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Ludington Daily News
December 1, 1934


           PENTWATER YOUTH
              IS WRECK FATALITY
              
           JOHN DIPERT, 23, Dies in Line of Duty;
              Father Formerly Here.
              
           Muskegon, Dec. 1 - (AP) - 
           Death in the roaring surf of storm swept Lake
        Michigan put an end Friday night to the brief
        coast guard career of JOHN DIPERT, 23-year-old
        son of WILLIAM DIPERT, a lighthouse attendant
        at Point Betsy.
           DIPERT was lost when heavy seas swamped a
        coast guard power boat as it made a futile ef-
        fort to reach the side of the ore freighter,
        Henry Cort, wrecked and caught fast on the
        rocky breakwater of Muskegon harbor.
           It was DIPERT'S first call to life saving
        duty in a shipwreck. Not being versed by
        years of service in the rigorous task of 
        battling heavy seas, he was washed from
        the boat as a heavy wave struck it.
           The next blow carried the light craft and
        its occupants shoreward and hurled it into the
        shallow water of the beach. The surviving occu-
        pants, CAPT. JOHN BASCH, and surfmen CHARLES
        BONTEKOE, EDWIN BECKMAN, and ROGER STEERMAN,
        jumped from the boat and made their way to
        safety.
           MR. DIPERT had been a member of Muskegon
        coast guard since June, 1933. His father,
        WILLIAM DIPERT, has been in the coast guard
        service many years. He has also been sta-
        tioned at Pentwater and Ludington. Although
        MR. and MRS. DIPERT are at Pt. Betsy, they
        continue to maintain a home in Pentwater.
           JACK DIPERT was born March 30, 1911, and
        grew to manhood in Pentwater, graduating
        from the local high school in 1929. During
        his high school career he was one of the
        outstanding basketball players. Following
        his graduation he attended Western State
        Teachers' college at Kalamazoo where he
        studied business administration.
           Besides his parents he is survived by
        a sister, Miss ELSIE, a Fremont teacher.
        MR. and MRS. DIPERT went to Muskegon
        this morning.
        
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