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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
HOOVER INSULT"
URUCUAYANS SAY
Condemn Policies in
Nicaragua
BULLETIN.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec.
2.-The population of Uruguay is
not friendly to the president
elect of U. S. A., whom they re-
gard as new kind of Alexander,
seeking fresh worlds for Wall
Street conquests. The Diario del
Plata, one of the most influential
newspapers, remarks:
Mr.. HOover's visit is an insult.
We will give him the courtesy de-
manded for a guest, but he is
mistaken if he thinks that his
visit here will dispel the bad I'M
preston made in South America
by the republican party's policy in
Nicaragua"
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Dec. q
President-elect Hoover left the cruis-
er Cleveland yesterday amidst the
smoke of the roaring q gun salute
and landed in the midst of din of
whistles from the shore, every pre-
caution being taken to drown out
with official noise any inaults that
might be flung from the workers
who witnessed the arrival Of this
agent of American Imperialism.
After embracing President Ayora,
and tour Of the city together with
a presidential ban1uet Hover en-
tered into conference with him and
other officials of the Equadorean
government back on board The bat
tleship IN regard to a $G,000.000 loan
to be given the capitalist govern
ment of Ecuador by Wall st.
Hoover in his speech to the
Equadorean president soothed him
with the remark that "true democ-
racy can not be imperialistic" but
even Hoover did not claim that the
United States could be considered a
"true democracy"
The Cleveland left today for the
Battleship Maryland, which draws
too much water to get into Guaya-
quill Harbor, but which will carry the
Hoover party to its next stop, Lima.
Peruvian Rulers Fawn.
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 2.-WhateveI
the exploited descendants of the
Incas may think of the visit of the
agent of American Imperialism, the
reactionary rulers of this country
have heard their masters voice, and
will rush tumultuously to meet him.
When the battleship Maryland with
an armament that could sink the
whole Peruvian navy, heaves in
sight bearing Herbert Hoover,
president-elect of the United States,
the Congressional Commission, the
supreme court judges, the arch
bishop of Lima, the ministers OF
government, and the highest army
and navy officers will be down at
the wharf to meet him; gunboats
and airplanes will rush into the har-
Dor to surround the Maryland, and
salute will be fired. The mayor of
Callao will make a speech, and
Hoover will then be carted by auto
up the mountain road to the capital,
Lima, where President Leguia will
deliver a prepared address.
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WORKE ERS' SOLIDARITY WINS

DENVER, Dec. "A boycott of
the Old Homestead bakery by the
families of union workers forced
the owners to yield to the unions
demand for recognition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

LONDON, (By MaiD.-Over %
per cent of coal from British mines
last year was cut by machinery, a
government report says. The num-
Der of miners displaced runs into
the tens of thousands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
sPEED-UP CONVICT. LABOR.

OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. 2.-Con-
victs manufacturing license plates
this year have been so speeded up
that work is four months ahead of
last year, "a report of the Commits
sioner of Correction shows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
THIEVES FALL OLr.

FORT VALLEY, Ca, Try MailD.
George Slappey, leading business
man here, was cut by knife wieid-
ed by Mayor White in fight.
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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For a WOrkers-Farmers Government
To Organise the Unorganized
For the 4O-Hour Week
For Labor Party
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-14
CAPTAIN STANDS
AT POST TO END
Radio Operator browns at
Key.
Bal United Press


NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Captain
william j. Carey and Radio Opera
tor Michael j. O'Loughlin remained
at their posts as the ill-fated liner
Vestris sank to her grave. They
went down with their ship, passen-
gers said.
The skipper spent che final minute
of his life standing silhouetted on
the up-turned side of the Vestris.
With life belts lying at his feet, he
made no effort to strap one about
him. He stood there, scorning death,
until a wave washed him into the
depths below.
O'Loughlin, so far as is known,
never left his little radio shack from
which he flashed the IS o 81. Ap-
parently he drowned at his key.
From the moment he ordered the
radio operator to begin his series of
frantic distress signals Carey knew
his ship was doomed, survivors said.
But he prevented panic board the
fast-sinking liner.
nc Wdo III Aull View dC oil tlIIlSS
and as the list carried the vessel
over, he clung tenaciously to the
rails, shouting orders to the boat
men and pointing out struggling
passengers in the water.
