Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1941 — Page 2
_ SATURDAY, JUNE 2 21, 1941}
. CLOSE CONSULS, ITALY ORDERED
FDR Attack on Sinking of Robin Moor Sent: to Nazi Envoy.
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ter submarines O-6 and O-10 clustered around three marker buoys where the grapnel irons had caught fast. Ropes and rope lines swung over the Falcon’s side while drag lines and anchor chains trailed from the submarines Trout, Triton, Grayling
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a brief note, serving as a prelude to the formal protest which thig government will lodge with Gere
‘divers can endure that depth for only seven to 10 minutes, depending on weather conditions and the strength of thé man, and it is an eight-hour process to send a diver down, bring him back and resusci-
te him 7 ‘The 0-9, built 23 years ago, once decommissioned, then recommis- . -sioned during the present Navy expansion program, was built to withstand only 200 feet of water, and a Navy officer here said the pressure at 400 feet could be expected to crush the submarine’ hull like an egg shell.
"° _ Seals Calm
" The divers, nevertheless, were assigned to. work in relays in an apparently futile effort to save the two officers and 31 men below. The 0-9 had failed to come to the surface yesterday after a two-hour test dive. Hope . of . rescue had waned fast after bits of paint-smirched cork from the vessel's jnner hull floated up last night. The sea abotit the scene, some 15 miles northeast of Portsthouth Navy Yard and about 18 miles north of where the submarine Squalus foun- * dered May 23, 1939, was placid, offering ideal conditions for the diving operations. _ Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox arrived here after spending the night at his Manchester summer home where he promised that “nothing will be left undone ... to rescue the gallant officers and men -who manned the 0-9.”
~~ Planes Scour Area
More than a dozen naval and Coast Guard ships including two ‘destroyers were grouped around’ a spot just off the “swept” diving . trial area where the two grapnels “fouled an object on the bottom” shortly after midnight. These ships and several airplanes; had scoured the area about 13 hours Before the grapnel contact was
Cant. J. J. Brown, directing operations, from the Falcon, said there was no assurance that the grapnels| had hooked the missing ship. . He said, too, that in the 67fathom water the divers faced obstacles far more dangerous and difficult. than those encountered when 33 of the Squalus’ 53-man crew. were rescued from 40 fathoms by use of the McCann rescue chamber in what at that time was considered almost a miracle.
Divers Face Peril -
Today’s divers encountered temperatures of 36 degrees—so cold that there was danger they would perish if’ their breath congealed air valves in the djving helmets. They were to use 15 per cent helium, mixed with oxygen. A two-day supply of helium was on hand and additional quantities were en route from the naval air station at Lakehurst, N. Y. Normally it would take a diver half an hour to make the 402-foot descent from a diving raft floating near the Falcon. Thén, after a few minutes’ search, he would be inched back to the surface. The trip up would require two and a half hours. A faster ascent would expose the diver to the danger of “bends.” Then he would have to spend from four to six hours in a decompression chamber aboard the salvage ship. The O-9, reconditioned recently as a training ship, was described variously as having one and two escape hatches. However, these would prove valueless at the depth she sank, according to Lieut. Comm, Edmund Jewell.
Fears All Lost
“1f the men tried to come out in Momsen lungs they would be dead on reaching the surface,” he said. . “The tremendous water pressure would cause their bodies to burst.” Comm. Jewell said the rescue chamber could be used, but indicated that it might never be brought into play. Asked if he thought all were lost, he hesitated, bowed his liead and then said: . “Yes, I do.” “If salvage attempts were made,” he said, “they would be the deepest on record. The oil slick and cork was found at a spot where the water is 402 feet deep, but the submarine may not be in that exact spot. If she is only a few hundred feet further out to sea, she will be in 480 feet of water.” Rear Admiral John D. Wainwright said final judgment as to the fate of the ship and her crew should be "suspended until full reports were available. He said operations would be maintained on a 24-hour basis until it was determined whether the crew were dead or alive. ~Scoffing at the possibility of sabotage he expressed belief that the 0-9 met with “some kind of an “accident.” He did not believe that the ship had collided with another vessel. “If she is 400 feet deep,” Admiral Wainwright said, “I don’t know what we could do with her if we found her. “The question is how long can the men exist. If all were normal—24 hours. But under the circumstances, I don’t. know. The oil indicates something has happened. The ‘bubbles indicates something has been punctured.” i No Messages Received * Thus far no messages have been intercepted by the sensitive instru‘ments aboard the rescue vessels. Though the O-3 was not equipped
vy spokesman said it was HR for the O-9 to have sent "any type of message without it having been heard by one of the ships iis} Way standing by when the last
“it as im were only part of the hall the men pt be alive in the remainder of ship, Bubbles float to the 3 hte thera there still is air
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and Grenadier, which aided in the pearch. The trio of “O-subs,” so obsolete that Navy authorities here had difficulty recalling. construction and equipment details, had come to this testing ground from their New Lengons Conn., base only this S Week: y had gone directly to the os y he calling at this Navy ‘Yard—one of the nation’s oldest. The 172-foot O-9, weighing from 480 to 624 tons, had completed its preliminary tests satisfactorily. The final maneuver was a twohour dive.
Smoke Bomb Sighted
The O-9 submerged at 8:36 a. m. (Eastern Daylight Time) and remained stationary somewhere below the surface unti] 10:36 a. m. Four minutes’ after her deadline elapsed, the O-10 sighted a black smoke bomb rising at the southeast edge of the rectangular course, which is two and a half miles wide and seven miles long. Immediately, word was flashed ashore by radio that something had gone amiss aboard the O-9. However, there was no: great anxiety since a submarine in grave danger sends up a red.smoke homb. Think-
with her Diesel engines, the commander of the O-10 summoned the 0-6 and sped for the spot where the bomb was drifting. The bomb had turned to wafer thin wisps of vapor when the two “O-boats” neared the scene, and additional vessels were summoned. Planes were ordered from the Squantum Naval Air Base near Boston. The Navy. Department at Washington ‘sent ‘additional divers in a huge Navy transport plane, and the converted mine sweeper Chewink was dispatched from New London with the McCann rescue cham-
ber. ' Ofl-Slick Sighted.
“The Falcon, véteran of the Squalus rescue and successful salvage, usually carries the chamber, but it had been transferred while the Falcon was tied up here for a two-week overhaul. For six hours the rescue ships frantically churned over the area. Then, as the sun broke briefly through the gathering haze, the 0-10 messaged that oil-slick had beenfgighted and it was stopping to investigate. According to a list given out by the’ Navy Department in Washington, the 0-9 was commanded by Lieut. Howard J. Abbott, of Osceola, Ia. The other officer aboard was Ensign Marks P. Wangsness, naval reserve, of San Diego.
ORDER SPECIFIC CUTS IN CRUDE RUBBER USE
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U.P) — The Office of Production Management today ordered consumption of crude rubber reduced from the current rate of 817,000 tons a year to a rate of 600,000 tons beginning July 1. The OPM Priorities Division said that the cuts will be made gradually, beginning in July and increasing each month thereafter until December. During July each processor must cut his rubber consumption to 99 per cent of the monthly average used during the 12 months ended March 31. Succeeding monthly curtailments increase to 80 per cent in December. The order gives priority to defense orders by the Army, Navy, British, Maritime Commission, the Panama Canal, the Coast Guard and other Government agencies, meaning that civilian production of automobile tires and thousands of other civilian items will be curtailed.
rr ee tt eet WILLIS COMING HOME Times Special WASHINGTON, June 21.—Sen. Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) will leave Sibel Hospital here tonight for his home at Angola, Ind. He has been ‘n the hospital for 10 days following a gall stone operation. He expects to remain at home for several weeks.
MATSON WILL FILED
The estate of Frederick G. Matson, estimated at $25,000, has been divided between his widow, Mrs, Mabelle M. Matson, and their son, Frederick G. Matson, according to the will filed in Probate Court here. Mr. Matson, prominent Indianapolis attorney, died a week ago.
