The Singapore Free Press, 26 November 1947

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ;>;.»-« SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    INCREASE IN RICE RATION IS FORECAST
    391 1 INCREASE IN RICE RATION IS FORECAST lEFC decides new quotas AH I G H E R rice ration for Malaya next year was forecast this morning by a spokesman of the Special Commissioner's Office m a comment on the new rice allocations announced m Washington yesterday. The new Malayan allocation
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    PIRATES TAKE $4,300 IN RAID NEAR ST JOHN'S
    58 1 Fr« 1': Kf porter j .:io ixster--4 oil St. 1 1 1 SIS m g to r.^kang relay fi.st motor Ahum had I my vessel," 1 one of mp] >yee of us into i ur vessel. two dozen Lh locket, a .tdded.
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    18 1 ■."CTK IS with the h convey-.-id from truth L r the Royal irriet on n of his 'ian.
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    GIRL'S FATAL FALL
    28 1 AR-OLD Chinese school m hospital t of a moving Bukit Tlmah 2Lt hft ncr at his school. I accidents was rerday reX" 1 >^ being ad--1
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    FIGHTER FLIES 300 MILES IN 30 MINUTES
    155 1 FIGHTER FLIES 300 MILES IN 30 MINUTES LONDON, Tuesday. BRITAIN today claimed a new speed record of 617.62 miles-an-hour for a 300-mile test flight of a Gloster twin- jet Meteor fighter plane. The world's air speed record of 650.6 miles- an -hour is claimed by a United States Navy Douglas
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    RUBBER: U.S. USES RECORD AMOUNT
    68 1 RUBBER: U.S. USES RECORD AMOUNT NEW YORK, Tuesday. rpHE U.S. Rubber ManuA facturers Association reports that rubber consumption for the first nine months of the year increased 10.42 per cent, to a record high of 828,569 long tons, compared with 750,360 m the same period of last year. About 213,018
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    Russia to discuss 40-year pact
    219 1 LONDON, Tuesday. AT the opening meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council, M Mr. Molotov, for Russia, unexpectedly agreed to dicuss the so-called Byrnes treaty, the American proposal for a 40 year defensive pact against Germany. But Mr. Molotov refused to out the Austrian treaty at
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    FINED £25,000
    41 1 J. J. Lyons, a London export and import firm, was yesterday fined £25,000 with £1,050 costs for conspiring to sell onions and selling pears above the controlled prices. Joseph Lyons, a director, was fined £2.500 on similar charges.— A.P.
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    38 1 prcturc. Mr. George C. Marshall, U. S. Secretary of State, now m London to attend the Council of Foreign Ministers, received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford University on his arrival m England.- A.P.
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    PALESTINE: UNO
    66 1 DECISION TODAY? DESPITE dire Arab warnings of bloodshed, the 57-member Palestine Committee of the United Nations Assembly yesterday approved the Soviet-American plan to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab countries by Oct. 1 next year The vote, 25 to 13, is one short of the two thirds majority
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    $60 million aid voted for China
    218 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. AS the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee today voted to trim emergency foreign aid to *****9,000,000 and to include S6O million to China m that figure, Congressman Walter Judd (Republican) said "it is most disconcerting" that President Truman had not included
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    PRIDI SILENT ON ESCAPE
    109 1 FROM his quarters on St. John's Island, Nai Pridi Panomyong, former Siam Premier, In reply to written questions submitted by the Associated Press, said that he docs not yet know what he will do next. Declining to reply to several other questions. Nai Pridi, who escaped
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    PLAN TO PICKET MOLOTOV FAILS
    74 1 BRITISH ex-Servicemen, whose wives are kept m the Soviet Union by official refusal to grant them exit visas, gave up their attempts to picket Lancaster House, m London, yesterday when police refused to admit them to the courtyard. They stood for a few minutes with
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    10 HOLLYWOOD MEN SUSPENDED
    95 1 MORE than 20 leading nim executives and producers announced m New York yesterday that they had agreed "to discharge or suspend without compensation" certain employees until they had been acquitted or had purged themselves of contempt of Congress and had declared under oath that they were
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    BUS DRIVER FOILS ARMED HOLD-UP
    184 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ARMED Johore bandits, m an unsuccessful hold-up yesterday afternoon, opened fire on a MalaccaSingapore bus, at the 39th mile of the main trunk road. The 20 passengers inside the bus, including men, women and children, had lucky escapes from injury. The
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    Attack on tin price policy
    300 1 Attack on tin price policy .Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. rpHERE seems no reason why ■■-Britain should put America m the position of being able to dictate the price at which producing countries shall sell, says Mr. J.H. Rich, chairman of the Tronoh Mines Ltd., m a statement m
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  • FOR WOMEN
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      PRESENTS TO GIVE
      1033 2 PRESENTS TO GIVE Around Singapore Shops THE question of what presents to #ive relatives and friends for Christmas looms larger and larger as the weeks go by. I have been on my usual prowl round the shops and I think I can suggest a few of the answers. ELSIE MARY
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      287 2 PXWAS BARGAIN GOOD MORNING FROCKS DRESSING GOWNS IN ALL SHADES BATH TURKISH TOWELS LADIES HAND CMBPOIDFRY BLOUSES P A RONC7S FAST COLOURS GREY PL/^NN C L TROUSERS IN 3 SHADES POUBEHOLP UPHOLSTERY IN TEN DESIGNS DU» A^L A ZEn CHINTZ IN li NICE SHADES SHIRTS OF QUALITY W ALL SIZES
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      213 2 Jacqmar Printed Dresses and s ea Th pekTngU HIGH STREET i: Ms, *V PE G C PE '5. mi,,,,^ X'MAS SAU YIN 6 S 37 STAMFORD kl) SINGAPORE n, CAMPHOR CHESTS CARVES FUMitkk TENNIS EXHIBITIOT HAFPY WORLD STADIUM Tm sdaj i> mbei m I l I pm. ns. :<•<! b)
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      888 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR POrtlUM forecast tor people Dorn today gOlt.N Uh\.i> your nature Ls onr of >r<-nun<ly contraill. tor> t h.u.i, t4rivt thovgn .ire knuil>. chant»bl and understanding of •thCTt, you .irr too quuk to ll() w >'»ur like*, and dislike. Your perception m lislng up a ptnmm at first
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  • NEWS...
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      31 3 Mrs. Anne Allen of Kiiburn, North London, is seen smiling bravely as she receives her meagre weekly ration of three pounds of potatoes—four large potatoes. Potato rationing was introduced thi* month.
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      INVASION OF U.S. ZONE IS FEARED
      449 3 Korean army trained by Soviet II KOREAN "People's Army" cf some 200,000 Soviet -trained, n equipped and indoctrinated troops is massed along the Sovietoccupied Korean border ready to invade the South Korea, at present the American Occupation Zone reports Reuter from Seoul. That is
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      Grave danger of China going Red
      145 3 I NEW YORK. Tuesday. f New Yotk State, Mr. Thomas E. that the American Government is 08 Chinese policy is concerned" and says to China, the 450,000,000 free people ay well fall into Communist hands. Mr. Dewey declared, "wo may reason- all Asia is
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      Atom plant's guards must know 'judo'
      50 3 Chilian security service inspectors, before undertaking guard duties at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's installation at Los Alamos, New Mexico, have first to undergo a month's intensive physical and mental training course. Pictures §h student inspectors at judo practice as part of their training.
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      MOVE TO KEEP JAPAN WEAK
      64 3 TO ensure that Japan will not become too strong, the Chinese Government has instructed its Ambassador m the United States Dr. Wellington Koo. to submit a plan to the Far Eastern Commission restricting Japanese production of steel petrol and txplosives.- Anti-aircraft gunners m the U.S
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      GOVT CAN EXAMINE COMPANY AFFAIRS
      126 3 THE British Government can now inTitijpitt tfie affairs of 1 companies and ownership of shares under an order announced m London. The Board of Trade, under this order, can appoint investigating inspectors 0:1 application of not fewer thar. 200 members of a company, even those
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      U. S. AIRLINES SEE BIG LOSS
      54 3 U. S. AIRLINES SEE BIG LOSS ITNITED Air Lines official told U the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board m Washington t^iat it was anticipating an operating loss of U.S. $2,500,000 for the year and asked for an increase In its mail pay rate from 45 cenUs to $2.26 a ton, retroactive
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      OIL REFINERIES FOR BRITAIN
      106 3 SIR Frederick Godber, 57-year-old former office boy who has risen to become chairman of the £54,000,000 Shell Transport and Trading Company, has announced one of the bluest industrial developments In Britain's hiMory. It is to build tut) giant oil refineries to produce patrol m Britain ar.d
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      BOMB THROWN AT MOURNERS
      43 3 THREE persons w<re killed and about 50 injured when a crude bomb exploded not far from a Muslim procession held m Baroda Undia> on Monday m connection with the festival of Muharram (annual mournine tor two Muslim martyrs).- Reuter
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      Royal Wedding Post-Mark
      67 3 WITH the approval of the King, the PostmasterGeneral h>as authorised the provision of a special postmark to commemorate the royal wedding. The postmark takes the form of a bow tied With a lover's knot surmounted by two wedding bells. It bears the letter "E" and "P" m
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      DEADLOCK IN GENEVA AIR PACT TALKS
