text: 2 HERE’S AN IDEA OF HOW THE GRAF ZEPPELIN SHAPES UP IN SIZE WITH THE CAPITOL f ' *W : f| ?- "■'■ ;? \ * , ~ * Z *W < : < ‘‘^' r 'e? \; '/\;>; ’ v '</ \,>?"': } ‘ ' *•. '•V \ «' f 5-V •: - ' z ' ''/ 1V“- -■ »tc>/ / c?" Irflltlil BM ___________ . ■. -a*. 'aTB iW .vp*: -'■'■*- '.. ■Pfe** r _ o'- —e- T;<y>,, 'i* n -''y '■ . ' r ? J '-' ; ' ? WRiuXx.wL ? .»*. ■».■ ' I m wWBUWfIIiW ml wWr It? jto f NU i io®pil*S tat tat I h -I mi Litw* |^E m IK m 4JUMJBJBJBJ&m» >< w-w , w , *w'v*^bßß.■t** Mg ?t b\x -■. THIS COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH GIVES WASHINGTONIANS AN EXCELLENT IDEA OF THE ENORMOUS SIZE OF THE ZEPPELIN NOW CROSSING THE ATLANTIC rEPPEMTWICISS: SHOU UNO SOW UNO (Continued from First Page.) < and set forth across the Atlantic. It was a fitting occasion for the start of this epic voyage, for it was the anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492. But, while Columbus journeyed in tiny fehallops, requiring months to cross the Atlantic, the Zep pelin was racing through the clouds at express-train speed. The general belief on both sides of the Atlantic is that the flight will be a success and that it will arouse fresh interest in dirigibles as swift passenger and mail car riers. Air Worthiness Proved The air worthiness of the Graf was shown by the fact that she bucked headwinds for 500 miles after starting her historic journey. Even with this handicap she travelled at a speed of about 50 to 53 miles an hour. After leaving Funchal, Madeira, aided by a ateady tail wind, the dirigible worked her speed up to nearly 85 miles an hour. This was maintained steadily for hours until well out over the At lantic. In Communication The Zeppelin has kept in con stant wireless communication with ehips, reporting “all is well on board” at intervals. Weather bulletins were trans mitted to the air liner, enabling Commodore Eckener to change his course at will to avoid squalls and gusts of windy rainstorms. LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 13.—At 1:30 a,- m. today the naval radio station here heard a radio conver sation between the Graf Zeppelin ■nd an unknown ship in which the dirgible gave its position as about 32 north latitude, 36 west longi tude.” ’ The position given is about half way between Madeiras and Ber muda. Later the naval station received Word from the Radio Marine Cor poration’s station at East Moriches, Long Island, that a message had been intercepted there giving the dirgible’s position at 5 a. m. (east ern standard time) as about 1,400 miles west of the Madeiras. This would indicate that the Zep pelin was maintaining an average ■peed of about 70 miles an hour since passing over the Madeiras at abuut 9 o’clock yesterday morning. The Zeppelin was in conversa tion with “Ded," believed to be the call letters of a steamship. The naval station operator could hear the conversation only very indis tinctly and said the call letters might have been wrong. The conversation ended when the Zeppelin’s operator asked "Ded” to call again on a wave length of 1.850 meters as static was causing too much interference." BERLIN, Oct. 13.—The German dirigible. Graf Zeppelin, was last re ported here today as being 2,700 kilo meters east of the Bermudas. It is now estimated here that the dirigible will not reach Lakehurst, N. J., until Monday morning. Ac cording to Information received here, there are two depression areas ahead of the Zeppelin which presage ■tormy weather- It is believed here this may cause Eckener to again veer to the southward seeking better •weather. It i® expected that the Zeppelin will reach Bermuda some time Sun day morning. The War Department today took ■teps to provide an aeroplane escort for the Graf Zeppelin when she ap proaches New’ York city on her transatlantic flight. Six planes will take off from Mitchel Field, L. 1., as the big dirigible swings up the seaboard, constituting the first American re ception committee to greet the ship. Major W. O. Ryan will be the flight leader. * The fliers have been instructed to escort the Graf Zeppelin as she sails above New York city, but have also been instructed not to attempt to get too close to her. By International News Service HORTA, Azores, Oct. 13.