Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1929, Page 21

PAMDIAN LR " EOES ON ROGKS 96 Passengers Transferred From Empress Boat—200 of Crew Still Aboard. By the Associated Press. VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oe-| tober 14—The Empress of Canada, one | of the largest liners plying the Pacific, | was hard aground today on the rock: at Homers Bay, near Albert Head, in the straits of Juan de Fuca. The 96| passengers aboard the vessel when it | went aground yesterday afternoon in | & thick fog were transferred safely aghore by the steamship Otter. Damage caused by the crash was es- timated at $200,000. First attempts to refl the ship proved unsuccessful. ship was nearing Willlam Head tine station when she struck. assengers were in the smoking | room awaiting examination by quar- antine authorities. One of the pas- sengers said Capt. E. Griffiths ordrred the engines stopped shortly before the | &hip piled on the rocks. No Confusion Aboard. * There was no confusion aboard. it was said, and the passengers were taken off about three hours later by | the Otter, rushed to the scene by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co, owner of the stranded liner. The Otter steamed to Victoria, where the passengers were quartered pending their departure for | Vancouver, British Columbia. Captain E. Afkman, general superin- | tendent of the Canadian Pacific ocenn service, said he expected to float the liner at high tide. The Empress of Canada was leaking in three holds and her pumps were going constantly. It was planned to tow the ship to the government drydock at Esquimalt for repairs. The crew of approximately 200 remain aboard and was declared in no danger. $8,000,000 Value. ‘The ship, valued at $8,000.000, was | built in Scotland in 1922. She is of 21,517 net tonnage. 4 ‘The ship was returning from Secot- land, where she had new engines in- stallld and was reconditioned. She left Southampton September 18, calling at New York and San Francisco on her way here. Capt. George Robart, veteran Ca- nadian Pacific Railway Co. pilot, was bringing the ship into quarantine, but apparently became confused in his bearings by the dense fog. Only the extremely slow rate at which the ves- sel was traveling averted disaster, it was declared, _— Farmers of Wales are campaigning for a better sy of marketing. | & visit of several weeks in the United | rian problem and_ settlement of Ameri- | | can claims, | BACK TO LOW COMEDY. High Society Turns to Medieval Practices for Entertainment. NEW YORK . (#.—High soclety is amusing itself with low comedy. Quoting a blurb: “Clothes have gone modern, furni- ture’s gone modern . . . and so have parties! Nowadays it takes more than a couple of bridge iables, a radio ani the man who does simplwkilling thingr with a degk of cards to keep that how- soon-can-we-go-and-still-be-polite look from creeping over the faces of yow guests. It takes, to be more explicit, the mod- ern descendant of the capped and bellec' fools of medieval courts. MORROW AND FAMILY RETURN TO MEXICO CITY| Ambassador Declines to Comment on Work Before Him on Agrarian Problem, | as the headquarters of commercialized THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929. NEAT CLUBS HELD GENTERS OF ICE New York’s Committee of 14 Says Morality Is Lowest in Harlem Resorts. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 14.—Night clubs and speakeasies are condemred vice in New York in the annual re- mt of the committee of 14 published a. y. The committee, which is headed by Dr. James Pedersen, was organized 25 years ago to combat vice. Dr. Pedersen said that though night clubs and speakeasies constituted onlyl restaurants miight effect the desired 9 per cent of the committee's 14,399 Tesult. investigations, they revealed 78 per cent | whajen and his of the violations. settlement, . where the patronage is mixed white and Negro, were described as the worst in the matter of social } ‘morality. Employment fes which supply | being the cleanest metropolis in the . e k mpft. United States, if not in the world, so tendants and cigarette vendors to night | far as commercialized vice is concerned.” i female help, hostesses, checl clubs were linked with the clubs in the censure of the committee. Taxicab drivers were accused of being aides to the traffic. Joseph A. Warren, are praised in the Conditions in the drinking resorts|report for the work of the Police De- of Harlem, New York's populous Negro | PATtment in ferreting out and raiding refrigerators are being exported from Police Commissioner Grover o predecessor, the late commercial Despite its charges against drink- ng , the report declares that ‘the city is justified in its claim of % 1 More than $1,000,000 worth of electric | After disavowing that the committee | the United States every month. has ever taken sides on “the vexed question of prohibition,” the report says: “‘Since the adoption of the eighteenth amendment, it is the opinion of the general secretary and the counsel that a law forbidding the employment of women in speakeasies or other places where liquor is permitted to be sold or consumed would be such recognition of these piaces as to add one more step to nullification.” The report suggests; that amendment to the law regulating | BOSTON POLICE GUARD RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE Telephoned Threat to Kill Him Is Reported by Maid at Home of Mrs. Curtis Guild. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, October 14.—A police guard as established about the suite of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich of Russ| t Ritz ton Hotel here to- day, while detectives endeavored to trace a telephone threat against his life. The threat was reported by a maid at the home of Mrs. Curtis Guild, widow of the former Ambassador to Russia. Mrs. Guild is one of the chief sponsors of the lecture the grand duke is to give | tonight for the benefit of the Folk Handicraft Guild. | According to the mald's story, which ‘was communicated to Capt. John M. Anderson of the Back Bay police sta- | tion, & man’s voice said, “I am going to | kill the grand duke.” t His present visit is second to this city as a paid lecturer. He told newspapermen he enjoyed earn. ing his own livin, he grand duke's | MEXICO CITY, October 14.—Ambas- | sador Dwight W. Morrow, accompanied | by Mrs. Morrow and their daughter Elisabeth, returned yesterday to Mexico | City, which they left on August 17 for States. The ambassador was received at the ||| rallway station by the embassy and consular staffs and members of the American colony. He chatted with the correspondents and sald that he was glad to be back, but had nothing to say | | regarding the work now mapped out || for him, centering chiefly on the agra- | Others in the party were Arthur Springer, the ambaseador’s private sec- retary, and Mrs. Springer; Capt. Lewis | B. McBride, naval attache here, who is | Mr. Morrow's chief financial adviser in | Mexican and international matters, and | Joseph C. Satterthwaite, third secretary | of the embassy. - il “AWFUL SKIN HAD ME FRANTIC” butalmostovernightitwasanotherstory (| ||| __“Blackheads, pimples and sore, red || | | spots made my skin look terrible. At || ' night I couldn't sleep. I itched so. 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