The Singapore Free Press, 31 August 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA dfd_ SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1948. PRICF 111 CKMS
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    Optimism at Kremlin talks
    349 1 Optimism at Kremlin talks fd But communique again delayed MOSCOW, Monday. ■gNVOYS of the three Western Powers spent two hours and ten minutes with Mr. Molotov m the Kremlin tonight, their ninth crisis talk. It is believed they are only a single step away from agreement. It was considered that
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    FOUR KILLED IN ATTACKS BY TERRORISTS
    23 1 FOUR KILLED IN ATTACKS BY TERRORISTS 15 :r. the h shots r ban-.-peers lice and I I by Mr J st of ngauni-
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    Chinese cloth ban
    12 1 xport of and is from i by the Reuter
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    Burmese troops retake Red HQ
    227 1 RANGOON, Monday. OVAL troops today recaptured the Communist J rebel stronghold m central Burma, Thayetmyo, which had been under insurgent control for some weeks. The town, site of the British-owned Steel Kthers cement works, fell after a 48-hour battle .?h Guvernmen' s were supported by
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    'Bring back the troops' demand in U.K.
    89 1 'Bring back the troops' demand in U.K. LONDON. Monday. rXO British labour organisations, the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Trades Councils, and the Southall Trades Council, have passed resolutions demanding ...thdrawal of British troops from Malaya. These moves are attributed m London to intensified Communist activity m trade unions, agitating
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    GURNEY GETS TOP POST IN FEDERATION
    135 1 GURNEY GETS TOP POST IN FEDERATION FIFTY years old Sir Henry Gurney, former Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast, and Chief Secretary to the Palestine Government, is to be the new High. Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya, :e Reuter and the Associat- ed Press m cables from London. The
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    Kepala shot on K.L estate
    59 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. TWO armed men shot at and wounded a Chinese kepala on Efflr.gham Estate, six miles from Kuala Lumpur. yestTday afternoon. A Chinese conductor who was with the kepala when the attack occurred escaped m Jury. The kepala was
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    Funds legitimate, says Dr. Oetoyo
    119 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Indonesian Representative m Singapore, Dr. Oetoyo, yesterday again denied any knowledge of opium smuggling from the Republic to Singapore and emphasised that the funds of the Indonesia Office m Singapore were derived from legitimate trade. He said he could produce
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    OVERTURNED TAXI
    30 1 At 3 a.m. to-day, the Singapore Fire Brigade was called to Yio Chu Kang Road, to an overturned taxi- which had burst into flames. There were no casualties.
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    School milk scheme
    24 1 Nearly 84.000 pupils attending over 600 schools m Johore ar* 1 receiving half a Pin* of skimmed milk each school day.
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    U. K. faces 'tell world' demand
    123 1 GENEVA, Monday. QRITAIN will again face an attempt to compel her to provide the United Nations with full information on political developlopments m the colonies when the 16-nation Committee on Colonial Information meets here on Thursday. Eight colonial powers and eight other nations comprise
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    FIRST STORE STAMPS READY
    55 1 For the first time m the colony's history, Singapore will have Its name on stamps which will be on sale tomorrow. ~These will be the 20,000,000 new one cent, two cent, three-cent, four-cent, sixcent and ten-cent stamps which will replace the old Straits Settlements issue, overprinted
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    Refused help
    30 1 A Malay involved m collision between a taxi and a trishaw at Lavender Street yesterday refused to go to hospital when an ambulance arrived. He was slightly injured.
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    Rulers discuss the new H.C.
    287 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA Ll MPVR, Tuesday. THE Malay Rulers today discussed with the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the appointment of a new High Commissioner for the Federation, understood to be Sir Henry Gurney, former Chief Secretary of Palestine. Mr. Mac Donald, accompanied
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    HUNGARIAN REBELS
    25 1 Eighty-four Hungarians were yesterday charged with conspiracy to overthrow the present regime m HungaryThe men*, mostly former Sta.e officials, were arrestee weeks ago.
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    $27 million given up
    33 1 Statistics show "\hat $27.201' 000 worth of foreigT: currency gold j and silver has been surrendered to j the Chinese Governmer August 23 m 22 main dies or UP
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    Rush to change pre-war notes
    90 1 THERE has been a lastminute rush m Singapore to change pre-July 1. 1941. currency notes which will cease to be legal tender I after today. After today these notes will only be accepted for exchange at the Currency Commissioners' Office and through the banks. The
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    Security raid at Holland Road
    66 1 Security raid at Holland Road Free Press Staff Reporter AT daybreak today a strong force of uniformed police and d lives carried o^l a security raid on an near the 7th mile, H land rty-two screened at- I been staled oil and t** I for furtl *rOne of the found
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    Tom Blower makes record channel swim
    58 1 CALAIS. Tim TOM Blower ol N sland* swam channel Iron, land to H ance rd time of 16 hours then abandoned nil to swim back. A doctor ad. .is heart was too weak to try the return trip. Blcwer kn off the England I
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    POLICE FIRE ON INDIAN RIOTERS
    42 1 THE Bomb reported 1. armed police were pat: Shr about 60 south I B mbay. a* m which 54 p°ople reel* Jured. The trouble oc rioters U guns ar. nd houses. Police fired on the crowd. Reuter
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  • FEATURES...
