CABLED SPECIALS.

Shannon News, 17 September 1929, Page 3

CABLED SPECIALS.

» / SMALL BOY'S BIG SCHNEIDER CUP JOB. (Sun Special.) LONDON, Sept. 6. A very small Doy with a very big job is 15-year-old Raymond Lane, who arrived at Calshot from the Gloster Aircraft Company's Cheltenham works to assist the Gloster-Napier Schneider machines' mechanics. Lane was chosen because his smallness enables him to crawl into the most awkward corners of the long, slender fuselages to tighten up nuts and bolts that would be inaccessible to others. j He knows that he carries the lives of the world's finest pilots in his hands, but he is not alarmed. "I never leave a nut or screw until I make sure it is immovable," he said. He is the Gloster-Company's youngest apprentice. AL'S NEW JOB. A £12,000,000 HOTEL. (Sun Special.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. An 80-storey skyscraper, towering 200 feet above any existing building in Manhattan, will be erected on the site of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, now being demolished. This announcement is made by Mr Al Smith, the former Democratic canr didate for the United States Presiden-. cy, who is receiving a salary of £lO,000 a year, as president of the new company which will build the hotel. . The company paid £3,000,000 for the site, which covers two acres and has 200 feet frontage in Fifth Avenue. It is stated that the building alone will cost £9,000,000. ZEPPELIN PASSENGER WAS "THRILL DRUNK." (Sun Special.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The Mayor (Mr Jimmy Walker) and Broadway gave a hoarse and; screaming welcome to the Graf Zeppelin's commander, Dr. Eckener. Some exclusive shops advertised small packages of goods as having been shipped from Tokio 'by the Graf Zeppelin a week ago. To-day, Billy Leeds, scion of the tin-plate family, who 7 girdled the world with the Zeppelin, said that he was thrill drunk, but he had missed his daily smokes, which were not allowed aboa'rd. "I saw the world, but have only had four bath tubs since I left New York, 21 days ago 1 ;" said Leeds* 22 MARRIES 84. (Sun Special.) LONDON, Sept. 6. Following a three years' friendship, Cyril Mills, aged. 22, a son of Frank Mills, formerly a leading Australian racing cyclist/was married to Mrs F. Stevens, aged 84, a widow owning muchtproperty, at Saint John's Parish Church, Woking. The bride, who is a confirmed invalid, attended the ceremony in a bathchair. The bride's solicitor, gave her away in the presence of interested villagers.