Western Morning News from Plymouth, Devon, England • 2

CAMOUFLAGE (Founded 1860) Incorporating Devon Exeter Daily Gazette 1772 vVestern Daily Mercury 1861 WEDNESDAY. JAN. 18. 1950. Leicester Harmsworth House.

Plymouth. Telephone: Plymouth 2131. JF Mr. Morrison and Mr. Bevin prove to be correct in their expectations and the Labour Party wins the election, we have no doubt that the result will be hailed as a triumph for Socialism and that the House of Commons will once more echo the strains of "The Red Flag." Yet readers of the election manifesto published today under the title Let Us Win Through Together" will look in vain in its pages for any reference to Socialism or Socialists.

They will even discover that competition among private retailers will be encouraged." They will learn that the goal of the Labour Party is "the evolution of a people more kindly, intelligent, free, cooperative, enterprising, and rich in culture." Perhaps this does not spontaneously evoke the image of Mr. Aneurin Bevan denouncing vermin and Mr. Shinwell emitting tinker's cusses. Still less does it suggest Socialism. This pamphlet is rather an unusual piece of humbug even in the category to which it belongs.

It paints the "bad old times with a crude melodrama which we should hardly have expected, and as a foil to this it quotes one anonymousl Tory who is supposed to have said that "empty bellies are the one thing that will make Britons work." Conscious as we are of Mr. Morrison's limitations, we had expected something a little better than the old music-hall turns of this pamphlet. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that there is a good deal about full employment," but not even the most casual reference to the American help without which it would have been impossible. Needless to say, there is no detailed reference to the bureaucratic muddle in the mines and on the railways. This is described as a movement towards a property- owning democracy," which is rather like entering a pantomime dame in a competition 1 for bathing beauties.

The further nationalisation already threatened finds a place in the pamphlet, though everything is wrapped up as much as possible. Nationalised meat distribution appears as the conversion of the present system into a permanent public service." The reference to insurance is delightfully involved. The proprietary companies to be "taken out of the realm private profit and mutually i owned by the policy-holders themselves, instead of by private shareholders." Beet sugar manufacture and sugar refining are to be transferred national ownership for the benefit of the consumer." Fair compensation is promised, but 'it is to be "as in the other cases," which tells us all we need to know. The present policy of food subsidies is to igo on, and it is not thought 1 necessary to mention that a ceiling has been fixed. Looking at the manifesto as a whole, we are almost inclined jto say that those who are taken in by will deserve their fate.

We are warned IT is rather late in the day to suggest that the Economic Secretary to the Treasury is a good prophet of what is likely to happen in economics. It may be remembered that his confident prediction that the American loan would last longer than was generally expected, made just at the moment that it was disappearing down the drain, took him straight to the Front Bench, where he has remained ever since. This performance should not lead us to treat Mr. Douglas Jay equally lightly when he predicts political events. He thinks there is still a long way to go in redistribution of property." He mentions particularly, but not exclusively, inherited property.

Anyone who suggests that savings will be unsafe under the Socialist Government will immediately provoke all the abuse which is showered upon those who tell unpleasant truths. We insist, nevertheless, that this is precisely what Mr. Jay means. The Socialist aim is the elimination of property owners, however small. That is why steps have been taken to prevent people owning their own houses, and we have not the slightest doubt that under another Socialist Government any citizen who is guilty of thrift or similar capitalist vices will find himself regarded precisely as the kulaks are regarded and treated wherever Socialists are in power.

Barmecide Feast READERS of those Oriental stories which are so much more amusing and certainly not less reliable than current Ministerial speeches, will be familiar with the Barmecide Feast. In this the guests had dishes placed before them and were regaled with accounts of an entirely imaginary banquet. Whenever Mr. Strachey makes a speech, suggestible people must have the feeling that they have been overeating. If he goes on telling us that we have more fats and proteins and those mysterious calories than we had before the war the overworked practitioners Zechariah will dwell in the midst of thee." of the Health Service will be bothered by patients wanting a course of scientific fasting prescribed for them.

Apparently it is Mr. Morrison and Mr. Strachey being so cheerful that keeps the housewife going. People who go on with the game that his Majesty's Ministers are now playing are bound to overdo it. Progressively increased departures from the truth lead them into what should be the palpable absurdity of Mr.

Strachey's latest speech to the London Fabians. The Government should appoint some cynical and disinterested censor to tell them when they are badly overshooting the mark. Saar deadlock THERE are two facts which it will be well to keep in mind in studying the unfortunate deadlock between France and Germany over the future of the Saar, which represents at the moment the most serious political obstacle to European agreement. One. which should be recalled in fairness to Dr.

Adenauer, is that however reasonable it may be to say that the future of the Saar territory should be decided at the peace conference, The Times" has to add the saving clause, if it ever takes place." The other point, which is a warning to the rest of us, is made clear when we compare the recent plebiscite in the Saar, to which the French Foreign Minister has referred, with the one which took place a few years before the war. When Germany appears to be down and out there is no anxiety to be included in the Reich. When she is aggressive and arrogant, as she was under Hitler, however little the Saar population may like National Socialism, they vote for unity. Germans collectively are more responsive to the appeal of force than to any other. This is true of all sections of them, and has been at all periods of their history since Prussia became a first-class Power.

It is one of the most serious facts in the European problem. Plymouth's lead'THE newly-formed Plymouth and District Joint Council of Service and ex-Service Associations provides a much-needed coordination of organisations which have had a mushroom-like growth in the city. There is much that it can do. Not least, it can give many small organisations a stronger voice than they would otherwise have. Significant of the potential value of this Joint Council is the fact that the British Legion, whose great work for ex-Service men since the First World War is undeniable, is giving it full support.

Plymouth is the first place where such a body has been formed. Its lead will no doubt be followed by other places. The Plymouth Joint Council has already made its first proposal, namely, that the city's 1939-45 war memorial shall take the practical form of a club for all Service and ex-Service men and women. 17-INCH WAISTS A 'MYTH' New books Mrs. Doris Langley Moore brings alive the dresses worn by women during the past 150 years in her new book, The Woman in Fashion.

(Batsford. 255.) She has dressed some of the loveliest women of the day in costumes from her magnificent collection, had them expertly photographed by Felix Fonteyn against appropriate backgrounds, and set against the pictures her comments. In an introductory essay, Mrs. Langley Moore explodes quite a few ideas about the clothes of the past. She has found no 17-inch waists, and declares them to be a myth.

She denies that sex is the basis of woman's costume, and argues that fashions change in a search for self-assertion. But her greatest service Is in showing us that our mothers and grandmothers, and even our greatgrandmothers, did not look the peculiar frumps that we sometimes imagine they were from old photographs and fashion plates, but that they were as charming and as attractively dressed as the women of today. Exmouth saves £14,792 National Savings in Exmouth for the week ended January 14 totalled £14,792 (Certificates £1,129, deposits Ocean races sprang from Royal Dart Yacht Club's coastal events REGATTAS HELD TO RINGING OF BELLS TN an oak-panelled room at Waddeton Court, overlooking the River Dart, 50 men sat down to dinner recently. Many of them were well known in public life; they I were all keen yachtsmen, and they had all sailed under the burgee of the Royal Dart Yacht Club. For the 83-year-old club it was an historic event, for it was only the second formal club dinner to be held since the foundation year.

While the occasion revived a pleasant custom, it also set the seal upon the relationship of the yacht club with Waddeton Court, the home of the commodore, Mr. Hugh Goodson. Ever since the club was first thought of it has been closely bound up with the court. For most of the club's lifetime the court has been the residence of the commodore, and the dinner was held in the same room as that in which the club was founded. IS FAMOUS From a small gathering of men of the district, who sat chatting and planning around the fire in that room, beneath the Spanish panelling over the fireplace plundered from a wrecked Armada galleon, the club has become one of the Westcountry's foremost yacht clubs, and that means that it can take a leading place among the yacht olubs of Europe.

