Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1939 — Page 16
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DIVER REGARDS Eg on of us BERGDOLL NOW Ll Over
SQUALUS TASK °
AS HIS HARDEST
Working in Pitch Dark at
40 Fathoms Holds Perils, He Declares.
PORTSMOUTH, May 26 (U. P).—|
The submarine Squalus belongs to the divers now. They are the rough, leatherlunged men of the service who forever squawk about their work and quarrel with sailors ashore, but scramble over one another to be the
first to go down after them When they get trapped “below.’ Dangerous? “I heard a dozen men ask to be | first down Wednesday morning and I got the call, maybe because I've been diving for the Navy for 17 years,” diver Frank P. Miller said.
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“But I can tell you that I and every other man who has gone down 40 fathoms to the Squalus have gone through an experience they will never forget. “Youre working in total darkness at that depth, and the pressure is seven times greater than it is at the surface—105 pounds a square inch. I was down on the S-4 and S-51 jobs and they were nothing compared to this. The S-4 was only down 108 feet and there's no com- | parison between that and 240 feet. “There's a big job ahead in get-| ting that ship up.” Miller got the job of going down| from the salvage ship Falcon to attach the “down haul” cable of the diving bell to the sunken submarine. That was the preliminary to rescuing the 33 survivors. The bell couldn't have been used unless a diver had gone down to attach the | cable. | Divers Free Bell
Divers had to go down again—| three of them—to release the bell when it fouled on its line on the way up with the fourth and last load of survivors and was held fast four hours, 150 feet below the sur-| face. f A diver had to go down in the bell for the last, perilous inspection of the inside of the Squalus, to make certain that the other 26 men were dead. From now on, it will be up to the divers to salvage the ship and its dead men
Roosevelt Praises
Navy for Rescue
WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P.). —President Roosevelt today praised the Navy for its work in bringing
to the surface survivors of the sunken submarine Squalus. The Navy, he said, deserves very great credit for conducting the rescue operations under difficult and trying circumstances. At the same time, In response to questions, the President said he had no advices hinting at sabotage as a cause of the disaster. The President said that the success of the rescue devices used on the Squalus proved the worth of spending a great deal of money on experimental work. A Congressional diving bells for the Navy pected today. The Navy Department advised Chairman Walsh (D. Mass.) of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee that it has only five of the 18,000 pound bells like the one which rescued 33 of the 59 persons aboard the Squalus High Naval Admiral William of Naval Operations, believe that the bell's use in its first practical test prevented the death toll of 26 from being higher. Secretary of Navy Swanson was expected to name shortly the members of a formal board of inquiry to investigate causes of the accident. Preliminary reports indicate that it resulted from failure of an intake valve to close
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Hathaway Burial Planned at La Porte
LA PORTE, May 26 (U. P.).—The body of John P. Hathaway of San Diego, Cal, one of the victims in the sinking of the Navy submarine Squalus, will be buried here when it is recovered from the ship, it was announced today His wife is the former Stella Gazofski of La Porte, whom he married ml 193%
BECK WILL SUCCEED SMITH AS FSA HEAD
P. G. Beck, assistant regional di- | rector in charge of resettlement | projects, will succeed R. C. Smith | as regional director of the . Security Administration. Mr. Smith, regional director for | four years, has been transferred to | Washington, effective July 1, as| chief program analyist in the Agri- | cultural Department Bureau of Economics. | WwW. E. Johns, assistant regional director, also has been transferred to the Washington FSA office as assistant chief of the tenant purchase section Mr. Beck will be william R. Lightfoot Jr., who has been handling personnel work in the region for the last four years. He also will have charge of resettlement projects at Atlanta, O., Vincennes, Hughesville and Laforge, Mo., and suburban homestead projects at Decatur, Ind., Granger, Iowa, and Waukegan, Ill. Mr. Lightfoot will be succeeded by Carl Gibboney who has been handling farm management work in the region for three years.
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|Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Y [War draft dodger, became prisoner |No. 289 today |the military prison at Ft. Jay,
CONVICT NO. 289 AT FORT PRISON
Helping Pick Up Garbage
To Be One of Many | Duties, Army Says. |
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NEW YORK, May 26
in Castle Williams, Governor’s Island. Bergdoll, who returned yesterday from 20 years self-exile in Germany, [was placed first in a cell with two
men serving life sentences for their
[part in a 1916 mutiny at Ft. Hous- | ton, Tex. Later he was sent to isolation for 110 days, after which he will be given! a physical examination and assigned | to a regular cell, containing a cot, washstand and chair. Must Go to Work The former Philadelphia playboy | {who returned to this country to ac-|
cept the Army’s punishment, was | -
taken to the island by Coast Guard |cutter from the liner Bremen with-| lout being permitted to set foot on! the mainland. Army officials said Bergdoll would | other prisoner,
that he would be permitted to play | basketball for amusement and take
la course
in radio manufacturing,
|barbering or tap dancing. He will {be required to work, aiding WPA | J | workers on the island in picking up 4 refuse, garbage disposal, and clean{ing floors around the military post.
[to 4 p. m.
