The Singapore Free Press, 1 May 1947

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    50 1 The Singapore Free Press A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2a LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE. TUI'RSDAY, MAY 1, 1947. PKHI 1(1 CEN i<v
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    62 1 ALFRED BVRIOW. aged 24, of Dagenhani, Essex, started his first duty as a fully qualified NFS man. A few hours later he was dead, kill**<l by a hoaxer who sent a false alarm call to Brunswick-road station, Bow London As the tire engine raced through the streets, Barlow lost his
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    ***** MENTAKE DAY OFF
    157 1 Singapore Marks Labour Day I'ress Staff Reporter TOD A V unofficial holiday for nearly 35,000 rious unions m Singapore, who Day frith a mass rally at Farm* Government and Municipal decilays ago, that workers staying i the celebrations will not be Is this morning absented themeansing
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    FAT 'EXPLODES'
    49 1 Lancelot Joyiison- Hicks, ative, said m the Comrday that the standard cooking fat rationed to Bribousewives was liable to turn and explode m the fryingpan. The Minister of Food, Mr. Strachey, said that palm kernel« oil m the fat did give it a tendency to spit—U.P. I
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    OUTSIDE SHORT ST TODAY
    25 1 OUTSIDE SHORT ST TODAY Men celebrating Labour Day m Singapoie. leaving mass meeting vrnue m Farrer Park from the SFTU H Aciqua-tfrs m Shjrt Street.
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    Jinnah wants to share army
    200 1 Jinnah wants to share army NEW DEI HI. Wednesday. MX. MOHAMMED AIJ JINNAH, the Indian Mu-iim leader, declared today that the Indian Artm would have to be! divided into Hindustan and Pakistan armies before the British leave India m June, 1948. The two states of Hindustan and Pakistan would have
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    DUTCH REPORT INDONESIAN ARMY 'REVOLT'
    86 1 DUTCH REPORT INDONESIAN ARMY 'REVOLT' BATAVIA, Wednesday. THE Dutch newspaper AlgeD Indische Dagblad m Bandune. which is m Sundanese aid that units of various Republican Army groups have broken away to fight for Sundanese independence from President Soerkarno's projected United States of Indonesia. However. Sutan Sjahrir described as -nonsense," reports
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    JAP GETS 'LIFE'
    27 1 French military court m Saigon yesterday sentenced Japanese Colonel Masuda, former commander of war camps m Indochina, to hard labour imprisonment for life Reuter
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    MALAYAN MINERS GET $35 MILLION
    296 1 LONDON, Wednesday. GOVERNMENT assistance m the form of loans to the tin mining industry m Malaya has so far amounted to $35,240,098, said the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jone>. m reply to a question by Mr. Harold Davies, Labour MP for Leek, m the
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    WORLD CAPITALS CELEBRATE
    132 1 Wed panoramas J**H Iqj, b Russia, a l**tetSri Norway, and I s**s to »Js* Red Day cefeI .lav will I Coun■fued directed I labour I sed the and I be two protage I The ving post-wa: diifi< uities. STRIA: Big parades are planned m central Vienna Red
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    Is jungle- green illegal?
    124 1 WHKTHER Malays. Chines or Indians m Malaya who wore jungle green battledresses which they mig-ht havr regulation bought from surplus stocks would be allowed to wear it m view of the regulation passed on >lar. 10 prohibiting the wearing of uniforms was the question put to
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    S'PORE LIEUT. HELD 8 MONTHS. RREE
    584 1 S'PORE LIEUT. HELD 8 MONTHS. RREE Free Press Staff Reporter A FTER having been held under close arrest m Java and m ~A Singapore since Aug. 13 last year, a British Army officer, Lieut." Geoffrey R. Breed, the Royal East Kent Regiment (the Buffs), was informed by the Army legal
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    THREW A PARTY
    40 1 With a dinner parly at Singapore's Airp rt Hotel last night. Lieut. Geoffrey Breed (below) celebrated his release from eight-months clcse arrest after charge against him had been dropped. Lieut. Breed, a Londoner, is going home soon
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    DOCKERS TURN BELFAST 'DRY'
    59 1 Though Belfast dockers themselves are "partial to a pint r>f port," they have forced Belfast to become a "dry" city by supporting a barmen's industrial demand. The Guiness Brewery Company yesterday stopped the issue of stout m the city because the dockers threatened to boycott goods
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    U.K. TO OWN TRANSPORT
    223 1 U.K. TO OWN TRANSPORT LONDON, Wednesday. TIfK Government's plan ior nationalising Britain's inland trans rt passed i's biggest hurdle when the Howe of Commons completed the report stage of the con trover* transport Nationalisation Bill after a t>ree day debate bitter Conservative opposition. Railways, road transport, inland waterway ploying nearly
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    MacA BARS BRITONS FROM JAPAN
    140 1 MacA BARS BRITONS FROM JAPAN LONDON. Wednesday. k COMPLAINT that no Bri- tish official m Japan has the right to enter and inspect the property of British subjects In that country was made m the Commons today by Mr Walter Fletcher (Cons.. Bury). He asked the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest
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    DWARF CHARGED WITH MURDER
    43 1 Julien Chausson, a glaring oneeyed, four-foot two-inch dwarf was charges with murder m Mayenne, France yesterday. Th c prosecution alleges that rhausson, "revenging himself on humanity for his abnormality," helped a woman to batter her husband to death. U.P.
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    OPIUM DUMPED
    33 1 Import officials yesterday dumped outside Hong Kong Harbour 2,000 pcunds of opium PRESS ENQUIRY BEGUN Members of the British Press Commission had their first meeting yesterday. It was strictly private. Reuter.
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    8 ROBBERIES IN S'PORE
    104 1 8 ROBBERIES IN S'PORE Free Press Stall Reporter AMONG the eight robberies ren ported to the Police yesterday. wo invclved amountme of m:>re thin $1,000. A house m Kong Si&k Road wa& brok:n into by three arm* d Chinese at 12.30 yesterday afternoon and $1,325, m cash and jewellery, was
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    CABLE TO STALIN
    34 1 Twelve of 15 Briish husbands who marrie^ Soviet brides while serving m Russia yesterday cabled Generalissimo Stalin to try t secure permission for the woirrn and children to comp to "Rritain,
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    TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM
    173 2 0:- cards to lack after arrft at a grand slam, the act- of trumps is the most embaras: m ?nd the most surely fatal (althcuj history records that one player found his opponents making their contn his pa; ,kod b f chance to cash his trump at
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    A LABEL LIKE GRABLE'S
    658 2  - A LABEL LIKE GRABLE'S Nora h A lexander London Show Talk By Can Be A Great Help WITH tens of thousands of eligible mg women takingnew surnames it seems an apt moment to sugi that some of our up-and-coming film stars should ftrd new nai well. In the word of
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    FRENCH FILMS IN DANGER
    90 2 By 0 Lag rre TTHE Fn nch film I I dv isti .Ay :ome to at < t m .is' time inhe Government finds m< f helpiri i i i lothin inai ailed >f m 0.000- ecorci' A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir
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    TO GO-OR NOT?
    105 2  -  Hall Romnev gfgfgfgfg By SHOULD ecu Britain this sun. Around this qi present raging a which has be?n n same rather biter words. rhe British Tcui with a Government stibsi I idy scatic these 1 enly offer vi"We believe it won to defer making chairmai cid^'d it
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      571 2 dfdfdf KADIO AUSTHALIA -I 00 p.m. to 11 .15 p.m. I 19. 1 i pea 15.20 mega jrctea 1 no p.m r« .xi.-) p.m. > Llv.S 13.89 melrt's 21.60 »> 00 p.m. to 11 13 p.m. V'LGll il i Ires 11.76 me| T. 30 p.m. to 8.15 p.m. VL( I
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      378 2 Ioa: c oar.ds iy *h and an -res. ii 3U-12 am ■netres. 12 noon-a p m M.6& metres 19.84 mares and W.Sb 30 p m 19 I I ana VJ.I3 t l«J 84 m< ires THI 1 MOKNI a.m. Music On tfa 900 Over to You; 9.30 me Announcements; 935
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    NEI TO REVIVE COASTAL SHIPPING
    80 3 NEI TO REVIVE COASTAL SHIPPING Non-projitmaking venture begins nturies-old Indonesian sea-faring tradihe first steps planned by the N.E.I. programme to increase Indonesian partial pelago's econ- mv ifc preparatory to of the United States of Indonesia. hnan, chief of the Bureau of Ship•nference m Batavia that as a will be made
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    CANADA MAKES RICH FIND
    7 3 CANADA MAKES RICH FIND d States. A.P.
