The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 14

SD i led robbery. The stand cost $75 when Just before returning homeward Meanest Man Attempts |S Aid aia dev Bret ioe ee after the round-the-world flight Dr. ener discussed, publicly his To Steal Church Funds |‘ for repairs. eine trom hopes id plans for internatior | inger ‘king frananentation: The American ter-| powman, N. D.. Oct. 2—One of ee ee that {moraing, but minus, he said, would be somewhere | meanest men in the world paid Bow i ‘ tity of the world's between Baltimore and Richmond. mana visit and attempted to rob the|lead to the identity d's |His European terminus in France. [tite box of the local Catnoll | Norse Scoundrel, the man who would | Such an arrangement would aoe church. The box contained tess than ha conceivable before © a dollar in pennies and small change. Tuitap at Cue The airship had ‘The man chiseled and battered the} New Guinea is considered the sec- cone its small share at least in box and stand it rests on until he|ond largest island in the world. It bringing about better understanding. | virtually ruined both in his attempt-ihas an area of 330,000 square miles. Air men throughout the world called Dr. Eckener’s handling of the| Graf on the interrupted flight, of | May a marvelous bit of airmansh' Dr. Eckener himself passed the cre Hugh Allen it to the ship, pointed to it as de THE FIRST AUTHORIZED STORY OF THE LIFE OF THF COMMANDER OF THE ZEPPELINS adhering to Zeppelin principle. | | ; 4 Pra , + “That the ship with four of its CHAPTER XII ‘aces, were snatched out of reach! Fiemming squarely in the cye. again was in the air cn route to LENT UE ae mar ee de arms tive motors dead and flying in it CAt last, the Graf Zeppelin, the @ they caught at them, were Very well,” he said quietly, Americ : 5 of the ground c MO ae | slorm over unfavorable terrain would | ee ae Graf Zeppelin, wrenched from their grasp as they | “start your motors.” Then a flash came over the ca-|time it was safc in the hangar. | S1uMLOver Wnfaverate era ack | jwning achievement of th at tried to lash them to. the metal Idling propellers quickened into bies: “T At the t of cach American to its base without damage to pas- | ppelin works, was completed PaGieern 4 (action, motors roared back de-; Confirmation came shortly a flight, Dr. Eckener had asked for-| ngers or ship should give the | Memento OE which was over Eng- | "Trey taped the loose ends to the | finnce'to'the stort, The ship began | ward. ‘The Graf was having engine | mally’ through tie government for | cet eter coanidence™ Ie ant | : a convineed Dr. Eckener vee metal and the tape, wet pulled out.| to move forward, began slowly to trouble. The news grew more dis- | permission to fly over France, There / Teady to demonstrate to the . RE agen ho They lashed them with ropes ed| mount to safer altitudes. Dr. Eck- quieting as the hours passed. One| were threatened delays at times in| "RO | soht { » did | Wi le d Congr tul t Fld the feasibili 10 eo Ae ened er ee aa eee | anor climbed allently int. the: Inaly d that two motors had | pranting it. fiy over no| The interrupted flight in May did elcome an aiulaie i Ld them in wire, only to have the fab- | ener climbed silently y yr nting >| one other thitw: it made certain that Hin flights for peace-time purposes. 5; to, ‘from its fastenings./ of the ship, walked slowly aft. The failed. Another report had it four. | fortified tHe must fly only | one t i id ; fo ig (tea lotee. Eon a aren Ca eit eatn : ' a world flight would be made. The Careful plans were made for the Ayain and again they had a sheet boy, guessing what had happened as The worst reports were true. The jat certain hours of the day. France SNC of Ue Soe on the en aa | pst passenger flight Se i, only to have the wind| the motor started, gritted his tecth, Graf was fighting its way back | attitude had not_ be ES PoUaeA tic—from Fr TE thee aaaih | took a fresh grip of a slippery dur- across southern France with but one| But French offi accompanied | . qtkehurst. W c anery Atlantic scemed to be! alumin girder, worked desperately motor running. A vicious mistral | Dr, E Kener as his guests when the t of the crow aboard, petting cloves to them, yawusee be | ote wind was cetting up. over, Marseilles, |ship, with nes 5 flew home- ith a crew of E low, inviting a misstep. The rain| **e he news ine veek late sunder-| ar es Weiabtc cating the: r Wore’ Spe che with idling | Knut Eckener was winning his f 1 Mae PFmerica was made on Oe eae being blown with the | Spurs that day. niachinery. when the hour of cmergency struck. cling flight. MG eeveral tons at im Teh moat, i | Half an hour later Hugo Eckener of them to go wrong was unbelicv- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1929 (To Be Continued) -—THE PUBLIX THEATRES FOR THEIR INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY OF BISMARCK AND ALL OF + ight were also carried. 