Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 34

31 IPROBE REOPENED .~ INFILM TRAGEDY| iBlast Three Years Ago on { Ship Portraying “0id Iron- { sides” Story Fatal to One. )y the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 15.—The death | ©f one man and the serious injury of | four others during the filming of a scene | in “Old Ironsides,” a historical film,| nearly three years ago. was under lq» vestigation by the district n“‘“‘“”“‘ office here today to determine whether criminal negligence was involved | Charles Gerald Davis, a seaman! was | killed and Harry Broyles, Erick R.| Johnson, Ernest Olson and Charles; iCarlson ' were injured in a dynamite | “blast aboard the Llewellyn J. Morse. a | yessel fitted out to resemble the historic U. §. S. Constitution in Santa Catalina | Bay on June 27, 1926. On Shattered Mizzenmast. ‘The five men were perched 90 feet up %he mizzenmast of the dummy frigate when the mast was blown away in| Fepetition of a bombardment from a! Barbary Coast pirate fort. The mast | had been cut in such a way as to throw the men to safety. but when blasted it Zell in the opposite direction, dashing hem into the sea and onto ro: { { The circumstances of the ere investigated in August, 1 the matter dropped upon dec Asa Keyes, then district attorn Los Angeles County, that no criminal | negligence existed ! District Attorney Buron Fitts reopen- | ed the case yesterday upon receiving a report from United States Attorney S. W. McNabb. who had made an_inquiry in behalf of the Government. McNabb declared that since the accident had ! taken place within the three-mile limit | the Government was without juridic- | tion. The Federal attorney declared the evidence indicated there had been | criminal negligence and that the case was within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County. Welcomes New Investigation. | James Cruze, motion picture director, | who was in charge of the filming of the | scene, hes stated that he would wel- | come a reoplening of the investigation He made a compiete Teport of the cir- | cumstances in August, 1926, he said.! and since has followed the case closely in damage suits filed in United States District Court. ~ The court allowed Broyles $28,541.55 in compensation for | injuries received and awarded Olson and | Johnson $2.250 each. Claims of Mrs. Cora A. Dadis, widow of the seaman killed, and Carlson were not allowed when' it was shown they had accepted an adjustment of damages under pro- visions of the State compensation act. MAGAZINE FOR BLIND IS MAILED QUARTERLY | M70 Pounds of Reading Matter Sent Out by New York Body. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 11.—Four hundred end seventy pounds of fairy tales and nonsense jingles make up the quarterly mailing average of the printing depart- ment of the New York Association for the Blind, according to Mrs. Anna Patchen, blind printer. ‘This poundage is the sum total weight ‘©of the Searchlight, the magazine sent Jour times a year to youthful blind Teaders in all parts of the world. With 3ts forthcoming issue the Searchlight ‘will have reached a total weight of 12,- 490 pounds, the total of its 26 previous es. Each quarterly installment of the magazine, devoted to fiction and poetry that will interest growing boys and Is, weighs 20 ounces. Each page is 2 by 12 inches and when . completed 1h¢h8elrchlllht has a thickness of 2! ches. LIFE 54465 wsorance Age 35 Company's Assels $500,000.000 Send the date of your birth for an illustration | | M. LeRoy Goff 1036 Woodward Bils. Phone M. 310 Cream of Pennsylvania Petroleum. 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