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MZ BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1935 9 Die, 47 Missing as Liner Sinks in Mysterious Crash Off Seagirt Eaele Staff Photo The rescue ship Algonquin as she arrived at the foot of Canal Manhattan, with Mohawk survivors. Associated Press Photo. The Mohawk, which sank last night after a crash with the Norwegian motorship shown aground off Normandie Beach, New Jersey, seven years ago. mim rfo List of Passengers On Wrecked Liner I Easle Photo lAttC09 w.A.m Mr.

and Mrs. Julian L. Peabody of Westbury. Mrs. Pea The Norwegian motorship Talisman which was in collision with the Mohawk.

Note the gash in the bow just to the lower right of the name. This photo was taken when the Talisman arrived at the 30th St. pier in Brooklyn. InsetEvelyn Levine, one of the Mohawk survivors taken to the foot of Canal Manhattan, by the Algonquin. bodv is the former Celestine Thomas Hitchcock and the late and Aiken, S.

and sister of Dr. ana inrs. samuei amitn, ao oi. Mrs. E.

Levine, 348 E. 46th St. 18 First Aid Squads To Help Survivors Sea Girt, N. Jan. 25 M) Braving near zero weather to carry on liipir Vinmnnitnrinn wrirk.

18 first aid squads took up stations at in Washington 25 An as io, voic hotnoon nnimnr onH sea strie scrt ion that bids to be submitted on Slander Suit Ends In Cleric's Apology To Sir John Simon London, Jan. 25 (. l', The slander suit, of Sir John Simon. British Foreign Secretary, against the Rev. J.

i Whitaker Bond has been settled, it I was announced today when the action was brought up for hearing in King Court belore Lord Chief Justice Hewart. Norman Birkett. counsel for Sir John, reported that the basis for the suit was 'an alleged statement! of the clergyman in which the Cabinet member was accused of opposing a peace ballot proposed by the League of Nations because his money is invested in armament firms. Sir John." said Birkett. "does not possess one single investment in one single armament company." He read a statement sinned by the 1 Rev.

Mr. Bond in winch the clergy man expressed deep regret over his accusation and said, "I am con vinced it was entirelv untrue nnri realizing how wholly unjustified the Charge Was. tender niV aOOlOCieS tO sir John Simon." The Foreign Secretary, it was ex plained, made no claim for damages. ftn Wnrlrl Pnurf urU OUll Adopted by Senate Washington, Jan. 25 UP) If the United Sta' joins the World Court a question soon to be decided by the Senate it will tell the Court that the tribunal may not act on matters of strictly American concern.

The Vandenberg r.lich.) res ervation to this effect was accepted oy the Senate yesterday. BALCH AT NEW 1 Japanese Kill 44 Chinese in Nov Air Raids Jamm Attack 2 Citie Along Chahar Border 1 62 Nipponese Dead Peipmg, Jan. 25 UP) New Japanese air bombing raids into Chahai Province bringing death to 44 Chinese were reported today by Chines) sources, indicating apparently are lunval of the Japanese attarck The cities reported bombed wen Tungcheize and Tuhsikou, thj tw places which suffered most heavllj in the fighting of two days ago. Chinese military authorities hen sulea tnat lne Japanese men "roppea tnree oomos into lung th5' kiUin 18 Chinese militiamer, iuic uu.ci panesc airplanes dropped eight bombs into Tuhsikou. killing 21 militiamen and police of that city.

Japanese casualties in the clasha of the last four days along thi Chahar Jehol frontier were placec in reports received here at 162 killed and nearly 200 wounded. Japanese military authorities lr Peiping, however, insisted theli losses were only two dead and six Injured. The extent of Chinese casualties was estimated at not less than 50. Simultaneously with the bloodshed, negotiations proceeded be tween Chinese and Japanese repre sentatives for a diplomatic settle ment of the boundary controversy. PRICE LOWS! '65 '75 '95 '135 '135 '135 '175 '235 '275 '235 255 '435 '775 5 Known Dead; Survivors Hit By Biting Cold $2,000,000 Mohawk on Lease to Ward Line 1 Captain Listed Missing Continued from Page 1 flood poured through after the Ireighter drew away.

