Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1946 — Page 9

Page PDF (8.13 MB)

Back to issue view

G. 15, 1046

ny of these serv. her Trust Office

danking ounts

units Personal Loans ns siness vd ' Rentals eign Exchange ¢ i cks > (8 Offices) . BRANCHES :phone Directory

t Trust any

ania and Market Sty. IS, INDIANA

RESERVE SYSTEM INBURANSE CORPORATION

RHE

ES’

u Yr

Naan agi \ ag

and

Vith vith ) 8! led!

* “

Personal supervision is given every marker or monument in our own plant right here in Indianapolis. Nothing is left to chance. -

More than ever you can save by buying at home. Our unusual values are shown in our free catalog and price list,

Ts ‘ 10t really finding it, except in a . Call or Write for Catalog “I”! Bly od Reep | never yet, 74 years later, has been

and Price List.

EE et OW. WwW, ——

hockré.

EE ——— NO

eee ITED

1 THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1948 _

PUPPETS WILL FALL American Farmer S

RUSSIA, EDEN SAYS

"WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U. P.).| —Russia’s methods ot trying to gain security may result in world-wide

By S§. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Writer

32nd and Northwestern Avenue ==

split between Russia the

Eden said today.

| plexion on believe in. a other,

Communist

security Britain's foreign secretary Anthony

she wants

In an article in Collier's maga- SaW off the port bow. zine Mr. Eden said Russia is in-| you?” asked the signal “lags raised sisting on establisnment or friendly | On the Dei Gratia. governments in neighboring states! and “virtually has imposed” Com- €8gement.

munists in key positions in non- On. under almost full sail, as though preakfast were on the ¥ her. crew were incapable or asleep. |

Chief Mate Devon took a small!

Communist countries, This, declared Mr. Eden, creates : a ‘tendency for alignments to be Poat crew and boarded. the brigandrawn” between the Soviet and|!ine. In a few minutes he signaled, On the mate's desk was a halfgovernments of a Communist com. excitedly to Dei Gratia, and Capt.| written letter to “Fanny, one hand and those who! Boyce joined him in angther small | boat.

free democracy on the| | Thus began the mystery of the

Dei Gratia, 300 miles west of raltar, spoke the tiny brigatine he “Who are

The brigantine reeled

“THe paradox of all this,” he said, | Mary Celeste, which has inspired

| seeks security by these means it is than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and

| deceptive and transient form , .

There can be no lasting security for Russia in a state of affairs {where Communist-dominated mi-

solved. 2 Most Famous Derelict

There was no reply—no neknowl-}

4 i | water. [“is that while the Soviet union. fiction writers no less renowned |

| touched. |logicians and amateur sleuths, but |

| undamaged,

The Mary Celeste is the most |

‘She was under full sail except that her top gallant yard was down

and| NEW.YORK, Aug. 1§—The look-|on the cap and her gaff topsail Democratic nations without giving out on the Nova Scotian barque|clewed down, as though an attempt { ib. | to shorten sail had been abondoned {in its midst,

All Bunks Neatly Made All bunks were made neatly, ex-

{cept that a pillow in the captain's

cabin showed the impress of his daughter's head. Remains of » an. almost-eaten. table. The captain's watch hung above his bunk. His wife's sewing machine was in the messroom.

my dear wife." Cargo Intact There was plenty of food and Jewelry and valuable trinkand the cash box, were unThe alcohol cargo appeared intact. Hull and masts were

The seamen’s chests were dry and undamaged, underclothing hung on a drying line, razors weren't even

authority.”

CHICAGO, Aug.

until i further negotiations.

to permit

form at its top efficiency.

ROL MG Bee

UNIT

ED'S

SERVICE DEPT.

. NOW

Regardless of the age, make or model of your vacuum cleaner UMITED has the KNOW HOW so make it pers

Phone LI-6503

FOR FREE PICKUP and DELIVERY

. Washingten St. ngton and Senate

FREE PARKIN

JUST ACROSS THE STREET

LL 6471

5 WAYS TO SHOP HERE!

® Our Ten-Pay Plan ® Use Our Layaway ® Easy Payment Plan

. ®Pay Cash SATURDAY STORE HOURS

{such cases on its books now than |in the days of wooden sailing ships, |

| HARVESTER STRIKE DELAYED | before radio was invented. ! (U, P.).—| {Office workers who scheduled to | C-2 freighter like the American out with dangling ropes. (The only

The abandonment of a modern |

and the

ambitions are fully exploited day! iby day. : | But back in the 1870s a vessel| {could be abandoned for weeks be-| [fore anybody began to wonder where lit was. In Perfect Condition !

The Mary Celeste was in perfect condition. Minutest scrutiny never | disclosed evidence of fire, or threat

the most common version—that the ship's boat hung on its davits unused and unswung—or that the yawl was gone and its davits swung

had been smashed when Cargo was

== Branch af Connersville, Indians = !25t minute to postpone the walkout | controversies arising out of salvage loading, and never replaced.) er —————————————— next Thursday

Collected Prize Money In any event, the Dei Gratia put a prize crew “aboard, sailed the Mary Celeste to Gibraltar, and after two thorough investigations collected about $8500 prize money

Yon the appraised value of $5700 for the brigantine and $37,000 for her .

cargo. At least two old men, years after,

of fire, strain or stress or passage | claimed to have been members of

through rough weathef, mutiny | or piracy or pestilence. Nobody ever has learned why she was abandoned by her master, his | wife and daughter and five-man crew; or how they got off, or where| they went, or what became of them. The Mary Celeste was a Nova | |Seotia-butl half-brig 98 feet long, | 25 feet wide, of 206-ton deadweight —smaller than a present-day PC boat. Yet Capt. Benjamin C. Briggs didn't hesitate about taking his wife and 7-year-old daughter along when he set sail from Kew York, Nov. 7, 1872, carrying 1700 barrels of alcohol to Genoa to fortify Ital- [= wines. { |

Versions Differ

There are many differing versions ‘as to exactly what Chief Mate De(von did find aboard the Mary Ce{leste. The concensus seems to be | that everything was in perfect con- | dition except that there was no human being aboard.

