The Singapore Free Press, 27 April 1948

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press mmmmmm LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I===1 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1948 MM? Mi 4>M>
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    S.F.T.U. WILL DEFY MAY 1 BAN
    299 1 S.F.T.U. WILL DEFY MAY 1 BAN Mass march through city Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE workers will defy the police ban against a May Day procession, a spokesman of the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions j announced this morning. This decision will be i conveyed to the Colonial Secretary, Mr.
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    14 1 Premier leader of Democrat wti showing m his own Tie. His party silencing Italian
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    Soviets oppose Vienna flights
    211 1 VIENNA, Monday. -ian military authorities have relaxed rcsftlictMM <>n inland waterway traffic cross Soviet zone in Germany, but the Soviet ies in Vienna U>dav protested again>i 'intl over the Soviet zone in Austria into nd American airfields near Vienna. American Army spokesman, saying that no had
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    PLAGUE IN CALCUTTA
    39 1 :'i A. Monday. smallpox and plague are alcul st wtt'k. deaths trom :.d 956 fr-jm iderr.ic o smallpox and have over- isolation m] rarj hosopened. .e occurring in 50 Yesterday. deaths. drug able for f Reuter
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    Polio: Army lends three iron lungs
    180 1 Free Press Staff Reporter WHEN infantile paralysis was first reported last, week in Singapore the Army immediately sent an "iron lung" in full working order to Middleton Hospital, where the first cases were treated. The Army Is in constant tonch with this hospital and
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    'I killed 10,000 on orders'
    78 1 A GERMAN nurse, Kaetho Hackbarth, aged 54, found guilty of gassing and poisoning more than 10,000 patients during the war, has been sentenced to 15 years' impri- sonment by a Magdeburg court. She was employed during 1 the war in hospitals at Frank- furt and
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    COALITION FOR W. JAVA STATE
    37 1 INDONESIAN Republicans 1 have accepted portfolios to work together with nonRepublicans and Indonesians, Dutch and Chinese in the first coalition cabinet of Pasundan, new state of West Java, according to Batavia reports.
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    Running order & scratchings
    116 1 Running order scratchings RUNNING order and scratching-* for tomorrow's Singapore racrs are: Race I— Class 2, div. 6, sttf.— Rima, Omaha. Race 2— Class 3, dlv. 4, «f— Nen World. Raoe 3 Class 2. dir. 2, 7 f.— Merriel, Farflyn. Race 4;— Class 2, div. 5, s»if.— Fleeting Memory, Randy
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    MALAY RISING ON SIAMESE BORDER
    196 1 ONE thousand Malays t rising again>t the Si; Siam-Malav frontier town to report* received here. Ixt ween guerillas and JSiai village of Tanjong Mas. A high official of the Siamese Mi- Istry 01 the Interior told Reutor that th^ government had not received ful details
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    U.S. EMPLOYS A MILLION MORE
    46 1 OFFICIAL 0.8. statistic total mnloy ment in America has risen b; more than 1.000,000 jobs d 0 March. Bureau of Lnbnur statistic showed that 43 000 000 wag o.irn r< w p re it work in non aTicultural Jobs last montr;
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    RUBBER TALKS IN SECRET
    71 1 THE International Rubber Study Group opened in Washington yesterday what is expected to be a week-long v study by delegates from 15 nations of the problems of l synthetic, natural and re- claimed rubber. I The meeting of the Group will be held in closed sessions
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    HUNGRY GERMANS
    42 1 3 i In 15 months, approximatet ly 146.000 Germans from the Soviet zone, have crossed the border into the Americar t zone, an official U.S. Army report estimates. More thar I one-third did so because thej l were hungry.I U.P.
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    32 1 Colombian's look over the wrecked and burned downtown section of Bogota, Colombia. Rioting, burning and looting broke out after the death of their liberal party leader, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. on April 9.
