AIRNEWS...on on Biggest, fastest air
display
ever
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1950.
pageants... sleek jets... and
Fighters and bombers taking part in the first postwar Royal Air Force review at Farnborough, Hampshire, on July 7 and 8 will be flying more than twice as fast as those that figured in the last Hen- don air pageant thirteen years ago..
Comeback of the singing telegram
By Virginia Macpherson
Hollywood. -The sing- ing telegram" is back-and for one whole day the An- drews Sisters went with it. Every wire that cute to the local Western Union fee
day
we
+
In 1937 spectators saw Gloster Gauntleta and Hawker Furies roaring ove? their heads at 230 mph. In July they will watch Gloster Meteors and De Havilland Vampires flying at between 500 and 600 mph.
Al Instend of 185 mph Hawker Hind bombers they will get a first glimpse of the jet- propelled Canberra bomber, not yet in service, and 400 mph De Havilland Mosquitoes.
Highlight
It will be the biggest, fastest and most spectacular military wir disping ever shown to the One of the public In Britain. Dugulights
recon-
will
ent them warbling "Happy | struction of the breaching of the Birthday" over the telephone walls of Amiens prison by to me congle-eyed Halenser on Morgaila bombers in February, the other end.
1944 to release French patrunde. And, at the rate the girts are
There wili be formation coning money this
circus, a Agure every birthday elebrantfying a helicopter
Late display of 1914-18 War veteran high-speed! 55,000 worth of free entertainmar and
[baudienp race. The King and | Queen will be present en the recipleats mt have the game thing, bees (Ar & day of the show.
Petting something
mrust for 30 zirconia,
"Tize
Bibel of 16 Modlit it wasd
a Kay On mat etten humit tipa.
something nobody's done to the
Audew. Sisters fance ne u Some Slave
the but fime 10 years ago.
oohs and aahs
After the foret hout
everybody cane to lost enough
tu putter a feve
**
"autes." One enterprizing wolf recovered
In time to ack
their telephone number,
for
All in all, according to F. 1. Sanders, Gearral Sale: Man- ger, it was a batut-up re-open- for service that
ine
the wires "bumped alfTM* after Pearl Harbour.
Kot
ht
"We used to head toys aut to peoples' homes," he explain- vid. "But we ran into a lot of trouble that way with female wolves. They used to get their eye on a hamisome messenger and then send themselves tele- grams to he'd deliver them."
Now Western Union sends out its "happy birthdays" by tele- phone.
When the Andrews Sisters agreed to kick off the singing telegrams they worked hours arrangement of over a fancy
the birthday song.
That's
into
when they bumped
the Federal
Communica-
tions Commission. No, said the FCC. They had to sing it the way It had always been sung and no sherwanigans about it.
jhut
Sore throats
even the
old-fashioned way sounded good coming out of T'ami, Maxine, and Laverne. One of the Asteners sald war "the best birthday Tye ever had." Four-year-old Bob- by wanted them to rush night over to his party,
Another, a surgeon. didn't Larry long to listen.
"We probably raught him right in the middle of operation." Patti giggled, Ima- dine. having somebody opened up and me comes in to Lay:) There's a ginging telegram for you doclur!"
THE slave bangle of the 1920s, worn se proudly by the flappers, stages a comeback in Paris. Molyneux revives the bracelet with a grey and chiffon evening yellow gown designed in classic
Grecian style.
This monkey
loves water
aped
Bfteen
TESTING near Paris is this light, one-place jet plane, developed by Marcel Doret and Fred Nicole, French fliers, which may be manufactured in the U.S. Called the Fouga Cyclone, the craft hus a cruising speed of 150 mpl: and may reach 300 mph. The sleek plane, with tanks at the wingtips, has some of the lines
of a glider. (Acme)
Idaho helps out the Duke with £1 10s 9d
WOODSTOCK, England,
It cost the tourist! from laho £1 10s 9d to visit the Duke and Duchess
of Marlborough at their
ancestral home in Oxford- shire.
