v MsX jw4l tn PC "1 CO TTw- JV V. w v. v V s5M8v. s?i These pictures graphically tell the story of the destruction of the army Bemi-dirigible blimp C-2 at San Antonio, Tex. Upper picture shows the crew leaping to safety as the giant gas bag was ripped, going through the hangar door. Middle picture shows tho explosion of the gas a couple of seconds later. Below are tho nrins of the blimp. Inset is Major H. A. Straus, who was

Five fV'Tovs Bier Army Blimp V.XJ'! .rl. tt j.f i u.-J.. x -A f .j n 1 flit " v -' 1 1 O I ' htVlIin 11; -vvjt . X - ..ff ...... L ,uA J I U , 1 I lOmarkahle iclion plioloKiiMih ahaw Ms nnny blimp C I, nrapiwd in f lamia In hangar at Nan Anlonlo, Tex., where It wn ilralroji'd In 10

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started by Turkish irrcgul - ars. PORT CHAMPS of-\CM A CP's y 'ÿvPipf/s -V I t >4 V v WUI/S k\ POPP£ 4<« . \ \ k v~ \ >—^ f I u 4« - s' "UNCLE JOE" CANNON — Oldest member of house of representatives, an nounces he and his stogies will retire at close of his present term, his twenty He is eighty six. First entered house in 1878. m v /S»\ swmm as ^ 1 **»$ *■ • * , ♦ iJLK ., H / f V 7 <k: A .4 m SP>??3 ; / >R é ■<> ft * e— rx x~ z/o#a/ Ws/sarvizsp m ■j s : l-f / ** r—». % / 1 J it : >Aiü» 7 y A / / -V 4 :4 Am, . / -. ; ' « ' A ; / >: M < ■(■9 "> "\ * .''Wm v >,, v ■ k m 1 ■ 4 <> At f f w- 2 '?-r !.. <• mm I ï \ «'s*; l H » v V @mW* H I mA 4i AÀ Gro/pas S/S/S/ 2 - m* * ■' y v5 V GLCW//A Colas ts 't. s George Sisler of Browns led both big leagues in batting with .419 average. Willie Hoppe won back 18.2 balkline billiard crown. Glenna Collett won national woman's golf title. Mickey Walker won welterweight boxing crown from Jack Britton, most portant ring title change of year. Johnny Weismuller set score of new swimming records in leading swimmers for the year and west. June 21—Thirty men massacred in riot at Southern Illinois Coal A° f Egypt Company mine. Herrin, 111. Arkansas; many July 19—Italian cabinet resigns for third time since February 1. c Au ? ^777 m ° 7 ire to defea , t stri , ke . s u ,a r r . ted ^ Pcds ' i hept. 9—William Cosgrave becomes president Irish I-ree State. A im Oct. 8—New York Giants win world's series. 16— Premier Llovd George and his cabinet resign. 17— Army Blimp C-2 explodes at San Antonio, Texas. 80—Benito Mussolini, I'ascisti leader, named premier of Italy. Nov, 6—Eighty miners die in explosion in Spangler, Pa., mine.

U. S. Blimp Nearing Completion _:- "i or*a*L fHoneHAT* uA.M*«r iii ■———■—■ | Construction work on the ZK-1 at the Naval Aeronautic station, Lakehurst, N. J., is shown at left. Right ill-fated ZR-2. Inset Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics.

Man’s Conquest of the Air Told in Pictures Above the rJavy’s new giant dirigible 2R-1 m flight over New York City, a rare sight for the metropolis. Capable of sustaining a Wight for many hours,_it can carry enough explosive to convert great sky-scrapers into piles of junk. Below you see Roy Knaben shue's little gas-filled blimp with which he startled natives of the a

THE GIANT AND THE DWARF Here are two extremes in I'm iripible Slu-nando-ah and -the 'baby Jr Station in Lakeliurst, N. J. T lo Sum’s naval aircraft—the blimp J-l. Bnth are at the lie smaller balloon is a new

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Three of a Kind —But Different C " ' 0 -■ ? p--- <■ ' • > ..' INTERESTING ASSORTMENT OF BALLOON TYPES GATHERED AT LAKEHURST, N. J., AIR CIRCUS. (NOTE THE GIANT SHENAN DOAH, AT HER MOORINGS, WHILE A BLIMP SAILS BY AND AN OBSERVATION BALLOON IS READY TO GO UP.)

Three of a Kind —But Different C " ' 0 -■ ? p--- <■ ' • > ..' INTERESTING ASSORTMENT OF BALLOON TYPES GATHERED AT LAKEHURST, N. J., AIR CIRCUS. (NOTE THE GIANT SHENAN DOAH, AT HER MOORINGS, WHILE A BLIMP SAILS BY AND AN OBSERVATION BALLOON IS READY TO GO UP.)

Uncle Sam's mm mmmms&.M Here's the latest picture of America's newest "and fighHnp; halloon, now completed. It is tlie ZH-3, now it final tests in the ZePDelin factory, at Friednchshafen, many. H soon will net out on Biggest Blimp ' ' '"TX "i. H t '.V-; its flight to this country. iy '-.i'ivXj' .X

Bomb Bursts on Army Blimp; Five. Hurt . V r - mill T in r gin 11 Tim 'Wi1gMyg"fc ... ' . " , (BarPaclllfft AUnllel Two officers and three enlisted men were injured at Lanjrley Field, Va., when the army blimp TC-2 (above) was forced to the ground by the explosion kf bpmb she was carrying, All that saved blimp from destruction, experts fay, is fact that ehc-used helium gas.

When Bomb Exploded in Aj-my Blimp, TC:2 -a. - . ',' ..5aaa mm ',-v Kara ' JET TB ai " IPX ---r . I 2L f ' Here is the wreck of the TC-2, army blimp which crashed to earth, at Langley Field, Newport News, Va., when-a bomb exploded. Lieutenant Bruce p. Martin died of injuries. Others of the crew owe their lives to the fact that the- balloon was filled with helium ' ' '

Plans Blimp internum Dr. Karl Arnsteln. chief of the Zeppelin works at Frledrlch . 3WsW ;

Plans Big Blimp Dr. Karl Arnstein. chief engineer of the Zeppelin works at Fried richshnfen. Germany, has started work in Akron. Ohio, on plans for the world's largest dirigible—even bigger than the Los Angeles.

Plans Big Blimp Dr. Karl Arnstein. chief engineer of the Zeppelin works at Fried richshnfen. Germany, has started work in Akron. Ohio, on plans for the world's largest dirigible—even bigger than the Los Angeles.

Plans Big Blimp ‘“fr r V ... V gippP < H / m Jm I . ■ : im •* -M m Dr. Kail Arnslein, chief of the Zeppelin works nt Fricd

Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne, right, says her husband, Commander Lansdowne, center, ed against the blimp’s fatal voyage because of the probability of just such a storm that

of the Queen Mother. " '' ‘"'’ v >jt r n HIBB " aiSBBw > ”r^H i vJ *•«- ■'JuMmßmß P^&xfll^^BLiMP\ 2 w -A jj I 1 '!|j| | !| 1 l |l i||iii I] ii'''| i l'| |jBBQ Otto Klemperer. European orchestra conductor, a guest of Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, Klemperer is to be guest conductor of the orchestra for ten weeks. to Walter and Frank Damrosch.

Parachute and flare leaving the blimp TC-5 at Aberdeen. The circle is the parachute, with the flare in the center. The

HHf^wM^ i i The parachute with flare attached, which was dropped from the blimp at Aberdeen. The silk of the parachute was folded into the cylinder. When was released by a trigger arrangement, the parachute shot toward the

RnM , 1 y ffIRH IA IAIAI JSH •* • -im/wlnn pmwv jMU K . \ »t' ,l " t * fc !>air'f BWy Scene at Newport News when nine ships were launched a week ago yesterday. The blimp TC-4 hovered over the ceremonies during the afternoon, and thousands of persons saw the big into the watei.

111 • i*» • * - -i"fl —j. \^vv*’ v . * v ‘'r'*; Wi,,, " M t - ' ' s '-/-- tf whhh^hbh^mbßSl - IPWMOT* y |^pGpHpnoHF*Ba^a^ ’sß i ■—c',’,' Army blimps hovering around the Wash ington Monument. The two airships are the TC-5 and TC-9, which visited Washington on a recent training flight from Langley Field,

V J ,jff ai **|*^'* ; ' * ii * kJ' wfflMz'a A : Wk /;KV- } MCffffiU >|| |unPl^^^^HjS^MUH||U^' I—Mrs. Charles D. Walcott of Washington, appointed by the President a member of the board of Indian com missioners. 2—House ways and means committee listening to Secretary Mellon’s program for tax reduction. 3 Army blimp with mall and passengers making safe landing on roof of school building in Newport News, Va.

Speeding tip transatlantic service. An Army blimp ap

J|| *•* "* '-n , r ~ h -g BF It "Landing” on Manhattan. The big Army blimp which gives this impression is flying low over the metropolis to advertise the recent Governors Island garden party. c C7 r

* *~~ * / -of 'tl : -:t 'W / y »*>•-''•■■ - -i 'tw >*;*■?» .. -48k' i *•:.••* • / jf r '^-' ■'"*■ ■•'' ' I , *"Vt .V i >-* j ‘> f M^W| / 1 jli tiflß \» \| H j - A farmer near Williamsburg. Va., looked out of his window the other day to see this monster of the air sprawling In his corn field. It Is the Army blimp TC -10, whieh made a forced landing on the field when Its steering mechanism went wrong. The six men aboard escaped injury in the landing, and the chief injury to the hlimp were the slashes made in the bag by the crew to bring her down. —Associated Press Photo.

\ ~ _ One of the Army’s Langley Field blimps drops down for a call at Virginia Beach. Some of the crew took

■ - 11 - f "““ — “” — ”“““■““- — ~ s*»! * "“1 When the Navy blimp J-3 landed with a jolt at Lakehurst yesterday • much of the rear framework collapsed and the fabric was torn. The damage occurred after a training flight of several hours over the air station. One

\ LA | ■•IHIIHt. limillHtlliiHKiiiH ii Hi I * " wHr / Ships of the air and j s sea. Langley Field ra w?/ Army blimps TC-5 anc -igjjjg&T TC-10 escorting the liner President Roose- * , •■, . velt out of New York Harbor during recon naissance maneuvers. y^Lvi < Paramount Nem-s-Associated Press Otafci«jflL .

| , j Army Tests With RS-1 Show Way For Future Blimp Development Possible use of the semi rigid dirigible for military and commercial purposes is seen as a result of three years’ tests with the BS-l (above), world’s largest craft of this type. Capt. William E. Kepner i below) has commanded the ship on most of its flighta By WILLIAM E. BERCHTOLD

SOUTHLAND'S FIRST AIRSHIP BASE ■ 7 LOCATED AT ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. /-Vw. . ru*L£ OF Fi'29*F> 'Pureir^MO vtevz SJJ^ . « _iUmk nr>rl TXT 1t’PT By JOHN LODWICK ST. PETERSBURG. Florida. — This city enjoys the distinction of being the only lighter than air aviation base In the entire southland with the coming to the Sunshine City of the airship ••Puritan’* and the estab lishment of its winter quarters from Occemtaer to May. Owned by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, O.. the Puri tan” will attempt the longest flight ever made by an aircraft of its size for the St. Petersburgh base, selected by President P. W. Litchfield because of the idee* climatic conditions that , exist here the entire year around. ' In comiiig to St. Petersburg, the “Puritan*' will enjoy the distinction to touch thousands of Flordlans and winter visitors their very first view of an aircraft of this particular t\pe. Launched in Akron, O., last August, the tiny blimp, 128 feet in length and 37 feet in diameter, will carry four passengers besides Its famous pilot, J. N. Boettner. When quartered in its hanger at Whitted field, located on the bcauti- : j ful Tampa Bay Waterfront and situ- j | ated in the very heart of the hotel l and shopping center, the “Puritan will make daily flights over St. Pet ersburg and its immediate vicinity. It is planned to make one voyage southwards over the Florida keys to Cuba and return. St. Petersburg sees in the estab lishment of a Goodyear-Zeppelln air base here the fulfillment of predic tions made by experts that most of the Florida travel within the next oJ. A. SoErrTt^ER, Pilot than air ships from the metropolitan centers of the north, where the tour ist will go aboard at 5 o’cloci: in the evening, enjoy dinner in the clouds, sleep without jar or jolt and break fast In the warm summer climate of the Sunshine City. St. Petersburg's airport is the only one of its kind in America and pos sibly the world. In its area it has facilities for airplanes, sea planes and airships. It is located at the terminal of two Important railroad lines and adjoins the seaport of the city. Adjacent and to the north it is close to the Boston Braves baseball club training field. The post-office is three minutes away and the smartest tourist hotels are but two minutes Hig Business Man Hops From Chicago to Frisco in 22 Hours _ ——--" lime is money in Dig business ana fcr that reason every effort Is ex •pended to acquire time-saving de vices and lnjiiuments and machines U :t what cl c> the busy executive do when his presence is deslrea three thousand miles away? A telephone v/LU not do; the mall Is too slow; .sms-continental llmlteds require days What, then? John H. Kraft, vice president ol the Kraft-Phenlx Cheese Co., sup plied the answer recently Business mterests In San Francisco required his Immediate attention In the Cali fornia metropolis He was at his desk In Chicago. Three days on the train to California, but that would be too late. Mr. Kraft made ar rangements with one of the aircraft companies In Chicago, and within 22 much flying in this country. And the average flight In continental Eu rope Is by no means as extended an undertaking as are the air Jaunts be tween American cities. The long trip from Chicago to San Francisco—Ion-, In mileage only—was made with no more Inconvenience than stepping out of one plane Into unother ship Every Indication points toward a rev olutionized mode of travel of busi ness men In future years." Leaving Chicago at 7:30 P. M.. Mr Kraft was piloted to Iowa City, la.. where planes were changed, as well as pilots; Omaha. Neb.. North Platte. Neb., Cheyenne, Wyo., Salt Lake City Utah, and Reno and Elko. Nev.. be fore the Anal lap to Frisco was be gun. Four changes of planes were made

