The Singapore Free Press, 4 July 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 18,897. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947 PBICE 10 CENTS.
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    22 STATES ASKED TO NEW TALKS
    375 1 Anglo-French plan for Europe TWENTY-two nations received this morning an Anglo-French invitation to meet in Paris tomorrow week to discuss the Marshall plan to aid Europe. This list includes all the former enemy states except Germany, Spain is also excluded. A copy has been
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    71 1 picture. This is the Jet-propelled plane, Shooting Star, with which the United State* claimed recently to have set up a new world air •peed record of 6238 miles p«r hear. The record wa* set up at Muroc Army air base in California. Hie previotui air speed record was 616 miles
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    U.K. HONOURS CHINESE
    40 1 G n Pai chung-hsi, Minister national Defence, was decor- I .n Nar.km? yesterday with insignia ol Companion of the 1 t>r c the Bath The British "»>wwadog made the presentate« D oehaif of the British Gov- Reuter
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    'Work Charter or pack up'
    182 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. fVA \l BRITAIN today told the United Nations that, if it U lan not take effective measures to overcome ffftlfran trou McSj we had better tear up the Charter and pack up.* 9 Thia advice was delivered to the Security Council by
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    AMERICANS IN HOLIDAY MOOD AND BIG JAM
    137 1 AMERICANS IN HOLIDAY MOOD AND BIG JAM NEW YORK, Friday. TBE greatest traffic jam in United States history is preaa airlines, railroads and e5 today nandle a recordsmashing Fourth of July (Independence Day crowd, says U.P. Tne. National Safety Council of Chicago predicts that, with nearly 30.000,000 motor-cars clo£Rin£ highways,
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    EX-CONGRESSMAN IS CONVICTED
    60 1 rORMER Congressman Andrew J May. ex- chairman of the House of Representatives Military Affairs Committee, and his codefendants the munitions-making Garsson brothers. Dr. Henry M. Garsson and Murray Garsson, were yesterday convicted by a Federal court of wartime bribery, fraud and conspiracy. They face a possible maximum
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    SIAM ENVOY TO U.K.
    20 1 Nai Direck Jayanam, new Siamese Ambassador to London, arrived at Poole airport yesterday evening from Bangkok.
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    NEW DUTCH SHIP BAN THREAT IN AUSTRALIA
    135 1 NEW DUTCH SHIP BAN THREAT IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY, Thursday. |\UTCH action in sending the V military transport Tjibesar to load military supplies in Australia "seems to emphasise that the Dutch authorities are more concerned with the military situation than with developing peaceful trade be tweeif Indonesia and Australia." the general
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    RADIO OPERATOR IS MISSING
    44 1 Marine Police this morning were still investigating the disappearance of Wireless Operator Ballancy of the ship La Cordillera yesterday Ballancy was found missing white the ship was passing Raffles Lighthouse at abuut 9 a.m. yesterday. La Cordillera leaves Singapore today.
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    4 SOLDIERS KILLED
    28 1 Four Indian soldiers of the Indian component of the British Commonwealth occupation force v. ere killed in a motor accident at Okayama, southern Honshu.- Reuter
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    NIGHT AIR MAILS FOR BRITAIN
    93 1 LONDON, Thurs. A long-distance inland nightflying mail service may begin operations in Britain within the next twelve months. News of such a development was given in; the House of Commons last night by the Postmaster-General, Mr. Wilfred Paling, during a debate on the Post Office
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    BRITAIN SPEEDS NEW INDIA BILL
    194 1 LONDON, Thursday. r VHE British Government is speeding up the passage of the 1 India Independence Bill. This, says Fraser Wighton, Reuter's special correspondent, reflects the British Cabinet's intention that nothing should stand in the way of the transfer of power to Indians. The Bill
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    COFFEE SHOP FIRB
    42 1 Smart work by the Singapore Fire Brigade yesterday evening; stopped a fire, which broke out in? a coffee shop in Smith Street, from rasing the building and spreading. Prompt arrival of the Brigade accounted for the damage being negligible.
