Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 16

SEARCH FOR GOLD Ship at Bottom of East River Since 1780 Said to Con- tain $4,000,000. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 21.—Simon Lake, the submarine designer and salvage engineer, hopes to begin wresting next week the cargo from the British ship Hussar, sunx in the East River in 1780, and see whether $4,000,000 in gold is in it. I the ice floes clear out of Hell | Gate, the bottleneck in the river be- | tween New York Bay and Long Island | Sound, Lake will go to work. But he cannot anchor his three vessels in | {ce floes lest they pile up more ice. Legend says that the gold is there, that the $4,000,000 was brough> across the Atlantic to pay British trcops, but | Lake has no assurance of it. Anyhow, he says, it is something of a side concern. Gambles for Business. He is gambling for quite a different | stake—business. If he can lift the Hussar's cargo to the surface—a feat | which has defied every challenger—he | will have demonstrated to marine in- | WASHINGTON, D. C, PARLEY MAY EFFECT U. S.-CANADA TRADE Horticultural Council to Consider Plan to Invite American Grow- ers to Discuss Quotas. E. Byrne Hackett of New York, shown in his library with volume of Shakespeare which he values at $10,000, and which until recently he had not seen since 1932. The book was stolen from him and returned in an anonymous package to New York Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, who returned it to Mr. Hackett. A. P. Photo. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Pebruary 21.—A develop- ment with possible far-reaching effect on Canadian-United States trade rela- tions may emerge from the delibera- tions of the Canadian Horticultural Council, it is forecast. ‘The council, it was learned, will con- sider a resolution to invite fruit and vegetable growers of the United States to meet Canadian growers’ representa- tives to discuss quotas for products in- terchanged between the two countries. Action by producers’ organizations of the two countries would be fol- lowed by representations to the Ottawa and Washington governments in which growers would emphasize their contention that tariff considera- tions should be removed as far as possible from political conception. ROBBERY CONVICTION CARRIES DEATH PENALTY By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky. February 21.— James Trout of Indianapolis was sen- tenced to death in the electric chair early yesterday by a jury which con- victed him of a $433 robbery here De- surance men that many of the mil- lions they pay annually might be saved by his salvaging efforts. His preparations have decades and he estimates his expenses in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. Moreover, if he finds the money it won't be his. He must turn it over to the United States Treasury Depart- ment, which will allow him a share of it. He has constructed a salvaging submarine—a tubular device which permits divers to descend to the 72- foot depth of the Hussar untroubled by the hostile currents of the East River. Because of these tide races, divers have never been able to combat Hell Gate for more than 15 minutes a day. Lake's device has demonstrated that it can keep them below indefinitely. The suction tube which the divers operate from below has salvaged coal &t the rate of 300 tons an hour. No Record of Money. “No,” said Lake, a grayed man of | €8 with the customary careless garb of the inventor, “I don't know if} there’s a dollar down there. I hope there is. But there's no record of it. “But I do know that insurance com- panies pay out millions they don't need to. Lots of those lost ships can be salvaged. The money paid out is staggering. Why, with the Morro Castle, the Mohawk and the Lexing- ton—that’s $10,000,000, easy, in the last few months.” His interest in salvage began, he recalled, when he first heard of the failure of Capts. Bancroft and Pratt | to lift the Hussar in 1856 after 20| years of striving, | cember 10. Trout heard the verdict calmly. His | mother, sister and fiancee sobbed. Trout was accused of holding up the Ballard & Ballard Co., millers. He was the first man tried here under a new Kentucky statute imposing the death penalty for armed robbery. The jury deliberated a little over an hour. Assistant Commonwealth Attorney William H. Schwankhaus opened his final argument by calling George A. 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