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...anybody's game yesterday up to the final whistle. Only in a final spurt were the Bellboys able to amass their eight point victory. The summary: LOWELL ADAMS Bates, r.f l.f., Wiley Abel, l.f r.f., Lovejoy Adlis, c c., Silsby Drimmer, r.g l.g., Saxton Walsh, l.g. r.g., Hale...
...Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain...
...been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized him by the collar, towed him to a life raft...
Three weeks later the U.S.S. Akron fell into the Atlantic off the New Jersey coast during a violent thunder storm (TIME, April 10, 1933). With her perished Admiral Moffett and 72 others. Sole surviving officer was Lieut. Commander Wiley who could no more account for the loss of the Akron then than he could last week for the loss of her sister ship in the Pacific...
Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...