A peep
into Britain's “murdered' aristocracy
Just as Wisebeck was aboul
'He could have maile it on to leave, the Duke bimsett came back from a tour of his estate. He was driving A converted
38 91.
Adam Wisebeck, the Idaho Icep visitor, was in the Saturday
that looked over crowd
the tenth Duke's Blonhelin Palace, thrown open to all comers, like many other stately homes of
| England, to defray the cost of
"murderatus" taxation and keep expenses,
"How's buzinera?”
Airmen come
to ground
-
Wisebeck
said by way of opening camper- 14th th Duces,
Cotton
Alexandra.
"The ordinary guidebook is 3d." the Duchess r.plied, "and here is a history of Blenheim Palace for half a crown."
With the 2s 6d entrance fee [that made Wisebeek's outlay 58
3d.
"When we have orchids from the palace hothouse to well, and ornamental studs from the Duke's trinket box," the Duchess :::th,
"Not Just now," vator fpem Iiaho.
the
Weeduck 1.ked the palace. # Janford it “arti tie bi kory" and gazed open-mouthed at the om where Winston Churchill, who is related to the Duke, was
lay
of drawers
fir
the
original infak
If Mickey the monkey ever born, It contained in old tran the nets back to the jungle he will bedstead and a clue Ja the
dyn prewar
in find himself "old
which BA out." } Western Union singers Kot a
shiri All
months,embrie dollar per birthday.
the Now,
Slickey was only a few weeks Caterhill wores Anicews Sisters got were th
old when he was caught ore throats.
Berta. At his new home in Golders Green, Londra, he is | learning to be a champion That is on unusund winner. ambition for monkeys because, De rute, they hate the right of water.
"And a lot of laughs," Maxine added. At least nobody asked 'who're you?***
Chopper Was
Moslem Sword
Eight years ago, John Burles,
Ambassador -and warrior
But Mickey loves 1. and Marshat Shah Wall Khan, penda of least half an hour in i Mghanistan's new Ambasador the bath every day, He has to to Britain, who presented his se hereably drunted
the King from thedentials to
thie
24. of Old-read, West Graves-water by his owner. Murray week, has a ne record as a end found an old sword which Pilcher, a dence bated leader, warrior, He is also a member af had been used frame chepping when it is time for his lunch. The Afgian Royal fatally.
GABY Andre, In Holly- wend. lie probed its history Air Pilcher believes that and found it had probably been Mickey is the only muckey His wife who joins him soon wood, has been dubbed carried by the Moslem invadera who likes voluntarily to water. at the Embassy, is a sister of
Miss Chain Lightning by of Europe centuries ago.
ex-King Amanullah. All The
The Fastest Men in the London marshal's An official
at the
three KIDS werd
World Club, whose mem- This set him off on the un- Zoo says: "Monkeys don't go educnted In England. One is Usual habby of vollecting any where
near the water if
bers now at Cambridge. Another Is
who are aviators weapons, in which his brother they can avoid it. They have on a visit to London with his
have flown jet planes at Geoffrey, 20. joined him. Now to be very scared to enter the father. The third went from
more than 600 miles an they have 27 swords, six dog-water, and they get out of it Sandhurst to join the Afghanis- gers and a Chinese crossbow."
hour or faster. as soon as they can."
CANNON
-
WHISPER, WE'VE GOT TO HELP HER NOW-GN TELL THE POLICE.. OTHERWISE WE'LL ALL LAND IN JAIL AND FRENCH JAILB
ARE. QUITE „SOMETHING!
escapees Thank you for helping me
to freedom
Members
of the H.A.F.
BIG BUSINESS IN
TOURISTS
U.S.
From FREDERick cook: New York.
This looks like being the best year since the war ended for American tourists in Europe, including Britain. Official estimates' are that some 345,000 Americans will be crossing the
Escaping Society, are plan-| Atlantic.
the demand
the moment.”
