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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.
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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. Dairymen who
worked only an hour to produce
1000 pounds of milk averaged
62 cents an hour, and those who
worked two hours to produce
100 pounds made only 46 cents
SING, BROTHER, SING
Grand Rapids, Mich. U.
Four young men from Grand
Rapids form one of Michigan's
top barbershop quartets called
"The Extension Chords."
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Portland, Me. (U.PJ The city
of Portland authorized the pur
chase of 15 new police cars in
a two-tone finish of black and
white designed to be conspicu
ous enough to give the impres
sion of "police omnipresence."
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