R.A.F. Plane Crash

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1949, Page 8

R.A.F. Plane Crash

Running through a shower of wreckage from a disintegrating plane, a Yorkshire farmer dragged a trapped airman clear and ripped off his .burning clothes, but the pilot was dead. Th onlv other occupant of the B.A.r. Mosquito baled out and landed safely ' in ■a field The plane’s petrol tank clashed through the porch of a - "here only a few minutes earliei two boys and two girls had been sitting an examination. The Schoolmasters wife and daughter were slightly injured.— London, March 8.

Young Children Loot Shops An unbroken trail of ice cream wafers and nutshells, leading for a quarter 01 a mile through the streets, led to the appearance in the Chatham Juvenile Court of two brothers aged nine and 10 and their 12-year-old sister. They admitted looting two shops m the mam street of the town and taking cartons of ice cream 20 boxes of dates, 601 b of peaches and nuts, toys and games, a pair of roller skates, and a steel helmet Detectives picked up the- trail of nutshells and arrested the children. The children’s younger brothers and another sister, aged four, five and six, took part in the beano, but were not charged. The two boys were sent- to an approved-school and the treatment of the girl will be decided later.—London, March 8.

World Wheat Talks In an effort to break the deadlock over wheat prices, the world’s big wheat exporting nations have reduced the amount of wheat they, would require importing countries to buy under the proposed international wheat agreement. The exporting nations, led by the United States, are reported to have asked Britain find the other major wheat importers to guarantee to buy 500,000,000 bushels of wheat a year over the next four years. They had insisted previously that the importing nations should take at least 560,000,000 bushels a year in return for a ceiling price of 180 cents a bushel for. the first year of the agreement. , The price ceiling would then fall to 120 cents in the fourth year. It -is understood that the importing nations have asked their governments for instructions on the exporters’ hew offer.—Washington, March 8.