Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1925, Page 5

SOVIET ON BETTER - TERMS IN POLAND Relations Change With Pros- pect of Germany Join- ing League. MOSCOW, October 1 (#).—With the prospect that Germany will negoti- ate a security pact with the allies and onter the League of Nations, Soviet relations with Poland, for- marked by lack of cordiality and even acrimony, have lately as- sumed a strikingly friendly character. This has been forcibly emphasized by the warmth of the reception ac- corded Goorge Tehitcherin, Russian foreign minister, at Warsaw, whence he departed for Berlin. The Soviet press interprets his Warsaw reception as the beginning of a definite rap- prochement between Poland and Rus- sia. Russian official circles profess to see in the proposed security pact a move | on the part of the western European powers to create a united front of all Europe against the Soviet union. Bolshevik political writers say that Poland looks with equal disfavor upon the security pact and Germany's pors- pective adhesion to the League of Na- tions, as this would give Berlin the right to raise anew the questions of Upper Silesia and the Danzig corri- dor, which were settled in favor of Poland. AIRSHIP SURVIVOR NAMED BY HEINEN AS HIS INFORMANT (Continued from First Page.) storm clouds going apparently against the wind,” Heinen said, “he was ob- serving one of the biggest danger signs we know of in the air. Must Change at Once. “This is one sign most feared by airship men. I have seen this several times in my past experience and noth- ing is more certain than that the course of the ship should be changed at_once.” It was when Anderson observed this sign that he advised Comdr. Zachary Lansdowne to turn to the south, but the captain decided to hold his course until there was “a definite concrete danger sign. Recalled to the sf satlonal testimony vesterday, Heinen again was cross-examined by Lieut. Comdr. C. E. Rosendahl, senior sur- viving officer and one of those held by the witness to have failed to heed danger signals long before the ship got into the storm. Mistake in Judgment. to what he thought of ansdowne as an aerologlst, Heinen said that officer was well versed in the subject, but that on this occasion he made a mistake in judgment because he had not a wide enough experience in his past. “What is vour opinion of Comdr. Lansdowne as a pilot?” asked Rosen- dahl “My opinion was of the highest, and " Heinen said. hing back endahl asked: vou consider it safe to fly <h o thunderstorm?” certainly do not,” turned. nd after his sen- Asked Comdr. to the weather, Heinen re- Two Courses Open. The witness said two courses were || open at the time the danger signals were observed, first, by steering a course so the ship would stay without drift; second, to let the ship under all stances drift to the left. there any pilot in the United States except yourself who could have saved the Shenandoah?” asked Rosen- dahl. “Yes, Comdr. Lansdowne for one,” was the reply. Coming back to the valves and helium, Rosendahl wanted to know if Heinen during his time with the Shen. andoah had ever noticed a hesitancy to_valve helium. “Even In my own brain,” the witness ‘there was registered the neces- sity to save helium and not to up to the last possible momens Question of Judgment. “Then it was a question of judg- ment when to valve?” “Were you or any one called to ac- count for valving helium?” ot in the open.” pt. Heinen dis Willlam Mitchell have been andoah. “I would not permit any parachutes reed with Col. that there should parachutes on the Shen- in an “I might modify that by saving I would not allow any of the present type to be placed aboard the ship. ship,” he said with emphasis. | Only Minute Separated Fred J. Tobin From Certain Death. !Had Started Toward Con- trol Cabin as Airship Broke Up. (This is the first of a series of three | articles by survivors of the fatal crash of the Shenandoah. The second il appear tomorrow.) BY FRED J. TOBIN, Avlation Pilot. Five thousand feet from death! can only marvel at my escape. When the Shenandoah crashed to the ground and I climbed out of the keel to safety, I wondered what strange whim of Providence had spared my life and taken that of P Allen, detafled to the same du myself. One minute more and I should have been at the same post in the control carriage. Allen would not vet have left, of course, and two in- stead of one would have paid the toll. But to go back to the beginning. I was an elevator man on the Shenan- doah, detailed to shifts of two hours on duty and four hours off. I used to go down to relieve Allen 15 minutes or 80 ahead of time. Perhaps we'd talk and kill a little time before I ac. tually went on. duty.