Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1935, Page 13

THREE N MACON CRASH LAUDED | | {Two Officers and Radio Man ! Cited in Letters by Sec- retary Swanson, | Letters commending three men who served on the airship Macon, which crashed off the California coast last| February 12, were forwarded yesterday by Secretary of the Navy Swanson. Those honored were: Lieut. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, commanding officer; Lieut. John D. Reppy, keel officer, and Ernest Edwin Dailey, radio manm, first class. The latter was killed in the accident, and | the letter was sent to his widow, Mrs. | £ E. Dailey, Marcheta Apartments, 1121 New Hampshire avenue. Wiley Is Commended. In his letter to Lieut. Comdr. Wiley, | who now is serving aboard the Pensa- | cola, Swanson said bhe “showed the greatest energy in raising the efficiency | of personnel and promoting the safely and operating effectiveness of the vessel.” | “You adopted measures that great- 1y improved the standards of morale of your officers and men, and took steps to provide complete safety equip- ment for the vessel and to train person- | el in its use,” wroie the cabinet offi- | cer. “At the time of the loss of the| Macon you took immediate measures with a view to saving your vessel and crew. These measures were so effective that but two men out of a total of 83 were lost, this being the lowest per- | centage of loss ever known to have occurred in the case of a similar| vessel.” Sought to To Lieut. Reppy, Swanson wrote: “It appears that you were the keel officer during the emergepcy. You mssembled the the airplane hangar crew and endeavored to drop airplanes from the ship, working when the ship was inclined up to 25 degrees in a pre- carious position with the hangar doors open below you. You went in the after part of the ship, which was known to | be damaged and reported ‘crumbling,’ | to try to shift the main controls of the | emergency steering station. You again came forward and tried to launch air- To See Hanging WIFE TO WATCH HUSBAND'S SLAYERS EXECUTED. MRS. ARTHUR CUSHION Of New Madrid, Mo, who plans to witness the double hanging of Roy Hamilton and Eddie Gayman tomorrow for the slaying of het husband in a robbery attempt De- cember 24, 1933. —A. P. Photo, Saved by Elephants. Natives in Assam, India, rode on the | | backs of swimming elephants during | a recent floo NESCO oil burners THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935. NEW HALPTMAN APPEAL LIKELY Attorrey Would Take Fight Before Federal Court if Ruling Ncgative. 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