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...Samuel Spewack, directed by Jack Conway and presented by Metro-Goldwin-Mayer at the Loew's State Theatre with the following cast: Oliver Herbert Marshall Mrs. Hopkins Mary Boland Wallace Lionel Atwill Mrs. Vail May Robson Helen Elizabeth Allen Bascom Ralph Forbes Mrs. Peabody Lucille Gleason Mr. Peabody Robert McWade...
...John Simon, president of the Board of Inquiry, directed Inspector McWade to a great model of the R-IOI which hung from a scaffold beside his bench like an effigy dangling from a gallows, there fired questions for the witness to answer tangibly...
There were, pointed out Inspector McWade, leaks in the R-IOI'S gas balloonets, caused by the chafing of the bags against wiring points as the ship pitched and rolled. He had reported these leaks last July, he said, and recommended changes in construction which might have required three months. Instead the points of contact were padded, but to no avail...
Inspector McWade's testimony threw into unhappy relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
Supporting Inspector McWade's story was a memorandum by the late Lt.-Col. V. C. Richmond, who was killed in the crash, filed last July after an unimpressive test flight of the R-IOI. Lt.-Col. Richmond found the hydrogen bags fouled against nuts and bolts at hundreds of points; that padding was ineffective; that the loss of lifting power was about one ton per square inch of hole in twelve hours?"an alarming condition. . . . Until this matter is taken in hand, we cannot recommend any extension of the flying permit...