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...bases abroad, rabbis this week will conduct the Seder ceremonies of Passover for Jews in the armed forces. To the six bases without rabbis (Alaska, Newfoundland, Trinidad, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Cuba), the Jewish Welfare Board assigned civilian rabbis from...
...boat nailed the 5,785-ton Montevideo 300 miles from Bermuda. Of her crew of 49, two were known dead, 13 missing. Her master was Captain José Rodríguez Varela, chairman of the committee which had denied the wounded Admiral Graf Spee more than 24 hours in Montevideo (TIME. Dec. 25. 1939). He had said: "The Germans will never forgive me for this...
Last week the Savoy had high hopes of bringing in Lionel Hampton's sextet, part of his large band, without Lionel himself, who was ill. Evidently his band, which played at the Bermuda Terrace recently, was in danger of breaking up, as well. But the deal is off, and now Sabby Lewis's band will make a triumphant return to Boston. Lewis was at the Savoy in the fall, you may remember, before going into Kelly's Stable, right in the midst of the musical heat of West 52nd Street in New York. This band pays much more attention...
Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...Puerto Rico. As far as was known at week's end, they were the only survivors of the Lady out of some 300 who had been aboard. Among the missing: 27 men (out of 40) from St. Joseph, Mo., who had jumped at an opportunity to go to Bermuda on a construction job. Shocked, St. Joe's News-Press cried out a curse on submarines: "May the U-boat that struck by stealth, bringing death to more than a score of St. Joseph citizens, meet with such a fate. . . . Before the sinking of the Lady Hawkins this would...