Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1927, Page 4

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I regretted this later, be- cause tho visibility around the sub- marine was very poor, and at best I could see only about 4 feet ahead. When I had completed my tests I called into the telephone transmitter: “Everything is all right. Carry me to the descending line.” This was the line leading down into the ocean from the yellow buoy. The men on the Falcon moved the diving stage over to the line. I threw one arm and one leg around it to guide my descent and slid down as rapidiy as possible, The whole drop of 17 fathoms, 102 feet, took less than a minute, T landed on the extreme top of the conning tower between both periscopes. At least we had found the | submarine. Heard Signal at Once. I climbed down off the conning towey to the forward deck. On landing there I heard a faint signal. I hadn’t sent any signals. But they must have heard the thump of my shoes, weight- ed with lead, when I started forward and stepped down on a projection of the conning tower. The signal was a tapping sound. I started along the deck in the direction 1 though it was coming from. I heard it again and then sent a signal by hit- ting with my hammer on a metal part of the deck. I hit once The answer came imme- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927. GRIFFIN ANSWERS NAVY ON §-4 DISASTER SALVAGING EFFORTS New York Representative Asserts Safety Devices Already Tested Have Not Been Provided for Vessels. but I knew 1 couldn’t use them if I wore the clumsy mittens. These are very stiff and have only three fingers, one for the thumb and two for the four fingers. So I coated my hands with-grease and pulled on a pair of woolen mittens. I also took a lamp and, of course, I had my knife. To reach the spot where “Mike” was trapped I slid down on his life- line. When I got above him I saw he was lying face down on the for- ward deck of the submarine. His airline was drawn across his back in a big loop. One side was held in a U-shaped piece of wreckage on the starboard side. The other side was fouled on what I think was a piece of steel from the bog of the Paulding, the craft which collided with the S-4. It was caught down near the bilge keel on the port side of the submarine, Because of the heavy seas “Mike’'s” airline was 150 feet more than the depth of the ocean. Usually the line is nearly taut, but we couldn’t do this here because the rescue ship was plunging up and down. Had to Send for Saw. The bottom of the U-shaped wreck- age was nearest me. I climbed down on the starboard side and tried to get the loop of airline out around the ends of the U. I found I couldn’t do this. I took hold of the U with both hands and tried to pry it apart. I soon learned this was impossible. I put my helmet close to and asked if he would hold the lamp for me. He understood, but he threw the rays in my eyes and blinded me. It wasn't that “Mike” didn't know:; he counldn’t help it. T examined the U agaln and found it was an angle iron broken almost in two. I telephoned the Falcon for a hack saw. They tied the saw to a heavy shackle and lowered it. I got it and then stepped into the wreckage and began to saw the angle iron. It took me an hour to cut through because I had to work slowly. T was afraid of breaking the brittle blade of the hack saw. Finally I cut it through and got *“Mike's” line clear. “Mike” then thought he was free and wanted to leave me. T shouted to him and said: *“You're still foul on the other side ‘Mike.” Hold the lamp while 1 clear you there.” Practically Unconscious. “Mike” was swaying and playing the light at random. He was prac- tically unconscious. But was kept from falling by the bouyancy of the air in his helmet and the upper part of his suit. I took the lamp out of his hand and went to the port side to see how he was fouled there. T climbed over the side of the submarine and sudden- ly felt myself drop rapidly, and mv feet hit on some wreckage. I found the air hose caught under a piece of fagged iron 12 feet down, and with diately. This gave me a better idea where the signals were coming from. Hoping to locate them exactly, I knelt on the next hatch I came to, and pounded with the hammer. I held my other hand palm down on the hatch, which of course was of steel and led into the torpedo room. Felt Beat on Hatch. Answering, they hit the hatch just beneath my hand. I felt it distinctly. The vibration was transmitted through my diving suit to the telephone inside the helmet so distinctly that the tor- pedo man on the Falcon, who was wearing the telephone receiving set, knew there were persons alive in the submarine even before I shouted, here's like aboard. I gave the Imprisoned men another signal, three or four taps with my hammer. Their answers were all made by six raps. They were trying to tell me there were six of them in there. I tried to learn what damage had been done. I walked aft. The amount of wreckage there was more terrific than in the case of the S-51, although the actual damage to the submarine is probably less. She was cut half way through and seemed to have been struck a little aft of the torpedo room. A hole had been torn in her hull from there to a point about eight feet forward of the gun which is on the deck forward of the conning tower. Bubbles Gave Location. . 