■ 7 LOCATED AT ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. /-Vw. . ru*L£ OF Fi'29*F> 'Pureir^MO vtevz SJJ^ . « _iUmk nr>rl TXT 1t’PT By JOHN LODWICK ST. PETERSBURG. Florida. — This city enjoys the distinction of being the only lighter than air aviation base In the entire southland with the coming to the Sunshine City of the airship ••Puritan’* and the estab lishment of its winter quarters from Occemtaer to May. Owned by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, O.. the Puri thousands of Flordlans and winter visitors their very first view of an aircraft of this particular t\pe. Launched in Akron, O., last August, the tiny blimp, 128 feet in length and 37 feet in diameter, will carry four passengers besides Its famous pilot, J. N. Boettner. When quartered in its hanger at Whitted field, located on the bcauti- : j ful Tampa Bay Waterfront and situ- j | ated in the very heart of the hotel l and shopping center, the “Puritan will make daily flights over St. Pet oJ. A. SoErrTt^ER, Pilot than air ships from the centers of the north, where the tour ist will go aboard at 5 o’cloci: in evening, enjoy dinner in the sleep without jar or jolt and break fast In the warm summer climate the Sunshine City. St. Petersburg's airport is the one of its kind in America and pos sibly the world. In its area it for sea

Gas for Blimp Tummies ••• : rrr * r w • ••• x • ••• x• v ■ • -* ~* y * * •> "'' X * TaT* ~'s:xr. —; 11,'... 7?*^ There was enough helium gas compressed within the three cylinders on the tank car pictured here, at the army field near Washington, to inflate the United States army blimp hovering in the back ground. These cylinders have a capacity of 206,000 feet of the gas under 2,000 pounds pressure. Before development of this tank car, helium gas was carried in small cylinders, 1,200 of which were necessary to fill an ordinary non-rigid craft.

' Herald Cameramen Tel! Their Story READY TO GREET AIRMEN St. Louis airport was jammed with people awaiting descent of "St. Louis Robin," endurance plane piloted by Dale Jackson and Forrest O'Brine, following orders from sponsors for them to come to earth, which they did after flying for over 420 hours. lntema'tlinal Newsreel : trttrr " Hi I l III lllgl t m 1 . ..tfCnKf 43 5 NOTED SPECTATORS Among the notables who attended the open ing races at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., recently, a view of which is seen above, were Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, New York society leaders. International Newsreel Invents new rifle Eman Holek, young Czecho Slovakian inventor, calls at White House to pay his re spects to President Hoover. Holek invented new automatic rifle now under consideration as official rifle for U. S. Army and Navy, international Newsrtel RUNS IN FAM ILY Mrs. Claire Mae Fahy, wife of Lieut. Fahy, holder of world's solo en durance flight record, is favored -entrant in first National Wo men's Air Derby to be run from Santa Monica, Cal., to Cleve land. International Newsreel SOCIETY FAVORITE HURT Major "Tony" Drexel Biddle, left, scion of Philadelphia aristocracy, snapped just as he received an unintentional dagger thrust in his arm during exhibition bayonet combat with First Sergeant E. J. Snell at Philadelphia Navy Yard. International Newsreel J vjj i'MM JSkSSiAS "V V SECOND WATER LANDING IN HISTORY Goodyear blimp "Volunteer," quipped with pontoons which enabled it to ride the waves in safety, is seen soaring over Pacific coast before making test landing on the ocean. Ten years ago a balloon, similarly equipped,' also made landings on water. International Newsreel LEADS WET FIGHT Irvin S. Cobb, noted author, is chairman of volunteer authors and artists committee who will oppose prohibition in co-operation with association against 18th amendment. International Newsreel

i M WWWiiilW fe- . «■!■■■ ». . -lj£MKfeikg*#V WfUfJlffS linmfl n HBlffj tliitillßUl Setting another precedent of the flying age. The Army blimp C-41 lands on the Capitol plaza to discharge a passenger. Senator Bingham of Connecticut traveled in the blimp from Langley Field, Va. t to attend a committee meeting at the Capitol. £ Associated Press Photo.

— NEW SENATORIAL TAXI—ARMY BLIMP LANDS SENATOR BINGHAM ON CAPITAL PLAZA This remarkable picture shows tbe lading of an army blimp within a very few feet of the national capitol building at Washington. As Washing ton officials gasped from astonishment the army blimp C-41 slid gracefully down to earth on the capitol plaza and allowed Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, who had been transported from Laugley, Field. Va., to hop out and hurry into the building to an important tariff meet | !