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    TO ADVISE CHILDREN
    62 3 TO ADVISE CHILDREN TO provide job guidance foi young people leaving school, a J" u rr.ent service is being developed by the British t-ry of Labour. It will place young people m jobs for which they seem :ed and keep m touch ith them, during adolescence. aes. Minister of Labour.
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    SMALL HOLDERS ARE THRIVING
    180 3 SMALL HOLDERS ARE THRIVING FE REPORT of the British Land Settlement Association states that last year each of the 639 tenants of the ciation made an average net profit of £453. The Association was started m the depression years before the war to establish unemployed as smaUholders on the land
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    Men best housemaids
    75 3 THIRTY Australian ex-servicemen have taken employment m private homes m M?lbourne as "maids", the Deputy Director of Employment (Mr. N. J. O'Heare) reports. H a says the men had successfully replaced women as domestics becaus? of the acute shortage of female labour. They claim that they do
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    Eros will return to Piccadilly
    250 3 PROS, the Love God, and London's own symbol, will be Ju. back on his Piccadilly-circus pedestal by the end of June at the latest. This has been promised by the London County Council's Town Planning Committee. He will be an Eros of silver wings, for
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    ELECTRICITY STATION HAS MUD BASE
    184 3 ELECTRICITY STATION HAS MUD BASE POWER STATION worth ft .£7,000,000 is being con structed on mudlands at Noles Bay, m the harbour at Poole. Dorset, England. The 30-acre site of the power station, which is nearly all under water at high tide, has provided an immense problem of reclamation. This
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    7,000 TO ATTEND BANQUET
    46 3 Britain's biggest banquet will be held next December when I more than 7,000 motorists will celebrate the birthday of the Royal Automobile Club. The motorists, gathered m London and 16 other cities, will hear the same speeches over a national broad-cast relay.
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    'SUPER-FORTS'TO VISIT BRITAIN
    35 3 'SUPER-FORTS' TO VISIT BRITAIN Nine of America's atom-bomb-ing Super-Fortresses, carrying 150 USAAF officers, are to pay a iwill visit to Britain this summer. It is expected they will fly low London m close formation. I
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    PATTON LEFT £112,500
    35 3 Gen. Patton, Commander of the American Third Army, who was killed m a car accident more than a year ago, left £112.500. He left all to his widow and I three children.
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    SECRETARIES JOIN UNION
    131 3 BRITISH M.P.s may soon be faced with a demand for a 40-hour week from their own girl secretaries at the House of Commons. Forty of these hardworking young women have joined the newly-formed Parliamentary branch of the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union. Since the Labour Government took
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    RAF BEGIN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
    64 3 An R.A.F. air traffic control on British routes m Britain and overseas, has been established pending the formation of a world-wide international system. The system will comprise a number of areas known as "flight safety zones." Headquarters m each zone will- issue navigational 7 7
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    BOYS PLAY PIRATES ON WRECK
    77 3 BOYS PLAY PIRATES ON WRECK rVMIY BOY is a pirate at heart and these boys have found their heart's delight playing pirates on the wreck of an old steel barge ashore m the Thames it Woolwich. For swords they 096 I ing rolls of paper. A hazard of the game
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    LOOT PATROL ORDERS ARE QUESTIONED
    1226 3 LOOT PATROL ORDERS ARE QUESTIONED Major Burnett trial Iree rre&s Sliiii iupurter ONLY an officer on the spot acting owlßtW could anwer the question "What would you do if a vehicle refused to stop after being signalled to halt' said (apt. J. M. Mac Donald, an officer who gave evidence
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1947. May Day—2
    373 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1947. May Day 2 fY sole prosperii workers of could congratulate s this May Day on b< st prosperking y v. arid pi much Ule .var. a betw, May h it is id i--19 G: I r ion i 'rom tla.d s in
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    UK's MAY DAY FESTIVITIES
    715 4  - UK's MAY DAY FESTIVITIES Christina Hole I By "THE first day m May 1 has always been one of the great annual festivals of rural Britain. It marks the beginning of summer which, for centuries, has fcejn greetsd \uth spontaneous rejoicings ard magical fertility rites intended to enure a plentiful
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    CAREERS FOR WOMEN
    65 4 i the Royal Horticultural nard us sil Wisley, Surrey, women ne d m- a ful s T ze scientific job, solving the puzzles that worry gardeners all mn Britain. They specialize alter th'-ir degrei ni horticulture and soon thej are "tops" at their trade. Ann II wlctt,
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    411 4 jVjKS. NELLIE DOOHXN has seen a lot of life m :08 years ana has no sp< formula for longevity but "a little tot of whisky going to bed is a great help. 1 Believed to be the oldest woman m Ireland with two years to spare, Mrs.
