The Singapore Free Press, 20 November 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
Total Pages: 8
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      THE BOFFINS' HELPERS
      680 2 Showing tonight "School for Secrets" will show you radar m operation and, below, an ex-radar mechanic tells how he was trained. TONIGHT hundreds of I people will visit the Cathay cinema to see the British film School for Secrets." and many of them will see for the
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      22 2 i Mll '^''i>iii lilliillllßiliilltl^illifflfllJil^^^i^!-^!!!. I i sg,TUs <soi 75 nyi^ s&ra sss £;rrjrs^ru* IS Previous ,50 c.c. record held by Robert Kohlrausch
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      6 2 To day's Pin-Up Girl DAPHNE DAY
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      Sweden Teaches U.K.
      126 2 SEVEN British road experts, headed by Lord Sandhurst, chairman of the British Road Federation, are flying to Sweden to study Swedish highway conditions, with special reference totho road accident problem. "The -traffic problems of Stockholm." he said, "may be able to suggest a solution to somp of
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      Royal Family Gets Cloth
      53 2 Cloth lengths for morning, afternoon and evening dresses which will form part of the wardrobes for the 1947 royal tour of South Africa were presented to the Queen and the Princesses on behalf of South African wool growers yesterday. The materials wer- Souih African, woven m
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      Ambassadors Of UK Women
      245 2 IN a lew weeks' time, air stewardesses win be working side by side with stewards on 8.0.A.C. Constellations operating the London-New York services. "It was necessary to choose potential stewardesses very carefully from the many applications we received, because n on c sense they will be
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      62 2 LCX^LtY TO 'WEff T^ APPROVED 0Y T*t SfNGAPOSI v THE TRADE MARK OF QUfl un MWLna SfINITAIff PRODUCTIONS FITTINGS At ihsi, i«<<t j..a i» mfii Fittings- -Basin. W.C. Closets with by skilled craftsmen of many years' exprn. 1 proved by the Singapore Municipal Au offering these quality products to the
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      147 2 -vourluckySTAR Line forecan tn people born today D<'K\ KKiayyouar^^ -iron* and detenm^ opini« f nv y our natHnl ar»- many but you i*c fortitude m ckvdopinf tbcatf you ar.- to reach the heiffcjj It whnh you are worthy Ad\<rv, i ircumstances m udrking today and ut f»« otmnj, to combat
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, 1945. Help The Police To Help Yourself
      397 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, 1945. Help The Police To Help Yourself VIOLENT crime has decreased remarkably m Singapore since the police shot dead Two gun Swee, a notorious local tough, a fortnight ago. *nd the authorities are also meeting with more success m their efforts to discourage
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      ONE CINEMA IN AFGHANISTAN
      863 4  -  Ralph Izzard Afghanistan yesterday joined UNO. so let's read what Ralph Izzard has to tell us about Kabul one. of the world's most colourful and loneliest capitals. ONE of the world's lone, liest capitals, m one of the world's most isolated countries, Kabul, Afghanistan's chief city,
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      803 4 I AST year a bank clerk m Staffs, there m repertory and now a Windmill girl 21--year old LESLEY LORNE was dared by other Windmill Theatre girls, m her first week at the theatre, to send he r photograph n for a beauty contest m a magazine
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      Who comes after Stalin?
      443 4  -  Ralph Hewins WHILE Josel Stalin puffs at his pipe of American tobacco and sips a cup of milkless tea from the samovar m his third -floor Kremlin office of a morning, one of his regular callers is a large, surly, youngish man m a grey-green tunic
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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      32 4 Bj WATCH REPAIRING SERVICING RATNE CO. 55, Stamford Road, Singapore. FAITH Even a child is known by j h;s doings, whether his work *>« Pure, and whether it be «sht. Proverbs, 20, 11.
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      To fox the vicar...?
