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March 11, 1939.

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Women Are Going To Make Men Dress Better

WOMEN are going to make men better

dressed.

At least they will if a cumpaign to be started by the Men's Wear Council benes fruit,

The council spends £1,000,000 a year trying to make men clothes-conscious, and one effect of the campaign should be to make mothers, wives, and sweethearts, notice men's ever- growing untidiness, and persuade them to reform.

The organising committee of the Men's Wear Council, which includes Lord Delamere and. Lord Barnby, is determined "toj emphasise the beneficial effects upon "the wearer of the right clothes for each and every oc casion, and to stress the important part that clothes play in forming the character.”

"I think women are to blame as much as anyone," suld Mrs. Guy Oliver, one of the foremost Lon- don designers.

AFRAID TO CRITICISE "In every walk of life women are dressing better than they have ever dane, and yet they go out with men dressed in the most appalling taste.

They don't seem to Influence the men as they did. The me- dern woman seems afraid to eritieise her young man.”

"Isobel," the Grosvenor-street, W.. designer, said:

Hiked 154

---Miles

LYING seriously II in Bridg- water Hospital, Somerset, reccat ly was Edward Mealing, 26-year- old unemployed chauffeur, who

has hiltch-hiked 154 milles from London.

He collapsed several times on the way,

but left each hospital he was taken to..

For the first time for days he was without his pneumonia jacket-a kind of armless Jacket snade of wool covered with gouze.

"We shall advise ilm to stay, the matron of the hospital said; "but if he insists on going we can do nothing.

Mealing collapsed in a policeman's

arms in Dorchester after asking him He gave hla address as Osborne Villas,

to take him to the nearest doctor.

Acton, London.

The Severely "Super Clipper"

Future Giant Planes To Carry

One Hundred Passengers

(By Our Aviation Cerrespondent)

DESPITE the surprise and interest shown locally by the arrival of the world's largest plane, the Boeing Clipper, last week, apparently that plane itself is to be dwarfed by bigger planes within the next few years.

understand that Pan-might suggest that a similar change

"Only a few days ago i went to a

He was found to be suffering from cocktail party given by a woman pneumonia, taken to Dorset County with rather formal ideas. Yet one Hospital, and was placed in a pneu-American Airways recently sent will be nude in the 100-passenger of the young men turned up wear-monia Jacket

ing baggy grey flannel trousers and n Later he insisted on leaving the bright blue neck-high sweater. It lucked shocking."

Sla Walter Gilbey, veteran sports- man, said.

"What especially saddens me is that this untidy dress is so much against the welfare of the young man. You know that if he is slovenly in his dress he is slovenly in his work."

VETERAN ADVISES

PILOTS

is one who sets his ship down."

hospital. A short time later a Roman Catholic priest, Father Rae, found him in the street. He was shivering and staggering. Allhigh Fulher Rae gave him 58, towards his fare to Bridgwater, Somerset, where Mealing said he had friends, nothing was seen of him at the station.

stunt-speed sirserews by, means of

shaft extensions.

The hulls of both aircraft are similar, although the Sikorsky design

suggests a boat hull to a greater ex-

lent than the Boeing design. In the tail assembly the two aircraft differ. for the Sikorsky design has a dual in and rudder.

Severeky Aircraft Corporation a circular letter to eight manu-flying boat if the design is accepted.

The Seversky Aircraft Corporation

· Consolidated Aircraft Corporation facturers inviting them to sub-

was not included among the eight Consolidated have designed a fly-manufacturers to whom Pan-Ameri- mit proposals for the design and construction of a fleet of ing boat Bitted with four engines can Airways originally wrote. They aircraft capable of carrying 100 which are to be liquid-cooled and were, however, given permission to passengers for a

The Seversky distance of 5.000 supercharged and ruted at 2,150 submit a design.

Super-Clipper has been designed to miles il a maximum speed of 300 horse-power each: at sea level.

carry a payload of 43,000 pounds for miles an hour and with a cruising

a range of 5,000 miles at a minimum speed of not less than 200 alles on

cruising speed of 250 miles an hour. hour at sea level,

proposals

tructor airscrews through extensions

NEW TRANSPAREN! {ft aml severe heart trouble was diag-have submitted designs for a Innd head room. The development of the tail surfaces. It is claimed that this

These are 10 be mounted in the leading edge of the wing and drive Father Rac said that Mealing told Subsequently, various

to the cranksimfts. Each of the four It is to carry 120 passengers with bim he had come from London on a made by the Boeing, Consolidated, engines is to be accessible for ser- all the comforts found in a modern Jorry. He said he was a New Zen-Douglas, Sikorsky. and Seversky vicing and minor repairs during ocean liner. The aircraft is virtual- lunder, and when he was 17 married companies have been mentioned. Bight. Consoliduled claim that the ly ying wing and has particularly girl of 15. His wife, he said, was It is noteworthy that all five de- reduction in the number of engines spacious accommodation for state now dead, and their son was being signs have a common characteristic, from six to four will result in in-roons A dining room, a cocktai} looked after in New Zealand.

that the engines are accessible during creased efficiency.

bar, and observation and promenade MANSFIELD, 0.

