The Singapore Free Press, 1 August 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE I«.*sl#. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    PADRE FINDS ARSENAL IN SYNAGOGUE
    259 1 PADRE FINDS ARSENAL IN SYNAGOGUE TEL AVIV, Wed. DRITISH troops, led hy a Church of England chaplain, discovered today that the great synagogue of Tel Aviv, sits on top of a terrorist arsenal. The arms cache was discovered at noon .on the second day of the military hunt m Tel
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    PATSEY MUST PROVE SHE IS NOT A MAN
    58 1 PATSEY MUST PROVE SHE IS NOT A MAN DUBLIN Wtd Casey, County *ett athlete, has been to prove sh- is not a man tai play r of Kildare n's Hockey team out such ainsl the Dublin team. 1 D Kirts de-id d Pats- v disguise be prodded before sjJOrtj committee
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    1,500 SAVED IN BLAZING SHIP
    58 1 1, 500 SAVED IN BLAZING SHIP T 3E JANEIRO. WCd I of the crew of the steamship Duwu° reported killed *R -'Pt the ship early Mtl passengers and o: the crew of 500 :ohave been rescued. m stry of Marine said m t*U H war era:" ships andseaJ* the distressed
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    SLEUTHS TO STAMP OUT DOG RACKETS
    22 1 SLEUTHS TO STAMP OUT DOG RACKETS i "J ri tec^ives :s to be > flritt to stamp out I I ticket iort;om London
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    Morrison tells of 4-zone Palestine
    707 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government announced today it s conditional approval of an Anglo-American plan to partition Palestine into four federal provinces. Simultaneously, the British Government appealed to Holy Land communities to consider the plan, declaring "the world is weary of this senseless strife between
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    ANSON, HOWE RETIRE, AGED FOUR
    84 1 ANSON, HOWE RETIRE, AGED FOUR rREE of Britain's most famous battleships have become training ships for the Royal Navy They are the 21 year-old veteran Nelson and the £10.000.000 Anson a'.ri Howe which were only completed four years ago. Anson recently arrived at Portsmouth on her return from Singapore which
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    SOLDIERS MAY WED ENEMIES
    88 1 Except Japs LONDON. Wed. LORD Nathan. Under Secretary for War, announced today that British servicemen will be permitted to marry women ot any occupied enemy eountrv except Japan. Permission to wed enemy women, however, will have to be cases where reasons for marriage are good and
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    4 FIREMEN KILLED IN HOTEL BLAZE
    38 1 Four firemen were killed, but 240 guests, mostly m night dress, escaped to safety when San Franc scos biggest blaze m 10 years occurred at Herbert Hotel, reports Reuter from San Francisco.
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    BRITISH FIRM IN "CONSPIRACY"
    122 1 k conspiracy between the American Timken Roller Bearing Company, the British firm Timnen Limited of Birmingham and the Societe Anonyme of Paris, to divide the world markets and fix pr.ces was alleged m Washington yesterday, says A.p. The United States Attorney- General, Tom Clark, announced the
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    MORRISON DANCES VALETA
    32 1 MOR RISON DANCES VALETA Mr. |)eife-rt Morrison. Lord. Pr.iuert of the Council, dances the Ve.eia with his daughter. Mrs. Mary Wl iams, at a London County Council reception held at County Hall.
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    Mr. Truman Rejects The New Plan
    57 1 Mr. Truman Rejects The New Plan WASHINGTON, Wed. PRESIDENT Truman has tentatively decided against accepting the new plans for Palestine announced m the British House of Coimi ons today, it was stated tonight by Washington officials. The officials said that the plans had not been Anally rejected, but that the
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    S'PORE CLUBS RATIONED TO OFFICERS
    101 1 S'PORE CLUBS RATIONED TO OFFICERS Free Press Reporter MEMBERSHIP of Army officers to civilian clubs m Singapore is being rationed by order of the army. Army officers are to be allowed membership of only one civilian club, according to instructions just issued. The Tanglin Club— which is to be derequisitioned
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    'AXIS FRIENDS MUST PAY TOO'
    442 1  -  Moiotov Says PARIS, Wednesday. M. VYACHESLAV MOLOTOY, So\ iet Foreign Minister, first speaker at the rostrum m ftie plenary session of the Paris Peace Conference this evening, declared m an 18 minute speech that Axis satellites must be held responsible for the crimes of their
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    'CRASHED FLIERS SEEN IN MALAYA'
    89 1 The jungle rescue section ofl the Royal Air Force m Malaya is to investigate a report c. ulating i upcountry that the wreckage of the Dakota which has been missing m Malaya since June 29 while on a flight from Singapore to Calcutta, nas been
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    S'PORE MAY GET MORE NEI FOOD
    260 1 THE Free Press undersL;iia«*. that talks between Lord Ki.learn and the Dutci. authorities are to begin shortly m Singapo'r on the question of a freer flow nt trade between Singapore and fee Netherlands East Indies. Present restrictions affecting traders m both areas wll com
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    NAZIS CHECKED VOTES
    31 1 NAZIS CHECKED V OTES Nazi officials used "invisible typing to check up on voters suspected of being out of sympathy with the party, it was disclosed at Nuremberg yesterday says Reuter.
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    U.S. SILVER PRICED
    24 1 President Truman yesterday ,ned legislation authorizing tlie U.S. Treasury to buy and sell silver 4s 6 1 ,d per troy ounc^
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      Underground Workers Are Rewarded
      487 2 Underground Workers Are Rewarded The army pays a debt IN the dark years when the war was going badly the British Government made a promise. It said that whoever helped Allied Servic3me n to escape from, or evade capture by the enemy, would be rewarded. This promise was broadcast m
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      Mandrake MEASURES TO REDUCE BLINDNESS
      366 2 Mandrake MEASURES TO REDUCE BLINDNESS where money was advanced to an escape., or where an escaper gave a cheque for services he received, the debt is redeemed m full. Those who were Imprisoned or deported because of the help they gave get liberal money grants. The dependants of the many
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      SCIENCE GOES A-WHALING
      216 2 SAILING m the latest factory ships, Britain's scientists and biologists working under the Colonial Office, are once again m the Southern Ocean seeking new facts about the life and habits of the Leviathan of the deep, which maintains one of tlie mostr vital iiKiustries m the world.
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      HOISERY FOR THE WORLD
      68 2 MANY of the relatively smaller industries are making valuable contributions to Britain's export trade expansion Hosery is a tvoical example This industry has been working to a series of product on programmes, and m that which closed at the end of June there has been an
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      Ancient, Honourable Art—Reviling
      694 2 Ancient, Honourable Art Reviling FROM ancient times to the present, whether m China or abroai, there has been no man who has not reviled Having a desire to revile, should you persistently restrain it you will sooner or later develop soir_/> malady or infirmity. Therefore, hav.ng this desire, it is
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      433 2 RADIO MALAYA RED NETWORK from noon to I p.m. and 6.30 to 11 m. on 2?5 metres from noon to 2 <■> m. on 4.825 racs sec. m 61 metre band and from 7.45 to 9 30 p.m. on 4.73 msc sec m bl metre band. CHINESE noon to 1.15
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      SINGAPORE YACHTSMEN SAIL AGAIN AT YACHT CLUB
      241 3 SINGAPORE YACHTSMEN SAIL AGAIN AT YACHT CLUB THE Royal Singapore Yacht Club is open again but members are using the club house ot the Flying Club as the old Yacht Club house has been badly damaged. The club now has 130 members, many of whom turn up every Sunday to
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      Petrol Mix-Up The Singapore Free Press
      474 4 THURSDAY, AUG. 1, 1046 A ff-c dea ha_s gone wrong m n Singapore this week with the tR m.er ci petrol rationing adWR* i tration to the Registrar of Ve.ucles. Me doujt with thc Intention of •'staggering" the queues of motorists demanding their petrol
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      SIAM STARS IN A COMIC OPERA'WAR'
      1568 4 SIAM STARS IN A COMIC OPERA'WAR' Bangkok <3y Air mmM\ JUST as you reach Bang- kok from Don Muang airfield the airport bus drives across a spacious square, m the centre of which is a large and impressive monument commemorating Siam's "victory" over the French m the 1941 "RAer Mekong
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      509 4 R|R. C. G. BARKER, of Leicester, declares that many people m Britain do not want to earn more money now because they have nothing to spend it on. He quotes as an example the employees of a large works, where 50 per cent of the men went
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      35 4 delightful spot for yoT;r meals. *h .on venient rendezvous and the uleal place to entertain your friends These hut* nuide SAVOY EST AUR AN T Collyer Quay. Spore. the mast popular resUiurant m town Vkiay.
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      270 4 QUIZ 1. Hyperbole is a mathematical term. Right or wrong? 2. An anchcrite is a landlubber. Right or wrong? 3. Cornucopia is an ophthalmic disease Right or wrong? 4. New York is not the capitrl of New York State. Ri?ht _r wrong? Answer? on Page 6. FAITH j AH n-rople,
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      S'PORE HAWKERS FORESTALL RAIDS BY POLICE
      452 5 S'PORE HAWKERS FORESTALL RAIDS BY POLICE Free Press Reporter EVEN with the biggest force that can be mustered at present and the most careful preliminary planning, Singapore's police are at a tremendous disadvantage m their raids on unlicensed hawkers. Only the frequency of the raids is having any effect. I
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      MALAYAN MISSION IN JAPAN
      73 5 negotiations P men develop ltm 1 lishment radt between n are at preta Tokio. A UlllldM Mr. Kong, re■sE_? Hong Korg. id British North In Tokio and der way. headed by •^presents Aus- > of China. Philippines, the the Netherlands French Indo-China, North Borneo. Burma rave
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      PRINCESS TOLD OF NURSES' DEVOTION
      64 5 1 1 NDON. Wed r-i: ..ui.on of a sliver temei I tainlaf a scroll re--4 ;he devotion i duty Singapore nurses who -••yr.ded ta sick internees, was presented to Princess Eliza- .ham Palace by I H T Oitmlm representis accompanied eth Choy, O B E
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      1942 S'pore Kempei Chief
      97 5 Tr.is is Cot Oishi Masayuki, who is now m Changi jail. He was Officer Commanding the Kempei-tai on Singapore Island m February 1942 and was responsible for organizing the Kempei-tai at the time of the massacre of the Chinese, which took place at the end of
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      ARMED ROBBERY CHARGE
      72 5 A charge of armed gang robbery involving $11,000 *orth of textiles, the property of Henry Waugh and Co., was explained to two Chinese, Ng Ching Kee (34). and Liew Kirn Bock (17). m the Fourth Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that the rocbery took place m
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      STAGE CLUB SHOW TODAY
      78 5 Civilians and men and women m the Forces with a keen and common interest m the theatre have got together and formed the Singapore Stage Club. Their first ambitious venture, will be presented at the reopened Victoria Theatre today, tomorrow, and Saturday. It is "Shining Hour"—
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      Jap doctor ate Po Ws' liver
      273 5 Jap doctor ate Po Ws liver r\PT\i\ TAKEAHASI TAKASHI, a Japanese doctor, who +JRR up tuo dead bodies of Indian PoWs he had killed ■I ate parts of the corpses, has been sentenced to death a rUnes C urt The mci dent took place m a PoW **ip »n >\ato,
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      IHDO-CHINA CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY
      72 5 *SW conference to i Indo-Chm pern at Dalai. 1 presidency of ry: delegate of] h «Ji d. legation will I -Hen and! putatons. and d South Indo- < ;>;;-. populate*, re-ji y assembly 1 c Ines as the -c last April, j Gomranenti re- 1 onfeienee
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      Govt seeks information on dealers
      160 5 Govt seeks information on dealers IN a further move to run black marketeers to earth the authorities are asking members of the public to furnish the Controller of Supplies, Singapore, with the names of their dealers and to state whether their dealers' prices are reasonable and whether they are black
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      PRISON CHIEF GETS THREE YEARS
