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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937.
日八廿月三
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VETERAN
PILOT
OF ZEPPELINS DIES OF BURNS
Capt.Lehman Succumbs; Capt. Pruss in Danger
31 DEAD OR MISSING IN HINDENBURG CRASH
Lakehurst, N.J., May 7,
Captain Ernst Lehman, veteran associate of Captain Hugo Eckener on many pioneering sky voyages, and one of the greatest of Germany's zeppelin pilots, died to-day of injuries received in the ill-fated von Hindenburg. He was terribly burned before he could jump from the window of the control room.
Captain Lehman was acting as adviser to the von Hindenburg's commander, Captain Pruss, who is also seriously burned and in hospital here.-United Press.
HELIUM FOR SALE
New York, May 7.
Deeply shocked by the Hindenburg disaster, the Senate Military Affairs Committee has approved a bill making possible the commercial sale and export of helium gas, of which the United States has a monopoly.
The bill would permit the export of quantities of helium that "were not of military importance." Whether this would allow the sale of sufficient gas for the operation of zeppelins is not clear.
The Hindenburg was buoyed up with hydrogen gas, which is highly inflammable, and it was due to the explosion of this gas that the greal zeppelin was lost yesterday."
Thirty Dead, Missing
મ
The latest casualty list includes the names of 30 dead and missing. There are 68 survivors, some of them badly injured.
Captain Prues, commander of the airship,-is-reported to be in a critical. condition.
The condition of Captain Lehman, who was adviser to Captain Pruss, is very grave. There is little hope
of his recovery-Reuter.
With the death of Capt. Lehman the total of dead and missing of the Hindenburg's company is now 31.
Death Confirmed
Lakehurst, May 7. The death of Capt, Ernst Lehman of the Hindenburg is now confirmed. -Renter.
King's Condolences
London, May 7.
His Majesty the King has sent a
telegram to Herr Adolf Hitler stating
that he is deeply shocked at the news
of the Hindenburg disaster and ex-
AIRSHIP CAPTAIN
DIES OF BURNS
pressing sincere condolences over the The late Captain Ernst Lehman. tragic event-Reuter.
Hitler's Contribution
Berlin, May, 7.
1
Herr Adolf Hitler has personally marks to the Hindenburg relief fund.--Reuter.
contributed 30,000
Two More Bodies
Lakehurst, May 7. The skeleton of the zeppelin yield- ed up to searchers two more bodies to-day, one that of a woman, pro- bably a stewardess, found in the con- frol room. It was not unusual for a stewardess to be in this particularly when the ship was land- Ing.
room,
There are now 32 known dead and 20 have been identified."
While, experts were examining the still hot wreckage of the Hindenburg, doctors and nurses were administer- ing to the dying ground crew Allan Hagman. He died early to- day,
mon,
Soldiers are patrolling the Lake) hurst aerodrome, and the publle nro. urged to stay away-United Press.
More Sympathy
London, May 7, Viscount Swinton, Secretary for -Air, has sent the following message of condolence to the German Air Minister: "I desire to express,
'my
behalf and on that of British aviation, | sincere sympathy on the tragic dis- aster to the nirship, Hindenburg,”— British Wireless.
Will Build
KING AND QUEEN AT WINDSOR
Picture shows the changing of the Guards at Windsor Castle on the removal thereto of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, This was the first time the ceremony had taken place since June, 1935. The Guards are
sega passing Queen Victoria's statue.
SABOTAGE THEORY FLIMSY
Eckener Inclined. To
Blame Weather
Building Hurried On New Airship
Berlin, May 7..
Dr. Hugo Eckener, designer of the zeppelin Hindenburg and its first tommander on the Atlantic pass-
declared 10-day that Age,
while the question of possible sabotage aboard the lost airship must be in-
view vestigated,
the of
cx- cellent organisation of the Amer- ican Government and Navy, there
now 10 seemed
remain only the slightest probability of proving suspicions.
-It-was-more-filcels that electrical Influences, caused by the weather, played a part in the disaster.
