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He Makes Ivory Pistol Handles And...

AMERICAN SERVICEMEN ARE HIS BEST CUSTOMERS

Andrew Sloan

Chino Mail Reporter

A local manufacturer has been making ivory pistol grips for the last ten years, but the only time they are sold is when the American Navy stops here.

At most, during the years the grips have been made, the factory has turned out a little over a hundred pairs.

18 Weeks

Gaol For Man

Who Stole

Soft Drinks

A man went bobind bars for a period of 18 weeks this morning for stealing two bottles of soft drinks, La Cinu, 45, steel marine

++){

O Par Long «Visage, was givin The sentence by Air A,

L.

The export manager of the rm, Mr Francis Yip, told me today they once had an order From # New York gunsmith's firm to make 10 pairs for them.

But no further orders were received.

The grips can be custom made or to a regular pattern. Over the years Mr Yip sald he hed

· collected nine or ten patterns for all types of pistols, Ameri- can servicemen take him the regular wooden or plastle grips of their guns, and the factory make them according to the customers' faste In designs - dragons, flowers or an American Eagle.

Less Than 2 Days

A pair of pistol grips can be made In less than two days,

chennusti AT YID guld. The

ell at US$8, or HK$35.

In the factory more than 30 workers, are able to make the pestol grips. It fakes three workers one day to make one

pale.

---kuotiivan at Citral Magistracy for theft from a soil drak torry.

Sub-Inspector R.

A, pro- the Court that sreuling, told Yau Poon, 33, Jorry attendant of the Bireley's Acrated Water Co., was taka several cases ol bottled drinks tion, a lorry parked outside House No. 197, Shaukiwan Road for delivery, to | the handles accurately wpd stores neur by yesterday.

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First a pattern is chosen, und the material is cut to the rough rhape and flied more accurately. A second worker does the art he shapes work. First of all

begins carving

When he has Balshed, the pair Qo his return fen minutes of grips are handed to a polisher the defeatint who smoothes all the rough Jater, Yau

and when he has co- take two bolles of the Soft Edges

drinks frum his lorry. thepleted his work a shining pan

sparter cuallmed.

of gun handles can be handed to customer the following

Front across the road, You: the noticed defersiworl carrying ajday. bamboo pole and a basket an

awy.

Mr Yip told me that one of his shoulder and that as soon as his customers, he Rus the bottles he put themce walked into into the basket, and walked a 45-pound

tusk. Yau, gave chase. Innritately With the help of a Police constable, defendant was seized shortly afterwards,

the bottles of soft drinks were touni concealed under a towel FIL The basket, the inspector indelart.

Defendant was a Pulice super- visee whose fine had not yet expired.

Watch Stolen.

Shortly after midnight, a man approached a woman walking In Tonkin Street, near Un Chow Street and snatched her wrist watch. The thief escaped.

F

Dr Thomas A. Dooley (right) a young American doctor, ar-

rived hare this moraing by

PAA on his way Lo Lagn where he will set up a pow hospital and clinic under the

Auspices of the Medical Inter national Co-operation. Meet-

Ing him at Kal Tak was Mr Travia L. Fletcher, the For Eastern representative of Ald to Refuged Chinese intelloo- tus). (China. Mall Photo),

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Textile Industry Government

Problems

REVIEW BY Col. J.D. CLAGUE

Appointments

Gazetted

The following appointments, postings, transfers and promotions in the various Government departmenta are announced in today's Government Gazette:-

Dr Cheung King-ho, Malario-

from July 18, vice Dr A, H. R.

Coombes, and in addition to his

The Hon. J. D. Clague, speaking to the Lions Club monthly luncheon at the Gloucester Hotel today, said if there must be restrictions against Hongkong exports it was hoped theyogist, has been appointed Art- would be based on a fair appraisal of the Colony's economic ing Sculor Health Officer as position and a full understanding of the immense problems it was tackling so far without any outside assistance. Speaking on the subject of Hongkong's textile industry, Colonel Clague said it was not only in Lancashire that protectionists were at work, Many other countries had erected tariffs against our exports and more were contemplating it.

