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Errol Flynn Fined $50

New York, December 8. Errol Flynn, #washbuck. ling film star, paid a $50 fine today for kicking a police.

man.

WAS

A

He pleaded guilty to charge of disorderly conduct, which Was reduced from third degree assault,

Errol Flynn

Julted twice on Tuesday, once after an argument with the police and again after he failed to appear for a court hearing as trouble

ordered He had

with the police early on Tuesday when they stopped hla cab to check the driver's credential.-United Press.

Canadian Food For Britain

Ottawn, December Britain has agreed to buy in

150,000,000 pounds of 1940. Canadian

50,000,000 bacun, pesinds of cheese and 1,531,000

London, December 8.

|A_1947 American raport describing Marcus Wul- kan, brother of Sidney Stanley, a stateloss alion, as a racketeer or muscle man, was read today at the Tribunal probing allegations of corruption in Government circles.

Mr. George Gibson, a Government nominee on the Board of the Bank of England, said when he was in New York in 1941, Marcus Wulkan handed him a cheque for $30,000 for the Com- mittee to Aid Britain.

In reply to the Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shaw-

cross, Mr. Gibson said he did not know Wulkan

was a militant Zionist.

Wulkan said he was now n Mr. Gibson, a former chair-1 man of the Trades Union Con-director of an organisation rala- gress, agreed that confidentialing funds for a Palestine medlent letters he had written to Stan-use, which he preferred not to

nane.) ley would have been valuable conil- to Stanley if he was dence trickster, but he believed

Tolked Too Big

Stanley to be an accredited A letter from Mr. Gibson to representative of

bust-Mr. Glenvil Hail,

nessmen.

The letters

Mr.

of

some

referred

k

Financial Secretary to the Treasury said

Woman Dead In Factory Accident

Burnley, December 8.

A woman was killed and several workpeople Injured when a flywheel broke from ita moorings in a Burnley, Lancashire,

factory

and

crashing through a two foot thick engine room wall, land- ed in places among the looma in an adjoining weaving

shed.

.The accident occurred at Bishop House Mill, which is occupied by William Ban. croft And Company and Kingston and Rigby Limitad. Bixty weavers were work- Ing in the weaving shed at

of the the time

Router.

accident.-

50-50 Rule Is Broken

the Wulkan had written to Stanley merker of two big departmental telling him certain financial peo- stores and the proposed flotation ple in New York were willing to uf u public company Jor which advance Britain £250 million on

of the Treasury's the strength the Marshall permission

Committee was Plan.

Washington, December 9. Capital Issues

Mr. Hull and replied that he nercier,

A spokesman of the Economic think meeting Stanley Co-operation Gibson disagreed think his did not

Administration views as a director of the Bank would serve any useful purpose said today that the "60-50 their ves of shell

of Englund would have had any since he was sceptical shout the

rule", under which ut least equivalent in dried, or Freza infirence on the Capital Issues proposed Joan.

half the gods the Mr. I whole eggs. Mr. James Gar-Commitive, In any case, he had

Gibson later

Marshall wrote:

Plan nations receive "Stanley 14 Candian Minister b | considered all along that the pro- diner,

unquestionably

must be Agrienture, announced today.

big business man with big in carried ta American ships, was terests, but he has, think, the being ignored in the case Oriental falling of talking 100 bulk cargues, .big."

CARS

This

The prices to the paid for bavon and cheese are the same as in the 1948 contract fur rugs and

1949 prices and slightly for bacon and cheese,

The

posed natu

flotation was a perfectly

honest scheme.

Mr. Gibson said he had no in- terests in common with Stanley

lower except that in America. Wulkan

contracts are the approval of the United States Beonumai Co-apevation Adoubte trail which is hundlag Mor- shall at to Farope

Mr. Gibson said that at a din-

of

The spokesman said that is was because:

had shown him kindness and, heuer, party paid for by Stanley, he subject tekad uniterstood, had raised Large hind an exchange of a few warts

with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. 1. Not enough American ships stims of money to all Britain.

Ernest Bevin, about the proposed are available to carry the greatly tmcreased shipments of cut o fom and had written again Mr. Glenvil Ha 1 mentioning his France ant grain to other nations chat with the Foreign Secretary under the recovery programme, and adding: “Stanley was

there." charl not

tried to invelgle

2. The Euroneun cargo costs

The bacon contract represents astrop ut 35,000,008 ps t the amount to be delivered. Bri- tain took 195,000,000 pounds in 1940.

