The Singapore Free Press, 26 June 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 16.SW PRICfc l<» CENTS. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1947
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    Death diary at triple inquest
    269 1 SOUTHPORT, Wednesday. PXTRACTS irom a diary m which a doctor recorded his L wife's icath were read by the coroner at the resumed t:p t nquest Uxlay en Dr. Robert ClemenU. an ex-Malayan, m c V.rs. Amy Clements, and Dr. James Houston, the r who
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    KILLEARN NOT QUITTING THE CATHAY
    105 1 KILLEARN NOT QUITTING THE CATHAY ice Press Staff Reporter LONDON. Wednesday J' H use of commons today, 1 M- Walter Fletcher (Cons., 1 ftnj asked :h=> Secretary of State' Col Dies, Mr. Arthur Creech vr.vn the Cathay offices -r buildings occupied by Special Commissioner for, s«tth-East Asia. Lord Killearn, bis
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    JOHORE RAIL CRASH
    104 1 Three men lost their lives and 18 were injured when the Singapore Kuala Lumpur mail train derailed between Layang Layang and Sedenak on Tuesday ni^ht. ...The line has now b*en cleared, and the train services have been restored. Four coaches were thrown off the track, and thi;
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    COAL STRIKE CLOSING STEEL MILLS
    113 1 COAL STRIKE CLOSING STEEL MILLS WASHINGTON, Wednesday. MORE than 217,000 soft coal miners are now on strike as Department of Justice officials sought tonight to accuse the miners of violating the Supreme Court injunction forbidding the United Mine Workers' Union to stop work. Soft coal production is now down 40
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    WIFE'S SCREAMS FOIL GUNMEN
    207 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. THE screams of his Jewish wife foiled the attempted kidnapping today of Mr. Allan Major, assistant liaison officer to the United Nations Special Committee on PalestSe? His four assailants fled after footing ;n the am a British lorry driver who had stopped when he
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    WOMEN SEE 3 JAPS HANGED
    431 1 Massacre men die on gallows Free Press Staff Reporter "TWO Chinese women who saw three Japanese war criminals hanged at Changi Gaol at 9 o'clock this morning said they doubted if the Japanese were really dead. The executed Japanese were Lieut.-Gen. Kawamura and Lieut.-Col. Oishi,
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    INDIA MOSCOW ENVOY
    28 1 A New Delhi government com. mun'que announced yesterday that the King has approved the appointment of Mrs- Vijayalaksmi Pandit as Indian ambassador to Moscow.— U.P.
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    BATTLE LOOMS IN MADAGASCAR
    50 1 WITH French parachute troops and Senagalese forces prepared for a final offensive against insurgents grouped m the forests east of Tananarive, Madagascar, Gen. Marcel Pellet, commanding French forces on the island, has made a last appeal to the natives to return to their homes and work.
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    POLICE ARREST CONTRACTOR
    27 1 The Anti-Corruption Branch of the Singapore C.I.D. has arrested a Chinese contractor for an alleged offer of $700 illegal gratification to a British officer.
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    NEI-CHINA AIR TALKS
    34 1 A Dutch delegation, headed by Dr. A. Steenstra Toussaint, left Batavia yesterday, for Nanking to negotiate a Dutch-Chinese air traffic agreement. Shanghai and Hong Kong are proposed stopping places.- Reuter AAP
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    BACK IN SERVICE
    30 1 After one of the largest re- fits ever undertaken on a merchant ship, the Queen Mary goes back into the North Atlantic service on July 31.- Reuter
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    New threat to Shahrir
    85 1 rpHE Indonesian Islamic Party, which claims a membership of X ten million, has threatened the overthrow of the Shahrir Government if it makes any further concessions to the Dutch reports A.P. from Jogjakarta. The threat was made as the Republican Cabinet met to consider the last
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    MONTY DUE IN S'PORE TODYA
    252 1 Free Press Staff Reporter I ATE this afternoon, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Chief of Imperial General Staff, is due to land, at Changi from Ceylon for a four -day visit to Singapore. Us will be the guest of Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie, C. in-C, $£ALF,
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    10 DEAD IN NEW CALCUTTA RIOTS
    90 1 BOMBAY, Wednesday T^EN people were killed and *0 injured m communal incidents m Calcutta today as tension increased m the city after Friday's vote for the partition of Beng«*i, according to unofficial figures ,onight. A 48-hour curfew was im posed m some areas of
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    W.O. faces clothing theft charge
    152 1 W.O. faces clothing theft charge cnarges ot siealing ard receiving stolen p ->peity Warrant Officer I (Conductor C. W Binnw t'oimerly of H.Q Singapore District, faced a meral court martial at Fort Canning this morning. Einny, who is at present attached to Singapore District Signal Regiment, is charged under two
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    ARE YOUR FEET COMFORTABLE?
    728 2  -  Lucy Bell WHO has not seen women hobbling gracelessly along on high heels throwing her whole body out of balance and ruining her feet? Many women cruelly misuse their feet by a wrong choice of shoes. Your feet are made up of dozens of tiny bones,
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    CHAPLIN IS ACCUSED OF DECEPTION
    137 2 CHAPLIN IS ACCUSED OF DECEPTION rw\HE United Slates Federal Trade 1 Commission In New York havaccused Charlie Chaplin. Mary Pickiord and their associates m United Artists Inc. of showing to the public an abbreviated version of the British film. "Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" as the whole film. The
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    A MIXED MENU
    557 2  -  Pierre Jeannerat MO rationing limits the art menu for the visitor to London. Pre-war plenty has returned. Indeed, the visitor, ris'is aesthetic indigestion if, uii*tia eri with the 1,320 largely old-fashioned and .todgy items at the Royal Aca"iy, he tries to absorb, say, the spicy fare offered
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    Better Limbs For Amputees
    245 2 By Robert S. Allen PRESIDENT TRUMAN. I Congress and the American Society of Newspaper Editor have witnessed a series of demonstrations of legless and armless veterans exhibiting the latest developments m artificial limbs. The veteran amputees demonstrated new prosthetic devices now undergoing tests They include a
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    QUIZ
    9 2 1. Tobogga Westmorlti t) 3 berla::d 4. Maiming
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    TODAY'S BRIDCE PROBLEM
    362 2 NORTH mudo CtaWf ust> of |fm bludgeon. ng Biackwood Pour Notrump bid to find out that South had an ace; then bid a slam for which there was about a 50 3C play. When South then proceeded to g;\e himself the worst of the odds, it MM
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      322 2 1 tV i I I I l^^^i ik JII J ij I II a si Vj N wKIISS SINGAPORE Blue Network 12 00— 2.00 pun —485 metres to the medium wave band A 7.22 megacycles per second m the 11 metre band. 6 00— 11 00 p.m. 485 metres m
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      202 2 4.30 Australian News; 4.45 'Tommy Kandley Show"; 5.15 Everyman s Music 5.30 "The Forces' Requests"; 6 p.m. -Swing Show'; 6.30 Australian News; 6.45 Music of the Week; 7 p.m. Persona jluy Parade— Featuring Elizabeth R?thberg (Soprano) and Ezia Pinea (Bass); 7.15 The Composer Performsl 730 Talk; 7.45 Australians on Record
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      205 2 metres. 19.84 metres and 4S-18 metres. 5-5.30 p.m. 19.81 metres and 49.3* metres. 5.30- night 19 94 metres and 49 38 metres. THURSDAY AFTERNOON 1.00 p.m. World News Headlines; 1.02 A Song for Sale; 1.15 Great White Way; 1.45 Yankee Quarter; 2.00 World News Headlines; 2U2 Yours lor the Asking;
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      122 2 YOUR LUCKY j Tortur- I PCCUt I BOIJN toJ.ix v.j hi •I X ev;-;i hritliant tnini v are uitty. htve a k-.n 1 humour, uni v Bttf pv Bcfeßtt a- ....1 .iv/ v rtrmxrlj ■:,'i. inter?>t.> ar> 1 Ukjc o<>.-.-. 1-0 talents can n; .-k.'- j »j ai Ht» standitr:
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    Protests over secret hearing
    351 3 SQUIRT INTO U.K. PRESS LONDON, Wed. A PROTEST was made m the House of Commons against ti the deepen of the Royal Commission, which is to in|oirt nto the best method off ensuring the freedom of the Britisli press, to take evidence m private. Lab UT
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    EISENHOWER ACCEPTS 'VARSITY COB
    166 3 EISENHOWER ACCEPTS 'VARSITY COB ASHINGTON, Wednesday. GEH Dwigbl D. Eisenhower. f»6. nan who led flctoriou a... d arm* a m Eu.ope durin. 1 '.Vir 11. tea disclosed he -:d the presidency of Ui.iversitv In N w York next year. v.er succeeds Mr la Mmraj Butler, who re- 1945 acd is
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    £50,000 SARI GIFT FOR INDIA
    55 3 £50,000 SARI GIFT FOR INDIA NO STUDDED sari £50X00 will Do sent Ua from B:ita»n shorttd to raise money for a foi •Untouchables." Dr Riuh Frazer of a medical missknIndfei for yerrs. During --cl laminc the Ir.dians m she workri made t of the sari. Its twelve studded with uncut
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    3 DIE IN EXPLOSION
    34 3 squads, u-ing gas masks. T5 workers trapped ir. Army cold storage depc R l. n :3. pipes burst m three labourers were toe 75 workers rescued taken to hospital. Reuter
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    NO INTIMIDATION OF BURMA TRIBES
    251 3 LONDON, Wednesday. BURMA would welcome a British Parliamentary delegation to Burma to investigate and disprove suggestions that the Burmese frontier people were being intimidated m their approach to self-determination. This statement was made to the Secretary of State, Lord Listowel, by Thakin Nu, president of
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    BRITAIN TO PROTEST U.S.DECISION
    210 3 BRITAIN TO PROTEST U.S.DECISION Jap Whaling PTOKIO, Wednesday. L strongest possible protest will be made to the United States by the United Kin-dcm and Australia against the Ameri-can-authoris3d second Japanese Antarctic whaling expedition, it is learr.cd m British diplomatic circles This coincides with Japanese press leprrts that Nagasaki shipyards were
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    'WAR' ON JAPAN'S BLACK MARTS
    169 3 TOKIO. Wednesday. ,1 police arrests of big--•:-u k marketeers have wrated recently under sure. A police head- r sp lifsman has said that enforcement of price con•r be expected. Japanese police have *<* at least 94 Japanese sus:..V -t making 1,000,000 yen w the last
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    AMBIICA MAY HAVE TO TAKE LEAD
    621 3 Economic future of Europe WASHINGTON, Wednesday. FE United States probably will be forced to take a hand m planning the economic future of Europe despite the flat denial of the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. George C. Marshal], of any American initiative. This arises
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    U.S. WAR CHIEF'S WARNING
    193 3 U.S. WAR CHIEF'S WARNING WASHINGTON, Wednesday. „TIHE U.S. Secretary of War, Mr. 1 A Robert Patterson, pointed to Communist expansion abroad and American occupation responsibilities and declared the U.S. Army would be left "totally without means to meet an emergency" if the House of Representatives budget cut for the War
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    N.Z. SCOUTS VISIT U.K.
    28 3 A party of 233 New Zealand Boy Scouts, who arrived m Britain on a six-months' visit, will help British farmers with the harvest. Reuter
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    BIGHONGKONG SMUGGLING
    206 3 CANTON, Wednesday. A SMUGGLING racket involving goods worth £^,500,000 monthly has been uncovered here with the charging: of Van Pei-i, a hotel manager, with the use of Chinese "naval craft" to smuggle radios, foreign medicines and other goods into Canton from Hong Kong, according to a spokesman of
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    TYRE THEFTS IN PARIS
    70 3 PARIS, Tues. ANY manufacturer who could produce good locks for automobile tyres would find business brisk m Paris. Tyre-stealirg has reached a point where many motorists carry their spare tyres inside their automobiles. The incentive lor stealing tyres is clear; a new tyre, on the olx-.k
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    DOG SAVES OFFICERS
    26 3 A dog which saved the lives of two British officers m Jerusalem received the Die kin Medal at ttie Royal Tournament at Olympia.
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    'Women the real heroes'
    76 3 QUOTING Mr. Winston Churchill, whom h? called: "that incomparable war leader," Lord McGowan, chairman of 1.C.1., des. cribcd the women of Britain as: "the real heroes of the war." he was speaking at an official 1.C.1, reception m the Connaught Rooms, London to staff returning to
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    U.K. FILMS ARE HITS IN EAST
    166 3 LONDON, Wednesday. DKITISH films are successfully competing m Far Eas'.erw markets, an official of the J. Arthur Rank organisation stated m London. Bombay and Calcutta voted "Henry the Fifth," "Caesar and Cleopatra" and "Caravan" as their favourite pictures; m Singapore there were packed cinemas
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    HUNGARY'S 'WAR OF NERVES'
    80 3 MR. Deszo Sulyok. the leader or the Hungarian opposition Freedom Party who recently described Hungary as a "police state." demanded m the Hungarian Parliament yesterday that "the war of nerves at present being waged m Hungary should be stopped." In a debate on ratification of the
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    GREEK SHIP SHELLED
    41 3 Albanian coastal baiteries fired on the Greel: naval vessel, Kerkyra, from Corfu, the Greek Ministry of Public Order statea m Athens. The Kerkyra was c^a^.. ing round Corfu when the Albanians fired ten shots without hitting her.- Reuter
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    ACTOR AT THE PLACE
    41 3 The King received the veteran cinema actor, Sir C. Aubioy Smith, at Buckingham Palace. Sir Aubrey presented tha King with a scroll on be'aalf cf the members of tlie British United Services Club of LoJ Angeles.- U.P.
