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CHANNEL PLANE CRASH
4 WOMEN & A BABY AMONG VICTIMS
Explosion, Then Fire: Passengers Blown Out Of Machine
WHOLE FAMILY DIE
FOURTEEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED RECENTLY WHEN A JERSEY AIRWAYS PLANE CRASHED IN A FIELD 30 SECONDS AFTER TAKING OFF FROM JERSEY AIRPORT FOR SOUTHAMPTON,
THE VICTIMS INCLUDED FOUR WOMEN AND A BABY.
Not one person on board the plane survived; the crash was followed by a terrific explosion, and some of the passengers were blown out of the machine.
Of the drad, eleven were passengers, two were crew; the fourteenth victim was a man who was working quiet-
ly in the field where the plane crashed.
The weather was foggy at the time; the plane circled round
THURSDAY,
Her Grandpa Is Foreign Secretary
LORD HALIFAX, the Foreign Secretary (right), at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, when he attented the christening of his prasid-daughter, Susan Diana, seen in the arms of her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Wood. Father, who is M.P. for York, is seen holding the baby's year-old slater, Caroline Victoria.
ONE
DEAD MAN
twice and then came down, striking the ground about 600 yards CAN GIVE
GIVE SIGHT
from the airport
LONDON MAN'S ESCAPE
Mr. Louis Morris. of Shaftesbury-avenue, W., had arrived at the airport about five minutes before the plane, the St. Catherine's
Bay, was due to leave.
TO 5 WHO LIVE
An appeal for the charitable to bequeath their eyes to hos--
It was Impossible to find a place for him-to which factpitals so that blind persons may be able to receive the new "cor- he undoubtedly owes his life.
A Mr. Hopie, of Guernsey, also had a lucky escape. Arriving Inte at the airport, he tried in vain to rush the barriers to board the plane.
The plane--the 10.30 a.. | Jersey to Southampton service,
which was leaving 20 minutes BROKE JAIL, FOUND HURT
late-caught fire the instant it struck the ground.
"It did not
hit anything else." said the London manager of Jersey Airways
:15:
The names of the dead are given
Xirs. L. II. S. Wall,
Mr. F. Brrry.
200 yds. AWAY
Edward James Francis, twenty-two-year-old prison-
Lt. Col. C. T. and Mrs. Swan and Cr, climbed a twenty-foot
infant in buty In arma);
Mr. T.-O...Cox:
Mr. H. Kersley;
Rin:
wall and escaped from Ox- ford Jail recently.
He was found in the cellar of a
neal window" eye operation and recover their sight has been made in Washington, D.C., by Doctor Ramon Castroviejo, New York eye specialist.
Dr. Castroviejo, who has developed the corneal operation, is credited with having restored sight to many blind persons.
About 10,000 people in the United States might benefit from this
sporation, the doctor said, but a healthy human sye was essential.
If the cornea were clouded,
through disease or accident, he said,
it was possible, provided the rest of the eye was functioning, to graft in clear portions of other corneas and thus let light into the lens again.
EYES IN ICE BOX
were
The eyes of persons recently dend perfectly adequate for this purpose, the doctor added. The corneal tissue was, in fact, about the last portion of the body to suffer death and human eyes cou.d be kept
Major G. H. Voisin and Mrs. Voltensment 200 yards away while war-in a refrigater for at least three days
ders and all available members of and perhaps longer. the city police were hunting for him.
Mr. Spring: Miss Hansford:
Captain A. G. M. Gary, the pilot, and Radio-officer Lyens.
band who was killed The farm was Emund le Cornu, employed by Mr. Laurens, af St. Paters' Farm. The plane crashed right on top of him, killing him.
Early this year Mr. Cornu lost.h: wife, and their two infant children are now orphaned.
Mr. F. Berry, of New Malden, re- presented Messrs. Fletcher Nussell and Co., of Berners-street, W.1.
He went to Jersey un business, and his wife was expecting him home an the day the nccident occurred.
FOR 40 YEARS
Mr. Berry, who was about 61, was
a Lancashire man; he had been in
Islanda to attend a directors' meet- ing of a Guernsey -cinema of which he is the managing director.
Francis injured his leg badly when Only a small portion of the cornenl be jumped from the wall. He is a tissue was used in each operation so lorry driver, and was sentenced at that, from a single eye bequeathed Oxford in July to eighteen months in a will, it was possible to procure limprisonment for theft. The last es-material for four or five such graft- eape from Oxford Jail was in 1933. ings.
Doctors Were Not Told
A. R. P. Duties
Sharp criticism is being voiced in the medical world at Home
of the inadequacy of Government arrangements for dealing with air-raid casualties, disclosed by the recent crisis.
As a result of inquiries at the height of the crisis it was dis- covered that a chaotic state existed. Some hospitals had evacuated almost all their patients, others had made no move.
