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AUSTRALIA PROUD OF

WOBLER,

་

ITS WOMEN

Australia la proud of ita More than 400 girls entered It is true there were girls 50 More newsprint is de- the Miss Australia competition each Stale mere heartful than tới, từ il(7) thua anywhere each nominated by a firm or those who can to Sydney. Bul

b in the British Common-a club or sorge society working the quest wasn't wenith.

fer charity. About 250 qualified beautiful girl. as State finalists, which means hat at least £100 was raised by ch of their sponsoring or- rarisations,

This year's "Miss Australia" has just been clogen, ami a untion-wide quest for "The Aus- raian Surf Girl" is about to begin. In New South Walen Motherhood" alone a "Lovely competition will soon la over and the ideal “Beach Girl" is being wught.

Facts gather in the course of these campetitiona show that Today's "average" Australian girl is ft. 4in. tall at 21, weighs ponad 9ut., al 48 in every 100

brunette-

About

Beuty, brains, and talent then decide the winner in ench State: a local panel, including doctors, artists, sculpters, film

From Lachie Mcdonald

educationists,

And

Executives, voier production experis, voting

By candidates. Sin at November the six

an Australian board of State winners came to Sydney

¡

for the mos!

With beauty the hind to have

charm. intelligence, social good speaking voice, and near- pertes physical condition.'

19

One footh on the most Insigni- Beant plate was enough to dis muslien a girl, and qualify

Naminations

were very Thorough.

Four Voie eliminated many rirls. So did lock of genera knovele tre. One of the mutional Binglets foundered on this ques

am: If you were asked in New York how many people lived in Sydney, what would you say?" She thought for a moment and answered: $0.000." Sydney has nearly 1,500,000 people.

the

Even for the finalists rest hasn't been alt glamour. Photographera have worked hem hard. Most of the "Ing" pictures were taken with the irls in swim suits on a bench--

The American League For a

with per CUBE Free Palestion is anti-British and bomiles, Brünettes indede what Juri purtition. It supports

Autralians all the wheftes." the Jewisha beprotists an f Chubmen as well as buys fot-

there contenins the Jewish muferates. low

comptition with In a full pare newspaper adver-urprising interest. When legs tisement it declares: The Briand faces of the Miss Australia tish could have avoided the her. semi-finalists began appearin rible hoodshed India, butovsgapers in the different

wher States, impartial males started) they delight in it,"

Marking the judgment in bar-five men and one woman sat in it was ad vitish cold day. These same breadh British, i continues, are deliberately plan-¦

A Recluse ng a similar fate for Palestine, and "only when die British leave

Today any man who doesn't) will there be peace in Palestine know that Miss Judy Gainford for li wis dwell there-Jews, i 30 year-old Sydney winner of Maderns. Christians alike." The Mica Austinlia comp tition. the best and an 24 roundl Crapid penisam passion more, completely bedevil logie? Todanach higger rund the hips is rationalists are not today blaan- ing Britain IDE the "horrible

Com betting

inal judgment. Their selection was the Judy Gainford already mentioned. She a med:1 and a radio announcer.

ry mach a periuse Shalen bit. 6'2. ta,alia) weighs Pat has a 26in. waist, Perth

At The Zoo Some candidates were hurried to the Zan, where ne fed a Pletah with horse meat and an other wari'y showed a bunch of, hay hats the yawning mouth of a hippopot

blood lind" between Moslem and hair, and blue eyes. Daphn Campb: B Miss South Then there were hours of

Hide and Sikh. Had the Bri } tish rejected partition in India ; and horded over the entire gav empent to the Hindu-controlled Compere, the Moslem resi-tance,

2 Tel. 2665) (three ines).

She's going to London in May, then Canada and the Tnited States-with a chaperone. six-month world trip is part her prize.

in the words of the "New She got $500 cash for win- Statesman and Nation" (hardlying the NSW, section of the detonder of imperialism)petition, collects a wardrobe worth b. twees £400 and 500 wadd have ma ke the present carnage in the Punjab look like before leaving Australia.

