Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 6

6 THE EVENING . @ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER I3, STAR. WASHINGTONX, FOUR HURT IN SHP * BLASTTORECOVER Explosion Aboard Tanker at| Sea, Causing Five Deaths, Unexplained. By the Associated Press. SOUTHPORT, N. C., September 13.— ‘The charred hulk of the tanker Shreve- ggn. anchored off Frying Pan Shoals. re mute evidence today to another | grim tragedy of the sea. | Five seamen were dead as the result | of an unexplained explosion on board the craft yesterday. which tore away | the bridge deck and midship housings | and incapacitated the vessel's radio. Almost immediately the ship was en- veloped in flames. Four members of the crew wore in- Jured and with 25 other surviv th were brought into Southpo [ S{)Bl‘.lsh steamer Aldecoa. which attracted to their rescue the smoke pouring from the blazing vessel. T injured men were expected to recove Tales or heroism were related by t survivors. R. F. Churchill of Clifton- dale. M: the steward. and on2 of the injured, was imprisoned in his quar- ters by twisted steel. His cries at tracted the attention of the other men s they were pushing away in the life- boats left secaworthy by the explesion. | ‘They returned and rescucd the stéward through a port hole. ‘The crew rowed for 45 minutes in | its frail. overloaded boats before the! arrival of the Aldecoa anwhile the boatswain, about whom no more was known than that he shipped at Phila- delphia, died, and Capt. S. A. Simmons of Baltimore, master of the vessel, listed | among the injured. remained for the most part in an unconscious condi- tion. Regaining his senses for a short period. he insisted that the boats re- turn to the wreck and search for any- one that might have been left behind. Members of the crew dissuaded him. In addition to the boatswain, the dead were A. Bergman, chief mate: Harold Hopkins, second mate; D. M. Dagaro, pump man. and Swen Person, machinist. The records of the ip | were lost in the explosion, and their | addresses were unknown. The others | injured were M. Goldberg of Phila- | delphia, n scams and Fred Llndcr-‘CI ’ berger, whose address could not be as- certained. aim of EFFICIENCY CHIEF | DENIES PLAN TO QUIT| He Has No Bv the Associated Press. Bank Says. H. D. Brown Says Offers From Private Concerns Now Under Consideration. Herbert D. Brown. chief of th2 United Staies Bureau of Effiziency. to phatically d-nied reports that about to quit th> Government service He admitted that he from time to time | has received invitations from private buciness concerns to enter their ein- oyment. but stated positively that he as nol made up his mind to resign. and now haz no outside offer under consid- eration. em- < tat> and heirs of Judge Thacher. The motion, & Trust Co. or Smoeot of Utah said today Mr. Brown had indicated to him that | h» was planning to leave the Efficiency Burcau, hut the Senator added that was iwo months agn, and he had not seen Mr. Brown since that time. held a two-thirds interest DISHISSAL ASKED OF SOOI | Against Astors ““Stale,” NEW YORK. Scptember 13.—A mo- | Nicholas Emerich. tion to dismiss the suit brought by Ger- mantown, Pa.. heirs of John Nicholas| —[* Emerich to recover property valued at approximately $39.000,000 from the es- Jahn Jacob will bs heard tomorrow &y Federal | 8ince Emerich had no heirs, his h\n.GREAT FALL brothers and their descendants were | property. | | " Counsel for the bank and William | | Vincent Astor contend that the causes | of complaint are “stale.” and that so long a time has elapsed since the agree- ment expired, “it would be contrary to equity and good conscience to take cog- nizance thereof.” When the Emerich-Astor trust com- League Maj. Brehon B. Emerich Heirs pact was made Emerich stated in writ- | District engineer | ing that he owned coal lands, ships and | New York real estate worth more than $1.000,000. plaint filed last May. said they had not | in an address at 8 acted before because certain necessary | Scptember papers had not been found until a | month previous. The documents were area, will discuss the Potomac Elec i ik Astor, || it was revealed yester- | €.y, will be made by the Farmers' Loan | as trustee of John Jacob Astor, son of William B. Astor, and by Willam Vincent Astor. legatce and | trustee of John Jacob Astor, jr. 1 The plaintiffs, Edna Carnahan. Chris- tine Campbell and John Thomas Emer- ich, alleged that in 1787 John Nicholas Emerich and John Jacob Asior_entered mto a partnership in which Emerich In 1815, it is contended, Emerich turncd over his | property to Astor in trust for 99 vears, a at the end of which time advertisement |* Dry Administrators Named. Ray J. Nye has been appointed deputy prohibition administrator for the | western judicial district of Wisconsin | with headquarters at Madison. Maurice | Smith was named assistant prohibition administrator in charge of enforcement at Seattle E. L. Senn, deputy admin- istrator for South Dakota with head- quarters at Huron, and John N. Hagan deputy acministrator for North Dakota with headquarters at Fargo. The ap- pointments were made under the civil | service rules. { i was to be made for the formers heirs. the only prospective successors to the ; TO BE DISCU meeting of | League of Yashington. S PROJECT SSED TONIGHT Maj. Somervell to Tell of Latest| {he District electrical code, Developments at Electric Meeting. Somervell, U. 8. A.. of the Washington the Iatest develon- His heirs, in their com- | ments of the Great Falls power profect o'clock tonight at the the Electrio to be held tric Power Co. au | said to have come to light in an old | torium, Fourteenth and C streets. |leather chest once owned hy Joun | In addition to the Great Falls project. v | Maj. Somerell will review the functions ' of the company's cash. of an Army engineering district, mlng[ the value of Army engineering to Gov= ernment. During the business Session of the meeting L. T. Souder will present a :c- | rt. on the recently adopted changes | Report: | will be presented also by G. P. Mangan | on the league's “red seal” campaign fcr | adequate wiring, and on the organiza- tion progress on its part in the Real | Estaie Board's ideal home exposition. | . Reports Employe Missing. 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