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Are You Sure?

(Answers on Page 10)

1. "Farewell, · good-natured

honest-hearted Sam.

Unill we meet before the

Great I Am."

In this from the epitaph of- Sam Weller, Samuel Smiles, Spin Collixa,

Uncle

Sam, Samuel Johnson?

D

2. The Court of Archen is

Court of Appeal, tennis court, proposed new black of flats for the City of London, entrance to St James's Palace?

3. A dead hug might provide you with-

Lamb, pork, bacon, vest?

4. Puzzle picture from Adam the Gardener.

The Oaks, which was run last week is named after---

G.

Trees,

Jockey?

racehorse

house,

6. If your doctor prescribed

medicine for you,

a lambilive

he would expect you to-

Take it in water, lick it, tub

it in, apply it, in poultice, drink

after meals?

it

7. In the oldest laws of cricket

the over consisted of— 4, 6, 8, 10 balls?

8. Who was the first to be proclaimed Kaisar-i-find-n

Frederick the Great, Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Wilhelm Y., Wilhelm II?

Pligrim Fathers

1. The landed in-

Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey?

Swiss Funds For

World Charity

The Swiss Federal Council's re- quest for a 20,000,000 Swiss frangs appropriation for internationo,! charlinble activities has been sub- mitted to the Swiss Parliament.

The Council has tentatively fixed June 1948 as the termination date of this activity. An autunn cam-

the collection of farm pign for commodities for the benefit war- devastated peopies

was abandonext when a summer-long drought re- duced agricultural production.-As- sociated Press.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.

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THE 'FLYING BRAIN MAN TALKS ABOUT HIS TRIP.

By ARTHUR COOK

This

SEQUENCE ́0: Ground control

ot Brize Norton has now taken us over, Skymaster alters

head for airfield.

10

Course

10

Arc over

Genor

SEQUENCE ON We Brize Norton: radio compass now pointing vertically downwards TENOR the 10 hours 15 minutes

Instrument which is con- towards airfield. Radio takes over... that the American Sky- trolled electronically, operates with losing height now..

.cireling afr master flew the Atlantic skill not milke that of the latest feld.

types of calculating machines. At SEQUENCE 10: Airfield radio with no one at the controls, 29- one end you feed into it a series beam heading Skymaster for year-old James L Anast, of statistics and at the other end runway Bight No. 10 civilian electronics engineer emerge the answers,

out in readiness for

·SEQUENCE 11: Flying at 1,000 from Colombus, Ohio, hardly left the "automatic brain" for a

feet undercaringe is being lowered automatically

down, down gentle, three-point land- ing, on the runway.

SEQUENCE 12: We've touched finishes its job by

moment.

Occasionally he played gin rummy with the emergency crew, won 60 cents on the trip, but his eyes were on his instru- ment panel more than they were on the cards.

It was James Anast who built the "brain.”

"Crazy" about electrical' en- gineering, James Anast was drafted into the American Army as an infantryman early in the His big chance came in 1942 when he was sent to Eng- land to study radar with the R.A.F.

War.

Tho MAN

In the case of the flying "brain," Anast had to feed in all the details about the Alght which are normally given to a human pilot before he takes off. The "brain" needed the answers to these questions: "What is to be my male of climb; at what height must I fiy: what is to be must I keep contact?" my course; with what radio stations

For all these vital bits of lying data thero are dials and knobs to be adjusted on the "brain."

In the cockpit of the robot Sky- master was a replica of these con-

by a series represented lights numbered to tally with those

trols

on his own panel in the fuselage.

of

to

down! Robol cutting-out engine....

Here the human pilot takes over, applies the brakes, and laxies to a standstill. The. 2,400-mile trip la over, 10 hours 15 minutes after the take-off.

The FUTURE

Throughout the flight, some of touched the controin, though Colonel tt ut 240 miles an hour, no one

J.M. Gillespie, chief of the All- Now for the actual flight. This weather Flying Division, and Cup- won arranged in 12 distinct stages fain Thomas J. Wells, chief test or sequences, each one indicated pilot of the experiments, anxiously by one of the 12 lights on the con- watched the dials in the cockpit. trol panels.

the

his

"Many of the He told mo:

The FLIGHT things the R.A.F. taught me

Without From the time Anast stepped into are in this "brain."

plane couldn't the R.A.F. training I

In Newfoundland have done the job for this diary read like this: flight."

SEQUENCE 1: Taxied Sky- master into position on runway at checked the -in- Stephenville," struments, pressed master button. Light No. 1 went out... No. 2 Hit up. Time: 12.31 am. Monday.

