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MOST IMPORTANT COG

IN MACHINERY OF LABOUR GOVERNMENT

under him.

London, May 27.

À taxi drów up smartly in front of Parliament one night some weeks ago. The man who jumped out tripped and fell, with one leg doubled up Although obviously in pain, he insisted on being helped into the House' of Commons to take part in a critical vote. Then he went to a hospital to have his broken leg set.

NEW CLUE IN MURDER MYSTERY

New York. May 27. The tabloid "Daily News" suid today in a copyright story

of

Mr. Attlee's

A few nights later two att-All members bulances rolled into the Com-Cabinet as well as the non-Cabi- net Ministers are drawn from mons yard and their two oc-

the ranks of the Government cupants were carried Into the chamber on stretchers to ballut members of Commons. on a controversial measure.

That means that whenever an impartant vote is on tap they All three were Socialist mem must leave their decks, abandon bers of Parliament. Their devo conferences, ur even cancel spenk- tion to duty symbolises the working engagements and hurry along of a man relatively

unknown to Parliament to protect the Gov- outside of

of British official circles-ernment's silm margin. Willle the Whip.

that the Federal Bureau ofile" is the Rt. Hon. Wil

Whiteley, aged 68, Parlic- Investigation had discovered a mentory Secretary to the Trea major clue in the murder of surya job that carries with it Betty Renner, an attractive the sometimes onerous duties of Washington lawyer.

Chief Government Whip.

New evidence linking her death with a prominent figure in the murder of Sir Harry Oakes, eccentric British millionaire, was being investigated by the FBI and the State Department. Results expected soon, the paper

On a ana division (vota)— one called without Warning -absent members have. Just six minutes to get frem wherever they are to the Commons chamber,

"It means I must know where every Government member is at all times whenever we are in session," Mr. Whiteley sighed. If they are not at their homes

must leave

This silver-haired, ruddy-faced former coal miner is one of most important cogs in the delicately balanced machinery of the bour Government. It is his job or offices, they to see that the Government does telephone trail to not

negligence. through Mr. Whiteley is in effect, the part-time master of the Socialist Miss Renner, aged 37, a former MPs. He can and he often does Department of Justice lawyer, was direct their daily lives when strangled and beaten to death Parliament is in session. while on holiday in the Bahamas In April.

arc

adtled.

Like schoolboys

where the them in AI

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Astronomers excited by

new asteroid

Johannesburg, May 27.-- The discovery of "new asteroid, sald to be the first DY major algnificance to astronomers since 1930, whe announced here tonight by Mr. E. L. Johnson, of Union Ob. servatory.

The asteroid-a small, fast moving body close to the Earth and travelling towards the Bouth celestial polo...was first observed by Mr. John. son on May 22.

Astronomera from ather countries, including the Unit- ed States and Denmark, have sent urgent cables asking for further information.

The body is reported to be of the 12th magnitude, but its size cannot be computed un- it orbit has been com. pletely traced.

It has been observed here each night this wook and its existence has been confirmad at Protǝria where it was seen through a giant. telescope. Reuter,

CHELSEA

HOSPITAL TRAGEDY

can reach

London, May 27. Whips

A doctor and a nurse were emergency."

Mr. Whiteley has 11 assistants, burned to death today when each with a group of MPs to they were trapped in the shepherd,

blazing operating, theatre of a The Chief Whip is at his office Chelsea chest hospital. at 12 Downing Streel, next door

to the Prime Minister's residence, Women knelt in the streets and five days a week from 9 am, to prayed as nurses and firemen The paper sald new evidence

He can haul them on the car-noon. He spends the morning carried more than 100 patients to Indicated that Miss Renner had pet like schoolboys for being abe reviewing discovered previously undiscios-kent, or tardy.

pending legislation, safety, then goes to the House at lunch-

ed evidence in the Oakes case and On occasion he even dietates time to remain until the day's added, "She was known to have the activities of Cabinet Ministers, business ends, which is often late met a man who was associated Mr. Whiteley draws his power at night. with Sir Harry Cakes and who was a witness in the de Marigny trial."

The de Mrigny reference was to Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted of murdering Sir Harry Oakes, his father-in-law.

Sir Harry Oakes was found dead in the Baharnas in the sum- mer of 1943. A sensational trial followed. Count de Marigney's wife, the former Nancy Oakes, stood by her husband during the

trial but won an annulment of the marriage in New York in Novem- ber last year.

from the fact that the Socialists hold a majority of only six seats

in the 025-chamber Houte.

comce

baforo

No big stick

to keep

an X-ray room after an explosion in the basement of the Brompton Hospital, spread rapidly through the ground floor.