Cheap £ helps
ning a reunion in Paris with All tourist agencies and America Line, American Export, French Resistance men and shipping companies, as well Norwegian American, Gdynila women who helped them to as the airlines, report that the emailer companies all give America, Swedish Amériçan and freedom,
for space is the same report"Nothing at Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry, "terrific." Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command, who presided at a Says Mr Malcolm La Prade, meeting of the RDcinty this of Thomas Cock's office Επι week-end. escaped
from the New York: "Our bookings Germans three times during the are running 45 to 50 percent last war. Once after being shot ahead of Inst year alrendy. down, Sir Basil, dressed as a "But we are being limited in workman, renched Parls and what we might do by shertage saw Hitler enter the French of transport facilities and of capital.
hotel accommodation abroad.”
On his third escape, getting back to England
across the Pyrenees, he killed. Three Ger- man guarda,
'Very heavy'
Seats are still available on some, of the airlines, but all re- pori "considerable gains" over last year.
They believe that by the height of the season 50 per- cent more people will be flying
over.
to
Experts belleve that Holy Year is stimulating travel Our many European lands as well exceptionally as to tume.
considerably They think, too, that America's Snancial and defensive interest in Europe's affairs has caused many to want to go over and ce for themselves. Currency auvaltations have also helped.
Bir Joseph' Brennan, of United States Linca, says: bookings are 500 Members
heavy. We The R.A.F. Escaping Society aheart of a year ago." has 500 members and 5,000 The Queen Mary and Queen honorary members-people who Elizabeth are full to the end ngalsted R.A.F. and Dominion of July. In the tourist class, airmen to escape or evade cap- they me booked until August, furc.
The French Line, Holland-
Full membership is restricted to those who successfully Frached Alled or neutral ter-
after ritory
crashing parachuting In German occupied countries.
Stamp From Morocco
от
Rifles are crackling to- day over a jungle where crocodiles lurk and snakes drop from trees on their prey.
The soldier: of France Te ighting an enemy who shoots from the cover of tail marsh grass and slips away unseen- a rebel army trying to drive the French out of their lands in
"Whal, no limousine?" Wise-Indo-China. beek mail. "No chouffeur?
} thought #11 Duke limousines and chauffeurs."
had If the rebels win France will
lose posses-
He considered the plight of Britain's impoverished aristo- sions rich in cracy. "Maybe I will buy some gold, coffee, atuds and orchids," he said. rubber, and
The orchids cost
So to Wisebrek rice. 4s 6d, and the studs were 15. help their He also put 35 in the guide'as o 1dlers gratuity box and paid a 1s car French boys park feo,
Total outlay: £1 10s 94.
and girls are buying this be- stamp cause it
Spoke In carries
A
The Wheels
Of Justice
The
An
TOY MAR
extra charge to send sweets and cigarettes to the army.
the jungle
0
Like many of troops, the stamp comes from Freuch Morocco. It shows white and a coloured soldier marching off to the wur to-
ether,
Face value 10 tranes (28)
13 by 13:
man who took his wife for a ride on a tandem bicycle to which he had plus the same again for the afixed a small motor and "L" plates has provided judges and lawyers with a real poser.
This man A fearner I driver was stopped by #policeman, and in duc Course was charged with carrying a passenger who
licence.
sweets. Perforation: price, unused d.
--London Express Service)
END OF THE VOYAGE
WITH only a short trip to Portland, Me., remaining of the 7,000-mile training cruise aboard the American Sailor, maritime midshipman Owen Morgan, guzes across the stern at New York. The three-month voyage, hitting the Caribbean and southern ports, trained some 190 midshipmen.
Attractive art from cut-up
cigarette boxes
London.
did not holi driving At the newly formed The prosecution Asian Institute at Leicester said that as the defendant Square in London, had DBly IL provisional hibition was opened recently
This exhibition was arranged fairly short notice and con- sequently a wide selection of representativo work could not
an ex- be found.
enly
THIS FIRE
licence to drive a motor- of the work of artists com- excellent one-from Pakistan, HAS NEVER
"Scanthal Women" by Zlanul Abedin from East Bengal, Pakistan
It was an interesting show and China. Work by paint-mather than one of high artistie ers from Ceylon, India, In-quality. judging from the large The defendant argued thadonesia, Japan, Burma and resources and stores of art to be
found in the East. his wife was not a passenger. | Sinm was also on view.
But us the first attempt to
ised" vehicle any passengering from Eastern countries s he might carry must hold as far apart a full licence.
GONE OUT
In an empty little cottage at Badlipster, on the Scot-
She was helping to propel the This is the first all-collect and encourage and showtish road between Watten chicle by pedalling since that Eastern show to take place also to the British pubile and Camster, Caithness, was the only way the motor in London.
The work isern art executed in this country, centre of the floor which has Eastern and contemporary East-burns a slow peat fire in tho contemporary and done for it is an enterprising and laud-been kept going by the
could be started.
A legal expert says the case he raised a number of paints all of which would result in different decisions in the courts.
FINED 10s
the
First impression, how-
ever,
most part by artists able beginning. It is the percur and students, working and sor, it is to be hoped, of many M'Iver family for the last
and larger shows.
hundred yeurs. studying in Britain.
It has FROM JAPAN
never been known to peter The work of the Japanese out. on coming into the
Tatsuo Ishida, deserves special exhibition hall was not that mention. His exhibits are pic- If you were to knock on the of pieces of door, 70-year-old City M'Iver of the East. A great num-tures made up
the house her For instance: Was the wife ber of the seventeen artists coloured cigarette boxes. The would leave
idea is
is original, the a passenger in law? If so she have spent some years tions and
composi- father built for her 60 years needed a full lleence. On the
draughtsmanship ex- ago but 20 yards away from the cither in England or
cottage and ask you into rest the tremely sure. other hand, was she a part of the Continent and have absorb
writer with nawhite and share Ishida is a
meal or a power? It 50, she
varied career. Having finished brew. And certainly was not a passenger. ed many of the traditions cucation in Japan, he be- would lay fresh peat on the most likely she of the West.
came a sailor on a cargo ship cottage fire and tell you that Again, would the machine re- Chang Chien-ying, who and then worked in a bank In this task has been fulfilled by quire a cence If it were used
comes from China, showed Dairen.
M'Iver family this last merely as a pedal cycle? An- Peony,' a water colour with palico closed a language school hospitailly-an ever warm and Later In Shanghai the Japanese ceptury as a symbol of Highland, other lawyer, adds: If the mon and woman had been going up- free strokes and technique which he had formed, consider welcome glow for the stranger hill and both had been pedall-as well as stylised Chinese ing it too pro-foreign. After pausing for shelter on the way, ing to help the litle motor,
tan Army.
motive
WITH WHISPER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
THE CASE INTRIGUES ME. INSPECTOR VIDDCO TÔLO ME THAT THE BODY WAS LVING ON ITS BACK -BUT
CARESSO IF SHE ISN'T
„LVING – QIURA US
CLUB NEI
ÇARKIER BAYS, BIM LOFT TUCCI AT HIS DRSA"!'
motive power?
Could the be part of the motive power whilo going uphill and a passenger while going down?
the
clothes for some or for the wanderer back from would the wife then have been Paintings with the tradi- hawking
months as he was unwilling to his travels, a passenger or part of the tional calligraphy,
write Japanese propaganda, he She was taught as a child by WANTS FREEDOM
was conscripted into the Japan her mother how to lift and lay She says she can appre-eso_army.
the peat on the fire of her ciate the qualities of both He was repatriated to Japan at cottage home, and nightly had styles though she for her- the end of the war and went to watched Mrs M'Iver replenish soif prefers freedom to year. He had never painted be
England in the spring of last it before retiring.
Kitty now uses the fire to boll stylisation.
fore coming to London.
water for domestle needs in her painter Finding cigarette boxes too nearby house, but the glowing was particularly decorative to waste, he began peat is still the traditional Fligh
Ang Su-Hua, cutting them up and pasting to land symbol of hospitality and In London be-gether his very striking and at- friendship to all who shall pattre
at the cottage doos.
Another Chinese The fact seems to be that the present law does not cover the whose work point, although the magistrates attractive was in the case in question fined who has shown the man 10
forw.
tractive compositions.