      111 5 PRISON CHIEF GETS THREE YEARS rOMMENTING that there had m been a good deal of ill-treat-ment of prisoners, but that he had taken into consideration thc fact that the accused had shown marked sympathy towards some Justice N. A. Worley sentenced Manikam Tanapathy to three of the politfrcal offenders, Mr
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      WAR RISK CLAIMS BEING ASSESSED
      76 5 KUALA LUMPUP, Tues. THE Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward G«nt. speaking m the Advisory Council on the subjects which hnd been raised on the adiour^mc^ rt the last meeting, said that on the subject of War Risks gre is insurance, qualified personnel for
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      SOUTH SEAS TRADE OUTLOOK POOR
      79 5 THERE is marked pessimism over the resumption of Chinese trade with the South East Asia area" because of the crisis confronting Chinese industries, says a Reuter report from Shanghai. Chinese goods are losing out In competition with cheaper and superior American and British products. Textile
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      $660,000 FOR INDIAN RELIEF
      143 5 THE Government of India is at present prepared to spend a total of approximately $660,000 on relief measures for Indians m Malaya, stated Mr. S. K. Chettur, representative to the Government of India m Malaya, at a Press Conference yesterday. The Government of India have directed
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      Street Raid
      10 5 A police raid on Trengganu Street hawkers yesterday.
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      STEP TO SPEED UP IMPORTS
      238 5 Free Press Reporter r> ASSIST importers of goods for the Malayan Union, an office has been opened at Kuala Lumpur, from which import licences will henceforth be issued, avoiding the delay now resulting from the necessity of submitting Malayan Union import licences to Singapore. The
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      WAR TRIALS IN CHANGI JAIL
      187 5 WAR TRIALS IN CHANGI JAIL PHANOI gaol— home oi more than 2,000 Jap war crjnes suspects is to be the new site for all of Singapore's War Crimes courts. Soon, within the thick walls of th e great gaol, s*x special prefabricated buildings are to be erected as Court houses,
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      ARMS CHARGE
      59 5 PUR Chinese, Ong Hui Cheng <21). Lim Poh Kok (39), Sim Chun Hoat (29) and lin Chui Thiam (25), appeared before Mr. Paul Storr m the First Police Court yesterday on charges of possession of two rifles an automatic revolver, a Colt revolver. 30 rounds of 32 ammunition
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      Daily Bread
      16 6 Members of the muiv formed league of British Housewives p. tured demonstrating for bread
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      Socialist Wants State Beer Plan
      217 6 Socialist Wants Sta te Beer Plan pLLR-DRINKER Mr. John Parker, Socialist M.P. for Dagenham. E>sex, has threatened State control of th a brewBMa and public houses. The six-foot M. P. whose B <>ur.te drink is mild-and-bitter at his favourite >üblic hou^e. The Two Chairmen, m Dartmouth-street, S.W., told Dagenham Socialist
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      VIAN NOW NAVY AIR SEA LORD
      151 6 VIAN NOW NAVY AIR SEA LORD VI AN ot the Tmimrt has been entrusted with the task oi looking after Br. tain's naval air arm. I nty-year-old Vice- Admiral Sir Philip Van is to be a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Fifth Sea Lord 'Air.) S r Philip is
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      LUXURY SHIP AGAIN
      34 6 The Queen Mary was warped out. m the Hudson river from her berth to start her first luxury dash across the north Atlantic since tho war, says U.P. from New York.
