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')v THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1930. [ALL ENGLAND MOURNS LOSS OF GIANT DIRIGIBLE AND GALLANT CREW RELATIVES SEEK R-101 BULT UNDER NEWS OF VICTINS ADVANCED DEAS Air Ministry Is Besieged With Radical Step Forward in| Inauiries Concerning Constructi-n Was Use of Crash of Dirigible. 0il-Burning Engines. By the Associated Press | LONDON, October 6.—The great | dirigible R-101, which sailed proudly | away from Cardington Saturday eve- ning on an experimental flight to India, | only to meet disaster a few hows later, | embodied the most advanced ideas of British airship construction. { She was the largest dirigible in the world, with a bulk of 5000,000 cubic | feet and a Jength of 775 feet. A radi- cal step forward in her construction was that the introduction of crude-oil- burning engines in place of gasoline en- | gines heretofore in general use, a re- | form which greatly reduced the fire | risk. On gasoline-driven airships smok- ing 15 not permissible because of the | danger of fire causing an explosion, but B the Associated Press. LONDON, October 6.-—An air tragedy pervaded the precincts of the z min- fstry in_London today. Not only were | ministerial officers borne down by the heavy we'ght of cmergency duties brought about by the R-101 catastrophe in France and its sorrowful conse- | quences, but the air of gloom was in- tensified by the appearance through- out the day of sad-cyed relatives of vietims coming for further news of those they- loved. Learns of Husband's Death. - One of these was Mrs. Radcliffe of Bedford, wife of Rigger Walter George Radcliffe of the R-101, who called with her elderly father to ask if any word had been received about her husband, |there was no order against smcking on who was listed yesterday as one of the |the R-101. injured in the crash. They were white- | There were five motors on the R-101 faced and tense as the clerk telephoned | as compared with six on the R-100. to another department. The cletk | Four of the units were in pairs located paused as a reply came, then passed the | some distance behind the passenger ac- | Teceiver to the wife with the words, | commodation, while the fifth hung from “you had better speak. | the center line near the rear end of the | Those standing by saw her face g0 |ship so situated that it would give a | bloodless as she heard the news of her |good flow of-air to the rudder. | husband’s death in the French Emer- | The engines were of the Beardmore | gency Hospital. “He is gone/l she|type, with a continuous rating of 585 [ gasped. and the receiver dropped from | horsepower and a maximum rating of Empire Mourns Tragedy. torrents VIEWS OF R-101 AND SOME OF THOSE KILLED WHEN IT CRASHED “Rain was falling that our ship was blown down to earth She bumped twice slightly and then with a terrific impact she buried her nose into the ground. Immediately there | came a tremendous explosion, followed by two lesser ones, and flames enguifed the_airship. “I was shot outside my pilot window— I do not know how—and found mys-1f her hand. 650 horsepower each. They had eight Among the victims of the air tragedy | cylinders each, arranged upright and mn none was more widely lamanted today |line, the bore being 813 inches and the than Lord Thomson, air minister, Who |strokes 12 inches. Thé fuel oil, it was was an extremely popular figure. Many | found, wnuld not give »offany inflam- stories are told of his enthusiasm over | mable vapor unless in became heated to airships, especially for the R-101. | the temp'-ra(fiu'c m‘ boiling water. As originally designed the R-101 was PO SR S 732 feet iong with an estimated lift of “With a good skipper and a good|150 tons. An extra bay was later in- crew 1 would travel in the R-101 in|serted to take care of the extra lift re- any weather,” he recently told some |quired for the heavier oil engines de- friends. Speaking at a dinner in Lon-|cid>d upon. This brought her length to don on the eve of the departure of the (775 feet. Her main girders. were of R-101, Lord Thomson told his hearers |stainless stal with duralumin webs or he was just going to Cardington for | cross tubes and steel wire bracings. the flight, Addxngb"me only risk é(e;r; bl iRkt & is tonight's motdr journey to Card- ington.” | SECRET PROBE BEGUN Nxmmm;‘anqmg his intrepidity and | OF R-101 CATASTROP | opt: sm, he always professed the earn- | - . est dke(ermlnnllon of theh air m‘q};tryl