—The Graf Zeppelin w r as racing through the sky at top speed when she passed south of the Azores. Com modore Eckener was evidently try ing to make up for the time he lost between Lyons, France, and Bar celona, Spaing when the ship was forced to buck strong headwinds. It was between 9 and 10 o’clock last night when the great silver liner passed the Island of San Miguel. It wag about 35 miles dis tant. The wind had fallen but there were guests of rain. The rain did not interfere with the airship which was ploughing through the misty clouds at a speed estimated at from 75 to 80 miles an hour. The Zeppelin was in radio com munication with ‘ the local station while passing by and received weather bulletins. HOOMDED IN ARLINGTON ARLINGTON COUNTY, Oct. 13. Speaking at a mass meeting held last night under the auspices of the Anti-Smith Club of Ballston in the James building, attended by more than 200 persons, John B. "Williams, assistant district attorney for the District of Columbia, declared Her bert Hoover is better prepared for the office of President of the United States than any other living man. "Much is being said about many Republicans voting for Alfred E. Smith on account of his position on the prohibition question issue, “that may be true, but Hoover will receive more Democratic votes than he loses from the dissatisfied Re publicans.” he said. John T. Lyons, president of the club, announced that Charles I. Stengle, former member of Con gress from New York, and a mem ber of Tammany Hall, will be. the speaker at a rally to be held in Odd Fellows Hall. Clarendon, Sat urday night, October 20. Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock the cornerstone of the new Ballston Christian Church will be laid. The rpeaker will be the Rev Harvey Boher Smith, pastor of the Co lumbia Height’s Christian Church of Washington. Th* board of supervisors at Its meeting last night approved the modified contract of Asa E. Phil lips, chief engineer of the water department, as suhmitteed by him. Phillips said the ’water syster has now reached that stage where it can well be carried under the supervision of the county en gineer and he felt, in making the request, that there would he a financial saving to Arlington County. The October term of the circuit court of Arlington county will con vene Monday morning at 10 o’clock siding U<lge Howard W. Smith pre- Accordlng to Information from the office of the commonwealth’s attorney there will be more than 50 cases presented to the grand jury. Dr. George Bolling Dee, of New York, and Ravensworth farm near hairfax, grandson of Gen. Robert E. Lee will be the principal speaker at a Democratic rally to be held tonight at Bailey’s Cross Roads under the auspice® of the Fairfax county Democratic committee. autohtsTmbulance An Army ambulance carrying a patient to Walter Reed Hospital was struck by an automobile driven by John Kelliner, 24,, of the 300 block of McLean Ave. S. w , at Twenty-eighth and M Streets North west. Roth machines were slightly damaged. No on* was injured. THE WASHINGTON TIMES Carried to Safety V H". F -■■■ : Aw ! EK ® j ■ "’ : x WIKS < '' * ? KEI - ApiKglt’"" * T * HpaH HkSj.-. * ■ * tlO - ’ •• ,w. ■*. w f fcsEii»>>z. ■> 3gy W are* , wmub) E V-* >■. ■ .1 g<? . r>* -QcS: gWJEHM I' r h A ■■ i 2 St , SI iSst*. B 9 H . <v —’rime< Staff Phote FIRE FIGHTERS IN HERO ROLE ' MISS ELSIE SEITZ, of the Hawthorne Apartments, 1527 I St. N. W., who was carried to safety by firemen when fire swept the basement of the building, is shown here pointing to the spot from which firemen carried to safety. The fire caused damage of SSOO. TA® National Daily 1 SUH WAITING TOWELCOME ZEPPELIN (Continued from First Page.) richshafen, albiet without passeng ere. A grand reception to th© officer* and crew of the Graf Zeppelin will be extended Monday night at the air station. Music will be provided by the naval air station band and a jazz orchestra will be imported from Philadelphia. There will be a vaudeville program, six boxihg bouts and other entertainments. The affair will be directed by Charles A. Oberwaker ot New York, head of the United German Socie ties. About 800 person* are ex pected to attend. It will be “Lake hurst’s official welcome.” Great Crowd Expected The real welcome, however, will come when the ship lands. There is every indication that the crowd that will road its greeting to the Graf Zeppelin will greatly surpass the throng which cheered the ZR<;3 on its arrival in 1924. Special ma rine police have roped off a large area for parking space for auto mobiles, and New Jersey State po lice have been stationed at inter vals on the roads for miles . from the hangar to prevent congestion. Radio advices filtering into the station here are eagerly scanned for information that wpuld indicate the possible hour of arrival of the air liner. As the hour of arrival ap proaches interest increases, and even the officials of the field have become imbued with spirit of the oc casion. - Up in the press room of the hangar, telegraph instruments are clicking forth stories of the happen ings in and about Lakehurst. A part of the air station school room hae been converted