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    DOUBLE RATIONS FOR GESTAPO
    116 1 HAMBURG, Thursday. pESTAPO men now on trial in U Hamburg for the killing of 50 Allied airmen are being given twice the amount of rations of prisoners normally held in Ham. burg Jail. The military court hearing war crimes charges against the men was told this
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    DOES WOOD WORK
    53 1 DOES WOOD WORK picture. MISS SHARMAN DOUGLAS, fair -haired, bine-eyed 18-year-old daughter of the United States Ambassador to London, who arrived in Britain only last month, has settled down to getting: their London residence in order. Here she is seen doing a little carpentry. Miss Do«*i»s is also having a
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    INDIES SENDS NEW NOTE
    237 1 JOGJAKARTA, Friday. ANEW Indonesian note to (he Dutch will be despatched to Batavia by courier tonight. Its contents, an explanation of President Soekarno's note of June 27, will be drafted by the new Cabinet at its first meeting this morning. The Premier, Amir Sjarifuddin, told the
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    USSR ENVOY TO SIAM
    19 1 Soviet Russia has appointed S. S. Niemchin, Ambassador to Slam, according to Moscow radio.— Reuter
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    China may go on war footing again
    213 1 China may go on war footing again NANKING, Friday. pHE State Council, bigaeai 1 policy-making organ of the Chinese Government, is meet ing today to consider a Ku* mintang resolution calling foi the issue of a proclamation which will virtually restore China to a wartime footing. This move has been
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    MIDGET PLANES' WORLD FLIGHT
    85 1 r pwo veteran airmen— a former American bomber pilot and a Canadian said in New York yesterday that they plan to fly around the world in two light, 100-h.p. planes, beginning about July 18. The planes will go side by side. Clifford Evans, Jr a former
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    FIRED CHURCH CHARGE
    34 1 Two boys aged 16 and 17 were sent for trial at Birmingham Assizes when it was alleged that they had set flre to 'St. Luke's Church, Luton. causing £10.000 damage.- Reuter
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    CHINA FLOOD RELIEF
    46 1 Mr. Harlan Cleveland, Director of the UNRRA China Office, and Mr. P. H. So, Director-General of the UNRRA, will be visiting Canton by air today to inspect the flood -devastated regions in the Kwangtung Province and to draw up a relief programme.- Reuter
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • FOR WOMEN
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      CHILDREN – OR REGULATIONS?
      818 2 CHILDREN OR REGULATIONS? Which are more important THILDREN— or iegulations? Which are more important? Human lives or rules of law? This year there will be another 100,000 orphans of divorce, the children of the broken homes of Britain. The Courts will do their best for them, decide on their "custody,"
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      STYLE in WOOD
      249 2 TWO pieces of white--1 painted wood, half a dozen brass wood-screws, and a few rivets made the shapely feet ox 23-year old ex-clippie Mrs. Irene Clifford, of Tooting. S.W., the envy of some oi the bestdressed women at Ascot. With these materials, in a backyard shed, her
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      186 2 CLEEKNESS and slimness is. •J the keynote of these Peter Russell evening gowns in the finest black wool crepe. Even when drapery is introduced, either at one side or in front the silhonette still remains slender. This line, the designer believes, is more suitable to the post-war nseds of womrn
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      THE PRICE OF BEAUTY
      132 2 BEAUTY, is big business in Britain. The cosmetics bill of British women has soared to £16,000,000 a rise of 2V* cent, above the prowar volume. British girls wlio once eschewed lipstick and powder at least until they were of age, now are becoming cosmetics-conscious in their
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      291 2 FND-PLAYS remain a mystery to many players— yet in this strange deal the end-play which made the six heart contract was there for anyone who to:k the trouble to count to thirteen. West set the stage for it when he made the unfcrtiinate opening lead of the
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      REVISION OF 'MACS'
      333 2 FREE PRESS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MO one can deny that n British mackintoshes have always been dull and unimaginative witness the raincoats now arriving in Singapore. Now we shall have to rpvisa our ideas because British designers have taken a leaf cut of the French fashion book and
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      MY, MY, MY
      155 2 MY, MY, MY DRINCESS Elizabeth and a Princ^^. Margaret went to a film studio recently. They went by themselves to the Isle worth studio of London Film Productions to see what gees on whe n a producer (Anthony Kimmins) gets to work on a film ("Mine Own Executioner") with a
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      57 2 The public is duly informed of our Grand Opening ct our new premises tomorrow The first store -i 'of its kind MW^^^ r name you wU& think of i ir. I 1 M textiles An old |A^L^^^ MtfLK tradition— l^^^ IIAGF a new policy Under a management experienced in satisfying
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      892 2 9mS9hSHmH 4L a r A /Allß L■* A i m. a W I x^lh Hr 7 V BBSS'' TEeP J; tR J v SINGAPORE FRIDAY News; 10 .i5 Eierpup'i Music; 10.30 Blue Network 4pm Llcht Music— with the Or- I Great Music— by The Boston Sym--19 m 9am .v hest
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      271 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune torecRgi Got people Dorr uudS| BORN today, you ha\ e an exceptional!* rtrani, will and are able to command other* You appear to have iearnec the lesson of mind v\ r matter You seldom let your emotion? get out of control and have great deal of
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  • NEWS
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      NEW POLITICS FOR THE TWO STATES
      661 3 Rise of Labour and Reds in India NEW DELED, Thursday. WITH the division of India under the British independence plan, new forces are promising to put politics in the tut new Indian countries on an economic and social plane. tor half a century the
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      MacA.'s message to Roxas
      96 3 tv Mat Arthur, in a message to President Roxas and the FillPino people, sent has "warm congratulation" on the m»t anniversary, today of the Philippine Republic "on the firm, tesoiute and faithful manner in which they faced critical and comm in thls <* the «r historic
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      72 3 The Red Army officers dab in Moscow is one of the most luxurious and exclusive dabs in the Soviet capital with its imposing pillared front flanked by guns. It has** well appointed games room, dance hall, theatre, museum, library and reading room. Provision is also made for the officers' children.
