CATASTROPHE: Inferno Afloat

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While the suspicion of incendiarism was making big black headlines, the chief of the Havana Port Police advanced this idea: "The Morro Castle fire seems to have been the work of Communists, ap parently of a passenger who boarded the ship with firemaking chemicals in his ]baggage."

Meanwhile the Santa Rita of the Grace Line, bound north from Valparaiso, Chile, limped into Balboa, Canal Zone, with a suspicious fire in her hold. Said some of her officers: "The fire here and also that on the Morro Castle were the work of an international radical organization."

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