The Sonderborg

GRONER, District Judge,

This is a proceeding by seven foreign seamen against the Danish steamship Sonderborg, claiming wages and penalties, and, as to one of their number, reimbursement for expenses incurred by him in attempting to be cured of syphilis. Exceptions to the jurisdiction were overruled, and the ease is now submitted on the merits.

The Sonderborg is a Danish ship. The libelants are foreign seamen, two of whom are from Denmark, one from Holland, one from Germany, one from Sweden, and two _ from Norway. They were properly signed on board at New Orleans, July, 1929, the articles…