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be secirecrby rules. nor by cal restrictions. nor by rigid super. vision. Brutal Bullying It depends on careful selection of boys, on a full and varied day which leaves little scope for idleness or boredom.

It depends on the wisdom. observation and skill of the staff, on the responsibility which the boy N.C.O. can be taught to shoulder, and on the sense of tradition and the code of conduct and loyalty which inspire the actions of all the boys. It would be untrue to say that failure in this respect has been limited to one instance of brutal g'olverlianipton Man's bullying and it is clear to us that there must be a fuller understanding Death Beside Lorry of this side of the work. At the same A 27-year-old lorry driver who was time strenuous efforts are being made trapped between the side of his I in the right tom and another lorry, did not have iVIn a prefatory note to the report.

car injuries sufficient to have caused his 9 8 Fatal Road Mr. Head writes: death, and he died as much from The Army Council. having fear as from shock, it was stated at studied the report. is in no doubt an inquest at Chester, yesterday. on Accident that there is a -ontinuing require- James Edward Webster, of Corona- ment for both Army apprentice tion Road, Heath Town, Wolver- schools and regimental boys' units.

hampton.accepts in principle that in Frank Albert Carter. of Medusa Motorist Convicted of future both should be conducted Road. Cat ford. London. another more as schools than as military lorry driver.

said he saw Webster Is establishments. on the lines sustanding by his lorry, a tly too uangerous I)riving eased tee an a the commit to move. Had he goneA 55-year old cinema manager, the life of the boys should be -contowards the front of his vehicle he could have got clear. Horace Frederick Pollard. of Buck- ducted broadly in accordance with was fi ne the committee's recommendations.

minster Road, Leicester, Frederick Leonard Chapman. of "It also accepts the adoption of a E. 30 and disqualified from driving Temair House. Roan Street, Green- for i wires, lorry driver, said he pulled in iree years at Leicester curriculum on the general lines day for dangerous driving. He had advocated in the report.

to Pliable another lorry to pass and leadedp not guilty. then pulled out to overtake Webster's Standing Committee lorry. He was travelling at only eight The incident was one in which the Mr. Head says that the Army miles an hour and had left enough Rev. Eric Clement Renshaw, vicar of Council accepts a recommendation room to clear both the vehicle and All Souls Church, Leicester, was that the higher control and co-ordi- Webster.

fatally injured. Only a week before nation of all apprentices schools and Dr. Horace Ingham. pathologist, he had written in his ariah regimental boys' units should be said there were no injuries to magazine: "To ride a cycle in centred in the War Office and should Webster. except a little hemorrhage Leicester is to take your life in your be exercised by the Deputy Chief of the lungs hands." of the Imperial General Sta ff The West Cheshire Deputy- Mr.

A. H. Headley, prosecuting, through the Director-General of Coroner, Mr. Rex Taylor, said that said that Mr. Renshaw was cycling Military Training.

and that it also when Webster saw the lorry closing to a funeral service when he was proposes to appoint a senior officer in on him he must have been too struck by Pollard's car as he drew the Military Training Directorate, petrified to move." The jury returned' across a dual carriageway. whose time would be wholly devoted a verdict of Accidental death." I A police witness described the to this subject. braking system of Pollard's car as A Standing Committee on boys' quite useless due to long standing, units is being constituted." he said wear and lack of attention." All four yesterday. and its first task will be wheels could be turned by hand when to work out a detailed plan based on both foot and hand brakes were those matters of principle indicated applied at full pressure. The steering above, and to deal with the other was also very bad." Pollard was recommendations made in the fined £5 on each of two summonses report.

of having inefficient brakes and Among other recommendations by inefficient steering gear, and was the committee ordered to pay £lO 10s. advocate's Boys considered below the stanfee. dard of potential N.C.O. or trades- DRIVER 'TO( PETRIFIED 'l MOVE' Misuse of Travel Warrants Former R.A.F. Officer Fined 250 A former officer in the Royal Air Force.

Alexander George Hendry 1401. The Common. Thunderley. near Southend was fined C5O with £l2 Is. 2d.

costs at Shifnal yesterday. for obtaining railway tickets by false pretences. He asked for 36 ff enses to be taken into consideration. It was stated that while stationed at Cosford from January. 1952.

4) March. 1954. Hendry was in charge of the bulk supply of railway He had been making out warrants eitner in his own name or that of other officers and using them to get railway tickets to travel home. Hendry was stated to have said that he found two books of warrants while cleaning out a cupboard. They had apparently been overlooked.

He used them to travel home. His wife was ill. he was in poor health and in financial difficulty. Worried about his personal affairs. the temptation was too much for him.

County Council Elections The fitta: results of the Northamptonshire County Council election reveals that Conservatives had five gains and two losses, a net gain of three. Independents with Conservative support had two gains and last one seat. Independents without support and the Liberals each lost a seat. The Socialists had three gains and Ave losses. Conservatives retain control of the Council.

Rutland is controlled by the Independents though the Socialists gained a seat from them. Leicestershire has a Conservative majority, and with Independents control the Council. The Conservatives gained two seats and Independents and Liberals gained one each at the expense of the Socialists. At Soke of Peterborough. the Conservatives retained control with an increased majority.

The net results from the five East Midland counties were: Conservatives 12 gains. Ind. with C. support twoins, Ind. without support one loss, iberals one loss.

Soc. ten losses. swItorsHIIRE Donnington: C. (Soc.) 932 Mrs. P.

Shepherd IC.) 510. Soc. majority 422. No change. Hadley: C.

Hayward (Soc.) 834. W. Wylie iC.i 475. Majority 359. No change.

Savings 'Chain Letters' Not Official Mr. Thomas Pearson. chairman of Birmingham Savings Committee. dissociated himself yesterday from chain letters that are understood to be headed National Savings Campaign Game." He expressed the view as a magistrate that they were Zhe letters, it is understood. th of romise receiver a return £75 worth of saving stamps in 25 days in return for one single 6d.

savings stamp. The single stamp is to be sent to the top one of a list of five names. and the receiver of the chain letter is instructed to send off five similar letters to five people he knows. In return, he may add his own name at the bottom of the list of names and strike off the top name. to which he has sent the savings stamp Rugby School Appcal Now £207,790 The total sum subscnbed or promised to Rugby School's appeal for £250.000 for special objects now amounts to £201390.

The promoters state to their latest progress report: It is not unrealistic to say that the goal of is within reach. The report also states that among the latest donations was one of the greatest benefactions ever made to the school from a single It came through an old Rugbeian who wish to remain anonymous. 23,345 Houses Built in February The number of perm anent houses completed in Britain during February was 23.345. compard with 19.786 in Fbruary. 1954.

th Ministry of Housing and Local Government announced yesterday. In the first two month of 1955. 44.312 permanent houses were completed. compared with 44.381 in the same period of 1954. Wellington Rate Unchanged Wellington (Salop) Rural Council has levied a rate of 20s.

4d. in the pound. the same as last year, by using 3,112 from balances. An aerial view of part of San Francisco showing the elevated sections of Freeway, which is more than two miles in ail and now known as the Skyway." The newest section (upper centre) linking with the Bay Bridge (upper right), is expected to he finished by July. Lower left is the San Francisco Baseball Park and upper left the city's financial district.

FROM PAGE 1 Newspaper Strike newspaper industry. was an increase of 103. a week for day workers to £ll Is. 6d. and of 12s.

for night workers to £l2 19s. 6d. a week. The unions have asked for 402 18s. but it is an open secret that they would settle for less.

So far the N.P.A. has refused to unbalance the wage structure it has established in the industry by giving engineers and electricians more than the other printing unions, but it has frequently repeated its willingness to submit the claim to arbitration and to abide by any award. The unions refuse arbitration. Rev. Dudley Clark Last of Anglo-Catholic Rebels The Rev.

Dudley Clark, for 30 years vicar of St. Alban's. Conybere Street. Birmingham. has died at St.

Leonards-on-Sea. aged 69. He was the last of the Anglo- Catholic rebels" to stand out against the views of the late Dr. E. W.

Barnes when Bishop of Birmingham. He never com- maintaining the Anglo catholic riaion at St. lban's. a typical slum pariili at Bordesley. His was the only church which continued openly to reserve the Sacrament.

Father Clark In June 1953. opposition to Rev. Dudley Clark the Bishop's views, he was on good terms personally with Dr. Barnes. The respect he enjoyed among his fellow priests of all sections of the Church was shown by his election as Proctor in Convocation from 1945-53.

He was greatly beloved in Bordesley and Balsall Heath. where he knew all the back streets intimately. He had a remarkable memory for the family details of his parishioners, and a deep understanding of their problems. He was a priest who regarded his parish as the world. rather than, in Wesley's words.

the world as his parish. In the last war the area was badly affected by bombing. Born in Berkshire. he was educated at Westminster and Magdalen College. Oxford.

and attended El' Theological College. Apart from six Years as assistant Priest at St. his ministry was spent entirely in tot4h parishes. including the Isle of Dogs and St. Frideswide.

Poplar. He is survived by a brother and two sisters Icelandic Fine of £5,000 on British Skipper The British Trawler Federation stated in London yesterday that John Robert Ore, skipper, of the Grimsby distant water trawler Churchill. was fined 330.700 kroner (about £5.000 sterling) by the Icelandic authorities on Thursday for allegedly fishing inside the disputed four-mile limit. The federation said that Mr. Ore strongly denied that he was Inside Icelandic limits.

or that he had been fishing at the time. 100 To-day Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Suffield. of Upper House. Cleeve Prior.

is 100 to-day. She was born In Wolverhampton. Her husband. who died in 1919. was in Lloyds Bank in Birmingham.

Later they kept an hotel at Knowle. Boy-Soldiers Units to be More Like Schools Enquiry Committee's Accepted by Army Council Boys' units in the Army will become more like schools than military establishments as a result of the enquiry by a committee appointed by the Secretary for War. Mr. Antony Head, after the death at Plumer Barracks. Plymouth.

in October of Peter Foden (16). Dealing with the risks of serious misconduct or bullying. the committee states: would be untrue to say that failure in this respect has been limited to I man should be dlschared not later than the end of the month One instance of brutal bullying 1 after enlistment. Foden's death was caused by acute There should be a minimum necrosis of the liver after drinking a standard of accommodation and cleaning fluid. It was stated at the com ort.

inquest that his death was not due to attacks by other boys, but ten boy- There should be an annual folsoldiers were sentenced later at the low-up of all arms directors to find Winchester Assizes to imprisonment out how the boys prod ced by he and an eleventh bound over for boys' units have de ve loped on causing him bodily harm. joining units of the Army. The committee, whose report was There should be regular full published yesterday, states: Safety inspections of boys' units as well from the risks of serious misconduct as of apprentices schools by the or bullying or evil influences cannot Ministry of Education. The committee comprised Mr. B.

L. Hallward. Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham University Mr. J. H.

Bruce Lockhart. former headmaMe of Sedbergh; and Sir Zuan Miller, Military Secretary to the Secretary for War. The report is published by the Stationery Office (price 6d New Sources of Power Could Lead an Industrial Revolution' Britain had the opportunity to take the lead in a new industrial revolution based on the new sources of power, Mr. J. A.

Boyd-Carpenter, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, said in Edinburgh last night. If we take that opportunity we can, as Mr. Butler has said, see an enormous increase in our standard of living in the remaining years of this century." he said. But that opportunity will not be open for very long. We must take it now or lose it, perhaps for ever." No amount of political clap-trap could obscure the fact that this 'Anon could live only on what it earned.

The issue, therefore, when an election comes will. as far as thinking people are concerned. be simply this: Under which system will this country's earning power be the greater?" Scheme to Speed Road Building A National Highway Authority on the 'lines of the British Electricity Authority or the British Transport Commission was suggested as a solution to the country's road problems by Mr. C. T.

