The Singapore Free Press, 25 November 1947

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    ASIA MAY SEE RED SAYS ROXAS
    333 1 ASIA MAY SEE RED SAYS ROXAS FF<3 rw ing at UN Far East talks |Cf BAGUIO, Monday. -1A may turn to ideologies which promise us radical improvement,' warned the President of Philippines, Mr. Manue! Rout, m an obvious r< erence to (^emmunism, opening today the pro\mgs of the Economic Council
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    This is vital' says Bevin
    44 1 LONDON. Mo-. day. Mr. Er est Bevin, tonight Fore^!i Mi. lister, i U ted States Secretary of re the Council I F reign fifth time to decide the a i I n of I I 11 no- .tble i
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    COMMONS QUERY ON DUTIES OF THE GOVERNORS
    105 1 QUESTIONS rewarding the s\ .ir.d definition of the dutlei th I r-Oenerm] of Malaya. deolm MacEKM.ald, the mor of the Malayan Union i'A-ard Gent, the Governor of l S r Franklin Gimson, and L- rd Killearn, Special Comoer m Soutn East Asia, wcr
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    ROBBED HIM IN CEMETERY
    45 1 rpiIREE armed Chinese. >• A day at 9 a.m.. waylaid a compatriot m town while he was on way to deposit $1,000 and a 5130 m the bank. Th" robben forced their victim re him to a ceme- bar Road and robn.
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    CADET SHOOTS IT OUT WITH BANDITS
    315 1 Fitl> Press Staff Correspondent KL'ALA LUMPUR. Monday. A MALAYAN Po'ice cadet who, armed with only an automatic A and nine rounds of ammunition, outfought a gang of 23 bandits on the Klian Intan Road m June this year, has been awarded the King's Police
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    STOP PRESS
    196 1 Lnottlcial members of the Malayan Union Advisory Council this morning warned the Governor, Sir Edward Gent, that it the Government decided to proceed with the income tax bill Against the advice of the Council, the unoflicial members "would take no Dart whatever, and will not vote on an\
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    PRIDI IS ON St. JOHN'S ISLAND
    91 1 PRIDI IS ON St. JOHN'S ISLAND Free Press Staff Reporter >TAI Prldi Pan. Lam's i "senior states'... who escaped arrest when Marshal Phiip, is Island. S. Pi If In one of the c 2led Ad put aboard a snip. Offlci da m n. The any a refi: tarlst rj 10
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    3 1 >/ PANOMYONG, II i
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    JOHORE PIHATES SEIZE $8,000 RUBBER CARGO
    169 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ARMED p:ra-.Hs seised a $8,000 j cargo o! rubber from a Singa- .p« re-bound motor ton^kang oil Johore town or Batu Pahat on Sunday. Ang Ting You. 43-year-. la tai- kg >I the tonekang. which returned to Singapore yesterday told
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    FRANCE FACES BREAKDOWN IN INDUSTRY
    312 1 FRANCE FA CES BREAKDO WN IN INDUSTRY PARIS, Monday. M ROBERT Schumann's newly formed cabinet is tonight confronted with a creeping? paralysis of French industry as "more workers m the docks, railways, coalfields, heavy industries and public services joined the wave of strikes which has plunged the country into its
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    MISSIONARIES SHOT DEAD
    36 1 MISSIONARIES SHOT DEAD UNKNOWN gunman yesterday shot dead two British medical .'mission.:. -Id Londonj trained Dr. H. A. Hatch and Sister dyal at Ranghat, 45 mile 3 ir^m Calcutta. They were atI tacked while having dinner.
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    'Aid Europe now or i ace war
    311 1 'Aid Europe now or i ace war WASHINGTON, Monday. SENATOR Arthur Vandenbcrg. leading Republican foreign ftffain authority, today warned that Congressional rejection of the U. 5.5597,000,000 stop-gap aid programme for France, Italy and Austria might result m a war -which otherwise need never occur." Calling tor prompt approval as the
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    ROYAL WEDDING PICTURES
    32 1 SPECIAL Associated Press pictures of the Royal Wedding are published m Pa?e EICiHT. Late Malayan and foreign news, the London Stock Exchange and rubber prices are m Page SIX.
