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Show Gold Fever: Far East, Smugglers Pa Note Th Far East is "goid country, and that ts where some at the heaviest uiea' tragic m sold ii tsk ng place Thu ttu.d anci in a serifs toons at that haven tor gold fSd tor smugg'ers). center. The reason behind Hong Kongs tation is simple: While laws forbid repuany- one from importing gold into Hong Kong except for resal to jewelers and dentists, it is permissible to bring gold through Hong Kong for eventual transshipment. When the gold arrives in Hcng Kong, and do the traders can request armed police escorts through the colony to discourage hijackers. They then store the bullion in vaults such as that of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Many of these big traders remain within Hong Kongs regulation of not importing gold by eventually reselling it to traffickers outside the colony. Take, for example, nearby Macao, the small Portuguese enclave situmed on the south bank of Communist Chinas Pearl River and just one hour from Hong Kong Proof that gold is arriving in such cities is shown by the activities of a Pakistani who is called an international gold smuggler. Ten years ago, Pakistani police dredged up nearly two tons of gold from the sea near the smugglers mansion outside Karachi and sent him to prison for three years for concealing evidence. These gold bars, owned by foreign nations and central banks, are in storage at New York Reserve Bank. Each bar weighs from 27 to 28 pounds, is worth about $14,000 at the current market price. by ferry. Macao has only 265,000 residents and its laws forbid importing gold except for use by dentists and jewelers. But, statistics show, more than 50 tons of (pure) gold is transported each year from Hong Kong to Macao. When I once asked an official in Macao about the absence of statistics on where he replied: Sir, the gold is you would be surprised at how much gold is consumed for teeth and jewelry. It would be a surprise if a fraction of this gold was used by Macaos residents, since that would require every man, woman and child to be fitted with a pound of gold teeth every two years. Actually, the gold is imported by a group called The Syndicate a bespectacled, and controlled by Chinese with a humble disposition, vigorous handshake and ability to satisfy most types of gov- ernment. The Syndicate pays Macaos government a service charge, ranging from $1.17 to 51.40 per ounce cf gold, and guarantees it will annually import at least 1.2 million ounces. Macao receives about 555 million a year from Such service charges. Communist China, insiders maintain, undoubtedly receives greater amounts in gold bars. Prices are said to rise proportionately when The Syndicate must arrange delivery outside of Macao or anywhere gold OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON By GORDON ELIOT WHITE Deseret News Washington Correspondent - All four of Utahs congressional delegation have found new,, more interesting assignments in the 81st Congress, with Rep. Sherman P. the Lloyd, latest to be named to a new position of responsibility. The Salt Lake repwho resentative, lost two years of seniority by sitting out the 89th Congress, nonetheless was appointed this spring as chairman of a Republican task force to study labor law reform a potentially controversial subject and one likely to crop up any time a major strike hits, the news. Rep. Lloyds appointment to the chairmanship of the GOP labor force indicates to a degree his association with coming younger men like Rep. Bob Taft Jr., of Ohio, who is overall head of the Republican new directions movement in the House. Rep. Lloyd was something of a specialist on labor laws when he served in the Utah Legislature, and although he has not been on the House labor panel here, he brings some background in labor matters to his new work. Sherm Lloyd appears to have an open n mind on the central question likely to appear: Strengthening tiie governments hand in really big Keimecott strikes, such as the drawn-ou- t strike, which are not covered by Hie strike-haltinprovisions of the Act. He does not lean toward the Australian method of federal mandatory arbitration, or labor court, which is favored by some businessmen. He says the result is that the government gets wages, in effect, and that real bargaining disappears if the government can be called on to make a settlement Lloyd also moved to the House Foreign Affairs Committee this year, casting him into a national-leve- l policy group. The committee is less conspicuous than its Senate counterpart, partly because Chairman Thomas Morgan, is a less controversial person than Sen. J. William Fulbright (Be honest: Did you really know Morgan was chairman of the House committee?) Partly, too, because the House does not have power to advise labor-legislatio- Taft-Hartl- ey g ., BOOKS might be hijacked or confiscated by local customs agents Gold bars face no such risk of confiscation in Vientiane, Laos, a mysterious city on the Mekong Rivers banks that virtually exists on U.S. foreign aid and 555 million a year from an unpublidzed tax of 8.5 percent of the purchase price of gold imports. Ey comparison, Laos receives less taxes from all other imports combined. Each month about three or four tons of gold arrive by air freight in Vientiane from London, Hong Kor.g or companies with addresses in Macao, and usually is stored in large banks. Small amounts of the gold are wich- - COLLECTION OF NAGASAKI COLOR PRINTS AND PAINTINGS: by N. H. N. Moody; Charles E. Tuttle Co.; 525. To most westerners Nagasaki still conjures up just two words atom bomb. A collection of Nagasaki color prints and paintings, however, doesnt contain one photograph of the citys devastation at the end of World War H. Instead it is a dazzling set of the finest paintings, prints, maps and other art objects showing the great influence of China and the West on Japanese art in the 17th Century. Unuer the influence of Chinese and European painters drawn to this ancient city with its picturesque harbor, the Nagasaki school was bom. General subjects deal with he port, Dutch and Chinese shipping, birds, camels, elephants and other animals imported into the city by the foreign visitors. The handsome volume contains 25 full color plates and 225 black-anwhite gravure plates which any collector or art lover would prize. Copley News Service one-volu- d h, tionwide. nett became widely known during the Sen. Thomas Dodd censure hearings two years ago, but Sen. Moss has become a national figure this year as head of the regular consumer subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee. He has found a timely subject in consumer policy and is making regular headlines on credit practices, dangerous tobacco, drugs, possibly hazardous toys, and other consumer affairs. Hie weight of the new assignment may possibly be a key factor in setting up Sen. Moss 1970 race for reelection. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, has moved often and strongly to make his influence felt. Working closely with his fellow Mormon, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy, and with housing secretary George Romney, who must deal with interest rates and the money market's, Sen. Bennett hc made himself a pivot point in fiscal matters. He is the senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, and will move to the senior position on the In die Senate, Sen. Frank E. Moss, has moved into a brighter spotlight than any Utahn on a regular assignment in nearly 20 years. Sen. Arthur Watkins, in the 1950s, made a national name as head of the special investigating committee that brought Sen. Joe McCarthy on the carpet, and Sen, Wallace Ben MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM A the White House on foreign affairs. Rep. Lloyd is moving in more influential circles, nonetheless. has Rep. Laurence J. Burton, been riding high on his homework and political spadework with the traditional House minority leadership for the past six years. He picked Richard Nixon last spring after George Romney left the presidential race, and his work for the new President has not hurt him at alL Rep. Burton was named to the House Republican policy committee this spring, a not inconsiderable plum, and his closeness to national GOP Chairman Rep. Rogers C. B. Morton, of Maryland, was demonstrated by Mortons selection of Dick Richards, Burtons former assistant, as a special operative in the national committee dedicated to building up the party na- Finance Committee after John Williams says he g Deseret News Music Editor THE SOLID BEAT Groups from the University of Illinois, Indiana University, and Vassar were crowned the champions of American campus music last Saturday at the third annual Intercollegiate Music Festival in Kiel Opera House in St. Louis. Illinois won tiie big band category f flte second straight year under the dire tion of John Garvey. The University author. Competition Although the science of acoustics is fundamental to music, relatively few musicians and even fewer listeners, says Dr. Backus, have any knowledge of the scientific properties of musical sound. and participated in the St. Louis contest. Indianas Harry Combo Miedema the was judged best of the small groups, and singers from Vassar and Illinois tied for top vocal honors. The winners will meet the best Cana- dian college musicians August pionships. The winning groups won over more than 11,000 musicians from 1,100 colleges. A University of SOUND ADVICE Southern California (USC) professor of physics has written a book for musicians and the people who hjten to their music: The Acoustical Foundations of Music (Norton, $7.95). Dr. John Backus is the Utahs Big Band, directed by Loel Hepworth, was the winner of the Intermountain Region Toronto (five days after the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is scheduled to sing at the Canadian National Exhibition) at the North American College Music cham- 23 in In recent years, Dr. Backus research has been on the physics of musical instruments. Reports of his investigation involving the clarinet, oboe, bassoon, flute, and organ by IBrickman the small society ICCY& LIKE ver. U&TOSTAV- - T 14 BY 1970, when Sen. will retire. Given these twin positions of power in financial matters and his relationships with the two financial experts in the Cabinet, Utahs senior senator has attracted new responsibilities this session, virtually without public notice. have been previously published in the Acoustical Society of America . . . - APPOGGIATURAS Professor and Mrs. Louis Booth feted the graduating