PERILS OF CITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 9

PERILS OF CITY

ESCAPED SHIPWRECK; KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR YOUNG AMERICAN’S DEATH Arthur S. Allen, junr., 22-year-old senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who owned and sailed the yacht Direction, in which Rockwell Kent and a crew of young Americans were shipwrecked in July while on a voyage of exploration to Greenland, died in Tarrytown Hospital of injuries suffered when lie was run down by a motor-car at Broadway and Kelbourne Avenue, Tarrytown, New York. Young Allen was on the way to his parents’ home in Kelbourne Avenue. Philipse Manor. He had just alighted from a north-bound bus and was crossing Broadway, when two cars approached in opposite directions. Apparently he became confused and before lie could get out of tlie way one of the cars, owned by Philip Gross, of; 525 West End Avenue, and driven by Murray Levine, of 415 Central Park West, struck him and knocked him down. His back was broken and his skull fractured. Levine was arrested on a technical charge of assault and released in his own custody. When Allen died the charge was changed to manslaughter. Tlie police said the accident was una voidable. Allen was a student of naval architecture and less than a year ago won an honour in ship design at Massachusetts institute of Technology. Accompanied by Rockwell Kent, artist and explorer, and Lucian Cary, junr., soil of the novelist, he sailed last May in his 33-foot cutter-rigged yacht Direction. Two months later the yacht was wrecked on the rocks of mountain-hemmed Karajak Fjord, on the southern coast of Greenland, after it had been driven by a freezing July gale that funnelled in through the narrow opening to the sea. Mr. Allen and his companions managed to reach shore and Mr. Kent went for aid to a small Eskimo settlement six miles away. From there word of their plight was sent to Danish officials at Godthaab. These officials sent labourers to the scene of the wreck and raised the Direction, which was taken to Godthaab for repairs. Mr. Kent and Air. Cary remained abroad, but'Mr. Allen returned home recently.