The Singapore Free Press, 26 December 1946

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA So. 16.734 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    WAR AGAIN AFTER XMAS TRUCE
    404 1 PARIS, Wed. Cl ATTERED but intense fighting broke out again w J the Province of Tongking m northern Indochina ijckn afier this morning's unofficial Christmas truce rich enabled both French and Vietnamese to flock to t arches, the French news agency reports m dispatcha received
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    YELLOW TOP STRIKE ENDS
    136 1 i >- Stall Kt-p^r* r Yellow Top" dr.»«;is euded and 1 i re duck en Singapor? morning m full t r the Company ..at an agreement has fl satis; act ory both and the drivers." the drivers was i Ls of the settlement ;.tioned and s.nce
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    85 RESCUED IN NAVAL SHIP
    53 1 85 RESCUED IN NAVAL SHIP ex-submarine depot ship, saved the lives of gs and 5 officers on Bon--7 reef of! the East Coast :>r mm t1 -T3O am. on December when the 'AIRE the JJte m which they were serur.ded m the darkness. tarnsferred to the which is due m
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    WOMAN AIR ACE DIES IN CRASH
    151 1 L>E JANEIRO, Wed. re killed and only survived the biggest ne disaster recorded •J! f n an Avro York air f d m a storm into a ide when on its way to Buones Aires. -he dead were Dr Argentine Minister m Portugal, who
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    MacDonalds in Ottawa
    29 1 (Photo by Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Macl>on a ld photographed m the otlioal residence of the Governor- General of Canada and Lady Alexander. T. V. Little)
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    CHINESE ADOPT CONSTITUTION
    180 1 NANKING, Wednesday. rE last formal session of the 40 day old National Assem bly met this morning. The constitution will be enforced on December 25, 1947. More than 1,000 delegates voted for this proposal. The constitution will be promulgated on New Year's Day. At a 20-minute ceremony
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    BETTER DAYS AHEAD, THE KING
    313 1 BETTER DA YS AHEAD, THE KING LONDON, Wednesday. IN his brief Christmas message, King George today expressed the hope that the British people would show the world the way through the present difficulties, just as they showed how to stand up under the original blitz. Speaking from Sandringham, where the
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    1,335 Died In Japan 'Quake
    66 1 TOKYO. Wed 1 TOTAL of 1.335 persons are dead or missing as the result of Jinan's earthquake and tidal wave of la*t Saturda> morning It is presumed that some of the missing were carried out to sea by the retreating high water The latest official
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    HE DEALT WITH 'ENEMY,' SHOT
    131 1 JERUSALEM, WedTMIR ITohammed El Saleh, tribal chieftain and landowner who sold the Jewish National Fund many thousands of acres of land, was murdered today on K.ng's street, Haifa, m broad daylight by an assailant firing from a taxicab. Th e Em r's land was the
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    UNION TO HAVE BIG HARBOUR
    97 1 Free Press S.aff Reporter MR HENRY BASTEN, Joint 111 Chairman of the Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards, revealed m Penang yesterday that proposals for the construction cf deep water berths on the mainiand opposite the island have been drawn up. and wiil be submitted to
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    MR. HUME DIES
    49 1 N^ws w£L> received m Singapore this morning that Mr. T. J. Hume Chairman of John Little Co. died on December 6 at his home m England. Owing to 111 health Mr. Hume had taken no active part m the affairs of the Company since last June.
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    CURFEW IN BOMBAY
    39 1 A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed for a week on a one square miie area m northeast Borrbay where sporadic stabb.ngs have been reported after the lilting of the city-wide curfew three weeks ago, says Reuter.
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    W. C FIELDS DIES
    43 1 W. C. Fields, the nim actor, has died at his home at Pasadena, California, after a long illness. He was 67 years of age. He ran away from home at e'.ven and his career began m an open-air theatre.
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    SIAM TO GET MORE FOR RICE
    168 1 BANGKOK. Wednesday. i NEW rice delivery agreement mi n was reached between Siam I and Britain and America today i wh.reby Siam is to deliver 600.000 IfißS instead of 800,000 tons during Jr.iuary- August next year, at a basi: price of £20 per ton.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      25 1 hri>tmas Gifts *f DIAMOND k GEM SET RINGS GOLD 4 SILVER CIGARETTE CASES U.S. de SHLVA Manuf uturin* Jeweller 10 J Orchard Rd. Tel U66.
