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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1940.

Earl Harewood, son of Britain's Princess Royal and nephew of the King, soon walking in the grounds of Harewood House, Yorkshire, with his fiancee, Vanna-born Misa Marion Stein. was recently The Royal consent to the couple's engagement announced. It was Miss Stel's first visit wood's famous ancestral home-AP Photo.

to Lord Harn-

Miss Barrymore To Have World-Wide Birthday Honour

Hollywood, August 14.

Truman

Miss Ethol Barrymore, now the first lady of the scroon as well as the stage, will have a world-wide celebration of her 70th birthday on Monday. She is to be feted m an international broadcast in which Bing Crosby will sing "Happy Birthday," President Harry S. will say a few words of greeting and best wishes will be added by such Agures

Eleanor as Mrs.

Baruch, Roosovell, Mr. Bernard Mr. Somerset Maugham, Mr., Van. Johnson, Katherine Cornell, Mr. Alred Lunt, Miss Joan Fontaine, Miss Billie Burke, Mr. Gregory

and Peck

Miss Barrymore's young grandson.

The Motion Picture Academy. which is arranging the show, was also trying to reach Mr. Winston Churchill for a

old friend.

Japanese Subsidies To Go

Tokyo, August 14. General MacArthur has contem-

taken the first of measuge

Never Saw Own Films

В to his

plated series of steps to knock down part of the protective wall of subsidies around, the Jupanese steel industry. Although Mixa Barrymore

The occupation headquarters has never Feen herself on the acredit,

today handed the Japanese Gov- ("Why should 1, 1

"recommendation" never saw myself on the stage") ernment sho likes to see films and on-calling for the elimination of do- subsidies on coal joys

for the basic

steel industry by players.

September 5. of her favourites Two

are This will raise the domestic Jeanne Crain and Robert Walker.in

coal and permit a 011 price level She disliked the screen version reduction of the subsidy on im-

Hamlet and referred to Starter

ported coal the price of which Laurence Olivier us "Georgeous is held at the domestic level to George",

of

watching the younger

mestic price

protect the recovering steel in- She recently picked her 10

dustry from the heavy transporta- favourite stage roles in the tion costs from America. following plays:

L. Whittington, chief of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray: headquarters Price and Distri- The School Boy Scandal The te

bution Division, said other sub- Constant Wife: The Kingdom of sidy reductions or eliminations God; The Corn is Green; Hamlet; will be applied later against iron

the

steel industry.

Gov ernment are moving"

The Twelve Pound Look; Lady of used by

the Camelias, Declasse, and Sun- day.

SCAP and the Japanese l

It was in "Sunday" that she the attack on The subsidy systen made her now famous remark in the steel industry because this "That's all there is, there is not basic industry can well be kili- any mure."--Associated Press. ed by too

HUGE "FOREST FIRE IN FRANCE

medicine.

Wholesale removal of sub.. sidies on both import prices and the prices of domestically-pro- duced goods have been ordered in the last three months.

'kind

No subsidies of any now benefit Japan's textile in- dustry,

Bordeaux, August 14. Flames fanned by a strong wind have destroyed nearly 12,000

Subsidies protecting the acres of forest in South West Industry, the copper industry and France since midnight inst night.

many others have been ordered Reports of outbreaks In this abolished in a move to force Ja- region have been arriving here

panese economy to stand on its all day.

About 7,000 acres were scorched own feet without the traditional near the La Rochelle-Bordeaux system of bounties and protec

Ilon by Government,

·railway route and 2,500 hear Cubleres in the Lozera Depart doled out to protect the Japanese Tremendous subsidies are still

Nearly 1,300 acres of trees were consumer against the high cost burned down In smaller blares in of imported food, feriliser end the Gironde Department--Reuter, iron ore-United Press.

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Old Moore's Almanac Moscow's Blast

Has All The Answers

London, August 14.

Old Moore's Almanac lifted the "Iron Curtain" of

the future today and gave its millions of sub-

scribers an advance pesk at 1950.

It will be quite a year, according to the fomed Al- manac, which has been confidently predicting what lies ahead since Dr. Francis Moore first published his "prophetic hieroglyphic engrav- ings in 1697.

On the one hand, the south-

abdication of Edward VIII and sayers predict, there will be in-

numerous other events. creasing Incitement by Russia,

It does not point out that assassinations in South America missed quite a few predictions

and attempted asassinations in during the same period. Yugoslavia, India adame, trouble

in Ireland over partition and similar confilets

And on the other, good crops, excellent food prospects, a Royal engagement or marringo (Princess Margaret?) and if you bet on horses--watch an outsider "carry" ing blue colours in the Cam- bridgeshire Handicap in October.

As usual Old Moore's is ready for the scepties and scoffers who hind and sometimes state that his prophesies are only guesswork.

This year il points out that It:

the

Forecasts

Hoffman On "Recession"

Paris, Angust 14. The Economie Co-operation Ad- ministrator, Mr. Paul Hoffman, who arrived here by air today to continue his fact-finding tour of Marshall Plan countries, said he found many reports in European newspapers about a rocession in the United States.

"We have about 40 million employed and a national income

Coured,

Old Moore's called. 1949 the of well over $200,000,000,000, year of recovery. It called 1950 said Mr. Hoffman. Air that is in the year of adjustment. And just any way a recession, I would so you will be prepared, here's like to have more of it. Of what it says is in store:

we would like to have more om- ployed at home. Admittedly, that Russia starts this

your with n situation that can be im- conciliatory gestures and Jan.proved, but it still does not merit wtry looks hopeful except for all the concern now being ox-

Communist resurgence In pressed."—United Press. Japan, in February the Wes- torn Powers cold-shoulder Rus clash in the Far East in May and

for

come

sla's overtures and, Royal romance springs

Into flower. June is featured by new rumours March 18 will be a bad

of the deposing of Stalin and the day

of Russlan satellite personage-Old detection

states. Moore's so death

Anglo-Russian relations An' of about that day.

improve in November as Marshall ai taites a beating in the Amer- ican Congress.

a

Vatican-Russia Issue

good

Riots and disorders in India in times for Ands the

ព

Forecast the winner of the 1949 Lincoln Handicap (Fair Judgment) that it predicted In April the Vatican-Moscow December but

recent Lynskey Tribunal friction becomes graver, Yugos-Israel, and Christmas into alleged ministerial bribery, lovia swings closer to the Westworld looking back over year Hitler's vizure of Austris, the as the result of assassination at of political unrest but Industrial General Strike of May 1920 to tempts and the Labour Govern- prosperity. the very day, the atom bomb ment losses a by-election.

Don't say you weren't warned! on Japan In August, 1945, the Russlan-American interests -United Press,

POP

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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THIS IS OUR CONTROL ROOM. EACH

OF THE LIGHTS FLASHING ON THAT

CITY MAP IS A

*JOB' THAT IS

GOING ON

RIGHT NOW.

RIP KIRBY

A GRAND SURPRISET FOR {MB? WHAT IS IT, JARE. BEAUMONT

HOW ABOUT THAT GREEN LIGHT?

I SHAN'T GIVE AWAY THE SECRET YET.. BUT I'LL DROP A HINT.....AN UNUSUAL QUEST IS COMING FOR DINNERĮ NOW

RUN ALONG AND DRESS,

MY DEAR.

JOHNNY HAZARD

GEE, JOURNY... JUST BECAUSE POPS BACK, YOU DON'T", HAYE TO GO... DO' YOU? I MBÁN..... WELL... WE'RE STILL

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CLOSE AS EVER, JAZKIEK BOY! BUT NOW THAT WE'VE GOT. THE PROCTE HAPPILY UNITED AGAIN...... I'VE GOT TO TEND TO

MY FUTURE. /

JANE....

COULD IT BE

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AN, JOHNNY....

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IN THAT CASE IT

HAD BETTER. DE RUSTPROOF!

At Yugoslavia Continuing

London, August 14: Radio Moscow hammered away at Marshal Tito's Yugoslav gov- ernment for the third consecutive day today us the enemy and op- ponent of the Soviet Union:

The broadcasts included Kn article from "Izvestia" condem- ning Tito and a dispatch by the omelal

Tass news agency from

the Prague about

provocative activities of Yugoslav diplomats

Czechoslovakia. "Izvestia" warned, "Let the the people of Yugoslavia know

the Soviet government regards present government of Yugoslavia no na à friend and ally but as an enemy and opponent

In

Soviet Union.

at the

"The Yugoslav government ap- piles a vicious hostile polley to- ward the Soviet Union and coun- tries of the people's democracy and

towards the democratic

forces of the whole world.”

It said the Tilo government had deserted the comp of So- clalism and democracy for the camp of foreign capital and reac- tion and added. "The attitude of the Soviet government towards Yugoslavia and towards the people of Yugoslavia always has been and remains hivariably friendly."

United Press.

HOOVER BETTER

Grund Island, Beraska,

August 14. Mr. 'Herbert loover, former United States President, WAR much better today as his train passed through Nebraska.

He had a gall bladder attack yesterday while travelling through

Nevada. Router.

On his mettle

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

“HMM, THATS A JEWEL-STORE RO8-

BERY ON MAAKET STREET. THE BOYS SHOULD BE ALMOST FINISHED--

YEAH, JACKIE-BOV/

LAD CAN'T HAVE TAG FATHERS ... CETC A LITTLE COMPLICATED/

THESE BLUE LIGHTS ARE I'LL BE- POLICE PATROLS, WE FOLLOW THEIR MOVEMENTS

100.

By ALEX RAYMOND

| WHO IS THIS MYSTERIOUS | CAN'T YOU GUISS, MY

GUEST OF MOTHER'&#

BOYE YOUR RIVAL, RIP KIRBY!

By FRANK ROBBINS

CʻLONG, JACKIE... DE CEEING YOUŹ NO

TEARS; NOW/

S-SO... 1-1,ONG madm2, (NNY?

JANE

YESJANE? I FEEL AMBUL ABOUT -POPPING UP LIKE THIS AT THE LAST MOMENT AND TAKING YOUR NEW HOME AWAY FROM YOU! 18 ID ONLY REALISED MOU THOUGHT IT WAS MUSIKAN YOURE -

"BUT IT LENT, DEAR--

IT'S YOURS, BY RIGHT!~, AND SIR TIMOTHY'S FORTUNE HAIN'T DONE ME ANY GOOD,

ANYWAY.

I ONLY HOPE (SOS!)·IT DOKEN'T BRUKE YOU TIHE „SAME · BOTHER AND *AND, UNHAPPINESS IT'S.

ALREADY, BROUGHT MEI.

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