The Singapore Free Press, 9 January 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA NO 1273 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1947. PRICE HI CENTS.
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    CHINA FACED WITH STARVATION
    377 1 CHINA FACED WITH STARVATION LONDON, Wednesday. THERE will be extreme suffering in coastal cities and other parts of southern China unless rice and wheat imports are continued. Gen. Sir Humfrey Gale, personal representative in London of the DirectorGeneral of TNRRA, said at a Press conference today. Pointing out that this
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    S'PORE WILL RATION WATER
    247 1 S'PORE WILL RATION WATER Repoi r m ol S Bfrnpow {l s I d ::.*:eh m the to ap.ie 01 a dollai extension to d s' red. c?r aiiilv b; -^apore he population i r bUjvOlies. ana is /oie in 'he stttd? i ssare at pea uuaJ ni.'.- r rehabilitation
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    EDITOR MURDERED
    37 1 :3co Grana Garland. of the Lima (Peru» ■z newspaper La Prensa .>: dead by an unidentified yesterday as he lefr hil trid entered his car. The :or the crime has not yet -.-n discovered, says U.P
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    FIRE AT AIRPORT
    20 1 N Torbay airport, six D St Johns. Newfo^nd- yesterday destroyed a 120 :t building. says^ReutJ%i Si Johns.
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    GUNMEN ROB CASHIER AT BRICKWORKS
    110 1 Fr-;e Press Staff Report c I ASKED and armed with pfc>--1 tols. a Malay and wo Chinese entered the premises ol Alexandra Brickworks, Pasir Panjang during the lunch hour yesterday, held up a Chinese < and got away with 11,795 b and a wristlet watch.
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    DOCTORS FIGHT FOR SURVIVING 'QUAD'
    52 1 Tr.e fight was still going en yesrday for the life of the baby girl vho is the only surv.vor Of the quadi born at Mid-Glamorgan .iital. Bridgend on Tuesday to Mrs. Peg?"/ Thomas o: Tylagwyn. Pontyrnyl, Wales, says Reuter. The baby weighed under two Ib.
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    MORE TANKS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
    46 1 To Increase the Armys equipment m the Middlp East twelve 25-* on Kangaroo army tanks ard 36 scout cars leave Birkenhead ♦oday on board J he 8,500-ton Clim Maelaren. says Router. The ship Dlso takes 14 Sherman tanks to B,ombay.
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    ENVOY WITH BENES
    27 1 Dr. Lung Liaai:. the new; Chinese Ambassador to Czeaho Slovakia, yesterday presented hi* credentials to Czechoslovakia's President, l>r Bones In Prague, Castle, says Reuter
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    57 1 A Singapore Radio Patrol Car found this crocodile crossing Thomson Road shortly bffore midnirht on Tuesday It took six shots with a -38 revolver and two shots with a .303 rifle to kill the crocodile, which is now with a taxi dfrmist. The crocodile measured eight feet from nose to
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    $30,000,000 FIRE IN IN.Y.
    48 1 A fire which yesterday iazecl New York central railway pj •< a Wcehawken. New Jersey, caused damage estimated at about $30,000,000, says Reuter. Scores of flreboats were used, but the fire after burning one pier spread to another. Several trapped workmen wer° rescued oy tugs.
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    100 A-Bombs
    62 1 MIAMI BEACH. Wed. DR. Gerald Wendt, editor ol Science Illustrated told the I'nited States Brewers' Foundation at Miami today that America is making one atom bomb ever> week and now has a stock of 1Q0. A former Dean of the Pennsylvania State College, he said that it costs
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    NO PACT OFFER FROM MONTY
    83 1 Highest British sources in Moscow las* night emphasised that th P vis.t to Russia of Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, Chief of British Imperial General Staff, was strictly a "milittry goodwill' m ion, says Router They rejected suggestions that Lord Montgomery contemplated inviting the Russians to
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    17 ARE FROZEN TO DEATH
    156 1 HAMBURG. Wed. CEVENTEEN cases of ckatfa from freezing in Hamburg have been confirmed and 41 more cases j» serious frostbite have r*cen reported. He it Dahrendorf, chairman of the Fuel Committee OfOlamburg City Council, anMroPrted tonight Airland shipping tie ;:t> i -•>• -i j weather
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    France calls up more men for FIC
    345 1 France calls up more men for F IC PARIS, Wednesday. ALL combat troops stationed in France have been warned to be ready for service in Indo-china. The order, issued by the French Defence Minister today, stipulates that men called up for such service must have undergone six months' military training.
