THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1936
PLANE WILL
WILL FLOAT ON ATLANTIC ROLLERS
AIR FORCES
OF WORLD
REVIEWED
REPORT TO U.S.
CONGRESS
SPEED-UP IN AMERICAN BUILDING URGED
Washington, Yesterday.
The quantity production of aviators and aeroplanes to en able the United States to keep pace with the air defence plans zinged of foreiga Powers
upon Congress by Mr. Eugene Vidal Chief of the Commerce Bureau to-day.
3. Vidal told the Military Af- fairs Committee of the House of Representatives that until recent- ly the United States and the other leading Powers advocated equality in aircraft and pilots, but now the five leading foreign Powers interested in much 50 were
that they quantity production were ordering planes from blue- prints and on negotiated tracts rather than on competitive building.
con-
Mr. Vidal declined to name the five Powers, though he added that one of them had recently ordered 1,500 aeronlanes-Reuter
RACE ACTION SETTLED
Allegations Against Makers Withdrawn
WISE COURSE TAKEN
The last of the United States Navy's fighter-than-air fizet is the dirigible Los Angeles, now decommissioned and housed at a Lakehurst, NJ., hangar, for use as a ground training school. The Los Angeles was built in Germany - and was flown across the Atlantic in 1934.
To-day's Short-Story
THE GENIUS
By George L. Joseph
NEW PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION
STILL A SECRET WITH DESIGNER
FAMOUS BUILDER WORKS ON NEW AERODYNAMICS
M. ANTONY FOKKER, the aircraft designer,
• discussed recently his announcement that he was building a new machine for trans-Atlan- tic services that will beat those being produced by foreign competitors.
The announcement contained the reported phrase: "The whole principle of the construction is entirely new and is based on new studies of aerodynamics.”
M. Fokker said: "It is perfectly true, and I intend that it shall remain my secret until the time comes when I shall probably take it up on a test fight myself.
"The machine is, a monoplane Land does not lock unusual in de- sign. It will have a cruising range of 3.500 kilometres, and when being flown on such a range it will carry 24 passen- gers, mail and goods.
"But if it comes down on the At- lantic through some mishap then
ONCE there was a pogrom in above the thin, undersized Scholem
little Russian village She was dark, and her soft brown it will be safely riding the waves;
$2
from
whatever the weather. It there-
substantial one, too.
-It is not an especially big
NEW ZEALAND-
AMERICA ORDERS 100
NEW WARPLANES
Washington: It is announced by the War Department that a contract for 100 new fighter air- planes has been awarded to the Northrop Aviation Company of California. The cost will be in the neighborhood of £400,000.
SCHOOLS
Training Pilots For R.A.F.
near the Steppes. Great, beard-eyes were as beautiful and ¡ed Cossacks fired the ghetto, serene as those of the Lady of fore possesses a hull, and a very
and the narrow streets rang Sorrows who had come with the screams of shamed Rachel's people, too. Her face! (women and
And this was why as though she believed infinitely in size of the giant De-X. Neither
the Futters ran was strangely placid and contexted, machine, and is nowhere near the 8 NEW FLYING Scholem Abromovitch came to the goodness of life although does the secret lie in the weight London
sometimes there lurked the shadow of the machine: it is not unusual- One glorious Juze day. the of a sad smile in the corners of her ly light little Jew found his way to White-red-lipped mouth, and a hurt wor- time, for in the heart of Scholem her eyes. chapel He did not waste any der gleamed in the dark pools c
Abromovitch was an ambition, a She was grateful to Scholem, for Serce, consuming ambition. To he was good to her and did noz hire-purchase agreement for the him the world had given nothing force her to work in the musty- she had machine they used in the Austra and taken much, but to the world smelling little-shop as
The wished to give a kedush. a feared would be the fate of 2 lis air race in 1934, and repay-
genius. Ever since he could re- dowerless bride. And Scholem ment by Airspeed (1934), Lid, of
Tras. well the Airport, Portsmouth, of £2.448ember it had been there, the de-looked at Rachel and
sire that there should be a son of satisfied with his bargain. with damages for breach of con-this loins who would bequeath to tract or misrepresentation, was posterity the glories of his genius.
