1935-12-19 — Page 17

When Two Brothers

Made History In North Carolina

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1935.

STORM WRECKS FIRST AEROPLANE FLIGHT

FERRY SHIP IN SEATTLE

Took Place 32

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Wreckage of the Alki Point ferry landing at Seattle, after it had been buffeted by powerful waves in a storm on Puget Sound. The forry landing in West Seattle is one of the main terminals for passenger and nutomobilo traffle on the sound.

SCARVES OR FUR COLLARS?

DOCTORS DIVIDED ON HEALTH POINT FUR collars or woollen scarves?

Medical opinion at Home is divided on the point of hygiene. Women are unanimous-on the point of fashion. They have gone "scarf noad."

Harley Street throat specialist says: "Wool is much hygienic than fur at the neck."

more

He views with "the utmost ap- proval" the present tendency to Danish fur from the neck and put it on coat shouldors, pockets, backs and aktris

There you got the aesthetic effect and the flattering qualities of fur without hindrance to air clrculation," he said.

The muff is an "ideal method" of wearing fur he added, because, "If the hands are warm half the battle against the chill is won."

WOMAN DOCTOR DISAGREES

GEOLOCIST WAS PUZZLED KNEW AGE OF ROCKS BUT| NOT OF BABY

Geologists now making a com- prehensive aerial, geological and geographical survey of Northern Australia met at Darwin.

At dinner they were learnedly discussing the rocks and strata of the district and their age in terms of millions of years, says Austral New

WAA

The Queensland Minister for Mines, Mr. Stopford, who present interrupted a well known goologist with the question: “By the now how old

your baby

The selenilst thought hard. "Hanged if I know," he admitted. "I must disk my wife.”

Austrian Resi And Her 86th Lover

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By CLAUDE GRAHAM-WHITE

The first British airman to obtain on official certificate of proficiency as an airplane pilot, and Paulhan's rival in the great London-Manchester air race of 1910.

It was on December 17, 1903, that Orville Wright, flying in a small 12 h.p. biplane, made the first brief, fully-controlled voy- age through the air in a man-carrying, engine-driven, heavier-than-air machine. Invitations to witness their motor-driven airplane had been issued by Orville and his brother Wilbur to most of the residents in the neighbourhood-of the Kill- Devil sandhills, North Carolina, where they were making their carly trials.

But when December 17 came it was cold and windy, and-people in the locality not realising the significance of what was about to take place-only five spectators turned up to see one of the most remarkable accomplish- ments in the world's history.

MADE AIR HISTORY

The machine being placed on itąj

starting rail, Orville Look his pinc DOCTOR

In it. The engine was started. The propellers revolved.

Gliding forward, the airpline left Its rail and made a short straight| fight of twelve seconds before sink- Ing gently back to earth.

Thus was aerial history made

The speed of that first Wright| airplane was about 36 milca an hour. To-day the world's speed record stands at 423 miles an hour.

The distance covered in the world's first flight was only a few

after land-

Vice-Admiral Koshiro Dikawa, the newly- appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Fleet of the Japanese Imperial Shanghal last week. Immediately arrived in ing at the Wayside Whari, vice-Admiral Oikawa proceeded to his flagship Izumo and took over the post formally from Vice-Admiral G. Hyaku- take, who has left for his post of Comman der-in-Chief of the Sasebo naval base.

DOCTOR SAYS HE KILLED

"IN MERCY"

"Gave Patient Morphine and My

Conscience Never Bothered Me"

Bridgeport (Conn.), Dec.

A doctor who admitted that he had mercifully ended

hundred feet. To-day an airplane the life of an incurable patient entered the controversy has flown nearly 6,000 miles over the "woman who prayed for death" to-day. without alighting.

The firal airman ascended only

a few feet above the ground. To-

He is Dr. M. A. Warriner of Bridgeport, Connecticut,

day the world's airplane height aged 79, He revealed that 48 years ago he killed an in- record stands at approximately curable patient, and 'added: "My conscience never bother- 45,000 feet.

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It was six years after the first ed me." flight by Orville Wright that we reached another fandmark in the air-the first airplane flight above the Channel from France to Eng- land by M. Louis Bleriot.

He Hid From

Bleriot had burned his foot with Shark On

petrol a few days before, and had

to use a crutch to hobble from his Sea Bed

car to the airplane,

"But if I can't walk,” he said, "I'll. show them I can fly."

minutos And thirty-seven after he had passed seaward | from the French coast bis littleį

ing down near Dover Castle,

Innisfail, (Q'l'a.),

Dr. Warriner said that the ro- Intives nuthorised him to do "what he thought right.”

RAVING MOOD

"I gave the patient an extra dose of morphine," he added.

"The man, who had been in a maniacal raving, mood, lapsed into a coma and died. I would do the same to-day in the sume circum- stances." "Dec. 10.

The controversy over

"mercy

SHE KEPT A DIARY--AND KILLED HIM

Vienna, Dec. 10. A rosy-checked, red-blonde- haired, country girl, Tagreain This specialist belongs to the Moslinger, whose trial on school which belleves that the charge of strangling her 86th

25 h.p, monoplane came glid ATTACKED and badly killing was aroused to high way to prevent colds and their at-lover-she is only 26-has over- tendant effects is to leave the body crowded the court at Stoyr, Up-

turning another page in the injured by a large pitch by the recent plea of Misa -in-free-contact-with-nir-bywear-per-Austria, for-three days, has

history of man's conquest of shark off Innisfail yes-ing from terrible, injuries recelyed been sentenced to eight years'

in a motor accident in 1933. She penal servitude.

The "Beautiful, Resi" was ac-monoplane that I made

It was in an early type of Bleriot terday, James Messot, wrote to the Medical Association in Buffalo (New York), saying, "In quitted of murder but found

20, a native Thursday the name of mercy I ask you to guilty of attempted murder and it twenty-four years

November 1909.

Islander, said that he appoint a doctor to take my life." In those days one had no expert

saved his life by allow-had aroused enormous interest, and stem of tuition.

ing porous materials.

A West End woman doctor, on the other hand, reports a higher percentage of colds among her patients, and attributes this to

the wearing of scarves.

"The, fur collar is always worn in the same. position and tends to conserve the natural body warmth and prevent chills," she said.

manslaughter.

Real lived at is farm a little way out of Steyr, where her lovers visited her secretly unknown to

the air.

my first ago. in

I got that machine out of its

Ann Becker, aged 34, who la suffer-

Her plea was refused. Her case

during the controversy the case of

The scarf was changed, often the farm owner, aged 75, and his shed. I had a 60 hp. motor, and ing himself to sink to the Mr. and Mrs. Stern, the London

from the heavy velvet cravat to the diaphanous whiff of chiffon." "Such sudden changes," she added, "were a

predisposing cause' serious illnesses like pneumonla and pleurisy."

of

Bui, while doctors disagree. fashion experts are unanimously happy; the wool trade and furriers report that the demand for fur is

heavier than ever.

"It requires three to four times as many skins to 'decorate a coat as It does to make only a collar," a whole sale furrler stated.

Girl Victim

valet.

was designed fly at what was

This rural Messalina kept a

of sixty miles an hour. I started diary in which all her lovers

up the engine. were recorded. When she

then considered the very high speed Coral on the sea bed, couple who were participants in a

tired of one she discarded him

for ever.

When sentence was pronounced, Resi collapsed and became un- conscious, though she had main- tained extraordinary self-posses-

sion throughout the trini.

Her dad lover's skeleton was found buried in the farmyard. Hin head had been cut off and buried in an oven.

of White Slavers

FRESH DISCLOSURES OF THE METHODS ADOPTED BY WHITE SLAVE TRAFFICKERS OPERATING IN BRITAIN ARE NOW MADE BY MR. FRANCIS K. PEASE, THE EXPLORER AND WRITER.

In his book "To the Ends of the Earth," Mr. Pease relates a tragic instance which he personally encountered during his world-wide travels.

was

In Rio de Janeiro he spoken to by a 24-year-old | Rochdale girl, on the point of starvation, who revealed to him how she had been trapped into leaving her home in Lancashire. Soon after she had left home to take a post in London she met a well-dressed, good-looking young man who came to stay at the hotel where she was cm- ployed. After a brief courtship he asked her to marry him and she accepted.

from him, bearing the Rio de Janeiro postmark, and signed with the pet name known only

to her, and asking her to join

hira.

where the shark could

Then I began taxi-ing to and fro, just to accustom myself to the con: not find him.

trols.

and vibration седней.

make a safe landing at such, a pace was no enay task for a complete novice.

