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THE SUN 8.30 A.M. WEATHER FORECAST Rain today and tonight, probably clearing tomorrow; not much change in temperature; increasing northeast or east winds. Temperatures yesterday: 74; 67. (Detailt on Pagt 19) Btciitered United StitM Pttent Offtn BALTBIORE, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1931 n.tter at Baltimore Foitoffic Tnt A.

8. A bell Company tVol. 195-G PAID CIRCULATION AUGUST 272,103 SUNDAY 182,573 IN DIE FIRE Liner Burns OffN. J. Bodies Float Ashore 20 Pages 2 Cents To Safety On Rafts And 558 ON MORRO CASTLE Liberty League To Change, AS LIGHTNING HITS ITS OIL TANK DURING STORM But Government Under Which Country Has Pros-pered Must Not Be Sacrificed, He Says In Explanation Of Group's Tenets Exhausted Survivors Drift IBy the Associated Press LifeboatsRescue Efforts Hampered By Wind And Rain CRAFT'S CAPTAIN STRICKEN FATALLY PRIOR TO TRAGEDY Sleeping Passengers Given But Little Time To Late News Pratt St.

Feed Store Destroyed By Fire; Five Alarms Sounded Fire shortly after 6 o'clock this morning badly damaged the four-story building of P. Frederick Obrecht Son, wholesale feed merchants, at 423 and 425 West Pratt street. About a dozen persons, among them a number of children, asleep in two adjoining buildings, were awakened and assisted out by police and firemen. While the fire seemed to be centered on the third and fourth floors, the entire building was flooded with water. About 6.45 A.

M. the flames leaped from the roof and an elevator penthouse, causing a fifth alarm to be sounded by Chief Howard Travers. Four men asleep in the adjoining building at 427 West Pratt street, and two families at 429, were awakened by the police and assisted to the street. Joseph Paulonis, his wife, Wera, and two children, Margie, 8, and Frances, 7, were among those assisted out of 429. PETITIONS FILED FOR MRS.

PINCHOT Ask Name Be Placed On Ballot As Independent Gubernatorial Candidate IBy the Associated Press Harrisburg, Sept 7 Petitions were filed in the State Elections Bureau at 9 P. M. (E.S.T.) tonight to place the name of Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot on the ballot as an Independent candidate for Governor to succeed her husband, Gifford Pinchot. The papes were received at the elections bureau just two hours before the bureau closed on the final day for filing petitions.

September 17 is the last day to withdraw from the campaign. Withholds Statement Earlier today the Governor's wife said she would make a statement during the day concerning her candidacy, but at nightfall she decided to withhold for a "day or so" any statement as to her political intentions. Petitions have been in circulation for her for several days. Hundreds of them were passed among striking textile workers. Talk of Mrs.

Pinchot as a possible candidate for the office her husband will relinquish January 15 has been heard since last winter. Mrs. Pinchot will oppose William A. Schnader, Attorney-General, Re publican, and George H. Earle, former Minister to Austria, Democrat.

The papers bore the signatures of six preemptors of the independent party name. Entered Mcond-elwu' Copyright, 1034, bj COURTS BALK DICTATORSHIP AIMS OF LONG U. State Judges O. K. Injunctions And Deprive Huey Of Polls Control NEW KINGFISII COUP UPSET BY RULINGS 2,000 More Troops Invade New Orleans To Oversee Tuesday's Primary By the Associated Press New Orleans, Sept.

7 State and Federal courts today overruled the dictatorship which Senator Huey P. Long assumed at noon when he brought into town 2,000 more National Guardsmen for next Tuesday's pri mary election. The Louisiana Supreme Court, by vote of four to one, denied writs filed by the Long faction seeking to suspend temporary orders issued yesterday by Judge Michel Provost, of Civil District Court, prohibiting the naming of extra election commissioners and special officers by the Parish Board of Elec tion Supervisors. Richard Leche, secretary to Gov. O.

K. Allen, Senator Long's political ally, is chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and authority to name the extra officers was given the ad ministration at the recent Long-con trolled legislative session. Injunction Granted Judge Wayne G. Borah in Federal District Court granted a preliminary injunction restraining Richard J. Gregory, city registrar of voters and an Allen appointee, from scratching any names from the registration list prepared for the election.

