The Singapore Free Press, 4 June 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA sjsdfjdj ugaujcgfjdf SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1947. PKlCfc iU CENT a.
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    QUICK ACTION ON INDIA PLAN
    880 1 QUICK ACTION ON INDIA PLAN m V m I I 111 /tf/f i^ peace move LONDON, Wednesday. C\\ IPT Parliamentary action to Implement the new British plan for the partition of India is forecast non that the plan is seen to have won general approval both hert' and m huiiu.
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    19 1 The i •id rulrr of *f Bor» i drium.in > Hollywood the n. \venue." d with her picture. A.P.
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    S'PORE CUSTOMS SEIZE DRUGS
    59 1 S'PORE CUSTOMS SEIZE DRUGS v Repor, OVER 100 tubes of various drugs re seized m Singapore yesterday by the Preventive Branch of the Customs Department. en hvnodermic needles seized. were marked War and were m ittle pact cases of the type used m the fiel by Army medical officers. The
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    TORIES BACK INDIA SCHEME
    98 1 TORIES BACK INDIA SCHEME IJPLAK i the ll«>u>e of C Pnr Minister, Mr. Pag v the L< fl ye free bill to v is on 2 India which us on the ment made :h<- Prinnnly to I r British m." ader of [nd .ken i take the LONDON, Luesdaj. 'ommon-
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    LONDON HAS HEAT WAVE
    73 1 LONDON, Tuesday. Lm.n .vettered today m a record June temperature of 93 desr <> degre- n-tter than June's previous besfl a >raturea irer* re- irhovl lhe wmf England. At Tonbridgi Wells it was 92 deir i Mildenhall reported 91 degrees. But the average lemperawe for the
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    TURF CLUB REJECTS 4 ENTRIES
    126 1 TURF CLUB REJECTS 4 ENTRIES ■cc Press Corresponded KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. rE Committee of the Selangor Turf Club announced this morning that it has decided to reject the entries of Golden Sub. Rendova. King Archer and My Bachelor for the meet m/ wmch opens on Saturday. The Committee did nut
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    10,000 VOLUNTEERS
    15 1 Ten thousand men of the "PeoVolunteer Corps" have enrolled as special Burma police,
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    MALAYAN DISPATCHES IN AUTUMN
    157 1 MALAYAN DISPATCHES IN AUTUMN LONDON, Tues. THE Secretary for War, Mr. Frederick Bellenger, told the House of Commons today, m reply to a question, that it was expected that dispatches covering the loss of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore would rea;'h their turn for publication some time this Autumn. Mr.
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    SKY 'PIRATES'
    56 1 MEXICO will si. aerial police force to dive pirate pilots from the skies, the newspapers El Universal Grafico stated yester The paper alleged that flying buccaneers, composed of former war-time pilots, were engaging m ruinous competition with the licensed airlines m Mexico and to be transporting illicit cargoes
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    14 1 i Kjii i iIOM VS lndrr-Secretary of State for the Colonies, who visited Malaya
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    11 1 MR E. \\i BTZBURG President of the Association of British Malaya.
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    Millions for big rocket range
    220 1 Millions for big rocket range A GOYiiKNMENT source sail A Cabinet had allotted i £200.000.000 defence budget f< the next five years and hinted would go towards construction rocket range spanning central This source estimated thai i Australia's post-war armed fori of 69,000 and an air force of ment had
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    'A-BOMB MUST GO'—SOVIET
    78 1 'A-BOMB MUST G O'—SOVIET LAKE SUCCESS, Tues. M Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet delegate, reaffirmed m the United Nations Atomic Working Committee yesterday that Russia insists on the abolition of the atom bomb as the first step m any scheme for world control of atomic power. As this is m direct
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    BURMA CRISIS OVER
    11 1 The Burma Police crisis was amicably settled yesterday.
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    SCAP PLAN TO DIVIDE JAP ASSETS
    225 1 TOKIO, Tuesday ALL oi Japan's reparations assets have been divided into two major categories— "integrated facilities" which will be shipped out as complete plant units and "pooled Items" which will be distributed among Allied nations as individual pieces of equipment, according to a pamphlet
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    BUSINESS MEN AID MALAYA, SAYS MINISTER
    613 1 BUSINESS MEN AID MALAYA, SAYS MINISTER Bright future ahead! Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tuesii SPEAKING at the annual dinner of the Associatimi <>f British Malaya. Mr. h<>r Thomas, Under-Secretary of State for the Cokw.ieo, who visited Malaya recently, paid I tribute to the Malayan business community, without whom the
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    MORE HOUSE FOR U.K.
    44 1 The British Ministry >f H reported yesterday that 9./20 pc manent houses were completed hi Britain during April -ompx with 6.719 m March and 4 February. Temporary ho finished m April totalled COmDared tn 2 *>Sfi m Wi.vh A .P.
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    THE 'GREAT' LITTLE RUNNER
    923 2 THE 'GREAT' LITTLE RUNNER i TERRY STANFORD, m a recent BBC broadcast described Sydney VVooder- > a s?ri us little fellow with spectacles and a shy, diffident manner until he tunning. TH E term athlo>rts, including jumpy, both for height and length, hurdling, putting the weight, and hurling the javelin,
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    NO PASSION PLAY
    270 2 DESPITE rumoui the famous pa play v% Oberammergau this year, Burgomaster ha d that this would be impossible until 1950. The production was scheduled fcr 1940, but then the majority ol th ors were m th° armed The general economic situation prevents the presentation the passion play
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    TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM
    249 2 WHAT should West lead aga the slam contract Actually, he chose the singleton club. Dummy's queen was captured by East's ace and a diamond returned. South won and laid down (hf spade ace. When West showed out. South led the heart jack and let it ride. Next
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    Are Ticks Best At Fasting?
    362 2 By FRANK I \\l ONCE fasted 1 tw< days. F« r a fortnight I had wat< 1 d for the rest I lived mainly on fruit and vegetable juk At the end of the thirty-two days I weigh* about tw yen pounds 3 than I
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      72 2 IfiailuraKe Exclusive lo the Singapore free Press m Malaya -~T^ t^rAw" c^ B^^^^^ r™ E BRAS MONKEY TOOK HIS I-- AND--IT APPEARS] SOMETHING MUMMY WRAP-1 ciiru-ukArt -mm. < CLOTHES, DISGUISED HIMSELF ESCAPED. HE'S --SO6--HIT PINGS/ THE BRASS I J 1^ \WL f THE DIRECTOR-- PERFECTLY FOOLED US p JtHAtI ME
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      281 2 YOUR I LUCKY STAR F ay DOUN today, yoa must eolbition if yoa ar< t«» rea< h th 1h ights ol mux ess, t whU h roar talents Ue you. Kind, sympathetic \nd fn< ndly t i all. 3 ou iind it (tiffi< ult to be sufficiently hardpushing and ruthless
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      254 2 S !>A\ 90 a m Had- new I D^ BBC Scottish Orchestra; 8 w 8.40 Home news from Brx 7 30 p.m. Fr 7.40 Interlude; 7.4 19 8.00 A Tale Of Hide; 8.30 News: I announcements; 8.45 j Itian Hymns; 9 00 Ncv Musi- Hall; 10.30 Radio n M 1
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    ARCTIC CAN BE SETTLED
    78 3 ARCTIC CAN BE SETTLED re ap- to people out j Dr, Gilmore ir. the -served, a few -egard the Arc- but probably lei h thing Rich Resati Gilmure said. valuable than jse the world's j centres, in- ta and tradto the North do m the Zone. Arctic re- hertes, furand
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    AUSTRALIA PROSPERS
    13 3 AUSTRALIA PROSPERS Ir. J. B. peace, the reduce one of the I the
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    PASSION PLAY
    4 3 Potior 1950.
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    Why should Britain pay?
    55 3 Ms o ne of i x it ally, >st be scale should it no m addition 1 v lhe snJferiii bombarded?* Lhe most iniluential papers m supports Mr. Dfttton's declaration d down. 1 on Britain alone to bear to the sacrifice of blood and life ber
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    'Q' Fever: Man's New Enemy
    362 3 'Q' Fever: Man's New Enemy MAN ha^ a new eneni) Uj plague his efforts to stay healthy. It is the d^ease called Q" Fever and while it hardly ever kills, scientists are keeping their eyas »»n it. This Is became little Ls known of U" Fever It i< a comparatively
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    53 3 Under the shadow of the mill chimneys at Shaw, near Oldham, Lancashire, is the Lancashire Cotton rporation nursery fur the children of v.om°n employed m the miiLs In order to attract women into industry, many of the factories throughout the country ha\*> non set aside space for children 's nurseries
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    JUMPED TOO HIGHT
    41 3 Alderman H. J. Stearne. 69--year-old mayor of Chatham, bruised his hand playing goalkeeper m a football match with members of the council. "I jumped too hiffh," he said, "and crushed, my fingers against the crossbar (height eight feet).
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    WORKERS EARN £28 A WEEK
    85 3 rOR a week's work, seme Syd- ney wharf-la"oourers have received £18. and some Melbourne wharf -labourers £20 to £28, it was claim -d. A spokesman for the Oversea Shipping Representatives Association said that for the wet ended on May 5, 5,142 waterside workers registered m
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    RUSSIA'S FIRST JET IS
    172 3 LISING German technician* I tlrM jet plane, the Lav tighter. It wa.s designed by and is reported to have a s\ The two B.M.W. turboj* are placed side by side ben< time this arrangement has ■although the Dutch are us commercial aircraft. The Russians have also
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    ONE-JOB GORDON
    19 3 Gordon Richards, champi xs to sell his 2 -a- at L n can', c.o two j'~ properly.'"
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    ANTI-ALLIED FEELING IN GERMANY
    368 3 ANTI-ALLIED FEELING IN GERMANY CRUDE pencilled or chalked slogans that find their way on to railway coach partitions and similar "blackboards" m Germany are today a revealing chronicle of the rise of anti-Allied sentiment m Germany, reports Reuter from Frankfurt. In such furtive ways many Germans give free vent' to
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    WHY PRESIDENTS, GO FISHING
    57 3 THE reason that all U.S. pre.si- dents take up fishing, accord- ing to Mr. Herbert Hoover, only J living: ex-President, is that it is the ovly way for them to g:t i away from it all. H e said: 'There are only two occasions when j
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    WOMEN'S HATS PAY THE CREDITORS
    45 3 THIRTY SEVEN YEAR OLD Denisa Lady Newborough, of Upper Berk^l y-street, W., who went bankrupt last year ior £951 has paid her creditors 10s. m the pound by making women's hats. I can pay back every penny now.'* she said.
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    SWEDISH APOLOGY
    21 3 Tlie Swedish Foreign Minister has apologised to the Spanish Minister m Stockholm for repeated demonstrations outside the Spanish Legation.
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    Jap Cannibals
    85 3 rpHE capture oi 34 man -eat I in*; Japanes' strasgiers m the wilds of Mindanao, southern Philippines, where they are said to have resorted to cannibalism. has just been confirmed by P.I. department of the InteriorAccording to a Military Police report, a band of M Jap strati glerv
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    RAF man 'loss' in Russia
    138 3 RAF man 'loss' in Russia Oil the s m war i l told is that of Le»inald Barratt, n X V from -r who while m Russian hands. Barn > tish secret ai r ent, and had at least three identities, plane was shot down off Dutch coast m 1941:
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    WHY WOMEN OVER-EAT
    250 3 WHY WOMEN O VER-EA T WOMEN who eat themselves into obesity because of some unhappiness or fear of men and marriage can be help'd by psychology by not by being ordered to diet, the New State Medical Society was t<>ld recently by Dr. Henry rs. Richardson of New York Hospital
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    DIPLOMATS TO TO STAY IN DELHI SUBURB
    93 3 DIPLOMATS TO TO STAY IN DELHI SUBURB WHEN political status, all diplomats accredited to it and will be housed be ouilt on! the outskirts of Delhi, the ancient capital of India. The colony will be a sufficient garden town and with all modern amenities. The si* 3 selected is m
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    SHARK HARPOONED
    23 3 A 20ft. shark harpooned m Mounts Bay. Cornwall, by Mr. A Compton, of Mousehole, was landed at Newly n, near Penzance.