Russian school children are leaving Soviet cities to “participate in various scientific expeditions.” (Reports from Stockholm have said that the Soviet is evacuating children from Russian cities because of tne possibilty of hostilities with Germany. On the EN anian frontier, it was asserted, Russia was destroying bridges and railroads and burning or blowing up houses and entire villages to create. its “devastation belt.” Helsinki was taking on the appearance it had during the FinnishRussian war. Anti-aireraft guns were being mounted on tall buildings, middle-aged men were being called to the colors and civilian life was disrupted by defense prepara-
tions, Ankara reported similar activity in Rumania, and belief grew in Ankara that no matter what concessions are offered by Moscow, Ger-
many will attack Russia. Kiel Attacked
The British heard that Gen. 8igjsmilng von List, Nazi commander the Balkans, had established a I ne headquarters close to the Bessarabian frontier,. in order to direct the Nazi offensive if one | iis ordered. London opinion was also hardening toward belief that war is likely between Germany and Russia. A rumor was heard in London that the Soviet Ambassador, V. G. Dekansov, will gente: ah shostly th
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above, and 0-10.
LATEST RESCUE DEVICES USED
Diving Bell Used on Squalus Among the Equipment Rushed to Scene.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P). ~*The Navy today threw all its resotirces into the search for the submarine 0-9, lost off Portsmouth, N. H., with a crew of 33 officers and men. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. took personal charge of the rescue. The Navy dispatched to the scene the latest scientific rescue devices turned out of naval laboratories. These included the now-famous “diving bell” which saved 33 men from the submarine Squalus which foundered off Portsmouth in 1939 with a loss of 26 lives, and the “electric drag” designed to detect metallic substances under-water.
Radio Contact Impossible
“The electric drag consists of two well-insulated electrical coils submerged at distances up to 2000 feet
in parallel lines and if they straddle the spot where a submarine lies, its steel plated disturbs the field of energy between the two coils and the disturbance is recorded. The ships then take a “line” on the disturbance and tow their coils in a cross-wise direction so that an intersection of the two “lines” will spot the sunken submarine. ~The diving bell, the Momsen lung and the Navy's oscillator system— other rescue devices—come into play after a submerged vessel has been located. Radio contact with an entrapped crew is impossible. Radio waves are neutralized by water. The oscillator system uses sound waves. The sending device sends out undersea clicks in sequence of the familiar dots and dashes of the Morse code, Sn an undersea “ear” picks them
How Diving Bell Works
The diving bell is a ponderous metal cylinder, weighing 18,000 pounds. Its maximum diameter is 93 inches; its minimum, 60 inches. Divers accompany the bell while it is being lowered and telephone instructions to the surface crew. The bottom of the bell fits the hatch of the submarine. Then, as in the case of the Squalus rescue, begins the delicate task of opening the sub’s hatch, taking care to assure a slowlyequalized air pressure between the bell and the stricken craft so that none of the trapped men or rescue workers get the “bends.” A Ounce the transfer is made from submarine to bell, the hatches are closed and the bell is towed up.
The Momsen ‘Lung’
In cases where the bell cannot be fitted to the hatch, there-remains another hope for the gntrapped men—the Momsen “lung.” Resembling a gas mask, it is desighed, to provide enough oxygen to permit a man to reach the surface. After donning the lung, the crew leaves the submarine singly ky an escape chamber. This is provided with two water-tight ®toors, one to keep the sea out and the other, on the outer shell, to permit an escape. The 400 foot depth at which the 0-9 is believed sunk makes the use of Momsen lungs almost out of the
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RAF Pounds French Coast “In Great Daylight Sweep
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Last night was the 10th of heavy British attack on German objectives. Kiel, the huge Nazi naval base on the Baltic, was the chief target and there was also a large scale attack upon the French invasjon coast. Today R. A. F. planes ‘were reported to have shot down 10 German craft in a wide sweep of Northern France. No German luftwaffe attack of any scale was made on the British Isles. Since weather conditions are no barrier, if seemed more and more probable that German air strength has been taken east to add to the demonstration on the Rus sian frontier.
