The Singapore Free Press, 31 December 1946

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 7JB. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    No Free Press Tomorrow
    40 1 No Free Press Tomorrow TH'rRE will be no issae of Ihe re* Press tomorrow New Day. and publication will be resumed on Jan ft, 1947. The Free Press takes this "unity of wishing »t» i-*au rs a Happy New Year.
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    SINGAPORE BAKERY WORKERS STRIKE
    222 1 Free Prtas Staff Reporter BVEEN throe and four hundred unskilled mixers emj d at nearly 30 bakeries m Singapore have gone or, strike as a protest against their employers' decision luce wages by 10 per cent. The strike was called for yesterday, but only a tew
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    VATICAN MESSAGE
    27 1 A five minutes bMore midnight '•V-ican Radio will broadpecall New Year's "Te Oj Lorenzo Ferrose. folN -w Year gre* logs from i po rti Reuter.
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    UK TOOLS FOR INDIA
    19 1 Thirty lonyloacLs or redundant British tools left Birmingham yes- j terday for shipment to India
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    TROOPS SEARCH FOR FLOGGERS
    256 1 FIFTEEN Jews were detained for further questioning M when British troops of the Second Parachute Brigade m considerable force last night cordoned off lar^e areas of the Jewish townships of Nathanya and Lydda. m Palestine, and carried out house to house searches for the terrorists responsible
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    TIN BUYING UNIT CLOSED DOWN
    87 1 Tii Ministry of Supply an- no-jr.ees r ha; Its Mala »n n ore buying agency (TOBA will ,»ea;^ to porcfaaae tin trates m Ma ay a as at Dec. J 1946 and that R« tn agent, Lower Burma <Mr. A. P. Ruddv> will cease to
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    HAS 30 CHILDREN.
    31 1 Haji Peerbhai, 71- year-old Cape Town Indian, whose fourth wile has just borne his 30t*h child, said yesterday that he hopes to have at least six more babies.
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    GANDHI 'NOT WELL,' SAYS NEHRU
    202 1 CALCUTTA. Mon. F*\NDIT NEHRU. Vice-President; of the Interim Indian Gov-! ernment, on his return today from his two-day visit to Srirampur. said that he found Mahatma! Gandhi "not m good health and weaker than when I him I don't mean he is seriously ,51 however.
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    STORM PARALYSES SINGAPORE
    511 1 STORM PARALYSES SINGAPORE Free Press Staff Reporter A FTER one of the worst storms for 20 years and certainly the worst since the liberation when sheets of water cascaded down on city streets, flooding shops, cutting telephone wires, felling trees, stranding cars and making roads impassable, Singapore received its biggest
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    Fierce war rages near Hanoi
    196 1 Fierce war rages near Hanoi PARIS, Mon FIERCE fighting raged today between th? French and Vietnam troops around the key town of Nam Dlnh, south-east of Hanoi The number of French subjects unaccounted for m th„ current Franco- Vietnam fighting m Hanoi, capital of Tonking Province, has r.sen to 300.
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    12.000 TIMES ROUND THE WORLD IN 1946
    32 1 British Overseas Airways Corporation have this year flown 300.000.000 passenger miles (equi- j valen' to 12.000 times around the world' it is announced m London
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    CIGARETTE PRICES UP
    86 1 THE price of cigarettes m Singapore will be increased on Friday, when the new prices will be published m the Gazette. Reliable sources forecast that itns of 50 Craven A will be retailed at $1.25. a rise m price of 25 cents on the old price. Packets
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    GIANT PLANE READY NEXT MARCH
    44 1 Britain's biggest land plane, the 110-ton Brabazon I. is expected to j *>c r-ady m March. A special j hangar is being built to bouse tt jai Bristol's workshops cannot j hold th? whol* of *he giant airi craft.
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    DUTCH USE TANKS IN SEMARANG
    94 1 DUTCH USE TANKS IN SEMARANG BATAVIA, Mon THE Dutch Army used tank* m clearing action on the St-maran-r front after infiltrating Indonesian extremists had entrenched them selves wi'hin the Dutch rone on Saturday, according to a Netherlands Army communique. Small-scale clashes between the Dutch and Indonesians continued on other fronts.
