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Hindenburg Loss Will Not
Impede Air Progress,
Says Hitler Aide.
Bj the Associated Press.
DUESSELDORF, Germany, May 8.
—Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm
Goerlng today ascribed the Hinden
burg explosion disaster to an act of
God.
"A higher power, in a few seconds,
destroyed what human hands by in
finite care had constructed,” he said
In a speech opening the “Creative
People” Fair.
“We bow to God's will, and at the
same time we face the future with an
' unbending will and passionate hearts
to continue the work for conquest of
the air.”
Jibes at Paris Fair.
Turning to his regular exposition
speech Goering jibed at the Paris fair,
declaring:
“This exposition covers a space as
large as the Paris fair. As Is natural
for Nazi Germany, it was completed
on time. No strikes, no social prob
lems, no class spirit retarded its
progress. In humility, we should
kneel and thank God for giving us the
Fuehrer, who made the unity of our
people possible.
"May foreign nations learn from this
fair that a people who can thus
create has the right to be ranked
among those entitled to the fullest
equality."
(The opening of the Paris Exposi
tion, put off by construction delay,
now is set for May 24.)
Germany Again a Hammer.
■» “Germany, during the years after
the war," Goering continued, "was
an anvil for other nations. Now she
has again become a hammer. We
are witnessing a resurgence such as
no age and no people ever experienced.
The utopias of yesterday are the
realities of today.”
Goering lauded Hitler as the
“greatest German who ever lived."
He boosted the four-year plan with
the assertion that German soil,
coupled with German ingenuity, bids
fair to produce all the raw materials
needed for the development of the
nation's industries.
Goering then declared Germany's
readiness to co-operate for a revival
of world trade.
Germany was and is willing to
co-operate in anything serving the
weal of nations, but the weal of the
German nation must be included,”
he said. "We shall not yield one
Inch from our rights.”
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Army Students Tour Battlefields.
Nearly 100 public school boys of
England who intend to becom army
officers recently toured the battlefields
of France and Flanders as part of
their instruction.
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Troops Stand Guard Over Skeleton of the Hindenburg
Soldiers bearing rifles as they stood guard about the wreckage of the giant German dirigible Hindenburg, at Lakehurst, N. J., today while a Department of Com
merce committee prepared to investigate the cause of the explosion, which dropped the dirigible out of the sky a flaming pyre for at least 33 persons.
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Hindenburg
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graceful ship to her doom in the early
evening murk Thursday.
The theory that an electric spark,
either from one of her engines or
from her landing ropes, ignited the
Hindenburg's highly inflammable
hydrogen gas appeared to have the
most expert support. In the back- \
ground remained the widely circulated i
hints of sabotage which have yet to
find an authentic sponsor.
Death robbed the public investiga
tion of testimony from Capt. Lehmann,
skipper last season and former com
mander of the sky veteran Graf Zep
pelin. He stuck to his ship until the
last minute when he was forced to
leap from the furiously burning control
car with his clothing afire. Even he
was baffled by the disaster.
“Next time we come over,” he whis
pered before he died under an oxygen
tent in a nearby hospital last night,
“I hope we’ll be using helium (a non
explosive gas) In the bags.”
Germany Pushes Construction.
Despite the blow to Germany's
prestige in the dirigible world, the
tragedy only seemed to spur that na
tion on in the construction of its new
airliner, the LZ-130. to be completed
this year at Friedrichshafen. Nazi
labor front groups began collecting
money in the streets of German cities
to finish the work.
Eugene Schauble. assistant chief
engineer of the Hindenburg, who was
flung unhurt 25 feet to the ground
which the ship exploded, reported that
he has already been assigned to the
new LZ-130.
"It goes into service this Pall,” he
said. He repeated the statement al
ready made by his chief, Dr. Hugo
Eckener, president of the Zeppelin Co.,
"but to win public confidence, we must
use helium now.”
Comdr. Charles E Rosendahl, com
mandant at the Lakehurst station and,
incidentally, one of the few to talk
with Lehmann after the disaster, said
the fire could not have occurred if
helium instead of hydrogen had been i
used in the Hindfnburg's many gas
compartments.
