1953-11-27 — Page 9

The Largest Shoe In The World

Josep Scharatt of Oberstdorff has just completed what is claimed to be the Greatest Shoe in the World, I is "size. 180" weighs 12 cwl, and is 3.50 metres long. It took the workmen six weeks to produce from nine animal hides and 62

London Express, metres of rope, mud is to go on exhibition. --

Cure Found For Scrub

Typhus

F

Kuala Lumpur, Nov, 25. British

American ani

using British seientists. soldiers as guinea pigs.” have fourul a cure for serub typhus, the disense which wiped out whele battalions of Allied and Japanese troops in World War Two,

Now, a live and a bat of wat at the le 3441; agalut Commurn! team d

to a soldier on antive wwwview illed of scrub typbaan.

The awer, arending to an

joke mpy olivi the wonder butt-Findle chur myretin whah b, plovek 100

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1953.

Russian Women Now Demanding Glamour

Stockholm, Nov. 26.

Sovic! wmmten, tired of playing Cinderella, are callion für g'omour.

They are making it clear in letters to news- pagers that smarter clothes, more subtle scents and more raptivating cosineties are what they want out of their government's much advertised policy of better and more plentiful everyday goods.

Why cartel we buy in the shops all these beautiful the fashion magazines?" models we sto illustrated in readers of "Vizherinya. Moskva" lamented.

"We are tired of sack-like dresses, shrinking textiles and cla-hlup, glaring colours," they complained.

C

Sk

Setters and her

Have "Win artı wuden 1. A waja in zet derent st to been writing to the newspapers tant ervice? They ay that urging, nu re buttons, safety eyes! patent charge 1.609 reachles for pins, holes and fl

Betty needles, and som-freton, two per centuales

thesors and rottens, Siteso

QUESTIONS

prabol even get theme bugil, Wons taking fiu a own cloth swift is Hlyn For the

to the late fallors to be inde requiring trestes:1 are usually book in fils with sup complain that they sometimes

So Politiers

in

a

week.

By chrinethud. they were away for two to ris

months, and ebent ene;

La reg.

Buln

1 but re lanes in pay any tapetis, taon,

Reailers

ure

waking

theke

questions: Where have all the

to% white #non buttons gone Why do the Moscow shops stock only two sizes of safe y pins The haut working little chice Why are knitting neeille, For thopgel who makes fur own searce and what has happened Malaya has been the insting Celltre d

was to the the sharp needles also

often used to be able to buy before ground where Amclean And glamour. The patterns,

#ritish army rekentists

Why are there so Five Based en ueasant motifs, on cald the war rrried out Jalil servantis red the bert drp riment states low hipins tout sale?

The Soviet Governight bad do pig lenger, shel

attention on fire need for

the Institute of Medhat Re-with 11 search here in Kuala Lumpur,

Train

4.000

E

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andi

Maleninv

a better deal for women menths But the story of chloeomy- eetin goes back For Ames leat fmes a bot ves, full skats n befers Me Stalin's death

alber walkould Lys are out, the

01 The Yale University, After growing

the Navio Fashion Frgine. 2015 recite av dem od

-ker-debutary this peur-u-new- samples of real f. Paul-vente Instead-there!

Ju tir a la a, med støk, "value" trees was set up to boost every corner of the work, and testing them to get they pra cine in the path my te laten duction in the clothing

Op munka anti-biotic sance duced un which had a wide range thes

TRADE and COMMERCE SECTION

The Cotton Loan: Disentangling

Some Doubts & Fears

By Sydney S. Gampell

London.

HONGKONG Japan's Tight Money

SHARE MARKET

(From Our Correspondent)

Business oy the IK Stock Exchange thi morning WON valued at $400,825. Noon" "quota- tions were:

Lombard

avim

1345

57

FIGO

110

1.16

Policy Is A Long-Range Measure

Tokyo, Nov. 26.

The present tight money policy pursued by

20ed to readjust the Japanese economy to a world 1000 58.50 Wide trend for sound finances, Mr Hisato Ichimada, 1000 728 Governor of the Bank of Japan, said in a recent

interview with the press.

An Nav W+1?!

20 1000 5 INRA DOCKS, ETC.

2inck ... 20.00 C0.50 1100 m 2150 President TOM! Prevident

Some European cotton circles are getting anes’HUVERS SELLERS SALE the Bank of Japan is a long range measure design- worried that, with the spate of entries into the BANKS

UK Brak loan, New York is becoming postively dangerous INSURANCES as a hedging market. Germany alone is said to Underwriters have a short position of about 250,000 hales of out-PING standing hedges. The bulk of these and other similar short positions must be eventually bought in: tendering the physical cottons is out of the question, because some of the hedges are for non- Wheelerk ÚS. cotton while others are for US cotton whichND ETC. is needed for consumption. The hedgers have fears that, in spite of the overwhelming total supply, a technical shortage of contracts to supply VTITIES the hedge-covering could force price up to the point needed to attract cotton out of the loan, i.e. the full support price plus inward and outward John charges and loan carrying charges.

The Bank of Japan had no intention of relacing this policy during the next quarter or in any foreseeable 12,70 1100 120 future, Mr Ichimada declared. He volecd strong opposi- tion to a reported plan for floating new national bonds to 2400 8.1% cover a deficit in the next fiscal year.

This requires

disentangling foreigo currencies, loans +35

I Hotel 14K fend

11.00

9.15.

1.3.5

1500 20 73 73.50 0 2 73.50

1,40 17.30 10

Rey XD 1.82% Tran... 201 20.70 PTem (0) At Ferry

Ch

New XD) Becirle

· Telepanue INDUSTRALS

Cement

140

Mr Ichimada ya'di dejn Ishonch be prepared to meet t

"Ats. O, hi ets.ensification of trade rivalries among "free" nations as a result fofa sjówiłown i rearmant

and

decline American military purchases. Under these circumstances, it was quite likely that dollar shortages wouli azain brennie a vital problem for a number of nations.

13 in 3000 e 13.69 500 10.70

10

28 70 28.90 2450 m 28.80

300 27

18,00 19.80 700 * 18.70

trenamie

Bumper Rice Crops

Next Season

Entirely dominated by the luna.¦ grants) which could, depress ex-STORES 155 92 23.00 500 230 for Found tanelal and inaneta: 1953/54 will be slightly larger

נן

to be a ternal prices without affecting !

New York.

New York has erased hedge against any supply-de- mant developments in world cotton or in US entton. It is a

noty real hedge against risk-the

risk of

sich any

Ainerican "[ the collapse economy, or nilapse, or read justment of the US Tarm up port system,

would lash both New York an cotton priers.

Against that one risk, it is a Colton for those outside with

to the whose prices, relative US support prier, harve ent law enough to sell their full surpluses.

hedge, not only for US

|

but

DIVOTNOIS

piarts

Unaffected by anything de, the New York market along the altnost level road of the jonn, unless am until falls over thr precipier. Ty likeliest development that could caust a break both in New York

and abroad is a two-prias system for US cotton, but New York evidently feels that this

be disregarded, least up to the ent of 1954,

risk can

ist

Japanese Shipbuilding Competition

1. ry Watan

2000 23.60

21.78 22 300 or 21,00

100 22

1. Crawford 23.00 COTTONS

Bw

Txtiteru 6.30 6.75 no pro-) MISCELLANEOUS

Yangive

12:3

stars

As an analogy, if anybody has hedged In Chiengo (for lack of any other hedge) a stolt or purchase of Canadian whrat, he almost certainly has teetion it Canada takes the ad- vice just given by

pres site al et. Derelay-

(Canada), to unload her einnulated

stocks "even means, as it most probably will a big sherifice in prie f Canada did try anyibing of the sort the hedger might

the

Tel-

-

!

