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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 1, 1941.

FITTED WITH SPECTACLES

B-19 JUST DWARF CHICKENS WERE

IN AIR PICTURE AHEAD

"THE B-19 (world's largest bombing 'plane re- cently test flown at Los Angeles) is just a little puddle-jumper compared with what is coming," William B. (Bill) Stout, veteran aeronautical de- signer of Detroit, told hundreds of Ohioans gather- ed at an aviation dinner in Akron recently.

"We are going to make bigger ships in bigger quantities," prophesied the man who designed the first all-metal transport 'plane the old Ford- Stout trimotor, or "tin goose."

Three thousand hers,power engines are almod ready, and in * few years there will be 5,000 horsepower engines. There will bel a capacity for 300 crew members on these -Ins instend of a mere | handlu stich as the 13-19 now

The bushy-haired designer of his own Lear-engine automobile. Tabeled a one "who bas avast impatismes with the present," spoke on "What 1. Going to Hap-

CHINESE

SAPPERS PARADE

THE SMART BEARING OF

- pen to American Aviation After THE CHINESE SAPPERS, AND

This Wha

Increased Private

Mr Stout

Flying

annouured quietly

the

Chickens with spectacles were subject of a lawsuit at Camden, New Jer-

sey.

A vineland poultry equipment company was charged with the infringement

of a patent

fitting chickens with specta-

by

cles to prevent them pecking each other's eyes.--Reuter.

POLISH MINISTERS RESIGN

The resignation of the GENERAL ALL-ROUND PRE- Foreign Minister, M. CISION, WAS COMMENTED

Zalesky, and two other UPON BY THOSE WHO AT- TENDED THE JUBILEE C'ELE- Polish Ministers was re- OF THE CORPS ported in Polish circles in BRATION

that in ten years, "maybe five" 75 WHICH TOOK THE FORM OF A London last night. per cent of the audience before CEREMONIAL PARADE ON It is not yet ceain whether him would be flying their own MURRAY PARADE GROUND the resignations have been accept- 'planes. Mr. Stout is descoping a

small plane himself designed of THIS MORNING. stainless steel. His methods of fabricating this metal to produce large quantities of craft has so terested the Army that his com- pany has been placed well up the metals priority list in order to permit ini to continue his velopments.

ed by the Premier, General Sikorski, who is actively endeav- ouring to find a solution to the situation which has arisen.

His Excellency the Governor, - Sir Geoffry Northcote. took the

Salute at the March Past, after which he chatted informally with the Chinese non-commissioned

minds. de-officers before leaving the Parado

Ground.

Air freight is another aeronau- tical development whose future

As the two Companies marched Mr. Stout believes in strongly past, on their way back to Bar- Diverting a moment from his sub-racks, His Excellency the General jeet, he told his audience that 1" ofeer Commanding. Mujor-Gen- had talked with pilots who had eral M. Maltby, took the salute. been flying some of his old tri-

The celebrations will be

Identity of the two other Ministers is not known and it be Is very possible they will prevailed upon to change their

It is understood an offelal Polish statement on the situation may be made shortly.--Reuter.

FIGHTER SWEEPS OVER FRANCE

the

An Air Ministry communique states: "A craft of the Fighter Command in the course of several

operations over con-1 offensive tinued this afternoon with a swim-, Channel and the coast of Francs two enemv ming gala, at 2.45 p.m. at Army yesterday destroyed Pool, and in the evening with a fligh ́ers. Two of our aircraft are dinner, at 7.15 p.m., at Wellington | missing but the pilot of one Barracks.

safe." British Wireless.

motor planes in South America) The parade was under Capt. carrying freight into the oil fields. Cartwright - Williams, Adjutant, "Frankly, I never pictured such Fortress Royal Engineers, a long life for those ships of mine. Į One pilot said he had just flown a caterpillar tractor in one of my old ships for 7.000 miles over the jungles. Whv, someone predicted that those Eords of mine would rust through in three years' time. Instead of that they have flown millions of miles, and now at least 20 of them are still flying in South America."

"It isn't hard to visualise the picture which lies ahead when br practically everything will moved by air," Mr. Stout said. "Seaports will not be necessary for shipment across water, and airports will be operating lond after railroad stations are forgot- ten.

"Traffic for a while, of course, he added. "will move north and south until this war is over, rather than east and west, and South America and Alaska will be bound closer to us every day."

Mr. Stout then went on to give an extremely encouraging plcture of United States defence as it is today.

"One advantage which our country has over every country in the world to-day is its airplane engines," he said. "Our air-cool- ed engines haven't yet been ap- proached by any other country in the world.

of

"During the last 90 days United States meta lurgists have develop- ed a metal nine times as strong as any Krupp ever turned out, Props in our 'planes are far ahead anything made in Europe, and our wing curves and landing gears are far superior," Mr. Stout, add- ed.

Costs Going Down

"England still has to have fit- ting shops where engines must be turned out by hand," Mr. Stout averred, “while we are taking ad- vantage of lessons learned in the automotive industry and are turn- Ing them out in mass production,"

Mr. Stout predicted, that: new processes of manufacture will low- er the costs of planes that cylin ders can soon be made for as lit- tle as $2:25 (production cost) and that engines now costing $10,000, $15,000 and $20,000 apiece may be purchased for the amount resuit- Ing by taking off the end zero:

"Pretty soon you can buy a good airplane as cheap as you can buy a good truck," he told the men in the audience. -,...

AT THE DOCTOR'S

"I HAVE NO ENERGY AND EVEN WAKE FIRED

NOWADAYS,

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·SUFFERERS' FROM SICKNESS AND FEVER HAVE “PROVED, YOU SHOULD

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IN SICKNESS AND CON

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