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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17 1958 Obituary MISS MARY QUAILE Viewers "entitled to expect choice from B.B.C." The B.B.C.'s determination to secure union pioneer piking was not dangerously overloaded" Expert on question of safety margins Workers" tTnion. Her to- 1926 she'served' T.U General Council, became women's group secretary-ior theV Manehester, ana Salford Trades-Council. Her long connection with trades; council was recognUed officially in when -she was awarded the T.TJ.Gs silver badge for her services. s.Sheswas its treasurer for which she filled efficiency even- when-her health lailine ln ater Mary Quaile's determination to 'trade unionism for wasV often met with jeers, boos, -rotten; and threats of- violence. Shespoke at hundreds of -factory gates-in-Bolh -tfae' East End of andv Manchester she never 'betrayed any i faced with open hostility.

warm and.a lovable personality wonr-jor rner many frinH; in the- Labour -and''trade union V- movements. She 'was appointed to -the-- lyiaucuewr uidgwa, w. PROF. W. PAULI certificate given for that aircraft before it took off No, sir.

Cantain Daniel SUillman. recalled bv Mr Fox-Andrews, agreed with him that on Monday he stated that he found his employment dangerous. Mr Fox-Andrews Did you know that independent Air" Travel have never during the whole course of operations had a crash except this one So far as I know that is true. Mr Fox-Andrews asked Captain Skillman: Do you mean to tell the Coroner and the jury that when you went on, the freelance flight (after he left the company) (a) You were frightened to death and lb) You did not know how to fiv the aircraft Captain Skillman: In a majority of cases with Independent, yes. For a few pounds Mr Fox-Andrews Why did you go on doing it after vou left their service? Were vou willing to kill yourself for a few pounds On reflection it looks as though that is the case.

Captain Skillman did not reply when Mr suggested that his evidence was not true. Questioned about his reply on Monday, when he said that it was very frequent for pilots in Independent Air Travel to fall asleep, Captain Skillman said the question then was put to him in general terms. Asked if he meant that they often slept he replied, Yes." Mr Fox-Andrews Did you tell my clients you were not properlv qualified to flv this aircraft? (the DC4). Mr Skillman I did not tell them, but thev knew. Replving to, further questions.

Captain Skillman said that in 1952 an examiner of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation failed him in an instrument flying test Mr Fox-Andrews Did you attack him savagely and injure him I slapped his face Was he paid 50 compensation for his iniuries He was. Dr Gorsky In fairness to the witness it ought to be said that a month later he was passed bv another examiner. Mr Fox-Andrews I am not questioning his competence I am questioning his behaviour. The inquest was adjourned until to-dav. The Coroner said he hoped it would then be completed.

Cyprus since the ban, imposed in July, at Hendon terminal' before going to their aircraft yesterday. Women's trade Miss Mary Quaile, a pioneer of women's trade unionism, and a member of the T.U.C. during the fonornl WriI nf lOPfl Hied vestprdav General totme of lswe, cuea yesteraay at her home, in Withmgton, Man- Chester. She was- in her early seventies. 1 Mary Quaile first made a name for her- self as a -public speaker in the, Man- Chester area in the early nineteen- hundreds when she was a waitress.

She took it upon herself to attempt to organise catering workers, and in 1911 became 'organising secretary of a women's trade union council in Man- Chester. Her courage and deter- mlnation in the face of ail sorts' -of opposition from employers andeven the workers themselves soon became more P.riw irnLMm i 1Q1Q chA wac appointed national women's organiser of wflat is now ine iransport ana general MR R. A. REYNOLDS Mr Reginald A. Reynolds, author, satirist, and pacifist, died yesterday in Adelaide; during a tour- of Australia and New Zealand made at the invitation of Quakers there.

He was 53. Reginald Arthur Reynolds went to the Friends' School at Saffron Walden and Woodbrooke College. Birmingham, but perhaps that part of his' education which -influenced him most was at Gandhis ashram "at Sabarmati. He met -Gandhi in 1930. and was sent by him in the soring of that year with a messaee to the Viceroy.

Lord Irwin. Throuahout ithe thirties, andi until India received its independence, he remained a tireless advocate of the claims of Congress to his fellow-countrymen. His experiences in India helDed to develop in him sympathy with other people claiming independence, or-suffer-infi any sort of injustice whether because of their race or for anv other cause. Last vear he was one of the four English people invited bv the Tunisian Government to the celebrations in Tunis of the first anniversary of its independence. His observations during a journey through Africa in 1953 were embodied in a book "Beware of Among the underdogs at home whose cause he upheld were "men and women, in prison: shortly before the war he edited with Stock-an anthology on prison life.

He worked with a number of peace organisations, including the No More War movement, of which he was general secretary- from 1932 to 1937. War Resisters" International and the Peace Committee of the Society of year he was one of the small grouD. of British pacifists" who volunteered to go to the Pacific in protest against the testing of British atomic weapons there. His books were on extremely diverse subjects, -and some of them (on the history of beards, for instance) are very funny. But the sardonic humour of "Cleanliness and -Godliness" (tracing the varied course of British attitudes to hygiene) and the satirical verses that for the past two years -he has been contributing to the "New Statesman," come from the same source as the deep, seriousness of his The Wisdom of John Woolman," in which he used the life and writings of the eighteenth-century American Quaker to point out the limitations of politics as a means of social reform Woolman's saintliness, he argued, was more efficacious in the fight against slavery.

He married Miss Ethel Mannin in 1938. Sir Jackson Millar, chairman since 1946 of Albion Motors. Ltd- and a director of Leyland Motors. Scam-mell Lorries, and other companies, has died in Glasgow, aged 70. In the last war he was Regional Controller in Scotland to the Ministry of Supply and later to the Ministry of Aircraft Production.

He was a former chairman of the Unionist Association. He was knighted last vear for political and public services in Scotland and was appointed C.B.E. in 1943. Band III frequencies for a second television programme is emphasised In the corporation's annual bandbook, published to-day. It points out; how ever, that so far the Government has not made any decision to allocate these frequencies tp the B.B.C.

or to any other organisation. The B.B.C.'s consistent aim, says the handbook, has been to extend the scope of its television programmes so far as its single service will allow. It believes, however, that television viewers are entitled to expect that sooner or later they will be ottered a range and choice of programmes comparable to that which has been developed in sound broadcasting. It continues The B.B.C. has long maintained that this could only be achieved bv the provision of two centrally-planned, services giving a ouuiL-t: ui iuici jittuve ijiu- grammes.

It is for this reason that the corporation has sought the allocation of the necessary frequencies and the other resources required to start a secona B.B.C. television service at the appropriate time." Cost of television The handbook says that about 14,500,003 adults are estimated to watch B.B.C. television each day and that the average number of listeners to sound radio is at least 22 millions once a day. Television programmes cost six times as much as sound oro- grammes an average of 3,468 an hour compared with -iu lor home radio programmes. On sound, the biggest audiences, numbering twelve millions, are for Family Favourites." On television the Benny Hill Show has audiences of more than twelve millions.

Other favourites are "Panorama" (ten millions). "What's Mv Line?" (nine millions), and Your Life in Their Hands" (7,500,000 to ten millions). B.B.C. transmissions in some foreign languages continue to be deliberately and systematically jammed in the following order of severity: Russian, Czech and Slovak, Hungarian. Bulgarian.

Rumanian. Persian, Polish, Finnish, Greek. Turkish, Hebrew. Albanian. and German.

Jamming by the Polish Government has stooned. but the Polish broadcasts are still being deliberately attacked by jamming from sources in the U.o.b.K. and elsewhere." The handbook OLAFFSON TO PLAY AT HASTINGS International tournament By a Chess Correspondent Olaffson, the Icelandic grandmaster, will be among the chess players from eight countries taking part in the Hastings international chess tournament, when it starts on December 29. It is also hoped that Bobby Fischer, the 15-year-old American prodigy, will be able to compete, but this, is not certain yet. Other players in the premier section will be Barden and Clarke (England).

Wade (New Zealand), Radoicic (Yugoslavia), Darga (West Germany), Uhlman (East Germany). Portisch (Hungary), and Duckstem (Austria). Although the Viking air liner which crashed 1 at Southa-11 in "September was overloaded -there -was not a dangerous situation, a Ministry of Transport expert told the" coroner at Ealing yesterday. Mr Geoffrey Charles Chouffod, operations, officer at the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (Southern Division), said that when the aircraft started its take-off run from London Airport. its weight was over the maximum permissible weight.

He was giving evidence at the resumed inquest on the seven -victims of the crash" a woman and three children and the crew of three." The aircraft, a freighter owned by Independent Air Travel was going to Israel with two Britannia aircraft It crashed into houses soon after take-off. "A little bit less safe" The Coroner, Dr J. A. Gorsky. asked him: "Would you sav that 7101b.

was so excessive that it was dangerous Mr Chouffod replied that he would not go so far to sav that. Any excessive wefHht must be nibbliras away at safety The excess weight was a sigm-cant inroad into those margins. In my opinion the ovcrloadin-s in itself would not give rise to a dangerou6 situation. The situation must have been just a little bit less safe. Clearlv there was a dangerous situation at some stage but there must have been some other more significant factor than the excess weight." Earlier.

Superintendent G. Mani--fold. of, CI.D. headquarters at London Airport, said that from his investigations he concluded that the Viking was overloaded when it took off. His calculations showed that it was overloaded by 9501b.

plus excess petrol not shown in the loading sheet His findings submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Asked by the Coroner -about First Officer Altena, the superintendent replied. "From mv information he had little or.no training to take the position of-first officer on. this flight." Mr Chouffod giving -evidence he was questioned bv Mr -Ronald Hopkins, who appeared with Mr -N. R.

Q.C.. for Independent Travel. Mr HoDkins asked him to suopose that when 440 gallons of petrol out into the Viking the two rear tanks were emntv. Getting, angry The, Coroner interrupted, and said: I am getting angry, but I am restraining mv anger. I have asked you not to make suggestions or submissions in this -Court.

"It is my job to address the jury Will vou please confine yourself to question andj answers and' not to make any hvnotheses either Mr Gilbert Boivin. who was said to have been detailed by the company to go from Blackbushe to London Airport to supervise the loading of the Viking, was recalled by the coroner, who asked "him You did not take the trouble to wait and see the captain of the aircraft on arrival to show him what you had done? No. sir, I did not think that it was necessary. -I. must ask vou one vital question which relates to the airworthiness of the aircraft You are not a licensed engineer? No, sir.

Certain alterations were made to units and gaskets and that aircraft should not have taken off without the certificate of a licensed engineer. You could not have given that certificate sir. Was there anyone there who would have given the certificate? Not when I left London Airport. As far as you know there was no Professor Wolfgang Nobel Prize winner for Physics- in died in Zurich on Monday. was.

58. -yX't Wolfgang oracle' on theoretical physics." His reputation for bemg such rests-onthejbrilUancesot-his- own-contributions to subject great influence both as a -polemicist on the growth' concepts for the last-thirty, years his willingnessr-even ieagerness-tOSdeltver. opinions and make vt the "more interesting rora'clesfthowever, "be reUedjuponrrto, say the sorts -of his listeners, would have" liked to" as: in -be forgiven for "mistaking Ins-fprfhrightoess for rudeness. In more ways than, one -r. was the Doctor Johnson of His greatest single physics from the when.

he was responsible "for; deduction of 'a number of ideas which made understandable -many features of the'-. atomic theory due which proved also to fertile i-of. -'-stimulation for- si-i least 1 two, vdeeades -y ---i Great though work- has-been; however, Pauli's -influence' was greater still. For, one.thing have themselves been' among distinguished contributors -to thisimppr-. tant field.

Then" argument letter-writing- as a means of -stimulating his colleagues 'abroad. -His "personal forthrightness or rudeness ns probably to be attributed to.an-inability to suffer fools gladly.It is almost'-certain that he was needlessly hard bnyoungi -people he judged to be of poor quality-; and sometimes was wrong, In" the circumstances it is" curious'tbatr-; he did not make enemies, and1 -should have become universaHy-liked'df as an eccentric) and respeited. -This mav be due to his insistence' physios is not between7-nie- and God." He -was, in fact, a dedicated craftsman. Mr Reginald Frederick Torrington, who has died. aged retired.

in April after, seventeen years as general of the Manchester Y.M.C.A. He -44 years in the service of the' association! When he" took over in Manchester in 1941 he found the local Y.M.C.A.-.' 16,000 -in debt. He saw this paid off and-then took a leading. part in raisirig'the money for-Montgomery which he and his wife! were joint wardens for six received the O.B.E."-. and the Y.M.C.A.'s.

Gold? Order, of the Red Triangle' for "long and'lvery meritorious service" two months ago The first Service families to leave for was lifted on December 4, booking Blackbushe to board REFUSED WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Man denies contempt The Queen's Bench Divisional Court yesterday an application by Mr Kenneth Douglas Hunt, a chemist, of Elmsway, Ashford, Middlesex, for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release from Brixton Prison, where he was committed on November 4 for contempt of Court. The court rejected Mr Hunt's contention that, his arrest by the Tipstaff in the High Court was wrongful because, as a litigant conducting his case in person, he was privileged from arrest within the precincts of the court. Mr Hunt was held by Mr Justice Wynn-Parry to be in contempt for not attending an appointment to be examined as to his means to pa 150 costs in his action against Allied Bakeries. Ltd. An appeal against the committal order was dismissed by the Court of Appeal on November 27.

After Mr Hunt had alleged yesterday that Mr Justice Wynn-Parry's judgment gave a completely wrong picture of the facts of the case. Lord Parker, the Lord Chief Justice, remarked One of the tilings about our law is that litigants in person are allowed unlimited, or almost unlimited, rope. I should advise you to measure your words." It was no solution, said Mr Hunt, to suggest that he should purge his contempt and thus secure his release because he' denied that he was in contempt and did not admit the debt. I can't apologise on oath for a contempt which I don't honestly admit." he said. Giving judgment.

Lord Parker said that a person was not privileged from arrest in a court if the arrest was done on the order of the court. There, was nothing in Mr Hunt's point. Mr Justice uasseis ana Mr justice mciair agreed, Macclesfield Corporation's chief administrative officer, Mr" Arthur Rees. of Fallibroome Road. MaccleS' field, died suddenly last night after he had attended a committee meeting.

He was o5. in TRAIN DRIVER NOT GUILTY Endangering charge The driver of an electric train which was in collision with a steam train at Haze Hill Station, Greenwich, on July 4 was found not guiltv at the Old Bailey yesterday of endangering the safety of passengers by wilfully neglecting to conform to signals. He was discharged. He is Percy William Hurst (33), of Elm Road. Slades Green, Kent, who was said by Mr Christmas Humphreys, prosecuting, to have passed a' cautionary signal and a stop signal and collided head-on with the steam train.

Hurst, in evidence yesterday, agreed with his counsel, Mr F. H. Lawton, Q.C., that he must nave passed the signal in the stoD position. Mr Lawton Why did you do it don't know. Did vou do it intentionally No.

Did you do it not caring whether it was on or off? No. Summing-up. the Recorder. Sir Gerald Dodson, told the jury they had to be that what Hurst did was deliberate and intentional. Anything short of that won't do.

