Washington, May 30.
Commander Rosendahl, generally] considered as the United' States: Navy's leading aeronautical expert, to-day told the United States Senate} Committee investigating the disaster 'S. dirigible Akron, which, th ago, crashed with w loss of, 74 lives, that he would have taken different course than that whi sent the giant airship to its doon off Barnegat Light, New Jersey.
This testimony supported that of Lieutenant-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, one of the three of the greatest tragedy in tory of American avinti Extenuating circumstances tending to mitigate the error, which now appears to be generally attri ated by naval experts to. Commander McCord, who was in command of the Akron at the time of mander Rosendahl that he believed that the officer in of the airship had not. received full information regarding the weather. These at regular intervals from the wite-legs station at Arlington, Virginia.
While Commander Rosendahl was giving his testimony before -the Senate Committee, the Secretary of the Navy, Mr, Claude Swanson, journeyed to the National Military Cometary at Arlington, Virginia, sphere he extolled the Akron's Wea Secretary of War, Mr, George Dern, in the presence of a huge crowd, gathered to honour the nation's heroic dead on Memorial Ds delivered a culo America
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