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...Orients left Morro Castle astern, the U. S. delegation of 25 experts, advisers and secretaries relaxed in the comparative comfort of a late afternoon sea breeze. Havana, where other delegations were packing their bags, prepared to resume its midsummer lethargy. Wiry old Cordell Hull, bone-tired but satisfied, relaxed too. If a piece of paper would keep the Americas free, he had the paper...
With Al Blozis, the Georgetown giant, the favorite in the discus throw, second place may well go to Al Morro, B. C. Sophomore. California's Barney Wolf and Penn's Ed Beetem are the other standouts in this field...
...days the ship plowed south and west. In glistening Havana Harbor on a sweltering Saturday the engines stopped. Across the water the refugees could see Morro Castle and the heat-softened outlines of Havana, where many of them had relatives among Havana's 25,000 Jews. Ninety miles to the north lay the U. S. But the ship did not dock. The launches that approached it were ordered back by harbor police. To the refugees the stretch of water between ship and shore was as wide as the 4,600 miles the St. Louis had crossed...
Hero's End. George White Rogers first got into the headlines in 1934 when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others. Having joined the Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that...
Reason: Although some hand-propelling method was ordered installed on all 60-passenger U. S. lifeboats except motor boats after the yeoman rescue work performed by the Monarch of Bermuda at the Morro Castle disaster in 1934, the Fleming boats until recently had not been approved because they have aluminum alloy non-sinkable bulkheads instead of steel. This year they were approved for installation on three liners being built for the Government-owned Panama Line...