The Singapore Free Press, 5 August 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press m LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    CABINET'S DAY OF CRISIS TALKS
    1363 1 CABINET'S DAY OF CRISIS TALKS Churchill flays Labour policy THE Defence Committee of the British Cabinet met yesterday to reach final decision on crisis cuts m Britain's armed forces. While they met, Mr. Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime leader, opened the Opposition's new campaign against the Labour Government. He spoke at
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    S'PORE POLICE TRAP GUNMAN
    130 1 S'PORE POLICE TRAP GUNMAN Frev Prec*> Staff Reporter A P\>LRh ambush of two men at Jalan Besar at 6.36 a.m. today foiled what is believed to have been a plot to rob a rich Chinese -undrv >h»p towkay of $40,000, representing four ddvs collect ions. Detectives, who were waiting, pounced
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    ARMED GERMAN GANGS FIGHT TO GET FOOD
    78 1 BERLIN Monday. GDC. Lao Chq US Com- I nnany, reports termans roving the countryI taqpes I id fot the coml: rl light uun battles Bci 10 r the American i i DO m r.'.hiy report n said thai seven had ocenmd m tarlns
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    ARMY BLOWS UP JEW ARSENAL
    186 1 JERUSALEM, Monday. THE British Army today blew up a Jewish-owned house for hiding an Irgun arsenal. The Army evacuated all residents from Givat Shaual Jewish quarter m north Jerusalem, and set demolition charges under the building. It was the first time that the Army had
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    WEDDINGS RECORDED
    20 1 In future, gramophone recordings of weddings will be made for couples at St. Edward's Church, Leyton, England.— Reuter
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    AVALANCHE KILLS
    34 1 X m tain ;*::ibt?rs Mr H I Ch( tei and Mr L both hoiiS" mas r n nia. Wales. m avalatche of n the .000 feet Tryfan, °p Lake, or. Sunday Reuter
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    BRITONS' THROW BOMBS IN SPAIN
    87 1 LONDON. Monday. rE Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. C. P. Mayhew, today told the House of Commons that about ten British youths, described as Communists, recently were sentenced to prison for throwing bombs m Madrid. In response to questioning on the matter by Mr. John Platt Mills.
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    WITHOUT BARS
    24 1 Two convicts from Leyhill Prison, Tortworth (Gloucestershire) known as 'the prison without bars,' were being hunted yesterday by police from three counties.
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    VOLUNTEERS GUARD N.I. CHINESE
    167 1 VOLUNTEERS GUARD N.I. CHINESE MEDAN, Monday. A7OO-MAN Chinese Volunteer Security Corps, including pre-war members of the Chinese National Army, is defending the overseas Chinese from Indonesian attacks within the territory newly occupied by the Dutch. The Corps was still carrying: on patrols on the ev<> of the Dutch cease-fire deadline,
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    47 1 picture. Police cars, equipped with twoway radio telephones and each attended by two motor-cyclists, are being used m London to keep the traffic moving and prevent accidents. Photo shows a mobile police team, consisting of a radio-telephone police car and two motor-cycle police, crossing Westminster Bridge. A.P
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    Mr. G.C.S. RABJOHN DIES IN ENGLAND
    84 1 MR. O. C. S. Rabjohn, London manager of the Straits Times Press, Ltd., died yesterday at his home at Datchet, Berkshire. Mr. Rabjohn was for many years with Slme Darby Co., Ltd., and retired before the war. During the recent floods In the Thames
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    JOHORE MARKET COLLAPSE
    56 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. DURING a violent thunderstorm yesterday, the roof of the 90--foot annexe of the Johore Bahru market, where fish was sold, collapsed. Fortunately, owing to the rain, few people were m the market at 1 the time. However, several were injured,
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    WOMAN M.P.'s £35,000
    15 1 Mrs. Mavis Tate, late Member of Parliament for Frome, left £34,666, Reuter
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    24 OZ. BABY DIES
    24 1 A baby girl weighing one-and-a-half pounds, born at St. Thomas Hospital, London, died after living for a few days.— Reuter
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    B.B.C. forgot the Anthem
    96 1 THE House of Commons first August Bank Holiday sitting for more than 20 years yesterday began with a surprise when Sir Waldron Smithers (Conservative) called the Speaker's attention to the fact that the British Broadcasting Corporation omitted to commence their broadcost by playing the National Anthem
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    MP's. QUERY ON SHOT-DOWN DAK
    97 1 LONDON. Monday. MR. D. N. PRITT, Independent Labour, M.P.. for North Hammersmith, asked the Foreign Secretary Mr. Bevin, m the House of Commons today, what he was doing about the action of the Dutch military plane whicn, en July 29, "shot down and killed several
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    Anti-Jew riots spread in U.K.
    256 1 Anti-Jew riot s spread in U.K. LONDON, Monday. r) cope with the growing anti-Semitic feeling in manrof the larger cities in Britain, including London, characterised by widespread attacks on Jewish ships and synagogues, police patrols have been strengthened in the Jewish quarters. Order has been restored, bUt TwSST-tnree^persons were arraigned
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    GIRL WINS AIR RACE
    37 1 A San Francisco Chinese girl, Miss Hop Hee Dunne yesterday held the winning trophy for women In the annual race for small private planes from Reno, Nevada to a San Francisco airfield. AP
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    DUTCH TO ASK OBSERVERS TO INDONESIA
    345 1 DUTCH TO ASK OBSERVERS TO INDONESIA BATAVIA, Tuesday. HOLLAND is to invite from three to five foreign governments to send observers to Indonesia, irrespective of the Security Council's request to both parties to cease fire, states the official Netherlands News Agency. rT^ Both sides have now officially ceased fire. The
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  • FOR WOMAN...
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      Waistline Slimming
      57 2 Having carried out the stomach exercises m columns six and seven Karin now takes us on to the waistline. While keeping the body facing straight forward, bend the head over to one side as far as possible. Karin does this 25 times to the right and left, this
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      JOB'S STORY CURED HIM
      384 2 •THE patient had suiier--1 ed for three years when he took his troubles to the doctor. "Remember job?" said the doctor, and he went over some of Jub's troubles. A few weeks iat:r the patient was cured. Dr. G. Gladstone Robertson, of Glasgow, tells about it
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      AFRICANS WON T SELL CATTLE
      577 2  -  Graham Stanford By THE British housewife might be getting some prime West African beef if old Gi; dado, doyen of the Fulani cattle-dealers, wasn't so fond of his animals. Patriarchal Gidado, aged 60, lives m a mud hut high on this Nigerian plateau, and every
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      Streamline legs
      94 2 pONTINL'ING our exercises V with Karin Booth she shows us (right) how it is possible to streamline the less and stomach. While lying on your hat k clasp one lee to the body and slowly raise the oilier ud la the air to the count of ten keeping
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      ALUMINIUM FROM COMMON CLAY
      318 2 npHE United States has two new "leads" towards eventually producing art its vast aluminum requirements from common clay instead of employing he mineral bauxite. One method, which involves extraction of aluminum oxide from clay with hydrochloric acid, already is m the pilot plant stage; but it
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      21 2 Maureen O'Hara. 20ih Century Fox Star who takos the lead m a new film called "The Homestretch" just opened m London.
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      The Hawk It Was That Died
      95 2 The Hawk It Was That Died A SPARROW HAWK, measuring 2 ft. from wing-tip to wing-tip, tried conclusions with a crossbred hen m a farmyard, near Newport, Mon., and came off secondbest. Mr. Joshua Evans, of Glangwili Farm, said that the hawk swooped upon the hen's brood of 16 chicks
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      Geological Congress
      119 2 ARIGIXALLY p ia y to take ixac- r ana postponwl v -:-o World W; r 11. i J sion of the to matioi Geological C beld m Brita Apart :r m jects provision* discussion spa [a! excursions an being covering most ol the Brii Isles. They incluti I
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      7 2 7 Oxley Rise "THE COCKPIT* Bar Snacks
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      881 2 the tlr-ee Wong Brothers). (Prim. 2 1 Talk "Background to Australia OfM/^KpOliP n^d Std 1) 11.30—11.35 Interval 10.00 World News; 10.15 Composer of dllfVjAJrwnc* uStic; 11.35—11.40 Spelling Bee— the Week—Georges Bizet; 10.50 Light Blue Network a competition between a team from a Music— With George Trevare and his mmm i.
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      244 2 TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM UTEST opened a diamond and Bast's nine fetched Sooth's ace. Do- North-South vulnerable I of ar piay 3 Vt>ry reascnabl line South dealer. umeraDle Until he tested out the hearts he NORTH didn't know what to discard on the J S 6 diamond king, so he led
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      209 2 QUIZ Answers 1. The Ar I <r 2. La-Tse. 3. Sir Aubrt Smitfc YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune I CM* H peopu I»P to*| BOKN todu^ V«m IttW t! mendous m< nul energ will hold to ver> hieb ioeab* during your liletime. ArWj by naiurr. >on haw »W t* given a
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      HOW I RESCUED DUCE FROMITALY'
      965 3 HOW I RESCUED DUCE FROM ITALY' Scar-face 'Skorzeny 's big adventure DESCRIBED as "the most dangerous man m Germany toy day," former S.S. Ueut.-CoL Otto Skorzeny, who is awaiting trial at Dachau, Germany, has now disclosed the details of one of the war's most fabulous adventure stories—how, with a handful
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      29 3 |0H A/intster, A/r. Ernest Bevin (left), is here seen Foreign Minister, Count Sforza, after a dinner at Paris, during the 16-nation conference on n^mic co-operation fder the Marshall plan.
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      RUSSIA SHOWS HER NEW JETS
      240 3 i n >>* > aded ao new types of jet aircraft at the annual I\ t :t exhibition over Moscow, reports United Press. Bra! time were three types of four-enguied aad a Lavochkim conventional fighter which -t \eriicaHy. planes seemed to open up U> its
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      PLASTM USED FOR CANNING
      29 3 Ifl N yis using i is! whica moisture-rt si v Cresh-wai r c the Aii irers rted. used W Ot A.P went to Germany.*'— U.P
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      TWO-PAGE PAPERS
      89 3 All Paris evening papers now I appear on a single sheet of two J Ktges owing to the Govern- nent axe on French consumption I newsprint. The cut was an- 1* nounced by the syndicate of the Paris Dress on July 23.— Renter. EMPTK BOXES GIFT c Empty
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      T.B. IMMUNITY THROUGH VACCINES
      244 3 development re- O cently discussed at the International Pediatrics Congress tn New York included two vaccine lor tuberculosis and the Russian j siate medical system for the care I children. One of the tuberculosis vaccines made from a weakened strain of j j tuberculosis germs is
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      CHINESE WAR BRIDES FOR U.S.
      208 3 iTHE last shipment of Chinese war brides from China to the 1 United States, totalling about 100, leaves Hong Kong this jweek aboard the ship Admiral Mayo, reports A.P. So far between 300 and 400 have left China for their new homes m the New
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      JAPAN DAMAGE
      40 3 SINCE the surrender 638.048 of the 2,460.000 houses destroyed m Japan during t'he war have been rebuilt. This includes 91,940 m Tokio, 19,065 m Yokohama, 16.113 m Nagoya, 32,324 m Osaka and 13.223 mi n Kobe.- A .P
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      57 3 Seventy persons were killed when ammunition exploded on board the Italian corvette Panigaglia as it was being unloaded near Rome, after a trip from the former island fortress of Pantelleria. There was only one survivor, the 70 others being trapped below the waterline. Picture shows a rescue launch approaching the
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      53 3 Thousands of churchbells requisitioned by the Nazis during the war for munitions are being returned to the stripped churches m German villages and cities. Picture shows an inventory being taken of a shipment of 300 bells received at the main river port of Hanau, near Frankfurt, from the main distributing
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      FATE OF MISSING WARPLANES
      82 3 A SPECIAL unit of the Royal Australian Air Force is reported to have found the wreckage of 13 lost United States warplanes m the two-year 36,000-square-mile search over Dutch New Guinea. Squadron-Leader Q. M. RundaJ said he and seven other members of the crew of a
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      PROPELLER DEATH
      37 3 Mr. Robert Waring, 60, engineer, of Southend-road, Rochford, went to the airport there to see his wife and daughter off for a Continental holiday. While waving goodbye he backed into the propeller and was killed.
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      NO ESKIMO SUFFERS FROM CANCER
      127 3 NO ESKIMO SUFFERS FROM CANCER 1 GROUP of scientists has left n New York for the Arctic to visit the Eskimo and find cut why he does not have cancer or hardening of the arteries and why his wife has a low rate of fertility, reports United Press. These scientists,
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      PEOPLE'S CAR' TO BE SHOWN AT HANOVER FAIR
      85 3 THE German Volkswagen, the 9 h.p. "People's Car' that can bj mass-produced for less than £100, will be displayed to foreign buyers for the first time during the Hanover Export Fair due to take place between Aug. 18 and Sept. 7. It
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      ANGLO-BURMANS FOR AUSTRALIA
      32 3 AUSTRALIA is prepared to J\ accept for permanent resied number" of Anglo-Burmans and Anglo-Indians from Burma. Application forms for prospective immigrants have been sent to the Burma Government.- Reuter
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      SURGICAL FEAT
      55 3 A rare and delicate operation saved the life of a soldier who wasted to less than 100 pounds after a jeep accident pushed his stomach into his chest cavity. A group of 12 surgeons and assistants worked four hours over Private Joseph Carr who had not eaten a
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      'LOYAL' CANARY DIES
      33 6 "Bobby" known as Britain's •most loyal canary." because he was believed to be the only canary to sing "God Save the King." has died at Bexhill, aged 15£ years.— Reuter
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      CAR OUTPUT LAGS IN U.S.
      166 6 DETROIT, Monday. r\T 5.000,000 vehicle output the nations automobile industry talked so hopefully about for 1947 probably will not be attained. This conviction is growing m automotive circles as the industry continues to struggle with material shortages and labour uncertainties. These problems loom larger ri^ht
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      30 6 Lieut. Philip Mountbatten escorts Princess Elizabeth (nearest camera) and Princess Margaret as they are piped aboard H.M.S. Anson during the Royal visit to the Home Fleet m the Clyde, Scotland.
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      ROAD DEATHS I UK INCREASE
      65 6 /CASUALTIES on the roads of \j Britain during June totalled 15,727, the highest monthly figures since December 1946. Of this number 286 were killed, compared with 412 m June last year and with 398 m May last. The injured numbered 15,341, an increase of 1,921
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      NEW TREATMENT FOR CANCER
      210 6 Anew and more effective method of treating cancer of the lungs and other respiratory organs by spraying A-P2 serum into the patient's throat, has been announced m Rome by Dr. Francesco Guarnieri, discoverer of the much -discussed cancer treatment, reports U.P. Dr. Guarnieri said that if
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      LIBERTY SHIPS' CONDITION ALARMS OWNERS
      119 6 LIBERTY SHIPS' CONDITION ALARMS OWNERS r>Ri'HSH sailors, shipowners and underwriters are concerned about the condition of hundreds ol U.S. Liberty ships they aie using, including the 200 on charer from America. Mass-produced and prefabricated m America to meet wartime needs, their casualty figures are rising. Out of 22 ships which
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      PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY DEAD
      66 6 PRESIDENT Tomas Berreta, of Uruguay, died m Monte Video on Saturday. He was to have undergone a major operation, believed to be for a malignant stomach tumour. Don Berreta was elected president of Uruguay, smallest republic m South America, m November 1946. One of his first
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      'PACT MUST BE DRAFTED BY BIG 4'
      413 6 Soviet attack on U.S. over Jap treah THE Moscow newspaper Pravda gives the Western Powers 1 new indications that Russia is going to adopt a tough policy relative to the Japanese peace treaty, says^ United Press. It asserts that, before the peace conference
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      Foreign funds in U.S. down
      278 6 Foreign funds in U.S. down NEW YORK, Mundar FOREIGN countries* excluding Russia, kave about 'f! F $18,000,060,006 available m gold and -hen term dob assets, the Federal Reserve Bank of New V rk m v monthly bulletin. This total compuvs with afc U.5.520,«*,000,000 at the end of bwttlitie* m n
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      LESSONS OF P.I. GIB.'s RETURN
      119 6 LESSONS OF P.I. GIB.'s RETURN MANILA, Monday. rpHE transfer of Corregidor. once J- a Gibraltar of the Pacific, from the United States to Philippine jurisdiction, is "another symbolic milestone m the slow death of colonial imperialism," says the Manila Bulletin. The newspaper continues: "It means something else, too. It marks
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      RISING COSTS HIT BRITISH SHIP BUILDING
      84 6 RISING COSTS HIT BRITISH SHIP BUILDING rE new Cunard liner, the Caronia (30,000 tons), to be lauched m October, will cost considerably more than twice the Mauritania (35,677 tons), completed m 1939. Mr. F. A. Bates, chairman of Canard White Star Ltd., slvcs ■Ms as an example of the rising
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      EXHUMED AFTER 46 YEARS
      89 6 A SEALED steel casket containing the body of Saburo Utsunomiya, a chemist of the Meiji Era, will be opened after 46 years m response to his request to determine the pros rvativc qualities of certain qualities. Utsunomiya predicted "I am sure you will find my body
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      Shipyards as reparations
      52 6 THE Inter. Allied Reparations Agcm-y has announced m Brussels that it has decided to allocate Hamburg's famous Blohtn and Voss shipyards and 22 other German industrial concerns to 15 nations, including New Zealand, India, Australia and the Netherlands. Proportions to each and the estimated value were not
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      BELOVED MONARCH
      45 6 King Haakon of Norway was hailed m Oslo on his 75th birthday on Sunday as the :nost popularly beloved monarch Norway has ever had. and was presented with the country's highest decoration, the Medal for Civil Merit, at a sDepi-U Cabinet Council.— A.P
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      GERMAN MACHINERY
      34 6 Reparations equipment has been allocated from 95 German war plants to the Allied nations and Russia. The machinery removed represents industrial capital equipment which can be used for peacetime production A. P
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      ALL SING RISQUE CABARET SONGS SAYS HARRY ROW
      88 6 ALL SING RISQUE CABARET SONGS SAYS HARRY ROW HARRY red 3 band v;. hours m :r m Lond< i Mi f llacnauc :r going on I -:.t;::* SAUroy b. ir:y. a t Mayfa.r Eve L.»n.:..--.-. i had ask en ou: rfcj Polish offi< < M: Mills, a I' ifß denied
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      WOMAN WASHES HER NYLONS, ESCAPES DOTY
      41 6 WOMAN WASHES HER NYLONS, ESCAPES DOTY an Am c A riv her botel her am: British Cusi cci her v on the D< When I Imposed rs Customs f Ten tninu wa^ back X washed oil were pas* I sonal ust.
