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HE GUARDIAN Tuesday March 21 lflGl FNK CONSPIRACY CASE Defence granted costs wMtVIR TX JZ-T iWl i I I II" IT fw. Lancaster bomber of the company in May, 1959, would the unsecured creditors have been paid in full or would they have gone short I have to bear in mind that these are criminal proceedings and that some doubt has been cast on this winding-up and the figure in the summary of the statement of affairs of 272,000 deficiencies. 1 have also to bear in mind that it might in the long run turn out to be a mere conflict of Flourishing concern Mr Barnes said there was on the one hand an accountant whose expert opinion would be that the company was deficient, and on the other, the people actually operating the company, one of whom was Mr Yates, who had described the firm as a flourishing little concern in July, 1959. "To go before a jury this would be a matter in which I would have to prove that the company was insolvent on a theoretical break-up in May 1959. and that it was manifest to anybody concerned with the company during the period of transfers between September, 1957, and May, 1930.

that the transfers were having that effect." The magistrates might think this disposed of the conspiracy charge. This left the prosecution with the last eight charges concerning accounts, and he thought it proper for the prosecution to concede that there was no evidence that the Dorfmans and Laub were de jure or de facto directors of Yates Ltd. Mr Barnes referred to civil proceedings in which, he said, a great deal of money and possibly people's reputations were bound up. These proceedings were in a state of suspense while the criminal proceedings were conducted at length. Impartial The Director of Public Prosecutions was a department of Slate and completely impartial in matters of litigation between subjects, and Mr Barnes said he would not like to feel that the weight of the Director was being thrown on either side of the scale as far as civil proceedings were concerned.

Mr Barnes added 1 don't think that anyone who has heard the case would accuse the prosecution of bad faith in the matter- On the facts which were at my disposal you may think these were proper proceedings to take. I hope that nothing the Director or I have said or done in this matter would be regarded as influencing the civil proceedings one way or the other." Mr Sidney Rutter, who appeared for Harold Dorfman. applied for substantial costs out of local funds, and similar applications were made by other defence representatives. Mr Michael Sherrard told the magistrates that his conduct of Reuben's defence had not been on the basis of any technicality but on the premise that Reuben was innocent. The magistrates ordered that photographs and fingerprints of the four defendants should be destroyed and their passports returned to them.

for Sugar" with a nejv bomb toad at Scampton. Lincolnshi Finding work after school APPRENTICESHIPS IN COMMERCE By our Liverpool Correspondent Mr P. Thomas, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, asked employers in Liverpool yesterday to extend their training schemes so as to provide employment for the young people seeking work in what had been called the bulge years. A wide extension of commercial apprenticeships and other forms of clerical and commercial training would, he added, help materially in solving this problem in Liverpool. Mr Thomas was speaking to a conference on youth employment, organised by the Industrial Council.

He said about 18,000 young people left school last year and came on the employment market. This year, 22,000 were expected, and 25,000 next year. The problem was formidable. He added that the direction of new industries to Merseyside was expected to create 34,000 new jobs in the next four or five years, recruitment for the new Ford factory would be starting soon, and 10,000 of these jobs were expected to mature in the next two years. There had been an upswing in the employment position and this was more marked in the case of young people.

Christmas school-leavers still seeking their first job in February were 1.6 per cent, which was less than half the figure for 1960. Girls should not have much difficulty in finding work and anv difficulties on the boys' side could be expected to diminish progressively as new industrial developments made their effects felt on the local economy. The expanding industries of Merseyside would need more skilled labour, Mr Thomas concluded, and he looked to the representatives of industry to contribute to the future labour force and to the social needs of young people of the "bulge" years by providing an adequate expansion of training facilities. In a centre such as Liverpool, with large numbers of boys and girls entering commercial employment, they must look for an expansion of training, not only in skilled industrial occupations but also in clerical and commercial employment. REPLACING WORKERS WHO RETIRE Leeds Corporation has been experiencing difficulty in finding trained craftsmen to replace retiring workers in its direct labour force, and has decided to recruit and train its own apprentices.

It asked for applications from children who will be leaving school this summer. Of the 140 received, 40 per cent are interested in joinery and 40 per cent in the electricians' trade. Gardening appealed to four and one boy wanted to train as a blacksmith. Various trades accounted for the remainder of the applications, those of paviour and mason attracting no applications. About fifty of the applicants will be taken on.

MANCHESTER ASSIZES Civil eases to be heart today at 10 30 a.m. at tfte ton hall before Mr Justice Jonci: Lavln v. National Coal Beard (part heard). Before Mr Justice Gregory v. Lancashire Cotton.

Corporation Ltd. Before Mr Justice Nleld: Hill v. Uoikii and Lemtls (his wife! and another (part hoordl. In either court: Jade v. Morler Bros.

