San Francisco, Sept. 12.
It is not surprising that the recent successful round-world trip of the German Zeppelin should have intensified the interest of the United States in this class of air craft as a dividend producer. Immediately the Graf started on her trip from Lakehurst, several large financial groups started investiga tions regarding possibilities for th class of craft in the field of commercial flying, and on the Pacific Coast particularly the idea gains currency that the lighter.than-air jeraft will be more suitable for transoceanic flying than th aeroplane. This belief was intensified when Col, Lindbergh, probably red statement, declared soon the Graf had_ been sighted the San Francisco Bay, after its phenomenal run from Tokyo, that "the dirigible as now developed is superior to the aeroplane for transoceanic work, and that there is no conflict between aeroplanes and lise of one will benefit the other."
The fact that two dirigibles larger than the German leviathan are under construction for the United States Navy at Akron, Ohio, has also Geen made to serve the means of increasing interest in this type, although "when Detroit (the great city that produced tha "Tin Lizzie") a few days ago brought forth the world's first all dirigible, financiers on this felt" that they should stay thole hands to sce what this all-metal type could accomplish,
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