Aeroplanes For Police

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 182, 6 August 1935, Page 10

Aeroplanes For Police

GLASGOW CORPORATION FAV-’ OURS QUICKER TRANSPORT MOVE EXPECTED TO PRODUCT’ VALUABLE RESULTS While other forces throughout Grea Britain are still' experimenting, Gias gow police officers are to be provided with aeroplanes to speed-up tho work of crime detection and identification. Tho decision was taken by a subcommittee of the corporation on a proposal submitted by the chief constable, Captain P. J. Sillitoe, and although it needed ratification, it was considered that the use of aeroplanes by the Glasgow force would begin almost immediately. The chief constable will be entitled to charter aeroplanes whenever he thinks it necessary. “The use of aeroplanes was bound to come. Arrests often call for identification from a distant force, and it is advisable for a man detained in custody to be identified as quickly as possible. “In Scotland it takes many hours by land transport to get to some of tho remote northern places which could be reached by air in a comparatively few minutes. * “It is not only for identification purposes, however, that an aeroplane would bo useful. A force like Glasgow can act as a divisional Scotland Yard, and it may be urgent for fingerprint experts to be taken by air.” Glasgow Corporation also'been considering the advisability oi allowing councillors and corporation officials to travel by air on municipal business. The question of a municipal aerodrome is expected to come under consideration.

craze. When, in 1933, Paul Whiteman and his band paid their first visit to England they were received with frantic enthusiasm, and Paul Whiteman was introduced to the Prifice of Wales. Hostesses still invited “Miss X and Partner” to a dance—it was the easiest way of providing against the shortage of men. Sometimes young mm and women whoso steps •‘went’’ together would form a kind of permanent dancing partnership, dancing together night, after night, though they might have no other interest, in each other at all. Even by .1926 hostesses were asking young num and women separately to dances; the acutcst of the partffershortage was over. Dancers who for years had “gate-crashed” into private dances found themselves forbidden the doors of houses to which they had no invitation. Dancing teachers made the most of the Charleston when it. arrived from the United States in 1926, but. it. did not. flourish for long. Nor did its successor, the Black Bottom. As skirts grew longer again the strains of “Blue Dunube” and “Daisy Bell” rose louder and louder from radio, dance band and wireless until even the barrel organs celebrated the return of the waltz. Of the dozens of new dances that have bepi: introduced since only the h’lmiba Ims had any Il i' not <hic to k? crazy about dancing