HELIUM GAS
AMERICA’S BAN ON EXPORT
DR, ECKENKR’S MISSION.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy righ I
NEW YORK, May 8 (Received May 9, at 8 a.m.)
Dr Eckener has arrived from Germany with the object of persuading the United States to release helium gas. He hopes to cross the Atlantic in his new airship on August 10, his seventieth birthday. [A previous message stated: Mr Harold lekes, Secretary of tthe interior, states that the United States will not permit the shipment of helium to Germany. He added that the State Department and army and navy experts have established that the sale of such a quantity of gas would constitute a supply of • military importance.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 11
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112HELIUM GAS Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 11
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