The Singapore Free Press, 10 December 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      YOUR BLOOD CAN SAVE LIVES
      906 2 BY i SPECIAL MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT THE Biood Transiusior. Service m Singapore U intended to meet the need for blood as a means of treating disease or injurj\ Bo:d is used m modern medicine fo r many Durposcs ;.nd m several difft rent ways— for street
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      WHITE GLOVES
      36 2 For the first time since the courts began m 1933 there wao ro case at Oxford Juvenile Court one day recently. Mrs. Pri- chard chairman; was presenUJ 1 with a pair ol white gloves
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      your lucky STAR
      152 2 Fortune forecast for people bom today YOU have a keen and alert mind. You are exceptionally discriminatir m your tastes and this < ftcn leads you to be highly critical of everything that everyone else does or sava. Dont let thb make a t rouch of you.
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      Untitled
      10 2 Patricia Whit; Star, m Warmer Bros. "Beast with Fi\e Finfeia
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      SOME TEACHERS ARE LUCKY
      503 2  -  ROBERT LEWIS liecause Miss Wilkinson Has Helped Them ABOUT a month ago my article m the Free Press drew your attention to the financial difficulties of British teachers m America. You have now persuaded the British Treasury to make a grant of £75 to these teachers.
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      SOAP & GLORv
      270 2 SOAP GLORv A SUCCESS STOPv EXECUTIVE jobs Witt* salaries up to £700 a year or more are waiting m the laundry industry for trained women with a bent for leadership and a capacity for hard work. "B cause of the acute shortage of women managers, men are having to be
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      307 2 Puzzle 89 it > 4 12 is more than m j [Vri.4--18 who did r.o. look SS :*S I A after "iFH I 21 Female advocate. 1-= 1 m^&&^^&^ -6 In hotels and gad*. LS S S^IV 1 S"~ iK^ifgt^ll afctfc iHHMft. 9 !!lWy,'ii Wll l_f' WMMIBMIMr' fIM WIH B
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1946. Money Before Food
      457 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1946. Money Before Food PE note vi Mr. Nelson Jones' j Budget speech to the effect that there is no provision next year for the free feeding of schoolchildren, as during 1946. is not quite such bad news as it seems; nor is
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      'CANARIES' do all the work
      1356 4  - 'CANARIES' do all the work Paul Bretherton Close up of the men toho run Germany by RED bonnets go bobbing alonff the platform of Charlottenburg railway station the bonnets of littie English girls who have come tumbling out of the British families' train to get their first glimpse of a
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      WAR OVER CLERKS
      583 4 WAR OVER CLERKS By A Special Correspondent CONSIDERABLE rivalry exists today between civilian employers and the military m regard to the employment of clerical workers. Stepping first into the field immediately after the liberation, military departments "cornered* hundreds of shorthand writers, typists and clerks, the majority of whom had found
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      370 4 rEN the g ant Cunatder. Queen Elizabeth* docked at Southampton recently DR. ALEC SHARMAN. the prominent gynaecologist, who took h's appointment on the liner to get away from babies, was bury attending to Elizabeth Dawn Foley who was born as the liner passed Bl~hop Ro-k Two hours
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
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      20 4 foj to all descriptions of sili. *o©:!e»i nnd fabrics sent to us for attention C*l*iCiL CLEAMtK*. BISTDYE/*6 /WS/HE MEOLVM4. |il|'|»i|i|;^|Jlk>j
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    • Advertisement
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      39 4 mm SU.WW BIIfHHB WMTINt aa" Hi DIFFERENCE' KINC TAM IS OUT CF THE JOHOX. 'TARZ AN II NEW YOl? ADVENTURE JOHNNY WEISSMIUS JOHN 4 AlW£ SHEFFIELD tatmms For New Yorkers CAPITOL ,rr I>KF.*M* k F R I A JL^
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      88 4 QUIZ HOW OLD IS A BIRD? The normal life of man is said to be three score years and ten. Have you any idea of the average length of life of the following common birds, supposing they do not meet an untimely end' 1. Wren 2 Thrush 3. Robin 4.
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      New airliners tor India
      22 6 of six planes of the Yi'kers "Viking" class arrlners I (1 red ty the Indian National! I Airways.