Under its burgee have raced the yachts of Royalty and of other famous men. With its headquarters in a port known throughout the world as the home of British seamanship, it is not surprising that from its early days the club has had associations with seafaring men of distinction. Yachts owned by King Edward VII. and King George V. regularly took part in the regattas organised each year by the club and the town In 1948 a distinctive competitor to sail under the burgee of the club was the Dragon class wedding gift yacht Bluebottle, owned by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.

NOVA ESPERO Still fresh in the memories of hundreds of holidaymakers will be the Dartmouth Royal Regatta of 1949 and the frail, but workmanlike, yacht that was one of the smallest and yet the most famous craft taking part. It was the 20ft. Nova Espero which the Smith brothers had sailed across the Atlantic to Dartmouth a few weeks before, and it was being raced by the two adventurers. Its small sail, with its green painted star, attracted as much excited attention as did the blue canvas and daffodil spinnaker pf the Royal yacht the previous year. The founder of the club, in 1866 was Mr.

Henry Studdy, of Waddeton Court. At the start the club had no premises of its own, and a room was rented at the Dart Hotel Kingswear. The club flagstaff was put up on the piece of land now occupied by the railway pontoon. From the beginning it appears that the club was on good terms with the railway authority, then the South Devon Railway Company, for not only were special terms arranged, but club steps were put up at Kingswear and Dartmouth for the exclusive use of members. SIGN OF TIMES That the club met with almost instant success is shown by the fact that at the end of the first year it had grown from the handful of who had met at Waddeton Court to a membership of 87, who among them owned 30 yachts with an average tonnage of 54.

It is significant that the membership today is 283, and the number of yachts owned 101. yet the average tonnage is only 26. During the club's first regatta the bellringers at the historic Dartmouth church of St. Petrox, at the i entrance to the harbour, were paid 255. to ring the bells as the yachts were racing.

This bellringing during racing still takes place, and it is one of the things that helps to give the regatta its colourful atmosphere. The year 1870 was an important I one for the club, for the Admiralty i granted a warrant, membership was found to be more than doubled, and, for the first time, the club co-operated with the town of Dartmouth in sharing expenses and the responsibility for organising racing during the happy arrangement that still exists. MEMORABLE BALL In 1880 the club gave up its room at the Dart Hotel and moved into its present premises, still on the Kingswear side, and only a short distance away. To celebrate the occasion a ball was held, and was one of Devon's major social attractions of the year. In the same year the club inaugurated coastal races, which were the forerunners of the famous ocean races of today.

The yachts at the close of the last century were much larger than the average modern yacht, and it was not an unusual sight to see 20 to 25 yachts of between 50 and 100 tons starting in the range. The next important episode in the history of the club occurred in 1904. when, with the founder, Mr. Studdy, still commodore, the Duke of Somerset was appointed vicecommodore, with the Earl of Rothes rear-commodore. Unfortunately there is no record of when Mr.

Studdy ceased to be commodore, but we find that at the annual meeting of the club in 1911 the Duke of Somerset was elected commodore in his place. Mr. Studdy did a great service to yachting in the South-West and set a high standard, which has been maintained. WOMEN ADMITTED When Lord Rothes resigned from the office of rear-commodore in 1912 his place was taken by Col. Burn, then M.P.

for the Torquay Division. Once again it is unfortunate that no record has been left of the resignations of the Duke of Somerset or of Col. Burn. It was in 1919 that Sir Alfred Letters to the Editor a recent letter to "The Times," the Bishop of Woolwich reminded Christians of their duty to support election candidates who Irrespective of party, combined political insight with moral responsibility. Differences between the principal political he wrote are not so great as they appear to be and it is the electors' responsibility to select men of the greatest intellectual and moral eminence." A few weeks ago ihe branch of federal Union in this city invited the prospective Parliamentary candidates to address a meeting on the subject of European Federation.

Here, surely, was a concept of sufficient philosophical, political, and economic magnitude to have brought out the essence of their respective policies, but boh Mr. Maude and Mr. Horabin regretfully declined to speak. Perhaps this was not a sufficiently broad topic, in which case would the local Churches prepared to organise a joint meeting a which the candidates could outline the moral and religious basis for their political beliefs? According to the Bishop, this was done in ome constituencies at the last General Election. So could the electorate of next month have a similar opportunity of hearing an exposition which would, presumably, be devoid of the.

usual trite votecatching slogans? ANTHONY SHORT. Exeter, Jan. 15. Rural electricity I be allowed to point out a serious inaccuracy in Mr. Frank L.

Mitchell's letter published in your Saturday edition? Mr. Mitchell says regarding electrically-operated labour-saving devices; "They need a standard I supply current so' are not usable when the farmer has his own generating plant." In fact, generating sets providing volt 1 phase 50 cycle I A.C. supply as mains have been built in Exeter for some time, and a considerable number are giving I useful service to farmers beyond the immediate range of the Electricity Board's system. Everyone interested in the provision of electricity in rural districts should be encouraged to understand the magnitude of the problem facing the South-Western I Electricity Board, and to know that a locally-produced generating unit is available as a competent tive source of supply. Pressure i groups" urging mains supply for their own districts can gain their I ends only at the expense of others so long as materials and labour are in short supply.

The solution lies in a clear delineation of the areas likely to be mains connected within a reasonable time. Elsewhere, farmers should inquire I into the economies of home generation, not as competing with i the main electricity supply, but as jan inexpensive measure while the 1 national organisation develops its I strength, and the present high prices have had time to settle down. I am sure Mr. Frank Mitchell did not intend to mislead. T.

J. MANSFIELD. Exeter, Jan. 16. Lassam Goodson was elected commodore, and once more Waddeton Court featured largely in the life of the club.

The association was continued last year, when Sir Alfred's son, Mr. Hugh Goodson, became the third commodore to have his home, at the court. In 1935 membership was thrown open to women and the club premises were enlarged. No Westcountry yachtsman would think of the Royal Dart Yacht. Club without associating with it the name of Mr.

A. Hine-Haycock, the hon. secretary, who died last year and who guided the club through two world wars. Under his care during the last war the club continued to flourish. Its membership is still increasing, and today its burgee may be seen on yachts cruising on both sides of the Channel.

R. V. Page Our London letter LONDON, Tuesday Night. Australian invitation rpHE announcement from tralia of an invitation to the King and Queen to visit there next year" has not unnaturally aroused considerable speculation upon the matter. I am told on reliable authority today that the only point is not the actual invitation, but merely the date of it.

The King has never used the word cancellation in reference to the postponement of the visit last year owing to his illness. He has, in fact, gone out of his way to emphasise that it was an engagement postponed." The expectation is, I understand, that if nothing untoward of a national character crops up the autumn of 1951 suggests itself as the first available and appropriate time for the visit to take place. Overseas visits pHE international department of the Boy Scouts' Association at Imperial Headquarters in London has been busy for some time past dealing with inquiries from the many troops making arrangements for overseas visits. Already more than 300 troops, including several from the Westcountry, have written saying they are considering camping abroad this year, and it seems certain 1950 will break the record established last year, when 3,907 Scouts of 301 groups visited 15 different countries. Garage of the future ORIVATE access roads to prevent congestion on the public highways, built-in pit jacks, and an enclosed and heated docking area are some of the novel features included in the London Transport Undertaking's plan of the ideal garage of the future." It is intended to build such a garage as this on a three-acre site near Watford, and if everything goes according to plan it will be ready to go into service towards the end of next year.

Three main considerations made by the London Transport experts, who have been studying the problem since the end of the war, were to group the major repair facilities, to eliminate by careful lay-out wasted effort on the part of the individual, and to incorporate an improved form of pit to make dock inspection easier. Changes in cast THE HEIRESS," which already had nearly a year's run, had what amounted to another first night" yesterday at the Haymarket Theatre. There has been a change of stars, with the departure of Sir Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft, and taking their place are Godfrey Tearle and Wendy Hiller. So there is no loss of "drawing power." Miss Hiller, of course, is not ne to her role, for she starred in the American production for ten months, and, as could be expected, she gives a faultless performance of great dramatic effect. Godfrey Tearle's approach to the character of the embittered doctor is different to that of his predecessor, but in my opinion equally brilliant.

