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GERMAN "WIZARD'S" WONDER AEROPLANE.

PLANNED TO CROSS ATLANTIC IN 6 HOURS!

INVENTOR SETKING CAPITAL FROM »AMERICA,

SPEED OF 700 M.P.H. CLAIMED POSSIBLE.

STARS IN SCENES OF DESOLATION.

The Super Pawn-Shop.

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FAMINE RELIEF.

SELF-HELP ADVOCATED.

[United Pres5. }

The Chinese Government and people are urged to devote their serious attention to the lessons

The supply and store rooms ap pear to be the greatest pawnshop. on the Continent. Everything is to be found here from a tooth pick and hair-needle to the most elaborate and most fashionable taught by the report of the Ameri. dreasing gowns and highest grade enn Red Cross, which discouraged j jewelry. With true German effi- foreign aid to famine relief in ciency everything can be and is China, by the Chinese-owned news- found at a moment's notice.

paper the Peking Leaderė In other words, there is a slight difference as far as the pawn-shop is concerned-after all. Other innovations have been "add-

The wig

[United Press.]

Berlin. Inventing and marketing |

Out of sight.

a new sort of electric fuse-plug or

ing and trying to france the build- ing of an airplane that will cross the Atlantic in six hours is quite another matter. Heinz Gueather Perl, a 1-year-old genius of Berlin,

The

"A grim fact, unfortunate but true, should be brought home to Chias by the report of the Com- missions," says the Leader. "This for example, not less than two re, is that fundamentally the problems giments of soldiers can be equipped of this nation can only be solved with Frederician dress wigs. Thou- by the Chinese people themselves. stods of pairs of shoes for all They can depend upon no outside "walks of life" and as many hats

help. for ladies and gentlemen covering the latest and the most nacicat of styles are to be found here.

a table stove is one thing. Invented, Perl told the United Press,upply alone is so extensive, that, which will make it possible to de. velop ahnormal speed within a few minutes after the takeoff. pilot would have to be in constant touch with the earth by radio be the height at which the plane would fly would be such as to make it impossible for him to follow a set couree by sight. Peri said he is now working on a radio

has tried both and knows

cause

- Not less than

four hundred

fashionably furnished with some

learning, for another, but only de "Exactly as no perten can do the

With a half dozen patents already

the teaching, and leave the student to make his own progress, so in the i to his credit, Perl has now deve loped an airplane which he is

Westernization of China, all that the other highly industrialized morally certain can fly from Berlin

apartments could be fully and nations can do is to encourage and be patient, while the Chinese to New York within the space of device which he hopes can be used eleven thousand picers of furniture people themselves go through the to premote safe navigation of his of all styles and ages, beginning

tortuous processes of industrializa- plane. The inventer has estimated with the days of the Nibelungs and that it would cost approximately ending with the futuristic "Metro- 89,000 to build the first airplane,polis" period. But there are also while increased production would prehistoric scenes, bear and goat rugs and carpets and, for naturally bring the cost down to skins galore.

a few hour. The mechanical prin. ciples involved are appreciably dif ferent from anything heretofore attempted. So radical, in fact, is Ferl's invention that he has been having difficulty in finding 52ancial support for it in Germany. Among others the Ministry of Transporta tion, which hitherto has always looked with kindly eyes upon ideas) of this character, has turned its back upon the wizard's 'plane.

Density of Air,

the

a much more popular figure. He There is real renaissance and contended that the amall size of real baroque which the landndy furniture, but alan the motor would make it possible in the tenderloin and slum district to fly from Germany to the United furnishes her environment. To States on 310 worth of fuel.

complete equipments for large sized cafés and a few thousand square feet of artificiat lawn, LIB. also to be found in this great storage "and warehouse.

Perl is a modest, almost bashful, young man. In discussing his career Hence Perl is considering a trip and inventions with a United Press to the United States to seek the representative, he left it to his necnasary capital He has heard father to do most of the talking, that hundreds of millions of dollars and Captain Perl was not at all are being poured into aeronautical backward. At three, he said, the Activities in America and feels that boy Heinz first gave evidence of hie inveption would offer an un- that genius which was to find fruit exampled opportunity to put some in bis invention of a duplex electric very profitable switch, a table stove and other of this money to

His father, Captain Albert electrical devices.