STROPHE; to take no unnecessary chances. There | Were many todny who pointed out that| 47 BODIES RECOVERED when Thogson was made a peer he e | chose the Bitle of Lord Thomson of | Continued From First Page.) Cardington, expressing his great at-| 2 5 = — SachiREfit Top EUS ‘irsnip center, | the results of their preliminary exam- | ination, 2 > | Gendarmes continued to scrutinize All Britain mourned the tragic end | the debris of all sorts which strew=d the of the R-101 and 47 of the 54 men scene and one discovered a big watch who Saturday night left aboard her|whose hour was marked at 10 minutes ;:m'.'h" was to have been a trip t0 past 2, a possible indication of the 3 | exact time of the disaster. Prime Minister MacDonald was given | The R-101 was seven hours out of the news by telephone to Chequers,| Cardington when the crash occurred. where he was entertaining Prime Min- | After hours of fighting the violent storm ister Bennet of Canada. He imme-|which raged over Northwest France dintely ‘came to London./ Sunday morning, the dirigible Jost alti- King George and Queen Mary, at tude, and sometime after 2 a.m. failed Sandringham, personally sent messages | to above an encircling rim of hills of condolence. about a valley south of here. Messages from every ruler in Europe ' H. J, Leach, engineer of the Royal and many from overseas flooded the | Airship Works and pilot of the ship at | e s |the time, gave tne most coherent ac- 1 | count of the trag>dy: “We got into a ey Ef etk | terrific storm with high winds and the Cardington, the proudest town in all | dirigible simply would not rise. I gave England as the R-101 left her berth|her more gas to get her up into the Saturday for a trip to India, was a vil- | air, but she did not respond lage of death today. | in such Mare than a score of homes were | directly touched by the disaster which ' killed 48 aboard the great airship. The most pathetic case was that of | Mrs. E. C. Rudd, whose husband of only | two weeks was among those killed. | The survivors in general stood up well under the strain, however, fortified | by the training which for generations huhunt Englishmen down to the sea on the ground. At the moment of the in ships. There was a touching scene in ihe little Norman church when, in the gloom, which was illuminated only by a few candles, the vicar said prayers for_the dead. “Their sacrifice was not wasted,” he said. “They have been sacrificed for the cause of knowledge and human ad- vancement.” PREMIER MANIU QUITS | catastrophe everybody aboard except myself and assistant navigators was asleep. The motors were turning to perfectjon. It was the temp:st which caused our destruction.” Villagers Are Roused. Residents about Beauvais were awak- ened first by the motors of the ship as it passed low over their heads, perhaps 400 or so feet high. Many remarked that the pilot did not seem in absolute con- trol of the ship: that it wobbled un- necessarily and did not seem to respond to_his handling The shock of the explosion which fol- followed the impact with the hiliside —_— shook the country for miles around. e .__|The peasants thereabout, unmindful of Resignation Presented King the torrential rain and wind, ran across | muddy fields and through woods to the Carol at Summer Palace and | spot, where pillars of fire rose into the \!kl?fi and illumined a vast area there- Is Accepted. | about. | The heat stopped them dead a con- siderable distance away. Much nearer Br the Associated Press the flames they could see men running PARIS, October 6.—The Havas News about frantically. Attempting to break ~ | through the walls of the cabins where | Agency correspondent at Bucharest Xe- oy Soomiages of the flight were im- ported today that Premier Julio Maniu prisoned, one man could be seen at a of Rumania had resigned because of window with a spanner in his hand 11l _health. attempting to break through and out L o Bucharest las: week The right hand of one of the bodies o O B rraamivation was Tecovered afterward, and unidentified. likely in the Rumanian government held a spanner tightly. after King Carol had req;;Txd Premier DI — Maniu to form & e I qesirgus _ BY dasbreak the fire had settled suff- of retiring, since he had -differed with Ciéntly to allow rescue measures to pro- the King over the status of Carol's di- c¢ed, but there was no hope of finding vorced wife, Queen Helen, and plans ADY one alive on the ship. Metal gird- r the Klni" coronation, ers had to be sawed