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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 31, 1939.
THANDIEL CHOMONORI
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14,200 FEET UP
IN A GLIDER
Record Breaker's
Own Story
DUNSTABLE.
"COULD have climbed higher
in my glider, but conditions in the cloud which was carrying i me up were getting too rough, so I flew out of it when my alti- tude registered 14,200ft., BRid Mr. Philip Aubrey Wills, of the London Gliding Club, who created a new British altitude gliding, record recently.
Mr. Wills also holds the British long distance liding record. In April last year he flew from Heston to Cornwall 200 miles in six houra.
"It is a pretty horrific undertak-
ing."
PLOUGHMEN FIND
TEMPLE SITE
The silo of a Raman temple has been uncovered in the felda of a form at Harpenden and excavationss have disclosed portions of the statue of the god that was worshipped there.
The temple, which stood about a mile off the old Reman road called "Watling Street," Is on the farm of the Balham- nted Experimental Station. Bir John Russell, director of the station, said that the discovery was made by men ploughing the fields, who turned op pleces of brick and tile.
Experts were called and found iwo eremation burial places. An urn which had been smashed ZA 4 result of ploughing was probably buried in the year 125 A.D.
Mr. Wills sald. "In these ped climbing. At the top of my storm clouds you get frightfully flight the temperature was appro- will conditions, It is rather weird xlinately zero, 32 degrees of frost.
“Jazzing Up" The Work
The story of the mistress who askt-
in be completely enclosed by cloud | Conditions_began to get much too ed her servant to sing jazz rather tore in a glider and to be bumped rough, so I was forced to straighten than hymn tunes, because when
up and come out.
about in this way.
"STAGGERING"
"I went up in my own glider, # Minimo, at 3.30, and I came down Just after six o'clock. It took me an hour and a half to attain sufficient allude to get beyond Luton, where I made my altitude record.
"During that time I climbed 3,600 ft, but when I got inside the cloud I limbed 10,000ft. In about 7% min- tites. It was simply
terrifle, quite staggering. My best lift was over 1,100ft, in 30 seconds,
"I passed through hall and ice formed on the glider. It began to get very rough and I was thrown about. I was coping with ale that was rising at more than 25 miles on hour and there were some really big
bumps
CLIMBING blind
" was completely blind while en- veloped by the cloud, bu: I had to
"As far as I could see the cloudsloging the former she always did went another 1,500ft., but it would her work quicker, has a definite basis have been very dangerous in those in fact, according to a report on rest conditions to have gone farther, al-pauses and refreshments in industry, I
probably I could hote though
by the National Institute of Industrial the Bunch height. Breathing renched 10,000ft, or 17,000ft, above
was Psychology. right. Of course, I and my oxygen apparatus in any machine."
Interviews were obtained with the affefuls of 1,050 factories employing The Germans hold the world re- cord for gliding altitude with about 305.000 people, and of these 10.7 per cent. of the factories provided music. 28.000ft.
Sume of the comments trom oftelals were:
"Of course," said Mr. Wills with a smile, "we chaps here do it for fun and the Germans do it for Hitter."
Members of the 'Seaforth 'Iighlanders Installing field telephones on the Garden Bridge, Shangtial.
Five
million
children choose their favourite
by SETON MARGRAVE
between the ages
IN the considered opinion British Almgoers
of 50,000,000 British of 4 and 14.
In "Children in the Cinema" (Al- the filmgoers, the 12 most popular ten and Unwin, 75. Gd.), published stars in the film world to-day (to-day, Richard Ford, who runs film "Music has the effect of stopping are: Buck Jones, Shirley Tem-clubs for 150,000 children, tells what
children like and dislike in ins Mr. Wills was unable to get chatter and work improves In conple, Jane Withers, Tim McCoy, straight back to Dunstable owing to sequence."
Ken Maynard, Will Hay. Tar- the storın.
the zan, Gene Autry, John Wayne, Bob Steele, George Formby, and the team of Laurel and Hardy.
"Slow and fast muste affect "I located myself again when near St. Albans," he said, "and as I could speed of work. They work to the
storm beat." not get back through the
flew along to Welwyn, then had to turn north to Stevennge and then
It was found that 52.9 per cent. of west to Luton. I just sermped in by the factories visited had ofleinl rest the skin of my teeth and only had pauses, which were spent in taking
krep Inside it or I would have stop 50 to spare."
refreshments.
You disagree?
In that case you will be regarded with pity and contempt by 5,000,000
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THE
THE first quality children demand in their entertain.
ment is Action. Their elnema slo-
come to the eases." gan might well be, "Cut the cackle
Their favourite films are Western dramas having Action accompanied by aggression (the menace of the villain) and the triumph of right over wrong (the victory of the hero and the harse).
Watching such plctures the child Identiles himself with the hero:
"When he sees Buck Jones chasing the miscreants. he is not merely no- miring Buck Jenes, but he is Buck
Jones. and Is himself performing these deeds."
A ND there are the other
ships,
bears
Aims children like: 1.--Adventure Aims having motor cars or aeroplanes. 2-Ayimal films having
(grizzly or Teddy), dogs (pedigree or Pluto), ducks (Donald) and mice (Mickey).
3. Slapstick comedies, with school- teaching by Will Hay, tumbling by Joe E. Brown or custard pics by Laurel thrown at Hardy,
If you would mortally offend them. show them a fim with love in it.
The mere sight of a heroine will provoke their loud disapproval. A scene will rouse the Junior cognoscenti to ent-calls.
love
Children are really frightened by any ghostly, grotesque or gruesome effect! while-h proves the British Board of Film Censors abundantly right in having created a "Horror Certificate for Alms they think un-: at for children to see in any circun- stances and proves Walt Disney wrong in having mude so realistle the transformation of the Queen Inta the Witch In "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
managers
Children dislike
who talk down
One to them.
cinema manager found that out in this way: "The very first time I used the new microphone I opened out with: "Good morning. children, and how are you to-day? A boy in front immediately ruplied: 'Lousy,' *
Theology Chair For Birmingham THEOLOGICAL students may soon be able to take their degrees at Birmingham Univer- sity.
.
At present there is no faculty of Theology at the University, but the authorities are hoping that it will be possible to establisl one following the endowment of a Chair of Theology by Mr. Edward Cadbury.
Mr. Cadbury's offer lo establish on a permanent basis a full-time pro- fessorship of Theology has been accepted, and It is hoped to develop
faculty with a post graduate de gree and diploma In theological studiles.
The new chair will for the present come under the Faculty of Arts, but I hoped and expected that other rozieties and Individuals interested in religious studies will come for➡ ward to remedy the present shortage of funds and enable the University to establish a full faculty.
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