THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946.
Negroes' Position In NEW WONDER Streptomycin
American Business
Negroes of the United States have gained an impres sive position in commerce, finance, and Journalism, and now look ahead to participating in foreign trade on a bigger scale.
These facts were brought out, les, but there is a negro dally in at the recent conference on the Atlanta, Georgia, the Atlanta Dally.
Although many of the negro en- negro In busiucas, held in Washington under auspices of terprises have mall capital, Dr.
Lancaster sal
said that there is "big the United States Department of business" under negro nuspices in Commerce, reports United Insurance, banking, building and lon Press.
organisations.
Negroes in the U.S. according to his The ivanre of the coloured racO.
statistics, operate 109 insurance com- in business has had stendy encourage ponies and have outstanding policies
Govern- inent by the United States
amounting to over $717,000,000. Their ment, through neuro advisern
ahnu income is around $40,000,000 attached to 16 departments Eleven negro-owned banks in 1944
government. Pro- agencies at the minent amung these is Emmer Murad deposit of $20,000,000 and ussets tin Lancaster of the Department of of $28,000,000.
Commerce.
Interviewed by the
United Pres regarding the, conference, Lancaster said that the meeting had special value to the country from three
it assured the negroes of alequate participation in the small business programme of the States Government.
United
and
In
Secondly, negro educators businessmen reviewed progresa business education, with a view to Increasing guidance and placement opportunities for negroes.
Trade with Africa
SUPERSONIC
PLANE OF
1500 MPH
A stiletto-nosed supersonic rocket fighter plane, capable of
Thirdly,
it encouraged the negroes streaking 1.500 miles an hour or to enter foreign trade, especially with faster 200,000 feet up, is under African countries. The negroes al-development at the Douglas ready have established
commercial Aircraft plant, at El Segundo, Liberia ties with Haith,
and the
California, reports United Press. Virgin Islands, and are
looking to
Because of the terrific rocket power in the opportunities commercial Caribbean region and other parts of and danger of uncontrolled explo
sion, a fest pilot has been offered $50,000 to make the first flight.
The extremely sharp nose of the craft in expected to drill the pir ahead
stubby, sharply
the work.
WIK
Lancaster Himself a negro, formerly on attarney at Akron, Ohio, In the Department of Commerce, he
to negro ahead
white wings, giving with of
well
ELECTRONIC
COMPUTER
Such questions an whore will the moon be 200 years from now In its relation with the earth would take 60 years or longer to solve by present methods. But within a year or so, scien- tists may be able to eniculate the problem within a matter of seconds, says United Press.
1
The answer is expected to be found in a new high-speed electronle com- puter now being built. This ma- chine, already n new loy with meteorologists engaged in an ambi tlots programme to make moro accurate weather forecasts,
Experiment For Leprosy
A malignant sore on the knee of a tiny, orphaned Marshall Islands girl may provide the key to treatment of leprosy for the first time in centuries, re- ports United Press.
Kalu, a cheerful, brown-skinned, eight-year-old girl from the island of Watje, was brought to the U. S. when her foster parents reported that Naval Hospital on Kwajelein recently Lunal! scab on her left knee seemed to be sprending.
MILLIONS JOBLESS
IN ITALY
Rome, Nov. 24. UNRKA estimates that 2,- 500,000 people are out of work in Italy, with 6,000,000 suffe- ring directly from unemploy- ment. The unemployment figuro would be 1,500,000 greater without UNRRA aid.
Even those. with jobs receive
war levels. wages 50 to 60 per cent below pre
A combination of un- employment and frindequate wages has caused recent Jabour" unrest throughout Italy, the report sald. Lt. Benjamin Parker, chief The basic key. 10 Italy's un- medical offer on Kwajelein.
has increased by about population nowsuspected the air! had leprosy after employment woes is the fact that her holding the interest of scientists in making a preliminary diagnosis. To 100,000 per year, says United Press. higher mathematles.
nike certain, e specimen of Kalu's Even counting pre-fascist years, when Italy's emigration was high, the ppoulation Jumped 10,000,000 Laboratory in Honolulu,
the last 55 years, with only about one-fourth of that nuraber being ab
These wizards, who to the laymankin was down to the Navy Medical talk a strange language, believe that this now, refined high-speed computer may enable them to find new planets and other discoveries about the solar nystem within their lifetime.
