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of a a a a a a a a A THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN MONDAY JANUARY 3 1955 STRIKE IN MANCHESTER AN "ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY" Men to Hold Out for Full By our Industrial Staff Regardless of what decisions are reached by the railwaymen's leaders in London this week, a full-scale strike in the Manchester area is virtually certain to begin at midnight on Sunday A meeting yesterday of the Manchester and District Council of the National Union of Railwaymen, which represents about 24,000 members in South Lancashire, North Cheshire, and parts of Derbyshire, reiterated its resolve to strike on that date unless the full amount still outstanding from the demand made in 1953 for an increase in wages of 15 per cent is conceded in full. The council intends to carry out this decision independently of whatever decisions the N.U.R. National Executive makes in London. Since the Court of Inquiry appointed by the Government to examine railway wages is extremely unlikely to recommend that the wage demand is met in full, a strike in Manchester becomes a certainty if the rank and file stand by their local leaders. The strike will be official if the National Executive refuses to accept anything short of the full amount: it will be unofficial if the executive accepts a compromise figure and withdraws the national strike notices that are now in force.

The council's, spokesman, Mr Harold Roberts, said that the feeling against any compromise was stronger now than it had ever been. As far as I can judge from the mood of the meeting, a strike is an absolute certainty as far as Manchester is concerned." He said that the delegates were determined not to retreat from their present position in way and the National Executive would be told not to retreat either. The general secretary would be reminded that decisions should come from the bottom up and not from the top Time-buying" The delegates believed. Mr Roberts continued. that the Government was determined to make a sacrificial offering" of the railwaymen as a warning to other workers who were trying to get pay increases.

and the Court of Inquiry was nothing more than a time-buying STANDARD STRIKE TO END TO-DAY? Leaders Accept Terms Strike leaders at the Standard Motor Company's works at Coventry on Saturday accepted the proposals already agreed between company and the trade unions for settling the dispute involving eleven thousand workers. A meeting of the strikers called for to-day expected to vote for an immediate return to work. The proposals will not be made public until they are known to the men at the meeting, It is understood there are no conditions against individuals. but that there may be some governing the activities of shop stewards in the five Standard factories. The company had stated that four dismissed shop stewards would remain dismissed although it was prepared to negotiate over the suspension of nine men.

The strikers said they would not return unless all men were reinstated. The men stopped work on Thursday in protest against the dismissal of two union officials, Mr Gordon Wright, Transport and General Workers' Union convenor, and Mr D. Morgan, a shop steward, and the suspension of nine men after a dispute over the transfer of work from one factory to another. Sixteen hundred workers employed at the car-body factory of Fisher and Ludlow, at Castle Bromwich. Birmingham.

were stood off on Friday night through the Standard strike. BOY'S DEATH AFTER SPEARING GAME A boys' game of spearing turnips with iron bars, at Milnthorpe on New Year's Eve, led to the death of Alan Farrington, aged 9, son of Mr T. Farrington, kennel huntsman to the Kendal and district otter-hounds of Dallam Cottages, Milnthorpe. The boy was playing with his fiveyear-old brother and two other boys when he was struck on the head. After walking home his condition worsened and he was taken to hospital.

device to try to persuade them to think again. AIr Roberts said that the stoppage in Manchester and district would be plete. In addition to the grades normally associated with the N.U.R.. the union about two thousand footplate men as members in the area. Many members of the footplate men's own union.

the Associated Society of said that they would join in the strike. Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. had Those who did not would still be unable to work since all the ancillary services on which drivers and firemen depended would be stopped. As far as he knew. the only men who would be going in to work would be horse drivers.

who would see to the watering and feeding of their horses. "ONE MORE EFFORT FOR AGREEMENT" Dr Garbett's Call The Archbishop of York, Dr Garbett, preaching yesterday at Acomb parish church, York. said that Christians should pray for a just settlement of the railway wages dispute which has led 10 the threat of a nation-wide strike. He urges that one more sustained effort 17 should be made by all concerned to reach agreement. andenaddedi 4 No trouble no care.

no be too great in the search in these next critical days." Declaring that all were anxious for any legitimate grievance to be brought to light and dealt with promptly. the Archbishop went on: Whatever are the rights and wrongs of the scale present dispute, a strike on a national would be a disaster. It would gradually bring suffering to every class in the community. It would cause unemplovment in many directions. It would arrest the progress which has been made towards economic recovery.

It would threaten and possibly destroy the machinery for conciliation and arbitration and. whatever might be the result of the strike. it would inevitably leave behind a legacy of bitterness and angry resentment." Such a strike, he contended, would so injure the railways that it would be more difficult than ever either to meet the men's demands or carry out improvements long overdue. TOWN REFUSES TO PAY Revised Salary Scales Bury Town Council General Purposes Committee has refused to pay nationally revised salary scales which would mean pay rises amounting to more than £3 a week in most cases for the Corporation's chief officials. The revised scales have been drafted by the two nationally appointed joint negotiating committees, one for town and district council clerks.

the other for chief officers of local authorities. In 2. resolution which it will send to the Association of Municipal Corporations the Bury committee states that in future salary negotiations final agreement should not be concluded until members of the association can study the proposals. A senior member of the town council said When these big pay rises are involved. local authorities should be given four months at least to consider them.

