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Even less factual was the next two days' testimony from Mr. Mitchell. He declared that the Morro Castle before its fatal voyage had virtually no inspection from the Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection. But he was unable to prove it. He "understood" that inspection officials made a practice of accepting "gratuities," narrowed the charge down to five inspectors in San Juan, Puerto Rico who had taken $560, failed to give their names, then admitted that the Department of Justice had investigated the case and dismissed it for lack of evidence. Most damaging charge Mr. Mitchell brought...
...from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft abound" in the Commerce Department, that "serious derelictions" and "scandalous abuses" in the Steamboat Inspection Service led to such disasters as the burning of the Morro Castle. To prove his pure intentions President Roosevelt had to tell his Attorney General to investigate these charges against his Secretary of Commerce...
Last week the Morro Castle, having finally been dragged off the New Jersey beach where she grounded in flames seven months ago, was sold for scrap to Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore. Price: $33,605. Abandoned by her owners and underwriters, condemned by the Navy as unfit for further use, the $5,000,000 Ward liner had been taken over by the Army as a menace to navigation, sold to the highest bidder...
...handy explanation for inexplicable disaster is sabotage. It was charged but never proved in the Morro Castle, Havana and Mohawk shipwrecks.† Three years ago it caused a Congressional inquiry into the U. S. S. Akron's construction. Last week the cry was raised twice more...
...Dismissing the sabotage theory, the U. S. Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection last week blamed the Morro Castle disaster on negligence, the Mohawk sinking on broken steering gear and consequent misunderstanding of bridge signals...