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APH TUESDAY, JUN ~20, 1950.

› HOLIDAYS ABROAD.- LORD WOOLTON'S

Wald Çekurlah). By arrangement with Doug Fernie, “

Ideas come sailing home-then what happens?

LONDON,

E have become such dabs these last five years at setting up committees to

how Ree people

their run

affairs

that one

wouldn't mor hurt. I have a candidate for a probe.

Iow about investigating how the Anglo American Productivity Council is working out? Have a go at the bla fry. The council has on it all the most glittering names in British industry-from both sides.

A Page Four Inquiry Into the fate of

'brainwaves'

which teams from Britain bring home from U.S.A.

was formed. Coloned Marriott Lffered to

have the

report printed himself,

That was unheard of, so they compromised. The report will take only five months to reach the public. It is expected out next month.

WHOSE BABIES?

The fight moves to London

Two baby girls, born five years ago in a small country hospital at Kyneton, Australia, have solxod the at- tontion of a continent and puzzled thoir country's greatest legai brains. Their caso has been moved ona stugo closer to tho

highest court. In the Commonweallfi-- London's Privy Council, The question to decido: "Were the bibles mixed at birth?" Behind the cold legal arguments there llos a human problem that must touch the heart of every parent. What would YOU decido....?

Would you give up

your child?

From PETER DUFFIELD

MELBOURNE.

F you are a mother

imagine what 201 would do if this hap- fathers pened....and let listen.

You are lying in a hospital bed, having just had a child.

Your husband is allowed to see you for a few moments. He fondles the baby: murmurs proud masculine nothings..

JOHN CALBALLY, Melbourno barrister, to plead to the Privy Council,

You leave the hospital a few days later. You take the child You nurse her, home, with you. feed her, christen her, say, Johanne Lee. She beglos 10 thut the girl you believe your mingle with your elder children. is well cared for and loved in But you begin to look at her the other family? Or do you strangely,

take the only step open to you 1fer colouring is different to for the return of your daughter?

She is not like your

The law. your own. Husban.

When the child is 14 months eld-you, your husband and the child go to the ductors for blood

sts.

The results: The child could not possibly be yours, and your husband's,

You remember that in the

It takes a lot of courage to next bed to Sours, separated only "blow the gn," an Colonel by a a screen, another woman gave

within five

Marriott has done. At 39 he is

birth to a baby probably the youngest team minutes of yours. leader sent from this country The chil was also a girl.

Mrs Alberta Gwen Morrison, of Woamelan, Victoria, Aus.. tratta, wanted the girl she be

leves is her own daughter.

She chose the law.

Lawsuits Start

The Morrisons went home triumphant but empty handed. Three months later their hopes were dashed.

Vietorik's fut court unanl- mously upheld the Jenkins аррель The Jenkinses kept custody of Noln.

The Mo risons decided

to

With Mr John Galbally, Mel- bourne barrister, giving bis rervices for nothing, they appeal. Jenkin kept custody of

The

Noin.

Last Christmas Eve-an most children settled down to await Santa Claus-there was again gloom among the Morrisons.

Dy a single vote, Australia's ve foremost judges decided that The Jenkinses should relain Nola.

The voting was three to twe, and among the minority judges was Australia's Chief Justice. Sir John Latham.

Now Council.

it is up to the Privy

Mr Galbally, still acting with- out fees, has flown to London on behalf of Mrs Morrison, with another barrister, Me C. A. Sweeny

He will seek leave to apeal against the High Court decision. The opinion of some people is that it is no longer a question of "Were

babics and

parents mixed?" but a question of "Should the error, it permitted, is unique human predica he reelifted at this inte stage?" hospital at Kyneton,

ment began in a small country

There is the welfare and hap- Victoria, piness of the girls to consider- on June 22, 1945.

not only the parents.

on these missions. He is the you learn that she has been girls were

That was the day two baby born within ve managing director of an christened Nola, and is living minutes of each other to two engineering plant in

South-with the other parents in a small Australian country wonen-Mrs umpton. When he was in

town not

not far from you. Stafford he doubled the output

One day quite by accident you of his plant.

her. Her mother ja pushing her in out-a pram.

by TREVOR EVANS

Colonel

riott

belleves

Mar-

spoken because

he

Growing Up

WHAT

exchange,

tu

An

har happened Morrison, wife of

Johanne Lee? spray

The Morrisons at first offered painter and ex-Servicemnon, and Mrs Jenkins, wife of a builder, to exchange her for Nola, later raid they would keep her, tou, Mr Morrison took one child unless the Jaw ondered The child Nola is blue-eyed, back with her and christened We fale-haired an fair-skinned. it Johanne Lec. Mrs Jenkins Like you. You look at the called the girl registered as hers mother. She has brown eyes. Nola. You say, "You have the blue- eyed baby and I have the have got mixed up." brown-eyed one. I think they

are doing far too little to exploit

would be nu team. The visit our teams have learned. Its main job these last 18 months has been to send a score had been postponed indeinitely, of teams over to America to get a grasp of their know-how, pass It on to our industries here, and thus stand on our own feet by

1052 when Marshall uld ends.

Let Well Alone?

were

Meanwhile in both homes- heavily indebted because of long-litigation, but helped by The law moved slowly. funds begun for both families by The girls

3 when neighbours-the little girls are tigation began. Then in growing up and forming deeper December 1048-the Morrisons and deeper existing attachments. asked Mr Justice Barry, in Victoria's Supreme Court to rule the icy legal language, are two Behind the Privy Council and that Nola Jeaking

was their ttle girls aged four years dever daughter.

months--who apparently have yet to learn who are really the they should calt people "Mummy" and "Daddy."

(Work copyright-London Express Service)

the lessons all Members of other teams to whom I have spoken prefer to There wid 210 convincing be

They arc anonymous, explanation. Al arrangements resigned to the weaknesses of

That was the system. had to be cancelled.

big black mark for Britain. They admit, however, pressure

You from their own assoelations to WHAT would you do?

know that the daughter you Colonel Marriott had a shrewd "tone down" There have been about 300 on

reports. I hear, these teams of all grades, from idea want had happened in too, of trade union member who have been given at the hospital You believe that experienced chairmen and managing direc- London. He remembered-but have

# chilling, not yours. tors of companies, usually tho team leaders, to artisans.

On paper the scheme cannot be faulted. Now let's see how it works out in one particular case,

On the alert THERE were 14 members in

this productivity team from Britain. 11 was led by Lieut.- Colonel Ian Marrioti, from the diesel locomotive engine in- dustry.

Which

Colonel Marriott stepped into the Customs shed In New York the officer who squiggled his chalk marks on the colonel's luggage said:

"Don't forget, bud, I'm paying for your trip over here. If it does you good, well, I guess it does us good, too. But if you don't get anything out of it, why, we are wasting our dollars and you are wasting your time."

The judge ruled just that. He ordered, however, that

did not say so that his own formal reception from their the girl Nola has been given in Nola should remain with the trade association had at first is because they have been error to the other mother. Do Jenkins until an appeal should

too frank about labour prob you leave welt alone-knowing be decided. from lexus. ripped up the invitation

the Anglo-American Productivity Counel and dropped it into its colfective waste-paper basket.

Challenge

Council

it re-

Then a few bright spirits set Atrom the internal combustion FEW days ago the team. together, and said: "Listen, we ean't be discourteous either to engine Industry-no doubt with

ur own council or to the Ameri- damped enthusiasm, as vans. Let's go."

turned last November-threw cut the biggest challenge so får Well, here they were, with to the chiefs of the Anglo- Colonel Marriott at the head, I American trip. Every ductivity. was a wonderful

turning feam has told us that. enough The Americans could not રો

Indeed, they over- whelmed ur men with every

facilities, thing-information, bad hospitality, Many em friendships were made.

Goodwill

GOODWILL is a mighly

fine

Pro-

Its three main conclusions are te but for any single associa- tion or tinde union to cope with. Look of them:-

חון

A

MAN MAN

By

C.V.R.

WROTE IN FEAR

THOMPSON

NEW YORK.

BOOK written by man on the run shocked America.

has

The

author is 37-year-old go.

who Heywood Patterson,

is

I They must say whether called the Inst of the Scottsboro have suffered enough or Boys.

scoson whether I go back to be tortured to death. I had a great struggle, soon

he knows of pre-war Communist "I want to go there and live there," he wrote, "but I will not esplotage in Washington have that unless the people say New York.

COMMUTERS

a small piece of land, a home, £25,000 by

the South he magazine for a book telling all and family in cilll loves.

American

and

am unbeaten."

(American for ticketholders) will Travel to New York the suburbs AS com- fortably as if

they were sitting In the royal

circle of

(1) BRITAIN must have a simpler wage structure for the Back in the

'30's the whole of its engineering Industry. Scottsboro case was famous-or but I want the world to know i from

rather infamous-all over the (2) THERE must be an over-world. Why?-it was the most That put the colonel on the joint possession between two haul of apprentice systems so blatant frame-up on Negroes MORE FOXHUNTING has their cinemas. Their rallway alert. There was more to come, great nations, but that is not that highly skilled, single-process under the justice-for-whites Mo

been urged by the Govern- ling announced that it has The texi-driver jawed about it the real object of all

But It would prefer ordered 04 cars which this to experts can be trained quickly, only creed of America's South. ment.

will be ali along East 50th Street. So and-fro-ing.

But until today the ease that sportsmen to go after the foxes air-cooled and equipped with (3) THREE is a danger that Colonel Marriott held a mid-

made many

Americans blush with machine-guns Instead of un machinery to inuch

horseback. Foxes have become springy, plush-lined seats, start of the tour in New York Atlantic cenference on the way exported that our own factories.

Is being had been forgotten.

numerous enough to be 4 was impressive. Everything home in the Queen Elizabetli. was laid on for an intensive, six Us team report was unanimous. are being neglected weeks' study.

attempts to get up to date.

l the liftman at the hotel. The briefing conference at the

Back In

London,

Colonel

All but one of nine Negroes, then just boys, who had been sentenced at four trials to every

REPRINTED in the New York

farmers' menace. in theiri

Times the other day was summer 100g DARKING Then one of the reception Marriott was received by one of What now? Is the Anglo- punishment frem electrocution BRING, New

that paper's leading article of York, hav

What it said: "So to life imprisonment, had been officials said odd thing the ablest and most courteous American Council strong enough freed by the Alabama

been told it will have enough ten years ago. courts

the almost apologetically: For offeints of the Anglo-American to see that some really effective under duress,

water to see it through. The long as

English tongue course, if we'd known what you Council. "Give me your notes examination of any one of these

reserve 1። 230,000 millon survives, the word Dunkirk will really wanted to know we might and i will prepare your report,"

But today Patterson reminded

was sill a gallons. Engineers prited New be spoken with reverence, bave done better...."

the official suggested.

conclusions takes place?

that ho everyone

Porkers on the back for making fugitive. Aller 19 years Past experience is chilling convict, Patterson, admittedly of 53.000 million gallous,

this possible through the saving

They ONLY the rails remain write our own report, thank The shop wintow Is Impressive."the tough one"

America's most picturesque of the nine, did it by giving up car-washing [UST to show how dimeult it Then he gave

The official concurred, but people are already saying fought his way to freedom. water at meals, by repairing all railway. It was built 80 years gold and leaky tays, and washing dishes Ago to run the Was

Comstock they recalled

what biggest shock of all. happened to

"I think," made their journeys merely out has moved from

In bowls instead of under flow- silver from the famous

IIls into lode in the Nevada Britain'e nut-and-bolt industry. cation of the report in about basis.

suntebed and forced to servo

The Reno and Carson City. the oth. On the 4th there was

It was due in New York on nine months."

rails are l as good as new. the rest of hls 75-year sentence.

made In 1800 lo All that time, too, he discloses in his book, he has dreamed of

Black mark

Jus

11 tear

The colonel retorted: "We'll

you.'

the team the that

it looks es it the tearin

ever And

sinco

then hide-out

he

to

from he said, "we can promise publl- of politeness to their American lide-out in constant fear of being ing tops.

There connot have been many cable from London. There bigger Tows since the council

NANCY

Bugaboo

THESE BUGS AND GNATS (ARE SPOILING OUR PICNIC

The charge may now be tested.

-(London Express Service;

PASS THE MUSTARD

By Erale Bushmiller

HERE YA

ARE

›EFORMED Communist Whit- They were taker Chambers will be pald Sheffield.

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOF

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!

*SURE KILL

SOLE ASPATTE NAN KANG COW

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