A M an tou X mai diver 7 arto Z ka N awa I 1 1 1 A u by ELMO SCOTT scort WATSON ain city ey of newport it II I 1 L V balms its onu one of its citizens a nian who to la living proof of the fact th atthe old buying baying you bennt heep a good inan down should be revised to read you cant keep a good g roan inan up poc out man Is tom sadie eadle chief gun mate tit li the tha fleet knyal aal yal reserve and tid jeep sen sea diver clr of a hundred desperate adventures under the water and famous for tits work during the raising of the sunken submarines sa S 1 and S 8 BI 51 which won for him zavy navy cross and the congressional medal of honor tom eadle likes diving no to says bays so eo in a book which lie be lias has written published recently by taci houghton company its title Is fa 1 I like 11 ire ile off the story of ills edicer career thus 1 I ilk like diving there ta is always A a thrill in it I 1 fill felt it I 1 ever irna madea doa dive land and I 1 feel it now whon when I 1 have been diving for nearly twenty bearg rs you have to 0 o like lk it or you don dont it atay t ay at it t for it la Is no boys boya play theres a heap to besides putting your head undo under water it monno meana tha hardest wor kreal manu nu 1 I labo bor runder under the most kioa dini cult t ron foni dit editions ions and Bomell men mea under condl tlona tiona of great distress take ajob a lob when the ocean water tf ip dow down rito to the tha fringing fra nging point ot fro fresh U water and whon when you can caiti t do work tn in slavok to set an idea of it lust just sit hit in ft a boat in your warm overcoat and your hand over ever the tide into tho the saltwater sal alt water hold it there tor minutes in that fre eisIng brine and then try tey io think what it would feel ilk it if you kept It there an hour jt it eny easy to explain the thrill you set eel out or it lant ly the lovoff love of adventure though every dip to 1 an adventure or may be on one before a man cornea comes to the surface ogain grain 1 CeriAl certainly nii it the abrill of faconi r danker danger though s a divers life laro la really ally in the th hands handa of tile man on the topside him anil and any on ne of 61 a lot of little icings may in an instant reduce a divers alvera chance of hla his family aaen tos to a orte ona to ten ahot certainly it t lant the thrill of just a new experience one ans dive wo would I 1 4 id satisfy that craving there la in so m athing more that makes men kees keep at it and become divers I 1 I 1 just happened p nod to bo be one of thoss men that have that more though momet me lt it seems to me ina as ae it I 1 C irette Iret be anything ianthi n g buta but a diver whatever the th thine ang 15 it t makes diving a profession prof flon Is istead of it a trade for I 1 take it that a lie la an occue occupation alon where ebore the tha work to Is mors more interesting te than the pay par not that the pay tnt ffoyd for or some ome divers tit at beatt with nothing but my pay I 1 have managed to acquire a bood home of my iny own I 1 havel have a car and I 1 live along ZIA with the he other millionaires and navy a men in newport it la Is apparent that despite tile the fl reword which lie ment mentions lons diving roeana means much more ciora to tom rudle than just the lioney it brings brines perhaps the traditions of the united states navy in which ho he served or a see decoro t 0 of years liaa has to do wit with I 1 i it rear hear admiral philip andrews who wrote the introduction to alad beadles I 1 e a book has vils this story atory of dangers and overcome carries it a lesson to all readers this Is what it hot has meant to filial him s do your best and give your best beat to tile lie taste in hand I 1 believe I 1 can guy any that this la is the lie spirit of tho anvy and if money had been the nia main I 1 n end for tom eadle commandant C 1 I of the new tork anvy yard in reporting rUng to tile the tac cretora 1 ot the tha navy concerning dadles borg in salvaging the S 81 51 could not have writ tea ten these words the commandant deabre to call ut at to antica to the fact act that for hla his servile as an at 6 diver during the spring oper actions alon a period of about three lO Na adlea illos entire compensation was wae isoo the amount that the saved tn in money alone by F laillia lail laa services can J tari geis edat of Honor best be judged from the fact that when the commandant was endeavoring last fall to bolster up the force ora of divers which was I 1 then hen inadequate by hiring civilian divers th the elbeat belt oker offer he ha could jet got j et was the loan of four divers by a coillie forcial mal malfaire vaire company at the rate of 1800 per day for the lie dour our men menor or in other words word 1300 1 tor for the he use of one man tor for four days such an otter ciffer was of course declined it Is interesting 0 ting to observe that hat tho the expedition tion lina had thi the services of a diver dive who Is bol loved to 30 10 without a peer anywhere in the world borla tor a period of three months at practically the same sama cost cogl as an one ordinary commercial diver for a period of four days yes toni tom etura likes diving he fart enlisted allt ed in the navy in 1005 1003 and du ils second enlistment of 0 four years he received instruction at 11 hla Is own fiust ri in the profession wh which I 1 c it lio lie has toll followed ever since when ho he boys lu in I 1 Ms his casual way that in that profession prof ossion blany any ono of a lot ot of little things tuny may in au an instant reduce a divers davirs chance ot of seeing ills faintly agaba tatt to ti one otte oneto to ten shot cliot lie ho la Is un tin the tha case about na as fur far as aa it can possibly be done tier here is fit one fe incident in his career when he had rono down salvage to 0 o x h torpedo which lind find gone to the bottom during torpedo proc practice tle ile he writes ono one day I 1 found the torpedo I 1 was vias ht