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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1960.
Weekly survey of American economy
GAINS STILL HOLD STEADY
No reaction to summit collapse yet
New York, May 22.
U.S. economic gains held steady this week and it was too early to estimate what effect, if any, the collapse of the Paris summit talks will have on American business..
Big commitments Mergers result in Japan-Malaya in active Wall Street trading
trade agreement
From
GORDON HUNG
Kuala Lumpur, May 20. Japan's drive for economic leadership in Southeast Asia has been brought one step closer with the signing of a trade agreement with Malaya after three months of negotiations in the Federal capital.
The first reaction, almost an U.S. trade will fall to the levels automatic reflex, was that in- of the cold war after showing a dustries with defence contracts promising spurt late last year were bound to profit. It was and early this year. Commerce shown in the premature spurt Department figures showed U.S. at defence stocks on the Ex-exports in the first quarter of change on Wednesday.
1960 totalled $35.4 million as
This is Malaya's second trade] and Trade (Gatt) the escape At the same time, however, against $30.5 million in the last pact since independence. The clause-barring certain Japanese the Defence Department told quarter of 1958. Imports from first was signed with Australia goods is a powerful political
bloe totalled по imthe Communist Congress there was
and negotiations will eaen begin lever with which Japan may mediate need to boost defence $18.2 million in the last quarter between Malaya and New Zea-urge other countries to follow
a result of the of 1959 with figures for this year and for the Federation's third the Malayan example. spending as Paris developments. The De unavailable so far.
It does not follow that be- Defence Secretary, Mr The threat to East-West trade trade pact. puty
With the signing of the 11- cause Malaya has come off better The Commerce just as Douglas, actually presented a came
sharp point trade agreement, Malaya is Japan has come off worse: The Senate Appropriations sub Department reported a
which may have revised improvement in the US, balance likely to beneft greatly from Japanese bear won two concer- Committee with
which Japanese agricultural and tech-alons payments deficit budget calling for a reduction
to of $500 million in the Defence totalled only about $600 million nical know-how, which will be reaching consequences.
implement the million M$1,000 Department's money request of in the first quarter of 1960. This needed would last January.
mean an anual rate so Federation's far of some $2,500 million, far second Five Year Plan.
The Malayan Minister of Com below the 1959 deficit of $3,700
Industry, million. The U.S. defcit in the merce
$840 Mohamed Khir Jobari said that first quarter of 1959 was
the agreement would pave the million.
way for an expansion of trade on both sides.
Just
policy
Some.
Cruses
szoner
+
Not known
this
how permanent will be is not known. defence spending in- were bound to show laler. One of the or immediate results of Paris was a report that the early distant warning belt, particularly in Greenland, was to be completed one year ahead of schedule.
Another development, trade experts agreed, will be that
London remains firm
London, May 22.
of
Extended
The comparatively good per- formance abroad was more than extended by American domestic economic developments.
consumer
a
and
ENCOURAGEMENT
M:
The Japanese Ambassador here said the agreement would ensure greater flow of Japanese capital as well as scientific and technical knowledge into Malaya. Under the pact, both govern- ments have agreed to:
He added that it would also encourage more joint Malayan- Industrial production in April Japanese trade ventures especial was unchanged from the March1y joint industrial undertakings. total, ending a three-month de
The Federal Reserve eline. Board said increased output of goods offset further cuts in steel production to keep the April figure at 100 per cent. of the 1957 average. This was two points under the 111 per in registered cent record January. Measured by the old 1947-49
buse, the April index would stand at 165.
Retail sales and automobile production helped to sustain the total productivity level, the former by an increase of about four per cent, the latter by Loest of some three per cent,
another development, the Department
Summit wrangling in Paris Commerce
RN-
B
halted a five-session ad-pounced eash dividend payments
by
corporations in April amount-
Extend "most-favoured- nation" treatment in tride, exchange control, immigra- Lion and shipping: Prevent dumping of natural and synthelle rubber or kin from any third country which threatens Malaya's exports to Japan; and
Bold consultations should the high level of Malaya's exports of natural rubber and iron ore declise,
vance in share prices and fed to $800 millon, on increase In immediate economic ad- caution took the buoyancy of eight per cent over a year i vantage, the Federation has the
from industrials.
the
Dealers fell howeger market took the summit break- up in good style, disclosing a
sound underlying position.
The
but
ago. The total of cash dividends in the first four months of this year reached $4,200 million.
