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Show YOUTH CLIMAXES RESCUE AT SEA He and Shipmates Given Up as Missing, Learn Rescuer Is Neighbor. ! i NEW ORLEANS, LA. Miles Pur-1 dy, Keyser, W. Va youth with hisj shipmates from their torpedoed I transport in the Gulf of Mexico met! up with one climax after the other, , only to have him put the finishing touch to the adventure with final and unusual surprises. 1 The ship Purdy was on was tor-' pedoed sometime shortly after mid-, night and crippled. All on board! abandoned the ship. While they were! floating about in life boats the sub resurfaced, shelled the ship, sank it-i Ten hours after the sinking, two1 of the life boats were picked up and the crew brought to shore. The one Purdy was in with his shipmates, was overlooked. j After six days of floating, an air-1 plane flew overhead and failed to see them. Two more days they drifted. On the eighth day a fishing crafti was sighted. Later it was learned that the fishing vessel was then 300 miles off its coursel After considerable time the vessel came near, recognized the life boat, and took the crew aboard. Purdy then recognized the captain, cap-tain, Russell Calvert, as being a neighbor from the same county in West Virginia. Shortly after Purdy's parents, Mr.' and Mrs. John R. Purdy, received notice that their son was numbered among the missing from the ship! sunk at sea, they received a wire! from him here that he was well and! safe. He then returned home on a! 28-day leave. Purdy volunteered in the armyi over a year ago. He has a cor-l poral's rating. j m ' ' |
