The Singapore Free Press, 21 August 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA t*>» SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    BRITAIN BLOCKS $ LOAN U.S. APPROVES
    963 1 BRI TAIN BLOCKS LOAN U.S. APPROVES Pound no longer convertible CTERLING is no longer convertible. Suspension was v announced m a dramatic broadcast last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton. The dollar drain had increased m the past two weeks, he said, and there was no
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    11 1 fdfsf I tCNEIL, British pa Hr. M y-. 3 House.— P.R.
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    TRUMAN SEES HUGE SURPLUS
    218 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. |B9D£NT TRUMAN said today United States expenditure this fecal jreai will fall only half-a-biUion dollars M a hs original estimate despite the Republican economy fa r CMigttnß, but he forecast an historic US $4,700,000,H) budget >urplas on June 30 next when the fiscal year
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    POLICE OUT TO STOP NEW VICE
    111 1 POLICE OUT TO STOP NEW VICE THE Chief of the Singapore C.ID., Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, announced this .morning that the strongest measures possible would be taken by the police to wipe out the latest vice m Singapore the injection of morphine at. 3o cents per injection to opium
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    BRITAIN IS STILL READY TO MEDIATE
    186 1 BRITAIN'S offer to mediate m the Dutch-Indonesian conflict is still open though it has fallen into the background of international discussions, it was stated, authoritatively m London yesterjday. A Foreign Office spokesman de- clared that recent reports from The Hague that the British offer
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    'EUROPE VITAL TO AMERICAS'
    96 1 QUITANDINHA (Brazil), Wed. THE UjS. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, told the Inter-American defence conference that Europe's economic recovery was vital to the American hemisphere and appealed for unity among the 20 nations of the Americas drafting a hemisphere defence agreement. Mr. Marshall said the
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    'ATTLEE IS NOT RESIGNING'
    86 1 THE London Daily Mail report 1 that the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, intended to resign "m the near future" is challenged by Mr. Attlee's deputy, Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council "It does not know what it is talking about," he said. The
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    SHIP SINKS IN FOG
    41 1 In a collision yesterday near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, m the thick fog, between the motor fishing vessel Springfield and a trawler Tobruk of Aberdeen, the Springfield sank m one and a half minutes. All the crew were saved
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    UNO ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS BALKANS
    173 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. THE United States today took formal steps to place the 1 Balkan dispute before the United Nations General Assembly, which meets m New York o n Sept. 16. This move follow the failure of the Security Council, after 16 sessions, to come
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    FIGHT FOR INDIES AT UNO
    52 1 FIGHT FOR INDIES AT UNO Sutan Shahrir (left), former Indonesian Premier and now special Republican envoy to the United Nations, who has been presenting the Indonesian Government's case before the Security Council. With him is Haji Agoes Salim, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, who travelled with Mr. Shahrir to Lake Success
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    'Extermination' drive in Punjab
    270 1 LAHORE, Wednesday. MAJOR-GEN. T. W. Rees, commanding a joint military border force at Lahore, said today he believed underground leaders were waging a systematic programme of extermination m the Punjab, where thousands of Indians have >een killed m recent weeks. Lahore's Muslims hav c slain or
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    POLICE WARN OF 'GRAB' GANGS
    61 1 Free Press Staff Reporter An Indian conveying a load of medicinal tablets, worth $275, m a trisha m Magazine Road at 3.45 pjn. yesterday, was set upon by a gang of 10 Chinese, who grabbed all the goods. A CID spokesman this morning said the
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    TIN OUTPUT HALF WORLD NEEDS
    99 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Ministry of Supply announces that the Combined Tin Committee has made a further interim allocation of tin metal for the second half of 1947 amounting to 15,710 tons. This and a first interim allocation of 11,331 tons announced on July 8 total
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    GETS FASHION AWARD
    26 1 Norman Hartnell, who designed Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown, has been awarded the NeimanMarcus award for distinguished service m the field of fashion.— U.P.
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    4 million ton rice deficit in 1948
    246 1 4 million ton rice deficit in 1948 WASHINGTON, Wed. A WORLD rice shortage of 4,000,000 tons next y<ar is predicted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The F.A.O. rice study group report puts import requirements at 6,500,000 metric tons. Available export supplies are expected to be only 2,500,000
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    BOMB DANGER AT S'HAMPTON
    74 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. ALL ships m and around Southampton docks were warned today that a 1,000 pound unexploded bomb was lying within 500 yards of the docks and that bomb disposal squads were working feverishly to make it harmless. The bomb was discovered yesterday when a dredger
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    48 2 An outfit for sunbathing and a dip m the sea is worn by British starlet Constance Smith. She is carrying the bolero jacket and skirt which quickly changes the swim-suit into a prom-suit. She is also wearing chunky raffia platform shoes which are making fashion news m Britain.
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    VOLUMES ON MALAYA
    1009 2 VOLUMES ON MALAYA A Malayan Bookshelf By A Special Correspondent f ERTAINLY t h c most recent book about this part of the world is the bulky volume of over six hundred and fifty pages, just issued by the Malayan Law Journal Office, on the so-called Double Tenth trial. This
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    215 2 THE declarer frequently must tailor his play to the pattern established by the defenders. It Is futile to follow a "normal" technique when the opponent's first play has proved that his method is foredoomed. West opened a trump. Dummy's jack won and declarer stubbornly tried to establish
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    42 2 The job of keeping: fit takes up a lot of peoples' time, especially that of entertainers. Here is Daphne Walker, Britain's champion amateur skater who turned professional to star m Tom Arnold's Ice Follies. She is seen riding m London's Rotten Row.
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    GRANDPA'S CHOICE
    378 2  - GRANDPA 'S CHOICE PIERUE JEANNERAT BY ART CLASS CEVERAL of the most widely known pictures belonging: to the Tate Gallery, London, have been brought out of the crates, cellars, dungeons, or wherever it was that they were long* They include Sir Luke Filder's "Th c Doctor" (welltried weepie), Sir John
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    Lightning & What It Does
    296 2 Lightning What It Does IT is an old story not to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm but so many American's ha/c not learned this lesson iiiat one-third of the people killed by lightning m th c Quitid States m 1946 were unier trees, says the statistical bulletin of
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      666 2 SINGAPORE News; 4.45 "Tommy Handley Show; Here We Are Again; 5.30 The Orchesrt\jnxwnt 15 Everyman's Music; 5.30 "Tl:e|tra Speaks; 6 p.m. Thirty to One; 6.30 BlllC Network Forces' Requests;" 6 p.m. "Swing News and Home News; 6.45 Stnch JM| Show;" 6.30 Australia* News; 6.45 Odd; 7 p.m. Film and Theatre
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      239 2 YOUR LUCKY STAB Nortec forecast fe >[•■ w>rk hard and v., P^Mst tor xears 1: JJ that v.. v are on the v s mcthing new or exd^ Kour originality inQ v*. UM i mW can be«tn a hi your profession. V'«u have ih Qluli; parent m the field jj
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    77 3 h Government set up a Planning Board, with p Hi chief, to direct Britain's drive towards 'his picture was taken when the Board asibp" rime Standing (left to right) are: Messrs F. W. Smith and A. S. Le Maitre. all of i-^Sm Staff. Seated (left to right) are: Mr. •>,
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    Prices in China rise steeply
    205 3 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. HfICSS h«w r steeply m the wake of the Government's f ne^ [yr exchange regulations, especially m the case ofaoocii p v '> imported at the official rate of CN$l2,OOO ll 5.51. itviou^ly sold at CN$6,OOO a gallon a beapei than aerated water
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    Timid RAF men alien a 'voice'
    51 3 WI'EN i li« I wants p p \n {'ore his coninundin- otli m future he nui\ take along .it; airman's hkwT ti eal l T kirn The M 'n. IBS < T i1 mJ >' yan ''V er >-• oflicer or n:<) r N'«*
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    CRIPPS CANCELS BURMA VISIT
    59 3 ■BGSSGl i as baa 1 oj the r.-. B aimed by Sir Pi sid mi vi Ok E-. Lady Cripps i meed. On -i Burma I bow I Lord Listow R-treiar State for Burma, I I ratrj B win leave fcrRans na ad il August, in
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    FROM MOPSTO CRANES
    20 3 FROM MO PS TO CRANES *1 G v-rnment p m irom n tc heavy r have reached R e uter
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    RAILWAY EXTENDED
    23 3 urd 21 mOes c: fwkan a bridg s I th ii it Wi stern r w steel works E '■■-•>■- m South
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    PIPING GAS TO U.S.S.R. TOWNS
    82 3 A 360-MILE pipeline is being built to link the huge natural gas deposits at Dashava m the Carpathian foothills with Kiev m ■the Ukraine. The new pipeline will supply gas to towns m seven large western and central regions of the USSR, as well as
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    FRANCOBARS M.P.
    35 3 MR. D. N. PRITT, K.C., M.P., for North Hammersmith, who was asked by an international body to study penal conditions m Spain, has been refused I a visa by the Franco Govern- merit.
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    FASTEST JET
    51 3 The new De Havxlland Swallow tail-less jet plane photographed on a recent trial flight piloted by "Cat's Myes" John Cunningham, wartime night fighter ace. On the only previous occasion when a Swallow was flown Geoffrey de Havilland, Cunningham's predecessor, was killed after unofficially breaking the world's air speed
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    I FELT 'CUSHION' -IT WAS SHARK
    292 3 "HTHEKE was a rending crash as the plane cart-wheeled into 1 the water", said Capt. Thomas Rider, pilot of the flying fortress m which the U.S. Ambassador George Atcheson Jr. lost his life when it crashed into shark-infested waters 42 miles from Hawaii, describing
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    AWOKE FROM DREAM: SHOT HIS DAUGHTER
    92 3 JAMES STUFFELBEAN, 82, Of Carthage, Illinois always used to say this dream* were as real as life. Ht fell a sleep m a crowded train —then jumped to his feet, drew a revolver and flrtd wildly. While the other passengers ducked his daughter, Mrs.
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    BACTERIA INTO WOOD
    31 3 Wood substitute made from bacteria and wood flour and claimed harder than oak, disclosed m the British chemical Industry journal, may be used for pre-fabri-cated housing construction. Reuter
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    "POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL" PRINCESS
    248 3 PRINCESS Elizabeth, cast suddenly by the country's rubles m the role of "poor little r.ch girl," is to be denied the heart's desire of every bride-to-be a trousseau. This is m accordance with the wishes of the King and Queen and "owing to present day
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    BATAVIA AGAIN A 'DUTCH' CITY
    556 3 BAT A VI A AGAIN A 'DUTCH' CITY Signs of Republic removed WITH stubborn Dutch completeness, Batavia has been trans-' formed— on the surface— into its pre-war appearance of a bit of transplanted Holland since "police action" against the Republic of Indonesia began on July 20, reports Associated Press. There
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    NO SURPLUS GRAM IN POLAND
    132 3 NO SURPLUS GRAM IN POLAND POLAND'S food experts hesitate to make any harvest predictions, but observers m Warsaw believe there will be no grains or any substantial amounts of other foodstuffs available for export from Poland to other countries when the current crops are brought m. Generally, both Polish and
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    Java rubber for America
    51 3 THE first cargo for the United States since the Dutch took owar Cheribon, on the north coast of West Java, consists of 2,600 tons of rubber, sisal and cinchona. The cargo was loaded into the Isthmian Steamship Company's* steamer Lonftkw Victory at Tanjong Priok on Tuesday.-
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    A BEHEADER WEEPS: HAD NO CHOICE
    121 3 A BEHEADER WEEPS: HAD NO CHOICE rUR Bavarian executioners filed soberly into the Munich Urological Clinic to defend their former boss, 57-year-old Johann Reichart. Reichart faced a five-man Nazification court which had accused him of being a Class I Nazi. His four former assistants meekly testified that Reichart always used
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    TIN STRIP MILL FOR AUSTRALIA
    94 3 AUSTRALIA is contemplating the construction of a £10 million tin strip mill for ttnplate which will probably be located at Port Kembla. New South Wales, stated a London Financial rimes dispatch from Melbourne. Australian specialists are at present m the U.S.A. and England Surveying technical
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    CHANGE OF PRESIDENT
    34 3 Owing to pressure of work, FieldMarshal viscount Alanbrooke is no longer able to continue as President of the Army Cadet Force Association. He Is being succeeded by Field-Marshal Lord Wilson.— Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947. The Heasman Report-2
    819 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1947. The Heasman Report-2 MR. R. B. Heasman, m his proposals for a uniform income tax system for Malaya, gives no estimate of the figure that he expects could be raised, but, owing to its more comprehensive character, his scheme would clearly produce
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    ELECTIONEERING IN CEYLON
    855 4 ELECTIONEERING IN CEYLON WITH the election 11 dates fixed for the 89 constituencies that are to return 95 elected members to Ceylon's House of Representatives under the near Dominion Status Soulbury Constitution, the 360 candidates who have filled m their nominations are now busy conducting election campaigns m their respective
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    WE WORK OR WANT OR ELSE!
