The Singapore Free Press, 25 July 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA m i SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    EKARNOPLEATO TRUMAN
    717 1 EKARNOPLEATO TRUMAN Asks US to back British offer I\R. Soekarno, President of the Indonesian Republic, has made a direct personal appeal to President Truman to halt the war m Indonesia. This is no time for diplomatic statements," he said. Peace is a necessity." The appeal was made last night, m
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    55 1 Irtacess Staked being rewd m irrivn! At The Mall m i.ndon to take the salute at the i .in n n.i>i «>t Girl Guides from parta Kurope and Scank;v. a Princess Margaret ac.mpanifd her sister. Gwks, t-ncamped at iI«M BiWfif Court, are nmt Mi flft-* a ~g displays m i.ndon
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    Anglo-Soviet food talks fear collapse
    126 1 LONDON. Thursday. '•i*-> refused to turtha concesHe: .m the Anglo-Soviet 8a '..i-.- at Moscow, and the :..iose unless the m~ ...:> sharply reduce their ft for wheat, a high GovernHt: > day lM: Ha: Id Wilson, the ohief •".'i-v. nea tiator postponed his from Moscow
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    HARVEST TIME IN U.K.
    66 1 been started by W'- *t a field of oats m na area of Grpa- Reuter Dr. In?e Oetverberg, 25, is the only woman prosecutor m the American Zone de-Nazification courts m Germany. She has prosecuted several hundred Nazis so far at Heidelberg and has earned a
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    JAVA PRODUCE PRICES SOAR
    264 1 Free Press Chinese Correspondent WITH the outbreak of fighting m Java, the prices of white sugar, coffee, pepper and beans have jumped to new levels. First quality white sugar has gone up by 30 per cent. and was quoted at around $100 a picul yesterday. The
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    GUNMEN FIRE ON TROOPS IN JERUSALEM
    172 1 GUNMEN FIRE ON TROOPS IN JERUSALEM JERUSALEM, Thursday. /^UNMEN and British troops \J exchanged fire today at the gate of a security zone m Jerusalem. An unofficial report said the attackers arrived m a taxi, lired four times with a Bren gun ai.u escaped towards the Jewish quar ters as
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    EVA VISITS PARIS
    36 1 Senora Eva Duarte de Peron. beautiful ex-actress wife )t the President of Argentina, joined Madame Georges Bidault. wife of France's Foreien ]_|jnister, m a lour of the welfare centres m Paris yesterday.— Reuter
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    £500 SNEEZE
    30 1 Sneezing on Hastings Pier m Sussex cost E.P. Winston £500 when he whipped out a handkerchief and lost his wife's engagement ring given to him to mind. Reuter
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    6 die in power house said
    50 1 SIX persons were killed and 14 injured yesterday when 5,000 coal workers at Yoyabad m Jliaria district of Bihar province attacked a power house, drawing police fire, U.P. reports from Calcutta. The police previously had used tear sas ineffectively and the crowd broke through
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    C.I.D. ARRESTS 20 SPORE CHINESE
    45 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore C.I.D. arrested 20 Chinese yesterday on suspicion of falsely representing themselves as members of Dalforce and trying to obtain back pay. Three of these Chinese are alleged to be wanted m an abducion case.
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    FIRE AT S'PORE DUTCH CAMP
    60 1 small fire broke out at Willelmina Camp. Tanjong Katong Road, during the early hours of Wednesday morning. A portion of the attap roof of one of the huts used by Dutch military personnel caught lire. The Fire Brigade was summoned, but inmates of the camp
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    UK youth told: 'Go to mines'
    309 1 LONDON, Thursday. BRITISH parents and school teachers were urged today by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevm to encourage youths to enter the mines and help close the Siman>wer gap which threatens the economic co lapsed BHtain. Mr* Bevin, who got his start
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    BURMA PLOT DIARY LEADS TO ARRESTS
    375 1 BURMA PLOT DIARY LEADS TO ARRESTS RANGOON, Thursday. AFRESH wave of arrests, this time of former officers of the Japanese-sponsored Burma Defence Army besides other leaders of U Saw's Myochit Party, is believed to be traceable to the finding of a diary on a Defence Army officer containing details of
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    WORLD PLAN TO BUY GRAIN
    59 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT Truman said today that a world trade organisation to buy grain for distribution under the "Marshall plan" for aid to Europe is under consideration. The President made this statement at a news conference when questioned about the proposal of the Secretary for
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      38 1 TIE SKAT EASTEH OPTICAL CO. 275, Sovtb Bridge Rd. Tele. 7236-Estd. 192S Optician: O. S. Fan, 0.D., (Phila.). (Qualified Opticians) Anne ZIEGLER j jjltoyi Webster BOOTH w^ ««kS^ Hi 3 SINGING STARS of RADIO \GE Scri:i:n Me 12
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      STYLE CHANGES
      405 2 EVERY now and again a fashion designer prophesies that the long waist-line is coming back and it is, of course, logical to suppose that since fashion which follows a completely logical trendhas favoured the natural line so long, a lower waistline may be expected to return. It has,
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      253 2 A REDOUBLE of a takeout double asks partner to let the next bid come around. But when the opening bidder has no intention oi allowing a double to stand, there is no point m blindly acceding to partner's request provided the opener has a sound reason for
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      So Frankly Feminine
      332 2 TLAMOUR girls are becoming taller and their figures aie becoming franker. So says Bunny Gardel who should know. She has probably seen more glamour close up than anyone else m Hollywood. For the past nine years Bunny has been applying body make-up to 20th Century Fox's feminine
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      16 2 This hair t y j. taN I nish Fanu lMd Aor prize at U, jj. r.\rn,tsF^
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      20 2 This hair style is called "Night m Tibet It was created at the International liair Artists Festival m London recently.
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      QUIZ Answers
      63 2 1. Suffolk; Essex: Hertford; Bedford; Bucks (NorthantsK Oxford (Warwick^; Gloucester (.Worcester r, Hereford; Brecknock; Carmarthen; Pembroke. (T:he three countries m brackets are included m the interests of strict accuracy; but their omission may reasonably be overlooked). 2. (a) Alfred (Lord) Tennyson: (b) In Memoriam (published m 1850. some
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      THE PERFECT WIFE
      388 2 FOR 43 years Mrs. Edith Spry, of Mannamead, Plymouth, made her husband intensely happy. In his will he wrote of her* "If there were more women like her, the w orld would be a better place." Mrs. Spry is now over 60, but plans with youthful enthusiasm
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      He Must wash Baby
      71 2 He Must wash Baby COM E3 :i Cu. d true: moi Br: Lsh I ar.c und< indasa power the facto there will man-p.v. i housework. "hutfwr i wa.sn the fc i.fr.^z.j t fee up ie r. > i-.'szM mill we" ax< Xc JB prepanc b &nly to fir. r 1
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      93 2 •«Yes I persuaded him to come m," says Mother proud>. Now we are all right. The children can have their milk tonighc and their cereals and puddings tomorrow. What a relief it Is to have a tin of DOMO In the house again! It is such a convenience and so
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      202 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom today DORN today, you are one of 0 those all-round talented individuals who finds it very easy to tnrn your hand to a number of things. literature, the arts, the stage and even scientific trends are all within your scope. It will
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      84 2 V ''*^^^RS^^EBB|iHto^^^^^^^^^^^ffiBffiSwS l<p '*^^flftJ^^^M6QW^^P'J^BOl'^^rf^*^Mh¥6f^y^^h^M^l^l#^n#^WM^l>lTTTTM^ <A>uu.^uyuHu>Hiu. SINGAPORE Blue Network 12 00—2 00 pjn —435 metres to the nedium wave band A 122 megacjuic*! -ms second m the il metre Dand 6.00—11 03 p.m.— lHb metre?, to the! nediam Mate band l *2a meiCßcyolM wr second m the bi metre band except
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      633 2 Prom: V:olin Concerto by Bruch; 9.30 Agno~; 9 p.m. Tunes of the Day News; 9.45 Talk: "The Week In play.-d by Sweet Dance Bands; 915 Malaya** (By An Observer m Kuala Singers cf Renown Richard Taub t I Lumpur; 10.00 Danre Music relayed (Tenor) m songs by Schubert; 9.30 from
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  • NEWS...
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      MISSION IS LINKED WITH US GLOBAL POLICY
      383 3 Wedemeyer ready to meet Chinese Reds lEITT.-GEN. Albert C. Wedemeyer's fact-finding mission to China and Korea is working m. an effort to re-orient the U.S. State Department m the event there is a special autumn session of U.S. Congress, called for an overall
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      34 3 Fiyln? winis, jet-propelled, may become the popular method of commercial flying of the future, acoordiu? to the predictions of Mr. Arthur Radebaush oc Detroit. Kadebaugh also predicts the introduction 01 endless f>ell-typ« landin? gear.
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      £ PACT WITH INDIA NEXT WEEK
      50 3 PACT WITH INDIA NEXT WEEK I q London :r.ai rim negotia- cling halancya Deluded by next week, Bdttar X as ire that next mexit oe iaratkn arrangement, II fnd: zhJiZ i that :ce s j segregated, [pated tbat jaJ uocea 3-s well xttog earr.J poKtion of r niance «fl] Reuter
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      BRITAIN'S SERVICE
      27 3 On June 30 there were 133.100 men and women m the Royal Navy. 806.200 m the Army and 303 OOfl m the Rnyai Air Force
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      CABLE STRIKE OVER
      23 3 CABLE STRIKE O VER The New York cable workers 1 strike ended on Tuesday with the men getting a ten-cent-an-hour w?. increase. Reuter
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      U.S. PREPARES FOR WAR IN ARCTIC
      209 3 U.S. PREPARES FOR WAR IN ARCTIC WASHINGTON, Thursday. T*HE defence of the Western Hemisphere against an attack 1 from across the Arctic gets a significant new emphasis as Congress moves through the final stages of setting up an independent air force with a major responsibility for future military planning and
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      JAP WANT PACK MORE ISLANDS
      40 3 4 LLIED Headquartprs m Tokio has been peutionea to return to Japan the Russian— occujasd ?roup of inlands efT Nemuro. on the eaicernmost tio of Hokkaido, m a resolution adopt:d by the H:-kkaido Prefectural Assembly.
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      JAPAN TO GET U.S. COTTON
      48 3 An eight-man mission, includbog Mr. Gostave I. ToUon president of New York Cotton Exchange, has arrived :n Tokio for A nsuitations with SCA.P. on supply of r^w cocton la Japan. The rr.ission is likely to remain :n Japan until about mid -August. A.P.
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      CRIPPLING OF DICE'S FLEET
      261 3 [LONDON. Thursday. URSfI •piMte for the historic raid on Italy's "stay-at-Imm Taranto m November 1940. which m the :Mr Winston Churchill struck a crippling blow" gaptwi of the Axis m the Mediterranean, were sH cwke the British Admiralty has just disclosed. 7- uftacfe which ultimately resulted
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      LONGER STUDY OF ATOM BOMB EFFECTS URGED
      58 3 ft H nnan K. Pearse 3rs anpieted i six- ■< (be 9oi. m Japan is w 1 list m Qnl 9 re hrn :ar. x sSeeU V xsr.z n r. ..r.ir.i m? with jk 3UOJL jt .1/ DB XC S :i r. iSff
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      U.S. VIEW ON U.K. COOLONIES TRADE
      28 3 U.S. VIEW ON U.K. COOLONIES TRADE -r\ State, \L- UrsfaaH, announced c 3" wie with "*>- ireaa bcf fe-L-. fhi own State Bea^; ;^;i: =hat the tew r^ade.- Reuter
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      AMERICAN JAPS TO GET WAR COMPENSATION
      88 3 WASHINGTON. Thursday THE House of Representati,*- Las approved a Bill authorising Hie Attorney-General co settle the claims oi JapaneseAmericana for losses arising out of thetE forced evacuation irom che West Coast. Alaska and Hawaii during World War II The measure now goes to ihe
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      U.K.-INDIA SHIP TALKS DEADLOCK
      183 3 U.K.-INDIA SHIP TALKS DEADLOCK A DEADLOCK has been reacned for the moment m the AngloIndian shipping conference m London, reports Reuter The British shipowners are] maintaining their decision that the conference can "be reopened only if the Indian delegation" obtains the authority of the Government of India to resum? on
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      No dressing up for Hirohito
      77 3 TAi£ aexi time Emperor Hirohito visits the town of Sendai, the Japanese railway workers wll appear as sloppy as usual. The local railway bureau chief has agreed to a railway workers' cm! tn d? nand Ikal special mobilization slicked-up uniforms and spotless cl**T.n''n«ss of station
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      T.U.C. AGREES TO STAGGERING'
      51 3 THE General Council of the Trades Union Congress representing 7 000,000 workers J3 Britain on Tuesday endorsed the Government's plan for staggering hours to spread the electricity load. The drastic measures announced by the Labour Minister Mr. George Isaacs, were acc?p*^d unanimously and without argu- meiit.-
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      ATOM PLANT IN U.K
      29 3 Engineering and bu.lding will b j gi.n shortly on the king-planned atomic energy plant m Cumberland, near the coast, the House cf Commons was informed.
