The Singapore Free Press, 8 March 1947

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA No. l* SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1947. PRICE 10 CENT a.
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  • Article
    RETAILERS PROTEST: INTIMIDAATION
    291 1 Free Press Staff Reporter COURTEEN Singapore rice, flour and sugar retailers have made a joint complaint, through the Indian Chamber of Commerce, to Mr. J. Hamer, Food Controller, alleging constant intimidation of drivers m the delivery of foodstuffs. They state that payment must be made to the
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    24 1 n from Dundee, |to ft rag *l R^ai Smart !> m Pincra* -ri>o. felon, where to i, nbt ■■ftai 1 7 Ibary m th^ lin*T
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    BUS STRIKE NEARS END
    176 1 rTe>s Staff Reporter Ml. A. A. SWING, General Manager of the Singapore Trac::i»p. tompan>. said this morning that the Company agrees imedL Hat ion on condition that the strikers resume work immediately, while negotiations take place. I i Press sent a reporter along to the Singapore
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    JAPAN TO PAY UP MILLIONS
    40 1 TOKYO. Ft. n hai > of p.auonal now be retheir Japan. m Property Supreme r...T...:_, P. SCAP), i that SCAP controls reie of oatset r to rei- _V rties m the latter s are bofctincs. A.P.
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    GUNMEN RAID CAR STORE
    53 1 GUNMEN RAID CAR STORE IRMED Chinese broke into a motor workshop off Orchani Road Singapore today tied up ths Indian watchman and put him m a bathroom and then robbed the workshop and store of motor tyres and spare parts. Three other armed robberies were reported m Singapore during the
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    A.T.S. GIRL HELD IN DRUG FIND
    68 1 |i JERUSALEM, Friday. If Army sergeant and a private m, wing the chance discovery of Hum and haskish m a British Army enI at Gu'za, Palestine. B are be- i m rmy speB t coB of rings m Syria, I a.s H V -nct-aled
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    PRISON SUICIDE
    52 1 Chan Kwan, one ji the two Cninese charged m Melbourne with the murder of Yeung Shing, a Chinese seaman, was found hanged m his cell yesterday. Shing was shot dead when returning to the docks m a taxi with several hundred pounds he had won m Chinese gambling
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    TERRORIST LEADER CAPTURED
    140 1 TERRORIST LEADER CAPTURED JERUSALEM Fri. BRITISH trojps, using large. iurces and assisted by planes, 1 extended their six-day search for j terrorists m Palestine today by dawn descents on three towns, iiehovoth m orange grove cjun^y south of Tel- Aviv, and Nathanya 1 (Diamond Town") and Hadera, "Green Place') hidden
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    SPORTS BAN
    31 1 Banning of futurp mid-week sports meetings including football matches is to be considered *\o\\" with other matt?rs relating to fuel economy at a Government policy meeting next week- Reuter
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    Atom plea to Moscow
    105 1 THE British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest B>vin, will find awaiting him on his arrival m Moscow for the "Big Four" talks an urgent communication from the committee of British atomic scientists and politicians urgjng hi m to raise at once with Stalin and George C. Marshall
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    BUSMEN: 'WE ARE NOT HOULIGANS'
    221 1 BUSMEN: 'WE ARE NOT HOULIGANS' REPLYING to the front-page story in yesterday's Free Pr_ss Mr. R. K. Samy, President of the Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union, does not deny that Singapore taxis are invited to coni noute to his Union's funds, but takes exception to a taxidriver's reference to his
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    WIFE ACQUITTED OF BATH MURDER
    213 1 BRISTOL, Friday. AFTER deliberating for over ail hour, the jury of ten men and two women today found Mrs. Rosina Ann Cornock, 34, not guilty of murdering her sexually perverted husband, Cecil George Cornock, m his bath m his home m Bristol. Mrs. Cornock apparently
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    HEAT WAVE
    64 1 Singapore's heat wave continues, and the temperature has climbed steadily every day this week. Maximum temperatures were: Sunday 88.8, Monday 90.2, Tuesday 90.1, Wednesday 90.0, Thursday 90.5. Friday 91.0. Singapore was all set for its warmest day of the year when at 9.30 this morning a temperature of
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    RAF RELEASE IN APRIL AND MAY
    110 1 LONDON, Fri. IT is announced that the general level of releases for ground airmen m April and May will be group 54 and some ground trades will reach group 57. In some trades releases will not have reached group 54 but all of these
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    GASSED 2,000,000, NAZI CONFESSES
    59 1 Observers from 17 countries thave been invited to the trial of Rudolf Hoess, former commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp m Poland, which will open m Warsaw on Mar. 11. An official statement published scon after his arrest by the Allies s?id that Hoess had admitted
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    'NO CONFIDENCE' IN THE GOVT
    377 1 ■S CHURCHILL MOTION LONDON, Friday. MR. WINSION CHURCHILL, as official Leader of (he 111 Opposition m the House of Commons, has tabled an amendment, amounting to a motion of "no confidence m the Labour Government, to the Government's motion on economic policy, which is to
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    Frontier Mail is attacked
    349 1 LAHORE, Friday. IT is officially announoed that a frontier mail train was held up today and attacked at Taxila and some passengers wounded with hatches and lathis. Taxila is about 50 miles, north-west of Rawalpindi. This news reached New Delhi as steel-helmeted British troops, fully armed
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    CLERKS' STRIKE CLOSES BANKS
    44 1 Eight of the leading banks m Rome closed yesterday when clerks called a strike because they had not received the bonus due to them for extra work over Italy's reconstruction loan. Several other banks had granted the bonus. j Reuter
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    BABY RIDE
    41 1 Here is a new way of carrying baby. In snow-bound Britain, prams are awkward for the morning shopping, and Mrs. I arkins uses the "baby harness" made by her husband. The harness can be adjusted as the baby rrows.
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    8,000 MORE MEN FOR INDOCHINA
    54 1 MARSEILLES, Fri. THE 35,000-ton liner lie de -ance has sailed for Indochina with 8,000 troops aboard, ,*v_l iding two battalions of the Foreign Legion. Others were Algeran.- an*; Moroccan conscripts. Adm Thierry D'Argenlieu, former High Commissioner to I .dochina. was received today by Paul Ramadier,
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    £2,500,000 SECRETS
    19 1 Britain will spend £2,500.000 on secret service during the coming: year, civil estimates issued yesterday disclose.— Reuter
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      33 1 M FLINTER A S. GRINBERG Wholesale Retail Dealers la DIAMONDS JEWELLERY Telephone "M 3 67. SUmford Rand. En Court Bldjt Singapore. mr n i I'll >A* 9MM^IHbB^B '*s^M; A \\\>\^H^^ f^H TIGER BALM
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      MUSIC IN ARMENIAN STREET
      787 2  - MUSIC IN ARMENIAN STREET John Cha llen TREBLE CLEF by I HAVE repeatedly been struck by the surprised look m people's faces when I mentioned the fact that there was such a thing as Music m Armenian Street. There certainly is not such an mdance of concerts m Singapore that
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      BE WILDERING CHANGES
      204 2  -  DAVID GRANT MUSIC FOR EVERYBODY BY RADIO Malaya's present system (if any) of choosing pic grammes for their "Music for Everybody" concerts bin already been sufficiently deplored m this column on previous occasions. Last Sumiiy s concert at the Memorial Hall proved no exception m this respect.
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      126 2 CPAOES are trumps. South leads North and South are to win al. seven tricks against any defense. South leads the king of diamonds and North plays the nine. South then leads a club, and North ruffs. North continues with the other trump, and South discards tbe a~?
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      RADIO & MOVIES: DEGENERATING?
      391 2 RADIO MOVIES: DEGENERATING? THE "degenerating m- fiuence" of radio and the movies, loss of prestige by churches and failure of the American Government m its contributions to cultural progress are endangering the democratic way of life, Mrs. Eugene Meyer said recently m Washington. Mrs. Meyer, a writer on social problems
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      QUIZ Answers
      98 2 1. (at Sigmund Freud «1856--163 8•: at-- ol the founders, mocen psycho-analysis; Jajne£ Anthony Froude (1318--\m* historian and biographer m Tlioma.- Carlyle; <c) Fnodrich ftoebcl ri7B2-1352>: educationai reformer and founder of the 3ur.d?r£ai^?n 2. Ail th >se "^cas" lonn part o! the South Pacific (a> betwec:. Australia and
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      64 2 IZAI J The world-famous disinfectant anc I for estates use and general sar I concentrated ana economical ii I NOXO The finest wo 3d preserva ,1 J Prevents fungus and deterio^on 9 I I work. Protects against white ants I Mad- by Newton Cambers A Co. Ltd I t Sheffield.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      898 2 Coming events TO-NIGHT, at 8.00 p.m.— JOYCE SCHARENGUIVEL Piano Recital, at the "Little Theatre** Armenian Street. Th* programme will include: Beethoven: Sonata m E minor, op. 90 Chopin: Funeral March Sonata Cesar Franck: Symphonic Variations. WEDNESDAY, March 12. at 800 pm. At the 'little Theatre," Armenian Street "BRAHMS DVORAK' on
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    • Miscellaneous
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      159 2 LUCKY STAR UOK\ lo.ay, \oo are ti.ili-. tfyr Music and IHcrttwe mi t Imci and you ha?t oi Il'-M tast< ,d U .nt. ik* H>iu< v you hlVf MR appn r thr ar if otl- hare to cr«at»\ i rk donf bj .mrl«ui Midi nukt an acell* nt i ritfc
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  • CHINA NEWS
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      4,000,000 DIE EACH YEAR Aid China appeal
      107 3 4,000,000 DIE EACH YEAR Aid China appeal FMILLioN I h nese die every year, who should not .000.000 Chinese are sick every day," said r, n< ted American physician m San Francisco, ican relief supplier and money must w into ailing China. He has just returned wo-year stay m China.
