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Evening star., 1949-09-18

ships structure appeared buckled
in at least two places.
Some passengers said they
heard no alarm sound; other:
said the ships firebell was rung
and the whistle blew continuously
The bar manager said the
Noronic's bar was closed IN port
by law, but some lights were left
on in the room so people can
take their bottles in there anc
spend the evening"
The Canadian Red Cross set up
a central registry to compile a list
of survivors. and put more than
60 girls to work collecting and
providing food. shelter. clothes and
medical attention.
American Red Cross headquar.
ters in Washington sent Colin
Herrle, national disaster director
to Toronto.
Special Train Planned.
Mayor McCallum said the city
was arranging to accommodate
relatives arriving to identify and
claim the dead. He said a specie
train will be made up to transport
the bodies to Detroit and Cieve-
land If those cities wish to arrange
mass funerals.
More than so Detroit residents
were believed among the dead.
DR.. Lawson said few Of the
bodies taken from the ship were
recognizable. Identification was
made more difficult because SC
many were in their night clothes
Among the dead were many
small children but officials said
most seemed to be elderly people
A heap Of human ash was In
the middle of the floor of the
morgue, waiting to be sifted for
identifying jewelry and other be-
longings.
T. L. Church, a Progressive
Conservative member of Parlia-
ment. said he will ask the govern
ment to establish an improved
life-saving system on the Cana
dian side of the Great Lakes.
Many scenes Of heartfelt, graft
tude and of heartbreak were en-
acted as survivors waited for word
|of loved ones.
A party of 80 from Akron, Ohio
finally assembled at a downtown
hotel and found all were safe.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. j. Orth of De-
troit scanned stretchers Of the
injured for long time at one OF
the hospitals before Mrs. Orth
exclaimed, Here is one Of them.
On the stretcher was her sister
Irene. Then Mrs. Orth began an
other wait, hoping to find her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucille Orth
At a hotel Mrs. Joel Bailey OF
Kalamazoo. Mich, sobbed. He1
husband was missing.
Il don't know where he is" she
said. "The last I heard, from him
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Mass of Churred Remains Found
BY Reporter Allowed on Ship

sented a weird sight. All the
wooden seats were completely
burned, leaving rows Of metal
fastenines to the f1oor-sticking
upright, scores of them.
Amidst the odor of charred wood
inside the burned-out hull was
the sickly smell of burned bodies.
What first appeared to be embers
of furniture at times we're the
bones and blackened flesh Of vic
Tins.
Firemen were using pitchforks
to unscramble debris and human
remains alike. Many of the VIC
TINS had been carefree and happy,
dancing in the ships ballroom
shortly before the fire.
saw what I believed were hus-
band and wife in each others
arms.
I'VE found dozens Of couples
who went to death in a last en-
brace" said Chief Smith.
! All wooden floors were burned
down TO the steel decks. Even
porcelain wash basins were broken
to pieces. Enamel on the bathtuhS
was melted right off.
The greatest hole appeared to
be on A deck. There the younger
set of the ships passengers frol-
licked while their elders slept in
their beds. The flames which
raced along the starboard side.
which lies against the dock,
trapped the frantic passengers be-
tween the decks and open water
on the port side.
On the port side there were no
bodies, but there is mass of
shoes, suitcases broken open, per-
sonal effects. shirts with their
laundry slips still attached. and a
lady's handbag with it's contents
scattered.
Evening star., 1949-09-18

fletter of Cleveland watched for
two hours before she found her
husband, then she embraced him
and cried, Il prayed to God every
minute that you were safe"
A man in a torn shirt moaned
mo. no. no. up." I" when police took
him away from~the waters edge
i've got seven people on that
ship"
A Cleveland woman taking a
cruise for her health aboard the
Noronic may be among the dead.
She was Mrs. S. r. Hoover. Re-
covering from broken back. she
was sent by her doctor for a Great
Lakes cruise to regain her health.
She was unable to walk. She was
not listed among the survivors
tonight.
Toronto officials discarded pro-
posals for a mass burial for the
victims. many of them burned so
badly Identification was impossi-
BILE. An interdenominational fu-
neral service will be held in the
Coliseum next SUNDAY.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
By Edwin Feeney
Toronto Stor Reoorter