1 walked forward again and got on the bow, because the people on the Falcon wanted to know the direction in which she was lying. I telephoned the Falcon that 1 was on the bow, and was going to walk aft. As I walk- ed the bubbles caused by escaping air from the air control vaive in my hel- met rose to the surface. They formed a line, showing the direction the sub. marine was headed. Her bow pointed southwest. ‘When I got aft I tried the conning tower with my hammer to see if there was life inside. I recelved no answer. I tried to look inside through the four-inch glass portholes, but I couldn’t see anything. I mext walked farther aft along the port side. I then felt myself checked by my air- line, and found it had fouled on both the radio antenna and the yard arm of the signal mast of the submarine. I knelt and, reaching as far as I could, I raped again with the ham mer. Byt I got no answer. I con- vinced myself the only life aboard was in the forward part. I started for- ward again. On my way I stopped at the conning tower and opened the hatch leading to the connection for the salvage line. The officers on the Falcon asked me if I was satisfled with my inspection and I replied that 1 was. They said that they had an- other man ready to come down and asked me to stand by to go up. Stopped on Way Up. The men above pulled me up by the life line until I was 40 feet beneath the surface. They held me there 5 minutes to accustom me to the change in pressure and then pulled me up 10 feet more. I remained at that depth |15 minutes and then was hauled rapldly to the top. Within 2 minutes after my diving suit had been removed 1 was in the decompression chamber. This is a sort of tank in which a diver is confined after coming to the surface. The air is pumped into it under pressure and this pressure is gradually lowered, I remained in the chamber 27 minutes. Bill Carr, chief boatswain’s mate, then went down to the submarine and secured a line of salvage air hose to the ballast tanks. After Carr came up, Chief Torpedoman F. G. Michels went down to attach a second salvage air hose. He started down at 8 o'clock Sun- day night. The Falcon was yawing badly because of the heavy seas. Under normal conditions no diving would have been attempted. Carried Powerful Lamp. ‘Mike" carried a diver's lamp of 000 watts, a device perfected dur- ing operations on the S-51. With that light he could see through the water 10 feet A northwest wind was blowing 30 miles and getting stronger. The sea as running whitecaps. The Falcon was riding to one anchor and was d aft by two hawsers. They led from each side of the after deck and were made fast to the Lark and the Mallard, which were anchored be- hind the Falcon. This was to steady her as much as possible. “Mike” had been down half an hour when he signaled that he was fouled. His air line had become tangled within two or three minutes after he landed on the submarine and he had spent the rest of the time trying to free himself. When “Mike's” signal came I was in my bunk asleep. I was called by Capt. Hartley. He told me “Mike” was fouled, and that they would like to have me go down. The men on deck were waiting with the diving suit and as fast as I could get into my woolen underclothes and socks 1 rushed to the after deck. L knew it was important to have my hands free on this dive, because the air line swaying under it the iron would soon have cut the hose in two. It took me less than a minute to get the air line loose. I then opened the air-control.valve and let more air into my suit to give me additional buoyancy. I started to climb up the side of the submarine, but caught the leg of my trousers on the jagged piece of metal and ripped a hole in my div- ing suit. I could feel the water coming in and before I got to the deck it was up to my neck. But it couldn’t get into my helmet. My underwear and socks were soaked through. It was pretty cold, with the water only two degrees above freezing. When I got to “Mike” he seemed to have recovered a little. I tele- phoned up to haul in slack on the life line. I didn’t know “Mfke’s” life line had caught around my life line. I telephoned “all right on ‘Mike,’” and they started to haul him up. 1 felt a tug on my line and I yelled, “Don’t haul me up; haul ‘Mike. " Pulled Him Back, ‘The tugging stopped and I looked up and saw “Mike” swaying above me. His feet just within reach I pulled him down to the deck. I opened the spit cock In his helmet to release excess air and cut down his buoyancy a little; T then picked him up in my arms, this being easy because it was under water, and passed him around me so he was clear of my life line. T closed the spit cock, and thinking it would be better if we could get to the descending line, I started walking toward the conning tower. I mo- tioned “Mike” to follow, and held the lamp behind me so he could see. ‘When I got to the line I looked back for “Mike.” He was nowhere in sight. T