The Singapore Free Press, 30 July 1947

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    19 1 Th e Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA x SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 36, 1947. PRICi 10 CENTS.
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    76 1 photograph. This i.s the I.-.i.an-owned Dakota transport plane which was shot down yesterday over Jogjakarta while carrying Red Cross supplies from Singapore to the Indonesians. This was the Diane in which Sutan Shahrir escaped to Singapore on July 22 and which subsequently ran the Dutch air blockade three times before
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    SHOT-DOWN DAKOTA INQUIRY
    672 1 SHOT-DOWN DAKOTA INQUIRY Indonesians call protest meeting Free Press Staff Reporter FUR bursts of machine-gun fire from two Mustang fighters shot down the Indian-owned Dakota which crashed m flames at Jogjakarta yesterday with the loss of eight lives. The plane was making its third attempt 10 run the Dutch blockade
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    14 1 rjme iiLrmg the :.;i. yesterday it *-?c^p f .c*nti of tr-cttockx and tayoiMt icounds
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    INDIA DELAYS U.N.O. APPEAL
    140 1 I NEW YORK, Tuesday. j BTTH >,Niponement of Indian action on the i v> problem, it is now expected that Australia tssoc to the Security Council of the s > The Australian move may be based which sives the Security Council the right t make recommendations
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    RUSSIA VETOES BALKAN 'POLICE'
    136 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. RUSSIA today killed, with her veto, an American proposal to establish a 11 -nation Border Watch Commission m the Balkans. It was the eleventh time m the United Nations' history that Russia -has invoked the Big Power veto. The final vote was nine
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    BIG MEN GET MORE
    37 1 T'r-e Munich cUy authorities, recognizing thai it takes more cc fill a big fellow, i-.ave aecrto^; that minor extra rations would be allowed bo ail per^ens ov-r 5 1c:: 1 Inch tall U.P.
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    PASTOR FOR THE PITS
    23 1 The Rev. Austin Lee, aged 43, bachelor rector of Glaxby, Lincolnshire, seeks Monday-to-Friday work a-5 a coal miner. j
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    SIAM PLANS BAN ON KLM PLANES
    111 1 SIAM PLANS BAN ON KLM PLANES |7»OLLOvVING on India's dcciJl sion to baa Dutch planes from her airfields and from over Indian territory, the Siamese Foreign Office said yesterday Siam was planning to take similar action as a '"gesture of sympathy" for Indonesia, A. P. reports from Bangkok. The Dutch
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    DUTCH RUBBER FOR AMERICA
    61 1 Firs: cargoes 01 capered rubber and other product shipped by the Dutch from Cheribon will be sent to America m an American-owned vessel, says Reuter from Batavia. More than 5,000 tons of husked and unhusked rice earmarked by the Republicans for India were captured by the
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    100 PIRATES DIE IN CHINA CLASH
    58 1 ABOUT 100 pirates, including two of their leaders, were killed on July 23 m a clash with a Chinese naval amphibious force off the Kwangtuns coast, says a Canton r^P° ri The Kueling Island pirate stronghold, about 35 miles northeast of Hong Kong, is
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    MALAYA DISPATCHES SOON
    112 1 MUCH light is expecLed to be thrown or. the surrender of Singapore *o fche Japanese by the dispatches of Lieut. Gen. Arthur Percival. then General Officer Commanciir.?. Malaya, which are to be published soon. The dispatches are believed to be unequivocal m the apportioning of biame for
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    New powers to fight Irgun
    236 1 JERUSALEM, Tuesday. OOWERS enabling the British Army to destroy houses used by terrorists m their attacks on security forces were announced m a decree today. This will be the first time that such measures are to be used m the Jewish terrorist campaign.^ s tcday
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    MPs ARE TOLD STORE HAS FREE CHOICE
    1860 1 MPs ARE TOLD STORE HAS FREE CHOICE LONDON, Tuesday. v DOLD experiments m colonial administration wer«* promised m the House of Commons today by the Secretary of State, Mr. Creech Jones, when he opened a debate on colonial affairs. The problems of Southeast Asia, and Malaya m particular, figured prominently
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    EARTHQUAKE REPORT
    38 1 An apparently strong earthquake, probably m the Celebes or Borneo, was registered at 1336 GMT on Tuesday at the Seismologfcal Observatory at Barber s Point. Honlulu. Shocks continued for three and a half huars.— A. P.