Two voters who applied for the in junction alleged that Long, Allen, Gregory and Adj. -Gen. Raymond H. (Continued on Page 14, Column 7) Passengers Who Sailed On 7-Day Cruise New York, Saturday, Sept. 8 (IP) The Morro Castle, afire early today off Scotland Light, near Sandy Hook, left New York September 1 for a seven-day cruise to Havana, and was due to dock on the return trip at 8 o'clock this morning.

One hundred members of the Concordia Singing Society were aboard the liner when it sailed and are presumed to have been aboard on the return trip. Among passengers who sailed aboard the Morro Castle September 1 were: From New York-Mr. F. B. Meley, Mr.

and Mrs. T. H. Asc-hoff, Miss E. Friend, Miss Eleanor Brennon, Mr.

H. B. McCawley, Mr. F. E.

Wheeler, Mr. Frederick Marshall, Miss C. M. Cochrane, Dr. Chas.

Cochrane, Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Vosseler, and Mr.

Oscar Loret De Mola, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Azcarraga, Mr.

and Mrs. Manuel Garcia Vcdal, Mr. Rafael Rios and others. Brooklyn, N. Y.

Misses Bertha and Sally Werner, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Brinkman, Mr. Chas. O'Connor, Mr.

James Bute, Misses B. Perlman, B. Weinrub, E. Cheslcr and Mr. George A.

English. Philadelphia Miss Carolyn Casey, Miss Anne Conroy, Miss Jane Adams, Miss E. Henrichs, Misses Agnes M. and Ruth Prince, Miss Rose Biren, Miss Alma Hill, Dr, and Mrs. E.

M. Weinberger, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Drummond, Miss Emily C. Beck, Mr. Francis T.

Nass and others. Elizabeth, N. J. Miss Marjorle Budlong, Mr. and Mrs.

Herbert Wacker, Miss Doris Wacker, Mr, and Mrs. Stephen Bodner, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McArthur. Providence, R.

I. Miss L. Tau bert, Miss F. LaRoche, Miss F. Roberts.

SHIP Unopposed Shouse Asserts cism that the new organization overemphasizes property rights. President Roosevelt was among such critics, but the answer was not directly to him. Mr. Shouse did quote the President's inaugural statement, however, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "None can deny that there has been a real improvement during the last eighteen months," the league leader then said. "On the other hand, it is obvious to every observer that our people today are filled with apprehension." Would Boost Confidence The effort "to help re-create confidence" thereupon was pledged.

Telegrams and letters of support were reported arriving "by the thousands," with many including cash donations. The number of $1 and $2 contributions was said to indicate response reaching "far down into the mass of American people." Suggestions that the movement "is the beginning of a new political party" again were repudiated. This was in reference to comment that the (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) MYERS SAYS COED DIED IN HIS ARMS Defendant Tells Court How He Tried Artificial Respiration On Girl IBy the Associated Press Norman, Sept. 7 Neal Myers, 21-year-old University of Oklahoma junior, testified on cross-examination at his murder trial today that Marian Mills died in his arms, but denied he killed the campus beauty queen in an effort to avert motherhood. Telling of his efforts to revive his 19-year-old sweetheart when she became unconscious after taking medicine in the apartment of Hazel Brown, fraternity cook and student confidante, Myers said: "I felt dizzy and sweating all over.

I told Mrs. Brown to call a doctor. She told me to get out of the country. "Good A Dead" "Mrs. Brown said, 'She is as good as "Finally she told me to take the girl out of there and prop her up in the car, that it wasn't her funeral.

"I went back and tried artificial respiration. I saw Marian's face was getting blue. "She wasn't breathing at all." Doctor On Way Then, Myers said, the telephone rang and the operator told him she had reached a physician, as Myers had asked her earlier to try to do and that he would be "out right away." "Everything went black," the defendant continued. "I don't know which way I went." It was then, he said, that he fled and wandered aimlessly over the country for three weeks before giving himself up. Ben Williams, special prosecutor, asked Myers on cross-examination: "You know she died in your arms?" "Yes, sir," Myers replied.

