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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1954.

POLIO CASES THROUGH 44TH WEEK OP 1954 COMPARED WITH TOTALS FOR SAME PERIOD IN 1952, '53 AND AVERAGE 1949-53

60,000-

48,000

36,000.

474

24,000

156

12,000.

0.

1954 POLIO CASE RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION:

UNDER TO

10 TO 20

20 TO 30

30 TO 40

OVER 40

PROBLEM COUNTIES WITH RATES OVER 150 NUMBERS SHOW INCREASE OR DE- CREASE FROM 1949-'53 AVERAGE #CALENDAR YEAR THROUGH 44th WEEK

ET

SOURCE:NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS

1954 1953 1952 SYEAR

AVERAGE

AVERAGE ANNUAL CASE RATE PER 100,000 POP IN FIVE-YEAR

PERIODS

30-

25

20

าร

10

5

1939-43

1944-48

1949-53

AP Newsfeatures

1954 POLIO TOLL THIRD

HIGHEST IN HISTORY

By DAVID L. BOWEN

Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer

Polio took its third | thes

period

BVITARE for the

the Jou

וט

trials In 217 Name 1049-53.

the country.

YOUTH

states in

heaviest toll in history The ther in the United States this up all have had more vages year as the country im- than their five-year averagy

awaited the

patiently report on results of the dramatic field trial of the Salk vaccine, which may end the terrifying career of the crippling disease.

With Inore thurs "L ԱԶՆԱՈ is aboVE Its Ave-year avers

11-

age, Florida is suffering an vidence per 100,000 population of 50.0-290 por rent grater than the 1040 - 53 averag

Novada how az incidence 104

control

lest areas across

Dr Van Riper attributes this to three fuctors:

Only 440,000 of these children

The amount of vaccino received the actual vaccine. The reminder either got a "duminy"

available will be sufficient for shot or where included in the "only a small percentage" of the

st susceptible age groups. By Kroup"

keeping

New 2, careful track of all these children

inoculation pro- while to be the evaluation

grammes take a centre will ho able to determine what the in-crested by the public.

There 3. eldence of polio was for each

will be too area. With this knowledge, it time between the federal licet- ing of the vaccine-assuming t will be able 10 determine the

will be lccased-and the bes ginning of the pollo season.

per cent higher than the average | degree of protection afforded for those years and Wyoming

is running 140 per cent higher.

Three countles in Nebraska.

152 cases

those who received vaccine,

centre

lo

To make cortain the use of the Sulk vaccine can got off to With 34,220 vases reported in two in Wyoming and one each

a running start if the evaluation the second week of November,

in Florida, North Carolina, New

report is favourable, the This is a tremendously com- this year's polo medence is Mexico, California and Texus plex Job.

National Foundation has According to Dr Vopped vnly by the brutal adi-

had incidence rutes of more tune record of 1952 when there than

Thomas Francis Jr. University of gambled nine million dollars on were 57,879 cuses. Secund worst population,

per 100,000 Michigan epidemiologist who is contract for enough vaccine to in charge of the evaluaton, it inoculate nine million persons. year was 1949, with jiant over States with relatively

"calculated risk" will few cannot possibly be completed This 42,000

cases this year

Include Min-before next spring.

enable pharmaceutical manu- nesota.

where Incidence is 02 No Judgment on the effective facturers to retain specialised per cent less than the average.

of the spring shots isonnel South Dakota 0 per cent les poss

before this evaluation, w the report and thus be Wisconsin 40 per cent less and

Nationni, prepared to produce promptly idalo 47 per cent less.

Foundation, because those who substantial quamilles for com- While these provisional tabu-received them are so small and mercial use, lations continue to mount, the

a fragment of the tolal the ucat

polto vaccine

CETOS.

nesa

craticTC

population

the

and facilities

TRAD

AND COMMERCE SECTION

SOUTH AMERICAN Shares Offered NEW YORK

DEVELOPMENT FUND MOOTED

Petropolis, Brazil, Nov. 30.

A proposal that the 20 Latin American republics pool their official gold and foreign exchange reserves which last June exceeded $3,700,000,000 to organise a development fund has gained ground at the Inter-American Economic Conference.

The United States is understood to oppose the proposal. It originally was introduced by Chile and has been endorsed so far by Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, el Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Further support for the plan the development of the project was expected as additional Latin and to

ready to present American Finuare Ministers specific proposals to member complete presentation of their countries in the near future," general statements before the Mr Black sald. conference.

ENDORSED

the

At the same time Mr Eugene The proposed International Black, President of Inter Finance Corporation,

endorsed national

Bank for Reconstruc-by President Eisenhower fust don and Development, adiress-week, would have a capital fund ing the third plenary sosalon, of $100,000,000. Some Latin "xpressext "great satisfaction, American

with voiced

both official and personal,

spokesmen have the opinion that this the announcment that Use would be "a mere drop in the United States supports the crea- tion of an internaŭonal Finance

Corporation, composed of all members of the International Hank.

"We, in the Bank, expect to be able to act without delay in

World Cotton Markets

New York, Nov. 30. Colten prices today turned reactionary after a mixed start, huiting a previous four-day rise

incunding to 33 a bale.

Realising on technical reasons, plus commission house liquida- tion and moderate hedge selling found trade buyers more re- Arved.

in Evening up the December delivery was another trading feature,

New while

intercet speculative developed cautiously as outside traders transferred more niten- lion to securities and some of

Although tho peak of the season was passad two months

The vaccine being purchased ago, reports of now cases still are

by the National Foundation will Betury the your coming In.

15 developed by Dr Jonas E. Salk Although #1 is not widely be given free of charge-again over the Natkmal Foundation for

of the University of Pittsburgh realised, the country can expept assuming a favourable report-to Infantil Paralysis estimates the

shifted from the "needle phase" a relatively small drop in pollo a selective group.

It will in- 19.4-1

- Agure will chrab

to 40.000

to of lost spring

the "paper rates next your even if the Salk elude all "polio pioneers" who Ay !! neompanying isip phase"

vuceine la proved completely participated in the Beld trials how dest hat Unis At the Poliomyelitis Vaccine effective.

last spring bul who didn't your

WITC Florku Iowa, Evaluation Centre Al the "We must

for up-rett prepare

receive actual vaccine and two Nebraska, Wyoming Utah and University of Michigan 144 proximately the same number other classifications with high Nevasta. Nebraska

and Ulah / million separate facts are being of new cases as we had In 1954," susceptibility to pollo: Pregnant foll in this category even though, entered on 1,830,000 cards each saya Dr Hort E Van Riper, women and all children in the they have had less casry through, une bearing the name of a child | medical director of the National { first

Ure 44th week at this yeu thun who participated in the field Foundation.

shows, states

of grades parochial schools.

public and

Livingstone Centenary

DAVID

LIVINGSTONE

Next Year

Nidaro Fails, only 170 feet a special building adjacent to hich.

the museum built in Livingstone town to house treasures illustra-

Ideas have been advanced for

ot

the

a new monumeral to be placed | ting early exploration and on Livingstone Island at the pioneer development which very lip

Falls where opened the country to British David Livings'ane stood when colonisation. he first saw them, on November 16, 1955.

possessions will be Ometals

to enhanced

next year by items large A

collection of open the Livinstone Exhibition from

PTC

preparing

Museum

years.

Ware

been

the commodity markets.

bucket.

New York, Nov..30. A group of American underwriters announced to- day, an offering of 310,285 shares of capital stock of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company at $5.60 a a share.

All of the shares offered

insued

outstanding

and are being sold for the secount of Anglo-Canadian Telephone Company which of the will receive alt proceeds from the sale.

Philippine Long Distance Company

reach services 110 principal clile and commercial centres through- ou the Plippines,

Carl. M, Loeb, Rhoades

Co. Aud

and antocister head the U.8; underwriting group.-United Press.

HONGKONG

STOCK

EXCHANGE

(From Our Correspondant)

Norm opkastreba

STOCK

MARKET

New York, Nov. 30. Industrial shares on the stock exchange suffered their first setback in seven BEARÍONN.

In the

Losses throughout the list at the close ranged to more than h point Market experts were not alarmed over the break which developed

last hour of tealings. They pointed out that the 1st

was due for suing selling at this Ume be- cause of the recent advanco which moved industrial shares to an all-time high,

The Hauldasin movement de- veloped in the last 30 minutes of dealings. Selling was so heavy that reporting tickers fell behind floor transactions. AL the opening, the Hickers also ran late, but at that time tho market was moving upward.

Trading erstel 101 the Il-off. Salts for the day total- Ted 1,440,000 sharesi, compared with 3,300.000 yesterday,

AIRCRAFT

ISSUES

Alterat manufacturing issues Franged

do better than other stocka, Railroad shores cunskferable selling on profit-taking. This nurket news conbunted 011 the favourable

met

the side.

