THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY `SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 29, 1940.
Five Years of the Clippers
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the crew consists of eight mem- service for the return.
It's dinnertime in the Clipper's dining calon 8,000 feet above the Pacific.'
bers (sometimes nine), as it does Then came the inaugural air solved included meteorology. It, for the Martin 130's, or ten (some- majl flight on November 22. In the was necessary to have data not times 11) for the Bocing 314's, the crew were Captain Edwin C. only as to whether it was clear same division of duties ap- Music Capt. R. O. D. Sullivan, or stormy but also on the direc-plies and it is accomplished in First Officer; George King, Se- tion and velocity of the winds, the smaller crew by assigning n-cond Officer; Fred J. Noonan, Navi- both at the surface and in the up- junior pilot officer to double as gation Officer; C. D. Wright, First per air. Methods were perfected to relief officer for the engineering Engineering Officer; V. A. Wright, forecast conditions over the ocean officer or the radio officer.
Second Engineering Officer and so that the best possible route Once the basic concept of the Wm. Jarbee, Jr., Radio Officer. could be taken by the Clippers and multiple crew had been decided Fostmaster James A. Farley was that the time that would be re- upon the next thing, of course, was on hand to deliver the felicitations auired under existing wind con- to train officers to fill various roles of the President and entrust in ditjons could be accurately fore- and by November 1935, when person the initial consignment of cant.
China Clipper had been de- Transpacific air mail. The con- Finally, in order to carry out a livered and the time had arrived signment was accepted by Presi- flight operation in which so many for the inauguration of the airmail dent J. T. Trippe who issued final highly technical procedures were service, personnel to serve in the orders to Capt. Musick. A dis- required, it became obvious at an light crews, as well as in the more tinguished group of witnesses, in- early stage that the old iden of a numerous posts on the ground, cluding besides the Postmaster pilet and co-pilot as the crew of an were ready.
General the President of the air-liner would never be sufcient And of the men on the ground, Philippines, a U.S. senator and the for ocean air service. Already, on none were of mere vital impor- governors of California and the earlief operations it had be- tance to the establishment of Hawaii were on hand to partici- come standard practice to have a Transpacific servies than the pate in the colourful ceremony Tadio operator As an
important members of the airway building which marked the inauguration of member of the crew and it was expedition, which set forth from service. Fifty eight bags of mail, was created in the middle of Son American Airways by the Boeing man-made Treasure Island, which per wore delivered ..to Pant apparent now that with the big San Francisco, on-board the s.s. containing 110,865 letters
went elippers it was going to be neces- NORTH HÁVEN on March 27, into the China Clipper's cargo
Francisco Bay by filling in the Ahcraft Company for service on sary to provide an engineering of 1935. To this expedition was en- compartments for the outbound Bena Island. This huge job of Three of them are now in service shoals to the north of Yerba both the Atlantic and Pacific. ficer. Out of the study of this sub- trusted the seemingly impossible journey this mail consisting island making was undertaken by on the Pacific side. With a ject came the standard Pan task of preparing between spring largely of philatelic "first flight American Airways multiple crew and fall of that year the bases for covers." The trip was completed the City of San Francisco for two gross weight of 84,000 pounds and which is departmentalised as fol- operation at Honolulu, Midway, on schedule and without incident, major purposes the first being a maximum scating capacity of whom is the Captain of the Clig- lulu, Guam and Manila offered no 29. The return journey began De 1939 and 1940, the second to create existence and at the time it was lows: (1) the pilot officers, one of Wake, Guam and Manila. Hono arriving at Manila on November to provide a site for the Golden 74-passengers the B-314 is the Gate International Exposition of largest commercial aeroplans 'in per, (2) the engineering officer, outstanding problems because cember 2 and the 'plane was back (3) the radio officers and (4) the thuse places already had estab- in Alameda on December 6 with an area for a "heart of the city" introduced was the largest aero- štėvards. Regardless of whether lished communities and
Treasure Island, which plane in the world, of whatever it was mail from the other side of the airport.
is linked by a causeway to the type. necessary only to install the docks, Pacific. servicing equipment, meteorologi-
7-mile Bay Bridge, is' approxim- The greater load-carrying capa- cal offices and radio stations.