3A storm w @lantie and D: Toss France, + td as far sou Zoid it. Wut another Wing in t observed, ught the Cra ip_ pit then awn, throwing the h: an off alanee. He quickly recovered him- ‘if, however. The ship, after jolt-, _ 8 two or three times m 4 i ! { : awn to even t EThe wind was falling, skics fe ship moved forward easily and thly. However, a wrench of the ip had ripped loose a ail sec- en of the covering of one of the Wat's great fins and the wind was asily engaged in tearing off more it, leaving a great gaping wound Rich was not discovered until later. mechanic in one of the egg-shaped | k: ‘gine cars at the rear of the ship as makink his first trip as a mem-| »r of the crew. His first thought as that there was a rope hanging own from the great hori I rud- *r overhead. He called the atten- ‘on of one of the older enginemen + what he had seen. “Rope ineman shouted. That's part of the fin covering.” Already he was half-wa dder, swung in through the port- ale, dashed down inside, began inning down the cat w: caught euhrle, assistant chief, told him tho ory, and hurried on forward to- i ard the control car. and Lehmann lnoked the engineman broke in ith his story. “Cut the motors,” roared Flem- i s fInshed to the The roar of the great engines died own, the ship slackened speed. The assengers looked from one tu an- cher Be etoningly. Now the fins on the Graf Zep- elin have a spread of 80 feet out om the ship and are 35 fect across t the widest part. The duralumin amework of the fins is built into ae frame cf the ship itself. The fin covering of the doped alu- tinized fabric most difficult to (tach securely over a fin because it a flat surfa It is much ea: » stretch the same fabric tauntly ad sccurcly around the outer frame- ork of the ship itself, for it is a olyhedron, The wind had worked its wa r the fabric, tugged and jerked di it loosened a seam, then ripped ff a section of it. Knute Eckener, off duty, was aft 1 the ship when the news came. He @3 one of the first to reach the zene of trouble. It meant crawling ftween two of the great gas cells ‘ad out on the framework which con- ets the fins with the body of the aip. Never in the history of 127 eppelin airships had an accident @ppencd like this one. The fin co: eetion had not been designed with View of easy access to inspection nd repair, for nothing ever hap- ened there. Engineer Beuhrle, with Sammt, a allow helmsman, and Ladwick, the adio operator, all skilled mechanic. fere close behind him, It was a startling picture that met heir eyes. se } Some 400 square feet of covering | rip) from the under side the fin. Shreds and lengths of it lashing back and f of it 1oose, ann pallieg {Wind and a driving rain were in through the aperture the sides of the nearest gas cell. This threatened danger. The outer cover on thick and s » Tt weather, Petes the in- Ww rain and gales, “rl ea ge bg heat) 5 only the lifting ges. If it were returned to the control car, spoke ble. In cach case the answer was oe briefly to Commander Rosendahl of the same, that the crankshafts had | nder had return-| the American navy. broken. When an airplane motor | He sat rather’ “Release your ships from stand- plane must land immedi | ing by,” he said quietly, “We'll not nd hope that there is level | need them. The work is in hand.” ithin landing distance. But The tension that hung over Lake- ip is held aloft by the - ufficientl i to hurst station relaxed. Men hurried the motors merely driving hip to cont hj cut to send off wireless messages de He had ‘ot good cheer, congratulation, en- xk ® . plenty |couragement. The fight in’ the! with the wind in its favor, Ecke hip in the air storm had caught at the heartstrings oner might have free ballooned his | p forward, there of the nation. It was reflected in ;irship back to Friedrichshafen, but | storm would other nations across the seas, in Ger- {}:6 Zeppelin was being