THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12,
1938.
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Hongkong Air Service Forerunner To Big Aviation Developments In U.S. CLIPPERS WILL SOON
40,000 Now Living Will Die
ROAD TRAGEDIES
New York.
Approximately 40,000 persons will be killed in motor accidents. within the next year in the Uni- ted States, Dr. Miller McClin- Lock, director of the Bureau for Traffic Research at Harvard University, stated in an address at the recent Safety Foundation! seminar at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Indicating the necessity for more)
• caution is the part of motorists and AIC- better traffic regulations. Dr.
Clintock further estimated that 125,- 000 persons will be permanently dis-) abled and bout a million and a half! will suffer injúries,
"The actual cost of highway acri- dents in this country, including death, i Injury and property damage." he salt, "has been estimated at from
oor and a half to two billion dollars a year."
Dr. MeChntock, however, did not! attribute this alarming mortality to any outstanding defect in the con- struction
cars.
"The fact is that to-day there is not a single car in current production that is not de- signed for safe and continuous Speed: of sixty miles an hour."
The trouble, he said, is in the cun Restion of trallie in almost all United States cities. As an example of this problem he pointed out that in urtsan communities in this country it is un- ¦ safe to drive over seventeen miles; an hour.
On Park Avenue in this,
city, twelve miles an hour is the, Juni for safe driving.
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World Will Spend Over
£2.000.000.000 On Armaments
John W. Darr, director of the Safety In 1938, Survey Shows
Foundation, read a letter from Prest-; dent Roosevelt which urged that i
efforts be redoubled to achieve trafic
These!
entegories.
OUST SHIPS AMERICA PLANS BIG INCREASE IN AIR ACTIVITIES
Washington,
The hugo man-made airbirds operating between the United States, Hawaii, the Philippines and Hongkong have boon officially indicated as standards of progress in the United States govern- mont's survey of trans-oceanic commercial flying possibilities.
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In the United States Maritime Commission's monu. mental report, "Aircraft and the Merchant Marine," cently issued, there has been presented the startling fore- cast that giant, trans-oceanic aircraft, modelled in many respects after the Pacific clipper planes, will soon super. sede the great super-liners such as the Normandie, the Queen Mary, and the Mauretania.
The report declares "the San Francisco to Honolulu crossing has now passed its experimental stage with a record of having successfully completed a year of operation-with a performance comprising 96% of previously announced schedules. This dis- tance of approximately 2,400 miles is the longest over-water jump now being negotiated regularly on any of the world's air- yays, and represents a rapid increase from previous distances regularly flown."
The
fles Яlown 7,000,000 passenger Maritime Commission!
without an accident of any kind." preport was prepared under the
supervision of Grover Loening, The Maritime Commission survey famous aeronautical
reviewed possible expansion of com- expert.
fort facilities on trans-nevanic air whose new position is that of sarriers, and concluded that with Aeronautical Adviser to the very little improvement, passenger Maritime Commission. The comfort could be brought to a point train, Commission, in the course of its comparable with a Pullman report, recommended that trans- with the added advantage of greater oceanic flying, because of its Merchant Marine implications, should be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Maritime Commission. It is now under the Air Commerce bureau of the Department of Commerce.
The report dismisses the dangers! of engine trouble ind consequent neessly of forerd landings at sea, citing the excellent record of the trans-Pacile planes.
speed.
"Discussing the cast problem, in- cluding depreciation charges on in- dividual plans in un air feel, the survey suggested that the number of lying hours which could be balanced with yearly, depreciation was in- creasing, and cited the Martin planes on the San Francisco to China run as an example.
4,000
2,000 HOURS A YEAR "There are now in domestic ser- vice." the Survey said, "domestic) transport planes, averaging hours
and un the San Francisco-China run, Martin Clip- pors have already attained the rate)
year.
Commissioned
alliance between
arger
AL
shipping and air aus
operations.
LANDINGS AT SEA "On the question of emergency) of over 2,000 hours per
Th Bandings in case of fire or for other Paris, Dee, 291. penditures were £1,490,000,000. The reasons, the lying boats have now clases
companies 1938 was estimated to herome so large that in calm condl- The world will spend more than figure for
It was
such suggested t safety. The President also praisedi
for tarir 2,900,000,000 on it, war machines, exceed £1,600,000,000, while suppletong on the Atlantic and Pacifle, the the nation's newspapers
din 1934, a United Press Survey mcntary naval budgets will bring the landings at sea could be made with alliance was necessary, and even in- forceful safety campaigns.
evitable, if the shipping concerns figure to well above £2,000,000,000. entire practicability. campaigns have been conducted at revealed to-lay
noti
Great Britain announced she is only with editorials but also by meansi Four tax shillings in every 16 will
"in a storm, a handing could he were to maintain their dominance made that might injure the aircraft trans-octante merchant traffic in the fact of progress in trans-oceanic of vivid pictures showing the wreck; be spent to maintain and ealarg the already constracting 100 ships of all!
and prevent take-off but would not ying. The report referred to the age of ears and the agony of dying world's armies, and navies.
Minister Cover victims.--United Press.
It will be spent in the
Today, Navy fastest
nreessarily injure personnel.
fact that many Shipping armaments doce in history, including Campinchi announced France's naval
engines, however, already have recognised this 1938 will the years before the war tu end wars, Cstruction
any two of which can fly the plane, į evitability and have acquired con- The billion pound item ncludes 28.000 tons in ships of all classes, 50 all branches of national defence | Per Cent, subre than the oval-con--forced-landings-are-mast.remote mercial airline interests.
and already the Martin and Sikor In this connection the report cited including the construction of naviestruction; in any recent year.
sky Clippers in the Pacille have the fact that the Matson interests The League of Nations revealed the: to their highest tonnage since the i Philadelphians walk around
own a large share of Inter-Island $10,000,000 in unclaimed gold, but it Washington disarmament conference world's 1913 military expenditures
Airways in Hawali. totaled £500,000,000. The present doesn't bother them very much. The of 1822.
from in- cost of procuring 1 from the 15-foot Tear-end estimates for 1937 by the increase resulted largely
of Nations disarmamentcrease in standing armies and their Said world defence
ex-motorisation.
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Sold His Blood
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NOW HE WILL DIE
Olympia, Washington, Jan. 1. All the time that he was selling his own blood to survive the de- pression, Roger Carr sensed a paralyzing numbness creeping through his body. Now he is crippled by a malady for which doctors have no cure, and he is ready to sacrifice his life to medical science in hopes of sav. ing others.
His disease is called "Multiple Sclerosis." It is described a "a chro- nie disorder of the nervous system characterized by amall areas of hardening in the brain or spinal cord or both."
Doctors think his affliction Was caused by the many transfusions he underwent and that there is no danger of his having transmitted it to others!
the-
NEW ROUTES
concerns
iT
For routes such as San Francisen to Japan and San Francisco to Aus- tralia the maritime experts suggested that all other factors being equal, a dirigible, having greater distance range, might be more sultable than heavier-than-nir craft. No pro- Kisimme of dirigible construction is recommended, however, until after "a statement from the Navy of their (the dirigibles) value fur national defence.
Honolulu was singled out IN "strategic centre" in the great ex- pansion of trans-oceanic flying. The report suid:
Ha
"The British Empire, for one, Is is ambillous programme for the Empire, alr routes which are to link up all the Dominions into one great system. Such a рго- gramme may require ceriain Inter. mediate fueling and
passenger stations in locations such as 1fono. Julu, In order to traverse the great distance between Canada and Aus- tralla."United Press.
DEFENCE "TRAGI-
COMEDY"
Territorial Magazine on Air Raid Precautions
"We are making experiments with view to providing the householder
a
to whom he gave blood. They Bay with handpump, a shovel, and a will die in 20 few years' unless box of sand," That remarkable Par- some cure is discovered and that an amentary statement by the Home! operation would probably kill him Secretary smacka of the whole trugi- immediately. They refused to comedy of air raid precautions, in operate but he insisted that they do Britain, says on editorial ira
December issue of the Territorial Magazine.
"I'm offering my life as a last re- sort in an effort to discover a cure," he said. "I only hope it will be of beneßt to the medical world."
the
First the slow awakening to our danger (continues the article.) Then the protracted haggling between the Government and Local Authorities He made the statement publicly over the cost of safely. Now the and no doctor had replied to it yet. Government seeking at long last Par- Once Carr worked for a blood llamentary sanction for its measures transfusion agency in Delrolt when with little hint of urgency or promise he could and no work. That was in of mergetic central control. 1034, in all, he aubmitted to 23 transfusions. He said he was "top-ritorial Ariny, for however efficient ped" 11 times in five months. The transtusions weakened his system, doctors told him.
nervous
This matter vitally affects the Ter-
becomes in the anti-aircraft de fence of the country, its efforts will be futile if the civilian population can be panic-stricken and demoralis- ed.
He was paid $25 for each trans-
Civilian precautions are an urgent fusion and usually gave a pint or more of blood. He is 33 now, and hobbles, as military preparations. We hope, is left side in all but useless. He therefore, to sea the authorities not makes his living by selling rugs merely promising an issue of hand- which he designs. nurso taught
pumps, shovels, and boxes of sånd him to keep his hands neilve do that to householders, but instructing them they could escape paralysis. He in the use of gås musks and in seek- spends 17 hours on each rug-Untied ing shelter, with genuine determina- 100 Prers.
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