THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 27, - 1948.
Big Plan To Improve British
Industry
ANGLO-U.S. COUNCIL
U.S. Methods To
Be Studied
Paris, July 26-Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, today announced the creation, in the near future, of a joint Anglo-American Ad- visory Council to improve the productivity of British in- dustry.
Sir Stafford said in a press conference here that this had been decided this afternoon at a meeting ho had with Mr Paul G. Hollman, the Economic Co-operation Ad- ministrator.
In
The Council will be composed of representatives of employers and trade union organisations in Britain and the United States. Sir Stafford said: "The Joint Advicery Council will no doubt help British Industry increasing the publication of technical Information and by
facilities for presenting
Britich workmen to oco American methods. FAST CONSTRUCTIVE WORK
The Chancellor said his weekend tniks with Mr Hoffman and the Ministers from other Marshall plan "most cordial and
countries were have been very useful".
"Never before in the constructive work of peace has so much been accomplished in such a short time," Sir Salford sald, rovlowing. the
work of the organisation for European economic co-operation.
A strange car in Fleet-street. Motorists, bus drivers. pedestrians goggle as the car-with-spats—rondster half of the Airphibian-swings into Ludgate-circus on its way to become airborne at Croydon.
.
FLYING CAR RACES TO BOAT SMASH
Robert Fulton's Airphibian, the motor-car that flies, recently passed triumphantly the test set it by by the Daily Express.
Reviewing Britain's trade position TWO BERLIN, by way
during the past year, Sir Stafford wald they had secured a remarkable increase in industrial production. "In the 12 months, the rate of in- dustrial production has increased by about 15 cent," he said.
per
Manufacturing production is at east 25 per cent above 1938, though wa have not yet succeeded in
OFFICIALS SUSPENDED
Berlin, July 26-City officials
bringing up our coal production to today suspended Paul Markgraf, prewar Ogures
These figures, he added, referred Russian appointed Police Presl dent, for improper handling of the abortive Communist nt-
to quantity and not to value.
NO CONFLICT
"
of
to
It drove and flew the 97 miles from Fleot-street to Ryde, Lle
of Croydon and 15 Cowes airports, in two hours minutes just two hours 47 minutes less than it took a motor-car get to Ryda by road and ferry,
Then at Ryde an unexpected sa- signment came. Two pleasure-boats were reported in collision of Brix- To send a reporter ham, Devon.
from London would have taken at least five hours.
The Daily Express
A Car That Tues
Ex-Gangster
Killed
Peoria, Hinois, July 20- Dernie Shelton, a member, of the notorious Shelton gang of the prohibition era, was shot and
kuled from an ambush today.
A gunman who hid in a clump of bushes near a tavern. the former gangster patronized, single Skelton with killed shot and escaped.
Shelton's elder brother, Carl, who headed the rang, was shot fatally at Fairfield, Illnois, on October 27 last,
Bernie
gambling
A
controlled Shelton
the L operations
Carl Peoria area antil Mayor Triebel closed such activities a Year AED, SE
The Shelton gang wrote bloody pare
of history Southern linols during hibillon days when the East's with the Charlie Birger mob was held responsible for scores of deaths.
feud nows editor rang up Fulton at Ryde. Could he fly on with reporter John Shaw the
125 miles to Brixham?
DOWN ON LINKS
car back to
in
DIG
Shelton once moved a fleet of armoured cats Into Marion City to demonstraté bis power,—ã- sociated Press.
CONGRESS IN
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SESSION
Handshakes That QUEENS ALHAMBRA
Shook Australia
Delegates Criticised For
Greeting Hirohito
Sydney, July 26-Seven members of Australia's House of Representatives shook hands with Em- peror Hirohito in Tokyo last week and that action is still rocking Australia.
The Australian parliamentary de-1. The press claims the Australiana"" legation and Hirohito had been visit to the Emperor was "impro- roundly denounced by a steadily 30-| per as were the handshaken, ox- creasing section of the Australian changed. press as well as various war veteran
because
Loan For U.N. HQ
Hirohito is being blasted he allegedly told the delegation he wanted to
to Australia to
I apologise DA. Por war atrocl-
les
The Jill Press agency later circulated a denial of the alleged re- marks, but the delegation insisted that was what the emperor sald,
PRESS COMMENT
The Sydney Telegraph said: "We do not want to trample on the faces of the Japanese people ns they In their barbaric fashion-would have trampled on ours. But we do to not want men who represent us give Japanese lenders the slightest expression that our sense of out- rage is passing and that they can
with satisfy
low
bow and smirking so sorry."
"The politicians would
A
have
REPUBLICANS MAY TRY TO BARGAIN Washington, July 26-In fluential House Republicans said today that Congress might, pleased Australianus much more. If
C IL. Robertson make a bargain with President they had behaved like General H. Truman over the proposed monwealth Occupation Forces, who an Australian $65,000,000 loan for the con- declined to struction of a United Nations guard for Hirohito. The general re- isted all appeals on behalf of the headquarters in New York.
emperor's dignity and safety.
of the British Com-
ot-
They said they are confident the "If bandits were likely to bump bili authorising the loan will be off Hirohito, the Japanese police, passed if it includes a specifle setting not the conquering army, should forth of United States foreign policy worry that is the general's will respect to the world organisa- | titude."United Press. tion. So far the administration bas objected to incorporation of such
statement into the law.
Diplomatic quarters expressed
United Nalions
concern that the might move its headquarters to some other country unless a loan is forthcoming.
DETERIORATION
Rep. Walter Judd, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said: "Congress is not going to vote 305,000,000 to build a mausoleum The United Nations has reached, lis three years, the same
of Bingo deterioration the League of Nations reached in 20 years."
Hop. Judd was instrumental in drafting the bill authorising the loan and, at the same time, outlining the American policy for strengthening The measure the United Nations. was approved by the committee in June, Rep. Judd said it would not reach the House floor "largely because the State Department did not like it."
Sir Stafford, referring to the tempt to break up the City | Fulton drove the British policy of co-operation with Council meeting on June 23. Cowes, refuelled with 12 gallons of Western European and with the The Deputy Mayor, Ferdinand petrol, and 7.2 the Airphibian was countries of the British Common Friedensburg, biso told a Press con-alrborne.
"Some people see a ference that he has suspended De wealth, said:
At 8.25 Fulton and Shaw were conflict between these two policies.
Seidel, in puty Police President,
circling over Brixham harbour. They feel that we are looking both large of the Soviet sector police
counted 15 motor launches
WHYS.
But we feel that ther for disturbing the peace. The scurrying around the scene of the no conflet and explain why: charges against Seidel were not collision.
Twenty-nine-year --
-old inventor "By developing the production of
detalled.. new resources In the Commonwealth
Johannes Stumm, Socialist Deputy Fulton looked for a spot to land. in the field of raw materials, we are Police President, will succeed Mark-
He picked on Churston Golf creating sources from which we
Araf until hearing can be held on Course, one and a half miles outside
Angry "Republicans the other European countries egn
Brixham. Only one golfer was in sight and 50 sheep were grazing as draw, and thus reduce our depen- the two suspension coses.
Washington, July 26-The The Russians may try to prevent
ho upon dollar sources of supply.
made a
a perfect landing on a foir-
Republican-controlled 80th Con- "Our purposes
co-operation Stumm from being installed in Mark- in with the Commonwealth are com- grat's office since the Police Pre-way at 8.45.
The golfer came up to see what gress reopened for business to Deputy Mayor Friedensburg told was going on. A farmer camo up
take in the sheep. They watched day with angry Republican between them,"arters that all the orders issued by Fulton take off the wings and tall,lenders-ready to roject. Presi. Limited States to work for streng“. He went on: "Our factories aro turning out steel engineering pro- Markgrat are to be disregarded. ducts and chemicals at a rate for claimed the step was taken with the and park them for the night under dent Truman's plea for price
anything we
dence
piconflict and thus thoro can be sidium is inside the Soviet sector.
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have done knowledge
Schroeder, but that he had not before.
"We are producing steel at a rate viously discussed the matter with, af 18 million tons a year, whereas the Western Allied Headquarters. the best we ever did before the United Press.
war was 13 million lons in a d
Sir Stafford said given
food production weather British
per cont would next year be 35
above prewar. "But we are by no means satisfied," Sir Stafford adder. Asked if he expected Mr Hoff- man would require Britain to refrain from the Nationalisation of steel as a condition of American ald, Sir
in the
controls and planning to ad- Then the car set off along the journ as soon as possible. pre-
Truman, President twisting Devon roads into Brixham. At 8.53. the reporter, was there-in
Invited meantime, time to gather the facts and phone
Leaders to the White House to the news in the next columns.
preview a special' message which he will deliver in person at 4.30 p.m. GMT on Tuesday before the joint
session. Future Of The
Commonwealth
London, July 20-Dr Herbert Stafford replied: "I am sure he Evatt, the Australian Minister for Affairs, who arrived in with the External Interfere would never internal affairs of Britain.""
London today for consultations with declared "There is a gradual expansion of members of the Cabinet, trade between Western and Eastern that the British Commonwealth was a new stage on its Europe and with the existence of "Just entering
The strange American craft that intrigued 70,000 people at the Dally Express Air Pageant the previous Saturday had answered the question asked by so many. It is no useless land-air freak, but a means of transport with a clear future.
Some of the administration Do- mocrats disapproved, the measure on the grounds that it projected Con- gress into establishment of a foreign policy realm reserved to the President by the constitution. Rep. Judd said he doubled the House will approve the loan without a statement of policy.
The statement would pledge, the
world peace.-United thening of the present machinery for maintaining
Press.
Democratie New Ship For
The session, which promises some
Orient Run
Now York, July
of the sharpest political wrangles Steamship Lines today
26.-Barber announced
in history, began in an atmosphere the installation of a third new ship
the Prealdont of playing Norwegian flag-will Dog Goes For A
Long Ride
present contracts with Bussia and remarkable developments." "hns Newton-in-Makerfield, England order at noon (local time) by the the good harvest expected for this been" he said.
the other countries, coupled with
ол
of bitterness. President Truman has into the Far Eastern services called
the Congress one of the "worst August 10. in history."
The
0,481- ship the new Republican leaders, in turn, ac deadweight-ton Fernfeld, with the load at cused "cheap politica" by recalling law- Baltimore on August 2, Newport San makers in the election year.
Newn
August 12 and on Francisco August 24, and will touch. SHORT BUSINESS
Manila, Cebu, Shanghai and Hong- The Two Houses were gavelled to kong.
The Fernfield is the sister ship of 20.-Mac, by the addillon of July
D two-year-old House Speaker, Joseph Marlin, and
Triton 13 Ceylon, and
making her malden voyage to the home here today after a 888-mile denberg.
(Tuesday) from and well-being of the roundtrip by train in search of his
The first roll calls showed that Orient tomorrow security
assume for a Commonwealth, to
Only 310 of the 435 House members New York. or any moment that South Africa
Mac, darted between the legs of and 65 of the 96 Senators were pre- off his owner, W. H. French here on sent. The only business transacted of the now members will cut
helped 50 Saturday, scooted around the corner was approval of a resolution autho- the Association which
to maintain and boarded the London-bound rising the joint session to hear Pre- much in war and
auld. It is sheer defcatism, inimical to the wirehaired terrier, was back at his the Senate. President, Arthur Van Fernland and Triton
this trade wil be further India, Pakisian ond year,
Sir Stafford expanded", Reuter.
