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EMBER 14, 1938

BLE TO AIR RAIDS

IT'S NOT TOO LATE

TO SEND YOUR CHRISTMAS

GIFTS BY CLIPPER AIR EXPRESS

AND YOUR CHRISTMAS CARDS

AND LETTERS BY CLIPPER AIRMAIL!

ng picture showing the immediate effects of an incendiary bomb. The picture, taken during a

raid on Kweilin, the Kwangsi capital, was snapped just as the bomb exploded.

urpose of the fast "Hurricane”, he said were equipped is to act as the ex-with large old-type wooden fixed- the anti-aircraft gun. pitch propellers and were definitely usiness up to about inferior to the German and Italian rom there up the machines.

ected to fly smaller MODERN REICH FIGHTER.

nge of the bomber. "The German Messerschmitt M- ber is fast also. The 109, on the other hand, was modern te they will have in every particular", he wrote, utes to get their "with a controllable-pitch propel- omber altitude.. ler made of metal. Its take-off was k their fast fighters rapid. It was exceedingly maneu- job."

verable in the air and its climb was that four and. one-, astounding. Britain started build- "One Messerschmitt M-109 won ertised fighter call-jthe international competition for arine "Spitfire", but European fighting ships by leaping few weeks ago only from ground level, to 9,000 feet and | delivered and they back to earth again in the startling than half a mile to time of 2 minutes and five seconds.

d.

Another Messerschmitt established achines and the best the world's speed record of 379 ship, the Hawker miles an hour early last spring."

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a

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Williams made no comparison.be- tween the European fighting planes and the latest American bombers and pursuit planes, but Britain, France and Russia have all placed orders totalling many hundreds of machines with United States fac- tories and in the opinion of local experts the ultramodern ships re- served for the United States Army and Navy are superior to anything developed anywhere else in world.

the

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BIOBWIES SYSTĽNI

FOR

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT” by Robert L. Ripley

DIAGRAM

FOR ONE DAY

APB15

AVIATOR HUGHES

WENT AROUND THE WORLD APPROXIMATELY 5 TIMES

IN 4 DAYS INSTEAD OF JUST ONCE /

THE EARTH MÄDE 4REVOLUTIONS HUGHES MADE 5 REVOLUTIONS.

† George McManus

L-I HAD TO TREAT TO LUNCH -- AL- DUGH HE ASKED ME-

THERE'LL BE NO EREST-I WILL BE CKY TO GIT BACK TH NCIPAL HE BOR- YED TEN DOLLARS-

EAT AT

Jimmy's

Kitchen

ANNIE SMITH

PECK

ÉNEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

AT THE AGE OF 58

CLIMBED HUASCARAN

THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES

Sept. 2,1908

(22,188 feet)

-Cap 1937. Bong Fratunet

SIGNATURE OF JEAN-BUSBY

Chicago Art Student

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