The Singapore Free Press, 30 April 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SIXGAPOK! WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. 1947 PKHT 10 Cl N !>•» gfdgfgdf
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    20 KILLED IN TORNADO
    63 1 20 KILLED IN TORNADO LOIIS, Missouri, Tuesday. I killed and over a hundred -00 population of Worth, o -truck the town loda; 1 Cross Socier v hich be sendm. Rom the telephone operator at om Woith. She reported ■ut the whole town, came from a courier from oper tor at
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    QUERY ON S'PORE MUSICIAN
    304 1 QUERY ON S'PORE MUSICIAN Free Press Correspondent AIKTInvc LONDON. By Air Mail. AUCTIONS about a Polish subject from Singapore who, married to an Englishwoman, had been told by (he British Home Office m London that he must go hack to Singapore before he could apply for British citizenship have bet?n
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    30,000 STRIKE IN FRANCE
    54 1 PAKIS, ru?s. THIRTY THOJSANg) struck t^day at the Renault auto plant. They want more pay. The Renault plant is now nationalised. It produces daily 90 cars, 100 trucks and twelve farm tractorsThe strike may ser.ously upset France's reconstruction. The strike order was Issued by the Communist-controlled
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    YOUNG AMATEUR BOXER DIES
    57 1 I vVilliam Lang ley D'Silva, 25, son of Mr. C. G. D'Silva, caretaker of the Supreme Court buildings, died ysterday. William D'Silva was a wellunown amateur boxer. During the occupation he fought under the name of Curly Williams to assist the Endau and Bahau relief fund.
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    6 KILLED IN INDIA RIOTING
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    10 YRS. FOR ATTACK ON A CHILD
    14 1 10 YRS. FOR ATTACK ON A CHILD I CtllG I 'if n h»nett_ Trial
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    MAJOR: 'TYRES ARE SHOT TO STOP CARS'
    9 1 MAJOR: 'TYRES ARE SHOT TO STOP CARS' 0.5.0., I
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    PEACE RESTS ON ARMED POWER
    55 1 James V. Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, said m Washington yesterday the best contribution the United States could make; to world peace was "m the maintenance of substantial military power." Until the United Nations reacned maturity, he added United States armed forces were the
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    MP queries rubber sale
    118 1 IN the Commons je.-Uerday, Mr Walter Fletcher, (Cons. M.P. for Buy, who visited Singapore somz weeks ago, asked the Preiii- m of the Board f Trade why 5,088 tons of rubber sold to at the price of 3 1 16 d. per lb. below that at
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    UNIONS ORDER DOCKERS BACK
    243 1 LONDON, rnesday. NEARLY 10,000 stevedores, tightermea and dock workers are striking m London m sympathy with the dockers on strike m Glasgow, many fowl ships lying m the EUwr Thain are unable to discharge their vita) cargoes and coal ships are also held up. Most of
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    TO SETTLE IN BRAZIL
    20 1 Eight hundred and fifty displace persons will leave Germany on Saturday to settle in Brazil. U.P.
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    MORRISON BACK
    23 1 The Lord President ot t'.rCouncil, Mr. Herbert Morriso 1, resumed his duties m the Commons yesterday afteT a lonpr illness. U.P.
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    61 1 RALPH ALBERT of L ndon looked at car prices and d<> iilt-tl to build his own; he did, as yoa get m IhCM pictures. So sutaii is his car thai it czn pass through the 3-foot wide door of Alberts flat. The car cost £G0 to build. and now Mr.
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    RUSSIA MAY EXPORT
    26 1 British experts saj that if Russia has a good harvest this year she may be able to export wheat to Britain.- A. P.
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    142 ESCAPE FRANCO
    16 1 French police believe that 142 rarco Spaniards escaped into France during March. U.P.
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    LEGION GOES TO INDO CHINA
    296 1 LEGION GOES TO INDO CHINA Fret.' Press Staff Reporter GKRM/LNS %vho fought aguin>t France and Britain m both World Wars are among the French Foreign Legionnaires now passing through Singapore on their uay to Indochina to fight the Vietnamese. They embark at the North African ports of Casablanca and Oran.
