Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1928, Page 6

STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. C. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1928 ECONOMIC QUESTIONS SHADOW | ZEPPELIN'S FLIGHT TO AMERICA B TEPPELINDAMAGE | DESGRBED AS FUN Comdr. Rosendahl Tells of Composure of Passengers in Face of Disaster. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 18.—A graphic description of the heroism and good airmanship, which kept the Graf Zep- pelin nosing ahead after her port hori- zontal fin had been damaged by a sudden squal was broadcast last night in a radio talk by Lieut. Comdr. Charles | THE EVENING e e e “ 5 | B, " s | GOV. SMITH BROWN DERBY | cratc ol o R sontcted m e increasing the carrying capacity of Zep- | Thomas Jefterson, advocate of Tengion. pelins. tht they will soon be well over | CRITICS DECLARED SNOBS | toierance. the line of commercial practicability. | B | Germany and America are going ahead | rapidly, and England now has under way a dirigible which will carry 100 | persons. T am convinced that the time of the transatlantic crossing wi | |50 decidedly shortened in the near fu- | Grosadine G Tt Tas the ta {ture that this alone will constitute | Those who criticize Gov. Smith for | costly uniform in the army. It con. 12 "’—mm“;f“-'l dfg"n"]m‘crfi&‘ef Sren] if | wearing a “brown derby” or for the sists of a ruby l;el;ec coat ‘luvishlv dctenallinl Lo b el i gl ¢ cere | decorated with gold lace, a velvet ca it Dasengers and freight - © | Angle at which he holds a cigar wers | dicorated Wit gl Iace B Ieivet: cap e 1Y | called “snobs” by Joseph P. Tumulty. | knees, L | former private secretary to President l —that is distinctive and G i 'n{ ]":N Atrica | WilsON, at & rally in the Democratic ar:v i O e Lo i fashlights | headquarters, 16 Jackson place, last | individual at special prices, Terms Convenient when in quest of night-marauding | P | George Plitt Co., Inc. beasts. Painting—Paperhanging—Upholstery Phese M, 7181RNSC 4224 BY GRAF ZEPPELIN POST A Gorgeous Drum liljor. British military music had its origin the Grenadier Guards. The first | band was raised by them in 1685. The | Tumulty Also Attacks Those Who Find Fault With Angle Can- didate Holds Cigar. in But German Expert at Akron Says Con- tinued Technical progress on Balloons [ “The first problem was to make them caworthy.” sald Mr. Sehnitzer. -Dr. i ugo | ECkener has_ convincingly proved that | Eohenr, comantes o the ooty HUEO | they can weather the roughest of | polin, hopes to take the German din. |Storms. As a demonstration of this, | | gible’ over Akron. Ohio, home of the | the accident to the fin of the Grafj I only Zeppelin plant in America, where | Z¢PPelin was a_fortunate happening. | a score of Dr. Eckener's old friends are | Their mobility, vastly greater than that | | |now at work making balloons and |Of & steamship, enables them to a | dirigibles. He sald he also plans to | Ereater extent to avoid the gales. With Visit. Pittsburgh, Detroft and Chicago, | more skilled handling, which will come | 11t possible. " |auickly. there is no reason why a dirl- | | The region covered by these: cities has | gible should be menace Sl | been intensely Ritsrsiedtin the visit | 15 Possible to tack against a wind. just {of the dirigible, as In raw materials | 25 With an ocean rhip, and, while head- and technical organization they are | Way may be lessenied, a dirigible is squared away for rapid commercial de- with the wind, velopment in dirigible manufacture and | 2 operation. | BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | Mrs. J. H. Boggs reported on a Demo- Gaptiire A6 Nirbitidor. . . : " M E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., who was & guest | W‘m‘, DC observer on the transatlantic flight. = " B ‘The passengers soon fell into ship- 5 board rou'#i% he said, diarles were | aitening ‘#id %he click of news reel cameras had besome commonplace. The Walk-Over specializes in proper fit Make Your Extra Room Pay. erfectly safe if it rides s in this way it meets no outside stress —unlike a ship, held in the water, but E Letter received by Capt. Corporation from the consign Nesbitt of the Fairchild Aerial Photography of mail carried on the Graf Zeppelin. thrill had worn off, but in the control- | room the officers’ knew from their | weather chart what lay ahead, he added. Dishes Go Flying. “Just before breakfast we bucked | straight into a squall,” Rosendahl said. | “The Zeppelin's nose got it first. It | ®ounded up as though some giant’s| hand had shot up a blow from the sea. As the bow went up the stern went down. There was a crash and clatter in the dining room. Dishes went flying. Lady Drummond Hay suddenly found her eggs in her lap. “And then the only woman passenger Jaughed. The tension eased and in a moment all hands_were teamed up to tidy the damage. It was good fun.” Cruising Speed Reduced. The officers’ decision was instantane- ous, he said, when a lookout reported thres-quarters of the under fabric stripped from the fin. The ship was swung to slow speed and officers and | crew patched and lashed the fabric of the fin so that no more of it could be carried away. He said that never after that did the ship dare to risk full) cruising speed. il GERMANS DUE HERE EARLY TOMORROW: . PROGRAM INCOMPLETE (Cont#nued from First Page.) transatlantic air service will be nearer Teality. He hopes to interest American capi- talists in his plan for four great dirig- ibles, bigger than the Graf Zeppelin, | running on a 50-hour schedule between Europe and the United States. He needs $15,000,000 to finance the undertaking and hopes to obtain it in this country. He believes an airport near Washington or Baltimore, with the European termi- nus in Switzerland, would be the most feasible because of weather conditions. A conference among himself, officers of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, Ohio, and others he hopes to Interest in the project was arranged |’ha for today at L&kehursi. N. J., where the big