1935-12-19 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER

STORM WRECKS FIRST AEROPLANE FLIGHT Took Place 32 Years Ago This Week

FERRY SHIP IN SEATTLE

Wreckage of the Alki Point ferry Innding' at Seattle, after it. had been bulleted by powerful waves in a storm on Puget Sound. The ferry landing in West Seattle is one of the main terminals for passenger and automobile truffle 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 mad."

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

He views with "the utmost ap- proval" the present tendency to

GEOLOGIST 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 News,

The Queensland Minister for Mines, Mr. Stopford, who wWAS present interrupted a well known goologist with the question: "By the

way, how old in your baby now?

The scientist thought hard. "Hanged if I know," he admitted. "I must ask my wife."

Austrian Resi

Her

bauish fur from the neck and put And

It on coat shoulders, pockets, backs

and skirts.

"There you get the aesthetic 86th Lover

effect and the fattoring qualities

of fur without hindrance to air SHE KEPT A DIARY----AND circulation," he said.

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

KILLED HIM

When Two Brothers Made History In North Carolina

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 early 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 its Starting rail, Orville took his place! In it. The engine was started. The propellers revolved.

Gilding forward, the airplane 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 35 müce 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.

19,

1935.

JAPANESE C. IN C. ARRIVES IN S'HAI

Vice-Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, the newly- appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Fleet of the Japanese Imperial Navy, arrived in Shanghal fast week. Immediately after land- ing at the Wayside Whari, vice-Admiral Oikawa proceeded to his flagship Izumo and took over the post formally from Vico-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"

"I 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 first 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-

46,000 ject.

It was six years after the first ed me." flight by Orville Wright that we reached another landmark 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

potrol a few days before, and hadi to use a crutch to hobble from his car to the airplane.

"But if I can't walk," he said,

show them I can fly."

Vienna, Dec. 10. A rosy-checked, red-blonde-"I'll haired country girl, Tagresia

WOMAN DOCTOR DISAGREES Moslinger, whose trial on & This specialist belongs to the school which believes that the charge of strangling her 86th way to prevent cold and their at-lover-she is only 26-has over- tendant effects is to leave the boily crowded the court at Steyr, Up in free contact with air by wear- per Austria, for three days, has ing porous materials,

been sentenced to eight years' penal servitude.

A West End woman doctor, on the other hand, reports a higher percentage of colds among hori 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.

The "Beautiful Res!" was the

murder but found guilty of attempted murder and

quitted of

manslaughter.

And

thirty-seven minutes after he had passed seaward from the French coast his littlo |

Sea Bed

Innisfail, (Q'l'd.),

Dec. 10.

25 hp. monoplane came glid- ATTACKED and badly

ing down near Dover Castle, turning another"page"in the

Dr. Warriner said that the re- Iatives authorised 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 same circum- stances."

The controversy over "mercy was aroused to a high pitch by the recent plea of Miss

injured-by-a-large Ann Becker, aged 34, who is suffer

history of man's conquest of shark off Innisfail yes-ing from terrible injurica received

Her plea was refused. Her caso

the air.

in a motor accident in 1933. She

monoplane that I made my first

It was in an early type of Bleriot terday, James Messot, wrote to the Medical Association in Buffalo (New York), saying, "In fight twenty-four years ago, in 20, a native Thursday the name of mercy I ask to November 1909, system of tuition.

In those days one had no expert Islander, said that he appoint a doctor to take my life." I got that maching out of its saved his life by allow-had aroused enormous interest, and Mr. and Mrs. Stern, the London site. It had a 60 h.p. motor, and ing himself to sink to the during the controversy the case of This rural Messalina kept of sixty miles an hour. I started

then considered the very high speed Coral on the sea bed,couple who were participants in a virtual death pact after the hus diary in which all her lovers up the engine.

where the shark could band had contracted tuberculosis, were recorded.

Then I begun taxi-ing to and frò, tired of one she discarded him just to accustom myself to the con- not find him.

-trols.

Resi lived at a form a little way her lovers out of Steyr, where visited her secretly unknown to

valet.

The scarf was changed, often the farm owner, aged 76, and his

from the heavy velvet cravat to the "diaphanous whiff of chiffon." "Such sudden changes," she added, "were s predisposing cause serious illnesses like pneumonia and plourisy,"

of

But, while doctors disagree,

fashion experts are unanimously

heavier than ever,

"It requires three to four times as many, skina to 'decorate' a cont | as it does to make only a collar," a whole sale furrier stated.

Girl Victim

When

sion throughout the trial.

sho

Her did lover's skeleton was found buried in the farmyard. Hla 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.

was designed to fly at what was

I was in the air!

FAMOUS RACE

MANY WOUNDS

was cited.

MESSAGE ON 'A GRAIN OF RICE

Prominent doctors throughout for ever.

The shark ultimately gave up America opposed any form of When sentence was pronounced, After twenty minutes of such further search, said Messot, and euthanasia for the incurable, and Resi collapsed and became un preliminary taxi-ing on the ground he came to the surface and swam the controversy over the "right to happy; the wool trade and furrlers conscious, though she had main-moved the elevator slightly towards the sailing lugger to kill will be latensified by this nd- report that the demand for fur istained extraordinary self-posses Whereupon all sensation of jolting which he belonged.

mission of Dr. Warriner. and vibration ceased.

Misa Becker's case was pathetic. He was rescued by his ship She had been awarded £1,200 after Soon I 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 she 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 make a safe landing at such a pace was no easy task for a complete Messot displayed remarkable wrote. "A doctor could kill me novice.

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 were

"I have no money to pay bills and engaged in our famous race to be Messot received six lacerated can never be sure where my next first to fly from London to Man-and punctured wounds on the meal will como from"-United chester.

chest, two large lacerated wounds Press. Paulhan won.

on the left arm, severing the During that London-Manchester muscles, three large cerated and contest I made the world's first air-punctured wounds on the loft plane flight by night.

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

loft 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 began to mis- fire, and for a moment or no was future; and it is in this connection Stevens, by the Museum Darul- afraid it would stop altogether: that importance attaches to experi- falah, New Delhi. The staff at very high altitudes where rice on which, according to Fortunately for me, though, it soon ments with a view to regular flying there have sent him a grain of began firing regularly again, and 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: the_nir until dawn.

"Muy Almighty God grant long, Then, however, a guaty wind, reach speeds impossible in the don-

happy and prosperous life to B.8.B, 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 atļ

Stevens, Esquire, M.LA., Premier and Colonial Treasurer, Sydney, succeeded in reaching Manchester,

1,000 or 1,200 miles an hour,

New South Wales, Australia.” and securing the £10,000 prize,.... And with the perfection of long- The historical spilt pea of grain, WHAT OF THE FUTURE? range, high-altitude flying ma- bearing a verso of the Koran, The conquest of the air has chines, it will be possible for us not which was presented 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, and even with scanes trans-47 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 wo may see in the will be crossed in hours.

legible under a magnifying glass,

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

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

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 marry him in South America.

At last she agreed to travel out

him.

to take a post in London she

At Rio she was met, not by her mel a well-dressed, good-looking sweetheart, but by a

man and young man who came to stay at woman, who informed her that the hotel where she was em- "Imacy" had been temporarily ployed. After a brief courtship called up-country. ho asked her to marry him and That night she was drugged. she accepted.

Next day the whole painful truth Then the husband-to-be un-became plain to her. She had be nounced that he had been re-come the whith slave trafficker's called to South America

latest victim.

Now, even if she had the fare, urgent business.

she confessed, she could not face After some weeks long and the prospect of returning to her loving lotters began to arrive Lancashire home.

on

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

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