Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-19
Cling to Hope
Others May
Be Saved.
RELIEF CREWS
TO RENEW TASK
Pontoons Speeded
to Aid i'm Raising
+ of Submarine.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, December 1o-At-
tempts to pump air directly to the
men imprisoned in the sunken
submarine S-4 were prevented by
break in the breathing air"
pipes of the wrecked ship, men
aboard the mine sweeper Falcon
reported when they arrived here
today from Provincetown.
The fact that the line through
which air had been pumped for
I breathing purposes was broken
was discovered by communication
with the men inside the subma-
rine, who reported that when
: they opened the valve leading
from this line to the torpedo
compartment water flowed into
the room.
An air connection with a bal
last tank was established and the
men aboard the Falcon believe
they were successful in pumping
air into this tank. There was no
connection from the tank to the
compartment occupied by the six
men and the air pumped down
did not reach them.
BY the Associated Press.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass, De-
cember lo-The furious gale which
swept Cape Cod today forced the
Navy rescue feet assembled on the
scene of the S-4 disaster to suspend
all activities until 4 pm. Coast
Guardsmen at the Race Point Sta
ton radiocd Admiral Brumby, aboard
the divers ship falcon. that their
instruments indicated that the wind
might die down at that time.
The wind was blowing from the
northwest at a 45-mile rate, the
Coast Guard said. The sea was
rough and the temperature was low.
> Every unit in the rescue feet was
blanketed with ice from the spray.
Too Rough for Divers.
Reports which came ashore from
the Falcon stated that the sea was
a. rough that it was impossible to
lower a Divers platform over the
side.
Early this morning two Navy dories
were sent out to the Falcon from
other rescue ships. The high sea
Smashed them against the side of the
Falcon and their occupants were pull
ed on TO the deck Of the Falcon with
great difficulty.
The hardy fishermen of this port
refused to move their vessels from the
dock to carry newspaper men to the
scene of the disaster. They said their
small boats could not live through the
gale. Several other craft which at.
tempted to go out turned back before
reaching the outer harbor.
Divers who located the sunken sub
marine S-4 and discovered that six
men Of the crew Of 40 were living
found the ship lying on an even keel,
balanced almost as evenly in the mud
of the ocean floor as when it fioated
on the surface.
Signs of life were found in the tor
pedo room, in the bow of the 231-foot.
long craft. and it was from within
this room that the signals were given
that told the divers six men were alive
in that compartment. The torpedo
L.. .NlI sx,k< h.
of the submarine, with tubes from the
hull through which the torpedoes are
fred.
Directly behind the torpedo compart-
ment is the main battery room and
, crews quarters. In this room ii is
assumed that most of the crew not on
watch at the time of the crash were
assembled when the ship was hit.
Wall Smashed In.
The officers quarters and control
room. both almost under the coming
tower admidships, lie aft Of this com
partnent. Divers found that the
Paulding had smashed. through the
wall of the submarine Just ahead of
the coming tower, apparently cut
ting into the crew compartment and
officers quarters.
other compartments in which men
were stationed were the engine com
lpartxnent, in which two or three men
ordinarily are located, and the motor
compartment. with two men, which
is at the stern.
Between the various compartments
ere water-tiglt bulkheads. which are
closed in a few seconds.
Divers at first held out hope that
Soma men in the aft compartments
The motor and engine rooms-mighi
be alive. It was said this possibility
hinged largely on whether the officers
in he control room were able to ge
rbe bulkheads closed before the rusl
of water through the hole in the sid'
prevented.
Urecking Tug Arrives.