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£23.00 DROP IN IIome News 2 HERRING CATCH »} OXFORD ADOPTS . ROAD PLAN BOATS AND WORKERS LEAVE EAST COAST | FROM A CORRESPONDENT | ~"” LOWESTOFT, Nov. 7 With no herrings to handle people in ‘CLASH OF VIEWS IN} COUNCIL “y « a 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 qu was poor, when too plentiful supplies d $3 can MAYOR’S WARNING OF COM SSION FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OXFORD, Nov. 7 After five and_a quarter hours of {debate, Oxford City Council to-night + adopted by.32 votes to 24 the recommen- dations of the general purposes commit- ‘@ tec for two inner relicf roads—one to the south of the High and the other to the Fnorth. This means that the proposals ill now go forward to Mr. Sandys, Minister of Housing and Local Govern- jose as an amendment to ahe Oxford time of virtually no herrings. This morming four doats came to Lowestoft with 97 crans, and two to ‘Yarmouth, with $7 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 fish 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 a year ago. The first hand value of the catch already shows a deficit of £232,000 on last year. To d of | wee 4,650 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 is to find storage until next iat of scores of thousands of barsels which lie empty, The news from Holland is that the herrings cannot be Jocated, except by those fishermen who have changed from drift-nei fishing to trawling in the spawning area in the English usual + te ees ata evelopment plan. © committee's recommendations repre- nt the compromise that emerged from the aguiscussions held here last month by Mr. 4Sandys, who for two days was closeted with _cight representatives of the city council, as well as university delegates and spokesmen fos other local ies. + 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 today’s debate that the relicf roads might take. ‘of. defending the a] purposes com- mittec’s proposals most entirely on ithe Labour.mayor,-Councillor M. A. Lower. MAYOR'S INTERVENTION Lower's was a personal had been i Her: nations - I: js from this arca that the best drifter catches have come (o 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 i to-day in a 210,000 stones catch, could not The ‘old because the market was glutted. The | bulk of the catch was cod. The landing was 4 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 FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT GRIMSBY, Nov. 7 Icelandic fish, which has been banned by Tour of Britain's major fishing ports for three years, may soon be on sale again. A con ‘Signment is due to afrive at North Shiclds, ; {0 the order of a firm at Newcastle upon Tyne. The fish will be boxed and imported under the general open licence scheme. For many years boxed fish has been imported inio Britain solely by Notway aud Denmark. Since the ban on landing Tce- here, however, much of them has gone to Russie, Poland, and Czecho- slovakia and Iceland is receiving in return vast supplies of timber, which enables~her ercly an : it seemed actually to have succeeded. There were 29 voies for it and 28 against, Then, acting on a dramatic im- Dulse, the mayor shol up a hand to make tho yoling equal, and quickly declared the amendment lost. Earlier he Jeft the council in no doubt of the motive underlying the decision, He had of succeedin; 3 PERC RY CH,.XGE| WEI CUMMITTAL PA wa. “VIGi POLICE DENIAL OF ro. h FAVOURITISM FROM Divisional Detective-superintendent Herbert Sparks denied in cross-examina- Delegates tion at Guiidhaii, London, yesierday that | ing 100,000 | evidence which he gave about an inter- | are. of the view with Christopher Glinski was an invention. The superintendent was workers pa: y |replying to Mr, Norman Beach, solicitor | to-day callir for Glinski, who was committed for tri a week in v The resol action ” aga’ living standa Tory Govern tions.” It a the bonus in and an imm giving false ¢ Comer at the Centra) Criminal Court. Glinski, aged 34, of Burwood Place, Pad- dington, ‘is alleged to have aver false evidence when he said that he did not know where Comer lived, thai he had never found out where Com not 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 his defence. ¢ Magistrate, Alderman Frederick Hoare, refused bail. An application for legal aid was granted. “1 NEVER TALKED” Superintendent Sparks said that on October 7 he saw Glinski at West End Centralpolice station and said to-hims ‘1 have bad you brought here as I suspect you were concerned with Mrs. Comer, Moisha the wages de tion of the m CAl The resolu tolerate the « losing two sh work.” It organize a ca sirations in mi for surface m It was-sta reassemble it re ad with § Moisha | situation and and Sonny and the Rev. Andrews and others H In<conspiring to give false evidence at the | aken in the Comer trial." Glinski replied: “ Look, the | °° Will | trial is over. We have had advice and | 39° im y know you cannot do anything about it. 1] 20s o'™ & never talked about the evidence to the parson | DOR al, {Dt and nobody can prove I did. Habby Distle- a noed gine man was at Comer’s fiat and he must have | Changee sins been talking about me. T will do him. It] 4 miners’ must be him, because he is the only one who | no Merny knows about me going to Comer’s flat.” | HE, exechily The officer added that Glinski said he} \/010n OF would not take part in an identification | Ponts I arade. Replying to Mr. E. J. P. Cussen, Payment dut for the Superintendent Sparks } Bayment Cv! ‘ - arrangeme! ught i the_ charger cly identified Glinskt. shifts a we: @ shift he is and Smmediately On October 27, when charged, Glinski said: “What I said at the Old Bailey was the truth.” Mr. Beach: I put it to you that he has PRID always said this,"on every occasion he has B been seen by other officers and you 7—No, sit, 4 i put it to you that the evidence which you have given in this court about the alleged | UNIONS interview on October 7 of the words you FROM have said Glinski said are untruc—an in- vention 7—Nonsense, sir, quite true, REPLY ON CHALLENGES 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 fre- quently, challenged, he replied: Yes, si” Continuing his cross-examination, Mr. Beach referred to the prosecution of Comer and of Albert Dimes, who, like Comer, was acquitted on a charge of wounding. Beach asked Superintendent Sparks: “ From the outset of that case you were favourable to Dimes, weren't you?” The superinten- has present Master Pri difficult pre For the |: wage increas unions cm} have been ux with the of sliding scale. of stabilizati expire in a dent replied: “ No, sir. I was not in London hen ne; at the outset of that case.” were open ‘Mr. Beach — Well not wish to took char; system. The to Dimes ?—No, sir. it, unsatisfac After further questions, the clerk inter- | The unions vened to ask if the course of cross-cxamina- | and have si tion was relevant to the charge of perjury. | the system Mr. Beach answered: “ Very much so. of the new | | | | | | | | | want to show that Dimes has been previously negotiated. involved in matters of violence, thai he was once concerned in a murder, and that he was acquitted.”