The Singapore Free Press, 24 May 1948

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 321 1 No reaction from Arabs TEL AVIV, Sunday. 4 GENERAL cease-fire order was issued to- night to all forces of the state of Israel on all fronts m Palestine. There has been no indication yet of Arab reaction. If the other side does not cease fire Jewish
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    20 1 v Rank stardaugh- ;<jan rubber Singaon her uay she will i:ng role* n 'Blue guest of ".on at •ma last
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  • 114 1 Cost of living Kree Press Staff Reporter 4 si'h lAL meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council has been called for Monday next, at v h the report of the joint committee which mii the question of cost of living allowances rnment servants will be tabled. was
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    53 1 picture, Garlanded members of the trade mission from Japan now on a visit to India. The mission is sponsored by SCAP. Mr. Eaton (third from left) and Mr. Donaldson (fourth from left) are representatives of SCAP. The other four are Japanese. They are to hold discussions with Indian ministries on
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  • 122 1 TEL AVIV, Sunday. IRGUN Zvai Leumi, Jewish terrorist organisation, announced today that it will track down and kill every British member of the Arab Legion, "starting with Glubb Pasha." "We have a complete list of all British members of the Legion." the Irgun commander declared.
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  • 24 1 The Chinese Minister to Denmark, Mr. Li Tschu-in dltd from cerebral haemorrlicp? yesterday m *hi.s home m Copenhagen. He was 57. U.P.
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  • 33 1 Earthquakes were felt over the greater part of the northern half of the South Island of New Zealand on Sunday. They shook down every chimney m the township of Waiau. A.P.
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  • 40 1 Free Press Staff Reporter At 3 p.m. yesterday a Chinese fell from a bus m Bencoolen Street which he tried to board while it was moving. He was taken to the General Hospital m a serious condition.
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  • 42 1 Frt* Press Staff Reporter Returning from his delivery, rounds early, an Indian Muslim bread seller was attacked :n Kampong Batak. off Geylang. by three Boyanese who relieved him of £7 m cash. The police expect to arrest the robbers today.
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  • 202 1 Free Press Stall Reporter FjK)RTY EIGHT of the 129 men detained by the police after a raid on Tai Thong Rubber Factory, a rubber factory m Bukit Timah road yesterday, will appear m court later today, charged with house trespass. The other 81 have been released.
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  • 52 1 JAWAL Sfugh. an Indian merchant whose shops m East Africa are on the equator, has left London b> air after buying 400 rubber hot water bottles at the British Industries Fair. He explained. *TH sell them easily. It gets quite cold at night on the
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  • 135 1 U.S. COLD TO JAP TREATY PROPOSALS WASHINGTON, Sun. EFFORTS by Britain and China for an earlyJapanese conference have aroused no enthusiasm m United StaWs official circles. The United States at present sees no virtue m trying to hold a Japanese conference m the near future, believing it would merely provide
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  • 73 1 NEW YORK, Sunday. THE New York Herald Tribune, commenting today on Indonesia situation, expressed fears that "reactionary Dutch policy" might precipitate new fighting which would find the "Communists well prepared and anxious to take advantage of it." The article said: "The final outcome, however, probably
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  • 23 1 Four submarines were harded over by tJhe United States to the Turkish Navy at a special ceremony yesterday m Istanbul.
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  • 81 1 CANTON, Monday. CHINESE "pig" soldiers are v being bought and sold lure for a few million dollars. The "pig" soldiers are peasants who are being forcibly conscripted as substitutes for some wealthier citizen who can afford to buy his way out of the army. For a price,
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  • 72 1 SERIES of anti-capitalistic posters is attracting much attention m Moscow. One shows a young musician with a violin standing outside a restaurant m an unnamed capitalistic country. His clothes are shabby, he has no hat and it is obvious he is playing for his supper. Alongside is
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  • 111 1 CHINESE AMOK STABS MOTHER AND SISTER Free Press staiT Reporter A 22 year-old Cantonese who ran amok after a family quarrel grabbed a parang, stabbed his mother, chopped his sister across the head. and slashed a man across the arms, face and legs m Park Road this morning. In a
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  • 41 1 Hree Press Staff Reporter A 60-YEAR-OLD Chinese woman was knocked down by an S.T.C. omnibus m New Bridge Road at 8 o'clock this morning. Shn was seriously injured and was taken to the General Hospital.
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  • 62 1 Mr. Winston Churchill watched firemen fighting a heath fire which, fanned by a strong wind, was advancing on Chartwell. his home near Westerham. Kent. Water from the lake m the grounas of Mr. Churchill's house was pumped on to the flames. Four fire brigades checked
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  • 139 1 Free Press Staff Reporter 1 THIRTEEN of the Asians who arrived by the Marella on Friday and who haoT their landing permits held up, have now received permission to land m Singapore m transit. They will be returned to their country of orgin. They had been
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  • 40 1 Officers and men of the Presidential Guards who served Dr. Jose P. Laurel when he was chief executive of the Japanese-sponsored occupation "republic" m the Philippines have formed a new organisation known as the "Loyal Composite Association." A.P.
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  • 322 1 MERCHANTS ALARMED BY ARSON 'Strong acttion' ca!2 Free Press Staff Reporter QIINGAPORE merchants are very worried over possible repercussions from the fire at the Bing Seng rubber factory two weeks ago, when almost $2,000,000 damage was caused to rubber stocks and property. The police, who suspect arson, are offering a
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  • 124 1 FORDS TURN OUT NEW MODELS DETROIT, Sunday /CAREFULLY shrouded m v> canvas, new Ford p enger automobiles are daily being hauled from assembly plants across the country. They are the 1949 models Ford described as "new and revolutionary Styling of the new cars has not yet been disclosed by Ford,
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  • 55 1 AFTER two da Grrt'k army units have compelled guerrilla for I withdraw from the ftrate town of Paramythis. m western province of Ep Previously the guerrillas i d entered the town w) garrison was only 4U and without food. I casualties when bandit* ambushed a passeneer
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  • 21 1 Dr. Bliiton, 42 on* Poland's leading at scientists, was killed m a from a prfcipice while r.ountaine^rinc- A.P.
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  • FEATURES...
    • 861 2  -  Hall Romney LONDON I LETTER t I By 41 THE good old days when rubber planters played poker m Kuala Lumpur's imposing club at a pound a chip have gone," writes "News Review's" Far Eastern correspondent, Hessell Tiltman, m an article on Malaya as the eastern
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      31 2 Jacqueline White, who is co-starring with William Lundigan m RKO's "Mystery In Mexico." did what came naturally when 80 pounds of air pressure surprised her, but Bachrach's camera shutter clicked first.
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    • 367 2 THE method of mudbuild;njr familiar all over the world m different forms is now interesting the Government of Northern Ireland as a means of combatting shoilage of more usual building materials. Experiments are being conducted with what is known as "rammed earth" method. A self-help building organisation
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      189 2 'J'HE slam was made an easly as it was reached. South lost only a spade trick, and NorthS(*nh could also have made six spades. So it s»- ir.d that little, if any th n« be< n gained on this board. But at Lie table the slam wasn't bid
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    • 272 2 tor tune loreca*l tot people born today DORN toda> you have tremendous physical vitality and nervous energy. You like to be on the go all the time and have a personality that attracts people. You women are very likely to be popular, socially, and often become chin
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    • 408 2  -  K. S. CHIA By MALAYAN Chinese youth today are a carefree generation, restless m their search for entertainment but careless m their thought of the future. To their Chinese elders, they appear a generation far different from their forefathers, the Chinaborn who came to Malaya, made their fortunes
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    • 174 2 THL Royal Air Force joined scientists m a search whirh may bring to Scotland an Industry worth £15,000,000 sterling a year. This industry u:\y mean' for women new sour Mlk stocking, lii and fabrics and for doctors revolutionary methods of healing. Seaweed, lying on the; shores and on
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    • 14 2 Anglo-U.S. films for Britain F turt ed on S< n.< for ti.< phtr* In
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 697 2 SINGAPORE -iTT^s^i^; 10 15 10 25 I rum UM noon to I 00 p m. res COri> £j 7 3 0 Ne s n r^ 526 merres m th« medium wave M iy T t; Musical Interlude S E.A.C. b.uid and 720 nu-caryrk-s In II KSI>AY R\nm<i.%i k^-i the 41
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  • NEWS
    • 627 3  -  CARLSON JONES ritical poll this week on race supremacy By Reuters Johannesburg Correspondent NEXT Wednesday, is polling day, m what mast people here consider will be the most critical general election m the history of South Africa. The election is being fought on
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      21 3 picture. Crash-dive practice at the Annapolis Naval Academy, Maryland. The cables are used to hoist the plane after the "crash." A.P.
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    • 187 3 Some Jap air losses heavier than German pised Uie magnitude of the :ht> full extent of the American :n them. Rear- Admiral J. N ral Member} said at a Coral Sea :n Melbourne. In serial battles Detween carrier planes and Japanese i-bas?d planes over Luzon the Japanese lost more planes
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    • 65 3 >LTON war- ster F iK)d. idon "The:-. > units IS X puh!uit> Mr w ii'.ird of They f» t<> KUIbf <>thrT pwe have Hp >>d> m th« House of Kr Is ild do that. if "-"v iwi t mind us i latem toj ond food i tune when 1
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    • 18 3 New flag for Pakistan flag for 1 gj y Kar f now Ml P* fa war■l he added.
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    • 3 3 F,LD,MFMDF
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    • 126 3 THE Lord Chancellor. Viscount Jowitt. m a debate on human rights m the House of Lords referred to the numben of people m Europe still awaiting trial for alleged war crimes. "I look forward to the day wh^n such trials can come to an
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    • 113 3 GAOL is no place for a like you." said Mr. Daniel kins, M .gh Street, London, magistrate, to a man said he v. rking m two jobs to get money to reId his home bombed durhe war. man. Patrick Pi.--agt-d 27. was charged with
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    • 111 3 A MIDDLE-AGED man and his wife- who slept under > a hedge after they wee retused admission to the house i brother-in-law rented rooms, wen a: Dudley. Worcestershire. Court awward d £35 dam.. Plaintiff waa George Stephen Davies. and defendant William Malpass, his sist
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    • 78 3 TIGHT refugees disclosed m v London that they had fl d from Czechoslovakia on Tuesday m a twin-engined plane "borrowed" from the Czech Air Line. Their arrival at Mansion airfield, Kent marked the first of such escapes by air from Czechoslovakia to Britain. Previously, many refugees had
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    • 53 3 THE Central Bank Bill, op- posed by foreign banks m the Philippines, has been passed by the Philippine Senate by 16 votes to one. President Elpidio Quirino said he was extremely erratified at the passage of the measure, which he considered the most important legislation of
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    • 198 3 X RAY TELESCOPE MAY REVEAL BODY'S SECRETS AX X-Ray telescope is now m use which will enable doctors to spot cancer and tuhertuksis quickly, to study the human heart m action and even to diagnose kidney troubles early. It can make X-Ray images on i screen 500 times brighter than
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    • 167 3 THE News Chronicle I Kai I i boo has given his own nation of his expulsion a: hours notice from Slovakia. •They irUhed I because- they rid of all expc i Com mi.: have been In :he count enough to have othT t. official
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    • 78 3 INDIA AND STERLING THE Financial Times says 1 that there is wide agreement m British financial circles that balanoes representing India's "ger.uine foreign exchange reser should be segregated from wartime accumulation of sterling. "The City is emphatic that India, now she has her independence, must efficiently manage her foreign exchange
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    • 49 3 Holders of wai Siamcurrenqy notes m s will not now r.veri these notes t l tender. Phya DhoMontri. Finance r announced m Bang- It is estimated abou: tl Us of these 20 ticais and l.noon n is still pie of Malaya and ng countries. Reuter
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    • 138 3 NEW marriage law giving i women the right to retain their maiden names, and children the right to choose to use either the father's or mother's family name, is proposed m Czechoslovakia. A Communist woman mem- b€r of the Czechoslovak Na- tional Assembly referred to the
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    • 210 3 YOUNG men who go out to the African Colonies, lull of hope, and ready to build up great development schemes are coming horne frustrated and exasperaied by foim-fiiling. So it was charged m the House of Lords when peers gave their picture of
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    • 86 3 THE Congress of the Enterna Uonal EK :moc ra ti c Federation of Women is busy preparing a worldwide peac appeal. Mrs S- irmer-Proescr.er chairman of the Democratic Womb's League of Berlin. has charged tine Allied Kommandatura wiUh ir.tcT- lerr m g with her organisation's
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    • 118 3 rkWLN BREWS! LR. R.pjb- lican. Iftrl o^ rhat the British M to have a jet-propelled transport plane ready to fly Atlantic at 500 miles an hour within 12 tc 18 month.Brewster said England is America's "greatest rii the air" an:! is ipen between £6.250.000 £12.500.000
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    • 26 3 GUirier pigcoos mui>: fly out of, or into Bwit: I without special p the military depa: Swiss Fed.ral Council has tiei creed.- A.P.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 46 3 TARZAN Trapped fiy Edgar Rice Burroughs Hl'jV '^17^ ;j4%&£^ik Sn"T^^>?V T^S i *DlO XX»SA> ">OU'KE MISTAKEN THE APE -WAN /j T^ydrtc^ n IIL^CETuRN 1/ AftESSAoE. MADAM. THERE •Jf V I7j jN J> W jf jm£ TABLE FO«6C7TTEN LETMA,RO66<rr?* r^iT^'^iyr^T, /L I I 4JM f Mtißß^^^^^^ J
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  • LEADER...
