The Singapore Free Press, 10 April 1948

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1948 I'KHt m IKMS
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    NAMED IN SUIT AGAINST JOE LOUIS
    16 1 NAMED IN SUIT AGAINST JOE LOUIS rauznta suit ages >j hi* KtS nan's se If; above
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    Royal romance report is 'nonsense'
    20 1 Royal romance report is 'nonsense' -.*y. :nent liar- '.fT Ol d 27I Ro- 1 fair. glared. om of A P.
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    'We shall win,' says Sforza
    97 1 BERNE (Switzerland), FrL COUNT Carlo Sforza, Italy's Foreign Minister, today forecast "an overwhelming victory" for the present Gov..r..ment m Italy's elections )n April 18. "T am not a seer,' Count Sfrrza said, 'but I think it will be overwhelming." "From Switzerland alone there will be
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    AMERICAN HURT IN COLLISION
    51 1 Mr D. E. Clutter, an American, received slight injuries on the chin last night, when his car, driven by his syce, was involved m a collision with a military truck, at the Junction of Tanglin Road and Jervois Road. Mrs. Clutter and the syce were not
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    BIGGEST BANDIT HUNT BEGINS
    597 1 BIGGEST BANDIT HUNT BEGINS Troops help Perak police Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. AT dawn this morning, troops and police began ri moving through the North Perak jungles m the last phase of the biggest anti-bandit operations m Malaya m the last 50 years. For the past three
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    'America faces new Munich'
    318 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. 4MERICA today is m the position Britain was m when Mr. Chamberlain went to Munich, said the U.S. Air Secretary, Mr. Stuart Symington, addressing Denver businessmen tonight. In the bluntest statement yet made by any high Government official, Mr. Symington warned that "the threat
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    COAL STRIKE CUTS U.S. RAIL SERVICES
    123 1 COAL STRIKE CUTS U.S. RAIL SERVICES WASHINGTON. Friday. THE UJS. Government today ordered all ooal-burning railways to reduce operations by 50 per per cent owing to Cue] shortage arising from the soft coal strike. This means a further 25 per cent reduction, since the railways are already operating 25 per
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    'BE READY' CALL IN HYDERABAD
    186 1 HYDERABAD (Deccan), Friday. THE Muslim Minister of Public Works, Mr. Abdul Raof today warned Muslim volunteers m predominantly Hindu Hyderabad to be prepared for emergency. They must be ready to "sacrifice everything to maintain the independence of Hyderabad." Hyderabad has not acceded either to India
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    INDIAN ASSEMBLY
    58 1 -picture Reuter Grinning happily, President Hcrry S. Truman reaches for the ink-well with one of the pens he used to sign copies of the U.S. $6,800 million forewn aid bill at the White House last Saturday. He gave one of the pens to each of the people he
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    CZECH GENERAL ESCAPES
    125 1 LONDON, Friday. IT was disclosed tonight that Lieut.-Gen. Bruno Bosy-Sklenoviky, Chief of the Czech General Staff between 1940 and 1945, arrived m London last Tuesday, having illegally crossed the CzechBavarian border. The General, who was met on the Bavarian border by Americans, said that other high ex-offlcers
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    SHOT CID ASP BLED TO DEATH
    204 1 Free Press Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. SHOT through the right knee by a Chinest guide m the dense jungk !en route to Kati yesterjday, Mr. G. C. Sansoro ASP, attached to the CID here, bled to death while he was being carried out on a
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    8 ARRESTED AT ARMY DEPOT
    123 1 Free Press Stan* Reporter A BRITISH soldier and three Chinese were arrested by military police at Keatong shortly alter midnight this morning while attempting to steal a stock of blankets from an Army Ordnance Depot. The police fired shots over the heads of the intruders
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    'Lifeline' town falls to Jews
    299 1 JERUSALEM, Friday. HAGANAH forces with heavy mortars today re-took the stronspoint of Kastel, dominating the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv convoy route. Later the Arabs brought up field guns to shell the already shattered village. The new battle for Kastel, old Crusader stronghold which has changed hands three
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    Dutch release S'pore ship
    108 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONE of two small Singaporeowned freighters detained by the Dutch authorities at Tanjong Priok on Monday has been released and is proceeding to west Sumatra. Dutch authorities m Singapore this morning, announcing this, said that the ship was detained m the first
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    RUSSIA CUTS PRICES
    63 1 THE Soviet Cabinet has decreed a further immediate cut m the prices of a series of articles. Moscow radio announced last night. The articles affected by the price cuts included cigarettes, light motor cars, cosmetics, cameras, binoculars, sewing machines and radio sets with a 10 per cent
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    Marshall revolt in watches Bogota
    207 1 Marshall revolt in watches Bogota NEW YORK. Fr.day. EVOLUTION today H swept the streets of Jolombia's capital, as mobs seized all government offices, including the National Palace where the inter-Ameri-can Conference ls meeting. Never has revolution aad so distinguished an audience, the Associated Pn.'ss radioed tonight. America's Secretary of State
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    PLANE LANDING PROTEST TO US
    76 1 PLANE LAN DING PROTEST TO US THE Australians art to protest to the United S after an American Bkymaster with 44 European Jc migrants had landed at Perth yesterday instead of DAtr Marshal Richard Williams. Director-General r: Civil Aviat.on, said the plane's landing "broke the international arrangements regarding the entry
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    DRAMA IN BALLET
    1000 2 By MICHAEL BENT HALL: who is producing "Hamlet" as the Birth day show at this year* Shakespeare Festiva Season which opens at Stratford on-Avon nex' week. He is also producing "King John." DALLET is an Idea, stimulated into activity perhaps by a chance remark at a dinner
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    39 2 British actrt Hazel court modela an off the shoulder dress m grey-ivhite check cotton. The dress, which has a draw-string neck, is called "Quaker girl" and is amongst the collection of British fashions which the is displaying m Sweden.
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    17 2 "Of course, dear, you're dear, with a dress that cost 5585 you're dovn right precious!"
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    Bridge Problem
    83 2 gPADES are trumps. South leads. North and South are to win all eight tricks against any defence. South leads heart. North ruffs high and returns a low spade, South finessing against East's Jack. South lead.s another heart. North again ruffs high and leads last trump. South maKes two
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    OH, THAT BLUE LOOK
    231 2 My husband lias nofashion Ben am sorry to have to it, but it is true. Ii \b disappointing, becaiu l myself have what 1 consider to bu the per fashion sens*': I am not a slave to new fashion. I •elect and adopt those aspects of
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    India wants martial tune
    81 2 ALACK of Indian martial tunes is obi., military bands to Call back en rusty film turns to give the indigenous touch to ceremonial parades. Before partition, Indian military bands oly played Western p;< cci I "Tipperary," "Auld Lang Syne.* 1 and "Then 11 Always Be An
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    Music, she go on for ever
    255 2  - Music, she go on for ever GUY RAMSEY TALL, distinguism-a authoritative, com manding the massed London Philharmonic Or chestra with a fick <>i his long, white finguros 62-year-oid Bavarian Dr Wjlhelm Furtwangici stood on the rostrum a* the Albert Hall recently and directed Beethoven'; Ninth (Choral) Syrr. phony. But it
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      935 2 gfhgfh Arthur Young; 3 Music Lovers Hour; 4 listeners' Post: I Light Mu*ic: 5.30 Half hour with Del. us. 8 Service from Presbyterian Church; 630 Children's Corner; 815 Programme Summary, News Summery Announcements: 820 Radio Salon Orchestra; 9 Spot The Favourites; 9.30 News; 9.45 Talking of Book. 10 "The Little
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      145 2 gramme^; 11 Radio Dance; 11.30 World News Headlines; 11.40 Programme Summary. SUNDAY Music on the Air; 8.30 World and Home News; 845 BBC Theatre Orchestra; 9.30 Programme Summary; 9.40 Interlude; 9.45 Shipmates Ashore; 10.15 Talk: The Arts; 10 30 News and Items from Sunday's Papers; 10.45 Eight Boys and a
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      121 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom today DOKN today, probably your most outstanding characteristic is extreme adaptability. Toss you out anywhere and you land on your feet! This is all right as long as you hold to high ideals and let nothing swerve you from the right path.
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    REDS ARE ACTIVE IN S. CHINA
    281 3 REDS ARE ACTIVE IN S. CHINA HONG KONG, (By Air Mail). rVER-INCREASING Communist and bandit de t predatioiis m South China are posing a gTave threat to the Chinese Government's plan of building the area into a military and economic stronghold from which to stem the advancing Red tide. The
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    14 JAPS ON TRIAL FOR MASSACRE
    49 3 Lay. N Japanese d bet or t itar> the net, rs o* the Ml J h In Ku imcker tiie p*r> *ere ar^ p^ and brutal :aary 01 are heir I o were Chinese ftftcf the r 'srere alI lam m i uter.
