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AN ADMIRAL'S ADMIRAL: RANKING NAVAL AIRMEN
There are two schools of ranking naval airmen. In one e "the Pensacola Admirals"-oldtime surface officers who trans- through ferred to the air service late in their carcers. tased the naval air school at Pensacola, then took seniority And
Such
Admiral positing over younger airmen.
officer is an Ernest Joseph King, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, whe used
"Time." In the to bave Jack Towers' job, points out
other school are airmen's airmen, officers who went into the alt ser- vice when was the hangdog of the Navy, and rose with it
Kear Admiral step-up in his pilet force from Towers. Recently, as Chief of the 3.839 to 5.993 by the year's end.
Such A
a caplainey, he never pulled his Congress appropriated $51.50.000
for
DRAFT DOES NOT CURTAIL U.S. SPORTS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1941.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONUKONG, FRIDAY, 15th AUGUST, 1941.
Although many of the athletes wh sooner or later enter draft or enlistment service in the Army or
Air Mail to Rangoon to connect with the British Over- Navy. athletics In the United States this year. both in and out seas Airways Service will until further notice be closed on doors. promises to be a very high Mondays and Fridays. Correspondence for despatch by this
Border
have been established and one
Already three new world's records route must be superscribed by "C.N.A.C.".
The public are reminded that it is a breach of postal
Bureau of Aeronaxties, he com- 16,000 eventually. These Increases equalled. These are the three-mil pleted 30 years of Navy flying. He put a terrific strain on Jack T.(13 mins 51 secs) set up by Gre- learned to By in 191 During his wers and his whole organiznuðu. long climb up the Navy ladder to or naval aviation in iscal 1938,
chase 9 mins 35 5/2 sers) by The Printed Matter Service to the following places in China 18 punches, never reased to fight for two years later, $111,439,000 Jark
Joseph McCluskey; mille and seven- temporarily suspended:- the air service and for at teas a lowers now has the job af spend
eighths relay 7 mins 25 1/5 secsi measure of independence
it. ng $1.578,000,00 Stacked against.
and by the New York University while Total navaj appropriation,
Alan Tolmich equalled his own jauthorizations / $13.500.000.000 ).
even that sum might sern small world's record of 8 1 5 secs in the
With
All these 70-yard high hurdles Halitost paid for his courage to eltizens imbued
In the National Once, and with his career
then Wie
Juck Towers says were achieved
Union Athletic
Indoor not only a Amateur when fiers were being that he considers it
the total but Championship held in February selected for promotion, he was a proportion of
FAR AHEAD Passed over Ja the Navy three even more than the naval at ser
might reasonably have Masses PHLY mean oul When, in Vice
Kory Hice, who recently received the regulations to enclose in a postal cover communications intend- A.A.U. award as the outstanding ed for persons other thau the addressee. amateur of 1940: two-mile steeple-
within the Navy.
GENERAL BOARD
Luftwaffe
awe
NOT READY FOR COMBAT
PX.
i
Las Capta Jack Towers
Was Pected au denly MAGE
41f the
Bureau of Aer nautics, and pro- moted to Rear Admiral, the coin-. 11 the Navy had to go t War monly accepted story
that all-out war today. 11 would of фаз President Roosevelt himself had a course
Aghi with the
hand in it..
has. planes it Today the fleets have their full complements of men and planes. That is, each of Admiral Towers
have tra |1.800-old combat
As part
the whole. the Sutean of Aeronautics
It.s und Chiet areal COUTSO
subject to the Chief of Naval Operations
SLA
carriers has
squadron of
Yunnan
Bzechuen
Kweichow
Hunan
Fukien (except Amey and Kulungsu, Kwangsl
North and East of Kwangtang
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD AIR MAILS
From
Due
There is no doubt that the United States is far ahead of other coun- uric rack and fold events, and had the Olymple Games been held last year as originally scheduled, it Is estimated it would have captured about 18 of the individual les. Among these would undoubtedly have been the Pole Vault in which! Cornelius Warmerdam has cleared Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser-
rice" - San Francisco date, 5th August, 15
lect the first man is history
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Direct Ser to do so.
vice"-San Francisco date, 19th August.
fighters, two squadrons of scouts, As regards the present Indoor
Asmiral Harold Baynsford Stark,
ne squadron of torpedo planes Du airman). T strict theory,
which can also serve as bombers, season, the big question is who will Clenn Cunningham 25 even the design and planned uses
succeed
Up to 1939 moval aturalt and carriers, are rarry either an 1,800lb, torpedo or
three 5001. bumbs). Battleships king of the mile run. the province of the General Board The Bureau of Ordnance. w regulatum, design ana bays the Blos and ther alament. for naval aircraft. As the agency in Purge of all naval personnel, the lumber still are old types which mises to be between Chuck Fenske would be better withdrawn from and Walter Mehl whe, curiously were room-nutes while combat units. to put in schools enough,
were at the University of For advanced trainers Evers So, they
It is the opinion of Admiral Towers insists most of Wisconsin.
that either or both ar+ then would be Aoud as
any Mally
Lad Cruisers have their normal, Cummingham bad spread eagled the field for many seasons but last numbers of catapulted scout ab.
found him failing to win a single servation and bon:ber planes OL The planes to service, too large a race At the present the battle pro-
Bureau of Navigation hos a hand In one at Jack Towers' biggest Je te roeralling and training of plats for the expanding naval air Joree Finally, the Chtel of Aero nautics is 2101 in fact 1 chel
he teaval air service as a whole.
as
OUTWARD AIR MAILS
FRIDAY
For
naval aircraft they might go up, capable of bettering the 4 mins 4 Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the Reg.
