THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1988.
'POOR UNCLE RACKET ANGERS STARS
Chief Admits Lack Of Bad Weather Instruments
STRIKING admissions that R.A.F. pilots were put into high-speed machines before they were experienced in them and that there was a shortage of instruments for bad weather flying Sir made recently by Air-Marshal William Mitchell, Air Member for Personnel on the Air Council.
were
He was answering questions after a lecture on R.A.F. training at the Royal United Service Institution.
Referring to bad weather flying, he said: "One of the difficulties we have had to face has been the shortage of instruments; but it is hoped this will show a consider- able improvement in future.
"The whole renson in the they should have been 'able to decide difficulty of getting production that it was too bad for them.
to keep pace with demand.""
He was then naked to explain. why it was that civil pilots were more successful in bad weather flying than R.A.F. pilots.
His answer was: "We have inexperienced pilots turned out in 10 months, and put into squad- rons where they fly high speed machines.
"They are not really experienced In these fast machines. Experience only comes with time, and things will undoubtedly improve."
CIVIL PILOTS
ARE BETTER
He added that he thought it was undoubtedly true that the civil pilot was better--because, in many cases, the civil pilot was very experienced before he started in the civil ne, and was often an ex-R.A.F. officer.
FACING COURTS
OF INQUIRY
"I wondered if there w:13
any being possibility of some scheme evolved whereby the Ale Ministry would relieve squadron commanders from the responsibility of facing courts of inquiry resulting from an ac- cident, so that each squadron com- monder might be in a position to encourage deliberate bad weather fying us against weather flying.
*nceldental' bod
"If a pilot is taught to fly in bad weather in the vicinity of his own acrodrome he will very 30011 realise exactly what
actual flying
the conditions of bad weather are, and will be untiluenced by the appalling psychological aspect when he comes across weather which is worse than he has ever come across before."
Air-Vice-Marshal L. A. Pattinson, who had lectured on K.A.F. training. replied that the R.A.F. regarded practice in flying very low and push- ing pilots as far as possible in had
Mr. Nigel Tangye brought forward weather flying as part of the normal
a proposal that there should be dell-training in every stage. berate bud-weather Bying
the fre
"Actually, during the intermediule.. R.A.F. and suggested that potential training period, a pilot has a course efficiency in the R.A.F. was consider of low lying over some selected aren ably higher than actual efficiency. where it would not cause too much annoyance, with daul instruction," he
Mr. Tangye added: "You have
to put eficiency on somebody's said,
shoulders.
"It reats on the shoulders of the commanding oilleer, who has no com- punction in sending pilots into the alr when visibility is doubtful and when pilots may get lost, with the result, as we ser, that they crash, unfortunately fairly frequently, conditions of bad weather, when
-BRITAIN'S WET SPOT GOES
SUBSTITUTE FOR CLOUDS
SECRET?
While they were waiting to hear from Jupan, relative to mediation of the war in Chine by the Nine-Power Peace Con- ference In Brussels, American Delegate Norman H. Davis, left, und Captain Anthony Eden, heading the British delegation, exchanged views in а friendly chat. The scene is at the Palais des Academies.
$20,700 FOR FOUR WIVES!
Gang Ask Money
'Or
We Tell'
Hollywood.
All Hollywood's detectives were mobilised to-day in
a great drive to round up a ring of racketeers who have been attempting to victimise Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford and Olivia de Havilland.
The racketeers sent begging letters and telegrams purporting to come from poor relatives of the stars. Carole Lombard has been the worst sufferer and is the most angry.
A few days ago Miss Lombard received this telegram from a Iman calling himself her uncle: "I'm sure you wouldn't want t known that a member of your family is on relief. Please send | five hundred dollars ($100)."
This wire has been followed by other begging messages con- taining veiled threats "to tell all."
Claudette Colbert said she had received messages from three two aunts, all great-grandmothers, four grandfathers and apparently in extreme need.
Mac West was sent a letter bearing the fraudulent heading, "White Cross Charities," and asking for £100.
Police have confiscated all the messages.
Silence For Happy Marriage
By ELLISEVA SAYERS
HISTORY IN FIRMS' OLD LETTERS
Two kinds of old letters- the "Dear, Sir, Unless" notes of 100 years ago and early reports of missionaries
THE ideally happy married from many parts of the couple, should, according to world-are in the news to- Madame Alexandra Roube-Jan-
sky, Turkish authoress:
Be married for 23 years;
Have Mirco children;
nor
Never have quarrelled, have been separated even for a day,
day.
The Council for the Preserva-
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THE FORMULA
"Many nineteeth-century records threw light on certain aspects of trade fluctuations of which next to nothing is known.
"We are just as interested in the small representative businesses as in the spectacular ones."
Pittsburgh, Jan. 25.
She discovered such, a couple-in The biggest alimang budget in the China. But the average English pair
Owners are asked by the council "He is taught how to handle on history of Allegheny county is that
to keep possession of their documents. aeroplane at very low heights of Henry S. A. Stewart, Jr., who would not find it easy to carry out
the formula. instrument flying under the hood is has had four wives.
"The man told me that he and his In cases where these are of national we have Q
Each three importance they are presented--with, secret. substitute for cloud flying, and the reason we do not do much
The budget now stands at actual
months they have one week of of course, the owners' consent to a cloud flying is that there would be US. $20,700 a year, which is silence. They are together, but they museum,
"MISSIONS' ADVENTURES risk of collision.
The telephone, flying more than half of his income, as close their mouths. in "The training we give
The missionaries' letters, 500,000 of traluing schools, in facing worse and stated by attorneys, of some too, is cut off; the servants do not
address one word.
them, some of priceless historical worse conditions, is carried on when U.S. $38,000 anually.
They say it is because a Chinese value, are to be preserved as the pilots-get-to-the-Service-squadrons. The commanding ofleer 11:14
in Stewart's professor advises people to rest each result of-a-grant of. £1,138 from the The latest entry to nssume command like any other com- alimony budget is $325 a month to of their 500 nerves to get happiness." Pilgrim Trust to the London Mission-
J. Stewart, formerly of Another ideally married couple-ary Society.
and Mrs. Lord Macmillan, chairman of the Nashville, Tenn., who rid herself of self-avowed-were Mr.
trust, unveiled a clock and tablet at Eddie Cantor. matrimonial bindings Inst water at
"He wrote to me from Hollywood," the society's headquarters in West- Miami Beach,
added Mme. Jansky. "He said: 'You minster recently in commemoration seek an ideal couple round the of the grant. world. I am your man. I am the Among the African records, dating Ideal husband and my wife is the from 1790, is a collection of letters
wife. I have only one vice. I from David Livingstone. ideal need each evening a different soup.'" Caprice, and independence made her run away from the restrictions
DRYnding officer, and the question of Bertie
London, Jan.10.
the sort of weather is one upon which he has to excreise command.
I don't think commanding oflcers The wettest spot In Great Britainare expected to play entirely for In terms of rain, Lerwickt, has decided safety. They should exercise their to remain the dryest in terms of judgment." alcoliol.
93 CRASHES
The drys however, are losing sup- porters and the wets are growing in The Aviation Correspondent writes: numbers. A poli among the in- In 1937 there were 13 R.A.F. crashes babitants to decide whether the with 150 deaths-the highest death capital of the Shellands should allow roll since the war.
With the new bite on his income, ordered by common pleas court here, the budget reads:
Wire No. 1-cost amount unrevealed,
settlement,
of her country 24 years ago, at the age of 14, to live in France. Until
Wife No. 3-$1,000 a month. Wife No. 3-$400 a month. Wife No. 4-$325 a month. the sale of hooch reveals a drop in But the accident incidence is not
The figures show that Stewart has then she wore the veil, the majority in favour of prohibition. considered alarming when the facts
having successful t that, in 1937 the RA.F. more than bren
the learn English," were her last words, scaled down with cach This year 758 voted in favour of doubled ils flying mileage over 1935, amounts a continuance of prohibition und 605 hundreds of pilots are in training, the divorce, which probably is a good and pertups to search for an ideal
them at English couple." for repeal, giving a majority of 03. strength of the home defence force thing because three of
In 1920 there was a majority of 282 has been teebled, and that new types $1,000 a month would total $30,000! in favour of prohibition.-United of fast machines are being put into a year and leave him only $2,000:
service, are taken into account.
out of the $38,000 income. Press.
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