Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1929 — Page 7

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ZEP PROGRESS HELD BACK BY WAR SUSPICION Eckener Encounters Snags in Building of New Dirigibles. This ts tbe ninth chapter of the life story of Dr. Haro Eckener, master nartiater of the Graf Heppclin. When Dr. Eckener returned to Fried richshafen from the war, political and economic conditions were at low ebb, the 20.000 Zeppelin employes, Including war cripples and women, were idle, revolution was weeping many German states, old values had been destroyed. But within two months of the armistice, plans were set in motion to fly across the Atlantic with the L-72, a ship whose delivery to the German government had been canceled. Meanwhile, preliminary work was started for the first postwar commercial airship. With the death of Count Zeppelin, the affairs of the Zeppelin Foundation, holding concern for the airship building company, for Maybach motors, for Domier airplanes, for Delage, the commercial company, for the gear plant, for the fabric works and the rest, had been committed to three trustees, of which Baron von Gemmingen, nephew of the count, was chairman; FckPner and Baron von Bassus being other members. Eckener Takes Lead Os the triumvirate that came Into control at the time when Zeppelin had grown to be one of the great powerful corporations of Germany, Hugo Eckener already was looming as the dominant figure. The plan to fly the L-72 to the United States was the subject of considerable debate in the Zeppelin councils. While the Zeppelin people themselves knew what the ships would do, the world did not appreciate it because operations had been largely shrouded in the secrecy of war time. A flight across the Atlantic would be a daring stroke and a convincing demonstration. On the other hand, would America receive the ship? The war was newly over. Would such a Flight be resented—taken as a challenge—its purpose misunderstood? Would such a flight embarrass the new republican government of Germany? Government Halts Flight While the debate continued, the secret got out and the matter settled itself. Government orders came in, forbidding them to take the ship from its hangar. The British had begun to build airships duirng the war, using as a model a Zeppelin which had landed behind the French lines and had been seized intact. The British R-33 was launched. Then came the flight of the R-34 from England to New York and return In the summer of 1919. The men at Friedrichshafen, blocked in their ambition to span the ocean, went ahead with their other project, the completion of the Bodensee, first post-war commercial ship. Work on the Bodensee was pushed during the spring of 1919 In spite of political and economic conditions that continued to be highly unfavorable. By the end of August it was ready. Speed Is Increased The ' 'w ship was no bigger than •> iria Luise and the Hansa ’ approximately 800,000 cubic ~ (ipout a th 1 the of the ;gei‘ war one i .ips, or of the American L is Angeles. But where the old Viktoria Luise had had to exert Itself to make forty to fifty miles an hour, the new ship would do seventy-five to eighty. It had space for thirty-six passengers. It was beautifully finished inside in accordance with Dr. Eckener's ideas that small ships were to carry the idea of air transportation to the people, and to swing public opinion to the new form of transport. In the ninety-eight days, including Sundays, between Aug. 24 and

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It’s the largest land plane in the world, able to carry thirty passengers, with sleeping accommodations for sixteen, and it soon will be put into regular coast-to-coast passenger service by the Universal Air Lines System. It was built by the Fokker Air Corporation. The huge craft has a wing spread of ninety feet. It now is on a tmr of important cities.

Dec. 1 the ship made eighty crosscountry flights, two of them being to Stockholm. Carry 2,500 Passengers Two or three times a week they would land at Berlin, take on a new load of passengers and make a two-hour sight-seeing trip over the German capital, so that a total of 103 flights had been made byDec. 1. Within the three months they had carried 2,500 pasesngers, 17,000 pounds of mail and express. A second ship, the Nordstern, to be a sister ship to the Bodensee, just was being completed. Again the future looked bright for airships. Then the blow fell. Orders came on Dec. 1 Irom the inter-allied air commission, acting under the Versailles treaty, for the cessation of operations, the surrender of the ships and the abandonment of the Zeppelin works. It was just a year after the armistice. The chancelleries of Europe were still nervous. This resumption of flying operations at Friedrichshafen looked suspicious. Feared German Plot It might be purely the peaceful commercial operation that Dr. Eckener said it was, the diplomats argued, or It might have sinister possibilities. The decree of the allies was final. The Nordstern was finished and turned over to France, the Bodensee to Italy. Once thoroughly convinced that no argument could change the situation, Eckener set off one morning to fly the Bodensee to Rome. With characteristic spirit, he decided to make its last flight under German colors a final demonstration of the value of his ships. He flew it out over Zurich, on to Berne, Geneva, and across over Avignon, France, down the Mediterranean, across Napoleon’s place of exile at Elba, on over Corsica, back up to Rome, making the 825mile flight in twelve and one-half hours. It was a gallant gesture, but the trip wrote finis on the Bodensee operations. The Italians flew the ship occasionally, but Italian operators favored the semi-rigid type. While the Bodensee Is still in existence today, after ten years, it has remained largely In its hangar.

