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BURIED
EIGHT
DAYS, "I MADE BEST OF IT"
(By A Special Correspondent)
HOW IT FEELS to be buried alive was told by the man who was rescued after being trapped for eight days in bed in a bombed tenement in the Glasgow area.
John Cor-
"I'm feeling fine now," the man mack, aged twenty-two, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cormack, of Dagenham told me in Glasgow Western Infirmary.
Day and night were all the same to him as he lay wrapped ID blankets like 20 mumny Deciding to make the best of the situation," he kept his eyes
hut all the time.
"A crash almost threw me out of bed." said Cormack, "I found my head was trapped by beam lying across
wooden
a
the rooni.
"I could move my arms. not my legs, which Were WORLD ped in bedclothes like a mummy
VICAR'S LOVE
ADVICE TO
WAR BRIDES
"An exceptionally large but number of young people are being married at the present time and for the "I was relieved to find that great majority of these choked with birth prevention will be- dust and 1 was conscious of a gin with the first night of
I had not been hurt. Although my throat
smell of gas,
no immediate
was
felt there was danger.
Helpless
me.
"It was dark all around When I realised I was helpless 1 rust decided to make the best of the situation
1 felt no pain I did not feel thirsty or hungry.
"I could hear people in the building calling for help and recognised the voice of Constable Clark, a fellowlodger, complain-¦ ing that something was jamming his legs.
fallen have
asleep after that, I do not know when I awakened but night and day were all the same to me now just kept my eyes shut all the
"I must
time.
"Must Be Patient"
I
"I remember Clark calling out: Do you hear the sirens again?*
the
That meant that that conversation
my Brst and last-was on night after we were bombed.
"My mind adjusted itself to this way of thinking: am going to be saved. I must have patience.'
marriage," states the Rev. Geoffrey H. T. Pedley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, Coventry,
50
"One cannot but deplore widespread and radical an inter- ference with nature which, if persisted in, could scarcely con- duce to human happiness and well-being.
"I is surely obvious that nature's intention is to lead to parenthood.
is
times return
"What I am pleading for that when more normal return there should be a also to a more normal and natural way of living. I Min certain that the real cause of the trouble lies in our present social and economic conditions."
MAIN BATTLE WILL BE IN AIR
ENGINEERING
- BY COLOUR
Matching colours is more in a woman's line than choosing a drill to bore a hole of a given size.
So
of
new women
workers of the M.G. Car Co., drilling tens of thousands of holes different many sizes, have
their job made easier by using drills coloured to cor- respond with the marking of the holes to be drilled.
Each size drill is O colour and drilling jigs have coloured lines painted on them from hole to hole.
same
on
The
colours
appear
the top part of the drills of the respective sizes.
SHELTER
SHUFFLE
WHEN WORKMEN ARRIVED WITH MATERIALS TO BUILD A SURFACE AIR-RAID SHEL- TER IN SAYER STREET, WAL- WORTH, LONDON, 8.E., RESI- DENTS RAISED THEIR EYE- BROWS.
After all, they had shelters at the back of their tenement homes. The main battle, whatever hap- There was more than enough pened, must be fought in the air, room for everybody. Then eye-
Canter-brows went a little higher, said the Archbishop of
"I am sorry Constable Clark did not share my good luck." possibility of invasion.
Clark died soon after being Force knew this and would rescued. He had been entombed ready. for seven and a half days. Cormack, ship's plumber, was working with a Clydeside ship- building firm.
SAYS MEN HAVE 'TURK COMPLEX'
was
Much opposition to family allowances due to the "Turk" com- plex among men, said Miss Eleanor Rathbone, M.P., in London recently. "The man who is really a
"rejoices tyrant," she said,
in
the tremendous control which the holding of the purse strings gives him.
"The man who is not a tyrant
for
bury, Dr. Lang, when he referred laying the concrete foundation of in a sermon at Hawkinge parish the shelter the workmen dug it Folkestone to the up, and started to relay it round church, near
The Air the corner in Lion Street - less
be than twenty yards away.
Explanation. "At the last "Be ye also, ready," said the minute," said an official of South- Borough Council, "the Archbishop, giving Britain's civil wark
the watchword, "at Traffic Controller decided that population this fateful time in our history." Sayer Street must be keep free "Our enemy is making great from obstruction in case of bomb
ut the narrow | damage
the Elephant and preparations across
Yes.
they years ago our Castle.
It is a pity seas, just as 137 forefathers watched the prepara- didn't decide earlier. This is the tions of the great Napoleon," he | Arst time that we have slipped continued.
up." "We know not when or whence Workman's comment. — "Good the attack may come, but what job they decided to move the is certain is that, if it ever comes, shelter before the concrete had it is on the coasts of Kent that set." we must bear one of the fiercest brunts of the assault."
--
likes to picture himself with a stories.
wife and children clinging to
things.
favoured a State-supported
rate allowances scheme of 68.
Ratepayer's grouse. "There's no need for the shelter, anyway."
TWO OF LUCKIEST MEN
OF THE
Two of the luckiest men in the world.
Here are their
him as the giver of all good A CITIZEN OF CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Miss Rathbone said 'that she decided after spending the night in a local pub that flat he needed some sleep. Some time later he was. or 6s. a week for all children found by a cruising patrol on the railroad track.. under fifteen. If this were not He was still asleep, with his shoe neatly clipped up scheme for allowances which close to the toe-nail. began with the second child.
possible she would welcome B
Police said an engine had sliced "And we ought to fight like the shoe away from his toe-and these allowances left him sleeping, "tigers to get- paid to the mother," she added.
Miss Rathbone said "that a State
Gust of Wind
scheme of 58. per child for all Caught by a sudden gust of
under fifteen would cost £132- 000,000 a year, or £118,000,000 wind, John Barrett fell from an after allowing for all existing eleven-storey building in New, allowances.
York while raising a fing.
Crowds. in, the street below screamed and covered their cyes.
A2-split-second, "lators they heard, Barrett "shout. He had Glanded," wrapped in his flag, on the leather?" top of a parked. motor-car..
Doctors say that Barrett, who la twenty-six;"has a good chance of recovery.
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