The Singapore Free Press, 4 July 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE ."l. SINGAPORE, THURSDAV, JULY 4, 1946. RIGHT PAGES PRICL 10 CFATS
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    Money Is Going Up
    97 1 P.I -|»\PKST. Wed. t.iMin.i.iMliNHl pengu u.i> put into general r uUt ou IflAHj M Hungarian appmat h**d complete »'i n e> »i» Uir.ue on a ■p ardv •«4r da>>, one p"ng O at mir shilling. i.nf -hilhn^ is worth -8 •n nonso in this most •-U:
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    LONDON HAS 'SINGAPORE HEAT WAVE'
    70 1 mpevatouna went i degreei yesterday— than the aver- Singapore and decree leaf than the Stegapm yesterB a tempera' are oi retotdfcd. I Singapore temperrecorOt'd on June 28 at Last Monday it v\a^ i sweated in the Angaa nad heavy hail At Bridlinc:kshira I 16 niinute
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    S'PORE GUN BATTLE
    393 1 Police Chief Wounded In Raid On Gang LAST MOMENTS OF THE HIPPER Free Pres s Reporter TWELVE Chinese gangsters were arrested, and 19 pistols and a large quantity of ammunition, including a Japanese type hand grenade were recovered, in the biggest raid carried out by the Singapore
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    Malayan Union to be Federation
    242 1 Malayan Union to be Federation Fret* JVe^-s Correspondent LONDON, Wed. AS a result of intensive negotiations between the Colonial Oflire, the Governor (ieneral, .Mr. MatDonald, Governor Sir Edward (ienl and the Sultans, the Colonial Office iias agreed to substitute a Federation for the Malayan I'nion and a High Commissioner for
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    BEER SHIP IS HIGH AND DRY
    90 1 BEER SHIP IS HIGH AND DRY H.M.S. Menestheos, N.A.A.F I. s luxury Moating brewery v fetch wa, fitted out to serve the Navy in the Far East an 1 which re<,er..!y sailed for U '< from Si-i- 4p< ;f. has Ken lyln.l high r..nd dry on slungle ban^ .it the
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    "I SAW HITLER'S BODY"
    180 1 NUREMBERG. Wed- Hitler's chief chauffeur, a German named Kempka, told tlw War Crimes Tribunal today that Hitler died on April 30. 1945, between 2 and 3 p.m. He claimed that he carried out Eva Braun from a Berlin bunker and saw Hitler's body covered with a
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    ARRESTS MADE AT INDONESIAN H.Q.
    39 1 ARRESTS MADE AT INDONESIAN H.Q. Several arrests have been made In Jogjakarta. Indonesian > natto- nalist" headquarters in the interior of Java, after the kidnapp- Inf ot Doctor Satan s- ,-r in...r.esian Premier :nd othei -iers, says Reutcr :rom Bata-
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    ASCOT FASHION
    22 1 Picture shows an American woman, Mrs. Lawrence Kent of New York, wearing blue net hat and fur (ape at Ascot.
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    R.A.F. Search For Missing Dakota
    246 1 R.A.F. Search For Missing Dakota .Royal Air Force planes are continuing the search of a Rangoon-bound R.A.F. Dakota which has been missing since leaving Singapore on Saturday morning. The plane which carried 16 R.A.F. personnel is presumed to have crashed in the neighbourhood of Cameron Highlands. The aircraft encountered bad
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    SIX LOST IN SHIP
    30 1 A 2,000-ton Norwegian-owned coastal freighter hit a mine and sank oft Haiphong. Northern Indochina, says Feut°r from Hong Kon?. Six of the Chinese crew were losW
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    LUCKY PEOPLE
    45 1 Many Japanese and German war criminals are getting off with the light sentences instead of the death penalty because discharged servicemen refuse to return overseas to testify against them, the War Crimes Breach of the U.S. War Department said reports U.P. from Washington.