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      TURKS TO COPY LONDON'S TUBE RAILWAY
      95 3 TURKS TO COPY LONDON'S TUBE RAILWAY LONDON'S underground railways, particularly the latest tube extension on the Central Liae, will be the model for the underground railway planned for the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Lufti Kirdar. Governor of Istanbul and Mayor of the city, visiting London under the aeeis of
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      'I Support The Vietnamese'
      339 3 'I Support The Vietnamese' Ex-Emperor of Annam says SAIGON, Tbur. d*iy. BAO DAI, 24 year-old ex-Emperor of Annam who abdicated about two years ago, supports the Vietnamese nationalists' demands for unity and independence. He declared today that "peace would quickly come back to Indochina if the French Government will only
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      CLIVE BATTLEFIELD UNDER PLOUGH
      33 3 The ground on which Clive won the Battle of Plassey, gainir^ Bengal for Britain, is no longer ic be preserved as a relic, but is no to be cultivated.
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      20 JAPS PAY CONSCIENCE REPARATIONS
      188 3 ffAKANOSHI KURAMOCHI, 58- year-old Japanese ex-miner, and his 19 followers have reached the Toklo Diet with their plan for "conscience" reparations payments from the Japanese people, reports ifiP. "The idea/' said Mr. Kuramochi, "is to collect reparations taxes from each individual. Everyone would be asked
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      SOVIET KEEP 40,000 MEN
      515 3 Russians in Hungary BUDAPEST, Thursday. THE Russian Army that swarmed across Hungary in 1945 1 with 1,400,000 soldiers is relatively a military skeleton today. According to an official source, fewer than 40,000 Russians, including only 5,000 troops and approximately two transportation regiments, are expected by the
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      Dominions Office Renaming
      251 3 Dominions Office Renaming rjiHE British Government's reL naming of the Dominions Office as the Commonwealth relations Office is regarded by informed political quarters in London as a logical step in the present-day conception of the Commonwealth as a voluntary association of independent nations, says Reuter. It has been known for
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      LONDON'S SUPER RAILWAY
      83 3 LONDON'S new £1,000,000 "super railway"— a western extension of the Central Underground Lints was opened to passengers on Monday. To eliminate noise the trains run over rails bolted and welded in continuous halfmile lengths instead of the usual 60 feet. The signal arrangements are unique. There is
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      39 3 fARZAN Tarxan Seeks Jane By Edgar Rice Burroughs &*>s^}^/ l/(/lfea^*v^r^3 gans HM leac>er strode steaoilY !I v r TAICING TRAIL HE s°^ LX33H3S PwilflK^/iy TOWARD HER HIWIiT FIACE > I Vl\ va ijiiL, ,1 UN lN SI6HT TmE GUAW>S HIS
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  • LEADER
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      Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947. Two Worlds
      691 4 Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1947. Two Worlds the failure of the "Big Three" to agree In Paris on a panEuropean plan for recovery results in the division of Europe, as Mr. Molotov says it will, the blame will not lie at the door of Britain or France. Russia
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      PEOPLE IN STORE MAKE NEWS
      1543 4 PEOPLE IN STORE MAKE NEWS MOST of the crowd of 22,000 who saw the Malayan side beat the Sing Tao team last week will be surprised to learn tha t the winning team's brilliant captain, Mr. LEE EE EOW, is over 40 years of age. This slight, youthful looking ex-Penang
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      SPANIARD'S BOOK ON COUNT CIANO
      439 4 SPANIARD'S BOOK ON COUNT CIANO RAMON SEHRANO SUNER, former foreign minister of Spain, has written a book in which he says Count Galleazzo Ciano, Mussolini's foreign minister and son-in-law, began conspiring against the Italian dictator as early as the spring of 1942, when the Axis was winning some of its
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      WRONG BAIT
      48 4 lilin'TVorth's rraction to the question of equal pi> 1 r Wirr, f, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, is Ksn era inattention to the bait to get more women Into indos r< which held by the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Maffori CrippJ
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      BELL RINGING HISTORY
      106 4 MUSICAL histor. ww ill made when a U^» Sydney bellrinpers will ny. J Adelaide to open a n w pe* bells in St. Peters Anglican Cathedral. The trtp. tccordins U he ductor of the nine-n r t*a^ Mr. W. M Rowe. is ur.iaue J musical annals. Never
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      Hunting For The Hot Blue Stars
      961 4  - Hunting For The Hot Blue Stars J.B.S. Haldane by Prof TWO American astronomers, Humason and Zwicky, of Mount Wilson Observatory, in California, have recently reported a hunt for faint blue stars in two areas of the heavens. One was in the neighbourhood of the Hyades in the constellation of the
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      64 4 QUIZ 1. You've all read sea stories then what is a binnacle 2. "Bawtry" is which of the following (a) illegal dispossession of goods; (b) a town in Yorkshire (c) the art of underpainting. 3. Why is a florin so called 4. When was it said that Great Britain has
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      ELECTIONS PLAN PASSED
