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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.

FEARS FOR HINKLER'S PUZZLING

SAFETY

STILL NO NEWS OF PILOT

ON SOLO FLIGHT

BAD WEATHER 'MAY ́ HAVETM CAUSED DEVIATION OF ROUTE

London, To-day,

THE CONTINUED ABSENCE OF NEWS HAS NOW CREAT ́ED' THE GRAVEST FEARS AS TO THE FATE OF SQUADRON LEADER BERT HINKLER, THE AUSTRALIAN PILOT, WHO LEFT ENGLAND ON SATURDAY ON A SOLO FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

British aviation authorities are most anxious to receive any help which air, or broadcasting authorities in countries along his route can offer in tracing the missing airman.

Hinkler was using the Puss Moth aeroplane in which he flew the South Atlantic over a year ago and which possessed a range of about 2,000 miles,

It is believed that he intended} to fly down the Rhone Valley, along the French and Italian Rivieras to Rome, over the Ap-1 pennines to Brindisi, and, if fuel supplies permittel

360 miles of the Adriatic Sea to Athens, which is less than 2,000) miles from London.

over

VICAR ELECTED A

LIFE MEMBER.

Annual Meeting Of St. Andrew's Club,

MARKET IN

THE CHINA MAIL.

NEW YORK

Downward Tendency

Evident.

BONDS RISE SLIGHTLY

not

To-Day's Short Story.

DEARTH'S FARM

FEW weeks

By Gerald Bullett.

ago (said ed." This seemed friendly enough, A Batley) I was staying at the and my host'a conversation during

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house of a cousin of mine. I that eight-mile drive did much to New York, To-day. The New York Stock Exchange never liked the woman, but I make me forget my first distaste of outlook is very uncertain, accord- wanted free board and lodging, his person. was evidently a ing to the daily report issued by and hunger soon blunts the edge man of wide reading, and he bad a Messrs. E. A. Pierce and Company of one's delicacy. She's at least habit of polite deference that was They state, "The market irregu- ten years my senior, and all extremely flattering, especially to had had more than my larity suggests that floor traders could remember of her was that me who who took a long position last wenk she had bullied me when I was share of the other thing, I was are selling some of their stock. child into learning to read. caahiered during the war, you know, Ten years ago she married aNever mind why. Whenever he The immediate outlook is clear."

mun named Dearth-James Dearth, laughed, which was not seldom, he the resident owner of a smallish exhibited a mouthful si very large Industrials, rails and utilities had a downward tendency yester-farm in Norfolk, not far from the regular teeth.

coast. All her relatives opposed Dearth's Farm, to give it the local day, but bonds strengthened dur the marriage. Relatives always do. name, is a place with a personality ing the day, rising .16. The de- cline was most marked in indus-

If people waited for the approval of its own. Perhaps every place Sometimes I fancy that of relatives before marrying the has that. trials, which dropped .72. Rails! and utilities held up better, declin-world would be depopulated in a the earth itself is a personality, or ¡generation. This time it was re- community of souls locked fast in ing only 43 and 23 respectively.

{ligion. My cousin's people were a dream from which at any moment Business for the day was on the primitive and methodical in their they may awake, like volcanoes into small side, only 920,000 shares be- ing traded-Reuter.

religion, as the name of their violent action. Anyhow Dearth'a Dollar Steady as Silver Rises, sect confessed, whereas Dearth pro- Farm struck me as being peculiarly The local dollar remained steady, fessed a universal toleration that personal, because I found it impas-

asible not to regard its climatic) being quoted this morning at 1/3, they thought could only be

I have my changes as changes of mood. You Silver prices spot and forward cloak for indifference.

opinion about that, but it remember my theory that chemical both rose 1/16 being quoted at 16 own

doesn't matter now.

action is only psychical action scen 15/16 and 17, respectively.

When I met the man I forgot all from without? Well, I'm inclined about religion: I was simply re- to think in just the same way of pelled by the notion of any woman every manifestation of natural marrying so odd a being. Rather energy. small in build, he possessed the long- But you don't want to hear about! est and narrowest face I have ever seen on a man of his size. His eyes TO-MORROW'S STORY. ware set exceptionally wide apart, and the nose, culminating in large To-morrow's short story so slight an angle will be "The Song of Praise," with the rest of the fuco that seen by Stacy Aumonier. in profile it was scarcely human.

The London on New York cross

rate rose a fraction, being quoted at £-G33.35% this morning, while What is not known, is whether car of St. Andrew's Church, Kow- 1/16 to f-G$3.35%.

The Rev. W. Walton Rogers, VI-the New York on London rate fell he deviated from this route beloon, was elected a Life Member of cause of the weather conditions, the St. Andrew's Club at the annual "BIRD OF PARADISE. which, on Saturday, were gener-general meeting held in the Church, ally bad over Europe.

nature.

all last night. The Vicar, who is Central Theatre's Sunday nostrils, made

Attraction.

me.

The farmhouse, which is approached by a narrow winding lane from the main road, stands high up in a kind of shallow busin of land, a few neres plaughed but mostly grass.

