ON WORLD -FLIGHT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1985.
Air Aces On Round-The-World Jaunt
Harold Farquahar (Left), British aviator, and Fritz Bieler, German war-time aco, pictured just before they took off on their projected leisurely round-the-world flight. The men are flying ju a Beechcraft biplane, and are dus in Hongkong this week.
SCIENCE UNLOCKS
DOOR TO SECRET INDIVIDUALITY
OF
MICROSCOPE REVEALS NEW
WONDERS OF NATURE
SCIENCE
San Francisco, Sept. 15.
Due Here This Week
CIENCE poised its microscopes and its test tubes over a discovery unlocking one of the secrets controlling human, animal and plant growth as the American Chemical Society met here in annual session to discuss and reveal
new w
aders."
brotheny
overnacht tumours?
do
es one child grow larger than his do some plants spring up almost What causes other's mature slowly?
Why
PLEASURE FLIGHT IN LUXURIOUS AEROPLANE
British Diplomat German
Ex-war
Paves Way For Ace As Pilot On Modern Tours Long Trip
THE first persons to ever engage.in a round-the-world
· pleasure jaunt by air are scheduled to arrive at Kai Tak aerodrome to-morrow.
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They are Fritz Bieler, former German war ace and now a naturulized Mexican citizen, and Howard L. Farquahar, Sceretary of the British Legation in Mexico City.
The two adventurers have completed the first and most hazardous portion of their jaunt by success- fully flying to Shanghai from Mexico City, via the United States, Alaska, Anadir (Siberia), Manchukuo and Peiping.
EFORE leaving Seattle for
BER
A STICK
the coastal flight to Alaska MAN SLAYS TIGER WITH and trans-ocean flight to Siberia, the pontoons were fitted to machine. These will be 10- moved in Hongkong for the overland flight to Europe.
The fliers are not adhering to a set itinerary, but are flying by fits and starts, remaining in cities or outlandish centres when they feel in the mood for stretching their legs.
They will probably remain in Hongkong for three or four days before continuing their flight to
Calcutta, Sept. 12. Pitting himself against a tiger which had already struck down
and mauled his two sons, a 55 year-old father in a village of Assam, slew the beast with Istick.
The tiger sprang on the two sona as they were returning al sundown to their village, Kannlubhasa, after a day's work. They were severely mauled.
Hearing their cries, Laduram;!
Sium. They may, in fact, travel the father, seized the only weapon
to Manila by way of a detour.
They have made no definite plans for the future other than that they will fly around the world,
From Bangkok they will fly by easy stages to India, hunting, shooting and fishing on the way. The itinerary calls for subsequent Blights to Persia, Egypt and finally Europe.
"We do not know what European country we will visit first," Bicler said, in outlining plans for the Right just before he left Seattle.
That will depend on personal choice and other conditions, such as our clearance in and out of various countries."
The last leg of the round-the- world flight depends upon Far-! quahar, who may have to terminate the fight in Europe to return, to
his official duties.
handy, a thick stick, and rushed to the rescue.
Closing with the tiger, the father, though suffering severely from the tiger's attacks, succeeded] in killing it.
LINDBERGH BABY DOUBLE
resem-
Six-year-old boy's blance to kidnapped Lind. bergh child is responsible for claim that the baby still lives. This was urged at the appeal by counsel for Bruno Hauptmann, condemned. to death for the murder. It is said, however, that the boy is of Irish parent-. age, and was taken from an orphanage by a Flushing, New York, family.
Pawnshop Where Dickens Sat Closes
FAMOUS LIMEHOUSE LANDMARK ENDS ITS CAREER
ONE of the most famous pawnshops in the world has just closed down.
In every port of the seas, where the little ships put in, Villagers later found both father they knew "George's Pawn- and sons lying beside the dead shop," the sailors pawnshop tiger.Reuter.
down in Limehouse.
Summer Time
Ends In U.S.
AND 3,000 YEARS WERE GAINED
New York, Sept. 29.. The hour lost by approximately 30,000,000 inhabitants of the United States on April 28, when Daylight
Sextants that peered at the
South Seas sun, chronometers
that ticked the time round the
Cape, sea-chests from the Paci
fie, knives, that had slashed through rough-and-tumbles in dark holds on the Chinese rivers, all these passed over the counter of George's pawnshop in Limehouse.
It was proud of its reputa- tion, and a plaster plaque on its walls states quite frankly, "The all over the world. Est. 1810."
In keeping with the plans of fliers, the Beechcraft plane they are using has every convenience Saving went into effect, was return-Old Nautical House. Known and luxury for their comforted this morning as Standard Time The interior of the plane is was resumed. painted a deep blue with grey
Most persons in this metro trimmings, and is upholstered in blue velour.
politan area set their time pieces The seats are of red leather. back before retiring last night, The backs of the pilots' seats may happy in the thought of an extra be turned down, extending to the hour rest. Those that forgot about rear seats and providing a com-lit found themselves an hour early
for whatever they planned. Dual Control
.
Part of the answer to the questions which fortable couch.
It was estimated that if each of have fascinated patient seekers in a thousand
Every instrument known
to the 30,000,000 persons that were laboratories and stimulated scores of experi- modern aviation has been installed affected slept one hour extra an
The dual control ship has great years sleep was gained last night. ments may be contained in the isolation by Dr.in the board in front of the fliers, approximation of more than 3,000 Although most transportation visibility through the employment Rogers Williams of Oregon State College of a minute quantity of Pantêthonic acid.
chemist explained,
of large windowa overhead and on systema operated on Standard Time the sides. Conventional motor car during the Daylight Saving period handles, raise and lower the side they will find it necessary to adjust changing rush hours of commuters. glass panels, insuring adequate their schedule in order to meet the
-United Press. fresh air in the cabin.
The brakes are manipulated by a
WORLD'S BIGGEST
MATCH-MAKER
From several hundred pounds | the alfalfa and in turn produce pan- of liver Dr. Williams, with tothenic acid which stimulates the painstaking skill. succeeded in growth of alfalfa seedling." the band lever to the side of the control obtaining as amount of acid
stick. The biplane is equipped with equivalent to the trimmings of "The universal significance of heater and two compasses. In a thumb nail or to the weight pantothenic acid is indicated by flight, its wheels are retracted into of less than half a drop of water, the fact that the livers of hoge, the fuselage by a hand lever on the eattle, sheep, dogs, rats, chickens left wall, greatly increasing the He took an Infinitesimal trace and human beings all contain the speed of the ship.
The Beechcraft is the latest IF and applied it to young, alfalfa safe amount," he said, "Panto- seedlings. So strongly did it theule neid has been found in every model to come from the shops of stimulate their growth that the re- tissue In the body. The liver. Walter Beech, veteran Wichita, sults were visible within a day or where it is present in combined Kansas, designer. It has a four to two after sprouting.
YOU WANT A WIFE, WRITE TO PARIS
"It was a wrench to give the place up; confessed Mr. MR.- George, the last of the family that has held the business for half a century. "But the old Limehouse has gone now. The ships dock lower down the river, the Chinese get paid off in Cardiff, there are no more fantan saloons and opium dens, the business got less and less, so there was nothing for It, I had to shut down."
Where Dickens Sat
"But it's A landmark gone. Look at this chair. I'm keeping that. Charles Dickens sut in that chair for four days.
"He wrote an article attack- ing pawnbrokers in 'Household Words,' no my uncle' invited him to come down and see the business for himself, and after ho had spent four days taking notes, he went back and wrote another article, admitting he had been wrong."
the sailors tried to pawn form, acts as a storehouse. Muscle one ratio of fight, making it
tissue and brain tissues are re-possible to land the ship at only
Deprived of the acid, yeast cellslatively rich sources.' not only lost their ability to grow
He explained to his fellow rapidly but also their normal power of breathing. It is prob. scientists that the peculiar quality able, he said, that the acid plays a role in the respiration of all kinds of cells.
which makes pantothenic acid In- teresting is its ability to act as a' growth regulator.
