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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1948.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN NOMINATED Correspondence

Flight Of Capital: ing theab transtors: Capllista

DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE

RUMP CONVENTION NO. 10 Searched it one for the hous

Jet Planes

Reach Labrador

Halifax, Neva

Scotia, July 14.

Aix Royal Air Force Vam.

• piro. Jet fighters tonight ar rived at Labrador, completing the third leg of the firel Jak Night across the Atlantic.

of

They had down from Blule West, a United States air base near the south-west tip Greenland, where they landed Earlier today after hoy from iceland. Reuter

TO BE HELD BY SOUTHERN REBELS

Philadelphia, July, 15. "

Harry S. Truman was nominated to run on the Domocratic Party ticket for the President of the United Statas last night. Truman's nomination meant a strong civil rights It plank for the party's election platform. also meant a definite North-South split in the party.

For Bombş

in Shanghai both large and small Sir-Once again we have an hold the major part of their liquid |other tirade tröm-a senior-Chinese!

Govt, Official, the Finance Vice Auta, in ji Amarican Dollars, and *** Minister, Mr. Hau Po-yun, blm-here is no doubt that the popula Ing Hong Kong for the continued lub of Shanghul have largo-hold- igs in American dollars tun the whole population of Great [ho" had "studied that position Britain. Very feebla attémpu the careful way that one would have boon adopted to make flible expect from such a senior Minholders surrder their hard cur fter lie would very quicidy arelyo

London, July 14.

No. Police searched

40, Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minia». ter, tonight-after an "anony mour telephone calfar bad sald the place would be "blown up in 10 minules."

tor.

Nothing was found-Rou-

DANGER TO HEALTH AT STANLEY

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Ineffialency, and

the

nt conclusion that the flight of eacy of Government. As long capital was due entirely to miss inflation on to: present large scale...continues in Cluna al | management, corruption within the Chinese ones will take every slep Qoyl, Black market dealings are possible to get out of their value. Initiated within China and arees CNC Naturally the sphere not confined solely to Hong Kong Unis Colony is the currency of

expanding. dollars as there is a very large and a large proportion of black market in Shanghat note circulation of the Colony both U.S. Dollaré unici gold.

Is held within China. Many Black market quolations from

business transactiona in South Shanghai are quoted opthly and China are transected on a Hong relayed to all parts of the world. Kong dollar busis with our note Ever, the young Editor of the bong used, to finalizele business. China Economist Janows how to

There are grounds for believ- transfer funds from Shanghai through the black market toing that the Chinese Govt-have Hong Kong and yet the Economie en making efforts to induce the Police in Shanghai have been focal Govt. to allow them to take GVET overseas Chinese remift- entirely unsuccessful if provent

Hong tances, passing

through Kong, which are routed here at the request of the overseas re- The water supply at the|

mitter to bo pull out lh Hong Kong dollars. This could probably Stanley Bays Camp is being re-

Departures for

Sofitimplon be arranged if the Chinese Govt. stricted to such a degree as to constitute a danger to health, yesterday by BOAC Speedbird" would pay for these anmittances in Hong Kong dollars, but it di Mr. B.A. Bernacchi told the flying-bout were Mrs. Barrs. Mig

understood that they wish to keep Comp Committee at a meeting 5. Barrs, Mr. W. T. Daly, Mr. F. their printing machines, busy by He enumerated some at

E. Kent, Mrs. Chiampton PO. Spaying out useless C.M.C. which on Tuesday. But it looked like a costly vic-s elvil rights legislation, Increas

M. Terks and Mr. Fang Lee-would certainly not tilt the re A number of Southern de- ed minimum wages, extension of i toy

He snicl that the authorities Aboard the same aircraft were yesterday, this time clagged legi Ad they wer

social security coverage, develop { concerned have already been in. Father 2. G. Gozzi (for Auguxim):mitter and bo unirely against with esemping from legal cus-holding a

inment of publie power for cheap formed of the situation.

Mr. G: 0. Bockholtz (for the contract he is made with

tudy.

Daingham, Alabama, on Satur-electricity, nori housing legisin-

Bahren); Mr. and Mrs. D. L. M. his bank abroad. num a "states" rights" lon It was alleged by the proveu- Jdus to

Referring to the financial posi-Macfarlane for galestial: Mr. A few days ago a report The President said he

Ce Hamlin tion. conducted by Inspector Panchdate to oppose Trum.

and Mr. 6. R. Speared in On the showdown vote there

wants Congress to pass "au ade-in, Mr. Bernacchi said that a Moran, that defonduit, after being

substantial appost-quate displaced persons in in-urther HK$10,000 is needed to Chopra (for Rangoon and Mr. G. Benteneed was led to the leton-Wasn't any

stem of the recently passed

meet requirements for the lact Wilson (for Bangkok) ==] tion cris stadeuffed. La santhers to feiting President Trann

He adriel have the unitation.

he enlist "anti-Semitic and nlf-ter of the year. Catholle." 3-er.

about HK$30 ม

HE RAN INTO PRISON.

The National Demneratie Con- later, the President started his vention hunaediately begun no- return trip to the national capital minating Semmter Alben W. Burk- Jobanid his private trim. Fley of Kentucky for Vice-Preal- In announcing that he will call Jahnst.

Congress bork to work Inte this The north won the elvil rights month the President said he will Piht by persiarling the ronven- usk the legislators 19 do some of Her to turn down a Dixte-spon- the things the Republicans have sared states rights plank in the promised to do in their 1948 plat Sentenced to 12 months' im- Flatfine and then getting

form. prisonment on Wednesday for party to g record in favour keeping an opium und hordes for the eivil rights laws asked by divan, Wong Ping. aged 56, Truman and vehemently oppos- was in brought before Mr, the South.

P. X. Almada at Centrul

Owing to Wong's band being

he sloppet off the rather sho handeulfa ánd

bil liberty

made

for

He did not get very fur before!

He ended Tus was reai rested, guilty before the same magistrate yesterday and was sentenced to a Further six gontist ingrisou,nent and a peoniscided for Danishment,

It was revguled by the prosequi. ing unteer tlust defendant.

Convention p

the

The question now' bothering party teaders

not WAS

the southern revolt but what may come later-what may develop Out of the talk of bolting the

party, or refusing to support!

the Democratic ticket.

Final Gosture

President Truman told

Constitutional Duty

them

also

one

Mr. Truman told the dele.

civil gates he had advocated

righta legislation because he

thari it contr

month for the uns keep of one boy, Mr. Y.K. Ken, Treasurer, told the Committee that the balance in

12- www July "Constitutional hand on

only duty." He cloned his attack on TIK$7,203.42. the Republican-controlled Con- greas by telling his Democratic followers:

believed it a

"Now, my friends, with the help of God, and the whole-heart- cheered push which you can put be hind this campaign, we can save this country from a continuation : of the eightieth Congress and from misrule from now on,

TEEN-AGERS GET HARD LABOUR

Personalia

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the local papers that Chinese Govi, Banks were hardly making any profit. In the budget {propels), for the noxí six months Departures from the Peninsula it was reported that the probable profits of the Bank of China fotel on Wednesday included. Mr. and Mr. L. del Castio Dr. and were listed at the equivalent of approx. twenty U.S. cents. China Mrs. C. Parsons, MEAN, QU derson, Mr. and Mrs. Kyl, Dr., badly needs foreign currency and N. Yang, Messrs, Erik Schou, Nel. Yet this Bank working at no pro-

fit at all is embarking on son S, Lee, Geo, Burros U Myn, very large huilding <chent!

In G. P. Heckman, H R Dobson, E.

Hong Kong at a reported cost D. Bejasa, E. Carter, and of HK$30 locs. Another report Grillette.

states they propose to build on Among the arrivals at the Pen-elowhere. Can

the lavish scale In Singapore, and the Finance Inula Hotel on Wednesday were

Central Govt. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. M. Mac- officials of the Furlane, Mrs, F. P. Gaerian, Mrs. explain why foreign currency is B. Barrs, Miss S. Barrs, Mrs. C. scat in this way when the need in determined ant ghting

Covift, Mesurs. G. S. Wilson, W.T for raw commodities to keep their neceptance of the Presidential no-

"must have your help, you Two Chinese teen-age youths, Daly, LC. Hamun, G, Oactories going and their exports mation, the President predicted myst get in and push and win Chan Tai-hei (17 years) and Bockholtz, S. S. Lamb, R. W

desperate? moving isso Nanking, July 15. The Census fureau of the running mate, Senator Barkley, afford another Republican Con-ench with a previous convic- Mr. and Mrs. 5. H, Moornjee... which Nauking reported were re- ba possible that that he and his Vice-Presidential this election. The country can't Wong Ping-shu (18 years), Borsodl, W. C. Lam, Natport our Banks

this

14 fortunate enough Cockerall, Ministry of the interior revealed will win this election and make gress. Associated Press.

Chaka and D.

to have the huge credit balances today that during the past sixthose Republicans like it.”

tion for larceny, were yester Mr. monthe,

933 s were ~ The Convention, with the

day sentenced to six months'.

Messrs. JM. Jackson, M.Kmaining dormant with Banks turalized as Chinese citizens. ninces solteted and with a plat-

hard labour and recommended Nashalds, Tiu Pak, And Lin Sy the Colony and are making use for banishment, by Mr. W. Heo, and Ching Beng-kep left for of these balances to

anance their If Labour building projects. Latimer at Kowloon.

Manila yesterday by CPA.

time, Chinese Officials attempted to put their own house in order be- fore attacking the policy of al- maat every other, country in the world.

