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‘Casualties in Korean War
At least one man was to lose... with Miss Karn when the
Feels ‘OK’ It was right after quitting the ship that Miss Karn was caught between the rope and raft.
: ion a hillside curve today, injuring
{12 passengers and crewmen. The diesel-powered passenger
-towingto Moscow.” Mr. in an N broadcast t We cannot a: to engage ir ; a more sat a od I sion eile _ “ol : El ; wars, with ght Acme Telephoto. This dramatic photo shows a life preserver—empty—floating + Army Chaplain Eugene Fisher administers last rites to a dying Fuki of the Benevolence, Hho ana 9) This photo taken from a U. S. Coast Guard helicopter shows the sunken Navy hospital ship in murky waters upper left) in the area where Navy Hospital Ship which sank after colliding with the freighter Mary Luckenbach. Eighteen persons were n oa. » Benevolence. Waves pounding over the side of the ship reveal the Red Cross on her side. Benevolence sank af or if was rammed. en or agedy, i. ee a ibaa etn Cm am— - od EET VHT ee > 3 ty : d Lif Bus i# Under P t J I I olute stand Divers Reach Benevolence. Skilled Labor = Hoosier Nurse Taken Aboard Life oar under rrorest..}/ Hirt-as- Halls ‘comps. ped ; Ym ; > a yo. 7 minutes, and several times was to abandon ship, she said, and all | ve P | 3 {dl : Ch $ WwW } i ] Ens. Patricia Karn Thought . hin danger of being dragged below had life preservers. | llid Head On ; have Jn n oiaen are arers Scarce Here Some of Men from Collision Weaker the surface. Some of the men didn't,” she 0 | e . and must pt i h S d I h 5 d By FRANK ADAMS Preserver Caught d added. a he cod hind both.” i SE mia p | “An Indian boy came up an A Captain Murray, she i} : Both Sides Hurl C arges on pee . | Jobless: Claims | A Hoosier nurse aboard the hospital ship sunk off San Pran-| me untangle,” she said “I|lashed nine of the nurses together, Pennsy Passenger He. propos Of Vessels, Warning Signals Given o] obless (cisco was taking a bath when a freighter rammed into the vesse "don’t know who he.is, but Td like \ 1d a rope and they went with) ht ° announce to SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26 (UP)—N ai hod 4 nl! 20 Pct of Year Ago *"¢ told The Times in a Jslephons interview Just ment 4 to know la ratt Coasts Into Freig § point_policy A 1 y Aug. ( )=—-Navy divers reachéd the sub-| . | And 20 minutes after 1e 8 ock, Ensign Patricia Ann K arn, |", . 3 : + neuen ie NR ¢ Sic pe A eA SrA orem Fr. PON —-— merged -hulk-of-the-rammed-hospital-ship-Benevotence-today as a| (Continued From Page One) 1 aivinort, plunged Into the waler dressed only in a coat, shoes | Besides bong Caugit-fast oY Then “they found some Sener PETOSKEY, Mich, Aug. 26 to st | 1 : » i i ; pe,” my life preserver got boards,” she said. “and made an (UP)—A local passenger train of A dense fog off the Golden Gate lifted. Meanwhile the list of known $1.23% an hour, and there's B | rem - {and life preserver. lcaught on a board.” other raft. Someone told me to go ; ONE: Ext survivors stand at 487. ——— : | shortage of qualified labor. 28 Hoosiers She and another nurse and| ugh vaft.: she sald: ‘was made and 1 fell off " the Pennsylvania Railroad collid- trin to Naval authorities said it was a “near miracle” that apparently! This week the National Tube |about 30 men clung to ropes and| =. C0 0S 00 together. : ed head-on with a freight train e to emb only 18 persons—one a Navy nurse—died when the Navy hos-| Works, U. 8. Steel subsidiary,
nevolence ‘sank within 30 min-| [his dro fore the! “As more and more people got/train, en route from Grand nation that utes, . ‘Among 18 Dead {the next two weeks, probably 1000, (Continued From Page One). life me and fotted et a life-| Benevolence ang the fielenter, hold of the rope, I was caught all Rapids, Mich., to Petoskey, coast- with her. 510 Accounted For . |before the year ends. _ [Charles Eugene Fields, Box 82, boat after about an hour an Mary Jucken Beh, yo a vals the tighter,” she said. ed downhill into me 15-ca? fraigh, THREE: After “adjusting the casualty In Ship Cras | Bald Lyman Dilts of the Gary Loogootee. “ 145 minutes in the water. nan e > afd rind The young nurse who ‘was|five miles south o yn , recognition ¢ figures & number of times, the|—.. 1. = Employment Security Office, Pfe. Charles E. James, son of “We (the other nurse and En- . ay . Ct graduated from the Methodist Mich. Zhe short bassebier FOUR: Ab 12th Nayal District announced it] SAN FRANCISCO ave an Anybody who has anything on(Mrs. Clara Coats, South Bend. |sign Karn) didn’t want to get intg| .. ” t and found what| Hospital School of Nursing here| Both cars of the sho pas anges and all oth could definitely account for 510! (UP)—The Isat ans ihe ball, well put. to work in a Ret, Rich ary B. Justice, pr lifeboat When. it. caine up are ut All 1|1D 1945 said she felt ° OK. : pit remained uprignt y, Russia; she persons including the dead. released the names of 16 of toy Tn: Ft. Wayne Revives Dl oe tuglly Justice, An- us the Spunlly MSS amid, “We Miss Rarn Was assistahi supers