Thereafter the commercial phase ately 10 minutes by automobile city afforded by the new Clippers At of Transpacific operation was ad- from either downtown San Fran- was most welcome to Pan-Ameri- Midway and Wake the situation vanced rapidly. Air express ser- elsco or downtown Oakland. was different. Wake never had vice was inaugurated on February
can Airways Traffic Department, been inhabited and at Midway the 22, 1936. The first revenue pass- tion September 29, 1940, and the mands for all the space they could With the closing of the Exposi- for they have always had de- only residents were the members engers left San Francisco Bay on of the Cable Colony tending the October 21 of that year. All this beginning of the work of demoli- make available: Next year the Pacifle Cable Co.'s service to the nal was at Manila and there was with the original project of estu- livers six additional dlippers of for Commercial time, however, the western termi- tion of temporary structures, the fleet will be still further augment- City of San Francisco proceeded ed when the Boeing Company de- lands the fundamental problems of Pacific which remained to be which for the past two years has ways, which then will have six of At both of these is still a stretch of 758 miles of the blishing a land airport on the area this type to Pan American Air- living had to be met first and then crossed. Arrangements for adding been occupied by the Exposition. them on the Atlantic and six on the the airways bases established and this final link to the North Pacific Applications for Federal funds to Pacific. Thereafter ton of service the whole job accomplished in route were completed early in do the necessary work are about six months. The airways 1937 and the first mail all
now would be the expansion of building expedition is a thrilling way to China left the mainland pending in Washington, and if as far as Honolulu by inaugurating. story in itself. but it is a which has been told many times gan a week later.
story April 21.
Passenger service be- contemplated plans are carried daily overnight service between through, as now anticipated, a new California and Honolulu in high and it will suffice here to recall
municipal airport will grow up speed, high altitude type craft that in April when Captain Edwin Meanwhile Pan American Air- on the island which is expected which, in all likelihood will be a C. Musick was ready for the first ways was preparing to establish to be. Pan American Airways land 'plane. exploratory flight to Honolulu its mainland terminal at a per- permanent home in San Francisco that base was ready to receive manent operating base. The for at least the next 20 years and him and in the succeeding months Alameda arrangement was tom- probably longer. when the Sikorsky made survey porary because it was known from The next important advance in trips, first to Midway and return, the beginning that the U.S. Navy the North Pacific service was the then to Wake and afterwards to planned to establish there the big delivery early in 1939 of the first Guam, the work had progressed air station which was opened this Bocing 314, California Clip- successfully at each station so that month. For a permanent home per. Six flying boats of the type the Clipper could be received and the Pacific Division moved to represented by California Clip-
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studied one by one. He seemed pocket. mystified by them.
"They lock' like automatic pis- tol shells to me," he said.
"Know something about auto- matics?" Mr. Sugars asked.
"A bit. I did police duty with the Silesian Plebiscite force an' they served 'em out to us.... Here you are, sir.”
He said 'Here you are' because Mr. Sugars, sucking the top of his fingers, had asked: "Got a pair of tweezers, anyone?" Pusey pro- duced the instrument promptly from his top waistcoat pocket. It was a short, stubby, highly polish ed nickel-plated article, with odd- looking spade-like ends.
from him; it's the sort of thing that would willingly drive a man-he would lie loose in stamp jfan's had murdered right through the That means he also heart of London, and that appar- carried that cartridge case loose in ent innocence' plus the finding of his pocket.”
those fake cartridges, would al- most force the human mind "lo conclude that some one else must- have shot Acton behind his chauf- feur's back
"But how did he got those empty cartridges, and where is the Colt revolver?" Owen Jardine asked.
