Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-01
ZEPPELIN IS SEEN
OFF SPANISH COAST
Winds Cut Speed of Graf to
so Miles an Hour on
LakehurSt Flight.
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there was no confirmation OF this from
the Graf Zeppelin itself.
RACES TO ESCAPE STORM.
Graf Gets Report of Low Pressure Area
Over Ireland.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN @ e m a n y f,
August l (F).-Racing to escape an on
coming storm, the Graf Zeppelin, Ger
man mistress of the air, cruised south
westward toward Gibraltar today be-
fore setting out across the Atlantic on
its second voyage to LakehurSt. N. j.
The dirigible ! IT its hangar here at
325 am. and at 1929 am. (9:29 pm.
Eastern standard time Wednesday, was
released by its ground crew into the
cool starlit night. 1t circled the field
once. appearing like a great silver cigar
in the glare of the flood lights. and then
disappeared in the west across Lake
Constance.
The departure was made in the face
of weather reports which told OF a low
pressure area over Ireland moving in
the direction of Friedrichshafen, BY
skillful maneuvering and forced rapid
hoped to outrun and evade the storms
the low pressure area was expected to
set in motion.
Carries Is Passengers.
Aboard the Graf Zeppelin were 10
passengers, of whom were Americans
and of whom were women, ana us
crew, the usual complement of Al
officers and men. total OF 50 persons.
IL dpRCdACo az w -
stowaWay had succeeded IN gettinS
aboard the ship.
Ahead of the giant dirigible lay trip
of probably more than 1000 miles.
which at an average cruising speed OF
70 miles per hour might be traversed IN
so hours DR.. Eckener, prior to de-
parture. however, calculated he would
need between 80 and 85 hours to reach
New York. which he planned to circle
before berthing at Lakehurst.
An 80-hour trip would bring the
voyage to an end at about 6 am. Z. ..
T.. Sunday morning. DR.. Eckener' S
course from here lay over Konstanz on
the Swiss bank of Lake Constance.
Basil, Besancon, France, Lyons, down
the Rhone, and Southwestward along
the Mediterranean coast to Gibraltar
He expected to travel from Gibraltar
above or slightly north of the Azores,
varying his route according to the
weather.
Quick Start Made.
The Crafts start from. here was one OF
the quickest of its year of life. The
crew went aboard at 2:43 am. and the
passengers two minutes later. Removal
from the hangar, began shortly after
3 am, was accomplished without dill
ficulty, the dirigible rising slowly and
easily once the ground hands released
it. Its new motors hummed perfectly.
It was the third start of the Graf
Zeppelin for America, but OF the tlrSt
two only the first represented success
full ocean crossing. The Graf left here
on May 16 only to make an emergency
landing in Southern France, when four
of its five motors failed. The first trip
to America began october II, last year.
and ended III hours and 38 minutes
later, October Is, at Lakehurst, after a
tortuous stormridden journey.
Despite elaborate precautions taken
yesterday and today, stowaway ap-
parently managed to smuggle himself
aboard the ship. 1t seemed to specta-
tors that he had secreted himself on
the runway in the hanger above the
Crafts shaft leading straight to the
bottom Of the dirigible. AS the dirigible
was pulled from the hangar he dropped
straight into the shaft, apparently sue
ceeding in holding himself their until
the ship was in the air.
When the police saw what appeared
to beaa man jump into the shaft, they
called to the officers Of the Zeppelin,
but Hans Won Schiller, navigator, re-
sponded "Oh, we haven't time to take
him off," None of those watching, how