CHINA MAIL BOOK REVIEWS
Fingerprints As A Means Of Identification
(Cherrill of the Yard. By Fred Cherrill. George G. Harrap and Com- pany, Limited, Lon- don. 15/-).
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1954.
TRADE
and COMMERCE SECTION
Share Market Calm RUSSIA SIGNS
Despite
Hainan Incidents
By A Special Correspondent
Last week my article was headed "Geneva Cease-fire But No Excitement: Why?" This week the question might well be "Hainan Air Incidents Put No Excitement: Why?"
Because the Hongkong Stock Exchange took the shooting down of the three aircraft much more calmly than London. Certainly there was hesitancy on the market but there was no selling pressure. If anything, potential investors held off Afte ten year buying for a day or two to see how the situation
would develop.
The author
the
und
**** the 1 fire of excellent quality. -ndes dual miro, as a branch of fave been retentes to give
J Piner words. I balance between the truniph and thren.
penniles sre kvolved
the agedy of each phase of the vital t JJohn Cooper,
hns book, Pomposer welthen the D-Day story with a vitalitych lp the reader. Ar a quas-journalistic eŒurt, the for the 24 matka ide Weather author has guneeded in giving Proten to his story through o Comaticas of
anikliw? the written word,
Those who enjoy deter Live stories will probability like therrill ul the Yard. Buf if they 4xpert it to be the kind of story that setuks them
11 11ths about Chagall Pan racing to the last page mar, his likes and dialatro hos Gind out if the bather really foutes and alter It does not
in reta.mon murdered
beautiful depart 1hr
Thokk dita tames. Furthermose,
In simple and t not the
1 y Mr.uis biegranby, Fast- iy, it must be huntory # the sence that it must be nearate and depict a person in relat 1 lastane. Secondly, it deverbe an individual, with ad the cordations of human char
And thirdly, i matak be composer as a leanch at les fe With an adequate tres ant fos Wh
of the Yard roes up 14 pradorkes fold there primcipte It
hole they will appointed, for Cherrill
$
reactile Engash,
the Yard is the story of the kind of hit that is holy development of the
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fingerprint as a means
identification.
The story
Cherrill,
Superintendent
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liv
Fiel
ove.while
et the Idei- !
teation Borcan of New Scol- loted Yard, whice life the been inextricably
huket
with the
Intory of that migrtant biores
af forende stente Cherrill Cherri
jetned politan Poller Fore
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to
my a hterature
Howevry. All 504 my Егор
fey of very ecoding Cherill of the Yand are likely to look for us biography.-D W.
Invasion
A
"Invasion"- The D-Day ift Brit. Story in Pictures, (publish-
Metro-ed the
by the London Daily 1914 Express and on
safe in the anci during the forty years Colony only at
the Hong that he was with the Force, he
cirsen kong and Kowloon oflices of was involves! in many which set precedents for finger- the South China printa
Morning
as certam Post Lid, $7.50). to be used evidence of identification,
Here is the tragic but Triumphant story of D-Day,
memorable day that
He recounts many v1 there caces in his book, ike the first
pist Jury
w
Arxi The
time Hugerprints were The test before Scottish Co
tape an wis ernviele.i
an English court by mes 136 a palmprint.
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Ja
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Generals
One broker gave me the answer to my question this way: "the fact that there was no excitement shows that either we are getting hard-boiled about these happenings
GE
AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY|
Montevideo, July 29, . and Uruguay signed trade and paymeĀJAĒS agreements designed to Increase commercial' inter- chante between both
countries.
were
The
agrecimenta concluded by Uruguay'n Bank of the Republie and Russia's niste bank.
The
calls
for
tradie agreement shipments
of
oll, coal, nowa. print, chemical products, machinery and lumber. In exchange, Uruguay will ably meat, raw hides and wool.
Bank of the Republic President, Alberto Zubiris, signed for Uruguay and commercial counsellor
Gavrit Jolley of the Russian legation signed for Russin. -United Press.
else we stubbornly refused to believe that calamity HONGKONG
was at hand."
www
vife
of day when Hongkong was
with rumour that 1wu mor°C rbol down. artines had been Again, yesterday morning there on the market a seure
the Arst news of the Jaunch
broke. ning Police
brokers Immediately * the conclusion that
This is probably true the investurs but there are the brokers themselvest 1 consider who frequently bay The grim battle rotunde of and sell shares on their own
by the necount and who must Pranved
he inevitable cockney bamour of influenced considerably by the Tominjer The true facts of
spot news, the var ions are all there.
They
musl have remarkable restraint Ha bank which records one It wa! pre-atomle 1.alter Me destruction and Javor it brought to the German free and to the whole of skilfully portrayed Europe-all
bek-stands challenge to us all to take up the call of Field Marshal Mont- Eሱ gomery in the foreword "o forward with confidence towards our objective of lasting pence; free, united, strong.
This
45 a
World
STOCK EXCHANGE
(From Our Correspondent) Business done on the Hong it had been sunk by Commun- let muntre-for, you see, during
Stock kung
Exchange this on Tues-hear
the morning or afternoon calls. morning amounted to $599,628.
Noon Corally
quotations and brokcas
hear
Whir the
transactions; Bendlines but not the news and ring's
BRAREN BUYERS SELLERS SALES newspaper headlines can be
BANKS Al lengt Kk XD 1015 1835 from reading them,
Fat Asia one enzi
104 INSURANCES" draw a number of conclusions,
Vesiese
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Cotton milling at times.
Markets
New York, July 20 Collon futures today showed an over-tone sr sendiness umed quiet mixed dealings.
nurrow
Anyway the market 3 O winde acted very correctly and Potrubly during this whole
aflair. For the air of lee House well have been Strcct might Aled with the cries of "Sell. The book has been given an
Sell, Sell" especially after the various withdelative tone fur
Prices backed and filled
down of shooting
The twu official sources Including the within
but Communist range
alecraft by the War Ofler, the Cabinet Office,
managed to keep slightly above | American navy fighters. the US. Amy and Navy, the the previous elise most of the Canadian Ariny etul the In-time. perial War Museum helped the Daly Express staff to prepare and assemble the work.
The picture-story tells of the preparation for "Overlord," the crate naine given to the D-Day
reutike demand,
SLIGHTLY BETTER Buying was not aggressive, but
This week the market tone with sellers holding back, pend-
has been slightly belter end ing fur her crop developments,
prices moved up fractionally all State action on the farm bitt, prices were sensitive to they some selling pres- sure developed yesterday but In the opinion of some brokers Invasion, the part played by the At the close the list ruled up
by Air Force and the Navy in the & 10 off གྲུ points. Opening could have been caused
ae- normal end-of-the-montli This is essentially a human preparations for the landing. prices were unchanged to off 4 justinents-a story of the men of the Allied, the dreadthal battering of the points.
pretty Futher Orleans closed euphemism
used this American forces on the Omaha unchanged to up 6
by brokers points.
and the business world gener- beach-head. The lromatic Trading volumes and open ally which simply landing und
forces who took part in
į huge amphilius "peratem and who fought in the great allies In the course of his study of for the Hoch-heacts on the coast the flugerprint, Cherrill became of France, and of their women- convinced
17 thinit: its folk who
as nurses to came Infallibildy
offend the wounded. It is a glow-! Identification. If at times be ing tribute to every branch vị seems a le over-anxious the Allied Army, Navy and
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convince his readres, it can be: Air Force which took part excused because it coines from this mighty venture. one why has long fought
fight for the Angerprint before] infantrymen, sceptical lawyers,
they
It is the
The
paratroopers,
rank of
011
one
In
io Field to Seaman
Air
10
the
relentless
advance of the Allies up to the time of the conquest of Caen and Cherbourg,
New
interests in the Exchange today were:
Montb
Ou
Mar.