® 30-Day Charge

| differing

9:45 A. M. TO 3:00 P. M.

Girls" HATS

to $3.49

Felts In berets, roller Scottie in different colors.

{leeces.

BACK-TO-SCHOOL TOGS

(Layaway Winter Coat Sets)

Girls’ Coats s

Warm coats for the cold days in alpaca and Chesterfield and wrap styles. Sizes 7 to 14. Teen age, 10 to 16.

Use Our Layaway

Hold Your

A Deposit Will

Purchase. Pay

Each Day.

Fashioned of fine cotton prints in chambray and percale Many styles and colors, Sizes 7 to 14.

a Little

Girls" DRESSES

seo

to $2.00

SWEATERS $

All wool button cardigan or slipover in Sloppy Jo styles. Colors, fuchsia, black, green,

rose, red and navy and white. Sizes 7 to 14; teen age, 10 to 16.

$ 3 60

Sizes 7 to 14; Teen Age, 10 to 16.

Girls’ 300 5

Girls’ SKIRTS

Pleated skirt plain colors and plaids. Tailored in plain styles or with belt.

tie neck,

Junior Girls’ “JUDY KENT” BLOUSES for School

The teen ager will love these pretty blouses with in white and ‘colors. Sizes 9 to 17."

$27

Star Store, Second Floor

the Mary Celeste’'s crew and gave versions of what happened, both of which were so fishyappearing, on known facts, that they seem unworthy of repetition. Beyond that, there never has been even the faintest hint—other

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES alvage Recalls Case = ° Of Mary Celeste Most Famed Derelict

than attmepts to build up a logical theory—as to what caused Capt. Briggs, his family and his crew to disappear—or how they left the Mary Celeste—or whatever became of any of them, Ship Got Bad Name

¥ The Mary Celeste was a perfectly

long, useful career thereafter, though her master did not fare well before a court: of inquiry into her. abandonment, The Duncow, deserted when she grounded near Dunkirk, was floated by Belgian fishermen who collected salvage awards. Nine years later, carrying lumber from Puget Sound to Australia, she grounded again, was abandoned again by her crew, and once more

collected for their trouble.

good ship, but she got a bad name. Nobody cared to own her and nobody wantéd to sail her.

She was sold, and used for a time in what were suspected as extra-legal activities, until finally she was wrecked under. circumstances that caused her new owner and captain to ‘be tried for insurance fraud. Back around the turn of the century the North Atlantic was speckled with derelicts. The U, 8. hydrographic office counted 957 reported in that area in one five-year period. But most of them involved no major mystery and no particular controversy. If, like modern ships, they had had radio, their stories would have been commonplace, They did, however, create major navigational hazards, because many of them remained afloat for years, drifting thousands of miles, often in principal traffic lanes. The schooner W. L. White, for example, traveled 6800 miles in 310 days after she was abandoned in the blizzard of March, 1888. Perhaps the closest analogies to the American Farmer to be found in the literature of derelicts were the British barque Ada Iredale, the Falls of Afton, and the iron ship Duncow. Sailed Years Afterward The Ada Iredale was abandoned with coal ablaze. A French warship picked her up 241 days and 2500 miles later, towed her to Tahiti, and she was repaired and sailed for years as the Annie Johnson out of San Francisco. The Falls of Afton, abandoned en route from Glasgow to. Calcutta with a valuable cargo, .was picked up a few days later by a French

A truly handsome table boasting not only fine construction and eye-pleasing appearance, but remarkable versatility—always scores such a success! Drop-leaf style that serves four or two, perfectly, as occasion demands! Genuine mahogany veneer top . .. walnut

finished. Size open, 36x46 inches, size closed 36x1414 inches.

was floated safely by salvagers |

U.S. POLICE SMASH COUNTERFEIT RING

FRANKFURT, Aug. 15 (U, P).—~—| American and German police re- | ported jointly today the smashing of an international counterfeiting! ring in which three U. 8. war de-| partment employees were arrested in Frankfurt, | Authorities said the ring had, headquarters in occupied Germany and its tentacles reached several European capitals. One official said | that if all the leads in the case| were followed, it would take every criminal investigator in the European theater, Twenty-two Germans, one of| whom was wanted by the French as a suspected war criminal, were arrested. They were accused of trafficking in counterfeit $50 bills and English pound notes. The three’ Americans arrested) in the case were former soldiers. JULY HOUSE PERMITS ‘FAR BELOW’ NEEDS WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (U, P.).! —Housing Expediter Wilson W.| Wyatt reported today that priorities | issued in July for construction of! G. 1. homes fell “far below” the re-! quirements of the veterans housing program. Between June 29 and July 26 permits were issued to build. 55,535 homes, bringing total authoriza-! tions to 632,256, | Mr. Wyatt attributed the low figure to uncertainty over building!

ship, taker to Madeira, and had a|

pall:

f for :

"mhil gight Te

Spo

You'll be PLAID HAPPY when you "STEAL THE SHOW" in this stimulatin' colorful tunic in contrast with black skirt, collar and cuffs,

One of several striking new arrivals on our second floor!

. 1 T°

prices during OPA's lapse and to a continuing shortage of materials, |

Use as a dining table,

seating four or two—

Closed it’s an Attractive Console Table!

STORE HOURS: DAILY 9:45 to 5:15 P. M. . SATURDJYS: 9:45 to 1 P.M.