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...President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson 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...
...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...
...seemed no less incredible to the Mohawk's surviving officers. Chief Officer Pedersen, who had been below when the vessels struck, told a Federal Steamboat Inspection Board in Manhattan: "I've been thinking and thinking and thinking, and I can't explain...
Died, Thomas Alexander Boyd, 36, author (Through the Wheat, Mad Anthony Wayne, Lighthorse Harry Lee); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Ridgefield, Conn. He left two posthumous works, In Time of Peace (sequel to Through the Wheat) and Poor John Fitch, Inventor of the Steamboat...
Died. Walter N. Barnett, 94. retired wallpaper dealer, pilot of the steamboat Natchez in 1870 when she lost her historic race with the Robert E. Lee for the title of the fastest boat on the Mississippi River; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Mo. Pilot Barnett's alibi: the captain by mistake ordered him to steer into a bayou...