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    15 MISSING LN PLANE
    101 1 TORONTO, Tues. k SEARCH for a missing Trans- Canada Airlines plane, with jl2 passengers and three crewmen, was carrier out tonight off the coast of Vancouver island. It was feared that the plane might have plunped into Georgia Straits between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The
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    HOSPITAL TO PAY £12.000
    111 1 LONDON. Tues. DAMAGES amounted to ,£12,000 were awarded m the Lond D Hi»h Court today to Edwin G r don Voller, of Southsea, for the loss of the use pf his legs, f llowing a spinal anaesthetic m St Mary's Hospital, P-rtsmouth. The Portsmouth Corp ration,
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    PAPER STRIKERS SENT BACK
    74 1 PAPER STRIKERS SENT BACK Workers on the North China Daily News m Shanghai, who have been on strike since Saturday, were ordered to go back to work yesterday by the Municipal Bureau of Social AfTairs. Publication starts again today. The Bureau order told the leaders to call off the strike
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    PALESTINE: CHALLENGE MADE TO UK
    804 1 PALESTINE: CHALLENGE MADE TO UK FLUSHING MEADOWS, New ork. I ay. "THE first meeting today of the steering committee of the 1 United Nations General Assembly on Palestine marked by a challenge by India, supported by Egypt and Russia, to Britain for a precise statement whether Brilish Government would carry
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    GOOD RICE NEWS FROM BURMA
    136 1 GOOD RICE NEWS FROM BURMA RANGOON, lues. nil MA'S 1946 to 1947 rice trade r ;ti ii< r- i month with exports of 132,000 tons up to and including today. In the first three months of this year exports were 236.009 v. an February registering the lowest figure at 38,700
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    COUNTRYSIDE AWAKENED
    868 2 COUNTRYSIDE AWAKENED Hall Romney's London Letter THERE have teen many 1 times during our gri-'n winter that I hive envied you m a your warmsunshire. Today I cemmis rate with you who are lard now thiit spring is here, bringing that resurgence m our fields a: d gardens and woods
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    225 2 WEST ojx.iied the I Declarer ruffed m dummy, cashed ib ace and embr.rked upon a ti ightful but too short-lived ruff. S^uth was able to ruff three clubs ruped two more a But before any more rufling could be ihe opponents had to be given a trick
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    WOT! NO CONTROLS?
    370 2 AT least once a year Lord Wool ton absents himself from the Conserva tive Party offices to attend to the affairs cf Lewis's, the i rthera store -owners of which he is c! a rman. Still wearing his poii' garb, ho told the recc. sharehold? meeting that,
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    DICKENS MSS. STORM
    169 2 DICKENS MSS. STORM THE ma: Dickei. reat E pec:.. which ing locally soon a train The W Cambridgesh permission to sell it badly-needed fund, collector is read] ed Statt •er Br wants to stoD its sile at and the mak< I -Great Expectations borrow it for ica queathed to the
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    ROUGH WITH THE SMOOTH
    105 2  - ROUGH WITH THE SMOOTH PIERRE JEANERRAT fgfgfg YOU need not k; how a meal is ed m order to So readers who h. remained attentive our art cla^s up t< will perhaps start £etin£ when told I today's talk Technique, I kn bly dull. But I not to turn just
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      16 2 COCONUT G&° s 55 CUPPAGE A THE BEST DRINKS [seeing to "John Beta Open All Day
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      640 2 dfdfdfd SINGAPORE lilin' Network EnglLah 1-' 00 >.0G par. 485 metTCfl m i/u medium u.o«- b.snd A tiHK-x ■><■ i--per second m the 11 metre band 6.00—11 N p m. JB5 metres ,n ih< medium wave band 1.813 Begacyela |ht second m tho t>l uxir. t-uid ezoepl from 7.45 !*.30
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      446 2 DADIO SEAC Broadca n Colombo: Ceylon on the fOJlottmg wave oar.ds to 11. Jo a.m 19 84 metres and 49.38 metres. n 30-12 a.m iy.B4 .netres. 12 noon-5 p.m. 16.8 b metres 19.84 metres and 49.38 metres. 5-5 30 p m 19.84 metres and 49.38 Bietl d. nignt 19.84 metres
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    WOMEN JOIN CITY POLICE FORCE
    58 3 WOMEN JOIN CITY POLICE FORCE ph rrto i-n. who have just completed their thret* months' I Kyton-on-"Dunsmore, rep^.rt fur dun with the Lei- >rce- They, with tu- more whu are due t.; iHiil brini; the nwnber of policewomen m the trit> i >T?fant H;irvey, gTe^ts Mis> id*, of L»i«ester, and
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    NEI COPPA INDUSTRY NEARS RECOVERY
    480 3 NEI COPPA INDUSTRY NEARS RECOVERY 200,000 tons this year THE Netherlands East Indies expects to export between 1 180,000 and 200,000 tons of copra m 1947 Eugene director of Hw NJE.I. Copra Fund, precis. He _mys that the critical period for rehabilitation of the industry will be passed late this
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    HER GOOD DEED FOR SCOUTS
    64 3 HER GOOD DEED FOR SCOUTS JWr> Beatrice Maclarlane. a JTWUf Ncmi astk-on 1 >ne I mistress, almirst sinj, r l--h:indfcd htt dr:»igiip<! nude altered, dyed, patched, darned and borrowed ">OO different <■ "tunics v< v\:ll be used by !00 Vuta>Ui- B <: outs and Roven m 1 coming show "The
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    U.S. MEN WEAR JEWELLERY
    91 3 VN men are becoming more jeweller y conscious according to Mr. Albert E. Haase. executive Jewellery Industry Council of New York, the war partly n iblc for the "jewelthe ma' lit- says that men are wearing engagen^nt rings than ever before. K.mcil is a nation-wide group
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    SOVIET JUDGES MAY VISIT U.K.
