The Singapore Free Press, 7 December 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    6 2 The Fr>~ Press December 7, 1946
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      Don Iddon's Diary
      1419 2 AROUND AND ABOUT IN NEW YORK THE coal sirike is being described variously ben a.s wi'ful insurrection n>t the Government and the prize-fisht battle af ths century, featuring the World*s Heaviest weight. John Llewellyn Lewis, and ver Won-A-Bout" Harry Truman, the listleaa Ligh*weifhC Fome~here between the two
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, DEC, 7, 1946. Don't Keep It A Secret
      901 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, DEC, 7, 1946. Don't Keep It A Secret flj- *LLSOX JONES Budgci proposal to introduce Income lax m Singapore on January l next year provided the Malayan Baton gives an assurance to lollow suit with Income Tax on the same (as yet unspecified* scale during
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      SAW Mr. WEE TORTURED
      782 4 SAW Mr. WEE TORTURED Letter To The Editor I WAS shocked on reading the leading article of the Singapore Free Press dated 3rd. December, concerning the case of Mrs. Wee Ek Teck, of Albert Street, a widow with five children, who has just been fined $180 for what appears a
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      QUIZ
      32 4 SAY IT WITH FLOWERS If I can buy as many carna. tlons for 1 s. 6d. &s I pay ponce for half a dozen, what does each flower cost? ANSWERS Pace
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      324 4 BECAUSE his mother refused to take NO for an answer 52 year old GEOFFREY HEYWORIH is today chairman of Lever Brothers and Unilever, Ltd., which provides Britain with all its margarine, soap and fats. The combine's annual report just published shows that Geoffrey and his 22 co-
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      We wouldn't like UK'$ winter
      731 4  - We wouldn't like UK winter HALL ROMXEY by LONDON LETTER j LET me, whatever follows, begin on a cheery note. The *un is shining and it is a really pleasant autumn day, the sort of day that makes one feel glad to be alive. For the past week or more
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      FAITH
      16 4 Ih, mm ..f thf Lort over the nshtfor ™*> bP ■H ar,> op^n unto th«r pra\'
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      HIS RHEUMATISM CAME BACK AGAIN
      19 4 But He Didn't Let I N for Long 's s rocd anc I i
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      Alps Rescue Drama
      109 6 Brig.-Gen. Ralph Tate of the I I'nited States Army was the J first person to sight from a I srarch plane the Dakota I passenger airliner which re- cvntly crashed on the Gauli I Glacier, m Switzerland In that J crippled plane were the I General's wife
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      'CELESTIAL' MARRIAGES OUTLAWED
      186 6 THE U.S. Supreme Court by six to three, ruled that ..x members oi the Moim-n Church of Utah who had been condemned by the Lower Courts :or violation of the Mann < White c»lave> Act m their practice el 'plural" or "oe4?st:al" marriages were guilty. The argument
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      HIS TURKEYS KEEP WATCH
      63 6 S rret brand marks, dogs, nnd night pat-os are anti-ri stling devices al:pted by Nor ok u*•kev breeders to safegu?rc< the r birds But C T. Joice. of Fak p nham believes m turkeys provid'ng th^ir own guards. He keeps his 200 birds under his bedroom
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      ENGLISH YOUTH WHO CAN'T STOP GROWING
      160 6 ENGLISH YOUTH WHO CAN'T STOP GROWING *rWENTY-TWO-year-old Edward 1 Evans, o: Ashford. Middlesex is orried because he can not sU.p growing Since he "^as IS he has betn getting four r.ches taller every year, and -Or \iy m his storking^cj feet he is 1 leet 7 m Specialises who have
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      QUIZ Answers
      7 6 Say it with Flowers 5d
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      RATIONS IN SINGAPORE INCREASED
      490 6 RATIONS IN SINGAPORE INCREASED Free Press Staff Reporter POM Dtc. 16, Singaporeans will receive six more ounces of sugar a week, and an additional kati of flour per head weekly, and from Dec. 23, the rice ration m Singapore will be restored to the scale obtaining m August. The new
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      £5 NOTE GAVE SPIES AWAY
      97 6 £5 NOTE GAVE SPIES AWAY IT has just been disclosed that a new £5 note tendered at a Kent Post Office during the B'lttk- of Britain m 1940 led to the discovery of twe German -;.'.--s on ih^ lonely Denge marsh. The German! had fixed an aerial between two bushes
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      BOOSTING 'IKE' FOR PRESIDENT
      129 6 BOOSTING 'IKE' FOR PRESIDENT An "Eisenhower for President" drive is on m the United States And, embarrassing as it is to the politically unambitior > general, it is going to grow fr:m now until 1948. the next Presidential election year. What brought it to a head was a 30-minute appearance
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      CLERGY 'AMONG LOWEST PAID'
      101 6 CLERGY 'AMONG LOWEST PAID The people as a wh^le do not Know or understand the conditons of the clergyman's life, declared the Arohbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Fisher, at the Church Assembly :n Londen. He •'whole-heartedly and completely" associated himself with a resolution urging further immediate financial help for incumbents. 'The
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      POLICE BEAT UP REPORTERS
      66 6 y^ protest has been lodged with the Shanghai Municipal Police on behalf of the Shanghai Reporters Guild against the maltreatment of newspapermen covering Shanghai's two-day riot The protest was filed by Feng Yu Chun head of the Central News Agency m the Shanghai office Several reporters
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      NO MORE HUNT THE SLIPPER
      52 6 NO MORE HUNT THE SLIPPER No mere grumbling at elusive dippers An American ttrm is •vcduriß", a new type of sllpv»r which glows m tho daik They ai.- tr rated wit^i a n els i *mln?ui paint a n d ma;- or on 1 '^1^ In abroad o.irly next y^ar.
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      MILK RECORD
      45 6 Th Br ish F? e*l:n cow "lf*t ivf^rd Fa *h lan Qra:eiiu by f T r«. Jor!;, u-:on. 01 ar ert?n. <~;:fcrd. as t'olrin al' r.i's*| r c r s by giving three poiiate m k yields excreins ,3,000 gallons t n days.
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      INDIA TALKS
      313 8 •Continued from page 1» that.i: the Council of the Muslim L ague are able to agree to participate m the Constituent Assembly. Umjp win al-o agree as have Congress that a feder.il court should be asked to decide matters of interpretation that may .be referred to them by
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      49 8 Mn>P PIPTIIBP ()d P aths divide these newly-planted rice fields between Kwangchan* and nu t riWIUfIX Kingtu m South China This year's rice harvest is such that China is able to CAD PUIMCCC divert (as a loan) to Malaya her International Emergency Food Council allorUn UrllriLOr. cations from Siam.
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      INDONESIAN PARTY REJECTS NEI PACT
      147 8 BATAVIA, Friday. THE largest political organization m Indonesia, the Islamic Party, today rejected the Netherlands-Indonesian dralt agreement at an All-Java Conference m Surakarta, according to Antara. The party, which holds eight portfolios m kutan Sjahrir's Cabinet, announced it will begin an Indies-wide campaign on Dec.
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      TAX FREE LOANS IMPROVED
      155 8 i— CITY NEWS— TN the Singapore share market this morning there was some improvement m the tax free loans the 52 '59 having been done at 103»2. In Industrials Fraser and Neaves again Improved, business havir? been done at $32. Malayan Breweries were taken at $14.80.
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      New York Stocks
      42 8 ON the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, tax-selling and profittaking wer well absorbed with prices continuing around the day's best and on balance the advance was up one point. The market closed steady with small on balance gains.- Reuter
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      BLUM MAY BE PM
      44 8 M. Blum was being mentioned m French political circles yesterday as a possible coalition Prime Minister following the refusal of the National Assembly to approve the Communist leader, M. Thorez or the Republican leader, M. Bidault, says Reuter from Pars.
