The Singapore Free Press, 18 August 1947

Microfilm: NL3661
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    16 1 LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA v- l-" SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    DUTCH SPLIT ON NEW WAR ORDERS
    392 1 Van Mook seeks clean-up power A UTHORITY to renew military action m Indonesia rt until the whole of Java and Sumatra is occupied has been sought by the Dutch Lieutenant-Governor-General, Dr. van Mook, reports the United Press correspondent at The Hague. The Dutch Cabinet
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    GUNMAN RAIDS SHOW CASES
    77 1 Free Press Staff Reporter V CHINESE, armed with a pis- 1. took 29 wrist watches and i I untain pens from the show ■.is-i ol a shop m North Bridge Rad on Sunday. The total value of the goods taken was $1,300. In another case, five
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    CABARET FIGHT
    46 1 A fight took place inside the Great World Cabaret last night at about 10 o'clock involving several servicemen and a number of Sikh gratchxnen. The crowd intervened before things got serious. The fight was restarted a little later, but the Military Police stopped it.
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    MISTER LOST IN AIR CRASH
    179 1 HONOLULU, Monday. c ATCHESON Jr., chief U.S. political adviser JJ? neral M Arthur, i> misrinc: and feared dead m ihe lat' l d army plane which ran out of luel ts weo t Honolulu on Saturday. Thirteen persons, :apiop of unidentified high-ranking officers, were *H
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    JEW-ARAB WAR CONTINUES, 35 NOW DEAD
    105 1 JEW-ARAB WAR CONTINUES, 35 NOW DEAD JcaUSALEM, Sunday. OUTBURSTS of violence m which one Arab was stabbed to death dashed the hone today of moderate Jews and Arabs ihat the week-old warfare would subside with tne wee T.d religious holidays. The fatal stabbing of a n A:ab m Tel Aviv's
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    ATTENDING TALKS IN SINGAPORE
    61 1 A SEVEN-MAN delegation from Indo-China left for Singapore yesterday to participate m the South-East Asia Regional Social Welfare Conference. The delegation, which is led by M. Winterbert, an official of the French Federal Social Services Directorate, includes Vo Dong Phat, Social Welfare Minister, and one representative
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    INDIA'S FAREWELL TO BRITISH UNITS
    243 1 BOMBAY, Sunday. nANDIT NEHRU, Prime Minister of th e Indian Union, m a I farewell message to the first contingent of British troops to leave India sinc c the transfer of power on Friday, said: "I wish them God speed and trust that between them
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    PALESTINE BOMB OUTRAGE
    50 1 PALESTINE BOMB OUTRAGE picture A cue party is seen searching for bodies of two British constables entombed m Palestine Government Labour Department building m Jerusalem, while attempting to remove a bomb left by Palestine terrorists. A third British constable was blown into the street by the explosion, and killed. A.P.
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    Partition 'uniust' -Pakistan chiefs
    425 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. MEMBERS of the Pakistan Cabinet tonight bitterly criticised the partition decisions of the Boundary Commissions, especially m relation to the Punjab, while representatives of the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan, including the two Prime Ministers, Pandit Nehru and Liaqat Ali
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    CRISIS ACTION ON STERLING SAID CERTAIN
    471 1 LONDON, Sunday. OREAKING his holiday, the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, drove from North Wales today to London to preside over an emergency Cabinet meeting. A statement issued at the end of the meeting said that "it was attended by all Cabinet Ministers who
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    HARI RAYA IN SINGAPORE
    71 1 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE Muslims today celebrated Hari Raya Puasa, marking the end of the fasting month. After praying at the mosques, they visited friends and relatives, and spent the day rejoicing. Business houses In town were closed, as also were Government offices. For the
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    HORSES JAUNT TO K.L PARK
    77 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. THE four-year-old Norton, considered a strong possibility for Saturday's race meeting, will not compete. His withdrawal from the meet followed a midnight jaunt around Kuala Lumpur, which ended m Bukit Bintang amusement park. Norton escaped from his stables
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      69 1 rCin GIFTcOL 3 SILVES 0. S. s«E,VA 0 i; OBCHA-0 r IfL I meun> to you! 1 V\l> ELEGANCE IL\S MADE IT A HOUSEL 7 AU OVER THE WORLD When you buy (ur purchase i s endorsed by millions of ,ro Uit ABLE TO OFFER YOU to DINNER SETS. 31
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      69 1 I NEW CHINA I I ww OPTICAL CO I Circulator Fan for use on Alternating '£1 Current. Supplies expected m Malaya early m 1948 Blades 24" diam. ife*, Column adjustable between 7' 6" 4' WA 6." Heavy base. 3 -speed regulator .■>. incorporated m the streamlinr^ JWr/f ADVT. OP THE
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    SHINTO PRIESTS NOT DOING SO WELL
    824 2 SHINTO PRIESTS NOT DOING SO WELL From Richard Hughes In Tokio DUDDHIST and Shinto priests ara m a rare sweat these clays as they try, piously and democratically, to hang* on to their onetime religious rackets. Technically, the new Mnc Arthur Constitution has s* ripped them of their old fat
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    50 2 Miss i ia ...v- na^ne *»l a mischievous Polar bear at nit* Philadelphia Zoo. Captured m Greenland m 1940 the bear has made a reputation for splashing: onlookers by leaping into the water whenever someone goes close to her pit. Here she is having some fun with a beer barrel.
