:. .- .. '. ~. - Y MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1952 ~-'-:-- ". '- 20 Pages ~ '5e DAlLY ~avy Tug Hits Mine; Lost~ 92 Saved ----~-- .-.... __ .. _- ._-------------:-:--:--------. Craft Sinks ,. Navy officers in Tokyo said 10ff I(orea In numerous f10atinr mines had been sij hted In the Hunrnam Vice Adrn. Joseph J. Clark ot I area following- a typhoon which Pryor. Okla .. commander of the 20 Minutes roared acress the-Korean. pen- --.-( Seventh Fleet. today commended 1 Lt. Howard "for the COUTag-eO\l!! insula two weeks ace. It was manner In which he directed and probably one of these that sunk i Other Ships Conduct effected the rescue of hts pu-. the S~I, they said. All-Night Hunt For. sonnet after the !inkinr of h~! Thre~ ·sbipsarriveq. ~tJ,gescene shill. His actions were in keep- w.it'\lt;{tb/nf1m1if~M~ "all-night Survivors of Sarsi Ing- with the highest tradlUons search for survivors. One of those of the Naval service." rescued was the commanding 'ot- TOKYO (APl-The U.S. Navy The survivor! were put aboard , fleer. Lt. W. M. Howard, of Nor- TUC Sarsi struck a mine and sank the Auxiliary Oiler USS Platte for folk. Va. within 20 minutes off the east coast transportation to Sasebo. Extra c The search was initiated by the of North Korea at midnight Wed- - doctors and medical corpsmen d Destroyer USS Boyd and the Mine- nesday. the Navy announced here boarded the Platte from ships off sweepers USS ZeOil and USS Com- today. ~ortheastern Korea to care for the ,- petenl after they were unable .to Two crew members were killed injured. e reach the Sarsi by radio. Ot1!er aDd three are missing. The dead are Chief Quartermas" :1 ships joined the search later and a ter Raymond S. 1'arrish and Stew- helicopter was dispatched to .the The explosion destroyed the Sarsl's communications equip- ard Second Class Hampton C. Car- i scene at dawn. _ .ent and no distress siC11al ter. both of San Diego. Calif. i Lleut. Howard. one of the first amid be sent. I- Listed as missing are Radarman . to be pulled from the water. di- a Third Class Robert T. Slattery ot I reeled the rescue ships to life- Three ships. whose captains be Milford. Mass.: Damage Control- ! rafts and boats, came worried when they could not Ii man First Class Charles H. Kunseh The job of fb:ing the number ol nuke radio contact with the Sar si Jr .. of Omaha. Neb.: and Yoeman started an ImmedIate search and d Third Class Hubert N. Demarest. missing crewmen was complicated by the loss of all records and the rescued 92 of the fleet tug's crew o Parsippany. N.J. of 97. e ------------~----- dispersal of survivors among many rescue vessels. When early flgure~ The survivors. Including {our - -. _...••- _T ..L were checked. it was feared that seriously injured. were due to more than 50 men had been lost. arrive today at the U.S. Navy Base Later. when reports of survivors at Sasebo. in Southern Japan. picked up by various ships were 'the 1589-ton Sarst struck a mine . in. the list dwindled to three miss- three miles from Hungnam and . Ing and two known dead. saul: in 120 feet of water. Hungnam is the port from which Allied fones were evacuated during the first Chinese Communist offensive in December. 1950..