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RED PLUM DAMSON lild STRAW A GOOSE (Old RASP GOOSE ld ORANGE MARMALADE FROM ANY BRANCII OF THE GOODALL STORE LEICESTER and DISTRICT A MERRY XMAS BY JOINING OUR XMAS CLUB NOW THURSDAY 21st AUGUST 1930 ONE PENNY other local daily paper FOUR TIMES that of any YACHTING DISASTER: 7 DROWNED MP AND DAUGHTER AMONG THE LOST People On Cliff Watch Wreck Helpless MAN SEEN TO SINK And Voices Heard In Cabin Mrs Spencer oi Leinster with Lotus Mlog and Dahchuna of China-town a Pekingese Mrs Richard arper with her Borsoin and Miss Joan Richards witb her Springer Spaniel at the Fernie Hunt Show at Market Harborough to-day A TERRIBLE yachting disaster which resulted in the loss of seven people occurred in Lanlivet Bay Cornwall last night when the Islander a seven ton vessel ran ashore and became a total wreck The yacht had been chartered by Commodore King MP for South Paddington and he and a daughter are among those lost iThe disaster took place in a violent storm and although a lifeboat went to the assistance it could not reach the vessel A life-line was ad so unavailing Men on the cliffs could hear women's and voices in the cabin and one man started to swim for the shore but he disappeared in the waves THE owner of the yacht is Lieut -Col John Diggle of the Kennels Wentworth Rotherham but he was not on board The vessel was chartered on the ttliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiimniiiiiiimtimiiiimii BRIGHT INTERVALS 4 pm Forecast: There will be bright intervals but conditions will become cooler Estab 1874 2 NET SALE at least generally IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIimiMlllllimilllllNIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIIlliM on board but up on the cliffs where they had the life-saving apparatus they actually got a rope aboard the tanking yacht For a time it was hoped tluy would rescue everyone but the people on the yacht could not hold on to the rope long enough So far as they could see from the cliffs her were two men and two women desperately hanging on to the rope on the yacht and then it gave way in the terrific seas It was so pitiful we knowing that those poor souls must be in such an awful plight and yet helpless to save them Channel Cruise The manager of Messrs Crowther Sewell and the brokers from whom Commodore King chartered the Islander told a 11 Mercury reporter that he understood that Commodore King intended to take the yacht on a Channel cruise which would finish up in Cornish waters I understood he was taking a few friends with he said 'The Islander was due to return in about a week Commodore King was 53 years of age and was one of the mos-t versatile Members of the House of Commons and before turning his attention to politics he was in succession sailor farmer and barrister In 1900 he married iss Margaret Elizabeth Swan an Australian heiress who he met one evening on board a ship from Australia After he married he took up politics Commodore and Mrs King had one son and three daughters The I si anther -was formerly tfie rpr trude Irene It is a 31-ton auxiliary cutter and probably carried a crew of six She was built in 1911 bv Kitto and Son Porthleven Cornwall She had a two-cylinder Kelvin engine is 48ft over all with 14ft beam and 8ft bin draught MP IN CAGE Mr John Clarke MP for Maryhill Division of Glasgow went in a cage at Hastings IIo did so at the invitation of Mr Bertram Mills whose circus and menagerie is visiting the town in order to see for himself the condition of the animals Mr Clarke who is spending part of the Parliamentary recess at Hastings was connected' with a circus 25 years ago FUNERAL OF OLDEST MAN IN ENGLAND PRINTER WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 106 YEARS PLAYED BOWLS AT 102 MR BE XING ARNOLD who is believed to have been the oldest man in England was buried at Kensal Green cemetery to-day Mr Arnold was 106 years old when his death occurred on Sunday at his home Camelot Surrey-road Bournemouth He was a native of London and was horn on May 25th 1824 He first entered the printing profession and one of the possessions which he treasured most was a book containing a collection of about 400 psalms and hymns which he himself had set up in type He claimed that this was one of the first publications of music in type After being a swimmer and cricketer Mr Arnold took up howls when 85 years old and played his last game on his i02nd birthday NO TEST PLAY Owing to rain no play was possible in the Test Match to-day See Page Nine MiimiuuiMmiMiuiiummumuimiiiHttitiiiimiuuiiiii NINETEEN SPARTANS Slump In The AlLNight Test Queue There was a mere slump of an all-night queue at the Oval Some rath at midnight caused departures The stalwarts who refused to be rained off were but two or three and even chair-sellers went home Rain held off after midnight and there were a few possessors of courage who rose from bed and went to play jiatience opposite the main entrance to the Test arena Through the small hours they fought Australia with their backs to the wall Dawn was grey and wet and at six o'clock the only gate with a queue was the main one where there precisely 19 people It was a very good 19 though It included four people one of them a lady who were seeing their fifth successive dawn at Harleyford-road They did not consider it a hopeless dawn either You just wait" said one of the party changing the slope of his umbrella Anything may happen anything I'm not putting sackcloth with the ashes TT CAR PRACTICE Giant Cars Thunder Round in Pouring Rain With rain throughout the night and a ceaseless downpour to-day the Ards Circuit near Belfast the most difficult road in the world was in parts under water to-day for the final practice for the RAC Tourist Trophy race on Saturday As the screaming cars of the 40 entrants wont round the course huge spravs of water were sent up completely enveloping them The watching groups stood breathless but all the drivers got round without mishap When they retruned to the pits they looked like niggers Their ears were mud-splashed and the windscreens fogged my declared Dr Bond sterilisation is the right method ot control in such he added the State is justified in requiring that persons liable to transmit serious mental or bodily-defect to offspring to undergo Mrs Stocks wife of Professor Storks of Manchester "University referred to the report of the Lambeth Conference which she said quite definitely recognised the moral legitimacy of birth control in cases