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News in Brief.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1932.

FOUR

MEN THE VICTIMS

OF “HELL'S ANGELS"

· CAMERA MAN WHO DIED OF HEART FAILURE IN “DOG FIGHT”

Pilot's Tales of Film Production.

The person whom we would naturally expect to object to a tariff in Hong Kong would be our very good friend and fellow- resident the foreigner, and while we would hate to do it we would

laterosting. "back stage" stories; little mound of earth. It was on beg to remind him that not go of Hell's Angels, the picture which that little heap that they found his far away are Colonies owned by wah shown in Kuala Lumpur re, body) his country and that British cently, were recounted by Mr. Moya | The third casualty happened manufactured goods pay an Stevens, pilot of the Flying Carpet during the scene in which the giant Import Duty on entering these (which he is flying round the world "German" plane had to go into a Colonies; N

with Mr. Richard Halliburton) who spin. Attempts were made to get So if there are any business addressed the members of the a regular pilot to spin the "plane, men who in the matter of a Tariff Singapore Rotary Club during their, but there was some doubt as to are of our way of thinking we luncheon meeting at the Adelphi whether it would come out of the ask them to take up their foun- Hotel,

spin" once" It got into it. The plane tain pens and place that opinion In order to appreciate the stories, was supposed to be a Gotha but it on record. And if there are any he was going to tell, said tho was really something that had been business men of any nationality speaker, one had to realise that Mr. made up for the picture. Most of who are of the contrary way of Howard Hughes, the producer of the pilots refused to take on the thinking we wish to hear from Hell's Angels, was the son of a job because during the spin they them equally. For we consider millionaire and only took up film had to have a ́mechanic Inside, the this matter of a Tariff for Hong producing as a hobby. His father plane to turn the crank operating Kong a fair and pressing matter was one of the wealthiest men in a smoke machine so that it would for ventilation in the Press of

the United States the president of appear that the machine was being the Colony, and to such our

Ja big 'oil company and when he died brought down in flames. Most of columns are always open.

he left a fortune to Howard. Hell's the pilots agreed to do it if the Angels took three years to make wechanic were left out," because jand cost $4,000,000. They expend they realised that they could jump jed 8,000,000 feet of film in the if the ship did not come out of the making of the picture and when it spin, but Hughes Inaisted on the. was realised that the actual pic mechanic being there. At length, ture was only 12,000 feet in length, a man came forward and agreed to During the month of April the it would be seen how much of it do it. Incidentally, he was being 10.30 am: Friday morning meetings had to be thrown away.

paid $2,000 gold for the job. He at the Helena May Institute will be Mr. Stevens said that he himself took off, with Phil Jones, the taken by Rev. E. C. H Tribbeck took part in the picture. He had mechanic, down in the belly of the Subject"Five articles of work-un aeroplane of his own and he plane. There were planes all ing creed."

had made it a practice of renting around taking pictures, so that it to the motion pictures, flying it exactly what happened was known. For the war is on. That we A dance, organised by the Police for them on his days off from duty The pilot pulled the ship up into must remember. To-day every Recreation Club, is being held at with the air line. There was aja atall and jumped, not waiting for industrialised state is fighting Lane Crawford's.

grim side to the making of Hell's it to go into a apin, probably realis- for its very existence, aye, and Thursday from 8 p.m., to 1 - Angela as well as a humorous side, ing that it would be difficult to get fighting for

OWD hand. The admission is $2 for gentlemen, Four men were killed during the out of a spin once in it. The plane | Fighting, even as in the days of and ladies by courtesy.

filming of the various scenes. ! took half a turn and then went into yore. Not with sword and-buck-

The first of the victims was Alja straight up and down dive. Ap- ler, not with rifle and bayonet, Yesterday morning, a widow, Johnson, a motion picture stunt parently, the mechanic did not Some two weeks ago a letter not with machine guns and tanks named Wong Ho (56), was found man. Johnson was not a pilot but realise that the pilot had jumped appeared in our morning contem- and acroplanes and gas, not with hanging at her home, 52, Ta Ku

B wing-walker and parachute because he kept turning the crank poraries advocating certain fleets and armies and wordy de-Ling Road, Kowloon City. measure of Protection for manu-clarations, but with the silent was dead when cut down, and the commenced on Hell's Angels he of the ship until it was within 100 jumper, Shortly before work was and causing the smoke to gush out factured goods of British Empire insidious weapons forged by eco- body was sent to the mortuary. Origin imported for consumption nomists that can bring collapse,

learned how to fly and got a job feet of the ground. Then he must as a pilot He was to The arguments starvation, and death in their in this Colony.

"Crash" have realised it, but it was too late For the benefit of those who places but, unfortunately, he was for him to get out. He was killed. in favour of some such scheme train as certainly as the latest have not had the opportunity of sent to test a machine that had appeared to us at the time to be horrors invented by the military seeing

Died Of Heart Fallure. well set-out and practically irre engineer. Today idealism is dead "Canaries Sometimes Sing" the ture. It was supposed to be an during the Almiy of the "dog the British Picture, been specially prepared for the pic The fourth casually took place futable, and such as should have in the world, and oh, the pity of management of the King's Theatre Avro. Several old training planes fight." There were 60 aeroplanes been received with favour by dis- it! So we must even do the best have decided to show this picture were taken over and altered, the flying around and doing all sorts tributors of British goods here we can for ourselves. *----* for one day only on Wednesday, over-hang on the wings being taken of stunts, loops, rolls, spins, and

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Protection.

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established. We were inclined

For we that write this are not March 30, to hope that in a matter of such ourselves in favour of Protection,

off and the landing gear being all manner of things that actually boosted up. "When it was Anish- did not take place in a real fight vital importance as the encour

A girl, Yu Yuk-ching, (6), wased," said Mr. Stevens, "It did not and all the planes had to remain how any trade Mr. indeed we fail to see agement of British

Dalziel would not have been left thinking man can be. We are in removed to the Kwong Wah Hoslook like an Avro and did not fly in a' restricted, area in order to get

summons

A Fatal Test.

in and

to plough a lonely furrow, and the same quandary as most men, pital yesterday, suffering from

¡like one,"

them in the picture, Frank Clarke, that some at least of the British we have had it forced on us by burns to her head, hands and legs!!

the chief pilot for the making of distributors in this port might circumstances beyond our cir- as the result of her clothing be-

a very good As we see it ex coming ignited while she was play. Through some mistake Johnson Hell's Angels, had have broken with the phlegmatic cumvention.

motor was not functioning proper-speaker. "He said the minate the calm that seems to paralyse cessive production due to massing near a spirit stove at 1, Larch was sent to test the machine. The formula for this scene, said the their

methods, faulty distribution, and Street, Mongkok. energetic philanthropy.

ly but Al was a little bit nervous fight started he would close his the selfishness, hoarding, and ' But it was not to be. True, as

Pleading guilty to a

of something: he climbed into the'eyes, pull all the controls, count ever, to its tradition, the British cowardliness in trading of the

countries has for speeding in Shaukiwan between ship and took off with the motor ten, open his eyes, recover from community has remained inarti- gold-owning.

brought our vaunted civilisation Talkoo Dockyard and Saiwanho, the missing." It would not clear the whatever position he was culate.

To refresh the memories of our to its present pitiful pass. So driver of a motor lorry was fined wires at the end of the field, with then repeat the performance." The readers we now recapitulate the that now..we have America with $25 by Mr. Wynne-Jones; in the the result that it crashed into the chief rainerà inan, Bert Steen, had outline of the procedure to revive no market for her wheat while Central Police Court this morning, high tension lines and burst into to be in the "dog-fight to take the British trade as given in the millions in China starve, and Traffic-Sergeant Pennell stated that names: The people found him 20 pictures. He died of heart failure

feet from the wreck,-burned 20 while doing his work, Brazil feeding her coffee beans Saiwanho was a very busy centre, Hetter:

to power-station furnaces while and defendant's lorry was loaded at badly that they could hardly reThere was another side to the An Import Duty on all manu- factured goode not of Empire Origin you can't get a decent cup of the time. Defendant had been precognise him, but still consefous picture a humorous side. Mr. He told them what had happened Stevens related one story-in whiche to be used or consumed within the coffee in Hong Kong for less thanviously convicted for speeding.

calmly and then asked for X doctor Hughes himself played an im- Colony, all manufactured goods its weight in silver. It's all very

Howard Hughes, landed in the Colony for distribu- sad, but so it is. We have just The annual general meeting of to give him something to put him portant part. tion outside the Colony to enter and got to take the world as we find the Hong Kong Philharmonic So to sleep! He died on the way to just a student; became Interested in flying. He learned how-to-By seem to want to live, though a Hall Office at 5.30 p.m., on April 6. Describing the second

leave the Colony free of such duty | it, if we want to live, and we all ciety will be held at the Cathedral hospital, din fatal ac- taking a drink from a bottle and

on Transit Pass."

On the face of it, and keeping certain wise man once said he The report and statement of accident, Mr. Stevens said that Phil then swooping back into the fray.

• counts, to hand states "The Com-Felix, Just out of the army, pre- The Pilot and the actor used to go in mind the fact that Great Bri. did not see the necessity."

mittee regret that owing to the lack sented himself as the man for a up with a bottle of some soft drink tain is now herself levying an Of course there is Fair-Trade of support by the public, the seri-pilot's job, and was given an old but the man who had to perform Import Duty on nearly all manu a half-way house wherein it factured goods, and also the up seems to us the world might lives loss of $1,716.62 was made on British war-time fighter to Ay. On the act complained that the drink to-the-minute fact that the Fed in some degree of amity and com- being that the balance at the Bank he had to make a forced landing, liquid which evaporated quickly, "Miss Hook of Holland," the result the way up his motor failed and was not suitable. He wanted some erated Malay States are even fort. We hear too little of Fair is now only $25.70

He sent for the mechanics, who such as whisky, Howard Hughes to-day entering the Protectionist Trade now-a-days. Every nation

worked on the motor, and then de-fhad a very well-stocked cellar and fold, there seems nothing out seems out to give her neighbour

Mr. Robt. Ripley, the well-known clared that it was all right. Phil, be supplied the whisky For some rageous in thinking that it was nation the knock-out blow. Des Amerian cartoonist leaves to-day by took off again but his motor, falled days the picture and not seem to about time that such duties troying their own customers the President Wilson for Shanghai, just as he reached the end of the come right. When it was shown might well be imposed by all That way madness lies. But Mr. Ripley arrived here last week field. He made the mistake, which over to them, they saw that after Crown Colonies. They rely for Fair Trade, which means roughly by the Mataon liner Mariposa in a great number of pilots made of the actor had done his part a large their very existence as Colonies that we shall not tax your in search of material for his "Belleve trying to turn and get back on to hand was seen to steal across from on the Motherland, on her mill- ports if you let our goods in free It or Notiseries of cartoons. As the field. The plane, went into a thie front cockpit and grasp the tary efficiency, on her Governor alternatively that on goods of the Mariposa has omitted: Shang- spin and he was Elled instantly, bottle. The pilot had forgotten to mental support and direction. In similar type and value both co-hai from its Itinerary owing to the One of the peculiar things about shut off the automatic camera. The the Case of some Colonies they tries shall only level equal unsettled state of affairs there, Mr. the accident was that while the next day the act was repeated with even rely on her (and never yet duties, Fair Trade, we say, seems Ripley, who is accompanied by his mechanics had been working on the bottle of soft freshment and it has it been refused) for direct to offer a commonsense solution wife, disembarked here. financial support. They exist of some of the world's difficul merely because she exists, hangties. At the coming conference on to her mother-akirts Hike small at Ottawa we hope to see Fair- and not consciously grateful Trade in some measure estab children agenda lished within the confines of the Of course to the free-trader British Empire. But the day for

Ten Years Ago. ~

•[From the "China" Mall”;- ár:

all tariffs are anathema, the in- Fair Trade within the wide-world To-day's dollar is worth 2/5 18/16

vention of the devil and Joseph seeing not yet.

Chamberlain, but to-day. Free-Bo at present we must even go Trade is outside the field of prac as the devil, drives, and be Pro- tical politics dead as the rat nail- onists all If need

ed to the stable-doar, ren in

free-trade in Manchester.

protectionists,

Ameen econ

tha

even up and ask for it

ng Kong

motor Phil: had amused himself by name right.

making as miniature - grave, and, Mr. Stone, Chairman of the Pro- fabioning a cross out of two gramme Committee, moyed a vote match sticker had atuck it into the of thanks to Mr. Stevens."",

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