through to get at It was predicted that a provisiona] Some of the bodles which were take: government would be the outgrowth of Out and laid in a dell not far awa the situation, with either Foreign Min- covered by sheets furnished by the ister Mironescu or Minister of Justice Peasants and tagged according to posi- Junian to be chosen premier tion in the dirigible with the hope that The premier tendered his resignation | this would aid in identification. to the King at Sinala, the Rumantan It was noon before all the bodies we:c royal Summer palace. It was accepted. |Fecovered. The bodies later in the day 3 were taken to Allonne, a village near here, and placed in an impromptu CHANGES IN SPECIES DUE TO ACTIVITY OF RADIUM chapel. ‘The peasants came with flowers and kindly Frenchmen found several Union Jacks to adorn the walls and Texas Finds, That More Powerful Agent Is Source of Species. make a fitting temporary resting place AUSTIN, Tex. (). —Something more for the remains Le Bourget, French airdrome, had a powerful than radium is the source of origin of species. graphic account of its own of tne ill- fated trip to tell. From the start of the voyage at 7:30 pm. (1:30 pm., Eastern standard tims) Saturday the station there was in contact with Radium—in_the form of the earth’s natural raldlicactivity which exists in small degree everywhere, is the late:t discovery of cause of changes in species, barely more than 2 years old the dirigib'e. At 1:50 am. Sunday the ' dirigibls asked its position and Ygi the @iscoverer of this radio- active source of species, Dr. H. J ascertained it was about half a mile outh of Beauvais Had Enjoyed Dinner. Muller of the University of Texas, finds already that radium, though it causes 13,000 per cent more of the heredity A message was then sent that at that moment the passengers, aft-r en- changes or “mutations” which lead to new species, is insufficient. Joying an excellent dinner and smoking many clgars, were preparing to go to The “mutati are changes in size. shape, eye color, hair color or bed.” The R-101, due to extensive fire- proofing, is the first lightor-than-air craft on which smoking has been per- | bodily markings, wings, arms and legs, which sometimes bseome so marked and permanent as to form new specles RUMANIAN CABINET| 5 to Professor However, mitted. It was a few minutes after this message that the end came. An eye witness account of the airship disaster follows “The first intimation of th~ disaster was a formidable report which I first took for a thunderclap. A few minutes later 1 and some neighbors wore on | the scene. The airship had fasten into | an orchard on top of some apple tre Oh, what a terrible sight met our eye: Gang Trio Slay Man in Cafe. PHILADELPHIA, October 6 ().— More than a dozen bullets from the automatic pistols of three gangsters sent. Harry Rovell, 26, of Pomona, N. J., reeling to his death in a downtown cafe early yesterday. The slayers escaped. Rovell was identified by fingerprint experts as an alleged burglar, who was paroled Wednesday from the county prison at Holmesburg. ‘ vain firemen played hose on the blazing | ship. “We could see bodies in the cabins which teemed to b twisted like chunks of burned cheese. We were able to save | one man who was alone in th> forward | cabin. At the present moment he is | walking about Beauvals with three others, all of whom were szmxy in- S et ~ jured. Later we drew frightf3ly burned Tee skating is again favored this sea- wreckage. It was won by London society. bodies out of the an appalling s'ght.” Top: Officers and crew of the ill-fated R-101. H. M. ing; Flight Lieut. H. C. Irwin, captain and Chef Meegan, Second from tep: Control rcom of the blimp, showing Comdr. Atherstone taking a bearing with the shi tefl, second officer; Squad Leader Johnston, navigating office Middle row (left to right) Maj. G. of the R-101; Lieut. Comdr. N Third from top: The dirigible’s dining room. Bettom (left {o right): Capt. Irwin (A. P. Photo), Sir Sefton Brancher, director of civil avi A. Photo), and Lord Thomson, England’s air minister (A. P. Photo), all of whom perished in the crash. WORLD LEADERS SE?