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n a JR 92. ,. L5 I -..-u 1 s ._, I-uh - 92 OJ ;-we, ' I 92 various members of the crew informed Eokner that the passenger, Joseph Spach, had two dogs that were maintained in the freight roonn which is located aft, directly below gas cell number 6- Further, that this passenger was allowed to go back and tend to these dogs at irequent intervals, either to feed them, water them, or merely to pet them, and on various of these trips he Ins not _ accompanied by a member of the crew. Eckner also related to Rosendahl that one of the stewards, who has since returned to Gerany, mentioned the fact that Joseph Spach appeared to him to be unsympathetic to the airship travel and impressed him as being a peculiar type of passenger; also that this individual remained aloof from the other passengers and was not at all responsive to the explanations of the crew regarding the various technicalities of the airship itself. Commander Rosendahl stated that the only information he had on Joseph Spach there at Lakehurst was to the effect that he was supposedly a United States citizen, using an American passport and that he had been treated at the Fitkin Memorial Hospital at Asbury fhrk, New Jersey immediately after the accident; that he had been discharged shortly thereafter and had left, as his forwarding address, Douglaston, Long Island, New York. For further information concerning the present where- abouts of Joseph Spach, it is believed by Rosendahl that this would be in the possession of Er. Rauber, who is a German citizen affiliated with the Hamburg-American Steamship Line in New York City, which is one of the passenger gents for the[§me§ican;Zeppelin ? ansport Company, which is theTAmerica.n Zeppelin Agency for the fernxa
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siis Transport Company. Commander Rosendahl state that he had talked it over with the Board of Inquiry, which is headed by South Trimble of the Department of commerce, and it had been de- . cidod that Commander Rosendahl was to get in touch with me at the Newark Field Division and request that an investigation.be made of Joseph Spach to ascertain his background, as well as a little per- sonal history concerning his recent trip from Germany to the United States aboard the dirigible Hindenburg. I was also informed by Commander Rosendahl that Joseph spach is supposed to be an acrobat by profession and in connection therewith Rosendahl stated that it would take a fairly active man to climb the rigging separating gas cells h and 5 in order to gain access to the gas shaft thatseparates these two chambers from the axial girder to the top keel. It is the opinion of Commander -5-.