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BRITISH

TRANSPORT

CHANGING HANDS

On Now Year's day 1948 a, ping in the first World War and, also an experienced, trade union- great act of policy, which will became Chief Administrativo Int, John Cliff, who was former- transfer from private hands to | Officer · In the Ministry of ly Assistant-General Secretary public control and ownership Transport, sorving in that of the Transport and General Editora

the whole of the British trans- capacity throughout the second Workers' Union, serving. Inter Reporter, & General Office 82312.port services, will become. an World War. Of the four other as a member for 14 years of

(four lines)

accomplished fact.

members of the Commission, the London Transport Board Under an Act of the Labour one is a Trade Unionist, John controlling the publicly owned Government's drafting alteady Benstead, for many years head Metropolitan transport Bor- on the Statuto Book, the whole of the National Union of Rail-vices. Another member of the of the railway undertakinge-waymen. Another member In at present privately owned the possessor of, great experi- and transport services on Brience in the service of the Co- tish canals and inland water-Operative movement,

Lord ways, will pass into the hands Rusholme (formerly Robert A BIRTH.

of the British Transport Com Paimer) who wan General tnissfon, a public authority en Secretary of the Co-Operative LAPPER-To Ji (nce Muriel dowed with powers under the Union and President of the Embery), wife of W. R. H. Act to create an "efficient, ade- International Co-Operative al- Lapper, at Queen Mary Hos niial, on Oct, 20, a son, An-integrated system of public in

quate, economical and properly thony Ross, (Shanghai and Tientsin papers picase copy).

land transpárt and port facili tien,"

Commercial rod transport -meaning the business schicles of road haullers unless

Tom Williama, Director of, the London transport executive is Co-Operative Wholesale Society and formerly Chairman of the English and Scottish Joint Co- Operative Society. The person- nel of the other executives are still being selected.

So Britain, in respect of the railway services, comes into

By Herbertine with other British Com-

they rerve within a Imited ra- liance.

3,000 10 2,500

be converted to

ownership.

Tracey

The third member is

monwealth countries., To Co- nada 55 per cent. of the rail- way mileage is publicly owned; in Australia and New Zealand. 95 per cent; in the Union of South Africa, 81 per cent; in of the rail transport la under the world at large, 45 per cent.

In Britain public ownership.

and

CARNIVAL

SPEEDERS

COURT

COPR, 1947 ET REA SERVICEDNO, V. AA. RED. 17. S. PAT, OPP.

By Dick Turner ·

3-10

"Thirty days hath September, April, Juno and November- and you, too!"

Infant Prodigy

Of The B. B. C.

THE PLAN FOR PALESTINE

dius of 25 miles-will be ac Lord Ashfield who has been Whatever degree of satisfacquired by the British Trans-Chairman of the publicly own tion may have been felt in Lón | port Commission. Between 30. ed. London Passenger Trans- don over the revelation that the 000 and 35,000 road haulage port Board since its formation United States and the Soviet vehicles will then be the pro- 16 years ago and who before New Year's day, 100 per rail transport becomes Union are both supporting the perty of the community and the that was for many years Chair-cent partition plan for Palestine hasad haulage interest of some man and Managing Director of public property along with the been qualified by the perception concerned with

undertaking the group of companies that canals and inland waterways that neither, of these two great

this business built and ran the underground and most of the road transport Powers has yet committed itself

public railways and many of the and the whole of their ac- Metropolitan omnibus service. courts and their affairs will be on how the proposal might be en-

subject to Parliamentary The fourth member in a railway

public examination. forced and implemented. This is Rond passunger services are ignate, Sir William Valentine the critical issue. Britain is not immediately provided for Wood, who entered the rallway made it very clear that the only in this legislation but pro-service just over half a century

MOVIE STARS' sort of plan for the implementa

cedure is laid down by which ago, became Vice-President and the new tion of which Britain can accept will promote area schemes--in Midland and Scottish Railway. transport authority later President of the London,

PROTEST responsibility will be one accept-

Hollywood, Oct. 26. consultation with the appro

mosion Forty prominent able to both Arabs and Jews. If

picture

Third priate local Government

actors and actresses left, aboard the plan recommended by the thorities-and pave the way to

This highly compact body is chartered plane for Washington

Is highbrow Third Programme, Programme fills its wave lengths

for its allotted U.N. Assembly should be resisted ultimate integration of

started its second road Statutory Corporation endow- protest the current Congressional in-has

year teleurely

highty by either side-and the

nightly with Arabs passenger services with the nu-ed by the Act with farreaching vestigation into alleged movie Com- while listeners dispute whether hours have devoted a lot of time to ex-) unnal transport system.

powers. In the field of trane-munism. A spokesman said they the prodigy should be permitted serious music, full length plays, scholarly talks and a variety of planations of their "unalterable" This vast transformation in port covering not only the in- would make themselves available for to live,

Intellectual or eccentric features volves immediately no less than land services but port facilities interviews and otherwise try to help

„Operated_to_give_radio. nu-addressed to the higher sen. out-movie-people_who are not being £1,065,000,000 of public money the now authority is subject int

esthetic relief from aibilities. and the employment of public fact to only two specific iimita- given a chance to speak up in their diences

Ova defence."

swing, vaudeville · patter and servants of about 750,000 portions on its powers. It is not;

The

includes party sans by the British Transport to be permitted to manufac-Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Paul Henreid, other two services, the third has Programme may listen to a dis-

Humphrey other frivolities on the BBC' Commission. Five fulltimeture chasis for rond vehicles or Evelyn Keyes, Richard Conte, June inainuated culture membera compose this importo build ahips except lighters Havoc, John Payne, Keenan Wynn, tant body.

apposition to partition-then_its enforccinent will have to be an dertaken by "some alternative authority." British help in that (event would depend on whether not the British Government felt the settlement to be just and L the extent to which force would be needed to impose it. And in the absence of a settic-

nr

"early!

ment there will be a withdrawal of British furers and the British Administration."

Critics of British pulicy in Palestine have found a good deal to complain about in the past. But now a curious hush has de-f scended as the realisation dawis that an era which has lasted 25 years is ending. Perhaps it is possible to discern ton at this anxious moment a wider tendency

time has

not been ite what

represented it to be.

au-

Its Chairman la Sir Cyril Hurcomb, a Civil Servant, who served in the Ministry of Ship

100 Years

Ago

to concede that the British re-l (From the fles of the "China cord in Palestine during that Mail)

Another matter of general im portance Is a draft ordinance partisanship and rancour have recently published for general observation. Its merits are free Chief Justice Sandstrom,ly discussed in the supplement Chairman of the Inquiry Com-The worst enese can secure an mittee, sadly observed that advocate: the "Hong Palestine was at

issue where Register strongly supports the hoth Arabs and Jews were right. proposed onlinance in order, a There have been many times he terms it, "to give Justice when it would have been the accond chance"

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easier and more popular course That is, should a Chinese pri

roner be tried before the for Britain to tip one side of the Supreme Court, and a Jury of scales: to give support to one Englishmen bring in a verdlet, viewpoint and to withhold sup according to their oath and the port from another, to rid itself evidence, aequltting him, the of a heavy responsibility and a Governor of Hong Kong (being heavy cost by sacrificing one in- of a different opinion) orders (FARE) terest to the other. But successive him to be arrested und konds British goverments, though under him to the Cowloon Mandarins. HK$180.-

great pressure to do so, bave As a matter of course the poor. 35,- never taken the line of least re- has his head taken off, not for wrelel, f of a bad character, sistance, for in the last analysis any offence in particular, and 300.-

that line was never demonstrated this after his acquittal by to be the line of justice.

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Into homes course on Petrarch, a critique of into to be content Nietzsche, gain insight or barges with a tonnage limit Jane Wyatt, Ira Gershwin, Robert which once had

as much Goodman na folklore of the pigmles or the of 175 tons.

