Evening star., 1937-12-13
List of Cunboat Casualties
One Member Of Grew of Panay Known Dead Il fter
Craft Is Fired on by japanese Planes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Reported aboard when the United
States gunboat Panay was bombed and
sunk: Seventy-two persons, including
IS officers and crew, members of
the United States Embassy staff from
Marking, 7 other American civilians,
l British newspaper man, 3 Italians
and 2 not accounted for
Known dead: One American sailor,
not named.
known survivors: Fifty-four per-
sons ashore at Hoshien, including is
wounded, some seriously; Of crew
picked up by British gunboat Bee.
Survivors named in dispatches:
1t. Comdr. j. j. Hughes. Panay's
commander, broken leg. .
1t. Arthur F. Anders. Panay's ex-
ecutive officer, wounded.
George Atcheson, jr., Embassy sec
retary.
j. Hall Paxton, Embassy secretary.
Capt. Frank Roberts, assistant mill
tary attache.
Emile Cassie, Embassy clerk, New
Orleans
Petty Officer Vernon Fate Puckett,
Kerens, Tex, and Stoker William T.
Hoyle, picked up by British gunboat
Bee and evidently not counted among
81 survivors at Hohsien.
Other 48 at Hohsien not named
Puckett and Hoyle reported seeing
about IL other Occidentals on river
bank, probably Panay survivors. If
so. this would cut to three those not
accounted for of the supposed total
of 70.
Americans believed aboard Panay at
the time of bombing:
1t. Clark ellison Grasier, medical
officer.
1t. q. g. Denis Harry Diverse,
Panay officer.
Norman Alley, Hollywood, Calf; !;
T. j. Broderick, Williamantic, Conn !;
Weldon James. Greenville, S. c.;
James Marshall, Seattle, Wash; A. L.
Patterson, Washington, D. c.; Roy
Squires, Seattle, Wash; Norman
Soong, Honolulu.
Non-Americans believed aboard
Colin Malcolm Mcdonald, British
newspaper man, three Italians.
Reported aboard three Standard
Oil ships bombed. two burned, one
beached.
J. v. Pickering, Cadiz, Ohio, picked
| up gunboat Bee
j. B. Sherwood, McGraw. N. Y;
D. S. Goldie; Capt C. H. Carlson of
steamer Meian (who has a brother at
Waterbury, Conn.,; P. Mender and
Jorgensen, not reported
Also not reported: Two European
captains of tankers Meihsia and Meip-
ing and about 81 Chinese seamen.
Officers and Men on Panay.
The Navy Department today gave
| out the list of officers and enlisted
| men on the U. S S. Panay which was
| prepared on October 81. Some changes
may have been made since then, the
department said. The list follows:
! 1t. Comdr. James j. Hughes, Wash
ington, D. c., commanding officer; 1t
Arthur F. Anders, Vellejo, Calf: ex-
ecutive officer; 1t. q. g. John w
Geist, Altoona, Pa; Ensign Benis H
Biwerse. Sheboygan, Wis. and 1t
Clark G. Grazier, Ingomar, Pa
medical officer.
Radioman Charles Speed Adams
Little Rock, Ark; Ships Cook Tony
Barbe. Philadelphia, Pa; Electrician'i
Mate Carl Henry Birk, Milaca, MINI.
| Gunner's Mate John Anthony Bon
koski, Conshohocken, Pa; Fireman
Ernest Claton Branch, Proctcrville
N. c.; Electricians Mate Raymond
Leroy Browning, Los Angeles. Calf.
Coxswain Walter Cheatham. Sar
Bernardino, Calf; Chief Pharmacist
Mate Thomas Allen Coleman Lisbon
La; Seaman Edward Elvin CoWden
Birmingham, Ala; Fireman Newtol
Lewis Davis, Shreveport, La; Seaman
John Allen Dirnhofer, Syracuse. N
Y: Store Keeper Charles Lee Ems
minger, Ocean Beach, Calf: Car
penter's Mate Fred George Fichten
mayer, ST. Louis, Mo.
Chief Water Tender Emery Fisher
Utica, Miss: Machinist's Mate Michae
Gerent. New Britain, Conn; Gunner,
Mate Joseph Anthony Cranes, Roches
ter, N. Y; Seaman Cecil Bernart