TtPATt UCHTWO-PH SMI BnnrlNi 5.B8 a.m.—suriBeti 6.35 pirn',' Lighting-up time 7.05 p.m. Rule of the Road KEEP LEFT—PASS ON THE BIGHT INCORPORATINO THE ROYAL GAZETTE (E_tabLi-hed 1828) and THE BERMUDA COLONIST (Established 1866) VOL. 19—NO. 218 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER IO, 1934 SD PER COPY—40/- PER ANMI.M 251 DIE IN BLAZING SHIP OFF NEW JERSEY I COAST SHOWED GOODS FOR SALE "WE MUST BE READY FOR KING "INTERVENED" IN Bonds Worth Millions Lightning Hits Ship; Blaze Spreads so ON A SUNDAY ANY EVENT" MUSSOLINI SALE OF U. S. ARMS Go up in Smoke Fine of £10 on Shopkeeper in Duce Will Lead Italian Army Bizarre Charge Laid Before Quickly Sleeping Passengers Cannot into the Field U. S. Senate Committee Hamilton Police Court JOHANNESBURG, S . A . , Sept. 8.—Bonds once worth £5, Be Warned FARANTO, Italy, Sept. 8. (CP)— WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (CP)— 750,000 will be burned in the An interesting case was heard by "Our people must be ready for any Several bizarre charges were market place of Joannesburg, the Worshipful A. C. Smith in event" Signor Mussolini told 50,000 brought forward before the Senate the great gold mining centre Hamilton Police Court on Saturday Italians who packed the public Munitions Committee yesterday, of South Africa. "Monarch" Rescues 70 in Dying Condition After morning when Joseph Akinstall square here. He declared that he among them a statement that Tho bonds represent a loan (30), West Indian, was fined £10 would personally march at the women were used to promote inter­ raised over 30 years ago, Dash to Ward Liner's Aid; Bodies Washed or one month's imprisonment for head of the Italian people "if national armament sales and that just after the Bosr War, when selling, or offering for sale, goods we are called upon to take the King George of England had "inter­ Johannesburg, now a modern on Sunday, September 2nd, with­ field." vened" to hinder the sale of Ameri­ city with 200,000 white in­ Ashore Along the Coast out a Board of Trade license. Akin- The Duce then hurried off to can guns to Poland. habitants, was a dusty rick­ stall was represented by Mr. J. Rome to hold a conference with the These arms were to be sold by ety-built town. The bonds Cardie Mosse. generals and division commanders the Driggs Ordnance Company, were redeemed this year and NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (CP)—The most catastrophic marine disaster Sub-Inspector Pantry told the of the entire Italian Army. a U.S. firm, whose communications the city is now free of a his­ on this side of the Atlantic for years took place early this morning within Court tha the was walking along Meanwhile it was learned that from agents abroad were placed toric debt. a few miles of New York. The Ward Liner "Morro Castle"was burned out Reid Street and turned into Par­ troops and munitions were being on record before the committee. Thirty years ago the city at sea eight miles off the Jersey Coast and about 250 of the passengers and liament Street when he saw a well- sent to Italy's African colonies A cablegram from London in needed money for develop­ crew (mostly passengers), perished. A bolt of lightning is reported to have dressed coloured youth approach and Somaliland, to ensure their 1932 asserted that the King had ment. The banks offered struck an oil tank of the 11,520-ton liner. Fire broke out so quickly, two American tourists and ac­ proper defence in the event of a intervened in a prospective sale money on unfavourable survivors said, that there was little time to spread the alarm to sleeping company them up an aUey-way. major conflagration in Europe. the Driggs Company to Poland. terms. So the Mayor and passengers. The cable said that the King had Town Treasurer were sent TOURISTS LOOKING AT -oo- summoned the Polish Ambassa­ Most of those who escaped were put over her side when she was to England and they auda­ members of the crew, reports from ARTICLES dor for the purpose of inter­ ciously asked London finan­ within rowing distance of the MOSCOW FINDS WHOLESALE vention in the sale. Asked what different parts of the New Jersey stricken ship, and the survivors ciers for £6,000,000. They got coast indicate. ' 'They disappeared. Akinstall WEIGHT FRAUDS he made of that reference, Mr. it at 4 per cent. The security were picked up in these. has a jeweller's shop in Parlia­ Driggs, head of the firm, stated: The catastrophe occurred shortly The S.s. Andrea F. Luckenbach, which they offered was not after 3 a.m. EST. A brief wireless ment