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Show : x Sea Tragedies Recalled as Autumn Storms Uncover Rotting Wreckage of Ships on North Carolina Coast tu large demand an Current conditions. iliphtly more tune ! required in titling order for a few of tb moat popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: THERES Dy DILL SHARP ' ii, Vt;. V 'h.j n SEWINQ CIRCf E PATTERN DEPT. 14 New Montgomery 8V Saa Francisco, Calif. Enclose 23 cents In coin for each a line of dialogue for Intern- pattern desired. Pattern No Name Address ational's The Stranger, where Loretta Young confides to Orson Welles that shes a victim of acrophobia. That word threw everyone in the cast but Welles. It's a fear of high places, said he. I know because I used to The burned out hull of an old achooner, the Kohler of Baltimore, stands bleakly on a sand bar near Ilatteras, N. C. It was uncovered by the fury of a hurricane. Drifting sands are piling ever it again, and It will soon disappear from sight. he started for home. While changing trains In New York he was run down by a taxicab and killed. Worst Navy Wreck. OiT the beach at Nags Head la visible In a calm sea the bell, tank, and boiler of the USS Huron, a warship wrecked November 24, 1877, with a loss of 108 lives the worst disaster In U. S. naval history up to that time. The crew members were buried on the beach and relatives came, for many years after to search in the shifting sands for them. Capn Jeff Hayman of Roanoke Island Is believed to be the only person still alive who saw the ghastly affair and ghastly it was, for subsequent investigation disclosed that some of those aboard were drunk that fateful night when sobriety might have saved both ship and crew. Capn Jeff today has the silver sugar bowl from the Huron captains table. Such maritime violence has produced a lot of maritime heroism. From Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke Inlet are some 27 holders of Congressional Medals of Honor, possibly the largest group of heroes per capita In these United States. Six of them came as a sequel to the events of August 16, 1918, when the SS Mirlo, a British tanker, was torpedoed, and Capt. John Allen Midgett and five members of the Chicamicomoco coast guard station braved a sea of blazing oil to rescue 42 members of the crew. Strangely enough, the SS City of Atlanta in 1942 was destroyed in the same way and about the same spot, but the Chicamicomoco boys were unable to get through the fire. On the same day and within an hour helpless watchefs on the teras, area 12 Robert Benchley appears In Hollyr the featuretta sponsored by the war activities committee, Hollywood div- wood Victory Caravan, The Maurice R. Thurlow proved an exception, however, when she ran aground in a 1927 storm. The coast guard removed ber crew, but when a cutter came down to try to pull her off, no trace of the vessel could be found. Thirteen days later the schooner was sighted by the Dutch tanker, Sleidrect, in the North Atlantic. A general order was released to run dow-the modern Flying Dutchman, but though she was reported from time to time, the sea wanderer was never overtaken and no one knows what became of ber. In the shoals lies another famous ship the pioneering Federal Ironclad, Monitor. Following her engagement with the Confederate Mer-rimin Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, the damaged Monitor was sent south in tow of the sidewheeler Rhode Island. A gale sprang up. and the little cheesebox sank on the shoals with a loss of 16; 49 others were rescued by the Rhode Island. Hatteras is a control point in setting courses for coastwise and West Indian shipping, because the shortest route lies near the Cape. Northbound shipping finds a favorable current by staying In the Gulf Stream, which brushes the tip of the Shoals, while southbound traffic goes between the Stream and the coast, where there is a southerly current sweeping down from the arctic. Thus, ships pass as close to the Cape as they can. Alexander Hamilton recommended a lighthouse at Hatteras in 1794, and it was completed in 1798, but was too low to provide an adequate signal. In 1870 a new light, 190 feet was built (highest brick light high, ? i In the world) and served until 1936 when the encroaching sea led the ' v government to erect still another light further inland at Buxton. Diamond Lightship also was anchored at the tip of the Shoals, and Wee a navy radio direction station was . set up at the Cape. Inasmuch as VZ t ...V the new steelglrder lighthouse is not "'Aft visible to ocean ships by day, the - 1r ... cape now has four navigation aids for the mariner the old spiral-stripe- d brick tower as a day warn. . .... v ing; Diamond Lightship; the new Buxton Light; and the modern radio 4- finding station. No Shipwreckers. While it is probably true that for A mystery among the wrecks on the North Carolina coast is this pormany years shipwrecks were the tion of some wooden vessel. Oldest records fail to name her, and It ia of the