TORONTO, Sept. II tP).-I was
the first neWspaperman allowed
aboard the flame-sWept hull of
the Noronic. 1t was a horrible
picture of charred remains amid
foot-deep embers and melted
glass. saw the blackened bits
that were once people.
There wasn't wooded partition
standing. There was no wooden
furniture or upholstery unburned
No stairways remained save one
at the bow of the ship. Every pane
Of glass had been melted by the
intense heat.
Fire Chief Art Smith said his
men found victims in every posi-
ton.
Many had their lives snuffed
out without waking. One young
woman. wrapped in blanket
had her face burned, but her
body was not touched. Upper
hunks fell crashing down on VIC
TINS below. Firemen searching
the ruins found human remains
between scorched mattresses.
Priests from st. Michael's Ca
thedral, Father Vincent Foy and
Father Bernard Kyle, stepped
about the debris, sometimes al
most knee deep.
The steel stanchions were bent
in every shape. The decks, crum-
piled and buckled from the heat
made progress hazardous for the
flremen seeking the dead.
Never in my fire-fighting days
have seen anything so ghastly
so tragic as this" Chief Smith
said.
The ships dining room pre-
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Mildred Briggs Of Detroit, one
Of the survivors, said the flames
spread as II in . match box.
'The flre just welled up along
the corridors and spread faster
than any fire I've ever seen." she
said.
Many passengers thought the
frst cries Of alarm were from par.
ties having good time.
But as fire and smoke gushee
through the ship, the passageway'
filled with stampeding people.
There was a mob of men ane
women surging back and forth.
said another survivor. Alberts
Agla of Detroit. Men were push
ing women around and many wer'
knocked to the floor. The scream
ing filled the air. There was S,
much panic that I don't know
how these people found a way II
safety. I slid down a rope"
Henry Maurer Of Mentor, Ohio
said he and his wife Elmina, wer,
sound asleep when some on
Evening star., 1949-09-18

pounded the door. When they
reached the outside rail his wife
started down a rope ladder, "but
it became horribly twisted from
so many trying to get on it. She
got tangled and trapped. I swung
down on a rope to her side and
tgot her free and we both man
1aged to get to the dock"
Sylvia Carpenter of Detroit
said she screamed and headed for
the outside rail when she saw
smoke and fame billowing along
the passageways.
"A rope was tossed over the rail
and I put a hitch knot on it to
hold it to a stanchion." she said.
"As I did so. three men pushed
In front Of me and showed some
screaming women out of the way.
They went down the rope"
Despite the confusion in the
glare and smoke. hundreds got to
safety by clambering or jumping
to the dock, sliding down ropes
or leaping into the water.
Escape to Nearby Ship.
Peter Sage of Hull, Que. said
about 100 reached safety by crawl
ing onto the Cayuga-another
Canada Steamship Lines vessel
which was tied up close to the
Noronic-until the Cayuga also
caught fire and had to be pulled
away.
But the scores we're trapped in
their hunks, especially some Of
those late to waken and in the
corridors or lounges.
Eighteen fire engines and two
fflreboats were rushed to the scene
at the foot Of Bay Street, but it
was five hours before the flames
were sufficiently quenched for q
search for survivors to begin. In
the smoke and steam the firemen
began with blow torches, shovels
and pikepoles the task Of finding
the victims and bringing them out.
Burned and broken bodies were
wrapped in tarpaulins and carried
out.
Coroner Smirle Lawson estab-
lished temporary morgue in the
horticultural building Of the
Canadian National Exhibition four
miles away. Bodies piled up un-
der the glass domed roof of the
building, where prize flowers were
on exhibit a week ago.
The slip was filed with bobbing
lifebelts.
The ship, with her name almost
at pier level. went down at the
stern. then settled by the bow.
Her bridge and other parts of the
wooden superstructure Of her two
upper decks were gone. Her for
ward crows nest was singed, but
her two masts were standing.
Like Huge Coke Pile.
Blackened wreckage heaped on
the main deck looked like a burn
ing coke-pile with rows Of candle
like flame still Pickering as the
If1remen began bringing out
bodies.
Steel lifeboats on the starboard
side of the upper deck alongside
the pier were crumpled, and the
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Dane Attempts to Garry
'Skools to Newcastle
BY the Assoeioted Press