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    'SHOOT TO KILL' IS OFFICIAL
    89 1 POUR Bills were passed In the Singapore Advisory Council this morning. One g*ves powers to sentries on ouard duty to shoot to kill any person who fails to stop on being challenged three times at a protected Dlace. Another provides Tor the demobilization of the
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    Terrorists Freeing Officers
    252 1 Terrorists Freeing Officers JERUSALEM, W.d. OFFICIAL quarters staitd tonight that th^ d?ath sentences passed by a military court in Jerusalem on Jun--3 on two Jewish teftafiJU found guilty on three of sev> n capital charges, were confirm ed by Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, General Officer Commandir^, on July 2, b
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    RUBBER ABLAZE IN SINGAPORE
    85 1 Fire destroyed a rubber smoking shed at the 7» 2 mile Yio Chu Kang Road. Singapore in the early hours of this morning Th* Geylang Fire Brigade received the call too late to save either thf shed or the rubber inside it. Experiments in smoking rubber
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    BACK TO CAIRO.
    47 1 Lord Stansgate. leader of th* British mission which Is conduc'.ins thp British side of the negotiations for a revision of Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, is to return to Cairo as soon as possible. Mr. Phihp Noel-Baker, Minister of State announced in the Hon of Commons.- Reuter
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    NAVY LEAVES CAIRO
    32 1 The British Naval headquarters at Cairo will be turned over to Egyptians this month as a furth step of the evacuation of Esypt by the British, says A. P.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      Fathers Flock To Toy Train exhibition
      150 2 Fathers Flock To Toy Train exhibition As a contribution to Fatncr.;' Day festivities, a firm Bi well-known New York manufacturers of electric toy tra:^: announced a free exhib tion "to bona-fide fathers" of their latest tiny railways. Applicants were required to brin? some convincing evidence of their parenthood. Proving the
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      Nazi Beasts On Trial
      65 2 These 14 c;erman> in the dock were former gm Natiwtiltr (amp in Alsace They were Aargcd with burning four Brili>h krrvic* uornen raptured aff r p.. utinr into France on vp« lal mi^is lorn: Cioerins"s u ur nt oern jail v Irrred a ainst e<ca r
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      THE ETHICS OF NUREMBERG
      1094 2  - THE ETHICS OF NUREMBERG C. Stephens Spinks The long-drawn-cut trial of the German war criminals at Nuremberg is a "symbol of that moral development which the Nazi leaders were doin*: their best to destroy.' 'The whole trial is a act cf moral reconstruction/ and that it is the means by
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      388 2 SINGAPORE RLI. MIUDKh rroca avoo U 2 p.m tod 4M to 11 aa. 00 235 metres rrum ooon 10 ga. on 1. 825 mcs tee >i metre oainl and from T.43 t«» »3* r«n no 4;« t>m- ire .r Cl metre mho CHINES* nouc to 115 mews HolUiec 1 pm
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      210 2 DECIDING THE FATE OF WIVES THE British rcasurj .a now considering tl.e qvctuon »>i whether the CtfU Service should j remove its bar a^inst the employment ef married women, helped by a report )«tt submitted b> a fact-finding committee of the Civil Service National Whitley Council An early Government decision
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      'OPERATION NIP OFF' TAKES JAPS HOME
      100 3 "Operatic* NipofT" i«< in full -wini:. Kir-t pi -t iir > <>I. rt'teivng "Nipofl instnutions froni Stall VHAItK ireaunem »f for the Jan Is I i xxl bath of (li-in-I ntiint. The Kttnpeitai used t<» liavr oth x ideas in Sin^apon*. JAP jabs J~p.
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • The Singapore Free Press
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        Army Transport For Singapore?