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  • NEWS PAGE
    • Article
      MOSLEY CANNOT LEAVE BRITAIN
      287 3 MOSLEY CANNOT LEAVE BRITAIN FIVE people are barred under the Emergency Laws (Transitional Powers) Act, 1946, from leaving the United Kingdom. One of them is Sir Oswald Mosley. This was explained m the Lords by Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, who had been asked by Lord Sherwood, a Liberal Peer,
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      Bewildered wife obtains divorce
      244 3 MR JUSTICE BYRNE, at Liverpool Assizes, granted a nullity decree to a "bewildered and frustrated" wife Her Kge had not bee.i consummated, he said, and having attCotne attracted by another man, she had realised that the rnariiage was a void. The husband. Marshall Hall, of Bolton,
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      SMUTS HELD THE BABY
      63 3 SMUTS HELD THE BABY IRSHAL SMUTS rtfCd b i m Pretoria br.n ■a%\v f h the M family, who ■>s ng for a WCC* ny broke down Ls the Desert. He gave .hem a m Khartum m his private MeAi ster. -^ed 1~ v.as nursed frequency on journey by the
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      BEAD END KID' IS DIVORCED
      19 3 Baton one of the famed End Kids, was divorced by Helen Tupper on grounds
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      MADE 100,000 TOYS
      22 3 m 20 years Mr. and Mrs. .es Lucas, of Lemon Abtr>. -.gham. have made 100.000 I h ldren's homes
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      CHRISTMASS STOCKINGS
      22 3 tban 1.600 pairs of nylons sold to the employees of an Qton hosiery factory on their Chris* mas pay day.
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      BOASTED TO HUSBAND OF BOGUS LOVES
      145 3 A SCHOOLMISTRESS heard a Judge describe her as 'a rain woman who has taken delight boasting and vaunting her invented conquests and matting bogus confessions of adultery to her hustand.' He granted the husband, William Rickleton, a master at the City School, Lincoln, a
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      Invents robot pilot at 22
      192 3 WHEN Bill Chapman was a 17--year-old aircraft apprentice he was picked out of a group of boys by his boss, Mr. F. G. Miles, the plane designer, and told: "Go j to it and produce a really good lightweight automatic pilot for small civil aircraft."
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      ROOSEVELT STATUE PROVIDES POSER
      175 3 WHETHER the Commons had any responsibility m regard to the Roosevelt Memorial was a point raised by the Speaker when Mr. Driberg (Lab.. Maldon) inquired about discussion of a motion bearing the names of 170 members. I am not sure that the House would be m
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      PILOT UN EIVE DAYS
      27 3 Mr J. Swanson (20). oi Springfield Road, Aberdeen, has qualified for the pilot's "A" licence within five days of joining Edinburgh Flying Club.
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      SOVIET-NORWAY PACT
      17 3 Norway and Russia have agreed *>n a two-year trade pact and a mutual exchange agreement.
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      MORE POCKET MONEY
      23 3 Old-age pensioner.? m Mo> mouthsh >»? Council's mstitu tions are to have their /eek'y pocket -mo.icy increased fron» 2s. to ss.
