Show u P PARENTS IS f S- S OFFICER fR S SCORE Rf NA ff Department Crucified Boy and Companions Companio s Letter Charges PROVINCETOWN Mass Dec 31 3 AP Divers AP Divers wor working ing upon th the sunken submarino S 4 ii in an effort to penetrate the hull huH rapidly neared reared I their goal this afternoon Before night they hoped to enter the engine room compartment in r which they believe they will find the bodies of at least east ten members of the crew of forty who lost their lives after the ship ment to the bottom ottom two weeks ago today WASHINGTON Dec 31 AP AP- AP The navy department was accused today by the parents of Commander Roy oy K Jones commander of the submarine S 4 with having crucified crucified cruci cruet fied our dear boy by and his comrades com corn rades and also with having displayed displayed dis die played a cruel indifference toward the crew of the sunken ship I II I The parents Mr and Mrs John I M. M Jones set forth these views In a. a Jointly signed letter to Representative tatI o McClintic of Oklahoma a Democrat on the house naval como com com- o who has bas demanded a con- con inquiry into the sinking of tho ship We both feel that the navy de department department de- de has hag crucified our dear boy hoy and his comrades and the cruel Indifference in indIfference indifference in- in difference which they have shown towards these poor boys who died in the service of their country is inhuman and without a precedent the letter said MAKES LETTER PUBLIC McClintic McClintie in making public the letter issued a statement declaring that It will be a travesty on Justice Jus jus- lice tice for congress to refuse to create a special committee to investigate the tho disaster Both the tho letter and the statement were given to the press for publication today prior to the announcement late yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day by Secretary Wilbur that a special inquiry had been ordered bythe by bythe bythe the navy into rescue operations The secretary at that time explained explained explained ex ex- ex- ex that the special investigation tion would supplement the work to tobe tobe tobe be done by the naval court of in inQuIry inquiry inquiry in- in a and d would direct itself specifically specifically to the efforts to rescue the crow six of whom are known to have been alive in the torpedo room for or several days after the craft sank The leter by Mr and Mrs Jones in full reads As you ou no doubt have been ado advised ad- ad o we are the parents of Commander Commander Com Corn mander Roy K Jones who went down dowa with the ill-fated ill S It was some consolation to us to know that you are demanding the raising of ot the ship without dela delay CRUCIFIED BOY We were er first advised of of the disaster by the press and not until jour four hours after we had wired the department did we hear a word from them Mrs Jones and I kept igil for six days waiting for some Word word of encouragement from Washington Wash Wash- o ington only to be rewarded with n It statement from the secretary that the S 4 would probably not be raised before spring We both feel that hat the navy pavy department has crucified crucified cru- cru our dear boy and his comrades comrades com com- rades and the cruel indifference p they have shown toward these poor boys who died in the service of ot their country is Inhuman and without precedent Mrs Jones and myself both commend you for or the stand 7 t you ou have taken and hope and pray bray that you may be successful in causIng causing causing caus- caus ing this ship to be raised Immedi- Immedi f i We Ve ve would consider it as a special faVor if you could give us Information information information tion tion relative to the progress in rals- rals Ing the ship We Ve would come to the thet t cast east if Mrs Jones' Jones health permits after the ship shall have been raised tf Ve We wish to express our utmost i thanks to you for bringing some consolation in this our dark hour of f sorrow PROVINCETOWN Mass Dec r r- U t AP Two AP Two weeks after the submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine S 4 sank off oft here in collision with a coast guard destroyer the divers from the salvage fleet were elm a position today for the first time tim to enter the tomb tomb- of the forty officers and men who went down with the submersible TUNNEL FINISHED The divers had completed the second second sec eec ond and last tunnel under the boats boat's hull through which lifting chains are to be passed passe l. l Their efforts yesterday to finish the bore pore almost Drought tragedy toone to toone toone one man and Diver Thomas Eadle Eadie had his second opportunity of tho the salvage alvage operations to rescue a com corn comrade comrade rade in distress Eadie and C. C T. T Mattox were working In opposite sIdes aides of the hull huli when Mattox was caught In a cave cave- In Mud burled buried him to the waist and he ho lost his air hose His Ills telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone set had fallen from around his neck and he ho was unable to com com- his plight to listeners aboard th the tho minesweeper Falcon 17 fathoms above from which diving operations are conducted Observers on the Falcon noted the break in Mattox's cation EadIe fought his way around the hull to where his fellow diver was in trouble and freed Mattox who was unhurt Early in tho the operations before belore the las six members members' of the crew w were ere known to be dead Eadle Eadie performed performed performed per per- formed a similar deed for Diver L. L C. C Michaels Michaels had fouled his lines and was unable to o extricate from the wreckage With a hacksaw hack i saw EadIe cut Michaels free Cree Michaels has been at tho the marine hospital at Chelsea since but Is re returning returning returning re- re turning to duty shortly INCREASE EXPECTED Coincident with his return it is expected that the force of men at work here will wUl be bo considerably augmented augmented aug aug- as a result of a navy de department department department de- de order directing the im immediate Immediate Im- Im mediate transfer of all qualified divers to the Falcon for temporary duty The divers hoped today to enter tho the shattered hull and start the volk work of sealing compartments preparatory preparatory preparatory pre pre- to the craft and attaching the big pontoons which will support It on its trip to the drydock at Boston It was thought possible that some of the bodies of the victims might be recovered In the course o of to today's today's days day's operations LAFAYETTE Ind md Dec 3 31 AP Charles Shambaugh local automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile dealer who visited Rear Admiral Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Frank Brumby in charge of salvage work at the scene of the S 4 submarine disaster near ProvIncetown Mass to reveal his plans for rescue of ot the submarine vIctims victims vic vie tims time has returned home satisfied that his idea ha hat has merit and that it was seriously accepted by py at least some naval officers Mr Shambaugh gh admitted that a landsman probably would not qualify quaIl fy as an expert in naval rescue work but that Admiral Brumby iby was very courteous to him and that Brumby and anil other officers spent many hours discussing his plan He said that rescue work in any field does not require a thorough knowledge knowledge knowledge knowl knowl- edge of the particular kind of ot engineering en- en engineering engineering en en- involved and that any man might conceive plans that would solve a problem that specIalists specialists might find troublesome PLAN SUBMITTED submitted submitted submitted sub sub- The Shambaugh plan was vas to th the navy officer in the form of pencil sketches only and Mr Shambaugh intends to workout work workout workout out blueprints and a working model of ot hl his device In brief it is a cylindrical cylindrical cylindrical tank that is lowered to to- the the- shell o of a sunken submarine and jis to be used immediately after the boat sinks Two workmen inside this shell rivet its base to the shell of the boat and then cut a small hole through into int the h hull of the ship to admit one man at a time timeto to escape A small bell inside f the lie tank Is used to convey the rescued sailor to the surface I The plan involves divers' divers hose and signals as aswell well as electric lines for for riveting and cutting metal As for the naval operations at the scene of the disaster Shambaugh said I have nothing but praise for forthe forthe forthe the work that is being done Everything Everything Everything Every Every- thing possible has been done and the fact that the men in the submarine submarine submarine sub sub- marine have havo perished is surely no fault of the navy |