The Singapore Free Press, 28 November 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
Total Pages: 8
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    FUTURE PLANES ON SHOW
    748 2 THE International Aeronautical Exhibition which opened in Paris last week is an event of special significance for the British aircraft industry. During the past twelve months the industry has had various opportunities to display its new products and developments to overseas experts. These displays— of which
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    PRICE ROW OVER EIRE TURKEYS
    124 2 nEADLOCK has halted ne- gotiations between the Ministry cf Food and the Eire Department of Agriculture over the price Britain has decided to pay for Eire turkey? this season. Abo at 700,§00 birds are ready to be senW- on the understanding that they will be
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    FEATURI PAGE
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    NYLON STOCKINGS?
    197 2 WHEN will women bo ablt- fet buy those nylon ftft. in^s? The only answer b: As And what is the difficulty? The ry manulacta» say it is the short supph Nylon spinners are today supplying criougn yarn tc r duce 200.000 pairs of stockings a week. By next
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      60 2 now VICTORIA THEATRE PLAYING TONIGHT at B.JO PJt OOMMNED SERVICE EN 11 RTUNMENT PR! > N v Sf Vf N KEYS TO BALDPATt GEO M. COHANS FAMOI S MM <H U:\M\TIC I AN UNTSrAI. ***** PIU PROmCTION B^ \l KIT IXN BOOKING: ROBINSONS UAIFU> rj V MORNING AND If iKKMH)V
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      313 2 Crossword Puzzle No. 79 DOWN 1L! a 1 I 3 |4 U 6 r TW Dispute. M. .W ,_ml IMf N ji &fM 2 Light building T~ ~n l^j« T"f^ """"i "tt 3 Retire. I I 1^ _J 4 Herediuur title. I^l Wt Bi| BB B^ W a May be
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      446 2 -your luckySTAR Fortune forecast tor people born today YOU seem to be something of the personification of the old adage. "still waters run deep.' On the surface you appear cool, detached and often disinterested jn what goes on around you. But underneath, you have a will of iron and harbour
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    The Singapore Free Press
    8 4 THURSDAY. NOV. 28 1946
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    To Progress Or To Prosoer?
    479 4 JN he a..ys oelore the war, Mr. Rayman. President of the Municipality, demonstrated to he Corrunirsicnors that S nga- re'l motto Biar-lch Singapura mntOßl really meant Let Singapore Prosper in the sense of Lf t Singapore make b gger and better profits. And it was
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    LEADER PAGE
    5 4 JUST A PAWN
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    FAREWELL TO FAKERS ?
    1082 4  - FAREWELL TO FAKERS Graham Stamford A Board of Trade Working Party's Report to U.K. on its furniture industry by VERY soon you householders may be buying your furniture on the dictionary system. No more staring in shop windows wondering if the sales card means what it says when it reads
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    302 4 THE young and attractive Egyptian. MADAME RAKIA IBRAHIM, who directs "Rakia Films" in Cairo, has been paying a brief visit to London. She went after visiting Cannes for the recent film festival. It was. she said, a somewhat exhausting business to see over 100 films in two
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    Storm over 'Beautiful Girls'
    984 4 Letters To The Editor 1 WOULD like, as a W.A.A.F. to answer the article written by Mr. C. Robinson of Henlow and sent to you by Mr. C. W. Maxwell, and to say first of all, that it only confirms the general opinion of us out
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    FAITH
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      47 4 QUIZ WHAT AM 1 TALKING ABOI T? Each of these clues throws a different light on the answer: 1. Its topless containers were not wasted by the miner's mild-sounding child. 2. North Atlantic is its pond. 3. Sartorial experts are familiar with Its bone. ANSWERS Pa«e 6
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    ONLY AMERICANS FOR Woopcock TO TACKLE
    976 6 All In The Came From George ChishahrT LONDON, By Air Mail. WHETHER or not we have the future world heavyweight champion in Bruce Woodcock, of Doncaster, we certainly have the best at the weight in Europe. The Vorkshireman has just proved this by knocking
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    SELLERS HAS NO OFFICIAL STATUS
    130 6 LONDON, Thurs. y lEUTENANT-Colonel R. S. Rait Kerr. Secretary of the MCC. stated today he had not yet seen the article by A.B. Sellers criticising the captaincy of W. R Hammond in Australia, but declared that in any event he would not make any comment
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    SPORTS
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    Army Obliterated A Collection Of Stars
    466 6 Army Obliterated A Collection Of Stars Archie Quicks Sports P araGt 1 RMY football hit the headline, with H Football Association XI was defeated at St l ground eight three by the wearer, SItJU It was as surprising as it mu <*n,r fviT mfielded the great Stanley Mat^Z fnf^±" Bennett
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    SINGAPRE AMATEUK SPORTS UNION
    7 6 SINGAPRE AMATEUK SPORTS UNION Un: ton (kub.
