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No. 14309

=0 Y=+AM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,

1934. 日四初月八

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DUNLOP Fort

In a class by itself

DUNLOP

FORT

GRAVE REFLECTIONS ON MORRO CASTLE CREW

Windsor Lad, winner of the Darly and regarded as a virtual certainty in the St. Leger to-day.

BOMB OUTRAGE IN FOOCHOW

ALLEGED WORK OF FORMOSANS

SIX WOUNDED

Shanghai, Sept. 11. According to messages from Foochow, a serious incident, în- volving a number of Formosans, occurred - last night' 'apparently ak a sequel of vigorous action by the local authorities in dealing with illegal gambling dens, must by kept of which were Formosans.

It is alleged that several Furma kins, concealing theinselves in a building at Kiangtai Road, threw three bombs at n squad of Chinese gendarmerie patrolling the street with the result that two gendarmes were wounded and four passers-by slightly wounded, Prior to this outrage, other three Formosans were alleged to hase thrown bomba which failed to explode at the Wen-Mao Temple. When notified of this affair, local Japanese consular 11- thorities co-operated with the Chinese police in effecting the arrest of five Formosans suspected of being involved.--Central News.

SUN

FO RETURNS FROM HAWAII

PLANS FOR · FIFTH CONGRESS

Shanghai, Sept. 12.

Mr. Sun Fo arrived from Hawaii this moving aboard the Empresa of Japan and was met by a large crowd.

He is leaving for Nanking to. morrow evening.

In an interview, he declared that the Fifth Congress is not being postponed despite the op- position of the South-West, but before it is convened there will

be a plenary session of the Cen-

tral Executive Committee of the Party in Nanking to discuss the agenda.-Reuter.

DOCTOR WITNESS

ACCUSES

PASSENGERS LEFT TO HELP THEMSELVES

SHARP QUESTIONS BY CHAIRMAN

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH”) `

(By Telegraph. Copyright Telegraphic Messages Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept. 12, 9.44, 0m)

NEW YORK, SEPT. 11. REMARKABLE EVIDENCE AND POINTED QUESTIONS REFLECTING GRAVELY UPON THE BEHAVIOUR OF OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE MORRO CASTLE IN SATURDAY MORNING'S TRAGIC FIRE DISASTER, WERE FORTHCOMING AT THE RESUMPTION OF THE PUBLIC ENQUIRY INTO THE EVENTS ABOARD THE ILL-FATED SHIP.

One of the passengers, giving testimony on oath, declared that no alarm was given to the passengers and that the crew made no attempt to help them,

WOOD SURPRISED

BY ALLISON

Perry Strains Ankle But Wins Easily

Now York, Sept. 11. F.-J. Perry and W. Allison will contest the American tennis to- singles championship final morrow. Allison to-day sensa- tionally defented Sydney Wood in straight sets, while Perry elimin- ated Kirby after straining his ankle in the second set, which he lost. Details and descriptions of the play will be found in the Sporis Pages,

BOY GOLF PRODIGIES

NEW SENSATION IN AMERICA.

GOODMAN BEATEN BY LAD OF 16

Brookline, Sept. 11. One schoolboy serisation of the American amateur open golf championship end- ed his career of conquest to- day and another, even younger, rose to assume his

The preponderance of members of the crew in the boats that put away from the blazing ship was the focus-point of cross-examination by the Federal In-place as prodigy with an vestigating Board.

ENGINEERS AND THE BOATS

One of the principal witnesses, remainder being members of the to-day was Mr. Abbott, the chief crew. engineer of the Morro Castle, who

senger

even more brilliant perform

ance......

· ·The how "stor" is Bobby Jacob- son of Deal, New Jersey, who is only sixteen years of age.

He defonted Johnny Goodman, one of the most famous of Ameri Dr. G. M. Phelps, the first pas-can amateur golfers and winners survivor to be called, of the U. S, Open in 1933. Tho เเห่ one-of-thirty-two-persons alleged that the crew left the boy golfer and the ex-champion. picked up in the No. 1 lifeboat. passengers to look after themselves. stood all square at the end of He declared that no general alarm eighteen holes, and Jacobsen won

the nineteenth. was sounded and that no attempt

Abbott told the chairman of the

enquiry board that he took the No.

Rhode Island in bóginning to get keyed up for the America's Cup races which are scheduled to begin on Saturday, with Rain- bow as the defender. Photo shows Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith's Endeavour, the challenger being towed up Narragansett Bay, After breaking «l'Atlantic crossing records by yachts.