Personal income Personal income, spurred by week ended subdued steady with the index seasonal gains, climbed to a re-
above ..slightly
Thursday's cord high in April. running at an figure. The volume of business annual rate of $397,400 million. Bye This was $34,000 million ahead light through the was
of March and $18,400 million dealing days.
above the year-ago level. securities Government favour and receded in the quiet market. Foreign bonds attracted little
Jost
New car sales in the first ten days of May (automobile sales are measured by "thirds" of month) increased
edge over Japan. Although trade in both directions is likely to expand, the bigger immediate increase is bound to be in Japanese purchases from the Federation, so that the trude gap will grow in Malaya's favour.
EXPORTS TO JAPAN
Last year, Malayan exports to Japan totalled M$359 million- almost three times as much as which from Japan imports tatailed -M$124.3 million.
EMBARRASSMENT
New York, May 22. Meetings, mergers and margins swayed stocks during the past week, generating the most active trading and the best railroad market of 1960.
HONGKONG
STOCK
EXCHANGE
Ex
Two railroad mergers-Chesa
British equipment used in outer space research
London, May 22. BRITISH equipment was used in further research inte conditions obtaining in outer space by Bonn University Observatory, which will soon begin an intensive investigation of temperatures
peake & Ohio plus Baltimore & prevailing in interstellar gas.
teleprinter
Ohio, and Atlantic Coast Line
Special amplifying equipment plus Seaboard Air Line Rail-
employing travelling wave tubes way-stimulated buying in rails.
was manufactured for the Uni- World's smallest These unions will be consum-versity by Marconi's Wireless mated if the Inter-State Com Telegraph Co. Ltd., of Chelms- merce Commission and their ford, England. This consists of a stockholders vote favourably, dual channel amplifying system The Summit meeting collapse incorporating,
two travelling save the market a tiny chill wave tubes in cascade in each from which it recovered swiftly channel. under the lead of defence Issues -aircrafts, electronics, rockets, fuels.
With
market credit down sharply, experts guessed the time is not far off when the Federal Business done at the Hong-Reserve will reduce the current to 70 per kong Stock Exchange this morn-0 per cent margit far-ing amounted to spproximately cent or even to 50 per cent. || $3,743,000. Noon quotations This helped the rise along.
and the morning's transactions:
STRAIGHT GAINS
SHIPPING Wheelock DOCKS, ETC. K. Whart Dock
B40
#
gha.rea
Bayers Bellers Saira
HC Backs
1245
1270
1.20
1
1.20
117
17
110
21.70
25.80
70
21.00 21.80
€112
62
In the body of the treaty - BANKS self, Japan appears to have es- tablished an important shipping precedent by securing the right to ply freely for international trade. Since coastal trade is ex- cluded and the Federation is
maritime important power, this will have no adverse effect here..
But should there later be hopes of a regional shipping en- terprise, the Japanese foothold could cause difficulty.
Provident
Taikoo Dock
LAND, ETC.
HKC Hotel
However, the treaty will last for three years and thereafter until terminated or, presumably, HK Land...
amonded. J
:
Good trade
in cotton
grey goods
and
4:09
40:4
5
60%9
6031
42
London, May 22. ⠀ /THIRTY-TWO countries The radio telescope, a para-.
have so far ordered a bolic mirror of 83 feet diameter new high-performanca tele- mounted on a pyramidal tower printer, smaller and lighter about 60 feet high, scans the sky than any other commercial- picking up the cosmic continuum radiation emanating from galac-ly available today. The tic and extra-galactric radio machine will be exhibited sources under observation.
by Greed and Co., of Croy- AMPLIFIED
don, Surrey, at the British Exhibition in New York next month.
This is Creed's new Model "75" teleprinter.
One of Europe's leading sup-
Com telegraphic pilers of munications equipment, Creed hus machines in service. with government and private (US-
The signals in the neighbour Industrial shares registered hood of the hydrogen line fre- eight straight gains in the Dow-quency-1420 Me/sare am- Jones average and closed at plified by one pair of travelling wave tubes, the other pair being 625.25 up 8.21 points, third tres:
used to amplify reference noise again of the year.
Railroad issues, which on May signals from a resistor at a 18 set a new low since Septem-known temperature. ber 18, 1958, at 137.08, have
The outputs from the two tomers all over the world. The amplifying channels are de- frm is also actively engaged in tected, integrated and compared the development and manu- and the effective cosmic tem- facture of an advanced line of perature determined; from these punched tape equipment for the data contour maps are prepared. data processing and automation.
fields.
risen in six of the eight, sessions 3 since then, closing the week at
149.91 up 4.44 points.
