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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 31, 1939..
Ubrary, Supetros. Court
14,200 FEET UP
IN A GLIDER
Record Breaker's
Own Story
DUNSTABLE.
"I COULD have climbed higher in my glider, but conditions in the cloud which was carrying me up were getting too rough, so I flew out of it when my alti tude registered 14,200ft.," said Mr. Philip Aubrey Wills, of the London Gliding Club, who created a new. British. altitude gliding record recently,
Mr. Wills also holds the British long distance gliding record. In April last year he flew from Hesion
to Cornwall 200 miles in six hours.
"It is a pretty horrifte underink-
PLOUGHMEN FIND
TEMPLE SITE
The site of a Roman templa has been uncovered in the fields of form at Harpenden and exesvalions Jave disclosed portions of the statue of the god that was worshipped there.
The temple, which stood about a mile off the old Roman road called "Walling Street,” is on the farm of the Rothani- sted Experimental Station. Sir John Russell, director of the sinllon, said that the discovery: was made by men ploughing the ields. who turned up pieces of brick and tile,
Experts were called and found two cremation burial places. An urn which had been smashed AB # result of ploughing was probably buried In the year 125 A.D.
ing." Mr. Wills snici. "In there ped climbing. At the top of my storm clouds you get frightfully flight the temperature was appro wild conditions. It is rather weirdximately zero, 32 degrees of frost.
"Jazzing Up" The Work
The story of the mistress who ask-
to be completely enclosed by cloud Conditions begun to get much tooled her servant to sing jazz rather alone in a plider and to be bumped rough, so I was forced to straighten than hymn. tunes, because when about in this way.
- "STAGGERING"
"I went up in my own glider, a Minimea, at 3.30, and-I came down Just after six o'clock. It took me on hour and a half to attain sufficient altitude to get beyond Luton, where I made my altitude record.
"During that time I climbed 3,000 ft., but when I got Inside the cloud I climbed 10,000ft. in about 715 min utes. It was simply terrific, quite stuggering. My best lift 1,100ft. in 30 seconds.
was over
"I passed through hail and ire formed on the gikler. It began to set very rough and I was thrown about. I was coping with air that was rising at more than 25 miles on hour and there were some really big bumps.
CLIMBING BLIND
"I was completely blind while, en- veloped by the cloud, but I had to
up and come out.
"As far as I could see the cloud singing the former she always did went another 1,5001t.. but it would her work quicker, has a definite basis have been very dangerous in those in fact, according to a report on res! conditions to have gone farther, al-ouses and refreshments in industry. though probably I could have
by the National Institute of Industrial above teached 10,000, or 17,000ft. the launch height. Breathing, was Prychology. right, apparatus
Members of the Seaforth Highlanders Installing field selephones on the Garden Bridge, Shanghai.
Five
million children choose their favourite
IN
by SETON MARGRAVE
Of course. I had my oxygen
Interviews were obtained with the my machine." The Germans hold the world re-ociats of 1,050 factories employing cord for gliding altitude with about 385,000 people, and of these 10.7 per Jeent, of the factories provided music. 28,000ft.
Some of the comments from "Of course," said Mr. Wills with a smile, "we chaps here do it for fun officials were: and the Germans do 1 for Hitler." "Music is the effect of stopping are: Buck Jones. Shirley Tem-clubs for 150,000 children, tells what
Mr. Wills was
unable to get chatter and work improves in con-ple, Jane Withers, Tim McCoy, children like and dislike in Alma straight back to Dunstable owing 10 sequence."
Ken Maynard, Will Hay, Tar- the storm.
the zan, Gene Autry, John Wayne, "Slow and fast musle ifTect speed of work. They work to the Bob Steele, George Formby, and
the team of Laurel and Hardy.
You disagree?
the considered opinion | British Almgoers between the ages
of 50,000,000 British of 4 and 14,
In "Children in the Cinema" (Al- the filmgoers, the 12 most popular tes and Unwin, 7s, Ed.), published stars in the film world to-day to-day, Richard Ford, who runs film
"I located nyself again when near St. Albans," he said, "and as I could not get back through the storm beat" flew along to Welwyn, then hat to turn north to Stevenage and then west to Luton, 1 just scraped in by the factories vislied und official rest the skin of my teeth and only hud pauses, which were spent in taking
krep Inside it or I would have stop-50ft. to spare.".
It was found that 52.9 per cent. of
In that case, you will be regarded
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THE Arst quality children demand in their entertain- ment is Action. Their cinema slo- gan might well be, "Cut the cackle and come to the 'osses."
Their favourite films are Western dramas having Action accompanied menace of the villain) and the triumph of right lover wrong (the victory of the hero
and the horse),
with pity and contempt by 5,000,000 by aggression (the refreshments.
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Watching such plctures the child identifies himself with the hero:
"When he sees Buck Jonca chasing the iniscreants, he is not merely ad- iring Buck Jones. but he is Buck Jones, and is himself performing these deeds."
AND these are the other
Ans children like: 1.--Adventure Alms having shilps,
motor cars or aeroplanes. 2.-Anima! filma Having bears (Krizzly or Teddy), dogs (pedigree or Pluto), ducks (Donald) and mice (Mickey).
3-Slapstick comedies, with school- teaching by WI Hay, tumbling by Joe E. Brown or custard pics by Laurel thrown at Hardy,
If you would mortally offend them. show them a film with love in it.
The nere sight of a heroine will: provoke their loud disapproval. A fore-scene-will-rouse-the-junior). cognoscent to cat-calls.
Children are really frightened by any ghostly, grotesque or gruesome { effect: which proves the British Board of Film Censors abundantly right in having created a "Horror" Certificate for films they think un- fit for children to see in any circum- stances and proves Walt Disney wrong in having made so realistic the transformation of the Queen into the Witch In "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,"
who dislike anagers Children
to them.
elnema talk down
One manager found that out in this way: "The very first time I used the new mlerophone I opened out with: "Good morning, children, and how in front are you to-day?" A boy Immediately replied: Lousy,"
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Mr. Cadbury's offer to establish on 8 permanent basis a full-time pro- been fessorship of Theology has accepted, and it is hoped to develop a faculty with a post graduate de gree and diploma in theological studies.
The new chair will for the present come under the Faculty of Arts, but it is hoped and expected that other Fociciles and individuals Interested in religious studies will come for- ward to remedy the present shortage of funds and enable the University to establish a full faculty.
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