Word: odenwald
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Frank Knox draped his office wall with a great swastika-the flag of the freighter Odenwald, captured in the South Atlantic flying United States colors...
...took a list and settled by the stern, but did not sink. The cruiser sent a salvage crew aboard, who eventually succeeded in pumping water out faster than the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, shipped it; and got the engines going...
...boarding party got aboard, found that the crew of 45 was German, that the vessel was the 5,098-ton German motor-ship Odenwald, that she had cleared from Yokohama for German-held Bordeaux via Cape Horn with a cargo of baled raw rubber and U.S.-made tires and tubes. A dollar bill was found in one of the inners; bags of peanuts were also found. No arms were found except revolvers...
...Germans were so scared that they jumped right into the sea. The others were just sullen; all they would say was that the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, was due to sink within the half-hour...
...that happened two weeks ago. This week the Odenwald, alias Willmoto, dragged into San Juan, P.R., under her own motive power but in the captive power of the U.S. Navy. She was proof in bulk that little suspicions can make a big difference...