General Herman Goering, in a pro- clamation addressed to all Getinan airmen, as head of the Ministry for Air, declared; he would order thel must speedy completion of the new airship now under construction at Friedrichshafen. This new would succeed the Hindenburg as soon as possible.
"Now more than ever we shall cot
to work to establish an air service
Vienna Draws
Closer To London, Paris
Vienna, May 7.
The Austrian Foreign Minister, Dr. Guldo Schmidt, wll Inter- view Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary; in London next week, according to a com- munique issued to-day.
It is also annans that Dr. Schmidt will visit Paris after the. Coronation of King George VI. Concrete negotiations are not intended, but Austrian political circles attach great importance to these meetings, which are regarded as the first outward.ex- pression of the trend of Austrian policy towards closer contact with Western European Powers.
Reuter.
Fears Nazis And Fascists To Make War
Senor Del Vayo Makes Frosh Charges
REBELS DENY CHARGES
Have Never Bombed
Open Cities
Moors
Attacking Bilbao Lines
King Speaks To Empire Leaders
STRIKING DEMONSTRATION
OF LOYALTY TO CROWN (Special to "Telegraph”)
London, May 7.
In age-old Westminster Hall, His Majesty the King to-day presided at a luncheon with his Empire's Prime Ministers. It was here the Coronation banquets were held by British sovereigns for centuries, down to 1820.
The company, which numbered 800, also included Cabinet Ministers and prominent representatives of the various Empire legislatures.
On His Majesty's arrival at the hall, all the Prime Then came the Ministers were presented to the King. Gaekwar of Baroda and Sir Zafrulla Khan, who represent India at the Imperial Conference, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia and the representative of Burma.
CONFER TO
SETTLE BUS STRIKE
Progress Towards. Mines Compromise
The leaders of delegations to the Imperial Conference were then pre- sented, including Senator Clarkson
of South Africa, Sir Maneckji Dadabhoy, and Sir Abdur Rahim of India,
Viscount Halisham. the Lord Chancellor, sat nt His Majesty's right The frand during the luncheon. Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Filzroy, sat on His Majesty's left hand. Near them were Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister, and the Dominion Prime Ministers.
The King's health was proposed by Viscount Hailsham and drunk with unusually deep feeling amid a four-minute demonstration of loyalty,
London, May 7.. Developments to-day in connection with the efforts to settle the Central Salamanca, May 7. London bus strike and avert a national, HIS MAJESTY REPLIES The Insurgent Army headquarters ferences at the Ministry of Labour strike in the coalfields included cor-
Replying, the King pointed out here, in a statement issued to-day,
between officials and
and representatives that the occasion was an historie one, declares that lowns in which military
n sovereign of the London Passenger. Transport it being the first time units are sheltering within ten kilo-
Board and of the men's Union, and the had been present at luncheon at metres of the front, are lawful mill-
decision of the Miners' Executive to Westminster Hall to meet representa- tary objectives and their civilian in-suspend the tendering of strike notices lives of the Empire's legislatures. habitants should be evacuated.
for one week from to-morrow.
"What worthier. setting can one The statement adds flat "the It had been hoped that the suspen- Imagine than this anclent hall, which Nationalist Government declures that slon would have been for a fortnight, at once has been, the scene and silent non-military and open cities have in accordance with the Mineworkers' witness of so many stirring events in never been and never will be bom-Federation's offer last night, made in the history of the Parliament of this barded by Nationalist planes." response to the Prime Minister's ap-country!" King George went on. Reuter,
peal in the Commons on Wednesday. "Here have grown up the prin- The offer was to suspend notices for clples which form the bulwerk of a fortnight, in the hope of reaching the system known as Parliamentary a settlement of the dispute honourable Government. Those principles have Mines been carried by people of our race to all parties, provided. the Secretary could arrange a conference to the end of the earth. They are of all three parties. This offer was now the heritage and pride of all conveyed to the Nottinghamshire col- parts of the British Commonwealth liery owners by the Mines Department, of Nations. with 1 reminder of the Prime Minister's appeal.
SEEK TO BAN BOMBING
London, May 7. A communique issued at the close of the meeting of a sub-committee of the Non-Intervention Committee to- day states that Lord Plymouth, the
Government, had appented to both parties in the Spanish civil war to renounce entirely the use of aerial bómbers in future for the destruction
chaman, on behalf of the British
between Germany and the United Says Bilbao Will of towns
States, to last for ever, and without danger,
utilising our recent experl- ences," the Air Minister added. Reuter.
MUST USE HELIUM
Not Be Taken
Paris, May 7.
Vienna, May 7.
On visiting Parts, Senor del Vayo, Before departing for Berlin, to- Spanish Foreign Minister, charged day, Dr. Hugo Eckener declared: that the Italians and Germans are acis of war "Henceforth, naturally, no passenger preparing big-scale will set foot in a hydrogen-Olled against the Spanish Loyalists, airship. Therefore, regardless cost, we shall use helium gas.'
of
that the
"I hope we all will gain new strength and help from meeting one The owners and the autonomous
another, His Majesty concluded. union alated to the Federation, applause when he said: union, in rivalry locally with the
Captain Fitzroy evoked prolonged accepted the Invitation to a-
a-confer- "Your Majesty, we have the utmost ence conditionally upon the Federa-confidence in the future of your tion definitely
the local rival
All delegates agreed to submit the ments for immediate instructions and agreeing to submit to arbitration
proposal to their respective Govern- of fusion of thepting the pic reign"-Reuter Special.
Reuter.
INSURGENT ATTACK CONTINUES
Bilbao, May 7. The Insurgent army continues to attack Mount Soilube, with the object of breaking the Basque ring around bomb Bermeo. Planes continually In an exclusive interview with the the Basques positions in the moun- of in- United Press, the Foreign Minister tains, dropping hundreds
Italians and cendiary bombs. They have set fire It is recalled the Hindenburg was declared
soon renew their to the pino woods but have not first constructed for the use of helium Germans would but the operaling company owned no pressure, in deflance of the non-weakened the Basques defences or store-house in the United States and intervention agreement.
shaken their resistance. it was considered impossible to carry The Foreign Ministér added that! Berlin, May 7.
enough of the gas to Germany to Engineers are already complet-lift the ceppelin.
Bilbao would not fall, that the loyalist United States con- ing blue prints for another giant trols the hellium supply of the world. political and military situation is im
proving daily, and that German acro- zeppelin-LZ-131. Work will com-
Dr. Eckener plans to go to Lake-planes
the were responsible for mence on this airship as soon ashurst to assist in the investigations.
destruction of Guernica, an act which insurgents.-United Press.
Another Zeppelin
the LZ-130 leaves the hangar at Dr. Eckener revealed that "every had reacted as a boomerang on the
Friedrichshafen where she is be- Ing completed.
The authorities are determined to keep the zeppelins to their South American schedule.
Newspapers announce dozens of contributions
utions already received at the Chancellory car-marked for the Hindenburg's Successor.
The Graf Zeppelin is at present
on her way to Frankfurt-on-ħfain
trip to the United States, particular
when the German airliner visited the Chicago Exposition, we received many threatening letters."
He added: "I am not discouraged. The work continues."United Press. INVESTIGATION
Washington, May T. Special Instructions have been
and is scheduled to leave for Enke- Issued for the Investigation of, the
Blum Appeals
To Workers
hurst on May 11. There have been try that the Hindenburg was lost Must Have Discipline no passenger cancellations.--United through sabotage and Mr. Harold
Prest.
GOES TO POST
IN MAURITIUS
Hartney is in
In Labour Ranks
Basque
Moorish troops attacked the Basque right to-day. It is believed they are the Best Moors to set foot in any
province,
South except Navarre, in the whole of the history The Moorish troops were of Spain. impeded by the gorse-clud slopes, which enabled the Basques to remain In cover and fire at close range. Reuter,
POSITION VAGUE
Landon, May 7, The position in Barcelona still lacks clarification.
Reports arriving by way of France declare life is returning to normal
points still outstanding from the pre- vious negotiations for amalgamation of the unions, The Federation was unable to agree to these conditions this
morning, However, its Execu tive later approved one week's sus- pension of notices to allow Captain Crookshank time, in the interests of
to a peaceful
try for an arrange parties conference. Captain Crook- shank has asked the owners and the local autonomous union, which they have alone recognised since 1020, to meet him on Monday.-British Wire- icss.
to
tonditional. three-
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Pittsburgh Continues
To Set Pace
Draws Further Ahead Of Nearest Rivals Boston and Detroit Tied at Top
;
New York, May 7. Still hitting the pace of champions, the Pittsburgh Pirates improved their position at the head of the National Lengue to-day, pounding a splendid victory out of eighteen hits, at the expense of Philadelphia, Suhr hit a homer.
and the workers and unworn to
to their posts. Underground, fugees, mostly children, aboard, ar- airtight flelding and close guarding
summons of the trade to re- Iturn to
the applien Service.
hand over functions-Reuter Bulletin
od 500. All
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Pittsburgh scored eight runs and La Rochelle, May 7.
Its fielding was perfect. Phillies hit Escorted by a British destroyer, the eleven times, but they could get Spanish: liner Habana, with 4,000 re- around the bares, such not ot rived here last night. They were dis- of the Pirates
They scored only embarked this morning.
three runs,
Including Martin's homer. Arst batch to marchi ashore Phillies had one, error,
were singing |_ Cincinnati was buffeting Boston's Internationale" and raised their Braves meanwhile, hitting cleven for fists in the Communist | five runs to the Bostonians" sight and
three. Boston had one error. After a medical examination the Brooklyn, af Chiengo, overwhelm- children were given, food and dised the Cubs, scoring twelve times on tributed to their new homes by train. Afteen hits. Cubs hit eight and
scored but once. The teams had an error.
Bartell's valuable homer clinched the victory for New York at St. Louls, the Glonts scoring eight runs
clenched
trains and buscs are working. in charge. Simultaneous-
On the other hand, reports from the ly, the Government has invited repre sentatives of Germany, the State of
Paris, May 7. Franco-Spanish frontler state that New Jersey and the U. S. Navy to
In the anarchists have seized two more im- Replying to his critics participate in the Commerce Depart-Chamber of Deputies to-day, M. Leon portant towns, have placed machine. ment's investigation, headed by Col. Blum, the Prime Minister, announced guns at strategic points and forced salute. Monroe Johnson.
that if necessary the Government the local authorities to London, May 7.
An attache of General Fredrich von would ask for further legislation to their Sir Bede Clifford, Governor of the Boetticher reported to the German overcome difficulties Bahamas, hns been appointed Embassy that it seemed impossible tion of Industrial arbitration. Governor of Mauritius in succession the firing of an incendiary bullet M. Blum made a solemn appeal to Wilfred Jackson, 'who wus could have caused the disaster to the workers for discipline, which was The forthcoming wedding Is an-
appointed Governor of airship, due to the precautions taken greeted by cheers, ranging from the nounced of Mr. Edward William recently
British Gulana-Reuter.
by the ground crew.
Communist benches to the Centre, Loveless, manufacturers' represents The vacancy in British Gulana was It is emphasised that every member It is generally agreed that M. Blum tive, of Messrs. Wilkinson, Haywood caused by the appointment of Sir of the airship's crew still able to talk scored a Parliamentary success. The and Clark, and Mlas Florence Norven
Stafford Northcote as emphasises his faith in the craft. debate was adjourned unu! to Cooper, clerk, residing at 3 St. John's Geoffrey
Governor of Hongkong.
United Press.
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to Sir
VICTORY CLAIMED
Gibraltar, May 7. General del Lano, in a broadcast from Seville, stated that the rebels had re-opened operations on the Bilbao front, capturing Mount Solubo and killing seven hundred Insurgents.
United Press.
--Reuter.
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