The Singapore Free Press, 7 July 1947
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Title Section18 1947-07-07 1 The Singapore Free Press I^4J{G£S7 AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 16.900. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1947 PRICE 19 CENTS.18 words
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Article, Illustration36 1947-07-07 1 :wr.i tva Duarte de Peron, •auiiful ex -actress wile of the •■;*»ntine President. whose rival in Rome was marred by clash outside the Argentine ■fawn between rival Fascist id {.'ommunist demonstrators. j.- is shortly visiting London.36 words
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656 1947-07-07 1 CHIANG CALLS FOR TOTAL WAR ON REDS 'JAP TROOPS AID REDS' 'Must retake Manchuria NANKING, Sunday. ALL-out war against the Communists was urged by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in a radio broadcast today, eve of the tenth anniversary of the SinoJapanese war. While the Generalissimo made only a veiled reference toReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 656 words
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Article239 1947-07-07 1 JERUSALEM, Sunday. k'ELVE armed Jews raided the Ford Motor company's premises in Tel Aviv today, held up 15 employees at KtoL point, and removed a mechanical lathe, fcighin? half-a-ton, to a waiting truck. The gunmen also *>k the ortice safe which is believed to have containedReuter - 239 words
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117 1947-07-07 1 HOT DOCTOR'S CONDITION STILL GRAVE IPOH, Monday. I i mm ■wptrinl that more than rmal pvidence will be taken > poring of the inquest, In this veek, on Mrs. I. T. c<- va'utl of the Ipoh 0 ting touna and on Dr. W. L. ikemorc who difd in hospital svrday117 words
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Article154 1947-07-07 1 LONDON, Sunday. SCOTLAND YARD is investigating the discovery of gelignite explosives in two unattended motor-cars one joutside the Fleet Street office of the Daily Express opposite Reuters head office and the other outside a block of flats i near the Houses of Parliament, Scotland Yard and154 words
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Article97 1947-07-07 1 STUTTGART (Germany), Sun. PERMAN officials predict they will be able to restore the full authorised food ration of 1,550 calories a day in the British and American zones as a result of the guarantee by the Urited States to ship in at least 300,00097 words
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Article45 1947-07-07 1 Free Prses Staff Reporter. rE expectant Chinese mother, who was shot last night at D o'clock by two masked Malays in her house in Kampong Bahru is progressing in hospital following an operation. Her unborn child is reported to have died.45 words
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Article232 1947-07-07 1 sumes as an Ordinary Meeting there is no reason why the Commissioners should not if they so desire resolve .that the public is admitted, in the same way as they resolved that the public should be excluded under Section 34 of the Municipal Ordinance." Free232 words
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Article24 1947-07-07 1 Dr. Trygve Ue, UNO SecretaryGeneral, has arrived at Oslo. He wrill stay in Norway for four weeks oo vacation. U.P.U.P. - 24 words
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Article32 1947-07-07 1 At an international air display, which took place on Sunday a* Brussels airport, the first pre^i ntation of the British jet-pla£e: "Vicker s Attacker" wa* found "highly impressive/ 1A.P. - 32 words
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Article72 1947-07-07 1 THE United States counted, at least, 384 deaths from accidents early Sunday, with one day remaining of the three-day Fourth of July week-end, AJP. reports from New York. Since Thursday night, 178 persons had been killed hi traffic accidents, 131 had been drowned, five lost their72 words
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Article, Illustration41 1947-07-07 1 LAHORE RIOT HAVOC Many persons were killed and scores of booses were set on Are dm in? the rtcent communal riots in Lahore. Picture shows s< «e of the houses putted by fire-raisers in the Shabahni Gate area of the town.41 words
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Article296 1947-07-07 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. AS two of the main trouble spots in the recent North- West Frontier Province rioting began voting on whether to join Pakistan or Hindustan, Mahatma Gandhi told a prayer meeting that he feared the new two-dominion India might be turned into twoU.P.; Reuter; A.P. - 296 words