FAMOUS RACE

virtual death pact after the hus- band had contracted tuberculosis, was cited.

..

of

Prominent doctors throughout The shark ultimately gave up America opposed any form After twenty minutes of such further search, said Messot, and cuthanasia for the incurable, and preliminary taxi-ing on the ground he came to the surface and swam the controversy over the "right to

moved the elevator slightly.

mission of Dr. Warriner. Whereupon all sensation of jolting towards the sailing lugger to kill" will be intensified by this nd-

which he belonged.

Miss Becker's case was pathetic. I was in the air!

He was rescued by his ship-She had been awarded £1,200 after Soon 1 reached a height of about mates, and the vessel then made the accident, but the insurance thirty feet, which appeared to me for the shore, but the absence of company went into liquidation and tremendous.

wind caused the journey from the received nothing. My speed through the air was the Barrier Reef to Mourilyan "I am constantly in pain and about fifty miles an hour, and to Harbour to occupy 18 hours. have nothing to live for," she "A doctor could kill me Messot displayed remarkable wrote. fortitude and was met at Mouril with less pain than I endure in a single hour. I am not only in yan this morning by the Innisfail agony myself, but I am a burden It was not many months after-Ambulance.

to my friends." wards that Paulhan and I wore

"I have no money to pay bills and engagal in our famous race to be, Mersot received six lacerated can never bo sure where my next first to fly from London to Man-and punctured wounds on the meal will come cheater.

chest, two large lacerated wounds Press, Paulhan won.

on the left arm, severing the During that London-Manchester muscles, three large lucerated and contest I made the world's first air-punctured

wounds

left on the plane flight by night.

shoulder, fractured loft shoulder- Ascending from a small field in blade and severed muscles, and complete darkness, I had to judge about 30 lacerations and puncturea my take-off by the lamps of bicycles on the left side of the back and and the headlights of cars,

left shoulder. He also suffered! Once aloft I caught sight of the considerably from shock, lights of a railway station just be

low. Then my motor begun to mis-

MANY WOUNDS

from."——United

MESSAGE ON A GRAIN OF RICE

A unique tribute has just been paid to the Premier of Now South Wales, Mr. B. S. E.

fire, and for a moment or so was future; and it is in this connection Stevens, by the Muscum Darul- afraid it would stop altogether. that importance attaches to experi-falah, New Delhi. The staff Fortunately for me, though, it soon ments with a view to regular dying there have sent him a grain of began firing regularly again, and I at very high altitudes where rice on which, according to managed to grope my way through granted that craft are equipped Austral News, is inscribed in

specially for the purpose--they can black and red: guaty wind, reach speeds impossible in the dea- which grew rapidly in strength, ser lower air.

Already, in fact, flights are pre- forced me to descend, and Paulhan dicted through the upper air at succeeded in reaching Manchester 1,000 or 1.200 miles an hour. and securing the £10,000 prize.

And with the perfection of long-

the air until dawn. man and Then, however, a

to marry him in South America.

At last she agreed to travel out

At Rio she was met, not by her sweetheart, but by a woman, who informed her that "Jimsey" had been temporarily called up-country.

That night she was drugged.. Next day the whole painful truth Then the husband-to-be an-became pliin to her. She had be nounced that he had been re-come the white slave trafficker's

latest victim. called to South America on urgent business.

Now, even if she had the fare, she confessed, she could not face After some weeks long and the prospect of returning to her loving letters began' to arrive Lancashire home.

"May Almighty God grant long, happy and prosperous life to B.S.B. Stevens, Esquire, M.LA., Premier and Colonial Treasurer. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia." The historical split pea of grain,

WHAT OF THE FUTURET range, high-altitude flying ma-bearing a verse of the Koran. The conquest of the air has chines, it will be possible for us not which was prosented to the Em- taken its toll in human life, but the only to annihilate distance with peror Akbar the Great, bears only price has been worth paying. words, ind even with scenes trans-17 Arabic characters. Mr. Stevens's The speed of air transport to-day mitted by television, but to travel grain of rice bears 120 English is comparatively slow compared ourselves at such a pace that oceans characters which are perfectly with what we may see in the will be crossed in hours,

legible under a magnifying glass.

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