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No. for trtniwlHion bv pott nwintpr 38 PAGES Turf Guide SYDNEY. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 5.J930 Triwluaa, MM (a Uiua) ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION The OiiIt 2d Daily INewspaner In Ue plwiiw Setafc. LEADERS AT THE POLLS DRAMATIC FINISH IN U.K.

POLL I R4f r- 1 tLOSE LABOUR was easier for Mr. Atlle he didn't have Mr. Calwell on his side. VICTORY Old New Parll. Parll.

Labour 390 310 Conservative 201 267 National Liberal 13 2 Liberal 10 7 Con. Liberal 14 Lab. Independents 1 Ind. Lab. Party 5 Communist 2 National 2 Irish Nationalist 2 Independents 14 Minor Parties Absolute Lab.

majority 20 Undecided 23 l-atrst returns, including candidal! unopposed. 'pHKRE was a great gather in ol airmen at the opening of new premises yesterday for the Australian Flying Corps that's the I'M 4-1 8 remnant and the R.A.A.F. Club in George Street. Group-Captain Clivc Caldwell, one ol the ace pilots of the last war, responded to the toast of the guests. "In the first war," he said, "I was too uning.

In the second I was too tnhtcntd. If, there's a third, I II he Khi old." He mut react well in Liberals Fail Staff Correspondent and A.A.P. LONDON, Feb. 24. Labour gained an overall majority in the British general election.

It was the closest and most exciting general election in recent British history. Whsn counting wai returned to-day, the Conservative gradually WINSTON CHURCHILL jhc won a D.S.O a 1)1 and II pi Bar, and Jhc Polish I loss ol Valour. BRITAIN TENSE AS GAP NARROWED Scoreboard "Fever" whittled down Labour over-night lead or 63 seats. Several time during the afternoon Labour's overall majority topped to nil, only to recover, until at 5.30 p.m. it had 1 1 seats over tbe combined strength or the other parties, with 54 seats undecided.

Political observers confidently predict that, as a result of vester- MR- J- E. Brown, manaping-1 1 director of Electric Welders Pty. told Mr. J. M.

Salvin, Conciliation Commissioner, yesterday, that, two unions had mudc. "demands" or increased waaes. "In the days n-hen I wai a union secretary." he suid, "tve. only made Mr. Broicn as seeretan of the Sydney branch of those, tovgh boys, the Ironworkers.

But that teas 10 years ago. aj'i yoting, Britain is heading for another general election in the very MSI future. Some of them forecast that, with the Liberals now out of Ike running, the Conservatives would then win a workable majority. The Conservative leader, Mr. Winston Churchill, said at Wood-lord, "Obviously Parliament will be in a very unstable condition, what- Britons, who had awakened to hear that the next Government would almott certainly be Labour, were gripped with something like Test match fever as the Labour majority dwindled.

When Britain went to lunch, it looked like a win for Labour. By the time lunch was over, it was anybody's guess. By the time workers knocked off at trer Parliament comes from the election. Mr. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, returned with an increased majority.

Only six of 475 Liberal candidates were returned. Not one of 00 Communist candidates succeeded. (See Page 3.) CHURCHILL ON "A MODEL" KCENTLY I mentioned that the Sydney Church of England Grammar School had imposed a booking fee for every boy' hose entry had been approved, and who would start school next year or later. The School Council has reversed its decision. Parents have been notilicd that the fee will not he imposed, and those who hate paid it will get it back.

a. a Mr Churchill was tpitch. Every Conservative vic-i The Communist nobbed as he drove from lory was warmly cheered. Worker" said that the Com-hi Kensineton home. 'I Lord Woollon, chairman of: munist candidates none of p.m., the other parties combined were level with Labour.

The Conservatives began to bite into Labour's lead, which crumpled from 61 to five in about three hours. TOP: The Bridsb Prima Minister, Mr. Attlee, minds a baby while mother goes in to cast her vote. Mr. Attlee was visiting the polling booths in his constituency.

LOYYh'R: Mr. Churchill raises his hat to the crowd as he arrives at the Kensington poll station to vote. (Radio-pictures.) Crowds surged arouna nis rating. "For Hes a Jolly, I ahour has held all the seals taking with obvious emo- fk kill largely responsible for For nearly an hour Readers were talking of a pos- Ultimatum U.S. Reveals Plans To it expected to hold, hut it has also retained 10 which were considered doubtful.

Labour Party headquarters Labour ead hovered in stalemate. fen 'ha been a' mode! of 'h Conservatives overhauling done Labour lead. aBBaaaaV i.aV akaaaaa WORKERS at. Warraaamhit Dam have a net canteen. But they also want a preschool nursery or kindergarten.

So they and the Water htxetive of party By 4 p.m.. both Labour and claimed at dawn to-dav that i i i I A 1 Help Bolster Asia nr Bland, js. uuscrvaovc vine nau luppcu mures vitivci mucin was 1t mav he an example tolthe 10 million mark. of returning to power. an countries on the Contin- Labour totalled IO.772.7Ml.

'CHANGE STANDSTILL Against Transport Strikers the twenties. I IJhe, "ul now re- Anxious Londoners queued ii" Hilf up for newspapers. Thousands ecmed Posslble milled around scoreboards Mlit onlv a handover the city. of seilts djvjdi hem Telephone switchboards to, lhe rural area, t.on,jnued newspapers were jammed. 10 raMv to fhe support of the CROWD JAM TRAFFIC Conservatives, it became clear All through the afternoon 'hat the nation was cleanly tension mounted.

i'P!" Politically right down the i ua a middle. nere. amC tonservauves including Ax.n- rondon Exchana- Board have geared the tico together. The Board has aa'ced to Mutt fairness and correct- servative Liberals, totalled crne to a standstill during the advance 130 for the kind oo the part of all con- 10.017.730. twd in conducting the clec-1 Nearly half the Communists' afternoon, as all ces were fixed on the indicator boards Against Communism WASHINGTON, Feb.

24 (A.A.P.). A special U.S. survey mission will leave for South-east Asia early next week to prepare the way for American belp in bolstering the area against Communism. not always me candidates already have ishowing the latest results. ergarten in anticipation of the canteen profits reaching that sum.

As beer's on the wine list the Warraaumbu workers say it's a certainty. (ineffl and notable lea- lost their deposits. Commu-: Cheers greeted every Conscr-fi' nists polled an average ofivaiive win and groans every inni tav Dive lotki I. GRINS 8(K) iiuvi hciiivw i WOOLTON voles. Dr.

Ldilh Sunimerskill, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food, who retained what commentators regarded as a doubtful Labour neat. Labour return. I A' Conservative Central) By 2 p.m., R5 candidates i.auuui iiiicse ana increased majorities in the cities showed that, despite rationing and austerity, the working Prices down this morning on Labour's overnight lead act official said: A lead oinan iosi meir acposiis, inciu Bitten By Dead Shark km savor the other is bvlding 2(lfi Liberals. 6.1 Com- held steady during the rest of I atan hevond the hounds and two Conservatives. i the session.

Brokers told their' DlTIT'ITOlT'ri TTa The mission will confer first! Stale Department officials, with the newly formed anti-: however, said later that the Communist Government ol mission's terms of reference iwsibilitv." The iberals had lost about clients to stav out of the mar-! lVLil UaJlJL A V7 uihiniasm at onservalive and the Lommun- kcts until the results crc SURRENDER Bao Dai in Indo-China. Later: would also include: Indqiurtert reached fever lists jto.0(MI. known. it will visit Singapore, Burma. The possibility of F.co-nomic Co-ordination Ad 85 PER CENT.

VOTED SINGAPORE, Feb. 24 (A.A.P.-Reuter). A constable! ministration (Marshall Aid) assistance to Indo-China: who was the onlv man to! I More than a million people Export Import B.mk Ncm of heavy polling me in from all parts of saw the screen scorin svstm "rrying Mory loans; and of the attack on a police post in Trafalgar Square, MELBOURNE, Friday. The Victorian Government to-night warned the striking tram and bus employees that it would take immediate action against them if they were not back at work by Monday. The Premier.

Mr. T. T. Hollvvay, issued the warning after a special Cabinet meeting. It is understood that action contemplated includes: Involving ot the Essential Services Act.

which gives the Government power lo provide, operate and direct any essential services in a state of emergency. An approach to the Arbitration Court for deiegisi ration of the Tramway Employees' Association. A request to lhe Tramways Board to withdraw all privileges of employees. This was Melbourne's second day without trams or Gov- it country. Thi possibility that arms and Siam.

