The Singapore Free Press, 11 July 1947

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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA s„ IfcM. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947 PRICE lt CENTS.
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  • Article
    NEW MOVE IN T.B. BATTLE
    990 1 NEW MOVE IN T.B. BATTLE 'Immunisation 7•779 T Tm 7 likely —Vickers Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. A TUBERCULOSIS immunisation campaign in n Singapore seems to be a possibility, in the light of the latest information given at the Commonwealth Conference on Tuberculosis, said Dr. W. J. Vickers, Director
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    YOUTH & AGE
    54 1 YOUTH AGE JOAN ■MUHIAK 18-y*ar-o!d d ivcbter tj a cowhand of Tre§k n, Warwickshire, who is to ■anj tii*» 87 > tar-old viear, tbe Re. Thomas Wallace Lamb, ur >• wife ditd a year ago at th- iff. of 9i Joan, who sings in the Vfcar's choir, was cr nmri
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    MONTY TO TELL CHURCHILL
    46 1 TOELD MARSHAL Viscount JT Montgomery, speaking at a civic reception at Perth, said: "I will give Winston Churchill your message and tell him he must come out here. I shall probably bring him out. He is a man I greatly admire."- A.P.
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    SINGAPORE SUGAR SEIZED BY DUTCH
    68 1 Following the detention by a Netherlands navy vessel of two Chinese junks carrying smuggled sugar to Singapore, a Dutch court at Batavia yesterday fined accused 1,500 guilders each. The cargoes carried were 75 bags of sugar in lumps, 30 bass of powdered sugar and another
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    CALCUTTA IN GRIP OF RIOTS
    140 1 CALCUTTA, Thursday. THE City of Calcutta continued to be in the grip of lawless--1 ness today and 60 persons were reported injured and one UM The streets are strewn with garbage and brickbats, and despite military and police patrols, sniper's bullets whiz down the narrow
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    CZECHS BACK OUT OF THE PARIS TALKS
    245 1 PARIS, Thursday. CZECHOSLOVAKIA today backed down from her decision to attend the Paris conference on the Marshall aid-for-Europe plan. The Cabinet acted upon telephoned instructions from Czech Communist Premier Klement Gottwald, who is i in Moscow. The Czechs gave as tiieir reason for
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    PARADE CAUSED TRAFFIC JAM
    81 1 Fret? Press Staff Reporter CONGESTION of vehicles going to the ceremony for the presentation of new colours to the lst. Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment on ihe Padang yesterday caused one of the worst traffic jams for Fears in Singapore. The congestion was particuI iarly bad along
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    PLEA FOR MORE ASIANS IN UNO
    190 1 PLEA FOR MORE ASIANS IN UNO LAKE, SUCCESS, Thursday. SPEAKING before the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, India's representative, Mr. R. K. Nehru, charged that the Commission was dominated by non-Asian powers. He renewed his campaign, first, started when the Commission convened in Shanghai last
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    £16,500,000 TAX ON HIROHITO
    35 1 EMPEROR Rirohito of Japan yes- terday became time world's highest taxpayer for 1947, when his property levy was fixed at 3,300,000,000 yen (£16,500,000) representing 90 per cent, of its value. Reuter
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    UK JOBS FOR POLES
    18 1 Jobs were found in Britain this year for 23,285 Poles and 6,630 D.Ps. Reuter
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    Burma wants Andamans
    87 1 INDEPENDENT Burma needs the Andaman aad the Nicobar islands as a naval base, the Burmese newspaper Daily Herald says in an editorial commenting on a report from New Delhi that the islands would form part of the dominion of India. The Daily Herald says: "Historically and geographically,
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    43 1 The O. A. C, Mr. P. A. B. MacKerron, presenting the new King's Colour for the lst. Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment to the Colour officer. Lient. D. W. Kirby, at yesterday's trooping and presentation parade on the Padang. Story in Page Eight.-
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    London Cheers The Princess
    228 1 London Cheers The Princess LONDON, Thursday. A very happy Princess who will be the next Queen of Britain, celebrated the first day of her engagement today with her private life subordinated as usual to the obligations of Royalty. Hundreds stood in the steady drizzle before the gates of Buckingham Palace
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    U.S. RICE CROP
    31 1 A record rice crop of 75,485,000 bushels, is forecast for this year in the United States, exceeding by almost 4,000,000 bushels, the re- cord established in 1946 Reuter
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    VISIT POSTPONED
    31 1 The visit of the Officer Administering the Government of Singapore, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, to the Girls' Home at Pasir Panjang, scheduled for noon today, has been postponed.
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    32 1 Five Chinese, two of whom were armed, broke into a schoolteacher's house in Aljunied Road, Singapore, at 3.45 this morning and robbed the Chinese occupants of $300 cash and jewellery.
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    DUTCH WERE READY FOR WAR-PREMIER
    279 1 DUTCH WERE READY FOR WAR-PREMIER THE HAGUE, Thursday. CALLING for the breaking of the food blockade in Indonesia, the cessation of hostilities and the end of unauthorised foreign relations, the Dutch Premier, Dr. Louis Reel, revealed today that the Dutch Government last week contemplated military action in Java. "The Government
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    GREEK ROUND-UP OF REDS 'FOILED CIVIL WAR PLAN'
    94 1 ATHENS, Thursday. rE Greek Minister of Public Order, Mr. Napoleon Zervas, said today that the Government's sudden round-up of Leftists had foiled plans by 50,000 to 60,000 Communist followers to foment a civil war in Athens and Peireaus. Mr. Zervas said nearly
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    F.D.R. HONOURED
    31 1 The Medaille Militaire, France's highest military decoration, awarded the late President Roosevelt, will be received by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the French Embassy in Washington on Mon- day.- U.P.
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      GO SLOW ON BABIES
      491 2 Family Planner Has Big Idea For UNO 1 mother of two doctors and five times a grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Sanger Slee of New York wants the women of the world to unite in a determination to have no more babies for the next ten vears. Grandma
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      PENICILLIN 'SMOKE'
      116 2 DEVELOPMENT of a penicillin "Smoke" of pulverized drug crystals has been announced by two University of Roohester faculty members who said or.e inhalation is equal to eight intra-muscular injections given at three-hour intervals. The new method was reported by Dr. George C. Taplin and Dr. Fred A. Bryan
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      13-Year-Old Cook
      256 2 13- Year-Old Cook THIS is the story of a 13-year-old girl who stayed away from school to look after "her family" which consists of her grandfather, 70; her father, 45; her two brothers, 19 and 17, and the baby, brother Arthur, six. When her mother died six years ago and
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      43 2 The children of Wombell, Yorks, can see a circus every evening, if they wish, in neighbour Ted FairhurstV garden. Ted runs his dogs and pigeons through their paces and hopes they will be good enough to be included in a real circus soon.
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      TODAY'S BRIDCE PROBLEM
      187 2 fCtHE only superiority of the bidding. at the first table was that six notrump went down only two, whereas six hearts went down three when the defenders got a spade ruff in addtion to the spade ace and two trump tricks. What was wrong with the bidding?
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      Do Not Let The Baby Cry
      311 2 Do Not Let The Baby Cry TT is NOT good for babies to cry and it is excessively bad for the mother. And the authority for saying this is A Woman Doctor writing in an issue of The Practitioner, writing (she says) "from personal experience." W e are consistently ordered
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      QUIZ Answers
      50 2 1. (Sir) William Schwenk Gilbert and (Sir) Arthur Seymour Sullivan. They first collaborated in Trial by Jury. 2. (1). (4), (14): Pea Family (Leguminosae); (2), (6). (7): Composite Family (Compositae); (3), (5). (13): Pink Family (Caryophyllaceae): (B>, (9). (10): Umbellate Family (Umbelliferae); (11), (12). (15), Cruciform Family (Cruciferae).
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      GERMANSIN DIVORCE MILL
      428 2 GERMANSIN DIVORCE MILL THE war end turned Germany into a giant divorce mill and it seems that nothing will stop the skyrocketing rate of breaking marriages. Munich, a metropolitan city surrounded by lush farmland, is typical of the entire country's disrupted family life situation. Here before the war tho rate
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      UK MARRIAGE COSTS UP
      163 2 MARRIAGE Britain fl by the <':. trcfa England is goia double the present rates, and burial fees ut creased. A revised list of fe bii issued by the E siastiaj Commissioners, -.v. pregq standard table Is fore about 3.600 parish* Bntaa, Ir parishes a] establishment of
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      188 2 Radio Programmes SINGAPORE j Blue Network 12.99—2.99 pan —485 metres In in*. ■n^dinm wave band S. 7.22 megacycles per second tn the 41 metre band. 9.99—11.99 pan.— 4Bs metres tn the medium wave band 4.825 megacycles per second to the 61 metre band, except from 7.45— 9. 50 pan when
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      344 2 Play; 10.30 Radio Newsreel; 10.50) j Forces' Prom (Chopin); 11.30 News;; 'Analysis Wickham Steed; 13.00 Shipmates Ashore. AUSTRALIA 4.90 pan. to n.13 pan. VLAb 19. Til metres 15.20 megacycles; 4.00 pan. mi 4.11 p.m VLB* 13.89 metres 31 W megacycles; 6.90 pan. to 11.15 pan VLGIO 35.51 metres 11.76 megacycle*;
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      253 2 S.E.A.C. RADIO SEAC broadcasting from Colombo; Ceylon, on the following wave bands. 8 to 11.39 a. m. 19.84 metres and 49.38 metres. 11.30-12 ajn. S i 19.84 metres. 12 nocn-5 pun. 16.88 1 metres. 19.84 metres and 49.38 metres. 5-5.30 pjn. 19.84 metres and 49.38 j metres. 5.30-nipht 19 84
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      248 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom tooay BORN today, you are a 6* example of mind o** l matter. You ha\e talent c are alert. You knou the vain of self -discipline It is likely lhat early I youth you will deride what y«* want out of life
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  • NEWS...
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      'Russia Would Collapse'
      268 3 'Russia Would Collapse' WASHINGTON, Thursday. r pal t.mvution that the United States must deal with Rassia ior many years "as a rival, not a partner" is aprcsscd tn >- highly authoritative but anonymously published irticie which is attracting much diplomatic attenti m. ;tlines the view that if the Soviet Union
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      P.I.W ARTIME SOCIAL UFE AS EVIDENCE
      193 3 P.I.W ARTIME SOCIAL UFE AS EVIDENCE E4AMU.A Thursday. I. -j lab irately I Tapai^ese 1 i. arrangements I I oif -ers and j. G •■verrment t minutes of ban eial 1 tn ths Malai re at tlu time of the B, nd( .ve >: entered nraw at evidence in I.
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      41 3 While United Nations Special Committee on Palestine members were lunching at the Gat Rimmon Hotel (in foreground on right) in Tel- Aviv, masked members of Jewish terrorists (above) hoisted an anti-British poster in the centre of the street near the hotel.
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      VIETNAM CHIEFS IN HONGKONG
      72 3 ATTi_MPTS to unite Ho Chi Minh, President of the Vietnam Republic and of the Vietnam Party, with leaders of the newlyfounded Vietnam National Front are being contemplated, reports Reuter from Saigon. Ho Chi Minh is reported recently to have visited Hong Kong and met Bao Dai.
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      RUSSIANS CLAIM BIG PROGRESS
      251 3 RUSSIANS CLAIM BIG PROGRESS MOSCOW, Thursday. INDICATING wide* successes on the economic front, the Soviet Union's Planning Commission reports that, for the second quarter of 1947, crop acreage in Russia was 20,000,000 acres higher and industrial production 15 per cent higher than the same quarter of last year. In addition
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      GERMAN LEADERS ARE CHEERFUL
      45 3 fpKS German workers arc deX pressed but their leaders are putting up a good show and cheerfulness keeps breaking through," said the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Pakenham, when he arrived back iii London from a visit to Germany.
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      W. PACIFIC AS 'AMERICAN LAKE'
      238 3 SAN FRANCISCO, ThursJ ay. SENATOR Thomas Cunfesor, Pliilippine Opposition leader, said the United States has converted the Western Pacific into "an American lake"' and thus holds the destiny of the Asiatics. He said he is conceirned over what he called the application of the "Truman
      A.P.  -  238 words
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      Post-war manners in U.K.
      53 3 SIUSD wHal had most impressed him about post-war Britain Dr. ri F. W. Norwood, formerly of the City Temple, back from Canada, said: "The kindnesses and courtesy of the people." He preached at Cheam, Surrey, and of England hc said: "There is something unspeakably peaceful, yet
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      UK. GOVT. SETTLES RAID DAMAGE CLAIMS
      333 3 _____r £55,000,000 war compensation rrHROUGH 250,000 better-boxes in Britain on Monday, ■E July 14, the postman will drop "nest eggs" worth a total of £55,000,000 compensation from the Board of Trade to the "little men" who had furniture, household effects and other private chattels
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      'CURTILAGE' IS WORD THAT BAFFLED PEERS
      131 3 'CURTILAGE' IS WORD THAT BAFFLED PEERS WHAT is the definition of the n word "curtilage"? It puzzled Viscount Maugham, a former Lord Chancellor, when the House of t&S* continued its consideration of the Town and Country Planning Bill in committee. Lord Maugham said dictionary definitions gave it as a small
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      COSTA THREW AWAY HIS CIGARETTE
      110 3 PR 20 years a shell ease has stood with a number of others inside the entrance to the Artillery Museum in Lisbon. Every morning at five minutes to eight the 20 employees have filed in ready for the opening at eight o'clock. The shells, which
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      'ODD MAN OUT' WINS AWARD
      57 3 RESULTS of the International Film Festival at Brussels show that Mr. Carol Reed, London-born film director won the prize for best direction with the British film "Odd Man Out" which starred James Mason The Festival's first prize will be awarded for M. Rene Clair's film,
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      JEW TERRORISTS' NEW THREAT
      56 3 THE Irgun Zvai Leumi Jewish terrorists in Jerusalem hav. warned by underground radio that. if three of their brethren are hanged, reprisals would be taken against those responsible. lhe irgun referred to the death sentence passed against three extremists alleged to have taken part in the
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      U.K. MUSLIMS PROTEST
      342 3 U.K. MUSLIMS PROTEST D D n LONDON, Thuisday. MEMBERS of the Council of the Muslim League of Great m* Br tain a a conference in London have approved the Mountbatten plan for India but protest against the partitioning of Bengal and the Punjab. One resolution said: 'The proposed partition of
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      ROYAL CHAPELS
      42 3 After the Battle of Britain Memorial had been unveiled by the King at the King Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbty this and other Royal chapels will be open to the public free until the end of the month Reuter
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      SAVES HUSBAND FROM TERRORISTS
      80 3 A daring attempt by Jewish terrorists to kidnao a British Government officer, Mr. Alan Major, in broad daylight in one of Jerusalem's main thoroughfares was foiled when the Briton's wife, seeing her husband attacked, screamed for help. ...The gangsters, after striking Mr. Major on the head
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      TRIBUTE TO BRITAIN FOR UNRRA AID
      402 6 Only the end of the beginning' UNRRA has ended. BRt it is the end of the beginning— "the beginning of the work of economic recovery in many parts of the world,- as the Director-General of UNRRA,, Major-Gen. Lowell Rooks, says in a message to
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      48 6 The Australian Hiffh Commissioner in London .Mr gto Begge* (left), the British Chancellor of the Exchequer^ Dr. Hueh and the Secretary of the Australian J™*™* Jg- &JL"**?* lane pose together after the P^Kntotmi by Mr cheque for £20,900,000 on behalf of the people of Australia w Great Britain.
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      NEPALESE GIRL FELT INSULTED
      108 6 ANEPALESE girl unrequited in love tried to take vengeance by burning the young man alive but instead killed his mother, according to a message from the village of Kaske Chiple. Nepal territory. a The girl crept up tfi the young man's house by night and set
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      65 6 liaron Antoine Allard, 39-year-old son of a wealthy Belgian banker, who is devoting his time and fortune to organising in Belgium the movement for a world federal government, is here seen palling his propaganda barrow, displaying a federation slogan in Flemish, in a Brussels street. Baron Allard served as a
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      FRANTIC BEAR WRECKS CAR
      88 6 IT did not matter so much when a big. black bear climbed into the empty automobile of 1 Art Anderson while Anderson 1 was helping to clear snow from a roadway in Glacier National Park. 1 The trouble started when the animal slammed shut the door
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      Peers missed their bus
      97 6 ONE door of the House of Lords will be left unlocked in future during divisions of the House. This ends a custom of centuries, by which all doors of the Lords were locked during a division. The decision follows a rece nt division late at night
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      ANTI-U.K. THREAT BY JEWS IN U.S.
      224 6 ZIONIST extremists in America are now threatening to organise a coast-to-eoast boycott of Urttish goods and services. Prominent in the campaign is the notorious Professor Johan J. Smertenko who, since he was refused permission to land in England last January, has been trying to
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      INDIA TO LIFT COTTON BAN
      58 6 The Chinese Ministry of Economic Affairs has learned that the Indian Government is to lift its ban on the export of cotton, it was seml-oflVcially announced ln Shanghai The news, it was said, was given in a recent dispatch to the Foreign Ministry by Dr.
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      NURSES SAVED 24oz. BABY
      118 6 fW\HE smallest baby ever to live JL she weighed 24 ozs. at birth became a healthy child in 11 months, "mentally in advance of ber age" The credit for her survival, says Dr. J. P. Bush, former resident obstetric officer at St. Thomas's Hospital, London goes
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      JAM RAIDER
      32 6 rVE PETERSEN, aged three, of Copenhagen, climbed on a chair to raid the strawberry jam. The chair slipped, the jar was smashed, and a splinter penetrated his body. He died.
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      LIFTING OF 'FRAT.'BAN
      284 6 WE fraterntaatton ban in Germany s British zune has J lifted by a control commission order which said *5 contact between Britons and the Germans was u p*Jjl influence" in encouraging a "democratic way of lifT?^ The order stated that with more and more adnuj tive responsibility
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      Out-of-towner is a colonial
      53 6 ACCORDING t„ N,, v lumnist Kar! Uu,,,, t( I are the very i a u M A slang expression Deuc*!^ for two; zone wonterfoJ Hz the gonest chick); oolong out-of-towner; potato uithi. —a man with a batch of cm! (plenty of monev BurniiSS I --seats in
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      1,700,000 CARS MADE IN U.S. SO FAR IN 1941
      184 6 rE American aut .ti- try has prod app^ mately 1.700,000 a,' -rrotiies jJB far this year, bu: it disappved that it has bf- n ur. c.:.- y duce more Manufacturer.- v .:ic h .p--produce nearly 2.0u )00 aui* biles during the
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      FLIGHT TO THE UNKNOWN
      62 6 AT de Havilland's factory at j Hatfield Herts another aeroDiane is almost ready for flight into the unknown. It is the jet-propelled "Swallow"' flying wing replica of the machine In which the late Geoffrey de Havilland neared the speed of sound. Soon ex-night fighter ace "Cat's
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      MALAYAN NURSES
      19 6 London and provincial hospitals are now training 186 girls from the Empire, including Malaya, as nurses.- Reuter
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      96 3 "A gorgeous exercise in sustained tension The most amazing job of trick photography toe have ever f seen!" —N.Y. Journal American. M mr- 9 r A*j//AAmmm± iSsfc VI v_^ j|S^^___^__^TO^WBß__fct cc/^mp\ 3« /'fli Sw^^l ____F ff m*i**mMm\ Hk. '^JH y. §t'mf'' B^TT-t"^^^ ___^'^iiil____l W'-Wi BIpP P WiMMLW^^^A^^'C _^_Kk^^ P. ____B&£3Sa_r
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. JULY 11, 1947. The Princess Betrothed
      710 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. JULY 11, 1947. The Princess Betrothed POM tne peoples of the British Commonwealth go the warmest wishes to their Princess and Philip Mountba.ten. In a world of change the Royal Family stands as the inviolable, symbol of justice, tolerance ana fair dealing which is the
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      PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS
      1525 4 READERS of the popular Straits Times Annual before the war will remember the excellent reports and photographs of Malayan bird life and the East Coast fishing industry by Dr. C, A. GIBSONHILL. He is back with us again as Assistant Curator of Raffles Museum, a
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      FAITH
      18 4 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish Judgment. Amos. 5. 15. Psalms. 74. 17. ___-a_____MHM^______MM__MMMM_M_________________Mm_B_____*
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      U.S.A. ATTACKS HEART DISEASE
      346 4 MEDICAL students in 50 American universities and hospitals have begun a new attack on heart disease and its gang of affiliated killers. For the flrst time in America's history, there seems to be a concentrated effort to do something about heart disease, the nation's No. One
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      QUIZ
      105 4 1. Said W.S.G.: "Why not. old chap, collaborate with me?" Said the tuneful A.S.S.: "A good idea, I guess." Who were "W.5.0." and "A.5.5.." whose long and successful partnership began in 1875? And what was their first joint production? 2. Here are 15 common wild flowers which belong to
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      The valuable individual
      756 4 AN economic survey into America's needs and resources, just concluded after three and a half years of work, shows that the individual is becoming more valuable as man harnesses mineral energy. Output per man-hour has increased nearly five times in the last 100 years from less than
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      'Flying Kennel' will be sold
      190 5 'Flying Kennel' will be sold I m*t Press Staff Reporter. OFFERED for sale ln SinV ore are two aeroplanes total sum of $180,000. target of the two, a reined Halifax Mark Hark 111 bomber, is a veterm ol the Normandy invaand was recently converted into a "Flying Kennel" bringing 67
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      DEPUTY INDIA AGENT NAMED
      77 5 M Na ia raj a Pillai. Assistant Agent of the GoInctta at Kuala! unptu baa J:en appointed i ill the India Govern- in Malaya the Government oi India service mon than 23 years; tp the peatei part of which) be haa spent in Malaya. Mr. c'
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      CARRIED LIQUOR IN TRISHA
      46 5 Stopping a man riding In trisha in Beach Road, a revenue officer found he had a sack ccrtaining 34 bottles of samsu (liquor). The duty on tiie liquor was stated to be $37.88 and Chua was fined $200. or three months' imprisonment.
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      BELTS TIGHTENED IN HONG KONG
      353 5 j WDLOKD^ m Hong Kong have t*eni out notices of a 30 per cent, rental increase on domestic premises and 45 per cent, on business premises, and the Government has i raiiari>cd hrms to send in statements of incomes of their Mans for the purpose
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      131 5 This its one of the temporary warrant cards, whose presentation as letters of authority by Singapore Food Inspectorate men should be reported at once to the Food Controller. Without Mr. Hamer's signature, the cards are legally not valid. This was Mr. Hamer's comment when the Free Press drew his attention
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      COMPENSATION FOR CHINESE
      38 5 The 500.000 guilders compensation offered by the Netherlands Indies Government to Singapore Chinese merchants, on account of six vessels detained by the Dutch authorities recently, has been deposited with the Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore.
