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Evening star., 1925-09-04
FEAR OF STORMS
HAD HALTED TRIP
Navy Refused to Send Ship
Into Midwest Earlier
in Summer.

1t was the fear of just such storm
as overcame the Shenandoah which
led the Navy Department to refuse
to send the dirigible into mid-conti.
nent during. July or August. For that
reason the trip was deferred until this
month, when it was thought danger
of heavy wind and electrical storms
had measafably passed.
Along with the Shenandoah the
Navy apparently has lost precious
supply of helium.
The Los Angeles has been tied up
while the Shenandoah has been en-
gagged in maneuvers with units of the
feet off the Atlantic coast and the
western fight because insufficient
helium is available to initiate both
ships simultaneously. The loss of
helium in today's disaster is expected
to mean that the Los Angeles will con-
tinue idle for some time.
Recently proposals have been put
forward tentatively looking to the
leasing of the Los Angeles by private
business concerns in this country for
commercial operation, and President
Coolidge has indicated sympathy with
that idea. Whether the wreck of the
Shenandoah will have any effect on
the Los Angeles remains to be deter
mined.
Evening star., 1925-09-04

Guiding the hot soup, is distributed
from the crews quarters, the officers
frequently MUNICH their dry sand
wiches there
"In daytime the keel is fairly light
through the white cotton flooring
which is not -blackened inside, as is the
remainder of the outer tube.
''At night it is dark and mysterious.
The emergency dials glow like ghostly
faces with cabalistic words and signs,
dots and dashes for levers and but
tons. The chill wind whistles against
the thin covering. and the motors,
which never stop, roar right beneath.
Silent, muff1ed figures are huddled on
the hunks, some wormed into padded
sleeping bags. others bundled in fur
suits, fur mittens and wool boots.
Lights always are flashing and NOV
ing in the dim distance.
''On the crews deck, lit by a dying
electric bulb. will be a group of men
who have come off duty-wheelsmen
with weary eyes and arms. machinists
with ears stuffed with cotton, drinking
hot coffee from tiny paper cups-and
chief figuring out his hourly report
of the fuel consumed and the gallons
of converted water ballast.
while half the ship sleeps. the
other half watches and works, day and
night, four hours on and four hours
off. Other nights were like the first
night. The routine never changed any
| more than did the mad roar of the
motors. rT
THE silvery covering of the tube
was stretched over a skeleton of tri-
angular-shaped. latticed girders of
duralumin, which is one-third the
weight of steel.
Frame Made Heavier.
1.-The Shenandoah was built on the
plans of the Zeppelin L-49, which came
down in the American area in France.
Her structural strength was increased,
which adds to the weight, but which
stood in good stead through the Rock
les. An additional frame was added
in the center. increasing her length
and making possible an increased lift
by another gas cell, but not improving
her stream line or speed.
The five engines were each of 800
horsepower, the two forward close
under the tube, with direct-drive, IL
loot propellers, and the remaining
three with propellers 1S1z feet in
diameter. Two of these were reversi-
BILE and water recovery condensers
were on three of the motors They
recovered from 110 to 122 pounds of
water ballast from every 100 pounds
Of gasoline consumed.
THE Shenandoah's gas cells had a
displacement of 2,148.070 cubic feet
Under certain barometric conditions
if filled with hydrogen, they would
lift 1906 pounds, and with helium
85 per cent Of that, or 128,SS4 pounds
AS the gas starts to expand as soon as
| the ship rises. 1t seldom was more
than 85 per cent filed. Under such
conditions the lift Of the helium-in
| hated Shenandoah was 109, ,551 pounds
THE dead weight Of the ship, when
| dry and without water. gasoline, or
! oil, was Sc 900 pounds. This could not
be changed and the ship had to be
lightened from the 'disposable,' in dis
| tinction from the useful load. The
15 per cent reduction in initiation
| meant a 40 per cent reduction in the
entire load, as well as 40 per cent less
than what an 85 per cent full hydro
gen ship could lift. F"
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Flying Twisted Nose of Shenandoah
OF Balloon, Six Men Landed 1t Safely

pulled to places OF comparative safety
after the ship broke up.
One, not so fortunate, F. j. McCar-
thy, chief rigger, was swept from
his perilous perch in the forward end
of the nose to the ground when the
motorless craft struck a tree. He is
in Marietta Hospital in a serious
condition.
With three men forward and three
aft in the nose it was maneuvered to
a safe altitude after brushing trees
and at least one farm, house. Lieut..
Comdr. c. e. Rosendahl and Lieut.. J..
B. Anderson directed the release of
the helium gas and gasoline in such
a way that the nose landed without
severely injurfNg any aboard.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Striking Miners Don Gingham Aprons;
Help i'm Housework TO Pass Idle Hours

