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Washington, Apr. minimum restriction on Japanese manufacturing indus- try, compatible with security, is advocated in a report issued today. by Dr. Edward Acker- man, who was a special consul. tant attached to the Natural Resources Section of General MacArthur's Headquarters in Japan.
to
He advocated Allied action, "not indulgent but understanding," strengthen Japan's economy and raiso her living standards,
In a series of recommendations, Dr Ackerman sald Japan should be granted reasonable access to foreign foods, markets for manufactured
and effective technical assistance should be avaliable,
He said that the reparations pro- gramme should not apply pressure to Japanese food resources, forests and metal mining Industry, should not draw heavily on current production which demanda metala, woods and fibres in quantity.
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REPORT ON
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MR. RIPLEY IS TOLD
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1948.
Believe It Or Not We Have
No Accommodation
"Believe it or not,” said noted cartoonist Robert Ripley yesterday, "I will have to stay aboard ship tonight."
Three nearly identical telegrams from local hotels, replies to cables seeking accommodation for Mr Ripley and his staff of six, had been worded in identical vein.
"Believe it or not," was the gist of these replies, "We are booked solid."
Mr Ripley was not particularly walled, with sero impatience, for an annoyed. He has long since re-editorial rebuff that would, at the
fact himself to conciled
being least, clear up the atmosphere.
The editoriat It
didn't come. stranger than fiction.
board had taken a fancy to his idea and a million dollar business was born.
It was Hongkong, too, that had given Mr Ripley one of his more Important leg-ups on the road to fame, so he would hardly bear the place a grudge.
The Committee of the newly re- organised Hongkong Automobile
Here it was that Mr Ripley had Association have not lost any time In getting down to business and, a dream that gave birth to one of elsewhere in this the best known of his thousands of as announced issue, they have, in conjunction "Believe It or Not" cartoons.
Cleaning
consiltu- Patiently plodding a Automobile with the
a reduced tional along one of our streets at Service, Inauguraled
the turtle-trot pace so common to tariff for car cleaning effeclive as
Bur Central District thoroughfares, from today which will prove a considerable saving to most Mem- Mr Ripley's imaginative mind began to ponder on how long one would bers who have been having their
301 have to wait if all China's cars cleaned in the recognised Hongkong and Kowloon car parks. million--that was many years ago. tariff for Members and there are more now-pladded The new
Into divides ears
three categortes by.
A RAINSTORM and the monthly car cleaning charges will be:-Large cars (over
To-day, Robert Ripley works as Tipley, Incorporated. Paper-starved London tabloids did not abandon him during the war. His series of cartoons is still food for millions who like their curiosity shocked.
He is today Ripley of the Movie Shorts, Ripley of the Radio grammes, Ripley the producer tomes material.
RUSSIAN PROPOSAL
REJECTED
Vienna, Apr. 30.-The four- power Allied Control Council here today rejected A Sovlot! proposal to restrict and control flights into Vienna by the Wes tern Powers' aircraft.
Replying to a Soviet statement that the proposal was made to in- creare safely, the American High Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Keyes, auld: "I cannot reconcile this Soviet statement with their insistence on the removal of the American automatie radio beacon"
General Keyes returned here by air today after discussing the Sovlot Lieutenant-General with pinn Lucius D. Clay, the American Mill. tary Governor In Germany, nt Frankfurt yesterday.
He described the Soviet pro- posal for a revision of the regula- tions for flights over occupied zones a "in direct contradiction with the agreement signed by the Sovic: re
London' presentative In Lor
The radio beacon referred to by General Keyes was the one erected. for the safety of corridor flying from the Soviet zone, near the American Pro-airbase at Tulin, near Vienna.
of
The British, French and American Not" High Commissioner today Insisted (on keeping the right to free and flights between their unimpeded
by zones and the Vienna garrison any aircraft considered necessary in support of their mission.