Juk
Det
Dee
Total
5 not u
E.ch chapter has been dave- taded pericetly to give a superb story of cappers.
dnbid product. It commandos
story of the British Army but 241673
from
Ha tribule to the Allied ffort Private The question often occurs Marshal, A
and all who contributed towards *What my the chances of
¡¡ts success. Marsh, Ordinary Anger making an impression Admiral, ant identical with the print of an other Anger?" To that Cherrill has been able to reply. "One da a seplilica."
What is
of "backroom
vast army The book has been published boys'
withoutį to mark the tenth anniversary of who tremendous organization the actual invasion. It is a story D-Day would have murely that will live In everyone 9 failed.
Gue of the greatest The book largely consists of erosades for freedom of all time.
- H. 1,000,000,000,000,000 200.000,- pletures and on the whole they
sepilition?
It
000. As Cherrill puts it: "Some
idea of the ostronomical nature.
of this figure can be leaned
from the computation
that
every inhabitant of this globe started at this very moment to make three strokes with a every second
or
pen
of
a penell their lives, by the time they had made a septillion of marks would-It
between them they
they survived-find themselves In the year 8,001,054 or there-
abouts."
Together with Superintendent
Harry Battley, Cherril origin-
ated and perfected the Single
Fingerprint System In 1930.
New
| meriry as
Hope For Millions With
Liver Diseases
New York, July 29.
A new hope for millions of people throughout
Prior to that time, Augerprints the world who suffer from liver diseases is offered
were fled in ten-finger coller-
1lons. Since
Open Interest
28.100
Volume
* $30
NR,300
19.00)
410,00
378300
£130
106,609
1100
02,300
100%
IN GOO
Jav 200
1700 800 bales
NEW YORK PRICES
New York, July 29. Prices of cotton futures today. closet as follows:---
DOCKS, ETC.
K Whart
Dock Provident
003)
45 350
#30 - 002
Synthetic Rubber Plants Will Have
To
Meet Needs
New York, July 29.
Some economists in the rubber industry here are convinced that increased world needs for rubber will have to be supplied by new synthetic rubber plants rather than by natural rubber plantations in the Far East.
Such new synthetic construction may be needed as early as 1956, if requirements rise rapidly as a result of boom conditions, or if the supply of natural rubber is cut off or reduced by unsettled conditions on the rubber-growing planta- tions, it is stated.
Dean
One economist, M: Carson, Director of the Bureau) of Research of the B.F. Goud-) rich Co., has just returned from A visit to the rubber growing] plantations Malaya, Ceylon,; Sumatra and Indo-China,
Mr Carson, according to press reports, said he was convinced that naturoi rubber output
1900 would be higher than it f was today and conceivably il could be lower if disturbed con- ditions continued to prevail.
REPLACE PLANTS
WALK
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
New York, July 29. Action in a few special Issues highlighted a higher, moderately active stock
expected, Mr Carson said,
About the best that could be market today.
Bethlehem Steel was a contre that the
rubber-growing areas of Interest throughout the would make enough new plant-session. ings to replace old and dis- It rose more than a point in eased plants,
early dealings as traders specu- lated on news to come out of the
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In some areas, as in Ceylon, directors' meeting late he said, some new planting was day. going ahead bul output would The
gain was completely be no higher in 1980 than now, erased when directors ordered since 11/12 years were required only the usual dividend, despite after planting to reach fulf pro-higher earnings, then it rullied duction,
slightly, closing up point of Bethlehem Chairman Gruce,
until waking the market closed. an-
Underwriter 7:30 SHIPPING
Waterbout
20
10.00
some areas,
112,00 1.00
13
declared, strikes
and
production
Mr Carson $77% - were frequent Eugene had
declined after
7. 7 30 1030
720
5000
1
sharply.
it was not
10 100G *
9.05
Sm Duck Wherlock
LAND, ETC HK Hotel 1K Lond Shot Laud Humphreys It ty UTH.ITUS
hnt Xnדיני
31 112 1000 i EU, 1.45
1950 194 -2.071b
1000 F 1
.. 10 10 70 3050 19),
Star Ferry 332
Ynal Forty 140 140
dis-
In view of the risks,nounced the Company is
merger plans with surprising that in-cursing
Sheet
Ttube & vestment in new plantings had Youngstown
Youngstown closed a lower at been curtailed.
632
1960 CONSUMPTION
By 1980, Goodrich economists 805 19.60 estimate, world consumption will | total about three million tons of which 1.0 mullon will be
c. x 1 1 Maccounted for by the United
C Light (N) 13
Electric
Telranc *7 70 24 INDUSTRIALS
Cemeik
OD 17.bo 1500 13 States. Or the three million 4013.10 tons in requirements, 1.6 to 1.7 333 to 39million tons will be provided by
3100 33
natural rubber. The balance of 1.3 100 27,00
to 1.4 million tons will 000 23.00 have to be supplied by synthetic
rubber
Present
low- plants. ancun that STOUES. ETC.
cast capacity for Bynthetic some people have been buying
23.09 0.10 500 200 rubber in the U.S. ta 860,000 up too heavily during the month and are now selling to clear up cOTTONS bank overdrafts,
Looking at tilties yesterday. tha w. the picture: Electrics werd
a doliur down
al stage before they recovered to $32. Earlier this week several lous changed hands at $91.
Farms at $251⁄2 wore down 30 cents on the day to finish at
Dairy
Watson
EMO
23 20 23 70 BOO 4 23
600 20
10 10.90
tons.
310 150
7.10 1.30
MISCELLANEOUS
Yangize
G00
8.00
4 4,03 300G 12
4
Textiles
Aalea
CHICAGO GRAIN
MARKET
Chicago, July 20 Grains were mixed an
$25 and 90 cents lower than Board of Trade today.
Spart
35.400
むいた
34.37
Dee
•lik
Bhe week's
M
34.72
ten cents
Mar Juir
3470
315lb
33.07
1
13 14
NEW ORLEANS PRICES
New Orleans, July 29, Prives at collon futures today closed as follows-
Spot
34 30
Get
34.33
Dee.
34.93
Mor
35.73
34 70
July
$44.00
0:1
43 70
Dee
$1.09
high. Lights were
on the day, Wheat was
the
the For
The 1.6 million tons of natural or synthetic rubber that will be needed by 1980 in the United States elons representa a gain of 28 per
current cent over
it is levels of consumption, stated.-China Mall Special.
World Rubber
Markets
lower
supported, export Trams at $19% were 30 cents dealers buying against sales of down on the week's high. US hard wheat to Western Ger- Telephones at $27.70 are down many. The European country 50 cents
week's high bought on the
700,000 bushels of
Singapore, July 20. but were 20 ecals better today. bread grain this morning
The market opened coster on August shipment and is expect- lack of demand from trade and However, Cements are doing cd to buy an additions: three-only small factory interest. Some well. They sold at $22.80 yester million bushels soon.
liquidation by holders and buyers mainly confined to short cover- clay pad they have been very strom and active all this week.
anding. The higher prico
Future closings: and corn No. 1 rubber per 1b. Aug. 8315-00
Sept. 65-(@ Oct. opening today,
unquoted
Rainfall
Favourable earnings reporis continued to bolster the market and industrials 11.9 IL group closed up more than 1 point on average and at a new high since Oct. 18, 1929.
GOOD EARNINGS Rails moved narrowly for the most part with declines in Д Jew lastics pulling tho Average down
ke cents, Utilities rose fractionally to 11 new bigh since July 6, 1991.
General Molors, responding to
earnings ita good
repart climbed a point, Issues of watch manufacturers continued strong
tariff boost. on the
Hamuton common rose a polat, the 'pre- ferred 51⁄2
Aircraft did well, with Douglas and Grumman up nearly
a point, Lockheed 14% higher and Republie up 134.
There were strong spots J13
olls.
Continental gained Standard Oil of California
the
13.
Ralls moved narrowly.
Out of a total of 1,231 ismiÐS traded, 500
higher, 374
lower.
wero
Volume for the session amounted to 2,710,000 share, compared with 2,740,000 yester- day.
