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Communists And In- ternational Band of Radicals B la m ed For Setting F i r e That Claimed 130 Lives.

(By R. H. i-iippelheuser) (Copyright, 1934, By The As- soeiated Press)

(A. P. By Guardian's Special ire)

NEW YORK, Sept, 10— lirsonists destroyed the Morro Castle, the Ward lin- er’s officers testified today at a dramatic federal inquiry into Saturdays disaster.

Declaring that on a pre- vious cruise to Havana, an attempt also had been made to fire the ship, acting Cap- tain and Chief Officer Wil- liam F. Warms said that on Saturday:

“A library locker blew out soon after the smoke was re- ported by the watchman. I think somebody put some- thing in that locker.”

Drnies Lightning Theory

Worms declared it was not true. l! stated by some survivors, thitt "Kiitning struck the ship in a storm.

5lllllwrting his superiors charge oi incendiarlsnr, Second Officer Clarence Hackney testified that “i0 minutes Liter the fire was reported, there was a flash from the burn- In: locker."

The third officer. Irwin Pree- lmn. laying s cigarette could not iiwsibiy have started the devasta- tion. testified:

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ANNOUNCEMENTS. COMING EVENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

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"Show-Hunter River, Monday. 1r204-9—8-3i.

"Show-French River Tuesday. L-204-9-8-3i.

"Show-Malpeque, Wednesday. L-204-9-B-3i.

"Dance at Victoria Wednesday llillht. Five orchestras. L-'.l'l5

“Dancing, bingo and other amusements at Hlghfleld tonight. L-24B9-9-l0-2i

“Will be loading live poultry at Bllr warehouse 'I‘li::ri‘ri*.', ept. 13, from noon riitlll 4 pm- H, S. Mc- Lwri. Vernon River. L-270

"run st Highiield Rink tonight,i dtmlls. fortune telling, bingo and °ihPr amusements and special door PYlZP- L-280

t"wedllcsday night, B. i. S. auc- i°n Etirly-fivcs start B p.m, sharp, “"0011 by dancing. L-28l-9-ll-2i

"Danes in Iona Hall, Wednesday,

ggiilivmber 12th, in aid oi School P L-266-9-11-1l.

mrCbme to the Dance in Wood Is- uoila l-lllll. Tuasday. September 11th. fits 15c. Ladies 10c. Lr-QM-D-il-li.

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Warning Sounded Of Pending Danger Of War As 15th Assembly Of League Of Nations Convenes.

i (By George Hambieion) (Canadian Press Staff writer) (C. P. Cable By Guardian's Special Wire)

GENEVA. Sept. 10—lWith the warning the world is passing through l deep-seated crisis ringing in their ears. and formalities disposed of, delegates to the 15th session oi the general assembly oi the league 0i

Nations are ready for the opening of the movement.

Edouard Benss. veteran Czechoslovakian statesman and President oi

the League Council, spoke bluntly assembly. Tihere was uncertainty as every sphere. he said.

HAD FAILURES

He admitted the Leaye had had its failures, as well as its success- es, but at least it had been forewarn- ed by recent events in different, parts of the globe. He referred to) the tension between Japan and. Russia over the establishment oil the puppet state oi Manchukuo, and he continued: i .

“They have proved that ii in the future any power were to provoke similar events in other parts of the world. for example in Europe. it would inevitably lay itself open to direct sanctions applied by a large number oi other members of the League, or else assume the crushing responsibility oi having brought about the final disappear- anceloi the League and the out- break of an unexampled general catastrophe in which it might it- self be engulfed. For us, this certi- tude is not a result to be despised."

ASSIGNED PLACE I

Meantime apparently the last ob- stacle to Soviet Russia's entry to the League was removed when the council, sitting tonight, voted in- formally to assign Russia a perm- anent place on the council. Argen- tine and Portuguese representatives abstained from voting and it was considered they would do the same when the formal ballot was taken, but this would not affect the unan- imity of the vote necessary ior a seat on the council.

Russia's e'ectlon to the League at large was already considered a fore- gone conclusion. An invitation was circulated among the delegates to- (‘ay and it was figured that between 30 and 35 would sign it. assuring a margin over the two-thirds vote necessary for League membership. only the procedure in connection with the issuinw o! the invitation remained to be decided.

