1952-05-14 — Page 3

THE CHINA ·MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1952.

Pro-Taft ZAIBATSU MAKING Postal Strike

Vote Expected

PROSPECTS IN

VIRGINIA

Richmond, Va., May 13.

West Virginians polled today in a Republican pri

mary

election In which Senator Taft is expected to win all 16 delegates.

General Elsonhower is not on the popularity ballot but hig supporters are asking voters to write "ke" across the names of Taft and Jnrold Stassen on the ballot, These "Ike" votes would not count but they would invalidate the papers.

General Elsonhower's State émpaign Lander, Phil Hill, spid that the election

Che

of

del:gale

Elsonhawer - would be a victory to the Gjeneral and the election of two Fisenhower delegates would be

Portugal Sees Flying Saucer

Liabon, May 18. * shining

"Flying

Saucer", Ween today over Alcobaca, about 80 miles north of Lisbon,” Was cigar shaped and flying north- #moke wards, trailing a track, according to reports reaching here.

Two "Flying Saucers" were reported last night fying Deross French Morocco to direction.

A wert.east

These were said to have left greylab, mtaly trails behind them.-Reuter,

Millionaire

# considerable accomplishment. Faces Court

There was no Democratle pre- ference voting today. The De- mocrats will choose 28 delegates at a later convention of local leaders.

Martial

Pearl Harbour, May 13, A Navy prosecutor told a couri martial that wealthy seaman Brute S. Hopping tried to get tflect regulations changed to fi

Yes crday's Republican dele- gate elections in Wyoming and hode Island showed the count of delegates to the national presidential

to be:

Chicago to

Senator Taft

convention

General Eisenhower

340 300

his case.

The millionaire lumber execu- tive Is charged with conspiring David Ingalls, National Chae- to complain against Navy als man of the "Taft For President"clpline and with trying to publicly Committee said ita Senator discredit his cuperior officers..

"overwhelming Victory In The trial is an outgrowth of furnishes further the manner in which Hopping, a

A COMEBACK

IN JAPAN

Tokyo, May 13.

Japanese big business is getting together again to form something like the pattern of the industrial empires which financed imperialist Japan before the war.

The big family cartels, the Zaibatsu, were broken up between 1945 and 1948. But the occu- pation, now ended, left no laws to prevent regroup- ing of the splinters. They are regrouping.

They are frankly referring back to the old names of the Mitsui, the Mitsubishi," the Sumitomo and the Yasuda families which before World War II ruled Japanese industry from aircraft manufacture to sales of chicken-food..

AL present, the regrouping la on a small scale compared with the big pre-war system of inter- locking companies.

09 a

companies descended Yasuda Zaibatsu.

from the

Just before ratifleation of the Japanese Peace Treaty was com pleted, four trust banks were reported to be seeking Govern- men: approval to renesume their nemas, anticipation of formerly itt.

earlier dropped

being ordered to do so.

Lack of capital is described

major

burden on Japan's present economy, hampered as

is with other problems. The solution, business men is the re-formation of argue, stronger #ssociations to con- It is widely recognised that

more

capitol centrale

and banks at prosent hold a large "organist Industry more measure of control over ab emciently."

Most Japanese com- industry. While the former Zaibatsu panics Lince the "big names" remain personally worked more on borrowed

oper nonex

subscribed speculation, about, the nsseslation | capital. of new business secret deals with the

anonymous,

masters.

there

is

.. great popularity in Ireservist, complained about the family The mountain Stutes which were Navy system which he says is The post-war tendency for lost by Thomas E. Dewey, riddles with Governor of New York, inequality." 1948.

In Washington tedny Senator Taft said he believed that less than 100 delegates would still be uncommitted when the Re- pubilcon convention opens in Chicago on July

lack

"brass-bound in-the Japanese business to return to the pre-war systems of cen- Cmdr. Richard J. Sleman, the tralised control has up to now mosusulor, told the court Hopping worked mainly through the used fellow crewmen on the USS

Reclaime: in an effort to discredit his commanding officer, Leuten- ant Marion C. Kilpatrick.

Kilpatrick testified that Hop- ping joined the salvage ship on December 31, had been e

_from_a_relle.

cha, "after she

every

Lanking system.

LOAN SYSTEM

than

Wie

have

OPEN AMALGAMATION Banks on the whole have put out more money on loans than they hold on deposit.

This "overloan" ajtuation, evidence of Japan's industrial nanoy-hunger, has put industry

hove

usually gone to banks tracing Mrly every

Mr Stassen predicted that the Republicans would nominute Earl Warren, Governor of Cali of World War II into a first- fornia, in the event of a dead-class ship of the fleet, after shu

between General Eisen-hed

performed ery job sne hower and Senator Talt at the

combines. was called to do in the Korean Chicago eonvention.

war, **

and less than

morth Stassen had previously before she headed home." Mr considered himself the most like- Kilpatrick said Hopping

asked ly compromise choice in such a

for shore-duty after lie had been deadlock, but he added yester-aboord six weeks. The officer day that he had ruined his chances said that was not enough sea by using "top Talt" tactics. duty to quality Hopping for a Reuter.

transfer so his request was turned down.

Steman said he would show

Tuna Import Hopping's subsequent behaviour

Tariff

Washington, May 13. The Senate Finance Com-

mittee, recommending the

sage of

pas- Bill imposing a three cents per pound duty on fresh

tuna

Imports, said that the

tariff would be only regulatory.

was malicious in intent and based on Insumtient grounds. --Associated Press.

South Korean Clean-Up

3

Puson, May 13.

In swift unti-corruption

The Committee approved themeve tutlay

+

proposed

pro-

Over 400 South

into the bends of the banks and the banks, in turn short of fands,

put themselves largely in the hands of the Capital-hungry businesses Bank of Japan, have turned to the banks for The end of the Occupation loans, The small

businesses has ciso reen supposedly separate oul created

cf the "de-

and private companies openly concentrated"-

combines have re-associating in groups, accord-

to their business ancestry. their descent from the pre-war

week new group of splinter companies an- Thus, companies with a line ounces jts smalgamation. ngo going back to the Mitsul usually under the leadership of Zaibatsu could be found, in the

a former "Zalbatou” officiel. main,

seeking and roceving

The inner

operations of the tcans from the Teikoku Bank. Zaibatsu and the banks were al- which was splintered off the ways highly secret. Business former. Mitsui banking system.

of deals involving huge sums Again,

Bank cash the Chuo

and credits "have been (formerly Yasuda) has financed traditionally concluded "en the

nod."

Only minor deals cluded at an "oficial" level.

ON TRUST Big operations are conducted in private bones, tea houses, or at hotspring resorts. The principals, during a gathering which has all the appearence

Youth Hides

In Giant Cunarder

London, May 13.

are con-

In S'pore

Slugapore, May 13. Business and communi cations in Singaporo were partly paralysed today by the postnien's strike,

Five hundred postinen stopped working_following the.. Government's refusal of their demandı creased wages and pension rights.

LII-

People have been fold

to collect their mall at the post office while the Gov- ernment employed

temi. porary workera posial affairs France-Presse.

to keep going. —

Plane Pilots Becoming Hindrance?

Detroit, May 13. Acroplane development is running so far ahead of

man's capabilities that in future pilots may be a hin- drance rather than an ald In aerial warfare, an air. craft manufacturer said.

Because of the trend in ighte plane missions and continuing technical developments, said J. H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation Incorporated, "machine getting far nhead of mon."

"It is forcing us closer and closer to the concept of leaving

the

pilot out. Our flying machines are rapidly approach ing capabilities that are peralis- ed mther than alded by the presence of a human plot," the North American Board Chair- man said.

Dr. Reuter

Replies To Ulbricht

NO GIVING WAY TO THREATS

The Hague, May 13. The West Berlin Mayor, Ernst Reuter, sald here to day that West Berlin would not give way to anyhew blockade.

He was commenting en state- ments yesterday in Germany by the Eost German Vice Premier, Walter Uibrleht, whei said that

the consequences of West Germany's joining West European defence would be felt in Berlin the next day.

Dr Reuter said, "We can cope

five or even 20 blockades.

with

for

"We must be prepared fresh difficulties for West Berlin and we are

for them.

keyed up

that Stain

"We can expect will keep on thinking up some- this new. But let there be no doubt that we shall not give way said that West Berlin was

Me much better prepared for a blockade than possible

new

in 1048.

There was enough cool and food for six months.

Industrial capacity had been trebled and Industrial life had developed,

Dr Reuter udded, however, that Berlin could not get along withcut support.

Such support would be furth- coming and the airlift could be restarted within a Tonight.

Dr Reuter is in Holland for meetings of the International Association of Municipalities. ———. Reuter.

Guided missiles were the weapons of the future, he said, and "our nation must arrive at that cross-read arst if we and our_way_of Ble are to survive. We must get ahead in the race and stay ahead all the way," he told the Economie Club of Detroit in

supporting appro- priations for aircraft develop- ment.

The United Stoles was The alkad of Russia in quality of alrereft although the Soviets

more planes and are

"eur- rently out-producing us."

However, he said, "Our pro gress in both development and production has been real and en-day couraging."

lund

were

AD

f

now

can

Ho emphasised thai mere num- bers were not enough, pointing out that F-86 Sabrojets in Korea

holding back

superior umbers of Communist MIG-15s.

that aeroplane a social occasion. commitchieve air superiority is a good themselves

Investment of the taxpayers' business

inoney, An aeroplane that comes undertakings without signature.

Because of this

of out second best

against the doink busines:

enemy is a "en

waste of the tax- American Trust"

Occupation payers' money," he said.--United

of

to vast

system strictly

Press.

was

te, determine the

Maurice Brian Wakefeld, 16icials admitted that it Bill last week and Chuirian Korean officials were dismissed, year-old R.A.F. absentee, was Walter George led the group's suspended or transferred by the

found as a stowaway on board not possible report today.

newly appointed Prime Minister, the Queen Mary 24 hours be extent to which concentrations Mr Chang Tack-sang.

fore the liner docked in Now had really been smashed even

during the Occupation,

One leading American official Wakeleid lives st Cam-believed that the banks were

Aspley bourne-drive,

Estate, taking the place of the Zaibatsu Korean businessmen.--France- Nottingham. He said that he in controlling present day busi-

went aboard at Southampton byį ness.

It said that the tariff was by no means hibitory.

It added that the duty may, in fact, tend to help eliminute sorious fluctuations in imports.

United Press.

A British

Police caught the officials in tea

wine shops rooms,

ond other public houses where they were being entertained

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by

York.

อ crew's Eangway two days By giving most support to the before the ship sailed. On the splinter companies from their crossing he lived on bits of fruit particular old Zaibatsu, they he could obtain when no one are,,, he added, squeezing out was about,

small independent companies which have no former Zaibatsu aftillation. i

His father, Mr. Alfred Wake- feld, said I was news to him Because of the highly secret that his son had arrived in New nature of the "on the nod" York. A week ago he was stay-method of doing business, the ing with his grandmother in American "trust busters" were Kingslake-street," Nottingham, not able to prove unfair prac- It was more central, he sald, tices against particular banks. then his own home when he had short leave from the R.A.F. station al Ashbourne, Derby- shire.

Maurice was apprenticed as a french polisher in the shopitting department of a chemist's after. he left school. Just before he was 18 he joined the R.A.F. and signed on for five years.

Reuter.

Joint Unit

To Fight Terrorism

Bangkok, May 13.

Price Snag Leads To Breakdown

The

London, May 13. International Wheat Council, representing 40 coun- trien, which has been trying to crati

agreement governing wheat distribution for four years beginning August 1, 1953, broken down over the ques- tion of price.