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Article79 1947-07-07 1 NEW WORRY FOR CAROL MAGDA MAGDA LUPESCU lay gravely ill yesterday and former King Carol of Rumania distractedly paced the floor of the Rio de Janeiro hotel suite where they went through a "deathbed" marriage ceremony on Thursday. Both legal and medical problems beset them. Legally her petition to marryA.P. - 79 words
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Article186 1947-07-07 1 Aussie Sgt to fly here for case WHEN George Stanford, alias Thomas John Stanley Hammond alias Stanley. Hammond, 35-year-old Australian, was charged under the Fugitive Offenders Act of 1881 in the Second Police Court this morning, Insp. Yeo Bin Chiat said a telegram had been received from Sydney stating that186 words
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Article172 1947-07-07 1 DUTCH PAY $500,000 THIS WEEK Free Press Staff Reporter PAYMENT Is to be made this week of $500,000 compensation by the Netherlands authorities for the seizure early this year of six cargo ships belonging to Singapore Chinese merchants. Owners of the ships concerned and the Chinese Importers and Exporters Association172 words
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Article35 1947-07-07 1 SABOTEURS blew up 100 yards of the Alexandropolis-SoupH railway line In western Thrace, according to the Athens news agency. A military force pursued the saboteurs who fled into n wmrfMt region.- ReuterReuter - 35 words
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FEATURES
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Article, Illustration1051 1947-07-07 2 Hall Romney - COMPENSATION OUTLOOK Hall Romney s:»urce< London Letter by I COMMUNICAA TION I received this morning set me thinking how bleak is the outlook for those of you in Malaya who are hoping for adequate compensation from the Government in respeot of the losses you suffered during the war. I may1,051 words
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Article854 1947-07-07 2 AS I sit in my old armchair now. and close my eyes, and send my memory back over the crowded past, one thought continually recurs that I was once within an ace of becoming Prime Minister of England. In 1923 the Labour Party had to choose a854 words
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Article, Illustration234 1947-07-07 2 THERE were two faults in the bidding whk h resulted in North South missing an easy game. (As a matter of fact, when the club queei: dropped, declarer made five odd.) West's bid over S;uth's takeout double wjs. of course, a psychic. It was a dangerous bid,234 words
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Article327 1947-07-07 2 GREAT 'LITTLE SHIPS MODESTLY fonr her remarfatfjTji record, the "Kova! has again re.<u me^ i peace-time function of* ing trippers down^tJ Thames to th( r w holiday grounds at sj end, Margate and Ranu^ Her contribute.:-. r g^ t light for freedom shouijj pass unrecorded, she took"*]! London evacuee h;ic^327 words
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Miscellaneous757 1947-07-07 2 11l !isit>'— 8> 'HP *S__r _i *$?It**v "T* 188SMB8|JJS|8Ib cmpjinnnr News; 4.45 "Free and Easy" Light metres. 19.84 metres and 45.38 metres bINVj/U'UKk Variety; 5.15 To Town on Two s s 0 nm 84 mp rM and 49-,. Bill- Network Pianos— with Pete Johnson and Albert 53 pm 19 8I757 words
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Article471 1947-07-07 3 Germans Fight For France ifDUNC i.ermaib by the hundreds still are marching off to war. The French Foreign Legion, seeking to swell its rank> i r tr» nt line-action in Indo-China, and other trouble kpois 't tht French Empire, maintains four recruiting cenIres n Western Germany. Y ant era areA.P. - 471 words
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Article29 1947-07-07 3 A firm in Tasmania, Australia has announced it will send FieldMarshall Lord Montgomery the timber he needs for the floor of the new house he is building.29 words
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Article, Illustration575 1947-07-07 3 THE FUEHRER USED NO 'DOUBLES' Hitler myth is exploded JJOUR men who were in the tight, iron-ringed circle of Adolf Hitler's associates, have branded oft-heard stores of the Dictator's doubles a myth conjured up by the wishful thinking of Germany's war opponents. The four replied to a special questionnaire submitted575 words
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Article109 1947-07-07 3 A MOTION to debate the possible restoration of the Scottish Parliament has t>een tabled for discussion in the House of Lords by Viscount Elibank on a debate to be fixed. •The motion is in the terms: "To ask the Government whether, in view of the109 words
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Article27 1947-07-07 3 Film star Fredric March was defence witness in the mass "contempt Of Congress" trial in Washington of 16 members of an alleged Commur.ist organisation. ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article, Illustration137 1947-07-07 3 The remains of Richard I (Richard the Fearless) and of his son, Richard II (Richard the Good), Dukes of Normandy and Tenth Century ancestors of Britain's Plantagenet Kings, were disinterred last month for a Pontifical mass and reburied in the Abbey of Sainte Trinite, at Fecamp, Normandy. Picture shows the137 words
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Article93 1947-07-07 3 PFTY of Britain's largest manufacturers names that are house, hold words have opened factories in South Africa since the war ended, and dozens more are negotiating for industrial sites and building permits. They have taken at least £25,000,000 of neu capital into the Union. Another93 words
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Article214 1947-07-07 3 •IMJPOBTUK is a word to use witn caution in spatii. sror 1 wiring to the house of Don Juan, Spanish Pretender, that she "hoped to see Don Juan in Madrid when this Impostor has left," Senorita Osorio de Moscoso has iust .«cp*H i month's sentenceReuter - 214 words
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Article295 1947-07-07 3 TWENTY-THREE-YEAROLD Alfred Hemming paid down 1 his sayings of £75 to buy himself a baker's shop in KingVroad, London. His first week's takings were £30. He bought two other bakers' shops a year later, and because there was a flat vacant over the one at No.295 words
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Article103 1947-07-07 3 HIS SUIT TO MATCH HER STOCKINGS QC:I:;TISTS in Britain and £5 the Uis. are hurrying experiments to see which will be first to produce heavy coats and costumes and men's suits from nylon. A new factory in South Wales soon will be making enough nylon for manufacture into heavy cloths,103 words
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Article59 1947-07-07 3 CIX wives of top Nazis senxneed at Nuremberg are seeking revenge against Alfred Loriiz, sacked Nazi purge Minister of Bavaria, who put them behind barbed wire. The wife of Baldur von Scnirach, Hitler's youth leader, is bringing an action for wrongful imprisonment, and others, including59 words
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Article57 1947-07-07 3 DEOPLE standing in a toie queue at North-parade, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, thought a three-year-old boy was treating his doll unkindly when he threw it into the road. Sudenly a woman noticed biood and screamed: "It's a baby." She picked up the child, Peter Ludlam, 14-day-old57 words
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Article29 1947-07-07 3 Because of food shortage, the 10,000 officers and crew of American training crew squadron which arrived at Rosyth, Scotland, have been ordered not to dine ashore.29 words
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Advertisement25 1947-07-07 3 "Excitement Suspense Supercharged M —^L//t?. I"ButWs wi^ mounting suspense to a climax from I which the last drop of intensity is irr*fiz'" I —Minor. 125 words
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Miscellaneous7 1947-07-07 3 TARZAN Tarzan acts By Edgar Rice Burroughs7 words
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645 1947-07-07 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, JULY 7, 1947. A Task for the New Councils HOME people are already happily i^ pointing to the recent increases in the duties on liquor, tobacco and petrol as evidence that the Government has accepted this means of raising the additional revenue that is urgently645 words
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Article, Illustration1527 1947-07-07 4 GEORGE MURRAY - THIS IS YOUR COMMONWEALTH Reeinnins a new series: Tomorrow's Eldorado GEORGE MURRAY by The Free Press has secured a series of six articles on that much discussed subject the British Commonwealth written by six leading British journalists. Rapid changes in the Empire of old are taking1,527 words
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Article516 1947-07-07 4 AMONG the rour Cooperators who are going to America to study United States bakery methods is the man who keeps Greater London's bread supply up to scratch FREDERICK BATES, manager of the London Co-operative bakery, which bakes 70 million loaves a week, is also Bread Officer for516 words
