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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began to talk and ended by testifying for three hours. She said Captain Foley had called upon her two days before her previous appearance before the court. She maintained that by his manner he had tried to intimidate her, that he had told her she must not say the fatal flight of the Shenandoah was political; she declared she believed that the Navy had set out to whitewash the Shenandoah accident. The day after Captain Foley's visit he had sent her a paper containing a suggested statement for her to make to the court. This "twisted the facts...
...called to the witness stand. He said he had called on Mrs. Lansdowne, without any instructions or suggestions from his superiors, as part of his duty as Judge Advocate to question witnesses before they appeared before the court. He denied having told her that she must not say the fatal flight was political, although he advised her not to. He said that from what she told him he found her inclined to make statements of facts of which she could not have certain knowledge and which were contrary to other evidence given before the Court. If she made those statements...
...Mitchell is being tried. He said he would prove that the lost Shenandoah was not a first rate dirigible and not in the best of condition, that a Navy officer had tried to persuade Mrs. Lansdowne not to testify that her husband had protested against the Shenandoah's fatal trip, that several high officers of the Army and Navy had made false and misleading statements to investigating committees to the prejudice of aviation, that the Air Service is controlled by non-flying officers, that many flyers have been killed because they were forced to use old machines, that...
Captain Robert Oldys was another witness. He told of the death of his commanding officer, Major Harley Wheeler, in a crash at Hawaii. Major Wheeler told him a few minutes before his fatal flight that he had been "bawled out" by Colonel Chamberlain, Chief of Staff of the Hawaiian Department, because so many machines had been smashed. Major Wheeler took the air; at 200 feet his engine stopped; instead of trying to save himself, he tried to save the plane. He was burned to a crisp when he was found...
Like the rays of radium, the Millikan Rays, wherever they are present in any quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...