The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1921, Page 2

STA PAGE 1 Beveral other persons aboard the Governor received minor ries. AND CHUNKS OF WOOD AFLOAT WHERE GOVERNOR SANK with the Governor's the West Hart- hobbled from the scene of the ac t, leaving only ly waters and a few chunks of wood to tell where the Gov- had gone down. of dumolition, her prow Hipped and moved slowly to Pier D shortly | them clad only in every indieation that automobiles and taxicabs, homes or to downtown survivors, however, called attention to heavy F iecen ts cote te the: uakt of tenn. de Fors, that not sufficient allowance for their force thestwo vessels in their attempt to pass is h , it is pointed out that signals = ae at in the fog, with the re- either vessel would discuss this suggested of the Governor, said he was as as any person not connected with e clerical end of the business,” he seeking the same informa- te determine the cause of the col- Friday morning by U. S. District At- the bureau of investigation, under that action taken because is a ~~ board val McCormick board, is had left San Francisco for this F. P. Bartlett. Capt. John Alwen ‘nor at exactly 12:04am. The ‘worked to transfer per- nd, The latter veal was the Governor's crew were injured by ‘scaping steam. “crash occurred approximatety one mile and @ half off shore, A s ‘was torn in the vessel's side when the prow of the West Hartland struck. Water quickly filled the passenger veasetl. i ur hours after the accident the West Hartland gave up its search was continued by persons in launches. dispatched the tug Warrior to the soene of the disaster e accident wan reported. was sent to Capt. Alwen urging @ quick report on details of including passengers and crew accounted for and passengers veasel. He was ordered to dock here on the north side imster was sent by E. G. McMicken, general passenger . Haines, vice president and genera! manager of the Admira! in Francisco to meet the Wenatchea, Haines refused for ke the story geriously, thipking it an April fool joke, of H. C. Cantelow, assistant general manager of the Pacific pany was aboard the Governor, it was reported, Purser , like Capt, Bartlett, was making a last trip, prior ‘to leaving for ‘the East, to officer the Keystone State, one of the shipping board's new Pacific liners, When the Governor was struck, gt 124, she immediately sent out a A which was caught by three veneele—the Princess Alice, the Prin- iz AG@elaide and the freighter Jeptha, A light fog lay over the straita, The West HMartlasid lowered her life ‘t Lackily there was littie sea running. The U. 8. mine layer 1-35 and various small craft put out from Port Townsend and aided in picking ‘wp the passengers. ‘The West Hartland had just left Port Townsend astern and was Pounding Point Wilson into open water wien the crash came. en I heard the crash,” W, G. Thomas, lighthouse keeper at Point , “E jumped to the, window. The Hartland, with her Bese rammed into the Governor's ride, lay about a mile and a half di- Feetly opposite the light, in Ebys Bay.” Thomas immediately called Port Townsend for reseue ships. Roth the revenue cutter Arcata and the coast guard cutter Snohomish were ‘away, but a number of launches hurried to the reseue, FIRST REPORT RECEIVED “AT 2 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING, ‘The first official report of the wreck was received by Capt. B. L. Mo Noble, port captain of the foreign department of the Pacific Steamship Company, at 2 o'clock in the morving. It read: “The Governor was struck at 12:04 a. m. and sunk at 115. She | floated one hour and 11 minutes. Purser Meyer Holzer, with the wire lem operaiors on the West Hartland, report that all passengers and crew q Aecounted for. We are picking up the life boats and proceeding to ¢ te." Capt. BE. P. Bertiett, in command of the Governor on her doomed trip, is one of the best known deep sea mariners on, the West Coast. When Capt. H, C. Thomas, the master of the Governor, became sick in San Francisco several days ago, Capt. Bartlett was commissioned to bring the big ship up to Seattle. Capt. Bartlett was planning to leave in a few days for the East, where he would assume command of the Keystone State and bring her to the Pacific Coast. He was at one time commander of the crack liner Yale, Diying between San Francisco and Loa Angelos. % ‘As an officer in the naval reserve during the late war, Capt, Bartlett eA THE SEAT WOMAN MOST SERIOUSLY Mrs. Cain, 66, of Los Angeles, received a wrenched back when the ships crashed. She was car- ried off the West Hartland at Pier D and taken to Columbus Sanitarium, She was on her way PASSENGER LIST SAN FRANCISCO, April 1—The following was given out by the Admiral a son in Spokane. Photo by Price and ter. * * * * * * * * waa in command of the steamer Tipikanoo when It was torpedoed. - Capt, John Alwen of the West Hartland ie « well known ship master ‘The