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Th Sydney Morning HrralJ, WetlnfiJay, News In Brief G. AVERY IN ACTION Hostels For UNO Adopts TACTICAL FIGHT IN COUNCIL Rents Bill In Doubt OBJECTS OF U.S. COMMUNISTS Evidence Of Former Party Leader WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (A.A.P.). Louis Budenz, former U.S.

Communist leader, yesterday told a Senate investigating committee the avowed purpose of the Communist Party was to overthrow the U.S. Government by force, if necessary. He estimated that "possibly thousands" of Communists had filtered into Federal employment. At the opening session of the American Communist Party's annual convention in New York last night, three party leaders said allegations by Elizabeth Bentley, a former Communist, that U.S. Communists had acted as spies for Russia were part of a "frame-up campaign." ALLEGATIONS DENIED A battle of tactics, with the Government struggling to avoid defeat on the Landlord and Tenant Bill, was still unresolved in the Legislative Council last night.

The bill was read a second time on the voices and its consideration in committee made an order of the day for to-day. Voting strength last night was: Government 22, Opposition 23. The chairman of committees being ill, it will be necessary for another chairman to be appointed. The Government wants to appoint an Opposition member, who would have only a casting vote in support of the bill. The Opposition wants a Government member appointed, which would enable it to out-vote the Government.

1 "lv m.s.fc-j.3' I tralian forces during the last war to be exempt from the provision requiring persons who have owned property for less than two years to give tenants 18 months notice of their intention to serve notice to quit. mmmmm, --wWTW I GEORGE AVERY, of Sydney, qualifying at the Olympic Games yesterday for the final of the hop, step, and jump. He covered 50ft 3 Jin. (Radio-picture.) munists do not advocate force 6,000 Migrants CANBERRA, Tuesday. The Government plans to provide extra hostel and converted Army hut accommodation for a continuous labour pool of 6,000 migrants at Sydney, Melbourne, and Port Kcmbla.

Federal Cabinet approved the plan to-day. The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, said after the Cabinet meeting that tne plan would be contribution to the production drive and to the home building programme. He said the Minister for Im migration, Mr. A.

A. Calwell, and the Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr. E. J. Holloway, had told Cabinet the plan would accelerate production of steel, sheet-iron, bricks, tiles, earthenware pipes, asbestos-cement, baths, sinks, basins.

stoves, window glass, nails. screws, and general house fittings. sufficient Australian labour was not available to produce enough of these materials to meet the needs of the housing pro gramme. SEVEN HOSTELS It was planned to provide seven hostels three each in Sydney and Melbourne, and one in Port Kembla in addition to hostels at Port Kembla and Newcastle already approved. The migrants using the hostels would all be displaced persons.

Each would be charged 2126 week for board and lodging, The migrants would not be permited to use hotel or guest house accommodation needed by Australians. If any of them, however, moved to lodgings offered by Australian workers the labour pool would be restored to its full strength by replacements from later arrivals. In addition to the first group of 6,000 migrants who would occupy the new accommodation, 10,000 more would be given em ployment 1948-49 on jobs where accommodation was avail able. 12,500 TO U.N. APPEAL The United Nations Chil dren's Appeal has received 12,500 towards the State target of 400,000.

Yesterday 800 arrived bv mail at the central office. The federal president of the appeal, Mr. R. J. F.

Boyer. and the director, Mr. R. G. Clark.

will visit Newcastle to-morrow at the invitation of the Lord Mayor, Aid. H. D. Quinlan. Mr.

Clark said yesterday re ports trom country centres promised very good results from civic drives now being organised. contributions may be sent direct to the treasurer of the appeal. Box 3083, G.P.O.. Sydney. or deposited with any branch of any bank tor transmission to the fund.

The test will come tomorrow afternoon when the Council is called upon to appoint an acting chairman of committees. The chairman, Mr. T. Steele, is absent through illness. There are three temporary chairmen Mr.

G. S. Archer (Government, and senior), Mr. L. S.

Snider and Mr. F. W. Spicer (Opposition). Opposition members said in the lobbies last night that the President of the Council, Mr.

E. H. Farrar (Opposition), who has no vote in committee, should be appointed chairman. This would leave the Opposition with 23 votes against the Government's 22. Government members, however, said the President should call on cither Mr.

Snider or Mr. Spicer. This would leave the voting strength equal 22 each. It is customary for a chairman of committees to vote only when the voting is equal and then to vote to maintain the bill intact. With an Opposition chairman, therefore, the Government would be reasonably certain of having the bill passed.

AMENDMENTS The Landlord and Tenant Bill transfers Commonwealth rent controls to the State from August 16. During the second reading de bate last night several amendments, both Government and Opposition, were forecast. Proposed Government amend ments outlined by the Minister of Justice, Mr. R. R.

Downing, are: Parting with possession of whole or part of a dwelling without the consent or approval of ihe landlord to be a new ground tor eviction. Property owners who served outside Australia with the Aus A David Jones' reproduction of the Dior beret which can be effectively worn with either formal or casual dresses. I FREEMASONS' JUBILEE Celebrations In Sydney Three thousand Freemasons in full regalia will attend the installation of Grand Master and the diamond jubilee celebrations of the United Grand Lodge of N.S.W. in Sydney Town Hall to-night. The State Governor.

Lieu tenant-General John Northcott will be present. Eighty-three sister Grand Lodges will be represented. BREAD. A trial modifica tion qf the unofficial bread zoning will begin in St. George district on Monday.

Householders who wish to change their baker must notify the officer of the Labour and Industry Depart ment, stationed at Princes corner. Rockdale, before Friday. INDUSTRY. Federal Cabinet decided yesterday that the Divi sion of Industrial Development the Department of Post-war Reconstruction should be per manent. At present it is on a temporary basis.

RING. While the manager of Orchard's jewellery shop, in Pitt street, was snowing a man a diamond ring yesterday after noon, the man snatched it and ran out of the shop. The ring was valued at 8. TRACTORS The Ford Motor Company of England will export 3,000 medium-size Ford- son tractors to Australia this year and 6.000 in 1949. Mr.

Ewart Hughes, director of the Ford Motor Company of Aus tralia, said yesterday that his company had been negotiating with the English company to save dollars. BALLET. Miss Ruth French, whose last visit to Australia was in 1929 as first dancer and ballet mistress in Anna Pavlova's com pany, arrived in Sydney yesterday by Tasman flying-boat. As major examiner of the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, she will examine candidates in Australia for the academy's diploma. PATHOLOGIST.

Dr. F. Courtice, who left Australia 15 years ago as Queensland Rhodes Scholar, reached Fremantle by the liner Orion yesterday. He will be director of the Kane-matsu Institute of at Sydney University. AMBASSADOR.

The new American Ambassador to Australia, Mr. Myren M. Cowen, accompanied by his wife and 12-year-old daughter, will arrive in Sydney by Pan-American Clipper on Friday. STONEMASONS. The Sen ior State Conciliation Commis sioner.

Mr. E. 1. Kilpatnck, yes terday announced wage increases for N.S.W. stonemasons, varying from 86 to 168 a week.

The increases take effect from July 23. ELECTORATES The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Johnson, said in Canberra yesterday that maps showing the proposed new electoral boundaries in N.S.W., and a statement showing the manner in which the divisions had been constituted, would be available for publication on September 2. RECITAL. Igor Hmelnitsky, who gave a piano recital in the Conservatorium on Monday night, will give his second recital there to-morrow night.

RESPITE FOR FAMILIES Evictions From Camp The Housing Commission has given 14 days' grace to 28 families who were to have been evicted from an auto camp in Bunnerong Road, Kings-ford, yesterday. The commission has acquired the land as a site for fiats. Some of the families will move on to tennis courts adjoining the camp. Mrs. F.

Taverna owns the land and tennis courts. When police and the sheriff, Mr. L. G. Brunden, arrived yesterday afternoon, Mrs.

Taverna defied the police to move some of the caravans. She claimed later that, although told last year some of the land would be acquired, she could get no satisfaction on the amount of compensation she would receive. An official said some of the families had already accepted the commission offer of alternative accommodation at an emergency housing centre. He added that a. contract had already been let for construction of 60 flats on the site of the caravan park.

The builders wanted to start work immedi ately. silence followed the drop of the hammer. The highest single price paid was 350210 for a suite of Venetian table class. More than one casual observer was inveigled into the bidding by tne neat ot contest. One young man displayed a wrought silver Georgian tankard for which he had paid 65 guineas to an apparently astonished group of friends.

"Well, anyway," observed one during a lull in the auction, "you could put flowers in it." Another young man from the same group caused a minor sensation at the back of the room when he picked up a Venetian Vitro de Trino wine glass, produced a hip flask, and drank half a glass of whisky. "It was just a bet," he called back, as an attendant pursued him downstairs. a a Report On New Guinea NEW YORK. August 3 (A.A.P.). The UNO Trustee ship Council says Australia should give New Guinea natives more schools, more chance of self-government, better medical facilities, and a larger share of social and eco nomic benefits.

inese points are made in a report on Australias administra tion of New Guinea adopted by the Trusteeship Council yesterday. The report, which was approved by eight votes to one, will be sent to the General Assembly. The only negative vote was cast by Russia. Australia, Belgium, and France abstained from voting. The report said the contribution and sufferings of natives in World War II entitled New Guinea to Australia's special attention to promote its recovery.

The report urged caution on Australia's proposal for an administrative union of New Guinea with Papua and said: The Council is convinced that an administrative union must remain strictly administrative, but is not entirely convinced that the proposed union may not go so far as to compromise the preserva tion of the separate identity of the trust territory." The report commented that the minimum wage rate for natives had been tentatively increased from 5 to 15 a month, but considered this rate still inadequate. The report also commented on the illiteracy and political back wardness of the Papuans and re commended that existing pro grammes for advancement of the territory should be extended and co-ordinated to comprise a gene ral long-range plan tor the progressive development of the inhabitants as a whole on an appropriate constitutional founda tion toward self-government or independence. U.S. PLAN FOR ANTARCTIC Move To Settle Disputes BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3 (A.A.P.) Diplomatic circles in Argentina reported yester day that the U.S.

had proposed an eight-Nation trusteeship for the Antarctic, to settle conflict ing claims on South Polar ter ritory. It calls for joint administration of the region by the U.S.A., Brit ain, Argentina, Chile, Norway, Finland, Australia and New Zealand. Each of these nations claims a sector of the Antarctic. Several of the sectors overlap. Argentina and Chile, according to these reports, have rejected the idea.

Chilean officials are said to have taken the stand that Chile will reassert her claims as soon as the international situa tion is stabilised. Argentina is still seeking an international conference on the issue. Argentina is challenging Brit ain over control of the Falkland Islands and has claims on the South Georgia and South Sand wich Islands. Chile also claims some Antarctic territory and islands off South America. Kashmir Battle Empire Problem STAFF CORRESPONDENT LONDON, Aug.

3. Fight ing between the Pakistan Army and the Indian Army in Kashmir has raised serious problems for the whole British Commonwealth, says "The Times" correspondent in Delhi. The action is still an undeclared war. but it is the first time the armies of two Dominions have fought each other, he adds. fn effect, Britons are ranged against each other.

Both the Pakistan and Indian Armies have British commanders-in-chief and British advisers. The Indian Army has several hun dred British officers and Pakistan a few score. The correspondent says that although it is believed that no British officers are in action in Kashmir, it is clear that British staff officers are engaged on both sides in planning and training for the Kashmir campaign. Fighting on the western sec tors of the Kashmir front has been on a larger scale in the past 10 days than ever before. New Australian Fabric Process LOS ANGELES.

Aug. 3 (A.A.P.). A new Australian process for the inexpensive reclamation of ramie fibre may cause a widespread change in much of the world industrial plant, says the Los Angeles "Times." The change may be comparable to Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, it says. entertain UNESCO delegates to the conference, who are expected to number more tnan l.uuu. Miss Cook and her ballet mistress.

Miss Xenia Zarina, said to-day that the Persian girls spec ialised in interpretation of ancient Persian poetry with songs and dances and choral recita tions. The Lebanese committee in charge of UNESCO arrange ments wanted her to concentrate on dances based on ancient Lebanese history and folklore, Miss Cook said she did not think this would please the Shah of rersia. A landlord will not have to find suitable accommodation for a sub-lessee where a lessee has, since March 1, 1947, failed to obtain the landlord's consent to the sub-lease. Explaining the first proposed change, Mr. Downing said that some cases to-day a tenant has, for all practical purposes, parted with possession of a property but in such a way as to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the landlord prove an assignment or sub-lease.

SIX MONTHS' NOTICE Regarding the second change. the Minister said this applied to purchasers who required properties for their own use. The amendment, if adopted. would mean that a man who served overseas wilh the Australian forces would be free to proceed for occupation of a house six months after he had purchased it. This procedure would be the same as under the present Fede ral tenancy regulations.

An amendment foreshadowed by Mr. M. E. Manfred (Opp.) was: That the bill if it becomes law, should expire on December 31, 14. Sir Henry Manning said if a person owned a property he ought to enjoy the ordinary rights ot ownership sumect to his not inflicting injury to other people, and considering the rights of other people.

If there were to be conditions they should not be burdensome. There were many attractive feaures in the bill, but there was danger in the drastic clauses which interfered with property owners' rights. Fashion Highlights Among David Jones' collection of Spring frocks is a number of authentic reproductions of Pierre Balmain models. One style has a cross-over from, with finely detailed while embroidery on neck and hem. Its skirt is long and full, in keeping wilh the current trend.

The frock is available in red, blue or green fine quality linen, in sizes 32 to 38. It is priced at 111- on Ihe first floor of the Elizabeth Street Store. Pastel Stockings The newest note in hosiery silk stockings in pastel shades to tone with spring frocks is at David Jones. Made by Prestige, they are three-thread pure silk, fully fashioned and are in three delicate shades. The stockings, in sizes to 10, are 121 a pair.

No 'phone or mail orders can be accepted. Income Tax Cuts From July 1 CANBERRA, Tuesday. Income tax concessions proposed in the next Federal Budget will probably be retrospective to July 1. Federal Cabinet has ap proved this principle, and the Parliamentary Labour Caucus is expected to endorse its decision. Cuts in indirect taxation and increases in social service pay ments are expected to operate from the day Parliament passes the Budget probably in September or October.

Federal Cabinet completed its consideration of Budget proposals to-day. It decided to recommend tax concessions and social service benefits estimated to cost nearly 60 million. Cabinet's final recommenda tions, to go before the meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party Caucus on August 30, are: INCOME TAX. Cuts in tax from 33 13 per cent, on the lowest taxable income to three per cent, on the highest; esti mated cost 28 million. CHILD ENDOWMENT.

In crease of 26, making the pay ment 10 a week for each child after the first under the age of 16; estimated cost 7 million. PENSIONS An increase of 5 weekly in old age and invalid pensions; estimated cost i.5 mil lion. An increase of 5 weekly in widows' pensions and allowances to the wives ot pensioners; esti mated cost 750,000. An increase of 5 weekly in war pensions; estimated cost 5 million. HOSPITAL BENEFITS.

An increase of 2 a day in payments, bringing them from 6 to 8 a day; estimated cost 1,800,000. INDIRECT TAXES. Cuts in these taxes, including sales tax at an estimated cost of about 10 million. It is understood that Cabinet also approves for submission to the party a liberalisation ot tne means test applying to pensioners. The effect would be to increase permissible income from 1 a week to 30 a week.

COUNCIL'S ACTION ON REPORT Canterbury Council, at a special meeting last night, de cided that a report by the chief inspector of the Local Oovern- ment Department, Mr. H. Dane, should be forwarded to the department, with the comments of the town clerk and the council's auditors. Mr. Dane's report was tabled at a meeting of the council on July 22.