Hinkler, the first man to fly President of the Club, presided over from England to Australia, and the meeting, and was supported by the only pilot to cross the South-Mr. B. H. Wong, (Jon. Secretary) ern Atlantic, was attempting to and Mr. N. A. E. Mackay (Hon What is termed as recapture his record to Australia. Treasurer).

one of the Perhaps I exaggerate a little. but my fancies. longest and bitterest court battles know no other way of explaining Of small, dark, build, he is ex-

the peculiar revulsion he inspired in The Secretary, in the course of in the history of the stage was end- tremely quiet and reserved in his report, said that the social and ed last year, when the New York hockey activities of the Club had Court of Appeals upheld Richard been well maintained but neglect Walton Tully's claim to authorship had been shown in the literary and of "Bird of Paradise." But if debating circles. He appealed for Richard Walton Tally had handed more interest on the part of the over $600,000 to Mrs. Grace A. members. During the year under Fendler, author of "In Hawaii," the review 27 members resigned for day she first brought her famous various reasons, and 26 new mem-plagiarism sult, he could no more, bers joined the Club.

Unlike most famous pilots, Hinkler has consistently evaded publicity and all his flights have been shrouded in secrecy.

BRITAIN'S CLOCKWORK AIR SERVICE.

World's Largest Liners

Set Record.

London, To-day,

He met me at the station in his dogcart, and wheezed a greeting at "You're Mr. Bailey, aren't you! hope you've had an agreeable journey. Monica will be delight-

The countryside has a gentle prettiness more characteristic of the south-eastern counties. On three sides wooded hills slope gradually to the horizon; 0я the fourth side grassland rises a little for 20 yards and then curves jabruptly down. To look through GRAPES IN

the windows that give out upon this fourth side is to have the sensation DRY

U.S.A. of the edge of a steep efift, or

at the end of the world. On a still

completely have wiped out his for TOO MANY

The accounts showed a satisfac-tune. Itory balance of $307,

RKO Radio Pictures. purchased The officers for the ensuing year the talking picture rights to "The were elected as follows.--President, Bird," and things look different for Rev. W. Walton Rogers; Hon. Se-Mr. Tully's masterpiece. The screen A fleet of four Handley Pagecretary, Mr. R. H. Wong: Hon. version of "Bird of Paradise" has bi-planes, Type 42, which are the Treasurer, Mr. E. H. P. White; Cap-been a great success-a Stting re- largest airliners yet commissioned į tains, Miss M. Woolley and Mr. A. ward for the author after years of by any transport company, have.. P. Guest; General Committee, hardship. established a record in regular day. Gittins, Miss E. Rogers, Miss M. by day operation in the cross-Woolley, Messrs, H. Kew, E. F. Fin- Channel services of the Imperialcher and G. A. White, Airways.

Throughout both winter and sum- mer months these giant craft, each driven by four 650 h.p. Jupiter air-j cooled motors, make the London-i Paris journey with elockwork pre- cision. Four of the planes have between them flown the equivalent of 400,000 miles and have carried altogether 47,300 passengers.

During the summer months each machine carried a daily average of

5 passengers.-British :Service.

Wireless

ROBBERY AT TAI PO.

Small-Haul From House.

Three men, armed with choppers broke into an unnumbered house in

the Tin Liu Village, Tai Po Kau

district, shortly before one o'clock

TO CAPETOWN IN 2% DAYS.

"Bird of Paradise" with Dalores Del Rio and Joel McCrea in the leading roles, will be shown at the Central Theatre, commencing Sunday.

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California's £70,000,000 Industry.

RUIN THREATENS.

day, when the sun is shinning, the

place has a languid beauty, an afternoon atmosphere.. You re- member Tennyson's Lotus Isles, "in which it seemed always afternoon": Dearth's Farm has something of San Francisco.

that flavour on still day. With the slogan "Wine for

But such days are rare; the two America's Christmas, tables," the or three I experienced shine like! grape growers league of California jewels in the memory. Most often FORGED NOTE TRAFFICKER announced recently that it would that stretch of 50 or 60 acres is a

SENTENCED.

seek the ald of eastern grape pro-gathering-ground for all the bleak ducers in urging the December winds of the earth. They seem to (Continued from page 1). session of Congress to make wine come simultaneously from the landi

sales legal.

and from the sen, which is six miles When searched at the Charge. Grape growers throughout the away, and they swirl round in that Mr. Victor Smith, the 19-year- Room, a letter was found in his United States are suffering from shallow basin of earth, as I have old South African airman, who possession, in which was mentioned the same over-production. that called It, like maddened devils seek- the Cape, is going ahead with his Canton and who was wanted by the industry in California, the largest storms were at their worst I used arrived in England last week from the name of a man who is now in threatens ruin to this £70,000,000 Ing escape from a trap. When the

plans for a return flight to Cape Police in 1924 in connection with producing State. said a statement to feel as though I were perched in- Town, in which he hopes to break forgeries.

by the President of the league. | securely on a gigantic saucer beld. the record set up by Mrs. Molli- The defendant was arrested by a The salvation that legalised wine 100 miles above the earth.

