The Birmingham Post from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 17

i sounil BEACONIE. The Dirmin(e) (ham os 1 ID I MES No. 30,926 ik (I)lurottt. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1957 TRADERS ASTON AD PHONE ASTON GLOSS SATELLITE BEING FOLLOWED BY SPENT ROCKET 625 Miles Behind in Building Industry Facing A Crisis THE building industry in a the Midlands is already facing a crisis as a result of the increase in Bank Rate from five to seven per cent. Spoke amen for both the employers and the workers fear that unemployment in the building trades will have reached a high level by Christmas.

Lam! contracts for private. municipal and industrial development drawn up before the increase was announced have not been signed. Some will be re-framed and others abandoned. Reports reaching the Birmingham and district branch of the Federation of Master Bullderi tell rather bleak story." Mr. E.

Vaughton, the federation's secretary, said: "The building trade throughout the Midlancs is already feeling the effects of the increased Bank Rate. Unemployment is on the increase and is likely to continue. We may be facing a real crisis the end of the year." Anxiety Mr. K. A.

Osbourn secretary of the Midland Federation of Bulldin; Trade Employers, while stating that it was too early "to see the full effects of the increased Bank Rate," expressed some anxiety. Unemployment which had previously followed Government economy measures might eccur again it Bank Rate is maintained at the present high 1e 7e1 for long. I am not too optimistic." he said. The Ministry of Labour's August returns, the latest available. that-before the higher Back Rate was Imposed men employed in the Midland building trade were unempl)yed at the end of that month.

There were only 1.049 vacancies. The figures for the same period in 1956 were: Unemp oyed 1256. vacancies :.611. A spokesman commented: We do not expect thP position to improve during the winter Mr. C.

Spencer Midland divisional secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers expressing "alarm for the immediate future, considered that the figures alight grow even higher. Schemes Ending The position IS expected to become serious In Birmingham and surrounding districts when several major schemes In the area, now nearing completion, are actually finished. Some of the contractors have no further schemes lined up in the area and their employees are likely to become redundant unless they accompany the arm to another part of the country. A Walsall builder commented: "I have enough work to keep my men going for a couple of months. Our programme then becomes a little less certain and there might be some redundancy.

We have still to recover from the blow which accompanied the withdrawal of subsidies in the case of certain types of building." Neither Birmingham nor Coventry City Council has so far decided to any building programme as a result of the incresue In Bank Rate. Better Eyesight Improved eyesight among Warwickshire school children seemed to explode the theory that television harmed the eyes. Coun. J. L.

Shepherdson said at a meeting of Warwickshire Education Committee yesterday. After six years of television in the Mid ands. the County School Medical Officer's report shows fewer eye defects and fewer children needing spectacles." he said. Matron Reinstated The matr of St. Olave's Hospital.

Hotherhithe, Miss Margaret Nitholl was reinstated last nigt at the end of an official enqu ry into a nursing dispute at the hospital. Miss Nicholl had oeen on leave since August 20 Vien the senior nursing staff ref iced to work a new rota system she had suggested. LATEST NEWS FIRE AT IRISH PRESIDENT'S HOME Round House, Wicklow. bummer hume of Mr. 6.

O'Kelly, President of Ireland, was extensively damaged by Ore last Same Orbit RUSSIA 4DID NOT BREAK RULES' HE carrier rocket of Russia's manmade satellite is now revolving round the earth at approximately the same altitude as the satellite. The distance between them is about 625 miles. This was reported last night by Moscow Radio. The rocket carrier was used in the last stage of the firing device which projected the satellite 560 miles above the earth. The satellite passed near the British Isles again last night.

8.8. C. engineers at Tatsfield, Kent, picked up signals on the satellite's 45th circuit at 10.35 p.m. The signals were heard for about two minutes. Moscow Radio announced last night that the satellite would next pass over London at 10.54 G.M.T.

to-night. Professor Ricolet, Belgian Secretary-General of the International Geophysical Year Special Committee, said yesterday that Russian experts communicated the wavelengths on which the satellite would transmit more than a week ago." He said that the conventions of the Geophysical Year programme had been entirely respected by the Russians in the launching of their satellite. Participating countries are only bound to communicate successful launchings. which the Russians did within two hours." he added. 40 megacycles.

