THE CHINA" MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935
STRANGE CONTRAST BETWEEN
EUROPEAN
CHARGED AND
DISCHARGED
Obstruction On Foot-Path
COMPANY NOT INDIVIDUAL AT FAULT
Appearing before Mr. A: W. G. H. Grantham at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Mr. H. H. Mundy, of Messrs. Dodwell and Company, residing at No. 26, Hankow Road. top floor, pleaded not guilty to two summones against him, for creating a ruf» sance by throwing'a quantity of house rubbish into the street from No. 20, Hankow Road at. 12.45 p.m. on January 29, and for causing obstruction by leaving n large packing case on the foot path of Hankow Road ut the same time. but after the evidence of the Indian constable he was discharged on both counts.
In his evidence the constable stated that at about 12.10 p.m. on the day in question he was on duty in Hankow Road when he saw five coulies with a large packing case and a frigiduire on the foot path. He went up to them and cautioned them to remove the box. When ba returned about half an hour later the box was still there, and he saw a coolle throw some rubbish on to the road." He arrested the coolle and after making him pick the rub-, bish up started to take him to the police station!
"
On arriving at the junction of Peking Road and Hankow Road, the constable said the defendant stop- ped him and released the coolie and asked what the matter was. The constable handed his book to the de- fendant and asked him, in English, to put down his name and address, which the defendant did. At 4 p.m. on the same day, when he went off duty, he reported, the matter to In- apector Stimson, who is in charge of the Water Police Station.
Makes Enquiries
Mr. Mundy then said that he lived 'three doors away from the seeno, where a job was being done by. Dodwell and Company, but not by his department. He had passed the constable outside the Star Thea
Jimmy Doolittle, one-time speed king of the United States Army air corps, stopped setting transcontinental records because his wife thought it was too dangerous. She was flying with Nim when he set a new record for spanning the country by Bying from Glenudle. Califorpla, to New York in 11 hours and 59 minutes. He Is seen helping her from the ship (inset) on their arrival.
MAJOR DOOLITTLE IN NEW RECORD CROSSES AMERICA IN LESS THAN 12 HOURS
RICKENBACKER BEATEN BY
SOME ·MINUTES!
TWO
GREAT WOMEN FLIERS
MISS EARHART
AND
AMY MOLLISON
WHAT IS LEFT FOR THE RECORD-MAKER?
NO JOB, NO PROSPECTS
TWO women, both world famous as aviators, stood out recently in sharp and piquant con- trast.
Amelia Earhart, wife of the American pub- lisher Putnam, landed at Oakland, California, after flying from Honolulu, 2,400 miles across the Pacific. She is the first woman to fly the Pacific alone.. She is the only woman who has flown the Atlantic alone.
* And in London, sitting in her Park-lane flat, Amy Mollison, who ranks with Miss Earhart as the greatest woman pilot," com- plained that record-breaking flying was finished, and that she could not find a job.
UNITED STATES'
Five thousand people crowded the. Oakland aerodrome to welcome Miss Earhart,
She left Honolulu saying that she
Mr. Amelia Earhart Putnam, the first woman to span, the Atlantic and most of the Pacific in analo flight, is still my baby" to Mrs. Amy Otis Enthart, the New England-born resident of Eos Angeles. Her mother fond ly shows photographs of Amelia at the ages of 3 and 7, reproduced here from? the family album, as America takes off its hat to Mrs. Putnam, shown above as she was given a New York greeting.
WOMAN FLIER'S
MANY "FIRSTS" the United States. She is the first
was merely going on a teat fight. NEW FIGHTERS FOR R.A.F.
AMELIA EARHART'S BRILLIANT" LIST
MORE THAN ANY WOMAN
OF TO-DAY
Eighteen hours later she landed in
person, man or woman, to fly solo
from Honolulu to the American NEW MIAMI-NEW YORK MARK
coast.
