The Singapore Free Press, 15 July 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA No. 16.506. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, Jl^Y 15, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTfc
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    MP URGES ANDAMANS FOR MALAYA
    709 1 MP URGES ANDAMANS FOR MALAYA India Bill in final stages JHE suggestion that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands should be placed under the Malayan Government was made in the House of Commons today by a former Malayan, Mr. David Rees- Williams (Labour), during the committee stage of the India Independence
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    THIVY IS NEW INDIAN AGENT
    210 1 Free Press Staff Reporter pCiGAFQU Indians warmly welcomed this morning the announcement that the Government of India has ;pi ed Malayan born Mr. John A. Thivy,' a .barrister and man oi the Malayan Indian Congress, as India': re ive In Malaya, Hong Kong, North Borneo,
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    SIX PAPERS CLOSED
    21 1 I" Ci v -nnient has I tieran newspapers was imposed in week to ch^ck m 'he Goremment Reuter
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    SOVIET AGENT IN STORE: LONDON TALKS
    98 1 SOVIET AGENT IN STORE: LONDON TALKS LONDON, Monday. ICHVE consideration' was being given by the Foreign Office tonight to the renewal of the visa of Mr. Nicolao Plahin. RussiJflT trade representative in Singapore, it *as authoritatively stated. Earlier it was learned in Singapore that "higher authorities" had intervened to prevent
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    461 MILLION CHINESE
    20 1 The census bureau of the Nanking Ministry of the Interior announced yesterday that Chinas population is 461.006.275
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    HOODED GUNMEN HOLD-UP BUS
    193 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. SIX hooded gangsters in daylight yesterday held up a bus and a c?.r, robbed the passengers and escaped at Walsh's Corner, on the way to Eraser's Hill. The bus was travelling towards Kuala Kubu whe n it was stopped
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    PARIS TALKS RACE TO THEIR GOAL
    108 1 PARIS TALKS RACE TO THEIR GOAL PARIS, Monday. EUROPE'S "Marshall plan" nafi tions moved swiftly tonight towards the final organisation of a 16-country general staff for Joint planning with American aid. Spurred by indications that Soviet Russia was lining up an eastern recovery bloc, the 16--nation onf erence hastened to
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    REDS BLAMED FOR ESTATE LABOUR STRIKES
    155 1 REDS BLAMED FOR ESTATE LABOUR STRIKES Free Press Staff (or respondent LONDON, Monday. /COMMUNISTS ar e "throwing a \j spanner in the worlts" In Malaya's hard struggle for postwar reliabiliutlcrVd Glares Mr. E. N. Peel, in a letter published 1n the Daily Telegraph, h The people of Britain, ne conI
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    NEW FEEDING CENTRE OPENED
    83 1 MRS. P. A- B. IvkKerron opened a new child feeding centre at No. 169 Sims Avenue, Geylangthis morning. This is the 16th centre opened in th e Department of Social Welfare's chain of feeding centres for children between ages of two and six years. The Singapore
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    175 MURDERS IN MONTH
    39 1 Crime figures published m Rangoon showed there were 175 murders and 1,336 robberies in Burma during June. This meant, nevertheless, an improvement in Burma's crime situation. May figures were 287 murders and 1,697 robberies. Reuter
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    AMERICA EASES RUBBER CONTROL
    118 1 Washington, Monday. THE U.S. Department of Commerce announced today an easing of rubber control regulations, permitting natur-al rubber to be used tin several additional products and allowing expansion of its use in latex foam, but adds that this me<:ns "no substantial changes *n the -ation of
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    Won't have Franco in UNO
    56 1 BRITAIN would oppose any application by the Franco Government of Spain to join the United Nations, the Minister of State, Mr. Hector McNeil, declared in a PRrn«r»n«*i yT »-n^**r yesterday. The matter had been u. Oi who said that Spain had beea fighting for ten
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    TURNS DOWN HIS ARMY PAY
    67 1 MONO KATSINA, a first-class private in the Royal West African Frontier Force, created a precedent at the Pay Office by refusing to accept the equivalent of £47 due to him on release from the Army. His later father's wish had been for his son to
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    57 1 The secretary of the United Sarawak National Association in Singapore* HifTni bin Bujang, nailing anti-cession oosters on poles in preparation for a public demonstration which the Singapore Police banned yesterday. The demonstration was intended to coincide with the the arrival from England of Mrs. Anthony Brooke, wife of the former
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    New K.L. talks on citizenship
    180 1 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. rpHE provisions for citizenship in the new constitutional proposals for a federal Malaya are likely to be the chief point for discussion at the resumed plenary conference on the proposals to be held here on Wednesday. The conference will
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    C.I.D. SWOOP. ON FUNERAL: 36 ARRESTED
    139 1 C.I.D. SWOOP. ON FUNERAL: 36 ARRESTED Free Press Staff Reporter fHE Singapore C.I.D. last night interrupted the funeral rites at a Chinese "dying house" in Sage Lane, and arrested 36 Chinese there. The C.I.D. took possession of six big wreaths, with cards attached to them, bearing the names of four
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    GREEKS RUSH TO MALT NEW 'RED' INVASION
    187 1 GREEKS RUSH TO MALT NEW 'RED' INVASION ATHENS. Monday. {^INCIDENT with the routing \J of the invading guerilla force which on Sunday attacked the Greek frontier town of Konitza i fresh invasion of Greece by 2 50t guerillas, again from Albania, tool place this morning, says a Government communique. This
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    MAJOR GUILTY
    49 1 FACING a general court nartial .m Hong Kong yeste-cay Major G. B. Falconar, Povi* Engineers (REME) Staff OfTcer pleaded guilty on four counts ol misappropriation of public perty with intent to defraud. The court adjourned for consideration of the sentence which will be promulgated after confirmation. Reuter
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    IPOH GIRLS MAKE GOOD
    578 2 IPOH GIRLS MAKE GOOD FROM A* FREE PRESS CORRESPONDENT 1 YOUNG actress steadily making her way in British films and radio is Diana Wong, daughter of Mis. Maude Wong and the late Mr. Y. Wong of Ipoh who died during the Japanese occupation, Diana was bor B in Malaya but
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    254 2 SOUTH three *pud. bid hud u. twofold purpose: to k»-op West quiet if North had a really bad hand iin which case East -West couid probably make some contract of their own) and to encourage North to go on to game if he had a pretty good
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    VOICE OF INDIA
    467 2 Fhas ofte n been daid and probably not without some bitter truth that a European has only to visit India for a weekend in order to write a book about H. With a heterogenous population of some 380 million, roughly one-sixth of the whole human race, the
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    Special Styles
    366 2 "CPECIAL styles for special markets" will be the slogan of Britain's clothing manufacturers, who are expected play a big part in the new textiles export drive. M SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, President of the Boards of Trade, i n London recently at the annual conference of National Union of
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      318 2 fdf SiHGAFOBE Btw Network 12.00— 3. 0§ »m 4«5 metres in tne toedium wave band 7. £8 megacycles per second In tne 4* metre bana, «.©o— ll pm jf|s metres in hne medium wave band A 4.89S saiatyelss per second to the 61 metre band, tattnt; from 7.45— 9. at
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      692 2 YOUR LUCKY Fortune telecast for people born today nOIN today, jour intuitions J> are exceptionally keen. Yo« are very receptive to the influences of vow friends and close business associates. To* seem to know what people are thinking, often before they, themselves, seem to know. This unusual talent may be
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    AID FOR EAST' IS URGED IN U.S.
    378 3 Bid to capture trade of Orient TWE former U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, Mr. Paul V. McNutt, advocates a "Marshall plan for the Far East/* reports United Press from Washington. He told the ScrippsHoward writer, Peter Edson. that "the big question is where
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    U.S. TO STUDY RED HELP
    217 3 /^FFICIAI China, caught between a crumbling economic fabric ami the so-called "five- cornered new Imperialism" kM rrteived the news of Lieut.-Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer's ar .i .nvwintment as a special envoy to China and Korea »i;ii iBWIIHy warm enthusiasm, reports United Press tonm Ni iking.
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    50 3 Instead of being canonised singly as is the usual custom, the canonisation of Joao de Britto, of Portugal, and Guiseppe Cafasso and Bernardino Realino, of Italy, was carried out simultaneously by the Poi>e in St. Peter's, Rome, recently. Thousands of devout Portuguese and Italians from overseas attended the canonisation ceremony.