"It is here that an organlso- | We have 1/3 million spindles when it comes to fixing quotas tion such as yours consisting of fond 10 thousand looms.

con-

duellon has caused such troversy in Britain, and the only reasons I can think of ure that:

duties as Malariologist,

Miss M. E, M, Benham, Prin-

vipat Almoner, resumed duty on

July 25 upon returning from leave.

Mrs Ting Chong Sui-chai coased to Act дя Principal Almoner unt resumed ber duties as Almoner on July 25.

Mr R. G. Cox has been up-

and tariffs we have reason to ex-pointed Deputy Chief Offer,

turn.

Mr Cox, who is on transfer from Trinidad at Tobago, nr- "Neatless to say we Hong-rived in Hongkong on July 20. kong would prefer tree-trading Mr Wong Wai-tsol reased to

net as Deputy Chief Ofcer and resumed his dulles as Divisional Uliver on assumption of duty by

Mr Vlagar Singh,

Senlor

so many different nationalities "You may well be asking | poet favourable treatment, in Fer Fire Brigade, as from June 28, can help by bringing Hongkong's yourself why it is that our pro- undoubled problems, stemming as they invariably do from the refugee problem, forcibly to the notice of your own nationals

in Laureshire the whole and governinents, and I hope

question generates such you

will do this, and ensure emotionalism that the true facts that we are given an opportunity are all too frequently ignored. of finding employment for the

Our entry into the UK many willing hands In our

market coincided with a midal."

big increase in shipments of Colonel Clague said: "As Indian deth mud the potential you all know, the development breat

competitor, of our light industries has fortunately been accompanied

The decrease in the UK's by a steady growth of exports,

exports, which are now As I will explain later the total only half what they were in amount of cotton textiles being 1940, has further aggravated the banght recently declined and situation from Lancashire's point therefore, Inevitably our ex- of 'view. ports have been oblained either at the expense of other export- ing countries or at the expense of the home manufacturers the countries" concerned...

Greatest Impact

- "The

in

greatest impact has been felt by the Lancashire textile industry with the result that Hongkung has been sub- jected to barrage or criticis

am that quarter.

He in Dr Thomas A. Dooley, He wrote about his 'experiences have noted in an extract from

in a best-selling book, "Deliver Us From Evil," the proceeds of which he has since used for the project.

of a new

namely Pakistan.

Limited shipments of cloth

though we realise It does no always rebound to our benef!. "However, if there must te restrictions in one form or Air Cux. other it is to be hoped they will be based on a fair appraisal of Executive Officer, Class 1, to be our ecchomle position and a full Principal Accountant (Revenue), problems we are tackling 50 Agaber. understanding of the immense

Treasury, on July 20, vice Mr G. iar without soy outside Messra Wong Yaf-hing. Ein Hsin-yuen amb Luk Chung-han assistance."

have been appointed

Sub- Inspectors of Schools.

MERSTO Wong Wal-kwong, Hennan Ho... Min-ming.George Kotwall, Cheong Ber-cluen. Ng and Min Axpes Ping-tim Loretta Tang Walshan.have been. appointed Labour Inspectors as from July 20 and 28.

Transferred

Suns of money totalling

be

of Japanese and Chinese- $381,50 which were patients' de- origin have also been allowed posits with the Kowloon, Queen into the United Kingdom in Ure Mary, Mental and Sai Ying Pun interests of trade in general, Hospitals, were ordered to

whereas Lancashire cela transferred to the general re the pinch, other UK industries | venue. exporting benedi.

and

to

The

Mr. Henry Hom Luk ceases in be District Register of Deaths us from today.

The Government Gazette noti-

those

.countries

Government Gazette of today which notified the frangled that the Warrant whereby Perhaps the most import- fer, stated that the sums which Mr W. N. T. Tam was appointed Permanent Magistrale has ant reason of all is thai were deposited in 1953, had not

been revoked as from July 1, the position-of-the-Lancashire-been claimed-by-the-depositors consequent upon his resignation. cotton industry has become a since.

With so many mar-

can-

A young American doctor said today that he was

"Before considering the re-political issue In the .United waging a propaganda war against Commun-levant facts as they affect the Kingdom. ism by setting up hospitals and clinics in parties concerned, you may beginal seats in Lancashire and the Laotian and South Vietnamese villages nearing the Lancashire cotton

interested in some figures cover-possibility of a general election too distant future, in the not the borders of China and North Vietnam.

uustry over

mony politicians are more the past 28 years,

with making political In this connection, you may cerned

capital out of Lancashire's mis- fortunes than they are in facing 25 Years Ago" published re- cently in the China Mail that to real economic issues.. back in

1933 Lancashire, 05

British Problems now, was clammouring for Gov- aument assistance and pro- tection.

