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TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932.
"BLUEBIRD'S" FIVE MILES A MINUTE.
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Man Against Beast!
The never-ending struggle of the jungle... the tug of 'straining muscles against the foreboding background of the wilderness. Then fabulous treasure and its inevitable. companions, human lust and trickery. All the thrills of peril, jammed into the greatest of serials. Fifteen breath-taking episodes with TARZAN THE TIGER running wild and piling up new and excit ing adventures. Even the king of the beasts could
not stay Tar-
י
zan s mighty,
hand.
with
Frank Merrill
Bot
Natalie Kingston
TARZAN
THE
TIGER
-COMING SOON
"THE AGE FOR LOVE"
WITH
Billie Dove, Charles Starrett, Lois Wilson, Mary Duncan,
Edward Everett Horton.
A 1932 United Artists Picture.
Sir Malcolm Campbell at Daytona, in his Bluebird 11, with which he yesterday set a new world's motor land
speed record.
day by over seven miles an hour, remarkable performance bear-
TRIPLE WORLD'Sing in mind the enormous addi- SOVIET PLAN OF
SPEED
tional power required for creasing even by even a mlie hour at such speeds.
Ilis previous record, set
in-
an
RECORD BROKEN, February last year was 248.164
m.p.h. After this historic ach- lovement, which earned him bis knighthood, Sir Malcolm declar-
CAMPBELL DOESd his certainty that the Blue-
IT AGAIN.
253.968 M.P H!
motor
Daytona, Feb. 24. Sir Malcolm Campbell, the the world-famous speed record holder, sur- passed his previous best on the
beach at Daytona, Florida, to-day, when his Bluebird II, alightly modified since. her feat of last year, averaged 253.968 miles hour, for the flying mile. Pew
planes are cap-
ate of compet- ing successfully with Sir Malcolm
Campbell's won- der-car. record for machines, as dis
The
anyd-
tinet from sea-
14 planes,
than 300
an hour.
M
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an
DISARMAMENT.
TO BE VOTED UPON TO-DAY.
Landan, Feb. 24. Tho chief British. delegate, bird could la even better. Sir John Simon, at the General Commission of the Disarmament Renter.
Conference at Geneva this after- moon, urtet that the draft Conven-
five уелга tion prepared after
fle Preparatory Dis Work by
TWO OTHER RECORDS
Later.
Sir Malcolm Campbell brok two other world land speed rermement Commission, be used as Conts, in addition to that for the the framework for discussions.
The trepient was supported by By er andlo
the representatives of France, Arterien, Germany and Italy.
He set a record for the kiln. ameter distance of 251.40 miles an hour, over Ave miles a minut :.nd be raised the record. the five kilometers' distance a (241,569 milles an hour.,
At the rommencement of his ala dial there terrifle speeds, Sir Malcolm ha to guide his car be tween the pillars of the pier:- Router
267 M.P.H.
Later. The Anally prepared theatres re- ording the record breaking at- tempt of Bluebird 11 to-day, shows that Sir Malcolm Campbell's first ran was completed at a speed of 267 159 mites av hour!
The Soviet delegate asked the Commission first to vote on the proposals for complete disarma- taken ment. This vote will be to-morrow.--British Wireless,
PREMIER LEAVES FOR SOUTH.
TO RECUPERATE AFTER OPERATION.
Landon, Feb. 24, The Prime Minister, accompan-
The run in the opposite directed by his daughter Ishbel, left ear today for the tion
was more than 20 m.p.h. London by lower, namely 241.775 miles an South West England, where he hour, giving him an average, for will have a short holiday to re- the purpose of the new record. euperate after the recent opera-
miles
hur. tion to his left eye.--British Wire.
Еска. Reuter's Américan Sernice.
fie improved the previous per-arga:i.968 formance of the Bluebird 10-
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JOHN MORALLY
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