Street," continued the In­ It's the same sort of gesture one-tenth of that which of the Luckenbach Line, picked up spector. "The lead to the rear Giving Short Weight to be British royalty has been indulg­ message—"SOS SOS Morro Castle 22 survivors, according to a wire­ would probably be required afire 20 miles south of Scotland of the premises is underneath the ing in lately, such as sending for a loan of £1,000,000 today. less message from her captain to P.H. Club. "I went up the alley­ "Theft from Government" the Prince of Wales to South Lightship; fire near wireless room" the principals of the Line. way and through a hole in the wall, America. It is simply that the —was the only word to come from From Washington came a report MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (US)—Whole­ the blazing ship. about three and a half feet square British Royal family is interested —oo- that the Coastguard cutter "Tam­ The defendant was in the act of sale frauds upon the public, in­ in getting orders for British CAPTAIN HAD JUST DIED pa" had reported that she was drawing the blinds over the front volving more than half of Moscow's business." INTIMIDATION IN SAAR The ship's Captain Robert Wil- standing by the flaming "Morro windows of his shop, while the shops and co-operatives, have been MUST STOP mott, died only a few hours Castle" preparing to attempt to tourists were looking at some uncovered by scouts for the Moscow A letter from Herbert Allen, before lightning struck the ship. rescue a number of passengers articles in show cases." Soviet and the "light cavalry" of a Driggs agent, charged that the At the time of the tragedy the grouped on the forecastle deck. Sub-Inspector Pantry went on the Young Communists League. Vickers-Armstrong armament firm French Premier's Warning at "Morro Castle" was under the This was at 9.45 a.m. Later in the to say that he told Akinstall that The government has launched employed women to help get busi­ League Council Meeting command of the Chief Officer, morning orders were issued to he had warned him before, and he stern measures to stamp out the ness in Turkey. The Vickers peo­ Mr. W. F. Warns. Coastguard vessels to scour the sea replied, "I didn't sell them any­ scandal. ple, said Allen's communication, The "Morro Castle" was bound for 15 miles around the spot where GENEVA, Sept. 8 (CP).—M. Louis thing." Hereafter, giving short weight, "had almost the entire Embassy from Havana to New York, and was the "Morro Castle "was burned out, Bar thou, Premier of France, warned "I did not see him sell any­ using faulty scales, or the employ­ working for £hem and they used within a few hours of completing in an effort to find further sur­ the world in a solemn address be­ thing," said the Inspector, "and the ment of measures short of the women of doubtful character, fre­ an 8-day holiday tour of the Carb- vivors. fore the League of Nations Council tourists said they did not pur­ standard will be punishable as quently." bean. Fourteen honeymoon The "Monarch of Bermuda" today that intimidation of the chase anything." Akinstall let his theft from the government—with a couples-were on board, it is stated. brought 70 survivors of the "Morro term of,ten years' imprisonment. LONDON INDIGNANT population in the'Saar Valley in visitors out by the front door, but 'More than a hundred survivors Castle" to to Pier 55 this afternoon. when asked for his particulars, the The State Prosecutor has directed LONDON, Sept. 8. (CP)—The connection with the forthcoming She also brought in one body. a series ol "show trials" of those plebiscite must stop. landed at Sea Girt, N.J. Every accused slammed the door in the English newspapers were astonished available Coastguard boat was Many of those living, however, are Inspector's face. accused of swindling, to bring home and indignant today because the He said that "regrettable incid­ in a dying condition. to petty civil servants the enormity ents had occurred in the Saar yes­ rushed to the scene, but those Cross-examined, Inspector Pan­ name of King George was men­ landing here were brought ashore Of the total of 558 passengers and try said that although he did not see of selling perhaps five eights of a tioned at the United States Senate terday and tho day before." He crew of the "Morro Castle" 251 are kilo of sugar when a kilo is called gave no details but expressed the in the "Morro Castle's" own boats. the accused actually sell anything inquiry into the activities of mu­ At Spring Lake. N.J., one sur­ dead or not accounted for.