New Britain herald., 1929-08-02

hours and 31 minutes, maintaining an average speed of about 53 miles an hour. considerably below her normal cruising speed. Should it keep this speed over the remainder of it's course it might be expected to complete its trip in the so hours allotted it by Dr. Hugo Eckener, it's skipper.
 An S0-hour trip would bring the Graf over New York, prior to berth ing at Lakehurst, at about 5:30 a. m. E. S. T., Sunday morning. There was general expectation, however, that even adverse winds would pre- vail from the Azores westward and that the Zeppelin. off to a slow start, would take nearer 90 hours than 80 to reach it's goal.
 All We'll on Board Messages from aboard the diri- gible indicated all was well. In pass ing Cape De Gata the Graf radioed ''all well on board. only a little too warm. The temperature is 33 de- grees centigrade (about 91 degrees Fahrenheit."
 Another message from Herbert s. Siebel, special correspondent of The Associated Press aboard the Zeppe- lin, confirmed the existence of stowaway aboard. The message said:
 "A stowaway was found just after the Zeppelin left the hangar He jumped from the hangar down into the Zep. If he had jumped be- tween 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 girder. If he had dropped between girders he would have pierced the thin fabric and caused damage which would have resulted in a de- lay of hours while repairs were made.
 Champagne Served
 Another radio message from the Graf told something of life aboard the ship. We had champagne as soon as we were under way" the message said, which resulted in a late breakfast. The two women be- came slightly nervous when we en- countered strong headwinds shortly before lunch and were buffeted for an hour in the Rhone valley. Our progress was retarded.
 "The route has been out of our way, but was necessary to miss bad weather in northeastern Spain. large tank of drinking water up in the bag sprung a leak and saturat- ed the ceiling of the saloon during lunch. There was much excitement but nothing to worry about. We had an excellent game of bridge in the afternoon.
 "The new motors are performing perfectly at high speed"
 Other messages from the dirigible said the weather cleared after seven hours of steadily fighting opposing winds, and that the speed increas- ed from under 45 miles an hour 10 more than 62. Passengers who were on the unsuccessful attempt in May enjoyed greatly pointing out land historic struggle of the Zeppelin 10 regain it's hangar.
 The Zeppelin's route since its de- parture from Friedrichshafen has been an extreme southerly one, west ward across Lake Constance to Con- stance, and Basic, Switzerland; thence westward and south west ward toward Lyons, France; down the Rhone river over Nalence, and Montelimar passing out over the Mediterranean sea beyond Mines.
 Nears Spanish Coast
 At p. m. yesterday G. M. T. the Zeppelin was about 50 miles off Barcelona, Spain. with 700 miles of the American cruise behind her. It was not sighted in Barcelona. It apparently, although fighting head winds itself, escaped violent storms set up in northern and northwestern Europe by the low pressure area moving eastward from Ireland. Radio messages from the Graf were few and far between, it's opcr- ator's time being taken up with re- ception of weather reports and dis patch of commercial matter from the craft.
 Weather reports from the United States said that the Zeppelin was navigating in a region of diminish ing headwinds and improving condi- tions, with local storms between Gibraltar and the Azores, and north