\ID MESSAGES OF CONDOLENCE France Sets Tuesday IN AIR DISASTER as Day of Mourning and Premier Tardieu Will Attend : By (he Assoclated Press LONDON, October 6 no other event in recent years, the British nation today mourned loss of its once proud mistress of the air, the R-101, glant dirigible which Saturday night scuttled across the murky skies to_an appointment with death From throne and pulpit, slums and Mayfair lamentations and condolences went up last night as British hearts, torn as f things have torn them since the war, extended the sympathies of the nation to survivors and families of the dead. Until the final trials before the start for India the R-101 had not been seen in flight since before last Christmas. As late as Wednesday a trial flight of the dirigible developed a minor defect in the oil cooler, which broke down. This was declared not to be due to any structural defect, and the engines were said to have functioned pérfectly. King George Sends Telegram. Immediately on receipt of official néws of the disaster King George sent the Shaken as by | following telegrdm from Sandringham, | to Premier MacDonald: “I am horrified to hear of this na- tional disaster which has befallen the airship R-101 and the consequent seri- cus loss of life, including that of Lor Thomson, my air minister. The Queen and I sympathize deep- Jjured survivors. GEORGE, R. 1.” The King and Queen joined with the humble village folk at’ the parish at Sandringham this morning in offeripg special prayers for those bereaved by the disaster. Queen Maude of Norway and Princess Victoria were in the con- gregation, The British government received messages of condolence from rulers and the administrations of all European rics and frem many overzeas. Funeral of Victims. Prime Minister MacDonald, who was | staying at Chequers, was notified of .the | disaster by telephone and immediately | returned to London and proceeded to | the air ministry, where he consulted | with officials. The entire staff of the air ministry were on duty soon after | the disaster was known. Premier MacDonald issued the fol- lowing_statement: | | "I heard in the %arly hours this | morning of the terrible disaster to the R-101, and am grieved beyond words | |at ‘the ioss of so many splendid men , whose sacrifice has-been added to that }glorious list of Englishmen who on un- charted seas and unexplored lands nave gone into the unknown as plo- neers and pathfinders and have met death. “My most heartfelt sympathy goes out to their families in this hour of their bereavement. ~Only those who have been associated with Lord Thom- son know how much the country has| |lost. " To me no.one can now fill his place of genial companionship and Triendship.”” Among the many messages of sym- | pathy 1eceived today on the loss of the |R-101 and its consequent toll of lives was one from the French airmen, Dieudonne Coste and his transatlantic | companton, Maurice Bellonte, In Amer- | ca. i | The -Society for the Promotion of | . [ly with the relatives and friends of | Aviation in the Soviet Union, Avioksim, | those who have perished in the service also issued a statement to the prcs!{ The flames were rising skyward and in |of their country, and also with. the in- fexpressing sympathy. b The message of condolence from Dr. | | Hugo Eckner of Graf Zeppelin was gratefully received | France Sets Day of Mourning. PARIS, October 6 (#).—The French |'cabinet decided foday that tomorrow, | Tuesday, sheuld be: observed as a day | of national mourning throughout France | for the victims of®he R-101 disaster. neopaer Trodieu himself will attend the V. Gent, chief engineer; F! Scott, officer in charge of ing Officer ship fly- G. Atherstone, first officer; Chief Steward Savage —Wide World Photo. compass. —Wide World Photo, —P. & . Photo. ion in England (P. & funeral ceremony at Beauvais tomorrow. The disaster created sorrow through- out France and citizens of the Republic were quick to demonstrate their sympath: President Gaston Doumergue tele- graphed his condolences to King George, Premier Andre Tardleu addressed a similar telegram to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. while Foreign Minister Aristide sriand telegraphed Arthur Henderson, foreign secretary of Great_Britain. M.’ Laurent-Eynac, French air min- ister, who spent the day at the scene of the accident and tendering sympathy | to those who escaped, went to the British embassy immediately upon re- turn to Paris to express his sorrow and give an account of the tragedy. Later he telegraphed condolences to-the Brit- ish_air minister. The press gave much space to stories of the accident, most of the afternoon papers commenting with sorrow upon | the tragedy. Mussolini Sends Message. ROME, October 6 (4).