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    EXERCISE-PRISON MORBIDITY CURE
    337 4 EXERCISE-PRISON MORBIDITY CURE BY SPE4 1 \l. CORRESPONDENT JEAN Borotra, prominent m French tennis activities for more than 25 j will be 50 years old m June, but he still haa much of that bounce that brought him fame, and his admirers o r ue that he must be a
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    THE 'SWINGING' NEGRO
    138 4 THE 'SWINGING' NEGRO GALE Di i way he y fond if ii Of 3 I this Pwas b^ D.C.. A band leader and c Wh, n he j b sen ream parlour. And room behind the shop v. *.d on il he compos I tune "S d\ Foun! 2." At
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    MALAY GIRLS TAUGHT MOTHERCRAFT
    98 5 MALAY GIRLS TAUGHT MOTHERCRAFT Press start Reporter to br their children wh e n they was ?rim e r-t s sue 1 out v girls' r apare. ill pupils of the Glam n -:urcs on ernity Departm, n all w re given,: by a v. and p. miration. Th c
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    72 TONS ABALONE FOR SINGAPORE
    75 5 72 TONS ABALONE FOR SINGAPORE A SHIPMENT of 72 ton s of abalcr.e has arrived ipore by the Isthmian Marine Arrow from the The vessel is on trip to this porii. M Arraw ha^s an odd cargo 89 t papers for a Singaant. MAIL FOR GERMANY nd letter packets up
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    S'PORE BURNS 12,000 TONS WOOD A MONTH
    299 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pROM the jungles on the east coast of Malaya, Sumatra and the neighbouring islands, 12,000 tons ewood, valued at $250,000, reach Singapore every month. This represents the average monthly woodfuel consumption of Singapore. IUU nuns, mostly unme^e, handle tills
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    PHILIPPINES TO EXPORT SUGAR
    176 5 PHILIPPINES TO EXPORT SUGAR with the coiriwil] e x leasi 3 00, 000 tons of sugar with the I This supwill oe ready s I arter of next yi Since the normal riorrv bi( approx only 150.000 short tons annually, the will be 1 able to ,-xp >r' 150.000 short
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    BRITAIN BUYS INDIA URANIUM
    143 5 THE Times of India on Tuesday reported that the State of Travancore had entered into agreement with the British Ministry of Supply under which Travancore would export 9,000 tons of uranium bearing monazite sand to the United Kingdom m the next three years. li ed s
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    ARMY 'SWIM' COMPEEITION ON MAY 31
    114 5 ARMY 'SWIM' COMPEEITION ON MAY 31 Ax inter-unit swimming and diving meeting is to be held at Gilman Barracks Swimmi Pool on Saturday, May 3, p.m. to decide the Ai -ps, and help m the cliodsArmy Team for the inter-Sei" vices Aquatic Mi eting he end Th e re is
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    Orderly killed Jap general
    399 5 Orderly killed Jap general BORNEO DEATH MARCH WHEN nt'vv.s of their surrender became known, (he m Borneo killed the Australian and British PoWs who had survived the Death March at a spol about V:;l' milefrom Ranau, where evidence exists <,f the brutal murder. This was disclosed m a talk at
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    RETURNS TO U.K.
    19 5 Sir Alexar.der Carr-Saundars, Chairman of the Higher Education. Commission, left Singapore yesterday by BOAC for U.K.
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    WILD BOAR RUNT ENDS IN HOSPITAL
    40 5 WILD BOAR RUNT ENDS IN HOSPITAL A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2aI I I
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    26 5 ffgfgfgfg Marshal Sir Claude Viuhinlcok, C-in-C, India, presenting a ;la£ to the B Company at th' Frontier Force ■nt.il Centre at Abbctabad recer l Army PR
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    SPORTS BRING DOWN VEGETABLE PRICES
    41 5 jetables from China and Aus-iyan-grown vegetables al a the latest report by port of Is, but condr 3 imth. s in r r purporting to nesp re-occu ml red rr. h e y able to r-
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    UNKNOWN
    66 5 A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2aI I A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the
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    CENSUS: POLICE TO HELP
    150 5 CENSUS: POLICE TO HELP AT midnight on Sept. 23 n n Zero hour ior census— the P ,unci the number of p g i the stress, ai statement. This is a job th I pol Pect a cvi] rk to g the town at midnight Pe* pie i c tnp
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    BORNEO AIR SERVICE
    148 5 AT the rec e nt Colonial Civil Aviation Conference ip London, it w: s stated that tnti tiewly-formed Malayan Ai. l/ci. vrh l has contracted win the Malayan Governmer.l operate regular rir services between the principal towns m Malaya, hopes to cxter.d their services to Borneo later.
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      8 5 I )hows GEPJfF's B P TOMORROW I se
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      56 5 <j£>yzyz Ub«<£Z* 4 SHOWS to-day* VfTT ff P.lf ffPJC^lo HERE IT IS at last! after 2 sensational midnights! THE CLASH OF GEANT3 IH A BAYOU FEUD; Johnny (TARZAX) WEISMULLER -#^v Buster (FLASH GORDON) CRABBE p j^ Commencing to-day there will 4 show? daily on v On Saturdays, Sundays Holidays there
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    VILLAGE HALL VANISHES
    157 6 VILLAGE HALL VANISHES VILLAGERS at l. Ml. m Kent, are talking of Parliament to hold an to why their Till Ithout a of warnir. moved the roof o: morn Thr- hall had the for e--rired ,ers have been told .11 ha.s gone bee: the twenty-one-year lease on I .and where
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    HAIR FOR POLICE
    24 6 Prore&sor Jiaister, of Glasgow, has presented his collection of human and animal hair to Glasgow police to help m crime research.
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    NAVY MEMORIAL PLAN DROPPED
    66 6 The British Admiralty will n plans to build a mt rial 'o Royal Navy members died m the 1939-45 war. Si of opinion m Britain o what form the memorial should ;ake, has probably caused the plans to be abandoned. The -ill return to d subscriptions
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    31 6 Field Marshal Viscount Montroery inspecting a cadet ird of honour at the Bedford S« Bolborn Boys Club. M nr. opened ihe club which v m built by old boys of the
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    Buyers rush to industries fair
    224 6 •THOUSANDS of foreign buyers, mainly from North and 1 South America, have booked all the London and Birmingham hotel accommodation for the period of the British Industries Fair from May 5 to May 1(> which is a major feature of Britain's export drive. So heavy
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    POOR WILL STILL GET SMOKES
    84 6 POOR WILL STILL GET SMOKES People m Bristol's Poor Law Institutions will not have to cut down their smoking m spite of Budget, although the new iobacco tax m ans It will cost an extra £1,450 a year to supply inmates of the In is with Uicir usual ounce of
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    COAL CREST
    42 6 The British National Coal competition for a crest and motto attracted 2,456 entries. The Board have invited the Council of -Industrial -Design and the Central Institute of Art and Design to assist them m judging the entries for the crest.
