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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1948-9-15, Page 2r .: ;fii»Type Lifeboat Drops From Skies A two -ton air -borne lifeboat in- tended for rescuing bomber crews down at see anywhere in the world dropped by parachtlte into Long Island Sound the other day from a B-20 Superfartress flying at 1,500 feet, In the first public dentont•tration of the new rescue craft's capabili- ties, a parachute measuring 100 feet in diameter, the largest ever standardized by the United States Air Force, brought the lifeboat down without damage. The craft, which already has ridden our trop- ical storms in secret tests held in the Caribbean, measures an feet in length and has aboard a multitude of devices for the comfort of the survivors, in addition to elaborate navigation equipment. Air Force observers attending the demonstra- tion aboard ships cruising two miles off Execution Light disclosed that the lifeboat already is being built in quantity for their service. These observers asserted that the new lifeboat was the first ever de- signed to he carried in flight on the underside of a Boeing I:-211 whose ramie in excess of .5,000 miles will make it possible to extend air-sea rescue operations into sea areas hitherto inaccessible. The lifeboat itself carries a four -cylinder marine engine with sufficient fuel for cruis- ing more than 500 miles. The lifeboat will he part of the equipment of special air-sea rescue squadrons stationed by the Air Fore e at strategic spots, Group Captain M. O. Watson, air attache of the Australian Embassy and British Empire observer at the demonstration, said that it could be of great value in the vast expanse of the Pacific. It required only fifty-seven sec- onds for the new lifeboat to reach the surface of Long Island Sound after being released. A spot of bright great dye on the surface of the Sound was the target at which the drop was aimed. So accurate was the aim of the P,-29 crew that the pilot of a ship filled with newspaper photo- graphers at the spot hastily ordered full speed astern to avoid being hit. Fins somewhat like those on the tail of a flying bomb kept the new lifeboat from tumbling end over end in the drop. It landed right side up due to the action of its righting chambers, which were de- signed to be integral parts of both the how and stern of the boat. 'hese are made of rubberized fab- ric and are inflated with carbon di- oxide at the moment of release of the boat from the aircraft, so that the lifeboat rights itself re- gardless of the angle at which it strikes the water. A group of four Air Force air- men on a life raft transferred them- selves to the new lifeboat after the drop. The craft can carry up to twenty persons if necessary. Lar- ger parachutes than the 100 -foot one used have been constructed experi- mentally, but none larger ever has been standardized. Wife of Famous Scientist Wins Honors — Widow of the dis- coverer of insulin, Lady Rant- ing, has become the first Can- adian woman to be awarded membership in the Royal Col- lege of Obstetricians and Gyne- cologists. Lady Butting, who has been working in a London hospital. said she was surprised at the result of the examina- tions and was convinced it was "just a fluke", Mind Therm Grammar Searching for a parking space near Boston's North 'Station, a wo- n'Zj n decided to go back to one of the plaeea ei;; had passed up. Lean- ing out the windoW,esHe called to a i,e� ,rby traffic officer: -:• 'Can 1 turn around here?" Tie pp fi cII�Ilpl firs head sadly, 11ltt it reicher who has spent weary hours futilely trying to lila- press a simple fact upon his pupil. Then, his voice tense with exquisite sarcasm, he replied: "You may if you caul" Not Quite so Tough and Cocky Now—The self-styled leader of the notorious "Beanery" gang, accused of making life miser- able for residents at Ontario summer resorts, doesn't look at all happy about the whole thing as he is seen in custody of police officers at Barrie. Unable to raise bail on an assault charge, 21 -year-old Frank Stothers sobbed, "My folks have deserted ale—I don't want to go back to jail." It would be a very modest esti- mate to say that the 21 speedboats registered as starters in the Gold Cup race on the Detroit River rep- resented an investment of at least a million dollars. For one ex- ample, Guy Lombardo and Sam- mie Simmons, her former owner, have spent over two hundred thous- and on TEMPO IV. alone. * * * Of the 21, only fifteen were able to get to the starting line, what with one thing and another. And of those fifteen only two could go the full ninety miles, which is the distance represented by the three heats. The balance fell, or dove, by