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Show AMERICA IN ACTION ir i MERCHANT MARINE SAFETY DEVICES The safety devices on the ships of our Merchant marine are helping to defeat the Axis submarine campaign. cam-paign. To date more than 5,000 American seamen have been returned re-turned to America from foreign ports which they reached after their ships sank. Every one of these men who was able has gone back to his job at sea, secure in the knowledge that the ship he sails on will carry every possible device which modern science can devise to protect him. It is a triumph of American ingenuity inge-nuity over Axis terroristic methods. Today every American ship carries car-ries a full complement of lifeboats equipped with an amazing list of safety devices. Rigged with sails and many carrying auxiliary motors, mo-tors, the boats contain compasses, bullet-proof water tanks, hydro-graphic hydro-graphic charts, air tanks, smoke signals, boat covers, and first-aid kits which in themselves are miniature minia-ture field-hospital units. Several sets of fishing tackle are even included as a potential means of supplementing supplement-ing the scientifically devised food supplies on board. These food provisions pro-visions are prepared under the supervision su-pervision of army and navy dietetic experts and contain the highest vitamin vita-min and caloric contents. That's why 5,000 American seamen sea-men are back at their posts today. But these 5,000 are only a small part of the army of seamen necessary to operate our huge merchant fleet which night and day is carrying the equipment and supplies needed by our fighting men and their allies all over the world. The War Shipping administration estimates that by the end of this year 120,000 men will be needed, Mates, engineers, able seamen, sea-men, cooks and bakers are urgently ur-gently needed. -Those who want to help the Merchant marine can do so now by going back to sea. The United States Employment service or the Recruitment and Manning Organization Or-ganization of the War Shipping administration ad-ministration will help them do so. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |