New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1930, Page 3

. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1930. I __——_—___# ' TW[] ST“WAWAYS Before Flames Robbed Sky of Silver Queen AR RDION | \ fi CRUSADER sl il . by KUPPENHEIMER (Continued From First Page) \ #hip force, said a terrific storm was | raging, with high winds®Leach said the dirigible would not rise, although he gave her more gas. If there were any mechanical reasons why the craft could.not have been sent to a higher and safer altitude, these rea- sons were expected to be developed either in the inquiries now in prog- Tess or later at the British air minis- try’s official search into the facts of the disaster. Survivors in Hospitals Survivors, some of them suffering very serious burns and other hurts, today were in a hospital at Allonne, a Beauvais suburb. A temporary morgue held the bodies of all of the dead thus far found. The possibility of two stowaways edmitted by Holt may explain the discrepancy In figures issued at Lon- don and Beauvais. The British air ministry insisted that a recheck shows only 54 persons were aboard the dirigible when it left Cardington, while the authorities at Beauvais a sert that there now are 4§ know dead and seven survivors, a total of 55. Report Another Body Moreover, a report spread this afternoon that another body had been discovered, which would bring the total to 56, but this has not been confirmed. Profoundly sad, was the movement of the victims from the suburbs of Allonne to the cathedral in Beauvais this afternoon. B,o‘:‘.,;z‘;f;'fge ‘ifi;f‘f‘;;,veiac;‘i‘;} This picture of the ill-fated British dirigible R-101 over its hangar and mooring mast at Cardington Aerodrome shows where it rying four bodies. was sawed apart amidships and another section added to increase its length during a six-months’ overhauling, which was The coffins were carried into the | completed only a short time before the airship exploded near Beauvais, France, killing 45 of her crew ond passengers. The “‘f(‘f""}:‘ b"t““;@;‘;h soldiers, while a| dotted line and arrow indicate the new section, which gave the dirigible a gas capacity of 5,500,000 cubic feet and a total length e e fitly-first INTAN(IY | of 775 feet, making it the largest airship in the world. British officials decided to ‘rejuvenate” the R-101 after experts edifice. i branded it obsolete and a failure when it was completed last year. Tomorrow, which Premier Tardieu had proclaimed a day of national T e = | . o . o . service tar tne dvadat meinegrar |« Alr Minister Killed in Crash 5 Later the bodies will be entrained List of Survivors and Victims e s e - — : On Board Ill Fated Dirigible | Beauvais police said late today that not one victim had been identi- | « fied. | & . a . . London, Oct. 6 (M—Aboard the town. Card ¢ injured. — 4 e . ¢ R-101 on its las ht were: Church. rigger, of Cardington | Air Council Meets T e g ; . i Survivors: village, injured. | London, Oct. 6 (A—A meeting of : . : H. J. Leech. foreman and en- J. Cook, engineer, of Shorts- the air council was held today when P S i . g incer of t town, Cardington, injured. | the government's official considera- g i 4 : of Shortstown, Car 3 htly | A, Disley. radio operator, of | tion was given to all facts available T jured. Cardington, seriously injured. regarding the disaster in France to ol 4 R J. H. Binks, engineer, of Sheffield, | V. Savory, engineer, of Shorts the dirigible R-101. 4 % htly to dington, iously injured. Undersecretdry for Air F. Mon- | 5 : i A, V. Be zineer, of Shorts- | The de tague presided at the session and | 3 . . & S Lot | Lord Thomson, air secretary | announced that a court of inquiry . 7 : | Sir Sefton Brancker, director of | would be appointed. This was the ; SN chalshluch siisselllools ale Bl v idaviation only decision definitely reached at ~ 4 # . St | Squadron Leader Palstra, Austra- the meeting. : Stact Anaestigation lian air force. The council members had no y b Beauvals, France, Oct. 6 (R—A| "\ 1 1, 0'Neil, India office definite news of how the tragedy oc- . ; o ? 