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Article1035 1947-07-07 4 Frank Owen - Frank Owen by MASTERS OR ORPHANS OF THE STORM? in England are on the edge of the worst storm yet. As far as I can see there is no way round it. Nor can we turn and run before the wind. It is too late. We have got1,035 words
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Advertisement61 1947-07-07 4 QUIZ 1. "Paludrine" would probaWy be wanted by (a) a crossword puzzler; (b) a sick man in West Africa (c) a church organist (d) an elephant who was too lazy to walk, can you say which is cor2. What are the seven deadly sins? 3. Why are deformed idiots described61 words
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LOCAL NEWS
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Article288 1947-07-07 5 Battle to conserve rice stocks Free Press Staff Reporter DATS are a grave problem in Singapore, and are F* receiving considerable attention in the drive of the Special Commissioner, Lord Killearn, for more food for the British populations of South-East Asia. Mrs. E. W. Bentley,288 words
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140 1947-07-07 5 FOREIGN OFFICE POST FOR S'PORE MAN MR Michael Wright. Deputy to Special Commissioner in B Eas: Asia, Lord Kilieam. is rt •:urr.mg to England on Wednesday t>v air. He haa oeen promoted to oe an Assistant Under Secretary of Stale at the Foreign Office. Mr Wright was one of the140 words
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Article25 1947-07-07 5 IN BO AC FILM fAMLHAMEN took STIOtB by QoodUgbt at Princes Restaunm as: night for a film to illus*rv" he British Overseas maya Corporation route.25 words
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303 1947-07-07 5 S'pore sending lizard to London Zoo Free Press Staff Reporter A FINE specimen of the monitor lizard trapped during the rainstorm last Thursday afternoon by the Museum authorities will be sent to the London Zoo as one of many exhibits collected in Borneo and Malaya in recent months. The lizard303 words
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Article204 1947-07-07 5 EXPENSIVE TO LIVE IN NEW GUINEA BITTER compiaints of the high cost of living in New Guinea are being made by miners and planters who have gone there from Rabaul. Typical prices they quote are: bread, ss. a loaf; a small joint of roast beef, from 12s. to 14s; tea,Reuter - 204 words
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Article114 1947-07-07 5 rE annual meeting of the Y.W.C.A.. Singapore, will take place on Thursday, at 5 p.m. at 11 Leonle Hill Road. All members are invited to hear the report of the work done during the first year of re-esta-blishment, and to elect by ballot the new general114 words
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Article289 1947-07-07 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE school children are studying the terms of seven scholarships offered by the National Government of China to students in Malaya and Borneo but many are not impressed. The reason is that these scholarships are worth only CN$lOO,OO a month which289 words
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Article, Illustration93 1947-07-07 5 MAJOR C. L- PROUDFOOT, who was Deputy Assistant Director Public Relations, SEALF HQ, until the return recently of the ADPR, Col. Roy Oliver. Major Proudfoot left by the Empress of Scotland for India on Friday* On his return, he will rejoin his regiment, the Second Royal Lancers at Seremban. These93 words
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Article74 1947-07-07 5 WORKING from tattered books retrieved after Jap evacuation a British colonel in Sydney has reconstructed the laws of British North Borneo. He is English barrister Maxwell Hall, 62 and he plans to return to Borneo with the reprinted laws next month as acting Attorney-General. Hall thinks 50Reuter; AAP - 74 words
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Article, Illustration37 1947-07-07 5 This six-foot reptile, captured alter a rainstorm in Claymore Road, Singapore, is going to the London Zoo, together with other specimens of Malayan and Borneo fauna which are being collected by Mr W- Frost.37 words
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Article318 1947-07-07 5 Where Pakistan is not problem Free Press Staff Reporter rpHERE will never be a Pakistan in China. This is the view held by Mr. S. I. O. Alsagoflf, President of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society who recently spent two months in China visiting Muslim Chinese who are estimated to number318 words
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Article77 1947-07-07 5 A TRADE Fair will be held at the Great World Amusement Park from July 26 to Aug. 9. It was intended to hold the Fair seven months ago, but it was hejkl over until goods became more plentiful. The Fair, which is being si onsored77 words
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Article52 1947-07-07 5 ON Wednesday, a new child feeding centre will be opened at No. 61, Lorong 33, Geylang, the premises having been very kindly arranged for by Mr. Hassan.' Mr. and Mrs. Hassan have also agreed to be responsible for the arranging of a team of voluntary workers to run52 words
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Article51 1947-07-07 5 A MEMORIAL service for Miss Catherine Jackson, the American missionary who died in the internment camp in Singapore during the occupation, was held at her grave in the Bidadari Cemetery yesterday evening. American missionaries and friends attended the service which was officiated by Bishop E. F.51 words
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Article174 1947-07-07 5 PORT POLICE TO BE EXPANDED Free Press Staff Reporter EXPANSION of the Singapore Port Police has been decided on. It is intended to absorb into the Port Police the Railway Police. The Railway Police are engaged on duty at Singapore railway stations and sidings. With the appointment of Mr. H.174 words
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Article506 1947-07-07 5 Substitutes for rice easy to get REPLACEMENTS for rice are the subject of an informative article in 'A Malayan Guide to Good Health', an illustrated booklet published by the Public Relations Department, Malayan Union. The article admits it is not always possible to get enough rice to satisfy the energy506 words
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Article, Illustration47 1947-07-07 6 Women play their part in the British Forestry t«.«mrM«a lt(B stant vigilance against forest fires. These pictures show {^Z] two women employees in a fire tower on the lcjk-otu for*-! breaks and (left) one of the women, her duty done. descendsTu walks home hi the Catherine darkness47 words
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Article610 1947-07-07 6 FEARS OF BLITZ FROM THE ARCTIC L7j& <zir forre w wow 'inadequate AMERICA'S best military aiimea look over the Arctic top A of this jittery world when they talk of a possible aew war— *nd they say at this time the United States hasn't gat its euard up, reports U.P.610 words
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Article344 1947-07-07 6 "I HAVE no hesitation in suggesting that a look at the windows of the photographers' shops will, for the most part, only show a host of faces the majority of which are as like each other as so many peas in a pod, and almost all of344 words
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Article50 1947-07-07 6 BRITAIN'S youngest bishop. Dr. William Bradfield, 48, Bishop of Bath and Walls, told T aunton, Somerset, Rotary Club that if the Day of Judgment were announced the Church of England "would probably appoint a committee to decide what should be done about it." i «J> t>'«50 words
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Article259 1947-07-07 6 A IX the master keys as well as cell and other locks in Wands worth Prison, 'London, may be changed because of the discovery of a great jail break plot for which duplicate prison keys were to be used. It is now known that two259 words
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Article109 1947-07-07 6 MRS. Elizabeth Eeddon, 73, thinks she has besn stung 500 to 600 m times by scorpions that "never did me any harm," although the scorpion has killed almost twice as many Arisonans as all the rattlesnakes, black widow spiders and gila monsters which frequent that State.A.P. - 109 words
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Article547 1947-07-07 6 Eva enchanted the Spanish MADRID was enchanted with Dob Maria Eva Duane fc Peron's visit. Clad in a series of stylish and lau« models from the Argentine and seen in a setting of brilliant fiestas, Dona Maria Eva, ostracised Spain's first distinguish foreign visitor in many years, got a riotous547 words
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Article51 1947-07-07 6 **UE was the finest type of gentleman," said gity. haired Nurse Lsmma Wotidridge, ipmking of the patieni who left her £26,000 in his will She had nursed the pauen; Mr. John Taylor, for over !5 yean since he came bark tm Australia a rich, but stck51 words