PLANS OCEAN FLIGHT IN BLIMP Otto Brinkman, with a moOrl of a Habv blimp whteh he to bavin, built In Germany for a proposed flight to the United States. It will have room to *rans port 24 persons, butoniy five will make the Atlantic creasing, which is scheduled for early In October. Associated Press Photo.

Just an experiment with a blimp and an ocean liner. While the liner Bremen waits at Quarantine, in New York Harbor, the blimp Mayflower lands on her forward deck to take off a passenger, Paul W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Zeppelin Co. The stunt succeeded without a hitch. <3 Associated press Photo t) P * A * Photo*

| in in *ll O. to he ' -i »> No. I—The Wingfoot Express. ;• ... •. • - * * . ... * - .... .. ~..v .4 » ' - v.,~_ v.... v «........ .«**►...* r 1 i 1 > ' jJpIU Above: One of the greatest air tragedy pictures ever taken. Two minutes fter the shutter clicked, registering this photograph, 13 people were killed. Tie biasing blimp plunged through the skylight of the Illinois Trust ds Savings tank BaiUUng, in Chicago, killing 10, while three of the dirigible’s passengers wt their llveo, one falling wttb the blimp. This ptdture Shows the parachute r Carl Weaver Just opening, to the toft under the blimp*, a few seconds later the huto caught fire and Weaver plunged to his death. Milton J. Norton, In the ighest parachute, was dashed against the Western Union Building and In lilt ing the street suffered fatal Injuries. The Other two parachutists are Wacker nd Boettner, sole survivors. Lower left: Henry Wacker, who escaped from the biasing blimp In a BMehutO.

Testing Portable Mooring: Mast With portable mooring masts like the one shown here attached to the of the motorbus. blimps may be taxlled around flying fields without aid of the usual ground crew. The test pictured above was conducted Hoover field, Washington, with the Goodyear blimp, “Puritan.” It

- -sdfl| ■ fl| f' | mhHh S' j^P9 BHBB? un> mSm w I®F # An English blimp goes up in flames. It wasn’t an acci dent, but one of the features of the Royal Air Force pageant

What Wind Did to Blimp — NAVY DIRIGIBLE WRECKED ENTERING HANGAR. i - >| — m —BTT',." .... , "-q 'f- ' SHHhh Here is about all that was left of the Navy’s K-l, largest non-rlgld after it was caught by a gust of wind outside its hangar near Cape May. N The wln<l hurled it against the hangar door, tearing the envelope, which Iftpt my, No on? n$ hurl. -A. P.

Wreckage of Blimp After Fatal Crash General view shortly after the Goodyear dirigible Columbia crashed Saturday into a freight shed new the Holmes Airport. Flushing. Long Island, after the craft apparently became unmanageable In a 40-mile wind. John Blair or Roca •

Blimp Wrecked While Searching for Survivors of the Akron The Navy Olimp .J-.'! after it had dropped into ihe ocean <>fl' Reach Haven, N. J., while paitici.fpatinn in a sierm

Naval Air Base Commissioned r The $5,000,000 naval air base at Sunnyvale, Calif., officially became a part of the United 8tates Navy when It was commission*! by Rear Admiral G. W. Lawn, commandant of the 12th Naval District This aerial view, from a blimp, shows the hangar, future home of the dirigible Macon, sister ship of the Ill-fated Akron. The buildings, helium tanks and power plants are in

I I i —7 Sky-riding below an Army blimp. Army airmen are having a new thrill these days in tests of the “flying seat,” an observation contraption that is lowered from a blimp at the end of 1,500 feet of cable. It permits observation while the blimp may be concealed by clouds. Here’s an officer riding in the giddy affair above Langley Field, Va. © Associated Press Photo. J

THE top photograph, made from the Goodyear blimp which visited the Capital this week, shows the tall spire of the old Post Office Department Building standing out alone against the massive buildings cf the new Government housing program. To the left of the old postal building soon will be constructed the new wing of the Internal Revenue Building, threatening to entirely encircle the old clock tower. Below, the blimp as she strained at her portable mast during a 45-mile wind yesterday afternoon. —Star Staff Photos.

