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They Flew Through The Air With The Greatest of Ease

SENATOR McADOO

A plucky boyhood aided him.

Hongkong Telegraph. $10,000 a year as technical

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1936.

duced

POLITICAL FİREBRANDS

situation of which 3

Battered "Jennies”

JUAN TRIPPE is an anomalous combination of visionary and -hard-headed businessman; kental Hocialite and phlegmatic plodder. Al Yale he played some football, some golf. He learned to fly in naval aviation in 1918, qualified na #night bomber pilot, returned to Yale in 1919 to organise a campus. Hying society. After taking his degree (Sheffield, 1920) he bought three battered "Jeniles", . flew them around the swank Hamptons for a while as Long Island Air ways. In 1926 Mr. Trippe, now thoroughly, committed to aviation as a career, got Cornelius Vander bilt Whitney, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt to help him form Colonial Airways between New York and Baston, Brst contract

the air-mail route in

United States. They withdrew next year and Messrs. Trippe and Whitney, with an able associate named John A. Hambleton (who died in

manager.

sent trip to Hongkong is first time President Trippe has travelled his lines beyond the Panama Canal. He has been too busy.

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time a law oficial at Chattanooga. He came into prominence in 1903 $72,000,000 company by floating that constructed the tunnels under the Hadson River that connect New York to the neighbouring cities of New Jersey.

When idealistic President Wil- MOLE anncunced his cabinet oftér his inauguration in 1913, it in cluded McAdoo as Secretary of Treasury. Then four years later, when as war measure U.S. govern- ment took over the United States. rail system, it was on McAdoo's shoulders that fell the burden of administering the flues. He re- signed in 1919, but four later announced himself as active candidate for U.S. presidency. Democratic nomination, however.. went to John W. Davis. McAdoo entered race for U.S. Senate from. California in 1932, was supported by Hearst and Roosevelt, and was swept into ofice in overwhelming Democratic landslide.

years

McAdoo's boyhood was spent in

J. ROY HOWARD His rise, a newspaperman's pipe dream,

Despite affluence, bis enthusiasm the wake of Sherman's march to for news-getting never wanes, He the sea. Left poverty-stricken in

newspaperman, again last year.

ap-

was

of

SINCE 1929 Pan American erash in 1929) got into the Pan Airways have been pay- American organisation. Mr. Trip-

a barren country, only the pluck works long hours, keeps a vigilant rival ing Colonel Lindbergh U.S. 21, was president and general

of the boy and the character of eye on all important events, and Since then Jaan Tripp has his father and mother saved the spends huge sums to beat

papers. It is safe to say that ng journalist aboard the Philippines adviser. One day in 1931 almost literally thought of nothing day for him.

hint Clipper has put one crusa except aviation. Happily his wife,

during the present flight, he and Juan Trippe sat Elizabeth, daughter of the inte Fought to Fame

Biggest recent scoops: Personal down at a drawing board in Morgan-partner Edward R. Stet

Linius, knows the business Day Howard, newspaper seller interview with Stalin: Open Let- who became the world's leading ter to President Roosevelt which the Pan American offices in thoroughly and enjoys it. (They

have

a three-year-old daughter, journalist and newspaper owner; drew from Roosevelt a declaration New York and, with pencils Betsy Slettinius). Mra. Trippe is. was yet another distinguished

that practically completed aml The British Fascists, a poli- and maps, they plotted out un present Right, arrived in Hong passenger aboard the Philippines that his New Deal programme was

kong yesterday. with husband Clipper.

buklness men could "go right Įtical group which. few people take two such daring airline Jan.

This is Mr. Howard's third and ahead without fear." Besides seeing his system

mcat seriously, have been making a schemes as the world has

undoubtedly his

exciting to be the world's Krow

largest, nuisance of themselves recently never before seen. One in-

visit to Hongkong. He was here New Air Attache President Trippe during the past in 1925 and, accompanied by his by parading in uniform, thus volved a great circular route three years has had the pleasant

Hom Jack, a former Shanghai WING Commander Harold Spen- experience of reeing it make a

cer Kerby, n.s.C., A.F.C., the inviting the hostility of the Com-across

the North Atlantic. le money. Most of Fan Ameri- munistie element, Neither the The other turned into

The story of his rise to the top R.A.F. officer who has been a cun's income comes from fat U.S.

the tache in China, and who passed one group nor the other counts zigzag line across the Pacific mail subsidies, which tally about of the journalistic tree is one that pointed the new British Air At-

six to eight million gold dollars is mostly pipe-dreams for

thousands of lesa-brilliants who through longkong last Saturday, vorfor anything in British politics, by way of tiny, desolate pa

at Not- the newa fronts. When was formerly stationed but the demonstrations in which islands which belonged to For all his love of flying, pre- cover.

Howard was 15 his father died, tingham.

Wing Commander Kerby they have clashed have pro-the United States.

leaving Roy and his mother with- Yesterday, Hongkong saw the own

out means. He resolved to con- promoted to that rank before he tinue his school course. and earned left Nottingham at the end the authorities are bound a consummation

of the latter

money by selling newspapers carly July last year for Singapore, where take notice. There can be little | dream. Flashing in the rays of a Veteran Senator

in the morning, by selling fruft he became Chief Staff Officer at Far East Command Head- and confectionery to his school- the question that the wearing of sun it has raced across the Cenator William Gibbs McAdoo, fellows, and by contributing new quarter

mighty Pacific, the Pan- Seu

By the Squadron Leader Kerby spent political uniforms, tolally con-

who was one of Philippines items to a local paper.. American Clipper came io

was 18 months in charge of No, 504 IL Clipper's passengers to Hongkong time he had graduated he

Bomber trary to British ideas, has been graceful landing in Kowloon yesterday, will spend, his seventy making so much money from his County of Nottingham provocative. On the other hand, Bay. and there, was born third birthday somewhere between contributions to the newspaper Squadron at Hucknall

of Upon leaving Nottingham he the idea put forward in somea service which in less than a Manila and San Francisco on re- that the editor as a matter

year will be so commonplace that turn flight to California,

economy appointed him to the said that he regarded his period there as one of the happiest com- quarters that Fascist parades newspapers will cease to report Also aboard Philippines Clipper staff. should be declared illegal seems it.

27-year-old Mrs. Ambition, however, was to get mands he had had since he joined to ignore the fact that Britain is Genius behind the arrival of McAdon whom-the-veteran-Senate-New-York-and in 1903 he went the service 20 years ago. the 25-ton flying boat is shy, for married just over a year ago, there. At every newspaper office, "Flying Pimpernel" one country in Europe in which | swarthy Pan American Airways after his second wife, daughter of he was told there was no opening.

President Wilson, had From the Pulitzer paper, The TN three years since there is complete freedon of 37-years-old president, Juhn Terry late speech. And if Fascism is to be Trippe, who was a passenger in divorced him on grounds of incom World, the rebuff was particular- Selfridge's son-in-law and

yesterday's flight,

ly curt. Howard had to loave the daughter, Vicomte and Vicountcas suppressed. why nol other There is good reason for Juan Present Mrs. McAdoo was nurse city and seek jobs elsewhere. In de Sibour, made history by being as first family to fly from Europe to political concepts? None of the Terry Trippe, chief of the world's in U.S. Public Health Service,

biggest air transport system, 10 nursed Senator McAdoo during his correspondent British newspapers support Fax- think in terms of trade routes, to illness

at San

Diego in1933. Scripps-Meltae group of papers headlined on many occasions for cism, although it

call his airplanes "clippers", to have When they were married in Sep- and a year later begame New York that

at his desk corner in New York tember last year, he was the th manager of the United Press As there is a fair amount of money an enormous mariner's globe-not oldest member of the U.S. Senfte, sociation. In 1921 he became

director of the Scripps-McRae behind the movement. On the of much use since it is antique she the youngest, Senate wife.

and lacks the names of many Senator McAdoo previously group, the name being changed to general question of suppression places on Pan-American Airways vialted Hongkong in December last Scripps-Howard. In 1931 he pur- chased the World, whose cditor, of extreme political ideas, it has lines.

year, passing through Colony en Salt water Is In Juan Trippe's route

more 28 years previously, had so curtly to be borne in

to Philippines by mind that the

blood. His family settled on prosaic steamship, as member of informed him that work was un- mere prohibiting of meetings or Maryland's sleepy Eastern shore US. delegation to inauguration of available. processions does not make them unlawful.

As Sir John Simon has pointed out, the duty of the authorities is to do their utmost gold sword for battling the versity of Tennessee and was for whole world.