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      MORE CAR THEFTS IN SINGAPORE
      248 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FGURES released by Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, Singapore CID Chief, while showing a decrease in sc;!ous crime last month, disclosed a jump in car thefts. There were 20 car thefts in June compared with 15 in May. Crime statistics from
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      AUSTRALIAN EXPORTERS ARE WANTED
      95 5 AUSTRALIAN EXPORTERS ARE WANTED REi. i__KRING to reports from Trade Commissioners that some goods exported from Australia had been poorly packed and of bad quality, the Australian Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. Pollard, said firms damaging Australian prestige in this way would, lf necessary, be refused report licences. His
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      ART EXHIBITION
      49 5 AN exhibition of water-colour paintings by Mr. Yong Mun Sen of Penan k will oe held in the Victoria Memorial Hall from July 14 to 17, frcm 10 a.m. to 6 pm. daily. Mr. Yong is one of the most outstanding Chinese artists Malaya has ever produced.
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      S.V.C. TO MARK 90th BIRTHDAY
      120 5 r celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Singapore Volunteer Corps will be celebrated next Friday at the Volunteer Mess (until recently the Pegasus Club, opposite Raffles Hotel) with a guest night, to which women may be invited. All volunteers, past and present, are automatically members
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      S'pore port news
      241 5 Free Press Waterfront Reporter MORE than 1,200 Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel and] Service families will arrive in> Singapore by the Empire Trooper' tomorrow from the United King-j dom. I The 6hip also brings the Poyal Welsh Fusiliere* new mascot a one-year-old Billy goat— from the;
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      CHINESE RAISING FLOOD RELIEF FUND
      416 5 Urgent appeals from Sth. China Free Press Staff Reporter PLLOWING the receipt of urgent appeals from South China, Singapore Chinese held a meeting, under the chairmanship of Mr. Lee Kong-chian yesterday, to discuss ways and means of raising funds for the relief of flood victims
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      JAILED FOR THEFT
      61 5 Two English-speaking Indians, Farnal Singh, an employee of the Harbour Board, and Manicam, a clerk employed by a Singapore baggage company, were sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment at the Assize Court yesterday. Singh was found guilty on two charges of theft and forgery and Manicam on
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      DOCTORS ASKED TO HELP IN 'WAR' ON TD
      160 5 Free Press Slaff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. BOTH the retiring and newiyelected presidents of central branch of the Alumni Association. King Edward VII College of Medicine, urged doctors to iend their services in tackling Malaya's medico- soctial proV.ems at the annual general
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      Malays ask to be consulted
      317 5 Malays ask to be consulted Free Press Staff Reporter /COMMENTING on the demolition by bulldozer of Malay v houses in Kampong Batek in Trafalgar Street. Singapore, last week, Tuan Sardon, President of the Malay Union, suggested that the Harbour Board and others who employ Malays should contact the Union in
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      NEW BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY
      239 5 \-.Ci. i-*mlo** f ncm-ficUoa and ficUon 1 IXfO'JLs will be ready for Issue from Rallies Library on Saturday: (A.S.) Calrncross and James K. Scobbie: More Poems Old and New; vHector) Chevigny. My Eyes have a Co_d Nose, (Herbert Vere) Evatt, Rum rebellion, (John) Fischer, The
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      142 5 As the mt ft* LAVISH and SPECTACULAR MAMMOTH FIREWORKS DISPLAY WHICH IS BEING STAGED TO MARK THE OPENING OF THE SINGAPORE WORLDWIDE TRADE FAIR 1947 AT Great World Amusement Park on SAT. 26th JULY at 7 P. M. This is only the first of many tremendous attractions WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS
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      YOUNG CRICKETERS WIN SUCCESS
      508 7 Surrey Have A New Hobbs From George Chisholm 4 LONDON, By Air. rl< jg a season ol astonishing success for young cricketers r the county championship. New names keep cropj bracketed with headline performances and each in ur a seven days "wonder." It began with Maurice
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      AUSTRALIAN IS UNBEATABLE ON SPEEDWAY
      169 7 .ONDON. By Air. n-. racing has been ly r the almost unt Vic Duggan, the aas iraiia for Harringay, but H ive n:ad e a great icaot-j 0 Uoyd fron New- d a sensation when £1,000 f Of his transfer all fixed up for We
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      S'PORE DISTRICT TEAM WINS
      186 7 I I Mu because a valuable innings Iff 8 ISMf, Singapore DisIK*a >a RAF by 1 wicket mW' Sunday Scores were: I SELETAR I I W C W -^.r. b Usher 20. Cpl. Nutt IJ LAC McEu-an b Rapsey IV- Csher 1 P O Watts I
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      CEYLON SPORTS CLUB TEAMS FOR WEEK-END
      95 7 Sj rts Club cricket the week end will be- I ::af. Base H.Q. to- !<! p.m. at St Geory.: C Seneviratne (Capt) A E. Doraisamy; A S. R. Philiips; ty* r Cyril Fernando: J?* ssip; A. D. Poanam- j M-C Heyzer; and K 'v
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      WINNING PULL IN HENLEY EVENT
      37 7 Spectators line the bank as Radley College crew (left) b?a<s SL Catherine's by a quarter cf a length in the Ladi s' Challenge Plate at Henl?y Royal Regatta, Henley, on Ju> 2.