Brunner. vice-chairman of the British Road Federation, in London last night. Such an Authority, he said, could speed the construction of new roads by ensuring continuity of finance and a proper concentration on value for money in road expenditure. Mr. Brunner was speaking during a discussion on modern highways, their linance, design and construction, by the Institution of Highway Engineers.

new building principle was used in this scheme to safeguard water supplies for thousands of people in the liempston district of Bedfordshire. It was that used in the construction of the Dome of Discovery for the Festival of Britain. The plan involved covering Mox Hill reservoir, near Cople, and for the first time the work proceeded while the reservoir was in use. This was made possible by the new method in bridging the 120 ft. diameter of the reservoir.

There are no stanchions for the metal dome and the roof's weight is taken on the outside ring and parapet walls of the reservoir. The dome and superstructure weigh about 14 tons. The object of the scheme is to avert any possibility of pollution. When the dome is completed the water will not see daylight until it comes through the consumers' taps. Obituary The way was barred to the church inside the Royal Citadel at Plymouth yesterday but the troops allowed this car to pass when they saw who the occupant was.

The bride was Miss Sheila Margaret Tunstall and her bridegroom. Sgt. Edward C. Leigh. R.A.

All the wedding guests were stopped and had to leave their cars outside and walk to the church. The reason was an attack on the citadel by Commandos during military manoeuvres. Q.C. Refers to 'This Evil Man' Birmingham Tax Conspiracy Charges Defending counsel yesterday described as that evil man a London Jeweller and diamond merchant who gave evidence at Birmingham Assizes on Thursday against a Birmingham company director. Mr.

Bernard Gillis, Q.C., was opening the defence of the director, Samuel Keller (46), fancy goods manufacturer, of Portland baston, who has pleaded not to 12 charges. It was the guilty day of the trial. There were three charges of conspiring with the jeweller. Sidney Abraham Schoolman, of Regent's Park Road, London, to defraud the Inland Revenue: one of conspiring to fabricate false evidence: two of sending letters falsely stating that capital introduced into his businesses came from the sale of jewellery: and six of uttering forged documents. Examination of Man Died in Street A young hospital doctor, in sending home a man who died in the street soon afterwards of coronary thrombosis, made a mistake but was not negligent.

Mr. Justice Ashworth said at Liverpool Assizes yesterday. He was giving Judgment for the defendants in the widow's action against the West Cumberland Hospital Management Committee and the doctor. Dr. James Peter Graham.

The widow, Mrs. Elsie Amelia Parkinson. of Seymour Place West. New Brighton. alleged ne ligence, which was denied.

Disarm the claim, the Judge observed that if one merely knows that a man has died in the street in the early hours of the morning after being discharged from a hospital to which he went in pain, one is inevitably tempted to draw the Conclusion that it ought not to have happened. That illustrates the danger of knowing only part of the story. Once one adds that in the hospital he was examined carefully for nearly an hour, and that the signs and symptoms. on balance. negatived any serious condition, then that first conclusion must in fairness be disregarded." The defendants did not ask for costs.

Committee Absolved The husband. Stanley Alexander Edward Parkinson (391 a crane driver employed in Workington. was found dead in the street near Workington Infirmary in July. 1953. Dr.

Graham was house physician at the infirmary. Sentenced to Hard Labour NNithout Confinement Mr. Justice Ashworth said that Parkinson went to the hospital soon after 4 a.m. and complained of chest pains. Dr.

Graham gave him tablets and told him to return for X-ray A quarter of an hour afterwards. Parkinson was found dead from a massive coronary thrombosis." WThe esai that Dr. Graham qualified in June. 1953, and his appointment as house physician took effect from four days before Parkinson's death. It had been alleged that the committee was negligent id putting so newly-qualified a man charge of the casualty department.

The committee i tad discharged all that could be required of it. The Judge was sure that Dr. Graham understood that if he were in any difficulty he could call on his superior. His examination was thorough. careful and complete." Some emphasis had been placed on his inexperience but it was Just as reasonable to expect a newlyqualified man to take possibly more care than a more experienced' doctor.

The fact that Dr. Graham took an hour over his examination showed he was anxious on this, his fourth day at Workington. to acquit himself well. I therefore, accept his account of what he saw and did," the Judge said. An American staff sergeant was sentenced at Ruislip (Middlesex) yesterday to 60 days' hard labour without confinement.

Gold Discovered on Guadalcanal By a two-thiras malority. the six members of United States Air Fore court-martial found SiSgt. James William Acuff (40). of the 7582 Material Squadron U.S.A.F.. guilty of unlawfully leaving the scene of an accident without rendering assistance to Arthur Stanley Tatum (20), who had been injured by the car Acuff was driving.

Tatum. a cyclist. was later found dead beside a road at Efleld. Acuff was stated to have ten years' service in the American Forces. He had no previous convictions.

In a written statement he said he found his windscreen shattered, but thought the high wind had blown something on to his car. Mr. J. Castleman. pleading for extreme leniency." drew attention to.

Acuff's clean record and said he was married with two children. After another retirement the'Court announced that by a two-thirds majority they had decided to impose a sentence of 60 days' hard labour without confinement. The findings and sentence are subject to review. A U.S.A.F. officer later said that the sentence did not involve any loss of rank or money.

Acuff would return to his normal work. Certain extra duties would be imposed on him. Use of Curtain Walling in Architecture Gold deposits "of some importance" have been found on a ridge in the mountains of Guadalcanal. in the British Salomon Islands. the office of the Western Pacific High Commission announced yesterday.

The commission was reporting the findings of a party of Government geologists who visited the ridge, which is known as Gold Ridge and has been combed by prospectors since the early 1930'5. Problems arising from the use of curtain walling in architectural design were discussed by Mr. S. Meyrick. an architect on the staff of the Building Research Station.

Watford. at a meeting of the Birmingham and Five Counties Architectural Association last night. Mr. Meyrick described the reaction of different materials used in curtain walling to varying conditions and spoke of the experimental work undertaken on them by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. YOUNG 110 SPIT DOCTOR NOT NEGLIGENT THE BIRMINGHAM POST, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1955 T.U.C.

Concern On the initiative of the Ministry of Labour the two sides were invited to attend a Joint meeting in London yesterday in the hope of breaking the deadlock. The unions and the N.P.A. had not met since talks broke down on Friday of last week. The Minister decided to call the meeting after he had discussed the Purn with the T.U.C. General poses Committee, led by Sir Vincent Tewson and Mr.

Arthur on Thursday afternoon. So seriously did the T.U.C. leaders view the situation that Sir Vincent. who had been due to fly to Barbados on Thursday night, cancelled his tour. Members of the printing unions employed on national newspaper production in London have received a fortnight's notice ending their employment.

Meanwhile many of them are losing considerable normal overtime earnings. Journalists' Statement A resolution deploring the stoppage was passed by the Daily Express chapel of the National Union of Journalists on Thursday night. It This chapel deplores the strike of the A.E.U. and E.T.U. condemns (1) their present' attitude to arbitration.

which is bringing trade unionism into contempt, and 42i their thoughtless hazarding of the livelihood of workers on financially unstable newspapers. threatening unemployment among their colleagues and an even greater and more undesirable concentration of newspaper ownership: and urges the strikers to accept immediate arbitration and in the meantime to restore the newspapers to the public. The resolution was sent to the T.U.C.. the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation, the National Union of Journalists Executive Council. the Central London Branch of the N.U.J.

and to the strike committee This resolution produced a disclaimer from the union headquarters. and the Central London branch. with a membership of 2.000 members to the Fleet Street arm, last night issued a statement saying that the Daily Erpress resolution did not necessarily reflect the views of the branch, which had not yet discussed its attitude towards the stoppage. Denies Making Offer The prosecution has alleged that Keller gave false accounts to the Inland Revenue of how large sums introduced into his businesses as capital came into his possession. Mr.

Gillis said that the basis of the case would be whether the jury believed the evidence of Schoolman. "Can anybody in his calm judgment, whatever you think of this man take upon himself, or herself, the responsibility of relying in any way on one word that fell from the lips of that evil man? That is my submission of the character of that man as he gave his evidence consciously false. always ready to come back with an additional falsehood. Keller in denied that he ever offered Schoolman £5,000 either to withdraw his evidence or to help in any other way. There was not a word of truth in that allegation.

He had not spoken since the case was committed by the 'Stipendiary e. Keller referred to a sum of 226.000 which he changed into Co notes at a Birmingham bank and which the prosecution has alleged should have been liable to tax. He said that the money was brought to Birmingham by Schoolman in a large suitcase and two large biscuit-type tins, and he exchanged it for him. It was not his own money. Keller denied that he used any pressure to get Schoolman to Birmingham last Junt to see an Inland Revenue investigating officer to help him in his difficulties.

The hearing was adjourned until Monday. Stirling Moss Hurt Stirling Moss. the British racing motorist. received slight cuts and bruises yesterday when his Mercedes was in collision with an Italian military lorry near Forli. Italy.

COL. ROBERT R. McCORMICK Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick. editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

died yesterday at the are of 74. He was the last of the old-style American newspaper man who ruled a publishing empire from the summit, and imposed his own personality and views on every phase of his vast operations. Among other enterprises he controlled was the manufacture of the news- Chicago artist, daughter of an print on which the papers were American Army Officer. She died in printed. 1939.

In 1944 he married Mrs. Mary- He lived in the thick of contro- land Mathison. He has no children. versy almost from the day he was I born. Much of the controversy arose! from his own views and utterances I r.

D. Williamson on a variety of subjects, ranging I from civic politics in Chicago to tile' The funeral will take place at affairs of the nation and of the South Croydon to-day of Mr. David world. He never Williamson. of Purley.

author and tired of airing journalist, who has died at his home. his dissatisfac- aged 86. A widower, he leaves a win with the daughter and two sons. one of whom, Democratic Party Mr. David Williamson.

resides at much of King's Norton. the time, his Mr. Williamson. who was born at own Republican Guildford. was editor of The Daily Party: the east- Mail Year Book for many years until em United States his retirement in 1953.

in 1906 he in general and contested Dulwich as a Liberal in New York and the Parliamentary elections and also Wall Street in in a by-election, but was unsuccessful particular; the in each fight. The seat was won by British Com- late Mr. Sonar Law. monwealth, the British arista- After editing Hazell's Annual. Mr.

Williamson joined the editorial staff cracy and the Col. R. McCormick of the Illustrated London News in United Nations. The more inter- 11892 and was appointed assistant nationalist America became. the editor three years later.

He edited stronger grew his cevn nationalism. Windsor Magazine. 1895-98; Temple Col. McCormick was the dominant Magazine, 1898-99: Cassell's Magazine figure in a publishing organisation and The Quiver. 1905-09 His numerwhich printed twc newspapers with ous books included several about a total circulation of about 3.000.000 royalty, politicians, and war topics daily and more than 5.000.000 on Chtcago Tribune and the New York Daily News.

Mr. H. Harrison With its multi-coloured cartoon on page one, its phonetic spelling (f rater. iota: graf its savage editorials, the Chicago Tribune has been called the most popular. most feared, most hated and most quoted newspaper in the American Mid- West.

The death occurred at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Birmingham. yesterday, of Mr. Charles Henry Harrison. of Green Road.

Moseley. a teacher of singing at the Midland School of Music since 1926. who, earlier in his career, made many concert appearances a baritone. He was 72. Mr.

Harrison. who was born at Walsall, leaves a widow. who for many years acted as his accompanist, and two sons. Mr. John Harriman.

a viola player with the 8.8. C. Symphony Orchestra. and Mr. Ronald Harrison, who follows his father as a professional singer He studied music under George Breedon.

Robert Parker and Sir Henry Wood. and later, in 1924. laming appearer' wi the late Sir Gervase Elwes at several concerts, founded the Gervase Elwes Choir at Walsall. He was for many years music master at Ruteley Grammar School. The choir was disbanded in 1931 when Mr.

Harrison moved to Birmingham. The funeral will take place at Hall Green Parish Church next Wednesday at 2.15 p.m. former member of its teaching staff. She came from Tasmania in 1854 with her father, Dr. J.

Stewart Kilgour. who settled at Cheltenham in 1860. Miss Kilgour became a pupil at the college under the principalship of the famous Miss Dorothea Beale. Joining the staff in 1871. she remained for two years before taking a Mathematical Tripos at Girton.

It was largely through her work that College Hall Hostel for women students was opened at London University in 1932. Miss Kilgour was a Liberal member of Paddington Borough Council from 1912-17. before retiring to Sidmouth. Her surviving brother. Mr.

H. W. A. Kilgour. lives at Cheltenham, and another brother.

the late Mr. E. Hamilton Kilgour. was for a long time the town's electrical engineer. Inherited Traits He was born on July 30.

1880. His maternal grandfather was Joseph Medill. guiding light of the Chicago Tribune for 44 years till his death in 1899. Medill has been described as a man who had no use for easterners. Englishmen or kowtowing to anybody." Many of these views were retained by his grandson.

He was 30 when he became president of the Tribune company. He and his cousin. Joseph Medill Patterson. Jointly assumed the post of editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune in 1914. After the first World War, while Patterson started the successful New York Daily News.

McCormick knocked William Randolph Hearst out of the morning field in Chicago. a circulation war that has been called the fiercest in American newspaper history. At the height of this war. Tribune reporters carried loaded guns, and to this day the Tribune tower In Chicago is guarded by 45 armed policemen of the Tribune's own force. Col.

McCormick's first wife. whom he married in London in 1915. was the former Arnie Irwin Adams, a Miss Mary Kilgour Miss Mary Stewart Kilgour, whose death at the age of 103 has taken place at her home at Sidmouth. Devon, was the oldest Old Oirl of Cheltenham Ladies College and a Mr. Frank Foster President for many years of the Lichfield Greenhill tower.

with which he has been connected for 60 years. Mr. Frank Foster has died at the home of his daughter in Sutton Goldfield. He was 84. He was a native of Lichfield, was the licensee of the Dog Hotel.

Whittington for 30 years and a former president of the and District Licensed Victuallers' Association. He retired from business nine years ago. Mr. Foster was a member of the Lichfield Rural Council for 25 years and before that served on the old Board of Guardians for 20 years. Mr.

F. H. Edge The death was announced yesterday of Mr. Francis Henry Edge, aged 78. of Stevenson Place, Littleover.

Derby. who claimed that he was the youngest soldier at the Relief of Ladysmith. He served during the Boer War in the King's Royal Rifles. and during the Ladysmith campaign was promoted to itueen's Corporal. Funeral of Mr.

H. A. Raybould The funeral of Mr. H. A.

Raybould. of 9, Paganel Drive. Dudley. took lace yesterday. many of his place colleagues being present chapel at Lodge Hill Crematorium Family mourners were: Mr.

Raybould (son). Mr. F. Raibould (brother). Mr.

M. W. Potter (son-inlaw), and Mr. S. J.

Taylor (representing nephews and nieces). Among journalistic colleagues present Mr. 1 Bundock former sevetarv) sod Mt D. NOlitY. reprevenong the toe council ot cluu ttr editor tend Mr.

ilroolCi (MOW. el the lExpreva and Mr N. H. M. Brathwalte.

editor. Mr C. Pens and Mr. K. S.

Know. of tilt Dern Herald Mr. W. Small. reawmentlna M.