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      72 3 T ARZ AN Broosoit in pesi* By Edgar Rice Pur !is As-Th£ GASPING APE-MAN \l I "1 I AGAIN ANO AGAIN THE I NOW IN H.S RELIEF REACHED THE SURFACE THE 1 JX I j( FLA5HEP AND tf^tf TAR2AN 5 VlCTORY .^S^^Bl^ 'DESPERATE TARCAN REACHED HIM. t^jjr^ L WATCHED THE
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. JUNE 4 1947. The Battle with Tuberculosis
    244 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. JUNE 4 1947. The Battle with Tuberculosis ti for the Pren of Tn ich rmed at a public meeting ilth n which SOU. 000 S >re th a problem whose solution U requli energy and th- x prob. riously mal standards of the occupation period
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    THE ARMY WE DON'T WANT
    793 4  - THE ARMY WE DON'T WANT Maj-Gen J.F.C. FULLER Beyond 7 lie Conscription Wrangle by The youth of Malaya has shown that it is keen on a life m the Army. They have come forward m such numbers thai the organisation for recruiting has had to serialise intakes to meet the
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    332 4 How \Ki) v\ ms AF rs m the varii :ned ali m -x.am public park. Op. DERRK X BARTON r, m the II irts Bournei alread Works' Wimbled Sin Walton, wl ime though he likes it. and thinks at on* itches m one day last Augusi three
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    83 4 Maureen Gynne. 18. rirjht has lie,. h e r.'m ,v r- i v*• i —she cot it by nln-hht the g ch »»ce m Grand Nationals "Turners oi IVx'p.d Ho.J' radio r! 1 l f rt from h .V«nger sister Angda (left). Maureen, who has dene cai.'s show "Tho N100.4
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    BETWEEN RUSSIA AND INDIA
    324 4 BETWEEN RUSSIA AND INDIA Tajikistan C 0 M E i able facte about little known country of Tajikistan, where only a 15-mile strip of Afghan territo y iet Union fr tied by a 5 journalist who has paid a visit to this of deep tropical vali and lofty icy mow
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      20 4 I GOLD SILVER CIGARETTE CASES AT VERY COMPETITIVE SP J^ AmW SlX#^^ XT* H»a m»^ wm~ m <1 \(t \i
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    FOOD CONTROLLER BLAMES PUBLIC
    388 5 Spore Black Market j Free Pre^s Staff Reporter IBE Singapore Food Controller, Mr. J. Hamer, wants every citizen of the Colony to become a price control inspector and to advise him what they consider is wrong with thc existing control and enforcement machinery, hut. he declares,
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    EX-MALAYAN LEADS UNESCO EXPEDITION
    16 5 :h ex .VE3CC al an: •hi 1. th at dii 1 if
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    S'PORE SCHOLARSHIPS
    35 5 Applications for Queen's y. Scholarships and Fellowships for .diutes of Raffles colleg" College of Medicine Singa;C i pore should be submitted to the Director of Education, Singapore. not later than July 7, 1947.
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    Call for urgent action on T.B.
    280 5 Call for urgent action on T.B. Free Pre>o Staff Reporter immediate action to check the incidence of n Singapore, Mr. S. H. Peek, speaking tiled at the Adelphi Hotel yesterday to form he Prevention of TB. said: "We cannot ur slums are cleared away, and new -chemes arise m their
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    SINGAPORE MALACCA COACHES LIMITED.
    15 5 SINGAPORE MALACCA COACHES LIMITED. -ORE MALACCA 3 (toad U53 Malacca \R >ir^ [>\ILY f M
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    MAN CAUTIONED FOR ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
    23 5 A Chinese. Liang Meng, was cautioned and discharged m the Slngap irth Police Court yesterday for attempted suicide.
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    WORKERS SEND 333 PETITIONS ON SALARIES
    162 5 WORKERS SEND 333 PETITIONS ON SALARIES rpHE Public Services Salaries Commission, set up to make recommendations regarding pay and conditions of service of moot iily-paid government ollicers m public services, has just finished its week of hearing of oral evidence m connection with 333 memoranda received from public servants and
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    Island gets first radio
    122 5 ry\\ll> week, the first com--1 munity listening set on any oi island surixmn. nig siu tupore was installed on Pulau Sudong. It is a G.E.C battery-operat-ed set and the battery will be renewed each week by the police launch on its routine patrol. It will be
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    SOUTH-EAST ASIA 'IS TOUGHENING'
    338 5 REPORTING on ms tour oi th-Eas I [i OI British Council. mgus m says that the results cf Japanese occupation emerge m a pliccted maze of eross-cur-only political but educational aspirations, dormant or only slowly awakening before have developed enormously m volume and clamour. re' has
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    INDIANS REMIT MILLIONS
    257 5 Free Press TN two months March and I figures compiled by the 1 14,000 people sent a total amo The Post Office money or to all parts of India through n and Bombay. All application i hese three offices f< iv < Each Money Order is limited
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    EAST-WEST SOCIETY
    52 5 The half -year! v general meeting of the Bast-West Society will te held at 830 p.m. m the V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, Singapore, on Thursday. June 5. Included m the agenda will be the election of new oflicers for the next six months, and all members are urged to
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    EIGHT PARTIES 'EXCLUDED'
    47 5 FIGIiT lations m Singapore have oeen eluded by the Governor from registration under the Societies Ordinance. They are; China Democratic jLcague. Indian Muslim Leig-e, Kuomintang, Malayan Com- munist Parly, Malayan Demoi cratic Union. Malayan Indian j Congress. Malay Nationalist Party, and the Malay Union
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    CYMBALIST CAN'T WRITE TO LAWYER
    81 5 N ORRIS Cymbalist, the aircraftman now serving a five-year j sentence for his part m the demob strikes m Singapore, is being prei vented from communicating freely j with his solicitors, says a London j newspaper report. I He has been officially informed I that
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    ARMY FIREMEN GET BEER MUGS
    68 5 ARMY FIREMEN GET BEER MUGS AT Alexandra Road Barracks yesterday evening, be<^r mugs were presented by the Singapore j i Ratenavers' Association to mom- i bers of the Army Fire Fighting Services. The president of the Rate Payers Association said the presentation was made out of gratitude for the spirited
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    PEDIGREE BULLS FOR PHILIPPINES
    33 5 A CONSIGNMENT of registered pedigree cattle probably i the largest-over to leave Australia will be shipped to the Philippines soon. It compromises eight bulls and 58 Jersey hei- rs.
