1936-09-18 — Page 3

'Plane Lost

Pilot And Wife

LONDON- JO'BURG 25 HOURS

-Air Race Hopeį LONDON to Johannesburg

-6,500 miles in twen- ty-five hours is expected to be the amazing achievement of the winner of the Rand air race, to start from Lon- don on the night of Septem- ber 29.

Entries for the race elosd re- cently.

In many ways it will be a more gruelling test than the London- Melbourne ruce two years appa Most of the competitors in the Rand race will be flying solo, and there will be no stopping at air. fields for one minute more than is necessary to refuel.

Eleven entries bad bren received.

Several of England's mast famous airmen are holding back" their entries until the last possible moment. Secrecy over the type of aircraft they will be flying is the

cause.

It is the popular belief that the winner of the speed section, which carries the prize of C4,000, will reuph Johannesburg in twenty-five hours

Countess No Longer

Lady Moira Forbes

Dublin, Sept. 1. The Earl of Granard, at the coming-of-age party of his elder son. Viscount Forbes, at Castle i Forbes, Co. Longford, to-night made this announcement:--

"The Countess de Brantes will la fature be known as Lady Moira Forbes" He

explained later: "hy daughter's marriage to the Comte Louis de Brantes his just been dis- solved according to French civil law. Annulment proceedings in accordance with the rules of the Catholic Church are almost completed."

Lady Moira married the count ini 1934. The wedding received

special Papal blessing.

Lady Molra la twenty-six and one

!

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936.

Its Engine-But Landed Safely

Escape By Ten-Million To-One Chance.

Bridal croup at wedding at Rosary Church on Wednesday of Mr. Ron. A. da Silva to Miss Lina Silva- Netto,--Ming Yurn Photo.

Eleven Bound Skeletons Found

WHALE STORY

Seattle. Aug. 30.

The Coastal steamer H. F. Alexander recently herthed at Seattle with 150 passengers and one whale, The ship collided with the huge mammal in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, killing it instantly, and carrying most of the body into Seattle on its bow.

THEORY OF EXECUTION BY STRANGLING

+

A Thousand

Years

Ago

"I Just

Felt Silly"

PASSENGER'S

FEET

DANGLING

IN SPACE

By VICTOR BURNÉTT THIS is the story of the most remarkable escape from death recorded in javiation.

Major R. A. Thornton a well- known airman, tock all from Bada- pest in his monoplane to fly to Bantbars. He WHS flying the machine from the back cockpit. In the front cockpit, just behindi -

the engine, sat his wife,

}

The weather was good, the engine.

1 was running perfectly,

„Suddenly there was a faint bang. Major Thornton lonked up and for ward to the engine.

Then he gasped. There was no enginet

The aircraft ended in a jagged tear just beyniul the Troni cock- pit.

His wife, in front of him, found herself with her feet actually dani- gling in space.

Both pilot and passenger TAVO themselves 111. Major Thornton wrestleil with the controls. Nothing happened. The monoplane few level for an instant and thên slowly began to heel over.

1

DRUSHED TREE TOPs

inse, released from the weight

of the engine, rose in the air. Then, losing Oying speed, the machine atalled and went over into a flatlight spin.

I didn't feel frightened," said the

pilot, 1 just felt silly Kind help-

less."

At every second both and

Dramatic Escape From LEVEN siteletons, 100 years old. Mek, fine tot, expected the gone of

Death in

in Asia

MISSIONARIES' TENT

.POLES

MISTAKEN FOR GUNS

By HUGH REDWOOD

NEWS reached me yesterday that one of the most dangerous missionary adventures ever undertaken is nearing a successful conclusion.

It is a story with four heroines, three Englishwomen and a

of England's richesi girts Her hus Young Tibetan girl to whom London bade farewell just over a year

-band-is-thirty-two:-

U.S. Defence

ago, doubting greatly if they would return.

Miss Mildred Cable writes me, however, to say that she and her companions, Miss Eva French Miss Francesca French and Topsy, aro on the last stage of their great trek and that "it may not be so very long before we meet again."

to

permeated by Influences hostille Christianity, they have had several narrow escapes from death.

"One night, in a

lonely

Epot." writes Miss Cable, "we put up our tent, and some men of the baser sort, standing by, and of the poles,

Those are their guns."

These three grey-haired veterans | October last, which seemed as if it San Francisco, Aug. 20.

of the mission field, the Gobi Trio, as might be their last, and since then, they are known, with their dercked in a country infested by bandits and The Pacific Coast defence soon the deaf-mute protegee (whom they is to be augmented by the instal- rescued from brigandoge on lation of four new 18-inch guns, rough Russia into Central Asia and previous expedition) have travelled according to announcement of Major General Georgo

S. Kansu.

over the borders of Turkestan into Simonds, new commander of the: ESCAPES FROM DEATH 9th Corps area.

The full tale of their journeyings With a range of nearly 30 cannot yet be told, but so far as it is miles at sea, the new guns al-known in outline it vividly recalls the ways will have the job if they words of St. Paul:

ever have one-of firing at invisible, targets.

Installation of the massive pieces of ordnance will give San Francisco the ultimate in protection from in- vasion by foreign fleet.

Gunners, stationed beside the huge guns, can bombard endiny ships with projectiles weighing more than a ton

"In journeying often, in perils of rabbers, in perits by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perlls in the wilderness

weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in. hunger and thirst...

There was at least one day, in

while the vessels are, far beyond the ELAINE

range of vision of observers on the

const,

The guns were built as part of the GIVES UP

Army's policy of expanding fighting)

units and stiffening, coast defences approved by the last Congress.