The culs will be made because of dollar shortages. “We had to

"Rash" Action

www nok prepared to be rude to the brother of man In those circumstances. The Attorney General said he !,, was not suggesting that Mr. Cibat into relations with Stanley much cheaper-In the case of saving of as much ад son knew the facts about Wulkan, and he very much regretted his coal n

$4.50 per ton. but, he charged, Mr. Gibson had me had been dragged in.

Witness said he did not know

been rash and indiscreet in ac-

He insisted, however, that the

not fight to get Britalu to take any

ensual meeting with his bro-given Mrs. Stanley, to prominent

Congressional eges at all." Mr. Gardiner stated.

instructions be United States trade union leaders Farlier he had told the Dominion ther in America.

cause the ECA low had been used in Britain to try provided that 60 per cent

specifically Provincial Agricultural Cuti-

Marcus Wulkan was holding a

the be given to cargoes ference that Britain has made press conference in New York to-to get a dollar allowance.

American clear she would be just as haupyday to discuss anything in reel. Mr. Gibson, who was in the where Amerienn

Questioned by Stanley's coun-ships only where posalble and Canada had no becon what ference to himself,

(Wulkan told Reuter he knew witness box for six hours, said quote competitive prices-Reuter, ever to sell,

London has visa stated there nothing about the case in London Stanley had been to him a gen- kinally gentlemanly and no possible chance of con- but added "The Attorney Generous, Tracts for Conattim apples or cral, in referring to me as anti-person.

reuf sulphur chloride (an ingredient British, is contrary to the used in jam making )--Reuter. truth."

cepting Stanley merely because ofa leiter of introduction he had ins ftally ignoring

Steps Towards A Customs Union

Brussels, December 8.

Three methods of realising a European Customs Union were outlined in a report submitted to the fourth plenary session of the European Customs Union Study Group just ended here. ·

2.-Progressive trecing of pro- Delegates from 15 countries] ----Austria. Denmark, Greece, ducts which are the object France. Eire, leeland, Italy, commercial exchanges. Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Britain and the Benelux countries attended

the session, as well as seven

observers from Germany, Aus

Mr. Gibson agreerl that Mr. Glenvil Hall, a younger mun, was entitled to be guided and to rely on his experience.

"Kindly Person”

companies Cari

Meulty in which he had others now found themselves would haya arisen.

Mr. Gibson replied that he had hind no specific reason to muko enquires about Stanley.

tu

Mr. Gibson said another matter he had bean Interested in at the The Attorney General Hated the time of the loan proposal was the things which he said might have possibility of the United States ed Mr. Gibson to make inquiries and Britain finding the capital for about Stanley-the fact that here development in Africa. Stanley was a gentleman of apparent for- had had nothing to do with this.eign origin with an assumed name

who introduced himself on a

a rail- Asked about Harry Sherman, way train-who seemed unusual- Mr. Gibson said he had been inly anxious to meet people in high terested in the scheme to float places and pay for dinners the Sherman football pool con-them-who offered Mr. Gibson a cern as a public company only chairmanship ut £10,000 a year. because he thought the Govern.

take ment should

Mr. Gibson said he could not remember meeting an American he named Walter Kirshner, but

meeting someone did recollect who spoke about being t the White House in company with:

of

; boats.

р

3.-The establishment of unlon by stages starting with the Introduction of a unified tariff,

The Study Group, however, the President.

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Referring to the 250 million loan which might be financed by unnamed

persone in America, the Attorney General suggested that It might have Mr. been a confidence trick. Gibson replied: "It might have been true."

Eastern

tralia, Canada. Ceylon, Newconsiders that before any of these

He would not like to swear he I had never occurred to him, Zealand, South Africa and the methods can be recommended, a had met this man with Stanley, he said, that the offer of a £10,- Organisation for European specimen common tariff must be but it might have been that he 000 chuirmanship in a new com- Economic Co-operation.

drawn up and, a study, by the was introduced as someone inter-pany might be an attempt to buy The report was drawn up by Organisation of the European ested in a loun and in the pro- his influence in high, places. the Economic Co-operation, of the posed joint capital development

When Mr. Gibson concluded his Study Group und Its three sug- |co-ordination of the long-term scheme for Africa. gested methods were!

programmes presented by Euro- Sir Hartley put it to Mr. Gib-evidence, which lasted six hours, 1.The eventual fusion of re-pean Recovery Programme coun- son that if he had only made on the Tribunal adjourned until to- gional unions such as the Benelux tries must be concluded.

quiries about Stanley, none of the morrow.-Reuter. Union, the Franco-Italian Union.

the Economic Committee pl

And the union which is being The next session of the Study studied by the Scendinavian Group will be held in Brussels on countries.

July 15.-Reuter.

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