| Show i Forty Missing in Harbor Blaze Ship Hulks Yield T Two o Bodies NEW YORK Aug 19 The W-The smoldering hulk of the Cuba Mail Mall Line freighter Panuco yielded two bodies to harbor police Tuesday victims with willi at least three other persons of an Inferno which swept a Brooklyn pier destroying the Panuco the pier and numerous small craft I The harbor police set the known dead at a five revising their total f from m seven after reaching two objects objects objects ob ob- ob- ob In the ruined mined vessel essel which at first were thought to be bodies Forty men possibly men possibly five members members mem- mem mem mem- bers of the crew and some 35 long long- 4 were were reported missing Police said that 32 of 72 injured remained in hospitals The fire sweeping a section of the Brooklyn waterfront Monday caused property damage unofficially unofficially estimated at A board of inquiry meanwhile was told that the fire started on the dock leaped with lightning speed to the Panuco and ana enveloped it in smoke and flames before an in n arann could be given or any precautionary precautionary pre pro cautionary measures taken As police strove to account for those definitely known to have been aboard the Panuco they Continued on Page Pau Two Column Three X oj t. t President Reported Asking Shipyard To End Day 12 Defense Strike By Associated Press Reports spread d Tuesday that President Roosevelt was appealing to the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company to accept recommendations recommendations recommendations rec rec- of the national mediation mediation me me- board board and bring an end to the strike which for 12 days has held up worth of work at the firms firm's huge Kearny N. N J J. yard In the event the appeal was re rejected rejected rejected re- re declared the authoritative sources from which the reports came the government was prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to move in take over and operate the yard which holds contracts contract for a number of navy vessels The C CIO I 0 union whose strike call made workers idle Insists in insists In- In insists that the company accept the mediation boards board's recommendation tio tion for a union maintenance clause in the working contract Such a a would provide that alu all union ullon alon members would have to remain in good union standing asa as a condition of employment L. L H. H Korndorff president of the company offered to turn the yard over to the to-the the navy rather than accept such a clause which he termed a closed shop A strike of the Brotherhood of ofRa Ra Railway way Carmen at the Michigan City Ind plant of the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing company company company com com- pany took about 1800 workers off their jobs Monday Union spokesman spokesman spokes spokes- man said the carmen were demanding demanding de de- demanding de- de manding that the company complete complete complete com com- a pending contract by adopting seniority terms and a union rule under which new em em- would join the brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood brother brother- hood within a certain time Eight hundred A F L building trades workers struck Monday at Camp Lockett an army cavalry post 50 miles east of San Diego Cal asking for either a wage in increase increase in- in increase crease of 12 12 cents an hour an-hour hour or defrayment of the a day room and board fee charged at facilities provided by the con con- tractor Meanwhile federal conciliators 1 prepared to open a hearing in Washington Friday in an effort to iron put gut a contract dispute which resulted in a threat of a natIonwIde nationwide nationwide nation natIon- wide strike by an independent union of telephone installation men against Western Electric Inc C CIO I 0 steel steelworkers workers called a brief protest work stoppage in inthe inthe inthe the night at Bethlehem Steels Steel's huge Sparrows Point works Md plant but day shift work workers rs went on duty without incident A dozen police and steel w workers were were injured in injured injured in- in in disorders Ni Nicholas holas Fontecchio district director of the steel workers' workers organizing or organIzing organizing or- or committee said the stoppage stoppage stoppage stop stop- I page was in protest against varIous various various vari I ous kinds of intimidation and i threats to union men by sub sub- i bosses and company police I |
