The Singapore Free Press, 16 July 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN Mala YA v U.007. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947 PRICi ltt CENTS.
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    COMMONS'LAST WORDS ON INDIA
    1039 1 COMMONS' LAST WORDS ON INDIA 'Utmost help and sympathy LONDON, Tuesday. THE Indian Independence Bill, which will create the two new dominions of India and Pakistan on August 15, was given its third reading without a division in the House of Commons tonight after just over three and three-quarter hours
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    SEAC GEKERALS AS INDIA'S NEW C-in-Cs
    73 1 SEAC GEKERALS AS INDIA'S NEW C-in-Cs IS] W DBLHI, Tu;*clay. auMDft has'in- Sir William Slim, oandei of the Hth Allied Land Forces. I Asia, Ami A.D.C to I be C 3mm an d er- in Armv of the new I India, xao learned -a. r iied unofficially Pr^pJc Messcrvy r
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    68 1 V m HiJtabeth. who is on a i tlt -.Und with her fiance. Vb iiio Mountbattcn. and lltnts will todav receive iam «.»f the City of Edinir ess b here seen re- bran Um mvjm of the y .uiji of Windsor. I icrtfl t-n closed in a iwrini i nicmu
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    SAFE FLYING
    17 1 Md troop-carrying e R A F. flew 7,000,- May without accl- death or casualti- Reuter
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    15,000 GREEKS
    80 1 1 5,000 GREEKS ATHENS, Tuesday. THE Left Wing E.A.M. alleges that 15,000 Greets have been arrested in the Government's five-day round-up of political opponents and adds that the arrests are not over. Military dispatches said Greek troops had halted the advance of guerillas stabbing across the Albanian border toward the
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    RUBBER RISES
    48 1 THE price of rubber in Singapore jumped 1% cents a pound i this morning. Yesterday's price t 2714 cents for RJ5^. Spot I Loose rose to 29 cents, and the price of No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales lot August rose from 28^4 to 30 cents.
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    500,000 DANCERS
    25 1 A new floor is to be laid at the Assembly Hall, Wembley, where half-a-million dancers have worn cut the flcor in ten years.
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    Russia warns Austria on U.S.
    322 1 MR. George Marshall, Secretary of State, told Governors of the 48 American states at their conference at Salt Lake City yesterday that America must protect its "incalculable stake" in Europe by enlarged economic aid, or see the Continent turn away from democracy. From Vienna, a
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    NEW BRITISH N.E.I. CONSUL-GENERAL
    49 1 The British Foreign Office announced last night that Mr. F. M. Shepherd, British political representative in Finland, had been appointed Consul-General at Batavia with the rank of Minister, says Reuter. Mr. J. M. L. Mitcheson, in charge of Batavia Consulate-Gencrji. has been transferred to Bombay.
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    WAR CONTROL URGED FOR UK
    170 1 HASTINGS, Tuesday. \|R. Arthur Deakin. general secretary of the British A Transport and General Workers' Union, the world's largest union, today called for a return of many war-time measures, including a limited policy of direction of labour, to lead Britain out of her grave economic
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    CHIEF INSPECTOR IS CHARGED
    188 1 pHIEF Inspector Claude William Roberts, formerly offlcer-in-charge of the Singapore Food Control Inspectorate, pleaded not guilty in the Second District Court this morning to a charge of abetting the commission of the offence of concealment of controlled rice by a Chinese. The charge against him read:
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    CHURCHILL IS RECOVERING
    56 1 MR. WIN6TON CHURCHILL'S secretary said today that he was recuperating slowly but steadily from his operation. "It is possible that he will be able to come up to London for odd days quite soon, but I have no idea when ho will be able to resume his
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    $1 worth ot meat a fortnight
    64 1 LONDON newsDaoers informed their readers in banner headline news yesterday that, for the first time, everybody can buy 2s 4d. ($1 Malayan) worth of meat during a two-week period instead of the usual Is 2d worth each week. The Food Minister, MivJohn Strachey, said
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    104 SECRET GANGS IN SINGAPORE
    240 1 104 SECRET GANGS IN SINGAPORE Free Press Staff Reporter WHERE are in Singapore at present 104 'highly organised A and dangerous" criminal gangs operating under five main groups, the C.I.D. Chief, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr." Wiltshire blamed the suspension of the Societies Ordinance
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    36 ARRESTED MEN RELEASED
    40 1 The 36 men arrested on Monday night in Sago Lane while they were paying a funeral rites call on a man found stabbed in Albert Street on July 11, were released by the Police last night.
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    NEW FIGHTING AS JAVA TALKS CONTINUE
    177 1 NEW FIGHTING AS JAVA TALKS CONTINUE BATAVTA, Wednesday. rfiHE Indonesian Premier, Dr. 1 Sjarifuddin, is nying back to Jogjakarta this morning to consider with his Cabinet colleagues a repty to Dutch proposals raised at yesterday's conference with the Dutch Commission General. Reports of increasing clashes, including a skirmish west of
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    TWO TOWNS HIT BY QUAKES
    80 1 BOGOTA, < Columbia Tuesday. THE Columbian Government to--1 day rushed medical supplies and assistance to quake-stricken Pasto, in southern Columbia, cut off since yesterday from communication with this capital by a series of tremors feared to have caused heavy casualties and damage. Unofficial reports say
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    EXTORTION ARREST
    35 1 The Police arrested a Chinese yesterday while allegedly attempting to extort $100 from a Chinese businessman. The man arrested was alleged to have received two payments of $100 previously, from he same shop.
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    LATHAM TO RETIRE
    30 1 Lard Latham is to retire from the leadership of the London County Council this month. His successor will be elected in the I next two weeks.- Reuter
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    WE ARE LUCKY
    1044 2 Around Singapore Shops ANNE and little Sarah have just returned to Singapore after over five years in England, and wandering around with them and observing Anne's wideeyed surprise made me realize, more than ever before, how lucky we in Singapore are, in many ways. Anne has a
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      751 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom today BORN today, you are an energetic person who is happiest living in the hustle and bustle of large cities where you can find outlets in a varying number of activities. While you are a deep student of the arts, science and
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    ITALIANS TO AID BRITISH SALVAGE BID
    139 3 LONDON. Tuesday. ITALIAN divers, using special eta tor dealing with fcs in deep wait, are to try rate a cargo of 2.500 tons of copper, -vortr. many thousands of pQWMta from a ship sunk near bit V*':g;h! GsiOf new methods such as BUtkk salvage
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    T.B. INCIDENCE UP IN U.S. ZONE IN GERMANY
    98 3 T.B. INCIDENCE UP IN U.S. ZONE IN GERMANY BERLIN, Tuesday, i ULOSSSt the No. 1 di--1 «e problem in Germany, -d jver 50 per cent, in the •can Occupation Zon e the iS S 3 D clars repcrt says that close to tsea of open infectious are walking: the "lSir
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    JAP FRUIT FOR BRITAIN
    31 3 y-« i including the first *ai export to Britain of oranges, totalling 50.000 s left Japan fcr the Wptneni also includes I ran silk, mostly for Reuter
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    STRAY SHOTS KILL 4
    34 3 Four persons were killed and half-a-dozen injured by stray bullets in Calcutta on Monday, but a marked improvement was noted generally in the communal situation with no large-scale riots- U.P.
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    BURMA CLAIM TO ASSAM
    186 3 RANGOON, Tuesday. DK Tin Aung, noted Burmese writer and legal expert, declares that the Indian province of Assam (which will be part of Pakistan), belongs to Burma "geographically, racially, legally and historically/* Advancing Burma's claim for the "restoration" of the province when Britain leaves India on
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    66 3 The Vukers Supermarine "Attacker** (right), which may make an attempt nexl year to recapture tic world air speed rec «t* from linif (recently set op by a jet-propelled fighter at 623.8 m.p.h.). It i> a Ningle-seater fighter powered with a Rolls-Royce jet engine ;iij Ike .o. kpit is armoured and
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    60 HEIRS DEAD: FORTUNE FOR 2
    171 3 LONDON, Tuesday. A FORTUNE of £90,000 left by a man who died alter 30 years in a Dorset Hospital is to be divided between a brother and sister, of Wistow, Hunts. They have been proved to be the heirs after a worldwide search which
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    SOVIET TELL OF MUSLIM 'TRICK'
    249 3 MOSCOW, Tuesday. 'rilE forthcoming appointment of Mr. Mohammed Ali Jin nan as Governor-General of Pakistan and Lord >lountbatl. n n as Governor-General of the Hindu Union constituted a great surprise and is regarded as a clever trick puiled oy the Muslim League, says a Soviet
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    BOMB SANK MOTORSHIP
    70 3 MILAN, Tuesday. rpHE Milan daily newspaper II JL Popoio reports that saboteurs caused the explosion which sank the 440- ton motorship Vrissi in Genoa Harbour on Friday. A diver sent down to examine the ship's hull raid the ship's plate had been blown by a time bomb,
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    ARMY DRIVER LAUGHED AT GEN. CHIANG
    118 3 NANKING, Tuesday. GEN. Chiang Kai-shek, touring the city's streets at night, fell a victim to the arrogance of army vehicles, the Hsin Min Pao reports A Chinese army jeep ran ahead of the Generalissimo's sedan, go- ing dead slow. Gen. Chiang's driver hooted repeatedly
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    ALL BRISBANE CHEERS MONTY
    53 3 FIELD Marshal Lord Montgomery, British Chief of Imperial General Staff, was given what was one e most spontaneous welcome ever accorded by Brisbane. Cheered by enthusiastic crowds and greeted by fireworks, motor horns and tin kettles, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff was given a
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    RED BLOC FOR E. EUROPE RECOVERY
    214 3 Moloiov's answer to Marshall plan M LONDON, Tuesday. BRITISH officials say there is reason to believe that the Soviet Union has launched a "Molotovite" economic recovery programme for the Soviet-dominated Eastern European States as a counter-measure to the Marshall "aid for Europe" plan. These
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    LEAP FROM 86-STOREY BUILDING
    85 3 LEAP FROM 86-STOREY BUILDING NEW YORK, Tuesday. AN unidentified 23-year-old Negro rushed past six guards and two detectives to leap to his death from the 86th floor of the observation platform of the Empire State Building. His body struck the 21st floor extension, preventing it from falling to the crowded
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    FOOD POISONING
    41 3 Mr. David Eccles, Conservative M.P. for Chippenham, and his wife are among the victims of a xood poisoning epidemic which has been sweeping Britain. Both. are in a nursing home in Hampshire and said to be "very 111." Reuter
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    SEVERE BEER SHORTAGE IN U.K. FORECAST
    122 3 LONDON, Tuesday. THE worst beer shortage yet is threatened because of the "black death," a barley disease which already has ruined 50,000 acres in East Angiia. Agriculture Ministry scientists announce that the disease is caused b> a fungus or virus and not by black
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    35 3 When a husband (Mr. Phillip Shelmerdine. 37) was awarded £3,000 damages against the corespondent in a divorce case in Manchester, his counsel said he would settle the money on his erring wife, Catherine, 33 (above).
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    NILE PROJECT CONTRACTS
    55 3 THE British firm of A. Reyrolle and Company has been awarded a contract for the supply of switchgear for the Aswan Dam (Nile) power station worth over £735,000, it was announced in Cairo. The total value of the contracts awarded was nearly £5.000,000, the remainder going to
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    IL DUCE'S WIDOW MAY REMARRY
    408 3 rpHE Italian island of Ischia, set in the blue waters of the 1 Bay of Naples, is alive with gossip about the possibility of a double wedding of members of the Mussolini family the former dictator's 57 -year-old widow, Rachele, and her 18-year-old daughter, Anna
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    Chiang has to change tactics
    262 3 NANKING, Tuesday. COMPETENT military observers say that Generalissimo Is Chiang Kai-shek is likely to lose the civil war unless he switches over to a new strategy of hit-and-run, supplementing the present positional warfare. Nationalist strategy is to hit the main Communist strength, but the Communists
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    ENVOY GETS A CYCLE
    40 3 The U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Lewis W. Douglas, was as happy as a boy with* a new bicycle on Monday because he had a new bicycle, given him by the the British cycle industry.- A.P.
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    PIGEON PIE
    51 3 Only 40 of 3,000 odd prize racing pigeons returned from France to England in the week-end contests, representing a loss of nearly $1,000,000 to their owners. Mr. L. Gilbert, Secretary of she National Flying Club, said: "I am afraid that most of the lost birds made pigeon pie."-
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      38 3 T?ie comfort and security scientific glare protection sunglasses are known through' out f/ie worZd. ORIENTAL OPTICAL CO., (QUALIFIED OPTICIANS) (P.O. Box 387) (Phone 3232 A *****) Head Office:— l62, South BrUffe Road, Braneh:— 34B, North Brl4«* So»d, Singapore.
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      95 3 TARZAN Stalked by death By Edgar Rice Burroughs I A QUICK EXAMINATION SHOWED THAT I bjTJfa&K&L >.\.- I BELIEVING TARZAN HAP KILLEP -I /^v MANZEN WAS' PEAP. tf HiS THIRST >rd HrTTMIHBS^fe^V |.l MANZEN, THEY DETERMINED J* .T*^^. e^^ J\, rP V^yMpKr^ -^|l THE TRAJL, TME TWO REMAINING S^^^^^^^^^^O JUS^
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947. Income Tax—Full Survey Wanted
    673 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1947. Income Tax Full Survey Wanted r OFFICIAL members of the Malayan Union Advi scry Council returned to the attack at Monday's meeting with vigorous criticism oi the Government proposals for the introduction of income tax and Mr. S. B. Palmer, who is
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    17 4 The striking beauty of New Zealand is typified in this view of Queen stown and Lake Wakatipu.
