The Singapore Free Press, 8 May 1947

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    MPs TOLD RICE CAUSED STRIKE IN MALAYA
    80 1 MPs TOLD RICE CAUSED STRIKE IN MALAYA LONDON, Wednesday. moos today. Mr. L. D. Gammans, [>r Hornsey. demanded to know nment could not have a comion of the labour troubles m f they were due to shortage of tation or what. or the Colonit plied that the information d m
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    SHOT DEAD IN CAFE
    34 1 JERUSALEM. Wed. DILLY HELMEFTH. ass: 1 iger of Gov■>rinti usalem. died .fter having been the eye by unknown gun- d to have 3een the German Christian who to the police
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    NO FEES AT NEW DARTMOUTH
    50 1 NO FEES AT NEW DARTMOUTH -> oi entry to v en modified to provide *o join at sixteen years of i unced Mr- John Dugci Parliamentary Secretary to ty, m the Commons tod N fees or charges either n or board and lodging w aid be payable for the new
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    REDS OUTLAWED IN BRAZIL
    39 1 The Brazilian High Court has declared the Communist Party of Brazil illegal by three votes to two. >sure of the Party was ordered under the 1946 constitution on \t it is controlled from abroad. Reuter
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    DIVING CHAMP SEEN IN ACTION
    46 1 DIVING CHAMP SEEN IN ACTION TWO FINE Ai rIOK pictures of < ipt D. E. Lomax, 193S Southern tties Di\ing Champion, and 1945 South of India Diving Champion, who won the Army Diving Chatr. pionship at the Army Aquatic Championships held at (iillman Barracks, Singapore, last Saturday.
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    9 MINERS DIE IN EXPLOSION
    159 1 RNSLEY, Yorkshire, Wednesday. NINE coal miners were killed and 25 injured today m an explosion m a coal mine at Barnsley, the first colliery disaster since the Government nationalised the coal pits last January. Nine bodies were recovered a few hours after a violent blast,
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    U.S. SENATOR IN SHOT IN SENATE
    104 1 U.S. SENATOR IN SHOT IN SENATE OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Wednesday 7 ANGUN, a member of the Oklahoma Senate, was shot State Senate Chamber at. Th of his ins not yet known. A: ho is 63. remained oa after the shooting, and "I am shot m the back." c Senate was
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    FRENCH REGAIN CONTROL IN F.T.C.
    136 1 PARIS, Wednesday. P AUL COSTE FLORET, French War Minister, stated today that the French "had achieved military success m Indochina," on his return from a fact-finding visit to that country. Interviewed by journalists, Coste Floret said: "On the whole, the military situation has given me
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    UK WARNED OF FOOD CRISIS
    426 1 UK WARNED OF FOOD CRISIS LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN is m danger of a food crisis as severe as last winter's fuel crisis, declared Lord Woolton, the wartime .Minister of Food, when he opened a two-day debate on the food situation m the House of 1,-ords today. He charged that "we
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    JOINS GUARDS
    23 1 JOINS GUARDS When Blanco, a six-week--. Id kitten, joined the Royal Horse Guards m Whitehall, London, picked out Trooper Froggatt as his pal.
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    STC starts up this afternoon
    426 1 Free Pro- S AFTER an hour's motor-lon bus routes m the town this of the Singapore Traction Com after 11 o'clock this morning, omnibus fioni Finlaysofi Grec Upper SeraneaKui trom 4.30 p. When I visited the S.T.C. ing, hundreds of men were all to take
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    STOP BABY CRYING, SAYS JUDGE
    129 1 STOP BABY CRYING, SAYS JUDGE KIDDERMINSTER, Wed A KIDDERMINSTER midwife was ordered to pay £10 damages yesterday to a neighbour who complained that noises from the maternity J home had caused his 19-year-old daughter "to change her attitude towards marriage and motherhood." Judge T. W. Langmaii refused a plea for
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    Cold keeps King in cabin
    71 1 THE King has a slight cold and is temporarily confined to the 1 Royal quarters on board the battleship Vanguard as it takes back the Royal party bo Britain from its tour of the Union of South Africa, said a radio message from the ship
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    1095 GRENADES: GANG HELD
    84 1 1095 GRENADES: GANG HELD THE Singapore C.I.D. spent the whole day m Bukit Timah y >sterday and successfully ambushed and arrested two Indians, two Chinese, and one Islam, who had m their possession 91 cases containing 1,095 hand grenades. The gang was outside the Base Ordnance Depot m Bukit Panjaag
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    SHIP TO BE SUNK
    30 1 The 65-year-old South African training ship General Rotha of 245 tons statiojied at Simonstown near Capetown is to be sunk next week by shore batteries. Reuter
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    EGYPT ASKS U.S. FOR LOAN
    44 1 CAIRO, Wed. EGYPT has asked the United States for a loan of U.S. $*3 000,000 "to stabilise the Egyptian pound", Abdul Majid Badr the Egyptian Fnance Minister, announced today. No reply had yet been received from Washington, he said.
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    RUBBER PRICES FALL IN S'PORE
    377 1 RUBBER PRICES FALL IN S'PORE Free Press Staff Reporter [N the w-fck since the opening* on May I—of1 of the United States frc2 rubber market, the price of the commodity m Singapore has dropped mj-re than two cents per Id. The fall m price is attributed to New York selling
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    ARABS ASKED TO CHANGE MIND
    76 1 The Canadian delegate. Mr. Lester Pearson, presiding at the political committee of the United Nations General Assembly on Palestine y e sterday announced that he had telegraphed tht retary of the Arab Higer cutivp suggesting that the Executive should consider the withdrawal of its request
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    SHIP 'WRITTEN OFF'
    45 1 Th- 1 loss of the 1 030 ton ship 'Sir Harvey Adamson" which d'sippcarcd m the Andaman sea off he Burma coast three weeks ago with 250 pers :.ns ab >ard, was written off yesterday as ar. 'linsOVPfi mvcbrv nf )ho coo
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    FIGHT TO SAVE AIRMAN FAILS
    165 1 LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. THE story of a 24-hour un- availing fight to save the life of an airman dying from infantile paralysis while returning trom India m the troopship, Empress of Scotland, was told when the ship berthed at Liverpool today. Twenty-two-year-old leading aircraftsman, E. A.
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      DYING IS A LENGTHY BUSINESS
      715 2 DYING IS A LENGTHY BUSINESS Review of films showing m London BY I OUR CINEM U PORTER THE OTHER LOVE has the courage, unusual m a present-day Hollywood film, to take a cheerless suband pursue it doggedly to an unhappy conclusion. Its chief character is a young a who is
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      GREAT EXPECTATIONS
      20 2 -land, is campaigning f, i new subscribers to its mv avoid sale of lens's "Great Expect a ions."
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      THREE PLATYPUSSES 'FLY'
      275 2  -  LEO KELLY Bi ONE hundred thousand rms a n d 10,000 ie freshtyfish ai ompanying Betty Hutton, Peneand Cecil, the tl ek young At: ard the Pioneer Glen*' b ix Zoo. a I j Mr N a Sanctuary, succeeded In bi rie the first "plat" to be
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      310 2 I.d lact mat m3st g Lid get to thi pae the fact that thre be defeated while four can be mad 3 quite es&uy. c trouble :s that good players uj I tie hand and th: Ps a. ;he oa 1 h knew a four-card hecr. suit
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      MARIONETTES ARE POPULAR IN RUSSIA
      349 2  -  CARLYLE HOLT B] Rl -Si AN marionette S hows have the same relation to Punch and Judy as grand opera to hurdy gurdy. I went to a puppet show called "Night Before Christmas'' recently. Why I don't know, as show had no connection a Christmas.
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      331 2 -4] tar I I I a I i E «-.ik vHHIU aL f f f f j^ J^R^BflHS SINGAPORE Blue Network English a* oo i N pja —185 metrea la tnt? nedium wave bjnd A 7.2 > megacycles tnd m the 41 metre band t U0 11.00 p.m. 185 mrtro
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      227 2 7 30 p.m. Fr< »m today s papers 7.40 Sandy Macuherson speaks to Forres overseas; 7.4-. Dai hrough; 8.30 News; 8.40 Programme announcements; In Freedom; 9.00 Jazz Club; 9.20 Jersey Grand Prix; 9.30 8.8.C. Scottish Orchestra; 10.15 Jersey Grand Prix; 10.30 Radio newsreel; 10.45 Programme announcements; 10.50 Interlude; 11.00 Much-Binding-In-
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      317 2 8.53 Wo Music Shorter varies by Lt; van Beethoven 9.05 Talk; 9.15 ed Ar lis* s— Albert Fisher's Nea Oc'et and Glady ano); 9.30 Master Pianis s— Artur Schnabel. 9.45 "Rhythm on Record; 10.00 World N 0.15 Singers of Renown— Joseph Scl r) and Lota^ Lehmenn CSopn Calling India; 10.45
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      30 2 QUIZ e\m MfSWEBfi 1 A fish, and tiles ha 2 Amphibia 3. A character Pendennis 4 Many v.a flower or pin 5. About one half Inch. America's only poa •animal
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  • NEWS...