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    BRIDES -TO-BE
    257 2 IN the latest London wholesale collections, it is seen that many of the dinner gowns are being made both with an eye on Britain's export market and a new development m the home market. In the United Kingdom, brides-to-be, when shopping for their wedding gowns, often ask first
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    319 2 riIRE were unusual features m this deal. Souths two no-trump bid uuh only a single heart stopper was one S jUih knew his partner couldn't have much but he needed Very little t> have a good piay for three no-trump, and could not be too far overboard
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    Enjoyable Concert
    425 2  -  David Grant By T the "Little Theatre" last week we had an enjoyable time listening to four artists, two of them well-known m this island. Their greatest merit was that they all strove hard to give of their best, and they were rewarded by the very apparent approval
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    STRANGE JOBS
    97 2 THERE are many strange jobs m motion pictures. but one of the strangest was added to the list recently m New York. He's an elevated tram watcher," hired on the location set of Kiss of Death on East 18th street. The watcher s:is io a widow where he
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      82 2 QUIZ Answers 1. 1066 is important not only because England was invaded and the throne seized by Duke William of Normandy (William I), but because William was the first English King to establish his authority on an enduring ba*"!s tV| •'->-> ;t thp country. 2. New England is pan ul
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      30 2 ?EKING MIRZAPJf. EIS CARPiTi AND KASHMIR NCMW LATFST SHIPMENT Mm 'v A CHINESE CURIOS. JA D E JEWELLERY. CCPPJ E AND PEWTER VA* >*r V£«y COHPETITIVE C UNIQUE SEI Fi
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      37 2 fi^^r 31 K6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Ma lava h~^--^^ [NOW-THINK OFTHEBABrs f^j |WHV~THAT'S SEGRIP/ \j THOUGHT- IMAGE PROJECTION/ t I THE BABYS MOTHER?! I F^ rHER ]J MX BROTHER f V t .^j^w
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      717 2 SINGAPORE < 15 p.m VLBB 13 89 metres Si M Uellts; 345 Bandstand- 4 pm Cr; LJlup Network iiegacycles; 600 p.m to 11.15 pjn que; 430 Two-Thirty Special; S.lfi 12 00 sui m f!uu t VLGI M5l metres 1! 76 a***"**'"; Crystal Staircase; 530 Bus m the niiumi.! ri NT
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    FRANCE TAKES CAUTIOUS ATTITUDE
    451 3 Afeitf Dominions friendshii) is sought ie .twcnon to the withdrawal of the British r!U Ntll(1 v^ f;tr been both cautious and careful, reI rttom Paris. V telegram from the President of Xl i Yin n Auri. 1. to the Governor-General of the m,r n r j
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    TOKIO TRIAL: 'TOJO WIPED LATE GLEAN'
    37 3 TOKIO TRIAL: 'TOJO WIPED LATE GLEAN' ■v Tribunal thai th€ •■>. ciip- pro- stim< I d be 6. 1941 mil lid d High til 1 tin Ud be given :r. d ration I na T C resuli taken.—
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    GRITON IS KEPT OUT OF COURT
    24 3 I b political ivpreS .Mi Richard Ddi eU.S represen- :r n; court n s- Qa Bulgarian let charged
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    CHINA TIGHTENS WAR ON DRUGS
    192 3 [I NANKING, Sunday. THE Government has opened a "second front" against the opium evil by a round-up of all suspected addicts who failed to report to the Opium Suppression Committee. The Ministry of Interior, under which the committee function^, had authorized the police to arrest
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    RAY BAN
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    Police censor beach wear
    80 3 TWENTY policemen on horse-back are patrolling beaches at Zandvoort (near Amsterdam), where two-piece bathing suits are barred, to see that bathers are properly dressed. People using deck chairs on the beaches must be fully dressed—longsleeved dresses for women, long trousers for men. In Amstelveen, a suburb
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    Hitler To Stalin
    41 3 Hitler To Stalin German workmen are seen removing the pink marble from the Chancellery m Berlin, once Hitler's pride and joy, for shipment to Moscow. Thus marble will be used to create obelisk monuments to Josef Stalin and the Red Army.
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    77 3 La*t of three sisU ~s to die under tragic circumstances, and all at the ape of 20. was ATS girl Margaret Dance (above), icho was stabbed to death while waiting out m Cairo. The first sister, Jane died mysteriously, and Gladys, who was 18 at the time, collapsed and never
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    U.S. bid for India trade
    229 3 THE Wail Street Journal, m a dispatch from Washington, says "United States traders can begin watching the riches of India with a hopeful eye. The new Indian freedom, however, will bring: no immediate boost m trade. It will take lime to clear the confusion. 'But
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    Photo colonel cashiered
    46 3 lIEUT.-COL. R. N. J. Burgess commanding the 17th Vehicles Company, Hamburg, alleged at a Hamburg courtmartial to have photographed an undressed Danish girl m the garden of his mess, has been cashiered, it was announced. The charge was "behaving m a scandalous manner."
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    LAND IS GIVEN AWAY FREE
    63 3 THE U.S. Interior Department has announced that 2,750,--000 acres of land along the 338--mile-long United States portion of Alaska highway, will be given away m five-acre parcels, for commercial development, starting Oct. 2. Veterans will have first call on the land, which the Government has
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    EMPIRE COAL HUNT
    24 3 The Powell Duffryn Company, largest European coal producers until the miles were nationalised. i are sending experts to develop Empire coalfields.
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    ATTLEE GOVT ACCUSED OF BEING TIMID
    428 3 ATTLEE GOVT ACCUSED OF BEING TIMID f ONDON'S Labour and Independent journals have joined fit L accusing the British Government of timidity, while Britain's dollar resources are running out at the rate that will force her to spepd her gold reserves or sell some of her latest American investments, within
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    JAPAN SEEKS BIG STOCK OF MATERIAL
    247 3 JAPAN SEEKS BIG STOCK OF MATERIAL JAPAN hopes to be able to obtain about U.S. $350,000,000 worth of raw materials between now and September next year by using a U.S. $137,000,000 "gold pot" as credit, reports A.P. from Tokio. The Japanese hope the U.S. Export-Import Bank will extend the credit,
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    5-YR BATTLE OVER
    27 3 The Norwich City Council have won their five-year battle with Government over rebuilding the centre of the city destroyed m air raids m 1942.
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      16 3 BRiEHTAL OPTICAL CO., —2232 l South 1'• ---n. h 318. > --a pore 'I SIRnW 9 «B9PXUu&&^r
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      108 3 (X t«>elco>H£ mi a quest ••Yes J persuaded him to come m," says riother proudty. Now we are all right. The children can have their milk tonight and their cereals and puddings tomorrow. What a relief it is to have a tin of DOMO m the house again! It is
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      53 3 ARZAN Outsmarting Numa By Edgar Rice Burroughs T~[ V^'^>i t I—HE SUDDENLY EXERTED ALL T" L jßHfr-\ "pjTI 7; "J^^tv WS TCEM^ r<<^ uS STREHGTH.U >A mOH **JL't ■r-'J GATHPPiNr, TnfiPTwPS H»5 H> '(i 1 VVHILE TH£ SURPRISED NU\\A n —^^^j^^L^fe^r »t t.Tiifa ff jiutf Syndicate, toe. A. v m^^mn
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1947. Income Tax and Economy
    592 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1947. Income Tax and Economy •FHE Kuala Lumpur opnfer- ence of 16 Malayan public bodies including all the main chambers ot commerce and the planting and mining associations should, if it has done nothing else, have convinced the Malayan Union and Singapore Governments
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    Good Morning
    1138 4  -  Frank Ow en By WHODUNIT? Who is the Minister who made the newsprint cut, who reduced news-coverage at the moment when Crisis became news and started the first wave of Government created unemployment? In theory, no single Minister is responsible. They all are. The reason for 'this is
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    AROUND THE WORLD
    456 4 BRITAIN is planning to make th c River Nile "dive through a turbine". The scheme has just beer published proposing for the construction of a hydroelectric power station at Owen Fails to generate 75,000 kilowatts. The plan is entitled U^andL Electricity Survey 1947 and has been submitted
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    35 4 At the a?e of seventeen Tessa Furnell is well on her way to acnievmg her ambition to be Britain's first woman aero-engine designer. Her work at an aero factory m Herts has astonished seasoned engineers.
