Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 5

18 B DRGIBLES FIL N 23 YEAS Three of Worst Involved Macon, Akron and Shenandoah. B3 the Associated Press. There have been 18 major dirigible disaesters in the last 23 years—three of the worst involving the United States dirigibles Akron, Macon and Bhenandoah The disaster list: February 12, 1935—The Navy dirigi- ble Macon destroyed off the Pacific Coast; 2 died, 81 saved. April 4, 1933—United States Navy dirigible Akron crashed in electrical storm off New Jersey coast; 73 dead, 8 survivors. October 4, 1930—British dirigible R-101 exploded over France while en route from England to India; 46 dead. May 325, 1928—Italian dirigible Italia crashed in Arctic in flight to North Pole; 8 dead. September 3, 1925—United States dirigible Shenandaoh, formerly ZR-1, wrecked in Ohio; 14 killed. December 21, 1923—French dirigible Dixmude presumably struck by light- ning over Mediterranean; 52 killed. February 21, 1922—United States dirigible Roma, bought by United States from Italy, crashed in flames | near Hampton Roads Army base; 34 | killed. | August 24, 1921—Dirigible ZR-2 | bought in England for United States, frame buckled over Humber River; 42 killed. January 29, 1921—British dirigible R-34, wrecked in gale in Howden, ' England; no lives lost. July 21, 1919—Dirigible burned over Chicago; 10 Killed. July 15, 1919—British airship NS-11 struck by lightning over North Sea; 12 killed. June 20, 1914—Airship and air- plane collided at Vienna; 9 killed. September 9, 1913—Zeppelin L-1 destroyed off Heligoland; 15 killed. October 17, 1913—Zeppelin L-2 ex- | ploded over Johannisthal Airdrome; 28 killed. July 2, 1912—Balloon Akron ex- | ploded at Atlantic City; 5 killed Besides the Zeppelins L-1 and L-2, | Count Zeppelin lost four other great | Ppeace-time dirigibles in accidents, the | Zeppelins 3 and 6 and the Deutsch- | lands 1 and 2. BUENOS AIRES STIRRED Alrship Was Scheduled to Visit Argentina in July. BUENOS AIRES, May 7 (#).—News | A.P.Man Tells How HeSnapped Blast Pictures Had Camera at Eye Level When Ship Burst Into Flame. BY MURRAY BECKER, Associated Press Photographer. LAKEHURST, N. J. May 7.—I have been a news photographer for years, covering major events, but never in my life have I had such a tragic and spectacular picture as the destruction of the Hindenburg appear before my eyes. I had taken several “shots” as the Hindenburg approached the landing fleld and had backed away for a gen- er] view when the first explosion oc- curred. I had my camera up to the eye level when the ship burst into flames. Like & hunter, I had my sights on the target and my finger on the trigger. I shot the picture showing the first puff of flames. Changing my plates, I got a second picture of the airship striking the ground with the flames shooting the length of the ship, and then started running for it. It is hard to explain my feelings. I was in a daze and yet I was trying to | get all the pictures possible in the least time. One of them was of a man half-naked, his clothes burned from him, stumbling from the ship. Trying to recall everything now, the screaming of people on the field, the flaming ship, the mad scramble with | pictures, I find it impossible to co- ordinate them all. It was a moment of spectacular madness. Belin (Continued From First Page.) THE EVENING STAR, his feet and started to run from the falling, crackling ship. Almost immediately, according to Mrs. Poole, Belin realized that he might be of assistance at the blazing craft, now lying in & crumpled heap of blazing, oil-soaked material. He returned to the ship, found he could do nothing and began a search for his parents in the hysterical mob of ter- rified spectators. The elder Belins and the Pooles had been awaiting the Hinderburg's moor- ing in the flela office. Against the F. L. BELIN, JR. background of the flames, they saw no one jump. “It seemed absolutely inconceivable that any one could survive that acci- dent,” Mrs. Poole immediately said. “Almost immediately after it hap- pened, Mr. Poole told me to lead the Belins away from the fleld. We were all sure that Peter had been killed, but my husband wanted to approach the ship with the possibility of giving assistance. “The Belins were marvelous. I sup- pose the shock made them practically insensate. They were perfectly com- posed. As the shock began to wear off tonian on the Hindenburg, was re- turning from studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He saved his life by leap- | ing from a cabln window 30 feet | above the landing fleld, and was un- | injured. Was Taking Photographs. As related today over the telephone | from Princeton, N. J., by Mrs. Poole, | whose husband is director of the | School of Public and International | Affairs at Princeton University, the youth described his experience as fol- lows: | Young Belin was taking photographs | of the landing through an isinglass window in a forward cabin. Sudden- ly the ship was shaken by a terrific blast. Out of the corner of his eye, Belin saw the flames shoot from the stern of the ship as it tilted and sev- eral other passengers were thrown in -as they began to gather the full im- port