The Singapore Free Press, 13 June 1946

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  • 22 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE >o. 16- 567 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Article, Illustration
    31 1 Picture I- 1a -kiin (imson. Go .-em or of Singapore, takes the I: »val >alute at today's !\vian; parade in honour of the Kins s Birthday. Army Film Unit
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  • 214 1 Italy riots as PM takes over ROME, Wednesday. PIER Alcide de Gasperi has been authorised by an rof the Council of Minister to assume the powers visional chief of the Italian State. The surprise ancame a few hours after Richardo Lombardo, I Transport, had said that King Umberto had agreed
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  • 90 1 LONDON, Wed. The Rover car company announces price increases of more than £100 on its models bringing the ten horsepower saloon to *690 15s. including purchase tax. Austin, standard Triumph, and Armstrong Siddeley prices increased last th wln h g iah er costs of materials and
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  • 114 1 VIENNA, Wed. RUSSIAN fighter plane twice staged target practice over American airfield at Tulin today with one piane swooping down to fire a burst at a red flag over the radio tower. General Mark Clark, Allied Commander, protested immediately each time to the Soviet
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  • 504 1  - S'PORE PARADES WITHOUT THE VOLUNTEERS HARRY MILLER By OINGAPORE had its military show this morning in honour of the King's Birthday— the biggest ever, they said— but for the first time for more than 20 years the Singapore Volunteer Corps, oldest of its kind in the British Empire, men who
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  • 310 1 Lord Louis Becomes A Viscount LONDON. Wed. RECOGNITION of the part play- ed by Britain's Labour and Trade Union leaders in the advancement of the socialist cause during the last 20 years is feature of the King's birthday Honours List published today. The list also includes a vast number of
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  • 40 1 THE correct form of addressing the Governor of Singapore now is Sir Franklin. The Governor, until yesterday Mr. F. C. Gimson, was awarded the K. C. M. G. in the King's birthday Honours. Other awards Page 6.
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  • 129 1 AREUTER message from London today announces the death at the age of 96 of Sir Frank Swettenham, Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief, Straits Settlements from 1901 to 1904. Born in 1850, Frank Athelstane Swettenham, was educated privately and passed into the Straits Settlements Civil Service under
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  • 48 1 V-PARADE: FIRST PICTURES These Gaumont British News pictures of the Royal Party at London's great Victory Pageant and the massed pipes and drums band marching up the Mall are the first to reach Singapore. They were flown from London and are showing this week at the Pavilion Cinema.
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  • 248 1 Palestine: BOURNEMOUTH. Wednesday. MR. ERNEST BEVIN, British Foreign Secretary, at the Labour conference today said: "In view of the agitation in the United States and particularly in New York for 100,000 Jews to be put into Palestine and I hope they will not misunderstand
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  • 46 1 Fifty-two Nazi officers and guards of Flossenberg concentration camp pleaded "not guilty" yesterday, when they faced charges of murdering thousands of women, Polish citizens and other foreign political prisoners by "scientific inoccuiatlon," shooting, hanging and strangulation, say* A. P. from Dachau.
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  • 50 1 U.P. Ex-U.S. Army Colonel Walter M. Harrison complained to the U.S. Sixth Army Commander that he had been shanghaied as a mental patient, dcped heavily and bound to a stretcher after attempting to expose the poor sanitation and lack of supervision at the General Hospital in Manila.
