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Home News .OXFORD ADOPTS _ ROAD PLAN e < i ot ‘CLASHY OF VIEWS | _ IN| COUNCIL MAYOR’S WARNING OF COMMISSION ek telnet FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Nov. 7 . After five and a quarter hours of 4 debate, Oxford City Council to-night ‘adopted by-32 votes to 24 the recommen- dations of the general purposes commil- tee for two inner relief roads—one to the south of the High and the other to the rnorth. This means that the proposals »will now go forward to Mr. Sandys, ‘Minister of Housing and Local Govern- “ment, as an amendment to the Oxford udevelopment plan. ; 2 commitice’s recommendations repre- 4sent the compromise that emerged from the discussions held here last month by Mr, .{Sandys, who for two days was closeted with __cight representatives of the city council, as well as universily delegates and spokesmen ‘tor other local bodies. + The voting figures give an accurate idea _Of the difference of opinion that still divided ‘the council—and divided it along neither party lines nor the line between Town and Gown. To the very end of to-day’s debate there were eloquent advocates of other routes that the relief roads might take. The task of defending the general purposes com- mittte’s proposals fcll almost entirely on he Labour mayor, Councillor M. A. Lower. _ MAYOR'S INTERVENTION In fact, Mr. Lower's was a personal > es Aver tha annaciti Ar Pui yirniumpn Over the opposition. At one pomt “an amendment was not mercly on the brink of succeeding: it seemed actually to have . succeeded. ‘Lhere were 29 votes for it and 28 against. Then, acting on a dramatic im- pulse, the mayor shot up a hand to make the -voling equal, and quickly declared the . amendment lost. . . Earlier he Jeft the council in no doubt of the motive underlying the decision, He had i pn ha i a a FEN ' slovakia and Icelan vast supplies of timber, which C* £23.00 DROP IN HERRING CATCH BOATS AND WORKERS LEAVE EAST COAST | . FROM A CORRESPONDENT | “" LOWESTOFT, Nov. 7 With no herrings to handle people in the fishing industry at Yarmouth and Lowestoft are trying to remember when they last had a season so disastrous as the present one. There have been times when the herrings were late, when quality was poor, when too plentiful supplies stopped fishing ; but none can recall a Sao Seka setreesee Ee ieee ‘ time of virtually no herrings. This morming four boats came to Lowestoft with 97 crans, and two to Yarmouth, with 57 crans. Over the week- end a score of Scottish drifters folded up their nets and ended the season. To-night the remainder are at sea, many with the intention of seeing whether resulis will justify a further effort; if not better pros- pects in the Scottish waters may draw them lo white fishing, or to the west coast where good herring catches are reported. CATCHES COMPARED As 171 of the 232 boats fishing are visitors, the decision will be of prime importance to Yarmouth and Lowestoft. At Yarmouth, up to Saturday, only 41,000 crans had been landed for the season, compared with 125,000 to the same date q year age. The first hand value of the catch already shows a deficit of £232,000 on last year. To the end of last weasel aeles Jd ZEN nee af harsings had haan WCCR Oy 4,0oU Cras Gh SATIN gS sake wena cured into barrels at Yarmouth, against 37,840 crans last year in which the season closed with requirements unfulfilled. Already some of the fishworkers, like the boats, are on their way north. They get 1s. 2d. for each barrel packed, in addition to the weekly wage of £3, and for them the pros pect is grim. A task for the curers 15 to find storage until next year of scores of thousands of barrels which lic empty. The news from Holland is that the herrings cannot be located, except by those fishermen who have changed from drift-net fishing to trawling in the spawning area in the English Here s month earlier than usual 100 trawlers of many nalions are at work. lt js from this area that the best drifter catches have come to East Anglia over the weekend, but trawlers and drifters cannot fish with safety on the same grounds, and damage has already been reported. SURFEIT AT HULL FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT HULL, Nov. 7 About 40,000 stones of fish tanded here Channel, i to-day in_a 210,000 stones catch, could not ‘be sold because the market was glutted. The -, bulk of the catch was cod. The landing was almost as much as the port can handle and the catches of three trawlers had to be held over until to-morrow (Tuesday). BOXED FISH ORDERED FROM ICELAND mh SERA Be Bet er FROM GUR CORRESPONDENT