Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1930 — Page 1

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For Anyone, Mr. Hoover Included, Who Is Still Open Minded About the Tariff

HOOVER MAPS DECISIVE TEST FOR DRY LAW Prohibition Transfer July 1 Expected to Prove If Change Is Needed. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Unltei Press StslT Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 10.—The Hoover administration is preparing lor the big decisive test of the prohibition law. This will begin with the transfer of prohibition enforcement machinery from the treasury department to justice department July 1. Then for the next year, perhaps a little longer. President Hoover will attempt to demonstrate decisively whether the Volstead act is workable or whether there must be a change. It is unlikely, according to informed quarters, that any fundamental changes will be proposed, before the results of that test have been made clear. Therefore revamping of the enforcement machinery, coming after the first decade of federal prohibition, is regarded in informed quarters as one of the most significant milestones in the nation's long struggle with the drink question. Regulations Drafted Experts in the justice department and the treasury now are drafting regulations and orders in preparation for the transfer. Control of industrial alcohol and medicinal permits will remain with the treasury, but all permits must be issued subject to Joint approval by the two departments. Prohibition Commissioner Doran is not expected to shift over to the justice department. Though no announcement has been made, it is expected Howard Jones, for years in char-re of liquor prosecutions in the ju: ce department, will be the new prohibition commissioner under Assistant Attorney-General Youngquist. who will have general supervision. . : , .. The big improvement, expected is that the collection of evidence and the prosecution of cases will be concentrated in one organization. At present the treasury’s prohibition agents get the evidence and the justice department attorneys prosecute. Friction Is Frequent There is frequent friction between the two organizations which it is hoped will be eliminated. About 20,000 liquor cases have piled up in the Justice department, and under the new policy it is expected more attention will be given to key cases, big conspiracies and liquor rings, and less to petty violations which it is believed would automatically be cut off with efficient enforcement at the source. At least a year will be necessary to observe whether this reorganization improves conditions. Meantime, President Hoover’s law enforcement commission is studying all aspects of prohibition and probably will have a report in the late fall. It is not likely to be conclusive however, and the future policy of President Hoover is expected to depend largely on the justice department experiment.

LESLIE ISSUES FLAG DAY PROCLAMATION lUp Taken at “Internationalism” by Governor in Statement. i Governor Harry G. Leslie today took the opportunity oX issuing a flag day proclamation to rap socalled “internationalism.” “The United States ever has stood in the forefront of those nations who believe in freedom and the right to work out one’s own destiny free from outside interference,” the Governor's proclamation declared. It urged the citizenry of the state to proper observance of Flag day, June 14. POLITICAL CLUB FORMED Joseph McNamara Temporary Head of Democratic Group. Formation of the Young Men’s State Democratic Club was announced today by Joseph McNamara, works board clerk. 7ho was elected temporary secretary. William P. Downes cf South Bend is temporary chairman. Fifteen counties were represented at the organization meeting when plans for a state-wide gathering were perfected. SENTENCED IN ROBBERY Two Negroes Convicted in Criminal Court to Serve Ten Yean. Howard Morris, 31, and Rayford Scott, 20, Negroes, were sentenced to ten-year terms at the Indiana state prison when convicted of robbery today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. They ar alleged to have robbed Miss Blanche V. Bennett, 748 North East street, of $9 May 14. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 58 10 a. m 74 7a. m..... 62 11 a. m 73 ti. m 64 12 (noon).. 77 • •a. m..... 68 lp. m....* 7 i

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 27

STOCKS IN WORST BREAK OF YEAR

Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 11.—More than $4,000,000,000 in market values was erased from stocks today when relentless pressure—apparent since the opening—brought about the most severe break since last November. United States Steel made anew low for the year around 161 and all

Teacher List The Times today prints the complete list of teachers who will serve in city grade and high schools for the 1930-31 term. Names of those on the administration staff also are Page 9 of this edition.