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    VOLCANO ERUPTS IN ALEUTIANS
    45 1 Akuian volcano, a 4.100-loot jxat. six miles Irom a village in the Aleutians was In eruption on Monday Wi I o:. <...•..•• ii mt; playing abov? the crater and lava Mowing down ths side*, th^ US Navy reported yesterday savs A P
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    EX-EDITOR ON ARMS CHARGE
    94 1 CALCUTTA. Wed. DR J-EELANY SYED, who was a Ministry of Information official In Singapore ar.d was internal by the Jups was remanded in custody in Calcutta today on a chare? of being concerned in the tli:f. y. revolvers from Barrackpore iK)iictr station D. Sytxi is a
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      £250,000 GIFT TO FATHER DIVINE
      34 3 Sheldon, brother .do* Mrs Mary Lyon. of New York is win, in which she -250.000 to organinm by Negro '"god" Divine He says the will unri i influenced by
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      NEW FACTORIES GO UP IN BRITAIN
      326 3 NEW FACTORIES GO UP IN BRITAIN RITAIN S great programme of new factory building has passed the planning sta^e and results are beginning to be r:een. The Board of Trad* Journal gives the facts in an official progress report. Over half (reckoned by cost) of all new factory building is
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      20 TO 'RULE' ENGINEERS
      90 3 TWENTY men 10 employers and 10 workers are to be the 'Brains Trust" behind Britain's engineering industry, Mr Wilmot. Minister ot Supply, tcld the House of Comnnns. The council of 20. of whirh he will be chairman, will cover "all matters of interest" except wages and
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      5-NATION COMB-OUT
      25 3 Ponce of five nations fire search Idj Berlin iur two men who tielJ up a German woman jt:wt.-ll~r and .slole £21,250 ol jewellery.
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      GUNMAN HOLDS UP TWO GIRLS IN THEIR OFFICE
      173 3 WHEN 19-year-old Daphne Hogg answered a ring at the door of the offices of A. J. Johnson Ltd., in Windsor r:cently, she was confronted by a man with a revolvsr. Forcing her into a room In which was the safe the gunman
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      MORTALLY WOUNDED, BOY GAVE EVIDENCE
      254 3 TIIIO dying deposition of 15-year old Robert Gough, taken the day after he was shot in, the stationmaster's office at Pollokshields East station, Glasgow, was read at Glasgow High Court. Charles Templeman Brown, aged 21, was accused of murdering him and Annie Withers at the
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      HIS FINEST HOUR CAME AT THE END
      91 3 THE working and fighting Ut« 1 of 102-year-old Henri 'Rich France's oldest man. was crowned with lion ur a few days aeo. Railwayman, burner's assistanl and valiant soldier of the first Wcrid War. Henri war. told at his Pari-: home that he haa
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      34 3 Praalrta rhilde klep, Agci S3, from Gns, Austria. n htr fir^t British employer, >lr> ll V Hra^g. Hundreds of ill hairdressers, shop .iN>i>tant>. students answered pptal to help Cumberland fMBMIIIU. Twenty-three made th.' jour >
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      HOLIDAY CHIEF FOR BRITAIN
      127 3 pRiTAIiVS wartime Tobacco D Comroller, Sir Alexander H M'wvell. is almost certain to be an'.; first tour st and holidays iuef. Hi 6 appointment as chairman at tfce new Tourist, Catering *Hd H days Board is expected SCOil He will lead a. team ol 12 en
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      WOMAN SANTA, 71, SET 'BEARD' ALIGHT
