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T,.. .,, rirririTi-y- PONDER SUEZ SEIZURE Representatives of the Western Big Three (left to right), French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, British Foreign Secy. Selwyn Llloyd and U. S. Undersecy. of State Robert Murphy, are shown in London, where they opened talks on the Egyptian seizure of the Suez Canal. They have outlined plans for joint naval action should the crisis blow up before finding a compromise with Egypt. Smuggling of Strategic Goods To Red China Slowed Hongkong 'U.PJ The smug gling of strategic goods to Com munist China from Hongkong has slowed to a comparative trickle, according to informed sources. But gold is a different story. In a survey on smuggling, these facts emerged: - There simply are not enough junks to transport more than 8.000 ton of contraband from Hongkong to the mainland dur ing one year. The actual figure is said to be smaller. But 8,000 tons is just about what one good sized freighter could carry on one trip. The government's department of commerce and industry has expanded its preventative serv ice during the past three years to cope with smuggling. The number of personnel has been raised 80 per cent, the number of highspeed patrol boats has doubled. Gold A Problem The major item of contraband ie kerosene, which ia used in jet planes. But British officials con tend that the amount smuggled I into China from Hongkong j couldn't fuel up a two-plane air . force. The best guess is that the ! kerosene is needed for home cooking. It is cheap and the only j fuel which a coolie or peasant i has facilities for using. ' About 1.500 tons of kerosene were seized last year by revenue gents. The gold situation is different nd far tougher to solve. Hongkong actually is a two way street for gold. It arrives here by commercial airliner, mostly from Australia, quite open and above board. It is then shipped to Portu guese Macao, 40 miles away, by 1 steam. Portugal is not a -mem-; ber of the International Mone tary Fund, and the gold market is legal in Macao. When the gold reaches Macao consigned to the gold syndicate headquarterd there, it is chan nelled into an illegal market and shipped back to Hongkong aboard junks. Then the gold is put aboard freighters bound for Southeast Asia and India, the major markets. j Bought By Peasants About $65,000,000 worth of gold is handled annually this way. The Macao government collects 45 cents of Macao's an nual income. If gold smuggling is ever ef fectively choked off, Macao's economy would be in desperate straits. British Hongkong knows it. British officials claim the gold does not fall into the hands of in ternational syndicates when it is smuggled out of Hongkong. Vir tually all of it is bought by cool ies and peasants to whom gold Nixon To Speak at Presbyterian Assembly Montreal N.C. (U.PJ Vice President Ttichard Nixon will speak here Sunday at the sum mer assembly of the Presby terian Church. Nixon, who will be a guest of evangelist Billy Graham, will address, the Baptist Assembly Sunday morning at Ridgecrest. N.C, and the Methodist Assem bly Sunday night at Lake Juna luska. N.C. The speeches will be semi-religious. Use Tribune Wan Ads low in Costl TrrioTfftT BY THE Ml represents the only worthwhile monetary unit. It is believed in some quarters that gold is used as payments for narcotics in some instances, how ever. Last year, about 7,000 teals of gold was seized from smugglers in Hongkong. Not all of it came from Macao, however. One huge seizure was made on a freighter coming from the Philippines. The gold was found hidden in sacks of sugar. Sometimes travelers carry five and 10-tael bars in slots sewn in their clothes. Sometimes it is hidden aboard ships in remote and diffcult-to-reach places in the engine rooms. It is a herculean task to try to stamp out smuggling. The Brit ish are trying. They pay. high rewards for tips. They have placed launches on patrol on a 24-hour daily basis. High-Speed Rail Facilities Urged Philadelphia (U.P.) Address ing a meeting of the Traffic Clin ic of the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, Hawley S. Simpson advised that "the general public in traffic-strangled cities should demand that a proper portion of the funds now being poured down a sinkhole of traffic congestion be devoted to high-speed rail facilities." Simpson, of the firm of Simp son and Curtin, pointed out.that rapid expansion in the use of automobiles has "deteriorated travel conditions so that tran sit's ability trf-offer speed, con venience and comfort is rapidly declining." He stated that, while he is not opposed to the construction of urban expressways, "quite in adequate attention" has been paid the problem of dispersing expressway traffic . on surface Marine Scientists Probe Life Secrets of Sailfish Washington Sailfish, silver and blue acrobats of the sport fish world, would roam in fan tastic numbers but for natural raiders upon eggs and young. Studies by the National Geo graphic Society and the Uni versity of Miami's Marine Lab oratory show that a single fe male may spawn 4.675.000 eggs and swim indifferently away. Such life secrets of the sailfish are revealed by Gilbert Voss of the Laboratory staff. Florida sailfish spawn in late spring and early summer in shallow water along Florida's shores. Heavy with roe, the re males become sluggish fighters. The eggs scatter among the plankton, tiny animal and vege table natter in the sea, and float northward in the - Gulf Stream, where predators take their toll. Become Feeders Themselves Surviving baby sailfish soon devour small mollusks and fish. "One greedy specimen, all of three-quarters of an inch long, including bill, had a viperfish nearly as long as itself coiled up in its stomach," writes Voss. Learning to fend for them selves, the sailfish work in shore. During the summer, juve niles five to eight inches long are found off the Carolina coast. They turn south when norther ly winds and cold weather come. Five- or six-foot lengths are attained within a year. Eight feet is about the maxi mum length for the Atlantic species. Solving life secrets of fish entails painstaking work. "While we have learned a great deal about fresh-water fishes, our knowledge of their marine cousins can at best be consid ered a scientific i;wiss cheese, full-of blank spaces." Voss says. streets. Simpson proposes that monies be allocated to facilities to carry traffic" around, not into, central districts of large cities. The log ic of the proposal is that transit, carrying many persons while using a minimal amount of street space, will be permitted to op erate free of interference by automobiles. "It is estimated that we can sketch the life histories of few er than one out of a hundred of all ocean fishes." The Miami Laboratory has examined some 25,000 larval fish, along with thousands of eggs. Meticulous 'classification has broken the riddle of 11 species. Since the joint study began in January, 1953, scientists have frequently gone detective life to sea, seeking baby fish among the multitudinous crea tures in the plankton. "We even do some fishing ashore," Voss says. "Since fish larvae are eaten by nearly everything that swims, includ ing their own parents, we often examine at the docks the stom achs of fish brought in by fish ing boats. We have obtained baby fishes in perfect shape, like the three-inch sailfish com plete with bill and sail we took from a dolphin." Weird Sea Life Crops Up Tinier speciments are exam ined under microscopes. Metic ulous drawings of various-aged fish relate their stages of growth, until a complete life history unfolds. Amidst the routine, numer ous weird sea creatures pass under scrutiny hatchet fish that flash gold and siiver sides and rows of light organs; viper fish that flaunt saberlike teeth: lantern fish 'with headlights evolved to attract prey. From the Marine Labora tory's studies is coming greater knowledge of the migration routes of game fish and com mercial species, benefiting and the fishing industry alike. Wednesday. August 1,1956 MEDFORD .(OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREK N. Y. DAIRY WAGE Ithaca, N. Y. (U.PJ Cornell University agricultural econ omist disclosed that New York state dairymen made less for an hour's work in 1955 than the hourly rates set up in either the old or the new federal min imum wage law. 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