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      POSTWAR BOOM BRINGS PROBLEMS
      294 3 POSTWAR BOOM BRINGS PROBLEMS Argentine shipping hold-tip -t-war boom founded on the workta k Ks and other products, has reatest prosperity the country has its worst head-aches. Soaring cost md transport shortages, and political tenthe pr< the hold-up m international Kin the ports and particularly m which most of the
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      Burglar Adds His Praise
      9 3 Burglar Adds His Praise I I I I I
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      SHE HAD MANIA FOR MEDICINE
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      STEEL TRAPS FOR RABBITS BANNED
      7 3 STEEL TRAPS FOR RABBITS BANNED I I
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      NORAH AND JOHN HAD A DROP
      33 3 I as wringing clothes m a was playing his violin. The "lib, and two chairs were piled hole. The floor of the Staffs, had fallen Pa. i
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      Boy hiked 1,500 miles in 3 days
      302 3 Boy hiked 1,500 miles in 3 days A BRITISH Army Cadet Forte sergeant of seventeen, who trekked 1.500 miles m three days, beating -gales and blizzards, snow and floods, m a stern test of initiative and j endurance, has thrown down a challenge to the youth of i Britain. "I
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      Stinker came in bad mood
      95 3 Auisgruntled passenger, with his coat dishevelled, and his foot swathed m bandages, arrived m Eng md bj air from South AmericaIn Britain for special medical treatment, the patient, m a momentary display of temper, bit savagely at the hand that had fed him all the
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      'FASTER THAN SOUND TESTS'
      108 3 'FASTER THAN SOUND TESTS' ERECTION of the biggest and most modern wind tunnels m the British aircraft industry. cost of nearly £250.000, will be Weybtfdge (Surrey) works of Vickers-Arm-stroa This news on the eve ot the supersonic tes s over the Atlantic. West of the Scilly Isles, with pilotless rocket-propelled
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      WANTED: A HUSBAND
      21 3 WANTED A HUSBAND A 56-year-old widow at Harringay. England, has asked the Mayor of Hornsey to help her find a husband.
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      £1,000 BEETLE RUIN
      22 3 1,000 BEETLE RUIN Death watch beetles have done j damage estimated at over £1,000 m the woodwork at Cromer Parish Church, England.
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      They're not going home
      106 3 MORF than 23.000 men and women of all ranks m the I.K. forces have chosen to be released overseas at tbe end of their servic? so that they can settle m the country of their choice. Of this total 7,013 came from tbe Army, 8,433 from
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      UK A WAITS AIR GIANT
      328 3 UK A WAITS AIR GIANT Ready next year AVIATION experts expect that the first giant Bristol Brabazon trans Atlantic airliner will be itying earfr j next year. The Brabazon is designed to carry 100 pas-, i gers at 350 miles an hour at seven miles altitude. It mar give Britain
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      OBJECTIONS OVERRULED
      58 3 OBJECTIONS to the erection of a power station on Bankside, London, facing St. Paul's Cathedral, have been ovei- ruled by the Government. The Minister of Town and Country Planning. Mr. Silkm, told the Commons that the plan for re-developing the south bank would not be upset nor would
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      FOUND £9,500 ON SHOP DOORSTEP
      134 3 T W ?q ™n a ti ed L n w 0n ""enta-aw, may .soon share i ±9,500 they found wrapped m three narlr k doorstep of a second-hand furni ture hop TL^^l "S Manor Park, London, last December P mf ,d Ruad Jack Aylotw. 34,
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      TURNED DOWN
      26 3 Mr. Silkin, Minister for Town and Country Planning, has rejected W e st Ham's plan to build houses on Wanstead Flats, E?st London's lung.
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      KING OPENS GARDENS
      21 3 The King has given permission for Frogmore Gardens. Windsor, to be opened to the public during ihe summer.
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      RING FOR MARBLES CHAMPS
      127 3 RING FOR MARBLES CHAMPS C\r.Kl year for th? past s3O years— except for the time when everyboi! too busy with the forces to give up the time marbles enthusiasts m Great Britain have gone to the Greyhound Inn at Tins'ey Green, Sussex, for the annual championships. Here rs a view
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      HAD 20-MINUTE HONEYMOON
      138 3 HAD 20-MINUTE HONEYMOON A I i.X a twenty-minute honeymoon, a young man stood m the dock with a lipstick smear across his lips from his farewell kiss to his bride. Andrew Patrick Corrigan. 26. released on twenty-four hours' bail to get wed. heard r he Re- j carder at Bradford
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      KISSES CAUSED SWERVING
      92 3 MOTOR PATROL Constable James West was intrigued by the odd swerving of a motor van at Bidford-on-Avon, War shire, England. The constable followed l he van. thinking thai the driver was a learner. Then he saw through the van window** tihat each swerve was caused by the
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      DR SEES EVIL IN 'SOUVENIRS'
      129 3 DOCTOR Leslie G. Housden. o: ar Basingstoke. England, tolc a group of London mothers tha. he was "shocked" at the number of 'souvenired' cups initialled "S. R. (Sou hern Railways) that he round on the tables of patien's when he made his medica' rounds. Dr.
