New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1927, Page 5

WIFE OF 3-4 MAN §A ASKS QUESTIONS| RESCUERS BELIEVE Wants to Know Why Navy Dept. | Took No Precantions Roy K. Jones, commander of the | submarine S-4, in an interview to- |several officers of the salvage fleet day ralsed four questions which she |said that when it was finally deter- {mined that no “When submarines operate all the S-4, salvage work would be aban- doned for the time. Cod, why, in Heaven's name, don’t d to the northwest today, threaten- they have pontoons at Provincetown |Ing heavy weather, and it was be- |lieved conditions would be unsuitable | tor salvage work for some time, #ald were “troubling her mind.” time eround Provincetown and Cape | and Portsmouth for rescue work?" she asked. “Why do submarines have to op- | erate off the New England coast whera the weather conditions are so terrible all the time, winter pens? “] have been told that the 5-4 was | operating In restricted waters and that Admiral Hughes was reported a8 saying it was an unavoldable ac- cldent. If that is true, why was a | destroyer making 18 knots an hour |clear of mud. in restricted waters, when a destroy- er is 5o built that it will cut a sub- marine in half? “Someone must know. “] am not criticising the navy, I} want to make that clear,” Mrs Jones said. “I am loyal to the navy like my husband. I don't know who can answer my questloris but I would like to know why."” Mrs. Jones who lives thorpe, near here, said that she thought rescue parttes would be working Sunday. She said she tele- phoned the navy department on Monday and was Informed that the pontoons wouldn't reach the sub- marine until noon of that day. at Hale- Are Jomes said that the officers |Eiben was lowered on the port side. ; |He adjusted the atr lines which had | disliked to maneuver oft the New England dived and when they came up they | were covered W ice. RESOSCITATING DEVICES SENT T0 PROVINGETOWN 1 Only Three of Type Ready For Emergency |said he was eatisfled that the navy had done all in its power to rescue | Use Boston, Dec. 22 (—Three sets of imflfln"» !for two days by gales, the oscillator |of the mine swceper Falcon, flagship |of the salvage flect, has sent signals a2t 15 minute intervals to the S-4. Baltimore, Md., Dea 23 (UP)— |There has been no sound from the Mrs. Roy K. Jones, widow of Lieut. sunken ship. and |coming from the torpedo room of summer, that three is practically no |the S-4 had become much purer but |of the divers had been heard. help for the men if anything hap- |t still had a peculiar olly smell.| {rine during the forenoon. ll()\\-e're"d, was down from |and fastened it there. |by telephone that the §-4 amidships | coast in the winter because |become it was so cold when the submarine |with the survey of the hull. i |charge of diving operations, sald he | |would go down as soon as |emerged to make a personal inspec- ition of the wreck. | went aboard in Country Are | ferred with Admiral Brumby for half & German resuscitating device, sald | to be the only ones iIn this country, ! were sento Provincetown today aboard the naval tug Penacook for use in event that any members of the crew of the S-4 are brought out allve. Known as the Inhabad resuscita- tor, the apparatus, according to in- formation available at the Boston navy yard, supplies oxygen to the lungs by & normal breathing process, Naval officers said slaims have been advanced that the device is superior to the pulmotor fn that it does not distend the lungs nor rupture tiny blood vessels. ILORS ARE DEAD, (Continued from First Page) While refusing to speak officlally, life existed on the The wind veer- Oily Smelling Air At 10 o'clock this morning the air Four divers worked on the subma- 8:15 He inspected the bow of the | James Ingram, the next to go {down, was brought to the surface in 135 minutes bec |veloped in his diving suit. e of a leak de- Diver Thomas Eadie went down | He took the grapnel | yesterday after its marking buoy had been torn loose in a storm, | from the conning tower to the stern He reported was half submerged in mud. The| stern also appeared to be imbedded. | Air Lines Adjusted While Eadie was down on the| starboard side of the Falcons, Joseph | entangled and proceeded | Commander Edward Ellsberg, in | Eadle During the day Joseph J. McGin- ey, or Norristown, Pa, whose son executive officer of the -4, the Falcon