    46 3 Russia has been asked to agree to an interchange 01 visits beiween Soviet and English judges and lawyers. This was annouiii ea it the annual general meeting of the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. by Sir Hartley Shawcross, K.C., Attorney-Gen-eral, who presided.
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    BLITZED CITIES WANT HELP
    58 3 BLITZED CITIES WANT HELP r financial help i :.r incoming from the •nt some of Britain's blitzed cities will never Mr. W. A. Wilkins (Lab., Bristol S.), when n.d Country Planning Bill was discussed m the House of Commons. objec'-ed .ing grants authoneral ns, burp) which limit:ies the profit lid
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    RIVAL TO CHESS INVENTED
    276 3 RIVAL TO CHESS INVENTED JOHN 54 AKM ne-time magician and card-trick expert, o [Hnt the war exposing crooked gamblers m the United States armed forces, believes he has evolved a game that will mrtke chess cut of date. The game, which he says he spent nine years perfecting, bears his
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    MEMORIAL BED
    19 3 Auckland, New Zealand, has sent £1,500 to Dover's Battle of Britain Memorial Hospital to endow a bed.
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    NEW CURRENCY POLICE COMING
    69 3 NEW CURRENCY POLICE COMING THERE are so many sum- monscs pending for infringements of the currency regulations m Britain that the Treasury will probably set up a special deportment to deal with them. This new branch would operate m the same way as Customs and Excise officials handle their own
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    Duke ate owls and finches
    239 3 111 l Dlhh Uf BEDFORD hma the distinction ol having 1 eaten a cooked owl. He liked it. The Duke ilto ate a cooked greenfinch. He liked that too. Havifif eaten a cormorant the black fish eating: sea bird he said that it tasted reasonably
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    FLU EPIDEMIC IS POSSIBLE
    106 3 FLU EPIDEMIC IS POSSIBLE ANOTHER infiueru to 'hat of 1918 may be imminent. Dr. C. Van den Berg, Direc or General of Public Health to the Dutch Government, told ihe World Heal'h Organisation at Geneva. Since by far the greatesi number of fatalities is caused by resulting pneumonia, all the
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    FAMOUS STABLES
    14 3 near B*-d- Heny VIII \s John Gostwick, 'red to the the owner.
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    74 3 JTUKv Karm Kock. the first Swedish uiim.iii Cabku I Minister, has just taken office s in Sweowi'a Labour Govern- j f ment She h» 5fJ years of age, a professor of political economy, l ami a fishier for woman's rights. Here she is seen, wearj ing a doctor's hat, leaving
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    £5 TOUCH-DOWN
    28 3 For £5 the Royal Aero Club i: Issuing to private o.vners o: planes rly ti" entitling them to land a: airfields ir Britain and Northern Ireland.
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    SMALL SAVINGS
    18 3 Saxmuiidharn SuiTolk, claims the i.i<zhes' Sgttze StO 17s per head* m a campaign lor small savings.
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    MISS ANN CAUGHT 2 KILLERS
    148 3 MISS ANN CAUGHT 2 KILLERS A MURDERER and a man convicted of the man- slaughter of his wife called at Woodbine Cottage, m Crossnays. Glos. Dflicate and elderly, Miss Ann Excell s .was having breakfast. They asked for food and tea. i They were threshing for "Farmer Jefferson." they said.
