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Famous Pilot (A Man, of Course!) Says:

"Girls Will Never be

Ace Fliers'

Women pilots can never be áce fliers, says Frank Wend. Mind you, if you can forget for the minute about Amy John- son, Amelia Earhart, Winifred Spooner, Jean Batten, Nancy Bird, he may be right.

Because Lieutenant-Commander Frank Wead, ono of the pioneers of flying in the U.S. Navy, author of the smashing air ilma, "Test Pilot," "Hell Divera," "Dirigible," knows something about flying.

Commander Weed, who recently have certainly reached the top. arrived in London on hoilday, 'wan What about the Inte Amelia Ear- outspoken about women pilots when hart and Winifred Spooner? I know he said:

that women haven't the same chances

оп

"Ask the best women pllots what of technical training, but considering they think of themselves," he said. that they can only benefit by club "They'll admit that they're not 'lops training, I think it is wonderful what -and they know it.

women can do," "Women are too neurotic and in- Commander Wead bares his vlows decisive. They have not the same!. and his flim scripts chance of the hard technical training his own experiences as a daredevil thint men get in the navy or in the pilot. He made hair-raising landings on the first U.S. aircraft carrrier, and held the records for long- distance and duration fights.

His flying career ended when he was badly injured by falling down the utairs in his own house!

Air Force.

"The average woman takes to the jonee alr for one of three reasons:

"Sho either has A bust-up with a boy friend and thinks that by becoming a daring pilot she can show him what tough material she's made of, Or the boy friend is a pilot, and the giri wants to feel his equal-able to Halk

bis language. The third Teason IN the search for publicity,"

Raw Eggs Rout Bandits)

Tima, O. One of two highwaymen attempting Commander Wead's opinions are to hold up Mr. and Mrs. J. H. N. not shared by Miss Amy Johnson, Morrison received a barrage of, a Britain's most famous woman pilot. dozen raw eggs in his face. Mr. Morrison threw a sack, containing the eggs, at the bandit, causing him and his partner to fee.

"WONDERFUL" WOMEN "Women are certainly not too neurotic" she said, "and some of them

'GYNATHODYNAMY': Midget Alaskans Out-

Bite Athletic Giants

FIGURES

Thousands of delegates to the National Eucharisilo Congress, În New Orleans, have taken part in various religious ceremonies. Here is the procession as George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago arrived at the Congress, to take up his role as Legate of Pope Fias XI. Representatives of more than 300 religious orders of the church were present.

old, showed a bite of 194 lb,

These comparisons, concluded the with Professor, reflect the differences of diet; and as a result of the wenken. syning jaw, the lower portion of the civilised head was becoming nar-

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Strange Colt Runs Like Deer

OVID, N. Y. "Whatisit," a freak colt that looks

Civillred mant, consuming soft dict. is developing a weak low, Measurements were made according to Professor Leuman an instrument, the name of which

a jaw-breaker-a WRugh, of Columbla University is itself

alhodynamometer. Dental School.

Fifty-six Eskimos and 108 mem-rower, smaller.

the Minnesota

football Reporting his experiments to the bers of

II the present trend continues, something like a mule and runs more New York Academy of Dentistry, the squad bit as hard as they could und

deer, frolica on Lean C.. Professor said that Alaska Eskimos, the gynathodynamomeler registered he added, several generations hence like a

the strength of their bites in pounds. will see a race of "whites" whose

Wickham's farm 413 Ita owner only 5 ft. 4 in. tali, and weighing

The average bite of the Minne-faces

will resemble an inverted 120 1b.. the pear.

awaits offers from a zoo. Wickham 120 lb., registered bites reaching a sola giants was only

Professor Waugh reported that strength of 345 lb., Indicating they strongest bite on the squad being a

88 to 90 per cent. of Eskimo chlid-oys the colt is the offspring of a as strong BS those of Minnesota Eskimos bit into the gynathadyna- sion, while in "civilised" children three weeks old it weighed 40 pounds Increase of 10 pounds over University football players, who pinter to an average of 298 lb., 88 to 00 per cent. had Irregular iceth-an average 6 f. in height and 178 lb. while the strongest bile showed 345 that must be straightened if they birth weight and stood 33 inches in weight.

b. A little Eskimo girl eight years were to have normal occlusion, high.

have jaws and teeth nearly twice mere 100 b.

On the other hand, the midget ren had normal function and occlu-Shetland pony and a jackass. When

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