could get was coat and shoes. I tficials at Grand anyway, he s Authorities said the exact num-| 18 persons who lost their lives in [thought two or three of the men ge visor of pediatrics at Methodist| Railroad o
: Lying idle but expectant up in| Cpl. Russell E. Kelley, son of were in a weaker condition and 41d rab cigarets and a lighter, hospital for about a year before Rapids sald only six passengers FIVE: Go we abe im Fentvolence when Jast Jught's collision between the|Gary is the Gary Armor Plate Co.,|Mrs. Nellie Kelley, Kokomo. {should have been taken aboard, thinking that maybe someone hospim fn the Navy in May, Were on the train. Eight crewmen the unconv yesterday was still uncertain. | th ap, 3 ship Benevolence and which made ship plates during] Sfc. Charles R. Kenley, 80n before us.” [woud want a smoke later, 1947. and a traveling rail official were against. com It was believed she carried at| Seve, hter Mary Luckenbach. (World War IL It can be easilyof Howard A. Kenley, Nobles-| Despite their protests, however, BY then the vessel was listing Mother There involved. il we have bee: least 510, bUC that figure was sub-| 1 ven een bodies were received, converted to making tank plat-|ville.. men hanging to the raft and/badly. i o iinibo Hier Watlier, Hrs. Ecille Race Little Traverse Hospital sai LX the so-called ot to revision. There NAY be by e coroner. The body of aing; and lies In the lap of the! Sgt/lcl. Mike Latanation, hus- trailing ropes insisted on boost-| “We had a ad I ne Alm hoc ne L es a, ‘persons were brough g i. he SIX: Make pr pa —— Nay ne Navy nurse was at Oak Knoll steel industry. bund of Mrs. Mary Ann Latana-ing the two nurses aboard the ing up the deck, ss Karn 2 1 a lino re hts. asm icone for treatment, 1 ot hem in the Unitec btiend copa) ' ¥| Hospital in Oakland. | Ft. Wayne, which was job-sick|tion, Whiting. lifeboat. | It was, she admitted, the rs anspor oR Bros ier Rup Seriously enough hurt to thing like | The big white hospital ship was »® a Le first half of last year, is| Pfc. Dona R. Sechraan, son of | Lifeboat Overloaded time that she had been aboard a the Sol eo iy Then he pital oad ak the ager bill. , on a trial run, her final check out THE Identified dead were: (SOSINg sEain. The gasping gas-(ys, fog Siecnman, Crawford, he 10e lifeboat was overloaded,” Nf, ’ f If and her daughter off and had packed [trai go on schedule when it BEVEN, ft bein per Tnal She the| Lt. Wilma Ledbetter, Navy line pump industry has come] : Pic. Gene L. Wagner, son of ‘Ensign Karn said. “I was in water! But I'm proud of myse f an r daug ea rain fr universal mil atter g Tr m 8 nurse, Chillicothe, Tex back and the two television plants Charles Lewis Waguer, Box 323, lup to my waist.” proud of the other nurses,” sheito return home when she heardileft Elmira, Mich. five s
mothball fleet. As soon as final
Lyle G. Havens, 56, San Fran. of I. T- & T's Farnsworth and
Boswell. | The raft itself almost proved a aid. “T know several of us had
about the tragedy. She is remain-
south of the scene.
- adjustments were made she was the Magnavox factory ar -| PL Id E. W i be hip before. Yet|ing in San Francisco. |. The train, both diesel-powered, ms cls i ¥ y are pour ¢. Donald E. Walsh, son of {trap for Miss Karn. never been on ship 1g . : — slated for duty bringing wounded Feo Pilot aboard the Benevo ing out ‘TV receivers at capacity. Elsie Dew Walsh, Valparaiso. | Er we first went into the they were all calm.” But Ensign Karn said from were able to brake their speed yl fom Korea, Soren Svanum, 50, Fairfax, JOuth Bend so far has caught| The Conrad brotners and sea,” she sald, “I was caught Knows Navy Jargon Oak Knoll hospital in Oakland: sufficiently to prevent a more : Search Continues , Cal, Navy civilian em ployee ‘|most of the war orders in the|Sfc. Kenley have been lisied|between a trailing rope and the| Miss Karn is not unfamiliar{ “I feel alright. Of course, serious accident. None of the cars Since there wasfil" pobsibility}” Robert Allan Collins, 28, Vaile. tte through the Bendix opera-|previously. boards of the raft. The rope was | With Navy language. - there’s a little shock. But the overturned. 0
some persons were #till' missing, the search. continued on & limited
Jo, Cal., civilian electrian. Wiliam Martin, 35, San Jose,
tion and kindred metal-working
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“We moved aft,” she said. “On
Karlier yesterday it was re-|bei lled taut by all the people PE y peop the starboard side. The port side
vealed that Pvt, Herring and Sgt.|hanging on to it.”
