The Singapore Free Press, 24 February 1947

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA K 1 :.78b\ SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1947. PRICE l« C EN la.
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    US EXPECTS BUBBER TO BE CHEAPER
    58 1 Jni ryre oni as a Qm U.S. si Lent position to aeme artifl- through ol na- jro r na« i price conJd States, of a free j rubber on with protec::es for syn- ::on estab- during return of a r I'zs reasonable standy rubber
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    BYRD MAPS LAND LARGER THANUK
    141 1 BYRD MAPS LAND LARGER THANUK [LONDON, Sunday. J H\Kl> BVRD-S U.S. Xa*v expedition has mapped square m«!e<— more than the area of the British he coastal area of the Antarctic continent. It has moderate sized islands, four large bavs and mm rising to 15.000 feet. s era anr* of the
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    UK sees first sun in 21 days
    336 1 erupted II thf vi!la?e n-n >r in Ma*T- rdshirf wa> UU M.ilifax be u>ed t«> drrp ;ers. LONDON, Sunday. DUITAIN svaw the sun today for the first time *n three V weeks, but although the warmth of the sun's rays melted the snow
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    OUTLAWED ARAB SLIPS THROUGH
    88 1 The outlawed Fawzi El Kaukji j —the leading figure of the Arab; revolt in 1936 who was released recently from the Russian zone in Germany arrived in Cairo yesterday alter a flight in which his plane refuelled in Palestine where a £2,000 price is on his
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    Mr. CHURCHILL'S BROTHER DIES
    21 1 Major John 3 1 younger brother of Mr. Winsto* Churchill, died in London today aged 67- Reuter
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    News From Australia
    85 1 CIX-Y EAR-OLD Renee Vlartz of Chicago yesterday preached sermon lasting an hour to a congregation of 1,100 of Rch mond Prn'.?cosial church Melbourne. Hundr. d> m.re came to hear her but they had to be turned away. Carrying a try trumpet with which she i-d the ycspel
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    POLICE GUARD S'PORE BUS CONVOYS
    433 1 POLICE GUARD S'PORE BUS CONVOYS Free Press Staff Reporter DUSES run by Chinese companies in Singapore over 1 routes normally operated by the Singapore Traction Company, when its men are not on strike, this morning ran into the City from outlying areas in convoy, carrying police officials and traffic inspectors
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    JINNAH STICKS BY PAKISTAN
    168 1 KARACHI, 6unu; MOHAMED Ali Jinnah, President of the All-India Moslem League, declared tonight that the Moslem League will not yield an inch in its demand fc r Pakistan." The sufferings of the Moslems in tue recent disturbances in Bihar province and elsewhere showed only more clearly
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    10 DIE IN MERCY PLANE CRASH
    68 1 10 DIE IN MERCY PLANE CRASH SAN DIEGO, Sun. TEN people aboard an American coastguard plane bringing back a sick fi.-,hcrman from a boat off the Mexican coast were killed and two injured when it crashed south of the Mex.-rin border The plane had flown 700 miles south from San
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    GERMANS HUNGRY
    43 1 The Bavarian Food Minister, Dr. Josef Baumgarther, declared in Frankfurt yesterday that the United States zone's food situa tion had deteriorated consistently since the economic merger with the British zone, says Reuter. i4<demanded "fairness in exchange of industrial goods within Germany."
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    RUSSIA HAS GERMAN ATOM MEN
    383 1 RUSSIA HAS GERMAN ATOM MEN GOETTINGEN (Gera*any i. Sun. (JLAIMS that Russ.a nad MM d six thousand lubai a riuntn any German atomic .xp.rt **io would do researcn work tor the Sov:et Government w^re mack tcday by Dr. Werner Heisenberj the ltading German atom sri xvtist. Three German^ *.re aucudjr
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    ALLIES BREAKING UP NAZI PLOT
    245 1 HERFORD, (British HQ in Germany), Sunday. THE use of a bacteriological secret weapon in plans to revive the German Reich, resuscitate the Wehrmacht and reestablish nazism to "lead Europe against Russia," were the main plans of the greatest post war German underground movement now being
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    BANDITS SHOOT BRITISH PRIEST
    57 1 Father Augustine Roddy, one oi two Roman Catholic chaplains ot the British Army, ambushed and fired on by bandits on the road from Trieste on Saturday night, is in a dangerous condition in hospital at Mestre witn bullet wounds in the stomach and both arms. The
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    U.K.,U.S. SOLD 2,022 SHIPS
    108 1 THE nport or ihe British C. ara- ber of Shipp ng which will tc presented at the a nual m j e 'ng on Thursday, states that disposal Government -own ~d and charI tonnage dur.ng 1946 > f count to 1,104 ships, of a tctal nnage
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  • WOMEN'S PAGE
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      WHAT DO YOUR
      842 2 by A SPECIAL WOMAN CORRESPONDENT 44 WEALTHY literature li for the young" said a cynical m liter of bcy'3 stories "means unlimited murder, sudden death and sadistic torture, but no admission that affection may b" felt between the sexes." If you lock on the average .cstall you
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      TODAYS BRIDCE PROBLEM
      273 2 WORTH regretted his rescue although it was reasonable trough* and South, while waiting for West's opening lead, soothed him by saying that at least if they made three eiubs doubled, it would be a pjame He was prophetic. '.Vest opened a low spade East took the ace
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      CHEAPER DRESSES NO WADAYS
      669 2 CHEAPER DRESSES NO WAD A YS Around S'pore Shops FREE PRESS WOMAN CORRESPONDENT ELSIE MARY" has a sale today which will last about five days. But you need r.ot rush to get there today because she is keeping some of the best dresses to put out each day. Stock is
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      Cleaning Plastic Raincoats
      99 2 A good many plastic raincoats have been sold in Singapore. The most reliable way to clean them is <o soak the whole raincoat in warm soapsuds lux or some o f her wellknown brand of soap flakes is best for about ten minutes. Do not rub or
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      ROYAL CLOTHES
      145 2 FASHION- co: icfctfll wcmen all over the world are interested in the contents of the a wardrobe which Queen r beth and her dau Princess E Prinoeu Mm '.10. acquired for their tour ol South Africa with K George. Some of dresi millinery c. have made contribution Royal
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      81 2 Foitune forecast pcoplo born today DOKN today, you are kindly, loving and popular wherever you go. Your magnetic personality draws peoole to you and your genuine interest in other people always makes you the center of attraction. You are a natural host or hostess, born with the
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      50 2 (V «J^ THE LITTLE SHOP >d/ During structural alterations and decorations by Messrs. Stewart Mclntyre Ltd. Business will be carried on as usuai in The Amber Room, Raffles Hotel. ii^ Tele. 5381 YOUNG OPTICAL COMPANY OPTOMETRISTS OPTICIANS have pleasure in announcing The OPENING of THE!R BUSINESS AT to, STAMFORD ROAD.
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      99 2 I y I 1 ETERNITY Ra^ WEDDING BQfCS. EKGACLMLNr HWd GOLD [CA2 SiL U.So de SILVA 106 CSCrARD RO.. TEL 2466 OPEN SJNDAY MORMI HOW. you mm m win of i\ SUN-TAN y row v l ru > fresh skin lovennrtt ::.<*: r.rtuMß I tircam^ ah itjic*** I YOUR SKIN
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      600 2 1 pnniP NfAf AV A lEB 2I tres ana 49.38 metres. 5.i50- vr I T I/*.Li.rl I/i 7.30 a.m. Kradio Newsrwl; 800 am night 19 84 metres and 49.38' q; ,BBC Northern Orchestra; Conductor: n i"tres oluyaport Charles Groves; 8.30 a.m. The News: j \{O\i>'.* RLI) NETWORK (Chinese Indian! J-
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      143 3 s tu^m s Me i k. BswlPJiifl! #i M^i fILJ A^ AajHtf^ THL S F pictures give 1 J| /-^BWf^^ "^Hcr 1^ 1 1 some idea of the cold '■^"■**3EHSi» ("^i^ 1^ spelj that has gripped :^<zJ2sbUU3!s Britain in the past fe\i JjgJ *WS&&gß&£^ weeks. I y^Bft m*. IllM MHll
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Feb. 24, 1947. £24 Million Would Be Welcome
      623 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Feb. 24, 1947. £24 Million Would Be Welcome f I!HE Left-wing London political commentary Tribune. to which many Labour Members of Parliament contribute, takes a Malayan tin miner to task in its latest, number for his views on Trade Unionism. The Tribune forecasts that in
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      Good Morning ....
      1010 4  - Good Morning Frank Owen By THE reputation of 1 the British Government is going down, but the reputation of the Prime Minister stands high. Fourteen days of frost and blizzard will place a chill on most relationships. After a fortnight in the igloo with Socialism in Our Time I fancy
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      TRINIDAD'S SERPENT IS MONEY
      769 4  -  Noel Monks By THE "Yankee dollah" is the evil apple of tliis Eden and Inflation is the Seipent. Once upon a time Un 1941 > the Americans landed in the 150-year-old British colony of Trinidad waving a bit of paper which said that 50 square miles
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      WERE APES OUR ANCESTORS?
      846 4 WERE APES OUR ANCESTORS? FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT RECENT discoveries throwing light On the ancestry of man were discussed in 'Science Survey' by Professor W. E. Le Gros Clark and Professor F. E. Zeuner. 'About fifty years ago,' said Professor Clark, 'a Dutch anthropologist named Dubois found the skull-cap and
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      SEARCHING THE SOIL
      48 4 T HF B 1 Jjjfl at Hai Jr. shire. Bi search cei has depart m< Arr. discovc fertilizer suit of ex mLstry teai ther. D S< Institute ing Repartm- dustria! Reneax W a heat i ternatnv pi phaw i In the cent. rifcrJ bas-'c slas
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      425 4 S^ V O a E ch N es T L% N hiL H nvTS Sy^!" 1916 d -d in Dubhn sution and Jumped onboard each which have been used for tn engine. coronations and other imnort- ivm, lt ll CG <i to Sibley's fire at the an t ceremonial occasions
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      WOMENLED TO COL'S DESERTION
      137 5 f>-VLLTiON by high officers at the mf his wife after he had stopped Sgance was alleged in his defence by VV J. dimming, 49, who was v a court martial in Calcutta of from a hospital in Imphal campaign in March 1944. had commanded the 3rd
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      STATE LOTTERY
      55 5 THE Ceylon State Council has adopted a resolution by Mr. R E. Jayatilaia, that a state' sweep* take should be inaugurated in the island to finance national development schemes and other social security plans. Mr A. Mahadeva. Minister of Hume Home affairh. and that the majority of his
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      POWER HOUSES TURIN TO OIL
      396 5 f, i\u t«» uar damage and arrested development during M:ilaya now faces a grave shortage it 'm officially stated. In addition, owing shortage and high cost of labour and local bl indßpnmts, it will fce necessary to utilise cheap mutts oi |vjuer in order to
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      S'PORE TROOPS QUIT KURE
      27 5 S'PORE TROOPS QUIT KURE ■died on Saturday British Br i to a j *he wholj I ED- Kingdom were arrying 61 r a and five r U.P.
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      WOMEN'S LEAGUE RUNS SCHOOL
      19 5 WOMEN'S LEAGUE RUNS SCHOOL Stmbi- 1 d and and t r ■i at lit of I der t A«ed
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      Schools free to teach sex
      262 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rE teaching of sex as a subject docs not form part of the curriculum in Singapore schools, and although sex instruction is bejng imparted in certain schools, the Government's policy on the matter has not yet been defined. In an interview
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      AID FOR INDIAN DEMOBS
      194 5 THE Government of Madras have 1 sanctioned a scheme for the promotion of 20 transport cooperative societies to operate tn almost all the districts of the province for the employment of ex-servicemen. During the war there was a stoppage of imports of motor vehicles, thereby arresting
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      YOUTH FELLOWSHIP OFFICERS
      81 5 At the annual general mcoung of the District Metriodwt Youth Fellowship, the following were elected office bcarew for 1947. Pres' dent Mr. Eric S. B. Wee, Vice President Mr. Peter Lim, Hon. Treasurer Mr. Michael Wee, Hon. Secretary Mr. Vict:;r j. Joseph, Hon. Auditor Mr. Leong Hong
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      NEI SHIPS COAL TO MAIAYA
      118 5 BEFORE the new N.E.I, export regulations were brought into force negotiations had been proceeding with the Republican authorities of South Sumatra for tr«e release of 2.500 tons of coal. Whrn the new regulations were promulgated an appeal was made to the Netherlands officials that, en
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      SINGAPORE MAZES SARONGS
      46 5 Vi^'.n white clMh is printed with designs and of many clours an. l ral 1 in Jo ''saronss" in S it? a pore. These sarongs form past cf the national dress of Malay?. Quite a ncmbei of Straitsbcrn Chinese women a!so wear saronfs.
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      MEMBER TELLS HOW IT WORKED
      405 5 Price Ring in Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE Chinese businessman, who is an exn member of the Army surplus stores buying ring, told me yesterday how the ring has operated in the past, and supplied "minutes" of its last two meetings on Feb.
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      Plan to aid natives of Sth.Pacific
      231 5 AN agreement to establish a South Pacific Commission ha s formally beeh signed by representatives of Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France and the United States in Canberra. The Commission's purpose is to promote the economic and social welfare and advance-m»-n;
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      Disposals Board Says 'No Ring'
      478 5 THE British Stores Disposal Board in Singapore, refuting 1 the report (Free Press, Feb. 19) of a price ring which is in a position to dictate to the Board the terms of sale of surplus service stores, says that stores declared surplus to Service requirements
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      Yacht Club plans new buildings
      325 5 OLANS for the reconstruction of the Royal Singapore Vac 1 Club have been prepared, states the report of the Club, which is holding its annual general rr.eotirg on Friday, F<b. 28. The report states that following the period before the war when the Club owned,
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      70-wants to study English
      44 5 4 Chinese student at l>ar- linghurst State school. Sydney, arrived with her grandmother of "0. She explained that her grandmother had become so ashamed of not being able to speak English that she wanted to start sehool and learn. Reuter
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      STORE LAW EXAM NEXT MONTH
      38 5 An exam:naiio n In law for radeti in the Malayan Civil vice, the Malayan Police Service nnci the Malayan Custcm-s Scrv.'ce, will oe held in Singapore on March. 31, April 1. April 2.
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      66 5 Tan Sin Peng Company, 11, PHILLIP STREET, SINGAPORE. PHONE NOS. 3114 8: 4373 LATEST NOW IN STOCK READY FOR DELIVERY. Wire Nails Paints 7Jnc Roll Paint B.nshes Boiler Zinc Slut* Coal Tar Buckets Formic Acid Strapping 5 8' Strapping Seals Strapping Machine Sjdium Sulphite Fire Extinguisher Manila Rope PRICE LIST
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      'GENT' ON ROOF WAS A 'NARK'
      409 6 A CORDON of police round a Stotkton-on Tees shop saw a man climb out of a window and reach the roof. There waitiag detectives arrested him and found he was blind. If the C.I.D. men were surprised to find that their prisoner was a
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      Vn AS DREAM CAME TRUE
      127 6 /"•HARLES F. SPURRELL. sa. a motor mechanic employed bv Bath Corporation, had for v years dreamed of th: day h° would have a new home Became he could not get r un\ o'hrr way, he started to build the house himself. working ly at week-ends
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      SHE FIGHTS FOR SIGHT AT 91 TO READ BIBLE
      100 6 SHE FIGHTS FOR SIGHT AT 91 TO READ BIBLE Or- t of Mrs. Mary Ann Davies about her 14 years' bliiicln ss was that she could not read ihe Bible daily. So. at 91. she insis.ed on going hospital for an eye opcratkon No i .v she la oack hom-*
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      £10-A-YEAR JOB
      40 6 LuUcrworth, near Rugby, offeri j €10 a year for a man to ring 'he Angclus and curfew at John vVycli f's church. Ditchingham Hall (Norfolk), i built in the 18th century, will be turned into a preparatory school.
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      Films to be sold on bookstalls
      312 6 PLANS for the co-ordination of the production of documentary and educational films on a world ba>U have been discussed in London. The American film leader. Mr. Edmund L. Dorfmann, vice president of United World Films, Inc., which has been set up special!} to handle
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      Wine habit taken home
      64 6 Men and wonjcn honn* from the Forces want to continue the wine drinking habit they atqitir<d nvr ens, it was said a* Windsor I.icensin-r Sessions. T> s was the reason jivrn for an increased demand for wine when •npßration was made for four new wine I'eences.
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      Ghost who is friendly
      117 6 BKEDF PLACE, Sussex, home of Mrs Clare Sheridan, novelist and sculptress, is for sale, but she does not want to leave it, because she likes the ghost. The house has SI rooms, a Tudor wcU staina.se. GG acres of ground and a chapel the haunt of
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      READY FOR MIGRATION
      82 6 CIIIFOWNERS from Greece. Italy. Portugal and Panama are buying old liners in New York lor what they believe will be a qreat mass migration from Europe to South America. Millions are waiting to go. say the ship buyers. They have high hopes of transporting the miKran s
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      VISITORS BARRED
      17 6 All Soekholm hospitals have been barred to visitors because many nurses ar^ down with 'flu.
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      GANGS MURDER IN CITY OF TERROR
      312 6 INTERNATIONAL gangsters have turned the ruined city of I Mannheim into post-war Germany's "crime capital.' Tossing their victims in the Rhine in a year long reign of murder, smuggling and sex crime, their operations rival the worst days of Al Capone's Chicago. At least
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      Home again
      53 6 AFTER long service in Palestine, troops of the 6th Airborne Dmsion have returned home to Britain. Here they arc disembarking from th" Alcantara at Southampton, glad to leave behind the sunshine of Palestine, even if it was to get bark to the worst winter that Britain has known
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      MONTY LOSES A CAMERA
      86 6 /"'AMERA shops in London art on the alert for anyone who may try to sell thrm folding camera engraved wvh the signature of its ova Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery A souvenir from Germany camera had been lent to his son. David, and was stolen from car while
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      RED ARMY HAS NEW HORSED
      149 6 THE Russ.ans are Dreading a •dark horse" It is a "gcod utility type." and it will be the. standard cavalry mount for thej Red Army. The "dark horse' has u^uiUdj from cross-breeding Don hor^s with English thoroughbred AraD*. According to Marshal Wkoall Semenovich Budyenny. famous
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      338 FINED FOR HANGINGONBUS
      180 6 •THE authorities and police in Amsterdam have begun a 1 campaign to make the public co-operate with safety regulations concerning the use of street (tram) car and for violating overcrowding rules 338 "hangen on" recently were tried at a mass hearing. Each was sentenced to Day
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      BOY FINDS SKULL
      27 6 A human skull found by a doy >n ad t-h at Long Lane. Ashford is tho*«rV to bare been stolen from a doctor's car
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      239 6 THE MENACE OF THE FUTURE B W IS MATERIAL FOR A THIRD WORLD WAR. «B 7/:/^ picturn posti a uiisl I L-?fi"^ YAyv 1^ bonitmC- jay V Jv V TIM HOLT-- SI TPE ASTOUNDING STOR} 4A HFHiND HIUERS LABOUR f 'PK CAMPS WILL SHOCK f^; MLVTRY FA 1 HER. MOTHER
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    SPORTS PAGE
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    FULLBACK'S GOAL WAS HIGHLIGHT
    341 7  -  Our So ccer Reporter Recs Beat Chinese In Charity Soccer FASD ful!ba< k I.ovvther was, for its very unlinjr fcaiure of yesterday *s charity ;n Ifmw Stadium in which the SingaVictory Cup champions, beat the Sin>ciation by the tell-tale margin i the game told us many
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    ICE HOCKEY UPSET
    185 7 PRAGUE Sun. ATRIA beat Sweden two to one toin th.> biggest upset of Uv 1 >ckey tournament, befor'? T.OOu *ho poured on to the ice :iter the game and earned the on their shoulders. The period scores were: 1-0, 0-0, 1-1. lh« C?,erho6!ovakia-United s game will decide
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    TRAINER DIES AT 26
    40 7 R Rosen, jun., racehorse trainer :-on-Tyne. North urn fcernci. has died a*ed 26 He had a small but useful string o f horses and his an was Bomber, at Liverpool mber. He also won last year's
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    VICTORY FOR SCRATCH XI
    243 7 A team captained by R.v.s. Surdram, the Ceylon Sports Club skipper, beat the Seaforih Highlanders by two wickets in a cricket match played at Gillman Brrrarks on Saturday. The Seafortlis batted firot, but could make little headway against the bowline: of Suudrain wl 0 took seven
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    League Soccer' At Stadium
    45 7 Futures taken at the S A.F.A. league match at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday show, a hove, the Malay team which beat I lu« Army four-three and, below. Jaffar. the Malay goalkeeper, punching dear in an Army attack —Free Press pictures.
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    TODAY'S SPORT
    17 7 Soccer: S.C.C. v Lai.d oflttc Padang: Inter-faculty annua] eame, Dentals v Medicals. Sepoy I ines.
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    Promoter Solomons Answers U.S. Critic
    286 7 LONDON. Sun. BOXING promotor Jack Solomons said on Sunday that he held a signed contract wi»h Tom Hurst, manager of .Bruce Woodcock, for the British heavyweight champion to fight the American champion Joe Baksi on Mar?h 2u. reports Associated Press. Commenting on a report ;n
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    WINS BIS RACE
    90 7 MIAMI, FLORIDA, Gun- The DM Bh rse Armed, by Bull Lea cut of Armful, jumped into third place among ihe world's leading money dinners Uy capturing the $50,000 V.'idener Handicap, run over a mile and a quarter. Mere tcday. Armed has now won a total cf $459,775.
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    Rest Of The Sport ANOTHER 100 IN CHANGI CRICKET
    804 7 Rest Of The Sport ANOTHER 100 IN CHANGI CRICKET THE second century in Singapore cricket this season was scored at Changi yesterday when leggett made 100 retired for the Combined Chanm R.A.F.. who beat the Singapore TOineae Recreation Club. La.=t week Gaunt scored 119 for Changi Airfield Pffttnt* the Special
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    BOXER WHO KEPT CO^iNO BACK
    398 7 From VERNON MORGAN LONDON, Sunday. IT is an old ring maxim that "They never come back.' but Nel Tarleton, the greatest British featherweight since peerless Jim Driscoll, who has finally retired at the age of 41, dispelled that theory. Here briefly is the championship record
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    BERNEOROUGH IN SAH FRANCISCO
    53 7 SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. '|>-IE famous Australian racei horse Bernborough arrived aboard the Swedish steamship Wangara-tta today to stand stud !in the curtailed turf enterpr lof motion picture producer Louis B. Mayer. The thorc-uehbred won 15 successive rac<\s m Australia unti: a I bon e injury la^?
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      876 7 W .■.v,.^..-.. v.v.v..,v... -vy.u.. ■<■:.■■:■::■: I Pton l Luton T. 3 1 »Readin? v Biton Hove *Bradford City v Lincoln C!tj Goal* ■w ri-ea Town l Winchester C. 2 'Southend v Bournemouth 'Postponed, frozen ground. pwD L F A Pts. Bt. v Fulham Torquay U v Port Vale Goals Range.s
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    -CITY NEWS— SPORE ROBBER PRICES TODAY
    217 8 -CITY NEWS— SPORE ROBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market corr-».»onJent gives the prices ot rubbei at 11 a.m toda> as follows: Buyer* irlleis its Cta oer Ib d?t Ib Ho 11.1l Spfrt loos* 11% BH No i RS S. fob in bales March 43 43< s ho RS S tab
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    STRIKE NEWS
    214 8 Continued from Page i> of his striking clerks early this monin^ and discussions were still con-i-»u*n!z at midday. The strike, which previously ui.uved about a third of the clerks employed' by the SHB spread this morning and it was officially stated that "the na*o-itv' Were out. Mr. Basten
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    FATING SPANIARDS
    32 8 SoftnUh leftist minorities in F -i. headed by Juan Ne^r-i rv represented i n the Spa-.ash' Ft publican Government in exie m forma n^w rroup. called "F.gh»ing Spaniards'* UP learr.s.
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    HIT BY TRAIN, DOG SAVES CHILD
    76 8 HIT BY TRAIN, DOG SAVES CHILD A railway engineer, Jerry Sullivan, gives a moir el dog credit for saving the life of a 27-month-old-girl at Kirkland, Washington by takinp the impart of a locomotive w.'tb its own body as f>e child stcod frightened on the lirr T»€ girl, Judith Ann
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    THEY WANT UNION OF EUROPE
    48 8 At an independent Labour Party i conference in London yesterday, I delegates from seven nations pledged themselves to work for i formation of a "United Socialist States of Europe." The delegates were from Germany, France Spain, Greece, Holland, Britain ana Amenca.- A .P.
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    'Misunderstood' is Tojo defence
    480 8 TOKIO, Sundaj. JAPAN'S actions during the pn>t decade and more had been "misunderstood" by the world, the defence charged today before the International Tribunal trying 26 of Japan's top war crimes suspects as the defence of Tojo and his co defendants opened, following a three-week recess
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    SOVIET SAY THEY BEAT GERMANY
    187 8 SOVIET SAY THEY BEAT GERMANY MOSCOW, Sun. AN ord r of the day by GeueraUttUno Stalin and salutes of 20 ariillery salvoes in all chief Russian cities heralded the celebration today throughout the Soviet Union of the Army's 29th ■anniversary. Radio and newspapers took the occasion to emphasise the Soviet
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    Churchill forgot his teeth
    38 8 QNCE wh-n Mr. Winston Churchill visited the HQ of the US Army in France he left hi s fase teelh beh nd Tell-ne the t«?e",°»% S t£°R£ CT.Jdriß'Sk'thi 1 1 0 """I imP r
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    FRANCE TO GET MORE WHEAT
    316 8 PARIS, Sunday. THE French Minister of Agriculture, M. Tanguy Prigent, 1 on his return yesterday from the United States where he had gone to ask for additional wheat imports to France, stated that he had obtained a promise of delivery before June 30 of 550,000
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    VIETNAM FIGHTS INSTEP OF GROWING RICE
    485 8 VIETNAM FIGHTS INSTEP OF GROWING RICE SAIGON, Sunday. AFTER almost 18 months of postwar turmoil, massacre and looting Franco-Vietnamese relations in Indochina have deteriorated into an open clash involving the reinforcement of a costly French expeditionary force. There are thousands of idle acres— unattended paddy fields rubber and coffee plantations
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    BOLIVIA NAMES MINIMUM PRICE FOR TIN
    131 8 BOLIVIA NAMES MINIMUM PRICE FOR TIN LA PAZ, bO L.I VIA. Sun. THE Minister of Economy. Eduardo Saenz, said on Saturday; "The inflexible and definite point of vi?* of government and mining circles is that price of tin must be r <3 cents (U.S.) a pound." He termer: "completely fa
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    BANK ROBBERY
    20 8 Three armed men robbed a Bombay bank messenger of £10.-i 000 in notes after knocking him 1 unconscious.
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    Mary Churchil Marries
    58 8 Mary Churchil Marries Mr. Winston C'hurrhill, Kn ain war-time loader led daughter. Miss Marj thurtniM. to th. at a r at si Church, Westminster, London, when she ua^ marn Christophrr Soam.^ rf tin* Col4 stream Guards th, Captain Arthur Gimavafe Soimr and the li Khye. The bride and bridegroom ar
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    Mac A says don't let Japs starve
    362 8 TOKIO, Sunda). nOINTIXG out that the food blockade of Japan is no* more I stringent than during the war, General Douglas Mac Arthur, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan, has warned the U.S. Congress in a special report that to expose the Japanese to
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    BIG RISE IN U.K. BIRTHRATE
    83 8 Britain's birthrate rose phenomenally i n the first seven weeks of 1947 during the country's worst weather in half a century. A total of 11,244 babies were born during the period, 3,656 more than ior the same period in 1946. For the week ending Peb
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    VATICAN ACCUSES ALBANIAN GOVT.
    55 8 The Vatican radio, reporting allegations of anti-Catholic persecution in Albania, said that two priests were tortured to death in Scutari and only iwo infirm priests were now at liberty in the city, reports Reuter. Nuns had been expelled from their convents and forbidden to wear religious
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    WEATHER Generalty cloudy
    21 8 WEATHER Generalty cloudy I Ml rain at u~^ v bo ri M sd— I 1 n i n- r nj 10-dt*
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    THE PRINCESS DRIVE A TRAIN
    259 8 Aboard the Royal train in Snuih \inva. pRINCESS MARGARET ROSF 6^ not want driver. She said so after riding for five mintf* her sister, Elizabeth, in the cabin <>f the Royal triiM on Saturday. The princesses boarded tht tncneai Place, Buffetsja^ts Ri*vr. mmiif P lo
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