Malaya Tribune, 13 July 1946

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  • 36 1 The Malaya Tribune The Paper Of The People Of Malaya Phone Nos:-—Editorial (only) 5811 Advertising, Circulation Accounts 5812 EIGHT PAGES. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS The Malaya Tribune SAT AY, JULY 13, 1946
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  • 62 1 V Sigtue "unveiled"... Carved by Sir Wil f-'ih n Portland during the blitz. and subsequently Ptb!e botnb damage. the statue or King •i- 'inearthed recently and loaded onto a lorry a: > n readiness for lis road journey to <he Tate •.re I t>'<li remiin until its peda,\<a! and are
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  • 151 1 A.P. NKING, Ju]y 13: —Chinese Communists were attacking or massing troops around three China cities, where U.S. Marines are stationed, les from Peiping on Friday said. Marshall conferred with simo Chiang Kai-shek was telieved to be new mlac peace proposals, reponrcd n <-f battles or
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  • 99 1 NGTON, July 12- put more steam inflation drive *oy i cut federal spendTruman endored a he r.LW Reconversion hn Steelman calling utlays by the Govparticularly by the army—and for a OPA law. Truman told newsnnection with the isi Steelman's quarterly Government expenbe reduced." Id nt sad: "Military
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  • 110 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 11.—There were signs on the stock markets today of serious decline of prices. The falling off of local participation has been attributed to the temporary absence of funds which are tied up in new issues, including £41.500.000 earmarked for the Dunlop Rubber
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  • 153 1 Reuter. LONDON. July 13. —Loudon butchers who told shoppers today that if necessary they will open on Sunday to ensure that housewives get their week-end joint have been warned that if they do £so they will be breaking the law. This development followed the return
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  • 115 1 A.P. TOKYO, July 12. Justice John P. Higgins, who resigned as the American member of the international military tribunal for the Far East, said: "When I :ook the assigment, it was believed that the trias would be over in the fall, but it now appears it will
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  • 403 1 Reuter. BATAVIA. July 11:—The Netherlands Navy does not interfere with legitimate inter-island traffic in the Indonesian archipelago, Vice-Admiral A. S. Pinke, commander of th-» Neiherlaids naval forces in the NEI, told correspondents here. The Navy is ht re (1) to ma.ntain law and order.
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  • 24 1 A.P. PEIPING, July 13.—Mr. J. Leighton Stuart, the new U.S Ambassador to Ch'na, plans io fly to Nanking on Saturday to assume his duties—A.P.
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  • 196 1 Reuter. LONDON. July 12:— After six years during which he has his life 250 times in bomb disposal work, Major A. E. Smith of Harrows, Mead, Edgware. is being demobilised—and he is sorry about it. Today he leaves the famous No. 2 bomb disposal group
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  • 737 1 Republicans Certain Bill Will Be Defeated LOAN DECISION TODAY Reuter. .„.c^ H TON JIILY 13:—LATEST UNOFFICIAL POLL FIGURES GIVEN THIS MORNING BY TWO NEWS AGENCIES, REUTER AND ASSOCIATED PRESS ON THE LOAN ISSUE WHICH IS TO BE DECIDED TODAY, SHOW A SMALL YOUR Of\hE^^N
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  • 101 1 TOKIO, July 12.—Twenty per cent of the estimated 1,115 Japanese vessels sunk during the war have been salvaged, according to Kyodo quoting reports from the Kyushu Marine Transportation Bureau. The salvaged ships include 31 steamships, 185 motorized schooners and 171 vessels of other classifications. Salvage work is
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  • 90 1 A.P. BATAVIA, July 12.—What a British spokesman described as the "Belsen camp of Sumatra" was accidently discovered by a low-flying R.A.F. Dakota in Padang surroundings, writes Harry Hoogendoorn, Assoc at ed Press correspondent. The crew observed waving people, and an expeditionary unit immediately started from Padang. Fifty
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  • 42 1 A.P. Bankok, July 11. —Two En-glish-language dailies Liberty and Democracy, which earlier were suspended in protest against the government press censorship, resumed publication on Wednesday. The Liberty re-appeared with a blank space where a banner headline was slated. —A.P.
