Evening star., 1928-11-01
Covers 10000 Miles on
Trip, Making HomeWard
Voyage of 1000 Miles in
Less Than SO Hours.
B0ISTEROUS CROWD
WELCOMES DIRIGIBLE
Young Stowaway Cheered as He
Appears at Kitchen Window.
DR.. Eckener and Woman Pas
senger Decline to Talk Over
Radio for Home Listeners.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, November l.
Having landed passengers and a stowa-
way from America, the Graf Zeppelin,
huge air liner, was safe in her hanger to-
day with a new record for trans
atlantic flight by airship to her credit.
The dirigible completed the first round
trip commercial flight over the Atlantic
today when she was landed at Fried
richshafen at 7:06 am. Q:06 am. East
trn standard time). She had covered
more than 10000 miles since starting
from Friedrichshafen on October IL for
Lakehurst, N. j. Since leaving Lake
hurst at l 54 am. Eastern standard time
on Monday the airship had covered
slightly more than 1000 miles and was
landed after being in the air II hours
and IL minutes. The British dirigible
R-34 had the best previous record, be-
ing in the air IS hours, before landing
at her airdrome in England in July,
1919, and completing a fight from
Roosevelt Field, N. Y.
Waited for Dawn.
Actually the Graf Zeppelin got home
in IS hours and Sc minutes. She first
appeared over the airdrome at 4:50 am.
Q0:50 pm. Eastern standard time). For
more than two hours the airship cruised
around waiting for dawn to break, the
lighting facilities being inadequate for
landing at night
A boisterouS crowd which broke
through police lines was eager to catch
glimpse of Clarence Terhune, the 19-
year-old caddy, whose daring in stow
ing away aboard the airship had cap
tured their imagination.
Where's Terhune?" they kept yelling.
LET him come out" they inplored. But
what had happened to the Youth was a
mystery to the crowd that watched the
arrival.
Soon after customs officials had
bearded the air liner, the official re-
ception committee, of which John F.
Kehl, United States consul at Stutt-
3art, was member, entered the han
gar. Kehl boarded the Zeppelin to
meet Terhune, who was seen at the
window of the airship's kitchen wear
ing an overccat with the collar turned
up. A few minutes later a German Of
ticial handed Terhune a document
which the stowaway was seen reading
Will Tic ctSS1StdIlCS VI hSIll. hdtGT Ter
hume was spirited out of the hangar
by a side door to the disappointment
of the crowd
When the customs officials entered
the door of the cabin, Mrs. Clara Adams
of Tannersville, Pa, the only woman
aboard, was standing in the doorway.
She was greeted with loud cheers.
A few minutes afterward the score
of passengers aboard, some OF whom
had made the trip to America and re-
turn by the airship, landed, Mrs. Adams
being among the first.
Crowd Invades Hangar.
The passengers and crew had great
difficulty in getting out of the hangar,
into which part of the crowd had
made its way while thousands outside
cheered and bands played Deutschland
Uber Allies" and THE Star Spangled
Banner"
DIR. Hugo Eckener, commander and
builder of the airShip, asked to be ex-
cused from any reception forn1alitieS
until pm. He explained that he was
thoroughly tired and needed rest.
DR.. Eckener was asked to speak at
the microphone so that the radio audi
ence might hear his voice.
'A1 Europe is waiting for word
from you," the announcer said. The
commander, however. merely shook his
head and declined the invitation.
Mrs. Adams was also asked to speak
and also declined.
An hour after the Graf Zeppelin had
been berthed in the hangar the crowds,
which had been assembling since yes
terday, began to diSperse. The pasSen-
gers and crew had left and the doors
of the hangar were closed slowly on the
largest airship ever built.
Cannons Arouse Populace.
Salvos from cannon in salute reused
the sleeping populace of Friedrich
Shafen when the airship approached its
birthplace on the shore of Lake Con-
stance, about 4:30 am. The people
rushed for the airdrome, where crews
of the Zeppelin works were already as
Sembled.
1t was raining. but there was no wind,
and the Graf Zeppelin cruised about
over the town before heading for her
hangar.
Large details of police and several
companies of soldiers held the throng
in check when the great gray ship
swung toward the hangar.
Bright lights shone from the cabin
windows as the air liner sped low and
fast from the northwest AS crowds
cheered and bands played the Graf
Zeppelin swept over the airdrome at
4:50 am. Allowing the eager throng
but brief glimpse of her great form,
she passed rapidly out of sight.
A little later the airShip appeared over
Lake Constance. Church bells were
pealing in welcome in the village and
numerous searchlights played on the
silver-gray sides of the craft.
Realizing that the Zeppelin would
have to wait two hours for the dawn
before landing, the crowd began to think
of breakfast Sandwiches and thermos
bottles appeared AS those on the
ground ate and drank, the airship again
swung over the airdrome. She flew so
low that the passengers could be plainly
seen at the lighted windows of the
cabins. Light signals were flashed from
the craft and her motors were idling.
Radio Stations Hooked Up.
All German, Austrian and Swiss
broadcasting stations were hooked up
with the microphone so that radio fans
could listen in on the homecoming.
The airship again hovered over the
hangar. The motors were silent and at
Continued on Page 2. Column a