Ginger Rogers In London
Screen star Ginger Rogers, and her fourth husband, Jacques Bergerac, have arrived in London, to star together in their first British Alm. Ginger is pictured here showing photographers that despite her 12 years, she still has shapely legs and a youthful appearance, Express Photo.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1953.
Western Germany Sets Up Ministry For Family Affairs
VIOLA PLAYING|
RECORD!
Nazare, Portugal,
·Dec. 9.'
حية
Silvino Pais da Slivn.
25. beach-worker at this
Portuguete resort, julied Lite
world's record-breakers. by playing a viola non-stop. for 15 hours,
When he Anished, almost
a nervous wreck, at mid- wilt his friends carried hlm shoulder-high through the streely.
Girls broke through the crowd to kiss him.-China Mall Special.
Stevenson
Leaves For Egypt
London, Dec. 9.- Sir Ralph Stevenson, Britain's: Ambassador to Cairo, leaves here
· by sea tomorrow for Egypt to resume his post after six months Illness.
Sir Ralph Stevenson, due at Port Said aboard the 27,955-ton liner Himalaya on December 17. has recovered from a splai operation In London this Bum
ner.
two
sides, who have met since :
Bonn, Dec. 9.
West Germany has set up a Ministry to look
TRADE and
COMMERCE SECTION
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
Cowering Under Overhanging Cliff Of World Supluses
By Sydney S. Campell, Reutor's Financial Editor
London, Dec. 9.
US Unhappy
Over Tin Ceiling
Geneva, Dec. 0. Rellable source at the second International Tin Conference
meeting here said today that |the United States consider the
average present price of tin of about £600 sterling per long lon
The international markets concerned are cowering under the overhanging cliff of the U.S. Government's farm surpluses, as en acceptable in ctiling. supplemented by some cowering under other surpluses including Chile's copper surplus, tive has refused to add a-y- Britain's barley surplus and even Russia's presumed gold surplus.
They have the justification that the cliff is mountainous, and is crumbling not only by Section 550 sales for local currencies but also in other
ways.
But an American represents-
thing to the recent disclosure
States will have 38,000 to 40,000 long tons in excess of present requirement for its strategic stockpilo,
that by next March the United
BELGO-SOVIET AGREEMENT
Brussels Dec. 9. The Belgo-Soviet trade agreement providing for exchange of goods to the Valdo of 4,000 million franes over the maxi 12 months is on the point of being concluded, nocord- Ing to usually well-inform- ell sourdes here.
It was also reported that three large woollen wORY-
milla hava received orders from Rusala for a total value of 80 million franes to account against quoias to be fixed in the new agreement.---Reuter.
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET
Page
The Rubber
Markets
Singapore, Dec. 9.
The market opened bettor but sagged on poor trade support al forenoon. It steadied in the afternoon, however, on renewed trades support, Prices:
No. 1 rubber per ib. Dec. ' 6111⁄2
January
February
No. 3 rubber per 1b. Dec. No. 5 rubber per ib. Dec. No. 4 rubber per ib. Dec. Foot rubber unbated Blanket crepo
No. 1 pale crope
00-70 United Preni.
·
LONDON MARKET
London, Dec. 9.
The rubber market was «trader with No. 1 spot Rss quoted at 17% pence per lb. Pricos No. 1 pat Ra
tement house to 1775-10
February March
January/March April/June July/September General markets, December January
Tebruary Ediato
crepe thick crepe tiin
Extato (From Our Correspondent)
morning
attending the parley soun agreed Delegates from the 30 nations
that a price agreement at the
be an Washington has now extended to Britain the time would
effective Business done on the Stock method of maintaining the Exchange this substantial export subsidies which it grants on balance between production and amounted to $388,795. Noon wheat under the International Wheat Agreement, consumption and preventing ex- quotations and the morning's
cessive price fluctuation likely to transections: even though this involves a climb-down which is cause employment.
SHARES DUYERS SELLERS SALES DANKS both undignified and pointless, since Britain has no need of U.S. wheat, with or without the subsidy.
course of
sur-
and rauk |
Informed. quarters sald on Monday night the delegates were "near" unanimous agreement on micium and maximum tin price proposals submitted a Good Office Committee.
BUFFER STOCK
The minimum price, it was
long ten. However, it would not
buffer stock tin,
As recently as mid-September production and supply if farmers that subsidy was only 12 cents are to produce for use instaadi D bushel; today it is about 48ef for adding to surpluses. cents. Another straw in the He scans to feel that time is some wind is the donation of about $9 millon of wheat and sunning out; "We cannot long sald, would be £725 sterling per postpone our decision.... We other cconomie aid to Bolivia, a
acannot continue on the present cover the proposed 25,000 tons of country whese present Govern- ment is far from being
right-pluses ever-growing to American and other foreign
What capital.
Agriculture Steritaty Benson- good man struggling
Principal objection to the p:o- against adversity-connet He advocates an increase of posal was reported to come frem grant $250,000 to his more than three million acres in France and the British colonial much Foreign Agriculture Service, fot
cot on
delegates. percage allotment; general export promotion, with now that the eastern and i
be western cotton-growing that it will
States Contrary to the US position en average price, the major p:o-
after family affairs, with Dr Franz Josef Wuer-wing and is not unduly generous on the les force him to do, would be £880 sterling
meling, a Christian Democrat, at its head. He is 53, and father of six children.
The Ministry has a staff of only about 20, housed in the new eight-storey building of the Foreign Ministry.
Dr Wuermeling said. “I intend to be the guardian angel of our families. I want to protect their liberty against collectivism and 'against any sort of unjustified influence.
and
"The German people is about} drafted by Dr Adenauer's last tu become extinct. We bave Coalition Government and the too many old people and too other by the Social Democratie few. young. 1 the present Opposition. development continues our death Unul April 1 German legisla- inte may exered the birth rate tion on family marringe, so drastically in only u few employment and related matters years' time that we can speak was based on the superiority of of the beginning of the end. the man and husband. In the "That would burien the family It gave men nearly all rising generation far too heavily rights of decision and a great with the load of pensions for deal of responsibility. Husbands the old. Our families alone can had to give their wives the overcome this threat.
They housekeeping money in advance. must be given so broad and they had to pay for debts economicnt and ethical founda- which their wives incurrel for tion that their will to have accessities." children is strengthened."
married woman was not Dr Wurmeling
bank account gave Agurts! allowed to open
narring without her husband's approval.
1952.
BIRTH "SURPLUS”
་
showing declining -Diplomatic-quarters-here-said trend. Only 122,317 marriages She could act decide what the Ambasador would not be were made in the second quar-schools their children should taking any new proposals to theter of 1953, which was 10 per attend. The husband decided Egyptian capital for the reopen-year to each 1,000 of population where the family should flye,
a job ing of the suspended Anglo- compared with 10.7 per 1,000 If the wife had
and the Egyptian talks on the Suez Canal during the same quarter of husband did not like it he could buse, problemi.
give
notice for her. Nearly But it is expected that the
Σ wife owned wh ́n married
came
under
the administration of husband. October 21, wi! have further The birth "surplus" was sessions soon after the Ambas about 60,000 in the first quarter
The new Bills would
Live sador's return.
freedom. Both of 1952, but only 15,074 in the women The Egyptian Embassy here
for example, allow today that no plans had
Cairo of Mr Abdul Hakki. the Egyptian Ambassador, who, has been reen
consultation recalled for before the talks here resumet.
My Hakki and the Egyptian
more
Arst quarter of 1953. The birth drafts, women to, keep their
1
out
as
Ink Bank INSURANCES
URKA XD Underwriters DOCKS, ETC. K. Whart
Dock
.. 1000
833 805
153
....... 31.2 21.70
Provident (Old] Provident
(New)....
Wherlock
LAND, ETC.
·
200 et 13
60
12.00 1000
་
33
ba, por: 17-15/16-18-1/19
18-101
unquoted
-United "Press. NEW YORK MARKET
New York, Dec. 9. Rubber futures clored' today 10-15 points lower with sales of
18 contracts.
In the spot market, dealers studied the
news about the change in the Government's sales polley on rotation rubber which cuts the amount frem: 10,000 to 6,000 tons a month. Some quar- ferg, while the action is ex- preled to have an overall favour-
13.70 able effect, awrited the full text
of the order. Fulu:o closings:
Dee.
0.16, March
May
Sept. Dec.
12.10 0.10 0.20 6500 HK Hotel 0.35 11,30 2300 1 8.25 July RIK Land.. 7415 13 300 78 Realty XD
(&X1.923 1.06 2000 1.03 Fit D2c. 6500392c.
20.70 1400 20.50
Trzin
per
P. Tram
P. Tram
national
The maximum under this plan UTILITIES bears Hitle relation tolong lon, economics and good sense impel him to say.
the
Behar again spoken in favour are reported to have reachedducing countries - Indonesia,
of "stop-loss" instead of the present high-and rigid far price supports, even though such talk endangers his party's hold on power and his own hold his job..
He lays that many and
and not painless shifts are needed
on
in
Thailand, Malays, and Bolivia were said to have proposed in average price of £825 sttring to
£850 a ton.
agreement on division of the Spolls, the increase can virtualry be taken s granted though there is no earthly use for the product of these additional seres.
A similar surrender (though They said that. quotationis perhaps to legal m rather than the best estimate neccssary to to polilles) is the Department of produce the amount of tin re- Agriculture's hasty retreat from quired to satisfy world needs. its attempt to impose a "mul- tiple compliance"
An earlier minimum regulations, was quoted of £725 sterling 10 price whereby farmer who over-
NEW YORK wanted his allotted vertage to: £750 sterling and a maximum
STOCK
MARKET
New York, Dec. 9. Weak tobacco stocks and
T
irregular
few sharply higher specialios featured a narrowly market today.
rc-
The tobacco issues fell to new lows of the year on heavy sell- following publication ports linking cigarette smoking with lung cancer.
F.
Lorlilard Company denied
any of the price-supported cropS would be debarred from the support ori all of them; promptly had to cancel the gulation.
HAND-TO-MOUTH
price of £925 sterling to £900,
ob
on
A successful outcome to the parley, slated tu conclude Thursday, largely depends what the United States will do, observers believed
The US has been showing
Nating such developments, Importers of the commoditles | signs of intending to deal on a which are in surplus in the U.S. bilateral basis with producing sro-buying-hand-to-mouth....or countries.-United-Press, —— indulging in something like buyers alrike; some
competitiv
doing exporting countries ore their best to stand from under, the striking example being the way in which Argentina is try- ing to move her stocks of grai at whatever prices they will fetch very low prices indeed for cats and
rye. Hand-to-mouth buyers 150
the
Asador in Washington, nationalisations of such the husband's name to be the to $84%; Reynolds Tobacco reducing demand,
The deplorable
Dr
been made yet for the return to rate, at present 16.7 per 1,000 maiden names as part of the
of population per year, is the family names, but there is
slight difference of Interpreta- lowest for 50 years.
Dr Wuermeling rejected any suggestion that he wants to tion.
The Government draft specifies "nationalize" families.
family name as a rule, but if could, best be have ben
East the wife wishes the enn request Communs.-ruled called home to report following the Bermuda conference during Germany, he said. There, the that her maiden
to coupled with her husband's last state was trying all means win direct intiuere: in inminame, so some women writers,
actresses.
have etc.
already life,
condemned done.-China Mail Special,
Ahmed Hussein,
which the Suez base issue was discursed.
Dr Wuermeling
Mr Hakk wilj probably see Mr Anthony Eden. British For Hitler's deliberate "Aryanisa- eign Secretary, who is expectelion" back from Bermuda on Friday, lion policy, which Included 'the before
leaves he
for the tationing Egyptian capital.--Reuter,
Foster Dulles
to
Storm of picked
certain areas Troopers in
aryanise the population there. De II. Picker, of Hitler's per- has quced the stuff, uchrer
saying *5
that **I our soldiers are expected to fight and die unconditionally they must also be allowed un- conditional love. Love and 1ghting go together.""
· HITLER'S ERA
I
name
bro
Commemoration
Of First Flight
London, Dic, 0.
Men who wrote the Arst
Washington, Dec. 0.
of State, Mr The Secretary John Foster Dulles, will leave on Friday to attend the NATO Council meeting in Paris, the State Department announced to- Hitler's government also tried
to promote the will for children chapters of Britain's history in the skies are enceling in Londen awarding decorations for on December 17 to commemorate close who would accompany the prolic mothers and by issuing Secretary to the Paris meeting bonuses and other support for the golden jublice of powered
defence, organisation the which is scheduled to be held large families.
day.
of
The Department did not dis- by
fligh
It was on that day that the want- Dr Wuermeling said he
Wright brothers successfully Mr Dulies will travel aboard aed to strengthen the Christian mached their biplane on
tho ideals in love and marriage, sand dunes at Kitty Hawk Island
from December 14 to 10.
United
special plane leaving here at pm GMT on Friday, Press.
Nixon In Teheran
celebra-
GRAINS IN CHICAGO
connection and cited its re- scarch programme in rebuttal, echoing a recent statement by
Chicago, Dec... American Tobacco Company alway", in perll of being
Prices per bushel in cenis:
Closing Prices characterising the alleged conqueezed: when wool buyers ran
Dec. 8 Dec. 9 nection with lung cancer as down the stocks, over-rating Wheat, No. 2 red "loose talke."
prospective effects .nt Spot
2001 **** 2072 n American Tobacco fell 4myxomatosis in enlarging supply Dec. 208(11) ·
20316(L)
20098-14 points to $6134: Liggett Myers and of the new synthetics in
March
2082-83 they were May
208-2001 July "B" 3% to $38; Philip Morris taught a smart lesson. 2% to $43 and P. Lorillard 1 On a smaller scale, US. non- Sept.
Corn, No. 2 yellow to $24. All were among the buyers of natural rubber may at
Spot ten mot active issues,
the moment be having a similar Dec Volume picked up for the day experience.
March to 1,410,000 shares, compared Even in wool and. rubber, the May July with 1,300,000 yesterday. last word may not yet have Sept. Improvement in the rails was been sald, The US. Depart-170 largely fractional.
ment of Agriculture, for one, Dec. thinks that the world supply of March Steels were little changed.
Dats wool is too large to be moved Oils were mixed. The market narrowed, with without some crop from present March only
1,143 isɛues traded-430 prices.
Soybean, No. 2 yellow 300 lower.
Spot higher, 207
BEARISH PREDICTIONS Jan, changed.
to March The Department is freer York Stock Ex-
May make such bearish predictions July- volume was at
for commodities that the U.S. Scpl.
un-
Dec.
New York Bour,
20
Sur Ferry..
C. Light
40
$3
(Old) XD, 13.40 13.00 1500 @ 13.60 C. Light
(New) XD 10.40
1000 13.30
1500 10.00 setrio 2835 20.00 2200 er 20:00 Macao Etc. 10.50 Telephone. INDUSTRIALS
21.29
21.50
21.00
21.45
21.00
21.70
United Press
AMSTERDAM MARKET
Amsterdam, Dec. 9."
The rubber market was quiet, Prices closed as follows
gullders per kilo):
No. 1 rubber Jan. No. 2 rubber Jan,
No. 3 rubber Jan.