The play's reception last night certainly indicates another long run. Promising musicians young musicians of great promise appeared last night at the Albert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra, under Basil Cameron, and both chose to play works by Mendelssohn. Alan Loveday, who played the violin concerto, has for so young a man not only an almost faultless technique and a pure, clean tone, but an unmistakable authority. If Cyril Preedy appeared to less advantage it was because the Minor Piano Concerto, with its unadventurous harmonies and rhythms, is a less-rewarding work. The Cathedrals EXETER od a sei Communion v.40.

Matins with Litany 10.30. Evensong 3. TRURO Today's (said) 7.25. Commumon 745 Litany 10.45. Evensong 4: Martin Shaw in flatanthem.

The souls of the righteous (Nares); hymn 453. NOTES IN THE WEST Torquay Mayor 'reasonably satisfied' title voyage pHE Mayor of Torquay, Aid. F. J. March, tells me he was reasonably satisfied by his visits I to Government Departments last week-end about the proposed international conference and matters affecting the Festival of Britain.

In a sense, the two things are interwoven, as quite obviously if the British Government's invitation to hold the conference in I Torquay next winter is accepted, it will be anxious that everything possible is done to make the South Devon resort attractive. The Festival of Britain authorities were, I gather, quite sympathetic to Torquay's application to be allowed to complete the partially constructed promenade in Princess Gardens, but the Ministry of final i arbiter a tougher nut to crack. It seems unlikely, in view of the need for economy, that its refusal will be amended unless there are special such as the international conference. Free publicity Regarding the conference, things look very encouraging. The Mayor called at the Foreign Office, and there found one of the departments busily preparing brochures and other propaganda to back the British invitation to come to this country.

Aid. March says this publicity will not cost the town anything. He is convinced the officials dealing with the matter are thoroughly satisfied Torquay can provide a suitable venue, and that everything possible is being done to induce the delegates to vote as the British representatives desire. Voting takes place in Geneva on the same day as the British General Election 23 and plans are already being formulated in Torquay for steps to be taken immediately if the result is favourable. Champions competing FHE West of England championship ploughing match at Nanswhyden.

St. Columb. on Friday promises to be the biggest ever held. Heavy entries have been received for the ploughing classes, two of which are composed entirely of champions. The new class this swing ploughs has seven champions entered Canadian, and a Cornishman, two from Sussex, one from each of Lancashire.

Warwickshire, and Northern Ireland. The other all-champion class is the championship tractor ploughing class, which has attracted eight entries, all but two of which are from outside the county. They include the Welsh champion and the boy champion from Somerset. G. Hosking, who represented the British Young Farmers' Clubs in the Swedish plough match in 1948.

Many other champions are competing in the other classes. Friendship tokens The Canadian competitors, Mr. Ronald K. Marquis (28). of Sunderland, Ontario, and Mr.

James M. Eccles (30), of Brampton, Ontario, and the Irish competitors, are due at Newquay today, and will spend tomorrow practising for bringing with them from Ontario in various parts of Great Britain and on the Continent. Seven-month trip SEE from a Reuter report frof 1 Singapore that Com. Kilroy, R.N., is due to sail today for Devon in his Singapore-bui' 1 16-ton Boleh. In outward appearance Boleh has been compared wit" Noah's Ark.

Her owner and builder, Com. Kilroy, describe 8 he.r as a She is styled 011 Oriental lines, and carries a brown sail. Com. Kilroy built the Boleh the help of Mr. George Jarvis.

8 British sailor attached to Royal Navy Dockyard, and Mala? shipwrights, when he first had th idea of sailing to England at start of his overseas leave retirement from the Royal Navf- He will be accompanied on to last seven months Mr. Peter Aplin and Joh fl Rusher, and a Chinese cook. Policy changed UXETER will welcome announcement that temporary shops may appear in of the city's main thoroughfares. It represents a change of on the part of the Planning mittee of the City Council. to they had forbidden temporary buildings of any kind on any of blitzed sites, apart from those which the council were responsible at Eastgate.