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    3-POWER TALKs ON COAL
    630 4 3-POWER TALKs ON COAL BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TREAT importance is attached 10 two sets of discussions which have begun in Washington with a view to increasing German industrial productivity based on coal. The talks will be on technical problems of Ruhr coal production and tri-paiiite discussions between representatives of
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    QUIZ
    55 4 1. 1066 is probably the one date m British history that everyone remembers, because m so many schools the dates of the kings from 1066 are memorised. But why was the reign of King William I important? 2. Where is New England? What was the motive behind its original
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    USA FILM OFFICE FOR INDIA
    34 4 c cr; i pre( :i I i B -J pub!;; "m 01 i fi n sec rr :::>: dif I Ar i i USA >-- V ;''M of tj tisfa Empot
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      24 4 fgfdgdfg dgdf dgd gdf ghfghgfh fhfgh fhfgh FAITH Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them. Psalms. 119. 615.
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      33 4 Listerine cleans your I /^^Sfeji teeth foryoii' f^^w and makes your j M ''^-i^ JT" Liberty Cut Open All Day S^ BEAUTY PAn^y Phone 3339 13 E NEW AND MODERN EQUIPMENT 1 '^00^
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    WOMEN TO FIGHT BLACK MARKET
    230 5 WOMEN TO FIGHT BLACK MARKET 'Co-op' Store JN order to fight the black-market, Chinese women have taken steps to form their own co-operative store with temporary offices at Mohamed Sultan Road. They have written to Government asking official help m the running of their proposed CQ-op and have formed a
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    120 FOR HARBOUR GENSUS
    32 5 120 FOR HARBOUR GENSUS i Reporter Bighl O ce:I3US Boa lag" enume- o m tte speak I -v other said meratara rt .us :v ng m I area aad I -„c omptmisd
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    27 JAPS TO DIE
    20 5 Tlminals v Ues I ns. vi need to death rXOCU- n-.encfd to life thers m io
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    SOLD LIQUOR, FINED
    31 5 MUAR, Sunday. A Chinese. Wong Tong Lim, who sold intoxicating liquor without a licence was fined $300, or m default two months' rigorous Imprisonment, by the District Judge.
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    JAVA ART EXHIBITION
    119 5 htsa v Repertei iMOXG r-known a at the '-<-"• bj Sapto Nt m 20 t Affandi tg Soedarso m i.l bniquc a': S U I v notei n flat There are also landscape scenes painted In Java and Sumatra. In his category are some exhibited by Inche
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    JAILED FOR FRAUD
    86 5 PENANG, Sunday. -A Chinese youth who pretended he was dumb, but was heard talking to a hotel clerk, was yesterday convicted by the District Judge, Mr. B.J. Jennings, on a charge of fraud. The accused, Lim Ah Chye, was articulate enough m court when he pleaded for
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    51 5 A group of Indian officers and their guests at the cucklail party given by the 7/1 Punjab Regiment to celebrate Indian Independence Day. The sober khaki and jungle green of the officers' uniforms provided an excellent background for the colourful sarees and Punjabi costumes worn by the women. Army PR
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    Work on census starts Aug. 25
    507 5 fIN Aug. 25, 1,200 enumerators— Boo m the Municipal area and 400 m the rural area will visit each house m Singapore with a questionnaire. This marks the start m earnest of the census m Singapore. If the householder can write English or Malay,
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    42 5 MR. S. \v. mho is joining tne Alutauau t^tice Force, Mr. Aqnew has been m the Police Service since 1937 ichen he joined Scotland Yard. In 1944 he transferred to Colonial Police Service and spent three years on the African Gold Coast.