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    Cat trekked 100 miles
    34 6 I ii Kiven f»v i M recambe, Lanes, family to friends m Mexborotzgh, forks, lit arrived back m Morecambc after j through dTp across the Pennines* The journey took fifty-three
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    TAKES BOW AND ARROW ON TREK
    174 6 TAKES BOW AND ARROW ON TREK I ARMED with a steel b w and rr and a hot: I lake im, David Wil.s n Mac Arthur, 43, author, adventurer -time naval offlet r. has left London on a 6.000-mile r J mrney '<■ South Afr.ca. Travelling through desert, jui and
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    BRONZE FOR BISLEY
    33 6 As sold and silver are not available the Committee of the Army Rifle Association is to give only bronze medals at the Association's Central rifle meeting at Bisley m June.
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    ATOM CAN BE USED TO BRING RAIN
    311 6 ATOM CAN BE USED TO BRING RAIN i Weather extterts t>rp<iirK« ATOMIC energy may he used to cause rain where it tf needed, predicts a United States Weather Bureau expert I who also believes that a drought is coming \m the nexf few years. The expert. Ivan Kay Tannehill, chief
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    MORE SCOTTISH ECONOMY
    78 6 One ol the features of "Enterprise Scotland" Exhibition which is to take place m Edinb will be "unbreakable oatcakes." In making a request to the Scottish Women's Rural Institute to over the tearoom and general catering of the Exhibition the organisers requested the menu should include typical
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    HELICOPTERS NOW
    34 6 A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2a
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    BUSES KEY IN INVASION PLAN
    209 6 BUSES KEY IN INVASION PLAN LONDON'S buses were to have been the key r plans made m 1940 to evacuate Govemm n\ from London if Britain had be^n invaded been carried m 1,640 buses to Eton, from wh< have been sorted into parties to continue U rail. inese plans are
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    'Wavy Navy' gets wings
    67 6 p»K the (ii-i time the Royal Navy is to have its Gwn peace-time ELN.VJB. Mr Squadrons. Three of four squadrons will be located In the areas <>f Glasgow, Liverpool-Manchester and Lon-don-Oxford- The location of the fourth has not yet been decided. The Admiralty, announcing the plan,
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    HE FIGHTS FOR HIS PIGEONS
    66 6 HE FIGHTS FOR HIS PIGEONS Three months ago, Mr. T. F. Anderson, of Long Buckby, mptonshire, moved into a council house. Now he will move out unless Daventry Rural Council rescind its ban on his ?eons. Told twice to get rid of the pigeons, Mr. Anderson has re- torted: "They
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    SCOUT AWARD
    19 6 Silver Wolf, scouting award ol oes to Miss P. M. Moore ■S.E., for 27 y SCOUtinp sprvirp
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    £80 FOR Id. STAMP
    21 6 The sum of £80 was paid a penny St. Helena 1916 stamp at a sale m London.
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    DON'T CODDLE CHILDREN-police chief
    184 6 DON'T CODDLE CHILDREN -police chief P~ ARENTS worried about effects ol crime films were advised by Mr. A. E. Edwards. Middlesbrough's Chief Constable, not to keep their children m glass cas "If a child saw a thousand crime films, it n< be adver affected if parents explain the true moral
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    UNKNOWN
    33 6 A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2a
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    SCOTLAND ENGLAND WIN IN IRELAND
    276 7 SCOTLAND ENGLAND WIN IN IRELAND LONDON, Wednesday. p\O inter-League matches were played m Ireland today, the 1 Scottish League beating the Irish League 7 4in Bel while the English Football League beat the League of Ireland 3 l m Dublin. A feature of the Belfast game was five goals from
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    ATFER THE FIGHT
    26 7 ATFER THE FIGHT Joe Baksi and his wife, Ann, boarding the plane at London Airport that will lak? them to Czechoslovakia for a short h liday.
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    UNKNOWN
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    L.V. MANNING KILLED IN ROAD MISHAP
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    BAKSI TO FIGHT IN LONDON IN JULY
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    VETERANS OF SPORT IN MALAYA
    60 7 VETERANS OF SPORT IN MALAYA I im: Muthucumaru well-known personalities m eh the careers ol T. E. K. laru, two nese who for. many !\p> on the playing fields A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ
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    S. Africans Start Well v Worcester
    67 7 S. Africans Start Well v Worcester Worcester Wed rt to their ,h tour t Worcester m a match whii h also marked ol the 1947 English 54 pite wintry weather the h Africa:^ adapted them!- t< s1 range conditions ed Worcestershire Ittol Rowan taking five er ii R E Bird
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    ISA MAKES 56 n.o. V JOHORE C.C.