Prime Minister R. B. Bennett oi Canada attended the opening ses- sion- despite a cold, and at the or- ganization meeting which followed was elected chairman oi the second commission. daring with technical omanizations oi the League. Rich- ard Sandler, veteran Swedish par- liamentarian, was made president of the assembly.

Despite the entries on the debit side of the ledger. the League had matters to its credit. M‘. Bones told the assembly. listing among them increased cooperation from the United Sta/cs, pending entry oi Russia, settlement oi the Peru-Col- ombia dispute, and others.

The League was still to b“. rek- oned with, he said. its we kening or disappearance woud ii . ‘ door open to complete chaos. There were destructive forces at work. but there were also positive, benefic- ient forces. no lass energetic and effective.

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CITY ililliiifili MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT

Urgency of Unemploy- ment Work Stressed At L a s t Night’s Meeting‘.

The monthly meeting oi’ the City Council was held last evening with His Worship Mayor Kennedy in the chair. The usual reports were pre- sented and routine business trans- acted. A letter was read from the Labor Union Council oi Charlotte- town asking thai: they be given a chance to tender ior any work to be done by the city.

Finances

Coun. Holman presented the fin- ance committee's report-

Although there are not so many taxes in arrears as there were this time last. year the finances are not yet what is to be desired. Council- lor Holman urged that citizens make a special effort to psy both arrears and current taxes.

Councillor Reardon, chairman oi the Street Committee, reported that a good deal of patching has been done on the streets. This work he stated is almost finished.

Street Work

Councillor Turner asked ior in- formation concerning the securing oi a government grant for street work.

Mayor Kennedy replied that it is understood the grant has been ap- proved oi at: Ottawa, although no direct word has been received as yet. Everything possible is being done to hasten the beginning oi the work,

Councillor I-Iennessey wished t0 know ii there was any prospect of the grant going through before the snow flies.

Councillor Turner also spoke re- garding ti‘ work which he eon- sidered very urgent. He urged that a strong demand be made that it begin at once. In regard to work in Charlottetown during the win- tcr the Council wished to inform the public that no one, not s citi- zen oi Charlottetown, is to be given work this winter until every un-

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(C.P. By Guardian's Special Wire) Quebec have produced their own) Sept. 10-—Conciitions requirements this year and kitish

(YITNWA. faced by Maritime potato growersl were discussed today by the Do--. minion Marketing Board with J. K. Iqlng. New Brunswick Deputy Minister oi Agriculture. The Board was told that New Brunswick would have an oversupply oi potatoes this year, due to increased acreage and yield. Prince Edward Island also will have s surplus.

In recent years Canada has lost export markets for potatoes. Th1! Hsv/iey-Smoot tariff kept Canadi- an seed pinatoes from entering the ‘United States and Cuba's new 111416 treaty with Washington will keep Canadian potatoes from that mar-

With large crops in the Maritimes this year, it will mean the domes- tie Inlrket must absorb the survivi- 11b difficulty h that Ontsrto and

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Columbia has a large crop in the far-west. ‘The one remaining mar- ket will be the Prairies and freight rates will militate against the Mari- times taking sny large ,. roentlge of this business.

Both New Brunswcl: and Prince Edward Island have marketing boards oi their own but they did not, pass legislation enabling the Dominion Marketing Act to func- tion within their boundsries. Thk will be necessary before any mar- keting scheme is approved under the Dominion Act.

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Brit-ail! lIlBlW-i h" bid i0!‘ "N! B93 u} supremacy oi" the high seas with the iilllliftiling‘ of ihc new super liner, now known on?!‘ 8.5 "Number 534", at the (liydcbunk shipyuds, near Glasgow. She Wiii 1°01 ltlli Ind will cost approximately $30,000,030. It is hoped this 13,til0-tcn stool monster will be the‘ lulu‘ "n" “wit. 511d Whirl! Bill guts down the slipway on Septem her 20th it will he a rcd lcitcr day °" "la O'Neil“ Queen Many wlli christen the shp "Princess an... bcth” after

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Co m m is s i0 n Announcement

Expected Soon

(0.1! By Guardian's Special Wire)

UPPAWA, Sept. ill-Announce- ment will be made shortly Q1’ the oonunissim to be set by the D0- minion Government to study claims oi the Maritime Provinces for larg- er subsidies. Chief Justice J. A. Mathieson of Prince Edward Island has already been named by the three provinces (Nova Scotla, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- land), and E. W. Nesbitt. Wood- stock, 0nt., a former member oi parliament, will be the representa- tive oi’ the Dominion, it is under- stood

Chief Justice Mathieson and Mir. Nesbitt will meet in Ottawa this week to choose a third member of the commission who will act: as chairman.