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      FOR SWEDEN
      15 3 Ucd I bydro- technic^ars nt to Sweden u:id,'.* terms ol an I*alian-Sv. ?.ereem<=nt
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      74 3 AIIZAIh obstinate By Edgar Rice Burroughs -ASZA.N AND TH£ APES VJ Vx/j lAT THE FOOT OF THE FALLS v^ "_^^g7| TANGLED ROOF WKdfl ill \VW ZEE BROUGHT FROM CONCEALMENT i, J$ UW OF TREES-- TOB] m \\Y\ A^ CANOE THAT HE USED ON HIS rfT* I.^ r <^J V FOLLOWED
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947. Rice Dangers
      512 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947. Rice Dangers D t, is news again and it is A quite a .nge to hear .♦rges of "discrin. m ihe British levelled [nt< mat nai Emocy Food Council, which past has been more to discriminate m favour and India and against
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      BRITAIN, INDIA AND JOHNNY GURKHA
      1210 4 BRITAIN, INDIA AND JOHNNY GURKHA Ralph Izzard, first British reporter to file from Kathmandu, catered closely guarded Nepal to write about aS < I "THE COUN lU\ IS WILD AND MOUNTAINOUS \V> IS LITTLE FREQI ENTED BY STRANGERS, WHOSE VISITS Tlli: KIM, DISCOURAGES." MARCO POLO. 1 t!.\\ E just returnA
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      1,000,000 NAZIS YIELD IN ITALY: REICH COLLAPSING
      51 4 1,000,000 NAZIS YIELD IN ITALY: REICH COLLAPSING Today: Anstf.v&vsary O? V--E Day M!)\. I The r^rmed a its h.»- i i «tt th the i aire b J ■**ra j is! l.<m irs s PWk '<-■>'• c Ti' m to ¥M .Vi\X^ -o irray, s&% t v a\ vw jCr*
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      OUR MEN ENTER RANGOON
      25 4 OUR MEN ENTER RANGOON 'M)\. inurv i.* AKted 1 »»d porees a. lit*- 'storn&g i ssh- ml M V-.... I omiß ;*id wmiiui U I
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      451 4 "BUTTONHOLE JIM" D Guard JAMES MINALL who has completed over 48 years' service with the G.W.R.. is retiring at the age of 71 Every day for 45 years he has worn a buttonhole. Most of his time has been spent on the Henley Twyford Paddington run. WHEN
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      CHANGE OF AIR
      105 4 -CHANGE schen avutirs to form Jmk and better ua mg tetwean Uia Arm; the Navy and con pa board H.M. Ships we -k I had schemes and I I Ed to our Fi: We v the H M SUM", a 1500-ton being ir j t0 ut we
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      CORONER GIVES MURDER VERDICT
      43 5 The Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday returned a verdict of murder against four masked Chinese gunmen who. without obvious motive, entered a house at the seventh milestone, Yio Chu Kang Read and shot dead a vegetable pardoner.
