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FIVE THS PENSACOLA JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1937 PHONE 2l4f Tarpon Survivor Wett In" Shark Infested Wfaters Suryivors lii Hospital Tell Of Tarpon Tragedy Tarpon Survivor Swims 25 Miles After Ship Founders MISSISSIPPI MAN KILLS HIS WIFE, SHOOTS DENTIST Fanner Flares When Woman Asks Permanent Wave; Suspected Affair TEN OF RESCUED RECOUNT HOURS IN ROUGH SEAS Danford And Mattalr Relate How Captain Barrow Died In Anns Of His Men (Br Th neitd Fr1 PANAMA CITY, Fla, Sept. 3. and suddenly the boat listed and water begn pouring inside. I fought my way dutside. "Then 'she turned over and we Addley Baker swam nearly 25 miles from the spot where the.

steamship Tarpon sank to shore to give word that the vessel had gone down. He was in the water 25 hours, 15 minutes. "I swam until I couldn't lift my he said. "Then Td float a while, and swim some more. The water was cold and I wondered if I could reach shore.

"I thought of my wife mostly. And I thought of my shipmates. I wondered if help had come to them." That was how he described his heroic swim today. Baker was an oiler on the ship and lives in Mobile. Ala.

He is under medical treatment here. "We had been shipping seas for hours," he said. "The blow started about 11:30 p. m. Tuesday.

It became bad the pumps couldn't handle it I put on a life preserver, grabbed (whatever we could. The rigging caught me as she went under and carried me and Chief Engineer William C. McKnight about four feet under. 1 fought my way up and grabbed a plank. "The-others were struggling in the water, Some negroes began singing or praying; I couldnt tell which, but I think they were praying.

I saw one dead man. a negro. "I held on to my plank for over aa hour. Near me was Cecil Smith, another I oiler (later rescued). I told him I saw land and was going to wim, for it.

He said to wait, the ship would be missed and the coast guard would rescue us But struck He dragged himself ashore near Phillips Inlet. nr V. J- By CELESTIXE SIBLEY Bafe in a hospital bed. far removed from the menace of hungry sharks and sheets of chilly gray water sweeping over them and tearing at their hold on flimsy pieces of wreckage, ten members of 'the Tarpon's crew were able to smile a little yesterday as they told of the tragedy which claimed their captain and 14 fellow-workers. Hungry but unable to- eat anything but liquids and ice cream, the survivors, seven of whom are white, received visitors, chatted with each other, puffed contentedly at cigarets and, almost to a man, planned to ro Woman Who1 Rode Tarpon In Old Storm Praises Skipper ii '1U CQLORED YOUTH Girl Wife, 13, Wed At 11, Gives Birth To Nine-Pound Son on the deck of the Tarpon with the angry waters all about him, his imperturbability" and confidence injecting a feeling of safety that was felt by the five womenand perhaps by the men.

too, who made up crew "I remember Captain W. Q. jBar-row as ft hero because with him I weathered one of the most terrific storms, on the Gulf" said Mis. G. O.

McPhail of Henderson. N. Ci who Is visiting here, Friday morning. "I- shall never forget his appearance on that trip in 1911, standing DROMS IN CREEIi Richard Millhouse Tall la Water Baiting: Hook (Br Th Aesoeisted Press) JACKSON, Sept. 3.

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger said today a Mississippi farmer admitted he clubbed his wife to death and shot and killed a dentist because he suspected an affair between the two. The newspaper said the farmer, Gordon Newman, 43, of Gillsburg, made the statement in the presence of one of its reporters and Sheriff John W. Roberts, Jr. Newman was charged with murder. The dead woman, 38 years old, was the mother of five children.

The slain dentist was Dr. D. Root, 45, of Kentwood, La. "When I started by to the fields after dinner (Thursday) my wife asked me how about getting a permanent wave. That upset me.

I told her she didn't need a wave, that she just 'wanted to primp up." the newspaper quoted him as saying. "I was drawing water from the well near the house and my wife had the bucket in her hand. "She got mad. When I threw some water at her feet, she hit me on the arm with the bucket." Newman, the newspaper said, did net explain in detail how his wife was killed. He was quoted as saying that when "he had finished with her" he got into his car, drove across the Mississippi state line into Kentwood, and stopped at the office of Dr.

Root. "I went into the office. There was a. man between me and the doctor. I moved around until I got a straight shot at him and then I let him have it.