World rice

While internationel developments increasingly called

production in policies, Japanese prives s than in the preceding season. continued on a high level and neverding to the US Department even tended to rise owing to of Agriculture. Rice acreages any uptrend in domestic con- have been extended in many

and an increase in areas and sumption

In most countries, 6.24 internal investments,

Mr larger crops them last year are 500 8.30 Ichimada said. Present Indien bring harvested or are in pro-

tions were that Jupen's balance spect. of international payments for the current Bnancial year ending rice is put at 359,000

The 1953/54 harvest of rough million

500 m

Rise In Use

Of Natural

Rubber

next Murch would have a des

WILL NOT FAIL

firit of 120 million dollers. lbs against 357,000 anillon, in the preceding season and 335,- 000 millio 1935/40). Indleated

He expressed the belief that the present light meney policy would not fail to reduce prices

pre-war (averige Increased output is Larger acreages were sown in for all Continents. of commodities, but the Japanese

regions Government should

except Europe. uksa for- where favourabic weather dur- mulate an overall orcgramme for ing the growing

scasoh more bringing pricts down.

than offset the area decline. Mr Tchimada salt the

yen, and

and R

04 long tons.

rubber Total natural synthetic for the ten ended was

amount of

with wheat, when the US don-rubber constitned was natural as ichimada-added-that-lhe

[Alton

expected

375

lo show slight

The estimated total

doling a bushel on his physical Capadian wheat without getting a cent of it back from his Chi- og hedge. Indeed the suppesad

might

the helge

aggravate ruitom. loss! increasingly gov erned by the domestic support and domestic polities, Chicago

New York, Nov. 26. Japanese commercial. biks Harvesting of bumper crops is might be rising while Canadian The Rubber Manufacturers would be incapable of absub-in progress in North America. other non-US heats Association disclosed today thating any new issue of national The foveenst of yield in the US were slumping. The hedger new rubber consumption during bonds, because they were already 6,132.4 million us ngalost might lose both ways-runous | October amounted to 104,200 in debt to the Bank of-Japen to

1.080 million

In the

preceding ly on his long physical wheat long tong, n slight vise above the extent at 400,000 million season and that for Cuba and quite heavily on his short September consumption of 103,

including

warmal advances i

million against 277 million. The Chicago futures contract,

in foreign Mexican crop is estimated at special louns Unloading

of US cotton

and 330. millum Both fiscal

lbs

against 302 of the ways which depress any f

months

million and that of Panama at AN ANALOGY

investments in expand- 1.145.190 long tons external prices without affeel-

215 should ing production facilities

against 201.7 New York Is nå hedge agtipsting New York would distur

10.48 per cent rise overbe cut drastically.

in the next million. The crops in Cošla. a drop in any particular foreign the parities

belveren n-US 1952 period.

1,036,409 Inng tons for the likenancial year because rome Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragun cotton relative' to New York, or

The colleges and

US support

capital hivestments In Japan are Natural which thought

rubber consumption against unkading of US cotton level. Countries

believed to be declines, 46.309 tons during were already in any of the ways (export sub- that their expert price was a fotalled sites, Section 550 sales for ready undervuiling the US by a October this year tygainst 45,110 excessive.

In regard to Import financing is 129.249.9 million Ibs ngairt for Asia margin wide enough ៨. move in October 1952. The rallo of their

cent compares with Mr lehimada said the Bank of 328,675,7 million sueplores might find them-114.44 per

Outstanding Japan

further Intended selves wrong:

43.60 per cent in September. Importers

is a sharp decline a Japan's treatment ting

US ensy

cotton raight The Association reported that frestrict preferential

Most, clop.

other countries cancel business contracts for during the first ten months of ter importers with a view to re-

the overall

show Increases Including India other cations. That happened 1953 40.82 per cent of total new during the

F2.000 million Ibs (80.000 supply.

inillion}; Pakistan 28.250 -million ated a million tons to Pakistan Fugainst-35.44-per-cent-during-the-

(27,398.4illon): A typical

comparable period in 1952.

prices of Japanese cotton Thiliari 16,800 million (14,555 reaction of re- sponsible European oficials to the industry was estimat for 20-count single yurn on the millen lbs (12,837.0 millios).