The United States, on behalf of four exporting countries -

Cañuda,

Australia and

$2.50 compared with the $1.00 pald by wheat importing coun- Irics in the current four years ending July 31 next year.

SAVE! demanded

This was

pries

the new maximum

The new minimum was

to be $1.90 or 10 cents a bushel maxi- more than mum.

the current

He hoped to obtain married quarters because he WOR engaged to an 18-year-old girl Since then the engagement hos Colonel Young, is discussing delegation refused categorically been broken off,

with the Thai Police Chief, to accept those prices. They His father said: "It would not General Pao. the establishment were energetically supported by be surprising to me If that of a joint Thai-Malay terrorist The United Kingdom. event in his life had made him suppression unit to operate on decide to try to get away from the border between the two this country,"

countries.

On behalf of the wheat im- The Malayan Chief of Police, porting countries the Belgion

A Plan to that effect was submitted to the Thai Cabinet

BOYS AT THE yesterday.

VATICAN

Colonel Young, General Pao and other police officers flow to the border today to discuss suppression measures with Thal officers at the border,

Chinese Communist guerillas in his are reported to be hampering on plantations in the

Vatican City, May 13. Twelve boys, aged nine and 10, joined the Pops

private library tonight to reelte work

the Rosary on the 25th anniver border districts-France-Presse, fary of the founding of tho

Children's Association of Catho

worldwide Iny

ile Action, a

organisation of

the

Catholic Church,

Roman

The boys, chosen from among

they

The American delegation ex- plained that

had no nuthority negotiate a com- promise and the eighth session of the International Whoat Couneli broke up in some gloom. -United Press.

KASHMIR POST

Canberra, May 13. Mr Josiah Franels, the Army. end Navy Minister,, announced today the appolatment of Colonel A. E. McKewan, Com mander of the Third Australian Tank Battalion,

United

Kashmir.

FORMER CARDIFF on military observer in

MAYOR. DEAD

Cardiff, May 13. Alderman James' Grimihs, 82,

thousands of Roman youths, were former Lord Mayor of Cardiff, dressed in their uniforms of grey has died in hospital in the city. shirts, blue trousers and blue berets.

He was a native of Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire, and one YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,~~Acroba; ន Alarming, 8

The ceremony, which was of the most colourful characters thir, Rudeness 11 Presided, 13 Stay, 15 Athletle, 18 Tele-broadcast, also marked the 35th in the public life of Wales. gram, 10 Eddy, 11 Diverted, 20 Secluded, 20 Silt, 27 Desolato. anniversary of the apparition of An ex merchant navy Downi 1 Slip, 2 Fine, 4 Loud, 5-Rued, 6 Inert, 7 Classy, 9 Rivet, the Virgin Mary to three children | skipper, ho sfertad IN AUS 10 Devil,, 12′′ Rated, 14. Abase, 18 Tepid, 17 Coded, 10 Epted, In the Portuguere village of "great when he sigură, op; for, 20 Dodka, 23 Irul, 22 Vent, 28- Toil; de Duty,"

Fatima-Router.

windinirunerE-ROBOT.

Colonel McKowan, who suc-' ecoin Major C. E. Scott, leaves Austral fer Kashmir on June 6. | ➡United Press, ¦

Find In Yugoslavia

London, May 13, Chromium and. magnesite have been discovered in largo quantities in Southern Serbia, The Yugoslav Naws Agency Tanjug report Pris.

Admiralty

Announces Increases

three

London, May 13. The

Service Depart- ments- Malta have decided to raise the weekly cost of living bonus for 15,000 dockyard- workers from 10 shillings to 30 shillings effective from April 1, the Admiralty announced to-

"The Services I decided to leave open at present their offer of an additional lump sum of 14. 16. in place of retro- spective weekly increases claim- ed by the Worker Union for a 15-month period.

Both offers were rejected by the Union last month after a here for talks delegation_came with the Services.

Workers struck in February in support of claims for a bonus of £1 from January 1, 1951, and £1, 10s. from last October 1. Later they resumed work to allow negotiations to take place. -Reuter.

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