      51 3 WOMAN SA NTA, 71, SET 'BEARD' ALIGHT ICn. R. Heslop. 71-yt'.ir_old •'Santa Claus" at a Sou^h Sf I Christmas party recently set fire 10 her false beard and I costume trimmings with a candle she was carrying. She was taken to hospital and later said to be fairly comfort- I
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      YOUTH TODAY ARE BETTER
      109 3 AFTER 62 yean a; a pupil md teacher at the same school, lira K&1 •> etnttf gave her last lesson on a blackboard she has used for Bftf years. A:id her summing ap of children who have been taught bv her at St. Lawrence Church of
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      55 3 TAT O N G STAURANT 6c BAR 18 Timlin Street. Singapore IVI 43*3. Pleas* eumr to us for BREAKFAST TIFFIN DINNER i'i \ite? !')r Parties at\ RESTAURANT r >n Your Home DELICIOI^ CUKOPEAH \ND CHINESF DISHES n txsert Cottks. Utmen Available. classified adverts r:\ls t ivMlit-o Small O'" J>< Notice*
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      103 3 I f H _-*-_y...^. CABRERAS ISO YIAKr REPUTATION FOR QUAUTY THE MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA! Ti el T T v^ £T «L^^Pi&^ 3 9^MH lAIIV O ii'vn l£&i%kM» M9t£. S». fee* JUNE HAVER GORGEOUS GOWNS MIDNIGHT PREMIERE SATURDAY REX STAGE CLUB DRAMA FESTIVAL 1*47 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE S MERRIEST COMEDY "TWELFTH NIGHT" DOW
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      35 3 TARZAM Tika* in fsad repute By Edgar Kkx Burroughs HV'jSF Ltgi^&ZJ *jt* b/jUUgflrtfil 1m *TW& I j YOUR FAULT," CRIED VI A3REE," ANSWERED CHEPWlCK.J jLffiRfe^f?^ H^ THE POLE'S LEADER, *FOR NOT "AND I ALONE WILL
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      LABOURERS GET SMUGGLED RICE
      170 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Higglers, srriowh thieves, and dealers in illicit rice ii tfcfl to bypass *he law are helping to feed Singa!ab4 Hirers, the heavy nature of whose work entitles to supplementary rations. seized in Police and Food Inspectorate raids and to a rice pool
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      Food may be sent to U.K.
      43 5 lt is officially announced that it Ls now permissible to include in parcels sent from Singapore, tinned foodstuffs up to the maximum of seven lh<:. per parcel, but not more than three lbs of any one item.
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      INCOME TAX MYSTERY
      80 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MYSTERY surrounds the whereabouts of Singapore's income tax expert, Mr. R. B. Heasman. He was due to arrive in Singapore on Sunday. Dec. 2Si. but there was no sign of him. No signal has been received at Government offices from London concerning his
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      Steps to end overcrowding in S'pore buses
      218 5 Steps to end overcrowding in S'pore buses fee Press Staff Reporter STERNER measures to reduce •vercrowding in omnibuses and trolley-buses and in chicking speeding along highways by their vehicles are being taken by the Singapore Traction Company who have sent out officials and inspectors on checking missions. At all important
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      69,000 TONS RUBBER EXPORTED
      100 5 69,000 TONS RUBBER EXPORTED total export of sheet and crepe rubber and lar^x irorn Malaya .*nd Siricapore^ during December last amounted to 63 103 tons, compared with 79,650 tons la November 1943. A break down oi oti* ~>—\ si a ws the follow)..?; punripal r countries USA 43 061 tons.
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      POPPY DAY FUND
      36 5 Final figures -show that coUec- t;ons for the Poppy Day Fund in 1916 in Singapore amounted to $30,444, of which $b.635 W3£ collected by the Army and re--1 mitted direct to the U.K.
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      COURT PROBLEM
      72 5 I DON'T sec how I can try tins man if he is illiterate, deaf and dumb,' 1 said Mr. k. 11. Byrne. ihird Police Magistrate yesterday when a 38-ye?.r-old Chinese. Ah Heey. of Jalan Se^ot, was charged with stca.'i*n', 12 towels from a 'Sineaporo Harbour Board £odown on
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      JAVA-N.Y. SHIPPING REOPENS!
      195 5 JAVA-N.Y. SHIPPING REOPENS! Free Press Staff Reporter 1 OF considerable interest to I Singapore importers will be the news that a pre-war cargo j service between New York and NEI. touching at Malayan poris i and Singapore, has been resumed. An official announcement from j j Ottawa says "Interrupted by
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      'TWELFTH NIGHT' AT THEATRE
      253 5 FE Slruapc rj StaL'e Club c;> med the r 1017 Dn^'i Fest»va' '"sti night— twelfth night at the Victoria Thca'.rc with "Twcltii Night." Ttiia Bhak >•■. :are t d »n is\ undoubtedly a success. The cast Is wjl -ba anced The play was allowed to retain
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      EX-JAP SCHOOL IS NOW SHACKLE CLUB
      316 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE former Japanese school In Waterloo Street, A Singapore, has been taken over by British troops lor use as a recreation centre. Until recently homeless after having to move out of the derequisitioned John Little building in Raffles Square, NAAFFs
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      CANADA HEADS EMPIRE BUYERS
      88 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CANADIAN imports from Malaya are consistently higher than those from any other British Empire country even Australia, and the oflTic ai report from the Canadian (io\einment says that this •> "mdcative of a rfsyin»»!ion of pre-war trade of larfe dimensions." Late*£ figures
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      MUNICIPAL REPORTS
      134 5 MUNICIPAL REPORTS Free Press S'aif Re. READS of departments in Singapore Mun:T:pa! now busy preparing ihelr ar.: repo h must b? subm:" to the President, Mr. L Rayrr. for his approval bv the end February. reports are then euumined-— 'bey ar? intend* d to be a I icccount of the
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      11 5 COMFORTABLE ONVIWIENT mmfftfiu fuffi mi'rrmL aq4s^B3 CABL? AOOXeSS: TAVSRH* VL^ bt^|
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      69 5 LAST DAY AT THE IB »/f I [t]Jß^ A 5!!?" 7 J. EIGH /#«to*» OLI¥ 1 1 n OPENING^ TOMORROW SAAI GOLOWTM Brin-i You IiLTTE I)\M^ X- You Really Love Her And Th.Tt Young En;!Kh Artress TVRr.S.% WRICHT «f Mrs Miniver" SAMUEL SOlßlfl Pr.se.ts The Most Merciless LITHE, |C FOXES
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      R.A.F. WILL FIELD STRONG CRICKET XI
      344 7 iC. LF. critKet ttams have shown good form over past fell iprnths and the Combined Changi team N-.tvini 1 forwavi with a reasonable amount of •o the nev.'stason that Hill start early in March. ptejed at Changi, Air Command,- Far inninga victory over Changi
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      TRANSPORT XI IN TANGLIN CRICKET
      102 7 TRANSPORT XI IN TANGLIN CRICKET was ortatkMQ ana! win I tarn* m H for 1 I WM'ORTMI >\ Habai I c Willy i b W:IIy 0 I c D■ t b >w b Oeden 12 rts 'r> O Mtutin c Da e Davies fc Extras 7 HOWLING -2 21: W:liv
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      AUSSIE R.L. STAR FOS ENGLAND
      76 7 Kb NUl)>. A Rug by League Test will leave do Jan. 18. a for Leeds I ub an A siimiT r each ap- k »;c, £6 for a a loss Guarantee Special bonus for j *-arances. The contract is have undertaken to find :or Clues.
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      CAREFREE B.P.
      91 7 THE foUowin^ have been selected to reorcent the Carefree BP. in friendly retura match aKainst the Merry Makers BP. on Saturday, bt the Happy World Stadium at 2.30 pin An^? Chin Naan. Lee Hong lum, Low 1 Sent: Lae Poh Kim Keat. Wee Te.K Yean. Sa..?h b. Kassim
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      R.L. CUP FIRST ROUND DRAW
      94 7 LONDON. Wed THE draw foi the first round of the Rugby League Cup to be played on home and away principle on Feb 8 and Feb. 15 is: St. Helens v Kdghky; Oldhani v B?llevuc R^ngero: Dewsbury v Hudderafield: Worrington v Brookland Rovcis; S*inton v
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      R.S.C.G. MEETING
      69 7 The 52nd annual general meet::::: of the Royal Sinsrapore Golf Club \v!H be held in the club house on Saturday, January 18. at 6 30 p.m. The meetintr w:]l receive the committee's report and balance sheet for the yoar OMM September 30, 1946. and will dec! a committee
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      R. U. RESULTS
      32 7 Middlesex, placing: away, beat Surrej 10 3 in a Rugby Union C-mntv cham- i v reports ReutCi from London. In a dub match the RAF. beat Guy's Hospital 15—0
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      ENGLAND'S ALL-ROUNDER
      36 7 Norman Yard ley the England cricketer, who has been one of outstanding successes of the tour. In the third Test at Melbourne Yardley twite t<»t Rradman out and scored 61 and 53 not out.
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      POSTAL SHOOT SCORES
      316 7 POSTAL SHOOT SCORES SCORES obtained oy StFgapore i rifle teams in the anvial Inter-Colonial Full Bore Postal match conducted on December 15 were released yesterday This compel it ion Ls conducted throughout the colonies by the National Rifle Association in England and is sponsored by the British Government. Cards had
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      USEFUL B.P.
      86 7 THE first annual gathering of the Useful Badminton Party will b<* held on Sunday at the bungalow of Mr TV j Kim Er.R at Pasir Ris,. when member* and fr'ends will participate land and sea c rorts. he party's {.-.(-ncral meeting will also take place at vhich office-bearers
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      AUSSIES TAKE JOYOUS INTEREST IN CRICKET
      1203 7 AUSSIES TAKE JOYOUS INTEREST IN CRICKET The Sportsman's Scrapbook T"HE record takings for the Third Test match at Melbourne 1 some £44,000 give further proof of the fantastic enthusiasm that there is over cricket in Australia. A food example of this enthusiasm is supplied in the following account of what
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      Constantine To Coach
      43 7 LONDON, Wed. LF.ARIK CONSTANTINE, Went Indian Test (ricketer. been apncin'.ed v ,;.ch la I.mstrr and I)ub!in I'.uversity Cricket clubs fnr ihc M .i^ n. He succeeds Goor«e Pope, vho retcnliy announced his tion to return tJ c(»unt\ for Derbyshire- Reuter
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      127 7 BOXING HAPPY WORLD SUNDAY 1 2th JAN. '47 .s. PROMOTER KOW KIM LLN QPENJ THE NEW YEAR WITH A BIG BANG HKST-HAND CATC 11-WT CONTEST KID PANCHO a "> WHO CREATED A BRH.i.II.M IM Pjp PRESSION IN AUSTRALIA WITH w HIS NON-STOP FIGHTING V* #M ICKMcK A Y W Sd.-VriFIC
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      106 7 Till: HALL FOR BOUND QUALITY PROJECTION. yVfl fS( OPENING TO-DAY (ll l\\<\Xt\\?V K 7\ 2 4.15 -6 30 9.15 <n PHONC.6 909 *jtC~\ CALLING ALL LAUGHS! TH£ Hi-:GnX Or DANCING TALENT ACHIEVED BY LAUREL 6c HARDY IN THE "DYING SWAN"! (l)vinj; Swoon to You!) NEVER SINCE PAVLOVA was such (BEAUTIFUL?)
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