      129 3 THE conference at G< neva seeking a universal treaty on air rights has reached a sudden deadlock which, it is understood, may result m Britain and th<^ United States representing the greater part of the worlds civil air power, abandoning tlv> at tempt to
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      TUBELESS TYRES FOR MOTOR-CARS SOON
      142 3 MOTOR-CARS soon may be fitted with tyres which do not need inner tubes. Brltsh tyiv manufacturers are experimenting with this old idea now that there is more material available. Such tyros have been built m Britain, but their development ha.s boon held up by prevailing
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      MINE DEATHS VERDICT
      33 3 "Death by misadventure was the verdict returned at the inquest at Dewsbury, Yorkshire, on 12 men who were killed m a colliery explosion, at ThornhiU. Yorkshire, on Sept. 9.- Reuter
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      Elusive reef mystifies U.S. Navy
      214 3 Elusive reef mystifies U.S. Navy THE U.S. Navy has officially denied the existence of a mysterious undersea mountain reported looming under shipping lanes to San Francisco, but puzzled crew members of Navy survey ships still are wondering if they had discovered a "phantom reef 400 miles off the Calif ornian
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      ANGLO-DUTCH TRADE TALKS
      58 3 BRITAIN and Holland will open trade and financial talks m London during the second week m December, the Board of Trade announces An official said the Board and Treasury negotiators "will talk finance first with the Dutch repre-* sentatives. then the food question, and will finally round
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      Dominions plan for Indonesia?
      193 3 UTELL -INFORMED Dutch sources m Balavia say that the Netherlands Government is preparing a statute for Indonesia m some respects comparable to the British statute of Westminster of 1931, giving Dominion status to certain, overseas territories, reports Reuter. The now statute, it is stated, will include
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      39 3 irr Drove and technical aids to vour visual comfort skills— not -hi oav vour -Not classes /1, 0 I) (PhUa > yH OPTICAL HOUSE 1 s »n<a|>ore. a Optical House) /r Last Longer IRIAL 1 4* .OTO CO., I Singapore.
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      211 3 ON SALE TO-DAY STRAITS TIMES PICTURES 19 4 7 Lavishly prodveed on art paper m black and white and coloured cover. Sixty-eight pages of pictures showing Malayan personalities and events during 1947. Camera studies or Malayan types m town and country and m industry. A delightful record of life m
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      42 3 T ARZ AM Victims of fire By Edgar Rice Burroughs ~7 A LIONESS STALKED PURPCSEFU.LV r'-^^f^T 'C^^"— TAR2AN /WEANWHII P ivATrnPn crccn^ I ~TTf' I Tu r cif-AJT OP TUP 1 Pi AMES--- i-"T>^ Y«"Kt rULU" WM,i_C IHt riKfc- IHMI He DtL'cVcU
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  • LEADER...
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      Smpfmfntfnm WEDNESDAY. NOV. ~t>. 1947. Income Tax Before The Councils
      576 4 Smpfmfntfnm WEDNESDAY. NOV. ~t>. 1947. Income Tax Before The Councils AS i result ot yesterday's proceedings m the Malayan Union Advisory Council, the Ineomc Tax Bill passed through the committee stage over the heads ol Unomcial members, but n w:ii dmied enactment by an adverse vote of the Council by
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      ANTARCTIC TEST FOR AUSTRALIA
      1003 4 Condensed from a Radio j Australia broadcast by I Group Capt. Stewart (ampj bell, leader of the Australian I National Antarctic Re- search Expedition. j 'THE Australian Na--1 1 tional Antarctic Rei search Expedition, ig bo ing organised by the Comj monwealth of Australia with the
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      OLD MONSTER
      177 4 The celebrated Loch Newi Man iter ta now i> u>■ cientlftcally. Enverneu University biologi I pal U recM v i observation lower along Uie 1 re ol uio celebrated Scottish lak'*, amoni the <>afc. pine and ru^li tr-^.s where wealthy riiltpn annually loin f h.> r 4 .»Live.s
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      FRANCH'S THAI 'HOME GUARD
      627 4 FRANCH'S THAI 'HOME GUARD Ji> STANLEY SWINTON A.} 1 Correspondent pRANCE unobtrusiu»iy lias regained full control of one corner of rebellioufl [ndo-china —northwest Tonkin, a raw and forbidding land whose so,(mh> equare kilometres are peopled by 200,000 Thai tribesmen. The stocky, Oaf faced Thai, wh«> ;ue „f the same racial
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      A LONE NEGRO TO TOWNSHIP
      258 4 A LONE NEGRO TO TOWNSHIP Uy TERRY FLY NX A. P. Correspondent Lincoln IT* >hts, Ohio. JHIS town of 6,<>00 which claims to be the only Negro-governed municipality north of the Mason-Dixon line (popularly the line separating the free n and v slave before the U.S. Civil war) is Parting
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      17 4 The slither of steel on steel rang an ahn a# v%^ two women thrust ami parried wUndeteVmiSL^LT^^^
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      14 4 For All PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES Cffii Me-^tTT^Mfcfff ami. lf^i^sVV| SINGAPURE PHOTO CO. H'?h St, Singapore.
