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Show Zeppelin Passengers Casual When Discussing' Storm Blimp Ran Into NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKE-1 HURST, N. J, May 11 (Aaaooiated Press) Aa aaauaily aa though they were discussing merely s rough crossing sn sn ocean ner, ths Grsf Zeppelin passengers deaoribed to' J day laat night' storm sff Cape H otter ot-ter s, in whieb Or. Hugs aoksnsr seid his airship received ths went butfeting it hod ever hsd. They sil aaud they were not afraid and they certainly showed ao traces of fright. - -I can t give you any hair-rsls-Ing impress Ion , (or there weren't any." aald tha Infants Alfonso, flrat cousin of tbs king of Spain. -Oh -e rt was rough, hot not S'akA fttffeurt o&V K-1 served Mrs. Laura Durston af Syr a. cuss, N. T. - Mrs. Mary Pierce of New Tork City, who waa aboard wben the Zeppelin got Into trouble over tbe Rhone valley a year ago, flrat brought up tha subject of laat night s storm aa shs and ths ether paaaengera wars tiding la tha bua from ths hangar to the welfare bouse. -We got Into a little baa) weather last night." aha aald quits Indifferently. Indiffer-ently. . ! -Waa K as rough as It was over tbe Rhone valley r shs waa asked. -Ob, yea." Bbs replied smilingly. Rougher t think, it whirled, as , . . ... .'..... Zeppelin Passengers Casual When Discussing Storm Blimp Ran Into (Continued (ram par I.) round and banged ui up a bit, and It rained a lot and rot pretty bumpy." And Just to ahow that aha vii till alrmlndd. Mrs. Plerc; at aoon aa her baggag bad been cleared, aet off In an airplane (or Roosevelt Roose-velt field with William B. Leeda and Dr. Meglas. physician to th king of 8 pain. Hhe will board the Graf Eeppelln again Monday sight to meet Mr. Pierce In Seville. George Croue of Syracuse, N. T., who completed today hla fourth voyaira on th Zeppelin, aald the alrehlp acted like a bucking broncho during lent night's atorm. "It reminded m of that flrtt trip back to Germany In the fall of till, the timet w got Mown back over th coast of Newfoundland. "But 1 wasn't frightened laid r.lght any more than I waa the flret time, Thar; something about the Graf it'a else and a feeling of atabillty which together with the confidence Dr. Eckener Inapirea, apparently ap-parently prevents any Idea of being afraid from entering one's mind. We were all up lent night, aitting In th aalsn. And after It was over we went peacefully to bed. I slept like a baby." Th Infant Alfonso, tall and military III hla bearing. Is chief of the Spanish heavlr-than-alr force. He bed mad on trip previously In aa airship bark In 12I. "Traveling In a Zeppelin Is hardly hard-ly like traveling at all." be said today. to-day. "It'i all comfort. No nolsa and faster than a train. Th coon trv Juat goes paat while you stsnd still." |