The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-18
Government Investigates Activities of Archibald Against Lake Graft. SUBMARINES OF "F"
 TYPE NOW ASSAILED Daniels Orders Commanders Not to Submerge Until Probe Is Completed.

Disclosures that are expected to improve the industry of submarine building in this city, where the Lake Torpedo Boat Co. plant is located are being made as result of the in- vestigation into activities of James F.. J. Archibald the correspondent who has gotten into difficulties with the United States government.
 An affidavit made by Clement B. Adams secretary and assistant treas urer of the Lake Go, and given the notary stamp by Judge Carl Foster is being used in the investigation. It follows:
 State of Connecticut. county of Fair '.Clement E. Adams, being duly sworn, does depose and say and that he resides in said Bridgeport, and Fthat in the summer of 1906 he was engaged. in business in the city Of Wa shington,S and that during said summer of 1906 J. F. J. Archibald came to him, the. said Clement E.. Adams, and represented that he, the 1 said J. F .J Archibald. was war | Correspondent for Golfers Weekly, and that he had been appointed by , the President of the United States to visit certain cities and towns upon the Pacific coast of the United States to investigate and report to tAse Pres1- dent of the United States upon the condition ofethe coast defences of the Pacific coast of the United States, and later he the said J. F. J. Archibald. said to be deponent that he, the said J. F. J. Archibald, had visited cer- tain cities and towns upon the Paci- fic coast of the United States and had reported thereon to the President of the United States, and that he, the said J. FL Archibald, had appeared i'm n merce, Boardssof Trade and other as- sociations of business men and lciti- zens in various cities and towns in States upon the Pacific coast, and had addressed them, the said Cham bers of Commerce, Board of Trade and associations of business men and citizens upon the advantage to be gained by the States bordering upon the Pacific coast and the citizens of said States by the purchase by the United States government or subma- rine torpedo boats, and that certain petitions and addresses made to Con gress and the members thereof by said Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade and associations of btsi- ness men and citizens in said cities and towns in States bordering upon the Pacific coast were caused by the work and efforts of him, the said J. ! F. J. Archibald, as aforesaid
 stAnd at later time said deponent showed to the said J. F. J. Archibald a newspaper article on the subject of submarine torpedo boats, wherein the Lake submarine torpedo boat was criticised, and the said J. F. J. Archi- ! bald said to deponent that he, the said J. F. J. Archibald, was the au- thor of said newspaper articleSand did wT4te the same, and, that the criticism of the Lake submarine torpedo boat therein contained was melted and caiised by the request to him, the said J. F. J. Archibald, made by one Law renee Y Spear, an officer the Elec- 1 tric Boat Company, and that said re- quest of Athe said Lawrence Y. Spear, made to him, the said J. F.. J. Archi- bald. was by him, the said J. F. J. Archibald acceded to because he, the said J. F. J. Archibald, was under 1 obligations to the said Lawrence Y. Spear and the said Electric Boat l Company.
 (signed) CLEMENT. B. ADAMS" Subscribed and sworn to on this sixteenth day of March, A: D., 1908, before me. (seaD CARL FOSTER,
 Notary Public
 The claim of Archibald to appoint ment by former President Roosevelt 1 Is denied by the latter.
 | -f The Navy, a Washington pub1ica- ton, appeared yesterday with very severe attack upon Secretary Josephus l Daniels for not withdra wing the F i Fthe accident to the F-4. Naval offic- CTS thought the criticism was not l warranted and some of them were of the. opinion that the Secretary might l have waited for more definite infor- mation about F-4 before withd drawing g | the boats of that class from service. 1 This was the statement given out by the Navy Department:-
 ''Secretary Daniels announced that a careful examination of the F-4 by the board of investigation appointed for the purpose showed that in the batteries the lead plates were badly corroded through in places and that 1 corrosion existed in the steel plates in several places.
 ssSecretary Daniels has ordered an
 examination of the Fl, the F-2. and 1 the F-3, and they will probably be
 sent to Mare Island for a thorough l overhau1ing with a view to correcting 1 this inherent fault in batteries, and in the meantime has issued instructions l suspending all exercise and submerg- l ed runs for these boats."
 l The only inference, it was admit al lted, that might be, drawn from the
 fact that the lead plates and stee plates we're both corroded was thai
 some unusual conditions prevailed 1r the batteries, and even that was not a safe conclusion to draw, the sea water got into the f,oat and the cor rosion might have occurred under ex- traordinary conditions.
 The whole value of the facts about 4 corrosion for purposes of deduction
 lay in the theory that the batteries might have become dead while the F-4 was submerged. Even then the crew would probably have been able
 to use the hand pumps in an effort to
 empty the water tanks and come tc the surface. These pumps would noi
 have been workable if the air com.
 pressors were out of commission, anc
 it is not likely that all these accidents
 would have occurred at the same
 time.
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