lashed by a t alway en if he were many, in France, in England, in It- d he saw that this was im- forced out of his course it would aly, wherever men live who honor pussibie, He must save his remain- 1 a little more time courage and resourcefulness. ing motor as much as he could for ** & the supreme need if one should a H Early in May of 1929, Dr. Eckener Mountains were ahead, the twisting | out for his second trip to Ameri- valley of the Rhone, South of him ‘ff ‘fied Ct in the Graf Zeppelin. But prior from the Mediterranean near Toulon | can y ment be notified ty the start there had been some was the hangar Cuers, built as it and that vessels be asked to > stment of the motors. happened, to house his own ship, the stand by. ; ‘aking up these springs just a L-72, renamed the Dixmude. Cantain Flemming was watching milimeter will do the trick,” said) wireless s his altimeter anxiously. The ship the mechanics. ~~ ‘ask | i nf the passengers, ed that the Ameri- kad been flying at 1200 feet when Every American who drives an | the accident’ was reported. | Since aitomobile knows what the crank-| France responded to the flag of then, under driving force of wind t is. Between the crankshaft | distress. Paris ordered the garrison ard rain on its back, it was slowly of the motor and the propeller shaft | at Cuers to stand by to render every settling. It was above the Atlantic, jx 9 coupling designed to take up the| possible assistance, broadcast word | still churned by the storm. ( vibration caused by the whirling of! to all villages to form emergency ships have landed or. smooth seas the great blades. The vibration is| ground crews if Eckener needed before and taken off again like fly- so slight that it can hardly be seen; them. All of France it seemed wa ing boats, But this was a rough with the naked eye. It must be) anxious to help. Fearing that his on.) , measured with precision _ instru-| motor might fail before he could The ship had settled to an altitude ments, But even that vibration,| reach Friedrichshafen, and placing of 500 feet. ;, Small as it is, must be headed off| the safety of his passengers ahead ‘ff Flemming went to the c » before it reaches back into the mo-| of all else, Eckener swung the ship | “Doctor,” ho shouted “+ tors themselves. Hence these flex-| south, down the Rhone. Using his | two motors at once, The ship | ible coupli motor only to control his direction, inking. The adjustments made, the Graf|he piloted the ship toward Toulon, | The commander's face grew ashen, Clinging precariously to metal 2 and bits of wire over the n, bracing himself with sturd; Congratulations to Publix Theatres on their opening of the op Home of nO Pictures & Our wish is for the success and the best of fortune in Bismarck. Capitol Steam Laundry CS ES THE MISSOURI SLOPE OF THE NEW or A Home of Paramount Pictures WE'RE PROUD OF BISMARCK’S New i | NEW “PLAY HOUSE”—WE HAVE THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE IN THE ORGANIZATION THAT DIRECTS ITS EFFORT IN OUR COMMUNITY. FOR THE PEOPLE OF ALL THE COUNTRYSIDE WE WISH THE PUB- | LIX THEATRES THE BEST OF SUC- i CESS IN BISMARCK. Winston-Newell Company Supply Depot for All I. G. A. STORES Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck, N. D. canvas and tie them in was Knute Fekener, the pride of his inner soul, nut, his boy. The commander had tried to steel his mind to the fact that Knut was there, to think only of his ship. To; hold his place a i with the shi Dahners-Tavis Music Company no risk that any father villingly see his boy take. Tf ff (The Melody Shop) that steel grip ever slipped from the wet and slippery metal to which he clung as he worked, no power on carth could save him. To start up the motors was to in- crease the danger many fold. The Itkelihood was that he and the others would be brushed off like flies. A rescue after that fall into the ocean vould be a miracle. For the first time in the 60 vigorous years of his iife, Hugo Eckener looked old. It seemed like hours as he debated, visualized. As a matter of fact the! delay was like that between the two ks of a watch, Here was Flem- ming again, \ ‘ must have two motors, sir, at [i Home of Paramount Pictures once,” he repeated, The creation of a_lifetime crash- ing about his ears, Count Zeppelin’s long dream, threatened at the mo- ment of » - Duty comes first. 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