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Show .. Thursday. September 20, 193 1 THE News Review of Current Events the World Over ProLins the Morro Castle DisasterTextile Strike Mediation Fails and Rioting la Resumed Profits in War Munitions. By EDWARD Walters VV. PICKARD always In the cas of a marine disaster persona coma forward wltli accusations of negll-jeac- s and misbehavior on the part the flH'era and K'tjrK.-"':' crew of the . v concerned. Thla la true now of the Morro Castle, the Ward JIner whlcb burned eight mllea the New Jersey y4 .off coast with a loss of 133 Urea. The Morro Castle, large, swift, and luxurious In George W. 1 1 a appointments, . Roger was returning from cruise to Havana. Her a seven-da' master, Capt, Kobert Wllmott, bad died of beart disease only a few boura before the tragedy, and William F. Warms, chief officer, waa With 12 other offlcera , In command. 'an'J members of the crew be stood by the blazing ship until the bulk towed to Asbury Park and beached. Several of the surviving passengers testified before the federal steamboat Inspection board that no alarm was sounded and that little or no aid was given the panic-strickpassengers by the members of the crew. Then George W. Rogers,, chief radio operator, and bis first assistant,' George I. Alagna, told of the delay In sending out the S O S call, asserting they could not obtain an order for It from the bridge. This, of course, was explained by the usual reluctance of steamship officers to call for help because the salvage charges are heavy. Alagna was put under arrest ai a material witness after he bad told bis story to a federal grand Jury. The value of his testimony was somewhat lessened by Rogers' admission to both the board and the grand Jury that Alagna bad been distrusted by Captain Wllmott as a radical and an agitator, and that Alagna some months ago, tried to Instigate a riot on the Vshlp as a protest against the food served the crew. The first actual evidence Indicating that the fire was of incendiary origin was furnished by Quarter- , master Gus Harmon. "It was like the flash of a gun," he declared. "It couldn't have been gasoline because It traveled mucb 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 or chemicals, but they could suggest no motive for such a horrible crime. Acting Captain Warms said he based his i opinion that the blaze was incendiary on two facts: First, because on August 27, on a previous voy- ,age to Havana, there was a blaze In the No. 5 hold ; second, because reports to him indicated that the writing room locker, ..in which the. fatal fire started, exThe flames, he explained ploded. further, acted "like gasoline or kerosene," and fire extinguishers bad no elTect on .them. The chief of the secret service n Havana declared the burning of . the Morro Castle w as an act of sa- '' botage by members of a secret International maritime association that takes, Its orders from Communists In'. Moscow. s i tI I . y . as en . h sus-plclo- -- TpFFORTS of President Roose-velt'- s mediation board to bring about a peaceful settlement of the textile strike failed when the employers, according to the 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 wns.rejecied by the m!ll owners. The cotton textile employers then declared flatly that they did not believe the ' Issues at stake are "ap-Toprlate subjects 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 Saylesvllle and Woonsocket, driving back the greatly outnumbered soldiers. Tear gas, nausea gas and finally bullets were used to check the rioters and many persons were wounded," some fatally. Governor Green made concessions to the Saylesvllle strikers and ordered that there should be no more shooting. Cut at Woonsocket conditions grew momentarily worse and the police commissioner of the city asked the governor to obtain federal trops to stop the rioting. The major In command of the National Guardsmen there admitted the situation was out of control. Great crowds were looting (hops In the downtown section LOXU won fight for absolute con- NEPIU. UTAH S. STILL FAITH IN CURSE POTENCY trol of Louisiana, bis candidates for congress, state supreme court and public service commissioner, defeating those or the "old guard." Tbs election waa quite peaceful despite the prediction of bloody "civil war." Modern Man Has Not OutThe Klngflab Is now expected to grown Old Superstition. press bis Investigation of graft and corruption In the affairs of New Orleans and to undertake to have Ancient Egyptians are acquiring an undeserved reputation fur efficiency bis arch enemy, Mayor T. Se mines In remarks Science Service. Walmsley, ousted from office through Thecurses, curse of a plmraoh's tomb U action by the