hunting inting for standing on the bottom on end I 1 and aad to climb up on it to milk thai strap fast tor for hoisting holst lne the thing thin 19 was wa 81 thoroughly greased of course and as ac I 1 was wan up jt it my foot hit the nir lover lever and we wera ore tor for the th surface of courts course it if I 1 lot let go eo the torpedo would RO fro up un and as the pro propellers reached mo me they would rip me open all alt tile tha way to my breastplate so I 1 hung hune on w with ith my arms around it flippin 9 back toward the tha propeller all t the be time and managed costay to stay with if I 1 till I 1 came cam 0 to the tha surface theatt then it floated and I 1 was eat ie another time he records when you have to go down into the mud for a torpedo you wash it clear ct its if bed with a stream of hose bose water one torpedo I 1 wes was 22 tet feet down in the mud jt it had katte f ne down on a slant and I 1 unwisely undertook 0 de r took to ong harge charge the hole round it rather than wash away tiia ills immense amount of milt bill over ft I 1 did this of course to shorten the lob job but it carne came near my life I 1 worked well down on tho the torpedo hosing round it an and d nil all of a sudden the mud caved in on me I 1 kept ray my head for or I 1 realized ro allied that I 1 had the beavis of rn my own saly atlon atlo n in my handtke hand th the hose I 1 was pressed down into as an little space apace as aa possible but I 1 found I 1 could bring tho thil novala up close to my helmet alongside my escape valve v a I 1 I 1 knew I 1 must get go t and keep t that h at clear it dt mud or of the air would build up in my sult suit then I 1 worked the th nozzle back and forth in front of bf me cutting away at the he mud overhead to give elv my self ek every chance it was wa long ions and plow alow but I 1 anally out cut through t to 0 t tha he open water md back along rny my 1 lines ano they knew on the topside that to tomo in a thing was wrong of 0 c ourse course but they haul me luckily tor or me the tin una a and A n d the hose hate stood th tha e I 1 strain they would have put on me to say nay of the chance that they would probably have hauled me apart they signaled ilna led tb ask it I 1 were all right of course coure but with my line burled buried in the nud mud I 1 co u feel their signal I 1 signal to be hauled up either you bet As A soon noon as an I 1 was clear I 1 went to work efrain and this time I 1 try to walte malce anar ny short hort cuts but hosed the whole thing out I 1 that job ob the long way beadles narrowest escape from death ho he says sayri cams came as the result of ills having for a tender in the boat from which lie he was waa working tin nu inexperienced youngster A diving bone boat Is equipped with two wo flacks flasks of 0 compressed air when the he pressure falls below pounds that flask la is shut off and the other one ona turned on eadle had find gone down to do a certain piece of 0 lie ile soon noticed that he Ws getting lesi leai air than he be needed no ife signaled sig for more but got no response 6 again and again fai he signaled and realizing th that atthe tha air in tits hta helmet was vas getting rout foul very fast ho he decided it was time to go u up jao so lie he signaled that he was coming coining up and got W a reply but the greenhorn and two cI civilian vIllan employees who wera in the bout boat with him pull up tip so BH lie he signaled again finally after several agonizing minutes during which lie he almost lost consciousness ho fie waa as pull pulled up it was fifteen minutes be fore lie he could speak then lie he found out what find been the tro trouble u ble ills ilia tender tender had fand not been watching the gau gauge go od on the first flask and did not see that the air la in it was completely used up tip so the master diver had been suffocating with a full unused aln hask ak of air nr in the boat the high spot jn ln tom Pl eadlen ailles career come came in december 1 1027 when the be submarine S 4 was rammed by the paulding and sunk stink to the bottom it wal r radio abw who went down and liy by tapping with a hammer on the side of the sunken sub received the signals from the trapped trap pei aaen which told that there were w ere still some survivors of the accident t in an the torpedo room the story of f tile the battle against the icy water and tile the heavy sen sea to save the lives of the trapped men Js Is faill far to most Arkie americans ricans but not all know of the heroic deed of tom endle it wes the deed which brought him tile the congressional medal of ron fion or etz from the hands of president coolidge and the story of it Is told briefly in the following citation for display of extraordinary ho heroism in the line of 0 hla his profession above and beyond the call of 0 dut on december 18 1027 during the tha diving opera tlona in connection with the finking ot the U S S 84 34 8 4 with all on board ns i a result of a collision off province town mass masa on this occasion when michaela C T M U S navy ahil e atte inar to connect an air line t to 0 the submarine marine at a depth of ate tiet t became seriously carlou sl fouled endle eadle under the most adverse divilio conditions d tf knowin knowingly kno cly and willingly took hla his own life in alx hl hands by promptly descending to tits rescue in res ponto to the desperate need of hla his companion dver diver after two hours of extremely extreme ir dangerous and heartbreaking work by hla his cool calculating and skillful labors labor he succeeded in his mission and brought michaels hafely to the surface there Is little that can be added to that tha simple recital of heroism but it there were anything that could be added it should be the words of commander r F Us 11 brumby of the control force who ivies was on board the falcon at the time of the rescue arid nd who said 1 I have iwer liever known so fine an example of cold blooded deliberate heroism as that shown by eadle