AIR FATALITY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1933, Page 6

AIR FATALITY

FURTHER TRAGEDIES OF SEARCH

BLIMP IN SEA, PLANE ASTRAY.

(United Press Association —By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received April 5 ,at 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 4

. A. message, from Wileys said that the Akron ran into lan electrical storm .at 121h0 a.ni., but the message did not make clear just what happened A message intercepted said that the Phoebus and coastguard cutters, Mojave and McDougall, are standing by searching the floating wreckage for possible survivors. None, except the four originally picked up, has been found. There are only small pieces of wreckage floating about, and it is believed that the Akron has gone to the bottom. She was commanded by F. C. McCord.

A •report from Beachhaven (New Jersey),.states that a navy blimp J. 3, returning from the search, dropped into the surf off Boarnwalk, and five of the crew of seven were rescued. Airport officials stated this afternoon that a naval piano, sevrcliing the Akron wreckage, is missing.

EVIDENCE GIVE A BY VOSS’ .SON

(Receivde April 5 at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, April 4.

“I shall inquire whether Voss took poison aboard the liner, or whether, hji became strange and set -fire tb the plane,” said the coroner at the inquest a t Salford. Hugo Voss, his son, in evidence, said that his father was an undischarged bankrupt. Sometimes be exciteably threatened suicide, in such a fashion, that his family regarded it as. a joke.

Voss ladded: “I am sure that father would never do a dastardly tiling like firing a liner.” The inquest was adjourned until April 27th.