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    91 5 p.cture. The Hh.te Ensign fl >wn by H.M.S. Sussex when she sailed into S n-apore on i. he-ni n Hi* ept. 5, U)4.>— wa blessed and 'laid up- m St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sin-apore on Sunday, during a ceremony held m the morning. At tho ceremony were Rear-Adm ral Kgerion, 10
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    TO LIVE AMONG SARAWAK TRIBE
    442 5 PARACHUTIST SCIENTIST I ree Press Staff Reporter TWA. tirM Kur<;}M'an to rx'friend the hitherto unknown KelabH tribe who became guerilla fighters against the Japanese m the wilds of the Sarawak and Borneo jungles will soon be buck among hi< friends of the jungle. He is
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    LUXURY CARS AUSTRALIA
    178 5 LUXURY CARS AUSTRALIA SINGAPOREANS will be interested to know that only utility cars and trucks may now be imported into Australia. An allAustralian car should be m mass production by the end of the next year. federal Ministers gave this information m the House of Representatives m reply to questions.
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    BRITISH COUNCIL GUESTS ON WAY HOME
    121 5 BRITISH COUNCIL GUESTS ON WAY HOME THE five visitors from Malaya to UK luiuer the of the British Council are now on their home They left the U.K. on May 23 on board the '"Empress o: Britain". They all spenl m London. They met Mr. I or Thomas, Under Secretary
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    MALAYA INDUSTRY
    81 5 rpO meet tne lmmedia- ot the pineapple industr Edward Gent, Governor of ion, has appointed a commit with the following terms of reference: "To consider the present tion and prospects ot pint canning industry and to make specific recommendations to ernment for its resuscitate This committee, which is
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    A.O.G. VISITING FOOD CENTRES
    66 5 ON I Ax. P. A. B. McKerron. Officer Administering the Government, will visit the child feeding centres at: Havelock Road 10 a.m.. Maxwell Road 10.30 a.m., Keppel Harbour 10.45 a.m.. Prinp Street 11 a.m.. and Arab 1 Sreet 11.45 a.m. On Tuesday. June 10. he will
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    82.500 FOR SAFETY
    37 5 lhe Municipal Commissi have agreed to contribute towards the cost of the Singapore v First Week. This c button will amount to one-third of the net Goven rcntribution up to a maximum ol $2,500
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    STOLE RICE: FINED
    43 5 An Indian Muslim. Karim bit oarabai. apprared urth Police Court v I i morning on a clv c from a lighter i. •re Roa< and fined SlOO or m default f months simple imprison: The fine was naid m ronrt
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    MEMORIAL FOR RAMC
    166 5 ON Wednesday, June 11, Hei Majesty the Queer. Colonel -m Chief of R.A.M.C will attend a Serviei of Remembrance m West minster Abbey for those mem bers of the R.A.M.C. who gav< their lives during the war As only a very small proportion of those who would
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    OPERATION ON BRAIN NERVES
    419 6 OPERATION ON BRAIN NERVES Ending 'Unbearable Pain UNBEARABLE pain and suffering tha t patients say is "worse than pain" may Ir> relieved by a relatively simple and safe operation m which certain nerve paths m the brain are cut. This new discovery was described by Dr. Walter Freeman before the
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    64 6 a President of Turk- Gen Ismet Inonu, who a re.ion for officers of the visiting I S nival squadron ,t a here with the commander of the I S na- tl forces m the M mean. Vice-Adm. Bernhard H. Bieri. and the lommander-in-chief of the Turkish Fleet. Adm. I hen
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    STORM OVER STAMP ISSUE
    140 6 Aorm m which the British lo»oi.ia] Umce has jKiriti with Adolf Hitler has been ra^ini; >" Nassau, the Bahama^, over the q of a new Bahamas -tamp issue. the S* public. .of th annivi of EHeuther G l md that bluntly lubjt m the B^rr B
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    DEMONSTRATION
    24 6 Birmingham ludents members of your., isa--8 demonstrated m support of 13 you: lards threatened rani Franco acUvil tmmm m ii m b—b*bbb»bb» bbbib
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    KING'S PORTRAIT TORN
    42 6 GUNNER L. F. Ewins, I. Ariillery, was accused at a courtinn rtial m Berlin of damaging a painting of the Kin.tr. He was said to have jumped on the portrait and torn it a ncr a Naali Club danc«°.
