The Singapore Free Press, 19 July 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA 16.910 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947 PBICE It CENTS.
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    INTERVENTION ASKED BY INDIES
    375 1 INTERVENTION ASKED BY INDIES Last move to IN a last move to stop war, the Indonesian Republican Government has sought the intervention of the British, French and Chinese Governments, the Associated Press correspondent m Batavia cabled this morning. Last night, Republican Ministers m Batavia were informed through British diplomatic channels
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    46 1 The Kin? and »iueen ami the t*.. MmssM pictured at a bKidon Cuunty (uuncil recepin )Bri beterc the announcement \A the t agreement of Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. [PhiUp Mountbatlcv The Queen b dressed m a pink taffeta crinoline, and the •Pruuesses are m wfaHe satin.
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    ROBBER FIRES ON S'PORE TAXI-DRIVER
    130 1 F*e? Pr*>* Staff Reporter I MALAI Uud driver at 11 p.m. r right narrowly escaped rr.n a:, q c'runese robber fired la him at Lorong 27 I Qcjiani Roaci. bba m anrrthm Chinese td been pasa ngoa In his taxi. the Chineai r..id instruct-taxl-irr.^r la
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    IT CHINESE HELD
    30 1 1 J\; »'rexs Staff Reporter *.r a --Hr-anchof the i j to a raid on a X Singapore, at Jed 11 alleged X I UN V Group
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    API DEPUTATION TO SEE GENT
    103 1 Free Press Staft Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE president o: A.P.1., (Angka- tan Pemuda Insaf), Ahmad Boestamam, announced this evening that a deputation from API, whicli has been declared illegal, intends calling en the Governor,! Sir Edward Gent. Members of the central committee of the
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    DALTON HAS BIG SURPLUS
    278 1 D ALTON HAS BIG SURPLUS LONDON, Friday. BRITAIN'S budget shows a £234,000,000 surplus lor the •B first three months of the financial year and nothing like this has ever happened before m the whole history of *I)t Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the House of Commons today that
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    DELHI TOO BUSY TO CELEBRATE
    249 1 NEW DELHI, Friday. INDIA'S millions splashed through monsoon puddles to and from their work today, letting pass unheralded the end of an era which began 89 years ago when Queen Victoria became Empress of India and ended with the Royal Assent m the House of
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    AUSTRALIA TO TAKE 12,000
    77 1 BERLIN, Friday. A USTrIALIA has agreed to take i\ 12.000 displaced persons from Germany including 5,000 from the British zone, the Australian Immigration and Information Minister, Mr. Arthur Caldwell, said here tonight. The immigrants will go to specific jobs and remain for a minimum of two
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    Bid to restrain BBC fails
    72 1 A MOTION for an injunction to restrain the B.BC. from broadtasting m today's third programme a commentary on a bullfight, was dismissed with costs m the Chancery Division yesterday. The injunction was appl'cd for by Edmund r. MacMichael, Director of the Performing Animals Defence League.
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    IN LINE FOR WHITE HOUSE
    41 1 IN LINE FOR WHITE HOUSE President Truman yesterday signed a Presidential Succession Bill placing Speaker of the House of Representative, MR. JOSEPH MARTIN (Republican) m line to replace him m the event of President Truman being unable to complete his term.
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    Java ships rice asks for more
    233 1 Java ships rice asks for more Free Press Stall Reporter WHILE the Indonesian Republican Government yesterday was promising India it would honour its 750,000-ton rice pledge, the I.E.F.C.'s Rice Sub-Committee m Singapore was cabling Washington for an urgent shipment of rice to the N.E.I. Lord Killear n's ofllce revealed last
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    LADY IRIS ASKED TO LEAVE U.S.
    89 1 LADY Iris Moun.butlen, cousin of King George VI, has been asked to leave the United States by Sipt. 1 immigration officials m Washington said yesterday. They said the great-grand-daughter of Queen Victoria had overstayed her visit permit. The fact that Lady Mountbatten had taken
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    EXPLOSION HURTS 41
    25 1 Forty-one workers were burned, at least 19 of them seriously, m an explosion at the French oil refinery at Bordeaux yesterday.— U.P.
