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HEAD OF £18,000,000 COMBINE IS TOLD
HE HAS TO GO
SIR WILLIAM FIRTH, chairman of Richard Thomas and Co., Ltd., the £18,000,000 Welsh sheet, steel and tinplate combine, has been removed from office by the control committee, of which Mr. Menta- gu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is chairman.
His removal is believed to have followed differences of opinion on the managerial policy, but no statement has been made on this point at the firm's administrative headquarters at Cobham, Surrey,
"All we can say," Sir William'a secretary stated, "is that. Sir William has not resigned. He has been removed by the control committee.".
Since the outbreak of war the firm's headquarters have been at Hatch- ford Park, near Cobham, a mansion owned by Sir William Firth."
The control committee was set up in 1938 under a scheme whereby Richard Thomas and Company obtained £6,000,000 to complete a new plant at
Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire...
Sir William Firth was originally chairman and managing director of the company and under his guidance the vast concern was built up. He re mained chairman and managing director until August, 1930, when he resigned the latter position in favour of Mr. John E. Janies, deputy chairman.
LOST £1,000,000
The control committee, which has power to remove directors, consists of Mr. Montagu Norman; Sir William Firth in his capacity as chairman of the company: Viscount Greenwood, representing the steel industry; and Mr. E. H. Lever, representing the Debenture stock trustees.tama
Mr. James continued in the capacity of managing director until last De- ceraber, when Mr. G. H. Latham was appointed to the position..
Sir William became chairman of Richard Thomas in 1931. In 1988 be told a meeting of the company's share holders that he had lost £1,000,000, represented by the decline in value since the previous year of his holdings in the The Ebbw Vale plant, which has been described as the most spectacular British industrial venture for years, was held up by lack of capital when half completed. It was then that money was held up by lack of capital when half completed. It was then that money was subscribed by the banks and the 'con- trol committee was set up.
company.
TO-DAY'S WAR PRODUCTION
The combine to-day is of great importance owing to war production... Sir William Firth, who is 58, began his career as a clerk and became the largest manufacturer of tinplate in Britain.
He has been regarded as one of the real driving forces in the steel in- dustry, and it was in a very large measure due to his initiative and persist-
ence that the £10,000,000 Ebbw Vale plant was brought to fruition.
There was certainly great reluctance to believe that the loss' of Sir William's services by the steel industry could be good for the industry in war time,
HONGKONG GIRL'S MUSICAL SUCCESS
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GULPS KEY
NEW YORKA Nineteen-
'Studio portrait of Miss Cecilla M. Passos who passed in her
(A.T.C.L) held recently in oyed and panting, suddenly rushed Hongkong, and conducted by, at her, snapped handouts around Dr, W. Lovelock. Miss Passos his and her wrists, and then, with
key.
a tremendous gulp, swallowed the was the only candidate in this examination in Hongkong who passed. and Brunnencamp were
"There is no justification for his removal. The people of
told a reporter recently. South Wales as well as the city will be astonished when the profts for the year are revealed shortly," an associate of Sir William "Sir William met the control committee and he was asked to resign following differences of opinion on manage-Year-Old lovesick youth who in ment policy. He absolutely refused to resign and was then told Hollywood handcuffed himselfded to the theatre's first-aid that his services would not be required any longer.
to "oomph girl" Ann Sheridan station where the manager tried to and swallowed the key, com- cut the handcuffs with a big saw, plained of severe stomach-ache "You're sawing off my arm,” she afterwards.
TRANSFORMED DEAD VALLEY
"It is appalling to think that the man who made it possible to transform the dead valley of Ebbw Vale, with its thousands of unemployed, into a prosperous community, should be thrown out by people who have not the slightest. idea what-a-depressed-area means to the people who have had to suffer in it.
"Sir William Firth put his life savings of half a million pounds into Ebbw Vale at a time when he could have retired. He has the complete confidence of the employees and all the leading steel people in the world. ̈*
"What other man in the country could bring in a batch of orders after one trip abroad- worth £6,000,000?
"The whole story will soon be told and it will then be seen that at a time when it is vital that the industry should be running smoothly it was a great mistake to turn out_the_one_man who put it on its feet."
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he'd made her weep in public, sigh- And Ann, forgiving him, although
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out.
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She was making in grand -en- After the pre-view, Ann, invited trance to the theatre, amid the Brunnencamp to dinner, saying, "He cheers of thousands of fans when swallowed a key for me. The least Los Angeles University under- I can do is to top the key with a graduate Dick Brunnencamp, wild: ple."
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Blaming the Peace Pledge Union for a youth's change of mind about military service, the chairman of the Tribunal said that had it not been Manchester Conscientious Objectors" for the union nothing else would have been heard of the case.
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