The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-03

day) n1ght-two men died trying to escape; both drowned; one went in- sane they try to talk about sports"
 The picture now, as those on the bay saw 1t, was one of men left only with the instinctive urge of life, if they had life in them: some per- haps dead; some perhaps insane; many unconscious, some occasion ally by a subconscious effort of will rising to stagger to the side of the submarine and hammer feebly at its plates as a signal to those above not to stop trying-and all in the cold and the complete tomb-like darkness of the bottom of the bay.
 Turned On Its Back
 To make it worse, Cammell Laird officials asserted that the Thetis has turned over on its back.
 The tapping alone had caused the faint revival of hope that there might be men alive on the ship.
 Hours before the admiralty had admitted that there was almost no chance that single man would be brought out alive, Cammell Laird officials announced bluntly to the relatives of those aboard:
 There is no hope for the men still in the submarine"
 A naval officer at the scene ad- mitted that rescue workers had abandoned hope and said that formal rescue work had been sus- pended until dawn. Then came the tappings, in international Morse code, on the Thesis's sides:
 "... .-.. .-.. - .-.. ..
 "Still alive"
 Experts still could only guess what had happened to the Thetis to send 1t to the bottom, nose in the mud, and to stop the attempts of those inside to escape by means of their Davis lungs"
 It was suggested that torpedo tube had cracked and flooded some compartments. As to the Davis lung escapes which brought up four men alive and at least one dead, it was suggested that the forward com- partments had been flooded and that the water gradually rose so as to engulf the forward escape hatch possibly the after one-and pre- vent others from emerging.
 Attempt With Lines Fails
 Salvage boats made one attempt after another this morning to get lines about the Thetis. One line had snapped yesterday.
 A new effort was started at 8 a. m. 6 a. m. EDT)-to try to attach wires to the Thetis's winch and try to lift the ship that way. But its nose had been driven deep in the mud. Since the tide swept up last night and wrenched its term, the ship had resisted all efforts to budge it.
 The admiralty admitted that it would be most difiicult. if not im- possible. to raise the Thetis before the lapse of days. Hence present ef- forts, due to the faint "still alive, tapping, centered on actual rescue on the 1,000-to-l chance. The ad- miralty said that If hope was flnal- " bAtOA oPs ekS 4kAStAb Wuu0 W raised and lowed to the Cammell Laird shipyardy at Birkenhead, which was still its base as 1t under went It's final tests.
 Liverpool, England, June s-(UP) A corrected list of those aboard the submarine Thetis when it made its fatal dive--the latest of . num- Der of conflicting lists issued--was made today as follows:
 Aboard Thctis when it started its dive: 14 navy officers, @ men: . civ- ilian admiralty officiais: 26 techni- clans of the camfnel Laird ship building Company; 2 experts Of the Vickers Armstrong Armamcnts Company; 2 caterers; 1 piiot-totai 'si; Hi;soapsd--oa5t. \. ?. K. Dram.