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    NATIONAL SERVICE
    25 6 NATION AL SERVICE v >ung men m Britain born betwe<M July 1. 1929. and Sept, 39, 1929, inclusive, must register under the National Service Act.
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    SAFETY RECORD
    23 6 Fatal accidents m NorthW stem Division coal mines m Britain during 1946 set up a new low record wittl 41 da'
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    HAS ANYONE SEEN?
    16 6 Thero are 332 absentees from jthe British Army m Italy. Ucj 1 121.
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    TELEVISION FOR WHOLE OF U.K.
    256 6 A BIG >u*p forward ha- be^n taken Lfl the pian U» sn.tite Britain the firs^ country m the world with a nationwide television scMice. People living within 35 miles of Mesaader rai.u., I .»nrlon. already h he full benefit of 8.8.C. lelevisioiL As a first
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    Burglars Stole Hive and Bees
    73 6 KENT police mtc trying t«» soltc one of the itrmngest burglaries the theft el several thonsai d bees and their hive from thfl apiary of Mr I! t. I ongford at Smarden, Deai Isfaford. Ihe thieves broke thr- ugh a feme and carried tho hive
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    TENNIS ACE AND HIS RATIONS
    49 6 TENNIS ACE AND HIS RATIONS Dif Pal an lawn r, arrived al I by flying-beat with fruit and jn his Cheese, bi ho pple juice are by ship. He said: "Last year l wasn't prepared for British cations. This year we nave every chance of winning the Davis Cup."
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    OFF THE BRIDGE
    22 6 Fifty-year-old Mr. Arthur C. Gordan of Sandford-road Weston-super-Mare, fell 250 feet flom Clifton Suspension Bridge. Bristol, and was killed.
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    HOT NEWS INDEED
    29 6 Mr. A. E. Thomas reported that his ca r had been stolen from a Bristol cinrma park. Police t°W him it was ablaze five miles away.
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    MILLS KNOCKED OUT IN ROUND 5
    283 7 MILLS KNOCKED OUT IN ROUND 5 Battered Almost f/7i aS~*/\ li> O A<**/M m<\ /M M A7% From Vernon Morgan A w v LONDON, Tuesday V\At went the British light heavy-weight champion's, Freddie Mills, ambitions to the world title when he was 1- tacked out by the coloured Californian, 31-year
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    Derby Pays Record Transfer Fee
    28 7 for be I today »tVI rton, tish rd. I 1 1 n> ior xito ...i otland \Ve.n»). m m which i". m Reuter
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    CLARKE RANGE RS WIN BY 5 WKTS
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    59 M.T. ENTER BASE HQ CUP FINAL
    192 7 59 M.T. ENTER BASE HQ CUP FINAL 2 68 Movements 1 -port Company qualified for the Headquarters cup by scoring a two-one s Unit on Monday. M. T. Company a m. for the\ were on the defensive for he game. 59 times affainst the run of the hen <ide- ::ne
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    Today's Shorts Events
    38 7 SCX I ER: G.H »al Keuiment v Cosnn 51 (ieorge's Road. ."> > D.m. Sultan Youngs- > i rounds. 5.1.-) i.lHl :nd Echelon v A i Bale^tier Road. 5.15 p.m.: S.C.C. v Kranii Wireless. S.C.C, 5.15 p m.
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    S'PORE BEAT TOLEDO TEAM 64-35
    226 7 S'PORE BEAT TOLEDO TEAM 64-35 Basketball THE Singapore Basketball Association team proved too fast and experienced for the team from the U.S.S. Toledo, whom they beat by 64 points to 35 before a crowd of 6.000 at the Happy World Stadium last night. The gate receipts, which are expected to
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    MOVEMENTS WIN
    121 7 Q stents beat Q Branch Cricket Club by four wickets, scores b^ing: THE CI B Chapman b Heath 16, Lloyd b Carr 9. Pearce Gould Ibw Heath 0. Hogg b Heath 0, Rippingale b Carr 11, Wilson b Heath 5, Brett b Heath 0. Friend run out 9.
