The Singapore Free Press, 23 August 1948

Microfilm: NL3668
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 83, 1948. PRM \m I \I S
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    Most Pirates Freyed on fishermen
    6 1 Most Pirates Freyed on fishermen I
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    INJURED IN SORRY CRASH
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    FALSE FIRE ALARM
    23 1 The Singapore Fire Brigade was called I I Sub Depot, Hong, about 3.30 p.m. lay. It was a false alarm.
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    NEI opium trail leads to S'pore
    460 1  - NEI opium trail leads to S'pore Catalina Smuggled in by Free Press Staff Reporter TOUR tons of opium, worth over a million dollars, has been flown to Singapore from t Indonesia, believe investigators who are row trying to unravel one of the bigger drug ex- ploits of recent years. The
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    Churchill to rest in France
    88 1 SHOUTS of "Where is the cigar mingled with cheering when a large crowd greeted Mr. Churchill on his arrival in Paris last night. He arrived in the Golden Arrow with Mrs. Churchill, his daughter Mary and Capt. Soames, on their way for a holiday at
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    37 1 picture. Miss Maureen Boswell, the first Singapore girl to be sent to the UK. by the Social Welfare Department, returned to Singapore yesterday on the Carthage. She attended the London School of Economics while in Free Press
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    MOUSE FATALITY
    21 1 Mrs. Jane Davis, 86, of (Gloucestershire) stumbled, fell, broke her thigh and died all because she saw a mouse.
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    3 KILLED IN GUAM FUEL FIRE
    57 1 A FUEL explosion and fire on Guam killed three persons and critically injured two others, the U.S. Navy announced yesterday. Hundreds of men fought tn, fire which, it was reported. i was caused by a spark from a Ijeep which entered the area where
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    MRS. MACDONALD IN HOSPITAL
    38 1 MRS. MACDONALD IN HOSPITAL Free Press Staff Reporter MRS. MacDonaid, wife ol the Commissioner-Gen-eral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonaid was admitted to Johore Bahru Hospital on Saturday suffering from food poisoning. She was stated this morning to be much better.
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    Burmese rebels take big town
    188 1 RANGOON, Sundav. M RMESE insurgents today captured Thayetmyo, 0 important cement centre on the east bank of the Irriw.uldy River, a Government communique announced. On the opposite bank, the town of Allanmyo was occupied by loyal troops, who also reoccupied Moulmein Gyun, in the Irrawaddy
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    R.A.F. CAR HITS TWO TRISHAS
    74 1 Free Press Staff Reporter \RA.F, staff car driven by Aircraftsman C. Gaish (Changi Base) collided with two trishas this morning, 100 feet from CID. headquarters in Robinson Road. The accident occurred while a police press conference was taking place inside the building. The car first
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    RED ENVOY MAY DEFY US ORDER
    93 1 OCIAL sources at the United States State Department, in Washington said on Saturday nisht that if the Consul General, Mr. Jacob Lamakin, tries to defy United States orders to leave the country he will be deported. Mr. Sot Chepuanykh, Soviet Vice-Consul, had said: "I
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    FILIPINO PILGRIMS IN SINGAPORE
    44 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE first Philippines vessel to be chartered by Filipino .ammedan pilgrims to Mecca, arrived in Singapore yesterday commanded by Lieut.-Col". C. Buenaventura. Two baby girls were born on board during the voyage from Mindanao to Singapore.
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    5,000 ARRESTED
    32 1 Five thousand Yugoslavs, including 50 members of the secret police, have been arrested in a 10 day purge of persons suspected of supporting the Cominform against Premier Marshal Tito. U.P.
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    THE WRONG STAR
    40 1 Members of the Soviet Mission to Israel walked out on [the performance of "Thais" i at the Hebrew national opera in Tel Aviv because the Star Spangled Banner was played but not the Russian :~._tional i anthem.
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    Big Johore raid 'valuable'
    93 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Police Commissioner, Mr. R. E. Foulger, this morning said that "valuable information" was secured in a big combined police -military combout ot "certain in South Johore. lasting from Saturday night to last night. This comb-out is believed to be part
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    28 1 Four Chinese, two armed with pistols, robbed $35 in cash and jewellery from a house at the 10_ mile stone, Yeo Chu Kang Road last night.
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    COLONY WATERS RILING STUDIED
    120 1 Free Press Start Ueporter THE Singapore Attorney-General, Mr. E. J. Davies, is today studying the judgment given in the Singapore Full Court of Appeal on Saturday that Singapore courts had no jurisdiction over its territorial waters. Mr. Davies told the Free Press that he could not
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    Final Moscow talks today
    296 1 LONDON, Sunday. MARSHAL Stalin is likely to receive the three Western envoys again, according to a French Foreign OiTice spokesman, tonight. He said the interview might take place on Monday. The only meeting definitely fixed, however, is with Mr. Molotov. Many observers here believe that this
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    200 SCREENED IN RAID NEAR NAVAL BASE
    110 1 200 SCREENED IN RAID NEAR NAVAL BASE Fr^e Press Staff Reporter j MORE than 200 persons were screened and 21 detained today in a dawn raid by combined Singapore CID. and uniiormed Police in the West Hill Estate area. 13$-rr. stone, Seietar, i.ear the Sin- j gapore Naval Base. Of
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    Red menace talks in Siam
    268 1 Red menace talks in Siam BANGKOK, Mon. VIfHILE repo: circulating that armed Chinese forces in Sam close to the southern [frontier were threat jing attacks into Malaya, the S;am< 'cabinet, with military and police chiefs, met in Bangkok last night to discuss the Communist; menace in Malava and Banna. soarce
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  • FEATURES...
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      Malaya gets the best
      982 2  - Malaya gets the best Hall Romney LONDON LETTER By THE arrival of Mr. \Y. N. Gray and 300 of the police offi© who served undei him in Palestine shoukl prove an import;..it factor in the restoiatton of order in liaia] But Malaya is by no ns the only colonial territory
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      TEST FOR SPEEDSTERS
      492 2  -  LARRY STUNTZ Bv A.P. Correspondent SPEEDER'S paradise 6,000 miles of road without a .speed limit and a U.S. $25,000 prize tor the fastest driver is coming up iu South America. Exact date of the rare around two-thirds of South America is not fixed yet but it probably
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      Bridge Problem
      300 2 ES'FS U"Ub:« .t*,S L able «..n tiKHi^ii :t a 'fro. double in tha spades wa* enough for :h<- opponent, to make gwm Although he lia. --n. what mi-sa. oy East's Crpt r.. could not pr*jp»ily tak«* con: roi and warn to bd f^ur diaii Were far mor-- ...-tun
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      Wnat do you know
      118 2  - Wnat do you know ROBERT GEIGER Kv A.P. (orre.^pondent WASHINGTON J)OKS a moth chew intf your lu sl sound lir mune h i n fla.L (Ans How far can Jump? (An.s'v**. farther* thai. thin-skulled n more like) than ones? (A: mavbe know ah niurn. mesons. n> ail that atomi how
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      639 2 LUCKY STAR DORN on tht* «u-sp of the outgoing Nign, I*o you ull tend to inherit ■MM of Um characteristics of the InciWlng sign. Virgo, thus giving you a certain duality of n.tture Vahirh you must l« arn to 'ii r.i.e power and mone*. the latter he a use it
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  • NEWS...
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      ARCHERY TREATMENT' OR PATIENTS
      77 3 Spinal patients at the Ministry of Pensions pital. Stoke Mandeville, fcs have gone in for archery. They are being trained by Frank BiUon champion archer. The archers have worked up from weaker bows to those Jla 'PuX of front 24 to ibs.. exercising their muscles as
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      80 lived on tablets for five days
      11 3 80 lived on tablets for five days I aon food for
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      I am has most girl students
      20 3 acFar I- and ES- i. on ated be ad- t at n of t
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      SIAMESE NEEDS
      29 3 Siam wants to duv ro.iins Jr. from Japan and substantial quantities of kindles and textiles, said B.'.rf7kr>k's 11-man trad^ nr___!o_ -m arrival in Tokio recently.— 1 Reuter
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      RUSSIAN SPIES USE JAP TECHNIQUE
      302 3 RUSSIAN SPIES USE JAP TECHNIQUE Agents plan 'for U.S. invasion' TOPEKA, KANSAS, Saturday. [TSING methods perfected by the Japanese before World War 11, Russian intelligence agents are pumping United States businessmen for strategic facts which could be used in planning air attacks, sabotage or invasion of the United States. This
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      TOKIO EPIDEMIC
      24 3 ity new cases oi sleeping less have be n r^p* in Tokio making the I deaths are 2, over half of them
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      CHURCH COUNCIL "DANGEROUS"
      268 3 AMSTERDAM, 4 RIVAL body to the World Council of phurches ended a week's conference recently by criticising the World Council for belne: too "modernistic" and a "danger to the Christain church." The rival body, officially avn as the "International iress of Christian Churchrepresents a minority of Protestant
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      FIRST WOMAN TO ENTER AIR RACE
      120 3 VIISS Lettice Curtis, wartime A.T.A. pilot, will be the first woman to compete in the Lympne High Speed Handicap against Britain, leading men test flyers on August 28. She will fly a Spitfire 21 enUrtd b waite, ciril air attache at the :nb,_6.V. rtis,
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      GREEK REBELS 'FULL RETREAT'
      43 3 If lAF A, last Greek guerilla stronghold on the Grammos range, has been captured bv Government trcocs. Guerillas are reported to be in full retreat ana 3.000 and 4.000 mav be trapped between armies advancing "ram east and west.