      1014 5 Council criticism of /privileges 9 these views to be fully stressed in the Council. For that reason, I strongly support the proposal to Rive these bodies their proper representation on the Council. "Trade is the lifeblood of Singapore and at the start of a new constitutional plan,
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      GUNS FOR POLICE
      24 5 The Advisory Council has approved the special expenditure of $1,950 for the purchase of 100 sten sub-maohiiKgur-s for the Singapore Police.
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      EXERCISES AT TANGLIN
      125 5 On MinrtiT an* Tuesday, Service chiefs of South -East Asia attended Exercise EUROPA II at GHQ., SEALF. EUROPA U was an abridged version of Exercise "Spearhead" which was held at Camberley recently by the C-LGJS. and attended by senior officers of toe three Services. This Army Public
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      Labourers' kids go to school
      261 5 Free Press Staff Reporter NINE vernacular schools for the education of children of labourers employed by the Singapore Government and Municipality are projected, and of these, three are already in existence. Under the Colony's Labour Ordinance, the Commisoion3r for Labour may issue an order requiring
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      JAILED FOR ARMS
      149 5 TWO Indonesians, Ahmad bin Aliaskan and Samaraji bin Sawirana, were sentenced to five years' and three years' rigorous imprisonment respectively by Mr. Justice Brown in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. They were found guilty of carrying a Japanese automatic pistol each in a coffee shop in Owen
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      HOTEL MANAGER IS JAILED
      57 5 EBSTER NOORDIN, iormer manager of The Tavern, Sin. gapore, was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Brown at the Assize Court yesterday, when he was found guilty on two charges of falsifying a receipt book and a duplicate receipt Noordin was acquitted on
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      Gun under mattress, jailed
      82 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent A FULLY loaded revolver, found by the police under a mattress on which liew Kim Meng, was sleeping, resulted in his being convicted and sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson at the Selansor Assizes yesterday. Choo Fah,
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      S'PORE EXHAUSTING SURPLUS FUNDS
      345 5 Free Press Stall Reporter BY the end of this year, Singapore's surplus ta ances will be largely exhausted. This was the forecast "or>ly a forecast", it was emphasised given by the Financial Sscretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, at a meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council
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      JAPS WILL BE FLOGGED AND JAILED
      6 5 JAPS WILL BE FLOGGED AND JAILED
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      86 5 picture. Captain and I»irs. lirLm Irving who were married at th 1 Saint Andrew's Cathedral on Wednesday. The bride was formerly Miss. Shirley Mary Vaughan -Clarke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. T. Vaugiian- Clarke of Norwich. Capt. Irving, son of Mrs. and the late Mr. William Irvine of
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      S'pore port news
      164 5 S'pore port news THE Nederiaua Line ship Oranje! is arriving at Singapore on July 15. Sir Ralph Hone, Secretary General to the Governor-Gene-ral, will be on board. He will be accompanied by his family. After lying for more than 12 hours on a partly submerged wreck in the Singapore Harbour,
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      $30,000 A MONTH FOR FREE MEALS
      78 5 The Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, told the Inner Wheel Club yesterday that the provision of a free meal daily to Singapore children between two years to six years of age cost the Government $30,000 a month. He said Miat
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      MALAYA CAN TRADE WITH GERMANY NOW
      291 5 MALAYA CAN TRADE WITH GERMANY NOW Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE and the Malayan Union out now trade with Germany through the British and American zones, it was officially announced in Singapore yesterday. Trade will be limited to essential goods. Merchants in Singapore must apply for permits from the British
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      ARMY UNIT RUNS SAFETY WEEK
      75 5 ARMY UNIT RUNS SAFETY WEEK A SPECIAL Safety First Week was held between June 25 and July 2, by the 193 General Purpose Transport Company stationed in Singapore. The Company has 103 lorries operating all over Singapore Island. During the Safety F^rst Week, none of these vehicles were involved in
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      1,700 Chinese immigrants arrive
      122 5 1,700 Chinese immigrants arrive Free Press Surf Reporter HTHE largest group of Chines3 1 immigrants since tne liberaticn arrhed in Singapore ytstercay from the Van Heutz. They numbered 1,700 men and women, ani can e from China pert via Hon«j Koig. Most of them were deck passengers who were land
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      NEW CREMATORIUM
      53 5 The han. secretary of the Hindu Association has received a sketch' plan of the proposed modern crematorium from the Municipal Secretary. Singapore, and any Hindu or Hindu Societies wishing to Inspect It may do so by appointment with the hon. secretary (G.M.K. Sabai) of the Hindu Association, 41.
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  • NEWS
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      HEAD-ON CLASH APPROACHING?
      561 6 State control of Church rE danger of a head-on clash between Church and State for Britain's established Church of England is frankly faced by Dr. Cyril Garbett, Anglican Archbishop of York, in a comprehensive study of institutional religion entitled The Claims of the Church of England" and
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      WOMEN ARE RUINATION, SAYS DEAN
      117 6 WOMEN play too big a part in Britain's affairs, and are a burden that is causing the nation to "fall down," according to Canon C. E. M. Fry. bachelor Rural Dean of Maidenhead. Berks. "Civilisation begins to break up when things become luxurious and women
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      THEY SLEEP SIX IN ONE BED
      170 6 THEY SLEEP SIX IN ONE BED riiHOUSANDS of New York's poor X have to sleep three to six in a bed, many of them in rat-in-fested tenements, says an article in PM, one of the city's evening papers. The article is a reply to a newspaper campaign depicting New York's
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      BIRTH CONTROL URGED FOR FAMINE STATES
      183 6 BIRTH CONTROL URGED FOR FAMINE STATES MARGARET SANQER, the prominent American advocate of planned parenthood, has proposed that the United Nations should sponsor a ten-year moratorium on babies in the world's hungry countries. It would be much better, she says, for women who already have children to be able to
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      "PEACE" PRAYERS
      19 6 Quarter of a million people joined in special prayers for peace at a religious congress in Ottawa.
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      49 6 Food fits from the Australian people were despatched thro«k the Australian Red Cross were di stributed to residents of the iS End of London by members of the British Rod Cross Socictv «T towed the areas in a van load ed with food. Pictures show tk food bei*»* distributed
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      BBC DEFIES MINISTER
      117 6 BROADCAST appeals by the 8.8.C. for streptomycin will go despite a protest in the House of Common^ by the Minister of Health, Mr. Aneurin Bevan. Mr. Bevan, asked if he could stop the appeals, said: "I have made an announcement deploring appeals and all appeals for drugs
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      FOR 'SIN' READ 'PLEASURE'
      56 6 CRITICISING extravagant use of electricity, Mr. P. C. McNally told the Amalgamated Engineering Union's annual conference at Hastings: "There are palaces of sin and night-clubs in the West End of London using electricity at all hours of the day and night." Later he amended his remark
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      £7,000: HE CAN'T OPEN MOUTH
      40 6 AGREED damages of £7,000 were awarded to Liverpool to Graham Hoggarth, six, of Guelphstreet Liverpool, who since being knocked down by a bus cannot open his mouth to eat anything except small pieces of food.
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      World is getting wanner
      151 6 DPROFESSOK Hans Ahlman of the University of Stockholm, a *J? ro S? i^ t JL*? r pller Sociologist now on a lecture tour of the United States, says the world is setting warmer, says A.P. from New York. All over the world, even hi the tropics,
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      BRITISH WARSHIPS IN DARDANELLES
      189 6 A BRITISH Royal Naval squadron will steam through the Dardanelles on a visit to the Soviet Black Sen Fleet this month. The force will consist of the cruiser Liverpool escorted by the destroyers Chequers and Chaplet. The Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, Adm Sir Algernon Willis, will be on
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      DOCTORS' 'NO'
      49 6 A BATTLE is going on behind the scenes between America's Scotland Yard and the psychiatrists. The Federal Bureau of Investigation charged with tracking "subversives" want the doctors to hand over the names and casehistories of all left-wingerss the: have treated whom they consider unstable. The doctors refuse.