As the conference swunst into tung's transactions on the high gear with the start of Hongkong Stock Exchange were: committee work, another project | SHARES BUYERS SELLERS SALES was inding strong Latin Ameri- can support: The creation of a system

stabilise prices of primary Ratin American raw materials.

the

to

Mentioned specially anong to be stabilised products Way coffee. Coffee experts

10 the attached

Brazilian Columbino, Mexlein and Central American delegations studiet possible approaches to the iden of establishing an International coffee agreement, which both producing and consuming coun- Irles would be invited to join. ft would be patterned along the Wheat International existing

Agreement-United Press.

World Rubber

Markets

New York, Nov. 30. Rubber futures today closed Traders looking for new in-

the forth-to 15 points lower with sales of centives discussed

45 citracis. coming Anal Government crop estimate of the season to be

intra-dealer, switching opern- tions accounted for a part of published on Dec. 8.

the small business donc JET Kutures.

some

Harvesting of the remainder of the crop has made rapid

Spot dealers reported progress in the far southwest, mostly by machine on Irrigated small buying for the account of the small and medium sized three. fourths picked in Arizona and factories, but price hiças among

ercoge.

Cotton

ta

BANKS

1K Bank

1800 1870

***0

4 Jo

10 .. 1470

Funk Anien INSURANCES

214

1410017

Lumbard Made withers

#44

DUCKS, ETC

K Whit Do

IT

Ati 20 Jaovident (0) 13 79 16 10 Wheelock

LAND EIX ILK Slot

IIX Landt

Itumphreys Realty UTILITIES

400... My

7 7.10 4000 $ 0.195 11:30

*

A Aw

dominated

host most

lower-priced ISPUCA dralings. Chrysler

of is gains in the mannged to

but Tutors.

close with a gain of a to $834.

Amorean - Rawain Steamship WEN a

th

a bright

Spot EIN the special-

the Volatile Ou

sertion, Royal Dutch slumped 2% points to $80. Boeing Ar craft closed with only a gain of 134 points to $03% after show- Ing an

improvement of

than 3 points.

7.08 SUDU

14 21 14 20 1000

13.00

2000

14.00

4000

14,10

2000 14.20

23.30

3000 40

2001 300 64.50 100 63.00 100+ 05.20

300

40 63.00 10002330 2.42 2.10 000 or 2.121

Tran ... 01060 2000

Star Ferry 137 140 Yaumati Ferry 137 150

19.00

1750 of 10.00

220 6 157

10 187

100 137

100 150

C

Light (0) IT 10 17.40 300 * 17

500 a 17.20

500 S 1720 203 17.10

37 37.75 132 36.50

07 11

Light (N) 13 70

Electric

Масда ке

Telephone

INDUSTRIALS

C'ement

A

current mar-

Is In the final states in north- the major buyers was thought to western

Texus, where "gin be running around / cent yards are overrun with loaded pound below the

1 Rss wete Spot No. according 10 the ket, Government weekly crop sum-

quoted at 214 cents per pound, Future Closings were;

trailers."

mary.

Trading volumes and open interests in the Exchange today

Dec.

Mar.

May

July

were:

Sept.

Month

Doc.

Volunc 0,000

Open interest

70,700

Мат

50,800

192.300

Jay

30,700

1,013,000

July

17.300

477.100

Det

11.100

109,000

Dre.

5,900

74.200

Shar

4.700

22,500

May

10,700

12,200

101,200 2,783,100 bales

NEW YORK

Headman Chinkalanga, who the ex- claimed to have scen

Journeys plorer on one of his through what is now known as Total Northern Rhodesia.

Chinkalanga, Dix от seven years old when he saw Living- stone, was estimated to be 94 when he died

Prices of futures closed today as follows:

Spot

Doc.

MAT

May

D

July

dis-

Oct,

tha

Dec.

Mar

May

The Falls centenary year has been chosen by the Pan-African Congress on Prehistory for

neeing at Livingstone to cuss the prehistoric past of African continent.

New Findings

new

The centenary Zambesi

14.00

34.24

34,52-03

34.70

24.71-12

JAAS

34.49

34.51

34.58

NEW ORLEANS

AMSTERDAM

The market WAS

30

30 75,371, 1000 4 30.50

1000 34,75

300 or 37

ΠΟΙΟ

Of the 1,263 issues traded, 627 cloud lower. 380 finished higher and 240 held unchanged, New highs were registered by 130 stocks and three made new lows. The New York Stock Ex-

bond change

volume $3,270,000.

WEB

The American Stock Exchango volume was 900,000 shares.

