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...speaker was Air Ministry Inspector McWade, assigned to Cardington Royal Airship Works. The R-101'S airworthiness certificate was issued by Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, England's air minister, who was killed with 47 others when the gigantic dirigible plowed into a hillside in France (TIME...
...John Simon, president of the Board of Inquiry, directed Inspector McWade to a great model of the R-IOI which hung from a scaffold beside his bench like an effigy dangling from a gallows, there fired questions for the witness to answer tangibly...
There were, pointed out Inspector McWade, leaks in the R-IOI'S gas balloonets, caused by the chafing of the bags against wiring points as the ship pitched and rolled. He had reported these leaks last July, he said, and recommended changes in construction which might have required three months. Instead the points of contact were padded, but to no avail...
...Inspector McWade's testimony threw into unhappy relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
Detectives got busy. Mrs. Clementine Briggs Doran was haled into court, held in $20,000 bail, charged with grand larceny and conspiracy to defraud. William Wilbur J. Cooke prudently disappeared. Also missing was a Mrs. E. E. Caroline Saunders of New York. Meanwhile Inspector Warren H. Liese of the Boston Bureau of Criminal Investigation journeyed to New York, added immeasurably to the detective-story air of the whole business by producing the traditional sinister oriental, an expert Japanese repairer of antique porcelain who labors in a little art shop on Sixth Avenue, Manhattan and is known as "Mr. Chicago." Inspector...