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      26 3 TARZAN Jungle message B.r E^/^r /?f£^ Burroughs *S~)q J *«fl^^Lw^B^^^^V^M*^*'^ml I Tig" ADC MAM .-pep i TUBOII/"U JSr^iuQffJwKP^ \I// AUlj/Ql^l "fWUVINW A SMALL rrcCc Or OAKK«
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    The Sigaponre Free Press THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1947. Municipal Reform
    589 4 The Sigaponre Free Press THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1947. Municipal Reform OINGAPORE citixens will watch •J with interest the first public reactions of Commissioners to I the report of the Municipal Constitution Committee, which is to be debated for the •first time at tomorrow's meeting, at which Mr. Yap Pheng Geek
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    BOOK READERS IN THE FAR EAST
    1401 4 BOOK READERS IN THE FAR EAST The writer of this article, Mr. Donald Moore, is now back m S ngapore acting as Far Eastern agent for book publishers m Britain. He wrote this report after visiting most of the Far East whilst serving with the Royal Navy. nUKINGa tour of
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    Careers For Women
    29 4 *s*»fin riders from all over SrltaLi :.re w*w tia.s, t^ine* as ri n «Mli«oii esses. They arc s*en »*oji- an exercise to make their waists sapfrle.
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    CONGRESS KILLS THE UNIONS
    657 4  -  POLITICO By TU EARLY a quarter of a million American workers, mostly soft coal miners, are on strike m protest against the new labour lavs which Congress passed this ueek over the veto of Prr*sidrnt Truman. It is not only a pattest; it is the first
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    WHY THE EAR TH IS A MAGJSIET
    776 4  -  ProfJ.B.S. Haldane by OURING the 19th century physicists were constancy discovering new facts linking: together the different properties of matter. Thus electric currents were found to produce heat and magnetism according to defini el, s, and, converse- ly, temperature differences and changing magnetic
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    QUIZ
    53 4 1. Cresia Bun 1C l f you of-dancing, r or ac T tobogganing, ft n T'Give a "f^JS^tad 1 eat it, put it m CM* Play t? ma tfastiM 3. How many English c end m "tend.- 1 and y0 m them? jjvioj 4. Mayhem Is a c ,5i,-,sPoin&
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    MALAYAN TRADE INCREASES
    452 5 $40 million export jump Free Press Staff Reporter nipoß i trade rose by nearly $15,000,000 and export I [rack $40,000,080 m Singapore and the Malayan lnion i month compared with the April figures ;n \i :1 imports reached the total of $130,651,386 a ln t 115.295,710 m
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    JAIL FOR CARRYING A PISTOL
    86 5 JAIL FOR CARRYING A PISTOL on two charges r :.z x Japanese autoad d oi unla wI HI :r rounds of am\:.l;i> Road on the 2, ran Joon Teck I i seven years' im- the Singapore AsMr. Justice Brown >».: Mr. Lira Koon thai on the night or rtive was
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    FOOD SHIP ARRIVES
    118 5 thi E iinne] ship, Charon, :h:s morning with Bf Australian sheep, the first cipment after more than three thil 52a >:.eep are for civifass V- the Services. T > r has also brought a and Services **food an .::ciudes 1.445 cases of p I i «es of
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    JOHORE CYCLIST KILLED
    78 5 BBQSE 3AHRU, Wednesday— Max Mb Haji, was surprised Jei a :.:..s:abie told him that nad knocked down a cyclist JJJ bia ny. The cyclist died his injuries. nfing *o a traffic constable, •U.r. a^ seen driving "his lorry Jaian Ah Fook and, when '^--'x a stationary lorry
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    HID UNDER GIRL'S BED, JAILED
    122 5 RETURNING to her house m Bencoolen Street on June 6. Miss A. L. Rodrigues, a Singapore school teacher found footprints and a pair of men's shoes m her room. While she was wondering how they came to be there, she heard a scream m the
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    GENT KXPRESSES SYMPATHY
    58 5 Jhti Press i respondent- rbJ^* UJMPUR, Wednesday.— U wing telegram has been Governor, Sir Edward General Manager, I iilw*y: Ustraaed to hear of the Johore to the night «ato from Singapore and the and injuries which incurred. express my sincere sym- 'Se who have suffered 7 i
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    TONIGHT'S LECTURE
    27 5 IF SU* n mr *-n Krusenstierna will kttS** 1 on Theosophy and *<r r he Theosophical So--88* 1 8 Cairnhill Road, ■•■mg at 6.30 o'clock
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    CIGARETTEONS THE RATION
    35 5 Ire Food Control announced yesterto meet ration have been retailers. m not entitled to rp cigarettes from restomeni |J7 r refusing to supply ration should be to the Food Conr ution Department.
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    S'TORE MURDER MYSTERY
    75 5 rSTERY surrounds the death of the chief fcathi of Batu Pahat, 42-year-old Haji Masood bin H. Zainal Abeeden, who was murdered m Muscat Street, Singapore, on June 5. After an inquiry into the kathfs death, the Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday recorded a verdict cf
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    'ALL NONSENSE, SAYS OFFICIAL
    253 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN official of Singapore's Food Control Department described as "utter nonsense" the report (published m another newspaper) that 150 ex-Food Control inspectors were "suing the Government" for their dismissal. The dismissal of the Food Inspectorate staff was carried out with the approval
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    BALI SCHOONER RESCUED
    70 5 T::2 story of a rescue on the high sea was told m Singapore yesterday when the British oil tanker Ikwang arrived with a schooner m tow. Receiving a signal for help from the Indonesian schooner Tjahaja A pa, the tanker went to the rescue ;i found the
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    DRIVER GETS G.C.
    142 5 AWARDS for gallantry to four Servicemen m South East Asia have been announced. The George Cross is awarded posthumously to Driver Josepn Hughes, the George Medal to Sub-Conductor Eric Richard Robson, the MBE to Jemadar Sahdu Singh and the BEM to Sepoy Dharam Singh. Huirfces. a driver
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    TRUST CHARGE
    50 5 Low Bok Kirn, alias Low Sai Yin, was yesterday charged m the Second Police Oourt, Singapore, with criminal breach of trust of a tongkang valued at $4,750 m January, this year, at Singapore Bail of $5,000 was granted and the case was postponed until July 9 for mention.
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    BODY RECOVERED
    36 5 TAKING, Wednesday.— The body of Detective Tham, of the Taiping police, who was drorrned at Port Weld on Monday, wa: recovered ttris morning. The fvneral will be held at Tham's home town of Chemor.
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    REV. FATHER MORAN
    27 5 Rev. Father Moran of the Redemptorist Mission, In Thomson Road, who, together with Father Cosgrave, was interned by the Japs, has returned from Australia.
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    'THIS ISN'T JAP CENSUS-TAKING'
    470 5 'THIS ISN'T JAP CENSUS-TAKING THE Superintendent of Census emphasises that the forthcoming Singapore census is m no way similar to the Japanese census-taking, under which alterations m the membership of a household had to be reported to the nearest police station immediately a question brought up by a Singapore woman.
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    ATS MMBERSE coMMENDED
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    tclerks will figh for justice
    344 5 UNION MAGAZINE SAYS Free Press Staff Reporter ONE thousand two hundred copies of the first issue of Unity, "voice of the Singapore Municipal Services Union/ have told the Municipal Commissioners, members of the Union, and senior officers of the Municipality what is foremost m the
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    ROTARY OFFICERS INSTALLED
    106 5 Rotary International held its installation meeting with a dinner at the Adelphi Hotel last night when the retiring P;evident, Mr. S. H. Peek, handed over to Mr. S. S. Franklin. Mr. Peek said: "In thei^ troubled days, it is friendliness and neighbourliness that trie world needs more
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    Police trap armed gang
    74 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A SAWN off Service rifle, a bayonet and a dagger were discovered by the police when they ambushed five Chinese and arrested two after an exciting chase through Knala Lumpur's prefabricated housing: site m Sungei Besi Road last night.
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    U.K. BOOKS IN BIG DEMAND
    116 5 BRITISH book trade m the Far East has expanded during the last quarter century, and will make steady progress, regardless of foreign competition or trade conditions. This is the view of Mr. Jackson Marshall, Eastern representative of the publishing firm of W. Collins, Sons Co.,
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    2 days to deliver letter 5 miles off
    413 5 2 days to deliver letter 5 miles off Free Press Staff Reporter TT takes 48 hours for a -letter posted at Nee Soon Transit Camp, Singapore, to be delivered to someone m the Naval Base a distance of five miles. The Singapore postal authorities have explained to the Free Press
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    CHINA GIVES PRIVILEGES TO MALAYAN
    179 5 CHINA GIVES PRIVILEGES TO MALAYAN MALAYA'S representative, Dr. Frederick Benham, at the Shanghai meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, is exempted from paying taxes, and has been granted special privileges and diplomatic immunity. Others attending the conference are similarly exempted. This follows the
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    MONSTER U.S. JET BOMBER
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    BOMBER'S OWN JET FIGHTER
    231 6 I^iiS photo-diagram shows how a tiny single-seater jet plane is to be carried inside America's 112-ton Convair B 36 the world's biggest bember. The plan is to stow the paras'te fighter with fold"n<* wings inside the B 36's enormous fuselage. When at :acked Ly enemy fighters
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    10,000 CHINESE FOR MALAYSIA
    63 6 jHORE than 10.000 Chinese have ill been repatriated To their 1 rmer homes m Malaysia diirinc Lli last ei<*ht months by tl CN R R.A. Overseas Chin c i Embarkation contra at Amoy 1 i kien Province Repatriates in.iuded: Singapore 3.142. Malayan Union 4.40r>; French Indo-Chii
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    NO CHANGE IN 'GODLESS RGEIME'
    313 6 NO CHANGE IN 'GODLESS RGEIME' Catholic attack on Soviet WHILE the Communist Stale m Russia has adopted a more W liberal attitude towards the Church, it has undergone no change of heart, m the opinion of well-informed Catholic circles m the Vatican City. In the Jesuit organ, Civilta Cattohca, Father
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    THIRD TIME NOT LUCKY FOR HIM
    158 6 Fwas a case of "Third tun. 1 unlurky" fr 22-year-oid David Boyets. 01 Green-l:u.e Shankiin <lO.W>. wl.cn the Queen Elizabeth Co Iced at Ke* York. He was detained by U.S. Immigration officials a.s an alleged stowaway after what is believes to be another attempt
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    ENGLISH CRITIC OF BRITISH EXPORT GOODS
    89 6 ENGLISH CRITIC OF BRITISH EXPORT GOODS MR. Leslie Gamage, president of the Institute of Export, told the Chartered Institute of Secretaries Conference at Leamington Spa that far too many British good.; being sent overseas were poor m design, construction and material; some a disgrace to tne legend "Made m England
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    DUTCH-INDOSINEAN AIRWAYS SEEN
    66 6 DUTCH-INDOSINEAN AIRWAYS SEEN THE formation of an airways corporation m Indonesia with Indonesian and Dutch participation was predicted by Dr. A'.b<. P' sn: n. Royal Dutch airiir KLM president announcing the merging of the KLM and the KNILM m Batavia KNILM planes and employees will be taken over by the
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    20,000 TODDY-TAPPERS JOBLESS IN MADRAS
    30 6 Introduction of prohibition m eight districts of Madras Province has provided the Government with the problem of finding work for some 20.000 toddy- tappers- Reuter
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    HE CARRIED OUT EXPLOSIVES
    47 6 I lEUT. J. L. Mu*son. 23, of the First Battalion of the Argyll a^d Sutherland Highlanders serv m Jerusalem, has been a' arded the C?o r^ Medal for rrying from the station a suit- c of explosives which blew up liortly afterwards Reuter
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    MEN WILL DO WOMEN'S JOBS
    473 6 IMPORTANT changes m the number and kind of workers 1 available for industry m Great Britain are foreshadowed m an article m the Ministry of Labour Gazette. The article underlines the Government's fresh call for women to go into industry. Between 1946 and 1951 the
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    'MA' CREENE PILOTS ONW STEAMBOAT
    239 6 CINCINNATI 'Ohio. Wednesday. 'MA' GREENE, now 79. is re- cognized as the only woman pilot of commercial riverboats in 1 America and she has been doing that work for over 50 years. Now the United Stales Coastguard has renewed her licence again and Lieut. Com.
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    THRILLS ON 3rd DAY AT WIMBLEDON
    1197 7 THRILLS ON 3rd DAY AT WIMBLEDON Seeded U.S. Pair Eliminated From Vernon Morgan THRTITC WIMBLEDON, Wed. T ™P LLS \Z^Z? excitem^t usually confined to finals aJS2 attended the opening of the men's rfSLiKKE?^^ 1 11 11 Biu sidwen of Aitiihc pm Quee .^y d a packed gallery thronged the centre
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    CHINESE II SHOULD WIN TODAY SSAYAJIROA WIN IRISH DERBY
    351 7 CHINESE II SHOULD WIN TODAY SSAYAJIROA WIN IRISH DERBY B;. Ow Socc<i Reporter. |B sejond selection, seni t team, meet the 1 1 F s league soccer ■SI b Besar Stadium, incse championship hopa be rr.ade or marred by :.r r- a this game. 7i: today will put tea .e
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    TO RIDE IN INDIA
    19 7 I?* anesday. Harry :i sb jockey, leaves rabcr to lulHl a Id India next Reuter
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    Jimmy Doyle Dies After Knock-Out
    114 7 CLEVELAND, OHIO, Wed. JIMMY Doyle, welterweight boxing challenger, died as a result of injuries received when he was knocked oat last night by champion Ray Robinson. Doyle never regained consciousness after being knocked down m the eighth round of their fight last nizht. Doyle's head
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    BASKETBALL TOURISTS BEATPENANG
    294 7 BASKETBALL TOURISTS BEATPENANG Manila Chinese 51 Penanf Chinese 38 THE Manila Chinese basketball team gave one of their best demonstrations of the finer points of the game when they met the Penang Chinese at the Happy World stadium last night and won 51-38. In spite of the inclement weather, more
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    AMATEURS HAVE NO FREEDOM NOW
    391 7 AMATEURS HAVE NO FREEDOM NOW From Archie Quick LONDON, Wed. WHO would be a first-class amateur athlete these days? When I was Paying soccer it was a happy-go- ucky affair en 1 cving games, winning when we cSiw g ce g lebraUng m the > ev^n* But now these amateurs
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    Speedway Thrills
    54 7 Wembley gained their second^British Cup away victory m an exciting match at New Cross recently when they defeated New Cross by 47 points to 45. This picture shows Tommy Price ((Wembley), nearest the camera, Eric French (New Cross) centre, and Bill Gilbert (Wembley) on the outside m one
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    Leyland Scores 58 Not Out
    347 7 LONDON, Wednesday. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, meeting Gloucester at Nottingham, ll scored the highest total m all County championship games which started today. When stumps were drawn they had taken 419 runs for the loss of only six wickets off the strong Gloucester attack, Simpson being the highest
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    STRONG OVSEASER CHALLENGE IN CHEHIRE SOLF
    130 7 STRONG OVSEASER CHALLENGE IN CHEHIRE SOLF MERE, Cheshire, Wed. •THIRTY-EIGHT players qualified with aggregates of 151 or better for the final two rounds m the £1,400 professional golf tournament tfere and unless James Adams, popular Scotsman, ran hold his slender lead or another player comes along surprisingly it looks like
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    Island Club Golf Final On Sunday
    219 7 The final of the Island Club golf championship between Yong Loon Chon« and H. Tooke, over 36 holes, will be played next Sunday. Eight players qualified for the championships and results up to the final round were: Ist round: Yong Loon Chong beat Dr.
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    England win by 10 wickets
    263 7 England win by 10 wickets LONDON, Wednesday. ALTHOUGH they made a grand fight of it hi the second fi innings, South Africa could not prevent England winning the second Test by 10 wickets at Lord's today. Sooth Africa scored 252 m their second innings and England's needs were readily met
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    Scoreboard
    134 7 England Ist. Innings 554 fof 8 declared. South Africa Ist Innings 327, South Africa 2nd Innings. Melville b Ldricfa 8 Mitchell c Edrich b Wright 80 Viljoen b Edrich U Xourse b Edrich 58 Da wson c Edrich b Com pton 33 Harris c Yard ley b Compton 3
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    CHITYAR SOCCER AT STADIUM ON SUNDAY
    78 7 CHITYAR SOCCER AT STADIUM ON SUNDAY A CHARITY soccer match m aid n of Footballers' AntUT.B. Fund will be played on Sunday at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Admission charges will be $2, $1 and 50 cents. C.A. will meet the Rangers, kick-off at 5 00 p.m. The entira proceeds will
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    DAVIS CUP FIML TO START ON JULY 13
    55 7 BELGRADE, Wednesday. THE final of the European zonV m the Davis Cup lawn tennis competition between Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia will take place on July 13, 14, 15 at Lagreb. The winners meet Australia oc Canada for the right to challenge the United
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      274 7 Today's Sport SOCCER: Chinese Second Selection (Seniors) vs. R.A.F., S.A.F.A. league 2nd round, Jalan Besar Stadium, 5.15 p.m. Free Press Cros*?y<?*d No. 134 CLUES ACROSS 1. A lunatic asylum (6); 6. Medicine to cause vomiting (6); 7 and 5. Down. Preacher who originated the first Sunday school m London (7,
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    1.000 DIE IN CHINA FLOODS
    170 8 1.000 DIE IN CHINA FLOODS CANTON Wed. MILE after mile of rich farm land was under water today In Kwangtung province. South China where more than 1.01)0 p?< ->[■> were estimated to have lost their lives as flood waters from rain-swollen rivers swept over the !ar.± leaving 500.000 destitute ar.d
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    39 8 picture. T"o railway salvage men are seen working araons the wreckaje of one of the four coaches of the niuht mail which was derailed on Tuesday ni?ht between Layansr Lavans and Sedanak en route to Kuala Lumpur.— Free Press
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    KILLED FOR A THRILL
    29 8 Oiiver Terpemng Jr., 16 confessed "thrill slayer"' ot four playmates, wa^s yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labour m prison at Ja/*iceon. Michigan U.P.
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    PENAL ISLANDERS TURN PIRATES
    256 8 BANGKOK, Wed. IT was revealed during a trial, just concluded m the Songkla Criminal Court, that virtually the entire staff of Siam's ill-famed Tarutao Island prison settlement was involved m piracy and murder. Reports reached the Bangkok Superintendent today that 14 defendants, including several settlement warders,
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    NYLON SMUGGLING
    38 8 Police trailing a gang, who smuggled nylons and imitation jewellery from America m the Queen Elizabeth, have found several hundred pounds worth of nylons, fountain pens and imitation jewellery m a house near Southampton docks.- Reuter
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    CHINA MAY LOSE BIG U.S. LOAN
    125 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THK U.S. $500,000,000 export and import loan earmarked for the Cninese Government will be allowed to expire on Monday, the U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. George Marshall, indicated to a press conference today. Mr. Marshall is scheduled to confer again with the
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    £100 million Colonial plan
    297 8 £100 million Colonial plan LONDON, Wednesday. ANEW Colon al Development Corporation, with .total borrowing powers of £100.000,000, is to be set up by the British Government to establish or assist m enterprises m the British colonies designed to increase their general pro ductive capacity. This was announced today m the
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    S'PORE-KL RAIL SERVICES RESTORED
    590 8 Wreck victims progressing, Free Press Staff Reporter ONE hundred salvage men, working 17 hours non-stop, succeeded by 10 o'clock last night m clearing the line between Layang Layang and Sedenak, where the derailment of the mail train from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night killed
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    UNO SHOWDOWN ON BALKANS?
    52 8 NEW YORK. Wednesday. THE United Nations Balkan Investigation Commission's report, made public today, holds Yugoslavia primarily to blame for support of the guerilla warfare inside Greece. The Commission's findings and recommendations are expected to precipitate a showdown between Russia and the Western Powers m the Security
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    'TOINDWIAS' BILL BY JULY 7
    220 8 'TOINDWIAS' BILL BY JULY 7 LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government will present the bill which is to create the dominions of Hindustan and Pakistan to Parliament on Monday, July 7. This date is subject to lastminute alteration, but on the assumption that plans go according to schedule, it is probable
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    COACHES OFF THE RAILS
    83 8 COACHES OFF THE RAILS picture. mis is one 01 me iour coacnes of the Singapore -Kuala Lumpur night mail which was derailed on Tuesday night. Sabotage is suspected. It was found that the rails had been tampered with, and fisholates removed. Train looters have been active m Johore m recent
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    BIG TURNOVER IN OIL SHARES
    474 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Wtdnesi;,! ON the London Stock Exchange tuda> <.<;- o^r, or red a feature on an otherwise quiet and dull t r writes Reuter's financial correspondent. The tummr oils was quite considerable v. it h Anglo liar, an- «J Burmans again featured
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    RAF WAR STORIES
    44 8 The appeal made by the Air Historical Branch, Whitehall, to ex-members of the Royal Air Force to send details of war experiences has been satisfactory, but the Air Ministry m renewing the appeal say they cannot have too much material.- Reuter
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    DOCTOR'S DEATH DIARY
    141 8 Continued from Page One giving evidence, said that Dr. Houston had been co-operative during their investigation, and seemed to regret having destroyed the organs which are normally used m tests tor morphine. When he carried out the post-mortem, Dr Houston d dn't know of the suspicion that
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    430,000 FRENCH MINERS NOW OUT ON STRIKE
    144 8 PARIS. Wednesday. "S protest against the Government's "austerity bill,*' wh.*n was adapted by the Upper Chamber today by 140 votes to 103. tome 1^50,000 miners left the plus today to join 130.000 miners already on strike. Practically all German prisoners of w.ir employed
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    THREE CARS IN COLLISION
    57 8 An RAF truck, packed with employees on their way to Seletar this morning, struck the rear of a saloon car while negotiating the corner of Upper Serangoon Koad into Yeo Chu Kang Road. The impact threw the saloon car forward, hitting another cai. before it crashed
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    RUBBER PRICES
    183 8 ASFI.CIAI Market i jrr»sp:>ndtn» gives ih« prices oj rentier it II a.m toda\ a-* follows B'j'fr* >»llffl Ck op r fc o i Tone of Markfi Pull SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THh Mnsaporr hamtxr of (ommercf Rubber Aviation > pn<e» at noon yf>terda» Buvrr> MM k Oh No
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    E.C.A.F.E. TO RECONVENE IN NOVEMBER
    46 8 E.C.A.F.E. TO RECONVENE IN NOVEMBER i SHANGHAI WJ* T T HE V'■ Si East nally conclud I«• g J mectinc today. plenary sess the ir.tt* part N aflj The PhUippij i ed India. >iw QuestioJJJ cided to discus s? 1*» a commit;*' BH*OPi 'on .Tul.v 10
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      98 8 WEATHER Some bright periods WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Mainly fair this afternoon, with some bright periods. Isolated showers expected late this afternoon and evening, becoming fine tonight and fair tomorrow morning. Wind: Light south-easterly. I Sunset: 6.42 p.m.. sunrise 6.31 a.m. j Moonrise:
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