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THE RIDDLE OF THE BREAKAWAY BATTLESHIP MAN IN THE TUG TALKS

BATTLESHIP BREAKS TOW IN ATLANTIC

-November 7.

Headlines tell the story so far.. Now comes the dramatic statement of the purser who saw it all

Transport Ministry Search for

Grim Mystery Of

Lost Battleship

--November 25.

Lost Hulk

Called Off

-December G

I SAW THE LAST MOMENTS OF SAO PAULO

T

B. Painter, boss of the runners, found that 5ft. by 4ft, ventila- ion purts were wide opti

were

Paulo was wallowing broadside Krep head to spá "Hour by

in the troughs.

bour we tried to call and his men,

"Bustler

letio [43. 1. bon 671 inys after apreext

yearched

Painter

without Then she reached November 22, 18 18. San Paulo dis-

"Nothing we end do would bring her head : wind. Half TOM GEEKIE, parser of

an hour after midday we spoke tu the Paulo for the last ume. the tug Bustler which was helping to tow the

"Painter's words to me come *Manhole doors 41-year-old Brazilian batil".

funtly, almost smothered by "AL first we

never let our- were the fury of the gale. It was the

selves believe that Bill Painter ship across the Atlantic, hatches unsecured--there

mard turn really Tick the Sau Paulo bad gone has told of the battle with lifehelts, no radio, nu power only time

Some repairs were warned. Making pretty heavy down. of any sort.

But as the days became 70-foot waves, six weeks done. and on September 18 a weather

Kreping formal weeks and we looked buck on that ught we're bound to think FIND ago, when the 19.000-ton Brazilin dekyard surveyor - duttes

spected the ship to pass her gard's put watertight

she didn't live through it." ship disappeared and W

fu se..-worthiness,

other call never seen agai

Army

*We ngged The Sao Paulo, with sight wane-talkies so that we could men on board. was on the talk between the ships" way to the Clyde for break- ing up, towed by the tugs Dexterous and Bustler.

A Board of Trade inquiry

tow began a good

When the weed of fou knots was kept , but by October 13 the ships wed to three knots.

Then the Pauli began 10 is to be held on the buss, not to port. It was hirst blamed the stifish wind, but Bill Search by radar-equipped on

Patter t 115 he had found planes was called off only after 160,000 square miles water was rising below deck of the Atlantic had been covered.

We sightedd November i

the Azores

on

Two days later speed was Meu of the Dexterous down to two knots and a gale have described the parting was blowing up t of her tow rope. Shortly afterwards the Tow from the Bustler parted, tuo.

Paper

'Not too bad'

THE Sao Paul was now pic-

Werr

and plunging like mud. "One muute our bows Tom Grekie

the under, the next she was up in parting. His verdict: The in the air

erabbing She was

saw

Twenty-siar-old fierkia romes

ONE

Soma OR

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Just a blur

NE hour late the P was

only

Ofa LOVAZEL

y

We mist of driving

over saw hes clearly again" sund Geekie.

ስነ

"Dexterous reported she could L'aptiun McDonald was afraid she might ran the Bustler. He said he maght be forced to ship has low

"| Was sheltering in saloon alicyway with

plincer Alec Edgar of Busby. Renfrewshure. The Dexterous seemed perilously chose.

* saw

D

11,

shadowy figure battling his way towards her Towing hok, on the after dick.

"He got within a few feet uf it Then the mylon rope purted

Tasled and

wildly over gunwale.

* You're right, Alice—It's him -The Abominable Milkman." -by VARNEY,

Miss Paget

by JAMES PARK

DOROTHY PAGET, the racehorse

owner, IN

the most-talked-of personality on the English Turf. Now she has set the Turf talking again by her sudden difference with Bryan Marshall, her jockey.

I am sure that Miss Paget does not at all mind being talked about. For this has been happening to her for years,

The couturiers and the hair- dressers would have a thin time if the The Paget 'ensemble became fashion, Summer and winter she

"At seven o'clock our Chlet turns out in her regular uniform Officer, George Campbell, of straight hair. Wats long grey

wat

She pours money

ste into racing but

| Sao Paulo must have gone all over the place.

down quickly—within 4

Bill Painter wasn't worried. Pollockshaws. Glasgow, hour."