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      French attack to begin soon
      137 3 MADAGASCAR REVOLT WITH Dutch "police measures" now m full swing on the eastern side of the Indian Ocean, Madagascar m the west is now on the verge of a French offensive, according to the Paris newspaper Figaro, reports Reuter. Gen. Marcel Pellet, Commander-in-Chief mi n
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      'NO INTENTION TO TORPEDO EMPIRE TALKS'
      162 3 'NO INTENTION TO TORPEDO EMPIRE TALKS' WASHINGTON. Thursday. DOTH the U 3. State Department a. id the British Embassy here j described as "absurd" the ailega- 1 tion made m the magazine New RrpubLc. edited by Mr. Henry Wallace, that the United States' tentative prop.sal for a confer- 1 ence
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      'NEW GERMAN ARMY UNDER THE RUSSIANS'
      154 3 'THE independent right-wing: newspaper "L'Epoque" charges Russia with recruiting German prisoners of war m Russia into a new army and said: "Stalin's Wehrmacht already numbers 36 divisions." Denouncing what it described as "a new German-Soviet conspiracy against peace," the newspaper said the prisoners were
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      Mr. GROMYKO TAKES A LICKING
      127 3 MR. Victor Kravchenko former Soviet Russian official, who has made sensational disclosures of Soviet espionage m the United Stares, exchanged uncomplimentary Russian proverbs with Mr. Andrei Gromyko. the Soviet United Nations representative, report* U.P. The exchange was touched off by Kravchenko's testimony before the House
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      JAPAN MAY GET AMERICAN LOAN
      43 3 JAPAN is seeking private as well as public loans m the United Srates. the new York magazine. Business Week reports, saying Japan may obtain a credit of Uis. S5O.0OO.0OO" from the Bank of America m San Fancisco A.P.
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      KING'S MURDE: TRIAL OF ROME DIPLOMAT
      91 3 KING'S MURDE: TRIAL OF ROME DIPLOMAT ROME, Thursday. THE trial of an Italian diplomat. Paolo Cortese. charged with complicity m the assassinations of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, and the French Foreign Minister. Louis Barthou. at Marseilles m October 1934. has now opened m Rome before a special court. Cortese. who
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      NEWS
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      VITAL PROBLEMS AWAIT SOLUTION
      427 6 UNO enters difficult third year lif OMENTOUS issues, long unresolved, will face the United Nations General Assembly when it gathers for its second regular session m New York next September, reports Associated Press from New York. The world organization now is starting its third year. Delegates
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      BIG WHEAT DEFICIT IN FRANCE
      127 6 BIG WHEAT DEFICIT IN FRANCE PARIS, Thursday. THE Ministry of Agriculture estl- mates that Meiropolitan France"s wheat crop as of July 1 was 36.957,000 quintals— a deficit ot 41,000 000 Quintals compared with th. average pre-war harvest. The los_ was ascribed to the severe winter freezes. This deficit makes large-scale
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      FRENCH PAPERS ARE SMALLER
      73 6 THE French press, already hard hit by financial troubles, received a new blow this week when the Government ordered a 12 per cent, newsprint cut, forcing the existing tour page papers to cut down to two on certain days m the week. Ever since the liberation,
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      GERMAN SCIENTISTS FOR AUSTRALIA
      134 6 GENEVA, Thursday. MR. John Dedman, the Australian Minister for Postwar Re- construction, on his return here from a three-day visit to Berlin, said that arrangements had been ade for several highly-qualified scientists to work m Ausalia, while other similar arrange- li.ients were under consideration. I i
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      WHERE THE JAPS SURRENDERED TO THE AUSSIES
      39 6 Lieut. VV. Howley (top) shows visitors on board the warship Glory the spot (above) where Lieut.-Gen. V. A. H. Sturdee, G.0.C., First Australian Army, accepted the Japanese surrender off Ranaul m 1945.
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      Gas cure for alcoholics
      279 6 ALCOHOLICS, stammerers and other psychoneurotics are being helped by inhaling gas m a treatment at the University of Illinois Department of Psychiatry. Dr. L. J. Meduna, associate professor of psychiatry who has handled 75 cases m the three years the study has been m progress, reports
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      U.S. WORRIES FOR FUTURE
      415 6 LOOKING forward to a time when the i nit^ might not produce enough lumber, oil and catfi people, the Government's Interior Department h** pared a report proposing a long-range programme, paredness. Here's the way the departments eX pe r f The American population m 20 years
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      OUTER MONGOLIA IS REJECTED
      69 6 rpHE International TelecommuniJL cations Conference m Atlantic City has again denied membership to the Soviet -sponsored Peoples Republic of Outer Mongolia. Outer Mongolia had been approved for membership last m£dL by a special admission committee, but was later turned down by the 71 -member conference m
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      NO CHANGE IN JAP CURRENCY
      149 6 NO CHANGE IN JAP CURRENCY THE Japanese GtovenSSn denied pnevai Ing r yen devaluation a :-.G a S rency Issue nh" f pending, the JapaneaeiL? Minister. Mr. Tak. The imper.c.' opentoi I foreign trad,. th e p^J talks and the possibility tS. ing additional revenue w higher tans or. the\W*
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      FROM WEAPON? TO PEACE GOODS
      66 6 UUNITIONS factories io M lia are pr cuc:ng a re^rt able variety of peacetime p:a including babi^ rattles, ud fulfilling orders worth BMRti 3,000,000. Extensions have beta made a one raciory, anc tbetf arc £t tising ior morr staff. Huridreds of civilian Bom i? being
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      AVIATION PACT
      38 6 The Cfeincte-BntUt) emit* tian agreement ha.- beer. tsi m Nanking, granting :rc::-:>-air rights to the twe natioM providing for the estabhdffltf of seven different tiftne each country. The HIUV will be run tor (our yctn U.P.
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      129 3 Just Arrived! A FURTHER SHIPMENT OF THE CELEBRATED REGIS KINGSWAY ELECTRO PLATE Comprising Tea Sets Cake Baskets Coffee Sets Child's Cups Hot Water Jugs Table Bells Tea Strainers and Drip Ice Pails with Tongs Stands Cruets Hors D'oeuvre Dishes Biscuit Boxes Jam Pots with Spoon Toast Racks Butter Dishes with
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      85 3 TARZAN Incentive for ovi£ «v £V^r P/r^ Burroughs AiV -_v 1N g sack td apr;ca I ~f*^*i *ccm& J o My suite ano I'll pj ~^?9\ IGHI^ I\ W J I\^^ as mavnes p «:enc llEtP t sc:nce; 1 JWj\ JliJlX B SuT wweN 3IG LOUIE R£ALJZ^ VW B>C« EXPRESSED
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947. Proposals For The New Malaya
      939 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947. Proposals For The New Malaya THE White Paper on the constitutional proposals for a Federation of the nine Malay States and the Settlements of Penang and Malacca, published yesterday, contains important new provisions, which, while assuring tine Malays of almost everything they
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      PEOPLE IN STORE MAKE NEWS
      1874 4 PEOPLE IN STORE MAKE NEWS DRIGADIER, A. C, v CRITCHLEY arrived m Singapore yesterday af tei noon from Hong Kong. He is here having a look at the 3ir service called Skyways of which he is chairman. He intends leaving for Bangkok on Monday. Speaking t 0 a friend :vho
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      FAITH
      13 4 Glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good Romans. 2.10.
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      QUIZ
      103 4 1. An airman, flying across Ene land and Wales, follows the 52r parallel of latitude; i.c he star within a few miles of Ipswich ar finishes In the neighbourhood o Fishguard. Can you name, m orflfes? count!es ov er which he 2 'V? c L a vr eate with
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      29 4 trominent citizens of Singapore pholo r m v during their recent visii. <readin? from Wong Peng Ton*, Mr. Loke Wan Toh and Mss Ch t sister of Mrs. Wmg
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      SOURCE OF INFORMATION
      396 4 SOURCE OF INFORM A TION IF you ever visit London and pass through Baker Street, that lively thoroughfare m London's West End, you will notice a large modern building over the entrance of which you will find the royal crown and the initials C.0.1., standing for Central Office of Information.
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      13 4 HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES STERLING SILVER. FV/*«fc stocks now Gtviifahfi*. I 78 MORTH BeiDbl S'PO*£.
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      59 4 CLASSICAL CONCERT OF Vocal Instrumental Music AGA LAHOSKA <costrai*> GOH SOON TIOE m*** AT THE PIANO: Mrs R L. Eber and Mm Pw Tho— VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL SUNDAY 27th JULY AT «-45 P* TICKETS f $s, $1 at BOBBISCO ENTIRE PROCEEDS TO CHILDREN'S fljjj |E^H^ READY MADES BK^^W MADE TO
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      CLERKS ALREADY BEING ASSISTED
      217 5 Firms reply to plea for aid Free Press Staff Reporter I replies from Singapore employers to tl)e circu- the Pan-Malayan Federation of Clerical I hi- l!i have been received by the Singapore dicatc that employers today are generally of the welfare of their employees. In its
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      In Training
      58 5 These pictures show P lice recruits m various phases of training. Picture above shows a recruit beins taught how to use a rifle. lhe recruits are seen practising climbing into a window of a dummy house m picture on the rijjht, and below a recruit is firing on
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      Immediate steps to combat TB
      538 5 Immediate steps to combat TB IMMEDIATE steps to be taken to combat the spread of consumption m the Colony were decided upon at a meeting of the Council of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association which is working m close contact with the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis m England.