Then I turned around and walked out." Dr. Root was shot five times. After the shooting, the newspaper said, Newman surrendered to Sheriff E. T. Harvey of Amite county.

the boat, reportea tnai nis wait" Richard Millhouse, 12-year-old cplored boy, was drowned shortly be- (Bv The Aocistd Prts SEVIER VILLE, Sept. 3. Thirteen-year-old Lola Bell Hurst, who said she married at the age of 11, was the mother today of a nine-pound baby son. Her husband, Willard Hurst, has not seen the baby. "I've heard he is over in North Carolina, but no one seems to know where he is," Dr.

R. J. Ingle, Sevierville physician, said; The young mother said she quit the third grade in 1935 to marry Hurst. She lives at the home of her father, Mack Dyer, near here. fore into noon yesterday when he fell Carpenter creek from Baar'i i stopped at 8:35 ftjn.

yesterday, apparently the time when he hit the water. I- The old man is fit as a fiddle today," he declared "I'm ready to go again. When I saw that plane circling over us I knew old master hadn't forgotten us. You he added conversationally, "there were sharks and porpoises In that water. They were klndjof timid though.

They'd come pretty close and back off. That's what made us bridge on the 12th avenue road, Deputy Richard Olsen said last night. Only eye-witness to the drowning was a small unidentified white boy slid the Millhouse boy had been 'fishing and was attempting to bait his hook when he fell headlong la to the water. Passers-by extracted the body an hour and a hall later. In falling, he had grabbed a bicycle and took it overboard with him.

Coroner R. L. Kendrick said there was no question the boy died of accidental drowning. pray," Six Cling to Eaft WORLD ALMANAC EX-EDITOR DIES Wolfe' aon. W.

R. Wolfe 33. who Photos and Cuts by Carter Comfortable except for a few bruises and salt water burns, suffered during 30 hours of clinging desperately to the wreckage of their ship, six of the seven white survivors in Pensacola hospital are shown here. Left to right in the upper photos: William C. McKnight, Carrabelle, second engineer; Lloyd B.

Mattalr, Pensacola, chief Nixon Davis, quartermaster, St. Andrews, and Cecil Smith, ofler, Mobile. In the lower photos are George G. Wolfe, Mobile, purser on the craft and E. Dansford, 65-year-old first mate, St.

Andrews. Wolfe's son, W. R. Wolfe, is in a bed adjoining that of his father. Robert Hunt Lyman Expires After 111 Two Yean Bottled Pure Water Gets Man In Trouble Governor To Appeal In Race Track Case SevedoresTo Miss Rumble Of Cao'n Barrow's Orders and passengers.1' At that time Mrs.

McPhail was Miss Mabel Wilkerson of Pensacola. She had made the trip from Pensacola to St. Andrews to visit friends a fair weather voyage. On the return trip she encountered very rough weather but was determined to get back to Pensacola to keep an engagement. "That engagement was with Guy McPhail now my husband, so you know how important it was to me.

I had visited the wife of the second officer of the XT. S. dredge Caucus, Mrs. Croft, and she and her husband urged me to remain until the storm had abated, making the trip to Pensacola on the Caucus, but I had to keep my engagement with my future husband. did but I was a litttle late, in doing so for the storm Increased and when we touched Panama City rough weather discouraged, passengers for embarking.

Captain Barrow had warned us in the beginning that we should have a stormy trip but had left the decision to us. Besides myself there were four others, a lady and her daughter and a couple from Chipley who were en route to Chicago and wanted to stop over in Pensacola. "Our passage was so rough from St. Andrews to Pensacoja that we were not allowed on deck and did not go to the dining room. But in spite of the storm Captain Barrow brought us safely home to port.

"He was so proud of the Tarpon and we were so proud of him and personally I have felt great pride in knowing him especially since that stormy passage when his splendid confidence gave me courage. "On arriving in PensacohCbhe of the first persons I asked about was Captain Barrow and I went down to the docks and am glad that I saw the Tarpon Just shortly before she went out on this fatal trip." Mrs. McPhail is the wife of G. O. McPhail, manager of the American Agricultural Chemical company branch offices in Henderson and Wilmington, N.

C. She came to The News office Friday morning to get copies The News and Journal to send to covins who were personal friends of Captain Barrow. to sea again. Although they suffered gainful bruises, nail wounds or burns from 30 hours spent in the salt water, none of them, hospital attaches said, was seriously hurt and all will probably be released today or tomorrow, Franlc Jackson, a negro roustabout, Mobile, was not rescued until yesterday morning and as a result suffered more from, exposure than the others. A E.