He radioed, Everything normal working on the after deck when She's behaving not too badly." "

hul bang.

reaching A, Coat Ban But a few hours later, in the stream of parks flew from the almost to her "Community Plate Sets om Glasgow, Hi first sight early light of Sunday, Novem- rail. Our wire was gone, to.

ankies, suede of the San Paudy WAS 17 Riu ber 4, the weather had passed "We called up the Sao Paulo de Janeiro hasbaar when

on the walkie-talkie.

small The gale force It was logged us on

We kept boots, a fight-mat czew w munnery Force 11 (84-75 m.ph)

it up for 20 mmutes. We flashed isure hands, often ggers and

our signal lamp in her general the face longshoremen, Some without "All day it seemed to get direction, but couldn't rale her,

turned up at the brim with dressed in the latest fashion, specialised seaturnng knowledge, worse. By 11 am, we were only She Was invisible. We Dever who make up crews) was being hulding r

contrast to Mis own, making no

Sa even

rudor the inevitable cigarette in a provides her un our

Paget, who never seems to be but on board.

headway. Dexterons was pound- Bran,"

bolder.

very particular wouldn't ing heavily.

about her ap- Huge seus were It was 1 Bustler could do You will never see Miss Paget

pearance. ship. sweeping our decks, and the that night to hold her own and without her staff. There are

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Would you like a table-top

of marble

off Everest?

asks BERNARD WICKSTEED

10 back from Everest

comes another expedi- ties that tion, and still no one has lower altitude. reached the top of the the highest mountain in world.

TA

Mount Everest is about 50,-- 000,000 years

old. for young Nevis in Scotland

hat usually off not into clothes

and

a

always three or four of them,

It is only when she thinks she one usually walking alongside may have a winner or two that talking and the others following Miss Paget makes a dying visit on behind.

to the racecourse. She will arrive One has the task of carrying just before the race and leave Dround all the racing form es

soon as it is over, She hus Luks.

nu interest in anyone's horses except her own.

Whol they

all do I do not profess to know.

Muss Paget, 46 years old now.

When Miss Paget is not pre-

is the second daughter of the sent, Ruth Charlton is usually late Lord Queenborough. Sh. to be found running around inherited a lot of money from looking for a telephone. She her mother-daughter of Ameri- has to ring up with all the can millionaire. W. C. Whitney. facts Miss Puget requires and She lives at Hermi's Wood, sometimes even and out whether Chalfont St. Giles, in

in Bucks.

a horse will run or not. Though Lore Queenborough

tea

It

was by no means a poor

man.

A few years ago the Stewards

he often said he could not alfors of the Jockey Club asked

Even so it presents no difficul- Africa. It is hidden by losser

a competent moun- mountains from all but a few

Tibetan taineer could not overcome at a

monks and the planters around Darjeeling. may have given moments of clation

to the climbers of its That's lower slopes, but the upper parts, go in for racing in a big way. number of Newmarket trainers mountain. Ben particularly

to discuss the So far as I remember, his one to a conference those 900 uncon-

was is infinitely quered feet, have brought plea- notable victory when he possibility of an overnight de- If it had been 900ft. lower older, and was a mighty summit sure to no one.

won the 2,000 Guineas with St. claration of runners. AL that would have been con- when the materials that comprise

Louis in 1922.

ime Henri Jelliss was training for Miss Paget. quered years ago and no- Everest were body but geography teachers would have given it

it

a second thought.

sedament

29,0001

up to 2 he would

Jose con-

tried

All her trainers

When he was asked for his

opinion he said that in his case it would be out of the question. to inok through the It was to uncommon thing for

about £500. I asked who it night and order a horse to be sent to a meeting the following Was for and Was leid Lord day. Then, after the horse had

arrived at the course, the order night be countermanded and the horse returned to his stable without running.

Never again

al the Those who have reached 27,000 bottom of now vanished sea, or 28,000. say they felt like f

sick men climbing in a dream. Before the titanic convulsions Because of the inch of oxygen

Just before the war a trainer that pushed the sea bes into the they had to take five breaths for asked me sky there were fish swimming every step advanced and every-December Sales catalogue to see But it seems to be just over it. Some geologists believe thing they did seemed night-if i could recommend a horse at Miss Paget ring up late at that much too high for the the sea bed that became a moun- marish and unreal.

tain is still getting higher. stamina of man to over-

If you took a nonnal person Queenborough. Al thut three his conie, and so remains a NOBODY LOVES IT straight

height

daughter was paying anurmous perpetual and taunting

sums for yearlings. challenge. The latest expedi- MOUNT EVEREST was "dis- seiousness and quickly dle. The

I cannot recall all the trainers covered" 99 years ago by an Everest mountaineers have got tion was the eighth, and no Indian clerk who had probably as high

she as they did only by Miss Paget has had since doubt there will be more.

disposed of the fleet of Bentley never even sean it. Until then gradual acclimatisation.

cars she raced at Brooklands They have it was known as Peak XV and

carrying Eleven books have been writ was just one of the scores of ill- oxygen with them, but the extra and went in for horse

one mountain, mapped

instead. Those that ten about this

weight and the inconvenience of Ins in and at least another dozen have Himalayas.

are to mind the apparatus

were too great readily referred to it in part

Basil Briscoe, Donald and they did no better than those walter Nightingall, Fred Darling compute the money she has sunk without it.

in racing and breeding, At one YOUNG MOUNTAIN puting their

Henri Jelliss and his Bon Airmen

have flown over

time she must have had at least the late Captain Q. Bell, Agures of surveyors, came rush- Everest on at least three occa-

or more horses, in- the climbers have ing into the office of his superior sions, but that

Johnson-Houghton, Fulke

Wal a hundred TWICE

doesn't count.

cluding horses in training on the reached 28,200ft., only to be one day in 1992 and shouted: The challenge is to te it on font. wyn and the lute Owen Anthony. Bat, jumpers and ponies (Tommy

11 "Sir, i

A disagreement after Golden Carey rode for her at the ponies beaten by those last 900ft,

Miller had fallen in the Grand and Steve Donoghue's son, Pat, doesn't sound much-900ft. It is highest mountain in the world" UNBEATEN, BUT... about the height of Leith Hill,

National resulted in the jumpers trained them), brood leaving Briscoe's stable.

foals and yearlings.

She has bought lavishly at the yearting sales, and also bred her horses. She pours money

racing

With all her mannerisms, Miss spring Paget has been a great asset to the late

the turf. It is impossible to Snow,

mountains

the

This clerk, whose job was com- heights from the

G.

discovered have

the

a little more than Artbur's Seat He had. Peak XV it was may seem a crazy obsession, at Edinburgh, or about half the named Everest later after Str but as long as Everest is height above sea level of the Cat George Everest, the Surveyor there, and unbeaten,

and Fiddle Im, Derbyshire.

tiles

men will General of India-appeared from try to climb it. Some day, per-

Her secretary

Some of her trainers have told own

mares,

The summit of Everest is made the figures to be 29,002ft. high, haps, some youngster with the of marble solid, slippery, dark and that is still its official, height, beart, lungs, and will-power of me Miss Faget does not Herself into the pockets of racecourse marble and it is laid in slabs though later surveys have put it a superman will stagger up those like talking on the telephone. executives. And I have known that alope downwards like the at 20,141ft.

Just 900ft.

nominate five or six of ley marble and The conversation is usually con- her to on a roof.

doze ducted through one of the staff. horses for a small steeplechase, peor in a semi-conscious The highest mountain in the from the highest spot on earth.

For many

Miss Ruth There will nover be another Charlton has acted as a sort of Dorothy Paget. Nobody in the secretary and racing manager to next generation will have the

Ruth Miss Paget.

Charlton, money to do what she has done elegant of figure, and always —and la still doing today,

If you

could take a slice and

polish it yould have a wonder world is a mountain that nobody It will be a feat that repre- fully decorative table top, but loves. It doesn't rise up from a sents just about the limit of when covered in snow and ice it plain for everyone to admire like human endurance.

is dangerous rock for climbing. Fujyrima or Kilimanjaro in

JOHNNY HAZARD

YOU NEEDLE KG

| STUCK IN THE RECORD,

TABBY? WE AREN'T

QUITTING!

YAH, YOHNNY.

- BETTER PLAD THAN

ALIVE IN THE 'HANDS OF THIS

SHE-REVAL /

KEEP DOWN, THT, AND

| WATONI "KABBY... THEY WONET",

| RUSH UG/ THEY CAN AFFORD

|TO VASES EM GOING TO TRY.

A FEELER PATROL/

-(London Express Service)

years

By Frank Robbins.

„1400

A Gift

for the Whole Family

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