The action in which Captain Thomas Neville. Stack and his as- sistant pilot, Mr. Sydney Lewis Turner, asked for rescission of a
settled last month.
Whether he was painter, musician, writer or doctor. Scholem did not; care as long as bis 50% was 窳 genins.
-
Mr. Van den Berg, K.C., for the defendants, said that as long as there had been any suggestion of dishonesty in the case no ques:
And so the little Jew opened a tion of a settlement could have
shop in Mile-End-road and began but the plaintiffs had now inti-to work sixteen hours a day. press- been considered by the defendants,ling and cleaning suits, and after mated to them that they realised two years Scholen was ready for there was no ground for imputing the first step in the consummation any dishonest, and that
they of his great ambition. He sought wished unreservedly to withdraw out Gobbil the wrinkled old any allegation of misrepresenta-schadchen or marriage broker. To tion.
him he comided that he required Mr. Stack and Mr. Turner had
a wife. No. he did not require informed the defendants they nudin, of a dowry, but the woman were mistaken in
thinking that must have health, a measure of of Flight-good looks and preferably some
comments in reports
MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be "Rate Of Exchange." by George A. Birmingham
IN 7 DAYS
Bi-Weekly Air Mail Planned
SWEEPING CUT IN RATES
PLANES WAITING FOR HANGARSTM
London
in!
Eight new civil fring schools, have already been opened out of the 12 called into being for the initial training of personnel for The ew Sociaust Government the Royal Air Force expansion of New Zealand is seeking a Programme. Taree more will be
opened this month and one share in the Empire air service, which by 1937 will reduce the
February. present flying time of 13 days
A great bustle has been neces-i between Londor and Sydney to sary to erect and furnish the ban- seven days.
igars, residences and offices, and Last month the Postmaster and to prepare the aerodromes. General of New Zealand, Mr. F. Jones, announced that his Govern Training aeroplanes of the two ment was considering a proposal or three approved types are being Indeed, for a bi-weekly 7 days service delivered in good time. When they had been married to England via Australia, instead many are waiting at the works for six months Rachel told her of the present 14 days weekly ser until the hangars are ready forl husband that she was with child,įvice.
Buildings Erected The intended reduction to 1d and his happiness knew no bounds. He obtained the services of 2 of the present rate of is. 36. per Each school will have from 30 slatternly old woman to do the half oz is expected to increase to 50 flight pupils. At one of the housework, although Rachel the weekly mails for New Zealand schools a typical case-the
The
ther
lieut. Colman and the Air Minis-¡brains. And so it came about that laughingly protested that she was to three tons, and the outgoing buildings erected include six cot- try implied that the machine was Scholem took Rachel to wife, one able to work for many a day ye
mails from New Zealand to te tages for pupils, each accommo in any war unairworthy.
of the seven daughters of Yossil, But Scholem was adamant
tons..
dating five men, a main building, To Pay £1,850
the bootmaker, and Yossil was glad woman whose body was shaping
Sweeping 'Reduction
with offices, messroom and arte- The plaintiffs had already paid that Scholem had honoured his the genius that he was about to
"This sweeping reduction may room; a hangar, 180ft long by work And each Shabbus, after
$2.449
under the hire-purchase house, for the girl was dowerless present to mankind should do polne made before 1937, a Post-110ft wide, two staff houses for agreement. In addition they had and Scholem hard working and Scholen had thanked God for the ice official stated recently, at the manager and chief ground in-
undertaker to pay, in 14 days. learned in the Torch.
jat present the idea is to make it the candies
structor, and quarters for the further sum of $1,850 and to make! Rachel was tall and deep boson-day's graces and as over to the Airspeed Limited ed, towering head and shoulders fickered and spluttered, Pachel when the new service opens. The chief flying instructors and 10
and he would talk in hushed whis-original plan did not specifically other instructors. pers of the child that was soon to mention New Zealand, but the ex- of the aerodrome, 65 acres are tension now proposed was ready for use. This area is big be theirs.
herent in the scheme, and New enough for a start to be made. "He will be a kadush, Rachel Zealand will undoubtedly come liebeher,” Scholem, would declare in gravely. "He will bring pride to
free of all costs; the Viceroy zero- plane which, of course, for com- mercial purposes, was worth a very, considerable am of money.
