The Singapore Free Press, 28 October 1946
1946-10-28
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Title Section19 1946-10-28 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE fN MALAYA ft, 16.884. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1946. PRICE IH CENTS.19 words
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Article410 1946-10-28 1 }Hv Press Staff Reporter rSThrftr* dwfc last evening, I stood with several i hundred p•• p* Singapore padang and watched tfcebt£in:iin_: of the last voyage of the Japanese 9,850--w cruiser Takao." Towed by two rescue tugs, the jjduoite" and the "Griper/ and escorted by the410 words
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Article101 1946-10-28 1 ttXNHI.Ni.rON Mm rl S \rm\ authorities have ■Md* it official the atomic sflsss) born on note, 2, 194. tlut da) m Stag? Field tiw IssfclCsitj of Chicago, jontists of the Manhattan anaUur;ical lahoraturv made aavkar reactor *ork for the Istsssst ■»jif-On Uslic X t. roves "■•wed thatAP - 101 words
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Article44 1946-10-28 1 MYSTERY MAN SAILS FOR EAST ndaj. r* 211? rEPY »1U who fc^T l^ or: > lh *t he was l*th office aR d was 5* the Middle Eas: for a nifhton r o: Bedtoid was from rd is RSJS F r pa^ via r \p\p - 44 words
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Article25 1946-10-28 1 DOCK STRIKE CONTINUES 5?T,i Bt *rd workers fc round "j Stopped ,-A gapore renoon ■G betwesn s ana t. "A; man of Board. 3 am.25 words
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Article96 1946-10-28 1 DUNDEE, Sunday. THE world food shortage would be "slowly but surely" overcome and then it would be possible to provide the British people with all the food they wished to buy, the British Minister of Food. Mr. John Strachey, said m a speech at Dundee today.Reuter - 96 words
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Article190 1946-10-28 1 CALCUTTA, Sun. MAHATMA Gandhi is leaving New Delhi for Calcutta for a tour of the riot affected area In Eastern Bengal where British troops have been sent for duty m connection with the restoration of order. Two hundred and fifty soldiers rt ached Chandpur lastReuter; AP - 190 words
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Article, Illustration56 1946-10-28 1 The 9 .850 -ton Jap cruiser, Takao, will be scuttled m the Malacca Strait tomorrow. She has been towed from the naval base Alfriede Storozanko, an Estonian girl, wearing Russian boots and carrying luggage on her back after she had disembarked at Tilbury, is among the first 100056 words
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Article340 1946-10-28 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE three Service Ministries m London are most anxious to hear all about the lives of Service women and children who have left England for the first time to join their husbands overseas, "so that lessons ctv be learned from340 words
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Article80 1946-10-28 1 NIP RIFLES SEIZED IN S'PORE Free Press Staff Reporter INSPECTOR Fong and detectives attached to the Singapore C.I.D. arrested a Chinese m possession of 12 Japanese service rifles last night nea r the Naval Base area at Seletar. All the weapons are serviceable There was no ammunition. On Saturday a80 words
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Article88 1946-10-28 1 CAIRO. Sunday. JOSEPH ELIAHU PERLMAN of the Jewish Agency's engineering department was killed when a specially chartered transport plane of the French air service crashed m a sandstorm 150 miles southwest of Cairo. Elias Sasson. head of the Arab section of the Jewish Agency who was88 words
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Article29 1946-10-28 1 Following th e up-grading of the Indian Agency-Genei al m China to Embassy, Oxfordeducated Bahadur Singh has been appointed first Indian ConsulGeneral m Shanghai. A.P.A.P. - 29 words
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Article23 1946-10-28 1 The 15,000-ton Dutch whaler "Willem Barendsz" left Amsterdam harbour yesterday for a seven months' expedition to the Antarctic- A. P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article371 1946-10-28 1 'S'pore can 't care for babies' Free Press Staff Reporter WHILE Services Departments m Singapore fia\e made fullest arrangements to provide schooling for children who have come to the Far East with their mothers and are allowing them every facility for -medical attention by Service doctors, the civilian wife who371 words
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Article71 1946-10-28 1 THE new 6.000-ton anti-aircraft cruiser Spokane. st:amed into the port of London and moored off Greenwich yesterday— the firs: American warship ever to pay a courtesy call to London, reports UP. The visit of the bristling baby cruiser, which crossed the Atlantic to Plymouth early this71 words
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Article202 1946-10-28 1 Veto: small Powers lead attack Flushing Meadow, New York. Sun. FE United Nations General Assembly enters the second week on Monday with small powers m firm possession of the initiative m the debate over the use of the veto by the greav powers m blocking United Nations decisions. No onReuter; A.P - 202 words
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Article37 1946-10-28 1 When a police patrol challenged the car m which Herr Kellerman mayor of Central Berlin, was travelling m Berlin on Sunday, the driver d'd not stop. The patrol fired and the driver was killed,37 words
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Article43 1946-10-28 1 A boogie-woogie band will be included m the Lord Mayor of London's traditional show that will go through th e stre lJ of the c:. mi If«v:mbe r 9, when Sir Drec,m a: Hmfth is installed 624t H i Lord, Mayor.43 words
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Article26 1946-10-28 1 Church bells will be tollsd and special prayers offered m Shanghai on Oct. 3i on the 60th birthday of Generalissimo Chiaui Kai-shek A. P.A.P. - 26 words
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Advertisement52 1946-10-28 1 CATALINAS ARE FOR SALE Free Press Staff Reporter. The Australian Disposals Commission m Melbourne is offering 50 Catalina flying boats for sale at A lOOO each. Original purchase price of a Catalina was £A25,000. Some 500 Liberators, Venturas, Kittyhawlcs, Mitchells and Martin Mariner flying boats which cost £A29 million will52 words
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Article448 1946-10-28 3 THE U.K. Government has decided m the interests ot* its atomic energy drive to establish a radio-chemical centre for the handling of radium and artificial radioactive substances now being produced. A firm engaged m such work at Amersham, Bucks, has been bought up and448 words
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Article69 1946-10-28 3 OVER the phone of a hairdresser at Eastcote, Middlesex, came frantic voice of a mother: "My boy has covered his hair with plasticine, and I don't know what to do. Can you help please?" That was a new one on Mr. Herbert Armbrust, an assistant. But69 words
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Article17 1946-10-28 3 Minimum price for men's haircutting m Salisbury has been raised to Is 6d17 words
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157 1946-10-28 3 A MAN of 50 who said he had proposed to a widow of 44 "only jocularly" at a d«i&c; was told by Judge Neal: "That's a dangerous sort of joke lo play on a widow of that age." The widow, Mrs. Elsie Clapp, postwoman,157 words
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Article50 1946-10-28 3 JAPS REHEARSED MALAYA ATTACK Japan rehearsed the Pearl Harbour attack m August 1941, and then worked out a schedule of operations which included the occupation of Malaya, according to the International Military Tribunal for the Far-East it was stated m the War Crimes Court m Tokio on Saturday says A.P.A.P. - 50 words
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Article17 1946-10-28 3 A German trawler dashed for the Tyne to take an injured fisherman to hospital.17 words
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Article263 1946-10-28 3 AMERICAN industrialists are showing alarm at the rapid British conquest of world export markets. They feel that by the time their own export drives are ready British goods will have won permanent place m most lucrative areas, writes John Walters m the Daily Mirror, London. This263 words
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Article29 1946-10-28 3 Mr. Edward Preston, proprietor of the White Hart, Brasted, Kent, and his wife were each fined £50 for serving veal when Food Ministry officials had lunch there29 words
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Article, Illustration112 1946-10-28 3 Germans are seen removing the propeller of one of the tugs under repair m the shipyards a t Minden. Their work is part of the efforts to solve one of the biggest Cerman transport problems the shortage of canal barges and tugs for transporting food112 words
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Article53 1946-10-28 3 HURLINGHAM, London home of nolo, is to lose-its distinction. Its 74 > 2 acres are to be used as: 1. A public park (60 acres). 2. A housing estate (144 >. London County Council have approved £700 000 plan for the acquisition and partial development of53 words
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Article117 1946-10-28 3 TN guarded hangars at the SurA rey factory of Vickers at Weybridge, engineers are putting the finishing touches to the first of 24 'faster than sound' rockeiproDelled pilot-less aircraft. The first is scheduled for delivery to the Ministry of Supply m November. It will be117 words
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Miscellaneous88 1946-10-28 3 TARZAN Ministrations of mercy By Edgar Rice Burroughs |H[HHHBH|^MHSH[JH TA GOOD CARE Op meR," the M ER DEL'R'UM r ME cevEßiSm I-^ 1 l^SyfS SB9U APE-MAN SAID TO JANE "SHE IS GiRL CALLED -03 TARZAN--- II P* ITC^ NORMA INTO THE HUT, SHE .SdSfcA/, nm\\\\nm^^^M^ *il P^3sss%fc^, AND JANS PEAR.NCa88 words
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Article, Illustration390 1946-10-28 5 S'PORE STANDS BY FOR NEI TRADE Free Press Staff Reporter WITH the possibility of peace and the prospect of an early resumption of normal internal and external trade m the Netherlands East Indies, Singapore exporters are receiving a large number of letters from Java importers who want almost every type390 words
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Article260 1946-10-28 5 Free Press Staff Reporter QO few Jap over-printed Straits Settlements stamps have ij reached England today that m some cases they are fetching £150 each, and philatelic dealers are clamouring to buy them. So are wealthy Americans who are paying several thousand dollars to260 words
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Article32 1946-10-28 5 Members of the Government Pensioners Association of Singapor? may now make purchases at the Chain Utility Stores. All sales are by card, which can be obtained at. 47. the Arcade.32 words
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Article92 1946-10-28 5 IT tooK the Singapore Harbour Boara Fire Brigade exactly four hours to put out a Are on board the s.s. Toshi No. 1, a small motor vessel, anchored off Clifford Pier on Saturday night The vessel was very badly _damaged. The fire originated m the engine92 words
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Article125 1946-10-28 5 A CHINESE, determined to tid himself of the "devil," provided the U.S. Air Transport Command with one of its wartime headaches. Oeesto F. Wells, chief safety engineer of the Air Transport Command, gave this picture of the problems besetting an unsuspecting pilot attempting to landA.P. - 125 words
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Article, Illustration45 1946-10-28 5 A little known feature of Singapore harbour activities is the "floating teashop which is paddled from one ship to another with tea, coffee, biscuits, bread, fruit for sale. This special Free Press picture shows one of the "floating teashops" m Singapore roads.45 words
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Article230 1946-10-28 5 'DEMOCRACY ONLY IN YENAN' ADDRESSING the last of a series of "Quit China" meetings, Mr. Tan Kan Kee said that the only place m China "where democracy is practised is Yenan." (Yenan is the headquarters of the Chinese communists). The meeting decided to send a deputation of seven members of230 words
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Article249 1946-10-28 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DILLINGER himself would have his work cut out to keep on top of his profession if he lived m Bangkok today. Every few hours comes news of a gangfight, attempted assassination or a street battle, any anyone who walks the stdeets of249 words
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Article335 1946-10-28 5 MR. George H. Westbury, War Office Overseas lecturer, whose mission is to encourage servicemen and women Wj settle m the Dominions, m a talk at the Educational Centre, HQ ALFSEA, said that at present Australia was the only Dominion that encouraged 100 per cent, immigration. Canada, New335 words
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Article69 1946-10-28 5 A variety entertainment v.aB) held last Friday at IM Chungking Hall, m the Greai World, m aid of the Chin* Famine Rei ef Fund and Silver Jubilee Fund, by ihe Liberty Musical and Dramatic Assccia* tion, m commemoralion of U18) first anniversary of its69 words
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Miscellaneous112 1946-10-28 5 WEATHER Local Showers| Are Likely ar TT^EATHiat for* cast for 21 hour! from noon to-diy rompJrl sy the R.A.K. Central Ferrets He Station, Air Command. South -Fast A<\z Isolated sundry homers thi* afternoon and evening Tonight and tomorrow morning fine. Wind ma nly calm with light south-easterly seabreeses this afternoon112 words
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Article461 1946-10-28 7 Americans Want U.K. Footballers l-r,, in Vernon Mogan LONDON, Sunday. i> j^^n «aid m the past about sport that "the Pf^JLter than the player." The fuss and subse0* 9 j n thf Stanley Matthews affair was bj no '^fpinif with this saying. Without going into the *i An h hReuter - 461 words
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Article186 1946-10-28 7 HURST PARK. Sat. CHAMPION jockey Gordon Richards scored his 200th i victory of the season when winning on the Aga Khans Cadenazzo in the Leyland Handicap, over one the Leyland Handicap, over one mile and seven furlongs here this afternoon. This is the s.xth time RichardsReuter - 186 words
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Article374 1946-10-28 7 LONDON, Oct. 26. SWANSEA suffered their first defeat of the season m their ninth game, when visiting Llanelly, they lost by a goai and two tries to a dropped goal and a penalty goal. Although doing most of the attacking m the first half, Llanelly changed374 words
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207 1946-10-28 7 LONDON, Sun. A HUGE field of nearly 40 horses —one of the biggest ever— will go to the post for the Cambridgeshire handicap, second leg of the autumn double which is being run over one mile, one furlong, at Newmarket on Wednesday. Apart from theReuter - 207 words
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Article, Illustration464 1946-10-28 7 By Our Soccer Reporter Alfsea 1 Naval Dockyard 1 WITH a little more certainty m attack, Alfsea would nave scored a comfortable victory over the Naval Dockyard whom they met m a first round tie m the S.A.F.A. Victory Cup competition at Jalan Bear Stadium yesterday.464 words
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Article167 1946-10-28 7 SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP DIV. A Section A LATEST positions m 'A* divisions of The Scottish League are: P. W. D. L. P. A. PU Hearts 6 4 1 1 12 10 8 £?lyde 6 3 1 2 12 10 7 K'marnock 6 3 0 3 12 11167 words
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Article96 1946-10-28 7 PVE Cup soccer matches will be played this week, three of them being replays. Today the Tengah Airmen will meet 177 CUE m a replay, while on Wednesday RNAS Sembawang will meet 71 ME Platoon, R.E., m a first roundtie. Then on Friday will come the96 words
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Article774 1946-10-28 7 POSITIONS m the Home football leagues up-to-date are Goals P. W. D. L. P. A. Pts Blackpool 13 9 1 3 26 17 19 Wolves 13 8 1 4 27 13 17 Liverpool 12 7 3 2 27 16 17 Sunderland 12 7 2 3 18 18774 words
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Article49 1946-10-28 7 CAMDEN. New Jersey, Sun. Mrs. H. Lebowitz's Turbine on Saturday scored an upset by taking the $50,000 (U.S.) added Treton handicap at the Garden State race track. Turbine ran a mile and one furlong m one minute 50 3/sths seconds. Mrs. P.A.B. Widener's Polynesian was seC( nd. A. P.A.P. - 49 words
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Advertisement190 1946-10-28 7 Vicky Yourself srith aU the loveliness that Vicky eaa fire yea. Ladies' Hairdresser Permanent Waring*. Specialist hi Liberty Haircut* Expert Manic srist For Ladies A Gents. Late of the Taj Mahal Bombay Now at EASTERR ART CO., €3, Stamford Road, Singapore. DIAL 2523. Whenever you are m need of fresh190 words
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