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    HUGE U.S. AID AND LOANS
    141 3 WASHINGTON. Monday. THE United States has made 1 grants and pledges of loans totalling mare 'than U 3. $20,000,000,000 for relief and rehabilitation of foreign nations in the past two years. Outside gifts to provide peopitOf Asia. Europe and Africa total U.S. $7,215,000,000. Of this
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    'Nibbling a way their beauty'
    78 3 'Nibbling a way their beauty DR. Douglas Gordon i ampbell i f the University of California believes modern women are nibbling away their beauty. Conducting a course for OUancraa city dentists. Dr. Campbell said women were underii'.inin; their -ood looks by under-eating 'because their vanity is involved." He said JMWi
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    'BURMA REQUIRES OWN ARMY OF 1,000,000 MEN'
    161 3 UAUNG SAN, deputy chairman of the Burma interim government and leader of the People's Freedom League, told a League rally in Rangoon that Burma would accept "nothing short of complete independence." "We are not thinking of Dominion status," he added. Saying that Burma
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    LOST GROOM AND THEIR MONEY
    65 3 TWO pretty young brides-to-be ij white veils, clutching orange blossoms on Sunday waited on the steps of ti>e same church in Milan at the same hour for the same bridegroom. Adding insult to injury, Mirko Nicolau. handsome 32-year-old exiled Rumanian musician, not only violated his
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    FAREWELL TO JAPAN
    36 3 The Indian component of the British Commonweal in Occupation Forces on Sunday officially said farewell to Japan at a gala sports meeting at Okayama. Half the forces will leave Japan this week.- Reuter
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    HUGE LOSS ON B.O.A.C. OPERATION
    228 3 HUGE LOSS ON B.O.A.C. OPERATION OFFICIALS of the British Civil Aviation Ministry have admitted that British Overseas Airways Corporation (B O A C largest of the Government-con-trolled air transport monopolies running out of Britain, is losing important sums of money, but they have refused to comment on newspaper report that
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    RUSSIA SAYS U.S. TOO KIND TO NAZIS
    238 3 COVIET journalists, who have just completed a visit to the Darmstadt concentration camp in the American zone of Germany, have brought a critical analysis of United States treatment of Nazi war criminals in an article published in the Russian newspaper Pravda. and broadcast
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    HONGKONG FEARS JAP DUMPING
    199 3 JAPAN'S imminent re-entry into the world textile markets, and the policy she will adopt when private trade resumes on August 15, is causing Hong Kong piece-goods manufacturers considerable worry, according to informed trade sources, says United Press. The principal fear is that Japan's current production of
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    Move to end concubinage
    65 3 THE Portuguese colony of Macao, the oldest foreign settlement in China, may also become the first to outlaw such ancient and traditional Chinese customs as concubinage and inequality between male and female heirs, s United Ptess. A board appointed at Macao to study the adaptation of
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    40 3 Dr. Dezso Sulyok. leader of the Hungarian Freedom Party and of the Opposition in the National Assembly, who has openly said that there is no freedom of speech and action in Hungary and that the country has become "police state."
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    THE MIK ADO FOR TOKIO
    83 3 ALLIED Headquarters in Tokio say the copyright owners of "The Mikado" have granted permission to Japanese producers to present the previously-banned comic opera in Japan. Japanese producers said they expected the performance to be given next year, since earlier dates were all taken. Previously "The
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    HYDERABAD BUYS U.S. MACHINERY
    79 3 MIR Laik Ali, general director of the Hyderabad Construction Company, left by plane for England after six days in the United States where he said he had purchased between U.S. $3,000,000 and U.S. $4,000,000 worth of machinery including electrical generating units, coalmining, paper, sugar and textile
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    'Take money of China leaders'
    288 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. npHE confiscation of the wealth of many of China's leaders, -L including that of Mr. T. V. Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, was advocated in an editorial appearing in the Chinese Nationalist Daily, official organ of the Kuomintang party. While agreeing
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    BARBERS WANT 'SLANDER' FILM SUPPRESSED
    198 3 BARBERS WANT 'SLANDER' FILM SUPPRESSED THE Shanghai Bureau of Social Affairs has called a conference for mediation on tbe barb- ers' protest strike against a j "slander" or. their profession in i the Chinese movie '"Phoney Husband ana Wife." The Barbers' Union is now demanding total suppression of the offending
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    THEIR CLOTHES GO LONG WAY
    40 3 SWEDES in a hurry send clothes 3,000 miles to New York by air for dry cleaning, and get them back in five days. Stockholm cleaners take three weeks and charge four or five times more.
