SHENANDOAH’S BUILDER IS A BROKEN MAN.
(Special to the “Star.") JERSEY CITY. March 30. Captain Anton Ilcinen. former tierman dirigible expert, construction engineer of the Shenandoah, and hero of that craft's battle with a storm in January. 1924. when winds tore her loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, is working as a surveyor at Tom's River, N.J., at six dollars a day. Mrs Heinen. discussing her husband's new vocation, said that it was a matter of “starve or work." Captain Ileinen’s connections with the Government weresevered in July, 1924. He then organised a company to operate a line of dirigibles between New York and South America. When the Shenandoah was wrecked last September. confidence in this mode of tranpertation was shaken and. according to Captain Ileinen, it was decided to proceed no further until the Los Angeles, sister ship of the Shenandoah, had proved her worth. The Los Angeles has not left her hangar since the Shenandoah went down.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17831, 27 April 1926, Page 4
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