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      MY DEAR AUNT MARIA...
      1015 2 MY DEAR AUNT MARIA... A Letter home about a trip around -Singapore Shops THANK you for 1 your most interesting letter. No, I do not think Singapore will enter Pakistan. We are a little too far away. In fact, you might almost think you were m prewar London, if you
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      749 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for Deople born today BORN today, you have a great deal of Dcrsonal courage and ambition. You have an intuitive, rather than a logical mind and this gives you the ability to size up people and to rnderstand their underlying motivations. Those who do not
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  • NEWS...
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      HITLER STILL ALIVE,' SAY GERMANS
      318 3 Persistent move to revive. Nazism t that Adolf Hitler is still alive persists L ml certain classes of the Germans especially bearts of women but Hermann Goering and r Nazis hanged at Nuremberg are accepted as and have left behind them no myths and i
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      'MAUNG BA TIN AS ARCHITECT OF INDIA PEACE
      118 3 'MAUNG BA TIN AS ARCHITECT OF INDIA PEACE TiYPICAL of the warm tributes X pa.d by Burmese language press to .he Viceroy of India wnom they prefer to call by his "Burmese" name, Maung Ba Tin, is an article m the Burmese Review. It says: 'The gratitude of the people
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      ANTIQUIS TRIAL: TWO TO DIE
      55 3 ANTIQUIS TRIAL: TWO TO DIE j pus oral lei trial ended M r.cvy r.^h: at the Old f when the jury found all I accused iutitj oi murder. Ic"-',--" Christopher James J..; ;-;••>• <»>, Charles Henry £S rSea^St-S X" b fcainwl during the t the judge sug--5 lid not be
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      WANT WORLD FEDERATION
      314 3 I HOUSANDS of people walking through the shipping centre of Evanston, sizeable suburb of Chicago, see a three-storey building wtth the large-lettered words, World Republic, spelled out across the front. This is the new home of World Republic, an organization advocating a federal world government, says Associated
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      1 IN 3 WOULD INVEST GIFT OF £500
      97 3 1 IN 3 WOULD INVEST GIFT OF £500 IN a recent Gallup Poll tiiis ques--1 lion was put to men and women m all walks of life m Britain: "If someone made you a gift of £500 tomorrow, what would you do with it?" Their replies, m percentages can be
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      WINDSORS IN ITALY
      35 3 The puke and Duchess of Windsor arrived m Florence, Italy, for a short unofficial visit as guests of the United States Army Mediterranean theatre commander, Lieut.- Gen. John C. H. Lee.- U.P.
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      BOYS FIND SKULL
      14 3 t I o rod by 1 Essex). It t i^dbv i
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      Volunteers aid the farmers
      141 3 Britatv v i LONDON, Tuifeday. TlT^ aU rec <> r <ls this year to "lend a hand on the land. Last year's figure of 100,000 volunteers has a!rt,^J^feaCl^. d and nearJ y all of 120 hanest camps are fully booked until September. Nearly 45,000 school children
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      GERMAN PASTOR BRANDED NAZI
      90 3 PASTOR NEIMOLLER, the 1 former U-boat Commander, who spent years m German concentration camps, declared at Oslo on Monday that he would take no notice of charges made by the German Association for Victims of Fascism— that he had been a Nazi supporter Dr. Hans Mayer,
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      WANTS BAN ON VETO
      33 3 Argentina is calling for a special UNO conference to erase the veto from the Charter. The proposal is on the provisional agenda for the autumn session of the Assembly.
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      TEXTILE MISSION
      17 3 Textile industries m Britain will send a September mission to find new markets m U.S.
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      HOTEL PAYS YOU IF IT RAINS'
      42 3 MONTE CARLO, thrcequarters empty with only a handful of British tourists, is trying to recoup losses wi.u a weath r gamble. Hotels now refund charge^ on rainy days, the cost being cover cd by State insurance.
