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Stearpship Florida
and Crew Rescued
fiy Yank Vessel
Xf W. W. CHAPLIN "
sVsanriated Press Writer
YORK, Jan. 24. (AP)
ro - men of the sea were
bound tonight, snatch
death after almost all
right t nope was cone.
were the crew of the Ital.
freighter Florida, . storm
tOO miles at aea, and they
Afire only because the coar.
. age mt seamen . from , the land
their mntryman, Columbus, dis-
was Joined with the my-
power of radio to deter.
the direction of an object ont
a sight.
'.Six af the crew were seriously
lajwrad. fonr others were Tery ill,
mmd all were exhausted from their
tight or life. But they were Hire.
was almost more than
would hare thought could
- he tfcetir lot who could hare seen
fkfr dlKM yesterday an Captain
Caorps Fried of the rescue ship
ASMrtrs described It today in his
Tint aecount of the rescue in
to the Associated Press.
TVied Has Record
years ago Capt. Pried,
caanmander of the President
prored himself a col-
rtal writer of aea epics when he
to the Associated Press
of the rescue, of 25 men
the foundering British
Antlnoe and today he
equally stirring tale of
rkQl aad courage victorious over
lie rampant forces of angry na-
tara.
The America. Capt. Fried said
i inbound from Europe when It
yackaw ipSOS calls from both
the) Florida and , the American
DannedalkV last Tuesday
The America was 360
ray, but when Capt. Fried
4etermised that ; although other
were nearer only one had a
radle direction finder, he swung
frosa his course and pushed to
ward the belt of windy fury . in
VUd the freighters lay disabled.
fihlp Badly Crippled
Dannedalke subsequently
ftaJlaa off the Bermuda under a
Jary rig. Jauntily reporting that
ft had apparently called the turn
Oifr Jones this time; but the
Florida was wounded by the storm i
swywM any cnance of Helping her.
mix.
Ska must hare been in a bad
way long before she swallowed a
pride and called for help
far Capt. Fried revealed today
Chat aba lost a man overboard last
Bandar, two days before her 8 O
I crackled from her wireless room.
Before the America reached her,
groping through roaring seas
ay a snowy gale, the Flor
ida's bridge had been washed
he was listed so far her
caytaia feared she would roll com-
tarteay orer, and her crew had
practically stripped of their
eSatkla by the waves that bat-
smeeeaingly and the wind
that lashed them with Ice and
Two Others Give TTp
i two other craft besides the
that started to the res.
could not find the Florida
to abandon the search.
tha President Harrison and the
Torek, had proceeded on their
ty long - before the America
reached the scene apd Capt. .Fried
raveaSad today why It was that
they Had tailed.
Because of the llat of the Flor
ida, he said, her skipper felt that
u only, way to keep her afloat
was to keep the engines turning
over. And so while the Harrison
and Torek; were approaching the
position, he gave in his S O S. He
was steadily ateamlnc away. from
it, and they, without radio direc
tion finding apparatus, were un
able to locate him.
America Better Equipped
'The America, however, -had an
efficient radjo compass, which is
a sensative 'receiving , set with a
revolving loop antenna. Although
misled at first by the difference
between the Florida's given posi
tion and the' direction Indicated
by the radio compass, it was the
direction finder In the end that
led to the Florida. They found the
Florida 16 miles from the posi
tion it had given long after dark
last night. ' -
Capt. Fried well knew the dan.
ger of the next taek to be at
tempted. When - he directed the
rescue ofthe crew of the Antlnoe
three years ago he lost two of his
own men . who were washed out
of. a Jife boat and drowned. But
the law of the sea is ingrained in
the men who follow its calling,
and he did not hesitate.
Lifeboat number one was swung
out and down, thoueu a full gale
was blowing and the wind car.
ried a smother of snow to make
things harder. Chief Officer Man.
nlng took command of the little
boat and eight men sat at the
oars.
Light Plays on Florida
The America's searchlight was
playing on the Florida as it tossed
broken and awash in tremendous
seas. Manning approached to with
in 60 feet and dared go no closer.
He got a rope on the Florida's
deck and one after another the
shivering sailors from the sinking
wreck hurled themselves into the
sea and pulled their way hand
over hand to the cockleshell that
was their one remaining hope
of life.
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sis of S.5S a share, against $1.43
In the preceding quarter, and 87
cents In the last quarter of 1927.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. (AP)
The stock market approached the
weekly brokerage loan announce
ment today with marked uneas
iness. The majority of important
issues lost from 2 to 6 points, al
though vigorous -pools managed
to bid up a few specialties.
It had. been taken for granted
that the loan total would reach a
new high record, hut revival pi
the gold movement from Eng
land this week" tended to over
shadow this ominous prospect un
til today, . when - takings of the
yellow metal In London dwindled
to about $1,500,000.
Call money held at 6 per cent.
but the . tone was firm. Banks
called $16,000,000 In .Joans and
tighter money is expected over the
month end. ...
Directors of he Bethlehem Steel
company announced after the
close of the market resumption
of common dividends on a $4 an
nual basis. Earnings for the last
quarter of 1928 were on the ba-
PUGILIST
ME
CALLS OFF WED
G
OAKLAND. Cal., Jan. 24.
(AP) "Because the Bible was
("Kid") Wedge. Berkeley ; minis
ter and former pugilist,; called off
his marriage to Mrs, Jennie M.
Holloway. : Oakland . divorcee, .to
day tnada public by -the bride-to-
be. .v : . .
The marriage was to be per
formed this evening ' In Oakland
and the Berkeley divine had re
served the honeymoon suite at one
of Oakland's leading hotels for the
ceremony. -
"The Bible Is against our mar
riage," Wedge wrote. "While your
first husband Is still 'living I
would be breaking Ood's. law by
living with you.' even though the
the laws of California sanction
Wedge, a Harvard graduate
worked as a ' lumberjack In the
north and later gained recognition
as a 'prizefighter.
: BELLEVUE. 0 Jan. 28. (A
P) Official and private investi
gators will confer here tomorrow
to set a date for an Inquest Into
the collision of an lnterurban car
and a bus which tonight had left
a toll -of 1$ deaths and 16 persons
injured
flat
It
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LW0I1LFUIII
EH TOO
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. AP)
For the second time Captain
George Fried prored - today that
v - -. - fim r,t . rennrter "as
well as a first. rate rescuer. f4
Three years ago. almost to the
day, the 26 men of the crew of
the British freighter Antlnoe v. . ,.
rescued by the United States lit .
President Roosevelt, Capiat',
Fried in command. After the i
cue was completed, Captain Km .;
sent a graphic account to the As
sociated Press.
In recognition of his ability
. x . l - ... j r. . .
a renorter. me aiucii.cu ns
presented CaplIn Fried with an
Inscribed watch commemoratir.i;
the occasion and namea mm an
honorary reporter.
There was oneterrible moment
during this time when the rope
parted -and some poor seaman.
half way across., had to be hauled
back to the sodden deck he. had
been glad to leave. But another
rope was got across and the transr
fer was completed.
The captain of the Florida was
last to leave his ship. He came
crawling through the wares and
like the rest was hauled aboard
the lifeboat. Capt. Fried said the
Florida's crew, were dazed, hys
terical, practically naked, some
were injured and others HI. They;
must all have been nearly frozen.
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