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Seeking Divorce. Lady Willmott Lewis, daughter of Frank B. Noyes, president of the Washington Star and former president of Associated Press; from Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, longtime Washington correspondent of the London Times; in Florida...
...radio broadcast from Washington Sir Willmott ("Bill") Harsant Lewis, the London Times correspondent, quoted "two Englishmen who have had wide experience in European capitals" as warning: "It is on March 6 that Germany's warlike preparations will reach the full limit Chancellor Hitler thinks necessary for frightening Britain and France into giving away firstly to Italian demands, and secondly to wider colonial concessions." Sir Willmott himself was skeptical, did not himself believe Fuhrer Hitler wanted...
...Willmott's informants were the editors of The Arrow, latest of British weekly newssheets, recently started by the diplomatic correspondents of the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post. Latest issue of The Arrow to reach the U. S. says that German air mobilization is now 95% complete, that the rest of the mobilization program is now progressing on this schedule...
...Sept. 7, 1934 Captain Robert Willmott of the Ward Liner Morro Castle suddenly died. Chief Officer William Ferdinand Warms took command. That night, a few miles off Asbury Park, N. J., the Morro Castle burned, with a loss of 134 lives, in one of the greatest U. S. marine disasters (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). Though Acting Captain Warms was the last man to leave his ship, a court presently convicted him of criminal negligence, sentenced him to two years in jail. Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott, who abandoned ship in the first lifeboat, was convicted on the same charge, given...
Meeting in Manhattan, the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals had unanimously set aside the convictions of both Warms and Abbott, placed the blame for the ship's unsafe condition wholly upon the Ward Line and deceased Captain Willmott. Censuring the judge who sentenced Warms, the Court held that the acting captain "had maintained the best tradition of the sea by staying on his vessel until the bridge had burned under him." For Abbott's conduct the Court had no commendation, but charitably held that his "futile" behavior was due to smoke-sickness, that in any case...