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WOMAN'S PART IN AVIATION. A CHAT WITH MISS RUTH NICHOLS,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JULY 4th, 1931. :
MAMMOTH WHALER. Modern, Methods Nowadays.
AMES GLU¢h. NG32,
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
THE HIGHEST
OF
EYE MEN.
Ruth Nichols, society hylatrix who recently came to grief on the eve of her proposed At the right she is seen in a new posed portrait, and Atlantic Art, is shown live.
Above she is pic- Jower left you see her lo a close-up as she appears in her flying togs tured as she emerged from the cockpit of her plage at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, at the end of a record-breaking transcontinental fight of 13 hours and 21 minutes from Los Angeles-a time bettered only by Caplnia Frank Hawks. +
Her parents uk her to At. Let a woman break-an-aviation (these things, they must be simple!': way.
Tlantic City for a treat one sum. Sees Flyers, as Poineers, record, and what does it show? Superiority of the feminine sex?)
Firing, to this eloar-eyed, intel- mer.when Eddie. Stinson was there
commercial Not at all.
ligent young person, Is the last flying ploneer movement.
"It merely means that fiying it self isn't such a herole thing. said: brings flying her the staple class of transportation, kq tralus motor-ears, ships."
Eighteen thousand tons of whale oli, valued at $2,250,000, were brought back from the Antarctic by the glaul tanker Str James Clark Ross. Here's a stern view of the ship. largest Anchor of New York. whaling vessel afloat, as it lay at Through the slipway, clearly seen here, the whales are shunted
to the decks.
There's i lot of difference hp-floating factory that is as mechani. tween the old-time "Moby Dick" cally efficient na a stockyard puck- whaling adventures and the swift, ing filant, earrics ten, "chasera," Meignt means of slaughtering the for smaller craft, which nie sent out giant mammals to-day, but there's amongst the thorst auf bergs to make not a man of the crew of the Sir) the kills. In the bows standi spun- James Clark Köss that regrets thejners, with guns which fire explo change. Their vessel, one of the sive harpoon14. largest whaling ships in the world,
When a number of whales hard hits reached New York with "tho greatest cargo of whale ut ever been slain, they are tied together land towed back to the "cookery." taken out of Antaretle waters.
In the stern of the Boss is a large unre opening, with a sloping nitaway from below waterline to the deck, up which the whales are dragged.
Nearly 270 Norwegians, brown- ed by months of ley winds and night mun, have been turned loose in New York with more money in their packets than the average sea-
Da deck they are cut up and man is krty to save in a lifetime.) For the crown of whaling ships carried by conveyors fa a system work on shares, and after the ex-of boilers. Even the bones are cut penses of the voyage have been into tiny pieces by electric saws paid; each man receives an allots and boiled several times, so that inent according to the work hejevery drop of oil is extracted, has accomplished,
Weather Mild, 38 Below. One Share, $40,000.
All kinds of whales are captured So it is that weatherbeaten Ed-]-blue, sperm, fin, humpback, and ward Jorgenson, hero of the 25,910-"ugly"-ranging in length from One monster in mile cruise, whi receive almost 20 to 100 feet. $10.000. For he shat 253 whales the latter class was so heavy that the total of 1,444 that were the donkey engine hoist was pulled taken on the voyage, and his per-from its moorings when, it tried to
The land the catch. sonal total how is 2,700.
of it she She past her $15 and Eddie gave her tier money's worth by hoping "Women have a part in conquer a few loops. Ruth emerged a bit fog the ale, just as they had in shaky in the knees but determined conquering the wild, new country that sie tum, sum** day would That is the matter-of-fnet and is the old covered-wagon days, but know how to loop the loops.