It is right and proper that a case of this sort should be fullv inquired into. Perhaps this charge is more in the nature of. an inquiry than a criminal prosecution." BLACK MARK FOR THE LAUNDRY In the first case of its kind to be brouRht at Stockport under the Clean Air Act. Hyde and District Co-orjera-tive Laundries Association, were fined 5 for emitting black smoke from a chimney at their premises in Broadstone Hall Road South for three and a half minutes. RESISTANCE BUT NO VIOLENCE Rocket site incidents Mr G.

Ward (Secretary of State foi Air), in a parliamentary written reply yesterday, stated that he had a full report on the incidents which occurred at the rocket site at North' Pickenham on December 6 and 7. It was clear, he stated, that the demonstrators were cautioned by civilian and police not to enter Air Ministry property and were given a warning that, if they did so, they were liable to be removed. "The demonstrators ignored these warnings, entered the site, and attempted to bring work to a standstill. Some of them, therefore, had to be removed I am satisfied that the measures taken to deal "with these demonstrators did not involve the use of unnecessary force, and I consider that the police behaved with tolerance and restraint in a difficult situation Equally. I am now informed, that while the demonstrators resisted being removed- thev offered no violent resistance.

I am glad to make this clear "There were a small number of minor injuries, due to conditions on the site, but. so far as I am aware, no serious injuries, either to police or demonstrators." Christmas for civilian--addresses in Europe (except i and Malta, and' -letters Sfor-. BJP.O.S 6 and 8, 15-40 and 43-46 andi" 51-and -Forces in Gibraltar) should be posted to-day. BRITISH ALUiMlDlftODUfii For the Company fully to benefit from these steps it must not only be able to use properly its. existing assets, but it must also exploit its potential and for this large sums of money have to be found.

The Directors of the Company. have been considering for some time how best to achieve this -end. They decided that the best way to achieve it was a partnership and sought partnership with the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) because it was the oldest and largest producer in North America; it possessed financial and technical resources unequalled in the world and had always pursued a similar policy to that of, British Aluminium. The Directors therefore invited ALCOA to take a substantial interest in British Aluminium by subscribing for the unissued shares, which had been authorised by the shareholders and were available for issue by the Directors in the best interests of the Company. This would bring in 13,500,000 over the next three years to finance the group's developments.

i NO "SELL-OUT" British Aluminium is not "selling out to the It is going into partnership with them. It is not giving control to the Americans only three Directors out of fifteen will be nominated by ALCOA. British Aluminium is a British company, and with the ALCOA partnership will remain a. British company. recently there has been a great deal of public interest in the future of The British Aluminium Company Limited.

The Directors of British Aluminium feel it is necessary again to emphasize certain facts regarding the Company. British Aluminium is the only producer of virgin aluminium ingot in Britain. It makes one-third of all the semi-fabricated duminium products sold in this country. It has been established 65 years, and has built up valuable goodwill with its many customers at home and overseas. It is a great British company already and is becoming a great international organisation.

A PARTNERSHIP It has reached out to Canada, to Australia, to West Africa. In Canada it has formed Canadian British Aluminium Company Limited to make virgin aluminium. In conjunction with the Commonwealth Government of Australia and the Consolidated Zinc Corporation Limited it is exploring hydro-electric development in Papua and bauxite deposits in Queensland and the Northern Territories of Australia. In West Africa it is playing a part in the establishment of an international alumina producing company, British Aluminium is also active as a founder member of various international study and exploration companies. It also has substantial plans for the further development of its fabricating facilities in this country and overseas.

Aluminium ingots at (lie Falkirk Rolling Mills oftlie British Aluminium Company Limited Issued by THE BRITISH ALUMINIUM COMPANY LTD NORFOLK HOUSE ST. JAMES'S SQUARE LONDON SWI.