Nottingham Evening News from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England • 7

Two Husbands Murdered With Phosphorus Prosecution New Mines Rescue Station Two Babes Still WITNESS SAYS WIDOW TRADED I SHOP For Rat and LATEST CRAZE IN HOLLYWOOD Beetle Killer A assistant at a chemist shop where they sold rat and beetle poison gave evidence at Jarrow today The hearing was resumed at the court of charges of murdering her second and third husbands against Mary Elizabeth Wilson (66) widow of Rectory Road Windy Nook Felling- on-Tyne November 18 last year a woman Mrs Wilson came into the office and presented certain documents She paid Mrs Wilson £9 4s lid under a policy on the life of Ernest Wilson Robert Barrow an agent employed by the Refuge Assurance company in the Felling and Gateshead district said that between July 1956 and November 1957 he collected premiums on a life insurance policy from Ernest Wilson On November 22 last year he went to Mr home and saw Mrs Wilson He paid her £15 13s 4d death benefit TUNISIA TENSION: FRANCE MAKE STATEMENT TODAY FRENCH Government statement on the tense situation in Tunisia is expected in the National Assembly today Gaillard the Prime Minister conferred last night with Cabinet Ministers and his chief of staff Tunisian frontier in the past few General Paul Ely ard Minister for Algeria Lacoste Tunisian frontier months The Tunisian Ambassador to in A met AT No Rise In Drunken Driving In County i year brought no appreciable increase in drunkenness or drunken driving in the Nottingham County petty ysessional area said thfc chairman Mr Noel Watson at today's annual licensing meeting at Shire Hall Nottingham Mr Watson congratulated the brewery companies and licensees on the high standard set by new licensed premises opened during the year "We have carried out inspections of a large proportion of the licensed premises in this division during the year" he went on general the results have been satisfactory The owners have co-operated fully when we have asked for improvements" In his annual report the Chief Constable of Notts (Mr Browne) said 16 males and one female were prosecuted for drunkenness during the year an increase of one offence on the previous year All were convicted and fines ranging from 10s to £2 were imposed There was a reduction of four in the number of cases of motorists under the influence of drink Seven men were prosecuted for drunken driving and one for being in in charge of a vehicle when in a similar condition FYines ranging from £3 to £35 Were imposed and totalled £128 A 6-year-old boy was fined £5 end disqualified from driving for a year for aiding and abetting a 17-year-old boy to drive while drunk No proceedings however were taken during the year in respect of young people purchasing or consuming intoxicating liquor on licensed premises REGULAR VISITS All licensed premises there are 193 licences and 137 licences in Nottingham pettv sessional division- had been regularly supervised by the police who made a total of 2919 visits The present estimated population of the Division is 222337 which represents 1151 persons for each on licence and 674 per licence of every description Four more registered clubs were opened in the Division making the total 114 The following licences were transfered Lord Nelson Arnold Alfred Pidd to Ernest William Armes And J-ier Inn Gunthorpe John Newbury lo George Montague Hall Red Lion Costock Cyril Leonard Crawford to Lilian Josephine Crawford Malt Shovel Beeston Robert Arthur William Haekett to Leslie Green off-licence to John 61 Wollaton Road Beeston Ethel May Green to John Farnsworth off-licence 41 Abbey Road West Bridgford Ronald Fletcher to Frederick Wintersgill The following structural alterations applications were approved Griffin Inn Plumtree Green Dragon Oxton Broxtowe Inn i AST The current craze in fashion-conscious Hnllyvuod Is for the one-piece lounging suit like this one worn by Joanna Moore who makes her screen debut in "Touch of Evil" Tho outfit Is in white jersey cloth with a stand-up neckline and toreador-type pants slashed to the knee The whiteness Is relieved by embroidery in gold thread matched by a shiny wide belt Clues Sought on Clothes lliOLICE investigating the murder of 52-year-old Miss Lillian Chubb will today study reports on her clothing sent to them late on Monday night from the Metropolitan Police scientific laboratories Miss Chubb a hosiery buyer in a Cliftonvill store was found strangled in a hedge at Broadstairs Kent early on Friday morning She left her home