5 . ojnt E cstigation | ying Commander R. B. B. Col- curred. They stated that the fact 3 ¢ \as begun day, 1 e TUC- | pore, Royal Airship Works that oil had been found at some dis- g : % LDDHOL igible R-101, | jeytenant Colonel V Rich- | tance from the airship proved noth- ; - largest 2 > world, which | ;509 Royal Airship Works. ing. They entertained the.view thas 4 . : Sunday morni crashed into a | yaior G, H. Seott, Royal Airship 1t might have been dropped in order S 3 . ; wooded hillside near here and |yworics. | to lighten the dirigible in last min- e 1 burned. | Major Bishop, Royal Airship | ute endeavors to raise her to a 5 A Forty-six pers lost their lives | Works. higher altitude. 4 ¥ " 4 4 in the disaster, either burn to J. Bu attendant to Lord Thom- Steady Calls From Families 5 . death or killed in the terrific im- |son, The air ministry offices today saw 4§ e e pact. Of the 54 aboard ship, there A. Bushfie a steady procession of sorrowing 5 re eight survivors. All were in- | Works. families and friends of the victims . % i : i jured, some of them seriously. Squadron Iead coming to inquire for news. Clerks ; o : g ? Among the dead re Lord Thom- | Royal Airship W were busy also with many messages i i : son, British air minist. and Sir Office: of sympathy from all parts of th- R AN p Sefton Brancker, director of civil light t t C. Irwin globe. il g ; 4 Ferr, < : aviation. Squadron Leader 1. L. Joh It was announced this afternoon k 3 i p e : Ly Astounded and grief-stricken at Lieutenant Commander N. G. that a memorial service for the 2 § ‘ 7 the disaster whi in a moment erstone. R-101 victims will be held in St | | robhed it of the mistress of the air “lying Officer M. H. Steff. Paul's cathedral :t noon on Friday. and its finest air nt, the British M. A. Giblett, meteorological of- Standing in silent tribute, heads e e e o4 Jesenoers o |government dis s * 'd i of delegations to the imperial con. | LOYd Thomson, British air ““"1““" one of the 11 passengers to | John Salténd, air mars! and| Members of the crew HED D flz’lse X It! ference today adopted a resolution | Perish in the explosion of the R-101, is shown here on the steps | uict ot staft, to initiate an inquiry | Chief Cosswain G. W. Hunt moved by Prime Minister R. B.|leading to the cabin of the British dirigible as he went aboard jand dctermine circumstances and| Assistant Coxswain W. A. Potter. Bennett of Canada, and seconded by for a previous test flight over England | cause of the catastrophe. n ge P2 ] (Illa] 7 y su .t Prime Minister James Scullin of P 2 = | French proffers of cooperation s “oxs . ow V‘)u Ca t It ’ 4 Australia, voicing sorrow at the | were accepted. Sir John flew t Rigger H. 3 tdisaster to the airship R-101 and | soutn of here Sunday morning in |as Britain's ofticial representative at |0 Tondon, leaving Major A. V. Holt | Rigger A. W. Norcott. . ’ o the loss of so many brave and val- e X s in ch . with the expectation that gger P. A. Foster. t uable Tives” one of the greatest air catastrophes the sad coremony. e e e hat isn’t expensive Prime Minister Mac Donald thank- | °F 211 tme. | I S | investigating board, meeting today.| Rigger W. C. Radeliffe ea the conference for the expres | Gendarmes guarded the doors of Members of the 18 -Britis He himself would say nothing of the Rigger A. J. Richardson sion of their sympathy. | their meeting place and kept their |COMmittee which is investig > | disaster other than that there was 5. J. Rudd . ll. 11 ) Not only were ministerial offices | deliberations strictly private. Mean- | 11Saster arrived here this forenoon | cvery reason to suppose the explo- gger vlor NO longer need yvou associate high prices borne down by emergency duties | while, controversy raged without J”Im Nr““ thet iTai British | sion which de d the ship was eer W. R brought about by the R-101 cat v ¢y persons * s aboarq | technical experts visited the wreck | cayged and occur: afte > crash Koy . e . h K ll . trophe In Franco but the air of | rue s e mme i ¢ e dopeatd fof the dirigible wearing the blue | of the ship, . Seol with quality in clothes. uppenheimer gloom was intensified by the appear- blouses of mechanies and trench | §ir John ordered that every effort A r G. W. Short boots with rubber sol ) de to identify the 46 bodies. neer R. Blake. e throug! > day e sad- . . . B L Tncie et act was to cxamine the (41 Gharrod besond rocomniion; | Engineer C. A, Burion ‘ enterprise has created a suit which in eyed relatives. sl s had accounted for 48 dead, of whom Sl Mrs. Radcliffe Calls one possibly was a woman, out of rudder and gencral em | some of them only bones with scraps, Ingineer C. J. Ilergus One of these was Mrs. Raddliffe, | - - & B s of transmission from the position |of ter s attached. intense was gineer A. C. Hastir e * = u 55 aboard the ft. Bhe air m : 2 b b o Bedford, wife of Rigger Walter | (o “ 0% 100 00 B8 B TR o the steering apparatus. 