The Singapore Free Press, 22 August 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA V. :S SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947. PRICt 10 CEN la.
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    BRITAIN APPEALS TO COLONIES
    486 1 BRITAIN APPEALS TO COLONIES Malaya 'sdollar policy reviewed UIGH officials of the Singapore and Malayan Union Governments are now drafting action on the help Britain message sent to all colonies yesterday by the Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones. The message urged colonies to cut down dollar imports
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    PAKISTAN ENVOY TO LONDON
    24 1 PAKISTAN ENVOY TO LONDON MR. HABIB IBRAHIM RAHINTOOLA, first Pakistan High Commissioner in London, is photographed on his arrival at London airport- Planet News
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    34 1 r Admin st ring the r.~ I B MeI "*1 ra U the r ration tfflce ring at the horn WWi I md Eur Mi w. if, Kerrcm were n r r a t
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    4 JAPS DIE IN MYSTERY TENT BLAZE
    60 1 i: W TnSB s ill ItcpWttl J j.ty is tbe result of a fire lent In fcieh I g 'i a r T'.-r.ah 1 the rted to bare c liatelj and an- are still 1 fa *ms. ss iccount indical s ihM irstol
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    SAFE STOLEN
    10 1 n€ arml sundry R I m and i
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    ONE ARMED FIRE FIGHTER CAPS SUMATRAN WELL
    121 1 ONE ARMED FIRE FIGHTER CAPS SUMATRAN WELL BATAVIA, Thursday. FIRES m the oilnelds of the Standard Vacuum Company at Pendopo, South Sumatra, have been exttinguished. One-armed Hugh L. Patton, the world's greatest oil-fire fighter, returned here from Pendopo this morning. Patton said the wells undoubtedly were set on fire by
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    CHINESE PLANE S'PORE-BOUND
    109 1 A PLANE ol Hie China National Aviation Corporation took off early this morning from Shanghai on a trail blazing flight on a projected new South Seas route to Singapore and Batavia. The plane, carrying a pany of newspapermen and a number of officials, will fly through French
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    SOVIET PROTEST ON RUHR TALKS
    76 1 TTttiE U.S. State Department dis--1 closed yesterday that Russia has protested against an American", British and French conference on increasing German Industrial activities which opens m London today, but made it plain the talks will be held regardless of the Soviet objections. In London a
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    £6,000,000 PROJECT
    34 1 Work is to be resumed on the Manchester-Sheffield electrification plan, which was begun before the war. The cost will be about £6,000,000, and some 100,000,000 tons of coal will be saved yearly.
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    3,000 HARBOUR MEN ON STRIKE
    248 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THREE thousand stevedores, wharf labourers and road 1 labourers of the Singapore Harbour Board did not report for work this morning, following their walk-out yesterday afternoon, when an Indian labourer was shot dead and another seriously injured by a police constable.
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    RUBBER WORKERS TO GO ON STRIKE
    160 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. MALAYAN Union rubber and estate workers have decided to stage a country-wide strike on Monday as a token protest against the "adamant attitude of the U.P.A.M." on the question of wage increases, says the All Malayan Rubber
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    30,000 Muslims are 'doomed'
    228 1 HOSHARPUT, India, Thursday. BRITISH and Indian Army officers of the Special Punjab Border Police said today they could not fulfil a pledge of safety to thousands of the Muslim minority m hL district cast of Amritsar. CoL D. Khalid Jan, commander of a special Punjab Military
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    TROOPS FIGHT FIRE
    24 1 Reuter "Walkie-talkie" radio sets were used yesterday by troops fighting 40 acres of grass fire on Army ranges at Netheravon, Wiltshire.
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    BOMB DANGER TO LINERS OVER
    69 1 A THREE-WORD message "bomb rendered safe" received m Southampton yesterday ended an all-night death gamble m midchannel by two naval bomb disposal officers who succeeded m rendering harmless a 1,000 lb. unexploded German bomb brought up by a dredger. So dangerous was the delicately balanced
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    DUTCH WARN LARGE SCALE WAR COMING
    339 1 DUTCH WARN LARGE SCALE WAR COMING I p LESS the U.N. Security Council on Friday orders the U Indonesian Republic "to cease hostilities which are being continued m violation of the Council's cease-fire order/ the Dutch will resume military action m Indonesia on "a large scale", states the Associated Press
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    BOMB ATTEMPT IN RANGOON
    66 1 A HAND-GRENADE, thrown ai a branch headquarters of the People's Volunteer Organisation m East Rangoon on Tuesday night, exploded harmlessly ten yards away. The police have ordered three main roads m the vicinity of Jubilee Hall, where the bodies of the assassinated Burmese leaders are lying
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    THE SEVENTH MOON FESTIVAL
    593 2 THE Seventh Moon, according to the Lunar Calendar, is, to Chinese, the DeviFs Holiday, when marriage is taboo. Yet, strangely, Chinese maidens wait eagerly each year for the seventh day of the seventh moon (it falls today), with a prayer m their minds, a hope m
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    34 2 A bib of pearls may not be the coolest wear for hot evenings but it's one of the newest fashions m New York. The bib is matched by a headband of the same pearls.