of the tragedy—we heard that whistle. I can’t describe its effect, but we wheeled around and there was Peter, perfectly calm, to tell his grief- stricken parents that he was all right. The Belins left Princeton for Wash= ington by train this morning after spending the night at the Pooles. Popular in Washington's younger set, young Belin was graduated from Yale University last Spring. He ex- | pects to enter a foreign service school | here this Fall. At the Sorbonne he studied subjects to prepare him for the service examinations. Father Was Minister to Poland. His father was Minister to Poland in 1932-3, and previously had been with the Scranton (Pa.) Lace Co. in his native city. Related to the Du Pont family of Wilmington, Del., of the American delegation at the London Naval Conference in 1930. Bhortly after his escape last night young Belin telephoned the Yale Daily News, student newspaper in New Haven, Conn, to tell of his experi- ence. Friends and relatives here, however, did not learn of his fate until his father called the local resi- dence at about 9:30 p.m. —_— AIRSHIP BLAST GIVEN AS SPEEDING EXCUSE District Baker Tells Judge He ‘Was Brooding Over Tragedy. Escapes Fine. Carl P. Reichel, 54, local baker, was released on his personal bond on a speeding charge by Judge Walter J. Casey in Traffic Court today when he told the court he was brooding over the crash of the German dirigible Hindenburg at the time of his arrest. Reichel said he lost a brother when a Zeppelin fell in flames in BEngland several years ago. Reichel asserted he was on his way home to the 1700 block of L street &nd was 50 occupied with thoughts of the two tragedies that he did not know he was traveling 40 miles an hour until Pvt. R. L. Dowell arrested him at New York and New Jersey avenues. The brother, Reichel said, was a member of Germany’s force manning lighter-shan-air ships. ICKES’ CONTRACT PLAN ANNOYS WESTERN FIRMS Another Federal Order Let to Bid- der Farthest From Scene of Construction. By the Assoctated Press. Secretary Ickes awarded a Grand Coulee Dam materials contract today to that one of several identical bidders who was farthest from the scene of construction. Commenting on this policy, which | has come to be recognized as uniform | with him in cases of identical bids, | he said: | “The practice of awarding the con- ract to the firm which ships from the | most distant point (from the acene | of construction) is beginning to irk | the Western concerns. They are find- | ing that identical bidding places them at* a disadvantage.” The contract, for 2,942,685 pounds of steel for the Washington State | Dam, went to the Carnegie-Illinois | Steel Corp. on a bid of $77,250. Chronic ca Cystiti have been helped by neutralizing the trouble-causing acids with Mountain of WASHINGTON, D. C. of the Hindenburg disaster stirred |a heap at the forward end of the Buenos Aires today, especially because | cabin. the airship was scheduled to make her | Two nearby stewards broke the is- iR e e president of the E. L | Valley Mineral Water direct from fa- u Pont de Nemours . and was | associated with the Aetna Explosives | MOUS Hot Springs, Arkansas. Build Co. before entering the American |Up your alkaline reserve with this FRIDAY HINDENBURG USED PORT AT OWN RISK Navy Stipulated U. §. Be Ab- solved From All Responsi- bility in Accident. By the Associated Press. ‘The United States Navy stipulated in advance that use of its facilities at Lakehurst were “entirely at the risk” of the operators of the dirigible Hin- denburg. An explanation of this Government’s arrangement with the dirigible oper- ators—granting them mooring and I a3 1937 servicing facilities at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., for their 1937 achedule—specified that: “By the terms of the permit, the operators of the Hindenburg are granted permission to use certain air- ship facilities at Lakehurst not now in use by the Navy under conditions based on the general premise that the use thereof is entirely at the risk of the permitee and entirely without ex- pense or responsibility on the part of the United States.” MAY 7, “Canteen Established by Queen. Under Buckingham Palace there is & canteen which was especially built by Queen Victoria for the royal serv- SWEDISH JOURNALIST MISSING IN DISASTER By the Associated Press. LAKEHURST, N. J., May 7.—Among the Hindenburg missing today was Birger Brinck, Swedish journalist and one of the editors of the Stockholms Tidingen. Einar Thulin, American representa- tive of the paper, said he had sought Brinck in vain everywhere. The editor, he said, had made the air trip to the United States to interview Gov. George Earle of Pennsylvania in connection with the 150th aniversary of the land- ing of Swedish colonists in Delaware County, Pa. ¢ i Iy %% A—5 PARTY CANCELED Fete to Honor Luther Called Off After Crash News. Members of the German Embassy staff had arranged a farewell supper to Ambassador Hans Luther last night at the home of the air attache, Lieut, Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher. Instead, the honor guest and host were flying.to Lakehurst, N. 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