        479 4 I is now a fortnight a ne^ Mr. Jack Lawson, the WaiMinister, rated the hop i»f Singapore by announen.g il the HouSv' of Common^ that the War Offic^|WoUiJ complete its calculations oi the Army's transport ce« quirt ir.ents by the end "I June, and that any
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      The Philippines Are 'Free' Today
      1061 4 America's Independence Day Gift* By an American recently returned to Singapore from Manila ONE hundred and seventy years ago today, on July 4, 1776, the American colonies, banded together under the Continental ConglttS, declared their independence from the British crown. The colon is us— most
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      536 4 STAR "LADY OF THE MANOR" Singapore nlmgoers have recently had the opportunity of seeing the delightful performance piven by CHia Johnson in the Noel Coward film. "Brief Encounter" In this film, essentially an extremely simple affair, she gives a really touching study which should make the production
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      War On Cancer Is International
      447 4 By Dr. IIADDOW (Royal Cancer Hospital, London) CANCER is es:ential'y due to an alteration in th*» growth properties oi th 1,-imal cells «>f which cur bodies are composed, in viituc of which they gp*9 more or less independent j and continuously and without any relation
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      FAITH
      52 4 I Inally, brethren, uhatst»evrr thin-s arc true, uhatsoever lhi.i ?s ar- hoi>es nha'sorvrr thn«s arc just, whatsoever things arp p»ir?, v. ha soevrr t^i^rs a e lovclv. whatsoever thi-^s .ire of kooJ r^ort: if th^re m aiv \i^ve. and if there b^ any prase. think on thes? things PHII
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        'Maniacs' At Bikini
        80 4 'Maniacs' At Bikini I HAVE b MfftfpOadei the past nonf storm <>f expect 9% bomb t« Ihr km its xp^' d tic com:" I I been < i tn] But imrti c bun eta Does it ti su« is v. Fxperirr.Pi.' oiT half a n I ftfure t. preein watf
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        A GIBE IN BAD TASTE
        130 4 A GIBE IN BAD TASTE EDITORS, nol lrr; hut as thev selves. unU are able and prevent much I sneer little standards publ Bg on iecond asi you. wht that beef:;, i worltf those old-: morality and any better 1 Sundav Be much ureav: world by < to apprecir.-. life
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        QUIZ
        60 4 1. The Sut the Ooverno the pop ctaeo liar. rr ption d!" the v <d» Um A .:ia know 2. Ahum.. the clav i Whence the 3 Who vk.. ::r>t I 4. you y> M bcfttfots M taur;ir.i I piratc-.-l::;:: C At ot Air PauocQ law-i' rerf 1 5.
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      32 4 A 4- delightful spot for your meals. convenient rendezvous and the ideal place to entertain your friends TktM have made SAVOY RESTAURANT Collyer Quay, S'pore. the most popular restaurant in towm today.
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      JAP-EMPLOYED DETECTIVE TO HANG
      56 5 JAP-EMPLOYED DETECTIVE TO HANG respondent IPOH. Wed. .1 Ja:j-err.ploy-ibo was identi- l party el put to d?ath iklren in a put on sentenced hen the S iperici Court mi OTum'd t ot ti.th t'-iv- o* rrvrd r p ikieni i pi atoi of d bv ihe r in police ln*e
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      KEMPEI ON ATROCITY CHARGE
      94 5 KEMPEI ON ATROCITY CHARGE ce:i rk Ci jra of the rel it -d U) Ci mm (^ourt Sgt Ma; ir rt.-mber ol thl d to the C i lion as i^e 'on;l- ir guilty to the j r 19 and I mcerued ::>, resulti oj Wahmb. Chens Woo I to
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      INSPECTOR GUILTY OF 'HURT'
      59 5 INSPECTOR GUILTY OF 'HURT' lor three] roeraU \v*i tr.cl of K rnei an urimQtv r >* I the Singapore! b*t< re M one of causing will h 1 1 iur of the tcr a*!a?h?d to J 'h of th* Sin^a- J ha-1 hai 21 OrUrinalii nhorg- i terinf a detainee
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      ARMY HELPS CIVIL POLICE IN DRIVE ON CRIME
      308 5 ARMY HELPS CIVIL POLICE IN DRIVE ON CRIME Jeep Cou rtesy Patrols Free Press Correspondent lim^j an Z V e c yxX Jol (e h^ve now been reAr v t and rder is being restored. slogans in English. Malay. Ur,;,, and CUbhl 5 OrTending drivers are stopp?cp--r.d g'\en a lenoo
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      SCHEME FOR FREE IMMUNISATION
      116 5 THE Singapore Munis ipal Health Department iv iestartin» its scheme f«ff foe* immini a ion against dip'.theria for <hiHren. Immunisation of children under three yean of ase is beins carried oi't at the three main clinics ot lh* Infant Welfare Centres Parents of children must Pe\\s?