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    NEWS PAGE
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    YOUTH SAVES PARENTS
    333 3 Knocks out man with his bat pEEPING over the rail of the witness-box at Sussex Assizes 1 m Lewis, Raymond Glover, aged twelve, smiled shyly at red-robed Mr. Justice Oliver and told him how he saved his parents with a cricket bat from a man attacking them
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    61 3 :> and Mrs. J. H Wheeler taken at their wedding re- ition at Nassim Road on Monday Mr Wheeler is a prorrnent Singapore cricketer and ru?by player and is the son Mr Frank Wheeler and the late Mrs Wheeler of x Mis Wheeler <n?e Rosemary French) is the aaugnt•: tfl
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    33 3 "Miss Oaphne \»aiu v w*th the cup sbo 1 when her left ankle strapped m plaster she won the British amateur i<^ figureskating championship at th»Empire Pool, Wembley, watched by 9,000 ice fans.
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    WHAT SOLDIER SAID UNDER TRUTH DRUG
    271 3 MR. JUSTICE DENNING, m the King's Bench, was told thai a soldier who reported sick was given a drug called amytai a "truth drug." Under the influence of this drug, ac cording to a psychiatrist, the soldier, now Mr. Dennis Hollorn, of Salford, "confessed
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    Girl Unmasks Dictator Plot
    166 3 1 BLONDE secret agent is officially given credit for A masking what Attorney-General Eugene Cook, of C rgia, calls a plot to set up a Nazi form of Government nerica. m a report to the State said that the agent. Renee Forrest, posed as a nd
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    ACTRESS SAYS SHE WENT OUT IN PYJAMAS
    93 3 AHAIRDRESSING shock was clainicd by an actress to have •aused her to walk m the streets In h:r pyjamas. The actiess, Mrs. Dorothy Mary Wareham. professionally known as t*eUy Brookf6, was suing Messrs. Kendal Milne (Ha* rods) Ltd. of Deansgate. Manchester. at Manchester
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    £4,000 DESERT ADVENTURE
    174 3 MRS Hazel McAllister, ncr tw-j children, and Graham Dixon. a member of their party, arrived m Khartum by air after a Kan* of the Libyan Desert which cost the Sudan Governm°nt £4 000 m petrol, the use of* two aircraft, and several lorrThe search followed the report
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    TOLD TO LIVE UP TO HAR NAME
    35 3 TOLD TO LIVE UP TO HAR NAME Rose Diinkwatcr. air^tcd thr.-'e t mes m tw 0 days m Madison. Wisconsin, on rbaw Of drunkenneso. was to!d by the judse to live up to her nani-'
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    THREW DISINFECTANT ON HER HUSBAND
    31 3 THREW DISINFECTANT ON HER HUSBAND For throwing four bottles of diffinfecant on her husband, Mrs. Margaret Green, aged 61, of Wolverhampton, was sentenced to thr:e years' psnal servitude at Stafford Assizes,
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      130 3 SPAN A TOOTH PASTE \$M Sold by atl l«a<f mq dictribwton ond mo«u*actu'«d bf kto!-M»«r» Co fty L.d. 223 fadfic Hq-iwir, Jso2f r.;,l>, :ydf»«». N.S.W.. Australia. PRODUCED 10CAUY tOIiREfT THI RIMJJHUTAtiON Of MAIAYA APPROVED %V THI SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY, Q//tt*r;f^i>*nficitfors&. 250. StRANGOON «f. S^PORE. 1 3 .y ■■> AukiMj^HHi THE TRADE
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      39 3 T&RZAN Angry K<*n fi> fi^dr A?/^ Burroughs i SI '1.,- I t=, TnE PA!N- MADDENED LION J Kj :SCONCERTED &V TiKAR'S C f* STARTED FOR HIM, SPROUL "1 LA [J^j REVIVAL, RRED s^£^ ACED Fo mE NEARESTT fa \«K-I»«fffl
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    RADIO AMATEURS GET BUSY
    210 5 Free Press Staff Reporter I HOBBY which is fast putting SingaDore <k A fining popularity on the ifland-f^ u^ ?co^tr? P Kll h night it is possible to hear amateCr MalaTn ham- operating their o«n radio seU and mS f »i.h mher amateur radio fans m
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    INTERNAL AIR SERVICE BY APR. 1
    60 5 INTERNAL AIR SERVICE BY APR. 1 Reporter TwttA eosal air seroperating S:n<zapoxe, r. Ipoh and Pend on April 1 -ites of aircraft are the airfields can b'.* la time. Civil Aviation. Uf«j t-o the F:ee Iscd that hopes too high on the :he west coast air U are being made
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    GEMS SMUGGLED IN BAG
    75 5 Freas Correspondent BANGKOK, Wed. A-.cer at Don Mi:. 14 miles outside became suspicious be <aw an abnormally ...ck lining to a br\£ which he jrJninf m the Customs Department at the airfield. He ripped it open and out Mj a stream of Zircons— -6.000 en rats
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    XMAS PARTY
    22 5 These pictures were taken by the Free Press at the Children's Christmas Party at the Singapore Swimming: Club on Monday.