Myers Sobs Violently Myers reiterated that he loved the girl, asked her repeatedly to marry him and that he had opposed the attempt to prevent maternity. As he left the witness stand he slumped over a counsel table and sobbed violently. Myers' testimony, with that of seven character witnesses, closed the evl dence in the trial, and District Judge Tom Pace instructed the jury after denying a defense motion for an In structed verdict of acquittal. Under the charge to the jury, one of three verdicts the death penalty, life Imprisonment, or freedom is pos sible. Judge Pace denied a State mo tion for an instruction on manslaugh ter, which provides a penitentiary son tence of four years to life.

"You are further instructed," the judge told the jury of twelve farmers, "that Hazel Brown as a matter of law is an accomplice, and conviction can not be had on the uncorroborated evi dence of an accomplice The judge also said that aiding or abetting in an abortion has the same force In law as the actual commission of an abortion and said that "words GITY HERALDS BALE Streets' Cellars Flooded And Lightning Plays Queer Tricks HURRICANE MOVING UP COAST MENACES Power Experts Puzzled By Buildings Being Electrically Charged A torrential downpour descended on Baltimore about 9 o'clock last night, flooding streets and cellars and over flowing sewers. It was the vanguard 1 ef a hurricane, reported off the Caro-linas. Highlights of the storm included: Several automobiles parked on Mc-Elderry street near Lakewood avenue were, washed three-fourths of a block down McElderry street by the force of the water. An unidentified man, leaving a house in the 2500 block McElderry street, was swept off his feet also by water. As much as five feet of water was reported in the 500 and 1500 blocks of Broadway.

Two old buildings at 113 and 115 South Charles street were charged with electricity in some unex-' plained manner and were roped off by police to keep passers-by away as Gas and Electric Company experts puzzled over the problem. The cellars and first floors of several houses in the 2500 block Aisquith street were reported flooded. An underpass at Sinclair Lane and Belair road was completely blocked with water and was impassable. Water was more than foot deep on Charles, St. Paul and Calvert streets in the vicinity of North avenue, Twentieth and Thirty-first streets.

A two-foot strip of asphalt paving on Madison street, near Ensor, was pushed several inches upward as the street buckled. Jones Falls, where it empties into the Patapsco river, was up two feet, according to Patrolman E. V. Travers, in command of the police boat George D. Henry.

Inch And Half Falls Nearly an inch and a half of rain fell Wween 9 and 10 o'clock at the Weather Bureau at the Customs House, but the rainfall in other sections of the city was reported to be much heavier. The storm was reported to be the fringe of the hurricane moving slowly northward and which, unless diverted, will reach Baltimore tonight or tomorrow morning. Automobiles all over the city were Hailed as the sharp downpour flooded carburetors and short-circuited ignition. The storm's strangest freak was the electrically charged buildings at 113 nd 115 South Charles street. The condition was discovered at 7 o'clock by a Negro employe who grasped the metal handle of a door of the David Kauf man's Sons warehouse.

Buildings Roped Off He received a shock and f.ed, leaving the door unlocked. Police were called and they roped off the Kaufman building and the adjoining one, occupied by R. S. Jackson to prevent passers-by from being (hocked. A wooden rain-soaked barrel and fen iron fence running along the front of both buildings were charged with electricity.

Experts of the Gas and Electric Com pany were called into consultation, but even after several hours of experiments In which they tested the street car tracks and the trolley wires in front of the building were unable to explain the condition. John Champness, of the 400 block North Maderia street, said that he saw "ball of fire" about as large as a baseball appear out of nowhere, roll along a ledge above the doors to the building, roll down a ralnspout and bounce toward the gutter, where It disappeared. Several others were said to have seen the same thing. This, too, unexplained last night. A large section of the brick wall of vacant store In the 300 block West Jlead street, apparently loosened by en Pag 7, Column t) DOWNPOUR CALLS U.S.

NAVY 'SAMPLE CASE' FOR GUN FIRMS Senate Committee Hears How Cruiser Was Sent To Turkey To Aid Sale ENGLISH KING SEEN AS ROYAL SALESMAN Driggs Says Ruler Tried To Get Polish Business For British Interests By DEWEY M.EMING Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington, Sept. 7 George King of England, and James H. Strong, a former lieutenant-commander in the United States Navy, were today's cynosures in the Senate investigation of world traffic in instruments of war, King George, the committee was told, tried in 1932 to turn Polish customers for guns to a British manufacturer instead of its American com petitor. Devised Colombian Defense Mr. Strong, according to the testi mony, worked with an American gun manufacturer in 1932 in the drawing up of elaborate plans for the defense of Colombian ports against possible Peruvian attacks.