Rosendahl, while emphasizing no
one can know the cause of the ac
cident at present, mentioned the pos
sibility that static might have formed
around the huge envelope during its
flight in an electric storm before at
tempting to land. The explosion, he
said, might have been caused when
cable lines from the airship touched
the wet ground, completing a circuit
to the static.
"Backfiring” Is Doubted.
Although several witnesses said an
engine of the dirigible seemed to back
fire, Schauble, the engineer, said he
was “sure that no sparks flew from the
rear motors.”
Gill Robb Wilson, New Jersey State
aviation director, who will serve as
technical adviser to the Department of
Commerce Inquiry Board open hear
ings, amplified his statement after
the crash that "something strange
caused that tragedy.”
"I was referring to the accident,
not the cause,” he said. "Nobody
can say what the cause was until in
vestigations have been held. All any
body can do is guess, and that would
be a very foolish thing.”
•soutn iTimoie, jr., solicitor oi me
Commerce Department; Maj. R. W.
Schroeder, assistant director of the
Bureau of Air Commerce, and Dennis
Mulligan, chief of the department’s
regulation and enforcement division,
constitute the official board of inquiry.
Theirs was the task of seeking a
solution to what was termed a “very,
very puzzling situation,” by Col. J.
Munroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce.
In addition to Wilson, their tech
nical advisers will be Rosendahl, Lieut.
Col. C. De F. Chandler, U. S. A., re
tired, and Col. H. B. Hartney, tech
nical adviser to the Air Safety Com
mittee of the United States Senate
Commerce Committee.
The German Ambassador, Dr. Hans
Luther, will name official observers
for his government.
GRAF FLIGHTS HALTED.
Service to South America Suspended
Pending Probe Here.
BERLIN, May 8 (A>).—Sorrow
stricken Germany ordered full steam
ahead today on construction of a
giant sister ship of the Hindenburg,
while Dr. Hugo Eckener said Graf
Zeppelin service would be halted pend
ing inquiry into the Hindenburg
disaster.
Eckener, designer of the Hinden
burg, said the Graf, now returning
from a regular trip to South America,
“will make no more trips until the
Hindenburg disaster is fully cleared
up.”
The grizzled dirigible commander
prepared to fly to Cherbourg, Prance,
to sail on the liner Europa, with a
German commission to Investigate the
disaster.
The Reichsminister of air, Col. Gen.
Hermann Wilhelm Goerlng, mean
while ordered builders at Priedrich
shafen to rush completion of the
LZ-130, designed as a sister ship to
the Hindenburg.
Officials estimated the new dirigible
might be in service between Europe
and North America within three
months.
Goering issued a proclamation to
German air service men urging co
operation “to show the world that in
spite of everything the idea and
spirit of Count Zeppelin persists. That
CAPT. ERNST A. LEHMAN,
Veteran pilot of the Hinden
burg, who died at a Lakehurst
hospital last night from in
juries suffered in the crash of
the giant Zeppelin.
I
airship communication, between na
tions is a work of peace ”
Eckener made his announcement
concerning a halt in Graf Zeppelin
flights after a conference with Goer
ing and other officials. The dirigible
was due to start a return voyage to
South America Tuesday.
Besides Eckener, the inquiry group
coming to the United States is com
posed of Ludwig Duerr, constructor
on the ship; Prof. Bock of the German
Institute of Aeronautical Research;
Herr Hoffmann, engineering expert;
Prof. Max Dieckmann, Munich Uni
versity aeronautical authority, and
Lieut. Col. Joachim Breithaupt of the
air ministry.
Merrill
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It was estimated that a take-off run
of from 1,600 to 2.000 feet would be
necessary. It will cruise at about 165
miles an hour.
The ship, bearing the designation
NR16059, is equipped with a Sperry
gyropilot, artificial horizon, pioneer
aperiodic compass, and a two-way
radio with the call letters KHMER.
Merrill said he would fly a great
circle route, by way of Boston and
St. Johns, New' Brunswick, across
Ireland and straight to Croydon Air
drome.
He and Lambie intend to witness
the coronation May 12 and to take-off
that night on their return trip to
New York.
Strike
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temational Association of Theatrical
Stage Employes be condemned for its
activities in the strike.
Studios listed as unfair were War
ner Bros., M-G-M, Columbia, R-K-O,
Paramount, Twentieth Century-Fox,
Universal, United Artists and Hal
Roach.
Half the 1,200 senior, or voting,
guild members remain to be heard
from, and a 75 per cent total affirma
tive vote is required for a strike.
Theaters to Be Picketed.
The head of the striking Federated
Motion Picture Crafts, Charles Lessing,
received reports that labor organiza
tions would initiate a theater picket
ing and boycott cahipaigrt in various
large cities, at least by Monday, in re
sponse to his telegraphed requests.
International President L. T. Linde
lof of the Painters’ Union, whose Hol
lywood local is the main strike unit,
dispatched telegrams last night from
Lafayette, Ind., asking the various
district councils and local unions
to picket theaters exhibiting films
from strike-affected studios. Lindelof
urged “Immediate and unlimited" sup
port of the strike. Leasing said he also
received promises of picketing and
boycott from the Painters’ District
Council, No. 9, embracing New York,
and from the C. I. O. and the Inter
national Longshoremen’s Association.
The support-pledging organizations
represent a membership of more than
1,500,000, Lessing estimated.
Stars Canvassed at Homes.
Canvassing of screen-star sentiment
has been accelerated through private
meetings at their homes. Groups met
with Frederic March Tuesday night,
with Chester Morris Wednesday night
and James Cagney Thursday night.
"These meetings have been in the
nature of a test of confidence in the
guild directors, and there has been a
wonderful spirit of support,” Morris
said.
The stars in the guild will meet to
morrow and report their decision along
with their progress in negotiations
with producers.
Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of the
Producers’ Committee, asserted pro
ducers were in full accord with the
negotiating players on most important
points and felt certain the others can
“be ironed out to the satisfaction of
both sides.”
But Lessing predicted “every studio
in town will be closed Monday” and
that the guild players will vote against
crossing picket lines now placed in
front of studio gates.
To date, the stars have passed
through the lines and production has
proceeded.
Tewing and other strike lmdan ad
Dr. Hugo Eckener (right), veteran Zeppelin expert, shown
* in this radiophoto as he left Vienna yesterday for Benin, en
rounte to the United States. Eckener is to come here with a
German commission to investigate the disaster.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos.
dressed a strike settlement plan to the
film producers reiterating demands for
a closed shop and sole recognition of
the striking unions. The plan pro
posed a return to work on these bases,
with a maximum of 90 days for nego
tiation on wage and hour matters,
after which any unsettled issues would
be subjected to arbitration.
On behalf of the producers, Pat
Casey, labor conciliator, has been hold
ing out against any closed-shop agree
ment. He complained no wage and
hour demands had been presented, as
he contended they should be along
with the open-shop demand.
Strike headquarters declared, how
ever. that wage and hour demands of
the Painters’ Union were presented to
him in New York last April 4. but were
passed by and the painters enlisted
other studio unions in the strike. The
other unions, for the time, merely
asked for a closed shop as preliminary
to wage bargaining, it was said.
In the April conference the pro
ducers granted 10 pier cent pay in
creases to the International Associa
tion of Theatrical Stage Employes,
non-strikers whom F. M. P. C. has ac
cused of becoming a "company union."
Basques
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protect Flench ships carrying refugees.
Bilbao is a few miles up the river
from the bay. Nearly 3.000 women,
children and non-comSbatant men
have been removed to safety in FYance
and the Flench steamer Carimare
was scheduled to take out another
1,000.
FRANCO ARMY REPULSED.
Attempts Vainly to Dislodge Govern
ment Forces at Toledo.
MADRID, May 8 C4>).—Gen. Fran
cisco Franco's army at Toledo sought
today to dislodge government forces
which have threatened to surround
the ancient imperial city and cut the
Extremadura road southwest out of
Madrid.