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    WORKERS ASK FOR OWN MEN ON COUNCILS
    382 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A DEMAND that the working class be represented on the Singapore Advisory Council and the Municipal Commission was made at a public meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. The meeting, sponsored by the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers'
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    PITCHED BATTLE ON JEW SNIP
    73 1 JERUSALEM, Friday. MORE than 4,500 illegal Jewish immigrants who reached Haifa tonight m their small ship, President Warfleld, were immediately transported to the "ferry" ship lor deportation to Cyprus. After the pitched battle with tear gas, fireworks, smoke bombs and steam jets, with a British
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    RANK CINEMAS FOR MALAYA
    80 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. BY agreement with the Chinese multi-millionaire cinemaowner Mr. Loke Wan Tho, the J. Arthur Rank Organisation has, the Daily Mail states, acquired an interest m three cinemas m Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Rank owns a chxiu of cinemas m
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    TO STUDY ENGLISH
    21 1 Displaced persons are to M given elementary lessons m English subjects while awaiting train* fer to jobs- Reuter
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    954,000 BUILDERS
    74 1 1 Workers m UK's building tra4§ at the end of May numbered about i 954,000- Reuter COMING EVENTS TO-NIGHT, at 8.00 v.m. at the "Little Theatre," Armenian Street; Forces "Prom" No. 77, including: Borodin Symphony Mozart Horn Concerto TO-MORROW, at 8.00 p.m. at the Union Jack Club. Classical
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    CRYING FOR THE MOON
    939 2 CRYING FOR THE MOON FREE PRESS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT nURING the last few weeks we have seen much m the Press about Singapore and Culture, or perhaps it would be more true to say Singapore and its Lack of Culture. Everyone seems agreed upon these points: firstly, that Singapore is sadly
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    26 2 Carol Marsh took time off from starring m the film "Brighton Rock" to revel m the Strawberry harvest of real English strawberries at Favershani m Kent.
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    ...and paying for it
    540 2 By David Grant TRYING for the is probably an apt title as used by the special correspondent above but Somerset "Maugham thought of the answer to that a while ago m his book called The Moon and Sixpence." The article, dealing with the sorry state of
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    111 2 /■LUBS arc trumps. North leads. V North and South are to win six of the seven tricks against any defence. South leads the low spade. North covering West's play. North leads the heart king which South ruffs (overruffing East, if necessary.) South leads the trump to North's
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    SHATTERING TRADITION
    532 2 fIAN-CARLO Mcv notti hailed as oiie of America's leading composers, unwittingly has made a career of shattering traditions m the musical world— and is succeeding at it. Prom the time he first composed songs at the age of six m Milan, Italy, Menotti has been breaking precedents. Today
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    KEEPING FIT A SEVENTY
    112 2 KEEPING FIT A SEVENTY After Beins Cr by Rheumatic At one m* her lather mi with rheumati :< taking Krusch: b lease of life. N keep clear of i >™ZZd* "My husband a I e Kruschen Salts r just for those nas':; rhPU^{f» But my father bat i^ c few
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      1269 2 SINGAPORE iniMmaft* -1. .tares the works of Robert m the Dark; 8.58 Programme AnBlue Network AUSTRALIA Schumann; 9.30 Great Music— Played nouncemens; 9 p.m 12.30 BBC 4Mnmi»ll *m vt Aft id by the Buda P est strin S Quartet; 9.45 Sports and Music (on 16.88 and 88.3 12. 00-2.00 pjn.
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      162 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom today DORN today, you have a tremendous amount of per. sonal ambition and are deter, mined to set ahead m the world, no matter what your early surroundings may be. If born to wealth, you will wish to increase it* You want
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    CHIANG TO PRESENT NEW CASE TO U.S.
    458 3 CHIANG TO PRESENT NEW CASE TO U.S. Also plans for getting loan WITH the appointment of Gen. Albert 0. Wedemeyer as special U.S. envoy to China and Korea, the Central Government at Nanking is preparing to present to the United States the Nationalist case m the struggle against the Communists.
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    KING HAS ONLY U.S. $30,000
    91 3 DU n H Kmg former Chinese Prantei and Finance Minis- Md reputed!* one of the realty st Chinese today, was Wed hj .he South-Eastern Daily i aytat his property, including c jf rs the United States. f'C, 0 5: v"- r 4 >' amounted to
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    S'HAI BUDGET DEFICIT
    39 3 Finance Commissioner, Tien Yung Chien, of Nanking on Thursday asked the Chinese Government for 200 billion dollars as a subsidy to allow the Shanghai city government to covei the budget deficit of the current fiscal year.