5:2 secs world record held by Cun- against
Adoural La February
Towers ningham though it is doubtfull if l a sense, that service does not
Tew of they could hold the honour as long! "very exist as a white. And 11 has no told Congress that
as the latter. Iner! had modern such chief Admiral Towers is by his planes
tanks. self-sealing and regulation and h practice Admiral artnout Stark's ortneipal advlar on all By 1941 standards, most of them i
Haval al
inatters
ONE TEST
were under armed
But the Navy is now getting quantity delivery of tire fully armed fighters for s Adıntral Towers could carriers.
me test ht the existing sya- it is what its exponents have wish that torpedo plante produc-
If the then
Den able to do under it. prezent, dependent naval air ser Vine were unable to meet the sud den, energe y demands for Ex pansion. 11. certainly would quire some drastic changes.
ica!
and deliveries were laster.
THEREBY HANGS A TAIL
At the present ratios .f aircraft with the Fleets, plane deliveries
NEW YORK-Late January and increases in pilot personnel will Sun outstrip
comet hove into naked-eye | We auriane new
of Admiral Towers
into the view knows view-that is Ad. Navy
Most ob- TowerN has reported しい what to do with the excess planes people with good eyes. › Congress that as of last February
create complete re- servers found 't better to look at
re
hund, 6,204 on order, plus 823
and pilots.
Dr.
"British Overseas Airways."
SATURDAY
16 Aus
26th Aug.
Date and Time
Fri, 16th Aug.
KP.0.
teg 4.00 PM
Ord.
4.30 FM
G.P.O.
4.00 PM
Uru.
4.30 PM
Sat. 16th Aug. K.P.O. Reg.
5.00 PM
Uni.
5.30 PM
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, flonolulu, U.S.A. and
Europe via "Pan-American Airways and Trans-Reg. Atlantic Services"
G.P.O.
5.00 PBI
Ord.
5.30 PM
MONDAY
Mon. 18th Aug.
K.P.O.
Kok
Ord.
4.30 PM
G.P.O.
4.00 PM
Onl.
4.30 PM
Tue, 26th Ang.
K.P.O.
Reg
6.00 PM
Ord. 6.30 PM
G.P.O.
Ord.
6.00 PM 7.00 PM
Air Mait by Air to Rangoon to connect with the Reg.
"British Overseas Airways."
TUESDAY
1. he had 2,457 naval planes on serve crews and squadrons. Fly-througn 8-power binoculars.
ing boats stay in the air as long Baldwin. Government Astronomer,
comet at 430 a.m., and Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and fur provided
but unordered, as 30 hours. fly 4,000 miles and saw the
Europe vla "Pan-American Airways and Trans- Reg. 01 single hops Back al described it as nothing more spec- Scheduled for delivery in 1841 toure
than "a faint patch of Atlantic Services" were 1,583 trainers, 2,417 combat their bases refuelled and checked, tacular
not work planes Also scheduled
the planes are ready to go again fuzzy night." This d'a before their tuckered-out crews oUL $5 astronomers expected. are rested. Admiral Towers would They hoped that toward the mid-
ike to have two and even three d 住ま January
Cunningham's would develop into crews for earth boat, Sunilarly, he comet
الخصال ا
D
the
CONDEMNED
QUADRANGULAR wants to have complete reserve brightest since Halley's great INSECTS WIRED
CONTEST
It was decided at a meeting of the European Y.M.C.A. Swimming Committee to hold an invitation! quadrangular contest on Aug. 21, nt 9 p.m. when Y.M.C.A. will be hosts
to Royal Scots, Middlesex Combined Small Units - cluding Royal Corps of Signals.
I and
Following is the programme:
from each board fone diver),
units of crews and planes for his comet of 1910. carriers (B week of constant, Discovered on photographic hazardous carrier flying can pretty well exhaust pilots).
slons. This
the fall
the
FOR SOUND
th
BUCKINGHAM OUT
OF DANGER
It was learned that the condi- tion of L/Bdr. H. W.. Buckingham of the HEV D.C., has improved. He was sold to be out of danger yesterday.
They
plates last September by Leland Cunningham of Harvard Observa-
BY JOHN GROVER tory, the comet during the middle
BELTSVILLE, Md.-Ever hear of "TASK FORCESTM
of December was about 100,000,000 wiring a bug for sound. The U, A. miles from earth, about the same department of agriculture does it Carriers are much On Jack
distance from the sun. On Janu- before killing the pests.
