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*1951,-

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TO-DAY

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BRUCE CARUT JACK KIRKWOOD

Derby

ROBERT & WELCH GEORGE MARSHALL Screenplay by Cut Naranan and Robert Craziem

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JAES SCHERMER BUDOLPH MATÉ

Screenplay by Sriwy Bowen

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TO-MORROW (5, JAN.)

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FRANK SINATRA

- In Technlovlar

A

UIE biggest holiday show now playing is revival Tho America-Firat Follies." The stars are Herbert Hoover, ex-Prealdent of the United

NEW YORK, TUESDAY

States, and Joseph Ken- Pull-out-of-Europe brigade

nedy, ex-Ambassador

to

Great Britain. Colonal Lindbergh is expected to join the cast by the New Year.

It is the very camo show I saw ten years ago except that the principals are older and inclined to overnot.

Tho Follic despite a long run, were a hop at time nmi. they will be a flop this time. But before this Inolationist show closes the actors are go ing to cause trouble.

are pulling out all the stops,

but they are doomed to failure

alifarxes; that the has been given.

colema word

dent Truman, who said: has nil the earmarks of carefully planted story.

The carefully planted

is an old and tip-oft

from

a ten cent contribution Washington for air-raid pro- cautions, and the call for 40,- 000 volunteers produced only 3,300.

Tho

*

tripreciclable New A Very Large, Cold Iceberg

Yorkers appear fur more terested in the feverish

sales.

here (especially those in tho motor car showrooms) than in

The

---Punch Sald He Once Lived There....

sald Hanid

By MAX TRELL Ate hoses or buckets of sand MR PUNCH

for care, now and

AVA loudly, giving him a gen- outrageous la shake to nico him up,

pricca ferocious,

has

All restraint on spending has "did you ever pee an leeberg?" vanidhed. The cold war

Mr Punch, who was lying in | his

under produced hot money, and night the geranium near the window,

comfortable ebair clube and cabarets are crowd-slowly opened his eyes. "What? "This ed

A nice bird? Is that what you the Newest feature of the night

life are perfumed clubs. The sai?"

"An icoberg," repeated Icak enterprising are selling scent Go Hanid, "not a nice bird. story

that the air

At least there is no debate about arming America to the tooth. Despite the surging Hide of extreme Isolationis there here, and I am worried by lavender and

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Mis-

redolent of rosen. Some the #dea

Did

you ever see an iceberg?"

"Certainly!" repilod Mr Punch. With that be shut his eyes and started to go to sleep again. Hanid gave him another

shake.

urging sacrifice, and, if necessary, aur understanding and Fear"; "B" OLIDAY entertainment was look like? And where did you

terity.

.

is not a drop of Pacifism about, some reports The bountiful Christmas is al- Britain. My Christmas reading too.

appearing about shops are adopting We must be patient ready

oyce and everybody has been marred by articles in

Take a bow TAR HOOVER and Mr Ken- stem to be buckding down to newspapers and magazines here harder work, longer hours, entitled "British Anti-American Mnedy C

putting on un- greater taxes, considerabic Mood Growing Through inhibited performances Amerien to pull out of every- the whore, except America, án galleries are

applauding Colonel Lindbergh's appearance is breathlessly awaited. I cx- pect the Loue Eagle to grab the

from spoilight

Herbert and Joseph by urging an even more drastic Isolationism.

Mont powerful man in Truman is Charles Woon, the fitted Industrialist who is now Director of Defence Mobilisa- tlom. Mr Wilson is running the national economy, and he pro- mises guns, tanks, bombs, and may all the equipment of war in bigger and better numbers than in the early 'forties.