—Premicr Mus- solini today sent to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald a telegram of con- dolence for the R-101 disaster. FRIEND HINTS MAJ. SCOTT HAD FEAR OF DISASTER Avers Air Expert Expressed Doubt on Question of Ship's “Lift,” in Conversation. By the Assoclated Press LONDON, Octcber 6.—Hints that Maj. G. H. Scott, one of the noted air experts lost aboard the R-101, had | some foreboding of disaster on the flight | to India were contained in an account given by a friend yesterday of a recent convyersation with “thes officer. | Maj. Scott, “though naturally very guarded in his remarks” the friend id, seemed to have some doubts on the all-important question of the ship's ift.” | “I formed the impression that he was not altogether happy over the enforced insertion of an extra bay in the middle | of the ship after the great care which | had been taken in the original de- | signing—a step necessitated partly by | the later introduction of heavier en- | gines for heavy oil fuel. | “His remarks about a patched of | mended shoe being never quite as sound 5 A& new one seemed to reveal some ement of doubt in his mind.” BRAINS OF BRITISH * AVIATION ON R0 |Loss of Experts Heavy Blow Property Charge Follows | spa9. GON s | to Nation Aside From Witelai Not'Home. | /Constable Finds Man in Folded Bed After Waiting Hour Arrest on Concealing of By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, Iil, October 6.—A con- | stable, one Henry Kluge, called early By the A vesterday at the home of Edward Har- minute England lost, in - yments disaster which cost 48 lives early yes- |t0 HAFTIgan about some payments on terday, much of the accumulated ex- an automobile, concerning which the perience of avlation construction and | motorcar company was becoming anx- operation gaine | during the poStwAT | joue vears by a littl 3 it T o dyine o G | e Mavigen met the comstable at might be described as “British aviation's | the doof and said her husband was general staff.” out. The .constable al | ™ For rs this group had been labor- | Would wau‘l}{arngan: ""l‘mu: o i e . rloses The Harfigan apartmen one of I8 10 yrcome Germany's superlority | yhoge small affairs with an in-a-door But aside from the tremendous loss | 264 The bed was ;‘::Fgu;‘"c'; Bl in air leadership. the tve YoATS,PEht | “Thé constabie sat around nearly an $5,000,000 poured into it have been |OUF, He was sbout to ieave whew bhe nullified. The tragedy is considered a |eatt R MO, IPICSHERURE: S JOTNa big setback to Great Britain's efforts in | qic8C0 ARGl Yo Mweakly to the steel frame. putting over a great airship construc- « Harrigan was free on bond today on Financial Loss. tion program, for which millions of pounds Lave been spent and some of ¢ concealing mortgaged prop- fhe greatest aviation brains in the crarse® © & gaged prop empire assembled. R Designer Is Killed. Prominent among the group of ex- perts lost in the R-101 was Lieut. Col V. C. Richmond, its designer and Eng- jand’s nearest approach to a Count by some critics last year, he came «o[}ANUIDAIES NAMEU their defense in spirited fashion. | & “Nome of the calamities predicted for _— the two new airships_has come true” he said. “Both the R-100 and R-101 have flown their trials in some of the sanctioned the addition of an entire new section to the R-101. This was to overcome the unexpected great weight of her engine, which had nulli- fied much of the dirigible’s lifting power. John L. Lewis and W. N. Doak Are Mentioned to Succeed Davis. John L. Lewis, president of tae nited Mine Workers of America, and g W. N. Doak of the Brotnerhood of Rail- Was 37 Years Old. way Trainmen, now are among the Col. Richmond was only 37 years old | most prominently mentioned candidates and had been in the Royal Alr Service | for the post of Szcretary of Labor. since 1915, working on tie construcuion | President Hoover has been consider- of non-rigid airships. He was in Ger- | ing the Labor portfolio, and is prepared many in 1920, a member of the Inter- | to make known his selection shortly Allied Commission of Control, and for |after the November election, should a short time was in charge of the air- | Sccretary Davis be successful at that ships and seaplanes surrendered by time in his race for the Senate from Germany. | Pennsylvania. | " Others of the “aviation general staff” Anticipating victory for Mr. Davis, lost on the R-101 included the air min- | friends of various men in line for the Zeppeiin. When the R-100 and the R-101 were worst weather ever recorded for Octoger | and Novemb:r.” called ‘“ob-olete before they are built” Col. Richmond shortly thereatter Lord Thomson; the air The 'constable wanted to talk , LAST R-101 RADID 0D OF SMOKING Final Message, Few Minutes Before Crash, Described Passengers Enjoying Cigars. By the Associated Press LE BOURGET, France, October 6.