Tiny amounts have a remark- The Influences of vitamins on growth we know. Pantothenic acid ablo stimulating effect on the
is a first cousin of the more fami- growth of various types of plants
DOW
one-fourth of its cruising speed.
Farquahar's ship, equipped with a 420 horsepower Wright motor, cruises at 202 miles
an
hour at 9,000 feet. It can land at 50 miles per hour
London, Aug. 23. THE thousandth wedding has just been celebrated by France's giant Marriage Club -the Green Border Club whose aim is to marry as many young couples as possible per
year..
"In the old days, when Lime- house really was Limehouse, the shop did a roaring trade. A lot of thoir parrots, but we never took them in. Inconvenient things, parrots.
"There
was oue old Chinese, though, who regularly pawned his tortoise. It was a great big tor- toise, with a beautifully polished shell, and he would come in regular- ly and pawn it, and take it out a week or so later. We always lent him half-n-crown on it.
Any young woman who cannot through the use of brakes and find a husband, or any young man wing flaps to cut down ground in search of a wife, may join the speed. With the installation of additional tion,
club for a modest yearly subscrip Each member is known by his
Guns For The Chinese liar agent and its occurrence in and single-celled animals. The gas tanks, the craft has a cruising the human body and in those of problem of how growth is con- range of 1,000 miles and climbs at or her number only, and no names
"We used to do a great deal of plants and animals is more wide-rolled in living organisms has sea level at the rate of 1,000 feet are revented until the romance is officially announced. Forms have apread than any vitamin
business with guns; too. In those long been a fascinating one, and per minute. known.
The biplane has a wing span of to be filled up with all details,days you could get a licence to from the practical standpoint the fundamental facts regarding un-12 feet, an overall length of 24 physical, moral and financial of carry a gun by simply filling in a "It appears to be fundamental to controlled
feet five inches, and is only eight each member, growth observed
form. We kept a stock of the life and particularly to growth," tumours need to be understood be- foot two inches high.
A meeting or dance is held each forms in the shop, the customer "It Is the finest ship I have flown month, where members meet to- tho Oregon chomiat said in pre- fore cancer can be solved.".
filled one in, and we sent the boy in my 20 years as a pilot," Bieler gether. senting his paper before the learn-
down to the police-station with it. Dr. Williams found no other elo-| said as he explained its mechan- ed society. It elaborated the
A bulletin la distributed giving meagre findings which had been ments than the common carbon, Ism. "It has everything that a details of the requirements of all reported, In Chicago last year.
hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen pilot needs for safety and com-wife or husband hunters, and steps in the composition of the panto- fort." -
Are taken to Introduce suitable His researches indicated that thenic acid he isolated.
Bieler, tall, slender and with couples. When two young people cell breathing cannot be maintain-
blonde moustache, is proprietor of decided that they would like to ed at a normal rato unless panti- The study, however, has not a flying service in Mexico City. He know each other botter they go to thenic acid is present. The amount gone far enough to give a complete has been flying since 1915.
the president of the society, who need not be much. A single plant picture of the entire molecule.
Farquahar, also 40 years old, allows them to see each other's needs not more than one fifty-
That will come Inter as further
has been a pilot for one and a record. They then have to sub- "Of course," he continued, "wo thousandth part of a milligram,
aro in progress to
half years. He received his mit to examination by the club did a lot of businesa in jewellery experiments The head of an ordinary straight prepare more pantothenic acid.
instructions from Bieler, who doctor, and their civil records are and curios from abrond, much of it pin weighs ten milligrams itself. Synthesis in the laboratory will
described him as a good pilot carefully compared.
Chinese gold-soft stuff, like lead, and a capable navigator. "The bacteria which attach follow. making the neid available
Then, and then only, may the without any alloy in it. American themsolves to the roots of alfalfa in unlimited quantities rather than Both men are married and live in two young people consider them-tourists used to come down and
México City.
solves free to become engaged. derivo a vitamin-like substance from in milligram lots.
buy up these curios from us.
"I remember once a whole gang of Chinese came in and bought up every gun and every round of ammunition we had in the place. A few months later the papers reported the first of those big pirate raids on the Chinese rivers.
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