SEQUENCE 2: Master throttle

of

It was in 1945 that American radar experts first thought an automatic brain, and 18 months ago James Anast set to work to build the set for the high-sounding All-weather Fly ing Division of the American Army Material Command.

Anast's job began with the as- sembling of wil the uvallable ex- perionie of radio alds for naviga tion, automatic pilots, and beam anding developed throughout the of knowledge, war. Every scrap British and American, went into this tie huge set,

By this time the automatic pilat consisted of about 8001b, of radio equipment-equivalent to the weight of a crew of four or five men.. All this had to be piled into the Sky- master before James Angst and his assistant, G. B. Johnson from lowa,

could press the button-and fly,

The MACHINE

Was it really as easy as that? What really happened? I found the answers in talk with James Anast, These are the facts.

nir-

What next, Mr. Anast? Well, I reckon it will be 10 years before . this "brain" is perfect for com- mercial use, I guess a couple of days in France won't hurt. I think I'll pop

over and see my wife's folks in Paris,"

BORNEO IS BEING OPENED UP

By a Special Correspondent

ORNEO, the efreus "bar-

It was only last year that prl-

Bonused to tell us. Was vate enterprise, in the shape of

the place the Wild Man the British North Borneo (Char- tered) Company, handed over to the Colonial Omce.

resources

come from.

And, as far as the average Briton knew, that was the major

The Company, which received (if not the sole) export of the

In the far its charter in Gladstone's time, home of headhunters

ploughed back profis, developed Paclile.

ns far as it was oble, North British

quite a deal and introduced law and order.

Today, the Dusuns, Muruts and For here is one of the countries. Sulus live at peace with the where the Colonial Development Chinese sellers and the British,' Board (alled to private enter- prise) will be sliding plenty of The capital.

These days, Barco has come nearer home,

British

racord of the population during the Japanese occupation was magnificent, but North Bomca suffered devastation.

Already, the

Powell Duffryn Company is sending out a mission to explore coal resources,

Sandakan, the trim seaport The Goverment is trying to Introduce

mechanised rice-farm capital, looked like a corner of Hamburg when the Australians Inga fine contribution to the

arrived. shattered economy of the Far East

And Britain is even now recely- Ing all the exportable surplus of copra.

What else is there in this chal- lenging courtre for British brains. to win?

Well, prospecting is going on in North Borneo and neighbouring Brunel for oil.

It is thought, too, that there may be large depusils of Iron-ore and other minerals.

Timber resources are immense and, as in the Gold Coast, British Gulana, and many other parts of the Empire, sadly neglected,

FROM HERE AND THERE:

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Everybody then got down to the job of reconstruction; Jeepa were wed as locomotives, roads were cleared,

buildings temporary rushed up,

Jesselton, with its natural har- and hinterland, has been chosen as the capital in place of shattered Sandakan.

bour

the

From here the trunk ronds of future will branch out into the wilderness. Already there is an airfleld at hand.

Now is the time for quick and profitable decisions in this oasis of peace on the fringe of troubled Indonesia.

SURVIVE PILGRIMAGE

SIOUX HONOUR

THE RAF

An unusual event took place during the recent brief visit of the RAF Empire Air Navigation School's Lincoln “Aries 11" to the U. S. A. While at an air force_riation at Rapid cily, South Dakola, In

the heart of the Stoux country, the Commandant of the School, Air Commodore N. H. D'Aeth, was in- vlied to become a member of the Sioux tribe.

The ceremony took place in the Sloux reservation, and was non- ducted by the 97-year-old chief, "Black Elk" who foke troughout in his own language. His speech was translated by his son, "Crazy Bufalo,"

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The Chlef said that his tribe of some 48,000 Indians hind watched with admiration the brave conduct of the British people during their ordeal in the Battle of Britain. The Sioux were a fighting tribe and admired brove people. The crew of "Arles 11"

were the first fighting English- men whom they had been able to meet, and as a mark of their adınira- tion of the British people as a whole the wished to welcome Air Com- modore D'Aeth as a member of the Sioux tribe.

The British people could only have stood up to their ordeal if they had possessed brave hearts, and therefore he named Air Commodore D'Aoth "Shanti Ohveti-Ka," meaning "Brave Heart."

The ceremony concluded with the', presentation of tho traditional feathered headdress, prayers to the four great gods and ceremonial dance.

Five-Point Plan

For Indonesia

The Batavia Chinese daily, Kong Po, has proposed a five- point plan of action for the. Netherlands which, it said,

Overseas Chinese. It advocates:

automatically pushed the lever

преп, controls fully engine craft gathered speed. No drill on Calcutta. The 22 survivors of a Doctors state she is perfectly total number eligible to do this is would best serve the interests of talte-off. Good thing—""brain" can- | 3,000 strong caravan of Chinese healthy.