The fire, which broke out in

Of the 100 patients, many were That means that whenever Mr. Whiteley has the amiablo, bedridden tuberculosis victims. an important plece of legislation benign appearance of a Bishap in

Some patients were moved by Comman

the winged collar and striped trousers, stretchers and wheel chairs from Government loaders can feel the He uses a winning smile rather the section of the four-storey hot breaths of the opposition

than a big

his building in which are raged for Conservatives on

Blick on their necks.

half an hour and carried through charges in line. If the

the Government should be

Despite defented,

on an

it regards issue

hospital building. as critical, the Prime Minister, support, have upset the Govern-

status, the Tories, with Clement Attlee, following custom, ment's strategy only once since would probably ask King George the February elections. And that

to dissolve Parliament.

That

Labour's pour traffic across a street to another

Jured, but several were choked None of the patients was in- by the dense smoke which billow-

would force a new national elec-s on a minor issue. Recently, ed up above the building.

however, the Government had a tion.

close call when a vote on more Fallce identified one of the dead serious lines ended in a tie. But as Nurse Mary Roberts, whose the presiding officer cast his vote body was found in the operating with the Government to end the theatre.

Early election?

At Nussau on Monday, Nicholus Musgrove, a native of Turks Island, was charged with black- muil and extortion with threats Most political observers in Bri-denclock.

he

of violence against Lady Nancy tain agree that an early election Mr. Whiicley has been Chief Oakes, Sir Harry's widow. On is inevitable, probably in the au- Government Whip since 1042 and Wednesday it was alleged that tumn. But the Government hopes has missed only five Parliament- hud demanded US$20,000 to set the balloting for a time of ary sessions during that time, He and £40,000-Associated Press, its own choosing.

can probably keep the job as long So, Willie keeps his whip pois-as Labour remains in power.

And

LARRY ADLER'S LIBEL SUIT

Hartford, Connecticut, May 27.

The jury failed to agree today

ed.

The second victim, a doctor, has not yet been identified

About 20' fire engines attended the fire.

Smoke poured through the building, penetrating into three wards and an operating room.

any Labourite who "I try to give as much as I Cause of the fire and explosion ignores it does so at the peril of demend," he says-Assoclated was not immediately determined. his good party standing.

Actually.

મક

there is no such title in British law. It draws its nome from the printed schedule listing the day's business In Commons.

in the US$200,000 libel suit Whenever important legislation brought by Larry Adler, the peny famous mouth organist, and Paul seems

is

Mrs. Huster.McCullough....a.Green- wich housewife.

and

vote a record Mr. Whiteley has

Draper, the entertainer, against the printer tinderline the measure times. That is known as three-

three-line whip-an imperative a member who to summons-and absent when the vote is called

The jury of eight women and four men, unable to reach a ver-

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chief and possibly even expulsion from the party. Whitley

is a member of

Mr. McCullough libelled them Parliament for Blaydon, in North when she accused them of pro-East England. He draws £3,000 Communist activities.-Associated a year extra as Chief Government Whip. And he considers he earns every penny of it.

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"Uke my job extremely well, even though it is a quite dimcult altuation," he told an interviewer. "It was different in the last House (1045-1950).

when we had

a majority of

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me more room to work.

"Fortunately, there is not the press of important legislation now that there was then. The last House worked harder than any other in British Parliamentary history, I believe,"

Main worries

Mr. Whiteley's main worries are sickness and accidents.

Official duties of the Cabinet headache. Members are also a

WHO MEETING COMES TO END

Genova, May 27.

The third annual assembly of the World Health Organisa tion closed today after three | weeks of mainly technical dis- cussion on the organization's future programme...

The assembly was attended by delegates from some 50 nations, who decided to give top priority for the first time to WHO'S worldwide campaigns against the so-called "pestilential diseases."

These included plague, cholers, [typhus, smallpox and yellow fever. They previously received only secondary attention from WHO,; whose maini attack; has been, concentrated ;; ön-/" malaria, venereal disenger) Kadass tuber culosis. The cardpaigns aguinat the "pestilential”dlavaservare to receive additional funds, totalling more than U78$1,000,000,000 dur= Ing #):1951, whliessbevattack.on: dal other major-1,dissastaïs to con- But tinuso Pelunchanged.cms - Associated

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