No Response
‘The Germans made virtually no response to Président ol message to Congress y . A Nazi spokesman suggested sarcastically that the President's statement had caused American stock quotations to fall two points, a suggestion not borne out by Wall’ Street reports on yesterday's market action. Berlin suggested that no reaction|g should Be expected for 36 hours, and added that this might be delayed because of the week-end. The Germans repo another air attack of Alexandria and attacks on shipping in Tobruk harbor. An official announcement at Beirut, Syria, tonight said that strong British motorized forces are advancing from Iraq in ‘the Siection of
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_ Accompaning the missing U. S. submarine on maneuvers off Portsmouth, N. H., were its sister ships, 0-8, The vessels, all of a 1917-18 class of submarines, submerged together in a routine dive, but only the 0-8 and 0-10 came up.
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Early Approval Is Expected
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agreements with union representatives in negotiations before the National Defense Mediation Board. U. A. W.-C. I, O, members at Detroit will vote tomorrow on) an agreement to end their dispute with the Bohn Aluminum & Brass The union recently struck at Bohn's S plants’ but returned at the request
of the NDMB to work on Army and Navy orders for bearings, castings and forgings. The Steel Workers Organising Committee (C. I. QO.) and the Cur tiss Wright Co. agreed on pac providing 10-cent hourly wage increases for employees of the company’s propeller plant at Neville Island, Pa. &
Agree to Arbitration The E. W. Bliss Go. Brooklyn, and the United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers Union (C. I. O))
- {agreed to submit disputed issues to
arBitration. The company holds $30,000,000 in defense contracts, Mediation Board negotiations with the U. A. W.-C. LO. and the North American ‘Aviation Co, were suspended until Tuesday because of the illness of the company president, J. H. Kindelberger. The Chrysler Motor Co. closed three of its Detroit plants in a labor dispute which did not affect defense production. The company first closed its Kercheval body plant and charged 450 U. A. W.-C. 1. O. members with conducting a slowdown strike protesting suspension of a member for insubordination. Lack of bodies forced two other plants to close. The union said its members had not refused to work but sought to settle the dispute through regular grievance procedure.
Refuse to Return
Striking A.*F. of L. machinists
at San Francisco, through their executive board, today refused
again to return to work in the five important. shipyards their walkout has crippled for 45 days. Execufiv es of the local rejected an order by the international machinists’ executive .committée to return to Work by midnight tonight. It was the second time in three days the strikers had defied their national officers, and ignored President Roosevelt's request that they return to their jobs. Simultaneous with signing of the Ford contract rday, the National Labor Rela Board announced that it had wiped its slate clean of all cases involving Ford and the U. A. W. All union charges now on file in any Board office, it said, will be withdrawn by the union “as settled amicably ‘between the parties.” U, A. W. President R. J. Thomas said the contract for a union shop would be the pattern of negotiations with the General Mators and Chrysler corporations: when their present, agreements expire in about a year. Other major provisions. of the contract include:-
1. The U. ‘A. W.-C. LO. is recog-|!
nized as the spokésman for all Ford employes, excluding supervisory | | yees.
plo ; 1% The company will check off]
ihe UDItG dues, 3. Overtime work will be compensated for a5 the F816 of ume ad] Bo
Ford Contract
Double time will be paid for Sunday and holiday work. Workers called in for work and not given employment will be compensated with “call in” pay of two hours. All wage increases under the contract will be effective as of yesterday. The contract also recognizes standard seniority provisions protecting the rights of Ford workers and creates modern grievance procedure. In addition, it gives recog-
|nition to standard safety practices
to promote health and reduce accidents.