1t was 3 irship that | Engineer W. H. King. every way measures up to their lgh George Radeliffe of the R-101, who |yu S W B O 0 0™ 0 con T board, |announced that —they wo er | rings, on the fingers of victims melt gineer M. J. Littlekitt o ' o - called with her elderly father to | LR the dirieible. | Make a statement concerning the |ed. A monocle found with the one Ingin or W. Mov ll h ; bl od within the dirigible. | make a statement ¢ | ngi ) . d b ask it any word had been received [Of YHO™ 45 1o¢ WD the AWEDIC |0 o their preliminary examina- | body may fix identity of that one, | Engine - A. H. Watkin standard ~ and priced it to be within the V] ¥ | since on persons ab “ha nd T. T. Keeley about her husband, who was l\s(ed“sfl\,M_ ol Tt (A ed iy e | Hons ince only two persons aboard, Lord argehand e yesterday as one of the Jnjured in {010 (2 L STy Gendarmes _continued to scrutic | Thomson and Sir Sefton Brancker,| Chist Stew -+ 4. T savidg reach of every man. See the new Cru- et f;::e"as ;;Vo ‘:\f’:fk“m; Survivors of the disaster have In-[nize the debris of all sorts which |USed the single eve glas Ay Cook E. A, Graham, Ehonod snsther: Gopiciriart. i |sisted " throughout ihat thers wers|strewed tha scens and one discover- | Tae 10U pis sister shipief helt K0S Bt SRERMIE. 0 d feel the fi ted te th PR e m‘;l\, A erhan s aboard, of whom only ed a big watch wh hour was | ] \;hm'l‘;7"',“;“‘“““”[ f“‘“’w_ Wirelets Dosiatis O 2 sader, 1ee € TiI¥rm woersteds, note € Tasse X thirectiyorito (hayite mithi|\o ERe ADeror pete isaned orehoflmarkedine CLRBUES 1ead Eh e jast July, was seven hours out of | Wireless Operator F. Elliott the words, “you had better speak.’ these to die at dawn today of his possible indication of the exact time 1 R ani routa’ 15 Kardehl imns face go bloodless as she heard the the crash occurred hours of news of her husband’s death in the | been added that of W. G. Radeliffe, | coremonial befitting the rank of the | oy o 0 PECERE A (0 B ol OF HEL!UM EXPORT LAW ing else equa]s it at so reasonable a pl-ice_ and gs to how many lives we Beauvais police asserted that they grace of Kuppenheimer designing. Nothe French emergency hospital Hegerlnitefilinizibioicrs Who | victims and greatness of disis- | iged over northwe Sunday “He is gone,” she gasped and | dicd today ter, which robbed —the nation Of iy guing, the dirigible lost altitude, hoe Tound on Seene some of its most bri gyl Gt v e e S e 1t is one of the soundest clothing buys the receiver dropped from her hand. h , o Possibility of a woman's having of the cream of its airship tal- |y bove an encircling rim of | Chlef of Navy Aeronautics Burcau Among the victims of the air trag- Ah- none was more widely lamented | been aboard was advanced by the ent. Lord Thomson, air minister. [ pills about a valley south of here ays America Ougl Make k ]’l. today than Lord Thomson, air min- | Police after a soldier of the 51st in- and Sir Sefton Brancker, divector of |yng met its end. SEIS NS IOuE h OIS you can make this season. ister, who was an extremely popu- |fantry, guarding the scene of the civil aviation were among those | Tells of Tragedy as Avallable. lar flgure. Many stories are told of | disaster, found a woman's shoe With | who perished. I T T Lench el s oh iR ownl his enthusiasm over airships espe- |& buckle still attached. A typewriter | A battleship will meet the bodies | Airsiip Works and pilot of the ship| Washington Oct. 6 (P—Exporta- < X clallyiivor thokR 101 |also was found, and it was believed [at a channel port and escort them |t the time. gave the most conerent | tion of helium by the United States Q 1 b K Il ywl,“m Brave Any Storm |one of the officials who died aboard |in state to theiv native land, which | pceount of tho trabody: is favored by Rear Admiral William ua lty y uppen eimer “With a good skipper and a good |the ship may have taken a stenog- they left so