After some Initial gerum- blings, the giant corporations falten into and unions have Hne. The national emergency and its demands seem to have been accepted by everyone ex- cept the coal king, John L. Lewis.

now America after President

Perhaps the coloncl Furgest that not merely all Europe be abandoned to the Communists but that New York be and San Francisco also given

Ecript The colonel's up. could call for the concentration of American power in the Mid- dle West, a stockade and gar rison State In Chicago manded by the other colonel, Berüe McCormick,

com-

I brace myself for this latest Lindbergh number and will re

Arthur."

cactly

and

quickly angered, have enough rows on their own hands without talding us on.

in was

But

pipe, Mr Punch paushed to puff

"If you saw one, what did it

Punch in his ship. over-shallowed by the tich Bitter-Feel U.S. Is Drag political show, but still reports

seo 117 And what happened?" and went salling away.

Lit His Pipo the ging Them To War"; "Britain's buoyant business. The British

this was the awful thing:- Lett Wing In Wonderland"; flm "Seven Days to Noon," Mr Punch now opened his. I was on that piece of lee!" "British Slandering Mac- starring Barry Jones, put many eyes for good, lit his

crities in seventh heaven. The puffed out a cloud of anoke at his pipe again. Can this be co? It is unwise Boulting Brothers should take and finally said: "I once saw a "At first, my dear, I was to start slamming the Ameri- a bow.

very large iceberg. It was a pretty upset, it isn't a pleasant cans. Remember they are Gabriel Pascal will flim big as a mountain. In fact, it feeling to find yourself sailing hypersensitive,

"Androcles and the Lion" huri,

bigger than most moun oway in the acern on a chunk they Hollywood, which means Jean tains. If you want to know the of ice. But by and by I got Simmons will be able to stay whole truth, I used to live on used to being on this iceberg, at husband Stowart Granger's an iceberg."

for that is what it was. There side.

"Oh!"

was plenty of room to climb that There are reports here

"This is what happened. I around on it-little white paths, Gracie Fields is becoming an mean, this is how I came to ard white cliffs, and white American citizen. Not our ve on an Iceberg. It all hap- caves, and even white felds Cradle I await the denial.

pened quite long ago, when I and white gardens. I built my- Angela Lansbury is also said was much younger and spryer self a sort of house out to be taking out first papers.than I am now. You see," he bricks of ice. As long ne Denial.

went on, "when I was a very on this leeberg, I said to my- young man I used to be a sailor self, I might just as well be on a sailing ship. I salled all comfortable as not. I had lost over the world. There wasn't a sight of the ship. I was all single ocean that I didn't sall alone,"

Henry Kaiser, the blg builder, is back in the arma-

Now York lags

THE New Yorkers particular- Mayor Impeliltier says he

ly have their troubles.

is sick and tired of the "do-noth- ing" attitude of the people and Government towards defence. Despite pleas and patriotic

frain from icering or walking ment businces. He has offered slogans there hasn't been even

out of the theatre. The British Europeans are going to

ad

have to be very patient.

to

cargo aircraft, freighters, troop

build huge jet bombers,

ships-anything the Govern-

names

1:2d

Last time, playing to packed ment requires.

outdrawing the houses and

Ike's advice Isolationist show, we had "One Franklin D. Roosevelt's

LMOST all the old World,"

supported by Wendell

are making Willkie. This time the callbre

news, of the competition and its prin leading them is that of Dwight cipals, Harry S. Truman and Elsenhower. The general will Dean Acheson, is not up to fly to Europe within the next that of their predecessors. few days. He regards his role

Is part statesman,

part soldier.

Arming goes on

are

not

During the Christmas

more

or

Footnote.Herbert Hoover's "America-First" policy means freedom last and victory never.

Happy New Year.

New Type Of Submarines

United

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Afo Ice-Cream Well my dear, one day I "What did you eat while you' found myself sailing far up were on the iceberg?" near the North Pole. I forget "Eat? H'mm, let me sce. exactly why we were salling Oh yes I ate ice-cream, I forget

way up there, but I think we just how I got the cream, but were fishing for whales. whales, 05 everyone

near the North Pole,

And there knows, ico.

was more than enough At any rate, I felt quite

like to do their swimming. up happy after awhile. The teeberg floated slowly on, day after day- Got Colder

after day, I knew we were "Our ship chased the whales going south, for the weather further and further up north. began getting warmer. Now the whole occan seemed to be seal would climb on for It got colder and colder. Soon and then a polar bear or a covered with lee.

a ride Some of the with me. And there were al- smooth and flat, like ways plenty of wild ducks and But most sea-gulls to keep me company.

"But

then

noticed some- ចង

happening,

The

the to

America is building nino submarines of a new type, holl three of them 750-ton boats known as submarine killers, THE extraordinary pantomime days he said that the Ameri- The other six are fleet typos of 1,500 tons. THE

Projected ice was starring Hoover and Ken- cans should get 100 percent. nedy has not provoked the united and "quit saying we are prototypo submarines include a 2,500-ton nuclear-power-the ice on a pond. public wrath I anticipated. behind the wrong man." This cd unit, one of 2,200 tons and a 1,100-ton high-speed of the ice was high and rough-

looking, Many Americans

catcalls underwater target boat.

as though it were a thing mildly has earned him some

whole the Kennedy

enormous towering further south we floated, describing it as the beginning and hoots from

These facts are stated in the 1950-51 edition of mountain. Then one night our more of a

a greal debate which will be crowd, but

Americans

the iceberg began intoresting

to hear. The at- put their faith in Eisenhower Jane's Fighting Ships.

ship stopped. We were stuck in melt. It grew. smaller and the ice!"

smaller. titude is that the issues should than in the ex-Ambassador

The cliff's become ex-President. General be thrashed out thoroughly the

Discussing the

According to Jane's, the chief "My goodness!" exclaimed ridges, the paths vanished, the us if they

timm resolved Marshall backs

to the States Navy's submarine trends among navies of the moa-Hanid in alarm. "What did fields and gardens became tiny. months ago. Someone

jor powers during the past year you do?""

plots. says have been: Reconstruction and

And my beautiful fee "What did I do? I got off the house which had started out by kindly point

.out that the friend.

that of the existing 187 improvement of aircraft United States has signed

car ship to see where it was stuck, being two storeys high, melted batch of treaties, pacis, and going to resign infuriated Pres-units 23 already have been rlers, both to operate larger or I thought perhaps I could push down to one title room, and

streamlined and converted more effective aircraft and for it loose again. So I climbed finally

anti-submarine

the whole iceberg Just warfare; adapta- over for high underwater speeds. tion of large fleet destroyers as walking slowly on the slippery and there I was in the middle side and started melted away to nothing at all Eleven others. are sche- submarine killers or fleet antice, all around the ship. And of the ocean. And that, my

submarine escorts; duled for similar treatment.

Conversion

then suddenly I heard a crack dear, is the end of the story."?" Britain is at present building stroyers into fast anti-submarine ing noise. A great chunk of And Mr Punch wouldn't say no more submarines, but is confrigates and improvement in

big as a mountain another word. He just shut his. verting a number to obtain the speed of submarines.

off the rest of the ice eyes, more speed.

wone

A

British

should hilt and Dean Acheson is

his strength the book

ย Reports that Marshall

Crossword

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Letterheads

REPORTS

Booklets BALANCE SHEETS

Visiting Cards

and all Commercial Printing.

Prompt Service.

South China Horning Post

CMP?

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1 Concern

7 Figure.

9 Rightful.

10 Niggard.

11 Track, 13 Improves. 15 Tour

Its imprison

10 Elasticity

ACROSS

22 Narrow opening.

24 Suppose.

25 Previous.

20 Appearance;

27 Rudder-bar.

A

Puzzle

DOWN

2 Sheet of paper.

3 Tree.

4 Negligent.

& Diffuse.

5

8 Stronghold.

G Give over,

12 Avoid committing oneself.

13 Gathers.

14-Hall.

17 Search for.

18 Amuse.

20 Drive.

21 Clamour. 23 Mcut out,

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YESTERDAY OROSSWORD-Acros: 1 Enmity, Smush, 7 Cachou, & Knits, 10 Poer, 12 Lassocs, 15 Revel, 16 Treks, 17 Diet, 10 Duped, 20 Enlarge, 21 Hant, 23 Neody, 24 Signal, 28 Study, 20 Grades. Down: 1 Escapado 2 Mackerel, 3 Tool, 5 Minister, d Settee, 9 Value, 11 Retarded, 12 Ledge, 13 Qrtained, 14 Skittles, 18 Invert, 22 Tier.

FERD NAND

of small de-

Features of this 52nd edition the book is not an olicial publication are the Inclusion of nearly 500 new illustrations, the rearrangement of data in tabu- lar form and the brloging forward of the aircraft carrier to first place in order of impar- moved into second place.

battleship being

The strength of the United States Navy is reported as 4,600 naval vessels of all kinds, of which 2,510 are in active ser vice. The complete figure in- eludes 103 aircraft carriers, 15 battleships, 71 cruisers and 395 destroyers and destroyer escorts. tance, the

"Some 50 combatant vessels are being reactivated, including two battleships, nine aircraft carriers, eight cruisers, 20 de- stroyers and Ave submarines," It is added.

"It is intended to modernise two more aircraft carriers and re-commission the third battle- ship by 1952. This will give the United States an operational flect including 22 aircraft car riers and three battleships."

RUSSIA'S STRENGTH

THIS PETTY DESPOTISM

The following is from Lon- doner's Diary the Evening Standard:

in

"Easily the most absurd bit of nows today is a communique: The number of larger chips in from Norwich about carol sing- the Royal Navy is about 450, of ing

which 120 are active. The total The palice there, it seems ore la deduced from detailed gure campaigning vigorously aga recently announced in the

the menace of unauthorised and

cracked

the

Rupert's Autumn Primrose-15

disappear nude the gate of Philip'a house. The boy is in the garden and Rupert mins up to him. say, look what I've found on your Scottie's back, he cries. "Do tell me where he got it's a primrosey Philip maystified, **Jock certainly didn't find it here. We've had no primroses for

Rupert pulls himsel together. "If I'm to get enough primroses to G that jug must find where lock got this one," he decides. "1 expect he was rolling in a bed of them when he got this one stuck in his fur. But where can it have been?" Following the little dog, he is just in time to see him months."

ALL MONTS R23BAVED

of Commons by Mr Callaghan, illegal carol singing. This grave Parliamentary Secretary to

to the threat is being dealt with by SIDE GLANCES Admiralty, and Mr Edwards, compiling a register of all carol- Civil Lord of the Admiralty.

of where

singers

with details

After stressing that accurate and when they intend to sing Information about the Russian "Rogistered singers will re- Navy WDS very difficult to peive a "clearance letter" from obtain, it says of Russia's sub- the Chief Constable which will marines: "Between 350 and 370 ana

are believed to be ince,/sable than to get past the

к

the

patmaling police. Not even with including 135 in

this important document, how- nearly half of these being for ever, will the singers be permit mer U-boats; 110 in the Far tod to collect money. They will East; 40 in the Black Sea; and be prosecuted if they do. 30 In the White Sea., Some 120 that applies to little children as submarines are reported to be wait.

under construction in Russian dockyards. Thero scams to

wh

And

"I hope the people of Norwich rise against this petty

be plenty of evidence of Rus-despotism. These dreary restric- sla's maritime awakening.

Lions increase and multiply, and The capacity of Soviet ship-unles wo building, now largely under the against them we shall one day defend oursciyes supervision of German specia- find ourselves unable to sing lists and bolstered by foreign Good King Wenceslaus in the labour, is reported to be twice bath without a licence properly that of 10 years ago,"

applied tor in advance,"

Chock Your Brains

By Mik

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