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FOUR AFRICANS CHALLENGE ACTS
Birthday OF PARLIAMENT
one.
Girl
Capetown, Aug. 12.
Four Cape coloured men -- a Capetown City the face of it, the Councillor, a bricklayer, a union secretary and a commercial traveller" today made their second challenge of acts of the South African Parliament,
Natory Hounds a
sad
This, briefly, is the situn- tion. There is a young mother. She has two daughters. She goes out to work to help support them. The elder daughter's fifth
that
They asked the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court here to déclare that the new High Court of Parlia ment Act, which threatens to upset a success they won in the courts in March, should be removed from the Statute-Book.
Police
commercial
It was capable, they sald Councillor; Gunie!! Harris, through their counsel, Mr bricklayer; Edgar Arthur Deane, birthday is a few days off. Graeme Duncan; of circumvent- General Secretary of the Cape The little girl wants a pairing the Supreme Count decision. Furniture Workers Union, and
her which invalidated the Separate Edgar Franklin, of roller-skates for
Representation of Voters Act traveller-Reuter. present. A plaintive cry, and so upheld their right and the
MORE ARRESTS lisping, irresistable cry of right of their co-rotialists in the "roller skates" follows the Cape to vote with the European
Johannesburg, Aug. 12. mother about the house, electorate on the comma roll.
surprise making in With
Johannesburg every device
In its March judament the sweeps
Dr Yusuf childish blackmailers em-Supreme Court upheld the ap- last night, arrested
that the Dadoo, President of the South contention makes pellants" ploy, the little one
of Voters African Indian Congress, and her desire known, and tiny Act had not been constitutionally under the Suppression of Com-
Separate Registration
ten other non-European leaders glances of reproach pursue passed. It ruled that the mea the mother everywhere. suze came within the scope of muniam Act,
certain sections of the South "entrenched the Africa Act known us at
Of а clauses," and therefore needed has never to be passed, not as it had been in but by a two-thirds majority of wanting
the child's Parliament sitting together. the mother's (Soon after this judgment, She turns to Parliament passed the High crime and robs the till at the Court of Parliament Act, which confectionary counter of 221 sets up a high court empowered od. with which to buy roller-to confirm,
vary or set aside skates.
Appeal
Court Judgment, declaring an Act of Parlament President of the African Na- to invalid.
tional Congress Youth League,
The mother works confectionary counter chain-store. She been
found honesty, but now
ervde fibre.
She is caught, brought
Great Marlborough Street
be tried, and pleads guilty
the charge of embezzlement.
•
•
to
to
THAT is the story, and the mother, I think, would prefer to leave it at that. In court, unfortunately,
other de
tails came out and the mother, a slip of a 'creature aged 24,
any
Judicial Committee
10-
Two other Indian icadors in South Africa were also among those arrested.
They are Mr Yusuf Cachaifa, Secretary of the South African Indian Congress, and Mr N. Thandray, Joint Secretary the Transvaal Indian Con- gress,
of
- Two Africans, Nelson Mandela,
of and Macdonald Masekn, execu- The the new High Court of Parliative member of the African ment has already heard the National Congress
(Transvaal) Government's appeal for a
also arrested under the view of this judgment, and lis report is to be disclosed by the High Court on Aug. 25).
COUNSEL'S CLAIM
In court today Mr Duncan, with black hair falling to her who represented the four mon shoulders, sobbed in dock in their previous successful ap-
K
ench was told and noted by peal, said that it was
Mr Paul Bennett, VC, magistrate,
tho
were same Act.
་
The moon were arrested when detectives visited offices of the Transvaal Indian Congress and another office in the same street in Johannesburg,
It was later confirmed that only three others were arrested: one necessary for him to celabliah Indian, A.M. Kathrada, chair- that the High Court of Parlia- ment Act fell within the scope of the entrenched clauses.
It
man of the
Youth
Transvaal Indlan Congress, and two First, the mother is not dire ly poor.
General of the African National Her husband goes to it did, then it was invalid be- ricans, W. Slaulu, Secretary- work and is not niggardly, as cause it had been passed by a Congress, and S. Sello, Secretary some men are, with his cam simple
majority. The
of the African National Congress Court of Parlament would not (Transvaal)Reuter. ings. His pay is 28 10s. week, and of this he gives his have been duly established, and wife, whose name is Iris. £5 everything it did would be
for the housekeeping.
A
High
↓
nullity.
He argued that if any con- individual it necessarily
Iris herself earns £4 78. 08. stitution contained a guarantee
a week, and out of this
pays 30s. a week
she to
any
to a sister followed that the courts of
de Villiers,
for-taking care of the children justice had the power and duty while she herself is at work. to decide whether the guaran-
Children's allowance adds 55.
lee had been infringed by to the income of the home, so members of a legislative body. that Iris has. £8 2s. 6d. to Mr Duncan was asked by the provide for the family of four. Judge President, J. D. de
"What is a court? a court of crossing sweepers?" me," said #
He replied, "You can have a *SHE Heils
polleeman to the mugis- court of crossing sweepers but irate, "that she took this you
cannot have a court of money so that she could buy legislators." roller-skates for the child and
day.....
Can
you
have
Peasants Thwart
Murder
Inquiry
Peyruls, Aug. 12. French police today spent another fruitless day trying to extract information from tight-lipped peasants about
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1952.
This Is Not A Saucer
A perfect smoke ring is the only evidence left in the sky that an enemy position in Korca has been bombed by a fighter-bomber operating from the United States 1st Marine Air Wing. Note the plane in the distance.-London Express.
Australian
Budget Criticised
Canberra, Aug. 12. ': The Australian Opposi- tion leader, Dr Herberi Evatt, sald tonight nothing in the Budget introduced last week was likely to ar rest the drift to unemploy ment and recession feared In the hearts of the Aus tralian people.
Speaking in the House of Representatives, he said the by Budget had been "Induced by-election panic" and had produced only minor palliatives and, concessiona, "to try and appease pressure groups,"
Dr Evatt moved the estimates nominal
for Mr Andrew Beyers, Q.C., give a little party on her birth-the South African Government, contended that the entrenched clauses of the South Africa Act "This is at isolated instance had nothing to do with courts of of stealing, is it?" the magist was not the function of the mond family in the Alpine Government's substantial
be reduced by £1, a Agure, to make the motion vir. tually of censure of the Gov- crament, The inove is not the murder of the Drum-likely to succeed against the
ma
trate asked,
Jaw.
jority.
Tree Squatter Gives Up
Bome, Anz. 12. Overdome by hunger and thirst Giuseppe Dabeuzzo, 20-year-old thief, tonight climbed down from his 23 zards high perch on su oak in the yard of Rome's tres Στί
Coell" "Rerina (Queen of Heaven) prison. He had squatted there for 24 hours while warders.
clinging to
and Broughs, lower
tried to
wheedle him down,
To fellow prisoners circling the exercise, yard below him he yelled: "I will stay hero fill they do something about the food." ...Heuter.
Man's Grim Confession
YOUR BEST
BEVERAGE BARGAIN
WATSON'S
TRU-FRUIT CORDIALS
Prison For Young Soldier Who Failed To Report Accident
Living Language
Why we any Get your
goat.
The milch'- goat was often (and still is) the poor man'a source of milk; so that to take his goat was a certain way of
A young soldier stationed in the New Terri- tories was yesterday sent to prison for six weeks for not stopping after a traffic accident and not making him angry. But
reporting it. The Kowloon Magistrate, Mr Horace Lo, who heard the case, did not give him the option of a fine.
The soldier, Rim John Tierney, aged 21, of the Royal Ulster Rifles, was additionally charged with careless driv ing and fined $60. He was given two days to pay.
ATTEMPTED
FALSE PRETENCES
re-
Insp. Bell told the court he received a telephone message 2 a.m. on July 21 about an accident involving a military vehicle and a private car near
chock Argyle Street A vealed that the lorry belonged to the Royal Ulster Rifica.
He thereupon sent message to Sheungshul Station asking that a check be. made of all transport entering the RUR camp since 1 am, A 16 cwt truck slightly damaged the off side was found to have returned to camp at 1,30
Damaged
woodwork had
on
Chan Choi, 25, was sent to prison for six months by Mr K. Y. Yung at Kowloon this morning for attempt- | am, ing to obtain money by false pretences.
been painted over,
radio Police
He went to the camp next day and examined the truck. He also Evidence was that 64-year-old interviewed defendant, who ad Yuen Leung-Sze, a widow, found mitted driving it and being in- a letter addressed to her in her volved in an accident at 12.40 said he did not from Honolulu am. Tierney son's handwriting in her letter-box on the after- report because he was frightened. Insp. Bell said Tierney wea noon of July 30. Her son-in- law, Au, read it to her and she seen to overtake a bus and, in was rather surprised to find doing so, struck a stationary pri
vate car parked in the centre of that her son wanted US$500
front 500 from Naskan Road near Argyle Street. when he had sent her
Damage to the car was rather days before for 97,100 three
heavy. her passage to America and haa
Mr Lo passed sentence of four nover asked her for money. The
weeks on the charge of failing letter stated that a man called
her
ner
Lul
the
Fat would visit her to collect to stop and two wocks for failure and would identify to report, the sentences to run money himself by producing the coun-consecutively. terfoil of a receipt enclosed in the letter
Bald
Defendant
in evidence that a friend, Lo Man, told him his sister had sent the letter and asked him to collect the money for him. Lo told him to give his name as Lui Fat and he would get the money. He said that it was not until he was arrested that he found out he had been cheated.
NEW PLANE
IMPRESSES
Family Slay
A Man
Vichy Aug. 12. A former, his wife and their 23-year-old daughter were held in custody today after allegedly confessing
that they killed the daughter's husband because he would not work on the farm.
At the first time the daughter Marie told the police sho and killed her 21-year-old hus band, Jean Sigard, because he beat her and her mother,
Sigard, was found dead in Passengers sipped leisurely at their cocktail glasses as a four-on Saturday with shot wounds. engined DC-03 nosed its way But police between slices of grey clouds in that Marie its 50-minute local fight yester- fire a shotgun.-
bed
could showed
not load-or
this is a case in which the sound of the words has helped a great deal to form and preserve them because they exactly ful- fil the needs of an ungry man muttering between his teeth:'- “It just gets my goat!"
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day afternoon when the Philip- So her father, 60-year-old | tan, Bildgle East, Africa, Kirent Bri- pine Air Lines, entertained a Pierre Talabard, confessed that he gathering of airline executives, had "executed" his son-in-law, businessmen and Pressmen to police said. celebrate the aircraft's inaugural fight to Hongkong.
of
From the newly extended 03 Runway at Kal Tak the plane, which enme `in from Manila earlier in the afternoon, took off, climbed to an approximate height of 2,000ft, and flow at a speed of 260-200 mph.
The all-metal aircraft Kingston, Aug. 12. A 23-year-old rabbit breeder light alloy construction
is equip- told police that after killing a
ped with
an electrical auto- court (the Supreme Court, before foothills a week ago.
other type of neighbour, he cut up the body pilot which in The policeman said sadly: which he was appearing) to sit in
"exactly the way I would cut aircrafts is hydraulle-controlled. that it is "I'm afraid it isn't. She tells judgment whether a court was me she has taken odd shillings (good or bad, he said. That was attitude of the local inhabitants underwriting only £108,000,000 stated in court here today,
Hopes that the unco-operative ing at Central Bank, credit
Dr Evatt criticized the inalt open a rabbit"-and burned it Another feature is
toin his garden shed, it War capable of "backward thrusts from the till once or twice." a job for the Legislature.
that is, the reverse propeller "Just "Nothing known against her,
as Parlament could might be changing after they had on public works programmes,
can be used as brake, so that I suppose?" the magistrate validly, by ordinary legislative handed police three American
can If the Government really
The breeder, Peter Rex Nicoll, the aircraft land with Identical to the wanted to return army, carbines process abolish the right to murder weapon
to full em- added, according to the state-advantage on a short runway, slumped again ployment, he said, it "I'm afraid
ment, that after knocking the would there is,"
uppeal to the Privy Council, today.
Pressurised for high altitude man on the head with a ham- have been possible to finance
flying and officer said. "She was
air-conditioned, the can validly, by the bound it
"I wasted my whole morning part or even all of the Com
mer, he kept the body in his 54-seater plane cruises smoothly over in 1947 with her husband Process, establish a new court
room jurisdiction superior
and days talking to these Hght-lipped men monwealth programme on a charge of unlawful wound-what of the Appellate Division without getting a mippet of in- credit.
at 310 m.ph. Interior arrange nights, then buried it under ents and colour schemes are
with coal in a cellar and finally cut designed as it has done in the present formation." Chief Inspector Ed- mond Sebrille gold as he left his
it up and put it on the bonfire, one," Mr Beyers declared,
maximum comfort and pleasure. headquarters in the
Situated next to the pilot's town hall
The body 18, NOT LAW
here."
of the neighbour, cabin there is an attractively furnished bridal sulte, and at Gray, the probation officer, If the High Court of Parlin-
the stem, a cocktail bar, and asked what sho
know ment decided that the Supreme about Iris. "She tells me," Mrs Court's decision on the Separate Gray said, "that she wanted to Representation of Voter Act M, Georges Harzig, chief-df the buy the roller-skates, but she was wrong, there was nothing Marecilles Criminal Investigation could really quite easily afforded them to prevent another coloured Department, arrived here today
for another
conference with Sebeille.
said.
the
Ing hitting a doorman at a dance-hall, I believe, air."
*
MR Bennett
.called in
pay
Mrs
same
to
[
.!
1B
He concelled his midday press conference, saying "There nothing to tell you."
porsori applying to the Supreme Inspec rmed reports said the
son, one of the judges hearing against horchlights
.
from
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LITTLE RELIEF
He said the remission of the
for three
10 per cent income tax levy Frederick Long, aged. 86, had imposed in the previous Budget been kept in the house for about gave little, if any, net cellet to three weeks. the majority of taxpayers. In the lower and middle
ope
months.
Income
Nicoll sat without speaking a word, while the court listened for three and a half hours, to Dy Evatt referred to the loss the gruesome story of the alleged of London funds amounting to murder at No. 48 Acneln Grove, Mr Bennett said sternly to
to Court
£301,800,000. sterling -In 12 In auburban New Maldan, Just Iris: "Embezzlers go to prison 48 general rule. It is a strict "A Judgment of the High Ministry of the Interior was
He added: "The Budget gives outside, London. is necessary. How Court of Parliament is no more pressing for quicker progress in rule, but
Long, who lived at No: 6, was the week-old Inquiry. It was London balances at £289,000,000 over, I'm going to order you to law then a judgment of the belloved here that the detectives sterling, but the liquid resources in a bad temper when he called
£5 fine and three guineas Appellate Division," he said.
one day In June, costs. It must be pala straight
Judge Cyril Newton-Thomp- might know the Identity of the of the Commonwealth banks are on No. 48
killer but have no valid evidence below £240,000,000 sterling, Nicoll's statement said. He at- away."
whereas they stood at £00,000, tacked Nicoll in his bedroom Iris went off to pay. And in the case, observed: "The real
Using
with a shotgun and Nicoll re- police 000 sterling a year ago, is whether Parlament, the end, the story does have question
tried to reconstruct the triple
talipted with a 21⁄2 1b.. bammer. by making itself a court, can
"It further evidence of mis- Nicoll slaying at the fatal camp site at
was remanded pose utat turer the LB. 95 und enable self to do what it can 5100, focal time this morning management of the Australian custody until Aug. 19.–Reuter.
In do otherwise," bo,
Mr. Beyers cald that nowhere the time at which the tourists economy was needed this is, the
most telling" : were struck down a week ago. In the South Africa Aot was it
He said the Government, in its tried to retrace the roule stated that members of Fara followed by the panle-stricken gave the export income target of
They
import restrictions statement, ment could not form themselves
Elizabeth 12-year-old.
Drum-2620,000,000 sterling, but unless court
mond as she fled towards the there was some spectacular re The case was adjourned.
Duranco river, pursued by the com Tho
thecovery in wool income or positive four appellante aro killet
action to expand export pro Wallam David Collins, City Inspector Sebaille said after-duction, there was a prospect of
de { wards: The killer, was
de-London balances running down Printed and published by Brewart AntHUR GRAY for finitely a local man. Ho know another £40,000,000 to £80,000 and on behalf of Bouth China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 the spot like his own backyard." 000 in the next twelve, months Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong." *.-Reuters:
been paid, there would "much, left) for: roller-skates.
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., London Express 'Kervios.
Reuter.
an
to
The plane carried another group of guests this morning on a local flight."Irene."
Radio Hongkong
I.K.T.
0.02,
d. Programme Summary; "Winnie the Pool" by A.A. Milne. Fourth Adventure; "Piglet meaša a Heffalump (BUCTS)-620, Interlude; 6.30, Forces · Bandstand. (Conpart Hall) Concert by the Band of t Bath Royal Ulster
Dy kind Permbaton at Lt. Coloni
J. Drum- mond, D.8.0. conducted by. Mr I. W. Bones; -1, "Lucky Dip" Variety 'Requests" presented by Margharika (Studio); 3.59, Weather Report: 4. Time Signal and World Newa (London Relay) 0.10, Piano Rocital by, Harry Ore (Studio): 0.30. Orches tra of the Week-L'Orchestra De La Godete Des Concerts (libu Consered= toire De Farts, World Theatre Australia's Brat locally de Musto composed by John Hotchip, Sydney, Aug. 12. (BBC78) Godfrey Kenton In the English Morality Play ""Everyman” fgned and bullt guided missile produced by Haymond Halkon 10 the pilotless, jet powered lathe Theatre Todp: 10.30 Taifan Hour with Adelaide all (Vocal) got aircraft Jindvik-will go on us Waller fille Pindo, Organ) and fent light trials as Wooman suyuing 11. Radio News Reel Lori- don heley); 11;15, Gberstught: Music) rocket range in South Australia
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GUIDED MISSILE
Marie agreed to say she did it because she could best be spared from the work on the farm, her father said.
The Talabard's form is at
Gwignechien high in the rugged Auvergne mountains.
The police were stili question. ing the family tonight before bringing charges.-Reuter.
N. Borneo, Australia, New Zealand, 4.30 p.m....
Ly Stulace Macao. 1 p. Hong/Kwong Tung.
p. ·Leo
6,30
China, People's Republic, a.m., train via Canton,
W. India, W. Pakistan, 10 am as Nordstjernan.
Burma, p.m., Hai Hing. Japan, "2 pan., sa Shansi. Canada, T. Vigan.
3, p.m. ps
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
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