Hitchcock Kin Missing Among those missing were Julian L. Peabody of Westbury, a well known architect, going to Guatemala, and his wife, the former Celestine E. Hitchcock, daughter of Thomas Hitchcock and the late Mrs. Hitchcock of Westbury, and sister of Thomas Hitchcock the polo player. Several persons, including a seven month old child, were in Manhattan hospitals in critical condition from exposure.

All of the dead, missing or seriously injured came from the Mohawk. Her bow damaged, but with no injuries aboard, the Talisman at 11:45 a.m. came to her Brooklyn pier at 30th St. U. S.

to Sift Cause Even as the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service moved to begin its Inquiry at once, the main outlines were becoming clear ol what at first was a more inexplicable tragedy than that of the blazing Morro Castle, which cost 124 lives last September almost in sight of the spot of the new disaster. The Mohawk left New York at 4 p.m. yesterday, about an hour belore the Talisman, a slower vessel.

How the latter vessel ould have caught up t.nd plunged her bow deep into the stern of the Mohawk hardly five hours later was explained by Cort M. Pedersen, chief officer of the Mohawk, who lives at 115 25 133d St. South Ozone Park. Speaking as the surviving officer In charge, since Capt. Joseph E.

Woods of the Mohawk was among the missing, Chief Officer Pedersen said: "We stopped off Ambrose Light to calibrate our compasses, shifting the vessel from side to side, which must have given the freighter a chance to catch up. was not on watch but was proceeding with a routine inspection of No. 1 hold at the time of the crash. I have no idea what time it was. I ran to the bridge, where the captain was." Tried to Beach Liner The officer explained that the captain tried to beach the vessel but the water poured so rapidly in after the freighter backed away from the 15 foot gash in the stern that changed his mind and lowered the boats.

"The last order I heard from Capt. Woods was to lower the last Lifeboat No. 2," he said. "He did not get in that boat." "I am sure no passengers were aboard at the time. Only about 12 or 14 of the crew were left aboard." Other than to agree that the Mohawk sank around 10:30 (other survivors told how two members clung to metal flanges of the mast of the sinking ship right until it disappeared in a smear of oil) Mr.

iJcisrn was vague in other explanations to reporters. "I'm all aquiver," he said, nervously. "I can't think. I can't talk." Chauncey I. Clark, counsel for the Ward Line, which now has suffered its third disaster in five months, sat alongside during the interview.

Sea Slightly Rough The 38 surviving passengers and 58 members of the crew, who came In this morning on the Clyde Mal lory liner Algonquin, and the one passenger and 21 of crew brought into Staten Island by the Coast Guard cutter Champlain, agreed that a moon, half full, was shining at the time of the accident, the night was still and "beautiful," the sea only moderately rough. Only one or two members of the crew reported seeing a slight surface mist Just before the crash. Even so. the mystery of how such a crash could have occurred under nearly ideal weather conditions remained ominous. Empty Lifeboats Found Some of those missing may have perish after taking to lifeboats.

Two lifeboats were found this morning bobbing about, overturned, in the sea; a third was never reported after being launched. Charles Wright, hradwaiter on the Mohawk from Brooklyn, who was chief stew ard on the Morro Cas tie's last trip, said in both cases panic among the passengers was about the same "This was a better job on the part the crew." he added. "The first i E. Hitchcock, daugnter or Mrs. Hitchcock of Westbury Thomas Hitchcock the polo ALFONSO GARCIA, 510 14th Street.

The REV. DR. FRANCIS L. FROST, 347 Davis West New Brighton; rector of St. Mary's P.

E. Church of West Brighton, S. I. EARL C. BBARR, Westmont.

N.J. MRS. DAVID F. BRVCKER. Mansfield.

Ohio. MISS DOROTHY DANN, Mons field, Ohio. JAMES GIBSON, Belleville, N. J. MRS.

W. H. KRAEMEK, Wilmington, Del. JULIUS PALMER, Providence, R. I.

MISS ROSALIND PEARCE, Bos F. L.a W. RICHARDSON. Charles River Valley. Mass.