We are not being spiteful to our chief officials. It is a question of principle." CLIMBER DIES ON MOUNTAIN Accident on Snow Slope Thirty mountaineers climbed 3,000 feet up the Glencoe mountain Stob Coire an Lochan yesterday and brought down the body of William Charles McGeachan, aged 30, planning officer, of Hazel Garth, Lanark, who died when glissading down a snow slope on Saturday. The accident happened when Mr McGeachan's ice-axe slipped. He lost control, was thrown on to rough scree. and received severe head injuries.

His brother, Hugh McGeachan, aged 28, a student, who was with him. made a threemile descent to Clanchaig Hotel for help. A stretcher party set out but by the time it reached Mr McGeachan he was dead. WESTERN MILITARY PREPARATIONS THE MAIN CAUSE OF TENSION Mr Malenkov's Statement of Soviet Policy Moscow, JANUARY 1. Following is the text, issued by the Soviet news agency Tass, of the answers Mr Malenkov.

the Soviet Prime Minister, to questions put to him by a Schott, of the American television newsreel company Telenews. The answers are published to-day in the leading Soviet newspapers: What is the best way maintaining peace between OuT two countries What is required first and foremost for the maintenance of peace between U.S.S.R. and the United States is the sincere desire of both sides for peace and their striving for it so that in their relations they proceed from the possibility and the necessity of peaceful coexistence with each other and from the consideration of legitimate mutual interests. As for the Soviet Union. it.

proceeding from the aforesaid premises. is ready to continue to do everything in its power in order to ensure lasting and stable peaceable relations between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. to settle the existing controversies. having in view that a similar readiness will be displayed on the part of the United States.

Principal Cause of Tension What, in your opinion, is the principal cause of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States? -The principal cause of tension in the relations between the U.S.S.R, and United States lies the course being oursued by certain American quarters for the resurrection of a revenge-seeking West German Army, the armaments drive. and the establishment of a network of American military bases around the Soviet Union and other peace-loving States, which cannot be considered otherwise than preparations for another war. 1 It is common knowledge that at the present time. through the fault of the Western Powers who have concluded the London and Paris Agreements. the threat 10 peace is increasing and the war danger is growing.

To eliminate the tension in the relations between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. to provide a stable foundation for the successful development of peaceful co-operation between our the countries. course it is aimed necessary to reviving put an end to at German militarism. which has brought countless calamities upon mankind.

to halt the armaments drive. and to discontinue the policy of surrounding peace-loving States with military bases. Would you welcome diplomatic negotiations regarding the settlement of differences existing in the Far East? Yes. negotiations between the countries concerned for the settlement of a number of Far Eastern questions should be welcomed. The experience of the Geneva MR MASEFIELD TO MEET UNIONS London Airport Dispute From our Labour Correspondent Mr Peter Masefeld, British European Airways' Chief Executive, will meet union delegates at Victoria.

London, this afternoon to continue verbally the argument they began at long range on Friday about events at London Airport con-1 nected with the Peters case. On Friday the trade union side of the i National Joint Council for Civil Air vened Transport ruled that B.E.A. had contra- the joint consultation agreements by dismissing 315 men for attending a forbidden meeting (about Mr Peters) and by making them sign an uncovenanted document before taking them on again. Mr Masefield replied in a long statement in which he said that the document that the re-employed engineers had had to sign was entirely in line with constitutional procedure in all respects and that the men had been dismissed under B.E.A.'s standing orders, which the unions had endorsed in 1948. To-day's meeting has been summoned to discuss the trade union side tion and, presumably, Mr Masefield's reply to it.

Mr Masefield will have with him chief personnel officer, Mr Robert Watson. are not expected to discuss the case of Mr Peters himself. whose appeal against dismissal will be heard within the next few days. EVEREST METHODS ON SNOWDON Scouts' Night on Peak A party of 32 Senior Scouts and instructors yesterday used Everest Expedition methods to climb Snowdon. Four of them, with two instructors, planned to spend the night at the summit, where snoW ad ice were expected.

Early yesterday morning the assault party of eighteen left the youth hostel at Capel Curig, where they had been spending a week learning mountaineering. They planned to set up four camps on the Watkin Path up the mountain from the Gwynant Valley, on sites previously chosen. Most of the party moved up to about two thousand feet establishing Camp 1 and the Col Camp." Another section moved up to the Ridge Camp." just below the summit. where the Co! Camp party established a camp and returned, leaving the Ridge Camp party as support for the final climb to the summit. The summit party consisted of Mr Dudley Stevens, of Capel Curig, the organiser and instructor, the Rev.

Skene Catling, chaplain of Ellesmere College, and four Senior Scouts. Ian Douglas, of Wembley. Christopher Hollingham. Odiham. Keith Smith, of Whitley Bay, and Iwan Spencer-Lloyd.

