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Show "Gob" Dislikes Idea of Dying Without Glory Hffnism among men nf the navy in common thing and the mot inglorious end that a "gob" can come to is having hie ship go to a watery grave without contact with enemy craft, according to Charles Price, who. in a letter to his moth- m er. Mrs. Hannah Price of Heaver, I "tan. tells nf the narrow eecane from the Newport News, receptly reported lost. Young Price stated that they a ere on their way over from Prance on their fourth trip when it was discovered tnat the ship had sustained a bad "puncture." Mem-Iters Mem-Iters of the crew siood in water to their armpits for twenty-seven hours. hwing marked courage ' and endurance, in baling out the water. "You can never know." writes Price, "how I have longed to really go 'overhe top." Neither will you ever know the ardor of prayer and effort I expended in my little share In saving our ship. Not a man whs ready to be scratched off the list of fncle Sam's live soldiers In any such fashion aa going to the bottom of the sea when the fight is at Its height." |