AMERICA'S "FOURTH"
Tragedies Mar Natioiial Celebrations NeW fORK," july 4. A message from Aisbury Park states Governor Hoffman was among more 'than a score of passeUgers rescued from 6, 40-foot pleasure boat destroyed by fexplCsion And fire While Mr. Hoffman wa& feviewiiig New Jersey's fishing fleCt half a fiiile fi'Om the shorfe. Cb'astguairds tesCued all and no-one Wks ihjUied. A PensaeOla message states fiVe membeirs 6f a family wei'C drowiied when a 35-foot motor Cruiser capsized in the gulL The victims were the skippers Wife; her nephew and the lattef's wife and two children. The other 31 pafesengers, who were guests at an independence Day fishing party were rescued. Nine pfersons were sCvetely burned wheh blowii froin a cabin cfuiser laUnch WhiCh explbded While taking dn petrol at an East RivCr whatf. Their lives were probabiy isaved by falliiig iiite the water, which quChch'ed the flhmes. They Were picked up by nearby boatmeil. When Mrs. Gferlando Biitero objCcted to h'er hnsbaud firiilg A rBvOlVer in C8iebration of Independ'enC6 Day, he threW the gun on to a couch whhre it discharged, kiliing her instantly.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 144, 6 July 1937, Page 7
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183AMERICA'S "FOURTH" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 144, 6 July 1937, Page 7
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