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    • 194 2 DpWN the step path from the 20-turreted heavily waited Chartreuse Monsus- 1 tery in the mountainous j I sere department of France recently crawled the first precious convoy of the famed green and yellow liqueur to be exported since the libera- j tion. Pounded in 1084 by Saint
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    • 1113 2  - CROWN THAT CONTAINS 3,0 00 JEWELS GEORGE EDINGER By The Crown Jewels of Britain, which are exhibited in the Tower of London, are not merely objects of enormous value. Each principal gem has a history that makes it of individual interest, and the whole collection is a history of England
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    • 165 2 One Minute For Your Bearings rLY 60 seconds may be required in the future fox an air or sea navigator to obtain his bearings by means of a new system of radio direction-finding, perfected b; technicians in Britain. The system is more accurate than older methods and dispenses with the
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    • 165 3 b's sumirer in England and the run h as brought out London's Round Pond Liters vh«>. ycung and old, sail their boats in the famous pond at Kens- inirton Gardens miKi to the Swans displeasure. *O t vacht there and of course the Round
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • 465 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, JUNE 13. 1946. Conscription THESE are s*gns a*BB*Bg the more Left supporters of the Government oi the beginnings of a esjajfaag* tc peisuade the QOBJtrnnifnt to drop conscription. The New Statesman ana Nation. the conscience keeper of the socialist movement, prophesies trouble to come if
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    • 1481 4 The Supremo becomes a Viscount By a personal friend of the Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia ADMIRAL Lord Lous it Mount bat ten. Supreme Commander in SouthEast Asia, was brought up in the Naval tradition. His lather, who was First Sea Lord at the outbreak
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    • 249 4 IIGH above the mountains behind Brora, on the south-east coast of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, a tour-month-old golden eagle wheeled against the sun ind dived earthwards towards his prey. It was the ast act of freedom of one of Britain's rarest birds. Skimming over the brushwood, he
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    • 413 4 gRANDMAS MA. Cockney wit feft the pride of the "People" of London— and it hclDed them, above everything else, to make light oM;he blitz In its most try- ing moments. A good example of it was seen the ocher day at a London railway term in js
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    • 49 4 No Shakespea Available IP? dor aeon,!? peare-, ■■> third < dor-P' :r j ■<c with Ink shorta^'f 1 No 1 Shak« supply s Score No. 2 Shake repr at tho l Ncn ing is No. 3 rlrte I Octob-: N no more The footnote S bles. T. j V r
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    • 38 4 QUIZ 1. Who «4/ 2. Who uu.- knowiaiaf' green Incoi 3. \v> *aiEhj*ch:r 4. Who virc» 5. W- FAITH j isis -.ifui J*m is |ff louari 1 the l> !i Of I cndui< li 1 fw r I
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  • NEWS PAGE
    • 385 5 JAP PLANES FOR S'PORE AIR SCOUTS New Youth Movement Free Press Reporter planes and equipment will be used by Singapore J youths who have taken enthusiastically to the 4 branch of scouting air scouting, developed in lain during the war and likely to be one of the wigest branches of
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    • 170 5 M alaya sends greetings to the King C: iIWW greetings te tbe mar. from the peoples «f the Malayan Tnion and Singapore. been forwarded on their a!f by the Go\ernor-Gen- v r Malcolm McDonald, as I 1 have the honour i mlcr sreetinrs from the of Malaya to Yo»r Ma<>M
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    • 218 5 ar.nual general meeting Teluk Ar.scn Rubber ite, Ltd in Singapore yce- Mr. F M Edmonds, the, i mounded a call for a lion of policy by Govern- with regard to financial rubber producers. >:utement would be welcome i r to financial and to producers
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    • 64 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Wed.— Charged with entldllg a Chinese school-girl under 16 years of age from the ouardianship of her father, a young Chinese, Aw Boon Teck was granted bail of $1,000 in the police court today. Accused, it was alleged, took the ~irl
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    • 295 5 niSPOSAL. of UJS. Army surplus property, lagging In many part of the world, has been completed in the Singapore area, which dealt with Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, Siam, Burma and Indo-China. The American taxpayer received back approximately US. S^OOOOO or 70 c.nts out
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    • 184 5 CENTENCE of death by hanging was passed by the Sixth Singapore Wor Crimes Court yesterday on two Jap majors and two captains convicted of unlawfully killing an unidentified American flyer in Saigon last year. Three of the accused. Majors Mabuchi and Nakamura and Captain Wakamatsu
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    • 189 5 S 'poreMedical Students To Be Helped FORMER students of the King Edward VII College of Medicine, Singapore who were receiving scholarships or exhibitions prior to the occupation, will continue to receive them when they return to college this month to complete their studies. Students who had qualified during the occupation
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    • 66 5 Miss Nancy Russell, Director of Y.W.C.A. Welfare work for Malaya! is leaving shortly for Australia on retirement. Y.W.CJV. members will have an opportunity to say farewell to Miss Russell at the usu^l "ovtnightly meeting today, Thursday, at 5 p.m. at the Y.W.C.A. Hoste. Fort Canning Rd.
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    • Article, Illustration
      71 5 Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford, deputy Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, chats wi h Junior Commander Y. C Hu?bes of "G" Branch during his vbit to HQ., Malaya Command, at Kuala Lumpur. B?low: Mr Marshal Sir George Pirie, Allied Air C.-in-C. SEAC, delivering the opening speech at the Victory
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    • 70 5 Princess Roy al GetsJapSword A 15th-century Japanese officer's sword, taken in Malaya after the Japanese surrender, has been presented to the Princess Royal b\ MajorGeneral R.H.R Steward, on behalf of all ranks of the Royal Corps of Signals and the Indian Signal Corps of the South-East Asia Command The presentation
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    • 260 5 AT yesterday's proceedings of the field general court- martial in Singapore, in which Major F. T. Metherell, R.E.M.E. is charged on five counts of fradulent conversion of motor vehicles and parts and bicycle accessories entrusted to his care, V. C. B. Menon, a witness for the
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    • 218 5 rffiN Singapore was subjected to air attack by Allied aircraft during the Japanese occupation, pilct^ took every precaution to bomb only Japanese military targets and to avoid the city and civilian property. The undamaged state in which Singapore finds herself today by comparison with
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    • 53 5 j Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu, the French High Commissioner and General LeClerc, who commands the French forces in indoChina. have been accorded high honours by the French Government, Admiral d'Argenlieu has Deen raised to the dignity ot Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour General LeClerc received the
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    • 37 5 Commencing at 7 pjn today Buddhists will celebrate at 9u Outram Roaa, Singapore, the 2254th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism in Oylon. Preachers: Theras Pennasiha and Soma of the Ceylon Buddhist Mission to China.
