Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
FEAR SEA TOOK
GLOBE C|RCLERS
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Justice Un-
heard From Since Hurricane
Hit Santo Domingo.

The little yawl Explorer, in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Justice left Wash
ington so gaily the latter part Of July,
has gone into limbo. whence no news
returns to the workaday world-has
been swallowed up. it seems, by the
friends are fearing for their fate.
Since a few days before the storm
which devastated Santo Domingo dashed
its tail against the South Carolina
coast, there has been no word from
the Explorer and its intrepid crew, the
Justices.
They were on their way from Beau
fort, N. c., where the small boats take
to the Atlantic from the inland coastal
passage, bound for Charleston, s. c.,
when the mighty hurricane Of the
Caribbean vented its waning fury
against the South Carolina coast. Some
where of that coast the Explorer was
making her way when the storm came.
Whether they were able to make the
tiny coral islands that dot tie sea from
the Bermudas down through the
Caribbean, and there are rehabilitating
their vessel and their fortunes for an
other try against the ocean elements,
or whether they lost their first en-
counter with the broad Atlantic, their
Washington friends do not know.
Charleston Was Destination.
From Beaufort their forwarding ad-
dress was to have been Charleston.
Post cards came back from Beaufort, but
none from Charleston. Anxious friends
have been sending letters to them at
Charleston for months. Many of them
have returned unclaimed. At other ports
they were to have visited there has
been no word.
Maybe, say their friends, the ocean
was too much for the Explorer and
her crew Of two. Maybe, they con-
lecture, the Justices have befallen the
fate Of those who sailed during the
war in the collier Cyclops and Joined
those men in q watery grave somewhere
of the South Atlantic Coast. They
hope not.
1t was on July 26 the Justices, in
the Explorer, set sail from the Washing
ton Yacht Club, on the Potomac. It
was a gay departure, the Explorer was
gaudy with bunting, and there were
smiles Of happiness on the faces of
the Justices, Tor they had worked years
for their trip.
The Explorer went down the bay
safely and tied up at Norfolk, where
the final fitting out was accomplished.
There was paint for the Explorer and
some gear to be bought. Thence the
Explorer took the Dismal Swamp Canal
into the North Carolina sounds, Pamlico
and Currituck, where all was clear sail
ing to Beaufort. There the argonauts
awaited good weather meanwhile shak-
ing down their gear and getting the
Explorer ready for her frst test with
the open sea.
Headed to Sea September l.
It was about September /, maybe
little later, friends report. that the
Justices cast of from the wharf at
Beaufort and headed into the ocean In
the face Of reports of tropical hurri-
cane gathering in the Caribbean The
post cards the Justices mailed in Beau
fort just before their departure carried
the last word received here or anywhere
else, so far as can be learned, of them
At the Washington Yacht Club their
friends are still hopeful the Justices
went far to sea to escape the stormy
Caribbean or South American port. The
Explorer, they point out, despite her
having been built in the Crisheld, Md,
back yard of the Justices several years
ago, was OF q seaworthy type-a type
proved In stormy weather and fair, by
the voyage of the Islander, yawl OF
Capt Harry Pigeon. which negotiated a
round the-world cruise.
For years the Justices Carl and Jes-
sica, had yearned for the trip. While
living in Cr1sfield they built the Elk
plorer with their own hands, and when
the big Crisfield fire burned down their
home they fitted out their boat and
sailed across the Chesapeake and I'D
the Potomac Carl got q Job as q
penny for the trip. They slowly fitted