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CORONATION

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Ventilation

Equipment By

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DARTMOOR DENIAL

How Violent Prisoner Was Injured

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Sir Bamuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, recently sent a letter to Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., who had two questions on the Order Paper deal ing with prison affairs, but who was unable to be in the House to put them.

FISHERMAN LOST FOR 52 DAYS

Picked Up Alive

Given up as lost after being missing for 52 days, a Japaness Asherman "from Honolulu picked up in mid-Pacific recently. was

He is Oshiro Adachi, 60, who left here on May 25 in his sampan, the Hino Maru. When he failed to re- turn after more than a month, funeral services for him were held. The Manila-bound Malayan

Although the conches of the new high-speed streamline Coronation train of the LM.S. have been bullt at Wolverton, it is interesting to note that a well-known local firm, Thermotank, Ltd, of Govan, One asked whether "The system have been responsible for the air-called 'knock, whereby prisoners Prince, however, alghted Adachi át conditioning equipment Atted to undergoing punishment are awak-a point 500 miles west of Midway this train.

ened at short intervals through-Island. He was found weak from out the night, is or has been re-exposure, and privation, but will cently in operation at Dartmoor," live, according to radio messages and the other related to a prisoner from the ship. He will be taken who was certified insane, and ask-to Manila and then sent back to ed whether his arm became crip- Honolulu, pled as a result of an attack on him by a prison officer at Dart-

The system of air-conditioning 13 on the Thermo-reg principle developed by Thermotank, Ltd.. and now atted to many large passenger linerà, including the French Liner Normandle and the Cunard White Star liner Quem Mary,

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Two independent units are ar- ranged in each coach: silent-run- ning centrifugal fans in each unit. drawing outside air over viscous surface filters, this air after filtra- tion being delivered direct to the main duct in the case of the cold air unit, and through a multitube heater fed with steara from the main heating system of the train in the case of the tempered a

moor.

Sir Samuel states: "My answers are a complete denial of the state- ments and Implications in your questions.

"As regards the first, I should be much obliged if you would respond to my suggestion that you should make known the source of

this story.

"As regards your other question. reported for using violent and on April 1; 1938, the convict was

threatening language to a prison

High Flyers Must Carry Oxygen Air Ministry's New Regulation

The Air Ministry recently issued ground engineers intimating that a notice to aircraft owners and

in the near future oxygen will have to be provided for aircraft used "Pending investigation of the for public transport work which charge, he was removed to a separ-have to fy at a high altitude. atë hall in the prison, and while he was being searched there he broke away, kicked one of the officers in the stomach, snatched his stave from his pocket, and climbed up the girders supporting the roof.

unit.

Both warm and cool air are car-mcer. Tied through the main ducts sit- uated outside on the carriage roofs. Branch ducts are led' inside the coach

to Thermo-reg" punkah louvres, situated above the win- dows in the vestibule cars, and the corridor doors in the corridor cars. These louvres can be adjusted by the passenger to give any desired temperature and the direction of the air stream can be controlled to avoid draughts or inconvenience 50 that adequate ventilation is secured without the discomfort usually associated with ventilation in railway carriages.

CONTROL PANEL

A control panel in each coach enables the train staff to regulate the speed and temperature of the air being supplied to the compart- ments, the control permitting a complete change of air in five.

British commercial aviation opera. The general view expressed by

tors when a reporter asked them about

the proposed regulation

in operation for the advent of sub- was that it was a safeguard to be

stratosphere commercial fights.

"He then smashed the ginas ini

One expert said "Occasionally several roof lights from the in- side, and when one of the officers dodge really dirty weather.

a machine goes up to 15,000ft. to It is climbed on the outside of the roof

tare för auch & helght to be the convict tried to strike him with touched in Britain; and so far as the stave, through a hole in he services in this country are con- glass, It was in doing this that he cerned the new regulation is pure- cut his arm on the broken edgely a matter of safeguarding ‘pas- of the glass which he himself had smashed,"

sengers and crew when sub- stratosphere. flying arrives. MR. PRITT REPLIES

"The regulation suggests that Mr. Pritt, replied to the letter high-altitude commercial flying is which Bir Samuel Hoare. Home envisaged by the Air Ministry. Secretary, sent him asking for. the Some of the Empire liners may be Pritt had on the Order Paper con- source of a question which Mr.affected:"

four, or three minutes, as required to suit the varying climatic concerning treatment of prisoners at

ditions.

Dartmoor.

Although many sleeping cars Mr. Pritt wrote that there was no and special saloms are already equipped with, such air-condition-mystery about it. It was published a. week ago in a newspaper, and ing plants, this is the first main he assumed that the Home Depart line passenger traim to be equipment would by now have read it. ped throughout with this system, and it will no doubt create a stan- dard for future railway work of this class.

SIGNALMAN

"WHO DECEIVED

HIMSELF

"It is obvious that the onus must

le with relillet signalman F. G.

After further observations, Mr. Pritt concluded: "I do not think that I ought to express any viewa until I have completed my in- vestigations."

MAN WHO WAS SHOT IN DARTMOOR MUTINY

Sent To Prison Again

Childs. It was not a case of fal-

A man who was stated to have lure of interlocking or mechanism, been shot in the Dartmoor mutiny, but of break-down of block work-William Henry Mitchell, aged 30, ing by his incorrect manipulation was sentenced to a month's im- of the signalling equipment.”

This is the main conclusion reached by Keut-Col. A H. 1 Mount, the Ministry of Transport's Chief Inspecting Officer of Rail ways, in his report on the Batter. sea Park (Southern Railway) train smash on April 2, when nine pas- sengers and a guard were killed.

Colonel Mount makes various re- commendations for increased safe. Kuards.

prisonment at Hertfordshire Quar- ter Sessions for housebreaking at Stony Stratford,

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Dr. Grierson, senior medical oficer at Brixton Prison, said that Mitchell was injured in the head during the mutiny at Dartmoor. He Was informed that Mitchell climbed on a prison building and received a gunshot wound. Не was still suffering from, paralysis in a leg and arms; and his speech was affected.

"One obvious ineans of prevent- ing a recurrence," he said "is to apply padlocks in place of the seals, and this was immediately able in future to open the in adopted by the company. No one strumente, and the instructions except the skilled lineman wife have been withdrawn."

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