Barbary pirates. Great-grand- to prevent serious disturbances father John Trippe commmnded by keeping rival factions apart, the U. S. S. John Trippe, smallest sloop in the Battle of Lake Erie. and by intervening if necessary, The present U. 8. S. John Trippo but if the law is to be changed it sports two gold stars on its fun- must apply all round-to the de-nel for sinking two German sul

marines. Later it patrolled monstrations of the Left as well America's famed Rum Row.

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To-day J. Roy Howard is the John Trippe in 1801 sailed 16 William McAdoo was born in biggest newspaper magnate in the third officer of the U. S. S. Vixen, Georgin in 1863, studied at Uni- United States, probably in got a Congressional Medal and

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the

and

flying exploits. Now he bas earned nickname "Flying Fimper- mel for rescue work in Spain. I have just been reading the de- talls.

Jacques de Si- bour flow via Corsica, Tunis and Tangler. Thence he went La Seville mak- ing many jour noys, crossing Government

lines at 9,000 or 10,000 feet, was eventually joined by anather machine, which helped him to deal with remaining foreigners.

First flight to Hongkong and

as to those of the Right. The Father Charles White Trippe was The trouble about wearing The latest breakfast sausage is China was made in 1931, when de Manhattan banker. He married coloured shirt these days is that made from cercals. It is, we un-Sibour was awarded Academy of viewpoint of Britons in general Lucy A. Terry, whose family one may be mistaken for a political derstand, taken in instalments.

up by the samowhere along the line, has ac agitator. was well summed Home Secretary recently, whenquired Latin blood. That accounts for the historie "John" becoming he remarked:-"I regard this dressing up in fancy uniform ani this aping of military organisa tion for political purposes with dislike and I believe these American politicos.. methods are repugnant to the

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Flies have been unusually pre- Juan (named for a beloved Aunt valent in Hongkong this year. Juanita). Also, it accounts for Juan Trippe's swarthy skin. The Swat about it? has been anything) combination

A reader wants to know what a handicap in. President! but Trippe's dealings

South "Phalanxist" is? Something be- with

Marxist, Rexist, a tween

perhaps.

pur-

Syndicalist, Fasclat and Communist

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There is no truth in the rumour

civic. sentiments of ordinary both alike are utterly intolerant people. If we observe this prin-creeds and therefore utterly un- that the B. & F. Department has ciple in practice we shall not go British in sentiment und far wrong and the common sense pos." That, in a nutshell, re-commissioned the giant Clipper to

presents the viewpoint of the lup knots off trees.

O. of the British people will prevail ordinary observer at Home. A London maitre d'hotel asserts But the essence of British social There can be no objection to any that not more than two gimleta life is tolerance--tolerance of the political group airing its views should be taken without a snack.

in constitutional manner. The A brace and biti

Sports annual gold medal for setting record for amateur flying [r ·

East. Subsequent visits A Shanghai paper states that to

made Hongkong has at last taken to (three) in 1932 and 1933 night life. This has dawned upon Selfridge's son-in-law well-known

figure throughout Fast, quite a lot of people.

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women do cut capers in Hongkong?

B. Y. T these leg-of-mutton sleeves,

We hear of a man who has

were described s

danger to the made quite a lot of money out of State" by the Rov. C. Ensor Wal- gold. Others have made quite alters, Methodist president, at a Nowcastle-on-Tyne conferenee re- lot of gold out of money.

cently.

He said: "Their lives seem to A Shanghal newspaper refers to

sherry the "Taipo Belle" as the "Empress consist of cocktail and

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of Taipu." If this sort of thing parties, cabarets and midnight. continues, we shall have to elevate revelry.

"They are the forerunners of the Burgomaster to a Dukedom..

gloom and disaster.

"Let these young men and The Press are playing the Navy at cricket to-morrow. A good women be warned. We live in atern times. Every patriot must. CRAWFORD, LTD. things we don't like and the wearing of uniforms, however,

many "Extras" are expected.

Jacek to build a community based objection which most English does raise another matter, and "Vinjar recently set free a

there

are indications that the shrew which he found trapped in

Lord Rothermere thinks that jon brotherhood and humanity.". men, like myself, feel both to Government may ban this praca concrete catchwater. He didn't Hongkong is a most beautiful Fascism and Communism is that tice..

"Pop" Parker even try to tame it.

place. It has no peer.

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