or 40 years of almost continuous early
rising, extended sleep is a difficult
habit to acquire. So, tired of watch
ing the lights on the ceiling and hear
ing the rattle of the milkmen's carts,
the men arise and sit on their front
porches, waiting for another day of
waiting to begin.
Miners wives no longer get up with
their husbands to cook a hasty break
fast and fill the gaping dinner pals.
But they have obtained recruits in
the kitchen, and many a husband hus.
ties about the stove in a blue ginghan
apron, helping the ''missus" put up
the Winters preserves.
Most of the miners declare that
they are not worried over the pros
poets of long suspension, saying
that the average worker hasa large
family, with sons and daughters EN-
ployed in the silk mills, shirt factories
and other industrial plants In the re.
|gion.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
MOTHER HAD AWAITED
LANSDOWNE COMING
Son Steered Big Dirigible Over Her
Ohio Home on His Trip
Last Summer,
BY the Associated Press.

GREENVILLE, Ohio, September 4.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lansdowne, mother
of Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne. had
anticipated greeting her famous son,
commanding the Inflated Shenandoah,
from the yard of her home on Third
street, this city, as she did last Sum.
mer, when the giant ship was steered
out of its course to pass over Green.
vile.
Mrs. Lansdowne is recorded as
being near collapse, a day of expected
joy having been turned into one of
deepest sorrow. Neighbors and towns
folk called to assuage the grief which
has befallen the aged woman, and
everything is being done to tighten
her burden.
Capt. Lansdowne visited her with
his family last November
Evening star., 1925-09-04

is my opinion that the crash oc-
Cured shortly thereafter
''No fault of the, ships seemed
to be the unanimous opinion of the
crew. All agreed that no ship could
have survived the storm.
After passing Chambersburg, Pa.
the radio log book. picked up near
the wreck, says: Down close to a
mountain. Altitude $500 feet"
Last night. a message was sent by
radio to the Lakehurst naval air sta
ton urging the promotion of Chief
Yeoman Brennan to the position of
chief storekeeper.
Lieut.. w. /. Richardson. Navy
photographer. recovered the suit case
containing his camera in an apparent
unharmed condition. Opening the
case. however, revealed that the
a thousand pieces. Richardson cut
his fingers in jumping from the ship.
McCook Field. Dayton, sent its hos
pital ship to the scene, Offering to
transport the injured to Navy or
Army hospitals. The two injured,
however, had been removed to Mari
eta Hospital.
Masters was surprised that his in.
tended parachute drop at Akron to see
his new baby had been heralded
throughout the country. "I didn't
want my wife to know that" he said.
1T was to be a surprise"
The nose of the Shenandoah wreck
when the ship was torn loose from its
mooring mast at Lakehurst January
16, 1924, during a storm. remained in
tact.
Lieut.. J. B. Anderson of Hyattsville.
Nd, a survivor, was at Hull, England,
when the ZR-2 fell into the River
Humber. He was to have flown back
to the United States in the craft as a
member of the crew.
The Ohio Department of the Ameri
can Legion has ordered flowers sent
with each casket when they are ship.
ped from Belle Valley.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
WRECK WAS INEVITABLE,
HOUSE MEMBER ASSERTS
Anthony, of Army Appropriations
Group, Tells of Fight on Lighter
Than-Air Graft.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEAVENWQRTH. Kans.. Septem-
ber Accommodating on the Shenan-
doah disaster, Representative d. r.
Anthony, jr., chairman of the House
Armp appropriations subcommittee,
said:
while deeply regretting the loss of
life, the wreck of the big ship was
inevitable sooner or later. In my
opinion, these very large lighter
than-air craft have no military value
sufficient to warrant the expenditure
OF millions I'm their construction, and
they cannot stand the strain of great
storms.
For several years l have carried
a provision in 1.-The Army appropria
ton bills which absolutely prohibited
construction out of the Army air
funds of large lighter than air ships
of this type
Evening star., 1925-09-04
BY the Associated Press.

