Morning Oregonian., October 13, 1922, Page 5, Image 5

THE MORNING OREGOXIAX. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1923 " 3
217 ARE RESGUED
i IN FIRE AT SEA
Passengers and Crew Enter
Small Boats. .
RESCUE CRAFT ARRIVES
All Arc Reported Saved as Fu
rious Flaijies Make Rapid
Headway After Start.
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in such quantities, giving directions
for disposal of the passengers and
crew, for movements of the "West
P'arallon and instructions regarding
the possibilities of saving the flam
ing hulk that it was considered un
likely that details of the fire and
rescue would be received for several
hours.
The City of Honolulu was home
ward bound to San Pedro, Cal., from
Honolulu and was 1405 miles east of
Honolulu and 670 miles southwest of
San Pedro when the fire broke out.
; Captain H. R. Lester of the City
of Honolulu reported later in the
- afternoon that all were aboard the
West Farallon. The condition of the
City of Honolulu, " which was re
ported as a gigantic pular of flame
and smoke, was declared by Captain
Lester to be critical. The West
Farallon lay a mile away.
Although three other vessels, the
j Matson liner Enterprise, the army
' transport Thomas and the private
yacht Casiana of Edward L. Doheny,
; oil capitalist of Los Angeles, heard
the distress signals from the City of
Honolulu before the West Farallon
did, the freighter was only 50 miles
away when it started to the rescue
shortly before noon.
Conditions Are Favorable.
Conditions were favorable - both
for the small boats of the City of
Honolulu to ride safely and for the
West Farallon to make fast time,
and by 2:45 P. M. the rescue
steamer had reached the scene and
was starting to take the passengers
aboard. Ail had reached the deck
; by 3:40 P. M., messages said. Only
brief messages had been received
. here early tonight, so it was not
known under what circumstances
the passengers and crew escaped
from the burning vessel. Appar
ently the sea remained smooth i
throughout the day, for Captain
M. M. Walk of the West Farallon
reported conditions were favorable.
As the West Farallon, a shipping
board freighter operated by Struth
ers & Barry of San Francisco has
only limited accommodations, it is
believed that many of those res
cued from the City of Honolulu will
have to remain on the decks until
larger vessels arrive. The West
Farallon's registered tonnage is
7451 and the ship was bound from
. San Francisco for Yokohama.
Less than half a dozen of the pas
sengers were from the eastern part
of the United States. A large num
ber were from Honolulu, most of
the rest from Los Angeles and other
southern California points, while
the remainder came from other
parts of the Pacific coast.
Kify-Hlx Paixengera in Saloon.
Fifty-six of the passengers were
in the saloon, the other 16- third
class. Thirty-four of the- saloon
passengers were women, while one
wi.man was traveling third class.
The City of Honolulu- was orig
inally the German passenger liner
Friedrich der Grosse. built at Stet
tin in 1S96, and use-d in trans-Atlantic
travel until 1914, when it was
interned in an American harbor.
When the United States entered the
war the liner was renamed the
Huron and used as a transport
carrying troops to. France.
After the war the Huron was
broucrht from the Atlantic coast to
San Pedro, Cal., and was recon
ditioned for the Los Angeles Steam
ship company. The City of Hono
lulu and its companion ship, the
City of Los Angeles, formerly the
Gtrman steamer Kronprinzessm Ce
cil ie, recently began the first direct
passenger service with Honolulu
that Los Angeles ever has had.
Her registered tonnage is 10.6S8;
her length 523 feet. The vessel has
twin screws
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. The
waves of the air, harnessed by the
Radio Corporation of America and
The Federal Telegraph company.
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pulled 217 human lives to safety to
I day when the passengers and crew
of the liner City of Honolulu, har
: ried by the flames on the burning
ship, took to their open boats in
mid-Pacific.
From the moment In the early
morning hours when the first flash
came out of the ether telling of the
disaster to the City of Honolulu,
this team tugged at the trace with
a consistency resulting in a demon
stration of efficiency of radio op
eration that surpasses anything
"heretofore experienced on the Pa
cific. East, west, north and south the
radio systems carried news of the
disaster to ships at sea and to shore
stations, and before the majority
of people on the Pacific coast were
sitting down to their breakfast
tables, two other vessels were plow
ing their way toward the side of
the stricken liner.
Before noon a third vessel had
taken up the race, and, with less
distance to cover, she arrived first
on the scene. With her arrival
she was the West Farallon the wel
come message was shot through the
air, "All saved." Theradio had done
its work.
On the heels of the message tell
ing of the City of Honolulu's plight
came demands on the radio com
panies for details. The Associated
Press handed the Radio corpora
tion's messenger a message to it
correspondent in Honolulu, "Rwsh
passenger list."
