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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, 1AYSON. UTAH News Review of Current Events the Wor Id 0 FroLing the Morro Castle Disaster Textile Strike tion Fails and Rioting Is Resumed Profits in War Munitions. GY Media- W. PICKARD By EDWARD by W extern Now L rrlon always In the case of a ordeied that there should be no more I!ut at Wounioihet cotnll shooting. marine d.saster persons come for ward with accusations of negligible tions gri w uioim ntai ilv worse and the and misbehavior on the part of the police commissioner of the cl t y usl,ed ft'l,,rs ald crew of the gournor to old nil federal trim! s I' concerned, to stop the rmt.iig The major in the -- sat Guard-me- n 'j'jjja i3 true now of command of the Nation il s. was out admitted the motion the tlaie the Morro Castle, Great crowds were loot.ng Ward liner winch of (oidrol burned eight miles oT simps In the downtown sect, on and or li the New Jersey coast ers weie thieateinng Ihe Woonsoi hot with a loss of 155 Ray on comp mv s plant. and death, l'earing major blood-lie- d lives. The Morro Castle, Governor Green real the riot ait and asked 1iesident Thomas F. Mi Million large, 6wift, and luxurious in Its appomt- - of the Inited Textile Workeis of Amer to hasten there from Washington. incuts, was returning lea Grga W. f f 0 m a 80U,n . ,,jy The governor also or lered the mobiil ,,er zation of 1,(hki World war veterans and cruise to Havana a statewide roundup of Communist agi The ships master, Capt. Robert liad died of heart disease only tutors. Explaining the employers refusal to a few hours before the tragedy, and William F. Warms, chief officer, was compromise, the rotten textile code au thorlty pointed out that the hours and In command. With 12 other oflhers and m inbers of the crew he stood by wages and other conditions ng.nn-- t Ihe blazing ship until the hulk was which the union Is striking are set towed to Asbury Park and beached. torth In an NltA code. This code, the say, was set up to he the Several of the surviving passengers employers law men hunt for the industry, and steamboat federal testified before the the strike, therefore, is an attempt to Inspection board that no alarm was the Industrial law by violence aounded and little or no aid was giveu change and Intimidation. panic stricken passengers by the mem hers of the crew. Then C.eoige W. Kog members of tbe fu lont crs, Idef radio operator, and his first Ilerre, Irenee, Felix and assistant, George I. Alagtm, told of before tbe senate Eainiuot, appeared S S call, the delay In sending out the munitions Impiiry committee mid told asset ting they could not obtain an orof tbe huge business the I Hi Pont der for It from the bridge. This, of lias done In war course, was explained by the usual re- corpoiationPctween 1014 supplying and 101S the luctance of steamship ofheers to call material. wbiili was founded in ls02 for help because the salvage charges company, to manufacture black powder, filled are heavy. Alagria was put under aruw OitO worth of war orders. Iu rest as a material witness after he had $1,215, tune it did about 3.5 times the that told Ids story to a federal grand Jury. It bad in the yeir Just be business soine-wlThe value of his testimony was fore t lie World war, when its sales lessened by lingers admission to to $,"G,inhi,(nhi. amounted both the board and the grand Jury that Irenee du Pont test bed that the Alagna had been distrusted by Captain subscribed to prelerred V. llmott as a radienl and an ag.tator, corporation stink In tbe German dye patents smzed end that Alagna some months ago tried during the war by tbe Inited States. to Instigate a riot on the ship as a pro He said these patents had resulted in lest against the food served the crew. a The great service" to America. The first actual evidence Indicating entered the dye business corporation that the fire was of Incendiary origin after the war as a licensee of the was furnished by Quartermaster Gus Chemical I)u Pont said. foundation, Harmon. There did not seem to lie It was like the flash of a 1G Inch very sensational or scandalousanything in the It couldn't have facts elided from the aun, he declaredbut Pouts, lu much been gasoline because It traveled witnesses had told a lot about previous (aster. It might have been some sort the deals of airplane companies and of chemical, all of which would light other corporations with foreign na Bp when one point of It started There tions in which It was alleged they had was a funny, acrid smoke coming out been aided by United States diploof the flash. mats and army and navy officers. There Other officers of the ship testified was a lot, too, about graft on tbe that they believed the lire was of part of South American government Incendiary origin and was fed by officials. One of the stories told gasoline or chemicals, but they could brought In the name of King George uggest no motive for such a horiible of England, and this resulted in oftrlme. Acting Captain Warms said ho ficial protests by P.ritish diplomats based his opiniou that the blaze was both In Washington and in London. Incendiary on two facts: First, beJust what Senator Nje and his comcause on August 27, on a previous voymittee exju'et to do with the Informaage to Havana, there was a suspicious