The Singapore Free Press, 8 August 1946

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA V O. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, IJH6. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    BRITAIN MAY PEG WAGES
    127 1 BRITAIN MAY PEG WAGES i£>NDON Wed. THT B r^r. Government has ded to peg wages m a move nflation. reports the trial correspondent of the Expruft Government has quickly up against a snag howlor trade union leaders i that company dv id ends profits shall also be frozen. Express report
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    120,000,000 CIGARETTES ARRIVE
    317 1 120,000,000 CIGARETTES ARRIVE Bad news for Spore Black Market Free Press Correspondent THREE ships, with 120 million cigarettes, tied up at the Singapore wharves yesterday just m time to beat Singapore's cigarette black marketeers. Until the first crates were landed, stocks m Singapore were sufficient only for yesterday's issue. The
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    Ex-enemies asked to peace talks
    227 1 Ex-enemies asked to peace talks PARIS, Wed. T^i Nations m the Peace Conference today invited the live 1 former enemy States to participate mi n their deliberations, beginning Saturday, as the Rules Committee wound up ?t«» *ork on conference procedure. Under an American amendment presented by U.S. Secretary of State.
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    JEWS DIED ON 'ASSEMBLY LINE'
    82 1 A former Nazi SS judge, Dr Konrad Morgan, yesterday told the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal a story of how 5.000 Jews employed at the Lublin extermination camp helped to murder other Jews on prom ses of freedom and a share of the spoils. When the
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    412 DIED ON U.K. ROADS IN JUNE
    23 1 v aths ki Britain during <-d 412 peopi- idled and j J'ired say s Re«^r from
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    LAWSON IN HOSPITAL
    27 1 British War Minister Jack Lawson, entered hospital yesterday on the advice of doctors for a check up because of his continued ill-health, says U.P.
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    44 JAPANESE IN THE DOCK
    202 1 TW O major-generals were among the 44 Jap prisoners who appeared todcy before the Singapore War Crimes court m fehe biggest trial held to date. They are charted m connection with brutalities, ill-treatment and -callous neglect" of occupation prisoners m the military section of Out
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    TAXI MURDER IN SINGAPORE
    162 1 Free Press Reporter LAST night a Chinese taxi driver was shot dead aad his body dumped on the. road m tteylaife district mi n Singapore. So far, only one witness of the crime is known. He is a Chinese outside whose house the car stopped and
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    BRITAIN TO LEAD U.S. IN AIR BID
    66 1 TANGMERE. SUSSEX, Wed. TREAT BRITAIN may set up a new airspeed record over Wie course at Littlehampton. Sussex, on Aug. 15. Rolls Royce engines and air frames of the Gloster meteor aircraft of highspeed flight of the K.A.F. Fighter Command are being delivered
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    'We Are Ready'
    102 1 Group Captain Edward Donaldson, leader of the flight said today: "We shall go out a* soon as the weather is favourable after that and try to break the record." 4 'We didn't want to stir the Americans up before we were ready," said Coryton. "Now we are
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    URGES CANADA 'JOIN U.S.'
    64 1 URGES CANADA 'JOIN U.S.' Attorney General George Barrett, of Illinois. UJS.A said yesterday at Kenora. Ontario, that Canada should sever her ties with the Empire and seek, statehood with the United States, says Reuter from Toronto. There was now closer kinship between Canada and the US. than there ever was
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    RUSSIA 'STEALS BOYS, GIRLS'
    69 1 A German official said last night that several thousand German boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 17 had been taken from their homes m the Soviet zone of Berlin for what the Russians described as "re-educa-tion." reports UP. from Berlin. He said that
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    TRUMAN SILENT ON PALESTINE
    356 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN has not said that he is dissatisfied 1 with the Palestine proposals or that he is satisfied with them one way or the other, Mr. John Snyder, Secretary to the Treasury and a member of the President's Cabinet Committee on Palestine. No
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    TANKS END FARM 'WAR'
    249 1 TANKS END FARM 'WAR' Cable Round Up TANKS and 1,500 Carabrn > i yesterday broke the revolt ot oeasants at Caccano. lUly, wn-i were a tempting to keep then grain from being turned into the government's granaries Challenge Accepted SOVIET newspapers yesterday prom sed leaders full repor s (of the
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    NEW SHIP LINE TO MALAYA
