Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1935, Page 3

BODIES RECOVERED BY VETERAN DIVER Klaas Everts of Norfolk| Followed Career for 30 Years. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., December 23.— Klaas Everts of Norfolk, veteran deep sea diver. who assisted in the recov- ery of bodies of passengers drowned in the plunge of a bus into the Ap- pomattox River near Hopewell yester- day, has been engaged in diving since he was 24 years old. In point of age and experience, the 85-year-old diver is perhaps the dean of divers along the Atlantic Coast. He was requested to go to the scene of the bus wreck today by Col. Charles B. Borland, director of pub- | lic safety, who had received an urgent | call from the chief of police of Hupe-, well. Mr. Everts is a Hollander, born and reared in a fishing community. He | went to sea regularly when he-was | but 13 years of age and joined the Dutch Navy when he was 22 years old. At Home in Diving Suit. He donned diving togs for his first underwater trip when he was 24 years old. Since that time he lit- erally has walked on the bottom of the waterways of the world. He says he feels more at home ‘in his gro- tesque, cumbersome underwater suit than in civilian clothes. Everts came to Norfolk in 1911, to follow his career of professional div- ing. One of his big jobs was explor- ing the wreck of the Old Dominion steamer Monroe, sunk in collision with the steamer Nantucket off the Virginia Capes January 31, 1914. He worked at this job from February 1 until April 18. During the World War Everts served on the United States cruiser Memphis for five months in the West Indies. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO\T‘ D, C, Sail Secretly for England | | Col. and Mrs iled secretly for England with thei imes says in a copyrighted story to establish their home against their child. there because of | TRAGEDY AND J0Y MEETIN DISASTER Grief Lot of MoSt, However, Awaiting Confirmation of Loss of Kin. By the Associated Press. HOPEWELL, Va, Der.embcr 23— Greif and despair were written in the faces of those who stood in the snow | and cold here today awaiting confir- | mation of the loss of relatives and | friends in the Appamattox River hus‘ tragedy. One man, carrying a child in his | | arms, paused to glance at one of the coffin-shaped wicker hampers placed on the bridge to receive the bodies. Without & word he turned away and left. For a few there was joy. These were | the relatives and friends of several persons who were found not to have been passengers aboard the bus in spite of previous plans to ride in it. Francis Dupont Lazenby, 19, a stu- | dent at the University of Virginia, had notified his parents he would ar- rive on the doomed bus. Several hours after the tragedy his nearly frantic mother met him at the door of their home. He had been late at the ter- minal and had taken a later bus ‘ Loren Burrows, son of Raymond S. | Burrows, manager of the Hopewell | plant of the Tubize Chattilon Corp., | had notified his father he would re- | turn to Hopewell from New York.| Tonight Burrows, who earlier had ex- pressed grave concern for his son’s safety, received word from Loren. He had changed his mind about his visit home, the message from New York | said. Through the lanes of tired workers | Salvation Army lassies and women of Charles A. Lindbergh, shown in a recent photo, have r 3-year-old son Jon, the New York today. It is reported they expected recurring kidnaping threats —Cop\ngm A. P. W-xephuio Then he worked on the wreck of the | Merchants & Miners steamer hatan, sunk off Old Point. Later he worked on the wreck of a German tanker in the Mississippi River. Aided Merida Exploration. Evert was instrumental in exploring the sunken Merida, Ward Liner that went down about 70 miles off the Virginia Capes with a supposed ship- ment of gold, treasure and jewels said to amount to more than $5,000,000. It was while exploring the wreck of the Merida that Everts suffered a st rious attack of “the bends,” which re- sulted from his not being kept in a decompressing chamber long enough after one of his descents. and for sev- eral days was givem little chance to Tecover. One of Everts' most spectacular undertakings was his trip Hampton Roads on the bottom. He walked from Old Point Comfort to Sewalls Point, a distance of about 5 miles, in 2 hours and 41 minutes. Kid Glove Licenses. To avoid using letters in auto li- cense indexes which would form an undesirable word in Welsh, the Brit- ish Government will submit the in- dexes to an expert in Welsh before issuing them in any part of Britain. Hoffman Silent On Report Lindy Is Not Satisfied By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J, December 23 —William Conklin, press aide to Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, said the Governor had directed the statement that he had no com- ment to make on the reports that his activities in the Hauptmann case had influenced Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in his decision to leave this country and establish a residence in England. The Governor was net expected at his office at all today. " SPECIAL NOTICES. z A MEETING _OF THE REGULAR ANNUAL the stockholders of the Washington Ma ket Company will be held in the office of | the company, 4th and D strects Southwest Washington. D C., at 12 o'clock noon. on the first Mondas. being the 6th day of January., 1936 for ection of fifteen @directors to s for She emsuwne vear and to transact s business as may b meeting Decem- ANNUAL MEETING OF THE & STOCK: Relers of The Federal-Ami will be held in the South Lou gor Hotel. 14th and K. stre ort Washinaton. D. C.. on Wednesday, January & 1936, at 10 . JOHN W. 