Then-the great vessel turned
completely on its side, and just be-
fore it plunged to the bottom, Carey
scrambled up and stood erect, still
defiant of death.
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launched the boats long before he
did," Johnson said. when they
were launched, they were lowered on
the wrong side. That is to say, the
upper or port side"
Leap as Ship Sinks
E. M. Walcott, an Englishman,
agreed that much loss Of life could
have been prevented
"I certainly think Carey should
not have waited so long to send for
help" Walcott said. Il stayed on
the Vestris and decided to take my
chances, but finally the ship went
over and I found myself on the side
of the hull. In a moment there
was a lurch and the ship went
down. I was pulled along with the
suction. came back to the sur
face and saw Captain Carey and
a Negro stewardess.
Carey had on his overcoat and
did not seem to have a life belt.
He bobbed up and down on the
water a few times and then disap-
peared. He made no effort to save
himself, so far as I could see. I
helped the stewardess to get hold
of a plank"
Walcott said he was in the water
about three-quarters of an hour and
then swan up to a lifeboat.
The Negro stewardess was with
him. When the men in the life
boat saw the woman was a Negro,
Walcott went on; they told him he
could come aboard, but that they
had no room for the st9wardess.
Tiny Boat Is Wrecked
Il said You take her aboard"
Walcott continued. "I had to argue
with them, almost fight them, but
finally they agreed to take us
aboard"
Jean Gladianes, pantry man on
the Vestris, also was picked up by
the American shipper, said he was
in a boat with twenty-siX women
and children and four members of
the crew.
"a boom fell across the lifeboat
just after it was launched" he said,
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vious ocean journeys, believed that
the water blown into the ship by
the gale started the Listing of the
vessels.
This was aggravated, I believe,
by the shifting of the cargo" Dana
said. THE crew filled part of the
hold with water in an attempt to
right the vessel, but it was useless.
Then is when the officers should
have sent out their SOS-not
twenty hours later"
Four youths, who were going to
South America as representatives
Of the Standard Oil Company, fig
ured in heroic rescue work, passen-
gers said. They were Raymond L..
Ricketts, of Writ, Okla; Carl Pfaff
Of Marietta, Ohio; Arthur Jones of
Ada. Okla, and Clyde Pirsful of
Wewoka, Okla.
Rickets said he was in a lifeboat
With Pirsful and one Negro seaman.
Just as the ship was plunging un-
der, he had to cut the rope fasten-
ing the boat to the Vestris to save
the lifeboat.
Heroic. Rescues
"We had no oars, so 1 dived over
board, obtained two oars which were
floating some distance away, re-
turned to the boat and began
picking up what few passengers
still were in the water" Ricketts,
said.
One of the most heroic perform
ances was that of Lionel Licorish,
a Barbados Negro acting as quarter
master. He is small, but powerfully
built and an expert swimmer. When
he sighted passengers struggling in
the water, he dived from lifeboat
and rescued sixteen of them.
Each rescue, the survivors said,
was made individually. Licorish was
forced to dive ten or twelve feet
under the sea for some of the
drowning men and women.
E. A. Johnson, connected with
the Standard Oil Company, of New
Jersey, also rescued by the Arneri-
can Shipper, said there was no
reason why any life should have
been lost.
"The captain should have
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in Ship
Disaster Is
tOBeHeLd :
Survivors of III-Fated
VeStriS Cared for by
Company.

BU Untte0 Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Of1cial in
vestigation Of the cause of the sink
ing of the Lamport and Holt liner
Vestris, will be conducted as soon
"aS possible" David Cook, vice
president of Sanderson & Co., agents
for the line, said today.
when this inquiry will be con-
Quoted I cannot say definitely at
this time" Cook said.
Cook inferred he would arrange
to see the surviving officers of the
Vestris Thursday before answering
reported criticism by some pas
sengers of the delay in sending out
the S o S call and also the re-
ported slumsy handling of the life
boats by members of the crew.
Cook was emphatic in his assur-
ance that survivors of the disaster
would be properly cared for, and
added that passengers who arrived
aboard the Berlin today had been
given their choice of hotel accom-
modations. Later, he said, free pass
age would be provided to any des-
tination for them.