    69 1 WASHINGTON, Wed rE Maritine Commission rereaf. Ed today that the American Pioneer Steamship L ne has ask* ed permission to load and discharge cargo m Malayan and Netherlands East Indies' port*. The ships also will call at California ports on an out-bounn East-o-Wes< schedule from
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      £1,200,000 FOR A CHURCH
      53 2 Rebuilding Coventry -Cathedral, destroyed by the Nazis m their terror raids m the autumn of 1940. will, it is estimated, cost £1,200,000. An appeal for funds has been launched from the Bishop's House, Coventry, the first subscribers being King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, with a
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      FOOD FROM THE OCEAN
      88 2 ICCORDING to a report of BriA tain's Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the total quantity of wet fish caught m the first five months of 194(i was as follows: England and Wales. 4,168.665 cwts.; Scotland, 1.650,272 cwts. The catches m the same period of 1945 were:
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      Royal Mint is short of money
      494 2 THE Royal Mint is short of ready money! There Is more coin m circulation than ever before, but the Mint, which makes it, has little or no margin. Production is so close up on demand that new money has to be rushed to the
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      One Man's Battle Against Vice
      1103 2  -  ZOE FARMAR By News Chronicle Special Correspondent IN Louisiana, the onetime Huey Long dictatorship, if you don't like anything you call it "politics." This attitude towards politics is by no means peculiar to this State but is perhaps more prevalent than mi n many of
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      BANGKOK PRIESTS QUEUE FOR THEIR RKtf
      144 3 M ifl a Bin- x ok street waiting for the Ruddhi >t priest;, lv lass and dip into her bawl of rice. «ws the famous Bangkok Temple of the Emerald Buddha, one 9i the most famous sights m the Siamese capital. BIDDHIST poests aa
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      531 2 UAntn MfiT AVA MALAY noon to 1 p.m (news at AUGUSI 8 KAUIU MALAXA 12^ D^) and from 6om to 8.15 730 Muslc from tne Moyl p.m. (news m Malay at 7.30 p.m.) 01c V« cv a ti,,..^,, j on RLi» KKI-UOUK from noon to ENGLISH 1 p.n to 2
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, AUG, 8, 1946. Kemsley Says 'We Are Muzzled'
    548 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, AUG, 8, 1946. Kemsley Says 'We Are Muzzled' LGrtD fcmstej, who owns the Daily Sketch and Daily Graph c and a string pi provincial newspapers m Britain which .aim 8,500.000 da.ly readers Tcoi; umbrage the other day v.wtn members ot the Government criticised the newspapers
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      QUIZ
      59 4 1. Name the mountain m Central Greece which was sacred to the Muses. And do not say Olympus! 2. Would you expect to find the word maffiek meaning to celebrate— used first m the writings of (a> Shakespeare, (b) Swift, or <c) Chesterton? 3. The place for cake and
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      455 4 MR. LA GUARDIA has been mystifying— and amusing Italians by his fluent, but inaccurate, Italian during his visit to their country. For instance he attempted to translate into Italian the Americanism "And that ain't hay." He used the words meaning "That isn't straw", whioh made little difference,
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      RADAR MEASURES SUN'S HEAT
      181 4 USING racUr < quipiv. Australian scientistcalculated apparent tenr tures m the sun, rai from 1,000,000 to ISjOO degrees centigrade. D sc losing this recently Bower, deputy chiei physics of the Australia! for Scientific and Indr^r search, said that the sun tui temperature, previously ea ed at
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      JUST A MEMORY
      53 4 Everywhere m and Read ng nowadays, are end sounds indicating a < to return to normality loss of time. Gangs of workmen, most of them i demobilised, are wield 'ng and shovel to such effect th. a few days all the unsightl. nefence and A.R P. erections.
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      Forces help Malaya to her feet again
      1252 4 Our Good Neighbours Why are there so many Service people m Singapore? What are they doing, and what have they done? This article by a special correspondent answers some of these questions. IN the Summer of 1945, all preparations were made for the
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      MALAYA TO GET 105,500 TONS SIAMESE RICE
      195 5 >,ralto, Ecuador and French faMtediuui i*ave a mod the principal suppliers of the 170,000 it o allotted to Malaya by the International •> food Council for the second half of this >hare alone is 105,500 tons. Council's allocations, the N.E.I, cam* the allotment
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      SINGAPORE WEDDING
      34 5 SINGAPORE WEDDING k p.ace ye:ter- j Presbyterian j Kare! A. De M > Daphnr V. U head o* Field lateilig- n Singapore. The r "daughter o* J A R. Thompson .^land. and arralia last week.
