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Paris, Dec. 7: ping Cream At A FIOWt reasonable

Salaries of France's 615 mem- price. 11 oz. tim 81.30, 514 os. De cia. Also Morfat 20 a fine table Crebers of Parliament are to be 11 oz. in $1.30. Obtainable at all raised by 28,682 franes (£25) grocers.

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to

*

PROCEDURES Finland Taking

TO STOP PIRATING

The

Manchester, Dec. 7.

Japanese cotton The increase announced, while industry representativea

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reduced

the

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scribed the measures they hart

designs Laken to combat

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"VIETNAM" "CAMBODGE"

"BIR HAKEIM” "MEKONG” (1)

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

VYHERE'S NARDA?

IT TAKES A BRAVE MAN TO HIT ONE

WHO'S TIED AND BLINDFOLDED.

SHE'S IN

THAT 'COPTER?]

salling Dec. 31st saking Feb. 5th

FAST FREIGHT SERVICE

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YES, HIGHNESS, HEADED ACROSS

THE BORDER,

I THINK.

Measures To

Lower Costs

Finland's

new

Helsinki, Dec. 7. Government

Coalition

is

taking measures to force down the cost of living index by four per cent before the end of this year.

By deing this, the Ministers present quarter. If this bad hope to keep the peace between been allowed to happen Finland the clashing interests of town would have started the New and country here and to slave Year with a wages bill which except the Com- munists, have agreed, would be more than her economy could benr.

olf

Fine

fresh wave of inflation and all parties. ever present risk of another | Hlevelation of the currency.

The principal measures are:

Reductions in food prices. Butter will

1.

-

fringement. Inleiding the marks down from 418

tablishment

14 shillings) to

To maintain exports the cur- reney would have had to (about

This eleven tevalued,

would have and sixpence)

made imports more expensive #legramme (23 thay and grain and probably caused the Flun by an average of three mucks. to lose more than they gained. (about one penny farthing) per toiletrie

for certain

LI designs 340 morka commiliter to which applications slings could be submitted Resigns to be made exclusive,

The British representatives agreed to send a delegation Japan to discuss the issue

INDEMNITY

The Japanera delegates saf many of the consplatts of tri- tish Arms had ailsen fent le subanksi n 1.f designes Jupotiese producers by buyres.

toreign It was their pinebre to indenmity erlißeater fra forrign buyers.

The joint staiment British representatives prrelated Ute efforts

A The removal of the purs chase tax on clothing and clothes

materials.

The general belief in Finland that lower prices are to be pre- ferred to higher wages in her present gnomske pation shown by the fact Lint the A reduction of the general Trade Union Federation threat- bank rate from five and threeened a general strike recently ulasters per vent to four and not for higher wages but share quæters per cent.

lower prices.

An Increase in imports of i essential every day good in the hope that they will LH*t?r#*¢* cheaper Ugly being more

* 2 * i golentiful

mante by the Japarse industries but pointed out there had been LO The considerable number of cases in which British designs hurt Exerc rople. They also pointed out

followard that provestires Britain volded the possibility desigs being copter!.... France-Presse.

WI

ELEANOR PARKER

COLLAPSES

1.x

JOINTLY PLANNED

for

The Government's iheasures, Jointly planned tay its two Leonstituent parties, the Agrat FOOD PRICES.

rians, representing the farmers and forest WITS, and the The eat in food prices and Surial Deinderats, representing

abolition of the purchases the lustrial

lower-pald Polling will. the white collar workers, have. Closerpment belleves, reduce the fore, wile support--if they the cost of Heling ineex from Its | work. present figure of 104

100 pinia before Christmas

Many Finns, including mem- This reduction

Ewo Government Is important bers of the

Barth

are.

nol however, because, if the Index had been allowed to a un creeping

sure that they will work. up and lunch reached 105 points.

For one Wing, the measures will

the Dalton about $27.000.000.000 marks Inbout 45,000.000) in Just revenue In-

To

there would have had to be a general Increase in wages.

Under an agreement made by he Government, employers | organisations

and

the

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trade from purchase tax and in Hollywood, Dee 7 File star Eleanor Parkentons in October 1951..the cost jcreased subsidies to farmers. collapsed ca her movie et of of being index was re-alevinter The Agrarians would hot exhaustion today ENIU WH or-and given as basic gure of 100 agree to cheaper food unless

bournel dored by her doctor to remam points Wages were

ta farmers received beiter returns. m Colars of Lebanon Hospital.

Ell word it whe

was agreed that they Miss Parker, wed to artist should rise automatically if it Paul Clemens on Thandegiving rise by an average of ve per Day. was overworking Her cent in any quarter. picture, Interrupted Mekady,

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There was every sign that the Index would rise by five ernt to 105 by the end of the

['VE GIVEN AN ORDER!! IT WILL BE DONE!

TALK

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national

1250 funds to "buy points", opponents are saying.

their

of

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ARE NOT BANJO!

IF YOU'RE SO FUSSY, GO OUT AND FIND YOUR

OWN MEALS LIKE STRAY DOGS HAVE TO

WHY-BR-I KNOW THAT, SIGNOR HAPPI!

IT'S JUST A GAG! BANJO AND I ARE GOOD FRIENDS...YOU'VE ||

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067-14

By Frank Robbins

-I'M NOT BANJO.... I'M NOT KIS FRYENİDAMBUT I'VE GOT HIS CIGAR AND HIS PASSPORT IN MY POCKET! I'M BACK WHERE I STARTED...WHO IS BANJO... AND WHO AM 17.

ABOUT

MAGIC!

Have you seen

Admiral

AIR CONDITIONERS

AND REFRIGERATORS

If we were

any fresher we'd still be on the vine!

Libby's

FROZEN STRAWBERRIES

TODAY

BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

.....this situation calls for a

San Miguel

FINAL COUNT

In the final count, the tax- payer must pay for his cheaper east of living.

Nor arc the Government's crites satisfied that the Finnish man-in-the-street will be satis- fed that the cost of living really has gone down. He mis- trusts the Index and says that

docy

not fairly record the strain of rising prices

the

family budget.

on

A nationwide survey by the Social Ministry confirms this. It found that the cost of living was already really higher than that shown in the Index because the prices of many goods which most families buy are not taken into account when the Index is calculated each month. Yet it Is these very goods which have Increased most in price.

Finally, the critics say, alliance

between the Social Democrats and the Agrarlana is

an unnatural one.

the

Traditionally, the Agrarians accuse the Soclul Democrats of starving the farmer to feed the factory hand, while the Sociol Democrats accuse the Agrarians of favouring the former at the expense of tho industrial worker.

This "town versus country" clash has been at the root of most

o! Finland's postwar Cabinet crimes. Yet the little country has a political stability which has enabled most Cabinet crises to be turned in now mile stones on her steady march back to peaceline prosperity-China Mail Special.

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