Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-04
Giant DirigibIe Clips Full Day
Off Record on Landing
at Friedrichshafen.
CANNON BOOM SALUTE
AS TOWN CELEBRATES
Great Crowds Throng Air Rulers
Home Port to Greet Craft on
Return From u. S,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Sep
tember 4.-Beating its round-the- world
cruising record by more than full day
the Graf Zeppelin, German mistress oi
the air, landed here from Lakehurst, N
j., at 8:52 am. (252 am, Eastern
standard time).
Church bells pealed and cannon
doomed salute as the huge ship, es-
corted by an honor guard of IL air
planes, appeared over the city, circline
the town hall before it turned back to
its hangar at the Zeppelin Works.
One of the largest crowds in Fried
richshafen's history greeted it there
cheering madly as the ship lowered to-
ward the ground. Within few minutes
of its appearance it was taken in hand
by the ground crew and at 1855 am
was walked into the hangar.
Passengers Are at Windows.
The % passengers we're at the VIM
dows of the ship as it came to earth
waving flags in answer to cheers from
the throng below, many OF whom had
waited at the field all night. Ground
Offcer Hans Won Schiller was the first
to emerge from the dirigible. passengers
and members of the crew following after
the ship entered the hangar.
With its landing, the dirlgible COM
pleted a round-the- world trip-Fried-
richshafen to Friedrichshafen-in 20
days, hours, Is minutes. The zep-
pelin previously had flown around the
Tokakttrcf RI okoi1YfrSf IN
81 days, hours, 26 minutes, time
which was in itself a record.
Slower Than August Return.
The Zeppelin left Lakehurst at 7:1S
am, Eastern standard time, Sunday
September i, consuming 81 hours "a
minutes in reaching here over an esti-
mated course of 4,595 miles, against its
own record crossing from Lakehurst of
55 hours "a minutes completed August
10, over a course of 1900 miles.
Aboard the Zeppelin were % pas
sengers and crew of 40, headed by
Capt. Ernst Lehman. For the first time
in the history of the Zeppelin's ajor
voyages, its master, DR.. Hugo Eckener,
remained in America on business after
the world trip ended at Lakehurst.
Trip without Special Event.
the region of the Azores, the trip east
ward from Lakehurst was without
special event, the ship striking for Cape
Finisterre, Spain, from the Azores re-
gion, skirting the Spanish coast, TO
Santander, and striking thence for
Bordeaux, France.
1t was the first time weather condi-
tions had permitted the Central French
route for the Graf. From Bordeaux,
the Zeppelin Ncruised northwestward
across Limoges and Dion, France, and
Basile. Switzerland, striking across Lake
Constance and toward home as the ris-
ing sun stared it in the face.
Never before have there been such
crowds to greet the Zeppelin as there
were today. Thousands encamped on
the greensward outside the airdrome
especially at places from which they
might obtain good view of the hangar
Other thousands literally walked Fried
richShafen's streets most of the night
since hotels and inns were crowded and
there was not vacant chair anywhere
ZeppeIin's Daughter Is Joyful.
The Countess Brandenstein, Count
zeppelins only daughter, wept with Joy
when the ship pulled to land, for to her,
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