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Show PACE TWO News Review of Current Events tlie World Over Probing the Morro Castle Disaster Textile Strike Mediation Fails and Rioting Is Resumed Profits in War Munitions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD kr Wwin Nvapr Ostoa. it i . i i ' lo th caa of NEARLY always dl Meter peraona come forward with accusations of negligence and misbehavior on the part of the officer and crew of the teasel concerned. Thla ia true now of the Morro Castle, the Ward liner which burned eight mile off the New Jersey coast with a loss1 of 135 llvea The Morro Castle, large, swift, and luxurious In 1 1 a appointments, waa returning from a seven-dacruise to Havana. Her master, Capt. Robert Wilmott, had died of heart disease only a few hours before the tragedy, and F. Warms, chief officer, was la command. With 12 other officers and members of the crew he stood by th blazing ship until the hulk was towed to Aabury Park and beached. Several of the surviving passengers testified before the federal steamboat Inspection board that no alarm waa sounded and that little or no aid was given th panlc- atricken passenger by the member of the crew. Then George W. Roger, chief radio operator, and hi first assistant, Georg L Alag-aa- , told of the delay In sending out the SOS Call, asserting they could not obtain an order for It from the bridge. This, of course, waa explained by the usual reluctance of steamship officers to call for help because the salvage charges are heavy. Alagna was put nnder arrest as a material witness after he had told his story to a federal grand Jury. The value of his testimony was somewhat lessened by Rogers admission to both the hoard and the grand Jury thnt Alagna had been distrusted by Captain Wilmott as a radical and an agitator, and that Alagna some months ago tried to instigate a riot on the ship as a protest against the food served the crew. The first actual evidence Indicating that the fire was of Incendiary origin was furnished by Quartermaster Gus Harmon. "It was like the flash of a declared. "It couldnt gun," b have been gasoline because It traveled much faster. It might have been some sort of chemical, all of which would light up when one point of It started. There was a funny acrid smoke coming out of the flash." Other officers of the ship testified that they believed the fire was of Incendiary origin and was fed by gasoline ot chemicals, but they could suggest no motive for such.' .a. .horrible "crime...,." Acting y VC11-Ha- f . . t I i I h "H- - tBrrarswafm!i'saTirTiehasea'Tri opinion that the blaze was Incen diary on two facta: First, because on August 27, on a previous voyage to Havana, there was a suspicious blaze Id the No. 5 hold ; second, because report to him Indicated that the writing room locker. In which the fatal fire started, exploded. The flames, he explained further, acted "like gasoline or kerosene," and fire extinguishers had no affect on them. The chief of the secret service la Havana declared the burning of the Morro Castle a as an act of sabotage by memliers of a secret International maritime association that takes Its order from Commu- nists In Moscow, of President board to bring about a peaceful settlement of the textile strike failed alien the employers, according to tlie board, refused to make any concessions that would open the way to arbitration. The strike leaders had Insisted that all the mills must remain closed pending arbitration, and this wea reieeied by the null owners. The cotton textile employers then declared flatly that they did not believe the Issues at stake are "appropriate subject for arbitration." The Immediate result of this breakdown In negotiations was the resumption of violence and disorder, especially In Rhode Island. Thousands of strikers and their sympathizers fought with National Guard detachments in Saylesville and Woonsocket, driving back the greatly outnumbered soldiers. Tear gas, nausea gas and finally bullets were ned to cheek the rioters and many persons were wounded, acme fatally. Governor Green made concessions to the Saylesville strikers and ordered that there should be no more shooting. Put at Woonsocket conditions grew momentarily worse and the police commis sioner of the city asked the governor to obtain federal troops to stop the rioting. The major In command of the National Guardsmen there the situation was out of control. Great crowds were looting shop . la th . downtown section EFFORTS d ) i Frida UTAH MAGNA TIMES, BiAGNA, and others wera threatening the Woonsocket Rayon companys plant Fearing major bloodshed and death, Governor Green read th riot act and asked President Thomas F. McMahon of the United Textile Workers of America to hasten there from Washington. Th governor also ordered the mobilisation of 1,000 World war veterans. Po Pont FOUR member of th Felix and Ilerre, Irene, Lamuiot, appeared before tbs sen- ate munitions Inquiry committee and told of the huge business the Dn Pont corporation has done In supplying war material. Petween 1914 and 191S the company, which was founded In 1802 to manufacture black powder, filled $1,245,000,000 worth of war orders. In that time It did about 85 times tbe business It had In the year Just before the World war, when Its sale amounted to $30,000,000. Irene da Pont testified that the corporation subscribed to preferred stock In the German dye patents seised during the war by th United States. He said these patents had resulted In a great service" to America. The corporation entered the dye business after the war as a licensee of the Chemical foundation, ru Pont said. There did not seem to be anything very sensational or scandalous In the facts elided from the Du Pont. but previous witnesses had told a lot about the deals of airplane companies and other corporations with foreign nations In which It was alleged they had been aided by United States diplomats and army and navy officers, 'There waa lot, too, abont graft on the part of South American government officials. One of the stories told bronght In the name of King George of Kngtand, and this resulted In official protests by Rrltlsh diplomats both In Washington and In London. Just what 'Senator Nye and his committee expect to do with the Information they are gathering Is n6t certain. There are suggestions of government ownership or at least government control of all ear munition manufacturing and selling. IN THE fifth Installment of the senate hanking committee on Its stock market Investigation Internal revenue agents were charged with laxity In enforcement" for accepting, without examination, Income tax return prepared by J. P. Morgan A Co, The committee presented a tong review of evidence that officials of tbe L Morgan company. Kuhn. Loeb A .Co Y. SENATOR rnmaimr J. P. Morgan CJty bank of New York "avoided" Income taxea by a "variety of methods." Many returns, particularly of partners In large banking houses, were exempted from adequate scrutiny ," the committee said. "When examinations were made the time devoted to them was comparatively short. In view of the wealth of the taxpayers and the complex nature of their transac- jj j - - IT i t i j n,M ;iorsi ? t pineapple there mates and I will teU you. rejoiced In tb NEW of the Main election, though their victory waa Incomplete. Gov. Louis J. Rrann, Demoby a substancrat, was tial majority ever the Republican a Alfred K. Ames, candidate, wealthy and aged retired lumberman. Senator Frederick Hale, veteran Republican, waa returned te the npper bouse for his fourth term, but hi majority 'over Harold dynamic Democratic nominee, was so slender that Hale must have felt rather humiliated. The New Dealers won two of tbe three congressional teat Maine was the pioneer prohibition state, but In this election It policy abandoned Iti and Joined the wet list, voting for repeal by a large majority. William A. Comstock lost the Democratic nomination to succeed himself as governor of Michigan, being defeated by Arthur J. Lacey. Tbe Republicans named Frank B. Fitzgerald, how secretary of state. In South Carolina the textile strike Injected Itself Into tbeelectlon. In a runoff election Olln D. Johnston, anion sympathizer and former mill band, won the Democratic nomination over Cole Blease, Orator and campaigner. Johnston will succeed Gov. Ira Blackwood, hated by the union as a strikeGov. Eugene breaking governor." Talmadge waa renominated by Georgia Democrat. In Arizona the Democrat renominated Senator Ashurst and CongrIsabella Greenessman-at-large way. The New Dealers tried to get the gubernatorial nomination In Col orado for Mias Josephine Roach, coal mine operator and social worker, but she was beaten by Edward C. In Johnson, the Incumbent Washington, also, the New Dealer lost out when J. C. Stephensoh was defeated by Lewis Scliwellcnhach for the Democratic senatorial DEALERS f f dtw There had quite argument In the old-scho- International Typographical In convention at Chicago, defeated a proposal by delcgntel representing local No. 6 of New York for a four day thirty hout week, to be optional with each locnl by a referendum vote. Charges were made that the plan had been Instigated by Communists In control of the New York local, who are seeking to wreck the International organization and vilify Its officers. The accusation was denied by th president of the locnl, which has a membership of 10,500 union printers In New York. Other delegate supplied the convention with circulars setting forth the charges of communistic Interference and warn- the union to he on Its guard' against the proposition. - , i . THE i r Rogers Family as to the shape of the World. The Stanford Sweater one, be Is kiuder the hralns of th organization. He said the world was round. I contended