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brida Govemor Calls For Beer As Vote Nears In Carolina Senate
IRIGIBLE AKRON SINKS IN ATLANTIC
üblic Welfare Conference Here W ednesday To Attract Large Crowds
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Beer, He Says
] RALEIGH, " N C.—(AP)—
l Beer Tuesday was legalized in
: vorth Carolina effective May
wuse passed the Fran
cis bill on final leading after
making minor changes in the
sure d thc senate con
in all the amendments.
The governor of North Caro
il es not have the veto
T permits the sale of
everages of not more than 3.2
( oholic content, but
does 1 epeal existing laws
iting the manufacture
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TALLAHASSEE, ria— (AP) —
I Dave Sholtz in his mes
g ¢ 24th biennial session
Florida.—.legislature . Tues
) ended passage of a
galizing Dbe regulating its
g 1l imposing a state tax
the ¢ schools “or for some
I lithe legislature that
nal ngress has passed
ting to the states
) of th repeal of the
ndment the governor
1 t cfore, becomes your
uch legislation as is
libmit this ques-
S egislation must provide
ilation of the traific
j imum revenue to be
Money so de
l be well used in the
| text books in our
tem and for other neces
-1 of the public schools
f useful purpoese
b ned wise.”
the legislature “it
¢ i amendment to
mstitution, repealing
on¢ v prohibition,
\ L the voters at the
) tic in November,
OVERWHELMING VOTE
(AP)—At least 86
' ossible 100 votes in
f 5 pecial state conven
{ y will be cast for,
Eighteenth amend- |
) { titution, This l».--l
l lay as addition
| Monday's referen- |
l 16 tremendous ‘
¢ he anti-prohibition |
in 2,488 of the |
) cincts gave: For '
gainst, 194,604. |
] delegtaes, how- |
t representative |
F g 100 members. |
m. Tuesday, |
pledged to \'()Lt'[
he national pro-E
ippeared to have |
{ imed. l
. first opportunity the |
tate have had to|
of the national |
nd the conven- ;
i ill be the first |
kind ever held. |
4 n the ballots as |
k e either for .oy
b e delegates m(‘vl-{'
g April 10 will t‘un(--?
clectoral college. |
. ? ¢ will of the voters |
Monday's referen- |
e returns, the only!
b '8 dry strength |
ounty. (Hastings), |
. unty’s second dis- |
tside the city uffi
. Willima A, Comsto('k.!
: ¢ of repeal, had
L 2 duction in the lug-!
a) 4 measure to|
‘ ture and sale of |
S igan. i i
erest with the repeal |
indicated victory of |
' g tndidates for minor |
; On the face of 1-e-¥
: ittle more than nne-i
state, the Democats |
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Bishop McConnell Will Speak
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President Hopes to Have
Jobless at Work Before
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| WASHINGTON (AP)~— ;11):-«1
lin the nation’s forests where the |
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weather will permit the immediate
beginning of work by men employ
ed by the government were sougl:t
Tuesday as foresters were called
to meet with the new directors ol
the forest conservation program
Robert Fechner of Massachusett
Fechner, a vice president of th
International Association 0 Ma
chinist hoped to be able to start
his first contingent of t for
the woods by April 1§
Climate condition in the outh
led to the expectatior that ti
first groups would 1 put to work
in the timberlands of that section. |
Registration of unemployed will
be started by the Labo depart
ment Friday or Saturday and the
first men chosen will spend part
of next week in army camps 1n
preparation for the forest work,
Selection of ites for the first
activities was one of Fechner’
initial tasks. This work was start
ed in conferences Tuesday with
foresters and officials of the La
bor, Interior, War and Agriculture |
departments, Another meeting
will be held Thursday with repre- |
sentatives of states to discuss the
I”.Q.\“)jlll'”-: for cooperative pro
jects on state and private timbers
lands.
R. F. C. LOANS MADE
TO GEORGIA BANK!
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ATLANTA —(AP)— The Re
construction Finance corporation |
made loans to eleven Georgia |
banke during February,
The institutions receiving loans
from the corporation, as named in
its report for that month. include |
the National bank of Fitzgerald, |
$110.000:: Bank of Screven Coun
ty, Sylvania, $59,100; Griffin |
Banking company of Griffin, $43,- |
000: Tirst Nationai bank of Clar - |
ton, $25,00v; iirst National bank
of Elberton, $15.000: Ashley Trust |
company of Valdosta, $25,000, *
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" Leaders in the Welfare Confer
lence here tomorrow. Upper letrt,
| President §. V. Sanford; upper
right, Bichop McConnell, and lower
left, Secretary E. L., Secrest of
'the University Y. M. C. A.
l With greater interest than ever
| before on the part of students,
ttheir parents and pastors, and
other citizens of Georgia, the
INinth Annual Religious Welfare
lConferen(;o opens at the Universi
ity of Georgia Wednesday morn
iing with preparation of an atten
ldance of between 4,000 and 5,000,
f “The unusual response this:
|year,” President S. V. Sanford de
iclux'e-d today, “makes evident that
religion is a vital force in the life
‘of University scudents, = Student
|leaders have taken hold of the
:'cunl'vrm‘.w. and from all over the
ZSL:ue acceptances have come in
i from ministers and laymen.”
] Bishop Francis J. McConnell oi
ithv Methodist Epi:icopal Church,
!N(-\\ York, one of the distinguished
lchurchmen of Ameriga and noted
lorator and author, will deliver two
zaddressos’ “Voices of the Times”
’ut 11 a. m., and “Christian Appeal
jto Best Men” at 8 p. m, in Wood
jruff Hall. The Bishop - will alst
ilead an open forum at 4:30 in the
‘ul‘t(-x'noun in Memorial Hall.
| President Sanford will preside at
lthn morning session; Hugh Hodg
json will have charge of the music;
jthe Rev. Lester Ruimble of the
|l"irxt Methodizt Church, Athens,
twill give the opening prayer; and
lthn- Rev. S. R. Grubb, pastor of
‘thv lirst Christian Church, Ath
| ens, will give the benediction.
| Prof. Paul W. Chapman \\'ill}
| preside at the evening riv.»sion_}
!NH:—‘.i" will be furnished by thei
|Glee Club of the College of Edu
|cation; the opening prayer will be
linvoked by -the Rev. J. W,
|\'v:xtrh. presiding elder of the
[ irst Methodist Chureh, Athens,
%uml the benediction by the Rev.
({E. L. Hill of the First Presbyte
{rian Church, Athens. ,
! 5. L. Secrest, director of the
| Voluntary Religious association 1
lof the University, is in charge of
|arrangements. “I am (l',-lip.:hu-'ll
| with the widespread interest and
t:in}n:nl‘[ that the conference xhusl
| evoked this year.” he taid today.
é".\'v»‘.m- before has there been sut‘hl
la complete student response, uml]
the interest has been reflected |
!(hx'uuulmut the entire state.” i
[ Bishop McConnell was born at |
i’rl'il\\\:l_\. Ohio, in 1871, He rm-viv-'
{jed his A. D. degree from Uhio'
| Wesleyan; S. B. T. at Bostnn[
iun;w-rrny; Ph. D. Boston; D. D./|
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SOPERTON EDITOR |
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' PRINTS PAPER ON |
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SOPERTON, Ga— (AP) -—fTh(.l
!hunur of being the first newspaper |
iti) print an edition on paper made |
!of Georgia pine pulp grown in its!
lown home town is claimed by the|
}lOcal weekly paper, The News. !
| The edition was printed on |
i newsprint made at the Georgia |
iPaper Laboratory in Su\'annah,!
{Ga.. under supervision of Dr.]
| Charles H. Herty. Pulp for the)
fpupm- was produced from slash |
| pine seven years old grown b}'.
| James Fowler of Soperton. Print- |
!-ers said the paper took ink as wellg
las other newsprint. i
, Dr. Herty in Savannah is (-on-’
| tinuing his experiments in making |
Ihewsprint from Georgia pine de-|
{spiie the recent veto by Governor |
{ Eugene Talmadge of a $20,000 ap
‘p’mpriation from the state ' for
that work.
Athens, Ga., Tuesday, April 4, 1933.
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}Guphlc Description of
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. Dirigible’s Plunge Given
. By One of Three Known
| Survivors of Crash
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'LAST BIG AIRSHIP
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! Chairman Says
ANOTHER DIiRIGIBLE
CRASHES
BEACH HAVEN, N. J—
(AP)—The navai semi-rigid
dirigible J-3 of the Naval Air
Station at Lakehurst, crashed
into the sea about 1,000 yards
off shore at 1:46 p. m. Tues
day. The fate of its crew was
not immediately determined.
Two members of the crew,
1 believed to have @ been still
1 alive, were = taken from the
water by rescue workers in
t surf boats and taken to a hos
pital in Jakewood, 20 miles
away. ‘
NEW YORK.— (AP) —A mes
sage sighed “Wiley,” and stating
,that the ‘dirigible Akron, in the
lcontcr of a storm, crashed about
12:32 a. m. Tuesday, was givep
?uu( by the codst guard at Staten
| Island Tuésday.
i The message which carried no
guddress, was sent from the cutter
‘Tuuk«r to“the cruiser Portland and
‘inlcl‘cvpted by the cpast guard
"cutter Champlain, moored at the
| coast guard base at Staten Island.
| The Tucker is the vessel to
!which Lieutenant Commander H.
i\'. Wiley, second in command of
%th(- Akron; two other survivors
and the body of a fourth member
lul’ the crew were transferred from
{ the rescue tanker Phoebus.
| The message as -given out by
the coast guard at Staten Island,
follows:
“Sighted thunder storm about 30
miles south of Philadelphia about
l/u\'n zero four five (8:456 p. m.)
and proceeded on east and north
;ms; course. Light night, mostly to
{south. Ground obscured by fog.
{ Ship in good static condition. Ap
[ proximately 5,000 pounds. Sea
heavy. In vieinity of Jersey shore
‘at ten o'clock.
Near Lighthouse
“Surrounded by lightning at
light (presumably Barnegat light).
( Night atmosphere not very turbu
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Jury Here Revokes
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Old Divorce; Man
Now Has 2 Wives
C. L. Abercrombie, of Martin,
Ga., hag two wives and four chil
dren as a result of a Clarke county
Superior court jury’s action Tues
day morning.
In 1925, Mr. Abercrombie was
granted a divorce here from Mrs.
Vesta Abercrombie on charges of
desertion. Tuesday, Mrs Aber
crombie charged that the divorce
had been gained through fraud,
and the verdict was set aside.
Mrs. Abercrombie said that she
had not deserted her husband, and
that she did not know of his di
vorce proceedings until govern
ment compensation which she had
been receiving threugh him was
discontinued. g
The Abercrombics were living in
Seneca, S. C., at the time. She
claimed that 'Mr. ‘Alercrombie
has not been living in Georgia 12
months prior to the granting of
the divorce; that he had concealed
her residence so that she did not
know of the proceedings and
could not be at the trial to defend
herself, and that he had not pub
liched the suit for divorce.
Since being granted the divorce
in 1925, Mr. Abercrombie has
married again. He had three chil
dren by his first wife, and one by
his second. Both of Mr. Aber
crombie's wives were at the court
house here Tuesday morning. The
first Mrs. Abercrombie, who lives
at Greenville, S. C. was repre
sented by John L. Green.
* First decree divorce verdicts
were returned in the cases of Beu
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NAVY’S GREATEST DIRIGIBLE LOST DURING STORM
The Dirigible Akron is shown in her hangar below by the side of the Los Angeles. Note the difference
‘m size. Athenians will remember the Los Angeles flew over Athens lagt summer, and thus can mentally
compare the size of the two ships. Below is shown Admiral William A. Moffett, head of the Navy's acro
nautical Service, who was aboard the Akron and went down with the ship.
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| TOTAL OF 266 LIVES
| LOST IN DIRIGIBLES
’IN LAST THREE YEARS
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| By The Associated Press
‘ October 4, 1930-—British dirigi
lble R-101 explodes over France
i\s hile’ enroute from lkngland to In
i(liu: 46 dead.
1 June, 1928—1 Italian dirigible Itaiia
lcrushes in Artic on flight to North
| I'ole, eight dead. .
| ‘Sept., 4, 192)—-0. 8. dirigiblz
i Shenandoah (formerly ZR-1)
lwrecked in storm in Ohio; 14 kill
|(‘1l.
! Dec. 21, 1923-_l'rench dirigible
| Dixmude, presumably struck by
ilis;htning vver Mediterradean, 52
killed.
1 Feb. 21, 1922—-U. §S. dirigible
{ Roma, bought by United States
‘from Italy, crashes to earth in
I(lumes near Hampton Roads army
iimso; 34 Kkilled,
| August 24, 1921—Dirigible ZR-2.
| bought in Kngland for the Unitel
gsmtes, frame buckles over Hum
|b(-r river; 42 killed.
{ Jan, 28, 1921—British Dirigible
;1:-34. wrecked in gale at Howden,
llinglzmd. no lives lost.
I July 21, 1919—Dirigible Burns
jover Chicago; 10 killed.
[ July 15, 1919—British airship
'NS-11, struck bly lightning over
| North Sea; 12 killed.
| Sept. 9, 1913—Zeppelin L-1, de
| stroyed off Heligoland, 15 killed, |
| Oet. 17, 1913—Zeppelin L-2, ex
:ploded over Johannisthal Aecrod
lrome; 28 killed. |
i July 2, 1912—Balloon Akron ex
ploded at Atlantic City, 5 killed.
Downer Brought Here
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[ From Lexington Jail
{ James Downer, convicted of an |
|attack on a white girl in Elbert |
}munty and later granted a new
(trial and a change of venue (o
'Oglethorpe county, Monday night
' was .brought from Lexingtgn and
[ kept overnight in Clarke county’
| jail for safekeeping. In the prev
'ious, trial. Downer was sentenced |
to ‘death. !
\ Downer was returned to Lex- |
rfiingtdn Tuesday morning by Sher
|iff Watkins or Oglethorpe . county
for the new trial, B
Dirigible Disaster B—En—g;_ghock and
. Demands For Immediate Investigation
| Of Accident That Tock Lives of Many
‘ WASHINGTON — (AP)__. The
L proud Akron's (Aragic fdate ' sent o
[ shoek through Wgsh‘ngmn Tues
‘aay frcm President Roosevelt to
!the man in the sireet, leaving a
':run'ow that was actcempanied by
demands for gnvestlgauon.
} For hours in the silence of the
inavy’s eommunications office, of
!ficel‘s had sat grimly hoping for
[the finding alive of more of their
| comrades than the few picked up
{in the early morning. But as the
frln:.' drew on_ what hope there was
! diminivhed,
| Aides of the President declded‘
[not to disturb his sleep when the
[first reports filtered in from thel
{ Jersey coast, Once the circums
| stances became plain, however, 2
| bustle stirrea the White House
lakin to that at the navy to make
{sure of prompt relay of the situa-
Eo;Blete “Live-at-Home” Program Is
Being Tried Out in Cherokee County
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| CANTON, Ga— (AP) —A new
iecunumic set-up which envisions
iu market for all farm products, a
{ complete live at home program,
{and the Jdevelopment of beef cat
[tle raising on a large scale is in
|the making in the north Georgia
! county of Cherokes.
I Already a herd of the finest of
| Herford steers graze the hillsides
'under the walchful eyes of trained
| men préparing them for the mar
ket, and already a modern cream- |
‘ory, designed to use every drop
iuf milk and butter fat produced in
the county is in operation.
Expansion and developments of
the plan in the future depends
only upon the limitations of the‘
{farmer to produce, leaders of the
movement say.
The plan was discussed in de
| tail prior to the annual meetling
{of the Chamber of Commerce here'
| Monday night. Governor Tal
madge addressed some 200 repre
sentative citizens at the meeting,
land told them taxes and cost of
!govu'nment must be reduced.
} “You can’t Keep on paying taxes
on land that is assessed for more!
‘than you can get for it,” he said.
;"l"il‘h't. we must reduce the cost of
;governmcnt. and to do so is just
;liko an amputation. 1 have found
,out that whatever you try to cut
|you are always wrong. But I know
anat wnen you get down to it we
can make out on one-half the gov
‘ernment we now have, and be as
-well off.”
- The governor blamed present
iconditions largely on the automo
bile, said we were “on a gasoline
arunk,” and advocated the sales |
tax only as a last resort and after
the ad valorem and othe‘ means
‘of taxes had failed. X
~ The county has many thousanids
in the bank, J. H. Holcomb,
county = commissioner, said, and
all obligations have been met with
out delay. Taxes, he said, hnvel
,heen cut 40 percent in the past
thide years: .. 50 ¢ SR
~ The county, town and city school
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2¢c—s¢ Sunday.
tion for Mr. Roosevelt, 1
From the Capitol Hlill, senators
and representatives poured in
quiries into newspaper offices as
to jart what had happened- and
the prospects. Demands for an
investigation were made even ay
the Navy itsell moved to initiate
one. |
The accident also aroused slum
bering opposition to the expedi
ture of money for lighter-than-air
vessels,
The cruiger Portland, from the
crash scene, notified the mnavy at
9 a. m., that the Akron caugh!
fire after it fell, It said no survi
vors and no bodies had been found
by the two coast guard planes
and several vessels in the search,
The report said that the Akron
was in a severe electrical storm
before she went.down.
e e
teachers have received every pen
‘ny due, and not a single school
‘has closed or will close, Dr. N.
iJ' Coker, chairman of the county
‘board, said.
~ Others told of efforts made to
jbrlng about a complete dive at
‘home condition which has been
successful, while records of the
- past were recalled with pride.
Roy Crisler, president of the
‘Chamber of Commerce, told, for
examplé, how the Canton Cotton
‘Mills, founded by ‘Robert 'l‘ym"
Jones, sr., of whom Bobby Jones, !
the golfer, is a grandson, had |
never closed for a single day dur
ing the 33 years they have been
in existence except for overhaul
‘ing of machinery.
J. D. Gay, general manager of
the Cherokee Farm Products cor
poration, a graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia, explained in
detail the plans for the future.
Guests from Atlanta included
Major Clark Howell, jr,, business
manager of the Atlanta Constitu
tion: A. G. Maxwell, vice-presi
dent of the Citizens and Southern
bank: J. 8. Kennedy and W. C.
Adamson, vice-presidents ~of thel
First Nat#onal bank; Ronald Ran
som, vice-president of the I"uluml
National bank, and Haynes Mc-
Fadden, secreatry of. the Georgia |
Bankers association. i
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" LOCAL WEATHER
|
Fair and warmer in north- |
west portion Tuesday night. |
Wednesday increasing cloudi- l
ness and warmer, followed by ‘
showers in afternoon or at
night in northwest portion.