She did not circle round the landing fleld, but shot down so rapidly that, the crowds below were uncertain of her identity.. When the cockpit opened she ap Amelia Earhart stamped her peared, fresh and smiling, with her name Indelibly into the newspaper blonde hair not even tousled, headlines. In 1928 by becoming the
Amelia Earhart was the
first frut woman to fly successfully woman to fly the Atlantic as a do- across the Atlantic, and her aerial pilot in 1929. She flew the At accomplishments since have made lantic alone in 1932, landing in her Indisputably America's premier Ireland... woman aviator.
No Work
She probably has more worth- And about the same time Amy! while "Brsts" in-her record than Mollison was saying that she has any other woman of her genera-no definite plans for the future, no, tion. They include:
job, and no prospects.
First woman to fy the Atlantic. First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, en
First person to fly the Atlantic, twice.
First woman to fly an autogiro.
MAJOR James H. Doolittle, noted speed 410, First person to cross the United
tre with the coolie in his custody, established a trans-Continental record for stated in an autogiro. that it was just an ordinary affair. transport aeroplanes on January 15, touch-
but paid no attention to it thinking
J
t
"Record flying in' finished. There is nothing in it any more," she said..
"Many people will think I am grousing: I am not. I am merely telling the truth.
"Any, more record flying-as it exists at the moment--would be First woman to receive, the Dis-mere repetition. Azd nobody seems ready to accept anything First woman to receive the Na. really new. medal.
He later saw the driver from Doing his wheels at Floyd Bennett Airport, Newinguished Flying Cross well's lorry, whom he recognised, York, 11h. 59m. after his takeoff at Los Angeles. tional Geographic Society's gold
running towards the policeman, so
he stopped and watched. A long! conversation took place between the driver, coolie. and constable, after which they all returned to the spot where the coolie was alleged to have thrown the rubbish.
TRAFFIC LANES FOR AIR
Major, Doolittle was timed at
First woman to make a trans. Floyd Bennett at 8-26 a.m. (eastern continental non-stop flight. standard time) and 81⁄2 minutes Halder of women's transconti- later he set the low-winged trans-nental speed record: 17:07:30. port monoplane down at Newark Former holder of women's inter-
continental speed fights had end-mh.
He went up to them and enquired MARKED BY RADIO Airport. Although previous trans-national speed... record 181.18
BEACONS
AVIATION EXPERT'S SUGGESTION
for record purposes,
In discharging the defendant Transport Section of the Society seconds. His Worship stated that Dodwell's of British Aircraft Constructors at should have been summoned with Grosvenor House,
Major Doolittle was accom❤ panied on the flight by his wife,
fornia.
STRENGTH IN AIR
"I have an idea for a stratosphere fight, but I cannot get any one to help me finance it.
·find.
ido."
ESTABLISHED
Time Cat By Two Hours
Averaging 183 miles an hour, an Eastern Air Lines passenger plane set a new Miami to New York re- cord on January 14, racing the 1,200 miles in Ch., 34m. and 20s.
Twelve passengers, were carried in the plane, with Dick Merrill as pilot and E. A Barber co-pilot. The time mado was two hours faster than any previous flight by
the lines.
SINGLE-SEATER
TYPES NOW BEING
GIVEN TRIALS Retractable Wheel Fittings
DAY AND NIGHT FIGHTERS
Competitive trials are now in prý“. gress with new single-seat fighters for the RA.F., and of these one in. the first British war aeroplane to be fitted with retractable wheels, the object being Increased speed. with the wheels tucked up after
AUSTRALIAN AIRleaving the ground.
Growing Popularity
Of Service.
10,000 LETTERS A WEEK
The number of letters sent from Britain to Australia by each weekly air mai) is now over 10,000.
This new machine is a Bristol de-s sign, and is a monoplane. In trial fights it has developed great speed, but details are at present secret.
Of the new Day and Night Fighters, dow uniter trial two are monoplanes a Vickers and the Bristol referred to abave,
The Bristol is a type of great Interest. The wheels are retract- ed electrically, the pilot merely having to move a switch, an indica- tor on the instrument board in When the service was opened, forming him whether the wheels
December 8. 1,031 h of mail are down or tucked up.