Utilities pursued a do-nothing course and Anished the week at 89.18 off 0.01 from the previous $1's week, The average for the 65 stocks in the three averages 0015
rose 3.09 points to close the sis week at 208.38.
The week was marked by
of wide
súveru!! movements groups in addhipa to the rails 2005 and defence issues
2.05
Oils had a good week with 7.36 marty traders concluding the group had been oversold. Autos market for a 3.60 enjoyed a good
Humphreya
Realty
2
2.06%
251%
25.40 2536
RUBBER Ambie
1.30
77.29
0,08 D.20
1.87 9.10
Sugala
Java-Consol.
B
UTILITIES
2234
179
180
Trust
Tom Star Ferry Yandi
C. Light
* 2*
Electric
38.70
STORES, ETC.
Watson ..... Lane, Craw.. Emporium COTTONS Textkien Nanyang MISCELLANEOUS Gimana INVESTI
New York, May 22. Cotton grey goods buyers
this week contracted for Telephone
of HK Gas good-sized amounts industrial heavyweight INDUSTRIALS
Cement fabrics while interest in
Rope the lightweight apparel
Dalry type cloths languished. Fabric used by the automobile industry received the best play, Secondary attention featured a demand from sportwest manu- facturers for the fabrics usually going the upholstery drapery trade.
With the rising rate of auto sales production this week Alled Trade between the two coun- reached the highest level in about tries has been rising since in three months-weavers of ourt- 188,000, a gain of five per cent dependence, millin total trade ing fabrics commenced to count over the Brst third of April and was M$337.8 millica and last en a steady flow of orders from Detroit as carmakers prepared 6.5 per cent over the first third year it was $493.3 million.
Malayan exports to Japan in for the 1981 models. of May in 1959.
Buyers of print cloths and These results whetted the ap- 1959 were: Rubber, $141.4 million;: pelite of car matters who turned-iron ore, $120 million; and tin other apparel fabrics marked
estimated. 150,649 $5.7 million. Maia Imports from time. Features were absent from out
were: a Japan
Textiles, $21.9 cars last week, Gold mining shares and carly passenger steadiness gave place to drifting.gain of almost six per cent from million; iron and steel products, Coppers ignored the better price the previous week. It was the $15.1 million; and manufactured-
Buyers probing the market for for the red metal and generally highest weekly car output in articles, $4.9 million,
Perhaps the most dramatic of price concessions on third and eased. Tins lost some of their more than two months and this bounce, but diamonds tended to week brought the assembly of Japan's undertakings is "to ac-fourth quarter deliveries found go Armer on the annual report the four millionth car from the Diamond Corporation. 1060 model year. The comportunity of competing for the bids.
Olls were erratic with narrow parable car of the 1959 year was total foreign exchange allocation the unfiled movements and the leaders lost not. built June 15. fractions over-the week.
interest
but
Japanese and Greck issues im-
proved
kept
Marking-up tactles dollar stocks in step with Wall Street and most issues
on the uptrack.
Rubber
maintained
moved
their
headway and teas were quietly mixed.--UPI,
Commonwealth airlines to pool services
London, May 21,
Airlines are planning to pool opera- tians in Afries from next Octo- WWE, it was announced here today.
Four Commonwealth
ап
to
Steel setback
of the
INDIFFERENT
S
time, helped by a rise to a three- week high in the week's outpat
The research programme at Their new model "5" tele- Bonn University Observatory is printer will be seen in operation being carried out under the in the official British Gover- direction of Professor Becker, ment exhibit at New York. who is assisted by Herr Heinz G. Muller.
The travelling wave tubes used were manufactured by the English Electrle Valve Co. Ltd.
LPS.
of cars, better than expected de- Unusual claim
138 mand for compacts which led
220 General Motors to announce it
will produce
compacts in the for switchgear
29 new season in Buick, Oldsmo-
28.80 bile and Pontiac Lines to sud-
26,00
28.70 plement Chevrolet's
Corvair.
A long list of specials mede wide gains. At the same time
N
This will be a central prestige display reserved for outstanding examples of British scientific and engineering achievement for which exhibits have been selected on merit alone.
