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...Hose: Attached within 24 hours to breather fittings integral with hull...
Asphyxiation: Rapid, because vertical position of submarine caused acid to spill from storage batteries and to come into contact with the salt water, generating deadly gas impossible to counteract with fresh air from hose...
...Hose: Attached within four days to submarine's "ears" (S C tubes...
Asphyxiation: Slow, since little acid spilled due to horizontal position; but absence of air hose rendered slow asphyxiation sure...
Married. Zona Gale, 53, famed playwright (Miss Lulu Belt, 1920), novelist (Preface to a Life, 1926) and short story-writer (Yellow Gentians and Blue, 1927); to William L. Breese, 63, wealthy hose manufacturer; at Portage, Wis., her birthplace...