Consumption of reclaimed rub-porn-around 90,000 yen per bale

mfillor) and Burma 14,400 the Section 550 sales made and

they strengthen

market-were Europe's ed to be 22,030 long tons in spot

tro high, negotiating position with other October which was 0.68 per cent Colien goods alone would not be

South Americi: For the pratcillin, univeraty - reivitistr good qualey, but the age is put has revised, but quality improved as fast as

suppliers. Even if the

consump- able to maintain US below the September

such high whole contrižnt, this sensch's for too narrow for the modern the Soviet woman's taste, which

buty gres into stock, as with tion of 22,181 Jong tons, price level at a time when the slekt is put at 10.246.6 mililon Serviet womaki. She wan's new

Hamburg. Nov. 28. Leer me has

fretidious 013

United the British receipt of $30 million United Press.

States had a bumper lbs

0,300.9 compared with shipbuilders bk this of powder to match her se

Japanese

Section $50 fobacco, the

crop of raw cotton and freight millions. Detalled figures are complexion and a better andre sien.

As the Soviet press admits,

competing on very strong terms

rates were developing a down- available for only Colombia (040,3 wider range of tipstick shades

with German shipyards in the bigger steeks make the recipien elegant too much trach is, being turned

some-county a leas necessitous cur-

ward tendency.-China the new

Mail millloc lbs against 77.3 million) to go withs

expert field, with prices out by factories strabising to

Special. those rent buyer in the US and clse- kok" urged in Soviet fashions.

Limes 20 product the quantities

percent below quoted by German, yards, the where. down by the authorities in the

Associat.on of West German

Whitehall expresses the hope current plan.

that European countries will Shipbuilders said here today, More subtle scents to wrap an

their advantage of

London, Nov. 26. Japan is offering shorter de-not take me di pilne round the better

but elcurly The tin mutket was firm. Społ drossel Soviet wa

of the

livery dates as it has more con- other suppliers. future, have not been promised

struct in capacity available. She there is a temptation. Denmark, ee £21⁄2 seling to C0584, The humorous magazine et allows

significantly, has rejected a US and three-months was up £72 foreign Mo-cow shops have, how- [2 yet.

customers! summarised public credits of

£048, Turnover was 225 some seven inche, edle in sietever, been advertising for empty | "Krekuntil"

to seven years, eller of between $4 and $6 mill-to a recent was brought to Malaya. - | prefumo bottles which they will feeling in

cartoon while German yard: have to ask ion of Section 560 US. surplus tons of which ten ions were for howing a Muscovite hurrying

farmi products against pay cash. tained the World's

hy back at fixed rates,

long the street in a rull with for payment on delivery, the

ment In Danish crowns because Closing prices in sterling per Association added. The response has been good the left sleeve and the right

Medium and small shipyards ings in principle. She fears they

| Denmark opposes such US offer long_ton)

Spot in, biver and the

of Moscow || (router legt grøtriquely too long. in West Germany, were pag may spoil the European market

seller have, apparently, been going "If only the people who make

to receive offshore and defence Loth for the livestock and dalty

Business 3-mantlig, buyer orders after the European De products which Denmark herself arough their shelves for comply these suits had to wear them," bottles in the hope of being able the caption read.-Chinu

fence Community treaties had exports, and also for Egyptian to buy them back full again | Special,

Brazilian been rat.fied, although nothing aud

cotton And shortly.

was known of actual United Russin wheat, thus reducing States

plans to order caval Denimarke's export possibilities

to those countries, Reuter.

found

A cutelanding in wid from

a soil sample sent inn Venezuela.

SYNTHESISEN The chemical it produced wa purified and later ynthesised. it was called chlorunivertia,

It

Malaya chloromycetin was first ured in the treatment of zerud typ bu

was

In Jakl-1949 v-incidental with the start of the Emera neg

gainst

rorists

the drug.

ן,

20all wurden Lex

upply

The Arst patient treated

sis kliers

Kerala

were

JI

Lumpur

When the rmalt part of United States Army Medical Research experts saw the men they were selourty it-the charts on the wall showed their high fevers.