kept playing the lamp toward where I had left him. But I couldn’t see him. I telephoned up and asked, “Where is ‘Mike’?” I didn't get my answer. They said, “Do you want to come up?” It was so cold I didn’t think I could hold out much longer so I said, “Yes, please haul me up.” Rushed to Surface. Before the line became taut I walked back on the deck of the submarine and played the light all around to make sure “Mike” was being pulled up. They hauled me straight from the bottom to the surface without making any stops for decompression because my suit was full of water. They rushed me into the decompression chamber and I got out of my suit. “Mike” was in there too. We had to cut his suit and gloves off his under- wear. It took two men to bend his knee. ‘We rapped “Mike™ in blankets soaked in hot water. 1 got my own underwear off and wrapped up in a blanket. They.ran the air pressure up to 60 pounds, 10 more than the pressure on the bottom, at the place where the submarine was sunk. I was sitting by “Mike’s” side watching him at 3:30 o’clock Monday morning when he first opened his eyes. Covyright. 1927, in all countries by North ‘American’ Néwspaver Alliance. S-4 DISASTER PROBE IS STARTED BY NAVY Admiral Jackson Named Prosident of Board of In- quiry. With efforts being made again to de- termine whether there is still life aboard the submarine S-4, and with the salvaging fleet doing everything possible, the Navy today turned to another angle in the case, and that is the investigation to determine the blame, if any, for the disaster and at the same time to gather as much in- formation as possible which might be used by the experts in planning against accidents in future. Rear Admiral Richard H. Jackson, a member of the Navy's General Board, and who but recently assumed that duty after having relinquished command of the battle fleet, was named president of the board of in. quiry by Secretary Wilbur. The other members of the board will be Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer, com- mandant of the fourth naval district and the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and Capt. Joseph V. Ogan, submarine ex- pert, who commanded the division of V-type submarines. Comadr. Leslie E. Bratton will be judge advocate. The investigation is to be started at the Boston Navy Yard, the precept directing that it convene there at 10 o'clock a.m. Wednesday, January 4, or as soon thereafter as practicable. It was ordered to make “a thorough investigation into all the eircum- stances connected with the loss of the S4, the causes thereof, damages to property resulting therefrom, injuries to personnel incidental thereto and the responsibility therefor.” Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, com- mandant of the Boston Navy Yard, was directed to furnisi all necessary “Mike's” last signal was “tell Eadie to bring the heavy wire cutters.” The boys had the cutters ready, ;ledrlml dlulnmr;cn and to ald lhde udze sdvocate in recording proceed- ings ol the court, 1" A {4 BY ANTHONY J. GRIFFIN, Representative from New York. The shocking disaster to the U. S. submarine S-4 and the slow torturing death of its brave crew, after days of agonizing suspense, have awakened the sympathy and aroused the indig- nation of the| American public. People everywhere are asking “Why, with its splendid personnel of An- napolis graduates and the Treasury of the United States at its dis- posal, the Navy authorities have neither provided proper vessels nor installed the latest devices to prevent such accidents or facilitate the prompt raising of the stricken vessel?” And it is fur- ther asked: “If the Navy Department does not want to adopt the safety de- vices of other navies, why does it not improve them or devise others to take their place?” Since the sinking of the S51 on September 25, 1925, I have been pound- ing the Navy Department to submit to Congress an estimate for the con- struction of salvage vessels such as are provitled in the navies of Germany, France and Italy. I have also urged the installation of telephone signal buoys to be released when a subma- rine founders and which will instantly indicate its position apd permit tele- phone communication with the crew. Favors Grappling Rings. 1 have also urged the installation of grappling rings to be permanently af- fixed to the hulls of submarines to en- able the divers to immediately hook on the lifting chains, instead of cling- ing to the present barbarous, clumsy and obsolete method of sending divers down to flounder around in the mud and silt of the bottom, blowing tunnels under the sunken vessels through which chains can be passed and slung around it to enable it to be raised. These three suggestions are not mere speculation—they refer to ap- proved and well tested devices. The Navy's answers to these sug- gestions appear in The Washington Star of December 20. Whoever is re- sponsible for the statement says that the signal marker buoys “were at one time installed in all submarines” and then proceeds to say that “owing to the danger of their aceidental release, due to the shock of depth charges, or other causes, all marker buoys