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      Scot's tongue in cheek
      127 3 HOLLYWOOD is full of men and women with unusual occupations and among the most unusual of them is that of Robert Watson, whose job is making Scots out of actors and actresses, by helping them master Scottish dialects and accents. Watson, who was born m Glasgow,
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      CITY BUILT BY YOUNG PEOPLE
      343 3 IJEWN out of the forest on the banks of the river i ff Soviet Far East Komsomolsk, the only city m the world built entirely by young men and women volunteers, has just celebrated its 15th birthday, reports Reuter from Moscow. Today it is a
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      THIS MAN STOLE LIMELIGHT
      57 3 THIS MAN STOLE LIMELIGHT Theodore Franklin, 39, steeplejack (left top—arrow) stole the limelight of downtown Des Moines (U.S.A.) crowds from a professional flagpole stander (lower-arrow) when he defied for two hours attempts of police to get him down from his perch HCh feet above the ground. The close-up shows Franklin,
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      HUNGARY'S JEWS RISING AGAIN
      351 3 BUDAPEST, Tuesday. LTUNGARY, under Soviet domination, appears to have guaranteed to 200,000 Jews a freedom they never had before a freedom from fear. Representative Jewish spokesmen claim that the feverish urge to flee to Palestine, which gripped most of Eastern Europe's Jewry immediately after the war,
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      NEW FLAG OF INDIAN UNION
      75 3 r£ Indian Constituent Assembly has adopted a national flag completely free of any mark connected with the British Empire. The standard is of deep saffron, white and dark green horizontal striped Congress colours with navy blue, symbolic of Mahatma Gandhi's influence, appearing m the middle
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      AFTER SEVEN YEARS.
      16 3 First consignment of Dutch cheese for seven years has lust arrived In London.
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      FLOGGING TO BE ABOLISHED SOON
      96 3 CLOGGING, birching, penal ser--1 vitude and solitary connne- merit will be abolished by the criminal law reform Bill which the Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, is expected to introduce next session. The BUI, on which muoh progress has been made, will ensure, too, that no
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      B.B.C. TRIBUTE TO LORD REITH
      56 3 A SCHEME planned by the 8.8.C. n will perpetuate the name of Lord Reith, nrst chief of British broadcasting. It takes the form of series of annual lectures by an acknowledged authority m some field of research or study. The first Reith lectures will be
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      34 3 TARZAN Off for Africa By Edgar Rice Burroughs NJ6HT, TRAVELING AS CHARLES F^^^SSI^S^T^~S^il f&AC< AT^THE HOTEL NEXT MORNING I. BSH^^SQB&S^f!^ -AvnES, B16 LOUIE BOARDED AN '^^%^J^^^^y^^ A HORRlFlfC> MAI DlS(^C VERED j WMfffaji^S )S8*wfcffi
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1947. The City Fathers & Secrecy
      644 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1947. The City Fathers Secrecy SINGAPORE'S Municipal Commissioners, m the face of strong public criticism, appear at last to have recognized the error of their majority decision to debate m secret the Laycock Committee's recommendations for a new Municipal constitution. The Commissioners have
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      LAN COSTER A DOGGY TALE
      547 4 LAN COSTER A DOGGY TALE GOOD dogs are booming. The Kennel Club, with offices m Piccadilly and index archives m Bromptonroad, registered the record number of 111,000 dogs (at 2s. 6d. a time) last year. Half way through 1947 another 56.173 had been entered In the stud book. A staff
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      BANKRUPTCY
      8 4 That won't hold him, try fatter ono
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      INDO-CHINA'S PROBLEM Unity Vs Union
      651 4 INDO-CHINA'S PROBLEM Unity Vs Union IJNITY versus Union is the crux of the whole problem of lndoChina. And two Annamite word s Bo (group of people and Ky (country) sum up the current conflict between the French rulers and the local population, as represented by the Vietnam nationalists. The nationalists
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      WHAT HAS UNO DONE SO 'FAR'
      1211 4 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IT is just over two years since the United Nations Charter was signed. In its pre- amble appeared the following words, which sum up what the ordinary average man wants from his world:— "Determined....to promote social progress and better standards
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      VERB & NOUN TROUBLE
      110 4 VERB NOUN TROUBLE SOME supj :zt- verbs and n uns a: cause i. lot I misch: the United ..< r ;xr. member ol the UN secretas warned But Cienuv Hi Paiva Uafel Brazil, one ol the 20 se-::::-:. members spending the we*s at Wesley ar. LJnivenfty sail and his lelk'v.