legislature, whlcb be1 controls. Huey is now the virtual today spoken of with awer as someIn dictator of the state, but his op- thing superior and nialevolriit power. But the Egyptians ponents have not given up the fight' were no more given to concocting DEALERS rejoiced In the' curses than any other people, aud NEW of the Maine election, there Is no reason for singling theiu according to Dr. George S. Dunthough their victory was lo.com-- j out, can, professor of Egyptology at the plete. Cov, Louts J. Prann, Demo America it university. by a subxtan-tla- l crat was Dr. Duncan has made a survey of over the Republican majority Alfred K. Ames, a curses In Egypt, Babylonia and Israel, candidate, be reported the rt'Bults recently wealthy and aged retired lumber- and man. Senator Frederick Hale, vet- - before the American Oriental society, Aran fTomthl Ismi n waa rarnpnAjt fi meeting In Philadelphia. the upper house for his fourth terra,! There are 195 curse verses In the , Bible, mostly In the Old Testament but his majority over Harold dynamic Democratic nominee,! Doctor Duncan has counted them. was so slender that Hale must have Again and again Bible characters felt rather humiliated. The Newj went up to a mountain top, to be Dealers won two of the three con--, near the source of iwwer, and from that high place called down wrath gresslonal seats. Maine was the pioneer prohlbl-- ' of heaven on evildoers. Gerlzlm and tlon state, but in this election It, Ebal, two peaks, came to be assoabandoned Its 60 year-ol- d policy; ciated with such rites. Gerlzlm was and Joined the wet list, voting for! a mouutaln for blessing and Ebal for curses. repeal by a large majority. William A. Comstock lost the Curses were common In Babylonia, remrfrnt!f rmmlnatlnn rn amvuxxl reported Doctor Duncan, It was cushimself as governor of Michigan,! tomary to put curses on landmarks being defeated by Arthur J. Lacey.t and boundary lines, so that anyone The Republicans named Frank B. who interfered with them would be Fitzgerald, now secretary of state. punished. There were no fences, but In South Carolina the textile the people believed that one who strike injected Itself Into theelectlon. broke the property laws would bo In a runoff election Olln D. John- visited by sickness or other misforston, nnlon sympathizer and former tune as a result of the curse. The mill hand, won the Democratic nom- curse was depended on to work, ination over Cole Blease, whether the law actually caught the orator and campaigner. Johnston offender or not. will succeed Gov. Ira Blackwood, Origin of the dependence on curses hated by the nnlon as a "strike- Doctor Duncan attributes to old, old Gov. Eugene belief In good and evil spirits In the breaking governor." by world. Prehistoric man, far back in Talmadge was renominated the Stone age, was ridden by superGeorgia Democrats. In Arizona the Democrats renom- stitions, as he began to put two and inated Senator Ashurst and two together, and saw more than Isabella Green-way- . coincidences when evil followed some The New Dealers tried to get particular situation. In time he began the gubernatorial nomination in Col- to try to control the powers himself. orado for Miss Josephine Roach, There were always enough misforcoal mine operator and social work- tunes, small or large, happening to er, but she was beaten by Edward any man to prove that he was In "cursed" if he was gullible enough C. Johnson, the Incumbent Washington, also, the New Dealers to believe that lost out when J. C Stephenson was Prehistoric man was gullible. So defeated by Lewis Schwellenbach were the ancient Egyptians and for the Democratic senatorial Babylonians. So were the people of extra-Ministe- Newspaper Union. TEAULT SENATOR nCET TIMES-NEW- and others were threatening the Woonsocket Rayon company's plant Fearing major bloodshed and death. Governor Green read the riot act and asked President Thomas F. of the United Textile Workers of America to hasten there from Washington. The governor also ordered the mobilization of 1,000 World war veterans. members of the Du Tont F OCR family, Pierre, Irenee, Felix and I.ammot, appeared before the senate munitions Inquiry committee and told of the huge business the Du Pont corporation bns done In supplying war material. Between 1014 and 1013 the company, whlcb was founded In ISO? to manufacture black powder, filled $1,245,000,000 worth of war orders. In that time It did about S3 times the business It bad In the year Just before the World war, when Its sales amounted to 130.000.000. Irenee du I'ont testified that the corporation subscribed to preferred stock in the German dye patents seized during the war by the 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, Du