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    SANTA CLAUS WAS THERE
    311 5 SANTA CLAUS WAS THERE Free Press Staff Reporter IN the spacious ballroon of the Singapore Swimming Clut> on Monday evening was heard the laughter of more than 3(M European children who attended a Christmas treat, along with their mothers. A huge Christmas tree, illuminated with coloured buibs and glitterng with
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    XMAS TREAT AT S.R.C.
    62 5 ANE thousand children will be catered for at the Christinas Treat to be held at the S.R.C. on Saturday, starting from 330 p.m. Tickets will be exchanged at the gate for coupons. A magic show has been arranged. Toys will be distributed to children under eight.
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    $1.650 FOR MRS WEE
    52 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Total subscription collected so fnr for the "Mrs. V/ee Fund is 1,630, and there have been 112 subscrib?rs. Mrs Wee's husband, who nelped a number of internees with money and focci dtj*ing the Jap occupation of Singapore, was caught and killed, by,
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    LAND' MORATORIUM ENDS JAN.1
    372 5 LAND' MORATORIUM ENDS JAN. 1 Free Press Special Correspondent MEW Year's day will signal the lifting of one more section m the Moratorium Proclamation, this tinie m connection with land dealings. Notification to this effect is contained m the latest i*sue of the Singapore Government Gazette. Naming Jan. 1, 1947
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    SMALLPOX RIFE IN MALAYA
    137 5 I ATEST health reports from the Malayan Union place smallL pox first among the list of diseases causing death. Figures indicate that m one week 159 cases with 36 fatal, were reported. Trengganu suffered worst with 126 cases and 22 deaths, Kedah 15 cases and 10
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    AUNG SAN GOING TO INDIA AND U.K.
    51 5 U Aung San, Deputy chairman of the Burmese Executive Council. is leaving Rangoon for New Delhi en Jan. 2. He w:ll stay m New Delhi as guest of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Vice-President of the Indian Interim Government end w.W leave for London on
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    Death Railway Service
    131 5 Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford. Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia Land Forces, recently completed a three day tour of service units m Rangoon, Meiktila and Maymyo. Picture on the left shows the C-in-C bei»s greeted* at Mtn?aladon airfield, after hfc return from a. lour of up-comftry nnits, by Win?