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    INDIAN IN QUARTER-FINAL OF BRITISH TENNIS
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    LATEST POSITIONS IN THE LEAGUE
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    TABLE TENNIS
    49 7 The feated the ble-Tennl table Saturday. mentioned K.K. Muthiah beat Lim Ye. v, (17—21), (21—14), (21—19). lost to Thomas (11—21), (li M Narainasamy lost to G. Naiciu IG— 2l). (12 21). Sundram beat Koh Check. Tuan (21 13). (21—19). Balan beat Chander Dass <21 10). <21— 13).
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    SEMBA WANG WIN THRILLING GAME
    690 7 SEMBA WANG WIN THRILLING GA ME From L/Tel. WASH. R.N.A.S. Sembawang > H.M.S. Belfast 1 IN one ot the most thrilling matches ever witnessed at Sembawang, R.N.A.S. Sembawang beat 11. M.5. Belfast by two goals to one. It was a hard. f:«>t and clean game which was fought out at
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    33 7 LONDON, Wed— Rugby League results to-day were: Featherstone Rovers 5. Huddersfield 3; Batley 26. Keighley 10. Rugby Union results were: Bristol 9, Bath 0; Devonport Services IC. Redruth 17.— Reuter.
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    TUDOR MINSTREL WINS IN CANTER
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    CHINESE MEET NAVY TODAY
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    The Minstrel' Now 6—4 Derby Favourite
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    WALKER GUP HOPES IN GOOD FORM
    98 7 CANT: C ELECTORS for Br Walkt, Cv^ Team flashed the some top noti m the s day of the English Amatcu: Championship. Ex-miner Charlie Si was m the Walker Cv; team m 1933. i I Charte Tlmmis, 3-1. Ken Thorn, registered th> :cd victory
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    McGOVERN IN U.S.
    34 7 NEW YORK Mon. Tommy McGovern, 139 of London. outpoint:d B?n Melendex. 138 of Puerto Rico, m a six round bout. "Terrible Terry MjGovern was making his bout m vho U.S. A.P.
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    JAP WIELDS MOP AT WAR TRIAL
    74 8 Wielding a long handled mop, a Japanese gendarme demonstrated before the war crimes court m Tokta yesterday the correct bayonet drill laid d >wn m J;>nnm»se a-- regtdati n 'It dmonstru'w!! look plac c dm og the trial of Major-Gcne-al Ta- aka Ryosaburo, one
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    -CITY NEWSS'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    483 8 -CITY NEWSS'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY k special Market corre*ijoiid«ni 4i gives the prices of rubber at 11 ajn. today as follows: Buyers Sellers 1 li Cts. per !b. per lb. dc 1 B.SS. Spot \SK No. i B.S.S. fob m bales Mi II No I R.S S. "fob m bales
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    UK RATIFIES 5 TREATIES
    104 8 LONDON. Wednesday. diutaiv is the first or the Biis, Four powers to have ratified the first five peace trerr with Italy, Hungary. Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland, says Reuters diplomatic correspondent. By an arrangement worked out ia.it year by the Council of Foreign Ministers each peace treaty
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    UK coal reserve in export drive
    292 8 UK coal reserve in export drive London. Wednesday. BRITAIN'S economu planners may decide to risk a part ot 15,000,000 lon coal reserve earmarked for next winter m a bid to increase the country export programme, ac i >rding to a Government spokesman m London today. The achievement of greater industrial
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    1,000 STRIKERS FAVOUR RETURN
    46 8 One ttvwward or the 9.000 London dock strikers yeS^rday voted for a r e turn to work. Sony obacrvexj believe tib it the remaining London and Glasgow do. k Striken may return to work witrrn the r. e xt 24 hours. U.P.