The Creed teleprinter which will be on show is the first end basic unit of a new integrated range of equipment. It has been engineered not only to meet the most complex needs of modem telegraphic communications sys- tems but also lo cater for the Growing number of applications
An unusual claim is made cassig and factory a dodamo
for the new CEC
automation. The new machine is strikingly. It small by comparison with femper compact '15" 51 exceeded gains in several ses-is that the switchfuses, teleprinters. A
wide by 13" deep by 11" high- initially available in 15. 30 the size of an crdingey type- "Quickening of trading restored and 60 amp, 440 volt a.c. wriler-it can be installed in
many issues receded and losses "Hidutac" switchgear,
ions.
28.80 confidence in many sections of
32
2015
17
13.80 13.00
13.00
62 5216
181
28.80 29.20
29,30
24.30
41 413%
8.10
10.70 15,00 16.80
15.00
2.24
8.40
29.20 the financial district. Not long ratings, with either H.RC. restricted areas which preclude Leo the daily volume was slip or semi-enclosed rewireable the use of other machines.
Five of the new printers con 41 ping to a lavel arcamd the fuses, are capable of "un- In fact, be accommodated in Little break-even point for many Wallfimited full load switching." more than the area needed by Street houses.
FIRESTONE WORKERS
WALKOUT
only two former models... Volume for the week amount-
This claim is based on type: The weight has gone down to ed to 19,725,000 shares, most tests, which have shown that the only 35 lbs., about half the since the week ended March 20,
units are in good working order former average.--LPS. 1059, when it was 21,612,740 after 100,000 mechanical opera- shares. Daily average volume tions and after 50,000 operations amounted to 3,946,072 shares.
at 50% overload controlling New precision against an average of 3,084,194 tungsten lamp load with high shares in the previous week. inrush current. The switchfuses -UPI.
Decrease in French
Akron, May 21. Firestone Tyre and Rubber said that tyre building opera- ons at the No. 1 plant here
statisticians figured of rubber workers.
order position of
A company spokesman said der canned pineapples." Pre-the mills at end-Merch was the walkout followed suspeni viously, Japan has allowed only equal to 16:11 weeks' production, sion. of 80 employees for a Taiwan tinned pineapples to be Cotton cales yam spinners re- work stoppage earlier this imported. This move will be a ported spasmodie · buying, but week The strikera indicated The only major black stain on big shot in the arm for the alling with the overall bookings on the that they may not retum unt the business picture continued pine industry in Malaya, which quict side.
the suspension expire on Map to be steel, which scheduled is suffering from a bad slump Hard fibres featured a sharp 31 The company sald 550 production this week at the due to successful overseas com-reduction in burlap prices. were involved in the walkout lowest level for any period un-polition in foreign markets. Following the arrival of des- with the rest sent home when affected by, strikes since Christ- Even so it is relatively minor perately-needed rains in the tyre building was suspended- mas time 1958. The American Importance next to those parts Indian-Pakistian Jule-growing China Mail Special Iron and Steel Institute reported of the agreement that assure regions, sacking type burlap on this week's steel output was stable conditions and steady spot dropped back to 12% cents scheduled at 2,042,000 ingot tons growth for Malaya's raw material a yard, down cent from the at an operating rate of 71.7 per sales of rubber, tin, iron ore and peak of the previous week. cent of capacity. That would be bauxite to Japan.
Hemp prices showed softening off more than two points from The spoils for Japan will take tendencies in the face of in- last week's setual operating longer to return. It is even creased offerings. Sisal bizyers rate of 73.8 per cent. It would agreed that if any Japanese pro-held off in face of expected also be the ninth cutback in the duet floods the Malayan market offerings of 10,000,000 pouds of last ten weeks.
to a local manufacturer's dis-the fire from the Government The drop in steel output came advantage, the Japanese Govern-stockpile. hand-in-hand with reports of ment will try to remedy the price cutting on specially alloys situation.
cord to the Federation the op-weavers indifferent to the lower had been, balted by a walkout car output
British Overseas Airways, in the Pittsburgh area and on
South African Airways, Central African Airways and East
reinforcing bars in the South. The Pittsburgh price reductions
African Airways are involved. affected especially some highly
STABILITY
Japan's great economic gain Bone said today the purpose specialised steels used in missle from the treaty is stability,
WOOL INACTIVE
of the "quadripartite pool" and jet engine parts. And Except on a couple of dozen Japanese silk fabric imports
Bank of England statement
Ratio
London, May 22,
The Bank of England state. ment for the week ending May 16 reads as follows Notes incluylation .. 22175,3LE, ASS
10:13 Public deposits. Wool fabrics markete were Private do fractive. Synthetic goods fes-Goverotient pecurities tured limited selling of rayon. Other sourfies filament fabrics.