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  • 172 1 PARIS CONFERENCE Reuter. PARIS, July 12: —Britain will "examine urgently" the United States offer of economic unity with any one or more of the other occupation zones in Germany pending the establishment of economic unity for the whole country, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest
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  • 172 1 A.P. Paris July 13.—The Foreign Ministers' Council adjourned last night after a IS-day session, with the Soviet Foreign Minister, V. M. Molotov, standing firm against any move that would have led to a settlement of the Austrian or German problems now, a British source said, writes
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  • 53 1 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 12. The Senate approved the House legislation extending indefinitely the ban against disposal of Government-owned synthetic rubber plants. The measure would delay the sale of plants until six months after full plans for disposal have been filed with Congress by th e War
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  • 534 2 James Marshall Hall of the CMP and Ernest William Johnson and Cyril Henry Bartlett of the RMP Coy., and two Filipinos, Ignatius Undason and Stanley Almante, were committed for trial at the High Court on a charge of armed gang robbery, at the conclusion of a
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  • 212 2 BANGKOK. July 12.—Pounding the table to emphasise his words. Dr. Choob Chotldassthlen. a member of the medical postmortem commission, steadfastly maintained that King Ananda Mahidol was murdered, during q stormy hearing before the investigation commission. Frequently clashing with a government interrogator who. he charged, was
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  • 33 2 Mrlayn's alloeatio". of dried fruit* from Australia may be procure! commercially. Applications for mi port licences (A.P. Forms) shounl be submitted to th Itefrisfcxat »1 Imports and Expor.s. Singapore.
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  • 38 2 STOCKTON. California. July 12 A fire started by an explosion destroyed part of the Schenley-Col*nct brandy distillery here today, burning thousands of gallons of brandy and alcohol. The damage i-- estimated to be $1,500,000 ts3-milUon Straits-.
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  • 29 2 96. Bras Basah Road. Morning Session: —Vacancies !n Stds. 11l t IV. Afternoon Session: —Vacancies in ■.{jBUIUd Evening English Classes: Three Graded Classes. Apply immediately. Principal.
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  • 124 2 Suicide while the state of his mind was temporarily unbalanced was the Coroner's verdict at the end of an inquiry into the death of F. H. Grummitt (56). who was formerly attached to the Supply Distributing Unit and was proprietor of the Northern Malayan group
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  • 53 2 BANGKOK, July 12—Border 3isnatches to the Siamese press reported three Siamese were wounded when 20 daeoits from Indo China raided a party of fishermen near Nongkhai on July 8. The daeoits were armed with hand-granades and rifles. They carried away two fishing boats a quantity of
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  • 69 2 WASHINGTON. July 12: President Truman last nipht expressed the view that world peace will be at tnined "if we can implement the United Nations Organisation with police force behind it, sufficient to oake its mandates stand up." He called for a stronger interna ticnal police force
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  • 78 2 Two arnu-d robberies wore reported to have taken place on Thursday. One was by a Chinese living at Yonjr Kit Road who said he hac. been robbed of $575 and jewellery worth $500 by four CilMSt >vlv were all armed with pistols. In the other robbery, a
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  • 67 2 Reuter. RIO DE JANEIRO, July 11— A rubber-for-wheat trade agreement between Argentina and Brazil has been negotiated, according to the New York Times, g, w The U.S., all surplus rubber producejd in Brazil, released to Argentina quantities to enable Brazil to obtain nearly *****0 tons of wheat;
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  • 645 2 We Are Going To See DEADLY GLOBAL BATTLE OF ISMS A.P. NEW YORK, July 12.-On July 29 Allied nations will assemble m the old Palace in Paris to lay down peace terms for the axis countries of Italy, Hungary Romania, B«^ ar f Finland-that is,
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  • 143 2 A.P. Havana. July 11. The national Sugar-mill Owners and Cane-groW-Wtt Association was called into MS" Hon today to consider a new agre<>ment for the sale of Cuba's 1 94*j ;.nd H»47 supar crop to the U.S. The agreement provides for a basic minimum pr.ce of 3.G75
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  • 66 2 At a committee meetintr of the Singapore Ratepayers' Association the chairman stated that it appeared necessary to remind Government about war claims compensation. Many serious cases of hardship were already in existence, and if rules for compensation were formulated, it might at least be
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  • 51 2 BANGKOK, July 12.—The Siamese Government announced plans to send China a gift of 500 tons of rice as a token of Siamese desire to assist in the relief of the Chinese famine. Personal gifts of rice to Chiang Kaishek and T- V. Soong were also
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  • 50 2 Fifty-four Japanese sentenced to death for war crimes are ar present awaiting confirmation and execution of sentence m Singapore. They include Major Mizutami. whose recen; trial in connexion with the BurmaSiam railway attracted considerable attention. Others were concerned in the Andamans, "Dou-ble-Tenth." and Burma-Siam railway cases-
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  • 29 2 The following now members have been elected to the committee of the Singapore Ratenayers' Association; Messrs. S. F. Ho. Abdul Hamid bin Jumat and S. 3. Franklyn.
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  • 56 2 Yap Ah Tione claimed WW in the Fourth Police Court yesterterdav when charged with criminal intimidation. It is alleged that at 2.40 p.m. on July 4 at Nelson Road. Yap threatened Tan Kan Mvi with a pistol. A reo.uest for 24 hours police custody was granted and
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  • 86 2 A.P. JERUSALEM. July 12: Th. of four members of the Jev.>t Agency Executive who were arrested on June 29 by the British authorities during the «Mwprtld >;c:.rches of Palestine buibii:._. bomes was released from the Lattaa detention camp today. The member who returned to J«.rua!cm
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  • 135 2 Reuter. BOURNEMOUTH. July 12.-A nnssible second victim of ihe mn?derer of c-x-Wren Doreen Sffl in Branksorne Dene are Se "Pe^ knew Miss Marshall and fhe police have been wishing to^e cr pSibmfy of a second mnrSer has arisen from .the after a Pathology, ?es\ hat a tuft
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  • 32 2 A.P. Alexandra. July 11. W» tish naval seamen and *ro U P tians were seriously .injured **C the night when of ihrew two grenades into Navy truck. —A.P
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    • 458 2 NOTICES WESTĔY~CHURCH~ 4. Fort Canning Road, 'Singapore. Attention is respectfully invited to the change ia hour for the Sunday evening Church service which has been held at 5 o'clock. Beginning with next Sunday. July 14, and continuing until further notice thf regular Sunday evening service of worship in Wesley Church
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  • 246 3 seas illegal to kill a nr»- war for trying to escape ut a trial by court-martial, it wrong to execute the PoW. Pte. Jlwh< n I received the m Cap:. Hosumi. but if execute the order I be charged with disthe order. I had to
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  • 84 3 •umstances of the Japtain Hagi Risuke's esWednesday are as ncr was a number of g party employed on j \vn long grass about outside Changi Jail, composition of the arty was checked prior rning to the jail the was missing. His abreported at approxip m but
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  • 1024 3 Public Funds To Aid Ex-PoW's Internees Singapore public funds are to be authorised to assist in granting relief to persons who although not actually destitute require and deserve financial assistance to rehabilitate themselves. Financial assistance is thus likely to be given to inmates of Sime Road and other similar camps
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  • 33 3 A representative meeting o* Indians will be held at "> today at 0, Race Course Lane (Indian Assocuition premises). All Indian organisations are requested to send two authorised representatives for tho meeting-
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  • 263 3 Th? committee of the War Prisoners (Singapore) Association has been informed that a committee of the Advisory Council, headed by H.E. tho Governor, on July 4 further discussed questions debated in council on the subject of relief of px-PoWs and ex-internees with regard to housing, transport,
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  • 214 3 Flight Sergeant Frank Albert William Jackson v2l» was acquitted in the Fifth Police Court yesterday on a charge of causing death through i teligent driving, without his defence being called upon. Shortly after 4 p.m. on >" r h 19 a military tipper lorry skidded ofl Changi Road
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  • 55 3 Two charges of murder were explained to a Javanese. Mokmin b. Asm in the Fourh Police Court yesterday. It is alleged that he committed murder of Lee Hoay Seah and Theam Chian at Pulau Bukom on the evening of July 9. The case Wfts postponed
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  • 477 3 Standing to attention and speaking in ringing tones, 55-year old Lt.-Col. Anami Sanso. the commandant of the PoW Camp Group, Ambon, entered on his defence at the Third War Crimes Court yesterday before Lt.-Col. H. E. R. Smith and two other officers, at the
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  • 615 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) As a result of determined action by the police, who in two raids on Thursday and yesterday destroyed over a hundred structures of unlicensed hawkers in Merchant Road and Smith Road areas, it is learned that other unlicensed hawkers are demolishing
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  • 136 3 The Governor-General's visit tv Borneo has now been reduced in length and the following new arrangements have been made. H.E. will fly to Jesselton on Sunday, for the ceremony on Monday of es'abl'shing tho new Colonial Government after the period of the Military AdministrationWith him will
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  • 72 3 A police mobile patrol from Beach Road stopped two Chinese at King Georges Avenue at 7.45 p.m. on Thursday, and recovered a Jap automatic pistol and a knife. The Chinese, Lim Poh Hong and Wong Yet Cheng, were produced before Magistrate Ahmad bin Ibrahim, in the Fifth
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  • 456 4 People who before the war were in the habit of niggling over a single cent are to-day willing to be overcharged twenty or thirty cents in the dollar without complaining of the imposition. The chairman Ot ihe planning committee oi' the Peoples' Restaurants puts it succinctly when he
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  • 1503 4 WHEN MR. JUSTICE DARLING ASKED He Was Told For hundreds or years the friends and enemies of Britain have regarded with a mixture of bewilderment and awe the national proclivity for laughing and even giggling at the most solemn moments, and in the most solemn places.
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  • 35 4 CONRAD GOEBBELS, bro Dr J02cj>>. Gocbbdx nti *fci lv late Nazi Piopagutuia u itxsbdaea in jail tti Darm Va Grrmonu* follouinq hi* cuptnrr c remote Gvrntan wUuoe by 4m»r. uulhcrtlle3.—A J 1 Photo A.P. Photo.
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  • 804 4  -  No animal lies on its back when ill By Robert D. Potter Doctors are doing a quick right-abcut-face these days on their eld time-tried rule of ketpng the patient flat on his back in complete bed res' during a serious illness or after a major
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  • 146 4 Bano-or TT. or n c f t^e Const-.lj tion aircraft with which 8.0.A.' will operate its transatlantic ser/iestartin? in July landed at Laauaroia Airfield, New York, after a tnai flight with 5.1 passengers and ere —a new record for the numbei •>* oerso-s
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  • 274 4 Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, —Swede i is tVe oaradise of Europe today, a wonderland tfcrou 'h wnoss well-filled show windows a hungry continent lcoks in awe. This is the country th v said No" to war, and now is reaping the peacet* ne harvest. Its manpower is
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  • 259 4 Reuter. ißy Kri( Downton Router's Convspordi nt) MOSCOW. (Air V&h Beginninc extensive five-year programme r or training some 200,000 agricultural -r-erts to man the Soviet Union's »er 5-owing "farm front". this 'ir finds 140 000 students enrolled t agricultural schools aiul ro'throughout the U.S.S.R.
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  • 298 4 British troops in Berlin will have every reason to be iatisfied with the care taken for their welfare by heir old friends N.A.A.F.I. when the block of modern buildings in the Reichlanz.erplaiiz, Summit House, is completed in August. The olock, over as a halffinished building by
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  • 105 5 ;H1 NGTON. July 12 —RepreLandis. Indiana Repubiiced today before going to r of Congress: "We have British loan licked." serted the proposed $3,750,--bb to England "is more I omote war than preserve iting support of a measure Secretary of State Cordell Landis added: "I fully
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  • 87 5 NANKING, July 12—The Prery Committee of the Nambly has decided to 1 g< rout protest agains. .en at Paris to excluae as one ol the sponsoring rs for the European peac» rence. French Ambassador has Uy advised Foreign Minist r Wang Shih-chieh that i*s repr.sentat ve
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  • 65 5 Tl tESTE July 12.— Disorders iwq m Tne-te again a* thousa i;- striking workers stormed > area to close shoos and factories' stil] open despite the genBeTeral were injured in the street O hers were wounded by civil police fire. si d Brrish military pothe city in
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  • 374 5 Situation ''Alarming Reuter. lUO DE JANEIRO, (AirMail).—Rio police are busy trying to check ihe advance of "Black Magic" after ttvc deaths were traced to rites enacted en the firelit hillsides behind ihe city. Folic? say that so many poople have been turning imba,
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  • 35 5 MADRID. July 12— Jef-us Bello Parga was executed by ga rot ting at La Corunna. Bello was sentenced to death for the murder of Arcadio Viella. journalist of the Ideal Gallego, on May 19.
