On the High Seas

Three weeks ago when the U. S. freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition:

"We, the undersigned members of the crew, are afraid to go to sea with Mr. Adams." Last week Mr. Adams, a mild-looking man of 39 with a Southern drawl, arrived in Manhattan, was arrested and taken before a U. S. Commissioner. He explained: "I shot the man because I was in terror --mortal terror, a condition I was never in during the War. I fired one shot and then another not knowing the first had hit him in the head." Mr. Adams was held without bail on a charge of murder on the high seas.

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