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      Air Travel Prospects 'Steadily Brighter'
      191 5 Kree l*ress Reporter PROSPECTS of booking an air passage to England are steadily becoming brighter for nan-priority travellers, according to Mr. \V. Hudson Fysh, Managing Director ol Qantas Empire Airways. "Hythe ilying-boats, recently added to the QantusKangaroo Service, have already made inroads On he long
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      FREE FIGHT AT SOCCER MATCH
      57 5 PENANG. Tues. THE radio car patrol was summoned to a football match at Dato Kramat Padang this evening when, follow. ng a cla^h between two olayas in a Victory Cup semi-final between th* Malays and the Indians, the spc .tators entered into tbe Irav and
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      RETRIAL ORDERED
      44 5 IPOH Wed. IN the Peral; Supreme Court this morning it was revealed that the reviewing authority had quashed the conv'cticn and srntence of death passed on March 30 this year on Anthony Thambydurai and I HA. Jayasuriva by the Pcrak Superior Court.
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      BMA CARS MUST BE HANDED BACK
      246 5 BM.A. <M> registration will be abottsted as Tom August 1. 1946 and all the B.M.A. (M> cars will nave to be registered with the Registrar of Vehicles. SingaI pore Ir order that the re-registra t:on .nay te completed by August i 1 all prisons,
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      WOMEN CREATE STIR AT JAP MPs' PARADE
      159 5 WOMEN CREATE STIR AT JAP MPs PARADE Free Press Correspondent Penang, Wed. THREE Chinese women, whost sons had be-n taken away by the Japanese during the occupation, crea td a stir in Penan: prison this morning when ar identification naiade was UsL by the War Cr mes Investigation Team of
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      Protest Over Road Transport
      358 5 Protest Over Road Transport EXCEPTION to what they regard as interference with the internal road transport affairs of the Municipality was taken by Singapore Municipal Cutnmiss loners recently and a protest was addressed to the Colonial Secretary. The Commissioners decld d, at a committee nice Em if no satisfaction was
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      ARMY'S SURPLUS TRANSPORT
      56 5 i !i;i::rs SttOU surplus Bl*iilu«> i M.r-.; I in itti Reference was by the War Minister, Mr. Jack r».\vs n, made in the Commons a fortii^ht ago that these vehicles night be availa' I- to civilians, but it woull be unwise for civilians to ext pect too
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      TRAFFIC COURT
      84 5 TO relieve the congest'on in the Singapore Police Courts, a special relief court ha« b?en set up in the Civil District Cour^ buildi£fe to dpal with traffic casrs. This court will sit once a w??k, on Wednesdays, but on other davi trpfific n ases are dealt with in
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      PROTECTING MINORITIES:
      106 5 THE vi- w that the ir.t 10-ts of the mjrioritios tn Singapore should be protoot vd was hold bv the ICun!clpul Constitution Conmittse irhen it met to discus> quetioi.s affecting the new .*et-up o f the Singapore Municip i2 Oommissioii on Tuesdsy. How best the^e interests roull be
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      International 'Jills'
      38 6 International 'Jills' <*• s ..o .i all «:*er thr ..otl.l \isit-? •n'litul tu- a wee x at tor imitulion of the K*nt »i;i e \s>ov-:i lon Thes** "In trrnational JiM>" arp otT up the hill to letch Nonir water.
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      'BLACK-LISTED' BRIGADIER DEMOBBED
      63 6 'BLACK-LISTED' BRIGADIER DEMOBBED DFMOADIER DEREK S SCHREIu BBR. who, as Chief ol Stall <o the Duke o| cj: v. Gotleneraj ol Australia, was yjute earl? this year when he was "black-listed" bv Canberra Trades and Labour Counc'l 1 victimi- lovee. is bark i Loi to 1 fcr i €2 r.
