1938-07-15 — Page 11

ROUND THE WORLD IN UNDER FOUR DAYS

New York Crowd Berserk In Greeting Fliers

OLYMPIAD DEPRESSION

OVER JAPAN

Tokyo, To-day.

Hepburn Speeds To Confirm

Japan's renunciation of the 1940 Olympic Games forms the Mr. chief topic in all papers, the gen- eral reaction seeming to be one of depression, since the Govern- ment action is interpreted as in- dicating that the war will con- tinue for a considerable period of time.

Romance Rumour

New York, To-day.

ITALIAN

AIR LINER WRECK FOUND

Rome, To-day.

The wreckage of an Italian airliner which crashed has now been found, with over 50 planes

the search.

The cause of the disaster is not yet known.-Router.

Howard Hughes, the millionaire Hollywood and many ships participating in airman, arrived in New York at 1936 B.S.T., having completed the round-the-world flight in a total time of 3 days, 19 hours and 16 minutes as compared to Wiley Post's time of 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.

According to official calculations his flying time

K.C.R. LINE

Except "for one paper, the "Nichi. Nichi Shimbun," which injects a note of criticism into its comments, and recommends that Japan organise and present the Games regardless of the cost

Baskets of flowers were handed' Mayor La Gaurdia congratulated because the prestige of the coun- the airmen and the crowd rushed the fliers describing them "as the try is at stake, all papers evid-to the door of the 'plane as it open- finest crew who ever took a ship ence an understanding of the ed, but were forced back by the around the world." Government's decision, and point police.

was 61 hours and 7 minutes and the approxim-CLEARED OF

ate distance flown totalled 14,886 miles.

out that renunciation of the A light rain began to fall just as Games was necessitated by the the fliers arrived. high cost and amount of raw The size of the crowd which wel- material equipped.

is

60,000.

Over 20,000 tons of iron as wellcomed Howard Hughes to the Floyd Bennett Field was variously esti- as the huge quantities of cement mated to be between 25,000 and and wood would be necessary for the Olympic structures, it

According to one estimate the stated, not to speak of the man-speed averaged for the entire flight power for construction purposes and, at the present time, Japan was 161 miles per hour as compar- ed to Wiley Post's 83 miles per cannot dispense with one man or

hour. a single ton of iron for any pur- pose not connected with the war.

-Trans-Ocean.

TOURISTS IN EMPRESS LINER

NEVER AGAIN

Mr. Hughes, in a statement to Reuter, declared that he would ne- ver undertake such a flight again, and said, "that the 'plane had be haved-magnificently-and-that-they- were never in danger." He also said that they were "a bit tired Under the direction of the D. F. Ro-but otherwise felt fine" and he was bertson Travel Bureau of Los Angeles, satisfied with the scientific results.” California, a party of 36 American tourists arrived in the Empress of Ja-

The flight instruments they had pan this morning in the course of a taken along to test had worked per- round-the-world tour.

fectly (Many of these instruments

The party left this morning for a

sight-seeing and shopping tour of the are upon the American Army se- Colony and it is expected that the lo- cret list).

cal shops will do a brisk trade in silks.

jades and other articles much sought,

after by tourists.

After proceeding to Manila in the Empress, the party will return

to

R.A.F. PLANE

It was revealed that the sole dif

Hong Kong and will then tranship to ference between the Hughes'. 'plane

a P. and O. vessel for Europe,

and those which are to be deliver- Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, who are ed to the British Royal Air Force personally conducting the tour, have travelled more than 700,000 miles in on a mass order for 200 machines thefrom the Lockheed Aircraft Cor- the course of their trips round world.

poration is that the Hughes plane.

The following comprise the party:-

Mr. and Mrs. Christie Bauer, Mrs. Bis naturally not armed. Reuter.

··· CROWD BESERK

New York, To-day. The unofficial flying time for

L. Bowker, Miss Lydia Bowker, Dr. A. J. Chandler, Miss Blanche. Frommer, Mrs. Helen L. Guzzardi, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harvey, Dr. Walter L. Haworth. Mrs. Ruby J. Jenks, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Landon, Mrs. Myrtle H. Owen, Mr. Howard Hughes' round-the-world H. H. Packer, Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Ro-flight was 61 hours and 7 minutes. bertson, Mr. and Mrs. R.' 'A. Robertsor Pandemonium broke out as the Mr. H. H. Rubey, Mrs. Virgina F Salter, Miss M. E. Samuelson, Mrplane swooped down, on the same Purl Scott, Mrs. Pearl Spinks, - M pot. from where it took off. Police n and Thomas Spratt, Miss Ida K. Taylor Comissioner Grover Whalen Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Taylor, Dr. and Mayor La Guardia were the first to Mrs. C. H. Weaver, Miss Barbara Joar

the fliers Weaver, Mrs. H. V. Wurdeman, Menter the 'plane while and Mrs. E. Ebele and son, Mrs. N were still inside. Clement and Mrs. N. Weatherwax.

The Moth & The Flame a Walt Disney Silly Symphony, opens at the Queen's, and Alhambra Theatres soon with the RKO Radio Pictu "Vivacious Lady"-

moths form the main treme in an amusing cartoon in which Colour scones are excellent.

The airmen's wives had a desperate time trying to force their way through the crowd which had gone completely beserk and it became necessary for the police to truncheon the crowd who insisted on surging forward over the rails. Howard Hughes was the last to leave the plane.

in

fence

POLICE ESCORT }

Despite the presence of 50 soldiers and 1,000 police, the crowd thousands broke down the reach Howard trying to Hughes. The police hastily re- erected the fence and the fliers re- mained inside the 'plane fully five minutes after their landing owing to the crush of the crowd.

Finally Hughes was whisked off In a car towards the hangars, escorted by police on motor-cycles.

The film star, Katherine Hep- burn, whose name has been link ed in romance with that of Hughes, left her home in Con- necticut in a fast car as-soon-a9- Hughes was reported landed in Minneapolis-Reuter.

WRECKAGE

were

Only three individuals detained in hospital, two of them members of the railway staff, as the result of the collision on the Kowloon-Canton Railway near Shatin yesterday after- noon, when a local from Shum- chun crashed head-on at slow speed into a goods train.

It is stated that none of the injuries are serious.

~ The line was cleared of the wrecked coaches at about 10:15- a.m: to-day.

No date has yet been fixed for the inquiry which is to be held, as one of the important wit nesses is among those in hos pital.

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