Without the shadow of a doubt
it-was rushed. Fifty-five minutes
later the complete list was in the
Associated Press offices and moving
out on the leased wires to all parts
of the country.
At that time the steamer Enter
prise of the Matson Navigation com
pany's fleet was believed to be
ahead in the race to rescue the
ship's company of the City of Hono
lulu. A Radio corporation wireless
message was sent to her for any in
formation she could pick Up, and
her master. Captain Toungren, re
sponded with verbatim copies of the
staccato story of disaster as told by
the burning liner's radio.
Speed, efficiency, accuracy, they
made radio history on the Pacific
tcday.
List of Passengers.
H
ONOLULU, T. H., Oct. 12. (By
the Associated Press.) The
passenger list of the City of Hono
lulu is as follows:
Mrs. Margaret Avery, Honolulu.
William Avery, Honolulu.
Herbert M. Butler, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Catherine Butler, Los Angeles.
Mrs. Ella Biack, Pasadena.
Mary Black, Pasadena.
Lowa K. Baker, Hollywood.
Miss Irma 1. Covington, Ontario Cal.
Roy V. Crowder, San Francisco.
Miss Mindelle Deutsch, San Pedro, Cal.
Mrs. lucilie Edwards, New York.
John Ef finger, Honolulu.
Mrs. Emma -Holmes, Los Angeles.
tyer B. Holmes, Los Angelea.
Mrs. C. L. Hayden, Honolulu.
Miss Barbara Hiltard, Hollywood.
Miss Patricia Hillard, Hollywood.
Mrs. Hester Hillard, Hollywood.
Frank P. Hahn, Napoleon, Ohio.
Fred L. Hein, Los Angelea.
Miss Leona M. Crawford, address un
known. Ralph Tinkham, Honolulu?
Mrs. Edith ' Timberlake, Honolulu.
Miss Betty Timberlake', Honolulu. v
Phillip Timberlake, Honolulu.
Mrs. H. Thomas, Schofield bar
racks, T. H.
Mrs. Sarah "Whitsett, Vannuys, Cal.
Katherine "Whitsett, Vannuys, Cal.
Paul Whitsett, Vannuys, Cal.
Arthur C. Ireton, Honolulu.
Mrs. R. Janie Janowitz, Honolulu.
Miss Delia Johnson,. Santa Monica, Ca'
Dr. Frederick Keck, San Francisco.
Nelson Lansing, Honolulu.
Mrs. Blanche Lachman, Honolulu.
.Edward Lachman, Honolulu.
Captain F. L. Loncke, Honolulu.
Mrs. V. L.-Loncke, Honolulu.
Thomas F. Leslie, Honolulu.
Miss Gladys Murray, San Pedro, Cal.
Miss Genevieve Murray, San Pedro, Cal.
Miss Madolyn 'Masfln, Honolulu.
I, in Chow Mack, Honolulu.
Mrs. Mabel- Acker McManua, Tacoma,
Wash. ,
Miss May Mumert, Los Angeles.
George Martin, Los Angeles.
L. F. May. Honolulu.
Mrs. Jessie M. Overman, Honolulu. j
Miss Margaret O'Connor, Tacoma, ;
Wash. .
Frederick Philo, Waterville, Ohio. !
L. P. Pollock, Honolulu.
Mrs. Lulu Rivers, Ios Angeles.
P. G. Riley, San Pedro, Cal.
John J. Shinners. Los Angeles.
Charles Stokes, San Francisco. '
Stevens Schulz, San Francisco.
Mrs. E. Stanberry, Pomona, Cal,
A. B. Stanberry, Pomona, Cal.
Buena Stanberry, Pomona, Cal.
Nona Stanberry.. Pomon-a, Cal. .. . .
W. Beckley, address unknown.
The following are third-class fras.
sengers. listed just before the ship
sailed, and their addresses are not
given: f
J. O. Stephens.
Leland Lewis
William F. Brester.
A. P. Jones.
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Mayor Baker, Addressing Sunday
School Convention, Deplores
Parental Lax ties 3.
Seventy-eight per cent of all the
crime in the United States is at the
present time being committed by the
youth of the country, by young peo
ple between the ages of 12 and 24.
This is the figure with which
Mayor Baker clinched his denuncia-?
tion of modern parental laxness, in
his address, his second of the week,
to the convention of the Oregon Sunday-school
association yesterday at
the First Methodist church.
Robert Hopkins, executive chair
man of the International Sunday
school council, and J. ShreVe Dur
ham, home visitation superintendent,
spoke in the evening. Both mensare
here from the national headquarters
in New York.