Mr. Victor Smith's Plans.

Chinese

She had

son (Miss Amy Johnson.).

detective through the would bring to the grape men is of But I am not a courageous per- Mr. Smith said yesterday that medium of an informer, who paid almost equal importance to the re-son. Monica, my cousin, found no The now hopes to make the flight 63 for a forged $10 note. The lated industries in every State of fault with the winds.

in two and a half days. This defendant offered to sell the inform the Union, such as glass, printing, other fears, and I had not been with would handsomely beat Mrs. Mol-jer 20 forged bank notes,

lumber, barrels, the hotel and res her three days before she began to lison's record of four days, aix

Forged $100 Note.

taurant business and many other confide them to me. Her overtures hours, fifty-four minutes from A Chinese, described as a shop lines of endeavour."

were as surprising as they were un- Lympne to the Cape:

Previous.foki,

was charged before Mr. The contribution which leagalised welcome, for that she was not a con- ly he aimed at making the fight Wynne-Jones in the Central Police wine would make to employment fiding person by nature I was cer in three and a half days. Court this morning, with the pos-and national' prosperity and would tain.

this morning, and tole money and clothing to the value of $7.14. Mr. Smith.

"I believe with the right session of a forged $100 now of the exceed many times in importance Her manners were reserved to plane it should be easy to do it Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd. The even the considerable tax revenue the point of diffidence, and we had in two and a half days," said defendant pleaded guilty and was which is now lost to the government nothing in common save & detesta- sentenced to three months hard through bootleg and racketeering tion of the family from which wa The robbery, csing the threat. "It means going entirely with labour. Detective-Sergeant Fitches channels.

had both sprung. I suppose you will "Don't move, or we will cut your out sleep and doing about 2,600 prosecuted.

League officials estimated that want to know something of her throats" bound and gagged Sun miles a day-the total distance is

there are 15,000,000 gallons of wine looks. She was a tall, fullfigured Fat, 17, a farmer, his father and 6,600 miles over the West Coast POSEIDON HERO IN available in 166 bonded wineries in woman, handsome for her years,

aunt, who were the sole inmates of route, which I should follow. 'the hut.

"The return journey would not The intruders fled northward be made in the 'plane that I flew along the railway line towards the out here--that one is not fast enough. I want a high-speed ca- bin 'plane with a long range.

"I have two machines, both British, under consideration, cannot at the moment say what

A PLAY.

Admiralty Staff Help Hospitals.

London.

this state and that 10,000,000 more with jet-black hair, a sensitive face, gallons of the 1982 vintage could be and a complexion almost Southern made available by spring-Router, in its dark colouring. I love beauty, and I found pleasure in her Tai Po Kau Railway Station.

mere presence, which did some Mr. Harold Mitchell, M.P. speak thing to lighten for me the DIVERSION PLANNED FOR

ing of his recent visit to Russia, gloom that pervaded the house; Baid that at Moscow he saw a huge but my pleasure was UNEMPLOYED.

inno-

(Continuoil from Page 1)

Ex-Chief Petty Officer F. H. Canterbury, "Whatever the feelings watchdog airs only. amused mo caricature of the Archbishop of cent enough, and⠀⠀⠀ Dearth's type they are, but one of them is Willis, who received the Albert may be of one country towards an- Monica's eyes unfathomable pools The management of these similar to the machine used by Medal for heroism he displayed other," Mr. Mitchell sald, "when seemed troubled whenever they schemes is frequently in the Mrs. Mollison, hands of the unemployed "If the plane can be got read yas sunk in collision off two countries, a Government should by some other emotion I didn't at when the submarine Poseidon you have normal relations between rested on me: whether by fear or themselves, outside aid being in time I shall hop off on Dec. 10, Wei-hai-wet in June, 1981, not permit in a public park which Arst know. She chose her moment confined to financial help, pro- when there will be a full moon at took part in a sketch in the Ad- might be compared to Hyde Park, a wall, coming to me when Dearth vision of facilities, and Innight. Otherwise the start will miralty Concert held at the carlenture of a prominent public was out of the house, looking after some cases, expert advice. have to be postponed for a Faculty of Arts Theatre. The National Council of Social month"

Practically all those taking

a man in another country," his men, and 1, pleading a boadache; awer had fused to accompany him. The part in the concert, which was In the LN E. I Magazine for malady was purely fictitious but I in aid of the Charing Cross Hos- December it is reported that during was bored ith the fellow's comi pital centenary appeal, were the last three years the LANZE. pany, and sick of being dragged at

Service, on behalf of which the] Prince of Wales broadcast-an-ap-

peal, has received evidence from

WEATHER FORECAST:

all over the country of a general Fresh north winds, cloudy, with members of the admiralty staff. has purchased, 16 per cent of the his heels like a dog for no better desire to help with this Important tome drizzle is forecasted in the The play was specially written total of Douglas fir exported from reason than his too evident jealousy social work, British Wireless Ser weather report issued from the Bow for the occasion by a member of Britch Columbla Into Great He afforded

val Observatory this morning.

vice.

the staff-Rezer

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