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When word of the Hindenburg explosion at Lakehurst, N. J. last spring was flashed to aged, vigorous Dr. Hugo Eckener, technical chief of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company, he gasped, "We must have helium." Though Germany has lost by accident 32 of the 120 Zeppelins she has built* there was no thought of abandoning huge lighter-than-air craft-as they have been abandoned in Great Britain, France, Italy and the U. S. With what General Goring clarioned as "unbending will," work was pressed on her sister ship, the LZ-130, commenced on another Zeppelin double in passenger capacity...
...saloon in Lakehurst, N. J. appeared John Henry Titus, 91, with a kerosene-soaked rag in his shoe to ward off mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...
...opinion of Dr. Hugo Eckener on the cause of the catastrophic burning of the giant dirigible Hindenburg, pronounced at Lakehurst three weeks after the disaster (TIME, May 31): A Report by the U. S. Department of Commerce corroborating Eckener's reasoning that atmospheric electricity (otherwise known as St. Elmo's fire or "brush discharge") accumulated on the ship must have ignited leaking hydrogen. Weighed and rejected by the investigating committee were theories of sabotage, broken propeller, ignition by radio spark, structural failure, lightning...
...reading your story of the medical care for the victims of the Hindenburg fire [TlME, May 17], I was much impressed by the prompt response and competence shown by the medical people around Lakehurst. However, I came near shuddering as I am sure did many doctors and others whose primary interest is Medicine, to note how the burned ones were daubed with oils and grease* "carron, linseed, castor, lard...
Although the destruction of the Hindenburg three weeks ago was the most completely witnessed aerial disaster in history, the subsequent Department of Commerce inquiry at Lakehurst droned along inconclusively for two weeks until uprose a man who had been in Austria when the great dirigible burned. Although he had not seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and ground crew...