N.R.A. CHANGES

CHAPTER TE BERTRONIKnut ze dat men

SOUTH WALES COAL STRIKE THREAT

KEY-HOLE SHOT INCIDENT

JAPANESE ARRESTED

IN KOWLOON

ALLEGED ATTACK

ON WIFE

Goro Nomura, aged 50, Japanese, is in police custody on

ja charge of attempting to shoot his wife with a shot-gun at about one o'clock this morning.

The couple had been living apart. In the early hours of this morning, Nomura left his home at Kowloon and went to the top floor of 87, Jaffee Rond, where his wife was living with a number of other Japanese residents.

Catching sight of his wife through a peep-hole. In the door,. Nomura la alleged to have insert- ed the barrel of the gun through It and to have fired. The bullet, however, went wide of the alleged- ly intended mark,

After Brlug the gun. Nomura Bed into the street, and pursued closely following a hue and-cry raided by the inmates,

As he ran along a vacant plot, the fugitive is said to have dis carded the shot-gun. A little later he was stopped by a district watchman and taken back to the house, where inquiries resulted in

the his being handed over. to police:

The man, alleged to have been in a highly intoxicated state, was then taken to the Government Civil Hospital, and a police chargo awaits him on his discharge.from hospital.

The Maine

1 lifebout on the orders of the lifebonts to place passengers in Mich.. the eighteen-year-old who GENERAL JOHNSON Owners Now Agree To Lesson

captain.

TWO PASSENGERS.

He was closely questioned on this point by the chairman, Mr. Dicker-

New Hoover, and admitted that of the thirty-two persons in the boat only two were passengers.

When he left the Morro Castle no visible.

deck of the passenger was

Mr. Hoover: And you did not make any attempt to find them?

Mr. Abbott: I don't know about that. I was ordered to take off the boat,

HEARD SCREAMING.

The next witness, an assistant engineer named Stamper, who was

was

He niso alleged that no attempt was made to supply the passengers with life-belts-Renter Spacial.

CREW "ARREST"

ORDERS

SENSATION AFTER

HEARING

TO BE KEPT IN

NEW YORK'

Bobby Jones, Birmingham,

yesterday eliminated Francis Ouimet, could not produce the some form to-day and went down by four and three to C. Mitchell, of Clementon, New Jersey,

The former British Walker Cup

captain, T. Torrance, passed n stage further by beating Philip | Little of Minneapolis by two and one.--Router,

THE CONGRESS PRANCERS

DEMAND COMPLETE

AGREES

SIMPLIFICATION

PROGRAMME :

New York; Sept. 11. The pressure of public opinion demanding modi- fication of the National Re- covery Administration has produced assurances of early changes, although the collec- tive bargaining regulations will be retained. ·.

INDEPENDENCE. New York, Sept. 11.

It is learned that the principles in the boat with the chief engineer, A sensation was furnished

Bombay, Sept. 11, governing the proposed. immediate corporated the evidence given by shortly after the radio officer of

At the conclusion of a three-day reorganisation and simplification Abbott, declaring that no passenger the Marro Castle had given session of the Indian Congress of the N.R.A, system have bec

visible on deck when he jumped evidenco before the Federal

Working Committee at Wardha, in agreed upon after a discussion-be- overboard.

Investigating Board when it was central Provinces a resolution tween President Roosevelt and admitted when questioned reported that he was practically was passed re-affirming the aim of General Hugh Johnson, the N.R.A. that he heard passengers screaming. under arrest.

Congress ha complete independ. Administrator. assistant engineer, The first

It appears that a "body attach-

N.R.A. will be placed upon tho Bajla, told how he gut into a boat ment" order, which is tantamount "The resolution" added that Cop-same basis as the Federal Govern- in which there were twenty other to arrest was served upon both the gress. would glady cultivate meat and will be divided into three persons, only one of whom, as far radio officer and the second officer friendship with Britain, but must separate branches. Executive, as he knew, was a passenger, the at the completion of two and & strain every nerve to end the Judicin1 and Legislativo..

half hours testimony before present humiliating connection.-- General Johnson will continue Federal Grand Jury,

Reuter Later.

PEAK PARTY SEQUEL

PROMINENT RESIDENTS SUMMONED

opened at

ON COMPLAINTS

ment.

-'

The development is now shown

ence.

to be less serious than at first THE LURE OF THE

appeared.

1

CINEMA

ns the head of the Executive branch-Router.

AMERICAN MARINE

INJURED

FALL FROM WINDOW AT WANGHAI

Arbitration

London, Sept. 11.