While 80 or 90 men will be used to fire each gun, double that number is needed for range-finding and other

BARRYMORE

New York, Sept. 5.

detalls of firing at an unseen target. THE romance between John Barrymore, the screen lover

In time of war, army officials state 200 men would be assigned to each! gun.-United Press

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AT YOUR SHUOMIE?'

of 54, and his protegee of 20, Miss Elaine Barrie which led to Mr. Barrymore being divorced by his wife, Dolores Costello, Inst year has withered.

BEARER WOUNDED

have been discovered on Stock-the machine to point straight to- bridge Downs, near Winchester, by wards the earth and crash in a high- Dr. Gray HB, son of Sir Norman speed, spinning dive, HH, of Green Place, Stockbridge.

One of the skeletons was face downwards, others were on their backs, and all appeared to have their

hands behind them.. No’honey were broken. This suggests that death was due to execution by strangula- tion.

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The skeletons were all less than 2f, under the surface of the turf.

A short time ago Dr. Gray Hill discovered 30 skeletons near the I'same spol.

But the dive didn't start. The spin did not increase its speed, Then the undercarriage brushed the tree taps. The passengera held "The aircraft hit the ground with 31 Alight bump

on.

Major and Mrs. Thornton climbed out, bruised, They found the missing engine near. The propeller hail smushed and the vibration had torn the engine out of the airplane.

But their esenge is a mystery. Designers say it is a ten-million-to- i one chance.

Astor Diary Lists

Stars By Charm,'

Starts New Panic

New York, Aug. 26.

FILM star Mary Astor's now famous "misstep" diary, which her husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, is striving

"Our deninis, of course, only to introduce in evidence in their legal battle for the custo- strengthened their beliefs. So we slept in safety and peace. But the dy of their four-year-old child, has thrown the big names post which came through two nights later was robbed and its bearer of Hollywood into a fresh panic.

wounded.

.

"Then on another lonely stretch of road, we failed to hear that large carayan was just behind us.

It contains. in imperishable

* lavender ink, her "charni

Had we known we should most cer- ratings" on nearly every out-

tainly have waited for it and

jolned up. for safety's sake. We standing male film star.

failed to heat, as I have said, and

came alone over a road which men fear to travel except in con

companies.

e pussed through, with an angel guard, quite unconscious of the fact that a robber band was yulting. The large caravan was attaplod, four men | killed and all their goods taken.

The "Best Ten of Hollywood" are tabulated with full details and ex- planations in four pages of the

dlay. Some of the most prominent screen lovers fall to figure in the

list.

"fa fari, the most panic-stricken people in the m colony to-day are not, so much alarmed at the prospect of giving evidence of their friendship with Miss Astor as they ure about their positions on the Hist,"

It was intinhted this afternoon, bes fore the case was adjourned un!!! Monday, that more stars mentioned In the diary are to be subpoenaed, I am more than ever concerned for "After the experiences of this year

Some one clore to the situation said

Playwright George Kaufman has our own land. I have seen what

quite under-already been served. John Barry- country can become when its vitals to-day: "It can be have been attacked by that most ice-stood that many of Miss Astor's more has successfully eluded process- deiner case, the insanity which former friends are concerned about servers in the sanatorium where he declares There is no God.'""

the publication of this list.

EMBARRASSING

Konsu, the most north-westerly Miss Hatrie, who in in Holly-province of China, is about 000 miles wood. declared to-day: "Recent inland from Shanghai. Dominated "Many are regarded as oustanding events have shown conclusively by high mountains, it is notorious as he-men in the screen world. A poor that it impossible for us to plan being one of wildest and most rating in the diary could be exceed- a happy married life together. inaccessible regions in the Far East. |ingly embarrassing for them. With its realisation I would in- initely prefer to terminate our re- lationship at this time rather than when we were married."

The romance begin in New Yorks in the spring of 1935, when Shake- speare, requlaltioned, provided two endearing nicknames-Callban, and Arlet--for the couple.

"A GIRL LIKE THAT""

A bitter quarrel sent Mr. Barry- more hurrying back by neroplane and train to pursuit Hollywood with "Arle" in

Last month Mr. Barrymore was "'quoted «ns, saying, "A

along with a girl like that can't get

His sister, Miss Ethel Barrymore, aged 57, in a national broadcast, has -announced her retirement from, the stage. She said she hoped to devote herself "helring young people get

to

A

HARMONY

New York, Sept. 5.

WHEN Mr. James Wallington and Miss Beatty Jane Cooper

were married in Detroit to-day------ Bridegroom Wore

Grey and white check trousers, White jacket,

Brown and white shoes, Blue handkerchief, incoat pocket

along." Unlike her brothers Lionel Bite flower in buttonhole,

and John, she never cared much for

Bride Wore

Grey and white chock trousers, White jacket,

Brown, and white shocs, Blue handkerchief, in coat pocket,

Blue flower in buttonhole. announcer, the brido a dancer.

| is recovering from a serious illness.

Bette Davis

On Honeymoon

Bette Davis, Hollywood tim star, arrived at Greenock, in the G.P.R. liner Duchess of Bedford last night. She and her husband. Mr. Harmon O. Nelson, Jun., Hollywood band- leader, had left New York secretly. Misa Davis said: "We regard this trip as a honeymoon, for although we have been married for years we have never had a holiday before.

We shall play golf at St. Andrews, #uenborry, and· Vienongiosa,.

"My handicap? . I had a very good game over Banff Springs, Canida, on my way here, I went raund the course in 120. Not too bad,"

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