Mayor Baker asserted that In his
years in office and a lifetime of close
contact with municipal life he -was
qualified to, some extent to speak
authoritatively on crime and moral
conditions in American cities. Port
land, he pointed out, was one of the
cleanest cities in the country. Its
vice districts are small and well de
fined. In comparison with the vast
stink-spots of Chicago of Los An
geles, Portland is a fortunately
healthy one, he said. But in order to
discover the general moral dissolu
tion, even in Portland, he challenged
any member of the audience to take
a trip in the evening to any down
town street-car terminal and view
the so-called modern "pick-up" in
stitution; young girls of supposedly
decent families allowing themselves
to be accompanied off the car and
much further by strange men of 40
or 50.
The mayor strongly denounced the
popular attitude which, following
the lirst shock and scandal at the
laxness in the younger generation,
exhibiting itself in spicy movies and
indecent dancing, had come gradu
ally to a smiling tolerance.
The programme today includes a
ministers' session from 9 to 11 A. M..
with addresses by Rev. Earl du Bois
and Rev. Charles McCaughey. The
election for the year will take place
at 2 P. M. The convention will close
with an address tomorrow evening
by W. C. Pierce, general secretary of
the International Sunday-school as
sociation. A musical feature of this evening's
programme will be the singing. of
the Pilgrim Boys' chorus, mad im
of singers chose from the choirs of
n .Portland churches, rjail nflltr.n
and Carroll Hansen, 10 and (j years
old, will be the soloists.
Kains Benefit Eastern Oregon. v
CONDON. Or.- Oct. 12. Special )
Never in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant has there been such a
rain in Gilliam county at this time.
All farmers- have been- enabled to
get busy seeffrng all wheat and a
good stand is assured for harvest
ing In 1923. Green grass has started
on the sheep ranges, which were de
void of vegetation. A wet fall In
eastern Oregon means a prosperous
year for both farmers and stockmen.
Schoolboy's Arm Broken.
K ALA MA, Wash., Oct. 12. (Spe
cial.) Delbert .Heaner, 9 years old.
suffered a fractured right arm when
;he fell from one of the fire escapes
at the grade school house Tuesday.
Chaplain to Conduct Services.
VANCOUVER. Wash.', . Oct. 12.
(Special.) Church services will be
held in Service club, No. 1. Van-
MILTON SILLS in "BURNING SANDS"
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Portland's Leading Clothier
couver . barracks,
Sunday morning.
at 10:30 o'clock,
Chaplain serton
preach, his topic
F. Bronson will
beingr
Uncle Sam's Soldier Nephew,"
a sermon on good citizenship in the
barracks. Mrs. E. G. Ditlevsen of
Vancouver will singr. Sunday school
11 be held in the same club at SrSO
-TODAY ONLY-
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for Over Half a Century
o'clock. The public Is invited to at
tend these services.
The Oreonian is the medium
through which many people supply
their wants by using its classified
columns. Telephone Main 7070.
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Frocks with the intriguing
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Twill frocks give preference to the coat type but coat frock O Q tL f
or chemise frock all are of stem-like slenderness. Women J J JJ
who love simple things will welcome the long, snug sleeves so
many frocks boast. Women who like color, the barbaric Rodier q
trimmings. In silks, many of the side drapes are formed
with pleated panels, combining two of the smartest of Fash- T Cl CC
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Ftoek of poplin
weave serge, with a
fascinating neck-line
end the long, tight
uleeve 59.00.
New hats arrive at 15.00
they're very special values!
The Hat Shop takes pride in offering such very splendid values on
hat shown the first time today from Andrea and other decidedly
smart maker I' Turbans, pokes, the very new front-trimmed hat in
velvet, hatters' plush with coque, ostrich and the metallic fabrics so
many of the higher-priced hats display 1
Also an excellent, new selection of model hats has just been un
packed priced most conservatively !
A Liebes Fashion Show with living models at the
dinner of the Business and Professional Women's
Club of Portland, Saturday, October 14, at 6:30 P. M.
Pyorrhea Comes to Four
Out of Every Five
Bleeding gums? Trouble ahead
Pyorrhea k)Uows tender, bleeding gums.
Take no chances. It strikes lour persons
out oi every five past forty, and thousands
younger, too.
Brush your teeth with Forhan's For the
Gums. If used consistently and used in
time, it will prevent Pyorrhea or check its
progress, and keep the teeth white and
clean and the gums firm and healthy. It is
pleasant to the taste as welL
The formula of R. J. Forhan, D. D. S. At
all druggists, 35c and 60c in tubes.
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