Pont said. There did not seem to be anything very sensational or scandalous In the facts ellcted from the Du Ponts, but previous witnesses had told a lot about the deals of airplane companies and other corporations wltb foreign nations In which It was alleged they had been aided by United States diplomats and army and navy officers. There was a lot, too, about graft on the part of South American government ofOne of the stories told ficials. brought in the name of King George of England, and this resulted In official protests by British diplomats both In Washington and In London. Just what Senator Nye and his committee expect to do with the information they are gathering Is not International Typographical In convention at Chicago, certain. There are suggestions of THE government ownership or at least defeated a proposal by delegates government control of all war muni- representing local No. 6 of New York for a four day thirty hour tion manufacturing and selling. week, to be optional wltb each local fifth Installment of the by a referendum vote. Charges THE INsenate banking committee on its were made that the plan had been stock market Investigation Internal instigated by Communists in control revenue agents were charged witb of the New York local, who are "laxity In enforce- seeking to wreck the international . ment' fnr appont. organization and vilify its officers. The accusation vwas denied by the t lng, without exam-srf- Ination, Income tax president of the local, whlcb has a n returns preparea oy membership of 10,500 union print J. P. Morgan & Co. ers in New York. Other delegates The committee pre- supplied the convention with cirsented a long re- culars setting forth the charges of 4lv view of evidence communistic interference and warnthat officials of the ing the union to be on its guard Morgan company, against the proposition. Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and tha Nntlfinnl XJATIONWIDE distribution has J. P. Morgan clty bank of New been started on a poster pledg fork "avoided" Income taxes by a ing the public to support Blue Eagle business establishments. Four Inches "variety of methods." "Many returns, particularly of square, it is gummed for pasting in partners In large banking houses, windows. Code authorities and lo were exempted from adequate scru- cal NRA committees are counted tiny." the committee said. upon to aid its distribution. "When examinations were made The agitation Is to accompany the the time devoted to them was com- temporary Internal reorganization paratively short, in view of the of the recovery administration, as wealth of the taxpayers and the decided upon by President Roosecomplex nature of their transac- velt and Hugh S. Johnson, the NRA tions. administrator. "Thus, In 1930, according to the Authority Is to be split three ways n conbureau's own records, one day was Instead of the present spent In checking the partnership trol. General Johnson is expected return of J. P. Morgan & Co. and to continue In an important post Drexel & Co. the most powerful banking group in the world. Finance "This return was not subjected to RECONSTRUCTION a new and apparent- $100,00,000 corn loan program any field examination suffiwas ly the agent's explanation Farmers will be offered loans on cient to satisfy the Internal revenue corn of any crop year at the rate of bureau that none was necessary." 55 cents a bushel by the Commod Citing that since the bearings ity Credit corporation, the RFC dis were held congress has enacted cer- closed. The RFO has turned over tain reforms In legislation and ad- $100,000,000 to the commodity cor ministration to prevent tax avoid- poration, which is really a branch ance, the report stated: of the RFC, for the carrying out of "The need for reform, either in the program. States Included in the method of enforcement, or law its new loan plan are Illinois, Indiana, or both, was made abundantly clear Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Min when the Income tax returns of nesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and some of the leaders of American Colorado. finance for the years since 1929 were examined by the subcommitLeague of Nationi WHENin the tee. Geneva an invitation t "For the year 1929 the partners Russia to Join the league was clr of J. P. Morgan & Co. collectively culated, signed and sent to Moscow paid about 11,000,000 In taxes to The council then announced that For the an accord bad been reached U the federal government year 1930, 17 Morgan partners. In- grant Russia a permanent seat oi cluding J. P. Morgan, paid no tax, the council, and It was expected and five paid aggregate taxes of that only Portugal and Argentlni about $"C,000. For the year 1931 would