Built for America Lloyd George, then premier of England, had dropped the suggestion that inasmuch as the two Zeppelins awarded the United States as reparations had been destroyed by ! the crews, perhaps America would ' be interested in having anew Zeppelin built by Germany. The word was passed to Washinton. President Harding approved the plan. The arrangements were quickly completed. The' projected dismantling of the Zeppelin works was postponed. They might remain long enough to build one more ship. This was built under the name of the ZR-3 by Dr. Arnstein under direction of Dr. Eckener. It was flown across the Atlantic in 1924 and delivered to the United States navy. As an American ship, it was christened the Los Angeles and still is in service. (To Be Continued) Next: Exciting days In Friedrichshafen as Zeppelin building is re'umed. FYELASH IS HEALTH SIGN Length Marked in Consumptive Children, Doctor Asserts. flv Seirnce Srrvcir CHICAGO. Sept. 27.—Long eyelashes always have been considered a mark of beauty, but it remains for a Japanese physician tc take the joy out of life by point- | ing out that they also are a sign of : poor health. Dr. Tamacki of the j pedriatic department of the Kyushu Imperial university has completed a two-year study of more than 7.000 children and has concluded that most children with long eyelashes are in poor health, it has been reported to the American Medical as- ; sociation. The lashes of consumptive childrew grow twice as long as those of j healthy children. Sickly children ' nave longer and prettier lashes than those in good health, |

INSECTS JUST COMING HOME U. S. Pests Went South in Ice Age, Expert Says. BY EMMA REH STEVENSON Science Service Staff Writer MEXICO CITY, Sept. 27.—When the boll weevil first came out of Mexico to menace American cotton, it was taken as practically another proof of Mexican perversity. But, now that good feeling between the two republics stands high, Mexican fruit-fly notwithstanding, a government scientist of the neighboring country ventures to suggest many insect pests naturally blamed on Mexico may just be going back home to the United States to roost after thousands of years of wintering in the southland. That there was originally a great insect movement downward out of the United States into Mexico at the dawning of the last Ice age, is the opinion of Dr. Alfonso Damps, director of scientific investigations in the section of agricultural defense, of the Mexican department of agriculture. Mexico is one of the richest countries in the world today in localized native species of plants and animals, including the insects; and this is mainly because it served as a receiv-ing-net in which living things found a safe harbor when American territory became unbearable because of the great ice sheet and the cold weather on its fringes. The boll weevil, for one, has merely regained terrain lost thousands of years ago, Dr. Damps believes, and is only the beginning of a great insect movement northward. Japanese Ship Trade Menaced SHANGHAI, Sept. 27. Anew passenger and freight service operating Chinese-owned vessels is being planned between China and Korea and Japan. Officials of the ministry of communication are Investigating prospects of such service, apparently with the idea of cutting in on the trade of Japanese ships.

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CITY MANAGER LEAGUE NOT TO OFFERTICKET Political Chaos, Possible Split Vote Against Probable Success. It is highly improbable that the Indianapolis City Manager League will indorse an independent ticket in the city election Nov. 5, it appeared today. The league executive committee and directors will meet tonight at Sherman Inn. New York street and Sherman drive, to consider a report of the policy committee on the future program of the league. The state supreme court’s decision that the manager law is unconstitutional brought a sudden halt to the league’s campaign to elect seven city manager commissioners to take office in January. Third Ticket Inadvisable Leaders of the movement expressed doubt as to the possibility of bringing out a third ticket, representing the nonpartisan element, because of the present chaotic political situation. Bringing an independent ticket into the field would split the vote and aid in electing one of the party factions, in the opinion of some observers. Many attorneys question legality of a third ticket, since the primary date is past. The manager group probably will indorse the citizens’ school committee ticket tonight, urging the voters to back this group of prominent citizens who are interested in removing politics from the school. To Seek Convention The league likely will direct Its efforts to the movement for a constitutional convention which will make possible a real ctiy manager government with the adoption of the home rule provision. Under provisions of the 1929 general assembly an election will be held in November, 1930, to vote on the question of a constitutional convention. If the majority of voters favor revising the Indiana Constitution, which has not been altered since 1851, 100 delegates will be elected to meet in October, 1931, in an unlimited session to rewrite the Constitution. Then a special election will be called to submit the changes of the voters for ratification. This election could be in November, 1931, settling for all time the question of the right of cities to city manager government. TAXIDERMIST BALKS AT STUFFING LIVE LION Nero '“Executed” so Expert Can Go on With His Task. Bu United Press SAN MATEO, Cal., Sept. 27.—E. J. Lockwood, taxidemist, was pleased when he received an order to “stuff” a large lion. However, his pleasure gave way to gr:.ve concern when the lion arrived. He decided the big cat, which had long claws and wicked looking teeth, would object to being stuffed. Joe Darcy, proprietor of a sportig goods store, volunteered to make Nero “peaceful.” He did, with two well-placed shots. Nero was executed in the middle of a city street, before a crowd of several hundred persons who never before had witnessed a lion “hunt.” INHERITS $500,000 Jamaica Police Inspector Is Left Fortune by Relative. Bit United Press KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 27. Police Inspector Magee has gone to England to collect a fortune of $500,000 left him by a near relative who died recently in Australia. Inspector Magee has had charge of the police force of the Clarendon division for several years.

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