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      BBC CHIEFS ORDERED TO 'KEEP SILENT'
      255 3 ALL BBC. officials who have any connection with the en- gagement of bands, singers, and variety artists have been instructed to "keep their lips sealed on the subject of alleged bribery pending the inquiry now being made by Sir Valentine Holmes, K.C. Christmas presents
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      75 YEARS IN CHOIHR
      27 3 Mr. Charhs Jones, wno »«3 died at Barnstaple aged 82, **as for 75 years m the church eno 1 at St. Mary Magdalen
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      Thief was cool 'un
      92 3 A THIEF who broke into a house at Gidea Park, E*sex, a few days before Christmas: Raided the lard°r and ate the family's 2 lb. Christmas pudding Lit a fire m tl". a\a**\*n%] room. Sampled several apples. Discarded a box of cigarettes bu* t v k
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      WALK OFF' TROOPS COMPLAIN: BAD FOOD'
      621 5 WALK OFF' TROOPS COMPLAIN: BAD FOOD' Free Press Staff Reporter ]fIHEN the liner "Empress of Scotland" docked alongside Berth 27 at Singapore Harbour Board a few minutes after two yesterday afternoon, the men who had walked off the ship twice when they were made to sail from Liverpool a few
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      SINGAPORE NEW YEAR RADIO
      134 5 SINGAPORE NEW YEAR RADIO I-ios to Smga- -r.d their broad- j and] 1 am. (Dec. 31---j»urs later thar* io. wi:l also star, i g wo hours eari.er on Day. beginning at New Year's Ev* m\ 9.43 pjn. when th<Genrral. Sr ati*a*ard atfeai *o tii? people Eve araaaka&ts v.:ll alsa feature
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      Dress Contest
      96 5 Jl5 525 lltKk ,wearln and Mr. Lee Kirn Puat are seen with the priae w.nners of the Evening Gown Competition at the Odeon r a ,n in^ a P we Th cMKpe:ition. held on Sunday night, resulted as fallows: Ist Miss Mary Lim, (No. 107,, 2nd Mias Leon*
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      False fire calls: danger stressed
      162 5 Free Press Staff Reporter HOAXERS who make false fire calls are causing considerable trouble to Singapore fire chiefs. Over the Christma*? holidays there were two false calls m a single night, which sent engines, fully manned, dashing through the streets at break-neck speed m case
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      W.D. STAFF CLAIMS BACK PAY
      112 5 W.D. STAFF CLAIMS BACK PAY UEMBERS of the Singapore Wai Depar.mer.t civilian staff have made representations to Lieut. Gen. F. E. W. Simpson, vice Chief of Imperial General Staff. I who visited Singapore recently. 'md have asked for 3\' 2 years' hack pay for all pre-war War Department employees. The
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      EAST-WEST TALK
      38 5 Dr. Norman Alexander, Professor of Physics at Raffles College. Singaoore. will ado'res<: a meeting of the East-West Society on 'The Atomic Bomb," on rhu -sdav Jan. 2. 1947 a: S p.m m the V.M.C.A., Stamford fluad
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      HOLY COMMUNION
      20 5 There will be a celebrat'on of Holy Com ;vu. ""ion m St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, at 1145 tonight
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      SARAWAK MALAYS PROTEST TO LONDON
      219 5 PIE Malay National Union of Sarawak protested m a telegram received m London yesterday against a circular reported to have been issued by the Sarawak Chief Secretary threatening dismissal of any Government servant 4t associating himself with anti-cession activities. The Union also attacks the British
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      S'PORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST MEMBERS
      46 5 S'PORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST MEMBERS Trustees of the Singapore Improvement Trust nominated by the Governor for the first quarter of 1947 are the Honorable Mr. M. J Namazie, Mr. C. G. Windle. Mr. E. Galistan, Mr. R. Renton. Mr. Chew Hock Leong and Mr. Chin Chye Fong.
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      PONTOON ADRIFT IN MALACCA STRAIT
      53 5 It has been reported that a pontoo:i, about 40 feet m length and awash, was seen drifting m a position 120 degrees, five miles from Pulo Undan, Malacca 6trait, on Dec. 29, according to a notice to the shipping community m Singapore issued by the
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      FAREWELL DINNER PARTY
      114 5 This photograph was taken at the farewell dinner party given by the staff of Banque De l'lndochine, recently at the Tai Ton-? Restaurant, New World, to Mr. Lim Kian Lee. Those m this picture are (sitting fnom left to right) Mr. Teo Chye Hoe, Miss Alice Heng.
