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1.03 p.m.-A Variety Programme." 1.25 p.m.-Reuter Press,
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A Light Concert Orchestra-The Nuremberg. Doll
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→ pun.--News and Economic Re-
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"READING "A, PAPER” BEFORE COLLISION
A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned at the resumed in- quest at Liverpool on September 28 on the body of Captain Thomas Campbell Black, who was killed at September 19. Speke Airport on
10 p.m.-News and Economic Re- when the aeroplane Miss Liverpool view in English an DJE, DIQ. which he was to have flown in In Netherlandish on DJB.
the.Portsmouth-Johannesburg race, 10.15 pm-To-day in Germany. was involved in a collision on the
ground with an R.A.F. machine.
Sound Pictures. 10.30 p.m.-Orchestral Concert... (Collet)-Ra-11.30 p.m.--Brass Band.
12 midnight-Close DJE DJQ. DJB
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quel Meller: Violin Sofos-Waltz in a" fat major (Brahms),-Danza Es... panola (de Falla, arr. Krets- ler)-Isolde Mengea Songs For You Alone (Geeni),
---Thousand Stars are Shin-5.30 ing (Rust)-Herbert E Grch.. (Tenor),
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7.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock
Quotations.
7.33 pm.-
De Groot and His Orchestra
1. Until (Sanderson).
2. Under the toofs of Paris.
(Moretti),
3. In the night (Tate),
4. Desert Song (Romberg)..
5. "The Waltz Dream" -Selection
{O." Strauss).
6. Standchen (Strause).
7. Ay, ay, ay (Freire).
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal and
Weather Report.
From the Studio ・・ 8.03 p.m.--A Jazz Piano Medley by "The Z.B.W. Troubadour." 8.20 p.m.
Two Numbers by Sir Harry Lauder
Mr. John Mackay.
RADIO MANILA
a.m.-Breakfast Hour of News and Music-English and span- Ish Current Events and Vaude- ville of the Air, conducted by Don Alva.
7 a.m.----Sign Qal
9.30 a.m.-Nielson Financial Review
and Musical Varietien. 11.15 a.m.31gn Of.
Mr. J, D. Barron, & London
solicitor. represented the relatives. and Mr. John Moores, of Liverpool, the donor of the aeroplane. Mr. P. S. Harvey appeared for Liverpool Corporation. Flight Lieutenant Davy watched the proceedings for the Air Ministry.
The Coroner (Mr. G. C. Mort) described to the jury the events leading up to the accident. Black's machine, he said, started to take up its position before receiving a signal to take off, but just at the time a light bomber. a much heavier machine than Black's, had fanded. There was a collision, and
2.30 p.m.-Nielson Financial Review its propeller cut into the cockpit of
and Musical Varieties.
3.45 p.m.--Sign Off."
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6 pm-Song-Movie Magazine of the Alt, sponsored by the Liter- ary Song Movie Magazine. 8.20 p.m.-Spanish Informationa!
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7 p.m.-Radio Crusaders, conducted
by Berule Nolasco.
7.30 p.m.-To be announced.
I've something in the bottle for 815 p.m.-Commercial Monitor
"the morning. .
2.30.p.m.-
'Eric Coates' Melodies played by
the Composer and Symphony
Orchestra
Cinderella-A Phantasy.
By the sleepy lagoon.
London Bridge--March."
Summer Afternoon-Idyll,
The Jester at the Wedding.
9. p.m.-News and Announcements
from London.
9.20 p.m.-
A Variety Programme Song-Take my
heart-Greta
Song Empty Saddles
Keller.
Crosby!
Orchestra-Alice
Canadians.
Blue
Bing
Gown
Black's machine.
VISIBILITY
Captain Harold Andrews, mana- ger of Speke Airport, said that | Black said to him that he wished to leave for London. He explained how. Black's machine moved out from an enclosure near the club- house. Black made a gentle sweep and did a right-hand turn; his speed when he was going down the airport ground would be 10 to 15 m.p.h. The machine was definitely down wind.
The Coroner.-When did you first 8.30 p.m.-Song Recital by Char-realize that the RAF machine
and
main Boomer.
Quotations #45 pm.-Stock
Local Market Reporta. 9p..-"Sampaguita," conducted
by Remigio Mat. Castro. 8.30 p.m.-Musical Potpourri. 10. p.m.--Sign DA,
the
came into view?--I first noticed it when Black's machine was some- where between 80 and 90 yards from me. The R.A.F. machine was then in the air about to land. The landing was in accordance with the flying regulationsanding into the In my opinion it was land- ed" in a proper place in the aero- drome. At the time of the crash" the R.AF. machine was rapidly decelerating. I do not think it could bave gone much farther.
wind.
Black's machine, he added, was thrown four or five feet to port of the centre line of the bomber. It would have been useless to shout a
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The exhibits on the 200 standa
The Coroner-Had the visibility are a revelation of the constant
satisfy conditions anything to do with it? endeavour of the trade to
the-No, I don't think the weather the increasing demands of
conditions had anything to do British public for the bests
with the accident. Although visibility was about 2.000 yards it was not very good from a flying point of view.
