THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936.
Italy Orders British Machines To Open Up Abyssinia
PANGBORN TO TRY Fighting The
PARIS TO DALLAS
NON-STOP FLIGHT
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION IS SPONSOR of AMBITIOUS ADVENTURE WITH NEW YORK-PARIS. HOP FIRST
ON SCHEDULE
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 1.
Clyde Pangborn, the only aviator now living who ever piloted a plane around the world, is perfecting plans for another ambitions flying venture-a flight from Dallas to New York and Paris, and then a non-stop return from Parla to Dallas.
Should the Paris-Dallas flight be christened the plane by breaking a successful, it will mark one of the bottle of Trinity River water on its tow successful westward trans-propellor, while Mayor George Ser- Atlantic flights to the United States geant of Daline and numerous Texas
celebrities looked on. and will pet a new distance record.
PLAN TO TOUR EUROPE As representatives of the Texas Centennial, Pangborn and Mason plan to visit several European capitals, in- cluding London, Amsterdam, Madrid and Brussels.
Giving a commercial aspect to the fight, they will carry about 1,500 pounds of mail for the benefit of stamp collectors.
Pangborn will be accompanied on Mason, Los the trip the Monty Angeles aircraft manufacturer and designer of the queer-looking red plane known as "The Flying Wing." SPONSORED BY EXPOSITION Pangborn and Mason, who are flying under the sponsorship of the TeXDE Centennial Exposition and with
Their plane called "The Flying the financial backing of Roland W. Richards, Los Angeles banker, plan Wing" from its unique design, was to leave Dallus early this month, designed specifically for distance fly- After installing a radio compass, they ing. A single-motored craft, i has planned to take off from New York virtually no fuselage. It is only 32 feet long, but has a wing-spread of for Paris.
Their plane was christened "Texas 55 feet 6 inches. It carries 1,160 Sky Ranger" in recent ceremonies gallons of gasoline, has a maximum here. Miss Frances Nalle, Blue-speed of 245 miles an hour, and is bonnet Girl of the Texas Centennial, calculated to be able to make 8,200
miles without refueling.
Colonel Dies After
Seizure On Station
Witg
FLEW WITH HERNDON
Film Chiefs
JAMES CAGNEY
the screen's tough guys, may JAMES CAGNEY, toughest of all never appear in another im.
PLOUGHS AND
TRACTORS
1.
WORK WILL TAKE MORE
THAN TWO YEARS
MORTY THOUSAND TONS OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT.
THE MACHINERY WILL BE USED TO TURN THE WILDS OF ABYSSINIA INTO ARABLE LAND.
THIS ORDER HAS JUST BEEN PLACED, AND THE MANU- FACTURE OF THE MACHINERY WILL BEGIN IN TWO MONTHS'
; TIME.
CREDIT HAS BEEN PLACED IN PARIS.
THE ORDER WILL TAKE FROM TWO TO THREE YEARS TO CARRY OUT, AND THE MACHINERY WILL BE BUILT TO SPECIFICATION.
IT WILL INCLUDE PLOUGHIS, THRESHING MACHINES, AND TRACTORS.
A PRINCIPAL OF THE BRITISH FIRM CONCERNED HAS This is the surprising situation MET MUSSOLINI ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS TO DISCUSS THE crented by the latest stage of the CONTRACT. dispute which Cagney is waging
with
his employers powerfu! Warner Bros.
Not long ago Cagney protested against making four "tough guy"
He pletures a year. offered to make two but snid his public, would tire of him if he Increased his output.
But Warner Bros. held the view that if Cagney would not work for them, he might not work for any- one else.
That was why he had to turn down Of the three men who have piloted an offer by Gaumont-British to ap- a British picture, Legal planes on round-the-world flights, pear in Pangborn is the only one living. difficulties which Warner Bros. might Wiley Post was killed when the plane place in the way caused this pleture
Haunted By Eyes Of Dead Murderer
LAWYER WHO DEFENDED
BRUNO HAUPTMANN
Hiding in a London hotel is a from the hands of the law, how in which he and Will Rogers were to be abandoned.
The anme obstacle is ahead of any man who is fleeing from the he worked 16 hours a day, travel- Ostend, Aug. 1. travelling crashed in Alaalta. Sir
ling to California,. Miami, Mon- Aus-American company wishing to employ shadow of a dead murderer. Colonel Frederick Kiddle, of St. Charles Kingsford-Smith, the
was Cagney. Warner Bros. are too strong Clure-road, Colchester, fell dead, at trallan round-the-world fler,
Mr. C. Lloyd Fisher, six-foot troal, following up slender clues
which came to nothing. Indian for any possible opponents.
who spoko Ostend Maritime Station yesterday, lost while nying over the
So at the moment James' Cagney American lawyer,
"I was convinced of Haupt- " vain while his way to Dover. Death Ocean.
mann's innocence.. I. was with was due to heart disease, Reuter. Pangborn flew around the world whose tough personality it worth mil-millions of words in
Colonel Kiddle, who was sixty-five, with Hugh Herndon as his navigator ons more in box-office returns than attempt to snatch Bruno Haupt Hauptmann ten minutes before he mann from the electric chair, is died. I said to him: You can live dif-anyone except Clark Gable-cannot in the R.A.M.C. During the In 1931. His trip met added great war he was twice mentioned neulties when he was arrested In get work.
Cagney, unlike many artists who striving to forget the trial that if you reveal some facts about the in despatches. His only son, Lieu Japan and charged with being a spy.
crime-however remote--that will money tenant W. F. Kiddle, was gored to He was acquitted on the 50 charges have faced this problem, refuses to shocked the world.
tell me how the ransom death by a buffalo in Kenya in 1933. at the end of a six-day trial-United return to his old company on their
'terms. There lone married daughter.
camo to you."
"He told me: I have had punish- ment. I welcome death as my re- lease.'
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"Hauptmann haunts me," this 38-year-old man ovith the tired eyes. "Never again will I defend
man on a capital charge... "At night, when I'm alone, 1 soo Hauptmann's eyes protesting his
innocence....
In stacento style he told some -thing-of-the-ordeal he suffered while trying to rescue Hauptmann
CELIBACY
"I talked with Mrs. Hauptmann the day I sailed for Britain. She on the charity of
is dependent
friends..
She wants to come to Britain and Germany to see her family." Her feeling at this great mis- carriage of justice is very bitter.
"But the case is not finished, come out Soon the truth will There are accomplices who, ono
RULE IN NEW day, will quarrel and give away
WOMEN'S FELLOWSHIP
Bombay, Aug, 1. CELIBACY and selfless public service are two of the essen- tial conditions of membership of the India Women's Fellowship of Service, now organisation which has been formed Poona
in
It is an adjunct of the Servants br India Society, which does not admit women to membership, formed 31. years ago with the object of giving training to whole-time workers, to serve the public.
The organisers of the Fellowship'
Boy:
It is expected that women who come forward for membership will carry out their purpose in a religious spirit, and we hope that we, and those who join us, may be enabled to fulfi our obligations and responsibilities
tbus."
Members of the fellowship will not be required to take the vow, of celibacy on admission. They may marry, but then they will have to sover their connection with the in- stitution on marriage, as its founders
valuable clues."
£41 for Changed Hair Parting
A girl who said that she had to change the parting of her hair to hide a scar caused by a burn during a permanent wave was awarded £41 138, Gd. dam- nges and costs at Clerkenwell County Court recently.."
She was Miss Lucy J. Roberts of Cyrus Street, Goswell Road, E. C., and she'sued Mr. E. Glass- cock, hairdresser, of City Rond, E. C.
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"She will always feel at disadvantage because she is. bound to restrict herself to one fashion," commented Judge Earingey.
ROMANCÉ EBBS
AS TOWN LOSES
ALL ITS TREES
Ossett, Aug. 1. Add this item to the "consequences feel that after marriage a woman of the World Wer": will no longer be free to give that Because this textile town devoted whole time service which full mem-itself to making millions of yards of bership of the fellowship would de- khaki during the war, it lost all its lenty mand of her.-United Press.
Vice Trial Girl 'Branded'
Washington, Aug. 1. ANONYMOUS telephono call saying
"Something is wrong" took Wash
trees, and because it had no
?
of
parks, no shady "lovers' lane," the marriage rate has declined almost to zero, according to the Rov, G. H
Vicar the Marshall, D.5.0., Ossait.
Ho says he has been prodding the
of Afforestation department Ministry of Agricuillure to plant some trees in the one trypless town in Yorkshire" but he finds them dumb. "They prefer to continue planting trees in the Lake District, ho ob serves impatiently.
the
ington detectives to the apartment of Not many people could, trace off- * twenty-one-year-old, girl, Jean Bell, hand, he says, any connection be- alias Jean Costella witness inthetween making khaki-cloth in 1017. recent trial, at: Charles :'("Lucky" and the local marriage rate 19 years Luciano, convicted vice lord of Newater, but to the inhabitants of Ossett Yorker | It is plain moughie MPhone A
found Jean Bell in
garfilled room CARAGIA initials zar Akentrin her fles
Luclaro, had been he states, "burning off with sulphuric acid the cotton thread in the shoddy which was later turned into chakl uniforms. That killed every frea in ignify, the place except two or three alckly lorda lakini sims, and the result is a cheericas, allesed omahco-discouraging place, in which Ithalamkrríano-bõli 3 are © virtually
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