Aberystwyth. They set off carrying three tents. one of the type to be used by the Merseyside Himalayan expedition next month, Primus stoves. and food. including tinned beef steak, dehydrated potatoes.

and soup powder. Their supporters were return to the Ridge Camp. scouts and instructors followed the assault group to establish 3 base camp in an old mine manager's house. They will act as Sherpas for the descent to-day, which is expected to start a at 10 40 a.m. The summit party hope to arrive back at the base camp: by noon to-day Among those at the base camp were Dr Alan Marsland, of Rochdale.

Senior Scout Commissioner Lawrence Stringer, of Imperial Scout Headquarters. Major Seymour Thomas. Commissioner for North Wales, and Mr John Sweet. Field Commissioner for North Wales and Shropshire. Lord Kenyon, Commissioner for Wales.

was also expected to visit the camp. OBITUARY Lord Marchwood Lord Marchwood. formerly F. G. Penny.

Conservative M.P. for on-Thames from 1022 to 1937, died on Saturday, aged 76. He went to sea in a sailing vessel when he was 14 and made three voyages round Cape Horn. After gelling his master's certificate he entered commerce in Malaya, becoming eventually senior partner in El Singapore brokerage frin. He resigned in 1922 to go into politics.

W05 A Government Whip (1927-9) and held various Houschold offices from 1931 until 1937. when he was raised to the pecrage. He 135 treasurer of the Conservative party from 1938 to 1946. DR S. S.

BHATNAGAR Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, tary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Scientific Research in India, died on Friday at New Delhi after a heart attack. He was 60. Dr Bhatnagar studied chemistry at the universities of Lahore. London. and Berlin, and subsequently was professor of chemistry at Benares and at the Universilv of the Punjab.

Lohore. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1943, was president of the National Institute of Sciences in India in 1947-8. and held numerous honorary degrees. He was known particularly for his work in the application of scientific knowledge to industry, and founded the research scheme for work on petrolcum and allied subjects: later interests were the establishment of El factory to process monazite sands (a source of fissionable material and an intensified search for atomic materials and sulphur-bearing ores in India. He wrote EL treatise on electricity in Urdu.

with the title of Ilum-ulBarq. and many other scientific papers. Ilis recreation was mountaincering. He became director of scientifc and industrial research to the Government of India in 1940. and of the Ministry of Natural Resources in 1951.

MR A. S. RAMSEY Mr A. S. Ramsey, President of Magdalene College.

Cambridge, from 1915 to 1937, a Fellow since 1897, and a university lecturer in mathemalics (1926-32), has died at Cambridge. aged 87. LIFE WITH THE DEMOCRATS from page pretation of the powers of the Presidency. that would also mean that Mr Eisenhower would never be a candidate for President again. For he would have renounced the obligations of Republican leader in thus embracing the of a national leader aloof from party disputes.

It will be the sim of the Democrats in Congress to deepen this perplexity for President Eisenhower by voting for many of his measures and forcing him to acknowledge their co-operation. Crucial Session This session, therefore. will be crucial for President Eisenhower. He no longer can ask for a reprieve from judgment as he did in the first year while a benevolent haze covered his relations with Congress. Nor can he take refuge in postponement, as in the second year.

as if the Republicans had an indefinite lease of power. Next year Congress will work in the steadily advancing of the Presidential campaign, shaders decisions will be dictated by the competing ambitions conjured up by that event. The next six or seven months provide the season for legislative enactment by which the eighty-fourth Congress will be judged and by which the stature of President Eisenhower will be determined. BRAIN TO LET-AT £40 AN HOUR Mathematics Excellent, But Guesswork Rather Poor By our Industrial Staff As each new-found drug tends to be hailed as a panacea. so the advances in electronics since the war have sometimes been heralded as bringing us within a few years of a robot-run world.

There is no more justification for the one claim than the other, but in recent months one of the most rapidly advancing developments in electronic science the electronic brain, or electronic computor. to give it its correct title has so far extended range of thought as to give some shade of colour to the visions of the Wellsian film script writers. While the type of question that could be put to the brain was limited to such problems as the strains and stresses that would operate on a particular part of an aircraft wing, the brain seemed to be securely fixed in one of science's small back rooms. Now that it can be interrogated, as one recently by the army, on how best to arrange a wellbalanced diet for the troops, one is forced to acknowledge that it is venturing out into the world and that it will be sooner rather than later that matters directly affecting the ordinary lives of many people come within the orbit its activities. One of the principal firms manufacthese devices in BritainFerranti, of Moston, Manchesterto open an electronic computor centre in London, where the brain will be hired out to solve problems at about £40 an hour.

If this proves ful enterprise--and the untuccess; problems now being for solution to their brain's home" at Moston seem to indicate that it will- -consultation centres along similar lines are almost sure to be opened by others elsewhere. It. seems a pertinent question therefore to ask what kind of service commerce and industry can expect in return for hiring computor lime. and how wide is the range of problem that in its present state the brain is capable of solving. Quick at Equations Not surprisingly, it is still at its most effective when dealing with the sort of problem on which.

so to say, it learned its tables. An aircraft wing can be constructed and then put to test to find out how it will behave under operational conditions, but this empirical method is expensive both in time and money. Alternatively the stresses can be calculated as the solutions of simultaneous equations while the project is still on the drawing board. A set of 25 such equations would take a man about 60 hours to work through; the computor takes twelve minutes. From it new industry to old one.