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One phase ‘of the appeal from Haupt- mann’s conviction was based on this fact, Hauptmann's counsel contending that the presence in court of the New York-to-Paris flyer was prejudicial to Hauptmann's interests. During all the recent developments in Hauptmann's case, including the visit to the death cell by the New | Jersey Governor, Lindbergh had per- | sistently declined to comment. His testimony at Flemington, delivered calmly in a tense court room, was that the voice of the extortionist to whom $50,000 ransom money was paid in a Bronx, N. Y., cemetery was “the voice of Hauptmann.” Col. Lindbergh is known to hold the opinion that there is greater re- spect for law and order in England than in his native country, where his own experience with kidnapers has been so tragic. Ever since the birth of Jon in Au- gust, 1932, six months after the kid- naping of the first-born child, it has been necessary to provide bodyguards | for the infant and to surround his | movements with utmost secrecy. | Shunned Public Notice. Since coming into world prominence after his New York-to-Paris flight in | 1927, the formerly known “Slim” ‘Lmdbergl\ airmail pilot, has con- | stantly sought for a return of some | semblance of the anonymity that was previously his. ‘ Unlike most other celebrated fig- | | ures of his day, | tempted to avoid public notice. The kidnap-murder of his child was a tragedy that lifted his name again Pan-American Airways, | | and develop naturally,” said the Times. “They wish also to do some things themselves. Mrs. Lindbergh has her own studies and writing, which she enjoys. The colonel would like time for research and reading himself.” | “Waile it was only with the greatest reluctance that Col. and Mrs. Lind- | | bergh reached the decision to leave | their home, their friends and their | manifold interests here, omnce they made it they acted quickly,” said the Times. | Got Passports Secretly. | “A week ago the colonel obtained passports secretly in Washington. With the co-cperation of Government officials * ¢ * their plans were| kept secret until after their depar-| ture. * * * even the police of | the port from which they sailed were | not informed.” Christmas, and perhaps New Year, | may be lonely days spent at sea, the newspaper continued, but “it will be | free from fear such as the family has not been without since Jon was | born in 1932.” The number of threats against the | Lindberghs has increased since the | trial of Hauptmann which lodged him in the death house at Trenton, N. J., prison, said the Times. The United States Supreme Court’s decision not to review the Hauptmann | case brought a fresh flood of threat- ening letters, the Times declared. Such threats grew when Gov. Hoff- man entered the Hauptmann case by visiting the condemned man in his cell in the prisom death house, the paper said. | An incident which was ascribed to | several men who crowded an auto- mobile carrying young Jon home from school resulted in the with- drawal of the boy from a nursery, the paper said. “Not long ago as Jon was being taken by automobile from his school | to his home, & large car containing several men came close alongside and to the curb, forcing it to stop,” the | Times asserted. “Men jumped down. A teacher ac- | British Laws and Traditions Make the Red Cross passed in distributing | hot soup and coffee. A barge hand, nearly numb from the bitter cold, gulped down a paper cup of the soup. | “God bless you, ladies,” the man | said thankfully. “The blessings belong to you, sir,” one of the women replied. authorities, the paper said, and sent to Col. Lindbergh's office, “where they ! were sorted and turned over to the proper authorities for investigation. | | SAFE PLACE TO LIVE. Life of Crime Difficult. LONDON, December 23 (P)—A | copyright report by the New York | Times that Col. and Mrs, Charles | A. Lindbergh are coming to England because of kidnap threats against| their three-year-old son Jon focused | attention on this island today as one of the world's safest places in which | to live. Kidnaping, as a criminal institu- tion, is non-existent in England. The records of Scotland Yard and the provincial police show not a single case of abduction for ransom during all the years that the comings and goings of England’s law-breaking class has been set down in black and white. The Lindberghs would be just as safe from kidnapers here as is the former Barbara Hutton, who said she was “tired of having guards about” | recently and settled down in London | with h new husband, Count Court | Haugwitz-Reventlow. Difficult for Criminals. A number of considerations upcra(c not only against a kidnaper, but also against any others bent on violent crimes in the British Isles. First, due to the strict regulations of the government, coupled with stern supervision by police, the criminal in England has a difficult time obtaining a gun. If he does obtain a gun and Is caught, a stern-faced judge is sure to send him away for a long prison term. The matter of firearms causes so little worry for the police depart- ment that the nation’s bobbies cover | their beats armed only with trun-| Lindbergh has at-| crowded the car containing the lad | cheons. Second. escape from pursuing police, once a crime is committed, is a diffi- cult matter in this “tight little isle.” | into black headlines and made it once | companying the boy clutched him | There are no state lines to hinder | more a matter of daily conversation throughout the country. The “dream home” at Hopewell, | N. J, has been deserted almost since | the Spring days of 1932, when police, | | detectives and Federal agents were | there seeking clues to the crime com- mitted in the little upstairs nursery. Reminder as it was of great tragedy, | the house was no longer desirable to | the Lindberghs as a home. The| colonel’s counsel later announced that the estate was being given over as a center for child welfare work and was to be known as Highfield. Details of the