Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-01
Picks Up to Rate of 70 Miles
an Hour After Leaving
Mines, Point Where Last
Sighted Over Land.
WINDS REDUCED PACE
TO 50 MILES AT START
Encountered Everywhere Soon
After Departure From Fried
richshafen-7 Americans Are
Among IS Passengers-Reports
of Stowaway Aboard Unconfrmed
BY the Associated Press.

by Lhe Associated Press.
PARIS, August 1.-The trans
atlantic dirigible Graf Zeppelin
late today was over the Mediter-
ranean headed for Gibraltar, and
we'll on her long journey to the
United States fer her second visit.
The huge ship, which left
Friedrichshafen, Germany, at 1929
am. 1929 pm. E. S. T. WedneS-
day night, with 18 passengers,
including 7 Americans, was re-
ported by the French steampShip
Dalny over the Mediterranean,
about SO miles off Barcelona,
Spain, at 3 o'clock this afternoon,
Greenwich time 90 am. E. S. IT, /.
The dirigible at this time ap-
peared to have picked up consid-
cradle speed from her earlier
SightingS in France, as she slowly
pushed her way down the Rhone
Valley. She was last reported en-
land at Mines, in Southern
France, and two and a half hours
later was reported by the Dalny.
She had covered this stretch at
approximately 70 miles an hour,
whereas her previous average had
been somewhat under so.
Graf's Probable Course.
From the course being followed BY
Comdr. Hugo Eckener. it appeared that
the Graf Zeppelin would skirt the Span
ish coast, passing between Cape Mao
and the Balearic Island, would swing
down past Cartagena and Cape de
Gatta, and would then swing westward,
passing through Gibraltar, and thus out
to sea.
1t was while on this stage of her yoy-
age last May that the Graf Zeppelin
developed motor trouble and was forced
to turn back and beat her way up the
Rhone Valley again in an effort 20
reach Friedrichshafen. She was un-
successful in this, and eventually was
driven back into South France and
landed at CuerS.
When the Graf Zeppelin took off this
morning there were reports that stow
away was aboard, but no confirmation
of this was received at Friedrichshafep
from the ship while a special corrc-
spondent for the Associated Press made
no mention OF this in dispatches from
the dirigible.
Leaving Friedrichshafen at 3:29 a m.
1929 pm, Wednesday, E. S. T) today.
the Graf Zeppelin everywhere met head
winds and was making an average speed
OF less than so miles an hour.
The sky was generally cloudy and
the visibility only medium as she flew
at an altitude of 5000 feet from Va
lence, France, where she was sighted at
1875 am. (5:35 am. E. S. IT,, to
Montelimar.
Two Women Making Trip.
Mrs. Henry j. Pierce of New York,
who was the only woman passenger
aboard the Graf on her voyage in May,
was not aboard with her husband today
to watch the air liner, with motors
throbbing smoothly, pass over the 35
miles from Valance to Montelimar over
which her crippled motors fought and
failed to carry her in May. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pierce were prevented by Mrs.
Pierces illness in Russia from reaching
Friedrichshafen in time for the start.
The women, Mrs. George E. Grouse
OF Syracuse, N. Y, and Nine. Goure-
witch, wife of a Russian pianist from
Paris, made the trip today. Two others
failed to get aboard.
BY heading far to the south on the
longer Gibraltar run, DR.. Eckener
hoped to skirt a low-pressure area
moving from Ireland toward the coast
OF Northern and Western France
A run of about 5000 odd miles faced
DR.. Eckener from Gibraltar across the
Atlantic to the mooring mast in Lake
hurst, N. j., goal of the dirigibleS
flight.
A stowaway was reported to have
o1iV oIa0
at the start from FriedrichShafen, but
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