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      DON'T BECOME A CRITIC
      554 2  - DON'T BECOME A CRITIC ERIC MITCHELL By VERY few people are prepared to spend the two or three hours weekly diligent application which is all that is necessary to aquire a working knowledge of .the Malay language. Many people are unreasonable enough to expect Malay people to learn a foreign
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      MODEST MAIDENS
      3 2 MODEST M AIDENS
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      THEY THINK IT'S FUNNY NOW
      316 2  - THEY THINK IT'S FUNNY NOW UNKNOWN By SATURDAY. Sept 14, aird anniversary of Japan's surrender. an event which meant more n to many British people who were Japan's prisoners m the Far East than it did to people m Britain. Some fifty former British prisoners of war celebra* .V last
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      Bridge Problem
      318 2 'T'lltHE are beautiful y\ upractlca_y. every deal includ cd 'Right Through the Pack the amusing book by R Dan as. Norman de v H.irt end Dr. Paul Stern, published by Stuyvesant House. NY In addition there are some ing stories to set ;h. th» play. Thus, vi tOd
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      TREVOR GOES To CANADA
      386 2 TRE VOR GOES To CANADA TREVOR Howard, under contract to the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, is to fly to Canada on September 7. With Patricia Roc, who will travel by air from Paris where she is starring m the French film "Colour", he will attend the opening of the new
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      LIFE NEVER DIES
      240 2  -  HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Hj A.P. Correspondent PHERE probably is no A such thing as absolute death, according to studies of heat published m the U.S. scientific Journal 'Physics." The possibility ol h has been a concept of what must happen when all heat vanishes. This occurs at
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      195 2 fd SINGAPORE rrom 12 00 noon to 2.00 p.m 483 metres In the medium wave band and 7.20 megacjrle* m the 41 metre band. From 6 00 p m. to 1 45 p.m.: from 9 30 p.m. to 11.00 p.m mer.ren In the medium wi\r band and 4 825 metacfcles
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      328 2 1 metre* 1 1 Tfi 730 pm. to 815 p m M( 1 19.59 metres 15 32 m»tac\. 10 00 p m to 11 55 p m \I < 18.82 metric 17 84 _esjaey< 10 00 p m to 11 30 p m \I B 4 U 40 metres II
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      84 2 l w rs; 1.06 Bu.g Bin 4s; 1.15 Heard Melodies are Sweet; 1.55 Pr gramme Summary; c Station Opening; 02 I'lilrty to One; 6.30 World and Home N«*» 6.45 Accent on Rhythm, 7 CrlUque; 7 30 Film and The»trr Music; 8 World and Home N> 1 8.05 Yours for the
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      14 2 YOl/lf^ LUCKY STAR B tuall V ing Otht dv' men for enit with pn
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  • NEWS...
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      U.S. TROOPS IN BERLIN MOCK WAR
      18 3 U.S. TROOPS IN BERLIN MOCK WAR i the Gruneicald Fore<t, Ber. 'jed by the United States et-blockaded Ber-
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      THREAT TO CHIANG IS RIDICULED
      280 3 'Still Chinas strong man 9 NAJSKINU, Monday. OFFICIAL Chinese sources commenting on the V report m "The I nited Nations World" that Chiang Kai-shek is facing revolt soon, said the writer "evidently based his statements on a distorted view of China as a result of
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      U.K. ABSORBS 69,788 WAR REFUGEES
      34 3 7 ast y< r Britain has absorbed nearly s many refugees and displaced re- total laced most of >ntrolinost lands. Baits The resettled all >: Tictinn ot Nazi per- A.P.
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      £312 A YEAR AIR LINE PENSIONS
      104 3 ALL a. r crews i by the British civil air, corporations are granted pensions of £312 a year at 50 m a comprehensive award *ed by the Industrial Coun. Previous offer of the corporations was a £260 at .SO. salary scales lor rad::. engineer,
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      Three resign from Aust.-Russia Society
      211 3 Three resign from Aust.Russia Society A STIR was caused In Syd-j ney recently when I Rev. E. J. Davidson resigned the chairmanship of the I Australian Russian Society because he had been refused permission for the Society to use the Sydney Town Hall. Mr. Clive Evatt, N.S.W. State Minister for
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      'STOP THE REDS' CONFERENCE
      62 3 'STOP THE REDS' CONFERENCE ON arrival at London airport on his way to this week's European Federa* conference at Interlaken. Switzerland. Mr. William O. Bullttt. vice-chairman of the American Committee for a Federated Europe, said: "I consider the rapid establishment of a European conference is essential to prevent the swallowing
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      300 SCIENTISTS TO MEET IN U.K.
