The Singapore Free Press, 5 June 1946

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE >v. 16.5tn>. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 518 1 SOVIET OBSTACLE TO PEACE: ERNEST BEVIN i*i>t™ctt o LONDON, Tues. gKlilbH foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons today that Russia's ide a that the Security of Russia can only be maintained when e>cry country of the world adopts the Soviet System" is "a great obstacl e to
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  • Article, Illustration
    47 1 (Army Film Unit Pictures) The people of Bandoeng, separated from Batavia by 130 miles of narrow often ambushed roads rely on the RAF. No 31 Squadron, Transport Command shuttle service which brings them daily food supplies. Pictures show food being loaded and th? r?cei\ing end.
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  • 75 1 NAZI GANG ROUND UP Swastikas Again Tues. pound Nazi j outha has British at or- Into the Oerthe d Yo- was Ing to ing itlisl Bri Kh Mlirarv g or. Monday on activities. d to a higher ol the seriousbrou^h* beDH were between and 20 They had British public r
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  • 34 1 eh film star •aire. 25-year-old an executed protre mist, was sentenc- disgrace" Tuesi or collaboration, >:n Paris. id guilt y of inti- and Italian the war She is tuberculosis.
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  • 38 1 c John Coffee reHouse of Represen- that a petition Truman to veto rike bill had been n pro-Labour mem- Used to vote against over-ride such a -.P irom Washington. 9 -Jay, says Reuter.
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  • 161 1 BANGKOK, Tuesday. SOVIET RUSSIA will soon be represented m the rapidly crowing diplomatic colony of this observation post of South list Asia. The Siamese Foreign Minister Nai Direk (havantm has announced that Siam and Russia have agreed L exchaJTge cUplomats m the near future implementing
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  • 26 1 British meteorologists are using radar to deters approaching storms 200 miles away. Radar enables accurate forecasts rxn hours ahead, says AP. irom London
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  • 126 1 BANGKOK, Tues. AMERICAN and British military observers emplaned yesterday for Nongkhai and expected a several weeks' stay m the area of the recent French-Siamese border incident. The American legation said the Siamese Government had re- quested that observers be sent to "survey the scene of the
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  • 110 1 'Siam Is Firing On Our Troops' PARIS, Tues. A GOVERNMENT spokesman said today that French forces m norlhein Indo-China have been under fire from Siamese forces for more than 43 hours. The spokesman said the firing took place at Ventian, a fortified village on the Mekong river frontier. The government
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  • 71 1 The U.S. Senate yesterday voted pay increases for enlisted men, boosting the private's nay from $50 (U.S.) monthly to $75. Other raises were: corporals, $90 from $66; sergeants, $100 from $78. The measure w r as proposed by Senators La Follette and Johnson. Senator Gurney
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  • 266 1 Republic leads 2-to-1 in Italy ROME, Tues. EORCES favouring the establishment of a republic appeared to be building up a commanding lead as Italian officials completed tabulation of approximately one-fourth of the votes cast m Italy's two-day elections. Approximately 10 percent of the estimated 25,000,000 votes showed the republic leading
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  • 81 1 'Auk', In London, Is Optimistic Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, C.-in-C. India, arrived at Nort holt aerodrome last night to attend the victory parade. He will remain m England only four days flying back to India on Sunday, says Reuter from London. "I am personally optimistic about the outcome of
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  • 65 1 Thousands of Communist Party "fellow travellers" became U.S. navy officers during the war and some had access to secret documents, Capt. J. W. Whitefield. assistant chief of naval intelligence told the House of Representatives Judiciary sub-committee. He said the navy was forbidden to bar a
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  • 24 1 Two U_S. navy pilots were presumed lost yesterday when their jet-propelled fighters collided and fell into the sea, says U.P. from Santiago.
