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Observers, long expecting this move, saw its beginning last week in Illinois, where three Lewis sub-chieftains suddenly withdrew from the State's federation of C.I.O. unions. One of them was Ray Edmundson, C.I.O. regional director, who declared: "Hereafter I shall devote every ounce of energy at my command [to] . . . Lewis, whom I consider one of the greatest labor leaders of all time...
...subs prowled daringly. One crew, drifting in a lifeboat, told of being followed for five days by a submarine, which surfaced at night and set off rocket signals to other U-boats. The castaways knew why they were being followed: the sub wanted to nail the ship that rescued them. They made no signal for help until the submarine began to lag behind. Then they hailed a passing freighter, which picked them up and made a getaway...
...shipmates struggled frantically with the falls of a lifeboat. Said Kelly: "I saw the captain, with his face all bloody, run through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
...good spirits, they headed west, helped along by an improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked an S O S with a flashlight, but the tanker did not respond...
...first group of Chinese pilots to be trained in the U.S. were ready for graduation. Now, after some 20 weeks of intensive instruction under U.S. officers, they would return to China as sub-lieutenants in the Chinese Air Force...