Unfortunately the volte face taken place six or seven years late. The central areas were ai waste in 1942, and the wide spaces have served 0 other pose than free parking places. Blitzed traders, who would eagerly have seized an oppo tunity to at their own the scene of their trad' ing, are now reluctant, in spite the offer of a seven-year lease- Traders' prohlem Many of them are past the of life. They have found and 0 stalled themselves in makeshi" premises, and, with perhaps sort 1 few exceptions, have recovered bulk of their lost trade. To be uprooted again, to and equip and furnish' their premises, to bear the cost of necting with the essential 5 and, at the same time, to cope 1 the abundance of rules and tions showered upon them by Government would be a risk will hesitate to incur, although terms offered are not unreasoP' able.

Played in Plymouth PHE recent presidential A by Miss Rita Music jtl my the opening of Plymouth Athenaeum 137 th series of lectures was illustrate 1 by a gramophone recital. Among the recordings played was one of Caruso. Among the pieces Miss La fl Played on the piano following lecture was one from a suite Stanley Bate called "Six for an Infant Prodigy." Mr will be remembered, used play in Plymouth at Cafe, and has won fame in New York. Thank you JYEVON Children's has said a big Thank ycfi to local organisations and jJJ dividuals who enhanced the Chris it' mas festivities of children in tn committee's care by providing and entertainments to efl the county council's grant Mid-Devon area of the commit alone has made, in its latest port, acknowledgments to 63 peoP ie who sent presents to its homes. Civic pianist THE Deputy Lady Mayoress i (Mrs.

H. L. b.lcock) was called upon to ruflj the annual dinner of Plymouth Disabled Fellowship Club. She was asked to play the memb ers sang 52H? t0 You 'or one members, and "For He' a Oood Fellow," with which the cl showed its appreciation of those who had helped. fl the match.

The Canadians are accompanied by their coach and manager, Mr. Alex McKinney, junior, a director of Ontario Ploughmen's Association. As a token of Canadian friendship for the countries they are to visit, the two Canadian ploughmen and their manager will plant young maple trees, which they are THE WESTERN MORNING NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1950- 2 AMUSEMENTS. PALACE THEATRE (PLYMOUTH) LTD. Managing Director: Gerard Heath.

4383, 5347,8. EVENINGS AT 7 P.M. Matinees Sats. at 2.30. EMILE LITTLER'S Spectacular Laughter Pantomime GOODY TWO SHOES," with SONNY JENKS JOY HAYDEN.

Sid Plummer, Full Company and Chorus. Orch. Stalls. Back Stalls. Pit, Dress Circle.

and Balcony, Stamped Envelope, please, with all Bookings and Enquiries. THEATRE ROYAL, EXETER. Licensee Gen T. Gwilliam Chfl GwiUlam presents the 61si GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME. "ROBINSON CRUSOE." A Spectacular Production in Twelve Beautiful Scenes Performances at 2 pm.

and 7 p.m. Daily. Box Office Open 10 a to 8 Telephone Bookings NOT Accepted 'PHONE 3251. TORQUAY. The Clarkson Rose Pantomime "THE SLEEPING BEAUTY." A Spectacular Production.

Full Chorus and Ballet. Nightly at 7.15 Mats. Today, Sat at 2.15. Box Office 10 to 7. Reduced Prices for Children.

Farewell Performances, January 21st. Next Week: The Continental Ballet. WESTERN PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. A PIANOFORTE RECITAL BY IRIS LOVERIDGE. Programme will Moonlight Sonata Beethoven.

Berceuse Sc Scherzo in flat Minor Chopin. Works by Bach. Dohnanyi, CIVIC HALL, EXETER, THURSDAY, JAN. 19th, at 7.0 p.m. OVER 500 SEATS AT Other Seats Tickets from Moons, High Street, Exeter and at Doors on night of concert.

PLYMOUTH SHAKSPERE SOCIETY presents "THE RIVALS," by R. Brinsley Sheridan, at THE GLOBE THEATRE, Royal Marine Barracks. PLYMOUTH. WEDNESDAYS. Jan.

25th. Feb. Ist Bth, at 7.0 p.m.; SATURDAYS. Jan. 28th, Feb.

