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purposes of the trip, they said, were
to experiment with unframed ground
crews and test the new mast erected
by Henry Ford at Detroit.
"a Washington dispatch to the New
York World quotes Secretary Wilbur
as saving in regard to Mrs. Lans-
downe's comments: "Comdr. Lans
downe was allowed to chose his time.
His judgment was that II would he
safe TO make the flight at this time.
I would not have permitted the Sight
against the Judgment or protest of
Comdr. Lansdowne.'
1t was learned today that ComdT
Lsnsdowns. before starting on the ILL.,
fated trip. had criticized the water-re-
coysry system instal lied about six
weeks ago and had declared that he
intended having IT removed.
Among men who understood the
ships construction it was freely pre-
dicted that the ship could have wealth
cred the storm with the, old system,
Load AZ Breaking Point.
The original water system dis
tributed the water recovered from
exhaust gas of the engines TO ballast
bags CATERED throughout the ship to
caunteract the loss in weight from
gasoline consumption. The new sys-
tenn. installed at section 1l0. near
the place where the dirigible is said
TO have broken. concentrated a gres
part of the recoyered>wster in a can
vas bag holding three tons at the
spot where the ship broke.
Not only Is 1t believed 4 that the
new system concentrated too much
weight in one part af the ship. but.
In addition, ii is believed that the
cutting of one of the main circular
ribs Of the ship and an intermediate
rib for installation Of the new system
resulted in further weakness. These
formed the main structure of the
shin.
The two ribs. or rings as they are
called in dirigihls construction, were
reunited by square connection In
stead of the original circular form.
and this also was criticized by Lieut..
Cemdr. Lansdewne in private CON
versa tions just hefore departure of
the ship.
Lieut.. Comdr. I.snsdowne was on
his first day of his seventeenth year
IN the Navy when killed. 1t was to
have been his last Hisht. as he had
been ordered back to sea duty Sep-
tember Is. He and Margaret Ross of
Washington were married i'm ia2I
after war romance in France. where
she was Red Cross nurse Two chill
dren survive, one by Comdr. Ians-
doWnes previous marriage
Mrs. Hancock Brave.
Mrs, Joy Bright Hancock WAS bra We
under the second tragedy Of this sort
in her life. Her first husband was
killed when the zR-2 was destroyed.
She had only recently married Lieut..
II II
killed on the Shena ndoah
One little girl. the daughter of James
W. Cullinan of Binghamten. n. ".
was waiting to celebrate her sixth
birthday today. She has not been told
of her fathers death.
Several of the unma rried men who
pertshed were engaged
Secretary Wilbur teieEra aphed mas
sages OF sympathy 10 the families of
the victims.
A new water recovery system was
recently insts lied in the Shena ntioa h
and 1t was necessary To cut two big
rings inside the gas bag near the cen
ter and riYet them together again.
While there was some suggestion that
weakness developed from this work.
Lieut.. Comdr. T. 8. BOYD, second In
command at Lakehurst. said that the
snip had heen carefully inspected and
Plans for burial OF the victims Of
the shsna Fdaah disaster have not vet
been complsted. 1t was said here TO.
day, but 1t was expected that in ad.
dftion TO services at the homes Of
those who lived in the vicinity a Joint
service for all of those who Iost their
lives would he held at the air station
on Sunday or Monday. -
Suryivorm RAt.,r,.
The IL surviving members of the
crew arrived at the naval air station
today and were greeted by more than
500 friends and relatives at the rail
road station. Four of the men were
efficers and the rest enlisted men. In
the crowd that awaited them were
many wives and parents, who. for the
hrst time since the disa steF broke
down under the strain and wept The
men We're permitted to go to their
homes to rest after their he "a rdous ad.
venture:
Those who returned were: Lieut..
Y. c. Henlsy. Columbia, Tenn; Lieut..
j. B, Anderson, Hyattsville, Nd; Col.
Chalmers G. Hail. United States ARMY
Air Service, and Chief Machinist Hal
lihurton, Macon, Ga,
Enlisted msH-Henry l.. Boswell,
Bagdad, Fla; Jehn j. Hahn. Philadel-
phia. Pa; James H, Cellisr, I.akeweed.
n. j.; Frank i. Peckham. Froatstoaa,
Md; Richardson Wilson, Yakima.
wash; Ralph Jones, Los Angeles,
Calf: Julius Malak. HeOVersvilla,
Pa: BENJAMIN Hersth, Platenia, Nebr:
Lester h. colemaR, Fort Worth, Tex;
August e. QuerRheiH, Lakehtfrst.
". j.; Louis e. Aiiely. Logan, Ohio;
Frederick J. Tobin, Arlington, Mass,
and Raymond Gele, Lima, Ohio. Mark
j. Donovan of Philadsiphls also was
In the party. but did net come to
Lakehurst. dropping off at his home
city.
Halliburton said that he was In the
keel Of the ship when the crash came
The ship broke, he said. at section 80
and at section 1s0. the latter break oe-
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