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      S'pore dentistry makes advance
      203 6 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE is getting so much that is latest m dentistry that it now requires (say dentists) only the introduction of a panel system for treating the greatest number o£ people at the cheapest rate* for Singapore to come into line with the
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      'BEAVER' COATS OF SHEEPSKIN
      63 6 THE manufacture of 20.0C0 fur coats from South African .md Australian sheepskins will begin or. Tweed.s'de next year Each coat will cost £25 and will be undistinguishable from the finest beaver. The skins will be ..pccially treated by a new chemical process vhicn turns the shaggy
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      FOUND FAMILY DEAD
      29 6 Mr. J Woolley. ol Hobartroad. Wore* ster Park. Surrey, returned from work one night *c nnd h's wife and seven -year -old daught. r pass' d
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      Home Set On Fire After A Baptism
      114 6 A PROTESTANT farmer wa* burned out of his home and boycotted because, after marrying a Romsw Cathoiic girl, his child was baptised a Protestant, it was stated m Kilkenny. Eire. Court, when William Murphy. 24. of (Jrlingford. County Kilkenny, successfully claimed compensation for
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      DOUBLE V.C. GETS A 'MENTION'
      50 6 DOUBLE V.C. GETS A 'MENTION' Captain Charles H. Upham. ot christchurch. New Zealand, the only double V C of the war. get* a "mention" for 'gallant and distinguished services m the field" m the London Ca-ette He won his first VC m Crct-. the second m the Western Uc sert.
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      'OPIUM TRAFFIC GOES ON IN S'PORE'
      284 6 'OPIUM TRAFFIC GOES ON IN S'PORE' ["--"■■■""""■■"al I1 1 j Press Staff Rep^T^^^^l AS the. result of acquiring evidence that th* /i exists and is spreading m Singapore oW, op tt,B ment ban on opium, leading Singapore Chin lh€( "*n to start a campaign "to organic th wh .I** are
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      'PARDON MERCY KILLER'
      79 6 'PARDON MERCY KILLER' _LS ears-old 2! "HP I would ntter h» I ath on mvcossc:«nii«i to an m, >d me ever since ber ii at peat Long had told the pota a I did not know nictate rr.ad* unear not corcr.trae o ■<-.. «so'ttei_t nn aa- known, tte pation was
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      UK CHILDREN FOR RHODESIA
      44 6 A PARTY o: 18 ton sftf ti 19. *a z.-'--amp: n recently tc r.ivi s mbkfM RhoCi_ Th will Oe educate Rh >desia Pi MiatH' I oi outs* ar.dicf alg ild oe unable tccala« the;: :or ill her advance*: profetfaa
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      ANGLERS HAVE FIELD DAY
      52 6 ANGLERS HAVE FIELD DAY p k- n m Folkestone mm weir home with the ver made w* 191 b 20- l I __P w Tao worne |if» hing lib and Pal ..^j A- Deal, HO aajto fj rhe record catch of tun m a boat fishing cuaftll" Of 2,121 mi
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      OXFORD DEGREE FOR ATOM EXPECT
      35 6 It is croposed that Dr H C. Urey. Chicago UnivTsitv. one ol iiie leaders of the American t« am ?f atom bomb scientists, shall 'cceive the DSc degree t Oxford
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      £650 'BALM' SOUGHT
      10 6 ln sung cieawnCCM because they did n«ig-
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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      259 6 VIVID DRAMA OF 'THE DALTON BOYS" ~m -----m DEFIANT! f |li My RECKLESS! 1 F 1 I 1 j KUTHLuVSS! X DESPERATE! 'Mr' il? flhun HP _r fl jf»aW Fff \W' /^*^^MV|y f-^_r^^ _f^^_rT tf I ~BFr Mmrs tott-vm met *m_v f mm <^mrmo\mr ma. mmi a Aw mWapp stmt
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      63 6 J A INL Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya 'mMS°^ At that moment JTb^^^H^L STANDING THAT WORRIES TfclrtfT ME, [GIRL HE'S IN J *"dl£AC£ McztcAcS /A /U^ yo™t_ll!£^ wholesale 1 Msestbjot/i \tip-up seat' n^^^ Tm^ MY^Tc-oirn i< irva TV> __»%i ''EATHER LINE f //t *i||f i. I Pr
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    • Miscellaneous
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      30 6 QUIZ M**" Hrn n«d mum 1 Tl 3 Twelve 4 ill .s Eighteen 6 Eighteen 7 Tv 8 I ,ur 9 T 10 T 11 B A 12 One bunoreo.