4th 11th, at 2.30 and 7.0 p.m. Plan and Tickets. and from Briggs' Clothing Club, 18, St. Andrew Street, Plymouth. ROYAL, PLYMOUTH 3300.

(A.8.C.) MICHAEL DENISON. PATRICIA PLUNKETT in LANDFALL." (U.) 2.20, 5.30, 8.40.' Lloyd Nolan, Jane Wyatt. "BAD BOY." 12.40. 3.50. 7.0.

(A.) Doors Open 12 30. GAUMONT, 5058LU TODAY. PLYMOUTH. HUMPHREY BOGART, Florence Marley. Alexander Knox.

"TOKYO JOE." (A.) 2.25, 5.30. 8.35. Leo Gorcy. The Bowery Boys. TROUBLE MAKERS." (A.) 1.0, 3.55, 7.00.

ODEON, PLYMOUTH 5392. TODAY. We Open at 12.40. Sam Wanamakex, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan. Bonar Colleano in "GIVE US THIS DAY." with Charles Goldner.

(A.) at 1.0, 4.30, 80. Bowery Boys In SMUGGLER COVE." (A.) At 3.5, CORNWALL." (U.) A David Hand Cartoon (Color by Technicolor). At 12.45. 4.15. 7.45.

GAUMONT, EXETER. THIS Linda Darnell in SLATTERY HURRICANE." (A.) 3.15 6.05 8.50. Veronica Lake, Ted Donaldson John Litel. "RUSTY'S BIRTHDAY." (U.) 1.55. 4.40.

7.30. CITY AND COUNTY OP THE CTTY OF EXETER OAKMEAD. LYNDHURST ROAD. EXETER. (It Budding Works, consisting of Vterations, provision of New Sanitary and Decorations.

(I! Dwm'Stic in9taUaMon. 141 h--- retaliation. rAntmcwrs desirous of tendering for al)ove wo are requested to iILTK toe 26th January. the return of th, Council IS CotmcH do not bind themselves Slowest nd uaROLD B. ROWE.

F.R.^^ rchf MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. Applications are invited ssr 'l-SEsf 3 forms for Coke and or Coai before 25th January to: Th? Officer. Plymouth Hosfftels. "88 Union Street. Plymouth.

FREEHOLD PROPERTY for SALE by A 1 PUBLIC TENDER. No. 4 THE PLAINS Totnes. comprising extensive living accommodation. very ua business premises, and a cottage, all with vacant possession.

For particulars ana forms of tender apply to the undersigned to whom tenders should be sent on or before Wednesday. March KELLOCK CORNTSH-BOWDEN. Solicitors. 8. High-street, Totnes.

NOTICES ENGAGEMENT RINGS, Wedding rings (some 22 carat). Presentation Goods and Trophies cost leas at LEVY SLOGGETT. 190. Union Street, PLYMOUTH. 'Phone 2759.

BROADCASTING WEST (307.1 215.8 a.m., Brght and Early. 6.55. Weather Forecast News. 7.15, Record Roundabout. 7.50.

Lift Ud Your Hearts! 7.55 Weather Forecast; News. 8.15. The Kitchen. 8.20. Morning Music.

9. Rectal. 9.30, Dawson City (talk). 9.45. Schools.

10.15. Service. 10.30, Music While You Work. 11. Schools 12.

Break for Music. 12.25, Songs and Piano Music. 12.45. On the Land. 12.55 Weather Forecast; News.

1.10. Eye-Witness. 1.30. Jack Train Record Variety 2. Schools.

3. "Third Jar and "Ormond 4. Music Room. 4.30, Twenty Questions. 5.

Children. 5.85 Weather Forecast: New, 8 15 West News. 6.25. Sport. 6.30.

West of England Sinscers. 6.45. Hervrv Guest Night. 7.30. Promenade Concert.

9 News 9.15, Canadian Commentary. 9:30. Sounds of Winter. 9.45. Commonwealth Journey.

10.30. Continental Cabaret. News LIGHT (1,500 261.1 a.m., News 9.10. Housewives' Choice. 10.

Tone' Time. 10.30 Science and Everyday Life. 10.45. Centra! Band. 11.15, Leslie Baker and his Mus.c 11.45 Story 12- Mrs.

