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Show Not a Crap Game Stopped When Transport Sprung Leak Afar Out XEW YORK. N. Y.. Jan. 14. (By the Associated Press.) A thousand doughboys returning from Qermdn) on the transport Crook, learned today for the first ime that their ship had sprung a leak lost Tuesday and had been In danger during t;re;it gab s Dial swept the north Atlantic. "Not a crap game stopped," was the smiling comment of Captain Frank Reppa as '.he Crook was being lashed to her pier at the transport S.aso In Brooklyn. Tho transport St Mohoel. which had been dispatched to her assistance, accompanied ac-companied her up to the bay. Tho donghboya eagerly scanned tho newspapers giving accounts of the pliglv. of the Crook and then remarked remark-ed that seasickness gave them m.c concern than anything else. Captain Rcppa said th it most of Ihfc crow of HO were sent below decks to plug up open seams. Some water !e tk-ed tk-ed in and it was necessary to remove baggage, t are was taken o i - that the water did not reach the coffins of 652 bodies of American sjM.. rs which were transported from lVoivh cemeteries for reinterment in then native SolK The Crook's skipper was Inclined to belittle tho experience. He said some of ehe rivets had given w.t , causing the scams to open, but that at nw time was there great danger. In addition to th !Ks nil-;. men and fifty casuals, tin Crook In. .rlr i I German brldosand eight babl s. Most of the enlisted men had be. n engaged In policing the Khlne. Many of them had seen hard fighting In the war. They were marched to Fort Hancock and soon will be sent to various parts of the country for demobilisation. Red Cross and welfare workers w ere at the docks und din rlbuteu coffee unct sandwiches to the soldiers and crew. oo - |