German Harvest
Threatened
n 10
ever
and
ля
mistress.
train.
aldent Truman.
the
me when I said goodbye to my other will ask for price
with the idea. The
Each ship accommodates 12 pasaen- gers-United Press.
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liberty and stression.
"Mec has never before showed a
The Senate quit after only 12 "The need for co-operation in the
Nations is rent interest in trains," Mr French ruinutes but adjournment of of Commonwealth
the told the police in reporting the loss, House was delayed for speeches greater now -than
to bring "but a few days ago, he was with on housing, civil rights, prices and Hamburg, July 28-Farmhands United Nations strives
of interna-
topica throughout the British Zone of Ger- about the settlement
I think he may have situations, daughter. disputes many threatened to walk off the land tional
controls on basic commodiues. New 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. and paralyze the summer harvesting come of which are a threat to the boarded the train
that it would take him to her."
crédit and today when they demanded
peace of the world,
Moc showed
at London's curbs... on .up
Sub- Paddington station yesterday, tired, allocation of scarce Industrial mate dirty and dispirited. Railway police, rials also may be proposed. alerted to look out for the terrier sidised. lowcost, housing and slum picked him up and sent him back clearance, federal aid to education and a national health programine are among other items expected to be on the President's list.-United PrOCH
of
pining
(three
"Similarly, the opportunities cents) wore increase. The German Farm Workers Union the new British Commonwealth are with headquarters in Goettingen, greatly expanded"-Reuter.
ced that they would strike if
announced
their demand were not granted by
Thursday, July 29. The Secretary
of the Union said that about 120,000
men would be involved.
The Union's plebiscite last week-
end showed that more than 85 per
Polish Food For
here today,
Mr French. was at the station to welcome the wanderer-United
Berlin, Report Press
Warsaw, July 20An official
cent of members were in favour of spokesman today admitted that
Bald.
consumer
Poland was negotiating with Bussin HER LAST TRIP GRIM GROMYKO
the
a strike, the Secretary
Union officials, backed by this on supplying Polish food for vote, will meet on Wednesday population of Berlin, but said that morning with the British manpower no detalls were avaliable. authorities to try to settle the dis-
The spokesman had previously pute.--Unlled. Press.
declined to comment altogether when asked about this subject
atlier Press conference United Press."
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Pearl Harbour, July 20-The Stockholm, July 20The state- battleship Nevada, survivor of two room of Andrei Gromyko, retiring atom bomb blasts, is, on her last Soviet delegate to the United Nations, mission todaya 95-mile trip to was guarded by a giant square- shouldered Russian when he arrived destruction.
The battleship will be used in at Goloborg on Monday aboard tha highly secret four-day tests of the Gripsholm...
Forty plecen of
baggage had been Navy's newest non-atomilc_weapons.
carried ashoro when he appeared in The ancient dreadnought left Pearl Harbour on Sunday in the tow of the cabin
cabin door,
riot
when 30 the Navy tug, Jicarilla.
If she survives the tests and still reporters and photographers rushed
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NO CONFERENCES July 25,--A are destroyed the tiny Rhodes, July 20.-Count Folko raway stallon at the bame town Bernadotte, said, on his arrival, here of George Bernard Shaw today from Tel-Aviv today, that there will float on July 80, 1n Nevada will be forward. M. Gromyko posed unimi-“IT'S IN THE BAG" be no conference Between the Jews sent to the bottom by the battleship lingy for a minute to let the photo-
then and
went his 02nd birthday, and
Firo engions, from
nearby and Arabs here at Rhodes at pre- town, the cruisers Astoria, Spring graphors work towns tried in vain to save the sent at least not before his trip to fold and Pasadena, a group of straight to his car. He proceeded to station, hir Shaw remained at home. Sweden, around August 6-United submarines and Air Corps and Navy Stockholm whence, he is flying to
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