— The log of radioy messages from the British airship R-101 before it crashed near Beauvais, France, shows that one of the last messages picked up tells of | the passengers smoking many cig after an excellent, meal just before they went to bed This aroused much interest here, be- cause smoking usually is rigorously pro- hibited aboard dirigibles because of the inflammable fuel or lifting gas, al- though nothing was received to indi- cate that smoking caused or contributed to the R-101's disaster. Log as Received. The log of messages received here reads as follows “At 6:40 p.m. the R-101 radioed her departure from Cardington. which oc- curred at 6:30 “At 8:20 p.m., Greenwich time. R-101 passed over London. “At 7:25, French time, the region of Hastings. Raining hard, wind southwest, with a velocity of & little over 54 knots an hour. At 10:40 the R-101's position two miles north of Hastings. “At 11:30 p.m. the dirigible reached a point above the French coast near Cape Saint Quentin. “At midnight, Greenwich time. the R-101 gave her position as 15 miles south of Abbeville.” Preparing for Bed. The concluding item in the airport reads as follows The jast position of the R-101, re- {ceived at 1:50 am. Sunday, was that she was about half a mile south of Beauvais. The radio indicated at this moment that the passengers, after they had_enjoyed an excellent dinner and rmoked many cigars, were preparing to 20 to bed “At 2:08 am. no message was re- ceived, but at this instant the guardian of the Beauvals Airdrome perceived a great illumination in, the forest over Beauvais. 1t was the dirizible which had just crashed. ECKENER IS PUZZLED the it flew over was ister himself, vice marshal, Sir Sefton Brancker, who was director of civil aviation, and Maj. G. H. Scott, assistant director of airship development, who paticipated in the R-100 flight to Canada in August. | Famons as Soldier. Sir Sefton Brancker was famous as a soldier, but devoted thc latter years of his lifc toward bettering British aviation. -Early in the war he directed British military aviation and in the closing years was charged with all op- erations of the entire British air or- gankzaticn. He became air vice mar-: shal in 1924. Sir Sefton was a close friend of Van Lear Black, the late Baltimore pub- lisher, to whom he was drawn by their mutual interest im aviation. Lord Thomson was 35 years old and Sir Sefton 53. Labor post have been increasingly active lately. Both Doak and Lewis are Re- publicans and were active supporters of Mr. Hoover in the 1928 campaign. It was reported at one time that Mr. Doak, a Virginian, was the choice of the President for his first cabinet, but at the last minute Mr. Hoover asked Mr. Davis to continue It is understood that Mr. Lewis would have the support of the American Fed- eration of Labor, although not the par- ticular candidate of that organiaation, There is some question whether Doal has the united support of the American Federation of Labor, 'to which body his organization does not belong. Another name heard in connection with the Labor portfolio is Meyer Bloomfield of New York, a writer on| labor affairs. He was sent to Russia as a special investigator by President Hard- Master of German Dirigible Be- lieves Some Other Obstacle Than Rain Responsible, By the Associated Press. . LEIPZIG, Germany, October 6.—Dr, | Hugo Eekener, master of the Graf Zeppelin, told the paper Neue Leipziger | Zeitung here yesterday that he was puzzled by reports of the rainstorm which forced the R-101 down and was supposed to have caused the disaster. The dynamic lift of the R-101. he said. is about the same a&s that of the Graf Zeppelin ‘and the Graf during her ing in 1922, However, there have been reports of opposition to him in the Sen- ate on the ground of his activities in connection with Russia. In addition to these more outstanding experts and leaders, the loss of the offi- | cers and crew of the R-101 is a severe blow to British aviation, as all were experts in their own lines and will be retary of Labor for almost 10 years. He hard to replace. X GRAIN ALCOHOL SEIZED Car Load Valued at $38,000 Con- | fiscated in Baltimore. | BALTIMORE, October 6 (#).