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    • 18 5 A Welsh service will be held In the Union Jark Club at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
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    • 177 5 Prison For Having Army Supplies STANDING trial before Mr. R. C. HofTman at the Fourth Court, yesterday, for being in possession of military property, Tan Swee Seah, Chinese importer and exporter residing at 28 and 30 Hong Kong Street, and chief tenant of No. 24 Hillside Drive. was convicted and
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    • 38 6 This massive machine is a tele cine, installed at Alexandra Palace, headquarters of the B.BC. Television Service. It enables cinema films to be televised and received in the homes of possessors of television sets.
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    • 636 6 ON Friday, May 31, the Free Press published a report of a statement by the Minister of Labour and National Service, George Isaacs, on the Government's policy towards conscription and call up. The report stated that all men called up before 1944 will be
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    • 112 6 BECAUSE he believed 'half a loaf was better than no braad," Sidney Talbot took an office boy's job at 10s. a week when he was 28. When he went to war in 1940. two years later, he had risen to junior clerk
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    • 28 6 1. Lord Chancellor, 2. Robespierre, 3. A spectral ship suDposed to have been seen off the Cape of Good Hope. 4. Brandon Thomas, 5. Uncle Remus.
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    • 195 6 The following is the official list of awards: K.C.M.G.: Mr. F. C. Cimson. K.8.E.: Mr. H. R. Hone. C.M.G.: Mr. L. G. Corney, Mr. J. D. Hall, Dr. V. W. W. S. Purcell and the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson. Bishop of Singapore. C.8.E.: Dr. L. W.
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    • 616 6 KNIGHTHOOD FOR S'PORE GOVERNOR Birthday Honours TWO knighthoods for Malaya are announced in 1 today's King's Birthday Honours list. They are a K.C.M.G., for Mr. F. C. Gimson, Governor of Singapore, and aK.B.E.,for Mr. HR. Hone, Secretary General to the Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. Recognition is also given in these
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    • 79 5 SUMDAY 16TH JUNE 1946 AT 845 P.M. 80-IH6-HAPPYWORLD STADIUM tUith the approval of the Bokinc Board Mr. NX. Lhn presents the welcome rrtorn of the gr«at Siamese K.O King and former UelKr Wi Champion or Singapore r *-x SOMPONG f'M Gr*nd 1 i-hi \VL Conteu Brtwem 'I If fl m^mß
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 69 6 J Ai M E Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya GET UP YOU OREArV^NO USE, BRAINsAJ /no THANKS, BOYS.'-ME AN'^ p*\ f BAO Of= OATS AMD HE'S SLAP-HAPPY/-!/ JANE'S SITTING PRETTY. 1 J *>^{* J (G^P, 1 J SLUG HER LIKE WE'LL HAVE TO J\ I'M ENJOYING THIS,
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  • SPORTS PAGE
    • 147 7 LONDON, Wed. d I half before the al was due to vTd's today. the lull but breaks in .e promise of a Overnight rain did vicket which wis whole length. vital importance who are urgently n likely to dismiss ::.ree days of the ...h starts at
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    • 249 7 Horace Carter Makes Debut For Derby WIDESPREAD rain snoiH tu LO NDON Wednesday, matches. At Oxford J R^T""* day S play h <* unt y against the- Univers tv w u h^ST.,?*?* for Middlesex S. M. Brown was concerned n\ fh" h* baU and with
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    • 45 7 ''THE following will represent the Po--1 lice team against the Colonials in a cricket maU-h at the Depjt today:— Cheah Kim Swee (capiaJn) Yeoh Bin Chlat, S. K. Sundram Ha worth, Capt. Goodrich. W.H.P. Grose, P. Pennefather, Mohd. Ta"~.a, J.E. Jeans. Bulat and Guiaial Singh!