vessel had been loaded at Vancouver, B.C. for India, and waa in American waters for the purpose of taking on fuel oll. Bhe bad just com pleted loading th and was steaming toward the Pacific when the collision occurred. Car’ * TLE STAR INJURED OF SURVIVORS to visit The steamer Governor was one of the best known ships running out Of | tine office here today, the passenger lint of the wrecked steamer Governor: | } Seattle. She was a stoel vessel of 5,259 tona net register, and was classed a9 100 Al by Lioyds During the war the Governor carried troops for over six months betweer San Francisco and Honolulu, She was 391 fect long, 37 feet beam and had ht of approuimately 26 feet be The West Hartland was butit at Portland, Ore. In 1919, for the U, 8 shipping board. She is Of aterl, 410 feet long, 64 feet breadth and with « depth of 27 feet. Bhe han heen operated by the Pacific Bteamship Company continuously since she was commissioned BROKEN LIFE PRESERVER IS MUTE EVIDENCE OF TRAGEDY Mute evidence of the excitement of last night’s wreck was given by a broken life preserver, hangin: Nee pe half- way down the badly smashed bow of the West Hartland, when the big freighter was towed into Pier D Friday morning. Fe . were Whether the preserver was thrown away by one of the rescued passengers, or was torn off the back of one of the crew of the West pty as he climbed down into one of life boat t known. yt A 4 thes tvenoal scouted the in, mgd bg we ie reserver belonged to a ger who lost his life in a to leap from Governor to the freighter, as the ‘two vessels were looked in the death embrace, “| PORT WARDEN FRED LATHE IS FIRST TO SIGHT HARTLAND PRINCESS CAPTAIN SHOCK Capt. & H. Ormiston, of the Canadian Pacific liner Princess Victoria, until the bulk of the West Hartland toomed up a quarter of @ mile off hin bow off Point No. Point at 6 a It wan only when, in passing her, he noticed her stove-in- “Bhe wae hobdbling along sbout eight knots,” Capt, Ormiston said after docking at Pier 1. » s . e MRS. WASHBURN AND TWO GIRLS ARE FROM NEAH BAY PORT ANGELES, Wash,, April 1—Names of Mra W. N. Washburn, Sadie Washburn end Eilene Washburn, lieted as missing aboard the Gover nor, are believed to be thone of the family of W. W. Washburn of Neah Ray, weet of here. The Washburn family wae returning from California, Mra. Washburn and the girls are supposed to have passed their home at Neah Bay inbound en the Governor, as the steamer makes no stops here. The gteamer Went lappa satied this morning, after spending several hours searching for missing lifeboats. The Governor is said to have been struck on the starboard side, amid ships, and a big gash torn. The boilers exploded as she went down, Gov- ernment boat from Fort Worden assisted in the trani of passengers Launches are patrolling close inshore looking for bodi The wreck lies in 40 fathoms of water ENTERPRISING TAILORS ON BOARD TO GARNER ORDERS Policemen had to fight back several local tallora, who tried to rush up the gangplank of the freighter as soon an she docked, with order books, ready to take orders from the distremed survivors, They were shooed away and told to catch the needy at the Frye and Seattle hotels, where the steamship company had arranged sccommoda roy s * & RAMMED BY AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE, SHIP “JACK-KNIFED” The great beam of the freighter, with its deck load of lumber—hundreds of thousands of feet and thousands of tons—made it a practically irresist- ible force. The stee] plates of the liner, not particularly reinforced amid ships, buckled Uke cardboard when the great black prow crunched into them. As the ships drifted apart, the dark waters rushed into the gaping hole in the Governor. The great bulk of water made her settle amidships and she jack-knifed, sinking amidships and throwing bow and stern upwards This is the version of the sinking accepted by company officials, * CAPTAIN BARTLETT LOSES SHIP FIRST TIME OUT PORTLAND, Ore, April 1—That Capt. B. P. Bartlett lost his ship on his first trip is the statement of port officials and United States shipping board men here, Bartlett was formerly port captain at Portland, and {9 well known here He ig said to have substituted for Capt. H. C. Thomas on the present ill fated trip of the Governor, Capt. Thomas had commanded the ship for many years, local representatives of the Pacific Steamship Co. said, The freighter West Hartland, which collided with the Governor, is regis tered from this port. She was due to leave Vancouver, B. C., for Bombay last night, aecording to operating charts, The West Martiand {9 of 8,800 tons capacity and was built by the Colum bia River Shipbuilding Company, of Portland. NO WARNING GIVEN; JUST A TERRIBLE CRASH, SHE SAYS “I heard no whistles, altho T was| ‘Phere was little 1 awake in my stateroom,” Mrs. C.|was not much afraid A, Harrison, of Yakima, said Friday|was saying, ‘Everything 1s all at the Frye. “There wax a terrible |right.’ When the ship began to set crash, It didn't throw me out of |tle I got in a boat and lay down my bunk. I got up and threw in the bottom, I didn’t look back # cont, Later 1 found my cap i@hgnce at the ill-fated ship. 1 didn't the coat, at to.” confusion. as everyone | From San Franchco to Seattle: Devits, avons, G. C. Norton, F, san, 0. F. W. ler, Prehi. Los Angeies Pr. 4. J, Marks, H. Welancr, H. Williams and wife; A. G. Hennisch, wife and baby; W. Corning, H. Huteson, Mra, 8. Chase, Margaret Kierr, Yranklin wife, Jonsle Fox, Irene Richardson, C. J. Rance, Mrs. F. M. Marshall, W. A. Walter and wife, V. Kingsley, C. 0, Casi, Kyree and wife, F, W. Keen and wife, man and wife, F. B. Frantz, W. M. Hulme and wife, Mra, KB. Henry, F. . Disty, Ray A. B. Atkins, Ione Owen,, F. B. uu. Cc } i i H i The majority of the passengers of major portion of their rments in wore a beautiful coat of fox skins over a fi Her hair was fallixi were barefooted. over her shoulders. Handkerchiefs, knotted about speeding from Vancouver to Seattle, was unaware of the catastrophe! formed hats for the majority of the rvivors. served to keep off the cold Puget Sound drizzle, Endurance Race o Rats Is Final Test in Gland Experiment SAN QUENTIN Cal, April 1— Seven little white rats, tirelessly running tn their whirling cages tn the California state prison here, are spinning off the fate of one of the mort important scientific experi ments of modern tim Like the 2,000 other prisoners in jthe state institution, these little anmals are locked and doubie locked in a cell. But the seven white rate have been sent to prison to aid so ciety, whereas the other prisoners jare there as enemies of society. And as thy run their seemingly vain courte, an automatic counter ticks off the number of revolutions each makes, With accurate pre cision each olick of the ticker Is re |corded on a chart in the office of Dr. L, folan, and each recorded item indi Jeates the fluctuation In energy of jeach rodent This race, which is being regu lated with such detailed care, is the final test of the “interstitial gland” operation, And, in this connection, ft can now be definitely announced that Dr. Stanley, who some months ago Attracted nationwide attention thru his expert nd operations, has y worked a miracle on the bodies and spirits of 200 con viects on whom the gland operation has been tried. Tt would seem that these opera tions would be sufficient proof of the effectiveness of gland plantation, But the conditions un der which the test is made on the convict are not considered sufficient. |ly severe. A convict cannot be penned up |like an animal and his expenditure lof energy accurately measured, But a white rat can So the present | briefly, this The seven rats will be kept un. der several weeks of observation At the end of the set period their jexpenditure of rey will been measured. ‘Then they will be jtaken from their cages, Hach will then undergo gland transplantation. ‘To test the entire efficacy of the life-giving gland, all- variations of the operation will be practiced. One will get a single graft; another a double; one will get a portion of a human gland; another will get a |portion of a goat gland hen they will be j again What will happen? To scientists the element of excitement involved in watching for the answer will have all the thrill of the big scene experiment ts, « set running ef @ melodrama, Stanley, the prison phys: | trans: | have} ‘Will theae seven rats destroy all Musions that have been built up rewarding this new “fountain of youth"? Will some be benefited and others show fll effects? Over how long a period will! an increase in energy continue? Will this increase, if it comes, be continuous or will the operation act only as a temporary energiser? What will be the effect of one operation as compared with an other? These are questions that seven Httle white rate, tlrelesely running in their whirling wire cag will jnome day answer for ecience, and hence for mankind. | RED CROSS AIDS TRISH For the relief of women and chil dren in Ireland the American Red Cross has set aside $100,000, accord- ing to telegrams from the national committee on relief in Ireland to its Washington state headquarters. De nial that tho American relief unit sent to Ireland had disbanded or in- tended to disband was made TOURIST ASSN. KEEPS UP Gov, Hart's veto of the $50,000 ap- propriated to the Pacific Northwest Tourist dssociation for the purpose of advertising Washington will not stop the work of the organization, accord. ing to W. J. Hoffman, of Portland, president of qhe organization. The aswoctation is now raising the money © subscriptions. Ore, April 1--Ben L, Norden, exalted ruler of Portland |lodge of Elks, today announced the launching of an energetic campaign to bring the grand lodge session of 1924 to Portland, the convention and bring 100,000 members of the order to this city, FIRST COACH IN POL Coaeh building, which h developed into the present automobile body building, had start in Poland. Such was Its ex- cellence in the early days that the English investigated and took up the ‘A h followed. ‘our men killed premature ion, TACOMA,--Robert Shotak phones to home he is not drowned. SNOHOMISH.