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      56 4 I FAITK Except the Lord build the house, they labour m vain that build it. Psalms. 127. 1. QUIZ 1. The most important organ < the United Nations is its Securii Council: (a) of how many men bers does the Security Count consist? (b) How are they selec ed? 2.
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      AUSSIES WILL TRY JAPS IN HK
      442 5 AUSSIES WILL TRY JAPS IN HK o pore trials over for time being Free Press Staff Reporter THE Australian War Crimes Section m Singapore is concentrating on liaison work with No. 2 Australian War Crimes Section m Tokio prior to the setting up of a court m Hong Kong. This
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      SINGAPORE GIRL WILL STUDY LAW
      179 5 lift Pr Stall Reporter MBS Kwa eok < boo, who d the Queen's r ***** Is the third j Mi and Mrs. Kwa i i Kwa is the general j I tin Oversea-Chinese I E nl rp rat! Limited. M Kwa proceed to Eng- L..
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      FLYING BOATS FOR SALE
      139 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHREE Catalina flying-boats at A present m Australia are j 1 offered for sale m Singapore. 1 They are practically new, and have been converted into cargo- carrying aircraft, with a payload of 1*6,000 lb. The agent m Singapore, Mr. IS. A.
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      MALAY CLASSES
      64 5 MALAY classes will be held at the Y.W.C.A., 11 Leonie Hill, Singapore, for the general public. The course will take 10 weeks (one lesson a week) and the fee is $10 for the whole term. The advanced class starts on Friday, Aug. 1, at 5.30 p.m. while the
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      S'pore seeks coat of arms
      99 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rrtiiE Singapore Municipal Commissioners have applied to the 1 Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, the Duke of Norfolk, head of the College of Heralds, for the grant of arms and a crest for Singapore. The Municipal crest as displayed
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      S'PORE MARKETS TO BE MODERNISED
      375 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FAR-REACHING changes m the siting and construction of Singapore's future meal and vegetable markets m the Municipal area are likely to result from the investigation of the market problem now being made by a special committee. Appointed by the Municipal Commissioners
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      92 5 The Blood Transfusion Service Exhibition Centre at the Trade Fair m the Great World Park is attracting a large number of interested visitors. About 100 persons have already responded to the appeal for Blood Donors m the last few days. Singapore's Blood Bank is urgently m need of more supplies,
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      RICE MILL MEN ON BRIBERY CHARGES
      263 5 ALLEGED to have given bribes, totalling $5,200 to Chief A Inspector James McPherson, attached to the Singapore Food Control Inspectorate, to get him to refrain from taking action against the illegal importation and possession of rice, two employees of a Singapore rice mill appeared
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      UK PAPER ASKS MORE PAY FOR S'PORE TEACHERS
      426 5 UK PAPER ASKS MORE PAY FOR S 'PORE TEA CHERS Free Press Staff Reporter THE London Communist newspaper Daily Worker this week commented on the salaries of Singapore's school teachers, and demanded higher wages for these teachers "who, at present, earn no more than dockers." The President of the Singapore
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      HIGHLANDS TEA UP TO MARK
      138 5 TEA sent by the Malayan Union Department of Agriculture from their Cameron Highlands plantations has earned the commendation of a London firm of experts. Speaking of the very high quality of the tea grown m Malaya, the report adds: "All the grades sent were of
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      KING'S BIRTHDAY
      14 5 The King's birthday m 1948 will be celebrated on Thursday June 10.
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      BIG SUMS GIVEN TO FLOOD RELIEF
      177 5 BIG SUMS GIVEN TO FLOOD RELIEF Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore China Flood 1 Relief Fund now stands at around $20,000. Two outstanding donations m the last few days came from th-a Chinese Buddhist Association ($7,700) and the Singapore Traction Company Bus Employees' Union ($1,011.50). The Fund Committee is
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      PIRIE FOR STAFF TALKS IN UK
      77 5 Air Marshal Sir George Pirie, Air Commander-in-chief. Far East, is leaving Singapore by air on Aug. 3 for London, where he will attend staff talks. Air Marshal Pirie, who will be accompanied by Air Vice-Marshal F. F. Inglis, the Senior Air Staff Officer, expects
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      TERM REDUCED
      62 5 A YOUNG Chinese, Tan Scow Choo, who had been sentenced to 17 years' rigorous imprisonment and six strokes of the cat o'nine tails on two charges of armed robbery and carrying arms, made an application at the Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday. for banishment to China. The Court
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      ACROBATIC SINBAD
      392 6 I RICH, swash- buckling story for your Bank holiday entertainment opened at_ the Capitol on Tuesday. Sinbad The Sailor is a tale of Alexander the Great's treasure supposedly hidden on the island of Deryabar. Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) planning to find it, manages to salvage a ship. The
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      EASY TO WED
      207 6 ""T^ASY to Wed," new J!i M.G.M. Technicolour musical which opens tomorrow at the Cathay, is easy too look at, e asy to listen to, and above all, easy to laugh at. Esther Williams must be one of Singapore'^ most favourite stars, for "Ba hing Beauty" was a
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      QUIZ Answers
      32 6 1. 11 members. Five elected by the Great Powers and the other six by the General Assembly of U.N. 2. Chemical compounds without which the human body cannot function properly.
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      Two Of The Best
      613 6 FILM REVIEWS THIS month two films have been shown at private previews m Singapore that are among the best turned out by British and American studios. They are Nicholas Nickleby" and The Best Years 0£ Our Lives." Nicholas Nickleby, which oper.s at the Pavilion tomorrow, is
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      Dimensional
      133 6 SAID to be better than the three-dimensional screening of films worked out m Europe is Mr. Robert Hepworth's invention of pictures with depth as seen through a stereoscope. The inventor, an Australian said that it involved a new type of screen. His experiments have grown from practically nothing into
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      IDEAS ON ATOMS
      516 6 The Beginning or the End TO the average individual the world of science" has been something always interesting but considered practically unknowable except m aspects that lent themselves to sentational newspaper treat- ment. Most of this mysterious world's doings were considered dull and beyond average comprehension. August
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      TODAY'S BRIDCE PROBLEM
      315 6 THIS deal, from a forthcoming book by Terence Reese, British bridge writer, is very similar to the one published here yesterday. Reese, however, analyses it from the point of view of an interesting defensive play. West opened the club king. North's ace won and a spade was
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      79 6 Fi»rv! p^ TOMORROW! Clear the deck? r > i Battle stations! STAND BY FOR ACTP. Battered US. destroyer tackles hn battle^ fc m a do-or-die endeavour to MKft conro g STAND f0 ACTION; Robert Taylor Charles f.»nr»,:-n J^i 11 »m.. 1 45. 4 15. A T |J A y 2
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      150 6 MdndtdlCG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya I I THIS IS THE BftASS MONKEY- II I THEY TRIEO TO j IhAVEAGOOD I I THAT'S MY 1 1 YOU CAN HAVE IT/ UJ ANO THIS IS HER I PULLMY MAiR CRY.NARDA, EVENING f ONE LAST QUESMIGOSH- WHICH IS WHICH?
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  • SPORT...
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      KING TAO DELIGHT IPOH CROWD
      605 7 Beat Perak 6 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. IN their only fixture m Perak, Sing Tao beat the State side 1 six goals to nil today at Jalan Abdul Jalil Padang. Heavy rain, though it stopped before play began, rendered playing conditions far from
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      22 7 ;K. uiit who holds the E-'wriiht championship beliWj'ih* Orient H> meets Harry Krin*"- lhe Australian, at the X,-* World arena or. .Sunday.
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      Leo Heaney v Som Pong: Interesting Arguments
      421 7 By Our Basiag Reporter HE tim phoning oi Leo Heaney, the Australian welterweight, when he beat Battling Sima at the New World arena last inda\ n^ht ha>. by and targe, captured the imagination of ■caftn Igfcl i an>, who are now discussing, with
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      U.S. REGAINS YACHT CUP
      98 7 Glasgow, Tuesday. ROBERT B. MEYER'S six-metre! yacht, Djinn, today regained the Seawanhaka Cup for the United States after eight years by beating the British defender, J. Howden Hume's Johan, for the third successive time m the bost of five series The Cup. which was first put
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      NOVICES' BOXING DATES FIXED
      143 7 NOVICES' BOXING DATES FIXED [t Singapore Amateur Boxing at meeting •A jesterda] decided on Oct.' wOd te the date 'or f arnamenl cshh events win rol- X I• aflCf Services :ave had (heir own v. A r r unme 1 Ood Sh rd '{> I by I:.- I 5U >ject
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      32 7 I A "pi, S i t v tj r n Oher t= ,;v v v D Scfr f v g o j >r E uidfani Odppendafe lV A T Land.
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      CRICKET MEETING
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      NO FIXTURE FOR S.A.F.A. TEAM
      129 7 By Oar Soccer Reporter. ALTHOUGH there have been a large number of requests for a g?.me bttween an SA FA. XI (Services an 1 civilians) ar.d Sing Tao at the Stadium on Sunday, instead of Sim? Tao v the Combined Services, it will net to
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      S'hai Soccer Team Arrive Mid-Sept.
      75 7 S'hai Soccer Team Arrive Mid-Sept. By Our Soccer Reporter SINGAPORE'S next soccer visitors will be the Shanghai Chinese who, according to a cable received yesterday, are expected to arrive here by midSeptember. The Shang;hni team will first play a series of games m Bangkok before coining to Singapore. It is
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      SAM WANTS ATHLETES TO SPECIALISE
      308 7 SAM WANTS ATHLETES TO SPECIALISE the Sports Editor By LLOYD Valberg, S.R.C. athlete who set a new high jump re cord and won the hop, step and jump and high hurdles at the recent Singapore A.A.A. championships, was not officially recognised as champion for a good reason. A .bw days
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      BOXING FAN CRITICISES THE BOARD
      452 7 THE lack of teciuueal supervision by the Singapore Boxing Board uf Control at last Sundays fights at the New World Arena, has been com- mented upon by a local fight fan m j a letter to the Sports Editor which is published below. He writes:
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      Coaching For Schoolboys
      22 7 Jim Bailey, senior Hampshire professional, coaching: a Hampshire schoolboy, one of the many promising youns players Hampshire are encoiaaging.
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      'ENGLAND WIN TEST & 'RUBBER v TOURISTS
      487 7 'ENGLAND WIN TEST 'RUBBER v TOURISTS LEEDS, Tuesday. fjWGLAND beat South Africa by ten wickets m the fourth Test cricket match at Leeds today, and have thus won the "rubber", having won the second and third Tests. S. Africa were dismissed for 184 m the second innings, after England had
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      Harding To Miss Cricket "Test"
      120 7 CAPT. E. Harding, the Combined Changi cricketer, will not be available for the South against North m the annual cricket match to be played at Kuala Lumpur this week-end. S. Yogarajah is 12th man, but as Harding was the wicket-keeper of the team, another selection
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      Gloucester And Middlesex Win
      308 7 LONDON, Tuesday. ALTHOUGH Gloucester were not expected to take full points off Leicester yesterday, they scored a splendid victory today and thus still share the league lead m the championship table with Middlesex who, as expected, had an easy victory over Nottinghamshire. Gloucester owed their victory
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      Scoreboard
      127 7 SOUTH AFRICA— IST. INNINGS 175 ENGLAND— IST. INNINGS 317 for 7 dec. SOUTH AFRICA— 2ND. INNINGS Melville c Compton b Young SO Dyer c Yardley b Edrich 2 Mitchell b Yount 5 Nourse lbw b Butler 57 Viljoen lbw b Butler 29 Dawson b Butler 17 Fullerton lbw b
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      Chester's Action Astonishes The Australians
      217 7 Chester's Action Astonishes The Australians SYDNEY, Tuesday. THE action t>f Frank Chester, one of the umpires, m stopping the use of bowlers m the Test match between England and South Africa had astonished Australia, said W. H. Jeanes, secretary of the Australian Board of Control. 'I know of no instruction
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      317 7 Free Press Crossword No. 158 1. House of rest for travellers, especially one kept by religious order (7), 7. Popular name for London statue erected m honour of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (4), 8. See 23 across 9. Large-headed match for lighting cigar or pipe m wind (5). 10.
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      33 8 The "Queen Mary" at Southampton being prepared for her first post-war commercial voyage to America tomorrow. The ShiD, after war service as a trooo carrier, has been restored to its pre-war luxury.
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      MONTY CUTS SHORT FAR, EAST TOUR
      456 8 MONTY CUTS SHORT FAR, EAST TOUR To return to UK for urgent talks LONDON, Tuesday. THE War Office announced tonight that Fiejd Mar- shall Lord Bernard Montgomery, Chief of Imperial General Staff, has decided to cut short his Far Eastern tour, cancelling his scheduled visits to Japan and Hong Kong,
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      UNKNOWN
      47 8 R.A.F. Warrant Officer R. Bennett, of Chigwell, Essex, being chaired by his comrades after he won the King's prize at Bisley with a total score of 279 points. This is the second time m succession that a serving member of the R.A.F. has won the prize.
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      CHINA FLOOD FUND PERMIT IS REFUSED
      118 8 CHINA FLOOD FUND PERMIT IS REFUSED Free Press Staff Reporter rE British Government m London has turned down a request by the Chinese m Singapore for permission to remit funds for flood relief m South China, on the grounds of foreign exchange difficulties. However, the Officer Administering the Government, Mr.
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      PRICES AGAIN MARKED DOWN
      529 8 London Stock Exchanjt LiiSDOX, luesut SOON after business opened on the Stock £14 this morning, there was a fresh wave of 4 and most sections, particularly British Goto* Securities, Industrials and Oils, were agais down, says Renter'? financial correspondent. H« at around noon the selling subsided
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      Siam Govt. Agrees To Ration Rice
      108 8 BANGKOK, Tuesday. THE people of Siam, one of the world's greatest rice countries, are to be rationed it was decided to day after Siamese Ministers had met the British and American Ambassadors for discussion of the Tripartite Rice Agreement which expires on Au^uot 31.
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      UNION GETS MILLION FINES
      147 8 Fre? Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. FINES, forfeitures, and court fees collected m Malayan Union courts *fo r the first half of this year totalled 51.232.P30.57. ►Statistics released by the judicial Department reveal that SGO j ■nelsons wore charged m 325 cr~-\s m the Supreme
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      104 8 SPLMAL Market com* fives the price* oi m 11 a.m tnday as follow Buna Ok perl t No. 1 Rs s spot loo«« Ml No 1 H.s.s ioo m bales tugnst 31 No t S.S fob m bales \u :11st M\ No 3 R.S> fob m bales Au nisi
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      New York Stock
      41 8 ON tii. N•. :t 3 terd.i ;:i> >•-' r rr x^ g j Uikii'.p bi;-. sj: ■fternoou resulted :a^"* j i two potou ,f 1 1 Bellin: ;r. '^^il stapes bu- .::.>■ rP *!t* 1 market 7 a Irwest lew
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      40 8 TO WATER CONSIigH NORMALLY NEED A W A m< m ff^S J office of t!v- ruipB nrt Singapore, a a ;^i».l Propnetor> M-^ r s«| ponsibl. for 3pf^-^ < l tenant* of :•> on« institutions where f Jpp requirrn a<her ,Si s.kgapqreJ^H
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      20 8 SINGAPORE TIDES High Low 956 am 7.8 ft 314 an 2.2 ft 851 pm 8.8 ft 314 pm 5.5 ft
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      46 8 WEATHER Rather cloudy WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Rather cloudy with occasional showers and risk of local thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. Wind: South-easterly. 10 m ph., rather trusty m showers. Temperatures: Max. 89.4 dec. F., mm. 76.7 &tg. F.
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