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      FENCING THEM OUT
      30 6 The 3: ~'r. pub! i anr u to to F B beaut ■> b?fo' I wa do j "xrh I it i| n :'cl^ r^iil^s of rl |i ;'.•>
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      PENNY CAREFUL
      41 6 Mr. u::^ Mrs Ood f P.'nnv are rurnlns] their house in High-road, Whetsone, nto fortress. Mr US l:r has b^-^n rcbfcrd 15 > in 21 rears ard doesn*l Into be rob 1 i asa n now be Is re ired.
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      Torquay Feels The Paneh Now
      91 6 Torquay Feels The Paneh Now Foil i\w (iist lime since autumn r>.;'» fur* is a shorta;c of f«;oj. and esinial'y of neat, in Tornaay, al hooch the Ministry »t I<»«>J has i* JJ«>;v ftl thr t«:'Aii .in increase «)f '!.*> prr cent, on meal and other ration«(J jon !s to
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      Mr. KAO INVENTS A CHINESE TYPEWRITER
      301 6 Mr. KAO INVENTS A CHINESE TYPEWRITER T HE International Business Machines Corporation announces completion of an "electro-automatic Chinese typewriter" which may revolutionise business life among ti\e hundred million Chinese people. The typewriter, based on electronic and mechanical principles, was invented and patented by Kao Chung-chin, chief of the radio division
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      Farmer flies his sheep to market
      239 6 II'ST before two o>*clocll on an English summer's aflerniM.n J .Mr. Charles Sihrertop kissed his wife and dailghteis farewell at Signei Hill Fanß in Oxfordshire and left lo keeps business appointment for three o'clock at P&ddilMjlon -St> miles ::\vav. He was there on time.
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      OPEN AIR THEATRE
      13 6 Holborn may havp Its own <.n^n' air thratjo In Russell-square.
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      WOT ONLY 3 HOURS
      37 6 Und'T a n°v schedul* intro-. duccd in Watford, Hertfordshire. licensed houses will open only 'hrve hours each weekday and four hours on Snodayj while the 10 ner cent, cut In boor supply lasts.
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      LAND GIRLS PANTIES
      27 6 The British wom^n s cooperative guild La r.o press for the same gratuities and clothing coupons for Land Girls as the forces «^et. i
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      ATOM PROOF TUBE TRAIN SHELTERS?
      183 6 Britain has taken its rust ste?; I against possible atomic war. RaiiI t way technicians haw submitted I a report calling for a hir;? syst ■•m I of deep level subwav tut.ncl.i I undrr metropolitan London capaI ble of protecting virtually all of I its
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      HE SHOP WALKS BY AIRPLANE
      90 6 AN* Englishman, Johnny Brind. who rails himseli Trade Winds. Ltd.. lias returned to Enstond from the Middle Fast with '■•'fio.noo worth of orders for Bri-tish-road? He claims to be Britain's No l |FlFin? Commercial Traveller Mr 'Blind, now 34. was invalided out of In- P
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      HOPES TO HATCH OSTRICH EGG
      127 6 IyjAXY citizens 01 Los Angeles, ■■'California, are queueing up 10 watch Mr. Jim Moran sitting on an ostrich entr which he hopes to hatch on or around July 4, says a New York cable. "Just look at tiio.se lunatics," says .Tim Moran. ''People in Los
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      DOSED WIFE WITH HAT POISON
      150 6 DOSED WIFE WITH HAT POISON A man who pleaded guilty afl Din ham Assizes to putting rat j poison in his wife's tea with InI tent to procure her miscarriage said 'I would not hurt a hair ot her head. It was fear that drove ns j to do it."
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      FIXING THE PRICE
      31 6 Coal Compensation Tribunal which wih decidte hjw many millions the country will pay lor the industry when nationalised has started work in secret at the Law Courts, London.