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      JANE
      9 6 Exclusive to the Siugapore Fire Press m Malaya
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      C.B. COCHRAN MISSES HIS BEST FIRST NIGHT
      467 6 C.B. COCHRAN MISSES HIS BEST FIRST NIGHT CHARLES B. COCHRAN was missing from the theatre for the greatest triumph of hi s career. He was too ill to attend the first "Big Ben,' by Sir Alan Herbert, M.P., at the Adelphi Theatre, Strand. There were two empty gangway stalls m
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      EXAM MAY GO SOON
      150 6 SCHOOL Certificate examinations are being kept on only unt 1 education chiefs hit on a betterway of giving boys and girls a "reference" when they seek jobs. Educat'o Minister Miss Ellen Wilkin_ on dees not want to impose an external examination on all seconday schools. So
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      Foundrymen Strike For More To Eat
      82 6 Foundrymen Strike For More To Eat FOUNDRY workers on strike at Holm-firth, South Yorks. have sent a petition to Food Minister Strachey telling him that unless they get bigger rations they will leave the foundry and take up light work. The men have to earrv 28 pounds of molten metal
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      LOST BULL WAS STUCK IN TOWER
      88 6 k THREE- YEAR-OLD bullock. which had been missing for two days, was found gaz ng stolidly from the top of the 60 foothigh tower of Kyme Castle, near Sleaford. It had climbed 108 steps of a narrow spiral staircase. Problem for the villagers of
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      SINGERS COST MORE
      16 6 Prices of both Singer car models low m production are to be increased.
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      BUS HOME BANNED
      16 6 A double-decker bus converted into a house has been banned by Bath Corporation.
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      INVITED TO GO TO PRISON
      93 6 ELEVEN men between sft. Ufa. and 6ft. tall and of "pleasing appearance* were invited to go to prison m Britain recently. Before they went m. the consent of the governor of the prison —a London gaol— had to be obtained. They were to be paraded
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      BEER MONEY
      25 6 While 20.000 people awaited the arrival of Princess Elizabeth at thc Hertfordshire agricultural show at Watiord tlreves took £100 from a beer tent.
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      SCIENTISTS CHECK
      22 6 THE VANGUARD When the 42.500-ton battleship Vanguard a. rived at Devonport from the Clyde, s xty scientists studied her performance.
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      200 TRAINS lOR SALE
      50 6 If you want to buy a locomotive the British Mm stry of Supply have 200 for sale .n Fran c and are considering a conducted tour for prospective buyers. The locomotives were bu It with the normal British guage and followed the invad.no armies into France.
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      TUBES GETLORDSNEWS
      30 6 To save passengers from making wasted journeys, London Transport has arranged for current information on conditions al Lords cricket ground to b? displayed at seven central underground stations.
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      QUIZ Answers
      27 6 1. Wrong— it means exaggeration, 2. Wrong— it is a hermit. 3. Wrong— it is a horn of plenty, 4. Right— Albany is the capital.
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      226 6 j OPENING TO-DAY j j 1 IS THE TARZAN SEASON I j NAZI PARACHUTISTS DESCEND ON KING TARZS KINGDOM AND WELL REPAID PQ| THEIR TREACHERY FIVE SHOWS DAILY Q^jja jGgM^-j| no-,,, IpAl II UL (Tel. No. 5281> \^^«M m mswmaay RKO Radio's *TOP' of their Tarzan series which thrilled Three
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      INDIANS ALL OUT FOR 64 v SOMERSET
      359 7 I n.\RIE CONSTANTINE TAUNTON, Wed. nmiinious dismissal m two hours before j um complete anti-climax after a run-getting it and they now have the distinction of highest and the lowest totals of the tour matches. collapse is inexplicable. Little appeared kd oa which
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      CHINESE SWIMMING CLUB DANCE
      42 7 Chinese Swimld its first post- Urn club m 8 p.m. to 2 a.m oy ticket and families include a rioor show, nil competi- drive. .on the first and the used tor n. Colonial tv pay a visit umderstti
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      BRITISH WOMEN CYCLISTS TO TRAIN DANES
      119 7 LONDON, Tues. BRITISH girl cyclists are to help popularise cycle track racing for Danish girls. A recjucst from Denmark that a team of British women should be sent over to demonstrate cycling for women has boon speedily met. The National Cyclists "Union of Denmark
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      J.C.S.A. SOCCER
      74 7 rE J. C.S. A. will play the Jolly Brothers Club m a friendly game, of soccer on Saturday at Farrer Park (old Race Course) and the team will be selected from thp following: Naidu. W. Hendroff, G. Ranatunga, E. Paglar, S. Ortega, A. K. Pillay, V. P Saram,
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      AIR COMMAND BEAT TENGAH
      38 7 AIR Command (Changi > beat 1 R.A.F. (Tengah) by two goals to nil m a football match played at Tengah yesterday. They were the superior team, though the Tengah eleven put up a good show
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      County Cricket Scores
      286 7 County Cricket Scores LONDON, Wed. TLOSE of play scores m County cricket games starting today are: At Chesterfield. Glamorganshire first innings 164 (Jones 76. Revill 3 for 13 >. Derbyshire first innings 129 for 4 (Eager not out 55>. At Leicester, Leicestershire 211 (Jackson 55) Gloucestershire 146 for 1 (Barnett
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      REYNARD VOLANT WINS GOODWOOD STAKES
      303 7 B; Vernon Morgan GOODWOOD, Sussex, Wed. Another huge crowd of sonje 50,000 saw another fine finish to a big race when over two miles, three furlongs Sir John Jarvis' Reynard Volant beat W. Wadey's Ford Transport by three-quarters of a length with Lady Wennher's Fairwell
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      BOWLED
      30 7 f.en Mutton playing: for England against the Rest m the second Test Trial at Canterbury, is clean bowled by R. D. T. Perks (Worcester) Washbrook m the other batsmen.