"In 1930, Lancashire was operating over 55 million

002 looms. By 1035 these figures hnd dropped to 42 millon and 501 thousand respectively, whilst in 1938 there were only 33 million spindles from few friends and through contri- butions from the American pharmaceutical industry suf- cient funds, instruments and medical materials to enable him up a mobile hospital In to set

Upon Release

a fixal resident, 31, former US Navy physician the shop carry-whose medient pioneering in vary elephant remote South-east Asian arcus

has attracted world attention. . It turæpiled the customer bod

Dr Dooley arrived by P.A.A. shut his own from Tokyu today one to Africa,

on his way elephant and brought the tusks to US 10 મર્મ

another up back to Hongkong.

hospital and clinie. He heads a Upon release from the Navy niedical

team from MEDICO 1930, he approached the In-spindles and (Medient in ernational Co-lernational Rescue Committee, Operation), a division of the non-sectarian organisation. With International Rescue Committee, Us sponsorship, he begged, bor- With reference to an article priva.e American organisation rowed and assembled from a on filter tip cigarettes which ap.hich assists, refugees peared in yesterday's edition of oppression. the China Mall was stated, "The Manager the Hongkong Tobacco Company who both Im- port elgarettes and tobacco for

FILTER TIPS

Overthrown

I have tried to give a bude oi the storica backgrJunu and also altemp.ca to exptain dis- Mie prvo- thousand sonaty vine of

inere autis kucing Leteasmre, FORTRANS Kangkong cuse when 1 tank you. Busould uni know.

Whereas i Wits usciosed

in a recent, debate in une

operating Between 1950 and 1957 the House ul Common at unem- in Lancastilne was spindlage dropped from

ployment 20

jumẳngst the Kewest in the coun- million to just under 22 million, whilst over the

kry Que

Qischarged sexule period Ircen 1952 to 1957 the number of workers finding alternative cm- looms in

ployment, we Hongkong are operation dropped from 350

not in such a fortunate position. thousand to 204

Tex-iles form 40% of our local- ly manufactured exports, and and a group of volunteer assist-part in the decline of the Lan-only have the most serious con-

clear that by far the greater any serious curtaliment

Dr Dooley told a press con- the manufacture of cigarettes, ference at the Astor Hotel that the jungles of north Laos, near

This is Incurrees as the Hong- about 25 Chinese daily crossed the China border. kung Tubeco Co.,

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k said Comununisin would be overthrown not by force of arms from without but through "decay from within."

He said this internal decay. could be encouraged by the flow of ideas through the Bamboo

Curtain.

Dr Dooley emphasised that the MEDICO hospital was not a charity project. The villagers were runging from for a child delivery for 10 pilis.

Between the autumn of 1958

and November, 1957, Dr Dooley

ants took care of the medical preds of more

medical man,

Busand.

Land

From these figures

it

45,000 cashire Indusity took place be than Laotions, most

of whom had spinning

[Ore Hongkong ever started never previously seen a trained

colton in quanlity, perhaps on Even more araphic illustration of this is the ruct that, in 1938 Lancashire ex- ported 1,400 million square yards of cloth

compared with 700 million square yards in 1952.

"There is only one doctor in Lao, which has a population of 3,000,000, and he is the Mails- ter of Health," Dr Dooley said.

His experiences in Laus ate Laotian the subject of a new book he

"What is the charged lees has just published, "The Edge a young buffalo Of Tomorrow."

to an egg

"Charity undermines a nation's self-respect," he said,

His Return

Upon his retur

the

sequences.

I would

can

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Woman Found

A career

Indianapolis, July 31.

petite 40-year-old woman, sought for questioning in the slaying of

'wealthy drug firm exécutive Forrest Toel, was found un- conscious in her car tonight apparently from an over- dose of sleeping pills.

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Polico sald they found Miss Connie Nicholaim conscious in her blue and white Chevrolet on the north slide of the ghy and rushed her to

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With only 320,000 spindles compared with Lancashire ST 22,000,000

not help Lancashire fundamentally if our whole industry closed down.

We enjoy only three per *

cent of Lancashire's home trade, surely this is not unrea- Souable considering that we nuve consistently bought more from the- than they have The balance bought from us.

over the

in favour of the UK

| last 10 years in no less than

The Lesson

lesson to be drawn from these figures? Surely it is finetly that the demand for cotton textiles is decreasing, and more and more man-mode dures to the U.S. are being used; secondly that it MEDICO will send another in December, 1957, Dr Dooley is inevitable that the les deve- Í four medical teams,

inspired to South

founding of loped countries must attempt to Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma and

MEDICO, with the famed Dreslobfish such light Industries as Laos. Each team will consist of Albert Schweizer, og honorary they are capable of operating.

physician at least one

and

and this means more often than not the production of lower several medical trained person-

"The purpose of MEDICO la grades of cotion texilies. nel.

to offer direct person-to-person "If world trade is to be man- medical service to the villagers tained and expanded, it & essen- of foreign lands, usually in at that the less developed those countries, and among countries, are given Пn oppor- peoples with Itle knowledge unity of eaming foreign ex- of medicine," Dr Dooley said, change with which to buyuturo.

"I believe this to be more ef

machinery and other cssentials ficacious than any supranational from the more highly developed govemment programine of foreign seems, therefore, that more

countries.

Small Clinics

patron.

The team will work through the host government's Ministry of Health. Where requested, they will build, stock and supply small clinics. Then they will train Indigenous personnel to level that they can readily reach, fald." without any attempt to make them mirror images of Ameri-

cans.

Two Talks

...

and more of the low grade tex- utes will be produced in the less highly developed countries in the future, and this is a fact

- HK “Minute”

$2,800 mition of (£ Stg. 175 mulion).

There are many other polats in our favour. which will, we into account. hope, be taken Her Majesty's Government has Into refused to be stampeded forcing restrictions on our ex- poris, but has indicated that, they would like us to reach voluntary agreement, and there is reason to think that our textile industry will be proached agaki in the

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"Representatives of Hong- kong industry have already agreed to negollate a celling for export of grey cloth subject to certain important safeguards.-

"Equally, there are reports of boycotts of our goods being or- gunised, and I believe it be boves us all to do what we can to get the true facte more wide- ly known,

"The United Kingdom is not

When the indigenous per- Dr Dooley will give two talks zonnel sro trained, withlis two during his visit here, at the which I believe the major tex- years, MEDICO will turn over Rotary Club luncheon meeling tile producing countries must the clinic and all equipment to next Tuesday and at the Ameri- | fnce up to. It is In keeping the host government, requesing can University. Club dinner on with this background that the

•their promiso to-mainiain-It: August. 8.

- Hongkong-lextile Industry came The bost government will be Dr Dooley and his two into existence. asked to give the clinic a char-{medical assistants, Mr Earl ter, administering and supply-Rhine and Mr Dwight Davis, are

| the only country which enjoys a ing it from then on.

due in Salgon on September 10. other countries, the Hongkong Hongkong, and in this connec

"By comparizon with those in favourable balance of trade with Dr Dooley, as a Navy physician, They plan to set up a clinic in was assigned to a refugee camp village near the 17th parallel Industry is minute, The Unlled tion I invite you to study tho in Vietnam in July, 1954, to give which divides Vietnam. In Laos Kingdom has 22 million spindles trade statistics. medical ald to many of the they plan to set up another hos- and 280 thousand loans, Japan "In addition, there are' dew nearly 1,000,000 refugees from pital in the village of Muong9 million spindles and ab1 thou- countries which do not benent the Vieuminh-occupied northern Sing, near the Burma-China sand looms and India 12 million in cue way or another from our half of the country.

spindles and 220 thousand looms, free trade policy, and therefore

border.

Meyra W. G. Robertson, J. T. Lock, G. E. Marden, A. W. Black, C. F. Wood. D. 8. ITIL, HI. 3. Pearce and K. A. Watson have been appointed members of a Panel under the Emergency (Detention Orders) Regulations, 1956, according to the Govern ment Guzette published today.

The appointments took effect from July 25.

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