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Rotarians Hear About Dr. Hinton’s | :
Experiences in Atlantic

Highlighted now and then by a
bit of humor, Dr. W. J. Hinton of
the British Information Service, |(

told Rotarians today the gripping
story of five and one-half days in|
an open boat, following the tor-
pedoing of his ship by a submarine.

. Booked for passage on a Cunard
liner, but forced to give way for
another, the speaker was denied a}:
luxurious trip and in its stead, |.
sailed on an old Norwegian ship, |:
whose engines broke down and left |;
the boat and its occupants wallow- |’
ing in the storm-tossed waves of
the North Atlantic, where it was
torpedoed and sunk.

Two trivial matters then stood
between him and death. The first |.
when he stopped to don more fit-
ting garments and meanwhile his
*|boat slipped away without him;
‘;and the second when he found aj:
‘|place in the captain’s overcrowed |
‘'boat. Of the four boats which left |:

the sinking ship all were lost ex-
cepting the captain’s,

‘The bitterness of cold, insuffi-
cient gasoline for the motor, freez-
ing sails, and contrary winds was
driving the boat towards the north,
when it pepply was ayo by an
airplane and was saved. These ex-
periences, frightful as they were,
brought about understanding, re-
spect and “riendship between the 13
}occupants, at least. one of whom

later died from the effects of ex-
‘posure to the frigid water and wind.
Dr. Hinton is outstanding as an
educator and has taught in Amer-
ican universities including those of

Maine and Hawaii. He has also
taught at Hong Kong, Oxford and
Cambridge. He comes from a line of
seamen, both his father and grand- '
father having been with the Eng-
lish merchant marine. He was in-
‘troduced by Chancellor Malott.

During times of peace, said: the
speaker, England maintained two
thousand merchant ships, and three
years ago had already lost 20,000
seamen in keeping the oceans free
from Nazi domination.

Happy to be well and again active |
in Rotary, I. J. Meade will supply
two turkeys for a dinner for Ro-
‘tarians to be served at the hotel,
land Simon Hurwitz has volunteered
a supply of cranberry sherbet. The
/date will be announced later.
| Among the guests today were
{Roger Allen Jr., now in the armed
service, Fred Schrader, of Clay
Center and A. W. Ayles, of War-
saw, Wis. -

A Christmas party for young-|.
Sint i be given Monday, Decem- |,

er 20.