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King Rudolph of Langenstein Jack Edwards Donald McArthur, (American Actor) Guy Robertson Con Conley (His Press Agent) Andrew Tombes Queen Erna of Langenstein Nancy McCord Countess Putkammer Betty Starbuck...
...Congress was in session, contented himself with broad hints that if the 18th Amendment were revoked by Jan. 1, he would drop special emergency taxes on gasoline, dividends, corporate profits to finance the Federal building program (TIME. May 29). Last week he took occasion to telegraph National Committeeman Leon McCord of Alabama...
...assured "continuity of personnel." Only a highly trained officer who already had commanded a training ship should be given command of a regular airship. (This was prompted by the Navy's present routine of sending airship officers to sea; and by the fact that the late Captain McCord had never commanded an airship prior to the Akron. On the day the committee's report was published the Navy Department ordered Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor...
...Weather Bureau should issue daily four general weather maps instead of two. (The Committee blamed the Akron crash on "navigation of the ship into storm conditions." Commander Rosendahl had testified that he was sure Captain McCord could not have had full weather data, otherwise what he did would indicate, unthinkably, ''wholesale disregard of information...
Thus inconclusively the Naval Court of Inquiry into the Akron disaster delivered its opinion last week. It satisfied no one. In approving the report, Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, rebuked the court for inconsistency in blaming Captain McCord in one breath and excusing him in the next. More significant was a statement by Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of the bureau of aeronautics: "In their present state of design, construction and operation . . . airships should avoid bad weather areas...