    16 4 WE WORK OR WANT OR ELSE! DANGEROUS WEAPON Illingworth's interpretation of the latest crisis m Britain.
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    11 4 A birthday study of Princess Margaret Host taken m Buckmau Palace.
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    IT SEEMS TO ME...
    963 4  -  Politico by 'J'HK benefits of income tax, the economists tell us, are diffused, intangible and silent. But the burden is only too obvious, and generally vocal. And that is likely to be the reaction to the Heasman plan, light as may be the Heasman yoke compared
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    Princess Margaret Is 17 Today
    415 4  - Princess Margaret Is 1 7 Today ANNE MATHESON By QN August 21, m 1930, the night sky over Glamis, family home of Queen Elizabeth, reflected flames as beacons were lit to cany through Scotland the news of the birth of the Princes^. As Princess Elizabeth leaned out a window to
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      61 4 QUIZ 1. What are the differences between: (a) Lady Hocus; (b) Lady Jezebel Hocus; (c) Jezebel, Lady Hocus; (d) Dame Jezebel Hocus? 2. Can you say whereabouts m the Bible this passage occurs: "I will rise now, and go' about the city m the streets, and m the ways I
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    'FREE' RICE PRICE SOARS
    290 5 oiam No. 1 is $1.30 a kati Free Press Chinese Correspondent gEC AUSE of a sudden drop of rice shipments into Singapore from Siam, the price of "free" rice m the local market has increased during the past week by- 20 per cent, and indications point
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    82 5 the wa»i delegates to *fg£tfsil social are men and :'Ln from Ft nch IndoS and ro«^. ™c fjf.° y \.:,7 -V represen*a**»M fjR-Sii trther7i Ind0 C a c confertna is continuing J Ann 23 Tht subjects under wJcHirtl irn ude uvenile Wnveney. social welfare work, wnunal >:; and the v^j.
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    RESTAURANT ORDERED TO CLOSE
    157 5 RESTAURANT ORDERED TO CLOSE TLOSURE of th c Pavilion v Restaurant m Orchard Road, Singapore, for tvvo weeks from yesterday ordered by the Second District Judge, Mr. J. L. McFall, following conviction of the restaurant's proprietor and a waiter for contravention of the Meals m Establishments Proclamation. The proprietor, Roy
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    PLAN TO HELP ANTI-TB FUND
    93 5 rued fund foi r he amirs uajwugn ttfeed by (h Singapore Rotarj Club, the Egapore Associati of Teachers i: ffganising a Sttriij Aug. 30 at pta ii and al the New Md me Happy World 7:. c Will be r>r I itraiagc of :he ■cq
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    FOBS STILL GOING A-BEGGING
    32 5 HERE an stiD -w vacancies hbbb rai n to coum :he Singapi harbour' r; pt 23-24. b^ i which took then wer« m; "W r male and 15
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    BORNEO WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS
    111 5 pORMS for submitting claims m respect of war damage to property m Borneo, are now available. Application for the form (WDLI) should be made either to the head office of the Commission m Jesselton, North Borneo, or to any district office m North Borneo, Sarawak, and
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    CHINESE CHARGED WITH CHEATING
    87 5 Two Hokkiens, Chong Choo Choon, 29, of Racecourse Road and Tey Chai Hen, 41, of Sungei Road were charged m the Second Police Court, yesterday, with attempting to cheat Major H. S. G. Pocock, at Oldham Lane on Tuesday by representing themselves to the members of
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    ROAD FATALITY: OPEN VERDICT
    80 5 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday returned an open verdict m an inquiry into the death of Ong Thye Hin, who received fatal injuries m an accident m New Bridge Road on Aug. 12. Another inquqst was adjourned to Aug. 28 for further investigations.
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    KUCHAI TIN OUTPUT
    16 5 July output of the Kuchai Tin, Ltd., was 150 piculs of tin ore.
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    FREE SHOW FOR CHILDREN
    62 5 IN ccrrimemoration of Indian 1 Ind-ependence Day, Mr. M. Rajagopal. Army transport contractor. has made special arrangements with Shaw Bros., to screen the Indian picture "We Two" this Saturday at the Theatre Royal at 10 a.m. for the benefit of the Indian children m Singapore. