The Singapore Free Press, 22 January 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    More men out today
    113 1 STRIKE LATEST Stall Reporter, m the Singapore I labourers strike, ay involved about "rrorn the gas, town j other departments. ■trtOM today, when of strikers was; .rly 1,100 labourers: -rical, building, and -tion of tne Gas .rtments, who have sympatl >w about 5.000 I from the
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    CHINE HOLD UP FRENCH LANDING
    52 1 4 Ministry of Deordered that the unit Paracel Islands r led for stopping an French landing. has taker, up the Para;uestlon with the French te a Chinese admiral, rocps from one naval were trying to land on the -Is whrn a Chinese unit :hreatened to
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    AL CAPONE DYING
    21 1 rormer Chicago uTered an apoplecI has been administered rites of the Catholic physican said m -day. reports AP
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    $40,000 S'PORE ROBBERY
    241 1 $40,000 S'PORE ROBBERY Free Press Staft Reporter ROBBERS who oroke into the 'louse of a European, Mr. T. S. Ciark m Tiong Bahru, Singapore, got away with $40,000 m cash and jewellery and shot Mr. Clark's adopted son. Neill. m the chest. The 20-j ear-old boy is m hospital m
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    5000 VIETNAMESE ARE TRAPPED
    378 1 5000 VIETNAMESE ARE TRAPPED PARIS, Tuesday. THE French General Staff reported today that a pincer movement by two armoured columns, designed to clear Vietnamese forces from the outskirts of Hanoi, main centre of fighting m Indochina, had met with initial success. Dive-bombing Spitfires and artillery are supporting this French drive
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    SOUTH AFRICA CLOSES
    17 1 The South Airican Govornment has closed its Trade Commissioner's efflce m India reports Reuter
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    S'PORE CHINESE CELEBRATE
    193 1 Stall R. -porter X > abcut the i >f fire crackers are m the; it >v ie Courts will be d cay or two-! celebrate their w Year, which and th^ i yea id^ till— last settled their past year, and ■tor bonuses. Tocay. I lad will
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    PLANS MADE FOR BURMA ELECTIONS
    279 1 LONDON, Tuesday. •THERE is an official black-out on the progress of the talks 1 on Burma but responsible political quarters are now convinced that one rtiain aspect of the problem has now been j solved. This is a plan that will enable the Burmese to
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    41 1 ThL> is the wreckage of the i)akoU whicH^-fTash^ Cto a farm m Kent last we*k. \mojif the passengers who lost their lives m the crash was Mr Mjrk Pwln, chairman of I^wis and Peat, a firm which Is well-known m Malaya.
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    50 INJURED IN RANGOON CLASH
    83 1 50 INJURED IN RANGOON CLASH RANGOON, Tues. MORE than 50 people were injured today when the police and the military broke up a demonstration by 800 Burmese, alleged to be Communists who forcibly entered the Rangoon Secretariat. In spitr of baton charges and drenchings with hoses by the police and
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    RESCUE SHIP RUNS AGROUND
    120 1 BRISBANE. Tues. Tun. wartime R:yal Navy sab- marine mothership Boniven- .re. 10.000 tens, bound :rom Kong to Sydney, ran i aground at Cape Melville. Yorlc Peninsuia. m north of QueensI land today. She was carrying 60 Serv.ceme'i and 1! civilians. The ship li new on *n
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    LANCASTERS 'BOMB' SINGAPORE TODAY
    279 1 LANC ASTERS 'BOMB' SINGAPORE TODAY AIR BATTLE OF MALAYA Free Press Reporter AT daybreak today, a flight of Lancaster bombers roared along the runway at Changi to take off on the first 44 bombing flight over Singapore. The planes are of the type which, striking by night, beat Germany to
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      104 1 NEW CHINA w#/ OPTICAL CO The Art of Bein£> Lovely C V CYCLAX Beauty Preparations CYCLAX tfMt Powder $2 25 54.00 CYCLAX Lipsticks $3.50 CYCLAX Powder Rouge $2.23 CYCLAX Cream Rouge $3 00 CYCLAX Cleansing Lotion $2.50 $4.50 CYCLAX Blended Lotion $3.00 cr > 50 CYCLAX Day Lotion $3.00 55.50
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      MEDAL FOR WARTIME FISHING
      165 3 MEDAL FOR WARTIME FISHING THE mystery of the sole war honour to go to the lonely Atlantic island of St. Helena a; British Empire Medal just award- i ed to 76-year-old Mr Richard I Yon has been cleared up. >i Mr. Yon m a cable m reply to a x>o.idon
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      BURMA VETERAN GETS GIFT CAR
      128 3 TOWNSFOLK asked k> buy a self-propelled invalid chair foi ex-Serviceman David Richards. 26. sent so much money that he has got a car instead. And there's enough over for Da\id to build a gar&ge bl his garden— with the council's permission if he likes The
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      FALLS 30ft.-ONLY BRUISED
      42 3 Working on a two-storey steel house, Sil Davies. of Treoehy, Glam. stepped through the asb'stos roofing, fell 20 ft.. struck a girder, fell a further 10ft and landed on his face on th* concrete floor. He escaped with bruises
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      NICKEL'S COME-BACK
      41 3 The nickel, America's threepenny bit which, until the cost of living went up, wos the mostused coin, is coming back into its own. The five-cent cigar, which has been eight cents for six months, is being reduced m price.
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      THE BEARDED LADY
      33 3 Forty-year-o'd Mme. Maitr? wife of a butcher near Lyons, had n h^n^d and had to shavp trtrf d2y She was 50 d 'pressed by it that she cut her throat
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      AIR C-in-C DISAGREED WITH IKE'
      282 3 AIR C-in-C DISAGREED WITH IKE' AIR CHIEF MARSHAL Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Commander-in -Chief before and during the vital three months after the invasion of Europe, did not always see eye-to-eye with Gen. Eisenhower, his supreme commander. Leigh-Mallory is dead, but his divergencies of opinion are clear from his. official
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      54 3 Mr. Carroll Wilson, who has taken from military authorities the control and development of atomic energy m America. As general manager of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Mr. Wilson, who is 46, will regulate the release of scientific papers from the secret list to facilitate the application of atomic
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      'DISGRACEFUL' YEAR OF DIVORCES
      219 3 HOLLYWOOD is ending its most disastrous year for "perL feet marriages" with 30 noted couples seeking divorces or separations. Dr. Paul Popenoe. founder of the Institute of Family Relations m Los Angeles, calls the record disgraceful and says it is due to the fact that "so
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      21 FOOTBALL DEATHS
      30 3 t ootDaii was airecuy resp^r sible for 21 deaths during the past season m the United States, says a report presented to the American Football Coaches Association
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      NO BODY DOES
      19 3 In Denver. Homer Thomas, a 08-year-oid. fi -m projectionist died while showing "Nobcdy Lives For Ever."
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      WIFE SEES HUSBAND DUEL SON
      122 3 IN the highest tradition of the 17th-century code of honour two French workmen recently fought a duel cutside their home m a village near Toulon, and Doth died. Marcel Pouget, aged 45, p.cked a fight with his 18-year-old stepson, Georges Chauvin, baker's assistant, and demanded
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      WATERED GIN COSTS £25
      96 3 JIOHN Charles Leonard Victor i Alger, licensee of the Beil public house, Hertford-r^ad. Enneld, Middlesex, was fined £15 and ordered to pay £10 10s costs at Enfi:ld for s lling gin containing added water. The prosecution said tnat m three samples 7.1 per cent 8.8 per
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      SCOTCH PUT END TO MUCH TALK
      63 3 There was much talk m th: United States last year that American-made "Sootch" would soon displace the real thing. Well since the New Year a lot of real Scotch has come on the American market. It is selling at from 30s. a bottle. And
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      CREWLESS U-BOAT
      45 3 Th<? American Air Forc e now has a rocket-powered "hydrobomb." m effect a cr?wless submarin\ which can be launched by plane against surface vessels It travels at 80 miles an hour through water, and carries a war-head filled with 1.3001 b. of explosive.
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      THEIR HAUL-A PENNY
      23 3 Using a 561 b. sledge-hammer, thieves smashed open the safe at ft Belmont (Surrey) builders' office and found one penny.
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      SPOTLIGHT ON P.C.s
      20 3 Policemen on point duty at Lewisham Clock Tower and Catford Obelisk are to be "spotlighted" at night.
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      HOME...
      31 7 This classically designed boathouse m Syon Park fringing the River Thames opposite Kew Gardens brings back memories of floating idly on burbling water listening to the hum of foraging bees.
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      MID- WEEK S'PORE SHARE PRICES
      750 7 SINGAPORE, Tuesday. Share quotations according to the Malayan Sharebrokers Association (Singapore > today were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alexandra dr:c*worfe Ords. 1.70 1.90 A. \aiidr« eU'icfc«orK> P. els. 2.9 > 3 00 b a Malay d Frustee Executor Cc 00 9. 00 Dt n
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      2,000-ft. CLIMB FOR HK EUROPEANS
      39 7 A strike of 100 Chinese workers of the Hongkong Peak Tramway is forcing Peak dwellers, mostly influential Eurapeans living nearly 2,000 feet above the city, to find ether means of getting home. says Reuter
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      Siam lifts controls
      77 7 BANGKOK, Tues. IT was officially announced here today that all Foreign Trade and Exchange Control Regulations have been lifted except m regard to the export of nice, tin, teak and rubber, which is controlled by international agreement. Exporters of commodities other than the four basic products may
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      STORE RUBBER PRICES
      147 7 —CITY NEWS— THE Singapore Chamber of Com- meree Rubber Association's rubber prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib per Ib. No. 1 R.S.S Spot loose 42 42 »4 No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Feb 43 1 No. 2 R.S.S. fob m bales
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      FOOTMAN MAY DANCE WITH A PRINCESS
      46 7 At the annual servants ball m Buckingham Palace Monday night, the King danced with a housemaid and the daughter of a palac^ page, whii c Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret had as partners a cellar worker and a footman, says UP
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      HAMBURG LOOTING
      20 7 A food store containing four days' supplies for 200 British families m Hamburg was looted yesterday, says Reuter
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      RICE FOR TEXTILES
      36 7 RICE FOR TEXTILES The Indonesian Republic has up to date sent 4,100 tons of rice to India and another 7,000 tons await shipment, reports Reuter. India is sending 9,000,000 yards of textiles to Indonesia this month.
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      US PLANE MISSING
      32 7 US PLANE MISSING A plane b longing to tbe Amenran Graves Registration Service, carrying 11 passengers and crew, has been missing sine. Saturday morning when it took off from Shanghai for Canton,
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      U.S. ZONE BANS CARTEL CHIEF
      151 7 BERLIN, Tues. rEN. Lucius D. Clay, Military U Governor designate of the United States zone of Germany, announced today that eight top! executives of the Luxembourg! steel combine Arbed including its head, M. Alois Meyer, who was also permanent president of j the international steel
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      US FUND TO BACK JEWS FOR PALESTINE
      319 7 US FUND TO BACK JEWS FOR PALESTINE LONDON, Tuesday. DR. EMMANUEL NEUMAN, United States member of the Jewish Agency Executive, warded Britain today that American Zionists would continue to pour millions of dollar* into the great work of mercy and rescue involved m transporting unauthorised Jewish immigrants from Europe into
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      'MAKE PLANTS ATOM-PROOF' CALL TO U.S.
      126 7 k PROPOSAL that all ot the hun- drecLs of new factories America will build m the next few years snould be atom-proof was made by a production expert and former army general. Robert Wood Johnson. He urges civilian industry to select a five-man commission
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      STAND BY CHINA PLEA TO BRITAIN
      151 7 LONDON, Tues. LADY Cripps, President of the British Aid to China Fund, who recently h:-aded a n all-women goodwill delegation to China, declared tonight: 'I have come back with the deep st conviction of the possibility s for the future t>etwe*:n China and Great
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      US NOT TO HAND OVER RUSSIAN
      91 7 The American Slute Department has rejected the Soviet request to hand over Kirill Alekseev, former employee of the Soviet purchasing representative m Mexico, who has been accus d by Russia of embezzlement. Alekseev, who is now m the United States, all-eges that he has
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      HITLER'S 'HEIR" TO HANG
      127 7 STUTTGART, Tues. PERGEANT Siegfried Kabus was today sentenced to death by hanging by the US Military Court for the b^mo attacxs on Stuttgart Polic. Headquart rs and several purge courts. The court overruled th^ pleas that Kabu c suffered trom megalomania, d clanng that he was
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      USSI FOR SILK STOCKINGS
      149 7 NEW YORK, lues. SILK stockings, which started selln X at VS. $3.50 per pair last May m their first postwar appearance, have dropped to U.S. $1 'approx Straits $2> per pair m some stores here. "You certainly cant get much more than $1 for them today."
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      NO AIM FOR PRESIDENCY MARSHALL
      94 7 (JEN. «GE uu& U Presid. special ci as the new day after I that he m: Democratic aiKE President fi Marshall u*>k tfct M as the iuc n»* Byrnes Before- tak.Gen. Marsha ™J "I caniw be political of!. era Is ha\ drafting M should not
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      HE SAW RED
      29 7 Object nit: colour of B: man has I quiet c Essex, 40 m don pa--' ports Re The p^> responsit *h- nifti sJ and rhanc priv
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      WINDSOR JEWELS BELIEVED FOUND
      32 7 WINDSOR JEWELS BELIEVED FOUND Police ir I ypsterd&v I Scotland valise eoota be th > of WTindi i were founci level R« ne Lo::g^ it, a I noticeG tl i street I UP
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      248 3 C ATM AT HAVE NEVER SCREENED A FINER ADVENTURE PICTURE! DEAL HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT RATES! FIGHTS SHIPWRECKS!!! iXOER- WATER STRUGGLE WITH A GIANT SQUID o*l IN BRILLIANT TECHINCOLOR ij»iCCT ii»R"" ■Bflflflflßßßßßßßßkk> tt ip fAIG** 11 rrCKJ fll Hi -ir cwFk btcrt Bjp W. WC Bk. 1 1 t >■!■<•' 888 BBBfc
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      389 3 TENDERS INVITED Tenders are invited, and will be received at the Land Office, Singapore, for the right to work stone for the I period Ist February— 3oth June. 1947 Inclusive from the following granite quarry: Quarry No. Location 1. Off 1\ mi c Bukit Timah Road Lot 6760 and P
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      32 3 T ARZAN Xikar to the rescue #y £d£ar l^to Burroughs *s__i El^^^v '^_F V^_F _^B _T^ fc*^^^l -^*"7 _h__h «h >■ \V\»bH t-S^ff" 1 liTlj Otin"*»T*li<>ii(s 'irliiuff 9— i4lr«U Inr -2215~ 1 =J^
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      QUIZ
      49 4 1. In r Bv w man vist^cj Balmoral. The after taikxt I a head! I w. War Offi or? 2. One OKI Primates > the Church v mraning** 3. Three system take M near'y 11 pna ovff years, f» wmpU t< round the MB v.mch «r Answers. ANSWERS x
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      FAITH
      28 4 But let us. who are tt J dar. be sober n>»' tin on T breastplate «M faith love; and f«»r an bei*the hope of vahation 1 Thes>
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JAN 22, 1947 Mr. Rayman's Strike 2
      1023 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JAN 22, 1947 Mr. Rayman 's Strike 2 AfORK abcut the strike of Singa-- pore Municipality workers. Yesterday we demonstrated how the strike was precipitated not by the demands of the workers M.*. Rayman. the Municipal President has indicated that he has sixteen answers to
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      GIVE GERMANY A CHANCE
      1105 4 Alexander Clifford concludes his report on Germany with this article WHEN you talk to ordinary people m Frankfort, m Baden-Baden, m Hamburg, m Berlin, you always get the same answers to begin with. They say: "You must give us enough to eat before you can expect
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      'KIONG HEI'TODAY
      257 4 'KIONG HEI 'TODAY The Chinese Say CHINA enters the Lunar Year of the Pig today witii many hoping that the year will be uneventual as traditional of the indolence of the year's Zodiac symbol, while others fearing that there will be more cases of scandalous corruption due to the bad
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      42 4 European* m Singapore may envy the Chinese their New Year's Day *«hda> im to remind them what New Years Day at home was like we ft" t t^* K J*J*" i nd '>» graph Boys having a snowball flght m Tmf altar Squan
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      425 4 THE first man to send an airadiogram over the newly opened British radio telegram service for airliner passengers was RALPH SMART, producer of 'The Overlanders He sent trie message from near Karachi m India at five minutes after midnight and it was received m the Central Telegraph
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      SIX TIES IN LANCASHIRE THIS WEEK
      219 6 U*P_4th R Qlini THE luck U Uw days fourth Footb U! a has switched tnm ca^hi^e wh n -< The South bas More rtoord the board Cr from the firsi all-rime big people paying >:. centres say g Saturday scr:bed A^ the mounts, clul*
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      'DRASTIC ACTION' THREAT BY PLAYERS' UNION
      74 6 'DRASTIC ACTION' THREAT BY PLAYERS' UNION THE Football Pi. ;<* rJJB ment commitu I recenU' when tf* points with I jtwns of the committee, but management n$ Lracked the man The Union 'of £12 m winter. l< I minimum wage of m summer for I player.- to be pi when
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      QUIZ Answers
      8 6 1 Floreni*. mala. con;pri.s;; monkeys, tin
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      TEST FAILURES CAUSE IRRITATION
      885 6 TEST FAILURES CAUSE IRRITATION All In The Came From George Chisholm LONDON, By Air Mail. AS we look at all that is m the game we are perturbed at the irritation caused m England by our failure m the cricket Test matches m Australia. Our men went out looking good
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      28 6 Stanley Morgan, Bmneval paratrooper, who recently mad< first League appearance as Arsenal's outside left, is seen v this picture talking tactics wi th by> manager. Mr ueorcc Allison
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      New Face At Highbury
      332 6 New Face At Highbury Here also, new rules are to oc tried but in two special games late in the seasor The Hggested new laws include: (I* A *hrow-in will take U*e plae > of a scrum where a bali is Kicked into touch except ir. th" case of a
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      AMERICANS FORM SOCCER BODY
      222 6 MQu. A big si-ep m soccer legislature across the Atlantic is the fcimation of the North American Soccer Football Confederation composed of Mexico. Cuba. Canada and th* United States and the North American zone ol the Pan-American Federation. So:cer is growing m stature m the new
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      202 6 To All Our Chinese Patrons "A Happy and Prosperous New Year" Thunderous acclaim of the opening day audience that saw The Flying Tigers" PICTURE OF 1001 THRILLS! established itself as the SEASON'S Biggest Hit! y^s# That Come Once hi A MxJLOb Lifetime! •>. -n^K-. »i 9» <** C* t\%% Ma
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      104 6 J^^t Exclusive to the Singapore tree Press m Malaya ...WELL, FROM YOURS, /don't YOu\ FshE MUST LOVE HIM^l I X BUT APART FROM I/^OH YES STORY IT LOOKS AS IF BELIEVE IT; fOR SHE WOULDNY HAVE THAT DISCOVERY 1 I COLLECTED x^ V THE CASE WILL END \OEORGIE. 1 V
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      54 7 To All Our Chinese Patrons 'A Happy and Prosperous \cw )vo f|rjHL v i! TODAY: 5 mm Hflr a i^ 2 p•» l 3 pm s m A i^ «.3t 9 14 p« 4 -°4-^- QiR-CQnpr E C i 'gjgjTT'/i/i^^^ MARIA JON lUW MONTEZ HALL B| >.».h GEORGE, ZUCCO^. ANDY
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      78 7 WEATHER Fair Day and Night l\ I.ATHIB report for 24 hours from noon today compiled by the RAF Central Forecasting Station, Air Command, Far -East: Weather continuing fair day and night. Wind moderate and northeasterly, falling light tonight. Sunset 649 pm Sunrise 6.42 am. Moonrise 7.22 am. Moonset 6 5!
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