hopefully Saturday eve- “We got into a terrific storm with | A. Moffett, chief of the navy bureau erew I would travel in the R-101 in | rapher with him. The shoe and ning at the beginning of what they |high winds and the dirigible simply | of aeronautics, in order to assist for- any weather,” he recently told some | buckle will be handed over to Brit- thought was to be an 8,000 nn.v‘“omd not rise,” said Leach. “I gave | eign countries to avoid the danger friends. Speaking at a dinner in |ish experts for examination. trip to India and return. A funeral | hor more gas fo get her up into the | of hydrogen in airships & London on the eve of the departure| The objects will be turned over|service will be held for them in|ain byt she did not respond | “With our inexhaustible supply of of the R-101 Lord Thomson told |by Commander Seurin of the regi- | Beauvais cathedral tomorrow at 10 rin was falling in such torrents | helium,” he said, *we should not and up his hearers he was just going to{ment to British experts for exami- a. m that our ship was blown down to |falter or lose courage but rather Cardington for the flight, adding, nation. At the con on of the services|oapth, She bumped fwice slightly | pass on to the completion of our “the only risk I fear is tonight's| Police still clung today (o the idea | the bodies will he placed on cais- lung then with a terrific impact she 6.500,000 cubic-foot airships for the motor journey to Cardington.” that more persons were aboard t ons for the trip between files oF [huried her nose into the ground. Im- |good of our own country and other Notwithstanding his intrepidity | ship than the London air mihist I'rench troops to the railroad s mediately there came a tremendous | hations. and optimism, he alway professed recorded in their official comn ion. A special train will be wait- | oxplosion, followed by two lesser “The extent of the disaster is un- | the ecarnest determination of the nique whicn listed 54 passengers. ing to take them to either Boulogne- | ghes and flames engulfed the air- | doubtedly due to the R-101 having air ministry to take no unnecessary |with 47 dead and seven survivors Mer or Calais for embarkation | ghip, [been inflated with hydrogen gas chances. There were many today| Rescue squads found enough arms home “I was shot outside my pilot win- | The United States is the only country ks . who pointed out that when Thom- |and legs in the debrls of the diilgi- | None Identified Yet {dow—I1 do mot Lnow how—and in the world possessing helium, the son was made a peer he choose the | ble to make as many as two or Authorities averred thut none of | found myself on the ground. At the non-inflammable, non-explosive gas, title of Lord Thomson of Carding- |three more bodies than the 47 |the bodies have been identificd offi~ | moment of the catastrophe every- | in unlimited quantities. ton, expressing his great attachment | which lay.in the chapel at Allonne |cially yet, but segregation of five led | hody ahoard except myself and as “The present law prohibits its ex- for the airship center. it was said. | to belief that at least tentative iden- | gistant navigator was asleep. The |portation. I would urge repeal of - . — All arrangements were made to- |tification had been established in | motors were turning to perfection. It | this law and allow it to be sold in 160 l\laln‘ Board Meets Secretly |day for transfer of the victims of [some case Havas News agency |was the tempest which caused our |time of peace to all nations, espe- Beauvats, France, Oct. 6 () — A 'the catastrophe from the town hall |said that three bodies had b destruction.” cially Grei Britain and Franco-British commission of in- 1at Allonne, turned over into an im- identified but that officials were | tesidents about Beauvais were | which nations have had quiry met secretly here today to in- |promptu chapel. to Beauvais. Lord Wwithholding word pending notifici- |awakened first by the motors of the land courage to carry on v vestigate the crash and destruction | Tyrrell, Jritish ambassador to | tion of relatives. One man said of - airships despite disasters ©f the British air leviathan, R-101 l!*‘ra.nce, was due here this aftcrn\)cn‘thc bodies: “lt is impossible to t«zH‘ (Continued on Page 10) ‘handl(‘ap and danger of hydrogen.”