Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1918 — CYCLOPS CREW RESENTFUL [ARTICLE]

CYCLOPS CREW RESENTFUL

Letter From Sailor to Father Gave Forecast of Trouble Aboard Missing Naval Collier. Ballinger, Tex., April 26. —A letter from Roy Scoggins, a sailor on the missing naval collier Cyclops, received by his fathehr, J. M. Scoggins of this county, indicated that the crew of the Cyclops anticipated trouble. The letter was written just before the ship sailed from Norfolk for South America. The sailor said things had not been going well on the ship and that members of the crew were resentful. The information in the letter was placed in the hands of the federal authorities.