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    INTERPRETERS' EXAMINATION
    158 5 THE annual examination under ihe scheme tor Chinese interpreters will be held m the beginning oi December by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Interpreters presenting themselves lor examination will be advised later as U the exar*. date and place of examination, but success m examination will have effect
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    BOOK-STARVED S'PORE FLOCKS TO EXHIBITION
    167 5 SINGAPORE is starved for good books... that is the inference draw n from the crowds now thronging the British Books Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Over th c week-end hundreds thronged the book galleries. When a Free Press reporter visited the exhibition yesterday, he
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    2 MONTHS FOR USING FORCE
    95 5 JOHORE BAHHO. Sunday.— Low Chee Tong. said to be a member of the Three Star Party, who was convicted or. a charee of using Criminal force or. a Dolice constable, was sentenced today by the District Judge, to eight weeks' rigorous imprisonment. Two policemen on
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    REME WANTS 300 RECRUITS
    318 5 DECRUITING into the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Army Medical Corps is continuing. There are vacancies m R.E.M.E. for nearly 300 young men to be trained as skilled tradesmen. A new Training School h^s just been built on the Pasir Panjang estate and is
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    PARCEL POST TO PHILIPPINES SUSPENDED
    192 5 PARCEL POST TO PHILIPPINES SUSPENDED THE parcel post service from Malaya to the Republic of the Philippines has been temporarily suspended until further notice The rates of postage on parcels posted m the Malayan Union for delivery within the Malayan Union and m Singapore and parcels posted m Singapore for
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    101 5 VyiJi all the latest training facilities at its disposal, the REME is taking on more recruits from among the people of Singapore for the various trades m the Army. Top-right picture shows Capt. Burns explaining Co a batch of recruits m the radio engineering class the intricacies of a valve.
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      37 5 4 c C 0 M M O D ATI ON The TAVERN *N KtSIDINTTAL HOTEL) NAC'C'JS ROOMS COURTEOUS SERVICE 00L QUIET LOCALITY. m Terms, Facii.ls. Manicuring etc. _Cahl. \vfrv TeL No 4948 '^_eiin Road Opp. Nassim Road
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      70 5 CHAMPAGNE 111 I Lanson Pere Fils. Rheims ill as used m 1(1 Royal Households jll VINTAGE 1942 tfo^ 1 1 per quart %pdbte.sO HI I FYTRA DRY H !J per quart *p^£ X'OO l[ hi i y W g^. A V^ f^ III: t I K#% l# X T 111
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    BID TO RAISE OUTPUT BY MILLIONS
    259 6 U.K. 's new 'grow more food' drive BRITAIN is to turn to her own soil to help meet the dollar crisis. Dramatic plans to increase home food production by something like £150,000,000 a year will shortly be announced. The main increases will be m
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    93 6 William Kendall of Highbury, London, read of a man who claimed to have X-ray eyes driving a car blindfold. He decided to do the same, but on a bicycle because it's more difficult— he has to balance as well. To show there was nc trickery he asked two City office
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    BLONDE LURED MEN TO DEATH IN THE WOODS
    162 6 4 22-year-old blonde lured a man rl into a Nevada forest, where her husband shot him as he lay m her arms, and robtxa him. The murdered man was J. W Me La m. While In jail, the husband Joseph l. Hardy,
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    PoWs CAN USE THE POSTS
    48 6 PRISONERS of war m Britain can now use civilian postal channels for correspondenc within the United Kingdom and abroad on payment of the norma fees. These privileges do no extend to parcels or to senior German officers and those charged as Nazis. Reuter.
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    1 IN 7 MARRIAGES CHILDLESS
    45 6 ABOUT one m every seven marriages is sterile today, Dr. Robert Sutherland told a health education conference at Oxford The exact cause is unknown. The ideal age for a woman to have children is from 20 to 25, he added.
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    CARRIER USED AS FLOATING HOTEL
    152 6 THE 20,000-ton seaplane-carrier Albatross, now privately--1 owned, waits for Board of Trade permission to sail into Torbay as a floating hotel. The former warship, which has been converted by the South-Western Steam Navigation Company, is now at Plymouth. As soon as permission can be obtained,
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    AMERICANS BUYING MORE DIAMONDS
    176 6 APPROXIMATELY one of every thousand dollars earned last year m the United States was spent for diamonds, reports United Press. An industry survey showed that record imports of cut and rough stones totalled U.S. $166,637,000 m 1946, while the national income for the same year was
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    'INVASION' OF LONDON SOON
    149 6 THOUSANDS ot people from all over Britain and from overI seas are planning to go to London for the wedding cf Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip MouiUbatten. Scores of letters are arriving every day at West End hotels asking foi rooms m the week of Nov.