Many thousands of electronic tubes are used in the ordinary high-speed computer, but the new model will have fewer than 1,000, including one called the electronic memory tube.
This tube can record numbers and "remember" them, using them in calculations made later by scientists operating the machine.
The high speed computer is a com- plex machine. You have to "feed" ita data-great amounts of data
in the but it makes computations twinkle of an eyelash.
A special building is being çʊn- structed in Princeton, New Jersey,
use the new computer.
to
has prepared a formidable array of of the plane. It will wept back Plans For British
helpful publications
and alco to businesmen merchant interested in trade
the coloured population.
of
the cra
craft the appearance a keenly tipped arr
arrowhead.
offset terrine temperatures by triction an the plane
He said the problem of racial dis-generated
criminaton in Ires acute in business plows through the atmosphere, a re-
than in other
frigerated cockpit is being designed. and that activitica.
have at Another safety measure will be. a. many negro enterprises
One-Ulta cockpit that can be jettisoned. It was tracted white patronage.
explained that if the pilot encounters the deposits in bloks,
for example, are from
coast until his speed has decreased, bureau com then ejeet himself mechaniently for According to census
there pilations
20,027 retail are
a parachute descent. stores under negro proprietorship in the United States. In 1939 they ro- ported retail sales of $71,400,000 n gain of 40 per cent in tour years. Postwar compilations are not yet available, but would be much Jarger. Service Establishments Additionally, negroes maintain 27.- 305, "ervice establishments," as for example barber shops, trucking com- panies, *messenger services, and other non-merchandising enterprises. These, at Lait census report, did an annual business of $30,002,000, with a payroll of over $0,000,000,
ne/trouble, he can detach this section,
Negro establishments are found in all sections of the United States, being especially numerous in central and Atlantic seaboard states.
There are 135 negro newspapers in the United States, of which 137 at the last report had a paid circulation of 1,300,000. The majority are week
REFUELLING
IN MID-AIR-
of
The famous Halifax aircraft Britain's Coastal Command are now being tied with new apparatus chabling the aircraft to be refuelled In the air.
of this new
NEW
SIGHT FOR THE BLIND
!!
ZL
Industries
Fair
It has now been finally decided that the Brat British Industries Fair since the war is to be opened on May 5, 1947, and will last until May 16.
So many notifications from overseas been Visitors and buyers have received alrendy, that 2 greater attendance is expected than at the last . 1. F. in 1939.
be
ΠΕ
As the pre-war arrangements proved so successful, they are being maintained. Therefore, the lighter industries section will be housed at Olympia and Earl's Court. London, while the metallurgical and What might be described
engineering sections will miracle operation hus been Bromwich Castle, Birmingham. performed through the skill of British opthalmic surgeons.
In view of the great interest abroad Since she was 14 years old an in Britain's post-war production, English girl. Rosemary Swarbrick, special attention will be devoted to had been partially blind, and 10 the
selection uf the producis months ago she became totally blind. displayed, laking into account the The skill
overseas countries of Brilish opthalmic requirements of surgeons has now completely restored for British goods. her sight.
The operations were carried out at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. The cornes was removed from the ryes of two men and grafted on to Miss Swarbrick's eyes, Now Rosemary can see everything without the aid of spectacles and can read the smallest --print, sew and thread a needle-In fact do every- thing nermilly expected of a person with healthy sight.