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      24 3 AX ATTRACTIVE AD is A PAYING AD LET PUBLICITY /PFCIAii/y Supply You WITH EXCLUSIVE IDEAS AND DESIGNS 127, Cecil St Singapore Opp STRAITS TIMES
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      55 3 T ARZ AN Held as Hostages £^r Rice Burromhs K'' WM^Zr^^* 'M SOMETHING *¥*S "WRONG ANO 'h ~^r^ ?S^T^^-~~J ---THE MURDERER FORCED CO-PILOT M*^**^ V „>.* I STARTcO FOR THE OlSTA^^' SHORE, j '"-?^-^*^^y^^^fjvw" r > «r"iri| RANDY CHANDLER AND HOSTESS •v\ m^L l?^,,'cvi!^'^ I 1 sLirtTv^TrZ^ss^ir^ -25<?3- 1 L^&glßittSp^flßßiiji
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1947. UNO. Takes No Stand
      882 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1947. UNO. Takes No Stand Intervention m Indonesia by the Security Council of the United Nations is having unexpected results. The outcome, after a discussion that may gain m interest as time goes on. was the passage of a resolution which called on
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      THE PROPHET OF PAKISTAN
      1273 4 By A Special Correspondent AN August 15, 1947, with the end of British rule m India, a thin, monocled beau with a liking for theatrical gestures, Saville Row suits and "club" ties, will make three separate marks m the history of the world. At one step,
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      DON IDDON'S DIARY
      1012 4 IT is over 90 m the shade, and a sweating Congress feels faint even at the thought of playing Father Christmas to the world. Suffering from sunburn, poison ivy, and frayed nerves, the law-makers ure evacuating the steaming capital and pos-.poning until next year the trying on
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      LIMITS ON ACTIVITY
      222 4 LIMITS ON ACTIVITY ffce Principles Of Trade Unionism— l UNDER the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act of 1875 (and a subsequent Act m 1919 se4ifng with electricity) employees engjgeri m furnLsliing municipalities With gas. water or eVctri^ity may be fined or imprisoned if they wilfully and maliciously break their
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      194 4 Results! Advanced Medical Science pi" 5 by Itself hS&/..« for the HRr_-£ eliet pi tain I x^z> pESULTS have amply confirmed the l k A v success of the 'Ovaltine' Research headachb. Laboratories m producing the latest advance a •he .y^i-fc pa'^T. in«the relief of pain Alasil tablets are essnJ
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      48 4 QUIZ 1. Who bears the title, "Primate of England?" 2. Who was the founder of Taoism? 3. What well-known actor once captained England at cricket? ANSWERS IN PAGE 2 I —FAITH- With Thee is the fountain of life: m Thy Hsrht shall we see light. Psalms U6. 9.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      IMMIGRATION RULES ARE TIGHTENED
      366 5 IMMIGRATION RULES ARE TIGHTENED Conditions for Chinese entry Free Press Chinese Correspondent REGULATIONS concerning the entry of Chinese into Singapore havej been tightened. With effect from Aug. 1, only former residents of Malaya or j dependents of Chinese residents here will be allowed to enter this country. This action, it
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      27 5 FIELD-MARSHAL LORD MONTGOMERY, Chief of Imperial General Staff, photographed at Singapore when he stopped-over for a short tvhile en route to U.K. from Australia.— Free Press picture.
