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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936
FLOAT FALLS FROM PLANE
Crew Of Three Saved By Parachutes
Gibraltar.
One Boat of a seaplane from the aircraft carrier Farious fell into the sea when the machine was firing off Gibraltar during feet exercises recently.
The three occupants were sav~: ed by their parachutes, but the machine was damaged.
The Furious later returned to Gibraltar.
SHANGHAI GIRL
FLIER
Studying Aviation In
America
READY TO FLY SOLO
This most interesting picture, made at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, last month, shows,
Federico Vall-Spinosa, left, chairman of the Puerto the near future, another avistri | Roosevelt, the First Lady, and Mrs. Sarah D. Roosevelt, the Chief Executive's mother, as theRican delegation, and J. Loper Antoncioryi, chairman of listened to the President during the notification ceremonies which closed the Democrs the contesting Puerto Ricans, are here shown at the Demo-
cratic National Convention at Philadelphia last mouth. She is Miss Ruth McCracken, 19-tic Party's stay in the "Quaker-City.” year-old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. JC McCracken, of No 5 Avenue Petain.
Shanghai bas or will have in left to right, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, daughter of the President, Mrs. Franklin D.
Miss McCracken is a student of! aviation at Lake Erie College. Painesville, Ohio, where she is now in her junior year, and ac- cording to letters recently received in Shanghai by her parents, she is ready for her first solo flight.
Despite her youth, Miss Me- Cracken has been a student. of year. javiation for more than a
She was a delegate at the Na-1 tional Inter-Collegiate Flying Con- ference held at Washington D.C and was flown to the capital city from her university by Mr. Hugh Herndon, noted round-the-world dier. Another girl delegate made the trip with Miss McCracken.
Interested In Aviation
Miss McCracken left Shanghai in 1932 at the end of her junior year at the local American School. She finished high school at Atlan- tic City and from there entered' Lake Erie College, a prominent school for girls. The school, it; appears, gives a course in avia- tion, and she became interested in the subject soon after her e1-
wance.
She is the only American girl from Shanghai, so far as is known, who has taken up the study of aviation.
£25,000 AIR SUBSIDY Plans For British Airways, Ltd.
Lord Swinton, the Secretary of] State for Air, in a note issued last month, discusses the principal | provision proposed to be embodied in an agreement with British Air- ways, Limited, for regular services! for passengers, mail and freight between England, Holland, North Germany, and Scandinavia.
One proposal is the introduc- tion, as from June 1, 1937, of aj new type of aircraft, which willi have a cruising speed in the neigh- bourhood of 200 miles per hour.
Another is the payment of al maximum subsidy at the rate of £25,000 per annum for the con tinuance of a temporary night) mail service between London and
Hanover.
Experimental Service An experimental service has been in operation since February overj the route London-Amsterdam-- Hamburg--Copenhagen - Malmo. Is is now proposed to extend this to Stockholm.
British Airways, Limited, will be required to co-operate with the Swedish company. A. B. Aero- transport, in establishing a night) mail service between England and ¡Scandinavia.
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Conflicting wireless messages from the artay transport Chatear Thierry shed little light on the tragic deaths of Captzin Lindsay M. Brawsel, left, army fier, and his three children. One story tells of the father giving his life in an effort to save the three children swept overboard in a storm. The other pictured the father, in a with the three moment of derangement, ŝesping into the sea children in his arme. At right, from the top, are Virginia, Lindsay and Robert Charles Brawsel.
Elliott Roosevelt, left, son of the President of the United States, and a resident of Texas, is shown with Boy Miller in the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention in Phil- adelphia last month.
(Above) As the Democrats in Philadelphia com- tinued their uproarious convention last month, Rev. G. K. Smith, left, Share-the-Wealth chief, Dr. Francis E Townsend, centre, Old-Age Plan proponent, and Representative William Lemke, choice of the Union Party, conferred at Washington on tactics to con- found the well-laid plans of both major parties.
Josephus Daniels, United States Ambasader to Mexico, is shown here with his son, Jonathan, at the Democratic. National Convention in Philadelphia. They sttended as observers, not delegates.
(Left) Motoring demands its proper attire 100, 30 Margaret Lindsay, the screen actress, slips on this smart frock with its streamlined shoulders" and "is ready for the road. The dress has three fan-shaped, pleatings at the neckline.
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