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LET Triasurdsjants 4t Ptinne: JAMAICA qtu 1 1 It) Irmineham (iii Sell your house quickly OfN" i Auctioneer. Valuer EDITION Estate Agent. DOURO WINE SHOPSCAVENEHSH HOUSE, ,116 LTD. No. 33,231 (210th Year) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950 ONE PENNY IigaCHM I vitj" Miners cannot meet nation's fuel demands: Minister's announcement dismays M.P.s BRITAIN TO BUY COAL ABROAD Some will be shipped from America to avert a winter crisis by OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT FACED with the prospect of another coal crisis, Britain is to cut bunker supplies and buy coal from probably from America.

Cabinet split over dollar aid The Minister stood uncomfortably before a crowded House, with a long row of equally uncomfortable Ministers behind him, and tried to make the best of the situation. denied by Our Political Correspondent REPORTS of a split in the Cabinet about rearmament and American aid were officially denied by a Government spokesman last night. The London correspondents of the "New York Times" and the "New York Herald- Tribune both reported that Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Mr. John Strachey and Mr.

George Strauss were demanding that Britain should refuse further American aid and slow down the pace of British rearmament. And it was only as a further measure of insurance a that we were going to buy coal abroad. But he was obviously alarmed by the steadily falling he explained had caused presernt war only too eager to accept suggestions for improving it. Yes. sir." he replied when Peter Roberts (Nat.

Lib. Con.) urged consideration of voluntarily increased stints with more pay to get more coal. The Government spokesman said I.e was authorised by the three Ministers concerned to deny the story on their behalf." MINERS AND CALL-UP When Mr. Ernest Fcrnyhough (Lab.) said it was preposterous call up miners for the Army or allow them to volunteer the Minister gave a breathless assurance that the question was' under consideration, He did not see the dozens of raised eyebrows behind him. Another suggestion was that he shotiA make representations for a cut in the crippling 100 per cent.

purchase tax on domestic fuel-sa via appliances. "That is exactly what we are doing." said Mr. Noel-Baker. Sensing his uneasiness, the Opposition pressed questions upon him and gave a rasping cheer when Mr. Godfrey Nicholson said with impatience that the House was tired of optimistic statements.

Could the Minister hold out any hope that the situation was not progressively deteriorating? Mr. Noel-Baker avoided a There has been no sign of a Cabinet split about rearmament and there is no reason to believe that Mr. Bevan has ever urged a reduction in the rearmament programme. Mr. Strachey and Mr.

Strauss are not members of the Cabinet. Ministers unhappy OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT writes: In spite of the Government statement on American dollar aid for British rearmament. nobody can pretend that British Ministers are happy about Washington's unfulfilled promises. It is generally known in Whitehall that in recent visits to Washington neither Mr. Bevin nor Mr.

Gaitskell has been able to extract from American Ministers any firm pledge that Britain will eventually receive the promised £ssom. in free dollars. This, according to British Ministers. to be the United States' contribution in dollars to Britain's proposed arms plan for the next three years. The chill wind that has been cooling American ardour for giving Britain dollar aid has been even more noticeable since the latest Congressional elections in the United States showed that there was a swing towards Republican Party ideas of isolationism.

economic thrift and a concentration of arms aid for the Far East rather than Europe. A Treashry assumption It is significant that the Treasury is now assuming in Whithall talks on the rearmament plan that there will be no dollar aid from the United States. There is no suggestion that Britain will not receive the machine tools, big bombers and other equipment promised by the Americans under the rearmament programme envisaged under the North Atlantic Treaty. Mr. Attlee has pointed out.

though, that if Britain is to fulfil her obligations to At'antic Alliance she must also have free dollars from the United States with which to buy rubber and other commodities in the world market. 11 Britain receives no tree dollar arms aid from the United States those purchases must be made on a reduced scale out of sterling balances. According to United States reports there is a feeline in some quarters that Britain should chuck the whole concept of American aid and stand alone." Vital talks about the future of dollar aid for Britain will take a decisive turn in London this week. Mr. Galtskell and Mr.

William Batt, new dollar aid mission chief i London. are to meet at the Treasury to study a draft agreement submitted by their advisers. It is believed that this agreement reveals that Britain needs help to meet her commitments this year. but indicates that dollar aid could be suspended entirely during the spring. There is a clause in which the United States pledges further aid if it becomes essential because of an emergency.

Exclamations of in some quarters, of this statement in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Philip Noel- Baker, Minister of Fuel. It was only to avoid a crisis that these measures were being taken, he said. The reductions in bunker supplies would be made only for so long as our stock position was in doubt. i direct answer by complaining that it was much harder to get an adequate labour force in times of full employment.

He said nothing about the future but left everyone fearing the worst by saying in answer to a question about domestic coal that the position after Christmas would depend on the supply." LESS FROM OPENCAST In his statement the Minister explained that consumption continued to rise but output was going down That from opencast mining would fall this year. owing to persistent rain, by about 750.000 tons. Deep-mined coal was unlikely to exceed the lower estimate in the Economic Sur rey. Of the three factors which determined output attendance had somewhat improved; productivity was still above last year's level, but not by as much as previously; man-power had fallen. Through the man power shortage output had fallen in recent weeks below the level of the corresponding weeks last year.

As a consequence, distributed stocks of coal at the end of October were lower by 7m. tons than was hoped. It was clear, he said. that if the winter were hard our margin would be narrow. Therefore.

as an assurance against the results of severe weather, the Government had Continued on Page 4 HANDSWORTH'S M.P. ARRIVES Sir Edward Boyle. youngest who won the recent Handsworth by-electron. arriving at Westminster yesterday with his mother, Lady Beatrice Boyle. to take his seat in the Commons.

WEATHER Todars foret.9.l: Strong to winds with gales in places expectduring morning Squally showers chance of at times Rather cold 43 1 Ilfi hrr Shower! and bright interval! he.terdat'. siliwts at Elchacton ry rlintthlm Ralometet a.m 28621 9 435 Wile temp) 4t mm 34 Rainfall 0 Sunshine o.4hr Lighting-up time: 4.38 p.m. to 7.11 a.m. Minister admits cuts in housing standards OZENS of suggestions for increasing the rate of houseuilding were given to the Government, mostly by Labour members from overcrowded areas, in the Commons last night. With undisguised anxiety they urged the Government to'step up the rate by building houses in terraces; by increasing the number per acre; by cutting out fittings; doing away with sheds and outside lavatories; lowering and building more tworoom dwellings.

West hit by floods, gales FLOODS are inundating parts of the West Country following 24 hours' torrential rainfall. Gales are making conditions worse. Mr. Arthur Blenkinsop. Parlf Secretary ti the Ministry of Health, replying for the Government.

thanked members for their "sombre and useful contribution." Then he surprised everyone by claiming that most of the suggestions made had already been a- opted. Many western districts have had more than a week's normal rainfall in the last 24 hours. In parts of Devon and Cornwall the roads were as much as 3ft. deep under water last night. The wind in some parts reached gale force, and gale warnings were in force in the Bristol Channel.

Official building standards were not extravagant he said. Some of the local authorities' ideas were. and they had been asked to bring their standards down to the Ministry's level. The Ministry. Mr.

Blenkinsop said, were not wedded to semi detached houses. They wanted to see some terraced houses. blocks of flats. hostels and bungalows for old people. As for house fittings.

he said that all the points raised had been very much under consideration and some of them had been put into operation. Reducing ceiling heights to 7ft. 6in. was a matter which the Ministry invited local authorities to examine and experiment with it." Midland 3. Mr.

Webb reviews meat surcharge The surcharge of ninepence on meat purchases, which has threatened to drive many small butchers out of business, is being reconsidered by Mr. Maurice Webb. Minister of Food. This was stated at a meeting of the council of the National Federation of Meat Traders in London yesterday, when it was reported that with the Ministry about the financial position of the trade were now in progress. The Ministry, he added, was trying to encourage local authorities "where it is desirable" to build more one and two roomed houses.