Hotel Girls Must
Not Gossip
These "don'ts" for g'ri bofel workers were given by Miss B. H. Coutts, of Broadway. Worcester- chire, at a recent conference of the Hotels and Restaurant Association at Southport:
Don't have a long face, Don't rossip or nag, Don't correct staff before other
staff,
Don't be untidy,
Make up your mind and stick to it,
They should remember that flp- ping was a difficulty for the wo- man vislier. · Men had the advan- laze of being able to keep loose change in a trouser pocket.
"We all want pockets bot fashion is relentless."
EXHIBITION, CLOSES
London.
Was
DECEMBER 1, 1938.
FRENCH
STRIKE BROKEN
Government Boats Trade Unions
Paris, Nov. 30.
Apparently the Government has won the first round. The vital transportation services operated nor- mally this morning with the excep- Con that on unusually number of soldiers, guardsmen, and police were in evidence in the expital.
·Street cleaners and garbage collec- fors returned to work while lee de- liveries were made and shops and cafes opened as usual.
Al 4.12 am, the first strike break- Ing train, panned by a conscripted military crew protected by soldiers, deported on its way for Nantes. The engineer and members of the crew when asked whether they were ignoring the Confederation's orders replied: "Hell yes. We are going; we are in the army now."- United Press.
Trains as USURI
Paris, Nov. 30. Early morning trains were run- ninft as stal at three of the prin cipal Parin railway stations, Gare du Nord, Gure de Lest and Gore St. Lazare. The underground rail- way worked a reduced service - though was running normally on several lines, including that serving the terminus of Porte: Clignancourt, where soldiers were standing with
xed bayonets.
Taxis were fairly numerous al- though most of them were driven by the owners. Street cleaning ser- vices functioned as usual and apart from the exceptional number of police in twos and threes and small groups of Mobile Guards at street corners or riding in lorries, Park had an almost normal appearance.
rc-
Judging from the position of ports so far received from the pro- vinces, the attempt to bring about n general stoppage has proved a com- lete failure. The public suffered little discomfort and life Is com-
branch normal. In practically no
of activity has the strike order been obeyed throughout the
Many Country
groups of workers who yesterday voted for the strike unexpectedly turned up this morning to carry on as usual. The firm mea- sures taken by the Government are regarded to be responsible for this change of attitude.
As the result of a deeree brought Into force by the Government yes- terday, the whole nation Is placed virtually on a war time footing. Men with their labour and goode were requisitioned for civil as well as military purposes which means that everyone must carry on usual. Around Paris there T 40,000 troops, Mobile Guards and pulice.
05
Indications point to normal or - most normal conditions in the hor- bitnis, water, gas, electricity, broad- casting and telephone services, and in hotels, cafes, shops, banks and in- surance business.--Reuter.
Depots Octupled
Parls, Nov. 30.
Two bus depots were occupied for Ave minutes by workers who resum- ed duties after representations by Mobile Guards. Similar menstres by the Guards were successful in the case of groups of employees who decided to adopt obstructio-irt tactics.
Dockers arrived at the Marseilles docks for work, but the strike at Was In full the Bordeaux docks swing-Reuter Special.
Strike Broken
Paris, Nov. 30. At 11 am, the Labour Confedera- tion headquarters virtually admitted that the strike has broken down at least in Paris. Blue was laid on the decrees requisitioning vital utilities and M. Daladier's strategy in rushing thousands of officers to enforce the and operation of normal railway other public utilities.
The Empire Exhibition at Bella- ouston Park, Glasgow, closed recent- ly. Unfortunately the last few weeks were rather marred by the crisis, A children's hospital in a densely, size beds, in spite of many urgent but this did not affect the closing the service of Mesirs, Fletcher, Rus-populated central area, which had inquiries,
week and the biggest crowd Scotland sell and Co. for 40 years.
followed Government instruction in Although the British Medical As- He leaves a son and a daughter as evacuating all its cases to be free sociation had spent, at the Govern-
ms ever seen-304,002 persons-was well as the widow.
for casualty clearing work was un-ment's request, more than a year in packed into the park on the Inst day. Mr. Morris, the London man able to discover from the authorities
compiling u
volunteer Wembley's largest attendance register of who escaped, in a cinema proprie- where it was supposed to obtala full- | doctors throughout the country, curd- | 321,000 and Glasgow's previous best tor owning 14 cinemas, mostly in
indexed as to their ages, experience, and been 235,000. The grand total the provinces.
