Cruise Ship Mazatlan, Formerly The
SS Alaska, Is Jinxed And Will Be Sold
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP — S.S.
Mazatlan, known from Alaska to
Mexico as a cruise ship turned
jinx, may yield her 75 crew mem
bers $700 each through her im
pending sale at San Pedro, Calif.,
says union agent Norm Cunning
ham.
The Liberian-registered Mazat
lin, formerly the SS. Alaska, has
been impounded in San Pedro by
port authorities and tenders have
been called to satisy debts.
Cunningham, business agent
for the Seafarers’ International
Union said the union has obtained
a lien against the ship for about
$54,000 in back pay.
The Canadian crew of the 6,000
tonner returned here last July
after a "cruise in which the ship
ran into its most spectacular run
of bad luck. She was built here in
1918.
For 30 years she plied the Pacif
ic coast between Seattle and Alas
ka as a United States-registered
cruise ship. She switched to Liber
ian registry last year and changed
her name. As the Mazatlan, the
vessel was picketed in several
Canadian ports until the SIU
reached agreement in Victoria
that the ship would have a Cana
dian crew.
So the Mazatlan sailed on her
latest voyage.
The returning crew told how
they signed' on May 29 for a two
week cruise to Acupulco, Mexico,
which took more than a month.
Peter (Pop! McMullen, an en
gine room wiper, said “the boilers
started popping like com” after
the first few days out.
“Then everything went wrong.”
Passengers housed in below
decks staterooms were forced to
sleep on deck due to lack of air
conditioning.
The ship put into La Paz, Mexi
co, when it ran short of oil. There,
the hoses got mixed up and the oil
was pumped into the water tanks.
Also, there was no cash aboard to
buy provisions.
Pop McMullen said the ship’s
La Paz agent gave 'them “26
watermelons and two packs of
wieners.”
When they put back to sea, only
one of four boilers functioned and
it blew out. The Mazatlan drifted
helplessly for 2C hours until a tug
towed her to San Pedro.
Before the ship made port, pro
visions ran short and the 96 per
sons aboard raided lifeboat ra
tions, living on “pancakes, crack
ers and jam.”
In San Pedro, her luck held bad.
A customs official, investigating
the reported disappearance of 110
cases of liquor, turned a water tap.
Out came Scotch whisky which
had somehow been put into the
water system.
American Legion Plans
Half Billion Dollar Boost
In Veterans’ Pensions
WASHINGTON, W1—'The Amer
ican Legion told Congress Thurs
day its No. 1 legislative goal this
year is a half billion dollar boost
in veterans’ pensions.
The plan would increase indiv
idual pension payments and make
more veterans eligible for them.
National Commander J. Adding
ton Wagner said passage of the
Legion’s pension bill would “spell
the difference between existing
and living” for thousands of vet
erans.
But chairman Olin E. Teague
<D-Tex> of the House Veterans
Affairs Committee indicated in
advance of Wagner’s prepared
testimony the Legion plan will
face cool treatment in Congress.
Teague disclosed he had turned
down a Legion request that he
introduce its bill. And he said the
committee would not take up the
Legion plan before it has dis
posed of such other items as hos
pital repair, scholarships for vet
erans’ orphans and “equalization
of various veterans’ benefits.
American Fish Catch In
55 Was Below That of ’54
WASHINGTON, UP — The Fish
and Wildlife Service estimated to
day that the American fish catch
in 1955 was down 2 per cent in
weight and 10 per cent in value
below 1954.
The 1955 take was estimated at
4,600,000,000 pounds compared
with 4,700,000,000 in 1954, and
fishermen received about 10 per
cent less, in payment, than the
360 million dollars paid them in
1954.
Sharp declines in catches of
higher priced fish, especially sal
mon, tuna and halibut, caused the
decline in value.
The salmon catch was 286 mil
lion pounds, down from 323 mil
lion in 1954, and its value was 24
million dollars, or 10 million dol
lars lower than in the preceding
year. The 1955 salmon pack was
3.325,000 cases, smallest since
1906.
House To Hear Plan To
Transfer Control Fishery
And Game To Territory
WASHINGTON, UP — Delegate
Bartlett said today Feb. 16 has
been set as the tentative date to
begin a hearing on his bill to
transfer control of fishery and
game in Alaska from the Depart
ment of Interior to the territorial
government.
The hearing will be conducted |
by a House Interior subcommit
tee.
Under the bill, the fur-seal in
dustry would remain under fed
eral supervision with 50 per cent
of the proceeds going to the terri
tory to defray cost of administer
ing control of fish and game.
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