Hindenburg Disaster Ends Maiden America Voyage
Aboard the Hindenburg the dirigible exploded and crashed at the airfield killing many and injuring others. Survivors described a blinding flash and a fiery collapse as rescuers rushed to aid those aboard and on the ground. Authorities ordered a two nations inquiry into the catastrophe and the ship’s new commander Captain Max Pruss and veteran Captain Ernst Lehmann were among those aboard.
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Max Pruss
Ernst Lehmann
United States
Germany
Stampf
Hindenburg
America
Herbert O’laughlin
Chicago
O’laughlin
Associated Press
Murray Becker
Lakehurst
N. J
Hugo Eckener
Explosion Engulfs Dirigible As Ground Crew Flees
Newsreel accounts describe a state wide emergency as ambulances and planes joined by cars from several cities rushed to a disaster scene. Survivors and responders recall a sudden flare near the ship’s tail as the Akron era airship burned. volunteers fought the blaze while rescuers sought bodies amid chaos.
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Herbert M. le Compte
Lakewood
George F. Hobson
Camp Dix
Shenandoah
Akron
Harry Wellbrook
Toms River
Fire disables doomed zeppelin voyage with 99 aboard
Eyewitnesses describe gruesome carnage as a burning airship breaks apart. Cameraman Larry Kennedy reports fabric shower and a passenger seen on the ground moaning. Photographer Robert Seelig recalls a sound like bullets from gondolas and total chaos as rescue crews enter the wreckage.
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Larry Kennedy
Robert Seelig
Harry Bruno
Zeppelin Company
Rev Culpepper to Preach to Children at First Methodist
The First Methodist church hosts a Sunday service with Rev. Ross Culpepper delivering an illustrated sermon titled Let me see your heart The event features a large heart with a door to reveal inner workings of the human heart The service starts at 8 p m
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Ross Culpepper
Zeppelins Shown To Have Safe Travel Record
The Associated Press notes Zeppelins have maintained a long record of safe travel despite early disasters. Since 1913 only minor incidents marred by the 1928 Graf Zeppelin and 1929 troubles, yet the Hindenburg surge has spurred a large new Zeppelin build program with several ships near completion or projected.
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Associated Press
Germany
United States
Britain
Johannisthal
Lakehurst
N. J
Europe
France
South America
Police Catch Check Forger In Mabscott Case
State police will travel to Ashland Kentucky to return Tom Rayburn 24 to Raleigh county to answer charges of forging 18 checks during January and February totaling 300 dollars. Rayburn is suspected in the Tri State Junk and Wrecking service Mabscott case and Ashland jail holds him until arrival.
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Ashland
Tom Rayburn
Raleigh County
Rayburn
Tri- State Junk and Wrecking Service
Mabscott
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