When playing Perl, well-known for his explora- with his "toy train he came upon tipas in the Amazon valley, is now the idea of an automatic coupler making arrangements for the trip for railway care. His family scur- zied about to see what could be

use.

to the Boited States.

craft.

Perl's theory is based on the doro with the discovery, but un knowledge that the density of air fortunately found that the principle in the stratosphere is so little that of the coupler had already been there is almost no resistance. The patented. stratosphere is above the carth'e Then when he was eleven the boy atmosphere and is found at an Perl invented a contrivance which altitude of 40,000 feet" or more by the turn of a switch replaces & Fabove the surface of the earth, blown out fuse-plug with a new With air resistance diminished to one. This was patented and was an infuitesmal minimum, a 'plane followed by a series of similar in- could travel as fast as its engine ventions. At fifteen his genius at- would permit. Noted aviation tracted the attention of the Ameri- writers have asserted that a speed can Chamber of Commerce in of more than 1,000 miles an hour Berlin and he was elected a mem could he attained. „Perl claims a ber of that organisation. It also speed of 650 to 700 miles for his brought him to the notice of many leading German ecientists and engi- His 'plane, a model of which has Beers, including Professor Albert already been completed and patent-Einstein, who has spoken highly of ed, would be no ordinary affair, his new airplane. Its body would be shaped like that Heinz Perl has neither time nor of a blimp, it would be made en thought for anything but mechanics, tirely of duraluminum and it would He is ao inveterate reader of be so constructed is to enable it magazines and has absorbed the to make a direct ascent at a 45 contents of hundreds of books on degree angle instead of a spiral these subjects. He rarely goes to ascent such as now is necessary in the theatre and only to the movies gaining altitude. The magic motor whenever a film depicting some new would be hermetically sealed within mechanical angle is being shown. the body, a special device would ; Csually his only diversion in horse- keep the pressure inside the cabin Sack riding in the neighbourhood at or near the point obtaining on of Potsdam, where his family lived the surface of the earth, and this before the inflation of n ̈few" years device would, suck air, in over theago swept away the family fortune, exhaust pipes and thus maintain an Otherwise he goes sailing on Pote cven temperature inside the cabin. į Jam lake or où Wannser.

DIMMED HEADLIGHTS

"ERROR."

DOUBLE MOTOR FATALITY,

JURY AND LIGHTING OF ROAD.

Complaints about the lighting of the road were made at an inquest at Leytonstone recently on Miss Esther Eliza Burton (70),and Mrs. Helena Etty Hult (39). :

The two women were knocked down by a motor-car' as they were crossing Aldersbrook Road, Wan- stead. The elder woman was killed instantly and Mrs. Hunt died in Whipps Cross Hospital, a few hours later.

Norman Alee Carpenter, school master, said that he saw the two women walk to the middle of the road and hesitate. He noticed the car approaching and shouted to them. They then made a sort of shuffling run towards the further kerb but the car, which was travel- ling on its proper side, struck

them,

·

in time. He would not have at- tempted to cross himself."

Reginald Burgess, the driver of the car, said that two figures seem- ed to come out of the inky black- ness as if they had dropped from the clouds. The light was defective and they seemed not more than six or eight feet in front of hima. He applied his brake, but they were too close and he could not avoid them. He had turned his head- lights"down "just before in passing

bus.

A resident of Aldersbrook Road naked to he allowed to give evid ence. He said that they had, fre quently complained about the light" ing, which was a "terrific danger" to residents and their children. He asked the Coroner to use his in- fience to get the authorities to light the road better,

that it seemed to him that in such Dr. Ambrose, the Coroner, said dark place the driver should have put on his headlights. Failing t do so, he did not see the women until he was too close to avoid the accident. He thought that a per son who collapsed after an accident was not a very desirable person to be driving a motor-cer,

The jury returned a verdict of recidental death,, expressing the opinion that the driver committed Mr. Carpenter said that the dri- an error of judgment in not put- ver of the car got out immediately, ting on his headlights. They að. exclaimed. "Oh, my God," and ded a rider to their verdict asking then collapsed. He was convinced that the attention of the authori that the women saw the car and ties should be drawn to the state thought that they could get across of the lighting of the road.

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Then there is the "museum" containing all the fancy dresses ever appeared in Ula-pictures. By and uniforms of all the stars who

the way, there are also some five thousand other costumes and tni forms for extras.

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