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    The Singapore Free Press Tuesday, JULY 15, 1947. The Rice Ration
    632 4 The Singapore Free Press Tuesday, JULY 15, 1947. The Rice Ration IX protest to the Malayan i i.on Aciv SOT3 Council on the u- .^igus uvutmeiu which. ftu iajv has received trom the i... national Emergency Food <.-... .0i1. Mr. A. W. Wallich l. ..ced nei.hii new figures 1 .1
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    DON IDDON'S DIARY
    1373 4 DON IDDON'S DIARY IWERNIGKT t h e W words 4fc help coming" sound like alley-oop," and the announced donor becomes a trapeze artist performing strange feats at the top of the circus tent. What Mr. Marshall said yesterday Secretary of the Treasury Snyder erases today. President Truman wifl agree with
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    BOY SCOUTS AT JAMBOREE
    271 4 POME 8,000 boys cf the •D British Commonwealth of Nations (b»t none from Malaya) will take particular pride in the Sixth World Jamboree of Boy Scouts which they are to attend in France in August. Forty thousand Scouts from some 40 countries will camp in a
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    259 4 HONEYMOONING in London now is a short, dark, vivacious young French-woman, RENEE DUFOUR. During the war she was "Jenita, queen of the Breton maquis." She won more medals for bravery in the field, for wounds In action than any other in France's underground army. Miniature ribbons of
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    BETTER TELEVISION IN UK
    302 4 PLANS to enlarge considerably the present television service in the United Kingdom aiv indicated by the announcement that Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. are to supply the Sound Transmitter for the new Birmingham Television Station in addition to another complete installation of both sound and vision
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    IN AUSTRALIA
    1056 4  - IN A USTRALIA Alan Wood Your Commonwealth 1 by an Australian newspaperman T N material things Australia today is depending more and more on America. And, of course, you cannot have American cars, American refrigerators, American-style commercial radio, American films, American sodafountains and milk-bars, and American commercialism without absorbing something
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      106 4 QUIZ 1. Where do we meet with the following? (a) BUI Bikes; <b> Mr Gradgrind: (c) Mr. Stiggins: <d> Mr. P urn biec hook; <e) Barkis. 2. "Of all my books, I like this the best," wrote Dickens. Which book? 3. "Murder! proceeded Mr. Honeythunder, in a kind of boisterous
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    RICE APPEAL FOR LONDON
    263 5 (jent gives a pledge i r, e Press Staff Corresapondeni KOALA LUMPUR, Monday. r -PLYING to a speech by h Mr. A. W. Wallich in the ry Council this morn ;he Governor of the n Union, Sir Edward pledged that he would g Malaya's struggle so
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    WE'RE REACHING LIMIT OF INDIRECT TAX'
    161 5 WE'RE REACHING LIMIT OF INDIRECT TAX' Free Press Stair Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. 1 THE Malayan Union Financial Secretarv- Mr. W.D Gocisall replying to attacks on the proposal to levy income tax in the Advisory Council by Mr. SB. Palmer. Mr. H S. Lee. and Mr. V.M N" Menon said
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    MUSIC RECITAL AT VICIORIA THEATRE
    155 5 MUSIC RECITAL AT V ICIORIA THEATRE PKm Start Reporter musicians, T^lr. Huang dyric tenor) Ma Si-hon violinist) a recital, under the the Officer AdminifiGTernmait. Mr. P. A. and the Chinese -1. Dr. Wu Paaktal KQ be given at the tIC QB July 20 at I gramme, in which Mrs. Old
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    Anti-piracy patrol off Malaya
    87 5 Anti-piracy patrol off Malaya Picture shows the three British Navy vessels which have been converted into police patrol boats and will be used to combat niracy and smuggling along the Malayan coast. Two 01 the vesse's will carry out natrol work under Malayan iTiiui; Police control between Muar and Port
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    More schools radio soon
    549 5 Free Press Staff Reporter QY the end of this year and in the course of 1948, Radio O Malaya should be able to increase the number of schools programmes to 12 a week. This news is contained in an article on BroadcasUnir to Schools by Mr.
