Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

        Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
===========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================

Ludington Daily News 
Thursday, November 14, 1940
pp 1 & 2

                           NO. 1 DAREDEVIL
                 Clyde Cross of Pentwater is Hero of Day
                        After Thrilling Rescue
                        
                          (By Dale Stafford)
                          
                  The reputation of Fisherman Clyde Cross
                as Pentwater's No. 1 daredevil had lost none
                of its luster today after his thrilling
                rescue of 17 crew members from the founder-
                ing pulpwood carrier NOVADOC.
                  Clyde is one of the nine fishing Cross
                brothers. During the past two years natives
                of Pentwater have learned to know him as a
                man who fears no weather.
                  Wednesday, while waves dashed over the
                stricken NOVADOC and periled its 17 crew
                members, Cross headed his ancient fishing
                tug, the THREE BROTHERS, into Lake Michigan
                to look for nets he lost in the storm.
                  Accompanied by Gustave Fisher and Joe
                (Tontoni) Fontain [sic - Fountain], Cross 
                was sighted by the hungry and exhausted seamen, 
                who immediately sent up a flare.
                  "That's Clyde Cross out in his fishing boat.
                The coast guard rescue boat is probably behind
                him," said a number of spectators who lined
                the beach.
                  With skillful seamanship that drew cheers
                from the onlookers, Cross guided his tug beside
                the NOVADOC and held it there long enough for
                the marooned sailors to jump aboard.
                  On the way back to his fishing shack with his
                passengers, Cross met the Grand Haven coast guard
                power boat which had set out to make the rescue.
                  Later at Coast Guard headquarters Capt. Donald
                Steip of the NOVADOC reached in his pocket and
                handed his rescuer a roll of bills. Cross refused -
                which was no surprise to his fellow fishermen -
                but his companions decided they would accept the
                reward and split it three ways.
                  Chief Boatswain Alfred Anderson of the Grand
                Haven Coast Guard station told Capt. Steip that
                his biggest worry was that the NOVADOC seamen
                might jump into the water and attempt to swim
                ashore.
                  "We were scared to death that you fellows
                would try to make it," Anderson declared. "It
                would have been suicide."
                  "I had decided that we would stay with the
                ship," Capt. Steip replied. "It looked like our
                only salvation." The captain said the storm was
                the "worst in my 18 years of Great Lakes sailing."
                
===========================================================================