The Daily Record from Long Branch, New Jersey • 1

Pictures of Burned Daily Long Branch CITY EDITION KECOM) THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change In PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 33-1-NUMBER 213. LONG BRANCH, N. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934. 12 PAGES em JiiiiM in WVUm innnn bh imsp mm mm 1 Fire-Scarred Ship Wallows in Few Feet of Water 77 Gasoline Blew Out Locker, Vessel Amidships Went Up in Puff, Warms Testifies Master of Morro Castle Bases Incendiarism Belief on Fact Attempt Was Made on Previous Voyage to Fire Ship; Declares Lightning Did Not Hit Craft Saturday; Says Engine Crew Forced to Leave Boat Without Power or Lights NEW YORK, Sept 10 UP) Qiief Officer William F.

Warms, master of the Morro Castle, told the government inquiry today he suspected the blaze was started by an in-cendiarist Warms said he based his belief on the fact that an incendiary attempt was made on the boat on its previous voyage. He also thought significant the fact that a blaze was discovered in the ship's locker, which "blew out" at the start of the fatal fire. I it When, speakm? about the Greyhound Racing Must Continue earlier fire, Warms said, "Someone set it." Inspector-General Dickerson N. Hoover of the steamboat inspectioti service asked, "How do youcnow?" "I found charrapaper on. a the cargo," he saia.

The company's formal report of that fire, produced the hearing, agreed with details of the chief offic' story. "I think somebody cut The Long Branch Daily Record believes that the Long Branch Kennel Club, is entitled to hold greyhound races under the parimutuel system because of the lease the track officials signed with the city of Long Branch, dated April 24, 1934, according to the first bill passed by the state legislature early this year. Vice Chancellor Egan has since seen fit to decree that racing Is not legal in the state of New Jersey, disregarding the fact that this emergency measure was created to aid those cities which owned municipal auditoriums and arenas, making them eligible to race until October, 1936, providing that the city governments of such municipal As if niirsuinff her victims, the fire-Carref Morro Castle, paratial ton steamer' ities Bhoud sign a lease for that privilege, including parimutuel betting. Long Branch, certainly, if there ever was any municipality that needed aid, 'is that one. The contract that the Long Branch Kennel Club made with the city has, in the first 30 days of racing, paid herself after scores of passengers "were drowned Tor burned and' their bodies floated ashore.

The Morro Castle was taken in tow Saturday in effort to get Her to New York, but he storm raging at that time was too much, and the tow boat released the ship after which she began drifting toward shore. As she approached the beach she was head on, and her bow almost rammed a bulkhead and a summer home on the beach. The bow grounded first, however, and the ship then swung around broadside with the teach, and. settled in the sand, pointing toward New York, and only 40 or 50 feet from Convention Hall, in which she would have-crashed-if the-storm had been a bit heavier. Yesterday attempts were made to pull her.

from the sand, but two trigs strained for hours without success. It was said it would be too dangetous to try blasting because of the nearness of Convention Hall. Experts today considered dredging sand from her starboard side and then trying to tow her off the beach. ana snouia racing De conunuea lor ine period expected this city snouia receive between $50,000 rne Long liennei jiud, Blast Sends Shower of Sparks, Smoke Billowing from Remains of Morro Castle TWO MORE BODIES ARE WASHED UP AT ASBURY Skull of Youth Is Found Aboard Vessel as Searchers Go Aboard During Day BULLETIN BALBOA, C. Sept.

10. (.) Several officers of the Grace liner Santa Rita, which made port today with a fire in her hold, declared after docking: that "The fire here and also that on the Morro Castle were the work of an international radical By JAMES P. NOLAN (Staff Correspondent) ASBURY PARK, Sept 10 Misfortune, which followed the wake of the ill-starred Morro Castle, continued to plague her today as she lay, a helpless, wallowing, fire-seared wreck on the Asbury Park beach-front, a few yards from the resort's famed Convention Hall. Flung up on the beach by the elements late Saturday night, the hulk of the Ward Line's flagship was torn twice this morning by explosions of undetermined source. Two men, at least one of them believed to be a member of her crow, were washed up on the shore near Eighth Avenue, this morning.

