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DISAGREEMENT ABOUT THE ADDRESS OF THE GUILLOTINE

(Copyright in All Countries)

DEATH OF THE FIRST MAN

By

Squadron-Leader

William Simpson. D.F.C.

RVILLE WRIGHT, the first man to fly merier-than-air machine enrrying

M

ita own propulsive power, died on January 30 after a heart attack af Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 76.

So pastes dying.

The primer of

His story is one of romantie achievement and adventure re- lting from persistence in the face of the failure of sucressive attempts made by mun for hun. dreds of year Torque the

air

It is elmely Boben! with that of his brother, Fendres air pankere,

felen! Willam, And greatest who died in 1912.

It begins in Dayton, Oslo, in 1871. Orville Was born the Milton Wright, second son of an itinerant preacher, and later

a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ.

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Tits eddes bother. Winsig. then four, and the two were to grow aiter lifelong and firm companions.

Palle was still at high school when Wilbur began to turn las hand to mechanical invention.

Ran paper

They designed a bress and used it fer printing a local paper, which they eruited themselves, circulars and leaflets.

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In Octobey 1900, they took 11 ut to the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk tests in hay, North Carolina,

notably gong winds

It was a failure, but they were not uttars They were mayed and enthu 1935-273.

Airborne one minute

They were tained by the 11- thur der Land oncedit-gement of Caffe z and no ter

For the next three years they spend meet at their spripe t'ai barl

Kally Hant, experipatkan with new glider which they tour test dawn a Jull.

The Bay were summer stul

and in the aura of rante 1.90 thest glides.

ARAB ARMY FORMS UP AT 76, EATON-SQ.

By John Deane Pottor

LONDON,

THE tenants of No. 76, Eton-square-

mansion converted into luxury flats-have complained to the landlord about the number of people who come to visit the ground-floor flat. It is rented by a 44-year-old Arab. Izzedín Shawa Bey.

Ils visitors are ex-commando and special service officers who want to go out to fight for the Arabs when Britain leaves Palestinc.

Most of them are peace-time misfits, men who congregate in the clubs of Mayfair.

In these clubs, amid souvenir photographs of black-faced commandos and R.A.F. squadron badges, they talk of the fighting that is past, and the fighting that is to come.

Arabs are also recruiting in London inde- pendent of Shawa Bey. One ex-oficer is paid 120 by the Arabs for every man he enlists for their cause. Junior officers are being offered £60 a month and £200, which includes the £71 air fare to Damascus,

TO FLY

The first flight. December

1.

WHIS

That day both the brothers made

th on the fight, and Willner, on

far 11:2

51 veronds, travelling a distance ol 852 feet

in a strong windt.

R was a very great achievement 14 the Wright brothers, who elista al nude even the engine. when they found 05.10 no stat adie! exte

Luter that He on exten och und of wind blew the amoralt wer and chemared it u pite

Pacte the tt dagh e Walm

weat oil Inter

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A light of sts miles war und in 1902 1904, they ravo oshibition dish!" na

Ment autem They manar d this a distance of 300 feet and ea matu wirborne for a me

This devided them to At the glider with an engine, and atternt powered Might for the first time--a decision that meant taking flying seriously tu 1 excision of everything else.

It was a courageous step to take, for, apart from the Bille money they had made and some help from their father, they were without financial backing.

T

dent ot

7.20 & 9.20 p.m. late Frycaled, they both refered mathematical study, and neither had

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But this was work, and, as Orville

fun to work.

Their fun Tonk the forin (11 biegeling and they became enthu static amateur racing cyclists.

Frun this it was a short step to organising a cycle repair shop, which in turn developed into a business for and Belling 150 Sear

manufacturing! bicycles

But life was becoming too serious, to businesslike. And in 1896, when Wilbur was 29 and Orville 25. they read about Otto Lilienthal and ex- at- periments in gliding he was tempting to make in Germany.

They had already taken a practicnt Interest in aeronautics, by making and ying enormous kites from the open country around Dayton.

Their Best leston in aeronautica was, In fact, learned as these kites soared up against the wind.

meant, too. i freal

at school excelled in mathematles although Wilbur lad n remarkable. memury. And it meant research into the pressure and behaviour of air. experiments in construction, inven tit of means of control,

They soon found that they had to empty their mind of the idens they had learned from books, which had proved faulty in practice and had med other air ploncus.

Putt crowh to 1906, and in 1907, with Willer flyi in France Darville w over the nity of Wash- angtan for the bonell of Government observers,

Kings visited him

17. 1903.

Anioni: Wilbur's visitors in France WATOTO King Edward VII, Klg Alfonso,

A. and Mr

Balfour, former Prime Minister. Wilbur made

£20,000 before returning; home.

United with Orville again, a Bubl Berall was built and sold to the Da, Governmeal for £0,000.

During the hot world war the Wacht brothers gave the British Government tree use of their patents, Corville, while advising the United Shades Was Pepartment, calteri fen 10 000 alcem to "inish the war in ten dag"

working My the time he was adene, for Wilbur had diel of typhobi

12.

Fer-panoura were awarded-to-the-

brothers until 1928, when Weight

seerived the Distinguished Flying Cross of America. It wres nearthed to Wilbur posthumously.