PORT SAID, Egypt-Egyptians
are chuckling over this incident:
A D a nj h sailor with four
bottles of British Scotch tucked
under his arms started to board
his British-bound Scandinavian
vessel. What are you doing
there?" a customs official in
quired.
The Dane replied:
carrying skoals to Newcastle. "
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Poles Sentence Seven
For Aiding Fuqitives
ey the A.soeioted Press


WARSAW, Sept. 1.-THE Polish
Press Agency said today that seven
persons had been sentenced tc
prison at Gdansk for giving illegal
aid to Poles seeking to flee the
country. The prison terms varied
from six months to two years.
The press agency also reported
that the directors of the Paint
and Varnish Industry Association
Of Gliwice went on trial yesterday
on charges Of economic sabotage
They are accused OF causing 8
loss to the state estimated al
$17S,000
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Underwriters Elect Marsh

The National Association of Life
Underwriters. which met in Gin
cinnati last week. elected John D.
Marsh as one of its six national
trustees. Mr. Marsh is manager
of the Lincoln National Life Insur-
ance Co. in Washington. He lives
at 1887 Huidekoper place NV.
Evening star., 1949-09-18
Indian AirfieIds Use Rodor

NEW DELHI. India lP).-As
part OF the modernization of
1ndia's air arm, Royal Indian Air
Force fields are being equipped
with radar.
Evening star., 1949-09-18

TORONTO, ONT. SECOND
NEAR MISHAP-For the Sec
ond time in her life, Mrs. Har-
old Burrows of South Bend,
Ind, has missed being aboard
a burning ship. Mrs. Burrows
left the Noronic Friday to
spend the night In a hotel. In
1884 she cancelled reserva-
tions on the MORO Castle
from Havana to New York. 1t
was on that trip that the ship
burned with a loss of 1874 lives.
-AP Wirephoto.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09
NEGRO ESCAPES
LYNCHNC BY TRIO

OPEL0USAS, La. - A Negro
was taken forcibly from the st.
Landry Parish jail here by three
unidentified armed white men
who. officers said. tried unsuc-
cessfully to lynch him.
Sheriff Clayton Gilbeau said the
prisoner, Edward Honeycut, 20,
was driven about 20 miles west
of Krotz Springs. where he es-
capped from his captors while they
were tossing coin to see who
would kill me- Officers we're in
close pursuit.
The Negro was found at day
light clinging unhurt to a tree.
He was taken to Jail at Baton
Rouge for safekeeping.
District Attorney ]. Y. Fonte-
not said the Negro had been held
in jail for four months on a
charge of aggravated rape in con-
nection with an attack on a mar
ried white woman. His case is to
be investigated by the parish
grand jury later this month.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09
Negro Nurses on Staff
Of Catholic Hospital

WASHINGTON, D. C. = Three
Negro nurses have been very
quietly and successfully integrated
as staff-members at Georgetown
University Hospital here, it was
learned this week.
Said to be the most modern
of its kind in Washington, the
hospital is conducted under Cath
Ollie auspices.
The nurses are: Mrs. Catherine
V. Fortune. who has been assign
ed to surgery; Mrs. Louise e.
Summers, assigned to obstetrics;
and Mrs. Noah Lee Barber, who
is employed IN the pediatric serv-
ice.
According to Sister Joseph Bea-
trice. who heads the staff of
some $50 nurses, no particular
provision was made for the Col
ored nurses. They joined the staff
on the same provision as the
other nurses, she said. They
share all the responsibilities,
duties. facilities and privileges
available to the hospitals nurses.
according TO the Sister.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09

reminder of the major leagues,
cannot find at least one Negro
player In the past decade. there
have been hosts of Negro ball
players displaying their wares,
good. bad and Indifferent in
major ballparks throughout the
country. This includes New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia. Washington
and wherever Negroes go to
see baseball.
It is high time. Mr.. Lane and
other gents get off that anxious"
seat and face the realities of the
situation Crowds aren't going to
be as lush this season, if pre-
dictions from economic sources
are to be taken as any indication
of things to come. A few more
dark faces in the big leagues
may be the insurance the leagues
need.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09