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    70 3 Unsk pfctwn come from HMMMftfl Siepingkai, Manehuna. nnaDiured by Nationalg \rw> The battle was described a> one of the worst of hine>e iivtl war. Wrecked building was the communications centre. In the ijruup is Gen. Chen M'.ru jen second from right), commander of Nationalist 71st Arm> which fought m Szepingkai
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    200 BANDITS KILLED IN SKIRMISHES
    177 3 200 BANDITS KILLED IN SKIRMISHES HIS PATCHES from South Kwangtung reported that several hundred bandits have been killed m skirmishes. More tha« 1,200 bandits attempted to raid villages m the District of Lam Kong. They were met by the Corps men After heavy fighting, 200 bandits were killed, while the
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    GIANT UNRRA LOCOS ARRIVE
    149 3 rpHE biggest ocean-borne shipment of locomotives ever to j reach Shanghai is being unloaded from the Norwegian ship Beljeanne, which put into port with 100 individual 48-ton locomotives and tenders brought from Weehawken, New Jersey. When fully assembled, the big engines will be. distributed along China's
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    NOT KEEN ON JAP TRADE
    254 3 /CHINESE official circles are not enthusiastic about the Vy prospect of Chinese-Japanese trade after Aug. 15, when Japan resumes private trade under SCAP control. They have expressed dissatisfaction of Mac Arthur's intended policy of subsidizing Japanese exports. It is reported that the Executive Yuan will
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      LAWYERS TO BE CONSCRIPTED
      76 3 REQUESTS for temporary exemption from conscription made by Lawyers' Guilds throughout the country to the Ministry of National Defence have been rejected, according to a spokesman of the Conscription Bureau of th? Ministry m Nanking. The request of the lawyer for classification into the category of
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      RELIEF WORKERS EVACUATED
      57 3 A GROUP of 15 UNRRA and CNRRA staff men have arrived at the Communist Shantung port of Yangchiaoko, west of Chefoo, after being evacuated from Tsangshien, now m Communist hands. UNRRA sources said the relief workers made the five day truck trip from the Grand Canal zmin
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    IT'S THE COLOUR, NOT CHEMICAL
    114 3 CHINESE farmers are noted more lor their practicality than lor their aesthetic appreciation --Therefore, chemists m the UNRRA pesticides manufacturing plant m Shanghai, where UNRRA is training young Chinese to produce insect-killing sprays and dusts, were puzzled at requests that the DDT dust, pyrethrum powder
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    STUDENTS'RELEASE DEMANDED
    252 3 OARENTS of more than 30 Shanghai students arrested by the Shanghai-Woosung garrison during the May and early June demonstrations for "Communist" leanings will continue the fight for the early release of their sons. The parents met and refused to accept the conditions of the garrison for the release
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    109 3 'Abe Committee of the Kwang* tung-Kwangsi Flood Relief has decided to issue lotteries to raise the total of $50 billion Chinese dollars to aid millions of flood victims, says U.P. According to the present plan, each issue will be $10 million worth of tickets with 20 per cent, of the
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    FILIPINO INQUIRY IN AMOY
    128 3 qiHE Philippines Government Is A sending investigators to Araoy to look into conditions leading to the repeated attempts of Chinese «> enter the Philippines illegally There are reports of a new alien racket m which Filipino women were found to have been utilized by Chinese to
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      7 3 j|l|f thtyaM jfSHJi TMt TOBACCO THAT coumw
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      77 3 TARZAN m the crossfire By Edgar Rice Burroughs 'N ™£'X EXCITEMENT AT *E»NG Bj I I AND EACH HUNTER'S &ULLET r^WPp'^^A^ i <^. THEIR ELUSIVE TARGET IN PLAIN /WT^L X *?&> FOR THE OTHER HUNTER. J rilLf&r?*} M. HfSn w VIEW, OOTW HUNTERS WHIPPED THEIR C^o. y^^f^i 1 V ifeej
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947. Rent Control Revisions
    708 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947. Rent Control Revisions fftHE public will warmly welcome [J. the important amendments to the Rent Control Bill proposed on the first reading of this measure at Thursday's meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council, for they seek to give special consideration to the
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    THE LEOPARD MEN STRIKE AT DUSK
    1124 4 THE LEOPARD MEN STRIKE AT DUSK Graliam Stamford reporting from West Africa on the World's Greatest minder hunt THIS is the strangest, biggest murder hunt m the world In the grim words of a hard-bitten senior Engl sh police official, "The sta^e has now been reached when every sinyle male
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    WHITEST?
    100 4 jjORMULAE and workr ing directions for the manufacture of .more than 15,000 synthetic dyes, at least half of which are completely unknown have been obtained m Germany. Scma have entirely 'new proDeri ies. Such b the case with Ihe s:-called "Blankofores" which fluoresee under invisible ultraviolet light. Mixed with
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    4 4 THE OTHER FLYING SAUCERS
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    FAITH
    26 4 Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit m the bond of peace. EPHESIANS 4. 1-3.
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    15 4 "Either this Is a rotten language snide or her name's "Scented Aroma of decomposing dishwater.
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    RICHFOOD & COMMUNISM
    1061 4 RICHFOOD COMMUNISM By Brian Connell Reporting on a mission to Czechoslovakia DRAGUE must be the most beautiful capital stfll >ft m Eupore. Seen m the light of the setting sun from the towering Hradcany Castle, on the western bank of the River Moldau, which circles frie town, framed m the
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    QUIZ
    63 4 1. Two of Dickens's descendants are themselves well-known novelists. Who are they? 2. Much of Dickens's later work appeared originally m two periodicals of which he was himself the editor. Can you recall their titles? 3. In which books do the following appear?: (i) Helena Landless(ii) Miss Murdstone; (iii)
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    As a Chinese sees it
    488 4  - As a Chinese sees it T.H. TAN By M A S r e Pre S?'< lI! finest Malaya t iv ls m progress of civil war 2 Just mak in n .onev as $>' are unkind enough to tS but what Cvii be don^ the hundreds of thousa made homeless
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    BUS FARES INCREASED IN S'PORE RURAL AREA
    417 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent fHINESE bus wners m Singapore have raised their v fares on three long-distance routes. This move, is to inaivt i?ood operation loss consequent upon the incre ase m the price of petrol from 117 cents to 51.30 \.er gallon.
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    16 5 SYED HASSAN ALMENOAR, wealthy Singapore Arab, who has had his eyesight restored through a brain-tumour operation.
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    GANGSTERS SMUGGLE BURMARICE
    71 5 GANGSTERS SMUGGLE BURMARICE |.\R<;£- SCALE surnggling of L ri betwef Malaya and Hun. i fa kri*| carried en by a wt i! rgaaisei Chinese gang of stnii rs alleged to belon? to a notori 'us Malayan secret society, ;o reports reaching «ans ""i m 1,. Bmn Pohce and PreH^iin Office
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    Relatives ask right to gratuities
    157 5 Relatives ask right to gratuities y r payment of deA tin rs' gratuities or Government ..lily is advocated Issued by tne j c Municipal La- j ipote. ares that In- j funds now be- j .I" m the Trea- j s." r than the wi- An of labourers it i
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    FIVE YEARS FOR CARRYING ARMS
    29 5 ftf« years' rigorous -aa imposed on Singapore Assizes he was found g iwo automatic iT m unlawful 2] rounds Ol ammuith Canal Road on
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    OLD BOYS MEETING
    13 5 c I St. Anthony's •vili be held at sun. tomorrow.
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    S'PORE MAN HAD SIGHT RESTORED
    376 5 Brain tumour removed Free Press Staflf Reporter A SINGAPORE man, who was going totally blind eight months ago, has just returned from England where a delicate brain operation was performed on him to remove a tumour which was the main cause of his blindness. Syed
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    'MEDICINE' WAS TOBACCO: FINED $2,800
    108 5 'MEDICINE' WAS TOBACCO: FINED $2,800 A CHINESE. Chan Slew Wang, went to the Singapor* 0.P.0. on Thursday to tak delivery of 10 packages from Hong Kong, fabelled meiicine, but when customs officer* stopped him and opened the packages they found 30,000 Craven A cigarett.es inside. This story was told m
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    FASTING MONTH
    39 5 Muslims throughout Malaya will fast for a month beginning from today. Announcing this, the secretary of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society said that during the fasting month all mosques throughout the country would hold nightly "Parafueh" prayers.
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    48 5 Here are two of the four Singaporeans who have been awarded scholarships for two years m the London School of Economics. They are Mr. J. L. BYRNE, (above), Assistant Municipal Welfare Officer, and Mr. C. F. de SOUZA, Officer-in-Charge, Citizen's Advice Bureau of the Department of Social Welfare.
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    HID OPIUM IN WARSHIP, JAILED
    75 5 OPIUM found under the altar, m the chapel, on board I i he aircraft carrier Glory led to the appearance, m i-he First District Court, yesterday oi j 36-year old. Chew Tim, a Canj tonese senior ward room mes--1 steward. H2 wa~ charged with being
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    TRAFALGAR ST INQUIRY CLOSES
    317 5 Free Press S taff Reporter THE McNeice Inquiry Committee ordered by the Singapore 1 Government to submit an impartial report o n the recent eviction of squatters from S.H.B. ground m Trafalgar Street concluded its sittings on Thursday. A report Is being prepared. Headed by Mr.
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    BIG DROP IN PORT CRIME
    340 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Superintendent of Singapore's Fort Police, Mr. H.C.F. Rodda, told the Free Press yesterday that there has been a "tremendous decrease" m the prevalence of looting and pilfering m the harbour area, pointing out that reported cases dropped from 500 m
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    POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED
    90 5 POLICE OFFICERS CHARGED TWO European Auxiliary Police Officers of the Singapore Harbour Board appeared on hQusebreaking charges m th e Third Police Court, yesterday. Eric Percy Vennell, 23, was charg-ed with housebreaking by night, at godown eight, S.H.B. m order to commit theft on June 19, and George Culwick, 35
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    S'pore port news
    211 5 VICTIMS of ,a high sea piracy 22 Chinese and Malay sailors of the 158-ton Chinese-owned motor vessel Rosary returned to Singapore yesterday without a $6,000 cargo intended for Faneh. Sumatra. Their ship was pirated m the Malacca Strait last week. The ship was subjected to rifle fire
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    EX-MALAYAN HEADS UNO MISSION TO AMAZON
    347 5 EX-MALAYAN HEADS UNO MISSION TO AMAZON DR. E. J. H. Corner, former .Assistant Director of tbtt Singapore Botanic Gardens, has just left Paris for Brazil, accompanied by Dr. Basil Malamos, a Greak specialist m tropical medicine. Dr. Corner is heading a team of scientists of the United Nations' Educational. Scientific
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    Plea for unified civil service
    173 5 THE Query oy Stamford Club, an association of Rafßes College graduates, as to v* T hy there had been no recruitment recently of i Raffles College graduates into the Straits Settlements Civil Service did not mean that either the graduates or present members of the
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    WAR ON WEEDS WITH THE FLAME-THROWER
    89 6 WAR ON WEEDS WITH THE FLAME-THROWER Problems to be settled m Jap treaty The deadly flame-thrower has been turned to meet the needs of peace m the role of weed -killer. Known as the "Sizz-Weeder," it is attached to a tractor which drives over the ground to be treated, the
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    DIVERGENCE ON FUTURE CONTROL
    360 6 DIVERGENCE ON FUTURE CONTROL TOKIO, Friday. THE complicated territorial questions, which have been A such a handicap m Europe, will be absent when work begins on the Japanese peace treaty. So will >ome ?f the political problems. Even so, diplomats believe it wH\ [take a minimum of one year to
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    Martian tells his story
    464 6 'Flying Dices' Mystery NEW YORK, Friday. TIESPITE growing official and lay scepticism, reports that MJ more of the mystery flying saucers have been seen continue to come from many parts of the United States, and .even from Mexico. Theories range from public hysteria and imagination •to
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    FILM CRITIC GETS £1,500 DAMAGES
    105 6 FILM CRITIC GETS £1,500 DAMAGES MISS Emot Robertson, British Broadcastiug Corporation film critic and author of the book "Four Frightened People," which has a Malayan background, was awarded £1,500 damages m the High Court on Thursday against Metro Goldwyn Mayer for liberal and slander. Miss Robertson ccmpiained that as the
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    EARL IS FINED
    42 6 CHARGED m London with a currency offence, the Earl of Warwick was fined £1,000 m respect of two cheques for which he had accepted francs. The cheques were discovered m the baggage of a traveller entering England from France.
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    95 enemy ships for U.K.
