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Show I 941 Tuesday, . November- - 4, Salt Lake City, Utah but 1 tember for the navy patrol of stroyer of, her type she was operating under virtual j defensive waters. The State Department said that wartime conditlohs when crews j the United States had asked are usually larger. in damages for the loss of the merchantman, if payment The navy made public the list was made in 90 days. of the" destroyers knowh dead This request was transmitted W H. Merrell, a fireman, first to the German charge daffalrs, class, ot Ardmore, Tenn, and D. Thomsen, on Sept. 10 EarR. Olmstead, fireman, second Hans lier he had been given a copy of class, of Olean, N. Yr and of the President Roosevelts special 45 survivors. The names of the to Congress on the Robenlisted men unaccounted for message Moor to in to forward sinking were not released. The names government. In his message officers his of the seven missing Mr. Roosevelt charged the NazF were made public last Friday, leaders with piracy and ruthless when the number of enlisted men terrorism in their tactics. survivors was placed tentatively NO REPLY COMINCT .. Thomsen; the State Department ON CONVOY DUTY revealed, sent the State Depart-men- r an xniwSFdiTSeptrYc; savl A Reuben James was tnr the two communicaing that voy duty when she was torpetions qiade are not such as to doed, and that fact tit first gave" lead to an appropriate reply By rise to hopes that the casualties might not be . heavy. It was my government" of The the State Department did pot thought then that many, indicate what further action, if men might have been picked up-bwas but in the any, convoy, other ships contemplated in the case. that their rescue had not been were the because ships reported The Union of South Africa imobserving radio silence in ported 1,032,485 woven rayon times infested waters. Many dresses, skirts, blouses and other in the past survivors of sinkitems of womens outerwear from ings have been listed as missing the United States last year. for several days until the ship rescuing them reached the safe, )eaicar Another Navy Vessel Attacked By Germans V i 7 " " "" U. S. Tanker Torpedoed Without ' Warning In North Atlantic ure that bne of the Atlantic commands huge bopibers had beeq lost with all aboard. Killed in' the" txKB5! were two navy officers, nine enlisted men and an army- - officer who was described as a The navys state'passenger. ment said the wreckage of the ship had been found and it was understood that the bodies had bgen recovered. Thet bomber had been missing since Sunday, the department announced, but withheld information for the present on the location of the crash, the type of ship and other (Continued From Page One) war. She' had 142 men on board and of those the Navy Depart- - 'menrannoufleeiTBnlFlasnilght that it held little, hope for the rescue of 7 officers and 88 enlisted seamen who had not been accounted for. The navy report also showed that one man died shortly after being rescued, that the body of another man was recovered sand that In addition to those two the others actually accounted for numbered 8 Injured and 37 un- . injured. v -- A Characteristic of all the warship attacks is that they have occurred In a. relatively small area of the North Atlantic west While there was nothing offiand to some exterttseuth of Icecial on the subject, it was hintland. ed broadly that the plane prob-- ' The Reuben James heavy lossably was one of the navy's e PBY patrol ships, es shocked the capital . which had been watting anxiously which have been serving as the since Friday for news, but the eyes for surface fleet operanavy indicated It did not ex- - tions. to diminish. pect the total TWELVE OTHERS KILLED " a !The Navy Department, Since the United States occuholds little communique stated, pied Iceland and President Rooshope for the rescue of the seven officers and 88 (enlisted) men' evelt ordered the armed servto keep the sea lanes open who have not been accounted ices to North America, twelve other for. - men have lost their lives. ElevTWO DEAD aten were killed In the Of -- those -- accounted for, two tack on the destroyer Kearny, were dead. (The body of one and one army flier with the Icewas recovered from the sea land task force met death when after rthe Reuben James went his warplane crashed. v down somewhere west of IceIf the Indicated Reuben James of land the night The losses prove correct, the list of Oct other sailor died after being men who have perished In line rescued. , of duty will total 121 since Aug. The known survivors totaled 19, the day the army flier was 45. Eight were Injured, but only killed. one was reported in a serious The Reuben James casualty condition. breakdown showed that she was The casualties of the Reuben carrying 142 officers and men in James were made public shorther crew a heavier complement ly after midnight. Intensifying than originally believed. The the impact of the earlier disclos normal complement for a de g s. a ty of port Aunt Het The whole tenor of the navys announcement, - however, was calculated to dash such hopes in this case. It was considered significant that the communique listed only one more survivor than the number given last Friday in the preliminary report of the torpedoing. Moreover, the fact that casualties had been reported in detail apparently was evidence that the need for radio silence had ended, so far as this particular convoy was concern- ' long-rang- - By Robert Quillen ed. REPAIR DAMAGES Ironlcallyr the announcement of the heavy navy causualties catpe less than a dozen hours after the State Department revealed that Germany had refused to reply to a request for damages in the case of the Robin Moor the first United States merchant this ship to be sunk by a year. 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