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Through The Nose
Captain Anthony Eden announc- ed recently that defaults 1 the] contributions of member States to the League of Nations now amount |lo 29,401,85641 gold franes.
THURSDAY, APRIL
19, 1934.
AIR LESSONS
AMERICA
FROM
AMAZING SPEEDS ON SKY ROUTES
NIGHT AND DAY FLYING
(By Amy Mollison.)
London.
Įriage, controllable pitch propellers;
This represents an increase in the total defaults of,just under. 6. million gold fraucs withià the last rear-not bad going.
I have just returned from a long and flaps. Meanwhile the League Commis-tour of America.. Naturaly the sion sent to negotiate peace in the thing which interested me most interesting machine, as it is equip- Chaco War are sailing (first class) was, aviation. During my stay,ped with sleeping berths.
The war continues.
The Curtis "Conder" is another
for home having "abandoned any therefore, I saw as much as pos. The general tendency in Ameri- further efforts."
sible of America's great aviatioajca is to rely on twin-engined types. industry, her vast network of civil rather than four. Reliability is The dove of peace is an estim-air routes, her high-speed com-assured on two. They are obvious- able bird. But pigeon-fancing ismercial aeroplanes, her growingly cheaper to maintain than four an expensive hobby for those mail and passenger air services. engines. Only in the case of the who pay their subscriptiona.
Stamp In Plutocrati
I was given unusual facilities to 40-seater Clipper ships of Pan- fly on some of these routes, some-American airways, which fly down times as a co-pilot with her crack the coast and over the Caribbean te South America are four-engined. The report of the Commissioners aviators, sometimes
4 Kuest of Inland Revenue for the ye end-pilot, often as a passenger.
types used. Here speed is much The traditional hospitality of that on our own airways.
luwer and more comparable with ing March 31, 1933, was issued re- cently. It shows that there has the American people was evident The giant afr liner, with |been a big decrease in the wealthy everywhere. I have come away exception, is not favoured. It is with a deep impression of the claimed that the most efficient type
classes.
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Persons with incomes of £2000 a great panorama America has tojis the twin-engined machine cap- year and over numbered 102,428 in show. In particular, I have been able of high speed and carrying 1930-31. In 1931-32 they dropped amazed at the speeds with which not more than about 14 passez- to 89,790, with a decrease in aggre-her air routes are now operated. gera. gate income of nearly £00,000,000, In three years these speeds have|
Those with incomes of £30,000 and risen-or "stepped up," as they cabin noises are a great feature of Comfort and damping out of all over, who in these days (suys the ear from about 120 m.v.h. to 200 the latest American air lines. [report) may be classed as million-]m.p.h, and over.
(was interviewed by u newspaper· aires, declined by 263,
Speed is the only thing there to reporter in one. I sat in the front To-day the "millionaires" number "sell" in air travel. Safety. cum-seat; he sat at the back. He got 897. Of these only 94 have incomes fort, and even luxury are all taken his "story" with ease, and I spoke of £100,000 a year and over. for granted by the travelling in an ordinary tone, Noises are porations in the United States.
public. Hence we may expect to tracked down and eliminated by An American Administration Exit An Ex-Dictator see, year by year, increasing fast scientific means. jeager to revive activity and to
air liners plying from Atlantic to Ex-Dictator Waldemaras,
Smart "air hostesses" glido increase employment in their stubbly-haired, little
Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico silently about the cabin of the Hong Kong. Thursday, April 19, 1934. capital-goods industries could professor who was once supreme cheaper fares, and more
Speed brings economy of costs, machine. They bring the passen- profitably investigate the reasons ruler of Lithuania, has paid dearly
passengers cigarettes, magazines, hot, why British experience in this for the sympathy he has shown only beginning to learn in
gera. It is a lesson that we are coffee, cushions, and · generally respect has differed so sharply with the German population inland. I have flown on all the main of a ship's steward.
Eng carry out efficiently all the duties from their own.
'Memel.
air lines In America and am fami- The German Minister in Kovna liar with the machines they use liners are now being ordered by Great fleets of these new fast air recently protested against the Here are some figures of their per-most of the trunk-air routes which Lithuanian Government's treat-formances which will bear witness ply on 'America's air highways. Įment of tlie Germans in Memel. to all that I saw Government has been to expel stance, the new Douglas machine,
The only reply of the Lithuanian)
Take the latest wonder, for in
World Contrasts In Recovery.