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      74 3 When the Chinese Government recently announced new economic control measures, including the prohibition of transactions m gold bars and foreign currencies, there was a rush to the Central Bank of China to unload foreign money for Chinese notes. Picture shows young "exchange brokers." who 1.1 ><! their business on the
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      Big round-up in Peiping
      38 3 TWO THOUSAND persons were arrested m 1,689 cases of hoarding and profiteering discovered during a city-wide search m Peiping. Most of the arr?sts m Peiping, according to Chinese press reports, were suspected Communists. j
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      CHINA NOT TO BE AT LONDON TALK
      89 3 I\R. CHU CHIA-HUA, CMnese Minister of Education, has cabled regrets to the British United Nations Association, saying he wa s unable >o attend the London conference of the World Federation of the United N-a ions Association whi"h meets on March 1. As president
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      Powers to build new embassies
      224 3 CHINA'S post-war capital, Nanking, may soon have a diplomatic section rivaling the famous Legation Quarter of old Peking. Not far from the new American Embassy on the outer edge of Nanking's northwestern region, three nations are buying real estate for building new embassies. Official sources
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      CHINA AIRPORTS TO BE MODERN
      83 3 lian Aviation Bureau has sent technical I various airports m China to modernise their mi tMah, shments with a view to making air travel recently created under the Chinese numcations to supervise the activities of ial airlines. The Bureau is headed by Examination Yuan President
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      China warship goes to Japan
      44 3 THE Chinese Gov?rnment has decided to send a warship to Japan as a token occupation force pending dispatch of army orces. The Government had selected trained-divisions for the occupation, but these were I diverted t> thp civil war U.P.
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      CANTON STOPS TIPPING
      105 3 THE Canton Provincial Bureau of Social Afifairs has issued an order to district authorities prohibiting the collection by shops or an extra fee m the form of tips to salesmen or waitresses so that the burden on the public can do reduced, says the Canton Da lv
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      RICKSHAS TO STAY
      17 3 The Nanking Government has instructed the Kwangtung Government not to abolish the rickshas. i
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      NANKING MAY TAKE OVER FORTUNES
      298 3 Chinese have big funds m U.S. DEPOSITS heW by Ch.nese citizens m banks m the United U States stood at U.S. $356,400,000 m June 1941 L.5 Mr Lou Tung-sun, chairman of the Economic Committed of the Leg.slat.ye van, m Nanking discussing the Government new currency
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      New envoy to China
      49 3 Heer van Aerssen, me iv w Netherlands Ambassador to China, saying good-bye to Dutch naval friends at Melbourne. Heer van Aerssen, who is seen with his secretary. Miss van der Sleeson, was, prior to his new appointment, Netherlands Minister to Australia for five yeari. t
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      PRESS GANG IS NEEDED TO GET RECRUITS
      103 3 PRESS GANG IS NEEDED TO GET RECRUITS T»HE Shanghai Chinese news--1 paper Ta Kung Pao, m an editorial, attacked the Govern- 1 ment of Szechuan as "extremely i corrupt." "Graft is widely prevalent," th e paper said. "Many various ex- i actions were imposed on the po- pulace. Many farmers
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      VARSITY SUICIDE AFTER 'SPY' TALK
      66 3 Li Liang-mu, a student of political science, of St. John's University, Shanghai was discovered dead In his dormitory. He was found to have committed suicide. Li had been "branded" by soni: 1 students m the University as a special service man" detailed f^r intelligence service
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      BAN ON DANCING MAY BE LIFTED
      244 3 THE official ban against cabaret dancing m Nanking, imposed by the Municipal Government since May last year "to safeguard the morality of the people," is gradually dissolving as cabaret owners, professional dancing hostesses and dancing enthusiasts intensify their publicity campaign for the cause of
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      TAKU TO RIVAL S'HAI PORT
      307 3 THOUGH Tientsin today is feeling the pinch of hard time. 1 she looks to a future as a great domestic and foreign port rivalling m importance China's premier city, Shanghai. Her optimism is based on a plan for developing the harbour at Taku, begun by
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      WATER SCOOTERS
      24 3 Chinese fisherman use a "water-scooter" very similar to cnild's scooter but without wheels to skim over shallow water and soft mud.— U.P.
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      GOLD GLUT IN HONG KONG
      101 3 I SHANGHAI banker estimates ounces of gold, valued at about j £2.000,000 is stored m Hong Kong bank vaults which owners are unable to move profitably following the recant ban of gold sales C'vni\~ c Government. I The source sad gold imports :rom the United
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      81 3 CATHAY PhoiK 3400 11. am, 1.45. 4.15, 6.45, 9-30 INGRID BERGMAN AND CARY CHANT IN THEIR GREATEST ACTING PIT FORM ANCES. 1 ILL OF SUSPENSE! tKeir i^^^Mßk lovt! X tw jJTL pan mwi 71 fIR k«n X W i < c „-^y MIDNIGHT TO-NIGHT fit! htf WTJ> •^^L Hfll llfi/
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 8, 1947. To Quit
      630 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 8, 1947. To Quit WHEN i^count Mountbattea jfoes to New Delhi a fortnight today to become the last Viceroy of India, he will go with I the knowledge that Parliament is largely behind the British Governments daring, and possibly dangerous decision, to hand over
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      Dan Iddon's Diary
      1378 4 FROM NEW YORK— BY AIR MAIL 1 BRITAIN'S NEW CHAMPIONS IN AMERICA ARE HITCHING A RIDE FROM FEAR THE assortment of passengers clambering on to the "Bundles for Britain band wagon becomes more varied as Britain prepares to bow out of India, cut Burma loose, and project
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      QUIZ
      111 4 1. With what contributions to I knowledge are associated the names of: (aj Freud; (b) Froudo; (c) Frcebel? 2 Where are <a the Timor Sea (b) the Celebes Sea; (c) the Banda Sea; (d> the Flores Sea; (c) the Coral Sea? 3. 'Yes, I have a pair of eye*,'
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      33 4 Discoverer of Polaroid, tJun n [flai, (top) and the negative (bottom 0 f a a demonstration in Neu Verk recently sule in the camera develops Um nga'.v, and m*k4 tKi print ttl 1
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    • LETTER TO THE EDITOR
      • Letter
        'Twilight'& 'Daylight'
        287 4 'Twilight' 'Daylight' ris indeed apt thai your correspondent whose letter appeared recently under the title "Star I cerity is Requested," should have used the non-de-plume "Twilight" example of the twilight of intelligence. I had been gratified to observe that "at last." the Singapore Free Press was aliv-e to the true
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      OLDEST JOB IN ARMY
      289 4 THE office of Master--1 Gunner of St. Jam* Park, m which F. M. Lord Alanbrooke has just .succeeded F. M. Lord Milne, is one of the oldest appointments m the British Army. Although today the Master Gunner's duties are m effect those of a Colonel of
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      FAITH
      14 4 lie sober. t»e vljibnt; k«* r arm,.- !i<»n «alketh s«>eki.i^ whom be WU
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      429 4 URGING the Manx Government to investigate the use of peat for domestic heating, Judge DEEMSTER FARRANT, ol the Manx Tynwald Court, said he had cut peat by himself lasi summer and had so been able to keep his house warm through the winter. JACK BENNY, th e
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      40 4 William Raddor* Halman hirtd the village hall at <5 I k-h dmjr and to advise his family t o have mor c children WUHam v*^ 5° e^?* M^Wi gc! *^Nlhare {u*.t, ehrldren, fourteen grandchildren and three great gran^h^; o^^ ll^
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      ARMY SPARES S'PORE GOOD FISH
      322 5 Civ' Hans complain and so- Free Press Staff Reporter rnF ttm m sin^ a >ere has c ll3ll^^ its fi?h supply f llowine complaints from civilian sources that the ha> 'been buying up all the best fish caught teaviru none for civilians m time of
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      TRADERS ARE AGAINST BACK PAY
      87 5 TRADERS ARE AGAINST BACK PAY Ftw Pn- S i I Keporlff lay for 3 on the noon A.tS I ray r cd. My k pay for sain j to erector c money zi^i. pi ban *.o This tedd mean inerea.-ed taxation wid a possible tevj the incon.a :.n be I
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      WAR MEMORIAL IS PLANNED
      104 5 Free Pre^s Staff Reporter T*O commemorate all Christian 1 Brothers and old boys of the Brothers' Schools m Malaya who I died m the war, the Christian Brother's Old Boys' Association, Singapore, has started a fund for the erection of a memorial. The memorial will be
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      MR. CHETTUR TO INVESTIGATE
      36 5 Hi nta of i -'•'ing 'he r ::uair.cidence *es and use LrvJ'JJp^ down to mp there m order to spot re- ni, he the labour rx v ma -To affected, m amic-
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      SENDING INDIANS TO CIVVY STREET
      35 5 SENDING INDIANS TO CIVVY STREET I taem of the dia will soon IMIbL' -S.biUy of 2u££ c R^ettle--4 the Army Xi (dam ni al and an d has -> of re■■steto -I-iry U assist c vilian
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      5 INDIANS GET GEORGE CROSS
      277 5 FIVE heroes of the Indian Arniv will be honoured at a special ceremonial parade to be held at Delhi on Tuesday, when one Indian officer and the widows or next of-kin of four other officers and men will be presented with the George Cross. The
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      WHALE MEAT FOR S'PORE
      278 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SOME people m Singapore are due shortly to have a whale of a time if and when they purchase 34 tons of denydrated fish. This is among the items listed for sale of Army surplus foodstuffs by HQ Singapore Supply Reserve Depot
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      LUXURY SHIPS
      92 5 TWO former luxury liners, the Nederland Line's Oranj e and the Furness Withy's Queen of Bermuda, are expected to arrive m Singapore On Mar. 12, from the United Kingdom. The Oranje has HI passengers and 657 bags of mail for Singapore and the Queen of Bermuda will disembark
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      WANDERING REBEL FLIES TO INDIA
      38 5 Sardar Ajit Singh, veteran Indian revolutionary, left London by itr yesterday for New Delhi after m absence from India of nearly iO years, during which time he 'ad travelled all over the world.
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      ON TOUR OF FAR EAST
      79 5 FLYING his oonw n special highspeed twin-engined Mitchell bor.itor, Air Marshal Sir Roderick Hill, is now on a 20,000-mile Uur of RAF units m India and the Far East. He will discuss and explain the new technical services for which he is responsible. Recently appointed
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      FIRST LEAVE IN 24 YRS
      162 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Rev. Brother Sigebert of St. Joseph's Institution is sailing M e steamer Athos II tomorrow -Or Ireland on leave. There is hardly an old boy of t. Joseph's who does not remom- j ber this good-natured Brother. > }o° first
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      MORE S'PORE MAILS LOST
      82 5 It is officially disclosed that more mail was originally advised has been lost on the Dakota which was recently missing on a flight i from Singapore to Saigon and Hong Kong. The losses now reported comprise all letters, registered and unregistered, posted m Singapore between 6
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      Untitled
      45 5 Readers have been persistently telephoning the Free Press complaining of over-crowding m buses. This complaint the Free Press has relayed to the proper quarters, but this picture taken yesterday shows that overcrowding, a menace to road safety, is becoming a feature of our public transport
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      WHO HAS RIGHT OF WAY?
      160 5 WHO HAS RIGHT OF WAY? Remember, when entering: on a roundabout, the vehicles already en it have the right of way, say the Singapore Traffic Police. The object of each driver when he enters a roundabout is (a) to reach the near s»do kerb at his own intended print of
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      KEMPEI VICTIMS TO BE REBURIED
      560 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rWENTY-ONE Sime Road internees and victims ol the 1 Kempeitai who died and were buried m the pauper section of the Bidadari Cemetery during ihe occupation will be re interred m the Protestant or Roman Catholic sections of Bidadari within the
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      CENTRE WILL TEACH HOME CRAFT
      129 5 CENTRE WILL TEACH HOME CRAFT NEXT month, a Girls' Home Craft Centre will be opened m Singapore. The aim of this institution will be to provide a thorough household training for homeless ?nd destitute girls, of whom tIMN are many m Singapore at the moment. The centre will be residential,
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      GOLDEN ARROWS REFORM IN INDIA
      205 5 INDIA'S Seventh ("Goiden Arrow") Division, which served m Malaya after the liberation, has }*ist been reformed j,t Rawalpindi from elements of its own combined with others from the late 10th Indian Division. Mobilised for war m 1942, the Division's first major operation against the enemy
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      TWO WATCHMEN JAILED
      45 5 For the unlawiul possession of 11 revolvers and 24 rounds of ammunition on Nov. 26 last year, two Indian watchmen, Bilwant Singh and Singava Singh, were sent to prison for five years and four years respectively at the Second Singapore Assizes yestefday.
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      JAP ARRESTED ON REPAT
      132 5 CERGEANT Yamauch: Eaturo U i perhaps the unluckiest Japa- nese m Changi Jail. Tried and acquitted m the famous "Double Ten h" trial m Singapore last i year, Yamauchi was put on board ihe Choron Mam" and sent oil! io Tokyo via Hong Kong on rej
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      105 5 in.n -I lit n RFdark COMMAND CAOUI WAtSM 'DI«tCTO« "^flC OAM JONM ""S ItIVO«'WAYNI ']&»> .J\ MID-NIGHT To-Ni jf h t RONALD REAGAN JOAN PERRY JAMES GLEASON Pre??aea u s 'PLEDGE To BATAAN" (m Technicolor) VO 1 R WEEK-END ENTERT \-NMENT ASK ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN iT! It's On At
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  • NEWS
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      7-WEEK-OLD BABY SETS PROBLEM
      179 6 7-WEEK-OLD BABY SETS PROBLEM Ik BABY seven weeks old, whose father is a former quartermaster sergeant m the British Army, and whose mo. her is an •Austrian ciivorceo, has set the Home Office a tricky problem. What is 10 happen to tfce child. The mother. Maria Elisabeth. Ziehensak, who was
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      NECKTIES FROM ESCAPE MAPS
      75 6 NECKTIES FROM ESCAPE MAPS Men m London find 'cctoy they can wear some fancy new ties and firm white shir collars and not sp^nd their prodOQS] clothing coupons for them. The neck iez are advcrUs^d as "geoerraphral!'- correct" and are made from coloured Rcyal Air. Force escape maps. The collars
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    • Article
      6,419,000 LB. GIFTS
      26 6 Gift parcels of food sent from i New Zealand last year, most of them to Britain, n imbered i>55.--897 and weighed 6.419,000 pounds.
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      PUT PIG IN HIS WIFE'S CHAIR
      51 6 The wife of a man m Knocke, Belgium, has sought police protec ion because when he is drunk he puts her m the pigs.y, threatening injury if she moves, and then carries the pig indoors and places it m the woman's armchair m the
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      German trials cost £90,000
      204 6 German trials cost £90, 000 Tilt cost to Britain of the Nuremberg trial of Goer ing and Co. was £90,600. Sir Frank Soskice, Solicitor-General, said m the House of Commons during a debate on supplementary estimates. He told Mrs. E. M. Braddock {Luu., Liverpool Exchange) that tr.e cosi of the
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      U.S. FIGHT ON COLOUR TELEVISION
      454 6 Rival firms plead to Govt. ADVOCATES of colour and black-and-white television resi\ pectively are engaged m a vigorous battle m America over which system should receive endorsement by the Federal Communications Commission. Protracted hearings have been held m Washington and New York at the request
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      Young farmer
      71 6 WHEN Bill Thomas's father died, Bill, who is only 16, took over the working of isolated Nut Tree Farm, Howish, m Somerset. Bill has always wanted to be a farmer, and now with s'x cows, four calves, lots of poultry and the land he has plenty to do.
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      GIRLS TO PICKET ACTOR
      193 6 I TWENTY -FIVE shapely j 1 young Broadway chorus girls are planning to organise a down with-Shakespeare picket line outside the New York theatre where Donald Wolfit \s British repertory company is due to open. The girls, all members of the cast of a musical comedy
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      TOKIO BLONDE SHOT HERSELF
      128 6 OFFICIALS of the Provost Marshal's Office m Tokio have refused to divulge details of the suicide of Mrs Paula Schneider. described as a tall*, beautiful blonde, who took her own life rather than face deportation and reparation to Germany They flatly rejected a request for the
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      JUDGE VALUES AN APPETITE
      210 6 UHEN a Judge was asked at KendaJ 'J of meals eaten by a tenant farmei "appetite," he was told what t haymaking time. After early m rning br jJS his feeding timetable went Like tl 10 a.m., bread and che: .pastry cr custard; midday, ipctatoes, vegetables,
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      TO A NEW LIFE
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      THEY MISSED . SAXON RELICS
      52 6 THEY MISSED SAXON RELICS Roman relics. including a bronze comb and hair clip of the second century, were stolen by thieves who broke open an exhibition case at Bath. Somerset. Roman baths. But they left behind some valuable Saxon relics, including a coffin plate of a princess stepdaughter of Alfred
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      1881 EXCHANGE BLAZE
      16 6 Sheffield's Corn Exchange, which was opened m 1881. was badly damaged by fire.
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      SWISS TURBINES FOR BRITAIN
      100 6 Britain is :o have the benefit of 12 years' research m Switzerland on the gas turbine, for which many ship-owners see a great future. John Brown Co. Ltd., the Clydeside builders of the largest liners an<j some of the largest battleship 3, have announced that; they
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      BANDITS STRIP GIRL IN STREET
      155 6 WHEN a well-dressed gir) was held up and marched oil by armed thugs m the fashionable centre of Vienna, no one paid much attention, an Austrian who saw the incident told the Press. For Vienna is m the grip ot a tantastic crime wave against
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      Stole 500,000 Coupons
      60 6 MORE than 500,000 clothing coupons were stolen from a printing warehous? m Bermondsey, London. The thieves used a ladder to climb over a gate, forced the pad-lock of a door and went up to th? third floor, where the books of coupons were stored. They took 8.000
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      ALTITUDE RECORD
      26 6 An unofficial world altitude record for helicopters of 18.850 K. was se: up by Major Ernest Cassell. U S. Army Air Force test pilot.
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      Monarchists in Spain greet exiled prince
      54 6 Monarchists in Spain greet exiled prince TH;>! o.iNUS of ls{janijih monai.n,,' s nilJi I Don Jaime, son of the lat- King \i I arrived at Barajas airport, just u t> I his fister Chr stina. They wer^ on ?i° m^t4l Ge_a fr.m Estorial m Portugal R /^^Sl Don Juan, claimant
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      LIMBS SWOLLEN WIIH RHEUMATISM
      60 6 She Could Neither Wi Nor Sleep thou^:: neV^i rt After l! she *as In six w pro\> Salts I to foe: t. six weeks I takm able to gi fropand I feel really Rheuma: TS£*A by deposits of r the muscles and j^^^d breaks ur them
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      TEST CRICKET IS A YOUNG MAN'S GAME
      167 7  - TEST CRICKET IS A YOUNG MAN'S GAME Bill Bowes Australia Proved It To England Front I SYDNEY, Friday. I iht- real reason for the M.C.C. sending X miles, are now over, and although I: i>it New Zealand before the tour is ft is the iime for a little quiet con
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      Services have shown best form
      579 7 SOCCER NOTES By Our Soccer Reporter pis so customary m these troublous days to expect far LJL better things than we do get that the new outcry a-ainst the poor standard of soccer that has been displayed l especially by Civilian teams, m the current
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      PENANG RACE CARD
      287 7 WEIGHTS for the first day of the Penang Turf Club's Spring Meeting m Penang to-day are: RUE ONE— (2.30 P.M.) Horses, Classes 3 and 4 Combined. >iv. 2, 5 Furs. Wynmalen P.CTGuIa 8.07 Shubel 9.o6Silica 7.13 Prampton 8.13 Celestial 7.10 SCRATCHTNGS Robelus 8.10 Rumination 7.04 Cornsheaf 8
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      LONDON GIRL IN U.S. GOLF SEMI-FINAL
      79 7 ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, Thursday. MISS MUREEN RUTTLE. of Lon- don. elminated Miss Peggy Kirk, of Findlay. Ohio, three and I two. m the quarterfinals of tne j Florida East Coast Women's Golf Tourney, yesterday. Behind at the turn, Miss Ruttie rallied, playing the last
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      CEYLONESE WAS BEST BOXER
      557 7 Rest Of The Sport THERE seemed to be general agreement j 1 that the best display m the Oxford j vs. Cambridge boxing which Cambridge won by five bouts to two yesterday at Cambridge, was given by C. S. de Saram from Ceylon, a nephew of
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      Problems For Our Cricket Selectors
      656 7 By the Sports Editor WITH cricket now m full season, the game dominates this week-end's sporting diary with no less ilian ten matches between the better known Services and civih-.n teams nnd perhaps many others between unit sides. It is less than a month to
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      GOLF AMATEURS: SECRET RULE
      117 7 New regulations governing the status of amateur golfers have been approved by the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient GMf Club, but will remain secret till July 7, the date On which they will come into force. Publication is delayed to avoid any c:nfusion with
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      WARWICKSHIRE £8,453 CRICKET RECEIPTS
      54 7 Warwickshire County Cricket Club made a profit of £424 last jear after setting aside incometax reserves of £1,000 and maintaining the existing repairs reserve at £1,300. Gate receipts of £8.453 were the third highest m the history of the club, and but for rain would probably
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      CONDA FIGHTS SINGH
      65 7 TEFF Ccmda. heavyweight wrestler J who has rot be^n beaten sii^ce 1941. m*»ets Dara Singh m a ten round contest at the Great World arena tnnight. Len Hicks, of the RASC, is on the bill, making his farewell appearance against Flash Hammend. Chic Kenny v Bert Egerton
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      Anxious Moments For The 'Keeper
      70 7 Ansahia, the I often goalkeeper, had many anxious moments m the first few minutes c-f Thursday's league socctr match at Jalan Besar Stadium which the Malays won one-nil An fu Ilia made nervous beginning, but later recovered splendidly and these Free Press pictures \v\\ the
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      AUSTRALIANS NOW AWAIT THE INDIANS
      308 7  - AUSTRALIANS NOW AWAIT THE INDIANS Norman preston From SYDNEY, Fri. INDIAN cricket will undergo a severe test of ability here next season. The Australians are sure to treat them seriously, like they do m England, not only becausa the Australians give nothing a way on the cricket held, but also
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      SOMERSET REBUFF FOR SUPPORTERS' CLUB
      111 7 jCOMERSEI Cricket Ciuo have refused to give official recognition to the newiy-formed S merest Cr.cket Supp.ru rs 1 The executive committee ■of :he cricket club met a deputalon from the supporters, and th~ rebuff came m a subs quent letter. The suppcrttro' cub, u_rv ,600
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      103 7 tel RECORD SMASHER! T^lBl^M|l©l?sr^ genius with a gun: THE M#f HAS NEVER KNOWN %z EQUAL! At bst...tbe TBUE draaitic stiry tf the frontier's ■.^^JH^^^^^^^^KBiTr"^^ most famous despe ifio... j^JL [P'^^^^H Mirdtess iußcr vA atwgwj BHHfl9^^HF^ Mgel »!tl! 2B UfßfUtCfted I^^HH ftmas ftf ftpopelatM... \g» Because to nan could 9Hb W^
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      188 7 WEEKEND SPORTS i FIXTURES TODAY .SOCCER: S.A.F.A. .eafae, SRC. .vs. SI.F.A Selection 11, jaian Be^ax Stadium. 5.15 p»m. .CRICKET: S.CC. Krai«ji W.T, padans, 2 p.m S.CC. vs. Police, Thomson -road, I pjm.l SRC. vs. 222 BOD. Alexandra. 2pm.; Cla kr Ran-. 4MB \a. R.A.SC, I'ulau Braci, 2 pm R.AS.C, <-i
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      HOME
      31 8 Trtrose Head Lig'Uhouse, Padston, N. Cornwall, which was a great aid to Bomber Command during the war and now flashes out its warning lig ht to ships on the Atlantic.