music majors at noon in their attractive patio, one of the nicest social gestures that they have been doing lo these many years at the University of Utah. . . , The Paris Opera has moved out of the citys heart and up to the airy heights of the Palais de Chaillot for the summer. This move has been made to leave the Palais Gamier free for extensive modernization work currently under way . . . Auditions will be held Thursday (29) 3:30 in the University of Utah Music Hall for the annual Mu Phi Epsilon Alumnae Chapters annual $100 scholarship to a qualified woman music student (major or minor) enrolling at the U. this at fall... The Utah Civic Light Opera Association is now in the process of being formed by Gifford Barborka Jr. Anyone interested in becoming a member should . . . telephone Budd Hansen at 5 The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that it will make its first USA in April, 1970. The tour will include 14 concerts, all under tire direction of Bernard Haitink . . . Jose Iturbi, many-tim- e Utah visitor, has resigned as conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic. His request was granted .with deep regret . . . Thomas Shippers, who has a three-yea- r contract as music director of the Cincinnati has also just Symphony, contract as director of signed a foui-yeItaly's foremost orchestra, the RA1 in PbN'T Rome MAKE UKeTUeY USbP To 5-2-8 Yet even that substantial loss of gold apparertly didnt hamper the smugglers business. The other day police observed that he had accumulated three mansions, an island palace, 20 automobiles, 12 race horses and 17 fishing boats or yachts. Thar's Gold In Them Utah Hills Gold is frequently . . . When Leonard Bernstein conducted his final concert of the New York Philharmonic he was given a standing ovation when he came on stage when he finished conducting Mahlers Symphony No. 3," and each time he finished two all as if the audience was speeches never again4going to see Mr, Bernstein. discovered, By HARRY JONES Don't go grabbing for your grubbin' tools yet. But theres a report of gold in tire LYura Mountains of Utah. Government scientists have been testing some samples of ear'h from the area 25 miles northwest of Delta. They say they have found clues to gold. One thing the government boys don't do is to come right out and make a direct statement. They use such woids as clues," "possibility, presumed, tentatively" . . words like that. more- aircraft and passenger ships operated by major corporations. For example, Indian customs officers boarded a vessel of one o' Britain's most respected shipping companies when the ship docked in Calcutta and found gold valued at 556G.OOO hidden in the woodwork of a cabin. Even penny-siz- e pieces of gold are in such demand in India and Pakistan that black marketeers can sell them for two times their official price. Nearly any over, aboard solvent individual is a potential purchaser. Innumerable Indian women hoard gold in the form of crude jewelry. And peasants who distrust paper currency often put their familys entire holdings into one gold coin. TOMORROW: Tht MCRRY Illinois Band Wins Intercollegiate Color Prints From Nagasaki i Most of the remaining gold Is sold or consigned to persons who genuinely smuggle it (without official government cooperation) into places with a highly active black market for gold: Remit, Kuwait, Dakar, Tangiers, Bombay, Calcutta and Karachi. Utahns Move Up In Congressional Circles WASHINGTON OUR MAN JONES soldiers fighting Communist guerrillas in Laos. Much larger amounts of gold are sold (usually by Chinese shopkeepers) to prosperous Vietnamese and Chinese from nearby Saigon. They are so anxious to buy gold as a hedge against inflation that they sometimes pay up to $65 an ounce for it. raid near Karachi, Pakistan, one squad of customs agents recently arrested 15 gold smugglers, wlile another group found 52 million worth of gold bullion lying in gunny sacks on the floor of the Arabian Sea and attached to floating markers. In Tokyo harbor, police searched three different foreign freighters within a period and confiscated gold valued at 51,100,000 hidden aboard the three vessels. At the Palam airport in New Delhi, India, the customs collector confiscated gold valued at nearly 51,400,000 aboard a commercial plane bound for Hong Kong and imposed a stiff fine on the airline for allegedly disguising the gold as metal and transporting it to the notorious gold smuggling center of Hong Kong. Although the Indian Customs Board rescinded the airlines fine on March 8, confiscations like this support two opinions: The area between Pakistan and Japan is the worlds busiest market for gold and Hong Kong is, by far, the most active and convenient 23 May 28, 1969 - ly In a synrhrnnizpd NEWS, Wednesday, drawn and (along with guns and radios) are dropped from planes tu the friend- By BILL SURFACE I DESERET leal 90M rudi. down from the diggings doesnt seem to set off a rush like it did back W. when James Marshall and John A. Sutter hit the expensive around Coloma, dirt 101 Mr. Jones years ago. You have to dig a ton to make $35. People dont work like they did at one time. Today, gold mining is more or less a y a hobby . . . vacation from it - all type thing. Gold fevers been around for a long, long time. During Abrahams time 1900 B.C., thats not Honest Abe for puras was payment acceptable gold chases and debts, according to the con- O-ROUND ... get-awa- -- Probes Of Military Errors gressman. By DREW PEARSON One important illusWASHINGTON tration of why the military continues to ride roughshod over the civilian brandies of government occurred on the floor of the House of Representatives last week. freiizied scene in which the usually courtly Rep. Mend-a- l Rivers of South Carolina rushed to the well of the House, grabbed the microsenior Rep. phone and admonished You are George Mahon of Texas: playing into the hands of the enemies of was And. you have to band it to Larry. He didn't keep the news to himself. But he was a little corney whpn he yelled, Thars god in them thar hills! The area is said to be a mile wide and two and a half miles long. That could be a real varicose vein of the yellow stuff. Eut the word echoing go 1d Calif., just Rivers Blocks It A fellow from the Interior Department tipped off Rep. Laurence J. Burton, a white-haire- the military. Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is a powerful man. Hitherto, he had backed up Rivers in voting almost unlimited funds to the However, Rivers is more powerful, in fact is one of the most powerful tary, but he was fed up wiih military men in Congress. So later, Rivers and Mahon patched up their altercation and neatly deleted their heated words from the Congressional Record. Nevertheless, the incident is extremely important and gets to the root of why the military gets every cent it wants while the cities and civilian brandies of government are starved. Rivers had not been drinking. He was cold sober, but full of cold anger in his defense of the generals and admirals. This was understandable, for they have d uttered his district with so many land, sea and air bases that its impossible for any opponent ever to defeat him. In return for these favors, Rivers, as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, to a large degree is responsible for giving the generals and admirals the position of power and immunity they enjoy today. It seems Incredible that one man could have such power. Nevertheless, thanks to seniority and a largely docile, military-minde- d Rivers committee. wields this power. As a result, he has been able to prevent any penetrating investigation of various military mistakes. mili-mistak- ... for facts. He did a lot of digging Larry reports that during the really big depression in the 1930s, a lot of men went to the hills to seek their fortune. They found that the western mountains bad been surveyed twice before. The first was by Chinese laborers, who entered in the digging business after the railroad work slacked off. The second was by the famed itirerant miners. Thousands of people annually seek the Lost Dutchman mine down around Phoen nix. There is a belief that a dollar lode is there for the finding. Now if we could get a rumor going that there is more in the Utah mountains than the greatest show on earth. If could get a rumor going about Montezumas pin money somewhere in the Utah hills, we would be swamped by touiists. The biggest mine is the Homestake Mine in South Dakota. And guess who is second? The second largest gold producing mine in the nation is right out west of our City of Salt . . . Kennecott! Larry Burton has the bug. Hes planning on getting his gear together and heading out Delta way tor lux vacation. If he hits it big, it would sure help finance his next campaign. He has bcn mentioned as a posable Senate candidate. and it does take a lot more money for such a campaign than running for the Legislature. He could possibly hit it big over on a big enough thump Drum Mountain to be heard a long way off. Then again, he may not What if Sen. Frank Moss has salted the area! multi-millio- ... Wit's End Back in the old days, you could get a suspended" sentence just for stealing a horse. iiHtniiiiiiimuiEtthuniiiintismuninii!iuam!!iiti!itiiiiiiiii!ii BIG TALK Ordinarily the sinking of the submarine Guittaro alongside its dock would be the subject of an immediate, forthright, congressional probe. However, Rivers Is the chairman of the committee entrusted with investigation. And he cajoled and bulldozed Mahon of Texas, a man of no mean congressional might, into changing his speech so that he called merely for adequate discipline, not a court martial of those responsible for the subs sinking. Rivers went even further with Rep. Moorhead of Pennsylvania, another respected Democrat, who had the temerity to investigate and reveal the $2.5 billion overcharge by Lockheed for the building of the Peremptorily, River summoned Moorhead to appear before the Armed Services Committee for a dressing-down- . William 1 2 When other congressmen rallied to Moorhead's defense, Rivers withdrew his summons. It was the first time in the memory of any congressman that a colleague held been so arbitrary with anoth- er congressman. Nevertheless, the fact spite these minor retreats, the single, most effective scaling the military down its privileged position. remains, dethat Rivers is roadblock to to size from s ' . x . ' t m 'The biggest vocal minority you II ever see is that one, lone woman you're married tol" From pho Ween W ttonel V. AfcNgcty far lha Desert Newt popular daily Baby Birthday feature |