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    DELAYED DEATH IS NOT MURDER
    132 8 LONDON, Wed. T tE Bt. Pancras coron c r I ruled that although a man had stabbed another with I to kill he did not commt murder because it took mor c than two r.s for his victim to dii The coroner recorded d^ath by
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    UK TEA DEARER
    58 8 From June 22 the retail price! oi tea will m Britain be Increa fourpence per pound, Ministry of Food have told d It is expected an announce- j ment will be made In the Hou.se 1 ommons oi a cut In the domestic tea ration from two
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    Her time is well-filled
    120 8 JLjUS. J< ;^a Rittner a British housewife, wa.s charged at Bath vets terday for driving without v licam-e. She did not appear m Penott. but sent t letter to the roart. It said: "I overlooked M linnet C a t" m> dHvirl? llo nt< OWißf to
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    ARCHBISHOP WARNS OF ATOM DANGER
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    REOS' HELP MAY SPREAD STRIKE
    73 8 PARIS, Wed. THE Communist Party m Fr; today announced its "unreserve^ support" for th c strike of 30,000 workers m the nationalised Renault automobile plants. Most observers believe that this may be the signal for widespread strikes through .ut the automobile and metallurgical industries m
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    INDUCTION OF S'PORE VICAR
    9 8 INDUCTION OF S'PORE VICAR Vi(a r of Sinjraporp J
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    STOLEN JEWELS NOT RECOVERED
    63 8 Ai... hat rerover iy one third ol th e Hess,' crown jewels stolen from Kronberg Castle m Germ The jewels are worth £375,000 A United States Army court martial m Germany yesterday ■d American Colone] Jack W. Dv: to 15 y,«ars' hard labour theft of I
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    NEW TALKS TO UNIFY GERMANY
    392 8 LOM#<>\, Wednesday. n»s( i SSIONS are m>v\ proceeding simultaneously m LonU don, \\a- lunL't<»n and Berlin to formulate a new joint Anglo-American economic policj for the British ;uid Ameri can occupation zones <»i Germany, v ua> authoritativeh learned today. Huso talks an- \h v outcome
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    SHOP HOUSES FOR KATONG
    83 8 Free Press staff Repoi i BLOCK of ten two-sioreyed shophouses t<» <<> i is to be built m t l tgapon Katong, m Tanjong Katong Road facing Par s for the new buildings have already beea ap Singapore Munit ipaJity. The houses are to be bu.lt
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    UK WILL PAY FOR LOST INDIA JOBS
    232 8 UK WILL PAY FOR LOST INDIA JOBS LONDON, Wed. I -HE Bntksh Gov t cepted th< that European S an^ Indian I the InCivil Service shoul pen sat; on pr spects on transfer of power from British to In us n€x year. This was the House I Commons today by
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    DEATJ
    33 8 A FIELD of nearly 30 riders met at Pasir Panjang for the ﾕid meet of the Effingham Hunt organised by GHQ SFALF Riding Club last Saturday. ﾕ'Charlie and his Vixen" (Lt.-CoL \2a
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    BAN ON BRITISH CLUB SOUGHT
    64 8 BAN ON BRITISH CLUB SOUGHT CAIRO. Wed. AN EGYPTIAN nvmivr of th« n Chamber of Deputies yesterday asked the Egyptian Government to abolish th c G c zir? Sporting Club ir. Cairo (The G^zira Club established 41 years ago. us predominantly British. Borne Americans and Egyptians aacr c members.) The
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    UK DESERTERS
    51 8 Deserters from the BrittgU forces who surrendered between January 22 and March 31 were 378 from the Royal Navy 1.664 from the Army, and 299 from the R.A.P. said Mr. A. V. Alexander, Minister of Defence m a reply m the Commons yesterdaY 744 W*»rp still owraitlncr trial
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    £9.800 FINE FOR YACHT DEAL
    121 8 HENLEY-IN-ARD? CIR EDMUND CRANi tUh cycle manufacturer, fined £9,800 at Henley-in today lor spending mere I; £75 a year that Britons art ed to spend on holiday trip side the sterling area Thi* biggest fine yet imp :scd ing currency regu'atio Sir Edmund pleaded giving
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    FLOUR FOR INDIA
    28 8 Carrying with her the first shipment of flour purchased Canada by the Indian tr missiom the freighter Lambrook urill sail n May 10 for Bombay
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