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      S'PORE USIS CLOSES
      284 5 S'PORE USIS CLOSES Kr c Prcsa SUll Keporicr ed States InforService has closed S ngapcre, and the to is going to Java i i ,»pcn m Bacavia •V" .iovi-n of this organilo thousands of mas "the best-equip-S"Wg ry on America." is the I slash m the US. „r ent's budget,
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      WOMAN JUMPED INTO SEA
      70 5 4 QNESE woman, who was uieged to have thrown her -old infant into the sea Pier n July 31. ap- I KS£«ieF «*w*osi! vV'. A r- a ar-oM Tan I l charges of i to commit suicide by I i nginto thi sea ofl Clifford I
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      Opening up Borneo timber industry
      110 5 V "AJIONS were started ag between the! V on the one Great Dayak thei hand, to g€ limber industry v asi f Borneo, c "WiisaUon, which Holland nJ! Zeandam, North v H:^ for private l builds special sailing with its seat at Bandjermasin. Negotiations have
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      ALLEGED BID TO EXTORT
      89 5 TWO Indians who are alleged to have represented themselves as members of a Singapore secret society, and tried to extort $10 from a Chinese bean-soup seller m Cecil Street at 4 p.m. yesterday were later arrested by a Chinese detective. The two arrested men were alleged
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      LORD NATHAN PASSES THROUGH
      77 5 rE British Minister of Civil Aviation, Lord Nathan, on his way to Australia to attend a meeting of the South Pacific Air Transport Council, arrived yesterday and was guest at Government House, Singapore, last night. Lord Nathan will inspect Singapore's aerodrome facilities next month on his
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      MALAYAN WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL
      61 5 mHE inauguration of the Malaya JL Council of World Affairs, a nonpolitical body that will devote itself to the study of the trends of world history, will take place m Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 9. The inaugural conference Is sponsored by the two Malayan delegates of
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      TB colony plan for Singapore
      277 5 Free Press Staff Reporter APLAX for the establishment of a tuberculosis colony of 1,000 at tap -and -plank bungalows on a stretch of beach ten miles from Singapore is being submitted to local medical authorities by a prominent citizen. A feature of his scheme is
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      AREAS OPEN TO SHIPPING
      94 5 THE following areas are free to all shipping: The territorial waters along the Java Coast oil Cheribon, between the following boundaries: To the East, 108 degrees, 55 minutes East longitude, to the South, 6 degrees, 45 minutes South latitude and to the West by a coastline
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      SEARCH FOR FORMER S'PORE RESIDENT
      92 5 RELATIVES m Vancouver, Canada, of Miss Jean Crerar, of Singapore, have been inquiring for her through the Red Cross and other bodies for the last few months. She was last heard of m November, 1941, when she was working as a stenographer and typist m
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      310 RICKSHAW MEN SENT HOME
      60 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent rE last batch of old rickshaw pullers to be repatriated to China has left Singapore for Amoy and Swatow. This brings the total number of pullers repatriated to 310. The repatriation started early this year, and eight batches have left Singapore.
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      MEDICINES WILL BE SENT TO CHINA
      186 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE Singapore China Flood Relief Committee is planning to send medical supplies to South China. It is expected that between $30,000 and $40,000 will be collected m Singa pore for this purpose. The committee m charge of coiled ing funds
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      65 5 Lord Mountbatten's second daughter, PAMELA, (second from the right m this picture), is seen at one of the recent prior meetings of Mahatma Gandhi. Since her arrival m India with her parents, Pamela Mountbatten has visited temples and mosques, places of cultural and historical interests, mixed freely with Hindus and
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      LOST TRIBES AHEAD IN AGRICULTURE
      574 5 LOST TRIBES AHEAD IN AGRICULTURE Free Press Correspondent KUCHING, Monday. 'THE lost tribes of central Borneo, living m a halfJ- forgotten country but m a miniature, complete "world within a world," are not afraid of the future, and fear, the "new disease of post-atomic man," has yet to reach these
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      NOT INTERESTED IN JAP TRADE
      48 5 /^ONSIDERABLE lack of interest \j m trading with Japan has caused the Malacanan to advise the American Chamber of Commerce to select representatives to fill out a quota of six commercial representatives to Japan m the event enough Filipinos cannot be found.- U.P
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      JAPS CAUGHT ON WAY TO SIAM
      102 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Monday. TWO Japs, believed to be PoW's from the Sungei Patani aerodrome, were arrested yesterday by police along the railway track at Gua, near Gurum, on the way to Alor Star. They were wearing mufti and carried Japanese medicines and said they
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      35 6 J*/^^^^ TKL 2—4.15. 6.15—9.1: m ii ft as I **jj dalle BISWP >^* COMING TO THE BEST SOUND IN TOWN He's a SMARL!«G FURY! x Be lived with Liars, snarled one, till love taught him different
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      25 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press X> /wiiDovrW" HOPE We'reS Fdon't GO IN YeT^ HHHMBBM|||u| V^ JJuL** 07 T LATE i/ SENORES/— YOU ■^■P^^X^^^B
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      LOCAL SOCCER STANDARDS RATED HIGH
      423 7 'Among The Best In The East' fßv Our Soccer Reporter w soccer standards are among the best m I t slid Mr. H. K. Lee, secretary of the h r Si M>rts Club of Hong Hong, shortlr before t left Singapore by air yesterday for
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      GLOUCESTER WIN AGAIN
      182 7 LONDON, Monday. ESTER continued their 1 bid for county chain -ours day by beating i two days. r second nnings. Somer- Ed it m fifty mm•- west score shin beat runs. Gl ncesterL 95 for 9 .iccLired j S fQK 62V 25 iGoddard, 5 righi aim slow.
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      PINNERS TAKE 17 WICKETS
      92 7 IB SEA. Mond .v I D whJ I V for spin t w] ts I I lay oi mat I V the X I*! which I E -Pin I Ib*, Em. > I S! 59 I K M I K I v s V H Jn
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      PENANG C.R.C. WIN
      31 7 THE Penang Chinese Recreation Club beat the Singapore C.R.C. by 217 runs m their annual three-day cricket fixture which was played at Hong Lim Green o?ei the week-end.
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      SINGAPORE TEAM DRAW IN K.L.
      166 7 Free Press Siaff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Si vigor Eurasian Associa- ti n were unlucky not to beat the Singapore St-j.r Socceritcs yest< rday on the Taylor i ground, the game Hiding ix a one-al] draw. rhe visitors played well together as a team
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      U.K. GOVT. CHANGES ATTITUDE TO SPORT
      557 7 SING TAO GAMES From Vernon Morgan B LONDON, Monday. KITISH sporting bodies have m the past been dead set against the Government taking a hand m any kind of sport but two recent happenings, the Government gram for sporting equipment and proposal by the
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      BAILEY EQUALS
      166 7 SPRINT RECORD WHITE CITY, Monday. \FTER equalling the British 9.6 seconds record m the 100 yards semi-final at the inter-County athletic championship at White City today E. Macdnnald Bailey had a cramp attack ten yards from the tape m the final but limped home to win m 10
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      CYCLISTS TIE FOR 1st IN K.L. HILL CLIMB RACE
      193 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. CLIMBING m 1 mm. 40 1/5 sees. a 1,320-yard course, which is partly asphalt and partly an estate tracjfc with a gradient of one m ten at its steepest section, B. Bong of Seremban
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      M'SEX GLOSTER MEET ON 5th TEST DATE
      798 7 M'SEX GLOSTER MEET ON 5th TEST DATE From George Chisholm LONDON, By Air. THE County cricket championship is a duel between Middle--1 sex and Gloucestershire, the north's spell having been completely broken. It is a pity, therefore, that these clubs meet on the date of the fifth Test match, which
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      FAN QUERIES DECISION
      500 7 Sundays /Boxing THE decision by the referee, Captain Eric Dunsford, at Sunday's boxing at the New World whereby a respite of six minutes was given to Australian Leo Heaney between the first and second rounds of his fight with Siamese Som Pong, which Heaney eventually won on
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      YARDLEY CRIES OFF
      60 7 LONDQN. Monday. >JORMAN Yardlcy. England's I cricket captain, and Len Hut!ton. asked by the M.C.C. whether ■I they will be available to tour the West bulies with the M.C.C. team i this winter, have both replied that i they wish to be excused. They s ate that
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      93 7 AUFIC Overseas A,rl«es (Siam) ltd. HAV E COMMENCED SCHEDOLE AND DAKOTA AND SKVMASTER SERVICES STORE BANGKOK H °N«X^ 1 B^v, LOS ANGELES r •..kivV 1 Mi vii. ONTARIO CAL IV < FOR ltSTßAt¥?*\« (VIA GUAM A WAKE ISL. U \!T!\(. ,XT iA AND P X ACCEPTED ON A nFPxp? A
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      265 7 F?ee Press Crossword No. 16Z 3, The roots of several species of this climbing plant yield sarsa par ilia (6). 6, Scottish landed proprietor (5). 7, Very small freshwater fish (7). 9, Island containing Fingal's Cave (6). 10, University official who keeps order (7). 12. Small islands m lake or
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      22 8 HfIMF Village Almshouses, built and endowed by Mary Brown, of Rathmeli m 180ti at nWlflk m Grindleton, m the Kibble Valley, Yorkshire.
