The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-25
Ordered To Stay Down
 Until Death Is Proved
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 the story of Maness' feat to which each rescued man credited his life.
 The story was told by Lieutenant R. N Robertson, third in command of the Squalus. He said that the ship was going down fast and seemed almost to be standing on end, with water gushing down upon the middle and forward compart- ments when Maness, the only one within reach of the tremendous steel door, seized 1t and weaved 1t up- wards. Had his strength failed be- fore he had the door locked, every man on the Squalris would have been drowned within c few minutes.
 The rescuers believed that noth- ing more remained to be done for the Squalus' crew, that all had been saved who could be saved, and early this morning the following message was dispatched from the Falcon to the navy department in Washing ton:
 Rescue of All Living
 Completed rescue of all known survivors. Investigation of flooded compartments will proceed as ex- peditiously as possible. Suspending operations for the night due to darn- age to rescue chamber (diving belD which must be repaired before fur ther use."
 About that moment Capt. W. F. Amsden appeared on the front steps of the Administration building at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, gather ing place for relatives of the Squalus' men during the anxious hours, and notified the last three women waiting there that all hope had been abandoned for their loved ones. They received the news calm ly. They were the wives of John P. Hathaway and Elvin L. Deal, enlist- ed men aboard, and Miss Ruth Desautel, 20, of Dover, N. H., who was to have been married Saturday to Seaman Sherman L. Shirley, an- other of the victims.
 It was expected that several hours would be needed to repair the diving bell, an ingenious 10-ton de- vice brought into use for the first time in a submarine disaster yes- terday and which proved its worth by bringing up B men from a greater depth than men ever be- fore had been taken from 6 sunken submarine.
 U. s. Developed Bell
 The United States developed the bell and supplied charts of it to all or most foreign governments, but none had ever used 1t. There had been no occasion for the United States navy to use 1t. It was in spired by the S-4 disaster of Prov incetown, Mass, in 1927.
 The bell was lowered from the Falcons side and unanswered by cables, one of which a diver had attached to the sunken Squalus. It has water ballast and air pressure systems for aiding it's own descent and ascent. It is made to fit snugly over the hatch of any submarine.
 Two operators who went down on the first trip to the Squalus yes- terday had to open the submarines hatch without knowing whether they were entering a flooded com- partment. Of the Squalus' four escape hatches, three led to flood ed compartments. This informa- tion had been obtained in the first account of the sinking, telephoned from the Squalus to the submarine Sculpin, over & line extending from the sunken craft to a buoy on the surface, which 1t had released. The Sculpin located its sunken sister craft before noon Tuesday by means of signal smoke bomb the Squalus released from the floor of the ocean.
 First to be Rescued
 The first 25 men rescued were taken to the Portsmouth navy yard but the last eight, including the skipper, Lieut.. Naquin, were kept in the Falcons decompression chambers all night. They were in worse condition than the others be- cause of their four hour confine- ment in the diving bell.
 The scene of the sinking was 15 miles off the New Hampshire coast.
 The line that fouled on the diving bell was the down haul" one att tached to the Squalus. Diver J. E. Duncan went down from the Fal- con and freed 1t with difficulty. In addition to the eight submarine survivors, J. H. Mcdonald and J. Mihalowski, of the Falcons crew, were in the bell operating it. To them went much of the credit for the success of the four rescues.
 P0nto0ns on Way
 Sixteen pontoons, last used in raising the S-4, were en route from the Brooklyn navy yard. New York, on barges lowed by the navy tugs Sagamore and Torecameo but were not due until this afternoon. The raising of the Squalus with the bodies may take several days, de- pending on weather.
 The salvage ship and probably the other craft clustered about the scene will remain, however, until the job is completed. These include the Sculpin, the tug Wandank, the lighthouse tender Pequot, the cruis- CT Brooklyn and the coast guard pa- trol boat Harriet Lane which was used for transferring men to shore and back.
 Diver Frank Miller, who made the first trip down to inspectt he Squa-