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      WOOL THREAT
      28 3 The Australian Government may cut ofi supplies of wool to European buyers who have been re -filing to the United States to obtain dollars, says Reuter.
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      U.K. recovery delayed by world prices
      185 3 U.K. recovery delayed by world prices THE Economic Secretary to the British Treasury, Mr. Douglas Jay, stated in HudderaSfieid that if the price of Britain's exports had risen '•hy as much as the price of our imports since before the war, there would be no gap in our overseas balance
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      PLANES BOMB HILL STATION
      67 3 PAKISTAN'S Defence Minis- j try in an official note foiowmg the bombing of M-rree hill station' last week said that the Indian Air Force had "deli- j berately bombed and machine-gunned the station. An official of the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said that Pakistan had protested to
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      29 3 Black market sates of telephone instrument* ai Berlin hare shown a marked falling-off since steel hawsers were nsed to fix the receivers to the walls of the telephone kiosks.
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      78 3 Tom Richards, 38-yenr-old male nurse tn Tcxjttno Bee Hospital, London, who brought the Wembley Stadium crowd to its feet when he finished second in the 2€-mile Olympic marathon, is cheered by colleagues on his return to work. The Du Kent deft) and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, with the Duke of
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      SHIPS FOR 239,000 AUSTRALIA MIGRANTS
      178 3 CANBERRA, Australia. BRITAIN has promised shipping for 239,000 British 13 migrants to Australia in the next three years. According to Australian Immigration Minister Mr. Arthur Cal well who says that shipping will be available for 72,000 British migrants next year, 80 000 in 1950, and
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      MONSTER OIL PIPELINE PLAN
      94 3 A NEW port is to be built m north-west Syria as a terminal for the proposed monster 30-inch pipe-line which will help boast Britain's oil supplies from Iraq from four to 25 million tons yearly. After many months of work inspecting various sites, the Iraqi Petroleum
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      AUSTRALIA-UK. POUND PARITY?
      91 3 AUSTRALIA-UK. POUND PARITY? THE London Times s~ud cently 'most people in London" believe that Australia, like New Zealand, will eventually restore the parity of her pound with the pound sterling. "But the time is not yet. nor would the procedure be quite so simple", the Times said in a financial
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      Pope's routine at the summer Palace
      154 3 Pope's routine at the summer Palace DEPORTS from the P.ntifi- cal Palace -t Castelgandolio. on the short. beautiiui Luke AlbarSo. lqicate that «he Ho.y Father 11 already beginning to feel tbe beneiii from tire cooler the Alban hills. The Holy Father begins his work in his study at 8 o'ciock
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      WARRANTS FOR 250 STUDENTS
      83 3 A SPECIAL crunuia. ce I Peiping is preparing warrants for the arrest of 250 students of local uni ver and colleges on ehars-es ot beinj Communist ager The list of want- d stn I was published in fui: local Chinese newpaper. all uni vers: ties are
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      PAKISTAN JOINS
      32 3 Paikistan s Prime Mi:* will participate in the 1 coming Dominion Premiers' conference in London. Mr. Liaquat Aii Khan will fly to London in the third week of Sentembpr A.P.
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      70 3 TARZAN Mission Of Mystery fly £„^r fffcv Burroughs r S_I£CTM6 THE BAREST ESSENTIALS. CTARNOT Jk^^Hl^^jl.^BP^-^l THATS THAT.'* fajMARKED '*JM.___2 -xTTri A LAST LCC* AaTKUNO MMA.' I^PT THE ftALAMCI C* SUP~UES TO H'iSOMA __TMji 1 __a^_PT *vOl IABSON AS N"6OMA VANiSHCD -*i|E*a OARNOT SHRUGGED O«_ACTERj "v%H A MESSAGE PO* THE CO/VWtSSION6R^^gSs|BK
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Aug. 23, 1948. Life and Death
      504 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Aug. 23, 1948. Life and Death T ITAL Statistics, customarily not adjusted. obviously nre of limited value, but the annual report on the registration of births and deaths in Singapore, ich has just been pubthis time of speci- Interest because it covers UK stvcn vi
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      All set to march on Hyderabad
      627 4  -  Alan Humphreys by POONA. fpHERE is an ominous air of calm today at the headquarters of the Indian Army's Southern Comin a n d here whence any attack on Hyderabad would be directed). Headquarters is wrapped in the usual Sunday somnolence, and one of
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      4 LONELY MAN
      335 4  -  FRANK HODGE By LP. Correspondent LEATHER Alex Mac- Donald, a New Zea- hinder mis.sionary, hi one of the loneliest Jo: in the world. He has just returned from Auckland to Nukunonu, a tiny Pacific atoll, to resume his work. Eic will not see a a man again
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      HOUSING THE PEOPLE
      568 4 BRITAIN'S immediate postwar housing programme is within si^ht of iis target—7so,ooo homes. It has 21,223 to go and expects to reach and even exceed the «,'->;)! nexl month. There will be no doubt about it if the June rate of construction is maintained. The June figures, Just
      Mirror  -  568 words
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      Experiments With Rubber
      558 4 Experiments With Rubber Reviewed bv Herbert A^hplant, ARCS: THE last full An- nual Report of the R.R.L Malaya, delayed by war emergen i ind dislocations, describe only the experiment! in proi to the rnd of 194 most part, these were inconclusive, and comment is best postponed until their further development
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      What make an announcer
      31 4 What make an announcer I J I I BBC ..-'•sail 1 z B Sj I I i c I I I I DtO 1 StUd! V I I I I I
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      FAITH
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      RUBBER STOCKPILING IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE
      256 5 rossible effects of E.R.P. (From Our London Correspondent rilXttSG on how long Russian rubber g^d^sc- wiß continue, the Economist says L-alb. rubber is still an essential commodind it reasonable to suppose that, in the 0t t ir<um>tanceaS both the United States trifl wish to
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      Big development plans in Malaya
      215 5 yy ak b. MacFaazean. head of the Corporate activities to Bouth East A.sia. known as the Colonial Development Corporation (Far East) told the Free Press that six major projects in Singapore and the Federation were at present b^ine investigated by the Far East department of
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      Progressives study problem of housing
      472 5 Progressives study problem of housing Free Press Staff Reporter THE Progressive Party has appointed a sub--1 committee under the chairmanship of Mr. John Laycock, a representative of the Municipal North East in the Legislative Council, to study the report presented last week by the Singapore Housing Committee. The Party's sub-committee
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      IMPORT DUTY WAIVED
      52 5 nLTiES on cartridges for small arms imported during the present emergency are to be waived, states an official announcement from Kuala Lumpur. Exemption will be given only on production of a certificate of the chief police officer of any State or Settlement that such cartridges are required
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      FARMLANDS GIVE WAY TO HOUSING
      163 5 FARMLANDS GIVE WAY TO HO USING Free Press Chinese Correspondent FARHfI.ANDS in In- Kim Heat Road area, Potong r Pasir and part of Braddell Koad have given way to housing, and some farm-hands have taken new jobs as labourers, trisha-riders or shop assistants. But in the outlying districts of Singapore,
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      FUNERAL OF MIL J. L. BODEN
      88 5 REPRESENTATIVES of Guthrie and Co., Ltd., planters and frie::ds attendled the f urr rai of Mr. John Boden. assistant manager of Chemar.r Estate. Johore, at Bidadnri remet' ry. on Saturday eve. ing. Mr Boden met his death while attempting to aSilence cwo Bren guns
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      81 5 Harold f Redman, former Chief of of FARELF, with Mrs. I Redman and their two- j months-old daughter, Sally. Mrs. Redman and Sally left Singapore last Friday. Gen. Redman, icho has been Chief of Staff, FARELF, for the last two years left for England by air- this morning to become
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      YOUTH CAMP
      68 5 PORTY young Chuich of L people from Taiping. Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur. SerembfUi, M and Sir. *apore are at a. holiday ramp at the Iferhodist t.irl Schcx.l. Malacca. .Miss P. Kelly of Sing e of the camp, said: "Th_- the r.r« v ith feilowahip of the Church of England
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      TO SERVE IN MALAYA
      79 5 J^EVERAL. additions to the Engineering Service in Malaya ATI among the appointments announeed by the Colonial Oftice They include the following: Agricultural Service— Mr. E. A. Rosenquist, Botanist. Engineering Service.— Mr. R. R. Bruce. Engineer, Drainage and Irrigation Dept. Mr. B. Buckley, Engineer, P. W.D. Mr.
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      Grocers may have to quit markets
      205 5 Free Press Staff Ke our ter MARKETS in Singapore, from Hie beginning next year, will be permitted to deal onh in perishable foodstuffs, if a committee recommend ation of the Municipal Commissioners is confirmed at Friday's meeting of the full board. Rice, salt, sugar,
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      CO-OP CUTS PRICES
      59 5 /I general reduction in prices is beine made by the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society from today in a special sales campaign to promote public consciousness in the use of one-cent coin Mr. Chan Chieu Be*, secretary ot the Societv. *o d the Free Press. The sale is
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      UNION TO ASSIST MUSICIANS
      171 5 UNION TO ASSIST MUSICIANS Free Press Stair Reporter CINGAPORE musicians Will receive from their newlylormed trade unijn financial I helo in cases of chata. sick-! ness, disablement or old ag* They have started a BenevoFund. The Secretary of the Musicians' Union of Singapore. Mr. Jacob Chan told the Free Press
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      Estate staffs ask insurance
      126 5 1 'Y'Atz Kuala I umpur _od I'm I Selangor District Estate Siuff I •n has made represents tions o est* employers to have their Asian staff in.<mred aga list personal acciden s, thus helping to keep up morale In t] pency. Arising out o the emergency,
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  • NEWS...
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      BIG U.S. SHIPBUILDING PLANS
      184 6 WASHINGTON, Friday TUE U.S. Maritime Commis.sion has awarded a 532-million-contract for the construction of three passenger-cargo ships for round-the-world service. vessels will be built by the New York Ship Building poration and operated by the Ml President Lines. Mr. Truman has hailed the f -.mission's act.un
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      BADGERED!
      79 6 nviREE hundred Lor. 1 and tram drivers have threatened to boycott a suburban square. All because they do not like the policeman on that beat. After Sept. 1. they said, they :ll not take their vehicles through Ber es ford Square. Woolwich, because traf ac policeman Sidney Brandon is
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      Diver finds sea-floor cemetery
      146 6 4 "SEA-FLOOR cemetery" I containing many human i bones has been found in the Timor Sea near Melville Island, north of Australia. The bones, believed to be those of war dead, were found by a shell diver on a lugger who has just returned to port.
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      Smutschallenge on immigration
      127 6 GEN Jan Smuts, former .South African Premier and now opposition leader, i sought from Dr. Mai an s NaI tionalist Government a state- ment of their policy on native segregation. Gen. Smuts also asked the Government for some assurance that undertakings made by the previous Government concerning
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      CHINESE BEING SMUGGLED INTO U.S.
      315 6 CHINESE BEING SMUGGLED INTO U.S. Police bid to smash Mexico 'Ring 9 THIRTY-SEVEN persons are being held for investigation by the United States Immigration Service and Mexican government officials as the two governments try to smash a ring believed to be smuggling Chinese into San Francisco and Mexico on false
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      Murdered American: Greeks detained
      121 6 SALONIKA. INVESTKi Ai'OUS into the three-month -old mystery of the murder of an American radio correspondent in Greece are confident that the e*M will be solved soon. Six Greeks are now under protective detention suspected "of knowing: more than they have told." The trussed body of
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      Siam 'funny story', contest
      129 6 r VHE latest form of public entertainment in Bangkok is a weekly competition for telling funny stories. The competition is held at the public park before large crouds of holiday* makers. The spinner of the best yarn receives the weeks prize. Contestants may register with the
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      32 6 World heavy-weight weight- light ing champion. J. Davies (U.S.A). with ff. Schemansky (USA y who was second. and A. Charite < Holland) who was third. Davies made a new record of 391 lbs.
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      QUIRINO'S 6-POINT P.I 'NEW DEAL'
      256 6 QUIRINO 'S 6-POINT P.I 'NEW DEAL' PRESIDENT Quinno has appoved a 6-point pro- gramme of "social amelioration designed to restore completely peace and order throughout the Philippine Republic. To ensure thorough exccu tion of the prog .-amine the I- resident created a new body membership is composed of leading officials
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      'MONTY' ON VISIT TO CADETS' CAMP
      39 6 'MONTY' ON VISIT TO CADETS' CAMP M Mil nt. who has recently youth to join the Territorials and cc a visit to a cadets' camp n Purbright. Aimming the bugle presented to Sgt- H .Ales by his Commanding Offn.
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      CEYLON CITIZEN HILL PASSED
      43 6 THL Ceylon Hou^, 0 f Reprc- 1 sen ta tive.*" has passed th** Ceylon Citizenship nil! through .all stages after a ed debate. pposed as belat discriminatory in the case of the majority of Indians settled in Ceylon -Heuter.
