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In Port Loading Sofla Sept. 13
for Singapore, Port Swetten- ham.
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Arrives Salle
Sept. 20 from Singapore,
Sept. 26 for Kobe & Yokohama,
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Arrives Sept. 20 from Manila.. Salla
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WANTED KNOWN
SALE at The Argony" Gloucester Arcude
until now
September 10 Bargaine ineludo Parisian gloves, Jael 13, -Denina" repares, custops, BLOEDER,
Turcador black
pants. Arts, Jingerie, brocade, housecoat, jinen, children 'n wear. household handkaruhelk, etc.
Large Terra Cotta Vase Used As A Coffin
Athens, Sept. 12. -
This year's excavations at Eleusis, site of mystic rites of the ancient Greeks, near Athens, have yielded the largest terra cotta vase (amphora) ever found in Greece.
Round-The-Clock the Athens and St. LouÏT (USA)
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Standing 4 feet 8 inches high, it had been used as a child's coffin.
Aryhacologists, working under one of the few specimens we Professor George Mylonas of have of the art of Attend
The main picture on the vaso shows the blinding of Homer's Glant Polyphemus by ymca, Gorgons
anbaat and wild figure in the decorations,
Battle For Tea Town
Dibrugarh, Assam, Sept,*12. More than 1,500 people are fighting around-the-clock battle to dismantle buildings in the path of the swollen' Brahma putra River, which is steadily swallowing up this north Indian lea town.
Universities, have reconstructed It from $28 fragmenta into MWENDES had been broken.
It is beputifully decorated with scenes from ancient Greek mythology and is believed to date back to the 7th century BC.
POPULAR METU
Modern, Selance=Qur. "Magic Carpet
Old Movie Films Stored
For Posterity
By Joe Jones
Movie-makers used to say, in days gone by, that to paraphrase General Douglas MacArthur
"old movies never die, they just fade
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sway." Today, with the aid of modern her movies, which It is characteristic of Greek | scienće," this gloomy prophecy | the most often requested in, thú. practice that for the coffin of a has been proven untrue. Many travelling collection. Women With it was found the skele-12-year-old child, the artist of the greatest movie classics, still sigh over ftudolph Vales- ton of a 12-year-old child. It chose a myth which was ob-preserved by means of a new tino, and get innumerable re-
in Cx- was in a children's Cametery viously popular among children. chemical process, are
Fairbanks pictures." which Professor Mylonas and Gorgons and Medusap and the cellent condition, and are viewed us to show the old Douglas.
of fans in his team have been excavating huge black giants of Homer's annually by millions
• at Eleusis since 1950.
Odyssey
Films apparently, speak were apparently as the United States, great favourites Already In the past 24 hours,
among ancient Ranging from ap
ne-international, Innguage and obscuro, three acres in the business cen-
Greek children as
of minute starics
picture,
ure, "The Execution does food. Plans have
Just tre of the town have disappear-
witches and wizards and fairies of Mary,
made been announced for the first ed beneath the waters of the Manly thildren's akeletons are among children of today, าก
States river, which
Mary now have been found buried in vasES
Pickford, staged in the United raging thrediens to engulf a centuries or in small stone sarcophagi. A large part of the children's
Fairbanks, Rudolph with governments of at least old church on the 4,000-foot Offerings enclosed in these graveyard at Eleusis still has to Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, and 17 nations participating.
graves are specially Infonded | be'
and Professor others of the cinema's "greats, show will feature excavated for children. They Include Mylonas and his assistants have these old movies have been ord staples from 'dil over
liquors 09 have small terra cotta figure of a stated that they will continue collected, stored and preserved worldwines and
nurst holding a child in her their search next year-China by New York's Muscum of well as foods. It will be held armi, smáli toy jars and beads. Mall Special.
Modern Art.
In New York's Kingsbridge Armory, February 21 to 97,
river front.
About
families 900 been uprooted from their homes as the river ateadily eats away at its bunks to swallow the city section by section.
The work of the city's courts and civil services was suspend-
MANY OTHERS
Commenting on the newly found vase, Professor Mylonas said:
ed when the State Government "I declare without any hesita- whatsoever that the declared a two-month state of tien emergency last week. Judges, Eleusis vase is one of the most
and white
FOOTSORE? Conmut Dr. Scholl's magistrates Foot Comfort Service, Telephone workers have joined the House (Mezzanine Floor) Hongkong. to SAVO the alty from
engulfed. Reuter.
Qualled Chiropodist In attendaNCE.