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    Arab Legion strikes at Jews
    245 1 DAMASCUS, Monday. THE Arab Legion, regular army of King Abdullah of Transjordan, today struck its first blows to drive the Jews out of Palestine, following a Transjordan Government declaration of war on Zionism. Reports reaching Damascus say that the Legion has occupied Jericho, in the
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    U.S. arms for Europe Union held possible
    146 1 WASHINGTON. Monday. THE U.S. Secretary of Defence. Mr. James Forrestal. told the Senate Appropriations Committee today he knew of no Government agency which was planning to ask Congress lor funds to give military backing to the tivt-natlon Western European Union. Congressional sources have
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    C.I.D. OFFER $50, REWARD
    69 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police are offering a $50 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of thieves The crimes reported on musl have been committed durini the past six months. C.I.D. officials told the Fre< Pi ess this morning that th< t
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    HARBOUR BOARD BACK TO NORMAL
    153 1 Free Press Staff Reporter FIFTEEN ships including five new arrivals were being worked at Singapore y Harbour Board wharves thii morning. The acting chairman of th< s Beard. Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes e told the Free Press: "We hav< sufficient labour to work al
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    WARDAMAGE: U.K. TO HELP PAY CLAIMS
    846 1 WARDAMAGE: U.K. TO HELP PA Y CLAIMS Free Press Staff Reporter THE British Government has agreed to contribute i £10,000,000 towards the payment by Sin<»an«re ind the Federation of Malaya of claims for war In estimated to total £55,00*0,000. Making thi< nent in a written reply to a question in
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    $500 FIRE
    45 1 T r ee Press Stall Id pun r. A m .squ.tJ joss s.ur.ea j d a !imo I bufiding i». Cavan Road d\ 5.4U LbiS m Two fire engints had outbreak urd r control withmiau (S. T t damj 'ill! < d at 1500.
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  • FEATURES...
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      Enterprise—'Piggery'
      674 2 Enterprise— 'Piggery' by Roy Ferroa DIGS, hundreds of fat, squealing porkers some go to market, others stay at home but this is what goes on every day at the j Breed well Farm, out Seletar way, where an enterprising young Chinese makes pigbreeding a profession. Years ago. the owner of
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      LATEST IN CAMERAS
      797 2  -  DERICK GOODMAN By pRENCH cameras and equipment occupied 90 per cent, of the stands at the International Exhibition in Paris, but with some exceptions the standard and ranee of products of the French postwar camera industry, were disappointing. Before the war, a large range of Kodak can
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      Bridge Problem
      358 2 suiv.'ssive dea:s from a n Cent 50-rubber match. Ha. Collected a wrutckintf I.IOU po <>n the previOUg doai. North and South Vert bappy to piay a penalty jpime- particularly sm, t they were behind on score anxious to win points rather rubtx-rs Houev.T. wnereas South kit m the
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      Household Problems DOMESTIC SUBJECTS
      246 2  - Household P roblems DOMESTIC SUBJECTS JANE CARPENTER By THERE are many small househc problems which mil assnme enormous p portions to the you newly-married couple living for the time in their ow house. Most of them the br mast solve for her She must mpenrii ;er staff and pian th
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      5 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR ..I .-aha
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      20 2 T'ne 120-lb cake presented to the Kizig and Queen yesterday for their Silver Jubilee wedding anniversary by BaI kery students.
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  • NEWS...
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      REDS MAY SWITCH TACTSCS IN EUROPE
      463 3 Campaign for United Front likely EUROPEAN Communists may be compelled to 1-1 switch their tactics as a result of their election defeat in Italy. Washington officials say that unless the Communists are willing to resort to violence, amounting to civil war, they will, have
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      25 3 U -rom all about alr avalanche the vicar, the ■^ibertson, magatobacco- tobacco-.'.d-be Hum the wn to \ily— all to get and the I get Mirror
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      Wins prize fcr election prediction
      56 3 I iigi Prato a small shoe facII ha; ier of ttu v.-nmenfs "totalguessin. e of the natijna n worker for thi t Front Prato cam< ;e Christian Do •:ph. int of the 'totalen com--r.ates rar 60 000 000 lire > homef Turin e immer being
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      UNKNOWN
      17 3 Air Saved the Tudor r flights e Azores until rax f 2 .nption tests I U.P.
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      95 3 Appalled oy house prices two nome-hunting v Ken decided to build their own. It has taken them tuenty-one months since the day they first called a joint family conference to decide what kind of houses they >'ed Now they are the owner-occupiers of two semi- detached seven-room villas (above) in
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      HK flour ban due to smuggling
      230 3 CMt'GOLLNG activity on the Dutch owned Karimoen Islands, near Singapore, is beLeved t< h* the rea*>n for the Hone Kons Government's recent ban on the importation of flour from the Netherlands Zast Indies. The two inlands in the Karimoen group are situated in the
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      2 KILLED, 14 HURT IN TRAIN MISHAP
      46 3 2 KILLED, 14 HURT IN TRAIN MISHAP \T least two persons were killed and 14 injured when the Miami-Chicago passenger train. Sun Chaser, was derailed in an isolated area. 17 miles north of Birmingham on Sunday. The driver and a passenger 1 were reported killed. A.P.
