The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 19, 1929, Page 9

] ce gg tea Hugh Allen ‘THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929 THE FIRST AUTHORIZED STORY OF THE LIFE OF THR COMMANDER OF THE ZEPPELINS CHAPTER I A great blond, blue-cyed man of the North, a throw-back to the days of Leif the Lucky, but apparently des- tined to the sober pursuits of a scien- tist and scholar—and then by & strange quirk of fate writing his name in history as one of the world’s greatest adventurers and explorers of | the air; this epitomizes the life of Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of Zeppelins. It is a new type of hero that the world has honored during recent weeks as Dr. Eckener circumnavigated the globe in the Graf Zeppelin. Youth has written most of the stir- ring chapters of adventure, and con- cuering of the elements. As the Lindberghs, Byrds, Chamberlins, and cthers have conquered space and lime,-we have become acquainted with such, personalitics as smiling, beardless young men. beard- philoso- pher and scholar; not a “show man” in any sense of the word; & man who did not even become identified with | the work which has fixed his name in history until he was past 40. x eR As praise is heaped upon him, Dr. | Eckener has an cngaging way of eccking up one eyebrow and laugh- ing deprecatingly, much as a father might smilingly accept, yet not take too seriously, the approval of his children. In public address and public prints, men have compared him to Columbus and to Magellan. But he was not one Whose heed would be turned. Quietly, he insists that he ts no hero, but 2 man of serious purpose, seeking to bring a new form of trans- portation into existence, and so come pelled to demonstrate that vehicle to the world. And yet the erresting picture per- sists of the heroic explorer, the man of courage and imagination, a beard- cd alr captain, stecring a mighty ship over mountain ranges and stormy oceans, a ship as high as a 14-story building and longer than the tower- ing height of the tallest skyscraper. Talk es much as he might of trans- {port and commiercial achievement, | in 1888 and matriculated at the uni- | expert sailor and navigator. He mas- Dr. Eckener could : ot divest himself | versity of Munich in order to take up | pate Lovie de agi oS ee Ted | jeveloped jor's instinct for read- | of the cloak of romance and high ad- jo kind of study. My romantic dis- | ing the weather from the skies. Cum- | Venture. | Position, however, prevented me from | ulus and cirrus, bright skies and glow- A A making any definite decision, and ering skies, were always more than What is he like when he's at ease, | without considering my later profes- | scenery to hin. For they could tell | this Dr. Eckener? sion I took up at first the study of | man. if man were clever enough to j interpret the signs, what the weather | | pure philosophy, and especially meta- | conversationalist and a charming | physics and ethics. Besides, I was an | would be like. And nothin escaped A voracious reader, he seems | enthusiastic Alpinist, and strolled Young Eckener’s observations. an authority on every subject | whenever possible in the Bavarian | analyzed, studied, asked many ques- the { Alps. tions of sailing men, grew extraordi- 0 the Uni- | narily weatherwise. It became a to devote | proverb in Flensburg, even while he the arts, | was still a boy, that if anyone planned especially music. After being one year | a sea journey or a sailing expedition 5 | he should first consult young Eckencr. I chose the university of this city| If Hugo said the weather would be ® taste for a! fair, people took off in their boats study of phil- | with full confidence. If he shook his osophy, namely exnerimental psychol- | head, they postponed their sailing. ich had its most famous ex- ek & . Prof. Wundt of that uni-{ Perhaps it was some obscure in- his boyhood. | social politics.” In any event it was hard for him to devoted largely to ee @* \leave the romance and adventure of not an ardent'| Flensburg is almost es far north | the sea for the monotony of books. He ‘as one could be born and stjll be Ger- | was 20 years old when he graduated man. As a matter of fact. but for from the gymnasium, which corre- tline for this| the driving energy and ambition of | sponds to our high school—still rest- Dr. Eckener dictated volumi-| Bismarck Dr. Eckener might have | leis and unsettled. i in New York recently | been born a Dane instead of a Teu-| ‘Chen came the years at Munich and [at the conclusion