12.15. Band £iM 1 Midland Light Orchestra. 1.45, on Mother 2. Woman's Hour. 3 Reginald Foor't 3.30.

Music You Work 4 Mrs. Dale 4.15. Victor Silvester and his Orchestra. 5. Orchestra 6 On Our Wav ffitt? 6.45.

Dick Barton 7 News and Radio Newsreel. 7.25 Sport. 7.30. Family Favourites Focuson Women at Work. 8.30.

"Spot the Winner." 9, "Riddle of the Sa-nds (serial). 9.30. "Have a Go! JO. News. 10.15.

Topic for Tonight. 10-20. Oscar Rabin and his Band. 11, Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. (readme 11.15 Drifting and Dreaming.

11.56- 12, Yews. THIRD (514.6 m. 203.5 p.m.. Orchestra: Concert 7, Soviet View. 7.40, "Doll's 9.40.

and Bartok German Poetry 11. Byrd. 11.35-11.50. Letter Frbra Paris. TODAY'S WEATHER General Inference.

Fair and mainly sunny over much of the country. Colder in most places. South-West England variable winds. Mainly fair and bright, but fog patches near some towns. Colder, with keen frost morning and night.

Further Outlook. in many Southern and Central districts, with keen frost night and morning. Smith-West Siinshl v's figure: Exmouth. 7.3 hours: Teignmouth. 7.2: Dawlish.

7.8 Torouav. 7.5: Paignton. 7.2: Falmouth. 7.2: Penzance. 73; Weston-super-Mare.

7.0: Ilfracomibe. 7.3: Newquav. 6.6: Isles of Sefllv, 3.0: Bude. 7.6; and Plymouth. 6.8.

PLYMOUTH 17. O.M.T. Bar. Wet. Grass.

Max. Mm. 9 a.m. 30.22 42.0 40.0 35.7 3 p.m. 30.32 47.3 43.0 47 39 9 a.m..

Wind velocity 5 m.p.h. Rainfall. 0.03 in. 3 p.m.. Wind velocity 10 m.p.h.

Rainfall, nil. Highest sust past 24 hours. 49 m.p.h. LIGHTING-UP TIMES Exeter 5.14 Plymouth 3.17 Torquay 5.14 Truro 5.21 Barnstaple 5.16 Penzance 5.23 SUNRISE SUNSET Wed 8 8 a.m. Wed.

4.47 n.m Thurs 8.7 a.m. Thurs. 4.49 pjn. MOONRI9E MOONSET 8.51 am Wed 4.42 p.m. Thurs 9.18 a.m.

Thurs. 6.2 p.m PHASES OF THE MOON tst. Qr Jan. 26 Last Qr. Feb.

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in. rime ft in Barnstaple 0640 10 6 1905 10 3 Bideford 0630 13 6 1865 13 3 Bude 064 7 22 1 1812 21 9 Dartmouth 0617 14 9 1846 14 1 East Looe 0534 16 5 1803 15 10 Exmouth 063.5 12 5 1901 11 10 Falmouth 0504 16 7 1733 16 0 Fowey 0620 16 1 1748 15 6 Ufracombe 0601 27 9 1823 21 9 Lyme Regis 0636 12 4 1904 11 9 Lynmouth 0911 30 9 1833 30 9 Minehead 0641 32 8 1900 9 Newquay 0627 21 4 1752 21 0 Padstow 0637 21 9 1802 21 5 Penzance 0444 16 11 1713 16 0 Plymouth 0530 15 3 1769 14 7 River Yealm 0542 15 6 1811 14 11 Salcombe 0540 15 9 1809 15 1 St Ives 0512 21 9 1737 21 5 Teignmouth. 0631 12 5 1859 11 10 Torquay 0629 12 9 1857 12 1 Truro 0514 17 5 1742 16 10 AH heigtvta are measured from level of water at averaee sDrinz tide low water. For Bideford and Barnstaple the heights stated are approximate. Also the heiehts of tides at all ports where streams flow into the sea vary in resoect to strong winds and heavy rain.

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