      237 3 ve^RLY 300 scientists will speak for a total oi N about two hundred hours at this year s annual meenne of the British Association for the AdvanceSent of Science which opens at Brighton on Sept. 8. Except during the two World Wars, these meetings
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      NEW HELMETS FOR FIREMEN
      69 3 BRITISH firemen will soon lose much of their glamour m the eyes of children when their gleaming brass helmets are re~ placed by unromantic black ones. The old brass ones, designed m days when there was little chance of firemen getting electric shocks, are now considered
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      NEPAL EXPEDITION
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      WOMEN'S TATTOO CRUZE
      106 3 >oed taer_;t now pre-' r lady had Mights of seagulls tattooed across her! stomach and a la. d armyhad a cow on her arm. Sur:s from a n Buchenwald :icentration camps have their prison numbers removed a.;d one ng her body tatd all ov i wus highly
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      Press defends Nazi marshals
      110 3 LONDON, Sunday. A BRITISH War Office announcement that four high German military commanders, held for three years, will now be tried on war crimes charges is described by the London press as having "something clearly unsavoury about it." Questions British newspapers are asking are: Why did
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      China blockade to be enforced
      202 3 spoken to him. If not he will los a confidence m his r<*>coverv'*. He warned against future Red intrigues to destroy rublie confidence m ihe new currency and urged merchants not to become unwitting tools /or spreading false rumours A.P. •THE Chinese Government intends to
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      ARRESTED IN SHANGHAI
      51 3 SHANGHAI. Tuesday. THE economic police have arrested two prominent foreigners here for alleged transactions m United State* According to the Ch newspaper, Shun Pao, they are: M. T. Elzear. French, as ex-manager of Banque IndoChine and G. V White Russian, seer il of the Shanghai Jewish Club.—
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      VASE MAY BE CLUE TO £3 MILLION WILL
      266 3 I^HE rare black vase into which Mrs. Daisy Alexander is thought to have put her $3,000,000 will, has been found m a London home. It had been bought for 15s. a month ago m a country market by a London antique dealer.
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      "ATTACKED AT PRAYER"
      122 3 AW 82-year-old woman, whose head was heavily bandaged, told from her bed m the Mater Hospital, Dublin, recently of an alleged hammer attack while she was praying m church. Before a special court held m the ward, Mrs. Mary Agnes Daly, 27, wife of a civil servant,
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      Ex-Minister escapes to U.K.
      92 3 DR. Peter Zenkl, the 64--year-old former deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia, alleged soon after his arrival In London by air that since the "Communist coup d'etat" m Czechoslovakia his life had been m "danger" all the time. Dr. Zenkl. who was greeted by other Czechs who have
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      SEA MINE-SWEPT
      38 3 A flotilla of seven British minesweepers yesterday reported that a harvest of iOO mines was cleared from Mediterranean shipping routes m the last year. The Rod sea. the report added, had also been cleared. A. P.
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      ONE & A HALF Lt.-COLS. TO EACH BOY
      109 3 ONE A HALF Lt.-COLS. TO EACH BOY LOCAL dignitaries visiting British Army cadet force camps unannounced can disrupt training and upset timet ab^es Major J. B Oldham, retired housemaster of Royal Shrewsbury School, and an officer of Shropshire A.C.F., said. "Last year we had so many unexpected visitors that I
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      Berlin—the lighter side
      66 3 Berlin the lighter side ity thousand Berliners —some standing on the roof of the bombed-out Berlin State Theatre iabo crowd to hear a Ri< r and to see a folk dancing exhibition on the stage m front of the nch Dome Church. The performance was yiven by the Alexandrov choir
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      NURSES IN PAY PROTEST
      152 6 'TWENTY THOUSAND people gathered round 1.000 In Hyde Park recently alter the first rch of Britain's nursing profession. Th? ere approval to a coi i for a week from the .ng. The mj biu-* and lr b. no or a band :Quar The 30 hos--arrled banners
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      HIS OWN COAL MINE-AFTER 14 YEARS WORK
      131 6 HIS OWN COAL MINE-AFTER 1 4 YEARS WORK E CHOCK Lewis, 48-year old bachelor miner of X 1 street Aberkenftg Glamor HOW has his own colliery small uninhabited valley six j miles from his home. For 14 years m holiday spare time, he blast* d his way single-handed through 50
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      FLYING AS CHEAP AS MOTORING
      55 6 BRITAIN'S smallest plane with petrol size is i d. It is less than 21 feat long and likely to brinr, fl *ing costs down to lit tl than motoring expense It Is. m effect, a glider altered 1 take ;i »mall engine and with v.
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      BEST WORLD HARVEST SINCE WAR
      421 6 BEST WORLD HARVEST SINCE WAR Bumper yields bring prices down xious because of continued drought, but m the Buenos Aires province, which accounts for the greater part of the wheat crop, soil conditions are said to be satisfactory. Cash price of wheat m Chicago now is around 10s. 3d. a
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      NEW TYPE OF PEEPSHOW
      97 6 Apeepshow on the Empire's iMCMt pier at Southend-on-Sea will provide visitors with a much more fascinating view free than they ever get for pennies m "what-thal-but-ler-saw" machines. On a screen m a room underneath Ihe radar research station ipeaed this week, the nub'ie will he able
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      INDIA PLAN FOR PRISONERS
      108 6 jNDIA and Pakistan have now agreed on a scheme for the exchange of Moslems against non-Moslem pn.~ ers held m Jail m the two Dominions. The ex( hange is to take place on the India-Pakistan border on September 9. Both dominions also agreed to bring full
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      PRISON OFFICERS' 'GAG' PROTEST
      215 6 T_U Prison Ollicers' Association is protesting to the Home Secretary against what is described as •'oilicial interference" with the freedom of speech of delegates to the Association's annual conference last June. Mr L. C. White, adviser to the Associa'-'on. sail tj Prison Ofli ten, a Birmin«}
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      60 missionaries to go to Japan
      173 6 60 missionaries to go to Japan NEW YORK. SIXTY Protestant Church missionaries have been assigned to Japan and Korea for three-year terms by the Foreign Missions Conference of North America m response to an appeal Dy Gen. MacGeneral Ma ly told a 'J S nan today is a vacuum. If
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      FRANCO OFFER TO DON JUAN
      41 6 FRANCO OFFER TO DON J UA N PEN FRANCO, according to usually reliable sources arid, has told the Spanish Pretender. Don Juan, that he would recognise trntender's son, Juan heir to the throne if Don Juan would renounce his own claim.
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      RED C.-INC. DEAD
      19 6 Radio Moscow reported the death of Pavel Semyonouch Rybalke Comma Ol armoured tank and mechanized troops.
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      Unions oppose Govt's 'freeze wages' policy
      94 6 4 BED-ROT battle over*',!' living is likch 80th Trades I'tiion Co. the seaside town of Mai The nun. agenda indicate I the results o* ..cy of support wa someti. penedand curt:, "which are I serious decll class livii. resolution ureed tl of purchas- tax
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      64 3 i i m V JL i_ L 1— a&_i Introducing tkc NEW CHET.SEA AC DO ELECTRIC KETTLE $30 00 Economical Lightweight Safey device ejects main socket when kettle boils dry All HMV H Appliances are fully guaranteed for a period of g_ months f*om date of pure!. > all Authorized
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      56 3 TARZAN Mi*»?Wf! WBth©Ufc tfl*ace fty Erfgar for* Burroughs r ___HH I "ahm 'VhiBAM MURJVMJRED I ____P^ TB^_^_^*_l_B f'STPANC-E/'SAIO TARZAN. 'THERE'S NO 'rr'4 cone' vanished into Hr Place out there MlD£ VVMERE _l" f^ thin Al3'- _F *<*) _3^____L'Vy! P'P HE GO?" 'DO YOU BEUEVE IN 7^§^^ y<^ fW Aia BP
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  • LEADER...
    • The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Aug. 31, 1948.
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        No word from Moscow
        239 4 HAD it not been for a last minute point of procedure, the Big Four powers might have issued last night their long awaited communique the talks m Moscow. Its publication has now been Pv>stponed. pres ir.ably until after a tenth meeting at the Kremlin at which
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        Russia and Rangoon
        222 4 TVDDAY the Burmese Parlia- meets again, and turn from the battlefields of civil war to the legislature, and the future of Thakin Nu's Government. Thakin Nu had hoped to be able to lay down c Premiership, and retire to a Buddhist monastery, and while events may not
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      Don Iddon's Diary
      994 4 Don Iddon's Diary THIS is a city ac- customed to violence. It does not tremble when the cement-en-cased corpse of a hoodlum is tossed into the East River. It remains unperturbed when a gangster is mown down m the telephone booth of a drug store by bullets from a sawn-off
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      He Was An Expert On Vampires
      229 4 THE man who knand wrote so much »ut vampires, werewolves, demons, fain* and witches that people said he probably belie, ed m them, died recently at The Green, Richmond, Surrey, aged 68. t-dtr the name A 11 ajjue Summers he wrote 34 i>-/oki moat
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      THEY ARE HUNGRY
      560 4  -  GUY BETTANY By Reuters' Correspondent HAMBURG, British Zone. THE German chauffeur of a British journalist who arrived late one evening m Essen had a plentiful hot meal consisting of soup, roast veal, fried potatand vegetables with real coffee, while his employer had to content himself at a
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      74 4 So wonder these boys and girls of the Kingsgate Infant School, Kilburn, London, look anxious as they practise their drill in the school playground. They are to give an 8-7ninute gymnastic display before Mr. George Tomlinson, Minister of Education, and 400 delegates from all over the world. Their class has
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      THE MYSTERY BOY
      815 4 BANGKOK. UUNDREDS of sick and disabled persons daily are making pilgrimages to a 12--year-old Buddhist novice monk they credit with miraculous healing powers. His name is Samanen Noi Katanakesindara. The boy healer, with shaven head and traditional yellow robes, receives his devotees m groups. He sprinkles water
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      FAITH
      22 4 Behold. I have refined thee but not with silver: I have cho*en thee m th? furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48. 10.
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      Newest chemical compound
      98 4 THE US Atomic I Commission at Oak Ridge. Tennessee, has announced ava something new In the chandise of the chemical compounds built-in radioa They are fam.llar pounds im; research, medical use such as wood alcohol, acetylene and var salts. But they are "tag*, active Carbon-H. Is. some
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      THESE ARE THE GUARDS
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  • LOAL NEWS...
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      MALAYA JOINS WORLD WAR ON DISEASE
      416 5 Included m UN health body D V i final decision, Malaya has been f J Kiliy included m the South-East the United Nations World Health n which has just concluded its first neva. included m South-East Asia ill have its regional headquarters m Mysore—
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      135 BANDITS KILLED
      32 5 Oand thirty- have been unded. since an official fives the mergency r _»c and 44 m I Ki were -cd. Necuri:itit*s is as killed. H I killed. 10 billed.
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      IN A GOVT OFFICES
      22 5 as also i, are .»pen--31 Gr .r.ctionI routine are m the r.ication first also every bt on 1948.
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      NOTiCtS TO 6 TRADE UNIONS
      101 5 _ted on n to 'orttac Regis Q *.'.or. b ji ,ere asted The United States Bronze Medal was presented to Mr. Douglas Broadhurst, D.5.0., acting superintendent of Singapore CJD at a ceremony m Singapore yesterday. Mr Broadhurst (at right m this picture) was awarded the
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      GOVT LOST $3,000,000 OVER PADI
      151 5 Free Press Correspondent ALOR STAR Monday ryjRiNG 1947 and 1948, the Government had lost $3,000,000 on padi purchases In Malaya. The British Adviser (Mr. A. Glencross' indicated this to the Perlis State Council at Its meeting at Kangar. Replying: to a plea by the Malay
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      HONG FATT TIN YIELD GOING UP
      285 5 HONG FATT (Sungei Besi) tin mine production this month will be higher than for some months past "so that the position is as satisfactory as can be expected said Mr. Chew Kam Chuan at the company's annual meeting held *n Kuala Lumpur last Saturday.
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      MAJ. GEN. DUNLOP
      35 5 The 0.0.C.. Singapore DL«_ ct, Maj. Gen. "Dennett DurJop has been appointed an official member cf the Singapore Executive Councl. Mr. Tan Ah Tan has been appointed a Police Magistrate m Singapore.
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      Progressives' programme
      228 5 Progressives programme Free Press Staff Reporter EDUCATION, housing, health and public services problems are among the major targets of Progressive Party policy m the coming year, Mr. C. C. Tan, its president, told the Free Press yesterday. The question of rinding accommodation for both overage and non-overage pupils m the
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      APPEAL FOR SEPARATE INQUIRIES
      258 5 APPEAL FOR SEPARATE INQUIRIES THE Singapore Ninth Police Court Magistrate (Mr. E. V. A. Peers* yesterday reserved his decision on the question raised by the defence, as to whether the preliminary inquiry m the case against Alexander Greenock Forrest. Ronald Hurst. Gordon Edwin Morris and David Wolf Ginsberg, should be
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      Jail, rotan for taxi hold-up
      101 5 AT the Singapore Assizes yesterday, three Malays were found guilty of the armed hold-up df a taxi driver, and were each sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment and eight strokes of the rotan. The men were Abu bin Kusri. Dastan bin Dashin and Abdul Wahab
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      BOUND OVER FOR 6 MONTHS
      120 5 school girls told the Fourth Police Magistrate yesterday that a middle-aged man molested them In front of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus ,m Victoria Street on Ausf. 3. The man (Ding Ec Eu alias Tang Eng Eng). a coffee shop assistant, of Queen
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      NEW PARTY TO BE FORMED
      69 5 A MEETING of representatives of all interested m the welfare of labourers and wage-earners has been called with the object of forming a Labour Party. The meeting will be held tomorrow at Clifford Cafe m Prince Street at 5.30 p.m. The sponsor is Mr. M.
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      PLAN FOR $250,600 MOTOR WORKSHOP
      279 5 PLAN FOR $250,600 MOTOR WORKSHOP Free Press Staff Keporti-r rjNE of the most modern motor showrooms, with workshop, service station, garage, petrol pump and administrative offices, to cost approximately $250,000, will be built at the corner of Clemenceau Avenue and Penang Road, v plans have been passed. The new two-storey
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      ROTARY T.B. CLINIC
      45 5 The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, will perform the ceremony of turning over the soil which will start the foundation of the Rotary Tuborculos:s Clinic, to be built m the Tan Tock Sen* Hospital grounds, on Friday at 5 p.m.
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      Malacca has model hospital for T.B.
      204 5 extra beds and other requirements. "It will cost well over $100,000 a year; the cost of running the hospital for 400 to 500 patients is certainly going to be not less than half a million dollars a year." A MODEL tuberculosis hospital has now
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      VEHICLES IN COLONY
      36 5 VEHICLES IN COLONY THERE are m Singapore toc~y 34.102 vehicles of aU s. This number is made up of: 9.295 motor-cars. 2,577 motorcycles. 1,939 hire cars, 240 motor-buses, 5,408 motor lorries. 8,594 trishas and 6.049 tricycles
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      51 5 4s J&'&aA^ _S__g|-£ -VJ^tf appartements avec oaicans VEndroit le specialement attire par la tranquulite. c la aanse et une musiaue voulu .c fameux Rijsttafel javanais ~!:manche* le Curry Indien il centre de la ville. *mm^ Rlsi- TKL 7ts Oefecfi o/ Vision 4_w^P^ SONS !ltN_> \L PRACTITIONERS *»ja «w«n %y >__~
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      40 6 7th LAST DAYFOUR SHOWS ONLY at 11 a.m 2 p.m. 4.15 6.30 Note:- Final Performance at 6.30 COLUMBIA'S Tcr+ke £wta C-A-P-i-T-O-L ft E mf Today! _r% DEMAND KETCKN p mi —4.15—4 lO— SCREENING! \V> Ts=__,T^— A -S^tfSUPS Ac-.* v^r____: y
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      108 6 JA,iE Exclunir* /*> Froe Prpss m Mnlnyn S IAf P ll [S3 |7lS^ Kah-he .sze ch^/give him a coupleYwho d'youN JANE F^T ArSn..Trun A B N o T BUYER FOR A BEEG /OF COMPI/MrNIARY THINK I uu.l display Ig| s n oe^H0 e^H AMERICAN t,ckeT,.-you'll7am N the 3£* Y-nR^^TT lii-_
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      FANCIED HORSES MAY BE SCRATCHED
      708 7 FANCIED HORSES MAY BE SCRATCHED Track has never been so dry mm? v T ree Pr f ss Racin Correspondent J*HE heat wave m Kuala Lumpur is wearing everybody down. Most worried group of people are tne trainers who have fancied horses engaged tomorrow the second day of the Selangor
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      THIS WILL MAKE YOUR HORSE WIN!
      30 7 THIS WILL MAKE YOUR HORSE WIN -w track your horse Hok•i Assoi>es, reports pouJid of reduce to to nalt Is of combine lime "ne "da'vas it a and ■2ble F-am
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      New champions beaten by inns
      210 7 >.iturday when batsmen dominated itj cricket programme, bowlers pem»rc into their own yesterday although there for this. .aire, Hampshire and to follow on and, while Warwickof avoiding the innings defeat Just ere drawn, Hampshire are still m morgan were well and truly the vler of
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      C-G WATCHES HIS HORSE AT WORK
      121 7 C-G WATCHES HIS HORSE AT WORK Free Press Racing Reporter THE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, was present at the race course this morning to watch hla horse, Billy Carol, at work. The William of Valence S elding strode out beautifully own the home straight at half pace. The going
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      BCOF swim team win easily
      54 7 THE British Commonwealth Occupation Force swimming team gained an easy victory m the all-Japan swimming championships held m Tokio over the weekend. The BCOF team took 71.5 points followed by the United States Eighth Army with 41 points. All major units of the American Occupation
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      BASEMAN SUFFERS DOUBLE FRACTURE
      64 7 GEORGE Kell, Detroit Tiger third baseman, was m New York medical centre on Sunday with a double fracture of his lower right Jaw, which he suffered when struck by a ball hit by Joe Dimaggio during the first game of Saturday's New York —Detroit double-header. Kell
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      Chinese and Europeans in cricket final
      213 7 Chinese and Europeans in cricket final Fr*e Frew Correspondent THE Penang inter-Commu-nity cricket championships this yeax will be fought out between the favourites, the Chinese and the Europeans. They entered their final on Sunday when they beat the Indians and the Malays respectively. R. H. C. Armistead was m excellent
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      U.K. RUGBY LEAGUE
      28 7 YESTERDAY '8 U.K. Rugby League result* are: Belle Vue Rangers 11. Swinton 14; Featherstone Rovers 25. York 4; Hull Kingston Rovers 2, Dowsbury 10. Reuter
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      All the weights for tomorrow
      341 7 BELOW Is the full list of weights for tomorrow, the second day of the Selangor Turf Club Aug.-Sept. meeting. CL. 1. OIV. I 5* FLRS. Perml'a Kashmiri Dorraez d 07 Song 8.07 Kinder GanuDorough Gold 9 04 8.04 Minstrel -"airwood 7. 09 Boy 8 J
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      INDIANS WIN GANDHI CUP
      80 7 These pictures of week-end events show, above, Mrs. J. A. Thivy, wife of the Indian Government representative m Malaya, presenting the Gandhi Memorial Cup to hall Singh, captain of the Combined Indians who beat the Singapore Cricket Club by five wickets m the first annual game
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      ARSENAL BEATEN AGAIN
      151 7 ARSENAL BEATEN AGAIN ARSENAL, English Football League first division champions last season, suffered their second defeat m three days when they were beaten by a solitary goal by Stoke, whom they had beaten three-nil at Highbury last Wednesday. On Saturday Arsenal had lost by an only goal to Manchester United
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      Patrick Hughes wins easily
      63 7 THE third Istanbul Inter- national tennis championships ended yesterday with G. Patrick Hughes if Britain and Stalies of Greece taking the men's doubles title. They beat F. Weiss and H. Redl of Austria 3—6, 6—o, 6—3, 6—4. Miss Gorodesky of Turkey and Redl won the mixed
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      £760 filly is U.K. sprint champion
      326 7 From Vernon Morgan LONDON, Monday. DACEGOERS at York last week saw the fastest filly 1V since Mumtaz Mahal won the Numthorpe Stakes m 1942 when Mr. George Frampton's deep-girthed daughter of Panorama, Careless Nora, won the title of sprint champion by winning this year's
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      Malaya needs coach—now
      716 7  - Malaya needs coach— now By KEN JALLEH PERHAPS Malaya has not the talent— yet— to win world sporting titles, but she can at least perform with honour. And if that is the goal mm MM* m the world of sports, then let our sporting tycoons, all who are ambitious of
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      177 7 Motor Vehicles Commercial Use Regulations wee of application for Variation of a Haulage Permit. I Ng Hua of Chop Hiap Seng Chan. No. I oy occupation a Contractor, intend Inspector of Motor Vehicle*. Johore. c -arriage of my own uae. .j application is requested within ten oi notice of thia
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      271 7 F.P. Crossword No. 476 f WM-\ VZMI I Is Ik IT r I m m ""Pli Wn~f ir m^mmm mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm > mmmmmm mmm m mmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmmm _ME_j!_L_| wkwk ____1 11 ff mwn MM H m^r —I ._-2_____ Am— _A— ■_A-»_b -i— .Jj,^^^^^ -I< j£Jj£^_ cLI ES
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      RESTORING TRADE IN EUROPE
      256 8 Plan to break down barriers GENEVA, Monday. TRADE between East and West Europe must be increased to nearly five times its present level if Europe is to be independent of United States aid by 1952. the Economic Commission for Europe reported tonight. The report was drawn
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      Wallace hit hy tomatoes
      97 8 BURLINGTON (North Carolina), Friday. THE third party presidential candidate, Mr. Henry Wallace, was struck by eggs and tomatoes as he sought to deliver a speech on Burlington's main street today. He re-entered his car, m which were seated two Negro icomen, a7id left. As he stepped
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      U.N. MEDIATOR RETURNING
      109 8 JERUSALEM Monday. AS ab Legion accufl d fOPC-M vi "renewed truce violations during the hours" m the Jei lem a: '.uding the Red Cl r which was due to become a demilitaris* d neutral zone at noon today. It was announced that the »ru medh r B
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      JAPS OFFER TO SURRENDER
      65 8 SHANGHAI. M SOME 10.000 men oi the former Japan M X Army who h.id been m mountain ranges bet since the J ler, have 1 to surrender to the military authorities Manchuria, according to the Chinese Army a Peace Daily. .onalist commandant m Manchuria. Gen. M-huang.
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      AFRICAN ARMY IS PLANNED
      115 8 LONDON. Monday. UIGH British military plan- ners have begun talks aimed at creating the nucleus of a mechanised army of East and West African troops, a Government source disclosed tonight. If accepted, th-:- plans will lead to the establishment oi highly trained and mobile army groups
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      58 8 The hcaltfi of 64-year-old ex-President Eduard h "took a turn for the worse m the last few days," says an official Prague report. He is suffering from a blood vessel disease. Physicians attending Dr. Benes at his home at Sezimovo Usti say that the main symptoms have al" ready retreated
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      STORE HIGH TIDES
      14 8 Today: 9 ICa.m, 5 11 p.m. Wed.: 10.05 a.m; 8.40 p.m
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      BIRTHS
      14 8 REID To Jean, wife of J. B QFFORD ?iB. '.o J P .ael.
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      9 8 v. O B: A Ci:rJrr and Mrs. c
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      DEATHS
      27 8 pa_ed away •43 a» 1. I I ■43 at 11 a S OSWELL ERIC, -aged Governor of i l_, pa_*d at tha Qenerai B AUgUSt. I
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      New Govt, for France tonight
      205 8 PARIS. Monday. U'ITH both Socialists and Radical Socialists favourably disposed towards him, M. Robert Si human announced tonight he was ready to form t new French Government to succeed M. Andre Marie's, which had been In office for only 32 days. M. Schuman will go
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      QUEEN MOVED BY HUGE WELCOMES
      260 8 AMSTERDAM, Monday. lyini tear-dimmed eyes, silver-haired, 68-year-old T Que* a Wilhelmlna acknowledged shouts of "Long live our Queen", and "Thank jrou, Qut from 500,000 of her subjects who thronged the th: mile route through which the beloved monarch drove today to her palace here on
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      COUNCIL 'NO' TO KASHMIR TALKS
      75 8 COUNCIL 'NO' TO KASHMIR TALKS THE United States, Belgium and Syria at Lake Su ■day challenged the action by Mr. Jacob Malik. Russian president of Security Council, m calling an emergency session to discuss the Palestine and Kashmir problems. Mr. Warren Austin. United States delegate, said "as far as I
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      Ferry sinks, 20 drown
      22 8 TWENTY persons are reported missing. beliowd drowned, after an overload t-d feny boat rapsized m Lake Toya, Japan.
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      Chiang's son goes in disguise
      145 8 SHANGHAI, Monday. ENERALISSIMO Chia n g l/ Kai-shek's elder son, Ma-jor-Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo, uho is economic supervisor of the Shanghai area, said, when he took office, that he intended to make personal inspections to see that the rules were enforced. But nobody expected him to
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      MOSCOW
      159 8 Continued from raff 1 drive to impose "Red" rule on Berlin temporarily cooled off lay, apparently m antic :i of an announ from Mosc The fact that the four Allied Military Governors and their political advisers will be m Berlin on I to speculation that a new >wer meeting
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      America calls them up
      23 8 AU 25 year-old mon born m 1922 after August 30 had to! register yesterday for Amei peacetime draft. A.P.
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      Indonesia situation 'critical'
      151 8 THE HAGUE, Monday. T*HE Indonesian situaA tion is becoming increasingly critical with the latest Dutch-Re-publican negotiations deadlocked and the Jogjakarta Government challenging the validity of the Dutch-sponsored non-Republican Indonesian Federation. The Indonesian Go ment today formally announced that the Republic riles the right of eral Interim Government
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      Move to halt Albanian aid to Greek rebels
      10 8 B A.P.
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      Explosives 'for polities'
      8 8 ALOND' today of < Frlda;. Reuter
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      PRICES FIRM IN QUIET MARTS
      361 8 London Stock Exchange Anglo-Maiay 10 6 Highlands 22 9 Land 1 0 2 2 9 et Tr-d* M' 9 3 Seder.ak 13 3 TINS 5 9 Hitam <s'-) 30 6 .kong (3/-) ..20/ 30 Ord. (4 4 Mala^ -5 30 3 Pahar.g i 5 11
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      N. V. stocks
      47 8 LIQUIDATION c :n most Mctioni m tha N\ I k Excharge yesterday Tha market gave further ground n dealing* to finish b: steady Transfers tc tailed 6&QOO0 sh., Tlie Dow Jones Averages uero ■vs 68.40. Industrials 182 09Rails -51.34 t 34.75 Reu'er. A. P.
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      Rubber prices
      114 8 inCtH Market correspondent ghes the price* of rubber (m ren's per Ib. i at 11 a.m. today aa follows Buyers, Seller* No. 1 R.S.S. Spot. loose 41 i 44 F.o.b. m bales Sept. So. 1 R.S.S. 44 H% No. I R.S.S. 42 4t»l No. S R.S.S. 38% MS
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      JET CRASHES, IN FRAGMENTS
      62 8 ONE of Britain's latest jet IfeteOT fighter piano was shattered into fragments the j largest of which was only 18 inches square when it crashed on Ham Island, m the I Thames yesterday. The pilot pilot was killed. Debris was scattered over a 200 yards area
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      YARD WATCH FOR KILLERS
      73 8 I ONDON police have im, tion* into foreign ten underground campaign for a figures— particularly tin, nt frfl The police have 1< of the "letter bomb" the death of Mr. R. Farran. formerly Palestine. Scotland Yard i Branch, which the investigations, taining* close touch with the
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