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Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
Nonetheless the Graf Zeppelin started for a non-stop flight of 5,000 miles...
Died. Walter Scherz, trans-Atlantic helmsman of the dirigibles Los Angeles (1924) and Graf Zeppelin (1928); of balloon gas poisoning; in Friederichshafen, Germany...
Fridtjof Nansen, 67, explorer, Rector of St. Andrews, High Commissioner of the League of Nations for relief work in Russia, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1922), arrived in Manhattan last week to raise $500,000 for a flight to the North Pole in the Graf Zeppelin with Dr. Hugo von Eckener, in 1930. "Arctic research will be the prime consideration," said Dr. Nansen. When only 26, he achieved the first crossing of Greenland. In 1892, he tried to reach the North Pole in a peculiar, round-shaped boat named Fram; three years later he was crossing...
...Hugo Eckener received the lighter-than-air trophy for his command of the Graf Zeppelin. His peer for 1927 was Lieut. Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl of the U. S. S. Los Angeles. Lady Mary Bailey was the best woman flyer last year, Lady Mary Heath the next best. Each flew between London and Capetown, in opposite directions. "Best flyers" designated for various countries...