is
It or of "Belleve Its staff inform reporters that the most unbelievable thing they know of in the Ripley organisation Robert L. Ripley himself,
flesh ia human Ripley In the enough. He is 48, slightly deaf, A brainstorm was brewing. Mr and unexcitable. Heavily butt, he 34 h.p.) $13 per month; Medium cars Ripley lay back in bed that night was for a brief spell in the varied (10-14 h.p.) $12 per month: Smaller China's millions wouldn't allow days before he hit upon his special- Ho looke wink. him
He tried counting ty, a professional boxer. cars (under 10 h.p.) $10 per month: The Association is already em
Chief Supervisor and two sheep, Eave it up as a bad job, and and dresses like one. ploying a
He has surrounded himself with started again counting China's mil-
women who and a staff of men lione. Car Park Supervisora, one each at Kowloon and Hongkong. Within a The job was too big for a single- keep telling reporters that they are
not the queerest birds few days all car cleaners co-operat-file count. So Robert Ripley de-
with the Association and clean- cided to regiment the 391 million Ripley organisation, ing and watching under the super-and have them march past in quick
Travelling with him on his vision of the Association. will be step four abreast.
lle worked it out in his mind Enstern visit is the Chief of His Or inued with a special KAA arm-
and reached a startling conclusion, ental Department, Miss Li Ling-ni, A fashionably garmented young band.
star but claims only acquaintance with Chinese opera as her complete stage repertoire.
In the
For
| PATROLS AT JOCKEY CLU This was that if anyone was whim- Chinese woman who looks Ilke a film
HIKAA patrols will, upon request being made to the Secretaries of the Association (Messrs. Peat. Marwick, Mitchell & Co.) in sufficient time, be placed at the disposal of the organi- sers of private and public functions. HKAA patrols will be on duty at the Jockey Club on race days
such B enough to finance sical scheme, a lifetime wouldn't suffice for one man to scan all the 391 million faces.
On a conservative estimate, Mr Just 29,800, 080 Ripley found, Chinese could pass by him, four abreast in quickstep, and say mah (How are you?) for him to be Award movie bound a whole year one spot.
After 36 years the whole of the Flowery Kingdom's population passed by. Then would would have
march of 30 times 31 begin the million more, the latter figure being China's annual contribution to the world's infant population,
that won
the
PRIZE-WINNER A graduate of the University of
Academy Hawail, Miss Li is a talented woman ho who has produced an
short, the famed children's book en- "Kukan", and n
"Children of the Sun in American titled Hawall's
Director of the Drama Institute of Graphic Arts prize,
She was Institute of Fine Arts at Peiping and has studied art al Rome and Vienas. secretary, Mr Ripley's personal Miss Liese Wisse, looks more like So, counting sheep is much easier, something a Hollywood talent seoul Ripley ngrees. In well-missed up on but is claimed to be executed cartoon Mr Ripley startled one of the not so multilingual mem- the world with this Information. bers of the staff. She only speaks Since then he has not bothered to six. are count. sheep or China's millions.
The Committee are most anxious to increase the membership of the as rapidy as possible. Association The registration of names of pre- war members has not been as good was hoped, but nevertheless R5 membership has increased by about
pust six
weeks. 40%
during the However,
the in order to meet costs of n really effeicut organisa- tion It is necessary that the present membership be multiplied several mes. All teen motorists and all
in motoring those interested earnestly requested to send in their names to any member of the Com-saki, " read the Bible before going mittee or to the Secretaries, Messrs Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. with the lenst possible delay.
new
It is hoped to have the automobile badea ready for issue to members within a few days. A very few pre-war badges have been recovered and these have already been issued.
ABDUCTION OF SOVIET COLONEL
(Conitaued from Tage 1) sians directed a protest to the Bre- mcbl authorities. The Russians protested strongly to General Galley at Berlin and on April 30, atter no answer was received, demanded im- mediate ilberation of Licut Col Tas- Rojow."
Mr
to bed."
Mr Ripley Isn't quite sure what "Believe it or not," Mr Ripley curiosity-provokers he will And in Hongkong this trip. Aboard ship he has piles of letters waiting for GOOD POETRY
him from our own Hongkong; com- Pressed for an explanation of this munity all cager to inform him of hed-time habit, Mr Ripley said he something he might have missed up read the Bible because it soothed on in previous trips. "
Some him to read good poetry, times he read John Masefield's seu shaniles for a change.
Asked what he thought about Baron Munchausen, Mr Ripley was slightly annoyed. "The difference between the Baron and myself," he sald, is that he just spins tall tales. I employ a staff of 77 10 check on the accuracy of anything I put out."
Hungary Enters
Second Round
London, Apr. 30.-Hungary
Mr Ripley's approach to the "Be-entered the second round of the leve it or Not" problem has grown with the years since he accidentally European Zone of the Davis Cup stumbled on the series of cartoons competition by establishing a that brought him fame, fortune, and an International reputation.
decisive 3-0 lead over Austría when their first round match As little boy, Robert Ripley
was continued at Budapest to- breakfast-food took solidly to the habits that great baseball
players day.
