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Show PLAN PROBE OF AIR DISASTER Rumors of Sabotage To T5e Aired By Special Naval Gfoup. WASHINGTON, APRIL 5 -tr.Tii The House nayal affairs committee today .voted unanimously for a thorough investigation of the Akron Ak-ron disaster which would include the past 'itistory of the navy dirigible dirigi-ble and rumors cf sabotage during its construction. The inquiry will be conducted, by the navali affairs sub-committee of aeronautics. The crash of the non-rigid non-rigid blimp J-3 during Akron rescue res-cue work also will be investigated. Chairman -Delaney, Dem., N. Y. of the sub-committee said it had not been decided whether the inT qulry will be held at Lakehurst or Washington. Delaney indicated that the same group of witnesses likely to be summoned before the navy department's depart-ment's board of inquiry will be called before the house investigators. investiga-tors. Details Of the inquiry will toe decided by Friday, he said. Delaney said he was "by no means convinced" that the Akron disaster meant the end of tHie dirigible as a naval weapon. His view was concurred in by Rep. Mcgrath, Dem., Cal of the subcommittee sub-committee in whose district the Sunnyvale naval air station is located. loca-ted. The now dirigible Macon is scheduled to be "based there. The committee adopted two resolutions, re-solutions, one of sympathy for relatives of those who went down In Che Akron crash, and the other eulogizing the heroism of the ship's crew. |