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November 15, 1928

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SURVIVORS ON THREE SHIPS; Report All Children and Most of Women Were Swallowed in Sea. TELL OF TOWERING WAVES Victims Menaced by Sharks and Lashed by Tropical Storm --Lifeboats Flooded. SEVERAL GO TO HOSPITALS Myriam, With 57 Aboard, Drops Anchor in Lower Bay--21 Bodies Taken From Water. 84 Are Still Missing. Criticism Is Outspoken. Criticism of the Delay in Sending Out the S O S Say S O S Was Demanded. Tuttle to Investigate. Ghastly Narratives Told. Women Swept to Death. Bitterness Is Unabated. Noticed Hole in Lifeboat. Seaman Saves Many Lives. Crew Blames Gale in Part. Says Crated Autos Shifted. Many Treated for Injuries. Rescue Captains Praised. Saw No Boats at First.

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Bravery in Vestris disaster cited

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SECTIONALISM GONE, HOOVER TELLS SOUTH; PRAISES GAIN THERE; He Appeals in Letter for End of All Bitterness in Political Contests. PLEASED OVER SUPPORT He Credits Sincerity and Honesty of "Those Who Votedfor My Opponent." PLEDGES AID AS PRESIDENTWill Seek to Further South's PresentEconomic Progress, He Informs Baltimore Editor. Text of Hoover's Letter. SECTIONALISM GONE, HOOVER TELLS SOUTH Predicts South's Advancement. Will Enrich the Nation.

By Special to The New York Times

Hoover thanks South for support; praises gains, promises prosperity, lr to R H Edmonds

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FRENCH SHIP BRINGS 57 FROM THE VESTRIS; Tanker Myriam Picked Up Three More Survivors Than She Reported by Wireless. NEW LIGHT ON DISASTER Woman and Husband, Separated When Ship Sank,Reunited at Brooklyn Pier. Silent Regarding Tragedy. FRENCH SHIP BRINGS 57 FROM THE VESTRIS Thinks Cargo Shifted. Last Woman to Leave Vestris.

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Fifty-seven exhausted passengers and crew of the Vestris landed at Pier 8, at the foot of Clark Street, Brooklyn, at 1:30 o'clock this morning, after being transferred from tseir rescue ship, the French tanker Myriam two hours previously to a waiting tug in Gravesend Bay.

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SURVIVORS TELL OF HEROES; Negro of Crew Credited With 20 Rescues by Boat He Manned. SHIP SUCKED MANY DOWN Men and Women Tell of Fight With Sea After Leaving Liner in Damaged Craft. FIRST LIFEBOATS CAPSIZED Those Who Escaped in Overturn Describe Loss of Children-- Most Passengers Calm. Two of "Pluckiest Survivors." All Faced Perils Bravely. Survivors Tell of Fight for Life After Vestris Sank Says She Was Not Afraid. Mrs. Ball in Fifth Boat. Mrs. Ball Worried at First. Last Woman to Leave Ship. Carried Down by Sinking Ship. Saw Women's Boat Capsize. Saw Captain Jump Overboard. Baby Killed in Man's Arms. Brooklyn Man Tells of Sinking. Boat Is Nearly Capsized. One Boat Sank With Ship. Mining Training Saved Flare. Tales of Liner's Sinking and Survivors' Struggles Girl Saw Children Drown. Says Men of Crew Were Calm.

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DRIFTED 22 HOURS WITH WOMAN IN SEA; Paul A. Dana Relates Struggle to Hold to Debris After Huge Waves Destroyed Boat. FEARED SHARKS ON VIGIL He Felt Fish Brush Past Many Times, but Kept Companion in Ignorance of Terror. Feared List Early Sunday. DRIFTED 22 HOURS WITH WOMAN IN SEA Water Up to Cabin Windows. Waves Seemed 40 Feet High. Forty Dive as Ship Sinks. Lifeboat Is Righted Again. Nearly Crushed By Huge Waves. Felt Fish Brush Against Body. Hoisted Up in Rope Net.

By Paul A. Dana, As Told To Lorena A. Hickok, Associated Press Staff Writer

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1928The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsizes in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.^[†]

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways.

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