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      40 4 FAITH Hi tuo walk together n- pt thej hf asrred" /7> :rT B^ aa fI^BBSSBBBM HMV MODEt 5101 7 VALVE SUPERhi iNS 4^" 1 5 oo OUTf?UT k lO WATTS ll.Jtoil.il.Jr Sit MONTHS FREE SERVICE BSSSSBfiEQ AMD tOU fiiufUMcc JBJSIPIIPI
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      30 MPH SPEED LIMIT URGED FOR CITY
      236 5 30 MPH SPEED LIMIT URGED FOR CITY Traffic Advisory Committee's vietv Free Press Staff Reporter rHE Singapore Traffic Advisory Committee has recommended to the Government the introduction of a 30-mile-per-hour speed limit throughout Singapore tor passenger type motor vehicles, and "specially restricted speeds" for certain other classes, m accordance *ith
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      AUSTERITY CLOTHES FOR ARMY IN S'PORE
      38 5 AUSTERITY CLOTHES FOR ARMY IN S'PORE THE British A F East m eooun m with \U )ther --eas theatres md the borne commands, hav^ been rdered to hes GHQ PARELF «sue icement an i rhich .-r..r..rr. i im.
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      filled by fall of potatoes
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      NETAJI LIBRARY
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      TROOPSIN FAREWELL PARADE
      16 5 r -<tcs m 1 on en I nous inds i some or the
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      Round the world yacht leaves
      22 5 A. bour. the Danish ore morThe v i only means of contact out-. mMo peceWng s^ l
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      Social security is Govt s duty
      192 5 me Singapore Social Welfare Department has the nucleus for expansion to meet the increasing demand for social security services, the firt* speaker m Mondays discus- sion on social assistance and insurance m Singapore, Mr M. Sundram. said. Mr Sundram *aid that Singapore hen t
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      PRISON FOR KNIFING BOXER
      54 5 DX HARD DxnnWK a It-year- old Frenchman was sentenced to thre e months' nz<>rou> imprisonment by the Second Police Court Haffctrstc Mr. I. < (t.>h. for voluntariJv causing hurt. He was alleged to hare wounded \l X; !ffl *t*ll-kno»n MMff professional r>..\»>r with a knife on
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      NEW U.S. LINER'S MAIDEN VOYAGE TO PACIFIC
      95 5 NEW U.S. LINER'S MAIDEN VOYAGE TO PACIFIC AMERICA'S -rV v-ton A b n President Lir.e^ Pre dent '•veiand. will not ben ri he Par Ea r. the L~ r. es l sh.p ..-e<l on C« 3-?aCi: tin. X t^. Shanghai and V :a. Pa«:.:-. ica 7" rui .i off San
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      BETTER TRANSPORT FOR SERVICES EMPLOYEES
      199 5 Arrangements o-.ng ma pi v.de mure comf .rt tble and safer transport for eh employe i the Services m gapore are du^ U i> implemented from the beginning of next month m the ca.<e of thp Navy, v n the case of the RAF. and
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      ALLEGED THEFT
      70 5 yv-fOF bm K•- ba (d with Hief| prin ed a s^4^ from Ooijwr IT a 445 pm. )n Nov 24 wad yesterday a.ilow--d ball 5500 m the Four h p Uce C>:urt. The accuse^ pleaded I o Dec. 2 for mention. picture. Street, scene m Orchard Road dv
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      GALA AT GREAT WORLD
      52 5 "Nignt of Nights", a gala evening, is to be presented tomorrow at the Great World through the joint efforts of the proprietors of the amusement park, and the Public Relations Office m aid of the Princess Wedding Fund for the workmen\s housing scheme. Special attractions have
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      34 5 picture Mr. Jules Martin, who took his seat m the Malayan Union Advisory Council on Monday and yesterday joined Kith 13 other Cnt'ficial members m refusing to discuss the Income Tax Bill. Free Press
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      NEW QANTAS SERVICE TO BRITAIN
      182 5 DETAILS oi the new Qantas Empire Airways C tellat'on j-.rvice between Australia and the j United Kingdom, via Singapore, have been announced. The firs westbound i rvice will a ye Sydney on Dec 1. arrivinr m Singapore on Dec 2. It will leave Singapore :he
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      YWCALAUNCHBIG YOUTH SCHEME
      356 5 YWCA LA UNCHBIG YOUTH SCHEME Free Press Staff Reporter pIE Young Women's Christian A^jsociation Ls launching a 1 big scheme to establish more youth organisations m city and %rural aiUM, and for night schools and clubs for factory girls. An appenl to the public for funds to finance the scheme
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      Armed robber sentenced, weeps in court