that. It waa flat, the same as everything else now. Not being a horse connected In the argument In sny way, the younger one took no Interest at alL So wo made a bet, and we says well w will sail Into the setting sun, and we will keep sailing into the setting sun. And If we land back Into Santa Monica the boy la we right. But If we go "Flat before get around, then I am right. II waa still lo a military camp R. O. T. C. up at Monterey Cal. and dident get out for another week. Well th rest ot us couldent wait. W hid our tickets and were Just walking np and down the platform, so tho Mama, the other bohunk, and myself got the Idea thatwe better get out now, or the studio would be liable to have some retakes. They then hadeat shown the picture, and I figured It was better to escape before they did. There la nothing that can make a picture Its generally worse than bad enough the first time, and Its better to let it go at that. Sometimes we retake scenes to what we call Clear up a Sltlation." But lta never known to the audience that wa did It. Its Just as confusing to them as it would have been In the first take. Then If Its for the Acting there Is no use to e It for that. You cant learn to act In that short a time. About tbe ouly thing you can do with a picture after you finished It is to run It. and then taka out every third reel.' That w ill do more to satisfy an audience than anything 1 know of. The third and sixth reels are the ones they generally get muddled up over. But you get them out and you generally got a pretty clean fast running You see we take scents where we go In one door and cqpie out on the other side with another suit on. Or maby with our hat in our hand where it was on our heads. Well w know that, but we do that to see 11 they are paying attention. Now If they dont notice that, and we dont get letters, why we know that they were asleep, or that they dident go to the picture at all. But if we get let,t,?rs,' whv ,hat tlcklea us t0 deatl-Innott hat they are right with Ms- - That thy have seen the picture, thry are twaie and fellow 1 . S, ,e r, D one-nia- tiiiti-B8- 1" s f neb lUtt ttr j IN a" k - AW I With a I 31 Textile workers In a mill at Concord, N. C, running 'the gauntlet of jeering atrlkeril the burning Morro Castle and a lifeboat and coast guard dory being rowed away with aurrivori of statue of King George of England which loyal ruling prince of India catastrophe. New Delhi. j J pint 3-- frtttbn U Riotous Strikers Held Back by Guardsmen , ; xe iWt P1 I snwjw s- t tatter .iiwn 4 vie! i iiilef-l- wck 5 Un ixt I ? ! i V A 1 rv - i- j ?-- I Ay. tVJ yip . tv V,: L' ( r-- - f . a t. t U." buds ; t iitvlj b bt tttapn I at i 3 . 1 U'l tV i XfltM V Ur 81 Made qcotd - c t thi K) f VU 1 iftwc aifty 4 VN , a Jov woo, ,itar, & A' u, j m fp-- vt 1 i v IllSf tom 3 pink H tfchln A mif. . ANfc, Striking mill workers giving way beforq the' bayonets of National Guardsmen after a riot ( of he Woodside mill near Greenville, S. C. The workers became unruly m they received their Us P111 olIlce before KinS on strike, and the troops, on band for Juat inch an emergency, wenfi Car as 0IUS before the riot could be Quelled, COMANCHE LAUNCHED Saved From the Burning 1 , erest 0Te ou 10 pItk out teePs us all m le new things "orrjlIls t0 and Ideas to pick out. Now take scenes w here a horse has quite a lot to do. We may use five or six different horses in that picture, one to Jump the Lnce, another that will open the gate, another that will make a wild run down hill. Another Just for the dose ups. But that dont do a bit of good, an audience wont tions. lima. In 1930, according to the pay a bit of attention to it, and wont bureaus own records, one day was write us a sirgle letter about It, till spent In che king the partnership somebody tonceived thj Idea of havreturn of J. I. Morgan A Co. and ing one of the hones white and the Drexel A Co. the most powerful other black Then they picked out a The new coast guard cutter Cobnnktng group In the world. little thing like manche taking its maiden Finance "This return was not subjected to Reconstruction plunge at the yards of Pusey A Jones a new that right nway. In Wilany field examination and apparentBut one that $l(H,0n0,0(i0 corn loan mington. Del. MKs Katherine program. Leary ly the agent's explanation was suffiwaa big and one Fanners will he offered loans on daughter of Judge Timothy A. cient to satisfy the Internal revenue corn of Leary was little never of U bite Tiains. N. Y any crop year at the rate of cracked bureau that none was necessary. 