Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-04-22 | Page 3 | U. S. Ship Loses Game of Tag with Enemy Sub

d I. I S. S Ship I Loses oses o of Tog Tag a at t Enemy nem Sub u uW t AE NEW V W ORLEANS April 22 UP- UP if hors of an American merant mer- mer ant vessel torpedoed and sunk I rl 12 In the Caribbean told ere ere Wednesday how their ship laved a ed tag for 12 hours with a sub submarine trying unsuccessfully I to ram it before the U- U boat U-boat oat won The The only person missing among te 63 passengers and crew members members mem mem- Ithe bars bers was was the ships ship's physician Dr bers Benjamin enjamin A A. Price 64 former county health officer of at Jefferson county Idaho Waho I B 1 f Price was seen aboard the ship i 7 as it plunged ed to the bottom after 11 taking three torpedoes into its I kl I hull in m the submarines submarine's midnight attack Thirty Thirty nine nine survivors in lifeboats lifeboats life- life boats ats and on rafts were picked r u by a united nations warship landed at Jamaica I and ind coming here bere dere later on n a transport The Theother other survivors ors were landed at I Haiti Lo Loss s of the merchantman was announced Wednesday by the I Eighth naval district and naval officers pieced together the story from rom survivors sur accounts I The he ship was warned by a plane that the submarine was trailing Iii her ier When the sub was sighted th jie he merchantman headed for the ther r raider alder der which crash dived Through the darkness the deadly dead dead- ly game continued until just after midnight when two torpedoes truck struck truck passengers Passengers and crew abandoned ship hip before the third torpedo hit and jid the merchantman went down Ur F Price was seen on waving av rig ing ng a flashlight No one knew why Ay he did not leave with ith the others Crew rew members praised their captain Edgar F F. Jones Lacombe La a for his handling of the v vessel essel and nd personnel