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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 272. SEWARD, ALASKA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
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WEE 200 ARE RESCUED BY
THREE VESSELS; OTHERS
CONTINUE SEARCH
NEW YORK, Nov., 13, (/Pj—Wire
le,ss reports from rescue vessels at j
tUe scene of the sinking of the
liner Vestris, received at 10:45 this j
morning, accounted for 203 of the
r. 339 passengers and crew.
The North German Lloyd Line i
informed that its steamer Berlin
picked up 21 survivors. The Berlin
cocks at New York tomorrow.
THE AMERICAN
Shipper, of the American Merchant
Line, got 90 members of the crew
and 33 passengers. The French
tanker Myriam is reported to have
rescued 53. The United States bat
tleship Wyoming picked up six
from the water among the wreck
age. This left 13G to be accounted j
for.
IN ALL THE
messages there was no mention of
whether there was a loss of life
and those who waited through;
the night to read the wireless mes- j
sages were hopeful that all the
ship’s personnel had left the Ves
tris; they also took additional com
fort from the fact that Captain
Carey of the Vestris was one of
those picked up and from the
knowledge that the law of the sea
makes the master the last to leave
a ship.
HURRYING RESCUE
craft reached the scene of the
sinking ship during the early
hours of the night but they search
ed in vain until just before dawn
when the first contact with sur
vivors was made.
Officials of the Lamport Holt
Line declared they still are with
out official advices that the Ves
tris is sunk and they are hoping
she is afloat and savageable. They
said the Vestris was carrying 3,200
tons of merchandise, including
fruits, automobiles, cotton and
machinery.
ONE OF THE LIFEBOATS
was picked up empty by the liner
Berlin this morning. There was no
way to tell whether it had been oc
cupied and passengers lost or ;
whether it washed away from the
Vestris unoccupied. The Berlin re- ;
ported in as soon as weather per
mitted it to take the survivors
picked up by the tanker Myriam j
and proceed to New York.
Nine boats in all, including the :
empty, were reported picked up
leaving one boat and one raft still ;
to be found.
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Heiv Eldorado In
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Cape Colony, Africa
CAPETOWN. Nov.. 13. (A3)—Re
ports are being received here of a
new Eldorado in Cape Colony,
South Africa where the most per
fect diamonds are being picked up
in profusion from a sandy desjil.
Between $2,500,000 and $3,700,000
n-'. being brought in
a week from the field which is
being worked by the Government.
LENINGRAD, Nov., 13, (£>)—'This
city seems to hold the record for a
aneedy marriage and divorce. A
couple, after taking five minutes
'",'*»,e hv registeration, re
turned 15 minutes later and got a
divorce in five minutes.
Nature 0/ Trouble
is Not Disclosed
NEW YORK, Nov., 13, (A3)—Pat
sengers began taking to the
lifeboats and the Japanese S. S
Ohio Maru from Seattle is standing
by. The nature of the Vestris dis
ability was not disclosed in the
series of SOS messages. It was re
ported her starboard decks were
awash and that she had a 32 de
gree list.
APPROACHING DARKNESS SER
IOUSLY HAMPERED WORK
OF RESCUE
NEW YORK, Nov., 13, (A')—More
than 300 men, women and chil
dren were forced to trust their
lives to lifeboats on the wind-toss
ed Atlantic when the S. S. Vestris
keeled over on her beam ends and
began to sink.
They faced hours of waiting as
the wintry wind whirled then
boats through the water and they
watphed the Vestris sink below the
waves.
Early reports that the Steamer
Ohio Maru was standing by were
definitely contradicted by later ad
vices and it seemed probable that
the Coast Guard cutter Davis, due
xt 7 o’clock, would be the first ves
sel to arrive. By that time it was
feared the little boats would be
scattered and the approaching
iarkness seriously hamper the res
cue work. The vessel foundered 270
niles off Hampton Roads.
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OWNERS RELIEVE NUMBER OF
BOATS HAVE STRUCK OUT
FOR THE SHORE
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| NEW YORK, Nov., 13, (&)—■Three
! hundred and 50 survivors of the
, foundered liner Vestris apparant
ly faced faced hardship and peril
| us night fell long after the ship had
i Plunged to the bottom, 300 miles
| off the Virginia coast and no word
I came as to the fate of her passen
! gers.
!
I Several ships, reaching the scene,
| reported no sign of boats. With a
strong Northwest wind and heavy
| sea, officials of the Lamport and
; Holt Line, owners of the vessel, be
! lieve that during the several hours
elapsing between the sinking and
the arrival of rescue ships the
boats struck for shore.