The New York Stock Ex- change bond volume Wus $3,340,000,
American Stock Ex- volume was 040,000
DOW JONES AVERAGES
New York, July 29. Daw-Jones closing averages 016-67 on Wall Street today were
follows:
5109-10
In central is probably northern fills set off heavy due to better production figures celling vi soybean and the favourable prospects of futures at the LIVERPOOL MARKET
supplying concrete for the news and these grains never recover- No. 2 rubber por ib. Aug. 08001 Liverpool, July 28,
reservoir project wd Increasing ed enough ground to match Na. 3 No. 4 Closing prices, American exports to Borneo. This com- yesterday's closing levels. Spes rubber unbaled middling cotton 15/18 inch, In
hos pany
A fairly generous
Wheat clered up 1% to 3% | Blinket crepe pence per Ib, were as follows dividend record and brokers cents; roybeans off 14 to up 1 No. 1 pale crepe
31,90
1 balleve that if the year's carn- cents. 31.30 Ings prove to be as good us At Winnipeg. wheat was cents & bushel 13 present figures suggest it would priced at 182
to not be unreasonable ex- for No 3 Neathern, and for No pect an increase in the dividend, it was at 158 cents.. or a bonus issue.
bet./Nov.
Dec/Jan.
Mar/Apr
May/June
July/Aug
31.00
Oficial prices for spot cottons In- cluded:
American misting
15/10th inch
7 inch
33.34
30.20
criminals usually by the modern therapy that has developed since Mexican tildeling 1-4/32 mich 12 29
only leave print or
11
two
behind, the task of searching anti-biotics were discovered.
for such tell-tale marks among Liver diseases are much deadlier killers than
the ten-finger collections proved
Cthers were unchanged,
HAO PAULO PRICES
São Paulo, July 20. Prices of cotton futures today
follows:
Oct.
Dec.
Mar.
May
July
(In
23.00
24.70
25.35
25.30
23.20
to be colossal and uneconomical. Some of the more dreaded diseases. In Bolivia, closed in cruzeiros per kilo as for example, diseases of the liver and bile duct killed almost twice as many people as cancer in a recent year. In Japan, in 1950, there were almost The two principal features of seven times as many deaths from just one liver the Single Fingerprint System are, Arst, the fling of prints disease - cirrhosis than there were from in- separately, as opposed to the
den-finger, system, and, second, the application of a moro inten- alve system of classification of. the individual prints. The system has now been adopted through out the world,
fluenza.
UNSPECTACULAR
Banies have been unspectacu-
average price of 15/10 middling the company
the United States, the overhende which is
cotton, at 10 designated spot times.
In India, hundreds of Infants; anübloties as Terramycin may totalled 14,547 bales.) between 6 and 18 months of age protect
die every year from infantile disence,
Presa.
from
the
CHICAGO PRICES
Chicago, July 20 Prices per burhjel ki centa
Cloxing Prices
2004
Dec.
May
Spot
chango shares.
The
AA
60-603
30 Industrials
340.15
0534-00
20 rails
119.4m
35 Guiltles
00.01
NEW YORK MARKET
CS locks
129.73
40 bonda
101.04
Comm. futura price index 112,03
New York, July 20. Rubber futures today closed
----United Prous,
26 to 30 points lower with gales New York Sugar
of 87 contracts,
A quiet terminal market trade passed between dealer interests. While commission houses and other traders marked time,
The spot market ruled dull with consumer Interest Jacking, 207-5
Ras Spot No. 1 were quoted 2116-1 213 nominally 23% cene a pound. 2114-211 Future closings:
1031
September December
103-1031%
March
May
July
12{' 1's
110-31742 12116
7426-15
September
LONDON MARKET
23.70% 24.30
London, July 20 The rubber market was quiet with No. Ray spot' easier at 20% pence per lb. Pricas:- 2300
No. 1 apot How .................... 2011-2012 * 319-219 214.294 Battlemens house term: 20792-893
lar but steady this week, The Wheat. No. 2, red
Spot same can be said of Unions.
