AT SEA: City of Rayville

Randleman, N. C. had the distinction last week of being the home town of the first (and only) U. S. seaman to drown in the sinking of the first U. S. vessel sunk by the Axis—the 5,883-ton freighter City of Rayville (Tampa, Fla.). The ship apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from the City of...