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      407 6 /Si IL. L. KSi GALA OPENING TO-DAY! I PHONE 6 909 <%7l IT STUNNED THE WORLD! TITANIC THRILLS GIANT ADVENTURE The Picture which could not be released until after WORLD WAR II! only pat o'brien pH^OMBS FOR TOKYO i could play the role a> a yji^ wance, in the drama
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    HOME...
    21 8 Dunster in Somerset. The castle, seen in the bac Uground, was one of the key point* during the civil war.
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    U.S. to fly airliners from carrier
    85 8 U.S. to fly airliners from carrier WASHINGTON. H'ed THE IS. Navy, in a daring experiment, plans to fly twin-engined transport pianos the size of comracriial airliners off the deck of an aircraft carrier during Admiral Richard Byrd's forthcoming Antarctic expedition. The planes to be used are known commercially as DC
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    FIGHT VICTIMS BURIED IN SECRET
    182 8 FIGHT VICTIMS BURIED IN SECRET JERUSALEM. Wednesui-y TWO Jewish refugees, lauUly injured in yesterdays ua.sh between 3,000 illegal Jewisn im migrants aboard the ship Lrickita and British troops In KaiTd hr.ibour were buried secretly today to prevent a possible disorderly demonstration. The British Army said that cne of the Jewish
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    PEOPLE'S CAR' PLANT AUCTION CANCELLED
    46 8 A court ordef to sell by auction today the machine tools and car parts at W. D. Kendall's 'people's car' factory at Grantham, in whi~h a considerable sum of Indian money is invested, is reported, to have be*»n withdrawn 6ays Reuter
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    WEDDING AT LENGTH
    41 8 When Lt. John Bat es US m 2 marr »es Miss Eleanor Griffith of Philadelnhia in a fev flays the couple will be 10 000 nules apart says A.P. The ceremony will take place in Washtior.ed in Honshu
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    BRITISH PLAN IS ADOPTED BY UNO
    284 8 NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE United Nations Political Committee today overrode the 1 Russian opposition and approved the British resolution declaring that a troop inventory- and amis reduction were parts of a single general question. Russia had strongly opposed any attempt to Jink the proposed
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    TRUMAN IMPARTIAL
    42 8 When President Truman sees the Army-Navy football match in Philadelphia on Saturday he will sit on the Navy side of the Held during rhe first half of the gam>>. says UP., and on the Army side in the second h?.lf.
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    FREE TRIPS GO BEGGING
    127 8 TREE h: hdays abroad are avaii--1 abl~ for 300 British exServicemen. But although the scheme has been running throughout the summer there have been few takers. Three hundred Czechoslovak families are waiting to welcome British ex-Servicemen, but, disappointed by the lack of response, the Prague authorities
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    'HOW TO END THE BLACK MARKET'
    64 8 'HOW TO END T HE BLACK MARKET' An anti-Nazi German police official in Frankfurt yesterday recommended the return of concentration camps to control the black market in Germany, sayt, U.P. He suggested tha' offenders should be put into barbed wire cages where everyone could sec them, and that every day
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      TIN SHARES WEAKER
      256 8 THERE was very little business done in the Singapore share markets this morning. Ruobers were neglected and T'ns were weaker. *INS: Hong Fatts were down to $1 and Kuchais were weak. INDUSTRIALS: Malayan Collieries went a t $2.47 y 2 and more were wanted. There was a
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    TYPIST TURNS NOVELIST
    148 8 PHRISTINA Stead who learned I* typing and worked for a hat manufacturer in her native Australia, a grain and produce dealer in England and other firms In France, still is typing— but for herself, says an Associated Press report from New York. Miss Stead does not need
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    RECORD COAL OUTPUT
    28 8 Coalminers in the Wei: Mid lands have set up a Be* production record, improving on their lost year total by three-quarters of a million tons
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    LASKI QUESTIONED FOR 4 Hrs.
    219 8 LONDON, Wed. the end of Professor Laski's cross-examination which lasted nearly four hours, the evidence was interposed of Air Vice Marshal H. V. Champion de Crespigny, Governor of Schleswir* HoLstein and Labour candidate for whom Prof. Laski was speaking in Newark at the time of
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    BRITAIN TO INTENSIFY EXPORT DRIVE
    340 8 LONDON, Wednesday FE President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, in a speech today at an export conference of the Federation of British Industries, said that Britain was importing more than 70 per cent of what she imported before the war and exported
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    WAR ENDS FOR 24 NIPS
    47 8 WAR ENDS FOR 24 NIPS Twenty-four heavily armed jap soldiers who claimed they did not know the war was over surrendered without resistance on November 19 to Filipino military police or* Fandananan Island, says A.P- rom Manila Tko Pow Jap officers appealed to the stragglers by loud-^cak^r
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    REDS ACCUSED OF BURMA TERROR
    58 8 REDS ACCUSED OF BURMA TERROR The Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League headed by Maj.-Gen. Aung San yesterday accused the Communi.st Party of Burma of "terrorising"' the population in Central districts, reporto Reuter from Rangoon. The League spokesman was denying on accusation made by Communist leaders blaming the League "peoples volunteer organisation"'
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    $1 BID FOR WARSHIP
    80 8 An aspiring purchaser of the U.S. battleship Oklahoma, sunk on December 7. 1941. in Pearl Harbcur, and later raised, rr "»ived a rude joic yesterday. In announcing the mail auction bids for the battleship says UP from New York, the Navy rejected one which was received
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    22 DIE IN AIRCRASH
    40 8 Twenty-two persons were Kii» ed when a D.C.3 plane crashed near Guatemala city on Tuesday, it was disclosed in Guatemala City vesterday says A.P. The plane belonged to the Laskca Airline, a subsidiary of Pan-American Airways.
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    NEWS PAGE
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    PoW DOCTOR 'AMPUTATED 10 LEGS A DAY'
    172 8 TOKYO, Wednesday AN Australian army doctor, whc was a Japanese prison ?r ol war, Lieut. Col. Albert Ernest Coates. describing Jap PoW camp conditions in the course of evidence be!ore a War Crimes Court said that he amputated as manj as 10 legs
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    DIAMONDS STOLEN
    25 8 Unknown persons, believed ;o be Jewish terrorists robbed a Jewish merchant of £15,6Jd worth of diamonds at Tel Aviv I yesterday, reports U.P.
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    COTTON MILLS WANT D.P.s
    52 8 DRUPOSALfi to ernpio? fc. 1 placed Persons from' a* in th< Brit Ish Zone ir. 0«m ire cotton c :v the Cam Ther* are 100.000 ncanaesc d these caaaa A)ur or by rs emits from other par country a- I E:rTv;q repr-- of soon &s Cttn
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    GENS DAUGHTER ELOPES WITH G.I?
    44 8 GENS DAUGHTER ELOPES WITH G.I? Ai:". of America art b«fc for G«raldine Kez^::^: «k 18. who i leaving for Oimaira to join IP Ger. II Hegenberger. AP Sar. Prin aico Tho girl's mother siidw* Jievod that her daughter dops with 1 recently msdMifrtl ir
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