Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1935, Page 3

LINER ‘HITS REEF, PASSENGERS SAFE One Dies of Apoplexy in| Rescue From Grounded Ward Ship. BULLETIN. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 9 (®—Capt. A. W. Peterson, master of the grounded stramer Huvana, today asked the Coast Guard to stand by until plans for floating the vessel are completed. Last reports from the Havana said two holds were leaking badly and there was water in the engine room. Peterson reported yesterday 83 members of the crew were aboard. The cutter Pandora is standing by. The tug Warbler is on hand to float the Havana. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MIAMI, Fla., January 7.—Ship- wrecked passengers who went calmly to breakfast before braving a rough sea in lifeboats told a vivid story today of the grounding of the Ward liner Havana on a Bahaman coral reef. The ship struck the reef early Sun- day while most of those on board were asleep, but the passengers arriv- ing today on the freighter El Oceano said the impact was so gentle that many were not awakened. Another rescue ship, the United Fruit steamer Peten, sped toward Havana with other passengers taken off the Havana. The EI Oceano . landed here with 38 of the 51 passen- gers and some of the crew, while the Peten carried 11 passengers and mem- bers of the crew. Ward Line agents announced all passengers brought here by the EI Oceano could continue their voyage to Havana tonight on the Florida, which leaves Miami at 7 p.m. Apoplexy Kills One. One passenger, identified as Robert Rittenhouse of Brooklyn, N. Y., died of apoplexy in a lifeboat, the only known fatality. One other passenger was not located in the incomplete check, and Capt. A. W. Peterson of the Havana said a sailor was missing. The transfer of the passengers to the El, Oceano was carried out in heavy seas without mishap, except for the swamping of one lifeboat. A woman and her two children were swept into the water, but were saved by a seaman. “I think most people aboard the Havana didn’t know what happened,” said T. E. Francis of Boston, one of those picked up by the El Oceano. “Although it had been raining, it was bright sunlight when the boats were swung over the side. I boarded the El Oceano absolutely dry.” Awakened by Steward. Dr. Howard Fox, New York physi- cian, said the first he knew of the accident was when a steward came to his state room and awakened him. “After all was clear as to where we were to go in the event the ship was abandoned,” Dr. Fox said, “we went down to breakfast.” A quartermaster, Rayfield Horsch of Cascade, Towa, was pointed out for exceptional efforts on behalf of the passengers. Horsch was credited with rescuing Mrs. Sonia London of Mexico, D. F., and her two children, Fania, 2, and Elias, 9, after they had been swepi into the sea from the swamped life- boat. Entertained by Music. Music entertained the passengers as they waited to be taken from the stranded liner. ‘With the passengers cleared Capt. Peterson remained aboard. Eighty- three of the crew stayed with him. 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It was guided by the Coast Guard plane Sirius from Miami. The plane spotted the bobbing life- boats for the El Oceano, dipping and zooming to show where they were wallowing in the sea. Soon the Peten was sighted and the Sirius guided this ship also. The Havana left New York for Havana Thursday. Most of the pass- engers were from New York. There were five girls aboard from Benning- ton College, Bennington, Vt., and some passengers were from Philadel- phia, Newark, N. J., and Boston. The wreck of the Havana came al- most four months after the disaster of another Ward liner, the Morro Castle, off the New Jersey coast last September. That ship burned with a loss of 124 lives. The Havana is a 6,678-ton vessel. Built in 1907, it served as a troop transport during the World War and was rebuilt in 1927. HONOR FOR SISTO HEROES. | Rescuers of Shipwrecked Crew Will Receive Medals. NEW YORK, January T P.— While the air crackled with distress calls from the sea, announcement was made yesterday that honor is to be paid tomorrow to the sea heroes who rescued the crew of the Nor- weglan steamer Sisto last Decem- ber 19. : At ceremonies conducted by the Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York, medals will be presented to Commodore Fritz Kruse, master of the liner New York; First Officer Alfred Weisen and the 10 men who manned the ship's lifeboat that effected the rescue. |MRS. E. S. KENNEDY DIES AT HOME HERE Wife of Builder and Real Estate Dealer Is Victim of Two- Week Illness. Mrs. Edgar S. Kennedy, wife of the prominent Washington real estate man and co-builder of the Kennedy- Warren Apartments, died yesterday at 10 p.m. at her home, 2901 Connet- ticut avenue, after an illness of two weeks. For some years a member of the governing board of the Epiphany Church Home and a member of the church’s Altar Guild, Mrs. Kennedy had been prominently identified with charitable and religious works throughout her long residence in Washington. She was also a mem- ber of the Colonial Dames. Mrs. Kennedy, the former Alice Powell Grady, was born in Woodley, Va, in 1869. She moved to Wash- ington shortly after her marriage to Mr. Kennedy in Baltimore. Besides her husband, she is sur- vived by a daughter, Mrs. Henning Nelms of Harrisburg, Pa.; a brother, Powell Grady of Washington, and a sister, Mrs. George Fresch of Balti- more. Funeral services will be held in Epiphany Church, 1317 G street, to- morrow at 3 pm. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. ) < DAVIS SHIFTED OFF D. C. COMMITTEE Pennsylvanian Assigned to Two Other Senate Units. Vacancy Left. Senator Davis, Republican, of Penn- sylvania, will not continue as a mem- ber of the Senate District Committee at this session. In making up the new slate of Re- publican committee assignments today, the party conference approved the transfer of Senator Davis to other as- signments. The Pennsylvanian be- comes a member of the Interstate Commerce Committee and the Com- mittee of Expenditures in Government Departments. For the time being this vacancy on the District Committee will not be filled. The Republicans remaining on the District Committee are Senators Capper of Kansas, Carey of Wyoming, Austin of Vermont and Couzens of Michigan. McNary Re-elected chairman. ‘The Democrats Saturday announced the appointment of Senator Bilbo of Mississippi as an additional member of the District Committee. The Republican conference today re-elected Senator McNary of Oregon as conference chairman, which makes him minority leader of the Senate. On motion of Senator Hastings of Delaware, it was decided not to select an assistant leader at this time, but to leave it to the leader to designate an assistant from time to time. This plan is followed by the Democrats. Vandenberg Honored. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan was honored with the Republican nomination for President pro tempore of the Senate, but the Democratic nominee, Senator Pittman of Nevada, was elected. Carl A. Loeffler, a veteran official on Capitol Hill, was re-elected secretary to the minority. ‘The Senate Republicans probably will hold another conference later in the week, at which it is expected the legislative program of the session will be considered. - Altercation Causes Death. EDNOR, Md,, January 7 (Special). ——James Johnson, colored, 38, died last night of a heart attack believed by Montgomery County police to have been brought on by exertion during an altercation in which he was involved a short time before his death was dis- covered. Police said Johnson partici- pated in a fight in a local store earlier in the night. He was found dead out- side the store. 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No. 2—Mrs. Sonia London and two children, who were swept into the raging sea when their lifeboat'was swamped, and were rescued by heroic efforts of a seaman, pictured aboard rescue ship El Oceano. art students shown aboard the El “enjoyed every minute” of their ex- Lucy Charles, 22, of the Havana, who previously had survived the Morro Castle disaster and another shipwreck He is still not considered a jinx by shipmates. No. 6—Steve Fouskas, Havana quartermaster, was commended by passengers at Miami for his seamanship in guiding a lifeboat with one oar (left) after a huge wave had raked the boat, washing Mrs. London thrown from the machine. When a Hopemont worker arrived at the scene, the children, bleeding pro- fusely, were trying to extricate their father from the wreckage. The explosion occurred about & mile from the sanatorium. Although West Virginia State police were un- able immediately to locate any wit- nesses, attendants at the sanatorium said the explosion was sufficient to shake the beds in the building. Police said they believed the car rolled about 100 yards after the ex- plosion, ran up against a stone and caught fire, Trickett’s side was blown partly | away and Mrs. Davis suffered two broken legs, a broken arm and other injuries. At an inquest held at Terra Alta, W. Va., shortly after the accident, & coraner’s jury held the pair came to their deaths through an “unknown cause.” Chest Clinic to Be Free. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., January 7 (Special).—A free clinic for dis- eases of the chest will be held to- morrow at 10 a.m. at the court house here by the Maryland Tuberculosis Association. It will be conducted by Dr. D. St. C. Campbell. LAWYERS’ BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS B S Rl Vo B . Lt { MEXICAN GONFLICT ENTERS GONGRESS Higgins to Ask Withdrawal of Recognition and Dan- iels” Ousting. By the Assoelated Press. The controversy over religion and education in Mexico registered a new Teve tion here today with Repre- sentative Higgins, DLemocrat, of Massachusetts, asserting he would offer Congress a resolution demand- ing that the United States withdraw recognition from Mexico and remove Ambassador Josephus Daniels from the diplomatic corps. Previously, Representative Higgins had written President Roosevelt ask= ing that a protest be sent to Mexico against the closing of Catholic schools and the expulsion of priests. Ambas- sador Daniels, the legislator contended today, should be removed because “he was cognizant of what was happening yet made no protest.” Replying to the letter, Secretary of State Hull said: “Notwithstanding the well settled policies and views respecting religious worship and practices that obtain in this country, I know you understand that other nations are recognized as being entitled to regulate for them- selves their internal religious condi- tions in such manner as they may deem proper and that, accordingly, it is not within the province of this Government to intervene in the situa- tion in Mexico to which you refer. “The procedure you suggest would be tantamount to an effort to determine the course to be taken by another nation, and would almost certainly provoke such resentment as to defeat the purpose which you wish to achieve.” Daniels has been criticized by seve eral Catholic groups for a speech some months ago in which he quoted Gen. 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