Show GEAR BLAMED IN SHIP PROSE PROBE Steering Apparatus Previously Caused Trouble Witness Tells Board NEW NEV YORK Jan 28 UP The UP-The The s steering ering apparatus of the sunken Ward Vard liner Mohawk had given trouble trouble trou trou- ble before it ity y was y S s testified toda today at atEI ata ata a EI federal investigation into the collision collision col cal off the Jersey coast last Thursday night between the luxury liner and the freighter Talisman Testifying Testifying- before the United States steamship inspection service board inquiring into nto the causes of the he disaster as a result of which 35 persons died and 10 are arc missing Louis R R. Parry second assistant engineer engineer en- en on the Mohawk declared that hat about a year ago the vessels vessel's steering gear did dia not function unction prop prop- f f. f erl erly Seeking to explain the sudden veering of the liner Into the path of ol the Talisman witnesses told the In Investigating investigating In in- bod body last Saturday that the steering apparatus had apparently apparently apparently jammed Parry said that the previous failure failure failure fail fail- ure of the thc gear came in cold weather er even er-even even colder than that which prevailed at the thc time of ot the Mo Mo- Talisman hawk crash To what do you attribute the trouble asked Joseph B. B Weaver director of ot the inspection service I think it was due to the severe cold replied Parry WASHINGTON Jan 28 E P Legis' Legis I laUon lation requiring steamship companies to lo insure the lives of their passengers I for lor pr each was said authoritatively authoritatively today to lo be about read ready for submission to congress b by high administration ad ad- ministration off officials I At th same time Senator Wagner ui CD D. D N. N Y V moved for the creation of or a special s senate c committee to investigate in all recent ship disasters including including including in in- those involving the Morro Castle and the Mohawk Secretary Roper is preparing recommendations rec based on information obtained in the Morro Castle inquiry conducted by the commerce departments departments departments department's depart ments ment's steamboat boat inspection service Exactly what ha these recommends recommend hons would be had not been ar announced an ar- but legislators were informed in ii formed that a bill would soon be sent to Lo Capitol Hill requiring the life insurance Senator Wagner said his request for Tor an investigation was wao based upon the fa fact fa t that the thc senate commerce committee had not acted on his resolution reso reso- lution for an investigation of the Morro Castle fire I I believe he said that congreso congress o owes es this duty to the bereaved Illes of of th the c Morro Castle victims s to the shipping Industry of or America which is is is' entitled to lo have its name am untarnished i if its ils r record cord cod is cle clear cler r and to the seagoing public if jf their lives lie are arc re not not to be consigned j d lightly to watery graves He said the he hc sinking inc of orthe Iho Mohawk showed that action can no longer be dela delayed ed |