Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-07-23 | Page 1 | Tarkington Has Real Adventure in Crippled Boat

T i OaS Has Has' B a os Real lea r 1 Adventure Adv t. h I In n dl oat Author Burned When V Vessel Catches es Fire ite Swept to Sea in Gale Timely Rescue KE KENNEBUNKPORT Me 1 July 23 AP Booth AP-Booth Booth auth au author author au- au th thor r was recovering today from froman an adventure as exciting as as' as any that have delighted the readers leaders of Penrod or Seventeen When his motorboat caught fire ten miles mlles off the coast last night the Indiana author was successively burned by the flames swept to sea before a hurricane gale and then as asIn asIn asIn In all good goud story books rescued in inthe inthe inthe the nick of time Two com companions shared the novelIsts novelIst's novelists novelist's nov nov- plight Harry Thirkell of this place and a Miss Trotter of Phila PhIla- I delphia According to the story told at the house today the Tarl Ington's motorboat was as crIppled crippled crip crIp- pled pied by fire before he lie succeeded in extinguishing the flames He suffered suf- suf suf sur suffered slight burns A few minutes later the storm stort which had been sweeping s east struck Kennebunkport port and then raced out over the ocean where it i kicked up UI a formidable sea The I drifted b before the gale but help was WI near just as the predicament predicament ment of the three seemed particularly I dangerous the theT theT Other boaters who sighted T boat came to the rescue I and the author and his companions were taken aboard and the motorboat motorboat motor- motor motorboat I boat in tow