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    • 75 7 S STOCKHOLM, Wed. WEDEN and Belgium finished even on the first days play in the Davis Cup European semi -final round here today Phillip:* Hasher of Belgium won tne first singles when beating the Swedish champion, Torsten Johansson 6 2, 6 l 6 l and
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    • 424 7 NO PLAY IN INDIAN GAME it. Portsmouth, Vv'ed. f. T^ Nawab of Patauai, return--1 ing to the game alter an st absence through illness, did not ill look too robust. He said: 'I feel of much better although still a trifle r- weak." The Indian side today asainst 'a the
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    • 472 7 AIRMEN CHINESE SHARE HONOURS WITH LATE GOALS R-\.F. (Signals) I. S.C.F.A i. HONOURS were shared at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday II when the Royal Air Force (Signals) met the Singapore Chinese Football Association in a match organised in aid of St. Dunstan's Fund for the Blind. Both goals came in
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    • 88 7 POMPTON LAKES (New York), Tues. k STATE Athletic Commission physician today examined Joe Louis and said he was in "splendid condi ion," but after watching him go through the worst work-out to date, changed his mind. He said after a second examination "his blood pressure
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    • 34 7 AMSTERDAM, Mon.— Before 30.000 spectators, Jurgarders, a Stockholm soccer team, were defeated one-nil in the Olympic Stadium on Monday by the Dutch Volewokers. Thu only goal resulted from a penalty A.P.
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    • 32 7 Ernie Roderick sends Omar Kojdiri down for a count in the first round of their 15- round contest at Harringay on June 4 which Roderick won on points.
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    • 345 7 WOOLLEY CO. FELT THE ADVANCING YEARS THE "OLD ENGLAND" players had an extremely interest- ing day's play at the Oval centenary match recently, and a 15,000 crowd had the great pleasure of watching Hcndren and Woolley in a big partnership probably for the hist time. Some illuminating remarks en what
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    • 85 7 TN a friendly badminton match on Sunday, the Steadfast B.P. beat the Merridale B.P. by toJT games to one. Results are: Seah Yeak Khern. If 1 Um Cnen Kwe 11—15. 15 12—15; Lam Joon Shu beat K Y. Poh 15— II, 15—7; Tan Guan Hong beat Low Meng
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    • 353 7 D CLEVELAND. OHIO (By Air), i ALYMPIC victories for the United v States in Berlin 10 years ago brought prominence to Jesse Owens, and ever since then fori tune has been his reward for good sportsmanship. At those games, this fast athlete, known
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORT
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      34 8 This is the Garden of Remembrance which has just been completed outside the bombed shell of Sir Christopher Wren's St James's Church, Piccadilly. The Garden was opened by Queen Mary, the Queen Mother.
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    • 268 8 MUFTI FLED PARIS WITH FALSE PASSPORT PARIS, Wednesday. nOLICE inquiries have revealed that the Grand Mufti of 1 Jerusalem, Hajj Amin El HusseinL, left Paris oh May 29 in an American plane which landed at Cairo the same day, it was officially announced here tonight. A Foregn Office official said
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    • 61 8 Yigal Frucht, 18 year old mem- ber of the illegal Jewish defence defence organisation "Haganah" was sentenced by Jerusalem's military court yesterday to 14 years imprisonment lor shooting at a British police sergeant on 25 May.—Reuter. The offence was committed when the Haganah "stood to" to cover
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    • 40 8 General James Doolittle said in Los Arvgeles last night, states United Press, that Britain was ahead of the U.S. in the development of jet airplane engines. "Our airforce must keep ahead of an., potential enemy" he declared.
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    • 1369 8 stood It. that they should have not merely a home but a state in Palestine so that their voices cou'.d be heard in the chancellories of the world. That is what he would strive to do but it was goins to take
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    • 160 8 'COL. SAID: DESTROY PARTISANS' Mihailovich BELGRADE, Wed. THE Chetnik leader. General Draga "M ihailo v 1 c h. charged with collaborating with the Naz.s during- the j war, told the Court here today that he had been instructed by the British m'ssicn in Yugoslavia to "annihilate thf partisans. Mihailovich asked
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    • 190 8 ABDUCTION CHARGE SURPRISE Frc? Press Correspondent IPOH. fhurs. WHEN three Malay cadi planters, ff Puteh Mahbut Bin Abdullah. Ahmad Binkulop Yahaya and Rasali Bin Ibrahim, stood trial in the superior court here today betore Lt.-Col. J. G. Adams on an abduction charge, Puteh caused a stir in court when he
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    • 119 8 WASHINGTON, Wed. INDIA has been promised 232,450 1 tons of wheat or wheat equivalent by the United States, Canada and Australia in the month of June. Dr. V. K. Rao. food adviser at the Indian Agency General in Washington, told Reuters. The United States will ship
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