7 LINKED TO ALLEGED RUM RUNNING PLOT Face Arraignment Charged With Operating Liquor Smuggling Ring. Seven alleged members of a liquor smuggling syndicate were under arrest here today after Washington secret service operatives staged a series of raids in the city Tuesday night. Culminating three months’ investigation, federal sleuths got their latest tip from an Ontario highway policeman who last week saw an airplane taking on a liquor cargo in a field near Windsor, and took the plane’s license number as it flew away, laden with contraband for the United States. The plane was confiscated Tuesday at a local airport. The seven men were arrested in three raids Tuesday night, on the Apex Construction Company, 206 East St. Clair street; A. C. Woolen, Inc., merchandise, 542 North Meridian street, and J. J. Dunlop, broker, 208 East St. Clair street. Beer, Liquor Nabbed, Claim Twenty-five cases of Canadian beer and liquor, lottery tickets with sales value of $20,000 and ten coin slot machines were found, according to the federal agents and local police who a ded them. Under a: est today are; Dewey Stein, 31, v s 210 East St. Clair street; Nelson Gibson, 45, of 2815 North New Jersey street; Roscoe T. Rogers, 36, of 716 East Georgia street; Henry Roepke, 45, of 37 East Thirty-seventh street; Harry D. Mendenhall, 33, of 805 North Delaware street; Cecil Rector, 21, of 1302 Udell street, pilot of the plane, and Edward S. Browning, 26, of R. R. 10, Box 212. Released on Bonds All are charged with violation of prohibition laws, and conspiracy to violate the national tariff act. They were released on bonds of SI,OOO each, signed by A1 Farb and Charles Roesner, professional bondsmen. They will be arraigned in municipal court today on blind tiger charges, and later before a United States commissioner on the federal charges. The operatives are members of the international and inter-district smuggling and liquor squad, and worked on the raids here because of international complications through use of the plane to transport the booze from Canada. One local dry agent, whose name was not divulged, worked with the Washington men. Other local agents are out of the city, or in New Albany, with wounds, after a rum battle near there Saturday night. HELD ON LICENSE COUNT Report Youth Charged With Theft of Auto Was Eroneous. Raymond Johnson, 22, of 2245 Kenwood avenue, arrested Sunday, was charged with driving without a license, reckless driving, and vagrancy, instead of with theft of an automobile, as stated in The Times Monday. The reckless driving and vagrancy charges were dropped. He was fined $1 and costs for operating an auto without a driver’s license. Wife of Boston Mayor Dies Bu United Press BOSTON, June 11^—Mrs. James M. Curley, 47, wifie of Boston’s mayor, died Tuesday night after a lingering illness.

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the industrial leaders sold off sharply. Losses ranged to 5 points in the general list and to above 20 in highpriced special issues. Nearly 200 issues made new lows for the year and only slight rallies were noted in the better issues before the close. Lack of demand accounted mainly for the break. Volume did not pick

CLOTHING TEST SHOWS MOBILE MAN NOT DEAD Chemical Analysis Proves Schroeder Not Burned, Asserts Coroner. The charred body taken from smoldering ruins of an automobile on High School road west of the city early in the morning, May 31, was not that of Harold Herbert .Schroeder, Mobile (Ala.) manufacturer, V> whom the car belonged, Coroner C. H. Keever today said he could state definitely. His assertion he based on examination by Dr. R. N. Harger, toxicologist instructor in the biochemistry department of Indiana university school of medicine, of clothing identified as Schroeder’s and a patch of clothing on the body. For several days police have investigated the torch murder on theory that Schroeder still is alive. The tests by Dr. Harger prove that a man other than Schroeder was murdered and burned in the auto, the coroner said. Handkerchiefs Clews To clews already in possession of the dozen officers employed in running down the murder, today were added two handkerchiefs, found in a shoebox near the place where the car was burned, by Ora Wilson, 1124 South Fleming street. One of them bore intials “H. H. S.” and the other “R. B." inked on the edges. In the latter was wrapped a skeleton key. A two-bladed pock-et-knife also was in the box. Dispatches from Mobile Tuesday night stated that a letter, said to have been written by Schroeder and mailed from Indianapolis, May 31, after the murder, had been received there. Letter Is Discredited The same dispatches also indicated a letter, pieced together from fragments of paper found near the scene of the murder, as having been written by Schroeder. Helen Kittrell, Mobile, and other friends of Schroeder, said the handwriting was not his. Warren F. Burch, Mobile police chief, Tuesday declared that for the first time, he is certain Schroeder still is alive, and said his office is working on “hot information” that the missing man may be found soon. CITES JOB AID NEED Federation of Labor Head Stresses Crisis. Bu United Pres* WASHINGTON, June 11.—Need of immediate congressional action to alleviate unemployment was stressed by President William Greenof the American Federation of Labor as the house judiciary committee began hearings on two of the Wagner unemployment bills already passed by the senate. There has been no appreciable decrease In unemployment during the last five months, Green told the committee. Statistics gathered by the American Federation of Labor for May, he said, showed an estimated total of 3,609,000, or nearly 20 per cent of the nation’s workers, out of work. OBJECTS TO ‘LOVING’ Wife Accuses Evangelist of Kissing Other Women; Asks Divorce. Bu United Press JOPLIN, Mo., June 11.—The Rev. Carl C. Walker, itinerant Kansas City evangelist, refused to comment here today or. charges made by his wife in a divorce suit in which she alleged he “kissed, hugged and fondled” other women. The Walkers were divorced once before and remarried.

