Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1929 — Page 10

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CASUALTIES IN ZEPS HEAVY IN WORLD WAR Dr. Eckener Did Marvelous Work for Country in Great Conflict. Thli Is th' eighth rbjpur of the Oirtlllag life story of Dr. Hugo F.ckener, n.Ttf.tor of the Graf Zeppelin. With all his commercial pilots off to war. Dr. Eckener found his task of training other men for service becoming more and more pressing. He had to man new ships which the navy was ordering in constantly increasing numbers, and which were being built at Friedrichshafen at ever increasing speed. He would have liked two or three years to train personnel. But in the latter of the war when the. great works at Friedrichshafen, expanded again and again by military necessities, were turning out complete ships within six to eight weeks, there was no time for such training. Dr. Eckener sent out some fifty •hip commanders during the war. Replacements were heavy as the allies built up their anti-aircraft defenses. The first Zeppelins were used largely over land. Losses were heavy. The ships were slow and had low ceiling. Some were shot down. Some ran out of fuel before they could get back to a hangar. and had either to land in the open, or drifted into mountain ranges in the fog, where they were destroyed. Larger Ships Needed Larger and stronger ships were called for. Karl Amsteln, a brilliant young Bohemian mathematician, joined the company shortly after the war opened and soon was to be chief engineer and constructor of some seventy full rigid ships. Part of Dr. Eckener’s work was to maintain liaison between the factory and the combat forces, to suggest, alterations necessitated by changing conditions of warfare. There were plenty, of changes to be made. At one time the demand was for speed, at another for increased carrying capacity, whether of fuel or munitions, and at another for greater altitude. All these affected pilot training. While the bombing raids attracted most attention, they constituted In act only a small part of the work of the Zeppelins, whose main task rom 1917 on was in reconnaissance and patrol work with the fleet. Protect German Fleets A fast, far-ranging Zeppelin could ight an allied fleet long before the lastest surface cruiser dreamed of Ns presence. On more than one occasion a Zeppelin ship saved a German fleet from being cut off by superior numbers. That there were no surprise attacks on the German coast was in part due to the Zeppelins. The airships came to be widely used, too. in spotting mine areas and supervising the work of the mine sweepers. The Zeppelins helped keep the lanes open for scout ships and underseas vessels. As the air fleet expanded. Dr. Eckener's duties grew heavier and more diversified. The training work that had been carried on at inland hangars was moved to the seaboard, with cru sing trips over the North sea. The study of naval strategy, co-operation with surface and underseas ships, navigation, night flying, and defense against anti-air-craft added to the curriculum. Work Greatly Expanded The threat offered by the Zeppelins had been met by the allies with long-range guns, high-arching searchlights, faster and higherceilinged airplanes and finally with inflammable bullets. Each new phase of warfare affected the type and kind of training to be given ship commanders. The handling of an airship was no longer the simple one of gas pressures, engines and control surfaces. that it had been in peace times. The most spectacular Zeppelin flight made during the war was that of the LZ-59 from Jambol, Bulgaria. to German East Africa, plans for which were made under Dr. Eckener’s personal direction. When the World war broke out.

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the various German colonies had to defend themselves as well as they could, since the homeland had too much to do in Europe to give them much assistance. polonial Force in Peril Word filtered through to Berlin In 1917 that a colonial force was surrounded in German East Africa and must surrender unless help came soon. Other things were occupying the attention of the high command. Besides, how could battleships or regiments get to German East Africa even if they could be released from service in Europe? Someone thought of the expedient of sending a Zeppelin ship down those 2,500 miles. Dr. Eckener welcomed it as an opportunity for demonstrating anew usefulness for his ships. The LZ-59 was just being completed. He stopped work on construction, cut the ship in two, put in a middle section, 100 feet long, making room for two additional gas bags, bringing the capacity up to close to two and a half million cubic feet, or about the size of the American Los Angeles. It became the largest airship yet built. Flies to East Africa The ship was stripped of all superfluous equipment, reserving all possible space for munitions and supplies. When the start, was made early in November the ship carried nineteen tons of machine gun ammunition, four tons of medical supplies and twenty-one tons of fuel. The ship crossed over Turkey, Asia Minor, passed between Crete and Rhodes, reaching the African coast the second morning. Then started a long flight across the Sahara desert. The LZ-59 had taken in its radio antennae during a severe storm and it was near Khartum when it received a message that the German intelligence office had been trying to get to it. A British wireless had been intercepted with the news that the German colonial troops, not realizing that help was at hand, had surrendered to the British. Back in Four Days Without stopping, the ship was turned back, recrossed the desert and the Black sea, arriving safely at Jambol in less than four days from the time it set out. Dr. Eckener, his war work finished, returned to Friedrichshafen. The four years of training effort had aged him. He saw many difficulties ahead. But the work of the world must go on, he reasoned. Friedrichshafen seemed strange to him. The great shops that had been humming with activity were silent. And this time his great friend. Count Zeppelin, was not there to meet him. Two years before, the inventor of the airship had been laid to rest with his fathers in the great hall at Constance. (To Be Continued) Next: Post-war problems.

BRIDGE BIDS TO QPENOCT, 15 35 Structures to Represent $60,000 Expenditure. Bids for construction of thirtyfive bridges in eighteen counties, representing an expenditure of $600,000 will be opened by the state highway commission, Oct. 15, Director John J. Brown said today. Four of the structures are grade separations: On United States No. 24. seven miles east of Logansport, in Cass county; State Road No. 15, at New Paris, Elkhart county; State Road No. 6, six miles west of Westville, Porter county, and United States No. 24, six miles west of Logansport, Cass county. The others are: State road No. 1. north of Connersvllle. State road No. 2, two bridges In Lake county, and one* In Elkhart county. State road No. 6 one In Porter county, and one In Noble county, four miles east of Ligonier. State road No. 16. east of Decatur, in Adams county. State road No. 39. bridge east of Rossville. In Carroll county. State road No. 43. four bridges In White county. State road No. 48. five bridges in Bartholomew and Decatur counties. 0. S. No. 50. six bridges in Jackson, Jennings, and Ripley counties. State road No. 54. one bridge in Greene county. State road No. 57. three bridges In Greene and Daviess counties. State road No. 67, two bridges in. Greene county. State road No. 58 three bridges in Pike and Gibson counties. Do you know that a want ad is one of the present day public utilities?

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