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CZECH BOYCOTT OF TITO
Belgrade, June 12. Czechoslovakia has banned all exports to Yugoslavia, bring- ing all trade between the two countries to a standstill, an off- cial Yugoslav communique said here today.
Washington, Juno 12.
Charles Skouras, › US$810,000 a year Grock-born cinoma magnato, was listed last night by the Treasury as America's highost paid corporation employee in 1947.
Betty Grable, with US$208,000, was best paid of her sex in a list of more than 1,000 people who drew more than US$75,000 in pay from cor- porations in 1947 or in the business and fiscal year ending in 1948.
It was
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE (14, 1949.
Danny Kaye Manchester
Mobbed In
Manchester, June 12,
The comedian, Danny Kaye's, car had to airple his hotal here several times to- day before he could make HI way through the thusiastic
crowd mostly bobby-oxore who wailed to groot him.
"It.
Bimilar crowds had swarm- ed round him at the Airport, where he arrived from Gla- gow.
Danny
entertained the crowd briefly from a hotel balcony, thon, went inside to answor a phone call from hie little daughter In America. Router.
from Vanguard Films Incorpor- ated, USS02,541: Knowles,
Other Incomes: Laughton, US$100,000; paidCharles
Peggy Cummins. US$82,833; Phyllis Calvert, US$100,000; Billy Richard
US$79,006; Greene, US$100,000, #11 be-Wilder,
from Anatole Litvak, US$115,230, all Paramount Pictures.
from 20th
Film Century Fox Laughlon also got US$83,333 Corporation. Associated Press.
the third consecutive Chester Gould, cartoonist of year at the top for Skourts, al- Dick Tracy, got US$116,702 from
bis
ashe Chicago Tribune and New compensatio The communique said that the though Czech ban was imposed at the President of the National Then-York News Syndicate.
Others with anore than US$75,- begloning of May and added tres Amusement Company, In-
West 000 Included: of Fux that the Yugoslavs have retaliat corporated, and
Was Patric by holding
Coast Agency Corporation cd
up exports Czechoslovakin worth 500,000,000 US$175,300 less than they dicara
approximately £2,500,000 him the year before. nt the last
All the sums listel were rate). exchange
fore taxes. According to the communique,
Gruble Yugosiny
Misa
and Olivia representatives who went to Prague last werk to finvilland were the only wonten negotiate an
47 the deadlock were
ere om
persons credited offered impossible terms by the earning
US$200,000 more than Czechs.
during 1847,
Following Skourns were: Vin- the Riggio, Preshient 734 K Ainerican Tobaveo Company, US$404,202;
The Czech netion Is Interpreted here as n further tightening of the Cominform's economie block- ade against Yugoslavia, which is now thought lo
be nearly com- plete.
Foreign businessmen in B301-
Paston Sturges.
de
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#m director
of Twentieth Century Fox Fi Corporation, US$370,650;
E. H. Little, President of the
US$350,000.
Case Dismissed For Lack Of Evidence
grande consider the Czech as Colgate Palmolive Pee Company. In view that there was no definite ovidence pro-
at ty Anfortunate
having come time for Yugoslavia.
World prices of non-ferrous metals having dropped, Yuga- slavia I now at a dlaadvant age in offering her metals to the West in exchange for capital | equipment which she can DO fonger obtain from the East.
Such capital equipment is vital to her five-year industrialisation plan, which the Yusoslavs shy the Cominform is out to wreck. Iteuter,
Hollywood Stars
Among Hollywood personalities listed:
Raymond Milland, US$253,- 333; Rex Harrison, US$219,750; Bob Hope, $115,000;
US$135,000: Mou. Fairbanks,
reen
Douglas
USS-
O'Hara. Tyrone Power US$231,927. Artur Toscanini drew 102.000 from the National Brunei- Teasting Company.
duced in court, Hanry Hall, aged 18, sum- moned for driving a motor cycle without duo caro and attention and dangerous driving, was discharged by Mr. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday,
US$108,606: Defendant was represented by J. C. Stewart who
pleaded not guilty on defendant's behalf.
The bus was travelling about same speed as the lorry.
used further said that he third gear in his turning.
EISLER'S SISTER
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London, June 12.
Miss Ruth Fischer of New York, a sister of Com- -munist-Gorhard Eislor, cannot understand the British treatment of her brother, whom she describes as one of the most important and dangerous agents of the Soviet secret polico and the Cominform.
wo
Miss Fischer, for many years a
Europe to the Continent of leading German Communist and collect information for a further mumber of the Executive of the volume of her book "Stalin and Comintern, has brutten with Com- German Communiam." munisin and is now one of its most active opponents. She has been ference at Blackpool and is going attending the Labour Party Con-
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The case involved a trafle accident at Chatham Road on May 25, when a motor cycle ridden by defendant collided with a lorry.
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Princess Cecilia, hazel-eyed and youngest daughter
of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussio, marries on June 21 Clyde Harris, aged 31, former U.S. Army officer of Amarillo, Texas,
"After we got married we will | settle down in Texas," the blonde Princess Bald today in confirming the arrangement.
The marriage will take place In the bleak
fortress ancestral home of the Hohenzollerns, Prus- ala's ruling family for hundreds of years, in the French zone,
Somc of the highest-born members of Germany's aristo- cratte families will attend the ceremony. So may the Mayor of Amarillo. He is touring Europe.
The couple's engagement was a secret until today.
Harris said he met the Princess in the summer of 1945 not long after the end of hostilities.
Forest Mooting
Artificial Aurora Experiment
Sydney, June 12.
A team of New South Wales scientists will soon begin experi- ments during which they hope to GO produce an artificial 'aurora miles above the earth in Northern New South Wales.
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Professor V. A. Balley, profes-│TOMORROW sor of experimental physics Sydney University, who heads the teams, believes they can produce an artificial nurora by shooting a beam of radio waves into the at- mosphere 88 miles above tho earth.
Then a Captain in the Army, he had a job with U.6. Military Professor Bailey said the arij- Government Іл Darmstadt Acial aurora would appear almí- tracing and restoring Blatorio for to the moon but several times Пие arts collection. scattered larger. If power of 1,000,000 by the war.
kilowatts is available the aurora will be strong enough to light His job took him to
Schloss 5,000 square miles of country" as Wolfsgarten, a picturesque hunt clearly as full (moonlight. ing lodge of Prince Ludwig of Hesse in the heart of forest not far from this tiny town.
"Here I met Cecilia," he said. He "We knew each other for a year the and then I went home in 1940."
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"The motor cycle had a slight and
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In giving evidence, Wong Ying-damage in the front part, tung, the lorry driver, said that some glass was broken," the motor
Idriver added. he was driving a lorry along Chatham Road lownrds Stor Testifying. Henry Hall Ferry intending to turn into Ob- that he got his motor cycle licence revalory Rond,
two years ago. He was driving at 25 mph that day.
He then gave signal at about 200 feet from" Observatory Road. "There was definitely no signat He stopped the car in the middle given by the lorry driver, and I
rond, knowing of the
that the had pressed my homn," defendant motor cycle was following. At said. that time,
there was a bus be-
motor cycle. and larry The bus was about 40 yards from the lorry. As he turned the
tween the
Wook In Hospital
He further said that he had
lorry, and reached Observatory spent a week in the hospital after Road, the motor cyclist struck the accident, and he is working the front off side of the lony. at Kowloon Docks,
Atter the collison. witness
Miss Fischer considers It her task to tell the British and Euro-
Re-examined by the prosecuting The post-officer, defendant said that he did brother, who was once the Editortion of the lorry, then, was the not overtake any car, and there pean public the truth about her stopped immediately. of the Berlin Communist news-front part in the Observatory was no bua in between. paper "Rote Fahne" ("Red Flag" Road. Lnd the rear in the Chat-
and in mild opposition to Stalin, ham Road.
Eisler, she declared, had never been a political refuge from Nazi
or any other had to fils op-
position to Stalin
Jed in 1028
No Horn Heard
His side was the correct side to his being ordered to Moscow, witness continued. No sounding of Since that time, he had never the horn was heard before the been back to Germany,
The fact that her brother was interned after the
collison.
The motor cycle was beneath collapse of
internment the lorry, and defendant's right Vichy France in a camp was, according to Miss Fis-leg was under the motor cycle.
The prosecuting officer went on to ask whether that the fol- Jowing day of the accident, de- fendant was visited and had said that he did see the signal given by the lorry driver.
"My conclusion is that you did see the signal, but you thought that you could turn and take it," the prosecuting
fald.
over- officer
In discharging the case, the view
cher, only a minor mishap in his Cross examined by defence Lefendant replied in the nega- career. He was soon freed as a counsel, wliness said that he is tive. result of the intervention of the 35 years old, with 14 years of sent to Mexico and to the United driving experience, and had never magistrate ruled that lo States where he had the job of been involved in any traffice ac- that supervising, together with other client.
Soviet Secret Service and again
that there was no definite evi-
He stated that he had dence produced in court, and it
merely onc mun's European Communists, the United put his hand out at the right side was
word
The Professor estimates it will cost at least A £250,000 to carry the experiments right through and produce a fairly strong glow but belleves he can. produce a faint glow with A £50,000,----United
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