TEMPERATURE
Highest -. .. iiv e 0% TBO
FAOROEE. . .. i Vhase i aess
MEOBD .< oy ok vst i s
Northal =« i Foiivt iesniine culbiel
RAINFALL -
Inches last 24 hours .. .... .00
Total since Aprililz. ... oo 10
Excess since April 1 .. .. 34|
Average April rainfall .... 3.58
Total since January 1.. 1&§
Deficiency since January 1. 3.14 |
H2XE
SHIP FALLS TUESDAY
Admiral William A. Mof
fett, Head of Navy Acro
nautics, Goes Down
With Ship
‘]EFFERSON, GA. ]
s MAN ON AIRSHIP
\ e
- - - - o'
‘Huge Du:lguble Caught
~ Fire in Violent Thundei
; storm at 1:30 A. M.
| NEW YORK.—(AP)—The nQW'?’
dirigible Akron caught fire "@at
;12:30 a. m. Tuesday in a vielent
thunderstorm and fell into the sea
\with 77 men aboard. g
The disaster occurred 20 miles
'mst of the Jersev coast at Barne
lgat. Eight hours later wreckage
was sighted 25 miles due east of
|Atlantic City.
Four men, one of whom died,
Iwon- taken aboard the German
tanker Phoebus shortly after the
aceident. Among the 73 men gtill
missing at 10 a. m. Tuesday was
Admiral William .4. Moffett echief
l”f the Navy's Aranautical diviss
-lon. e
| Details of the sccident were
'lacking. The 'navy ‘believed it
Im-ohablo that lightning. struck the
| great airship, and so reported to
| President Roosvelt.
i Static interfered with the exs °
change of wireless Jnessages.
Those sent 'by various seacraft
Ithat rushed to the scene were sucs=
cint., Lieut. Commander H., V.
Wiley , executive oificer of the
{ Akron, who was one of the men
‘Huved. failed to state the cause of
ithe aceident in a message to the
| Navy department which reported
it.
l The Navy announced an immes
diate court of inquiry wauld be
ordered in the Fourth district, at -
Philadelphia. 5
The three known survivors and .
the body of the man who died =
after being taken aboard the Phoe~ -
Ibus were transferred to the coast
guard boat Tucker. They were
expected to arrive at Erooklyn &t
labout noon. The Phoebus stood
lby to search for wreckage and
| more possible survivors. ‘
| Wreckage Drifting w 0
' Following the report of wreck=
luge near Atlantic City life boats
;wvrv sent out from cesat gward
stations at Longport, Towngend.
Inlet and Stone Harbor. Seweral .
'airplanes, held back during thé -
darkness because of low cellingi
took off after dawn to assist; in
the search. Gl
The Tucker reported by wires
less that it sighted wreckage at™"
the scene of the crash. The mes<
sage -wase timed at 6:04 a. me AR
hour later the cruiser Portland
could find no wreckage at "the :
same place and Navy officials for
4 time assumed that the ship had
gone to the bottom. s
The Portland also made tlwe ¥es.
port that the airship had caught °
fire in the crash, but did not give *
any basis for the assertion.
At Akron, Ohio, where the
Akron was constructed by the
Goodyear company, officials pre- -
dicted the accident would affect
the future of lighter-than-ais® -
craft., A sister-ship, the Macon,
was ' reeently completed and is
about to undergo tests. Admiral
Moffett christened the Macon & -
¥ew weeks ago. 3
The survivors of the Akron bes .
gsides Wiley are Moody E. Erwin:
and Richard E. Deal, both enlist
ed men. Deal also survived the
crash of the Shenandoah in 1925.
The dead man was Robert "W
Copeland, chief radio operator v
the Akron. i
The tanker Phoebus, flying' “the
flag of the Danzig Free State and
bound from New York for Tampis
co. was wivhin a few miles of the
Akron when her wireless splutter
ed an 8 O S through static-choked. .
skies at 1:30 o'clock. There was
no further word from the aircraft, i
which apparently descended 'Taps
idly, either falling or cripple@" so
the point of a forced descent.
Captain Dalldorf of the Phoebus
flashed word of the tragedy to
shore as he turned his slow-mov- =
ing tankship from its course te
the spot where the Akron had
dropped . 4
A severe thunder and lightning
storm raged. o
“I saw aircraft lights flashing,™
the captain wirelessed the Associ=
ated Press shortly ~afterward.
“Then I saw lights flashing on the L
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