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    SCORNFUL CONVENT GIRLS
    306 2 SCORNFUL CONVENT GIRLS THE 58 girls and women m the Convent of the Good Shepherd at Saltaii, Cornwall are scornful. T I y deoi c d s o ggestions m a d c at a meeting of the SouthWestern Vagrancy Committee j m Bristol that they were Munhappy, slave-driven, or
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    Australia's First Woman Minister
    311 2 Australia 's First Woman Minister AU ST R A LIAS first woman Cabinet Minister is Mrs. Anni t CardeUOliver, who recent ly became Minister of Health m WesternAAustraliaa a widely travelled woman who is an excellent speaker, with \>it, and of forceful personality. Mrs. Cardell-Olivcr is a cosmopolitan who was
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    Latest From Paris
    355 2 Latest From Paris TH E new Paris fashion note for 1948 is femininity. As the smoke, champagne and bustle of the first opening cleared, this new trend towards the softening of the feminine figure became more and more evident. Gone are harsh hooble skirts, s qua r e military shoulders
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    Fashion Designer
    56 2 IN Australian ex-prisoner- of-war is now a leading fashion designer, who works for one of the biggest English textile companies. He is Rae Nixon, of Sydney, at present a Postwar Re-Con-struction trainee at the Sydney Technical College Head teacher of the school, Miss P. Shillito, says that Nixon's
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    310 2 YOU never can tell what may happen when you toss the monkey wrench of a preemptive bid into the bidding machinery. Even the best of opponents are apt to get less than the maximum out of their cards when they are robbed of sufficient rounds of bidding
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    20 2 An evening dress by Jaques Fath, entitled "White Lady" is of white satin with phony diamonds sewn m for ornamentation.
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    Pleasure or duty?
    100 2 Pleasure or duty? v It ins the ll"\ X v *aid H .r. thai a job h v l he i rt m; »> keep it 1 zj. ri;: d i taM rallantrj I >..- ToM an b i «rt pis lo'feJ Bed ri c both r iboi t k
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      652 2 SINGAPORE 4 45 "Meet the Maestro;" 5.15 Great Home News; 6.45 Military Band; 7 PitflJats— Miscba Levitakl; 5.30 "The p.m. Swing With Scott; 7.30 Music Blue Network Forces' Requests;" 6 "The All Star Hall; 8 p.m. World and Home News; U §t_2 00 inn metre* m the Snow; 6 30
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      190 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast tor people born today DORN today, you have a great v deal of character and forcefulness. You usually get your way about things; and when you want something, you go after it, all holds barred. You are a many-sided individual and have numerous facets to
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    CROPS BEING BLIGHTED BY DROUGHT
    300 3 New famine danger m Europe nifirr m >ome places the worst m 100 years iiolds A \J m Us ri P- blighting crops and touching oft n llT *l\. *nin* up water and milk supplies and adding j.re-t fire p I ,j 1 r <"to
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    LEADERS OF INDIA ARE CRITCISED
    165 3 -s, m a T PaMsI r what it lei m me ng whether maintain the world. ing to find jardar VallabhaJ I iall G rerameni ominously at th< nos- rninari- side a M.. ie newspaper :> emo- ;v boundary as territofederation hope n papet sa
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    HAM HOUSE FOR STATE
    26 3 Sir Lionel an est r the OS wag Charles Ham House Surrey, thi family seat D bee me National perty.- Re uter
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    'WE STAY IN BERLIN'
    24 3 stay m c •pg -re are Rus- a.-.. pv Jj Brig v. R N "Hind:--r D^ Military Governor tefiu aid
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    GRAFT CHARGE IN CHINA AID
    257 3 niSCHARGED employees of CNRRA (China National Relief V and Rehabilitation Administration) m mimeographed letters to the Chinese press m Shanghai, have brought fresh charges of irregularities against the CNKRA, ranging from account bookkeeping to "irregularities" m the disposal of shipping crates, reports United Press. The
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    'SOVIET SHIPS TAKING ARMS TO CHINA REDS'
    111 3 'SOVIET SHIPS TAKING ARMS TO CHINA REDS' THE Executive Yuan has ordered that the Soviet- controlled Chinese port of Dairen be closed to "all foreign shipping," saying any vessel entering or leaving that port is guilty of illegal operation m Chinese waters, the Government spokesman, Mr. Hollington Ton?, announced m
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    SWIMS A CHANNEL
    29 3 The mailboat Lochearn altered her course In mid-channel to avoid killing a stag swimming from Argyllshire mainland to the island of Mull, three miles away. Reuter
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    PRIEST IS NAMED IN FRAUD CASE
    40 3 STEPHAN BALOGH, a Catholic priest and Hungarian Opposition leader, is being investigated m connection with the misappropriation of $22,000 while he was Under-Secretary of State. Baiogh resigned last May and recently from retirement.- U.P.
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    FOUNDER DEAD
    25 3 The death is announced m London of Mr. William Joseph Ennever, 78, founder of the memory training system known as elmanism.- A. P.
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    FEARS IN BERLIN
    49 3 The British-licensed Berlin newspaper Die Welt says that it has polled 10,000 Germans of whom 74 per cent, say that they believe there will be a new war and 78 per cent, of those who believe it think it will be m the near future.- U.P.
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    Gunman: 'I am President'
    75 3 A TENNESSEE farmer identifying himself as John Samson Kirby 70 insisting that he was the President of the United States, seised the office of a Congressman m Capitol Hill, Washington with a fully loaded revolver. Police apprehended Kirby Wore any shots were fired. Kirby claimed that
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    FARMERS CAME TO TOWN
    80 3 (England) fanners and market gardeners, declining to plough-under produce unwanted by retailers, set up a stall m a store arcade m Qroydon and sold vegetables at a price agreed by customers. It is estimated that 2,000 people queued and bought tomatoes at Is. a pound, cucumbers
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    50 DROWNED IN RIVER TRAGEDY
    51 3 FIFTY Egyptian villagers were drowned when a boat carrying 68 passengers, crossing a swollen river m the Egyptian province of Ouiga, sank during the Ramadan festivals. Eighteen were rescued by some of the thousand holiday-makers on the banks of the river who witnessed the tragedy.-
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    PoWs invited to see a democracy
    60 3 PoWs invited to see a democracy More than 60 German prisoners- of -war were given an insight into Britain's democratic way of life recently when they visited the House of Commons as guests of Mr. T. C. Skefflng-ton-Lodge, Labour, M.P., for Bedford. The party is seen here looking across the
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    Soviet ignore U.S. protests
    188 3 THREE Gls DETAINED w WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE U.S. War and State Departments hav c instructed 1 Lieut-Gen. Hodge, U.S. Commander m Southern Korea, to supply full information on the reported detention by the Soviet military of three young American soldiers on the American-Soviet boundary m Korea.
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    German repots leave Japan
    47 3 rE U.S. Army transport General Black has sailed from Yokohama for Germany with 806 German repatriates. Included m the diplomatic group were Alfred Rretschmer, one-time general who helped plan the projected German m. vasion of England, and Heinrich Stahmer, ex-Ambassador to Japan. A.P.
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    S'HAI PARENTS CHALLENGE MARTIAL LAW
    447 3 S'HAI PARENTS CHALLENGE MARTIAL LAW CHINA'S increasingly democratic-conscious million? are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the protracted legal battle in the Chinese courts in Shanghai which is to decide, in effect, whether the military are still a law unto themselves as in the era of warlords some 20 years ago—
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    ALASKA NOW 'FRONT LINE' OF AMERICA
    140 3 WASHINGTON, Thursday. DESCRIBING Alaska as "America's potential first line of defence" m the event of another war. Representative Evan Howell. Republican, calls for "intense" fortification. The head of the Congressional mission which surveyed facilities m the northern territory, Mr. Howell said Alaska lies along
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    N.Z. TO DISCUSS AID TO BRITAIN
    78 3 MR. Peter Fraser, New Zealand Prime Minister, has announced that his Government had called a conference for next week to discuss aid to Britain m the present crisis. He knew everybody m New Zealand was behind the Government m its desire that people of
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    MINESWEEPING ENDS
    42 3 Reuter Although thousands of mine* have been cleared around Britain m the past two years, not one casualty has been suffered. The last sweep is now being carried out by a flotilla off the butt of Lewis, m the Hebrides.-
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947. The Battle of the Gap
    585 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947. The Battle of the Gap THIS is a momentous day m the history of the British Empire, one Cabinet Ministsr is reported to have said of Mr. Dalton s dollar broadcast But more than the Empire have marked the day. There is
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    PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS
    1618 4 PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS FAITH Fear not... For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you. Deuteronomy: 20. 3-4 WHEN Singapore's newshawks call ot the Public Relations Office m the Government Secretariat building foi communiques or press releases they usually contact a slight, slim, bespectacled figure seated
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    A British Farmer speaks Out
