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Show SUBMARINE LIES AT BOTTOM SEA TWENTY-ONE MEN PERISH AS RESULT RE-SULT OF ACCIDENT NEAR HONOLULU. Grappling Apparatus Brings up Portions Por-tions of Sunken Craft and Divers Are Working in Endeavor to Locate Vessel. Honolulu. Hope of raising the Cnited States submarine F-4. submerged sub-merged somewhere outside the harbor since March 25, was again reviveo Sunday night when vessels engaged in the rescue work reported they had finally located the missing craft in which twenty-one persons are believed to have perished. Heroic attempts to bring to the surface sur-face from a great depth an object that appeared to be the submarine resulted re-sulted in the discovery by two divers early Sunday that it was only an old anchor, probably lost by the battleship battle-ship Oregon. The divers went to a depth of 215 feet, but failed to find any trace cf the F-4. Refusing to be disheartened by this discovery", hundreds of rescue workers, work-ers, although tired by their long vork and without sleep for many hours, redoubled their efforte when another body, believed to be the F-4. was located. Portions of a vessel's superstructure superstruc-ture have been brought to the surface by the grappling apparatus of the various va-rious boats and it is this which makes the rescuers confident they are from the F-4. The positive statement was made Jiere Sunday by Naval Constructor Julius A. Furer that the four subma. fines of the Hawaiian division were examined as to their stability only a month ago. He s.'id that all wert found in good condition. It is now regarded as certain that all of the members of the crew arc-dead. arc-dead. It is believed that the bodies of most of the crew will be found in the forward compartment the smallest small-est and strongest of the three. Relatives Rela-tives of the crew residing at Honolulu refuse to abandon hope and pleadea with the naval officers to hasten the work of raising the craft. i - 7 t. - tj, -i' i |