Meanwhile' a. Naval Board of Inquiry was reportedly speeding toward this city from 'Washington to begin an investigation into the disaster. A revised list of the casualties in the sea tragedy today showed: Identified dead, 79. Missing passengers, 27. Missing crew, 31 Total 137.

The bodes of both men washed up here were taken to the Allen-hurst Coast Guard station to await identification. Meanwhile Asbury Park city officials fretted lest another storm break out within a day or so and send the charred, hulk crashing into the new Convention Hall. Such an occurrence would admittedly wreck the structure. Officials differed as to whether the wreck could be floated. One expert expressed the opinion that the sand would have to be pumped from beneath the vessel an extremely costly and time-taking method.

Capt William A. Hall, a staff captain of the line, after a visit to the ship, returned to sey the entire interior was gutted. He visited the captain's quarters but was unable to find any trace of the body of Capt Robert Wilmott who died aboard the ship before the tragedy struck. Meanwhile Representative William H. Sutphln, of the Third Congressional District wired to Dick-(Continued on Third Page) signed before the State Racing Commission went into office and there fore should be under the supervision Brancn, rather than the state body.

Under the first law, laid down for the people of the state of ew of the city of Long Branch, the by PROBE MONMOUTH Captain of Paramount, Who Picked Up Many Survivors, Young Couple Who Lived in Manasquan During Summer Recognize Skipper By DOROTHY DO RAN Death shrouded the Jersey shore Saturday morning as the Morro Castle stood like a flaming torch, within sight of early risers along our coast. One of the first to see the horror of it was rover Shoholm, night watchman at the' New Atlantic Hotel, Belmar. He is a former seaman, said: "I looked ou about 4 O'clock -and saw a ball of fire. First I thought it was the sun coming up but when smoke-clouds started circling the air -1 knew for certain a- ship was on fire." At this same hour, William, Em mons, night watchman at 'the Bel-mar pier, told how he had been startled by this ball of fire and stood watching it for five minutes. he said, "have I seen such a storm and darts of lightning across the sky.

After a while I spied airplanes winging overhead and circling around this red inferno. Then I knew something terrible had happened." Four more hours lapsed before the sleeping world realized that liner was burning at sea and on it were souls to be saved. Then crowds began milling toward Man-asiuan, sirens blowing, amba-lances hastllng and Are engines dashing through the streets. This tumult of activity started at As-bury Park. Since 5 o'clock, Harold Chaffey of Spring Lake and Bill Jackson, the latter a life guard at Villa Beach, had been combing the shore in hope of aiding rescue work.

spied a trio together," said Chaffey, "and plunged in the grabbing their life-preservers. Down the shore a bit was a woman we brought In and she wore beautiful diamond rings, a bracelet with precious stones and dia- TOMORROW Branch Kennel Club to this city and subsequently made a lease with them, which, if destroyed, means the loss of many thousands of dollars to the taxpayers of Long Branch as well as the less of thousands ot dollars in the track payroll, most of which is spent in Monmouth BEGINS something in that locker that burned and smouldered fire a long time," Warms testified. "It smoked, and we saw that smoke first, and then it burst into flames." Lounge In Flames "Any other place?" asked Hoover. "The only other place seemed to be the lounge." "Then," asked Hoover, "you base your belief that the fire was set on your previous experience and the fire in the locker?" "Yes sir." "Do you think lightning hit the shipr was not true." Warms then said he believed the -fire had been set by an incendiar-ist, basing his belief on the fact that charred paper had found on cargo in the hold after a blase ol the Just previous to tha last one; and on the further fact that a locker in the writing room "blew out" at the start of Saturdays fire. "I believe there was gasoline or kerosene in it" he said.

did you do about tha fire?" Nlelson asked. "Everything I could." (Continued on Third Page) County. Tells of Women's Bravery Is it fair that the political ambitions of. one man, who fought so hard to prevent racing in Long Branch, should now be successful in stopping racing in this city because of political promises he made to Atlantic City in return for the Democratic gubernatorial candidacy of the state of New PIER WATC HMAN SAYS Jersey? It seems not only a pity, hut an of the Ward Line, beached Fair Haven Man Steps Live Wire During Saturday Night Storm on (By Staff Correspondent) FAIR HAVEN, Sept 10. H.

