'Plane Lost
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936.
Its Engine-But
Landed
Safely
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Pilot And Wife Escape By Ten-Million To-One
To-One Chance
LONDON-
JO'BURG
25 HOURS
-Air Race Hope TONDON to Johannesburg 6,500 miles in twen- ty-five hours is expected to be the amazing achievement of the winner of the Rand air race, to start from Lon- don on the night of Septem- ber 29.
Entries for the race closed re- cently,
In many ways it will be a more gruelling test thin the London- Melbourne race two years ago Most of the competitors in the Rand race will be flying solo, and there will be no stopping at air- fields for one minute more than
is necessary to refuel.
most
Eleven entries had been recolvert,
Several of England's famous airmen are "holding back" their entries until the last possible, moment. Secrecy over the type of aircraft they will be firing is the cause.
It is the popular belief that thei winner of the speed section, which -carries the prize në £4,000, will reach Johannealing in twenty-five hours,
Countess No Longer
Lady Moira Forbes Dublin, Sept. 1.
|
The Earl of Granard, at the coming-of-age party of his elder ! son, Viscount Forbes, at Castle Forbes. Co. Longford, to-night made this announcement:-
"The Countess de Branles will In future be known as Lady Moira Forbes."
He explained
daughter's marriage
Inter: "My
to the Comte
Louis de Brontea has just been dis- solved according to French civil law,
Annulment procecilings in accordance
are almost completed."
Bridal group at wedding at Rosary Church on Wednesday of Mr. Ren, A, da Silva to Miss Lina Silva- Netto-Ming Yuen Photo,
Eleven
Bound Skeletons Found
WHALE STORY
Seattle, Aug. 30.
The Coustal steamer 1. F. Alexander recently berthed at Seattle with 450 passengers nod. one whale. The_ship collided! with the huge mammal in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, killing it instantly, and carrying most of the body into Seattle on its bow.
Dramatic Escape
From
Death in Asia
MISSIONARIES'
TENT POLES MISTAKEN FOR GUNS
By HUGH REDWOOD
with the rules of the Catholic Church NEWS reached me yesterday that one of the most dangerous Lady Moira, married the count In missionary adventures ever undertaken is nearing a successful 1034. The wedding received a conclusion. special Papal blessing.
It is a story with four heroines, three Englishwomen and a of England's richest girls. Her hus-betan girl to whom London bade farewell just over a year
ago, doubting greatly if they would return.
Lady Moira is twenty-six and one
band is thirty-two.
U.S. Defence
Miss Mildred Cable writes me, however, to say that she and her companions, Miss Eva French Miss Francesca French and Topsy, are on the Inst stage of their great trek and that "it may not be su very long before we meet again..
These three grey-haired veterans | October last, which seemed as if it San Francisco, Aug. 20. of the mission felt, the Gobi Trio, as might be their last, and since then. The Pacific Coast defence soon they are known, with their deced in a country infested by bandits and is to be augmented by the installe deaf-mute profegee (von: they permeated by influences hostile to from brigandage 011 a Christianity, they have had several lation of four now 16-inch guns, previous expedition) have travelled narrow escapes from death. according to announcement of through Russia inte Central Asin and
"One night,
in a lonely spot." Major
over the borders of Turkeston into writes Miss Cable, "we put up our General George 5.
Kansu.
tent, and some men of the baser sort, Simonds, now commander of the ESCAPES FROM DEATH standing by, said of the poles, 9th Corps area.
The full tale of their Journeyings "Those are their guns. With a range of nearly 30 cannot yet be told, but so far as it is miles at sea, the new guns al-known in outile it vividly recoils the
worda of St. Paul;
ways will have the job-if they ever have one of firing at invisible targets.
Installation of the annasive pieces of ordnance will give San Francisco the ultimate in protection from in- vasion by foreign' Beet,
Gunners, stationed beside the huze
guns, can bombard enemy ships with projectiles weighing more than a ton
course,
BEARER WOUNDED "Out denials, of
slept in safety and peace. But
inter was robbed wounded.
THEORY OF EXECUTION BY STRANGLING
A Thousand Years Ago
"I Just
Felt Silly"
FEET
PASSENGER'S
DANGLING
IN SPACE
By VICTOR BURNETT THIS is the story of the most remarkable escape from death recorded in Javiation.
Major R. A. Thornton, a well- known airman, look off from Buda- pest in his monoplane to fly to Hamburg. He 14719 flying the machine from the back cockpit. In the front cockpit, just behind the engine, sat his wife,
The weather was good, the engine was running perfectly.
Suddenly there was a faint bang. Major Thornton looked up and for.. ward to the engine.
Then he gasped. There was no
engine!
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The alreraft ended in a jagged WK VERVER tear just beyond the front cork.
pit.
His wife, in front of him, found herself with her feet notunlly dang gling in space,
Both pilot and passenger gavo themselves
2p. Major Thornton wrestled with the controls. Nothing happened. The monoplane flew level for an instant and then slowly began to heel-over.
BRUSHED.TREE TOPS
I nose, releaset from the weight of the engine, rose in the air. Then, Fasing flying speed, the machine stalled and went over into a flattish spin.
"I didn't feel frightened," and the pilot. "I just fell silly
สา help.
Tena i ALEVEN skeletons, 1,000 years old,
have been discovered on Stock bridge Downs, near Winchester, by Dr. Gray Hill, con of Sir Norman Hill, of Green Place, Stockbridge.
One of the skeletons was face downwards, others were on their
bucks, and all appeared to have their hands behind them. No bones were broken. This suggests that death I was due to execution by strangula-
tion.