I Iron Founders). Moore Manchester Corporation: WariHne v. Maltlson Jin1 Obituary Dr N. Sykes, Dean of Winchester The hearing of conspiracy, fraud, and false pretences and accounts charges against four London business men ended suddenly at Lichfield yesterday when the prosecution withdrew all 21 charges against them. It was the eighteenth day of the hearing.

The men are Nathan Dorfman (59), company director, of Paramount Court, Tottenham Court Road, his son, Harold Dorfman (31), company director, of Park Lane, and son-in-law Laub (39), company director, of Bryanston Street and Harry Reuben (35), accountant, of Prince Albany Road. All had been charged with conspiring to defraud shareholders and depositors in industrial banking firm of Edwin J. Yates, of Lichfield, now in liquidation. The Dorfmans and Laub were also accused of fraudulently applying cheques concurring in the falsification of accounts. The Dorfmans were further charged with fraudulent conversion.

and Harold Dorfman was also accused of false pretences. Heubcn faced charges of publishing false accounts. After the magistrates had granted an application by Mr Francis Barnes, prosecuting, to withdraw all the charges, they granted an application by defence counsel and solicitors for costs out of countv funds. Applying to withdraw the charges, Mr Barnes recalled that the magistrates had announced before the adjournment on Friday that they were not prepared to commit any of the men for trial on charges based solely or mainly on the evidence of Edwin J. Yates, former managing director of Yates, Limited, and the prosecution's chief witness, although they wished to hear the evidence of an accountant and submissions by counsel.

Charges "disposed of" He presumed that this referred to an accountant whose name had been mentioned in the case and who would have been called to show the financial state of Yates, at the beginning of May. 1959. I am acutely conscious, having reviewed this case carefully over the weekend, that your second comment disposes of the first three charges of false pretences." he told the magistrates. The conversion charges, he said, would be very difficult to sustain in view of Mr Yates's evidence, since he had agreed under cross-examination that the transfer of money to the Dorfmans and Laub were loans without strings." And a loan without strings is not a conversion." 'he said. Mr Barnes said the conspiracy charge involved alleged intent to deprive depositors in Yates, of the value of their deposits and the interest.

The question was, if one imagined a theoretical break-up Max Mosley among i 26 accused Max Mosley, son of Sir Oswald aiosley, was among 26 men and youths who appeared at Bow Street, London, yesterday on charges arising out of incidents during an anti-apartheid protest rally at South Africa House in London on Sunday. He pleaded not guilty to obstructing a police officer. Four men and youths who were accused of using insulting words and behaviour were each fined 3 after heading guilty. The others were -'manded on bail until April 13. Last of the de Wendels Maurice de Wendel, the last of the great Alsatian industrial family of the de Wendels, died on Sunday at his home near Nancy.

He was a director of the iron firm of Les Petits fils de Francois de Wendel," which dates back to 1704. The de Wendels set up two Industrial and business domains one in France, the other In Germany after the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, and until the very eve of the First World War they straddled the Rhine. The deaths of the scions of the main branch of the family left only a cousin Maurice to direct the de Wendel company after the last war, during which it suffered heavily. Later, under the Monnet plan for reconstructing French industry, the company began picking up the pieces and putting them back together. Today, the de Wendel company has four huge factories in France, producing iron and steel, and mines producing coal.

Grutter the English department at the College of the Rhine Army at Giiltingen. For some time, too, she tutored at Burton Manor Residential College in Cheshire. She was in her work and her recreation cosmopolitan in the truest sense. She spent her youth in Switzerland and frequently returned to climb and to ski. She played a significant part in many educational projects in Germany.

This gave her an enviable authority in European adult education. But she never lost the constant love for what was local and never confused human warmth with high-sounding title or activity. In South Staffordshire and Cheshire she will be remembered, too, for her work for the Church and for women's organisations and for her infectious pleasure in the countryside. Those whom she taught were her friends and to he her friend was always an education in civilised thinking in love of life and deep troubled face he was a stout support and a sure friend and people were ready to lake their troubles to him not only because he had the knack of getting to know them so quickly but also (and more) because they knew instinctively that they would be heard with a depth of sympathetic attention. His great attractiveness as a man stood him in good stead when he became a dean, for at first he knew very little of how a cathedral works and of the function of a dean in it.

It meant that everybody was willing and eager to see him through the earlier perplexities while he himself had the humility to allow the cathedral to carry him until he had had time to learn how to carry it. But he who did everything at an almost exhausting speed learnt very quickly and had begun to make his own mark among the long succession of deans when sickness suddenly struck him. It never left him until his death, when he left behind a host of saddened friends none more so than his own immediate colleagues. Marie A correspondent writes The death of Marie Grutter at the age of 47 deprives adult education of a personality of distinction, civilised integrity and human warmth. Since 1953 she had been Staff Tutor in the Department of Extramural Studies at Birmingham University, lecturing in literature and organising courses in the South-east Staffordshire area.