where married couples had convinced their own consciences that there was a legitimate need Mrs Stockk thought the Roman Cat hobo community had no right to resist a publio health development which commended itself to the moral and soeial consciences of the majority of their fellow-citizens not to speak of a large number of Anglicans GROOM KICKED BY FOAL Long Clawson Show Mishap Despite the heavy rain and wind this morning the weather improved for Long Clawson Show this afternoon but was still rather showery When the officials arrived on the ground they Iound one tent blown down This show has been made a half-day affair all cattles and sheep classes being dropped owinjkto financial losses in previous years 'The entries in the hunter classes were up by 10 but the shires were down slightly compared with last year In the horticultural section there were 263 entries against 292 last year President's Illness Owing to a slight indisposition Mr Phillips president of the show was unable to drive bis four-in-hand round the ground as is his usual practice When a foal belonging to Mr Lindsay Everard MP reared Suddenly a groom was kicked on the head and had to be taken for treatment to Dr surgery Cup Winners Col Coleman's cup for the best foal in the show was won by A Bullfn Scalfonl Mr Lindsay Everard'a Cup for shire mare filly or foal was won by Mr Hubbard's Kingsfield Fluff Mr Cup for lxst hunter foal in the Belvoii Hunt country was won by Burgess of Wit ham The Challenge Cup given by Mrs Sheriffe for best year or two-year-old hunter was won by Dr (j Atkinson's Quicksilver In the horticultural section the Wilford Challenge Cup wag won by Mrs Wilford lor the second succe aive year with 48 point THREE FOUND GASSED Returning home from work last night Mr Lee of Devonshire-road Waltham stow found his wife Ada agad 35 and his two sons Dennis aged 7 and Jack aged 3 lying on the scullery floor The burners of the gas stove were turned on A police surgeon found them all to be dead on examination HOUSE BLOWN UP IN NIGHT Alleged Statement To Detective There was a further appearance at Liverpool Police Court to-day of William Andrew Malcolm Simms (34) a mining engineer of no fixed abode who is charged with damaging a house in Sunbourne-road Aigburtb by exploding a certain substance with intent to murder Mr and Mrs McClements and family and maliciously to destroy the house Evidence at previous hearings had alleged that an explosion was caused at 120 am -6n July 12th by Simms throwing a tin canister containing dynamite through the window of a sitting room Simms it was asserted had for months pestered one of Mr McClements daughters but she resented his attentions and in June married anothei man Was Not Annoyed" Detective Chief Inspector Burgess said Simms made a voluntary statement when told that inquiries were made concerning the explosion Simms said: I was not there I do not know anything about it At the time given I was on the train and left Ciewe about ten past one in the morning I was startled I mean surprised when I beard Ann'e Elizabeth McClements had married I was not annoyed she had married this man I was not in love with Inspector Burgess said he told Simms he had found out that he had been carrying a tin cannister about with him hile parts of a canister had been found in the debris after the explosion Simms made no reply The hearing was adjourned until tomorrow FLOODS IN WALES Houses Flooded and 6Ft of Water on Main Road Owing to the abnormal rainfall of Wednesday night the Rivers Union and Arran at Dolgelly have overflowed their hanks and water lias entered several houses and basements Motor traffic was at a practical standstill to-day the water on the Penmaenpool-road being 6ft deep Although many thousands of pounds have been spent since the disastrous floods ot November last in cleaning the bed of the Rhondda River and the erection of protecting walls the overnight rains again caused the water to overflow the hanks to day Many houses were inundated in Treha-fod-Pontypridd district and the main road traffic) was suspended ninth of this month until the end of August by Commodore 1) King MP from a London firm of yacht brokers The party included his daughter Commander Searle of Rerwick-on-T weed Mr Bra icy of iDunmow and Captain Glazebrook of Bishop's Stanford Mrs King is at present on Gwiday in the Isle of Wight When the vessel was seen to be tn distress signals wcie sent up from the coastguard station and the Fuwcy Lifeboat went out but could not render any assistance owing to the heavy seas A life line was hied over the yacht but nobody seized it Rough seas then caught the vessel and altered its position throwing it on to the rocks Two coastguards got down the cliff face and saw one man from the yacht swimming to the shore but before he could reach it lie was thrown back and not seen again The men on the cliffs could hear voices and cries coming from the cabins of the yacht but could see no one Bad Storm A Firvrcy coastguard described last stoim as the worst over Coin-wall since November There he said a strong south-west wind and high seas were 'There were terrible sens running last night when- the FowjA lifeboat answered the distress fiare at 945 She got out though and would probably have reached the yacht had it not been for a reef of rocks which could not lie passed Crowds of people many of them visitors watched he boat go out and waited till she came bhek just befrije midnight To-day the yacht has been reduced to practically nothing 'There is just what appears to be a pile of A thrilling story of the wreck scenes was given a Mercury reporter today by the Fowey lifeboat wife Bashing Seas Our men had a hard struggle to get out at she said 'The seas were bashing in all along the coast and the wind was blowing a gale They tried all possible ways to get to the yacht but it was too rough to get the people off and a lot of rocks were between the lifeboat and the yacht One even could not see the people DOCTOR ON MARRIAGE OF BLIND Leicester Surgeon At Oxford Conference Dr Bond consulting surgeon to the Leicester Infirmary tnstanced at the Modern Churchmen's Conference at Oxford to-day during reference to sterilisation the case of a statutory committee charged with the supervision of the blind passing a rule providing that persons so marrying without their consent should cease to receive benefit and employment unless one or both parties to the marriage could produce a medical certificate that such a marriage would be childless.