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    WIDOW REARED 2 BLIND BABIES
    204 3 AN i:>ie of Wight widow has of a eou.?in who admired blind children. To the woma money seems a fortune. Her surance clerk. He died leavii two babies who were blind si received £500 from the will her life's struggle to rear two n, Mrs.
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    New idea speeds cinevision
    71 3 111. cinemas may soon be able i*» vrpfn current television pro- grammes. A Kent firm's new and cheaper system of mirrors for the cinema projection 0f television is expected to be displayed at the British Industries Fair m London next month. Installation of th** mirror system
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    SWISS GIVE HOLIDAY
    33 3 The Swiss Red Cross has arranged for 450 German children from Berlin to have a holiday m Switzerland tWg mon h Th.c children will be aged between eight and ten.
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      141 3 WANTED B LICENCE PILOTS over 1.000 hrs. twin experience, 2nd pilots Navigators, Wireless ops. Also ground engineers A C licence or better 3 year mutually renewable contract. Operational experience f erred. High rates of pay Write to Airways Burma Ltd 204 Phayre St Rangoon Champion Radio "PLANET" 5 vai*es AC
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30, 1947. May Day—l.
    440 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30, 1947. May Day— l. (E upon a time, when England d unrationed, he fifth month modern year. Qs tomorrow was a da] s and still is I lor marri'.n earlier times the mo so included a festival of the unhappy dead* the first
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    COTTONOPOLIS IN ENGLAND
    857 4 COTTONOPOLIS IN ENGLAND BY A SPECIAL KRESPONDENT BE I ORE World War I, England's leading- industrial cities were each known for a single outstanding product. Manchester was Cottci opo'is. She clothed millions of people, equipped millions of homes throughout the world with her But between the two war* an ;ange
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    AN OASIS IN SLUM LAND
    575 4  -  Letter I<> 1 In* Editor HAVE y< v < ver hear,. Mount Ophir? This is famous mounfour thousai m had its fame and had t his triremes to bring him gold, ivory and btony the g: building m n\ But th n of mo.; known
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    F.D.R. IS STAMP FAVOURITE
    275 4  - F.D.R. IS STAMP FAVOURITE GEORGE SCOTT Isv FRANKLIN D. R<x became Amer'ca's test know:; stamp colled r while preside!]!, is still a dominant figure m I amp collecting fields after his death. He alfeady has outstripped George Washington as the vourite American sub reign stamps His picture or name appear
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    171 4 and licensee H r the i years, has only sam; two pints of beer m his life. w&* ill m W WHEN Sgt. CECIL lwas m Italy with the RO3 I .neers m 1944 he v to go to symphony cone its arranged for the British troops.
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    RADAR RAIDERS HOMOURED
    203 4 RADAR RAIDERS HOMO URED GENERAL de G. paid a signal honoui who took pan the raid on the Gel radar station at B Normandy on 28th V ary, 1942 when he laid th€ first monur there recen Brii^h 1: intensely enemy radar. Aft( i tending from the English Chan; first
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    TO SARAWAK EXTENDED
    153 5 filial grant until Colony n aim 'i i ion 10 me >.>,uuu,uuu grant announced m November last year, Sarawak will be allowed a like 'iint yearly for rehabilitation purposes until the olony is self-supporting, says a London-Press Ser- 1 I*4^ a\ W\ l" The report gives details
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    INSURED MAIL
    94 5 MAIL The insure^ letter and box services have now been extended to Egypt, says the Singapore GPO. The limit of insurance $3,400 m respect of a letter or box. The sender of an insured box will be required to prepare CusDeclaratlon Forms as used for a parcel. Iri
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    YARD TO ENTERTAIN KUCHING VISITOR
    222 5 YARD TO ENTERTAIN KUCHING VISITOR TLAM) YARD will be host tv Inspectoi Abiing Othnian Kuching, <;ne of the five \i>itors from Sarawak, van Union and Singapore to I.K. under the auspices he British Council, at a tea party to be jointly given W n <;f British Malaya md the Yard
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    UNION OFFERS SCHOLARSHIP TO BRITAIN
    86 5 UNION OFFERS SCHOLARSHIP TO BRITAIN Union is now a se 1-: i m Kingdom. This lier this ng m expenses of th 2 the United living met by lh_and the candidate d to enter into an agreera terms as di timp Ide. terinary produce satishe has Certificate excredit xamilent cr