were removed from all submarines during the World War.” Such guileless simplicity or stu- pidity seems inconceivable! Why was it necessary to entirely remove them? Could they not have been battened down in time of war, so that when peace came they could be restored to operation? And when the war was over why were they not replaced? ‘Were they still afraid of the shock of depth charges in times of peace or did they just forget? Suggests Electric Alarm. But even in time of war there was no.excuse to entirely remove these valuable adjuncts. Any electrician in the Navy could, ni a few hours, insert in the deck housing of the buoy a spring_electric contact which would immediately disclose in the control room the escape of the buoy and even wnnounce the fact by the ringing of a bell. As to grappling rings, I suggested this device in_July, 1905, after the sinking of the French submarine Far- fadet. The Navy defenders say that all submarines were formerly equipped with these devices, but he goes on to say, “owing to the large size of the present submarines, it is not consid- ered practicable to lift them by means of a limited number of lifting eyes secured to the hull.” But why should they be limited? Division of weight divides the strain on the lifting chains. Why not put on eight or ten or tweive? ‘When T criticized this neglect in a speech in the House on January 20, 1926, while the poor $-51 lay stuck in the mud for months off Block Island, some wiseacre in the Navy gave as an excuse that lifting eves bolted to the hull of the modern heavy submarines would tear out under the strain and rip the hull open. Steel Belts Proposed. I replied to this that no intelligent mechanic would ever think of riveting such an eye bolt to the hull of such heavy vessels and suggested the weld- ing of broad steel bands or belts at in- tervals around the hull and connect the grappling rings or eve bolts to them. My suggestion was published in the Army and Navy Journal and I continued: “Such a band or belt would take the strain off the hull and obviate the necessity of pottering around in the mud to sling chains around a vessel 20 or 80 fathoms deep. The S-51 was sunk on September 25, 1925. Two separate attempts were made to raise it. She was not even- tually raised until July 5, 1926—nearly 10 months afterwards—at the loss of tens of thousands of dollars and d tracting from their duties over 12 ves- sels and their crews aggregating over 600 men. One would imagine that the waste of such time and money— not to speak of the loss of 33 brave sailors—would have stimulated, even| hide-bound bureaucrat, to some effort to bring our Navy up to date in its humane side—as we all hope it is in_its destructive side. The article T am addressing myself to makes no pretense whatever of answering my suggestion that the | Navy demand of Congress the author- ity to provide itself with salvage ves- sels of the special design used in the | navies of Germany, France and Italy but Admiral Richard H. Leigh, chief | of navigation, is quoted in one of to- | day’s papers as saying “the Navy De- | partment had several salvage craft at | New London, Conn., at the time and | enough were at the scene by Sunday morning to begin rescue operations at | once had not the New England gale made such work impossible. i Criticize Navy Explanation, H That, of course, is somewhat of an | exaggeration, If the so-called “sal vage vessels” were on the spot on Sun- day morning and “ready to begin op- | erations” (36 hours after the disaster), how could they do anything without the pontoons, which did not arrive | from the Brooklyn Navy Yard until Monday night (three days after the disaster), and which even then could not be towed to the scene and were obliged to be moored in the harbor? | And in the meantime our poor sailors were penned in the dark chamber of death anxiously awaiting the rellef of | death! How can human beingd be 8o ! callous or so obstinate as to refuse | to try all means to avert or at least | mitigate such cruelty to men to whom the country owes so much? If the salvage vessels of which the distinguished admiral speaks were | really and truly salvage vessels as | Representative Griffin the term is understood in other navies they would be equipped with and al- ways have at hand the necessary pon- toons. But If the submarines had the grappling rings or eye bolts, 1 have above referred to, the stupid, the wreck would be reduced to a few hours. Divers would descend, slip their chains through the eyebolts and signal: “Haul away.” Civilian Work Praised. I short, it Is true today, as it al- ways has been, the Navy has never welcomed a suggestion from the out- side. And yet the submarine itself and all of its developments have seen due to the ingenuity and enthusiasm of civilians such as John P. Holland, the Irish schoolmaster, and Simon Lake. The article T am ecriticizing also tries to give valid reasons for the failure of the Navy Department to give approval to safety chambers or life boats in which the crews can escape. I approach this phaze of the subject with some hesitancy because I happen to be the inventor of such a device, but