Bermudian Legislator Is Knighted by King Bermuda Celebrate! The

i 17— •*»**x, LIGHTING-UP TIME ;*iepy^ 8.55 p.m. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum temperature! 79.8 Minimum temperature 70.3 TIDE TABLE FOR JUNE Rainfall _..., - 01 -Inch Date High Water Low Water Sun- Sun- Sunshiny I..:. ....- 6.4 hour. A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. rise set 9 3.56 4.42 10.11 10.55 6.12 8.25 10 4.47 5.30 10.56 11.48 6.11 8.25 own "VOL. 30 NO. 133 HAMILTON, BERMUDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1950 6D PER COPY Birthday Honours Bermuda Celebrate! The King's Birthday Visitor Is Fined £742 Bermudian Legislator Is Knighted By King For Currency Offences Fines totalling £742.16,10 were FIVE DIE IN BLAZING imposed on a British visitor by The King has conferred a the Wor. L. A. Minty in Hamilton knighthood on the Hon. Eldon NEW LABOUR PEERAGES Magistrates Court on Wednesday EXPRESS TRAIN 1 for currency offences. H. Trimingham. The award IN BIRTHDAY HONOURS The visitor, Saul Stoller, of Ed was announced in the King's inburgh, pleaded guilty to three Cigarette End Or Spark charges. The first was that he Birthday Honours List re Seven Baronies And 46 sent $600 out of the Colony with leased yesterday when it was May Haye Cansed Fire out the permission of the Curren Knighthoods In list cy Control Board. Stated that he had been made GLASGOW, Scotland, June 8 The second charge was that he bought $200 in Bermuda without {-^Knight Bachelor. BY FRASER WIGHTON (Reuter).—Flames fanned bv the wind roared through the coaches the permission oi the Board and Others honoured were Mr. LONDON, June 8 (Reuter) — of a Birmingham-Glasgow ex- , th_ ,e last charge was... tha»t he- madime Gerald Leroy Young (O.B.E.), New Labour peerages gave a press train tonight, burning .three | ™£ _!tat<;m?nts to ¥?: H.J- •*_*» Miss Winifred Rogers (M.B.E.) strongly political flavour to the [ children and two adults to death. patrick, chairman of the board. and Mrs. Doris Trott Butter King's birthday Honours list pub-, After the five bodies had been REFUSED EXIT PERMIT lished today. removed—at Beattoek, 30 miles field (also M.B.E.). Among seven new Barons is 56- from Glasgow — salvage officers On a visit to the Colony with Sir Eldon is 60, an internat year-old Lt.-Col. Harry Morris. went through the smoking wreck his wife and young daughter; Stol ionally-known yachtsman, and His resignation from his Parlia as-e to search for valuable jew ler was refused an exit permit one of the most prominent figures mentary seat at Sheffield enabled ellery which it had been reported while the charges were pending. in Bermuda's public life. He is the Government to find a con the train was carrying. • He sat on a bench in the Court a' member of the Legislative stituency for . Solicitor-General as the magistrate said that in The leading coaches of the train cases where a man of means was Council and of the Currency and Sir Frank Soskiee, defeated in the were burned out. The five dead, A general view of the colourful scene in Bernard Park yesterday The birthday of His Majesty the King was celebrated in many involved a fine which would crip Exchange Control Board, presid February general election. badly burned, were the only cas ple a poorer man* was fairly easily ent of'the Bank of Bermuda a Baronies awarded to Mr. Lewis • morning. ways by Bermudians yesterday. ualties so far reported. paid and the only thing to do was director of Trimingham Bros. Ltd. Silkin, former Minister of Town Below the Colour Party is shown marching in slow time. Highlights were a ceremonial parade in Bernard Park, a garden Fire trucks sped to the scene to sentence the man to a term and a trustee of Saltus Grammar and Country planning, and LL- after the train had come to a stoo of imprisonment. School. Col. David Rees-Williams, form pasty at Government House in the afternoon and a charity ball on er Colonial under-Secretary who I I the open-air dancing patio at the Princess Hotel in the evening. with its three leading coaches on A few minutes later Mr. Minty failed to win seats and lost their fire: looked at the defendant and said portfolios, also strengthen Labour There were also smaller garden fetes and a host of sporting Flames had been fanned by the that out humanitarian considera- representation, in the Conserva events. wind as the train sped on and tion he would say that a term of whipped the coaches-into a roar- imprisonment would not "be the tive-dominated House of Lords. Four Bermudians, who received awards in the King's birthday A political Barony was awarded ing inferno. punishment In his case. The mag- to Mr. Ernest Greenhill, member I Honours List, had their own private celebrations. They were the It was difficult to identify the istrate then went on with his of Glasgow Corporation.. Hon. /|S. H. Trimingham, who was knighted; Mr. Gerald L. Young bodies which were found in tbe judgment, which he took nearly [(assistant Colonial Treasurer), awarded the O.B.E.; and Miss Winifred second coach. Some reports said an hour to prepare. NEW FIELD MARSHAL thev were of a man and a woman, Mr. Peter Smith, wbo proseeu- A day after the funeral of Field ] Rogers and Mrs.*Doris Trott Butterfield, both awarded the M.B.E.. a young woman and two children, ted, pointed out that, if Stellar i Marshal Earl Wavell, Britain's • Thousands of residents and FLASHES OF COLOUR Others described them as two was guilty of charges one and two, famed military leader and former I touW*ts' flocked to Bernatd Park adults and three children. he was automatically guilty of Indian Vieeroy, creation of a new Brilliant flashes of colour moved yesterday morning to watch a across the green square, the boun- An official stated: "I under- the third. He said that defendant Field Marshal was announced. 'colourful ceremonial drill and stand the bodies*were very badly went to see Mr. Fitzpatrick on He is Australian General Sir daries flanked here and there with burned. Fir,e began on the mov- May 31, the date by which he parade that was typically British. a bright pink oleander bush. A | Thomas A- Blarney, Commander- On parade were small boys and ing tfatn and with tbe help of the was to have answered questions j in-chief of Allied land forces in sea.oned veterans, young army happy coincidence placed Hamil wind it spread very quickly. We P«t by the Currency Control the southwest UPaciflc from 1942 cadets and war-toughened Royal ton Fire Brigade, with its red understand the coaches were j Board regarding his expenditure ' to 1945. Marines, soldiers, sailors, police, engines next to the white and then made of steel." I of £ 1,500 in Bermuda between the blue of two companies of the 2 and Ma 27 The honoursîst includes 90 ambulance cadets, boy scouts, Passengers from trains whieh ]*&& y - women, three of them new Dames members of the Church Lads' Bri Girls' Life Brigade. had had to tpul l _u p _~.__,.„ubehindi &go_.,t I -y—wWhe n asked —to accoun-t —fo r -rth~e of the British Empire — custom gade and otners. In the heat of All along three sides of the down on tcT'the line*to Watch the money, Stoller produced £400 in square , the units wer^ê shuffling | rescue work Bermuda banknotes and showed arily the highestj honour given to the Bermuda sun they stood for them to Mr women. \ over an hour, within the roped into position and line, until after The fire was eventually com- Fltapatrick. ' The . In addition to (he seven Baron square responding alertly to every I las£*t nanaiKcSiffl"^*^^r ! pletely put out and the train was monev wa* not checked and the ies, there are 2B home knight- command.^& was little wonder ' *e w"et nounsnea-.», , .o„m _ expected to reach Glasgow later t prosecution submitted that it had Sir Eldon Trimingham • hoods, 12 Domitaon knigjiyj_'u_fs, that the spectators, who had ar thmandee paradr Ce. Cto. Sutherattention, R.N.. Int, calleo thde tonight. " been borrowed expressedly for the il ved in Victorias, by special bus, I-Sn-i__^_'^Jî*-_-__u „_ ti J-.,-- An official railway statement SWH?**?1 ^V1}*? itto the,board' He became a member of the I — none in Canaida — tlria"^rpe hv •*., r.d _,„__.JhWi_-- _r,ri 5în-^ that followed camm e swing WhHe tne ta w knighthoods in the colonies and by taxi aand auto-bicycles and non satjl the cause of the fire was J - - **" S» were in pro Colonial Parliament 20 years ago ing the Royal Guard, sailors arm- gress Stoller's exit permits were and was for five years an alder protectofMes. _^L_?W*!!*_* ^ but a tele held up. man of the corporation of Hamil New Barons include 68-year-old as they marched past tbe Gover report from the scene to nor and went off the field. by a colour partj^ night suggested a cigarette end PLEADED GUILTY ton. In 1936 he was appointed to Sir Gilbprt Campton, clerk to the Next arrivals were the haval the Legislative Council, and has House of Commons for 11 years, Bernard Park was astir early, or a spark from the engine might Through his counsel, Mr.

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