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    48 5 Mr. and Mrs. Lim Fen after their wedding on Saturday at the Happy World Cabaret. Mr. Lim Fen is the eldest son of the late Mr. Lim Dmg Sing and MrsLim. His bride was formerly Miss Shu Yung Choo, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shu Tiong Sik.
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    3 YEARS FOR CYCLE THEFT
    43 5 A Chinese, Chan See Leh, was sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment, by Mr Justice Jobling at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. He was found guilty of theft of a bicycle at Middle Rood on Feb. 28 this
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    VOTERS WILL REGISTER NEXT WEEK
    408 5 VOTERS WILL REGISTER NEXT WEEK S 'pore prepares for elections Free Press Staff Reporter DEGISTERS to record the names of aH qualified voters in tile elections fo the Singapore Legislative Council will be opened in four electoral districts in the Municipal and rural areas in a week's- time. When registration
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    'HELLO' GIRLS OF NEE SOON
    121 5 Five A.T.S. telephone opuat— working the switch-board of the new telephone exchange opened by Li.-OsL W. Hammond, Commanding Officer of GHQ Signal Regiment, at N«e Soon on Saturday afternoon. The new exchange replaces the «U three-position manual exchange which was too small to deal with
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    LOTTERIES ARE UNSUITABLE, SAYS GOVT.
    202 5 LOTTERIES ARE UNSUITABLE, SAYS GOVT. Free Press Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Moi day. STATE lotteries are unsuitable as a permanent means of raising revenue. This is the attitude of the Malayan Union Government, contained in a written reply tabled at this morning's meeting ot the Advisory Council. The text of
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    S.P.C.A. MEETING
    41 5 A meeting will be held in the Council Chamber, Singapore Secretariat, at 5 p.m. tomorrow to re-constitute the Singapore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. All former members and others who are interest ar< invited to attend.
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    FINED $1,000
    45 5 TEO Yew Chye was fined $1,000, or six months' rigoroiys imprisonment, in the Second Singapore District Court yesterday on a charge of hoarding or concealing, and an alternate charge of possession of eight-and-a-half bags of wheat flour and 27 tins of locallymade biscuits.
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    S'pore port news
    133 5 jfrice fress Wait-mom iv pvaier A.NK thousand five-hundred French pa^Gengers from Saigon, the majority of th'2m Servicemen and repatriate families, passed through Singapore yesterday on the Messageries Maritimes ship Athos II bound for Marseilles. Ships alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: MAIN WHARF: Empire
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    END CONTRACT LABOUR PLEA
    266 5 TTHE Singapore Government axid Municipal Labour Union m 1 pressing for the abolition of contract labour, a subject discussed at the kust meeting of the Labour Advisory Bwird. A .statement issued by the Union says this form of labour is undesirable, and is known to have
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    FISHERY SCHOOL 'A CRYING NEED'
    112 5 FISHERY SCHOOL 'A CRYING NEED' Frw Press Staff CorresponJent PENANG. Monday. fHERE wab "a crying need" ioc A a fishery school in Malaya, the Director of Fisheries. Mr. D. W. Le Mare, told the Tamong Tokong villagers at the con'lusija lof their aquatic sports pver the week-end. Mr. Le Mare,
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    S'PORE AAA PATRON
    28 5 i The Offirer Administerm- the Government.. Mr. P. A B. McKerron. has agreed u> oe pat- ron of the Singapore Anv.Ueur A hletic Association. fdfd
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    CZECH GOVT. DEPT. IS ACCUSED
    571 6 CZECH GOVT. DEPT. IS ACCUSED Non-Communists are persecuted pOLITICAL persecution of non-Communist officials of the Communist-controlled Czechoslovak Ministry of Agriculture is alleged in an interpellation submitted to the Czechoslovak Government by the deputies of the National Socialist Party, second largest party in the Republic after the Communists, reports Reuter from
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    IDLEWILD'S IDLE IDYLL
    116 6 IDLEWILD, which is to be New York's Heath Row, announces it must postpone its opening- once again. For two years this airport, direly needed by international as well as domestic air lines, has been following up announcements ol its op ning ol yet another postponement And all
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    GREEKS SEND FOOD TO 'STARVING' U.S.