® That day I awoke about the usual time. But I was rolled out of bed by the ship's motion. I realized imme- diately that there was something wrong. I thought we had struck a strong up-current of alr. We were traveling over mountainous country where such currents were not infre- quent. 1 Like Climbing Clff. 1 was In the tail end of the ship and 1 started walking forward to thescon- trol carriage, where Allen was on duty. Suddenly the ship nosed up— precipitantly—at an angle of at least 80 degrees. To attempt to walk in the direction I was headed was as difficult as climbing a cliff that rises almost vertically from the ground. Sc 1 walted. I thought the ship would soon right itself and that I could then continue on my way. Besides, I was at least 10 minutes ahead of time. As 1 expected, the ship did stendy— but just for a moment. Then It start- ed down. It nosed down almost as far as it had nosed up. It described almost a semicircle in the sky. Up to that moment I wasn't a bit worrfed. It fsn’t at all unusual to hit a strange current that will pull up the nose of the ship. But to have it pulled first one way and then another— well, the current that would do that must be decidedly strange—more than a current, in fact. Just then I heard the ripping and tearing of steel. It sounded like the snapping of a great many girders. My heart stood still. I don't know what T expected next. I could not tell what PILOT OF SHENANDOAH MARVELS AT FATE THAT SAVED HIS LIFE THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. ~ C, THURSDAY, 'OCTOBER "1, 1925. FRED J. TOBIN, had happened. It was pitch dark and I could not see about me. My disturbance was not panic, or anything approximating it. I just dtdn’t know what had happened. And to hear the crash and crunch of steel, 5,000 feet in the air, and not know why or how—or how much—well, you just want to know, that’s all. Just then I felt several strong gusts of wind sweep by. I knew. Those gusts were coming from the outside, right into the ship. I knew then that a hole had been torn in us. I didn't yet know that the ship had broken in two. But what difference? One was as bad as the other. 1 think right from the first I was resigned to death. Resigned—and yet eager for a fighting chance. How could I have been other than resigned? Such work as mine and that of my companions must inevi- tably leave one prepared for catas. trophe. So instead of becoming panic- stricken and emotional about it, I . Hotel Inn Phone Main 8108- 604-610 9th St. N }’V. M $7 rocms. $6 weekly: $10,50 room 13 with tollet, shower and’lavatary. in room. 50% more. 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Faster all the time. Nearing the earth all the time. The earth and certain death. That was the situation we all faced. But, like every other man, I had my own particular problem to solve. I was standing close to two groups of fuel tanks, each tank holding 720 pounds of gasoline. The proximity of the tanks to myself was anything but reassuring. I felt sure that the wreck of the ship would catch fire and cause them to explode. And if I should by some strange miracle withstand the crash, I knew I would be doomed by the explosion. Some Close Figuring. I remember that my mind worked clearly and quickly—as it does in a crisis. I remember figuring that if they did explode, I would be safest standing midway between the two groups of tanks, because if they did 8o off, they would explode straight up and not to the sides. I acted upon that decision. T sta- tioned myself between the tanks and thought some more. I planned what I should do, if, when the ship hit, I should still be capable of doing any- thing—ever again. I figured that if from under the ship through the keel. ;l‘hen I walted and just trusted to uck. Shortly thereafter came the scrunch and grind upon the ground. We had hit. No doubt about it. There was a great crash and tearing of steel. But there I was listening to it, taking it in—capable of listening and taking it in. There I was safe—miraculouusly safe. “or the first time I thought of my wife and my little unfinished bunga- low and my two dogs. And other things like that. Had No Time to Think. No. I never once thought of them before. 1 suppose I didn't want to think what it would be like for them whenzmy wife read of my death in the papers. 1 suppose my mind was too occupled with figuring out, oh, all sorts of things. No and I never once prayed. I puldn’t help feeling that what happen would happen. If it was ry time to go, I would surely go. 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