PLAN TO CURE FOOD
BLACK MARKET
The importance fuelling device should not be under- estimated. If n Halifax can be A German police official offered supplied with fresh fuel from the following plan to deal with the tanker aircraft, this means that its food black market: range will be sufficiently increased to A huge barbed-wire enclosure on enable.
it to
to reach
an airport situated the outskirts of each large city, inte much further afield, or to be able to which everyone caught with even a refpel aguio over another fuelling, minute quantity of black market food station without having to make a be placed. Offenders to be then landing for this purpose.
marched from the enclosures The present range of the Halifax | through the
streets and forced
to
is about, 1,000 miles. Its future range work on the removal of rubble heaps will depend on where and how often until their sentences have been mid-air refuelling can take place. served.
SIDE GLANCES
| COVA, SH4E BY MA SERVICE, MC-T. M, RES, 3, 16. PAT, OFF-
Ultra Sound Waves To Kill Germs
Sound waves vibrating so fast that
heard are be
being they cannot used
death rays to kill food Herms and to permit canned goods processed without cooking, reports United Press.
to be
over
more
When the lesion falled to respond to penicillin treatment, the Navy asked the Bureau of Medicine and corbed into b
The report showed that Surgery in Washington to
send people entered Italy than left be streptomycin, the new wonder drug.tween 1031 and 1938, despite Italy's over-population and Mussolini's de- Although he knows of no other mantis for living room in Ethiopia attempt to cure leprosy with
and elsewhere. streptomycin, Parker points out that
Ifeads of Families Out
it has been used successfully un The Italian Labour Ministry is tubercular patients. Bacteria causing trying to provide vocational training tuberculosis and leprosy are very that will absorb surplus workers into similar, Parker says.
Industries requiring labour, also to Should the unprecedented test meet find additional employment and out- In 1913, Italy's with success on the little girl, lepers lots for emigration.
peak emigration year, 872,000 IL- Isolated for life in colonies through-as left for other countries, 377,000 out the world
le could hope to
of the drug are available.
treated as soon as adequate supplies going to the United States.
that at least
If it falls, Kalu will be sent to teper island in the Marshall group.
Beer-Drinking
African Ghost Disappears
ง
n
The Colonial Ofice reports that the beer-drinking ghost of the Cameroons, Kumba, in Africa, has not been heard from since a wrecking crew recently a house to deprived him of haunt.
The ghost disturbed sleepers with footsteps and groans in a guest house for nearly 30 years. The house has been demolished.
officer
According to the Colonial Omee, reports of a ghost started after the death of a German district
rule in the notorious for his iron Cameroons,
There seemed to be only one way
UNRRA estimated
three-fifths, or about 1,500,000, of the of families, unemployed are heads causing great hardship to about 6- 000,000 people.
and THW
UNRIA has allocated more than $127,000,000 for industrial rehabilita- tion in Italy imported solld liquid fuels and essential materials and aided the building in- dustry.
thereby contributing
sub- stantially employment.-United Pros.
to
British Stand On Monopolies In Trust Territory
of
New York, Dec. 5. Britain has no intention using private monopolies as a normal policy, declared Mr Ivor Thomas, British representative, in a statement yesterday to the Nations Trusteeship United Sub-Committee, when the rights of private monopolies in British Togoland and the Cameroons were discussed.
to keep him from roaming about statement: "The British Government
the middle of the night. That was to put a bottle of beer and a glass on a tray shortly before midnight. says United Press.
Dr Thomas issued the following
bas no intention of using the grant in trust of private monopolies territories as a normal Instrument of policy. Such private monopolies
Next morning there would be rem-would be granted only when this is nants of foam on the glass and the essential to enable a particular type of desirable economic development bottle would be empty, although the cap would still be Armly set on the to be undertaken in the interests of
the inhabitants. bottle and show no evidence of hav- ing been removed.