In six months this quest has a good named scuffle.

aberd an estimated £160,000 for war orphans and kindergartens, large additional sums deducted nach Stat as the quest pro- weled have already gone to

The British, it seems, are to be immed for "abandoning") India to bloodshed and damned: To not leasing" Palestine to Lenins the sting sort of peace In-

dia now enjoys.

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The "Surf Girl" competition, to open. aims to raise Music From The Sunnnun for the lifesaving plabs

Twin Harvard professors Esten. ing over a special radio receiver | has hurdl "ativ from the

What poetry is in the phrase! What cosmic harmonies it calls

whunt sipi,

ethereal sweetness ravishing the ear, what radiant panity of tone creating again that! inmmaculate hoor when the myrn-j sty stars sang together!

"It sounds," said one of the professors. "like gravel on a tin

Wab single phrase physics blows perry sky high. Or does it only demonstrate the inade quacy of laggard mortale listen- ins pugurated? Proud but prosy, their mert ingenious achieve-

ments still fall short of the vision

of the golden-tongued poet who

wrote:

wrtis benches,

Australia's

surf

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

18-10

COPA, 1941 BY MF DERVICE, INC. T. M. 180. U. 12. FAT. OPP "Maybe we could got her to wait on us this way-you go up to hor, try to make a date, and gradually work the conversation around to menus!"

LETTER FROM

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PACIFIC

to the

But They're There Of the other Ave Gratis Elaine Herrick Miss Queens and bele rum the funily pub

A thing girl, obviously against Toowoomba: Erien Drake- hey will, was enticed into the Berkman Miss Western Aus-nale-pit. wher, one of the in social editress of a inhabi:nuts was draped round Sunday towapaper: her neck.

is the actress who changing frocks, parading be Australia) Harred in "The Overlanders"; fore

judess, answering questions. Ronnie Goodfet (Miss Victoria)

The girls took it well. Or-

NEW ZEALAND CRIME: is a mrdet; Judy Bennett (Miss

For the first time in seven Carmania) is a wing worker. ganisers e'nim they were re-

Son tears and some criticismarkably daturel,

even years, Mr. Chifley wa, taking] New Zealanders this week were competition. Among themselves, Reportere hunday--two wicks in neigh. talking, however, not about their good neighbour's visit, but about characterised the

If the crime in the Dominion's history. For instance, Miss South A Failed to get me really feline Bourg New Zealand.

is married, with

Australians wondered ralia

A pretty 12-year-old school- chik, and letters to an Adelaide Competition of and ther colour going away pullity dispensed)

atle girl, Valmai Phillips, dier at 4 wanted to know if

the "Lovely Motherhood by the Prime Minister's was for "Mrad curat which is raising £10.00"| pubfle relations staff had not Timary, South Island, after a short and mysterious illness.

newspaper

tine

the competition

Australia."

Last year a Queen and girl on the national tits and s animal Que slanders say their

eviously didn't have

chance this year,

When Stutes winners were an need, mothers of sorne un

www.zful Paulslidates miner revues,

Missionaries Flown From Danger

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Hankow, Jan. 18. and

infants were five Sixteen missionaries

evacuated by air from Laohokow yesterday afternoon as the Lutheran Mission's C-47 "Saint Paul" made its initial trip to the Yang- tze town 180 miles northwest of Hankow.

missionaries still left The plane landed at Lachokowelyn

4.3 Labok w, 13 of whom request with a load refugees at pm, and landed at Hankow just intredlate -vacistips.

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was made without incident.

The Arst load of evacuees con- priest,

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Six American adults, The plane is scheduled to re-

ઈં a.in Lachok wat the re-furn two American babics;

Norwegians,today to pick up the second lund not in our stars (our sun), but, There are approximately 30 for- of missionariza. in ourselves."

"The fault. dear Brutus, is inder

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100 Years Ago

(From the filer of the "China Mail")

Two Chinese Air Free planes also landed at Luohokow yester. day afternoon and evacuated the Chintse staff of a hospital there.

n

Battleship For Russia

Javote.

the

Australia this week tempora- forms", and Bberalisation of so. rily lost her Number One citi. einl security playments

tall and zen,

austere Primne aged and infiern. Minister Joseph Benedict Chif fey.

the Royal Australian Air, been more theatrical than neces Püree Memorial Appeal, To alify a mother for the semi- fuais the sponzori e organisa.

on had to collect at least £100] for the appeal.

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From Arthur Morley

Thirty seven woeyn qualified, -trituding with triphts and

It sary.

was antiorunced that When doctors went to the leal ne with twin.. The eigh finn-

the PM. would live simply; that hospital margue to conduct post sta were ; certed on "Personali- he had taken only thirty shill-mortem investigation, the body te and poise, personality and age with him; that he would had disappeared. charm of the child. physical mix business with pleasure by How it was done-and why-

rilaton, deportovat, voice cul-runducting talks on mutual pro- were the big problems that of every intelligence and Jure general

blems with New Zealand Prime cand mobilisatio entitre) over the child."

Master Peter Frazer.

available South Island police Hesanda anet, grenssiparents

16 Canberra, political experts man for a great manual. The tarurd up with the semi-final-were agreed that Mr. Chifley's thef's car has been found;

They was son audible government had reached a lowerwise there are sailling when the eight finalists Going in public estimation. Pubellee, tentatively.

fic opinion polls showed electory majority of the

PF 1500nced.

Seperation

parating youngsters

no clues. are looking Parents are children, indoors

St madman. that for were keeping their Menuwhile, anothers bag been dissatisfied with the Labour after dusk.

who Party's management of the coun. each try's affairs. them-

duin't

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HIDDEN ARMS:

Up in hke the look of

the Japanese Parlia her.

Some kits lost

Main reasons were the gerinus: Tokyo,

that punctuated nives, One the chap are the strikes.

1917. ment and Allied Occupation An- ume away after his hair was the appointment of an old-time thorities alike were disturbed this ubed for the 20th time and labour politician, Mr MeKell, te. week by disappearance of stocks refused to uddle before the be Governor-General, and, fioni-; of rifles and other arms, kur from the War. Speaker ly, nationalisation of the coun- plus judges.

of the House of Representatives, Prizes? £500 for the winning try's private banks.

150 each for second mother.

Mr. Chifley's main task after Komakichi Matsuoka, announced and third.

his return will be to win back; that "enormous supplies" were Yes, sometimes you wonder the votes. Elis methods will be missing.

Matsuoka suld these supples or reduction of crippling income.

black tax, cessation of socialist "re were being sold on the

market to criminals, and, worge still, ultra-nationalistic "patriot Kangs".

whether this is Miami

Sydney

BARCLAY

ON

BRIDGE

By SHEPARD BARCLAY

"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES”

In

NO TIME FOR LIES

General MacArthur's lieuten- ants began a great arms-hunt.

From MISSING TEETH: Perth, Western Australia, where Ocean the Pacific and Indian worlds meet, came this week's most unusual medical story.

Lealle Francis. 38-year-old widower of North Perth, lost a mall upper denture with two artificial teeth seven weeks ago, Shortly afterwards, he developed a sore throat, that persisted des. The only safe time for deception by gen or fourth-best; it could ne pite home treatment.

the latter because in that case. Last week, he reported a tiefender is when he knows

that e

West would also have the J, 10 an Royal Perth Hospital, where an aisteading his partner won't do any arm, That usually is when his own in which event he would have led X-ray showed the missing teeth After a hand contains practically all the im- the 1. Trenting the 7 then as a sing lodged in his throat.

Leton caused East to give South his delicate operation, the throat and nortant strength told against the de clarèr.

for false-carding.

Tense The missionaries described the atmosphere in Laohokow" as

te se, but sni so far

said

they have neither aren nor heard any signs

troops Communist the immediate vicinity. They

The bidding sounded awful stron! sald, the National'st commander

to West, whs mistakenly felt it call In Luohokow assured the mi sionaries that the town was safe

When your own hand is so worth-ed for a false-card type of defens and there is

cause for alarmn, less that the defense against the con- So he led the diamond instead o

the conventional top of his doublete Tenghien, 40 mlits north, fellract is bound to depend entirely East, after the A won that and Sou! trust to the Communists yesterday your partner's hand-that is no timeplayer the 4, reasoned that, with a A vague rumour, which we But will prove

reached United Press. unfounded, has can virtue of self-reliance.

which probablyer cards hidden, it was either. will foot bin as much as the declarer. Foochow fu self-reliance in a modern apart this place by way of men: with help from an electric that the pinuance of M. brig "Pilot," with a midshipman, another 120dishwasher is not quite the same

thing as self-reliance in a frontierter and erew, has been sent o

shore as the "Lonchoo" group, and cabin with help from the eldest neither boat nor crew had been heard

of, though a week had elapsed. of a bouncing brood.

The

report is altogether vague Emerson, the prophet of self- reliance, invited

somewhat unlikely, abashed ranid to eat with the family as a sign of democratic egalitarianism. Since then the situation has changed, and many a mistress creeps humbly into the possession will oblige by returning

to the Office of this Paper them kitchen to offer a timid sugges Macaulay's "Essays,

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Mystery Letterica Veterans

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tair

and Head-

A mysterious letter from Austria written on foreign typewriter has stali, maker's name ADNAMS well- beten thereon. Anyone returning it to Jed Mrs. William Underbilt in Beve her brother is alive although he the "China Mall" office will he was officially reported missing Inwarded, 1945 and presumed dead in 1946.

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The exterior lamp of 263 Lower

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She declared the handwriting Bazuar has been stolen, supposed, by the envelope was that of her brother three men, who were seen entering. Staff Sgt Dale Lowery, who was shot an adjacent empty house. On down, in a B-17 over Austria while Police, entering, beveral men, co опа mission as an aerial photo- out at the back door and escaped, grapher. The missing soldier's, wife owing to the intricacies of the water i has now remarried. United Press. side buildings.

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Chicago, Jan. 17. Washington, Jan. 17. It was disclosed today that Russia is scheduled to get seven combat sels, including а 23,000-ton battle- ship, and 30 miscel- laneous ships of the former Italian fleet when and if she re- turns the British and. American war- ships lent to her.

It was hitherto a secret phase of the Big Four agreement reached in the Paris peace conference in February, 1947. United Press.

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To the second trick, South led the teeth situations, were cleared up club 8 from durmmy. East reading

DOLLAR DEFICIT: Despite South as surely having the K, play cuts in imports of newsprint,

tobrego and

ed his A in the hope of finding it singicton, ale su he old fire back machinery, films,

ruff. textiles from America, the Aus aqrick diamond for West to South won with the J. cleared tralian Government at the be. trumps, discarded a space on a club ginning of this week still feared and so was home. With West lend- that it would have a trading de ing his diamond 2, East would have felt of 76 million dollars with been sure to take a diamond trick.

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Here was a case of the Blackwond H. A 8 7 4 convention or giving South the an D. Q 5 swers he needed. If the two aces C. 7 6:3 shown by the S-Hearts eaponse had been in spades and clubs, three fast tricks could have been lost in dia mondas If they had been in the twal mona minors, two quick spade tricks could have been dropped. As it was, three. pussible losers were in prospect one each in clubs, diamonds and spades. able). Somb's bidding of the slam wan, 50] Can you imagine any way whereby general principles, and be had to be South could make 5-No Trumps on

this deal? very lucky to make 'le,

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By the end of the week, how-

officials Canberra

in' smiler-private traders had found a way to cut thia deficit in half. Orchids, which grow wild in northers Australie, were being shipped in large quantities to the rich New York market rofrigerated ships, These, with lobsters, fish, oysters, scallops and blacuits, were expected to earn 35 million dollars.

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The dollar position was stil far from buoyant, however, and nconomics would have to coo tinue for several, yente: pogre. Shortage of motor-cars would continue to be acuto.