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    SOCIALISM AT FLASH POINT
    902 4  -  Lachie MacDonald Your Commonwealth 5 by reporting from New Zealand jHJHEN the first sesm sion of New Zea- land's 28th Parliament opened*! ormaily at Wellington, Labour entered uneasily upon its 12ih successive year of Government with the country in a peculiar, almost dangerous, mood. 7 abour
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      11 4 y f i^Bbb^^ BP.de Silva Ltd.. o*coxp**Arzc> m ccn**) S/NGAPORB PBNANC
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      23 4 FAITH Keep sound wisdom and discretion... then shalt ttaou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not, stumble. PiIOYKSSS 2, 21-23.
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      73 4 TIT ymt wtone 'll"IU"V <jT M 0 ii V HHPvvI i^ j3 Li kLlKjia ffj ilS^^^S^E FREE SERVICE AND GUARANTEE MODEL 5200 5350.00 The Superb TCWE QUALITY always associated with "His Master's" Voice" products >v3^v is very evident in t his jS^^2J^t\ ate *t model radio receiver. SOLE MALAYAN DISTRIBUTOR?
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      129 4 QUIZ 7. In which books do the following appear?: (i) Tom Pinch; (ii) Sir Joseph Bowley; (lii) Noah Claypole; (iv) Mr. Snitchey; (v) Mr. Winkle. 8. A good deal of controversy was occasioned by Dicken's thinlyveiled portrayal of a contemporary writer in Harold Skimpole (Bleak House). Who was the original
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    4 4 Senora Ev» Duarte Per**
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    A PROFILE OF a PAGE ONE WOMAn
    966 4  -  ROBERT CLYDE SENORA EVA MARIA DUARTE DE PERON A WOMAN who has, had the whole of the United Kingdom talking about her, who has stirred up more righteous indignation than almost any other woman and who has just made a triumphant, well-publicised "state
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      93 5 \JLC* :iiCH ST.. RAFFLES HOTEL PHONE: SOB9O I PENANG K' NNTMEDE HOTEL BISHOP STREET I BANGKOK ORIENTAL BUILDING SINGAPORE MALACCA COACHES LIMITED. ftssm n VM) PARrEI service "Ml-Y BETWEEN SINGAPORE MALACCA DtPARU-RE STATIONS:— |*««< "*n Hotel 37 Beach Boad. Mnwpon Tel. 4153 1 Bneti Raya. Malacca !S Horn MIVR S
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      20 5 LMI wii'i' n i in •JW»n'T-'^i>.wii un iirwßßK M /it M GRUESOME, GHASTLY yes, BUT THAT'S HOW THEY GOT EM!
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    THOUSANDS MUST QUIT SHACKS
    290 5 One answer to TB problem Free Press Staff Reporter mswei to the T.B. scourge in Singapore lies in I Ul --mediate demolition of insanitary, imauihor ,^-ti dw tiling-houses, many thousands of which still gjjH [n dufereat areas of Singapore, the Municipal Architect Mr. D. C. Rae,
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    SINGAPORE SKIPPER FINED
    84 5 r\ th? Batavia tourt yesterday, :i d Dunkirk veteran, |M, t lppcr of the Brilol itgistet (I :°O-U>n freighter sh ,5,3 Mara was fined 3,000 I k s vessel ir^ai Sua^apcre i^ inten p*»«J lasl \reek southtut ad >u.i;:tri by a Duich H i pit" "J ordered
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    STUDENTS FIGHT BUCK MARKET
    43 5 «5 bren \\s:erd~y J nrporarie^ m a M btocfc :nartC.^*d -\i f -r tbean ii rs and i. motion Ith 9 b !r r. J Of 3r:- gnnent I t ttac Btaa will <•.::: th? pi'pfakj In ngn'.- UmU KV
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    Leaflet had no imprint: Malay fined
    328 5 SAID to have distributed in a Government office in Kuchin<* an article written by Mr. Anthony Brooke. ex-Raja Muda of Sarawak. Nor bin Haji Hassan, a member o£ the Persatuan Melaya Party, was fined $10 by the Kuchllng District Magistrate. Mr. J. R. Ootram.
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    RECRUITS PASSING OUT SOON
    104 5 THE first batch of locally-engaged re- emits, now stationed at Johore Bahru, are expected to pass out and go to me training schools of the particular arms of the Service in which they enlisted, at the end of July. These are mostly English-speaking recruits whose training
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    SINGAPORE DEPORTEES NAMED
    138 5 SINGAPORE DEPORTEES NAMED rpHE names of the 17 alien crimi- A nals who had been serving sentences of imprisonment for various offences and who were deported from Singapore by a ship which sailed for China ports on Sunday, have been released They arc: Sim Jit Song for armed rcbbery; Sia
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    JAIL AND ROTAN
    83 5 AN accused In a case of armt;'. robberv and exiortion who described himself as "a professional pickpocket." was sentenced to 10 year rigorous imprisar.ment and 12 strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Joblinc at the Singapore Assizes yesterday He was LeonK Sens Hee. whc \va:s found
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    Siam line restoring link with India
    161 5 Siam line restoring link with India fdfd 'PHE Thai Maritime Navigation Company plans to reopen A its overseas shipping service at the end of this month with a line connecting Bangkok with Singapore and Calcutta, says th^ Bangkok Post. The company expects its ships to carry rice on the outward
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    ENUMERATORS FOR CENSUS
    120 5 rdo the actual enumeration for the census, several hundred part-time enumerators arc needed in the Municipal and Rural Board areas in Singapore. As all the work can be done outside office hours, a good number of applications for the poets of enumerators have been received, and training
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    20 MONTHS FOR CLOTH THEFT
    102 5 A YOUNG Malay, Mohamed Sharifl bin Amir, who had eluded arrest after absconding on two occasions while on bail, was unlucky the third time. When detectives went to arrest him a few days ago, he attempted to escape by jumping into the sea near the
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    NEW MOON
    18 5 The ncY moon dav to-morrow will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple. M, Outrun Road.
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    TRAVANCORE INDEPENDENCE: STORE PROTEST
    200 5 SEVERAL thousand Travancorcaiis at a meeting outside ihe Hind Theatre in hJeletar on Sunday adopted a resolution proi testing a^ainbL the statement of the Travancore Prime Minister. Sir C. P. Ramasamy Iyer, I declaring Travancore an indepen- dent State. The resolution rcacL: "This mass meeting of
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    METEORS TO VISIT WEST COAST
    120 5 METEORS TO VISIT WEST COAST THE two Gioster Meteors in Singapore will b" vijiting west coast Malayan towns this week. The Meteors may break the record for the flight from Penang to Kuala Lumpur and from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore. The following time-table for their visit is subjert to weather
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    EUROPEAN FINED
    38 5 Charged with criminal bleach of trust of one bottle of brandy, John Christie, a 23-year-old European employee of the Singapore Harbour Board was fined $250, or three months r.i.. in the Third Police Court, on Monday.
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    No SSCS recruiting—why?
    125 5 No SSCS recruiting— why? THE July issue of GRAD. monthly bulletin of the Stamford Club, an association of Raffles College graduates, contains the following: "Raffles College Graduates are beginning to ask why there has yet been no recruitment of local graduates into the Straits Settlements Civil Service. The last time
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    Jap ships at Seletar
    65 5 picture. Eight Jap warships have arrived at the Naval Base Seletar. They represent the first reparations for UK. This Sin Chew lit Poh picture shows the ships moored a long; side the Seletar anchorage. This is another of the Jao warships which have arrived at the
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    CHARITY STAGE SHOW TONIGHT
    210 5 FOR 'BULLDOZER' VICTIMS MALAYS in Singapore have formed a Welfare Council to organize a show Malay Arts Night in aid of the 200 Malays evicted from Harbour Board grounds in Trafalgar Street. These Malays were rendered homeless when a bulldozer pulled their houses down after the
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    35 IN HIS FAMILY
    28 5 Frederick Wayne, 70, insurance agent of Kingstandirig, Birmingham, has hired a motor coach to take his family of 35 on holiday to Rhyl. Reuter
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    $1,500 FOR VICTIMS OF CHINA FLOOD
    242 5 $1,500 FOR VICTIMS OF CHINA FLOOD Free Press Staff Reporter ILTHOUGH the China Flood A Relief Fund has not yet been launched formally .in Singapore, three donations have already been received. One comes from the HongKong and Shanghai Bank, which has sent to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce $1,000 as
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    JAP CLOTH FOR SIAM
    153 5 THE Distribution to the public of about eight million yards of textiles brought ircm Japan is proceeding in Siam, under the direction of the SlSaoe«e Chamber of Commerce. Twenty-five per cent, of it will be retained by the government for the outfitting of officials, vhc rest
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    DECREE NISI GRANTED
    95 5 A DECREE nisi to be made absolute m six months was granted Hanna Humphries, nee Pothoven, by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore High Court yesterday, when she petitioned for the dissolution of her marriage with Culhbert Brighton Humphries, on the ground of his adultery. Mrs. Humphries
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    31 6 7. (i) Martin Chuzzlewit; (ii) The Chimes; (iii) Oliver Twist; (iv) The Battle of Life; (v) The Pickwick Papers. 8. Leigh Hunt. 9. The Uncommercial Traveller 10. Mr. Pecksriff; Martin Chuzzlewit.
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    TONIGHT & Every Night
    262 6 TONIGHT Every Night COLUMBIA Pictures has put out yet another super-techni-cqlour film. Remember Rita Hayworth (you saw her recently in Gilda), she now stars in "Tonight and Every Night" a dramatic, romantic musical, shoeing at the Rex soon. The film has many big song hits such as "What does an
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    Rita's Life Story....
    401 6 |>ITA Hayworth is a shining example of producer daring in giving young actresses, comparatively unknown, top roles in costly productions to build them to stardom and then cashing in on the gamble a thousandfold. Descended from a long line of dancers, Rita seemed to get nowhere while
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    'THORNE' IS NO ORDINARY DOG
    358 6 FIRST "actor" to be signed for Britain's film version of "They Walk Alone' was a dog named Thorne. Thorne is no ordinary dog. He is a six-years-old Alsatian who was awarded the Dickin Medal for his wonderful rescue work in the London blitzes. Thorne was
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    THE LAD Y-KILLER MR. MASON
    606 6 THE LAD Y- KILLER MR. MASON BY OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER THE Upturned Glass *with James Mason in the f idlest sense of the term a lady-killer, should please practically everybody. As a piece of starry virtuosity it is bound to enchant the section 01 the feminine public that would
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    BALL OF FIRE
    145 6 BALL OF FIRE 4 |{ALL of Fire^' (Aihambra Saturday) is a story of a group cf Professors, headed by Gary Cooper who were assigned to study the origin of slang. Accidentally, a hctcha Cabaret dancer (Barbara Stanwyck) finds her way into the College, where no woman had entered, mucn to
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    THRILL OF BRAZIL
    77 6 OPENING today ai a Capitol "Thrill of Bri? has a tuneful score which' eludes all the well-known L£ rhythms sambas, rhumbs^ even a Brazilian macua* danced to the throbbing bea tomtoms The nim has lor its Kita c!ty of mystery, adventure i romance, Rio d Janeiro duced
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    BOYS AT LARGE
    127 6 pAUNG Studios' new picture. "Hue and Cry." now showing at the Cathay Cinema is a new and refreshing type of film— a story about bops, and not only a story ior boys, but adults as well. Several London boys are reading an exciting serial story in a
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    TODAY'S BRIDCE PROBLEM
    294 6 THE two club was an artificial, game-forcing bid; the response to lour no-trump showed an ace and a king. The batting was poor because six no-trump by North, or six diamonds by South would have been far easier contracts. But the noteworthy part of this deal was
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      215 6 MdilflrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya H-^^-fc T| ADEADRIN6ER. CHIEF. Bag! jTO THE CONTRARY, I I I NO, CHIEF, SHE'D DISGUISE*! m*\mwM ms*-v~W\ SOME SECRET SUBSTANCE. II 1 1 EXPECT TO SEE P* HERSELF AS A GUARD. THE I BRASS MONKEY A WOM AN I VERY^! I«ER
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    VITAL STADIUM MATCH DRAWN
    369 7 Malays in last game for month SJLC 2 MJF.A, .2, THF Malays and SJtC. played a hard-fought draw 1 to hare points in a second round S.A.F.A. league at the Stadium yesterday. It was the Malays' last game before they start the flubn iuasa (Mohammedan Month
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    COMPTON TAKES 5 FOR 108
    270 7 COMPTON TAKES 5 FOR 108 LONDON, Tuesday. IYENIS Compton followed up his brilliant 151 for Middlesex against Leicestershire yesterday by taking five wickets for 108 runs today. Scores were: At Ebbw Wale, Glamorgan drew with Worcestershire. Glamorgan Ist innings 314, 2nd innings 157 for 8 declared (Wooller 50, E. Da
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    WILD SCENES AT DAVIS CUP TENNIS
    170 7 WILD SCENES AT DAVIS CUP TENNIS ZAGREB, Tuesday. Czechoslovakia defeated Jugoslavia by five matches to zero in the finals of the European zone tennis eliminations today after 8,000 booing, rock-throwing fans had forced Yugoslavia to default in the last match because the Czechs had substituted a third ranking player against
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    BOY-JOCKEYS COULD RUIN MILLIONAIRE
    264 7 vr< l! Correspondent fij *wag yet another sic to France achieved proost successful wnera make a I of their best 5 I when Prince Asa Khan. knowledge and skill from father to son. Noel's major reputation, howover, does not rest alone on his i success as
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    Boxing Critic Tips Marino To Win
    284 7 Boxing Critic Tips Marino To Win GLASGOW, Tuesday. TWAN Weilwood, Scotland's foremost boxing critic, today predicted that the Hawaiian, Dado Marino, would capture the British Isles' only world crown at Hampden Park tomorrow night by defeating the world flyweight champion, Jackie Paterson, inside the distance." Wellwood said "Seven times I
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    WORLD CHAMPION IN NEW ROLE
    46 7 World heavy we'ght boxing champion Joe Louis holds his five weeks old son Joe junior, for the first time. Picture was taken at Louis' first meeting with the infant, in Chicago. Looking on are his wife Marva, and four-year-old daughter, Jacqueline.
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    2 World Title Fights Tonight
    235 7 LONDON, Tuesday. TOMORROW night, with the width of the Atlantic Ocean between them, two world boxing champions will defend their titles. In Glasgow, Scotland, Jac- kie Paterson. flyweight titleholder and the only British world champion, will meet Dado Marino of Honolulu, while in Chicago Tony
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    Louis won't defend title this year
    143 7 Louis won't defend title this year NEW YORK, Tuesday. TOE LOUIS will not defend his worln heavyweight championship title this year, according to a statement made tonight. The decision was reached at a meeting when the chamnion, his manager Marshall Miles and Sol Strauss acting director of the 20th Century
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    CADET TEAM WON'T MAKE INDIA TRIP
    172 7 CADET TEAM WON'T MAKE INDIA TRIP LONDON, Tuesday. A CRICKET teain from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst is not to be sent to the Indian Military Academy ut Dehra Dun, India, this winter in return for the tour by the Indian Military Academy cadets in England this summer. Giving
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    SWEDE EQUALS WORLD RECORD TIME
    72 7 MALMOE, Sweden, Tuesday. rpHE Swedish runner Lennart JL Strand, tonight equalled the world's 1,500-metre record of 3 min. 43 sees, established in 1944 by his countryman Gander Hagg. Strand, who long Has been reputed as the World's best hope to run the four-minute mile accomplished
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    England Should Experiment In Future Games
    452 7 fdfd From ARCHIE QUICK LONDON > Tuesday. gNGLAND won the Third Test match, but her bowling is still suspect. Afterthoughts on the Manchester victory bring one to the conclusion that it is a bad things to have to rely on batsman Edrich to take
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    80 COMPETE IN OLYMPIC HEAT
    64 7 LCWDCXV, Tuesday. HARRY J. Forbes established himself as a probable British competitor in the Olympics by winning the national 50 kilometre road walking race in 4 hours, 40 rnins and 6 sees. The fact that the event was an Olympic heat drew a record crowd
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      283 7 Free Press Crossword No. 148 I BJ B9 i I B^B^H ■^B^H 1^ fill CLUES ACROSS ft «i 6^ Of the towest nxik (6)> 8 lJ PP er regions beyond clouds (5), c Qu^ m i humour B >' 10 Surname of famous Preach literary father and soa ffl f
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    SITUATIONS WANTED
    58 8 YOUNG ex-serviceman, single, 29 rews, puWte school, health A. 1. present resident in UJC. returned from Singapore, some experience handling native labour; would like to hear of an opening to learn rubber planting in Malaya. Previous occupation in timber trade. Service Record exemplary. References if required. Ray own
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    $5,000 fine for price ofence
    196 8 $5,000 fine for price ofence IPOH, Tuesday. npHE Dktaict Judge, Mr. J. G. Adams, today imposed the mnrtMim gent— tc on an Indian Muslim, T. Abdul Mailed, ow»«r of a sundry shop in Foo Choo Choon Street tor contraTomtlon of tfee price control regulations. Majeed nras coaT*c»ed and fined $5,000,
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    25 8 U MIC This photograph of the pier at New Brighton was sent in by a reader for the nIMHC pleasure of all Merseysiders in Singapore.
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    SEIZE OVERSEAS ASSETS, SAYS DR. KUNG
    161 8 SEIZE OVERSEAS ASSETS, SAYS DR. KUNG SHANGHAI, Tuesday. r. H. H. KUNG, former Chinese Premier and Finance Minister, today urged the Government to commandeer Chinese assets abroad and levy a property tax to tide over the present financial crisis. He added that Chinese deposits In the United States were not
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    DR. DICKSON IS OUT OF DANGER
    121 8 Fr«e Press Correspondent I IPOH, Tuesday. THE Medical Officer of Batu Gftjah Hospital announced today that Dr. I. T. Dickson, j who was seriously wounded when he was shot at Ipoh on July 5, is now out of danger. Dr. Dickson's wife died from
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    YOUTH TRAINING
    34 8 The house in Queen Street, Edinburgh, where Sir James Simpson conducted experiments into the use of chloroform is being opened as a youth leader training centre next Saturday by Princess Elizabeth.- Reuter
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    MacARTHUR TO STAND FOR U.S. PRESIDENCY
    140 8 MacARTHUR TO STAND FOR U.S. PRESIDENCY MILWAUKEE, Tuesday. AN announcement from Tckio that Gen. Douglas MacArthur hopes to make his home in Milwaukee after the Japanese peace treaty is signed, means he will be a candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 1948, according to Lansing Hoyt, chairman
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    UMNO FLAG FLIES AT HALF MAST
    81 8 Free Press Staff Reporter FE UMNO flag was flown at half-mast over the headquarters of the Singapore Malay Union yesterday as a mark of respect for Inche Mohamed Tahir bin Stia Raja, Vice President of UMNO, who died in Ipoh on Tuesday morning at
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    SHARKS HARPOONED
    23 8 Five basking sharks, each 25 feet long, have been harpooned off Kintyre, Argyll, by two Camn. beltown Ashing- boat orews. Reuter
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    ARMY RELEASING GOODWOOD PARK
    172 8 THE Army is to de-requisition Goodwood Park Hotel on Aug. 31. The building is to be handed back, complete with accessories, to the proprietors, who propose to restore it to its pre-war function as a private residential hotel. Mr. Vivian Bath representing the owners, said yesterday
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    LAVISH ROYAL WEDDING FAVOURED
    493 8 Ceremony set for October? LONDON, Tuesday. TT is now evident that the wedding of Princess Elizabeth "a^d Lieut Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey, Drobabb thh ToctoXeV, wffl be the most glittering Royal ?vent sin«f th^coronation of Princess Elizabeth's parents. Paterc sources are convinced now that the
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    OLD ARGENTINE CLAIM REFUTED
    73 8 rpHE British Foreign Office stated 1 yesterday that the AngloArgentinian talks in Buenos Aires on the question of the South American republic's 114-year-old claim to the Falkland Islands had been going on for some time and represented no new changes. Britain has always refuted the Argentine
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    MT. EMILY POOL RE-OPENING
    185 8 THE question of whether or not Mount Emily Swimming Pool will be re-opened will be brought -up for discussion at a committee meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners this afternoon. Since th pool was de-requisi-tioned by the military and handea back to the Municipality last August,
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    FOREIGN RAILS MAKE GRAINS
    422 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Tuesday. ON the Stock Exchange today, there was no dung \c] encouraging on the last day of the account furifci Gilt-edged losses imparting dullness to other comcsil issues although finally Industrials developed a sli#| better tendency, says Reuters financial correspondent New Rhodesian
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    104 8 A SPECIAL Market c .rrespoc* fives the prices oi rubttf 1 11 a.m. today as follows. Bum? No 1 R S S. Spot loose No 1 R.S.S. for. in bales Aupust No 2 B.S.S. for, in bales August No 3 R.S.S. lot> in bale- August Tone
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      63 8 WEATHER Long bright periods WEATHER report for the next If 24 hows compiled by the E.A.F: Fair wMh lour bright intervals. Wind: Southeasterly 8 to 12 knot*. Sunset 6.41 p.m., sunrise 6.34 a.m. Moonrise 5.22 a.m., moonaet 4.53 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 89 dec, min. 80 deg. Relative humidity percentages: Yesterday
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      20 8 SINGAPORE TIDES High 9.40 am 7.9 ft 8.39 pm 9 ft Low 2.46 am 2.2 ft 2.41 pm' 5.3 ft
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