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      Want to bomb a hurricane
      337 6 Want to bomb a hurricane THE director of the State of Florida Everglades Kxptrinw. 1 tal Station at Belle Glade, Dr. R. V. Allison uants bomb a hurricane. He admits that he does not know whether a bomfe kill the hurricane; but his institute experiment^ in T agricultural methods in
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      They won't be 'comrades'
      70 6 CIX Russians, trainee ;r "closed* shop" factory u London, have refused to j..: the National Amalgamated For nishing Tradts Association the union has reported their. u> the Soviet Embassy. The six will b» at the artifice! limb factory of J. E. Hanger ar.c Company, from three
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      AUSTRALIA TOLD TO SEND YOUTH TO EUROPE, U.S.
      146 6 AN exchange of students students' work «ttb c:c tries overseas was urged by i New South Wales Oaten* Lieut. -Gen. Nonhcott when J opened the Australian Ur.ivers Students National Art ExhiMtix in Sydney. "It is essential we should outside our own little
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      RIGHTS OF MAN DECLARATION
      63 6 HR. Lo Cheng-Shu of China was u among the eminent persons appointed by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation to the special committee to prepare the preamble to the declaration of the rights of man. Also appointed to the committee was Dr. Harold Laski,
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      TO GO OFF THE AIR
      24 6 Midnight record broacc* from Germany on the AmfForces network, which has come popular with British teners is to finish.
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      93 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava I PHEW i 6IVE ME YOUR it X Yfotl WOULD HOT ft X v *£*f~ JP "^""^^v' i WHAT A 1/ ARM, ERIC I feELA 'HAVE OdTIN WIT^OOTI > CH? -«M NOT 1 XT THESE SEATS ARE AIVWYS A »«4M».' j
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      WASHBROOK COMPLETES 1,000 RUNS
      370 7 WASHBROOK COMPLETES 1,000 RUNS New Test Bowler Has Good Spell LONDON, Thursday. CYRIL WASHBKOOK, England's opening batsman, played a sparkling innings of 62 in 55 minutes for Lancashire against Leicestershire today. Washbrook hit one six into the river on one side of the ground and another into a stream on
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      20 7 icr a header off a kick in yesterday's league vi ha pa thy and Ramoo Indian plavers in the picture.
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      TOURISTS WIN BY INNINGS
      176 7 NEWCASTLE. Thurs. rE South African cricket tourists defeated Northumberland by an innings and 32 runs here today. The South Africans lost their last three wickets for 14 runs and were all out for 347. Northumberland again found the left -arm medium paced bowling of Plimsoll too
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      It Was Angullia v The Airmen
      945 7 B\ Our Soccer Reporter KJUP. 4 Indians 0 T'Hh UJLF. (limbed three rungs up the league ladder with I i tan nil victory- over the Indians at Jalan Besar Stauium vesterriay in a game which was chiefly notable for the hniliance of the Indian
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      Today's Sports Event
      27 7 General Meeting: of the Singapore 01>»npic and Sports Council, 5.15 p.m., Old Council Chamber, Secretariat. To present draft rules of the constitution of S.O.S.C.
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      IRISH GOLFER NOW LEADS IN BRITISH OPEN
      204 7 HOYLAKE, Thursday. HENRY COTTON and Laurie Ayton, first round leaders in the British Open Golf Championship on the Royal Liverpool Units here, lost their place when the second round was played today as Fred Daly, Irish open champion, with a brilliant round of
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      ANNUAL POLICE SPORTS MEET TOMORROW
      48 7 THE Singapore Police will hold their annual athletic sports meet at Thomson Road tomorrow, starting at 2.15 p.m. The open invitation relay will be run at 5.10 pjn. Mrs. E. V. Fowler, wife of the Acting Commissioner of Police, will distribute the prizes.
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      S.C.C. CRICKET XI
      57 7 THE following will represent the S.C.C. against the Ccvlon S.C. at cricket on the padang on Sunday at 11 a.m. J. B. H. Leckie. J. P. Pearson J W. Bwart. J. P. Luff. H. B. Noon P. T. Homer, C. Bell, G. K. Stein, P. W. Holt.
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      S.A.O.B. CRICKET XI
      50 7 THE following will represent St. Andrew's Old Boys at cricket against Non-Benders C.C. at 2.00 pjn. on the Woodsville ground tomorrow: A. G. Armstrong (Capt), S. M. Hope, lan Ross, J. Duclos, Carl Schubert, C. Humphries, E. Ebert, J. Anchant, A. Jansen,, P. Yzelman, C. Da Silva.