At the offices of the agency to-
day two passengers who were in
immediate need of funds were pro-
perly cared for.
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there were sharks in the water.
I saw one man whose arm had
been bitten off by shark"
u n
KERS. DEVORE, slight, blond,
Iva attractive woman of about
%, was almost in a state of col
lapse. She was extremely happy
to hear that Mrs. Batten, who
had fought against leaving her
husbands side, had been picked
up from the water by a lifeboat
and saved by the Berlin.
But her happiness over her
friends rescue was dimmed by
that ineradicable picture of her
husband, standing on the side Of
the sinking vessel, screaming for
the help which did not come.
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the American Shipper, said he
took charge of a boat containing
chiefly women and children.
while we were drifting, we
went past another boat" Soren-
son said. ION that boat was a
woman who, / later learned, was
Mrs. Earl S. Devore.
"She later told me that the
members of the crew who were in
the boat with her refused to heed
her pleas that she pick up her
husband, whose cries she was able
to distinguish.
"Those men could have picked
up Devore. They could have
picked up others whom they
passed by.
"It was in the Gulf Stream and
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wreck of the Vestris in the Allan
tic. Stories Of survivors indicate
that Devore and Batten perished.
n q
MFRS. DEVORE told dramatic
1V1 story of her rescue and
what she believes was the death
of her husband when she was
brought into New York harbor to-
day on the American Shipper, one
of the rescue ships. Mrs. Batten
was picked up by the Berlin,
which also docked at New York.
The two couples were sailing from
New York to Buenos Aires on the
Vestris.
Mrs. Devore said that the two
couples were huddled together on
the deck when the crew and pas
sengers started taking to the YES
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iris lifeboatS, according to the
United Press account.
n
"THREE Negro members of the
l. crew commandeered one of
the lifeboats and started to make
away with it" she said. "I shout
ed to them, For Gods sake, take
some of us in the boat
They finally admitted me to
The boat. AS soon as 1 stepped
over the side, believing Earl
would follow, I held out my hands
and took my fox terrier, Speed
way Lady, in my arms.
Earl started to step in, but
the Negroes showed away. My hus-
band and Mrs. Batten were on the
sinking liner screaming for help.
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A man who had, up to that
IN time, bravely obeyed the
order women, and children first"
standing on the side of a sinking
ship screaming for help.
This is the last glimpse of her
husband which Mrs. Earl Devore
will carry to her grave
this, and the belief that had a
Negro lifeboat even turned back
moment, Devore and others
might have been saved, according
to a United sPress dispatch from
New York today
Mrs. Devore and Mrs. Norman
x, 1 Batten, wives of two men who
have made automobile racing his
tory on the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, were saved from the
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"and threw all the women and
children into the water.
Il saw a child floating in the
water and reached out to get it
when I found my arm had been
broken. 1 grasped the child any
way and straddled a plank.
After floating for some time I
saw the child was dead and let it
go. Soon afterward I was picked
up"
William P. Adams, millionaire
land owner of Oderbolt, Iowa, was
asked concerning conditions on the
Vestris during the crisis.
IF you knew what I do it would
make your hair stand on end" was
all he would say.
Crew Lost Their Heads
Several of us stood waiting on
the deck while the boats were be-
ing filed" Carlos Quiros, chancellor
OF the Argentine embassy in Wash
ington, said.
"I personally saw that one boat
had hole in it. I saw the sailors
trying frantically to nail board
across that hole, and 1 saw that
boat sink 100 feet from the ships
side, throwing sixty persons into
the sea.
QuiroS said the crew apparently
had had no practice in loading and
launching the lifeboats, and that
if they had, they we're so excited
they we're unable to execute their
duties capably.
1T was very clumsy" he said.
"They seemed to lose their heads,
Only the chief officer and the Sec
ond steward seemed really to ac-
complish anything"
Karl Schmidt, a passenger, fioated
in life belt for sixteen hours. He
refused to talk to reporters be-
cause he apparently was exhausted
by his long exposure.
Adrift for Fourteen Hours
Those in the lifeboat picked up
by the Berlin were adrift for four
teen hours, without food except wa
ter and crackers, and suffering from
cold. The lifeboat, survivors said,
had no rudder, and they were un-
able to help themselves much be-
yond keeping the lifeboat headed
into the waves, waiting for a rescue
ship.