Alght. Bocing, Dougins, and Sikor COLLAPSED ACAIN

decks will accommodate 60 people The design envisages an aircraft comfortably. caused-they Al accidents are

Con- sky use six engines, while don't just happen, Ralph Smith, All trace of Meating was lost unti solidated use four and the Seversky with three decks, while 38 of the 100

be housed in the A galley serves the dining room Bight pilot with Admiral Richard E. he was found near Taunton, about 50 eight. The Douglas is the only hand passengers will

wing at the expense of a aircraft among the designs.

slight which can seat 50 persons at a time. Byrd on his last antarctic expedi-miles away. He had collapsed, and tion, told a group of pilots here was taken to Taunton Hospital, where All have provided the maximum of thickening and a resultant small in- The interior of the Super-Clipper is

No crease in the drog.

supercharged to maintain an alr recently. He said there was "always he was found to be still wearing his comfort for the passengers.

detailed descriptions of the proposals In this arranegment the engineers pressure equivalent to that at 0,000 a cause" for airplane accidents and cumonia jacket.

Despite advice from 4. doctor, he will be released until Pan-American were faced with the problem of feet when the aircraft is flying at that the "smartest bad weather plot walked out and said he was going to Airways announce their intentions,/ dividing the cabins by the wing 20,000. A crew of 10 are required

Bridgwater.

but the following is a brief summary bulkheads, but the difficulty was to operate the aircraft.

The wing has a span of 260 feet "He was still wearing his pre-of what has already been made heads ut the sides of each compart and there are two lurge fuselages or

overcome by puking the main bulk- monia jacket," a hospital sister said. known about the proposals. "When brought here he seemed very

Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc.

ment and using auxiliary arched ribs outriggers" which house retractable Instead of a flying boat Douglas between, which do not affect the landing pontoons and support the "He was put to bed but refused to aircraft of a low-wing monoplane wing for this purpose has proved to form provides all the advantages of let us remove his jacket. We could type fitted with six engines in the have been another advantage in that a flying boat and it gives the righer not stop him going, but informed the leading edge of the wing.

the covering used to take normal performance and efficiency of land police, who warned Bridgwater.)

As on the Boeing and Consolidated wing bending leads would be able, alreraft,

There are eight liquid-cooled en- designs, the engines drive fully- without further reinforcement to Mrs. Ada Morlin, of 'Osborne-villas, feathering, constant-speed nlrscrews/ Withisand the pressure louds in-gines each rated at 2,000 horse- Acton, said that Mealing came to her by inem of shaft extensions. The curred in sight in the substratos-power and developing 2,300 horse. take-off. Two engines After spending a night there he left worthy and capable of keeping the arcommodated_in_cabins for ellier placed of the forward end of each of The remaining 44 passengers are coupled a single airscrew will be

The the two fuselage structures and ̈à ̄ dining room is situated on the middle third pair to the rear of the central deck and enables 18 persons to sit i buige in the wing, which contains the lounge is provided on the top deck. down one time. A commodious control rooms.

All the engines will be housed in- provided in the after portion of the time there will be supercharged Quarters for seven of the crew are large nacelles capable of accommo- the dating two mechanics. Like dying boat while there is an addi- tional cabin for two of the crew in and will be possible to service and Boring Aircraft Company

the forward portion.

real engines in fight. Three nail and freight compart- |-~~ The design submitted by the Boeing company consists of a Aging of the alrernft beneath the pliot's ments are envisaged, one in the nose boat fitted with six engines housed compartiment, another in the leading

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Christmas.

Soothes Jaded Nerves

Tuledu, O.

Exam-harassed Toledo University students had their, jaded nerves sooth- ed by music. Special organ recitals were played in the university's then- tres between quiz

periods.

sealed cabin is claimed to be sea-

whole-structure-float-in-the-event: of forced landing at sea.

The tail assembly is of the single in and rudder tyne. In the absence of any definite information it is su posed that Douglas have included the retractable type of tricycle and ing gear which has provided itself in the tests of the Douglas DC-4.

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two or four in the ship's hull.

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Aight. The engines drive fully the third in the tall. The tail is to feathering, constant-speed alrscrews be of the normal twin fin and rudder through crankshaft extensions. The type. Alameda, Cal. tuit assembly

consists of the con- Alameda county enjoyed a one-day ventional single fin and rudder, al- millennium for the first time in 10 though the recent change to the

Similar to the Boeing proposal, the years. Not single divorce or an-triple arrangement

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