THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1941 MUTT AND JEFF
AH, I SEE A RED HAIRED
WOMAN COMING INTO
YOUR LIFE TOMORROW
AT NINĖ O'CLOCK!
[HAVE YOUR! PALM READ,
LEARN ALL ABOUT YOUR FUTURE 504
Ho CREDIT
A REDHEAD COMING INTO YOUR LIFE! YOU ALWAYS WAS STUCK ON-STRAWBERRY BLONDES!
I DON'T BELIEVE
„THAT
STUFF!
I THINK IT'S A LOTTA BUNK BUT SOMETIMES
"THEY'RE RIGHT!
I WONDER WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE!
Bv BUD FISHER
MOTHER!
HELLO DAUGHTER
I COME TO STAY.. WITH YOU AND
MUTT
'GLAMOUR' PASTE JEWELLERY
IS IN DEMAND
a
in
“PICK UP" AIR MAIL
AVOIDING ACTION'
What does
The 'pick up' air mail "We took strong avoid-
There is
and freight services oper- ing action.' boom
ated by All American this constantly recurring fashion jewellery. Women want it to replace valu- Aviation have been such a phrase mean?
Probably people visualise air- ables safely
success that the company craft violently sky-rocketting in stored in bank vaults, writes Cori-is applying for permission wild acrobatics, abrupt turns and to extend the system to falls, straining dives and climbs, sande.
A new industry for the manu-
seven more
with pilots and crews thrown routes, serv-from side to side as the aeroplanes facture of necklets, bracelels anding some 250 cities and pitch about. so forth has been started in Eng-towns in New England, air-gunner
New York State, New Jer-
agile yet smooth, clean of paste sey and Pennsylvania.
Jand. Quite a brisk little export trade is being built up.
Wart ne restrictions have re- sulted in # scorcity
Imitation pearls have ernaments, semed in price. Some are made in this country, but the nacre used for couling purposes came from
When Poland.
stocks exhausted no more will available.
a
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This is far from reality, as an of a Coastal Com- Biand night bomber explained when he described the incredibly
null-
otuvres of a bomber avoiding Aeroplanes on the "plek up" anti-aircraft fire,
lower service
rable.
He knows about evasive tactics,
movement which the mail bag for delivery | because very
of the and is attache 1,
aircraft
felt is magnifled on aporoaring
much more in the tail--and this be aerodrome. The bag is released so that it falls at the required spot.
of
are
The new fashion Jewellery is made from a plastic material,
The demand, it is said. Is for something that looks glamorous
ELN
Mail for collection is suspended between two vertical posts on the aerodrome, and is picked up by a hook suspended from the aircraft.
The bell-shaped
company already serves 140 cities and towns in Pennsyl- Vania, New York State, Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware and Kentucky, Single-engined are employed.
and is in bright colours. Necklets show flowers in orchid shades, in pastel colours, in navy, leaf green and primrose, with gold centres dan gling from plastic chains,
Similar necklets, with bracelets and lobs to match, are made in a rose leaf design.
Bunches of coloured flowers are chains form-
attached to double ing half a necklet.
The brighter the greater the demand.
colours the
Stinson
aircraft
The advantage of the "pick up" system was illustrated last year when floods caused complete road and rail transport dislocation and rendered aerodrome The "pick up" air services were I maintained as usual.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
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HORIZONTAL
1 Open space
5 Posscases
3 Eons
12 One skilled
in throwing
his voice
15 Poetic:
Hindustan
16 Babylonian
abode of the dead
17 Scotch for
"no"
18 To accom-
#plish
19 Greek, war
Bod
20. Printer's
measure
[22" "Above'!"
23 Hurried
24 Glacial
**** ridges
26 To leap
playfully
128 Skin
29 Newt
· 32 Minor:
prophet' 333 Frozen
water
34 Auction
35 Conjunction
[36, Insect .267
37 Excessive
30 To rulo...
40 Ravels at
the edge
41 Pronoun
42 Notò of scale:
43 To strike
46 Friendly
hint
48 African
rodent
50 Wooden pin
51 Former Rus- start" ruler
53- Fish egga 54 To take
spiral shape
55 At this place
56 To inter- weave
57 Altar end of
a church.
VERTICAL
1 Greedy
2 City in
Nevada
3 Conclusion
4 Preposition
5 Employed
30 31
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45
50
54
57
8 Exclamation
of sorrow
7 The sun
9 Symbor for
gold
9 Hoisting-. "machine
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION;
BUREZ DURRED. RISES RABBIT ETAPE BOLE
AB
DER
TER DO
OLE
BIA ZION OINARIPEN
SEANE
ARARA
10 Son of Isanc
11 Stride
13 Less
common
14 Search 10 Imitates
21 Colloquial:
mother
23 Minute
organlam
24 Crude metal 25 Prepared- 20 Is able to 27. To extin="
guish by
means of a sinking-fund" 28 To perform 30 Confuses. 31 Mound !! 33 Tavern 34 To break
suddenly 36 Gelatinous
subotanćo
37 Russian
mountain
systemTM 39 Whether
40 Swift
41 Teasing "desire
43 Greek
portico
45 Amorous
-Jobk 47 Equality 49 Upper limb 50 Young dog 52 Note of scalo 54 Symbol: for
calcium
gunner has been in scores heavy-challenged raids.
as in
''There is no jerkiness, and there are no breath-taking stunts in avoiding action," he said. "Even in the tail, when the pliot swings the aircraft over in a steep bank, then off into a side-slip, the
smooth movement is as practice manoeuvres at home.
"My pilot is A.1. I seldom feel slipping in my seat-and,
to al gunner, that's the sure sign of a
In seemingly good pilot. ares, the aircraft changes direc- tion in perpendicular turns, that I am looking right down the wing at the target, then into a steep glide and over into a similar turn the other way. Centrifugal force keeps the anchored in my seat,
slow
SO
"Flaming onions" and tracers come up. The pilot watches them closely, and when he sees tracer shells he
action takes avolding not only to escape them but to throw out the sound predictors on the ground.
at
"It is really very smooth. Not all like the jerky. brusque action most people seem to think." All these advances in design, as indeed all aeronautical pro- gress since Wilbur Wright first took off at Kitty Hawk nearly 40 years ago, rely ultimately on getting more power into á smaller
That is why the space. Napier Sabre engine, with its unique construction giving it a
small frontal very
area, is significant. It is a portent of Bri- tain's determination and ability to press on to air supremacy.
new
SO
CAPTURED AIRMEN DIG TUNNEL
South African airmen recently released from Eritrea tell interesting stories of their captivity.
One captain, the son of a well known South African M.P., was confined: for three months in a ten foot square cell at Fort Cadorna. Prisoners were kept in their cells for fourteen hours a day. When some failed in an at- tempt to escape because a sand- bag-blow did not knock out the sentry, they were punished by confinement for 22 hours out of 24 for three days.k
The captain concerned, devised two schemes to escape, the sec- ond being at Adi Ugri, where they had almost completed a tunnel when they were released. "The first night-of, captivity was the best," said the Captain, “for. We spent it playing contract bridge with officers of the Italian Air Force. We did not know each others' language but we signalled the calls with our fingers.
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