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    SPORT PAGE
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    SOM PONG MEETS WELCH TONIGHT
    126 7 SOM PONG MEETS W ELCH TONIGHT la opportu::.' lot a t::!e and, not a. tve to wait many hey are qualified. boveier, is on c of j r.s. thh young Airman topliner. Tonight a ppocMmMj comr^s his h« meeis hard-hitting for the welterweight j of Singapore at the d boxing
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    S.C.R.C. RUGBY
    62 7 represent the Sing a Recreation Club In tomat eh on the Pa dang ?CRC and the SingaPatnck Yee. Low Kec C: oh. Wfe Leong Sow. :j .übert Eu. Loh Slew a Joo. Mah Guan Sail Muav. Tan Teck Huat. Low Huck Bee. Ong Chtw Bee ADELAIDE Wed. h^
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    S'pore All Blues Team For Saturday
    111 7 S 'pore All Blues Team For Saturday CINGAPORES team for the *AU Blues" Cap semi -Anal 10 be played on the Padang on Saturday will be selected from the following: On; Swee Law, Jimmy Sanderson, Larry Carroll. Mohd. Shah, Lee Sieu Choh, Low Kee Pow, V J. Retnam. E. Kbert,
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    GERMANY, JAPAN OUT OF OLYMPICS
    81 7 LONDON Wed. TEKMANY ar.d Japan \\:il deti^ itely no* compe'e m i^e Olympic Games m 1948 This 1 decMon was made known yesd r- day by the International OlymI pic Committee wlueh. m the New Yecr. will is^ue Invitations to various countries to partictpmif m
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    SOLOMONS INTERESTED IN SPORE CHALLENGE
    302 7 SOLOMONS INTERESTED IN SPORE CHALLENGE By Our Boxing Reporter JACK SOLOMONS, leading British boxing promoter, is reported to be interested m the challenge by Singapore manager Kow Kirn Lin, on behalf of Mick McKay, the South African bantamweight champion, and Tiger Aman, Malayan bantam champion, for a fight against Jackie
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    CHRISTMAS DAY RUGBY RESULTS
    117 7 RESULTS of Rugby Union games played on Christmas day were: Llanelly 27. Universities Athletic Union 11: M?.esteg 12, Aberavon 0; i eath 38. London Welsh 8. Swansea 17. Watsonians 8; Edinburgh Academical Wanderers 17, London Scottish 3; Glasgow University 0, Glasgow Hign School former pupils 0:
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    Army Team v Navy Today
    42 7 THE following will represent the Combined Army against the Combined Navy at football at the Jalan Besar Stadium at 5 p.m. to-day. Goram; Peake. Wardlaw; Gough, Sutton, Wall**; Shaw, Harrison. Gascoigne, Smith, Lucas. Reserves: Coynes and Rust.
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    GOOD FIELDS AT TODAY'S PENANG RACES
    383 7 GOOD FIELDS AT TODAY'S PENANG RACES Free Frees Correspondent PENANG, Wed. A FEATURE of the acceptances for the first day of the Penang races to-morrow is that m tine first race no less t<han -eigrht oui of the ten horses entered have been withdrawn, leaving a twohorse race Apart from
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    HOME SOCCER RESULTS
    271 7 HOME SOCCER RESULTS LONDON, Wed. TO-DAY'S F. A. league results were FIRST DIVISION Arsenal 2 Portsmouth 1 Aston V 2 Hfield T. 2 Blackburn R. l Blackpool 1 Bolton W. 2 Manchester U. 2 Chelsea 1 Preston N. E. 2 Ever ton 4 Derby Co. 1 Grimsby T. 3 Charlton
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    FEDERAL CAPITAL XI TO MEET M.C.C.
    70 7 SYDNEY. Wed. THE Federal Capital Territory term meeting the M.C.C. m a two-day match at Canberra starting; Dec. 27 will to*, selected from the following: P. Hourigan. Captain. F Johnson. H Longbottom. F. Jones. C. Goodfellcw. K. Merchant, L. Bennett. L. Fisher. J. Hanson,
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    ASIATIC RUGBY
    99 7 The following were elected as officials at a recent meeting of the Singapore Asiatic Rugby Union: President, Mr. Tan Hoon Siang. vice-presidents. Messrs. Robert Eu and Yong Ngin Djin; secretary. Mr. Guy Vaz; treasurer, Mr. Loh Siew Teng; Captain, John Fergusson, selection committee for representative matches and for
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    SOCCER TEAM
    78 7 The following players will be selected to represent the Samboe Hospital Combined Police against the Samboe Chinese Athletic m a return match of soccer to-day at 5.15 p.m. sharp at their ground. Koesman (captain) Soepardi. Sadjimo, Promons, Pariyam. C.L. Cling. 'Amat Layang, Anip, Mohamad, Yatiman. Samingoen, Kernin, Johar
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