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April 29, 1939.
Airman Hangs Upside Down, Boot Caught by Bomb Rack
1,500-ft. Dive In The Dark
·· AIRCRAFTMAN JAMES SUMMERS, twenty-four years old, jumping from a Harrow bomber during a night fighi over Suffolk, caught the strap of his right bool on a bomb rack, and hung upside down for free minutes before he was able to free himself and flost to earth.
He had never before made a pare- chute Jump,
LANDED SAFELY
As he dived he caught his foot in the bomb-rack fitted "on The trap door, which shut it on his leg.
He struggled valnly to get free. Then he managed to awing him- self upward. With one hand he gripped the strap and undid the buckle and his footslid from the boot.
As Flying Oficer Vincent and Pilot Officer Donaldson coaxed the crippled machine back to Marham
With two other aircraftmen and he dropped through space and landed two officers lie was flying from Mor-safely in a field. He had to walk ham, Norfolk recently: The machin five miles to Sudbury with only one ne's starboard engine petered out and boot.
It began to lose height,
An Air Ministry oficial said "This
Flying Officer Vincent ordered his is the first time an R.A.F. parachutist crew to jump at 1,500 feet. Air-has got caught up in a monoplane. craftmen Jakteman and Smith It has happened before with dropped from the after turret,
alplane, but it was thought to be Aircraftman Summers, in the impassible with a machine of the turret amidships, climbed out too.Harrow type,"
Film "First Nights" On Ocean Bed
FULL-LENGTH films shown in
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submarines on the bed of the arrangements will enable men of the ocean simultaneously with their Navy to see important West-End and release in West-End theatres!
American releases even before
This is the latest triumph of the audiences in provincial cinemas. cinema engineers who made possible
Uie H.M.S. Ark Royal inauguration The Ark Royal, world's largest of Blm shows on battleships recently, aircraft carrier, was chosen for its The new portable Gaumont-British size, but it was the most difficult projectors, one-twentieth the weight to equip as a cinema. of those used in cinemas, have been made so compact that they can bej carried through a 22in. hatchway.
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The auditorium was the huge sicel cylinder-like aeroplane hangar, which presented almost insurmount- able acoustic culties,
This means that full-length film programmes can now be given in the The slightest sound was magnifled restricted space even of a submarine, and echoed Inside the metal "drum," More than 200 ships of the Royal By use of ship's equipment only, the Navy are to be thus equipped, so walls and floors were draped, so that that officers and men may see and the reception at the first film show hear the latest tulkies at a cost of was equal to that in any West-End
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theatre.
Scene in the French court in Versailles as Eugen Weld- mann, upper left, is on trial for the murder of Jean de Koven, Brooklyn, N. Y., dancer. Suspected by French police of other murders, Weidmann is known as "Bluebeard." Three others also are un trial in the case.
Veteran On Tunnel Run
Scattle.
Device Registers Phone Calls
be
Sydney, Australia, John D. Crowley, railroad engineer,
Australia has produced an inven- observed his 10th anniversary on the tion for registering all calls made same run' which ducludes a 10-mile over a telephone so they may tunnel. Crowley estimated in the 10 cheeked or traced down afterward. years he had been through 10,000, The inventor is C. V. L. Mitchell of miles of tunnel.
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