It is now generally be lieved that the threatened strike in the South Wales' coalfields will be averted, the owners having expressed willingness to refer matters in dispute to an arbitration board of three or more entirely independent per- sons to be selected by ten officials

'named or by: any organised professional. organisation such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants. British Wireless.

ENTERED

RHODE ISLAND « MILL RIOT

THREE STRIKERS SHOT DOWN

·MOB ATTACK-

SEVERE SHOCK FOR REPUBLICANS

(Sperlar to "Telegraph")

By Tegraph. Copyright. Telegraphie ščami Den Ordinance, 1874, Neovised Septembar 11. 7.93 01 Ž

Washington, Sept. 11. Supporters of the New Deal are elated by the re- election of Mr. Louis J. Brann as Governor in the Maine election, against the most vigorous Republican campaigning.

Equally encouraging was the retention of two out of three of

faine's Democratie Congressional

Re-

seats, lus the slim margin by which Senator Hale, the publican incumbent, retained his Boat

tho against

Democratic sominee, as compared with the 80,000 majority by which Hale to the Senate In Wan returned 1028,

The Maine returns, dne of the koy States, have severely folted Republican hopes that in the November Elections they will in- New York, Sept. 11. crease their membership in the Another serious outbreak House of Representatives by from

fifty to seventy-fivo senta. of violence in connection The South Carolina primaries with the nationwide textile are scheduled for to-morrow. at Saylesville, Rhode Island, strike resulted in shooting United Press

to-day.

NY. SILK MARKET MONOPOLY

Besides the orders Indicated. elvil warrants have been served on the rat' officer and other mem- bers of the crow, for the purpose A case which promises to guilty and asked for an adjourn of ensuring their appearance be

¡OVER *£10,000,000 FOR fore the Federal Grand Jury,

ADMISSIONS attract considerable public

Mr. Hamilton said he presumed following complaint that the attention was preliminarily there were a number of complain-Ward Line, owners of the ill-fated

London, Sept. 11. Figures relating to the cine- An American marino, named Two men and a woman were Central ants and Mr. King ropiled that he Morro Castle, were signing on the

was one of them. He also said some of the Morre Castle's crewmatograph business in Britain, Cole, was picked up by the police, shot down during the riot, Magistracy this morning that the nolso began at 9.15. p.m. aboard another of their bouts duelven at the British Association rather seriously injured, in the The disturbance developed Aberdeen to-day, backyard of No. 60 Lockhart Road seriously when a large crowd of revealed that the public paid last night, having apparently strikers who had assembled out-

admission £40,200,000 for G. W. Sewell, H. C. Meeke and never have been brought if the

REJECTED to fallen from a window,

sido one of the local. milla, atj the Britlah cinemas last year,

Cole, who had come ashore from tempted to rush the premises, A. L. Sullivan, well-known local defendants had paid regard to two

TYPHOON WARNING

New sportsmen, were summoned for police warnings, one on the might|

entertainment tax revente amount the U. 3. S. Sacramento, was con- The Manila Observatory, re-ing to £0,700,000. committing a nuisance at 286 The in question and one on a previous porting at 8 o'clock this morning,

•Membersofi veyed to the Government Civil They carried the main gate by Peak at 12.45 s.m, on August 31 by occasion,

Of 476 imported films register- Hospital:

storm and demolished the watch the commodity, Mr. Evans asked that the names sintes, that the typhoon is situsto ed for distribution in Britain dur- making or permitting a noise cal-

man's house, but were prevented defeated from causing, further damage, in the culated to disturb or interfere with of the complainants be made in about 125 Long, and 18 Lating this year, remittances to the known in court, but Mr. King sald moving W.N.W. This places the United States in respect of 330 of

Two thousand police are now fermitted

before Mr. Hamilton.

and continued until 1.15 a.m. nt to sail from New York to-day-meetihe at varying intervals. The case would Reuter

An orchestra drawn from the Band

1st Bn.

PROPOSED EXTENSION

public tranquillity. ·

Deputy-1.G.P., he was not prepared to indicate disturbance about 660 miles them, representing 20 to 95 por of the B, Lincolnshire Roginant guarding the mill and two hun blo

appeared for defendants,

srid men of the National Guard jne.Ti from Providence, Rilmesi

The hearing was adjourned until Luzon. Ita presont course is in parta, amounted to £5,800,000TM | day in all of Garrison charities., Ras pag Mr. Evans onterad a plea of not 2.30 p.m. on September 21.

the direction of Hongkong..

British Wireless.

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