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DAILY HERALD OE WAR'S "While SCOTCH WHISKY BIG Churchill has a 30-minute 'fling' H. R. S. Phillpott Filamentary Correspondent ESP I prot rsts of Tones. complained the House had sat until o'clock yesterday r.orr.tnc.

MPs hud another session and were still afcr two o'clock thismominc Bffrrr -Urn nrd 'o "hi Vy wrrr rntrr- Mr Mnrrivin flms Mr Churchill Ir. this naif-hour. said Mr. jfr-ison the cx-Prrmirr had buried abuse at the Government, accusing it of having the most and abominable motives ir.d levering wild. extreme and accusations The House was debating the Rcyreserwirn ot -he People Bill, --ttrti deals with the reshaping of radatnertarv or.stituenc.es, and nad his "fling" on a Government amendment to fate 22 more seats the next Hcuse of Commons Originally the number was to rave peen reduced Irrm 640 to sut the to-al now will be 613.

Mr Choter Ede. Home explained that the extra stats had seen created to avoid with more gnnoo electors. The Bounfarv Commissioners had supported 'he Mr. Churchill accused 'he of nav.ng perpetrated a iirty ramo tor Party its conduct on this Bill had the standard of our poises! safe. I deeply rtzrer" said Mr.

Churchill -hi: the Mr. Morrison am ether untenant Ministers sn auld have jep' i so low at a when it is spec.al importance that the Government's reputation should s'and it in 'he world. sops "rvin 'o Tarty in Univmiry -he Cry of London were not "uflicient. It on a of our fellows want and more the- had Shabby that 16 scats were created by the division of b.g boroughs. Mr Churchill "It is no coincidence that boroughs, with one are ov 'he Socialists Tor Home S'crr'arv's vir'u- had fa tii-d as a imouflage for one the shabbiest political "i record TV T'mp'a'inn of Tart-, "tj s'ronc for Soeialt't r.a'ure honour." sa.d Mr Coumhill.

"Th'-. have embarked upon a 'tthsaetioa whicn. I am sure, every decent man on their 11 view with regret and wit should fee', shame' Mr. Herbert Morrison replied Mr nad made a ex ravacant speech in ve.n r.ot any a i CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE Milk change, if you wish rr.ay now change your milkman, you wish. (or making the change May 3 to May 15.

and It will frr rr May 30. Tr.r-r rrytrirt'on on div ni' 'kmen who feci that would tn- morr Wjblr rvprnso than they arc ftn.i risht to refuse rwwra-ion a rt announced in Ho-iv Commons yrsterday in reply Mr Lipson Tin am i lII.AXHS -hrough Souihwick near diverted last night hriradeg trom miles around a Ur ln cinema which lust rinsed. one hurt, but extensive as caused. NO "HERALD" TOMORROW Hail, Herald." In her national ropers will not appear rriday. but s' O'lhlished as usual on and Easier Monday.

ONE PENNY MAJORITY FOR WAGE RESTRAINT OFFICIAL POLICY TUC watch on all profits By CIOBCB THOMAS. Industrial Correspondent THADK union executives yesterday accepted, by a majority of the far-reaching measures on restraint over wage claims that had been drawn up by the T.I\C. General Council. Empowered to act in the name of nearly 7.500,000 British wage and salary earners, they voted at their London conference: 5,421.000 for. 2.032.000 against.

While this decision binds none, it is now the official policy of the Trade Union Movement and will influence even those unions that felt unable to vote for the proposals. Unions now. while retaining the right to seek and negotiate advances, will voluntarily refrain from claiming Increases I. To correspond with increased Price cut output: I. To raise wages that are below a reasonable standard of sub- sistenec; or 3.

Where advances are necessary to attract manpower to undermanned industries. The Budget Current wage el ums will undoubtedly be pursued and there mav be argument on wht ther this or that claim is within the terms laid down Bir there is no doubt, in the minds of leaders, that the general effect will be substantial In accepting the restraints, tne trade unions do not make condition but it tics emphatically j'nfrrt in the T.V.C. that it is essential that promts and prices shall he stabilised No authority in this country." declared the T.U C. statement. hope to restrain demands for wage increases within the limits proposed unless vigorous and successful efforts were made to put a limit to profits and price increases." Accordingly, the T.U C.

will keep a close watch on movements of prices and profits, and will specially examine from this pom: of view the Budget to be introduced on April C. War's effect There were 1 .534 delegates at yesterday conference. representing 155 unions. Miss Florence H.menrk. rhairman of Ihe C.

General Council presided, and Sir George Chester submitted the report and recommendations. He said the war had brought about a revolutionary change which must have its effect on industry and the Trade Union Movement Where formerly we paid for most ol our imports by interest on foreign Investments, we were now called on to produce and export an equivalent lolume ol goods, and pav for most of our imports ei'her by exports or rash We had to increase our produr'ion of consumer and eapital goods by 28 per cent, over pre-war to sustain the pre-war standard of life. In the circumstances now current there were all the elements conducive to uncontrolled inflation How to help This must he prevented at all rests, anrl the Trade Union Movrmrnt rotiltl help ov serepnng and applying ilir pnnnplrs of the Government Paper. The Ocnrral Counril. he said.

Knew the tremendous lever whirh the White Paper plaeed In the hands of employers and also the CONTINUED ON BACK PACE MORE TO SIT AT WORK 11l ORE people will oe able to sit A at work when the Factories Bill, introduced In the Lords yesterday by Viscount HalL becomes law. It proposes that from October. 1950. seats should be provided wherever the type ol work allows. rtie Bill extends medical examination lor younK persons and tightens up supervision where mini althy process's are susprrtcd.

Provision is made lor Sunday work by women and young people over If needed to preserve fish, fruit or vegetables. talks by retailers moves are to be made by the Council of Retail Distributors which claims to represent every section of private traders following talks on price cutting Hie Counul's excru'ivc announced in Uurton yiaicrday that it had ecidcd. lit To ask 'lie Government and National Co-operative Authority to meet the Council to explore the pissibthty of Co-operative societies star'ins price cuts "on a more equal footing with the private trader Share burden i2i To confer with manufacturers' and producers' organisations with a view to reducing manufacturers prires. To confer with wholesalers in the belief that they will bear part of the cuts. Hi To explore whether prices ran be cut at the retailers' level.

TO demand "a real and widespread effort to cut Government expenditure. Talk it over with Stalin, say M.l'.s Mr Seymour Corks and 15 other labour Ps put their names last night to a motion urging an early mertmg between Mr Attlee. Marshal Stalin and. 11 possible. President Truman, together with leading representatives of the British Commonwealth SWKDISH HOLIDAY Sweden has been added to the list of countries which holidaymaker may visit from May 1 MID-WEEK DOG BAN TO BE LIFTED POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE Government has decided to permit limited greyhound racing during the week.

Full details are not yet known, but a Governmcn announcement will be made short ly. Strike over beard ends at Wells and ai Winrh's brewery Bigglcswadr. Beds who strurk three woks ago when Alfred Cole was demoted, then dismissed, after he had grown a oeard for a wager, resume work today This was announced yesterday, after negotiations between the directors and the representatives ol the Transport and General Workers Union ll is understood that the firm will grant union recognition to the brewery's transport workers, but Alfred will not be reinstated The union is to And him employment. derision follows representations made hy interested parties to Mr Chuter Ede. who as Home Secretary us responsible tor maintaining the ban.

and to Sir Stafford Cripps. who had to decide on the effect of greyhound racing on the production drive Many Labour M.P.s have urged that it is unfair to continue the ban on the poor man's sport" while liorse racing Is allowed during the week The need to oun hound raring to conserve fuel lias now passrd and the only question remaining was whether mid-week meetings would encourage absenteeism. Fair-haired boys vanish Nine-year-old Selwyn Paine, and his 12-year-old brother Gordon, who lelt their home at Northtam. Sussex, on Sunday, "serm to have vanished into thin air." a police offlrrr raid list night. Both bovs hive fair hair.

Gordon's is wavy and Bclwyn's straight. TO PleY KKEICHT grounded Tudor IV aircraft arr to fly again but only for freight at prrsrnt. the Ministry ct Civil Aviation announced last night. 54 SIGN TRADE PACT "ai I WW I vita aiporwf HAVANA. Wednesday.

DELEGATES of 54 nations. many with misgivings but all determined to co-operate today rlgned the agreed text a 30.000 word Charter designed to increase world trade by setting up rules for conducting It. Th" Charier, inspired the I'nnrd States and Dritatn. produrer' by thr II Conference on Trade and Employment, and climax to three years' delicate and arduous negotiations, was hailed by U.N Secretary-General Trygve Lie as: One ol the momentous landmarks in the h-story ni international economic co-operation." Our safeguards Only Argentina Poland and Turkey abstained (rom signature. Turkey because ir.s'rue:ions had not arrived from Ankara.

Russia ano the iron-curtain States, with the exception of Czechoslovakia, were not represented. and ratification by the Czech Parliament mav be doubtful The British delegate. Mr Stephen Holmes of the Board of Trade, stressed in his final speech that Britain is not entirely satisfied with the Charter, and will watcn to see that she is not treated unfairly over preferences ROMANCE IN THE PAMIR GUERILLAS ON OFFENSIVE Briton faces Arab fire to save Jews From MAURICE FACENCE JERUSALEM, Wednesday PLAINT radio signals from British armoured cars told Jerusalem today of five battles started by Arabs in the hills round the Holy City. Arab guerillas went on to UlkMHlkll offensive apparently In 1 vense for Jewish attacks yes-0 thev still hold a big TOdKOn lIAW Jewish convoy trapped under ride ydl WW IIW WW 'ire in a valley leading up to Jerusalem from the plains. B-M -m Brigadier Cllubb Pasha, comlifnrin llf Sir I adrr of hr Arab legion, whirh VT VI IW WW CI I helping to Keep order in Palestine had to intervene personally in one battle this morning Jumping his car rnder heavy Arab flre.

ne saved 10 Jews from certain death The Jews were members of a party 24 embushrd by Arab guerillas while driv.ng in two armoured buses to break a siege of the Neve Yaakov settlement. From Arthur Webb WASHINGTON, Wednesday. UR GEORGE MARSHALL. United States Secretary of State, said today that America had reversed its stand on Palestine because it feared the Arab- Jewish conflict would spark oIT a world war. This was revralcd by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who cross-examirtrd Marshall for two hours today on Palestine and world affairs.

They obeyed The buses were blown up by mines and raked with fire. Fourteen Jews nad oecn killed and 10 wounded when General O. H. A. MacMillan.

G.O.C. Palestine. and Glubb pasha, driving oil a nearby road, heard the shots They sped to the amousn. wnere Glubb pasha jumped out. tollowed by the general, and ordered the Arab guerilla leader to cease fire and send the survivors to hospital So great is Glubb pasha's prestige among the Arabs that they instantly obeyed.

The guerillas withdrew as police and troops took over control Eleven other Jews were killed this morning when Arabs mined a bus on the road to Mount Scopus. Mortaf barrage Trieste manoeuvre denied by Bevin Mr. Ernest. Bevin denied In the Commons yesterday that the Joint British. American and French proposal to hand the Trieste Free Territory back to Italy had anyihing to do with the Italian elections next month.

Replying to a question by Mr. Chamberlain Norwood Mr. Bevin said: I did not accuse Soviet Government of an election manoeuvre over the handing back of colonies to Italy, and I do not think I should be accused o( it." A 60-vehicle Jewish convoy was stopped on the Jaffa-Jerusalem road when four leading armoured cars were blown up by mines British infantry and gunners with two 25-pounders were sent to the rescue, but late tonight, Arab 1 snipers entrenched in a hillside 1 jJIHiICI inS 31 are still raking the convoy, with 1 12 Jews killed and 30 wounded. I lit Die IclirilS Arab mortar shells pounded all England beat Ireland bv nine day into the Yemen Moshe quar- matches to two at table tennis in ter of the old city of Jerusalem. Dublin last night.

In the two top with the Jews replying. 'singles. Johnny Leach iEnglandi Arab detachments have been beat H. OTrcv firing on two Jewish settlements! and Miss Dora Beregei near Jerusalem most of the day England i boat Miss M. Minshull and there have been random shots in the city itself.

Three get 10 years on arms charge THREE British police constables, tried in a ship anchored a mile off Haifa, were yesterday found not guilty of being members of a group which fired on a Jewish colony north of Jerusalem on March 10. They were, however, sentenced to 10 years Jail for illegally carrying firearms and ammunition and to seven years for illegal possession of a police armoured car. The men are George Moss, aged 29: Godfrey Stephenson, aged 21; and Arthur Akehurst. aged 20. The sentences, which are subject to confirmation by the G.O.C.

Palestine, will run concurrently. The prosecution alleged that the three men were caught, after a chase, in an armoured car which was seen firing at a Jewish colony during Arab-Jewish fighting. They refused to plead, except to the charge of firing at the colony. To this they said: "Not guilty." U.S. position Marshall said he would make a major statement in a lew days on the United States position on Palestine.

