The Singapore Free Press, 6 September 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
Total Pages: 8
1 6 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      DIRT PAYS BIG DIVIDEND
      594 2  -  JOHN HOWARTH THIS is the story of a dirty rag. An interdepartmental committee have just reported on it to Mr. Bevan. The report should not be pigeon-hoed. Nor should the rag. For the rag is going into bed mattresses and lun.i a. dirty! The story begins
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      PENICILLIN IS GOOD FOR ASTHMA
      102 2 PENICILLIN IS GOOD FOR ASTHMA INHALATION of a fine cloud o! penicillin is proving of value m the treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma, according to doctors working at a Middlesex hospital and at Guy's, writing m the Lancet. Penicillin given by injection fails to reach the air sacs of
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      TAXPAYERS SAVED MILLIONS BY 'BAFS'
      233 2 RHINE Army financial experts believe that their new currency has killed black marketing among British personnel, which is estimated to have cost Britain between £10,000,000 and £20,000,000 m the last 15 months. The official title of the new currency introduced on August I— is "British
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      Going Up In A Cloud
      189 2 MR. Philip Wills «W of England's foremost Rlider pilots, m July, 193^ took off from the grounds of the London Gliding Club at Dunstable and achieved a height of 14.200 feet. This record s f ood until a few days ago when Mr. Wi Is
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    • Article
      48 hour old baby drinks whisky
      42 2 ONE of t] ilfcg m Scotch 48 bour The born a; New V H c wi frail to v born Dor i strength half an olfactory t ir Th* 1 <■: the dilu took it \..r.-«^ r-bas^r
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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      66 2 CHEERS for the DRUMS i VICTORY THAT STRUCK OFF THAT UGLY HEAD of WAR NOW, It's the Time for Rejoicino Midnight Premiere /q^TZ saj^ TO-NIGHT (JCAPmOL MEN Of IHI ARMED fORCtS KNGE MURPHY IQAN [i\ If ■gg tt«n W hrn wi[ cwßtiS wunwi M KAU SMITH zrzirrr.rr A Long Picture
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      411 2 -your lucky STAR Fortune forecast for people born today You are assertive m your business or profession. You size up a situation and move along one step at a time, m the usual conventional manner. There are few surprises for one who deals with you, but you can always be
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      420 2 Tamil at 1 35 p.m.) md from 9 p.m. TONIGHT'S HIGHLIGHTS RADIO MALAYA lc 103(l Dm 'news m ramU 9.15 om.) 830 p.m. News Headlines. 8.32 pm. BLUE .O-.IWUKK irom noon to Music for everybody— with radio orKEl> NETWORK rrum noon to p.m and 6 om to 11 p.m. on
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946 Black Smokes
      478 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946 Black Smokes riGAHETTES have long been a Black Market commodity m Singapore and though the unofficial price has slumped considerably from the ten dollar a tin level of the early days of the reoccupatlon the Black Marketeers are not giving up without
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      JAP GOD GOMES DOWN TO EARTH
      1026 4  -  Richard Hughes By HtROHITO'S conversion has naturally, been a source of deep spiritual consolation and political encouragement to the Allied forces. But, even more important 'than the Emperor's revolutiontary, if convenient, change of coat has been the spontaneous popular change of heart by the
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      348 4 HER friends m Australia recently sent LADY ELIZABETH MONTAGUE DOUGLAS SCOTT a 50 lb. wedding cake for her marriage, which was to the Duke of Northumberland. She is 24 years old and served as a WREN m Australia where her white satin wedding gown was made She
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      Taught not to obey orders
      276 4 Taught not to obey orders YOUNG Germans are learning how not to take orders under the tuition of America's crack blue-and-gold constabulary which has taken over the main burden of occupation m the U.S. zone. They are showing great keenness for games and athletics but at first many of them
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    • LETTER
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        The Theatre