Ct0oo ANC6 AO 00AA RA05 u
Frank Lane, business manager.
is quoted on the idea by sports
writer's. but Lane qualities his re-
marks by adding "Pm not. how
ever, going to sign a player mer-
ely to say that we have given
Negroes their chance"
Wishful thinking and elegant
words from baseball owners and
executives. managers, who ARE
anxious to find" Negro players,
look thin and washed out when
the Dodgers, who own IL Negro
players, and Indians, late start
ers, own IL = all acquired with
in the past four years.
II these two teams can un earth
% good players. or players good
enough to be signed to contracts
in the hopes of becoming big
leaguers in the future, 1t looks
rather strange that IA other base
ball clubs which make up the
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY and RALLY TO
END SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION

IBPoE of W Civil Rights Depart
ment. charge that "the fascist
dogma Of racial segregation Is a
mortal danger to our national Sc
curity."
We must either destroy dis
elimination or be destroyed by it, /"
Judge Reynolds said.
A. L. Tickling. Washington at
torney. pointed out "there is a
definite and systematic design to
discriminate against Negroes in
Federal departments"
He said that the State Depart
ment, Government Printing Office
and Bureau of Engraving practice
discrimination against Negro en-
ployes through two tactics-segre-
cation or exclusion.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09
BUSINESS


Seven-hundred questionaires. de-
signed to provide valuable basic
Information which will assist local
business men in getting the most
out of their ADVERTISING dollars.
were mailed out last week. This
advertising survey of the jackson
Street Area is sponsored by the
jackson st. Community Council
and the Marketing Department of
the University Of Washington.
The survey was delayed several
weeks SO that test" could be
conducted with a representative
sample of business. Fifty question
naires were mailed to test their
reactions to the form of the ques-
tionnaire, the wording of specific
questions, and the nature of the
information asked. By last week.,
as per cent had been returned.
All business houses located be-
tween Fouth and 23rd Avenues
and Jefferson and Dearborn SITS.
received missionaries, according
to Mrs. Ruth Manca, Executive
Secretary of the Council "Since
no perfectly. accurate mailing list
of businesses is available" Mrs.
Manca said, 'some merchants will
be unintentionally missed. II such
businessmen are comparatively in
terested in participating in this
study, we will appreciate having
them call our office, Sc. 1913.
Questionnaires will be mailed to
them Immediately"
The questions have been sim
plified and have been designed
to take a minimum amount of
time to answer, most questions
requiring only check marks. No
signature, addresses, or other
Identifying information are requir-
ed on the questionnaire; and bust
nessmen can be certain that all
information received will be treat
ed confidentially.
Questionnaires become the prop
erty of the Marketing Department
of the University of Washington,
and no business man will have a
chance to see the answers of
others.
The final tabulation of all rep
lies, together with an analysis
of the landings and conclusions
indicating how practices can be
modified to produce better adver-
tising results will be available
at the Council office or will be
mailed on request after June,
1919.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09
WHITE SOX MIGHT RATIONALIZE DODCER
And INDIAN WAY OF DOING THINGS
By Alvin E. White

NEW YORK (ANP)-Reports from Florida training
camps say the Chicago White Sox anxious to get first
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09

Pops" is in Washington He has to represent the
Bodeown Council for the Possoge of Federal Aid Education
Legislation before Congressional Committee.
Pops" does not believe that child buy adequate
education with SIS year. What do think? Here facts
One ote spends of less than $40 for the
education Of each Negro boy and girl the average for
this is $40 plus must very much higher in the large
communities of the Then very much lower the
rural school districts Pops does not like this he tells the
eommffee in the federoI old GORDON.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-03-09
Negro Weekly Commends
Catholics Progress

HOUSTON. Texas. The IN
former, Negro weekly published
here, declared in lead editorial
last week that There is a con-
tinual stream of news items In
the press of the nation giving
concrete proof that white Cath
olics have set themselves the task
of translating into action" their
words about racial discrimination.
THE Catholics seem to mean
their preachments concerning
these matters more so than the
white Protestant denominations
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YOU NEED THE NAA0P-
THE NAACP NEEDS YOU
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HOUSE BOUGHT FORNECROES BLASTED

ATLANTA dynamite blast
shattered a vacant two-story
frame house police reported had
been purchased recently for Ne
gro tenants on the edge of a white
neighborhood.
The explosion hurled a plank
80 feet through window into
the nearby apartment of Mr.. and
Mrs. George simons. Flying glass
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CORRECTION
Barbara Ann Kelly,
Melvin NJ. Minnis
Reveal Marriage

