The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1939. Great Blackout London From Enemy Raiders 500 Bombers "Attack" 28 Counties Of Southeast England in Realistic Climax to Mimic Warfare LONDON, Aug. 11. (Fri-day) (CP) Inky blackness descended on this nerve centre of the Empire atthe zero hour of 12.30 a-m. today when the vhole southeast of England 28 counties joined in a four-hour test of air raid defenbes.

It was a rcalitlic climax to the irumic air warfare that has raged during the pasl three days be- tween the forces of "Eastland" and Wcstlandl For four hours an area that Covered 27.0OO square miles half of England doused its lights or drew ijs blinds tightly while 500. "enemy" bombers roared in from East and South to see if they could penetrate the country's defences. $00 "Planes on Guard. guard to! ward them off ere 800 'planes and 60.000 air defence soldiers-. The btacknecs of a pit dropped over London, the world's greatest Only St.

Paul's stood out 'like some crouching shadow, brooding' ovrr Ludgate Hill, and the murky Thames seemed like a livery ribbon, running through that vast 'congJomeration of 'brick and, stone. historic monuments, public buildings and dwellings that w.ojld be the targets of in- vading bombers. The blackout was Great Britain's greatest peace-time air defence drill. Ia an area enclosed by a line drawn straight west from Boll on the eastern coast to Stockport, near Manchester, then sooth to Bourne month on the South coast, honse lights were turned off or shielded by black paper, street lights were extinguished and traffic lights were visible only through narrow slots. All roadside lights, electric signs and skylights were turned off.

The business part of London, which. is. ndirnally quiet at that in comptcte darkness. Reflection of car headlights coni-' verging on Piccadilly Circus a noticeable glow, however, and one bystander was heard to remark: "If this is supposed to be a blackout, then Hitler's got it in the bag." eAS)rteed MO VOGUE i It tUt it I This, sleek young and flattering fur styled in smart, tiny-waisted, full-skirted models or in advance designs of new gadabout swing-back swaggers SQUIRREL is this year's "value find" light; weight, warm and long-serving." In a bright range of COLOR Grey Brown Beige Mocha- At August SAVING Prices of 15 to 20 $195.00 $210.00 $225.00, Choose from our versatile Style and Size Selection Have YOUR Coat STYLED IN SQUIRREL XPERT DESIGNERS home or Hides Doormen at all-night restaurants off the Circus donned steel helmets and carried gas masks. "This vay to the first-aid they shouted to passers-by.

A Planes Not Seen. The crowd quickly thinned and began to grope its way home after watching the searchlights stabbing the sky. The raiding bombers could be heard but bystanders did not notice any caught in the beams of the searchlights. Pedestrians moved gingerly, using flashlights warily to guide themselves. Extra police patrolled London to guard against crime under the cover of darkness.

Lights on railway sidings north of London and at Nottingham proved conspicuous. London. Midland arid Scottish Railway officials said that shunting was dangerous in complete darkness but they were prepared to operate thus Jn time of war. Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal 'and Minister in charge of civilian defences, and Lord Chat- field, Defence Co-ordination Minister, toured London in a car during the blackout visiting the huge Battersea power station, Covent Garden and. Alexandra Palace from which a television program was broadcast to a Fleet street newspaper office.

At 4 a.m. the lights flashed on again. The first streaks of dawn were beginning to appear in the sky. A real contrast was to be found in London's West End. Here darkness hushed the merrymakers and, the white shirt fronts of the men and bare shoulders of the women were scarcely discernible as Mayfair turned out to watch the blackout with hundreds of thousands of other Londoners.

Fog Adds to Gloom. Taxis plodded uncertainly through the which was heightened by mist and fog" in sections near the river. They showed only a faint bar of light through covered headlights. 'London crowds who love a show at whatever hour, were out -from Cockney Lambeth to "posh" Bel- grave Square. But there wasn t.

much to see. bust ghostly houses, dark figures of pedestrians and here and there, pencilling the night sky, scores of searchlight beams. Every so often a beam picked out one of the big' silver sausages of the balloon barrage riding on its steel cable over the city and "a F.D. Burkholder Limited 119 Bank Street Ottawa's Largest Fur' Establishment. FURS PRIVATE LIVES THE OTTAWA ffOUKNAE Tr(E 6EMTLEMAM EMPTVIM6 THE ASH TRAY tf, TME EXdElvELy'rJEAT Mr.

Freobic March HE DOCS IT A DOi.EW A CONVERSATION Blackout Costs England $702,000 LONDON, Aug. 11. (CP) England's greatest peace-time blackout staged early this morning was estimated to have cost the Government about 150,000 The cost would not have been as high if the blackout had been held, as- scheduled yesterday. Bad weather caused a 24-hour postponement and imposed additional cost. 3 murmur ran through the crowds.

Hundreds stood silent near gun emplacements watching antiaircraft guns of 3.7 and 4.5 calibre which are the last line defence against air attack. Outside the city, somewhere in hundreds of fast, hard hitting Spitfires and Hurricanes waited for the order to take off to repel attacking bombers from the Many pilots and machine gunners had stood by their planes all day waiting for a break in the weather, which caused the blackout to it postponed from The weather, bad all yesterday, cleared by midnight to allow air exercises over all the city. I Crowds Walt For Hum An Air Ministry report said the district was almost dear of low clouds. So the crowds, who had been seeing planes nightly for the past six weeks, stood and waited for the hum that meant the bombers and fighters were above. It was the nearest thing to what every Londoner fears.

1 Trains ran with drawn blinds and shields over locomotive funnels. Night factories and newspaper offices worked with black paper or other shields over windows. Special police with white sleeves directed passengers' to buses. -i. The police had no power to order private lighting to be extinguished, but requested householders who were negligent to comply with the blackout Piccadilly Circus, "heart" of the Empire and a blase of light in "ace-time'', was a well of darkness.

Thousands Jammed the Cir-ens. some hoping to "see the Many climbed the statue of Eros, but police cleared them from It. Among the other large cities affected were Birmingham, Rochester, Brighton and Bedford. The close-hauling of the balloon barrage over London during bad-weather facilitated "enemy" operations, but improved conditions early this morning permitted the authorities to send the balloons to greater heights, hampering the The Air Ministry said reports that "enemy" bombs were dropped near areas of little military inw portance indicated, the opposing force was beginning to feel the strain of sustained counter-attacks by "Westland" defenders. Keyes Supply Company Buys Toronto Firm j-.

The Keyes Supply I Company, Limited, has purchased the old established Toronto firm of A. Cross and Company, Limited, dealers in radios, refrigerators and automotive supplies, Corlis G. Keyes, president of the Keyes company, announced on Thursday. About $73,000 was involved in the transaction. As a result of the deal the Keyes company gains control for Ontario of the sale and distribution of a well-known line of refrigerators, radios and oil burners The Cross Company business in Toronto will be run as 4 branch of the Keyes firm, which has stores in Kingston, Belleville and North Bay as well as Ottawa, where the head office is located.

OVERCOME BY HEAT. VANCOUVER, Aug. 10. Overcome by 86-degree heat, Edward Wilson collapsed on a street and died before arrival of an ambulance. Police' said the man had been suffering from a heart ailment i i W1 WHO DOOU 4TABTED THE-SHOULDER; HANDBA6S? TEyARE CREDITED TO AMBASSADOR.

TO DENMARK, Ruth Bqyaj Owen feouoE. Ask Parents Keep Children Off Street to Avoid Accidents In view of the numerous automobile accidents involving" children on. city streets police officials; of Ottawa, Hull and East-view on Thursday issued a request to parents to co-operate in reducing the accidents by keeping the children off the streets. Motorists also are asked to be more careful. t.