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      NEW LIST OF RACEHORSE GRADINGS
      155 7 NEW LIST OF RACEHORSE GRADINGS FE following iiorse classifications have been announced by the Straits Racing Association: TRANSFERS: FROM CLASS 1 TO CLASS 2.— Blank Spec; Duke San; Double Ten (late Eighteen Coupons) Gay Aggie. FROM CLASS 2 TO CLASS 3.— Campanile; Courtesan; Lady Ruth; Martini; Sir Lancelot (late Sir
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      S.C.C. CRICKETERS
      56 7 The following have been selected to represent the S.C.C. against H. M. Dockyard tomorrow at 2.00 pjn. on the Padang. H. V. Thome; P. T. Homer; J. B. Potter; R. S. Tufnell; K. J. Healy; j J. A. Busbridge; J. C. Reeves; T. W. Cutts; C. Milton; P.
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      BOARD WON'T TAKE AWAY TITLE
      217 7 BOARD WON'T TAKE AWAY TITLE LONDON, Thursday. AN American proposal that Jackie Paterson of Scotland be forced to forfeit his world flyweight boxing title if he fails to go through with his July 16 defence against Dado Marino, was rejected today by the British Boxing Board of Control. The proposal
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      LORD'S IS NOT LARGE ENOUGH
      440 7 jIT is an astonishing fact, and 1 one which never fails to bewilder overseas visitors, that England, the birthplace and headquarters of cricket, cannot provide a ground large enough to hold a Test match crowd, writes Geoffrey Simpson in The Daily Mail. One look at
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      SCC PLAY BEST GAME OF SEASON
      424 7 SCC PLAY BEST GAME OF SEASON Navy Side Held To 3- All Draw S.C.C 3 Navy 3. THE S.C.C. gave their best display so far in the current S.A.F.A. league when they held the Na/y to a three-all draw at the Stadium yesterday. The game was fast and interesting throughout,
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      SEARCH BEGINS FOR NEW BOXING HOPE
      460 7 From Archie Quick LONDON, Thursday. AS befits that corner of England that produced Bob Fitzsimmon? and Len Harvey, it is the West Country that is starting the new search for a heavyweight boxing hope. How often the trail has started. Wells, Beckett, i Goddard,
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      Storm Raging In U.S. Over Doyle's Death
      201 7 Storm Raging In U.S. Over Doyle's Death HOLLYWOOD, Thursday. Qu:te apart Irom several official investigations under way, the death of ycung fighter Jimmy Doyls follow ing 'a boxing bout with thc filter weight king Ray (Sugar) Robinson has raised a storm in American sporting circles. Virtually every sports columnist in
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      AUSTRALIAN WILL SPAR TONIGHT
      64 7 Leo Heaney. the Australian l)oxer who arrived in Singapore last month to light in Kim Lin .promotions, will spar at the New World Park tonight with Jimmy Bird, Jaffar bin Jabbar and Terry Daniels. His first match in Singapore Is fixed tentatively for July 20 against
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      RAIN AGAIN MARS COUNTY CRICKET PLAY
      258 7 LONDON, Thursday. DAIN again severely interfered with county cricket today and not a ball was bowled in the matches at Chesterfield and i Cardiff. Rain also limited play at Hull Ito three hours in which time j Yorkshire were placed in danger of their
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      MANORS FOR DAVIS COP
      44 7 LONDON, Thurs. FRMER enemy countries, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Italy and Rumania, were re-admitted to the Davis Cup lawn tennis competition ac a meeting of Davis Cup nations m London. These countries will be eligible to compete in next year's competition
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      331 7 Free Press Crossword Sip. 145 M_MM^M _L____mJl LmmJl I I I I I I I __B I I* h m I '■<** I '^3 l I I I I f I I 1 1 1, Vehicles for conveying baggage (5). 6, That's it, tighten your lips and turn into a
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      Queen's get new Colours
      719 8 Queen's get new Colours frroe Press Staff Reporter THE lst Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment, the 2nd of Foot, received new Colours at an impressive ceremony on the Padang yesterday evening, when the presentation was made by the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. MacKerron. Thousands of all
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      SUPREMO' TO_HEAD INDIA'S DEFENCES
      400 8 SUPREMO' TO_HEAD INDIA'S DEFENCES Attlee 's Advice To The States LONDON, Thursday. LORD MOUNTBATTEN, who will be Governor-General of India, but not of Pakistan, is to be chairman of the joint Defence Council that will have responsibility for the defence of both Indian dominions. Lord Mountbatten has agreed to serve