As

The coam: thes available are of

GOOD RESPONSE

women

Sovict women calling for expert teated: Klamour, allure and elegance fert "Fer

20 years we had had the Act one since the Dellevik patients like

what revolution, sters that they must that, but could

Then next have good acresterea we d:z

Handbags, they they must must be morning the scene that met us;

fited was seunallenal the men were well

invids. have prefer slaps so they will smiling... asking for food

For not my open. Their colour and their temperatures gone. two or three days we were still shape mus, be improved to enake anxious. Would cure behen lock les "emein1"

more faminize

the

permanent? It was,"

and

Bet pastarie a progress | 1*0

has rot

Industries.

has been

And

Great

Jald

Net, only the Soviet woman, but alsu her husband suffers as

result. il

Communist

Leads In

Mall

craft.

LI

are

The Association said they expected to build only defen sive craft such as mine werpers and patrol boats.

The Association reported at the large German

Shij

Calcutta Vote yards bad work to lust

them until the second half of 1955, but mediums and small yarıls fewer orders. Du

nad.

Calcutta, Nov. 20.

Sad had much Communist candidatas, A giup of Moscow women LIKE DUST SPECKS

appeal for better hen Gupta, a barrister, was Scrub typhus is carried by launched a microscopie mites, so small that brilas, These nec too many leading by nearly 17,000 votes they look like "spects of red black umbrellas to the market, in the serord day's courting of

say. Give

lighter.the Us

voles polled in the boy'a dlust.

the live in the cites shades and

election for the South-East The young mites

their colours of the herdle and e Caleuita in the Indian parlia=' soll and normally start career by having a feed on a rat cover match instead of clashing ont or some other animal, but they as so often happens nowadays. do not object to feed on man

The modern Russian woman With only 03 booths remaining is also eveing her wristlet watch to be counted out of a total of victory If the mite which bites a man more eritically. After complaints 475, Sadhan Gupta's happens to be carrying typhus the ladies'

If they get the chance.

welches are

gering, about ten days later the clumsy, threduce them. party,

were

35 that

Argentina

Wool Exports

in

LONDON TIN

MARKET

seller

Bules Settlement

63715

660

659-600

MATLA

150

040

New Records

In Chemical Industry

New York, Nov. 20.

The US chemical industry-

und Venezucin (120 million

gainst 88 million).

Oceania: The yield for this uca e estimated at 278 millions Jbs agairet, 267.2 million China Mail Speclai,

Silk Expert Wants Prices Kept Low

6479-810 one of the nation's giants-came

under scrutiny this week. LEAD AND ZING

Over 600 leaders in the field Prices of other melels closed listened to reports that for the

Krefeld, year the in7- ne follows (in sterling per long|fourth consecutive

dustry is heading for new re-

Harr Hans Coleman, who cord in production and in plont bouded the West German dele-

gation and equipment expanwilliam C. national Silk Congress at Milan, to the recent Inter- They heard Me

President of the Manu- said

today that silk prices Chemists Association

should be kept as low his expansion possible because silk was a raw emphasise that

material which, unlike others such as wool, could be replaced and was not Indispetisable för soma manufacturers.

Copper spot

3-months Lead Nov.

Foll Zinc Nov Feb.

Внуста Kelters

235

23312

2225

9122

01

AD

7212

7218

Foster,

73

facturing

-United Prest.

Singapore Rubber expansion was

Market

Last year the yards delivered | total for the wool ycutes ori and New York advices but there Fund. In fly 1,208-pago voluma sale of silk, Quality

227 new vesels totalling 503,- in October to 480,201 502 teas.--Chinn Mail Speclul, about 137,000,000

Achievements

Of Research

Japan in July", the ent

Is evidence of hope not fear.

"So it stands the

that treat not undertaken in fear of recession, he said. Washington. Nov. 25.