Song-Swing, Mister Charlie-
Judy Garland. Organ Solo-Waltz Selection
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A POST OFFICE ON WHEELS
The starting on Oct. 1' at the Q.P.O. of the first mobile post of- fce was a long affair for Major Tryon, writes the London, diarist
of
the "Manchester Guardian." There were the usual speech and photographs, and then he wrote the Arst telegram made the first tele- gram. made the first telephone call, and got the Arst stamp out of the slot-machine on this new road
monster. It is certainly a monster, a chromium-plated, red. black, and silver trailer attached. to a tractor. and measuring in all thirty-three feet by seven and a half feet. Yet its size seems small for the amount it contains-two telephone boxes, a wash basin and an electric kettle, for the staff, le ter-box, and a removable desk out-
warning to Black. The R.A.F. ma-side on which, to write telegrams, chine collapsed partly underneath with room inside for three tele- Black's machine, and the propeller gram clerks and for two more crashed through the cockpit of clerks to operate the telemeter. Black's 'plane. ·
No more moblie post offices will be made for a while. This one is an experiment. Its use, obviously. will be at "special events"-races. country shows, even cricket mat ches-where there is no easily ac cessible post office. One thing it seemed to lack to-day was any means of conecting it to telephone- When Black was doing the right-wires, but I was told that it would hand turn would he ace the bom-carry a length of wire-up to 300 ber?--Yes; I am surprise he did feet if necessary-when on duty. not.
The new varieties of food pro- ductions are amazing, and no fewer than eight Governments, Including those of Canada, South Africa Australia, New Zealand, India, and Great Britain, vie with each other in an endeavour to beat the world.
Master grocers and their assis
Would he see it head-on?—Yes. tants will compete during the
Replying to Mr. Harvey, Captain coming week for trade champion- ships. Women are well to the fore. Andrews said that the speed of the and Miss Aldous, of Stowmarket, RAF. machine when it touched will again defend her title as down would be about 70 miles an chazaplon bacon cutter against hour, decelerating to nothing in many of the men whom she de- about 300 yards. 10:30 pm A Jubilee Music Hall feated last year.
10 pmLondon-Big Ben, A Talk -"Foreign Amars" by Bir Frei derick Whyte, K.C.SI, ILD. 10.18 p.m.
"Ruins of Athens" (Beethoven). Polovts! March (Borodin),
Le Prophete-Coronation March
(Meyerbeer).
Parade,
The Coroner. Did you see any-
When at last it had been fully started to-day this post office, de-
Darted on a short tour of London,
causing no little commotion among the horse vans as it moved down. the Holborn Viaduct.
To secure the championship cup thing wrong in the way the bom-was clear. He went outside the 10.47 p.m.-Cab Calloway and Fils of the grocery world the
winner ber landed?—No. Orchestra. **
11 pm. Close Down,
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intricate laws and by-laws affect 1,05 p.m.-Call DJA, DJB (Germaning their bisness.
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German Folk Song.
1.10 p.m.-Light Music.
2 p.m.-News in Gerinan.
2.15 p.m.-Light Music (continued). 255 p.m.-Greetings to our listen-
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3 p.m.-News and Economic Re-
view in English.
3.15 p.m.-To-day in
Sound Picturés.
3.30 p.m.-8tage Fright.
Variety Evening...
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A gay, hour.
Germany.
5.15 p.m.-Little German Reader. 5.30 p.m.-News and Economic
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MAP FOUND Mrs. Mabel Chorlton, of Wharf-
boundary. did a left-hand turn. and glided back.
" BLIND"
As a pilot began to slow up the
dale Street, Garston, said that she was beside the enclosure when Elack's machine left. She saw these of the aeroplane was pulled pilot through the cabin window. up. The pilot was blind." He was holding what appeared to The Coroner-What have you to be a piece of foolscap paper and do once you become blind?-Once was apparently reading it. She the nose comes up in front of you, realized that a collision would take you start, watching the ground 30 place.
to 40 yards ahead. You cannot see
KING SETS A FASHION Fishermen's Shirts Now Rage In America
Herbert Thomas Rushton, con- anything straight ahead. You just trol officer at Speke, said that after carry on in a straight line tilt the Because the King bought a Dal-the collision a map covering the plane pulls up. matian fisherman's shirt when he area between Liverpool and London ! Had you any iden Black had left was visiting the Isle of Rab on lay on the floor of the cockpit of the enclosure? No. The last time his holiday, these shirts have beBlack's machine
America,
Medical evidence was given that death was due to incerated lungs, haemoriage, and shock."
The
I saw him he was in the enclosure. come the rage throughout the Mis Mabel Boxall, of Wharfdale ir did not see him ontside when I 4.45 pm-Something from Every whole of the United States of Street, Garston, also stated that as was doing my left-hand turn,
Black's machine left the enclosure This is revealed in a letter re- she saw the pilot reading a paper ceived by the Split Chamber of Producing a map, the Coroner Re-Commerce from one of New York's asked, "would this possibly be it?"
Coroner said:" that ☺ ÝT largest sportswear shops. The The witness-It may have been. 1
satisfied the jury were
there: 5.45 pm-8olo Concert: Li Stadel- letter asks the chamber, of com- cannot say,
Flying Officer Peter Stanley Bal- had been no criminal negll- mann, Cembalo,, Chromatic merce to supply samples of the
bring phantasia and fugue by Bach; shirts actually worn by Dalmatian ter, of No: 611 (West Lancashire) gence, they would pieces from the "Lautentabula-zallors and fishermen so that (Bomber) Squadron, plot of the a verdict of accidental death Ho Americans can have authentic bomber, said that he had taken the thought that they would come to tur."
machine, a Hawker Hart, on a test the conclusion that the flying Specimens of the exact type of run. He was flying solo and strap-omcer had come lo properly, and had seemed to have kept to the shirt bought by, the King to both ped in wool and cotton are belts sent. and a big order for these ger ments, which are of local make, expected.
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German Folk. Sonza
7. p:m-Concert of Idaht Music,
D.m.-News in English.
The Coroner When did you look regulations. It was clear that he for a place to land?—As I did a cir- was not at fault, and he (the cult of the aerodrome. He added Coroner) did not see how the str that he saw that the aerodrome port authorities could be criticized.
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