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Tells plans, s at Cook Co Dem picnic, Chicago
NEWPORT, R.I., Sept 27. -- The hole in the port side of the S-51, now resting on the bottom off Block Island, is three feet across and eight or nine feet deep, according to Chief Torpedoman J.W. Ingraham, who was the first navy diver to be sent down to the sunken craft.
Salvage ship Monarch to attempt to lift it with cranes; 1st attempt to lift hull ends in failure, divers to be sent to explore boat from stem to stern; statement by Admr Christy; J W Ingraham, navy diver, believes all crew are dead after having failed to get any response; official inquiry starts; Pres Doumergue sends sympathy of France Pors of Capt J H Diehl of the City of Rome and of survivors
Paulist Fathers Ch of St Paul the Apostle, 60th St
ON BOARD THE S.S. CAMDEN OFF BLOCK ISLAND, BY WIRELESS TO NEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 27. -- Dawn tomorrow will see the beginning of what may be the final attempt of the force under Admiral H.H. Christy to rescue the possible survivors of the sunken submarine S-51, when two civilian divers will undertake the exploration of the submersible from stem to stern.
1925Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (died 1996)[†]
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois said that Cray is "the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry."
1925Cromwell Everson, South African composer (died 1991)[†]
Cromwell Everson was primarily known as a composer during his lifetime. He was brought up as an Afrikaner by his mother, Maria De Wit and father, Robert Everson. He continued this tradition and all his children were brought up as Afrikaners.
1925Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (died 2006)[†]
Martin David Kruskal was an American mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, ranging from plasma physics to general relativity and from nonlinear analysis to asymptotic analysis. His most celebrated contribution was in the theory of solitons.
1925Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888)[†]
Pierre Paul Vermoyal was a French stage and film actor.