The Singapore Free Press, 8 January 1947

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA' \<i !t».744 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1947. PRICE IH CENTa.
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    JAP SHIP FOR SALE
    40 1 is the lat st photograph of lip ship which had been a wretk off Kallang l Bfl th< war vearv The ■semi Maru was ascer- r tht- ship had been lhe Horai Maru i* for sale.
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    PALESTINE PARTITION PLANNED
    68 1 SDON, Tuesday Ameni sonrct said > For-*.gn Sec: Mr and the S.cretary r Colo Mi Ar:har had de< :de«d to rethat o d. ita indeArab a lewis] ling peace prooabiy would Hs I and posbT] jus neutral" Bril aSb "rus-teeship. aid foreign and Coe^ were reported to
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    £47,072 FOR ONE PENNY
    48 1 47,072 FOR ONE PENNY R Yorksh re. 1 _*.> A nil poo. rec ord ■-tv wnen ■>i I er. won i'4i.o7_ r -y torecasting tha re—lß Leagu c games onrj one penny for connis hmd erronc'-iiiiy :.er Mftp titers pool dividing Im -hem. but neither M ot -he..- winnings.
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    U.K. EXPORTS UP
    16 1 i.nounced yesterday x thai Britain s exports ior d 1:900.000.000. J.150--*han he target
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    THIEF KILLS SOLDIER
    14 1 Ie: wao murdered dng Monday night >os: at Abbassien I thief
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    THE LAST WALTZ
    6 1 Il short- ha?
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    BYRNES QUITS: MARSHALL GETS HIS JOB
    483 1 BYRNES QUITS: MARSHALL GETS HIS JOB WASHINGTON, Tuesday. DRESIDENT Truman tonight announced the resig- nation of Mr. James F. Byrnes, and the appointment of den. George Marshall to succeed him as VS. Secretary of State. Mr. Byrnes, whose resignation takes effect on Friday, has been a staunch advocate of a
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    G.I. brides live in house of despair
    478 1 LONDON. Tuesday. THE British Press, referring to the problem of GI brides. .harming that hundreds of these "brides of despair" as the Daily Mail called them are stranded, said today that they are living m squalor m their new surroundings awaiting pa.«asage back
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    Crocodile shot in Thomson Road
    73 1 1N eight-foot crocodile was shot by members of a poller radio car on patrol m Thomson Road. Singapore, shortly before midnight last night. The crocodile was crossing the road m the vicinity of Macßitchie reservoir when the police found It. After six shots from a
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    RAF RELEASES
    55 1 London. Tu.s The Air Ministry has announced the following RAF release programme for February and March Ground airmen 51, ground officers 51. aircrews 52. redundam aircrews 53. WAAF officers 53. airwomen 55. While release of ground airmen will m some trades reach group 55. no release level will
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    SINGAPORE TURNS TO WOOD
    229 1 SINGAPORE TURNS TO WOOD Froo press Staff Reporter. J THE shortage of coal m Smga- pore. d^scribr»d by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimsor. i as serious* a few weelis a-o, has caused a minor industrial revolution m Singapore. It has forced a number of firms and industrial plants to switch
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    LIEUTENANT MAY BECOME A KING
    74 1 A young Lieutenant. a n interpreter m th c French Army, Is cons dered th P mast likely choice as th c new King of Annam if a restoration of monarchy, which Is receiv.ng consideration. ]m accepted, says Reuter from Saigon ft Is understood that
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    IS. ACCUSES POLAND
    22 1 'lhe United Blfctes has accused Poland of political arrests, mur(ders. searching ot homes by secret police and news suppression
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    PENICILLIN TO SAVE QUADRUPLETS
    155 1 PENICILLIN TO SA VE QUADRUPLETS Bridgend. Glamorgan, Tue.s AN urgent can was received by a Bristol firm today for iou: I oxygen tents to keep alive quadt rupletaS born to 29-year-old Peg^y Thorn-a.; Penicillin will be administered i by an entirely new method known jas an Oxycillin apparatus This provides
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    WOOLWORTH DIES AT 90
    113 1 NEW YORK. luesday THE death occurred today at Sc i anion. Penr_s viva ria ol Mr Charles Woolwor h. aged 90 founder of the world tamed 11 /c and ten cent chain stores baring his name In recent years, Woolwonh yave much of his wealth io