Canadian Business
Methods.
the University
Your Daily Smile.
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crew of 3. It can cruise at 190mercial purposes capable of being m.p.h., but has reached higher converted to long-range, Agures on recent record runs. Yet speed bombers.
high-
There is increasing evidence of a broad recovery of business and of prices in many foreign
The committee appointed by the
they can easily be converted
Potential Bombing Planes countries. Some of it is sum-
One very, Important point is that marized in a report made by the Canadian House of Commons
to Waldemaras from the capital. He designed, Incidentally, by a Scots highspeed bombers in time of war. investigate business methods in the is ordered henceforth to live in the United States National Indus- {Dominion has begun its work provinces, and to take no part in It can y on either. It seats, up it is economie to maintain a large man, It has two 700-h.p. engines. The Americans are realising that Itrial Conference Board. This Over a large part of Canada "big political movements hostile to the to 15 passengers and carries and efficient civil air flect for com-- shows that the greatest gains in business" has long been almost as authorities. industrial production have been much object of dislike and made in those countries which susplein as in the United States. suffered in the greatest losses Lately these feelings seem to have
become more widespread, possibly |
it lands at only 60 m.p.h.- most The new Industrial Codes make. from 1929 to 1932. In France
as a repercussion of the réform
important safety factor.
provision for this change-over.. the physical volume of produc-campaign of President Roosevelt on
I read that fishing is a poor
It has controllable propellere Some of the clauses provide that tion declined 31 per cent, between the other side of the border. Lead man's sport. And golf is many a This means that for take off, climb, aircraft constructors shall
have or level flight. the pitch of the pro-assistance in, return for their air- 1929 and 1932, but recovered 12 ing Conservatives are now becom-poor mult's game,
peller can be altered to give maxi-craft in time of war. It has usual- (per cent. in 1933. Correspond-ing almost as outspoken in their
mum efficiency. It has a retractly been the pactice to design mill- ing figures for Germany are 39 criticism as representatives of the
"Why, what are you crying solable undercarriage which is with-tary machines and then to adapt prairie farmers. Mr. Stevens, the per cent. and 12 per Minister of Trade and Commerce, Cor, sonny?" asked Dad of his drawn during flight, thus cutting the design for civil purposes, and cent. for Sweden, 21 and 3; who as chairman of the committee four-year-old heir.
down 'head resistance and increas it is therefore a fairly simple mat- for Great Britain, 17 and 3. In will direct the investigation, warn- "I heard you say you were going speed. On the long rung ofter to reconvert them for defence Japan the low point of the deed the Canadian public recently that ing to get a new baby and I sup-over 2,000 miles from coast to pression was reached as early as unless certain "unfair and un-pose that means you'll trade me in coast from New York to Los An the first half of 1932. Canada, ethical" business practices were jon it he sobbed, whose economy is closely tied to eradicated they would in the end that of the United States, did destroy the whole capitallet system. Thought winter sports weren't not experience a turn until last which of course, In very much what. March. In most countries (here Mr. Roosevelt has been saying in
his broadcast speeches to the Amer-heard of a bob sleigh, France is an exception) "recovery continued practically without in-ican people and in his Messages to terruption .throughout 1933. Congress. The resolution setting jup the committee was proposed by With this increase of industrial Mr. Bennett himself and was pass- activity has come an improve-ed unanimously. The only com- ment in the price situation. In plaint made by the Opposition most countries wholesale prices seems to have been that an inquiry Jeither advanced or held their own had been so long delayed. In mov-
MY TAME TYPIST
expensive after all when she
"Spell
• * Attention, Profe sor Einstein Teacher to Pupil 'Straight."'
Pupil-"S-T-R-A-I-G-II-T." Teacher-"Correct; what does it
mean?"
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Pupil-"Without ginger ale."