tion they are gathering Is not certain. blaze In the No. 5 hold ; second, be- There are suggestions of government cause reports to him Indicated that ownership or at least government conthe writing room locker, In which the trol of all war munition manufacturfatal fire started, exploded. The flames, ing and selling. Plenty of evidence was be explained further, acted "like gasobrought out to prove that tbe makers line or kerosene," and fire extinguishof these wares sell to both sides in ers had no effect on them. warfare. The chief of the secret police In Havana declares the burning of the TN the fifth Installment of the senate I banking committee on its stock marMorro Castle was an act of sabotage by members of a secret International ket Investigation revenue Internal maritime association that takes Its agents were charged with laxity in orders from the Communists of for ac enforcement ceptlng, without examination, Income ta returns prepared by International T1IE in convention atTypographical J. R. Morgan & Co. Chicago, de. The committee pre feated a proposal by delegates represented a long review senting loeal No. G of New York for of evidence that offa four day thirty hour week, to be icials of the Morgan optional with each local by a referencompany, Kuhn, Loch dum vote. Charges were made that the & Co., and the Naplan had been Instigated by Communtional City bank of ists In control of the New York local, New York avoided" who are seeking to wreck the InternaIncome taxes by a tional organization- - and vilify Its ofvariety of methods. ficers. Many returns, particularly of partThe accusation was denied hy the In large banking houses, were ners president of the loeal, which has a the from exempted .KM) union 10, of membership printers committee said. adequate scrutiny, Other delegates supIn N evv York. When examinations were made the plied the convention with circulars devoted to them was comparatime Betting forth the charges of communisshort, In view of the wealth of tively Interference. tic the taxpayers and the complex nature of their transactions. President Roosevelts Thus, In 10, !b, according to the buEFFORTS ofboard to bring about a reaus own reeoriK one day was spent peaceful settlement of the textile strike iu cheeking the partnership return of (ailed when the employers, according J. P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. to the board, refused to make any conthe most powerful banking group In cessions that would open tbe way to the world. arbitration. Tbe strike leaders bad InThis return was not subjected to sisted that all tbe mills must remain any field examination and apparently closed pending arbitration, and this the agents explanation was sufficient was rejected by tbe mill owners. The to satisfy the internal revenue bureau cotton textile employers then declared tlint none was necessary." flatly that they did not believe the is sues at stake are appropriate subjects Finance a new (or arbitration." corn loan program. Farmers The Immediate result of this breakdown In negotiations was the resumpwill be offered loans on corn of any tion of violence and disorder, especialerop year at tbe rate of 55 cents a ly in Rhode Island. Thousands of bushel by the Commodity Credit corstrikers and their sympathizers fought poration, the RlC disclosed. The RFC with National Guard detachments In has turned over $1 00,000.000 to the Eaylesville and Woonsocket, driving commodity corporation, which Is reall.v baik the greatly outnumbered soldiers. a branch of the RUC, for the carrying Tear gas, nausea gas and finally bu- out of the program. Statics im bided llets were used to chetk the rioters and In the new loan plan are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, M n many persons were wounded, some faconcesmade Green Governor nesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, (uul tally. i sions to the Saylesville strikers and Colorado. XliLY XJF AN ve-s- el Wil-mot- t, Font - Reconstruction IIUEY LONG won Ids fight for absolute control of Ixiuisiana, his candidates for Mate supreme court and congress, public service commissioner defeating those of the old guard." The election was quite peaceful despite the preThe dictions of bloody "civil war. Kingflsh is now expected to press his Morro Castle Aflame; Officers on Board SENATOR of graft and corruption the affairs of New Orleans and to undei take to have bis arch enemy, Major T. Femmes Wulmxley, ousted from office through action by the legislature, width lie controls. Huey Is now the virtual dictator of the state, but Ins opponents have not given up the fight. Invei-tlgutio- in DEAI Fits rejoiced In the suits of the Maine election, liiniigh tlndr vittory was Incomplete. Gov I tuns J I.rann, democrat, was retie, led bv a substantial majority our the Republican candidate, Alfred K ints, a wealthy and aged retired Senator Erederb k Ilale, liiinhcrm.tn. veltr.tn Republican, was returned to Ihe upper bouse for Ids fourth term, l, but Ins majority over E. Harold dynamic Democratic nominee, was so Mender that Hale must have fe't rather humiliated. The New Dealers won two of the three congressional seats William A. Uomstoik lost the Democratic nomination to succeed himself as governor of Michigan, being defeated it v Arthur J. I.nroy. The Republicans named Frank 1!. 