1.74 huyers 1.72 buyers 1.63 on
No. 1 crene rubber Jan. 105 namt.
-United Press.
Exchange Rates
Cement..... 1814 10.70 1500 « 18.00 1000 g 10,70 Type
10.70 STORES, ETC.
Builders was done in the local 23.90 34 2300 23.00 unt exchange market Watson ...
morning at the following rates: Crawford 24
U.S. dollar (per $1) *
CONTONS
this
0/7
Sterling note (per 1),
15,00
2
2000 200
£2,
6.75 Blom tleals (per 100)
Indonesian rupiahy (per 100). 2130
.20.00
1.77
Ewo...... Textile Corp. 8.10 MISCELLANEOUS
Yanguzo
... 0.13 0.30
Singapore (Straita) Indo-China pinstres (per 1001, 7.07
BRITAIN'S LEAD IN MANAGEMENT
To Organise European Talks Next Year
Harrogate, Dec. 9. Scientific management techniques in British industry have made such rapid and assured strides in the last few years that the movement has established a clear lead for Britain on this side of the Atlantic, according to the Financial Times. Both European and Commonwealth countries are beginning to look to British exponents of management, not only for new ideas and methods, but for leadership in international discussion,
Progress is such that the In-sald: "Our most efficient enters. ternational. Committee for prises have no rivals anywhere.
8:Lenüße Management
has in-It is wrong to think that
ona
of must necessarily go to America,
器 to organise ·
or anywhere else outside this
European Management Con-Island, In order to find the best fcrence.
20714
211-2111
210- 2001
2023
1901-
vited the British Institute
101% 1591; 159-1501% 1871 180-1591%
10942
Management 154-153
18434
18015- 107 15214
12234
12012
781
BO
to-
This will be held in practice. Indeed, the main rch- Britain next year, and the in-eon for going to America stitute's own annual conference day should be to sell goods! will be merged in it.
-100
thore."
473%-3%
The British lead was estab lirhed at the most recent of the iri-annual international
Athan
Other speakers forence cunarmed.
in
1051.
302n
309-30015
FUTURE TALES
at the from
their uwa experience that the leaders of British industry, some pf them large concerns, but some ciso small highly eficient units, can teach as well as learn.
con-:
1900
2003-308 30154-36 30311
20752-12
20345
130-102
20312
130-102
$13.000
$13.90
-United Prem.
ferences, held in Brussels
The next international
con-
ference is fixed for February
in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Yet among these fouders those Is Do complacency, It is and as tegnised not only that they this is too far and too expen-themselves can always improve sive a joumey for a large and refine their techniques, bật reale altendance from Europe, that there is silli tremendour it was filt thit some opportun-scope for farms in all British Ity for European interchange of industries to inquire Into and
The American Stock Ex-Imports. than for those that italy, spat.... 420,000 experis: since an incident in the 209 IDs. Back..
4720, which it correctly pre- ceted a slump in coton prices, average
It is illegal for any U.S. Goy Dec. 9 ernment Department to publish
About 201.62 any prediction Coton US Commodities ideas should be offered before adept zelenlifte management.
The New
chong bond
$2,770,000.
da.nge volume was thores.
Dow Jones closing were:
Dec. 8
30 Industrials
281.45 9092
15 utililles
12.63
$2.71
$5 stock
107.01
100.97
#bonds Comm. future price
*00.30
• Index
20. ralis
pass prices.
183.20 -Uniteti Press.
there
די
New York, Dec. 9. A price collapar in soybeans, ranging up to the daily Emit of 10 cents a bushol, spotlighted commodity tradings today.
Bean prices plummeted under broadscalo Iquidation touched
TEXTILE INTERESTS
the following international con- ference, which_would ordinarily fake place in Europe In 1987.