Within the last 24 hours three children were injured by automobiles. Gerard. Gleeson, nine, of 190 Marier road, Eastview, ran out from behind a parked car near his home and was struck by a car driven by H. J. Bourdreau, 76 Springfield road.

He was taken to Ottawa General Hospital for treatment but his injuries were not serious. Mignonne Labelle, two and a half year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Labelle, 153 St Re-dempteur street, Hull, is a patient at Sacred Heart Hospital, sequel to an accident in front of her home. When playing on the roadway.

Drowning Is Found To Be Accidental PORT DOVER. Aug. 11. (CP) A coroner's jury decided tonight that Mrs. Lloyd Tincknell, 31, of Woodstock, was accidentally drowned after falling -off her husband's sailboat, the Trade Wind, in Long Point Bay, off Port Dover, early last July 4.

The jury added in a rider: "We recommend that the navigation laws should be more fully enforced in regard to smaller craft and also that placards be placed in convenient places pertaining to the rules of The (verdict was returned after Dr. E. R. Frankish, medico-legal expert of the Ontario Attorney-General's Department, testified before Dr. E.

W. Zunstein, chief coroner for Norfolk County, that after examination of the body he concluded death was due to drowning. -I'll 5 HJ: rffitilCVcltrfr REUIUeiA, LOMIAQO, HEtlltTIS QUICKLT RELIEVED WITH wsi DRUG STORES PRINTING DEVELOPING and ENLARGING Expert Work And Good Service WB DELIVER On Account of FIRE LOSS JOHNSON MOTORS MOVED TO ALBERT ST. GARAGE 137 ALBERT ST. -FLAUNT HARDWARE CO.

SATURDAY Smoked SIDE BACON 25c 0 By Edwin Cox mm MSPAie OPlHEENGIMEERi wun Mve iie-roMDroNED TH WHITE HOUSE ISAIR-UIVMO President Roosevelt HIMSELF. NO AMOUNT OF EXPLANATION WILL PREVENT tM FROM QPEMAG WfJDOWSf 3 SUPPOSE THOSE OVEe lit PI mo USED'EM 18 KEEP HER HAWD5 FREE. she ran in the path of a Corkery transport truck driven by Gordon Cook, 478 Arlington avenue, Ot tawa, and was knocked down by the right front fender. Conveyed to the hospital in A. Beauchamp's ambulance, she was treated for injuries to arms, left leg and fore head by Dr.

A. Lahaie. Her con dition is not serious. The accident was investigated by Hull Constables F. Marcil and A.

Leonard. When he dashed out on the street near his home, three-year-old Jacques Lapointe, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lapointe 99 1-2 St Henri street Hull, was struck by the front fender of a truck driven by Alex HameL S18 Chelsea Road and slightly injured.

Picked up by the driver, he was conveyed to his home where he was treated for minor cuts and bruises. Hamel was returning from an inquest where he had given testimony on a double fatality at Farm Point. Hull Constable Paul Labelle investigated. Mrs. Anna Sullivan Is Widely Mourned Friends made during her long life in Ottawa gathered in St Patrick's Church Thursday rnorning at nine o'clock, to pay final tribute to Mrs.

Anna Moran Sullivan, who died on Tuesday last The cortege left McEvoy Brothers, 471 Mac-Laren street at 8.45. Rev. W. J. Radley officiated at requiem high mass and also said prayers at the graveside jn Notre Dame Mrs.

Sullivan, the former Miss Anna Moran, was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Moran, and was born at Huntley, Ont The chief mourners were three sons, Henry J. Sullivan, New York City; Charles A. and Edward J.

Sullivan, of Ottawa; one daughter, Miss Evelyn M. Sullivan. Ottawa; five sisters, Mrs. E. Delaney and Mrs.

M. H. Fagan. of Ottawa; Mrs. E.

Boldman, Seattle; Mrs. Julia Morris, Portland, Mrs. M. Sullivan, East Grand Forks, one brother. Thomas Moran, Ottawa.