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    JOLLILADS A.U.
    47 7 THE folowing have been selected to play football for the Jollilads Athletic Union against the R.A. Blakan Mati on Sunday at Blakan Mati, Launch leaves Jardine Steps at 4.45 p.m Sithambram. Muthiah. Rasak. Murugasu, Putteh. Sintha, Salahudin, Muniyandi. Krishnan, Suppiah, M. I. Osman, Ghani, Hamid.
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    STEEL JUST MISSES 100
    350 7 CHQ SEALF fellow ci up trx ory over the Ist Queens with a :her easy win. against the R yal -Engineers, on the Tanglin Grcund on I Surx. After a disastrous start m which Hunter and Salmon were both out m first, over. Fraser scored a
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    BASKETBALL AT HAPPY WORLD
    38 7 BASKETBALL AT HAPPY WORLD Ng Ihiam Seek. Singapore basketball team captain, presents a banner to the I'.SS. Toledo skipper befor^ the start cf yesterday's match at the Happy Worl I Stadium which Singapore won 'I 1 Ol uJ.
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    Sing Tao Win At Manila
    95 7 Sing Tao Win At Manila T2IF Sing Tao Football lub, the Hung Kong team which is on its way to England and Europe, opened th<ir tour m th^ Philippines at Manila against the Manila Chinese and thc Manila Comb ned s'.d In the first game, they beat their compatriots by
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    CEYLON SPORTS CLUB CRICKET TEAMS
    120 7 CEYLON Sports weekend Versus the P\ at 2. p m. on Saturday: K. Muthucumaru icx-.p: nam, T. E. N. P. S. R S Kulalagaran, V. lasingham, V. N npalam. C.R.C. at the SCR.C en S ll a.m. .R. v. S. Sundram (Capt.) V. R. ih,
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    CLARKE'S GOAL KEEPS RECS IN RUNNING
    532 7 CLARKE'S GOAL KEEPS RECS IN RUNNING IS\ Our Soccer KeporU-i S.K.C 1 Chinese I 0 JN a league football match that never once rose over medicority, the S.R.C. beat the Chinese first selection one-nil at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday to move up to third place m the league table with
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    HAT-TRICK & ANOTHER CENTURY v TOURISTS
    358 7 HAT-TRICK ANOTHER CENTURY v TOURISTS Edrich Saves Middlesex THE match between Middlesex and the South Africans ended m a draw at Lord's today after a final day of interesting and much exciting cricket. The final scores were Seuth Africans 424 and 217, Middlesex 316 for 8 declared and 226 for
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    OUTSCHOORN HITS 66v CAMBRIDGE
    242 7 OUTSCHOORN HITS 66v CAMBRIDGE LONDON, Tuesc LADDIE OUTSCHOORN, the former Singapore Recreation Club and State cricketer, scored 66 for Worcester against Cambridge University today. His score nan the second highest n the Worcester second innings of 250 for declared. Earlier m the season it was reported that 0 m his
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    INDIAN COLTS FOR FUTURE DERBYS
    87 7 LONDON, Tuesday. TWO young horses, nameless now but potential Derby winners of the future, have arrived at Liverpool from Bombay. A colt and a yearling they have been brought over by the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. owner of this year's Derby entry, Sayajirao. They were
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    32 7 There will be a friendly game of badminton tetween the bachelors and married of the Treasurer's Department Branch of the Singapore Municipal Services Union today at 5.30 p.m. at 141 Devonshire Read.