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  • 224 5 Reuter. LONDON. July 11.— Commenting rubber agreement flxprice to the U.S.A. at 231, pound, the financial journal draws attention to the procedure whereby, instead irom the British Govern Rubber Development Corn win itself be in the market. Thi change, it says, is
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  • 116 5 LONDON. July 12: Pres dent t pu lean's three-man mission on Palestine, which is to have discussions w th the Br.tish Government oil |os p.cmontntion of the Anglo-United States Inquiry Commission's recom raendationa, arrivd today Pt Saving don aerodrome. Hertfordshire, by U.S. Army niane. They
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  • 184 5 A.P. NURIi: 'BKRG. July 11.—Fourteen times Hans Frank tried —and failed —to sever ties with Hitler's govern men! during the five years he was GoTernor-Oentral of occupied Poland, his counsel told the war crimes tribunal on Thursday Each time Hitler refused to accept his resignation.
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  • 145 5 HOCHBBTEF, July 12. Wbtn a young ex-Welsh Guardsman conftsstd at the Rochester County Court that ex-ATS private had jilted him for an airman, white-haired Judge A. F Clements threw up his arms in amazement. 'What! he cried incredulously, "She. chose the RAF in preference to the
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  • 82 5 CAIRO, July 12—Prime Minister Sidky Pasha said today the Government had launched a drive to check the dangerous increase" in Commun'st activities by Egyptians and foreigners. He said that several newspapers and magazines have been suspended and Communist associations closed. He told newsmen he would
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  • 393 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 11:—The Deoar» ment of Agriculture of Thursday predicted one of the best crop years in history, but prices consumers may be required to pay for the products remained a big question. Th l t** 1 —t-i-'t~ '»t-«t monthly
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  • 133 5 A.P. London, July 11.—Cardinal Griffin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminister, told a luncheon audience Thursday thaj the people of Trieste should be consulted before a final decision was made on the future cl the Italian ci.y. The Cardinal read the following message from Bishop SanAn
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  • 118 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 12.—President Truman on Thursday declared that every day that passes without price control law increases the danger from inflation. Certainly up to this point inflation has been prevented. Truman said, "but all the ground we have so laboriously won against inflation will
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  • 30 5 A.P. BANGKOK. July U. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce en Wednesday honoured Mr. Liang Ying-chow. President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, at a banquet.— A.P.
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  • 107 5 Warsaw, July 12.—The slaying of 22 Jews attempting to flee the new persecution wave in Poland was reported today as the government prepared to execute nine persons convicted of instigating the bloody Kielce pogrom. The new slaying occurred on the highways and trains between Lodz
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  • 154 5 A.P. Berlin, July 11. General Joseph McNarney, U.S. Com_ mender in Europe, was reported today to have intervened with the Russian authorities for release of four Americans apparently held incommunicado for more than a week after crossing into the Soviet zone of occupation. McNarney declined
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  • 22 5 LONDON, July l2>—The Burma Legislature Act, whiofciprovirleß for universal adult suffrafe;,*n.,Burma, became law today when it was glVen Royal assent.
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  • 91 5 Associated Press. Cairo, July 11. —Business and communications were normal on Thursday after the government forbade the general strike and the "day of mourning" ea'.led by the Wafdist and Kotla political youth groups. A grenade explosion in Alexandria and another in Cairo were the only violent
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  • 88 5 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 Chinese Communist radio from Yenan in a broadcast monitored by Associated Press today said that 2.500 Chinese Communists arrived at Chefoo aboard thre* 1 American ships which transferred them from Canton. The transfer was 'the result of long-protracted negotiations between
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  • 32 5 MEXICO CITY. July 12.—Thr- Latin American Labour Confederation announced today that workers will refuse to load and unload Spanish shipments beginning July 18 as a protest against Franco.
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  • 247 5 Two men who jumped— handcuffed together from a police car at 40 miles an hour, were caught, 50 miles away, still handcuffed. For 24 hours they had bluffed their way across country posing as prisoner-and-escort. They are Sergeant Frederick Dodson, aged 35, who, in uniform,
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  • 40 5 A.P. KIELCE. Poland. July 12.—The Kielce Military Coun to death nine of the 12 defendants charged wih responsibility for the bloody pogrom here on July 4. and gave prison terms to the other three —A.P.