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    POLICE REWARD TRISHA WMAN
    33 5 Singapore pedalled two had or. into the Kai Police Station. •vman has been well c as a re-public-spirited >me such I üblic i m the battle of law and
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    VISITING BRUNEI
    15 5 The Governor-Gen. left i Singapore thi6 morning on a 10--to Brunei, North co
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    BOY CLUB TO TEACH MUSIC
    214 5 BOY CLUB TO TEACH MUSIC MEMBERS of the Katong Boys' Club will so n be presided with lree music lessons. Sp this project are Mr f. L. Tan, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court. Mrs. B. L. Ciiua wife cf Singapore Juvenile Maand Mi.ss Harriet Handy. Mr. T. L. Tan,
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    490 'SAFETY' POSTERS
    91 5 M 'RE than 490 posters have been received at the Singapore Public Relations Office for the Safety First Week Poster Competition for .schools. They have come from 11 English schools, 26 Chinese schools and five Malay schools. They cover a wide variety of aspects of Safety First
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    CELEBES CROWNS SULTAN AIDID
    262 5 CELEBES CROWNS SULTAN AIDID INDONESIAN traditions and customs were featured i- 1 r m the Celebes last Saturday when Sultan Mchammed Abdulkadir Aidid was crowned "Raja of Gov Aidid is the first rulef m th c State of East Indonesia to be crowned since self-government was instituted m the new
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    New Equipment for Police vans
    428 5 New Equipment for Police vans Free Press Stan Reporter kJEVV communications equipment for Police vans have been ordered and is expected to reach Singapore by the end of this year at the latest, according to Mr. A. A. Strachan, Director of Telecommunications. Singapore, who took the Singapore Press on a
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    ROSEISTHALL TO BE VICAR OF S'PORE
    197 5 THE Right Rev. J. L. Wilson. Lord Bishop of Singapore, will preach at the ceremony of Institution of the vicar of the Cathedral parish of Singapore today at 5 p.m. Archdeacon Rosenthall, who has been acting as priest m charge of the parish since
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    MANY GO TO PENANG FOR HONEY MOON
    435 5  - MANY GO TO PENANG FOR HONEY MOON ALAN GARDNER By Free Press Stall Reporter THE lovely island of Penang, pernaps Malaya's most delightful beauty spot, is once more becoming the centre for holiday-makers from all over the country. In the last three days, I have spoilleast, three sets of newly-weds
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    TALK ON GITA
    46 5 A talk or. "Srimad Bhagavad will be given m English by Swami Varaadevananda, Pi dent, the Ran i ia Miss n, Singapore, at the mission's premises m 9 Norris Road, cv ry Saturday at 6.30 p.m., starting Saturday, May 3. All are invited.
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    R.A.F. CENTRE
    47 5 The RAF now own rehabilitation c< It is the gift of the Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Institution vi England, who nave presented tc the S< of State for Ail the title deeds of Headlsy C n well-known Georgian cour.tn house at Lertherbcad, Sui REV. ROSENTHALL
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    STUDENT MEETING
    23 5 A meeting of the Student Christian Movement o: Raffles and Medea. Collea. be held at the V.M.C.A., Orchard Rjad. p m
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    COOKING GETS SOLDIERS
    198 6 COOKING GETS SOLDIERS p w derful housewives. of 'h: tie 39-yej lor *es < S s Herbert Said -he arch I oke Idlers who told m had applied for per: German sons U i and T Th ressed by ;he of tho Gerrr C NT Thtoe impressed. The way m
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    NAZI GENERALS WORK ON FARMS
    503 6 NAZI GENERALS WORK ON FARMS Once they were rulers OLD men m shabby uniform* who once, tight-lipped and I llilllMMT Pitiinr harked *****181 111*1 tb the Nazi war machine. now putter around vegetable plots, make toys or uo out to work as casual farm labourers. At Bridi^nd. South Wales, about
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    GYPSIES WED IN MODERN STYLE
    56 6 GYPSIES WED IN MODERN STYLE Romany folk from many parts of England gathered at Frampton Cn terill, Glos, parish church for a Romany wedding—l 947 style. The traditional bright coloured aprons and 'kerchiefs of the women were replaced by smart m dresses and "perms." The men forsook corduroys and mufflers
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    WAR SOUVENIR ENDED GRIMLY
    261 6 PI i.\ alter pica hs> Iktii bbMM to the British public to hand souvenir war w« [>sm- t he police for safe! sakt Isxi f many people Mill hold »n to them, and this is the storj >i tine of them. I pistol— a rdfe of
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    Bandits served the customers
    253 6 D -NDITS posing a^ members D at the Lex Garage, I while others of the gang were loaded the seven hundreds mandeered and drove away bef< The garage proprietor. Mr. Jar bery ing "like a Chicago The six bandits forced Mr Henry to stand with hia
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    ENTICEMENT SUIT SETTLED
    54 6 An impending ac ion again-st a British- born French baron for hi. ing enticed and harboured the wife of a Cambridge shopkeeper, ha.s been settled out of court The baron is Eugene Cadier. Baron de Veauce. The shopkeeper husband, Mr. W. Q. Woodward, will petition for divorce
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    Platypus crisis at sea
    81 6 A mi« km 'an aivomft have nishcd ..in emargmci bod dtop of HUMJQ <ari.li worms to bvo kustr:ilian platypus*^ winch were starving on .1 ship taking them aeftras the Pacific to the New Vnrk zoo. Ka tiiii» an average of 800 wurnis a day, th« platypuses
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    RAF FACE NEW PROBLEMS
    154 6 RAF FACE NEW PROBLEMS FIGHTER COMMAND, R.A.F., is faced with new problem. It i hat of plotting the con types of jet -propelled bombers, travelling at 686 more at heights of between 4u .«»»♦<) and 56,900 intercepting them with jet fighters flying at d speeds. A complete overhaul of prt\
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    NEW FABRIC IS WATERPROOF
    15 6 NEW FABRIC IS WATERPROOF Nev be on si Fair 01 as ordinary The cl or
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    ON HIS HONOUR
    23 6 Boy of fifteen accused at B I he did" not bethe Bible and would -ireed to swear t jn v.
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    DEAR DEPARTURE
    34 6 A woman has been caught trying to sail from a British port with diamonds worth £5.00 C hidden m her luggage. The ~ds were seized. Then tiic woman was allowed to sail.
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    33 6 A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2a
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    ACS OLD BOYS WIN TWO-ONE
    63 7 53 BOD i. Old Boy* Issodation, soccer I \y league players, beat i a Club, which included four •>•• m an inti resting game Bcsar Stadium yesterday. first game together as a team I display should encourthat they have started. i other Singapore est. Mil
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    Yesterday's Soccer
    19 7 Above, the A.C.S. Old Boys and, below, 223 ROD Civilian Recreation Club, yesterday's opponents at the stadium.
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    TONY ZALE TO MEET GRAZIANO IN MAY
    61 7 TONY ZALE TO MEET GRAZIANO IN MAY CHICAGO Tues T m bt tide fight be,. 1 Zalc a~d .R-ockv .ano will bj hsld on Wednesday Athletic Cor. anounced today. The Commission approved th c date site submitted by th? id. had ppp.vved the 15-round return n Zale and Grazlano last
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    RUGBY UNION RESULTS
    17 7 LONDON, Mon. Rugby Union results today Exeter 3. Npnt.h 11 T.if>r»oiiT, difl 0 Reuter
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    2,000 GUINEAS MADE 2-HORSE RACE ON BOOKS
    199 7 2,000 GUINEAS MADE 2-HORSE RACE ON BOOKS LONDON. Mon. 7 kstrel and Petition, first 1 .md second favourites for the 2.000 Guineas, shortened still fui le final callover. the takers today 13-8 and aithcu h backers were i take more at this price 6 4 at the close. came m
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    25 SELECTED FOR U.K. WALKER CUP TRIALS
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    COSMOS SOCCER XI
    35 7 A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2a
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    GEM HOAHING BEATEN IN U.K. TENNIS
    355 7 GEM HOAHING BEATEN IN U.K. TENNIS 801 RNEMOUTH, Tuesday. Chinese tennis player, Miss Gem Hoahing, was 1 eliminated from the British hard court tennis tourna U play today by Mrs. Mary Muller of South Africa who won 6 2. 6— I Tiv 1 British sin I withrom the c nt
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    34 7 Freddie Mills, the British crniserweight chamnfon, who knocked out Nick Wolmarans. champicn of South Africa, m th** fifth round of the r duled ten round contest m Johannesburg last night, at- cording to Reuter.
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    ALAN MEL VILLE IS CONFIDENT
    312 7 ALAN MEL VILLE IS CONFIDENT PHE decision of the South African cricket selectors to send 1 AthoJ Rowan, young Transvaal all-rounder, to England was a gamble which may not come < ff. When the party arrived at Southampton, it was disclosed that Rowan, who damaged his left knee during the
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    NEW SWIM RECORD
    57 7 ARN'HEM. Mon. I\URING the international swimming »:ala here tonight the Netherlands women swimmers. Irene Koster-Van '•1 Van Vliet and Hannie Termeulen beat their own world record three times 100 metres medley me of 3 mins. 42. 4 tecs. Th ;s record established by Mo m Amsterdam last
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    CHUNG WAH BEATEN
    11 7 BANGKOK. Chun; defeat 1. ched by a Reuter
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    Matthews Mot To Retire From Soccer
    83 7 Matthews Mot To Retire From Soccer DI'ISLIN. Tus. I CT.ANLI.V MATTHEWS, lish international ri^h'.nger, t night den'ed rep rts that h" intended to retir- from otball if his Club, Stoke City, refused to release him to j i n Bla< kpool. "I have no intent on of re--1 tii;; said
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    THREE HORSES UP A CLASS
    192 7 JA KPOT. Rex Flash and Zarina have been transferred from class two to class one, according to the S.R.A. c kiss 1 ficat ion list issued yesterday. Transfi rs are: From Class 2 to Class 1: Jack Pot. Rc-x Flash and Zarina; 1 to 2:
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    TRANSIT CAMP WIN 3 GAMES
    1142 7 TRANSIT CAMP WIN 3 GAMES D. Dragon b A. E. Delikan 0; E> 5. Total (for 8 wkls 74 BOWLING J. Almeida 1—17; R. m sbersen l~ 2 ,V J a J? eUkan 3 14 J- C. Almeida 2— 13; A.E. D-likrn I—o. w ST. JOSEPH s INST. J. C.
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    19 7 LONDON; Tiie*: Ru s played fccOay resulted; Roc Hornets 2; Workington; Dewsbmy 17. Castlcford 7. Reute:'.
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    25 7 Picture shows England cricketer < nnton m training for soccer on the Arsenal ground. On Saturday Compton played on the left wing for Arsenal against Grimshy.
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    SEA FOR THS HOLD SWIM GALA
    249 7 SEA FOR THS HOLD SWIM GALA THE Ist BatUilicn, the Seafortli II 1 landers held their annual and inter-Ccy swimming championships at Gillman Barracks Pool on Mo.iriay Results m the fine I 66 yds. Freestyle Individual Championship: 1. Lt. Crcishton; 2. Shenl 3. Franklin. 33 yds. Freestyle (women): 1. Miss
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    VICTORY BY 1 RUN TO PAYA LEBAR
    295 7 PLAYING against the R.A.F. (Paya Lsbar> on Saturday afternoon t-hc Hccklites lo^t by one run. Baiting lirst the Rocklites scored 41, of which J. Galistan made 19, hilling two sixes. z (Jci;ig m to bat Baya Lebar just parsed their opponents' score when
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    SELETAR 2nd TEAM WIN
    170 7 SELETAR 2nd TEAM WIN THANKS to J Lp of 73 ns and I R.A.F. S:leU r 2nd XI de- the R.A.S.C by 39 ru r on Sunday. Sc SFLKi Evans Ibw Bodimead 45 b Bcdimead 4 II irs Ibw b Lawton 2B I s c.b. C: b. deed 0 I
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    22 8 i^. setting for the Meynall Hunt meet at Osmaston Manor the home of Sir lan fl. and Lady Walker (I>aily Telegraph picture).
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    326 8 S 'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY -CITY NEWS— A.ial Market cocr. »f>ondciil gives the prices of rubbei at li a.m today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. per ?b. per lb. No 1 RS S. Spot No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales May H% 44 No R S.S. fob m bales May
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    New York stocks
    124 8 0>: the New York Stock Exchange yesterday subsidence of the sellflurry was followed by cautious mg which reduced losses slightly but still left declines up to one point. :ng was largely professional and me small. tabulation of many corporate repo. -s recently shows quarterly and yearly earnings
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    Tobacco's $ content
    58 8 Tobacco's content LONDON. Wed. THE Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Glenvil Hall, told the House of Commons yesterday that Britain exported to the soft currency areas $4,250,000 (U.S.I worth of invpprted American tobacco m the fisrt three month? of 1947 Hall said lhat vl S as J^Wfied because Britain
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    LORDS ATTACK COTTON BILL
    364 8 LORDS ATTACK COTTON BILL LONDON, Tuesday. THK Britiafa Government's plan lor the centralised baying 1 of cotton was severely attacked m the House of Lords today by the Conservative peers Lord Wooiton and Lord Cherweli. but the Cotton Bill which gives I«ga1 effect to the scheme wraa i^iven its second
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    ROYAL FAMILY AT ST. HELENA
    67 8 3T HKLKNA, Tues. On helx way home from South Africa. the Royal Family paused today a t. B died m exile H MU3 ird, mi n which they are tra\ dropped anch r m fames' Buy. The little town of which nestles m Island's volcanic
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    INDIA REDS MAY BE BANNED
    50 8 INDIA REDS MAY BE BANNED 1, the rightwing rty 'fader, j terday warned that the Communist Party may be suppressed ::i Ind: 1 was replying to the only C mmunlst mcratxr of the interim government assembly, Samneth Lah.n. who a^kt-d that a new constitution should ;.ird politic t m. U.P.
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    JET PILOT KILLED
    19 8 An American Army pli-^t crashed jet propelled fighter near Bremen, Germany, yesterday. He was killed. U.P.
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    TALKS WILL AID UNDERSTANDING
    76 8 TALKS WILL AID UNDERSTANDING The opini n that the recent Inter-Asian Conference at Drlhi would serve to promote better understanding among Asian countries ec nomicaliy, spiritually a:.<i culturally and woul d establish closer Asiatic relations with countries o > the West, was expressed by Mr. J. A Thivy. President of
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    FASCIST BILLS FOUND
    22 8 Police at Milan, Italy, have found 2.000 Fascist handbilLs near the Dla c where Mussolini i was killed. U.P.
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    Spitfire starts long flight
    72 8 ARGENTINE-BORN James Storey left England yesterday m bis personal Spitfire to fly to Buenos \ires. This is the first time that a British fli#hter has attempted the trip on which the longest non-stop leg will be the 1.850 miles across the Atlantic from Hakar to Natal.
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    SENATE VOTES AID TO EUROPE, CHINA
    304 8 SENATE VOTES AID TO EUROPE, CHINA TfHE Senate Foreign Relations Committee ha* unanimously 1 approved legislation authorising $350,000,000 for relief Of five European areas and China. The Committee chair man. Senator Arthur Yandenburg, announced thai the Oiaimittee decMr -d t«> specify m the manner where the relief wi I be
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    SMUTS GOLDEN WEDDING
    55 8 SMUTS GOLDEN WEDDING Uni IKD Part Qbers v; Hou d Marshal Jan Chris* ian Smut^ with an anfciq >alvn c ■f his and Smuts' gol elding Shoi where he will spend the day n his farm v, Mrs. Smuts. She has bee n unwell. All of ildren and of their
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    UNO TURNS DOWN GERMAN APPEAL
    345 8 LAKi: SUCCESS. New York, Tuesday. FIIK Trusteeship Council completed its live weeks 1 Naak» with some practical results to sho* despite the depres -•ion caused by Russia's boycott. [ts main achievement wore careful discussion and adoption of the rules of proced ur«-; consideration of petitions
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    STEPSON SUED
    35 8 Mrs. Kathleen Stevens, 38, yesterday sued for slander m the London High Court her stepson, John Henry Stevens. Mrs. Stevens said that the stepson had accused her falsely of misconduct with him U.P.
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    LONDON GUNMEN KILL VICTIM
    122 8 LONDON, Tuesday. THI okcd gunmen today shot dead a motor cyclist who tried to bar their escape from a jeweller's shop they had held up j m Tottenham Court Road. Lon- j don. London police have begun the i biggest manhunt of the year seek the
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    Boy of 9 faces murder charge
    138 8 PORT TALBOT (Wale*). Tuesday. A MM IT! who sobbed that he weal it again titled lor tr al at Port Tallxcourt today on a charge of murdering a four mate. His name was withheld m accordance with t<iurt procedure, but that of his playmate
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    MODELS FROM MATCH STICKS
    22 8 MODELS FROM MATCH STICKS lACK GRANGE. EX-XA\ \ict, has two hobbies youth how to perform r at mak.njr models def.nTS a r>
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    TERRORIST FUND RAISED IN U.S.
    119 8 TERRORIST FUND RAISED IN U.S. ITMTED STATES offi< U that under U.S. law be taken to prevent An organisations m Pair ""^^^jl The American Leagu* Palestine recently launch >d oampaign to raise mill, lars to buy and equip sh;; illegal immigrants into P* through the British blocka The question whether
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    SOVIET WARNED
    26 8 Reports from Germany that British occupation auth have warned Russian oecu, authorities that Britain suspend shipments to zone unless the Sovi< return 1 U.P
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