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Article154 1947-07-07 6 'FOUR WIVES' SEQUEL: ESTATE SUIT THE first case a: its kind nIH written in British legal bun if. as expected. th< estate tfl murdered woman Ifi eoiilMiW I the Ot.4Jioery DtviltOQ of theap Court. The question ar:s<.^ from "four wives" case which with the inquest verdictt W week. When tbe154 words
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86 1947-07-07 6 SHE THOUGHT C.-in-C. WAS PUBLIC HOUSE THIS is the Lord Fras«r you care w bring al r; of your girls to a bous party?" n > The telephone sup«'-» to the invitation was icy. sorry, but' we don't Ik of thins" She did not kt,u ■-> speaker was Admiral e86 words
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Miscellaneous19 1947-07-07 6 JAINt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava s^ Ic^ v s. v sJ?^^ teu^^r^i T T M|19 words
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Article, Illustration454 1947-07-07 7 TANDBERG OUTPOINTS JOE BAKSI ferees in the ring. Now we feel very sore about Swedish boxi<ng referees." Ray Arcel, Bafcsi's trainer, echoed Wolfson's opinion. Lew Burston also thought Baksi would Have been declared winner if the matcn had been held in the United States. nw STOCKHOLM, Sunday. QLLE TANDBERG, Swedish454 words
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Article220 1947-07-07 7 HARDING 1 1 7 v CHINESE R.A.F. Changi Ist I V MUm S C.R.C. in a game played x: Hor.g Lim Green ibc Airmen scoring 312 for the Chinese total of 253. Om tiarne was the fine ri nuance of E. Harding m j Bates hit hard for -on bowled220 words
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310 1947-07-07 7 rS brothers, M.C. Umapathy of the Medical College and M.C. Kailasapathy of Raffles College, played an outstanding part in the Ceylon Sports Club's victory by 62 runs over the S.C.C. on the padang yesterday. Umapathy scored 48 when the Ceylonese batted first for310 words
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79 1947-07-07 7 GLASGOW, Sun. THE Scottish section of the British Bcxin^j Board of Control, drawing a cry of "I am disgusted" from Dado Marino's manager, on Sunday approved the second postponement of the Honululu fighters world flyweight title bou*here with champion Jackie Paterson. The fight was moved upA.P. - 79 words
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Article76 1947-07-07 7 A SPLENDID bowling performance by Schubert was mainly rcsp^-nble for the Singapore Re-creati-cn Club's win over A. N. Fiber's XI by 27 runs on the padang ycslertiaySchubert took five wickets for IS runs, and was also the highest scorer for the Recs with 19 runs.76 words
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Article435 1947-07-07 7 l-r.m Vernon Morgan. LONDON. Sun. Jl S S College. Cambridge, scored a anno fn Britain in n miei award at Henley's v-su>rciav by capturing Chantage Cv.p for eights, Bnala the Delftache BoOai d after a magnificent in I a quarter lengths in I the f.nalsReuter - 435 words
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68 1947-07-07 7 PARRYING half a dozen tennis v rackets Jack Kramer, winner of the men's singles championship at Wimbledon, left London airport tonight. Kramer said he was going back to the United States to prepare for the defence of the Davis Cup at Forest Hills. Commenting onReuter - 68 words
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Article211 1947-07-07 7 LONDON, Sun. OXFORD, meowing Cambridge in the annual Inter- Varsity crickcL match which began at Lord's ycst:rday. baltod first and scared 384 for five wick:ts. Pawson scored 135, while Keighlcy was unlucky to miss his century by one run. Th? Oxfcrd captain, M. P. Donnelly, made 81.Reuter - 211 words
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426 1947-07-07 7 JARDINE ADVOCATES SMALLER BALL FOR CRICKET LONDON, Sunday. DOUGLAS JARDINE, the former England Test captain who toured with a team to India during 1933 and 1934 and was England's captain during the great "bodyline" controversy during the Australian trip in 1932, has made an appeal in the London Times forReuter - 426 words
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Article, Illustration38 1947-07-07 7 Sgt. L. Seng beat Inspector S. K. Sundram in the 100 yards in the most thrilling finish of the day at the Police annual athletic meet on Saturday. Inspector J. Sanderson, winner of ihe Javelin event.38 words
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Article374 1947-07-07 7 C. A,, Rangers Win Charity Games THE Chinese Athletic junior team made merry at the expense of the Indian Athletic "B", scoring threegoals in each half to win by six goals to nil in the first of the two charity soccer matches at the Jalan Besar stadium yesterday in aid374 words
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74 1947-07-07 7 Ray Robinson To Fight Sebastian On August 19 MANILA, Sun. FILIPINO promoter Jes Cortes said that Ray (Sugar) Robinson will defend his title in Manila on August 19 against Flashy Sebastian from Honolulu. The Manila Chronicle said that Robinson, his manager and a partner are arriving in Manila at theA.P. - 74 words
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Article207 1947-07-07 7 PUR sixes out of a score of 55 ru"s by Ung Ju Chick was the feature of a low-scoring game at Paya Lee;/ yesterday when the Johore Crickr-t Club scored 96 runs to the 33 runs put up by the RAF (Paya Lebar) Scores: JOHORE207 words
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Article563 1947-07-07 7 All Wimbledon Titles To U.S. WIMBLEDON, Sunday. HOPES of an Empire victory breaking the American stranglehold on the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships were dispelled yesterday when Colin Long and Mrs. Nancy Bolton of Australia, after winning the first set from John Bromwich, Australia's No. 1 player, and Louise Brough ofReuter - 563 words
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Miscellaneous285 1947-07-07 7 JOLLILADS WiR 1-0 JCLLILADS Athletic Unicn beat ths RAF (8 MT. EU) by one goal to nil in a friendly soccer match played at Macpherson Road ground yesterday. Salahudin sccred for the Jollilads after half-time. The match was refereed by Mr. M. P. Samy and the teams were: JoMilads: Sithambram;285 words
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Article, Illustration19 1947-07-07 8 Gathering In a different kind of harvest daffodils— in a nursery near Aberdeen. (Aberdeen Press and Journal Picture).19 words
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Article279 1947-07-07 8 BANGKOK, Sunday. A SIAMESE Government communique issued last night declared that Siam would not consider sponsoring with France a Pan-South-East Asia Union unless the French agreed to the independence of Laos and Cambodia, States of Indo-China under French administration. The union or consultative committee for economicA.P. - 279 words
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Article94 1947-07-07 8 PARIS, Sunday. rpHREE French aircraft crashed 1 today at three different air festivals causing a total of five casualties one dead and three seriously injured and one slightly Injured. Capt. Alfred Estot-Harry, who was competing in an aerobatic display before a crowd of 50.000 atU.P. - 94 words
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Article60 1947-07-07 8 fpHE United States Government JL announced in Washington yesterday a move to make it easy for American merchants to Import goods from Japan. Customs appraisers at various U.S. ports of entry have been instructed to assess merchandise arriving from Japan and adjacent occupied islands at its60 words
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Article88 1947-07-07 8 Li BERLIN, Sunday. rERMAN workers In the mounJ* tainous Aue area where the Russians reputedly are mining pitchblende, from which uranium is extrac'td, have angrily demon/rated for the right to strike against food shortages. The American licensed Tasesspiegel said that workers complained that their rations88 words
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213 1947-07-07 8 BRITISH AGENT PLEADS FOR TWO GERMANS LONDON, Sunday. /X>L. R. H. Best, a British Vj agent who was kidnapped by the Germans in a sensational raid on Holland's neutral soil early in the war and spent over four years in German concentration camps, today made a strong plea tor theU.P. - 213 words
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Article53 1947-07-07 8 The U.S. State Department has announced that Mr. Walter A. Foote, Consul-Gen eral at Bativa, will be replaced by Mr. Charles A. Livengood, who has been Counsellor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy In Rome. Mr. Livengood Is expected to leare for Batavia by plane aboutA.P. - 53 words
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Article193 1947-07-07 8 /CHURCHES all over the British Commonwealth yesterday held special services in answer to the King's summons to a national day of prayer. In Singapore and the Malayan Union, services were held in churches, mosques and temples. The Kin? himself, with the Prime Minister, Mr. ClementA.P. - 193 words
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204 1947-07-07 8 DAMASCUS, Sunday. SYRIA tomorrow holds her first parliamentary election by direct adult suffrage. It is also the first election since the -winding up of the French mandate and withdrawal of foreign troops in 1944. Polling is expected to pass off quietly with victory204 words
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Article192 1947-07-07 8 PORTLAND, Sunday piGHTER planes in at least two sections of the United States were held in readiness today to chase and DhotoeraDh the mvsterious "fiving discs" which have now been -sighted in 33 states. The Army and Navy have disclaimed the theory that the discs192 words
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Article37 1947-07-07 8 The United States Minister to Nanking, Mr. Walter Butterworth, left by plane on Sunday for Washington for conferences with Mr. George Marshall, which possibly will decide the United States DOIICV towards fThina A P37 words
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61 1947-07-07 8 Notice -a fcereby &<* Transfer Books of tin? a» >•- be ctoMd from 7tb Jut *> W* l»«r. both d*ys inclusive, for prapantlon of Interest V^wrespwH of interest du< on the Stock for the current bai^*** *Jg 30th July IM7. whicb wll. be J*61 words
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Article201 1947-07-07 8 U.N. body may take action WITH the An*lo-French sponsored economic «J rulesTaiid receive a report on the recent Shanghai conference. Interest in Thursday's meeting otherwise attaches to the Russian altitude. At the closing meeting in Shanghai, the Russian delegate said it was possible that theReuter; U.P. - 201 words
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Article, Illustration31 1947-07-07 8 MR. V. C. COLLON, Deputy Municipal Sewerage fcn«uu*r K Singapore, who addressed yesterday's meeting of the MaUyu Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers heM at tfc AdeJphi Hotel Roof Garden.31 words
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Article103 1947-07-07 8 HOBABT, Sunday. REAL preparedness for war is essential today as it never was before, said Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, addressing 400 ex-officers at a lunch here today. The Empire would get no breathing space next time. 4 Montgomery said he did not* think a newReuter; A.P. - 103 words
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Article159 1947-07-07 8 rpHE death took place yesterday 1 morning at the age of 69 of a I prominent .member of the Eurai sian community, Mr John Francis Joseph Ess, founder-mem-ber of tiie Singapore Recreation Club. The funeral was held yesterday evening a£ Bidadari ceme- i tery and was159 words
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Article55 1947-07-07 8 America was first and Britain second on the list of Indonesian Imports for January, 1947, according to a Batavia survey. The United States sent imports valued at 8300,000 guilders; Britain supplied 5.000,000 guilders worth. During that month, Singapore sent 2,200,000 guilders worth of products into Indonesia,U.P. - 55 words
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Article304 1947-07-07 8 Free Frew Staff Reporter rpKE Deputy Municipal Sewerage, Engineer, Mr c C. Collon, said on Saturday that the crowds of houses in the town area of Singapore made mofai sanitation impossible. He was speaking at the meeting i! the Malayan Association of the Institution of Civil304 words
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Article49 1947-07-07 8 A SPECIAL Market corr^soosS C«v« tMe prices of rvfctetl 11 *jb today as follows. No 1 R.S.S. Spot Nc 1 R.S.S. to© in bates, July 374 No t R.S.S fob in bates. Inly H\ No S R.S.S. fee In boles, July U% Mf Tsm al Market: Qutei49 words
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Article45 1947-07-07 8 Pilgrims kneeling in the <** square in Paris cried Vive *'ope" and "Vive la France y* terday, as toudspeafcers rt-v& mitted a message addressed x Friday by Pius xn to F^ Catholics, in hon -ur of their I* teenth national Enchais"/: C«gress.- U.P.U.P. - 45 words
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Article37 1947-07-07 8 Tenders are invited for the "W ol 00 Inch Nominal S» &**> Stn^ Pipes. Joint* A Sped*^ the Water Departmnt Tender Form and Spedflc»uoo6 jfuntrtpal Secretariat. Rx» No WTenders cio«e— 4 prr Wed^»a« 17th September. IM737 words
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Miscellaneous67 1947-07-07 8 WEATHER Dull, cloudy; some rain WEATHER report for the nest If 24 hoars compiled by the BJLF: Cloud? with occasional rain today. Fair tomorrow. Wind: Light *nd variable. Sunset 8.-W p.m., snrlH i.33 a.m. Moonrise 9.54 p.m., maon— j 16.13 a.m. Temperatures: Max. 89.5 def., min. 7i deg. Relative humidity67 words
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