El wood 69, former police chief of this borough, was electrocuted last Saturday night as he walked along the sidewalk, in an unusual accident directly traceable to the-torm of hurricane proportions which struck the shore section. Smith was instantly killed at 8 o'clock that evening when he stepped on a broken live wire, while walking on the south side of River Road, near Locust Avenue The wire had been nlown down by the heavy wind and rain storm a short time previously. Smith was walking with Michael Mulvihill of Church Street and neither man saw the wire until Smith stepped on it His companion narrowly escaped a similar fate when he attempted to pull Smith away from the death- dealing wire. Dr. C.

C. Perrlne of River Road was sent for, and the Red Bank First Aid Squad was notified. Members of the squad worked on Smith an. (Continued on Third Page) ELWOOD SM IS ELECTROCUTED speaking through the legislative branch of their government under the first racing law, to invite and entice others to make substantial investments in racing plants under the law signed at the time by Governor Moore and which he then thought con stitutional and then later, after these people had made their investments of thousands and thousands of dollars, to have these investments wiped out with a single stroke of the pen. While many have agreed that for been under the political domlnauon of the Democratic "Doss" or tne state, this newspaper now believes that the time has come for an awakening of the people and that when they have awakened from then on it will be impossible for anv political leader or "boss" of any party, through his influence and direction, to destroy and $60,000.

lease with tne city was of the whole of the city of Long the legislators who were speaking jersey, Monmouth County and those City Commission invited the Long injustice for the people of the state, not only citizens of New Jersey, but the past many years this state has investments, deprive the taxpayers of the present effort to violate the ParaoMut Theatre Now Showing Morro Castle disaster pictures. (Adv) 213 Notice! The Boat ride of the Monmouth County Firemen's Ass'n for tonight has been declared off. By order of the Committee. Chaa. K.

White, Chairman (Adv) 21S Win Is A Wooilty. Funeral Direc tor. TaL 122,. Private Ambulance (Adv) 207U sorely needed money and deprive municipalities of funds, wntch, for tne first time in many years, have enabled them to pay their policemen, firemen and school teachers. And not only this, but to throw out of employment suddenly and without consideration, persons who were dependent upon employment at the local racing plant the nighUy payroll of which, including purses, amounted to some $3,000, is a shame.

The first act as passed, could not be considered as any serious threat or blow to our Constitution for the reason that in its body it provided for the expiration of the law in October, 1936. It is n.w-.ruirw.r's belief that considerations other than constitutional objec Naughright Committee Calls Public Hearing in Assembly Chamber NEWARK. Sept. 10. (1P Josiah Stryker, counsel of the Naughright Legislative Committee charged with investigating alleged corruption of mihllr nfflrtfllii Announced tnriav that the committee will hold a pub lic hearing in the assembly chamber at Trenton tomorrow.

Stryker declined to state the names of witnesses who will appear before the committee but said the hearing will "relate to affairs io Monmouth Months ago, shortly after the Har-ley-McCutcheon- case broke open In Passaic Assemblyman Ther- on McCampbell of Monmouth charge ed corruption among Monmouth of ficials and, in the legislature, demanded the impeachment of Prosecutor Jonas Tumen. Denying the charges, Tumen challenged McCampbell to repeat them outside of legislative chambers. (The (Continued on Third t'age) TODAY'S DIVERSIONS Paramount: Harold Lloyd in "The Cat's Paw." Strand: Rlcordo Cortei in "Hat, Coat and Glove." RED BANK CARLTON? Wallace Beery In "Treasure Island." Strand: Leslie Howard In "The Lady la Willing." ASBURY PARK Paramount: Grace Moore in "On Night of Love." Mayfair: Claudette Colbert "Cleopatra." In HIGH TIDE TOD A I Sept 10 Sept. 11 Sept. 12 8:14 8:48 8:24 8:29 8 04 9.40 tions are the ones that have caused LB.