A colion textile firm was recently designing a new machine and wished to know how far apart to place bobbins on IF they were placed too close together, the threads that whirled out from each rotating bobbin would become entangled. If they were spaced too widely, part of the load the machine could be expected to carry would be lost. The THREE KILLED IN FIRE Tenement Damage Three people were killed when fire spread through a four-storey tenement at Spitalfields. London, early yesterday. The bodies, those of two women and a man, were found on the upper lloors.

The condition of four people taken to hospital with burns and other injuries was stated last night to be satisfactory." Ten were made homeless. The fire is believed to have been caused by an oil stove being knocked in a basement Several hours after the recovery of the bodies, one was identified as Miss Lily Bison. aged about 40, who had been living the top floor for about a month. AIr Joseph Buttigieg. the landlord the house, in which twenty people, including a number of Maltese, lived, I saw her in the window on the top floor.

She WaS holding El candle. shouted to her to go out to the back and get on the balcony and go along that the house next door. Everybody shouted at her, but she still stood there with the candle. About five minutes later she went away from the window and I thought she had gone out to the back." The dead man was James Noble, aged between 35 and 40, who also lived in the building. The other victim was a woman aged between 25 and 30.

A man and a woman jumped from a second-floor window as the fire spread rapidly through the building. People tried to catch them, but they fell through to the ground 25ft. below. More than thirty firemen, some wearing breathing apparatus, fought the fire which was got under control in just over an hour. BATON, OR ORANGE BALLOON -All One to the The Orchestra played Viennese waltzes.

with an occasional polka or military two-step, for an hour on Saturday night for dancers at the Ball at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester. The orchestra was conducted by George Weldon with considerable gaiety, and responded equally well to both his baton and 10 the long orange balloon with which he conducted the Sleeping Princess" waltz. Yesterday 57 members of the orchestra, with their instruments, left Manchester Airport in two special aircraft 10 play at a performance of Messiah iri Dublin in aid of flood relief funds. They return to-day. STOP PRESS PRESIDENT DIES President Remon of Pananta.

shot after a race-meeting yesterday, later died. -Associated Press. Page 1) TEST SCORE Australia 231 all out. Manchester Guardian Telephones Manchester: BLAckfriars 2345, Classified Advertising: BLAckfriars 2399 London: CITy 5050. Printed and Published by LAURENCE PRESTWICH SCOTT for the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN EVENING NEWS.

at the Guardian Building. 3 Cross Street. Manchester 2 Monday. January 3, 1955. WORKERS "SENT TO COVENTRY" Provost's Attack The Provost of Derby, the Very Rev.

Alfred Beddoes. said in his New Year sermon yesterday that a public outcry must be raised against the practice of making men outcasts by sending them to Coventry." Referring to the cases of Mr Ron Hewitt, who was ignored by fellow-workers at Staveley Iron and! Chemical Company, Derbyshire, for over a year, and of Ar Robert Clarke, a joiner, who was sent to Coventry last week by other joiners at Wingerworth, Derbyshire, the Provost said: There is no more miserable and able action than this business of ignoring a man because you do not see eve to eye with him. I grew up among workers and trade unionists. but never before have I come across such 3 ch.Idish and mean Afterwards the Provost, who formerly vicar of a Durham mining! village, said to a reporter: It is about time someone said quite bluntly. 'This practice must If it continues it is quite likely to become the accepted thing.

Other flocks of sheep will follow these stupid flocks of sheep. am all for solidarity among workers. and a it may be that the men who were ostracised Were in the wrong. But such practices do not make 10r solidarity among unionists. I commend to the workers responsible 'the text of mv New Year message: And be ve kind-hearted one to another.

tender forgiving one another. even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you. Mr Clarke, was sent to Coventry by a joiners on the site of the N.C.B. coal carbonisation plant at Wingerworth, near Chesterfield. because he returned to work while they were still on strike." His case is to be reconsidered meeting to-morrow between the former strikers, trade union officials, and the management.

A NEW DRIVING TEST AFTER CONVICTION Chief Constable's View In his annual report for 1954 on the vehicular street accidents, the Chief Constable of Oldham. Mr W. E. Schofield. says he is in favour of legislation providing for the retesting of drivers whose licences have been endorsed or suspended for serious traffic offences.

During the year, seventy drivers were prosecuted for careless and dangerous driving. Mr Schofield points out that sight and hearing are affected by the wearing of hoods and headscarves by pedestrians, and that this has been a contributory factor in a number of accidents involving pedestrians. Although he has tried to get co-operation from drivers about parking this approach has not been successful with some. No fewer than 24 people were injured when walking from in front of, or behind, parked vehicles. The chief constable says that there are too many abnormal, heavy, and dangerous loads using the roads.

THE WEATHER Cold Winds, Showers under maximum radii of the rotating threads different conditions had therefore to be known before the machine could be built. The computor took half an hour answer. complete the calculations providing the If the Arm had relied on one of its own mathematicians it would have taken him four weeks. Both the foregoing examples concern problems arising from industries employing highly specialised techniques. but the computor can also provide answers 10 difficulties which are common to most trades and industries.