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  • 279 1 STRIKE IF THEY GOT JOBS BACK A LONDON. Tues. N unusual situation m which a firm faced the danger of stoppage of work if it carried out an order to reinstate three former emr^oyees. is disclosed m -*c decision given today by a deputy umpire J Odhams Press Limited apneaied
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  • 47 1 The British Foreign Office said yesterday that Portugal ha> granted Britain and the United States the right to use Azores air bases for 18 months m order to maintain communication with the occupation armies m Japan and Germany, says A.P. from London
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  • 31 1 Lord Stansgate, British Secretary for Air and leader of the British delegation m Cairo negotiating a revision of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty ol 193> arrived m London for consultations.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      31 2 Beatrice Webb died m 1043 at the age of 85 aftrr a lifetime m miblie service, authorship a-d historical research. This photograph was taken by her pfe-long friend, George Bernard Shaw.
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    • 288 2 Films: comedy costumes WAR themes are conspicuously missing from the parade of new Hollywood films. Conlfdy, costumes, and peacefully pleasant foreign settings have resumed their high station m the scale of entertainment values. The übiquitous western is bigger and noisier than ever. Here are brief glimpses of some of the
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    • 971 2 Beatrice Webb is one of the most interesting of British women m recent years. She was one of the foremost historians and analysts of English local government. In this article, Bernard Shaw discusses the biography of Beatrice Webb recently written by Margaret O 1
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    • 27 2 You will be se iig more of t.v.; r\ -haired Sally < ti ies Films have signed her up on a lon- It •-.una
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    • 347 2  - Musso Paid Adolf Protection Money Godfrey Anderson By MUSiOLINI pad "protection mo:.ey' at the r.e rl 7,000.0^0,000 ifre a month :o Ado.i H.tlcr after his iv lc by Mli parfctxoop£f«, say* Rud »'f Hermann Hahn. who hum QecnUa A? :bas :*.d >i m Hj-.ii? r Ih fr:;.* of it Uy
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 451 2 CTM_T l liD_riDl? BBC? Those were tht Hits, 12.30 pm. Soldier p.m. India' and Ceylon Hall Hour. 745 OinVjnrUAb >*• serenade. 1 p.m News. 1.01 pjn. Music p.m. At the Console, Bpm News 805 520 n m XX* n m fIRJ Time, 1.30 p.m. Meet the Girls, 2 p.m. nm
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  • 371 3 THE Bali Temple claries Dcvi Kutina" tells a fascinat ng story. U if the iale of the fate which overcomes a beautiful Bali Temple dancer, the daughter of the High Priest. It begins when the H igh Priest discovers his d:.u°;hter making love. This
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • The Singapore Free Press
      • 428 4 IT ia now nearly a fortnight .-ince the Secretary of S.ate for the Colon.es, Mr. George Hall, announc?d that the instrument of ccs■ios of Sarawak to the British Empire had been signed by the Rajah, Sir Charles Vyner Btocke, bur although Sarawak may be
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    • 883 4  - Progress And The English Ca thedral C ity F. G. THOMAS By THE Cathedral city is the glory of the English country-side. Its narrow streets, the high towers of the Cathedral, the mediaeval battlements of the Castle nearby, the Inns, the Market place, are "time symbol V of the social
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    • 167 4 WASHINGTON. April 29. /JIRLS have less physical stamina v than men because their bodies are more likely to be out ot balance. This ncint is brought out m an extensive study of the physique of 175 college girls, iust r^ >rted Ito the American Boclet* of hysi;cal
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    • 583 4 r VOITH WINS THE DAI. Prize I for a design for a block of flats to house 2.000 working- class families, offered by West- minster City Council, was won by 25-year-old Arnold Powell and 26-year-old John Hidalgo Moya, who thus triumphed I against some of Britain's leadling
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    • 18 4 Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is S* an of the Ia e time
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    • 788 4  - The Man Who Takes All The Hitting RUTH MILLER 'By IF you see somebody m British film take- a hard bashing, or fall down the s ahs, it's probably Steve Donahue. iie is Britain's Stum Man ol he Films No. 1. Some oi Steve's best slants you on t see