The Secretary of Slate, Mr. Dean Achcson, said last night that the United States was looking hopefully for Southeast Asian countries to join together in an economic, political, and social programme backed by American dollar aid. The State Departmeni announcement that the com Elizabeth and Princess Margaret dined with them. In the West End clubs and hotels there were parties and dinner-dances which went on till the early hours. Never have such elaborate classes neueved tney had benefited from 4J years of the Welfare Stale.

The rural swing to the Right was interpreted as an indication of middle-clays dissatisfaction with high taxation under the Labour Government. When Mr. Churchill's own election was announced at Conservative headquarters, the building resounded with wild cheering and stamping. Men yelled and women flung their hats into the air. One joyous Conservative grabbed Mr.

Churchill's photograph from the wall and danced around the room with it. SPANISH DUCHESS ARRESTED nougnt with Hinds appropn Newcastle West, 95 per A young Welshman with a post horn blew Reveille every time Churchill appeared on the NEWCASTLE. Friday. Mrs. Lola Allison.

2.1, of Teralba Road. Broad-meadow, suffered deep punctured wounds to her right hand from the jaws of a dead shark at Newcastle Show to-day. Mrs. Allison, daughter of the proprietor of a sideshow of "man eating sharks," was try ing' to open the jaws of a 7ft grey nurse shark. The stick she was using broke, and the shark's jaws snapped shut on her hand.

Newcastle Ambulance treated her. Monkeys in a circus tent have bitten six people, including three children, since the show began. ated last yeai "for the J7AILLRE ot "gas shares" to pay dividends is a soie point with a lot of elderly people. Some of them draw their sole income Irom these shares which were regarded as gilt-edged. 'I hey are left high and div and they are Hitter about the Slate Government tor having held up an increase in the price of gas despite rising costs.

Their point is ih.it the Government humped up the pii.c of train, tram, and bus travel when ils own revenue was affected but expected the holders of gas shares lo subsidise the price ol c.is hv toie-going lhe dividends hy which they live. HEN Mrs. Bridget Maru Gilbert, formerhi of West Wualona. lattcrlii ot Hwted, and in Iwo other general area of China" might divisions 90 per cent. screen, and the Last Post for ne sent to tne area.

Tie first 4(K) results showed arrangements been made to'every Labour win The nission will be headed 18.741,863 of a possible by Mr. Griffin. ouhlUier. tell the public the progress otj In Piccadilly, vast crowds the counting. Clubs and hotels sang, hanged dustbin lids, blew mission would leave next week I in Malaya yesterday, in which Communist guerillas killed 23 Malays, including 19 policemen.

During the fight, he said, lhe terrorists killed Ihrce wives of policemen and a child. They herded the revt of the womenfolk and forced them to call on six police to surrender. When the police refused the guerillas set fire lo lhe wooden building. All except one in lhe. building.

JWL57I electors voted of California. He was denutv referred onlv to aid which liu willl.il WSmore than 85 per cent, announced results and state of bagpipes and danced the High- might available if cV Vs wno icu At the last general elect on uuii'w lanu rung. nAlKia.krt.rjI. I .1 nl Congress approves President IO -n' noiice-noarus. Truman's policy of granting aid Acncson.

piving4 araagt as per cent. vnc I'ciioiiMii ai riccauiiiy Circus defied the rain in a kilt lo undcr-dcveloncd areas. icyioence octore the Sen ile lohtavy was the polling at nn, refresh- and a shining top-hat, Foreign Relations Committee in support of the E.C.A. re m. Coventry East, thatments to patrons who stayed swots ran out ot ballot i to see the results screened at including several wounded, died holding its own with a lead in quest for 2.950 million dollars intervals.

MADRID. Feb. 24 (A.A.P.). SklUnilh tmlii-a ijaciarrl'iu arra.lnil III MrtlllCV the twenties. Suddenly came Handfuls of monkey-nuts showered down on the steps of aird Hall.

Dundee, when the re-election of the Food Minister. Mr. John Strachcy. was declared. lor Marshall Aid for Europi next year, said that the Ad People at home followed the lhe Duchess of Valencia.

