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Submarine Disabled Off Florida Coast

T-3 Anchored Six Miles Out—Relief Boat Ordered to Tow Craft to Port.

By the Associated Press.

KEY WEST, Fla., January 30.

The submarine T-3 was reported late tonight as anchored off the Florida coast near where she was disabled today when trouble developed in her fuel line and caused an exhaustion of the oil supply.

The submarine T-3, commanded by Lieut. J. P. Compton, has run out of oil off Florida and is in need of assistance, the Navy Department was informed in a message last night from the commandant of the seventh naval district at Key West.

The first message received said the T-3 was off Bethel Buoy, with her lubricating oil system leaking badly and her supply low. An effort was being made to reach Miami. A later message said:

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Rescue of 54 Men Thwarted By Gale

Two Freighters Sinking. Boats Standing by Helpless in Heavy Storm.

By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. January 27.—The fate of 54 men, members of the crews of the British freighters Antinoe and Laristan, which have been in distress in a storm at sea for three days, was still In doubt today.

Six men of the were rescued yesterday by the German liner Bremen, leaving 24 aboard. The United States liner President Roosevelt, which has lost two of its crew in efforts to aid the Antinoe, was still standing by today.

Five of the dozen passenger liners that have been battling toward Atlantic ports front one to two days late in the teeth of the storm reached port yesterday. They were the Transylvania, Duilio, Giuseppe Verdi, Mount Royal and Regina.

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Hope For Two On Flight To Azores Wanes

Seaplane "Tradewind" as seen from its port side, nose-in to a dock with a rocky shore and trees behind.

Fear Mrs. Hart, MacLaren Perished in Storm.

HORTA, Azores—A strong “northeaster”, bringing stormy weather and vicious winds, whipped over these islands today while an apparently hopeless watch was kept for a man and woman who had challenged the Atlantic on a flight of 2,000 miles from Bermuda to the Azores.

Anxiety that had mounted during the hours in which Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. William S. MacLaren were not heard from in their white seaplane Tradewind turned to a faint hope that they might have missed their mark, a small group of islands in the ocean, and continued to the safety of the European coast. But no word of their progress reached Paris, their ultimate destination, and ships east of the Azores had not reported sighting their plane.

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Silvertown Has Finished

Cable laying ship CS Silvertown, seen from the starboard side at anchor

Work of Cable to Be Completed Tomorrow.

LANDING OF CABLE LAST FEATURE

Staff May Get Away for Home Next Week—Station Ship Now Under Discussion.

When, tomorrow morning, the cable ship Silvertown completes coaling and hauls over from the Hackfeld wharf to the Railroad slip for the purpose of finishing the transfer of the cable from the tanks of the vessel to the tanks ashore, the last portion of the business of the great steamer will be on.

The transferring of the 100 miles of cable which still remains in the ship will be a matter of interest, and will occupy the greater portion of the day. The ship will be laid alongside the Railroad wharf and the cable led across to the tanks which have been carefully constructed for the purpose of keeping the cable intact until it may be needed for the purpose of repairs on the line, should there be a break. The cable must be kept under water, and the tank is arranged specially for the purpose of keeping the materials in the best shape until a call for a length comes.

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Nazi Cruiser Seizes Spanish Ship

German Commandant Refused To Surrender Freighter—Spain Must First Return Nazi Cargo

Warships of Many Nations Are on Watery Stage of Drama; Europe Is Watching Anxiously

GERMAN WARSHIPS ORDERED TO CONTINUE SEIZURES

Picture of the Spanish freighter "Marta Junquera"as seen from the starboard bow.

BY FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ

Santander, Spain, Jan. 4—(UP)—A Spanish coastal freighter and its captor, a grim German cruiser steamed together off the Bay of Biscay coast today, making history. Spanish loyalist authorities flashed a series of angry messages to the cruiser, demanding the little ship’s return.

Same Reply to Each Wireless

To each message, the German commandant wirelessed back imperturably that he would release the ship when Spanish authorities released the cargo and a passenger seized from a German ship, the Palos, during the Christmas holidays.

Europe Is Anxiously Watching

There seemed obvious danger of an incident that would necessitate all the coolness and resource of European chancelleries, now watching this situation anxiously, to prevent a spread of what is now only a Spanish civil war.

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Gunboats Expected

Two Vessels Captured from Spain Nearing Washington

Image of the USS Sandoval from the port side.

The Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval, captured in the capitulation of Santiago, and now flying the stars and stripes, are expected to arrive at the Washington navy yard some time this afternoon, one of them having passed Indian Head shortly after 2 o’clock. The steamers are coming here direct from, the Norfolk navy yard, where they arrived about ten days ago. They are In command of American naval officers who were prominent in the operations in the West Indies, one being Lieut. Blue of the navy, the first American officer to report upon the position of Cervera’s fleet in the then blockaded harbor of Santiago. The boats were in the harbor when the city surrendered last July, and a controversy arose between the army and naval authorities as to which had the right to the prizes.

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Our Navy Builds Flat-Top Mastery

By REAR-ADMIRAL E. L. COCHRANE, USN, Chief of the Bureau of Ships

By first punching the foe off balance and now smashing his last holds on the ocean, our aircraft carriers have proved modern speeders of Victory. Here “Buships” chief details how we’ve come from a mere seven to more than a hundred of these sky-sweepers.

Picture of an aircraft carrier from the side, showing rows of airplanes with folded wings on deck and sailors performing their work.

December 7, 1941, the United States had on hand seven full-sized carriers, the Lexington, Saratoga, Ranger, Yorktown, Enterprise, Wasp, and the Hornet, also the small escort carrier, Long Island. Of these the Lexington, Yorktown, Wasp, and Hornet have since been lost. For every one of those veterans lost, however, there has been built and are now at sea, nearly 30 replacements (including the escort carriers transferred to our allies).

In the two and a half years since Pearl Harbor, the number of carriers on hand (excluding the 38 transferred by lendlease to the British) has been increased to 90. totaling more than 1,400,000 tons. During this same period the combatant vessels of our Navy in all categories have more than tripled — going from 345 vessels, totaling 1,382,755 tons, to 1071 units, totaling 3,434,762 tons.

With the outbreak of war and following the heavy carrier losses in 1942. the desperate need for carrier strength in the Pacific and the growing demands for fighter transports pushed six vessels of the aircraft carrier program into top priority. With first call on the nation’s scarce materials and components, the inauguration of shift work, and the seven-day week, actual completions surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts.

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Message in Bottle Tells of Shipwreck

Note Written in Dutch Found Floating in St. Lawrence Closes With “Adieu.”

By the Associated Press.

QUEBEC, November 2.—”Lost in storm. Written by one of the shipwrecked crew of the S. S. Aophard, Holland. Please be kind enough to forward this to Safekeeping. Happened October 25, 1925. Written by Ye Teolsa, Adieu.”

This message, countersigned by “Capt. Banderweevoen,” was found in a bottle in the St. Lawrence River near the lighthouse on Ste. Felicite, Quebec. October 27. It was written in Dutch, and, following its translation today by Abbe Desmet of Laval University, was sent to the Department of Marine and Fisheries at Ottawa.