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...Optimists (Stewart Iglehart, Winston Guest, Warren Sackman): the Open Indoor Polo Championship, in a fast but one-sided game against the defending champions, Los Nanduces (Gerard Smith, Cyril Harrison, McDonald Jones), 12 to 6¼; in Manhattan...
...Akron should some day wrench apart like the Shenandoah, pound to earth like the R-IOI, crash like the Roma or vanish in a sea storm like the Dixmude, two menE. C. McDonald, a construction supervisor and W. B. Underwood, mechanic-were in a position last week to shout to the country: "I told you so!" They had charged that the great dirigible was structurally deficient. The House Naval Affairs Committee was investigating. If any disaster ever befell the Akron, the public, right or wrong, would hark back distrustfully to last week's hearings...
...inquiry, demanded by Navy-heckling Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma, was concerned with the fact that the Akron was 19,181 Ib. overweight and 3 m. p. h. underspeed, and with the McDonald-Underwood charges that her frame was loosely riveted and contained defective metal...
...strengthening "and doesn't materially affect performance." New propellers will bring her speed up to 72 knots. The Akron is "the best ship ever constructed," insisted the Admiral.* On the more spectacular charge of flimsy construction, Secretary E. C. Davidson of the International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary Davidson notified the Navy in confidence, he said, but shortly thereafter Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. discharged both McDonald and Underwood...
Navy inspectors smothered the charges with denials. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. testified that Underwood had been discharged for stealing Navy plans, McDonald had been laid off with hundreds of others after the Akron was completed...