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      SENORA PERON VISITS BERNE
      90 8 BERNE, Monday. SENORA Eva Peron, beautiful exactress wife of the Argentine President, arrived m Berne today m a special three-car train bearing her and her entourage from Geneva. She descended to the carpet-covered platform on the arm of the Chief of Protocols, Mr. Jacques Cuitat. who
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      AMERICAN HELD IN SHANGHAI
      58 8 THE American Military Police m Shanghai arrested Thomas A. Malloy of Chicago m connection with the slaying on Friday of Yu When- Pao. alleged black market currency dealer. The Chinese Police said Malloy was implicated m a written and signed statement by Charles Archer, Hor.g Kong-born
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      PALEMBANG OIL SMALL DAMAGE
      133 8 MEDAN. Monday. DUTCH civil authorities and American oil experts at Palembang said today that relatively minor damage had been caused to the great oil fields and refineries taken by the Dutch m south-eastern Sumatra. Only a few wells were set on fire by the retreating Indonesians
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      BURMA POLICE FIND MORE ARMS
      178 8 nI?DADTO RANGOON, Monday. REPORTS from Tharrawaddy today said 73 Bren guns, a large quantity of other weapons and were seized' '°b°v ren and Sten mm IKniSSS s?rw2l£?nc! by G P° nc Ug__that district during Meanwhile, findings 01 the military court m Rangoon, which has completed
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      UK's FINAL BID TO UNIF GERMANY
      486 8 Bevin rejects SHAEF return LONDON, Monday. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told the House of Commons tonight that he was awaiting the November conference of Foreign Ministers m London for a final answer on whether the unity of Germany is impossible. Until then,
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      37 8 pictui Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is teen holdi been adopted as the national <:cv o 1 In horizontal stripes of equal width— sa the Wheel of Asoka m the centre. 7 Constituent Assembly at New Delhi r A.P.
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      'Greeks are not to blame'-UNC
      184 8 LAKE SIC( ESS, Moofe< THE United Nations Security Council last rejected the Soviet resolution pinning to fe' the responsibility for the border incidents im 1 Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Only Russia and ft voted m favour of the resolution, nine other m voting against. Introducing the
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      3 DROWNED IN BID TO SAVE BOY
      71 8 LIEUT-COL. GAR WOOD, of the Adjutant General's branch of the British Army Nigeria Area Headquarters, Mrs Garwood, and Lieut. Walls, of the Command Pay Office, were drowned yesterday at Lagos, Nigeria, m attempting to rescue Col. Garwood 's 11 -year-old son who got
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      GAVE AWAY SECRETS, M.P. ADMITS
      196 8 GAVE AWAY SECRETS, M.P. ADMITS LONDON, Monday. LABOUR M.P. for Doncaster, Mr. Evelyn Walkden, wellknown writer of political articles, acknowledged to a hushed House of Commons today that he had disclosed inside information on secret Parliamentary meetings to the Evening News. Mr. Walkden, 40 years a member of the Labour
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      PLAYERS SCORE IN 'THE WITCH'
      136 8 At The Theatre Play: "The Witch* Theatre: The Little Theatre. Armenian St. LAST night the Little Theatre Players put on a fine performance of "The Witch. a drama by H. Wiers-Jansen, translated from the Norwegian by John Masefield and produced by Joan Grant. As a
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      INDIA'S WOMAN ENVOY
      36 8 MRS. VLJYA LAKSHMI PANDIT, Indian Ambassador Designate to the Soviet Union, arrived at Teheran, Persia, by air yesterday on her way to Moscow with six members of her staff, including her daughter. Reuter
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      EGYPT'S CASE TO BE HEARD BY UNO TODAY
      144 8 EGYPT'S CASE TO BE HEARD BY UNO TODAY NEW YORK, Monday. THE United Nations Security Council will begin discussion of Egypt's complaint against Britain tomorrow. Egypt has presented demands to th e United Nations for British troops to leave Egypt and that Britain quit the Sudan, leaving it to Egyptian
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TOBAY
      63 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent fives the prices of rabbet 11 am today at follows: Buyers SeUer* Cts. Cts per fb per A No. 1 R.S.S Spot loose 29^ 29% No 1 R.S.S 100 m bate* Aajrust MN, No. t R.S.S. fob m balca August 31% 9t^
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      URGENT TALKS ON GURKHAS
      237 8 LONDON, Monday. ITRGENT steps are being taken U to hasten the conclusion of the negotiations between the Governments of Nepal, India and the United Kingdom on the future of the Gurkha regiments. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Under-Secre-tary for India, stated m a Parliamentary reply today. Meanwhile, he
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      HER COURAGE FAIL
      23 8 A womai weigW was sent Sh^ Exchange 2 cteaner Uter ttM g ported "I ly'-s to her bul Reuter job".
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      ROYAL WEDDING
      17 8 The wed* 4 Elizabeth is ein i I S i Huntlev and N* Reading Reuter
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      81 8 WEATHER Bright periods and showers WEATJUEIJ report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Fair with some bright periods and scattered showers Wind: South-easterly, ligjbt to moderate Sunset 6.42, sunrise 6.35 Maonrise 9.29 p.m., moonset 9.37 a.m. Temperatures: Max. 87. 8 d:tP., mm. 74 dec. P. Rainfall: £.4
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