55 cent a bushel by the Cotnmod- - seem to luter-- st bolt e of champagne on the prow Citing that since the hearings Credit corporation, the RFC dls-- em. They just of the boat to christen It as It slid were held congress has enacted cer- Ity closed. The RFC has turned over down the ways Into the leep right water. tain reforms In legislation and ad $100.0(10.000 to the commodity cor- through that. So ministration to prevent tax avoidwhich Is really a branch It Just keeps a dporation, Thla woman passenger of tho Morro Castle U SENSATIONAL JOCKEY , ance, the report stated: of the RFC, for the carrying out of irector worried the deck of a rescue vessel to which the had been draB4 t "The need for reform, either In the States In the pretty near nuts Included program. law or Its method of enforcement, Jumped from the blazing liner Into the rough sea. new loan plan are Illinois. Indiana. to think up or both, was made abundantly clour Kansas. Missouri, Ohio. Min- something s u tiwhen the Income tax returns of Iowa, South Dakota and tle like that. some of the leaders of American nesota, Nebraska, Colorado. that they wit; keep their minds on. finance for the year since 1929 I tell you this thing of trying to keep were examined by the subcommitthe world amused Is a tough Job. tee. met In Geneva an Invitation to And now that they are cleaning "For the year 1929 th partners Russia to Join the league wa cireverything up i0, Its making It of J. P. Morgan A Ca collectively culated. signed and sept to Moscow. worse still. Now they wont pay any paid about $11,000,000 in taxes to The council then announced that attention to em at all, no matter the federal government For the an accord had been reached te how many mistakes we iut In I year 1930, 17 Morgan partners. Ingrant Rnssla a permanent seat on hope the whole thing clears up beP. no Morgan, paid tax, the council, and It was expected fore 1 cluding J. get back. In fact thats w hy l and At paid aggregate taxes oS that only Portugal and Argentina about $5(1.000. For the year 1931 would continue to oppose this, by sorter had to duck out was to let this morality wave kinder blow not a single Morgan partner paid refralnlng-fro- m voting over. any tax. For the year 1932 not a Richard SandlMof Sweden was Well single Morgan partner paid any elected presIdenfV the league as- from anyhow Its good to get away it all for awhile. Maby they tax, sembly by an almost unanimous will get (onto something else by the "For the year 1929 the partners vote. time 1 get back. W are a of Kuhn, I.oeh & Co. collectively Poland gave a Jolt to the seagne people that dont stay with one thing very paid abont $1,900,000 In taxea For b? announcing that It will no longer st:led with the Repubtl the year 1930 four Kuhn-I.ot'abide by the general treat' for the! n5 part ,haa ? I?n did with ners. Including Otto H. Kahn, paid protection of minority peoples. Jo-no tax. and four paid aggregate seph Reek, the foreign minister, fnybody. eUi'- - but that taught u ( and e will see that that Renter taxes of about $100,000. For the told the assembly that 'until all he Jockey who has created a ct sensation by his nu year 1931 six Knhn-Iepartners states protect the rights of mhjori. , eam-n- ?app.ea awi- - So here we go nitrous into winnin no the beautiful and the ties tax. Poland would other paid Pacific -refuse any .e-paid it l,d-rhsa ceaa Here are the members of tho taxes totaling less than $2,000. A trol by an Internationa? organism IIe has fpedal hoard pplD!L t Roosevelt to ,0 ,.p!,h:' similar situation prevailed In 1932." of Its treatment f minority groups im. ,,J' v try to mediate In th great tertll trlk of Nei rtKht: Marion Smith of Wlnsnt AmeriS;; Atlanta; Gov. John chairman; and Raymond Y. IngersoU of Brooklyn-- hT,9h M i an been Dn-bor- been started on a poster pledg- lng the public to support Blue Eagle business establishments. Fourlnohes square. It Is gummed for pasting In windows. Code authorities and lo-cal NRA committees are counted upon to aid Its distribution. The agitation Is to accompany the temporary Internal reorganization of the recovery administration, as decided upon by President Rnoe-velt and Hugh S. Johnson, the NRA administrator. Authority la to he split three ways Instead of the present con- trol. General Johnson Is expected to continue In an Important post. 4 1 TT TP? trol of Louisiana, his candidate for congress, state supreme court and public service commissioner, defeating those of the old guard," Th election waa quite peaceful deeplta the prediction of bloody "civil war." Th Klngfltb la now expected to press bis investigation of graft and I BEVERLY HILLS Well all corruption in th affairs of New pathe In read I Orleans and to undertake to have know la Just what e0"1 thf his arch enemy. Mayor T, Semmos per. Did I ever tell you I sailed time Walmaley, ousted from office through Into the beautaction by tb legislature, which b iful Pacific control. Hney la now the vlrtnal Ocean? Well, dictator of the stats, bot bis opo m a pull up ponents bar not given up th fight crates -- iiTd-t- rie Scenes and Persons in Ills Current N-' -i IIUET LONG won ha fight for absolute con- ' n j 1 W bid Tag 81 ig tr h 'few 4' 1 I . iul h ! hv, r1 g ! vt ?d a X |