Their efforts were producing results. Figures now a steady growth in the proportion of small house. But Mr. Blenkinsop warned that this tendency must not be carried too far. Butchers 'facing gravest crisis' A conference of the Lancashire Cuuncil of Meat Traders was told at Blackburn yesterday that butchers are facing their gravest uisis since the darkest days of the war." With the peak kill at an end and cold store: practically empty devoid of reduction in the ration was "absalutely inevitable." added Mr.

W. Davis. of Manchester. £4,500 damages in car collision Damages of £4.500 were awarded yesterday against a Birmingham motorist. Mr.

Archibald Hathaway. of Southbourne Avenue. Ward End. to two passengers who were in his car when it collided with a Birmingham tram on December 27 1948. The passengers.

Mr. and Mrs. Stress. of Ingledew Drive. Leeds.

were severely injured. Mr. Strom received £4.000 and Mrs. Strom £5OO. By consent Birmingham Corporation was dismissed from the action.

Hitch-hiking to see Isaacs Three representatives of Hull's 5.000 unemployed hitch-hiked to London yesterday to seek an interview with the Minister of Labour and press for immediate Government action to provide work. The problem at Hull is more acute than in any other part of Yorkshire. Men affected are mostly semi-skilled and labourers. CHRISTMAS MAIL MAY BE LATE IRMINGHAM'S Christmas postal arrangements may be upset because the Education the first time since the war refused to allow pupils time off from school to help. The reason given by a subcommittee that dealt "exhaustively with the that older pupils are needed on the few days before term-end to prompt corporate unity in Headmasters.

the Birmingham Gazette was told yesterday, last year complained that such absence, granted to the older pupils. had an undesirable effect on unity in schools. The reason given by an official of the education department. was: "We have to ensure a certain number of attendances throughout the year. Term in Secondary Modern' and Grammar schools ends on December 20.

Pupils can help in the Post Office then if they wish." Not enough' But that is not nearly enough for a Post Office that expects to handle 150 million letters and six per cent. increase on last the week before Christmas. To cope. 3,500 extra helpers are needed for a seven-day period finishing on Christmas Eve. Yesterday's recruiting figure was little over 2.000.

Men and women at the Central Technical College can also be ruled out this year unless they are prepared to risk it and take the consequences." Their term does not end until December 22nd and they have already been warned that unauthorised time off might mean the loss of a diploma that requires a certain number of attendances. "University people who finish on the 16th are rolling up again" a G.P.O. official said last night. "We have lost the others this year but we hope still to recruit sufficient numbers." Bevin turns down Farouk It RITAIN no intention of EP taking steps that would leave tne Middle East defenceless. That declaration was made in the Commons yesterday by Mr.

Bevin. Foreign Secretary, in a stateThent on Egypt's proposal that troops should be withdrawn from the Suez Canal Zone. Concerning the Sudan. which Egypt suggested should come under the aegis of the Egyptian Crown. Mr.

Sevin said Britain's policy remained unaltered. The Sudanese should in due course decide their own future. There had been discussions this summer between the British Ambassador and the Egyptian Government over the differences between the two countries. The Egyptian Foreign Minister would be visiting London next week. and this would give an opportunity of talking over the difficulties.

Queen Juliana arrives today Two hurt in car crash TWO people were trapped when a saloon car demolished a brick wall and crashed into a lampstandard at Bordeslev Green. Birmingham. early today. The driver, Mr. John Allen (54).

and hiF wife, Mrs. Mary Allen, of 37. Blakeley Road, Yardley. were taken to Birmingham Accident Hospital suffering from leg and head iniuries. A new portrait of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who arrives in Britain today with Prince Bernhard for a four-day visit as guests of the King and Queen.

Destroyers of the Royal Navy and R.A.F. jet fighters wiU escort their ship, the Dutch cruiser Jacob Van into Dover harbour. lere they will be greeted by the Duke of Gloucester. Their condition was stated to be serious." Story came true his mother died A man who was said to have obtained money from people by making up a story that his mother had died. was yesterday granted permission by Warwick magistrates to attend her funeral.