1 itzgerald, now secret iry of state. In South Oarolmn the textile strike injected Itself Into the election. In a runoff election (dm 1). Johnston, union sympathizer mid former mvll hand, won tlie Democratic nomination over Cole Please. In Arizona the Democrats renominated Senator Aslmrst anti Congressman at large Greenway. The New Dealers tried to get the gubernatorial iioniinat.on In Colorado for Miss Josephine Roach, coal m'ne operator ami social worker, but she was beaten Jobn-nthe Incumbent. by Edward In Washington, al-tbe New Dealers lost out when J. . Stephenson was defeated bv Few is Scbwellenbach for the Democratic senatorial nomination. VJLW Du-bun- Ibis photograph of tbe Morro Castle, still In flames, was taken as the liner was b Park, N. J. On the bow deck can be seen Acting Captain Warms and other officers who refusedoT until she had been beached. d l Asbtlrf the ililp First View of Argentinas Disastrous Oil Fire n. o, financial reports from comm ttees show Unit between June 1 ami September 1 Hie Republican receipts were $105,078 ami the Democrats collected $121,f,SS. Republican expenditures aggregated $lffi,'.i20 and Democratic outlays were $10d'i:,7. The Republican deficit was fixed at $M,i:S5, against Democratic unpaid obligations of $107,050, Among the generous contributors to tbe Democratic fund were Col. Jacob Ituppert, George F. Trommer and William Piel of New York and Fred I'ubst of Milwaukee, all Identified with the brewing industry. Irenee and Lam mot Du Pont and their associates gave largely to tbe Republican fund. QUARTERLY Aerial view, tbe first to arrive In the United States. ot tbe fire that ravaged the oil tanks of the Campanil National de Petroleos, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil company at Campagna, Argentina. Three persons were killed In tbe fire, and about $.'5,400,000 damage was done. NATIONWIDE distribution has been poster pledging the With Bayonets and Revolvers Blue Eagle business establi-hment- s. Four inches square, It In windows. g is gummed for Code authorities anil local NRA committees are counted upon to aid its distribution. This agitation Is to accompany the temporary Internal reorganization of the recovery administration, as decided upon by President Roosevelt and Hugh S. Johnson, the NRA administrator. Authority Is to be split three ways conInstead of tbe present trol. General Johnson Is expected to continue in an Important post. Separate agencies will be in charge of administration, and deciding controversies. public to support CLAIMS BIG FORTUNE pa-tin- one-ma- n policy-framin- IF YOU can believe the foreign office in Tokio, Japan is ready to scrap all powerful weapons of offense and Is l.kelv to propose, at the forthcoming naval reduction confer nee, the abolition of battleships and plane carriers. It Is not Japan's Intention to enter a naval competition which will result in an Increase in armaments and heavier burdens for the people of the the foreign office spokesman world, said. Our plan Is to have a navy Insulin lent for offensive purposes hut sufficient for defense. We hope others also will work towards this end." the League of Nations met an Invitation to Russia to Join tbe league was circulated, signed and sent to Moscow. The council then announced that an accord had been reached to grant Russia a permanent sent on the council, and it was expected that only Portugal and Argentina would continue to oppose this. Richard Sandler of Sweden was elected president of the league nsem bly hy an almost unanimous vote. Poland gave a Jolt to the league by announcing that it will no longer abide by the general treaty for the protect. or, of minority peoples. Joseph Pet k, foreign minister, told the assembly that until all states protect the rights of minorities Poland would refuse any control by nil International orgintsm of Its treatment of minority groups. ex seaman oof National Guardsmen at Greenville, 1 saw S. C., , called out to stop the textile strike rioters, meeting the angry workers with drawn revolvers and bared bayonets. WHEN Start of Drouth Beef Processing PRESHKOVSAKAYA, of the Russian revolution," died at her home near Prague. During most of the ninety years of her life she struggled to free Russia and she spent 23 years In ex. la Her contribution tow aid in Siberia. tbe downfall of the Romanoffs was considerable. CATHERINE tbe American Fedt ration o' t u t tomes a suage-tm- n v. Ci Kirk of the bureau ot animal government create a centr.il industry; A. L. Wagner, state relief it-Ft p committee auditor; 1,. G Harris, plant ih p mi 'ed lc cut lie and Dr. P. E. Robertson, repri superintendent; I t I' " ' " rs I t oil-" federal meat Inspector in the lacking house at Albia, Iowa, where the first of : c I. mi pr v1 m .. cl the federal drouth beef processing plants bus been oot a opened. Five of these it tin plants are planned for Iowa. Tattle are bought by the federal surplus .elief administration and tbe beef prepared for distribution to tbe needy FROM n.-c- - , -. U 1! i T ' Joseph Morns, an near Alnw.ct employed on road work Ameri W an says be is the heir to . to amount to tune reputul the grea Morris claims that he Is t e f Devine, Ellen nephew of Mrs. b ow of John Devine, the Fa., of Towamla. Bradford county,toe enc died in 1014. Devine left fortune to his widow. forest queen |