We suspect something has gone wrong with the transmitter." When the liner Queen Mary arrived at Southampton late last night her radio operators reported a change In the signals from the satellite. One operator said there had been a definite quickening up" in the signals. The satellite passed over London at 7.07 a.m. yesterday. It was plotted by 8.8.

C. radio engineers at Tatsfleld. Kent. for about 20 minutes. Its signal was picked up at 6.55 a.m..

and it lasted until 7.16 a.m., with a peak signal strength at 7.07 cm. On Its Course A message from Moscow said that the acknowledgment that two "satellites" were now encircling the earth was made almost casually in a radio commentary after the customary seven o'clock news Final Push -off The commentator said that scientists foresaw that the distance between tile satellite and the launching rocket would change. He did not say whether the distance would increase or decrease. nor was any clear indication given of whether the second "satellite" is a complete rocket or a section P. Pokrovsky told Moscow Radio listeners that the rocket which carried the satellite was 25 per cent more powerful than the intercontinental ballistic missile which the Soviet Union announced recently.

The satellite was also plotted by the radio observatory attached to the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. where the signal was heard for ten minutes. A Spokesman at the laboratory said: "So tar a. can judge the satellite is following Its proper course." Some listeners reported that the satellite's transmitters were weakening. The Wireless Institute of Australia said it appeared that the keying apparatus was jamming, the signals coming at times as a steady whistle instead of the familiar bleeps." Mr.

H. R. Ridley. director of the meteor section of the British Astronomical Association. said: "The final-stage rocket would have to travel at almost the same velocity as the satellite in order to give it the final push-off." Experts at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial t's radio centre at Sydney said that the changes In the signals could intentional.

One of France's experts on aviation, General Pierre ()allots, said in Paris yesterday that America is building a Imagine it to be likely that the rocket would travel slower and would, therefore. come down faster than the satellite It will almost certainly disintegrate. as will the satellite, as it comes through the earths atmosphere." sauce satellite called 'Big Brother." It would be equipped to take and retransmit pictures of the countries over which it flew. M.P.'s Question Mr. Arthur Bottomley.

Socialist M.P. for Rochester and Chatham. said yesterday that he had submitted a Parliamentary question, "to ask the Prime Minister if he will call for an enquiry to consider why this country. which pioneered the development of radar and jet propulsion. should lag behind the Soviet Union in launching the first artificial satellite to circle the world." (See Page 9 for Preparations at Jodrell Change in Signals At the Radio Research Station at Slough the Bleep.

bleep bleep signals were received About every 90 minutes yesterday. Mr. A. F. Wilkins said at the station last night that one of the transmittors on the satellite appeared to be in trouble.

We picked it up very weakly on 20 megacycles at 10.32. It faded out completely after about floe minutes. but about 10.45 it was heard quite well on About to Launch Space Rocket' A United States Air Force spokesman said In Washington yesterday that America was about to launch a rocket that was expected to climb between 1.000 miles and 4.000 1 miles above the earth. AMERICAN PLANS FOR MANNED SATELLITE The Goodyear Aircraft Corporation in America is planning to launch a satellite manned by a crew of three that would circle 500 miles above the earth. A company spokesman said that scientists had now arrived at what they considered to be a satisfactory rocket vehicle for launching a manned satellite weighing a ton which would be big enough to accommodate three men with supplies for three months and enough fuel for the return to earth.

The satellite would be launched by a three-stage rocket, known as Meteor Junior." each stage resembling a delta-winged aircraft and having its own crew, who would glide it back to earth after having helped to launch the satellite. The four components would be 142 ft. long and would weigh 500 tons. The Cost The spokesman said that scientists had been studying the design of such a rocket for five years and would report their findings at the Annual Congress of the Astronautical Federation In Barcelona to-morrow. The American scientists say that It will be economically feasible within six to eight years to build and launch a manned satellite.

Each space ship would cost between £1.785.700 and £3.571.400, depending on the number produced. He said the launching. Known as Project Far would take place at Eniwetok Atoll In the Pacific. The firing had been planned for the end of September but had been delayed by bad weather. The rocket, designed to travel higher into space than th' Soviet satellite would be launched "at any minute soon as the weather was favourable.

This rocket will not circle the earth as the Russian satellite does. It will be fired after being carried up to 100.000 ft. by balloon. Call for Enquiry The United States Government is expected to re-examine its earth satellite programme following complaints by scientists that not enough effort and money is being put into it. Senator Smothers yesterday asked for a full meeting of the United States Senate Armed Services Committee to find out "the reasons for our failure in keeping pace with the Soviet Union in the development and perfection of the satellite rocket and Inter-Continental ballistic missile programmes." He said it was Important to discover whether such failure resulted from inter-Service rivalry.

a false economy programme, failure of the Congress to provide sufficient appropriations or insufficient emphasis being placed on these programmes by the Executive Branch of the Government" At the United Nations, the United States will present to the General Assembly this week a disarmament plan that may urge controls over earth satellites. It expects to have 15 cosponsors. Muscovites. eager for news of the satellite, listen to a description of its course by a Moscow lecturer, equipped with a huge globe. Russians Explode Russia has exploded what a Moscow radio report describes as a mighty hydrogen warhead of new construction." An announcement Issued by the Tass agency said: "In accordance with the plan of experimental work on the creation and perfection of atomic and hydrogen weapons, a test of a very powerful hydrogen device of new construction was carried out in the Soviet Union on October 6.

"For the safety of the population, and those taking part in the test, the explosion was carried out at a high altitude The test was successful." This test is the fourth Russia has carried out since August 23. Threat of War Mr. Kuznetsov. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister. said in New York yesterday that the hydrogen and atomic weapons race was contrary to the fundamental, vital interests of the peoples" It increased the threat of a new war with the use of means of mass destruction" and aggravated the atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion between States." He was addressing the United Nations Legal Committee almost simultaneously with Moscow's announcement of the new test.

Scores of Arrests hi Warsaw Rioting Warsaw police yesterday charged a crowd of Juveniles near the Palace of Culture and arrested scores of them. Three military policemen with carbines and gas-masks patrolled the main street and eight trucks loaded with militiamen waited in a side street. At a command the militiamen swarmed out of their trucks. charging the youths in successive waves and striking out with rubber truncheons. There were cries and screams as many of the youths were beaten to the ground.

The rest of the youths and the watching crowd of about 3,000 fled. This was Warsaw's fifth successive night of disturbances. but for the first time the police accomplished their objective of dispersing vast crowds and out using tear-gas. M. Pleven Pleads For Truce M.

Pleven. is trying to secure a truce among key French political condition for undertaking to form a new Government. He has already conferred with M. Bourges- Maunoury, Prime Minister of the Radical-led coalition overthrown a week ago, and Monet, the Socialist leader who declined the Premiership on Sunday. M.

Pleven, who has served in ten Governments and has twice been Prime Minister, called for agreement among the parses on a year's political truce which would allow "simultaneous urgent action to solve the Algerian problem, strengthen the Government by constatu. tional reform. restore France's financial health and reform taxation." Political observers do not rate his chances very highly because of sharp disagreements on financial policy. Five Records for British Car A British Cooper car. with a 2Soc.c.

Norton engine, broke five world records for the class at Monza yesterday. The car, which has an 801 b. plastic body, is credited with these records: 50 kilometres in 19min. 21.2 sec. (average speed 96 326 m.p.h.); 50 miles.

30min. 44.45ec. (97.602 m.p•h.); 100 kilometres, 38min. 7.6 sec. (97.786 m.p.h.); one hour.

covering 96.260 m.p.h.: 100 miles in lhr. lmin. 44.25ec. (96.184 m.p The car will attempt to beat the three-hour world record to-day. American Test The Americans also made a nuclear test explosion yesterday last in the current series by the B.