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      85 6 QUIZ Answers The Sublime Porte .s the translation of the Turkish title of the central offlce oi the Ottoman Government. 2. Bauxite owes i s name to Les Eaux. in Southern France where .t is milled. 3. George IV of En-land, vho when a boy, was des snatcd by his
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      37 6 V ili iiu i kecrs a strad\ si- l> a»d at ibr n Rooms. Loiklum a- p| a a^aint Ha. id II <• tant Moscow 11.. an < was in t^e Rm ma ih uhi is b ladi >-t:
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      NO DIVORCE FOR CLERGY
      74 6 NO DIVORCE FOR CLERGY THE Church Assembly has a?re:d to withdraw th? Clergy discipline Act. 18C2 'Air.enament) Measure, which was to remove the ban on d-vorced clergymen in one tyo^ of case -desertion. This became a ground lor divorce ;n Mr. A P. mow Sir Alan> Herberts Act of 1933.
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      HOME...
      14 8 <-i..v at Lxnmouth in England's west country showing Mars Hill on the left
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      STRACHEY: U.S. MUST FEED REICH NEXT
      629 8 STRACHEY: U.S. MUST FEED REICH NEXT ihe Free Press LONDON, Wed. GIVING details of Britain's aid to famine-threatened counU tries, Food Minister John Strachey, opening the Commons debate on the Government's decision to ration bread and flour, called on the United States to help to feed the British zone of
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      Rent Rose To $10(US)An Hr
      96 8 Till", nation's Mgbml leiU i'i- crease in the I'nited States >irife controls went off MM reported by a I'nivoisitv «»f altt»rnia student at Berk«:l-- His r*nt jumned from (I'.S montbly for a service flat to $10 an hour or $7.!00 monthly. He said: "My landlord
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      'COUNT' IN PUB FIGHT JAILED
      145 8 LONDON, Wed CAID to have represented himself as a titled gentleman of •.ome substance" and a former major in the Indian Army, Alec Gaming Kostanda. whose age waa "iven as 51. was o^ntenocd at Old Rllkj today to four years penal servitude, for breaking; and
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      OFFERED SON FOR SALE
      72 8 OFFER ED SON FOR SALE Hong Kong. Wtd. A Chinese was sen- traced to six weeks imprison- ntent for offering his four-year-cld son for sale. Leun^ Kam-ki, "> 4 was arrested near the Ferry Wharf, carrying: his child and a slfo "Small Child for sale". He told the court he
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      'Mr. WATT' LED ARMY IN GREECE
      293 8 LONDON, Wed. THF defence of Crete against Ihe German invasion of 1 94 1 was "among the finest achievements of the forces of the British Kmpire." said den. Sir Archibald Wavell (now Field Marshal Lord Wavell. Viceroy of India) then C-in-C Midd'e ■Mt, in
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      NO BUTTER
      106 8 AUCKLAND, Wed. I ONOBHOREMBM today volun- turily Agreed t nalt loadiu" I of butter :or shipment to Ul&ited They said they uould await a States forces In the Pacific. lull statement on the Governr.en's derision to ship ten milI lion pounds of butter. The transport Mariposa had been
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      BACK TO WORK
      27 8 Ten thousand sriking members of Hollywood studio unions, will go back to work according to an announcement by the Motion Picture Producers Associations. U.P.
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      ACTING RANKS: A QUERY
      241 8 WESTMINSTER. Wed. IN the House of Commons today 1 P O H. W. Bowden, <Lab South Leeester*. asked the War Minister if he was aware that personnel serving in Greece who are holding paid acting; ranks. are informed that when they proceed o n Python and
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      'U.S. SHOULD RATION FOOD'
      401 8 NEW YORK, Wed. > POL. H. B. Hester, a senior American food official in Ger- many, speaking at a luncheon. advocated food rationing in the 1 United States to help to relieve German hunger which, he pre- dieted, would be even worse next year He added:
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      EDITOR NAMED COLLABORATOR
      85 8 I Hong Kong, Wed THE Chinese daily Wah Kiu Yat Poh (Overseas Chinese Daily) announced that its mana- I ger Sum Wai-yau, who has been named a collaborator by the Chinese Government, is being replaced by Col Wong Haucheung representing Gen Fah- 1 kv/ei. At the same
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      RUSSIA STAKES OUT POLISH FORNTIER
      48 8 RUSSIA STAKES OUT POLISH FORNTIER Russian soldiers drove in the stake alone; Poland's eastern frontier, indicating: a permanent establishment of the Curzon line between the two countries as the rountniß of ballots in Sundays .v-ferendum showed sharp disapproval of such a set up. says A. P. from Poland.