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  • 80 5 A.P. MOSCOW. July 11. Oenerali*simo Stal n and Marshal Choi Ba:--san. Premier of tho Mongolian People's Republic, evcha; ;rod greeting* on July 11 in connection with the republic's 25th anr.iverrary. The Mongolian Premier said Russia had saved the world from Fascist enslavement". and thanked Stalin
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  • 108 5 Reuter. Washington. July 11. Arrangements were completed today, more than 14 month? after V-E D;.y. to return to Germany the last of more than 370.000 war prisoner? brought to the U.S. The final group, as do froni fewer than 30 sick or incoriigibles, are scheduled
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  • 58 5 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 12.- More than 2.000 WACs will be shipped overseas in the next four mom lis. the War Department announced Friday. They will serve in European theatres and Carribbean defence commands. Pacific WAC S will be assigned to General Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters
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  • 491 5 Named by Gen. Mac Arthur as a "war criminal" because of his notorious broadcasts in English from Tokyo during war, 40-year-old John Holland, a British subject, has become engaged to a dusky young princess of a tiny group of Pacific coral islands in the Moluccas,
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  • 76 5 Reuter. JERUSALEM, July 11.—Departmental chiefs of the Jewish Ageacy today moved buck into the Agency's headquarters in Jerusalem evacuatted by British troops last night after a 12-day occupation. They began a preliminary invest gation to determine what documents were removed by the police during their
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  • 34 5 HELSINKI, July 12.—The Bank of i v ;.iid has suspended the sale oi Swedish currency. The measure is h< tiered here to be in anticipation of appreciation of the Swedish crown vis-a-vis the dollar.
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  • 66 6 Reuter. NEW YORK, July 11—Mr. Fiodello La Guardta, Director General of UNRRA, has asked the American Government to admit into the United States 12C.000 disvlaced persons at present in UNRRA camps in Europe. Mr. La Guardia said that it is estimated there are in all
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  • 91 6 A.P. MEXICO CITY, July 11 Federal troops stood guard as counting juntas in each of Mexico's 148 congressional districts began official tabulation on July 11 of votes cast in Sunday's presidential election. After the votes are counted the- boxes will be sealed and given to the army
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  • 50 6 Abroad the USS Mt. Mckinley. July 12.—The chance that the second atomic test bomb will explode prematurely is only "one in a million", Capt. Christian Engleman, Navy electronics expert, told newsmen. Safaeguards against a premature blast, Capt. Engleman and other experts explained, include both electronic and manual devices
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  • 73 7 CANTERBURY, July 12—The England team to meet India in the second three-day Test at Manchester starting July 20 is: W. R. Hammond. Gloucestershire (Captain). P. R. Gibb, Yorkshire. W. Voce. Nottinghamshire. L. Hutton, Yorkshire. J. Hardstaff. Nottinghamshire. D. Compton, Middlesex. C- Washbrook. Lancashire D. V.
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  • 110 7 Flush from his scrap with Dara Singh on Wednesday when the referee had to stop the fight in the third round. Stan Garside takes on Zombie at the Great World to-night in a ten round bout- If Garside is as savage as he was on Wednesi Zombie is
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  • 47 7 Reuter. SHEFFIELD. July 12.—The Yorkshire team to meet India here tomorrow is: A. B. Sellers. Captain. N. W. D. Yardley, P- A. Gibb. W. Barber. T. F. Smailes. E- P. Robinson. H. Beaumont. A. Booth. A. Coxon. W. Watson and G. A. Smithson—Reuter.
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  • 100 7 vs. RAF Tengah at Tengah today: S. R. S. Naidu; Sintha. Razak; Ramasamy, Rahim, Sat tar Jean Pierre, J. C. Corera. Paramesvaran, Deenah. Muniandy, Roberts. D. Marimuthu, V. N. Pillai, Shegaran. A. Senkaran, A. S. Paul and Singh. Against RAF. Kallang at Kallang tomorrow: Osman. Katar Singh.
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  • 88 7 The following have been invited to play soccer for the "Rocklites Sports Party on Sunday against the Embarkation Unit at the Al-Junied Road Ground at 5.00 p.m. Players are requested to be assembled at 304 Telok Kurau Road, not later than 4.30 p.m. for transport. G. Balakrishnan. C
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  • 34 7 A.P. WASHINGTON. July JjL The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nominations of Dr. J. Leighton Stuart to be Ambassador to China and Robert Butler to be Ambassador to Australia.—A.P.
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  • 409 7 Bedser, Peter Smith Day's Best Bowlers EXCITING FINISH IN TEST TRIAL CANTERBURY, Kent, July 12:—The England Test trial which had some dull moments ended in a blaze of excitment with England scraping home by he margin of 18 runs. Twice they declared but the Rest
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  • 125 7 England. Ist innings 321 for 7 (declared); 2nd innings 179 for 9 (declared). The Rest. Ist innings 175. THE REST. 2nd INNINGS Avery b Ikin 13 Brookes b Voce 7 Robertson c Washbrook b Cook 58 Compton c Cook b Bedser 103 Watson c sub b Bedser 61
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  • 163 7 COUNTY CRICKET Reuter. LONDON. July 12.—County cricket results: At Taunton, Somerset beat Northamptonshire by 239 runs. Somerset 238 and 288 for eight declared. Northamptonshire 158 and 129 (Wellard 6 for 65). At Blackpool, Lancashire .beat Leicestershire by 10 wickets. Leicestershire 276 and 191 (Pollard 7
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  • 68 7 Reuter. SHANGHAI. July 12—Shanghai's news black-out was lifted this morning when employees of the four slier.! agencies—Reuters, the Associated Presc. the United Press, and Agency France —returned to work on ihe personal intervention of Mayer K. C. Wu. Mr. Wu urg-ed the agencies' messengers to resume
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  • 158 7 The Singapore Ratepayers' Association are suggesting to Government that the sale of any cars which migth belong to members cf the Association not in Singapore be made conditional to their not being re-sold for one year. During this period. the sale may be annulled
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  • 258 7 Rallying strongly towards the closing stages of the game, the Police drew with the Recs in a fast game of soccer played at Thomson Road yesterday. Getting into their stride quickly the Recs carried play to the Police half from the start. And for the
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  • 74 7 A.P. NANKING. July 11—A Foreign Office spokesman said that no formal request of the acceptance of Leighton Stuart as the United States ambassador has been received by the Foreign Office but that "his appointment, if official, will be most acceptable and favourable to the Chinese Government."
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  • 82 7 A.P. KURE. July 11.—The headquarters of the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Thursday announced patrolling by naval craft in the Korean Straits between Korea and Japan to prevent unauthorised entry of Koreans into Japan. "Recently about 200 illegal immigrants from Korea were rounded up
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  • 57 7 WASHINGTON. July 10 —The legislation authorising the Government to build stockpiles of strategic and critical materials over the next five years cleared the Senate and went to the White House today. The amount of money to be spent annually was left to later decisions by
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  • 41 7 Government pensioners are entitled to cloth ration according to the scheme applicable to Government servants. All pensioners are requested to contact Mr. A. Chelliah at 47, The Arcade, in the mornings up to the 18th and furnish details.
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  • 296 7 The Malayan contingent to the London Victory Parade returns to Singapore to-day by the s.s. Mauretania—and from two members of the contingent, we yesterday received letters. Extracts are as follows: Sgt- Ahmad Patel (*****) of the 2nd.Bn.S.S.V.F., who is in private life a clerk
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  • 510 7 Indians' Last-Minute Win Reuter. (By Learie Constantine, Renter's Spec al Correspondent). CHESTERFIELD, July 12—The Indians triumphed over Derbyshire here after one of the most dramatic finishes seen on the ground. With the fieldsmen crouched round the bat the last Derbyshire players came together with only
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  • 25 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 11.—India will be debated in both Houses of Parliament next Thursday, it was officially announced today —Reuter.
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  • 103 7 Reuter. DAR-ES-SALAAM, July 12.— Preference for colonial status under Britain rather than trusteeship under the United Nations was expressed by the Chamber of Commerce in a resolution passed here on current proposals to replace the Tanganyika mandate by a trusteeship. The resolution declared: "We would prefer
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  • 116 7 LONDON. July 12.—T0 encourage British farmers to grow more wheat and contribute to the amelioration of the world gram snortage, the British Ministry of Agriculture has decided to increase the price paid to the farmer for his grain crops. The increase will be an average eight
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  • 114 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 11.—Fore cast ot I record corn crop th'.s year was made today by the United States Department of Agriculture. It said the incoming crop would be 3.3 41 ClO.OOO bushels compared t« the 3,018,410,000 bushels last H forecast a wheat crop of
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  • 267 8 Singapore's only bank which has a special department to lend out small sums of money to help deserving persons to meet a temporary emergency is today not anxious to issue loans io wage-earners. Reason for this policy, given by an executive of the bank— the
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  • 258 8 Warsaw, July 11.—A mass exodus of thousands of Jews is reported under wav m Poland.which was tne scene of the recent pogrom which resulted in 41 deaths. Some 25.000 Jews recently repatriated from Russia are now concentrated at Walbrzych, 12 miles from the Czechoslovak border.
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  • 186 8 A.P. WASHINGTON. July 12: UNuiU director La Guardia said that Franklin Ray. acting head of the UNRRA in China, will be recalled soon and appointment of a successor is likely shortlyUNRRA headquarters said the committee. scheduled to meet at Shanghai on July IT. will
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  • 215 8 A.P. TOKIO. July 12: The threatened strike of 1,030,000 Government worers apparently has been averted by the Japanese Government compromise offered after the sharp warning by the occupation authorities that no strike would be permitted wh.ch interrupts the essential services to the occupation forces." Kasuyoshi
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  • 54 8 A.P. Washington, July 11—A bill to raise the pay of diplomats and make other reforms In the foreign service, in comfonnance with State Department recommendations was approved by the House foreign affairs committee Thursday. Ambassadors' pay would be raised from $17,500 (U. S.> annually to $25,000. Other diplomats also would
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  • 316 8 Associated Press. PEIPING, July 11:—U.S. prestige in China triumphantly at its summit five months ago appears to be careering downhill at a precipitous rate, writes John Roderick, Associated Press correspondent. Recent events and views of dozens of Chinese of all political complexions with whom
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  • 57 8 (Our Own Reporter) PENANG, July 11.—The Chinese Ministry of Education has chosen Mr. Ong Keng Seng, and Mr. Lim Lean Teng to attend the Pan-Malayan Chinese Educationists' AssemDly which will be held in Singapore on July 18. Three more Penang representatives for the assembly will be chosen by
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  • 143 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 11 —General Dwight Eisenhower believe* tk« United States Army .must be maintained at approximately BOMOO men for the next 15 to 20 year? compared with the 188.000 pro-war. He ovnrt-sscd that belief to At House Military CommitUe as be pleaded for
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  • 23 8 Four Chinese who were allegedly attempting to extort money from shopkeepers in Tanglin Road havt been detained by the police.
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  • 291 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, July 12:—A board of experts advised President Truman that the Bikini atomic bomD test provided adequate data for redesigning of nav> vessels "to minimise damage to superstructure and d.ck personnel from this type of bomb". They emphasized, however, that the atom bomb
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  • 128 8 A.P. Indianapolis, July 11. —Seeded favourites in the Western Tennis Championships singles, advanced to quarter finals. Those rdvmncing included Fe!icismo Ampon and Amado Sanchez of the Philippines, top two foreign seeded i layers. The first six in domestic seeding* survived. They were Billy Talbert of Wilmington, Delaware;
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  • 74 8 A.P. KYOTO, JAPAN, July 12.—Pound guilty on two chargas of assault upon Japanese, Private Clarence E. Owallar was sentenced to dishonourable discharge. 10 years' imprisonment and forfeiture of pay and allowances due or to become due. The Eighth Army said that Dwaller attacked several Japanese
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  • 191 8 P. O. "Stratheden" Returns To Owners The "Stratheden" which has just arrived in London from the East, will be the first of the P. and O. passenger fleet to be released to her owners from Government service after nearly six years of active war service. She has carried in that
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  • 42 8 Reuter. NEW YORK. July 11.—It is understood that the World Bank will grant a ten-million-dollar loan to the Netherlands for purchase of U.S. co'ton. Purchases will be made by private firms instead of by the Netherlands Government—Reuter.
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  • 188 8 Commenced only a week new Constellation aircraft. tish Overseas Airways Corpo. service between London and York will operate on a thru frequency. Present programme calls foi weekly services by Ju v 24 U ly there will be a dai'y service. The Speedbird Route through Rineanna (Eire)
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  • 77 8 Reuter. LONDON, July 12 —There >s no particular signficance behind the renaming of the 20.000ton liner Duchess of Bedford, now the Empress of India, said a Canadian Pacific Steamship Company official today. The new name was th#» choice of officials in Montreal. Said the London official: "We
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  • 359 8 A.P. NEW YORK, July 11—The Social and Economic Council of the United Nations has emerged from its first major meeting wiih a record that inspires cauuous official predictions thai it may start work on its real job of erasing the causes of war before
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  • 168 8 In their drive against the "drink" black market in Singapore, the Customs Department summoned a proprietor and a licensee of two liquor shops with their respective salesmen, for selling whisky and gin above the controlled price. This is the first case of its kind. Lim
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  • 260 8 Wahab's condition had become so citable that only a pretence was made each morning of beating him. The pretence was kept up that Toyoda, hearing the sound of blows from his room next door, would be satisfied that his instructions were being carried out. Ibrahim bin
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