    100 6 rE United Kingdom received 95 merchant ships, representing over 373,000 gross tons, as reparations daring the 18 months ended last June, the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency Headquarters m Brussels reported. Altogether 262 ships were distributed among the 18 member governments, totalling 750,995 gross tons and valued
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    HOLD-UP NEAR SCOTLAND YARD
    81 6 TWO gunmen, with a taxi driver accomplice, on Thursday staged a daylight hold-up m the West End of London and robbed a film companys messengers or 1.300. The men "kidnapped" the messengers and drove them through tlie crowded West End streets within a stone's throw of
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    U.S. bomber to carry fighter
    209 6 WASHINGTON, Friday. IT is learned here that the United States Army Air Forces A have under production a new type of fighter plane that can be carried m the bomb-bay of a B-36 and launched m mid-air to fight off enemy attack. The plane has
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    GERMANY IS PREPARED FOR WINTER
    154 6 GERMANY IS PREPARED FOR WINTER FRANKFURT, Friday. THE United States Commander m Germany, Lieut.-Gen. L. D. day, said m Frankfurt that the coming winter m Germany "will be more bearable than the last one." He added that monthly grain deliveries of 300,000 tons from the United States have been promised
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    ROMANS WANTED TO WED EVA
    41 6 CENORA Eva de Peron, bcautilui ex-actress wife of the Argentine President, received 8,000 letters m Rome alone. There were several proposals of marriage from those who have not yet realised that she is already married.- Reuter
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    MPs APPEAL TO THE JEWS
    93 6 JERUSALEM, Friday. THE Palestine Government- controlled radio broadcast appeals from two Labour British members of Parliament, Mr. Richard Crossman, representing Coventry East, and Mr. Maurice Edelman, representing Coventry West, calling on every Jew m Palestine to help free the two British sergeants, one a Coventry
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    KILLING CASE WITNESS WAS SILENT
    176 6 KILLING CASE WITNESS WAS SILENT WINCHESTER (Hants), Fri. roUNSEL for both the Crown and defence unsuccessfully tried to get a witness at Hampshire Assizes at Winchester to give evidence. The case was one m which a Plymouth dockhand, W. Richard Launder, 23, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter of the boatswain
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    Monty's gifts
    50 6 Field Marshal Lord Montgomery recently laid the foundation stone of a new services leave house m the Sydney seaside resort of Narrabeen Monty made a gift of £100 to the rest centre. He also gave his Digger hat with regimental badges to Canberra War Museum. A. P. r-
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    FINE JAYELIN THROW BY MEYER
    627 7 FINE JAY ELI N THROW BY MEYER Wins despite recent illness rESPJ I E c act at c a d recently recovered v liu ,n\ a serk«a illness, Colin Meyer of the Singapore Recreation Hub won the final of the javelin throw cu nt i the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association
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    BASE LOSES 3 IN ROW
    205 7 X) ING on the S.R.C. Ipj g on Wednesday, Xa V Base Headquarters sflfferei their third succes.V at, this time at the hands I the Singapore Rejreati a Club, who won by 31 tost the SR.C. were and keen fielding >. suited In 7 wickets
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    O.R.A. MEETING
    19 7 "Mai Urn sports Section 02 >• ■>■•■■■ take pk.ee on at 5.30 p. m ta mating are ccrdiailv j
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    Middlesex fail by few minutes
    516 7 Middlesex fail by few minutes LONDON, Friday. TIESPITE a grand fighting: century m four hours by the MJ amateur lefthander, A Fairbairn, m his first county match, Middlesex failed by a few minutes to save the game against Somerset who had the distinction of achieving a double over the Souths
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    DAVIS CUP FOR MONTREAL
    164 7 MONTREAL Friday CZECHOSLOVAKIA 'and the V 7 winner of the American zone Davis Cup will play m Montreal on August 14 to 16 for the ri^ht to challenge United States players for the international tennis trophy. Cnarles Leslie of the Canadian Lawn Tennis Association announced the
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    DIESEL LAST BUT FIRST WITH EXCUSE
    159 7 DIESEL LAST BUT FIRST WITH EXCUSE London, Friday. FE Gaekwar of Baroda's four-year-old grey colt, Diesel, which crossed the Atlantic by air last week-end was tailed off last m the Invaders Handicap at Belmont Par]; over or.e__m:le and 180 yards tod.iy. The race was won by Bug Juice. by Challenger
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    YESTERDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS
    14 7 Running: m dark classes, W. J. Pope, RAF. Seletar, wins the three-miles.