34. ernmcnt buses. The men are trend until 3 a.m. to-day on KING'S BIRTHDAY another slump. Labour's lead plummeted to 14.

Crowds in fron of loud- She has been arrested several demanding a 1 a week rise. I hundreds of polling "Is there had been queues ministration had no intention of recommending a programme for South-East Asia similar lo Palmer Street. North Granville, died at the roe of she had sesen children, grandchildren and 71 Greatgrandchildren a total of The Chief Secretary. Mr. i speakers became so great that Bad eggs were thrown at Quinton Hogg when it wasiH.

Matthews, said last night police had to threaten lo order announced from Oxford Town! the King's Birthdav holidav! the speakers switched off unless Reshuffle Of Seats 115 descendants. A daunhler. Mis. C. the E.C.A.

operations in He said: "We will work vigorously with '(he Govern times previously for monarchist I "RUSSIAN PLOT" tendencies, lhe Duchess was Mr. Hollway said: "The sentenced by a Spanish military UiriLr it in court to one imprisonment 'V in December. 1948, but was re-irJ system and leased four months later. "Pe V0.vcrnmcn, na no lo'ht I 'hat it is entirely unlawful and 1 Communist inspired. ATTl? TT17Y7C' "lt is of Russian LltL JL llHi 0Plot destroy Australia's Daniels, if this is Hall that he had retained the would be observed this year on people let traffic through, scat.

Monday, June 12. I At 3.25 p.m., political among the largest family trees in Australia. mcnts in. me l-ar East, trvins to be ot what help wo can in solving tneir economic proh- cms. He added that while America hoped for a joint eco Weeping Mother Sends Child To U.S.

For Ever SKioretney opened, fjtommi and afternoon in London had fine rf. but after-work voters 4 out with umbrellas and toslie in drizzling rain. JiiheeMreme North, Scots- wed in swirling snow-p lk peat stream of women polls suggested that the ty that the British Ffe'i vote would away iict would prove cor- Jaree constituencies the fit so close that a recount Potdered. llONDON PARTIES PM recount resulted in frKives winning York ubour with a majoritv nomic. political, and social programme by Souih-casi production, and the Government will accept the challenge of the Communist lawbreakers.

"We are reluctant to take action against men who have been misled by their Communist leaders, but the law must be upheld and public services must be maintained." Asian countries, any such asso On Other Pages ciation would have to be snon tancous. The United States TRIALS. Mr. Men.ies said that Australia would tiv onlv The F.sscntial Services 'Act those Japanese war criminal 8.000-mile journey lo New long before I met my husband York in the care of the air 1 1 cannot get a visa. "ly husband knew of mv Mrs.

Wenner said she hadlcollrt C0nvjcij0n, and together been unable to secure a visa lr prosincs nncs ol up to l.tllKl Fashions In "S1 inula llcrahr STYLES for autumn and winter will be issued as a special 20-page supplement with "The Sunday Herald" to-morrow. This supplement will assist you in a practical, approach to the new. season's trends. It will give you the pick of local and overseas designs. In addition, "The Sunday Herald's" women's section will present several new knitting designs.

'PI1F. world news round- up will fell sou what Britain Is thinking after digesting lhe general election results. AND "Features." "The 1 Sunday Herald's" unique 16-page magazine will give you: The astounding "Case of the Three by Sir Patrick Hastings, brilliant English advocate. How gel on at parlies, by a radio and screen star. How's your ico.sf-Une? queer claims jor hypnotism.

suspects who laced capital chaiges. (p. 2) must wait for the South-east Asian nations to act first. Members Of Victorian Cabinet Clash lor cfflicials and up to 50 i U.S. VI KM.

President Tru- The voting system In Britain provides that the candidate polling the greatest number of votes Is elected. There Is no distribution of preferences. Thus, In a three-cornered contest between a lahoiir candidate, a Conservative, and an independent Conservative, the Labour candidate might be returned although the Conservatives between them received almost two-thirds of the voles. Voting Is not compulsory. In the 1945 elections, 73 per cent, of those eligible east votes, la H.15 the percentage was 74.