GRAPHIC SECTION w UltdiQI GRAVURE SUPPLEMENT WASHINGTON, I). C., JULY 8, 1934 Showing a section of the new Washington. Old Post Office Department in direct center, flanked at right by the new building, which was dedicated several weeks ago. At back of old Post Office Depart ment Building, the new Internal Revenue Building, a wing of which will be constructed in the vacant plot, completing the circle. At extreme left, a portion of the new Department of Justice Building. Wing leading to right from new Post Office Building contains Interstate Commerce Commission, Government Auditorium and Labor Department. £ Star Staff Photograph, Taken Prom Ooodyear Blimp Resolute. "Good-by and good luck!" President Roosevelt and his two sons. Franklin D., jr., and John, leaving for their vacation aboard the De stroyer Gilmer last Sunday evening. The destroyer took the pas sengers to the cruiser Houston, waiting outside the harbor at Annapolis. ® wide World Photo. Named as one of the "strong men" of Germany. Herrmann Wilhelm Goering, president of the Reichstag, assigned by Chancellor Hitler to a large part of the military activity in the most recent Up risincr ® Wide World PhOtO. After the knot was tied. John Ja cob Astor, 3d, and his bride, the for mer Ellen Tuck French, leaving Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., after their wed ding. @ Associated Press Photo. They waited and perspired for just a glimpse of the bride. Photograph taken outside the Newport, R. I., church at the wed ding of John Jacob Astor, 3d, and El len Tuck French. © Associated Press Photo. Fighting men who figured in the latest German revolt Members of Chancellor Hit ler's picked guards, reported to be especially active against anti-Nazi factions. ■2 MTWc Wor id Hioto ■

Telling the world. Bill Coyle broadrafting for N. B. C. from the Goodyear blimp

Defense “Death" highway’s dangerous curves can best be seen from the air as these photographs, taken from the Goodyear blimp yesterday, three nuns and two of their relatives were killed In a bus-auto crash last Tuesday. Below, a 45-degTee turn near the South River. A steep bank obscures the motorists’ view. —Star Staff Photos.

Dangerous Intersection on “Death Highway” The "Pigeon House’* intersection, where the Annapolis end of the Defense highway meets the Crain highway, as seen from the Goodyear blimp Enterprise. This view, looking toward Baltimore, shows howT “blind" the Intersection is to motorists approaching it from every direc tion. There have been many serious accidents at this point. —Star Staff Photo.

Bank and Curve Create “Death Trap” Prom the Goodyear blimp a Star staff photographer made this picture of the bank beside one of the sharpest curves on the Defense highway, between Priest Bridge and Annapolis. The curve, near South River, has contributed to many accidents on the road which has come to be known as "Death highway.”

Another Deadly Curve on “Indefensible Highway” - 1 ■■ -y—— ■ The Ardmore turn on "Death highway** as seen from the Goodyear blimp. The curve and sharp grade at this point has caused many acci of the “death traps” which could be abolished through the widening and straightening ox the road. —Star Staff Photo.

halted briefly in their campaign for a religious service. A priest is shown preparing to read msss an the crude alter set up on a tank. (Associated Press Photo) LARGEST ARMY BLIMP ARRIVES AT ITS NEW BASE The TC 13, army's largest blimp, after being held up at Brooks Field, Tex., where It was damaged taking off, arrived safely at its new home, Moffatt field, Sunnyvale, Calif., and is shown as It was broug down to earth by the ground crew. The Blimp's new base was the home port of the Ill-fated "Macon." completed its journey from Langley Field. Va„ in 60 hours flying time. (Associated Press Photo) tlMn

New and Larger Blimp Takes to Air Germany's new r.eppelin, the Hindenburg, much larger than the Graf Zeppelin, Is brought from her at Friedrichshafen for maiden flight. Members of the ground crew seem Ulliputians. The flight, made March 4, was successful. Comdr. Hugo Eckener expressing delight with the ship's performance. She will be placed in

Ride to Show in Blimp Hospitality, ridden by Charles Lewis, taking a jump at the opening of the Farms Horse Show

So immense thai its giant fuselage appears more the size of a baby blimp than an airplane, the first of the new Douglas DC-4 flying hotels is shown above as it nears completion at Santa Monica, Calif., climaxing two years' construction work and the expenditure of $1,500,000. Beauty parlors with elec trie curlers for the women, launges with electric shavers for the men, its own kitchen and even a bridal suite will be housed in tin- US-foot long, 26-foot high hull. Workmen are mere dwarfs beside the airliner, which—with a win,it spread of 130 feet—will be the largest in the world. Four 1400 horsepower motors will carry its load limit of 42 passengers at a maximum speed of 210 miles an hour.

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—WIFE OF WRITER FOUND DEAD IN CANYON—Edward Doherty, New York magazine writer, is shown with Police Officer B. W. Amio after searchers found his missing wife, Mildred (left), dead in the brush of Benedict Canyon yesterday. Mr. Doherty had participated in the hunt for his wife, who disappeared after leaving on a hike Tuesday after noon. A blimp, planes and bloodhounds had been called into the search.

honors will be paid those who rest in the rolling acres beyond. At center of steps is seen the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Photo by J. C. Gregory from Goodyear blimp. a Royal formality is brushed aside. Hatless before the World War Memorial he had just unveiled. King George, his Queen beside him, moves away from his entourage to shake hands and chat with veterans in the Ottawa throng.