Meanwhile in the Security Council the American delegation postponed its expected request for a Special Assembly to work out a Officer 24-ycar-old Andrew Keyworth, of the salting barque Pamir, now loading cargo In London for the return trip to New Zealand. Is soon to marry 22- year-old Joyce Arnold, of Manor Park. London. She Is employed at Lloyd's, and it was during a tour of the famous establishment that they met. They are seen, above, aboard the Pamir.

BRIGG RESULT TODAY IN warm spring sunshine polling took place yesterday in the Brigg Lines, by-election, and continued heavily throughout the day. The result should be known early this afternoon. Candidates were Lance Mallalleu. farmer-barrister. Labour candidate.

and Anthony FelL Tory. The vacancy was caused by the resignation of Mr. Tom Williamson as M.P. after his appointment as general secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. In a straight nght at the ISMS General Election Mr Williamson pilled 28.771—a majority ol 8.104 over nis Conservative opponent.

At the 1935 election Labour's majority was only 303. COTTON PRICE INQUIRY SOON A top-level inquiry into the three recent rises in raw cotton prices Is to be made by the Board of Trade. This was announced by Mr. Harold Wilson. President ot the Board of Trade, at a London conference of the National Hosiery Manufacturers' Federation yesterday.

19 4 8 IT WILL BE SUNNY IN THE SOUTH ff OLIDAYMAKERS in most of England and Wales can expect good weather for Easter, says the Dally Herald weather expert, resuming his five-day forecasts which were such a popular service to readers throughout the holiday months last year His forecast for Easier from today until the areas an marked on the map at the rifht A There win he fair in- tervals and ali local showers at first, rnndi- tions becoming iinwttM generally aft-r tomorrow. There will be considerable fair periods during the first three days; followed by less sqltled conditions, with occasional local rain. Conditions will rontinue mainly line for three or lour days. Weather may afterwards become cloudy at times, but fair periods will be maintained. Sunny weather is Hkely to continue for several days.

There will be high temperatures during the day, but cold nights with local frost. Lights Today p.m.— 6.20 a.m. Tomorrow: 7.53 p.m.— 6.17 a.m. High Water London Br. Today p.m.

Tomorrow 4.37 p.m. 4 FLYING SAUCER IN KENT' 1 FLYING saucer is report rd from Kent, i Mr. and Mrs. G. Knight, of William-road.

Ashford. said yesterday thai thcv saw "quite plainly what, they thought was a flying i li-appeared to large hall dull red colour, they said, leaving a streak behind it. It was travelling arross th" sky a south-easterly direction I towards the Channel, near Folke' stone. mtfei Berlin: a last plea to Russia From Donis Mortin BERLIN, Wednetday. 'THE three Western Governments, it was reported here tonight, may make a final appeal to Moscow for co-operation in Germany if the Allied Control Council is not summoned by Marshal Sokolovsky next Tuesday.

As the Russians are in the chair month Marshal Soltolovsky is the only one of the four who can call a meeting There are no Indications tonight of any relating in the firm attitude taken up by each side, but the Military Government of Berlin is still proceeding smoothly. The four deputy commanders of the capital were tn conference throughout the day, and even 4 a.m. News lo Gum soap Spirit No Starch No. 10003 KEADLEY OUT OF TEST MATCH George Headlrv. Hnl Test captain, is unlit and withdrawn from fourth Test against England starting at Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday.

Selectors hare sent for E. Wcekcs. reached agreement on minor points. But. in the crisis-charged atmosphere.

there is no inclination in British quarters to Delieve that the Russians do not intend to bring about an ultimate showdown over the administration ot Berlin. Veiled Soviet threats that it might become necessary to tighten control over the already closelyguarded border of the Eastern and Western Zones were today's highlight in the war of nerves." i 1: All the Russian-controlled newspapers carry stories of a vast influx of starving people, criminals, black marketeers and gun-runners leaving Western Germany to forage food in the Soviet Zone. Comipg West For the Russians, the stories have these points of value: 1. They disguise the fact that all the movement of Germans is largely to the West at a rate estimated by British officials of something like 10.000 a week. 2.

They provide a reason for a garrison of Soviet troops along the frontier. 3. They dissuade thousands more Germans from leaving Berlin. where in the past few days new check points have been built by the Russians on the Western approaches to the city. 4.

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