MR. and MRS. JOSEPH SCHRA DER, 3134 W. 101st Cleveland, MR. and MRS.

H. M. SIDDLETT, 744 Broad Newark, N. MRS. JOHN TELFER and infant.

London, England. MRS. ALICE TELFER, London, tngiana. MISS ALICE WILLIAMS, Mons field. Ohio.

MRS. CAROLINE DIAZ and son, Emilio. 10, Havana. Boro and LA. Members of Mohawk Crew Brooklyn and Long Island members of the Mohawk's crew are: C.

PEDERSEN. first officer; 115 25 133d South Ozone Park. MALCOLM A. KKiOl'LOT. second officer; 2052 E.

"4th St. MnnA GtOKl.K BEKENS, quartermaster; 4004 M'xil Ave. Astoria. MARDY POLANDEB, quartermaster; 416 5th St. GEORGE BALSER.

cadet; 9005 204lh Hollis. HANLEY PLAPP, second assistant purser; 123 07 85th Richmond Hill. JOSEPH ALVAREZ, second pantryman, 314 Adams St. ISAHOKE ISRAEL, messman; 247 Hey ward St. WILLIAM TANNENBAVM, petty oiiicer; 15 Meserole St.

FREDERICK IRANK, deck steward: 186 Macon St. WILLIAM F. DOYLE, bellboy; 43 Oood win St. CARLOS A. RICCA.

bath steward; 148 Summit St WILLIAM STEIT1K. bath steward; 241 Bedtotd Ave. ARNO DARBRIT. musician; 41 Stanhope Street HENRY WEYDE. waiter: 40 Wyckoff St.

PAI l.l'OI'A, waiter: 184 State St. BARTI LENIO C'ARRETO, waiter; 552 1)Mks Ave. MARTIN KIRSTEN, barber; 4125 34th Astoria. THOMAS LEPOWSKI. fireman: 343 22d Street JI I.IIS JENSEN, steward: 952 54th St.

CARL WRIGHT, steward: 275 E. 94th St. JACOB RADEMAKER, steward; 300 Union Street. ALIDA CLAYTON, stewardess; 136 25 220th Springfield Gardens. Fight to Clear Way To Scene of Wreck Freehold, N.

Jan. 25 UP) The State Highway Department concentrated snow removing equipment in this vicinity early today in an effort to make roads passable to the Jersey shore, so that aid, if needed, can be rushed to survivors of the steamship Mohawk. The main shore highway was blocked high with drifts between Freehold and Asbury Park and Sea Girt last night. Six trucks, equipped with plows and three tractors, started working their way through the drifts at 1 a.m. They had about 21 miles to 4 Williams Students And Professor On Board Stricken Ship Among passengers on the Mohawk were Prof.

ft. F. Cleland and four students from Williams College, who were to have taken their final examinations on board ship and then proceed to Yucatan to study the Indians. The students are Roy H. Meyers, Karl Osterhout.

LawTence D. Rockwell and William Dwight Symmes. Rockwell and Symmes are New York social egist el ites, Rockwell the son of Col and Mrs. Verne La Salle Rockwell of Smithtown Branch. L.

and Symmes the son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 William B. Symmes Jr. of New York city.

The elder Symmes was solicitor for the Uqjted States Fuel Administration during the World War. I Map rif i'ii(f ('if icene of thv Mnhimh rriuh mitl the tern? of thr Morro unllf fire. Henry Eberhardt in Garage Henry A. Ebrrhardl. a prominent lawyer who had offices at 9 Park Place.

Manhattan, died of a heart attack in the parage behind his home at 217 4J Corbett Road. Bayside. early today. He went to the to get his nr rf i. within a reasonable time his wife WPnt.

tr, Hie nH Hiu.nfnr.rt him lying on the floor dead. Mr. Eberhardt was a graduate of New York University Law School and had practiced law for 30 years He had lived in Bav. for 15 and was active in Democratic noli tics and civic flairs there. Hauptmann Records Are Saved From Fire Flemington, N.

