New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1022, e o SCENES FOLLOWING FATAL DIVE OF ROMA PROBE OF DISASTER | Charred Bodies Of Victims ALREADY UNDER WAY Meanwhile Plans for Funerals of Victims Are Being Made Norfolk, Va., Feb, 23.~Members of | the army Investizating board con- | tinued today their efforts to determine | the definite and prir cause of the | disaster which overtook the giant | army dirigible Roma here Tuesday when 84 of her passengers and crew met death and the world's largest semi-rigid aireraft was demolished That the fatal crash followed & breakdown of the controls reguiating | the altitude of the craft appeared to-| day to have been definitely established in the testimony thus far given, Secret Inquiry The inquiry is proceeding behind closed doors and no details were known of the testimony given by the survivors as well as eye witnesses of the disaster, experts and others, Of the eight injured in the acci dent, all were sald to he making good progress toward recovery today, with the exception of Charles Devorack, | superintendent of construction at Mc Cook field, .Dayton, O., who was still reported to be in a critical condition. Plans For Funerals, Meanwhile, at Newport News where the dead were taken relatives and friends continued to arrive today to identify the bodies and make arrange ments to have them removed to their homes for by 1. Officers at Langley fleld had informed city officials there | that arrangements probably would be | completed today to hold funeral sery- fces tomorrow for all of the 31 dead at the undertaking establishment Newport News to which they heen taken. Officials of that Norfolk and Hampton and the sever American Leglon posts have arranged Yescue parties of soldiers and civilians worked for hours in the debris of the army dirizible, Roma, wrecked and ravaged by to pay tribute to the dead the services and during the quarter hour| flames at Norfolk, Va. This photograph, taken shortly after the at noon there will be a complete sus- ‘ pens :,..‘m all business on the Virgin .:,-pscucrs are shown removing the charred body of one of those w peninsula. Taken From Airship Ruins '[;AUSE I]I: [:RASI'”—S_ " AS YET A MYSTERY :Caplain Reed Says He Has Not| Slightest Idea Washington, b, have no idea what caused the ueeident,” said Pt Walter J. Reed, chief pilot of [the Itoma, in a statement given out at the Publie Health Service hospital here yesterday, | U doubt df it will ever he known, | Of con wWe have onr own theories, but we are not certain which is cor-. rect, 1 had known that there was trouble with the control of the ship, and it was impossible to correct it aft- er it was discovered “The first intimation we had that | there v trouble was when we saw | the nose of the ship down, We went | back to see what caused it and found | the control was not working | wverything possible was done to | straighten the ship and get her on an oven keel again, Capt. Mabry gave | orders to shut off all motors, The last | four were shut off, The forward motor | was running. It is possible that the engineer was so thrown out of his position that he could not see the | signals on his dial | !l in Nose Dive, | “Every effort to get the Roma on an even keel proved useless and she | pitehed into the ground in a nose | dive and turned over on her side. | “When the ship hit T was thrown | |into the upper part of the cabin. 1 was shut in and got out only \\hv‘n! |a hole was hurned into the cabin. | Lieut. Weleh crawled out with me, | Both of us had to go through flames |to get to safety. Sergt. Chapman, | who was also in the cabin, cut a| | hole in the wall and he and Reardon | | ta major and passenger who sur-| Ivived the disaster) crawled out| | through that hole “My hazy recollection is of being thrown from one side of the cabin to [the other and of looking up the keel, | | where 1 saw men forward.” v | disaster, shows the search for bodies of victims. In the center 10 lost his life in the air accident. Many Perish In Thi; Méés bf Tangled Srflee!