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      MALARIA IS WELL UNDER CONTROL
      155 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FkESPITE the prolonged "freak" weather, which saw heavy *J rains during the earlier part of this year, Singapore has managed to keep clear of alaria and at no time has übled the health authorities. The Chief Health Officer said erday that
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      PHONOGRAPHS ON DISPLAY
      154 5 PHONOGRAPHS ON DISPLAY AS purl <>f the Safety am -lii.n. the Public B tiens Lflice has complied photos sunr-lied by the 1 Branch cf the Police and photographer. Mr. Le? Soon. One < .< along with over 60 Bri American "Safety Fir; a k m the Muni-inal Chamber en Saturday
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      19 BEHEADED IN S'PORE
      84 5 Witnesses Sought WAR nes Inve s under w tour Ana ricar. aa*m e n, six survivors from an Allied su old nine so-called "spi beheaded by Jap sannel m Si April 1945 and lapitulati the Nee Soon rifle range by Japanese from Seletar Naval Ba Twelve
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      FORCES SETTLE OVERSEAS
      170 5 I MORE than 23,000 men and 111 women of all ranks m the forces hav c chos e n to be r e leas e d m ovcreea s stations at the end of their service, to Settle ther e Of this total 7,013 came from the
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      TRANS-PACIFIC LINE RESUMED
      40 5 TRANS-PACIFIC LINE RESUMED THE new 9,000-ton Klanveneas Liae vessel Castleville ha.= arrived m Singapore to resume the company's Trans-Pacific Service. The service operates from Vancouver 'British Columbia), Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. Los Angeles to the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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      1000 WAR SUSPECTS IN CHANGI
      27 5 1000 WAR SUSPECTS IN CHANGI I **Pr Keporter ang civilian under time Secre•on. i a c .id oe uin *-ha. aiviwar or j 1 I I I
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      DUTCH PM FLIES THROUGH
      46 5 DUTCH PM FLIES THROUGH Mr I \i?eveno. Dutch Consul General at Singapore, is seen ffreetiner Di H Jonkmann, Netherlands Minister of Overseas Territories, who arrived with the Netherlands Prime Minister, Dr. J M Reel (facing camera) at Kalian g Airport on Tuesday en route for Batavia
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      NEW 'HOSPITAL' VAN FOR S'PORE
      448 5 NEW 'HOSPITAL' VAN FOR S'PORE vl l lagers are looked after Free Press Staff Reporter CO popular are ihe Government travelling dispensaries proving that a third mobile 'hospital' is being built and should be on the road m a few weeks, the Chief Health Officer, Dr. R. S. Johnston, told
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      CELEBES IS RICH IN MINERALS
      306 5 PRELIMINARY exploration* indicate that important mm I eral deposits -.mm on Celebes, the great island shaped like a spider which Kes east of Borneo m the Indonesian archipelago. eielx-s is the most important economic unit m the young state of East Indonesia, established last December
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      SVC HQ MESS OPENS FRIDAY
      109 5 SVC HQ MESS OPENS FRIDAY THE c:nn i of the MRNVR and the SVC have agreKl to re-open the SVC, HQ Mess m Beach Road, Sin p >re ii ij) iO basis. The mess will be open to all volunl :ers, *~>ast and present, of the MRNVR, SSVF. FMSVF and
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      THE BUSMEN HAVE RETURNED!
      81 5 THE BUSMEN HAVE RETURNED! The busm e n have returned! P'gs ar<? led: to eh, busmen have re ■rt days ar. my, j The bees make marmalade, CThinese don't like making The basm e n have r e tur: d! m the w:st. busmen have r e tun The Temperance
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      MORE PIGS FOR SINGAPORE
      38 5 Tm- tsed the mon- :>^rt jg to Singapore from to 5.000 la m May j I i 17, and to 7,000 head v I 1947. Tl i^n d at tl> "r-ol iao.gapore food sur
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      TWO BANDS
      32 5 PIE pine band Battalion the Seafcrtii ffl .anders. an<j .gap. re Police Band will play alterna'- *> y of the pr :ards of commendatioa eat House at 4.30 pjn. on Satur
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      S'PORE HAS NO SAFE ROUNDABOUT
      366 5 S 'PORE HAS NO SAFE ROUNDABOUT ADDRESSING the Singapor T. 11. Stone, chairman oj visory Committee, said there about m the town. A Munici Newton Circus a wonderful j statement." "Experts- all over the woi proaches to an island should yards.' Mr. Stone said. "This which vehicles turning away tinuing
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      SAFETY WING TO BE TESTED
      391 6 IT the end of this month a plane vsii! take off from a A i1.A.1. aert>drome m Hampshire, tlv to a height <»f several thousand feet, and then drop a dummy airman which will have no parachute, but which is expected to drop more slowly
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      VANISHED IN 3-MILE FACTORY
      66 6 VANISHED IN 3-MILE FACTORY A:,!.\ v a wiin nis wnwibarrow to deliver a mesa three miles-long factHe did no. ret*; thousands of Q and police, have been looking for m the factory Vickers-k-on-T;. ow 58, they do no^ k: pt that he did not clock G:: -on ;rds to dao-
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      MEN RESENT WOMEN AS BOSSES
      67 6 MEN RESENT WOMEN AS BOSSES U7OMEN teacher: r to more i i Ar. R. W. Tomkin told ■iation iference a"end, England. ites passed a resolu ion tig women's appointm< neads of mixed schools. H. Gordon said that m truce i.ster.s and are looked on as our hereditary foes." added: "I
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      INSTITUTIONS MERGE
      14 6 INSTITU TIONS MERGE •ash Institu'ion of and Inst of Au r e to amalgam
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      MILKS OF NYLO
      28 6 When the 3.000.000 nj ng built at Ponty■:<*i. is m production— -is the will luce 375 miles of yarn c minute. 24 hours a day.
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      HE FLEW TO MARRY
      30 6 ter flying from New York to many and Man to London. :1:1m Tompkins, U.S. Army bed Liverpool hi hours before his wedding to a local girl.