It's on all-important jump, that first one the Navy flying recruit makes in his training to become a full-fledged Navy flyer. A flyer has to know how to bail out in his parachute when the emergency arises. At the Lakehurst, N. J., Naval Air Station a Navy blimp is used in schooling the recruits in 'chute jumping. In the photo above Paul Dunbar of Annapolis, Md., heads a group of recruits into the blimp, his faith and future all bundled up in that silken parachute strapped to his back. r A. P. Photo*.

- GALLERY CONSTRUCTION MOVES AHEAD—This aerial view, made from the Goodyear blimp,'shows the progress in construc tion of the National Gallery of Art on the three-block Mall expanse from Fourth to Seventh street on Constitution avenue. The framework of the dome in the center ’of the structure has been completed and some of the skylight roofing has been put in place. The dome will be covered with marble. The entire structure, which will house the famed art pieces of the collec tion the late Andrew Mellon gave to the Nation, is to be com pleted by next July 15, according to the contractor’s schedule. —Star Staff Photo.

(U. S. Navy Official Photos from NEA) This is a submarine, submerged t0 depth of 25 feet and invisible to sur face ships. But a Navy patrol blimp spotted it and took this picture.

MONDAY IN SEATTLE: A WASHINGTON WASH DAY When Fred Ritzen complains that his shirts are too limp, Mrs. Ritzen can blame it in on that back yard blimp. “You know how it is with the Puget Sound barrage, and there's not room to hang laundry in the garage.” Says Corporal Babitz: “In case of invaders, there’s nothing like laundry to baffle air raiders."

PACIFIC CONVOY—A blimp hovers over the water as it ranges around a convoy somewhere in the Pacific, on the look

LAKEHURST, N. J—SURVIVED BLIMP CRASH—Ensign Howard Fahey, shown at controls of a blimp, was the only survivor of a midair collision of two Navy training blimps over the Atlantic. Coast Guardsmen, who rescued him from sea, recovered four bodies, but eight of 13 occupants of the two craft were still miss

640 Pounds Of Man Under One Skin! ‘Blimp’ Levy certainly lives up to his nickname as the robe he wears would probably serve as a portable hanger for small blimp or do service as a circus tent, This 640 pounder appear at Thalian Hall Friday night against Cowboy Luttrall.

He Can’t Find A Shower > .:>*• : vw. mb mm MARVIN “BLIMP” LEVY

j (NEA Telephoto) Radioman J. A. Sosnowskl Jr. hangs from cabin of Navy blimp, ready to jump Into heavy sea to bring in body of Lt. Hugh F. O'Neil, Akron, O., Navy pilot who crashed Into ocean off San Diego. Although Lt. O'Neil was reported alive and swimming after his crash, heavy seas prevented seaplanes from that might have reached him in time to save his

The “Blimp”, I ■ ■ Martin “Blimp’> Levey, 678-pound grappier, baa uulte an Inter esting and "big” personality. He is scheduled to meet the Swedish Angel in the Thalian Hall arena Friday night, when Bert Causey will also bring the world champion Babe Sharkey to mington to tangle with Johnny Long. Jack O’Brien and Don Loo

BLIMP MAKES “ONE-POINT LANDING”—Cruising in from a flight, a Navy blimp makes a landing aboard a carrier somewhere at sea. Secured by lines, the blimp nestles toward the

■ J J j j j j PT PUTS OUT TO SEA v** r ?*1 I'f A J \ l; \ \ -7/* ".Jr J? 'JVrv V~V *-' f ' :* : .K"?r X WXpVy Official Navy Photograph CLEAVING a furrow through the blue of the Atlantic a Navy PT boat is snapped from the a'-v as-it heeds out to sea o£f the Eastern Coast. The photograph was made from a patrolling blimp. I | j j i i | '

FIRST NAZI SUBMARINE GIVES UP OFF JERSEY COAST ■ y tf-'aayarft.ïi.tmim from a Navy blimp, ι his photo provides a cloçe-ttp of the activity aboard the Germρπ suhmfrrine as it lay off Capo May. X. J., alter its sum nek r. The lirst ship of war to b<· .«ur.-onckTcd in U. vι i·.· ti.o beiMumii» ι . the war, the U-848 \va : v. nandod o.v i»i:ts o. .>«· -» ι tiie crew were carefully .searched before being la! en off as prisoners of war. U. S. X. · y Photo. (Inter national.)

