WIFE IS KILLED BY BOMBS After Alleged Murder Attempt
A woman, whose husband was alleged to have attempted to murder her in an Anderson #helter; was Inter killed by bombs when the hospital to which she had been taken re-i ceived a direct hit.
A solicitor, Mr E. Weale, made this statement at Dartford when the husband, Cyril WilliamL Percy Clark, 30, labourer, of Dartford, was sent for trial at Kent Assizes on a charge of nt- tempting to murder his wife.
Mr Weale said that Mrs Clark was found lying unconscious in the shel- ter by an ambulance driver and a nurte. Sho was removed to the hos- pital, and an operation performed which appeared to be successful. But shortly afterwards the hospital was bombed.
The word in which Mr Clark was lying received a direct hit, and she died as a result of the bombing.
Sleeping Children
The ambulance driver said that in the shelter lying near Mrs Clark, were her two children fast asleep,
Evidence was given that Clark
accompanied his wife to hospital,
Tuesday,.
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EMPRESS SURVIVORS-Among 598 of 643 passengers rescued from the Empress of Britain, sunk by a German plano 60 miles off the frish coast, were those, landed at an unidentified port. Scrgsant Peaston, left, was reunited with his wife and daughtot,
Automobile Industry's Big Role
In U.S. Rearmament Programme
By MACK JOHNSON - United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec, 23 (UP)-National defence developments revealed to- telephoned for the ambulance and day the increasingly important role the automobile industry is playing in the rearma- The doctor who operated said that ment programme. The automobile big three-General Motors, Ford and Chrysler- sie had every chance of recovering. He was satisfied that death was due all are becoming important factors in the building of planes, tanks and guns for an
unprecedented peace-time Army and Navy.
to the bombing.
Det-Sgt. White, of Dartford, sald that when arrested Clark described how he and his wife sat with the children in the shelter throughout } the night of Sept. 1 and 2, and went
Recent defence contracts placed with Chrysler ahd General{ : "Before
tore li got light we had a quirrel becouse I asked her to let me Motors Corporations called for 1,000 medium 23-ton tanks and go into lodgings and have a separa-71.225 Browning machine-guns.
The Army and the Defence Commission are preparing to construct one or more huge plants in which to assemble planes from parts manufactured in automobile factories."
HITLER HAS FIVE IDEAS
tion. I lost my temper. I struck her Secretary of the Navy Frank machine-guns, 0,007 of 30 calibre on the head with my dst, she fell Knox has accepted Henry Ford's M-2 alreraft machine-guns, 10,998
Hitler has five big ideas for back na though she was unconscious."
offer of the use of his River of the 50 calibre M-2 fixed aircraft America.
Here they are: machine-guns, 14,741 of the .50 Rouge plant, near Detroit, to calibre M-2 flexible aircraft guns to buy up South American train machinists for the Nayal and 7,385 machine-guns of the Republies by guaranteeing an expansion programme.
flexible, heavy-burrelled .30 calibre outlet for their exports. Defence production co-ordinator,machine-guns.
She Designed
Mobile Kitchen
William S. Knudsen, has asked auto- mobile manufacturers to pool pro-
Huge Cost
The cost of constructing the as-
Production Rate
1.30 calibre A-IS.
.60 calibre within 17
2. To sink the Monroe Doctrine
without trace.
A trailer cookery demonstra-mbers for the Army Air Corp.
duction resources to build 12,000 The contract specifies that produc-To make the United States' load tion kitchen, which has been pre- This order would be the first to betion shall reach a rate of 50,000 of gold-the biggest in the sented to the London County assembled in the projected assembly 10,000 annually for the 30 calibre
annually for the 50 calibre type, world-valueless. Council by Mrs William Pater-plant or plants.
|M-2'S, and 20,000 annually for the -To gain political control of son, was designed by herself.
14+
South America after he has won "The kitchen is primarily in-
The contract, which was negotiated economie control as in Plan No. 1. tended for educational purposes sembly facilities and of the first lot late is summer, specified that all And in connection with the food planes has been estimated
of the 30 culture A-45 must be de- To make the United States a $2.000,000,000. The new
Congress livered within 10 months, education campaign, but it will will be asked for the money soon calibre M-2's within 17 monuis, and man felch.
the +30
political appendage of the Ger- be used for the time being' for after it convenes in January. communal feeding in the badly-
months. The 30 calibre A-4's will cost This ambitious programme was hit London areas," an Evening be financed by the U.S. Government News woman representative was raperated by an undisclosed air- $667.53 cach, le 30 calibre M-2 vealed in a book published Wer craft manufacturer. Defence officials fixed aircraft, $641.71 each, the 50 York by two distinguished American told recently.
said the plants would be built near $1,000.20 each and the 50 calibre man of the committee
calibre M-2 flexible aircraft guns economists Dr Clark Foreman, chair- who is hunorary automobile manufacturing centres-
on United organiser of the welfare
M-2 heavy-barrelled type $1,004.35 States economic defence, and. Joan canteens probably in Micbigon or Indiana~~~~ maintained by the Electrical Asso-next
Raushenbush. ciation for Women, intend
Text spring. this A Navy
The book, "Total. Defence," has ¿caused meble kitchen to show the house-have her spokesman said no detalis worked out between Knox
a sensation in Washington, wife how a small kichen may be and Ford on the machinist trainhut
where It is considered to be an ac- planned as a labour-saving workshop programme and that it was impos-
curate and objective account of Hitler's plans.
"Mra Paterson,
The new assembly facilitles. will
In which everything has its place. sible to determine at this time the
Use of Wall Space "Full use is made of wall space to accommodate cupboard for china and cooking utensils.
number of men who could be given training or when training could be started. He estimated Unlit tippróx[=" imately 300 could be trained at one
"There is a special cool cavity for storing butter and milk, and would be sent as soon as possible. wircracks hold vegetables at the
door. back of
time, and that the first contingent
"Wires hold saucepan handles in place, and the front of the water tank above the sink in used as
The Navy has but one apprentice school at Norfolk, Virginin.
each.
WARTIME WEDDINGS ENDED
DIVORCE courts in Britain
war.
The Army has declined to revent are glutted with cases, and many details of the tank and machine-gun of the couples are those who black-contracts with Chrysler and General married in the early days of the board for demonstration purposes. Motors, having announced only the "An oil-cooker is supplied, and the amounts-$53,500,000 to Chrysler for kitchen is also wired for electricity,” | tanks, and $81,398,872 to. General
Mrs Paterson designed the first of Motors for machine-guns. the Beet of seven mobile E.A.W. cun- teens, which serve searchlight and anti-aircraft batteries and other war
country.
Tanks and Guns
The United Press learned how-
a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis, calls for
Uniforms and war glamour have never failed to result in a number of hasty marriages,
Marriages in this first year of
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Plumber's Boy's Wish
plumber's boy, aged 17, whose
Wanting to see London,
home is in Renfrew, took a train from Glasgow and duly arrived in the Metropolis. Unfortunate- ly for him, he had omitted the formality of taking a ticket, and service units in various parts of the ever, that die Chrysler contract, un war have increased fifty per he found himself under arrest.
the new M2A-1 tanka 50 mile-cent. Divorces are expected to After a week in custody on re- per-hour vehicle embodying all re-number about 35,000.
mand, he appeared at Clerkenwell cent developments. It wil bo
Police Court
R. before Mr "War Is always accompanied by an
W. equipped with a 37 MM cannon and increase in divorce," an offein) of
Howard. machine-guns for land action and the Church Army said.
Addressing him, the Magistrate re- anti-aircraft defence.
"This is because many couples who marked, "When you had been before The tanks will be built at a new have long been conselous of their me last week I was afraid arsenal, which is being erected at married unhappiness have felt that father and mother would be anxious Warren Township, Michigan, at a war is such an all-inclusive crisis about you, so I asked the probation cost of $20,000,000. The plant will that it is the appropriate moment for officer to get into touch with them. be owned by the Government and bringing their marriage to an end." They were glad to hear of you, and operated by Chrysier. The contract
sent the fare straight away. calls for delivery of the first three tanks next July.
Production of 100 tanks per month the peak-will be attained in until the sunimer of 1942, when the contract expires.
LESS WORKLESS; 500,000 Cut in a Year
Britain has nearly 300,000 fewer totally unemployed than a year ago, figures issued by the Labour Minis- try show.
On September 16 there were 815.- 071 men, women, boys and girls re- gistered as out of work, compared with 1,052,218 on September 11 last year.
The September figure shows that there has been little alteration in the position since August, 12.
loop are with year ago the re- gister of men wholly unemployed has been cut in hall.
The Ministry has ceased to give details of unemployment in Indus- trick. but it records that the only industry in which there was "con- siderable unemployment" was coal inining.
November and continue at that rate
The War Department will pay $33,500 for each tank, it was learned. That does not include the price of the engines.
The machine-gun contract with General Motors calls for production of 20,004 of 30 calibre A-4 flexible
Evacuation Blamed
an
your
Evacuation is having a profound "You have now had an experience effect on marriage. Salvation Army of travelling, but I am afraid you officers all over the country have re-have not seen London as you wanted ported this fact to their headquarters, to do, because your train home goes
break-up of families
time. pro psychological, emotional and moral bation officer will see you to the train reuctions which
"Don't be afraid, marriages many
because your seem unable to stand," say officials father and mother will be glad to sea of the Army.
you home again and will treat you properly. If you look after them and try to make them happy, everything will be all right. Good luck to you." The charge was dismissed under the Probation of Offenders Act.
Wives in reception areas are enjoying a new freedom, and Jusbands, left behind in the work-cllles, are recapturing lost bachelorhood.
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CANADA'S FOOD FOR BRITAIN
An important Government mission from Canada will, I learn, come to London shortly to discuss questions relating to food supplies. It will consist of Mr. J. G. Gardiner, Canadian Minister of Agriculture and ex- pert advisers, writes a London correspondent.
The chief object of the mission will) be to decide the quantities of food Britain will require in the coming year and how much could be stored In Canada rather than shipped hiero at once. Shipping arrangements, methods of payment and similar questions will be discussed and the conversations will cover fish as well as Canada's agricultural products.
In view of the necessity for con- serving shipping space, arrangements. will be made to concentrate upon the foods of greatest nutritive value inf framing the programme of imports.
On the British xide Ministers who are expected to conduct the talks in- clude Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, Mr R. S. Hudson, Minister of Agriculture, Sir Andrew Duncan, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr Ronald Cross, Minister of Ship- ping.
BRITISH CROWD MOBS PILOT BY MISTAKE
A British pilot who baled out; of his crippled fighter during a dog-fight with German bombers on the outskirts of London, and landed in the car park of a public-house, was mistaken for a Nazi airman by a small crowd of angry civilians, and narrowly escaped manhandling.
He was saved by a 'bus-driver, who noticed the threatening at- titude of the crowd and persuad- ed them to leave him alone.
had nearly attacked a British pilot When the crowd learned that they whose machine had been shot down they expressed sorrow, but explained they were infuriated by the indis- targets by Nazi criminate bombing of non-military
airmen. The pilot was slightly hurt in land- ing and was removed to hospital, where he is still under treatment. One of his first visitors was the driver who saved him.
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