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      Pleasure cruises again
      86 6 gKII \l\ S Hrst post-war pleasure irui.sc b-gins < June '20 m i 3,100-ton Coast Lines steamer Lad.\ Killain<\. Thousand* of people have already applied for places on the eight cruises arranged for this summer al fares between twelve and forty ftv< guineas. Ihe Lady X Harney
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      His 'Ego' fooled a whole city
      189 6 IN 1942, window cleanei George Kirbj posed as a German spy to steal secret defence document^ and "satisfj his ego." He was jailed. This year he posed as a film executive and hoaxed scores <>f people m Durham to "satisfy his inordinate \.:tnit\ He
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      OFF THE HOUSE
      31 6 orators m Richm Surrey. England, are giving free pints to dart pb who score a "ton" aoo or n with three darts), a many can do it th
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      MORE ELECTRICITY
      21 6 In March 3.983.000.000 units ol electricity were generated by authorised undertakings m Britain compared with units m March. 1946.
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      UK TERRITORIAL ARMY STRENGTH
      362 6 UK TERRITORIAL ARMY STRENGTH 9 divisions and A- A grouts BRITAIN'S new Territorial \rm\ will be composed of one airborne, two armoured and six inlanirv d rista anti-air*] raft groups, together with corps and army troops announced Mr. F. J. B-fHrnJrr, Seci-eta-rj foe War, when 1 opened the national recruiting
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      RARE BIRDS FIND HOME
      99 6 NATURALISTS will tour the newly-released 10,000-acre battle school area at Oxford, Suffolk, before the villagers move back. They will investigate the presence of animals and birds rare m Britain which are said to have made their homes there during the five years the area has been
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      SHOT BOY LEFT TOYS IN WILL
      177 6 DEFORE he shot himself a 14-year-old schoolboy wroi note bequeathing all his toys to members of his family j The note— "a pathetic little thing," the Bedford coroner called it— was found on a chair near his body. An oldfashioned walkinir-stiek gun was by
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      4 FLEW BY NIGHT—ONE ARRIVED
      105 6 4 FLEW BY NIGHT— ONE ARRIVED POUR pilots, apph 1 "B" licence ie of commercial to undergo flying a and a them They were sent <•■:' don on a 92-mile Dig! airport, near Bournemc Against a 40 m.p.h. hear i the machines carried or. j enough petrol to re. One
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      GIFT TO RAF
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      89 6 J <r\niE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya THE OLD BUFFOON'sVtHATS HIS IDEaS Hfl FsoTMATiS HIS GAMeV^AIT A*N GIVEN YOU A TRICK If OF A JOKE!- fK" THE DOUBLE CROSSING J MIMUTE, ERIC CIGARETTE CASE, BUT WHAT'S p* OLD SNOB.'— I'LL GO THAT'S THE WAY l^ANE.'^^_ VI THIS—?
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      109 6 Free Press Crossword flfe. 9* fifi2dft*r "VHKEt ~aaaawSt\ -3; J3&9Y and 18. District <•: Sec 13 Down 9. Threa 11. Small ship with Windrush, Wey and M nomy tbe Blgn of Libr. branch Ls an emblem of pea (9). 24. Always: on a 1 tinental river lieue 4. Inventor of
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      S. AFRICANS LEAD CAMBRIDGE
      283 7 S. AFRICANS LEAD CAMBRIDGE improved form i \MBRIDGE, Wednesday. -ts were m the strong position of i front with six wickets m hand at the 1 I* v m their match againsl Cambridge were so tied down that they were three hours of batting m their South Africans had made
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      NEW CRICKET LAWS ADOPTED
      11 7 |*w•si pubierl to ernil nieet- more nplete.
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      LEN HUTTON SCORES 103 v OXFORD
      7 7 LEN HUTTON SCORES 103 v OXFORD a.
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      VON NIDA, SUTTON SHARE GOLF LEAD
      113 7 THPORT, Wed. NORMAN *a da of Australia N rman Sutton of I Rovers' footba of 70 shared the lead round proper m Dunlop-Southport -£2,000 profes--nament on Hesketh eourst day. were followed by Max ncr last year. C. H. Ward Reg Whitcon-a c of Park-tone.
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      POLISH DAVIS GUP TEAM v BRITAIN
      120 7 WARSAW. Wed. FD*S Da*vis Cup team meeting Britain m Warsaw on May 15, IC and 17 has been announced as follows: Ignace Tloczynski aged 35, Czeslaw Spychala. 30; Wladyslaw Sonecki. 28; Hebda Tloczynski and Spychala are expected to arrive m Poland today from England,
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      HOSPITAL YOUNGSTERS
      58 7 THE Hospital Youngsters will meet the C.S.C. on the Medical College Ground m a friendly gam P of soccer today. Players representing the Hospital Your^gsters are: Jeevarajah; T.S. Maniyam; Mohan. dTa Singh; K. Thambi; S. Murugasu, T.N. Rajah; G. Thangavaloo; Arumugam. A. P. Samy: Thong Gim Sam: D.
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      BANKERS WIN 5-0
      27 7 r5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank beat the S.C.C. by five goals tc nil m a game of soccer played on the padang yesterday,
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      INFANTRY WIN CUP FINAL
      569 7 By Our Soccer Reporter Infantry 5 Embarkation Hq 0 SUPERIOR by far m every department of the game, Infantry, a team drawn from the Seaforth Highlanders and Queen's, proved too strong for Embarkation Headquarters m the final of the Army Parker Cup knockout soccer competition at
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      PRESENTS CUP TO WINNERS
      22 7 PRESENTS CUP TO WINNERS Lady Ritchie presents the Parker Cup to Rigby. captain of the Infantry at the conclusion of yesterday's game.
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      S.R.C. BEATEN BY C.R..E.
      185 7 S.R.C. BEATEN BY C.R..E. The S.R.C. were well-beaten by C.R.E. 162- Workshop m a cricket match played on the Club padang yesterday. The Club wre all out for a total of 92 runs which the Army side passed with nine wicketa m hai S.K I O. Campbell lbw Townsend 1G;
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      BASEBALL PRACTICE
      54 7 Members of the C.V.M.A. (Singa'pore'i who are interested m baseball are requested to turn up for practice" on Sunday, at 10.30 a.m. sharp at St. Joseph's Inst, ground Mr. C B. Arriola will b^ present to coach members and has also consented to i supply the necessary pear
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      RUGBY LEAGUE RESULTS
      23 7 LONDON. Wed:— Rugby League re 'suits: Bellevue Rangers 3, Widnes 13; Castleford 12. Workington 19; Bramley 7. Leeds 26. Reuter
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      REST OF EUROPE XI MAY PLAY DEFENSIVE GAME
      276 7 LONDON, Thurs. Th e Rest of Europe football side to play Great Britain at Hampden Glasgow, on Saturday, May 10, will not be finally chose n until Friday afternoon. The European selectors b -'tween now and then will have to decide whether
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      HAMINS-CERDAN FIGHT PLANNED
      92 7 LONDON, Wed. JACK SOLOMONS left for Paris today to try to sign the Frenchman, Marcel Cerdan, and Vince Hawkins to fight m London for the European middleweight title. Hawkins, a number one challenger for Cerdan's European crown, meets Degouve of France at the Palais des Sports on
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      SOCCER STALWARTS OF 2 DECADES
      651 7 Lim Yong Liang, Chia Keng Hock By The Sports Editor I AST Monday evening when St. Joseph's Institution beat u t St. Andrew's School by five goals to nil they were carrying on a long tradition of inter-school supremacy m this particular branch of sport,
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      MALAYA'S GREATEST ALL-ROUNDER
      706 7 MALAYA'S GREATEST ALL-ROUNDER BECAUSE football is the ii men, Keng Hock's name is ch*e wiih U:,s game and people are apt to far t t be Las excelled a. cricket, too, and shewn more than ordin; j ►ficiency m many other spheres, Euefa a v. tern-, badroii athletics, swimming and
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      Padang Clubs Meet In League Today
      155 7 IN to-day's league axture at Jalan Eesar Stadium the opponents will be the Singapore Cricket Clvi the Singapore Recreation Club A meeting between these two padang rivals, be it m n competitive game or not. has always "seen Invested with special interest, and ton
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      GLASGOW RANGERS WIN
      22 7 RANGERS beat Partrick Thlsl nil m the Glasgow Charity I semi-final played at Glasgow vcs^tday. reports Reuter from Londvi.
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      33 8 The famous white cliffs of Southern England it their highest point. Beach* Head, ItWulti a few miles outside Eastbourne, overlooks Eddystone lighthouse ami is the most popular picnic spot on the South Downs.
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      London stocks
      138 8 o:he London Stock Exci. rdav the recent upward trend given fresh stir. the Cha- 'l uer regarding overkebtednesB and also by the measures to comoat mover of British G was an outstanding the all round m Indus! second. our of the market for Id shares was a| despite
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      89 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY CI "TV/ X ~\A C I I x I +J vet con fives the prices of rubber al 3l .i.m tod at as follows: \POKE CHAMBER Oh ■Till. Singapore Chamber of L'om- merce rubber prices at noon yesterday aw re: Buyers Sellers l I m I
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      S'pore shares
      34 8 THE Singapore share m very firm this morr. IndusHenry Waughs are wanted at i >■' cries $23. v. United .1 Gammons ar<ted at $5 85 hares are steady g and Ruhr- nue ted.