Brig-Gen. Galley said, "I can only sny that we are investigating the case." He said that he started the up on. investigation as soon as he received
an unsigned Russian memorandum on April 20-United Press.
CROSSWORD SOLUTIONS Solution to Skeleton Crossword on Page 13:-
They will now meet the winners His one ambition in life was to be
All of the Bumanla-France tle, a second Christle Mathewson.
The results were: Asboth (Bun- ho lived for was the day when he
beat Specht (Austria) 0-2. would be
second Mathewson, gary)
Ream 3-2. C-0,
(Hungary) beat another reat pitcher for the New Red1 6-3,-4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Asboth York Giants.
(Hungary) beat Redi His dream did come through but And Feher did not last. He did play one year and Specht 6-2, 6-3, 0-6.
PAKISTAN LEVEL WITH SWISS Pakistan Playing in Montreux, accidental. He had lost the opening singles when their Arst round tie against Switzerland ambitions to be able to speak with began today, S. M. Alam being profound understanding of
the beaten in straight sets by the young world's great literary masterpieces. Swiss player, Max Albrecht. The To this end hoen
enrolled in the latter won 6-0, 6-1, 6-2
with the New York Giants as pro. Then he broke his arm turned to cartooning for a living.
This was
and
Arts and Letters course nt Leland Standford University in California. FREAKS OF CIRCUMSTANCE
Freaks
Pakistan levelled the scores when
their
captain, Ahmed beat Hounders 0-2, 6-4, 8-9)
of circumstance-believe The doubles match will take
In them or not stunted Mr Ripley's place Tomorrow, followed by the academic aspirations. He left Stan- | final two singles-Reuter, ford without a degree but with an overweening curiosity already in-
Solution of yesterday's pruzzic.... Across: 1, Transform; 6, Reser-grown and much sharpened by that voir: 8. Avail; 10. Zip: 12, Verger: 13. Ewe: 15, Photo: 17, Pity: 10, Actor; 20, Aura; 21, Narc.
Down: 1, Traveller; 2, Reversion: 3. Asar: 4, Neighbour: 6, Ooze; 7, Vertical: P. Leopard: 11, Peg: 14. Way out: 15; Para; 16, Oiter; 18, Trip.
orchid.
QUIZ ANSWERS
(a)
type of racy adventurous literature the real thing, believe It or not) that gleams with pictures of John Smith and Pocahonti, Mulvaney and the Shwe Dagon,
A career in pro baseball given up. Robert Fipley took to making a living out of sports cartooning for the New York Globe. He was a capable cartoonist and he knew a good deal about sports.
But even this type of work can
H.K.A.A., the AUTOMOBILE 1. Verdi's "Alda," commissioned get man down. It did get Robert CLEANING SERVICE have by the Khediye of Ervnt. 2. Acces-pley down and one afternoon he over his drawings. agreed to the following monthly, sion to the Throne of King Georges I dawdler long
was fairly charges for cloning H.K.A.A to VI. 3. (a) Plant: (b) star, (e)Scope for Imagination
4.
geese, (b) pigs.mited where sports cartoons were alembers' cars in recognised car
(a) Stams collector, (8), Ta Factual cartooning bad its limits. parks at flang Kong and Kowloon, (c), just wpawned, (d) kittens. concerned.
(c) Doodling with pencil over paper, speech full of invective, student of language, (d) nightingale,
Imagination Mr Ripley gave his 4.
Last The tree reign.
In
brown (e) love of knowledge.
glanced UD nt the "devil was a large team," and to study, he
Consternation seized him. "pay" It was to cover wih plich. 7. clock. Bucket of dry cand, 8. (n) A. J. Time was marching on. The clock Munnings (b) Dame Laura Knight, pointed the press deadline in a few (c) George Bolcher.
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By Order..
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George minutes. D. Gershwin. 10. (a) Three percent
Hurriedly he looked over his (b) 24 percent. 11, Invented arith-
than metle. 12. Steel elty in the Urals, doodlings. Better something
nothing. Be firmed the pencil sketchings, hurriedly strung captions and scrawled "Belleve it or
Printed and published by FarDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN for and on behalf of Not "as u heading.
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