continue to oppose this, bj not a single Morgan partner paid refraining from voting. RIcbard Sandler of Sweden wai any tax. For the year 1932 not a single Morgan partner paid any elected president of the league as tax. sembly by an almost nnanlmoui "For the year 1929 the partners vote. Poland gave a Jolt to the leagu of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. collectively paid about $1,900,000 In taxes For by announcing that It will no longei part- abide by the general treaty for th the year 1930 four Kuhn-Loeners, Including Otto II. Eahn, paid protection of minority peoples. Jo no tax, and four paid aggregate seph Beek, the foreign minister taxes of about $100,000. For the told the assembly that until at partners states protect the rights of minoriyear 1931 six Kuhn-Loe- b paid no tax, and the other paid ties Poland would refuse any eon taxes totaling less than $2,000. A trol by an International organism similar situation prevailed In 1932." of Its treatment of minority groups PAGE SEVEN the Middle ages. In medieval England, said IW'tor Duncan, the clergy went Into the fields aud Invoked blessings on those who regarded the landmarks and curses on those who moved or otherwise transgressed the boundaries. Centuries later, Shakespeare wrote 107 passages dealing with the live topic of curses, and had one put on bis own tomb. And has modern man outgrown his faith la curses as a means to getting what be wants? Far front It. In Pennsylvania a boy shoots a woman because for seven years, he says, she hexed him aud cast evil spells. Stock Exchange Deals Center at "Money Desk" On the floor of the stock exchange Is an Institution cull.nl the "money desk." About noon each day members of tho exchange begin to gather around this desk, John T, Flynn writes. In Collier's Weekly. A few of them represent large Now York banks with money to lend. The others are looking for credit. Around that time the banks know how much they have to lend and the brokers arc beginning to know what accommodations they will need. Over that money desk flow countless millions of dollars. It Is by this mechanism that the New Tork banks have their pipe lines running Into the exchange, with their agents there to manage the spigots. Of course, brokers' loans are also made by banks directly outside tho exchange, but this Is the chief method. Obedience to Health Laws Duty of Parents HEALTHY FAMILY There has not been a death for S In the Novotny family, who live nar Tachov, southwestern Bohemia. The head of the family Is Sir. Charles Novotny, aged ninety, right, who Is a miller. He has 10 children, 28 grandchildren and 4 The last death) in the family was that of Mr. Novot-ny- 's father. "I have always liked and beer," Mr. Novotny my pit says, "but my wife she Is ninety-on- e reminds me that It Is time I started to give up some of the bad habits of my youth." September Is a momentous mouth In the history of our nation. Thousands of children have resumed the school work Interrupted last spring by the arrival of vacation time, or have begun their first year of the educational process which we hope will make able, cultured, enlightened citizens of them. The school has a grave responsibility, not only toward the child's mind, but also toward Its body. What good Is learning without health? We know. In fact, that the learning process and health are Inextricably combined; the healthy child learn quickest, remembers better, Is more Interested In his work. Recognizing this, most modern school systems Include health teachers and lessons In health. But tho school cannot bear the whole responsibility for the hraith of children. The parents and the home are usually more potent directional forces for the health of children than any outside Institution ever can be. Healthy children come from healthy homes. It Is the duty of parents to know nnd observe health law. Dr. Allen Ireland, Director Physical and (. Health Education, New Jersey State Department of Public Instruction. years Eruptions on. Scalp itched and Burned Healed by Cutlcura "My sinter's skin became itchy and, before long, sore eruptions began to appear on her face and scalp. They were red and soon began to weep. We thought she would have to have her hair cut and be bald. Her scalp Itched and burned, causing ber to Irritate It by scratching. "She began to use Cutlcura Soap and Ointment The first week the eruptions became fewer and In two weeks she was healed and no sign of her trouble can be seen." (Signed) Mrs. Emma Youska, 700 Monterey St.. McKeesport, Pa., April 12, 1934. Soap 23c. Ointment 25c and 50c. Talcum 23c. Sold everywhere. Proprietors: Potter Drug & Chemical Corp., Maiden, Mass. Adv. 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