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...your description of the Morro Castle catastrophe, Sept. 17, you state: "As usual in all great marine catastrophes, Lloyd's of London will have to pay the Ward Line some $3,000,000 in insurance while smaller underwriters who share the loss make up the balance...
Sirs: ...Statements concerning the fire protecting apparatus [on the T. E. L. Morro Castle-TIME, Sept. 17] have been made which are not correct...
Onto the stage of a Manhattan theatre walked gruff, chubby George White Rogers, chief radio operator of the T. E. L. Morro Castle, to greet an apathetic audience with: "You people have made a hero out of me. . . ." For his appearances "Sparks" Rogers expected to receive $1,000 a week...
...York--Additional revelations of dissention and suspicion among officers of the Morro Castle in the hours before she burned at sea Sept. 8 with a loss of 134 lives were spread into the record of the federal investigation of the disaster tonight...
...Secretary Morgenthau. The Champlain, fastest patrol boat on the New Jersey coast, was ordered to take on an oceanographer, proceed to Greenland on a "scientific cruise," get back as fast as it could. But the Champlain could not get back in time to answer the SOS of the liner Morro Castle, save Madam Minister Owen and her benefactor the embarrassment of explaining to Delaware's Republican Senator Hastings why "the gem of the Coast Guard fleet was taken from its regular station near the scene of the disaster and sent on a needless junket...