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Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired, declared that in his belief the warship of the future is the airplane carrier; that the Navy Department has no aviation policy; that it is hazardous to send airplanes into the Arctic. Of the Shenandoah, he said: "My idea as to that whole business is this: We may presume that the commander and his staff were the best people the Navy Department could supply. If they were not, their designation was a criminal act. And assuming they were the best, if there was any interference from outside by people less competent...
...Naval Court inquiring into the causes for the loss of the Shenandoah finished taking testimony several weeks ago, except for testimony as to the strength of the structure of the dirigible. A recess had been taken to last week to allow scientific tests to be made-but by last week a new angle of the inquiry had developed...
...Zachary Lansdowne, widow of the Commander of the Shenandoah, had testified before the Mitchell court martial (TIME, Nov. 23) that Captain Paul Foley, U. S. N., Judge Advocate of the Court of Inquiry, had tried to influence the testimony she gave before that body. So the Court of Inquiry on reassembling made Captain Foley a defendant, and its new Judge Advocate, Major Leonard, U. S. M. C., summoned Mrs. Lansdowne and others as witnesses...
...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," she said; she took...
That matter having been disposed of, Major Leonard proceeded to call the witnesses who had testified concerning the Shenandoah before the Mitchell court martial...