Atomic Energy Commission. The test, the 24th in the series, was exploded at Las Vegas. Nevada Fifteen planes took part in the test but no troops participated. Living in a Stone Age' Mr. Nehru, the indtan Prime Minister, said yesterday that the Russian launching of a satellite has left all normal human beings living in a stone age." The satellite might lessen some of the tensions between Russia and the United States because it made it more absurd to talk about war and armaments, he added.

My reaction Is that science and technology have advanced further ahead than human beings can now adapt themselves. But we have to adapt." 60() BOYS AT ETON HAVE INFLUENZA Six hundred of the 1,190 boys at Eton College were 111 with influenza yesterday. Every house in the school is affected, but the outbreak, which began last week, is a mild one. So far the three Royal princes at Eton. Prince William and Prince Richard of Gloucester.

and Prince Michael of Kent. have not been affected. All the sick boys are being kept in their own rooms. New York Plans for Meanwhile life at the school is going on as usual." a school spokesman said. "So far we have not had to cancel any football matches or other The Queen's Safety New York City Police said yesterday they were making exceptional arrangements for the safety of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their ticker tape parade along Broadway on October 21.

Mr. Roy Moore. Headmaster of Mill Hill School. said last night that 220 boys out of the school's 436 were on the sick list. "We are not worse hit than any other school.

None of the cases is serious." he said. Derby Playhouse cancelled its its performance of The Touch of Fear last night because the leading actress, MLss Ann Kennedy, was taken ill. Another actress has been engaged and the play will resume to-day. They discounted fears of an incident, however. A spokesman said: "We have been having ticker tape parades for 100 years and never had a distinguished visitor hurt in one." Exceptional arrangements mean that more men than usual be deployed along the parade route, but they will use time-tested measures to protect the Royal visitors.

Though the position in Birmingham Transport Department has improved since last week, 145 buses were off the road yesterday because of shortage of staff due to influenza. The Post Office reported gradual improvement in the situation. British officials, who have been kept informed but are not directly concerned in security arrangements, agreed yesterday that the exposed position of the Royal couple during the parade was causing worry. The first fatal case at Burtonon-Trent was reported yesterday. the victim being Mr.

Frederick Holden. aged 35. of Btaban Hill. The number of deaths In Derbyshire from Asian influenza reached 11 yesterday, when it was disclosed that a 14-vear-old schoolgirl. Christine Simpson.

of Weaving Avenue, CasUeton, had died. Extensive security measures have been put Into effect In Canada to guard the Royal Canadian Air Force's airliner which will fly the Queen and the Duke from Ottawa to October 16. Prince Charles: Normal Progress Prince is suffering from tnffuenza at his preparatory school, Cheam. near Newbury, continues to make the normal expected Progreso." it was learned at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Wing Commander W.

G. S. Miller. of Toronto. who will pilot the four-engined plane on the three-hour flight will be the first Canadian to fly the Queen since she became Sovereign.

He said the aircraft has been subjected to a thorough inspection, and a long trip to the West Coast and back would be made to make sure it was mechanically perfect. It is not expected that any further bulletin will be issued The Prints is in a sick-room with four other boys and is being attended by the school doctor. Derby Granted Permission to India Delays Giving Raise Bus Fares Disarmament Plan The East Midlands Traffic Commissioners yesterday approved an application by Derby Corporation Omnibus Department to ram some fares, which will increase the department's revenue by £42.400 a year. The application was the second by the department this year. The changes will mean that certain adult fares will be increased within a penny maximum.

workmen's fares will be abolished on ordinary services. and children's fares will be increased and will have a minimum of 2d. The Kashmir debate in the United Nations Security Council in New York has been postponed from to-day till tomorrow. India also postponed for 24 hours the submission of new disarmament proposals calling for nuclear inspection by countries not possessing atomic or hydrogen weapons. She had intended to send to the General Assembly yesterday a revision of her earlier disarmament plan.

Mr. N. S. Fisher. Deputy Town Clerk.

said that the application was necessary mainly because of a wage award which would cost £32.500 a year. Among the objectors was Mr. Stuart Gibson, representing the Castle Ward Residents Group. who commented: "The public in this town is now so hostile towards the local bus undertaking that there is a Cold war going on which might warm up at any time. Passengers are taking to other methods of travel." Stirling Moss and his Canadian bride, formerly Miss Katie Molson, leaving St.

Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London, after their wedding yesterday. Crowd of 1,000 at Wedding of Stirling Moss A line of policemen held Moss's manager, was best man. back a crowd of more than When Stirling Moss and his 1,000 people to clear a way for racing driver Stirling Moss and Miss Katherine bride. daughter ofMr. and Mra.

P. 8. Molson. of Montreal, left the church the crowd pushed Molson, who were married at St. Peter's.

Eaton Square, London, yesterday evening. Race track colleagues. film forward and police almost had to force their way through so that the bride and bridegroom could reach their car to drive stars. television personalities and leaders of the motor manufacturing industry were among the 500 guests who filled the church for the wedding. They included Sir William Lyon, head of Jaguars.

Mr. Tony Vandervell and Mr. Brian Rootes. Among the ushers were Pete: Collins and Mike Hawthorn. Mr.

Ken Gregory, Stirling away. There was a traffic jam halfa-mile long in four direction until the bride and bridegroom had left. At the reception at the Savoy Hotel there was a cake bearing a model of a Vanwall racing car and a wagon with a load of beer reference to the fact that the bride's father is a brewer. San Marino 'Revolt' Ends in Talks Both the Communist and provisional Governments of divided San Marino are to disarm their volunteer militiamen, the provisional Premier. Signor Federico Bigi, stated last night.

He said negotiations have opened between the two camps and it will be only a matter of days before the Communists surrender peacefully. Both sides gave assurances that they would disarm volunteers who since the revolt began have been carrying rifles, submachine-guns and pistols. From Its headquarters In an abandoned ironfoundry on the frontier, the anti-Communist Government announced: The provisional Government will restore full legality in the shortest time possible in all the territory of the Republic with the force of gendarmerie at its disposal" This force, enlisted from Italy in the week since the anti- Communist Government was set up. consists of former members of the Italian armed police. wearing Italian carabinterl uniform but with San Marino insignia.

BOMB CONSPIRACY ALLEGED At Belfast yesterday, ten men were committed in custody for trial at Belfast City Commission on October 15 accused of conspiring to cause explosions at Royal Ulster Constabulary drill halls at lntone. Beragh and Eskra (co. Tyrone), which were damaged, and attempting to cause an explosion at a drill hall at. Skelga at which a bomb failed to explode. All except one faced separate charges of being directly concerned in placing the bombs at one or other of the halls.

They pleaded not guilty to the charges. BENTLEY SERIES for AP Immedlete with choke of Colour b. OFFICIAL REIAILIERS P. J. EVANS LTD.

5.,0) lt.rsimgh•• L.4BOLR LEADERS AT NO. 10 Statement Soon on Bank Rate Leak Charge By Our Political Correspondent DOUGLAS HAIG THE Prime Minister is expected to make a further -L statement in a day or two on Mr. Harold Wilson's latest submission that there is a case for an enquiry into an alleged Bank Rate leakage. Mr. Wilson, accompanied by the Labour Deputy Leader, Mr.

James Griffiths, called on the Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor (Lord Kilmuir) at Downing Street yesterday to lay before them what the Labour Shadow Chancellor claims is a prima facie case indicating that a leakage occurred from a political source. The Lord Chancellor will examine this and report to the Prime Minister without delay. A Downing Street statement Sterling yesterday morning said that owing to Mr. Gaitskell's absence with influenza the two other Touches Labour leaders made a statement to the Prime Minister, who was accompanied by th Parity with Lord Chancellor, and that th Prime Minister agreed to give the statement consideration. U.S.