Youth Fined For Tormenting
"In these special cases where such private monopolies are granted, they
granted
limited only
are,
periods.
for
In
revised
the clause for 411 u Cameroons and Togoland draft came
agreements, the British Government
Whale also proposed to "ensure the same
rights to all nationals of the United Nations as to its own nationals re- garding the entrance into and re- aidence in British
itish Togoland, freedom of transit, acquisition of property, protection of persons and property any exercise of professions."
Henry Jenks, acoustical engineer, says that refinement of ultra sound wave machines opens a vast un- explored region, promising poinless A 17-year-old youth was fined $10 dentistry and possible eradication of in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on the weevil and other agricultural a charge of tormenting a whole. The pests.
54-foot whale had floundered on the
The administering authority has The waves vibrate us high as beach and the youth was accused of also undertaken not to discriminate 100,000,000 cycles per second and slashing. its huge bulk with a jack on grounds of nationality against any produce and rupture microscopic air knife, says United Press.
United Nations
tho members in bubbles in the microbes' cells. The After three futile attempts to elis-matter of concessions.--Router. human voice vibrates only 400 cycles pose of the still living whale, the per second. A generating machine Coast Guard turned the job over to ses the electrical impulses to vibrate chemists, who killed it and hauled quartz, crystal 피 nny desired it away to make whale oil for
lubricating watches. Irequency.
By Galbraith Most Unpopular Man New Anti-Malaria
"Why get peeved because I'm proposing to you in the kitchen? If we get married won't you be putting in a lat of time hère?!!
Of The Year
Drug Available
soldiers
The Crackpot Club, a Grand A new drug developed during the
American Rapids, Michigan, fun organisation, war to prolect announced that it will aban- against ihalaria is now available for 7018 and later as chloroysine, it is 10
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IN PEACE OR IN WAR...THERE
HAS NEVER BEEN A PICTURE THAT
STIRRED YOUR HEART SO DEEPLY!
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COMMENCING TO-MORROW
VIOLENCE LOVE AND ADVENTURE!
*
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THIS ABOVE ALL
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"THE FLAME OF LOVE""
(A CHINESE PICTURE)
— NEXT CHANGE
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IN
"APPOINTMENT IN BERLIN"
GATHAY
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A YANK AT ETON
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"CASABLANCA"
MAJESTIC
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P.M.
IT REVEALS A MAN'S SECRET DESIRES! Sponcer
TRACY
Ingrid BERGMAN
Капа TURNER
in VICTOR FLEMING'S Matro-Goldwyn-Mayer Production of "DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDE"
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TERRORISM FEARS
IN ITALY
"L'Unita,"
Rome, Dec. 0.
cumTM Italian the munist Party organ, yesterday vio- Iently attacked a secret directive of the Italian Police Chief, Signor Luigi Ferrari, notifying police prefects
LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
Notice is hereby given that an Interim Dividend of One Dollar per share, and a Bonus' of 'Ono Dollar
has per. share
bean declared payable as on the 16th
Illegitimacy To Be throughout ly of a charcute old, December, 1946.
Eliminated From Birth Certificates?
ganation, which the directive was under orders of the Soviet. Government.
The Share Transfer Books will. be closed from Monday, 9th December, 1946. to Monday, 18th December, 1046 (inclusive) for the purpose of the preparation of Dividend Warrants.
Published by "L'Unlia," which prefaced it. "We don't want to be Ileve It is true," the directivo told police prefects to be on guard against the Trolka, an organisation des cribed as "consisting of Russian clc- ments, Yugo-Slavs and Italians, to
Dividend Warrants will bo' engage in at the opportune moment and at Russian Government orders issued at the Registered Office of terrorism against Allied troops in the Company, 1st Floor, Exchange foreigners in the Republic with anti-9.00 a m. and 5.00 pm on Mon-
anti-Tito senti- Communist, and
day, 10th December, 1948, menta" Associated Press.
By Order of the Board.
A. W. BROWN
General Manager. 29th November, 1946.
don annual selection of the most un- domestic use. Originally known as Mr Aneurin Bevan, hopes to have Italy, as well as against Italians and. Building, Hong· Kóng, between
popular min of the year, until John
L. Lewis is no longer head of the limes as strong as quinute and much
United Mine Workers, United Press
states.
