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T R Y ONE IN T E R Y L E N E
MISS CHUBB
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FINAL CLUE
MISS AUSTRALIA FLIES ON
Goodbye smile from beauty queen Helen Wood— she is Miss Australia — as she flies off to Brussels from London. She
spent two weeks here on her round-the-world trip.
'Inquiry
now very
advanced’
Evening Standard Reporter
S c o t l a n d Yard
report on a home
made hand-cart was
awaited by detectives
i n v e s t i g a t i n g the
murder of
52
-year-old
M iss Lilian C h u b b
today. They believe it
will give the final clue
to the murderer.
Their inquiries are now a l m o s t com plete and im portant d e v e lopments are expected within the next 24 hours.
The roughly made cart was discovered on waste land near the dead woman's home at Hugin Avenue, Broad- stairs. It was sent by police van to Scotland Yard's laboratory.
Detectives, led by Chief Det.-insp. Everitt, are con centrating their search for the killer in the area around Miss Chubb’s home.
Continuous patrol
Since her funeral yesterday detectives have maintained a continuous p a t r o l of the district.
Miss. Chubb l i v e d with her brother, a 49-year-old plumber. Mr. Ernest Chubb, and his wife Edith. She dis appeared eight days ago on her way to work at a Margate store. A neighbour, Mr. Gurr. was the last to see her, 25 yards from her home.
Miss Chubb’s body was found last Friday morning less than 400 yards away in Reading Street Road.
She had been strangled at least 20 i’ ours earlier and her body hidden.
It is believed the handcart was used by the strangler to dump the body after dark on the roadside verge, possibly with someone’s help.
Third police conference
A conference of senior officers, the third in 24 hours, was called at Broad- stairs police station today. It was headed by the Assistant Chief Constable of Kent. Mr. Norman Fowler.
They studied fresh state ments made by witnesses who live around Hugin Avenue.
Detectives are now satis fied they know the time Miss Chubb died, where her body was hidden, when her body was dumped, and the motive.
“ Our inquiries are now at a very advanced stage,” said a senior officer today.
‘ 17th Doll ’ closes
NEW YORK. Friday. — The Australian play Summer of Seven teenth Doll closes on Broadway tomorrow night after a run of only three and a half weeks.
Queen Mother
in Canberra
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Queen Mother flew i n t o Canberra today to begin her three-week “ meet the people” tour of Australia.
But first sTie will have two days’ rest after her New Zealand visit. ,
She was met at the airport by Field Marshal Sir William Slim, the Governor-General, and Mr. Menzies, the Premier. —Reuter.
Dame Christabel
Pankhurst dies
LOS ANGELES. Friday.—Dame Christabel Pankhurst. daughter of suffragette leader Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, died here yesterday. She was 77.Friends said that she had not been ill and the cause of her death had not been determined.
Man found shot
is identified
A man found dead near the rear entrance of the Oak Room Club, Main Parade. Worthing, last night, was identified as John Richard Charles. 48. of Wave Crest, The Lizard, Helston, Cornwall.A 12-bore shot-gun was found near him and he had severe gun shot wounds.
Macmillan
ON THE LAST LAP
is flying
into storm
rphe Prime Minister, on the the last lap of his Com monwealth tour, was flying into stormy weather today.
The airliner, bringing Mr. Macmillan, his wife and 12 other members of trie party home to London, reached Cyprus this morning.
The weather report was: storm clouds over the
C h a n n e l and Southern England.”
At Nicosia Mr. Macmillan did not leave the airplane, but had a 40-minute talk With the Governor of Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, aboard the air craft.
Weather— Very mild
Fcfecast to midnight for London and S.E. England : Winds south-west, mainly fresh ; sunny periods ; few showers ; very mild ; afternoon temperatures 52 to 56 degregs. Outlook : Mainly dry and mild. English Channel today : Cloudy with sea
mist, fresh to strong S.W. wind, rough, moderate visibility. London shade tem perature today : 9 a.m. 55 degrees.