Computors have been used to work out distribution patterns. For example a breakfast-food manufacturer has factories in Liverpool. Hull, and London. and from them supplies shops in all the principal towns and cities. Given the output of these factories.

the scale of consumption different areas of the country. and the cost of transport. the computor can calculate in a very short most economic system of distributing the product-whether Leeds should supplied from the Liverpool factory, which has a bigger output than the Hull one, and from where Bristol should be supplied if the London factory were put out of action. The example of Army diet mentioned earlier depends on the same kind of factors. number of calories is given as being desirable, for of the foods four from meals which of the each meals day.

are to be made is also given, together with their price and calorific content. What needs to be known is the most economical combination of these foods that will supply the requisite number of calories, taking into account a soldier's prejudice against having sausage more than once a day and that rabbit must be off the menu when there is no in the month. problems of this kind the computor scores increasingly as the complicating factors grow in number. Slow at Chess The limitations of the computors are perhaps best illustrated by the behaviour of the one built by Ferranti's when it was made to solve chess problems. Even if there were only four or five pieces left on the board the computor had to examine every possible move bv successive arithmetical operations.

Although these are done at the speed of a thousand second, the total time taken was likely to be longer than that taken by the human eye, which can assess a situation at a glance. The computor. unlike the human brain, can ignore nothing as irrelevant; it cannot guess and has only very limited powers of judgment. The computor has been used by some firms to ascertain the amount of stock they need to carry don maintain their commitments. It can calculate these very finely, and has been instrumental in saving such firms from tying up unnecessarily large amounts of capital.

But it can only do this for firms which are run on highly rationalised lines; it would not be any in value to the firm which trusts implicitly the judgment of one of its staff who can assess the state ot the market by feel and by instinct as much as by reason, But when all its drawbacks are allowed, there is still a wide field of activity in which the computor can add help greatly in raising industrial efficiency. A few months ago a firm making jet enginesan industry where the success or failure of even one particular design can make quite a tangible 2 difference to the national economy--spent £10,000 producing a model which failed completely on the test bed: £100 spent on the computor calculations before the model was made would have shown that such a design was quite incapable of working ELECTRONIC WORKS OF THE FUTURE New Industrial Era? War, sex, crime, sport, "and the combination of fashion and society articles technically known as slush for women were the subjects most appealing to the popular press reader, in spite of nearly twenty-five years of free education an increasingly expensive scale, Sir John Russell told the Le Play Society's conference at Oxford yesterday. Sir John, who is president of the society and an ex-president of the British Association (he was for 31 years director of the Rothamsted Experimental Station), was speaking on Science and its Social Sir John began by saying that there was an interesting movement among university students to-day which might portend great changes in the future. Many of them were feeling the inadequacy of science and technology as the mainsprings of life. Many of them are unwilling simply to drift at the mercy of uncontrollable forces like victims in a Greek tragedy.

or to accept the view that there is no answer to the questions, What does it all mean? What is the purpose of life? To what end are we moving There were signs of a great recognition that religion met the needs of man more than any ethical system. Speaking of electronic factories, he said: In the near future we may expect these automatic factories to increase, and it may well be that we are about to enter a new industrial era when vast armies of office workers and factory hands will become unnecessary, their work being done better and far more cheaply by the machines under the direction of the electronic computer." After speaking of popular press reading. he went on. "The atomic bomb and the American comic strips are new features, and there is a tendency to ape some of the less desirable American ways as learned from the Alms and American airmen stationed in this country." In Brief In Brief Dr Edith Summerskill. M.P., left Israel London and Airport the Arab yesterday countries.

on a visit to Geoffrey Duke, the world 500c.c. champion. left London by air last night for Australia where he will compete in eight races. riding an Italian Gilera, It will be his first visit. Valerie Burrows, aged 9, of Napier Street, Preston, whose nightdress caught fire as she was preparing for bed in front of the fire on Friday night, died in Preston Royal Infirmary on Saturday.

Miners in the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire area, who raised more coal in 1954 than in any previous year, have been congratulated by Sir Hubert Houldsworth, chairman of the National Coal Board. ACROSS 1. Dizzy are not really followers, 6). 9. Where keep your car intact (9).

10. Lock (no other key needed) (5). 11. A fair attraction, possibly (5), 12. Recipient of letters (9).

13. Pay heed to in particular (7). 15. Refuge for little mites in Hunts. (7).

17. Mild Saint (7). 19. Rural scene of old-age pension (7). SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No.

1 DANDER ROCOCO EN A LA LEASE INSOLUBLE BE A LEADERETTE A CTUALL A I CAL CROOKS SUREST Pressure will remain high over Scandinavia while a ridge extending S.E. over the British Isles will move slowly N. Cold E. wind, will continue in all areas. It will be mainly cloudy in E.

areas of Great Britain and in the Midlands and S. of England with showers of sleet OF snow in the S. and rain or sleet farther though SHOW showers will fall on high ground. In W. areas weather will be mainly dry and there will be bright intervals.

but with a few scattered showers of rain or sleet. Forecast for the period ending midnight: London, E. Anglia. S.F, Cent. and 5.W.