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      WALTERS 'TOUCHING' STORY
      190 6 > WHEN Walter Nichoi.i Davey 33-year-old painter. touched his employers, a iGoaport (Hants, firm of builders, for loan *as his wife was expectum a baby I he sot it Then he said his wife was to have an operation and was granted another loan. N\ xt Davey
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      'BIG FOUR' DECISION
      41 6 The conference ot 'he Bm tour" Foreign Ministers' deputies on the tuiu* the former Italian colonies at present ln session in London, has now reached a decLsive .staße and is exr o conclude its work nest week Reuter
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      U.K. exports of tin soioierl
      59 6 BRITAIN is tjcporung more D tin soldiers than One firm sends 650.000 i overseas every week go all over the v the Pacific Islands. 'Soldiers' in drab ba dress are not so much in demand as those in b: lourful un:' One of the finest
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      35 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya A HE f LY n,IfJG TmAT wa Kbot now that You'riN (/that's nice of~XI I __i .OO A. M^Ap^mtmmm W^^T JatoMMW i '*^_i_ v^x A^^ 7
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      FASTIVAL WINS LIKE A CHAMPION
      583 7 May fe another Golden Glimpse Free Pn-« c ASTIVEL, the onlv French b rt T P nd nt Ain Malaya, may well J,l w 8 n trainin 8 Golden Glin.pse The £1 Ut J° be another smothered the oddos! ti J k .j n whicn
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      Australians win Davis Cup tie
      50 7 Australians win Davis Cup tie al% uon their fan "'-nd from KXZ when little **!•.> ,nter t_r{^> the chai&d the h was .fter-F-S Sidwell leading _f junior member *_\istralian team, p the loto*. he dld d permit the E nervaMi-a Ciech to Hin victory three JJJ to two over the
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      Indians repeat lockey victory
      99 7 i Olympic Games hockey team md b\ the goals to three, after leading Lt»o at hailf-time. in a game played at Effdamon Saturday. hoc--1 i dry the K left-back. A penalty d to Holland and red. he Interval, how- and Babu n. The Dutch defence tired
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      Motor-racing again for U.K.
      144 7 in England with *he closing of "he the shed b\ Duke oi _id GorCar Club of HcW nioto: a-: the property of the Duke cf Richmond and Ct on the sa;: _S the pop... If BTaXk_s. -es of ra cars w li bman's racer", to Grand
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      GERMAN CHAMPION RETAINS TITLE
      59 7 A CROWD Of 30,000 Berlin boxDg fans yesterday c aw GusEder. 40-year >li German welterwtfght champion, retain his; which he had held ior 18 by drawing vu*'i 26-year-old Leo S*aro.sch of Essen. Eder. former European weta rbl champion, skilfully sidestepped h;s opponent's rushing attacks and on
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      TODAY'S SOCCER
      55 7 O A.F. Seietar will :neet M.F.A. in the first divi -ion SAF. A. league fixture at Jahn Besar .y. London. Sunday Tif srdsy'i Irish League City Cup soccer results are: Bangor 1, Portadown 4; Derry City 1. Belfast Celtic 6; Distillery 2, Coleraine 2: Blenavon 2. Ards 1;
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      Victory for U.S.
      18 7 The United States win the Olympic rowing eights from Britain and Nor way at Henley.
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      UK SOCCER FIXTURES
      176 7 U.K. Soccer fixtures are: AUG. ?4 SECOND DIVISION Grimsby T v Nitis Forest THIRD DIVISION NORTHERN Rochdale v Gateshead AUG. _5 FIRST DIVISION Arsenal v Stoke j Birmi'ighaajn v Mr.dilesbr>*i_h Bolton W t Aston V I Charlton A v Burnl-v i Derby Co v Huddersf.old yool v
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      World cycling titles decided
      179 7 UARRY SNELL, of Sweden won the world amateur road cycling title at Vo'.kpnb'it T A Hand. on Saturday. Snell is a 31-year-o.d plumber from he industrial town of Bors in central Sweden. He has been a racing cyclist since 1932 and won fourth place in the
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      WIMBLEDON REFEREE SLATES BOB FALKENBURG
      228 7 WIMBLEDON REFEREE SLATES BOB FALKENBURG MR. A. K. TROWER, chief referee at the Wimbledon tennis championships, has written an article in which he says that Wimbledon singles champion. Bob Falkenburg's "bad tennis manners'' In London last July were 'unequalled on the centre court." The famous referee broke his silence on
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      POH LIM SMASHES WAY TO VICTORY
      504 7 By COLRTCRAFT Ml \SHIN(i with great power and accuracy, Ong Poh Lim, the Fraser and Neave S.C. hope for the Singapore singles title, nipped in the bud expectation of a first round surprise by Mayflowers Wong Chong Teck in the singles event of the
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      English cricket was 'murdered'
      658 7 English cricket was 'murdered' AN inquest always follows a murder and, while it may be a strong term to apply to so sedate a game as cricket, England's players were virtually "murdered" by the Australians in the Test series this season, not to mention the succession of wins against County
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      Home-and-home game drawn
      240 7 Home -and -home game drawn J)HARMARAJS XI were from almos; certain deffd. 1 by time by Ram I Warn m an Indi in Assn. r.ome-and-home cricket much played at St. George's Road Scores Ram Pi.-ra's XI S. M. Ally lbsv b P patial 2 R. Sandosham b fi 3. M.
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      Soccer opens with upsets
      391 7 From JAMES CHAMBERS A.P. Sports Correspondent T^NGLAND'S new football season started with a i crop of shocks for the 100,000 fans who turnerout in wet and windy weather for the first games of the eight months' long campaign. The biggest surprise of all was the home
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      CABLEMEN WIN AT BADMINTON
      81 7 Pvlng Chinese YMCA oati yesterday. Um Cable and Wireles*. Sport* dute d the G EC. Sports Club bf five games 'o oadmmton. i Yew Hock, 15—3 4 (o—3'. 13—15; Onp Kelt B- i fl 13—13 i s—o»5 0» 15 8; B. Hutee lost tr Lim Pene
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      BIRTH
      24 8 LAWSON —In Singapore, Aug 19:h. 1948. to "Doreen" (nee Linney) wife of Lieut M. S. Lawson. Ist Bn The Seaforth Highlanders a son.
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      DEATH
      53 8 MR3. TAN THIAN CHYR nee Madam Chua Kim Lan. midnignt Sa urday. deeply mourned by her husbard. s<ms Wee Hong, Wee Chwee. Wee Eng Wee Hoea. daughters Chwee Neo. Leng Neo Chwep Geok. son-in-law Cheonn Hock Hai, grandsons and granddaughters. Funeral today 3 pm "Oo to Your God. Good
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      ALLIED OFFICIALS QUIT BERLIN
      271 8 'Forces are remaining FRANI-FUKT, Sunday. WHILE nearly 75 per cent, of the American and French military Government personnel In Berlin have been withdrawn because of the breakdown in the four-power government there, the Western Powers are continuing to maintain their full military j This announcement was
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      RED INDIAN IS ANTI-RED
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      Reciprocal citizenship proposal
      83 8 Reciprocal citizenship proposal THE HAGUE, Monday. riE International Bar Assokg here yesterday proposed that British Commoi citizenship be maL: ible to citizens of countries outside the Empire on a reciprocal basis. The r Hon suggested that anangements for equal ■■•nsh.p r.s*hts could be made in the first place be;i the
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      Not-so-gay Paris ceremony
      120 8 .KIS. Sunday. THE fourth anniversary ol the liberation of Paris was celebrated today by ceremonn at the Arc de Trlomphe and the City Hall but rain kept Parisians at home. The Mayor of Paris. M. Pierre de Gaulle, brother of General d-- Gaulle, receiving a group of
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      PRAVDASNEERS AT THE WEST
      55 8 MOSCOW. Monday. APRAVDA editorial yesterday hailed the signing of the Danube Convention and said the refusal of the US.. France and Britain to sign "would not in the sllgh' degree have any Influence on the Convention Pravda called the Conv. ntion "a new victory of the
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      'A-BOMBS SAVED PoWs IN ASIA'
      179 8 'A-BOMBS SAVED Po Ws IN ASIA a thmtp k~ k LONDON, Sunday. ATOMIC bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because of a Japanese threat to massacre all war prisoners if an invasion of the home islands were attempted, according to an unverified report to be published by the 1948
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      Rubber prices
      98 8 J_^ SPECIAL Market correstjondent jives the prices of rubber al 11 a.m today _s follows: per Ib. oar lb Bayers Sellers Cta. Cta No 1 8.5. 8 Spot loose 44% 44*, No I K8 8 rer in bales Sept. 45% 44* No. 2 R.S.S. fob in bales Sept.
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      FRENCH RAIL CRASH
      24 8 Four people were killed and over thirty Injured on Saturday when the Lyon to Strasbourg express collided with a freight train.
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      New Palestine peace plan
      275 8 STOCKHOLM, Sunday. I^HE Palestine mediator, ount Bernadotte, said here today that he would offer his peace proposals for the Holy Land to the United Nations General Assembly, which is due to convene in Paris on Sept. 21. It is understood the peace proposals might include alternate
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      Indian Govt trade threat over Africa
      156 8 GENEVA, Monday. TNDIA indicated yesterday that she may have to cancel trade concessions to all other countries if an attempt lc made to force her to relax her boycott of South Africa. Mr. S. N. Adarkar, deputy Economic Adviser to the Indian Government, at
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      'Fly British' aircraft men tell Govt
      145 8 'Fly British' aircraft men tell Govt BIRMINGHAM, Monday. FKTY delegates, representing 100,000 workers ln British aircraft factories, at a conference here yesterday vigorously assailed the Government's policy of buying foreign planes for British airline services. A resolution, sent to the Prime Minister and other officials, referred to t'ne "chaotic state
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      GREEKS MOP UP REBELS
      233 8 ATHENS, .Sunday. r |MIE Greek Army's victory at Grammos marks the downfall of "Gen." Markos, the so-called Democratic Army and **Free Greece," said the Deputy Chief of StafT, Gen. Stelios Kitrilakis, at the Second Army Headquarters at Kozane today. He said the ommunist defeat at Grammos
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      No smokes for week-end
      116 8 LONDON. Sunday. SMOKERS in Britain puffed frugally and burned their fingers on capsule-sized cigarette butts on Saturday as they looked forward glumly to a smokeless week-end. Except for the hotels which long since have reserved their slim cigarette supplies for their steady patrons, there was not
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      US incomes soaring
      65 8 WASHINGTON, Sunday. INDIVIDUAL incomes in America soared to the record-breaking total of U.5.%1 90.000 million in 1947. the U.S. Commerce Department announces. The figure amounts to U.5.%1. 323 for every man, woman and child in the nation. It is a nine per cent, increase over the 1946
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      SINGAPORE TIDES
      9 8 Today: 1 p m. Tneaday: 1 2jp.m.
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      Raiders kill 100 Buddhists in Kashmir
      126 8 Raiders kill 100 Buddhists in Kashmir SRINAGAR. Sunday. RAIDERS killed the abbot of .nskar Padam monastery, one of the biggest in the Ladakh Valley in Kashmir, after carrying him off to their headquarters at Kargil. The Ladatth district lies in south-eastern Kashmir. The Lama was shot in public after the
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      EDINBURGH'S ART FESTIVAL
      64 8 V RELIGIOUS servio iy terday at St. Giles' Cathedral, attended by the Lord Mayors of nine F'ngli.sh cities, opened Edinburgh.:id International of music and art There will be plays, conts, operas and exhibitions in a dozen halls and theatres every day until Sept. 12. Numerous artists from
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      HIROHITO FAILED THESE JAPS
      178 8 HONOLULU, Sunday COME 3,000 Japanese in Hawaii have been fool.-d Into believing Japan won the war and paid for $10 memberships in an "Absolute Victory" club. Once club members were deluded into believing Emperor Hirohito was coming to 1 Hawaii. They dressed in! their be.st clothes
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      No more talking in millions
      244 8 No more talking in millions [SHANGHAI, Mond WITH the change-over to the new gold > Shanghailanders are trying today to adapt themselves to a new economy of dollars and cents after months of spending millions of dollars d; with reckless abandon. For example, residents awoke toe their new.spapers costing only
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      Girl, 12, shoots two elenhant:
      38 8 KEW YORK A 12-YEAR-OLD huntress arrived here toda two-month safari n glan C two elephants loes. five l^oparda* ies and a water buck i On only mais did she one shot sfsdf U.P.
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      TENDER NO 16.
      84 8 Tender* are innied for the Foodstuffs. 9 Lot No. I BF/S5 J 150 Lbs BP/86 SF/88 Total Eames*. M fl SF/88 20" Earnest Money H'VV 1 NO TENDERS I rotlected in per*v>* R A SC fl I. These Stores are fl kt Junction Pasir Pan -an*: I
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      World church workers meet in Amsterdam
      42 8 A MID the ringing of IX towers of every Protest first assembly of the World representing 145 church icd in Amsterdam s hlstor noon. u£S Across the Allan! Orthodox churches j bells were also i Reuter
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      KLU KLUX KLAN RIDES AGAIN
      43 8 KLU KLUX KLAN RIDES AGAIN TWO hoodec men rode horses around a bur foot high cross Roseville. Gcor*. Samuel Green. C of the Kian. war: South would the equality of Neeroes The Grand D: at a public n "naturalisation" for 90 recmits wer*
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