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A falsetto sequel to the Squalus and Thetis tragedies occurred last week on Lake Michigan. Just off Chicago's Jackson Park, a submarine, wallowing on the surface, got in trouble. In 15 minutes the entire crew was rescued. The entire crew consisted of one Barney Connett, 34, a gasoline service station manager by vocation, an inventor and mechanic in his spare time.' Rescue apparatus: a speed boat and a lasso.'

Barney Connett's homemade, one-man pigboat is twelve feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds, was put together with automobile parts and miscellaneous junk at a cost of $4,000, is powered by a battery-driven electric motor. Last autumn, lying on his belly in his submerged sub, Barney Connett bored his way from Michigan City to Chicago (63 miles) in 10 hrs. 30 min. Last week he was testing a two-way radio with two stations on shore. His motor brushes burned out, his craft stalled. "Send out a boat!" radioed Submariner Connett. "Send out a boat before I have to bail out!"

A speedboat bore down on the distressed craft, the conning tower was roped and the sub towed ashore. This week Inventor Connett plans a submerged trip from Chicago to Michigan City or Waukegan.