Prentice, John Henry

Hudson aircraft BW 384, owned by Clark Ruse, crashed in the water near the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, Halifax Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Four civilian passengers, Jean Curran, Mary McQueen, Mr. Chaill and M.R. MacCaulay, who were employees of Clark Ruse, were also killed. TWO GIRLS KILLED IN FLIGHT WON BY LOAN EFFORT HALIFAX, DEC 4 - (C.P.)- Two girl war workers awarded a plane flight for Victory Loan work were killed Thursday with the three man crew of a bomber when it crashed into Halifax harbor a couple of minutes after taking off. All five persons in the Lockheed Hudson plane met instant death when it nosed almost vertically into the water, with engines roaring, 35 feet off the top of a breakwater at the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht squadron. The machine was owned by the Clark Ruse Aircraft Company, Limited, which operates an aircraft plant in the Halifax area. It had undergone tests and was to have been turned over to the R.C.A.F. shortly. The girl passengers were employees of the plant, who had won awards in selling Victory Bonds to other employees. The pilot was Flt. Lt, J. H. Prentice of Toronto, chief test pilot for the company, on loan from the R.C.A.F. The others killed were: Miss Jean Curran and Miss Mary McQueen, both 22, of Dartmouth; T. Arthur Cahill, Chapeau, Que. test flight engineer at the Clark Ruse plant; Owen McCaulay, Sydney, N.S.