District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania July 17, 1956, Civ. A. No. 19982 (Mascarin v. Holland)

KRAFT, District Judge.

Domenico Mascarin, 37 years old, was born in Neresine, Province of Pola, then a part of Italy but now of Jugoslavia. Until his arrival here in 1951 virtually his entire adult life had been spent at sea, first in the Italian merchant marine, later in the Italian Navy, and after the war again as a merchant seaman. On October 15, 1951, while serving aboard the Panamanian S. S.