The skeletons were all less than 2ft. under the surface of the turf. A short time ago Dr. Gray 1 discovered 30 skeletons near the same spot.
Mrs. Thomton expected the nose of Al every second both Major and the machine to paint straight to- wards the earth and crash in high- speed, spinning dive.
ut the dive didn't start. The spin ld not increase its speed. Then the undercarriage brushed the tree tops. The passengers held "The aircraft hit the ground with nelight bump.
11.
Major and Mrs. Thornton climbed out, bruised. They found the missing engine neur. The propeller and smashed and the vibration had torn the engine out of the airplane.
But their escape is mystery. Designers say it is a ten-million-to- one chance.
Astor Diary Lists
Stars By Charm,'
Starts New Panic
FILM
New York, Aug. 26.
ILM star Mary Astor's now famous "misstep" diary, which her liusband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, is striving alrengthened their beliefa. So we
only to introduce in evidence in their legal battle for the custo- perits in the city, in perils in the post which came through two nights dy of their four-year-old child, has thrown the big names
and Its bearer of Hollywood into a fresh panic, Then on another lonely stretch It contains, in imperishable allavender ink, her "'charm
“In journeying often, in perits of rabbers, in perils by the heathen, in
wilderness in weariness aud painfulness, in watchings often, in humger and thirst...
There was at least one day, In
while the vessels are far beyond the ELAINE
Tange of vision of observers on the
coast.
The guns were built as part of the GIVES UP Array's policy of expanding fighting
units and stiffening const defences' approved by the last Congress.
While 80 or 00 men will be used to firo each gun, double that number is needed for range-finding and other
BARRYMORE
New York, Sept. 5. detalls of firing at an unseen target. THE romance between John
In time of war, army officials state 200 mon would be assigned to each gun.---Unitod Press
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Barrymore, the screen lover
of read, we falled to hear that large caravan was Just behind us. Had we known we should most cer- ratings" on nearly every out- tainly have walled for it and
Joined up, for safety's sake. We standing male film star.
sald, and
falled to hear, as I have came alone over a road which men fear to travel except in companies, "We passed through, with an angel guard, quite unconscious of the fact that a robber band was waling. The large caravan was attacked, four men killed and all their goods taken.
The "Best Ten of Hollywood" are tabulated with full details and ex- planations in four pages of the dlay. Some of the most prominent screen lovers fail to figure in the Ilst.
.
Some one close to the situation suid
"After the experiences of this year I um more than ever concerned for our own land. I have seen what a of 54, and his protegee of 20, country can become when its vitals to-day: "It can be quite under Miss Elaine Barric which led have been uttneked by that most ter-stood that many of Miss Astor's to Mr. Barrymore being divorcedible of diseases, the insanity which former friends are, concerned about
declares There is no Gad,'""
by his wife, Dolores Costello, last your-has withered.
the publication of this list.
EMBARRASSING-
Kansu, the most north-westerly Diss Barrie, who is in Holly-province of China, is about 900 miles wood, declared to-day: "Recent inland from Shanghai. Dominated "Many are regarded as oustanding events have shown conclusively by high mountains, it is notorious as he-men in the screen world. A poor that it is impossible for us to plan being one of wildest· and most rating in the diary could be exceed- a happy married life together. fuaccessible regions in the Far East. Ingly embarrassing for them, With this realisation I would in-
finitely prefer to terminale our re- lationship at this ilma rather than when we were married."
The romance began in New York in the spring of 1935, when Shake speare, requisitioned, provided two endearing nlekutames Caliban and Ariel-for the couple.
*A GIRL LIKE THAT"
...
A bitter quatret sent Mr. Barry- more hurrying back by aeroplane and train to Hollywood with "Ariel" In pursuit.
Last month Mr. Barrymore was quoted as saying, “A man can't get | along with a girl like that."
HARMONY.
New York, Sept. 5.
Bride Wore
WHEN Mr. James Wallington and Miss Beatty Jane Cooper
were married in Detroit to-day----- Bridegroom Wore· Grey and white check trousera, White jacket,
Brown and white shoes,' Blue handkerchief in
His sister, Miss Ethel Barrymore, aged 57, in a national broadcast, has nnnounced her retirement from the stage. She said she hoped to devote herself to "helping young people net pooket
along." Unlike her brothers Lionel and John, she never cared much for acling in Alms.
coal
Blue flower in buttonhole.
The bridegroom is a radio
Grey and white check trousers, White jacket,
Brown and white shoes, Blue handkerchief in coat pocket,
Blue flower in buttonhole. announcer, the bride a dancer.
"In fact, the most panic-stricken people in the film colony to-day are not so much alarmed at the prospect of giving evidence of their friendship with Miss Astor as they are about their puslitons on the Isl."
It was intimated this afternoon, "be- fore the case was adjourned until Monday, that more stars mentioned in the dlary are to be subpoenaed.
Playwright George Kaufman hos already been served. John Barry- more has successfully eluded process- servers in the sanatorium where he
is recovering from a serious illness.
Bette Davis
On Honeymoon
Bette Davis, Hollywood film star, arrived at Greenock, in the G.P.R. liner Duchess of Bedford Inst night.
She and her husband. Mr. Hurmon: O. Nelson, Jun, Hollywood band- lender, had left New York secretly. Miss Davis said: "We regard. this trip as a honeymoon, for although we have been married for years we have never had a holiday before.
"We shall play golf at St. Andrews, Turnberry, and Gleneagles,
"My handleap? I had a very good game over Banff Springs, Canada, on my way hero. I went round the |course, in 125. Not too bad,"
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