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11,1930

Yesterday the Wall Street brokers ’ wires carried the rumor that the Hawley-Smoot. tariff bill would be defeated. On the strength of this mere rumor prices on the markets' leading stocks shot upward. United States Steel advanced U 1 Van -

up on the downslide until near the close when tickers were reported fourteen minutes late. Tuesday bears covered and their demand forced prices up. Today there was no such support and prices gave ground easily. The tariff situation and word that the reparations loan would be floated either

Pride GoesIgnorant of Law, Mother of Seven Nabbed by Still Boast.

BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 11.—Her man went away to sea and left her with seven children and another one on the way and no money s~ve the little she could earn scrubbing floors. Then the friends Mrs. Fernanda Diaz De Matos had made in her four years in America—she came here from Porto Rico—suggested an easy way to riches. Why not, they said, try bootlegging? Mrs. De Matos became a bootlegger and a distiller. Today the still is gone, confiscated by federal agents. She is free on SI,OOO bail, charged with manufacture and possession of alcohol. Concerning what the future will bring to her and her children she is a bit dubious. But the future, she believes, can’t be much worse than the past in which an expected fortune failed to materialize. She was deceived when aiey told her, “you’re a fool to keep scrubbing floors. Everywhere people make money by making liquor, m m m IN broken English and copious Spanish .translated by an interpreter, Mrs. De Matos today told .the story of her venture into crime. “My husband,” she said, “was an automobile mechanic, but he lost his job six months ago. He did not find work, so he signed on as a sailor. He didn't leave me any money because he hadn’t any. “I saved up enough to buy the still and I thought I would be rich. But instead it happens like this.” It wasn’t a very big still, It seems, and there was plenty of space for it in one room of the five-room apartment she occupied with Rene, 18; Addfelia, 14; Niceola, 8; Olga, 6; Naomi, 5, and the twins born a year ago. The apartment cost S3O a month and the still barely paid a proper share of the rent. mum TRY as she would, Mrs. De Matos could only force four or five gallons of alcohol to trickle from the copper coil every week. So glutted is the current bootleg market that this liquid could be sold only for $4 a gallon. That meant sl6 a week—some weeks $20 —which wasn’t the big money she had expected. Rene’s earnings helped when he worked, but employment wasn’t always steady. Nevertheless the family managed somehow and Mrs. De Matos kept her home neat and clean while she hoped for sufficient wealth to purchase a larger still. Pride in the neatness of her home was her undoing. A tenement house inspector came to pay a visit and Mrs. De Matos innocently and boastfully showed him the still and explained how careful she was to avoid the possibility of fire. m m m THE authorities came later. Police took her to jail; federal men took her still away; probation agents took the twins to a hospital and Naomi and Olga to the Children’s society. Rene stayed home to look after Addfelia and Migeolia. Mrs. De Matos, at the age of 39, has her troubles. She doesn’t just know what’s going to happen now. UNDER DEATH SENTENCE Slayer of Wife and Her Lover to Hear Fate Friday, 13th. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, June 11.—Augustus Gingell, 25-year-old meat cutter, who, Tuesday night, was found guilty of the murder of his estranged wife, Vera, arid her asserted sweetheart, Sigurd Bjomeby, Hollywood musician, will be sentenced to death Friday, June 13.

