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Editors thanked the Providence which gave them a Morro Castle sensation when Strike news turned stale; a Hauptmann when the ship story petered out; and now a juicy murder just as the Hauptmann case seemed to head downhill. But they also should have offered a grateful word to Cinema. For it was the millions who had seen the film of An American Tragedy, not the thousands who had plugged through Dreiser's two-volume novel, that lifted the Wilkes-Barre story from a cheap, provincial homicide to a seven-day sensation...
Last month Captain Robert E. Carey of the Dollar liner President Cleveland was charged with adding to the death toll in the Morro Castle disaster by his delay and incompetence. Last week the two ship's officers who made the charge were removed from his command. Chances were they would be dismissed by the company, which exonerated Captain Carey on his past record...
...special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship." ...Fire control rooms exist on some of the very large liners but on the Morro Castle and like boats, fire apparatus is installed on the bridge.... It is possible to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to the inaccessible cargo and like spaces. It is not permitted by law, at the present time, to pipe any fire-extinguishing gas into passenger quarters.... The only method of fighting the fire...
...Captain Warms told Assistant Director Dickerson N. Hoover that the Morro Castle's automatic fire alarm system had failed to work. " This statement was not made. During the testimony of Captain Warms on Monday, Sept 10, Mr. Crone asked Captain Warms if the automatic alarm registered. Captain Warms answered that it registered when flames existed on A deck. Mr. Crone asked whether fire was in the staterooms at that time and Captain Warms replied: "Yes, in staterooms on A deck, port side...
...aware of the fact that the Morro Castle tragedy made heroes of a handful of Coast Guardsmen down the Jersey shore because it has not reached the newspapers. I visited the Shark River Coast Guard Station and had the honor ot meeting Chief Boatswain's Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately...