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Next day the first change was made at Barnegat. Past the Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton the coach swayed along, just missed a beer truck before arriving at Absecon. There, in sight of her goal across the causeway, Mrs. Dibble again took the reins. Averaging 16.2 m.p.h. for the four and a half mile stretch to the city line, the coach rolled up to Haddon Hall at 6:10 p. m. to be greeted by fire bells, a siren, the Mayor's secretary, officials of the Atlantic City Horse Show, for which the drive was a resounding advertisement. Running...
...second time in three days the New Jersey coast took a terrific beating. The hurricane swept away the 300-ft. pier at Cape May where U.S. Marines patrolled the streets to guard citizens against fallen wires. The high combers devoured two sections of Atlantic City's famed boardwalk. Barnegat Light, 75 years old, was imperilled when the sea munched away the land to within 15 ft. of its foundations...
Last week a salvage vessel fished up part of the control car of the U. S. S. Akron from the sea floor off Barnegat Lightship. This grim sequel did not appear to weigh gravely on the mind of Commander Alger Herman Dresel, one-time captain of both the Los Angeles and the Akron, as he stepped into the control car of the Akron's sister ship in a red dawn two days later. His wife and daughter were looking on, 105 souls were aboard when Captain Dresel commanded, "Up ship!" and the brand-new U. S. S. Macon...
Naval Court. Wheeling gloomily between two wide oil slicks off Barnegat Lightship-tombstone of the Akron-patrol boats picked up the bodies of Admiral Moffett, Captain McCord (the Akron's master), Commander Berry (last skipper of the Los Angeles). Lieut.-Commander MacLellan and Col. Alfred Masury, Army reserve officer and vice president of Mack Trucks Inc. Also they found the water-soaked logbook of Lieut. Hammond J. Dugan, which was immediately put on an airplane and flown to Lakehurst where sat a Naval Court of Inquiry into the disaster...
...ventral fin of the Akron, in the Lakehurst dock, like an egg about to be hatched. The J-3 was sent out into dirty weather with a crew of seven in her open gondola, on the report that Akron survivors had been sighted clinging to bits of wreckage off Barnegat. Thrashed by the gale, she was forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three enlisted men. A Coast Guard amphibian picked up the blimp's commander, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins, but he was beyond revival...