Equally

about enthusiastic Deliveries of new vessels by The Agriculture Department

the role of chemicals in the Silk producers should reinem- German shipyards

ex reported today that Argentina.

future was the exhaustive and ber that full synthetic fibren pected to total about 909,000 exported 115.002 bales of raw

authoritative volume pur

were serious threat to the Singapore, Nov. 20. July, ratsing the gross registered tons this year. wool

beginning The market opered on London this week by the 20th

and up- natural silk were still paring pl

Artical here. was trade and factory buying on world population and pro- unrivalled but

alt The bulk of the shipments and with scilers reserved, prices duction which took five years innardcturers over the went to the United and advanced throughout all the day. to put together, the study look world were making strong

The market cloned very slendy, note of the industry; found that efforts to improve their manu

or all of the industries, the facturing, processes and reduce appeared assured.

publication Foreign

and Prizes: co

appears to prices. The West German allic His next rival was Dr Radha

No. 1 rubber per 1b. Den. -50% chemicut Industry Markels" said. "The shipments Ministry of Machlas

***** | Binod Pal

Jan. 1-60 Bve the brightest outlook. of the Congress

In July were reduced substan-

Feb. 30-505-

Panelists at the Association's industry was highly interested man дост down with scrub Building, si

a former Indian Judge

in preserving the tially from the 64,685 bales ex-No. 2 rubber per 1b, Dec. 68-515

competitive bas promised a new range of typhus.

the Tokyo War Crimes

Melbourne, Nov. 25.

of alk and would do No. a rubber ser ib. Dec. 50-30 convention endorted the organ- ported in June, reflecting the Before chloromycetin treat miniature models called "Down.

Tribunal,

Resentch it. unilblotics has

decrease in stocks In that coun-spot rubber unbatedi

No. 4 rubber per ib. Dec. 12-6314 |isation's policy Wal calls for in- nese ment, he would-be desperately They have cases measuring only

The seat became vacant when cutried the world halfway to_a

anket crepe

484 port levier on an individual pr. everything to support all méd cure for all major disenter, Drt the same time "Foreign millimetres

than duties sures in this respect. dust basis cather for some three weeks and 14 milimetres by 18

No. 1 nale repo Dr Syarea Prasad Mooker- (about 1 to 4 inches).

Werner, United

Herr Coleman said raw silk across the board on all chenical A. uiten. dled.

fee, the founder and President Carles become She has

Imports. The chemical Industry prices were agily higher equally ce

Crops and Markets", quoted the of the extremo right-wing States scientist, said, here.

"We are well. past the fringe Wool Federation of Argentina as critical about underwear, and Hindu Jana Sangli Party, died numerous suggestions for Im in Kashmir

of illis Immense field of His reporting that wool stocks in that

President Eisenhower's objectives Silk Contre London, last June. That

country as of September

of broadening world trade but hoped the Japanese Govern- crovements have been made in party's candidate was now get covery," he added.

Werner,

Instructor in amounted to 80,847,000 pounds, the Soviet press

Business was done in the local reiterated that the chemical stake ment's measures to stabilise four Dr lately.

ting the least votes of

With local consumption. Inutiomelal exchange market-fille In medicine at Comell University. While the funnelnily better off candidates für the seat,

a prime consideratieto year depan siloull be divato 3.9812 Gupta's victory would mean is a member of the New York September and October estimat morning at the following rates: US national security must be prices would yield success this

1.8.dollar.” (per $15

execisive prices Would 15.66 In 1950, a total of $770,000,000 that of Acatlemy of Sciences and the ed of 10,141,000 pounds, the sterling notos (per. Cir was found.

saling and perms and perfumes, Communist control, or, two

American Society of Tropical supply available for export was indonesian guilders (per 100) 30.50 was spent for now equipment and restrict the uso of silk and four seats in the Now elforomycetin com-the hard pressed working class,Calcutta's

Medlemo and Hygiene-China, placed at 50,700,000:-

Binns ticals (per 100) sounds.

1.77 plants by the American chemical favour consumption of rayon Rosanero iraita)

China Mall Special. pletely kills the fever within 30 housewife wants better materials Indian parliament. France-

Mall Spacial,

United Press, Presso.

Indo-China plastros (per 100) 7.62ndustry-United Prost .......hours-China Mail Special. for making and mending.

by

Much was learnt during the of serub war about the causes typhus and its prevention treating clothing with chemicals which kill the miles.

it was not until the

However 1048 that a cure Soviet women call for silks and

01)

AL

05-87 United Prear.

Exchange Rates they emphasised, has a stake in had been expected at the than