Danford, 65-year-old first mate, the only member pf the crew who was able to walk ashore when the Coast Guard brought the survivors here, with Lloyd B. Mattalr was last man to see Captain W. O. Barrow alive. captain lived for.

seven hours after his boat went under, the two said. Supported on the top of a hatch cover between the two officers, the aged skipper held out hope for the others until he was too weak to talk. Captain Collapses It was squally and cold," Dan-ford said. "The skipper said 1 cant go any longer" and finally he slumped down in Mr. Mattalr' arms.

With no food and water since Tuesday morning when the Tarpon's crew first begin to realize that for once the "old capV was running off schedule, all members started fighting the squall. Mattalr, 41, a resident of 325 West Romana who sailed with Captain Barrow for 18 years, recalled most clearly the events preceding the "A strong southeast wind 'was blowing, the worst wind a sailor can have in the when. I was on watch. At midnight it didnt seem so bad and I went to bed leaving my assistant WllUarn C. McKnight on watch.

Prove Useless "It must have got worse and worse because about 2:30 he called me and I went on deck. She was listing- to the port side so we head-ed her intothe wind and threw the cargo over. We got the bilges and the deck free and it started looking better when sh suddenly started listing to the starboard. My theory is that some of the bulwarks" gave way and some of the deck seams opened up. Ve had the pumps going as hard as we could but we couldnt free her.

Then we could see she was going so we grabbed life belts and cut loose the boats. I don't know what happened to one of them but I saw one beafi to, pieces before it could hit the water. Mr. Dansford and I got on a hatch cover and as we drifted we came close to Captain Barrow. All Kept t'p IIop "All of ua hoped be saved I didnt think about giving up hope but the captain ever think the ship and cargo would be lost (By Th Assocfstsd Press) CARRABELLE, Sept.

3. Stevedores in waterfront towns from Mobile bay to the Crooked river will (Br Th Assoelsttd Ptsm) NEW YORK. Sept. 8. Rcberj Hunt Lyman, 73.

editor of thi World Almanac until his retirement in April 1938, died today of heart trouble. He had been ill two years. i Lyman was born in Huntington. Mass, March 3, 1984. He was an editor of the Yale News and after graduation went to work for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

His first New York position, was with James Gordon Bennett 'a New York Herald. He later went to London as editor of the London Herald, After his return he went to work for Joseph Pulitier on the New World. He was secretary during the war with Spain and served as night editor and acting miss the rumbling orders of Capt. Pen cola's pure water, bUy-hooe4 all over this section In beer advertisements, proved to be the main Ingredient of bottles returned to park concession operators, county authorities claimed In charging James T. Gould, Jackson, Miss, with embezzlement yesterday.

Police Officer Crowe Maxwell arrested Gould at Legion field, at the request of operators who said Gould was hawking beer for them. Among unsold bottles returned for redemption, they claimed, Gould placed used bottles, filled with water, with caps replaced. He waa turned over to county authorities. Also turned over to the county ing barrels, toting the bags and cases at 3-mile an hour walk which they had learned from experience was a safe. minimum of activity.

Barrow shouted for speed at times, but appeared mildly surprised if he got it. Irony, too, was something Just to be enjoyed. "Boy," he rumbled at one of his hands here last July, "get that sill aboard. Or do you want to stay here and watch it?" The negro didn't glance up. He grinned, however, as he hoisted inio place the wooden gate which shielded the freight door from whitecaps.

"Yes sir, Cap'n," he said. (Br Th Assoclstsd Pros) ALBANY, N.Y. Sept. 3. Gov.

Leh-mau today directed District Attorney Martin W. Littleton of Nassau county to file notice of appeal immediately fron the dismissal by County Judge Richard Hawkins of gambling indictments against two officials of the jMineola, L. dog racing track. j. The governor said he would call at once an extraordinary term of the appellate division, second department, to meet next Friday, Sept.

10, to consider the appeal. The chief executive's instructions to Littleton were issued at the end of an hour-and-a-half conference on the gambling situation at the Mineola track, in which represent-tives of the attorney general's office also took part. Littleton refused to comment after the conference. Willis G. Barrow.

He was 83 years old. but ageless to them, a robust 6-footer with master's cap aslant, a drooping mustache, black-ribboned glasses astride his nose, muscular hands and a voice that could carry a deck's length in any blow. His freighter Tarpon made weekly round trips and occasional passengers in the Qulf coast trade. Negro stevedores handled the freight at the piers by hand, roll managing editor until his appoint yesterday were Frank Johnson, negro. ment as editor- of the Almanac 1922.

arrested by Officers Crosby Hall and Germain Cooper for allegedly steal Calif omian To Head Veteran Auxiliary Deaths ing, milk from front porches la the Norths Hill section; B. Martin, accused of larceny In connection with the theft Williams, charged with' shoplifting. Mae Locher, St. Petersburg, Fla, former Junior vice president, 'was elected senior vie presit Divided equally among its tants. each Derson in the Territory (By Ths AssoMs.tsl Press) BUFFALO.

