Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1942, Page 9

FRIENDS THEN—Vice Admiral William A. Glassford, jr., who has been named chief of the new “United States Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific,” is shown with Rear Admiral Jin Kobyashi on a visit to Shanghal in 1940 w! of the Japanese naval post there. hile the latter was commander Admiral Glassford is a brother of Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, former D. C. superintendent of police. —¢ 5 Die as‘«Fire Sweeps Chatfanooga Hotel; Six Others Missing Fast Spreading Flames Prevented Warning to Guests, Manager Says By the Associated Press. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 7— Flames swept the three-story South- ern Hotel today, killed five persons and left six missing. Of undetermined cause, the fire originated in a storage room behind the cletk's office, on the main floor of the 44-room structure situated near-the Southern Railway termi- nal. The five victims were identified | as: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arone, about | 40, of near Clarksville, Tenn., for- merly of Elmira and White Plains, N. Y., associated with a carnival| company. | W. E. Fink, 31, employed at & nearby Government ordnance plant Charles Demar Brooks, 30, billiard parlor operator. A. E. Hutcheson, Chattanooga. | Warner Williams, 20, of Murfrees- | boro, Tenn., who with his wife fled in night clothes down a fire escape, | #aid “When I left the building there ! were still quite a number of people up there.” L. N. Roberts, manager of the hotel, said he attempted to arouse the guests but the flames spread —A. P. Wirephoto. VICE ADMIRAL H. F. LEARY, | Named to head Allied fleet | in Anzac waters. Sinkings (Continued From First Page.) batted vigorosuly with increasing success by our forces.” Thinks All of Crew Got Away. | Chief Steward Gunnar Spant, | one of the Amerikaland survivors.‘ told Navy men he believed all of the crew were able to get away in the ship’s three lifeboats, but that in the confusion of the last torpedo explosion, two of the lifeboats were separated from the third in which he and 10 others were found approxi- mately three and a half days later THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHING TON, D. C, FEBRUARY 8, 1942. were rescued, the survivors impro- vised a sail for their lifeboat and subsisted on corned beef and water. They were sighted by the rescue vessel shortly after 7 am. yester- day—just as the water gave out. The Navy had no announcement as to the fate of the occupants of the other two lifeboats. Capt. Schutz, 54, a ruddy-faced native of Guttenberg, Sweden, said the first torpedo struck as he was in his cabin prepering for bed. Unlike the time he was torpedoed while on a freighter in the first World War and spent 19 hours naked in a lifeboat in January weather on the North Atlantic, the captain was able to don pajames and clothing this time. Sea Too Rough for Rowing, “I contécted the bridge, ordered and SOS and then told the crew F ST., Tth ST, E ST. to evacuate:the ship,” he said. “I think all my crew got away in three lifeboats.” “While my lifeboat was circling around the Amerikaland, the sub- marine sent another torpedo whizz- ing across the lifeboat’s bow. That was the end of the Amerikaland.” ‘While the lifeboat bobbed in water 50 rough the 11 survivors weie un- able to row, Eric Sodestrom, an able-bodied - seaman, died. Capt. Schultz sajd they kept his body in the boat until Wednesday when they had to throw it into the sea. Sub Surveyed its Work. Capt. Schutz was one of six who had to be hospitalized on arrival, all suffering from frostbite: and ex- posure. The other five were taken to a hotel. After the final explosion, Steward Spant siid one of the attacking submarines could be seen near his lifeboat, three of the crew on deck e HECHT co. NATIONAL 5100 surveying the sinking vessel through binoculars. So close was their lifeboat to the submarine, he said, that all 12 threw themselves to the floor of the boat in fear that they might be machine- gunned, but there was no shooting. The steward praised Capt. Schutsz, who he said held the lifeboat rudder and did most of the navigation dur- ing the 80-odd hours before the rescue. Vessel Sunk Off Canada; 45 Saved, 27 Missing AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Feb. 7 (#).—Forty-five sur- vivors reaching here in three life- boats reported today that an enemy submarine had sunk their coastal freighter off the Canadian coast. Twenty-seven crewmen were still missing. Vessels sent out from this port, meanwhile, searched for a fourth lifeboat containing some of the re- mainder of the freighter's crew of 72. Survivors already here said sev- eral men were trapped on the ship when she went down. The submarine fired two torpedoes | at their vessel, the survivors said. One of them missed the ship com- pletely, but the second caused her to sink swiftly. The men reaching shore were ex- amined at an emergency hospital, but all were reported by attending physicians to be in good condition and fine spirits. They had not been in their lifeboats long. The survivors, all Britons, sald the ship was sunk without warning. ‘Two lifeboats were put out of com- mission when the torpedoes struck. Fire broke out in a ship berthed here shortly after midnight, and poured from the hull, while the vessel listed against her dock 65—IF PERFECT LINEN DOUBLE DAM- ASK CLOTHS, 70x88 Ins. 7'99 27--IF PERFECT LINEN DOUBLE DAM- 9 99 . 8 48-degree angle, her starboard deck almost swash. n‘mbo-i lieved the crew escaped. Republic, Union Locked On Pay Increase Demand By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Negotia- tions between the Republic Steel Co. and the Steel Workers Organiz- ing Committee (C. I. O.) have reached an impasse over the ques- tion of wage increases and union security, the union announced yes- terday after a meeting with com- pany officials. A union spokesman said negotia- tions were recessed indefinitely and the unicn would seek certification | aine hours later thick smoke still|of the dispute to the War Labor Board. The union asks $1 a day more 11.95 IRISH LIN 13.95 IRISH LIN ASK CLOTHS, 70x106 Ins. 34—IF PERFECT ASK CLOTHS, 72x90 15—IF PERFECT ASK CLOTHS, 72x108 than '.? t scale, a unioni shop and the check-off system for the compeany’s 50,000 workers. The 8, W. O. C. announced Jane uary 21 1t would demand a $1 in- crease for about 175,000 workers in the four “Little Steel” companies. 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