of his round the|ton. For the quarrel of three cen- | Berlin, 2s described by Dr. Eckener. | world flight in the Graf Zeppelin, and | turles between the Danish and Ger-| Bismarck had been dismissed the | this fs how he summed up his early | men states as to the sovereignty of | year before and young William II. days in his own words: the border provinces had. becn ended qdestined to become the “war lord,” “I was born on Aug. 10, 1868, in| but two ycars before his birth. was in the saddle when young Eck- He} also took a great interest | stinct. some throw-back to a remote | Flensburg (Schieswig-Holstein), where} After the Six Weeks war and the ; my father dealt in leaf tobacco. After | Austrian defeat at Sadowa Prussian | having graduated from public school | sovereignty over Schieswig-Holstein T went to the gymnasium (the Ger-! was finally established in 1866. So man high school) but I must confess | while the blood of the north flowed that I was not a very ambitious pupil, i in his veins, he was legally of Ger- and that I did not show much in-/ man birth. terest in my studies. Dr. Eckener's father, as a dealer in “The Bay of Flensburg is beauti-' leaf tobacco, was well to do. He was fully situated in the midst of large | ambitions for his son, who he real- forests, and I preferred to spend my ! ized had an excellent mind. He could time with friends on the water or! be a good scholar if he would settle in the woods rather than do my school | down to his books. But the boy was work. We often made cxciting sail-; restive. He preferred setting out in ing trips on the Fjord of Flensburg up! a sailboat, mapping out the fjords and to the Danish islands, or we strolled | islands. And this fact, as one looks through the vast woods where we} back on it years later, gave the first knew the location of every owl's nest. | real clew to his future carecr. “I graduated from the gymnasium] Hugo Eckener, the boy, became an ener entered Leiprig. Stirrings of {discontent from the working class were reaching the throne. Event were in the making. Eckener, born {two years after Sadowa, two years before Sedan, found the mature worid he had come into. New impulses were stirring in men’s minds. Here was something practical and real. Eck- ener plunged into the study of po- litical economy. He became a vigor- ous partisan, liberal in his views. Germany was developing tremendous- ly in a technical and industrial way. ‘Was the result of that progress to benefit all the people or just a few, he asked. Would it mean the raising of the standards of living, would it make it ‘easier for the working man to rear his family, to educate them, would it make life more comfortable for all | the people Here was a subject into which the young scholar could pour his full en- lergies. There was no longer a ques- tion of a career. He would be an economist. He finished his college | education at Leipzig, remained on for Post-graduate studies, finally received the degree of doctor of philosophy | and social science. ee | His life work decided on, he took a bride, made a trip around the world, |came back to Germany and selected | as his permanent home the little vil- | lage of Friedrichshafen on Lake Con- | stance, surrounded as it was by the | Swiss and Austrian Alps and with the great sweep of the bay at hand for recreation. He settled down to | study and write. He was now “doctor.” He made an extensive study of the periodic indus- trial crises that swept the country, tried to discover a cause for the ups and downs of business, sought the economic laws that caused them, | studied the effect of economic crises on the population. He had it in mind to write his first book on the sub- | ject. The first chapter was com- | Pleted and published. | Friedrichshafen was a small town ‘away from the noise and hubbub of | the world, an ideal place for a scholar. | From time to time he wrote scien- | tific and technical articles for the Frankfurter-Zeitung. Occasionally he vould write on general subjects. His rticles were signed simply “Dr. E.” He had no idea at the time that these newspaper articles were lead- ing directly into his real career, or that the book on economics would never be finished. But another figure was to appear on Lake Constance, and the crossing of the paths of the scholar and a re- tired cavalry officer was to make world hi y. The cavalry officer was Count Ferdinand Zeppelin. (To Be Continued) Tomorrow: The story of Count Zeppelin and his early struggles with dirigibles, HOOVER WORKS OUT HOPES FOR PARLEY TO REDUCE NAVIES tao ‘Maintain and Strengthen Will of Nation and Other Na- / tions for Peace’ Washington, Sept. 19.