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Show UWGRYSHARKS ii sail Aged Captain and Two Lads Drift on Derelict Near Hawaiian Islands HONOLULU. T. H Sept. 4. Captain Cap-tain Bmll Pllu. 09 year old skipper of Honolulu, with two boys. William Lel-tluad Lel-tluad and John Guin. recently were rSseued by the lighthouse tender Ku-Kul Ku-Kul after they had drifted on their waterlogged schooner, Annie E., for eight days, the last four of which they were without food To add to their mental anguish, three large sharks followed the slowly drifting schooner with Its decks awash evidently awaiting the moment when tho craft -would go to pieces and throw the survivors into the sea. The wreck of the Annie B . which was on her way from Honolulu to the Mahukona coast of the Island of Ha-, wall, with lumber and g-isollne is Captain Pills' third adventure in fouri years on waterlogged craft. RI SCI BBS P 1SS H i Tho schooner. according to her jskipper. started leaking at mid-night of August 9 the pumps refused to, work and within a few hours her decks I were awash. i w eniy-iour nours ma-i j she had drifted opposite the entrance I to Honolulu harbor, but It was nl-bi and her plight was not noticed. The ocean currents carried her westward and the captain sent three of his crew ashore In a small boat to seek belt), while he and tho two boys stayed by thp ship When the men In the small boat reached Honolulu, airplanes from the Luke Field arm base went In search of the schooner, while ugs from Honolulu Hon-olulu scoured the ocean as far as the coasts of Molokal without sighting the : derelict. I Tho search was practically abandon -i cd when a wireless message from the army transport Madawaska. en rout-jto rout-jto the Orient said that a derelict had been sighted approximate 150 miles west of Honolulu. The lighthouse tender Kiikul steamed for the locality nr.d found the castaways. As the Am-inle Am-inle E. was going to pieces it was lm-i lm-i possible to take her In tow and she ! was burned as a menace to navigation. naviga-tion. Captain Plltz declared that two including the Madawaska, slKhl-d him without offering ass.itanee. The name of the other vessel he did not know. I He .said tho Madawaska saw signal ! flares he was burning shortly before i dawn, Sunday, August 15, hove two, approached within a mile of the drift-ling drift-ling schooner, circled about and then proceeded on her way. HOPE GIVEN I P "After the Madawaska went her way without offering help, we just iabout gave up hope entirely," said the aged skipper. I looked aft, where our 'rail was awash, and paw the three sharks following us. ne of them's mine, I told the boys and there's one apiece left for you. They'll get us I pretty soon If help doesn t come." ; About sunset on August 1", the Ku-!kui Ku-!kui hove In sight and the first demand of the thre castaways was for "something "some-thing to eat ' Aside from their hunger they appeared none the worse for their ; adventure. Then- was a liible In one of the men's pockets and Leithead, a member of the Honolulu lioy Scouts, had his .scout manual along. All three declared that they drew much comfort from the Bible and much practical lnforma-1 tiou from the scout manual. The marine committee of the Hono-I lulu chamber of commerce has dccld-l d to investigate the action of Captain W. C Johnson of the Madawaska in not going to the Annie E. s rescue. ;ii:iohilu IkiI aut uoritles sa thm th'. master of a merchant craft may be prosecuted for refusing to aid a not her j vassal In distress, but that the law does! not apply to the captains of goern-roent goern-roent ships. oo |