The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-08
Huge DirigibIe Makes Fast
Time on First Leg of
+ World Tour.
PLAN RETURN VIA TOXIC
Progressing Swiftly, Mon
arch of Skies Radios
'AT'S WELL
BY LYLE C. WILSON


GAKEHURST, N. j., Aug. 8.-The
Graf Zeppelin scared swiftly east
ward over the Atlantic today bound
for her home port of Fredrichshafen
on the first part of a pioneer COM
mercial flight around the world.
Her radio sputtered the message
"All's well" to stations along the
eastern coast. Two ships, the Roch-
ambreau and President Roosevelt,
sighted her sailing toward Europe
in a direct line.
At 10 a. m. central standard
time) she was computed to be about
$50 miles due east of Lakehurst, her
commander, DR.. Hugo Eckener, ap-
parent having changed his tnten-
ton, announced when the Zeppelin
left here at 10:42 Wednesday night,
of following the Lindbergh trail.
The United States weather bureau
today said THE Graf Zeppelin
should have fresh winds nearly west
to the Grand Banks with partly
overcast skies. Wind conditions
should be ideal during the remand
er of the trip to the British Isles"
% Passengers on Board
In the air-giant's cabins are
twenty-five passengers, in the hold
a cargo of mail and freight aggre-
eating about two tons. After stop
ping in Germany at Friedrichshafen,
the Zeppelin will visit Toxic. fly
across the Pacific to Los Angeles
and return again to Lakehurst.
THE mission of the Graf Zeppe-
lin" said Commander Hugo Eek
ener before departing, lis not to
make money-it is to prove to your
financiers that commercial trans
portatfon by .airships is safe, feasi-
BILE and potentially profitable"
The zeppelins removal from this
hangar and the launching into the
air were miracles of motion. Only
five minutes were required to walk
her 776-foot hulk into the open.
Seventeen minutes later she was
aloft, four motors in hoarse chorus
and the fifth beneath the stern
silent against greater need further
north.
Departs in Swift Order
Emerging from the hangar on to
the field where searchlights smeared
paths of whiteness in the night, the
Zeppelin was tremendous. Out of
her element and on the ground the
craft seemed unwieldly while she
dwarfed the dozens and scores of
men who clung to her hawserS.
Somewhere along within her body
bells tinkled. One and another and
still two more motors awoke, Spew-
ing fire from exhaust pipes and
hurting an echoless barrage of
racket in all directions across the
pine forests.
The warmed-up Maybachs spun
faster Ropes dropped from the
hands of the ground crew and were
hauled aboard. The shouldering
men beneath the cabin showed up
ward. Nose up, the huge craft de-
parted and in five minutes she was
gone from sight.
Complete Passenger List
The official passenger list of the
Graf Zeppelin, as given out just be-
fore the departure, follows:
DR.. Walter Spiess, Berlin; Count
Monteglas, Berlin; H. Won Eschwege,
Berlin; Captain Schuetz, Berlin:
Nate Wexler. New York; William
Weber. New York; Herman F.
Schlatter. Philadelphia; John E.
Larney Jr., Brooklyn; William B.
Leeds, New York.
Merien Cooper. New York; Nor
ris Schumoffosky, Bridgeport, Conn;
Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Lon
don: Karl H. Won Weigand, Berlin;
Captain Sir Hubert wilkins, Lon
don; c. P. Burgess. naval aeronau-
teal engineer, Washington.
Lieutenant Commander G.. E.
Rosendahl. U. S. N; Lieutenant j.
c. Richardson, U. 5 N; DR.. LisSer
Kiep, Hamburg; Robert Hartman,
New York; A H. Godfrey, New
York; Nelson Morris, Chicago; Joa-
chin B. Rickard, Boston.
wexler, Weber, Schlatter, Larney,
Schumoksy, Cooper and Kiep are
expected to leave the Graf Zeppelin
at FriedrichShafen.