      170 5 Armed robber sentenced, weeps in court FAN CHWEE LAI an elderly Chi- nese cor.v.,-". oon a charge ot armed robbery at the Singapore Assiz*? Court yesterday, wept iri the dock when sentence of eight years rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes 01 the rot an wao imposed on him Tan's wife,
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      CONSUL IN JOGJA
      35 5 It is officially announced that the Chinese Deputy Consul m Jogjakarta. Mr. New Shu Chun. I hia consular office m the same building that houses th^ lartera of the Chung Chuns Hui.
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      500,000 yards of rayon from Japs
      190 5 500,000 yards of rayon from Japs THE first shipment fruid Japan of about 500,000 yards of rayon piece goods will arrive m Singapore shortly for private tr -ders. This will swell the flow of private imports of textile* from Japan. Imports ol goods from Japan on private account have been
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      CHINESE ART EXHIBITION A SUCCESS
      137 5 UORE than 3.000 people visi-ed 111 :he exhibition of C£u: paintings and calligraphy held by Miis Lo K:t-ling B.A. a young artiet from S- u.h China whon a three- mont-hs* sojourn m which was shown at Chinese Chamber of Commerce. •I consider the exhibition a
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      NEW BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY
      158 5 THE following new books hay« been added to Raffles Library: Phyllis Bentley The Brontes: Neville Cardus. Autobiography Ilius Chi-Chen-Wmnf Ed I Stories of China at W.ir 3 copies'- Bernard Fade. The Wr; at the Montagues. lUus; Ronald H.^tair. White COoUc LAS J-r* The Smging Partner.
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      THE 90s EXPOSED
      425 6 Films m Singapore "UEAVEN CAN n WAIT/ a 20th Century Fox technicolor film, (Rex today), is a comedy about the Naughty Nineties directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Playing the leading parts art Gene Tierncy and Don Amochc. A'so seen is BigM Hasso, a young Swedish girl who plays
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      Hollywood Gasped
      421 6 By VIRGINIA MacPHERSUM 'THAT Lo-o-o-ow Pari--1 siun neckline hit Hollywood this week and iia "open air bodice" has all thr skimpily-enduwed ladies hereabouts clutching frantically for more realistic padding. Four practically '-frontiers bosom' designs brought the loudost nasps at the Los Angelea :.iou group's premiere of And the
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      40 FILMS, 8 YEARS
      37 6 pKODUCER Mirhaol Bal con is now encaKod at Eallne on his 40th full length film m eight years Three other films have ai.so been made at these studios by other companies since 1939
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      281 6 ALTHOUGH trif exprrts arc not i early as arrurate m their al&m blddnur aji Ui' v are m <>'her aAoecU of Lrn-ir ramr Una kir.-i of hand U one they handl»* far bet*, t ihan the avtratct Dlayt-r *ould. Many a i«". f.y (wd brid«(<T «<>uld Day four
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      Studio Notebook An Awkward Tail
      263 6 Studio Notebook An Awkward Tail GAINSBOROUGH'S new film v Miranda based on the adventures of a young doctor who unwisely introduces a mermaid into his family circle, has led film fashion designers to devote their ingenuity to a neck-line that is lower, wider, sleeker and Even though the finest processed
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      11 6 This picture of Bob Ho»- being greeted hv P a p
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      'FATHER TOM' DEAD
      144 6 •TO his trierxis, W G Pay, the Iriafa actor whose deattl w 4 s auu>unc(xi at toe ate ol 76. was knfvwn as -Willi. but to filnvzoers all over the w^rkl uh«> m Odd Man Out" hr WU T\ MB A.n one qj the foujiders ol Dublin's
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      82 6 wI IOST CITY" It Has EVERY WILD INVENTION The Mind of Mortal Hollywood Could Think IV BRAND NEW! It's the Kind of Picture the "hole audience Can UNDERSTAND ENJOY! ICC YEARS «;ri2AD of ITS 71L3 jl YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE! DEEPLY MOVING! TERRIFYINGLY CONVBCBB HELD OVER for 6th
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      175 6 M2ndrdk6 Exclusive to thy Singapore Free Press m Malaya M\ 111 111 IIF n I J T pl T O^A 0 I JnO-^L-JnOSOOVhAS. I II HE HAD -MY PICTURE/ I WAS IvWUTAMINUTBWIILYAtI ?F Wll WfM Tmc n»» M K ?BlJ' HAVE £LJ VWO TH.S Ri6HT--H£ WAS ONE OF THE I
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  • SPORT...
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      LOUIS TRAINS FOR FINAL MOP-UP
      414 7 LOUIS TRAINS FOR FINAL MOP-UP lieeting Former Sparring Partner jVfS, ht < ham P»»n of the world, has he,rain ny ■< his favourite camp at Pompton Lakes ir.tv f«r one more defence of the title he has held Woodcock, champion of Britain, who taked about as a hkely British opponent
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      Today's Sport Events
      50 7 ,vi,,. X \F. MM Ko.ui •IS p.m.: 'nd N v KovaJ Hrlsh XIV GH q i \kiif xv. t%.t 1 M pm j; \\<i SIS p m Sintlrk. Raw- r^ M Hospital nfefl Bg I.im Green. m |*ggHl and Trlecoms J.i v. .n <selotar, 15 p m
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      Manila Chinese Pick Team To Meet Lien Hwa
      55 7 ic :;inese Foot[X: hu tentaMf sty nan squad Malaya's pfc; ••«n m picked is ft (iunese ColSine Athted arrival m prompted local Chinese tate. n which was c ::ick squad Chen Chito the i honorary dude Jose nt: George resident; D Chinese
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      VICTORIA KIN BY NINE WICKETS
      26 7 VICTORIA KIN BY NINE WICKETS all-rounder. re of n far p made •r 37 la] on tniasa] m Raj H and they i m 46 Reuter
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      CYCLING ONLY U.K. HOPE IN GAMES
      132 7 THL National Cyclists' Union anboonced on Saturday that it would make an appeal to cycling clubs to raise £3.000 to train British racing cyclists for 'he 1947 Olympic Games. Mr R. Taj lor. vice-president 0>! the NCtJ. said that, m some of the 17
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      BRITISH TENNIS TEAM TO TOUR S. AFRICA
      21 7 ition m the '-n for new d m B ttj H rid MiMM Reuter
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      TODAY'S BABMINTON
      22 7 Singaal Stall k Club at I ly at the ct««d Cheong, >ng Pak. n Fook Van. K-k Khiam. Hock Seng,
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      AMERICANS HEAD OLYMPIC ENTRIES
      62 7 THE United States have entered 415 men and women athletei lor next year's Olympic Games m London, the highest so iar by any one country. Britain is next with 348. France has entered 308 Italy and Czechoslovakia 284 each and Switzerland 270. The maximum number of
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      USEFUL B.P. WIN
      153 7 ¥>LAYING :tt Geylancr on Sunday. th*> Useful BP. br.it the Hsfnulei B P. by seven games to two. Scores: (UWfOl'l players first* Men's singles: Khoo Pent? K^un beat Harry Heng. 15 6, 15 0; Robert Yap beat Chow Y<e Khian. 15—6. 15 8; A. Malik bin Zainuddin
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      ANNUAL COLLEGE RUGBY FIXTURE TOMORROW
      186 7 THE 12th annual Inter-College rugby match for the Galloway Cup will be played tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. on the Rafflet College' ground. Lady Gimson will present the oup to the winners. The Galloway Cup was presented by the iate S»r David Galloway m. H'32 to
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      Chinese Athlete Sets New Record
      66 7 LAU Wen-ngau. 29. set a n»\v China record by finishing a 10.000 metres run m 31 mm. 56 8 j sec. at a tport meet m Shanghai yesterday The record makes Lav's place m the Chinese Olympic team almost certain. Olympic record for the event,
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      Last Opponent For Louis
      153 7 There fi at present circulating iri Singapore a rumour that David Km Kong Yong, Die :ng contender for the world bantamweight title held by Manuel Ontz, may com, fight here. It will, indeed, give a tr, wu ndoua boost to boxing m this countru if the
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      Strong Harlequin XI Beat S.C.R.C.
      396 7  - Strong Harlequin XI Beat S.C.R.C. FORWARD By Harlequins 2 S.C.R.C 0 DESPITE the fine goalkeeping of Lee Ah Chio, the Chinese suffered their second defeat (his season when they went down to a strong Harlequins XI by two goals to nil at Hong Lim Green yesterday. The Harlequins fielded their
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      ECLIPSE TO MEET A.A.U.
      54 7 r pHE following will rtpriMlllt the 1 Eclipse B.P. "B" team against the Amateur Athletic Union •B team at the Clerical Union Hall on Saturday Ong Kirn Kiat. Wee Lye Seng, Wee Ah Moh. Loh Ban Cheng. S. Abdullah Mattar. S. Noor Alabshee. S. Alwee Alhabshee.
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      MAILEY CABLED AMARNATH
      99 7 USABLE to personally contact Amarnath, Arthur Mailcy on Monday sent him a telegram from the Prett pen to the dressing room congrat ul tit ing him on his magnificent Innings. Mailey saw the telegram delivered through the wire barricade less than 100 yards away. Amarnath thoroughly appreciated
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      S.C.R.C. HOCKEY TEAMS
      120 7 THE following will represent the S C.R.C. m hockey matches tomorrow and Friday at 5.15 p.m on the S. C.R.C. ground. Against the Postal Hockey XI toj morrow: Yee Chcok Wah; Lav Hock Chye, Leow Hup Yang; Au Tat Chu. j Chua Boon Ann. Scan Keog Blew;
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      S.C.C. RUGBY TEAM
      66 7 THE following will nproscnt the SC.C. 2nd XV against the Royal Welsh Fusiliers today at 5.15 p.m. at the Padang. M. C. Bainbridgo. R. M. Nelson. C. Milton. J. Mackenzie, W. A. Rodirk, D. Redman, A. M. Howes. 18. T. North. H. T. Grieves. A. V. Do
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      S.R.C. HOCKEY TEAM
      66 7 The SRC. first team will r.itot the S.C.C. first team at hoc-key on the S.R.C. Padang at 5 15 p.m. trHa". I The S.R.v^. team will be clMttta from the following: B. Noronhu B. Klcinman. E. Barker. G. Clarke. Cdr. Oxford. H. R.'drigues. D. Ross, R. Barkei.
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      Great Indian Bid Fails
      699 7 From K. S. Duleepsinghi r*\VEN 155 minutes to get 242 runs by Oreen-1 n\ who vJ declared their second innings closed at 2 r >9 for seven, India made a great bid to win, racin" up to within 24 runs of victory when their last wicket
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      Golf Series To Decide World Champion
      173 7 Golf Series To Decide World Champion world golf series to determine the amateur and professional international champions is to be sponsored by tbe Professional Golfers Association of America atf Dunedin Isles, the Florida course, m February 1949. Mr. E.D. Dudley, president of the Association, has announced. The field will be
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      Scoreboard
      166 7 QUEENSLAND— 2nd Inns. Arrher c Sen b Sohoni J» Rogers c Sen b Amir EJahi Morris b Mankad 16 Carrigan r Navudu b Sohoni McCool not O'it lfll 7" ti'-n b Mankad 4 Favner r Sen b ManVad 52 Johnson c Ran»n»kar b Elahi 9 Extras 4 Total (for
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      FRIENDLY SOCCER
      34 7 jJRIGHT Star Indians 2nd XI will meet the Railway Juniors 2nd XI m a friendly soccer match at Kam* pong Pisarg today at 5.15 p.m. Referee will be Mr. G. J. Lourdes.
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      271 7 Free Press Crossword No. 248 CLUES ACROSS 1. 7, 16, 26 and 1,6. and 15 Down. The seven cardinal sins (5 6 9 8 and 5. 4). 4. A leash (4). 7, S ee 1 Across. 10, Part of circumference of circle i 3). 12, Peninsula of Glamorganshire, S. Wales
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      HOME
      42 8 Wi:n the first stacje of the preparation for the erec- m m tion o$ the new Bank.suie generating station almost complete, there is opened from the Southwark side of the Thames one of the noblest vie us c.r St. Paul's Cathedral.
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      MOUNTBATTEN FOR US?
      23 8 MOUNTB ATTEN FOR US? The Evening Standard said yesterday that Earl MountbatUn j may succeed Lord Inverchapel as the British Ambassador to US
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      $500,000 wanted for T.B. clinic
      350 8 $500,000 wanted for T.B. clinic free Press stall Reporter fjMIE Singapore Anti-Tuberc -ulosi.s Association could J establish its fully-equipped first tuberculosis clinic within three or four months, and maintain it for three years, if half a million dollars were raised quickly, declared Mr. S. 11. reek, chairman of the Association,
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      'BURMA WILL BE WELL GOVERNED'
      262 8 LONDON. Tuesday. BRITAIN c«»uld relinquish r pons.biliiy lor Burma with every confidence that Burma would b|e a well-governed count] with a happy and increasing j pr< sperous population, and with a string desire for friendship with the British Commonwealth said Lord L. cretary for Burma,
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      MP WANTS MOSLEY BANNED
      199 8 LONDON, Tuesday. THE House of Commons today discussed Sir Oswald Mosley. AfW its Home Secretary Mr Chute r Ede, had declared that he had no right to interfere a Labour Member, Mr. H. Hynd, urged the House to stop Mosley— former leader oi the British Union
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      STRIKES ISOLATING FRANCE FROM WORLD
      236 8 I'AHIS. Tuesday. AN immediate total strike on the French railways was or-*-i dered tonight by the Railwayman's Federation The strike in ordered soon after representatives of the Commu,ust.controll,d Trades Union Congress had met Frances !Z t U S h ce H ty Pr H r
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      GENT WAITS TO SEE WHAT S'PORE WILL DO
      915 8 GENT WAITS TO SEE WHAT S' PORE WILL DO Union council rejects tax bill i from the opinion of so many of my honourable friends thia morning, that It is necessary not to defer the consideration of the text of the Bill, r^rt by part, and I regret that Honourable
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      M.D.U. DEMANDS INCOME TAX
      89 8 fill debate In the Malayan Union Advisory Council on incomeLai bu rerealed the thoroughly unrepresentative characu-r of the unofficial m-mbt-rs, says a Itaternent issued by the Malayan Democratic Unio.i. The stat^ rnonr taya that all but two of the council hav e clearly indicated |hat they
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      U.S. STRIKE CALL
      29 8 THE American Federation of Labour In n,w York has ordered a country -wide strike of western Union Cable Company employees. wage negotiation* I having collapsed.- Reuter
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      U.K. & SOVIET CLASH IN ECAFE TALKS
      297 8 U.K. SOVIET CLASH IN ECAFE TALKS BAQUIO (P:L), Tuesday. THE Russian and British dele 1 gates clashed repeatedly toda> m a protracted debate as United Nations ECAFE 'Economic Comisslon for Asia and the Far East) considered the admission of associate members. with Russia finally betag defeated. ECAFE admitted Singapore the
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      POTATO RATION MAY BE CUT
      102 8 IN the House of Commons yes- t*rday. the Food Minister, Mr John Strachey. declared he could not Rive an assurance that the present weekly nit ion of three pounds of pot itoea would bo maintained until the end of the -potato year." It was almost
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      HONG KONG CUTS DOLLAR QUOTA
      71 8 THE Hong Kong Financial Scc--1 rttary yesterday told import- ens that their quota of foreign j dollar exchange for the last .six months of this financial year would not be granted owing to the dollar famine. Also announced was a cut m a wide variety
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      PoW CHRISTMAS
      57 8 War Secretary Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell. m a reply to a House of commons question, said that he was relaxing restrictions on Dri- soners of war so far as Christmas I *-ye and Christmas Day were concerned. The five miles' limiton their movements would be extended to 100 miles
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      CEYLON PARLIAMENT'S FIRST SESSION
      226 8 COLOMBO, Tuesday. THE Governor of Ceylon, Sir 1 Henry Monck-Mason Moore, who today opened the first formal session of the Ceylon Parliament elected under the new Constitution granted by the British Government this year, said he hoped the "appointed day"' the Ceylon Independence Bui to become
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      NEW DECLINI IN RUBBERS
      388 8 London Stock E^w^S today— the last da] of ti,,. i foah.r, .a, provide,! X«di!£ J^ the close, showed |osm4 up t (ks *k. Industrials w ■teadjr, with iron and firm. Shipping iharea men throughout I i ..on. Among foreign bondj sterling lurtns drifted n there was
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      RUBBER PRICES
      27 8 .tn •tfTffg N.TI kS s f<* 4 i j tt« I j fl U\ I* i n* I U-OKF VflAtf I I •I A.P. .^1
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      WEATHER Cloudy, rains
      54 8 WEATHER Cloudy, rains n/EATHEK report f«»r the ne*t 21 hour* compiled by the RAF; Cloudy with thundery «hawers during the afternoon and early evening. Dull tomorrow morninc i with light rain*. Wind: Light northerly, but squally In fthowrrs. STORE TIDES lI.T. 9.40 p.m. Rft 4 In. IT. 311 P nv
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