- Derricks were requisitioned by army resete partios®io lit tne torward cnd of the giant aivship, Roma, so the search for bodies would be unhampered. The huge steel framework was smashed| Rom:;’; Rudder Left As Aéroté;qfie Sign Of Disaster When the great dirigible collapsed at Norfolk, it smashed into a heavily charged electric wire, which set fire to the gas in the bag. As the Roma exploded and fell the rudder was left’ hanging and bent by the explosion, imprisoning many victims in that part of the-wreckage pictured fere. on a telephone pole, a landmark to the thousands crowding to the scene. | feveral times in Shackleton's career. | [ He cerved under Captain R. 1% Scott ) in 1901 when that intrepid pioneer | into the icelands of the south, made | |a h from that island which re silted in discovery of the south mag J et Tnetic pole e One hundred miles long, with. rocky, forhidding coast line so indent- Is Toe-bound Isoiated Habitation rori. cormiduing const tine o e —— lice and snow throughout the New York, Feb. — Grytviken, | Huge ice cliffs overhang its fjords chosen by Lady Shackelton as the last | Lays and { icebergs hreaking ofi resting place for the hody of her late|from massive glaciers make it a dan- | and, Sir Ernest Shackleton, | gerous haven, for the occasional wan sh explorer, who died ahoard his|dering whaling ships which touch its tiny craft “Quest” last January 5, is|shores an icebound, isolated hahit: The igland was discovered in 1675 persons, who cling fo {he frozen|by Anthony LaRoche. Caplain ook, Left to ht, Captain W, J. 1's markets has rendered fts im- ble for the concern to continue paying higher than pre-war rates for A b canc. | Sugar grown in Fiji has to com- | 0 | pete with the staple grown in other | tropical countries where cheaper la- hor is utilized, the wages in 17iji being | more than double the scale elsewhere, couver Rugar | cloge its mill and estates in Fiji while |another large sugar company. with (]} Ways 0[ Managmg Fumace | neadquarters in Melbourne and es probably will duplicate this action soon. ssh eggs, 4fic doz. Russell Bros operators of hot heating furnaces, who under the keen urge of chill Reed, Scarsdale, N. Y. Major J.| gy pORT OIL TAXES | feuities expericnced " incaring ‘for shores of South Georgia Islund, call- [in 1775, took possession in the name | (¢ rppopnall Sidney, Jowa, and Captain D. L. Mabry, Tampa, Fla. foulles tsiprlepcen e otiihi o8 ed the jateway to tt Antaretic.” of the Tritish empire. Until mor Sir Brnest's body was hrought from |than 100 y later, when it was vis the Antarcticgto ing his death and will he accompan- [the Moeltke, it remaincd unexplored, | mander and a veteran of dirigibl ied by Captain IFrank Hussey, a mem- | but the pregence of herds of seals anc | ber of Shackleton's expedition, when |sea lions made it the occasional ren- | ORURN E- S it starts again on its journey into the | vous of whalers for the first few Polar regions. years of this century, until the ani-) . Lady Shackleton's decision to halt| mals there heeame nearly estinet. | 5 removal of the body to lingland is in|Ducks, pigeons and Aretic fowl still | accordance with a lifelong wish of the |are numerous on the island explorer that he be Iaid to rest amid 1t was while drifting with the ice |l t the scenes where his life work had|past the *settlement of Grytviken, . been carried on. Only at the outset|bound toward the midnight sun on a of his last voyage, he told friends he|voyage of exploration which was to wanted “to die with his hoots on, like | kave covered 30,000 miles, that BeTOI‘B Faml thm’ HG wm[ev un old sea-dog.” Sheckleton suddenly died. His com- South Geo Island has figured | rades removed his body from the s | Quest”” o a Norweginn whaler hound Roma Was Unsa]'e D TR R T s tor Montevid and continnuedathe ex I— pedition under the leadership of sub { commander IPrank Wild ; ; : S Chicago, Feb. 