The Singapore Free Press, 21 February 1947

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    U.S. BID FOR AIR SPEED
    45 1 U.S. BID FOR AIR SPEED v recently unveiled their new "skystreak t ng Tesi Tube* aircraft at Douglas airdo Calif., U.S.A. The plane is scheduled -uns shortly. The craft is designed to probe the tran s- sonic speed range. 550 to 850 miles an hour.
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    'INDOCHINA PEACE SOON'
    54 1 I! ,n ruoii^- •'•> today th.:t :h' I IMMN have ndtrtd h in lad < h:na R an nrlier iHM t that I rrniii P i) at a that Indo«c >n ftf the i inflii t I f «r in th» r n1 at l fc- md
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    RECORD FROST IN U.K.
    13 1 RECORD FROST IN U.K. record .d is «d for Ths a wilJ I
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    S'PORE PAF-NAVY EXERCISE STARTS
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    75 KILLED,-30 HURT IN BLAT
    67 1 75 KILLED,-30 HURT IN BLAT LCo AMQELES, Thursday. tbat 7d people were killed and more than *pl< sion that wrecked an electro- aree pnvate houses in Los Angeles today. i 9m damapred over an area cf a mile and i red MarI the four I X)tLoc heard s W!n--1 pe
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    VICEROY WAVELL DISMISSED
    1565 1 Churchill, Attlee in Commons uproar LONDON, Thursday. jTPROAR and many questions from Mr. Winston Churchill, Leader of the Opposition, greeted the announcement by Mr. Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons today that FieldMarshal Viscount Wavell was to be replaced as Viceroy of India
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    Story with a smile SIAM MAKES WAR ON RATS
    634 1 Story with a smile SIAM MAKES WAR ON RA TS Free Press Staff Reporter TIKKJ) 01 seeing their rice bags ripped open and food despoiled, the Siamese Government sent an urgent mes sage to Lord KiJlearn's Headquarters in Singapore a tew weeks ago asking for the services of his, expert
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    Tudor plane is a failure
    93 1 TESTS in the Catted Kingdom hav vhouu the Tudor I and Tudor Htt he farltires as civil passen?«r panes, and an ofll.ial *O.V statem?nt «ays that la3s in passenger trade while new IfW ar- manufactnred will he difficult to recover. The siatem nt adds that
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    CHINESE TYPEWRITER
    24 1 An electric typewriter which pr.r.ts 2.400 characters commonly used in the writing of Chinese was displayed in San Francisco vostcr- A. P.
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    'TWERP' Scotswoman MP angry with the BBC
    172 1 'TWERP' Scotswoman MP angry with the BBC LONDON. Thurs. i THE embatled BBC, already plagued by accusations of socialistic bias and commercialism, today found itself the object ot I Parliamentary wrath because '70 per cent, of its Jokes are smutty." it gives an overdose of Bing Crosby, 'which is es
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    ESCAPEE KILLED IN GUN FIGHT
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. The Out ram Road prison es- capee who was d scovcred Dy polii-e near ihe 7th milestone j Changi Road yesterday and even-; tually killed in a gun-fight when he iried to shoot his way out of the police net, was
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    R.A.F. MERCY JOB
    28 1 Dakota^ ot (he RAF will today be jin dropping COO tons of rice and 30 teas of salt to famincStrieken ar?as in the Karen Hills
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    RECALLED TO U.K. BY ATTLEE
    7 1 RECALLED TO U.K. BY ATTLEE VISCOINT WAVELL
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    S'pore will not cut electricity
    175 1 iree Frt'*& Stall lUportti SINGAPORE will not ration electricity. In spite of the breakdown in supply that occurred in the Bukit Timah. Pasir Panjang, Tanglin and Katong at* about seven o'clock last night, the Municipal Electrical Department does not consider it necessary to introduce ratoning.
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    U.K. TROOPS QUIT KURE FOR S'PORE
    221 1 KIRK. Thursday. 'THE Queen Own Cameron Highlanders and Koyal Welsh 1 Fusiliers are scheduled to sail on Feb. 21, as the British Fifth Brigade leaves Japan. Although British Headquarters did not state the destination of the troops, it is reported reliably that they are
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    MAYOR FINED £25 ON FOOD CHARGE
    77 1 MAYOR FINED £25 ON FOOD CHARGE The Mayor of Chelmsford. Alderman A. W. Andrews, 68, and his £on-in-law, John A. S. Jordon, 25, were each fined £25 at Hertford Assizes 3'esterday for contravening food regulations al a mayoral banquet at Chelmslord last November. The caterer, Gilbert A. Willcox. 54, fined
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    BEERHALL CLUB
    22 1 H. ler"s Munich beerhall, where ■*.e-*d his famous 'putsch', will v .^o a super n'ghtclub r\ Ui« US. Occupation Forces.
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    STRIKE SLOWS STORE RICE THREAT TO RATION
    315 1 STRIKE SLOWS STORE RICE THREAT TO RATION Free Press Staff Reporter rXTRAORDINARY measures are being taken in the waters I- outside the port of Bangkok to load rice for Sintanore. now that 300 lightermen of the East Asiatic Compi^Xv^ struck, immobilising a fleet of 30 lighters. The men' presented a
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    ARAB PRINCE ON VISIT TO U.K.
    47 1 i Anur Suuc. Crown Pnn v Oi j Saudi Arabia who has oeen visiting the United St?tea, landed at London- Airport ytst^rdaN in Presid« nt Truman's personal plane on his first visit to Brit a. v > ID nine yeari. says Reut<*i
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    AIR ACE AS AIR CHIEF
    30 1 G r oup Captain A. E. Cloustoa pre-v;ar long-d:str>r.ce flying o ce _has been appointed Direc- j :or-General of New Zealand's Civil Aviation* says Reuter
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      692 2 AADIO MALAYA 151 play to you: 930 P m Music ta B rttwutf to An&lrtlia (Talk); miniature; 10.0) pm. Billy Ternen:. 10.00 pm. Wo-ld News; 10 15 p.m. Qinannnrc l0 30 pm Radio "ewsreel: 10.45 pm Music from th? films; 10.30 p.m. Jii.Wvi^uit London calling 10.50 p.m. Fore-? Romance in*
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    HAVE YOU ANY PAINT PLEASE?
    780 2 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MOST Sii gapore homes are tacily in r.ejd of a coat of paint. It is too much to suggest you should start painting your house, but you could at least te^in t i brighten up the duil wocden furni'-ure you prcbably
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    PETTICOAT COPS
    114 2 IN Ac*?laide, South Australia, early in December, a small group of women met to celebrate the 31st birthday of the world'* first organised women's po'ice force. The South Australian Women's Police Force was formed In December. 1915 It comprised two women— Miss Kate Cocks, the first pnncip?.!, and
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    HAIR STYLES GET FRESH
    259 2 ANEW Institute of Hairdressing, just opened in London, promises to give an important lead to coiffeurs in Britain. It will enable them to come to London from all over the country to learn advanced hairstyling and have a refresher course. Mr. Charles Plum ridge, the w?l!-known
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    BETTER HUSBANDS
    99 2 GIRLS wbo many oo> graduates from ihe Ames, lowa, high school stand to get well-trained husbands. The school oilers a course in tome economics for boys. Lads are taught how to buy clothes that are in good tasie. wear well, and are good buy* for the money. Not
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    TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM
    260 2 EVEN wi.hout wild bidding, an occas'onal resounding thumping com ej the way of every bridge player. So possibly a slory of what happened to the ether fellow may be a source of comfort. West hit upon the fortuitous cpcr.iiv? of the trump kin? because he wanted to
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    WOMEN WHO WON VOTE
    332 2 tretret rt BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SET up in a ro^m at 41, Cromwell Road, Souh Kensington, is a mu.-eum which older women are hoping all young women w.ll go to see. Althiugli I am no. s y.ung woman I was allowed to see it It
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    239 2 Foitune forecast tur people burn lo.ay **jwm nature is defin t ly < C at limes. ai« ii)ins« t ah people. Y^u arc basically a serious inuiv.dual. y t there is a cay, almost lrivoious outward att.tude v. hich c-nfuses those who do not know you very
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      96 3 ialesl WUlBfej- oav von u v-tslt oui iaa\ 'xiyrn. LADIES .< GENTS HAIRDRLSSER3 New Capitol Hairdressers CAPITOI. Bni.DlM. N«. ICS Marti Bridge H osr* inn aiO6i -0:1; fortabie servu- >, id iovd oatto vou ->* Iflr mmmuam—— rlass f i e cl ad\ertisefiienl^ (Ussitiro Mniito oO -ti oei une. Mh.
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      77 3 X ARZAN Nita escapes wrath /iv Edgar Rice burroughs ,%^5%57 n;_ v c-ta> A\\ an KTAN 1 REMIND VCU. DOC^C"3 I I YO>_' N".'r' 5 a A E t aRZA\ rRO^" TME A?t-^AN^ COOR CUT in CJiET VOICE H MTA UtttP m£ 5 Ol!^ DNi_ n J^l I SASPEP !^A
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    69 3 ytry yh mo. klitlm pad their ia»t respects dustav Adolph. whj was ki«led »n an t l ii ockhelm on board i S'Atdisn *ho ac;ompanird the body were (abov*\ o ol Sv.td?n. Crown PfiMOl In-rid and I >\ n Prince Frederick of Denmar!.. rp on right arc seen (from left,
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    SGT. TRIED TO GAS HIS AUNT
    246 3 ;o have been "most boastful** rket and gambling transac- >. t JTeara in penal servitude. at Liverpool Assizes on a I Ck Roger Campbell, ?.%ed 27, living to gas his aunt. The jury found him not guilty ittcmptinc to murder her oy QS her
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    THE SECOND BATTLE OF BRITAIN
    29 3 THE SECOND BATTLE OF BRITAIN I r of -'kly j r.an h.:.. !uel. Our end oi that s than gold 1 B xlay 1 3a.d Ind ni:s- b n
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    LOCUST INVASION
    30 3 Egypt has ordered steps to bat a threatened invasion by .^custs on a 300-mile line from the Snai Peninsula south to tne Red Sea coast town of Kosseir.
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    RUSTLER GRANNY
    13 3 Carmela Buceiarelli. ageil 70. arrested in Rome, directed cat'.le from horse-back
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    GRANDMA LIKES AIR JOURNEYS
    97 3 I/VERYONE else was sick." smued a irtampbant 32-yejr-old grandmother as stie stepped i from an air liner at Lx>ndon Airport after rlying 12,000 miles. She was Mrs. Frances Knight. ,of Holdenhurst-avenue. Bourne- mouth. "When I left London on th? last day of 1946." she said, "I
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    BENDS THAT ADD TO 55 MILES
    59 3 The diversion of a footpa'h for a housing layout at Cogenhoe. Nortban.s. was opposed because it would add four bends and i2O yards to the pa h Schooivh ldren would have to walk 55 additional miles a year, i; was stated. It was agreed
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    65 IS AVERAGE AGE
    31 3 The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company reports that the American wage earners and their families established x rew all-time life expectancy high of 65.6 years in 1946. U.P.
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    NIAGARA MAN TO DO IT AGAIN
    49 3 Jean Lussier. aged 6^. w..0; went over Niagara Falls in a; rubber ball in 1928. plans to do; it again this summer in a rubber! ball dropped fr:m a helicopter. as the Niagara authorities have! banned the use of their land forj stunts.
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    MATRON HAD TO SCRUB FLOOR
    72 3 MATRON HAD TO SCRUB FLOOR MATRON P. G. Himsworth and Sisters V. M. Maurer and M. G. Elgar have resigned from the Liskeard Cottage Hospital in Cornwall because they cannot go on scrubbing floors and cooking meals on top of their nursing duMes. Two years aso the hospital closed to
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    Officer took away £50,000 furniture
    145 3 THE British Military Government hftfl authorised i'f)0,000 compensation to a Berlin firm for antiques and carpets illegally requisitioned by a Briii h officer last autumn. Payment was made by the German Office for the Costs of j th e Allied Occupation and will i ev2ntually
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    $200 'LOST' AMONG 200,000 TINS
    85 3 $200 'LOST' AMONG 200,000 TINS #>NE t i*. among 2,0,000 crushed v llat balrd at Hereford refuse destructor, holds £200 in notes. The money belongs to Mrs. I. Frnncis, ol Holmer-road Hereford. Cl?anng up after her husband d:ed, she put the tin tiiat held her savings into the dustbin. When
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    'DOCTOR' WAS GEM THIEF BIGAMIST
    422 3 'DOCTOR' WAS GEM THIEF BIGAMIST He lived 2 years of deception IN the crowded Chelmsford Assize Ourt Mr. Justice Hailett 1 listened intently as he was told c/ two years in the Hie of Hugh Mclnnes Morrison, 27-year-old, good-lookin selfstyled doctor, psycho-therapist, masseur, dietici and jewel expert. Morrison, the judge
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    48 3 '•■>. s m<»t «ofi«tf g ii, t*-\ year-old Mario del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro nlv child of th^ ueai.hy Duke n* Alba, former Span'sh Ambassador to Britain is engage 1 i<> b? married to Lus Martinet de Iruj >y Arta/e i, son nt the Duk^ of Sotomay or
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    Baffled the Ironsides
    87 3 DKOBABLY liidu.n uhea Cromwell's Ironsides were about to enter Canterbury in 1642. a hoard of silver pennies. half-Croats and shillings of the reigns of Elizabeth. James I and Charles I ha\< been found heneath th<> floor r*f an attic during repairs to Lullingstone Hmuc, lan.»'r;;un Tht y
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    YARD OUT FOR FOOD GANG
    164 3 SCOTLAND YARD, intent ilying efforts to track down a black market gang who are dealing in ato'en goods, is kolding frequent conferences with detectives from the Board Trade and Ministry of Food. All information about suspects is pooled and parsed to a small inner councM
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    COUNTRY WIVES TO HAVE COLLEGE
    59 3 COUNTRY noubewives are to; have a College. It will De| at Marcham Park. Abingdon. Berks, "with a house and a 100--acre estate of park land and| gardens. It has b^en bought by the Na- 1 t cnal Federation of Women's'; Institutes and will provide: courses
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    TYPISTS LEAVE WHITEHALL
    218 3 WITH the shortage of lypis's in Whitehall mm ♦> at me that senior officers have been offered typewriter^ if they will do their own Jrpin^. numbers of j*irl typists hav? left their Government offices for the last time. Following the lifting of the Control of Employment Order
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    Dunlop made dummy tanks
    82 3 THC war-time secret of Kelvi Hall, Glasgow, is reveaitu b> the film "Far Horizons.' the story of the Dunlon Itubber Company war. Some 1;000 Dunlop workers producfd 7.000 barrage and convoy balloons; repaired and overhauled 7.000 more; and produced 20.000 air rescue dinghies. Dunlop also produced
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    TAKES BOW
    18 3 Cromcr l.febo.i 1 now bejrs the rame of its famous coxswain, Henry Blogg. on its bow
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      16 4 Platinum Set DIAMOND JEWELLERY. Designed to suit M'xiern Taste. m 78 NORTH Bel D&l *O. SPOKE.
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      134 4 BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM. MAY c 16A I! This is your first opportunity w seven fBtf f see your old suppUers in Bntair dto mee ones. Overseas Buyers are invited to Britain for 1947 British Industries Fair. It wiii enable establish personal contact with the immense range of
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 21. 1947. Counter-Plan 2
    647 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Feb. 21. 1947. Counter-Plan 2 WEM we said yss.erday that v. preiened the Singapore Association's counter-plan for new Federal Malaya to tne Kuala Lumpur proposals, fcecavjtc the Singapore plr.n to include Singapore IB r.e Federation immediately, Imposed a free trade area for Malaya and recommended
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    S'TORE PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    1563 4 l '^^!hl W E X T Saturday afternoon one of Singapore's popular people is to be married at St. Andrew's Cathedral, tier name is Miss MARIE MOERMAN, daughter of Mrs. H. E. MOERMAN and the late Capt. A. J. MOERMAN. She and her sister, ELLEN MOERMAN,
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    IF YOU WERE A PRIME MINISTER
    767 4 AN article in the Lond°n Daily Mail raised a new talking point amongst it readers: "Suppose you were Premier." The Free Press thinks its readers will be interested to know what British people think they would do if they were suddenly elevat?d to the
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    FAITH
    23 4 V» I die. a »d tf buiiwi the 1.0.d do *Ml and r. alvj. u oi(fci d< ath part thee a*rt m
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    QUIZ
    20 4 1 V\ ::.nj i !nar H. 1 P 2 I par: Lon< 3 < .-re Brit in Hai A! kMy^jyU^^^B^^^^^^^^^^
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      36 5 TODAY 4 SHOWS I 1.30 4 6.30 i).30 p.m. You Remember Her as 'Mrs. (hips'' and "Mrs. .%cr"' You Will Never Fcrget Greer Grrson ii •Blossoms In The I). >: I starring P\ 0 H^ -JK ...'jKx^M
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    FIRST MALAYA FILM IS SCREENED
    430 5 'Help Yourself via Agriculture Free Press Staff Reporter THE newly-formed Malayan Film Unit has just completed its first film ''Help Yourself," and a preview was given to members of Lord Killearn's organisation which has provided half the funds for the enterprise at the Cathay Building
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    CHINA PROTESTS TO NEHRU
    123 5 'IIIE Chinese Government had j ••informa4ly' protested to the j Indian Embassy i n Nanking over the invitation extended by Pandtt Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice- Pro- ?ident of the Indian Interim Government, to Tibetan delegates to attend the Pan-Asiatic Con- j ferine? scheduled to open in Delhi
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    GOVT AIDS 221,000 FAMILIES
    43 5 GOVT AIDS 221,000 FAMILIES M I on •J 1.000 b 11 belief of tpore, I Wei- eadquj.il :i, and the by iray." ol I en j re- 'he house of in see for I :,_f.,. tse It 1 to F- rorc is" an
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    PROFESSOR FEI IN SINGAPORE
    49 5 PROFESSOR FEI IN SINGAPORE Professor Ffel Hsiao long arrived m Singapore yesterday from the United Kingdom where he the guest of the British ineil. Professor Fei is Prcfesizr of Sociology in th? Tsing Hiu University. Peking. He is world famous for h:s researches into t^e peasant problem of China.
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    BIRMABUYS 1,500 TONS TEXTILES
    39 5 BIRMABUYS 1,500 TONS TEXTILES has with the -por of ards> of d iii o Reuter ub htid A me „ng r-.enty, and this lr e Press r-i-ttrcs bhow members 'a fr>Mdly matches ia th? garden of the Adelphi Hotel.
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    S'PORE EASES EXIT CONTROL
    244 5 Free Press Staff Reporttr CONTROLS on exit from Singapore to other Far Eastern v- areas have now been all but abolished, and there are to day only two area? Burma and Ceylon for which it is necessary for permission to be given by Singapore's Immigration Officer,
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    10 DONT'S FOR VISITORS TO UK
    145 5 1 0 DONT'S FOR VISITORS TO UK INDIAN and Far Eastern students resident in England have been given a list often "Don'ts" in i booklet entitled "English Etij quette" published by Dr. n.U. Hingorani, well-known eye spej cialist. Dr. Hingorani's ten "Don'ts" j are: Don't lepeat the same thing over
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    HQ OF S'PORE TRADE UNIONS
    114 5 HQ OF S'PORE TRADE UNIONS Ih n is the headquarters of the Singapore Federal iun of T.-<ie I uutt*. An indica iin ol Communist influence provided by the Hammer and Sickle signs over the main doorway. The pirinre was taken on the occasion cf the second anniversary of the ire
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    Bus owners not aiding strikers
    294 5 Bus owners not aiding strikers Free Press Staff Reporter 4LL private b\u owners; whose vehicle. s are operating a skeleton service on S.T.C. routes as a strike emergency, emphatically deny contributing or having contributed anything to the Traction Company employees' strike fund They are nmnittf the service at the request
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    U.S. GETS N.E.I. RUBBER
    42 5 The wartime Interruption of the flew of Dutch East Indies rubber into U.S. ended yesterday, wiih the arrival of freighters bringing 2,900 tons from Penans —the first of ssveral shipments expected m the next few months. U. P.
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    STORE CHURCH RECEPTION
    65 5 A PARISH reception will be given i by th^ congregation of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, to their Parish priest, the Rt. Rev. Miohael Olcomendy, CH the occasion of his appointment to the Bishopric of Malaya. The reception will be held at! the Church premises,
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    ARMS CHARGE
    66 5 A. CV, Oob Jee, and Wong Mit Yin, ag?d 29, wJfi wui.' remanded *v i Singapore S.cor.d Police M'l^i- 1 trate, Mr. L. C. Goh yesterda v on a charge of possession cf a r^- I voiver and six rounds of ammuni- -icn at Syed Alwi R:ad on
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    PALEMBANG: NEI READY TO PAY
    390 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Netherlands East Indies Government will pay all bona fide claims in respect of property lost or damaged by Dutch military action during the DutchIndonesian clash at Palembang recently. This was disclosed to the Free Press 3 r esterday ia an
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    R.A.F. OPEN COMBAT SCHOOL
    173 5 'I HE R. A. F. Far East Command Combat Training School to train both officers and N. C. C.'s from all over Air Command in ground defence of their units and stations was officially opened at Kuala Lumpur or Tuesday by Air Vice-Marshal J. D. Breakey,
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    KEY. GREER
    24 5 The induction ceremony of Rev. Robert M. Greer will t?.«ce place at the Singapore Presbyterian Church. Orchard Rosd. at 6 p.m. today.
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    5 -year -old gets cane for stabbing
    61 5 A FIVL- YEAR -OLD Chinese orphan bay was sentenced in Hone K')ng yest :rd:v. to received nine strokes with a cane tor stabbing a four-year-old playmate to d?ath w.*'i a penknife in a quarrel over a game. Lenience was r*c mmended nn account
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    CONSTITUTION: 3 NEW PROPOSALS
    325 5 THREE suggestions new In public discussions so far are contained in the constitutional proposals submitted by the Singapore Association to the Cheeseman Committee in Kuala Lumpur. They are: (1) the method of election for the Federal Legislative Council; (2) entire abolition of the con ception of
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    'SCOUTS' RADIO TONIGHT
    146 5 'I'ODAY is tlie 90th anniversary' of the birth of Lard BadenPowell, founder of the s:oufing movement, who died in 1941. Scouts will be interested in Radio Malaya's programme tonight at 9.45 p.m. The R:v. R. K. S. Adams. 8 ngapore District Commissioner of Scouts, will tell the
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    Forces begin 'Change of Air' cruises
    164 5 AM HEME. entirely voluntary and not counting against the normal entitle ment at leave, has bc°n started in Singapore makn; :t possible to arrange for small numbers of offiecrs and other rarlcs to spend a short t/rne aboard one of naval ships and to
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    19 6 HGFH FHGF The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1947. PRICE 111 CFVIs.
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    WIVES FAST IN CAMP
    458 6 Demand a ship home to Poland !N a bleak camp on the outskirts of the Ayrshire village of Monkton 187 men and 64 women are undergoing a selfimposed fast. And they intend to go rn with the fast water and cigarettes only are aliowed until the
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    TINNED BREAD
    37 6 The U S. Army nas ordered 5,000.000 cases of tinned bread to end. it is hoped, the need for mcb l? field bakeries. The tins are vacuum sealed, and the breac can be kept indefinitely.
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    175 6 HI Kl\(. a traditional London fog, an empty sieam train ian into the rear of an electric train near Blue Anchor lane. Bermondsey. London. The picture shows the wreckage of the steam train after th? collision the force of which lifted the coach off its bogies, and left
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    FREE TRAINING IS OFFERED
    79 6 "DECAUSE of the great shortage of domestic subjects teachers ughout Bri ain, the Ministry Education has appealed to vomen beween 21 and 35. who have been in the Forces or on work of national importance, to ■p^iv for train ng: in »hi.s work r lder women
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    £500,000 PLANT
    15 6 A Luton chemical firm will bu'ld a £500,000 extension tactorv a' Warrington < Lanes >.
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    PIANOS FOR FIRE
    17 6 A hundred old pianos were given to poor people in Bristol l'^ently— fcr firewood.
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    SILK STOCKINGS MAY NOT STAY
    248 6 r.NOI'GH silk stockings will Le made in Britain this year to I- give every woman at least one pair. But whether they get them or not, will depend on Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade. The stocking hope started as a big
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    SEWER VISIT COST MONEY
    269 6 SIDE BY-SIDE before Bristol Public Works Committee sat Councillors R. N. Harrison and E. G. Harding. Mr. Harding (a lightweight) was there to make a protest; Lieut. -Col. Harrison (approximately 15st. 61b.) was, as it wer«\ Exhibit A. A few days before, Col. Harrison in snowy
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    Sweethearts were rationed
    91 6 LUWARD BROWN, lodging in Hill-drop-crescent, Holloway, was allowed a woman visitor by his landlady, Mrs. (ierrard, but she stipulated that it mi s. always bo the same young woman One d?;- Mrs. Gcrrard found a d fferent young woman in the room. As Mr. Brown's solicitor -aid.
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    CYCLE SHOW OFF
    27 6 British cycle and molor cycle manufacturers are no 1 to proceed with the organisation of a 1947 show 'owin^; :o the present industrial situation."
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    DRILL ESCAPE
    26 6 Sixteen American military prisoners escaped from the American military prison at Mannheim bv smashing tbe.r way through the stock?.de wall with a pneumatic drill
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    HOUSEWIVES HAVE HARD TIME IN UK.
    384 6 LONDON, Thurs. .'BRITISH housewives are naving a really bad time at pre-.-rnt as bad. and for many in country districts, worse, than at njiy time during the war. The year opened badly for them •vith a widespread strike of trans)X>rt workers which prevented the
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    ARMY TRAINING PROGRAMME
    92 6 THERE will be no large-scale Army training exercises m Britain this year, as the majority of the troops will be on duty overseas. The largest formation in traming will be the Parachute Brigade, which has units at Aldershot and Heyford Oxfordshire. Each of the Army Commands will
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    TOWER OF PRIDE
    30 6 The 255ft. Del] tower, b Jilt by Hirler for his Olympic field in Berlin, will be blown up by British sappers It was damaged by Russian shells.
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    'GROUSE' OVER SIX OYSTERS
    187 6 'WE may grouse thai we are not able to buy more than .six oysters, but I suppose that some time in our history we shall be sufficiently planned to te able to buy nine," said Mr. Dunne, Bow- street, London Magistrate. Be fit;ed Owen Cunningham, owner
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      222 6 Free Press Crossword No. 4$ tlli> V-'ROSS 1 Country excurbion to take in a leisurtlv > and 4 The comical point about arms is- -wh«; <5 over ui elegam Greek style <5». 9 One kind of I tc obtain <4>. 11 its the ehur<h ami clerg>s g-u--owners 1 loss (6»,
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    SPORT PAGE PRESTON, NEWCASTLE WIN CUP TIES
    77 7 I LONDON, Thursday, of the fifth round of the English V v Cup competition were cleared up t*>\crih End and Newcastle Tnited winning -ter respectively. 42,000 fans saw the thrice postponed eipta were £6,250. The explanation ti for the original tie and as
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    INTERNATIONAL RUGBY OFF
    81 7 LONDON. Thurs. THE Rugby Union international 1 match between Englan.i and France, scheduled to tak? place at Twickenham on Saturday, has been postpmed owing to heavy frcst and snow. In scite of precautions tcfcen by the Ru^by Union in laymg down straw, unprecedented weather git through to
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    INDONESIANS FOR OLYMPICS
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    MALAY FOOTBALL TEAM v ARMY
    7 7 MALAY FOOTBALL TEAM v ARMY H m
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    JOE LOUIS BOOED
    16 7 > rid 1 him to K and K i no r: m v n
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    HARRINGAY SPEEDWAY WANTS AUSTRALIANS
    17 7 HARRINGAY SPEEDWAY WANTS AUSTRALIANS L m. nas l t I Parit i the war. r I r
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    WLKER CUP TRIAL
    18 7 ■i. .».u es N Jo golf P* M day m He Ik hcu> beo;: V
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    YACHTSMAN DIES
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    HOW TO WIN-BY WOODERSON
    123 7 HOW TO WIN-BY WOODERSON r 'cur I m p I t Mo* 11 I need is about one massage througgout the st: sen. with proper training there should be no need for a l3t of massage. Pt when suffering from pulled or strnned muscles. Style.— Usually far too much r.oi.sense
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    WAR VETERAN WINS SKI CHAMPIONSHIP
    61 7 LAKE PLACID, Mon. RALPH TOWNSEND, a Purpia Heart veteran whs overcame his grave iriuri?s scffereJ in the Battle of i.he Po Ft ver in Itaty while serving with lbs Mtti M:ur.ia:i Division in ihct Oscpa' a. w. n th? National SkUing cii;"7:pi ;i: liips ar
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    34 7 ALICE MARHLK, former triple Wimbledon champion, who arrived recently in England from the States for the Wembley professional championships, shows IG-year-nld Miss Margaret Emerson the right v.ay to volley at the Queen's Club, London.
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    3-0 VICTORY TO AIRMEN
    887 7 By Our Soccer Reporter WITHOUT playing nearly as well as they were expected to, H the R.A.F. were yet able to score a comfortable victory by three goals to nil over the Singapore Cricket Club in the opening game of the S.A.F.A. league competition at Jalan
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    Recs' Soccer XI To Meet Chinese
    79 7 THK Singapore Rtcreati m lub cer team to rn^et the CJtJL in a game n aid of the Chinese Mechanics' Fund to be pl.ijid at Jaran Besar on Sun-ti-»v will be srl cted Sr^m: <•• Webber, J. Ferguson, J. de Souza. J. Sanderson. J.
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    McKay To Return In 6 Months
    131 7 LJATTLING Khoon'a challenge to Mick McKay has not been passed up by the Suth Afrcan. Bousiing twj v c'.ories ovjr ihe Australian bantam Mott, Khoon, in a letter to the Press a few days ago dokid for a fi-jht with LfcK&J who is clue
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    WON IN 25 SECONDS
    45 7 NORMAN Lewis, Bantamweight champion of Wales and contender lor the British title, knocked cut Joe Collins, bolder of the Lire flyweight and bantamweight titles, 25 seconds after the start oi their bout at l£a£3teg Glamorgan. C:llins took several minuies to recover.
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    Deck Tennis On Vanguard
    60 7 Deck Tennis On Vanguard With warm sunshine pouring do.vn from clear blue skies, King George claved de-k tpmk ,n shorts and open-necked shirt a s II M 8. Vanguard, 42,500-to n hattkship, steamed l towards the tqua.or on her way to South Africa. The photo shows the Ktef laughing as
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    REST OF THE SPORT VARDLEY TO LEAD M.C.C. TODAY
    623 7 REST OF THE SPORT VARDLEY TO LEAD M.C.C. TODAY WALTER Hammond is again absent in t^c M.C.C. ;eam which will play against New South Wales in Sydney today, reports Reuier. The MCC tc.b w il b.' led. by Yardley. Bcs.des Hammond, thre^ o f hcr Tes w men. Bedscr. Wright
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    HOCKEY MEETING
    51 7 An xtraordinary general meeting n* tiie Singapore Hockey Assn. will b3 r.( id at tlie S.R.C. on Monday Mar. 3, at 5.30 p,rn Agenda: A.A. Sand:sh£:n wiU p-.wse ar-J be secnrd?d by Mr. RH EPloi a rt- vision of rales of the AsJn in lieu of the existing
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    MIXED RECEPTION FOR 4th DIVISION
    1263 7 All In The Came LONDON, By Air RTai» 4 S expected, the proposal to add another division to (he it Football League had a mixed reception when it was i considered by clubs of the Third Livlnon Northern £ect n Ft "^'"o^J". Were Chester Cre^e
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    39 8 li >» H ath, Dors; i, alter a stormy day the sun sets in grloom splcndoar. Decoy Heath was made 'i mo "is by Th >«n Hardy as E^don Heath in his sreat novel The Return of the Native.
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    INDIA SELF-GOVERNMENT BY JUNE, 1948
    1900 8 INDIA SELF-GOVERNMENT BY JUNE, 1948 —CITY NEWS— I STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market corrj-pondent gives the prices or ruhbei at II a.m today as follows: Buyer* tellers Cts Cts oer Ib of i Ib No. 1 R S 8 Spot «oos« uifc «Vf« No 1 ft S S
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    Austriantreaty by Tuesday
    9 8 rtffc foreign Ministers' Deputies v .Ip-
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    COLONEL GUILTY OF DESERTION
    54 8 Lieut. Col. Waler James Cumming wa s found guilty bs a' court martial in Calcutta yesterday on a charge q| tfessri Ci absenting himself rrcm the 4 >' Indian General Hospital at Im- i Pnal near the Burnii-India r e l ln March 1t44 Bent*nee will
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    ITALY EXILES ROYAL FAMILY
    71 8 THE Italian Council of Ministers j' has approved a law providing! 4 that the former King Victor j Emanuel Crow n Princ^ Umber: o and all the members of th- Hous-^ of Savoy can never again become j resident of the Italian Republi? The Assembly is
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    UK to bill India for war defence
    267 8 LONDON Thuryb, 'THE British Government in h> iu^i,,.-,^ H|lh 1 sterling balances reserve> the ri^ht to presem claim for defence of India during tht war Mi Huh, Chancellor of the Exchequer, informed the Ilou>T mons at question time t«xla\ Captain L. D. Gamman^
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    THEIRWIVES GO TOO
    60 8 THEIRWIVES GO TOO tyr yryjhgf A famous West Country K«»imrni g B too: Sergeant Franklin and a corporal up the gangway of the troopship and Mrv j J'• I* was Uken at Southampton as th»- timm t», aho:rd th*» I S "Carthac* Ihr following da and it has now sailed
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      84 8 WEATHER Showers this evening uiui, rpwl lm m '•■I, doth i!xL> .•ap M tbf 111 eatoi F«n«^ tod.. urathtr maf M willi 1,, la.rd *howrr» t*irt<« inc. Fail tarn nm. Wuiww 5-10 knot> h;h: Mnitk u— ■MM I !4 pm >anriH(S« M oni > i, Mmm p m Trtnp ra
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