Ryan, Gene Kelly, Ava Gardner, with The Commission is charged Marsha Hunt, Stirling Hayden, John Gounad and literary and dramatic Tasmanians, enjoy--if that

and Celeue masterpieces cut down to fit to with the task of exercising its Huston, Larry Adler

tween Music Hall akits and five, wide powera

wholly for the Holm-United Pres Food of the travelling public and the development of Bri- tai's agriculture, commerce and industry. Actual adminis- trution is delegated under the Act to five executive bodies- a raltwny executive, n' docks and inland waterways execu. tive, road transport execu tive, a London transport execu. tive and an executive to be known as the hotels cxecutive,

Trying To Do The Impossible

By DANIEL DE LUCE

the word-Elizabethan madrigals and music of the Virginal, hear about cosmic rays, the hilatory of the bed warming pan or the temperament of tulips.

of Irish whimay rates high, Course, and so do chats about birds. Much more of a novelty were the microphone appearances of a rat-catcher, an elephant keeper and a sewer cleaner who talked frankly about their jobs, culture in these Instances stand- ing in the wings in favour of overtones of social significance, Their titles adequately define their functions under the Dwight P. Griswold, Director of Some generals ATC not exactly

Those who from the first postponements In in- dynamic direction of the Com- the American mission to aid Grecce, satisfied at mission.

fin trying to accomplish the impor-creasing Army strength with Ameri cheered with almost snobbish all sible task of putting Greece back can funds and equipment, Capitalistsatisfaction, avowed that' on her feet within a year.

an this has its place on such an. at Griswold's Grent enre has been taken in

are perturbed selecting the personnel of these polished career, brains of the British their fugitive property under

It is an assignment at which the nounced intention to bring some af the Union standpoint the railway three years, Greek Communists have exccutives. From the Trade Foreign Office flopped for nearly scope of Greek taxation,

British official, packing up to executive is well balanced and sneered at Griswold as "Yankee leave, comment privately "It's not so it Includes a member with gauleiter." Rightist politicians insist bad to chuck all this. We have taken ambitious programme, eccking great Trade Union experience that he "burned his fingers" when the blame from everybody."

to present superior entertain. in the person of William Pal-he broadened the base of the gov Griswold grins wryly as be ad- ment and instruction, in de.

mita inar

that sharp-shooting at lew, who until his appointment erament to include Liberal

a fianco of popularizera, to this body was General-Secre- complain that American dollars sport. When he arrive had served

Thermistocles Sophoulis.

trouble-shooter is ar international The Opposition says that the tary of the Associate Society disappearing into the Civil War and from Germany, where he had served prigglah, and a lot of average Hens Third in top Bug, often of Locomotive Engineers and that unemployment is rife, although in the Military Government, he Firemen. Ол the London Griswald has promised to speed uppeared hopeful that reconstruction people complain, "It's not our

transport

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executive there is construction projects.

Workers

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities?"

MUST HAVE PROTECTION

of

By RUSSELL LANDSTROM

might be simultaneous with progress cup of tea. The in-between call in quelling the guerilla war. But, it a step in the right direction, when it become obvious that not but bellove tho Third should even the Athene-Salonika Railway offer more humour and fowor could be restored

without better Greek plays in their entirety. security in the countryside, he The Third Programme has modified his hope.

bean a mark for comediana' It is generally agreed now that parodies and critical satire and Communist resistance in the moun not long ago it provoked George tains can be drastically reduced by Bernard Shaw to ask for

next summer.