I hasten to say that I never had a thought of deriving from it any financial advantage whatsoever. It is at the disposal of the Navy with- out a cent of compensation any time they care to adopt it. They must, however, give some better reasons for condemning it than any so far vouchsafed. a My device is an elliptical steel raft to be fitted into the deck of the sub- marine and housed between the deck and the hull proper of the submarine with a hatch leading to the interior. It is designed to fit flush with the deck and will thus offer no resistance to the ship’s motion. It was planned originally in 1910 to provide for the shelter of about 15 men which was the usual crew of submarines then in use. Might Use Several Rafts. But there is no prohibition against the use of two or more of them to aceo : -ndate the crews of the larger subu:. ..nes of today. As they would only take up 15 feet of deck space longitudinally there is no reason in the world why one could not be fitted over each compartment of the mod- ern type of submarine. The S-4 is 231 feet long. Four of the chambers would only take up 60 feet of deck space. As a sample of the Navy way of reasoning, 1 quote this from the ar- ticle in question: “Assuming that a device of the lifeboat type which would not detract from the military value of the vessel can be devised, there is no assurance that the open- ing through which access to this lifeboat is obtained will not be one of the compartments which is flooded and which prevents the vessel from rising to the surface.” The answer is, of course, have one connected to each of the compartments! The article printed in The Star has this subtitle: “Practically All Sug- gestions Have Been Tried But Found Useless.” This is a joke. No one ever heard of the Navy trying any- thing unless it came from a Navy source or had been tried in other countries! Signal Bombs Recalled. Why, this very accident would have been avoided if the Navy ‘“‘ex- perts” had even obeyed orders! ‘When Franklin D. Roosevelt was Secretary of the Navy he “gave orders” to install signal bombs on every submarine designed to be dis- charged when the vessel was coming to the surface. These bombs were designed to emit different-colored smoke—red, green and vellow and would hover over the surface for three minutes; thus warning vessels in the viclnity that a submarine was about to emerge. Let some one tell us why that de- vice has not been installed and how Roosevelt’s orders were defied. The Germans have devised a steel one-man submarine in which the diver who operates it can descend and ascend and work absolutely in- dependent of outside pressure. ‘The ordinary diver requires about an hour and 30 minutes to reach a depth of 100 feet, as he has to stop for 20 minutes at ‘every 30 feet to ad- just himself to the pressure of the water. o This device was offered to the United States Navy in 1924 and yet no steps have been taken to adopt it, although its feasibility has been tested. Let some one tell us why? SHIFTING O.F AGENCIES. Bill Transfers Civilian Engineer Units From War Department. By the Assoclated Press, The transfer of civilian engineering activities of the War Department to the Interior Department is proposed in a bill by Representative Wyant, Republican, Pennsylvania. Among the agencies which would be shifted are the Mississippi River Commission, the Inland Waterway Corporation, the California Debris Commission, the Bureau of Road Com- missioners in Alaska and the Alaska cable and telegraph system. The Bureau of Public Roads also would be transferred from the Agri- cultural to the Interior Department. Clark Memogial Proposed. By the Assoclated Press. Erection of a nfemorial to George Rogers Clark, the pioneer, at Har. rodsburg, Ky., atga cost of $100,000, was proposed In a bill yesterday by Representative ~Gllbert, Democrat, Kentucky. Le‘ The Star Christmas A subscription to The Star— NAVY 1S CRITICIZE INS4 OPERATIONS Member of Congress De- clares Time Was Wasted in Rescue Efforts. By the Assoclated Press. COTUIT, Mass., December 22.—Open criticism of the “inactivity of the Navy” at the scene of the S-4 disaster and refusal of officials in charge of rescue and salvage attempts to give “the truth to the newspaper men’ found in Provincetown ‘on _every hand” by Congressman Charles L. Gif- ford of Cotuit, Mr. Gifford said today. “‘Why don't they do something?’ is the cry heard everywhere in Prov- incetown,” Mr. Gifford said. “T went to Provincetown because of the ter- rific criticism that came to me. knew the people there would tell me just how they felt. While I dislike to say too much, I found their criticism obviously justified. “When the S-4 was lost all day yes- terday, from morning to night, why wouldn’t they give those newspaper boys the truth? “They wouldn’t tell the newspaper men that the submarine was lost. They gave out wrong stories, and the boys had to resort to speculating in many cases. The rope attached to the submarine never should have become detached or broken, causing yester- day’s delay. They could have worked all day vesterday. They could have worked the day before. “The Navy is going to say that there wasn't buoyancy enough to raise the submarine. But they didn’t even attempt it. Why didn’t they try? The accident never would have happened at all if the tender supposed to have been over the submarine at all times hadn't been in Provincetown Harbor, miles away, at the time.” MAY CHANGE NAVY POLICY. Disaster Emphasizes Need for Submarine Look-outs. The disaster that befell the subma- rine S-4 may result in a change in naval policy that will provide for a look-out of surface vessels while a submarine is submerged in practice maneuvers. In the opinion of Secretary Wilbur, all other devices, such as buoys and sounders, have been found impractic- able by naval experts. He believes that of these contrivances none could be used in time of war and that prac- tice maneuvers are designed to get performance as near to war-time tac- tics as possible. If destroyers had been patrolling the Massachusetts waters in which the S-4 was maneuvering they could have warned the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding of the position of the sub- marine and a collision would have been avoided, it was held. Under_the" circumstances Secretary Wilbur beleves, from available infor- mation, that the accident was unavoid- able. 'But that naval experts, in giving close studies in an effort to prevent another such catastrophe, should take into consideration the opportunities which probably lie in a surface patrol for guarding sub- marines. Scant Reply to Attacks. Naval officials are making few state- ments concerning. the attacks being made on them as a result of the S-4 disaster. They expressed interest to- day in the statements made by Rep- resentative Gifford and his Massachu- setts constituents, but other than to| say that they hardly considered Mr. Gifford or the Cape Cod fisherman whom he quoted as being sufficiently expert on deep sea diving to judge @onaitions under which it could be car- ried on with safety., They refused to comment. The statement made Sunday by naval officials that the Wandank was a tender ship and was not supposed to be over the submersible for protection purposes was reiterated in answer to Mr. Gifford’s charge that the ship was miles away when it should have been over the submarine. —e- Births Reported. The following births have been reported to the Health Department in the past 24 hours . an : 84 B. and Agnes Clark. boy. George H. and Lowise A. Eppard, boy, Fairfax M. and Mildred M. Atherton, boy Robert R. and Vera Cassilly. boy. Robert N. and Hazel C. Hardy, girl. Leroy E. ‘and Mary A."Seipn, sirl, John M.’ and Margaret F. Foley. girl, Clarence A. and Emma B. Trainum. girl. Walter A. and Emma B. S irl, Arthur ‘and Beatrice Anderson, boy. Bradley and_Elizabeth Harris. boy. Martin J. and i Arthur and Dorothy Jones. boy. ‘Anderson and_Jegsie Brown. boy. Lemial and Roberta Batten, William and Lillie Crockett, Augustus_and Mabel Green, ' girl. Dolan and Julia McClain, girl. GOODHART’S STATIONERY OFDISTINCTION /& A box of personal stationery makes a most acceptable «ift From $1.00 to $2.75 per Box Including name and address or mono- gram on paper and envelopes. We pav postage on out-of-town orders. 825 11th St. N.W. Main 8172 Carry Your Greetings Thurston Offers Yogi Secrets to Conserve Oxygen Demonstrations of methods to conserve oxygen in air-tight com- partments yesterday were offered to the Navy for the use of its subma- rine officers and other Navy person- nel by Howard Thurston, the stage magician, who telegraphed his offer to the Secretary of the Navy from Philadelphia. No action has been taken on the offer, as it could not be of any use at this late date to the men imprisoned in the torpedo room of the S-4. wired,” “have discovered hitherto unknown methods for conservation of oxygen in small air-tight com- partments. “By these methods the Hindu Yogi remained alive for long periods of time with very little air. I offer my services to impart and demon- strate this knowledge to naval and submarine officers.” ADMIRAL ABANDONS HOPE OF RESCUING S-4 VICTINS ALIVE (Continued from First Page.) room and the long process of expel- ling the foul air was started. There was no sound from the steel shell and had not been for more than 36 hours, but Navy efficers hoped al- most against hope that, though uncon- scious, the men still breathed. The air line connection was made after a day of heartbreaking delay occasioned by the “loss” of the subma- rine by the fleet. It was the best day for work since the S-4 was sent hurtling down through 105 feet of water by the de- stroyer Paulding last Saturday. The sea was smooth, the wind, which for two days had blown at gale force, had died away and the temperature at the bottom had risen almost 17 degrees to 51, permitting divers to work in com- parative comfort. But when the fleet prepared to take advantage of the favorable weather consternation arose when it was dis- covered that a line leading from the S-4 to a marking buoy had become detached and the vessel was lost. _ Submarine Found Again. Divers were rushed below the sur- face from the mine sweeper Falcon, flagship of Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, commanding