His visiting hours will be from 1 Sundays. |
Escape to Be Reopened
Investigation into Bergdoll's es-
cape in 1919 from Army guards will | be reopened by the Intelligence De- | partment at Washington. When this
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Death of Woman Found
In Alley Puzzles Police
Try to Determine Whether She Was Slugged or Fell From Hotel Window.
Detectives were attempting today
to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a 22-year-old woman who was found dying in an alley beside the Harbour Hotel, 617 N. Illi-
nois St., last night. They were uncertain whether she had been slugged or had fallen or been pushed from a hotel window. Her skull, back, several ribs and one wrist were fractured. Identified as Urdell Lucille Mullinix Stewart by a birth certificate found in her purse, the victim died 45 minutes after she was taken to City Hospital Motorists Finds Her
Meanwhile, police sought for questioning a man who had been living in a third-floor room of the hotel, facing the alley directly above the spot the young woman ay A motorist driving in the alley discovered the unconscious victim and notified the hotel manager, Albert Wolf, who called police In the third-floor room below which the woman lay, police found several glasses partly filled with liquor. Argument Reported
The occupant of an adjoining room said he had heard a man and a woman arguing in the room for several nights The hotel manager told police that about 20 minutes before the woman was found, he saw a man and two women go upstairs to the room of the man sought. After he had called police to notify them of finding the woman, Mr. Wolf said the man occupying the room, together with the man and two women who had gone to his room, left the hotel in a taxi The man had lived at the hotel several weeks.
Parents Notified
Papers in the victim's purse revealed she lived at R. R. 3, Greenwood, according to Deputy Coroner Norman Booher. Another address found m her purse wes 312 Beecher St. Persons living there said they did not know the dead woman, but said she had visited a family that formerly lived there. Detectives are searching the room of the man sought for fingerprints
{ward march of our | dent Wells said.
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is completed, a board of inquiry will
(receive the facts.
Bergdell may he represented be- | fore the board by an attorney. These | inquiries customarily are open to the | press but officials said the War Department would have to make a special decision in Bergdoll's case. He may serve a term of five vears or more in military prison for draft
| dodging and escape from authori- | ties. i
He was under five-year sentence for draft dodging when he escaped.
| That sentence still hangs over him.
He has grown fat, and his mus-
| tache that was, in his reckless play-
{but his | York
|
| my
Mrs. Urdell Lucille Stewart
in an effort to determine if the vie-| tim had been in his room. Detectives contacted her parents, | Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Mullinix, living southwest of Greenwood, who said they would come here at once to claim the body.
WELLS URGES END 10 SPIRIT OF FEAR
Spe TERRE HAUTE, May 26.—Business offers an outlet for the true pioneer spirit, President Herman B Wells of Indiana University said at an I. U. alumni meeting here last night. “Never has the re-emergence of this unconquerable spirit on the part of our business leadership been more essential to the continued fornation,” Presi-
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boy days, like Fuehrer Hitler's of today, is now long and narrow. He found his solitary cell in Castle William little changed in 20 years, first glimpse of the New skyline as viewed from the North German Lloyd liner Bremen vesterday evening made him gasp.
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“Why,” he stammered, “I never saw anything like. . . At that juncture one of the two uniformed Army officers who had him in tow gave him a yank, and his expression of wonderment ended abruptly. “There are many am coming back,” “Homesickness. My wife. My children. Yes, my mother, too. My wife she cannot live in any other country but America and I want to bring children up in the United States. I would do anything for my family.” Someone asked | dodged the draft. “I was a conscientious objector. There were other reasons. I had trouble with the draft board.” Bergdoll is heir to $800,000 from the estate of his father, a Philadelphia brewer. The Government has impounded his fortune but he may get it back if he serves his sentence.
reasons why I Bergdoll said.
him why he
Harness Bill Shelved
By Senate Committee
WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P).— The Senate Military Affairs Committee today pigeon-holed the House-approved bill introduced by Rep. Forrest A. Hamess (D. Ind) that had been designed to prevent Grover Cleveland Bergdoll from en-
| tering the United States.
Chairman Sheppard (D. Tex.) said the committee decided to take no action in view of the fact that Bergdoll is now in custody of the War Department.
Times-Acme Photo Grover Cleveland World War draft dodger who spent 20 years in self-exile in | Germany, is seen on the liner Bremen as he arrived in the United States.
Bergdoll,,
1200 IN STATE GET p U. SCHOLARSHIP (lees
| | | BLOOMINGTON, May
hundred State scholarships to In-|
diana University have been awarded
by a committee headed by Dr. Frank | it was announced here,
R. Elliott, today. Each scholarship has a value | | equivalent to contingent fees for one | year, One hundred and 95 students | | were named as alternates. | A total of 988 students applied for | ‘the scholarships. Winners were | {chosen on a basis of grades made in | high school and college studies and | | in competitive written examinations. | | Bighty- -eight of the students will be | [freshmen next fall while 112 now; |are students in college. { The winners and alternates trom] Marion County are:
Betty J. Dickerson, George Mellinger. | Alfred Green_ Eileen Eskew, Robert Kim- | mell, Robert Reno and Robert Brockmann, | all of Indianapolis. Alternates—Donald | {Snepp, Betty Reed, Darrie Huffman, Ar-| man Mauk, Geneva Senefeld, Jo Anne] Pierpont and George Wilson, all of In-| | dianapolis |
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