Western Morning News from Plymouth, Devon, England • 1

PLYMOUTH AREA EDITION No 31434 TWOPENCE HALF-PENNY (Jtjc Mfisteni jttonunjr lews PLYMOUTH EXETER TRURO FRIDAY JANUARY 6 1961 GOVERNMENT MAY BAN TUC LOAN Plymouth votes 'Yes' on Harrowbeer airport 4470 MAJORITY: 10 POLL THE people of Plymouth yesterday approved the City plan to acquire Harrowbeer airfield for use as the city airport by 9277 votes to 4807 a majority of 4470 Just over 10 per cent of the electorate voted Occasional showers through- Move to avoid affront to Belgium AIRPORT ENGINEERS RETURN TO WORK Ti OAC engineers at London Airport wfere back at work last night after the suspension which followed their four-hour unofficial stoppage over a pay claim Twenty-three BEA men who clocked in checked out again on hearing that 125 engineers in the central area had received suspension notices The return of the engineers was made with one proviso no overtime At the BOAC maintenance base after a meeting had decided on an orderly return at 5 pm men swarmed into the staff car parks and were soon climbing over the giant planes BACK TO NORMAL The meeting reaffirmed two resolutions passed previously that if there was an unsatisfactory wage settlement another mass meeting would be called as soon as possible and that in the event of victimisation they would withdraw labour immediately Everywhere is back to normal at the headquarters said a spokesman of BOAC The engineers at Renfrew Airport Glasgow and Turnhouse Airport Edinburgh returned to work also at 5 pm while at Manchester the BEA men decided to go back this morning BOAC resumed passenger and cargo flights from London Airport last night The first service to Hong-kong left at 930 pm LATE NEWS ORAN BOMB INJURES 4 people injured in Oran (Western Algeria) when grenade hurled into bar in suburb of Eckmuhl The Lord Mayor (Aid Stott) as Returning Officer declares the outside Plymouth Guildhall last night result -of the Harrowbeer poll RIGHT-WING ATTEMPT TO RETAKE LAOS AIRFIELD Used by Soviets to supply rebels RIGHT-WING Government troops moving to recapture the strategic airfield in the Plain of Jars North Central Laos which was taken last Sunday by Left-Wing forces yesterday reached Phu Koun 30 miles west of the plain The Information Minister Mr MINISTERS SUMMONED By IVOR OWEN our Parliamentary Correspondent SENIOR Ministers were summoned to Admiralty House by the Prime Minister last night to consider the difficult political problem posed by the decision to offer a £50000 interest-free loan to the Belgian strikers As the strike is aimed at the Belgian Government and is not in the ordinary sense an industrial dispute such a loan is unprecedented and Ministers fear that it might lead to a sharp deterioration in Anglo-Belgian relations Mr Macmillan called in the Earl of Home the Foreign Secretary Mr Selwyn Lloyd the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr John Hare the Minister of Labour to discuss the issues involved The key question which they considered was whether the Government should stop the loan by withholding Treasury approval when the TUC seeks permission under the exchange control regulations to send the £50000 to the Belgian strikers As far as could be ascertained yesterday the TUC has not yet made any formal approach to the Treasury and the decision will not be announced until this has been done CLASH FEARED Trouble either way If permission is refused it will undoubtedly involve the Government in a major clash with the TUC and thus the difficult choice facing the Government is whether to affront the Belgian Government or upset the TUC In either case the Government will almost certainly be faced with a big storm in the Commons when Parliament reassembles after the Christmas recess on January 24 A spokesman at the Belgian Embassy in London stated yesterday It is curious and unex pected that this loan should be granted in the framework of a strike which did not start for social reasons but aims only at the withdrawal of a Bill before the Belgian Ironically it was also announced from Admiralty House yesterday that the Prime Minister has agreed to receive a deputation from the TUC with whom up to now he has enjoyed good on the future of the fuel and power industries US BOYCOTT ON CUBAN CARGOES NEW YORK dockers yesterday began a boycott of cargoes arriving from Cuba leaving stranded a shipment of tobacco destined for Britain Mr William Bradley president of the International Association said the boycott came as a spontaneous decision of the men to refuse to handle commercial cargoes for Communist He said it would also apply to cargoes destined for Cuba The tobacco shipment said to have been for Britain was on board the first ship affected the German-Flag vessel Luciana VIEW Havana was yesterday ostentatiously preparing for war following the breach of diplomatic relations by the United States and Cuban allegations that the country was threatened with imminent invasion by the United States Part of the seafront was blocked to traffic causing chaos in the narrow streets while soldiers prepared sandbag enclosures for four-barrelled anti-aircraft guns and small field-guns Britain yesterday urged the United Nations Security Council not to pass any resolution on Cuban allegations of planned aggression by the United States Cuba must know that the council did not take grave decisions on so flimsy a basis as an allegation that aggression was about to take place said Mr Harold Beeley the British delegate Reuter Police pay talks Youth of 17 is charged with killing Sandra TJODNEY WILLIAM BAILEY a 17-year-old farm labourer was remanded in custody for a week at a special court at Hinckley Leicestershire last night charged with the murder of Sandra Pickering 16 a Sap-cote schoolgirl She was found battered to death in a lane near her home on Monday night address was given as Pougher-olose Sapcote the road where Sandra lived Wearing a blue sweater green corduroy trousers and green jacket Bailey was granted legal aid Supt William Kelly head of the Hinckley Police Division said Bailey was seen earlier yesterday by Det-Supt Fisher and Chief-Inspr Colville and as a result of what he said he was arrested and taken to Hinckley Police Station He was later formally charged there HEAD INJURIES Chief-Inspr Percy Colville said he saw the body lying on a grass verge with severe head injuries in Donkey-lane on Tuesday morning Extensive police inquiries had since been carried out and as a result with Det-Supt Fisher he saw the accused at his place of work Bailey was questioned and taken to his home where at 1220 pm as a result of what he said he was taken to Hinckley Police Station on a charge of murdering Sandra Pickering Chief-Inspr Colville said that Bailey made a statement at the police station and it was intended to put this in at a later date He was formally charged with the murder and replied: US sergeant in court A 29 YEAR OLD American Staff Sergeant Willis Eugene Boshears father of three was remanded in custody until January 13 at a special court at Castle Hedingham (Essex) yesterday afternoon charged with the murder of 20-year-old Jean Sylvia Constable A request by Maj Carl Prestin Staff Judge Advocate at nearby Wethersfield USAF Base for Boshears to be kept in the custody of American police at the camp was turned down Jean's body was found under a bush in a rain-filled ditch near Ridgewell on Tuesday morning Det-Inspr William Jeavons told Lady Plummer chairman of the magistrates that when Boshears was charged with murder and cautioned he replied No I Boshears his hair cropped short and wearing a field green American windcheater with a grey fur collar stood to attention throughout the 17-minute hearing A jet engine fitter at Wethersfield he has been in Britain just over two years Queen will meet Makarios in Cyprus THE Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are to meet Archbishop Makarios the Cyprus President and Dr Kutchuk the Vice-President when their airliner refuels at the RAF station at Akrotiri Cyprus on January 20 during their flight to India Cyprus which attained independence from British rule last August has not yet decided if she will remain within the Commonwealth Informed sources say the subject will be discussed in the House of Representatives this month and that it is likely that a decision to stay in the Commonwealth will be taken before the Queen flies in The Queen who has been staying at Buckingham Palace since Wednesday to deal with arrangements for her forthcoming tour of India and Pakistan returned by train to Sandringham yesterday to continue her Christmas holiday Four on post office raid charges Two Luton men and their wives were arrested yesterday and taken to Buckinghamshire police headquarters at Aylesbury where said a police spokesman they were charged in connection with a £58000 post office raid at Aylesbury on November 5 The spokesman said the two men would appear in court at Aylesbury this morning The wives were allowed bail William Thomas Price 35 haulage contractor of Shakes-peare-road Luton and his wife Sylvia 24 were both charged with post office-breaking and receiving and Derek Fowler 27 motor fitter of Ashton-road Luton and his wife Charlotte 30 were both charged with receiving POLICE DIG GARDEN OF MISSING WOMAN Police inquiring into the case of a missing housewife spent part of yesterday digging the front garden of a Leeds Corporation house She is Mrs Ruby Wood (26) who disappeared from her home in Amberton-gardens Leeds on a Sunday in June after saying she was going out to buy some cigarettes Nothing has been seen or heard of her since Her husband Wilfred Wood (29) a building worker is looking after their two children David (6) who attends nearby Coldcotes School and Carol 20 months AVALANCHE KILLS SWISS PROFESSOR An avalanche killed Professor Walter Baumgartner chief doctor of the Interlaken Hospital and injured two of his children on Reulisenhorn Mountain near Interlaken yesterday His wife and another child escaped unhurt All five were buried in the avalanche and dug out by rescuers of the Swiss Aerial Rescue Service in Berne who arrived by helicopter Lord Milner progressing Lord Milner former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons who had his left leg amputated in Leeds Infirmary on Wednesday was stated yesterday to be Aged 71 he was admitted to hospital on Tuesday i) HOB HOPE COLLAPSE pb Hope collapsed on Rancho Golf Course Hollywood complaining of numbness in legs He was given lift to clubhouse on caddy-cart and then went home Reuter MACMILLAN TO VISIT DE GAULLE The Prime Minister and Lady Dorothy Macmillan have accepted an invitation from President de Gaulle and Mme de Gaulle towisit them at the Chateau de Ram-bouillet on January 28 and 29 it was announced from Admiralty House yesterday Mr Macmillan last met Gen de Gaulle in Paris last May at the time of the unsuccessful attempt to hold a summit conference Mr Macpiijlan yesterday sent a message of good wishes to Dr Adenauer? thd West German Chancellor on his 85th birthday The Premjer wul probably see Dr Adenauer in Bonn or London in February Russians help' New Guinea grab The Soviet Union yesterday pledged itself to help Indonesia take over Dutch New Guinea (West Irian) The promise was made by the First Deputy Premier Mr Mikoyan at a reception given by the Indonesian Embassy to their Defence Minister Gen Nasution and Foreign Minister Subandrio The Soviet Union always supports the rightful- demands of Indonesia for West he said The Soviet Government will render friendly aid in your great struggle against the out the day and a violent thunderstorm in the early evening undoubtedly deterred a number of voters from leaving their firesides During the day loudspeaker vans toured the city some urging people to vote for Harrowbeer and others putting the opposition case Opposition goes on Now the City Council has the go-ahead it sought so vigorously for the presentation of the Harrowbeer Aerodrome Bill in the House of Commons The Bill has been lodged there for some weeks Unless opposition is particularly strong the Bill could receive Royal assent by midsummer and the proposals could pass the paperwork stage by the end of the year It is certain however that opposition to the wishes will reappear in the vital committee stages in Parliament About 100 people waited patiently in the cold wind outside the Guildhall for the result Later than expected the Lord Mayor Aid Stott walked from the main hall to the microphones in the main entrance and announced the result in a brief and formal declaration It was twelve minutes past ten Brief cheering His words were greeted by a brief outburst of cheering and soon the Guildhall square was deserted Only the principal figures in the controversy lingered exchanging views on the result of the poll Although the figures showed less than two-to-one support for the proposals in some ways it was a morale-booster for the City Council In nine out of the last ten similar polls in other cities electors rejected their local recommendations The leaders of the two campaigns which have confronted Plymothians in recent weeks were with the Lord Mayor when the declaration was made With them were several city councillors and the Town Clerk Mr Lloyd Jones- More information Mr Humphrey Woollcombe chairman of the committee which had led the campaign against the City proposals told a reporter: die has now been cast and as true democrats we must all accept the result with good grace I am in no way repentant for having been largely responsible for making -the jpoll- necessary as- -I felt that nothing but good could result Indeed I do not think that it is putting it too high when I say that without this poll the information that was given to the Council last Monday might never have been forthcoming I can only hope that before the Bill is proceeded with in Parliament steps will be taken to provide a great deal more information on the other points which were stressed in our manifesto so that Plymouth may have the air facilities she 1 Important day In jubilant mood Sir Clifford Tozer leader of the City Council said that although the numbers who voted were not great the vote was definitely He went on: Personally I am more than delighted to think that there has been no obstacle in our endeavours to get the promotion of the Bill This has been a very important day in the life of the city and I am convinced that the fact that ft will be possible to establish an airport so near to the city as Harrowbeer will as the years go by prove to be one of the great assets I am more than pleased with the result and I now look forward to the time when definite action will be taken by which the airport will be 1947 vote The vote over Sunday cinemas in February 1947 was the last occasion on which Plymothians were asked to vote on a local controversy Then more than 20000 people voted 16217 in favour and 4134 against municipal elections attract a voting percentage of about 50 per cent Lasit year the figure was lower than usual at 418 per cent TURKISH CABINET POLITICAL AGAIN Gen new officially announced in Ankara last night includes members of political parties The previous Cabinet which resigned on Wednesday was a non-party provisional military Cabinet Twelve members of the old Cabinet are represented in the new one Gen Gursel 66 will be the new Prime Minister 85th birthday Dr Adenauer the West German Chancellor celebrated his 85th birthday at the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn yesterday after receiving the good wishes of the Bonn crowds on his journey from his villa at Rhoendorf to the Rhineside Chancellery WEATHER MIDNIGHT FORECAST General A depression will probably become slow-moving in the North Sea Troughs will move south over Britain South-West England-Bright periods and scattered showers some sleet or snow on hills Wind northwest to north fresh Rather cold maximum 37-40 Further Probably rather cold with showers but some bright periods or snow at times mainly on hills South-West Yesterdays figures- Teignmouth 02 of an hour Falmouth 02 Penzance 03: Weston super Mare Ilfracombe Isles of Scilly Torquay and Plymouth all nil break down ''THERE was a complete breakdown yesterday in the talks on the pay claim by 17000 police higher ranks This was announced after more than three hours of negotiating in the police council in London Sergt White the chairman of the staff side said: "They made an offer that was completely unacceptable There will be intense resentment felt among the higher ranks The situation is as serious as it has ever been This is a crisis for the higher The staff side had made a claim for sergeants for a rise of £355 a year (bringing the maximum to £1150) a rise for inspectors of £485 (£1415) and for chief inspectors a rise of £565 (£1615) The official side offer was: Sergeants a rise of £260 (maximum £1075) inspectors a rise of £300 (£1230) and chief inspectors a rise of £330 (£1380) The claim follows the recent pay Increases to constables Offer for Gorringe withdrawn Mr Rudkin-Jones director of Kinward Holdings managing director of Blackett and Son and chairman of Po-phams the Plymouth store has withdrawn his offer for Preference and Ordinary shares of the Frederick Gorringe Ltd store in Buckingham Palace-road London Col Nonman Crisps chairman of Gorringe announced the text of a letter from Mr Rudkin-Jones regretting that due to new circumstances the intention to make an offer fw the shares no longer subsisted The letter said: I hope you will aocept my assurance that at the time such intention was stated in the view of myself and my advisers I was then in a position to express such intention and that my action was therefore a responsible one" NAVAL LANDING ON BARREN ISLES The first recorded landing on the barren Brazilian islands of Martin Vaz in the South Atlantic has been made by HMS Owen (Com Geoffrey Hall) survey ship of the Royal Navy while on her way to undertake hydrographic work in South Georgia The Admiralty said last night that the three small islets of the group are about 650 miles east-north-east of Rio de Janeiro and are described in navigational manuals as steep and Officers seamen and civilian scientists in the Owen embarked in a surf boat towed by a surveying motor launch and after considerable difficulties succeeded in leaping ashore on the surf-swept rocks ioooo German taxis stop More than 10000 West German taxi drivers yesterday stopped their cabs for five minutes to commemorate a Mannheim colleague Karl Straub who was murdered and robbed by New Year's Eve Reuter Norasing said that Soviet planes were using the airfield to land supplies and ammunition and taking out regular North Vietnamese troops to prevent proof of foreign interference in the affairs of Laos The five North Vietnamese battallions said to have invaded the country were stated to have stopped five miles inside the frontier- They are believed to be occupying this enclave to assure control of the pass into Laos from Vietnam Although Vientiane was able to relax somewhat under Government assurances that the city is under no threat of attack Capt Kong Lae and his pro-Communist allies appear to be in control of most of the three northern provinces PhUng Saly Sam Neua and Xieng Khouang Drawing together A State Department spokesman said yesterday that the United States Britain and France were drawing together on policy toward the crisis in Laos although the United States still regarded the Laotian situation as grave The Foreign Office has continued to reiterate that there was no confirmation of any regular North Vietnam units entering Laos and has pressed for a revival of the International Control Commission comprising India Poland and Canada Under pressure from her allies the United States has now moved closer to this idea and with a slight relaxation ih tension yesterday the emphasis was placed on diplomatic moves to reconvene the Commission and end the immediate fighting King of Nepal bans political parties All political parties in Nepal were banned yesterday by King Mahendra who said in a Royal proclamation that an attempt to develop democracy from the top had failed He would now try to instil a new awareness in the people through panchayat democracy (village councils) King Mahendra was making his first policy statement since his Palace coup on December 15 when he dismissed the Government of Mr Koirala and dissolved Parliament The King justified his ban on political parties on the ground that they might hinder the creation of a favourable climate for a new movement of national construction Reuter PRISON FOR WOMEN The Government has rejected the Prison proposal to use Thorn wood War Department camp near Harlow (Essex) as a semi -secure prison for women They have decided that the prison should be built at Hill Hall (Essex) the Ministry of Housing and Local Government said yesterday ville would precipitate outright civil war in the Congo The African States represented at the conference have a total of about 6500 troops in the Congo under United command More than 5000 are from Morocco and Ghana Several arrests were made in Leopoldville and some people were beaten-up by Congolese military police yesterday when groups supporting Mr Lumumba demonstrated outside the United Nations headquarters in Leopoldville United Nations troops watched without taking action Mr Hammarskjoeld the United Nations Secretary General discussed the Congo crisis in Leopoldville yesterday with President Kasavubu and top United Nations officials He leaves for Pretoria today Trawler towed 400 miles The East German trawler Mans-feld arrived at Aberdeen yesterday after being towed nearly 400 miles by her sister ship the Eisleben Both were fishing off the Faroes when the Mansfeld was disabled with a mechanical fault ARMY ALERT ON EVE OF ALGERIAN VOTE THE French Army was on the alert throughout Algeria last night for a critical three voting beginning today in the National Referendum on President de Algerian policy Both Europeans and Moslems are in the grip of fear and the wildest rumours are circulating about what extremists of both sides may do In Algiers where an estimated 40000 soldiers and police are poised in and around the city The normal curfew hour of midnight was put forward two hours In Orcri paratroops have reinforced riot police A fleet of 16 warships from Toulon will be in Algerian waters on exercises thrnugut the referendum period French ordered to leave Nigeria The Nigerian Government has ordered the French Ambassador and his staff to leave Nigeria within 48 hours in protest against the recent French atomic test in the Sahara Also French aircraft and ships are not to be permitted to use Nigerian airfields and ports Nigeria along with many other African nations joined in a protest against third atomic test Nigerian newspapers had also called for a trade break with France Liner aground on Pacific reef The largest passenger ship in the Pacific service the and liner Arcadia was aground on a coral reef outside Honolulu for two hours yesterday At no time was there any danger to the 1200 passengers and 700 crew of the white liner which was bound from Los Angeles to England via Hawaii and Australia Eight tugs which went to her assistance rocked her to and fro She was freed and taken back to her usual berth in harbour for inspection for damage The British liner Aragon (19900 tons) which ran aground on a sand bank in the River Plate has been refloated She entered dock at Buenos Aires yesterday and was reported undamaged SUNDAY OBSERVANCE PRESIDENT RESIGNS Attacks on the Royal Family by the Day Observance Society is one of the reasons given by Sir Cecil Wakeley the 68-year-old London surgeon for resigning from the presidency of the society He said yesterday: I think the society has overstepped the mark They should not blaze away at the Royal Family the whole Sir Cecil resigned six months ago but agreed to carry on until the end of the year He is still broad with the society 3 ESCAPE INJURY IN CRASH-LANDING Three Edinburgh men escaped injury when a twin-engined Gemini plane crash-landed on a shingle beach at Anchorsholme near Blackpool last night The plane on a private flight from Edinburgh to Speke Liverpool developed engine trouble driving sleet 50 miles north of Blackpool When the other engine started to fail pilot Ronald Stanley Flight of Silver Knowles-terrace Edinburgh made a forced landing MAROONED MEN SAFE After more than two days marooned by snow in a radio station on Great Dunfell 3OOGft up in the Pennines three Ministry of Civil Aviation walked a mile down the fell side yesterday to meet the rescuers They said they had encountered snow drifts between 10 and 15ft and had been up to their waists in snow Another team walked up the fell to take over duty at the station while efforts to open up the road continued PRIMATE WILL HEAD DELEGATION The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Geoffrey Fisher is to head 54 British delegates at the Assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in New Delhi from Novunber 18 to December 6 Sixteen of the delegates will be from the Church of England At a Press conference at Church House Westminster the Archbishop emphasised that the World Council dealt with realities in present-day problems and was not a pious End of strike is believed near The Belgian State radio last night quoted that the strike is nearing its end It added Reports in Brussels tonight were that consultations are taking place between politicians of all parties General impression is that the situation is moving towards serious The radio added that officially there is no confirmation of negotiations between Government and Opposition In Brussels yesterday King Baudouin consulted top political leaders in an attempt to end the 16-day deadlock The Government won a new vote of confidence in Parliament yesterday for its austerity plan which provoked the strikes TRUNCHEONS USED Crowd broken up Police used truncheons yesterday on strikers who tried to break a cordon and arrested five men and a girl for throwing stones About 2000 strikers had gathered at Socialist Party headquarters and tried to march in groups to the historic Grande-place Many young people including university students staged a march to the Socialist headquarters shouting anti-Government slogans and throwing thunderflashes Sten gun bullets raked a bus running a gauntlet between Verviers and Elsenborn on the German frontier yesterday No one was injured The bus was hit three times but did not stop The area is heavily industrialised and the strike there has been more effective than in any other of nine provinces militant Andre Renard deputy secretary of the Socialist General Union has been openly campaigning for a separation between the French-speaking Walloon sectors and the Flemish part of the country Two unexploded bombs were found in One was at the Liberal newspaper La and the other in a railway yard African States withdrawing their troops from Congo SPECIAL REDUCTIONS Commencing TOMORROW FURNITURE (a few examples) Contemporary Walnut Bedroom suite £134 16 0 to £99 10 0 Reproduction Oak Bedroom Suite £135 0 0 to £99 10 0 Limed Oak Finish Bedroom Suite £93 16 6 to £82 10 0 3 Seat Settee and 2 Easy Chairs RedGrey Moquette £84 5 0 to £74 19 6 2 Seat Settee and 2 Easy Chairs in Green Tapestry £109 10 0 to £89 19 6 3 Seat Settee and 2 Easy Chairs In Figured Fawn Moquette with Green outsides £136 10 0 to £115 0 0 Contemporary Walnut Dining Set £90 19 0 to £79 10 0 Reproduction Walnut Dining Set £123 17 6 to £79 10 0 CARPETS 250 yds 27" Axminster Two-tone design various colours 3411 to 2711 yd 60 yds 27" Plain Red Wilton Carpet 443 to 3411 yd 140 yds 27" Grey ground Chintz design Axminster Carpet 4111 to 3411 yd 15 12 Heavy Quality Axminster Carpet RedGrey £64 10 0 to £49 10 0 12 9 Figured Axminster Carpet (choice of six) £36 9 0 to £29 19 6 AND MANY OTHER CARPETS AT BARGAIN PRICES FABRICS Hundreds of yards of Curtain and Loose Cover Fabrics at great reduction SEE OUR WINDOWS ALL GOODS taken from our NORMAL STOCK CRIDDLt SMITH LTD TRURO 2353-4 EADERS of the Left-leaning African States including Ghana yesterday agreed to pull their troops completely out of the Congo in protest against the United Congo policy sources attending the summit in Casablanca Morocco reported last night This decision if carried out represents a compromise between the views of President Nasser of the United Arab Republic and the Guinea President Sekou Toure on the one hand and those of President Nkrumah of Ghana and King Mohammed of Morocco on the other President Nasser vigorously supported by President Toure called for all the African States to give outright military aid to the Stanleyville followers of ex-Premier Lumumba They wanted to withdraw troops from the United command and put them at disposal Despite their strong support of Lumumba both Ghana and Morocco opposed this extreme move Both President Nkrumah and the Moroccan Monarch said that transferring troops to Stanley 29 BRIDES SHOW THEIR DRESSES The music played and 29 brides walked through a blue-carpeted chandelier-hung salon in Gros-venor-street London yesterday for the opening of first couture dress house catering exclusively for wedding wear Alexandrine of Nottingham had come to town reversing the usual procedure of London going to the provinces All the dresses had an unseen touch of blue hidden somewhere in their lavish folds Dresses and of course hats for the mother and dresses were also shown Perth bull sales denial A rumour that the world-famous sales of Aberdeen Angus and beef Shorthorn bulls at Perth In February might be cancelled because of foot and mouth disease was denied yesterday -by the Perth auctioneers Macdonald Fraser and Co.