28, Lient. Clifford They headed in the direction of the GIRLS! LEMONS “ost” Bnderby land, a vague country |B. Smythe of Chicago, killed in the| just_south of South CGeorgia Island | Roma disaster, wrote fo his father | H | . ported discovered 90 ‘ i which was reported i vered 1) just after the dirigible's recent trial WHITEN HANDS | |vears ago. but which-no one has Deen |y gagnington that the airshin SO cmcesmsensd | Bhackieton's hody has boen placed|¥as so unsafe that it would “be crim- Press the juice of two lemons into |in a plain wooden coffin, made hy the |inal negligence to fly her again with- a bottle containing three ounces of |whalers at Grytviken, and hermeticafy|ont making changes in her :m\_fllrnv*- Orchard White, which any drug store aled with zine, 1t will be placedytion,” according to Dr. J. M. Nichol-| will ,supply. for a few cents, shake |in a rock piled cairn, among lson, a friend of the Symthe family, | well, snd you have a quarter-pint of [ mounds marking the graves of other wleo made pubpe the letter last night, harmiless and delightful lemon-bleach |explore adventurers and whalers e 1 Unsafe, lotion to soften and whiten red, rough | who lost their livés at the “Gateway| The Iloma behaved so badly on or chapped hands. This home-made [to the Antarctic.” her first ‘trial over Washington that Jemon lotion is far superior to glycer-| A simple burial ceremony will he[she was declared unsafe,” sald the in and rose water to smoothen the|held in the crude church at Grytvi letter, according to Dr. Nicholson, skin. Famous stage beautics uze it to | ken, with only Captain Husecy, of |“and a majority of those on hoard bleach and bring that soft, clear, | Shackleton'ssworld of admirers, o|were advised to make the return trip rosy-white complexion, because it {that his wishes And the commar of | by, train. 1f anything has been done doesn’'t irritate. Jhady Shackleton are carried out, 'to aiter her, except to change the Montevideo follow- |ited by a German esoedition ahoard | command of the flight of the Roma. Thornell was a former com-| T | While ghe ended the trip all right, she | chief mechanical engineer of the bu | | reau Slice of 10 Per Cent Is Taken Of,| There are several w of manag- |ing a furnace, as there are several A | ways of driving a horse, says Mr.| engines, 1 don't know what it is. Tt Obrégon’s Measures | Jood. The gene principle is quite s to me like criminal negligencs swvious, b at principle e :Zol;l: :'x"rn':‘."::ylm'(”M\.m:'\ (.h:nlé.: x”(“ Mexico City, Ifeh. 23— (By the As- obvious, but that principle can be np-! her ‘construction, But wht can T do?|sociated. (Press)—The Diario ‘Offic pited ih GHISTENG WhYRL A JASARERE TR W HEe ?|foday carrics the test of the decree|Cess of combustion, :\.n quantities e’ GiFlgtble eemed slwgiah ati|dealing: with the export lofl taxes;an| BUSY Be SERNECSCCUARL S S ’ ] ’ Slusien and) i by of Treasury de| CO4l one pays for, the air one gets for slow to respond to he controls, e Hueria 1ast 8 According 'n‘nn(hllv:. but the quantity of air re- disobeyed her rudder several tim 3 6f Whe mriinles ot the Heavee Yhis ’(whv"xd ion b S rrlml‘n‘wpl‘.»t"\" a way that was alarming. The result|Publication =8 b ofial gt u_mmmm was that on her return - trip from |Cffect from Iebruary B R b e Washington unnecessary angers | Which it bears. & P . and all the erew who o d be spared| The dec was signed hy President| Ih P () L 5 GUAT W e “iuml‘,()hrl‘gnn February 12, In substance it |S ure ream were advised to go back by train.” | SR B, Robert Smythe, Jr., Lieut. Smythe's|Provides that the cxport oll taxes as St H d C ld return trip from Washington by hoat, |18 decree of June 7 last are reduced to 40 per cent of their original| amount, the sums to be paid the Mex-| Frosh cggs, 4b¢ doz. Russell Bros.|jcan national treasury either in out-| § APPly 1o Nom"s—lt"o;m\- —-advt Istanding Mexican bonds or in goid Alr Passages Instantly. 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