NAZIS CLAIM SINKING OF 6 MERCHANTMEN
BERLIN, June 21 (U, P.).—The High Command said today that Uboats operating in the North Atlantic had sunk six enemy merchant ships totaling 52,900 tons. A communique said that the sunk vessels included an auxiliary cruiser equipped with an airplane and catapult. The High Command said - that German bombers yesterday made “successful attacks” on shipping off the mouth of the River Humber and sank a freighter of 6000 tons and severely damaged two oiher large merchant ships. The comnmunique said that other “successful attacks” were made on Grimsby Harbor, harbor” works at Great Yarmouth and airfields in middle and eastern England.
DAVIS NAMED HEAD OF MEDIATION BOARD
WASHINGTON; June 21 (U, P). —-President Roosevelt has selected William H. Davis, New York patent attorney, to become Chairman of the Defense Mediation Board, White House Secretary Stephen T. Early announced today. Mr. Davis, now serving as Vice Chairman of the board, will succeed Dr. C. A. Dykstra, who recently asked to be relieved of his duties on July 1 to devote his full time to his post as president of the University of Wisconsin.
CENTRAL NORMAL REPEATS
CHICAGO, June 21 (U. P.).—Central Normal College of Danville,
1Ind., won the university class Inter-
national Commercial Schools Contest award here for the second consecutive year. Margaret Hamma, 26, of New York City, won ‘the world’s typing championship last night while establishing a new speed! record of 149 words a minute,
STOP DUST
Lieut. Howard J. Abbott of Osceola, Iowa (left), in command, and
Ensign Marks F. Wangsness, U. S. the missing 0-9.
1 MAN KILLED,
FIVE INJURED
Pinned Underneath Truck; Owl Bus Hits Abutment At Kentucky Ave.
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jured early today when their car and a truck collided on 16th St. near Perry Stadium. They were taken to Methodist Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Minor, 20 N. Alton St., and Edward Sheer, South Bend, were cut and bruised when their car struck a safety island at Washington and Oriental Sts. A car driven by Robert Williams, 68, of 3601 W. North St., stalled early today on the Big Four tracks at Walnut and Concord Sts. Mr. Williams and his wife attempted to push it from the tratks but the crack James Whitcomb Riley flier bore down on them. They escaped but the car was demolished.
3 Killed as Car Hits Tree at Michigan City
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 21 (U. .P.).—Three youths were killed today: when their automobile climbed a curb and skidded into a tree on Road 43, two blocks south of the city limits. Dead were: WILLIAM WILMER HEIDEKLING, 20, the driver, of Michigan City. FRANK AMDOR, 19, Sarasota, Fla. LEROY KEIFFER 18, Michigan City. State Trooper Virgil Perotta reported the car traveled 300 feet with one wheel over the curb after the car passed a curve, and then shot across the road, skidding more than 200 feet before striking the tree.
STHAW’ SWISS, SWEDISH WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P). —President Roosevelt's “freezing order” of American funds of European countries were set aside today for Switzerland and Sweden after assurances were received that finances of
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Those Aboard
Lost Submarine
WASHINGTON, June 21 (U. P.). —Here is the official Navy Department list of two officers and 31 crew
’ | members shor the Sumarine 0-9: LIEUT. HOW J. ABBOTT, Commanding CIA BY a. Ia. ENSIGN MARKS P. WANGSNESS, U. 8. Natal Reserve, San Diego, Cal. ILLIaM CLARENCE KAUFMAN, machiniot's mate 2d class, 902 E. Iowa St. Indianapolis, Ind. Next of kin: Father, Ollie James Kaufman, MARVIN DALE 2 TRY, seaman 2d class Manhattan, WwW. R a “eictricians mate 3d class, Blytheville, Ark WILLIAM THOMAS 'CRUTE, seaman 2d class, Helen, W. Va.