the wayside. Now there's no doubt that the racing, of.. speedboats. is.. a, very thrilling sport; in fact we know of few, if any, which furnish a bigger kick to both contestants and spec- tators. Still, when you come to think it over, if a guy really wanted to go anywhere by water, he'd do it a whole lot cheaper and with a great deal more certainty by means of an old fashioned rowboat, or even a raft. * * * Last year we commented several times about Jackie Robinson—the first of his race to make the major leagues in baseball with praise for his brilliant play, also his gameness for sticking in there in spite of the rather rough passage he was given by some of his fellow -players and by a certain section of the fans. * * * This season Jackie's name hasn't been appearing in the sports head- lines quite so frequently—a fact which was the probable cause of a reader of this column recently cracking—"\What's the matter with your friend Robinson, that you used to be boosting so hard? Looks like he's just another of those fireworks players—up like a rocket and then down like the stick. I knew all the time he didn't have what it takes." * * * So just out. of curiosity the other morning we took a look at the National League box scores, just to see to what depths the dusky - skinned Dodger hadefallen. On the Saturday, we discovered, all Robinson had done was score Just For Fun There are many who no doubt still remember t h e fabulous Florida real estate boom of twenty-five or so years ago, when many an investor paid terrific sums—"sight unseen"— for land later discovered to be more adapted to swimming than farming, One such victim ruefully sur- veyed his worthless acres, or as much of thein as was visible un- der six feet of water, then made a bee -line for the promoter who had sold him the protperty, ou latter," he yelled, "Did- n't you tell me 1 could grow nuts on that property?" "1 said nothing of the kind," replied the promoter firmly. "What 1 said was that you could GO nuts on ft." both of Brooklyn's only two runs— they won 2 to 0—bit a home run and a triple, and taken part in a double play. * * * The next day it was even worse, Mr. Robinson's chore that afternoon consisted of merely four hits in six times at. bat—including a double, a triple and a homer; two runs batted in; one stolen base; and a part in a double play. When we saw that, in addition to this, he had been guilty of committing an error, we couldn't help thinking that it's a wonder they don't charge him admission to the ball park. But maybe they make him help sweep out the grandstand after hours to earn his salary. * * * Also we cannot help thinking—for about the hundredth time— what a marvel it is that the colored boys, who are cutting such wide 'swathes in baseball, football, track-and- field and most every other sport you might mention, simply cannot seem to make the upper grades of a game called hockey. It just must be that they simply do not take to Canada's national game—for the idea that they could be under any other handicap, or that there might be anything even faintly resembling a color -line drawn, is simply un- thinkable—we hope. * * "Train up 'a child in the way that ke should go, and when he is old he will not depart front it" is a well known Scriptural quotation with a wide range of application. .One of these, in our opinion, is Can- adian football, which we think will be eligible for an entirely new name, seeing that the "foot" has come -to play- so little part in it. * * * • For several years we have been calling attention to the fact that when a bunch of kids get together on a corner lot with an inflated pig- skin, about ninety per cent of their activities consists in practising tossing and catching forward passes. Back in the days when we could really enjoy watching a game either at 00 in the shade or ten below zero, it was just the other way around, * * * All the young squirts of that era wanted to be mughty punters, and that is what they spent their time learning. Now, this failure to "train up a child etc." is bearing fruit—and sorry fruit it is; and we older fans sit there and listen, in amazement, to the crowds cheering "monnnoth" punts which, a few years back, wouldn't have been con- sidered up to par in a prep -school game. * * * When you see a large, proportion of the kicking here being done by ex -Americans, you know that the worst has happened—for our punt- ters could always out -range those from the south of the border by 1fiything front 15 to 80 yards. One of these days a smart Canadian coach, instead of importing his, hired help from the U. S. A., will bring in a few of those English rugby boot artists, Give one of them a season to become acclim- atized to our