    • 547 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, May 24. 1948. Whitehall and the M.C.S. AN extraordinary position has developed from the report and recommenda- aof the joint committee which investigated the question of cost of living allowances for government servants. The committee's report was to have been tabled at last week's meeting
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    • 1130 4 Britain's Reds ha d secret press in peer's house By DOUGLAS A. HYDE, former news editor of the Daily Worker, Britain's Communist newspaper, who resigned after the rape of Czechoslovakia from the paper and the British Communist party. Here he exposes the best-kept secrets of Britain's Reds. DO Soviet spy
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    • 205 4 ALDEBURGH, a 1 ttle town on England's east coast, is bo hold its first Festival of Music and Pa nting this year from Jury 5 to June 12. The event at Aldeburgn wU feature th P work of musicians and artists m Br.tain, but there will
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    • Article, Illustration
      38 4 A ventriloquist 's doll, Joey, is teaching reading, arithmetic, and general knowledge to 200 under-seven pupils at a Chaddt Derby, school, and is the most popular "teacher" on the staff. Joey belongs to Mr. William Dowling, the FMDMFMD
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    • 548 4 AUSSIES' COFFERS ARE OVER-FLOWING THE Common- wealth Government of Australia has an overflowing treasury. Speculation is that ad revenue is so buoyant the Chifley Government could make a substantial cut m taxation next year. Experts contend that if such a cut is made, revenues next year will still be higher
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    • 100 4 milE official list of the A Cabinet Ministers of the new state of Israel is: (birth place as given by Jewish sources m brackets). Premier, David Ben Gurion (Poland); Foreign Secretary, Moshe Shrrtok (Russia); Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan (Minsk); Posts. Telegraphs and Communications, David Renez (Russia); Interior
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    • 406 4 By Milt Dean Hill, A.P. Correspondent CENATOR Robert A. O Taft of Ohio wants the job his father once hMd— President of the United States. Taft is one of the candidates for the presidential nomination of the Republican Party. He is the 58-year-old son
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    • 432 4 By MACFEE KERR Reuters' Correspondent PARIS. A LTHOUGH France is not likely to follow the example of Great Britain m abolishing capital punishment, even on a trial basis, many Frenchmen think that the guillotine should be banned as an out-of-date method of execution. France has two
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
    • 112 5 New plea for single voters' register j i Staff Reporter rr of voters »re should For both the Council and I, Mr. Geek, prtsiChinese at i«>n, told rday. ■:oner I- iuppor Legislative Municipal X v one re- be kept. ter would ■I yard It was at the gt rs as
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    • 10 5 t. id Chinese intaneously Into him r .esterday
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      80 5 Orphaned babies of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus dressed m their Sunday best, formed a "guard of honour" tor Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, during his visit to the Convent last week. Cardinal Spellman and the Lady Superior of the Convent, Rev. Mother St. Charles, are seen
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    • 139 5 ACTION has already b< n taken to begin handing over war cemeteries and e^ m the Par East to the Imperial War Graves Com ion This had almost been completed m Hong Kong. Ir.dia and Pakistan. With regard to the other i as a result of
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    • 267 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A JOINT committee of vehicle owners and drivers has asked the Government to set up a board to supervise the inspection of vehicles for registration m order to prevent graft and corruption. The board should consist of Government officials and representatives
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    • 104 5 TUBERCULOSIS continued to take its toll of lives accounting lor 32 deaths out of 79 oases, according to the Municipal health report for the we«k ended May 15. There were only three other j deaths from notifiable diseases: two from polio and one from
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    • 67 5 ABOUT 400 members and guests were entertained to a ronggeng party at the Singapore Volunteer Dril Hall on Saturday, to celebrate the first reunion of the Malay Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve since the liberation. Petty Officer Hadji Jamil, chairman of the entertainments committee, said that the unit
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    • 34 5 The Singapore Teachers Repertory's production of Macbeth at the Victoria Theatre last week was such a success that they have decided to give two rep rorraancci on Friday and Saturday next week.
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    • 237 5 ONE-SEVENTH of the 700 teachers and education officers training at the Institute of Education m London comes fr°m the Colonies. Students from British Colonies m the Far East are among them. On the teaching staff Is Mr. C. G. Sollls. a former senior education officer
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    • 442 5 PEOPLE TO HANDLE OWN AFFAIRS Empire Day pledge to Maiava CG 's address Free Press Staff Reporter PHE Federation of Malaya and Singapore occupy "honoured places" m the family of British Colonies, protected States and mandated territories, whose peoples are all travelling towards self-government, said the Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm
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      29 5 picture. An important event m the annals of the Catholic Church m Singapore ivas the visit last week of Cardinal SpeUman, Archbishop of New York (seen above) Free Press
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    • 253 5 TO WORK FOR INDIAN WELFARE Free Press Staff Reporter INDIAN women m Singapore will henceforth co-ope-rate actively with the Social Welfare Department m all branches of welfare work. This decision was taken by the women's section of the Sin- gapore Regional Indian Congress at its annual general meeting recently. Indian
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    • 61 5 pUBLIC Relations will screen for the boys of the Chinese High School, the film of Shakespeare's "Henry V" this evening. Film shows will be given this week: Today at Chinese High School. Tuesday at Bukit Timah Boys' Home, Wednesday at Paya Lebar Police Station, Thursday
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    • 167 5 MALAYAN CAPITAL FOR CHINA Free Press run Correspondent A SINGAPORE Coin -2 merchant, Mr. C; Miao Hock, has io( Dl£ a survey tour i I Paraccl Islands, Ch j ■outbeni most fronti r aboui 100 mil u.reast of Hainan Id with a view t<> a syndicate t 0 exploit islands
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    • 26 5 TuKuupa Valley Tin r 1 the following outputs: I 'No. 1 92 piculs of ore: Di No. 2 269 piculs. dur half of May.
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    • 68 5 TAPTAIN A. Donaldson told the Free Press that there was no question of a "riot" on board the Marella last Wednesday night following a fancy dress ball. The items of furniture were thrown over by several irresponsible people m the early hours of the morning.
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    • 63 5 MISS Doris Barclay of Liverpool, whose appointment as Nursing Sister m Malaya has been announced, received her training at Walton Hospital, Liverpool. She is a certified midwife as well as a State-registered nurse. She has nursed at Huddersfleld and Bermondsey, and her service m the Q.A.I
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    • 48 5 FAMILIES of members of the Singapore Police Force living at the Hill Street Barracks will be entertained to a free concert tonight, starting from 7.45, to be given by the Malay Women's Welfare Association, Singapore. Organiser of the concert is Inche Zaharah binte Noor Mohamed.
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    • 80 5 IN its effort to clean up the town, the Municipality has had to take Court proceedings against more than 3,000 people for depositing refuse, obstructing five foot ways and roadways, and failing to provide refuse bins. This prosecution campaign is being intensified by the Cleansing Department. It
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    • 63 5 CONSULTATIONS are taku.g place between the Minister of Health and the Coiolonial Office regarding the possibility of accepting applications from foreign practitioners serving m the Colonial Medical Service for permanent registration under the Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists Act, although they are not resident m the United
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  • 54 6 BABE RUTH TO SUPERVISE NEW FILM Babe Ruth, famous U.S. base-ball star, arriving at Los Angeles to supervise production of a film of his life m which William Bendix (right) will appear as 'Babe' and Miss Claire Trevor as his wife. Also there to welcome Babe Ruth was Charley Dunsmoor,
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  • 400 6 "VirE expect m India a socialist state. Freedom will not be worth the paper on which it is written if it is not utilised for the benefit of the common man," declared Mr. V. V. Giri, High Commissioner for India m Ceylon, addressing the Ceylon
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  • 78 6 INDIA is to BBk the U.S. for 'Something like the Mar[shall Recovery Programme*' Jto overcome the dollar shortage which prevents her buying much-needed farm machinery and fertilisers. Mr. K. V. Reddy. Kisan Congress delegate to the International Federation of Agricultural Producers Conference lin Paris added: Now
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  • 314 6 f/wio/i fo take action I7QUITY, the British actors' trade union, is taking steps to better the lot of 12 to 15-year-old girls who dance and play the parts of fairies m pantomime —Britain's traditional Christmas stage show. The girls' make-up and gay costumes for "Peter Pan" and "Red Riding
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  • 41 6 An Indian delegation may visit .soon for talks on the welfare of Indians m the country. Recently U Ba Saing. Burmese Controller of Immigration, held talks with Indian Government officials on the status of Indians m Burma A.P.
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  • 42 6 CTUDENTS of the National *J Central University m Nanking have called a meetins to condemn United States policy m "building up Japan." Students of the Nanking University are also planning a demonstration aeainst U.S. policy m Japan U.P.
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  • 136 6 4N 18-year-old Portuguese youth asked the New York, police to save him from the tramp steamer, on which he said he and his friends had been held as virtual slaves since they stowed away m a schoolboy escapade two years ago. Jose
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  • Article, Illustration
    58 6 AA ANVIL MARRIAGE: When MChard McGowan was (h mobilised from the Royal Engineer* he opened a blackp ddin Oton, London. His wife -they had Tin 7 V {944-became interested and learned part of ninn i No J°J hey ar€ Partners m every sense. McGowan learned the trade m the R.E.s
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  • 19 6 The Union of Burma has become the 56th member cou:.try of the International Labour Organization. U.P.
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  • 101 6 II AR bride Nancy Carter keeps changing her mind. So far she has travelled 7,000 miles changing it, and soon hopes to log 10,000 miles. Two years ago she left her home m Petworth^Sussex, to join her husband m Canada, but later carried
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  • 41 6 A Russian plane dropped three bombs on a Brandenburg village m the Russian zone, killing four and criticially injuring 12. One house was destroyed and another damaged. A Soviet investigation team ordered both houses to be rebuilt immediately. U.P.
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  • Article, Illustration
    21 6 A TOPSY-TURVY view of a one of 700 children who < wonderful weeks at a "hohdau County Council m camp weko shire
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  • 60 6 'Humiliation breeds contempt. Contempt leads to the divorce court. Divorce means the breaking up of homes, and children de-ied security. "I practise what I preach. My husband and I have a jo bank balance." Tlie meeting, organised by the Married Women's Asso P■■•■ I resolut that women should
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  • 87 6 A CORRESPONDENT of the Influential English weekly. The Economist, says that despite a "succession of appalling problems." Pakistan "is today firmly established." First reason for this was the Governor-General. Mr. Jinnah. who had displayed practical statesmanship. Next m importance had been the attitude of India as seen
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  • 37 6 The Pakistan Government does not plan to ban I Communist Party. The Government, however, has decided to keep a close watch on the party, and to take action against individual m*»mhpr* if necessary.- A.P.
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  • 116 6 DR. Edith Summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, urged equal financial partnership between husband and wife m a debate at Caxton Hall, Westminster. Dr. Edith, mother of two children, said: 'The only worker m the country who works day and night, Sundays
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  • 65 6 'Drastic Rod action fear in S. Korea 4MERICAN troops must r» until the new government ha--3f 200,000 men, Dr. Syneman J adding "Otherwise our neighbour do i Dr I mar. sem;,. had of 2 •I beli( Korea i> and AT' Mr R:. they ha--Join wit Russian the Ru. refuseci I
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  • 81 6 ON the forthcoming Australian goodwill mission to the Far East, arrangement* will be discussed for the transfer of £480.000 worth of Australian reliel goods for Malaya. Burma and the Netherlands East Indies. The goods will include medical supplies, boots, clothing, and X-ray apparatus and Is being
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  • 17 6 THE ARABSMAIN QUIT U.N.O. Cour. tack In P < Ir. reco>::. I bring "Hisastrottf P quer. Reuter A.P.
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    • 720 7 CHINA OLYMPIC XI REGAIN PRESTIGE £^53? victory over Malays Ay CRUSADER China 4, Malayan Malays 1. PHE China Olympic soccer team regained some of x the prestige they had lost when being beaten by one goal to nil by Singapore Civilians on Saturday by triumphing by four goals to one
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    • 106 7 25,000 see yesterday's soccer L vroud ever to |W K ,»i tr match X i ki-d Jalan n terdayto W i o:\mpic he Ml MaUX „ii,»s put thr JM imludins f* k and hund**V n while at j «k».O wat che<l 5* the roofs •Jl be higher *W m\ tlie
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    • 26 7 for n 56 not -*9. V. -y* nese i 3 Hi the YMX :n a Mfttt Mli tookt Ok i lute The and
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    • 6 7 ADEDOYIN WINS HIGH JUMP F,LDS,FLDS A.P.
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    • 58 7 WALTER Neuatl, 41-year-old former German heavyweight champion, outpointed Max Schmeling, 43--year-old former world champion, over 10 rounds at Hamburg yesterday. Not once was either man knocked down. Fourteen years ago when the two last met Schm iing beat Newel, but this light he was nfirtt able to
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    • 51 7 'FtiE following will represent th« Seletir Football Club m a friendly soccer match against tht Customs XI, Singapore, to b« played on the 15th Mile Seletar Football Ground at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow. Yahaya. Peter Tlien, Tbam Seng. Ibrahim, Maideen. Said, Neechee, Ali, Capl. AhamedObed- A wane Ismail.
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    • 23 7 THE worlds leading money-win-ning racehorse, Stymie, won the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park yesterday. His total winnings now total U.5.M44.760. A.P.
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    • 22 7 The Cvylon Sports Club v. Kliaisa Associauon Cricket fixture lor yesterday was cancelled. The CSC. instead held a home and home match.
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    • 428 7 TMIE County cricket champions Middlesex have won all their first four championship matches this season and the question being asked now is whether they are going to put a similar stranglehold on the competition that Yorkshire used to have 1 before the war.
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    • 514 7 rrH the favourite My Babu back to strenuous work after his fortnight's "holtday" the Derby market has become more stabilised, but the race ?till remains one of the most puzzling for many years. With the Cobbler: the second I favourite, now having been withdrawn from the
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    • 38 7 picture. Tae China Olympic soccer team wlio beat the Malayan i Malays yesterday. Free Press et ttieir first goal. The ball went m otf goalkeeper Miulapha's finger-tips from a 30-yard free kick by Lan Chung-san.
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    • 513 7 HPHE Australian cricketers did well m a Test A rehearsal against a fairly strong M.C.C. team at Lord's on Saturday, scoring 407 for the loss of only five wickets. After Morris had failed, Barnes, Bradman, Hassett and Miller all batted attractively, Barnes getting 81,
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    • 145 7 I*HE Amicable Badminton Party 1 held th f ir prize disixibuLion with an at home to members and friends on Sunday H Zion Rnad. Exnibition games Mia played. Mrs. Sim thf*n ga\u i way Uu prizes to the winners. Men's op<Ti sin«l Mok challenge cup); champion. Low
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    • 60 7 France 3 Scotland 0 A FTER a goalless first half at I\ L'oxombes Stadium m Paris France scored two goals within 15 minutes of haiftime and added a third m the 34th minute. Scotland owed their defeat to failure to convert many easy chances of scoring.
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    • 105 7 England 6 Schaffhausen 0 ENGLAND wound up their .short Continental tour by beating the canton of Schaffhausen. a Swiss second division side, by six clear goals after scoring once m the first half. Mortensen scored three of the goals and Cockburn, Mannion and Pearson one each.
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    • 437 7 Free Press Racing Reporter THE speedy installation 07* the photo-fi'H !i camera on Malayan racecourses will be welcomed by racing circles, especially at a time when betting on the totalisator and through ille^ni bookmakers has reached unprecedented prop^rtte Small fortunes are at sake m ally every
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    • 50 7 Siripaporc Cricket CtUb -id* ■gainst ghq s.. a S.A.F.A. l.- kagu*» game on the Padan. ibe as follows J. Atkin; D. Hamilton, V. Burton; E Trrduis C> "rrall, S. Kutchmson: P. CUfton. 1 McCuiloch. R. Whittington. 13 j McCulloch. H. Gruldemond. Reserve: W. Bair»br;dcc. I Linesman: J. Rcves.
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  • 16 8 Ulster granite is to be sent to Aberdeen (Scotland* "the granite city," for monumentmaking.
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  • 347 8 POWER FAILURE HITS MILLIONS Britons went withoutdinner LONDON, Sunday. HUNDREDS of thousands of homes and millions of people were affected m Britain's biggest power failure, lasting m some places for four hours, when the 8.8.C. went off the air, all electric fires were out and London's underground trains and trams
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  • 65 8 LONDON, Sunday. nOBERT PILKINGTON, 43--year-old printer, hurled a brick weighted black bag through a window of No. 10 Downing Street, official residence of the Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee. He did it, Pilkington told the court, "as a protest at the treatment I have had over the last
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  • 180 8 HyderabadIndia Showdown BOMBAY. Sunday. VIRTUAL blockade of the Muslim-ruled State of Hyderabad is being enforced by the Indian Government as the deadline set by Delhi for constitutional reforms m Hyderabad expires on Tuesh the movement of sup- from India to Hyderabad air; ady practically at a standstill, causing numerous shortages,
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  • 154 8 Elizabeth's best friends 'still in dark' LONDON. Sunday. CPECULATION broke out afresh m the London press today that Princess Elizabeth is expecting a baby m the autumn. Court sources simply repeated that "if this la true only the royal family knows about it and even the Princess's best friends apparently
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  • 177 8 MELBOURNE, Sunday. 'FHE leader of the Australian Parliamentary Oppo--1 sition, Mr. R. G. Menzies, today declared the Empire "will pass into history within 15 years unless British people all over the world begin furiously tc think of their relations with one another.*' Only a united
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  • 64 8 SPECIAL Market correspondent fives the prices of rubber *< 11 a.m. today m follows: Buyers. Sellers OU. Cts. per Ib. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 43 V 43** No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales June 43 l 43*« No. 2 R.S.S. fob m bales June tM%
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  • 30 8 The discovery of a human 'hand and arm m a golf course pond at* Potters Bar. England, started an investigation by Scotland Yard on Sunday.- A. P.
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  • 31 8 AT 10.30 p.m. yesterday, an Indian was found stabbed m the stomach, m a house m Bukit Panjang. He was taken to hospital unconscious. Police have made an arrest.
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  • 292 8 SAN DIEGO (Cal.), Sunday. IIANY new weapons will be tested m this week's large-scale naval manoeuvres m the Pacific off Southern California, m which 25 warships and 400 planes will take part. The climax will be reached when the cruiser Salt Lake City will be
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  • 89 8 EDINBURGH, Sunday. DR. ARCHIBALD LAMONT, well-known Scottish geologist, was ejected from the annual conference of the Scottish National Party here today because he insisted that a resolution proclaiming Scotland's right to be neutral m future wars should be considered. Afterwards he was suspended from the party,
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  • 48 8 INDIA BUYING JAPANESE INDIA has bought or is negotiating to buy more than <US> $6,000,000 worth of cotton spinning machinery from Japan, marking the post-war resumption of machinery exports to Asia. The United Kingdom has bought textile machinery from Japan and Hong Kong is negotiating for some. A.P.
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  • 77 8 TOKIO, Sunday. JAPAN'S Catholic Bishops have created a secretariat to "explore all possible openings for emigration from Japan with a view to ease the excess of population." Church officials hope to find industrial, agricultural or colonial projects that would welcome Japanese labourers and technicians. Special
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  • 42 8 FISH— BOMBS Delayed enemy action is costing Ramsgate trawlermen a large slice of the profits from the big catches they are landing this year. Recent trawl-damaging catches included a 250 pound bomt) head, a phosphorus bomb, smoke canisters and aircraft wreckage- A.P
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  • 180 8 SCARBOROUGH, Yorks. Sunday. THE outline of the Labour Party strategy for Britain m the next general electiondue m two years' time emerged from the annual conference held here during the past week. With more than half the life-span of the first majority Labour Government over the
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  • 177 8 ONE WORLD CITIZENSHIP PLEA BY KUNG WOODSTOCK (lib, Sunday. ANEW way of life must be developed m the world 'm which there shall be neither East nor West." said Dr. H. H. Kung, the wartime Premier of China, who claims direct lineal descent from Confucius. In a message to the
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  • 60 8 Twentyjtf'ven Chinos: tcx- tile shops were destroyed by a i fire which broke out m the Quiapo section of Manila. No casualties wore reported but damage was estimated at I over $500 000. Under the blossoming fruit trees a service for the blessing of the orchards was
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  • 60 8 WALLACE MAY FLY TO MOSCOW IMIE Sunday Pictorial, Lon- don, says that the Henry Wallace is planning a "sensational peace flight to Moscow to bolster his presidential chances. Radio Moscow said that a Sovitt agreement with the United States on armament reduction is "indispensable" to peace. It charged the United
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  • 169 8 NEW YORK, Saturday. i^UROPE is "settling down, going back to work and feeling optimistic" according to Mr. Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, m a radio talk on his return to New York after two months m Europe. Remarking that, m marked contrast to
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  • 79 8 Inquest— 4 years later AN inquest was held at Great Yarmouth on Robert Hales, a paratrooper of Kcighley, Yorkshire. four years after his disappearance m the North Sea. It was stated that Hales parachute was caught beneath the plane and, m a written deposition the U.S pilot said, alter to
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  • 280 8 NANKING, Sunday. SWEEPING successes are claimed today by the Chinese Nationalists on the South -Wse tern Honan front, where Government armoured and infantry units have penetrated into Communist positions after a rapid advance from the PeipingHankow railway city of Sinyang. The Nationalist columns captured several
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  • 26 8 The National Farmers Union says that unless heavy rain falls m Mtala within a week, thousands of acivs of crops will be ruined U.P.
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  • 9 8 Gandhi Murder trial Red For NEW Tl 1 mm
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