England. Molands. Channel Elands: Fresh some and scattered stronz E. 10 winds, mainty cloudy. showers of snow or sleet or.

on East Anchia coast. fain, few bright possible: cold, frost in places inland at meht. Wales and Monmouthshire. N.W. England.

Lake District. Isle 01 Man: Fresh E. winds: mainly drs sOme bright intervals a few scattered showers cf ra'n or sleet: cold. frost in places at nicht. and N.E.

England. S.F.. N.E., and Cent. Scotland Orkney: Fresh or strong 10 NE. wirde: mains clouds: some showers.

with snow or sleet an hicb rather cold Further Outlook: Probably similar. SEA PASSAGES All Passages: Sea moderate. SUN 1 2. Seis MOON Rises Manchester 1 a mo. Scis 5 a m.

Full Stoon: January 6. HIGH TIDE TABLE G.M a Southport 12 m. Institute LIGHTING -UP TINIES Manchester 4 32 p.m. to 7 55 a.m. MANCHESTER WEATHER 1 HIT OR PARK ME THIRDIOGIL SI.

ONSE ATORY. SATURDAY. JASL AK Weather suntmary for past 24 hours ending 9 p.m. (G. TO: Fine and cold Rarometer tendency: Steady Harumcier (millibars); 1,034 3 130.5440 Shade temperature: Dre bulb.

9 8 37 3. 9 38.2. act bulb. 9 a.m. 33.9.

9 m. 30 2. maximum 38, muumum 35. Humidity 0 a m. b4.

9 fIt. S1. Rainfall, None. Sunshine: Nunc. SUNDAY.

JASE ARY 2. Weather summary for past hours ending 9 pm, IG V.T Dust occasional drizzle. Barometer tendency: Steady Barometer (millibars) 1.032.7 Shade temperature: Dry bulb. 1 ct. 37.3.

9 pm. 37 9. 4ct buth. 9 a.m. 35 1, 9 pm.

36 maximum 30. munimum 37 Humidity Incrcentage): 9 A.nt. 79. 9 pm. Rainfall Trace.

Sunshine: None. level The at barometric la'nude nressure and glicn 12dee is centigrade corrected In (53.6dex mean sea Forecast chart for midday. Jan. 3 1044 40 mb, HIGH 42 38- 1040 39 be 1028 mb. 38, 36, 36 be 36 4020 mb.

Prs 4030 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS 31- per line two lies I All such announcements must be authenticated by the name and address of the sender. and in the case of Engarcments by the signatures of both parties. Postage stamps or postal orders may be scat in payment. BIRTH January 1, L0 ASSUMPTA Callaghan) and Dr PAUL. daughter (Ruth Annel.

Dco gratlas. Salvern House, Matlock (formerly of Manchester). ENGAGEMENTS BR nounced between GEOFFREY The HAROLD BRADSHAW. ts B.Sc. A.M.C.T., youngest 500 and Mrs H.

Bradshaw. of 57 Albert Road West, Bolton, and KAY. elder daughter of Mr and Sirs L. A. VENABLES, of Pendle Denc.

Colnc, Lancashire. The engagement 15 announced between GEOFFREY ROCLIFF. only son of Mir and Mrs R. R. HYDE, of West Hartlepool, County Durbam.

and WINIFRED MARY (Freda), only daughter of Mrs E. and the late Air A. H. HOWARTH. of 14 Kingsway.

Pendlebury, Manchester. engagement IS announced between ROY, cidest son of Sirs A. G. Pity and the late Mr H. LAURENCE, of 277 Barlow Moor Road, and MOIRA HELEN, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis ROCHE.

of Reck View House. Westport. County Mayo. Congratulations from both Familics. WAKEMAN- The engagement is announced between CHRISTOPHER GERARD, only son of Mr H.

WAKEMAN, of Oldbury, and ISABEL MARGARET. younger daughter of Mir and Mrs T. F. of Moseley. MARRIAGES December 18.

1954, at St Alban's Church. Molo. GEORGE HUNTLEY. only son of Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs C. F.

KNAGGS, of Mau Summit, TO PETRONELLA ROSEMARY. only daughter of Mir and Sirs S. H. FREISLICH. of Nairobi.

January at St Ann's Church. Manchester. by the Rev. Eric Saxon, B.An B.D.. KENNETH.

younger son of the late Mr and Mrs Marshall SPELMAN. 10 IRENE MARGARET only daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralpb F. CALDER. af Prestwich. SMITH December 30, at the Baptist Church.

Countesthorpe. Leicester, RUSSELL A. SMITH. M.A.. Ph.D..

to KATHERINE M. TRUMAN. B.A. Golden Weddings January 3, 1905. in ManGERALD BERKELEY HURST tO MARGARET ALICE HOPKINSON.

Present address: Church Row, Chislehurst. Kent. January 3. 1905, W. H.

(Jock) WILSON tO K. WINIFRED MAKIN. 96 Elms Lanc, Sudbury, Wembley, Middlesex. DEATHS ALLEN Road, January 1. Warrir at the home EDWIN of his daughter.

Hallfields ton, ALLEN, late of The Limes, Chester Rez Grappenhall, and Buttermarket Street, Warrington. Service and interment at St Wilfred's Church. Grappenhall. on Wednesday, January 5. 01 2 D.m.