game, and he's prob- ably kick his team to a Dominion championship without even getting the bosom of his britches muddied. South Arabia It was only a very brief dispatch from Washington, and received but little attention or comment. Yet it brought news which, in times like these, was so unusual as to be al- most unbelievable. This piece of news told of the Government of Solidi Arabia deli- berately refusing to accept a fifteen million dollar loan from the U.S.A. because of that nation's attitude on the Palestine problem. "We feel we wouid`rlike to get assistance from a friend and not from someone helping our ene- my," was the way a spokesman phrased it. As to the differences between the Arabs and the Jews no comment is intended, except to say that the lat- ter have bad greatly the best of it in the matter of publicity. But those South Arabians must be more backward — or more self-respect- ing—than was generally believed, Someone should really tell then: that nobody turns down a "hand- out" these days just over such a paltry thing as national Pride. Central Europe The Danube "conference" is over; and as everybody expected, even before it started, it was a con- ference in name only. ' kerely serving to confirm the Russians in a plesi- tion they had already seized. The voting at Belgrade proved not only Russia's ability to exert mastery over the greater part of the Dan- ube River, but gave clear evidence of that country's tight control over the foreign policies of the six other members of the "eastern bloc." The world's most famous waltz is the "Beautiful Blue Danube," written by Johann Strauss, an Aus- trian. But neither Austria or Ger-' many, which has for centuries had a vital interest i0 Europe's most important river, will have a word to say in the natter of its control. Thatff will be in the hands of Russia alone—or technically of Russia and its satellite nations, which means exactly the sante thing. The United States Government's blast at the outcome of the confer= ence pointed out that the Russian plan for Danube control upsets the traditions and usages of more than a century and a quarter. Mr. Vish- insky's come -back was typically modern - style Russian, "Certain changes have been made," he brus- quely remarked, "and all appeals to the past, to dead traditions of obso- lete organs, cannot halt the mighty upsurge of a new life." British and French representa- tives at the conference refrained front voting. They knew they were beaten—so what was the use? There are those who profess to "pooh- pooh" the Russian danger by say- ing that Stalin and his buddies are "only bluffing." If that is the case, they're certainly managing to -get away with it. 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The new port will probably be even bigger than Beirut—up to now the principal seaport of that arca—and will be able to handle as many as 20 tankers at one time. The new pipeline will be built along the most direct line from the big oilwellstat Kirkuk to the sea. Just when the other new 10 - inch line running to Ilaifa in Pales- tine will go into action is a mat- ter of some doubt. It is almost complete, but cannot be used at present. The United States The case of the "kidnapped" Rus- sian school teacher, and the conse- quent ousting of the Soviet Consul General, have been getting most of the front-page "play" in United States newspapers. But if it should reach the objective aimed at, a bill signed by President Tru- man—although receiving little pub- lic attention—alight have a more direct effect on the lives of more Americans than anything the Ka- senkina's, Samarin's and Lomakin's chance to do. The people of tl-.a United States —like a good many. Canadians— have the habit of buying things on the installment plan. Americans now owe something like 7 billion dollars "on' time"— billions more than ever before. And one of the provisions of the new bill is intend- ed to put somewhat of a curb on this practice. Some of the new regulations call for down payments of one-third on automobiles and one-fifth on leash- ing -machines and other household appliances. Payment for all pur- chases under $1000 must be com- pleted within 15 months—over that amount in 15 months. Whether or not the new law will act, as' intended, as a curb against inflation, remains to be seen; but most observers doubt that it will. The "time purchase" habit seems too deeply ingrained to be so easily checked. As the vaudeville come- dian used to say, "If it wasn't for the installment plan a lot of minks and other animals could wear their own furs in winter." Plenty of them will still probably be in dan- ger of losing their pelts, act or no act. 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