—A car- load of grain alcohol, valued at $38,000, the fourth large shipment of contra band seized here in six weeks, was in the hands of prohibition officials today, who attempted to trace its origin. The names of both consignor and consignee | were found to be fictitious when the shipment, billed as wrapping paper, was | seized on a railroad siding yesterday. | Three carioads of beer, one of which was traced to Philadelphia, had been seized previously. - | vania, have served continuously in the | cabinet since the start of the Harding acministration on March 4, 1921, There have been only two Secretaries of Labor. The other, Willlam B. Wil son, of Pennsylvania, served in that office for eight years under President Wilson, Both Davis and Wilson were members of the American Federation of Labor. Davis has consented to continue in office until after the election, but should he be elected he would resign immediate- 1y to assume his new post. Davis is run- ning to fill the Senate seat which was denied to William S. Vare, of Philadcl- phia, by the Senafe. Those Aboard R-101 By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 6.— Aboard the R-101 on its last flight were: Survivors. H. J. Leech, foreman and engineer of the Royal Airship Works, of Shorts- town, Cardington, slightly injured. A.'V. Bell, engineer, of Shortstown, Cardington, slightly injured. J. H. Binks, engineer, of Sheffield, slightly injured. i S. Church, rigger, of Cardington Vil- lage, seriously injured. A J. Cook, engineer, of Shortstown, Cardington, ' injured. A. Disley, radio operator, of Shorts- town, Oardington. seriously injured. V. Savory, engineer, of Shortstown, Cardington, serfously injured. Perished. Lord Thomson, air secretary. Sir Sefton Brancker, director of civil aviation. Squadron Leader Palstra, Australian Air_Force. W. H. L. O'Neil, India office. | Wing Comdr. R. B. B. Colmore, Roy- al_Airship Works Lieut. Col, V. Airship’ Wor Maj. G. Works. Maj. Bishop, Royal Airship Work: J. Buck, attendant to Lord Thomson. A. Bushfield, Royal Airship Works. Squadron Leader F. M. Rope, Royal Airship Works, f C. Richmond, Royal fi H. Scott, Royal Airship Officers. Flight. Lieut. H. C. Irwin. Squadron Leader E. L. Johnston. Lieut. Comdr. N. G. Atherstone, Flying Officer M. H. Steff. M. A. Giblett, meteorological office. bu Members of Crew. Chief Coxswain G. W. Hunt, Asst. Coxswain W. A. Potter. st. Coxswain C. H. Mason. st. Coxswain L. F. Oughton. Rigger A. W. Norcott. Rigger H. E. Ford. Rigger P. A. Foster, Rigger M. G. Rampton. & Rigger W. G. Radcliffe (died later), Rigger A. J. Richardson. Rigger E. G. Rudd. Rigger C. E. Taylor. First Engineer W. R. Gent. Engineer T, A. Key. Engineer S. E. Scott. Engineer G, W. Short. Engineer R. Blake. Engineer C. A. Burton. Engineer C. J. Ferguson, Engineer A. C. Hastings. Engineer W. H. King. Engineer M. F. Littlekitt. Engineer W. Moule. Engineer A, H. Watkins. Charge Hand T. T. Keeley. Chief Steward A. H. Savidge. Steward F. Hodnett. Cook E. A, Graham. Galley Boy'J. W. Megginson, Wire'ess Operator G. K. Atkins. Wireless Operator ¥, Eliio:!. OHN P. Phone : NATI Look for the Agnew Mark: —then you will know you Mr. Davis has held the office of Sec- | arid Andrew W. Mellon, also of- Pennsyl- | AGNEW HARD COAL. And you’ll like the way this long- | South American cruise had to fight rain with a Icad of as high as 7,000 pounds, which, however, it overcame dynamically without casting off ballast. “On my return from the world flight,” Dr. Eckener said, “the Graf encounter- ed a rain and hail. storm worse than anything I have ever seen. But we got through ecven that weather without having to release a single drop of water ballast.” Dr. Eckener stressed that informatiof available so far was insufficient to ba a conclusion on and that the real cau was still a mystery to him. But, said, he could not conceive of a rain¢ storm alone being responsible. “We have demonstrated clearly that an airship can be navigated througl worse rain:torms. It would be foolish therefore, .to generalize on the R-101 disaster as proving that airships are unmanageable in such weather. We have shcwn that airships are really a safe means of passenger transport.” Colder weather won’t catch you napping if you 11 your bins with SUPERIOR irning fuel saves you trips to the furnace room! AGNEW & COMPANY, Inc. 728 14™ STREET, N.W. ONAL 3068 ers scattered throughout every ton of AGNEW SUPERIOR HARD COAL i are *tting the genuine