Some of them swan alongside the
Vestris for nearly half an
hour before they got aboard the
lifeboat.
o. L. Maxey of Richmond, Va.
criticised the ships officers for not
sending out an SOS Sunday night.
Captain Carey seemed undecided
and did not seem to know what to
do" the Virginia man said.
"The lifeboats leaked. There were
holes in every one of them, and we
spent most of the time bailing out
water We had nothing in the boat
except crackers and water"
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1.-THE water was full of drowning
men. I begged the crew to go
back to the assistance of those
behind, but they refused. The
last time I saw Earl he was stand
ing on the edge of the ship,
screaming for aid"
II
A MOTHER passenger, Edwin j.
L N Wilson, took up the story.
He said he saw man he be-
Nlieved was Devore jump into the
waves and come up with one arm
torn from his body. Wilson
thought he might have been Bit
ten by a shark.
Captain Frederick Sorenson,
another passenger brought in by
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Negro Members of Grew Fought to Prevent
Escape of Passengers From Sinking
Liner; Scene of Confusion.
TORIES OF HEROISM ARE TOLD
Sixty Persons Had Failed to Leave Vessel
at Time of Final Plunge; Relate Tales
of Horror After Disaster.
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE
United Press STAFF Corresnondent

NEW YORK, Nov 14.-How the and children Of
the lost Vesrs died described today by 148
brought New York the Shipper
and the Berlin
The sacrifice of lives denounced by the surviving pas
senger who blamed the ships officers for delaying
ing of sos CALL for the condition of the feboats, which
they described uhseaworthy and for the confusion and lack
of dsciplining when the ship went down.
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OF 326 passengers and crew
aboard the Vestris, latest ac-
counts today showed 210 res
cued, eight known dead and
108 still unaccounted for, most
of whom probably were lost.
The reason why the lists of 21o
rescued showed mostly the names of
men, the majority of whom were
members of the crew, and few
women and children, was explained
by the survivors.
The women and children were
loaded into the first two life boats,
which broke from the davits while
loaded and threw their human
cargo into the water.
All of Life Boats Leaked
Survivors said they saw one of
the boats turn completely over as
it struck the water and another fall
to pieces after it had been struck
against the vestris' side.
A third life boat, containing many
women and children, sprang a leak
and sank.
An undetermined number of
women and children were picked up
by other life boats on the scene, but
a large number fell into the water,
went down and never again ap-
peared, the survivors said.
All of the life boats leaked, said
some survivors.
Some survivors charged that
Negro members of the crew, heed
less of discipline, seized life boats
to save themselves and were un-
willing to take passengers aboard.
Most of the survivors believed
about sixty persons had failed to
get into boats when the Vestris
sank.
Within a moment after its final
lunge, the survivors said, the vessel
had disappeared from sight, leaving
the remaining passengers founder
ing about in the water and calling
to those in the life boats to save
them.
Drift for Hours in Sea
The American Shipper brought
125 survivors, of whom eighty-four
we're members OF the Vestris crew
and forty-one were passengers.
The American Shipper picked up
five lifeboats.
The Berlin, which picked up one
lifeboat, brought twenty-three sur
vivors, eighteen of whom we're
members of the crew and five were
passengers.
Survivors described their suffer-
ings in the lifeboats, drifting in a
stormy sea for fourteen hours and
more.
They said they saw many persons
swimming in the water, who gae up
exhausted and went down as they
watched.
Sharks were in the water swarm
ing around the struggling SWIM
mers, several passengers said.
The tragedy of the disaster was
iightened by several stories of hero
ism, notably that of Michael
OLoughlin, chief radio operator,
and Archibald Banister, Negro
boatswain'S mate,
O'Loughlin stuck to his post,
sending out radio calls to the last
and was believed to have gone down
with the ship.
Captain Down With Ship
Banister swan to a lifeboat that
had broken loose, and maneuvered
it while twenty-five men jumped
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overheard from the Vestris and
made their way to it,
Captain william j. Carey appar-
emily also went down with the ship.
AS the ship sank the captain was
standing on the Vestris' side. He
wore an overcoat and had no life
belt. He apparently made no ef-
fort to save himself, the passengers
said.
