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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921. 5 WOULDN'T KNOW A PIRATE IF WE SAW ONE SAY OLD TARS Merchandise Advertised Hero on Sate Today and Tomorrow GAS FUMES KILL 3 SAILORS TRAPPED IN VESSEL'S HOLD Attractiou trie QatSlf Srric IT In? "Natural Causes" Their rj Pirate Bulletins Hot Off the Wire Verdict on Missing Ships. They liever saw one. thev said. and if a pirate were to come up and Misses' Linene Sport Smocks snaKe mem Dy the nana or the scruff of the neck they wouldn't know him they not being familiar with the cut of a pirate's at all.

Which, is the experience, in a cockle shell, the old salts in Sailors Snug Harbor on Staten Island have had with sea robbers in forty years and more before the mast. And there are nearly 800 retired tars of the old school who stow their dunnage in Snug Harbor. Could they explain the mystery of missing ships and could the many recent disappearances of vessels from, the seas be laid to the doors of "irates? They could and it wasn't. pirates, the old salts answered decisively. Twas natural causes.

J- "i I i (By United Presa.) Washington, D. July 13. Search for a clew to the vanishing ships, numbering around twenty, was centered today, in a chase for the mysterious vessel reported at various times within the past few weeks gliding" along in dark without running lights and oftentimes in complete darkness. The mystery cruiser has circled vessels along the Atlantic coast at night and then disappeared. Renewed interest was aroused by the report of the captain of the Norwegian freighter Fort Morgan that he had collided with a mystery ship.

The Department of Justice has wired him for a complete report. Coast guards now are actively engaged in the hunt for the mys Patrolman Charles Schofer Patrolman Ed Demartini 94c Made of cool fabric, these smart Tuxedo models have collars and cuffs of white contrasting vividly with their blue or rose selves. We have them in all white, too. Short sleeves and narrow string sash. Worn with a pretty gilet or over a sheer blouse, they are most attractive for vacation days.

Sizes 14 to 20 years. Comrades Vainly Try to Rescue Them. Three sailors on the steamship Mincio, lying at Pier 70, North i River, were killed yesterday while attempting to save comrades when they were overcome by hydrocya-nide gas fumes in a hold of the ship. They rere Baptisto La Fauchia, Domenico Stropoli and Ignazio. Jr-Tera.

The other men were dragged from the hatchway by Patrolmen Ed Demartini and Charles Schofer. The ship had arrived from Genoa and preparations were made to fumigate her. The orders were that the hatch covers were not to be lifted until 1 o'clock yesterday. Shortly after that hour Stropoli and Fianacco. opened the hatchway and went down.

Others followed them. Third Floor, 35th Stmt. tery vessel or vessels. Government officials and shipping men are not determined whether one or more vessels are involved. Descriptions have been furnished the Navy De Collisions, explosions, lightning, uncharted rocks, floating derelict hulks and storms have sent the missing vessels to the bottom with ail hands, and mysterious unlighted ships are ships whose lights are out and there is no mytsery, it was declared by Captain Whitney, skipper of Snug Harbor.

And that's that. "It was back in '67 or '681 dis-remember which," he said, "when we took aboard 100 kegs o' gunpowder on the square-rigger Peruvian in the stream below where the Statue of Liberty is. "We rounded the Horn and was beating it up to Frisco across the equator when we ran into a terrific thlinHriirT-m partment and it was believed sea Lace and Net Gilets planes and destroyers may take the trail. 89c 9 Navy Court Reports Lost Balloonists Have Adjusted Row in Canada Washington. D.

July 13. A court of inquiry has just written These dainty combinations of sheerest net and fine Valenciennes lace are just the right sort of vestee to wear with the newsport dresses and smocks. Offered in white and cream color, they will freshen the last-year frock and make the new one struck by lightning and only by luck the bolt didn't streak down the mainmast into the hold where the powder was. If it had the ship and all hands would ha5 been blown to pieces and we'd ha' been another mystery ship that never reached port." John Becker, a tar who sailed for forty years before retirino-. haA the final chapter in the sensational incidents attending the free balloon flight last December of Lieuts.

Louis A. Kloor, Stephen A. Farrell and Walter Hinton, during which the men were lost for days in the Canadian wilds. Shortly afterwards cries were hard from below deck and the other members of the crew realized, that the men were in danger from the fumes in the hold. La Fauchia, hearing the cries of the men below, called i a few hurried orders to his companions, and taking a rope which was fastened to a steam winch on the deck he lashed it about himself and ordered his companions -to him into the hold of the ship.

Mother Sent to Jail Because Bov Left School The fight which took place later his say. During the war he came out of retirement and shipped again before the mast. In Janu between i arrell and Hinton was disposed of as follows: "Shortly after arrival at Mattice, Ontario, a personal altercation between Lieutenants Farrell and Floor, Centra, Broadway. Hinton took place, in which Lieutenant Hinton was struck by Lieutenant Farrell. Lieutenant Farrell at this time was in a highly ary, 1919, while in midocean, a cargo of gasoline exploded, killing alf on board except himself and two Negroes.

They clung to the rigging of the fast-sinking vessel and were picked up by a Chinese tramp. There maye pirates and perhaps they do a good business, the tars in Snug Harbor admitted. But in the long sea years between 1850 and 1900 they never met one face to face. excited, nervous and exhausted con dition due to exposure. "This difference was later ad justed in a manly way by the giving and accepting of an apology, reestablishing the friendly relations which had previously existed." Summer Corsets 94c Made of pink brocade, with a comfort-yielding rubber top, and wisely placed light boning, this corset holds in its slender lines the founda- -tion of summer smartness.

Sizes 21 to 25,.. to Earn Bread for Her John 'McNeeley, eighteen, told yesterday how his mother. Allen McNeeley, 1592 Third avenue, had gone to jail two days because he stayed away from, school to earn bread for her. "I would not let my mother starve," he said. "I went to work in the day time and to school at night until the school at Eighty-second street and Avenue A shut down.

I haven't been to school since February. I am supposed to go four hours week, but I had to make a living." The mother said that she was fifty-two and unable to make a living. When the -court fined her for keeping her boy out of school there was only $5 in the family and she sent it tg the boy with the house keys and took the jail sentence instead. Body in River The body of an unidentified man, about fifty, was found floating yesterday in the East River, off the foot of Thirty-sixth street. Week-End Special Sale For today, Friday and Saturday on we are offering the following bargain to draw your attention to the quality and low prices of all our women's specialties.

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