1938-06-18 — Page 13

GERMANY SPEEDS UP PLANES: NEW AIR FIGURES

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The News Chronicle has received from well- informed source latest figures of Germany's air force ex- pansion.

The following are the details of Germany's total air strength and current production:

Total German air strength

1. Military

(a) 1st Line

(Transport and private flying)

9,500

5,100

2.100

(b) Reserve

3,000

2. Civil

3,900

3. Training planes

500

MONTHLY OUTPUT

1937

Under

200

1938

January

250

February

330

March

375

370

April

Most important thing about these figures is not so much the existing total strength of the German Air Force, but rather the very rapid expansion which has taken place since the end of last

year.

This expansion is the direct out- the come of the reorganisation of German aircraft Industry which wits started by Field-Mursha: Ginesing In March, 1937, and which pleted by Celober, 1937.

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LESSON OF FRANCO Immediate cause for the reorgan- enlion was ** unfavourable ex perience encountered with Gerinas aircraft delivered to General Franco |

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the German was then realised by authorities that both the design and the quality of he materials of the planes had to be greatly improved

Among the steps taken to this end were the complete overlinul of the Junker works and the commandeer- ing of an important Silesian steel; works for the exclusive supply of special acroplane steels. Reorgonist- tion has been a conspicuouis success.

The quality of the planes has 30- proved considerably, a fact which in clearly reflected in the very sharp fuit! of the accident rate. This is known to have gone down by over 40 perl cent. since

autumn of 1930,

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though even so it is still higher chielly as a result of the lack of fully trained pilots than in either Britain or France.

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500 A MONTH SOON

Sonja Earns £42,145 in A Year

New York. Sonja Henie, ice skating movie star, was paid P42.- 145 168. by Twentieth Cen- tury Film Corporation for her film work in 1937, nc cording to a report on in- come filed at Government Ofces in Washington.

This would be about three years' earnings for Presi- dent Roosevelt (£15,000 a year).

William S. Knudson, Pre- sident of General Motors, had only a beggarly £28,076 for his year's work, but Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, collert- ed £47,000,

te

One of the highest pold men In Eagland Lord Meliowan, head of imperial Chemical In- dustries who gets between £55,- 000 and £60,000. {

is not sufficient owing to slow produc-

tion.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938.

TOE OE SHINE SHINE 10 10

Meet Krol Repoo of Honolulu, America's Arst

toe-shine

This enterprising youngster has built up a rushing business on famous Waikiki Beach by mahanging the pedal digits of Fair Above, he's telling somebody w-wa-n-ay at the other end of the hepch hera: he shines 'em up

CROONING "PEPS UP"

OUTPUT

Girls Love It: Men Find

It Irksome

Old diner, tunes menti

to women than to men, especially during working hours.

E RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of Hongkong Hotel Dance Orchestra BRAIIMS CONCERTO

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.e's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m.- 9.02 m.c's. per and B-11 p.m. on second,

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathedral.

12.30 Frances Day (8oprano) and New Mayfair Orchestra.

"Happy Memories"-Selection .... Orchestra; Me And My Dog (From No. '); Swing 'Pubile Nulsance (From Public Nuisance No Time" Frances Day: "Once Upon A --Selection (Arr. f. S. Stoddon).... Orchestra; Artificial Flowers (Flood- F. Day: Hight-Beverley Nicm (Floodlight A Little White Room Beverley Nichols)....Frances Day and John Mills; Selection Of Bing Crosby Numbers; Intro:-Love in Bloom: Down the Ok Ox Bond; Soon; Where the Blue of the Night;

Orchestra. June In January .......

1.00 Time and Weather.

1.03 Musical Comedy Selections. The Gold Diggers of 1938-Selec- lon....The B. B. C. Dance Orchen- tra directed by Henry Hall with vocal chorus: Follow

Through-Vocal Gems, Intro:--Button up your over- coal: My lucky star: I want to be bad; You wouldn't fool me, would "Bio Hitta Vocal Gear, intro? Kinkajou; If you're in love, you'll waltz: Following the sun around; ,Light Opera Com- Kanger's Song. pany;

"Words And Muste"-Selec- lon; Intro:-The younger generation; Let's say goodbye; Children of the Ritz; The party's over now: Maggie; Mad about the boy: Something to do with spring; Let's live concerously..

New Mayfair Orchestru; The Vaga- bond Kind: Huguette (Hooker and Frim). Norah Blaney (Soprano) with liano.

yo

Rugby Press,

1.30 Reuter and Weather and Announcements. 1.40 Quentin MacLean

OFCAIL

at

the

Rhupsody in Blue (Gershwin, arr. Maclean); Parade Of Parupea-Selec-

tjon.

1.55 Dance Music,

Fox-Trois--My Kinda Love: An I Blue? .....Dorsey Bros. and Their Orchestra with vocnt retrain: On is a half hour daner

of the Linger Longer Island: Please Re- Lunes

Hurrts and Hin "(wentles—"What'll I Do?" "Tea for member Jack

by Sam vocal refrain Orchestra Two." “Valencia “ “Charnmine."

Browne; Once In A While; Bel Mir Bist Du Schoen....Jack Harrls and His Orchestra vocal refrain by Som Browne.

2.15 Close Down,

Waltz music and crooners' laments) At Coventry women in the body- key women factory employers trimming department of a motor-cor happier and more efficient, em factory have had two concerts a day ployers say, Men And Rem Irk-) for three years. The music, broad- come.

cast by eight loud-speakers, lasts

Mr. Reginald Leslie, chairman of a Wembley (Middlesex) lamp manu- The Agure of 1,600 applica only to the Metropolitan, or

Home Defence, facturing company, told a Daily Ex- force.

To this number can be added PTCA reporter:- the approximately 500 alrerait of the Air "They've got a chap singing some- branch of the Navy and the R.A.F. thing about love out there now. My squadrons stationed abroad.

girls twenty-five of them-keep The figure given for German train-their radiogram running most of the

They are delighted with it." ing machines appears to be low. The time. total number of British training air- craft-military and civil--can be put The shop forewoman is in charge nt about 000

But the Germans have not yet over- come the quality difculties. Lack of akilled labour, and the general de- Industrial tertoration

German

its being equipment ns a result of overstrained, together with tematic saving on several important raw materials, are all problems which have not yet been fully coped with.

There is every reason to expect the production of military aircraft to

the 500-a-month mark reach August. But no substantial increase beyond this limit is expected until the end of the year. The chief weakness of the Germen Luftwaffe venuins its inck of skilled pilots.

BRITAIN'S 3,000

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The foregoing information (writes the Aviation Correspondent shows the growing strength of the German Air Force, backed by the increasing production capacity of the German aircraft indsutry.

Bew

3,000

It is expected that Britain's

Etrength will be first-line machines with full wor reserver.

How does present strength compare with the German Bgures?

which Scheme F. abandoned caited for 1,750 first-line machines with war reserves and rem arming with new types by March next year.

has now been

TOO FEW RESERVES At the moment the

first-line

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|of changing and selecting the records, On the civil side, the total given for and the radiogram plays about five Mr. Leslle estimates Germany is surprisingly high. Berlin hours a day. does not now issue detalls of the that it has increased output by more number of registered transport and than 10 per cent.

for about an hour in the late morn- Major, Op. 77.

Ing, and another hour in the after- |

noon.

LESS FATIGUED

Mr. Alun Hill, of the factory office, partment, but the people ore so used told me: "It is a fairly noisy de-

ctyll machines. but on the last orça- With Mrs. Leslie and many the The Industrial Health Research sion she did (May, 1037) the Ogures, girls friends ccntributing, the Board Rays of one Industry that were 153 transport aircraft and 1.812 Insory's collection by records has "when music was played the increase now reached several hundred. They of output varied from 0.2 per cent. registered civil aircraft,

have several arrangements of pro- to 11.3 per cent.” grammes, and one of the favourites. Boy, bring on Bing Crosbyi

CIVIL AIRCRAFT

Of the transport machines, many are of the Junkers Ju52 type which can be readily converted Into efficient bombers.

According to the last register issued by the Air Ministry in November, Britain had 1.733 registered civil nlr- croft, of which 187 were transport machines. Few would be of use as military aircraft

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Fisherman

Arms

Fishing for pike in a quiet pool

It is on the production side that on the Ston Easton Park estate, Germany Is scoring. Although official figures can be quoted, the most in the Mendips, near Bristol, a reliable estimate of British military Bath angler caught—a rifle. aircraft production at present is 200

a month, which compares with the

It is now the aim of the Air

strength is approximately 1,600 air-German gure of last year, craft. The number

of reserve IR- chines is unknown except to the Air Ministry; but it is obvious that the number of modern reserve machines duction rate,

Bowls of

Gold Near Dead Recluse

Bowls containing silver, gold and banknotes for hundreds of pounds were discovered when police broke into a house in Plymouth and found the 80-year-old occupler, dead.

A bank book showed a credit of £6,000, and deeda showed that he owned property valued at £40,000.

The mon, Mr. Nathaniel Till, was a retired schoolmaster who had lived alone for years in a big house in Portland Place. He rarely went out, and his death was discovered because neighbours notified the police of the accumulation of milk bolties outside.-

He is thought to have died thren weeks ago. A post-mortem examina- tion revealed that denili was due to natural causes.

Police have discovered that his only relative is n' brother at South- end,

“We thought Me, Tlit was in rather

circumstances," a

noighbour

ΥΦΟΣ Ball,

Ministry at least to double this pro

TO LEAP 20,000 FT. IN DARK

Gwynne Jahus, grey-green-eyed

ately.

OK went the angler, Captain Robert Baldwin, to fetch his host, Commander E. G. Hippisley, owner of the estate.

0.00 Brahms Concerto

I

D

Played by Fritz Kreisler (Violin) and The London Philharmonic Or- chestra conducted by John Barbi- rolli.