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      JAVELIN THROW BETTERED
      320 7 A PROGRAMME of ten events was run through m the first day of the eliminating heats of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Meeting at the Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. One record was broken by C. Meyer (MSA) who improved upon his own record m the Javelin throw when
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      SEVEN-WICKET WIN FOR PORT OPERATIONS
      203 7 SEVEN-WICKET WIN FOR PORT OPERATIONS QWING to the Rocklites inability to 2_\ raLse a team last Sunday to pay HQ., 11 Port Operations Group R.E., the Katong Casuals sent a team to Changi and were beaten by seven wickets. Scores were*. CASUALS C. Da Silva b Tallant.vne 31; L. Wijeweera
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      SPORE PERANAKAN ASSOCIATION
      137 7 r PHE second general meeting of the k Singapore Peranakan Association was held on Sunday and the following were elected office-bearers for the second half of the current year. President Mr. Badrom bin Abdos. vice-president Mr. Subon bin Abdul Hamid; Mr. Hj. Assari bin H. Mohd. Riffaie
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      MUHIBBAH B. P.
      104 7 In a friendly badminton match played at Johore Bahru last Sunday, the Muhibbah B.P. lost to the Dapat B.P. by five games to two. Results (Muhibbah players first); Singles: IsmaU Marjan lost to Lambak Jamil 11—15. 9—15; Ahmad Parai I lost to S. Omar Sallim 10—15, 12—15;
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    HOME... ASIA NEARSNG 'DANGEROUS' FOOD PERIOD
    296 8 HOME... ASIA NEARSNG 'DANGEROUS' FOOD PERIOD LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Ministry of Food reported today that the world food situation "will reach its most critical phase m the last weeks of the 1945-1946 crop year and before the present summer crop reaches the consumer." In India and the Far Eastern
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    Atom Soldiers Will Catch More Hell
    127 8 J\R. art (ompton and New Mexico S-naior Carl ITaUh, who arrived at Hickam Field, Honolulu yesterday f om Bikini aid the tii- 1 re por s on the a'omic bomb tests had gone to President Truman, reports I P. from Honolulu. Hatch said the
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    BATONS BREAK UP RIOTS
    91 8 ASMAR\, Wed ARMOURED cars vere patrolling the st ects of this city, capital of the Italian Red Sea colony of Eritrea, today utter rioting oy Eritreans who favour annexation of the country by Ethiopia. A crowd attacked and damaged Arab-owned houses and shops and .mashed windows
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    JINNAH ACCUSES CONGRESS: 'WAR'
    259 8 BOMBAY, \Y< ■^T a press conference m Bombay, Mr. Jinnah, President of the Indian Muslim League, said the League's decision to withdraw acceptance of the British Cabinet Mission's Freo India plan and to substitute "direct action" was made m "self defence" because of the Congress preparations
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    RAMC DRIVER MAKES GLASSHOUSE BREAK
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