Lighting-up time : 5.41 p,m. ; sun sets 5.11 p.m., rises tomorrow 7.17 a .m ; moon rose 4.28 a.m., sets 1.18 p.m. Full moon March 5.
Two kings
sign pact
and kiss
at dawn
AMMAN, Jordan, Friday.— The Arab Federation merg ing Jordan and Irak was proclaimed at sunrise today with 22-year-old King Feisal >f Irak Chief of State.
As the proclamation was signed King Feisal and his cousin. King Hussein of (Jordan, who is also 22. embraced and kissed each other.
Answer to Nasser
The Federation — Joining the 5.000.000 people of Irak with the 1,500.000 of Jordan— is the answer of the two countries to P r e s i d e n t Nasser’s new United Arab Republic linking Egypt'and Syria.
The two kings and senior Ministers worked throughout the night on the.final text of the agreement.
Details were not imme diately announced, but it was expected that there would be one army, one economy and one foreign policy, but two kings.
King Feisal. as Chief of State, will alternate his capital every three months between Bagdad and Amman.
The flag of the new Federa tion will revert to the standard of Hussein Bln Ali, great grandfather of both Hussein and Feisal. of the Great Hashemite dynasty.
Jordan became a sovereign independent state in 1946 by a treaty signed in London. Irak was freed from the Turks during the 1914-18 war.
Kent plans id.
on the rates
Kent county council will be recommended next Wednesday to approve a rate of 14s. 8ld.—an increase of id.Sir Alfred, 76,
won’t stand again
Sir Alfred Bossom. 76. Tory MP for Maidstone since 1931. has announced that he is not to seek re-election.
£ 2 6 0 shop raid
Police are searching for a raider who stole £160 cash and tobacco! worth £100 from J. Mills news agent and tobacconist shop at The Green, Twickenham.
Fireman breaks arm
Assistant Divisional Officer Stan ley Payne. 46. fell 15ft. and broke his arm while fighting a blaze at a disused Ilford printing works
last night. 1
PRINCESS COES
TO PARIS
Princess Sh irin D evlin, step dau ghter o f the Iraki am bas sador in L on don , ilies o ff to Paris. She ca m e to L on d on fou r
m on th s ago.
Tunis workers
go on strike
And 10,000 French
stay indoors
TUNIS, Friday. — Workers throughout Tunisia have been called out on strike for five hours today as the whole country observes Sakiet Day, commemorating the victims of the French air raid on Sakiet village last week
The day is being marked by public prayers in mosques all over the country and by a big demonstration in a Tunis square capable of holding 20.000 people.
Tunisian and French forces —the French confined ^o their bases—are standing by for trouble.
The 10.000 French inhabi tants of the city are staying indoors.
Man and
wife
beat up
gunman
A young gunman raiding a
tobacconist’s s h o p in Camberwell Grove. Camber- well, early today was beaten up by elderly Mr. William Gordon Watkins and his wife, who live above the shop.
Hospitals have been asked to watch for the raider. He may have serious head injuries.
The gunman, aged about 20 and wearing a brown leather j a c k e t , threatened Mr. Watkins with a pistol. Mr. Watkins hit him on the head with a shooting stick, and in a few minutes his wife Joined the fight.
She grabbed an anti-thief cosh which she keeps behind the counter and thumped the bandit about the head.
He staggered from the shop and escaped.
BMC FACE
SHUT-DOWN
20,000 more idle
A s the s t r i k e of 3500 - 1 workers at the British Motor Corporation factory
in Birmingham entered its third day today, a further 20,000 day workers in the group were idle.
The strikers are employed at the Morris Motors tractor and transmissions factory where axle production for the w h o l e of the BMC is concentrated.
A BMC spokesman said today: “ The effect there will get progressively worse as the strike goes on. Unless there is a very speedy settle ment we face a complete shut-down in the course of a few days.”
