Hindenburg Disaster: Zepp Crash at Lakehurst Kills Sixteen
The Hindenburg exploded and burned as it attempted to moor at Lakehurst New Jersey ending its first trans Atlantic crossing. Of 97 aboard 44 crew and 20 passengers survived and one ground crew member died. Three inquiries were planned with officials from the Commerce Department navy and German representatives. The cause remains uncertain with witnesses recalling screams as the airship burned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakehurst
N J
Earth
Secof Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
Bureau of Air Commerce
A. B. Cook
Bureau of Aeronautics
United States Navy
Ernst Lehmann
E. W. Kirkpatrick
New York
Hindenburg
Quartermaster Corps
Rosendahl
Comdr
C. B. Rosendahl
Naval
Kirkpatrick
Margaret Unger
Maywood
N. J
Fourth Naval District
Philadelphia
Navy Department
Washington
Survivors of Hindenburg Disaster Reported
Survivors listed include Walter Doehner and Erich Knoecher among many names from Mexico City Hamburg Copenhagen and New Jersey. The disaster near Lakehurst involved engines flames and a rapid crash with 64 of 97 aboard escaping and 26 bodies recovered with nine still unidentified as rescue continued under floodlights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakehurst
N. J
Zeer. Pelin Company
Mrs. Mathielde
Mexico
Doehner
Walter
Mexico City
Werver
Ernest
Elsa
Harbors
Brock- Hinkelbein
Claus
Schwaelich Ball
Kleemann
Maris
Hamburg
Knoecher
Erich
Zuelenroda
Lauchtenberg
William
Mangone
Philip Mather
L. G. Morris
Nelson
Osburn
Clifford
O'Laughlin
Herbert James
Spach
Joseph
Stockle
Emil
Frankfort
Witt
Hans Hoge
Barth
Winholt
Haines
Copenhagen
Balla
Leibrecht
Bauer
Beiurich
Lenz
Karl
Maler
Xavier
Bentell
Nielsen
Boetins
Nonnenmacher
Bernhard
Pruss
Max Deedster
Deutschle
Buediger
Doerfle Samat
Dowe
Sauter
Fischer
Schaeuble
Frans
Schwelkard
Freund
Schaedler
Grossinger
Schoender
Henneberg
Speck
EOE
Staabein
Stoeffier
Kollmer
Kubis
Abel
Lau. Zegler
Begin Whaling Mellon Trust
Earl Godwin profiles a Roosevelt style attack on the Aluminum Company of America led by Andrew Mellon, arguing trust busting shifts in Washington while NRA era policies fade. The piece debates monopolies, court limits on anti trust actions, and the political stakes for big business and public policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Godwin Ashington
Theodore
Roosevelt
Teddy
Aluminum Trust
Andrew Mellon
America
Homer Cummings
Cummings
Washington
Aluminum Company of America
Mellons
NRA
Federal Trade Commission
Coolidge
Congress
Commission
Andrew Melton
Supreme Court
Blue Eagle
Mellon
Plaintff
Edward White
White
Harding
Department of Agriculture
Wal | Ate
Iteas
Georgia
Herndon
Communist Party
Earl Browder
London
Russia
Hay
Colby Chester
Lughes
Spanish Onion Peddler's Epic Recounted
EW YORK report portrays Juan March as the financier behind the Spanish Civil War, tying a street onion peddler’s earnings to a vast Mediterranean empire. Born poor in Majorca, March rebuilt wealth through banks, ships, and land, later jailed by the republic, with dispatches naming Palma Majorca as a pivotal hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Ap Iting
Stan March
Spain
The
Republic
Rome
Mr. March
Blasco Thanet
Senor
March
Wespa
Haland
Majorca
Ho Wish Sack Cattiet
Peddin
Africa
Ass Borer
Juan March
Bounda
Mediterranean
Italia
Senn
Senor March
Batk Palma
Also Mentioned on This Page
ZEP
Ames
Lakewood
Newark
Navy Field
F. W. Vor Meister
Zeppelin Company
Mellon Trust
F.D.R
T.R
Aluminum Company
Uncle Trusty
Eric F. Paries
Lapa
Ada
Ratchtays
Seventec
Consolidated News
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