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Sirs: In the Sept. 28 issue of TIME, Page 23, I note you have, under the classification PRESS, stated that "every newspaper in the country with one exception shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of the Shenandoah disaster." The "one" was the Miami Herald according to your comment...
After taking testimony for 13 days at Lakehurst, N. J., the Naval Board of Inquiry investigating the causes of the wrecking of the Shenandoah, moved on to Washington for further hearings. At Lakehurst 36 witnesses had been heard, including 28 survivors of the wreck (the 29th being still in hospital too ill to testify). At Washington, examination of technical experts and others was taken. There were two incidents at the opening of the Washington hearings...
...Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah sat for a second week at Lakehurst, N. J. The chief testimony taken dealt with air conditions at the time of the disaster and the chief witness was Captain Anton Heinen, German Zeppelin pilot, for years employed as a pilot and tester by the Delag Co., makers of the German Zeppelins...
Lieutenant Anderson, aerologist of the Shenandoah, had told that he had advised Lieutenant Commander Lansdowne to change the course of the ship shortly before the accident occurred, but that Commander Lansdowne had demanded reasons for doing so and that he was unable to point out any definite danger signs...
...Captain Heinen's testimony was not done. Several other witnesses were called who answered him, denying his several points. One of them had testified regarding a quotation of Heinen in the newspapers (Heinen was reported as saying that sending out the Shenandoah with some of her safety valves removed was "murder") that when he read that statement he said to his wife: "That man is a liar and he knows he is a liar...