Smuggler told to leave US
San Francisco (Dec 12): The Shanghai banker, Chan Tang-kwong, who admitted smuggling gems into the United States, was placed on five years' probation yesterday on the condition he leave this country forthwith.
Federal Judge George B. Harris, who sentenced him, levied a fine of $1,000. Chan's jewels, valued at $18,000, will be confiscated. Chan was arrested as he stepped off the President Cleveland from Hongkong in October.
Gap shrinks
London (Dec 14): The difference in the amount that Britain's richest and poorest families spend each week on food is now one quarter of what it was before the war.
The National Food Survey Committee, in its report for 1950, said that in 1937, the difference was 10 schillings and 10 pence, while in 1950 it was 4 schillings and 1 pence.
Golden find