and services they were willing to for the Glasgow Exhibition is 12,- perform-end more than 90 per cent. 593,232. Truffle in the centre of of the profession was covered by it so far no move bad been made by the Glasgow was completely disorganis- Government to indicate what their va oy the people making their way to the Exhibition. The weather was requirements might be,
not too good but this did not affect the proceedings and at midnight B.M.A. officials are now wonder-thousands gathered in a vast block
The Ministry of Public Works sal ing whether the Ministry of Health near the south bandstand and joined
that the strike was more effective in had In fact any preparations at hands in "Auld,
ne." The all, except on paper. And the tag was hauled down iron the sour-the mines, In any other industry, "British Medical Journal," in 14 ing tower, the pipers played their however, it was claimed that only leading article, says--
inst Inment and demolition work is an average of 30 per cent, had strucl. "When the International situation nirendly being undertaken. It was throughout the country. deteriorated late in September, the hoped that the total attendance would casualty organisation was not ready have been 2 and half millions more for a war, which appeared to be im- nnd in the circumstances a call on the minent,
guarantors, who put up £750,000 to help finance the exhibidon, is almost rin. The Exhibition has, how-
THE DEAD CREW
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Filot Once Sarved Viceroy The plot was stationed in Jersey and lived there. He leaves a widow had formerly and one child. He been pilot to the Viceroy of India:
The radio eMeer, Juck Lyons, was the chief radio officer of the com- pany, and lived at Southumpton; he
was unmarried and lived in apart-in the Neuralla. Colonel Swan was
posted for foreign Army service.
ments in Market-place, Swaything. SMOKE AND FLAMEŠ
His father is dead, and hi mother and two married sisters live In London
Before joining Jersey Airways he was radio
Hundred Ran From Homes People in the tiny town of Jersey, noticed
UNREADY
Lang Syne."
The Government declares that the strike has falled and there have been poradic cases of violence of troops, Mobile Guards end police took over "The hospitals were asked to pre-
the public utilities. More than 200 that the plane pare for the reception of casualties ever, been regarded as a success. A
were arrested in the principal strike rentres of Valenciennes and Lyons. make and domes were seen to be, tive co-ordination of this effort, for Service and had also served inasuing from one of her engines.
et the closing ceremony. Mr. P. J.The strikers battled with the police, yachts.
Mr. Lyons had been transferred to back to the airport, but was unable begun to make their preparations."
The plane turned and made to fly take casualties, others had scarcely
when some hospitals were ready to Dollan, a Glasgow councillor, sug- but there were no serious casualties. gated that the main features of the Minor scuffles took place during the the St. Catherine's Bay on reaching to do so before she crashed.
Exhibition, such as the Tower of eviction of sit-down strikers and an Jersey in another plane.
The article asks why the Commit- Empire, the Palace of Engineering, attempt was made to halt the roll- Hundreds of people immediately tee for Casualty Organisation, whose should be retained, and he urged that way service near Paris. ran from their homes to the field. formation was announced in Parlia a plebiscite of the city should be The alarm warning was given utment in June, has not been allowed taken. The Exhibition, by the way, The machine in which he travel the airport, and rescuers also raced to finish its task, and why no pub-gave work to 5,000 men and women, ted to Jersey left Jersey with eight to the spot; ambulances and fire en- Heation has been made of its interim and will keep 1,000 men occupied passengers two minutes ahead of the gines followed, but all were helpless report, presented in July,
afficer in the Merchant / appeared to be in difficulty. Then but there can have been no effec-age kom in kang wu received
WIRELESS DRAMA
St. Catherine's Bay. None of thethey, could do nothing in free of
passengers in this machine
aware of the disaster.
were the fierce flames.
During the trip to Southampton
of the
the pilot, by wireless.
pilot, Mr. W. Couldwell, learned
tragedy He pencilled a note on the back
an envelope, asking passengers in
This is the first fatality on the service, which Jerady Airways have operated alnce 1931 having in that time carried more than 150,000 passengers.
IND Bt. Catherine's Bay (G-
Thief Returns Pawn Ticket
for several weeks to pull it down.
One Million Salads Lost
Oakland, Cal. The American public logt au Oakland, Cal, estimated 1,000,000 salads here when his machine If they had any rela- | ACZN), was one of the five de A new code of morals has den freight train, striking a loaded tives or friends aboard the machino Havilland "88" four-engined biplanes veloped among California thieves, vegetable truck, ploughed through which was following them.
which maintained Jersey Airways, One who stole $3,000 in diamond four other, trucks, putting them out As it happened there were none. Ltd, daily services between Jersey, rings from the home of Jorge G. of business. The engineer of the Colonel and Mrs. Swan and their Southampton and Hekton Airport. Benson obligingly sent back the train was not aware of the accident chill who 11⁄2- llawed to have been The type has accommodation for pawn tickets for their recovery. This until a produce wholesaler boarded about, throq your were sailing next 14 passengers and has a speed of 175 is the second time this has been his train and applied the emergency day from Southampton for India Im.p.lt.
done recently in California robberies. brakes.
At Lillo ten persons were injured and 50 arrested. Mobile Guards charged with tear gas bombs and clubbed the strikers who retaliated by showering the street vehicles with all kinds of utensils-United Press.
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