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...years' imprisonment. Not until last week did the U. S. Government again take criminal action in the New York district against a marine officer following a marine disaster. Then a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan completed three months of investigation by voting seven indictments in connection with the Morro Castle fire...
Charged with "wilful negligence" were the vessel's Acting Captain William F. Warms and Chief Engineer Eben Starr Abbott. Charged with "fraud, neglect and connivance in violation of law" was Executive Vice President Henry E. Cabaud of New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. which chartered the Morro Castle from its parent company, Atlantic. Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwi). Likewise indicted was the company itself, known to the trade as the Ward Line. Released on $2,500 bail each, the individual defendants face a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment, $10,000 fine...
...spectators who witnessed this slick musicomedy success last week could have guessed the travail its book had undergone. When the Morro Castle caught fire last September off the New Jersey coast, killed 134 people and ran aground, it also wrecked the libretto of Producer Vinton Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able...
Because it is largely responsible for the safety of vessels at sea, the U. S. Bureau of Navigation & Steamboat Inspection has had to take its share of blame for the Morro Castle disaster.* Notably concerned by the Bureau's apparent inefficiency was President Roosevelt. Last week, as the first step in its reorganization, he drafted a famed seaman to take what the Bureau's Director Joseph B. Weaver called "the most important job of its kind in the world." The job: supervising inspector of the Bureau's 2nd District (New York, Philadelphia, Albany, New Haven...
...Spontaneous combustion was advanced tonight as a possible cause of the Morro Castle tragedy in a report by Dickerson N. Hoover, Assistant Director of the Steamboat Inspection Service, to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper...