The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-21

testing ground from their New Lon- don, Conn, base only this week. The i72-foot o-D, weighing from 4e0 to e24 tons, had completed It's pre-. liminary tosts satisfactorily. The final rnaneuver was c two.hour dive.
 The GO submerged ct S:36 6. m. (EDT) and remained stationary somewhere below the surface until i0:36 c. m.
 Four minutes after her deadline eiapged, the O.i0 sighted 6 black smoke bomb rising ct the southeast edge Of the rectangular course, which is two and q half miles wide and seven miles long.
 Immediately, word was flashed ashore by radio that something had gone anlisg aboard tho O-D. How ever, there was no great anxiety since c submarine in grave danger sends up c red smoke bomb. Think Ing the 0.o might be having trouble with her Diesel engines, tho coIn- fllander of the O-i0 summoned the P-6 and sped for the spot where the bomb was drifting.
 More Vessels Called
 The bomb had turned to wafer. thin wisps of vapor when the two "O.boatg" neared the scene, and ad- ddtional Vesgeig were summoned.
 Planes were ordered from the squantum Naval Air Basc near Bos- ton. The Navy Department ct Washington sent additional divers In a huge navy transport plane. and the converted mine sweeper Chew ink was dispatched from New Lon. don with the McCann rescue cham. Der.
 Tho Falcon, veteran of the squalus rescue and successful salvage, iigual- iy carries tho chamber, but 1t had been transferred while the Falcon was tied up here for a two-week overhaul.
 For six hours the rescue ships frantically churned over the area. Then, aS the sun broke briefly through the gathering haze, the o-i0 filessaged that oii-slick had been sighted and 1t was stopping to investigate.
 According to q list given out by the Navy Department in Washing. ton, the O-0 was commanded by Lieut.. Howard J. Abbott, of fsceoIa, Iowa The other officer aboard was Ensign Marks P. Manganese, naval reserve, of San Diego, Calf.
 Central Falls, R. l., June 2i- UP)--The crew of tho iii-starred submarine O-e expected to be back in port today, according to Q let. ter received here 6 few days ago by Mrs. Omer oueliette, mother or one of the crew members now believed dead in the sunken sub- marslble.
 The letter, written by Emil A. Ouellettc, q seaman on the O-D, said in part:
 We are going there (the Sub- marine proving grounds off Ports. mouth) to make our deep dive be. cause there is deep water right along the coast. We should be back by next Saturday. .,."
 Ouellette's letter stated that the O-0 was behind schedule in It's re- quired series of training dives which might mean going out week-ends to catch up."
 Del Norte, Colo, June 2i-(UP) Charles L. Eagleton, 24, an on. listed man aboard the missing sub- marine O-9, wrote his father, Ota Eagleton, last week that "every- thing was wrong" with the sub- marine.
 The elder Eagleton said his son described the O-o as "misbehaying badly" during a test, but he ada ca that I've have everything un- now"
 Young Eagleton re-enlisted last July after having served four years m the navy. He was transferred to the o-o recently.
 New York, June 21-CUP)-Mrs. I1llie Jaskowiak of Brooklyn, whose son, Walter, was a fireman aboard the sunken submarine O-0, hoped today for his safety because he had told her the vessel was "as safe as 6 house."
 Jaskowiak, who visited his moth- CT two weeks ago, told her:
 Don't you ever worry about mo, Nom. Submarines are as safe as houses That old O-0 Is just ns safe as the house you live in."
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