HAZELTON, Pa, September A.
The reign of the alarm clock in north
eastern Pennsylvania is ended-for a
time.
For the first time in two years hard
coal miners may sleep their fill, due
to the suspension in their industry.
Normally they are among the earliest
risers in the world, crawling from be-
meath the covers at 4 and am. to
prepare for their days underground
toll.
But now the swarms of men no
longer saunter to the mines through
the half light of the dawn, lunch pals
In hand, at and o'clock.
Even the early morning trolley cars,
which four days ago bore the workers
to the mines and collieries, have been
discontinued. The anthracite field is
indulging In an orgy of sleep.
The younger men don't mind 1t. but
them elders -feel-tho satrains After 30
Evening star., 1925-09-04
WORLD'SSYMPATHY
AT AIR DISASTER
Germany, France and Eng
land Join in Mourning Loss
of Ship and Lives.
By the Associated Preas

BERLIN, September 4.-The de-
struction of the American naval dirt-
gible Shenandoah brought expressions
OF extreme regret among the Germans.
The German public knows what diri.
gible accident means, since this coun-
try. the home of Zeppelin construc-
THE accident" he said, removes a
ton, has lost several in storms.
News of the catastrophe was posted
on the bulletin boards in front of the
newspaper offices and the successive
dispatches giving the details and show
ing the fun extent of the loss were
eagerly scanned by crowds.
The morning papers agree in stat
ing that the German people will sym
pathize with America probably more
than any other nation because Of their
interest in this form of aviation.
Regrets Loss of Flyers.
Hugo Eckener, director of the Zep-
pelin works and builder of the Los An
geles, the Shenadoah's sister ship, es-
pecially regretted the loss to the United
State of such number of experienced
flyers.
number of exceedingly valuable tech
nicians OF American aerial science,
among them several able teachers and
promising students"
Lieut.. Comdr. Lansdowne, captain of
the Shenandoah. who was killed in the
fall of the control cabin, was formerly
a popular member of the American
colony in Berlin, where he was as
sistai1t naval attache from March,
1922, 10 October, 1928 He had a wide
circle of friends here, both American
and German, who are deeply stirred
by the news of his death.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CALDWELL, Ohio, September A.
With only the twisted and torn nose
of the ill-fated Shenandoah as ship,
and inythe gripsof the bowling west
ern twister." seven members of the
crew OF the dirigible maneuvered their
fragment as free balloon for more
than an hour and landed 1t without
seriously injuring any aboard.
While the nose fiuttered like a leaf
in the wind, the men calmly went
about getting it on an even keel and
slowly let out gas and threw off gaso-
line. finally bringing 1t to earth.
Suspended In midair ana hanGinR
=Atx-a< EardeCs -fhey cxawaedz or were
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Iowa Temperature Records 104.

DES MONIES, September 4 6P).-
The highest temperatures for Septem.
ber in Iowa since 1913 were recorded
yesterday by the United States
Weather Bureau, which said that the
corn crop in northwestern Iowa, al.
ready damaged by drought, had suf-
fered further. The highest tempera.
ture was 104, at Sheldon.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
LIGHTER-THAN-AIR CRAFT
FUTURE NOT IMPAIRED
Shenandoah Disaster, Jamentabls
as It Is, Without Ill Effect,
Plane Manufacturer Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, September
4-Lamentable as is the accident, 1t
can have no real effect on the tre-
mendous future for the lighter-than-
air craft, Glen L. Martin, airplane
manufacturer and authority on aero
natuics, declared today commenting
on the Shenandoah wreck.
Mr.. Martin offered the Government
all facilities of his plant, planes and
men in its employ.
The Shenandoah was too light to
be efficient, he said The future of
lighter-than-air craft lies in ships OF
tremendous size.
The strength and lifting power of
a dirigible increases in proportion to
the cube of her dimensions, while
the weight increases only as the
square of the dimension, ne explained.
The bigger the ship. the stronger. II
the wreck is found to have been due
to an engineering fault, that can be
corrected easily. But it will be rather
terrifying if found to have been due
to natural phenomena, Mr.. Martin
added.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
France Sympathizes.

PARIS. September CP.-The French
ministry of foreign affairs today
cabled condolences on the loss of the
Shenandoah to the American State
Department in the name of the
French government, and people.
A message of sympathy also was
transmitted from the ministry of ma
rine, expressing the French navy's
sorrow for the families of the victims.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
TWO SHIPS LOST.

HOBART, Tasmania, September
CR.-A wireless message from the
British steamer Kama reports that
the KaSam, of the Union Steamship
Co. of New Zealand, Ltd, has foun-
dered. Fifteen of the crew were saved
and IL are missing, the message adds.
GRAVESEND, England, September
R.-The British steamer Pennant,
operated by Baron Penrhyn, was sunk
after being in collision with the tanker
Acasta The captain Of the Pennant
and his wife were drowned. The crew
was saved.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Loss to Whole World.