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    Big migration to Australia
    186 6 BEFORE leaving Scotland for London to continue discus .->.ons with Cabinet members and shipping company representatives on future emigration to Australia, Mr. Arthur A. Calwell, Australian Minister of Immigration and Information, said he hoped to arrange for a number of ships laid up m the Clyde,
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    FLIGHT FROM SOVIET ZONE IN N. KOREA
    349 6 FLIGHT FROM SOVIET ZONE IN N. KOREA THE population of Amnium-oocupfed s< (1 h increased by almost 3,000,000 ptr m vj KlJrta since the country was liberated from the Janan lxK military authorities estimate 1,500,000 hay **3 Russian -occupied North Korea m a tuniiniiV 11 iB li% In the first
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    MEMORIAL PLAN FOR LONDON'S WAR DEAD
    137 6 MEMORIAL PLAN FOR LONDON'S WAR DEAD A MEMORIAL on the south bank of the Thames, dedicated to every civilian and service Londoner who died through enemy action m the war, is to be considered by the General Purposes Committee of the London County Council. The sponsors are Lieut. Commander H.F.
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    MORE PAY FOR BURMA TROOPS
    74 6 UIGHER rat^s of pay and allow- ances for the Burma delenee services have been announced. The minimum basic pay for an Army recruit was fixed at 30 rupees and maximum pay for a brigadier at 1,400 rupees. Intermedi ate ranks also receive substantial increases. Certificates
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    CASTLE AS A GIFT
    21 6 The Marquis of Bui- the gift o: ancient CaniiSfe to the clts tbc DOM IP bouses In
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    LATE GOALS GIVE S.C.F.A. VICTORY
    324 7 LATE GOALS GIVE S.C.F.A. VICTORY I Our Soccer Reporter be lust ten minutes and a goal a few gave the Singapore Chinese Footbuli J three ffoals to two over the All- m m a same of soccer played on the Muar n aid ol the C hina Flood Relief Fund.
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    DOUBLES SEEDINGS IN US. TENNIS
    95 7 BOSTON, Sun. FOLLOWING is the order of seeding r of foreign players for the national tennis doubles championships starting at Forest Hills, New York, tomorrow: Australia's Jack Bromwich and Colin Long; Czechoslovakia's Drobny and Cernik; Australia's Geoff Brown and Dinny Pails; New Zealand's Roland McKenzie
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    Good Wins By SCC, Airmen
    1052 7 Good Wins By SCC, Airmen IN the four major inter-club cricket matches played on Saturi day. the Singapore Cricket Club beat the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club by nine wickets; the R.A.F. Seleiar beat the Singapore Recreation Club by seven wickets; the Combined R.A.F. beat th c Combined Colleges by seven
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    Slow Work On K.L. Track
    69 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Today. ONLY a handful of horses were given slow work this morning on the Kuala Lumpur track m preparation for the Selansor Turf Club's meeting which starts on Saturday. The going is still good m spite of heavy showers
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    RETAINS TITLE ON T.K.O.
    117 7 MANILA, Saturday. rpIRSO DEL ROSABIO, feather--1 weight champion of the Philippines, successfully retained his title by stopping Speedy Cabanclla, ex-champion who held titles m four divisions m the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout on Saturday night at the Rizal Stadium m Manila. A crowd
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    VETERANS PROVIDE THE BEST BADMINTON
    426 7 THERE were the usual crowd of badminton fans to watch the second round of the S.B.A. iunior tournament at the Clerical Union on Sunday. And if they came expecting their quota of thrills, they were not disappointed. Koh Keng Siang of the Playfair B.P. was
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    CHARITY SOCCER AT MUMR
    25 7 pic- Tue Johore Chinese goalkeeper saves a stinging drive from the left wing m yesterday's charity soccer at Muar- Free Press
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    Brentford's Bid For Promotion
    368 7 lunlhjin, aim. TN a daring bid for quick success this season a Second A Division club, Brentford, are spending £20,000 m one week on new players. After being relegated, the Griflin Park club is eager to give loyal supporters better entertainment than they received last season
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    Key Game For Army Today
    94 7 Army meet Navy m a league soccer fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium today. If Army win, they will make their championship hopes look very good for, with 23 points from 15 games, all they will have to do to finish at the top of the
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    Wint Just Short Of Record
    88 7 LONDON, Sunday. ARTHUR S. WINT. Negro Jamaican track ace. clock-, d 1 mm. 50 s<>c. one-fifth of a second outside the Olympic record m the 300 metres at the White City Stadium yesterday. The meet was an unofficial Olympic trial as all track events were
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    DEFENDS TITLE
    28 7 EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, Sun. T OUISE SUGGS successfully deJLi fended her title m the Western Amateur Golf 911 Saturday, defeating Carol Diringer 9 and 8 today.- A.P.