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    FRASER & NEAVE WIN TWO-NIL
    94 7 FRASER NEAVE WIN TWO-NIL N. 2. R.\ I PHASER and Neave Sports Clvb I victory by two over the R.A.F. Base On ndly soccer match pi The play v tor the numberless -er and Neave's missed, the J would have been beaten by a b rgin. Reill: brought off several
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    OLDHAM WIN 14-9
    27 7 LONDON OLDHAM, playir. beat. Liverpool Stanley 14-9 m a y League game today. 1 match was played m ton minute phases because heat.- Reuter
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    415 8 ASP] LAL Market or respondent ?ives the prices of rubber at today as follows: Buyers 2>« urr* Cts. is »er lb It* No I R S.S. >p<n loos* 1 1 3J No 1 S fob m bales June 33 R 8 S. fob m bales June
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    BYRNES FIGHTS FOR HOLLYWOOD
    92 8 HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday THE former U.S. Secretary of 1 State, James F. Byrnes, has been hired by the motion picture industry to lead Hollywood's fight against attempts to encroach upon the freedom of the screen Eric Johnston, President of the Association of Motion Picture producers, has announced
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    Forged Landing Permit Racket
    231 8 Forged Land ing Permit Racket Free Press M il Rn poi tei Racketeer- bi (hina are making big mom Mil oi wouhl be immigrants to Singapore, .Mr. 11. W. Nightingale, Magk Irate m the Fourth Court, was told yesterdaj was trying the case of a Chinese carpenter who sold everything
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    JAILED FOR TOY PISTOL HOLD-UP
    117 8 Tthn w a pistol into a t. tion oil Changi Road, on May 9 when they saw three del were s*"nt to prison by the Sir pore Second Poll. Mr. L. C. Goh, The three bin Ali bin Ahmad and Ahmad bin Kussiir.. a Chinese
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    3 YEARS FOR JEEP THEFT
    72 8 CtENTENCE Ot three years rigorous imprisonm imposed on Stewart Garton, a 21--year old member of the R.A.S Mr. Justice BroAn m Singapore Assize Court yesterday. Garton of a jeep on the night of Feb. 13. The jeep belonged to Mr S. P. j Garrett. ex-Government
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    7 YEARS TO FILL INDIAN NEEDS
    83 8 SIR J^hn Creavea who hao b en watching English interests m the importation of spinning machinery m India, said when he arrived at Liverpool from Bombay yesterday that it will I seven years to fulfil India' ing orders of textile machinery at tii present
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    LORD GRETTON DIES AT 79
    63 8 I ORD Gretton, the 79-year-old chairman of a prominent brewing firm and leader of the Conservative Party "diehards" who forced the fall of Lloyd George's Coalitdon Government m 1922. died at Melton Mowbray yesterday Lord Gretton. who became a baron m the 1944 New Year's
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    BREAD STRIKE
    26 8 Tlv striking bakers' hands meeting- with Union laders last night In Paris, decided to continue their 48-hour protest strike, at least, another (jay. U.P.
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    ALEXANDER FOR LORDS RUMOUR
    114 8 ALEXANDER FOR LORDS RUMOUR LONDON. Tuesday. RUMOURS persisted today tl the Defence Minister, Mr. A Alexander, will be raised to the House of Lords, possibly m the King's Birthday Honours list this month as part of another Cabinet reshuffle. The Communist Daily Worker said Mr. Alexander's divisional Labour Party m
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    INDIA PARTITION PLAN OUTLINED
    956 8 INDIA PARTITION PLAN OUTLINED Attiee s statement LONDON, Tuesday. THK partitioning of India wa> announced m the House of Commons today by the Prime Minister, Mr. (lenient Ylthe who -s»id that the decision on the imp-emeniatirn of the plan rested with the Indians. Cheers greeted Mr. Attiee 's statement that
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    SOLDIERS INJURED
    36 8 Two Australian soldiers were ely burned and one Japanese injured when the landing barge. Empire Athelstan. which had just arrived, caught fire at 'he arst Australia soortation i pany dock m Kure, Jar A.P.
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    27 8 In the Dnscncp <»f Field -M Imperial General staff, the i I i>ou£las, presented the mv I ree of ommander the British Army, at th* I i
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    Peers commend Mountbatten
    62 8 Peers commend Mountbatten IN tin Hon of U»rd>. tod I India, made an indent i< Mr. A \i it> n< •n behalf of the Opposition, posais were accepted m Hin was rv t on!\ hope thai but there might be the p* I tio n between the British and I
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    LESS BILLITON TIN
    22 8 The B. (Ml TUr .thlv tin ;>ped from 600 U month as the by 3.500 Chine mm A .P.
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    HUNGARY: ACTION BY UNO HINTED
    125 8 HUNGARY: ACTION BY UNO HINTED The a be the duty of U the United Nations Hut Is authorized by its considers a threap denberg declared Communisti •herous gary and had r duct d to another k came as he Ul Of the Hun y. .de. berg of the Hungarian treat
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    4000th BIRTHDAY
    32 8 The Trinity College. Cambr: celebrated the 400 th sary of its founding on 1 with two prominent gradu; King George and his br Duke of Gloucester, among taking part A.P.
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    U.K. IS WATCHING INDONESIA
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