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STRANGE ADVENTURE .

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... in the Screaming Heart of the Jungle! ASEE!

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JUNGLE BOY

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SHEFFIELD GARNER

ONSLOW STEVENS

CHARLES WOR

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070, the Monkey

Produced by WALTER MIRISCH- Directed by ford Barbe· A MONOGRAM PICTURE

Se connplay the Jack Dewan · Adopted from Bomba, the bangla Bay" by Bay Buchwali

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11 RONALD

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EDDIE

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PETER GODFREY

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POPEYE CARTOONS

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ESTHER WILLIAM

JIMMY DURANTE

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THE "CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, ̃1040.,'

SYDNEY STANLEY IN KIDNAP ALLEGATION

HANDEL RELIC FOUND

Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

December 29,

Paris, December 29,

Bible-reading marathon

Covington, Indiana,

December 29. This, community, will can. duct lisecond. Bible-reading marathon, starting at mid- night an New Year's Eve. Ministers, and laymen of all falthe expect to complete 410

Chapters of the New Testa ment and Psalms in 24 hours. Each reader will speak for 30 minutes,... .... ...

Sydney Stanley, main witness in the Lynikoy

tribunol which investigated alleged corruption":{ in British public life, today lodged a suit for * alleged kidnapping, against unidentified por

sons resident in France. Stanley filed his suit at the Paris Central Low

Courts. Startley, former "contact On the third day of his stay in The discovery of a price-man" between businessmen and Paris, Stanley said, they took him less "first edition" of Handel's British Government officials, is to another apartment where he "Messiah" at the Free Library in Paris to sue several French was constantly watched and where here was disclosed today by men and foreigners resident in they told him he was being sought

by the French and British police | mos the chief librarlan, George France who, he alleges, detain-

and would have to move to an ed him for more than a month other district. last spring when he fled from Britain on his way to Israel.

Moreland.

was

Mr. Moreland said there belleved to be only on other such copy in existence and that was owned by William Smith, a prominent English authority Handel's works.

He alleges that he was held in Three different places And that on the people who held him applied "terror inelles" but did not beat him.

Mr. Smith and the Library of Congress in Washington nuthep- ticoled the Johnstown And, Mr. Moreland said. When ofttetals of the Johnstown Library began lu- vestigating the value of their "Messiah" several years ago, the Library of Congress told them there were only two rat editions In this country. 12/20 at the Library of Congress anul the other

University Library

ht Fiarvard

After leaving the Court, Stan- tey told reporters that he had been threatened with shooting or stabbing If he brought the case to Court.

In the format complaint Stan- ley said that he was illegally de- ile declared in a r cent inter-tained on the prolence that if he view "I have found out that they did not stay indoors he would are smugglers and all sorts of be taken to prison and maltreated things I got out by pure accident, by the French police. After I have fled my case I shall give you e what a story“.

whole

story-and

"Forged notes”

He said that he had no physical liberty to come and go and that Stanley alleged that the m£10,400 in notes and jewels which who kidnapped him when he

*(he had brought with him had

were eaped from Brilain forled £10.400 and jewels from taken from him.

As a result this "sequestra bunt to France,

complaini

Lodging the formal {rxl

Mr. Smith neknowledged that the Johnstown copy who edition and the Library of Con- gress later gouttemed that the Johnstown Messinh" was o Brat and the one in Washington was out. Mr Moreland sald the book fest appeared in the dishinatown Library 10 years ago, but nu ene could recall how it got there.- United Press

FAKE TRADE MARK RACKET IN JAPAN

his long-awaited low suit at a brief Court session today he gave his name us Shiloma Ben Chalm, otherwhos Sydney Slunley,

Alleged throats

He accused "unknown por. song" of the kidnapping but the complaint alleged that

A Ber.

for Israel

Ition", he said, he was unable to declare this rum to the French authorities,

Lalor

they dyed ha balr black and took him to Mar- ellies where he was given the sum of $1,200 in notes but when he tried to exchange them la a bank he was told that the notes wore forged, Stanley alleged, Aaked

the hearing whether Gard Bliverstein had promised he proposed to return to Britain, to facilitato Blanley's departure Stanley, who has led in Farte

for the past

sold, past month, by way of Paris.

is where I do. Britain Stanley alleged in the complaint course Tokyo, December 30. Japanese traders are using fake that Silverstein enme to see him was brought up."

in London at the end of March

Stanley

said it had taken him ducts on the home market, ac-and told him that he could travel even months to get to Paris from cording to the "Asahi Shimbun."Begally but when he arrived in Israel. He has been occupying an

800-frane The newsprez

night room in a quiet father s that ap Paris, Silverstein's parently reflecting the deepening brother-in-law named

Paris hotel. He staled that after Kibowicz depression, the number of cuses took him to their apartment. They the case he would go on a "very big trade inission to Latin fraudulent trace marks has loid him that they could organize

Americo, a sort of barter deal”.— been on the increase in the hust¦ his departure for any part of the

Reuter. few moutht--- Reuter.

world including Israeli,

trade marks to

of

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MAJESTIC

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Charlie

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The Great DICTATOR

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WA PAULETTE GODDARD

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ELIADS THE GUTS'WHOES GLORY.

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WARNER BROS. ALL-TIME FIGHT-AND/BURY STORY

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ANN BLYTH HOWARD DUFF GEORGE BRENT

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WARNER BROS. HAPPY-GO-HUBBY MUSICAL. Dennis MORGAN * Dorothy MALONE in

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NEW YEAR ATTRACTION

Charlie hreat!

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JANNINGS WAS PLANNING A COMEBACK

Vienna; December 29. Em] Jannings, prewar Ger- man actor and film star now an Austrian, was planning a comeback when he was taken seriously Ili, his wife today telephoned from his country home near Salzburg.

Though in his 64th year he was negotiating for Important roles In a joint French-Austrian-Ger- man production to be called "Doctor Badal" and in' an Italian film, she said.

Frau Jennings said that her husband WI suffering from Jaundice and Inflammation of the liver. Jannings, star of "The Blue Angel," in which Marlene Diet- rich rose to fame, was forbiddón by the American occupation forces to perform in Germany after the war.

During the Nazi regime Hitler gave him the title of "State Actor." He became an Austrian citizen fin 1947-Beuter.

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Turbon Bey Sidney Tater Thames Gamer

Dod Terry.

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ADVANCE BOOKING NOW:

Two years ago, in a similar

marathon; the entire 1,180 chapters of the Bible werą read in 72 hours and 20 min- utak-United Prem

SHARK DRAMA IN BOAT

Melbourne, December 29. Two men mid a woman battered desperately an eight- foot shark with snapping jaws which leaped their frail 16-foot dingAwolf ictorian port today.

They fought pound monster for 10 minutes before stunning it with a blow on the nose. Then they finished it off with the tiller of their uny fishing boat

One of the men, Douglas MD- | ier, sald that he was lying sen- sick on the Pattom of the dinghy when the ahark leaped over the bows and landed on top of him.

"One minute I was lying there wishing I was dead,” he said to- night, nursing bruised arm. "Suddenly I heard screams from my friends and the shark landed on me. I nearly blacked out, fought to get on my feat and us

WAS Boon as I did I

knocked down by its fall.”

The other man, Fred Gay, an experienced therman, said: "1 had heard that the best way to stun a shark was to hit it on the nosc. Thank Heaven it worked."

The

the three brought glast back.to, shore and sold t to a fishmonger.—Reuter.

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9 Diller police

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MR JOSEPH YOUNG of AFRICA

TERRY MOORE BEN JOHNSON and ROMERT, ARMSTRONG, WIN FRANČ MINUGH,

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