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      MRS. H.J. EGERTON
      17 5 n, wile ci Rear Flag Officer, s arriving in 1 the Monarch of j
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      7,500 SERVICE MEN, WOMEN LEAVING
      299 5 7,500 SERVICE MEN, WOMEN LEAVING APPROXIMATELY 7,500 officers, servicemen and women are expected to leave Singapore by tnree ships this month for the Un ted Kingdom as part of the Services repatriatoin and demobilization scheme. The first of tnese vessels, the Monarch of Bermuda is expected to arrhe m Singapore
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      C.V.M.A. LECTURE
      58 5 Under the ausp-ces of the Catholic Youne Men's Association a lecture on "The World Today" will be z'ven by a Redemptorist Father on Friday 9th Aug. 1946 at 6.00 p.m. at St Joseph's In-« stitution. Bras Basah Road. AIJ members and their friends arei cordially invited. .iI i
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      Siam bans Bran export
      86 5 MALAYA will not be receiving: any more ric c bran from Siam m future as a result of the latest ban on rice i»ran exports imposed m U:e latter country. This was the subject of a signal yesterday from the Combined Siam Rice Commission to Lord
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      SINGAPORE FOOD SHOW PLANNED
      158 5 SINGAPORE FOOD SHOW PLANNED THE Public Relations Oince m conjunction with the management of the Happy World is organising a special "Grow More Food Show" m the Happy World !rom Sept. 20 to Sept. 23. The exhibition will be divided into two main sections. The first section will be devoted
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      AIR HQ MOVES TO S'PORE
      58 5 Air Headquarters Malaya, previously based m Kuala Lumpur has now moved to Singapore and is accommodated at R.A F. Station Tengah. The move has released a considerable number of civilian houses m Kuala Lumpur, but has not necessitated any extra accommodation m Singapore since sufficient
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      ARMS CHARGE
      35 5 A YOUNG Malay, Mohamed bin Hashim, was produced before Mr. Paul Storr yesterday when a charge of unlawful possession ot a .32 revolver loaded with six rounds of ammunition was explained to him.
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      MAJ. ROTHWELL APPEALS
      282 5 MAJOR William Henry Rothwell of the Road Transport Department was sentenced to a days simple imprisonment and fined $750 or two months' rigorous imprisonment m default m the Fifth Police Court yesterday by Tnche Ahmad bin Ibrahim on three counts of cheating. It was alleged that Major
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      Duty retards the recovery of rubber
      153 5 DROTESTING against the increase by Government of the export duty on rubber from the prewar rate to four cents a pound, Dato S. Q. Wong declared m Singapore yesterday: "On the one hand, producers are compelled to sell their rubber at fixed prices, defray
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      GOVT. IMPORTS ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED
      224 5 GOVT. IMPORTS ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED THE following is the second of a series of lists giving details of the distribution of Government imported goods and Che prices at which they are b^^g sold. Messrs. Sime Darby Co. Ltd., acting as agents for Government, on July 26, sold 15 cases each
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      FORCES GO PICNICKING ON ISLANDS
      191 5 FORCES GO PICNICKING ON ISLANDS (Free Press Reporter) TAKING advantage of the newly-allocated recreational transport during the holiday week-end, troops m Singapore made trips m harbour launches to the neighbouring islands. Launches are now available to all troops at cheap rates, but they must be indented for seven days m
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      THREE JAPS TO HANG
      118 5 JN addition to a sentence of death by hanging passed on a jap doctor, Capt. Kamoi. who used an Indonesian labourer as a liv c exhibit for the purpose of anatomical demonstration the President of the War Crimes Court, Lt. Col. H. E. X ordered the
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      BURMA AIR HEROES GET THE DFC
      199 5 THE award of the D.F.C. to two RAF fighter pilots who flew m support of the advanci. ground forces m Burma hr.s been gazetted m London. They are Flying Officer G. B. Mercer and Pilot Officer X H R Jones who. until recently, have
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      APPEAL COURT INCREASES SENTENCE
      138 5 TWO young Chinese wno appeaied against their sentences j? three years 1 rigorous imprisonment each imposed on them at, the recent Singapore Assizes lor carrying firearms m public, had their sentences increased to fiva years rigorous imprisonment each when they appeared be lore xV?. Singapore Chiet
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      SEMEN CHARGED
      68 5 EIGHTEEN men, the crew of th*» steamer Darvel appeared m the third Police Court yesterday, on charges of fraudulent po%«»ssion of artcles pilfered from the godov.ns of the wharf. The goods included. 216 d;< tm reels of cotton. 41 doßcn combs, 15 tins of cigarettes, and oth?r miscellaneous
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      Queen Visits Hospital
      38 6 i».iri:i rerts a pitient mi r'trroinj; plast'c surgical treatment m the Canadian wtag at ;i c» Qm^h Vi* t»Ha Hospital. Kasl tirinsfead Surgery was made possible by a sift of V. 100.000 raised m America
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      EX-COMMANDO CALMS RUN AWAY HORSE
      96 6 MX. 9. bMiYH, a former m Conuaaudo* leutenant,! d wow a sbop-ke«per ai I o;e, Hants, ctia-ed a! I *ad Bed hor^e for a mile bacj Je ar t it had 1 Ha drivet and anMWIMd bone wa^ drawing a sou- hc.iivay \a:; In Higa-street.