Zeppelin is berthed. Next Tuesday Dr. Eckener expects to start his air tour of the United States in the Graf Zeppelin. Newspa- pers said that genrzy Forlt‘i migh; be a passenger on the Zeppelin as far as Dearborn, Mich., where a stop is plan- ned at the Ford mooring mast. One mewspaper said Mr. Ford is to go as the guest of Dr. Eckener, while other passengers would be obliged to pay fancy prices. motor car magnate is to be in East Orange, N. J., Satur- day for the presentation to Thomas A. Edison of the Congressional Gold Medal. Frederick Gilfallin, an American, re- siding in Lucerne, Switzerland, who was a passenger on the Zeppelin, is not going to make the return trip. He sailed last night for Europe aboard the Mauretania. Gilfallin, an inveterate smoker, found the trip on the Zeppelin a hardship because of the ban on smoking. e In six months of this year licenses for road vehicles in England brought revenue of nearly $120,000,000 to the Star Staff Photo., Today, ¢ that the welcoming up: PROPOSES BUREAU | OF CLERAL DA man Urges History and Records Be Chronicled. Proposal that a bureau be established to keep the history and p: nnel re ords of all the clergy of t Spiscop: Church was advanced and faverably discussed today by the commission on recruiting and distributing the ministry of the department of religious «duca- tion meeting %oday at the Washington Hotel. In the past the commission had been quite successful in working out its prob- lems of recruiting the ministry, Dr. Harry B. Nichols of New York Cit chairman of the commission, declare but a pressing question now was to provide a more satisfactory method of distributing the » istry, ‘The problem of placing the ministry “rightly,”. Dr. Nichols declared should not be left as it is at present with the | bishops and the vestries, both of which, he characterized as “sensitive.” should be established by the church, he said, a bureau where unbiased per- sonnel records of every one of the clergy could be kept and this bureau should be used as a great base from which the distribution of the ministry throughout the country should take place. Dr. Nichols said there had been rec- ords of ministers placed in extremely difficult places without sufficient sup- port of the church. There had been instances where less competent men d sent in glowing accounts of their capabilities, whereas the more capable men_had not sent in sufficient records of their abilities to give them a fair stending. On thy whole, he declared, the char- acter otMthe recruits which the church now was getting was very satisfactory and splendid, and the commisison was not devoting so much attention now to that phase of the question. PASSE NGER RETURNS. Gilfallin Says Winds Should’ Fa-| vor Zeppelin on Way Back. NEW YORK, October 18 (#).—The first of the Graf Zeppelin's passengers to return to Europe sailed last night on the liner Mauretania. He was Prederick Gilfallin, an Amer- ican, engaged in businness at Lucerne, Switzerland. He declined to discuss the Zeppelin's voyage because of an agreement with an American news syndicate, but said he thought he dirigible’s return flight would be less difficult because of the likelihood of ‘There | roar has subsided, business men, scien. tists and engineers are appraising the performance of the Graf Zeppelin. Does it mean that the era of swift, safe and comfortable transoceanic fly- ing has arrived. and does it mean that America will swing into Zeppelin man- ufacture, seeking a place and possibly leadership in international traffic? Economic Questions Arise. ‘The more spectacular aspects of the flight have overshadowed these consid- erations and authentic testimony as to immediate economic possibilities of Zep- pelin_transportation is lacking. While |the Graf Zeppelin behaved splendidly in riding the storm in Midatlantic, the fact that the voyage was only a few hours shorter than that of the fastest liners has put forward the question of whether the saving of time is as yet a negotiable substitute for the lower cost, comfort and safety of steamship travel. Newspaper opinion in both Europe and America is somewhat divided on this issue. Now that the curtain is being lowered on the romantic aspects of Dr. Eckener's achievement, facts and figures are being assembled at the point of a sharp pencil. One basic consideration involves the question of just what the engineers can do in increasing the useful load of | the Zeppelin. B. Schnitzer, who helped Dr. Eckener build the Los Angeles, an who is now at the Akron plant of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, says continued technical progress will rapidly increase the carrying possibilities of Zeppelins and at the same time lower costs of construction and maintenance. Philatelists Vie For Mail Matter Zeppelin Carried By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 18.—Can- celed stamps on envelopes and post cards brought to this country by the | Graf Zeppelin are causing keen com- petition among stamp collectors and dealers, with $3 being reported quot- ed for the 4-mark stamps on envelopes and $2 for the 2-mark stamps on post cards. * Post Office officials said the Zep- pelin’s mail consisted of 15 sacks, aining 28.124 letters and 37,590 post cards. They said arrangements probably would be made for the dirgible to carry mail on her re- | turn trip. H 'HINDENBURG SENDS | | THANKS TO COOLIDGE| | | | Expresses Appreciation for Tribute American President Paid Graf Zeppelin and Its Crew. { By the Associated Press. | The State Department made public | today the translation of a message from | President Von Hindenburg of Germany | to President Coolidge expressing his appreciation for the tribute the latter | paid the officers and crew of the air- ship Graf Zeppelin on her flight across the Atlantic. | The message read: “I thank you, Mr. President, for the congratulations and the tribute you have so graciously paid the manage- | ment of the airship Graf Zeppelin and | its crew. 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