The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
AirI Service Around World In Ten Days Is
 Predicted

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 By JAMES B. WHARTON
 Correspondent of The Age Herald and
 the North American Newspaper
 Alliance.
 BERLIN, Aug. 23.-Airmen say that the immediate development of the rigid airship in America hangs upon the way the ZR-3, the giant dirigible for two years under construction, acquits herself on her nonstop transatlantic flight. The stage, not the novelty of the feat, is the reason for the interest with which the ships performance is awaited on. the voyage. scheduled to start within few. days ssf
 The ZRs3 s(zeppelin Rigid No. 3l is the lust airship to be delivered to the allies under the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Seven such craft already have been handed over successively- three each to France and Italy, two to England, one to Japan and now one to the United States. An i'll fate has attached itself to these ships. Fully half of them have met with risaster. or have simply deteriorated and been scrapped. One exploded, with treat loss of life, over Hull, England; an- other was lost, with every member of it's crew, last winter in the Mediter- ranean. So the casualty list goes.
 On snap judgment one would be in clined to say that the ZR-3 America s share of the aerial war prize, might easily go the way of the others. Only it probably won't, for the good req son that there's a great deal of cold cash concerned. An organization in Akron, Ohio (Goodyear-Zepplin Corpo- ration), with which the original Zep- pelin concern is affiliated, is banking upon the success of the ZR-3 to secure contracts for the construction of air ships of similar type for trans-con- tinental or transatlantic mail or pas senger services.
 Under the interpretation of the Yer sailles treaty by the inter-allied com mission oR control, Germany is no longer permitted to construct airships for herself of the Zeppelin type. It is natural that so great an industry, an industry that was organized primarily for the development of commercial aviation, would fight for it's life. It has chosen the only course--and a wise one; affiliation< with the cores bonding industry of the most neutral of the allied nations.
 America Takes The Lead.
 The significance of it is that, in a sense, the world-famous Luftschiffbau- Zeppelin is moving from Friedrichsha- fen, on the shores of Lake Constance, to Akron, Ohio; that the great concern is becoming Americanized that the name-Zeppelin- lose it's hostik connotation. It is sentimentally fitting that it should be 50, for Count Ferdi- nand Yon Zeppelin, as a youth, came to the United States during the Civil war to serve as a volunteer officer in the federal army.
 All of this makes it quite apparent that none of the circumstances or con- uitions that surrounded the delivery of the seven other airshirs to the allies rpply in the case of the ZR-3. The Zeppelin company is just as much in terested in it's success as the navy of anyone else. It has been careful nev to mention that it was building tE ZR-3 under mandate of the Versailles treaty. The reason is obvious from