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September 25, 194125 de septiembre de 1941 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

Evening star

SourceFuente: Evening star · Washington, D.C. · September 25, 194125 de septiembre de 1941
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1941-09-25/ed-1/?sp=1

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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The *Evening Star* reported that a severe tropical disturbance centered approximately 300 miles south of Ciudad Trujillo was moving toward the Gulf of Mexico. Amid the storm, the American freighter S.S. *Libby Maine* sent out distress calls indicating that its steering gear was disabled and the ship was sinking roughly 200 miles south of Haiti. The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched a cutter from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to assist the vessel.

El *Evening Star* informó que una severa perturbación ciclónica, cuyo centro se localizaba a unas 300 millas al sur de Ciudad Trujillo, avanzaba rumbo al golfo de México. En medio del temporal, el buque mercante estadounidense *Ponce* prestaba auxilio a la goleta averiada *Empress*, la cual se hallaba a la deriva cerca de Saint Thomas con graves vías de agua y los aparejos destrozados.

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of cyclonic proportions was

centered about 300 miles south

of Ciudad Trujillo. Dominican

Republic, and was moving

west-northwest toward the

Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 360

miles a day.

By the Associated Press.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Sept. 25

Coast Guard headquarters reported

today that the S. S. Libby Maine in

the Caribbean Sea had sent out dis

tress calls, saying she had been hit

by a "hurricane" and was "sink

ing." She asked immediate aid.

The ship gave its position as lati

tude 14 degrees and 20 minutes

north and longitude 70 degrees and

10 minutes west.

The Libby Maine had reported

earlier that her steering gear was

out of order and she was being buf

I feted by a tropical storm about 200

miles south of Haiti.

The Coast Guard at San Juair

Puerto Rico, advised headquarters

here that it had dispatched the

cutter Analga to the position given

by the Libby Maine. There was no

information here about the number

ol persons aboard.

About the same time the Weather

Bureau here received an advisory

from its bureau at San Juan, Puerto

Rico, saying "delayed ship reports

indicate the tropical disturbance in

the Caribbean Sea was centered at

7 a m.. E. S. T., about latitude 13

degrees and 30 minutes north and

longitude 69 degrees and 30 minutes

west moving westward with in

creasing intensity."

Lloyd's shipping register lists the

Libby Maine as a 1,811-ton freighter

built in 1918 and operating out of

San Francisco, by the firm of Libby,

McNeill Libby.

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Evening star. (1941). Washington, D.C., 1941-09-25. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1941-09-25/ed-1/?sp=1

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