property transfer, however, were not disclosed. Nothing has yet been done and the estate remains unten- anted. Since the days of the kidnaping the | Lindberghs have made their home at | Englewood, N. J. with Mrs. Lind- mother, wife of the late| Dwight Morrow. The Summers have been spent at the Lindberghs’ island estate in Maine. Newspaper Discloses Plan. First word of the Lindberghs' de- parture for England was given in a York Times. The Times said: “Although they do not plan to give up their American citizenship, they are prepared to live abroad perma- nently, if * * * necessary. “Where they will live in England when they get there not even their closest friends know and it is probable reither the colonel nor his wife knows. They have many friends there and ex- pect to visit at first until they can find a place that suits them.” Two visits to England, first when he had completed his epochal solo flight across the Atlantic in May, 1927, and with Mrs. Lindbergh in 1933, were said by the newspaper to have im- | pressed the colonel and given the two hope of finding the “tranquility and security which have been denied them in their own land.” “They want especially to provide for Jon a normal childhood, free from fears and with opportunities to grow copyrighted story today in the New | ¥ tightly. Suddenly cameras were thrust into the child’s face and clicked. Then the visitors jumped into their | machine and sped away, leaving a| badly frightened teacher and little | boy. “After that Jon was not sent to school.” Many of the letters threatening the | amily have been stopped by postal ! Cyclamen Plants watches into MONEY at— .| A.Kahn Jnc. 43 YEARS at 935 F STREET Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres.|. Ghrislmas Floral Suggestions From Blackistone, Inc.—Washington’s Finest ... and all other floral decorations for Christmas, including mistletoe, red berries, berry bowls, etc. police, distances are not great and the nation’s multitude of seaports are guarded closely. Sometimes it is harder to get out] than to get in. | Third, the Englishman is tradi- | tionally a law-abiding citizen. He is virtually always ready to pick up | a telephone and inform police if his | i windshield and after what l Bus Crash Scene __(Continued From First Page.) | directed the recovery, had nothing but- praise for the rescue crew and Klaas Everts, intrepid diver of Norfolk. The bus yard approach to the draw span a 8:55 yesterday morning, McNair, standing on the open pivot span look- ing down stream as a tug and its barge tow started through, heard the bus crash through the guard rall. “It was & half minute I will never forget as long as I live,” he said. “I will always remember those screams and cries of women and children on the bus as it hung on the edge of the bridge before the final plunge to the icy waters ot the river.” The bridge tender was standing ap- | proximately 30 feet from the point where the bus plunged nose first into | i trembled a minute and| submerged amid bubbles of air. the water, Thrown Through Windshield. Capt. Belch was thrown through the | McNair thought was an effort to swim, was picked up by Capt. Ben Alexander jof the tug Stanley and his helper, | hicles commandeered in the event of | James Gremsley. The captain said he Invite him for Christmas Dinner hurtled down the 200-| MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935. did not believe Belch was dead when first pulled from the water. The water was between 25 and 30 feet deep where the bus sank. After bringing up one body and badly cut- ting his hands, the diver made several steel cables fast to the bus and it was raised by a large crane on the bridge and placed on a floating barge as the 80-fuol draw span was swung aside. ‘The bodies were brought out one by | one, placed in baskets on the snow- covered dock and hoisted to waiting abmulances and funeral cars on the bridge. No effort at identification was made until the bodies were taken to | funeral parlors. One couple, seated side by side in | one of the front seats, had been eat- ing walnuts and each held a walnut tightly in a hand, the young man having his arm around the girl, who wore a wedding ring. Watch Stopped at 8:55. A wrist watch on the arm of one | man was stopped at 8:55, which wit- nesses said was the hour of the | plunge. ‘Thousands of people watched v.he work of recovering the bodies from | | the ends of the bridge, held back by\ lines of State police, Most of the windows were broken before the bus was pulled from the water. Workers broke the remainder to reach the victims' bodies. ‘The body of one white man was in an upright position, held in place by baggage that had shifted against a seat. The position indicated he had struggled to his feet as the machine | plunged. | A woman’'s body behind the driver | was turned upside down. Other | bodies were tossed about in con- | {usion. The cause of the accident was not | determined. A long straight-away | approach on a fill leads to the draw | span, the road rising slightly to the | approach. “The bridge, ‘just down a | hill from the city of Hopewell, was | open to permit a tug and barge to g0 up the river. | Two representatives of the Inter- | state Commerce Commission went to the scene, but returned to Washing- ton last night after saying they did | | not plan an investigation in addition to | the one being conducted by State au- thorities, The two were Clark M. Smith, assistant director of the Bureau | of Motor Carriers, and H. H. Kelley, | district secretary of safety. | ——— War Preparation. A decree hase been issued by the French ministry of war regulating the prices to be paid for motor ve- mobilization. * Ice Cream Santa— A jolly old Santa in color= ful yuletide dress—straw- berry pistachio, chocolate, and egg-nog. Stands 12 inches tall. 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