Inqulrics to Arthur B. Caldwell. Tel. das Grappehhall 143. night Warrington 46.

No by special request, December 31, AS 8 result of an accident. HELEN DOROTHY, aged 67 years, of 308 Stockport Road, Marple, beloved wife of Ferdinand, Service and committal at Stockport Crematorium on Wednesday, January 5. at 3 p.m. December 31, 81 the residence or her daughter. 10 Grange Avenue, Cheadle Hulme.

LILY. the dearly loved wife of the late Edmund BUTCHER and dear mother of Ena and Eunice. Service at the Stockport Crematorium on Tuesday. January 11 30 a.m. Inquiries to Ben Lloyd (Funeral Directors), Lid.

Tel Hulme Hall 135 and 377. January 1, at his home, 65 Queen's Road, Urmston, HERBERT WARWICK. aged 78 loved husband of Magale dear father of Jayce. Sprays oniy, picase, Service and committal at the Dianchester Crematorium ON Wednesday. January 5.

al 45 p.m. Inquiries to J. B. Smethulls and Sons. Tel.

URM 2316 and 4377. CAME. On WILLIAM January 1. EDWARD F.R.C.O., Yorkshire. In his A.R.C.M..

71st A.M.. organist St Hilda's Church: formerly All Saints', Bakewell: St Mars's, Leigh. Ac. December 31. 1954.

at his residense. Casal, Plane Tree Hale. Cheshire. JOHN ERIC. aged 63 years, the dearly loved husband Daisy V.

CHAMBERLAIN and dear father of Jean, Chairman and joint managing director of Switchgear and Cowans, Manchester, Service al Bowdon Parish Church on Tuesday, January 4, al 10 30 a.m.. prior to interment at Altrincham Cemetery at a.m. Inquiries to Worthingion's. Tel. Altrincham 1248.

Wednesday. December 29. suddenly. DOUGLAS HENRY. retired Customs and Excite of 13 Roschill Gardens.

Sutton. Surrey. Funeral on Wednesday, January 5. at twelve noon. On January 2.

in a nursing home. FRANK JOPLING FLETCHER. aged 66 of 30 Granby Road, Cheadle Hulme. Service at Woodlord Parish Church on Wednesday at twelvc noon. followed by interment in the churchyard.

No flowers, by request. Inquiries to Messes George Meredith. Stockport. Tel. STO 2065.

HALSTEAD. December 30. 1954. at her residence. Riverside Eastwood.

Todmorden, KATE. aged 77 years, the dearly loved wife of Fred HALSTEAD and mother of Frederick. Interment at Heptonstall Church. Hebden Bridge, on Tuesday next. January 4.

at 3 p.m. 21. No backstairs approach (5, 4). 23. Small change for cigars (5).

24. Come on stage here (5). 25. Revenge was his (9). 26.

Fellow-travellers in the kitchen-garden (7. 7). DOWN 2. Restore us--it's turned up! (9). 3.

with thee I mean to live (Milton) (5). 4. Survive, but not carry the bat (7). 5. Uses C.O.D.

for settling Portuguese accounts (7). 6. This is the end (9). 7. American conjecture (5).

8. Adam was his creation (7). 9. Colour for caution (5). 14.

Choose by word of mouth in politics (9) 16. met a from an antique land (Shelley) (9). 17. Many bids hold valuables (7). 18.

Considered The idea! (7). 19. Upstart (7). 20. Come after (5).

22. Roman port (5). 23. Descriptive of textiles (5). Solution will be published to-morrow.

DEATHS (continued) December 31, at her home, 86 AlanWilmslow. MARY. her 74th year, dearly loved wife of the late Francis William HAMPTON (Jack). January in his 67th year, at 1. 30 a.m..

in Buenos Aires, ROBERT OSLER, cider son of the Rev. Dr and Mrs R. Travers HERFORD. For 45 years associated with Renold Chains. Further arrangements later.

(By cabic.) January 1, 1955, after a long illness, at her home. 14 Acacia Avenue, Wilmslow, VIOLET MAY. 49 cars, the dearly loved wife of Thomas Edward HIGGINSON and dear mother of Philip and Patricia, Service at St Ann's Church. Fulshaw, 2 pm. on Thursday.

January 6. prior to committal at Stockport Crematorium at 3 p.m. December 30, at 8 Howard Street, Blackpool, RACHEL. aged 79 years, the beloved wile of the late Arthur Henry HILL (late of Manchester), and youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Pasley. Cheetham Hill.

Manchester. Cremation at Carleton Crematorium, Blackpool, at 1 30 p.m. this day (Mondays, December 31. 1954. at Balleny.

Elic. Fife. the Rev. Dr ALFRED GEORGE HOGG, late Principal Madras Christian College. son of the late Rev.

Dr John Hogg. Assiut. Egypt. and husband of Mary Maclaine Paterson. Funeral private.

No Bowers. by request. Bro. the Rev. ERNEST JONES, P.Pr.A.C, Chap.

Past Master and Chaplain of Architect Lodge No. 1375. Will brethren of the lodge assembic at Manchester Crematorium prior to service and committal at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. January 4.

