Harvey W. Kline Is Feared Lost At Sea - Only One Known Survivor Reported As Atlantic Refining Tanker W.D. Anderson Is Torpedoed And Sunk Off Florida Coast - Avon Man One Of Thirty-Five Men Missing.

Although the U.S. Navy headquarters only last night revealed the sinking of the Atlantic Refining Company's 10,277 ton tanker, W.D. Anderson, off Stuart, on the Florida coast, last Sunday night, the circumstance was known early this week by Milton Kline, of Avon, 1536 East Cumberland Street, as his son, Harvey W. Kline, was first mate on the ill-fated vessel when she was sent to the bottom by an enemy submarine raider's torpedoes and shells. Kline and thirty-four of his shipmates, including Albert B. Walters, the master, of Upper Darby, are missing and it is feared they are lost, as Frank L. Terry, of Lansford, Pa, is the only known survivor of the crew of 35 men. Milton Kline, widower father of the missing Lebanon man, resides at Avon with two daughters, Miss Eva Kline, an office employe of the Lebanon Steel Foundry, and Miss Edna Kline, the housekeeper, and their brother, Arthur Kline, a veteran employe of the North Lebanon Shoe factory. They learned of the sinking of the W.D. Anderson last Tuesday from Harvey's wife, Estella (Fink) Kline, who telephoned from the family home-the Suffolk Apartments, at 1415 Clearview Street, Philadelphia, where she with two daughters-Barbara, 16 months and Ellen, one-month-old babe, awaits hopefully tiding that her husband was picked up by a vessel somewhere and was saved. First Mate Kline is a member of a big family, including in addition to the brother and two sisters already named, a brother and three other sisters, George Kline, of Reading; Cora Kline, a nurse at the Masonic Home, at Elizabethtown; Grace, wife of William H. Edwards, of Elkins Park, a Philadelphia suburb and Nora, wife of Ted Harker, Lebanon Rural Route 3, on the Schaefferstown road. Those named are all grandchildren of the late Elias Gerhart, of Jonestown, one-time sheriff of Lebanon County. Kline, the missing lad was born 33 years ago, and spent an eventful life. He granduated from the Pennsylvania National School (?), Annapolis, and shortly after graduation went as a seaman in the employ of the oil company named. There was an intermission of a year or two when he was out of the service but was with the company continuously since 1933. (news story continues) [Lebanon Daily News - Saturday, February 28, 1942]