Jan. 25 UP) Fire endangered defense records and evidence for the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann early today. A cellar fire broke out in the Main St. offices of C. Lloyd Fisher, at torney for Hauptmann, but was ex tinBuisliect by the Flemington Vol lmleer Plreinen wlthin an hour.

Plsheri cailed lrom nis homc car. ried the records and documents con nected with the defense to the office of a friend in a nearby building. Firemen said the blaze, confined to a coal bin, was can?" by a faulty heating system. Flannel Kobe 3.K!) A best seller at All wool, man tailored; convertible neckline to he worn open or cliiM d. Iiiitind with white braid.

Ivh with hand Mini! I'd HI 110. Itll hi u'lt uht and l.le Jl IIO BltoiiklAA ABRAHAM 'yM0 Collusion Seen In Warship Bids 21 warships built from public works fu'dli wcr(' kllown bV interested persons in the industry ten days bc'fore tnev WL'rP opened in 1933 was matie tociay to inn benate Munitions Committee by John P. Frev. presi dent of the Metal Trade Depart i ment of the American Federation of Labor. Frey made his statement in reply to a question as to whether he be Uevedre among contracts.

The list was given him. he added. by Lawrence R. Wilder, a former president of the New York Ship building Company. Hp sajd he th(l t0 Hugn johnsol)i tnen NRA Ad ministrator walved me away Frey ucl(J He Quoted Johnson as savine: "TnafS t0o hot for me.

I am not going to have anything to do with it. I have troubles enough of my own." Instead of naming children alter 1 arents some primitive tribes have he custom of naming parents after tneir children. Twice as many ba'oies in this country survive their first year, as compared with conditions 25 years aS Croio Lineil Sal in IVegligw 1.7!) Rlafk, Kn ncli Hue. pink in wine: in m.iil niciliiim l.irjje mcv Lined ointr.Mini: om.h graceful, tli vin sleeves. I ST.

AT f9h 1 1M A 1 1 i i I i XT new xuin MISS B. ARONOVITCH. PROF. HERMAN FITZGERALD CLELAND, geologist and member of Williams College faculty. LLOYD CROWFOOT.

MRS. F. DAYAN. F. L.

FROST. MISS E. B. GENTLE. MRS.

CHARLES A. HONE. J. HOWIE. MRS.

GITA KESSEL, Hotel Penn sylnania. MR. and MRS. A. F.

KNOBBE, Hotel Taft. J. L. LITTLE. MRS.

OSWALD 3. LORD. MRS. STEWART MAURICE. MRS.

E. BATES McKEE. Mount Kisco, wife of a National City Bank official. ROY H. MEYERS.

MISS MOLLY B. MORGOLIN. MISS G. OAKES. KARL OSTERHOUT.

LAWRENCE WIGHT SYMMES. MR. and MRS. FRANK VALDES and infant; 155 E. 30th St.

MISS DOROTHY WEISS. M. ALVAREZ MACISTE. JOSE I. GARCIA, 15 E.

82d St. SOS was sent out two minutes after the crash and the lifeboats were soon launched." (The SOS from the Morro Castle did not go out until long after the fire was reported and many of the lifeboats were never launched.) Most of the lifeboats floated two hours or more before being picked up and nearly half of those rescued were suffering intense pain and shock. Great difficulty was experienced launching the lifeboats fthe Mohawk. Some survivors testified they were "corroded," others agreed ropes were frozen and had to be cut after precious minutes of helpless struggle. James Gibson, New Jersey manufacturer, who was among the survivors, said the lifeboat he was in swayed more than ten minutes from the davit falls and, after an ax allowed it to be lowered, it still hung under the side of the rapidly listing ship, attached by several ropes which had to be cut.

Says Lifeboat Leaked Miss Dorothy Dann of Mansfield, Ohio, told how the lifeboat she was in leaked steadily after being launched until some one discovered the plug in its bottom was not in place. The plug was discovered, inserted and the lifeboat stayed afloat. The survivors brought in by the Algonquin arrived about 10 o'clock at Pier 34, Canal North River, where five ambulances, a police emergency squad and two score extra patrolmen were on hand. Red Cross officials were ready with stacks of blankets and equipment to restore life to number and puffed hands and faces. Rescuer Worked Fast Capt.