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      Rent increase percentages are revised
      160 5 Jl REVISED scale of the percent- a?es of rent increase m Singapore was adopted by the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday when the Control of Rent Bill .7. passed. The final schedule of increases was Five ptr cent, increase for premises used for dwelling purposes and
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      Wage-Earners9 Case
      247 5 Wage-Earners 9 Case Mr. P. de Souza. new member of the Council whose amendments m the j scale of percentages were supported by a majority, said that while land- lords, as a class, had suffered and were suffering as a result of present j living conditions, there were hundred^ if
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      EDUCATION PLAN IS DEFERRED
      70 5 rE Singapore Advisory Cour. yesterday decided to defer adoption of the report of the Select Committee on the ten -year free education plan. The Director of Education, Mr. J. B. Neilson, moving the adoption of the report, said free primary education should be made universal, and
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      RADIO TALK
      29 5 A record talk by Mr. Bernard Newman, famed British author, on "Are the Japanese cured?" will be broadcast from Radio Malaya on July 29 at 9.45 p.m.
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      STAMFORD CLUB
      40 5 An informal tea party will be held by the Stamford Club tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. at the Club premises. Mr. K. Svasti wiil be the guest speaker. His subject will be "Chemical Engineering and its scope m Malaya."
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      TRAFALBAR ST: ONE-MAN INQUIRY COMMITTEE
      150 5 THE acting Cclunial Secretary, Mr. H. P. Bryson, explained m the Advisory Council yesterday the aoting eh? "man of the Singapore Harbour Board, Mr. P. A. T. Chrimes, and two other members ot the Board, were not members of the committee appointed by tnc Government
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      228 5 «as Waterfront Reporter A Ipment of 3,500 tons of AusJ\ lian flour for Port Swetten- will arrive by the Burns Pnilp ship Burnside m Singapore on Sunday. Singapore's "food ship" Charon will arrive on July 30, from Fremantls with another large rargo of she°x>. Sold by tender
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      TAXI MEN ASK FARE REVISION
      432 5 TAXI MEN ASK FARE REVISION Free Press Staff Reporter FOUR hundred owners of taxis n Singapore, through their trade union, have petitioned the Municipal Commissioners asking for a revision I taxi fares, ihe reasons &i>en being the high cost of living, wages, repairs, spare pans, petroi and other necessaries m
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      POLICE STATE POLICY ON RECRUITING
      311 5 POLICE STATE POLICY ON RECRUITING Free Press Staff Reporter OECAUSE many men with Junior and Senior Cambridge 13 qualifications have left the force after two or three years' service m the ranks, the Singapore Police have now decided to discourage men with such qualifications from joining up as trainees, if
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      SOS FOR BLOOD DONORS
      223 5 SOS FOR BLOOD DONORS THE Singapore Blood Transiusion Service is sending out an S.O.S. lor voluntary blo:d donors j m order to save the many iives -hat are lost as a result of the present Inability to render this service t:> those who need it. The Service will open an
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      Y's MEN'S CLUB
      39 5 The next luncheon meeting of the V's Men's Club will be held at Cecil's Restaurant on Saturday, at 1.15 p.m Mr J. M. Ede will be the guest speaker, and his subject will be "Bird Migration".
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      FINED FOR TOBACCO
      38 5 A fine of $100 or eight weeks imprisonment was imposed an I ,im Ah Lak, 48, m the Third Police Court yesterday after she hac? uleaded guilty to possession of two pounds of dutiable tcbacco.
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      SISTERS APPEAR IN ASSIZE TRIAL
      100 5 PENANG, Thursday.— Two sisters who are alleged to have stabI bed a cous.n. stood trial m the Penang Assize Court today. Letch umy. one of the sisters, is charged with causing grievous hurt to Govindamal while the other sister. Govindamal, bearing the same name as
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      82 6 J/\INC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya J2^ L WEV 1 5 6EEM KID APp HV' /l BUT CAMT ESCAPEWHILE\ [V^HOWEVER, I €AlT\ TRUST To LOCK "V R '7^":? Ur^ T u I !,t T BOLD THAT OLD SYBIL'S GOTHER V WR.tt Aii' S.OS. X& FOUND BY SOMEBOOV
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      CUP VETERANS TO FORM ASSOCIATION
      444 7 CUP VETERANS TO FORM ASSOCIATION Fir^^ practice and meeting on Sunday By Our Soccer Reporter MALAYA CUP soccer players resident m Singapore will get together for their first practice kick-about, prior to forming a Singapore Malaya Cup Veterans* team, at Jalan Besar Stadium at 7.30 o'clock on Sunday. After the
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      4 Games For Sing Tao firmed
      57 7 I ,ur srames m Sin- r the Sins Tao I jion? Kons have i hv the SingaKooiball Assos will Play their BW9 during the X Holidays. taf. 2 he > Sincaoow Civil- > the Combined on Monday they i >.\.r.A. AllrlMsefl from the £E
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      TENNIS SHOCK: GROWN BEATEN IN FRANCE
      298 7 c PARIS, Friday. JOSEF Asboth, Hungarian No. 1 player sprang the biggest surprise of the trench lawn tennis championships here today by beating Tom Brown, American runner-up at Wimbledon and top seed for the men's singles event m three straight sets Asboth won 6—2,
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      C.S.C. CRICKET TEAM
      52 7 THE following will represent the Ceylon Snorts Club at cricket against the S.C.R.C. on Sunday at 11.00 a f Hong Lim Green. R.V.S. Srndram (Captain). S. Yopcirajah. V.R. Sabapathy, S.K. Sundram C. Senevirntne. U.W. De Silva. S. Petnr^i. O. Tburaisingam., E. Dorri amy, S. Kulasingam and T.E.
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      Heaney Has First Fight On Sunday
      199 7 Free Press Staff Reporter t Hi: \M V. the Australian welterweight, will make his ranee m the local ring at the New World Arena s agansi Battling Sima. Heaney'a form during his work-outs here and rd m Australia, show that he is a classy
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      Imam teams for GHQ SOCCER LEAGUE
      58 7 Imam teams for GHQ SOCCER LEAGUE H' tiacosa the K. ma tnto the X rtera Football K. team have been I I Signal Rq tan HQ Signal Regiment; JL Signal Regiment; X P: Adjutant! X. Cami G mmandanta k I neb Sc stall t Ordnance MeehaX ■r- iMove- Transport; 91
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      GREEN MAKES GOLF HISTORY
      211 7 HARROGATE. Friday. I i A PHENOMENAL 29 for nine" \J\ holes— the lowest nine holes score ever m a first-class British j professional event— accomplished by Eric Greer.— was the outstanding: performance on a dau of ex- ceptionally fine scoring achievements during the second round of
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      ST. ANDREW'S XI FOR ANNUAL CRICKET
      74 7 THE following will represent the Present boys m St. Andrew's School's annual 'Past vs Present' cricket match on the School ground at Wo<xbviiie tomorrow at 4 p.m and Sunday at 10.30 a.m. R. Tay <capt>. A. Wilson. D. Sullivan, M. Thiagarajah. T. Ricketts. L.
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      BENDEMEER BADMINTON
      75 7 THE following players have been selected to represent the Bendemeer Ahtlctic Club aeainst the Lucky Strike Eadminton Party m a friendly match constating of four singles and three doubles to be played at St. Andrew's School hall (Old "Building) Stamford Road on Sunday at 7.30 p.m. Heng Siak
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      BARNETT FOR SOUTH TEAM?
      154 7 BARNETT FOR SOUTH TEAM? FORMER Australian Test wicketkeeper, who is m Singapore on business, may not be included m the South team to meet the North at Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 2, 3 and 4. The South team will be selected at the Singapore Cricket Club tonight. Some cricket officials
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      SRC CRICKET TEAMS
      82 7 SINGAPORE Recreation Club cricket team for the weekend are: Against S.C.C. "A" at S.R.C. tomorrow at 2 p.m.: Choppard, T Cordelro, E. Ebsrt, J. Sanderson, P Norohna. L. Fencott, A. Jansen, D. RabDt, H. Rodrigues, G. de Silva! W. Galistan, G. Wcodford. Asainst S.C.C Ist XI at
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      NAVAL STORE DEPT BEAT INDIAN ASSN 3-0
      286 7 NAVAL STORE DEPT BEAT INDIAN ASSN 3-0 IN a friendly soccer match played r on the Dockyard pitch at Seletar the Naval Store Department beat the Indian Ajsscc at!on by three goals to nil. In the first minute of the game Paul Davies missed a chance of opening the Indians'
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      Ah Yik Gets Only Goal
      32 7 Die Lures. Yesterday's soccer pictures show Ah Yik scoring the only jjoal of the game and. below, B. Norohna winning; the ball from Chin Geok.— -Free Press
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      Chinese Keep In League Running
      705 7 By Our Soccer Reporter Chinese Seniors 1 S.R.C 0 AN opening that was skilfully worked by Keng Hock and turned to account with a fine bit of opportunism by Ah Yik enabled the Chinese second selection (the seniors) to beat the S.R.C. by one goal
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      Wvatt Back In Best Form
      292 7 LONDON, Thursday. R. E. S. WYATT, former England captain, was m his best form today when he scored 166 not out for Worcester, who, with 92 from Reg Howarth and 86 not out by Jenkins, had scored 458 for five at close of play m
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      SAWLA HOPES TO SEND TEAM TO OLYMPICS
      167 7 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Xmatet'r Weightlifters' Association hopes to I select a team to compete m the All- Malayan Championship m 1947 and the World Olympics m 1948. Steps are being taken to revive the i Singapore Amateur Weight-lifters' Federation and
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      FULLERTON SCORES 129
      268 7 FULLERTON SCORES 1 29 PAISLEY, Thurs. WEATHERING a fierce spell of bowling by Tuckett after a century by George Fullerton had put the South African tourin? cricket team well ahead on the firsc innings, Scottish batsmen defiantly avoided a defeat here trday m the last hour-and-a-half m their two-day match.