6.42 Brahma Songs,

Ein Sonnett, Op. 14, No. 4 (Aus to it, they don't hear the noise. They Op. 47, No. 3 (Aus Uhlands Volls- dem 13tea Jahrhundert); Sonntag, sten to the music and enjoy it."

liedern); Vier Ernste Gesange, Op. While the women are happier and 121, No. 2 Iche wandle mich und took less fatigued after working to sahe...

Kipnis Alexander

(Boss)

department show little interest in the mannchen Jazz rhythms, the few men in the with Gerald Moore (Piano); Sand- (Volkskinderliedern No. muste.

Schumann (So- "Untess it is a murch," says 4)... Elizabeth

by prano) accom. Mr. H.

Gerald Moore (Piano).

0.53 Eric Coates' Compositions. Four Ways Sulte; 1. Northwards

2. (March); Southwords (Valse); 3, Fastwards (Eastern Dance); 4. Westwards (Rhythm)...New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Lewis; London Bridge March ....New Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Lewis; Stars And A Crescent Moon: A House Love Made For You And Me .Hubert Elsdell (Tenor) with 'Cello, Oboe and Piano; Summer Afternoon--Idyll Erie Coates and Symphony Or- chestra: The Fairy Tales Of Irelant! Essio Ackland (Contralto) with Drchestra; The Jester At The Wed- ding: 1. March; 2. Valse....Eric Coates and Symphony

Orchestra; Symphonie Rhapsody ....New Light But the explanation was not halt Symphony Orchestra conducted by 50 dramatic

Joseph Lewis.

7.35 Closing Local Stock Quota- tions.

Hooks An Dump

"Fascist plot," "Arms for Spain," Communist uprising,"

the went rounds.

Casting his line again, he caught

DUMPED BY POLICE another rifle, then a revolver.

Commander Hippisley told the

7.37 Orchestra Each was in good condition and Daily Herald: "I understand that Lucienne Boyer (Soprano),

Mascolio

and could have been used almost immedi- the arms were dumped by the police Chez Mol-Chanson (Jean Feline following the order Issued naking-(Misraki); En Se Regardant→ prople to hand in any unlicensed fire- Chanson (Plerre Bayle-Jean De- arms they owned.

lettre).Lucienne Boyer; Lovely. Fairies Waltz To Kis-Waltz, Donec Of The cotte: Parlez-Mol D'Amour

.....Orchestra Mas

(vern Lenalr); Dans La Fumes (Jane Bus) Lucienne Boyer; Music Of The Spheres-Waltz (Josef Strauss-ur Hohne); My Lucky Day Waltz (Hans Carste) ....Orchestra Mos- colle.

(Continued on Page 15.)

Commander Hippisley fold the police and “fshing" started in ear- nest.

VILLAGE RUMOURS

"The arms were put in the pool without my authority, and I was not oware they were there.

"The trouble is that many of the rilles are in good condition and were near the edge of the pool,

In a short time there were piled

"Bathers use the pool during the on the bunk-Twenty-seven British summer, and they might easily have,

German service rifles, nine recovered some of the firearms." young Welshman who sells fireplaces revolvers, four shot-guns, four sport- in Bournemouth for a Ilving. anding rides, four automalle pistols, and whose hobby is parachuting, will one Mauser pistol. Jump 20,000 feet-three and three-

quarter miles-through_space after: As soon as the news leaked out, dark over Salisbury Plain as soon as the village-buzzed with rumours. conditions are favourable.

ON

He will use a fashıllshi strap- ped to his arm to count away the seconds antopwatch timing him for a plunge of 18.000 feet before he drags at the ripcord of Jils hire-purchased parachute.

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A few of the rifleg have been handed over to the police, but Commander Hippisley is keeping most of them until the next step fa deckted.

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE AND MAKE THE BEST OF A BAD JOB

"Five pounds reward for information leading to the conviction of the Last August he broke world's values."

person who fainted anul broke this window when he saw the outstanding records by dropping 18.000 feet in! daylight before. opening his This was the notlee on a hoarded-up shop window in Queen Street, parachute,

Brisbane, The window itself, a large plate glass one, bad been broken Austral News.

"Boy. how I'm looking forward to the said to mo yesterday suya a correspondent. "IV's roing to be grand feellar the terrifie

pir pressures as I spin an tumble down through those 20,000 foel."

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MOTHER CONGRATULATES SON ON

GOLDEN WEDDING

Few parents live to congratulate their children on their golden wed- ding, but Mrs. A. Dajalel, of Cobden, Australia, has Just done so, says

Parachuting and breaking his Austral News,

leg in three places in an unlucky The "children," Mr. and Mrs. A. Dalziel recently celebrated this far cont Gwynne occasion, having been married at Daylesford (Victoria) in 1887. They received a congratulatory telegram from Mr. Valalel's mother who le 03,

Inap-lisa O Johns £180.

MURDERED FOR 54 CENTS

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Florence, Ariz., “Jan. Elvin Jack Udom, 29, joking about his good looks, had his pieturo mnde for his mother be- cause a fire had destroyed earlier pictures she possessed. At dawn the next day he was executed in the State's lethal gas chamber for a murder that netted him 64 cents.United Preas.

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