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    MIGOLI WINS ECLIPSE STAKES
    334 7 LONDON, Friday. THE Aga Khan's Migoli, superbly ridden by Charlie Srairke, beat John Dewar's Tudor Minstrel fairly and squarely over one and a quarter miles at Sandown toIday to win the valuable Eclipse Stakes. The almost blaok son of the 1938 Derby winner Bols Roussel, won
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    Smith takes six for one:scores hat-trick
    371 7 Smith takes six for one: scores hat-trick DERBY, Friday. COUTH Africa beat Derbyshire today by three wickets but only after Smith had pulled out of the bag the most amazing bowling feat since 1868. In 4.5 overs, Smith took six Derbyshire wickets for one run. The only other recorded instance
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    GREATEST JOCKEY IN THE WORLD
    616 7  -  BERNARD McELWAINE By "Where do they get this stuff like it says here m a story on the^ English Derby that Gordon Richards is the premier jockey m the world. That story must have been written by someone who was born and raised m England,
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    OVERSEAS ATHLETES SHINE
    181 7 OVERSEAS ATHLETES SHINE LONDON, Friday. OVERSEAS competitors had a large measure of success when the Amateur Athletic Association championships the British title events— opened at the White City stadium today. The main portion of the championships win be tomorrow but the first final today went to a Hungarian, I. Nemeth,
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    SIGNS 2 BOXERS IN PARIS
    79 7 i LONDON, Friday. On his return to London from Faris yesterday, Lews Burston, European representative of the New York 20th Century Sporting Club, said he had signed the leading French middleweight, Marcel Cerdan and Tarzan Dauthuillo, for American engagements m August and September respectively. He
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    AMERICANS WIN IN FRANCE
    93 7 PARIS, Fritter. rpHE anticipated all-American JL final to the women's doubles championship materialised today when the French lawn tennis championships were continued at the Roland Garros stadium. In the semi-final, Miss Doris Hart and Mrs. Patricia Todd (United States) beat Miss Joy, Gannon and Miss Joan
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      102 7 FR^E PRESS FIGWORDS —^J—^j—^J—^H /U tters inst?ad of the figures so that the words may a and down. sanie figure occurs more than once, the same letters must, •art with this week are those across numbered 977 and 4oS n l rm C s :tains all the letters used In
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      121 7 What's On In Spore Sport Today ATHLETICS: S.A.A.A. Finals, Jaian Hesar, 3.30 p.m. BADMINTON: Clerical Union Hall, S.B.A. Championships, 2.15 p.m.; St. Chinese M.Y.F. vs. CJeylaiifr M.Y.F., at Kg. Kapor, 2 p.m.: A.C.S.U. vs. C.V.M.A. (Lourdes), at Ophir Road, 3 p.m. WEIGHTLIFTING: S.A.W.L.A. meeting. 31 Winchester House, ?.3O p.m. SOCCLK:
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    HOME...
    32 8 HOME Saturday afternoon and thirsty? The Royal Oak Inn at Wootton Rivers, near Servernake Forest, has been there for over 300 years, and still keeps the lads of Wiltshire from getting "dry."
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    Evicted families get new homes
    237 8 Evicted families get new homes Fi*c Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. OIXTY men, women and children, whose houses were demolished yesterday when Kuala Lumpur's slum clearance campaign was launched m the Batu Road district, were given new homes m the Sungei Besi "pref ab" housing estate. The demolition of
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    150 SAVED IN FERRY DISASTER
    159 8 150 SAVED IN FERRY DISASTER BOMBAY, Friday. ABOUT 150 people were saved out of 740 passengers and crew aboard the ferry steamer Ramdas •(406 tons) which sank outside Bombay Harbour m a storm yesterday. Intensive search for survivors has been carried on around Bombay coast throughout the night and many
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    BIG JAP CLOTH SHIPMENTS
    102 8 TOKIO, Friday. MORE than 26,000,000 yards of coarse Japanese cotton fabrics left Japan today for markets from the Philippines to West Africa, while additional quantities are scheduled to leave shortly. A shipment of 6,500,000 linear yards of cotton cloth left Kobe on Thursday, representing the fourth
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    REBEL LEADERS CAPTURED
    77 8 RIO DE JANEIRO, Friday. THE iour months' old Paraguayan 1 civil war is "rapidly drawing to a close," the Paraguayan Government said m a communique today, announcing the capture of, rebel leader Gen Rafael Franco and his staff. The communique, also reported the capture of the insurgent
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    U.S. SECRETARY FOR WAR RESIGNS