Ви

coala

•

But, helping Greece to help herself "public Inquiry Into the mental North's bid of diamands over the to be self-supporting is a question of condition of the BBC" because double had a twofold value. First years, not months. Members of Grist broadcast a description of a of all, it enabled him to find out wold's staff, recommended that fur-| bullfight on its Olympian pro...... no way has been found of secur title suggests itself itself to us Some of the best players will bid about his partner having enough of her transfer of American ships to gramme. ing both Jewish and Arah agree-but our readers can style I practically the same over an in- fit

what they please. ment on A common policy and

formative or takebus double as if for the suit to make sacrifice Greek private owners should have

in it relatively

k sound. as fron-clad guarantee that they On the whole, however, thu to open the way to independence flourish about the independent

The "Register" makes a grand the intervening opponent had passert Second-and more important perhaps would not escape taxations by son experiment has been act down

their partner's for Palestine. And it is important Justices of the Pence; but tilsend

opening suit bid.It warned South that North bad Greek registry. They found that да

with cases where they.

a moderate success, are no worthwhile defenmive values in 2,400 UNRRA pumps were available about a million listeners to its to remember that the effort to do is mero moonshine. Apart from if they have not, made an opch not to double some contract by the dot pay the high price bel by the credit for the boat-liked broad-

strong enough to redouble. They act his hand. By so doing, it told South for irrigation use, but farmers so has still to succeed. There is attending at the Fetty Sessions minded study of the advantages

as A new plan, with very influential once or twice a month-to which ¡baving a noit bid then show a probpponents unless could beat it overnment, Potentially, Greek farm coats and an average level of backing. But it is plain enough the Police Magistrate remits. nable shortage of bit card strength,

with his hand alone.

screage could-be doubled by irriga- some 350,000. that the Assembly would not few casesh order, to engage the call is based on enough sult mood bid over the double, there was ing beats that had been idle for weight pare

If North had not made that dia- tion. They located 13 UNRRA fish. "Though this does not com- well with the milliona have solved the Palestine problem the attention of the Justice-length to protect thera from punish-appreciable danger the South, with mouths because of an inter-ministry reached by the Home and Light if it were content to pronounce |

the said Justices have no Jutliciat meat if doubled, it can serve a tox his well-placed heart K, might have squabble over Jurisdiction. They Bervices It la the biggest in favour of the new plan and courts are under the immediate

powers whatever. The Inferior of useful purposes,

doubled the heart gate, counting on checked Air Ministry contracts for minority audience" for serious then go home. A solution, which control of the Government the

his partner to have some, vestige of five air posts and found that these jwork

radio in history," one defensive strength.

and gone to speculators for resale to critic wrote. one party to a dispute does not Chief Magistrate takes his or

There are other dividends" from engineering fignis at exorbitant pro intend to accept will not peace-ders from the Governor..

thin use of a suit call over a take fit. They stopped this and new bids A symphonie concert and fully impose itself.

out double, and dangers are vir

were called for. They persuaded the resume of the Third's tually nit if the bidder makes sure. government to cut 15,000 from its Plishments on its first birthday he has enough playing tricks of one payroll of 90,000 persons Associar September touched off a kind or another,

ed, Frest.

train of anniversary

features ranking fresh appeals to the more unregenerate devotees of the pleblan Home and Light.-- Associated Press.

NEW FLIGHT OF FANCY

The effect of the ordinance SAKJ, will, bo to give the Executive the HQ984 dcapotte control of every Chirin DAQ man on the Island; it is the 're. C954% -appearance on the stage of the old ordinances of Sir John Dals, but in now garb., Parls, Oct. 25.. Charges that Britain and the LOTTERY: Those very United States were "organising" Elegant Agata and Alabaster able)... the activities of war criminals in Ornaments, for some timo past East Italy and Greece against Albania on view at the Ice House, Pass, were made by M. K. Yil Al-Watrin, to be ofther RAFFLED 1 banian Minister to Parla, t

BY DICE of balloted for, AZ [411 press conference here today..

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WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE

Washington, Oct, 26,

Mr. John Breelman, the Presiden» tial assistant, bus: called "a. "private" [White House" conference for Monday which the Marshall. "Aid Europe" pian will be discussed by Govern- ment officials and abaut 90 business mid labour leaders,

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· Angeles, Oct. 26. Flane bulidor Howard Hughes announced that the paista launching and taxi tests of his described the talks.n an off the huge U.S.$25,000,000 wooden record session for an exchange of

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