Dollar The Cabinet met yesterday afternoon and in the main con- By Our City Editor sidered next session's legislation, but is also thought likely to For the first time since February, sterling touched have briefly discussed the latest of the for Parity with the American Foreign approach Oppositi, an enquiry into the alleged leakage. There will probably be another Cabinet meeting, I understand, to-day, to deal with Government business. Bedroom Talk Mr. Wilson saw Mr. Gaitskell in his bedroom, where he lay with influenza on Saturday.

and apparently agreed with him that he could approach the Prime Minister personally at Downing Street with his statement of new evidence." Mr. Wilson. I understand, believes he has found evidence of a leakage of information and possibly new clues but he has no evidence of who might be responsible for a leakage. The implication of his statement is that it might be any of several Ministers who knew about Bank Rate. dollar in the Exchange Market for period yesterday.

The rate later eased a shade and closed 1 32 cent below parity at 2.793152. A fairly strong demand for sterling from most of the important overseas centres was noticed yesterday. Sterling gained ground against the leading Continental currencies and premiums in the forward market also narrowed. It is though that some of the foreign operators who have been going short of pounds all summer have now been forced to cover themselves by buying sterling. Since Bank to was raised to 7 per cent and the Bank of England tightened up on overdraft facilities for foreigners, the cost of speculating against sterling has risen sharply.

ALL READY FOR BRIGHTON Prime Minister's Hint of Major Decision Mr. Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, in a speech last night, hinted at a major pronouncement of policy at the Conservative Party's conference at Brighton this week. He said: It would not be and increasing standards of proper for me to anticipate my living were all things we were performance at the end of the trying to preserve and develop. week, certainly not by striking Viscount Simon. president of any party political note and the Chamber of Shipping, nOt even by any major pro- Mauling of Britain ha nouncement of policy.

All that compete with ships sa must be left for Brighton." flags of convenience. He was speaking at the that those nations who annual dinner of the Chamber from the competition of of Shipping of the United bogus flags should Kfngdom at Grosvenor House. themselves together into a club, Mr. Macmillan said cynics the principal rule of which might say that the seaside was should be that no nation in it a suitable place for political would allow ships built or owned conferences and in this case in that country to be registered the auditorium was the ice-rink. in or sold to any country Thus," he commented, "we outside the club.

may be sure of a combinat of cold feet and hot heads." Bogus Flags Army Search Grouse Moor Wishing the shipping industry a calm sea and a prosperous voyage." he said: I like to think my good wishes will be reciprocated. But whether the sea be calm or rough I am certain that there is no flinching in the determination of all our people not to fail through lack of honest endeavour." Pockstone Moor, Yorkshire, on which four beaters in a grouSe shooting party were killed and five others ir.jured by a shell explosion last Thursday. is to be searched by the Army. Two of the five injured. Gerald Harrison (23) and Leslie Pullan (15), were stated to be still seriously ill in Harrogate General Hospital yesterday.

The condition of the others, Lawrence Furness (18), John Brockhill (16) and Jesse Peel (40). was stated to be comfortable. The Prime Minister said that in different ways and from varyin gpoints of view all in this country were searching for solutions to national problems. The strength of our currency at home and abroad, the expansion of production and wealth, You are sure to find a good selection of Parker-Knoll chairs and settees at your favourite furnishers. But before you make your final choice, perhaps it would help you to see the full range at our local showrooms.

You will find the address below. For 32-page catalogue, write to Parker-Knoll The Courtyard, Frogmoor, High Wycombe, Bucks. PARBEA-BNOL6 have comfort for the name-tape along frame Showrooms: 43. TEMPLE STREET, BIRMINGHAM. Also at: LONDON, MANCHESTER.

BRISTOL, AND HIGH WYCOMBE. to 461.11 rvliii i 1 614 it 4 4 5 .4 ll $4 i ik tt I 1 4 at A lc 4,, 7 -dr A V. 'e NO 4 1. N. 31 1 i 4 1 1 i 7 11114 WINGFIELD' £20.10.0 To-day's Birmingham Post PAGE 3 Books PAGE 4 Mainly for Women Crosswords PAGE 6 Norman Tiptaft di SCUASeS whether adequate penalties are being imposed for crimes of violence.

Percy Atkin writes on Chimney Fires. London Letter Talk of the Midlands To the Editor PAGES 10 11 Financial PAGE 11 Midland Theatres Radio and PAGES 13 14 Sport.