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        S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
        140 8 A Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m today as follows: SINGAPORE CHAMBER Ot COMMERCE TH» Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Associations robber prices at noon yesterday wer?: Buyers Sellers (us Cts. per lb. per Ib. No 1 R.S S. Spot loose
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        Rubber Crops
        67 8 T-rquand Youngs. McAuliSe Co. the secretaries, announce the following crop rigures for February: Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd. 17.000 lb; Aver Panas Rubber Estate Ltd. 68.000 lb; Oler.ealy Plantations Ltd. 64,700 lb, Kluar.g Rubber Co.. Ltd. 48.0C0 lb; Pa am Ltd. 176,500 lb; Tambalak Rubber Es.ates Ltd. 26
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        London stocks
        99 8 ON the London Stock Exchange yesterday, the markets finished the week m a very quiet and steady fashion. So little business was tran- j sacted m some sections that it was hard to define the tone. British funds held steady throughout the day with small business being eq'ially
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        New York stocks
        89 8 ON the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, late trading saw widespread losses, fractions to three points or more, with no trace of rallying •Sort* A f-ood of selling orders swamped the market m the last half-hour, driving pivotals down two to five poin \s or more with
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        Indian silver ban
        122 8 PRIVATE reports have been received m London that the povernment of In iia is suspending the issuee* of any further licences for private imports of bullion, and the London silver MBifcH has dene no business for export -ince Thursday. Pr. a of silver m Bombay may riie
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      BYRD EXPEDITION QUITS ANTARCTIC
      65 8 BYRD EXPEDITION QUITS ANTARCTIC i r e f housand men of the U.S. Antarctic expedition returned to civilization after three m nlhs when their ships put into W i ngton, N f w Zealand, yesterc. »-iryd, icader of the ex'On toid a news conference that the Antarctica is the "most
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      IND. & TINS UP: RUBBER QUIET
      749 8 IND. TINS UP: RUBBER QUIET Weekly Spore share report •THE we*k has been one of very considerable activity m 1 Malayan markets with the volume of business maintained on a substantial scale reports our market correspondent. Industrials were predominant and a healthy amount of profittaking ensued. Increased interest was shown
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      STRIKE LIMITS 'HYPOCRISY'
      59 8 John L. Lewis, the American labour leader, declared yesterday, m a statement for the Senate Labour C-mmittt>e, it was 'hypocrisy" to give the workers the right to form unions and then limit the use of the strike weapon. The plan for a Federal Mediaton Board, he said,
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      BIG TOURIST BILL
      54 8 American touri&is spent U.S. $430,000,000 last year m foreign countries, not counting beat and plane lares to get there, the U.S. Commerce Department estimates. The amount is nearly double th total of U. 5.5218,000,000. 5218,000 ,000 which foreign tourists spent m the United States. Nearly half of
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      Nuts to save £10,000,000
      87 8 £ROP from the British Government's ground nut growing scheme m East Africa will be 50,000 tons m 1948, Dr. Edith summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary to the M nistry of Food, told me Commons yesterday. It would grow to 600,000 tons m 1950-51 and to 800.000 tons later.
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      HE IS FIRST G.I. TO WED GERMAN
      79 8 FRANKFURT, Friday. THE first official approval hsus I 1 been granted to an American to marry a German girl. Peter Rupeka, 27, of Long Island, a War Department employee at army headquarters here, will marry 21 -year-old Erika Shaeffer, of Frankfurt, on March
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      RICE LOOTERS ADOPT NEW METHODS
      396 8 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S rice racketeers were very good boys during 5 the unloading of the recent rice shipments which arrived from Siam and Burma and all was quiet on the rice front with none of the usual piracy attempts m the inner Roads.
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      HIS WEEKLY BATH
      41 8 HIS WEEKLY BATH Saturday night is bath night m v i v\->i Afri <a too I I ther gets down to the job of lat herint th« baby of U I *»Ml it lor>ks as if soap isn't rationed m Ue«
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      S'PORE REPORT GOES TO UNO
      106 8 NEW YORK, Friday. A GROUP of Far Estorn ex- j perts laid before th-3 United i Nati ns Economic and Social j Council today a blueprint for the economic reconstruction of Asia a~.d i he Far East. Tnt plan recommends that the c uncil crei
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      SINGAPORE TIDES
      27 8 I To-day 11.36 9.8 ft. 0541 2.7 ft. 1810 0.2 ft. i Sunday 0025 8.8 ft. 0614 2.1 ft. 1216 9.8 ft. 1840 0.7 ft.
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      Crossroads on every airfield
      360 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. PROPOSALS for improving China s civil airfields and civil I airline operations m general have been drawn up by a group of American and Chinese pi'ots. following the recent series of major air disasters m the country. Recommending minimum requirements m view of the
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      THE KING WALKS WITH CHILDREN
      268 8 BLOEMFONTEIN, Friday. MORE than 4,000 boys and girls gathered m Bloemfontein's bunicipal park today to give a noisy welcome to the Royal Family, who waived all formality for this particular visit. They walked among the cheering children without their usual retinue, and talked informally to
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      NEW CRUISER IS 'A BATTLESHIP'
      85 8 The U.S. heavy cruiser Newport News, whose armament innovation m the main battery will give her three times the firepower of other eight-inch-gunned ships, -was christened at Newport News, Virginia yesterday. Described by the U.S. Navy Under-Secretary, John L. Sullivan, as "unsurpassed by anything afloat,"
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      U.K. FUEL CRISIS 'GRAVE AS EVER'
      223 8 LONDON. FW. THE danger to Britain's industry .s today as groa; M ever and the loss of coal production this week through mow md toe is expected CO be about a quarter million >ons out-half of the entire coal saved by the week count
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      64 8 UFATHEiJ Wl MMt i. ,c*tt Jl^ r m nooe today cmmh thf k A r (rnt-»i Ing Mall I I ,mmawl Far b 1 re^u.ot bright ptrwk itti rasioml draw sho»m tk» g noon and pit-nine Fu im anl to morrcn nMroit^ Wind r«| hrht nd im (aim u> n'.pht
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