and con- an hour. When he left the ship h the men {imprisoned in the sub- Boston, Dec. 22 (F)—Rear Admiral Philip Andrews, commandant of the first naval district, declared today that in his opinion the work of rals ing the sunken submarine S-4 should | “go right ahead” so long as condi- The affalr consists of a wide board | to which the body is strapped with the head hanging down and the arms extended. As the arms are worked up and down at the rate of 20 times a mincte oxygen flows into the lungs at the same rate. At the same time adrenalin is pumped into the veins to stimulate the heart. The resuscitators were made avall- able by a New York engineering company and were brought to the navy yard by train last night. Lien- tenant George Calnan went to Provincetown with them today and he will hava charge of their opera- tion in event that they are called into play. Navy officlals were informed tha elaims made for the resuacitator in- cluded that 1t had revived a nurse in Germany 48 hours after she was belleved to have died. Lined Y evirthan Goes Into Drydock Jan. 1 New York, Dec. 22 (M — The| ner Leviathan left New York to- | sy for Boston to enter drydock for | her annual winter overhauling. She | {s due back in New York on Jan uary 1, but is not scheduled to re- enter the transatlantic service un- t1! February 11. Work to be done includes re- newal of boilers and boller tubee and general nance work. Hull malntenance and general overhauling of deck and stewards' departments. The shipping toard has appropriated more than $288,000 for the work. 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Admiral Andrews explained, 'involves having good weather cause of the jointed plpes that are {used.” ! required on board the salvage ships of alr needed for the work |nals nor response to hammer taps {air lines William Wickwire, the first to be {has been continuing and vented air to | S-4 and reported that it was fairly [put into use shortly after midnight. | Divers have examined bows of sub- |torpedo tube shutters ! plaster of mud is over them. [next on his fourth trip since the op- |con has come lea as wind has shifted |erations began. |line left when sailors found the S-4 | | | In accordance with the views ex- | pressed by Admiral Hughes, com- mander in chief of the United States | fleet on Sunday, Admiral Andrews notified Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, in command of the salvage fleet at Provincetown, that the work was “to be expedited.’ ” These instructions are still fn ef- fect and the district commander be- lieves will be adhered to unless ex- tremely unfavorable weather condi- tions lead to a decision on the part of the navy department that the work should be discontinued. Rear Admiral the opinion that conditions Provincetown are much more favor- able for salvage operations than those which existed at the scene of the $-51 disaster oft Block Ieland in 1925 when the arrival of winter forced cessation until spring the ef- forts to raise the submarine. “In my opinion,” he said, | ought to go right ahead and get the $-4 up.” The S-4 lles In a more protected position than the S-51. The latter was virtually In the open sea where |as Admiral Andrews pointed out the |S-4 has good protection from about | north, northeast to about east. 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I < E § ACREAY) ;"/m\\éi’ AJR\¥ This apparatus makes use of pipes to the surface “Putting the apparatus down,” “also be- Large compressors also are for use in forcing down the quantity | Air is Less Foul Boston, Dec. 22 UP—A message received at the navy yard from | Provincetown today stated that alr | pumped from the wrecked §-4 was | markedly less foul and that no sig- The message follows: “Alternate blowing and venting of to torpedo compartment now markedly less foul. “Second air line was attached and marine on both sides and find upper torpedo tube shutters closed. Lower closed but “Weather continues good and Fal- to northward. Examination of the hull and other parts of the S-4 now in progress. “Listening has been continued but | no signals heard and no responso, |to divers’ hammer taps.” Work 1s Resumed. Diving operations at the sunken submarine were resumed at 8:15 this | morning, the divers being instructed to survey the position of the wreck preparatofy to an attempt to raisc it to the surface. No sounds had been heard from the torpedo room of the S-4, in which six men have been imprigoned since Saturday, at that hour, The oscillator of the mine sweeper Fal- son, flagship of the salvage flect, sent messages to the S-4 at 15 min- ute intervals all night. 