A handy explanation for inexplicable disaster is sabotage. It was charged but never proved in the Morro Castle, Havana and Mohawk shipwrecks.† Three years ago it caused a Congressional inquiry into the U. S. S. Akron's construction. Last week the cry was raised twice more:
¶In Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage...
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