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not only brilliantly en- ut i ec, a. aen Acisconse In Snob. Ear sad Connel Miles tertains, it satisfies." FRANCIS ILLS in The Sunday Times BUDE FOR BETTER HOLIDAYS AT ANIIC ROL LERS MI ES OF GOLDEN SANDS MAGNIFICENT "As good a thriller as COASTAL SCENERV ALL POTS. sam okice Aso Foe Train Services enquire et Simkins. you'll find in a month 1 Mad Id scanizoz co of Sundays." CHRISTOPHER PYM in the 1 tfanchc.ster Daily Dispatch Journal Printing Office vi OR for Good Printing CT CAN NI NG CANNON PASSAGE CANNON STREET SBOA roN BIRMINGHAM 2 COUNTY NEWS IN BRIEF Fools' Day at Ely Practleal Jolters In ley yesterday altered the Welcome Ito the City of Els signs on two of the roads leading into the city, making them read: "If you want It.

you are Welcome to the City of Ey. We are fed up with It" RAlleVic hut year I Salopt committee of the Brlllah Emigre CancerCamM tty ball been awarded the Nufaeld THREE GREEKS were sentenced to death by ace it court it Hvana. Central donia. ole diaries of spying for Bulgaria. MIL A.

SHANKS was re-elected CalLtralliii and Dr. A Beauchamp vimchairman at a meeting of the Birmingham Executive Council of the National Health Service yesterday. THE MINISTER OF HOUSING has approved. with modifications. the development plan for Dudley 'no plan.

as approved. will be deposited in the Council House for public Inspection. CIVIL DlEnescr. volunteers Ut Sutton Coldneld and Solihull during March numbered 23 and 23 respectively as a result of house-to-house canvasses. and there was a net gain Of 36 in Warwickshire FARMERS Will, ACT Als fiCIDES for children attending the Shropshire and West Midland Agricultural Society's show at Shrewsbury on May lb and 19 There will be about SO conducted parties from the schools.

MR. A. TAYLOR. Walsall Corporation Transport Department's tragic superintendent, has been appointed deputy manager and tragic superintendent of the transport department at Luton A MARCH PAST by the band of the South Staffordshire Regiment and 170 men was held at Wednesbury yesterday as part of the regiment's 250th anniversary celebrations. MISS D.

M. LINSLEY. headmistress of Princess Mary High School. Halifax, has been appointed headmistress of Rugby High School for Girls in succession to Miss A. G.

Brlselden. THE NATIONAL Aeronautic Association yesterday recognised as official the Los Angeles-New York speed record established by Republic IMP Thunderatreak on March 9. The air force )et fighter averaged 652 miles an hour for the 2.464 miles. PRESSING PROBLEMS of membership and budget balancing were only partly solved last year by the Midland Area of the Royal Air Forces Association. but at least the downward trend was arrested.

Mr. A. R. Neil Hurdman, chairman. discloses in the annual report.

published yesterday AT THE ANNUAL INSPECTION of Wolverhampton Fire and Ambulance Service. the Corporation Fire and Ambulance Committee yesterday saw the progress of work in transferring brigade administrative headquarters from premises In Compton Road to Penn Road. MORE PPLI were air-dropped to Malaya security forces In a rch than In any previous months of the emergency, according to an R.A.T. statement In Singapore last night. It said 508.0351 b.

were dropped to patrols, beating the previous record by 50,0001 b. KING FEISAI. II of Irak. who has Just accepted the gift of two Royal Crown Derby vases, has expressed a wish to visit the Derby factory when he comes to England this summer. The vases are eight inches high and bear the Royal cipher.

They are maroon. ivory and gold in colour. REGIONAL COMMANDANT Emit I.ER. Officer Commanding the No. 6 Region (Birmingham and the Midlands) W.J.A.C..

will be in charge of the party of c.o.'s and cadets of the Women's Junior Air Corps who are going to London to-day to be presented to Princess Alexandra. who has accepted an invitation to become the first Patron of the National Association of Training Corps for Girls. The Importance of Sales Efficiency Challenge to be Met Sales efficiency is just as important for increasing exports as higher output and productivity. Mr. A.

R. W. Low. Minister of State. Isard of Trade, said at the Incorporated Sales Managers' Association annual dinner at Eastbourne last night.

Every bit of information that comes to me in my chair in the of Tiede," he said, indicates. indeed, that it .5 more important to-day. ofttn hear the words buyer's market' those days The whole is a market. The buyer's market is the salesman's challenge. In the last resort Britain's prosperity depends on the salesman's ability to meet that In 1954 the volume of our cxports was six pet cent greater than in 1953.

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