Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1941 — Page 7

Li FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1 ~ ‘GHOST SHIP’ JUST SEA-GOING CRANE

NEW YORK, May 23 (U ®.)— The mystery of a crewless, “ghost

ship” sighted in the Atlantic 1600}

‘miles east of New York was cleared - up today when the owner disclosed ‘it was a $20,000 floating: crane which broke loose from a tow ship last February en route from Jack-

‘sonville, Fla., to the new United

States defense base at Bermuda.

.~ The craft was sighted and examined by the crew of the Portuguese liner Guine which docked at Staten Island yesterday. x ‘When he heard the crew's. story, Charles Maurer, assistant secretary of the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co,

exgiaimed: . y, that’s ours! We lost it at sea more than two months ago. It’s fantastic to think that it is stil] afloat.” : “The erane left Jacksonville Feb. 10 behind two loatled barges, all in tow of a sea-going tug, Maurer said. At 9:45 p. m. on Feb. 14, 250 miles southwest of Bermuda, the hawser parted and “Non 13,” the crane, drifted away. The sea was so rough that it could not be picked up “again. It was to have been used in. "dredging operations at the base.

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"By DICK THORNBURG Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 23.—A national - advertising campaign de-

ting under today. . men operating a tank and entitled “selected for service” are being distributed’ to all local .draft. offices, postoffices, and public buildings. By next week 5500 Pullman cars will display the. poster. . Later it is planned to enlist the co-operation of newspapers, magazines, farm papers and other publications in the campaign. The second poster will depict another be-goggled man, this one welding on an unfinished tank. It, too, will bear the slogan: “Selected for service.” The third will show an agricultural worker operating a fractor as one of those selected for service. Others will illustrate the many jobs vital to defense. other than military service. “Man does not live by bread alone

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young citizen soldiers—-selected for service and inducted into the United States Army because they are fit for military service, because they are available for military service, and because they can best

forces. len “That modern tank—which makes these men a formidable military unit—symbolizes the finest military material and equjpment that can be produced by American industry, the finest this world has ever seen. “The special skills and abilities of thousands of American workmen

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The men who made it and the milfions of others—necessary to America’s national defense production program—have been deferred from military service. They have been selected for service on the

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WASHINGTON, May 23 (U. P).— The War Department is planning to renew a request that food canneries handling Army orders be exempted from time and one half overtime provisions of the Walsh-Healey Act, OPM officials ‘said. - ! Other authoritative sources sald the War Department has become concerned over the difficulty of placing orders for canned fruit and vegetables due to the reluctance of canners to bid on Army contracts. Recently the Army rejected bids for canned tomatoes as too high and said that the offer to bid would not be renewed. : The canning industry now operates under a 14-week exemption from the wage-hours act, ‘an exemption that covers the peak canning season. Also applying to bidders on Army contracts is the Walsh-Healey act which prescribes time and one-half for overtime ex‘ceeding 40 hours a week and there

are no exemptions. It applies to all contracts exceeding $10,000. |

| Times Special CARBONDALE, IlIl, May 23.—The| 75th anniversary of Memorial Day will be marked May 30th in this southern Illinois town-—while the rest of the nation observes the 73d anniversary of the day. . Two Carbondale veterans were responsible for the idea of honoring the war dead with a holiday, and the first Memorial Day services were held here a few weeks after Civil War hostilities had ceased— in 1866. Few are now alive who: attended that first ceremony, but time has not dimmed the memory of Mrs. Julia Amon, 90, and Mrs. A. C. El-

liot of the National Defense Advisory Commission. | Flower girls/ at the original services, they recall eagerly how hundreds of people from all over Jackson County gathered here that Sunday morning. | Led by a band, with war veterans marching in their uniforms, they paraded to the cemetery to decoréite the graves of both Blues and Grays and to hear Gen. John A. Logan, commander of a volunteer Union regiment and latér national commander of the G. A. R,, declare: “Every man’s life belongs to. his country, and no man has the right

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nual. In 1868, when he was Con& | gresgman ~at- large from Illinois, Gen.“Logan succeeded in getting Congress to pass a resolution estabs lishing May 30 as Memorial Day for most of the nation. “

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