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      56 7 NEW '*<ORLD, SUNDAY 27 JULY First Beat:— 30 p.m. >« fRtSENTS THE RETURN CONTEST OVER 10 RDS. HtANEY vs SI MA Jj ?,*£?"<** Star] (Filipino Slasher) UWB FLYWEIGHT CONTEST OVER 10 RDS. IBANEZ vs KHOON Hm.i/.'V <Ut :>eus; tion (Chinese 112 lbs ACE) F! I r«T,^ JIMMY BIRD GUNBOAT SMITH
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      278 7 Free Press Cross Fo. ISS 1. One could do with many more reliable fellows like him m the building trade (5), 4. Boredom brings one to these wide open spaces (5). 7 Pish people are likely to find fault with (4). 8. Here we see a gentleman meeting, a young
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      36 8 HOME Members of the Order of St. John Of Jerusalem passing through St. John's Gate. Clerkenwell, London, on the way to the Priory Church of the Order for their annual assembly on St. John's Day recently.
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      SPORE AND FEDERATION 'Mistake to delay' for talks now
      389 8 SPORE AND FEDERATION 'Mistake to delay' for talks now npHE question of Singapore joining the Federation of Malaya should be considered on its niorits and m the light of local opinion at an appropriate time, says the White Paper issued yesterday on the constitutional proposals for Malaya. The White Paper
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      ELECTIONS IN FEDERATION OF MALAYA
      809 8 "His Majesty's Government," says the White Paper, "are convinced that it (the new constitution) will meet the present needs of the people, and that it will provide that stable basis for further political development whicii the country so urgently requires. "In particular they note with
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      CITIZENS AFTER 15 YEARS' STAY
      334 8 THE While Paper on ih e constitutional proposals for Maiaya i contains provisions for acquiring citizenship automatically This applies to any British subject who has completed a continuous period of 15 years' residence anywhere m the Federation, and not m either or the Settlements alone
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      Unofficials to decide on immigration
      327 8 Unofficials to decide on immigration IT will be left entirely to the unofficial members of the Federal Legislative Council and not to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to decide on any immigration policy of the new Federation of Malaya. This important alteration m procedure is contained m the
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      SHAHRIR FAMILY GOING TO INDIA
      73 8 Free Press Staff Reporter A RRANGEMENTS are being j completed for the departure by air from Singapore on Sunday of Dr. Oetoyo. Secretary -General Af the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign- Affairs, and the two adopted children of Sutan Shahrir, former Indonesian Premier. who is now
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      TELE
      83 8 picture. Television history was made recently when the Radio Corporation of America installed receivers to enable Pooe Pius XII and the various diplomats and church dignitaries to watch the singing of the Madrigals by the Vatican choir. The Pope, whose ancestor composed the 16th Madrigals, himself stood before the
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      GOLD ISSUES HOLD GAINS
      463 8 London Stock Exchan; LONDON. ThursdiANOTHER unsatisfactory day was experienced o a J **> Stock Exchange throughout today and. with possible exception of South African gold shares I markets finished lower, says Reuters financial corns* dent. Gold issues held their gains for the greater pa^ j the
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      124 8 A SPECIAL Market correspt* n gives the pricey of robfe'i II ajn today as follows: 6aren i* Cts. P*t ft Xl No. 1 ESS Spot Loom* ■>*. No. 1 R.S.S fob m bales Aueu«a 19 v 9 No 2 R.S.S fob m bales August X -Jl
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      109 8 THE CHI ITG HM INSnitH Wr ha\t. ar^:u::^; re-opcnimt 1 1 chdkc W STITUTION on I 1947 at cm: former decided to rur > d\i Enpl.sh sch n I anc i C r.es Chinese vii; irt culurn of ottr I- 1 Us Pupils will bt d'-carrr and rh Pr:: 1
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      84 8 WEATHER Long bright periods WEATHEft report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Long bright periods. Isolated thundery showers today. Fine tonight. Pair tomorrow morning. Wind: South-easterly. 8 to 12 mil"* per hour. Sunset 6.42 p.m., sunrise 6.35 a.m. Mocnrise 12.40 p.m., moonset 1 a.re Temperatures: Max. 90
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