New York--Additional revelations of dissention and suspicion among officers of the Morro Castle in the hours before she burned at sea Sept. 8 with a loss of 134 lives were spread into the record of the federal investigation of the disaster tonight.
Sixteen hours before flames swept the $5,500,000 luxury liner off the New Jersey coast, acting Capt. William F. Warms told government investigators, Capt. Robert R. Wilmott, her master, was so fearful one of his officers would attack him with sulphuric acid that he locked himself in his cabin.
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