Show SEE RECORD OF DUMPS BLiMPS FIGHT I I Shenandoah Battled Wind Half H lf An Hour Before Tragedy LAKEHURST N No J J. J Sept 24 21 Tho rho AP The Shenandoah fought the line squall in Ohio September 3 for at least half an hour before she broke up the barograph in In- instrument Instrument instrument strument record introduced today I before the naval naTal court of inquiry shows shone s This record rec rd establishes that the ship began its first rapid ascent at 4 20 a a. m 01 Central time rising from an nn altitude of 1850 feet to I i I I I an altitude of 2980 feet feel In eight minutes LIKE ROCKET The Tho craft then leveled off oft but 2 minutes later at 4 36 she shot up almost like a II rocket from tram feet Ceet to In about 10 minutes Her tier ascent halted hailed at this alti alts' altitude I tude at 4 I 40 a a. m m. m The Shenandoah Shenandoah doah deab then fell abruptly 1765 1766 fe feet H Hin t in three minutes bringing up at atan atan an altitude of ot feet Ceet At this point the barograph ceased to function consecutively Lieutenant Clinton H It Havill who was introduced as an expert said It was his Judgment that It ceased as a result of the instrument it it- itself itself self receiving a violent hump or else the whole control car In lu which it ft was located received such a bump BLOTS FOUND There were blotches on the red rec rec- record record ord made of the tho same ink as that in the barograph but It was not possible for Cor the officers accurately to Interpret the blotches Whether the th barograph ceased to function when the control car broke off the ship could not be beI determined I Commander Sidney M 1 Kraus II another expert estimated that Ihal the control car fell only about 1000 feet and If H that be correct this tho th barograph ceased to record before the car fell nn |