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...strong and sturdy as her builders calculated on paper. Perhaps she had never really recovered from an old rib injury last year. Perhaps the wet windy weather had something to do with it. Or perhaps the crew was somehow at fault. Nevertheless orders are orders and therefore the U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey...
...that day and the next the Macon cruised down the rough, ragged shoreline while battleships and cruisers sported about on the Pacific below her. Off Santa Monica there was wind and rain but the airship had often bucked worse weather without trouble. By the time the Macon was ready to turn around and start for home, the little storm was practically over and the air had cleared enough for persons on shore to see her red and green lights flashing through the dusk...
...dirigible was about a dozen miles off Point Sur when something went suddenly, inexplicably wrong in her stern. A jar-a lurch-and the operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from...
Thanks to Radioman Dailey, warships were swarming to the rescue before the Macon's stern touched water. Out of the dirigible's lockers had been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized...
...Macon, Ga., 50 men and women sat down with determination on a railroad track so that a switch engine could not take carloads of cotton goods from the Payne Mill of Bibb Manufacturing Co. At Manchester, N. H., the Amoskeag Mills, largest single cotton textile factory in the U. S., shut down its chemical plant, then closed completely. In Manhattan, the "Explosion Conference" of underwriters announced that insurance rates on textile mills and mill villages, due to "riot or civil commotion," should be forthwith tripled. At Gastonia, N. C., heart of the Southern textile belt, the Loray Mill of Manville...