Wharves and Docks
are Bopt. 207 (11) 205 12 keeping up well in anticipation Mar of à relaxation of trading re- strictions. Following the recent Coru. No. 2, yellow retrenchments, Wharves are sept. saving about $75,000 a week on Dec. help to Mar. May In these difcult
Ryo Sept. marketa was 34,54 cents a pound.
Tho
have Dec. Morden Group Salca at these contres
Just steady. been
Actually Oats United Wheelocka
Sept. are slightly lower Dec children
on the week but brokers be- soybeans, No. 2, yellow lieve that the group's shares Spot
Sept. will gain more favour in Sep JAUNDICE
LONDON STOCK
tember
the dividend when The liver disease, infectious
Jan. indicate that antibiotics can save hepatitis-called Cherrl's
Jaundice by
Some Mar. MARKET
approaches.
May brokers have the feeling, too,
Barley book, the réøder relives many Krishna Rao of Bangalore writes many people-has caused serious
iliat after Yangtsze's 70 centi of the most sensational murders
London, July, 20.
Spot in England in tho
the Annals of the New York epidemics in many parts of the
The Suez Canal agreement dividend, Wheelocks may pay New York Hour decades, like the murder of Academy of Sciences that after world. There is no established
200 lbs, raolt... Infectious hepatitle. galvanised into life the usually good Anal this year, "French Marie" and the murfrealment with Terramycin and cure for
However, encouraging resulta quiet market in Egyptian Rubber shares have been in- food supplements "...children. ders commilled by the "Black-
were
observed by the Chilean securities, bringing inquiries clined to drift lower after out Jupper, And in more than who would have died otherwise
Drs it. Ducci and from Egypt as well as from indecisiveros during the last physicians, one case the tender alscovers are glill alive.”
R. Khiz, who state in the US residents of the United King-two weeks. that if it had not been for some Another discose affecting the journal
that dom.
Amsterdam, July 26, Gastroenterology. small carelessness
for the Market.. prospects. on the part liver, kwashiorkor, is probably Terramycin, given, together with
The rubber market was quiet. Banie of the criminal, he would never the most destructive of all the hormone cortisonó,
loft future some good Barring Ap
Musibons', was done th the, Bogati #ripes, closed, today i in guilders hayo been brought to justice.
political momento angrango ses that attack children saved young hopathia patients eloon, inrecorded at the time, of further incidents of
haversos, it is unlikely the morning at lite folowing, Inter:- po kilogram_GIF /N2.1
́0.76 | Koflodun? While Cherrill of the Yard Although it was first noted in critically and
unchanged 20.1 mol will drop much for boton por DDA NOCH with Brypt, Debenture #25 Il in a world-wide, ilireat, | "in our largo;
Reading through
last few
cirrhosis, a degeneration of the liver. Recent reports, however,
these children's lives. Dr P.
Fatjonal
#HOMES.CO
Hopt Det/Dec. 2001-200 Jah/Mar
Apr Fune
General markoja, dif bail, portf AUR.
110-100
$14.201 -United Prou.
Bepi.
Ort.
Exchange Rates
Estate repo thick
Market
New York, July 29. World No. 4 sugar futures today closed unchanged to 2 points lower with sales of 91 contracts.
Domestic No. 6 zugar futures. I point lower to 1 point higher- with raies of 103 contracts.
World futures crased ja lino: with the softer tone of the raw market. Traders meanwhile con❤ tinued to awalt developments at aimed at tha
Cuban cenferences arresting the declining trend in Faw sugar.
In domestic raw market, pro- - ducers reportedly are urging the Secretary of Agriculture to cut quotas by at least 100.000 tons to check a declining trend. Future closings: Contract No. 4 (world)
September October
January
unquoted
March MAY July
thin 1455
AMSTERDAM MARKET
Spot-icenta per ih, fobi Cube Open interest: 2012 contracts. Contract No. 6.
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March
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Indo-China plastros (par 100) 7,20
small amounts of such recovery, after come.
at the moment,
United PreSE,