200,000. not do this yet.

Moslems who set out from Darkul,

....

CANADIAN RECORD'

of

officials

SEQUENCE 3: Landing gear Chinese Turkeston, seven years ago

JAM KING

1. Dulch forces should not with- retracted on its own. Still climbing. on a pligrimage to Mecca, have

place where steps Sydney. The blue riband for jam draw from any SEQUENCE 4: Now at 1,000 reached Calcutta. It took them Ottawa.--Canadian food parcels to

have not been tuken to safeguard feet radio-controlled altimeter took

three years to reach Tashmir, over Britain this year will far outstrip lage making at the Wagga Show, which the lives and property of Chinese. over

drew entries from kitchen-proud flaps ifted engine the Roo! of the World.” and by year's peacetime record high

In three states, went 2. Dutels forces should not enter controls pulled back for normal then snow, rain, bilzzards, desert 15,000,000 pounds,

postal

to my bid Richard Kirkwood. any places except with the intention flying

Funger and disease had reduced forecast.

Richard also cleaned up the prizes in of remaining, as reprisals are Hable SEQUENCE 5: Now Öying #t their number to 200. They stayed

the pickle section. Richard said he, to be

Chinese taken against the height

appreexi before take-off. in Bhopal State for two years Compass

made his arst Jelly when he was 75. after the Dutch leave. Into operation, fore resuming their wanderings.

"After all, woman is not invincible course automatically sets itself for Now they have set up their embrol

in the kitchen," he said. Transatlantic fligh!. Light No. 5

Gered tents in Calcutta's Oxford ૩ લઘર,

Street, and say they want to settle there. They have now run out of

noncy.

3. Dutch forces should take action to protect Chinese In the hitherto undecupled (Nationalist held) re- gions of the interior.

GRIM LOOT

Frankfort. One million wedding rings, three bags of gold teeth, eight boxes of jewellery and over 10 tons of silverware formed part of the

ANGRY WOMEN £250,000 treasure transferred by the Palermo-Sicilian wonen are on military authorities to the the warpath to prevent the opening al Refugee Organisation, of a casino in the famous Sicliian sea. It was formerly loot extracted by the resort of Taormina. They fear that Nazis from concentration camp in their husbands, fathers, sons and SEQUENCE 7: Now in Tange Cape Town-Anna Van der mates

and

other victims. The friends wil gamble away all their frum Brize Norton

Westhuizen, born here, weighs 16 oz. treasure will be used to help Europe's money, and have addressed a peti- 5. The Dutch government should flying on beam towards

destina-and is eight inches tail. She lies at Jews and non-Jows who have suf- Lon to the Sicilian Assembly to stop help positively in the rehabilitation tion. Light No. 7 flickers out.

present in a cottonwool fined box. fered under Nazism to emigrate. The the licensing of the Casho.

of evacuees.-Associated Press.

SEQUENCE G: Halfway Across Atlantic now," "Drain" has just picked up prorranged beam,from radio ship south of Iceland. It is ruining

of beam

TINY BABY

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

LOVE

COEIT LOOKS

BETTER OVER

HERE.

*JEY!

HOY ABO

4. Chinese driven from Pangkatan Branden, a town just outside the Dutch lines in Sumatra, should be freed from their present danger. They are reportedly interned by Indonesians.

"A Picnic Is No Picnic"

BU KEMP STARRETT

PICKING THE RIGHT SPOT.......IT NEVER MAKES MUCH DIFFERENCE WHICH YOU CHOOSE EVERYONE WILL BE CURE THE WRONG ONE WAS SELECTED. JEY! HOW ABOUT LENDIA' A HAND?".

CWIT GO RUNNING “ARÓID WIFI

THESE

HEELS

THAT DREAMY LOOK GENERALLY MEANS CON A PICNIC THAT THE GAL MAS OVER-EATEN.

"THE UNFORGIVABLE SYN

IS FORGETTING TO BRING THE COFFEE.

A WASP ALWAYS PICKS A TIME LIKE THIS TO MAKE ITSELF AT HOME SOMEWHERE ON YOUR PERSON.

DID YOU BRING TU' BLANKETS"

SOME-FOLKS ALWAYS MANAGE TO BE INCAPACITATED FOR THE HARD LABOR ON A PICNIC.

* Ledger Syndicate

WHEN THAT "TRICK, JUICY STEAK THAT'LL MELT IN YOUN ! AOUT TURNS OUT. TO BE GRADE-A CHARCOAL YOU CAN ALWAYS DRIVE ON TO THE NEXT JAMBURGER EMPORIJA.

NO PICNIC IS COMPLETE WITH-

OUT A THUNDERSTORM.