Orville had received the anedal of the Royal Society of Arts from Britain in 1917,

On his 70th birthday in 1941 Orville Wright sold that he and his brother never foresaw the airplane as n "terrible, engine of war."

In 1908 Wilbur, working alone in ashed at Auvours, near Le Stais,

aircraft,

ane! produced his own astonished French airmen, who were famous witis 11 impidly becomin might' at one hour and 31 minutes. Later that year he set up a world dance record of 77 miles in Zhus, end, working

lah.

was a teetotaller and non-smoker all his life.

An ex-colonel I met was որ- priched by a girl who offered him twice his wartime pay and £500 eth to Join

Said the cotanci. "Those who sign up just disappear without saying goodbye 10 their Nine have gone from my

irin

club."

4. The serretary of the Arab Lengue,

Kahunan

Azzam Pasha, has atrendy flown to Cuiro with a list of 5,000 homes of British men and women willing lo serve with the Arabs.

•

LTHOUGH ex-officers waliing to leave are unwilling to talk,

lives Shawa Bey is not. Ho

in a ten-room flat with his French wife and their son, who la at Harrow.

Dressed in a brown sports jacket and flannel trousers, Shawa sald:

of

nm the representalive in Eucland the Palestine Arab Higher Co-

mitter, of which the Grand Mufl of Jerusalem is the hend.

"I have been bannert from Palez- tine these past ten years becaure I have never

agreed with the British Government's unlicy there. Now I just hover around the edges of the country."

•

•

CHAWA was reported last year to be in charge of a Chiro head- quarters of Arab youth ormies of 25.000 men. Six months Inter-last June he came to London. "No one disturb: me har he

only in t

the

sald.

"It is they

Are afraid will

my people." He denied that there is unders ground recruiting in London for the Arabs. There is no need for it. The number of volunteers has

to bo women asking even had ambulance drivers or nurses."

Not nuo volunteer, says Shawa, has asked for any

remuneration. "They leave that to us." One man £850-n- has offered to give up an year job.

hren quite touching. We bave

"I cannot stop them coming. My phone and doorbell ring all the time. The other night a New Zealander ratig my bell at ten o'clock wanting. to win up. I take their particulars and we write them a letter, thanking them for their moble offer. Because

it is noble; they are offering to Iny down their lives for us... -*

And so, unless the protest of the tenants succeeds, the tramp of feet 70. Eaton- on the ground floor t youare goes on.

A

t

FOOTNOTE: Under the Foreign

a

He had mer bem a pacifist--and | Fulletmirut Act it is illegal for

British citizen to enlist or be enlisted in the forces of foreign Power at war seith a State with which we are Until the Mandate ends. at peace. however, there is an Arab or Jewish State.

He remained an Inventor to the"]

in secret in his

durntory.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

Rizamughan uni

can understand the

to education. What is wrong with

T Filthistan tris, Kuzine Jalan Alisha

dialect. Let ne quote Mrs. Silvester the following?: A girl named Charles Parrot, who travelled widely among

Sprott put skates on his stills to were demonstrating-

She says, on page 174, Ashura,

The Ahuhas.

swim across a forral, fle was met their Persian folk-game of see of "Waither. Ahalaland?

halfway by a hore which guld. saw in au hotel lounge.

The rinus which they wear m their noses add to the difficulty of "Hulio, Egar!" Tom replied, "I'm I'm Sarah," So saying their enunciation,

they not Robert. and 45 elther grunt or yell when moved the scratched the horse's hump with to speech, it is almost impossible a brudawl he used for opening sacks

Shortage of funds spurred them on They had to be sure al success be-in two. fore starting to make each small part of the aircraft,

Twelve-second flight

The plank was laid across the belly of Ashara, but as the other two climbed into position the plank spilt The three men have decided to apply for a permal to get a new plank, on the grounds that see-saw not only entertainment, but also of intellectual value in encouraging is snid international frendship. It that the British Council is sending

****

Finally, on a cold and windy day, the trio to Korea to demonstrate the December 7, 1903, Orville Wright similarity

'British sand nade his Best historic fight.

between

Persian see-s

even the drift of

their

the Talleyrand survived it

to rel meaning. A common word among of ten. At that moment the sun rose in the west and darkness fell. So them is ushibo, but this may mean a river, food, a clearing in a jungle, Geoffrey went home. hat made of young ape, or a Hana-pulp. What plenses Ahahus best in conversation is i

COMPLAINT made by a novellsi you repeat what they say with n

that a fellow-novelist had put Conne, come, Mrs. Parrot. That her into one of her books recalls doesn't get us very far.

what Talleyrand said when he was fold that he appeared in Mme. de remarked Correct this

Stuct's "Delphine" as a woman, she bertelt being Delphine. "I hear she's of IAC

frightfully fond of put is into her book-both disguised At getting

these paychological tests as ulds a women."

Under the power of the 12 h: Old days in Ahahaland

petret engine, lying Not on stomach clutching the controls, he

At the turn of the century they had rose from a launching rall some six DHILOLOGISTS have

stia

the vocabulary timt designed and built their first glider, feet into the air, and landed, large enough to lift a man-or under control, a short distance away Ahahas to very niall. This is com- they bellever,

paratively unimportant.us nobnay i

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