Show pacific slots blots out trace of freighter manila fear that the united states stales ship shipping pina hoard board freighter elkton had been loft lw t with all lands hands on board was asprer ed by the admiral line operators 0 t the vessel tho the steamer liberator another shipping board vessel which responded to the distress call of at the elkton messaged that it had searched the entire area given by the latter ship as its location without finding either the ha stricken freighter or open boats to which the crew might have taken tile the elkton carried a crew of thirty six and was en route from the islands philippines to honolulu with a cargo ot of sugar earlier la in the day the vessel was reported to be ba in serious difficulties wallowing disabled in mid pacific with a gale bloy ing |