"It was his pocket I was re- ferring to when I called the habit unscientific," beamed Mr. Sugars. "And that's why I asked for a pair of tweezers, too. All hardened in the grain stamp collectors carry a pair of tweezers like this His producing them sort of drives things home, eh? Well, you seem "Trust an ex-Serviceman to to think so, anyhow, Pusey." know how to put his hand on The chauffeur shrank from him spent or live cartridges, secretly " with an ashen face, though he said Mr. Sugars.""As for the Colt, mouthed: "It's a lie! You saw he has to cross Westminster Bridge yourself I knew nothing."
to reach Whitehall-fust an un- "A thorough piece of acting, scen flick of his hand would have that," Mr. Sugars agreed. "Only sent the Colt soaring over the But Mr. Sugars did not use the you weren't so thorough about heads of unsuspicious passers by. the tweezers to get a splinter from your pockets, Pusey. People with into the Thames." his figure tip, as Pusey and Jar- hobbies are like that-thrust half- "It's a plant," Pusey quavered dine had expected. He Ashed in- open boxes of stamp-hinges and in, "Why should I do it? Why sitle one of the empty cartridges things into them without thinking, should I be such a fool as to kill a cases with them, drawing out at so that when you carried those good master and lose a'sure job.” dirty, crumpled, curled-up frag- empty cartridge casos to the "Because Acton wasnit a good ment of tissue paper.
bushes, that loose bit of gummed master and you knew you were "See what the unscientific habit tissue worked inside ...
going to lose your job and more of carrying crime exhibits loose "Why should I carry any blin- than your job, the £1,000 Acton in your pocket leads tol" Mr. Su- kin' empty cartridges to any had promised to leave you in his gars said severely as he smoothed bushes?" Pusey blustered,
will, should you be in his service the tissue out and showed it to be "Because, my friend, having when he died. You'd counted on a, tiny, carefully cut oblong. made up your mind to kill Sey than £1,000 Pusey, as only a man
"Sorry, sir," Jardine stammer- mour Acton, you wanted to make with ah obsessing hobby can. You | ed. "Only I don't know how a bit the police think someone else had were going to buy-a-share in a of paper like that got into my done it. For that reason you also Stamp Dealer's business yes, I pocket. What is it?"
fold a story that practically forced found out quite a lot Pusey-and
"A stamp hinge," Mr. Sugars us simple detectives to think it so live happily on your hobby"for"|" said softly. "One of those little was an ambush and to look for the rest or your life *** 'And gummed strips used for sticking traces of same. In that way you then, accidentally, you learnt that stamps in collectors albums, you led us cunningly to find these Seymour Acton had made up his know."
cartridges which completed your mind to retire to the Riviera,
"By jove, yes!" Jardine cried. alibi, and confirmed your inno- which meant the sack for you and "Only I haven't collected stamps cence or would have but for your loss of that £1,000. At that sligt?" for ten years. I can't understand destroying passion for stamp col- tering of a life's dream you be
He stiffened. But Dicker, lecting.'
come so furious that you deter- mined to cheat him before he one in that house who did collect Owen Jardine began.
cheated you, That is, you re- stamps." He swung on the chauf- "It's all plain enough,” Mr.Su, solved to kill him while you were feur.
"He docs Mr. Sugars, gars shrugged. "The lonely con- still in his employ and entitled to Pusey's mad on foreign stamps, ditions so helpful for ambush that thousand, Dicker says."
were just as helpful for Pusey. He: "Allright” Pusey, muttered with *"I know," said Mr. Sugars. "I merely had to stop the car in a sudden resignation." "You've got. watched him studying the show quiet place, on account of engine the dope on me. } I did it. cases of Foreign Stamp Dealers trouble, say; get' out, shoot Mt. as you” say”. I'm not sorry. in the Strand, and he ended up by Acton through the open window about Acton, he was a dirty dou- going into Stanley Gibbons, stamp with that Colt, and get back to his ble-crosser. But it's hard lucle shop.
driving scat and proceed to Lon-" about my collection. You see. "Then, by Jinks!" Owen Jardine don as though nothing had hap- I'd, set, myself to have at least cried, "That amp hinge came pened. Nobody would dream he 25,000 stamps before I died.
Acton's servant, spoke of some- "But I don't quite scc, six-
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