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HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1934.
STRATOSPHERE
ADVENTURE
Aeronaut's Story Of Amazing Escape
PARACHUTE JUMPS
The United States attempt on the stratosphere height record, which began from Rapid City. South Dakota, nearly ended in dianster for the balloon's occup- ante.
.
When over North Platte, Nebras ko, at a height of over 60,000 feet, the underside of the envelope ripped, and the balloon began slow ly to descend.
was
When the balloon
low enough for the attempt to be made one of the three men. inelde, Mr. Orvil Anderson, the second pilot. Jumped from 5,000 feet.
He was followed by Captain Albert W. Stevens, the observer, at the last moment, with the balloon, at 600 feet, Major Kempaèr, the pilot, leapt clear.
Immediately nfterwards the great gas-bag burst and was sech to drop like a stone on to a farm near Lexington.
The expedition had been design- ed to break all previous stratos phere recorda.
The fantastic-looking craft had climbed to an altitude of 11 miles when its gas-bag was suddenly ripped open. The three airmen. looking through the glass roof of the circular metal gondola in which they were sealed, saw to their dis- may the gash widen,
As the cold air of the stratos, phere rushed into the gap, the balloon shuddered and swayed like a foundoring ship.
BROADCAST DRAMA.
Within a few seconds the balloon began to plunge to earth. Its Gecupants were being whirled downwards under three acres of flapping fabric.
Wireless listeners all over Anter-} ica who had been following the broadcast of the ascent by Kemp- ner gasped with horror when they realised that disaster had taken this great craft.
over-
Speaking in cool, level tones, Kempner said, "The bottom of the balloon is pretty well torn out. The thing is beginning to look like a huge sieve. I don't know how long she is going to hold | together,"
"How fast are you falling?" Inquired tho War Department of Washington,
"About as fast as a man would fall if he jumped off a roof," call-j ed back Kempner..
At 30,000 feet the balloonista opened the port-holes of the gon- dola. Then at 13,000-feet listen- ers heard Stevens in a tense volca saying: "We are getting ready to jump.'
At this point wireless contact with the balloon was severed, and listeners were loft guessing at the outcome of this drama of the sky.
THE HOME - DRESSMAKER.
Dainty Frock For Small Girl.
Here is a charming little frock for a girl of four to siz years of age. It could casily. be made at home, for the pattern is quite simple to follow.
Uncrushable cotton material in a pretty soft shade of yellow is suggested for it, with while pipings and little white buttons for the front fästening,
You will need about due and a half wards of material for a child of three or four years, with a quarter of a word of white pique or linen for the pipinge and two small bo1084
Fold-the material, and ent -out each piece as shown in the. diagram cutting“ tico," pieces for the skirt. The proximate measurements aro Diven, but to avoid Terrors, measure the child and cut paper patterns before cutting the
tho material Tack
paper. patterns together, try on, make any necessary ulterations, then te the corrected patterns for cutting out the material.
To make up the frock-first rlu tip, scams of bodite and. skirt, and join the two togethe with a
ON THE FAR, FAR EAST!
PIKER ABOUT A WEDDING TRIP I
(By Jos E. Brown.)
Hollywood, Calif.--Smart people thoso Chinco Don't let any- body tell you otherwise. People have been saying that to me and I've been saying that to others for
a long time. In a kiddling way...---
Now I know it's on the level, After a couple of months in the [Orient I know that all the brains in the world aren't concentrated in the white race.
I think I've always had a hunch that that was do. I've always wanted to go to China and Japan and get acquainted in those coun- tries. It was, to have been n honeymoon trip at first-but time sort of slipped by for sixteen years and my wife and I just never got around to go. Sometimes it was money we lacked, and sometimes it wan babies or Inck of time or just plain having to work for a living that interfered.
But a few months ago I put my foot down hard and said I was go- ing to China or else, and I wna go- ing to inslat that Mrs. Brown go with mo-just to make good on those early promises. A guy can't |be a piker about his wedding trip
forever.
And it was worth going across
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ail that water just to see that peo-USE ELECTRIC CHROMIC NEEDLES WITH YOUR PICK UP
ple on the other side of the world are not as different from us as the old MacMillan geographies painted them. I couldn't find single good reason why the Chinese and Japanese can't be friends with us and with each other.
In a lot of ways they're way nhend of us. Of course they have hnd forty or fifty centuries more to figure things out. It's sort of a shock to an American to discover that a wise old Chineso regards the whole three hundred. years of American history as an "experi- Interesting but not in existence long enough yet to prove anything.
ment," fold of the "white material let in to form a piping. Cut a small opening in the centre of the skirt front, about four inches long, in lína with the bodice fastening.
Turn in the edges of bodico and skirt opening and face with narrow crossway strips of material. The bodice can either actually fasten with the white buttons, or it can have press fastenings underneath the buttons..
Turn up a two-inch hem on the right side of the skirt, slipping in a narrow fold of white-material which will forms ́a piping when stitched doin
Put in the sleeves, edge the -uçok -with-white-binding
piping, and Anish with a bow at the neck and another at the waist.
Nothing is well established, ac- cording to 'n Chinese, until after the first thousand years. The only trouble with that theory is that no- body ever lives to prove it.
I think I met hundreds, of Chinese and Japaneso who speak English. I know a few Americans who speak the Oriental languages but not many. I'm not recommend |ing that every American chiki be taught to speak Chinese, but it might not be a bad idea for a few of them to learn the world's oldest ¦ language. I wish I could, but the words just won't. At in my mouth.
The younger generations in Asla have the same advanced views -or-about-most things that we have
They know a lot more about our country than wo know about theirs, And they have the good taste to be amused rather than angry when an American parades his ignorance of their customs, history or religion.
Then Tumo the news from Lexington that the balloon had gondola, then jump, out of it when been scen descending and that its we got where a human being could occupants had made parachute live. jumps to anfety.
"At 80,000 feef we opened the a nice jump. Stevens followed, Major Kempner, describing their gondola, got out, and looked at having some difficulty in clearing adventures after he had reached things on top, and the ground, said:-
looked as if the gyrating gondola, and then possibly we would be able to land seeing them safe I leapt off my "We were up about 57,000 feet it with some good records. We self."" when the fabric of the bag ap felt that it was well worth taking parently gave way, due to inflation a long chance to bring home the ment in the balloon, worth thou
All the instruments and equip- or some other causa-I do not records we had obtained. know what
sands of dollars, have been destroy- "With that Idea in mind, we ed with the exception of the "We were able to look through tried to land the balloon,
even pectograph. Captain Anderson the window at the top of the gon-though the bottom was virtually stated that the gondola was totally dola, and see a hole about 50 feet torn away: The parachuting effect wrecked, long.
of the fall tended to cut the lower fabrle away, and left a great gap just over 11 miles which the air- The holght of 60,000 feet or lag top with hydrogen holding it mon are reported to have reaclied was less than the height obtained
:
"We were somewhat concerned, because you cannot get out of any thing at 60,000 feet. A human being dies at 62,000 feet...
DASH TOWARDS EARTH.
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"It was making a parachute com- by the Soviet balloon Stratostate bination, and with that at about U.S.S.R. last year, and about a 5,000 foot it suddenly split wide mile under the height believed to "So we sat and waited, wonder-open, and everything dashed to have been obtained by the Soviet ing whether or not we were going ward the earth.
balloon Osoaviokhim, which crash
Ito come hustling down through "We saw it was useless to waited to earth with the death of its
space at a mile a minute in the any longer. Anderson went first.
SALESMAN SAM
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