The frontier
https://www.loc.gov/resource/2010270509/1938-12-22/ed-1/?sp=6
In contextEn contexto
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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SummaryResumen
In this Adventurers' Club story, Charley recounts working six months for a sugar concern in La Romana and being transferred to Barahona while on a week's vacation in Santo Domingo City, with a steamship strike tying up all the boats. He booked passage on a small sailing vessel for what should have been an overnight trip, but a storm blew the craft off course with its steering gear disabled, leaving him without food alongside forty Haitian passengers; on the second night he woke to find two men creeping toward him with machetes in their mouths and fired twice, killing both.
En esta historia del Adventurers' Club, Charley relata que trabajó seis meses para una empresa azucarera en La Romana y fue trasladado a Barahona mientras pasaba una semana de vacaciones en la ciudad de Santo Domingo, con una huelga naviera que tenía paralizados todos los barcos. Reservó pasaje en un pequeño velero para lo que debía ser un viaje de una noche, pero una tormenta desvió la embarcación de su rumbo con el timón averiado, dejándolo sin comida junto a cuarenta pasajeros haitianos; en la segunda noche despertó y vio a dos hombres arrastrándose hacia él con machetes en la boca y disparó dos veces, matando a ambos.
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was hot and humid. Hunger gnawed at his innards, but he had
to make the best of it. The natives were getting more and more
restless. They eyed Charley’s clothes with covetous looks that be
came more and more insolent and apparent. And still there was
no sign of the wind that would blow them Into Barahona.
That night, worn out by two days and nights of wakefulness, Charley
fell asleep. Sometime in the dark hours he woke up suddenly, by sheer
instinct In the dim light of a tropic moon he saw two dark figures
creeping along the deck toward him—two natives—great, husky blacks
with machetes in their mouths!
“They didn’t know my eyes were open,” he says, "If they
had known it I wouldn’t be alive today. But their ignorance
gave me an opportunity to draw my guns.”
Charley got those guns out just as the natives were taking their
machetes from their mouths. He whipped up one gun and fired twice.
In an instant, two men were dead on the deck and the whole ship was
in an uproar. Dark figures came swarming toward him. The captain
was a big. powerful fellow. Charley says he was built on the style of
Harry Wills in his prime. He picked Charley up with one hand, threw
him into his cabin head first, and then, with the uid of a revolver and
his powerful physique, held that furious mob at bay.
Captain Threatens to Sink the Ship.
The next morning the captain held an inquiry, announced that
Charley had shot in self-defense, and threatened to sink the ship
If any more attempts were made on his life. "Calm was restored
How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo
The frontier. (1938). O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb., 1938-12-22. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/2010270509/1938-12-22/ed-1/?sp=6
ReferencesReferencias
Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The frontier, 1938-12-22.
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