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      QUIZ Answers
      47 6 1, PanMUMS, 2. Ches:erton us uiily or.c Who <ovid have lued it <I don t say he did- since M ÜBe into use only after the rj rations for the relief of Marking m 1900 Madeira. 4. i .»i.u flilc- whiskers worn w.thcut a beard.
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      WOMAN LIVED 15 Yrs IN A ROOM
      237 6 J" ;:i- lirs, Florence Clare Adams, 67. of Christ-cuurcj-rood, Sidcnp^ Kent, shut herself up m hoi uicoto. During th*» whole of that time she never once s h to her llHlljJUd or came face to face with him. Finally, i..> lound dead m
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      STILL A FASCIST AND WHY NOT?, SAYS EDDA
      406 6 STILL A FASCIST AND WHY NOT?, SAYS EDDA COUNTESS Edda Ciano, 38-year-old daughter «>i Mussolini, released under the Italian Government's amnesty after a year o n the prison island of Lipari. said m Rome recently: "I am still a Fascist why not? But politics are a filthy game and I
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      NORTH WALES BANS SUDAY DRINKING
      31 6 1 NO to Sunday openirg m my gvlte, if verdict pf North Wales Development Council, rejecting suggestion drinks might be served with hotel meals on Sundays.
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      Pet Badger Melts The Fish Queues
      66 6 Pet Badger Melts The Fish Queues There are no queues m Cropwell B shop. a small Nottinghamshire v-llage, when aircraft assembler Harry Smith takes his oet badger ''Brock," for a walk. Queues melt when Smith goes shopping. Brock has srt a problem for the railways. When he travels with his
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      EXAMS COST LESS NOW
      48 6 To get belter people m the Civil Service, the Government is to cut the cost to candidates Mr. Glenvil Hall. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, m a written Parliamentary answer yesterday, said the highest examination fees v/ill be £1 for all Civil Service examinations.
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      BEVERIDGE SAYS U.K. 'UNJUST' TO GERMANY
      43 6 Lord Beveridg* 1 author of the Beveridge plan for social security. f old the Berli n newspaper "D^r Kurier" that the des'ruct'on of German industry is *an injustice.' says Reuter quoting the British News Service m Germany.
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      NEW ARTILLERY CHIEF
      19 6 Th? appointment of Lt.-Gen. O. M. Lund as Col.-Commdt., Royal Regiment of Artillery, has been gazetted.
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      JURORS ASK JUDGE FOR A PINT
      163 6 JURORS ASK JUDGE FOR A PINT A JURY of 10 men and two women, engaged for tour days on a murder trial at the Oid Bailey, omplained m a note to Mr. Justice Cassels that they were given only water to drink with lunch. Otherwise, they said, the lunches were
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      UK HAS TRADE 'OPS' ROOM
      58 6 THE Board of Trade has a planning room— like the wartime RAF map rooms— which shows at a glance how the battle for reorganising British industry goes. Businessmen, who pick on towns where there are already too many factories or too little labour, are taken
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      EARLY RISING FOR A GUINEA
      29 6 Ceiling price !or spring-wound ala:n clocks imported to Britain froi;; Canada and the United States has been fixed at £1 Is., inducing purchase tax.
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      TOWN BANS FISH AND CHIPS SHOP
      34 6 Refusal of Frinton and Walton Essex, council to allow a fried flf*l .shop on the promenade has beeiv upheld by the Mm stry ot Town and Country Planning:.
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      ARMY DOCTORS ARK KING'S PHYSICIANS
      30 6 Maj-Gen. J. C. A. Dowse and iMaj.-Gen. E. A. Sutton. late IR.A.M.C, have been apponted j hon. physician and hon. surgeon I to the King.
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      £10,090 TO AID BLIND
      24 6 Gift of £10,000 has been given to St. Dunstan's by Viscount NuffTPld for research intj scientific aids for the blind.
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      TRAIN BURSTS STOLEN SAFE
      62 6 Thieves who removed a saf Q from a hou.se outside London on a recent night, put it on the railway track when cold eh 3 Is ailed to ope-n it. Hit by a locomotive, the two hundred- weight safe was spit open, but inside were only
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      CHEAP FARE
      23 6 A baby girl, aged about rla weeks, was lound on a luggage rack m a train irom Worcester tt Padd ngton.
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      DRIVER 'SHOULD KNOW FIRST AID'
      49 6 Every road vehicle carrying more than six people 'should be compelled by law to have on board on c member of the crew, driver or assistant, who holds a flrst-a d certificate." The League of Red Cross Societies advocated this at its Gxlord conference.
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      WAITED 9 YEARS FOR CROSSWORD PRIZE
      37 6 WAITED 9 YEARS F OR CROSSWORD PRIZE In 1937 Kenneth Ward, ot Thenford. Northamptonshire, *yon a crossword competition but Km was only 16. and the money was pad into court. Now demobilised, he has received his prize.
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      'MODOM'MEN GET MORE
      16 6 Thousands of shop assistants have bigger wage packet* now imder the new s^aJa.
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      EXTRA FOOD ALLOWED FOR BANQUETS
      93 6 EXTRA FOOD ALLOWED FOR BANQUETS loophole clau.se ha.s been inserted m the order Itatttof the extra charge for private me?ls m hot-els and reitauranU to 2s 6d. m Britain, where the controlled price of a meal is It It allows caterers prcvHlinj Government banquets to ask for a special guinea-
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      MUSSO'S SON IN CABARET
      26 6 MUSSOLINI S vo and son Anaa M Romano, are ruimnv; cabaret on Isch;a. M Naple.s: Romano pia>N dion and his i: > drinks
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      EDRICH SCORES 222 NOT OUT
      296 7 EDRICH SCORES 222 NOT OUT LONDON, Wed. B)LL FLHiiCII, scoring 222 not out, helped Middles* to score 5X4 for the loss of only six wickets the highest score m County cricket matches starting to-day against Northamptonshire, who lie last m the championship. Middlesex, who now hold third place m the
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      TABLE TENNIS RESULTS
      96 7 FRTHJ ties were played yes-' terclay m the V.M.C.A. table tennis championships, and among the winners was J. Badman, who is reputed to have been beaten world champion Sabados. The results were: Open Singles Championship: Fung Guan Swee beat Lim They 2 Hock 3-0; Son Teow Keng
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      TO MISS ST. LEGER
      32 7 LONDON, Wed. Mr. rran* Butters, Newmarket trainer, stated tonight that the Oaks winner, Steady Aim. has strained a tendon and will not run m the St. Leger.- Reuter.
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      WARWICKS HIT 375 FOR 9v INDIANS
      260 7 SCOREBOARD WARWICKSHIRE— Ist INNS. Houston lbw. Blankad 14 Saie c »i»d b M»nka4 15? Mills c llindlckar b Mankad lt DoOery b Amarnath 4t ranaier b Minkad 48 Hossall Ibw. H«arr 30 Pritchard r Banntrjee b Uazare 8 Marshal! Ibw. Huare Robinson not ont
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      Benny Lynch Passes
      101 7 Benny Lynch Passes |<»Nl>l).V 7rar<l 11..1..M m +*t4 m (ilassow djsJlh 'tlut i; n:v Lynch, mho champion of the world. ,j m *v,. *> li <ilas;o*. lhe di^a!' h said Lynch the southern tarva h >.i».il at 5 pm., iv;il he felt ill and died three Liter i, v.mi Urn
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      GLOUCESTER TEAM TO MEET INDIA
      108 7 lEN HAM. Wed [RE will place team m the ha the matrh Cheltenham ofe am is W. R. aMßoud Cur*ain>, B. O. Allen. W C. J. Sernett, 1 >. A. E. Wilson. J. G M tTinnett, G. Lam- E. J Scot: a^d C. Cooi witn
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      PARIS SWIMMING CONTESTS
      87 7 PARIS, Wed. THE French Swimming Federation said on Wednesday that the "City of Pars" meeting m Paris on Aug. 31 and Sept. t, would constitute "a veritable world championship." There would be entries from Bntain, the United States. France, Sweden. Hungary, Denmark and Holland. It was stated
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      NORTH AMPTONS WIN ONE-NIL
      422 7 Northampton* 1. C. A 0 pOR more than 50 minutes at Jalan Besar stadium yester- day, the Northamptonshire Regiment produced every trick of clever soccer they knew, but could not do the one thing that really mattered. Then, six minutes before the end, came a mad
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      Champion Athlete
      37 7 Champion Athlete T!i e West Indian athlete, F Lt. a. S. Wint. R.A.F.. wins the 880 yards final m 1 mm. 54.8 sfc. from C. T. White m the British A.A. championships at the White City stadium.