    896 4  - A British Farmer speaks Out J. K. Knowles by General Secretary of the British National Fanners' Union WOT for the first 1 time, the farmers of Britain are being called upon to pull out of the fire a large-sized Crisis Chestnut. Britain is again facing th c stark fact that
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    Children's Education
    143 4 MORE should be done by Secondary Schools to interest children m the outside world, it is suggested by Britain's Ministry of Education, m a circular to Local Education Authorities. Two ways of dealing with this problem are recommended. Firstly, children should be given instruction m the working of
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    TALKS ON RUBBER MILLING CRISIS
    186 5 TALKS ON RUBBER MILLING CRISIS NCES «X taking nNFW 0^ Singapore itTWton rubbll &SS way! -d rtuch c 5Ui P Ec Ho d by res?». it ijjww IfKvitabk ->< c fac- "2 fac- ir ounstawces r ci.:>- the live- :ers a totaJ sus- ild have, and p yers X nsider
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    MORPHINE; SIX IN COURT
    57 5 i BCI re charged In the C art sterday Dickins en b: jAna I i irpose I n mr: ns and a •re ■^.ir^-d 1: the hut for administer- \r '■'■■>■ «rew allowed I I "■> sin ties each, 1 rt? x n re- i ISt
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    S'pore port news
    60 5 t- f x Singapore hl££ day 'S^own/m E WharfV Mar?e Snapper 1-4 r 41 Prometheus B Beam* i-» 1^ Empire Dock: Ting Sang U7-18J, Kelso Victory (19-20), Lake Side (25-26), Burnside (27-28). At the Wharves Today: Agamemnon (15-16), Samcleve (34), Menelaus (36-37). Vessels Out Today: Marine Snapper
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    SHB BOYS' CLUB
    35 5 The official opening of the Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club takes place on Saturday at 4.30 p.m. The Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. will declare the club open.
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    JAIL FOR THEFT
    38 5 For stealing four door bolts, valued at $48, from a Harbour Board on Wednesday, 30-year-old Tan Cheng Chui was sentenced to three months' r.i. and 12 months' police supervision m the third Police Court, yesterday.
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    20 5 picture. This is one of the three vans which the RAF will be using for their Malaya-wide recruiting campaign.— Rafpro
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    VOTERS SIGN UP
    41 5 picture. Pictured in an outlying district of Singapore is this loudspeaker van of the Public Relations Office. The van also serves as a registration Office for voters. Picture on thp. rinht shnins a nnter signing up.- Free Press
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    Compensation plan for war damage
    332 5 AT a meeting at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday between Sir Edward Gent, Governor of the Malayan Union, and Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, Officer Administering the Government, Singapore, it was decided that a scheme of war damage com* pensatHM should be initiated on the basis
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    CRACKER SHOPS TO BE LICENSED
    128 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A PROPOSAL that shops m the rural area dealing m fire crackers should be licensed forthwith was approved by the Singapore Rural Board at a meeting yesterday. Among other items discussed was the renaming of Reformatory Road. It was suggested that
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    S.H.B. 'DOING BEST' TO CUT DOCK DELAYS
    667 5 S.H.B. 'DOING BEST' TO CUT DOCK DELAYS Port chief replies to criticisms Free Press Staff Reporter REPLYING to criticisms m the Press of there being "still too much delay at Singapore docks," the acting chairman of the Singapore Harbour Board, Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes, m an interview yesterday, said:
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    WELFARE MEN SAMPLE 50-CENT MEAL
    112 5 WELFARE MEN SAMPLE 50-CENT MEAL Free Press Staff Reporter RELEGATES and observers to the v South-East Asia Sooial Wei. fare Conference now sitting m Singapore met the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron at lunch yesterday at the Telok Ayer People's Restaurant. They sampled the 50-cent meal,
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    MERCANTILE BANK
    21 5 The Board of Directors of the Mercantile Bank have declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent less tax.
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    ROBBERY CHARGE
    46 5 Sim Ah Gong was remanded m police custody for 48 hours by the Second Polioe magistrate jesterday to await the arrival of a police escort from Johore. Sim Ah Gong is charged with committing armed robbery at Penggerang, on July 6. Bail was refused.
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    THREE RAF VANS FOR RECRUITING
    191 5 THREE teams to recruit men for the RAF regiment will 1 leave Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 25 to begin a lour of the whole of Malaya and Singapore. Recruiting by the teams will continue until Sept. 11. An initial intake of 600 Malays is anticipated.
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    POLICE BEAT MAN, SAYS WITNESS
    168 5 PENANG, Thursday. A WITNESS told the Bukit Mertajam coroner, Mr. C. B. Danby, today that he had heard police beat an allegedly innocent man until the man cried out for mercy. The coroner is inquiring into the death of Lav Fook Yau, a Chinese barber
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    6 CHARGED WITH GANG ROBBERY
    104 5 IfUALA LUMPUR, Thursday.— Six Chinese from Sungei Pelek, a village 14 miles from Kuala Lumpur, were produced m the First Magistrate's Court today, oni individual charges ranging from gang robbery to extortion alleged to have been* committed at the same village during May r|id June.
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    DRIVER FINED
    83 5 TOHORE BAHRU, Thursday.— J Darus bin Adnam, driver of a Royal Naval lorry, was fined a total of $200 and had his driving licence suspended for three months when he was convicted by Magistrate Che Ali today, on two charges of causing hurt by negligent driving. Darus was
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    U.S. EXPERTS WARNING TO CONGRESS
    543 6 'Soviet ready to risk World War III 9 rSSIA'S foreign policy is described as "intolerant, suspicious and distrastf uP m a special report prepared by experts of the United States Congress Library, who warn that Russia's policy is keyed to a programme of world revolution,
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    CHURCHILL'S CHOICE
    106 6 BECAUSE Mr. Churchill would not guarantee that his broadcast last week-end on Britain's economic crisis would be noncontroversial the day of the broadcast was changed from Sunday to Saturday. This was In accordance with the 8.8.C. ruling that no party controversy is allowed on the air on Sundays.
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    £375,000 SETTLEMENT
    30 6 William Paley, president of America's Columbia Broadcasting System, is to pay his wif e £375,000 under a divorce settlement announced when his wife ,:ot a decree at Reno.
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    U.K. RADIO SHOW: AVIATION AIDS
    227 6 LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN'S latest developments m aircraft radio equipment will be on show at a big aviation display to be held soon at Redditch, near Birmingham. Manufacturers of the equipment on display are the Marconi Wireless Corporation, Chelmsford. One of the outstanding exhibits In this
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    Citizenship in Burma
    66 6 fTUIE Burmese Constituent AsJi sembly may evolve a new definition of the term "Burma national" with a view to accommodating a larger number of Indians, Chinese and other nonBurmans who aspire to settle down m Burma, reports Reuter. The Constituent Assembly is considering a revision whereby either
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    Wife spread her wings in Cairo
    204 6 THE husband of an ATS who lied had his petition for divorce dismissed with costs at Leeds Divorce Court. Neville Bursell, 30-year-old solicitor, of Church-avenue, Selby, Yorks, sought divorce on the grounds of the cruelty of his wife, Phoebe Bursell, aged 22. Mr. Commissioner
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    U.S. ARMY IN ITALY IS REMAINING
    111 6 U.S. ARMY IN ITALY IS REMAINING A MERICAN troops m the MediiV. tcrranean TSieatre will dig m for the winter along the Morgan Line, m the disputed Venezia Guilia Province, as well as at base installations m Leghorn and Rome, reports United Press. The stay of American troops m the
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    ESCAPEE FROM RUSSIA
    44 6 I Dublin police would give no m;- formation about Hoist Meyer (19) a German stowaway who arrived m Dublin m a British ship after escaping from arrest m Russia Meyer has appealed to be allowed I to settle m Scotland.— Reuter
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    JET POWER TO CLEAR THAMES
    99 6 "pXPERIMENTS have been begun I!i to clear the mud from the Thames bed by a jet turbine engine similar to these fitted m meteor aircraft Port of London Authority ana Ministry of Supply officials watched as a let engine mounted on a barge blew air
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    HUNGARY REVISES ELECTION LISTS
    50 6 THE Hungarian Premier. Mr Dinnys, m a letter to Cardinal Mindszety, has promised a revision of the electoral lists, according to Vatican sources. The letter was m reply to the Hungarian Primate's protest against elimination from the election lists of a great number of Catholics.- U.P.
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    INDONESIAN TROOPS FOR THE FRONT
    27 6 INDONESIAN TROOPS FOR THE FRONT Indonesia* troops entraining for the West Java front. The regular Republican troops (T.RJ.) are dressed m khaki, and "extremist" guerillas m white.
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    JOGJA HAS MAKESHIFT 'RADIO CITY'
    427 6 JOGJA HAS MAKESHIFT 'RADIO CITY' n :r -••>?**l*' lM ISOOHEBMAS Joifctatt kl storey stucco tnui^tows boasting j lwo control penile and phonograph tvr P t^L^7N«J of the Republics main communication^ h *%i outside world, writes Harris Jadw.* A^» < from Jogjakarta. <**W With a transmitter located out tfip spot is
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    INDIA WILL RE-ATTACK S. AFRICA
    130 6 INDIA WILL RE-ATTACK S. AFRICA Nations r-caaJfc t: r -r-"::or. r V J» crimii gainst mXI India: ?cen: res-J^M W :r '"'"uKcß era J tnbiy next n-s&'l In I li mm n s :*cer« B I N v India s expected to lead ar attack or. foifr M for :entlj
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    U.S. AIR CHIEF IN U.K. TALKS
    57 6 U.S. AIR CHIEF IN U.K. TALKS PEN G KENNY Cjx^J Air Force and themanitoB order the rel« ase to Mfl bombs any futotmj turnii the Fn.:cc SU2« ft secret rtftf to UttEk J I have been here Ri(H sions with military as: gj expt r.>. :u: cannot a? they are
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    TROUSERS IN ANOTHER GOOD SPRINT
    46 7 yrrt spond< nc*> §m »*g tfPUR rodaj. runners yen l rkouta this i track. the two BTOOM i Qd fS£ i a kbc M t jp, Same furl ngs. Choi© 5! r ga* n *m* 3 to J i tare tar-
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    CARD OF EVENTS FOR TOMORROW'S RACES
    301 7 CARD OF EVENTS FOR TOMORROW'S RACES L| the card oi events for tomorrow's races at i ,r subket to sciatehinka and the order of IP. Lgs cuss i Fuma 5 9.04 I •>■ 5 9.W ERE 5 9.01 j' V I >J jll a 8.1 1 i re ske J
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    The Order Of Running
    242 7 THE order of running and 1 non acceptors for tomorrow's races at S*i£kla Lumpur are m PAGE EIGHT HORSES CLASS 2, DIV. 5, stt FURS. 2 KINVARA 4 9.00 0 0 0 FL-ALAMEIN 5 8.10 3 3 1 PLYING FORTRESS 4 8. 10 4 0 0
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    DAI REES WINS BY CLEAR MARGIN
    116 7 BRIGHTON, Thurs. |\AI Hees of South Herts who is B among the professional golfers from which the British Ryder Cup team will be selected this year, won the "New Chronicle" £1.500 professional tournament at Hollingbury Park here today with the fine aggregate of 275
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    INVEST FOR BIG SPRiNT RACE IN KL
    878 7 Tin Plate Best Bet Tomorrow Free Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPLR, Today. WITH King Arthur and Princess Guinevere definitely not accepting, Invest will be van Breukelen's main hope against Marland's smart trio m the big race tomorrow, the first day of the Selangor
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    I.A. CRICKET XI
    68 7 »THE following will represent the 1 Indian Association against H.Q. Singapore District at Fort Canning on Sunday at 11 a.m. (Transport Heaves Balbir Co. at 10.30 a.m.) N. Abbasbhoy (Captain). Selakan Singh. C. Seneviratne. M.S. Gill, j Rasiklal, R. Bapoo. S. Ratnam. M.U. Patel. Punchi Hewa. G.C.
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    39 7 Cadet D. A. G. Pirie. of 1610 Purley Squadron, wins the onevide junior event m the record time of 4 vim. 42 sec. at White City m the Air Training Corps third annual national intcrgroup and individual athletic championships.
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    KANE FIGHT v MEDINA POSTPONED
    210 7 KANE FIGHT v MEDINA POSTPONED LONDON, Wednesday. 7TIHE European bantam-weight L championship contest between the holder, Tabo Medina of Paris and Peter Kane of Golborne, which was to have taken place at Belle Vue, Manchester, on Aug. 29 has had to be postponed because Kane has contracted synovitis m both
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    S.R.C. CRICKET TEAMS
    108 7 Tne following will represent the S.R.C. first XI against the S.C.C. at cricket on the S.C.C. padang at 2 p.m. tomorrow and 11 a.m. on Sunday: G. Clarke. J. Anchant, B. Barker. E. Barker. P. D'Almeida. R. Jansen, R. Perry, D. Ross. J. Sanderson. A. Watts. V.
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    RAF BASE WIN BY 127 RUNS
    198 7 A GOOD all-round display gave R.A.F. Base Headquarters thefr biggest win to date when they defeated 64 65 Flights (Police) by 127 runs on WednesI day at St. George's Road. Scores were: BASE HEADQUARTERS. Bird c Macßriar b Huxley, 57; Chinnery b Edwards 29;
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    Preparations At Highbury
    37 7 Picture shows Arsenal preparing for the new soccer season which starts tomorrow with a practice game between Reds and Whites at Highbury Stadium. Swindin (Reds') goalkeeper, punches clear- from Sherratt (9) and Clelland (7).
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    Gloucester Win By 29 Runs
    331 7 MSEX LEAD ON Ist INNS LONDON, Thursday. £FTER an exciting day's pJay Gloucestershire scored a i* thriiiins victory over Glamorgan at Cheltenham, vshere the pitch. upheld its reputation of being: a spin bowler's paradise. Muncer, Glamorgan's off-spin bowler, dismissed Gloucestershire cheaply, taking eight wickets for
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    Gerard Wins Big Trophy Race
    184 7 DOUGLAS. Isle Of Man. Thurs. F. R. GERARD, driving a supercharged E.R.A., won the first postwar British Empire trophy motor race here today and Prince Birabongse of Siam m a French Simoa won the junior race for the Manx Cup. Gerard covered the course of
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    'Twins' Top The Test Averages
    349 7 LONDON, Thursday. r! Middlesex 'twins/ Bill Edrich and Denis Compton. easily topped the batting averages m the five Test cricfcet matches between England and South Africa. Edrich scored 552 runs m the series m six innings, once not out. for an afbrage of 110.40, while
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    Women's Captain At Island Club Named
    115 7 Mrs. W. L. Rolieston has been appointed women's captain of ihe Island Club. In trder to get up a women's handlicap list as soon as possible so that the monthly mixed lour. some- competitions may be started j m the near future, it is
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    AUSSIES KNOCKED OUT
    61 7 BROOKLINE, Mass.. Thurs. THE whole Australian Davis Cup team was knocked out of the National Lawn Tennis Doubles Championships here today. In the quarter finals Gardner Mulloy and Frank Parker (United States) beat Geoffrey Brown and Dinny Pails 6—3, 6—4. 6 3. and Bill Talbert and Bill
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    BEVELLE LADS WIN
    42 7 IN a friendly game of soccer played on the R.A.F. ground at MacPherson Road yesterday, the Bevelle Lads defeated the 59 MT Coy, R.A.F., second team, by three goals to nil. Scorers were: M. Pasqual (2) and Doralsamy (1).
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      169 7 Free Press Crossword No. 174 CLUES ACROSS 1. Sword or bugle belt (7) 7, Victorian poet (8) 8, Chief Shetland* town (7). 12, Equip (3). 14, Mature (5). 15, Gibbon, for example (3). li, Scott poem (7). 17, Jupiter's cup bearer (4). 19, Persons on whose liv«i annuities depend (8).
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    26 8 1j > rir. PICTURE FOR CANADIANS Sri^sh Colombia Coast's •ldest inhabitant, 108-year-old fisherman Louis Thvot sitting b?neath a Totem Pole wi*h two of the town's Indian children.
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    Refugees reject ultimatum
    256 8 LONDON, Thursday. AN indignant rejection and an urgent appeal to Britain to "nr ld your hand" was the Jewish Agency's answer tonight to the British ultimatum to the Jewish refugees aboard the three transports off the south coast of France to land by evening tomorrow or be
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    FRANCE TO OFFER FIC NEW TERMS
    191 8 PARIS, Thursday. THE French Government has reached an agreement on p^ace proposals for Indo-China, the terms of which will be finally approved at a special Cabinet meeting either tonight or some time tomorrow. M. Emile Bollaert, French High Commissioner m Indo-China. on leaving today's
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    CADIZ APPEALS FOR GOVT. HELP
    56 8 CITY officials of the Spanish port of Cadiz have appealed to the Government for help to begin the reconstruction of blast-wrecked sections of the city. The casualty toll is still obscure. City officials announced that 129 bodies had been counted but said the final toll
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    Races: Outer & Scratching
    163 8 Races: Outer Scratching ORDER of running and nonacceptors for tomorrow's races at Kuala Lumpur are: Race 1: H., Cl 4, D 2, 5* f.— Snow Goose. Race 2: H. f Cl 4, D I, 5* f.— Theo West. Race 3: H., Cl. 2, D£, 5* f.— Norton, Red Ted, Some
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    TROOPSHIP OVERCROWDING
    156 8 LIVERPOOL, Thursday. BRITISH military officials went on board to investigate comDiilnts when the 16.532-ton troopship Orbita- docker! here today from Bombay with the first soldiers' families evacuated from India j A cabin measuring nine paces by six and about seven feet high waa allocated to 22 women and
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    FARMERS TO FIGHT 'BATTLE OF THE GAP'
    430 8 FARMERS TO FIGHT 'BATTLE OF THE GAP' Britain's fiveyear food plan LONDON. Thursday. BRITAIN'S farmers today received battle orders to step up output by £100,000,000 within four years and so ease the crushing burden of food purchases abroad which represent more than half the country's dollar imports. Farm workers will
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    UK MINERS TO WORK LONGER
    176 8 UK MINERS TO WORK LONGER LONDON, Thursday. DEPRESENTATTVES of the Na- tional Union of Mineworkers agreed during a conference today vith Mr. Herbert Morrison, Mr. rnest Bevin and other ninisters as well as representatives of the National oal Board to "an increase m the tints when this is possible and
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    INDIA'S COWS SET A PROBLEM
    114 8 CALCUTTA, Thursday. INDIA'S cows— holy to the Hindus and meat for the Muslims are providing the new Dominion of India with a headache that threatened today to become chronic. Mr. Gandhi has intervened to admonish a strong Hindu group, led by the industrialist Ramakrlshna Dalmia.
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    RUSSIA REJECTS U.K. PROTEST
    72 8 RUSSIA has rejected the British request that Russia defer the seizure of any more German and Italian firms m Hungary until other powers signing the Hungarian peace treaty could satisfy themselves that the concerns were actually German or Italian. UP. learns m London. The Russian reply
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    36 8 ghfghgfhfh MR. C. M. LI (Hong Kong,, MR. J c i and MISS MAJORIE COKE (o1 I sampling a meal at the Telok A r *< day They are delegate* and o he ference.— Free Press
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    DEALERS ARE CAUTIOUS
    324 8 DEALERS ARE CAUTIOUS London Ucack LxehaHJ LONDON", 'inu,^. ALTHOUGH, generally speaking tii, announced /i suspension of the convertibility »j sUrfa*^^ helpful by dealers on the Stock Exchange as shorn* lirsit practical step for dealing wth ibe economic c 2 did nothing to extend business, today, says Reuer s fe correspondent.
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    JAPAN TREATY TALKS DELAYED
    276 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. AFFICIAL sources m the United States said today that it V was unlikely the proposed 11-nation conference on the Japanese peac c treaty would be held until October or November at any rate, not until after the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly
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    CEYLON FLOODS: 128 DEAD
    94 8 COLOMBO, Thursday. INCOMPLETE reports of the death-roll m Ceylon's floods today give the number as 128, over 100 of whom died to the worst affected Central Province. In one area of this province alone 3,000 houses have been washed away, ar.d 10,000 made homeless. The authorities
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    US PROTEST TO RUSSIA ON DAIREN
    115 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. A new United States protest to Russia against the continued Soviet occupation of the Chinese port of Dairen was disclosed today by the State Department. A note delivered to Moscow on Aug. 14. said that the United States "wilt of necessity, hold
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    GREAT ACTING IN 'ODD MAN OUT'
    185 8 Film Preview AT a Press preview at the Cathay Cinema last night Eagle Lion Distributors screened the J. Arthur Rank film "Odd Man Out", which won a Belgian Govrmment award at the International Film Festival m June. There is magnificent acting throughout and, despite
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    TRUSTEE PLAN FOR NAURU ISLE
    64 8 NOTICE that Australia, m association with Britain and New Zealand, will submit a draft trusteeship agreement for the Pacific island of Nauru to the September session of the United Nations General Assembly, has been received by the United Nations Secretary General at Lake Success, New
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    CHINA MAY ISSUE NEW CURRENCY
    81 8 NANKING. Thursday. THE Central Government has already drafted a plan for a new currency to replace the present inflated currency, and this will be issued as soon as a new U.S. $500,000,000 loan is obtained from the United States, according to the independent Nanking newspaper
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    BACK IN SERVICE
    33 8 The destroyer Volage is undergoing trials after being fitted with new bows to replace those blown off when she was mined m the Corfu Channel off Albania last October.— Reuter
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    QUIET BIRTHDAY FOR PRINCESS
    191 8 LONDON, Thursday. pRINCESS Margaret known to ■1 Scots as "our princess" celebrated her birthday' quietly today at Balmoral Castle m Scotland, with her parents, Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. There were no official guests* The Princess is scheduled to accompany the Queen on a visit
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    110 8 I SPtMAL Market conj rt fives the price* o; mm II am today as follow No i B U Sptf Nc i K.s t«t I m t>,tl«^ Sfpt Wk fl No 2 R> J fob I m (>aIPN Sent !*i fl No 3 R> B M
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      59 8 WEATHER Sunny today m WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the RAF.: Sunny this afternoon, fine tonight Wind south south-easterly, light. Sunset: 6.41, sunrise 6.32. Monnsct: 11.40 p.m Temperatures: Max. 90 5 deg. mm. 77 3 deg. F Relative humidity pt-rccntages: Yesterday 7.30 a.m. 90; 1.30 p
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      15 8 SINGAPORE TIDES High 2.16 mm.; 2 35 p.m Low 5. 25 a.m.; 8 42 p.m
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