IWI was 10, and in 11 it was 7. the new Parliament will consist of 625 members, compared with 4l in tbe old Parliament. This reduction Is the result of a redistribution which has left onlv about 80 constituencies with their original boundaries. This means that in the majority of cases a comparison between yesterday's results and the 194S clactioa results is Impossible. the radio, and until 1 a.m.

on from the U.S. Government lol from the Australian Govern enter America man said he saw no reason for which would make me ment. into the ncr eligible lor entry a new dnect appioach lo Kuv-sia. tp. 3) A young Australian mother's unsuccessful five-year struggle to rejoin her American husband in the United States ended at Mascot last night when she put her four-year-old daughter on a Pan-American Clipper and said good-bye to her for ever.

The mother is Mrs. Phyllis Wcnncr, 25, of Pitt Street, Waterloo. She took her little daughter, Jfc King and Queen heard CZECHS RELEASE united Statesv from Lakewood, New Jersey, over the radio at TALKS. An inicrii.Ttion.il wnt Palace. Princess ior memners ot a union engaging in a strike without a secret ballot.

RAIL THREAT No executive or other meetings of the union have been called for the week-end. A meeting of about 800 men at Newport railway workshops to-day carried a resolution ot full financial support for the tramwaymcn. and indicated conference of experts o.t pneumoconiosis will begin in Sydney on Tuesday. I p. 3) America.

Finally, he divorced! I VI 'a n.i'.r We never He her on the grounds of deser ON COAL TELEVISION. An Amal. IDISP DISPUTE MORMONS PRAGUE. Feb. 24 (A.A.P.).

Two American Mormon missionaries held by Czech police since January 28 on charges of entering a prohibited area wen unexpectedly released to- They were expelled from the country and whisked off to Switzerland by plane. MELBOURNE. J. A. Hipworlh.

Assistant Minister in the Victorian Cabinet, has asked to be relieved ol duties associated with the departments of 'the Minisict for Housing and Electrical Undertakings, Mr. A. ti. Warner. During Mr.

Warner's absence overseas last week Mr. Hip-worth, as Actina Minisicr for gamaled Wireless spokesman said that Australia mav havs colour television in live vcars, (p. 4 Carol Ann, to the airport, tion and was given custody ol his daughter. Mrs. Wenner said Carol Ann had never seen her father, who left Australia before she was born.

ID placed her in the aircraft, and waited until she fell asleep. Carol Ann thought her EDUCATION. The Mini- divorced me purely because he gave up hope." Mrs. Wenner put up a brave front until the last moment. Then she hurst into tears at the gangway and rushed frantically to rejoin her child.

She was escorted from the aircraft by sympathetic Pan-American officials. lhe air hostess. Miss Florence Wood, of San Francisco, also hurst into tears when she 'Carol Ann will be looked stcr lor Education announced the appointment ol a State mat they were prepared to lake direct action if necessary. The Communist State secretary of the Australian Railways Union. Mr.

J. Brown, said to-night that if lhe Government or the Tramways Board did not act soon on the tram mother was going with her and fell asleep contentedly hugging Tnbunal, Mr. F. called a compul-fWc of panics to the di" Ahcrmain have il Jp for a strike a own "nd Ah- television screens, technical hducation Advisory rroujils gathered in i a tov kangaroo. I Housing, gave authority for work to be resumed on a tlil.lliio Council, (p.

9) Sport, p. 8: Finance, p. Law. after by my husband parents in New Jersey," she said. "From the first day of my marriage on July 23, 1944, I have been trying lo get a visa to enter America.

"But because of a minor London's squares to hear and "I did not have the heart watch the results on screens to tell her." said Mrs. Wenner. early to-day. Us she fought hack tears when There were manv the airliner began moving off ik.u all nood- the tarmac. voiiicnes, wnicn II1.IKH1 ions dailv.

way workers demand for a1 wage rise, the A.R.II. execu-j live would be called Id con nolct nl Mt. F.lia lo 'avoid waste of materials on the siic." Mr. Warner, on his rciurn a few days later, immcdiatclv revoked the permit on Hie giound lhal house-building might suffer. p.

9t Kcal F.sliiu-. p. Radio Programmes, p. Weather, p. 1 Shipping, Malls, p.

9: Iht Churches, p. Classilied Advertising Index, p. 9, m'n''" "rt look over the sleeping child' from her heartbroken ior clippers sider the position. nattired. I Carol Ann will make the Court conviction against me.