in Hugln Avenue Broadstairs on her way to work on Thursday and then disappeared The scientific reports are expected to enable the police to establish the time of her death with a reasonable degree of certainty It is also known that her body was kept hidden for some hours before it was dumped It is thought that tests on her clothing will show traces of dust which will indicate whether the body was hidden in a vehicle a room or some other type of building TubJ or with Tub The all-surface all-year-round tyre for extra grip For Notts Washington with Mr Dulles night asked Slim conferred for an hour last Later Slim said he had the United States to take action" DEATH OF DARING CITY DIVER "ETAMCUS throughout the world for his high diving feats Frank Gadsby has died at Eastwood at the age of 80 He did not retire from performing i Frank Gadsby 1911 Tens of thousands of times he dived off Skegness pier and he dived into flaming tanks on every seashore and at most inland carnivals in spite of his handicap of having only one leg WIDE TRAVELS He travelled throughout Europe appeared in New York and once gave an exhibition before King George With his son Daredevil Leslie who had only one arm he gave exhibitions from the Suspension Bridge Nottingham during the war in aid of the Red Cross In 1946 he was appointed swim ming and diving master to Holiday and at the ago of 65 assisted by Leslie and his other son Ken he thrilled holiday makers at Filey by diving 75 feet into a static water tank containing six feet of water It was after he retired that he moved from Hyson Green Nottingham to live at Eastwood mittee minutes Aid Mrs A Johnson said they appreciated that they had some splendid council house tenants who always paid their rent regularly and looked after the property There had however been an increase in the number of tenants owing their almost 200 She hoped that tenants in arrears would pay soon The Committee took a serious view when tenancy condi tions were not observed Some did not appreciate that the rent I was something that should come first out of their money Aid Roe spoke of the excellence of the Council House Association and said they had purchased ladders and planks for tenants to borrow when decorating their houses Coun Jenkin spoke of a tenant who had gone into a house recently vacated who had had to spend £35 on repairs downstairs The tenant did not want any help with that but he did ask for help to do the upstairs Aid Mrs Johnson said the Council had spent £35 on this house and said that they always cleaned the house through on a change of tenancy and distempered wherever It was necessary If people wanted expensive decorations it was a matter for themselves If the Council paid for that it would be opening a wide door Aid Anderson the chairman of the Finance Committee urged the various Committees preparing their budgets to keep down all expenses as was requested of 1 them by the Government i i I nptVO of the injured survivors of A last air disaster Bobby Chariton Manchester United inside forward and Mr Nebojsha Tomasevic of the Yugoslav £m-: bassv in London would be the first to be discharged probably to-j morrow a hospital spokesman told reporte-s today in Munich Winger Ken Morgans would be the next to be released The spokesman said that the condition -of Mr Matt Busby Man-i Chester United manager was "materially STILL CRITICAL Earlier today a doctor at the Fochts Der Isar Hospital said the three most severely Injured survivors were still in a very critical condition Capt Kenneth Ravment co-pilot of the Elizabethan aircraft John Berry Manchester United winger and international half-back Duncan Edwards were nil unconcious Their condition!) showed no change overnight A ward sister said that Mr usby Irish international Jackie Blanchflower and Frank Taylor sports writer all passed a good night Mrs Eleanor Miklos wife of a travel agent killed in the crash also pased a good night a ward sister said Billy Foulkes and Harry Gregg arrived at Harwich early today with deputy manager of the Manchester club Mr Jimmy Murphy the British Railways chip Arnhem from Holland Hucknall Visit to Bell Foundry COACH-LOAD of parishioners will tomorrow go to Loughborough to see work started on the casting of a peal of eight bells for Hucknall Parish Church The cost of the new bells is being by Mrs A Raynsr of Short-wood House Beardall Street Hucknall in memory of her late husband Mr Harry Raynor The bells will probably be rung for the first time at Easter Canon Thompson vicar of Hucknall said yesterday that the church authorities had only recently received an assurance that the Norman tower would stand up to the installation and pealing of the new bells MEDIEVAL BELL For years the old Parish church has managed with three old bells One is almost as old as the church itself Experts have said that it was cast in the middle of the 14th century A second was Installed to celebrate the Restoration in 1660 A third came about a century later Two of the bells are to be melted down and re-cast to tone In with the new bells but the medieval bell is being retained I thought that as the bell had rung for 600 years it seemed a pity to throw it in and mix it up with the other bells There is no reason why it should not be used for another 600 said Canon Thompson SO THE BAND PLAYS ON AT SUTTON The Battle of the Baton Is over the Grenadier Guards dance band will definitely be playing at annual charity ball given by the chairman of Sutton-in-Ashfield Urban Councli Council chairman Mr Marshall struck a wrong note with the local Union when he booked the Army band for the ball held at Sutton Baths They said he was taking away work from civilian musicians who could do the job just as well as the soldiers who were already receiving Service pay They sent a protest to the War Council President of the Mansfield branch of the union Mr Johnny Berry said last night though We want to stop the band playing at the ball but do fee! it would be wrong for the practice of engaging Army bands for this sort of thing to spread and we hope our objection will do a Ifftle to persuade people not to do He added: "There is nothing personal in affair jusk a matter of principle Briefly THE cut of a halfpenny a gallon on the price of diesel fuel which took effect at midnight will result in a saving of about £2000 for the Corporation Transport Department over a year Other bus companies in Non estimated a similar saving on their running costs Fit Sgt Barker aged 36 of 3 Conway Avenue Carlton has been awarded the RAF Long Service and Good Conduct Medal He is at present stationed at the RAF staging post Katunayake Ceylon At show Ballad of Barra a 10-month-old Labrador puppy owned by Mrs Underwood of Whatton was best yellow Labrador bitch puppy winning four other awards and with her litter brother Bard of Barra was third in the brace class HUMOURS ANNOY LAUREN BACALL Film actress Lauren Bacall whose husband Humphrey Bogart died a year ago said in Boston Mass that if rumours linking her name with singer Frank Sinatra continued "it will be the end of a beautiful She wanted to get married again but wanted plenty of time to think it over Halam Churchyard Consecration People of the Notts village of Halam (population 260) have raised £220 for the extension of their 16th century churchyard On Sunday it will be consecrated bv the Bishop of Southwell the Rt Bern Bern They examined reports and photographs of bombing of the Tunisian border village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef flashpoint of the crisis Early today Pineau the Foreign Minister denied he had given an interview to Mr Joseph Alsop of the New York Herald in which he was quoted as saying that the bombing of the Tunisian village was a sad In the article Mr Alsop wrote that Pineau further said he believed the French commander-inchief in Algeria Gen Raoul Salan could not have been fully informed of the real character of the proposed air operation when he was asked to approve it MORE ALLEGATIONS In a protest to the United Nations published last night Tunisia charged France with "flagrant violation of the spirit of the United Nations charter" and alleged that French troops had committed about 50 other violations of the Unemployed At Newark Increasing JNEMPLOYMENT is increasing in the Newark district The manager of the Newark Exchange Mr A Boothby told a reporter that people have been signing the unemployment register in a steady stream The last figures published showed there were then 96 men and 79 women on the register I cannot put my finger on any industry which is said Mr Boothby "As a matter of fact all industries are in a very healthy state and it is a good sign that I can place any craftsman particularly in the engineering industry who comes to us at the The Newark Exchange on Saturday next takes over the work of the Southwell Exchange and everything is being done for Southwell claimants particularly the disabled There is a scheme for claiming benefits bv post and this will be used wherever possible CITY POLE HEARS FROM HIS BROTHER AFTER 16 YEARS A TWO-PAGE letter from his 40-year-old brother Basil has been received by Mr Andre Pankiv of 12 Agnes Street Nottingham who is 36 today It is a letter he has waited 16 is a BOSTON She is charged with murdering Oliver James Leonard (75) retired estate agent of Collingwood Street Hebburn-on-Tyne on or about October 3 1956 and with murdering Ernest George Lawrence Wilson 176) retired engineer of Rectory Road Windynook on or about November 12 1957 The bodies of both men were exhumed on November 30 last year Mr Reginald Withers Payne prosecuting has said that in the organs of each man was found elemental phosphorous and bran substances which were found in combination in rat beetle and cockroach poisons The deaths were due to this being administered to them he stated Mary Cook of Albert Road Jarrow said that from November 1955 to May 1956 she was employed as an assistant in the chemist shop of the Jarrow and Hebburn Co operative Society where they sold rat poison and beetle poison There was a sale for It In The Street Asked by Mr Payne if she was able now to recognise Mrs Wilson she replied that shs had seen Mrs tomer in the chemist shop She Wilson in the street and as a cus-could not remember if she had sold Mrs Wilson things herself There was an objection by Mr Magnav defending when Mr Payne began asking the witness It follows that you cannot say whether you may or may not have sold her at some time Mr Magnay said he objected to the question as the witness bad already given a perfactly clear answer Insurance Clerk Mr Payne said yesterday that Mrs Wilson married Leonard on September 20 1956 and he died on October 3 1956 A little more than a year later she married Wilson and on November 12 only just a fortnight later he died Today the first witnesses were employees of an insurance company at Gateshead said that on Aid William Crane Dubbed A Kn igh LD WILLIAM CRANE former TV chairman of Nottingham Housing Committee was dubbed a Knight by the Queen at an the first of a series of five at Buckingham Palace today The Queen presented insignia of their awards to more than 170 men and women most of whose names were in the New Year Honours Among those honoured today in the white and gold state ballroom were the Marquess of Reading Minister of State for Foreign Affairs 1953-57 (GCMG) Dame Rose Macaulay the writer (DBE) Mr Gerard chairman of BOAC Mr Claude Elliott Provost of Eton College and Mr Julian Huxley the biologist and writer (Knights Bachelor) and Mr Peter Pears the singer (CBX) la eddlura to Aid Cran Wi to-owing local people also received decorations sol awards Katstits Bioivelcr Mr George Benson it (Dtrbjn lor public services oai Offloer (Mill tar DiTleioni Wn Coen-rnaoier Eric Baldwin (Pouttv Member tClvl! Mr John Acrarmn iMlckleoveri chlet sisctrlclsn the central vrorbstoeps ot Trent Motor Traction Oo Ltd 2200 Cigarettes Theft Charge A police officer who found two men sleeping in a car in Nottingham last night noticed some cigarettes in the back of the dashboard it was stated at Nottingham Guildhall today Alan Dempster (20) of River-green Nottingham and Dennis George Carter (19) of Green Lane Nottingham both miners were remanded in custody until Thursday on a joint charge of breaking into the Beechdale Road Garage and stealing 2200 cigarettes £17 15s 4d and other property worth altogether £39 17s Hid Charlton said the two youths eventually adtnited breaking into the garage and took him to a spot in Clifton where he found some of the property including a bag cf money WEATHER N'OTT IN' GUAM and district: Fresh or moderate south to south-west winds gusty Occasional showers perhaps thundery at times but probably sunny intervals also Mild Further outlook Continuing changeable with rain at times but perhaps becoming less mild Lighting-up Time To night from 537 pm to 71 am The new Mines Rescue Station an3d oodnouse which will ba opened today by Mr Sansom production director of the East Midlands Region NCB Below A rescue team dealing with a "victim" of a coal cutter accident staged in a training gallery where mine conditions can be simulated Psycho-analytic Association and the British Psycho-analytical Society He introduced the study of psycho-analysis into Britain and America following his studies on the continent After holding several hosplal posts in London Dr Jones was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto He was later consulting physician and afterwards director of the London Clinic for Psycho-analysis He founded and for some time edited the International Journal of Dr