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Show written reports were taken from the 3.3 survivors of the crew and from civilians employed in the navy yard here. Six Portsmouth churches held memorial services lor the 2ti dead yesterday. SALVAGE CREW CONTINUE WORK PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 29 'I! J:i I Jlvers worked in a temperature tem-perature of 20 degrees above zero 10 fathoms down in the Atlantic today salvaging the sunken Hiib-inurine Hiib-inurine Squulus. Work had been halted tempor-. arily because of the danger that air lines would freeze but after a divi:r hod tested the water in nn electrically-heated suit, others leturned to the job breathing an oxygen-helium mixture that had a lower freezing point than ordinary or-dinary compressed air. The task of raising the flooded flood-ed submarine and the 20 dead of her crew became increasingly difficult dif-ficult because of weather conditions, condi-tions, and some naval authorities believed it might not be' completed com-pleted before late in the summer. sum-mer. In view of 1 the delay the navy was beginning an official investigation of the mishap without with-out waiting for the Squalus to be brought up and examined. A3 the first step in the investigation |