J. W. McKenzie of the rescue ship Algonquin said this afternoon he received the first SOS at 9:20 last night, when he was three or four miles north of Sea Girt and the Mohawk about the same distance to the south. It took him only 20 minutes, he said, to reach the vessel. First he picked up two lifeboats, then four more, bringing survivors through a cargo port.

Baby in Bad Shape In one of the lifeboats was the seevn month old child of John Tel fer of London, almost submerged in icy water in the bottom of the boat. The child was rushed in critical condition to Broad Street Hospital upon arrival on the Algonquin. Over and over again the survivors told of that curious crash on a starlit nigfht, with the freighter failing to heed the panicky three whistles from the Mohawk, the heroism of the captain, ignoring his own safety and issuing a final order to get the passenger in the boat, and then those hours on a heaving sea, when hands froze to the oars, oars broke like match sticks, water poured in and hearts grew could with anguish and fear. AUTO TIEUP THREATENED Cleveland, Jan. 25 A strike ol about 8.000 glassblowers, which a union leader said may tie up pro auction in the automobile industry, will be effective at midnight tonight aP the Pittsburgh Plate and the Libbey Owens Ford glass plants.

Park early todav treat survivors of the steamship Mohawk, who might be brought to land along the New Jersey coast. Twenty five men were assigned to, each of the 18 squads and with each, too, was a physician. Called out an hour after the collision, the volunteers were still at their posts this morning. Many of these same men served valiantly in the Morro disaster September. iflTT 11 AT a.

M()l(iUDS l. (hi Jrt KaildltS M.0DU UUIIUIia Two holdups were committed shortly before 1 o'clock today, one netting me oanuiu a yayiuu and the other a total of $103 col lectea irom ine pocKeis oi ium victims. Returning from a Manhattan bank with the payroll of B. Freund dress manufacturer, of 204 Wallabout Jack Pensy was pushed into a hallway of the Wallabout St. address by two young men who lifted the payroll envelope out of his pocket and disappeared.

At about the same time Meyer Oster nd three of his employees were held up by two armed young bandits at Osier's poultry market, 839 Rockaway Ave. The four were deprived of the contents of their pockets by the bandits, who made their getaway on foot after first trying to drive off in the poultry truck which was stuck in snowdrifts outside the market. Besides Oster, Nathan Rodman, Harry Cohen and Irving Oster were victims. $25,000 Bid for Inn, Retreat of Presidents Bedford. Jan.

25 P) Once the play spot of Presidents, the old Bedford Springs Hotel is on the block and only $25,000 bid. President James Buchanan was an annual visitor for 25 years and President James K. Polk also went there. Other illustrious guests included Aaron Burr. At the beginning of the present century the Bedford Hotel was still one of tiie East's famous watering places but of recent years it has declined 3 Die as Raging Sea Balks Rescue Ships Cape May, N.

Jan. 25 (P) Swirling snow and a raging sea snatched three shipwrecked barge men from rescuers' hands off the Delaware Capes and carried them to death. Swept from the wreckage of their doomed craft, the Pattie Morrisette, yesterday the three sank beneath the waves as a Coast Guard cutter and a steamship cruised within easy reach. Don't be like this young man, driven to worse than death! He juit wouldn't listen to friendly counsel and now he's sorry he didn't wait tor the 1935 SUPER COLDSPOT ELlC'RIC REFRIGERATOR I i I Is Mill I 111 I II In popular furs: Miscellaneous Coats from Furs of the Sport type from Plain Caracul from Silver Fox tr. Caracul from Hudson Seal (Seal dyed Muskrat) from RaCCOOn from Squirrel from In finer furs: Beaver Coats from Jap Mink from Fine Caracul (Plain of Silver Fox trimmed) from Alaska Seal from Persian Lamb from Mink from THESE DRASTIC REDUCTIONS RRINO BALCH PRICE FUR COATS TO OUR IQWEST PRICE IN YEARSI Balch Pr ice FULTON SMmf STREETS.