Eruption Nears End
Declares Scientist,
Bulletin is issued
CATANIA, Sicily, Nov., 13, (JP)—
The eruption of Mount Atna, which
has continued for ll days without |
check, is pronounced as entering ■
its final phase and is no longer [
any cause for anxiety to Sicily.
Professor G. Pote, director of
the Volcanologic Institute, issued j
a bulletin last night saying the
streams of lava, which has been
destroying villages and orchards,
showed signs of solidifying and the
emissions from the mountain were
lessening.
Cieghorn Breaks Even
in Olympia Battle
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OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov., 13, (IP)—
] Walter Cieghorn, “The Cook In
let Kid” whose home town is Sel
dovia, Alaska, fought a slashing
i six round main event with Billy
Lang of Tacoma. It was a furious
and even battle all the way with
Lang leading in the initiating and
Cieghorn the better at long range
body attacks.
ENGAGES PASSAGE TO U. S. ON
LINER COLUMBUS SAIL
ING ON FRIDAY
LONDON, Nov., 13, (/P)-—Aimee
Semple declared last night as ut
terly untrue the charges from Cal
ifornia that Keys took money from
her to drop the case saying “I im
agine it is some political dodge; it
it just the sort of thing we get
around election time. It is a case
of one party wanting to get Keys
out and others wanting him in.
“Anybody who happens to be in
the middle of the road is a foot
ball between them. There was no
payment made at all.”
Aimee engaged passage back to
the United States on the liner Col
umbus, sailing Friday for New
York.
NEW YORK, Nov, 12, (/?)—'The
United States Lawn Tennis Asso
ciation's ban on “Big Bill” Tildeii,
is professional, will be enforced m
ill other countries, it was made
mown.
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MISSISSIPPI WORK NEARS END OF FIRST PHASE
Government engineers are nearing the end of the
f first phase of Mississippi river flood protection work
| authorized by the last Congress. All the $24,000,000 then
► appropriated will have been spent or obligated by next
^ June. Gigantic mats of willow (above) are woven and
sunk along the sides of the river at weakened places to
» stop erosion. Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin (inset), chief of
army engineers, is head of the work. Below is a towboat
with a tow of reinforced concrete mat units.
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HUES 101010SIITE
HAD A LOT OF POLITICS FOR
FOUR MONTHS AND WANTS
GET AWAY NOW
NEW YORK, Nov., 13, (/P)—Gov
. crnor A1 Smith of New York at
5 o’clock tonight, Pacific Coast
'time, in a half-hour radio address,
will give a parting “Message to
| the American people.”
The Governor announced this
upon his arrival here. No advance
copies of his talk will be given out
nor would he intimate just what
would be the nature of his broad
: cast which will be over New York
! and including KQMO, Seattle,
i Tomorrow, Smith leaves, with a
j number of friends, for a vacation
' of several weeks “Somewhere in
j the Sou^h.” He said he did not
think he would stop at Warm
springs, Georgia, to see Franklin
Roosevelt, Governor Elect of the
State of New York for “I am try
: ing to get aw'a'y from politics. I
had alot of it for four months.”
AGREES FARM PROBLEM RE
QUIRES IMMEDIATE AT
TENTION
WASHINGTONN, Nov., 13, <JP)—
After conferring with President
Coolidge on farm legislation and
Muscle Shoals, Senator McNary
said he thought it was “The duty”
of Congress to deal with the agra
rian situation at the earliest pos
sible time.
Both the President and Presi
dent Elect Hoover, McNary said,
were agreed that the farm ques
tion required immediate attention
and therefore he would extend
himself to the utmost to have
farm legislation approved at the
short session of Congress without
A'aiting for a special session which
Hoover said he would call if nec
essary.
Torture By Fire Is
L&terf Chicago Stmt
CHICAGO, Nov., 13, CP)—'Torture
'V fire, red hot forks pressed into
he cheeks and flames held to the
lesh has again been resorted to by
angsters to make an enemy
sqaull”. A negro was so treated
or refusing to even tell where a de
bated negro candidate for State
enator was in hiding.
(urn Running Vessel
Again Being Sought
SAN FPANC1SCO, Nov., 13, (JP>—
he now famous Federal ship of
’Aquilla, alleged notorious rum
inner, after being seized by coast
jard cutters off the lower Califor
ia coast and then released on or
?rs from Washington, is again
ung sought, the Government hav
ig changed its mind about the
izure of the ship.