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      Builds a fence across middle of a room
      127 3 Builds a fence across middle of a room HARLAN Roscoe Hand has > erected a fence against his mother-in-law —right down the middle of a room. Hand claimed in a Nashville (Tennessee) court that every time his wife's mother. Mrs. Nola Meyer, came visiting, j there was trouble. Normally, j
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      FOOD CONFERENCE
      38 3 Mr. Jairamdas Daulatram. Indian Food Minister, is call- 1 r.g a two-day conference of j food ministers of provinces and states in N w Delhi on April 28 to discuss the food situation in India. A.P.
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      They live in U.S. sector
      111 3 NATIONAL alignments som?- times run across sector boundaries in Berlin. Polish correspondents live j in the U.S. sector— it is a hangover from the first inter- national trials at Nuremberg when the Americans billeted them but their club is in the Soviet sector. Belgian correspondents
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      63 3 Mr. W. J. Dirmnock, assistant works manager of a large factory at Perivale (Middlesex}, explains his firm's idea for a new fiveweek campaign against waste. It is a race track, with a horse representing each of ten divisions of the factory; the horses will be moved forward according to the
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      SYNTHETIC GAINING
      17 3 The United States last year used only 2,000 tons more naI tural than synthetic rubber.
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      'Asia becoming antagonised'
      233 3 'Asia becoming antagonised' AUSTRALIA* EVICT!* AUSTRALIA would antagonise Ma!a>>i:, C rna A Japan to a dangerous degree if she p with "petty evictions of people en colour i I Professor Thomas Griffith Taylor, geographer anthropologist, told a meeting in Melbourne I. at Walthamstow, Essex, he is now with the l>r
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      R.A.F. MEN FOR PAKISTAN
      30 3 R.A.F. MEN FOR P AKISTAN rWO HUNDRED ground crrv. :ans have sailed tool for Karachi tot A r Force. 1 em am in P:ik>; U where are going inside Reuter
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      MAIDEN VOY AGE OF NEW LINER
      22 3 MAIDEN VOY AGE OF NEW LINER THE An senger an I Unei tilt has I p on her n Boml by Reuter
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      99 3 .^^l x X -y** jjßMßßHHHpf^^l^B^B^gH^^r waval customs an& v-fer > %M iPm mM^S BE^ traditions. j^^^~ ll\ STARBOARD The word derived from the old Saxon ft^ S "steeraboard" or "steerboard" an oar shipped at the right hand side IV i» of tne ship's stem to act as a rudder. In
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      13 3 ONCE BEyONO THE POSS.&I:TV qp- (?e W/TH ta«IAN 5 HELP, FASHIONED CRU' gfl<J
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      65 3 NeW danger By FMar Rice Rurr* CAPTURE. THE MEN. 1 >****«■ vr ."T""-'' '-'C'^ OE BUT EWOENT iMARXS J^SN >*C^ > JtMf& '\f' 'C SEE n*O GfftAT EP~"**^ i AS THE R&RTY PASSED A WILD «.U/*\ V v^^ '"^A&\ r>^2»mYr^~ ""KeE.OORIS COULD NOT RES'ST TmE [,*r \^SL [VZ^Zcf Ufti\ A
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, April 27, 1948. The War Claims Settlement
      448 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, April 27, 1948. The War Claims Settlement THr Of Stalest nent on the p. war damage i not Ing I m this counnmg like T h? Which the British taxpayer may think is the proper due of his Ity. expenditure contemplated on all classes of
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      Don Iddon's Diary
      1311 4 Don Iddon' s Diary NEW YORK: THE coat Britain wore with such elegance for so long is beginning to feel like a i hair shirt to the U.S. World leadership, the mantle of power, Ame- ricans thought would be I never like this. The coat hurts under the anus, it
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      130 4 Pint-sized Brian Dewsbury, 13, of Cat ford. London, has often L»t leased about his size. But wht n u ith four other boys he went down A,(ley Pit, Leigh, Lancashire, 3 ft. 10 in. Brian had the last laugh for I ivas the only one who could wal* straight in
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      FAITH
      21 4 Fear not: for I have red«M'm«'d thee; I have called thoe by thy name: thou art Mine. lixiiah 43, 1.