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      Geld Cup Winner
      24 7 Geld Cup Winner Mr. F. R. Schmitt's Souverain returns to scale after winning the Gold Cup on the third day of the Ascot meeting.
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      BRITISH CREWS IN GREAT RACE
      393 7 Second Day At Henley HENLEY-ON-THAMES, Thursday. ALTHOUGH foreign crews took most of the honours when the Royal Henley regatta was continued here today, the race of the day was that between two famous British crews, Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Leander Club in the Grand
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      "A" TEAM CRICKET
      60 7 THE folicjving have been selected to represent the S.C.C. "A" team versus the C.S.C. "A" on the padang at 2 p.m. tomorrow: H. V. Thome. R. S. Tufnell, H. Gordon, D. B. Haig, R. W. L. Moss W. T. P. Wallace, N. A. Coleman, P. C. Firkins,
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      DERBY PLACINGS IN 1946
      104 7 Letter A READER who signs himself as "Pegasus" of Ayer Sajah Road camp has written to ask us the correct placings of the first three horses i n the 1946 Derby. "At this camp," he writes, "there are two schools of thought. Som« say it was
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      HURRICANE YOUNGSTERS
      75 7 THE following has been selected to represented the Hurricane Youngsters against the Malay Sports Association in a friendly game of soccer at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Koh Song Hua, Ng Kin Sang, Koh Kim Seng, Tham Chun Hoe, Eddie Cheong, Lee Kok Kong, Cheng Hon
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      WIMBLEDON All-American Women's Final
      455 7 WIMBLEDON All- American Women's Final From Veroon Movysa WIMBLEDON, Thursday. TWO American girls, Margaret Osborae and Dora Hart, will, 1 as expected, contest the final of the Wimbledon singles championship on Saturday. Thus the United States provides all the finalists in the men's and women's singles a remarkable achievement. In
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      Stan Cullis Suspended
      92 7 LONDON'Thurs. miit Football Association have X announced that Stanley Cullis, Wolverhampton and former England captain, has been suspended for 14 days from Monday, Aug. 18: The Football Association have sent the following: communication to his dub: "The referee's report on the match between Manchester United and YVolverhampton
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      S.C.R.C CRICKET TEAMS
      106 7 THE frfliwrtlll Payers will represent the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club at cricket against the General Hospital at Hun/* Lim Green tomorrow. Low Kee Pow, Ong Beng Bee. Chua Boon Unn, Lee Seng Kim, Ong Ton; Bee, Eddie Fung, Lau Hock Chye, Ha Teng Bin, Yap Choon Lim.
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      460 7 ENTRIES FOR CHINESE SWIM TITLES THE finals of the Singapore Chin- 1 2nd Heat: Wong Hong Yeh, Gan 3rd Heat: Seah Ah Ching Poon ese aquatic championships will Koon Hong, Teo Siew Sun, FangjChuk Pai, Kee Soon Bee, Yean Yon<* be held at the Chinese Swimming Chuan Pick, Ong Seong
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      278 7 Free Press Cross woN No. 14m CLUES ACROSS 3, Animal dealer, but no stock-breeder (4) 6. Gives a gypsy a bouquet (5). 9, Doesn't it smell? (7). 10, Twists cap around in terror (5). 11. It's the Cape that calls to a certain type of sporting people (4). 12, I've
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  • NEWS, LATE CITY
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      'Discrimination' by Govt attacked
      428 8 JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN Free Press Staff Reporter r THE Officer Administering the Government and the sub--1 stantive Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, agreeing with Adviaory Councillor, Mr. C. C. Tan, that the effect of the elections legislation, passed yesterday, would be nullified unless
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      EXTORTION CASE FOR ASSIZES
      122 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday £HOY YEW KEE, a Chinese j v who was alleged to have delivered a letter to Mr. Law Sou Choon, the proprietor of the firm sf Law and Company in Klyne Street, demanding a sum of $10,000 was today
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      CHINA GETS JAP SHIPS
      42 8 ine nrst batch of eight Japan, ese warships allotted to China as reparations arrived in Shanghai yesterday, each flying the Japanese Hag, as It steamed up muddy Whangpoo River to berth at the Chinese national port of Shane-hai-Reuter.
