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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY-22, 1941. MUTT AND JEFF

YOU GOT AN OFFER

KID,YOU'RE

·O.K! I'M ALL SET TO

FROM AN ADVERTISING JUST THE

AGENCY TO MAKE A

TYPE!

PHOTO OF A FRIGHTENED

SNAP THE PICTURE! NOW, LOOK FRIGHTENED!

How's

THIS?

NAW! LOOK, FRIGHTENED!

CAVEMAN FOR FIFTY

BUCKS? WHERE'S THE

CAVEMAN?

SHOW FEAR!

OH!

الا

THAT'S IT,

JEFF! PERFECT! HOLD IT!

OH!

Page Bv BUD FISHER

NOW, WHERE'S THAT LITTLE

FOOL RUNNING To?

“

Hester

NEW INLAND SEA

In a valley where once herds of game drank at the river's edge and the transport rider and trad- er outspanned their wagons, an "inland gea" covering 60 square

NEW 'PLANE

FLIES ITSELF--

WELL, ALMOST

(By Albert D. Hughes)

I DON'T KNOW how to fly. But I took an aero- plane off the ground at Newark, turned over the miles has been formed. It is controls long enough for the real pilot to get some largest irrigation project in the altitude, and then did a very passable job of pilot- southern Hemisphere. It lies being the ship across Long Island and the Sound to

the Connecticut shore.

known as the Vaalbank Dam,

tween the Orange River Fre State and Transvaal, about miles from the town of Vereenig ing.

This giant dum has been con-

structed across the Vaal River at rost, together with other sub- sidiary works, of £4,000,000 which the Rand Water Board con- tributed £500,000. The dam wall

1,900 feet long and 169 feet high, and when filled to capacity after seasonal rains the resulting lake will be 90 miles long and 13 miles across at its widest point near the wall.

There with the weather thickening a bit and with darkness falling fast the pilot took over and brought us into New Haven where I caught a train for Boston I would have been unable to catch in time in New York.

to Speed Training

Charles

Pre-

The plane I was piloting gave me a real thrill of pride---local pride-for it is the first aeroplane sident of the company, a veteran

W. Sutherland, to be built in Massachusetts in pilot and well-known In Jocal nearly 15 years. Oddly enough, it avlation circles, told me without is being manufactured at the same

he could With

any reservations that Johannesburg only 56 plant

at the Lowell Airport in

lake a casual passerby off the miles distant this dam will pro- South Lowell where back in 1926 street and with an hour's train- vide a

reserve water supply for the De Ravilland "Moth " a sporting he would be able to "solo" the Reef towns. besides irriga-plane, was manufactured under u

one of these 'planes. If the per- tion over a large area. It is ex- licence from

English com-

son could drive a car, Mr. Suther- pec'ed to become a popular holi-,

land said he could not only solo, day and sporting centre for Inland

but also make perfectly banked South Africa, and modern hotels]

turns after two hours. With ten · and boarding houses are being

hours' instruction, he told me, a built at the new township called] Denysville,

pany.

the

and

after Col. Denys big dams in the Union, has been Reitz, Minister

Agriculture, declared a bird sanctuary, and author of "Commando,'

already numbers of wild birds, The lake, in common with all are frequenting the area.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

5 6 7

9 10

136

37.

HORZONTAL

1 Boring tool

4 Unskilful

· Feline

12 French coin

13 Titles

14 To be

obliged to 15 Hostility

17. Silly smile

~39 To-low

20 To Boak

21 Congenial

23 By

24 Require

ments,

27 Not strict

20 Russian

mountain systém

30 To fog.

31 Conjunction

732 Typo

134 Brother of

Odiny:

36 Bearing

937 Card-game

38 Pronoun

39 Ancient

chariot

Teutonia

delty,

42. Te penetrate

43 Peelöd

40 English.

alang 1avorti

46 Impaled

48 To handic

awkwardly

51 Cravat

$2 Snake

54 Meadow

53 Conjunction

VERTICAL

1 Peer Gynt's

mother

2 Triumphed

3 Clumsy

person

4 Preposition

5 Negative

vote

6 Printer's measure

50 Indian corn

7: Nuisance

B Chinese

mohey

57 Poetic:

always

SATURDAY'S SOLUTION

LAST TOM

ECHO [E{G[0]=UNTO ER

NCE WICKED FESPAN TRAPS SNE DEERakis

TAKER

GAT

BY PETER

AAM

GE TOLW

AFER' RANTI

CAROL

INMA

QIRIE NOW

SEDATE

RACE

Ductile

metal

10 Fear

11 Music: three 16 Electrifled particle

18 Encounters

20 Piled up

21 To accuse

22 Fertile spot 23 Greek deity 23 English seaport

28 Cubic metre 20 Above 29 Prevaricator. 32 Cowardly

person

33 Latin con-

Junction, sta 30 Saw 30. To limp- 40 Vision

42. Sticky

substance

44 Scandina« Mvian Blerary

#work 45 Upadulter-

pated

·46 Musto!· ́as· Mwritten). 47 To fasten 48 Capital of

Morocco

| 49 Sheltered'

BO Hearing

organ

Ba Noman gods

pilot could make "spot" and pre- cision landings rnd begin to get the hang of judgment in distance, weather phenomena, air speed and other factors that make “just” a pilut a "good pilot."

With Professor Oito C. Koppen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. designer of the 'plane. Mr. Sutherland had A ploneer model built incorporating conclusions as to what a safe aero- plane should have. Beginning backwards, as it were. It worked startlingly well, too.

From this point they began to try and throw but many ideas, carefully scouted whatever "safety" 'plane designs there were, for the "faults" they might have and tried to avoid them in their own design. When the right time came-two years ago-they got financial backing and used this money to perfect their design and work it up into a ship having eye appeal as well as good flying characteristics.

When they got through they had a 'plane which, in the lan- guage of the CAA, la "charac- of spin- teristically Incapable ning." It could take off and land in & cross wind and handled well on the ground because of its tricycle landing gear. In take-off the flaps give the added "lift" which ald the rise from the ground and in landing provide the "drag" which slows the landing speed and permits a rapid descent.

Present Price $2,500

;

In the air the 'plane is turned by its ailerons through the same control which steers the nose wheel of the tricycle gear on the ground. It is a high wing mono- plane for better flap action, seats two in side by side arrangement and has suitable Interior fittings" and baggage space. The "Sky- farer," translated to automobile terms, will give you more than 20 miles to a gallon of gas, 500) miles to a quart of oll, has a range of 360 miles ond a cruising speed of 95 miles an hour. Slow- er, possibly than other ships of the same type, but sacrificed for the safety features. At present the ship retails for $2,500, but there is a very interesting story behind this,

If it weren't for the war and the metal priorities, Mr. Sutherland told me, this plane could be work ed down on a production basis to about $1,000, At present there are only about 80 workmen at the |Lowell plant.;

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