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      WIMBLEDON: PETRA, BROWN WIN
      409 7  -  Vernon Morgan (By WIMBLEDON, Wed. MS <lf France and Geoffrey Crown of Austral a Jw,, the men's singles final in the f^rst postwar v, ;:mp:on?hip. In todays semifinals Petra deI wn of California 4—6, 4—6. 6—3, 7—5 B—6 jptßnm* lu.it Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia *6— 4
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      LOCKELEADS IN BRITISH OPEN GOLF
      264 7 LOCKE LEADS IN BRITISH OPEN GOLF ST. ANDREWS, Wed. BOBBY LOCKE, South Africa's 20-year-old wonder golfer, will tomorrow begin the second round of the British open goif championship one stroke ahead of his nearest rivals Henry Cotton and Norman Von Nida of Australia on the ola course here. After exhilarating
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      Wightman Cup Tennis
      29 7 Wightman Cup Tennis ™ss is rassinsham and Mrs Lincoln, of Great P.riiain in play asrainst Miss Betz and Miss D. Hart, United States, in the Wiffhtman Cup at Wimbledon.
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      RECS SURPRISE THE ATHLETES
      747 7 R<tt*s 2 Chinese A.A 1 pLAVING together for the first time as a team after more 1 than four years, the Uecs sprang a surprise at Jaian Besar stadium yesterday when they beat the Chinese Athletic Association, one of the strongest teams in the island, by
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      CANADIAN GOLF
      45 7 MONTREAL. Tues. George Fazio of Los Angeles shot a subpar 70 to defeat Dick Metz of Kansas City Tuesday in the 18--hole playoff for the Canadian Open Golf championship. Metz shot 71. The victory was Fazio's first in a major competition. A. P.
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      RECS' CRICKET
      58 7 r PHE folio :ng will .represent the Recs' 'A' team against the S.C. R.C. "A" at cnrKet at trte Pol I'-'1 Depot ground on Sunday, starting at 1 p.m. D. Barker. A. Watts. T. Uorceira. R. Koenits/ Douglas Ros* (cap.-.» C. Schubert. S. Hope. O. Clarke. E. Ebert.
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      CRICKET PITCH TWO YARDS TOO LONG
      316 7 Home Sports Jottings LONDON, Tues. IN the Derby-Yorkshire cricket match, after nne runs had been scored, Len Hutton queried the length of the pitch. It was found to be 24 yards— two yards too long, so the players had to return to the pavilion,
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      INDIA ALL OUT 138 v YORKS
      328 7 BRADFORD, Wed. MEETING the 1939 County cricket champions, Yorkshire, at Bradford to-day in the first of their two matches against the Comity, the Indians were caught on a wet wicket and dismissed for 138 runs. Yorkshire in reply have s.onil 52 for the loss
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      Henley Opens: Britisher's Time Best
      127 7 OXFORO. Wefl. THE Henley Royal Re?atta opened today in plorious sunshine. Oiief interest was In the heats of the Diamond Sculls in which ail the six overseas scullers won to enter thf quart-(r-finals However K" Burneil raised home honeys by recording the fastest time X
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      HARDSTAFF, WASHBROOK GET 100s
      349 7 HARDSTAFF, WASHBROOK GET 100s LONDON. Wed HAMPSHIRE showed their appreciation of a good last wicket by making their highest score of the season Chief participant in this feat was Bail a y. the left hander who completed his second century "of the season. The M.C.C included seven Middlesex players In
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      TO-NIGHT'S TABLE TENNIS
      66 7 TO-NIGHT'S TABLE TENNIS 'TIHE programme for to- right's cx--1 hibition table tennis match s .it thr Great UVrld is: 9.15 p.m. women's slnpit-s. followed immediau>h by the Men's sineles between th° following: Chua Kirc Hern (Sin^nnore rhamjnon v Yeo Cheng Hai. lee Chun Kai v Won? Ton? Guan. Lok Kam
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