1955 January 2, in bospital, NORMAN CHADWICK, the dearly loved husband of Isabel LAING and dear father of Jayce and Audrey, 8 Woodstock Road, Firswood. Manchester 16. Service and committal at the Manchester Crematorium on Thursday, January 6, 11 30 a.m. Inquiries to Pepperdine and Sons, Ltd. Tel.

MOS 2865 and CHO 3629. January 1955. In nursing home, JOSEPH, the dearly loved husband of Minnie LAWTON, of Linkside. 34 Ashbourne Grove. Whiteneid Funeral later.

No Howers, by request. Inquiries to Kendal Milne and Co. LIZAR. Edna and January 1, JOHN, Edward dearly beloved husband father of LIZAR and MiS Kathleen Gouldman and brother of Leo (London). Prayers were held last night only.

12 Merry Bower Road, Higher Broughion, Salford 7. MAYNARD-SMITH-JENNIFER SUSAN (Jenny Wren; passed peacefully away in the carly hours of New Year's Day al her home, Lower Lea. Combs, Chapel-en-leFrith, at the tender age of cight years. Interment at Chapel-en-Ic-Frith Parish Church on Tuesday, January 4. at 2.

31 p.m. al friends please take this as the only 7 December 31. 1954. at 106 Didsbury Road. Stockport, MARGARET ELLEN, aged 81 the dearly loved wife of Charles MULLINEAUX.

Service 10 be held in St Martin's Church. Didsbury Road, on Tuesday, January 4, 1955. at 1 45 p.m., prior to commillal al the Stockport Crematorium at 2 30 P.m. Inquiries to Stockport. On December 31, HAROLD PILLING.

of The White House. Abersoch. late of Hale, dearly loved husband of Florence NUTTALL. December 31. 1954.

Shuttleworth Vicarage, Ramsbottom. ADA SCOTT, in her 86th year. Cremation private. Please, no Bowers and no letters. December 31, 1954.

suddenly. at his home, 41 58 Campbell Road. Sale, Cheshire, HARRY LEONARD, aged the dearly loved husband of Gladys SMITH and dear father of Gordon. Service al Manchester Crematorium on Tuesday at 1 45 p.ro. Inquiries to Messrs James C.

Broome. Tel. ARD 2902 and Bramball 16. December 29, 1954, in hospital, ADA, the dearly loved wife of the Jaic Harold SMITH. of Parkside, Road, Glosson.

Service at St Luke's Church, Glossop, on Tuesday, January 4, 1955. at 11 30 a and interment at the Glossop Cemetery, Flowers inquiries to Glossop Carriage Company. Tel. Glossop 59. conference, in which the People's Republic of China took part jointly with other Powers.

has shown that such negotiations yield favourable results. What is your opinion concerning international control over atomic weapons. and do you think that a successful plan could be worked out acceptable to all parties concerned? The stand of the Soviet Union on the question of atomic weapons is well known. The U.S.S.R. stands for the unconditional banning of the atomic weapons.

their complete withdrawal from the armaments of States, and for the establishment of strict international control over the implementation of a corresponding agreement. Other countries should be no less interested in the banning of atomic weapons and the abolition of the threat of an atomic war than the Soviet Union. Four-Power Conference Would you welcome diplomatic negotiations leading to a conference of the heads of the Governments. of France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and United States On this matter I should like to state first of all that everything has been done of late by the United States, Britain, and France to preclude the possibility of a positive solution being reached on the question of convening a conference of heads of the four Powers. It is known that the three Western Powers are striving to solve by a separate arrangement the most important international questions, in the first place those relating to Germany.

Surely it is obvious that one cannot pursue such a policy and at the same time create among the peoples the illusion of the possibility of holding a four-Power conference. Consequently the point is that a conference of the heads of the Governments of France. Great Britain. the U.S.S.R., and the United States should not be confronted with an accomplished solution of questions requiring examination at the conference. Have you something to convey to the American people 1 am sending the American people hearty greetings and the best New Year wishes.

There is every foundation for the development and the consolidation of friendship between the peoples of the United States of America and the Soviet Union. I am confident that the American people the will bring worthy contribution to great, and noble cause of strenthening peace between the peoples. All peoples should now be particularly vigilant regarding attempts by aggressive circles, There is at present no more important task than the unification of the efforts of peoples from all countries in the interests of securing peace and international security. -Reuter. In Memoriam ALDCROFT loving memory of dear Husband and Father, passed away January 3, 1954.

In heavenly love Loving Road. wife Jcan, son Leslie and Family. 59 Tanfeld East Didsbury. memory af ARTHUR. a dear husband and father.

died January 2. 1954. Worthy of remembrance. Hilda and Knighton. loved loving remembrance of JOHN WILLIAM, A January dearly husband and father, who fell asleep 2, EDGAR.

-In loving died remembrance ol our beloved father, who January 2, 1939. From his loving Children. Peacchaven. Shore Road, Little Bispham; and' 130 Higher Ardwick. Manchester 12.

100P Street. SONS. Salford 6: Funeral Directors, PEN Broad 14871819 204 Church Street. Eccles. ECC 3083.

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