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G
OVERNMENT'S unhesi-
tating promise to minke arrangements to hold an election for two vacancies on the Urban Council will be noted with general Batisfaction. A certain amount of misapprehension
· has been cleared up in
consequence of yesterday's
Legislative Council
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Appointed Steel Companies' Challenge of Plane
Announcement. A feeling MR J, B. GRIFFIN, QC
existed that
because แ
temporary amendment had
been made to the Urban
Council Ordinance shortly Mr. Griffin
after Liberation, elections
to the Council had been
ruled out pending imple- mentation of proposals for
Appointed
constitutional reform. The Chief Justice
samendment--which-in-affect. suspended the holding of Urban Council elections, was originally Introduced because of the possibility a Municipal Council of coming into being which assumed, would have among other duties, the functions of the Urban Council. The regulation extended for a year when it was seen that public
WALM
Of Uganda
Hongkong's
Attorney General, Mr John Bowes Griffin, QC, MA, LLD, has been appointed Chief Justice of Uganda.
The announcement was made this morning by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Mr Griffin has been in the Colonial Service when
since
#
10 the
1997 lie joined hud Provincial Administration as opinion
the Uganda crystallised self into sup- cadet officer, winding up his porting another aspect of
service there
beting constitutional reform affec- Attorney-General in 1935.
He was transferred ting the composition of the
Bahamas
ns Attorney-General Legistative Council. Since
in the following year, and from there
went to Palestine then,
of cit.
Soliciter-General in 1039. cumstanceN which both He was acling Attorney-General Whitehalf and Government there at various periods from have acemed
be un- 1940 to 1940 and was appointed Iavourable . for
the Attorney-General In Hongkong immediate
In December that year, taking Implementation
his duties constitutional
here in January,
uť
because
the
action
reform proposals, has been haid in abeyance,
the and
transitional amendment to the Urban Council Ordinance which suspended elections to that body, hna
To Truman's Authority Fails Sighted
JUDGE DENIES INJUNCTION
Calls Request A Drastic Remedy'
Washington, Apr. 9.
Two of America's biggest steel companies failed today in a legal challenge of the Govern- ment's dramatic seizure of the industry to avert a threatened strike of 650,000TM Workers.-
Judge Alexander Holtzoff refused, in the United States District Court, to give an order barring the Government from scizing the plants.
President Truman had authorised the Com- merce Department to take over the $8,000,000,000 industry 90 minutes before the strike was due to begin at midnight.
The suits for an injunction were brought by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube and the Republic & Bethlehem Steel Companies. They were-ex-- pected to appeal against the Judge's ruling.
Judge Holtzoff said that the temporary injunction demanded by the companies was a "drastic remedy" which the Court could not invoke unless there was a very strong case for it,
The threatened strike would us have affected America's steel shipments to Britain and other countries, as well as her plomie energy programme plans,
1017.
A Barrister-at-Law Inner Temple, Mr Grila is
of the present in the United Kingdom
on vacation,
Ipsed Planes Search
Government, however, has been careful to see that the number of nominees to the Urban Council since the war has not exceeded a cer- La number; consequent- ly it is possible today to make immediate prepara- tions for the election of two. additional members, thus making the Couneli fully constituted.
NOW
assess.
TOW that it has been definitely established that elections will be held, it will
be extremely interesting to observe the degree of interest qualified voters will display in the event. The Reform Club has reacted quickly and announced that it will con-
the lest
elections. Its actual following is dificult io
Some public attracted meetings have audiences of three to four hundred others have been poorly attended. It is conceivable too, that the Club has sympathisers who prefor not to publicly identify themselves, with its activities, but who are prepared to give it practical support at tho polling booths. Still to be known, of course, A
For Ships
Four
Reykjavik, Iceland, Apr. 9.
planes from Iceland searched unsuccessfully today for five Norwegian seal hunting Vessels missing and feared lust In gales in Greenland waters.
There
is a chance the crews, reported to total about 100, have been able to abandon ship in time and may be adrift fer floes.
on
The weather is still very bad. At dawn a rescue plane took off from Keflavik, southwest of Reykhavik, and, flew with radar in
help
д
on
First reports from Pittsburgh and other big centres sald thut the mills had closed their gates to workers today--although the Union had called off the strike and had declared its willingness to work in the Government- joperated industry.