She had died while he was in custody. John Edward Cox (441, of Watts Terrace. Warwick. a former cinema doorman. pleaded "Guilty" to false pretences and asked for 16 other cases to be taken into consideration.

Ho committed for sentence to Warwick Quarter Sessions. Later, the royal visitors will be met at Victoria by the King and Queen. Princess Elizabeth. Princess Margaret and other members of the Royal Family. Mr.

Attlee and Mr. Bevin will also be prsent. Last night. about two dozen members of an advance guard from Holland worked in shirt sleeves in the basement of Claridge's Hotel preparing for Queen Juliana's banquet tomorrow night. Decorations will include b.indreds of pounds worth of flowers sent from Holland.

Jet crashes in sea An American Air Force FB4 Thunderjet crashed into the sea off the south-east coast yesterday afternoon. NURSES' Hi OR two years Birmingham Corporation have used an Aston Manor nurses' home without paying a penny to the now they are to buy it "for a song." The owners, Aston Manor Nursing Institution. have accepted a ridiculously low figure" because they do not wish to see an end to 50 years of service to the sick and aged of the district. When the National Health Service began in 1948 the institu- ME SOLD tion's home nursing service was taken over by Birmingham Corporation. Since then the Corporation have made no payment for the use of the home in Albert Road.

15,000 books destroyed by to be order A order that 15,126 copies of four books containing obscene paspges should be destroyed was made by the Potteries' Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. R. N. Mac Gregor Clarkson, at Stoke-on-Trent yesterday. He alto ordered that eight sets of magazines should be destroyed.

Excluding nine sets of magazines from the order. the Stipendiary explained: The pictures in them are of the type published today for callow youths or tired old men. lam only assessing the publications concerned on the moral standard of today." Summoned by the Chief Constable, Mr. F. L.

Bunn, were Raymond Locker, of Buxton Road, Leek, the Archer Press and the Trent Books Company, both of Hanley. Over 15,000 copies of the books and magazines were seized when police raided Stoke-on-Trent premises, it was stated. Mr. J. Ryder Richardson, defence counsel.

said the defendants had a weekly turnover of 60.000 books and magazines with about 600 titles, and they could not examine every publication closely. After police action the publications were at once withdrawn from circulation. "All the books and magazines objected to can be bought at any London book store," he declared. There is no censorship of these publications, but there is censorship of the stage and films. "At a play sponsored by the British Arts Council, showing nightly in London.

every kind of phrase pointed out by the police in these alleged obscene books is spoken on the stage by two characters who are seen enjoying an illicit love affair." General Orsborn ill Gen. Orshorn. head of the International Salvation Armv. has been forced to break off his German tour because of illness. The general, who arrived in Hamburg last Saturday for a one-week visit.

will returt. to Britain. 'OR A SONG' over two years without so far paying a penny." Mr. W. Frank Taylor, institution chairman, told the Birmingham Gazette last night that the Corporation had bought the home for about £3.000 and its although a contract of sale has been signed.

The institution's annual report. They are getting it for a issued yesterday, states that a song." he said. "We decided to rate of interest for two years' use accept a ridiculously low figure of the home has now been agreed. because we didn't want the sick But it adds: The crude fact is and aged to suffer. that the Corporation of Birming- Even so, we feel we have had ham has had the use of the a raw deal from the Corporainstitution's property for well lion." contents 1:1,100.

for approximately Committee by-passed on school headships CANNOCK CHASE Divisional Education Executive went into secret session last night to find out why short list of head teachers was sent straight to the school managers for final selection without reference first to the General Purposes Committee. One of the two head teachers appointed was Coun. Frank Rowley. chairman of Cannock Urban Council. His wife was a member of the school managers.

The executive decided after 10 minutes that the by-passing of committee was an oversight and approved the appointments. A member of the executive said afterwards: Though Mrs. Rowley was a member of the school managers, she did nob attend the meeting at which the selections were made, and she has since resigned. one member objected to the manner of selection. We were quite prepared to answer him in public session, but as an employee of the executive had already been mentioned by name we had to go into committee on standing orders.