DOW-JONES AVERAGES Dow Jones closing averages on Wall Street today were as follows:

30 Industrials

20 mil

15 utilities

03 socks

40 bonds

386,77

131.47

50,15

141.63

101.19

170.04

-Valled Press.

Comm, future price index

Chicago Grain Prices

Prices per mabel in cente:

Mar

Chicago, Nov. 30.

Closing prices

3500 1710

100 @ 17,20

14

100 13.00

300 0 301.75

1000 37

31

50 30%

Whest, No. 2, red

Spot

200

Dec. 229472(1

2204-26

230

500 or 31.20

May

228

CONST

July

27 US

#T.10

Rope

STORES, ETC

Dairy X tha

1000

Serie

Corn, No. 2, yellow

27.03

27.70

2424.20 500 45 24,5

1132 24 300 24

Spot Dec. Mar.

21715

185

Itts

15.20

MAY

27 70

July

Sept

steady.

Iya

74000 7 10

Dec.

Mar.

120-1237% 131

Oatn

Dec.

8.70

Mar.

0311

428 4.30 17000 @ 4.27!5

Boybeans, No. 2, yellow

Spot

20015

Jan.

Mor.

28791-16

May

209-2188

July

-2203312-14

Sept.

200

Barley

Spot

New York Hone

200 tb. #ack

130-152

$14.00 -Uribd Press.

Prices closed today in Builders

per kilo cit Dec, as follows;

No. 1 rubber

No. 2 rubber

No. 3 rubber

No. 1 crepo

2.34 buyers

2.32 buyer

2,31 buyers

2.50 pold

The Singapore and London rubber prices were not received. -United Press,

New

York Sugar Market

New York, Nov. 30.

World No.

4 sugar futures closed today unchanged with

aples of six contracts.

Domestic No. 0

L Crawford 24 30 COTTONS

Textile Co. 1.85

Nyosu

MISCELLANEOUS

Yutaze Allied

Corporations

Profit Boost

Predicted

Prices of futures closed today clooed 1 to 5 points higher with predlebelt

as follows:

Spot

Dec.

Mar.

May

July

ન

Deo.

Mar.

May

Future

34.20

33,75

34.58-59

34.81-82

24,70

134.40

34.40

34.07

34.00

200-206-7

New York Foreign

Canada

Exchange

New York, Nov. 30.

unofficial 30-day futuren 90-day futures

$1.03 Tamoja

2.07-11.09

Australia

*2.78€

2.78-11/10

2,77 2.79-1/10

New York, Nov. 30. Fortune, No. 8 sugar futures

Magazine today a big boost in net sales af 82 contracts.

profits for 4.9. corporations in England-omcial World futures filled to devo-1965. lop a special trading feature, In tho world

In its current fasue, Fortuie Ceylon was the reported buyers salt corporate net profita next New Zealand of 93,000 tons of Cuban sugar year will be up from 18 billion South Africa for January shipment at about in 1954 to mywhore between loband Belgium 3.20 cents a pound, F. O. B. 16.7 and 21 billon. Domestic futures Armed

in June, July and August next Livingstone's things recently

Many of the fine discovered in a tin trunk which

findings about year, the height Livingstone, Northern weather winter season of Central had been lying locked in an early man-some suggesting that Africa when the great Falls, too, attic in Britain for the last 40 Africa may have been the homo Rhodesia, Nov. 30.

and Eve will be aro acen at their best.

of Adam discussed next July here by Summer rains from November Doctor David Living-

The collection. including m

geologists and paleconto- the early months stone's discovery of Cen- the vent swell the yams of journals, books and the cocked logists who first met in Nairobl hat which David Livingstone in 1947, and who held their tral Africa's great River to heavily along its 750-

mile jungle course above the Portuguese

10 British consul in last conference at Algiers in

LIVERPOOL "river wonder," the Falls

•East Africa, has 1952. that by April and May

to the Central presented

closings, 12,000,000 cuble test of Africans Archives by Miss Diana Victoria Falls, in 1855 is some

75,000,000 Endiens to be commemorated by every minute, rour like taals Livingstone Bruce, the explorer's gatin, to be held from July 9 to middling, 15/18 inch, in pence Contract No. 4 (world)

12. aims at drawing compotitors per lb. were as follows: into

the great-granddaughter.

from deep gonges below

as well Overcas

as Doo/Jan.. Considered beyond price" southern Afriken, for a series of Mar/A drop, exploding into billowingg.

May/June clouds of spray and mist chorus the collection Includes more than ovents including Towing Bral Jul/AUE. ing the whole scene,

by motorboat racing.