FLAT LUX.

waking his bid for freedom, raning Convention carly today that

session on July 28, he will call Congress back into

into the gaul instead of out of

I added that Only 20 personsform adopted, Qually adjourned werz malês --Reuter,

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Inspector J. Orem said that during the smal! hours of July 14,

Wong -Yim-ching. 49-year-old

RECKLESS DRIVING

widow, living on the first floor of 40 Ping On. Street, Tal, O, was Inwakened.by a noise coming from the ground floor, which was used ban. Council lorry was fined **Li Chi-tin, driver of an Ur- 15 as a cake shop.

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$150 and had his licence: en- Investi- the widow found

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Will Rogers' Tribute

Philadelphia, July 14, Will Rogers, Jr., in seconding President Truman for nomination, that history would said today shew that "he has been a most unfairly critized man."

Mr. Rogers said: "He assumed the Presidency In one of the periods of great world change.

! Indian Hour He met those changes and he has

Sir,In pre-war days, and even helped America, to master them."

dorsed when he pleaded guilty after the war til May 1047, an "Instead of waiting for an agate, gressor to overrun and occupy a quailing under a counter, with a before. Mr. W. H. Latimer yes- hour's Indian programme used to

bag of cakes in his hands. She terday to the summons of reck-be on the air every evening, country, he decided to use the handed him over to Detective-less driving on May 30.

The sudden cessation of this power of the United States

to constable Lui Kon-mòu who, Chief Inspector F J. Clarke programme, think, was due to bulld up that country so the ag-making inquiries, found Wong said that he was driving along the small number of Indians left gressor could not overrun it." hiding under a hut nearby.

He added that Mr. Tuman had The detective also found a Talpe Road on the afternoon of in.the Colony after the return of

May 30 when fandant drlying the Indian Army. met Russian opposition in all his singiel, owned by the widow, in or 8115, overtook him at a foreign relations and Republlcun the possession of the second, as-filled corner

Since then, a great number of Congressional opposition in

cused, and another singlet on the side of thor and pn the wrong former residents and new famil-

Mies have arrived, and I am sure It - domestic programme. — United ground under the back... window

The

officer had to will be greatly appreciated by Press.

of the house.

to overtake defendant's every Indian filmlly if the broad- lorry and "caught up to him just casting Authorities re-introduce ns he was on the point of over-this programmaj taking two fully-loaded Army lorries, again on a blind corner,"

SHRINERS ARRIVE HERE TODAY

A party of 45 Shriners, headed by. Roy N. Buell, potentate of the Islam Temple, will arrive

ne prosocullh

PHILIPPINES DIPLOMACY

Manito, Ju

July 14 The possiblity of the Philip- pines raising the status of its Le-

here this morning in the President Wilson,zations in London and Nanking from Manila.****

that of Embassies currently rumoured in c

ed in diplomatic circles-In

The Shriner's are, on the Arst given special dispensation by the Manch the report has not]

Oriental pilgrimage since the war. The purpose is to faltlate over- seas candidates who are' eligible to join the Shrine The Islam Temple (San Francisco) is one of the three temples of the Order

to mako auch pilgrimages,

first

tho

of. · which was made in 1920. The other two temples or club are the Nile Temple (Seattle) and AFIFI (Tacoma).

Imperial Counell of the Shrine of North-America.

been officially confirmed. It is The party wils leave of Bun- gaining credence following the day, for Shanghai. „From the signing of a bill by President Chinese port they, will-proceed | Quirino permitting "the" uso at to Tokyo, where they will, mest lump sum appropriations for the General Douglas MacArthur, creation of new positions in dif- another Shriner.

ferent Philippine Embassies, La-

Tito Jour wu end on Aug. 2. gations" und "other foreign mis=" The Shrine, known throughout alons-Reuter., the United States as the Play-

Among the local Shriners who ground of Masonry," in an org postoj wUI welcome the visitors will be gantiation for nombers with B Messrs T.B. Wilson, (Rajah, certain high degree of masdary, AFIFI), Joe Lun., Samuel 6. Only those with the highest Young, M.8. Bloch, Clarence K.masonic qualifications are eligi

Chan, T.J. Holt, Conrad Hau and Shrine's main Interest is to

J.F Rhame.

Reminders

No official programme has been provide hospitals for... crippled planned. "The visitors, will bo-en-children. It raises millions of Exhibition and Sale, of tertained by friends, and wilk dollars to operato 1.dthorpaedic spend the two-day stay here hospitals in America and Canada. sightseeing Buell will fly to aro international Hong Kong's

Members

and shopping.

Today

Suite, 805, Kaloupas 11 amato

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of the fraternal order william, rundt

Shanghal today to make arrange- Shriners are mainly Chinese, p ments for a major initiation cere- There are more than 150-tem monial when about 180 candidates | ples in America and Canada. will be inducted into the fraternal Members are spread all over the Order: The candidates have been world.

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