      79 6 A middle -aged plumber with a droQping walrus moustache is 'star' pupil at one of London's ill night-schools. He was one of 80,000 students who enrolled m five d «y.s before the autumn term began. Discussions soon showed that he has an expert knowledge of Egyptian
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      GIRL BEAT GESTAPO TO SAVE POWs
      273 6 A YOUNG English woman who went to Budapest for a summer holiday m 1938, became a teacher of English and remained throughout the German occupation, has received the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct lor helping Allied soldiers to escape. She is Miss Evelyn GoreSymes,
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      Roya| Guests At Wedding
      48 6 Roya| Guests At Wedding Mueen Mary with Major-General Sir Harold Wcrnher, the brid, fath;i I avin. m \i (nurch. London, after the wedding of Miss Myra Wernher and Mai,; |> ay d R u Guards. Behind her are the Duchess of Kent and Princess I ;ii /a j,i :h
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      SOS DRUG RACED TO SAVE BOY
      140 6 THIRTY minutes, after a BBC 1 special SOS" was broadcast a car was racing from London to Guildford with a supply of the new wonder drup streptomycin In a last effort to save the life of two-year-old John Roe of Guildford. He is m
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      FARM WORKERS ASK MORE MEAT
      88 6 BRITAIN'S National Union ol Agricultural Workers is going to ask the Food Minister Strachey for an extra individual allow3nco of meat to farm workers m the ame way that miners are to get it. Agricultural worker^ say they will not benefit from increased meat supplies
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      CITIES MAY JOIN
      67 6 Ther? is a distinct possibility that Manchester and Sallord will amalgamate. The latest move has come from Alderman J. Park, a former Mayor of Salford, and the suggestion has been well supported m both cities. It is expected that a joint approach will b? made to the
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      TRAMS TO GO
      32 6 London is to lose all its trams and buses will be substituted, the switch to take two years. An earlier decision to have trolleybuses has b n en dropped.
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      FRENCH V-WEAPONS
      43 6 i Five hundred German ballistics technicians have arrived at the French military airfield of St. j Raphael, near Marseilles to work j on new methods of projecting V-l and V-2 weapons. It was announced that the Germans went to France voluntarily.
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      SINGAPORE MID-WEEK SHARE PRICES
      651 6 SINGAPORE MID- WEEK SHARE PRICES Share quotations as at Nov. 19 according ;o k n«- Malayan .taic^rokera Association tS-ngapore) m were as (o. ows INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra av.ctvortt Ords. 1 80 $2 00 Alexandra Brickwork* Prefs. 2 90 3 10 Brtt Malaya rrustet St Executor Co a. 00 9.00
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      3 MORE NATIONS ELECTED TO UNO
      244 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. ri an informal ceremony lasting only four minutes, three new countries Sweden, Iceland and Afghanistan joined the United Nations to-day. Their representatives were welcomed by the President, Paul Henri Spaak, with the Secre tary, Mr. Trygve Lie, on his right. Immediately
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      £15,000,000 ON 'NASTY' U.S. FILMS-M.P.
      115 8 LONDON. Tuesday. BRITAIN has spent ovec D £15,000,000 on American films this year, said Mr. W. Glenvil Hall, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, m reply to a question m the Commons today. He refused to answer Sir Thomas Moore when he asked i 'Does the
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      HOME...
      14 8 Famed m nursery rhyme is London's oldest bridge —fcondon Bridge across the Thames.
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      MOB STOPS ELECTION
      34 8 More than 100 Austrian nolice were called m to restore order at Vienna University, yesterday says Reutor. when parties of workers demonstrated against alleged Nazis among students during ttlQ university elections.
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      NEW CAR ON TEST
      16 8 The Nuffield Organisation has the British "people's car" on test says Reuter.
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    • CITY NEWS
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        'KEPT RUBBER PACT WITH U.S.'
        163 8 THE exact wording of the "agreement made with Malayan rubber planters for bulk purchase of their product" was asked by Mr. Alfred Bossom, Conservative, m the Commons yesterday, rep6rts Reuter. Sir Stafford Cripps, Board of Trade. President replied; "No such agreement has been made. Uo
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        London Stocks
        96 8 ON the London Stock Exchange yesterday leading, industrials began to show signs of benefiting from reinvestment demand following a certain amount of selling m the Home rail market. There was a fair list of appreciable Ram* among older established industrials. Business m both industrials and rails was not
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        New York Stocks
        46 8 ON the New Yor^k Stock Exchange yesterday there was quiet improvement m the final half hour under the leadership of assorted steels, oils, motors, rubbers, buildings and foods changing numerous looses to gains, with movements mostly limited to fractions to one point Reuter
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      GOLD FROM THE RAND
      41 8 From the time bhe Transvaal Government proclaimed the Witwatersrand goldfields public diggings m 1886 till the end of 1945 the Rand mines have produced 418,022,120 ounces of fine gold worth £20,431,000,000. it was disclosed yesterday sa,ys Reuter.