The radio operator, one passenger
said, was never seen outside of his
shack" The survivors believed he
died within the shack from where
he sent the stirring messages call
ing for relief.
One of the last persons to see
Carey alive was George Fantana, a
third-class passenger from New
York, who was standing with the
captain On the sinking hull of the
Vestris as the ship finally went
down. ...-- -...-.--..-orsas.s
Fantana, who cannot swim, was
thrown into the water and sucked
under. When he emerged he cried
to three lifeboat crews to pick him
up, but all of them, he said, shouted
back:
Were too crowded"
Leaking Boat Swamped
Only a piece of wreckage, which
he seized, saved his life, he said
After floating for an hour he finally
was rescued by one of the lifeboats
John j. Bowlen, chief surgeon OF
the American Shipper, said he had
treated virtually all of the 125 sur
vivors of that ship for exposure or
shock, and that forty of them had
been injured, twenty seriously.
He amputated the hand of one
man passenger and a finger of an
other Most of the women, he said
were suffering from extreme shock
or exposure.
Paul A. Dana, a representative OF
the Radio Corporation of Amer
lea, with woman whose name he
did not know, floated for many hours
on a piece of wreckage after the life
boat, in which they were bobbing
about, had capsized.
There were thirty-two persons,
including several women, in the
boat with them when it was low
cred into the water.
Almost Immediately a leak was
discovered, Dana said.
Soon the boat began breaking
apart and finally a great wave
swanped it, throwing the passengers
out.
Guess It's All Over
He saw only two of the other
passengers afterwards.
Dana continued:
"After floating all night we (Dana
and the unknown woman), clung to
spar and as dawn broke I turned
to her and said:
"'Well I guess it's all over.'
"'I guess So, she replied.
"Just as we were about to slip
into the water. we sighted the
American Shipper and I removed
my shirt and signaled the vessel.
I'm a short time the big rescue
liner pulled alongside our little raft
and took us aboard"
Captain Frederick Sorenson, an
other passenger brought in by the
American Shipper, said he was con-
vinced Captain Carey made no at
tempt to save himself.
Sorenson is a master mariner. He
charged that the large loss of life
was due to criminal neglect"
Sorenson said the passengers
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asked Captain Carey several times
during Sunday morning and night
to send out an SOS, but that Carey
replied the Vestris was in no danger
and would be able to proceed pres
emily"
Keep Out of Life Craft
Captain Sorenson had been under
medical treatment in New York
and was on his way to Barbados for
a rest.
Captain Sorenson said the life
boats were in no condition for use
IN an emergency.
eve got into No. 8 boat" he con-
tinued, forty or fifty of us, more
than half of them women. There
was hole in the bow. We tried to
plug it with a piece Of tin, bailing
water all the time. We couldn't
make it hold against the water that
washed in constantly and it finally
capsized, spilling everybody out into
the sea. Many of the women went
down in this boat.
I'VE f1oated and swan about
amidst the wyreckage. Finally an
other hfeboat came along. We
called to the Negro members of the
ere VITO put about for us. They went
on.
Sorenson said he found himself
swimming alongside Herman Ruck-
ert of Leipsig, Germany. Both men
were trying, to reach a lifeboat some
distance away when Ruckert
gasped, my God, I can't go on.
I'm giving up"
Sorenson said he swan alongside
Ruckert, encouraging him, and they
succeeded in reaching the boat, with
seventeen survivors. They put their
boat about and picked up about
twenty more.
Doubt as to Cause
There seemed to be doubt among
the passengers concerning the cause
of the sinking Of the Vestris.
Dana, who has been on many pre-
CHARLEY'S RESTAURANT open
for Sunday dinners, to 9 p. m.
100 East Ohio St.-AdVertisement.
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SEND BUREAU AUTO TAG
Special Indiana Plate Shipped to
Good Roads Body.

A special auto license plate carry
ing black star and the number
025, was sent to the National High
way Association today by Mark w.
Rhoads, chief of the automobile Ii
censing department in the office of
the secretary of state.
Each year the organization re-
ceives a similar plate from each
state and territory. They are
placed on a car which makes an an
nual tour of the country in the in
terest of good roads.