GRIMSBY, Nov. 7 ee ge RESO Icelandic fish, which has been banned by a Tour of Britain's major fishing ports for three years, may soon be on sale again. A con- signment is due to atrive at North Shields, to the order of a firm at Newcastie upon Tyne. The fish will be boxed and imported under the general open licence scheme. For many yee's boxed fish has been imported inio Britain solely -by Norway and Denmark. Since the ban on landing Ice- aNtto-es here, however, much 0 them has gone to Russia, Poland, and Czecho- is receiving in return enables “her PE CUMMITTAL POLICE DENIAL OF ~ FAVOURITISM Divisional Detective-superintendent Herbert Sparks denied in cross-examina- tion ai Guiidhaii, London, yesierday that evidence which he gave about an inter- view with Christopher Glinski was an invention. The superintendent was replying to Mr, Norman Beach, solicitor for Glinski, who was committed for trial, charged under the Periury Act with giving false evidence at the trial of Jack Comer at the Central Criminal Court. Glinski, aged 34, of Burwood Place, Pad- dington, is alleged to have given false evidence when he said that he did not know where Comer fived, that he had néver found out where Comer lived, and thar he did nat know Hyde Park Mansions, where Comer has a flat, He was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. Through Mr. Beach he Pleaded Not Guilty and reserved bis defence. ¢ Magistrate, Alderman Frederick Hoare, refused bail. Was granted. *T NEVER TALKED " Superintendent Sparks said that on Octo 7 he saw Glinski at West End Centralpolice station and said to-him+s ‘.1 have had you brought here as I suspect you were concerned with Mrs, Comer, Moisha and Sonny and the Rev, Andrews aid others in conspiring to give false evidence at the Comer trial." Glinski replied: “ Look, the trial is over, We have had advice and know you cannot do anything about it. never talked about the evidence to the parson and nobody can prove I did. Habby Disile- man was at Comer’s flat and he must have been talking about me, I will do him. It must be him, because he is the only one who knows about me going to Comer’s flat." The officer added that Glinski said he would not take part in an identification arade, Replying to Mr, E. J. P. Cussen, ‘or the prosecution, Superintendent Sparks ened thes vr said that Mrs. Smyth (who gave evidence on Friday) was brought into the chargeroom and immediately identified Glinski, On October 27, when charged, Glinski said: “ What I said at ihe Old Bailey was the truth.” Mr. Beach: I put it to you that he has always said this,-on every occasion he hus been seen by other officers and you T—WNa, sir. I at jt to you that the evidence which you have given in this court about the alleged interview on October 7 of the words you have said Glinski said are untrue—an in- vention 7—Nonsense, sir, quile true, Heme tr UAT SEAT F DAES Poth ee SLY CEASED Rel Further questioned by Mr. Beach, Super- intendent Sparks agreed that it was not the first time his evidence had been challenged in a court of law, Asked if it had been tre- quently challenged, he replied: “ Yes, sir.” Continuing his cross-examination, Mr. Beach referred to the prosecution of Comer and of Albert Dimes, who, Jike Comer, was acquiticd on a charge of wounding. Mr. Beach asked Superintendent Sparks: “ From the outset of that case you were favourable to Dimes, weren't you 7" The superinten- dent replied: “ No, sir. I was not in London at the outset of that case.” Mr, Reach, Well, from the moment you took charge of this case you were favourable to Dimes ?—No, sir. After further questions, the clerk inter- vened to ask if the course of cross-examina- tion was relevant to the charge of perjury. Mr. Beach answered: “ Very much so. want to show that Dimes has been previously INVOLVES in fMaliers GI ViGlencE, inal He was once concerned in a murder, and that he was Bequitied,” An application for legal aid r | i | | i 1 RCIRY CH: %GE| WE! PA * VIG FO) FROM Delegates ing 100,000 | area of the workers pa: to-day callin a weck in ¥ The sresol action " agai living standa Tory Govern tions.” It a the bonus in and an im iniuate a na ihe wages de tion of the m: ~ CAI The resolu tolerate the « losing two sh work.” It organize aca slrations in 5! as well as ¢ miners’ char! for surface m It was sta reassemble ir situation and taken in the being realize Mr. Will I 30s, claim ¥ upon at thi the union, bu changed sinc A miners’ the executiv Union of points—a rec weeks’ paid payment dur of the “ b arrangement: shifts a week a shift he is PRID B. 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