Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1931, Page 10

7 SHPWRELK VTS LANDED Rescue of Passengers Adrift After Crash on California Rocks Is Told. - By tie Assocsated Press, ! WILMINGTON, Calif., September 17. | —Weary from four days of hardships, | but smiling and wearing pajamas or | borrowed clothing, the 234 shipwrecked | passengers and crew of the liner Co- | lombia were landed here yesterday from the rescue steamer La Perla. { The same forces which sent the Co- | lombia crashing into the jagged rocky | Lower California coast €83 miles south of here shortly before midnight Satur- day aided in their rescue, the passen- gers sald. i “Oil from' the ship's tanks, which burst as the boat went aground, spread | over the rough sea and helped quiet it | for the lifeboats, said R. E. Griffith, | Wells Fargo official from Mexico City, who had boarded the Colombia at Mazatlan, More fortunate than most of ths others, he had slipped a suit of | clothes over his pajamas. Passengers Are Calm. | “We had been in an 80-mile gale the I night before and the sea was still rough. | When the crash came we did not at fist realize what was wrong. bers of the crew kept the passengers calin, and we-were in the boats in less | than half an hour, the women and | chiidren going first. 1t was remarkable | that no lives were lost. | “There were three terrific impacts as the ship, traveling at 14 knats, ploughed into the rocks. The lights kept going for about 15 minutes, and numbers | were in the lifeboats when we were | suddenly left in darkness. “Once in the water, we rowed to keep the boats together and off the rocky | coast. Most of us were seasick. The steamer San Mateo came up about day- light an_ took us aboard. -The San Mateo satled to Magdalena Bay, where | the water was quiet, and we were trans- ferred to the La Perla.” Engineer Is Hero, - Second Assistant Engineer Ernest Kaufner was hailed as the hero of the Colombia., He opened the safety valves and did everything possible to~ allow the steam from the boilers to escape. The Colombia's cargo was valued at | Banker Dies Happy With Last of Debts About to Be Paid Started After He Was 70 to Reimburse Creditors, Who Lost $6,000,000 | | By the Assoclated Press. | NEW YORK, September 17.—Leopold Zimmermann, veteran Wall Street banker, who devoted his final years to strenuous labors to repay clients who had lost in his firm, died at his home in his 79th year Tuesday, and pre- sumably died happy, for he could see the way clear to pay up the last dollar Although well past the threescore- and-ten mark when his firm, Zimmer- mann & Forshay, was carried into re- ceivership by the collapse of the old Gerran currency. he was not content: that his former clients should get mere- Iv & Teceiver's settlement. He was al- Jowed to resume business, and volun- tarily pald out substantial sums from his earnings from the new firm of the same name to redeem his pledges to old clients. Most of the losses had been paid off at his death, and final adjudication of a .$500,000 clatm now before the Mixed | Claims Commission is expected to re- sult in a complete settlement. When the firm suspended, losses exceeded $6,000,000. . Mr. Zimmermann was E in Ober- Seemen, Germany, in 1853, ®ame to the ed States at the age of 16, and founded Zimmermann & Forshay in In 1902 he was made an honor- ary citizen of Ober-Seeman because of | his benefactions to the town. - . 2 OVER THE WEEK END $62.50 82 NEW YORK oN s, igl. USE EVERY INCIYDING SEPTEMBER 36t Tickets valid in coaches or Pullman cars (upon payment of Pullman charges). ' Good going on all trains from 12:35 AAL to v THE FEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1931. under President irpose to inform the | }cmmau PLANNED {1, "o e e s | FOR STATE POWERS |23 Sfcmanst i) Sl | Bebek ¥ tralized Federal ucracy. . AmenT those enlisted in the campaign this Fall ane Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, Senator Willam H. King of Utah, Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Representative A. Platt Andrews. jr., of Massachusetts: Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, ex- ! - Senator James W. Wadsworth, jr.,-of | A campalgn to check encroachment ' New Xork: D: e o e g bl { by the Federal Government on the | uee PRAAAN 8o OSURCC S Harbord pawers of the States and to Testore to | 5 the Radio Corporation of Americ the States powers already wrested from | OF 8 o oo e O the. Bentinels is | them ader the so-oalied “etneral wels | A1io, Bresent Boed O ot el | fare” elause of the Conatitution is to| - 3 | | ington headquarters have been opened | De directed this Full b the Sentiveld | in’the National Press Bullding, with H. | e Republic, headed by & group of | Metbert t 4 | nationally known men, | S, I The plan calls not merely for carry- 3 ing the fight to Congress, but to the B io generally in every State. ‘The| ‘The most celebrated trial in the an- ntinels were organized in 1933 at a | nals of British jurisprudence was that | meeting held in New York at the home | of Warren Hastings, lasting nearly 10) of Charles . Fairchild, Secretary ‘of | years, 1786-1795. . | e ik | Sentinels of Republic Would’ Re- | store Rights Taken Over by Central Government, ’SPEGI‘AL SALE Coil Springs, *7-% Coll springs like these usually cost $12 to $15. This week we are offering them at $7.95. They may be h2d in charming Green finish. A coil spring lire this is good for twenty years of sleep czm- fort. 'TWO NEW EXECUTIVES half a million dollars. The ship, now breaking up on the rocks, has $180,000 in g:ld bullion bound from Puerto Colombia to the San Francisco Mint. Contrary to previous Teports, the only live thing left aboard the ship was a monkey belonging to Mx Genev Andre, en route frcm N York to San Francisco. “T fed the morkey, but decided T'd better rescue myself first,” laughed Miss Andre. Archimedes (287-212 B.C.) was so far advanced of his age that his prin- ciples did not become established un- til_the fifteenth century. and including 5:00 P.M. Satur- day, except the Columbian. Good for return on all trains except the Columbian from New York ;J:;S!y City), to and including MOTOR COACH CONNI all B, &0, trains hetween Jersey City and New York. This lew fare afford nit jew ¥ =nd Sundsy at very rea: Baltimore & Ohio PM. train Sunday. 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