| Show I g ping Ship Asks Medic Tend Injured Captain r YORK YORK M March arch 3 UP- UP UP r f Ping freighter Rachel RachelI I Monday called for a doc doc- the painfully injured y I was being y ph physician t red ked to to the ship from Crom the t transport Gen en Maurice Rose in the stormy Atlantic miles from New York I i i The U. U S S. S Coast Guard whose 1 Cutter Mendota 1 was standing by byI bythe I the freighter said the gale and andI which smashed the I i high seas I II I I Jacksons Jackson's superstructure Sunday I was moderating But the condition of Capt William Wil Vii I liam II IL Thomas of Philadelphia I injured while on the bridge by bya byI bya I a a crashing boom was reported i worse by his crew Carries Troops The Gen Maurice Rose was en route to N w York from Bremerhaven Bremerhaven Bremerhaven Brem- Brem Germany with 1833 soldiers and military dependents I aboard I The Military l Transport ServI Service Service I ice said she had two year old doctors aboard aboard LL LL JG IG S S. S J J. Antoon New Kensington Pa and Lt IG JG W. W D D. D Bevis Scarsdale Scarsdale Scarsdale Scars- Scars dale N. N Y It was not known which one was boarding the Rachel Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son The ton freighter carrying a load Joad of oC coal from Norfolk Va to Bremerhaven ran into a 57 I mile hour gale and mountainous mountain mountain- ous waves miles southeast of I New York Sunday Smashes Lifeboat A wave smashed a lifeboat at atthe atthe atthe the height of the storm and flung it against a boom The boom caved in the bridge where the skipper was directing the ships ship's fight against the storm The injured captain refused relieving pain morphine and continued continued continued con con- to command his ship from his bed The United States Slates Coast Guard Cutter Mendota dispatched from fromI Norfolk Va to the scene to escort I the Rachel Jackson into port reported reported reported re re- re- re ported that Thomas remained conscious and coherent although most of his body was covered ered with lacerations and contusions Continues Command It was feared that Thomas sufI suffered suf suf- I I a compound fracture of I the the ankle His ankle was placed in a splint and Thomas sat up in bed bed to direct operation of the i ship I II I The crew reported to the Mendota Men Men- II dota dots that Thomas though wincing wincing wincing ing with pain refused morphine Medical l officers of three Military l Transport Service ships standing by decided against attempting to transfer Thomas from the Rachel Jackson |
