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BETTY GRABLE DICK HAYMES.
THE
Shocking
MISS
PILGRIM
ANNE REVERE
TECHNICOLOR
ALLYW JOSLYN • GENE LOCKHART
Written for the screen and Directed by Ch
GEORGE SEATON Produced by WILLIAM PERLBERG From a Story by
–Ernest and Frederica AlaasMusic by George Gershwin and Lyrics by fra Gershwim
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JET FIGHTERS USE RADAR
By CHARLES- GARDNER BBC Air Correspondent
BRITAIN'S Post-World War 11. air defence system
· has not received a' great deal of publicity. In fact, wrlung about it at all has hardly been encouraged by the authorities, since most of the really Interesting facts are necessarily secret. Even vague references are darf- gerously lable to supply clues, and the Royal Air Force quite rightly does not want to give away free hints on how it is protected.
So, for two years (or so, there has been discreet ellence on this vital subject, a silenco broken only during the last few weeks when the Government has revealed several things which can now be said publicly.
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The first of these is that Britain's front-line day fighter squadrons are now all equipped with lots; the second is that the record breaking Meteor IV: among these jets, and the third is that the air intercep tion exercises held on the south coast were successful.
and other reporters, ware allowSa watch those
Navy
air exercises and we found
we found them" of considerable
inforest.
The "plot" was that aircraft of the the should stage attacks en various objectives on the south coast, while the RAF tried to Intercept them with Meteors and Vampires. There were also night attacks by heavy bombers on surprise targets.
- I was given permission to watch a big day attack from the vantage point of one of the RAF's radar stations which defend the south coast. I am not allowed to give away its location, but I can say that it is the station which, during the war, contrailed" Cunningham, the famous night fighter ace, and helped Group Captain John him to 18 victories. The radar beams from this !
were, in fact, real which gained for Cunningham the nickname
kind of hotel
for the motorist
latest word in American motoring is
"motel," a
name
coined
by RICHARD MCMILLAN
hotel
for the motor hotels which have approach a town and on the The idea was to save the time sprung up all over the United outskirts you ace a "motel," spent by drivers arriving tired States to add still more pleasure which is neither an hotel nor a and vainly seeking an to the joys of the open road in roadhouse, but a group of bun-room. a country which was already a
with every land of delight for
galows fitted up the motorist.
modern convenience.
Motels are today to be found on the approaches to any big town and popular resort from These motor hotels have Drive in, park your car in the one end of the continent to the mushroomed by thousands in garage adjoining one of the other. and that Includes every part of the union, and cottages, and walk into your Canada. during a three weeks trip: I guest-house. There you will made in a jeep station wagon find unbelievable luxury. from the Pacific to the Atlantic
I had a chance of the delights. The motel came into exis. of living in these new-type tence to meet the difficulty that wayside Inns.
American drivers found in ob Imagine speeding along a taining hotel accommodation in broad concrete highway on your the big cities, where parking"
You was also a vital problem. way across the States..
GO TO THE REGISTER OFFICE
DR W. RINGE-reported to be but
· · · BAYE DEAN INGE
On the famous Malahat high way, 20 miles from Victoria, a flickering sign on the roadside proclaiming, "Steam heat, clean sheets, every comfort." caught the eye.
which still makes him shudder. The powers that be, of course," encouraged, the "cats-oro"// legend to distract enemy attention from the radar station and from any suspicion that Cunningham's, plane was equipped with a secret radar in- stallation which, it was
Fast, Machines.
ON the occasion of these latest exer
.cises, I was able to watch the same efficiency, It not the same spec- room, with boiling water electacular result, ahown with our latent trically heated.
gear and gadgets. The raiders had chosen fast machines for the Job- Everything was complete-Sea Hornets with an escort of Sea- 300 miles-an-hour striking Pots and pans, knives and forks, fres and cups and tumblers; milk force. On the defence side was a
of Vampires and a wing delivered to the door-quarts Meteors, both at ""readiness," with, a of it. And to buy your food section of each at "cockpli" readi- you had only to cross the high-ness, which meant the pilot had only way to the village store to get to start his engine, and take off.
The main controller was on watch anything you wanted-steaks, on one of the radar screens when ham, butter, cheese..
We stayed for several days, and were given a special weekly rate.
For millionaires
#
In the States we found some of the motela were dearer, but on the whole they lived up to their claims to be cheaper than hotels.
of
the exercise, opened. His first foir was to pick out from the confusion of "blips" the particular blips of an approaching: "enemy." For those/ | who haven't seen modern radar,
should explain that a "blip" is the lile sausage-shaped blob of green. light which indicates an aircraft and this blip is super-imposed on a map
that the position of the aircraft can be seen at glance, As it moves, its direction and speed are matters of a'aucond or two's calcula Below, another sign blazed,
on. Its height is simultaneoudly day and night, announcing
determined by other radar gear on an adjacent screen. The controller "Vacancy," or "No Vacancy."