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      57 8 Young athletes pass in procession along Mannerheim Road before the Finnish Diet House In Helsinki, carrying flags of the countries taking part in the Finnish Festival Games held at the Helsinki Stadium. The 1952 Olympic Games will be held at the same stadium. Premier Mauno Pekkala of Finland opened the
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      U.S. PEN FACTORY FOR ENGLAND
      52 8 UR. Mil lon Reynolds, the Chica--ITI go pen manufacturer who beat the record for a round-the-world flight recently, has left New York for Paris after saying that he planned to build pen factories in England, Italy, and possibly Bombay, each with a daily capacity of
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      Large opium seizure in U.S. freighter
      114 8 Large opium seizure in U.S. freighter NEW YORK, Thursday. CUSTOMS officials today seized $10,000 worth of opium hidden in the propellor shaft of a freighter in the biggest narcotics seizure in four months. Searching the freighter, Francis Harrington, Customs officials found 27 one-pound bricks of raw opium inside sawdust-filled sacks
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      TRUMAN VETO ON TAX CUTS
      78 8 WASHINGTON. Thursday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN today said that he will veto the new Republican $4,000,000,000 income tax reduction bill. The President made the statement to a news conference shortly before the Senate began consideration of the legislation which has already been passed by an overwhelming majority
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      A.-BOMB SECRETS AS SOUVENIRS'
      233 8 T OT T M WASHINGTON, Thursday. HE Justice Department announced today that two former army sergeants, who are alleged to have removed secret documents from the Los Alamo! at^ic laboratory will be prosecuted, for their action. The SenaU Twa! toki that the documents, which had been
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      TYPIST AS AIRWOMAN
      32 8 Miss June Humphries, 20, a shorthand typist of Gosport has won the Women's Junior Air Corps f?? th a f En Bland scholarship for ix ce iiymg training— Reuter
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      SUES TOWN FOR WATCH
      25 8 j A claim by a clerk who damaged SXL^w h when teU the (Town Hall is bein* mad. at Peterborough Reuter
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      SHE ADMITTED LIE: FINED £2,500
      148 8 LONDON, Thursday. LADY Isabel Milleslade, whose attorney described her as "penniless/' was fined £2,500 at Uxbridge Court tolay for not declaring a mink coat, said to have given her by a friend in the United States, when she arrived at London Airport on April 13.
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      RISES IN MAM
      484 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday /\N tiie Stock Exchange today, the markets provi" plenty of interest even if business failed to show J expansion, writes Reuter's financial correspondent i edgeds carried up the initial stages on a bear som* which resulted in renewed selling pressure with i
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      RUBBER PRICE
      147 8 il SPECIAL IlilH <.:jrr&puri|| gives the price* of rabtafl 11 a^n. today as follows. Ca MH Der lb nfl No 1 E.S.S. Spo. loose 2 1 fi- No 1 ESS fot in bales, July 26 No 2 RSS for, la bales, Julv 26 1 No 3 R.S.S. foe
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      53 8 Wrestling ,*:i m tomorrow j^ GREAT WOULD ARENA M SEE THE GREAT AMERICAN GIANT mKUm tiger Thomson vl fff^ versos Hilf SON OF KONG MM (Chinese Champion) JM JjL Introducing the first Negro— Hi 6REAT SAMUEL i<w F. HAMMOND rt**r la^,,^. (Clorra Ter™,) (OU^w) w^ L IW0 8 "»5 0.
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      121 8 NOTICE MR. K B. WILLMO: K-** J Trade Commi_s_>io:.< Nli f V4 J re -opened the offix o! K M j Commissioner ir. k.v>:: Nc Floor. Fullerton Buiicxc S:3*4 Telephone No 2944 T*g Address BRITRAIXTOM J Postal Communication.': addressed to Post B<>. Nc 62i A further announcement made ia due
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      69 8 WEATHER Fair today and tomorrow WEATHER report for the next If 24 hoars compiled by the R.A.F: Generally *-*-t* Wlnd: Light south-easterly sea breese thta afternoon and tomorrow morning. Calm daring the night. Sunset 6.41 p.m., and sunrise 6.34 Moonrise 06.45 a.m., moonset 12.23 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 88.7 aeg., min.
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