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adium, loy 4 ; General Electric, 3%; American Tobacco, 5%; Electric Power and Light, 7i/o; International Harvester, U~/§; American Telephone and Telegraph, 3; American and Foreign Power, 5; Allied Chemical, 8; Western Union, h; American Can, 6; National Biscuit, 5; Eastman Kodak, 5.

Thursday or Friday were not helpful. With steel down more than 5 points other industrial leaders crumbled. American Can near the close was off nearly 9 points, Vanadium nearly 14, General Electric more than 5, Eastman Kodak 17. Columbia Gas led the utilities down, losing 6 points.

REED, KEY TO TARIFF VOTING, VISITSHOOVER Sets Thursday for Speech to Senate Outlining Views on Bill. Bu T'nited Press WASHINGTON, June 11.—Secretary of Treasury Mellon favors the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill and there is no doubt that it will be passed by the senate, one of its authors, Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee, told the senate today.

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 11.-Secre-tary of Treasury Mellon held a conference today with the two Pennsylvania Republican senator, Reed and Grundy, who announced afterward they still were in doubt how they would vote on the tariff bill — the fate of which appeared to rest with them. Reed went to the White House and conferred with President Hoover for fifteen minutes after his talk with Mellon, and said on leaving that he would announce how he would vote Thursday, when he will make a speech in the senate. He postponed his speech, which was scheduled today. Reed declined to discuss his conference with the President further. Grundy did not accompany him, and Reed said he did not know how his colleague would vote. With polls showing the rest of the senate tied, 47 to 47, and only Reed and Grundy holding back, their conference with the treasury secretary and Reed’s forthcoming visit with Mr. Hoover assumed predominant importance. Mellon Is Diffident This is especially true in view of Mellon’s reported attitude of diffidence regarding the measure and reports that he does not consider it wise legislation, although he believes it might be better to pass it and get it out of the way. Republican leaders of the senate professed confidence that at least Reed, if not Grundy, will vote for the bill, and thus assure its passage. They believe they can get the votes of both Reed and Grundy if they absolutely need them to pass the bill. These developments came as Senator Robert M. La Follette (Rep., Wis.), delivered a vigorous attack on the measure in the senate, opening the day of debate in preparation for a vote at 2 Friday. "Complete Betrayal” La Follette charged the bill was a general tariff revision and therefore represented “a complete betrayal of President Hoover’s pledge solemnly given to the American people throughout the 1928 campaign, that he would favor a limited revision of the tariff as a measure toward giving agriculture equality with industry.” “The pending bill places new burdens upon the farmer,” La Follette said, “which increase the disparity against him, deny him relief and leave him without hope of sharing in any substantial benefits of the protective system. It lays burdens upon business and industry an<Apthe consumer. Charges “Same Ruse” “I charge that the same subterfuge to which the authors of the Payne-Aldrich bill resorted to conceal what they did in 1909 is being adopted here today to force this fraud down the throats of the American people.” La Follette declared that President Hoover was responsible for bringing the tariff before congress at this time, saying he “literally dragged the tariff issue into the campaign.” “The passage of this bill, under any such absurd pretexts, must be accepted as a confession of bankruptcy in the statesmanship of this congress and of the party in power,”

he said.

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Nevertheless, In the last minute oHS bankers threw in support and a swift rally occuired from lows in the leaders. Steel came back to 164 and closed at 16314, off 314 from the previous close, but up more than 2 points from the low of the year made earlier in the day.

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DEATH SUSPECT FAOESJOLICE Capone Henchman Denies Lingle Slaying. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June 11.—Sam Hunt, dapper henchman of Scarface A1 Capone, and hunted by all law enforcement agencies as a suspect in the assassination of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, was surrendered to police today by his attorney. Hunt, said by two secret witnesses to resemble the lone gangster who murdered the newspaper man Monday in a pedestrian subway, was accompanied by former Alderman John Johntry and Ralph Pierce, night club owner, identified with Ralph Capone, brother of Al. Cool and poised, Hunt, who jumped bond on charges of being one of the “golf bag” killers in one of the recent dozen gang killings, chatted with reporters. “I wouldn’t be here if I had anything to do with bumping off Jake Lingle,” Hunt said. Johntry said he surrendered Hunt for fear “the gangsters would take him for a ride to seal his lips” and that he wanted “this charge cleared up.” The “ride” contingency already had been suggested by the police. They said if the hunt became too hot they feared gangsters would deal out justice to the Lingle murderer themselves to avoid any chance of detection. RICH BANK CRASHES Florida Institution Carried Deposits of $11,000,000. Bu United Press MIAMI, Fla., June 11.—Three affiliated banks, one of them among the largest in Florida, closed their doors today. After failure of the Bank of Bay Biscayne to oj m, the Bank of Coral Gables and tl Miami Beach Bank and Trust Cos .-party closed. The Bank of Bay Biscayne was capitalized at $1,000,000 and had deposits of $11,000,000, while the other 4wo were smaller institutions with Aggregate deposit of nearly $2,000,000. Frozen assets and harmful “talk around the state” were the reasons given for the closing by the office of State Controller Ernest Amos. Five banks at St. Petersburg failed recently. Killed By Trains Bu Times Boecial WINCHESTER, Ind., June 11. Shelton Gulley, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gulley, near this city, was injured fatally here when he fell beneath a Big Four engine. The youth was walking backward on the tracks and lost his balance.

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To Mr. Hoover, or any other person whose mind is still open, this reaction to a mere rumor must indicate how American business and the investors in American business feel, in a dollar-and-qents way, the defeat• or a veto of the pending tariff bill will affect American prospeinty .

48 DIE IN FLAMES AT SEA AS STEAMER CRASHES INTO OIL TANKER IN DENSE FOG Gasoline-Laden Craft, Split in Two by Great Steel Prow of Passenger Ship, Goes to Bottom Almost Instantly. United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON, June 11.—An oily inferno which engulfed a passenger steamer and an oil tanker off the southern Massachusetts coast Tuesday night appeared today to have taken a toll of approximately forty-eight lives. Fire enveloped both the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company’s steamship Fairfax and the Shell Eastern Petroleum Products Corporation’s tanker Pinthis after the passenger vessel had rammed the smaller oil craft amidships in a thick fog off Scituate. The tanker, carrying 12,000 barrels of gasoline, sank almost stone-like in a fiery sea. Its captain and crew of eighteen men were believed to have gone down with their ship.

Caught momentarily in the hole it had cut in the middle of the oil craft, the Fairfax was held helplessly while oilfed flames streamed over its decks. The clothing of eleven passengers of the Fairfax and of about fifteen members of the steamer’s crew caught fire and they became living torches as the oil blaze engulfed the ship. All finally leaped into the sea, according to survivors. The Fairfax had left Boston early Tuesday night for the first run of the season to Norfolk and Baltimore, carrying seventy-one passengers and a crew of seventy. Blanketed by Fog For several days a dense fog had blanketed the New England coast, and the vessel proceeded cautiously southward. At a point several miles off Scituate, the Fairfax rammed the tanker amidships on the port side. The steamer’s prow, with a gaping hole ten feet in diameter in it, stuck in the hole which it cut in the tanker, making it possible for the flames that swept the oil craft to spread to the Fairfax. A terrific explosion occurred as the ships crashed. Fire broke out almost instantly aboard the tanker. Members of her crew had no time to escape except by leaping into the sea to almost certain death. The sea itself was soon aflame, as its oilsprayed surface caught fire. Passengers Are Trapped There was the wildest pandemonium on the decks of the Fairfax as the blaze spread to that vessel. Passengers who had rushed forward for a closeup glimpse of the results of the collision were caught in the maelstrom of flames. Some of them, with their clothing afire, ran shrieking in agony along the decks. Other passengers were horror-stricken to see the fire victims, one after another, plunge into the sea. A few minutes after the collision while flames still were sweeping the forward end of the Fairfax, the oil tanker, appearing as two ghastly red splotches through the fog after it had broken in two, was swallowed by the sea. As the survivors came into port, some aboard the rescue vessel Gloucester, which was near the scene of the accident and some aboard the crippled Fairfax, they told of the few minutes’ frenzy after the Fairfax crashed into the tanker. All the terrors of the sea were crowded into those few moments; there was the dull crash, the muffled explosion and then the bursting flames that lighted the entire area. Oil spread over the water. Flames leaped from the sinking tanker to the Fairfax. Negroes Stricken With Fear Some passengers who had pressed forward on the Fairfax to see what had happened soon were screaming along the deck, their clothing aflame. It was these passengers who leaped overboard and apparently were lost. Seme of the crew, many of them Negroes, were stricken with fear and also leaped into the sea. “I actually saw four persons leap over the side of the Fairfax, one wearing no life belt,” Sergeant Harry E. Kipp of the marines,” a passenger on the Fairfax, said. “Flames covered them and they were shrieking. Maybe some of them

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were burned to death before they hit the water. “Negro members of the crew caused more panic than any others aboard, including women.” Life boats were launched from the Fairfax, but the traidtion of the seas-—that women and children go first—were observed carefully. Men Go in Turns “Men passengers made no attempt to rush for the lifeboats and went to them only in their turn,” said Joseph Armstrong, a Fairfax passenger. “When we (Armstrong and his friends) go out on deck, efforts already were being made to launch the lifeboats. This was impossible at first because Are was sweeping the deck. The lifeboats launched were pulled safely away from the fire zone, remained there for some time and then passengers were taken back aboard the Fairfax.” Passengers who were injured or burned in the disaster were brought to a hospital here. One unidentified woman died shortly after reaching port. Nine others were listed in hospitals and five of these were placed on the danger list. The Fairfax, carrying seventy-one passengers, mostly from greater Boston, and a crew of seventy, left Tuesday night inaugurating its seasonal Boston-Baltimore service. Only one-quarter of its staterooms were occupied. The Fairfax travelled at about six knots because of a peasoup fog. Felt Steamer Shudder Some passengers were in the main salon. A few promenaded the decks, but the fog made this form of diversion unattractive. It was exactly 6 p. m. (central daylight time) when passengers felt the ship shudder. So light was the shock that one man in the main salon remarked that the Fairfax must . have grounded. Passengers could see a deep red glow only a few yards from the Fairfax, and this illuminated the helpless tanker. Screams could be heard from the oil vessel. Split almost in two by the great steel prow of the Fairfax, the comparatively diminutive tanker soon foundered. Four or five nurses were the heroines of the disaster. Unmindful of their own safety, they worked furiously to assist the burned and injured, administering skillful first aid at a time when it seemed almost certain that the Fairfax would follow the tanker to the bottom. Nurses “Deserved Medals” Survivors brought here later were almost as one in paying highest tribute to the courageous services rendered by the nurses, a marine among the passengers remarking that “they deserved medals.” A hero of the tragedy was John Pott, a sailor who was en route to Norfolk, Va, to be assigned to duty in China. At the height of the fire, he noted that flames had crippled the Fairfax’ radio antenna. He succeeded in repairing the damage, reestablishing communication between the burning ship and shore. J. B. Walker of Kittery, Me., a sailor, attempted to restrain & woman from leaping into the sea. He grappled with her as she mounted the rail, was dragged overboard and both were believed to have perished. Sister Ship to Rescue It remained for a sister ship of the Fairfax, the Gloucester, which was in the vicinity, to effect the rescue of the steamer’s survivors. Responding to a radio call for aid, the Gloucester arrived alongside less than half an hour after the crash. A calm sea made possible a transfer of the Fairfax’ passengers over three gang planks and the Gloucester proceeded to Boston. ‘RECOVERY’ isTATAL Convalescing Patient Hit and Killed By Hospital Auto. Bu United Prets PITTSBURGH, June 11.— Seamon of Westland, Pa., was permitted to take a walk a short distance from the hospital where he was recuperating from amputation of his thumb. He was struck by a motor-car driven by a member of the hospital staff and died, _

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