Jones was an intimate collaborator with Freud when the great doctor started on his revolutionary work and was regarded as the most eminent psychoanalyst of recent years He was the author of 12 books and 200 monographs on neurology psychology and Have YOU fitted SBflftA Super GRIP Owner-Occupiers Applied for Houses the Boston Town Council met last night Coun Brooks asked how many old people who wanted Council bungalows had been refused because they were owner-occupiers years to receive for he had not heard from his brother since 1942 whpn the Germans overran his native Polish village The Germans shot his father and conscripted him for forced labour on a farm near Hanover i That was the last time he saw his brother After the war Andre came to England and five years ago married a Nottingham girl and settled down in the city SETTLED DOWN But he was still nagged by the question was bis brother still alive He was afraid to write to his village (now part of the Ukraine) in case the Russian secret police intercepted his letter Then a few months ago in conversation with a fellow Polish refugee he found that his friend came from the same village of Nowosilky His friend told him that he often wrote to his parents in the village and Andre asked him if he could make inquiries about his brother Months went by and there was no reolv to his letter Then two weeks ago an envelope popped through Andre's letter box it came from his brother BIRTHDAY PRESENT could hardly believe my eves when I saw the letter" Andre said j)r Ernest Jones the psycho-last night had always dreaded analyst and author of many books that Basil had been shot by the on neurology and biographer of Germans or by the Russians To Sigmund Freud died early today know that he is safe is the best tn London Hospital He was 79 Dr Janes wno lived at Elstead Andre who wo Ik as near Midhurst Sussex was hon StViom Sf president of the international 23-year -old wife Edna to go to his MAYOR TO CONTINUE THE Mayor of Boston (Coun Valentine) was last night asked to continue in office for another year and he agreed to do so The decision was taken bv the Town Council sitting in committee when the public meeting had ended Coun Meir had told the Council that for personal and domestic reasons he did rot wish to be considered for the mayoralty Coun Valentine is the prospective Liberal candidate for the Holland with Boston Division He is also president of the Divisional Liberal Association and leader of the Liberal Party on the Town Council -sy cho-analy tica i Association the American Aid Mrs A Johnson chairman of the Housing Committee said she could not give exact figures These cases were not turned down but were deferred because so many people were waiting for bungalows that it was I thought that it people were owner -I occupiers they were better off than people who had nowhere to live They might sell their large house and buy smaller ones SLEAFORD ROAD Coun A Simons asked the chairman of the Highways Com- mittee how long the present state of Sleaford Road was likely to continue The Mayor (Coun Valentine) I said he thought the work would go I on for six or seven weeks The reason the work had gone on longer than had been anticipated was be-1 cause the gas mains were in a very i bad state Given fair weather the work would be done in a few weeks Coun A A Goodson asked why the Committee had decided that nedestrian crossings should riot be provided at the junction of Freiston Road Road and Tower Road and at Bargate Bridge The Mayor said that the Standing Joint Committee had agreed to have a school patrol at the junction of Freiston Road and they thought that would solve the difficulty Coun Mrs Hopkins drew attention to the fact that many school children had to go by way of Bargate Bridge and it was a main road The Mayor said the road was so narrow at that point that they would have to put the crossing down by Willoughby Road end Presenting th Housing Com- home for a holiday Said Edna keen to go I have always wanted to see what Poland is Bv' Message The Panamanian steamer Areti (3330 tons) today asked ships to stand by after reporting that her rudder Was broken and the eitua-j tion serious She gave her position as in tne Bi'cav area After a distress message which said we are lowering lifeboat and leaving ship was received at The Hague early today from the 399-ton Dutch coaster Sagitta a second radio message reported that the crew had been recalled and the ship was trying to reach Bergen Norway The greatest advance In rear wheel tyre design for cars.