Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-31
CRAFTS START HOME
SET FOR MIDNIGHT
Zeppelin, Carrying II Pas
sengers, Will Sail for Ger
many Without Eckener.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LAKEHURST, N. j., August 81
Preparations went forward today to
send the globe-circling Graf Zeppelin
into the air at midnights bound for her
home port. Friedrichshafen, Germany,
and the end of her historic cruise.
Seventeen passengers. $500 pounds
of freight and a quantity of mail will
be aboard the great airship on her fifth
crossing of the Atlantic. When she
reaches her station she will have
travelled approximately $1,000 miles
since she left on her first crossing to
Lakehurst month ago.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the
Zeppelin, who was feted as hero in
New York yesterday, will see his be-
loved ship point her nose for home
without him. He has arranged TO re-
main in this country for two weeks at
tending to business in New York and
visiting Cleveland and Akron, Ohio.
Capt. Ernest Lehman will have charge
of the airShip on the flight.
Repairs to a rudder, crumpled when
the airship struck the ground while
leaving Los Angeles, have been COM
pleted. Into. the cells have been pumped
$50 900 cubic feet of ethane fuel gas
and 100000 cubic feet of hydrogen.
Cleveland Woman Is Passenger.
Although Lady Grace Drummond Hay
left the ship here. the Graf has a
woman on the passenger list for the
trip home. She is Mrs. Charles b.
Parker of Cleveland, widow of DR.. c. B.
Parker, surgeon and member OF the
faculty of Western Reserve University.
Although Mrs. Parker has been a great
traveller since the death of = her nus
band 10 years ago. she never has made
an airplane flight, and the flight to
Germany will be her first in dirigible.
The United States Navy will be rep
resented by three officers, making the
fight as guests of DR.. Eckener. They
are Lieut.. Comdr. H. v. Wiley. COM
manding officer of the Navy dirigible
Los Angeles; Lieut.. Comdr. j. M. Shoe
maker, head of the aeronautical engine
service of the Navy, and Lieut.. Roland
G. Mayer of the Navy Construction
Corps.
Edward P. Frost, brother of the late
Jack Frost, pilot. who was lost IN the
Dole fight from San Francisco to Homo
IuIu. is on the passenger list. He was
formerly an airplane pilot and now is
a New York stock broker. He Is going
to meet his wife in Italy.
Business Men to Make Trip.
DR.. William M. Scholl, Chicago manu-
facturer of orthopedic foot appliances;
John w. Schnitzler Of Froid. Mont.
president of the First National Bank OF
Froid and a member of the Republican
national committee, and r. A. L. Began
of Syracuse, N. Y. general manager OF
a bus company, are other new passen-
gers. DR.. Scholl booked passage to
make a hurried business trip to Frank
fort. Germany.
In addition to these there are seven
who Joined the Graf Zeppelin at Fried
richshafen for the world cruise and two
who are going on, although their cir
cumnavigation of the globe ended at
Rickard, Boston and Madrid, corre-
spondent for Spanish news syndicate,
and Heinz Won Eschwege-Lichbert,G Ger
man newspaper man.
The seven whose world cruise is not
completed are DR.. j. Mogias, physician
to King Alphonso of Spain; Lieut.: Col.
Christopher Iselin, retired Swiss army
officer; DR.. S. c. Seilkopf of the Ham,
burg weather bureau; Leo Gerv1lle-
Perkheimer, German camera man, and
H. Geisenheimer and Gustav Kauderm,
German newspaper men.
Freight which the Graf Zeppelin will
carry consists of 113 packages, includ-
ing lawn mowers, women's pajamas,
machine castings, oils, shoes, scientific
instruments, dental instruments and a
radio set to be presented to the King
of Spain. These goods were sent by the
Philadelphia Business Progress AsSocta-
ton. 1
Great Ovation Given Eckener.
DR.. Eckener, who had been occupied
in Washington and with the welcoming
ceremonies In New York yesterday, since
he guided his airship to a landing from
her record-breaking fight, seized the
opportunity today to snatch few hours
rest before he took charge of sending
the Zeppelin away toward Grmany.
The demonstration in his behalf yes
terday was pronounced one of the
greatest ovations New York has ever
accorded celebrity. The parade from
the Battery to the City Hall through
storm of torn paper was likened to
the greeting to Col. Lindbergh on his
return from his transatlantic flight.