At s. meeting here early‘ in Aug- ust oi the Premiers o1 the three provinces and the Dominion Gov- cmrnent, Prime Minister R. B. Ben- nett promised a commission to study the whole question oi subsidies. The, Maritimes base their claims upon the report oi the Duncan Commis- sion in 1926 when an interim in- crease in Dominion subsidies was recommended and granted. The report also recommended n erm- plete examination oi the subs‘dy claims oi the Maritime: but noth- ing has been done until the pres- ent which was initiated.

PRISON BREAK FRUSTRATED (LP. By Gardinn’: Special Wire) JULIET, Iii, Sept. 10—.A sharp finillsde from a rifle squad pu". n sudden end to s daring attempt of four omvicts nit. Btawviiie prison to oornmsndmr s ‘ otlvo lryiev, and ran their way through iron; grip to freedom. Tm d the prisoners were itilgfh 9 i

The New Brunswick crop in 1982 was 3.850.000 hundredweight, ini 1038, 6.394000 and this your it will be bigger. Production in Prince Edward Island was SJILOOO hun- dredwolgllt in 1993. 1.760000 l!“ yesrsnditwinbebisssrthirpsr.

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(A. P. By Guardian's Special Wire)

POITPLAIYD, l\ic._ Sept. l0.-Cou- tcsts as hotly waged as tlic cum- paign which preceded them develop- ed in the early returns tonight from Maine's biennial election.

Gov. Louis J. Brnnm, Democrat, whose defeat Republicans demanded. as evidence of tho states IOIJULiilI- ticn of the "new deal." was running neck and neck with his Rsgiublicnn opponent, Alfred K. Amps, with litly more than one eighth the si. tc reported.

Senator Frederick Hale, RLi)l1l)li-'

can. nrch opponent of the Roosevelt administration, had a moderate lead over F, Harold Bubord, his Democra- tic rival for the sonatorslilp. Hale was seeking rc-clcction to his fourth term.

Repeal oi state constitutional prohibition leaped into an early lend of three to two tvhich was rc- tained as additional returns trick- led in.

Eighty six out oi 631 election precincts gave for U. S. Senator:

Senator Hale, 5,087: Dubord. 4.303.

Eighty seven precincts gave for governor: Ames, 5.031; Brrmn, 4.09.1.

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(C, P, by Guardians Special Wire) LONDON, Sept. l0---“Tlic Eng

ilSil arc the smartest white people ,

there is" was Wll Rogers com- ment on yesterday's tame Hyde Park session, when 5.000 Fascist: demonstrated and 5,000 anti-Fos- c'sts counter demonstrated with 5,000 police to keep order.

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ism, Fascism, lliilcrism, v ism," the United States cowboy-r showman dcclmeil. according w

The Evening Standard. “'I'liey have n. Park here. Hyde Perk. which was just bult for people that nre ill-t- in‘ somiethin’. "Blaclishlrls were ‘molding their meeting. Two hund- yards away Communists were holding theirs. And in between was all London laughing at both oi “no

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Little Change Reported In Situation Along T h e Strike Front.

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WASHINGION, Sept. 10.—TOXti‘.e strike leaders extended their arbit- ration Oiifl’ for ‘.24 hours tonight |\vliile tlie Federal bletliiilion Bonczi, iusscrtcdly hopeful, prcpzircd for a general ccuicrcncc ultli embattled cuitun mill owners oi the UllllCCi States.

“In order to support the Presi- dent's board, our proposal for orbit.- mntion is extended 24 hours, or until lsix l". M., E.S.'l‘., tomorrow after- noon." said Fmncis J. Gormnn, na- tional strike louder.

The offer, already rejected by the industry, was that the Mediation Board arbitrate the dispute with bOiil sides bound in advance to a- bide by lilC results", all inllls to be closed (luring the IIFQOIliLLlOlIS.

To Lliis (Hiriiiaii tonight added mi- othcr condition. that when a settle- ment is undertaken it must be by“ tween the entire industry and the union. There will be no negotiations bctivccn the Offfllilil/JIHOI} and indiv- idual mills, lu> said.