        349 4 MAY I, with respect, put you right on one or two points m the Leaderette m your i..sue ef the 29th August. You are perfectly correct when you state that the victoria Hall Ls about as suitable for theatrical productions as a swimming pool, tor the simple reason
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      55 4 QUIZ word pa: In tences t: are mr-.c» ters C; 1. The countlr the fcnck tof v religious 4 2. It course the Sml 3. Tha' who pa.:' lives on a <" n c 4. Al-: -hehilH anyone snake. Matilda eoes day treftdi J 5. La*t I *"L i Handicap
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      'OKAY CHARLIE' DENIES SIME RD. CHARGES
      597 5 OCCUPYING the witness-box for the most part of yesterday, the third accused m the Sime Road case, Shoshira Kobayashi, nicknamed "Okay Charlie" by the internees, denied maltreating any of the internees m the incidents on which he was examined. His examination-in-chief had not been
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      Girl Guide In Air Crash
      63 5 ibe 2H people in this plane which eras!- on the Wicklo* Mountains Tl rrvruh and the crew of four— were rescued. Fourteen Guides are in a Dublin hosn.tal mo 1 J with broken arms and legs. Some of them are dangerously ill The h nort
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      S'PORE'S HEAVY EXPENDITURE CRITICISED
      201 5 CRITICISM of heavy expenditure on the development of new departments such as the C-overnor. General's Department, Economic Allairs, Public Relations, Malar? n Security Service and Social Service, was made m the Singaporo Advisory Council meeting yesterday by Mr. E. M. F. Ferguson after the Financial Secretary,
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      PENANG BRIGADE
      34 5 Because one or two firemen left the Penang bri^a^e for other Dlaces of the Malayan Union m search of better pros, pects. the Ponang Municipality has decided to revise their pay scheme.
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      SINGAPORE MAY GET THE VOTE
      950 5 Continued from Page 1 years. Th.s should be extensible indefinitely by re-election, but no nominated Commissioner should be re-nominated so as to serve more than two consecutive terms of three years without interruption. One-third of the Commissioners should be elected or nominated each year, so
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      NO DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION
      46 5 NO DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION has had time to owgjgj INTRODIVINCi the rev. the prr .-i SI. 1946 th< Mr. Meh pore Ad. yesterday, d to be no d from th*» The e th* n^r: estimated V* K10.000.00fl hicl the int< Currency F ing the on capiti investm'":
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      GREECE REFUTES CHARGES BY RUSSIA
      434 6 GREECE REFUTES CHARGES BY RUSSIA NEW YORK, Thursday. YARSILI DENDRAMIS, Greek Ambassador to the United States defended his country before the United Nations Security Council today against Russian charges of 'Repressive measures." Said Mr. Dendramis: "We are reproached for taking measures against bandits, but did not the Soviet Union act
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      HOME
      19 6 British athletes start a marathon race outside the grey historic walls of Windsor Castle, the King's Windsor residence.
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      They Want To Be Acquainted
      55 6 THE following advertisement appeared m yesterday's English lan?uare China Press, says UP from Shanghai. Two voun? well educated American former officers with considerable experience, residing m Shanghai forthcoming year, earnestly desire acquaintanceships. Advantages srood looks, apartment, jeep, adnnate means. Disadvantages: d'sinclination toward matrimony susceptibility to
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      U.S. PORTS PARALYSED
      138 6 NEW YORK, Friday. general strike of seamen membo rs of the American Federation or Labour stopped work at United States ports yesterday. The strike is the most serious for many years Nearly 100,000 members of the Seafarers' International and Sailors' Union of the Pacific were ordered off
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      SCHMELING IS OUT OF JAIL
      41 6 Max Schmeling former world heavy-weight champion, is out of jail after serving thre months on a charge that he continued the building of a new home after an order halting construction, says A P. from Hamburg.
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      'Plum' Warner Pays Tribute To Indians
      95 6 'Plum' Warner Pays Tribute To Indians HASTINGS, Thurs. Sir Pelham Warner, President of the Hastings Festival, paid a splendid tribute to the Indian tourists at a dinner last night. "One da> India is going to heat both England and Australia at cricket. We have seen this summer a very fine
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      LATEST St. LEGER CALLOVER
      91 6 LONDON, Thurs. UICTORIA Club callovei today on the St. Leger to be run on Sept. 11 over one and a threequarter miles: 11-4 Airborne tai:en and offered, 9-2 Gulf Stream offered 95.20 taken, 15.2 Nirgal offered, 19-2 White Jacket offered 10-1 taken, 10.1 Fast and Fair,
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      CABINET RESHUFFLE
      27 6 The Egyptian Premier, Sidky Pasha, is to tender the resignation of his cabinet and to form a new one by Sunday, reports Reuter from Alexandria.
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      4 B.B.C. MEN WALK OUT
      115 6 COMPLAINTS of the "awful rigidity" of the administration of the British Broadcasting Corporation and references to the lack of prospects for young men, and the small salaries paid, have been made following the resignation announced today of four producers and assistant talks director. One of
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      TRUMAN INSISTS: LET 100,000 JEWS IN
      269 6 TRUMAN INSISTS: LET 1 00,000 JEWS IN WASHINGTON, Wed. PRESIDENT TRUMAN sai d today that he was still trying to get 100,000 Jews into Palestine. He said consultations were still going on between the British and United States governments on the subject. The President stated that the Grady Morrison report
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      U.K. Troops Quit Greece 'Gradually'
      93 6 A GOVERNMENT spokesman said on Thursday that Britain is withdrawing "by instalments" her troops from Greece, but complete evacuation nill be postponed "some time* and will depend upon ''a number of factors." The U.S. aircraft carrier, Franklin I>. Roosevelt arrived at Athens on Thursday, accompanied
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      PoW BEATEN WITH SWORD BELT
      197 6 LONDON, Thurs. AT the court martial of Major Cecil Boon who is accused of aiding the Japanese while a prisoner of war, Maurice Richard Jones, former leading writer m the Royal Navy, told th* court that after a letter which he had written had been
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      LOCKE LEADS IN PENFORD TOURNAMENT
      146 6 SUTTON GOLDFIELD. near Birmingham. Thurs. WHEN the Penford 1,000 Guineas Golf Tournament started here this morning, players were faced with a stiff task owing to unfavourable weather. J. A. B. Kean of Royal Calcutta, who partnered South African champion Bobby Locke returned 40 on outward
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      HOME SOCCER FIXTURES
      192 6 LONDON. THE following are further football fixtures for the English and Scottish Leagues: ENGLISH LEAGUE Sept. 9 FIRST DIVISION Sheffield Utd. v. Chelsea SECOND DIVISION Barnsley v. Sheffield Wed. Burnley v. Newport County Fdlham v. West Ham Utd. Swansea T. v. Notts Forest Tottenham H. v. Southampton
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      219 5 CA TLI A V Ha.m. 2.00, 415, H I II H I 630 930 p. m. NOW SHOWING 'Phone 3400 SEE! RIOTOUS NIGHTS OF ENDLESS, UNCONTROLLABLE REVELRY! SEE! INSANE NERO'S MAD WHIM THAT SENT THOUSANDS TO A HORRIBLE DEATH! SEE! THE PREFECT OF ALL ROME ADORED BY WOMEN, FEARED BY
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      114 5 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya r\ SEE IT ALL \ZaND THE POOR\ /YES, IT^5 MOST EMBARRASSING^ /UNLESS--\ A s^ NOW, AUNT SOPHIE. 1 V MOTtS HAVE BEEN) V THERE'S HOT AN ACT I CAN I"TS AN IDEA. 1 /f\ /S* HO HC VIOLETTA'S BEEN I BOWLED
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      11 5 QUIZ A i. iten charts. 3. P ~w*c 5. E Sjore>
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