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"FLYING FLEA" QUESTION OF

· PROHIBITION

IN ENGLAND Seven Fatal Crashes Already

ALL DUE TO NOSE-DIVES

+

The Air Ministry recently re- ceived `a request from the Air League of the British Empire, pending an investigation, to pro- hibit the flying in any circum: stances in Britain of "Flying Fleas.**

This action by the Air League was taken after the fatal accident last month to Flt.-Lt. A. M.. Cowell while testing a'machine on behalf of the League

Pensburst. Kent Lt. Cowell had previously flown several Flying Fleas,

The Ministry has a difficult de- cision to make. for last autumn it adopted the recommendation of Lord Gorell's Committee not to1 control the construction

the'

aerodynamic qualities of machines!

(Charion Hops

District Attorney Fitti J. C. Heutenbrink

Robert James

District Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles in sifting the condicting stories of Robert James and Charles Hape, as police probe the drowning of Mrs. Mary James, aged 28, in a fish pond last August, J. C. Houtenbrink, a snake dealer, is said to have sold a live rattler to the conspirators and the police say that when the snake failed to bite Mr. James, she was drowned.

not used for hire or reward, and CAREER OF

not to demand a certificate of air- worthiness.

Seven Fatalities

The secretary-general of the Air League. Air-Commodore J. A., Chamier, pointed out that

there

CAMBRIDGE

GRADUATE

have been seven fatal accidents Army Captain During

five in France and two in Britain.i This makes about 5 per cent.. for there are some 17 Flying Fleas which have down a complete cir-j cuit and landed. About 12" of those are in this country.

Great War

2

BECOMES SUITCASE THIEF AT RAILWAY STATIONS

"All these accidents." said Air- Described by the magistrate as Commodore Chamier, “have been a highwayman, Theodore Ben- cose-dives, It may be that the jamin Hoste (40), a Cambridge position of the centre of gravity graduate who served during the should be more accurately defined, war as a captain, was sentenced or the space between the wings, or at Bow-street last month to 12 the extent of the overlapping of months' hard labour.

the wings, should be more precise-i He was said to have stole.. suit- ly stated.

cases worth about £400 since last "The Air Ministry has shown October. every desire to help by agreeing

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A detective said that Hoste's to test a machine in the air. Be- fore we could get a machine ready method was to walk off with for the test this last fatal accident suitcase leaving a-worthless -occurred. The Air League is hop-near by to explain his mistake at ing that these tests may now be railway stations.

carried out in the full-scale air

tunnel, if the pressure of Govern-.

ment work will permit.

"It would seem dangerous

Long Under Suspicion

one

For a considerable time he had

to been under suspicion by the police,

RATTLESNAKE MURDER OF WIFE ALLEGED

Body Shows Definite Mark Of Bite On Leg

Los Angeles.

The case in which a wife, at first supposed to have been drowd, is alleged to have her murdered by a rattlesnake had an important development when at the autopsy on the women's exhumed body in Los Angelis doctors were able to identify a wound on the leg us definitely caused by a ratile- snake.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936

INSUFFICIENT

RECRUITS FOR

BRITISH ARMY Expected Shortage

Of 6,000 Men

FOUR MONTHS NOW LEFT

TO FILL GAP

The Army will be over 6,000 men short when the present recruiting year ends on Sep- tember 30, unless the rate of recruiting is increased greatly in the next few months. To replace men who will into the Reserve during the year, the War Office require 30,000 re- cruits Present weekly returns from all over the country indicate that the total will be less than! 24,000.

number.

pass

DIONNE QUINTUPLETS

"ON THE AIR"

The Dionne quintuplets were "on the air" for half an hour on the occasion of their birthday celebration on May 24 The broadcast was

charge of the Canadian Radio Commission, which permitted the world-wide transmission of the programme free of charge.

BRITISH RECOVERY IN DYE-MAKING

Four Big Discoveries

INDUSTRY FORGING AHEAD AFTER BAD DECLINE

were

at

The decline and recovery of the The best times for recruiting. English dyestuffs industry just after Christmas and Easter. dealt with by Prof. G. T. Morgan. are past and unless numbers co-director of chemical research siderably increased there is the Government laboratories. Ted- chance of reaching he required dington, when he delivered the Hofmann memorial lecture at the Every effort is being made to Huxley Building, South Kensing- attract young men to the Army-ton. During the period of their service

Contributory causes for the de- they are taught trades and

pree were, he said, the departure pared for their return to civil life of the German chemist. Hofmann In the last four years, it is point-

and his assistants, who during 20 ed out. over 100 soldiers from the

years stay in England established ranks have obtained commissions. ja school of research in

London Defence Needs

organic chemistry, the inadequacy of Our Recruiting for the Territorial Army showed a marked increase alcohol, and the fiscal policy of the patent laws, the want of duty-free in numbers in March and April but the force is estimated to bel still Tany thousands below strength.

de-

country.

"Since 1921 great advances have been made." said Dr. Morgan, “and under the stimulus afforded by the In the anti-aircraft units alone Dyestuffs Import Regulation Act, a between 2.000 and 3,000 recruits modern colour-making industry has are urgently needed for the fence of London.

Skilled mechanics for the me chanised units of both the Regular coveries in tinctorial chemistry of Of the six outstanding dis-

and Territorial Armies are quired.

Te

It has been found that the larg- est number of recruits for the Regular Army has come from the industrial centres of the North, where the trade revival has also been the greatest. More than 75 Ip.c. of the recruits were in work

when they enlisted.

İNELSON BUST FOR

THE QUEEN MARY

have this test made in the air." jand on two occasions was stopped A bust of Nelson has been given presentation, said the copper

VALUABLE EAGLE

ESCAPES

Trained In Circus To Perform Tricks

Somewhere

in

now been developed on an adequate financial scale.

recent times, four have been made by British chemists.

Prof. August W. won Hof- 12.732. between 1845-65, Wi Director at the World College of Chemistry. His activities led to the foundation of the British coal-tar colour industry, but during 10 years after Hof-

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BRAVE DOG SEEKS

with stolen property in his pos- to Commander Sir Edgar Britten. the bust and oak of the base were AID FOR MASTER

session, but each time be was al-RN.R. (red.). captain of the both from H.M.S. Victory. He owed to go free.

Queen Mary, to be kept on board also announced that Sir Edgar Recently he was arrested in the the vessel as a mascot. The pre- had accepted his invitation to join But Rescuers Arrive West End for being drunk, and isentation was made at the Man-the board. certain property found upon him sion House at the 118th anniver- led to the charges.

The General

Secretary, Mr.

sary meeting of the British Sai-Herbert E. Barker, said the King Hoste was very well off until lors' Society, at which the Lord had granted his patronage to the 1921, when he was sentenced to Mayor, Sir Percy Vincent, pre-society. six months for obtaining a £1.000 sided. cheque by false pretences. per-

Germany,

over the North Sea, or haps even in England, is fly- ing an eagle worth £350 and answering to the name of Satari.

The eagle escaped from a circus

:

A-Responsible Job

He had since. had a responsible job with a big firm in the City.

His wife had left him because

at Flensburg (Schleswig-Hals- of these exploits.

tein) when the door of its cage Hoste told the magistrate that became undone during unloading.jon the adrice of his relatives, he It was claimed to be the only eagle decided to surrender to the police. trained to do circus tricks.

It was while on his way to Vine-

Th

Too Late

Stonecliff (Ontario). Carrying out the last command. It was reported that the society's of his master, a dog limped into The Hon. L. W. Joynson-Hicks, expenditure last year exceeded in Stonecliff with a. mitten tied chairman of the board of directors come by £13,847, due to outlay on around its neck as a distress of the society, in making the three more homes.

BEATRICE HARRADEN

MAY ROBSON, FILM STAR, IS 71

A reward of £35 is being offer-street that he got drunk. While Will ed by the trainer to anybody who he was under arrest he made a -can capture the eagle unharmed. full confession.**

BRITISH STAMPS

FOR AMERICA

Robbing The Poor

Not Retire Till She

Reaches 100

Famous Author Dies At 72

REJECTED NOVEL BECOME

BEST-SELLER

Misa May Robson, the film Miss Beatrice Harraden, actress, celebrated her 71st birth-gained world-fame with a

who best-

signal

The dog belonged to Lawrence Larochelle a 25-year-old trapper.

A rescue party was at once or- ganised. The dog, although worn out after an eight-miles journey and through heavy bush, turned led the searchers into the bush again.

But the animal's effort had been in vain. When the party reached Larochelle's lonely cabin, he dead from two bullet wounds. rifle lay across his chest.

Wis A

It is believed that the trapper

In several cases, where he found day in Hollywood on April 18. She seller more than forty years ago accidentally shot himself and tried the owners of the cases were poor received many messages of con- has died at Barton-on-Sea, Hants. people he returned the property to gratulation from her native Aus-aged 72.

to seek aid by sending his

dog Sets Worth £250,000

them

tralia and from England, where "Ships That Pass in the Night to the village with a mitten. One case contained a woman's she spent her childhood.

had an extraordinary vogue. It When the dog failed to retiara | British stamp collectors last old-age pension book, savings cer-

She said that she was awaiting was translated into every European after several hours, it is thought month sent £250,000 worth of tificates, and £2:108

a cable summoning her to London language and in constant, demand Larochelle ended his pain with an- stamps to New York in the Beren- He kept because he was for a new British picture.

for many years, but was at first other shot. garia for the New York Stamp "broke," and left the case

"I shall retire when I'm a hun-rejected. The publisher in 1903 Exhibition.

cloak room, afterwards tele-dred," she zaid, “and meanwhile regarded it as too short.

where I'm going to attempt to return to Miss Harraden was reported to

the stage and to learn how to have disposed of her rights for a RONALD COLMAN'S

NEW ROLE

Mr. Frank Godden was in charge phoning the station master of them, and the contribution in-lit could be found.

cluded Sir Nicholas Waterhouse's He had also returned anony-fly an aeroplane." United States collection and Miss mously valuable documents to Miss Robson is a great-grand-

W. Penn-Gaskell's famous set of other owners.

air mail stamps.

Other sets which Mr.

Godden

took over included Mr. J. B. Sey-!

mother.

mour's collection of British stamp, China Builds First

which won the Grand Award at the Vienna Stamp Exhibition Inst year, and Sir John Wilson, pre- mident of the Royal Philatelic So- ciety's set of international stamps. Four special stamps have been Issued by the United States Post- master-General in honour of the Exhibition 1

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•

Sir Walter Raleigh

Born in London and educated at Dresden and Cheltenham Ladies' Colloge before graduating at Bed- Ford College. she was a woman of great culture, but few of her

Ronald Colmar, it is stated will. many other books attained to any probably play the role of Sir Wal- ter Raleigh in a big historical pie- Film Miss Harraden wasture planned by Criterion

Productions Ltd.

Discussions began in Hollywood between Mr. Colman and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, jun., who is a director of Criterion Film Produc- tionz. It is hoped to begin pro-

great success. In 1930,

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Far East which may really be frontage of over forty yards, has called streamlined in

any But its streamlining is

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thrown off. Later she was run for the train is to be employed in makes relatively high over by an ambulance summoned local service between Shanghai though they hardly compare with owing to the danger. Another to her aid.

North Station and Nanhsiang, on the ideas of other countries. factory is threatened.

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