Gcurgu A. Sloan, President of the Cotton 'I‘c.\:iilc Institute, spent most of the tiny conferring Willi the board, presenting tlic case oi’ the cmiilnv- Previously hc illlfi termed the

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name of the man who sup Federal police denied know Minister is at Geneva. and it is believed he is unaw in the snatch game.

Invited to Join Piot-

Inspector Culver said three men arrested for hOllBCbYP-"lk- iug in Ottawa and surrounding; towns talked about. the P11199504 kidnapping. According to his story- lie was invited to join the plot but did not know all details. He claim- iie lie did not know whore the Prime Minister was t0 be livid 0T how much ransom was to he de- manclod.

According to the detective in- spector, the Chateau Lauricr was shadowed by the kidnap gang but for some reason or other. the Prime Minister was not: molested. This sccmccl strmige to the DOliCC be- cause the Prime Minister moves about the city unguarded nml often walks alone from his office tn his hotel. At other times, he is driven only by o. chauffeur.

Police said their informant named tWn other men. also liclrl on housebrenking charges, ns bcini:

mcmbPTs of a gang of four in the kidnapping plot. A fourth man is sought by police on a minor charge. It: is understood no charges of at- tempted kidnapping will be lnicl.

"It. was apparently a genuine kidnapping plot,“ lnspecim- Culver said tonight. Ii: apparently fell through because the mlllll 601110 not agree on details.

The Prime hlinistcr left Ottnvm Aug. 3i, nnd the first of the lhrc-n men supposedly connected with the kidnapping plot. was not arrested until a week later.

Blame Fire ‘ On _ Radical Organization‘

BALBOA, Canal Zone, Sept. l0.-The fire authorities of‘ the canal zone tonight began an in- vcstigntion into the. fire oi‘ the Grace liner Sante Riin. while officers of lire vessel blamed "the fire here and ZI-iSO on the Morro Castle" on m1 international rad- ical organization.

The Santa iliia mad:- port to- day with a fire in licr hold, a fire that was ilikcovcri-(l last Fri- day oft" the coast oi‘ Colombia and which ihc creiv fought more than ~18 hours.

isli-y as a whole. Despite llic opening of some 60 mills ill the Curolinas, the day szuv, according to indvpendcnt sun ., slight niiiiicrirzil increase in slum-rs‘ ranks. ‘Ilic 5.000 who returned to work in the CJYOiilldS were almost exactly oiisct by new uuilkouts in New England. In addition. there were five niill closinps in Georgia. adding 2.275 to tho '

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Captain Stevenson brought his ship with its fiery cargo into port safely. For the last 5i) miles 0i’ the trip he was awn anicrl by a detachment oi‘ ru . zone _ firemen who had steamed out to sea on the tug "Favoriti" with ‘l0 tons of fire-fighting chi-mir- ztis in order to quench tho blaze in the cargo of cotton, nitrates. wool and coffee.

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By Sam Bicdsoc, i Associated Press Stall’ Writer g WASHINGTON, Sept. l0. - U. S. Senate investigators into high-pros- nzic munitions sales methods today ‘IHCDVCPIWE a frank proposal that the ljnlwd States government buy war micrials from an English firm lo liuip iirm the Chinese against, Japan, Along with this went testimony- nltcrwards ([Clllt‘d——iili1l, slntc (io- purimciit oilicials had ndvisgd [no American Armnmeuus Corporation ui New York to "obtain an injunc- tion against the government’ to overcome the embargo on arms shipments to Bolivin. and Paraguay. Once more talk of bribery in rou- ncction with iniuiltions solo.- WAS heard. At one point testimony was presented that. "50 grand"—$50.000—

the British government. Boll wrote, was worth $30,000,000.

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ivas to be paid to a cabinet adviser clcsse to the President, of Brazil in 1033 for his iJSsiStIIDCC Ln pulling across a munitions contract ior tlic American AFlllflmClltS Corporation. Tlic suggestion that the United States Govcriimcni. might buy sonic weapons to. help arm the Chinese ill their struggles against. Japan was iii-scribed as having been made by

OTTAWA, Sept. iii-Premier It, iisl ed as victim in a kidnapping plot halt-no ording to a confession v. they had tonigirt from one 0

The Prime ‘Minister, according was to be snatched from his apartment

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Federal Police Deny Knowledge Oi Plot — Informant Names Members Of Gang.

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