Bereipis
would be
Items the Federation does not of piece goods in 1959 rose to to "rationalise" the Atlantic Steel Co of Atlanta, alisation
of the
London Georgia, blamed Intense com discriminate against Japanese 78,000,000 yards from 50,000,000 Johannesburg routes, to cut-out petition from imported steel for goods, but bila ya has promisty yards in 1958, acording to the Exchange rates
Silk Council, Inc.. wasteful competition unong reductions of $8.50 a ton not to do in the future; only American themselves and at the same for steel bars used in concrete the door of the Commonwealth However, domestic production Buens was done is the un Le counter competition in reinforcing work, US Steel's preference has been left open, also rose, reflecting an overall of change major the mom
Chicago plant announced it was and this does not bother Japan increase in fextile activity. Out 3. dop)
tog at the following rates:- the continental airline groups..
Integrated planning of the banising one furnace and one for its effect is negligible.
put in the United States of silk - Blerting Botas (pie (210) Malaya's withdrawal of the piece goods last year was quitening notio (png 21). four airlines schedules would open hearth as a result of failing slo provide better services for orders for mass tonnage items application of Article 35 of the 58,000,000 vs 27,000,000
can be 300) Slam toula (pur-150) perching Mall Special. over the last two mouth-t General Agreement on Tariffs i sajuge yarder in 1969.
will also break repeatedly eight chronometer.
times full load current at their maximum rated horse-power for D.T.L. 440 volt squirrel cage motors.
This exceptional performance
A
London, May 22. NEW all-electronic precision pulse source
is achieved by using cam- with a time interval `ac- operated slow break solid silver curacy of the order of a few contacts, the switch element for seconds per annum, and each phase being individually contained within a small enclosed to give maximum pro- tection against Bashover.
.
physical unit, has been de- veloped in Britain.
said to reduce the wide gap, in both performance and cost, which
A breakaway from the con-.
Designated the A.T.E. Crystal Paris, May 21. ventional design approach has chronometer the pulse source-la
of the resulted in & range of switchgear The expansion
French motor industry of usually attractive appear
ance, excellent performance and Interrupted
last small size. month when, for the first time in years passenger car output was less than
Was
for the same month the New automatic scaler
previous year,
A
existe between conventional. mechanical or electro-mechanical clocks and the elaborate but, extremely precise Caesium atomic clock.
The Chronometer employs a crystal-controlled oscillator fo generate a basic frequency
Figure Essued by the French
London, May 22. which is fed to a series of binary Motorcar Industry Federation
NEW combined auto- dividers. The outputs of the today show that production of
dividers are fed to all motor vehicles in Apri
matic scaler and timer, bimary amounted to 120.442
undis incorporating a stabilined separate pulsing relay circuits to produce pulses at the required compared with 194,234 units in high-voltage supply, a high-intervals. The special clecuits March and 126,055 umits in gain input amplifier and are completely transistorised April 1859.
extensive 0-9
Passenger car production in pulse height analyser has end make
plug-in type April was 105,355 units com-been produced by a British prided cingult panels of the The standard Chronometer for Pered with 112,644 in March | firm and 107,050 a year ago,
general applications priduces Commercial vehicle. pulput The scaler may be stopped three square wave pulses in last month was 20,355 units automatically at predetermined tervals of 1, 30 and 60 seconds. against 21,380 in March and counts up to 1,000,000 and a respectively, but other pulse out- 18,087 kk Abril, 1999...
times up
to
puf rates can be provided,
The Federation also disclosed pro determined 100,000 seconds.
The accuracy of the Chrong- that total output during the first
A mtemeter": fácility, in pre-meter is not affected by vibration four months of this year amounted to 499,824 vehicles vided, with push-button selec- or movement, dates the maker, Including 418,274 passenger cars, tion of 1,000 10,000 and 100,000 It is therefore multable for This compared with 440,808 in cunts per-second ranges. The mobile Installations such as cluding 373,627 passenger cars in timer can alternatively be deed military and outside broadcast the same period last your sea second saler with its own ing units, trains, ships and
Industry sources feel that the one height diriminator, the afterart.
135 BIGwing down it expansion last thing system being referencedThe stendent models opera 1597 month was due to recent export to the malinaryquency, al- on 24 volts de but CheaIN.
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American marketerChina Mail for living an external frequency produced to ope po other Amalties encountered on the i though provision le elao, made meters for mobile use can he 115. Spacial.
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