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    • 42 4 1 What is c.hr' 2 Is a labra ment worn h work-bench <r> «t!> 3. Was Peru i Aztecs, Incas? 4. What is V.. 5. To whi-h of classes dot amphibia. Tv mammalia 6. What is a di < i\n^wc r s
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  • NEWS PAGE
    • 324 5 Siamese Penal Islanders Intercept Junks Free Press Reporter Ri v MS of pirate gangs from the Siamese pena] Hlvintnt of Pulau Terutau, north of Malaya's j tiful Laagfcswl Islands, are believed to be behind I t outbreaks of piracy m the waters off Perlis
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    • 56 5 Honours For Civilians I I Wdlesley civilians. I! 1 and fed Allied doiini 1 -he Japanese and as a result were I to torture, will be > on Victory Day. says i.il announcement m a iniita > parade, the < (.cneral will pie ent from Admiral Lord Mountbatten to "these
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    • 248 5 Retained Jap Carpets Charge s ave evidence at h b-gan before the Singapore yesterday ot 11, who is a!April 12. to have dista ned 80 sec nd hand I sizes bclongkan of Pioperty. officers Major ird Smith, said Ueged offence he lettered of his c m- HR faoaneee in--1 and
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    • 212 5 Hy A Special Correspondent MALAYA wants a free rubber market as quickly as possible, where efficiency m administration and production will succeed government controls and fixed pricey and result m maximum production at a moment when the acquisition of American currency it vital. j This
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    • 149 5 A CABLE was sent by the Gov- ernment of Singapore recently to the Colonial Secretary asking for sanction to pay $3,750,000 due on the balance of rehabilitation grants which were originally given to Government and Municipal employees under the B.M.A. Payment of the balances was held
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    • 51 5 The following have returned to Malaya: Mr. W. L. R. Carboiull Malayan Police Service >, Mr. W. N. Gourlay (M.C.S.), Dr. R. A. Pallister and Dr. P. Tomlinson (Malayan Medical Service), Mr. D. G. Hall and Mr. W. H. W. Hannigan (Malayan Customs Seivice) and Mr. E.
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    • 322 5 A REAL torpedo, sea mines. n latest anti-aircraft guns and field pieces similar to those that knocked out the Japs at Imphal and Kohima and, if it can be accommodated, a real Spitfire will be on show at a "Victory Weapons" Exhibition organised by the Public Relations
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    • 137 5 Free Press Correspondent ALOR STAR Mon.— Gui nam Bingh, a Punjabi, charged with the mu;der ol a compatriot, was sentenced to death last Friday by Lt. Col. Mas.sic, -president of the Superior Court. The prosecution alleged that Gurnam SingL and another Sikh attacked a third
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    • 160 5 CIXTY-FIGHT wanted cars were recovered during May by radio patrol cars of the C.1.D., Singapore. In all. radio patrol cars attended to 818 calls during the month. Three oeople have been arrested by the C.I.D. m connection with a reported robbery In Kalland Read on April 17.
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    • 5 5 Jap Munitions Dumped In Sea
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    • 219 5 (SENTENCE of IS months' rigorous imprisonment wvs passed m tlie Singapore District Court \vstji'.lay, by Mr. Paul Storr, on three British soldiers John Francis Pupius, Michael Robert Goldsmith and Edwin Williams, who pleaded guilty to a charge of robbory, involving $354, m Aliwal Street on
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    • 89 5 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THE Combined Tin Committee today announced additional allocations of tin me.al for the first half of 1946. with France getting the biggest allotment and the United States < bse behind. Allocations totalling 9.476 tonf tons supplement the previous allotments of 18.300 long tons announced
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    • 30 5 All jQßec* of cn Mala /an Exchange Banks Association will he closed for bus ness on Monday, June 10 (Whit Monday and Thursday. June 13 (The King's Birthday).
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    • 54 5 lyiTH effect from lunr 1 the prices of locally brew ed beer have been redui-ed to (JO cents per pint bottle and SI per quart bottle, except where beer is served on the premises m which case the chrtree will be XO cents per pint bottle and Sl.no
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    • 98 5 TO-DAY 1! a. in 1 p.m. 1.11 I It— #4l pm IREMERROISLV EFFECTIVE movie gg* a OfTH£f<34 DD3J Jfcj&'* x tOUWYN'S .ffi? £*jf mnsfM mi BAXTEI GAM ANDREWS IkTB ■DSTDIf WALTER BRENMAN AN\ HAHHNG u m wmec f abet ama an vw STORM o%fmm' V#r> amd farw Ptw, Af UUiAM
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  • 10 6 Mr. and Mrs. Do.., Us al horn?
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  • 205 6 Two- job Expert To Help Malta TOE mzn whom everybody m Battersea culls 'out neighI boor* 1 is to take en the reconstruction of Malta as Dover r at £5,000 a year. You see him above with his wife. He is 56-year-old Franc's Douglas, Labour M.P. for North Battersea since
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  • 61 6 Tl V. fast wives anJ tamii.es of >(-rees men servinj In the Tar East ere likely to join their husLe.i'd; In September— probably in' Singapore. retails of the plans will be nnncu. "Ed m the Oommcm soon Instructions have already been issued .rom Whitehall 'or the
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  • 28 6 1. An ornamental set of shelves. 2. An ornament worn m the lip. 3. By Incas. 4. A powerful nauotir 5. Amphibia, 6, A wood nymph.
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  • 140 6 CANON JESSE BERRIDGE. 70, of Little Baddow, near Chelmsford. Essex, is to marry one of his village church workers— Miss Diana Beck, who is little more than halt his age. As a little, fair-haired girl. Diana Beck went regulaily to the old village church. The Canon
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  • 306 6 WEST INDIAN AIR MEN RIOT ON 'DEMOB' LINER Crew out with Sten guns KINGSTON, (Jamaica). A RIOT among 1,300 West Indian airmen sailing home for demob m a liner with women and children passengers was put down by the Sten guns of crew and civilians. The troopship Bergensfjord, taken over
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  • 201 6 'Could Do Nothing,' Says Jap TOTARO Mizutani, the Jap major facing war crimes charges m connection witii P.O.W. camps on the Siam-Burma "Death Railway." whose trial was held un a week ago. was returned to the Singapore War Crimes court by military medical authori-' ties certified fit to stand his
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 6 Butcher of Lidice. Kai Hermann Frank, Hitler's "Proip tor' of Bohemia and Moravia. Czechoslovakia's most hated prisoner guards holding him goes to the scaffold m Prague. People paid iICO for black market tickets to see him
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  • 324 6 TIVE women who had figured m the life of Lieutenant I George Thomas Learoyd gav c evidence at Eastbourne (Sussex) when he was sent for trial on two Cham of bigamy and three charges of procuring ai. Thn ?1 thc women claimed
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 68 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya thank goodness) W* must tellthem about] fTTT~~~~I l^SAd m the rX^ THE BOYS ARE 1 [THE KAYO KID— AND I 1 0 Cl>eSS/h0 AOO/n-f- "K?H Vhere, fritz.' y iJL_ tSHAtfr feel so scared 4 the tell is y r^i.-lflß -ir-^^^^v fojLLS
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  • SPORTS PAGE
    • 224 7 WOODCOCK BEATS MILLS ON POINTS LONDON, Tues. BRITISH heavyweight champion Bruce Woodcocl defeated Freddie Mills, British light-heavy champion, on po;nts tonight m a 12-round battle before a crowd of 10,700 at Harringay Arena, reports Associated Press. Woodcock scaled 191 pounds and Mills 181 poinds,. In the same programme Ernie Roderick,
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    • 320 7 FU ble ia brewing m the speeuway world m Britain, t\v system under which riding fees can rise month to month as the Chief cause of it. The tt fio ::ot like being down-graded as a result of a few I they may
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    • 120 7 THE fcllowir.g have b:en rel;cted to represent Penang against Selangor In an inter-State cricket match to be played during the Whitsun holidays. Major G. S. Walker (capt.>, Eu Cheow Teik. Koay Khoon Leong, J. Andres, Capt R. Y. Walker. Tan Ah Ec, A., J. Williams. Lim Cheng
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    • 212 7 SOUTHAMPTON, Tues. THE Indian cricket tourists to- day had little difficulty m beating Hampshire hy six wickets. Hampshire, who yesterday appeared to be m a strong position, leading by 207 with three wickets m hand, today lost those wickets for only 2 runs. Left wl'h
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    • 253 7 LONDON Tues. TO-DAY'S County Cricket closing scores are: At Melton Mowbray, Somerset beat Leicestershire by 58 runs. Somerset" 211 and 174 <Tompkin 75); Leicestershire 141 and 186. At Dudley, Worcestershire beat Warwickshire by four wickets. Warwickshire 95 and 193 (Dollery 54, Hossal 58, Howarth 5 for 30): Worcestershire
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    • 253 7 THE world's gieatest billiards I nlaver, Walter Lindrum, is -oing to England next year to !ry Joe Davis at snooker Walter is uncle to Horace MndVum, who. recent y .tried to wr-st Jo- Davis s world snooker him at the marathon two -weeks nmtch m London,
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    • 604 7  -  VERNON MORGAN (By LONDON, Tues. THE historic Epsom Downs, on which Britain's pre- mier classic, The Derby, will be run over one-and-a-half miles to-morrow (Wednesday) afternoon is already alive with enthusiasts making quite sure they wili not mis? this preat event which
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    • 382 7 Probable runners a_*d jockeys m the Deri if to-day are: Fast and Fair. Cliff Richards. Bridle Path, Pat Evans. Peterborough. Ed?,ar Britt Friar Tuck, Willie Burns. Happy Knight, Tommy Weston. Hispaniola, O. L. Jones. Neapolitan, Doug Smith. Gulf Stream, Harry Wragg. White Jacket, Wills Nevett Airborne, Tommy Lowrey. Sunstroke.
