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HOOVER'S CREW
TELLS
STORY
EXPERIENCED QUAKE
ON HOISHOTO ISLAND
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An earthquake which gave them more of a shock than the grounding of the President Hoover was apoken of by members of the crew of the wrecked vessel when the President Pierce arrived last night with 230 of the Hoover's crow.
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The President Hoover ran aground "We had plenty of food from the on Friday night while on her way Hoover, another seaman said, "but to Manila from Kobe. The passen- fresh water was scarce as sea water Hers were taken on to Manila on had seeped in to some of our tanks. Tuesday by the President McKinley, "We spoilt the fishing for the lalan-: and
ders by pumping out oll when we ran aground," he went on.
on the following day, the President Pierce, from Kobe, picked up the majority of the crew.
Members of the crew related how, Just about midnight, while traveling at her regular speed of 19 knots, the Hoover ran straight on to the reef, bringing her bows high and dry Later she listed and swung broad- side on.
There was no panic among the passengers, who were very well-be- haved and everybody stayed on board until morning, when life boats
took them ashore.
CHRISTMAS MAIL ABOARD
There is 23 feet of water in No. 3 hold, and 12 in No. 2. No
more water is coming in. All the cargo and about 4,000 bags of mall is still on board, though, all registered and
first class mall has been taken off.
Incidentally, 400 bags of Christmas mall from the Hoover was brought lo Hongkong.
"We had a tough time," sald one of the men, but considering every thing, we got a pretty good break. The Japanese did all they could be expected to do for us.
were
"The people on the Island very primitive, and had never seen a white man before. We had to sleep where we could-in the school house, aut in the open, in the houses, together with pigs and chickens which lived with the people."
The women and children received
preference in choice of accommoda. tion and the rest made out as best they could. Later, some of the crew went back to the ship.
Electricity was still to be had on the ship, and moving pictures were shown."
DECEMBER 17, 1937.
WHO IS "THE THIN MÁN"?
(Continued from Page 6.)
But in essentials there was a thin man.
You may note that Hammett's gangsters talk like gangsters, and not like n Hollywood imita- tion.
Hammett was a good dotec- tive, but he says he was 'prob. ably over-rated because of the plausibility with which he could explain away his failures.
HOWEVER,
Easy to Acquire-
Hard to
Relinquish
Hammett ANCHOR
BEER
found detection a bit monotonous, says the case of Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle was the only one that relieved it,
"That was the funniest case I ever worked on," said Ham- mett in one of his rare state- ments about his work.
In trying to convict Arbuckle, EXPERIENCED earthquakE everybody tried to blame every- Referring to the earthquake, which body else. It became tedious. occurred about 3.30 on Wednesday so Hammett bought himself a morning (after the passengers had typewriter. gone), à inan said it sent him out of his bunk on to the floor. It was a When ho could take time off" sudden tremor and Insted only
missing daughters, Hammett sat "from hunting for lost pearls and
in front of his machine labori- ously tapping out stories.
short while. No damage was done.
"My first Impression was that the ship was cracking up," he said, "but
when I got on the deck, I saw how smouth the Ben was. It just gave us one good shaking."
His early books were success- ful, but his most successful, When fold that according to
"The Thin Man," was turned Manila report the Chinese members of the crew had not been allowed to down by one magazine editor. gonshore by the Japanese authorl- ties, the men said the Chinese hind That discouraged Hammett, come ashore with them and slept out. but another bought it, boosted Later they went back to the ship, and it as the greatest American some were still there.
crime story ever written.
Hammett still writes slowly.
The Hoover's crew spent last night on board the President Pierce and will probably leave her this morning. It takes him a whole e 'ening to They expect to go to the United write a thousand words, but he States on the President McKinley never has to rewrite. which, comes in on Monday from Manila with the Hoover's passengers.
Perhaps that is why the
The Hoover is now attended by American critics say that Das- the Japanese salvage tug which left hiell Hammett's are the only Hongkong last week with Mr. T. B. detective stories that are litera- | Wilson, local agent, and Mr. T. H.
Brayfield, marine expert. Lloyd'sture as well as entertainment. agent is also on the scene.
Well, there is certainly no The cause of the wreek and the doubt about them as entertain- extent of the damage and the pro-ment. spects of salvage will not be known for some time as investigations are not yet completed.
Emrys Jones
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