—-Alfred E second cousin “Buffalo Bill, Cody, dies, Parasols as small as soup plates are the latest novelty in Paris, It is hoped to win | —the credit terms that have helped to thousands and thousands of homes. —& special us to mabe i} VERWARE CLUB” rchase of high-; an exceptional price. le oil stoves gray or blue sauipped famous Bh PAY 96c DOWN —membership in the “BTANDARD i SILVERWARE CLUR” ts secured by the payment of only 9h¢ down, upon which this Wm, A. Rogers, 2-plece set of silverware 1A4,, with 10-year guarantee ts dell ered to you, then you pay the bal- ance at the rate of bc week net conalsts of six each, teaspoons, forks, knives and tableepoons, also @ butter knife and sugar shell; special for this club sale, with good quality regular price $16.50; XTENSION NIS URGED “polition) influences” have been re sponsible for taxity in the offices of county grand jury, in its fina) report submitted laté yesterday. A recommendation that another grand jury be called soon was made by the investigators. The bulk of the report has to do with the findings in the investiga tion of the affairs of the defunct Beandinaviin-American bank of Te coma, in which the grand jury in- dicted Ole Larson, Jafet Lindeberg, Gustaf Lindeberg, Chas. Drury and Geo. G. Williamson. The state bank commissioner's of- fice, the report says, deserves severe criticism for “lack of diligence in the performance of its duties.” Japan [nvitee Gen. Tees Wood for Visit WASHINGTON, April 1.—The state department today formally an- nounced that Japan has invited Gen- eral Leonard Wood to visit that country after his inspection of the Philippines and that the invitation has been accepted. BRITISH LABOR WAR LOOMS LONDON, April 1.—Great Britain unlimbered heavy artillery in the shape 4f an emergency act today to fight @ threatened industrial tieup. Coal miners were on strike, their mines left unprotected with a possi- bility that some of them may be flooded. Transport and railway workers were planning meetings for next week with every prospect that they | will Join their allies; the miners, in Ja general strike against wage cuts. an emergency caught the strikers by surprise. Under the act which was passed last fall, the government can mobil- tze all national resources, COFFEE URN CASE UP Hearing on the Commercial Im- porting company’s alleged infraction of the anti-trust laws was held in the federal! building Thursday, It was charged ithat the coffee concern had provided restaurants with coffee urns on consideration that only their brand of coffee would be used, DRY AGENTS “WISED UP” Dry agents are getting wise to some of the tricks of the bootlegging game, according to Inspector Sylves- ter A, Moore, “The bootleggers used to come in the office and ask simple to be able to recognize said Moore, “Now we who come in here ask ing questions the once over and reo: ognixe them later on,” S FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs, Roy Clarke, wife of the assistant superintendent of the agricultural experiment station at Kodiak, Alas: p. m. Sunday The government's proctamation of | I Inf & iv. ih ly; My) } pti Deb ) ‘ HART RECALL KNOCKED aeie Fa Hee 108 ANGELES, Cal, April Foiled in what apparently was an tempt to rob the First National bagi of Beverly Hills, exclusive mil aire colony, four automobile b yesterday beat Into unconac the kidnaped special policeman, © D. Dunean, . O. N. Beasley, vice president | tne bank, witnesmed the \of Dunean. Beasly deciared Dun- ree eg: with the robbers ua. jdoubtedly frustrated an veh the cae attempt to Deputy sheriffs in automobiles started in pursuit of the bandits. When Attorney J. J. Sullivan peared in superior eourt Thureday tt, | was thought he wags te cute the case coun oe C |18, charged with st or | omen to W. H. Klepper, He | inst |, @ suspended sentence Judge Dykeman me sentence of from two to in the state reformatory, Seunegnaguemunpmenmennenend 13 NEGROES SLAIN COVINGTON, Ga,, April ered {famous “death farm, | #dditional disclosures alleged to jbeen made today before state | clals investigating the cage, - ee es ORTHOPEDIC DRIVE GORS Goon Membership blanks continue te pour in on the Children’s hospital, whose very existence been endangered by Goy, Hart's | Prepriation veto, Blanks may be | Secured at the Orthopedic Tea Shep, Fourth ave. between Olive and Pine, ate, + meee eee 1,500 AT ANKENY FUNERAL WALLA WALLA, April 1.—Fift. teen hundred persons attended funeral of for United States Sem ator Le : at Het ROV lq 2S La: ININE Tablets rallove ka, will be held at Redmond at 3/8 ——_—____ ; PLEADS CLEMENCY FOR BOY 6