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      AUSTRALIANS' HOME PICTURE
      30 8 A view of one of Adelaide's main streets. Adelaide is probably the best lud out capital city m the Commonwealth and u> famous for its beautiful garden*
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      Jewish Thugs Call A Truce
      110 8 JERUSALEM. Monday. PALESTINE'S two JewUh terrorist organisations, the Irgun Zvai Leu mi and the Ste n Oans, have agreed that there shall he no v'olence durin; the meeting of the World Zionist Coneress which onened at Basle m Switzerland, today and con. tinues till the
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      'THANK YOU' TO S.E. ASIA SOLDIERS
      210 8 'THANK YOU' TO S.E. ASIA SOLDIERS LONDON, Mon THE Brash Secretary ot State for War, Mr. Frderick Belenger. sent a telegram to Gen. b*r Montagu Stotord, Comman-der-in-Chief South-East Asia Land Forces, thank ng the troops who served m the N.E I. ih c telegram reads: On the final withdrawal of
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      FOOD: UK CANT SACRIFICE MORE
      244 8 NEW YORK. Monday. BRITAIN today warned the United Nations General .Assembly's Economic Committee discussing post-UNRRA relief that she could not increase much more the burden of providing for needy countries. Mr. Percy Wells, United Kingdom delegate, said Britain was still rationed and "It is far
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      BEVITS IS ACCUSED
      156 8 Continued from Page 1 tlves and four Senators among its congressional sponsors. Smertenko said: "Terrorism m Palestine will not stop un-til the factors that breed terrorism are stamped out. So long as the people of Palestine are persecuted and And their relatives kept m Europe under conditions
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      BLACK BUILDERS
      38 8 Mr. Aneurin Be van. Minister of Health, revealed m the Houre uf Commons that there have bee 1 more than 11,000 renorted CMi of "black market building, but 50 far only 142 prosecutions hay; been made.
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      PERSIAN BOMBING ATTACKS ALLEGED
      29 8 Persian Government planes "are mercilessly bombing Ku:d villages'' says the Tabriz radio m the capital of Persia's "home rule" province of Azerbaijan. reports I Reuter
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      CITY NEWS TODAY'S S'PORE RUBBER PRICES
      555 8 CITY NEWS TODAY'S S'PORE RUBBER PRICES —CITY NEWS— THE Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association s daily rubber prices at noon today were: Buyer* Sellers ru. cts. pei ib. per lb. No 1 RSS Spot Loom 41* 41* 4 No 1 R.S.S lob m bales December IS'h UK No. 2
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      COALITION GOVT FOR EGYPT
      167 8 CAIRO. Mon. MOKRASHY Pasha has formed a coalition Cabinet of Saadist and Libera!? wL eh has been approv'd by Kin? Farouk of Egypt. Egyptian lep rts claiming that i Brush mt* 'o Egypt demanding the risht Of Manage for Bri'; uoum *o th Sudan titer &>
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      HONG KONG WILL TAX 'LUXURY' MEALS
      257 8 HONG KONG WILL TAX 'LUXURY' MEALS HONG KONG (By Air Mail). INCREASED duties on liquor and tobacco and a new 10 per cent tax on meals of over HK$5 per head consumed m restaurants and hotels are the first steps to be taken by the Government of Hong Kong to
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      THE MacDONALDS ON THEIR HONEYMOON
      70 8 The Governor-General M' Mac Donald. and his bride] formerly Mrs Audrey Pellowes Rjjpley are now honeymooning a: en undisclosed Canadian resort. a:t°r their wedding on Sunday m Offawas Christ Church Cathedral After their honeymoon they v* returning to Ottawa for a Gays and will then
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      A GOVERNMENT FALLS
      33 8 Saad el Mulla. Premier cf Lebanon, yesierda: confirmed that his Cabinet would resign today. says Reuter from Beirut Tth*" fall is dv? to sever? criticism of the Government's economic policy.
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      ATTLEE TO SPEAK ON INDIA TODAY
      180 8 make a suteaat PJ"J% mom tomorrow on V?<* tion. wife lfc Ir London last week It il understood the «^J *il! b P short and r" «Z?* o! the the B" ment r >«tL •watln, r.cws ft* wL* Con*** a nd t^e sta-men: i^ued
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      PERSIA MASSES MEN
      47 8 I The Grief of thf Pratt G: I ners. I J I Teheran sa).- D P \:*.Gmr.' ment troops aer? mined iia? tf southern hn Az*»r*>aijan but tr*re tv s fighting 1 1 Taiab 1 IM Kurd^tar. where reb:i I talked MM* troop? Sundae
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      HANDS OFF' -FRANCO
      201 8 MADRID, Mun GENERALISSIMO Franco, cl making a demonstration describ-d by the controlled Press as 'a national plebiscite aga nnts t lureign interference told crowds massed before the National Palace today that "they will not take away our v dory." For three hours, the demonstrators marched through ihe
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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      356 8 MALAYANS RAILWAY Si-ppl> of Brwkrn Mon* from Ser»mit renner* are Invited for the supply of about 50 0 Wt P" y *tone at the above Quarry commencing from Ist January W- m Tenderers should specify: <a> The price pei cubic varc tor broker ston* anc sta d iree ted' (i)
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      100 8 WEATHER Rain With Intervals WE \THER forecast for 24 hour* from noon today compiled by the RAF Central Foreeastinr St? tion. Air Command. Sooth -Fid Asia: Cloudy with intermittent rain Bright Intervals during the afternoon Mind light to moderate South-Mesterly. falling to calm at times Sunset 63t om Sunrise €23
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