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    JAP SUSPECTS FLOWN TO THEM TRIALS
    56 1 SiLspec-ed Japant.se war ciim iiais arc beine flown to ItteiT I trials m various places m ihe r.a; East to cut down de'ays The la'es: Japanese to br sent by aii is Itasa'ochJ Yonemu r a. mjh sras .sent l his week from Tokio
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    ARMY TBs GO TO SWITZERLAND
    45 1 ARMY TBs GO TO SWITZERLAND DOVER A PARTY ol Bntisn k»- men sutler nc ir eul.si.s left Dover ioda\ m ill M-Ctiainnel stestfßer [ni ior Bsritserland wi.ere the? i r > ye special treatm %T--remenu lor the trip w°i > ni«de by lie Mm siry ol Pt-nsl
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      MAYOR FELT STATUE GIFT WAS FISHY'
      74 3 MAYOR FELT STATUE GIFT WAS FISHY' la Ba*. berlund. and sent it ipp:e- ..acie d M.:. r, M tIU '.Vht*- glfl And knew and would he \> a l ..duly de*h a Lor.l __s sssnctntni rd r.aiv M.litarv Police stopped these men as they triad to wait, <»m the trooper
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      BOYS FORM CLUB TO RUN ERRANDS
      19 3 BOYS FORM CLUB TO RUN ERRANDS Esses ooys I and io biack d wht) mism rr >m p m-
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      KISS COST HIM £3
      21 3 H k. y. of Hill B ml Ken', j■po'iceman. k.s ed a girl lane He was t
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      MIDNIGHT FIGHT IN CORNER HOUSE
      169 3 aIUGMEN screamed and tainted and crockery crashed when a midnight fight between "rival factions" broke out on crowded ground floor cafe of Lyon's Corner House, Coventry Street, London. Three men on either side left their tables and flew at each other, overturning tables m their
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      GUILLOTINE HOLIDAY
      26 3 Because France has only one guillotine m working order it is :n Paris criminals condemned to d^ath ontstde the capital are to be shot.
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      UK pays Poles to study
      45 3 THE British Treasury _»ays for 2.800 Poles to study at British universities. 1.200 of them m London, said Mr l>alton m reply to a House of Commons question from Mr, Piratin (Com.. Mile End > The total would diminish this year
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      4 GERMAN P.O.W.S. HANGED
      46 3 For.r Germans convicted of hangmg a fallow prisoner ot war m Medicine Hat Camp m 1944 on radio instructions lo liquidate Communists were hanged at Lethbridge. Alberta. Three of them cut their wrists with razors, which had be<*n hidden ie heir shoes
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      TO KILL MILLIONS
      155 3 UR. X G ANKER-PETERSEN. 50.000.000-deaths-a-year-man. left his office m Pall Mall. London recently for a murder tour of Holland. He Is going there to rid the devastated areas of a postwar plague of rats His last assignment was m Iceland where he killed 250,000 rats let loose
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      MILLIONS OF ORANGES
      12 3 Spain sent iOd million oranges to Sweden for Christmas.
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      DISLIKED SHIP, SO
      435 3 THE Coopers, of Cambiidge Circus, London, recently welcomed home their daughter Pamela, who had sailed lor Australia 18 days before with her 15 month-old son Brian. Her father, who keeps w The Scots Hoose," fetched them back m a chartered plane which, says Mrs. Cooper, cost 1700.
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      'Beaks', clerk and his pigs
      338 3 SI-.Yh.s Cardigan nia^i&l rales who acquitted their own clerk of whal Lord (ioddard, the Lord Chief Justice, subsequently described as a gross and scandalous fraud are to have their conduct reported to the Lord Chancellor. Lord Qoddard said that the papers m the case, which
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      MARRIED 5-HOURS, WIDOWED
      103 3 MARRIED 5-HOURS, WIDOWED DIVE hours aiter she was mar- I ried, Mrs. Ifarjorie Daffy,' aged 33. of James-street. Rugby, became a widow. She was walking from St. __£a rie's Roman Catholic Church after th: ceremony on the arm! ot her husband. Mr. Ben. aid! Dully, aged 29, cf Avenue road.
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      US MONEY ORDERS FOR EIRE, U.K.
      42 3 US MONEY ORDERS FOR EIRE, U.K. Americans have sent more Chris; mas money orders abroad this year than ever before ll'O.oO? i them of a total value Ol 4;4'J1.07:i 10.s. The top ree:-' pient Is Ere srith £215.917, Second. Britain wi'h 166.294
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      WOMEN ADMIRE HER
      18 3 Mrs. L'eanor Roosevelt wa.. amed .n a magazine poll the woman American women admire most.