The Chinese staff of the Glou- Towers mind nowadays. The
earth came closest to
a Variety Electrocuting a murder is lotscester Hotel will hold Fleets
now have six in service, ary 10 it
bol Concert at the King's Theatre on plus a seventh (the Hornet al (54.000.000 miles), on January 18 simpler than bumpling off a
to the sun (33,000,000 weevil in the department's research Sunday in aid of the Chinese War most ready for duty, and eleven closest
Relief Fund. Prices of admission more on order. By the Navy's ac- miles). By then, on account of the laboratory at Beltsville, Md. 50 yards.
sun's dazzling proximity, the show
are $10, $5, $3. $2 and $1. It's a mighty practical business cepted standarda, six were pur- Six-men medley team race (two haps enough for the old Fleet or-was over
When an army worm dies with a back-stroke, two breast-stroke, two ganizations,
Astronomers cannot has! Now the Navy
say in na-mechanocardiagraph recording his vance just how bright a comet will heart's last pitty-pat and a high dead bugs free-style).
ceased to think in terms of con-
out of bad hugs by Six-men 50 yards each relay. centrated battle lines. plans in- be, because they do not know how salaried scientist standing by
(destroying the normal blood cell Diving: One plain, one fancy stead for dispersed "task torces" much tall it will acquire when it do a post-mortem on his gizzard,
structure. --units of battleships, carriers, approaches the sun-for
millions for It may mean saving
Condemned insects live the lite Plunging (Individual): one cruisers, destroyers on special mis- of a comet consists of very thin u. 8. farmers.
to of Riley before they get knocked plunge.
The research is carried on conception requires material driven away from Officers 50 yard relay.
more carriers than the Navy has head by pressure of solar radia- learn the action of insecticides on off. The laboratory breeds healthy Women's 200 yards invitation rein service and in sight. A carrier tion. It is possible that the earth pests that cause $500,000,000 dam-peats in natural surroundings un- lay (Victoria Recreation Club, La! shortage is therefore one of the passed through Cunningham's tall. age each year. The quicker the t they get fat and sassy.
harm was done. The Tsun, Chinese Bathing Club, South biggest holes in the Navy's pre- If so, no
death, the better the poison, and want only strong, tough bags be- China).
parations for war (espe.lely in earth probably swept through the the scientists pass this valuable cause they can't learn anything
An 1910 One Atlantic).
temporary tall of Halley's Women's 160 yarde invitațion
or five feet in the grave ulready. it. medley relay (same teams as in stopgap: conversion of merchant and no one but astronomers was information on to those who need from killing sickly ones with four
vessols to carrier duty.
Insect beartbeats are recorded free-style relay).
The US, selentists have devised with an ingenious mechanism. A their own tiny surgical instru- 50 yards obstacle racę.
For his still stronger naval air
human hair 1s attached to the ments to do autopsies. Bus-size Water-polo (two selected teams force of the future Admiral Towers from the four competing teams). has at last been promised plenty WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Reuter) dying bug's heart. The hair is scalpels, hypodermic needles and
European Y.M.O.A. champion- of long-range, heavy-duty patrol Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of connected to an opaque glass lover. other midget instruments are ships will take place this month bombers. The Navy plans to buy State, has announced the resigna- The heart spasms actuate the use, along with the and entries close on Aug. 19, at about 1,500 (cost per plane: $150.- tion of Mr. Hugh G. Grant, Minis- lever, which breaks a strong beam recording dinguses such as
060
and up). Glenn Martin in ter to Thailand. He said that the of Ught focused on a moving roll mechanocardiagraph. Baltimore already had orders for resignation was submitted corne of photographic paper. It gives a All in all, the department ÉLABORATE GALA
322 last February. Consolidated time ago but had just been accept perfect record of heart action. agriculture scientists have gone to Under the chairmanship of Mr. maker of the famous PBYs) had ed. The resignation was not con- FLUORIDE POISONE
a lot of trouble and bother to l Lau King-wing, the Kwangtung at least na many more on order nected with the current Pacino This undgot taught the sctan a cockroach, but what its learnt Provincial Relief Committee, have including its giant four-engined development,
tists tant nicotine puts the wham- will help to make No miserable arranged an elaborate swimming fing boats). These are the craft
my on bugs by keeping the heart for future generations of pantry. gala at the Chung Sing bathing which give the naval air service
and the 10,000 other shed for Saturday, Sunday and its long striking arm. Of all types
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Reuters from relaxing. They learnt from bandits Monday, to raise funds for the re- they offer the greatest threat to Expressing concern at last week's microscopic examination that ar- varieties of U. S. bugs Erted as lot of wounded soldiers and re- the supremacy of surface Davies. Increase of strikes at plants hold- senteal and fluoride poisons maxe harmful, fugeen in Kwangtung.
They are
R type which Jacking Army contracts, War Depurt- Prominent swimmers have beon Towers has espoused for years and ment officials said that do strikes Invited to participate, and a fire, was able to get the US Navy to were reported up to Tuesday, in Printed and Published by Honry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong dragon display will be a feature of accept in quantity only when volving 23,400 men compared with
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