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      52 1 I z f SHROFF'S CARPETS -ST ARRIVED ASSORTMENT OF MIRZAPUR, -UR. AMRITSAR. KASHMIR. »D PERSIAN CARPETS AND RUGS FOR AS NEW YEAR V TO SEND GIKT PARCELS CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS **AH IMGH «c JWALA SINGH r S FOR CARPETS OW ROOMS:— \MFORD ROAD, SINGAPORE OFFS LTD. v CHOWRINGHEE
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      174 1 PIGEOR BRARD. CHILDREN S FROCKS BOYS Poplin Cotton Sixes 22 to 28 at 52. 5» ea. GIRLS Printed Poplin Sizes 18 to 32 From $2.50 to SG 00 ea. TELLY CO., 377, North Bridge Rd., Singapore. f +^^^^^r.^^rz~ o a Best Safeguard/^ I/our Chlhls Health CONSIDER how treci\ children use
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  • FEATURES
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      THE QUESTION
      1081 2 MR. David Rees-Wil-liams has made a p;ood beizinning m his new ioh as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office. Tiu* absence m the United States of Mr. Creech Jor.es t rust un n Ins deputy ti:e duty of Wind ng up the debate m the i «o Ml
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      301 2 voHiii sonn chalked up visible plus their iam< Yel th.-y act-.. threw awaj from 00 I I m si.:. m bonu K-..n the luckiest of p'.av. i not ns tently a." thai >•• "i slasas q mad d ilami mad* and not bd iirless nia opponents ir< prt
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      48 2 B«-!it've it or not Christmas is eomiftf once again, and Bertram Mills has got his circus perform rs practising hard This picture vhous 16-year-old Joan Fowles r hrarsin e a skilful move— she's allowing a tihrd hors^ to trot i »>etv*er n th« two horses sh. is riding.
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      Lone fight against smallpox ebidemic
      192 2 A HUNDRED milts from civilisation. In the in-art of the African bush, a v<»un» sanitary i: sp ctor only four mopi < ut from Britain lias fou Live smallpox epidemic singlehanded and won. He used I words of Swahiii, and a smallpox Tramping from k:
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      117 2 Fortune forecast tor people born today DORN tiKl.iv. >«»u h.i\«- per- sonal eovrmce and >ou .ire at your he>t uJhmi faced with <>mp< tition which Utgtm you t<» put forth >«>ur l>«*>t elTorts. \<m are ambitious and it you make usr of your innate talents, you m.i\
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      Dollar Earning Ships
      47 2 Dollar Earning Ships I I I I Ii IB II I m I I is II II II ii ii ■r I I ■j I 111 I I Jl JL I I I I I 'I On] i CRAMPED SPACE are o t film dolLir suits of
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      82 2 O\ SALE TO-DA* >» :^HteyS-' jk 't^P r iii i ifiit STRAITS TIMES PICTURE L.vi,W» produced oi. »rl P'P" b "Ln*!* f*" MH» Mi" P irtu c *TLt» Ml ,h,«, ,»d du-m, ihi. e-** 1 ,ypc» m t... «d co.-.., h W-W^ (neßd M, m M,.,r. ro, M,l».«> J J
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      303 2 RADIO PROGRAMME SINGAPORE Hlue Network 12 00 2 00 p.m 485 metrrs In the medium wave band A 7.22 megacycles 1 per second In the 41 metre band. I 6 00 11.00 t».m. »8i metres tn the medium «;»\e band 4 826 meficycles <■ per second tn the bl metre
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      181 2 th'ir smga" Nocman Allen. Ba Williams; 8 "Light Mumc" (InatTU< mentiil > 8 20 "Famous Ch Groups"-- Leedi Peatlval Choir: 8:w Australian News; 8 40 "Musir lor Milhons 8 S5 Talk The Austra Srenr"; 9 05 "Star P I Croßby. Judy Garland. Cyril Rltchacd <\: Duko Ellington; 9 :w "Dance
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      168 2 Sweet; 3 pm. Over u> You; 3.30 News from London. 3 40 Programme Announcements; 1.46 Birthday star, 4 p m. Band of the Week; 4.80 Music of the Regiments; B p.m. Blue Room; 5.30 Echoes from the Shows. 6 p in Thirty to One; 6.30 World and Home News; 6.4f>
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  • NEWS
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      FRESH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
      63 3 THE first unit of the Australian Antarctic expedition which sailed from Melbourne last week In Landing Tank Ship 3501 is due to arrive at Heard Island on Dec. 5. Fourteen scientists will disembark at th«- island, whence the vessel will proceed to Port St. John, Kerguelen Island,
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      BOAT RESCUE OF WAC SERGEANT
      50 3 A LIFEBOAT beat 30- foot waves to rescue a Women's Army Corps sergeant who was swept overboard from an Army transport m a mid-Atlantic storm. Sen?t Mrs Vivion O'Rourke. of Chicago, was picked up by the lifeboat after m *n hours' search m darkness. Reuter
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      Soviet-West rift has widened
      399 3 Soviet- West rift has widened AS the United Nations General Assembly draws to a close, most of the delegates feel that its main effect has been to document still further the split between the Soviet Union and the Western World, says United Press. The majority of the opinion is that
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      SURPRISE FOR THE GUESTS
      90 3 WASHINGTON socialite Mrs. Augusta Trimble Fletcher, 42. smilingly greeted a party guest m the library m her home. Then said playfully: "Turn your head and count ten." Mr. Corrin Strong turned around and started to count. A shot echoed m the small room Mrs. Fletcher (-rumpled
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      'SPIRITUAL AID' PLAN IN U.S.