The Super-Fury
improvement.
*So what can I do? I can't go back to an office job, after becoming acenstamed to the life I have led.^^] was carried, representing about must have open air, active work. 30.000 letters. This figure was, of "The trials now in progress are And such a thing is very difficult to course, exceptional, and presented for Day and Night Fighters, not “I was to have joined Hillman's fair, estimate of what might be Interceptors, and it is not to be in- as to the reason for the trouble. The constable tried to explain inf
ed here, Major Doolittle's time at First woman licensed in the Airways. Then Mr. Hillman died, sands of philateliste future. Thou- Zerred that present RAF bul Chinese, but the defendant made it
the New York field was considered United States to carry passengers and everything was left unsettled that they philateliste sent letters so ment is obsolete: far from it understood that he did not know
that they might have copies of the Super-"Fury," for example, which I suppose that has fallen through first air mail stamps, and many is gradually to supersede the earlier for,hire in cabin-planes weighing what he was speaking about, where-
"I don't know what I am going to His time of 11 hours 59 Up to 7700 pounds. upon the constable took out his book
early Christmas grestings were in-Fary" type, has. minutes broke by minutes the Pacific, from Honolulu to Call Mr. and Mrs. Mollison have sold
And now, first woman to fly the
cluded.
speed of 250 and gave it to the defendant saying)
miles per hour, and climbs 20,000ft. mark set on November 8. last, "Put name book".
Proving Es Value The defendant Suggestions for developing air year by Maj. Eddie Rickenbacker
their 200 m.p.h. Comet racing air
in less than nine minutes, and it On December 15 506 lb. of mail can, therefore, hold its own with concluded by saying that he never transport in Britain were made at when he flew from Los Angeles to
plane to the Portuguese Govern- saw any box on the footpath.
the first conference of the Alx Newark in 12 hours 3 minutes 50
ment.
About 25,000 was paid for was carried, and an the follow-any foreign machines,
ing weeks the amounts fell to it.
And speed is not everything. 928 lb. and 290 lb. respectively. On During design and construction, January 5 the amount rose to 355 and even after adoption, it is usual Ib. and each following 'plane car for types to undergo considerable ries an even larger amount.
"The new service has proved its Increased Armament value to several firms in this coun try," said a Post Office official. "It in Fighter design noticeable at the Among the intereating tendencies has been used very successfully to last Paris Show was increase of send samples of goods to Austra armament, many types having four la.. Actually the air mail has instead of two machines-guns, A stimulated trade with Australia as Czechoslovakian biplane Fighter well as caused on increase in the had two machine-guna on each side total amount of mail carried--by in the lower wing, so monated in ship as well as by air.”
the wing itself that only the The cost of letters or packages muzzles are visible, Founded in 1910, The Bristorby this service is now 16. 8d. per have always had two cater Figh
The French Aeroplane Company. Limited, oz., put an already announced ters, and Britain has lately adopted ton, Bristol, were one of the by the Postmaster-General, all them. pioneers in the British Aeroplane first-class mail for the Empire will industry. Their various
"Bull
Most of the French single-seaters eventually be carried by air for have very powerful engines, the Gyd. Before this becomes an object being such superiority of MK II Aeconomic proposition, however, speed that their pilots would be, been each weekly mail will have to able to engage ar to break
pro-
the obstruction, instead of Mr. The delegates' represented air Mundy.
line operators, municipalities, and Inspector Stimson: "Shall i owners of air ports and aero ceed to take a summons out against dromes throughout the country. Dodwell's
Major R. H. Thornton, chairman the Liverpool · 'Civil Aviation Committee, in a paper, suggested.
Beacons for air routes; The setting up Airways board;
His Worship: "I am not instruct-for ing you."
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
"The R.M.S. Empreas of Canada.
after her annual overhaul, will berth at the Kowloon Wharf
at
V
of a national
An hourly service between London and Manchester at 200 miles an hour.