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    Heaney Loses Temper & Fight
    583 7 Heaney Loses Temper Fight Free Press Boxing Reporter IF ever a boxer had a short temper to blame for losing a decision, it was Leo Heaney who was disqualified for fitting low by Referee Eric Dunsford m the eighth round of a scheduled 10-round bout against Baby Baltazar at the
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    DIES OF INJURIES AFTER FIGHT
    61 7 NORTH ADAMS. Massachusetts, Sunday.— Glen Newton Smith, 23, middleweight boxer, died of injuries suffered on Friday nighd m a bout with Sam Baroudi Smith, knocked out m the ninth round of a scheduled 10-round fight, apparently died of a cerebral hemorrhage caused by a blow
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      177 7 F*?ee Press Crossword No. 170 I I I PI I 4 I s I* 7 r~ "9— 7S J7"— TS 21 "j 22" j CLUES ACROSS 1, Freeman of borough (7). 7, Salt used m dyeing (4). 9, Stake fenet In stream for catching fish (4). 10, Author of Roderick
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    Colombo flood: many homeless
    220 8 HETWEEN 15,000 and 20,000 people had by last night evacuO ated flood-threatened areas of Colombo after the river Kelani had burst its banks above the city and flooded parts of the city to a depth of three-and-a-half feet. The danger peak appeared to have passed, with
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    'FIND A MIDDLE WAY' CALL TO AMERICAS
    166 8 'FIND A MIDDLE WAY' CALL TO AMERICAS RIO DE JANIERO, Sunday. I RGENTINA has presented her views to the Inter-American Conference on peace and security, stressing the fact that the Americas must find a middle way between Communism ajid Capitalism, which was termed the >keyftone of a new regime. The
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    NO HOPE FOR MINE VICTIMS
    169 8 THE death roll m the disaster at the William undersea coal mine at Whitehaven on Friday was set yesterday at 104 as v/eary rescue teams gave up hope of rescuing any of the miners still entombed. Eighty-five bodies have been recovered so far. Trucks piled
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    PAKISTAN & UNO: 'SPECIAL CASE'
    55 8 PAKISTAN UNO: 'SPECIAL CASE' rARIS El Khoury, President of the United Nations Security Council, said last night that he regarded Pakistan's application lor membership of the United Nations as a special case. It should nat go through the ordinary channels and procedure of being referred to the special membership committee
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    1,000 NEW HOUSES
    13 8 Birminghan has completed its One-thoUSandth DOST -war rrmnr.il house.- Reuter
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    'MORE FOOD FOR GERMANY' CALL
    126 8 WASHINGTON, Sunday. IN calling upon the American people to make sacrifices to make more food available for export, particularly to Germany, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Statr, Mr. Willard Thorp, inferentially denied charges that the United States wants to build up Germany as a buffer
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    STRIKE HALTS HUNG KONG TRAINS, DOCKS
    101 8 STRIKE HALTS HUNG KONG TRAINS, DOCKS HONG KONG, Monday. HONG KONG'S dockyards, railway, waterworks and cement works are paralysed owing to a strike of members of the Chinese Engineers' Institute, which began oi. Saturday. Fifty mechanics of the Peninsula and Repulse Bay hotels downed tools yesterday m support of the
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    Nanking pays black market rate for US $
    144 8 Nanking pays black market rate for US SHANGHAI, Sunday. THE Chinese Government today authorised appointed banks to sell exchange for approved imports and other requirements at an open market rate, currently around CN$4O 000 to one American dollar compared to the official rate of $12,00 C to US$l. Mr. Chang
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    AUTONOMY FOR FRENCH INDIA
    69 8 THE Governor of French India, M.C.F. Baron, announced m Pondicherry "radical reforms granting complete autonomy and re-casting the status of the five French Indian settlement towns." M. Baron said: "The new reforms make French India live autonomous units with a united federal bond. "As a first
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    CLOTHES FOR VISITORS
    33 8 Overseas visitors to Briiain may soon be able to buy coupon-free clothing. Following representations by the tailoring trade to the Board of Trade, the question is now being discussed. Reuter.
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    DANCE HOSTESSES WON'T BE NURSES
    168 8 SHANGHAI, Sunday. WITH the closure of cabarets ordered by Nanking as part f? of the country's austerity programme, the 1,800 dancing hostesses m Shanghai would probably become "party girls" available for dance dates at social parties where dancing will still be permitted. The girls frown
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    PRINCE EUGENE DIES
    22 8 Prince Eugen, 84-year-old bachelor, and the youngest brother of King Gustaf V of Sweden, died at Stockholm vpsterday.- A.P.