    127 6 GREEKS SEND FOOD TO 'STARVING' U.S. HUNGRY Europeans are sending food parcels to supposedly starving friends and relatives in America This ig reported by the New York Times, which says the disclosure was made by the Federal authorities during an inquiry into illegal meat imports. Thousands of the parcels are
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    SO THEY SHOT THEMSELVES
    74 6 IN PHOEXIXVILLE, Pennsyhnnia, that old, old arguniert —which is better. Capitalism or Communism had a different ending recently. Charles Sou eh. aged V.G who flew 265 fighter missions in Europe and China, got .so angry over his father's views (for Capitalism) that he went out and
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    STOP WAR TALK, SAYS S!R H. SHAWCROSS
    176 6 U7E must have law and order in Tf world affairs, the AttorneyGeneral. Sir Hartley Shawcross, told a United Nations demonstration in Brighton. Otherwise treedom and civilisation would perish "We must stop this talk ?bout driiting to another war," he declared. "We cannot afford
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    SABOTAGE IS SUSPECTED IN SHIP SINKING
    120 6 SABOTAGE IS SUSPECTED IN SHIP SINKING I A for.ner Gentian wha'?i\ which was taken over by the Kussian Government for re- i parations, sank in Kristiansand, Norway on the eve of her departure for Russia. Sabotage is suspected by the Russians. The whaler is here seen alongside other vessels with
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    U.K. WOMEN GET MEN'S CLOTHES
    163 6 rpHE large amount of women's clothing: now being made in Britain out of material intended for men's wear may cause the Board of Trade to take action. Following representations from the trade, the Board is considering whether it should be made an offence to divert
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    CAN'T BE LEGALISED
    40 6 The district judge of Rio de Janeiro, Chermont de Miranda, nas ruled that th#* "death-bed" •carriage of ex-King Carol ol Rumania and his red-haired mistress Magda Lupescu caifnot be 1 until their resoectivp divorces are recognised. U.P.
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    SPACE 'BOMB HITS EARTH
    231 6 RUSSIAN scientists collected 250 meteorites totaling five tons of suspected "planetoid or asteriod that sti the earth with a terrific impact on the morning O j i(f last close to Kharkova village near the Pacific coast Siberia, Radio Moscow reported, says United Press Reporting on the
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    GERMANS MAKE NEW CHEAP CAR
    117 6 FRENCH motor-car exports are f threatened by the possible flooding of European markets by a cheap German standard car known as the "Kapitan," according to the Paris newspaper Combat. The Kapitan is made by the Opel motor works which are now in production again at
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    BLIND YOUTH IS GOOD ATHLETE
    72 6 RICHARD NEWELL, 17-year-old college athlete can throw a 121b shot 45 fee's generally wins first or second in the long jump and can do the 50 yards in six seconds flat. In running he must keep his left arm rigid and his hand slidingr long
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    EXPLOSIVE AS FERTILISER
    100 6 IF experiments now taking place I in Britain are successful, many of the world's food-pro-ducing countnc s may soon be receiving crop Fertilisers made from the explosive content of surplus British and German am- > munition. Already, nitrogen, used during the war fo r the makina Of
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    AUSTRALIA'S TALL TRESS
    82 6 THE tallest tree lr. a CfeUfornian E fi Australia holds th- i hardwoods, and m the quest [or IdhC any species Rist attempts bo m tralia'a big trees 1886. It wag no: I bushman report a LS feel Wgh And 72 I E1 ura i timated I
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    UK GIVES SIAM £ FACILITIES
    58 6 UK GIVES SIAM FACILITIES BRITAIN hlfi «Kf facilities w:. r Siamese sterling In the transfer account are transferable not only n areas but also in setti current transacU<Nu wit non-sterling countrs accept sterling for pas m< i The British hm i Slam, Mr. Harrington has handed a note on 1
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    EDRICH, COMPTON IN GRAND DISPLAY
    401 7 EDRICH, COMPTON IN GRAND DISPLAY lay Leicester i tack for 2 77 b LONDON, Monday. KDRICH (257) and Denis Common (151), lose third wicket partnerships have been the outng feature of Test matches with South Africa, -hod their ouslaught on Leicestershire's bowlers Jed 277 in two hours ten minutes for
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    HIGHLIGHTS OF BIG SWIM MEET
    127 7 Koh Kim Chen?, winner ot three freestyle events at the Singapore Chinese aquatic meet at the Chinese Swimming Clan pool on Sunday, gulps a breath of air as he nears the finishing line in the 1500 metres freestyle event. He also won the 1M metres
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    Horse Arrives In America a Big Race
    68 7 Horse Arrives In America a Big Race SEWI \Olia. Monday. :,kv\ar of Baroda's Dkjcl, arrived at La airport today from l« purii.iDaie in an ;a1 rate at Belmont k« n. th» track reprei •■...■•> ;k to noanied him. hW9f te l>e in sjood «aa passed bv the 4 Bireau of
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    BIG SPORTS AHEAD FOR U.K. WOMEN
    77 7 BIG SPORTS AHEAD FOR U.K. WOMEN OXDQN, Monday. neo aUUetes will y*. i.- French embei may :.;Ht -.v:' h the r.'s Amateur a aniwnaed i ID oe picked mak .:p the I the go on ml I iletic nw et pos dbil *v oi W n's Attil< tk we had
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    SOCCER TOMORROW
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    BRITISH DRIVER WINS
    29 7 > A.G.1::..- :I. won first; p] spoHi eaar races in hi.-- ABard (over 1,500 cubic centimetre class) on Sunday, tahotfa besl time waa 8 m 54.2 see.