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      WAGE LIMITS CRITICISED
      137 8 /CRITICISM of the "bitter right being put on by certain semigovernment organisations to avoid raising the wages of its employees from the princely salary of $1.35 per day" and the "Europeans who, after having received their three-and-a-half years' back-pay running into tens of thousands of dollars each,
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      QUEEN SEES CANTEEN
      19 8 The Queen and Princess Margaret yesterday paid a \lsii to tne Stage Door Canteen m London.
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      SOVIET YES TO ATOM CONTROL
      120 8 NEW YORK, Friday.— The Soviat Foreign Minister, M. V. Molotov, accepted tine American I>roposal for er-rly establishment of international control for ttomic energy and other modern technical discoveries to ensure th-eir use only for peaceful purposes. TMs •proposal is contained m the U.S. amendment to
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      WOMEN 'DYED' HAIR TO AVOID DEATH BY GAS
      165 8 HAMBURG. Fri. A PROSECUTION witness at the trial of 16 of the staff of the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp for women described today how women m the camp blacken d their hair with soot m an effort to avo d being selected
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      'MR. ATTLEE WAS MISQUOTED'-U.S.
      90 8 'MR. ATT LEE WAS MISQUOTED'-U.S. THE State Department on Wednesday said British Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee. was misquoted m dispatches, which reported as having told the House of Commons that the atomic bomb was dropoed on Hiroshima 15 days after Japan had offered to surrender. What Mr. Attlee actually
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      ARMY RECRUITING IMPROVES
      136 8 LONDON, Friday IMPROVEMENTS already intro--1 duced m the Army life In Britain have had a good effect, Lord Prkdnham. Under -Secretary for War, told the House of Lords today during a debate m which several peers urged the Govern;nen«t to guarantee Servicemen m public service on their
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      US STRIKE HITS WORLD FOOD SUPPLIES
      410 8 WASHINGTON, Friday. A SLIGHT deterioration m the world food situation since last month was reported today by the Department of Agriculture. "Transport difficulties, particularly shipping strikes and shortage of transport facilities m North America, have delayed the movement of food crops from surplus Ut
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      Deserts navy, joint army
      48 8 Deserts navy, joint army SCARED spent five of theY^ 4 No^and> lin^; 09 turop^n camJ? I**1 driver M<?B I «*"«>. Mantle tol l I JT martial that h* V, Arrm owhi, U g^* the consequence. staying his leave JT" *hen he deserted He uas sentenced v _dismis«M from ,h.
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      'PAY MORE OR QUIT'
      212 8 (Continued from page 1> toilet paper, crockery and other personal utilities will be provided by this hotel. "As from Jan 1, i»47. it is the intention of the management of this hotel to charge their tariffs whicn will be as hereundor:— "Single room per person $8
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      284 2 Crossword Puzzle No. 87 1 Desen-e > s^i lag sifcl a» £3 1^ t~i 1 1 1 1 1 s^r* 1 1 1 2 Could do with a breeze v J Preast-h.gh deft cc.. T |p~gP j&l p 4 Wu used with candles jS'^'t 14 Dome rebuilt "X j^S *9
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      233 2 KfcD NtTWORE (Chinee A Indian. 1.00 p.m. Radio orchestra IJO cm B.B m «3 metre,; »«*> 12 p.m. f 2 p.m. 4.325 News; 1.40 p.m. Lunch time m£f X"' l# l§ 45 pja GSV nejacycle. per *>cond (ffl metre band) 2.00 p.m. elite down; 8.15pm New^ I ZH ?/S? l
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      48 6 J AN£ Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya JsAe tes I T™^l<£&WNHk I TAe same I "^uX^S^SV-^nSl fol locoed the he'll know our man suspicion here's some m*r H iß\ it vor my h youna coup/c IBY his heather' J^^^r] Ms luck, bis boy' J\hixt fionry
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      112 8 WEATHER Fain V\ indy TV EATIIER forecast for 24 kws from noon today compiled by the RAF (enral Fo'recastin: SUtion Air Ccmmand. South -East isla: Fan* with only scattered showers late this afternoon and evening. Thundfv showers axoond dawn torn or rw becoming fair. Ufht westerly wind b rominj calm
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