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Ship Took Voyage to Oblivion 'VlT'lh Tjl By TED CRONSN and CHARLES L. WEST KEW YORK (AP)-A winter morning chin lay oa the docks at Beaumont, vfhere Mrs. Edith Martin stood watching the big converted tanker steam down the Xeches River. The date was Saturday. Feb.

2. 1963. Ahead for the SS Marine Sulphur Queen was a voyage to oblivion. Sirs. Martin had said goodby to her husband, Adam, 47, an engineer on the shio.

"I stood there alone," she recalled, '-watching until she passed out of sight. Fm the last one who saw the shin when she pat out." There was nothing then to hint that the Sulphur Queen and fcer 33 crewmen soon would become one of the sea's mvster- les. The ship, 15,315 tons molten sulphur in her cargo tanks, entered the Gulf of Mexico. Capt James V. Fanning, 44, a seaman for 30 years, set course for the Straits of Florida and a five-day trip to IV'orfolk, Va.

Thursday Evening. March 26. NEWS-HERALD--2 New Yorkers Favor Rights Bill; Illinois Mail Contrary WASHINGTON (AP) Citi-ifore the Senate. zens who write their senators or Senate Republican leader Ev- icongressman could wonder to- erett ML Dirksen of Illinois re- day just how much, at a news conference, are exerting on the pas- however, that his mail is of legislation. jmng 9 to 1 against the bilL Based on the reports on their! Keating has intensified his I civil rights mail by two Repub-! vocal support of the measure jlican senators from states I during the last two weeks, when York.

Keating said that M) favored the bill and 239 were against it. Dirksen, who is proposing changes in the bill, said he is getting 1,000 letters a He said they are running 9-1 against the measure in its present form. jwhich include the nation's two he said he was astounded toj Asked what he thought such cities, the answerjfind that those who wrote preponderance of opposition iseemed to be probablyfwere about equally opposed to meant, he replied, "I just don't not much, because they may in favor of the House bilL know." offsetting each other. With a sigh of He did volunteeer at another Sen. Kenneth B.

Keating. R- however, he announced that he thinks people are told the Senate Tuesday had been'getting worked up because they that for the first time in twoj the previous day's'are finding out how the legisla- weeks his New York State mail. mail of 1 179 let ters from New.lion might affect them. reflected a majority of expres- sions in favor of the House- passed civil-rights bill now be- lt was the 64th trip of the ship since the 19-year-old World War tanker was altered to handle the 265-degree fahren- faeit sulphur. She had carried almost one million tons of hers specialized cargo without trou- not far from the cenier the THE SHIP THAT NEVER CAME HOME This is the S.S.

Marine Sulphur Queen that vanished 13 months ago with its crew of 39 men. The 524-foot tanker was carrying a cargo of 15,315 tons of molten surphur when it sailed from Beaumont, on Feb. 2,1963 on a five-day trip to Norfolk, Va. It was last seen on Feb. 4 in the Culf of Mexico flying signals indicating it was not maneuverable, but not in need of help.

(AP). ble. Fanning sent a parture message. routine de- The Sulphur Queen's two high-frequency radios then remained sflent until 9:30 p.m.jfhe Sunday when one came to" life vrith a personal message from Willie T. Manuel, a crewman search area.

The search for the Sulphur Queen did not start until after she failed to reach Norfolk oa Feb. 7. Within two weeks flotsam began to appear from Miami to seven empty life er 40 blt in the comrn markets. He directed his broker in Tampa to order 5.000 bushels of May wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade. The contracts sold for 52.09 a bushel and could have earned Manuel Si.000 had he held them until Maj 21.

But the most intriguing clue --or a cruel hoax was found 12 weeks after the Sulphur Queen disappeared. A whisky bottle was washed onto a small island off Corpus Christi, a thousand miles from the Florida Keys. It contained a note on a scrap of brown paper. -D i On one side was a crudely But the message confirming drawn map showing Cuba and, the purchase never an encircled cross him Western Union told the labeled "ship." It bore the message: brokerage office of Thomson and McKinnon that the ship, "has not responded to our caUs On the other side: 0. S.

Sulfur (sic) Queen. was no alarm. "Our ship was sailing steadi- ily. Suddenly there was an ex- On Monday afternoon, twojplotion (sic). Two men were American merchantmen This is all I have to say the Sulphur Queen 25 miles; because I am get southwest of Dry Tortugas.

Experts thought it unlikely flying a "'not under com-1 that the bottle could have trav- mand" signal. The two black eled so far, but said it was pos- balls. suspended one beneath sifale if propelled by several the other on a halvard, warned davs of strong southeast winds other vessels that the ship isj Sidney Goldblatt, an Internal not maneuverable. But the in-(Revenue Service specialist, ternationaily recognized signal! studied the handwriting and Nazi Past Sees Medal Taken Back BOXX. Germany (AP) A jhigh Bonn decoration, awarded to a convicted German war criminal, Wednesday was ordered taken from him after Communist press reports had pointed out his Nazi past.

Former SS Maj. Heinrich Buetefisch had been sentenced by an American war crimes court to six years in prison for using concentration camp inmates as slave laborers. He received the Grand Cross of the Federal Order of Merit last month for helping rebuild German industry. West German President Hein- Luebke, after learning of Buetefisch's wartime record, ordered that the decoration be taken from him. said: "It is my opinion.

does not ask for help. This was the last known sighting of the Sulphur Queen The Coast Guard believes the 524-! i pa nn 44 f--i. 7- the writings were made fav Walter J. Pleasant" foot vessel sank that day. "She must have gone down, like that!" said Rear Adm I James D.

Craik with a snap of' the fingers. The date was Feb. 4. Mrs. Ada Heard, whose hus-1 sailed on the Sulphur Queen as a messman.

HIS DABBY MISSING AT SEA -Mrs. Ada Heard holds her one-year- old son, Kim, at their Norfolk, home. Kim's father, Aaron, was a wiper on the S. S. Marine Sulphur Queen that vanished at sea 13 months ago with its crew of 39.

Ship was en route from Beaumont, Texas, to Nor- folk, and was last seen Feb. 4, 1963. Kim was Tjorn the same day in a Norfolk hospital. Mrs. Heard has six other children.

It is hoped a Coast Guard investigation report may shed light on the sea mystery- Mrs. Heard believes the ship was captured by the Cubans and delivered to the Russians. (AP). Pope Paul Addresses Tourists VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Paul VI, addressing himself to tourists who flock by the thousands to Rome for Easter, Wednesday urged them to become devout pilgrims too. Speaking in his weekly general audience, Pope Paul remarked that Easter was ap-j sroaching.

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the Cubans and delivered to mangy menu, despicable door-j crooked streets of Greenwich) Buildings Commissioner Ha- Russians. I believe my husband man. horrible host, rold Birns said the area has and the other members or awful owner and mali-j The Citj Buddings Depart- been zoned for limited local re- crew are being held prisoner in cious manager." ordered 11 coffeehouses tail use and the coffee houses, Russia." Gone forever, perhaps, is 'an- jand four open-front stores to dis- which provide The suspicion of world not unlike the Ara! continue operations on the are not permitted in such involvement frequently was bian Nights" the they "contribute to a jtncts. voiced during the search for the i emblazoned on a sign over the I honky-tonk that vi- Thus ended another battle in Sulphur Queen only of the Club Bizarre, jolates a new zoning resolution. city's war on coffee houses months after ihe Cuban missile The boss at the Feenjon The four-block area affected j--many of which have brought crisis.

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