Survivors Tell of
Sinking of Fishing
Boat by Freighter
SEATTLE, UP) — “We saw this
big ship bearing down on us out
of the fog . . . the bow looked
50 or 60 feet high ... It was like
a skyscraper falling down on
you.”
That’s how Harold Hansen re
calls the desperate seconds before
the 56-foot fishing boat Jane sank
with loss of two lives. The craft
was struck by the freighter Mor
macpine just off the foggy en
trance of the Strait of Juan de
Fuca Sunday.
The freighter loomed up sud
denly, trailing grey strands of fog,
Hansen recalls the Mormacpine’s
lookout staring down at'the fish
ing boat in disbelief and yelling:
“Get out of the way.”
Skipper Harold Toft, 35, who
was at the wheel and went down
with the Jane, had already spot
ted the freighter bearing down on
collision course and threw the
fishing boat into full astern. Per
Jorgensen, 38, who apparently
was below in the engine room,
was also lost.
Crewmen threw down liferings
as the freighter swept over the
fishing boat. Alfred Horn, 52,
who was on deck, grabbed a ring
and leaped overboard.
The cook, Darvin Hoel, 62, was
in the galley wearing only his
shorts. The stove wedged him up
against a bulkhead, but he man
aged to claw his way clear.
Toft and Jorgensen were never
seen.
Typhoon Vera Described
As Worst Natural Disaster
To Hit Japanese Islands
NAGASHIMA, Japan, UO—'This
central Japanese town of 7,000
people was a prosperous farming
community lying between two
peaceful rivers running into the
Pacific—until Saturday.
Now it is a hell hole.
Bloated bodies — human and
cattle — float,in muddy brown
floodwaters that enveloped 95 per
cent of Nagashima when typhoon
Vera turned the rivers into rag
ing killers.
The stench of death is every
where.
Nagashima is typical of many
Japanese cities, towns and vil
. lages. The total of confirmed dead
in the nation rose Tuesday to
2,002 with 2,015 missing. The ty
phoon was one of the worst nat
ural disasters ever to hit the
Japanese islands.
Nobody knows yet how many
died in Nagashima. Most of the
survivors haven’t eaten in 3Vi*
days.
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Lee Bros. Dredging Files
$109,000 Suit Against
Moore and Mosley
A suit was filed in District
i Court Monday requesting relief
I in the amount of $109,341.05 from
! Moore & Mosely Construction Co.
I and the United States Fidelity &
Guaranty Co.
The suit was brought by Lee
Brothers Dredging Co. as plain
tifs and their complaint alleges:
That on or about August 1957,
they entered into a subcontract
with the defendants to perform
certain work in the construction
of a water supply storage at Cape
Lisbourne Air Force Station; that
the work on the subcontract to
taled $75,668, that the plaintiffs
received only $31,579.20, leaving
a balance due of $44,088.80;
For a contract to haul material
from Nome to Cape Lisbourne,
$15,660; for furnishing equipment
and labor to defendants for use
on Cape Lisbourne contract, $26,
592.25; for certain extra work
that plaintiffs were directed to do
by defendants, $5,500, and for at
torneys fees, $17,500.
Attorneys for the plaintiff are
Jim von der Heydt of Nome and
Lycette, Damond and Sylvester of
Seattle.
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Hoffa Circumvents Orders
To Discharge Officials
With Criminal Records
WASHINGTON, W — James R.
Hoffa says he won’t bring union
ouster charges against 3 Team
ster chiefs as asked by the union’s
court-named overseers.
The Teamsters president . also
told reporters he can find only
5 Teamster officials disqualified
by criminal records from holding
office under the new labor con
trol law. He said they will be
eligible again in January, and
have been placed on leave of ab
sence until then.
The law forbids a man from
holding union office within five
years of a criminal conviction.
“We have answered every one
of the monitor charges in writing
based on statements from the in
dividuals involved,” Hoffa said.
The monitors met again with
Hoffa Monday night in trying to
iron out their mounting conflicts
with the Teamster president. A
half-dozen court actions are in the
works seeking to get Hoffa’s com
fliance.
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Eight Killed in Texas
School Bus Crash
COOPER, Tex., UP) — A bus
filled with school children and
teachers en route to a junior high
sch'ool football game collided
headon last night with a huge
tank truck. The violent crash
killed eight persons — six stu
dents and two teachers — and
injured 23 others, including 22
children.
The impact hurled some chil
dren to the highway, demolished i
the bus and smashed the truck’s
cab.
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ATLANTIC SEASON'S EIGHTH
STORM MAY HIT COAST
MIAMI, Fla., UR — Carrying
100-mile winds, hurricane Han
nah today slowed its advance
along a path weathermen say may
send it crashing into the main
land on the heels of hurricane
Gracie.
The latest fix placed the Atlan
tic season’s eighth tropical storm
about 970 miles east of Palm
Beach, Fla.
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