only thing’ that really seems wrong is my arms. They're just
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§ 1 frigerator plant is near capacity. survivors who Benevolence . found | Columbus, BI 1 i isi . , oomi : might have been carried in on thelhaven aboard the big freighter. "| Tarre Haute along logto 8 ae nga ol Shook yes) - ayia hed oie Josting tide, | Luckenbac officials denied| fq strial - t . i ’ : While the search still was on, their vessel was traveling at high tre nd in rt eying Sh | Bh the Navy convened a board of in-|Speed. She was. making only! est peacetime level on record. Ret. : Justice + $ | 99-50 quiry to investigate the accident,| Seven or eight miles an hour,”| go the chances are that the| Rct. Justice, 10, has been miss-|
faced with conflicting reports as|they said. to the speed of the two vessels|the at the time the bow of the Luck- her sire enbach knifed into the port side/Bacon, °
“of the: Benevolence.
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Vallejo, Cal. who was
: from the bridge and tea tables| Of the Benevolence, declared his/channel toward the harbor en-|where women a their troubles| Pfc. Franks, Portland. was | engines were stopped just beforeitrance. He said .the damage to!in finding ‘someone to wash their|X!lled on the first day of the
the two ships came tegether.the Mar
When he regained consciousness: . today, Capt. Bacon denied the report of a lookout aboard the Luckenbach, who said the hospital ship was making “about 18 knots” when he sighted her just before the crash.
long,” Capt. Beacon insisted. “Before the accident when engines were on, wd were traveling about 15 knots. The engines
80 we were slowing down, although I can’t say exactly how fast we were going.” Reports Whistle : Capt. Bacon, in turn, reported
the Mary Luckenback was moving
“at high . speed” through the heavy fog, Capt. Bacon said that several minutes before the accl-| dent, Glenn Havens, a civilian] harbor pilot: who later died, re-| - ported he heard a whistle. “I ordered a full stop and a] right full rudder,” Capt. Bacon| said. “Then a few seconds before! it hit, I saw a ship. They were bearing down on us at high speed. I sounded a collision warning.| Then he hit us a few feet forward | of theb ridge on the port side. I| felt a terrific impact.” | No Abaudon Ship ! Capt. Bacon confirmed a report, of survivors that there was no! signal to abandon ship. All sur-| vivors said they heard no aban-| don ship . order, but that they|
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into the icy. water because |
others were leaving the ship. .. | “I didn’t order abandon ship,” Capt. : “because I
t think it a sink.” A Son OF the Luck.
Ft. Wayne, and his son, Jimmy, check maps before beginning a trip [Strike last Tuseday. $ | 8750 Interest or ihe b fo_California. Mr. Edgett, his son and Paul Clarke, Lakewood, O., | The yardmen, members of the are { qg ' son ' ' ' - , subach dD so in she company atorney, are driving a new White tractor and Gromm Brotherhood of Railroad Train LORD'S DIAMOND CLUB TERMS Carrying
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Her lookout insisted m sound n_as reported by Capt.
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port that the freighter was not & radar as it moved up the
y-Luckenbach might run dishes, make their beds and wipe {as high as $100.000, Naval board of inquiry had been convened came from Washington, {where a Navy spokesman said it {was a “safe assumption” that.an- don’t stick with the dishpan long. 1 i 8 5 : co JORG Cl Peter B00 insisted: Tam obita) ship will be orgered, Seven Army tugs, most of them courses to become om the Ft. Mason port of em-/Then they circulate where they {barkation, formed the backbone can find better pay, shorter hours and husbands. 1
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an or woman, in. good health and with good habits, who says he or.she can't get a-job-today prob--rably- simply hasn't taken the
Home Help Scaree The biggest complaint ' comes
their children’s. noses. : Many try to lure household help from “down on the farm,” but the buxom .gals from the truck patches and corn flelds
Western Electric, or take night secretaries.
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war. —His parents received word! of his death last Monday. t The oldest of six children, hei attended General Haines Junior High School there, then worked} at the Portland Silo. He was ac-| tive in Troop 102, Boy Scouts of| America. 7 Sh A] PIE” Franks joined the Army] Mar. 15, 1949, when he was 19, He| underwent _ training at Camp
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Breckenridge, Ky., for the Fa% East Nov. 20, 1948,
Pfc. McKim
In the last letter he was to ever write, Pfc. Robert Boyce McKim told his mother. the people don't know what “we are goin through over here.” =~] “For 15 days our division (1st| Cavalry) has been on the front | line,” he wrote on Aug. 9. “I haven't had my clothes off once. | They are so filthy they could We don’t know when we'll get any rest.” The letter was postmarked the day he was killed. “Bob said, we'd all take a vaca-/ tion when he came home next January,” she said. “That's when he was scheduled for discharge." Another son, Elvin, 18, also is; in Korea, with the 25th Division. A third son, Paul, 22, has helped | her build up the family home after)
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