New Steel
Legislation
Promised
But shortly after midday} Winston Churchill, 031-
United States Steel the giant of
end
London, Apr. 9. The Prime Minister, Mr nounced today that the the Industry-said that it would Government will introduce resume operations in its Chicago
State mills starting with tonight's shift. legislation to
Then, counsel for Bethlehem ownership of the steel in Steel, another big company said dustry and road transport during the court arguments on during the present session the Government's seizure that
of Parliament. his company would operations "on the next shift or as soon as possible."
resume
Promoted
A France-Presse Agency message from London this morning states that it was officially announced today that Vice Admiral Sir Guy H. E. Russell, KCB, CBE, DSO, Com; mander-in-Chief, Far East Station, (above) has been promoted to the rank of Admiral.
7 States Shaken By Quake
Oklahoma City, Apr. 10.
One of the strongest earthquakes in the Midwest United States in many years
shook parts of seven states on Wednesday.
The shock appeared to be strongest in Oklahoma City. but it also shook an area ex- tending from northern Texas to Des Moines.
It was
felt as far east as Central Arkansas,
and
Several cities reported walls of buildings were cracked he made the on-plaster damaged. about the steel
He revealed the plan to de- nationalise road transport in the Another comburgh, old noon. Later
Jones & House of Commons this after- Laughlin, of that it would operate its mills nouncement under the seizure order "as far industry
HAU as it may safely do so,"
STRIKE OFF
An
Mr Phillp Murray, President of the Steelworkers' Union who called off the strike last night after the President's broadcast, travelled from New York to after Washington to resume negotia- chill tions with the Government and industry on the dispute,
their
Parliamentary duty and the
and
BOT Comment On
Trade With China
HK Merchants The Proper Agencies To Approach
London, Apr. 9.
Loss Of 37 Lives Feared
Tokyo, Apr. 10.
An Air Force spokesman today (Thursday) said a search plane had sighted what was believed to be the wreckage of a Japanese air. liner, missing with 37 on board, 65 miles south of Tokyo.
The spokesman said the wreck- age was seen on the east side
volcano an active
on ❤ Shimna, on island on the southern approaches of Tokyo Bay. No survivors were sighted. The plane, with three Amert- cans and 34 Japanese on board, vanished on Wellnesday after
The Board of Trade in an official statement reporting it was on course on a flight to Osaka. A sos scorch tonight on the reported Chinese trade offers said had contred off the coast about that if Chinese Communists-were-prepared-to-de-18 miles wat u
"Planes"took to the tō"JÖINT business with Britain, they had only to approach the search this morning. established British merchants in Hongkong and had said that it was then over Shanghai who have been actively looking for such trade.
If the Chinese preferred they could approach the British Government through official channels, the state- ment said, they still have to approach the established British merchants first.
With regard to the reported jelals seemed to be ready to start Russian offers of textile con- the negotiations all over again tracts, the statement sald-the-and-to see how genuine were Board of Trade had been pres- Russia's
sing
ing Russion representatives in Presse, London for six months to buy
British consumer
pecially textiles,
goods, es-
"If the Russians like Chinese
to do real business with us they have only to take up our offer through the ordinary off.
channels or direct with nur, manufacturers, the state- ment said.
cinl
The ment
In
Board of Trade state- continued: "There have been a number of reports the press about the
acilylties of the British participants the Moscow conference,
"Lord Boyd Orr, whom they have chosen as their man
President of the Board
hay telegraphed
The plane in its last report o Shima
Yesterday Japanese Maritime Board officials reported
ocean
tho
plane had crash landed in the Japanese sources at a U. 8. minesweeper had
near Hamamatsu. The
scene
renched the
and pickod' up all the passengers.
NO CONFIRMATION The Navy never confirmed the Japanese reports. It did report proposals, France, that two recrest - were in minesweepers the
Village On The Move
Jackfield, Shropshire,
Apr. 10.
Heron and
-
the area. Another Navy véssel the cargo ship Titania enroute to Japan, from Korea was sent to the area,
The
Bcour
The Titania finally made radio contact with the minesweepers-
head- and reported to navel quarters that they had picked"
Brio
The survivora 201 Titania sald it had been able to locate no signs of wreckage. tho sold A Navy spokesman three had been ordered to "re A conference is to be main in the area and search". Japanese Maritime Safety in called to consider the move Board has assigned every small
ment of part of the Shrop-vessel at its disposal to spokes-shire village of Jackfield 10- the coastal waters in and around
to the wards the river Severn.
Hamana Bay near Hamamatsu. - The missing plane would be: Trade about the proposals for a
suffered by the Moving clay under the bank- the first loss
went trade agreement made by the side village is thought to be Japan Air Line which Chinese delegation there, sug-
responsible for a slip of a few into business last Summer- that
United inches a day.
Associated Press, ed gesting
the Kingdom should send re- Six families have
MID-AIR COLLISION sponsible
Camp Edward, Mass. Apr. 0. people of Moscow, evacuated from unsafe houses.
All 12 men aboard. two with the sample of our textile In other
American Alr Force planes goods.
'bad cracks and sloping walls,
have been were believed to THE REPLY
The trouble is thought to be
killed today when the planes. "The President has replied, caused by old and
unworked collided in mid-air-Reuter, pointing out that the United clay mines under the village Kingdom is, and has been, per-filing with water. Down the fectly willing to increase its main road a three-inch crack has trade with China. and that opened, and the gas main has established British merchants in been relaid on the surface. Hongkong and Shanghai have Danger notices have been
posted
been active in looking for such trade.
been
there are buildings
Brig Sixsmith's Appointment
The Post Office today replacedi
London, Apr," 9. "If the Chinese were prepar- the mail van by a man with a Professor
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) ed to do business, they have bicycle, and
Chief of parcels OTC no E.K.G. Sixsmith, only to approach these mer-onger-accepted
British Headquarters, at the village Staff, chants.
to be Forces, Hongkong,
It was
123 the
'Government's jerawled away from me." Chairs export contral at all.
de-to
to
have refused to accept an innt's refusal to lift the
Fifty miles north, at St Joseph,
of
AL Des Moines workers in to a private meeting
higher office buildings reported of Conservative backbenchers who were anxious to know Ight Axtures and destes shook. why the Government had not
Dr R. Heinrich, yet fulfilled its election pro-
of Geophysies at St Louis Uni- made last October on versity,
sald
the university issues,
seismographs indicated official statement issued one of the worst shocks ever his reply to press references to "The President also referred foggy weather over a large
the meeting said Mr Chur-recorded in the Midwest. Не aren but with no result,
thanked Members for said it centred either in Eastern
the willingness of the Russiana The search was taken up by
assiduous attention
to increase their trade with this in American planes stationed
to Oklahoma or Eastern Kansas.
country. Iceland and Norwegian officials
"Some of Mr Truman asked the Union consistent
In Kansas City, Eddie Mels. substantial asked the
our exports are, American military
berger, an employee of the States as is well known, controlled on authorities
and industry to send represen-majorities it had produced," Greenland to
tatives to a conference at the The statement sald the meet-Engineering Oflee who was strategic grounds. But, there is
wide variety displayed a firm intention to working on the eighth floor, com- still a very White House Inter.
ing Icelandic Airways in sending
the
just all sorts on which there is no measures necessary mented my typewriter Catalina flying boat searching The threatened strike along the ice border. A Danish called to back workers'
"The Board of Trade have in windows were overturned and Catalina flying, boat, walting rands for a wage increase plid
programme.
fact, been pressing the Russian for flying weather to go to
other benefits.
Tonight's meeling was also broken in Kansas City. The steel irms
representatives in" London for Greenland will also help in the
discussed the have
six months to buy British con- search.--Reuter.
crease of 172 cents an hour
sumer goods, expecially textiles,
have floor of an office building was and
Expressed their readiness, In return, to take comparable goods from Russia." been signed
-France-Presse, pay this unless they could in- by a small group of Conserva-
KARACHI STATEMENT crease steel prices by about tives headed by Mr Ralph Asahe- Dr Heinrich sald the quake $12 a ton..
ton, former Party Chairmon
Karachi, Apr. 0. was caused by shifting of sub-
The Pakistani Commerce and four others. Reuter,
surface breaks and fissures along Minister, Mr Fazlur Rahman, the Nermitha Fault, a burled sald today in the Parliament that whether there will be more
BEST THIS YEAR mountain
extending the problem of resuming trade than two candidatos in the
roughly from Oklahoma City to negotiations with Russlag, 20- London, Apr, D. field for the vacancies: in
Omaha. Coal production in Britain
ceiving to Government's atten- the past there have been to let the public have just what the industry did not agree to a last week was
Lion." the best of the
The quake was felt in Texas; ! no contests because it has they want," he said.
negotiations between commen solution the Union migh: year.