113 Fours in Hull. When work was resumed today after a five hour suspension, the air compressor of the Falcon had been forelng air into the torpedo room of the S-4 for more than 10 hours. Simon Lake, an expert in submarine construction, sent a radio message to the Falcon from his home at Bridgeport, Conn., during the night stating that there should have been enough air in the torpedo room of the S-4 to last one man 700 hours. He computed that there should have been sufficient to keep six men alive 116 2-3 hours. The men might be unconscious for many hours before they die, the meossage sald. At eight o'clock this morning they had been approximately 113 hours in their steel prison. Wickwire Down First. ‘The first diver to descend this morning was Willtam Wickwire, who was also tha first to be lowered vesterday. He was {nstructed by Commander Edward Elisberg, {in charga of diving operations, to land on tha bow of the S-4 and disen- tangle an air line and a descending line which had become fouled. Hue was then to drop over the starboard | side of the vessel to the bottom. The diver was to make his way ta the stern of the S-4 to estimate how déep she was imbedded in the mud He was then to go forward on the starboard side to inspeét the damage there and to se: how the keel was resting. Diver Is Warned. diving rudders of the submarine which are opened because she wa submerged when struck by the coast guard degroyer Paulding on Satur- day. He aléo was told to give the hole in her hull on the starbonrd side forward of the conning tower | a wide berth. | when Wickwire had carried out his | assignment. He was to carry out pudding, with sll the goodies that have made pudding a nedonal dish. 2 blend o ectrace curiosity ssekers—anybody'll l::dly 3 ® cassee! But cell your dealer quickly. New Haven Dairy loe Croam Semon's Iog Cream Tai¢ Bres’. Ice Cream ‘What Cheer N'lce Cream | the Wickwire was warned to avoid the A sccond diver was to go down NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927. storm the winds usually are from the same orders on the port side of | of sound magaifiers. These rubber the unprotected northwest. Preparations are being made to!who made several trips down to the |and the air .ines were attached to submarine S-51 when he had charge of salvaging that vessel oft Block | Hose Finally Attached. shattered halk was located by |thers was life in the submarine, was At 10 o'clock iast might, hours|grapnling and Diver D. M. Birg [%¢nt down. He fastened another on a diver's suit later in the day and | aftcr navy experts had believed the | shouted through his telephone: hose thus doubling the intake. GELEBRATION mm make a personal Inspection of the S-4. on the marine. This includes several |ed almost against hope that, though | | B t e (28 frames. two ribs, piatine and mact | unconseious, the men stll breathed, | It Would take at icast four hours o |ported that the bow of the vessel, L-‘,mm“ omn e Pesuin ot the eer. The bottors Yot Piie | “"The air e connection was made | FCVIYo the men sufficlently to allow which had dived decp into soft mud P)=A huge: (Ghrlemes i Paulding's bull sut o hale iu the |atter a day of hearbreaking delay |them toirespond ioiaignals. bottom when the S-4 was rammed | sprawled on the lawn in front of deck of the submarire from a point | occasioned by the “loss” of the sub- | Immediately upon recelpt of a sig- |and sunk on Saturday by the coast the city liall-fisce, poday. atiyedins just aft the forward gun to a point back of the conning tower. The commander said that the mud where the §-4 lies was no moro seri- |the §-4 was sent hurtling down |'h® hose. Sleariand et alint fungsd ito e battom, (Aheiaiy; | ous handicap than he had encounter- | through 105 feet of water by the de- Air Was Rancid {ed under it without much tro tathers had planned to erect the . The first air which escaped from A pecullar odor resembling tree a Christmas community cen- ed in many other salvaging opera- | | ey i e nahin s i il 'sch e e G G S TadY<Jhicn orax | Lbe torpedn Foom GitroughiERevilitey ranclll ol fcontinuadyjos beRnoficed il But with the advent of the nected, ol 1 blown at gale force, |1 