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      TERRITORIALS TO BE REVIVED
      174 8 mUTAIN'S Territorial Army. v which before the war was a "vilunteer citizen army, will be reconstituted on Jan. 1 with a triple role, according to the War Minister, Mr. F. Bellenger, m the Hous^ of Commons yesterday. Mr. Bellenger said that the three-fold purpose would be:
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      GREEK GUERILLAS TAKE 100 VILLAGES
      422 8 ATHENS, Tuesday. THE entire region of Gravena m Western Macedonia was reported to be under the control of guerillas, m a dispatch published by the Athens Press today. One report slated that only four of 104 villages were still controlled by the Greek authorities. Gravena
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      TROOPS SEEK CRASHED PLANE
      133 8 TROOPS SEEK CRASHED PLANE GRENOBLE, sVeJ. ETVE passengers were seriously r injured and six others slightly hurt when an American Army plane made a forced landing yesterday near the Glandon Pass m the Southern Alps, only five miles north of the Italian border. Thirteen passengers, inciucUig three generals and the
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      33 8 UHI. (mdr. David w^ RNK ranuin of the Z2 ship HMs Prince SalmiS has he.n arrriiu' Z "patching' operationj v |Z the Jan cruiser Shir^i m the floating rt^ «T Naval Base. Sinjtp^
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      STORE SHARE PRICES TODAY
      128 8 THE share market cor.'inues bo 1 be quiet this morning. Ttiere is nothing much doing m rubbers because apparently the decline m the local price of rubber of about one cent from the beM has for some reason affected tlia snaremarket. Tins were neglected. Rubbers: Kempas
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      NEW GULF PORT TO BE BUILT
      56 8 Moscow radio yesterday, quoting tih-e Saudi Arabian Finance Minister, says A. P., disclosed plans for the construction of a new Persian Gulf poft with American credits. The broadcast said the new port would be linked with the city of Riyadh m the interior by
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      JAP CRUISER TO BE FLOATED
      282 8 (Continued from Page 1> Japs, and their bodies have been sealed off from the rest of the ship. Ordinary Service gas masxs are beir.g used for preliminary repair Jobs Just under the surface of the water. They are connected by hosepipe to an air blower,
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      204 6 AJtTUAV PROUDLY UH I lift I PRESENTS THE ALL-MALAYAN PREMIERE OP I t« a <^B^B^B^sB^^B^Bwß^B^B^BT^Bk3£^B^B^^^B^B£' JI LLI.iL IU'UAI Bpi^^ 4*15« 6. J0. SM^MhQ i 9 p T^C"\ x oc |^^^^pvw>K ooo& <w\y *WBwBmBwBwB^BM RALPH RICHARDSON SCHOOL FOR SECRETS WITH ■H^B BU^T^^H .^B^B^Bm JOHN LAURIE RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH AND RAYMOND HUNTLEY MARJORIE
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      89 6 JAINfc Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya -if you'll just sTep /r^J^dW TELL You she's\ /there! tmereM convinced she met him^^^B INSIDE THIS CUPBOARD J fV*X^Bt INFATUATED WITH V I KNOW IT MUST f AGAIN LAST NIGHT BECAUSE FOR A FEW M/WUTES, \y^^KK^J THE SCOUNDREL, SIR/-) BE A
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      110 8 WEATHER Rain This Afternoon VV; FATHER forecast for 24 hours from noon today compiled by the RAF Central Forecasting sta inn. Air Command, South-East i Asia: Fair with some thunder showers spreading from the north across I Singapore island this after no m and evening. Fair during the night and
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