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    UK's. FIRST ATOMIC PILE BEGINS WORK
    160 8 LONDON, Sunday. ¥>RITAIN became the second nation m the worlc\ to have a working atomic pile this week when the first unit, known as 'gleep" (graphite low energy experimental pile) started up at the atomic energy research establishment at Harwell, near Didgot m Berkshire,
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    VITAL 6 MONTHS" FOR JAPANESE
    232 8 TOKIO, Sunday. JAPAN will resolve her economic ills within th c next six months or become a serious economic burden on the world, the Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Tetsu Katayamu, told his people today m an appeal for national co-operation m the face of present
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    S'HAI GIFT FOR PRINCESS
    83 8 A fund through which Britons m China can contribute for a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth was opened m Shanghai yesterday. It is hoped to make the present "typically Chinese." The committee to administer the fund, appointed by the British Consul General, has decided that to
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    INDIAN FREEDOM MEDAL FOR ARMY
    61 8 INDIAN FREEDOM MEDAL FOR ARMY :pHE King has approved, m X principle, the institution of an "Indian Independence Medal" to be issued to all enrolled members of the armed forces of the Dominion of India. The ribbon of the medal, it was understood, may be m the colours of India's
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    MAKES OWN VIOLIN
    20 8 A German prisoner war, who has joined the Gravesend light orchestra, has made his own v.olin.- Reuter
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    JAPS FULLY DISARMED SAYS EVATT
    328 8 Future Pacific peace assured CANBERRA; Sunday. DR. Herbert Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs, who returned last week from a visit to Japan, declared m a broadcast today that Gen. Mac Arthur's policy of disarmament and of sowing the seed of democratic reform m Japan
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    29 8 This smoke formation, recalling ihr c">rnc m Bikini, was caused by an explosion durir, ttu 4 a large chemical works near Mtmt^c; I > tors and firemen dashed tor < I
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    MacMAHON BALL RESIGNS POST
    113 8 CANBERRA, Sunday. THE resignation, announced m Tokio today, of Mr. William MacMahon Ball. British Commonwealth representative of the Allied Control Council for Japan and head of the Australian Liaison Mission m Japan, has been accepted by Mr. Joseph Chifley. Australian Prime Minister. Officials of the External
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    Attack on state banks plan
    261 8 I EADERS of the Australian Opposition parties "(LibS' L Country Party) bu.sine^^nl(■n and oilki> s«Kia\ the Australian Government's dcci i.n v nationalise il country's nine private banks. The decision wa> attufej two main grounds: (1) That the Government hadnonani from the people for such revolutionary
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    36 MORE IMMIGRANIS
    22 8 j mriy-six oaoies n*»: bom am ra Jewish reiugees :-^"-J President Warl j pan waltii m ftffO U. P.
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    40 8 It! (1H JAP -Ma -J wilt ol D: AC Jar away on !6:h i i^" --M night ai i r -iden N Valley R I J cortege will 1 ■"."'/Jjß meat at EM adai i 18th A .-list. I *^H
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    SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL DEBENTURE STOCK 1936
    45 8 SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL DEBENTURE STOCK 1936 NOTICE hereto f r «*L Transfer B tx closed August tember 194 b. v the prej ar: m re.sp<. t I ;£.4 Stock for r i -'.'.Vi ins W I^igl paid to fm R^ c^ red the dst< R Begi«o«
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    INDONESIA
    110 8 (Continued from Page 1.) Sumatra, but said the attempt Was repulsed. adcasting on the second aium t-rsary of th e Republic's declaration of independence, President Soekarno declared that the Dutch occupation of major Republican cities did not mean that Indonesian war strength was broken. He pledged that the Indonesian
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    FATHER CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING
    71 8 X was urr- a; E-r.vsjH Calil rnia su rday oo 3H of steallr^ iw -M From his :a:he:-:r.-;aw i-+m pianist J [turbi Itui bl lai mpiuii M ing Ht-ro I illegal:? :ac:J daughb rs iria reresa M Maria A::' nia, S fran home to N- V
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      84 8 WEATHER Mainly cloudy WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Mainly cloudy with some bright periods. Scattered showers during the afternoon and tomorrow morning. Fair overnight. Wind: Light and variable, but gusty m showers. Sunset 6.42 p.m. sunrise 6.33 a.m. Moonrise 8.58 a.m., moonset 8.33 p.m.
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