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      COUP IN COLUMBIA
      25 8 ver^erxieia .-©parts rtale that the I >lno*i>Man Ai-my haj staged al coup s.nd pUrwed the Liberal Party w twumDia m pcrwer. Reuter
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      New York stocks
      108 8 o\ork Stock Exchtn^e rday prices shifted ov range m continued Jull dealThere was slightly oeitei sup:or selected industrials but elsevery limited interest aevr'cp^d and the market was practically un- the balance, present character of the market 'he temporary trading range will be from the low levels of
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      Silver Ban Lifted
      40 8 RANGOON. Thurs. A **vernment communique »«s«tard^ announced the lifting of the ban on export of silver which Is at present exportable under Government i licem» only subject to a tariff duty of Reuter UPH per troy ounce
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      CALL UP CUT IS APPROVED
      432 8 CALL UP CUT IS APPROVED LONDON, Wednesday. REDUCTION of the call up for compulsory military training m Britain from eighteen months to a year was approved bj the use of Commons tonight after Mr. V. Alexander, Minister of Defence, had denied a suggestion thai the reduction foreshadowed a change m
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      CONCICTS STRIKE
      23 8 Oriie hundred young women prisoners m Fresness Jail m France yesterday barricaded themselves m the building and went on strike. U.P.
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      ARBITRATOR TO HEAR B.N.B. CASE
      72 8 ARBITRATOR TO HEAR B.N.B. CASE LONDON, W, d THE the Hi*. a Borneo C m] the amount payable by a t for it undertakirj I In Jui th a the 2,100.000 sterling. Und*T the terms of the arbl- arbitrator is to certain the fair price oi clay 'of the transfer
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      Artificial moon for Sighting
      75 8 D ADIO-EQI riPPED artliicial moons floating round the e:iVth to light up the earth's surface and to send back information from outer space were predicted by E. V. Hurron at the annual < onference of the British Electrical Trade Union at Margate yesterday. He said that
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      NO MONEY TALKS WITH COLONIES
      479 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THERE will be no formal negotiations between the British Government and the Dominions and Colonies over ste* ling balances accrued by overseas territories during the war, The prospect is that then- will be informal understandings that the Dominions will refrain from spending their
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      NEI-DUTCH TIES HAVE NOT IMPROVED
      358 8 NEI-DUTCH TIES HAVE NOT IMPROVED Sjahrir pessimistic BATAVI A, Wednesday. THE Indonesian Prime Minister, Sulan Sjahrir, m an inter view uiih Associated Press today, said thai the political atmosphere between the Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic has not improved since the Signature of the C heribon agreement, and "unless there
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      BEAUTY PAYS THIS FAMILY
      25 8 BEAUTY PAYS THIS FAMILY MARY LYONS, IGED II: Indepeadenl yaamg lady. f. I old by poMns with hrr *i I J h f»»05 tr I
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      CITY'S DEAD UNBURIED
      54 8 LONDON, Wed. GRAVE Diggers en strike? caused the dead m the City of London main unburied tod A Cemetery official stated the r e a> 25 to 30 bodies m City awaiting bur. Grave da vc joined bridge <i|pe*a' of public servants of the City Corp U.P.
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      Britain to bring back Jan loot
      215 8 M LONDON, Wedaesd BKJiIsH. olonial and Bur: representative- on tl la- ommission to present claims far looted m Japan and to arrange for its transport back to the rik'htiu! owners are expected to arrive m Japan towards the end this month, said Mr. Ernest
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      ITALY TO JOIN UNO?
      25 8 Italy has applied for admission to the United Nations as a member state, the Italian Foreign Office announcer) last night. Reuter
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      'SQUEEZE' IN MALACCA: NO COMPLAINTS
      158 8 'SQUEEZE' IN MALACCA: NO COMPLAINTS Free Press Staff Reporter MALACCA Thursday. OFFICIALS of the Indian and Chinese Chambers of Commerce say they have received no complaints by Malacca merchants of "squeeze" attempts by price control inspectors. They were commenting on allegation made m the Union* Advisory Council by Mr. C.
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      92 8 BAVIiI/ 1 HAPPY WORLD STAD UAinly I l\ 10th M\Yat9.lsi\M JEFF HOLMES vs WM SM U P B.ani v laa* J. JAEBAR vs O HOCK BEKG JOHN JAMES X I Real X! luind B TINY SEVERO BABI V m main f CorUti BILLY BOY Ju M I id Station A
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