It stated that during some of the war years the council had not complied with the re quirements of the law in important aspects. The report also dealt with sales of land to Mr. S. E. Parry, M.L.C., while he was Mayor.

MILLIONS CLUB The former chairman of the British Conservative Party, Viscount Davidson, will be the speaker at the Millions Club luncheon to-day. or violence. As Marxists we are opposed in principle to adventurism, terror, assassination, conspiracies and coups d'etat." William Foster said the Communist Party supported Henrv Wallace's Progressive Party: It would not oppose Mr. Wallace at the Congressional elections in November. Nine other leading Communists, who are also under Federal indictment, were present at the meeting and were cheered as they took their places on the platform.

HOLLYWOOD "TAKE" In evidence before a Senate investigating committee in Washington yesterday, Louis Budenz, former U.S. Communist leader, said the Communist Party's operations were financed partly by dues and gifts from wealthy persons. He added: "There was a very big take from Hollywood." Budenz, former managing-editor of the New York Communist paper, "Daily Worker." renounced Communism in 1945 to become a Roman Catholic. He is now a professor at lordham University, New York. He said that when he was connected with the Communist-controlled "Daily Record" in Chicago, he had learned the Communists were receiving funds trom abroad.

Budenz named the late Jacob Golos as head of a highly-secret Lommunist Party Control Commission in the U.S. He said this Commission was used to discipline party members and to Keep them in line. Budenz said that, as managing editor of the "Daily Worker," he knew there was considerable Communist penetration into the government. He added: "1 wouldn't want to become panicky and say it was overwhelming, out it was con siderable." "UNDERGROUND LOBBY" In addition, the party oper ated an "underground lobby" ir Washington in a vigorous attempt to innuence (government policy. midenz later told reporters he had to leave Washington yester day, and was going out of the country on a confidential mission for the Government.

He declined to elaborate. RACIAL RIOT IN ILK. Negro-White Clash LONDON. Aug. 3 (A.A.P.).

About 50 people, mostly coloured, appeared at Liver pool Court to-day on charges connected with what the police described as "serious racial disturbances" in Liverpool in the last tew days. Police said houses and other property had been damaged and a number ot people injured. Police evidence was that gang of Negroes, armed with bottles, swords, daggers, iron bars, coshes, and axes, attacked group of white men in the street. When police tried to disperse I he crowd which gathered. coloured men from windows of a Negro club nearby threw bottles and stones at them.

Police forced an entrance to the club and found stacks of beer bottles against open windows ready as ammunition. Une man had a loaded automatic pistol which he turned on the police, but was not able to arc it. The police prosecutor said feeling was "running high" in Liverpool and there was a grave danger that worse things would happen if the men were granted bail. The defendants were remanded for a week. FRENCH ACCESSORIES MADE IN SYDNEY David Jones Presents Dior Beret And Shaped Belts From the David Jones' Roundsman To complement their lovely reproductions of original Christian Dior frocks now appearing in the Dior Fashion Parade, David Jones has copied two important fashion highlights created by the famous designer.

These are the striking Dior beret and the Dior belts which are shaped to give the fashionable long-waisted look. The leaders were: William Foster, national chairman; Eugene Dennis, general secretary, and John Williamson, a member of the Party's National Board. AH three are under Federal indictment on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government by force. Elizabeth Bentley, who was a key-witness in the hearings which led to their indictment, is now giving evidence before the Un-American Activities Committee of the House of Representatives.

The three Communist speakers denied charges that the Communist Party aimed to overthrow the U.S. Government by violence. John Williamson said: "Republicans and Democrats, and the powerful monopoly interests they represent, are trying to keep people from thinking about their troubles by feeding them "thriller-dillers' about 'beautiful blondes' who turn out to be homely brun-cties, and 'spy rings' that never happened at all." Eugene Dennis said: "We Com- Other Cable Items MORE LEPERS ESCAPE Manila Dispute NEW YORK, August 3 fA.A.P.). More than half of 22b lepers fled from the San I azaro Hospital, Manila, during the week-end. They were trying to evade a Government order for their isolation in a leprosarium outside the tow n.

The Health Department has cancelled the order. Although they were supposed to be scurccatcd. lepers at San Lazaro Hospital have actually been mingling with the public in Manila. PRESIDENT The Hungarian Parliament to-day elected Mr. Arpad Szakasits as President of Hungary.

He is a former Left-wing Social Democrat, and is now chairman of the Communist and Socialist United Workers' Party. BOMB. Vatican City police arc investigating the discovery of a small bomb found in St. Peter's Square. Military experts exploded the bomb on the spot.

ARREST. Hungarian police detained Renter's correspondent in Budapest, Mr. Aural Varannai, on Saturday. They would not give any reason for the arrest. HIROSHIMA.

Lieutenant- General H. C. H. Robertson. in-C B.C.O.F., and members of the Australian Parliamentary delcgalion will attend the Hiro shinia Peace Festival on Friday, in commemoration of the third anniversary of the town destrue tion by an atomic bomb.

Farmhand He Is Son Says Of Lindbergh STAFF CORRESPONDENT and A.A.P. LONDON, August 3. A Danish farm hand claims to be Colonel Charles Lindbergh's son, who was kidnapped 16 years ago. The youth. Erik Nielsen, 18, is working in the village of Hoejby, miles north-west of Copen hagen.

The 19-months-old Lindbergh nany was kidnapped from its parents residence at Hopewell New Jersey, on March 1, 1932. un May iwz, passing motorists found the skeleton of a baby on Mount Rose Hill, not far from the Lindbergh residence. It was identified "beyond any doubt to be of Colonel Lind bergh kidnapped son. Nielsen says he remembers being smuggled to Denmark at tne age of three. He claims to have been put in an orphanage and to have been adopted later by a farmer.

The matron of the orphanage where Nielsen was brought up said to-day that the boy's birth certificate showed he was born in the State Hospital, Copenhagen. A sample of Nielsen's blood has been sent to America for comparison with Colonel Lindbergh's. Evidence, said to have been produced in support of Nielsen's uaim, includes: The report of a police inspec tor who claims Nielsen's fingerprints tally with those on a ball which belonged to the Lindbergh baby. Nielsen strongly resembles Colonel Lindbergh. His ears are of different sizes, -j uw i.iauocrgn oaoys.

SWISS FEAR RUSSIANS Individuals Arm People in Switzerland were so fearful of a Soviet invasion that every man had armed him self privately, Mr. Kolana k. Harris, a Sydney importer, said yesterday. Mr. Harris has iust returned from a business trip abroad.

He said the Swiss feared that Russia would not respect their neutrality in the event of war with the Western Powers. Thev believed that Soviet tanks would sweep across their borders five hours after a declaration 01 ar. Even men over 60 had obtained rifles to protect their homes and relatives. The incidence of Communism within Switzerland, said Mr. Harris, was remarkably low.

The people were united in their desire to keep Communists outside their frontiers. WHEAT POOL PAYMENTS New Advances CANBERRA, Tuesday. The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Pollard, to-day announced that a third advance of 2 bushel had been approved for 1947-48 wheat in No. 11 Pool.

About 20 million will be distributed to growers. Deliveries from the record crop were 202 million bushels. The payments, including the previous advances, are now 86 a bushel, less freight, for bulk wheat (9 bagged), bringing the total distribution to growers from the crop to 83 million. Further payments will be made later. Mr.

Pollard also announced that a fifth advance of 5 Id bushel had been approved for the No. 10 wheat pool from the 1946-47 crop. That will distribute a balance of 21 million held in the pool, and bring the pool advances to 781 a bushel bulk, making the total payment to growers 38 million. Mr. Pollard said there was a deduction of lOid for wheat tax in that pool, and it was intended to refund that by a later payment in the pool.

A total of 981 million bushels had been received into the pool, 40 million bushels of which were exported, chiefly as flour. the gross return for wheat on the 1946-47 crop was 93 a bushel, bulk, and expenses were 9d a bushel. Bid To Curtail Sale Of Petrol The Industrial Commission yesterday heard an application by the N.S.W. Service Stations Association for the abolition of Sunday trading and reduced trading hours on week days and Saturdays. The N.R.M.A.

is opposing the application. trading hours sought by the association are: Week days, 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. (at present 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.); Saturdays, 8 a.m.

to noon 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.); and holidays. 8 a.m. to 1U a.m. (7 a.m.

to 1 p.m.). Mr. L. u. Brown, president of the association, said he owned a service station at the corner of Day and Liverpool Streets, city.

Since the introduction of the 40-hour week, employees resented working at week-ends and on holidays. Mr. Justice de Baun will con tinue the hearing to-day. RETAIL MARGIN ON FRUIT oreengrocers knew of no regulation fixing their margin of profit on fruit and vegetables at 25 per said the secretary of the N.S.W. Fruit Shopkeepers' Association, Mr.

F. L. Davidson, last night. He was commenting on statement by the Minister for Labour and Industry, Mr. F.

Finnan, that retailers were limi ted to 25 per cent, profit. Mr. Davidson said retail margins fixed by the Prices Commissioner were: lid a lb on carrots parsnips, and beetroot; 3d a lb on peas and beans; 36 a case (or 25 per whichever was greater) on citrus fruit; lid a lb on bananas; and lid a lb on pineapples. Dior designed his beret with the specific object of providing women with a comfortable, but essentially smart piece of headgear. He succeeded of course, and our buyers report that the beret is a "raving success" in Paris and New York.

Dior has featured the beret with many of his new season's styles, and it is worn with several of the models in the Dior Fashion Parades at D.J's. In fine quality fur felt, D.J's reproduction does full justice to the original. It is in colours of moss leaf, Manila brown, grey, Chinese cherry. Admiralty blue, black, cadet blue, and light tan. The Christian Dior beret is 43- in the millinery section on the second floor of David Jones' Elizabeth Street Store.

Fitting Belts The waist-moulding belts dip slightly at the back and fit the figure snugly. In red, black, and navy patent leather and brown calf, they have stitched edges and self-covered buckles. The belts are 18- on the Ground Floor of David Jones' Elizabeth Street Store. Dress Jewellery With The "Diamond Look Antique Sale Brought Big Crowd, High Prices UNESCO May Miss Its Dancing Girls From Our Staff Correspondent In Paris and New York the latest fashion in dress jewellery it the "Diamond Look," which David Jones introduce to Sydney with three sparkling necklaces made of rhinestones. The necklaces are replicas of originals designed by Christian Dior, and hand-made by expert jewellers.

David Jones ordered the three originals from Paris and had them copied by Sydney jewellers who also made them by hand. They are made from the best quality imported stones and set in sterling silver. Both the originals and the copies are featured in the Dior Fashion Parades in David Jones' Great Restaurant. The bib necklace illustrated on the left is made of white rhinestones set in star-shaped clusters. The price: 35140.

A four-strand necklace of sapphire blue and white rhinestones is 39180. The third necklace has emerald green crystal drops with the white rhinestones and is priced 2540. Antique collectors and auction followers thronged to the auction of Mrs. T. H.

Kelly's antiques yesterday as to a combined art show and bargain sale. The rooms of the auctioneer, Mr. Max Lawson, were so crowded with reproduction furniture, carpets, and silver and glassware that part of the crowd ot 300 stood on the stairs. The sale will be continued today. Yesterday only about 20 of the crowd bid for the antiques.

The remainder surged around costly exhibits, including Persian rugs and rare Venetian wine glasses. About 4,000 was spent at the sale. Prices of some tiny antiques were so high that a stunned BEIRUT, Aug. 3. Miss Nilla Crum Cook said to-day there would be no dancing girls at the next conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation unless the Lebanese authorities displayed more co-operation.

The UNESCO conference will be held at Beirut towards the end of the year. Miss Cook is an American in charge of the Shah of Persia's dancing troupe. The Shah has lent the troupe to the Lebanese Government to Sydney copy ol a Christian Dior necklace hand-made from white rhinestones and set in sterling silver. The price is 3514-. DAVID JONES' FOR SERVICE SINCE 1838.