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...waves, the little Otter had rolled as much as 38 degrees-enough to convince passengers, clinging desperately to handholds, that only tough, trained "destroyer crews" could ever sail in her, and then only under compulsion. Almost twice as many men would be required to operate her, per ton of cargo carried, as a conventional merchantman...
...satisfaction that fifth columnists ashore were keeping in touch with U-boat crews. After the sinking of their small merchant ship; two crew members were picked up by a submarine, later released. The sailors found that the sub's commander knew about their port of departure, cargo and destination...
...lifeboat was almost awash. As it rolled and pounded in the 15-foot swells, Desanka Mohorovicic began to feel the pangs. It was just ten hours since she and 23 others in the boat had pushed away from a torpedoed cargo-passenger ship somewhere off the Atlantic coast. Many of the company had been bruised and battered as they tumbled along the listing deck and slid down manropes into the lifeboat. The ship's surgeon, Dr. Leonard Hudson Conly, on whom Mrs. Mohorovicic now depended, had two broken ribs. Mrs. Mohorovicic herself had hurt her legs badly when...
...pound boy. For another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready to join her husband, an attache of the Yugoslav Consulate in Manhattan. Said she in her uneasy English: "Everyone was good to me." Said gallant Dr. Conly: "A brave...
...dashing attempt of the U.S. Navy to turn the tide in the Battle of Java became public property at last. The U.S.S. Langley, hulking old aircraft tender, was bombed and sunk Feb. 27. She was knocked out by Japanese land-based bombers as she approached Java with a cargo of U.S. fighting planes that might have won the battle and preserved the key of the Indies for the Allies. More than half of the survivors who were picked up by destroyers and transferred to the naval oiler Pecos, were lost two days later when the oiler was sunk...