There was nothing underhand about the by-passing of the was a genuine mistake." Bernal's plea at Warsaw APLEA to the World Peace Congress in Warsaw to broaden its anti-war campaign to embrace all peace-lovers, however conservative their views," was made yesterday by Prof. J. Bernal. Dr. Bernal.

who is vice-president of the Association of Scientific Workers, said that allies in the campaign must include all pacifists, believers in World Government. Liberals. Socialists and "all genuine patriots." The Dean of Canterbury. Dr. Hewiett Johnson, and 25 other British clergymen in a declaration circulated to the congress yesterday.

apologised for Britain's refusal to admit foreign clergy to last week's abortive "peace" congress at Sheffield. G.l.s REACH AND HOLD FRONTIER POSITIONS SPEARHEADS of the American 7th Division in North-West Korea reached and held positions on the Manchurian border late last night. Major-Gen. Almond. commander of the U.S.

10th. who announced the move, said that the 17th Division would also move up to the. border today. British troops yesterday maintained a straight line above the Chong-Chon river front around Pakchon. Clashes with small Communist groups and roadblocks were reported.

British troops wiped out a Communist patrol near Yongbvon a few miles to the right, while the South Korean Capitol advancing up the coact. was reported near the port ()I Chongjin. Unconfirmed front-line reports -poke of a threatening chain of Communist strongholds running through the mountainous spine of Korea from just east of Tokchon near the front line to near Seoul. About 20.000 well-armed Communists were said to be holding a mountain fortress east of Pyongyang. Another 10.000 were reported east of 200 doctors say: 'We go' than 200 out of 240 doctors in Leicestershire and Rutland have agreed to resign from the National Health Service, probably next March." if Mr.

Bevan does not settle the pay dispute. This was stated yesterday by Dr. E. W. Goodwin.

chairman of the Leicester. Leicestershire and Rutland branch of the British Mcdical Guild. If the doctors resigned. Dr. Goodwin added.

patients would be treated as usual, but no certificates of incapacitation would be issued. Home market cars No new proposals for ensuring the fair distribution of cars on the home market have ye' been sent to Mr. George Strauss. the Minister of Supply. It is hoped an announcement will be made shortly, the Minister states in a Parliamentary reply.

Mother, children, slip under train A MOTHER and two children fell on the track in front of a Bakerloo line train at Charing Cross tube station lived. They were saved from electrocution by falling in the safety well between the lines. The woman, Mrs. Ivy Learwood. aged about 38, at Wokingharp, received a fractured arm and a suspected fractured skull.

Her children, Clive (8), and Irene (2) were taken to hospital suffering from shock, but they were not seriously hurt. Mrs. Learwood's condition was described last night at Charing Cr )ss Hospital as serious." Mrs. Learwood's third child, Nigel (6), was the cause of the accident, when he suddenly ran across the platform. His mother, carrying Irene in her arms and holding Clive by the coat, made a grab, all three crashed down in front of the train.

Nigel fell on the platform and was slightly hurt. He ran away and hid as railwaymen. guided by screams from under the train, began the rescue. Guard F. Jarvis ran back into LATEST NEWS 40 MEN TRAPPED BY EXPLOSION Forty men trapped last night by gas explosion in storm sewer in Detroit.

U.S. Four men later removed to hospital with severe burns. Fate of remaining 36 unknown. M.C.C. v.

N. DISTRICTS (See page four) Weather humid and pitch crumbling. Bailey dropped Fowler at second slip off Warr in first over. N.S.W. Northern Districts: 37 for two.

"Tr the tunnel and turned off the current. Then he crawled under the train. Hero of the rescue was Station Foreman Sidney Fitter, who. with Motorman Weller, pushed and dragged the three. one at a time.

50ft. under the train to a gap between the coaches. And Nigel? A platform guard chased and caught him. 600 miles for an inoculation An R.A.F. corporal on preembarkation leave at his home in the North was recalled to receive his inoculation instructions at his base in the 300 miles away.

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