Also in Crew
JOHN EDWARD . DUFPRESNE, mashimists's mate 1st class, Great Barring-
ton, Cl ARLES LOGAN EAGLETON, signalColo, RDS, mess tendant 3d class, Itta ADs Miss. HERBERT TALMADGE POST. quartermaster 2d class, Hancock, EDWARD GEORGE
man 3d class, Del Ly) JOHN H at-
PORTER, chief machinist’s mate Seatuie, Wash. JAMES DEVER FOWLER, chief*machinsts mate Lattimore N. C. B OLD GARDNER. third iy “sen NATHAN G ERSEN. ®;eaman second class, New Yo Ek MES GEORGE GILLIES, firmean first class, Port Richmond, FRANCIS HOWARD NaoiEN, fireman second class, Holyoke, Mass FRANCIS LAWRENCE GRUEN, torpedoman second class. Pocahontas, Ill. HENRY JAMES hs N, machinist's mate
torpedoman
first class, Honolu JOE ALLEN ARTZOG, ship's cook second class, Ardmore. Okla GADDIS IRWIN HENDY, class. Mountain View, Cal WALTER JOHN JASKOQWIAK, fireman third class, Brooklyn, WA RD KROGER, third class, Clark,
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ALLEN HARTLEY LITTLEFORD. trician’s mate 2d class, Buffal HE R LEE MILLER, A Cranater 2d class, Hal Shure, Pa. ALBERT OQUELLETTE, seaman 2d class, Central Falls, R. I. FR PETER SCHNEIDER, fire-
radioman first
torpedoman
elec-
man 3d class, New York. AN ALVIN GRIFFITH, seaman second class, Bellefontaine. S. E. SON NENBURC, "chief trician's mate, San JAMES STANLEY oh veoman 3d
class, MinheaDd lis. THOMAS WINSLEY TILLERY JR., ma-
chinist’s mate 1st class, Los Angeles, EARL FRANKLIN VARNER, chief machinist’s mate, Los Angeles. BERNARD JOSEPH VENHAUS, seaman,
2d class. Lawren Neb. WILLIAM CHARLES WOLF, chief torpedoman, Waterville, Me. STRUCK BY TRAIN, DIES FRANKFORT, Ind, June 21 (U, P.).—John A. Bozarth, 72, Frank-
fort, was injured fatally last night when struck by a Pennsylvania
elecANG,
many later. Observers said that Italy theorete ically would suffer more from the
closing of its consulates in this
country than the United States will from the recall of American cone
sular officers from Italy. Italy hag many more nationals in this coune try than there are Americans in Italy. The United States originally took the iniative in closing German cone sulates and propaganda agencies, and Germany retaliated by asking closure of our consular establish ments in German and Germane occupied territory. At the same time, Italy—without waiting “Tor American action — requested the closing of our offices there. The American action against Italy then followed.
Called For Armed Ships
The latest action against the Axis was made public as Cone gressional supporters of Administra tion foreign policy significantly called for arming of American mere chant vessels. Their demands came
in response to Mr. Roosevelt's. une expected denunciation of the torpedoing of the Robin Moor in his special message to Congress yestere day. There were suggestions that Mr, Roosevelt's surprise Robin Moon message to Congress was a prelude to convoy of American ships in dangerous waters or some form of effective patrol system. Isolationists condemned the mes sage as an effort to arouse war spirit among Americans. : But on the whole, Congress heard the communication without excite= ment and members seemed to feel that the President as justified in using the extraordinary vigorous language employed. It was argued by some, however, that the vessel carried tons of contraband cargo.
La Penta, Consul Here, Awaits Official Order
Dr. Vincent Lapenta, Royal Cone sular Regent of Italy in Indianapowe lis, declared today that he assumes President Roosevelt's order closing Italian consulates in this country (will include his office, but that he has nqk been officially notified. Dr. Lapenta maintains his profes sional and his consular offices in the, K. of P. building, but they are separate. He said that until last year he eraployed a secretary to ase sist with his consular business, but that now he does the work unaided,
JUGOSLAVIA’S BOY KING IN ENGLAND
LONDON, June 21 (U. P.).—Boy King Peter of Jugoslavia has ar= rived in England with ministers of his government, it was said authori« tatively today. He was expectéd to form here a government in exile like those of
the two countries would not be controlled by the Axis powers.
Railroad train at a crossing north of here.
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