BODY PICKED UP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 7

BODY PICKED UP

LITTLE WRECKAGE SEEN FATE OF AIRSHIP

(Eeceived April 5, noon.) NEW YORK, April 4. A later message said that the body of Lieut.-Commander Harold Maclellan had been picked up by the' coastguard. Tho tanker Phoebus and the coastguard cutters Mojave and McDougal, were then standing by searching floating wreckage for possible survivors. None except tho four originally picked up had been found. The message indicated that.the rescue ships had not found the lost airship when they arrived at the scene, as there were only small pieces of wreckage floating about. Earlier reports from the Phoebus saia that a 45-raile-an-hour wind was driving the hulk, of the dirigible offshore at aii estimated rate of twelve miles an hour, making rescue doubly difficult. It is believed that tho Akron has gone to the bottom, Tho Akron left Lakehurst at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, commanded by Captain'I1. C. McCord. Mr. Copeland, who died after rescue, was chief wireless operator on the Akron. The cutter McDougal reported at 10.45 a.m. that she had picked up fragments of wreckage, consisting of light tubular pipes covered with' kapok. The Phoebus reported earlier that when she approached the scene of the crash she found mattresses and wreckage floating in the water. After rescuing three men those on board saw others sink before they could be reached. Wreckage and many men were on the water when last seen. Lieut. [Wilfred Bushnell, one of the

officers of tho Akron, is the co-holder of the world's .balloon record for distance made with Lieut. T. "W. G. Settle in 1029.