COLOGNE, Germany. September 4
RD.-The Cologne Gazette. comment
ing on the loss of the dirigible Shenan-
doah. today says: "A heavy blow has
struck the American people. The de-
struction of the Shenandoah is a loss
to the whole civilized world The
German people regret the loss and
understand the grief of the American
people"
Evening star., 1925-09-04
DAWES VOICES REGRET.
Speaks Briefly From Train a
Butte, Mont.

Vice President Charles G. Dawes ex-
pressed deep regret at the loss of life
in the Shenandoah disaster as his
train, which is taking him to the
Pacific Northwest, stopped here last
hight. He spoke briefly to a crowd
at the station.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
British Coincidence.

LONDON, September 4 CP).-The
British air minister. Sir Samuel
Hoare, today forwarded to the United
States Navy Department a message
of coincidence over the loss of the
naval dirigible Shenandoah.
The air chief marshal. Sir Hugh
Trenchard, dispatched a similar mes
sage to Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of
the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics, de-
ploring "the misfortune which has
deprived aviation of Comdr Lans-
downe and his comrades"
Evening star., 1925-09-04
"PET" SNAKE KILLS BOY
Stroked Into Docility, Rather
Later Springs Into Lads Face.

TULSA, Okla, September P).-Ef
forts Of F. L. Tuttle. 19, to make a pet
of a rattlesnake, cost him his life.
field and stroked it gently. The reptile
became docile.
Several hours later the q boy
screamed as he threw the snake from
him. The rattler landed in q coil and
sprang instantly, sinking its fang in
the boys face. He died i've hours
later. -
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Is Cholera Cases at Yokohama

TOXIC, September a O4p).-Thirteen
cholera cases have been reported at
Yokohama Authorities. are vaccinat-
ing a thousand persons to prevent a
spread of the disease. It is reported
officials plan to mobilize reservists In
sl-campaign against -fharmaladys
Evening star., 1925-09-04
TWO FOUND DEAD IN AUTO

FOIICe BELIEVE Man Shot Woman,
Then Committed Suicide.
DENVER, Colo, September 4 LP-
j. l., Wallace OF Knoxville, Tenn, and
Mrs. Ethel E. Sherman OF Denver were
found dead in an automobile today,
victims, police say, of suicide and muir
der. Wallace killed Mrs. Sherman by
firing bullet into her head and then
took his own life, police said.
Wallace, q dairy chemist, was said
to be member of a wealthy Knoxville
family.
On June 20 William Sherman. the
woman's husband, filed suit for 6i-
vorce, naming Wallace correspondent.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Prudential Company Official Dies.

EAST ORANGE, N. J., September
4 R.-Wilbur S. Johnson, vice presi-
dent OF the Prudential Insurance Co.
of America, died at his home here last
night. lie Waa s. yearaof aEes
Evening star., 1925-09-04
Sympathy Cabled.

LEIPZIG, Germany, September 4
R.-The management of the Leipzig
fair to-day wired Ambassador Won
Nathan asking that he express their
sympathy to the families of those lost
in the Shenandoah disaster.
Evening star., 1925-09-04
INCIDENTAL TO THE TRAGEDY

Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne,
looking at the skies, flag in hand. in
Greenville, Ohio. for her boys ship,
was informed of his death.
George c. Schnitzer, chief radio en-
gineer matched a coin with another
engineer at Lakehurst for the privi-
lege of making the trip, and won
death.
Lieut.. j. B. Anderson, survivor,
clung to a loose girder and with the
aid of rope thrown to him climbed
to the hull.
F. E Master. aviation pilot. who
had planned to descend by parachute
to his home in Akron, came down
most of the way to Ohio ground on
girder instead and jumped safely.
Chairman Anthony of the House
Army appropriations committee, says
that the wreck was inevitable sooner
or later.
"Broadcas sting" was the last entry
in the ships log.
The ship crumpled in an air whirl-
pool, caused by winds of opposite di-
rection, like a tornado above the
earth.
The greatest wish of Comdr.
Lansdowne, unfulfilled, was to fly
over the North Pole.
The Shenandoah rode out worse
storm at Lakehurst some months
back. No broken trees or felled corn
was found near the scene of the crash.
Motorists grabbed souvenirs from
the wreckage and later they were sold
by hawkers at quarter each
Col. Mitchell says such disasters
would not be frequent under special
air service department.
Dirigibles and balloons are merely
bubbles of gas in frail envelopes, Sec
retary Wilbur comments.
Henry Ford was to have taken a
ride on the Shenandoah when II
reached Detroit.
c. P, Burgess, an engineer. who
helped design her, says the Shenan
doah was the strongest ship of her
kind built except the Los Angeles
which is shorter and fatter.
Helium saved IA; had hydrogen
been used, there would have been ar
explosion. There's not enough heliun
left to fly the Los Angeles now
Don't think that the days of the
airship are numbered" says Lieut.
Comdr. Rosendahl, a survivor.
Col. Hall, U. S. A, who was aboard
says weather forecasts by wireless
would have enabled the ship to avoid
the fatal squall.
Chief Macnln1St CnarieS ii. BroOme
who was killed, had survived the ZR.s
disaster.
The Shenandoah, two years old and
costing $2,000,000, had flown 10000
miles. beating any other dirigible's
record.
Mrs. A. Canary, who was in her
kitchen when the cabin of the Shenan
doah crashed into her garden so feet
| away, was one of the busiest women
| in the disaster area. She administered
| to F. e. Masters, aviation chief rig
ger, who miraculously escaped injury
| by leaping from the ship. In hel
| kitchen overlooking the scene Of 13 OF
| the fatalities she fed him a big coun
try breakfast, which he munched a.
! he described his narrow escape. The
/ back of his shirt was shredded where
| a wire had caught him as he leaped.
! 1t was daylight when the resident.
near Ava sighted the approae ching
| Shenandoah, but the lights in tn.
gondolas were still burning, spec
tators said. The only other flare re
ported was that from the exhaust pipt
as the control cabin dropped into the
Canary garden.
Machinist Ralph Jones said that n,
| last logging he reported was at 4:3
] am. I'VE were supposed to repor
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Evening star., 1925-09-04

The Chilean section of the Transan.
dine Railway win be electrified.
Evening star., 1925-04-05

Mrs, Coolidge
visits the tea
house conduct
ed by the Girl
Scouts in Rock
Gre e k Park.
Left to right:
Miss E. Gleanes.
d ir e or of
S c ou t S; Mrs.
H e n y H.
Flather, COM
missioner of
Scouts; Mrs.
Coolidge and
Mrs. w. B.
Paine, who has
served for the
past ten years
as a captain of
Girl Scouts IN
tho Dictrict
Evening star., 1925-04-05

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Evening star., 1925-04-05

April l. 1925
Dear Madam:
1t no longer the sell your od-fashioned
Jewely, nor to turn it in part payment on some
thing new. Modern pieces highly priced
than many of these heirlooms that now lie hidden
away, giving enjoyment
Rings, pins, bracelets that you used to see on
Grandmother, Mother Aunt have infinite posi-
bities Bring them and let us show you how we
modernze them for you to wear
You stones already in your possession
select buy the articles complete as you
them
Whether you make purchase at present or not it
will give much pleasure display jewelry to YOU
Trusting that you will honor with call the next
time you in this vicinity, are.
Very respectfully yours,
G2zzf@~<4..~~ &Jzz<
Evening star., 1925-04-05

the District. Harm " t"'"s
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-08
BARONET, REPORTED
ENGAGED TOU.S. GIRL,
TO MARRY ANOTHER

NEW YORK, Aug. S.-The first
intimation that Miss EmmelynC
Marion Grace, daughter of Eugene
G. Grace, president Of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation. is not to be married
TO Sir Michael William Sclby Bruce,
young Scottish baronet, to whom her
engagement was announced last Dc
cembcr, reached New York city.
1t came in the form of cable news
dispatch announcing that Sir Michael,
a captain in the Royal field artillery,
and wounded veteran of the Somme,
is TO marry Miss Dorcen Dalziel
Greenwall, in London, today. The
bride is daughter of a colonel in
the British army.
Miss Grace's engagement to Captain
Sir Michael was announced by her
parents, December 10, last from their
Bethlehem, Pa, home.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-08
|EL PASO ASKS SPEED
IN STRENGTHENING OF
RIO GRANDE CHANNEL

Ell PASO, Aug. S.-The city coun-
I cil and county commissioners of Ell
Paso telcgraphed Secretary of State
kellogg asking early approval of plans,
recommended by the international
boundary commission, for the dredging
and Strengthening of the Rio Grande
ito afford flood protection.
The plans which call for cutoffs
from both the Mexico and United
States sides of the river, were recon-
mended to both the governments and
|now are awaiting approval by the
|State Department. .-
Money for the work is now in the
hands Of the city and county officials
here.