a THE LOVES OF COL. BLIMP—One of England's loveliest and most versatile actresses, Deborah Kerr portrays three different girls, all loved by the old soldier, in "Colonel Blimp," the Little's current attraction. The red-headed Miss Kerr was chosen from the extra ranks for a featured part in "Major Barbara" \hree years ago and became a star with her performance in

failure in 1343 but myself. I had the first year jitters. It's a big mint ' . i odd JhINIb * 1 J d^fi /Jt t Mi THE BLIMP SQUADRON based at Meacham Field, under ultimate command of Captain W. H. Hamilton, of Naval Air Station, is a colorful adu.tion to Kay West's air future. Captain Hamilton last McCarthy moving me to another ; position. I don’t care where I! .play. I’m over the jitters. As i Blimp Squadron Trains at Base Here back this year, I know they’re good, especially Ted Williams of the Red Sox, Joe DiMaggio if Navy Photos side view of the control car of the glimp is shown, with its spacious windshields and its starboard motor visible. Photo Three shows the radioman at work inside the car. Pic\ure Four shows the pilot at our team and Dick Wakefield of the Tigers, but you can rest as sured, I’ll be trying, too.” I | j i j j ‘ | j | 2 . „ f I I ! All !

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j-* • • si iiPwv PRESIDENT OF THE KEY WEST LIAR'S CLUB holds session with some of the members on the porch of the meeting place, the Horse Shoe Bar, 800 Caroline street. The chief executive is seated left. He is "Big Rupert" alias "Blimp" Knowles. The boys are soaking up advice on how to win a liar’s contest. Potential w.nners of the annual fest are. left to

~ WHH99 Hr* / -mi I MV JK 1 m Hr { “BLIMP” GETS SHOD The Human Blimp, who weighs 702 pounds and measures eight and a half feet around the waiste, is in Dunn for a two-day appearance. He met Bill Woodruff, manager of the shoe department at Leder Brothers Department Store and jokingly asked him If he had a pair of shoes that would fit him. “Yes, Sir.” replied Woodruff and in a few minutes he had him fitted with a size 14 4-E which is a big shoe on any man's foot. Woodruff proved that he can Tit anybody. Fortunately, agreed Woodruff, the Blimp’s foot isn’t as big in proportion as the rest of his body. Woodruff is shown here fitting on the shoes on the largest man in the world (Daily Record Photo.)

Cubs See Blimp Squadron Avn* m ffc .At Mp U AAvx jp Mr M at, H. - -vTj, jiNraSjjgk Mfi ▲ M / >R s, • B. MyMawV |Mr - f Jr 9MK7I THs^jMkjr r-; :- || ■ & y i 1 '*• jBPImNh&IIl 1/ li flMk WjrJL > ■ Im iSfe Jp w. ’ K . $ LOCAL CUB SCOUT PACK NO. 217 reguster smiles of approval following a tour of airships and aircraft attached to Airship Development Squadron Eleven last weekend. Once a month different scout units arc taken on tours of the Naval Base to help familiarize them with the various Naval activities here. Tour conductors for the day were: Lt. G. JL Young, Lt. J. R. Hill, R. C. Lightfoot, ADC, and Cubmaster R. A. Sloan.

Largest Blimp Visits Here " 1 , Hi ®§yj hr 18? p h IHE 4 ’v*: 1 * a * '“~w y^-7-Jg i '‘ .. .I. TKE YZP2N-1, 350 feet long, the -vy j largest . limp, is conducting trial runs from Boca Chica Naval Air Station. The big ship, almost 100 feet longer than the blimps regularly stationed here, arrived yesterday from the Lakehurst, N. J., NAS, after an extended flight of 39 hours. The flight is one of many trial runs being conducted by the Board of Inspection and Survey. Ben

jH *•; *. ,r V v Bfli m If ;H J-, . , Cj/ >• - '.r " '' ■®g§Sp|; . • ■ WINNING FLOAT—The blimp squadron from the Naval Air Station, ZX-11, came up with the trophy for the best military float in the Armed Forces Day parade. The float was a replica of a big hangar with a miniature blimp emerging from it. The pretty girls were along to add a note of glamor*—Photo by Karns.

——- m; H ' - ' W. . BV* fl EbT rail - SETS RECORD—Cdr. Marion H. Eppes, captain of tha world's biggest blimp, is handed a key to the city by Mayor C. B. Harvey just after the big airship landed to end end a record breaking flight The Nan-type blimp landed at Boca Chica Naval Air Station at 1:36 pan. yesterday after 200 hours in the air without refueling. The ship took off from the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst N. J„ at 5:35 a.m. May 17.—Citisen

Autumn Leaves Are Prettier From 1,000 Feet in v The Air; Reporter Gets Bird’s Eye View of —Photo by Chuck The Morehead Planetarium looks like a classical doll house when viewed from the windows of the Goodyear blimp which visited Chapel Hill last week. The figure in the foreground is Captain Verner L. Smith, pilot of the aircraft.