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prin-
in 1933. The present report ex-ing his resolution Mr. Bennett said Financial Note presses the opinion that the re-that the committée would give The modern girl may lack lentless deflation of 1930-32 "has particular attention to such matters ciple, but she draws a lot of in- been definitely stopped" and as sweating shop practices; evasion terest. notes that "this is true of most of the minimum wage law; mass gold-standard countries as well buying by department and chain My Opinion
their currencies."
geles it can climb to beyond 20,000 | feet and thus clear the Rockies, which lie In its path. It also car-
rles a robot pilot as part of the standard equipment.
purposes.
(Continued on Page 11).
GET-RICK QUICK SCHEME
Belgrade Youth Plans To Win Lottery
ACCOMPLICE BREAKS DOWN
"Belgrade,
Coast To Court In A Day Owing to America's vast dis tances, every type of climate and weather is met with' on a long Alight, just as our pilots meet both trople and temperate zones on ourį Imperial routes. Whereas it takes {five daya and nights to go by train {from Atlantic to Pacific and about) An ingenious scheme by a Bel- ja fortnight by road, and whereas grade student for winning the century ago it took many, many first prize of £4,000 in the Jugos months in, the days of the covered lav State lottery has been foiled wagon, to-day the high-speed air by the police. liner can do the journey In less
Drago was once an inmate of than a day..
an orphans: home which sends On the recent test run of the boys to draw the tickets from
as those that have depreciated stores, and the use of this power to A writer says that for years crush the small retailer out of past he has been able to tell his One by-pro-existence; the financial methods' em-weight to a pound. He is for-new Douglas passenger, plane. the big drum. He had himself duct of these developments haployed in the flotation of industrial tunate in always having one to tell time of just over 13 hours assisted at the draw several
made from coast to coast.
drum.
been an improvement in the fin- companies; and the watering of it to.
times. ancial position of most govern-stock. Its brand object was to dis
Contrast this with the five days It is now alleged that he en- ments. A large number of coun-cover the causca of the large spread
tered into a conspiracy with an- taken by our line to cover a simi- other boy still at the home, to tries have succeeded in balanc-between the prices paid by consum-business and financial practices in Jar distance from London to Bagh fake the draw. ing their national budgets. "The ers and the returns received by pro- the United States. The progress of dad. It is only fair to explain outstanding exceptions are the ducers. No one believes that there his campaign has been followed no that part of our run is done by this boy was to have stolen a On the first day of drawing United States, Japan, Germany are prevalent in the Dominion where more closely than in Canada, train; even so, this could not make handful of numbers out of the and Italy." In all important fin-abuses on a scale at all comparable where the general sympathy felt for a difference of more than a day. ancial markets there is an abun-with those which have recently his alims was reflected in the recent Where American lines win is Then Drago would have dance of idle funds. Short-term been disclosed in America. But the speech of Mr. Malghen, the ex- that they fly by night as well as brought up. whichever ticket rates of interest are extremely conomic and financial relations of Prime Minister who now leads the by day,
" bearing one of these number: low. But only in Great Britain the two countries are exceedingly Conservative Party in the Senate: The Northrop Delta is one of which happened to remain un- has the long-term rate declined business in Canada has become to the President's polleles; but he felt at 201 m.ph. and land at only 58. On the last day of the draw-
close, and it is suspected that big He could not, he said, approve of all their newest planes. It can cruise sold. below the pro-war level. It is some 'extant infected. Hence the that Industry could not survive It has trailing edge faps which are when the highest prize at stake interesting to note that, in sharp determination manifested by both under the old policy of "beggar my let down to assist slow Innding, this accomplice would have, contrast to America's experience, Government and Opposition to dis neighbour," and that a system of carries 8 passengers. new security issues. last year in cover how
nalmed the ticket he had stolen far the infection has codes was now needed such. Then there is the Bosing, an- and pretended to take it from England were the largest for any gone and to clean it out of the az had been adopted in the other famous American "trane the drum. year since 1930. Foreign loans Canadian system. It is natural United States. He was confident of port" machine, With a cruising But, before this plan would be floated in London were in them- enough that this reforming seal the success of the Roosevelt experi-speed of only 59, It can take 10 put into effect, the younger boy selves larger than the total issues should have been quickened by Hr, mente, from which he believed passengers, and also has much de broke down and betrayed Drago Ifor the account of all private cor- Roosevelt'd war against dishonest that Canailă had much to learn, vicah za retractable under-car-to the police-Reuter.