Bernstein, Former Ship Builder
For Hitler. Now Has Nation’s
Most Important Defense Tasks
SEATTLE, (AP)—A refuge who started on his way
to millions by converting German warships into mer
chantmen after Versailles is setting out to recoup his
losses by the same method, turrrng scrapped warships
into merchant vessels for the allied war effort..
Arnold Bernstein has undertaken the job of convert
ing the German-made Savannah, which became a U.
S. submarine tender, into a merchant vessel for Uncle
Sam’s use. And the man who had to be ransomed from
Germany for $30,000 after two and a half years in a
concentration camp is very happy about the prospect.
“This is the 26th ship I have reconstructed,” he ex
pained with surprising enthusiasm for a man who lists
his loss to the Nazi government in excess of $2,000,000.
“I started with war ships ir. Germany, and now I start,
at the same business from the bottom.
“Out of nothing I built a big fleet for Germany. Now
it is a special pleasure to rebuild this old German ves
sel into a useful instrument to fight those rascals. This
day when, as an American citizen, I am for the first
time part owner of a vessel under the American flag,
1 am very happy."
The Savannah was too decrepit for life as a sub
marine tender. It was built as a German steamer in
1899. In 1917 it was seized in American waters and re;
constructed as a sub tender by the Navy.
The Savannah was sold for scrap several years ago,:
but Louis Dulien, president of the purchasing firm, hosij
fated to break it up. When the shipping shortage be
came acute, he and Bernstein joined hands to put the!
old vessel back onto its sea legs.
Before the Nazi ascension to powci, Bernstein, a,
German Jew, operated 100.000 tons of Atlantic ship
ping— the Red Star and Arnold Bernstein steamship
lines.To day there is nothing left of his shipping empire
but memories, a few yellow clippings, the hull of a
ship that was given up for scrap—and hopes.
U. S. Bombers Blast Lava
Menacing Hawaiian Lily
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HILO, Hawaii, May 19 (AP) — Mauna Loa, famous
Hawaiian volcano ended today a two - week eruption’
during which it cast a bright glow over much of black
ed-out Hawaii Island despite efforts of the Army to
end the disturbance by bombing the crater. The bomb
ing did succeed in halting the flow of a river of lava
toward this coastal city.
Lifting of Army censorship disclosed that the vol
cano began on April 26 its greatest eruption since 1881
A slow moving lava wall 60 feet high and half a mile
wide began moving relentlessly down the mountain
side that day, crushing trails, moving boulders and
consuming whole a forest on the slope of the peak;.
Approaching the source of Hilo’s water supply, the
steaming mass came to a halt finally on May 13 after1
Army bombers had dropped tons of explosives on top^
of the molten lava.
A’ new convulsion moved the lava southward about
11 miles from the heart of the city, where bombing!
again brought it to a halt.
Scientists, who maintain a constant watch on the
active volcano, said they believed the eruption was
caused by the collapse of rock tubes through which
the volcano ordinarily spews forth lava in regular
' vents in the mountainside. Damming of these tubes
caused the lava to flow out of higher channels and en
danger the city.
This was the second time in history that bombers
have been used to end the threat of extinction by lava
in this city. The first bombing of moving lava, a num
ber of years ago, was called inconclusive at the time—
but the lava did stop its ominous march toward Hilo,
just as it did last week.
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who must handle dust, metals, acids, paints, are worn with eerie effect by these five women at the Greater New York Safety Council's
15th annual safety convention in New York City. All wearing industrial type masks, are left to right: Rita Steffens, Virginia Healey,
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NEW SUBMARINE KIN(JEISII IS LAUNCHED
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