Show SEVENTEEN DIE IN SEA TRAGEDY IRA GEDy d' d Y Eleven Members Members' of Stricken Freighter Crew Saved Vessel Helpless LIVERPOOL Dec 15 P JP Seven Seventeen teen men perished during attempts to rescue the crew of f the British freighter freight freight- er Usworth as wild seas reduced the ship Ito to to a helpless hulk Advices to the White Cunard-White Sta Star line from the liner Ascania s said id today today to day that 15 members of the crew had been lost along alone with two members of the cre crew of the Belgian liner Jean Jadot Jado which with the Ascania As As- cania went to the rescue of the stricken strick strick- en freighter The master of the Ascania informed the line that 11 members of the lr freighters freighter's freight freight- ight ers er's crew had been rescued nine by the Ascania and two by the Jean Jadot The Usworth was abandoned and was drifting helplessly east eastby by southeast south south- cast east with a heavy list to port the Ascania's messa message c said HerC Heroic attempts to rescue the help less members of the crew were by Captain Sadie Gon Gon- their master of or the rescue snip ship Jean Jadot Jadot- in a wireless dispatch to the Associated ocia ted Press As the seas rolled furiously In a wild storm of of hurricane f force th the Jean Jadot launched a lifeboat carrying carry carry- ing 10 members of her crew who volunteered vol for the rescue attempt The Ascania stood by pouring hundreds hundreds' of tons of oil on the oceans ocean's surf surface ce The Jean Jadot's boat finally came alongside the Usworth Captain Gonthier Gon Gon- thier said and arid st started ted taking off oU her crew It was a perilous job for tor th the sea kept hurling the rescue boat against the thc Usworth's sides and the freighters freighter's Continued on Pare Pass Two SEA TRAGEDY DEATH TOLL 17 Eleven Members of Stricken I Freighter Crew Saved Vessel Helpless Continued from hom PUt Pair One men were forced to slide down a line to reach the Jean Jadot's boat Boat In Is Swamped Eight men had been taken off oft the freighter when a huge wave swamped the little boat and It became fouled In cargo derricks hanging over the side of or the Usworth The rescue boat edged awa away rolling in the raging sea Suddenly another big wave swept over the frail boat and it capsized with its 18 8 passengers plunging help helplessly lessly into the water vater The Jean Jadot rushed another boat over the side Zide and managed to pick up eight of or the ten volunteers and two of the Usworth's crew I IThe I The two men lost from the Jean Jadot were the fourth officer and I another member of the crew I The Ascania then launched a boat and took off other survivors while the storm continued unabated The Usworth was stricken helpless about miles cast east of Newfoundland when giant waves smashed her steering steering steer steer- steering ing gear She sent out aut calls for lor help and the Jean Jadot hurried to her assistance The Belgian liner managed managed man man man- aged to get gel lines aboard the Usworth and was endeavoring to tow the helpless helpless help help- helpless less boat to safety safely when the storm tore the two e vessels els apart and for tor 10 hours they were separated Situation Precarious Then came an S S. 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S appeal from the Usworth that her situation was precarious and that the crew must be betaken betaken betaken taken off oct The Jean Jadot and the Ascania arrived to s start rt their rescue work with its tragic results regarding the deaths of or the other seven seven sev sev- even ev- ev en victims were not contained In the dispatch from the Ascania The Ascania reported it had hOld taken the following survivors on board Captain Reed James Ellerington Kenneth Kenneth Kenneth Ken Ken- neth Gray Harold Bottomley John Rourke Frederick Andrews Abdul Misca Said Rasul and RasuL Those taken aboard the Jean Jadot were identified as Joseph Bray a cadet and Waris Khan Rhan The Ascania due in in Halifax Monday Monday Mon Mon- day reported weather conditions were very bad that hat while people now favor the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- party 80 per cent of ot the lawyers lawyers law law- are Republicans The plan he helid said aid lid would take the judiciary away from the people Judge Watkins presented a n counter counterproposal counterproposal proposal to retain th the system of electing elect elect- Ing Jig judges but removing them from tram froma trama a patty parly system by use of a headless ballot The Utah county plan was voted down by an overwhelming majority ma ma- however and the committee report adopted after alter some minor am amendments end men Is The bar through resolutions approved ap approved ap- ap proved Friday afternoon expressed appreciation for the services of Chief Justice D. D N. N retiring in January Janu ary after 22 years on the bench and formally welcomed his successor Judge James H. H Wolf Resolutions growing out of ot committee commit commit- tee reports approved by the convention conven conven- convention tion It shall be unethical for any public prosecutor to defend any criminal case in the courts of ot Utah Ulah with the exception of or city attorneys in cities o othe of the third class or in towns It shall be unethical for a public prosecutor to la tal take e c any civil case arising aris arts ing out of any criminal case which his office may be participating in Favored a minimum general tion requirement of two years of oC col col- col lese work or its equivalent for lor sIon slon to the bar in U Utah h. h A continuance of curbing of ot unlawful unlawful unlawful ful practice of law by the state bar commission The subcommittee Includes State Senator Herbert B. B Maw and Paul Pau H. H Hunt and Weston Vernon state senator and representative lively defeated for reelection last las month The second special session of the 1933 1033 legislature authorized a study o or of public utilities by a subcommittee o othe of the tho committee of nine and late atea for the the- work |