New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 5

5. MVY UPSET BY AIR TROUBLES Department May Close Lake- hurst Station-Helium Lost —_— Washington, Bept. 4 P—The disas- trous loss of the dirigible Shenan- doah apparently has thrown the navy's whole future policy with re- spect to lighter than air craft de- velopment Into a state of uncer- tainity, Out of this may come a decision to close down the navy's air station at Lakehurst, N, J, Secretary Wil- bur s now considering the best course to pursue, and has a definite plan In mind, but will discuss the matter widely with naval experts before announcing any decision. The collapse of the Shenandoah, oceurring in the shadow of the fail- ure to find trace of the missing PN-9 No. 1, plane in the attempted non- atop t to Hawall has not broken the navy's determination to ecarry forward alircraft development to the utmost, but Secretary Wilbur has da. creed that the rewards must be equal to the risk. He thus has ordered the plane PB-1 which was planning to hop off from San Franclsco for Hawall to- day in the wake of the missing plane, to abandon the effort, Unless very positive reasons develop to warrant it, he sald, the flight will not be made. ‘"We have had enough trouble for a while,”” the secretary sald, “and we don’t want to hazard the lives of other men untll we have some definite reason for doing s0.” Third Reverse Recently As its third reverse in recent weeks, the navy also is contemplat- ing the fallure of its planes to achfeve their major mission with the MacMillan expedition in the Arctie. From all of these, however, Secretary Wilbur draws the reassur- ing econviction that in the expanse of the Atlantic and Pacific ocrans the United States has a bulwark of de- fense of which there need be little fear of penctration by present day enemy afrcraft operating from an overseas hase. The navy department already has under construction a future program with respect to dirigibles, and the T.os Angeles and Shenandoah in particular before the disaster to the latter ship vesterday. How far this will effect the program not only In fts hearing on the problems of en- gineering science involved but the attitude of congrese as well, remains to be developed, Mr, Wilbur said, hawevar, ‘that he plans to confer widely on' the matter and might Tave an early announcement te male ac to a decision, The eocretary declined to eay whethar or not the Takehurst station wauld ba closed, but no other official denfed. that this step was in pros- eot. f Donss Not ‘Affect 108 Angeles As to the T.oa Angeles, now Inft a® the navv's only dirigible Mr, TWil- | tur #ald the plan in mind for Ther would not he affected hy the lnss of the Shenandoah. Sinee the proposal to lease her for commercial opera- tion no definita offer has been re- celved, even it one would be econ- sldered now after the loss of the Shenandoah, Which leaves the pos. sibllity that she may be further em- ployed by the navy, although not a military craft, in such ways as are permissible in further determining the navy's future program as to dirigibles, Whatever declsion I8 reached as to the Lakehurst station and the Los | Angeles thero will be a period of ne- forced Inactivity for both of several mnonths at least. The loss of helium In the wreck of the Shenandoah leaves on hand only about half of the volume of gas necessary to In- flate the Los Angeles, A new water recovery system was | recently installed in the Shenandoah | and it was necessary to cut two big rings inside the gas bag near the center and rivet them together again. While there was some sug- gestlon that weakness developed from this work, Lieutenant Com- mander T. 8. Boyd, second in com- | mand at Lakehurst said that the ship had been carefully inspected and tested the day before Its departure, GAVE LIVES T0 CONSERVE HELIUM Salely Valves on Ship Iusufi- cient, German Expert Says | Toms River, N. J., Sept. 4 (P— Captain Anton Heinen, former Ger- man dirigible pilot and construction | adviser in the building of the Shen- andoah, said today that the removal of eight of the 18 safety valves on the dirigible’s gas bags, was the cause of yesterday's disaster and that the victims of the crash “gave thefr lives to save this precious helium."” In the storm the craft rose too ! fast for the remaining valves to let | off sufficient gas, he said, the up- | ward movement of the ship causing rapld expansion of the gas hags which broke the shell of the ship in the middle, “I would not call it murder,” said | Captain Hetnen, It too strongly, that If it had not | been for the foolishness In cutting down the number of safety valv the crash would not have occurred Captain Heinen sald that the ship should have heen able to discharge | 21,000 cubic feet of hellum for eve 240 feet that she rose above a understood from Commander Klein that she was nearly fMled with | helilum when she left the staation, ¥ the ship had heen filled with hydrogen the disaster might not, have occurred, he said, because the hydrogen would have valved more freely than heilum and there wonld | not have been the same reluctance 10 save it if at all possible, Insisting that the Shenandoah as originally designed was the "“safest thing in the world,” Captain Heinen | made ahont six weeks ago, he wonld not have gone on the dirlgible for a | | minion dollars “It was not safe with valve changes,” he added. “The men that went and knew of the changes were brave, indeed ™ The Greystone Worn first in the large eastern col- leges, the Greystone is now popular everywhere, as a fine type of bysiness suit. 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