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WEATHER LEAVES TRAIL OE DEATHS East Awaits Onslaught. Avalanches in Canada Increase Toll. By the Associated Press. Storm-ridden Eastern States braced for a fresh mslaught of zero weather and snow Saturday night. Floods broadened the sphere of misery in North Mississippi. In British Columbia snowslides wrecked homes • and swelling rivers sent whole com munities fleeing to higher ground. Bitter gales lashed over Europe, Bweeping small fishing craft to sea and damaging trees and buildings in Britain. The Norwegian ship Ganga was blown out of Blyth Harbor and disappeared; the Norwegian steamer ' Roydo was wrecked on the Western Scottish coast. In Central America the tempera ture broke to 44 degrees above zero at Tugucigalpa, Honduras, and two deaths were attributed to the un precedented cold. Warning of an ap proaching hurricane emptied the bay at La Ceiba of all vessels, which headed for the open sea. New Storm on Way. Pennsylvania, scarcely recovered from a 40-hour blizzard, got some re lief from the severe cold, but pre pared for a new storm reported on its ■way to the central and eastern parts of the State. Heavy snows fell in Northern Pennsylvania. Snow fell generally over West Virginia. Light but steady snow fell most of *- the day in the Chicago area and In diana, while temperatures ranged in the 10s and 20s over most of the Middle West and were due for a drop toward the zero neighborhood. New England temperatures, just under freezing, anticipated 6 to 10 degree temperatures by Sunday. Two brothers were found frozen to death at Lake Millinocket, Me. A Kenyon, Minn., farmer died of freez ing, the sixth Minnesota victim of the Eero wave. • Deaths Put at 25. Sketchy reports from the isolated foothills of the Rockies in British Co lumbia put the flood death list at 25. In the Pitt River district boats were L rescuing the marooned. Mud and [ 6now slides buried the Village of Kil gard, British Columbia, and entire towns had not been heard from for a week. Flood conditions were improved in Washington, but some highways were Btill under water or buried in earth elides. 4 -• SENATE GETS ARMY AIRMAIL FIGURES Report Places Cost at $3,767,355, Shared Jointly With Post Office Department. The history of the Army Air Corps temporary airmail operations last year . following the cancellation of all air 1 mail contracts was brought to a close with the submission to Congress Friday of a final report on costs of the Army operations, prepared jointly by the Post Office and War Depart ments. The cost was totaled at $3,767,355, Shared by the two departments. This Is approximately the same as the ten tative cost figure announced a num ber of weeks ago by the Post Office Department in an independent sta tistical analysis of airmail service dur ing the three months of Army opera , tions. The report to Congress show's that airmail crashes resulted in the deaths of 12 Army officers and men, nine of them pilots, and that five were seriously injured. The figures show that the Army Costs of flying mail aggregated 70 cents per mile for the 5.402,004 miles flown, and that the cost per pound mile was only .0085 cent. SCHOOL ACCREDITED JWoodward School on List for 10th Consecutive Year. The Woodward School for Boys re ceived notice yesterday from the As sociation of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland of issuance of a certificate accrediting the school under stand ards of the association. This is the tenth consecutive year the school has been so accredited, ac cording to James J. King, headmas ter. The school, conducted by the Young Men’s Christian Association, will begin a new term next Friday. It specializes in individual instruc tion for boys of grammar school and high-school age. 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Mohawk, which sank off New Jersey, shown at the inquiry being conducted yesterday by the United States Steamboat Inspection Service at New York. No. 2—Aerial photographers, seeking survivors of the Mohawk, caught this view of the S. S. Morro Castle at Asbury Park, N. J. The Morro Castle, also owned by the Ward Line, burned with heavy loss of life a few months ago, only a short distance from the scene of the Mohawk disaster. No. 3—James Driscoll of the crew of the Mohawk, who also was on the Morro Castle and the Havana, being assisted ashore from the Coast Guard boat Champlain. The Havana, another Ward liner, ran on a reef recently in Florida. No. 4—Capt. Edmund Wang, Biarne Johansin and Edwin Johnsen of the Norwegian steamship Talisman were among the first witnesses called at the inquiry. The Talisman rammed and sank the Mohawk. No. 5—Thomas Charles. Mohawk quartermaster, has come through four shipwrecks, those of the Alaskan, Morro Castle, Havana and Mohawk. No. 6—William Tannenbaum, who survived the Morro Castle and Mohawk disasters. No. 7—Charles Wright, head waiter on the Mohawk, also lived through the Morro Castle and Havana incidents. —Wide World and A. P. Photos. Thb 1 Changing World London Seeks to Entice Germany to Return to League. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. EUROPEAN statesmen are mak ing strenuous efforts to patch up the international situation, lor a while at least. They are trying to catch the peace bird by strewing a few grains of salt on its tail. The emblem of peace has been changed from the traditional dove to an elusive swallow. //. Tne center of tne peace movement is today in London. The British are trying to entice Germany back into the League of Nations. They are tell ing Hitler, “Come back to Geneva and we promise you that the arma ment clauses of the Versailles treaty will be overlooked, and you will be permitted to keep the armaments you have been building illegally during the last 18 months." The British idea is sound enough. Germany should be allowed to rearm if she accepts the elaborate French system of pacts and covenants. In this manner all Europe will be mounting guard over Germany, and thus her new arms will be just a useless expense. If she refuses to sign, Europe will mount guard over her all the same, and if she writhes and plunges, su perior forces will deal with her. Sir John Invites Flandin. With the French, the British are dealing differently. Sir John Simon has invited Premier Flandin and For eign Minister Laval to London to dis cuss the German situation. Sir John, who in 1933 forced Germany out of the Geneva disarmament conference and the League of Nations, is trying now to convince the French of the necessity of accepting Germany’s re armament. Since it is an accomplished fact now, he says, why oppose it? The French have not changed their tune regarding security. They are willing to let Germany have all the arms she wants provided some good security pacts guarantee France’s safety. The British don’t mean to go too far in tying themselves in a security pact, although they urge other nations to do so. With their back to the wall, they are waiting now to see what America will do. It is for this reason that the ad hesion of America to the World Court is expected anxiously by the principal European powers. As a matter of fact, the visit of Flandin and Laval to London, which had been tentatively arranged for the 20th of January, has been postponed until after the Senate’s vote. U. S. Seen in New War. The general opinion in Europe is that if this country joins the World Court, regardless of the limitations provided in the adhesion bill, and President Roosevelt gives some new “interpretation” to the freedom of the seas policy, Great Britain could go ahead with some kind of a security pact for France. America, they say, will not be able to stay out of an other European conflict, no matter how much she may desire to. Hence, Great Britain could give France a security pact. There is a great difference be tween a military attache and a diplomat, it was revealed a few days ago at a gathering in Wash ington. , The military attache is a soldier who does nothing, but does it very early. The diplomat is a gentleman who does nothing, but always does it too late. Shuns Civilization. Some 28 years ago a young French naval ofllcer by the name of Benjamin Ullmo was arrested for espionage. He was tried, found guilty and given a me sentence, wnicn ne served at Cayenne, in the French Guiana. After the war his friends began an agitation in his favor. Ullmo was pardoned and returned to France six months ago. Last week he took the boat back to Cayenne. He has had enough of mod em civilization. On leaving France forever, he told those who expressed surprise at his voluntary exile in that wild and unhealthy French colony that he was going back because “after 26 years spent In that wilderness among the worst type of criminals, I have come to the conclusion that it is much better to live there than in Europe. What strikes a man who has been separated for so many years from your so-called modern civilization is the incommensurable stupidity of this modem humanity, which thinks itself progressive and intelligent. No; I prefer the rattlesnakes and the wild beasts of Guiana to all your statesmen and polltlciana.” a^mammmamm^mJ K>01» «0I6 Tam your old i trinkets, jewelry and watches into MONEY at «A <Kahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. .42 YEARS at 935 E STREET SHIP SURVIVORS’ TALES CONFLICT ON CRASH CAUSE (Continued From First Page.) chartered Mohawk, was the first wit ness before a United States Steamship Inspection Service inquiry seeking to determine the cause of the collision off the New Jersey coast Thursday night. Late today the inquiry was adjourned until Monday. United States Attorney Martin Conboy secretly questioned members of the crews of the vessels at the Fed eral Building, sending some of the j witnesses afterward to the other in- | quiry. He would not comment on the possibility of a grand jury investi gation. Blame for the crash was placed di rectly on the steering apparatus by Capt. Wang, 60-year-old master of the Talisman. “She (the Mohawk) was steering in toward us," Capt. Edmund Wang , of the Talisman told the United States j Steamship Inspection Board. "It | must have been his steering gear. Couldn’t think of a sea-faring man making such a maneuver. I said, ’I bet his steering gear is gone.’ ” Mechanisms Failed. Then Chief Officer Cort N. Pederson of the Mohawk, testified that both the intricate mechanism controlling the rudder and the telegraph between bridge and engine room failed sudden ly when the two vessels crashed. The cause of this disastrous mechani cal breakdown remained shrouded in mystery—but the Mohawk’s chief offi cer declared he was certain there was no sabotage. Another Mohawk officer, Chief Engi neer Claud B. Martin, insisted that to his knowledge there was nothing amiss with the steering gear. Listed among the missing before he appeared at the hearing, Martin testified he was not on the bridge when the vessels collided. The ill-fated Mohawk and the freighter hit with a terrific impact at right angles. Capt. Wang testi fied. There was no warning blast from the liner’s whistle, he asserted, until she was about 50 feet away and the collision inevitable. A member of Capt. Wang's crew, following him on the stand, differed materially with the testimony about the Mohawk's steering apparatus. Speaking through an interpreter, Sec ond Officer Olaf Nannestad asserted the liner’s rudder seemed to be work ing properly . immediately after the collision. It was asserted, however, that the Mohawk crew meanwhile had suc ceeded in rigging up the emergency steering equipment. One key witness, who perhaps could solve the mystery of a collision on a clear night in a calm sea—Capt. Joseph E. Wood of the Mohawk—was missing from the inquiry. He ap parently went down with his ship. Asked About Lifeboats. ‘•Why didn't you lower your life boats?” The Talisman master was ! asked. “The captain of the Mohawk in j formed us over the radio he did not want our boats lowered,” was his reply. The radio log was examined and no such message was found and Capt. Wang declared he had used his own judgment in not lowering the boat. Capt. Karl C. Neilson of the In spection service was openly critical of the Talisman's failure to bring in any survivors and because the freighter backed away after the collision. Capt. Wang declared repeated shouts to the Mohawk bridge failed to bring any response and that, there fore, he ordered his vessel astern. "When you first sighted the Mo hawk. how did she appear to you?” Capt. Nielson asked Wang, i "She was astern and I saw two white lights high over the shore light, i We were going in the same direction and the Mohawk was gaining on us.” "What happened when the ships collided?” "We saw the ship coming. She was gaining. I said to my mate: ‘It's funny. I can see the Mohawk’s red side light.’ She was sheering in toward us. I rushed to the telegraph j system, threw the wheel far over and j ordered full speed astern.” "How much time elapsed between the time you saw the change in the Mohawk's course and the actual colli sion?” “About a minute or so.” Started to Lower Boats. ‘‘After the Collision, what did you do to aid the other ship?" “We cleared, we circled around and j I thought he was going to beach the j Mohawk. We stopped. They started to lower their lifeboats.” Joseph B. Weaver of Washington, D. C., head of the Steamboat Inspec tion Service, questioned the witness about the possibility of the Talisman having struck the Mohawk more than once. Capt. Wang was certain there was only one collision. Friends of relatives of the victims crowded Bellevue Morgue to identify bodies of victims. Rescue craft continued their search off the New Jersey coast in the al most futile hope that other survivors could be found. Edwin Johnsen, quartermaster of the Talisman, testified he was at the wheel when the vessels collided. “There was no wild swing by the Talisman just before the crash?” “No, sir. I saw the Mohawk on top of us.” Bjarne Johansen, lookout on the Talisman, testified the vessels came “together fast.” “It was all done In a moment after the Mohawk started to swing,” he said. “There was no scraping blow. Just one solid smash.” Wang Is Confident. Capt. Wang seemed the most con fident witness of the group. Tall, ruddy faced and with a pronounced Scandinavian accent, he told an un hesitating story of events leading up to the collision. He is 60 years old, a veteran of the North Atlantic serv ice. “Were all of the passengers taken out of their state rooms and equipped with life preservers?” Pedersen was asked. "Yes, as far as I know," he answered. "Can you give us any idea what may have happened to the people found dead in the waters?" "Only supposition. Boat No. 6 or No. 8 was hanging down and the people probably were dumped into the water." Pedersen said there was no con fusion or lack of discipline. Chief Engineer Martin testified in detail about his inspection of the steering gear, which he believed was in "perfect working order.” "There were a lot of bodies in the water, how do you account for this?” Capt. Nielson asked Delmar Gould, an ordinary seaman on the Mohawk. “A lot of them jumped overboard. It was so cold none of us could do hardly anything." Gould testified, as did other wit nesses, that there was trouble launch ing the lifeboats because of ice. TIGHTER LAWS FORECAST. Roper Directs Preparation of Recom mendations. By the Associated Press. Both congressional and administra tion assurances were forthcoming yes terday that merchant marine laws would be tightened In an effort to prevent future shipping disasters. Secretary Roper of the Department of Commerce, which has supervision of shipping lines, said yesterday he was directing the preparation of recommendations for Congress and the President which, if enacted, would augment the power of the Govern ment in relation to shipping. Effective Laws Urged. Chairman Bland, Democrat, of Vir ginia of the House Merchant Marine Committee, also asserted that effec tive legislation would be passed. Before leaving for New York to direct an inquiry into the Mohawk disaster, Joseph B. Weaver, chief of the Commerce Department’s inspec tion section, said he welcomed a con gressional investigation to show Con gress how badly funds and authority were needed. Secretary Roper indicated there ap peared little legal power to take defi nite preventive steps now, but that the Mohawk accident had served to stimulate his and others' activities toward getting suggestions to Con gress. Bland Declines Comment. 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