The Club said: "Lewis won hands down Wiree years in a row, and we will be glad to send ilm a per manent trophy but it is not fair to
men Uke Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi and. Russia's V. M, Moletov to have the Acid completely dominaled by one man."
Fourth Airport For London
The trafic
less
than poisonous and better atabrine, says United Press.
Chloroysine is a synthetic pound made from coal tar; and is re- lated chemically to both quinine and ntabrine. It is not effective against
the recurring type of malarin.
12 months.
London, Dec. 5. Evidence of illegitimacy is to be denied in the shortened form of the birth certificate in England and Wales which the Health Minister, approved by Parlament within the comin
In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Bevan
said he hoped to introduce com- a bill making it possible in Scotland to issue at reduced fees, shortened birth certificates and also shortened extracts of the adopted children's register which would contain no re- ference to parentage, or adoption.
A number of members have been pressing for a new form of birth ahow certificate which would not evidence of illegitimacy and Mr Bevan told them to-day: "I hope. the whole House will agree when they see the nature of the bill, that we have got round most of the dimculties."-Reuter."
ALASKANS ON EDGE OF STARVATION
Electricity By Cable
From Norway Denied
London, Dec. 6. The Fact Ministor Mr. Emmanuel Shiawell, informed the House of
Washington, Dec. 5. Mr E. L. Bartlett Alaskan dele- gate to Congress, to-day urged Pre- to rescue 90,000 sident Truman persons in Alaska from the edge of At the moment London has three starvation caused by the maritime airports: at Heathrow (London alte strike on the West Const. that
Mr Bartlett pointed out port), Croydon and Northolt,
ol. Labour American Federation uninterrupted increase of alr has caused the Ministry of Civil longshoremen were still idlo in three Washington State parts-Tacoma, Aviation to
to select Bovingdon as Lon- Seattle and Port Angeles-which Commons to-day in reply to a ques serve a large share of Alasita-hound tion that he was not considering the Bovingdon is 21 miles from Cen-shipping. He said the President possibility of importing supplies of cable con- tral London and has three runways, was very sympathetic to his appeal electricity by submarino all more then 1,300 yarda long..Not for help in settling the strike and neeting Norway with Northeast Scot. only is it to become the terminus for promised to give the matter active land. altcraft to and from, the Middle East and immediate consideration. and West ` Africa, but during bad The delegate said Alaskans had weather. it will serve as a relief alf-been forced to kill brood hens and milk cows for food.-United Press. port for the three others.
don's fourth airport.
A Conservative member, Mr. Thorn
ton Kemsley, had suggested this as a means of saving British coal- Reuter.
MACARTHUR ORDER TO JAP GOVERNMENT
2
Tokyo, Dec. 5. Gen MacArthur, hine issued reminder to the Japanese Govern- ment that all Its contacts with official representatives of foreign govern-. ments in Japan must be made through General Headquarters,
fle
KOREAN HOPES
Tokyo, Dec. 6. Dr Syngman, Rhee, Korena poll- tical leader,; sald to-day that the Korean people are "fulle prepared cites incidents in which to have their own government and representatives of a foreign as the sooner actunt transfer of ad made direct contact with the ministration is made to the Koreans Japanese Government for the pur- the better it will be for the Allies pose of procuring Information and and for the Koreans themselves." transacting official business-Reuter. United Press.
CAPTAIN TO HANG
ROOSEVELT'S STATUE
London, Dec.: 0. Thie
.Franklin D. Floosaveit Batavia, Dec. 2. Memorial Committee last night ro- Captain Senci Kenichi will be jected protests against the design of ment of POW and sadlam-Central President and renewed its approval. hanged on December 7 for ill-treat Britain's memorial statue to the late
News,
of a standing statue.-United Press,
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