The Singapore Free Press, 31 January 1947

Microfilm: NL3656
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEUTRE PAGE
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      BLANKET COATS
      621 2 at a Berlin fashion show THfc revival of peacetime Interests was demons .rated by large ciowds who attende.l a mannequ n parade m a small movie theatre m Berlin lucent y. Modes were mad? from the customers' own materials, and the exhibits included coals, suits, afternoon and evening
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      -your lucky STAR
      192 2 Fortune forecast for people born today VOl" are ambitious to succeed but aie rather too easily discouraged. You have a magnetic personality that draws people to you. attracting excellent opi>ort unities for advancement However, you do not always make the best possible use of the opportunities offered
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      A Prince's day out
      59 2 Ta the Fun lair at Olympia m London went Prince Edward, son of the Duchess «»f K^n» »h his tutor he sampled the Thriller iv?>. a'**i ihvn •Ie tliftd out the revolver snapshot case. And as no lunfair vi>it would be complete ithon? them Prince Kdward
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      THE OLD FOLK ARE LONELY
      365 2 MANY of the old people of Britain dread loneliness, feel they are a burden, and suffer from neglect and squalor. These facts are disclosed m a report, published recently, of an investigating committee appointed by the Nuffleld Foundation. Many of the urahappiest old folks are
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      LOVER'S JOKE
      296 2 ALL Bristol laughed last week over a lover's jok.\ which hoaxed the city all except young Leonard Lovell. Tne hoax began with an announcement of the romance of Mile. Pearl Excell. described as the daughter of the Countess of Le Havre, with Mr. Leonard Lovell travelling cinema opda
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      91 2 THE HALL FOR QUALITY SOIMD PROJECTS J/o L 9<4^^x OPENS TO-DAY! GARY COOPER girl-shy LORETTA YOUKG HE m kKO's MIGHTY I HHtr^^ X *^i Vv i jXgr sin Bl mm: \li thick of »M»^' iM] til sugared with Ag^^aH& i TOMORROW'S Great I ?emierc HAILED AS ONE OF IBS BIG
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      350 2 RADIO ftUU*AYA SSLTSTTft peT second (41 metrt 815 P m New headlines: 818 pm Sinnnrinro Md S0 pfn clo > dovD Musical memories; 8.30 pm Friday Singapore l™^ g C7ilts w second (61 metr< p rom 930 p-«- 9.45pm i*™ BED NLTWOKA (Chinese In4*a b n^_ by Dr. W. M.
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      282 2 Free Presli Crossword n^Z 1, Food for a long time «1 (6> 4, It influences everyday life what a criminal I 12. |*p j^l I shire sport 9 (6). 8. Some- HI |B^^^^r-~ what chubby creature (4». 1& II TDQ >.v, m 10, Adept a sound not° —^nßi^* -B i
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  • LEWADER PAGE
    • The Singapur Free Press
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        S'pore Will Not Surrender
        410 4 S' pore Will Not Surrender IF Sir Lionel Haworth had not formerly worked for the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, we should be tempted to include him among those Whitehall geoaraphers who can never be 'iui*e sure where on the map to lock for Singapore. Fir
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      THESE SINGAPORE PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      2034 4 r.NCING has reaiiy "caught on" m Singapore since the liberation, and two interesting personalities and probably the best dancing team ever to come to Singapore are Mrs. ELIZABETH E. LEE, and her husband, who is a doctor not long out of college m England. Mrs
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      QUIZ
      60 4 1. An L head:-d o\ J. wealth. tio::- of title o 2 I (a» "'We :r...- i 'shall al: <b< "Hie lai all over Eur< p < them HI I 3. "Thi> < tote the ?or The sol-.-) j globe )L Year all W dissolve. And. ttlu pageant fa^
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      GAINED £55,000: 'MEANS NOTHING '
      326 6 GAINED £55,000: 'MEANS NOTHING AFTER the London Stork Exchange closed recently, Mr. Alec Nathan, who used to be a New Zealand farmer, heard that m a week he had become nrhor hv HLIW. He was not excited. A year ago he retired from the c:Hurmans}...p of the I Joseph Nathan
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      36 6 i», -<s .1 s J heroiiie of ihe shannc* -iirliner disaster, who saved a oabv by throwing him out of an emergency exit just before the crash Although hurt. she insisted upon attending the the injured
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      VATICAN FOOD LOW
      27 6 A Papal Aid Mission, which acquired 71,000 tons of fooa, mainly grain, irom South America, ha.s lent all of it to the Italian Crovernmer.t
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      DOG'S RED NAILS
      28 6 DOG'S RED NA ILS Ir. Detroit Dolores McCros^eu who lost her dog. told the police they could identify i t by thp red polish on its toe nails
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      PARAGUAY PLOT
      23 6 A 30-day .state of siegf v. as ricclirtxl ir. Paraguay, following the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Morinicjo dictatorship
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      GIRLS LOSING THE POWER
      26 6 Dr. Lyru White, a girls' college professor, says American .vomen are losing their power over men because they ar? too expend v
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      120 6 I 0> -WAGON-A-FOKTNIGtIT railway service, serving families with no means *f ;:aiisport for their supplies and shopping m the tiny hamlet «»f Esk Valley, near U'hi'bv Vorks, may be discontinued by the I N.ER. If that is done and the track is taken up, the rilto* kits will be marooned
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      'Frogman' will attack whale
      223 6 'Frogman will attack whale IytESSED m a "frogman" suit. Dr. R. A. >I. Case, a young 1/ British scientist, is ffoing to swim out to attack a whale m the Antarctic. He will attack it with a long knife as. threshing violently, it surfaces for the la*t time after hay
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      HIGH-SPEED COURTSHIP
      114 6 "PERFECTLY respectable 1 girls story of meeting a stranger at a bus station on a "nice summer} 1 day"— then taking a walk with him brought thi.s comment from Mr. Justice Stable fit Newcastle -or. -Tyne Assizes "V one hadn't heard it m Itiia court, one wouldn't have
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      THE BELL TOLLS FOR THESE TWO LOVERS
      163 6 IN a recent speech at Danzig, the Poli>h Premier. Osobka-Morawski. de^xribed the War>aw in-urrecti«^ August, 1944.* as "the last romantic gestun-' *»f the P» He was wrong. The trial of Count Groch(l>ki and his i» ciates. just ended m Warsaw, produced another nwd
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      134 6 (Tel. 5281) i j«mllii" The Authentic Story of The Royal Canadian Navy Show ■BHO BRITISH NATIONAL FILMS |^Mr /C«^ (two*** *W»K CtMOfMMVr B Produced by LOUIS HJACKSOU S DtrcJedby ALFRED TRAYERS Dl T.buted Dy.... Shaw's Releasing Orxanis.'.t. MARK TWAIN'S Heart -Touching Story ADVENTURES oi TQM SAWYER" m TECHNICOLOR by I)nvid
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      32 6 JAINC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press hi Ma lava r..NO, i didn't f\ just dropped\ '-and he's given me A /can't talk any morf-\^ sS^^/S'Si-}. S^* Rl pSt& l v^dlve^ of^--
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      ILO MISSION TO STUDY MALAYA
      161 8 ILO MISSION TO STUDY MALAYA MONTREAL, Friday. AS official International Labour 1 Office il L.0.) mission will .yisit the Far East within the next pew weeks to complete and verily m reports compiled ;Jor the preparatory ILOs r *?ional Asiatic Conference to be held n \New Delhi m October Tr?ij>
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      48 8 Cyclists and pedestrians walking on the bed of the River Thames between TecidiiigH 0 Ml kl t<m an( irhmond where, as a result of repair work now m progress on the RichllVfflLiM mond weir, the .oar-mile stretch of river has been denuded of its water during the ebb
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      FRENCH CUT OFF IN HUE
      178 8 VIETNAM HONG KONG, Thurs. |>ADIO V e'.nam to-day said that Fer.ch troops mi n Hue. halfway between Hanoi and Saigon, ■were "tightly surrounded" by Vietnamc.'? troops who where tioldir.pr off French reinforcements from Tourane and Laos It was not s.nted how many French troops w;re
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      BRITAIN IS TOLD STRIKE FACTS'
      559 8 SINGAPORE was confused to-day by a statement on the «3 Municipal strike made m the House of Commons yesterday by the Colonial Secretary. Mr. A. Creech-Jones, m reply to a auestion. Mr. Creech-Jones said that on Dec. 21 seven unions under Indian leadership, representing a
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      £25,000 EARMARKED FOR SOVIET VISIT
      38 8 The Biit&h Government'^ expenditure on hospitality during 1947 will be increased by £25,000 to meet expenses connected with the visit of members of the Supreme Soviet who are expected m England m February.
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      NILE TO GENERATE POWER
      125 8 CAIRO, Thurs. THE British Thomson-Houston 1 Company m conjunction with the English Electric Export Trading Company had suomlrted the lowest lender— £7.ooo.ooo— when tenders for the Aswan'dam hydroelectric scheme were eneneo today. The scheme will provide cheap electricity for Egyptian industries. British, United States, Swiss, Swedish
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      BRITAIN WONT CHANGE DAKOTA LOADING
      247 8 BRITAIN WONT CHANGE DAKOTA LOADING LONDON, Thursday. T\AKOTA aircraft m Britain should continue to be operated V at 28,000 as the maximum permissible all-up weight, according to recommendations by the British Air Safety Board, announced by the Minister of Civil Aviation, Lord Nathan, m the House of Lords to-day. The
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      —CITY NEWSS'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      367 8 —CITY NEWSS'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib ocr ib. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 42 No. 1 R.S.S fob m bales. Feb 43 43 V* >'o. 2R.SS lob 111 bales Feb
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      AUNG SAN CALLED A DICTATOR
      236 8 RANGOON, Thurs THAKIN Khin Maung. the Secre- tary of Dobama < Burma for the BurmarLs) Party, today issued a rejoinder to U Aung San's statement to the Press m London yesterday that he "did not see any possible effect m Burma" of the dissension of
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      TO DEBATE GERMANY
      18 8 A debate on conditior.s m! Germany is to take place m the Commons next Wednesday
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      BRITAIN LOANS WARSHIP
      50 8 BRITAIN LOANS WARSHIP 1 nov. loaned t nava 13 foreig! 'i the pa. Th.t la 29.150 t i reign wa and bAi Among ito exoh^. r ers Ach. c Aix i fought th- mti tm* Spec m the bttttetf^ Plat? and their tmtm Leander— all to be soidiii during !947
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      Ships for Dominions
      64 8 The an ei.t a^r 1 14,000-ton light fleet carr?J niflcent will oe I Canadiar. tkom raw* t^W ready has %t|J ficems tteto Transfers to the doJ government a:- AustriJ^ c.niLser and :;ve fam Canada thej two cruisers eight dettrgm Btcfcttai; s<« ZitiMTl criusev and two corwtH J
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      'FOOD POSITION IN INDIA WORSE THAN IN 1946'
      197 8 nD WASHINGTON, Thurs. jjK. 11AO. food adviser to the Indian Embassy and Indian delegate to the International Emergency Food Council, told the Council today: "India U finding nerself now m a food position worse than m 1946." He added: "Our wheat stocks
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      RUSSIAN OIL OUTPUT
      34 8 RUSSIAN OIL OUTPU T Oil industries m Eastern Russia reached their output target m the first year of the Five Year Plan, but this year must ircreaso or.tßut to twice that of 194 C.
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      ROYAL BAGGAGE GOES ABOARD
      154 8 ROYAL BAGGAGE GOES ABO ARD LONDON. T>... POURTEEN tool of baggage— seven truck;, ~gs. c I 400 pieces of personal luggage of the R were showed aboard the battleship, HMS toil preparation for the departure of King G Qi and the two Princesses for South Africa. The warship, sailing on
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      POLICE GUM V2 ROCKET
      59 8 POLICE GUM V 2 ROCKET HOCKYARD p ttee I George F\:.n Dock a«i keeping v eyi a four-tot foot long G« rocket mbttt ki to be lotto Monday a! r the^l vessel Kararr.r. for shipo« Australia i^ i tfatl The British of* s?ys the rock' headquar- -ranft' pons Orca' ;.:C'
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      53 8 WRESTLING n r iST TOMORROW >•** GREAT WORLD MB f^ggj SENSATION AI PLBLIC D^ WINNER -TAKE- A I.L «L,^ STAN GARSIDI 16 V i t Jl A son or konc (Rl I^l i Wl IITLI STAN GAJtSIDE >B^ -IMI^ illßl^^^ jim corbi r IIN BOOKINGS: (HOLDER TEL. 4498 I HERMAN
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      90 8 WEATHER Isolated Showers WEATHER report for 24 hours from nocn today compiled by the R.A.F. Central Forecasting Station, Air Command, Far-East Fair, with isolated showers m the afternoon. Fine tonight, fair tomorrow morning. Wind: Light, north -north -east. Sunset 6.51 p.m. Sunrise 6.44 a.m. Moonrise 1.34 p.m. Moonset 1.55 a.m.
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