N. Sept. 3. Mrs. Laurie Schertle of Oakland, Calif, was elected national president of the ladies auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars today.

Mrs. Anna i of Alaska would own 10.7 square has been a -checker on thej boat for three months, clung to a raft with his father and four negroe and felt certain, he declared, that he would never see land again. "We kicked off our shoes but we didnt have to worry about our clothes. The water ripped them off. When I climbed on the Coast Guard boat I was Just about naked." Cecil Smith, 309 North Joachim street.

Mobile, oiler on the Tarpon for the last two weeks, lifted his shirt to show a bandage stomach. "Some of them tried to stay on," he commented, Smith's hands were badly punctured with nail wounds. Nixsen Davis, 23, Panama City, also displayed painful bruises. Started For Beach "As quartermaster 1 was in the pilot house through it all. I had the wheel most of the time.

Once we started to beach her but then Captain Barrow said it looked like we could save her so we headed out again." Davis has been going to sea three or four years and had been on the Tarpon the last three months. "I guess I've got it In my blood," he grinned, "so 111 probably light out again as soon as they're through with me here." In. the negro ward, Jackson tossed fitfully and begged for glass after glass of water. The skin on his hands was still wrinkled and waterlogged, and he moans' from burns on his shoulders and arms. Found on Beach "They got me on the beach somewhere this he muttered.

Attaches of the hospital said the Coast Guard ambulance picked Jackson up west of Panama City. George Boy kin, 455 Delaware street. Mobile, also a negro roustabout, could remember little of the experience except hunger. "It was too rough for us to get our something feat after Tuesday morning and we didnt have no fresh water. When the boss man starting us to overboarding that cargo and I saw the cases of tomatoes and Crackers going by, I tell you I suffered." George thinks that he Is through with the sea after this experience.

"It's Just natcherally too rough out there," he declared. Ice Water McMillarl, 19-year-old negro roustabout, of 5U Knox street in Mobile, had been on the steamer three Weeks. Cheerful despite several bad burns on his arms. Claude's chief interest was in Ice water. "I was so hungry I though I never would stop eating but when I saw the food I couldnt eat much." Officials of the hospital, warned In advance that the survivors were being brought to fensacola, laid in extra supplies last night they said, prepared to make up for the crew's enforced three-day fast.

"I guess they will start eating when their throats are better," one of the nurses said. SOMETHING TO MISS EVELYN HEINE Funeral services for Miss Evelyn Heine, 70 years old, who died at 7 p.m. Thursday in" Birmingham, will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at the T. M.

Lloyd funeral parlors. Burial will be in St. John's cemetery. Pallbearers will be W. M.

Houghton, M. G. Runyan, Max. Heinberg. Eugent Reese, Holley Credille and M.

E. White. WILLI AM JASPER NORWOOD William Jasper Norwood, 62, died at 6:20 pjn. Friday at 250 East In-tendencia street. He had been 111 Asbestos Heir Asks Doctor To Examine Him As To Sanity (By Th Associated Prs) NEW ROCHELLE, N.

Sept. 3. Tommy Manvllie, man of many blondes and many dollars, announced today he had asked a Manhattan physician to look into his sanity, thus anticipating a move of his fourth wife, Marcelle Edwards, was reported making. In the seclusion of his. fortress-like home on Long Island sound, the white-haired asbestos, heir, took time off from preparations for a big Labor Day week-end party to announce: "I have learned they are attempting to have a commission examine me because I am squandering Marcelle's money.

So, he said, raising his voice to ashout over the telephone, he had called up Dr. William H. Bishop and a group of the doctor's law Unexpected guests for dinner? Here a rula you'll find a wlnneri To servo a perfect drink; depend On CALVERT it's a perfect blendi altogether." William C. McKnight, 41. first assistant engineer from Carrabelle, in a voice so hoarse it was about four months.