Only one bank. Licyde, wis They matingement unbvement
at the conference; in this country is now cone and there were two investment
represented dent that it has plenty to offer truste. Although the textile in- ice rest of the world when new methods and ideas are being the more obvious.
dustries were represented by deuried, The application
progressive
has
the
ΟΙ
On a point of fact as distinci
is some 96.99 from prophecy, there
doubt about the. · Department's 101.47
assertion that world early llon of wool dropped off "What our state-and society of the North Carolina coast.
in the second quarter of this must do is to create the con-
Orville who was at the contro's US DOLLAR BONDS year. But
no question ditions in which your families made an enle 12 second flight of
that it declined in the. third can #trow and prosper. We 120 feet und achieved the dream
Washington, Dec. 9.
quarter, and,
nd, although this must of: by peas incread bought modern techniques In Briinit firms, there certainly ought to muni restore the confidence of that had fascinated thousands
advantage of draw have been many more. The International Bank on have been largely seasonal, a tin with cottonseed oil in viewing on an industrial tradition Distribution Was also in- our people in the sacredness of down the centuries,
nounced today that I expects drop in the second or third of the larger colton crop and experience unequalled closequately represented, martingo and In Its. ethical At the anniversary
aquarters of this year was the prospect... Wheat traderS varies. War and postwar years tion, Jointly
The Institute itroit has made where to take Teheran, Dec, 0.
Increased prodzicers organised by the 10 offer about January 12,
and great progress,
Industry A tow minor and American have done great harm."
Royal Aeronautical Society and States dollar
$100,000,000 issue of United arst, checks in the up-swing closed.
bonds with a wh
which started 3 mid-1961. after selling after the new year, whiên demonstration
tho
beyond marked
doubt the arrival in Teheran of US Vice Ministry will be to draft family the first Briton, to fly
v in Eng:
exicht and Importance of the more funds then sro |·· Only In Germany and Japan effectlyda
Belfish management movement, bio from Government grants, President Richard Nixon,
Some arrests were made after
lood in managerini, ideas, stnall groups had assembled
Consultants Elsewhere, though prices are 1% to 6 cents Coporation
four years ago REA around anti-American speakers
have astuned an importang While
At Winaipog wheat, was The Prouident of the Bourdinternationally. If the move pany. The exact conditions of tending to reduce their forward hady bern
fuo, will be determined in the commitments, at, they have dim- priood at 80% cents per of Trade, Mr Peter Thamby mont cha maintain its progresa but the legislative vacuum that making short, "hope in an air-
and croft, addivasing a full restors and continue the rate as nee ensued has not yet been filled. craft of his own a design, but light of market conditions at culty in batting customers to pay bushel for No. 3, Norv
received celeration the future holds "Two famliy, Fillis are awaiting these
the offering Ume, omolal sald. commensurate prices for the for No. 6. It was at 105 contar were not biletally : ró-
enthusiastic opplause when he great promise, h end-products-Router. ---United Prose.
One of the molh tasks of the the "Royal" · Acro: Club, Will be oficials said it will be kksüed | foes \ wool: consumption will At Chicago, wheat eloszå « eff [Thero ÷ were six tinée" ng many 73. Not only is industry, lukingi
of about 15 years, the igroal collapta in wool prices lower-income taxes become cled Maleconference now contributes ; voluntarily,
DUE Youin in April 1900, I writing syndicate managed by acem to be:zising-ga 10% £5-24; conts;, soghents, off, I'dèlegatca, "pas at the cone British industrial: students arrested two contrast been out of force, Allot Verdon-Row: Progant, Sir and Morgan Stanley and Com- | firm enough,, manufacturers `ars j
days ago were released today, a warrant for the arrest of Dr Aboðini, Assistant Dean of the Technical University, was Lasiod.----Franco-Presse,
legisinture complying with a land, Lord Brabazon the late of through a nationwide clause in the Constitution giving nian and women 'equal rights, "
April 1, 1953, all laws Since April
another pionser the First Boston this principle unye who wills; Abo
ratification by Parliament, - ono icognised China Mall Spacial,
under
United Pre