Show STEAMER FLASHES DISTRESS SIGNAL HALIFAX March March- 26 UP The UP The Belgian steamship Jean Jadot which has figured In two marine disasters sice she was built six years ago was in distress miles miles' east of Halifax today Another storm battered essel vessel the tiny Bermuda packet was nearing port In tow of ot the salvage salvage sal sal- vage tug Foundation Franklin Rudder broken require assistance assistance assistance assist assist- ance no immediate danger d the Jean Jadot reported The Jean Jadot first broke into the news In 1932 when she collided with the Gloucester schooner Eleanor Eleanor Eleanor Elea Elea- nor Nickerson or off Halifax The schooner Vent went to the bottom with 21 of her crew Last December the Jean Jadot hove to alongside the disabled British British Brit Brit- ish freig freighter t I Usworth in ill and put out but a a. lifeboat on mountain mountainous ous seas In one of the most heroic of Atlantic rescues the Jean Jadot's Jadol's men took off oft 14 4 seamen from the I Usworth then started the hazardous hazard hazard- ous trip back to the Belgian freighter A great wave capsized the lifeboat lifeboat life lite- boat sending 12 Us Usworth worth men and two iwo from the Jean Jadot to death Three more British seamen were drowned b before fore the sinking freighter freight freight- er was abandoned The liner Ascania As As- cania rescued 12 |