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9.30 a.m. to-morrow, prior to sailing car was revealed at the Central
at 7 a.m, next Tuesday.
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INSURANCE RATES ON AEROPLANES. £50 A YEAR ENOUGH ON CHEAP MACHINE
PREMIUMS (LESSEN WITH PILOT'S EXPERIENCE
.(By W. COURTENAY) Twelve leading insurance com.
SIX MAJOR POWERS COMPARED
The relative strength of the six major air powers is as under:
No. of Military Planes
Country Russia
3000
France
United States Italy
2286* 2200
1507
Britain
1484
801
Magistracy this morning when pentes have formed a new.com Japan
BRISTOL COMPANY EXTENDS
11
Pioneer British Firm In Plane Building
ENGINES IN USE ALL OVER AIRLY THE WORLD
action at will. Some sacrifice of manoeugrability is unavoidable, pecially into the case of mono-
Balchen, the world famous aviatorplanes. may be asked to take charge of Nors say'a developing, commercial aviation, the newspaper Tidens Tegn says. He has often expressed, a desire to live in Norway when he finishes with aviation sively carried on in the cotton fields of expeditions
the southern States of Ame
Cheung Sang. a 35-year-old un-pany to specialise in aviation risks. If the proposed 2,400 planes dog modela have ach An unclaimed telegram for Downe employed, was convicted and] What are the risks in civil avia should be added to the United high reputation, and Williamsons, from Singapore, is sentenced to three months impri- tion to-day end how are they States Army air, fences, first place medel, in particular, lying at the Eastern Extension Tele- sonment by Mr.-W. Schofield assessed?
would-be obtain with a total of adopted by the air forces of several amount to 25 tons. graph Co., Ltd.
I sought an answer from the Bri-4,600 military aeroplanes. The countries, in addition to our own A fine of $20, in default one tish Aviation Insurance Company, extra 600 are naválí plánes. Sentence of two months hard month's hard labour was this which has been the pioneer son-
Royal Air Forc
The Army began the me labour was this morning imposed morning imposed on Chan Chal, a cern in giving cover to pilots and on Wong Chat, a kept woman, of coolio, by Mr. W. Schofield at the aircraft in Great Britain. Anda
FIRST AMERICAN STATE
of air-cooled engines in 1919 No. 11 Tal. Wong Street East, Central Magistracy, for stealing It was pointed out to me that in
when their position has TO REGULATE FLYING Mr. W. Schofield at the Central four pounds of lead, the property the case of the private owner who
improved, licenses for the Magistracy, for the larceny of six of the Talkoo Dockyard. The lead buys his first aeroplane, perhaps a Connecticut was the Arst State been granted to firms in
facture "of Bristol engines gold fingern rings, a wrist watch, was found led around accused's second-hand machine the value of act of the legislature of America to regulate and some clothing,
A number of European coun neck.
which is not over 4500, a charge of
£11 re- also in Canada, and, Jap The R.M.S. Empress of Russia is
about £50 a year would be made, uired the licensing of aeroplaner engin are in use in A fine of $5 was imposed on Mr. The pilot has to carry an excess of and aeronauts," the administration lable number of air forces due here from Shanghai next Remedios of No. 8 Humphreys £50 for damage until he has about
of this act to be in the hands of the widely used by Imperia Thursday at 10 a.m. and will leave Avenue, by Mr. A. W. G. HÆGrant: 50 hours', solo experience, when leave for Manila at 6 pm on the ham at the Kowloon Magistracy, excess is reduced same day.
An attempt to rob
ty for allowing his dog to wander in This is estima on the
Cameron Road at 11:00 am on perlence of repain bilin: Chinese February 9 without a muzzle:
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the
detective in plain clothes in a tram-
Limited:
the past year |mand from:
Crop dusting
Aeropland.is: exten-
Britain's New Aerodromes
o be merly Major General Seely) as, to the whether the Government could now give a definition of our needs for National and Imperial defence, with to securing an adequate number of recruit
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