Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-02
Continuance of Favorable
Weather and Present Speed
Expected to Put Big Ship in
Lakehurst by $50 Sunday
Morning.
DR.. ECKENER is SILENT
ON STOWAWAY ABOARD
Passengers Enjoy Champagne and
Bridge, but Messages State Tenn
1erature of 81 Degrees Too Hot
for Comfortable Travel-Woman
on Craft Overcome Fears.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The huge air liner, Graf Zep-
pelin was hitting a rapid clip as
she sped across the Atlantic on
her second voyage to the United
States today.
At 7:30 o'clock this morning
Eastern standard time, she re-
ported to the radio station al
Casablanca, Morocco, that she
was 600 miles west of Gibraltar.
She was headed toward the
Azores, but it was not certain
whether she would pass over
them or would skirt them on q
northWesterly course.
The last previous report was at
2 o'clock this morning, when the
dirigible reported her position
about 265 miles west of Gibraltar
and said that weather conditions
we're good"
In covering this leg of her flight
the Graf was speeding along at
an average of from IS to 70 miles
an hour.
The Zeppelin had encountered strong
head winds over France and parts OF
the Mediterranean, but began to pick
up speed in accordance with DR.. Hugo
Eckener'S expectations as soon as she
reached the Atlantic.
5000 Miles to Go.
The air liner at 1880 am. had more
than 5000 miles to cover before reach
ing Lakehurst. If she could maintain
a speed of 60 to 65 miles an hour, 1t
would take her about so more hours OF
flying or a total of about S5 hours.
This would bring her into LakehurSt
about $50 am, eastern standard time,
Sunday.
DR.. Eckener had planned to make
the trip in from 80 to 85 hours.
At the Azores DR.. Eckener was to
choose between two routes for the
American continent.
The Southerly route would take the
airship in the general direction of Ber-
muda, which skirted on her original
successful flight to America. On the
northerly course, she would head as
nearly direct as possible for Lakehurst.
Believed to Be Prisoner.
Conflicting reports current today IN
Berlin as to whether a Stowaway was
aboard the Graf Zeppelin were ex-
planned there on the theory DR..
Eckener did not wish to make a hero
of the man who so endangered the lives
of passengers and crew. Hence it was
so little was said about him. He was
believed here to be a prisoner aboard
the ship.
Messages from aboard the Zeppelin
indicated d was well. In passing Cape
De Gata, the craft radioed "all well on
board, only a little too warm. The
temperature is 33 degrees Centrigrade
(about 81 degrees Fahrenheit).
Another message from Herbert S..
Seibel, special correspondent of the As
sociated Press aboard the Zeppelin,
confirmed the existence of stowaway
aboard, the message said.
Endangered Ship.
"a stowaway was found just after
the Zeppelin left the hanger. He
jumped from the hangar down into the
Yep. If he had jumped between the
girders he would have endangered the
ship. DR.. Eckener said he would be
returned from America by the next
steamer and be severely punished"
The reference to jumping between
the girders was taken to mean that the
StoWaway. in dropping several feet to
the fabric had landed on a girder. If
have pierced the thin fabric and
caused damage which would have re-
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