the rescue forces, and for hours they patrolled the bottom of the ocean. It was not until after dark that the shattered hulk was located by grap- pling and Diver D. M. Bird shouted through the telephone, “I'm on the submarine.” At once work was redoubled and by 9:30, half an hour before the air line was connected, seven men had taken turns below the water. Officers estimated that should life still exist in the torpedo room it would take at least four hours to revive the men sufficiently to allow them to re- spond to signals. Immediately upon receipt of a sig- nal from inside the compartment, air would be cut off temporarily, it was planned, and hot soup sent through the hose. ‘The first air which escaped from the torpedo room through the “life” line bore an odor of rancid oil for which officers aboard the Falcon were unable to account. d Samples of the air were taken for analysis. An actual start of thé work of bring- ing air to the suffocating men was made at 9 o'clock when Divers “Tug” Wilson and Joseph Eiben were low- ered together. An hour later they had attached a hose to the S-C tube or listening device after taking off the cap. Air Turned On. Air was turned on at 150-pound pres- sure for two minutes and then allowed to return. The pressure at first of Shades Extra Milk Cream the returning air was 2 4 pounds. This process was at frequent intervals. 1 At 10:30 the ivers retursdd khithe surface and at 11:45 Thomas Eadie, the man who first discovered that - there was life in the submarine, was, sent down. He fastened another hose, thus doubling the intake. A survey of the bow of the sub- marine was started at once to de- termine the difficulty of raising fit, while, in the meantime, the Falcom continued to pump air below. Diver Thomas Eadie, who preceded Scott down to the submarine, said that the bow of the vessel, which had dived deep into the soft mud bottom when the S-4 was rammed and sunk on Saturday by the Coast Guard destroyer Paulding, had come up somewhat since. He said that 18 feet of the submarine’s bow was clear and that & line could be passed under it much trouble. - May Have Used Torpedo Air. A peculiar odor resembling that of rancid ofl continued to ba noticed in the air vented from the torpedo room. The theory was suggested that the imprisoned men had let out the com. pressed air in the torpedoes when the air supply in the chamber began to fail, and that oil had been released at the same time. i Comdr. Edward Ellsberg, in charge of diving operations, let it be known after a conference with Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, directing the salvage work, and with other officers that the next activity of the salvage corps would be to see whether chains could not be passed under the how. If the resuit of this survey is favor. able the large pontoons brought here from Brooklyn Navy Yard will be used. These saw service in the salvag. Ing of the S-51, which was sunk in & collision off Block Island two years ago. The Coast Guard destroyer Pa which rammed. and sank. 1 ! marine S-4 at the entrance to Pro town Harbor, left for Boston Navy Yard this morning for repairs in tow of the Coast Guard cutter Tampa. KING GEORGE BANS U. S.-BRITISH NAVAL BUILDING RIVALRY (Continued from First Page) delegates of my government put for- ward proposals for the future limita. tion of armaments, which, it accepted, would have led to substantial reduc- tions in naval strengths and costs. I regret that though much community of View was revealed, it was not pos- sible to reach a general agreement. But in spite of this temporary failure my government has no intention of embarking upon an increase in their naval building program, which is based upon a considered view of the flTfEnslve needs of my widespread em- pire.” The speech referred to the value of thevarious colonial and interimperial conferences held in London ‘“which bring together in a spirit of comrade- ship and mutual assistance those en- gaged in similar work overseas.” King George also expressed the hope that the labors of the Indian commission would be crowned with success. War Debts Settlements. On the question of the allied war debt agreements, the speech pointed out they give effect to the policy of limiting claims on the allies “to such amounts as, together with our repa- rations receipts, will cover the obli- gations my government has itself to meet in respect to war debts.” “I note with satisfaction that fund- ing agreements have now been signed in respect to all allied war debts to this country, except that of Russia.” The speech emphasized that the ministers were watching closely the state of employment which, though improved in some parts of the coun- try, “still gives cause for anxiety in others.” The King said that to facili- tate the transfer of labor from indus- tries with restricted opportunities, particularly the coal mining industry, a board is to be appointed to recom- In nearly all building specifications Shade Shop’s Shades are specified. This is evidence of their superior ment the necessary action. Quality it i il W. 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