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORTS
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      29 8 The spire of Salisbury Cathedral, one of the finest m the south of England. Boys of the Catb edral Choir School are playing cricket m the foreground. P"J™l
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    • 1480 8 •Continued from page one.i the community Total war has made everybody want to have tneir say a< S d «tiny and I would n to the House and to tiie world and V ail pubhc men constantly to i mm. themselves of
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    • 141 8 TURKEY QUAKE TOLL MAY BE THOUSANDS ISTANBUL, Tuesday. THE Turkish Red Cross said today that the death tol! m the Turkey earthquake may run into the thousands. Figures available at neon said that 1,339 persons perished m the three communities alone. The quake which struck at dawn on Friday rocked
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    • 88 8 SJAHRIR HAS COUNTER-PLAN —And Rice BATAVIA. Tues THE Indonesian Republican 1 "Premier' Dr. Sjahrir announced today tliat he Is preparing counter-proposals to the Dutch offer on the future status Of Indonesia, the details of wMch have so far not yet been revealed. Feeling m the interior of Java *aid Dr.
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    • 69 8 A new pressurized Hermes British airliner capable of carrying 50 passengers has completed triai llights and is now m production, Handley Page company oflicials announced m London says A.P. The plane has four engines, is a low-wing monoplane and has a maximum sDced of 355
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    • 33 8 Blind for 22 years, John Hennessy, 66. ex-miner of Lochgelly Fife, tumped into an electric standard on the way home and awoke the next day with his sight restored.
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    • 86 8 Gen. Franco Calls It Intervention WASHINGTON, Tues. YHE Franco Government today m a statement released by Spanish Embassy, said that the Security Council subcommittee's report on Spain was an obvious intervention m the internal affairs of Spain. The statement said the report was not a report but a verdict which
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    • 86 8 LONDON. Mon. A daring robbery involving many hundreds of pounds took place on a train travelling between London and Cardiff yesterday. The train left Paditigton at 12.55 a.m. and its first stop wt; at Swindon. It stopp d again at Newport before ar>/ing at Cardiff where the robbery
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    • 271 8 TOJO ON W AR MURDER CHARGE TOKIO, Tues. JAPANESE aggression at Muk- den, Nanking, Pearl Harbour Mania and Hongkong was recalled by the chief prosecutor, Mr. Joseph B. Keenan, today S? hpfn OpCn S2 the P ro^cution 2Sf# bef r e the International Military Tribunal for the Far East trying
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    • 143 8 WASHINGTON. Tues CENATOR Edwin G. Johnson te- day proposed that Congress! outlaw the re-dra:t of veterans Johnson told a reporter that -_c wonld offer an amendment carry- j ing his proposal to the pendin* I Senate Bill to extend the draft i law beyond the present
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    • 96 8 J 1 0 cath on ve.sterdav of i l ser Ld° n in!ant lrom iscnbed to snores m talcum xnvder brought the total e eo^/ f rom cause m Nnv Zea and to six, says AP. f rom Auckland. All brands of the powder
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