New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1924, Page 12

FLEW OVER LONDON DURING WORLD WAR This Is Record of Men of the @k IR Crew rastd Friedrichshafen, Sept. 26.—Every man of the crew of the ZR. “old alr dog," baving is an seen much dlrigible service prior to 1014 and |4 during the war, when the big Jighter- to Germany, the others remalning in the United States, either with the Goodyear Zeppelin company or with some other concern interested In aeronautics, PANOUS TENNIS STARS ARE COMPETING TODAY Tilden, Sullivan, Stacey and Others in Matches At Cleveland Courts Several of foremost tennis players | were scheduled to appear on the university club's courts today in the than-air machines were particul. active. Many of the officers men have made so many flights that they have lost all count of them. | Dy. Hugo Kckener, president of the ZR-3 on her flight acrc Atlantie, is cr ed his Intentlon of b ships E took Dirigi were (mp world could get without. Count broadsides mething very itic and im that dirigi- for the Zepp manded the I ¢ of the repa- | d to Italy. | |t Lehmann, sec- ip, who is| - Goodyear co! i he United s commander of five dif- hips during the war, Year arted recording the num s he made, but after the | to the thousands he lost ail track of them. Hans C. Flemming, navigating of. ficer and second in command, a was a dirigible pilot during the w and holds the record for height, ac- | cording’ to Zeppelin officiale. On one occaslon during an attack near London, Captain Flemming took his machine up nearly 27,000 feet and | dodged the airplanes of the defen: forces of the British capltal. Captain Flemming, like many of the other war time *Zep" officers and | men, doesn’t like to talk of his war experiences. Wilhelm C. Siegle, chief engineer | ot the ship, was the most active of | any of the crew in the work of building the ZR-3, being director of construction. He has been with the Zeppelin works many years. Franz E. Wittemann, chief quar- termaster, was formerly in the Ger- man mercantile marine service and became an aviator during the war. | Walter Scherz, quartermaster, also | was in the German flying corps, and | Licutenant Hans von Schiller joined | the Zeppelin forces in 1915. He is| credited with 38 night flights over London during the war, All the officers, as well as most of | the crew, speak English. Dr. Eck- ener and Lieutenant von Schiller are the eoamly officers who plan to return If You By Train To Ha Then we are almost at your front door. out of the Hartford dep block—and our big store A furniture purchase ly considerable financial ests are served where yo from a large assortment. and | se {Ing under Chicago’s banner, op “Ithe A { formed ‘SULPHUR CLEARS | healed right up. play of the United ity national doubles champlonships. | William T. Tilden 11, paired with | llivan, as Philadelphia’s rep- | meets Louls Kuhler, Ohio champion, and Ted | cinnati's team In one of tches on the program. ing match ‘will be tween Sam Hardy, former Davis up captain, and Dean Mathe; w York's team, and John Hen- The op: be- | d Jack McKay, represent- | g . national iampion and Walter Hayes, mer clay courts titleholder- Junior | for- | | H. Chapins, father and so of Springfleld, Mass, in the day’s| final, | Columbus represented by the | Werthwein brothers, Walter and Herman, was eliminated by Harold Bartel and Henry Wick, Jr., Cleve- nd, in straight sets in yesterday's only match, Cleveland drew a bye g | e semi-finals will be played to- morrow and the finals Sunday. Arrow Kills Deer San Franisco—Miss Virgian Ayres f San Francisco killed an Ameri- can deer with an arrow for the first time such a feat has been per- since the Indians forsook | the bow. 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The government eith- er leases, or owns outright, 300 acres at Wright Field, but the fleld ftself now consists of 5,300 acres, 5,000 of | which recently were given to lhe1 25 % y 4 government by Dayton, the money for the purchase of the land belng furnished by citlzens, The land has been accepted by the government, and it is the dream of Dayton some day to see the fleld the greatest air center in the world. The Dayton plan is eventually to com- bine the two flelds Into one vast plant, which would be a memorial to Wilbur Wright, McCook Field*will be open to all spectators during the meet, and there will be on exhibition glants and midgets of the air, as well as strange mechanical: creatures that tly. The Army Air Service helicop- ter, one of the most recent develop- ments, will be one of the unusual sights, The Barilng Bomber, the world's !largest alrplace, may be on exhibi- tion, and it is expected that the Shenandoah will be brought.out. For contrast to these leviathans, one of the original type Wright planes is being reconditioned and probably will be piloted in a flight by Lieut. John A. MacReady. League Considering Armanient Inquiries By The Associated Pr Geneva, Sept, 26.—Several plans for the investigation of German armaments by the council of the league of nations, as authorized un- der the Versallles treaty, are gow under consideration by the council, The league's permanenent commis- sion on military and naval matters 50 BRITAIN DATLY WERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, has reported a detalled project, one’ feature of which Is that the invasti- | gating body may contaln some reps resentatives of the states bordering on Germany, . 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