Among the many floral offerings were those from the Bell Telephone Eastern Ontario district and plant department employes, and spiritual offerings were re-, ceived from the women of St Anne of St Mary's parish. i- Herbert Short Takes Post on Anniversary When Capt S. Herbert Short, 224 Springfield road, Rockcliffe, took over the command1 of the Slst Field Battery R.C.A. (Ottawa) Thursday there was more than the average interest associated with the event His promotion came on the 22nd anniversary of his being shot down near Messines, Belgium, and severely wounded, when he was doing counter-battery observation work with the Royal Flying Corps. Further.

he is now commanding officer of the unit which is the commemorating battery of the 51st Battery C.F.A., C.E.F., with which he served in. France and Belgium before he transferred to the He enlisted in the 52nd Battery. C.F.A, in 1915, at Kingston, Ont, wnicn became the 51st Battery, 5th Division, C.E.F. Overseas. In 1932 he joined the 51sf Battery R.C.A.

in Ottawa as a junior officer. Capt Short is on the staff of the Plant Protection Division, Production Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture. TRANSIENTS WANT HELP. REGINA, Aug. 10.

With at least a week to go until harvesting In Southern Saskatchewan becomes general, harvest bound transients here today planned, to ask the Provincial Government for assistance, until such time as work in the fields is available. Roosevelt Won't Back Democrat, Conservatives 'PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10. President Roosevelt tonight told the Young Democrats' national convention that if his party insisted on nominating "conservative or lip-service candidates" in 1940 he would take no active part in "such an unfortunate suicide the old Democratic Roosevelt, in a message read to; the crowded, opening meeting by Pitt Tyson Maner, of Montgomery, Ala. retiring president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, asserted flatly he would not support a conservative in 1940.

"If We nominate conservative candidates, or lip-service candidates, on a straddlebng platform, I personally, for my own self-respect and because of my long service to. and belief In liberal democracy, will find It, impossible to have any active part In such an unfor tunate suicide of the old Democratic party." -f said, in substance, he not only would "take a walk" as Alfred E. Smith did on the party before Roosevelt's renomination, but the Democratic party would "fail if it goes conservative next year, or if it is led by people who can offer naught but fine Giving no hint as to how he felt on a. third term, Mr. added he did not expect a conservative to be nominated "for I believe the convention (next year) will see the political wisdom, as well as the national wisdom, of giving to the voters of the United States an opportunity to maintain the practice and the policy of mpving forward with a liberal and numaiuvaruiii prugiaiu Warden Quickly Ends Pen Hunger Strike i KINGSTON, -Aug.

10. (CP) A short-lived "hunger strike" among about .200 dissatisified prisoners in Kingston penitentiary was ended quickly Wednesday1 when a warning letter from Warden R. Allen was read in the prison work shops, it was learned today. Warden Allen declined to discuss the situation but it was learned that some 200 of the 700 prisoners sought to get their alleged grievances adjusted by deciding not to eat The "strike" ended when Warden Allen warned in his letter that orders had been received from the Department of Justice which gave him full power' to hand out any punishment thought wise. of world 127 I p.

Pay Provincial Workers While in Training REGINA, Aug. 10. (CP) Members of the provincial, public service will be allowed special leave of absence with pay if they desire to" attend training courses in the army, navy, or air force, it was announced today. The new ruling was made public by Colonel F. W.

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Try a tankful from a sealed Shell pump. sioner. Leave will be granted employes with full pay for two weeks and in no way will interfere with the usual vacation. NAMED FOREIGN MINISTER. BURGOS, Spain.

Aug. 10. General Franco completed a shake-up of the Nationalist Government tonight appointing CoL Juan Beigbeder Atienza. High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco, as Foreign Minister. HALF PRICE! 10c SATURDAY! EATON MADE MAPLE FUDGE Special Lb.

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