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      130 8 There was a large attendance at the formal opening on Wednesday night of the Shackle Club in the former premises of the Fleet Canteen in Beach Road, Singapore. The Shackle Club now also caters for Warrant Officers, Petty Officers and Sergeants. A continuous cabaret and concert marked the opening on
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      U.K. IMPORT BILL UP DUE TO RISING COSTS
      129 8 U.K. IMPORT BILL UP DUE TO RISING COSTS LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN will spend' £232,000, 000 more under her new 1947--48 "austerity" import programme foreshadowed last Monday than was estimated in. the economic survey for the calendar 1947. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, announced the comparative figures on
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      BRITISH TRADERS FOR JAPAN
      199 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. OF the 400 private traders authorised by the 11-nanon Inter-Allied Trade Board for Japan to enter Japan for trading purposes after Aug. 16, Britain and her Colonies will be allowed to send 64. The entry permits will be issued by S.C.A.P., but all traders
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      ALLEGED BID TO EXPORT CHANDU
      117 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thursday. AN alleged attempt at smuggling chandu, valued at $7,500, was foiled by Customs preventive officers when they arrested the owner of a tongkang (junk) and his alleged accomplice at the mouth of the Malacca River yesterday afternoon. The two
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      ESCAPED MAJOR ON A.W.L. CHARGE
      94 8 MAJOR Roy Farran, who gave himself up on Sunday after a ten-day search throughout PalesH n his escape from detention, is not charged with murder it was officially stated yesterday in Jerusalem. He is being held on fea o^ 6 f absen *^hout fr^ j
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      THEY ALL SLEPT ON
      51 8 Thieve* lugged a half-ton safe irom the window of restaurateur Peitro Toliani's home on Wednesday night, and then knocked a hole in the garden wall to reach the street Tolianl, his wife, and four children slept throughout The safe contained £95 sterling, Jewellery and insurance nan*r<
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      DEATH RLY. CHINESE GET FARMS
      152 8 r, <L ak o n by L he Jft P ane se to work n the Siam-Burma railroad have bsewj to strike out on their own, i^fS 1 land a l lotted t0 then y i^i e Gov K ern ment. |baS?n e to a
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      BRITAIN GETS TOUGH WITH EGYPT
      292 8 No'moral claim to war debt LONDON, Thursday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dr. Hugh Dalton, today 1 placed on record the "clear judgment" of the British Government and puWic opinion that they "do no* recognise 1^ the Sbt of some arising out of the war
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      LION MEN FOR HIRE
      115 8 DARES-SALAAM, Thursday. "IT'ILLERS hired on a cominerIV cial basis," was Mr. Justice Stuart's description in court today of the "lion men" of Singida. "Only Hitler at his worst," he said, "came near to this weird method of brutalising the soul and destroying the intellect." In the
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      FRESH ARMY ARREST IN FRENCH PLOT
      208 8 FRESH ARMY ARREST IN FRENCH PLOT PARIS, Thursday. RESERVE General Jean Casimir Alerson, 64, former French military attache at Stockhold and Belgrade, was arrested tonight on charges of 'complicity in the "Black Maquis" plot to overthrow the Government. Twelve persons are now held in connection with the plot. While details
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      MALACCA PRICE OFFICIAL ROBBED
      53 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent. MALACCA, Thurs. THE residence of the Assistant Price Controller at Klebang, Malacca, was broken into last raght, and clothing valued at more than $200, was stolen. The burglary was not discovered until 8 o'clock this morning, and a report has been made
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      LUNCHED WITH KING
      26 8 Field-Manshal Lord Wavell, former Viceroy of India, and Lady Wavell lunched with the y r?; and Queen at Buckingham I a'Ace yesterday.- Reuter
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      GILT-EDGEDS DECLINE
      504 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Thursday. i AN the Stock Exchange today, a feature m the »eak> j V of Gilt-edged^ which, after opening lower. >ufferw j late decline with Treasury Z l /i p r cent, a p nt lower a OM Consols three-quarters easier, writes Rtuter >
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      RUBBER PRICES
      216 8 A SPECIAL Market lurrspow gives the pri« es of mbbf II am today as follows B c °r per It r No 1 ESS >pot No 1 B S S for, in bales July MM >• No 2 R. 8 8 fefr in bales July I No 3
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      80 8 WEATHER Occasional showers lITEATHEB report for the next If 24 hoars compiled by the R.A.F: Occasional thundery showers this afternoon and evening. Fa:r or fine to-night. Risk of scattered showers to-morrow morning, especially towards noon. Wind: Light and variable. Sunset 6.40 p.m., sunrise (.32 a.m. Moonrise 7.34 p.m., moonset 7.52
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      19 8 SINGAPORE TIDES July 4, 1847 High 1887 pm 83 ft 1187 pa 9.5 K Low 818 pm 0.8 ft
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