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...working day. Their idea seems to be that as the department necessarily has supreme authority over all operations, it should therefore exercise this authority in deciding a mass of even highly technical matters in disregard of experts in charge on the spot as in the case of the Shenandoah. This is done in the ignorant conviction of duty faithfully performed...
...Naval Board of Inquiry into the causes of the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah last week concluded its hearings until such times as technical tests of the frame work of the wrecked ship can be completed...
...testimony of a number of construction experts advanced the opinion that the Shenandoah was lost largely because one of her six engines, (a spare) had been removed to make room for additional radio equipment. It was contended that if this had not been done she could have escaped from the storm...
...improvements in the naval air service including: 1) removing the legal limitation on the number of naval shore-stations devoted to heavier-than-air craft; 2) increasing the enlisted personnel of the naval air service; 3) establishment of an airship base on the Pacific coast; 4) replacement of the Shenandoah as soon as practicable with a ship of about twice her size; 5) a five year program of airplane and airship construction; 6) provision for adequate air stations at Coco Solo and Pearl Harbor; 7) improvement in aviation training-facilities at Annapolis; 8) settlement of the flight-pay question...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning...