The Singapore Free Press, 5 May 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ii 155 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1948 PKH t I >
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    BEVIN OPTIMISTIC ON MALAYA
    813 1 BEVIN OPTIMISTIC ON MALAYA Soviet danger m the East LONDON, Tuesday. HIE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told the House of Commons today that he is optimistic over the prospects of immediate economic and political improvement m South East Asia. I am especially encouraged by reports that harvests will be
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    Queen admires Malayan cloth
    125 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Monday. II'HFN Urn King and Queen, with Princess Margaret, visited the Earl s Court section of the British Industrie- i air this morning, they stayed to admire the Trengganu and Kelantan sarong cloth promiritl> iisplayed at the Malayan stand. "I .re
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    SUSPECT ARRESTED AT CINEMA
    181 1 SUSPECT ARRESTED AT CINEMA Free Press Staff Reporter THREE months after he was held up by four armed men m Branksome Road, losing $1,600 m cash and jewellery, a Chinese business- man yesterday recognised one ;of the gang inside the entrance of the Capitol Cinema. He was buying a ticket
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    RECORD SIAM RICE EXPOTS
    55 1 RECORD SI AM RICE EXPOTS OIAMS rice exports for April totalled 80.631 tons a record month's shipment since the end of the war, it was officially learned m Bangkok yesterday. More than 33,000 tons of these exports went to Malaya. During the four-month period January to April Siam exported nearly
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    GOVT. MAY SEIZE U.S RAILWAYS
    180 1 CHICAGO, Tuesday. /GOVERNMENT seizure of the railways m the United States became a possibility tonight after the collapse of mediation efforts to avert a strike called for next Tuesday by unions representing 190,000 engineers, firemen and switchmen. After separate meetings today with employers and union
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    Commons and United Europe
    101 1 LONDON, Wednesday. rpHE second day of the House X of Commons foreign affairs debate today will be locussed on a motion signed by 179 members of all parti s calling lor a Council oi Western Europe. This would have permanent international staffs to coordinate social, economic
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    NEW ADVANCE IN ANTI-POLIO FIGHT
    296 1 report, after a five-year study, that person u> person transfer of the virus is the most likely cause of spread of infantile paralyse. However, they add, this evidence has been reached merely through the elimination of other factors. They decline to rule out all non-human
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    50 1 Former Singapore player Laddie Outschoorn (m centre), crouches m the slips as Keith Miller, the Australian batsman, turns Howorth to leg on the third day of the Australians v Worcester match at Worcester last Friday. The Australians won by an innings. Outschoorn scored 54 the highest m Worcester's second innings.
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    163 casualties in Hyderabad border fights
    116 1 163 casualties in Hyderabad border fights HYDERABAD, Tuesday. IN 236 border incidents on the Hyderabad frontier witb Jndia, 17 Hyderabad security >'hcers and 27 civilians have Deen killed and 53 security officers and 66 civilians injured, the Hyderabad Home Minister, Mr. Abdul Hamid Khan, told the Legislative Assembly today. Supporting
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    Shinwell hasn't had full report
    174 1 CEYLONESE RIOTS LONDON, Tuesday. IJEPLYING to a question m the House of Commons today on the rioting of Ceylonese troops m Kuala Lumpur and Singapore last month, the War Minister. Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell, said he had tried to obtain full information but "unfortunately it has
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    POLICE FORCE DISMISSED IN BOGOTA
    76 1 POLICE FORCE DISMISSED IN BOGOTA DISMISSAL of the entire police force of Bogota, Columbia, began yesterday. They will be replaced by reservists. Police took part m the revolt during the Pan-Ameri-can conference. Delegates .to the conference alleged that the revolt, which resulted m 1,500 deaths and the wrecking of the
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    All quiet on Sagil Estate
    108 1 Free Press Correspondent MUAR, Wednesday. THE situation at Sagil Estate, where a number of Inj dian labourers were Involved j m an incident on May 2, when the Assistant Manager, Mr. R. Moon, was alleged to have been assaulted, is under control, according to an
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    GOODWILL SHIP DEPARTS
    71 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ipHINA'S largest naval vessel, v the 14,800-ton Aumee, leaves for Shanghai today after a seven-day goodwill visit to Singapore. She loaded 1 8.000 tons of light diesel oil I at Pulau Samboe for delivery m Shanghai. Two of the largest passenger i ships
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    INDIA AND KUICH
    35 1 India has signed an agreeI ment to take over 8.000 square I miles of the strategic princely state of Kutch on June 1. It adjoins th* Pfl.klsf.an nrmrin<*p i of Sind.- Reuter
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    103 Jew armoured cars in Holy Load
    228 1 103 Jew armoured cars in Holy Load LONDON, Tuesday. T*HE War Minister, Mr. Emmanuel Shmwell toid the House of Commons today that Ha^anah and lrgun Zvai Leumi were believed to nave more than 100 armoured cars m Palestine, some of them ordinary vehicles fitted with armour, some stolen from the
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    NEAR EAST DROMES
    24 1 A British I 03ic...' arrived m Beirut ve> rday i study the possibility of Rayak aerodrome Insti Palestine's Lydda A. P.
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  • FOR WOMEN...
    • Article, Illustration
      Weekly pilgrimage
      992 2 AROUND SINGAPORE SHOPS I STARTED myl' weekly pilgrimage, round the shops at WASSIAMULL'S,where there were some really lovely materials, two of them' Swiss and the other, American. The Swiss materials both of which were 26 m ches wide and $5.50 a yard Xvere first of all a very,
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      Treating wine stains
      259 2 A CORRESPONDENT has written asking advice on a subject about which most people would like to know. He had a«n elegant, new suk m a classy unobtrusive chock. Unluckily aome careless guest upset a whole glass of wine which, m fallng. spla«>hod his beautiful sui* What, he
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      BANDITS ACTIVE IN RED REVOLT
      449 3 BANDITS ACTIVE IN RED REVOLT Martial Law on Road to Mandalay 1 WHEN padi fields are fallow m Burma, farmers are restive and Communists probably have little difficulty persuading these amateur bandits to join them. In Central Burma the Communists are concentrating on harrassing tactics and are the chief menace
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      'We stay as long as it's useful'
      182 3 Pakistan Commonwealth THE Fak.Man Prime Minister, Liaqat Ali Jthan, 1 said on Monday that Pakistan would stay m the o!.imon\\v::ith as long as she thought it to her best interest but the moment she found it of 'dubious utiltv ~he would not hesitate
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      45 3 Capt. Bo§ Farran, whose brother Rex was killed on Monday by a bomb concealed m a parcel intended for Roy. The bomb is believed to have been a reprisal for the alleged abduction by Capt. Farran of a Jeivish terrorist youth m Palestine last year.
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      U.S. Negroes' legal victory
      105 3 THE U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that restrictive real estate agreements which bar coloured persons from all-white neighbourhoods cannot be enforced by slate or federal courts. At the sam, 1 time the court refused to declare that such r.c.rictive agreements are th mselves invoKd. So long
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      Michael to defy Pope's ban on mixed marriage
      90 3 FORMER King Micha 1 of Rumania will marry Prir.ce&s Ann of Bjurbun Parma "some time. somewhere sourc s close to Michael's household said m Lausanne on Monday. Reminded or the papal ban against the marriage of exking Micha 1. a member of
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      UP ALOFT
      38 3 An ex-naval rating. 24--year-old John Hulton, wanted a light for a cigarette, so he climoed a lamp-post m Newcastle, opened a pane and lit up. But the care broke. Magstraies accepted his story, dismissed the summons.
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      GOLD FROM AFRICA
      22 3 Gold worth nearly £1.000--000 from East Africa has been landed at Hull < England < from the liner Good Hope Castle.
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      INDIAN AGREEMENT
      18 3 Indian and Pakistan Governments have ratified the int'T-Dominion agreement negotiated at Calcutta on April 19. A.P.
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      Britain's most exclusive 'club'
      140 3 IT is easier to book a table m Mayfair's swankiest restaurant or to penetrate lr.to the din ng-rocm of tfimost exclus ye "m^mb^rs only" club m London than to buy a me«al at Brita n' s most luxurious buffet. It s at Lonidon Airport. and the
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      Conscienceyears after
      113 3 MR. Frank S. Murray of Manchester New Hampshire, U.S.A.), who visited Australia some years ago, has sent a cheque for sixty dollars as "conscience money" to the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture. Mr. Pollard. His party went shooting without a licence and shot "a swan or a goose."
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      THE POPECONVENES THE CARDINALS
      72 3 THE POPECONVENES THE CARDINALS THE Pope has invited all the world's cardinals to attend a Consistory, supreme council of the Catholic Church, at the end of May or early In June. The Consistory will formally nominate all those bishops who have been appointed since the last Consistory of February 1946.
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      Republic's charges backed by U.N. body
      187 3 THE United Nations Good Offices Conimit.ce m In- donesia reported to the Security Council on Monday on the political developments m West Java. Ike roport drew no general conclusions but agreed m part with Indonesian complaints that the prcvkoon&l legislature established m West Java
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      'Fear of God' put in recruits, birch ordered
      211 3 picture TWO soliders who "put the fear of (;<xi in.s 1 recruits m a ni.^ht of it nor it a camii w« sentenced to 12 strokes of the birch and a mi imprisonment at Leei's Asszts. They went round the Cc.n:p rob!
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      GERMAN FOOD STRIKES SPREAD
      37 3 pOOD F day m U.s era c> 1 About 20.000 meiai walked out m Nui the American 7 At Han tte B looe, 8.000 rubber worl d -cided t' n on a A.P.
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      SOVIET LOAN ISSUE
      16 3 XI d the fcsne lO.Oou o<)u uOO ro 1:900,000.000 at h'lbilitaticn of naiio'.:.
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      565 2 fc iXir a DAD V Va;*i 8i j A you LUU It bIWU/irUni- 83U Hevs; 8.45 The OrchcLraJ Rlu#- Vpfu-nrk Half Hour-Popular Classics; 9.15 OlUt aeittorK Australian Sorting Diary; 9. J0 From II uo novD vi i .09 pja. Music for Millions; 9.45 Talk; 526 meirn In the medium wave
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      387 2 mm* bunuuury; d.30 Station Opening; 5.32 m Concert Btyie; 6 Thirty to One; 6.30 World and Rome News: 645 Music for the Connoisseur; 7 March ol th« Movies*; 7.30 Folk Song; 7.45 Sport* Roundup; 8 World and Home News; 8.05 Heard Melodies are Sweet; 8.45 Musical Crossword; 930 Radio Newereel;
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      76 3 TARZAN Plan tO return By ftfeflr Burroughs s V.A.N FUANKIIN AR6vED A6AINST 1 I _^,J t7" -TURNING THE IRON AAOLE BACK TOWARD THE EAJTTHS f t THE DECJSON OP HIS PR'ENDS TO V^ irfffl^^/ W CRU«T. TARZAN. WITH THE OTHERS, WOULD <3O ON TO J «*V^i; S PELU-C'PAR BCTH ftlA
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  • LEADER...
    • Article
      Last Hope for Palestine
      601 4 WEDNESDAY. U*J o, 1948. T>RITI6H Inten tin the 1> fighting, and rcement 01 Br::. .ere has brought about an immediate provemeni nation that country •on taken does not cc. ote any modification of British policy, nor will there be any change m th i schedule of
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      DANES FISH DEEP
      672 4  -  CHARLES CROOT By Reuters' Correspondent A DANISH scientific expedition is tc leave Copenhagen m June next year, m a specially fitted ship on a two-year voyage round the world to find out what life, if any, exists at ocean depths between 18,000 feet and 30,000 feet. Working
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      WHERE WILL THE FLOATING VOTE' SWING?
