Word: chelton
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...second wireless informed Captain Chelton of the warning, instructed him to search every cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...
Meanwhile the State Department rushed into action. A wireless was coded and dispatched to the vessel, which was about 800 miles west of Cobh, Ireland. To their surprise a casual message came back from Captain Edgar A. Chelton saying he had no code key; would they mind sending whatever they were saying in International Code-which anybody could decipher...
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