      67 3 'SPIRITUAL AID' PLAN IN U.S. THE Gideoni International, an organisation which distributes bibles to hotel rooms and among members of the U.S. armed forces, announced Its own "spiritual Marshall Plan" under which bibles would be sent to war-bat-tered nations of Asia and Europe. The Rev. H. Muller. president of the
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      PROTESTS OVER AUSTERITY CUTS
      75 3 i 4 FLOOD of protests at price m Ir\ creases as high as $500 on j motor-cars confronts the Canadian Government as a result of I import cuts. Protests have poured In since the Government announced its "austerity" programme last week, banning or restricting imports ranging
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      U.S. BOMBER CRASHES
      36 3 A U.S. Navy Lockheed Neptune patrol bomber with 11 men aboard crashed into the sea about 100 miles off San Diee:o and naval officials reported that only two survivors had been nicked Reuter
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      TOBACCO AS PART OF U.S. AID PLAN
      117 3 TOBACCO'S importance m international trade may make 1 a place for it m whatever foreign aid programmes America carries out, U.S. Congressmen m Washington predict. They expect American policy will allow foreign countries under both the interim and long range pVans to buy
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      Government is divided by personal feuds' CHURCHILL WARNS OF RUIN, Starvation
      309 3 Government is divided by personal feuds' CHURCHILL WARNS OF RUIN, Starvation iiu- l«— w wiuhmii win spread bank.irvation throughout Britain, says Mr i a message to Mr. Frank Taylor, Conat tomorrow's by-election at Gravesend, Allighan's constituency. ill said, "The Socialist Government is conndence of the people. They raise promises they
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      1100,000 Reds annihilated in Manchuria
      31 3 1100,000 Reds annihilated in Manchuria linlsti lost months :v.\ Qovern,'.quarters .n iuded :.r:wy rirles, he he said. all lmports and cities of and to unttoni only iv^entrations considerable their at- A.P.
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      BRUSSELS MOVE FOR RETURN IF EXILED KING
      50 3 BRUSSELS MOVE FOR RETURN IF EXILED KING I R og Leo- led to launch tj for 1 return :.arch. I Brussels. niters of EUid led by I r formis askod I CharI ie€kI r I the i Qermana I B- leian Parliaj rnlng to ■ng m rnment I i nastion
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      U.K. TRAVELLERS SAVE POUNDS BY STAYING ABOARD
      115 3 ONE HUNDRED first class passengers aboard the Royal Mail Line's 26,000-ton luxury liner Los Andes, on her maiden voyage to Buenos Aires, will not live ashore m Argentina, for the days she remains m that port, but will use the vessel as a
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      GERMAN LEADER ATTACKS REDS
      46 3 DR. Kurt Schumacher, leader of Germany's Social Democrats has denounced German Communists as "quislings of a foreign power." Schumacher denied as 'Communist lies" reports that while visiting the U.S. zone he had discussed with American authorities an organised anti-Communist propaganda campaign.— A.P.
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      U.S. MAJOR DISMISSED
      37 3 Found guilty by a court-martial m Tokio of illegal use and possession"of excess ration cards. Major Ernest P. Wilson, was dismissed from thp sprvico. reports the U.S. Bth Army headquarters m Tokio. A .P.
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      RISING LIVING COSTS IN U.S.
      21 3 lost of living a new high m cent, above 1939 The per cent, above a A.P.
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      Now science can say 'it's a boy'
      130 3 Now science can say 'it's a boy' SCIENCE can decided an unborn child will be a boy or a girl, according to Professor F. A. E. Crew, of Edinburgh University. He told Edinburgh Marriage Guidance Council: "It is a matter of utmost simplicity. Research would cost about one-thou>andftn of the
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      BENES ASKS: DID I MAKE A MISTAKE?
      341 3 Soviet-Czech Treaty PRAGUE, Monday. PRESIDENT Edouard Benes, m a newly-published volume of memoirs, says he was certain that Russia would respect Czechoslovakia's integrity when Russia and Czechoslovakia signed their 1943 treaty. Then he added this significant footnote: "Was I mistaken at that time
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      CLEARING THE RUINS
      57 3 The Dnieper Power station I which the Germans left a mass of ri ins is rapidly regaining its ori- i capacity. The third of the' nine turbine and generator sets' making up the complete equipment of the more than half-mil-lion kilowatt station is now being installed and
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      Preparations for atomic warfare
      107 3 Preparations for atomic warfare BERLIN, Monday. THE Russians, evidently with an eye to atomic warfare, are intensively seeking out and adapting the secrets of German underground factory construction, according to Allied) intelligence reports. According to these reports, this subject was relatively low on the list of Russian priorities when they
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      FOURTH APEMAN SKULL FOUND IN SOUTH AFRICA
      125 3 FOURTH APEMAN SKULL FOUND IN SOUTH AFRICA THE discovery of a skull of a new type of African apeman a creature which apparently walked upright, used fire and killed baboons by slugging them with antelope leg bones is reported from Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the fourth apeman found m
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      TRUMAN BACKS SOVIET BUYING
      75 3 PRESIDENT Truman has announced that he was against any ban being imposed on Soviet purchases m the United States. Asked at a press conference to comment on the fact that Russia was at present buying a considerable quantity of heavy machinery while there was a heavy
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      'UNFAIR' DECREE BY MacARTHUR
      56 3 Ki^KUfctuNTATiVfcoi Canadian shipping operators has described as "unfair" a decree by General Mac Arthur's headquarters In Tokio that Japanese exports be carried exclusively m American ships. He said large quantities of Japanese oranges are due for the Christmas season, and the use of Canadian ships would
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      CLIPPER DIVIDEND
      27 3 Ban American. Airways have declared a 25 cents 'U.S.) dividend payable an Dec. 10. Ttie last previous payment was 25 cents m August 1946. A.P.
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      96 3 Missing airmen mystery PERSISTENT reports that a group of American airmen, shot down durine the war. were bein X held prisoners by Lolo aborL.ifal trih'smen m Western China's remote Siechuan Province hay? been emphatically refuted m Nanking by IS. Army authorS 4fter a 210-day search which two members of an
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      68 3 PACIFIC OVERSEAS AIRLINES (SIAM) LTD. HAYS COMMENCED SCHEDULE CHARTER SERVICES AS UNDER LUXURY DAKOTA AND SKYMASTER SERVICES P S sangkok E IKONG LOS ANGEI.ES 1 ONTARIO: CALIFORNIA MANILA (VIA GUAM WAKE ISU NEXT DEPARTURES FOR BANGKOK 0800 Thursday, 27th November Hongkonr— Shanghai Bangkok connections a follows Hon-gkong Manila Los Angel--,
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      100 3 TARZAN Danger aSI around Z>j Edgar Rice Burroughs s~ WHILE TWr A&lLfc I I *^L^ x^* cno CTkAAP AAPANC Tn AuniD TUC H I Ant uau c/ai tn TUP AA^*K I —*-^r L* T>vJ^C /V\CM*^s ie/ MVUiU tMt i i B>i APE-¥AN SCALrC •»C o^tFs I. WJr^r-^"^ iNTPN«;P WPAT AND
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  • ThE Singapore Free Press
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      Less Rice From The I.E.F.C?
      380 4 SINGAPORE and the Union may bet. ated with their new ru-- allocati n The ftgur< not been published yet, but it Is] Known that the International Emergency Food Committee has no more rice to allocate than ;t i. I last year while the calls on
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      The Big Four
      202 4 The best thai seems to o«- ea pected ol the London con h-n-nc- of Foreign Ministers is an avoidance of com- plete breakdown bctw.-cn Russia and the W< The pros pects of progress m solving the problem of Germany either; practical decisions on political and economic unity
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      DON IDDON'S DIARY
      1251 4 DON IDDON'S DIARY NEW YORK: MR. MOLOTOV, tha master mud-sling-er, fa not £oing to get the American Eagle away from its eggs (i.e., atom bombs) by shouting insults at the bird. It doesn't frighten easily, though the sadistic fea-ther-plucking done by Mr. Vishinsky has made it angry. The more the
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      'THE RED SQUIRE'
      598 4 WINSTON Churchill pointed his podgy finger at a tall, spare man, hurrying through the corridors of the palace of Westminster and said, There, hut for the grace <>t Cod, goes god. 1 Anot her Conservative member Of parliament stared darkly at the same man and mut tered.
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      FAITH
      16 4 I Mill Ik- with thef I will not ii! tli-«- n<>r forakC thw. l«lm I
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      Rubber trade hit by Indochina war
      298 4 Rubber trade hit by Indochina war By STANLEY SWINTON A. P. Correspondent INDOCHINA'S oncesturdy economy is tottering after more than two years of conflict between France's colonial armies and Vietnamese nationalists. Military expenditures are a closely guarded secret but some eutral sources estimate that France spends Cla $3,000,000 daily to
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Student centre plan for S'pore
      287 5 k STUDENT centre m Singapore, with library and well equipped reading room to meet the need of students unable to Afford books of their own, is among the projects approved under the relief programme drawn up by British ommlttec of the International Student Service. This
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      SARAWAK GIL WANTED BY AUSTRALIA
      99 5 SARAWAK GIL WANTED BY AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN oil inU reals arc n pressing the Federal Government to increase shipments of oil from Sarawak and Borneo. H vause Ol the necessity to to conserve dollars, the Australian petro] ration ha.s already been cut .v.d shipments irom Netherlands Borneo fields have b^en limited
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      ANTI-T.B. BODY MEETS TONIGHT
      139 5 Tree Press Staff Reporter k I 5 a> o'clock -li i < i i lie Singapore Aili-T.B. a. (Ociation is to hold a itatu o:v nu nig a: the Adelp'ii H tCJ .o 1 •'t paa. mtenm period. ana the chairman's report. The Association will also
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      .NKW COMPANY EMERTAINS
      80 5 MORE than two hundred guests were entertained to a dinner last night by the Great China Press. Publishing and Sound Recording Company at their premises m Middle Road. Singapore The sound recording mechanism, looking very much like broadcasting room. impressed many of the guests. The apparatus is
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      RAFFLES CONCERT
      43 5 Ruffles College students have formed a Music Society it js ro .iave tho patronage of "the Governor General. Malcolm Mac Donald for a concert on Saturday. Dec emw' r ii 6 %l {h Victori:l Memorial Hall, rhe concert win do broad-
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      Asia insurance to pay 200% dividend
      214 5 The Asia Insurance Co. Ltd. will recommend at thp -m be paid 25 per cent on the canitai value of their shares camtal The annual report to be sub mitted shows that there has been a very considerable iScreSfeiS the company's business All de
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      BETTER THAN RAFFLES, SAYS STUDENT IN UK.
      163 5 BETTER THAN RAFFLES, SAYS STUDENT IN UK. STUDENTS from Singapore wore among a parts which recently visited one of the new type of schools Britain is build ins mi n large nujul>ers as the new education policy designed to meet the raising of school age comes into effect School building
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      INJURIES TO CAMERAMEN
      65 5 the two Singapore cameramen who were injured on Thursday night while taking photographa of the illuminated procession to celebrate Princess Elizabeth's wedding suffered burns from the premature Ignition of a magnesium flare not a Hash bulb, as previously suggested m the Free Preai The flash bulb method
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      JUVENILE CRIME REACHES
      449 5 Disturbing trend, says Magistrate Free Press Staff Reporter •ISES©f ivenite delinquency m Singapore during October rose to the record figure for the year of 71 m September and the average |liuial> m October of 72, reports the magistrate l llvon ,lo Court, Mr. B. L. hua, who
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      Prayers for Princess
      83 5 The Singapore Government Printer, Mr. F.S. Horslm, fright/ hands over to Mr. L. Ray man, Chairman of the Central Celebrations Committee, the specially printed book of the prayers offered by the religious corrununitics of Singapore on Princess Elizabeth's iced ding day. The book contains the originals and
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      Lifting of ban gives boost to oil mart
      59 5 f Krporter Binga- 'Wing the x;-' rted rate ol 40 i lividua] rife with xp as to paid by •ad. id t the btaina $35 I lor for Van der oil ml past been ment export had tap. ..ning of the Food
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      US. squadron had swell time'
      42 5 m Paci- bich has visit t-o Siniornin« for Admiral iSshiD Estes aid the «uper:us and Leonard bo back at 15. quahad durino SmtjaDore. Atlanta by he public- It >at more than 1.000 per- ;-<! the vfssel on Satur,xV.