Oct/Nov, Thomas water colours

Baines, the artist and

Oicial values for spot cations Airliners on their journeys to explorer, who left Kings Lynn, and from European capitals fy

include: American middling Norfolk, to wander through low dally over the Victoria

13/18th inch 32.84 Central Africa In Livingstone's Falls to land at nearby Living American B. Liddling

th inch 29.84 day,

stone Arrangements

to South Africa.

1-1/32nd inch 3306

special centenary cele- brations next year.

Exhibitions of the life work of the British explorers missionary are being organised and an international regatio is planned on the tropical waters

nrad

water,

یا

Water Eases

130

have

been the nerve to fuelling stop on Mexicon middling,

·Olliers were uzichanged, SAO PAULO

Mar

w

maritet,

The exact umount will be dependent on whether. the corporate tax rate is allowed to arop as per ochedule next year and whether corporations take full advantage of the depreciation provisions

with

American

tho raw market. Futuro clos- ings were,

3.1 Dat

31.54 37.10 32.24

Mar

May

Tu

372

31.68

slept. Boat(conts

3.22

DOY b. fob

Cuba) Contract No. 1

3.24

March May

6.4%

6.01

July

0.00

1.83

Nov.

0.04

March

Вла

"Unlied' Prem

of the Zambeal River, just above Dy June and July, with the the point where they crash ovar | arrival of the cool, dry Monzon linde to publish some of the But this overnight line with they 300 best one, a mile-wide in Contem) Afrien, "the" wall of material uncovered in the collec- rest of the world has left thô front on their 1,700-mile course water booming into the winding ton. It will form a special wide, green Zumbral And the to die Indian Ocean,

gorge has ossed enough to work to mark the centenary of scene of the Falls little changed

Futuro closing prices, enable

from the day when Livingstone | cruzokon, per iciło were au fol- Tought ofgenisere of the new what the tourist to get a clear the discovery of the Fulla.

the whole scene. By Another book available for first met byer upon it.”

Jows! Central African Federation are November, at the ond of the the contenary "Livingstone Preservation of the arett "-re- expecting a big season for the dry winter, the flow of the the Geographier" by Profesor cantly became the responsibility Fails Dext year, with their Zambesi, has fallen from 1 F. Debenham, Enverittle Pró- of a new Trust. M

tena exconding summertime peak to only 4,000,- sor of Geography at Ca

Fat/Cam-A Nor have the last 100 yers o the unal how of visitors from 000 gallons over the Fade That bridge University, di Duel of Adka and oversees in how, lavingstone first waw authority on Livingston 20 arocodiles and hippopotami Who

Etherne

· Thema)

One of the last if not the last live in the Zamber River of the average" príos Americane," are emorag the Halion and journals of Doctor living links with Livingstone's water to drink and cool thandling at 10 designated Jeannet travellers, to the 300. Livingstone's adventurous jour expeditions in Central Africa, estve a short motor launch kata was 38.08 cente

Viktoria Falls which nays: In, primitiva Atriona LLIKLE was lost recently in the ride from the Fails, China Mell them control totaled

PoEsnovi, nudley (Am will we entered in amets at na marianng known, an den

évéry, year,

an

much changes the halls of the

Juty

6pot-cents per lb, cit NY

Even if the riso

TOW

is only to

18.0 billion, the total amount of

corporato funds available in the

Chuhu India

aklatan Hongkong Others Presa.

were

ilted

London · Foreign Exchange

Montreal

form of profita

and deprecin New York tion should be up 12 per cont Amsterdam (er 3.7 billion) next year, Brumele

predicted. Fortune Copenhagen

For at net profits ini, the |

third

London, Nov. 30.

2.75-9/18-2.70-11/18 289-10/18-979

20.00-10.5091⁄2

109.6 19.4

Marka

Others

quarter of 1084 werd Zurich.

NEW YORK METAL nearly 10 billion. Fourth quar

FUTURES

ter not profita dould' rise at least 600 million more Cof porate not profits "should" bu Now York} Nov.' 30.

within 2 per cent of inst year's Prices of motal futures closed | 10,9 billfen; it

added today ini.cente por ibi ne follows! 12.786

31,085

Форрет

Dividends the

Trem

Exchange Rates

Ilustrning (wmé-done”: Szé

ori share, 19 Mockly #:125 Industrials, which unodia

80.60p rose 12 cents in the final quarter met the Roadwire 10315 OF 1908, will probably ring = 27.

10.50 cents in the corresponding

3 period this your, Fortune pro-

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