Arkansas, Oklahoma, "A not been found possible to
arul Pakistan were brokers spokesman of a leading ask the Gavamment to put is Deep mines produced 4.500,- find more candidates than London tea firm
Iowa, or in 1950 when the Soviet de 000 tons, 113,000 tons up on the Missouri, Nebraska and commented: wage recommendations into effect.
previous week and 84,000 tons and shook such cities ns Tulsa, logation returned to Moscow those required to fill vacan- "We shall be overjoyed to feel and retain control of the mills.--
Wichita, Topeka and numerous without any result. up on last year.-Reuter, cles. This latest phor- we are free once more,”--Reuter | Reuter.
smaller cities.
Now, after new Russian offers tunity can be regarded na
AL Mcpherson, Kari tho were made, at the Moscow econo-- operator of
a grocery store mie conference, Pakistanl" offi reported it mado "the cash register dance around.”.
Move To End Rationing
and other benefits already re-purchase (sales) tax on cloth-Mo, a girl working on the 12th commended by the Governing in British shops. Team
ment's Waga Stabilisation Board A motion
They said that they could not | sion bad oleising this decl. made to fall by the swaying.
London, Apr. 9. The President of the British Tea Buyers' Association said to- day that the whole trade would
move to end A Union spokenman told Reuter today that Mr. Murray
welcome the rationing.
The present price of steel about $110 a ton...
The trade looks forward to was willing to resume negotia the time when we thall be able tions with the industry. But if
47 People Killed In Church Stampede
:
Caracas, Venezuela, Apr. 9.
A false fire alarm, attributed to pickpockets, stampeded 6,000 Holy Week worshippers in a church today. Forty-seven persons were killed and 110 injured in a rush for the exiti,
THE CAUSE
range
Kansas, Rado
Quakes are rare in the MIA- Claim Settled
west, but by no means unheard
01.
"One of the strongest ever For $94 Million
recorded
the continent
n test for thoso arganisa-
who tions
have so vociferously championed democratic civil rights and privileges during the last four or five years. It fa also a chance for those who profess an avid doofra"to
New York, Apr. 04. exercise their voting: Terror struck a quietly proy- The crowd began screaming The thieves". apparently centred at New Madrid, Mo.,
A $342,000,000, damage suit privileges to give substancoing throng in the 83-year-old and jamming toward the doors. escaped in the confusion, In 1811, This one changed the
Roman Catholle Church of Santo Magr, Hortensio Carrillo, re- A few to their protestations. The
hours after the course of the Missisippi River against Ford Motor Company, Corporation manner in which those who Teresa in "Day of the Nazarene" mained in the pulpit und an diraster the church was again and created Reelfoot Lake in Dearborn: Motors
and other defendants was settled nossess the
pealed for calm.. but his cries filled with worshippers who Tennessee. -existing
services that began at 2 a.m. franchise make use of it A Church
were heard only in his immediate came to pray botore a large Geologists and that had it today on an agreement to pay spokesman said the vicinity.
figure of Christ bearing the CCLL
the securred 100 years later when Harry Ferguson; tractor manu- In the forthcoming Urban
ery of "fire, fire", was, raised
Mississippi Valley, was Excturer, $0,250,000. Council olactions will offer shortly after 5 am, by a gang
Payment, ending four years Twenty-one children'
The "Day of the Nazarene developed it would of pickpockets and purse among those suffocated or cervices are holi especially caused a major disaster afect of complicated liigation will be made to compensato for snatchers who hoped to divert | crushed to death, Elderly for those who wish to give ing the entire,
from patent Enfringement claima attention while they seized valu- men and women were fram thanks for having prayers Denver to Omaha Associated made by the Ferruson firm.---- ables:
před foțully,
answered.---Associated Press. ·Press
United fro
an informative guide to tho ¡genuine interest which the' community has in the privilege of the vote,,^
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The village straggles along the Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Far bank of the river for about 1,000 East Land Forces, with effect yards, and about 100 yards of from this month, it was officially it are affected-Reuter.
announced today.Heuter.
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