state's delegation
was in the Coloumbus hospital
today suffering a fractured hip.
Mrs. Perle Brown, 66. report
edly fell Monday night when she
missed a step leading from the
lobby into the Coral Lounge of
the Sheraton hotel where she
was staying while in Chicago for
the convention.
Authorities at the hospital said
Mrs. Brown was "resting com
fortably." They described her1
condition as "good."
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