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      PASTELS IN PENANG
      21 5 Mrs. Judith Heard -White of Singapore, will shortly be holding an exhibition oi her pas'.cl work m Penang.
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      SCOTS TO CELEBRATE
      128 5 X fW* SUII Reporter >ate he Scottish a St n dance at i.'d by the Society. tea place .11 be held i-musphf-re of lan< ea duximg (>r '^s for the oc- I 'ho dinner will' by I militar>- pipers from the Seaforth Highlanders. Tlie Chief! ai.o of
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      MALAYA IN RUBBER SECRETARIAT
      160 5 fT Ls announced that Ceylon, Malaya. Canada. Czechoslovakia, Denmark. France. Hungary. Netherlands, the Unite*: Kingdom and the United Spates are among the countries vhich; have already accepted membership as producers or consumer.) of natural rubber m the permanent secretariat of the Rubber Study Group m London.
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      CYMBALIST
      255 5 T EADING aircraftman Norris Cymbalist who was sent to prison for 10 years with hard labour at a Singapore court martial m March 1946 for his part m "demobilisation strikes," at the R.A.F. camp at Seletar, was released from prison m England on Sunday after serving only 20 months
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      Soldiers charged with shirts theft
      95 5 TWO British soldiers wencharged m the Fourth Police Court yesterday with theft and mischief. The alleged offences were said to have taken place at Pulau Bukom on Nov. 22 at 11.15 p.m. They were said to have stolen four sports shirts from the East Gate
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      KAMRA TIN
      48 5 it was reported on Nov. 13. m an interview with Mr. A. H. Miles. thai Kamra Tin expected to repossess their property towards the end of this year. Kamra Tin Dredging Limited now state that repossession of Kamra was effected on July 29 j is year.
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      Work of Army War Graves men nears end
      158 5 Work of Army War Graves men nears end THE work of .a little known g:roup of men who have been steacily registering the graves of men who died m Singapore and Malaya during the war is almost completed. The Imperial War Graves Commission will be sending representatives to G.H.Q. Farelf,
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      NEWSREEL OF WEDDING HERE
      50 5 IN answer to a wide aun<;il fo. a news-reel of the wedding M-G-M has specially flown to Singapore a full length film of the event. It arrived this morning and afer clearance by the censor the film will be shown this evening at the Cathay cinema.
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      'ORIENTALIA'NETd MORE THAN $1000
      45 5 'ORIENTALIA' NETd MORE THAN $1000 THE "Orientalia"' variety show held at the Lido realised $1,020 for the Princess Elizabeth. Wodcling Fund. Th? following restaurants contribute their takings from special menus offered during last week: Lido $150.50, Pavilion $100, Capitol and Rex $71 and Princes $40.
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  • NEWS
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      GENT FAILS TO MOVE COUNCIL
      589 6 GENT FAILS TO MOVE COUNCIL Whitehall and Income Tax Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ITNOFFICIAL members of the Advisory Council, who met privately this evening after the long morning debate on income tax, on Tuesday will ask the Government to postpone further consideration of income tax until after a
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      Churchill on post-war lend lease
      181 6 Churchill on post-war lend lease LONDON. Monday. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL, Britain's war-time Premier, said today that he believed he could have arranged with President Truman for prolongation of Lend-Lease aid for Britain, "if I had not been turned out by Socialists at the general election." Mr. Churchill made this observation
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      Chiang alters tactics in war on Reds
      223 6 Chiang alters tactics in war on Reds SHANGHAI, Monday. CHINA will be divided into special areas allotted to leading Army commanders to facilitate suppression of Communist activities south of the Great Wall, according to a Government decision m Nanking. Under the new plan the Minister of National Defence, Gen. Pal
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      CHINA ELECTIONS WRANGLE
      132 6 SHANOHAr Monday THE Chine.se Government m Nanking Is revising plans for the iv gt siagc of China's n.itio:.wid'' democratic elections ballotIng for 77 j members of the Legislative Yuan on Doc 21 to 23. Meanwhile, votes are being counted m the polling oi the past three days
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      ROYAL WEDDING FILM
      36 6 A lull length Technicolor film of the Royal Wcridnu La bolns shown at a Him Command performance at the Odeon. London. today. It take.*; 30 minutes. General release is on Monday next Renter.
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      WEATHER Showers
      44 6 WEA THER Showers Wl \THKK report f»>r the ne\t 21 houM compiled by the K\h P»ir, with muttered showers over the ith of the Wttai Lit.- thix afternoon xnA evening. Wind: lalin or lifttit northerly TetnprratuMM,; m*x. 88 der h\ mm. 75 der. V
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      ROYAL HONEYMOONERS
      121 6 tm'ip i.• r?OMS :Y Monday. ghire hamlet and surrounding ram world j most (amovs h ney- countryside have gone tack to mooc haven slipped bark into work— -determined that the Hoyal the lazy quiet of normal rillagi couple should enjoy complete lile today after an exciting week- privacy
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      Cabin Murder Case Steward denies he killed actress
      217 6 Cabin Murder Case Steward denies he killed actress SOI'THAMPTON, Monday. nECK STEWARD James (amb today was committed for trial at the Assizes court on char^tts of murdering beautiful actress Gay Gibson un the high seas on Oct. 18 and pushing her body through a porthole into the shark-infested waters off
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      ATTLEE TALKS WITH TWO EMPIRE P.Ms
      137 6 ATTLEE TALKS WITH TWO EMPIRE P.Ms LONDON, Monday. \T the Prime Minister's resi- dencc this aften, D 0] tunity was taken ol the prea nee m London of the Canadian Prime Minister. Mr. MacKenzie King, and the Bouth African Prime Mlnlitrr. Field-Marshal Jan Smuts, to hold a free and Informed
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      MEDAL FOR ACTOR
      39 6 Sir Ralph Richardson has beei. awarded the M- dal oi St. Olav by the Kin^ Ol Norway lor h^s performance as peer Oynt In the Old 1 Vie Company's production ol Ib--1 s^n's play X v
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      STOKE TIDLS
      14 6 IT. 201 pm. 3 ft m HT R I D.HI 7 B
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      BID TO RESCUE KASHMIR FORCE
      86 6 BID TO RESCUE KASHMIR FORCE UNDER niv cover of armourrd cars, Indian troops are edging forward towards th«> ioo-ft. long bridge arr<>ss a ravine near K«>tl South Kashmir, which has be! n under siege for the past 30 days The- brid^.- Is the only approach to the beleaguered garrison Insursenu
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      20 DEAD IN CRASH
      29 6 rwenty soldi rs w ,re killed and 10 injured yesterday when a military truck overturns v In a ditch beteween Marseilles and Toulon A P.
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      TEACHERS EXCHANGED
      34 6 The first party of 18 British teachers to exchange posts with South African teachers sinro i j39 will leave next mon'h and fake up their duties early m the New Year- Renter.
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      TIN SHARES ADVANCE
      521 6 k FIRM undertone p r r session on the London St. turnover remained extreme i\ corresi>ondent. Rubbers were d thS ll^ l^"* a f, ain feat «red m me Kaffirs section on rpi Cape buying ofT^rln^ 8^ SUfferCd from Forpi^n Bonds remained steady The market closed better
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      SOVIET SAY UK OUT TO WRECK PALESTINE PLAN
      17 6 r": S. m. told the lal Palestine I •ion
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      CANTON TRAIN PICKET RACKET
      7 6 CANTON TRAIN PICKET RACKET 1 I 1
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      BIGGEST TELESCOPE
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      40 6 ioDAy Imili 4 Show> JM i-€M t.lt p.m. RETURN SCREENING OF this funny Sophisticated Comedy "GUEST WIFE" with CLAUDETTE COLBERT DON AMECHE (A initofj Artists Release) Tomorrow From Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning Novel LYNN BAR! Akim TciMoit Francis lederer
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      78 6 JANt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Pre^ i*> Mnlnva NAB HiM AS HF CAWT SAY \/AND MUoA (T HAVE A J LEAVES LORD IoVAfF-F A fflß/ Jr. EW 1 AS WARRANT FOR THAT SHOULD KNOCK fe.J ?mr m Y UR ARREST liffij THC BOTTOM OUT ifS^ J)havL'' i cC^?. a
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      Base Workshops Score Easy Win
      156 7 RE.M.E. Base Workshops scored an Aasy rive-one victory over 223 B O D. m a game of soccer played at McNair Roaxl on Wednesday Some good football was seen from boUh sides, but the REME XI wore superior throughout ar.d were never really m danger
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      Film Coaching For Young Cricketers
      99 7 A NOVEL method of coaching young cricketers is likely to be used at South Melbourne this year, where it is proposed to use movie films of young players, whose faults will be coriected and explained to them by Test men. Lindsay Hassett and lan Johnson.
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      OXFORD BEST PLAYER IN HOCKEY TRIAL
      347 7 By "FOR Colours 1 JN a game m which defences tri goals were scored off penal Whites m the second Singapore on the S.C.C. padan^ yesterday Both goalkeepers jrave c Chio, the S.C.R.C. player, had weight of the Whites' attack a able saves, while
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      Jack Dempsey May Promote At Garden
      102 7 EMIL Lustig, Presidint of a nationwide chain of men's hat stores, is reported to be organizing a syndicate to purchase a controllinK interest m Madison Square Garden, so that Jack Dempsey might be installed as a boxing Pr D?m% r ev is a sports
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      SPORE MALAY SOCCER XI LEAVE TONIGHT
      59 7 rE Singapore Malays' football toam will leave for Kuala Lumpur by train tonight to meet Selangor m the semi-ftna of the Sultans' Gold Cup. to be played at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow The Singapore team will be as follows:— Jaafar; Abdul Rahman capt). Salleh; Ifcs&n.
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      R.A.F. Seletar Rugby Teams Tomorrow
      157 7 THE foil wmg will n present the R A F. Seletar first tfIUH m a Rame of Rugger against 223 BOD. at Seletar t<»-morrow at 5 p m. Pgt/Sgt. Hancock. Col Gorton. A/c Curr, Fgt Lt. Lewllyn. F/O. Linfoot; F/O. Ryan. SDO Allen: Sq Ldr
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      S.H.B. POLICE WIN
      35 7 T»HE Singapore Harbour Board Police beat the Meuical College by two goaLs to nil m ft hockey match played on tba M.C.U. Rround yesterday Both goals were scored m the fust half.
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      SRC RALLY FAILS TO STOP OLD BOYS
      392 7 A.C.S. OBA 3 S.R,C 2 DOWN by three tfoals to nothing, the S.R.C. XI very marly levelled the score m a desperate rally m the last five minutes when they replied with two rapid soals against ih" A.C.S. Old Boys Association yesterday m
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      cAMUEL AND PARTY ARE CONFIDENT
      313 7 j[ W-lndia Meet Starts On Dec. 12 <.. days °f practice matches m Bombay ree veteran contenders are confident of their .ml victory m the All-India Badminton championnning Dec I*. r wt have not been outclassed m any S. Samuel, captain of the Malayan i
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      Australian Wrestlers
      14 7 Curly Connors (left) and Tod Hardwick. the Australian wrestlers now m Singapore.
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      Snear Mirth And Electroplate up A Class
      50 7 Snear Mirth And Electroplate up A Class and Elecbeen M>nt up tin r with Dar- d during the ss One horses. rid Distincped a class. S.R.A. I today. 2 ZariZinnla) Darctroplate. ElOlympic Martian nee ManoLet h ai 3: r.ccr Ethel R t jn > late O". r Irish i D
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      AMERICAN OFFER TO AUSSIE WRESTLER
      307 7 Free Press Staff Reporter WHEN Curly Connors, Australian heavyweight wrestler, completes his contract m Singapore within the next few months, he will pack his bags and head straight for the United States. Connors has just received an invitation from promoter Karl Pojello of Chicago and
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      AMARNATH PLAYS GREAT INNINGS
      1108 7 From K. S. Duleepsinghi AMARNATH'S brilliant innings heJped India to head Queensland on the first innings m their match, which was continued at Brisbane yesterday. A heavy outfield slowed down the scoring, and. although the wicket was covered, it was slower than on Saturday. Amarnath's great
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      104 7 CAN SOON BE BANISHED IF j YOU ALWAYS /^£> HAVERENNIES C^L WITH YOU •era t>e then m youf to take— ao. one tfter I v woui acid Rennie* are I becsntc atior. ot antif anti-acids, are I ird earned by tt vberc they immerxcess icid. c quick relief, «fs s^d
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      307 7 ?re<3 Press Crossword No. 247 CLUES ACROSS 1. and 3 Down. Sculptor of King George V statue (4, 4) 4, Turned outward, as feet (5). 8, The slender sharp bristle in the flower of some grasses (3). 10. Old term for a clergyman (5). 12, Small fish of herring family
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    The Royal Wedding-Special Picture
    171 8 BETH .md Prime Philip. Duke of Edinburgh, leaving West- t their wedding. Below: Thr moment in the crrcmony when thp Prince placed the ring on the bride's finder. The Irish Coat h. ton veytag the I'rimtss and IILs Majesty to Ihe Abbey, i> sren turning into
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