Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pedro, Calif...
Nine days later a Navy plane, cruising south of its San Diego base, reported a small yacht wallowing in heavy seas, an SOS crudely painted on its torn mainsail. Out went Coast Guard amphibians and the cutter Perseus, which was soon chugging back the 180 miles to San Pedro with the Aafje in tow. The message also brought out a cutter with Special Agent W. H. Osborne of the Department of Justice on board. For the story the, six half-starved survivors of the Aafje had to tell involved, if not the piracy Jean Dee Jarnette had dreamed...
...Aafje had been out of San Pedro but a few hours, according to the survivors' stories, when Jack Morgan swaggered out to the wheel, began an argument with Dwight Faulding. When Morgan pulled a gun, Dwight Faulding ran for his. But Jack Morgan's blazed first. "Then Jack," his young wife related, "began to act just like a madman." Taking command, he forced his frightened companions into their cabins, steered south. When Elsie Berdan protested Morgan's advances, she got a clout on the head...
When the Perseus and the Aafje finally reached San Pedro last week little Robert Turner was sick, Mrs. Turner was sobbing, Lillian Morgan had begun to laugh, Nurse Berdan was grim, all near hysteria. Spernak and Home, held on charges of murder, were expected to plead self-defense. The Aafje, which Jean Dee Jarnette had hoped would carry him to a remote Paradise, was promptly attached by two ship chandlers who claimed that the late Dwight Faulding owed them...
...Before the war, little Teruel was known chiefly as the home of Spain's Romeo & Juliet, the lovers Juan de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura who died of grief in the 13th Century, whose remains were put on view in the Church of San Pedro; there they remained last week still undamaged by shell fire. Most famed drama on their tragedy is Los Amantes de Teruel, by the Spanish son of a German cabinetmaker, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch...