The Singapore Free Press, 22 May 1946

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  • 22 1 The Singaore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE i \.">!S. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 f 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 169 1 THE KING'S MESSAGE TO MALAYA THE fcllowlng messag? from the King was read by Mr Donald, the Govfrnorleral, in Singapore this •ling: With the arrival on Malayan soil of the first GovernorGenOll, the Queen and 1 take I i opportunity to send a red greeting to the per pies ci
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  • 159 1 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies Mr. George Hall, in a message said. I am happy to add my own sincere greeting to gracious message of H.M the Kta| The arrival of the first Gov-rmor-General to take up hiu duties amongst vou nrovlde* a ln|
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  • 66 1 The Eighth Army Commission need three Japanese resarant operators to terms of imprisonment ranging ;.rom ore to hree years, and additionally them 30.000 yen. for selling; I >nous liquors which resulted he death of an American sea- an in March says U.P. frcm K-jbe. Japan.
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  • 435 1 NO SULTANS AT MacDONALD'S INSTALLATION j\|R. Malcolm Mat-Donald was installed the first 1 Goverrr-General of Singapore and the Malayan Cairn n a brief ceremony at Singapore's Municipal Council Chamber this morning before a large, representative and distinguished gathering. Outside on the Padang, a Malayan crowd had gathered to watch the
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  • 83 1 DECAJJSE the Chief Justice u Singapore. Mr. Justice C. M. Murray-Aynsley was still "missing" this morning— he had not yet arrived in Singapore and no one knows where he is— the acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice C. W. V. Carey, administered the oath of office to
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  • 59 1 Put It On A Charge, Sir CIDELIGIIT at the arrival of the Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in Singapore yesterday. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's word may move the Navy, the Army and the Air Force, but its not effective against his motor-car. Like many an ordinary citizen's it had to be
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  • 187 1 In a speech of welcome the Governor of Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, said: your Excellency will find in Malaya a society of some six million souls on whom the years of enemy occupation have left many scars and some injuries which are still unhealed. There
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  • 579 1 THE Governor of Singapore, Mr. F. C. Gimson, welcoming Mr. MacDonald, said I am glad to record that the resolution and co-operation for which Singapore is so justly famous is being displayed by the people of this Colony and that they are meeting with an
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  • 220 1 LONDON, Tuesday. ORD LISTOWEL, PostL master General and former Under Secretary for India, stated in the House of Lords today that the British Government were anxious t.iat the general election in Burma should begin at the eailiest possible moment. If a parliamentary programme, which included
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  • 249 1 Soviets quit Persia TEHERAN, Wed. DRI N C E Mozaffer Firouz, Persian Government 1 spokesman, announced that Soviet evacuation of Azerbaijan and Persia was completed by May 6. Meanwhile, Premier Quavan ex-Sultaneh, in a broadcast gave strict orders to Persian troops "not to go further trom their positions" along the
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  • 181 1 Istoben, Germany, Tues FOUR thousand troopers of the American zone constabulary today raided 372 vessels on tne Danube, including the remnants of the Hungarian navy, in an effort to smash a suspected underground escape route for escaped S.S. men from Germany. Called "operation grab bag," the raid Included
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  • 369 1 Increase For India And Germany CUBSTANTIAL iiureas.s m th? amount of food allocated to India and the British zone of Germany will be announced when Mr. Herbert Morrison. Lord President of the Council, reports to the House of Commons on his fcod talks with President Truman and the
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  • 160 2 Where Nelson Sailed Norfolk, Mon. P:ARS that the Norfolk Broads may eventually disappear unless steps are taken to clear the weeds and leeds. were expressed yesterday by boat-owner Herbert Woods of Potter Heigham. On the eve of what is expected to be a record season with
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  • 35 2 Sepoy Namdeo Jah Jadheo from the village of Nimaj near Bombay is the first V.C. to land in Japan. He arrived at Kure yesterday aboard the troopship Dunera, says Reuter.
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  • 1006 2 2 0, 000, 000 BOOKS GO O UT TO THE FORCES PHTS story starts with a tale of a 20,000,000-to-one chance that came home. During the war some 20,000,000 books and magazines were gathered from the homes of people throughout the British Isles and were sent out to men and
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  • 265 2 A MILESTONE of some kind has been passed in Tokyo. The Japanese movie industry, trying to keep up with uncensored American films, has photographed its first kiss.* But not without a crisis. The actor and actress involved both were too bashful. The director, faced with
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  • 94 2 The United Nat .ions Wa. Crimea commission in London reports that 282 sentences of death had been imposes on war criminals in western and southern Europe South East Asia and Australia Tre commission's announcement, contained in a progrssri report, d?scr!b:d the tr^i results as encouraging
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  • 223 2 LONDON, Tuesday A 40-hours five-day week may be introduced next year fc: lall Britain's 20 million workers. One hundred and* bu I one unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, r. senting seven million workers, are already negotiating with the employers for introduction at once
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  • 26 2 The Rumanian government has recognized the Spanish Republic Government in Exile in Paris, the Bucharest radio said on Monday, according to A. P.
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  • 30 2 Brigadier K. S. Thimay; commanded the Indian wh;ch captured Rangoon. rrrH-ed in Tokvo to comn Indian uni's with the B: Oomn onvealth occupation*] fays A. P. from Japan.
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  • 113 2 The British frorei^n Seer :Mr. Bevin, is reported to making a statement this on the future of son e •Volish soldiers still undoi Er command in Britain. G and Italy, says Revile/ A report from Italy troops of Ger f ral Uidffi Army Corps vviil
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    • 452 2 OIDIGAPORE 12.45 p.m.) and from 6 p.m to 815 RED NETWORK from ooon UP ta 715 Pm) m RADIO SEAC 1 P-m. and 6.30 to 11 pm To ZZZ .f™ l 2 P m s t 19 25 «^rrs metres from tn 1 w Pm) &nd 815 P m to
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  • 85 3 SAMTAN MEN p'y to th? twakow lying in the C rivet in the shadow of Fullerton building. Below: A sailing boat silhouette. i GOING UP TO BOAT QlTAY—^another study of the busy small boats of the Singapore River. SAILS IN THE SUNSET— a fine study of one
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  • 478 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1946. IT is cften amusing if not illuminating to heed Bobbie Burns's advice occasionally and to look at ourseives as others see us Our mirror today is Mr. Edward Hul ton, who "thinks aloud as he calls it in his muiUhly publication World
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  • 1239 4 REQUISITIONING— AS THE U.S. ARMY DID IT ]>y Robert Neville, Editor of Stars and Stripes, in Life Magazine. 7VERY time the combat boys during World War II made plans to move forward, our fancies back in the rear area turned to requisitioning. Usually we were well enough briefed on offensives
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  • 614 4 COCIAL CRITICISM is being j** levelled in England against Mr. Chiefley, the Australian j Prime Minister, on the grounds I that he outra?ed social propricti s while in. London. When jhe went to dine with the Kin™ iat Windsor Castle, he was 40 ii.inutes late --and then
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  • 17 4 L\S Third Arn>> Infantryman requisitions 4 round's ample Army requisitioned Krupp mansion as Hq
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  • 214 4 BRITAIN is getting down to the job of making good the shipping los^s of the war. The volume or shipping under construction has been mounting steadily month by month s-nce the end oi 1944. By March this yrar it reached 1,676.000 tons, double the corresponding
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  • 12 4 Thou hast prepared the light and the sun Psalms, 74. 16
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  • 432 4 WORLD'S LATEST STA TE THE world's first war nation Ti\> granted full indepeno. Great Britain hti be thick of hislory sine*chapter of Grn?sis, people are s' 11 the they were 5.000 y Its 34.000 square rr.i. bounded on the west k Can River and Deal Bet it shares valuable pot
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    • 43 4 QUIZ 1 Name the race of i Riar.ts famous ;n 2. Taken 40 r.t a lunch 3 Gap, prosi ro. k v 4 Whi >h oomp famous fricn George Sand' 5 A rood diamond is v "of the (Us: < Answers In page f-
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  • Article, Illustration
    54 5 Dr Wu Paar-Shin. the Chinese Consul -General, who has returned to Singapore after a goodwill tour of the Malayan Ur ion. photographed above j v.ith Mrs. Wu at the Ayer Itam temple in Penan?. In the ton pi ture is Mrs. W l and the wife of the
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  • 185 5 LONDON. (Air Mail\ telephone system! to main urrer tr.e opera Oriental Telephone j Company at least IS, v.r.e.i the Government option of taking >t< n over. ment to the share- Company, Sir A. McMahon. Chairman or d ;aid tha: in S?ptemthe Government intiwtah to purchase
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  • 123 5 F<m> Kan Chew and Low Jan: k, weit yesteiday <onvict?d lawful possession of 600 1 i rice on May li >rdmg to the prosecution, officers or. rounds in' a i oserved a motor-boat tng towards Singapore m Pi.au Setmboe. When the or-boat was boarded near the
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  • 179 5 ON my return from Sarawak I am more than ever convinced that what I am doing is right," .said the Rajah of Sarawak Sir Charles V) Her Brooke when he arrived in Singapore last nifht on his way to Britain to complete formalities connected with
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  • 461 5 Rajputs Fight Pitched Battle With 200Burmans RANGOON, Wed. TO help the police wipe out the legacy of violence and ruthlessness left by the Japanese in Burma, British, Indian and West African troops of the Burma Command are operating against dacoits who are gravely menacing life
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  • 322 5 EVIDENCE OF DOCTOR IN JAIL INQUIRY A Chinese doctor attached to the Outram Road Prison and a Chinese warder gave evidence yesterday at the preliminary enquiry into a charge of murder against Manikam Tanapathy, Superintendent of the prison during the Jap occupation. The doctor. Lee Kek Soon, said he examined
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  • 165 5 APPROXIMATELY 1,000 Dutch evacuees, the last of the 13,000 who came here nine months ago, left Singapore by the Johan de Witt for Holland yesterday. Withelmina CVr.p r wMch has roused the evacuees smce their arrival, will be rlosed bv the the Dutch camp administration ind
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  • 363 5 TPHE Governor o, Singapore. Mr. F.C. Gimson, and U. Col D. R. Rees-Williams. M.P., met representatives of '8 Trade Unions and professional as«oc»at!ons at an informal reception in the Municipal building yesterday. In introducing the Governor and Col. Rees-Williams, Mr. J. M. Prazier, Trade Union Adviser,
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    16 5 Ladder Of Fame yn Merrick, Columbia star, limbs another rung on in? ladder of film success.
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  • 250 5 LONDOX, Wednesday. QHIVERING in bell tents in Kensington Gardens, London »3 are more than 140 Malayans who will represent their country in the Victory Parade on June 8. This is the first time most of them have left the warm climate of Malaya and
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  • 315 5 Death Railway Trial BALD, middle-aged Major Totaro Mizutani, charged with w^r crimes against Allied PoWs listened intently this morning in the Singapore War Crimes court while a former prisoner of his employed in the construction of the SiamEurma railway rave evidence regarding the finding
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    148 6 The American effort in Burma took three forms 1: They supplied forty per cent cf the air transport which supplied a Bri.ish Indian 1 4th Army, who did the fighting. 2: They flew huge quantities of stores over the dangerous Hump rout:* to China, of doubtful military value,
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  • 332 6 LONDON, Wednesday. IN the House of Commons yesterday, W. Roberts, Labour, Cumberland North, asked the Prime Minister whether he would consider the position of foreigners who had served in the uniformed services during the war and were now to be demobilised abrcad. although for
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  • 112 6 Law To Stop Food Waste LONDON. Tuesday— The v ;str :»:"i^ter City Council has sent an spptal to flat dwellei to stop lood waste. At tlie Westminster "battle for t read' conference it was stated that pig lood bins were half filled v .t!i ashes and the ash bins were
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  • 80 6 Grand Admiral Raider ac-1-nowled^ed at the Nuremberg v.ar crimes trials yesterday that the German r.avy began rebuilding onlv a lew months after the Versailles Treaty was signed, atter the 1914-18 war. says UP. When Hitler came to power the rr.vy v:r. built ur> in
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  • 45 6 A cannon shell lodged in a Chimney fell into the fireplace 01 a borne at Purley, Surrey, and >dcd. A ?mail outbreak of fire was o"i?':ly extinguished Mid one vomm In the room. Mrs. FmUy Eic'ine l a*ied 75. c:mpla'.n^i ot a shoe!:.
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  • 13 6 1 r- laps. Wnks. r n w 5. V. c.i:i\ m
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  • 57 6 LONDON. Tues.— Corporal R Roberto. R.A.S.C, of Banstead Surrey, has won 100 guilders offered by Lieut. -Gen. M. Stopford for the best design for a memorial to men and women of the British Empire killed In the Netherlands East Indies. The memorial will be erected in
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  • 566 6 $300 MI LLION ROAD WASHED OUT BY MONSOON By Thomas Aldeguer, Reuter's Correspondent SHANGHAI, (Air Mail). THE famous Stilwell Road and eleven other military airfields in Burma/which played a key role in winning the war in Burma and China, have been abandoned as commercially unsaleable by the United States Foreign
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  • 152 6 Mr. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, has demanded the internationalization of industries in Eastern Germany, in the heart of the Soviet occupation zone, writes Joseph Dynan, Associated Press correspondent from Paris. This was an indication in accounts available on Sunday of the Big Four
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  • 274 6 Four million pounds worth of French wines and spirits will be imported to Great Britain this year, the Ministry cf Food announces. But, because much of the stock will bo imported In j casks and bottled in Bit tain, it may not be supplied to the
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  • 278 6 A WOMAN whose husband was murdered by Javanese fa the Dutch East Indies about six months ago was fou* gassed at her home with her daughter aged four and h« baby girl aged three months. The elder child died on tl way to hospital.
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  • 132 6 L O N DON Wedn^sd Many reforms of Hrit; ins prison and penal s>stem recommended in a draft to be submi*l«d h> ll>tnf Secre'ar> Chuter Ede to the Cabinet It ma> be po>« to introduce the bill in the present session and tomnkie its passage
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  • 56 6 ProGuetion oi leather in Britain is on the January fieure.s reveal a > tial rise above earlier rr. averapes with a total o: i lion pairs the equivalei vearlv rate of 112.8 millioi far the largest sinclr a of these- -3.2 million pairs to children, while em
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  • 238 7 A programme of 28 events has been drawn up for the uie Rotary Club's Empire Day Victory Sports, which s held at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday, Ma> 25 2M p.m. onwards. S will be distributed F C G arson, the Gov-.-rneapore. tc :s invited
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  • 129 7 NEW YORK. 'By Air Mail). B Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavyht title ticht on June 19 will loadcast in television by the onal Broadcasting Company. l television coverage will be HMMI elaborate and compreevci atte v .pten for any tent, John F. i:ova». NBC -p^sident >n "har°:
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  • 161 7 London Tues. pCUNTY cricket matches finishing today resulted as follows: Middlesex 209 and 175 beat Hampshire 70 and 106 (Gray 7 for 17 by 203 runs. Glamorgan 190 and 164 for 7 beat Lancashire "3 and 150 by three wickets. Surrey '359 for 8 declurd (Barling 66
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    14 7 Mustaq Ali hi s to legs off 110-.varth and is caught behind the wicket,
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  • 396 7 INDIAN TOURISTS DRAW AT LEICESTER LEICESTER, Wed. INDIA drew in their match with Leicestershire on Tuesday the feature of a raiit-snoilt same being the batting of V.M Merchant, who followed up his 111 not out of tho first innings with 57 not out in the second knock, when India a
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    13 7 Ihe King's 'Hypericum" wins the 1,000 Guineas from "Neolight" and lona at NewmarVet
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  • 498 7 Hr.rry Hopman, manager-captain of the 1939 Australian Davis Cup team, passing through Singapore yesterday said that the U.S. is favoured to prove the best cf the Davis Cup challenging nations this year and is confidently expected to meet Australia in the Challenge round. The
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  • 93 7 London, Tues. r ?HE Scots miner, Jimmy Marshal!, whose village raised i ClOO to pay expenses of his trip 1 to London to make a bid for the title of draughts champion of the world, last night failed la his b'd, losing by six gamp's
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  • 91 7 S.C.F.A. TO PLAY AGAIN Always one of the strongest soccer combinations in Sin apore in the years brfore the war, the Straits Chinese Fo »t--ball Assoiia ion return io the field of first-class soccer i-i Singapore on Sunday when ihc> will meet the R.E ME. in a fiiendly game at
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  • 28 7 A meeMnjs of tl*? Smrapor^ Boxing Board of Control will be hclc at ths Hunpy Wo'ld Stadium at 5. o'clock this evenine. All boxers ar? welcome.
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  • 21 8 A -i ate for the n:vv Governor General, Mr Mal^nm Mar Dona Id. arritin; at the Municipal Buildin?.
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  • 335 8 i Army Film Unit Picture) Continued from page 1> Singapore and the Malayan Union for their cordial expressions of goodwill and "to all of you for your friendly greetings. After spending a winter in Canada at about 20 decrees below zero. I also appreciate the
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  • 820 8 'OCCUPYING' CAIRO: PEER ATTACKS Govt LONDON, Tuesday. OPENING the debate en Egypt in the House of Lords t'>day Lord Altrincham, Conservative, who as Sir Edward Grigg was formerly British Minister Resident in the Middle Eas\ said the Egyptian Prime Minister, S dky Pasha, had stated that those who criticised the
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  • 109 8 Batavia, LIEUT. -Governor General Er. Hubertus van Mod; of the Netherland East Indies speaking in Indonesian in a radio broadcast said that the Netherlands government will convene a "state conference" of all classes of the N.E.I, population to determine th:ir attitude toward independence. Dr
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  • 200 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. DRESIDENT TRUMAN directed the United States Secretary 1 of the Interior Mr. Julius Krug to take over United States mines tomorrow four days before the end of the soft coal strike "truce". The President's press secretary, Mr. Charles G. Boss, told a press
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  • 110 8 INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana, Tucs. DOCKET p opul i>n of auio- mobile raters will be tried lor the first tim? loday by a, man who believes the peak of speed has been reached by motor driven cars. Duke Merlin, who had the ?Jea of attaching rocke s to
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  • 34 8 The world's first international dog exhibition since 1939 has been held in Lucerne, with animals to be shown by breeders from Belgium, France, Italy Great Britain, Czechoslovakia and other countries.- A.P.
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  • 36 8 India's. High Commissioner for South Africa Mr. Deshmoth has been recalled for consultation i n view of the present stage of the Asiatic and Indian representation till, says A.P. from Carie fc o*n.
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  • 200 8 RICHARD Neil Morley, a golf professional teacher employed by the Beddington and Wallington (Surrey) borough council on their nine-hole Municipal course prior to joining the Army in 1940. has lost his appeal against the decision of the Croydon Reinstatement Committee that "it is not yet reasonable
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