      837 4 WHERE WILL THE FLOATING VOTE' SWING? JOHANNESBURG: WELL informed political observers here believe that Field Marshal Smuts can only return to power at the head of a coalition after the general election due to be held here on May The Nationalist Opposition party, confidently expect the Prime Minister to lose
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      PUZZLED PATRONS
      219 4 MOST ol the p ople wiio went to the Adelaide National Gallery to see an exhibition ol sculpture and drawings by the British artist Henry Moore were obviously puzzled, according to the Adolaid Advertiser. which state-;: "Many of them found something to laugh at alter a f€W minutes,
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      FAITH
      20 4 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: Psalm 104, 14.
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      THEY WANT TO LEND
      747 4  -  HAMILTON FARON By A.P. Correspondent THE World Bank is willing, even anxious, to lend money to European borrowers. But a borrowing nation must show a need and a sound purpose for wanting the money. That "need and sound purpose" is a principal point on which loans
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      'Lady inspiration'
      662 4 A DAY AT THE RACES WH T A S T Saturday afternoon I was persuaded by my wife to forego my customary siesta and to accompany her to the races. Not having had the slightest intention of going racing, I had neiihnr studied form, nor sought any tips,
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      Barons' 'Must'
      36 4 Britis Ofticia X is 3.00() pagl m 145 pr< editions, V furnish the vital I person* I y or iourt» S) privy councillors k companions of tbi hon with :nc anr» and baronets- A.P.
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      'PRINCESS' HOUSING ESTATE OFF DUNEARN RD.
      449 5 'PRINCESS' HOUSING ESTATE OFF DUNEARN RD. Tico flews of Singapore's new ambulance, ivhich will be operated by the Fire Brigade. the lower picture shows the roomy interior oj the ambulance, with a stretcher on the left and cushioned seats on the other side. The personnel who will man the four
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      Mr S.A. Mohd Ali named Commissioner
      55 5 PftCM MafT Keporter .KNOWN InMuslim busiMr. S. A.I Ui, rius been d a Municipal ncr tor Sin^aSir Crimson. >lace or who has was the Peace -ir. c memb C'-\..:.^ r Of ::d tU on I the Inch AH wti I (1906 and was nc
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      NEW DUTCH CLUBHOUSE BY 1949
      166 5 NEW DUTCH CLUBHOUSE BY 1949 4 NEW club for the Singaa~V pore Dutch community will be bu It on a foir-acre j pict of ;ar:<i :n Adam Read <^n generally the same Jnes as the old Dutcj Club premises m Ca'mhiii Road The new club should be ready ft>r occupation
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      Defence medals for 14,000
      75 5 AT the presentation ceremuny by the Governor at Government House on April 1, a token presentation of Defence Medal ribbons was made to repres?ntatives of the Passive Defence and Essential Services. Since that date. Lieut. Com. J.A. Marshall has issued 7.000 ribbons from the Volunteer Forces
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      23 TO DONATE BLOOD
      59 5 Four members of the Boys' Brigade went round the Great World Amusement Park m Singapore last night and per- uuded 23 people to become blood donors. The boys, members of the Third Singapore Company of the Brigade, were led by their Captain, Mr. James Chen, and
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      Dutch war dead remembered
      72 5 TTHE Dutch community 1 m Singapore yesterday commemorated those who died dunng the war. and especially those who fell during the liberation of Holland. May 4 is celebrated by the j Dutch people all over the world as the anniversary of their country's liberation j from
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      SUMATRA TOWN SHELLED?
      79 5 SUMATRA TOWN SHELLED 4 DELAYED report from Rantamprat discloses that at about mid-day on April 12, a Dutch ship, off the shores of Tandjung Leidong, East Sumatra, opened fire on the shore from a distance of about 100 meters. Retaliation from shore batteries resulted m an exchange of shots lasting
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      LEP recruiting till end of May
      326 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOINING the Army m Malaya today the L.E.P. or Local Enlisted Personnel is no easy matter. For the days when roughs, toughs and illiterates were gladly accepted, have past unV gone. In the past eight days, during a limited recruiting
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      TB CHILDREN TO GET MORE ATTENTION
      178 5 TB CHILDREN TO GET MORE ATTENTION Free Press Staff ieporier SCHOOL medical service, a home visiting pro- 1 gramme for schoolchildren, an increasing child feeding scheme and further clearance of the slums of Singapore j should be the immediate ob- I jectives of any anti-tubercu-losis campaign, said Dr. W. J.
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      JAIL FOR CBT
      36 5 Found guilty of criminal breach of trust of jewellery valued at $111, a 28-year-old Malay, Ibrahim bin Haji Shallee was sentenced, yesterday, by the Fourth Police Court magistrate, to one month's rigorous imprisonment.
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      VARSITY SHOULD TAKE LEAD
      112 5 ADULT EDUCATION !the best interests of both the community the proposed University of Malaya that the should take a lead m the development of s the Carr-Saunders Committee Education, who recommends the early :it of a Director of Extra-Mural Stud, stablishment of a University Extension arrange
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      FOR VSSIZE TRIAL
      38 5 Tan X ok Seng and Lee Ah Tee. two Chinese, were committed m the Seventh Police Court yesterday for trial at the next Assizes on a charge of robbing the crew of a motor boat.
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      NI ESTATES WANT FAIR PLAY
      204 5 THE framing of a long-term policy must await dciveloEwnenttf m the negotiations now proceeding bettween the Dutch and Indonesians as to the future political and administTaitive set-up ki Indonesia, said Mr. Eric Miller ..rman of Bah Lias Rubber Estates Ltd.. at the annual meeting m
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      'OLD BOYS' TO CELEBRATE
      114 5 r commemorate Founder's Day, the feast of St. de la Salle. a re-union dinner of old boys of all Christian Brothers' Schools will be held on May 14 at 8 p.m. a»t Robinson's Cafe. Gu«est6 may be invited. The cost of the dinner is $3 50
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      COD servics to India
      117 5 THE Postmaster O Malaya, announces U the Cash-on-D. livery paservice to and from the Dominion of India will be resumed with effect from May 13. c maximum amount of 'tMe trade chanre Der parcel will be Rupees 400. Revised parcel post ra" countries will be m:
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      FEDERAL COUNCIL
      25 5 The next meeting of the Federal I .ye C will be on Monday V at 10 a.m. m the Co-ncil Chambers Kuala Lumpur.
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      181 5 ORCHESTRAL RECORDINGS LA BELLIE HELENE} Overture 'Offenbach' Two Parts. Boston Promenade Orch. OVERTURE 1812 <T<ha;kovky> Philharmonia Orchestra ennd. by Nnolai M?Iko C 3617-18 EURYANTHE OVERTURE Two Partr John B.irbirolh and Hal'-e Orch C 3560 LEONORA Overture No. 3 (Beethoven' Parts 1. 2. 3 and RUINS OP ATHENS OvertUTl (Beeth'>\on> Vienna
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  • ENTERTAINMENT...
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      Britain's Lana
      675 6 Britain 's Lana From our London correspondent MEET 18 -year- old Lana Morris, Britain's latest film discovery, whom the experts' predict will follow Deborah Kerr, Vivien Leigh, and Sally Gray as the fourth film star to have been discovered by John Gliddon. Now playing m Martha. Paul Soskin's production for
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      TARZAN'S BEST
      176 6 EDGAR Rice Burroughs* hero, Tarza.i, begins his 30th year on the screen with what is probably one of the best Tarzan films so far. Sophisticated audiences will find little to applaud m the acting t>r the plot because there is virtually no pretence at acting, and not much
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      The spur of fame
      429 6 BY OUR FILM REPORTER THE talented Boult- ing brothers should be congratulated for their efforts m producing a film of British political history, even if they did adapt it from a book. In Howard Spring's novel "Fame is the Spur" (Pavilion, Thursday) the name of the
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      U.S. wants Swedish stars—not movie
      307 6  - U.S. wants Swedish stars not movie RAGNAII AGREN By A. P. Correspondent AMERICAN film companies are eager to import Swedish movie stars, but not Swedish movies. Swedish producers would like tfl have it the other way around. One of this country s top producers, C. A. Dymling, admits Sweden cannot
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      Bridge Problem
      366 6 lyilAT should North bid iiexvSo many players go wrong m this situation that it is a good idea to analyze their incorrect bids and the reason for the correct one. The majority of players who bid incorrectly rebid four hearts. This bid m itself is not entirely bad
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      79 6 WSB?dTBh6 Exclusive ta the Singapore Free Press m Mata-a "!L i*V.s I EVERYBODY HATES ME. WHAT AI 1 1 DESERVE WHAT I GOT- IF I COULO ll] NOW? I NOW. IV jg I^^ \V^S^r<- r" COLO, HEARTLESS 1 ONLY DO IT ALL OUR AGAIN, BZP\is fc\(r JANE Exclusive to the
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  • SPORTS...
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      China Meet opens today in S'hai
      193 7 China Meet opens today in S'hai CHINA'S major sports spt etaele The Seventh National Athletic Mcct opens today at Kiangwan Stadium m Shanghai. Assured of a record entry of participants, the Meet officials predicted the first post-war games would draw a recordbreaking crowd. N.A. M. Committee's final tabulation showed 2,233
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      China Olympic XI win again
      111 7 CHINA'S Olympic soccer team scored their third victory m Manila yesterday, defeating the local interCollegiate selection four-nil. Fifteen thousand spectators watched the visitors outpluy the local team at the Rizal Memorial Stadium, Chu Wingt keung, star forward, scored the first goal after 25 minutes ;in
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      BRITISH A.B.A. MEET
      56 7 JOHNNY Ryan is the only champion defending his title m ihe British Amateur Boxtmr I Association cliamplonships which i begin at Wembley Stadium this evening. Ryan holds the European imperial services and Army welterj weight title. Thirty -eight boxen, among i them Britain's Olympic Games hopes, will
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      All The Latest Selections
      192 7 Call Boy Epsom Jeep Trespasser Pointer Mom fmmmm* *i NEW ERA NEW ERA NEW ERA W. QUEEN RACE 1 liar ham Barham W. Qaeen New Era NEW tRA W. Queen W. Qaeen Barham Sahara DEMOCRAT DEMOCRAT PREFECT PREFECT~ RACE Z Prefect Prefect Democrat Democrat DKMOt R%T
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      TODAY'S CARD
      1036 7 I>ELOW are the acceptances for today's races at Bukit Timah, showing the probable jockeys, owners and trainers. The Double Tote will be on races six and eight, and the Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. Race 1—2.00: Class 3, Div. 5 Abt. 5«/ 2 F. Value
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      Eurasians to nest in trophy Cricket
      213 7 WHEN the Selangor Eurasians, who will travelling down to Singapore, meet the Sin Recreation Club m their annual encounter this week-end on the padang, a trophy will he presented for the first time for annual competition. This is the "Conrad Clarke" challenge cup presented
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      Frenchmen win Davis Cup tie
      169 7 FRANCE beat Rumania by three matches to two m Bucharest yesterday n their first round Davis Cup I will now meet Hur next stage This was a pc -overv on the part of b who had lost the fti on Saturday but they the doubles
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      S'pore badminton entries invited
      120 7 gNTRIES are now invited fut the Singapore Badminton A.«soriation's: 1948 men's and women's junior singles and doubles championships The closing date is May 15. Entry forms may be obtained from the honorary secretray. Mr Wee Kirn Wee, c o United Press, Second Floor. Electra House. Robinson
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      Scottish soccer
      21 7 (JELTIC beat 1 ■a < Cup semi-final y-st.ruay Tht semi-final ia b ng playtd ;ind final Park Gia^rtu on Reuter
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      DEMOCRAT BEST AT B. TIMAH
      479 7 DEMOCRAT BEST AT B. TIMAH Today 's prospects By CALL BOY f\N a track that will be yielding or heavy if there is farther rain Democrat stands out as one of the best things on the card at Bukit Timah today, the fourth day of the Singapore Turf Club's Summer
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      Kerry's Luck best bet
      196 7  -  EPSOM JEEP By KERRY'S LUCK stands «tt M tfce best bet »n Ute ear* at Bukit Ttmjkh to-day. She looked wdl whea gtnm a twofmrton* pipe opener by AWbI Farad this morning. Barham fe a 1i— t tip flsr the torsi bat <m the weifkta 1
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      WAI MUN AT BESTTOO LATE
      123 7 ..ircpvrs stole the U yesterdays divisktti match R A F. <C?iansi) sporting Assor to three. I perform ?.nce m be^t seen at s.ason but X too late. >d been m this' f 9 start of the f:; nukf well have! he r.ai today with s
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      S.A.F.A. RESULTS
      19 7 S. A.F.A. RESULTS t- iki i Ft* T division '.eaf .pore DM psty- -i ->. teafi MM- evt Thursday at
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      Son Bradman to rest today
      116 7 DON Bradman takes his first rest of the tour when the Australian cricket team plays Yorkshire at Bradford today. Lindsay Ha^sett will lead the Australian team, which will also be without Em Toshack. the left arm spin bowler. Brian Sellers will skipper Yorkshire m the
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      AUSSIES WIN BY INNINGS
      154 7  -  James R. Chambers By Don Bradman 5 Australian team won their second match of their English tour yesterday, beat in* Leicestershire by an innings and !71 runs. Nicrht and morning rain at one time threatened to rob the Ausof a win but the ground recovered slcwlv
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      UNYIELDING DEFENCES BROUGHT SUCCESS
      314 7 U.K. Soccer Verdicts ending the 16 winks' soccer c !oe>e season, which bi^an after Saturday's matches, was funrshod by the contrasting styl.s of th» teams gaining honours. The basis of the success of Arsena. and Birmingham, champions I Leagues One and Two respectively, has been the
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      QUARTERS KEY TO BETTER MEDICAL SERVICES
      471 8 QUARTERS KEY TO BETTER MEDICAL SERVICES 'S 'pore mast pay for health Free Press Staff Reporter THE first priority m hospitalisation m Singapore is "more and still more quarters for sisters, nurses, hospital assistants, attendants for all those various kinds of people it takes to run a modern hospital," said
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      Deadlock over Lords reform
      252 8 LONDON, Monday. THE British Government announced yesterday that the all-parfcy talks on overhauling the House of i Lords have broken down after agreement already had been reached on sweeping democratic reforms. The cause of the breakdown, a White Paper disclosed, was the Opposition insistence on a
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      ILLEGAL AUSSIE 'RADIO DIGGER'
      60 8 ILLEGAL AUSSIE 'R A DIO DIGGER' RADIO Digger," the secret Melbourne station first heard on Saturday night broadcasting anti-Communist propaganda, was on the air on Monday night when a speaker appealed to trade unionists to interest themselves m unions and diminish Communist influence. Post Offic? officials said the operators were
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      A tooth starts gold rush
      110 8 A sheep's head started a rx gold rush m South Africa yesterday. The Rev. H. Debrutn was preparing a sheep's head for the table when he noticed that one of the animal's teeth was covered with a thin layer of gold. The sheep came from
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      BELGIAN GOVT RESIGNING
      76 8 DELGIUM'S coalition cabinet D is expected to resign today after a whirlwind crisis over a 75-yi ar-old controversy --State subsidies lor Catholic schools. The Socialist Premier, M. i Paul Spaak. saw the Regent, j Prince Charles, last Ught and j the Cabinet is to meet today to
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      N.I. SEARCH FOR MISSING SON
      60 8 MR. Vernon Foster of Maine, U.S.A., who is tracing his missing son, Donald, went to Samarinda. East Borneo yesterday. Donald was a member of the crew of a US. Army Liberator bomber, which was lost somewhere m East Borneo on October 22. 1944. Mr. Foster
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      PAID FOR PRIVACY
      26 8 FOR their honeymoon flight from Hollywood to New York, Lana Turner and Bob i Topping bought an entire plane compartment costing I U551,453.
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      FIGHTING FLARES UP IN HONAN
      212 8 SHANGHAI, Tuesday. VIOLENT lighting flared up on two new fronts m China today as large Communist forces struck m j north-west and south-west Honan Province, accord- ing to pro-Government despatches. Red columns are said to be closing m on Nanyang, the "northern gateway to Hupeh."
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      U SAW TO DIE ON MAY 8
      79 8 THE President of Burma, Shao Shwe Thaike. confirmed yesterday that exPremier U Saw and seven of his colleagues will be hanged on May 8 inside Insein jail for the part m the assassination of Aung San and members of his Cabinet last July.
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      384 KILLED IN KOREA RIOTS
      45 8 THE U.S. Army announced m Seoul yesterday that 384 i persons had been killed m Communist-inspired Korean disorders from February through April designed to dis- rupt the scheduled May 10 elections, preliminary to the establishment of a Korean Government.- A.P.
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      150 GREEK REBELS EXECUTED
      228 8 150 GREEK REBELS EXECUTED ATHENS, Tuesday. THE Greek Government today ordered the execution of 151 Communists lor their part m the Left Wing rising of December 1944 and one member of the German sponsored pre-liberation security battalions. Firing squads shot 24 of them, including the war criminal, m Athens today.
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      METAL MARKET: DECISION SOON
      239 8 Free Press Correspond* LONDON, Monday. TT occasions no surprise that the Minister of Supply. Mr. George Strauss, m the House of Commons was non-committal about the fu' are of the metal market, says the Daily Telegraph. The trade believes he is, handling personally the question of
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      'No Orchids' is popular film
      72 8 THE gangster film, "No Orchids for Miss Blandish, "widely condemned by critics and censors, has drawn 100.000 people m two and a half weeks 10 the London P 1 az a The theatre management said that the box office take of €30.000 approached the house
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      CZECHS TO FLY SOVIET FLAG
      48 8 THE Soviet flag will be flown with the Czechoslovak flag on public buildings during certain national holidays, says Prague Radio. This ruling was adopted at a Czech cabinet meeting after beirtg proposed by the Communist Minister of the Interior, Mr. V Nosek. Reuter
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      MENAGERIE IN 20-ROOMED HOUSE
      145 8 LONDON. Monday. DECAUSE she kept a "men- agerie" m her 20-roomed house, m which mice ran freely amone: cats and fed m I the birds' cages, the Hon. Mrs. A. McLaren Morrison. 83-year-old daughter of the late Baron Pirbright, was summoned m a London police court
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      PRICES FIRM IN IDLE MARTS
      436 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesday. IDLE conditions continued to prevail on the London Stock Exchange today, although prices were not without some firmness, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Nervousness concerning the Middle East outlook has been restricting business to negligible proportions. Rubbers were unchanged to lower
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      Jet car in two years
      142 8 prudUCr a patrol dr:\> The en;-:. In diam- weighs only 2 I It has i 160 I power and formance ec; a petrol dr i British tiOCSi par no s and no It runs negligib; cant and li silent and Reuter BIRMINGHAM. Monc THE two
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      Commons condemns outragoo Farrans
      141 8 Commons condemns outragoo Farrans ptciure. LONDON "T^OT only 11 but ti fcas been shwicked the Horn* Chuter Ed of Common referring parcel which ki! Farran, of Capt. R tish wartim< Qu«6tione 3 Star. gationi by Director or being cont.: He would tn as soon as I formation hout interfer vest:
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      Rubber price
      85 8 *I*M I\l M rive* th* pri< h <>' 11 mm toda* v I No IRS" loose No I RSS rot m bain Ma* No R< v f o» m balrv Ma< No )RS> rot m bal<^ Ma» Ton* of market g* <|N(,*r«»Rl < ti > OOMMI Tbr Singapore
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      N.Y. stocks
      10 8 gTOCKS b cash:: Tlj Stocks 6T Rails *9
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      China $ falls
      13 8 China falls (JHINA'S n. > Ed a r< i when it took C N
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      15 8 STORE HIGH TIDES Today: 8 06 am; 9.05 pjn. Thurs.: 9 01am; 9 33 p.m.
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