Some motels
peacetime. however, has unusual are ultra amculties. There are many aircraft This was our first motel- luxurious, ultra-picturesque.nying on their lawful business) and toy-town of midget houses, all Near Hollywood we found one as each plane makes a "blip" it is freshly painted in different which was in the millionaires' a matter of some skill to know which colours.
enes represent an approaching category.
enemy, and which is a cluster of club machines out for an airing. In Overlooking the Pacific, the wartime this trouble does not arise motel offered the alternative of since all air movement is controlled aca-bathing or swimming in the and known
Given a choice. Some gleamed with an imma- private pool into which fresh Blips On Screen culate-white coating others sea water poured day and night. were daubed orange and yellow In the morning, you were and pink and ochre Road-red awakened by a radio-clock, tiles on the roof, too.
which started the day with /music.
Colour and still more colour.
magic which at
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After a swim, you had choice of going to the hills to fish, for, which a guide: was available; if you sought diver
OUR controller was an adept at this
kind of sorting-out. Suddenly his
he stabbed the Ecreen with flager and mid, "Here they come," A minute later many more details of the raid came in from other rudar A stations in the chain, and the con
troller picking up a telephone sald "Scramble the Meteor
Tess than a minute we heard
the
death of civilisation...The way led through: pine trees: to "motor-boats were ready for With Rembone, (Mateor -
west."
twelve (73 Plea "climb to angels
1
A curso.....Boredom often "getting along nicely, but slow generates wars, the supreme exhible-that's the ly after his operation at the tion of human folly and wickedness. tracts custom, so they believe there. Colour and modernism. Middlesex Hospital-appears with But wars are not boring." undiminished vigour, lu; a bookIt was commonly said after the A broad drive from the high-alon in sea cruising, yachts and leader, Just published.
First Great War that a second would The 88-year-old ex-Dean of St
Poihlaleyes' off the be tho Paul's for almost 50 years a shock- second stroke was not averted; the toytown...
Barghite.
pozbawa sa menemy tips on the screen, the con provider to the faithful Anglican future historians will decide whether lalty--offers
characteristic: it was indeed a mortal blow. There there
We drove in and were given Cooking? You sent out to B can be very little doubt what the the choice of a dozen cottages. nearby restaurant, or a cook now, see both the enemy and the MARRIAGE: I am very reluc-
e result of a third would be."
As we manoeuvred the car into came in to do the job on the tantly driven: to the opinion that all. POLITICS: "Not many Churchmen the garage the caretaker ex- premises. marriages should be settled in a re- have gone into politics without complained: gister office and that only those who ing out badly smirched." accept the Christian view of mar- riage should be married in church."
CHRISTIANITY: "Essentai
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Orange groves,
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feet), steer south-
On the screen I could, by
they
mbing Meteor IV's as they up to their required num- ber of "engals "* the rival forces will · being many, many miles spart. -
Still watching, the 300 miles-an- "There you have one of the
hair bombers and the near-600 many advantages of the motel,
Fruit for dessert? You had mics-an-hour fighters, the controller You don't have to bother about
picked up another and unloading all your luggage as merely to lean out of the win-ordered "Scramble, the lephone.. an you do in an hotel.
motel was a fich orange ́grove. Air 'Generalship Just take out what you re- The orange groves of Calix now, the bombers were headed portant than church-going, a test which is naturally over-valued by profils
by to be confiscated. But it is obvious quiro and then it's easy to make fornia are favourite settings more or less at their objective, the clerical profesion that if all Inducements to enterprise a quick start next morning, for motels.
in
Christianity-* is invulnarable. It FREE ENTERPRISE: "Tanguage
springs ever fresh in the heart of is sometimes beard which suggests man...The unity of the spirit in that there is something discreditable F enterprise, and that
the bond of peace, is far more, ira in earned by taking rinks ́ought
dow. The background to the
The trees afford while the Meteors ware being brought
as a dis" And think of the money saved shade and privacy and, of round into the sun, and placed in a
postilon "The present generation has not were withdrawn, and if success
from which to pounce. recovered faith in God, and hos lost business were looked on
Beyond the Metcors, the Vampires. faith in man. That is why we are race; there would be a rapid de- in tips to bell-hops and hotel course, colour.
cline in the national wealth.
portera.ee
As well as the motels, weton, so that they could pounce
were also being brought into post- so unhappy."
had PARLIAMENT "An.M.P. is now
THE FUTURE "The outlook at A log fire blazed in the neat tried the trailer camps which zny. survivors the Meteors n mere delegate, a machine for re- present is depressing, but so it besitting-room of our bungalow, are used by the motoring cara-] (theoretically) left for them.
cording votes dictated by others, The debates are reduced to a farce; they change scarcely any votes."
whallar WAR:" "1 questioni majority, in any county, aven Germany, regard war as,
NANCY
Dr. La
I HAV
COUR
A watched was borne in on me, more than that the over
been in several other periods of his- tory We have before now been in and the refrigerator stood in vaners. danger of losing our liberty, but the the tiled kitchen, the electric The camps provide electricity all tactical generalship of the air bas danger has been overcome.SWO must hope and pray that it may be cooker had only to be turned: for the caravans, and there are now passed from the cockpit to the
on the radio, too.
communal washhouses with hot dar room. Constantly the control
In some we founder passed to the fighters the latest. "THE END OF AN AGE Put The bedroom was spotless, shown
(Continued on Pare 1, Column 1) and adjoining it was the bath automatic washing machines. năm 101 00
overcome again."...
I'VE NEVER BEEN
NT TO COURT---
LOVE TO GO
By Ernie Bushmiller
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POLICE
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