Should read: Mrs. Wendell R.
Smith is a sister of Mrs. Minis.
Mrs. John R. Lynch is a cousin
Of Mrs. Minnis.
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fragments sprinkled a bed upon
which the couple were sleeping.
Police investigators reported
they found no clues and no wit
nesses. The neighborhood, they
said, has been disturbed In the
past by racial conflict.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-05-25
Teen-Age Artists
Will Entertain

Some twenty-one girls. members
CT Girl Scouts Troop n of which
Fudge Sakanashi is The le der, are
badly in need OF funds TO purchase
necessary scout equipment and uni
forms
You can help them by attending
their tcen-age talent revue this
Friday May ~ in the Seattle Budd-
hist auditorium The doors Will be
open from pm, and the cost will
be only seventy-five cents per per-
son.
The revue, which will reVolyo
around the theme Cruising Down
the River. will have song and
dance routine featuring Seattle's
best japanese American teen-age
entertainers
Refreshments will be sold and the
public is cordially invited
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-05-25
BY CHRIS MENSALVAS

In a decision rendered by the
NLR.B. on May II, 1919, the petit
ton by two AFL cannery unions
to holo an election among resident
cannery workers in Southeastern
Alaska has been turned down i'll
behalf of the Food, Tobacco, Agricul-
tural g. Allied Workers of America,
CIO, which has held the bargaining
agency since 1945
The petitioners are two AFL fed
eral locals, the United Alaska Fish
ermen and Cannery Union, Local
24359; and the Fishermen and Can
merry Workers Union, Local 24366.
More than 1900 cannery workers
are involved.
FTA-CIO holds the collective
bargaining agency for all the resi-
dent cannery workers since 1945
after il came out victorious in
another NLRB election between
Eta, the Alaska Native Brother
hood and Sisterhood. and the STU
ALL.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-05-25
NLRB TURNS DOWN PETITION
BYTWO ALL UNIONS FOR VOTE
AMONG ALASKA CANNERY MEN

Since Eta is a non-complying
union with the Taft-Hartley law,
the two AFIr fishermen and cannery
workers unions have petitioned for
an election for NLRB certification.
Had the petition been granted by
the board, Eta would not have ap-
peared on the ballot similar to the
balloting now being conducted
among $500 nonresident cannery
workers under the jurisdiction of
Local z, another Eta local affiliate.
Local Eta is being challenged
by SIU-AFL which is charged by
the CLIO union as strike break
ing outfit. citing the strike break
ing activities of the STU in the re-
cent strike of Canadian seamen,
and its raid upon the jurisdiction
of Local which it has held for the
last Is veafs.
The NLRB rendered its decision
VII btCSt tCEhtSs HI titSt FiECuAN-
stances we perceive no basis for
departing from the 1945 determi-
nation that the resident cannerv
workers Of all the members of the
ASH ALASKA Salmon Industry,
Incl in Southeastern Alaska con-
stitute a single appropriate unit.
Accordingly, and for reasons fully
set forth in our earlier decision,
we find the units requested by the
Petitioners inappropriate and we
shall therefore dismiss the petit
ton Concluding its decision, the
NIB stated, TT is HEREBY Or
DERED that the petitions herein,
be, and they hereby are, dismissed"
Hubert J. Merrlck was the NLRB
hearing officer.
The companies involved in the
dispute are New England Fish Com
pany, Pyramid Fish Canneries, Ma
kat Packing Corporation, Libby,
Mcneil e. Libby. Pacific American
Fisheries, Icy Straits Salmon Com
pany, Hood Bay Salmon Company,
Superior Packing Company, Todd
Packing Company, Westcoast Sal
mon Company, and the North PACK
ing Canning Company. Inc.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1949-05-25
Acct Badges

Four members of Troop SO, Boy
Scouts of America, received merit
badges at the Court of Honors held
last Sunday evening at the Seattle
japanese Baptist Church. Troop So
observed its 30th anniversary in
conjunction with the 50th anniver :
saIy celebration of the founding of
the church.
Those who received merit badges
from Bill Adams, district commits
sioner, were Yuki Kuniyuki, Bob
Yamada, Bobby Namba and Keichi
Echigo
At an investiture ceremony, Tonic
Moriguchi was made a tenderfoot;
Atsusni Ottawa, second class; Yoshi
Nakagswa, Yuki Kuniyuli. Bobby
Nalnba and Sekio Matsuinoto first
class.