SurvMng Mr. Norwood, a carpen scarcely audible told of clinging to st Good Samaritan Act To Aid Injured Man Costs Motorist $50 The Good Samaritan act of T.E. Watson, North Palafox street filling station' operator, cost him about $50, he estimated yesterday. Watson, was in the act of taking Sam McCorvey, employe of the Miller Ice company injured when he became fouled in a belt, for medical treatment when his automobile skidded and struck a curbing at Palafox and Gadsden streets, badly damaging car and curbing. The injured man, whose arm was at first thought to be broken, was taken to a drug store for first aid.

Watson said he was awakened by McCorvey's screams and found him tangled in a large belt that "had come off the pulley. mast and screaming at people on the beach. "We could see them but it dldnt look like they were paying us any attention. We didn't know they had fter, are his wife; one son, DeWitt; three daughters, Mrs. L.

Campbell, Mrs. A. R. Trovlnger and Miss Gertrude Norwood, all of Pensacola; a sister, Mrs. Ida Enfinger of Chu-muckla, and brother, T.

J. Norwood. The funeral procession will leave the T. M. Lloyd parlors at 1:30 pjn.

Saturday for burial in the Chu-muckla cemetery. boats on the way and I yelled and yelled to them to come for That's what happened to my voice." George O. Wolfe, 207 Dexter avenue, Mobile, white-haired purser on yers. I Mil 'A i "V5' i nmn tiMMn-M-Mttttica, muni CkZT. TVESE ARE I YEAH AND j' fnveU.Sie.l ALWAYS MAK5 to ELL, HS TO -S THE 5M0CTHST IS ONE s.

COCKTAILS OX. HIGHBALLS I A FtRfECT BLEKO FOi A COCKTAILS EVER SMOOTH I td WITH CALVERT. ITS A 1 CCJKJC )L-vc -i uuMtuLi I ruMOEo hsuyA -z -A. V-V 'Wovecr smooth axp mellow ij flV i -1 Eight Rightists Put To Death In Russia (Bj Ths Associated Preset MOSCOW, Sept. 3.

Eight more persons cpnvicted as rightist enemies of the Soviet regime were shot today in Leningrad province and two othere were sentenced to 10 years in prison. They were, reported to have confessed attempts to hamper development of collective fanning in the Krashnovardisky district. Funeral Rites Held For Navy Machinist Funeral services for Robert Fall, Navy aviation machinist mate who died in the San Diego flying boat crash last Monday were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Naval Air Station chapel with full military honors. Chaplain M. M.

Witherspoon conducted the services with interment in the National cemetery, Ftsher-Pou was in charge. IJm Camp's A 'OftK AND BEAN im MADISON WOMAN DIES (By The Associated Preset COLBERT, Sept. .3. Mrs. hMvmatMmmmmmsutsmmmma i r.

H. C. Hardeman. 56, prominent Madi- ITT CLEAR HEADS CLEAR HEADED BUYERS at her Passing, Plays Are Termed Pretty Good (Br Th Associated Press) GAINESVILLE, Sept. 3.

Passing plays exhibited by the Florida, football squad today drew the comment good" from Coach Josh Cody, The team was handling the ball better during ft signal drill. Cody started shifting the linesmen to balance the forward wall. 1 The veteran Harry Kicliter moved over from left to right tackle and George Owens' worked on the ief side of the line instead of the tight. Charlie Krajcier, an end last year, has taken his place among the tackle candidates. -4 Twenty Scheduled airlines operating in continental United States in May, 1937, carried 98,035 passengers and 591.

Oil! pounds of express and flew 5,783,643 miles and 42.019,423 passenger miles. son county woman, died home here latt night. N. Hardeman, Late NON-CITIZENS DROPPED KEY WEST, Sept. 3.

The Works Progress Administration today dropped 70 workmen who were not citizens. All had been born In Cuba or the Bahamas and many had lived here since infancy. The action caused a rush to take out citizenship papers. 7 Z. r.

CALL FOR W. Palm a son, and Pope Hitchcoclc. Beach. and Murray LEGAL HOLIDAY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th LABOR The banks of Pensacola will not be open i iff Hitchcock.1 Jacksonville, Fla, brothers, are among survivors. iff mm- Thirty-five planes, including 12 seaplanes, 109 engines, and $437,524 I WHISKIES Pontiac cars are equipped with wooden wheels at the factory so they can be moved without ruining the rims.

When the cars are shipped to foreign countries the wooden wheels are removed and homs-made tires are jt iwT entvf prr mnuttin eirniLrPHcs: forb t. cLVli 'sntyi iiLnvta sKti worth of instruments and accessories were exported by the United States (in 1337. Most of the planes were shipped to Argentina, usiness on that day. mTS m4. li HrmiM wiumkri Ji rsf smU.