wine THE DAILY MAIL ISSUE CITY wine with WEATHER: rain Unsettled, in places with slight LIGHTING-UP: 10.34pm 3.35am to MOON: Rises sets 9am 11.13pm, RADIO: In Four Page No. 21,989 TEL. 15100 (15 lines) HULL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1956 Registered as a for newspaper transmission TWOPENCE Police hustle starts as two men walk into inspector's office GUNMEN: MYSTERY CALLERS AT YARD goes on for hide-out in London's East End DEVELOPMENTS SOON? WHILE CID of MEN two and the UNIFORMED POLICE, of all armed with members the names and description three of the gang who shot and killed Tommy Smithson, one-time acquaintance of Jack Spot Comer, kept a special watch on airports and ports throughout the country, detectives in London were today still sifting reports which continued to trickle into Harrow-rd. Police Station. Detectives think that there is a strong possibility that the gang have a hide-out in the East End.
They may be sheltered by a group of women. Det. Albert Webb left Harrow-rd. hurriedly after receiving a telephone message. Developments in the case are expected shortly.
Supt. Webb drove to Scotland Yard, where he to ask if they could assist the police in their saw two men who walked into an inspector's office inquiries. They were asked to wait, and when Supt. Webb arrived they accompanied him back 1 to Harrow-rd. police station.
Detectives are today concentrating their search in the East End of London, where they believe a man they are looking for is hiding. The automatic with which Smithson was killed has not been found, but police believe that it is no longer in the possession of any of the men. TERRORISTS SHOOT IN SHOP TERRORISTS murdered a Greek-Cypriot farmer at Akaki village, 13 miles west of Nicosia last night. Armed with shotguns, the terrorists went into the village coffee shop and ordered all the people inside to stand up and face the wall. They then accused the farmer.
Michael Psintros (40). of informer and fired several shots into him at close range. THEY VANISHED Big search FEATHER -BRAINED SYDNEY searching POLICE, for are a woman who attended a ball in Sydney last night wearing a strange hat a live pullet. Dancers gaped when the woman, who said her name Claudia, entered at midnight with pullet tied to her head with artificial plumage. An escort of three men bore the train of her flowing gown.
The RSPCA complained to the police. TRAUTMANN OFFERS A HOLIDAY TRAUTMANN, Manchester City goalkeeper son was killed recently in a road accident, has a six-week holiday at his home to a needy Berlin child. Trautmann, who was elected Footballer of the Year in England and gained an FA Cup winner's medal earlier this year, left Berlin today with his wife for a holiday Bavaria, He was in hospital for some time with a broken neck after the Cup Final, and went to Berlin recently for the West German football championship finals. LATEST PHONE NEWS TO HULL CENT. 15100 CORDON ARMSTRONG FOR ROVER SALES SERVICE SPARES 630, ANLABY HULL Tel.
51212 GARDEN PARTY 6,000 CAR-WORKERS GET SACK AT DRIFFIELD THIS WEEK Shock announcement THE British Motor Corporation announced in Birminghad today that as from June 29 about 6,000 of the total of 55,000 employees are to be declared redundant. Of the remaining employees, some will work a three or four-day week for the time being. Unions affected, the Ministry of Labour, Board of Trade and the Employers' Federation have been told. Of the 6,000, about 3,000 of a total tabour force of 20,000 are to be dismissed at Austins. 800 out of 7,000 at Morris Motors, Coley, and 700 out of about 4,000 at Nuffield Metal B.O.A.C.
CRASH Two more die BOAC stated today, BOACI regret to report that Mrs Mills, of Chipping Norton, a passenger in the Argonaut which crashed at Kano on Sunday, and Navigating Officer Young, of Southbourne, both died at Kano last night. PROVINCIAL SURVIVE MR. GEORGE managements JEGER. during Labour the exempt the living theatre member of the theatres. He said his interest basis for his appeal to the West End theatre.
The West on its own feet. qualified for the 75 per cent. remissio nin rates if they were converted to house manufacturing industries. That is happening in many places. It is not easy to convert theatres into offices or into anything other than cinemas, warehouses or COMPETITION OF TV Mr Jeger then gave the House some details of how the cost of running a theatre, had increased enormously.
Ver yotten, he said, theatre "I am concerned with the one connected with a provincial that I want to stress to the today and the appeal to him The tax, said Mr Jeger, bad one, with a basis different from that of other taxation. It was a. tax upon the seat of a theatre and, when the admission charge was paid irrespective of whether the show or the performance made a profit or a loss. PERPETUAL LOSSES" No theatre owner or manager could survive on perpetual losses. More provincial theatres were closing each week and when they closed, they were being converted to other uses.
Their conversion to factories meant that very often they paid only a quarter of their previous rates and local authority as well as the Chancellor lost revenue because the premises SMILING IN THE SUN garden party are, from branch), and Mrs J. V. with Mrs after the opening ceremony of Driffeld branch, Townswomen's Guild, left, Mrs S. V. Dodds (Hull), Mrs A.
W. G. Hall (chairman, Driffeld Bradshaw, who opened the event. Below: Mrs S. V.
Dodds is pictured H. Maxwell, a founder member of the Drifeld branch. PREMIERS BEGIN VITAL TALKS By Hull Daily Mail Diplomatic Correspondent SEVENTH and the of Commonwealth in the Cabinet Vital issues policy will governments who meeting. welcoming for the first time meeting, was CANNOT COMMONS provincial theatre amendment aiming to was, he thought, job of running concerned and the his interest in a itself and standing Probe into school clothing? THE was Street and heads 10-day conference opening today. economic of In his presiding Premiers' THEATRE ON LOSSES -GOOLE M.P.
TELLS for Goole, made a plea on behalf of in the Commons last night on an entertainments tax. Mr Jeger said that he (of the House) who had the day-to-day as the cultural life of the theatre was had no connection whatever with of London was capable of looking after provincial theatre, and it is as theatre in the North-East Chancellor the plight of the theatre to remit this taxation. owners could not afford to keep their theatres in the stage in which they should be, if they were to compete successfully with modern cinemas and with television at home. After a lengthy debate the proposed clause seking to exempt the living theatre. from entertainment tax was defeated by 243 votes to 206 Mr.
Harold Macmillan. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, suggested that although it was impossible under existing economic circumstances to remove the tax on this occasion. relief would come high on the list in the next Budget. Footnote: Mr. Jeger is secretary of Whitehall Theatre who own the New Theatre.
Hull. BROUGHTON SCHOOL SPORTS. No records were broken owing to windy conditions. A good attendance of parents saw the new headmaster, Mr. F.
Law, present the house cups to the winning junior and senior house captains. They were T. Bailey representing the senior blue team and J. Marshall, of junior yellow team. House placings were: Junior: 1, Yellow: 2.
Green; 3, Red: 4. Blue. Senior: 1, Blue; 2, Yellow; 3. Red: 4, a FIVE POUNDS OVERWEIGHT- Here's a setback for the diet sheet- seems that Spot really has put his foot in it this time. Products, Birmingham.
THE REASONS concern at Abingdon, Oxon. Reasons advanced in a statement, by the company include increased purchase tax, new hire-purchase restrictions, and rising wages and costs, all contributing to fall in demand. Other factors are Increase in sales tax in Australia and import licence cuts in New Zealand. At Morris Radiators branch, Oxford, the figure will be 180 out of 1,500 and 600 out of about 4,000 at Fisher and Ludolw, Birmingham; 430 at Tractors and Transmissions, Birmingham; 90 at. SU Carburettors, Birmingham; and 100 at Nuffield Metal Products.
Llanelly. Among factories in the group not affected at the moment are Morris Commercail Cars. Birmingham, and the MG and Riley SINCERE REGRET" The statement says, "It is with the sincerest regret that the Corporation have had to take the present step in the future interests of the majority of their employees FOR AUSTRALIA An RAF Vulcan, which will be the second of the jets to enter Bomber Command will be at the Air Force ration week ceremonies in Australia in September, is a CONSCRIPTS: MOTHERS' PLEA TO EDEN PETITION bearing the A signatures of 400 mothers of national servicemen Is to be presented at No. 10, Downing Street tomorrow evening. The two men were still at Harrow-rd.
Police Station at midday, helping detectives in their Inquiries. Charges were expected to be preferred against two or three men later today. It is not yet known whether there was a fourth member of gang. Some witnesses have man in the driving the spoken to the police pattern a green car in which the gang drove to the Maida Vale boardinghouse where the killing took place. Hard boy' Smithson.
ex gambling club lowner, has been described by his elder brother. Derek. as a ahrd boy who always used his fists to get himself out of trouble and to have known Jack Spot. Johnnie Rice, Billy Hill and the lot. PLAYWRIGHT MILLER MAKES DEAL THE PLAYWRIGHT, Arthur Miller, has made a with the press- -that if reporters and photographers would end their vigil at his home in Connecticut he would tell them on Friday when he planned to marry Miss Marilyn Monroe, the film star.
Mr. Miller guaranteed that there would be no wedding before that time. The journalists then agreed to withdraw that in Mr. Miller's words Miss Monroe could get "much needed sun and restine STAYED INDOORS Miss Monroe has remained indoors. She is visiting Mr Miller's home.
All that is known of the wedding plans SO far is that the couple will marry before July 13, when Miss Monroe leaves for Brtiain to make a film with Sir Laurence Olivier. Mr Miller will accompany her for a British honeymoon, if he can obtain a passport in time. WAIVER REFUSED In Stamford, Connecticut, Judge John Keating said lawyer for the couple sought a waiver of Connecticut's five-day waiting period between the issuing of a marriage licence and the ceremony. But, the Judge said, he refused the waiver because the law stipulated that it could be granted only in emergency cases, and not for the "convenience of the marrying parties. The petition refers to the deaths of national servicemen on active service, and appeals to the Prime Minister to 'stop this waste of young lives by making an immediate cut in the period of military service and ensuring that no conscripts are sent abroad.
Leading a deputation of eight mothers who will present the petition will be Mrs Violet Underwood, mother of a national serviceman in Garmany, of Aberdare Hampstead, London. NW. most important postwar Prime Ministers Room at 10, Downing of defence and foreign be threshed out by the are in London for the speech, Sir Anthony Eden, at a Commonwealth outlining the tasks confronting his colleagues. He was expected to refer particularly to the challenge which the Soviet Union's policy of competitive co-existence presents to the British Commonwealth of Nations. Sir Anthony was, it is believed, stressing that though definite thaw in the war has set in, an unparalleled era of trade rivalry was likely to take its place.
Stresses and strains within the Commonwealth, divergencies of views on international affairs, and defence in the nuclear age will be talked out between Commonwealth leaders, whose widely differing outlook on the various problems are well known. Outstanding foreign, issues include relations China, the uneasy situation in the Middle East and Communist activities in Asia. All these questions of foreign policy are closely linked with Commonwealth defence strategy, which will be subjected to a complete re-appraisal. MILITARY PROBLEMS The departure of British forces from Egypt, the terrorist campaign in Cyprus and the new build up of Western military strength in Nort hAfrica involve consideration of the power and permanence of the chain of air, military and naval bases which link Britain with the Dominions to the east. It is on this question of bases that Mr.
Solomon Bandaranaika, the new Prime Minister of Ceylon, has reiterated, since his arrival in London. that the naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Katunayake should be removed in keeping with his Government's policy of avoiding association with great power blocs. The failure of the recent London conference on Singapore will also be reviewed in the light of its importance as vital Commonwealth defence link; and consideration will doubtless be given to strengthening the chain by opening new bases- both Mombasa and Cockburn Sound, in Australia are possibilities. AT PALACE The Prime Ministers will also discuss arrangements for future conferences, including the suggestion that other Dominion capitals should, in future, the venue. Ottawa, for instance, has aleady been suggested as the next meeting place of the Premiers.
Trade questions will be broadly considered, with the detail left to experts. In this connection. Mr. R. G.
Menzies, of Australia, will speak of his country's balance of payment difficulties and urge the revision of the 24-year-old Ottawa agreement. Tonight, the Prime Ministers will dine with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The leaders of the delegations to the conference are: Mr R. L. G.
S. St. Laurent (Canada), Mr Menzies (Australia), Mr S. G. Holland (New Zealand), Mr J.
G. Strijdom (South Africa), Mr Jawaharlal Nehru (India), Mr. Nohamad Ali (Pakistan), Mr S. W. R.
D. Bandaranaike (Ceylon) and Lord Malvern (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland), SHAH SHOCKS THE WEST THE SHAH of Persia today began talks in the Kremlin with Marshal Bulganin, the Soviet Premier, Mr. Kruschev. Communist party chief, and Pother Soviet leaders. Their meeting came as a surprise to Western observers in Moscow as it had not been expected that the Shah, a constitutional monarch, would in discussions with the Russians.
PEER'S PLEA Lord Lucas of Chilworth is to ask in the House of Lords on July 2 if the Government are aware of the proposed erection of the 275 KV super grid electricity line from Fleet Hampshire to in Nottinghamshire, which will be carried through some of the most beautiful of England's countryside upon pylons 136ft. high, spaced 440yds. apart, under what powers this 18 being erected, and under what powers it can be stopped." As he fell in a pool of blood the terrorists ordered people in the coffee shop not to leave before midnight. Then they vanished into the night. The people in the coffee shop did as ordered and police did not learn of the incident until this morning.
