Dr. Vocale is a man of good moral character. He is honest, a gentlemen, and professionally high grade. I earnestly urge and would appreciate any help that you can extend to Dr. Vocale.

Thanking you, I am
Sincerely yours,

J. MICHAEL BENEDETTO, M. D.,

Secretary of Staff, Mother Cabrini Memorial Hospital.

Re S. 305.

Hon. PAUL H. DOUGLAS,

Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.

CHICAGO 44, ILL., April 20, 1953.

MY DEAR SENATOR: It is a distinct pleasure in writing you in behalf of our colleague Dr. Antonio Vocale, since I have been a loyal supporter of yours and admired your work.

We at the hospital (Mother Cabrini Hospital) have a great admiration for Dr. Vocale because of his earnestness and ability. His character is beyond reproach having been entrusted will all phases of medical work, by assisting each member of our staff and applying his knowledge sympathically to all patients. This could only have been accomplished by said person, as a result of his medical background received in Italian Medical universities along with his association with members of our staff.

This I have personally experienced having joined forces with Dr. Vocale in our X-ray department, noting at all times his personal interest in each and every patient.

Dr. Antonio Vocale is and will continue to be deserving of the opportunity of remaining, because during his stay he has proven to be truly and sincerely Americana.

Your every effort in the above bill S. 305 will be most gratefully appreciated by the writer.

Very truly yours,

FRANK P. MANGAN, M. D., Chief Radiologist, Mother Cabrini Hospital, Associate Radiologist, Holy Cross Hospital and St. Mary of Mercy, Gary, Ind.

Re S. 305, Antonio Vocale.

CHICAGO 47, ILL., April 17, 1953.

Hon. SENATOR PAUL DOUGLAS,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

MY DEAR SENATOR: Pertaining to the above bill, I wish to state that I have known Dr. Antonio Vocale, for the past 2 years, coming into almost daily contact with him in hospital work. He has made an excellent impression on me as a gentleman and a doctor. He is well qualified in his specialty and, in my opinion, he would make an excellent citizen.

Kindly do not hesitate in taking favorable action on the above bill.

Very sincerely yours,

FRANK LOCK, M. D.

The committee, after consideration of all the facts in the case, is of the opinion that the bill (S. 305) should be enacted.

JULY 30 (legislative day, JULY 27), 1953.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. LANGER, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the

following

REPORT

[To accompany S. 353]

The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the bill S. 353) for the relief of Li Ming, having considered the same, reports avorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill, s amended, do pass.

AMENDMENT

On line 7, strike the words "and head tax".

PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The purpose of the bill, as amended, is to grant the status of permanent residence in the United States to Li Ming. The bill provides or an appropriate quota deduction and for the payment of the required isa fee.

STATEMENT OF FACTS

The beneficiary of the bill is a 65-year-old native and citizen of China ho last entered the United States as a visitor on December 11, 1951. He was one of the most successful private bankers in China and for a umber of years was chairman of the Bank of China. He has 4 hildren, 1 of whom is employed by an American company in Shanghai nd 3 of whom are in this country.

A letter, with attached memorandum, dated July 20, 1953, to the hairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary from the Acting Commissioner of Immigration with reference to the case reads as ollows: JULY 20, 1953.

on. WILLIAM LANGER,

Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary,

United States Senate, Washington, D. C.

DEAR SENATOR: In response to your request of the Department of Justice for report relative to the bill (S. 353) for the relief of Li Ming, there is annexed a

memorandum of information from the Immigration and Naturalization Service files concerning the beneficiary.

The bill would grant the alien permanent residence in the United States as of the date of enactment upon payment of the required visa fee and head tax. It would also direct that one number be deducted from the appropriate immigra tion quota. It should be noted, however, that the Immigration and Nationality Act does not require the payment of a head tax.

The alien is chargeable to the quota for the Chinese, which is oversubscribed. Sincerely,

Acting Commissioner.

MEMORANDUM OF INFORMATION FROM IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE FILES RE LI MING, BENEFICIARY OF S. 353

Li Ming, or Ming Li, a citizen of China, was born in Chekiang, China, on November 24, 1887. Ming is his given name and Li, his family name. He last entered the United States at San Francisco, Calif., on December 11, 1951, and was admitted as a vistor until June 11, 1952. The record of his admission shows that his purpose in coming to the United States was to obtain medical treatment and that he was destined to the New York Hospital, New York, N. Y.

Mr. Li, who is a banker, visited the United States twice in 1934 in a business capacity. He next came to the United States in 1941, as a refugee during the Japanese occupation of China, and returned to China in 1946. His next visit to the United States, in December 1950, was for medical treatment and he departed in May 1951.

Since his last entry into the United States, Mr. Li has resided in New York City.

After attending an American missionary school in China, Mr. Li completed his formal education at the Yamuguchi Commercial College in Japan. Since then he has been engaged in the banking business. He was described as having been one of the most successful private bankers in China. From 1928 until 1935, he served as chairman of the Bank of China, resigning when the bank was nationalized. In 1949, shortly before the Communists obtained control of Shanghai, where he had been residing in China, Mr. Li established his residence in Hong Kong. Mr. Li states that he never became a member of any politica party in China.

Mr. Li's wife died in Shanghai in 1938. He has 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. His oldest son, Teh Ching Li, 34, is an electrical engineer working in Shanghai for a subsidiary of the American & Foreign Power Corp., 2 Rector Street, New York, N. Y. His youngest son, Te Chuan Li, 30, is working for s investment company in New York, N. Y. His oldest daughter, Yu Ching Sæ. 37, is living in New York, N. Y., where her husband is on the staff of the United Nations. His youngest daughter, Mae Ching Kao, 31, resides in Carmel, Calif., with her husband, who is teaching in the Army Language School, Monterey, Calif. Mr. Li has not been actively employed in the United States. He has been under medical treatment since his last entry into the United States.

Mr. Li maintains a bank balance in the United States of approximately $15,000. He has an income of over $12,000 annually from his investments in this country.

Senator Irving M. Ives, the author of the bill, has submitted a number of letters and documents in support of the bill, among which are the following:

Hon. IRVING M. IVES,

United States Senate, Washington 25, D. C.

JANUARY 22, 1953.

MY DEAR SENATOR: I am writing in connection with the bill which you are sponsoring before the Judiciary Committee to give Mr. Li Ming permanent residence status.

I am a natural born citizen of the United States and have been engaged in the public-utility business in the United States and abroad since 1906. Between 1921 and 1927 I operated public-utility properties in Texas. From 1927 until the latter part of 1944 I was president of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. which has owned and operated public-utility properties in 11 countries in Latin America and also in Shanghai, China, and India. From 1944 to 1952 I was chairman of the board of Electric Bond & Share Co. which is the parent company of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. At the present time I am chairman of the

Executive committee and a director of Electric Bond & Share Co. and also a director of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. For many years I have been a director of the National City Bank of New York. During World War II, I was for some time Director General of Operations of the War Production Board.

I first came to know of Mr. Li Ming when American & Foreign Power Co., Inc., Entered into negotiations for the purchase of the electric properties in the International Settlement of Shanghai, China, in 1929. As president of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc., during the time above referred to I followed closely the operations of that property in the Shanghai Power Co. until it was seized by the Communists in 1950.

I first met Mr. Li Ming personally when he came to the United States in the early 1930's. My association with Mr. Li Ming has been close since he came to his country in 1942 following the Japanese entry into China. After the war with Japan ended I was identified with Mr. Li Ming and a group of Chinese and American industrialists and financial men in forming a company known as China Endustries which it was planned would assist in the industrialization of China. Mr. Li Ming was president and a director of the company and I was for some rears chairman of the board. Early in 1946, Mr. Li Ming returned to China but was obliged to leave again when the Communists entered Shanghai in 1950.

Mr. Li Ming has been influential and has held high positions in the banking and industrial world in China over many years. Ever since I came to know him in 1929 he has been chief executive officer of the Chekiang Industrial Bank. At one time he was chairman of the Bank of China and he became recognized as the Leading Chinese banker of his time. His advice was sought in financial matters not only by the Chinese Government but by business and industrial concerns, both foreign and domestic, operating in China.

Mr. Li Ming was also for a time a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council and a person of the highest personal standing in Shanghai. He was largely responsible for the solution of many problems arising in the Extraterritorial Settlement. Mr. Li Ming was and still is a member of the advisory board of the Shanghai Power Co., a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co., Inc. A number of years ago, Shanghai Power Co. decided to organize a subsidiary, Western District Power Co., which took over and developed the electric utility business in the area outside of the International Settlement. Mr. Li Ming's advice and assistance were of the greatest importance in obtaining from the Chinese governmental authorities the necessary franchise and other required authorizations.

It was also through Mr. Li Ming's efforts that in 1932 a syndicate was formed with the Shanghai & Hong Kong Banking Corp. to raise funds for the extension of the Shanghai Power Co. system required by the rapid development of the International Settlement. At that time the depression in the United States made it impossible to obtain the funds here. Because of Mr. Li Ming's sponsorship of the yndicate, many of the bonds were sold to Chinese citizens. Mr. Li Ming has given similar aid and advice with equal successful results in similar situations in ater years.

I could not conclude this letter without pointing out the great help which Mr. Li Ming gave to Shanghai Power Co. at the conclusion of the Japanese war when the company was seriously threatened with nationalization by the Chinese authorities. Mr. Li Ming's standing with the Chinese authorities was no doubt he determining factor which prevented this from occurring.

Mr. Li Ming is a man of the highest moral character and integrity and he has always been and is an admirer and constant friend of the United States. I know of no one to whom it would be more appropriate to grant permanent residence status and I sincerely hope that your committee will find it possible to approve the bill now before it, granting Mr. Li Ming that status.

Yours very truly,

CURTIS E. CALDER.

MEMORANDUM RE PRIVATE BILL TO BE PRESENTED TO CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE STATUS OF LI MING

1. General.-Li Ming, the former chairman of the Chekiang Industrial Bank Ltd., of Shanghai, China, who is temporarily in the United States on a temporary visitor's visa, is desirous of obtaining permanent resident status in the United states. Mr. Li Ming is presently residing at 30 Beekman Place, New York 22, N. Y.

2. Biographical data.-Mr. Li Ming was born in Shaoshing, Chekiang Province, China, November 24, 1887, attended school at Wayland Academy, an American nissionary school in Hangchow, China and was graduated from Yamuguchi

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Commercial College in Japan in 1910 with a degree in banking and economics. Mr. Li Ming has devoted practically all his adult life to the advancement of Chinese banking and financial affairs. Since 1911 he has been associated with the Chekiang Industrial Bank, Ltd., in Shanghai, serving as general manager from 1924 to 1928 and as chairman of the board from 1928 until April 1949 when he left Shanghai. Under his direction the Chekiang Bank (the name of which was changed in 1947 to the Chekiang First Bank of Commerce) expanded rapidly and was generally recognized as one of, if not the leading private bank of China, while Mr. Li Ming himself was regarded as the leading private banker of preCommunist China. He was a director of many financial, commercial, and industrial organizations in China from 1920 to 1949 and served 3 terms, a total of 10 years, as chairman of the Shanghai Bankers Association. From 1928 until 1935 he served as chairman of the Bank of China, the period during which this bank was dedicating itself primarily to the expansion and servicing of China's foreign trade. He resigned in 1935 when the Bank of China was nationalized by the Chinese Nationalist Government. Mr. Li Ming visited the United States twice in 1934 for the purpose of observing the financial and industrial development in this country and in the course of his visit met many leading industrialists and bankers. He again came to the United States in March 1941 and stayed here until April 1946 when he returned to Shanghai, leaving there once again in April 1949 when the Communist forces crossed the Yangtze River. Since 1949 he has resided in Hong Kong, except for a short visit to the United States at the end of 1950 and early 1951 for medical treatment.

3. Promotion of American interest in China.-Throughout his banking career in China Li Ming cooperated closely with the leading American financial, commercial, and industrial interests in China. Among other matters he participated as representative of the Chinese banking group with American and British financial institutions in floating securities in the Shanghai market to finance the Shanghai Power Co. (operated and controlled by the American & Foreign Power Co.), and the Shanghai Telephone Co. (operated and controlled by the International Telephone & Telegraph Co.). He also cooperated closely with the International General Electric Co., and the American Metals Co. Appropriate letters in this regard may be obtained from officials of these companies for presentation to Congress if desired. During Mr. Li Ming's residence in the United States from March 1941 to April 1946 he devoted most of his time to conferring with American bankers and industrialists for the purpose of forming a joint enterprise privately financed in order to facilitate China's postwar rehabilitation and industrial development by the introduction of American machinery and industrial know-how. During this period he served as a member of the Chinese delegation to the Bretton Woods Monetary Conference and to the International Business Conference at Rye, N. Y. In 1945 he joined with Chinese interests, and the International General Electric Co. in forming the Manufacturing Enterprises of China, a New York corporation in which International General Electric had a controlling interest, for the purpose of promoting postwar industrialization in China and trade with China. In the same year, in conjunction with Lehman Bros., Lazard Freres & Co., the Rockefeller interests, and with the assistance of Mr. Curtis E. Calder, chairman of the board of Electric Bond & Share Co., and the late Gordon Rentschler, chairman of the board of the National City Bank, he organized China Industries, Inc., a New York corporation, to facilitate and participate in the financing of Chinese industrial enterprise. China Industries, Inc., entered into s number of agreements with leading American industrial interests to promote the formation of Chinese subsidiaries jointly financed by American and Chinese capital. After Mr. Li Ming's return to China in 1946 he sensed the political instability and gradual deterioration of economic conditions and accordingly recom mended against carrying out the original plans for private investment in Chins at that time. All the capital invested in China Industries, Inc., by American interests was returned to the participating American groups and none of Mr. Li Ming's American associates incurred any financial loss.

In addition to his business associations with American interests, Mr. Li Ming has been for 15 years a trustee of the China Foundation (which administers the Chinese fellowships set up under the Boxer indemnity payment) and of the Peking Union Medical College, which has been sponsored and financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

4. Political beliefs.—Mr. Li Ming has never been a member of any political party, confining himself to promoting Chinese and American economic and financial interests. He is a strong believer in a democratic form of government, the free-enterprise capitalistic system, and a free world.