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    SOYA BEANS FOR JAPAN
    26 3 SOYA BEANS FOR JAPAN Co ship a b:i will be acie bccoun tries were war. ;ort».000 wrt*\ v px--5 000.000 the soya !t expected r. i;fTerer.ce.-
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    DRAFT CHIANG FOR PRESIDENT MOVE STARTED
    242 3 NANKING. Thursday. THE mov-emuit to draf: Ge:>eraiLS6imo Chiang KjL-ohek as presidential candidate goi utxkr way today as the National Assembly began its afternoon sess_or.. Vice-presidential candidates also carried campaigns into the assembly hail, where Damj>h±ets and ihaadbilis urging the support of candidacies were widely
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    ONLY WIZARDS CAN RUN S'HAI BANKS
    159 3 x :uy where r.ade or lost C?J modal salary of aU worker I me m a r-e value of j av^rc^es ■ore than Maft manancial m•- rating the rate on r a sum In from r^"*-^- to hare I anything over that amount compulsorily
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    BAN ON FOOD HOARDING
    49 3 Shanghai citizens will not be allowed to hoard any quantity of daily used commoditks lor more than three months, according to new regulations by the Ministry of Economics. No shop will be permitted to keep goods which total more than one-fifth of one year's supply.
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    WAR SHIFTING TO CENTRAL CHINA
    336 3 WAR SHIFTING TO CENTRAL CHINA Chiang rushes armies to Honan NANKING, Friday. AS Generalissimo Chiang was giving an assur- ance that both Chengchow and Kaifeng, strategic railway cities m North Honan, will be defended by the Government forces to the last, and will never be abandoned, two Nationalist armies— the
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    FRENCH TO HAND OVER COMPANY
    155 3 FRENCH TO HAND OVER COMPANY SHANGHAI, Friday. A NOTHER landmark of the foreign development of this city is due to disappear. The Shanghai's Public Utilities Bureau has given the French Power and Light Company notice that its contract to operate will be terminated m two years. The French-owned utility company
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    38 3 ery Ch J e L o! Im^^ial General Staff, receives Gen Jn\ n m r y aHCi China s representative on the UNO military WmrC (H Lonaon recently. While m England. Gen. Ho Said a visit to Sandhurst.
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    PRISON FOR TAKING BRIBE
    62 3 TWO high-ranking officials of the now-defunct Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administrawerr eacli sinter* ced to three years and six months' imprisonment for accepting bribes while handling distribution of wool to Chinese factories. The Shanghai court declared that one official, Hou Ai Chong, accepted an apartment
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    135 3 The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Singapore. Mr. B. M. B. O'Connell (far left) and Mr. F. T. J. Bunnens, A.S.P., watch labourers gather at the main gate of the Tai Tong Rubber Factory m Thomson Road, where the toorkers staged a demonstration on Thursday evening. Trouble started when the 150
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    GENERAL FU ESCAPES AS PLANE BURNS
    111 3 GENERAL FU ESCAPES AS PLANE BURNS NANKING, Friday. THE Nationalist Army com- mander m North China, Gevi. Fu Tso-yi, escaped when his plane caught fire and exploded after an emergency 3a?-»ding about miriwav between Pe:ping and Tsining east Suiyuan, on Monday, according to delaj T ed proGovenim«it reports. Gen. Fu
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    COUNCILLOR FOUND DEAD
    136 3 TSINGTAO, Pn.iay. A prominent member 01 the Mur. cipal Council was found dead od the beach yesterday morning, with b eyes gouged out and two bullet holes m hi s head. The Councilor. Mr. B9a H&ien Lin. 40. publisher of the TsLrgtao Daily News re ceived a
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    STOKE WEAPONS
    35 3 The Shanghai Museum haa announced that a field team doing excavating work m Sunkian? unearthed cen-turies-old stone weapons and porcelain believed to be relatrd to or even predating the Chin cr Han Dynasties.
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    'RAPE OF NANKING WAS NOTHING...'
    219 3 TOKIO, Friday. rHE Japanese "Rape of Nanking" m December 1937 was "insgnificant" compared to Allied bombing of Japanese cities a war crimes defence lawyer told the International MiUtary Tribunal for the Far East yesterday. This point was raised by Mr. L. J. Matt ice m
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    CHOIR SINGING
    22 3 The Young People's Choir will render Stainer's "Crucifixion" on Saturday at 6 urn., at Bethesda Hall, m Bras Basah Road.