The evidence was that he was "loaned" to the Colom bian Government for this task by the Navy Department, which only a few years previously had sent a naval mission to advise Peruvians how to build up their sea forces. Strong, it was testified, turned the Colombian business to American manufacturers, just as an American firm had obtained the Peruvian order fol lowing the activities of the naval mis sion. Cruiser Sent To Constantinople Between times the committee also was told how the United States Navy sent a cruiser to Constantinople in 1929 for the purpose of demonstrating to the Turks the advantages of a certain gun of American manufacture in which they were interested at the time. The Turkish incident, the Colombian affair, and the previous testimony about the navy's activities in Peru, were lumped by the investigating committee as "the perfect example" of use of the United States Navy as "a sample case" for private American manufacturers of war implements. Testimony of the day did not dis close nor did it indicate "that Strong received any direct compensation from the American firms which benefitted from his activities in South America, but evidence was offered late in the day to show that a member of one of the American firms handled a small stock account for him with a New York broker.

The English King was drawn into the picture while the committee was ex amining L. L. Driggs, managing direc- (Continued on Page. 2, Column 2) To Quit Spotlight Urging Rumanian King Copyright, 1934 marital snarls that enveloped Carol and Helen ten years ago when the Crown Prince first caught sight of Mme. Lupescu.

Likewise in the background of the reported efforts to renew relations between Carol and Helen, it was said, was the recent engagement of Prince George of England to Princess Marina of Greece. King George and Queen Mary, it was contended, will be anxious to invite all Europe's crowned heads to the state ceremony in Westminster Abbey this winter that will unite George and Marina. Should Queen Marie with the help of the British royal family prevail on Carol and Helen to go back together again, it was pointed out, an awkward meeting of the two in London might be avoided. A favorable omen for, success of the efforts to reunite the estranged royal couple was seen In the fact that Carol already has made peace with his brother, Prince Nicholas. Washington, Sept.

7 The American Liberty League tonight disclosed the basic tenets upon which it will campaign for nation-wide support of its examination of the New Deal. 1 These are: Human rights and property rights are practically inseparable, but to the extent that separation is possible human rights should be paramount. It is a Government obligation to aid men and women who are in distress because of unemployment through no fault of their own. The league will do all it can to help re-create confidence. Without confidence capital will not be invested.

Without capital industry cannot go ahead. Without industry there cannot be jobs. We do not oppose change, but would not sacrifice the form of government under which our country has grown strong and prosperous. There have been abuses. They must not be allowed to recur.

There have been inequities. They must be righted Answers Criticism President Jouett Shouse went into this added detail in an address to the nation by way of contradicting criti ROOSEVELT DOUBTS PRICE FIXING LEGAL Feels It Questionable As Run ning Afoul Of Anti-Trust Laws By the Associated Press Hyde Park, N. Sept. 7-President Roosevelt feels price fixing is questionable as running afoul of the antitrust laws, it was brought out today at his regular press conference. He said he regards the principles of collective bargaining for labor and abolition of child labor definite parts of the permanent NRA which he is studying for submission to the next Congress.

Mr. Roosevelt disclosed he was giving daily thought to the future of the NRA and expected it to evolve by a step-by-step stage of experimentation. Sees Johnson Monday He will confer next Monday or Tues day with Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Industrial Administrator, on the administrative machinery which he hopes to set up to carry on until a permanent formula is provided by Congress.

Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that simplification is the constant objective and that all phases of the effor. for supervisiorwof industry to aid recovery are receiving equal attention in the comprehensive study. Unworkable parts of NRA will go by the board. In the borderline of doubtful phases of NRA are the subjects of price fix ing, price posting, reports of surpluses and the like.