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      BATTLE OF IMBER
      699 4  -  WILLIAM RICHMOND By "WE'VE k ul a bone to pick with Tommy Efandley," said the brigadier. "He pinched our local joke Forever Imber." The biffadier is Michael Alston-Roberts-^ 9! who won a D.S.O. 111 Mada and another in Burma. Today he's Commandant of the School oj Infantry,
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      BREWERS ARE RICH
      284 4 In Manila today THERE'S a common saying in brokerage houses in Manila this year that the Philippines biggest gold mine is a brewery. The broken ar<> referring to La Fabrica fc Cervesza dc San Miguel, Inc., 58-year-old Spaiiia?)Filipino American corporation which 97.2S un its capital of PI
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      50 4 With u a, it a rtaaonable am -r. Evelyn Kaps, 15-year-siudent, ;iai' through the air to the waiting arwu Paul McGhee. during a re- hcarsal of their a the annual comrnun cum. McGhee > s the only paid circus hand in the show, Which tours the Gainesville <us area every
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      Call up in U.S.A.
      6 4 Call up in U.S.A. by y
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      RATIONING WILL NOT BE GENERAL
      396 5 RATIONING WILL NOT BE GENERAL aaving electricity Plan Rules being drawn up Free Press Staff Reporter \TEW regulations are being drawn up with a view to restricting the supply of electricity to certain consumers, and prohibiting outdoor and shop-window lighting fn Singapore, Mr. W. L. Blythe, Deputy Municipal president, told
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      ANZAC DAY LUNCH
      24 5 ANZAC DAY LUNCH r this Day cclebra- a i•: ew lri--1 at P te G laid a k the >alute F-ee p r aVSMJBX^avaaMaaaa^HHnaIaIaVBVHBIBVBBMBBV
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      5 YEARS' JAIL FOR ARMS
      57 5 A 10-YEAR-OLD Malay youth, who was anestcd, by tile police sittimsr outside a house in Rosy the Road, with two serviceable revolvers in his possession, was semtonced at the Singapore Assizes yesterday to five \Taxs' imprisonment for carrying: arms. He was Bidcn bin Sulei- a
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      EXEMPTED
      23 5 The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council. Sphinx Badminton Club and Persekutuan Khairatul Islam have been exempted from registration under the Societies Ordinance.
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      New scheme for retiring allowances
      296 5 "THE iaYtroduction of a contributory scheme in lieu 1 of gratuities for daily-paid employees is renmended by the Joint Wages Commission. Tl to that the time has come when immed id serious consideration bo given to such a —scheme. mm^ tammmm imim mmmmm tm m^
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      GOVT UNION OFFICIALS
      93 5 'J'HE following have bt-en ek-Ct-cd office-bearers of the Government Clerical Services Union: President Mr. G.A. Tessen sohn; Vice -Presidents. Mr. H.M. DankW and Mr. M.T. P Hay; i. General Secretary, Mr .S. Sinnathamby; Hon. Asst. Gen. Secretary. Mr. Lim Kim Lian; Hon. Trt-asurer, Mr. Tan Chuan Heng;
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      FREE HAND-OUT OF BOOKS
      65 5 FREE HAND-OUT OF BOOKS A BOOK on Buddhism will be distributed free to the gregation at the Outram Road Buddlu&t Temple on Mav 22- Wesak Day. The Singapore Buddhist Association has drawn up pla^is to celebrate Wesak Day en a bigger soak? tllii Year than usual. Ther will be the
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      INDIAN AIRLINE TO OPEN UK SERVICE
      233 5 OPECIAL airmail stamps will be issued to the inauguration of India's first external air service, which will start functioning in early June between Bombay and London, with Constellation planes. The stamps will be of 12-arma denomination, and will be of the same size and
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      School objects to radio talk
      403 5 Free Press Staff Reporter RADIO Malaya's serial broadcasts to schools on "How Things Began" are not acceptable to, at least, one Catholic English school in Singapore, where more than 75 per cent, of the upper form pupils voted against listening-in to them, says a special
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      43 5 Upper picture shows the Raja of Perlis opening the general assejnbly of UMNOi United Malay National Organisation) at Penang last week, and the President of UMNO, Dato Onn bin Jafaar, is pictured before the microphone as he addressed the assembly. Free Press pictures.
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      Concert for convent fund
      150 5 'PIIREE well-known SingaA pore musicians will perform in a classical concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall on May 9. in aid of the Good Shepherd Convent Building Fund They are Mr. Goh Soon Tic (violinist), Mr. Louis Moyser (cellist and Mr. William Hart pianist*. Th Good
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      TNT MEETINGS
      53 5 MRS. F. P.L. Fickling. hon. secretary of T.N.T. (Spare Tim? and Talent Enterprises^ announces that the Monday morning Bring and Buy i meetings will be discontinued for a fortnight. The outbreak of infantil^ j paralysis in Singapore is keepI ing many of the helpers and customers with their
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      DOG SHOW IN AID OF TB FUND
      151 5 A SHOW for pedigree and nan-pedigree do«s is to be held a'^ the Happy World 'stadium at 5 o.m. on May 7. The show is being run under the regulations of the Malayan Kennel Association who will appoint the iud^-'.s. All the proceeds
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      Trade with Japan only partly freed
      279 5 Free Press Staff Reporter miNGAPORE merchants welcome the ■—■111 ment that firms with agents in Ja finance their own imports and exports t!i cu 1 .1 the Japanese Board of Trade. The Trade With Japan Office, which is of the Economic Secretariat, will still
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      WOMAN FOR ASSIZE TRIAL
      40 5 A YOUNG woman, Lin: Kc licence holder second-hand dealer's he, nee In Weld Road, was commuted in the Sev :.:h P< Court yesterday for trial at the next Assizes on a charge ol rxxssession of ammunition.
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      MALAY FAILS IN APPEAL
      126 5 MALAY FAILS IN APPEAL Frvp I J i „ci joiioi; ROS LAN bin S in his app a A on a rhari-' gang r lim Y Parit QaiHonjc. B nu Be was V>. six years' rigorous imp*mcnt. Hi bold ih« todav tt) evidence giv< I t suffickrr to i therefore,
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      TO TAKE OATHS
      24 5 Tuan Haji M hamed "i bin Labin. Malay Interpr m r District ce Com nted to be a comn or OfctJ
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  • NEWS...
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      'MORAL DANGER' IN U.K. THEATRES
      283 6 'MORAL DANGER' IN U.K. THEATRES 1 Attack on nudity on the stage THE PubKc Morality Council of Britain, in itJ annual report roundly attacks the revival of Restoration comedy, the 8.8.C., nudity on the stage, and the Lord Chamberlain. Of Restoration comedy, it said that many i of the plays
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      42 6 picture, t cr Madonna, re- to bring health to the zn being conveyed streets of Malta, following the 1 core; the Madonna, m The ceremony was conduct' 1 en by the Metropolitan Archbish I Malta, Man- m signor Michele Gonzi. A. P.
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      BARREL ORGAN TOUR
      18 6 BARREL ORGAN TOUR Th R .d vi town wltto a bfi.: k to lion or lii-s tK'-ir.b^d church.
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      BURMACOTTON MILL
      21 6 B URMACOTTON M ILL A contract Burma to j I s 1 uuu Bur- I IB A:.. tie C -A. P.
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      PERSIAN RULER FLIES AIRLINER
      73 6 SHAH M^hamincd Rtza Phalevi. reported to be the world's only stunt flying ruler, has inaugurated a Royal Dutch Airline service between Teheran and Amsterdam. The Shah in the uniform of an Iranian Air Marshal. took- over the controls ot a Skymast r. "Flyir g Du^chj man.
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      MILES AIRCRAFT WILL CARRY ON
      193 6 MILES AIRCRAFT are to tarry on. Dut plane production will b€. financed and run by Handle; !'a?e Ltd. Tinder a new name Mil s will continue to manufacture 'lines other than aircraft' 1 including the Biro pen Trd the Copycat, a roiproducticn instrument. Mi> a
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      Whales may become extinct
      64 6 TUF London we k'.y N- w Statesman and N i OJ Uiat "Ali alt-s will i ffecd guide action c th.oir pro- ctloi Iclc, uied bai t i< d a* h eh. The ar'. lemanded the J.iDa: It .-•.a. d that the Japanese shins mned lare^ly
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      11 6 I new biro r I p right bbed feet o Planet
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      DECLINE IN U.S. CAR-MAKING
      79 6 AMERICAN automobile fac tories in Detroit have go together enough steel V build 100.000 vehicles, bu production will sag sharpl; during the n<xt few weeks. Production volume will b the hardest hit by the clos ing of several General Motor As>embly plants. These shut downs— which
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      VALUABLE STAMP
      54 6 What Is described as tih m<ist valuable storriD in Chiui Ls a red one-vuan stam I issued by the Ching dynast In 1397. and is now owned b Kuo Cfcui-Fons. Shanghj ir.crehcnt Only 40 sue i stamps were issued. Th i value is est mated m oxr a
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      GOLD RACKET UNCOVERED
      72 6 4CHILLE PAKKILLA. 47. has Ueen arrested ha Ne* York on charges of ille^allv purchasL-np; over U.S. 1.000.000 wor'h of cold, alleged to be for European black-markots. Parrilla Is accused of mus-repres-iUmft himself as a legitimate manula (v turing jeweller to obtain a licene: to buy eold Purchased
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      SMUTS' STAND ON INDIANS AND NEGROES
      90 6 SMUTS' STAND ON INDIANS AND NEGROES TUB South African Prime Minister, Field I Jan Smuts, outlined the Government party's stand on Indiana and Keg 0 South Africa as follows: 1. Further >ion of :.Us and functions to native resentatives Council and nth- re bodus subject tc the authority of the
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      102 6 George Mason, aged «o, bedridden for fifteen years, suddenly climbed from his spinal carriage at a faith healing service and walked to the altar. The congregation crowded round him, murmuring: "It's a miracle." Then someone trod on his foot, breaking a bone. So today George, of Walsall (Staffs), is still
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      AIR AGREEMENT
      19 6 included a b! laf recipr c\. oix i lnit'rnational I b«^ tu-r.n the two rnuntr:»'i« A F
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      BOLSHEVIKS HIT AT 'FORMALISM'
      174 6 t QERGE PROKOFIEFF, OM of the feftdini S >!j composers, had still failed to reply t Communist Party charges of "formalin** c mu>ic when the Soviet Compoaen' Coogresi s many composers have admitted ihe truth of part criticism, continued i*s session in Moscow. e "Formalist" composers
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      Liberals oppose offer to Laurel
      110 6 PRESIDENT QuiriM PK'lippin«-v (,<i\rmmrn: of non liberal I*art\ r. mcDtI^aurel. |>m>m*t presi<l«i. into opp<»vition from hi" h r Hemb iftrm U th« soc. on the groundor fall carryii But ing a prrrr.:npnt pi goverr. I tndicf would i thp if of Dr Laun I In
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      'No substitute for wool'-SCAP
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      96 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Frei THE BEST WAY To COUNTerI /^BFGOWE.WOMAHI-DO YouN /wHATis THE »AMY STORIES MUTTER MAY SUPPOSE THAT A MAN WHO i J IDEA /f SPREAD ABOUT ME IS To < \IS WRESTIWG STUPENDOUS AMATEUR 1 > LAV OFF 808 AND WULIE SECRETS FROM THE < VjHEATRICALS
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      Yorks' revival won't be this year
      863 7 Yorks revival won 't be this year fNGUSH CRICKET PRQSPECTS-d 1 OKI A V t^i R CHAMBERS, A.P. Sports Writer gRIAN Selers led Yorkshire to the top of timl2 e i« I?" y Cricket championship table seven times in 10 seasons. That's a record that ought to have been crowned
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      6 7 l r-,s coming at Bukit Saturday.
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      S.C.C. make Seaforths fight hard
      60 7 MX 0. Cricket Club in a ague ;..ng yrsteroy thr had to fight half su playis an mb k a ar. t'reo the an\ them d ihe !3o greater eilorts minutes ■^eafv efendexa t On B rea A] for the SeaUILS fUBc developed 1 ed
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      'Guineas week' opens today
      145 7 (GUINEAS Week" opens on I historic Newmarket Heath today with a four-day meeting highlighted by the running of two of the season's Jive classic races. A score of the crack thoroughbreds from England and France will compete for Britain's richest prize in the 2 000 Guineas
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      ENGLISH COLLEGE
      57 7 THE ItnglfcD Coilege will hold their annual athletic sports on Jury 1. The programme will Include two inter-achool relay races and an invitation Relay race which will be open to Sin^npor" -~hools as well. The meeting promisM to provide athletic fans with the treat that they have always
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      KOTA RAJAH WIN 3-1
      264 7 t liotu Raja .Si C.A. 1 FIELDING no less than nine ex-Malay Football Association players, Kota Raja had little difficulty in beating th? Chinese Athletes II threeon<* in a Second Division lea- gue fixture played at Gfr^ng stadium yesterday. The game was fait and provided better
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      KING MIDAS TO WIN BIG RACE
      1469 7 KING MIDAS TO WIN BIG RACE Glorify, Karman good bets By CALL BOY T HAVE taken King: Midas to score his first win in A this country in the main event at Bukit Timah < tomorrow, the second day of the Singapore Turf j Club's Summer meeting, when another card
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      First winner
      18 7 First winner Hambrion (Flannery) romps home an easy winner in the, first race at Bukit Timah on Saturday
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      Q. P. R. GAIN PROMOTION
      519 7 THE London club, Q<i Park Rangers, R ..i the one point need< I make sure of promo i m from the Third Divi South, when th y t\n w home nil-all with > Town yesterday. Rou «i 00 3 Yutoi (Lawk: 323 Ciold Sti-eam <J
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      Crispian shapes well on track
      483 7 Crispian shapes well on track By CALL BOY CRISPIAN shaped very nicely on the track at Bukit Timah this morning when doing three furlongs in 39 sec on a yielding track. He has come on a great deal since the Spring meeting here and should not be neglected over the
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      S.R.G. HAD NO PUNCH IN ATTACK
      476 7 S.R.G. HAD NO PUNCH IN ATTACK By Our Soccer Reporter S.U.C 1 Indians 1 X GOAL netted off the boot of an Indian d fender gave the Singapore RecreaUou Club an equaliser and one point wh n all seemed well lost in their first division game at the Stadium yesterday.
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      U.K. FOOTBALL RESULTS
      55 7 YESTERD A Y 'S U.K. Football League results were: Third Division (South) Bristol C. 2, Aldershot 4. Queen's P. R. 0, Swansea T. 0. Third Division (North) Stockport C. 0, Southport 3. Scottish "A" Division Rangers 2, Clyde 1. Friendly Matches Chelsea 4, Hearts 1. Torquay U.
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      PERK SHIELD
      34 7 IN the semi-flnal of the Perk Shield played at 223 8.0.D. yesterday No. 2 Sub Depot (Clothing) beat No. 3 Sub Depot three nil. Scorers were Abu Bakar (two) and Chye Hee.
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      156 7 The Royal Wedding Music RECORDED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY i>b WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND •1 HAPELS ROYAI my Soul the King of Heaven Gi^s.o 'aim .7— God be Merciful unto I's Or 4 ando B ,%14 ii r for Thy Loving Kindness O God I Dr. W. McK: Ffcc lord's My Shepherd
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      213 7 F.P. Crossword No. 3 9 WTiFHrT~T~T I I 4 p i 6 i. A&pirant lt>. .7 Ami <4). 9. Tackle t 12, Speculator <4). 13, Singers (5). 14, Maniac »6i. 18. 8 (8) 20. Assembled (8». 21, Porbeai <6». 24. Rigid (s>. 27. (4). 29, Lace-hole (6). 30, Tune <3>.
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      BROADCASTS BY KING AND QUEEN
      606 8 BROADCASTS BY KING AND QUEEN Happy scenes at palace LONDON, Monday. KING GEORGE, broadcasting tonight on his silver wedding, said that at times his task would have been almost too heavy but for the strength and comfort which he had always found in his home. Sitting beside the Queen before
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      China elections impasse solved
      245 8 i NANKING, Monday. ALL the three candidates for the Vice Presidency of China Gen. Li Tsung jen, G*n. Cheng Chien and Dr. Sun Fo who caused a sensation by withdrawing from running in the elections have decided to cancel their withdrawal, thus solving China's election impasse.
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      40 8 a special map. showing the 20-mile wide corridor through the Russian zone of Germany, connecting Frankfurt and Berlin by air has newly been posted in i flight operations office o* the American Overseas Airlines at Rhein-Main Airp >rt. Frankfurt. I
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      IT'S REAL THIS TIME FOR LANA
      89 8 I ANA TURNER, walked down u a makeshift aisle to marry Bob Topping in her first real wedding la t n y:ars, and then attended a buffet luncheon including six lobsters flown from Boston plus caviare, roast pheasant a. d smoked salmon. Ic statues
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      DIED AT SOCCER
      43 8 Aircraftman Grantham Fish of the Royal Air Force collided with another player in a ;cer match in London and died a few minutes later. A coroner's inquest yesterday gave a verdict of death by misadventure from cerebral concussion. A. P.
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      LETTER CAME TOO LATE
      66 8 A BERLIN housewife tried to make coffee with the powder she found in an un- labelled tin in a food parcel i from America. It was not a success. Yesterday she received a letter from her sister, tellins: i i her the tin contained her grandmother's
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      $300 MILLION OVERCHARGE
      75 8 I fl>H& chairman of the L House Investigating Committee, Mr. George Bender, today charged that United States railways over- I charged the Government i about $300,000,000 on freight 1 hauled during the war. He accused the General Accounting Office of "neg- ligence" in failing to audit i
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      Mr. Churchill asks 'Nenni cable' inquiry
      107 8 Mr. Churchill asks 'Nenni cable' inquiry LONDON. Monday. MR. WINSTON Churchill, leader of the Opposition, tonight made a fresh attempt to get a Parliamentary inquiry into the "Nenni incident" i when he tabled a motion demanding an inquiry into "the circumstances in which the names of members of Parliament are
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      21 8 A CbinCM living in Changi Road was robbed or $3<j by two Chinese, one of whom was armed with a pistol.
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      Grim battle in N. Shantung
      188 8 NANKING, Monday. rimh: bitterest lighting of the Chinese civil war is taking place In North Shantung, where Government and Communist troops are locked in a "no quarter" struggle in the town of Weihsein and the area round it. Both sides are suffering heavy casualties, with
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      Appeal fails but not to hang
      88 8 LONDON. Monday. JAIfES CAMB. 31-yfar-old pi steward, went down in British lesal history todav ui the first murderer to lose appal against a death sentence that he knew would never be carried out. Camt) senttnc?d for the murder of actress Eileen 'Gay Gibson on
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      'LAWS WON'T CHECK THE COLOUR BAR'
      121 8 'LAWS WON'T CHECK THE COLOUR BAR' LONDON. Monday. CIR FRANK SOSKICE. th»J Solicitor-Ginfral. told a quest i'3 €r in the House oi Commons today tnat legklation was "not necessarily the most efltctive way" to deal with cases of alleged discrimination against colour d ccople. Mr Reginald Sorei-.scn (Labour) asked whether
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      34 8 Home children are seen playing in the blossom-lined path of the Woodland Gardens in Windsor Great Park, which has just been opened for the first time It has taken two years to make. t
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      Burma policy toward Siam
      61 8 RANGOON. Monday. FOREIGN Office spokesman told Reuter today that Burma was watching the reaction of other foreign powers to the new Siamese Government before announcIng its recognition of that country. He said the Burmese Am-bsuisador-Deslgnate to Siam. U Hla Maun?, was still In Rangoon and would
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      S'PORE HIGH TIDES
      16 8 T<mUt: 0 16».m; 1 28 p.m. \\><L 0 45 »m; 2 0« p-m
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      SIND PREMIER DISMISSED
      51 8 MUHAMMAD Ayyub Khusro Prime Minister of the province of Sind has been dismissed for "maladministration, gross misconduct in discharge of his duty and responsibility, and corruption." a communique from the Sind Governor's Secretariat announces. The dismissal was ordered by the Governor-General of Pakistan. Mr. Mohammed Ali Jinnah
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      PROTESTTOFRANCO
      39 8 The Italian Embassy in Madrid has protested to the Franco Government over the publication in evening news- paper of photographs of an American dollar note and Pope Pius XII with the caption: "Communist defeat in Italian elections." A.P.
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      ISMELDA AND THE VICE-CONSUL
      257 8 LONDON, Monday. MRS. Ismelda Price, attractive 40-year-old widow of an R.A.F. officer, suing the American Vice-Consul in London 39 -year-old Mr. Ernest Griflnn. for alleged breach <f promise, denied in court today that she had offered him premarital relations. Mrs Price contends that Mr. Griffin ended
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      'Threat of war now stronger'
      9 8 'Threat of war now stronger' USA «*'c», ff I
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      MARKETS-DULL AND LIFELESS
      515 8 MARKETS -DULL AND LIFELESS London Stock Exchange LONDON. Monda> 'PHE London Stock Exchange was dull and lifeless x today, the one bright feature being a 5' 2 point rise to 201 of Cable and Wireless ordinary stock on strong buying, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Tins were irregular to lower and
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      NO JAVA MAY DAY
      39 8 THE Dutch authorities in West Java have banned May Day celebrations, warning that the maximum penalty for breach of the ban would be a year's jail or a fine of 10.000 guilders (nearly 1.000». Reuter.
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      Rubber prices
      122 8 SPLCIAL Martet cormpond(m givtm the prtcet of rubber ai 11 a m todav as follows Buyer* StUti, N» 1 111 Spo, DCflb lb loose 42 No j R.S.S rot) in bales May 42 1, 4 No t E.s v fot) in baJ« May 41 U No 3 R.S.S
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      RAIL STRIKE LOOMS IN U.S.
      74 8 CHICAGO, IfoOd A THREAT of railway itrike hui the Un:t« d Stai The 30 -day night. Thrt-f m senting 150.000 sm*e legally ai after th They vtrned nt wa> their demands by they uould set a dV strike to start. Representatives ways and the un
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      MILAN FAGES GENERAL STRIKE
      6 8 MILAN FAGES GENERAL STRIKE I U.P.
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      P-47s FOR TURKEY
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