New Britain herald., 1925-10-01
SURVIVOR OF FALL ONE OF THOSE WHO GAVE HEINEN DATA
German Zeppelin Expert Names Hereth and Work as Men Re-
 spQnsibIe for His Opinions
STILL THINKS LANSDOWNE IGNORED STORM WARNINGS

Error in Judgment Says Man
 Named Buckley Told Him Some
 Members of Crew Were Afraid
 Before Start of Final Flight.
 Lakehurst N. J.. Oct. 1 (P)-Ben- jamn 0. Hereth. Q Shenandoah survivor, and James Work, chief draftsman nt the air station here, were named today by Captain An ton Heinen, Zeppelin pilot, as the men who gave him ihc information upon which most of his testimony was based.
 Proposes Smaller Bags As an additional safeguard In air ! ship, Heincn proposed that smaller ! gas bags were used. so that If they | 1 expanded 10 the very fullest they 1 would not press against and so | strain the hull structure.
 His theory has been that 1t was such expansion of the ovorsizcd cells in the Shenandoah that caused her hull to break in mid-alr. Those on board have denied before the court that such was the case. sl Furnishes Names
 The witness furnished the names on the direct order of the court, Rear Admal Jones. the president, demanding the names since the men themselves had not come for ward. Heinen, In withholding the names yesterday, said he thought they should be permitted to volun- teer the information.
 The witness said Hereth came to him and told him what happened as the Shenandoah broke mp. He f could not say how long Hereth, a machinist mate had been In the crew.
 Work was the man, Heinen said, who told him that those at the sta Y ton had been fighting the valve change on the Shenandoah all !. along but without success. = Buckley Also Named | Asked as to who In the crew told Il him the men were afraid to make 1 the trip on the Shenandoah, Heinen l. said a man named Buckley at the air station had told him secretly T this. He was unable to say whether Buckley was attached to the ship. - "Then of your own knowledge ' you know of no member of the u crew who was afraid to make the " trip?" asked Admiral Jones' u Unless Buckley was a member,
 mo-" was the reply.
 What was Hereth's condition as u 10 sobriety at the time he talked tC S' you?" inquired Lieutenant Con- !. mander Rosendahl senior surviving !, officer.
 \, He could have sat here fin this s court with perfect propriety in thu ? condition he was in" Heinen re
 turned.
 Replying to an hypothetical qucs
 ton but by the court, Captain
 11tlutH Sdll lItIt N'lt llO OulHlI
 forces In the air that could brcal
 ID dirigible unless the hull struc o ture previously had been strainet :" by internal pressure. as The ease assumed from the pur
 poses of inc question was that of
 ship being tossed up and droppe
 in the air just as the Shenandoa was. going over pressure neigh VI then falling, then rising again an !" finally meeting a terrific upwar ,, gust on the bow,
 " "In your opinion was the Sher
 andoah struCturally weakened h I, being torn from the mooring ma' ,I. here on January t6, 1924?" aske , Admiral Jones.
 = q don't think so," was the repl ar Did Only His Duty
 This concluded the more tha ng four hours of cross examination (
 Hoiner Before he left the stand ] lp thanked the court for its courte! ok in what he described as "the mo ad awful and most difficult duty of n FITS life" He added that he would III
 iN-feeling on his part; that he hS
 done what he conceived to be |
 duty to state what was in his mil
 and in his heart,
 Paying his tribute to the na' oH men, he said he had never in lilo long experience seen men more i
 terested In aircraft development.
 The sign which the storm ga
 to the airship Shenandoah hefo Ah- she was wrecked Is one of { 'rt' greatest danger signals known os- in the air, Captain Heinen declar eye before the naval court of inquir, iit t When Lieutenant Anderson sa ms HIS he saw storm clouds going agaiT 'I UT the wind" Heinen said, 'he W .la l observing one of the biggest danl "a" .al signs we know of in the air. 'aS Most Feared Sign d. This is one sign most feared .5 airship men. I have seen seve ,raa ~ times in my past experience a "' nothing is more certain than il
 the course of the ship should
 changed at once."
 It. was when Anderson obserN
 this sign that he advised Go
 mander Zachary I.ansdowne 10 il
 10 the south but the captain dec
 ed to hold his course until tn
 was "a definite concrete dan
 sign"
 Recalled 10 the stand after 1 sensational testimony yesterd