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HOME Be OFFICE STATIONERY. Address and note booka, desk tale. phone directories, stamp and snap- shot albuma, children's books. Very wide selection is available at Souta China Morning Post Linked Hong Kung and Salisbury Road, Kowloor. Trude enquiries invited.
FOR SALE
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THICK BLACK MARKING PENCILS $42 per grow, $4 per duzen, 40 cents ench From M. Post." Hong Kong & Kowloon,
SPECIALIST'S
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IMPORTED ITEMS
HISTORIC MOVIES The Museum's FilmLibrary 1955, shows historie movies · daily in its comfortable "Auditorfym", and | 2 also sends out travelling Although the major emphasis collection to 600 institutions. will be on imported items, the US and Canada. An acciate | about one-fifth of the space hos
collar important inds of its kind ever VON NEURATHn of 100 years, there manife been reserved for American
night made on Greek soll. Its value being as a work of art is great. But
| it is still greater because it is
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NEAR MIDNIGHT JOHNNY PILES
THE DUMMY INTO THE CAR
MANDRAKE NOT HERE. HIM WENT TO MOVIE, MISS-- I MEAN. PRINCESS NARDA--
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LET'S GET RID OF OUR OLD TREE---
1st
sailing Oct. 5th sailing Nov. 6th
IT ALWAYS
MAKES ME SO TIRED
LAND DRIVES TO THE COLISEUM TO: KEEP THE DATE" WITH EBCARBERI
Bertin, Sept. 12. Dr Fritz Heese, a West Berlin heart specialist, offered today to give free treatment to Buron Constantin von Neurath, 81-
of the fams years, keeps many Companies.
frain coploding dissolving into
to liquidavourites even countries will Such old-time
dinnera
foods. act as
A feature will be of la restaurant serving
Prepared from foreign as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, hoste, with their chefs taking Gloria Swanson and Greta over the kitchens on different Carbo have been active in sup-nights. porting the Museum's unique
project ever since its inception exposition are P. Gordon Savile. Managing directors of the
year-old ailing former German Foreign Minister now serving a] în 15-year sentence 4.8 * war criminal in Spandau prison.
Baron von Neurath's health is reported to be constantly deteriorating, and he is saldi 'to have had a heart attack only a few days ago.
Dr Heese has used to be al- lowed to treat him "as a matter of saving a human e."
Reuter.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davin
[ACOME ON HOW, {HONEY„LET'S SIT:
IN THE DARK OLD
UM AND MÁKE
MUSIC
HARDAS
KOK I'M SO GLAD
THE SEAT NEXT TO
YOU WAS EMPTY·· I'VE MISSED YOU
SO MUCH!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
AH, THOSE TOURISTS/
THEY COMB
OF MILES
GREATEST OF
SANDS:
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in
1933. Richard Griffith, the Film former Australian advertising Library's curator, says that these and sales executive, and V. Hlustrious stars still are greatness man who has had extensiva Stergar, former European bual- drawing-cords,
experience with trade fairs GARBO POPULAR "Whenever we show a Greta Vienna, Leipzig, Dresden and
| Praque. We can, be sure Garbo
A crowd
auditorium," he
BRITISH INVENTION reported. "She WES #heart- Butterer in the old days and Great Britain was originally he's heart-flutterer now. responsible for one of the Museum members réserve
newest devices to be marketed seats werks in advance for in this country-an instrument the user to talk on
without holding - the receiver. Distributed through a Boston, Massachusetts, firm, the instrument is a com pået amplifier, run by batteries. It is already being used in soma.
and US business companies hospitals.
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
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AND REFRIGERATORS
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Another recent sclentine de velopment is a liquid rubber plastic which anchors rugs into place and eliminates the danger of accidents caused by skidding Tugs.
Manhunt For Murderers Intensified
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 12. Posses of some 100 armed volunteers on foot, in cars and flying alx planes, joined law enforcement agents' in a 300- mile wide hunt today for two killers who bludresnod - four person in
in escaping gaol. authorities. Throw available manpower into the Widening search of middle
Mississipi woods and byways in the
hope of capturing the two convicted murderers ----Minor Sorber and Gerald Albert Gu lego," "before" "somebody else gota hurt."..
got
They kill you if your In their way,” warned a spokes- man for the Misalsippi Highway Fatrol. They had just as soon kill you as look at you. Some-
· [body else la' going" toʻget hung in
this thing."UPE DE ARGY
The authorities sald Sorber, 34, and Gallego, 28, both under
*J. C. Landrum belitally. widt Jam anglairon, irs making their desenpo" from the ̈ ̈ Hitada County Gaol Hat Friday and Atruck down three other persona to obtain geldway cars. United Fresat
More A-Guns For Germany
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