Of women's special pilnve in fly. extremely modest view which the why bring up that sex-conpetitlan, famus Ruth Nichols takes of the ideal Was there any questioning, Miss Nichols sild:
feats then of what part women were to "Flying is now in the record thrilling record-breaking she herself has accomplished. play, weren't they just acceptedį tyraking stage. Any pioneer in
"Women are still frail, in the and their contributions weleumed dustry marks ity progress by eyes of the world," said this lithe, They drove, cooked, reputed for broken records, and along with Indefatigable person who, in Des food, even fought Indians and the them ge romance and thrills. Fly. wonien bading is the first hodern movement cember, Crownent a series of aerts-fact that they were nutien achievements by dying nothing to do with it. The Nyingi where, women have got in alone across the United States in girls to-day can fit into the air pies; the ground floor, so to speak, Women B' hours, 21 minutes-a record ture, do their part quite as comand can try everything. bettered by only one avintor of petently, without any fuss about probably could drive trucks and either ex-
trans-Atlantic steamer x-competition.” · "Therefore," she continica,
Ruth Nichols certainly is doing quite as well as men but they don't "when a woman bricks any kind her part heroically. Shé Mas been have a chance to try it. They can of dying record she shows it isn't lying eight years, ever since berily, however, and the more they dy, ure they suvered in suck herolé dificulty to fly. In Junior year at Wellesley where she and the other words, 1-brings-flying, near-got-her-A;-B-in-1924, —[ler_deekibreaking_records, the sooner aviat er the comprehension of every-sion to go into aviation, Instead of tion will become a staple mods off-i-hus-beeg-gold-to-n-soap_ince there always were several rounds bady. After all, if women cun del social legislation, was made this travel"
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value of the 55,000 barrels of oil The men had plenty of whale rought in by the winder is some stenks and penguin egge in the thing more than $2,000,000. All Ross Sea, and an Saturday nights of Scotch. For the days were 24 tory.
There's a lot of has and cry, hours long down there, and every about the threatened extinction of man, sure of rich rewards, worked the whale, but Captain Oseur Ni-on 16-hour shifts.
The weather, Captain Nilsen sen, master of the Ross, will tell' you Diat he say more in Antarctic said, was remarkably mild, al- waters this trip than in many a though he admitted the tempera-
precious year. Also that he could re never rose above 38 degrees helow zero. There was only one have taken many more whales this year if he had had room to store death, and it was not in line of duty. The body was brought all the oil.
the way back to America, for a burial Alsen, in the whaling
Big Business New.
The big two-masted, vessel, agrounds, always means, bad luck.
N. LAZARUS, OFTHALMIC OPTICIANS.
13, Queen's Rond Central, Hongkong.
Fellows of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makera. Fellows of the Institute of „Ophthalmic Opticians (England),
NANCY
CARROLL.
Success of Personality.
The classic of turfdom Jung 8, has become Britain gost. At the top, the crowd in the backgrounds centre, while to the right Anish the rolling downs
ssics is the Dorby, a race that is 180 years old:
gala day, as the scenes from the Darby, shown.
aking the turn at Tattenham Corner
party with coach and fourk is show shouting his waresian Below, inlctured
Day,
Acenu at the
ound bbing one abething mass of admirers of the thoroug
A CHARMING STUDY.
Hard work and plenty of fight Through" and thought she should ing have carried Nancy Carroll stay in the studio so that she could from an obscure chorus giri to the be reached when needed.
Seven yours ago Nancy and her top of Mt. Movinna in seven short. years. That's what Nancy will sister got jobs in the chorus of the "Pasaing Show of 1923." A dance tell you..
Others have a different idea of specialty put Nancy in the leading feminine role three weeks later. the principal reason for her rapid For four years she danced from ascension-her extremely vividl personality. Of course, the hard one musical comedy to another, work and willingness to fight for both. In New York and Los Angeles, Then Louis MaeLoon, Los Angeles been im- what she wants have
producer, gave her an opportunity portant factors, but they run to display her dramatic talents in second to her personality, Nancy the fentinine lead of "Chicago." either is liked intensely or dis-That show marked her farewell to liked just as intensely. Her per the stage. Film producers, ali sonality is that strong. Nolly wanted her before its run was passes her by unnoticed.
half completed."
Naturally, such a person is To watch her fight for what she bound to succeed in any walk of considers her rights. one would, life. And this holds particularly think Nancy's whole soul was true in the motion picture indus-wrapped up in pictures. But ns. try, where success is entirely de-matter of fact they get anly a pondent upon fans. When third place in her interests and a Naney's name goes up in electric pretty bad third at that Her lights fans flock to the theatre, husband, Jack Kirkland, and her some to sing her praises and others four-year-old daughter, Patricia, to convince themselves that she is both are way out in front terrible But they go Just the "Are you going to have, your same. And if any of the latter daughter follow in your foot- class happen to change their steps?" we asked, as the conversa. copinions y don't any, May tion drifted around to the baby
be aho's all right after all. They Say That girl is great!!
That will be entirely up to her." repiled Nancy "I will see to it that aho has every educational ad- was with the desire to and stage and, then let her choose, hör own career: My mother was 6sed to my Bedom-
why
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