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    Big Title Fight Crowd Expected
    161 7 GLASGOW. Monday. rriSH boxing attendance records are expected to be broken <>n Wednesday nh'ht at Glasgow's huge Hampden Park when Jackie Paterson ;md Dado Marino meet for the world's flyweight title, promote* Charlie Black said today. When the bout originally was scheduled the local authorities
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    LOW SCORING AT ALEXANDRA
    203 7 Low scoring characterised the: CFtofeet mateh played last Sunday at Alexandra when 213 BOD defeated tJhe Ist Sea-fctfth rfigalanders by 7fi nms. The Hightenciers, bfttting iii^t, were able to acoee only M runs. The BOD replied w«£ IS3, Van Rooyan and Hottingtxw tapping the soo»e with
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    HOCKEY TEAM TO BE REVIVED
    47 7 Efforts are being made to revive the Singapore Colts a hockey team which figured prominently in local hockey before the war. Former members and those interested in hefckey are reijSssted o ge: in touch With Mr. D. Lovettey, 41A Chancery Lane* I
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    CZECHS WIN DAVIS CUP FINAL
    57 7 ZAGREB, Monday. CZECHOSLOVAKIA, by winning \j the doubles today, gained a winning 3—o lead over Yugoslavia in the European zone of the Davis Cup final. They will now meet the winners of the American zone tie between Canada and Australia to decide who shall play
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    Armstrong WaS One Of Australia's Best
    661 7 Armstrong WaS One Of Australia 's Best A LINK IS BROKEN QNE of the last present-day links with cricket in tte early days of the century was broken on Sunday, when former Australian Test captain Warwick Arn* Strong died in Sydney, Armstrong is one of the greatest names En Austin
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    W. INDIAN BRITAIN'S BEST EVER
    567 7  -  GEORGE CHISHOLM U.K. Roundup BY LONDON, Monday. WITHOUT a doubt the f f fastest runner ever to be associated with Britain is E McDonald BaUey, the West India n sprinter. On numerous occasions be has equalled the British record of 9.7 sec. for 100 yards
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    WANTS 'BOOKIES' FOR MALAYAN COURSES
    322 7 Free Press Correspondent i KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. LICENSING of bookmakers to operate ob Malayan race course*, on similar lines to that in Australia, India and Ceylon, was advocated by Dr. Lee Tiang Keng, at tr»s morning's meeting of the Matejran Union Advisory Council. IQw FUvoncfc.l
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      248 7 r P»©ss Crossword No. 147 j i B I I 1 I I H 111 J I I CLUES ACROSS e*u.Je thief <?*, 7 and 8, Ifigheet mcwitaiin in Europe fhi ronscK^s T* (3^, 11. Lot*, narrow dtteh or tcench, eapwirtr in (5). 13. Officer authorised io otrtify dee*, coatracte,
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    Union continuing food subsidies
    254 8 Union continuing food subsidies Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. rpHERE is no question of the Government "de-subsidising" x food imports declared Mr. W. D. Godsall. the Financial Secretary, at todays meeting of the Advisory Council. In fact, he said, the Government was likely to incur a loss of
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    ARMY ISOLATES PALESTINE 'KIDNAP TOWN'
    166 8 ARMY ISOLATES PALESTINE 'KIDNAP TOWN' JERUSALEM. Monday. MILITARY law was imposed tonight on some 14.U00 Jews living in an area six miles long by four miles wide around Nathanya. Palestine diamond town, where two British sergeants who were kidnapped on Frid:iy night are believed to be held captive. Sarttei today,
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    TROOPS LEAVE FOR S'PORE
    46 8 TROOPS LEAVE FOR S' PORE MORE than 2.300 Servicemen left Liverpool last night in Britain's biggest permanent troopship, the 27,268-ton Georgic. Also on board will be nav.il ratings, Royal Air Force men, and 33 passengers The Georgic is going to Port Said, Colombo and Singapore. Reuter
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    ALL-MALAYA BODY TO MAKE DEBTS LAW