into telegraph and pn s headquarters, with a score of telegraph operators juggling dots and dashes from a seemingly endless stream of copy tossed to them from a battalion of newspaper cor respondents. It is estimated that 100,000 words will be handled during the 12 hours preceding the arrival of the Zeppe lin and twice that amount after the huge craft arrives and details of the .epochal voyage become available. Housing Difficult Extraordinary demands regarding quarters and subsistence for the extra naval personnel, crew of the airship and police, have been made upon Capt. John Gross, com manding t e Marine detachment. Although he has marshalled all re sources to ledge and feed them, he is faced with a real problem. And besides he ■> ”«* secure hay and feed for some 40 horses of State troopers who have been assigned here for special duty. Then, too, several hu«- dred extra sailors have arrived to help bring the Zeppelin into the hangar and they must be fed and quartered. The housing and feeding of the great influx of visitors is the big gest of all. That has fallen upon the business interests of the three nearby towns of Lakehurst, Lake wood, and Toms Rivgr. Hundreds of persons have wired for hotel reservations and have been turned Many homes are being trans formed into boarding houses and nearly all hotel rooms are equipped with extra cots. Even so, thou sands probably will sleep in parked automobiles tonight. Taxi drivers were reaping a harv est transporting the thousands from Lakewood and Lakebjirst to within striking distance of the hangar. Speakeasies in Lakewood were doing a thriving business last night and they expect to smash all records to night and Sunday. Lions International Program Completed Plans to entertain the officers and directors of Lions Interna tional, when they meet here Oc tober 26 and 27, have been com pleted. Ben A. Ruffin, Richmond, Va., international"president, was among those present at the Mayflower Hotel meeting yesterday, where arrangements for the affair were made. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 10S8 Zeppelin Guest Sets Sea-Flying Styles By International New® Service FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Oct. 13.—What does a woman wear when flying across the Atlantic! The grave responsibility for answering this question and setting the fashion for other women to follow in the future has fallen upon Lady Drummond Hay, the only woman aboard the Graf (Count) Zeppelin on its maiden voyage to the United States, and, therewith, the first regular transatlantic woman •ir passenger in history.— ■ Lady Drummond Hay is known throughout Europe and the Orient both for her beauty ana her brains. She i® the only woman editorial 'writer on political and world af fairs in England and has inter viewed most of th* men who havj guided or are still guiding the af fairs of Europe, Egypt, Turkey and China. Give* Personal Views Besides writing authoritative articles on world affairs for numer ous European and American news papers and magazines, she also has a special page of her own in the London "Sphere,” In which she ex presses her view® on events in the capitals of the world. Two other women—Ruth Elder and Amelia Earhart —have flown over the Atlantic in airplanes (the former not quite getting all the way over), but they were not regular “passengers.” They were "heroines” dressed in pilot overalls with a lip stick and mirror as the only luxu ries aboard. The Graf Zeppelin, however, is a regular passenge ship with a dining room and after noon tea and perhaps after-dinner dancing. Flying togs are taboo upon the airship. Things will be very for mal. The men will wear “con ventional black In the evening._ either dinner jackets or full dress.” But what does a woman wear under the circumstances? t Then it came out that a special transatlantic flight wardrobe had been designed for lAdy Drummond Hay under the personal supervision of Gordon Selfridge, who is owner of the famous Selfridge department Candle Starts Blaze ;B|P • A Bv A ” a Pt TP «Jl h I JB v 1 ■ Wl'" 1 "' Irai Wi Bk P* I Vw. \ Bhkt I - ;> 3t b. \ ’’ a*v * i KF•. i I IB» Kt-< % ‘. r " **' I* i BXi i Bih lb* Kml w i k vfl Kfio w’ * 'fl^W/^r^ r UM K T < Yr/ I i W 'flL r ' Hkml fl 1 31 L.. ■. —Times Staff Photo BURNED TRYING TO EXTINGUISH FIRE MRS. BESSIE DECKELBAUM, above, of the 900 block R St. N. W., was burned about the hands last night when she attempted to extinguish a fire started when an overturned candleabra ignited a tablecloth in the house. Firemen were called to extinguish the fire. store in London, and there Is the wardrobe. While explaining the above, just before the start. Lady Drummond Hay was wearing a black with