Her work as lecturer and organiser was characterised by a strong sense of enthusiasm for literature and social duty. Her whole career exhibited a vital Interaction between scholarship and service. She gained a first-class honours degree at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Then she became a school teacher, worked in experimental adult education at a Borstal Institution, and served with distinction first as staff officer and then as head of P0WM GAPAREN NEW (M THIS COUNTRY. Welsh Books Council Plans to form a Welsh Books Council, whose object will be to publish more books in Welsh for adults, were completed by a steering committee which met at Shrewsbury yesterday.

Professor Henry Lewis, chairman of the committee, said that the proposal had met with general agreement and the council would probably meet for the first time in July. He hoped that there would be about 10,000 to spend in the first year of operation." A LANCASTER "REARMED" Two big bombs By our Lincoln Correspondent for Sugar," the famous Lancaster bomber which flew on a record total of 137 wartime raids, has been armed again. The bomber, which became known as the Lancaster which knows its own way home," still wears its wartime camouflage of dark green, brown, and black, as it stands by the main gates of Scampton RAF station, Lincolnshire, the home of No. 617 Squadron (the Dambusters), now equipped with Vuicans. It has now been fitted with a Grand Slam bomb, 25 feet long, and a "Tallboy" bomb.

Both tvpes were used by No. 617 to smash such targets as U-boat pens and rocket installations late in the war for Sugar joined No. 83 Squadron at Scampton in 1942 and was in service for three years. Beneath the port window of the plane are painted 137 bomb silhouettes one for each raid and the emblems of a DSO and three DFCs won by men who flew it. Below is written the boast No enemy plane will fly over Reich territory.

Hermann Goering." Councillor protests at overhead power line plan By our Oldham Correspondent After Crompton, near Oldham, surveyors committee, was told last night of North Western Electricity Board proposals for an overhead power line through half a mile of countryside, Councillor Pilling said It isn't surprising that there is so much vandalism throughout the country when one of the nationalised industries is the chief culprit. I think the biggest vandal in England today is the electricity board. Telephone cables are being laid underground. Probably in about 100 years the thickheads in the electricity board will do the same thing." The chairman, Councillor F. Sykes, said that overhead lines were cheaper than underground ones.

Councillor Pilling retorted You can't put a price on beauty. Beauty is one of the natural rights of men and we ought to do everything we can to preserve it." The surveyor, Mr J. E. Gledhill, is to have talks with the NWEB about enmnnratiuf nnsr3 and nlternnta mntac for the line. CHILDREN PREFER FROZEN FISH School meals experiment Manchester Education Committee has consulted a group of 20 children at Chorlton Park School about fish.

They were given frozen and fresh cod on successive days without being told which was which and asked which they preferred. The majority preferred frozen fillets, which are slightly cheaper, and the education committee has decided to continue to order them, in spite of protests trom tresn risn dealers. COUNTRY IW With another. Grand? v. Chorley Precision Enrtaeerim Nixon v.

Manchester ship Canal O'Neill I Dr Norman Sykcs, Dean of Winchester, since 1958, died on Sunday night, aged 63. Norman Sykes, a Yorkshireman, was educated at Leeds University and Queen's College, Oxford. He was Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University when he was appointed Dean of Winchester. He was a fellow of the British Academy and of Emmanuel College. Cambridge.

From 1924, when he was ordained, until 1931 he was lecturer in history at King's College, London. After two years as Professor of History at the University College of the Southwest. Exeter, and as Birkbeck Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at Trinltv College. Cambridge, he was for 11 years Professor of History at Wcstfield College, London University. From 1937 to 1943 he was Canon Theologian of Liverpool, and for the next two years Fellow and Praeicctor in Theology and Modern History' at (Jueen's College, Oxford.

He was Proctor in Convocation for Cambridge University 1945-58, and Wiles Lecturer, Queens Universitv, Belfast, 1959. He was the author of about a dozen books on Church history. Dr Sykes married in 1927 Betsy Farrow, daughter of the late Edmund Farrow, of Ncwbold, Rochdale. Canon Roger Lloyd writes Of Norman Sykes's merits as a groat ecclesiastical historian one of the greatest in Europe and of his long years of service as a universitv teacher, it is for his peers in academic fields to speak. I can speak only of that part of his life which 1 shared by working (n close and until his final illness daily contact with him as Dean of Winchester.

He came to be our Dean in September. 1958. and he immediately made an impression on the cathedral," the city, and the diocese as a man of very great kindness of heart. He really did like people, all kinds of people, each one for his or ner own sase. 10 anyone who had a TAKIM6 US TOO FAST 6RADIEMT.

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