The Singapore Free Press, 6 February 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1947. PRH t 10 CENTS.
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    72 1 Dj r »Jun another r t, r \*.i>> 1)..1..'ti. \irryI pjv P?ers, tttrike i JHSt t bbj uk;n£ %t3. Th acc«»<*nt Mi place in the thirJ Jaruury. I! d. iaclfddiavc iptain of the Sp'iner Ted Sp nr-r». five WCflfJ .r.J m reported i r^jl* oi thi-. r ;sh I h.
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    THI TEST ENGLAND DECLARE: 340 FOR 8
    66 1 THI TEST ENGLAND DECLARE: 340 FOR 8 I ickgnm.:ig Engtoday. a tactics fcTay from taking ir.d :our\s and over icore uo ;o 300 by that Ensland als j Evans rcord a-felt t ed the •*d greeted tii>i am pit atofa :.a. Mm board ?ivmg ammo', h j. b of *11
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    Lunch Score
    47 1 BXaV-lg] I\Ns 46 4, »MR\in_, M INS. m INT.! \\D— ;m, nn> tews- Lind aJ^Bradnun b Tosfaack r^M t LuadvaU b Toshatk IrSE" ul Ml fr*^* Tashack 9 J2? f 5«" LaaßjaJ u n **4 cut J i Extras i; ""•Ul (for g «kls Sit
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    SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
    51 1 SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT o:: Unei Antenor, **^hed at Liverpool >oday passed the battleg the King sses to South 'cent but none rsonnel so from the Far ase knew o rught ard and *as dashed who repUed company and °1 the royal 1 w f o:.: to ribugn
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    Governor appeals to Strikers
    276 1 Governor appeals to Strikers THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Ginison, referring 1 to strikes in Singapore, said in the Advisory Council this morning:. "I ask the leaders of all th e Trades Unions whether in the interests of the public the time has not come when they should go
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    FIREMEN TO GO BACK
    154 1 Fre° Press Staff Reporter. CINGAPORE Fire Brigade strikers have sent a letter to Mr. L. Rayman. President of the Municipal Commissioners, saying that they will reluin to work. The letter, which was written after two-hour meeting this morning, states: During the cours*" of our strike, the
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    MONSTER EGG
    25 1 A hen at Haipe oden, Herts, has laid an egg measuring six and half inches t*. e:e,h end a naif inches, repons Reuter.
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    ALEXANDER IN U.S.
    26 1 The Governor-General of Canada. F.^ld Marshal Lord Alexander, and Lacy Alexander, are in Washington as gi'< sts ot President Truman and Mrs. Truman.
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    BRITAIN REFORMS DIVORCE LAWS
    235 1 LONDON, Wednesday. A STATE SPONSORED "Marriage Welfare Service" to help those about to marry and those in trouble after marriage is suggested in a White Paper, representing the final report of a committee, presided over by Mr. Justice William Denning and including four women, whose interim
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    Bayonets out in Calcutta
    82 1 FLYING squads of police patrolled Calcutta yesterday with fixed bayonets as workers staged a one-day general strike as a protest against police firing on students who demonstrated in support of Vietnam. Over 30,000 labourers left work at the docks, but one ship carrying barley was unloaded.
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    MP ATTACKS S'PORE MUNICIPALITY
    404 1 MP ATTACKS S'PORE MUNICIPALITY LONDON, Wednesday. ANSWERING an attack by Mr. D. N. Pritt (Lab., n Hammersmith) on the Singapore Municipal Constitution Committee, Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in the House of Commons today, said the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, had reported there were "no political
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    AQUITANIA TO TROOP EMIGRANTS
    94 1 SYDNEY, Wed. NEGOTIATIONS for chartering the liner Aquitania to bring British emigrants to Australia have been virtually completed with the Cunard Line, the Minister of Immigration Mr. Arthur Calwell, said in a press statement today. The ship would be available to sail on its first voyage
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    STRIKERS SPEND $2,000 ON RICE
    64 1 Free Press Reporter Mr. Sundaraju, leader of (be Singapore Municipal strikers told me this morning that he had spent $2,000 to buy 7,000 katies o: rice for distribution to the six Iters' families. A letter has been sent to the Commissioner of Police naming ten
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    SIAM MISSION TOURS U.S.A.
    42 1 THE Siamese Military Mission headed by Major Gen. Kycmayothin left for Fort Bennin?, Georgia, on the first leg of its one-month tour during which they will visit numerous military installations throughout the United States, says U.P. from Washington.
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    JEWS EVICTED
    65 1 During the past 48 hours some 1.500 Jews have been evicted from Jerusalem's four new "security areas" to make room for troops, police and British civil servants, a Jewish source said yesterday. He added that they had not been offered alternative accommodation. Thirty-one evacuees from Palestine, at present
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    REWARD OFFER
    45 1 Singapore police are offering a reward to anybody who can give any information leading to the arrest of the two Chines who were ssen on Tuesday night leaving the taxi in Siglap Road, in which the driver was found with his throat cu*
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    FOOD FOR JAPAN
    18 1 The United States and Hong Kong exported 51,778,000 tons cf food to Japan during January.
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    RICH GOLD FIND IN SOUTH AFRICA
    206 1 ANOTHER great gold stride yielding 95 ounres to the ton in a Gedula borehole on the borders of the Bllnkpoort and Western Holdings ***as announced in Johannesburg yesterday. The find is 4,000 feet south-east of the rim strike of last year Although the news
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    BLIZZARD HALTS UK COAL
    244 1 LONDON. Wednesday. A GRIM official warning that the second spell of intense cold in Britain coming on top of the longest freeze-up for 30 years has made the coal position worse than ever before was issued today by the Ministry of Fuel and Power. Ships laden
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    LUMBERMEN STRIKE
    43 1 More than 300 workers of trc j Philippines Insular Lumber Con-- pany. largest hardwood mill :> i the world on Negros Island, wen: on strike yesterday for a 50 percent increase over the pxeeen U.S. $1.10 per day miriimuu wage, reports AP
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    10 COLONIES DON'T PAY INCOME TAX
    212 1 LONDON, Wed. DAYMEN! of income tax in Bri- ash dependent territories including the Malayan Union and Singapore was referred to st question time in the House of Commons t:day when Mr. Reginald Soretisen, (Lab., Leytoa>, asked: 'In which Br.tish dependent territories is no income
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      12 1 I ETERNITY RINGS ."i V i jafrn i o j. iLVA i
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    CLEVER YOUNG PEOPLE
    35 2 L^ujfJS I •J I I I I She sr.. I I 1 paopl Da phi educ for M grow: ren thin!:- i big c st hrot* re i A I S i
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    PLANTER'S RETURN TO GUADALCANAL
    985 2 PROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT PLANTER CIIII returned last year in the small steamer Sou'hrm Cross to h\< r/pra plantation of Kolomat:a.na, on the coast of wax scarred Guadalcanal. This storv of his homecoming is tofd by Clift himself in Ift en he wrote to his family
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    242 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for peoplo born today nORN today, you have been given great natural ability and must always stick to your convictions, no matter how bitter the opposition. You have the gift of the written word and are best, perhaps, in poetic expression. You would also do
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    The Lady Admiral's Hat
    34 2 her first mJl.nerv pj.id reccnti- Princ-ss Ell/abt-.'. I.w a uide selection of desitrns. The one shown is a revival called the "I^idy Admiral's Hat', guaranteed to be popular With exWrens.
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    EDUCATION IS VITAL
    386 2 ADDRESSING the Ass elation of Assistant Ita t; rs in Britain recently, Mr. D. R. Hardman, Faihamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, taid: •We live on the threshold of new age. Ir. material things, p ople who used to go without are now getting their fa.r
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      60 3 laTaC t'»iik !»''ip **>aa*BßHl| (4»j4 -CuS;. <.aif)*ng a CRaTge lo >«>.-i-»--ampton, aground on a rocky ledg e of the coast known as the 'Needles Bridge* near the Needles lighthouse Attempts by tugs to tow the vessel off the rock failed and. after the crew were taken ashore, the shin began
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      MEW ARTHRITIS 'CURE'
      567 3 Big advance made under I new treatment AN almost world-wide interest has been aroused 11 by the new treatment for arthritis developed after many years of experiment by a team of doctors at Sunderland Royal Infirmary. Since the first references to the treatment and its remarkable success
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      UK LEADS IN SHIP BUILDING
      50 3 UK LEADS IN SHIP BUILDING :e pronalf the nd ton: end of o^en ex- .j by Li regarding ider con D aide: Britain and of hand com luarter. 1.937.06-2 d is als th J he end of baa not b 1922 w Russia. enemy sta'es. gross .if ne built ind.
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      KING'S STAMPS FOR NEW YORK
      42 3 KING'S STAMPS F OR NEW YORK Tinvred to amp col v internaon to be May it has ae aade hia ae of only. It this choice will country in aas wer> firs'--uited te I The tare, choose n Wilson. K Si aps
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      COUPLE 'LOST' CASE OF JEWELS
      191 3 FRENCH and British military and civilian police are search, ing France and North Africa for ex-Squadron-Leader Henry Victor Ward and Madame Petit, of Quimperle, Britanny. who early last month embarked at Bordeaux for Morocco, leaving behind £12,000 jewels in a suitcase. Scotland Yard is being
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      Champ after new titles
      44 3 LjARBARA ANN SCOTT, 18 year-old amateur woman skating champion of North America, who is taking; part in the European championships in Switzerland. From ther e she is going to Sweden for the worldtitH meeting. Barbara is accompanied by her mother.
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      LAST SQUIRE Of KIDMORE END
      258 3 ONI/i one neighbour and solicitors attended the funeral of the last of the Squires of Kidmore End. His death ends a 400-year-old family and starts a search for the relative likely to get the bulk of a i'lo.ooo fortune. Squ re Ernest Brignam-Vander-stegen died within
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      PASSED STUDIES IN HOSPITAL
      43 3 Sixteen-year-old Jean Ficeborough, grammar schooigiri •rippled with a spinal disease, s r ud'ed for several months i n a Nottingham hosoital. Now she has been told You have passed the School Certificate examination with credits in all seven subjects.
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      LOST-ONE FIRE-ENGINE
      102 3 LOST -ONE FIRE-ENGINE THE d.sappearance of the village fire-engine from the Susstx village of Angmering is the biggest topic of conversation there sincj King Alfred the Great mentionrd the village in his will. For six months the parish has sought in vain t'-r the missing fire-engine but nobody can say
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      ROBBER-COOK SHOT
      124 3 I WOMAN found shot dead with her face burned with acid **i was said by Milan police to have stolen £7.000 worth of jewels and furs from an En^Vh baroness. She is 36-year-old Eva Macciacchini. She led a double life cook to the baroness and owner of a
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      LOST BRIEF FOUND
      45 3 Papers forming part of a briel which disappeared from the room of Sir Valentine Holmes K C Eorii h r? W i as staying a t Royal HQtel. Deal, on Jan. 2. have been lound in a churchyard not iafrom the hotel
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      IRON KEEPS VILLAGERS FIT
      129 3 IRON in the water at Farnham. Surrey wreaks havoc with domestic tanks, but makes old folk live to a century for the village was several centenarians and plenty of people over 90. resigned as architect for the I new Coventry Cathedral, after J b's plans hpd
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      600 queued for flat
      101 3 AN advertisement offering "small flat with bath-room to let no objection to children'' started a traffic jam in Pittsburgh. Before 9 a.m. a queue had formed and by the time the advertiser, Miss Margaret Garett, arrived it had grown to GOO. Buses were diverted to take
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      JAPAN IS SHORT OF STEEL
      220 3 JAPAN IS SHORT OF STEEL NEARLY two and a half million metric tons of recoverable scrap iron and steel still remain in Japan, and this figure gathered by Japanese sources is considered by experts at General MacArthur s Headquarters to be a low esti mate. Metallurgists point out tha A
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      TO ACT IN FILM OF HIS ESCAPE
      104 3 STANLEY THURSTON, who escaped from Dartmoor in 1911 and wa s at large for 152 days, is to appear as himself in a British film of his life story It is beinr made by Exch si v e Thurston now leading an honest
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      4LL CANTEEN MEALS TO COST 8 CTS
      148 5 4LL CANTEEN MEALS TO COST 8 CTS S'pore improves feeding plan Free Press Staff Reporter the Malayan Union beaten in nof cheap meals for the millions. While -in-Charge of Public Restaurants the price ef meals in communal feeding sula will be increased due to the rice and sugar, the remaining
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      TOWN MAY BE SET ON FIRE
      38 5 iident BANGKOK. Wed. Bangkok experts .rf have just in time to ."break of plu- the southad has spread to Special Comn by r rave already LJDT I I icr.e for )f the
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      INDONESIANS USE SMUGGLED ARMS
      228 5 NETHER] .AMDS Army intelligence officers say that bootleg y American weapons from the Philippines and Morotai I have been smuggled across ihe South Seas lito the arsenals of Indonesian nationalists. An Indonesian official, howewr says very few weapons of che Nationalists are American- I made, though
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      BURN IT!
      20 5 -"-I the a«tho! ave appealed to ihe safeguard the n t» burni2_. UI I d tenhivInd he Nr,.
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      HIGH MASS FROM TOMORROW
      67 5 THE titular feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. which will be celebrated in Singapore on Feb. 16, will be preceded by a novena commencing from tomorrow Huh Mass will be sung daily et 630 a.m.. and at 6 p.m. there will be prayers and benediction. The
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      104 5 Oil drums placed in a line in the centre of the road in front of the Orchard Road Market in Singapore are constantly being knock down by motor vehicles, indicating the need for greater traffic control at this point. Duron? the peak hours in the morning, at lunch time and
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      5 JAPS HANGED AT RABAUL
      39 5 The Australian occupation au thorities announced today that five JaDanese war criminals havcbeen handed in Rabaul. New Britain, for committing murder and atrocities agams* the Island! people and Ind. an war prisoners U. P.
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      INSURED POST SERVICES
      128 5 "THE insured letter, box and parcel post services have now been extended to Ceylon. Eire, Hoog Kong. India. Sarawak, the United Kingdom and a number of places served via London. The maximum amount for which such articles may be insured varies according to the country of destination.
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      DALFORCE LEADER RETURNS
      52 5 DALFORCE LEADER RETURNS picture. Lieut. Col. I. 1) Ilalley, head of Dalforce, a group of Chinese volunteers formed at the last-minute to fight the Japanese, is pictured on board the Empress of Australia on his return from England yesterday. To welcome him back are some of his former Dalforce comrades.
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      PALEMBANG CHINESE ARE HOMELESS
      312 5 PALEMBANG CHINESE ARE HOMELESS By OSCAR FERNANDEZ, Free Press Staff Reporter PALEMBANG, Wednesday. r r f WO thousand one hundred homeless Chinese (men, 1 women and children) are at present being cared for by the Chinese Overseas Federation, Ihe Chinese Red Cross and the Chinese Security Corps. Although the food
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      CITIZENSHIP WON'T AFFECT CHINESE
      631 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CHINESE and Indians in Malaya can be Federal citizens as well as nationals of China and India. This is made clear in an official statement, issued from Kuala Lumpur, which points out that nationality and Federal citizenship are distinctly different. Federal citizenship
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      They can't agree on boundaries
      180 5 AMERICAN and British delegations round themselves at odds over the boundaries of South Pacific regional air navigation area during a conference of the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization in Melbourne on Wednesday. Dennis Peel, leader of the British delegation, said the area which PICAO j
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      CIVILIANS MORE TO BLAME
      59 5 {N the tourth quarter of 1946. the Services were responsible for fewer fatal accidents in the Malayan Union than the civilians, according to the latest statistics. There were 12 deaths involving Services vehicles, and 14 involving civilian cars. Accidents of a more or les:serious nature totalled
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      DUTCH NEI STAY 'JUSTIFIED'
      104 5 COUNDING a new conciliatory note on the subject of; Dutch troops remaining in Indo- nesia, the Republican daily "Soeara Oemoem" in an editorial: said the presence of such troops 1 in Indonesia was some times justified as necessary to guarantee foreign interests in the country. Because
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      ADRIFT 15 DAYS
      80 5 TWELVE islanders including three women and a boy, of Kadamat. one of the islands of the Laccadive group 200 miles west of Mimgalore, on the southwest coast of India, were rescued by fishermen after being adrift in a small boat in the Arabian Sea for 15 days.
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      MAIL SERVICE
      34 5 The registered letter service between Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies has been resumed. The service is, however, restricted to certain places for the present. Details are available from any Post Office.
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      UNDER 2 FLAGS
      131 5 FIVE admirals, including Vis- 1 count Mountbatten of Burma, former C-in-C. South- 1 Fast Asa. will serve under two flags when they become pupils j at the Royal Naval and Royal Air Force Joint Anti -Submarine Training School at the Royal j Naval Barracks, Londonderry, The scrool
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      ASIATIC BACK-PAY
      91 5 IN the House of Commons yesler--1 day. Mr. D. N. Pritt <Lao.. Hammersmith) asked why was, Asiatic employees of Singapore and Malayan L*:.:on while European employees similar cir:umstances received three and a half years" b-jek-pay in full in cash Mr Creech -Jones replied: No fin n decision on
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      Colours Laid Up In Church
      65 6 Colours of the Ist battalion. London Scottish, which, like the ::id and 3rd battalions, has been plac 2d in suspended animation pending the reconstruction of *he Territorial Army, have been placed in safe keeping in St. Columba's Church in London. Here is the Rev. R.
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      ANNOUNCER IN GRANITE TOMB
      429 6 Marooned 29 days 8.8.C. commentator Edward Ward stepped ashore at St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, after 29 days on the Bishop Rock lighthouse. "That," he said as he looked out to sea, ''was my first visit to lighthouse and my last." With him was engineer Charles Cocmbs.
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      GERMANS SMUGGLED IN WOOD BOX
      250 6 GERMANS SMUGGLED IN WOOD BOX London girl student aids PoWs TWO German prisoners who escaped from a camp at Bury, Lancashire, were caught in France after being smuggled from Dover in a wooden box. They said that a girl student from London hid them in a packing case and put
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      PARSON IS HELD FOR BIGAMY
      260 6 PARSON IS HELD FOR BIGAMY \IfITH the woman he is alleged to have married bigamousiv, the Rev. Robert Michael Parkins 28-year-old London clergyman, was removed from a hotel in the mountain resort of Riffelberg. He had been arrested there on an embezzlement charge. Accompanied by a detective they left by
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      GIRL DIES IN BID TO SAVE BROTHERS
      158 6 GIRL DIES IN BID TO SAVE BROTHERS THIRTEEN YEAR OLD Pattricia Baldwin, of Askern. a miring villape near Doncaster. died with her two brothers and two sisters fan a fire at their home into which she had rushed in a vain effort to rescue them. Her charred body was found
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      MARKET 'SIGNAL'
      25 6 A secret signal among Aylesbury (Bucks) market stall-holders warns that Board of Trade inspectors are about. Mr. E. Olsscn barrister, told Aylesbury magistrates.
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      ENGINEER SAVES SHIP IN STORM
      136 6 ENGINEER SAVES SHIP IN STORM pRAWLING across the red hot furnace to patch up leaking boiler tubes, chief engineer J. R. Jones, of Milford Haven, saved I the trawler Milford Prnce, drifting helplessly in a gale off th. 3 j South Irish coast. When the vessel reached Bere- I haven
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      CROWN STAYS PUT
      36 6 It was decided not. to take t_h^ Royal tour of South Africa. The King, when he opens th>* South African Parliament at Capetown on Feb. 21, wil! mos' nrobably wear white naval uni:orm
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      Doris is put in the shade
      76 6 THE ounce egg laid by Doris, new London Zoo emu, on her way across the Atlantic, has b.en put in the shade by the "mass-production' rifort of Edward and Emma, emus at Paignton (South Devon) Zoo Emma has laid six in one week three
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      JIMMY GETS HIS MELN
      99 6 JIMMY. a ntteen-month-oia black Labrador retriever and one of the six members of the new police dog patrol recently in troduced by London's Scotland Yard to help officers in the country districts of London, has ma-je his first arrest. While out on patrol witn a police
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      BROWNING PLAQUE
      24 6 A memorial plaque to poet Robert Browning was unveiled on the wall of the Camberwell house where he lived for 28 years.
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      Red Indians claim province
      93 6 JJRITISH Columbia Indians have served notice that they are reclaiming the province and planning to make white men "Wards of the State." Chief William Scow, head of the West Coast Indians, issued an official proclamation declaring that the Government, which has not seen fit to grant
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      JAP WOMEN TAKE TO POLITICS
      194 6 JAPANESE women, whose place for centuries past has been in the home, are now paying much more attention to politics and intend to make their voice heard in the future government of their country. A woman civil official connected with Gen. MacArthur i Headquarters has
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      Fell in love so easily
      73 6 MRS. ANN ELLIOTT. 27. told a Chicago Court that her husband Fred, 3t>. fell in love at slightest provocation. But Fred said his present girl wa-« "the real thing I think." Judge L. Reid said "Halt ing love is a tough job. but I can
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      GOAT IS FRIEND OF RACEHORSE
      76 6 DACK in England is a racehoise with an incentive to win. H>is Oxonian owned by Mr. S. S. Vart, of Barnard Castle (Co. Durham) and he runs fast because he wants to get home and join his bosom friend— a goat. The Northern Area Traffic
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      HAMESUCKEN
      28 6 "Hamesuckcn," an offence under old Scottish taw. was charged against Charles Stewart, jailed for 60 days at Glasgow for breaking into a house and assaulting the occupier.
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      BARBARA STANWYCK
      40 6 Barbara Stanwyck's next picture will be "Cattle Kate,'' the film biography of a noted feminine figure in the early days of the Western United States. Miss Stanwyck's latest role is in the film "The Other Love." savs A.P.
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      ŧ1 BUYS SAFE
      45 6 You could have bought a locked safe, contents unknown, tor £1 in Guernsey. Safes left by the Germans were sold by auction, but the customers had to find their own safebreakers because the Germans, leaving in a hurry, had taken th? keys.
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      VIKING COME-BACK
      39 6 The British 24-seater Viking I air liner, withdrawn by British European Airways from their j Continental routes early las. j month through icing trouble, will it is hoped, be back in the servicp i early in March
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      JUNGLE BAND MAY TOUR UK
      129 6 JUNGLE BAND MA Y TOUR UK 90 wives stay behind LEAVING their ninety wives behind, tUrtj oath* from the Gold Coast are to tour Brit overtures, operatic selections, solos and their _J?_fc Life Dance," which produces mass-h\ bandsmen cling to only one tribal cu<*.»n e riwht man to have two
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      OPPOSE 50-MILE BOMB RANGE
      92 6 A PROPOSAL to extend the R.A.F. permanent bombing range between Filey and Flam- borough Head, over 50 miles of the Yorkshire coast, which would I stop pleasure boating and flshini there, is to be opposed by Brid lington and Flamborough fishermen. Mr. J. Newby, chairman of
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      'BREAK – NECK' RACE
      30 6 'BREAK NECK' RACE Albert Jackson, of Stroud-road. Shirley. Birmingham. 24-year-old member of the Tiger Stevenson speedway training school, smashed into a fence and broke his neck at Bristol speedway track.
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      The The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 6, 1947. Controls Wanted
      661 4 The The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 6, 1947. Controls Wanted SINGAPORE Is not a. one In South Bast Asia n territories seriously in need of more houses Cey.on. too. is grossly overcrowded, but uniike Singapore Ceylon proposes to do something about it. A housing programme to cost $30,000,000 throughout
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      The Markets Of Old London
      1047 4 The Markets Of Old London If you ever pay a visit to Britain? you are sure to want to see BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT FOCAL point for visitors from all over the world to Britain are London's markets. Most markets, especially tho.se dealing in foodstuffs, today lack some of the
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      QUIZ
      64 4 I 1 Cr.n you name three of what j are th? five brightest fixed ■tars? 2. Japan is a densely populated I country having five cities with I B million or more inhabitants. Can you name three of them?! 3. Who was the first President of the USA to
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      46 4 It is in this gracious-looking house tiroote Schuur.' Rondt bost h. nation by Cecil Rhodes, and is the residence of the Prime Ministe r ment in Capetown, that Their Majesties the King ami Queen an d i Princees Margaret will stav during th«i- visit to < n
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      492 4 DECFNTLY repoiled to oe reu ceiving public assistance, EX-CORPORAL HARRY MCHOLI.S the Nottingham V.C lias accepted the offer of a job ir. Southern Rhodesia. Wher. his plight became known iie received many oilers of work, including the one ho has accepted irom CAPTAIN TFD SPENCER, of Spencer's
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      JAPAN RESISTS CHANGES
      327 4 INITIAL Allied efforts to apathy ami strong resistance changes to Japan's staunchly conservative rural areas havi> encountered public apathy and strong resistance by entrenched power. This first test came on the all-impoitant agrarian reform programme. Little interest was shown by the persons it. was designed specifically to
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      THE LIQUID THAT FLOWS UP
      520 4 EVERYONE who has balanced a full cup of tea on his kne;* knows that the liquid is likely to slop over into ihe saucer. Equallv confidently he knows that it is not likely to slop back into the cup. Such a sight would probably drive
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      PET EAGLE
      63 4 A N ing i h of t tC B Corporal on. He ii ''Mr. Ramsh. n:d bv C n C I Knight Mr .aearlv part eve*- du he war -hip th torpedoed or. home fi the order shin, th Gap'&ni K up bv ed to h loss B
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      FAITH
      10 4 Let not him ceivcd taw** it ran.!- shall pom
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      198 6 /S_**_j^* o^|*gog_*_j-_-*B-*g^*j_*__ar^ r -^B \mmmma\\\W 11am 2 p m 1 pbj i ,^^^T 3^ TEL. 4- Q4- 2. Q I R COnpITIQnED. The SENSATIONAL BROADWAY STAGE HIT Now Conies to the Screen ■M tne M Cherry Blonde 9 h fm TC (f ___-i**Wß*a» r r io« you« f «si j*;
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      42 6 QUIZ Answers 1 The brightest stars (in order of thnir apparent brigntneas) are: Hi Sirius: <2) Canopy. <3» Vega; (4) C3per.a- (5) Arcturus. 2 Tokyo: Osaka: Naguya: Kvoto. Kobe. All five are situated on the principal Island Honchu. 3. Franklin Delano Rcosevlt.
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      101 6 J>AMC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava J I MUST STOP THlS^pra-ggj 1/wHILE YOU'RE X /ct RTAINLY IWV^N />-%\ I /fIO^IF fi itf/^V (WRETCHED KNEE T^gfe f ABOUT IT, COULD MADAM —J %'> f FAurv Lr-xLr /mwcA f BLEEDING BEFORE **f^ YOU KINDLY GET V V*_j _sTa t**^V
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      ENGLANG FIGHTS FOR TIME NOW
      1025 7 nj l! Bowes Reports On The Test ADELAIDE, Wednesday. THE fourth Test match took a dramatic turn today. England are in danger of defeat for, with two wickets in hand, a day to play, England are only 247 runs ahead. At lunchtime the position was
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      CLUB-SERVICES IN CHALLENGE MATCH
      193 7 :.b ul Tne RAF., Sdetar Cub "day I It win fi th: South *.o furhoufder he injured in the Army y R A F .-.1 yd COmea ;\v r a particularly good display n H M.S. •'Sultan*' defeated v. sr Yorks on Monday M 5 Hall
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      Scoreboard
      104 7 ENGLAND IST INNS. 460 AUSTRALIA— IST INNS 487 ENGLAND 2ND *TNNS. Washbrock c Tallon b LindwaU 39 Hutton b Johnson 76 Edrich r Bradman b Toshack i Hammond c Lindwall b Toshack 22 lkin low b Toshack 1 Compton not out 52 Hardstaff b Toshack 9 Yardley t Tallon
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      HOME SOCCER RESULTS
      40 7 The following were the results of the football matches played 1 today: First Division: Derby County versus Arsenal postponed; Manchester Unned 1, Stoke 1. Second Division: Bradford; versus Manchester City post- poned: Southampton 5, Coventry! 2.— Reuter.
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      INTERNATIONAL GOLF
      32 7 After their home international matches and the championship at Gullane early in June, a British side of women goiters will travel to St. Cloud to meet France on June 29.
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      YORKS BEAT SELETAR 3-0
      335 7 trom EL N. Hanmer WITH a try scored 15 minutes after the start, the West n Yorks Rugby XV beat Seletar R.A.F* i'hree-nil at Seletar yesterday. There was an over-emphasis on forward play and this, together with frequent infringements, tended a little to spoil what could
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      PENANG STAKES RAISED
      201 7 PENANG STAKES RAISED STAKES tM the "Governor Genera] Cup" lace to be run at the next Penang Turi Club meeting on March 8 and 15 have been inci eased to attract all the be>t horses in the country. TTe race was originally scheduled for the last Christmas and New Year
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      8 DROP OUT OF GRAND NATIONAL
      140 7 8 DROP OUT OF GRAND NATIONAL LONDON. Wed. "JUHE;: the first acceptances lor the Grand National running at Aintree. Liverpool, on March '26 were announced today, it wa_ found that only eight comparatively uiifanc ed horses had been taken out. Among them was Volauvent Platypus. Royal Cottage, and Jock. f__sson,
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      ARMY IGNORE RUGBY UNION ORDER
      582 7 ARMY IGNORE RUGBY UNION ORDER MOM CcORCE CHISHOLM IT'S Rugby talk to stun off today and it concerns Sgt. John Gregory, AfTC, attached RAMC, stationed _t Cftti terick, who has made history by being the first perse, n to* i have a suspen<icn by the Ru*?by Union revised. The I
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      18 7 Big man on the engine here is none other than railway mechanic and British heavyweight champion Bruce Woodcock
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      ST. ANDREWS' O.B.A.
      42 7 ST. ANDREWS' O.B. A. There will be a meeting of the St. Andrew's Old Boys' Cricket "ection tomorrow at the Scout Headquarters, Stamford Road at 5.00 p.m. Arrangements for the forthcoming season will be discussed and all members are invited to attend.
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    34 8 It is snowing again in England according to the latest reports. This is what Edenbridge, Kent, looks like under its beautifying mantle of snow; but brr you need plenty of warm clothes there.
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    New York stocks
    83 8 T— al New York Stock Exchange yesterday was still slightly lower on balance, but successfully retained equlibrium In the face of steady profittaking Motors and leading textiles were verv prominent among the advancers. The recently increased General Motors dividend is still causing rr satisfaction particularly as an
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    CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    312 8 CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 1 1 a.m today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per lb per lb. Tone of Market: Steady, quiet. Average buyer's price for No. 1 Ribbed Smoked Sheet Spot Loose for Januarv: 41.54 cents
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    Sterling balances
    54 8 '2*HE British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dr. Hugh Dalton. has assured the Secretary to the United States Treasury. Mr. John Snyder, that Britain will refrain from Including in any future bl-lateral agreements clauses Umiting the other country's right freely to dispose of sterling balances. Mr. Snyder disclosed in
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    China $ slumps
    50 8 China slumps THE Chinese currency, weakening: steadily over the past few weeks, ragged to a new record low value in r>hanghai ves;*-7dav with one U.S. dollar fetching CN $9,200. Pvk- s in most cases rose correspondIngl" 50 possessors of U.S. currency enjoved practicallv no advantage from the 'ump. a**US AP
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    OPEN KIEL CANAL
    47 8 The Danish Government y^s- terday submitted a memorandum to the Council of Foreign Minister.s Deputies in London advocating th^ inter-nationalizmg of the Kipl Canal in Ccneswig Holstein aud urging that it be Kept open at all times to ships of all nations. 6a*r« U.P.
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    KL TO GET MODEL COLONY
    430 8 KL TO GET MODEL COLONY tN the House of Commons yes- j terday, Lieut -Col. Rees- j [Williams, Labour. asked Mr.' i Arthur Creech-Jones, Secretary of i State for the Colonies, whether he I j was aware of housing conditions under which workers were living :n Kuala Lumpur, and what
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    WOMAN TROUBLE
    46 8 The United States Army authorities in Frankfurt, refusing to "reward immorality and penalize those who practice continence" i ruled yesterday that marriage rules for soldiers in love with frauleins will not be relaxed to i give an unborn child a name, rei ports U.P.
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    Delay in India compensation
    370 8 LONDON, Wednesday. LORD Pet hick Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, re- gretted in the House of Lords today that he could not yet make any statement on compensation for members of j the Indian services when their appointments are terminated j as a result of
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    WAYS TO ENFORCE UUMAiS RIGHTS
    188 8 LAKE SUCCESS, Wed. THREE proposals have been made in the United Nations Human Rights Commission oil the method jof implementing and enforcing the international hill :>f human rights. India wants international I convention enforceable by the Security Council, Australia favours the creation of a special
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    BURMA FREE IN A YEAR SAYS AUNG SAN
    383 8 RANGOON, Wednesday. •'T WANT Burma, once she is free, to be a real and sincere 1 friend of Britain", declared Aung San, the Burmese leader in a broadcast to-night. H e appealed to his compatriots to accept the British Governments White Paper
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    BRAINS AT WORK
    103 8 BRAINS AT WORK One ot the mast *taaaT__ post-war inventions m g^JJ It the Electronic Bram tu it iv claim 'd. <an v. h f problems there w J po*s;bilitie. t»r thi, TUc^m Brair., and uves for it w SM present bene explored AW Amour the radio etarajaj taking i
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    Boatmen let 137 drown
    72 8 Hong Kong, Wed AN old Chinese superstition is advanced as a possible reason for the large death-roll in the Sai On River boat fire, from which 13? bodies have so far been recovered. Tradition has it that any Chinese who saves the life of another is
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    CHINA BONUS SCHEME TO BOOSTTRADE
    248 8 CHINA BONUS SCHEME TO BOOST TRADE NANKING. Wed. PREMIER T. V. Soong today announced that the Chinese Government is granting 100 per cent bonus to Chinese exporters in an effort to give immediate stimulus to the nation's faltering foreign trade. The subsidy, he said, would be financed through an ad
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    GERMANY: UK RULE 'WRONG'
    286 8 LONDON, Wednesday. r[£ charge that the British Government was making in Germany exactly the same kind of mistakes it was making in Britain looking to ideological, theoretical solutions instead of dealing with the immediate emergency as one ot urgency was made by th* Opposition in a
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    FOOD CHARGES AGAINST MAYOR
    128 8 THK Mayor ot Cheimsfcrd, Aldtr 1 man Arthur Walter Andrews, summoned by the Military ol Food at Chelmsford yesterday for alleged contravention of the to d regulation at a celebration Banquet alter his election, was sent f^r trial Charge with serving more than three dishes at
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    N.I. REPAT SOON
    42 8 The Republican Government has agreed to the repatriation of 11,000 East Indonesians— mainly Ambonese and Timorese as soon as evacuation Of Dutch nationals from the interior has been completed and the necessary transport becomes available reporls Reuter fr^m Batavia.
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    10 8 High Water To-day 0441 1159 To-morraw ©117 joj,,
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    INDIAN RIOTERS WIN APPEAL
    224 8 and theii therefore to rei High Court v consider U If the I there **.> e*rid4 this v> '.he other ha:. j-b_l that the a*, i not sufflc:tions they i whether b\ I«* jor by on m eht be LOMXA V\ r[E judicial committee Of the
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    ECONOMIC ADVISEE
    14 8 Mr. F.CC B Adviser to the Gois expeeve Saturday on I um
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    16 8 U. S. $10.000 'K EY MONEY' Th* svcrag second raU ment u B US$lO 000 AP
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      121 8 i WEATHER Cloudv with of showers KMHI.K report for 24 hours V* from noon today compiled by th« R.A.F. Central Forecasting Station, Air Command, Far-East Cloudy with occasional sho***ers this afternoon and evening. Fair tonight and tomorrow morning, with risk of showers towards midday. Wind, light north-east, becoming calm during
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