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      CHINA ASKS SINGAPORE FOR FEEDING PLANS
      557 5 Free Press Staff Reporter £IN(.APORES successful public feeding drives, launched early m 1946 by the Social Welfare Department, has attracted world-wide interest, and at least one big foreign country has asked for details of Singapore's various schemes. A letter from the Mass Feeding Specialist
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      NEW INDIAN TRANSIT CAMP
      87 5 NEW INDIAN TRANSIT CAMP S.aif Repi.: v \PORE Race. curse. uc upied by m Indian transit by m:dArmy spokesman a Fke. P: camp Ls to be ll Ulu Pandan and will Indian troops Timah. i thai would be considerably sn the Racecourse hoped shortly r T he Indian troops ,apore.
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      MONEY ORDER SERVICE
      38 5 nej >rckr service with North Borneo has been <>red. The maximum allowed angle money order is $400. v Orders may be drawn following offices m British Borneo Beaufort. JesselKudat. Labuan, Lahad t>atu. Sar.dakan. Tawau and
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      JAP TANKER SCUTTLED OFF STOKE
      108 5 JAP TANKER SCUTTLED OFF STOKE Free Press StafT Reporter MANY inquiries have been m^de I m the last i> w days from officials of the Shell Comp.ny. Singapore, whether one of their ships had caught fire ofT Pulau j Samboe. the Shell Company oil depot. People reported (bat while' crosiiing
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      POISON IN RED BURMA BEANS
      107 5 RED beans from Burma wnich are believed to be responsible for several deaths m recent. weeks m Ceylon, have been round to contain pruss.c acid, the Ceylon Government Analyst reports He said his Department examined samples and specimens sent him by courts and doctors to*lowing
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      Insurers 'black list' importers
      218 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE insurance companies having learned a severe lesson at the hands of the "mushroom" importers have drawn up a "black list" and are tightening up on payments on instructions from head offices m London and other parts of the world. One favourite
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      CHINESE PROTEST TO DUTCH
      56 5 THE Chinese community m Djakarta is perturbed over the regulations imposed by the Dutch authorities concerning j engagement under contract of Chinese labourers, p cording to Antara. Antara .says that labourers complain that contrary to the j conditions of service, they are J not allowed tD
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      NEW HONG KONG GOG
      38 5 Maj. Gen. G.W V E.J. Erskine.} C.8., D.5.0.. who is to a^ume command as G.O.C. Land Forces Hong Kong on Jan. 11 arrived m! Hong Kong by air from England i on Jan. 3.
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      CAPT. BROOKE EXPLAINS HOUSE OFFER
      203 5 LONDON, Tues. THE forma Tuan Muda of Saraj* wa__ iCapt. Birtram Brooke) lin a letter to the Daily Telegraph i says the Colonial Office has denied I that it offered h's sen the house he cc.opied as head of the Sara[wak provis'onal government "m j
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      HAWKERS PAY $40,000 FINES
      274 5 Free Press StaiT Reporter r'O inspectors of the Singapore Town Cleansing Department have between them, m the last It monihs, brought charges against .1,2.36 hawker.^ and litter spreaders, and fines exceeding $40,000 have been imposed. This is all part of the big plan to clean up
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      WELFARE STAMPS
      38 5 The five cent denomination ol Malay: 1 Welfare Fund Stamps will be placed on sale at 'he General Post Office, Singapore, on and from Jan. 10. 1947 Other denominations will oe 3old when supplies are available.
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      23 NEW BUSES FOR S'PORE
      185 5 23 NEW BUSES FOR S' PORE Free Press Staff Report tr SINGAPORE Traction Comrexpects to have 23 Bttf omnibuses on the road before •he Chinese New Year. Mr. G. Marshall. General Manager <»f the Company, told me today. All these will be locale-butt ones The first two ol the 23
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      PIXIE IN JAPAN
      44 5 Air Marshal Sir George I Ccmmar.der- in-Chiet for Ar .n the Far East yesterday arrived ny air from Singapore. He leav. day on an inspect! m trip of Royal Air Force un'ts m the B. t.sh Commonwealth occur force area.— Reuter
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      67 3 TARZAN Human prey By Edgar Rire Burroughs HDOOR R.OJSEP THE NATlVfc's WIFE. WJjk M^. il J a \\mmmma>^ 'vH AOMAN S C 3 E6 OF pESPA R FINDING MER SPOUSE MISSING SHE fiWd RANG ThRouGM ThE TOWN. fl^a... o.i. Tn LOOK--- BBB»- ■_»_—^i» a 1 a«aM«aa_p L J -a.M-a ,w"
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      84 5 Received! Just Received' 1547 DAILY MEMO aaaUSI PADS WITH STAND I Cms plete) Price SaS M each School Books. Stauvnery etc. •ng. Rosaries. Relig.ous etc PETER CHONG 6c CO M j Bras Basah Road— Phone 4086 9 Robinson Road— Phone 4142 I M Malacca Seremban. Kuala Lum- loc>h Tenang LYON
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  • SPORT PAGE
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      THE END OF THE TIMELESS TEST
      314 7 From Norman Preston MELBOURNE, Tuesday. ■HI hr>i drawn Test match m Australia for 65 years proHl.jiich a tense finish that a timeless Test is never la be seen again* out here unlests the Control Board the fifth game, as is the case this year.
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      COMMISSIONERS GAIN 10th WIN
      187 7 Ho..c Pol.cc groui.c en S) bl Commi^ionsr's :n I win v.ainst 4th Special were > t C.C. I fa Brown 3. J MatS Sunderlani c Had- > R Clou«h c Da*.U b; P ha^aratny b Kyl?s r> Brown 3 D Forrester inkef b Ryia?s H H.
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      Caught &' Bowled
      19 7 Caught Bowled Bruce Dooland snaps up a return catch from Hammond m England's first innings. Hammond had scored nine.
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      Ortiz Loses His Bantam Title
      41 7 HAROLD Dads won the world bantam weight boxing championship m San Francisco on Monday night, beating holder Manuel Ortiz on points over 15 rounds, reports Reuter Ortix had previously successfully defended his title 14 times. Reuter
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      PADANG HOCKEY OFF
      19 7 The hockey match betwa?en the SRC. and the Indian Association, arranged for today, has been cancelled
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      RAIN WAS ENGLAND'S BEST MATCH-SAVER
      931 7 RAIN WAS ENGLAND'S BEST MATCH-SAVER From Bill Bowes MELBOURNE, Tuesday. ENGLAND saved the third Test, but hardly saved face. Repeated interruption by rain, a good innings from Washbrook, and dogged resistance by Yard ley and Bedser m the later stages helped England to draw. The time taken by the stoppages,
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      ITALIAN BID TO PLAY CUP TENNIS
      158 7 NEW YORK, Tues. ANTICIPATING the signature of the Italian peace treaty befo.e Summer, the Italian lawn Tenn.s federation was reported to have made an application to participate m the ISK7 Davis Cup challenge m the European zone and to resume her international role m
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      PEP INJURED IN AIRCRASH
      83 7 NEW YORK. Tues WILLIE PEP. who was injured In an Hir crash on Sunday, has requested mi indefinite postponement of the world featherweight title fight •gainst Britain's Nel Tarleton. which i scheduled for Jan 20 Pep's ankle Is badly cul and will require a fortnight to
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      S.C.C TO HOLD SEVENS" RUGBY
      71 7 'lhe S.CC are again running a seven-a-side rugby tournament and all local rugger sides are invited to enter cne or more '•sevens.'* The competition will be held on the knock-out principle from January 16 to 30 on the Padaner. Entries must be with the secretary.
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      EYE INJURY ENDS BOXERS CAREER
      87 7 PHILADELPHIA. Tues. THE fustic career of young Wesley Monzon. the brilliant lightweight whom many considered the title challenger by virtue of his knockout of the world's champion. Bob Montgomery, was ended by doctors' orders today. The doctors operated on his right eye to save him
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      24 7 The Singapore Amateur Boxing Asocial ion will hold a Council Meet- nt 6.30 p. rai. to-day. m the Board mn of Singapore Police Headquarters.
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      SCOREBOARD
      198 7 \l STR ALI A— IST INNS— 36S ENGLAND— IST INNS— 3SI M STRALIA— IND INNS— SK ENGLAND— 2ND INNS Hutton c Br&draan b Taßshaek 4a Washbrook b Dooland 112 EAricm lbw b Mc( ooi ompir n run out > I Hammond b Lindwall 2« Ikin Hassett b MiW-r Yarailey
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      WALCOTT DEFEATS MAXIM ON POINTS
      73 7 PHILADELPHIA. Tues IN 1947s first important tteavywetgnt fight m Jo.^sey, Joe Walcott ye> terday won a ten-round decision ove:* the Cleveland Italian, young Jo^y Maxim. La one of the uiggw-t upsets lost yaai laii-xlm had aUupparxi Walcott m Mm lstters hometown ot Camden. New Jersey.
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      COLONIALS C.C.
      82 7 THE Colonials will play their cricket mat; n of the season aga urn ihe Special Commissioners Cricket Club, on Sunday tt the Police Trar* ground. ThomstH, Rood, at 10 30 am The following have^been ba ited *o play for Coloniais: I W Ratnayake C Seneviratne, A L NathanieUi.
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