principal importation possible she foundered many generations ago. Banks, there appears no evidence to support the charge that long ago the The first clue to her plight came one Banks saw a German submarine Bankers practiced shipwrecking and cold, foggy December night when sink two other vessels and damage looting. However, some homes are Mathew Guthrie still another. The Atlantas bones coastguardsman partly fashioned from the timber of on beach patrol stumbled over the now rest by those of the Mirlo. old ships, and many a house conOne of the most dramatic events tains articles salvaged from doomed body of a dying sailor, who gasped out the news that a vessel was of sub warfare was on August 8, ships or bought at the "vendue. breaking up a few hundred yards 1918, when Diamond Lightship, In this connection is recalled the offshore. A Lyle gun shot could not guarding the easternmost tip of Diamost popular legend of the village of reach her, and surfboats could not mond Shoals, was sunk by submaStraits in Carteret county concernmen lost rine gunfire. Capt. W. L. Barnett and be launched Twenty-on- e ing a preacher for whom Starr their lives and lie buried atop a lone- his crew roared over the boiling Methodist church there is named. ly Ocracoke dune. Six more swam shoals 12 miles to the beach. BarDuring the severe winter of 1813 and floated ashore alive nett, now retired, lives at Buxton. so the story goes the citizens of Ironic was the sequel to the death The lightship added her skeleton to Straits were starving after a cropd of the schooner Anna R. that fabulous Graveyard of the At- killing drouth the previous summer. Heindritter of New York, loaded lantic, Diamond Shoals, where lie so Frozen sounds prevented fishing, with dyewood, which came ashore many metal hulks that compasses of and the Napoleonic wars and a March 2, 1942, and is visible off- passing ships are pulled off north by British blockade made commerce shore. She ran into a gale and put as much as 8 degrees. impossible. Parson Starr thus reIf It is predesout anchors, but dragged onto the Modern Flying Dutchman. sorted to prayer; shoals. Capt. Bennett D. Coleman The peculiar configuration of the tined there be a wreck on the Atof Springfield, Mass., and his crew North Carolina coast, with the sandy lantic coast, he pleaded, please of eight survived, saved by the Lyle capes jutting out, causes mariners let it be Thy Will that it happen In a few days a flour-ladegun and breeches buoy, and after anxious preoccupation with this here! the captain had arranged for the area. Most dangerous are Diamond ship wrecked on Core Banks, and vendue (auction sale of salvage) Shoals an extension of Cape Hat- - famine was prevented. s ,.& l'fe Saves Big Dollars. No Cooking. No matterwhat you usually use for coughs due to colds, you'll be mor. than surprised when you tnak. up this simple home mixture and gtv It a trial You'll wonder why you sever used it before. It certainly Two-Piec- A GHOST SHIP This Is all that is left of the Car-rol- l A. Deering, out of Bath, Maine. 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Why Orson Welles! old-tim- e ' Is Young n Smart an unuauallv Due cr Released by Wltrn Nswip.per Union. By VIRGINIA VALE Men of War, Clippers Among Grim Relics. Dla-mon- Two-Piec- STAGESCREEN.:RADIO British and Spanish Once more Caribbean itormi have lifted the curtain on hundreds of tragedies which were played out on the lonely beaches of the Outer Banks of North Carolina In the past three centuries but ss usual, it is a fleeting shew. Sand swept away by t!ds of the September hurricane aiir-adIs drifting bsck with mild roithuest winds, and before long most of the exposed wrecks will be hidden again. Silent tribute to the craftsmanship of the shipwrights and the aturdiness of their materials is the preservation of the timber and planking of these orphans of the storm against generations of grind ing sand and pounding wave. When iron men went down to the eca in ships with hearts of oak, it was not the ships that failed in the face of the elements. Some of the derelicts now on view all the way from Nag'a Head to Ocracoke Inlet are familiar, and re call many an anecdote. But some re beyond the ken of the oldest coastguardsmen or their records. The Carroll Dcerlng. One of the most Interesting Is the ghost ship, Carroll Deering, out of d Bath, Maine She was found on Shoals in 1921, undamaged, with sails set, with uneaten food on the table and on the stove, but with only a cat to greet the coast guard crew which boarded her. The Deering passed Diamond lightship the day before, but that was the last seen of any of her crew, and the cat kept her own counsel Later she drifted onto Ocracoke Is land, sanded up and was lost to sight and almost to memory until the hurricane scoured out her hull. The George W. Wells, first schooner ever built, and then the largest wood vessel afloat, la also exposed. She came ashore In a 1913 gale at Ocracoke. 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