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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JANUARY 24th, 1931.
LATEST BRITISH SPEED · ATTEMPT. WHAT CAPT. CAMPBELL AIMS TO DO.
Just for the thrill, Captain Malcolm Campbell is spending £30,000 to go to America to ride for five minutes in an automobile,
He will be his own hauffeur, too, and will take his own car. All that Captain Campbell wante from America is some seven miles; of smooth, sandy beach at Day- tone, and sufficient police pro- tection to keep curious pedestrians off the route of his brief joy- ride.
The sooner it is all over the For better he will be satisfied.
not only doeR he have something less than an even chance of being: alive after taking himself for that ride, but if he is successful he will have established a new world's i record for automobile anced.
Captain Campbell is the only person now Rving who has driven more than 200 miles an hour. Bul to capture the record he seeks, his Bluebird 11 must burn the Day- tona sanda at more than 281,36 mittes an hour-the rate attained by the inte Major H. D. D. Se grave and his Golden Arrow.
These desperate races ngninst time, involving long, careful pre- of paration and the expenditure fair-sized fortunes, all come under the head of sport to the blue-eyed, Unlike grimly-amiling Scolaman.
other racing drivers who make their living from such precarious ventures, he is a wealthy business. man who completely finances his own attempta.
Lending contender for world speed honours in Captain Malcolm Campbell who, pictured below in the "cackpit" of his racing automobile, is the only living person who has driven more than 200 miles an hour. He is shown above with Mrs. Campbell, who will accompany him to Daytona Beach, when he tries to beat the mark of the late Sir H. (). 1). Segrave.
But in additional justification of the great costa and physicnij risks be assumes, Captain Camp- bell will tell you seriously that Auch speed trials are scientifically worth while. And both the auto- motive and aeronautical industries motor. are profiting from them.
"why." he acurely a refinement In the me | races. chanics of matern automobiles Wind tunnel tests have
"there
It is a Napler Lion 12-vidence and his aids that there cylinder engine of the same type will be no obstructions or rough I used in the Schneider cup seaplane places in his path.
MINISTER'S DAUGHTER. Becomes "Companionate" Wife.
Mrs. Chester Zucker, 22-year-old daughter of the Rev. Dr. Eliot White, is pletured above with the young husband whom she acquired through a companionate agreement and an Epis copal Church éeremony. Her father, who invited ex-Judge Ben B. Lindsey to deliver the address that resulted in the I was an almost invisible bump
court feud with Bishop William T. Manning, is said to favour The young couple are birth control as a marriage reform. con on a course laid out on an African
desert that nearly cost Campbell's! shown below at a "companionate" breakfast in their home at
Roselle, N. J.
that is not traceable directly to vinced Captain Campbell that the the race track. The smaller, high-munbird 11 is capable of breaking life when he went there with his compression motors, four-wheel the record when he takes it to original Bluebird. His spine was Metuchen, N. J., Dec 28.-Ait to be permanent, and we think brakes, new stamina in tyres, and Daytona. "I think we are going fractured by the jar, but he held marriag= ceremony performed it will he permanent.
refinements in fuel and carburato get far greater spreds in theon and set a tion-those are just some of the very near future," be said. "I contributions of racing to nur believe that 300 miles an hour away record that still stands.
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But we do five-mile straight-here two months ago, with the full feel that divorce, when married rites of the Episcopal Church, may persons consider it necessary to serve to heighten the bitterness their happiness, should be made He has been racing since the of the controvers) and ex-Judge stead of through the present farci between Bishop easier, and by mutual consent, in- William T. Ben B. Lindsey over problems of cal methods, marriage reform. is the daughter of a minister in the Bishop's own diocese, and the marriage, according to the prin- cipals, is a companionale one.
When Shirley White, 22., and Chester G. A. Zucker, her fiance, went to the Rev. D. Elint White to
captain in the war when, as a Royal Flying Corps, speed became his hobby. Friends who know his modesty and self-deprecation de- clare that he has no thought of winning a British title similar to the one which crowned Segrave's efforts.
Bluebird I was built secretly
discuss plans for their wedding in
their dens of birth control and their surprise that he approved easier divorce.'"
Favour Birth Control. "The really 'companionate' part of our marriage is our plan to post- pone having children until we are prepared for them. It is not a question of religion and love, but of economics."
every-day convenience."
not impossible for a racing auto-! There is more than a little simi. Įmobile, or even for the Bluebird, larity between the Bluebird 11 and But of course potential power and
performance often un aeroplane. The sloping nose is actual calculated to bank the air where widely different things. it will offer the least hindrance to see what we shall see." the car's passage, and then do the: The attempt will be made, ac- most good as the air rushes back 'cording to A. A. A. regulations, in
The couple first met on a liner into the vacuum of the monster's both directions over a seven-mile wake. Even at that, since the car strip of beach following
returning from Europe. whore is four feet in height and six fect run back and forth on the course, on his estate near London. Camp-October, they found somewhat to Zucker, a Boy Scout leader and worker, had gone to the Interna- wide, it will face an air pressure three miles will be allowed for bell himself designed the car, and
himself an earnest young church
tional Boy Scout Jamboree, He of three and one-half tons if it starting and three for stopping, five merbanies have been employ
it.s
now is associated with his father, Invited Lindsey to Speak, reaches a record-breaking speed, with only the intervening mile toed for a year and a half in
a manufacturer of Roselle, N. J. construction. These same mcn,
So. Dr. White performed the "We waited a whole year, in- A rudder like that on the tall be timed in each direction.
with the crated car and dozens of ceremony, and It was not unlit stend of rushing into matrimony." of an acroplane will help to keep Campbell must sight his wheeled
cases of parts, will accompany him Lindsey, fiery champion of mar-continued Mrs. Zucker. "And the Bluebird on a straight course.projectile a half mile ahead.
to Daytona Beach. Mrs. Campbell riage reform, was expelled from now, before having children, we Other fins, like a plane's elevator, Share, according to paychologists, will be there too, watching his the Church of St. John the Divine want to wait until we are a little will be used on the racing car as seven-tenths of a second are health and shooing away visitors into court on a charge of disturb more mature and until we are able
ing public worship that any public to support them. depressers, to hold the rear quired to transit a thought into
mention of it was made. But Dr.
Opposed to Free Love. wheels against the earth. Lighter jaction, in which time the for
riot that ended in the ejection of marriage have been widely mis- White feels deeply about the minor' in weight than Segrave's Golden would enver about 225
"Judge Lindsey's ideas about
Arrow, Campbell's 27-foot jugger-must hold determinedly
the
Lindsey. It was he who, as chair-understood. Ours really comes neut will be powered by a single overhead targets and trust to pro-Segrave record at the same time man of the speakers' committee, under his classification of a com- Campbell makes his attempt. One invited Lindsey to address the panionnte union. It is directly two-engined monster. 32 feet in New York Churchmen's Associu opposed to free love, and in in-
Lion. length, is said to be capable of
femiled as a lifetime partnership, real developing 2,500 horsepower. An-however, are but little concerned church ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Zucker, We were married, with a other possible American entry will with the significance of the ex- "But if is becomes necessary to have four Liberty engines, The ample they have not. "We're dissolve such a union, we believe Australian car, with twin Napier happy," declared the minister's as my father does, and as Judge
daughter. "Why should super-charged motors, is sufd to
we Lindsey advocatos, that divorces worry?"
should be grunted by a commis- have gone more than 200 miles an "We never have thought of ourasion resembling a Public Welfare hour in trials already completed. Ins a trial marriage. We intended | Bureau.",
on
At least three Americans and feet, hejone Australian are said to be ce
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