—(4)—Her- hopes for navel reduction and furth- crance of world peace. Addressing a radio audience thrcugh a microphone he expressed his belief the current naval discus- sions are in keeping with the “high fspirations and high accomplich- ments” that have made it memorable, “The problems of cur day,” he said, “today crowd for cntry here. One problem has heen ever constant with each succeeding president—that we chould maintain and strengthen the will of the nation and other nations for peace.” The naval negotiations, he holds, are meens to this end. “Dally.” he related, “do I receive evidence of almost universal prayer that this negotiation shall succeed.” Giving voice to his own optimism, he said: bert Hoover caily is working out his ‘FRANCE THREATENS “Some months ago I proposed to the world that we should further re- duce and limit naval arms. Today we are engaged in a most hopeful dis- cussion with other governments lead- ine to this end. “These ere proposals which would preserve our national defenses end yet would relieve the bacis of those who toll from gigantic expenditures and the world from the hate and fear witich flows from the rivalry in build- Emmons County Sets | Nicola sent in an sure, ee Hunting -men 3 Mark any igtccalseeeasia/ssene sees 18 (Tribune Special Service! | Linton, N. D., Sept. 19.—More ing lcenses have been issued PARTS ELIMINATED BY SENATOR GROU One Stricken Provision Would Have Changed System in Determining Duties Al their fees by the middie of the week, |an increase-over-the entire | issued last season. | _Roy Ferncamp, Fessenden, has been named warden for the county and will He succeeds William Jones. Deputies will be named soon by the new ward- en, ‘Washington, Sept. 19.—(#)—Simul- NAVY DISARMAMENT puny een sete ii li ie | f i i | lk it j reduction of arms.” cast last night over Columbia | D¢V8 claety tendon 8 chain in connection the dedica- | ieton —, lkely wick tion of its new studio in New York wey, peg Kae seen | sou, City fhe ua + reer th oS egerelpow state Bear Seeking Candy [a ‘delicate poims on the continent, |, “sir Breaks Glass in Auto (Fie 2° quiimately considered in (he | excess Window to Get Sweets In forceful language the newspaper |ezascsrt through the Rocky what Amerios and Britain are driv-|o¢ the Gown the Pacific coast, has a new ver- | ‘8 s¢ in the proposed naval sccord: F : i is id i | ‘and | another session before we can act. |Radio Club Formed | By ‘Bugs’ at Linton, (Tribune Special Service) Linton, N. Sept. 19.—Radio own- ; ers here formed a club last week and | | will secure the services of a radio engincer to aid in climination of local disturbance: | More than 50 have signified their ; |intention of becoming members of the j | club, which is headed by Dr. W. C. Wolverton. William Heyerman ts sec- iretary-treasurer and the executive | committee includes J. A. Long, C. B. | Larsen, and J. J. Kremer. |" ‘The engineer is expected here the pend part of the month to begin his | work, City’s “Refusal to Purchase Field Is Reason for Action) (Continued from page one) lature of a bill enabling cities to de- | clare flying fields public necessitics, that we would be given the refusal of these grounds for that purpose. Our last legislature passed such a bill and it was signed by our governor, but it was found to be unconstitutional due to some technicality, and it will be; necessary, probably, for us to await “In the meantime I am going to give us the refusal unless the leases that I may get in communication him and try and effect an arrange: ““E have been informed several times | Mr. M. H. Atkinson, Mr. P. A. | vac! First Revealed by | than the upper end of ONLY 500 TURN OUT TO WATCH YANKEES New York, Sept. 1! (?\—The New York Yankees, accustomed to play- ing before crowded stands, set some kind of a new record for themselves today. Only 500 spectators lost them- selves in the massive Yankee stadium and shivered in the cold for the final appearance of Chicago here this sca- son, SIGN COURT CLAUSE Gencva, Sept. 19.—()—Great Bri- tain's signature was officially affixed to the optional clause of the Haguc Permanent court of international jus- tice by Forcign Secretary Arthur Hen- derson this afternoon. Delegates of India, South Africa, and New Zea- land, also signed the clause, which recognizes the compulsory jurisdiction of the court. 12 LASHES FOR YOUTH London, Sept. 19.—()—A youth of 19 is to receive 12 lashes for attacking ‘@ jeweler's wife. Sir Ernest Wild im- posed the sentence in old Bailey not- withstanding a plea thet the youth had been affected by movies and mystery stories. Coated Tongue Your tongue is nothing mere stom- ach and intestines. It is the first thing your doctor looks at. It tells ata the condition of ive system—and physicians that 90% of all sickness starts with stomach and bowel trouble A . rating made the interstate com- wh re meres commission, Figures of the bear coming out of the foetal eeact, Seteeree. See bined oe @ box of candy in the auto. the property. consid- Bruin grabbed hold of the top of fe given by the state board the window and gave it e tug, to in arriving at a figure on with the that the glass snapped which to levy taxes. off. He then grabbed the box of Among figures brought into fcempall gf income, stock ie onrtege| aj ft £ 3 . | / : il q : al i i iH if i 5 5 5 s i He | é Hd ii 7 fe CANADIAN CRAFT IS SHELLED BY GUARD CUTTER OFF COAST Master of Motorship to File For- mal Protest With Domin- ion Government —(P— coast guard cutter shelled the Canadian motorship, Shawnee, 26 miles off New York were made by her master, Cap- tain John McLeod, today. The Shawnee arrived here with shell holes in her port quarter and part of her rail carried away. Captain McLeod declared his in- tention of filing a formal protest with the government. He said his vessel, en route from Bermuda in ballast, was off New York last Friday night when the United States coast guard cutter 145 came up without lights and without warning fired five shots at the Shawnee. After the firing, Captain McLeod said, the cutter hailed him asking the identity of the ship. Washington, Sept. 19.—(4)—Coast guard headquarters announced today that @ coast guard patrol boat fired on the Canadian motorship Shawnee off Ambrose light, off New York har- bor, on the night of September 11 after the vessel failed to stop. A brief statement, issued by the coast guard, said the vessel was run- réng without lights and appeared to be an American craft. There was no name on the stern to identify her, according to the coast guard, but as the vessel proceeded after her officer refused to identify her the name Shawnee was made out on her bow. In the chase, the coast guard patrol boat at first held the Shawnee in the beam of her searchlight and repeat- edly blew whistles for the Canadian craft to stop, according to the head- quarters statement. The patrol boat then fired three blank warning shots without bringing the Shawnee to a halt and followed with two shells after which the vessel stopped. Demonstrate Spread Of Black Stem Rust Larson, N. D., Sept. 19.—(4)—With @ group of Burke county businessmen and farmers in attendance, a demon- stration of a spread of black stem rust from common barberry bushes, found near here, was made Wedne: day by federal agents engaged in bar- berry eradication. Dean H. L. Bolley of the North Da- kota Agricultural college and father of barberry eradication work in the state, visited the find here as a proof of the relationship of the com: mon barberry as a host to the dread- ed rust plague of grains. Senator Dell Patterson, Renville county, assisted the federal agents in showing the group the connection be- tween the rust on the grains and grasses to that which had been spread by the busht Sword fish meat is now on many home tables in the East. —_—_——s DR. HIBBS, DENTIST CAREFUL GENTLE NOT ROUGH BISMARCE DENTAL Chins i Phene 281 Lucas Bldg. The Dollar bill is small- er, but it buys more tires today than ever before. New lower prices at 102 Gamble Stores —29x4.40, $6.70, Tube Free. Speedy J lustice Meted To $10,000 Embezzler Minneapolis, Sept. 19.—Twenty-four hours after Aaron Manthey, mort- Gage and loan dealer of North Min- neapolis, had confessed to having em- bezsled some $10,000 of his clients’ money, he was on his way to Still- water prison under a sentence of a maximum of 10 years for first degree grand larceny. When he was arraigned before Judge Mathias Baldwin in district court late Wednesday, the judge, after questioning him, refused to a cept his plea of guilty. This morn: ing, however, the judge permitted him bP and immediately sentenced ATHLETICS FAVORED ON POSTED WAGERS New York, Sept. 19—(# — Wall street reported the first offering of wagers and odds today on the world series, with the Philadelphia Athletics a slight favorite to win the classic, and the Cubs the choice to take the first game in Chicago Oct. 8. 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