GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 29 April 1941, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

(Rec. 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, A?ril 28. Six boys of Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, were killed and seven injured when they jumped from a blazing carriage on the London-Newcastle express. The carriage contained 64 boys. The Germans have fined Dieppe £60,000 because a cinema audience greeted a film of the Italian and German air forces with 6houts of "Down with Hitler and Mussolini!" The Dieppe Municipality has been ordered to provide a compulsory watch on the telephone and telegraph lines because babotago is prevalent. WASHINGTON". April 28. Vincent Malone, secretary of the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers' and Wipers' Union, told the Maritime Commission to-day that some of the L'nited States vessels transferred to the Panama flag were transferred to the Japanese Registry after a short interval. Asked for. evidence, he said ho would supply the names of the ships. He spoke at a conference called to discuss means of meeting the need lor seamen in the expanding merchant marine. The Supreme Court ruled to-day that negroes are entitled to the same firstclass services and accommodation on Pullman cars as white passengers. The Senate Committee investigating air crashes learned to-dav that in 1937 the National Advisory Committee issued a confidential report criticising certain qualities and types of transport planes which have since been involved in several fatal air crashes. This was testified by Hartley Soulc, an expert, who conducted stability test 6on the plane referred to as the DC3, and by Dr. George Lewis, director of aeronautical research, who testified that a confidential report on the performance of the DC3 was turned over to numerous airplane companies tisin£r_ these planes and to the Bureau of Air Commerce. Ho said they should read the part of the record which included: '•With power on. the stall is dangerous. The aeroplane flies right to the stall with very little vibration." "Why wasn't this extremely valuable information included in the report to Congress?" Senator Clark asked l>r. Lewis, who replied.that the N.A.C.A. felt it had done its duty when it supplied it to tlie companies using the planes. "Then the law ouplit to bo changed," Senator Clark said.