He did not disclose the temporary modification of the administrative ma chinery he has in mind, but it is re garded as certain he will agree with recommendations of Johnson and others for establishment of a board of control hereafter, rather than a one-man administration. Act Expiree Next June The emergency National Recovery Act expires next June. Mr. Roosevelt will propose a continuance of many features, not yet decided upon, possibly only for a year, as the relations between Government, industry and labor are studied day by day through a constant experimentation period. The President included among the topics of consideration in the board program minimum wages, interpreta tion of the Article 7a granting right of collective bargaining, exchange of views among industrialists, price fix ing, price posting and reports on surpluses.

All, he said, have equal value and must be taken into account in the picture he painted for the future. Sees Senator McAdoo Today he received Senator McAdoo Cal.) in a meeting regarded as giving consideration to the compli cated California political situation, but the strict silence of the summer White House on state conditions was maintained. Senator McAdoo left tonight for California, He had nothing to say. Senator McAdoo did call attention to the fact that all Democratic candidates are delegates to the State con- Escape 0 Signals Flashed Out, But Messages Come To Sudden Halt By the Associated Press Allenhurst, N. J.

(Saturday), Sept. 8 Bodies of some of those who perished in the fire on the steamship Morro Castle off shore early today were being washed up soon after daylight. Coastguards here said they had reports of numerous bodies found along the shore. The northeast storm and a heavy low-lying fog cut visibility to a minimum. Associated Press.

Copyright, 1034 Spring Lake, N. Sept. 8 The Ward liner Morro Castle burned at sea about eight miles off the Jersey coast early today. It is believed most of the 318 passengers and 240 crew members perished. A bolt of lightning struck an oil tank of the liner, and fire broke out so quickly, survivors said, that there was little time to spread the alarm to sleeping passengers.

So far as survivors who arrived here could see, only six life boats were able to leave the ship. Most of those who got away were members of the crew. SOS IS FLASHED OUT The catastrophe occurred shortly after 3 A. M. (E.

S.T.). A brief wireless "SOS, SOS Morro Castle afire twenty miles south of Scotland Light fire near wireless room" was all the word that came crackling through the thick night. The ship's captain," Robert Wilmot, died at sea only a few hours before the lightning struck. The ship at the time of the tragedy was under the command of the chief officer, W. F.

Warms. The first survivors were exhausted when they reached the shore and were unable to give clear accounts of the disaster. "PLENTY OF DISTRESS" "There are plenty in distress out there," one survivor said. He was unable to say whether there had been any deaths. One sailor who landed at Spring Lake said that all midships was ablaze when the fire alarm was sounded and it was impossible to go through the aisles to arouse passengers.

Sailors ran around the decks, smashing cabin windows, to awaken sleepers, he said. Six lifeboats were launched on his side of the ship, he said, but he knew nothing of what occurred on the other side of the vessel. STEAMERS RUSH TO RESCUE Coast Guard craft along the Jersey coast put out immediately in the rough sea for the scene. Liners in the vicinity turned about and raced to the place, marked by a ball of fire through the thick weather. The Andrea F.

Luckenbach, first to reach the spot, reported by wireless that she had picked up some survivors. The lifeboats landed here. Several of their occupants were hurried to hospitals. The nature of their injuries was not immediately determinable. The Morro Castle was returning from an eight-day cruise to Havana.

Among her passengers when she left Carol's Titian-Haired Girl Friend Held Ready Mmc. Lupescu Reported To Seek Reconciliation With Princess Helen, His Ex-Wife Growing Criticism Given As Reason Associated Press 7 Rumania's famed i Vienna, Sept. "red-headed woman" tonight was reported ready to retire from the spotlight. Diplomatic quarters here heard that Mme. Magda Lupescu, titian-halred beauty for whom Prince Carol 6nce forswore his throne, was urging Carol to seek reconciliation with Princess Helen, his former wife.

King Carol's friend, the reports said, recommended the reconciliation as the best way to silence growing criticism of Carol. AncliitPd Prog Editor's Note A group ot Rummilan Army officers recently was convicted of plotting fljalint the liven of Carol, members of his court and Mme. Lupescu. 1 All the one-time Junk dealer's daughter asks as the price of her with. drawal, the reports said here, is the right to reside quietly in Rumania as one of Carol's loyal subjects.

The diplomats here understood, too, that Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania was striving to untangle the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) on Page 14, Column 8).