The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-28
ZEPPELIN SPEEDS OVER IOWA
TOWARD CHICAGO; MORE THAN
half WAY ACROSS CONTINENT
German DirigibIe Sweeps
Out of Missouri at
Noon Hour.
SCARS AHEAD SWIFTLY
Air Liner Will Pass Over
Cleveland Airport Late
Today.
BH Z nited Press

CHICAGO, Aug. %. -
Through azure western skies
the German dirigible Graf
Zeppelin flew like a homing
pigeon today, faster and
faster, toward Lakehurst, N.
j., the starting point and
goal of its flight around the
world. r.
The glittering nose of the
huge silver ship crossed the
Missouri-Iowa border shortly
afternoon and at 1926 p. m.
was sighted by watchers in
the corn belt hamlet of Milton.
In its path hundreds of thou
sands of persons waited on the tops
of buildings and in city parks for
glimpse of the air monster, which
was completing its globe -encircling
flight with final span from Los
Angeles to Lakehurst. At CleVe-
land the international Aircraft Ex-
position drew its biggest crowd be-
cause of reports that the Zeppelin
would circle the Cleveland airport
late this AFTERNOON.
The head winds which retarded
its progress in the southwest before
dawn were left behind and the esti-
mates of its speed ranged as high as
ninety miles an hour, as though DR..
Hugo Eckener, the commander, is
determined to set a new record for
the final stage of his epochal flight.
Ship Running Smoothly
The motors of the Yep were hum
ming serenely above the Iowa corn-
fields, with no indications that the
ship was running short Of fuel, as
had been rumored earlier in the day.
Steering a course far north of the
route midwesterners had expected it
to follow, the ship disappointed
thousands of watchers along the
Missouri river valley in Missouri
and in central Missouri and SOUTH
ern Illinois. Other thousands in
Iowa were agreeably surprised when
the silver bag came streaking up
from the south and pointed it's nose
east toward Chicago.
During the night the Zeppelin
again skirted the storms which have
developed in its patch since it left
Los Angles Tuesday morning and
at dawn today sailed serenely over
the Indian reservation and oil lands
of Oklahoma.
BY 817 a. m. the Zeppelin had
reached Kansas and was sighted by
the people of lola as it swung across
the little town at a rate Of between
eighty and ninety miles an hour.
At 800 the Graf Zeppelin passed
over Olathe, Kan, headed for
Kansas City, twenty-three miles
distant.
Fly East From Cleveland
According to present plans, which
Eckener has made known in radio
communications from the ship, the
Zeppelin will fly east from Cleve-
land, after circling the airport
where the international air races
are in progress this week, reaching
Lakehurst on Thursday.
There he will find the word ~fin-
ish" written on the back of the
sign which marked the starting
point of his fight around the world
on Aug. z.
When the Zeppelin passed Olathe.
Kan, at 800 a. m. Central stand
ard tirne), 1t was only twenty-three
miles from Kansas city and the
people of that city, the first me-
tropolis TO be passed since leaving
Los Angeles, turned out by the
thousands to cheer its passing ana
satisfy their curiosity concerning
the conqueror Of world-girdling air
lanes. Kansas City saw the ship
at 9:38.
A fragmentary message from ths
Zeppelin had been picked up by the
operator at the army air port for
lighter -than-air craft at Belleville
saying that windstorms had delayed
its progress, but expressing salts
faction that it was still ten hours
ahead Of the fastest trains from
the west.