The Singapore Free Press, 29 September 1949

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N«. 17.591 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    DIFFERENCES IN POLICE REVEALED
    351 1 Fed. Council free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. "DIFFERENCES between himself and the head of his department on matters concerning the internal organisation of the Police Force" were the reasons why Mr. B. M. B. O'Connell, late Deputy Commissioner of Police, C.1.D.. resigned from the
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    2 MUAR BANDITS KILLED
    40 1 >;.itT Reporter P killed and engagecombined Seaforths dlt groups terday. d a ban- .ibout to v saw -r. caching ned fire. j mdli nr.d I pati firing, laid j party of one of found I Ined.
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    ABORTION RISE IN JAPAN
    34 1 a .ber of t this i ent ort reason. i said -V adt per- physilattd the en more tasea wero ie 4 000 m *!inistry k>een a 22.529 1 Reuter
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    AUST. PETROL "ON" AGAIN
    19 1 P ;s to be Australia, re- ioned I Ausled that Govern tulatlonji Reuter A AP
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    BULLET-RIDDEN BODIES FOUND
    19 1 BU L LET- RIDDEN BODIES FOUN D M«- Kfporter n bodies i kidon Sepi c jungle Merah area n
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    CHARCOAL BUSES
    26 1 CHA RCOAL BUS ES Ton charcoal burning buses .ire being placed m service :n nfhaJ because of the scarcity and high cost cf me A. P.
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    Winner by a blob
    85 1 NEWMARKET, \Ved. THE photo finish picture of a race so enrajjed a punter this afternoon that he smashed the glass rranie m which the picture was displayed. The judges awarded the race to Chancellor, on the nose of whom was what appeared to be a white
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    ASIA RUBBER HAS RIVAL
    203 1 WASHINGTON. Thursday. rHU IS. Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Charles Brarman, said yesterday, that Latin American countries are developing a natural rubber industry which will gradually make them independent of rubber imports from the Far East. He added that United States and Latin American scientists had succeeded
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    Chinese Govt. order defied
    71 1 Chines e Govt. order defied HONGKONG. Tlmrs. OFFICERS of armed Chinese Customs patrol vess a yesterday refused to obey Chinese Government orders to leave Hong Kong harbour for Taiwan unless they were paid three months salary n advance and promised Imme diate retirement. The officers said Lhe Government order stipulated
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    SOCIETY TOUGHS BEAT UP CHINESE
    37 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Three Chinese toughs last night beat up another Chinese m Upper Chin Chew Street after failing to get him to pay some fees for joining a secret society.
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    Anti-gambling swoop
    17 1 Free Press Staff Reporter In an anti-gambling swoop, the Singapore C.I.D. yesterday detained 15 Chinese.
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    No time to marry
    66 1 VfARY GARDZN. famous prima donna of the Chicago Itl Opera Company, said: "I'm dangling around 100,' when asked her age on arrival yesterday m the United States. Asked why she never married, she said: "I hadn't time. You have to know the man very well before
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    M.P.s call for Stalin-Truman get-together
    133 1 LONDON, Wed f^ORTY members ot Parliai ment urged last nlgnt that President Truman and Mr Stalin get together to tnd the atom bomb race. They laid a motion on me rabJe In the House of Commons asking the Prime MinisMr. Clement Attlee, to arrange the
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    U.S. TIN PRICE REDUCED
    59 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. THE Reconstruction Finance Corporation yesterday reduced the price of tin sold to domestic consumers to 96 U.S. cents per pound c.i.f Now York. The reduction followed by several days the action of the British Ministry of Supply m reducing the dollar price of Malayan
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    Anglo-Egypt defence
    19 1 Joint Anglo-Egyptian r?ir defence exercises will be held In Egypt towards the end nf October. A. P.
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    Gun-running into Malaya alleged
    235 1 MANILA. Thursday. f^HIEF of the Philippine constabulary, Brig. -den. Alberto Ramos, said here yesterday that the murdered American business man. George Murray, was an official of a gun-running syndicate which smuggled arms into Malaya. Gen. Ramos said that among the evidence m constabulary hands was a
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    COMB-OUT FOR REDS
    46 1 FOLLOWING the province- wide ban on the Communist Party, Madras police yesterday round up 60 more Communists In a widespread comb-out. Tqial arrests, .since the provincial Government's ban on the Communist Party and allied organisations imposed on Sept. 26, rose to 100.— Reuter
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    US-Canada manoeuvres
    24 1 US -C anada manoeuv res A combined United StatesCanadian exercise m the Arctic to last from January to March will be held next f«ar
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    FIRE CAUSED PLANE CRASH
    64 1 ARGENTINA'S Minister of Transport, Lt.-Col. Juan F. Castro, says that tho plane crash m which five people were killed and 17 injured, 100 miles from Buenos Aires on Tuesday night, was due to a fire started by an explosion In an oxygon tank. The plane was
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    US TO MAKE MORE ATOM BOMBS
    147 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. 'rHE United States is to make more atom bombs x because of the recent atomic explosion m Russia, Senator Brian McMahon, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, announced today after his committee had been m closed session with the Atomic
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    JOHORE ARRESTS
    35 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Arrests m Johore under the Emergency Regulations from midnight on Sept. 21 to midnight last night totalled 73. Of this number 69 are Chinese, two Tamils and iwo Malays.
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    NO AGREEMENT
    26 1 The French Council of Ministers ended their meeting yesterday without reaching agreement on dealing with labour's revolt against the I wage freezing policy.- Reuter
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    Arms aid bill is passed at last
    138 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. OOTH Senate and House of Representatives last night passed the $1,314,010,000 foreign arms aid bill under which the Atlantic Pact nations will get $1,000,000,000 m armaments. All that is needed to make the measure law is President Truman's signature. The $314,010,000
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    No action on broadcasting
    86 1 Free Press Stall Reporter KL 'ALA LIMPIR, Thurs. r plIE Federal Government X has decided that no action should be taken on the proposal recommending that the Broadcasting Department should be handed over to RedifTusion. This proposal was made by the special committee which investigated the
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    UN COMMITTEE ON GREECE?
    54 1 A USTRALIA yesterday prorl posed that the United Nations General Assembly reappoint a conciliation committee to try to reach a settlement of the Greek question. A resolution to that effect was presented to the General Assembly Political Committee by Mr. Norman J. Mafcln. Australian Ambassador to
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    China case goes to Assembly
    216 1 NEW YORK, Thurs. RESPITE an angry outburst by the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky, the U.N. Assembly's Steering Committee yesterday decided to put China's complaint against the Soviet Union on the Assembly agenda. Dr. T. S. Tsiang, head of the Chinese delegation, told the
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    FEWER JOBLESS
    22 1 The U.S. Labour Depw: ment reports that industi employment m the United States Increased 500,000 between mid-July and midAugust U.P.
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    Rubber prices
    54 1 A SPECIAL Market Correspond ent gi\n the prices of rubber (m cents per lb.) at 11 a.ra tpda? as follows: Buyers Sellers No. 1 R.S.S Spot: loose 43 44 Fob In bales Oct. No. 1 R.S.S. 43 44 No. 2 R.S.S. 42 42' No. 3 R.S.S. 39\ 99%
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    Scott jr. Meets the Kogmuits
    802 2 Scott jr. Meets the Kogmuits The story of a flight into the unknown as told to KATHLEEN LYON LIEUT.-COMMAN-J f)KR Peter Scott, bird studier, traveller, and painter, son of Scoti of the Antarctic* h;is flown back to England with ;i piece of paper on which rough 1} marked m with
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    Bridge Hands
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    'Fire Every Gun'. said Churchill
    268 2 'F ire Ev ery Gun'. said Churchill HPHE night of Septem--1 ber 10. 1940, was particularly noisy. For three niejhts there had been the hateful hubbub of German planes and bombs. Then, on the afternoon of the 10th, General Sir Frederick Pile, commanding Ack-Ack defences, called all his gunner officers
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    QUICK LOOKS
    101 2 QUICK LOOKS lord llighport Dropped at l>av%n. by Kowland WIBB. (Caatell, Bs. MJ Picturesquely improbable a nt 0) how and ufiy Highportt srdate rosy. middle-aged peer, came •'letnuj nut of the down uto his toit'j gnertila ut Readable eitrai > anza. revommendaWe for a tico or Ihree-hoiir tram \;rney Splash
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    IN BRIEF
    416 2 THE GODS IN (ONFLUT. Eunh Sa under. Sampson 1-ow. 1 hi- Ls a DOVCI which discusses war and peace, love and fury Behind the g» rale love story of I Lang is the perpetual conflict of our own limp.- w: hadows the ictloni of a)\ the characters. thk
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    ANSWERS
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    A Traitor with a Women Fixation'
    430 2 PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. "lAIRMANY Calling Jairmany Calling! There was a time when, month after month, that mocking and malignant voice, acid and yet oily, was as much a pail of the discomfort of daily life as the wail of sirens,
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    DO YOU KNOW?
    21 2 I W'aSchoo!"* 3 eta 3 Whal m The 4 Who B V. T \S < 8 Wta \1 1
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    U.K. GOVT. MAY REVIEW PAY PLAN
    452 3 U.K. GOVT. MAY REVIEW PAY PLAN Effect of devaluation r J[HE British Government and the Trades Union Congress may soon reconsider the existing polity on wages and personal incomes, m the light of the effects of devaluation, according to the London Daily Mirror. Already the Government admits the justice of
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    25 Years before Germany has its war planes
    129 3 25 Years before Germany has its war planes I of Western dermanys pre-war irporl facilities have now been •st-cUSg condition by the British and ulit.uv governments, according to ed plans it will be at least 25 years before German planes or German pi vil aviation officer refused, howe i s
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    CANADA'S FIRST SUBWAY
    39 3 CANADA'S FIRST SUBWAY lI'ORK has started on CanaTT rJa's first subway. Tho U 3 SJO million project :r years to complete. underground artery. nine beneath Toronto's ighfaret Yongp Street— will carry up to 40,000 >— agert an hour. A. P.
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    6,000 Austrians held by Reds
    302 3 ALTHOI'GH it is now nearly five years since the •liberation" of Austria, official reports show that there are still at least 6,000 Austrian prisoners of war m Soviet Russia. The Austrian Government has made many attempts to secure their return and the Soviet Government has
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    WON A PRIZE WITHOUT A CATCH IN IT
    128 3 WON A PRIZE WITHOUT A CATCH IN IT that the winner of the raffle for a salmon at a Monmouthshire flower show would be sure of a j fresh fish the organisers deqicied that the salmon would ibe caught after the result was known. It looked a safe bet m
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    P.I. TO SLASH U.S. IMPORTS
    88 3 American cigarettes and coffee have disappeared from many Manila retail .stores, while prices advanced sharply for imported brands Still available. The artificial shortage due lo hoarding set m as President Quirino and his Cabinet began consideration of stringent new import cont roll In an effort
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    U.S. to back India, 'Slavia
    64 3 '|*HE United States will X support India as a candidate for the Security Council m place of Canada whose term ti due to end this year, i T was learned authoritatively. The United Staus has also decided to support Yugoslavia for a sea r nn
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    SIAM HOLD-UP
    24 3 Three bandits held ud the Maeklong railroad express m Siam and escaped with 16.000 bahts (U.S. $BHf» m a daylight robbery. A.P.
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    WHAT'S ON IN K.L.
    135 3 UOL: Unfaithfully Yours. PAVILION: A Foreign Affair. ODEON: Reign of Terror. COLlshi'M: Gulliver's Travels MADRAS: Colorado Territory CATHAY: The Green Archer .whole serial HINDUSTAN: The Village Beauty (Egyptian). EMPIRE: Romeo and Juliet (Hindustani). I'KNAM. REX; Escape. CATHAY: Cardinal Richelieu. ODEON: Phe Fan I IDO: G-Men vs
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    Jap black mart under control
    230 3 Jap black mart under control FIIINGS are not too bad m Japan and even the jlackmarket is taking a )eating, according to the lews agency. Kyodo, irhidi surveyed the black narket m 50 main cities m 14 food and clothing terns and found the prices had dropped on all but
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    'US planning atomic war on civilians'
    237 3 King Phimpiion of Siam :tnd his fiance, Princess Nirikit. are sern m this pirture. made recently m Lausanne, Switzerland. They have announced their .i';.uc;iifni. but no date has been fixed for the wedding. The *?l-year-year old King v studying law m Switzerland. lib flame.
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    FOREST FIRES IN OREGON
    52 3 A. P. EIGHTY fmm famuL-s had to be evacuated as a mile -wide forest fire menaced the coaxal towns of Cannon Beach and Tolovana Park Oregon. There are dozens of forest fires, covering an estimated 10.000 acres, burning out of control m western Oregon! and southwest
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    S.E. ASIA'S PART IN HEALTH ORG.
    70 3 THE need for greater representation for the Sou'h-East Asia region o'i the Executive Board of the World Health Orga.iisal'on was expressed 10 the South-East Asia regional commiii.ee. which 'vis taoen m session at New Delhi line* Monday. Delegates from fndi.j. Cey- lon. Burma pnd
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      405 3 ffiMWSjSjSJSJBJBWfiM'irWM^SSBSISSSSSSB^SBMBBS^SBWMBB E W 98 l m S^^fisHS -u/sjAPORE Metrts and 44. Metres. '>H KNJ I WORK TOUAV W» and 117 mplrrv 4 46 m English: Programme Il! rwntj nrws from kl Summary; News Headlines; Sharp tn.tn RL. Market Report; 5.00 Malcuzyn.,ki M j. m at the piano; 5.15 Mid-Week Talk'
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 1949.
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      TIME IS MONEY IN THE POCKET
      269 4 PRICES m Singapore are going up. We have said It before and we say it again. tnis time with the backtng of the Food Controller who J has a staff of inspectors wnose task it Is to keep a watch on prices. His men
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      Bravely flies the Red flag
      209 4 JJVILMa are a great educa- tiorial factor today. Many m Singapore, as In other at cities, form th»>ir ideas i about the outside world I from what they see on the j E treen, and they are particularly influenced by j >p isedly well-informed documentary
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      Not so peaceful
      185 4 WHEN Mr. Carlos Romulo made his Inaugural address as president of the United Nations General Assembly he was optimistic enough to hope that It would go down m history as the "Peace Assembly." It has taken only a few days of open argument to olast his hopes.
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    The Enigma that is Cripps
    1146 4  - The Enigma that is Cripps GORDON BECKLES y*s*&*a&e&*A NEW APPRAISAL 01^*** I BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC DICTATOR By gIR Stafford Cripps was once said to have a mind that works like "a really smooth-running Irani. The retort was: "V«l and it runs equally smoothly m. either direction/* It is what has happened
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    Malays And Joget
    379 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR invasions of moA dern Joget into thi* island of Singapore for the last year have brought a burst of criticism m the local papers comments from the Kathi of Singapore as well as from the Malay leaders and women alike as a bad
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    IT SEEMS TO ME...
    1053 4  -  Politico by AS one who has spent a number of years now happily behind me trying to figure out probable winners, it seems to me tluii those newspaper correspondents who Ua\e been pointing out the business of broken dividends on the totalisatOTS of this country are
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    Maoris Will Vote Labour
    108 4 Maoris Will Vote Labour MAORI mak trienm. tion d late In N Zealand When then Uonol bens present 80 meo th?r^ for th, 5J printed those elect Htthei voted i tions In j Ucally given dual v(, Over at the 1944 and t: '0.000 haw* plied year. The M tals
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      16 4 7* y t**f**^ 7 OWR 3 /4 OF A V^ JjS atnmr* (r^Jh, H-2tHfGN ST., S'PORe.
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    BIG RISE IN RUBBER EXPORTS FORECAST
    367 5 BIG RISE IN RUBBER EXPORTS FORECAST Hope of 30, 000 tons a month Free Press Staff Reporter increase m Malaya's monthly rubber exports to the United States to about 30,000 tons m the coming months was predicted yesterday by Mr. Lee Kong Chian, Singapore rubber magnate, i He expected this
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    Colony celebrates moon cake festival
    110 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent Chinese are expected to spend r thousands of dollars on moon cakes, paper animals and birds during the Mid-Autumn Festival which reaches its i the 15th day of the Eighth Moon, or Oct. 6. aurants and grocery stores are now i
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    New Clerical Union chief
    103 5 MR. Llm Yew Hock has been elected president of the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union. Other members of the Union's Executive Council are: Vice-presidents. Mr Lim C'Luan Geok and Mr. G H Kiat: Hon. gen. secretary, Mr. Lim Tin Soon: Hon. treasurer, Mr. A B
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    LONG SERVICE MEDALS
    83 5 LONG SERVICE MEDALS THREE members of the staff of the Far East Oxygen and Acetylene Co. at Pasir Paniang were presented yesterday with silver medals to mark their 20 years' service. The general manager, Mr. Raymond Devaux, gave the medals to Ahmat bin Hall Rais, a syce, Mr. Antony P.
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    SINGAPORE WATER DEARTH WARNING
    238 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A WARNING that there i s likely to be a shortage of water supply m Singapore if consumption is maintained at the present rate or if it increases is given m an official statement issued yesterday. All consumers are urged to use
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    MAILS
    8 5 'Ed to Mill p ;St GPO i!:a.
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    RENT PROTEST BY PEASANTS
    127 5 MALAY peasant* In certain areas m Kedah are protesting against excessive rent charged by landlords, the Utusan Melayu reports from Alor Star. In some cases. It is stated, landlords impose rent of from 30 to 60 per cent, of the total yield of one relong. The
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    COSTLIER FARM EQUIPMENT
    148 5 COSTLIER FARM EQUIPMENT Free Press Staff Reporter THE increase m price of Bt>rlcultural machinery from hard currency areas *oul affect supplies m British colonial territories to seme small extent, the director of the Colonial Developnn ii Corporation m Singapore, Mr F S. MacFadzpan told the Free Press yesterday He was
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    Charge was wrong
    108 5 oaying ihat the man had been wrongly charged, the Chief Justice of Singapore, Mr. Jus' ice Mur-ray-Aynsley, yesterday, set at liberty a Chinese. Chan Ah Poh, who had appealed against a sentence of 18 months' rigorous imprisonment on three charges of extort ion. Th" case for the
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    14,000 liable to income tax
    266 5 FEDERATION ASSESSMENT Free Press Staff Reporter KVALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE number of individuals m the Federation likely to be liable for income tax for 1948 is estimated at 14,000. The number of companies is estimated at 1.805. This was stated m reply to written questions
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    Safety for Sakais
    95 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Xl ALA LUMPUR, Ttaurs. RESETTLEMENT of Sakais IV because of increased bandit activity against them cost $42,000 m Perak, $45,354 m Seiangor and 57.500 on the PerakPahang border. The Federal Legislative Council was asked to approve this expenditure as its meeting today. The
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    MOVE TO PROMOTEE TRADE
    164 5 MOVE TO PROM OTEE TRADE r) promote t'-ude. r he Economic Commission ror Asia and the Far East wiiJ exchange Import and exporr lists with the Economic Commission for Europe. In addition. ECAFE trade consultants will this year complete their surveys of Asia and Far Eastern countries by visiting North
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    BUNGALOWS TO BE REPAIRED
    75 5 BUNGALOWS TO BE REPAIRED "THE vacation bungalows on Penang Hill and the Junior Civil Servants Association buncalow at Tanjone Bungah will be among the buildings to be re-equipped if the Federal Legislative Council this morning approves supplementary expenditure amounting to $89,925 applied for by the Settlement of Penane; Government. Other
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    CATTLE DISEASE
    30 5 A foot-and-mouth disease data amongst cattle In lingapore Exportation of "attle, sheep, goats and wine Is prohibited unless rilten permission is obtain--1 f*-i>m the Chief Veterinary fleer, Singapore.
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    $4 ½ millions for water in Federation
    603 5 $4 millions for water in Federation free Press Staff Reporter Xl ALA LUMPUR, Thursday. W/ATER supply projects for eight towns m the 1 T Federation at a cost of $4,594,600 were outlined fn a report laid before the Federal Legislative Council this morning. The report gave reasons for the allocation
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    Industrials & tins slump
    533 6 Industrials tins slump etzmezm LONDON, Thursday. I )H X I s of tin and industrial shares tumbled m the London Stock Exchange yesterday, says Reuter'* financial correspondent. Heavy marking down ol industrials followed news of the Government* intention to increase the tax on distributed profit; from 25 per cent, to
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    STOCK INDICES
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    116 6 Ships m port alongside the Singapore Hrubour Board wharves yesterday (godowna m br.ick^-'s > wf j re Main Wharf h tfle i3:{-' 34. BmaVOO 38-39. Pr «42-43.. Wwt Wharf: T]lp*naj f»-7) OranvUle '8-9' Beuarty i!l» Henn j i 3-1 4 Olga Maer^k 1 15- I It) F.mpire IKw-k:
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    'UNDUE RISK' IN WORK ON AIRSTRIP
    562 6 Criticism m K.L. inquiry Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A COMMITTEE of inquiry which has examined the reasons for the $177,000 Kuala, Lumpur airstrip resurfacing failure early this year criticises the manner m which the job was tackled. The committee, which laid
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    49 6 N.Y. STOCK S /\PiiMis\i ovei the i ha nets of a brtak m the deadlocked .steel negotiations gave Wall Street I a »<ood start yesterday Gains ranging to U.B. si or more wnhrld throughout 'he day. Activity, qu;e f «'ned during the Bftcrnoor The clftse u;<.s firm Re uter
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    ALL SET FOR JOHORE GRAND PRIX
    444 6  -  EDIN PETERS By A RECORD crowd is expected to cross the Causeway on Sunday to see some thrilling racing m the Johore Grand Prix, the biggest post-war motoring event, organised by the Singapore Motor Club. Competitors m the Grand Prix will have to negotiate
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    CUP HORSES GIVEN FINAL GALLOPS
    396 7 CUP HORSES GIVEN FINAL GAL LOPS Achilles likely favourite Free Press Racing Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. JORSES running m the Autumn Trophy race— over a mile and a half, which is the longest distance on the Malayan Turf on Saturday were given their winding-up gallops on the training track this morning.
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    Ballymun lost to better horse
    305 7 c Press Racing Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. ttUK unit uncertainty of racing was once again anifested when Ballymun 11, marked down j nowii «'ies as one of best things ever to walk racecourse, was beaten by Bright Star, a Titherto failed to gain a place on
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    Police on defensive
    151 7 X.M Seleiar 11; Police 3. p v iresh irom their 6 3 victory over Tengah irday, found R.A.F. Seletar a different esterday evening m a match played on th rhomson Road ground, and went down by 11 B to play a spoiling game, the Police I( irded
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    WOODCOCK BOUT NOT AFFECTED
    47 7 'THE world heavyweight bout between Bruce Woodcock and Lee Savold m London next Mjy is not affected by the devaluation of the pound 1 sterling. Savold is on a gate percentage and contracts were signed before there was any news about devaluation. Reuter.
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    Hockey carnival
    62 7 THE Chilians (Colours! v. ArmyNavy hockey match hxed for 9 a.m. on Sunday will be played it 4 p.m. on Saturday on the Padantj i 'SRC. end). Both of Monday's games Civi'x&r.s i White*) v. Civilians Colours' and Army-Navy v. \A.F. Combined will take plac* on the S.R.C.
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    ROCKLITES WIN
    42 7 Tht Rocklitcs defeated R A K. Seletar Sergeants by three goals to one at soccer on the C V.M A ground yesterday. K. Drngon, Pi'out and O. de Silva were the scorers for Roeklites while Symond scored for the 'rap
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    S.C.C. HOCKEY
    28 7 The Slngaporr Cricket Clut> hockey team to play DC RE. tomorrow on the Padang Is: Barnes; Dennis, LJoyds; Karelae. Tablor. Low; Shepherd, Collings, Mclnroy, Smith, Pekelherlng.
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    South Johore XV beat Nee Soon
    376 7 JOHORE BAIIKI', Wednesday. I'lU. South Johore Rugby Football Club played their first match of the season today on the Johore Civil Service Club's ground which was utilised for the first time for rugby after a lapse of eight years. The opposition was furnished by
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    S.C.C. Rugby XV will improve
    415 7 By CRUSADER Colours (Probables) 15; Whites (Possibles) 0. SINGAPORE Cricket Club have a formidable rugby side m the making, judging by the trial held last evening on the Packing. The standard was definitely better than m last week's tryout, although passing was at times wild
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    ROVERS S.C. MEETING
    35 7 MEE'I ING of soccer players of I\ Rovers Sports Club w ill be held at 14. Irrawaddy Road, at noon on Sunday. Arrangements for the coming S.AF.A. Cup competition will be ihnilMli
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    U.K. RUGGER RESULTS
    44 7 YESTERDAYS Rugby Union resill's were Oxfordshire 0 Leicestershire 11; Bridgend 21. Mountain Ash 0; Cheltenham 9. Gloucester 9; Northumberland 0. Edinburgh and District 5. In a York-shire Cup second-round Rugby League fixture Hudder&fleld beat Wakelield Trinity 20—12.— Reuter and A. P.
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    MALAYS TOO GOOD THIS TIME
    220 7 Malay* i; European 1. Vf ALAYS were too good for Europeans m their secondround encounter la the B.A.F.A Inter-Community League »t Jalan Be.*ar Stadium yesterday. In the first round Europeans j had taken the honours although! Malays won 3-2. Yesterday. 1 Malays, led oy scheming
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    PORTSMOUTH BEAT ARSENAL
    17 7 PORTSMOUTH brat Arsenal 2—l m a soccer friendly at Hove yesterday —Router and AP
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    YESTERDAY'S IPOH RACE RESULTS
    443 7 RESULTS -m brief) of yesterdays Ipoh races were: i RACE ONE Claas 2, Div. 3—4 far* Mr. Jules Martin 'a (1) YICTORINE t.lO <379— 1t3> Tullofa 1 (6) SKYSTKEAKS.9 (551—222) Woods 2 (5) LAST DOUBLE 8.7 (224—140) E. Donnelly 3 (1) PRINCESS NVFFIELD 8.4 (123—119) Talt
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    Police v. R.A.F. Selefar rugby
    32 7 A Police player, having gained possession. looks about for an opening: an Incident m yesterday's rugger match at Thomson Road. R.A.F. Seletar won 11—3, Free Press picture.
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    26 entries for weightlifting championships
    246 7 26 entries for weightlifting championships AN indication of Singapore's weightlifting prospects m the British Empire Games next year will be given m the Singapore Amateur Weigh tlif ting Federation's annual championships to be held at the New World stadium this week-end. There are 26 entries for seven of the eight
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    Big sweep results
    61 7 THE Bif Sweep drawn «»u race seven at Inoh > terday resulted as follow-: TOTAL POOL: $312,100. FIRST: No. *****-1 ($96,432). SECOND: No. *****4 ($48,216). THIRD: No. M 2251 ($24,108). STARTERS: (53,4' l each). Nos: *****0; *****4! *****9; *****1; *****1. *****6; 35€737. CONSOLATION PRIZES ($l,OOO each). Nos:
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    DOUBLE TOTE
    12 7 FIRST DOUBLE: one ticket ($661); SECOND DOUBLE: one ticket (157* >.
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    11 Girls To Compete
    114 7 The** entered lor the men a "body beautiful" contest areChua Cher Pak. Salleh bin Sijan, Tan Leng Huat, Tan Chin Hoe, Roland Hoon. Tan Yeah Show, Awang bin Saude, Teo Teng Ann Toh Chua, Tan Teo Chuan, Wong Saw Chung. Urn Zeu Yee j YusufT bin
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    S'pore wrestling
    39 7 A SPECIAL return contest between Dara Singh and George Zbusko features Saturday wrestling at the Great World arena Other bouts are- Savaran Singh v. Leow Kwciig Seng; Ho Wan Peng v Thomson. Tiger Ahmat v. M«-.g Jiak.
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    NIMBUS OUT OF BIG RACE
    74 7 >^IMBUS. winner of the L 919 English Derby and 2.003 Guineas, will not run lor r !*e £25.000 French Grand Prix I l'Arc de Triomphe, scheduled r Longchamps on Oct. 9. Trainer George Colling &aic night that Nimbus had appe to pull up soundly after
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    RECS WIN 7-0
    47 7 AFTER conceding oaly one goal m the first half. R.A.F. B failed to withstand the continuous attacks of the SRC. forwards and lost 7 o m a friendiy hockty match on the Padang yeafrdav. Scorers were Rozario 13) Ebert Pennefather Barth and A. Clarke
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    PERMUDA CLUB
    24 7 JOHORE BAHRU Wed IIPermuda Club open their hockey season with a match again Naval Base team on Friday at the Naval Base.
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    BIRTHS
    35 8 TO BETTY wife of Capt. L. Hunt, D.A.P.M., North Malaya, on Scot 27, a son, Nigel Leigh. HOAFvE— At Penang Maternity Hospital, on Sept. 27. to Joan, Of Joan Hoare, a son Richard John.
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    LETS STOP BEING BLOOD DONORS
    508 8 Churchill 's call to Govt. LONDON, Thursday. jyjß. WINSTON CHURCHILL contended m Parliament yesterday that Britain's war expenses m defending India, Egypt and other countries should be set against their sterling balances. "We are not m a state of health to become blood donors on
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    Prayer book as deadly weapon
    37 8 LOS ANGELES, Thurs. JOSEPH WEISSMAN, 39, was booked yesterday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon." His wife, Ooldle, 40, told police he struck her with a grayer book A.P.
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    'Indonesia must have New Guinea'
    182 8 THE HAGUE, Thuis. THE only logical solution for New Guinea is to be Within Indonesia, of which it has always been a part," Dr. Mohammed Hatta, leader or the Indonesian delegation to the round-table conference, said here yesterday. He flatly opposed its retention by the
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    U.S. WELCOMES POLIO NURSE
    52 8 SISTER Elizabeth Kenny Australian nurse, noted for her work with infantile paralysis victims, has now be^n honoured by the U S Senate. It adopted and sent to the House a resolution allowing her to enter, the United States at an v time, without observing normal Immigration
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    'Karen State a fact'
    204 8 BANGKOK, Wed. A SEPARATE Karen state m Burma tor which 4.000,000 Karen tribesmen have been m revolt r or tlie last eight months— is* now an accomplished iact." the Karen leader, Saw Ba U Oyi. claimed m an exclusive Reuter interview at his Central Burma stronghold
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    TV disclosure by Deputy-PM
    108 8 LONDON. Thurs. MR. Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, yesterday disclosed Britain's Ore-year television programme which, he said, would bring the service to eight out of every 10 people m the country by the end of 1955. Britain's second station— at Birmingham— which was cxi pe cted
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    Rupee deadlock
    38 8 Trade between India and Pakistan continued at a standstill while telegrams were exchanged between Karachi and New Delhi m an attempt to resolve the deadlock on the relative values ot the Pakistan nnH TnHion rupees. Reuter
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    MOTOR SHOW OPENS
    24 8 Visitors from almost every part, of the world poured Into London for Britain's great annual motor show which opened yesterday. Reuter
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    Bleak House to be sold
    61 8 BLEAK HOUSE, at Broadstairs, Kont, where Charles Dickens lived for several years, will be auctioned ott" m November. The author left Bleak House In 1819. It was known then as Fort House. The ?5-room building, located high on the Hiffs of South-east Kent, is owned
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    STORMS KILL 17
    18 8 Seventeen people were kiiled m torrential rain, thunder and lightning storms m Spain on Wednesday.
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    75.000 MIGRANTS
    17 8 75.000 MIGRAN TS Aurttalia gained 75.000 P'ople by immigration In the first six months of this year.
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    WANTS RETURN OF BROTHELS
    115 8 PARIS, Thursday. 4 MEMBER of the Paris Municipal Council, M. Fierre Bengist, yesterday urged that the city's ban on houses of prostitution be repealed The brothels, which formally operated under a licensing system, were closed four years ago. m a statement In ihc official city bulletin,
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    Sinkiang goes over to the Communists
    244 8 HONG KONG, Thursday. SINKIANG, vast north-western province bordering Soviet Russia, has severed all relations with the Nationalist Government at Canton and set up a Communist regime, says the Communist Peiping radio. The radio claimed that, during August, the Chinese Red armies had annihilated 240,000
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    'Oppose testtube babies'
    60 8 ROME. Thurs. ARTIFICIAL insemination as a means of obtaining children was strongly condemned yesterday by the fourth International Congress of Catholic Doctors meeting here. Prof. Octave Pasteru of Paris. president of the International Medical Society of St. Luc. urged Catholic doctors of all countries to oppose artificial
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    MALAN PROTESTS AT WHITE QUEEN
    117 8 CAPETOWN, Thursday. OOUTH AFRICA has protested to Britain against the marriage of 24-year-old London typist Ruth Williams to Seretse Khama, young chief of the Bamangwatos of Bechuanaland, the Prime Minister, Dr. Daniel Malan. announced yesterday at Paarl! Cape Province. Dr. Malan told a Nationalist Party
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    ATTACK ON ESTATE
    79 8 j f riHE Balisam rubber estate, 1 some 42 miles west of East Sumatra's capital city of Medan and within the socalled no mans land between the territory of East Sumatra state and the Republican territory of Atjer (North Sumatra), was attacked by an armed gang on
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    NEW MOVES TO IMPROVE ASIAN HEALTH
    171 8 NEW DELHI, Tluirs. k THREE-DAY meeting of n the Regional Committee of the World Health Organisation for South-East Asia concluded here yesterday alter reaching a number of decisions expected by the meeting to lead to greater cooperation In tuckling common health problems. The decisions
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    JAP BOAT SEIZED
    23 8 A Korean coast guard vessel seized a small Japanese fishing boat m the straits between southwest Jaoan and Korea.- UP.
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    Dismantling goes on
    26 8 The three Western foreign ministers definitely rejected the possibility of suspending dismantling m Western Germany when they met last week m Washington. Reuter
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