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      TABLE TENNIS
      47 7 A FRIENDLY table tennis match played on Sunday between the Canton Alumni Association and Queen's Photo Studio resulted m a five-nil victory for Queen's. A match has been arranTr'd between the Shackle Club and Queen's for wr inesday, Aug. 14 at tae Shackle Club. t
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      Woman Tennis Champion Dies
      67 7 LONDON, Wed. rS. George Hillyaid, one of the greatest lawn tennis players Rr tain ever produced and winner of 16 Wimbledon titles died m her home m Pulborough, Sussex, last night, aged 83. As Miss Blacnhe Birtgtey she ton six singles championships between 1886 and 1900
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      GAEKWAR SCORES NOTABLE TPEBLE
      95 7 BRIGHTON, Wed. THE Maharaja Gael: war of 3aroda scored a notable treble at the races here today, taking the last three events. After his Baroda Squadron had been beaten into second place m the Brighton Cup (won by threelengths by Headworker) the Gaekwar won the South
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      NIRGAL WINS
      76 7 Deauville, France, Wea. MARCEL Boussac's colt Nirgal. by Goya out of Castnane, who is entered for the British St. Leger, easily *.on the big event here today run over one mile and seven furlongs a furlong longer than the Doncaster St. Leger. Ridden by Charlie Elliott, Nirgal got
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      67 7 THE S. R. C. won the last match of their tour up-country during L c Bank holidays when -hey beat the Selangor Eurasians at hockey by three goals to one Play reached a high stancUud with the Rets doing most cf -h? attacking. Scorers
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      NEW ARRIVALS WIN TENGAH CRICKET
      276 7 From S*t. F. A. GIDDINS TN a game of cricket played at Tengah 1 on Sunday 8.A.0.C.C., reccat arrivals m Singapore, beat Tengah C.C. by 24 runs. Batting first the 8.A.0. had lost cheap wickets when Hewitson who made 33 and Rigby (16) became associated
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    Reading jail is demobbed
    96 8 If IK \rm> ytsterd.iy lo>t one of its dtt-iuoji barracks, Heading Jail, which will be >hottlv re-O!»tned for civilian irL*oners after being closed to them (or several years. S n.e March the pr.son has bin a detention barracks for many soldiers f u took part m
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    ABLE SEAMAN GAVE 'VICTORY' AS ADDRESS
    65 8 John Mathieson, 23 Able Seair.m whose address was g*ven Bi HMS Victory (Nelson's Flagship), Portsmouth, and who was marged at North London Court *v h the murder of Mrs. Mona Victoria Vanderstay. ag?d 46, of amden Road. Holloway North, itt Saint Luke's Church, Holloway,
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    BLACK MARKET COL SHOOTS HIMSELF
    128 8 BLACK MARKET COL SHOOTS HIMSELF BERI.TN. Wed. TWO former Gls w?re arrested today by 'he American criminal investigation division for allegedly operating m a bootlegging racket for months and living :ike kings. Both were military t; verimcnt civilian employees. The men were Alfred Blocs, 23, ot New York CJty. and
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    200 MORE CALORIES
    33 8 City dwellers mi n the British zone of Germany are to receive a daily food ration increase of 200 calories starting O n August 19, says Reuter from Herford, Germany.
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    SPORE RAF POLICE RECOVER $390,000 LOOT
    595 8 SPORE RAF POLICE RECOVER $390,000 LOOT TOTAL value of stolen property recovered by the Royal Air 1 Force Police m Singapore Area during the three months ending June 31st. amounted to 391,150 dollars— testimony to the efficient work of the R.A.F. Special Investigation Section. Looting of Service equipment and the
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    BOMBING, SNIPING IN NEI
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    ARMY GIVES UP S'PORE GODOWNS
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