Mr. Justice Finlay said the parties, in the hands of their ad- viser, had take wise course. It was satisfactory that grave cheroes made upon people of high their profession
standfo should are been withdrawn in the way they had
RECORD FOR AIR MAIL
Greatest Load Ever four old age".
Carried
And the wormen would nod, her head and smile placidly as though nothing was more certain The greatest load of mail ever As Rachel's time drew nearer, carried in an aeroplane left Brin-Scholem rose earlier and "worked He was sure that the course disi recently in an Imperial Air-later, and the woman cried that he taken was a wise one, and there ways flying boat for India and the would work himself into a con- would be a judge's order, if neces- East The total weight was near-sumption." sary, upon the settlement and the action would be withdrawn.
"The ground organisation is how being prepared and different types of aeroplanes are being tested
OLD CROCKS DISAPPEAR
Of approximately 4,500 aero- jplanes, constructed in - 1529, only
SOLD TO NEW COMPANY
Sir Alan Cobham's "Flying Cirens”
It was announced last month
"Be must have everything," de one-fourth exclusive of transports at a new company, FXK A} ly 21⁄2 tons
This is claimed to be a world-clared Scholem. The best educa and exports, were licensed at the Scott's Flying Display Ltd, has record for a single aircraft. The tion shall be his. There will have beginning of 1932; by the first of”] previous record was held by the to be much money and I
this year, they had practically US. AIR EXPORTS
disappeared. United States flying boat China work
"But say it is a girl?" Rachel Leading purchasers of AmeriClipper, which left San Francisco
on ita recent Pacific fight with could not resist the temptation to can foreign seronautical exports
tease in 1934, with their perentages, two tons of mall
China, 218: Russia; 18.7;
are:
STUDENT
About 12,000
student permi ze issued yearly in hazely one-eigi
lese pil qualify for flying
REPACKING PARACHUTES
The Christmas air mail planes For the first time since she had
DAILY AIR TRAFFIC
Forty-five passengers each way
for South Africa, znó– Australia known him the man showed anger is the average daily air trafic be
boasts Cazal freze
is room for a number of passen- gers, but mails are given prefer-
Saved on Pads 11).
tween Maimi, Fla., and Caba
ence, and this year they filled a £5 Glider Which
the space.
AIR-COOLED ENGINES
jacquired from Sir Alan Cobham
and his co-directors the aircrafty and other assets of National Aviation Display Ltd which dur ing the pats four years has tour-] ed England with a demonstration of flying
The chairman of the new com pany is Mr. C WAS
trolia sole fight-record
afr race to Australia las
Bounces of the Macpherson
Moscow- What is claimed to be travelling bag, rose to a height The managing director the world's first portable glider of 150 feet and then landed safe. Capt. P. Phillips, and afte was successfully tested here rely, bouncing like a rubber hall, tors include M, T
The glider consists of tubes Black and Miss Jea with which can be filed with air with Sir Alan Cobham
an ordinary DUI ~has a wing "I am giving up display
fuselage tirely.. I am going:
viation officials
belthe South Coast to engage
the
Passengers prefer
Public demand for accommodation by Imperial "Airways and, its associated companies is so great that their services have been DOUBLED: This ever-increasing patronage by travellers is due to the following facts amongst others
1. All the air liners flying on the Australa India, England routes have four independ engines for security
2. The air liners äre most luxurious.
3. The Captains are the most_experienced body employed by any air transport company
4. British standards of efficiency and service
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