Alton Rhodes Declares Morro Castle Drift to Spring Back Lake A story that thei Morro Castle was steaming off tmore opposite this city when the lire which des troyed her first brole out and that she drifted back ti Spring Lake was told to a Dailj Record representative today who! interviewed Alton Rhodes. nighU watchman -on the Long Branch JLecreatl-jm Pier, in the employ ofltnlel Maher. Rhodes said hi was on the pier with alx or seven! other men who were fishinsr whe they first saw the reflection oc shore at about 3:15 o'clock, Saturday It appeared Just a little south of the plej- end, he said, and at first was a very faint red glow. It continued to move southward, he said and became brighter as it moved down the coast For two hours he said he could see the reflection and just before daybreak It appeared like a ball of fire on the ocean AS daylight broke the smolte obscured his view of the flames but a boat could still be seen tar off down the coast a black smudge on the southeast horison, A storm was raging during the hours he watched the blase, Rhodes said, and there were a few flashes of lightning early in the morning. Police Officer Fred Bruhl however contradicted Rhodes' story to some extent stating that be first saw the blazing ship shortly before o'clock in the morning and on his report to headquarters at that hourly ring, he made a report of "having sighted a ship apparently on Bre.

He pud ne naa Dees on the pier seral timet arj along the but aaw no reflection ff sea imUrshort3r before 5 o'clock and thrall was standi nr still far o5-4PfVouUieat probably south SHIP WiS OFF Wall Street rading at a Glance NEW YORK, Sept 10 CSV-Initial hesitation gave way to a mild upward trend in the early stock market dealings today. Volume was exceedingly small Fraction shares were fairly firm, while rails and industrials improved. Consolidated Gas was a bit easy but other utilities were steady. In-terboro and Brooklyn Manhattan Transits gained about a point each. Quotations ere unchanged to alighUy higher in S.

SmelUn, Scbenley Distillers, Chrysler, Union Pacific, Santa Fe, Westlnghouse, General Motors, U. S. Stael and American Telephone. Call money renewed at 1 per cent Paramount Theatre Now Showing Morro Castle disaster pictures. (Adv) 213 Children's Dancing Classes 3 to 18 years of age.

Special rata. Sept 8 to 18, 10 lesson $3. Export instructions, tap, toe, ballet acrobatic Open all winter, Howell a. Monmouth Road and Roosevelt Oakhurst (Main School. Brooklyn, New York.) (Adv) 210to211 213 John W.

Flock, Funeral Director. 11 202. PfCttte Ambulance service. Allenhurst Woman Killed; Hit by Local Girl's Car will of over one million residents or the state. Since the lease was made with the whole of the City Commission, it is up to the entire Commission to enforce the law and see that the Long Branch Kennel Club is permitted to conduct racing for the duration of the contract Any infringement on such a contract might be the basis of a law iuit of the Kennel Club against the city of Long Branch for breach of contract Tha city should defend the Long Branch Kennel Club any possible encounters with the Prosecutors' and Sheriffs' offices and should the Prosecutor or Sheriff proceed against the Kennel Club in spite of the lease the Club has with the city, they aoould be lodged in the city jail for disturbing the peace.

And this newspaper will Insist such action if the Long Branch Kennel Club is saoleated by these county officials. ALLENHURST, Sept 10. A 60-year-old woman, a resident of this borough, was run down and received injuries from which she died almost immediately by a car driven by a Long Branch girl at a local street intersection last evening. The victim was Mrs. Edna Raf-ferty of 236 Allen Avenue, this borough.

The elderly woman was crossing Norwood Avenue, only short distance from her home, when the car, driven by Miss Mil dred S. Wain wright of 311 Broa t-way. Long Branch, proceeding south on the same avenue, struck her. Witnesses said that the ve hicle passed completely over the body of the victim before the driver cduld stop it The woman, still alive, was placed In the borough ambulance and rushed to the Fitkin Hospital in Neptune, but the victim succumbed to her injuries before shs could be admitted to the institution. Miss Walnwrtght was placed under arrest by Officers Ernest Pyle and Fred Winterstella of the borough force, and taken before Recorder Joseph O'Hagen, who released her in S5.000 bail to face manslaughter charges this afternoon at Notice! The Boat' ride of the Monmouth County Firemen's Ass'n for tonight has been declared off.

By order of the Committee. Chan. N. White, Chairman (Adv) 213 Order Tour Scott's Stamp Catalog Now. U.

8. and foreign stamps, albums and supplies. We buy and eu stamp collections. Hill's Drug Store, Mattiaon A Bond. Asbury Park.

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