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      killearn & Press to go fishing
      212 5 killearn Press to go fishing Free Pre*»s Staff Reporter ONCE round the bay with Lord KiUearn' will be the slog-ir-on Jan. 6, when a launch will take representatives of t ho Press to see a demonstration of Japanese fishing m Singapore waters. It will be for the benefit oi the
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      BRITAIN'S HEROES OF 1946
      437 7 Syd Wooderson* Woodcock Top List LONDON, Monday. From Vernon Morgan THE year 1946 will not go down m history a» a vintage year for British sport. The quality naturally varied among different sports, but the general level was poor. Battling hard to get on her feet
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      MT COY BEAT RAF POLICE
      362 7 RAF 1 Police 0 59. MT. Coy 6| IN their match at Thomson-road, on Sunday the R.A.F. Police were* hopelessly beaten by 59. M.T. Coy, and were lucky that 59 only netted six times. From the kick-off 59 went j away, only to be stopped
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      DAVIS CUP PROFITS
      35 7 THE Australian Lawn Tennis Association estimate that they made a profit of £20,000 from the challengeround of the Davis Cup Melbourne. Th? official takings for the three days were £59,000. reports. Reuter
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      S.C.C. RUGBY XV
      54 7 S.CC. Rugby XV to meet the Police on the padanc: to-morrow is: J. J. Bell; S. Johnson. R. S. Droogleever. J. H. Abbott. D. M. Seward*. R. W. Pinnock. H. B. Wilson; F. W. Morrix W. C. Bainbiidge, F. Hutchinson, P Flrk'na, J- laiTL. F. O'Connor. R.
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      PADANG HOCKEY
      46 7 The hockay fixture between S'nga- po-e Civilians and Service vill '^c played on the S.R.C. padan? on Satur- day. Civilian ptajaH are asked to Wafr c. Rugby Union results on Tuesday London Bcotti«h 11, Od M-rrhlsLo-njana 22: Rosslyn Park 23, Petteftian Lcrettonian-s 8. Reuier
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      EDRICH GETS 62
      129 7 BENIGO. VICTORIA, Tues. THE MCC beat the Bendigo Country Sid? by seven wickets. Scores BENDIGO COUNTRY SIDE Phyland b Pollard 39, Arthur c b Smith 4. Harris st. Gibb b Smith 25. Hesse c Gibb b Voce 14. Day c Fishlodi b Smith 2. Knight c Hon
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      VICTORIA WIN BY INNINGS
      95 7 MELBOURNE. Tut*. VICTORIA b?at New South Wales by ati innings and 114 runs m the Shemeld Shield match. Helped by fielding mistakes. Pettiford (110) and Morris (54) added a hundred m a hundred minutes tor the third wicket. Morrs batted three-and-a-half hours. Barnes, with a swollen
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      NEGRI BEAT S.C.C.
      69 7 Free Press Correspondent SEREMBAN. MON. V[EGRI defeated the Singapoie Cricket Club Rugger team yesterday by 11 points <goal, try and penalty) to 3 points (tryv Singapore were outclassed by a superior pack. Goring opened the scoring for Singapore. Clapham then crossed over for Negri, Hamlin converting. In
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      GOLF PROBLEM
      36 7 Answer tcr-yesterday's golf poser: No. definitely not. Stroke rule 5. vi) staler plainly that "no alteration can be made on any card once it is returned, and Divot must pay the penalty of disqualification.
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      Tarleton Is Confident Of Beating Pep
      204 7 Tarleton Is Confident Of Beating Pep From Vernon Morgan London, Mon. MUCH ink has recently been spilt by those bemoaning the fact that Tarleton, "grand old man of British boxing," is meeting Willie Pep of the United States next year for the latter's world leatherweight title. True Pep is strong
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      ENGLAND MUST WIN THE THIRD TEST
      336 7 From Bill Bowes MELBOURNE, Monday. ris imperative England win the third Test, both from the point of view of gate receipts and to recoup lost faith. The selectors rightly have included extra bowlers m Voce and Langridge excluding Smith and Ilardslafi* and, although it
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      113 7 A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL FROM THE CATHAY HAVE YOU MADE YOUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS? YOUR FIRST IS TO SEE DANNY KAYE AND START THE NEW YEAR WITH A LAUGH! VIRGINIA MAYO V Eft A- ELLEN SINCS SINCS AND AND LOOKS LOVELY! DANCES. THE GOLDWYN GIRLS ARE A GOLDMINE
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