    44 8 THE U.S. Secretary of State for War, Mr. Robert P. Patterson, resigned yesterday because, he said, the imminent merger of the United States armed forces made him consider his work completed. His successor is Bri2.-Gen. Kenneth C. Royall.- Reuter
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    KING MAY ORDER AUSTERITY ROYAL WEDDING
    149 8 KING MAY ORDER AUSTERITY ROYAL WEDDING LONDON, Friday. rpHREE London newspapers asJ. sert today that, despite an apparent public demand that Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip Mountbatten be married with pomp and pageantry. King George and the Government may order a relatively small semi-private ceremony out of regard for the
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    2,000 PERFORMERS
    25 8 Two thousand performers will take part m the Saint Alonns Pageant on the site of the Roman City of Verulamium next year.— Reuter
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    NECKTIE FIGURES IN DIVORCE CASE
    256 8 TN a case m which a Singapore newspaperman, R. B. Ooi, 1 is petitioning for dissolution of his marriage, the corespondent, Cheah Guan Chye, an ex-student of Raffles College, told the Supreme Court yesterday that just before his wedding to Mrs. Ooi, he was given
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    UNOFFICAL STRIKES ARE CONDEMNED
    56 8 The Transport and General Workers' Union, the largest union group m the world, yes'.erday passtd a resolution condemning I unofficial strikes. The Secretary-general of the j organization, Mr. Arthur Deakin, i emphasized that the only body which can sanctim strike action j j is the general
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    RUBBER POSITION 'HEALTHY'
    198 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Friday. COMMENTING pn the recent sudden change m sentiment of the rubber market the Financial Times says that the main reasons are, firstly, that it was felt that the recent fall was "somewhat overdone," and, secondly, that the statistical position is for
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    U.K. LEADERS HAIL NEW DOMINIONS
    868 8 A tt lee's hopes for future LONDON, Friday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, tonight gave this message to the people of India and Pakistan: "On this memorable day, when His Majesty has signified his assent to the Indian Independence Bill, I send on behalf
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    30 8 An aerial picture taken of the aircraft-carrier H.MS (,i O n as arrived at Port Phillip Bay. Melbourne, from Singapore she b taking part m exercises off the Australian (oast
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    OIL SHARES ARE IN DEMAND
    157 8 Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. ON the Sto^k Exchange today the expansion of interest m the oil share market, where most of the leaders recorded substantial gains particularly AngloTranians, provided the feature nf the day. Profit-taking was well absorbed and quotations left off at practically the
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    ACE TOWN CRIER
    27 8 Frederick Welch of Bridp«rt, Dorset, became the 1947 champion town crier of England and Wales at the annual national com tuition at Bodmin. Reuter
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    NO SEA TS FOR CHINA REDS
    387 8 j NANKING, Friday. THE State Council today approved the national mobilise tion plan and, at the same time, the Councillors under. lined the Government's break with the Chinese Communist by abolishing all seats which had been reserved for the Communists m leading representative organs.
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    HURT MINISTER
    46 8 JAGJIVAN RAM, Labour member of the Indian interim Government, and the other eleven passengers injured m the Britisn Overseas Airways York airliner crash m the desert near Basra, Iraq, Wednesday night are progressing satisfactorily. The crew of six were all killed m the sra*r<
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    167 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY ABPECIAL Market correspond giwm tfce prices of robber* 11 aac today as follows: Bayen Mi t^Mh No 1 R. 6.5. Spot loose 29', No 1 KS.B. fot m bales Angus i :><)■■■ H\ No 2 R S is rot. m bales August UK JH No 3
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    MONTY TO VISIT MEXICO
    49 8 MONTY TO VISIT MEXICO FELD MARSHAL 3 v Mong mery, chief oi the Brig Imperial Oeneral I a:i Mexico on Sept 15 to 20 on invitation of the Mi tk» ment T^ Lord Montgom. units of the fit* of the U S Etei ™'J; parade on Au| 6 ardAP.
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      95 8 WEATHER Fine tonight lI7LATHER report for the next Tf 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Sunny to-day and fine to-night. Wind: Light south-easterly. Sunset 6.42 p.m., sunrise 6.34 a.m. Moonrise 8.33 a.m., moonset 10.07 a.m. Tempeiatures: Max. 91.3 deg. F.; mm. 79.5 deg. F. Relative humidity percentages: Yesterday 7.30 A.m.
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