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STORY OF THE MANI WHO SAVED BRITAIN

A seagull, wings outstrejched] and still, glided in from the sea, rose gently over a jutting rock and came to rest on the sanda Another circled overhead and then fluttered down to join the first bird. Other gulle wheeled, soared and swooped, filling the air with their crica.

A aquaro-jawed young man, sitting on the beach smoked his pipe and watched intently. His eyes would fasten on a seagull and follow its every movement He was not a naturaliat; he was nn engineer.

R. J. Mitchell, chief engineer and designer at the Supermarine Aviation Works at Southamp ton, had strolled down to the waterfront on this

By

summer's

of his critics. But in 1922 Mit- chell's scaplane, the S4 700 captured the world's speed ro- cord at Naples, thereby prevent- ing the Italians from gecuring the Schneider Trophy by win- ning it outright for the third time..

Mitchell went on to make the S.5, S.6, and 8.6.C, which won the Schneider Trophy three times running for Britain. His first Schnolder Trophy race was won at a speed of 145 m.ph.. his last at a speed of 340 m.p.h. Daring that period, the, de- signer crowded on more and more power so that on engine which originally gave 800 h.p. was eventually made. to yield 2.600 h.p. He built structures of great strength and of fine lines; never before had so much

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While designing record-break- working on a number of flying and amphibians; the boats

the "Southamton,"

"Scapa," and the "Stranraer." One of his earliest amphibians he named the "Seagull" after the birds he loved to watch and a close study of which was later to help him evolve his masterpiece, the "Spitfire."

No official comment has been forthcoming regarding the inter- view between His Excellency the Governor and Mr. T. W, Kwok in which Mr. Kwok, apparently on instructions from Nanking, as- serted China's trenty claim, jurisdictional rights in Kowlnon City, Absence of a statement need day in the early '30's engrossed not, of course, occasion any, sur- in a problem. I had prise. The local government's craft in mind. He wanted ting machines, Mitchell was also views on the interpretation and the practical consequences of the Convention of Peking, 1898, were set out in a communication pub- lished in the newspapers an Sun-

As he watched the soagulls day, and it is a fair inference that the designer thought: "if only Government has nothing to add I could build a plane to fly as of substract. Apart from that, it perfectly as a bird." He noticed must be obvious that the issue as what his technical mind called

In a visit to Germany. "streamlined effect" and the

realized and "ying position" of the seagulls. Mitchell

the Naci Hong Kong Government, that if the Chinese Government is He gaw how they reduced

danger. He cut his holiday short and became a man with seriously interested in pursuing a drag by tucking their legs un-

In 1934, the Tren- point so trivial in fact, if not per-der them, lowering them only a mission.

Bury made a small grant for haps quite so trivial in principle, when about to land.

fighter development, the Air then its representations should be

Ministry gave Mitchell Its made through different channels.

support, and Rolls Royce offer- Nobody, of course, deceives him-

ed him their co-operation. the status of a partly demolished willed city, consisting of a few hovels, is a matter of high in portance to the Chinese Govern- ment, especially when historically and juridically, British sovereign The rights are beyond question.

well treaty position has been established since the turn of the

A fine tribute to Mitchell was contained in the film The century, and a challenge on inter- pretation and practice presented First of the Few," in which locally now is to be seen only in the designer was most senal one light, as symptomatic of a tively portrayed by the late policy which to say the least is Leslle Howard. But something the less transient that a film is re- not particularly helpful to preservation of good relations bequired to serve the memory of tween Britain and China. It holds the man who saved Britain. out no prospects save those of un- warmnted discord and embarrass- ment.

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AIR DISASTERS

Never Knew Reginald Mitchell began aketching. And amid the screech ing of the seagulls that day all the skies with the scream of Spitfires hurtling into action in the Battle of Britain.

Reginald Mitchell never know he his triumph, A sick man, wore himself out by his effort to produce a 400 m.p.h. machine, and when he died on June 12, 1937, he was only 42.

CARNIVAL

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COPA 1944 BY HRA LEVICE, INC. T. M. REG, U. 3. FAT, OFT.

"Dig-um up tomahawk! Son need-um-gettum job in collection agency"

BY

THE WAY

As soon as no ships are needed ↑ when it gets into the stratosphere, to carry food, owing to the non. and ая it gives off a filthy and existence of that old-fashioned Jethal steam on reaching a sporo of 6000 miles per hour, it is the luxury, it should be possible to assemble an enormous fleet.

.opinion of scientists that before By dropping a far blazer atom proving of inestimable benefit to (leet feach ship the housewive it may start a new bomb on this packed with the last of the cattle Incurable disease all over the and pigs), scientists would be able world. Tests are to be carried out the Himalayas, after the population of India has been evicted.

Produose: Why a ship, if it does not go on the sen?

By BEACHCOMBER

over

Myself: To prove that ships are

to decide exactly how much "con- do in the interests of international not out of date, whatever stomic

is possible t structive damage"

security, and thus put an end to the present bickering.

The unexpected possibility of the survival of fish is a special question which must be dealt with speedily. Perbupa a modification in the bomb's construction would climinate fish.

Economics

bonibs may de.

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Maginal Nóte

A complaint that certain famos pianists play a number of wrong notes sounds rather startling. But the present popularity of discords surely makes it difficult

decide what exactly is a wrong note. When a

a painter is allowed to place the human eye on the left hand bottom corner of the chin and the right eat in the mille of the fore- leave a certain number of nolca to head, why should not a composor the discretion of the

of the executant?

Suddenly the country awoke to the menace of Hitlerism, which Mitchell had been quick to perceive. The brilliant do- signer was given a free hand, urged to hurry. The man of speed had become the man of He worked hard, the hour. ignoring twitches of pain. Later, when they became too insistunt to be ignored, he said he could not apare the time for treatment. It went on like that

work and pain-for two As the school holidays appear on years. Then, in March 1937, he the horizon, the black market in came to London for an opera-examination papers gets into its tion- and he was told he had stride at Narkover.

The wealthier parents will pay three months to live.

almost anything to get hold of the papera for their sons, so that the answers may be prepared before the examinations start. And the

Breezy Anecdote. prices by res- Two fools went to sen.in, a littlo Aeronautics are to be founded, leave, Mitchell had the windows manters push up the papers for boat to flah. They made a good tenable at Southampton от

opened wide so that he could trichis

and returned enid Dr. catch, listen to Spitfires on test, as he sale.

method," other University, and a first- class Youth Centre is to be built arranged the settling-up of his Smart Allck, "may not appear to shore.

In May & last effort be in any scholastic tradition, nor "We must go back to that spot

tomorrow in Stoke-on-Trent, where Mit affairs.

sgid the lesser · fool. was flown to Vienna for treat

sure of finding the exact placo?"

We will cut a mark on the bottom of the boat," said the. groator fool.

(Stoddart's "Life

In

Last Effort The Spitfire Mitchell Mani-

his Southampton home, orial Fund plans a two-fold

too ill to memorial. Two scholarships in which he was now

the numb

but it does at any rate prepare

to the

A tragic preident at Le Bour- chell spent his hoyhood days. 1 was made to save him life. Ho to further the cause of "But I wonder how can we be twenty persons who had embark-perpetuate the memory of the ment and came home knowing which they will shortly take their

get recently involved the death of Whatever is done, however, to

inventor of the Spitfire, Mitchell has left his reai monument In the sky.

Mad About Planes Reginald Joseph Mitchell was born in the little Staffordshire village of Talke, in 1896. The family moved to Longton, Stoko. on-Trent, and Reginald wont to an elementary school and then to Hanley High School. In the early years of the century, when some doubted whether the motor car had come to stay, the young

about! schoolboy was aerplanes," and spent every moment he could making models

оп

as bringing re- venue to the school is concerned, the system has been proved to be economically sound."

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The Foulenough Touch

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Ruskin.")

Beer-Divining

The man who released a' carrier pigeon to inform his friends that he had found hear may start a

It has been said that no news of Captain Foulonough is bud fashion. But it is more likely news. In other words, when he is that each locality will employ a not being talked about, he is up water-diviner, whose little twig to something queer on the quiet. will cavort when it comes near a The only item af nows I have public-house or inn with any beer

to sell,

←

must

say:

Dr. Rhubarb writes: Pretend to be playing one yourself. That will wake him, and when he hears vou going on In that strange fashion, he will perhaps see the absurdity of the whole affair, and you will laugh the matter; off bo- tween you.

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An Excellent Idea

boys for the kind of world in

ed upon a journey which has be

it had failed. Three weeks later they will Reginald Joseph Mitchell died. conie almost as much a matter of

A secret of the last months of Mitchell's life was revealed course as crossing the street. The shock of such disasters is no doubt

by his wife in 1944. Mitchell, intensified when they occur on so

confident in his belief that Spitfires would break the back familiar

a route, and the grief caused to friends and relatives by

of an invading air force, had already begun to think offen- fatalities at chce unexpected and

sively. Mitchell wanted a heavy sudden must always be parti-

bomber; he hoped it would be cularly profound. Nevertheless,

the most deadly weapon in the they should not lend to any im-

world. It was to have four of him that he lately received pression that air travel is relative-

engines and carry Its bomb load word that the bailiffs were about ly unsafe or is becoming more

in the wings. He lived only to to swoon on his fat. He warned Dr. Rhubarb's Corner

hla see some early drawinga.

that any baill rather than less dangerous. Such

The prototype was almost admitted and given a fros hand. My husband dreams frequently figures as those published recent-

He then turned up himself in that he is playing a trombone, and ly by B.O.A.C. (and their reas-

completed when it was destroy-

the oddest noise. If I of them. At 16, Reginald Mited in one of the German air disguise, supervised the removal makos suring character is by no means confined to British air lines) show chell was apprenticed to a local attacks. The project was even of his furniture, had it auctioned, take him, he is angry. What can that, on the contrary, flying has gineering firm. He served his tually abandoned as the dainy and was away in the country with do?

time both at the bench and in

meant it would have been out a fat cheque by the time the real attained a very high level

of the drawing office; after work

of date by the time if could bailiffs appeared.

* safety. This particular Corpora-ho studied engineering at even- bo put into production.

Rats tion during the year ended Marching classes. His brillianco was

But for this dianater, four-

"Surely," saya a letter 31 last carried 143.950 passengers easily distinguishable and before engined bomber attacks

to 800,000,000 miles without loss or long he became an instructor at Germany could have been made morning paper, "this is bureau- Mitchell cracy gone mad. The writer was injury due to aircraft accidents.& technical collage.

much earlier, Mrs. As the new post-war planes come

The first World War gave died, laat January and the de- referring to rat-catching figures Mitchell his opportunity. In signer's son is now a flying supplica by the Ministry of Food,

ut of 298 people employed," from the factories embodying the

he, "ony 104 are actually engaged I read that hotel proprietors aro latest safety devices, and with the 1916 be obtained an appoint- oficer in the R.A.F.

ment with the Supermarine Shining Example

in catching rats,"

now thinking of asking guests to development of adequate ground Aviation Works at Southampton. Reginald Mitchell's life and The writer should visit the con- bring their own bed linen. services and the use of radar, we After three years, when only ancrifice provide

of the

I Rat-catching

see a weary figure at the re- A shiningtrol room may expect the risks attendant on

25, he became chief engineer

pillow-cases, bolaters, and designor. It was then he, example to youth, and it is At- Department, where 104 people aft ception desk. almost smothered in ting that youth should be ver- at a large horseshoe, table, curleiderdowns, towels, soap, nud bath- began to conceive the planes ved by a memorial to the in-ordinating the latest information.

elde mats. that gave Britain the lead in ventor. Over 470,000 has al- ed into rat-areas, and as the news Ho Alling up a form, the air. In 1920 he was given ready been raised towards the of a capture comes in they stick guaranteeing that among his lug the job of making a seaplane total cost of $250,000.- that would win the Schneider

The present plans for the coloured flags to the map, while ezge is a bed, a carpet, two light

a man at

blackboard chalks up bulbs, a wash-basin, a wardrobe, Trophy for `Britain.

a chair, a blind (with cord), Youth Centre vizualise a thea figures.

Each rat-officer wears a amail doorhandle, and whatever else the LISBON NEWSMEN

tre, cinema and gymnasium and rooms for art and music. A silver shiold in his buttonhole, on botel is unable to supply.

In return he will be allowed the .IN ENGLAND

devotional room will provide for graved with whiskers, "One Big

on payment the spiritual side and there will Brown comered in potting shed use of the hotel stairs,

advancel of a deposit of The fixed idea of the aircraft be a room for dressmaking and half mile nor-or-west of St. (in London, Bept. 16.

world at that time was a biplane workshops for carpentry and Neots. Two Small Greys Avo guiness, to cover wear and

cellar Invited by the British Govern. The Air Ministry, not willing engineering If over Britain ovington Work

"Bring your own room and save. ment, a delegation of Portuguese to back such unorthodox azperi- needed a spirit of unselfish sor Small Grey found dead in faid 800 booking fee. Journalists arrived at Northolt menta, merely held a watching | vice it is now. The sacrifices of yarde enst by west of Tunbridge airport, London, this svoning and brief. Mitchell bullt a plane that war are a clarion call to Walls Opera House.", were received by high officials of was sceptically described as a Britain's youth. The need to-

A prodigious amount of read- the Foreign Office. The party will toy. Nothing so slender could fly, day is for higher idoals. The Solence Marches Oning lately leaves me with the im remain in Britain three weeks and said the cynice, There was not Youth Centre in Mitchell's

Dr. Strabismus (When God pression that those who regard the an loch of "fat" anyword: astive city will be kept clear of Preserve) of Utrecht by xanhen uranium bonitas There were no petrol tanka in politica twitter

a rocket-uropelled abio whilak wind ranges Mitchell had tre who knows product code dhe principle the pain stored in that putant one makined toy rank with 1000 h.. bemalole The in firsty, modelsiorámody, man who lipired 12) among the 1 türbine marina arginda. strengthening the arguminis great names in British history | knows how the

flying to be even more reduced. Absolute safety can always be striven for but never guaranteed in any form of transport, road, | rail, air or ship.,

Will Wills Industrial instinctions and other points of throughout these country, he

Evar hended by Dr. Tatar

Patio de Che Portuguese Enform

He began with a plan that shook experts. He decided to

make a monoplane.

Fixed Idea

the ordiuity use to dobrosse The Mitchell Memorial Cen-

co- cheats,

them is huge map, divid-

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Frustration.

DTOTTOM", are saying to themi- Engawhatever, and we to do

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