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...this connection we would like to advise that the Liberty vessel, S.S. Jason Lee, launched from the Kaiser Co.'s Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. on June 27, 1942, was christened by Mrs. Walter E. Harris, wife of Walter E. Harris, Negro swing shift porter. . . . HAL BABBITT Publicity Director Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. Portland...
...have just read your article on William Francis Gibbs in TIME, Sept. 28. . . . One little bracketed statement in the fourth paragraph is rather amusing and very false. You say, "By contrast, in World War I U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended." That virtually means, as it stands, that the U.S. Shipping Board got no deliveries of cargo vessels...
...after endless day dawned without a sign of a vessel. The children sang. Men & women raised their croaking voices with them. Finally a destroyer appeared. It mistook the raft for a submarine and began shelling it, realized the error and picked up the half-dead voyagers...
...cargo ships, 1,088,497 deadweight tons; from January to April 1942, as much as during the whole of 1941; by the end of August, 367 ships, 4,882,415 deadweight tons. (By contrast, in World War I, U.S. yards, building smaller, poorer ships, delivered not a single cargo vessel of the wartime program until after the war was ended...
...Nazi submarine was still a formidable menace. The Canadian destroyer Ottawa went down with her captain, four other officers and 107 men. German torpedoes had also bagged two other Canadian warships (a patrol vessel and a corvette) since Sept. 14. The U.S. Navy's Secretary Knox summarized the situation this week: "There can be no question but that today the submarine problem is the major problem confronting us-one which is closely tied in with that of an eventual second front in Europe . . . and with the supplying of Russia in order to keep her armies in the field...