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    Assembly seeks bigger powers
    266 3 A«***^ n NANKING, Fridaj. MAJOR attempt appears to be developing m the National Assembly to expand th e as^ m bn\ power beyond those prodded m the constitution and make it a kind of "super" grovernment body. Three hundred and two delegates voted' m favour of
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    LOLOS CALL ON CHIANG
    76 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. A GROUP of 18 Lalo tribesmen— savage and Here-sly independent Chinese aborigines from deep Szechuan province it I > have neier recognised Chinese rule— flew to San< to pay a courtesy mil Gvnczlissvno Chiang KaiShek. AVer the war. the Lolos gained fame when rumour's
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    3 MAGAZINES SUSPENDED: 'ANTI-GOVT'
    119 3 SHANGHAI Fr.djy. THE Government has dOM d down Uiree magazine Kuo Hijin Tntlj, Knowledge and Time and Li|terature aecorcUne to Ta Kunp Pao. These pubdicat ob~. s were ordered U> suspei.ci pubiicv In c directive received lr the Minister of V\e Interior. The reason* stated hi
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    COURTESY
    43 3 'pHE Chinese custom of i A courtesy extends Into aU spheres of activity, says UP. Telegraph blanks orf the Chinese Government telecommunications administration bear the following legend at the bottom: "Pleas* return telegram at once if it does not concern your goodself."
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, April 10, 1948.
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      Reform of the Commission
      542 4 IT the first business session of the new Legislative Council this week, the Government gave a welcome assurance that the reform of the Municipal Commission is now to have the highest priority and announced that legislation for this purpose is m the course of being drafted.
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    SWEDEN SEES RED
    677 4 SWEDEN SEES RED By JOHN FISHER STOCKHOLM: THE war of nerves lias switched to Sweden. The Russian Press and radio have accused the Swedes of negotiating foi the lease to the United States of air bases or Swedish soil, and Medel Svensson, the Swedish man-in-the street, already nervous enough, are
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    They won't leave Jerusalem
    502 4 By Reuters Correspondent pROBABLY never bc--1 fore m history ha« the calendar held sucfc fascination amount. iv» almost to hypnosis— for a city's population as it hoick today for the poo pie of Jerusalem. The British Mandate is scheduled to end on May 15. Nuhody knows
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    50 4 It isn't just an ordinary model aircraft that teacher. Mr. Barry Haisman. 25. i# launching m the play around of the Matthew Arnold School, Liverpool. With this plane he recently established a world'i record for an elasticallypjopelied model: it flew nineteen miles between Haivarilen, North Wales a nd Northwich, Cheshire.
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    FAITH
    23 4 He that dwelleth m the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm xci, 1.
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    Unknown partner
    453 4 BRITISH HONDURAS BELIZE, BRITISH HONDURAS: rjNE of the minor irritations of living m British Honduras is finding one's letters from overseas being continuously misdirected to British Guiana or some other remote part of tho British Empire. As a result of this geographical ignorance of foreign post masters British
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    TOUCH-DOWNS IN SPAIN
    373 4  -  AL WEST By A.}'. Correspondent THREE Btrategi- eally placed airfields designed to accommodate m v 1 t iengine airliners or warplanes are being built m Spain. The largest Held, known as Uue Madrid or Barajas airport about six miles outside the capital. is already m use although
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    Strike—breaker
    363 4 Strike— breaker (Condensed from a Radio Australia BroadcaUOR nine weeki the eyes of Australian were I cussed on a national drama, enavtcd m t steamy sumi: at of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. Central figure qj tfcc drama was itocky, rug. ged sixty-year old Ed ward liichad Hani* n Premier of
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      7 4 "^*J»>- >J are wanted now. v\ net
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    USE OF WATER 'STILL RISING'
    389 5 Dry spell may cause shortage Free Press Staff Reporter IF the dry spell m Singapore extends over any long period, there is a definite danger of shortage of water m certain areas, Mr. F. G. Hill, Municipal Water Engineer, told the Free Press yesterday. "If
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    DELI DREDGING
    47 5 Dredging i$ proceeding m, the port of B:lawan-Deli, on the east coast of Sumatra, and it is expected that within six months, the port will be aWe to accommodate much larger vessels. The accommodation of ships alongside will result m a reduction m freight rates.
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    Drive for food parcels for UK
    216 5 (MEN ORGANISE TNT Frft Prr» Woman Correspondent pS«| vmmen have formed themselves Hi commit tee to send food parcels to Britain. mil collect the funds necessary by making use Ljpare time, talent and enterprise of all who >ort the movement. c of the Association
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    83 5 Mrs. C. H. Harding TWey (left), chairman, and Mrs. F. P. L. Fickling, Hon. Secretary of the Spare Time and Talent hnterprises, a voluntary Association which organises the dispatch of food parcels to Britain. The food parcels go to widows and dependants of men killed m action m Malaya or
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    Commissioners train men for higher posts
    189 5 Commissioners train men for higher posts Free Press Staff Reporter k scheme has been approved n by Singapore Municipal Commissioners for the training of professionally-qualified members of the intermediate staff of the Municipality for senior positions m the Municipal Treasurer's Department. This involves the creation of two posts carrying a
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    $80,000 for memorial to Gandhi
    241 5 $80,000 for memorial to Gandhi Free Press Staff Reporter (CONTRIBUTIONS to the Gandhi Memorial Fund m Singapore will most probably be used for the erection of a public building to contain a large community hall and modern school premises to provide free education for poor Indian children. Announcing this yesterday,
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    RUBBER CORPS
    62 5 March rubber crops are repgrted as follows: Alor Gajah Rubber Brtatfl Limited 25.600 lb. Aver Panas Rubber Estate Limited 75.000 lb. Glenealy Plantations Limited 64 000 lb. Kluanß Rubber Company Limited 59,000 lb. Pa jam limited 183.000 lb. Tambalak Rubber Estates Limited 30.040 lb. Teluk Aason Rubber Estate
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    ROUND ABOUT TO STOP CONGESTION
    170 5 THE new Empress Place roundabout scheme includes the "spearing" of approach roads to the junction by placing a dividing arrangement at the point of entry from High Street, Connaught Drive and Anderson Bridge, the Municipal Engineer, Mr. G. Edmond, told the Free Press. Some arrangement
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    MUSIC EXAM RESULTS
    65 5 Sundram, a 67 -year-old Indian woman, died as an indirect result of breaking her hip. The accident occured when she slipped from a platform on which she was sleeping at a P.W.D. camp. It was stated at an inquest yesterday that she was taken to hospital where
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    ONE-ACT PLAYS BY TEACHERS
    250 5 THE Teachers' Repertory of the Singapore Teachers' Union will stage two one-act plays at t'he V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, on April 12, and m May will produce the first full presentation to be made m Singapore of Macbeth. The players m the sketches on Monday at 9
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    Jap war memorial site for Chinese
    220 5 Jap war memorial site for Chinese Free Pr^s> (i m Correspondent STATEMENT U*< the Press by the b.ngapore Chinese Mai Appeal Committee [wak 1 »coks I'fter the d of those who lost tt* il lives dur'ng tne Japaue t massacre m ItebrufcAj i 942) says land on Bar. i Batok,
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    'Clean up these black spots'
    292 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ELABORATING on his "Clean up Singapore plea made m the Legislative Council earlier this week, Mr. John Laycock, Municipal North-East candidate, m an interview with the Free Press yesterday, listed five "black spots" which, he said, the Singapore Municipality ought to
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    23 5 At the Mahatma Gandhi's memorial service held at Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bows before a portrait of the 'Father of the Indian Nation.'
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    VISITING CEYLON
    38 5 The Commander-in-Chi^f. Air Command. Far East, Air Marsha] Sir Hugh Lloyd, accompanied by his staff, took off from Changi m a special plane early this morning for Ceylon. Sir Hugh expects to return on April 18
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    AID APPEAL FOR LEPERS
    89 5 pEW people m Singa- pore have ever visited the Colony's Leper Hospital, which is off the Serangoon and Yeo Chu Kang Roads. Canon R. K. S. Adams said this over Radio Malaya last night m a talk on the lepers of Singapore. "So few people come"
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    TOURS MALAYA
    51 5 Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University (Mr. O. J. Sioss) arrived m Singapore by air. yesterday on his way to the United Kingdom. Mr. Sloss will spend a week m Malaya visiting friends and former students of Hong Kong University. He leaves this morning or a tour of the
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    GEN. RITCHIE
    26 5 General Sir Neil Ritchie, Commander in -Chief, Far East Land Forces, is returning to Singapore tomorrow from Port Dickson, where he has been convalescing.
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      98 6 JANt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Ma lava fc'Ycu THIMK YOUR OLD/t DOn't'H/i DOnV UKF^\] /W~ 2 SAY-flT WASNtXJ/J Kl DIDN'T--^ WKAT 9 AKD r" MAN WILL BE WAXY /KNOW- BUT Y BOYS WHO TRY TD MF. THAT NIGHT I W* f 1 KNEW IT JCOOLOH't HAVE Bt£N
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    VICAR HITS AT 'POISON PEN'TOWN
    281 6 VICAR HITS AT 'POISON PEN'TOWN May end a 20-year scourge DEOPLE in the fishing town of Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, are hoping that the outspoken attack made last week by the 59-year-old vicar, the Rev. Arthur Patrick, on "poison-pen letters" may at last have ended a 20-year scourge of anonymous
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    Cunard to increase capital
    164 6 Cunard to increase capital IiHE directors oi the uunara Steamship Company disclosed have plans to increase its capital by over £6,000.000, The company's annual financial statement said the money was needed to reduce bank loans totalling £4.541.000 and pay for I u lure expansion. If the proposal is approved at
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    A 'foxhole 'for World War III
    181 6 A PARTY of French explorers who are to find the bottom of a cleft in the earth in French Alps near Avignon were still p<>'mg down al 28 hours. They had then reached a deapth of I, Lhey sent a message over their that
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    'Remind Russia' say Commons
    114 6 'Remind Russia' say Commons IN answer to a House of Commons question, Mr. Dugdale, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, said that as had been stated in an ear] I reply 2.055 officers and men of the Royal Navy and Royal rinei wcr^ killed and 19 s:.ips sunk in convoys tat.
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    Occupation of Japan costs $300 million
    96 6 OCCUPATION expeo Ling 60 dollars) bavi by the Jap. Mm >t inclu 1946 Bade nichi reported. Even at the blackn ratp of 200 yen i amount is eq r 300.000.000 dollars, or 120 000 d« 'liars more than U.S. Under-S^retary I r Army. Mr.
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    Short hours and long cups of tea BUREAUCRACY
    190 6 Short hours and long cups of tea BUREAUCRACY "AFTER several years of experience in the public /l service, I can tell you that most Government offices axe run on the principle of short hours and long cups of tea," said Mr. Neville Wills lecturer in puMic Administration at Sydney Uaivcraity,
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    NO REPRIEVE FOR IMBER VILLAGE
    100 6 NO REPRIEVE FOR IMBER VILLAGE 1 IK. MICHAEL STEWART, LtI Private Secretary to the War Minister, told the liuusr of Commons that the Vfinister would not agree to in inquiry into the statement by residents of Inibrr killase (Wiltshire) that when they were removed From the village five years igo.
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    GUATEMALA TAKES OPPORTUNITY
    125 6 THE Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Senor Muenoz Meany, said at the PanAmerican Conference in Bogota that the crisis facing' Britain provided a "propitious climate" in which to purest his country's claims against Bri- tish Honduras. He criticised the presence of troops in Belize. British Honduras, as an "affront
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    Pakistan finds' gold in them thereships
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    P.I. consulate besieged
    46 6 A CHINESi ■tGrod applicants {Vpine visas had L lippine munding the d; "corrupt Cor^ulau i Who ar $400 (U.S I 4.OOU applicants t ng list. Demonstrators foluwing tlie Phihpy.: sol's assurance ceclure would be si to allow early depart.' I at h U.P.
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    U.K. MUSLIM IN ILLEGAL WEDDING CASE
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    SEEKING AIR AGREEMENTS
    23 6 A SCANDINAVIAN gat ion hai agreements with ir.th which regu municatlons art nod First on the list U follow. Reuter
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    31 6 Mr Thomas B. McCc tinguished tiidustria i financier, has been n^ by President Truman a> chairman of the Board «>• Governors of the I Reserve System, the ernment's top bar. V 1
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    59 6 picture. Three locomotives 'top) making the inaugural run of the S.iudi Arabian railroad are seen at Dharan. A royal party headed by Amir Saul Al-Faisal, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, f above, looking out of the cabin) and escorted by Arabian- American Oil Company officials, who arc helping with the
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    RAIN-MAKING FOR HONGKONG
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    THE HABITUAL HER
    23 6 pOUGf-JMOl N I I presented at (London will mtJa! for n a toil al.ght m a v 1 us < fghfgh
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    Alexander hopes for more NAAFIs
    171 6 A lexander hopes for more NAAFIs PE Defence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander, declared at the opening of a new NAAFI club in Shropshire, that because of the futuiv layout of defence plan of the urnied force*, he wa« anxious that adequate NAAFI facilities should be avu.Iab'e. Expressing hope of
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    SPURS GET' A GOAL
    42 7 Len Duauemin (white shirt) Spurs' centre forward, beats MillivaU's 17-year-old goalkeeper Malcolm Finlayson (sprawled on ground) and scores his team's first goal during the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Millicall at Tottenham on March 23. Spurs won 3—2.
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    Selections by "Call Boy"
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    A SAFE BETS FOR TODAY'S RACES
    692 7 A SAFE BETS FOR TODAY'S RACES Going very good From EPSOM JEEP SHEFFIELD Plate, Prince Avon and Moonsunstar were given on the course this morning as extra good things in Penang today, the first day of the Penang Turf Club's Spring meeting. The weather remains fine and the going will
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    MANY SCORING CHANGES MISSED
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    Better finish gave Recs win
    421 7 Better finish gave Recs win Free Press Soccer Reporter S.R.C 2, R.A.F. Changi 1. ir THERE was only one team in the finish of yester- day's first division league soccer game at Jalan Besar Stadium, and it was the Singapore Recreation Club, who beat Changi Airmen by the odd goal
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    Sundram has final test today
    417 7 WHETHER M. K. Sundram, Singapore's champion quartermiler, is to go to the World Olympics to be held in Britain this year will be finally decided today. Mr. J. S. de Souza, secretary of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, told the Free Press that Sundram will
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    MISRA MEETS HOWARD IN FINAL TODAY
    142 7 SUMANT Misra. India's leading Player yesterday reached the final of the men's singles m the Paddington lawn tennis tournament m London by beating Roland Carter, a British Davis Cup trialist, 6-2, 7-5, m the semifinal. Misra easily won the first set but was given
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    SCOTTISH SOCCER
    43 7 17ESTERDA Y \S Scottish League football results "A" DIVISION Motherwell 0, Morton 1; ?-rtick Thistle 3. St. Mirren Queen of the South 0. \"o r deen 0 Scottish -B" Div Buppl monary Cup. 2nd r Alb.on Rovers 2. Ayr United 2.
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    Bestboxer's cup won by J. Archer
    352 7 Bestboxer's cup won by J. Archer GIVING a clever exhibition of boxing, and using both fists with telling effect on an opponent who kept boring in throughout. J. Archer (EOS. Club) was deservedly the best boxer, when he beat Noel Edmonds (Cable and Wireless) in the final in the Singapore
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    CHARTERED BANK XI
    63 7 Th»- following wrtl represent the Chartered Bank Sports Club against Mansfield Co, Ltd., in a friendly game of football on St. Joseph's School Ground at 5.15 p.m. on Monday: C. B. Von Ha#t (Capt). Muiri; Yirig Yoke Hoh; G. W. Butler; C. R. Nonis; P. S. Jaswant;
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    Turkish wrestlers want ten eggs for breakfast
    241 7 From James R. Chambers. A P "Sports Writer nPURKISH wrestlers training for the 6ummer Olympics in London e«t ten esps a day for breakfast That builds up -si^mna. they say. The British are lt<;ky to get two eggs a week, but tne Turks
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    RETURN FIGHT
    48 7 r^HARLES Thomas will referee the return European bantamweight title fight between Italy's Guido Ferracin and Britain's Peter Kane at Bellevue, Manchester on April 16. Ftrracin took the title from Kane at Manchester on Feb. 20, beating the British boxer oo points in 15 round fight A.P.
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    S. AFRICAN RUGBY PLAYER DIES
    42 7 MAURTTZ VANDENBERG. the well-known Springbok Rugby forward, collapsed and died in Capetown yesterday. He was 38. Vandenbeiy toured Australia and New Zealand with the Springbok Rugby touring side. He had few equals in the country.- A. P.
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    China team t play 4 games in Singapore
    419 7 China team t play 4 games in Singapore By Our Soccer Reporter TPHE China Olympic soccer team will play four games in Singapore during their two iiap mvera here en route to London. Their first visit hero 'I be between May 19 and May 25, and the second between June
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    KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER DEAD
    55 7 REIGH Count, who won the Kentucky Derby in 1928 and later sired Count Fleet, the famed triple crown champion of 1943, died of old age at the Stoner Creek Stud farm <n Kentucky yesterday. The noted stallion was 23 years old. During his racing career. his
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    WOMAN SWIMMER BREAKS RECOriO
    89 7 AUSTRALIA'S 18 year old Olympic hope. Nancv Lyons," clipped 12 seconds off the worlds women's breast stroke record for 100 yards In Sydney yesterday, returning a time of 1 min. 11.8 sec. The recognised world record to date is 1 min. 13 sec. held by of
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      197 7 Sports diary TODAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Div. Iff— Postal Telecoms XI v. S.H.B. Boys' Club, McNair Road, 5.15 p.m.; friendly: Manslidd XI v. East Coast United XI, Geylang stadium, 5.15 p.m.; Joyful Juniors "A" v. C.Y.M.A. "A," S.J.I. ground. 5.15 p.m. CRICKET: S.C.R.C. match, Captains XI v. Vice-captain's XI, Hong
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      241 7 F.P. Crossword No. $£6 rn ran ir~i pn ri rt~i T~t 18 I «9~io J II N 12 |3i lij! 32 I 8 V"n~n~n~rrrr CLUES ACROSS 1. Plots (12). 7, Rustic (5). 9, Customer (6). 13. Strove for (4). 15. Bury (5). 16, Observes (4). 17. Giant (8). 21. Indulgence
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    CHIANG SAYS REDS GETTING FOREIGN AID
    431 8 CHIANG SAYS REDS GETTING FOREIGN AID 'Govt will win despite losses' NANKING, Friday. riENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek disclosed today that seven of his best divisions, including the American-trained and equipped New First and Sixth Armies, were destroyed in the anti-Red fighting in Manchuria during the past year, but he expressed his
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    JOURNALISTS TOLD: BE FAIR
    73 8 *pHE United Nations confcr- nee <>n Freedom of Information yestrrday voted to condemn distortion and falsification of news, and called on newspapermen throuehj out the world to maintain j accuracy, fairnoss and res- uonsibilitv. In the first important resolution passed sine? the conference opened In March
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    Japan planned to keep S'pore
    273 8 TOKIO, Friday. HIDEKI Tojo's lawyers, in their final pleas before the International Military Tribunal, admitted that Japan 'once planned to retain for herself part of the occupied area" but said this "by no means renders the Japanese war objective no more illegal than the retention
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    AUSSIES ORDER WOMAN TO QUIT
    88 8 AUSSIES ORDER WOMAN TO QUIT MRS. Stewart Carrier, a Tongan-born woman, and her two daughters, have been ordered to leave Australia by September, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Mrs. Carrier was married in the Royal Chapel 13 years ago to Mr. Stewart Carrier, a resident of Perth. Tonga, although a
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    DEFENCE SCREENING
    47 8 All workers in Australian defence projects have been carefully screened to ensure their loyalty, according to Mr James K. Jensen, Secretary of the Department of Supply and Development. One man has been removed from his job because officials were not satisfied with his background. Reuter
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    'PROTECTION' WAS COSTLY
    103 8 ALEXANDRIA, Friday. INDUSTRIAL and commer- cial leaders said here today that, to prevent a repetition of the havoc caused during the police strike on Monday and Tuesday, they would themselves rather meet the extra pay demanded by the police "in order not to rely on the Army's
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    BRITAIN ASKS RUSSIA TO TRIESTE TALKS
    144 8 BRITAIN ASKS RUSSIA TO TRIESTE TALKS LONDON. Friday. BRITAIN today Invited che Soviet Government to take part in preliminary discussions in Paris next month, designed to return the Trieste free territory to Italy. The note also urged Russia to agree as promptly as possible to the proposals made on March
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    PASSPORT FORGERY
    32 8 A Polish employee of the Mexican Legation m Warsaw has be?; arrested on a charge (if forging 28 Mexican passj ports. Warsaw police say i other arrests may follow.— U.P.
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    SPECULATORS ARE HESITANT
    348 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Frid OPECLXATiVE buying, which has s< ept through some sections of the London Stock Kxt appears to be ending and. uhile prices rem today at the higher levels to which this buying lifted them, there are indications that spec are becoming hesitant, says
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    34 8 Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is on a visit ml to unveil a statue of the late "FDR" on teen above uith the King and Queen after a W Castle reception on her arrival.
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    U.S. ANTI-RED MO
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    Anti-Colonies resolution
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    Civil war spreading in central Burma
    13 8 Civil war spreading in central Burma i i 1 -1 1> Reuter Reuter
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    Rubber prices
    130 8 J^ SPLC'IAL Market torrespondm gives the prices of rubber 11 am today a* fallow <■ N. K rubber N^EW YORK crude rfl v l d 223 20.40 bid: N < 23 1 Reuter Bayers *nttr t« Ote per !b per It No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 41^ No
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    BRABAZOAS COST £2.9 MILLION EACH
    154 8 BRABAZOAS COST £2.9 MILLION EACH LONDON, Friday. THE building of two proto--1 types of the giant Brabazon aeroplane, designed to fly about 100 passengers nonstop from London to New! York, will cost £5,836,000 on the present estimates, a House of Commons all-party committee reported today. If the cost of the
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    Finn chief optimistic on future
    187 8 HELSINKI, Friday. "f^INLAND can look with r confidence towards the future." said President Juno Paasikivi in a broadcast report to the nation on the re-certly-concluded Russo-Fin-nish mutual aid pact. The President added, "Finland's participation in a war against the Soviet Union '.s absolutely excluded, and
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    UK TO REPORT ON GOLD QUARTERLY
    204 8 LONDON, Friday. TN a written reply to Sir James Hutchison (Cons., 1 Glasgow), Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, saying that "the happenings of one month are apt to give a distorted picture, and this is particularly likely to be the case during
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