After almost complete inactivity
since Toledo was captured and em
battled insurgents in the Alcazar were
delivered from government besiegers
October 27, Franco's men launched
a violent attack.
Government troops, who took up
positions outside Toledo after the
Alcazar tables were turned, were re
ported to have repulsed yesterday's
onslaught.
The government threw an armored
train against the insurgents and
shelled the road from Toledo to Arges,
about 4 miles south. Toledo itself is
about 40 miles south and slightly
west of Madrid.
Government planes bombed a train
of trucks en route to Arges. Several
were destroyed. Government infantry
behind the armored train and a cor
don of tanks pushed ahead steadily
to meet the sudden insurgent counter
offensive. The insurgents lashed out
from Toledo toward the south and
the east.
BARCELONA RIOTS SUBSIDE.
Small Bands of Anarchists Still Active
in Suburbs.
PERPIGNAN, Prance, May 8 (A5).—
The central part of Barcelona settled
down today after four days of an
archist riots, but official reports from
the Catalonian capital said small
bands of anarchists still were holding
out in some suburbs.
Premier Francisco Largo Caballero
of the Valencia-Madrid government
arrived to attempt pacification of the
Catalan situation and to weld the
autonomous state closer to his so
cialist government's regime.
Telephone communication was re
established with Prance, but the Cat
alan censor forbade discussion of the
rioting.
The Barcelona government in a
statement confirmed that Minister of
Justice Antonio Seee of the Socialist
labor union had been fatally shot,
saying he was struck by a stray bul
let as he left a cabinet meeting. The
statement aleo confirmed the report
that Francisco Ascaso. anarchist
leader in Aragon, had been killed.
RESCUE SHIPS ARRIVE.
Three French Vessels to Evacuate
2,400 at Bilbao.
BILBAO, Spain, May 8 Ifl5).—Three
French merchant ship* arrived to
day to evacuate 2,400 women and
ohildren from the refugee-crowded
city, while three French warcraft
stood by in the Bay of Biscay to pro
tect them on the return to France
The cruiser Emile Bertin and the
destroyers Terrible and Fantasque
halted at the 3-mile limit off the
mouth of the Nervion River, which
leads up to Bilbao, while the steam
ers Carimare, Margaux and Chateau
Palmer prepared to take on the ref
ugees.
SLAUGHTER IN ARAGON.
Catalan Militiamen Lose Long Struggle
With Insurgents.
ON THE INSURGENT ARAGON
FRONT IN THE ALCUBIERE
MOUNTAINS. By Courier to Zara
goza, May 8 (P).—Catalan militiamen
lay dead today in a field of poppies
below a fortified crag here after
another unsuccessful attempt to dis
lodge a segment of Generalissimo
Franco's forces.
It was a battle in miniature, but
none the less fierce. It was a sample
of the combat that has raged for
months in Aragon—sometimes called
the "forgotten front"—a 250-mile line
in Northeastern Spain.
The men slain in yesterday's futile
attempt to storm the lofty insurgent
positions were part of government
forces that have been locked with in
surgents here since the war began.
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LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS
New York Labor Act Approval
Mark* Closing Hours.
ALBANY. N. Y., May » (P).—New
York's Legislature ended its 180th
session today after 22 hours continu
ous lawmaking marked by approval
of a State labor relations act and leg
islation requiring State officers to pay
an income tax.
The last action in each house was
adoption of a resolution memorializing
the 1938 Constitutional Convention to
Include in its agenda a proposal to
legalize pari-mutuel betting.
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U. S. NAVY PUSHES
DIRIGIBLE STUDIES
Swanson Points to Americans’ Use
of Helium—Export of
Gas Sought.
By the Associated Press.
While Government investigators
•ought the cause of the tragic explo
sion of the German dirigible Hinden
burg, Secretary Swanson announced
today the Navy will continue its study
of lighter-than-air ships.
"The Hindenburg tragedy will not
adversely affect the Navy's decision
in this matter,” he added, "because
it resulted from a hydrogen lire.
"American ships use instead of the
highly inflammable hydrogen an inert
gas—helium—which, while it has less
lifting power than hydrogen, does not
either bum or explode."
The Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee recommended allowing export
of helium, an American monopoly, in
quantities "not of military import
ance.” Present laws place rigid res
trictions on commercial sale and
export of the non-inflammable gas.
Field Marshal Hermann Goering,
German minister of air navigation,
sent to President Roosevelt the thanks
of German aviators for the "high
degree of self sacrifice and initiative”
shown by American rescuers. He ex
pressed condolences on the loss of
American life.
HUNT FOUR WOMEN
IN DRESS SLASHING
Police Get Report of Destruction
of $500 Worth of Garments
in Anacostia Shop.
Four women, two of them white,
were being sought for questioning to
day in connection with the slashing of
$500 worth of dresses with a razor
yesterday in two Anacostia shops.
Although he had no idea which
was the vandal. Robert C. Cogan, who
runs a shop at 1918 Nichols avenue
southeast, told police that four women
were in his shop when 47 dresses,
valued at almost $500, were ruined by
razor slashes.
A shop two blocks away, at 1227
Good Hope road southeast, was vic
timized in the same way, police were
told. In this store about $35 worth
of dresses were ruined.
BLIND MAN’S PENSION
TAKES UP WITH YOUTH
By th# Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 8 —An elderly
blind man had cause to complain today
to police.
Charles Devore, 86, said he gave his
old-age pension check for $17 to a
youth, who has been visiting him, to
cash. The youth returned, placed
several $1 bills in the blind man's
hands and then said, “Here are two
$5 bills.” Devore found out one
of the latter bills was a $1 note.
Devore told officers he put the money
under his mattress. When he awaken
ed, another $1 bill had been stolen.
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LONDON, May 8 (TP).—John Drink
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$7,800, probate of his will revealed
yesterday, his widow being bequeathed
j the residue after small bequests to
his secretary and cousins.
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GREENBELT LABOR
' HEARINGS ENDED
Action May Be Taken In
Case of Discharged Paint
ers, Official Says.
Unless further charges of discrim
ination against non-union workers at
the Greenbelt, Md„ housing project
are made and substantiated, no further
hearings on the dispute will be held, 1
Resettlement Admlnstratlon officials
announced today.
The announcement followed in
vestigation of complaints by plumbers
and lathers who said they had been
discharged because they were non
unionists.
Some action, however, may be taken
In the case of several discharged
painters who were heard by the ad
ministration's labor relations division
at the project last Monday. Mercer
G. Evans, division director, said he
had found no evidence of union dis
crimination, but several men may be
reinstated on a seniority basis.
He said that length of service was
always considered when terminating
employes, with preference given to
men who had served most time on the
project.
Examination of figures submitted
by disgruntled non-union plumbers,
Evans said, revealed that the statistics
were incorrect. He said that the 36
craftsmen now employed had equal
union and non-unon representation.
Led by Paul W. Engel of Laurel, dis
charged plumber a group of the men
presented the figures to Evans after
last Monday's hearing. Their statis
tics, showing current employment of
14 union and 8 non-union craftsmen,
were still supported today by Engel.
GEN. MOSES TO SUCCEED
DRUM IN HAWAIIAN POST
Present Commander of Depart*
ment to Take Charge of
6th Corps Area.
Ey the Associated Press.
The War Department announced
yesterday that MaJ. Oen. Andrew
Moees will succeed MaJ. Oen. Hugh
A. Drum as commander of the
Hawaiian Department when Drum
leaves Hawaii to assume command of
the 6th Oorpe Area, with headquarters
at Chicago.
Moses now commands the Hawaiian
division at Schofield Barracks.
MaJ. Gen. Charles D. Herron, at
present commanding the 6th Corps
Area, will succeed Moees In command
of the Hawaiian division. He will
sail from New York for Hawaii about
September 1.
Railways of Britain will operate 78
regular air services covering 13,000
miles this year.
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Largest supply of blooming azaleas at
lowest prices in the city. Drive over
Fourteenth Street Bridge to 820 Jef
ferson Davis Highway. Open all day
Saturday and Sunday. Plenty of light
and parking space at night. Phone
Jackson 2003.
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733 11th gt. N.W.
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