    424 8 To settle loans during occupation Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. IN conjunction with the Singapore Government, the Malayan Union Government was about to set up a committee of 12, consisting of six representatives from each territory, to advise upon the rules to
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    10 YEARS FOR ARMED ROBBERY
    89 8 Sentence of 10 years' rigorous imprisonment was imposed en a young Malay, Salim bin Karim. at the .Singapore Assize Court yesterday when the was found guilty of committing armed robbery of doth valued at $5,300 jfrom a tailor's shop in North Bridge Road on January
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    NON-U.N. STATES AND ASIA PLAN
    144 8 A xt x NEW YORK Mondav I^?^ esolution th^t states non-members of the Voting for were India, the Philippines and Siam; against were China, France, the Netherlands. Russia and the United States. Britain and Australia abstained. After the vote Mr. R. K. Nehru, india, and
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    U.K. selling chocolates for dollars
    185 8 LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN will so -n start exporting U.5. 540 .000, 000 worth of beer, cookies, jams and^chocolates yearly fr~m her impoverished larder to the dollar areas. The Minister oi Food, Mr. John Strachey, told the House oi Commons ton'ght that the dollars obtained irom
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    PLEA FOR MORE 'PRE-FABS'
    119 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday Government- built prcfabricaived houses for all large population centres in the Malayan Union were asked for by Mr. Ee Yew Kim at this morning's meeting of the Advisory Council. He said such building schemes were necessary both to relieve
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    DEMOLITION HARDSHIPS
    216 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday ALL Town Boards in the Mala- yan Union are being instructed that demolitions of unauthorised buildings should oe ordered and carried out only with the least possible hardship to the persons concerned. The Governor, Sir Edward Gent, gave this assurance to
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    LITTLE SHOP PARTY
    40 8 TWO hundred guest* attended a cocktail party given by Doris Geddes at Raffles Hotel last night to celebrate the enlargement of her Little Shop, the ultra-modern design and furnishings of which were greatly admired by the gathering.
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    BEARS COVER AT THE CLOSE
    529 8 London Stock Exchange XfONDON, Monday ON the London Stock Exchange today, on the «Me it has been a quiet day with earlier dullness relieved u, the final stages by last minute bear covering, write* Retncri financial correspondent. Gilt edged securities were oneeighth lower for long-dated
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    55 8 picture. This is the car in which John Cobb hopes to break his own world land speed record at Bonneville Flats, Utah, in August. The car is shown loaded on the trailer by which it was brought to River Wharf, Chiswick, for crating and subsequent removal to King George V
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    U.S.-JAVA RADIOPHONE
    35 8 U.S.- JAVA RADIOPHONE *u Th T t? le P hon e service, between die United States and Indonesia suspended since March 1942 will re-open today. At first the service wll be limited to Batavia, Reuter
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    STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    164 8 k SPECIAL Market correspondent elves the price* of rubber tt 11 ajn today as follows: Bajrr* viiffj Der \b o»> ib No 1 ESS Spot loom J7« No 1 B.S.S. lot) in bales August M j No 2 R.S.S for. in bales August M No 3
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      60 8 I WEATHER Fair: bright periods WEATHER report for the nest If 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Fair with bright periods with a risk of showers around dawn. Wind: Southeasterly, light. Sunset 6.41 p.m. Sunrise 6.34 a.m. Moonrise 4.16 a.m. Maonset 4.53 p.m. I Temperatures for the past 24 hours:
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