white pin-stripe tailored suit with a white silk blouse over which was thrown a black facecloth coat with a high Marie Stuart collar of niched Ivory velvet and cuffs of the same material, a close-fitting hat, smoke gray stockings and black shoes with low heels and crepe rubber soles. “I had these shoes especially made for this trip,” she explained. “First, because the ordinary high heeled shoes which I wore on the first trial flight struck so sharply into the thin flooring that I was afraid I might puncture it and fall through; second, because ordinary feather shoes are likely to have nails in the heels which might strike a spark against some metal of the ship and sparks are not a comfortable thought with so much inflammable gas above one.” Carries Velvet Cat She also wore a white camelia in the buttonhole of her coat and a Japanese crystal chain around her neck. A gray squirrel coa> hung over her arm, and in her hand she carried a velvet cat. _ “It might get cold up in the air,’2_ she explained,” and I understand there is no heating on the ship. So it is best to be provided for. “What about the cat?” she was asked. "Oh, that cat has been my mascot since I was a little girl. I never go away without it even for a single night. EPISCOPALIANS HALT WORK TORES! (Continued from First Page.) Mercy, Kllngle and Adams Mill Roads Northwest. The conference was called to further efforts in obtaining from ’ the convention authorisation for an ordained order of deaconesses, which for the first time would i give women a distinctive place In the ministry of the church. All meetings adjourned early hi ’ order to make the scheduled trip to Mt. Vernon, home of George Washington, Missionary Problem Meanwhile, the foreign missionary problems of the church have become more acute with the open defiance of the Japanese government’s order that religion shall not be taught students in any school in that country. Though there are many advocates of curtailment of missionary work in Japan at the convention, the champions of even further expan sion won a victory yesterday, when Dr. Robert Johnston, of St. John’s Church here, secured passage of a motion in the house of deputies in dorsing a campaign to raise |1,000.- 000 for the St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo. Dr. Rudolph Bolling Teusler, di rector of the hospital, referred to the proposed curtailment as "sui cidal,'* styling Japan as the only barrier "between the United States and Russian bolshevisi..." He fur ther assailed retrenchment on the ground that “Japan is forever pull ing our chestnuts out of the politi cal fire in China." Militarism Opposed In-spite of the Russian "menace," however, a resolution opposing com pulsory military education in_schools end colleges, was presented by Bishop Edward L. Parsons, of Cali fornia, and referred to the commit tee on social service. The resolu tion contained arguments that mili tary training makes the pliant youth "favorable to reliance on force." It also heartily indorsed the International Court of Justice and the League of Nations. Because of the limited capacity of the steamer Charles Macalester, tickets for the trip byway of the Mt. Vernon Electric Railway also will be issued. In addition to the growds on the steamer and the elec tric cars, it was indicated that hundreds will make the trip by au tomobile. If a wreath is to be placed on Washington’s tomb no one at con vention headquarters has been noti fied. No formal program has been set for the visit to the famous shrine and it is improbable that there will be exercises of any kind at the tomb. Religious School to Open Classes in the school of applied religion will be conducted, begin ning today, in the Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K Streets Northwest. The school was organized by the national council to afford those in attendance at the convention an op portunity to familiarize themselves with the aims and objects of the church, its world-wide program, methods of financing missionary work and how the funds are col lected and applied. A field department conference will be held in the parish house of the Church of the Epiphany, and the triennial meeting of the Church Missions Publishing Company will open; The conference of the Society of the Nazarene will open tomorrow and continue throughout the Week, the meetings to be held at Trinity Church, Third and C Streets North west. Visiting bishops will occupy the pulpits of Episcopal churches in and near Washington. An open air service will be held at the Wash ington Cathedral at 4 p. m. and a mass meeting by the National Com mission on Evangelism is-scheduled for tomorrow night at the Church of the Epiphany.. 