A masked gunman seriously wounded a Cypriot-Greek contractor. Joannis (50), outside his house at Paphos early today. The gunman escaped on a bicycle. Havannis had just stepped outside his house on his to work at the Public Health Department when the gunman shot him in the back and thigh ROUGHLY ARRESTED The deputy editor of the island's leading newspaper, Eleftheria, Mr. George Hadjinicolaou, has complained to the Cyprus authorities that he was roughly arrested by British troops.
He alleged that he was arrested during curfew hours two nights ago and detained for over two hours before being released without even an apology. Mr Hadhinicolaou said he was pounced upon by British troops as he stepped from his office to the printing works across the street. A captain marched him to a poilce station, he alleged. and refused to allow him to produce his curfew pass, which was in his jacket in his office. EX-DIRECTOR LEAVES £546,000 A FORMER in company March, director left £546,084 gross, £538,045 net.
He was Mr. Leonard Tinsdale White, of Ince House, Leamington Spa, for-. merly of Rhos-onSea, late director of Hardy, Spicer and Ltd. Witton, Birmingham. He was 68.
Details of his will. disclosed today, show that duty paid was £362,914. He left a pension of per week for life to his chauffeur, John Williams, one month's wages to servants, and an annuity of £52 to Jeannette Martin. The remainder is left on trust for his wife and his two sons and their issue. EX-CLERK'S WILL A man who is described in his will as a retired clerk, died in March, aged 77.
leaving personal estate in England and Scotland and moveable estate abroad valued at £315,186. He was Mr Peter Martin McLaren, of Viewpark-drif Rutherglen, formerly of Dundee and Montreal, Canada, who went to Calcutta early in his working life and retired when he was 40. Death duties paid in Scotland amounted to £198.041. REEPHAM OBITUARY. The death has occurred of Miss K.
M. Firth, a former headmistress of Reepham day school. She was member of the Parochial Church Council, local librarian and an official of the Reepham and District Nursing Association. She also assisted in the organising of the Reepham War Savings Group and was a member of the omen's Fellowship. MP debate from Committee so far Chancellor End RESTORE OLD RAILWAY TITLES: M.P.'s PLEA GERALD NABARRO direction to the British Trans(Con.
Kidderminster) is port Commission, to ask the Minister of He will ask for the direction Transport (Mr Harold Wat- Western to discontinue the title Region and, in the kinson( whether, in view of interests of esprit de corps of the reversion of Western the railwaymen concerned Region, British Railways, to and service to the travelling the traditional chocolate and public. restore the precream colouring for express nomenclature, passenger rolling stock and Great Western, for all sergreen for express locomotives vices and routes formerly for such world-famous trains operated by that railway, and as the Cornish Riviera likewise for the other regions Limited, he will give a general of British Railways." THREE QUESTIONS on school uniforms appear in today's Parliamentary papers for answer by the Minister of Education, Sir David Eccles, tomorrow. Mrs Joyce Butler (Lab, Wood Green) will ask, If he is aware of the resentment of many parents at being compelled to buy school uniforms at one particular shop as being wrong in principle and unnecessarily costly in practice; and it he will cause an investigation to be held with a view to a revision of the present policy. PARENTS' COMPLAINTS Mr Norman Dodds (Lab, Erith and Crayford) will ask if the Minister will hold an inquiry designed to reduce the problems of manufacturers of school uniforms and consequently the costs of production and to give adequate consideration to the complaints by parents of unsuitable materials, monopoly selling points with necessarily high prices and the refusal in some schools under his control to approve garments produced in the home even when of a high standard. Mr.
James Johnson (Lab, Rugby) will ask whether the Minister is aware of the heavy expense incurred by many parents in the purchase of school uniforms for those children who go to local authority schools; and whether he will consider what action can usefully take in this matter." 11 DIE IN TANKER CRASH HUGE Air Force refuelling A tanker crashed last night in field 10 miles south of Walker Air Force base. New Mexico, killing all 11 men aboard. News of the crash was not released by the Air Force until more than hours after the tragedy. The flying tanker caught fire shortly after it took off on what the Air Force said was a routine training flight. Observers at the Walker Air Force base said it spun into the ground and exploded.
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