bore an odor of rancid oil for|in the air vented from the torpedo| tragedy, they decided, out of defer- The ‘Falcon 1a keeping about 10| bet AIoh abay ana tho temperature [[RICh offfcera aboard the Falcon|room. The theory was suggested to S-4's crew, to postpone the {were unable to account. |that the imprisoned men project. pounds of pressure through the air |at line leading to the torpedo room of |grees above zero to 51, permitting the S-4. {down to the submarine for half an |fort. |hour and then allow it to vent ror" b ta half an hour. advant of the favor: | Provincetown, mainly fishermen, I P 10 Tug” Wilson and Joseph Eiben [charge of diving ope ki st Sl Alr Lines Attached. | Featner/constertation arose iwhen dE | ire o AR SRR R | R et & anteern | will hold special services for the o The air lines are attached to the | was discovered that a line 1eading '|nter they had attached a hose to the |Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby,|Sallor dead on the whart. Flowers nf‘/.ml\e. or listening device, which | from the S-4 to a marking bu S-C tube or listening device, after |directing the salvage work i with | Will be sprinkied on the waters of N’:Ps the purpose of ears for an | become detached and the ves taking oft the cap. s e other officers that the mext activity | the bay and Christmas carols will be undersea hoat, the tube is a t-shaped | lost. Air was turned on at 150 pound |of ti corps wonld e vessel. Commander Wreckage Is Noted. Commander Ellsberg morning that divers much wreckage from the Paulding | forward deck of the sub- | contrivance of brass projecting from | {the deck, and made of brass pipe | | with rubber fixtures at elther side | face |of the T which performs the service |flagship of Read Admiral Frank H. Brumby, commanding the rescue | forces, and for hours they patrolled the bottom of the ocean. | It was not untll after dark that was repeated at frequent intervals. At 10:30 the divers returned to the surface and at 11:45 Thomas Eadie, the man who first discovered that navy yard w i1l be used. Thess saw |service in the salvaging of the 8-51, which was sung in a oollision off Block Island two years ago. Ellsberg | picces were removed by the divers s tube. | the t A survey of the bow of the sub- marine was started at once to de-| termine the difficulty of raising it, | Provincetown Decides to Postpeno while, in the meantime, the Falcon| continued to pump air below. Christmas Exercises as Tribute to S-4 Martyrs, men could survive, divers made fast| .. L% |a hose to the listening tube of the| 1™ ©°8 the submarine. | torpedo room and the long process| At once work was redoubled #nd of expelling the foul air was started, | Y 9:30, half an hour before the air | There was no sound from the steel | line was connected, seven men had shell an had not been for more ‘ldkf-n turns below the water. | than 36 hours but navy officers hop- Officers _estimated that said this had reported | Bow Up a Bit Diver Thomas Eadie, who preced- ed Scott down to the submarine, should fe still exist in the torpedo room | mute evidence of Provincetown's ericf over the latest naval calamity. A few d; before the $-4 was inal from inside the compartment, air i come |would be cut off temporarily, it was; planned, and hot soup sent through 1S feet of the sub: {guard destroyer Pa marine by the fleet, up somewhat since. Good Days to Work, It was the best day for work since The stroyer Raulding last Saturday. bottom had risen from 34 de- Samples of the alr were taken for |out the compressed air in t (_om.;yannl,\'sls | pedoes when the An actual start of the work of {chamber began fo fail {bringing air to the suffocating men |had been released at the {was made at 8 o'clock when divers| Commander Edward ring disappointment, however, t e decided to place the tree in poeition but adorn it modestly, | On C trmas Day, the people of air supply The plan is to blow air |divers to work in comparat e But when tha fleet prepared to Divers Go Below. cre rushed below the sur- the mine sweeper Faleon, pressure for two minutes and then |whether chains could not be pa allowed to return. The pressure at|under the bow. If the result of ti Taxes have been placed on dogs, |first of the returning air was two, |survey is favorable , large pon- t, tobacco, automobiles and whis- {and later, four pounds. 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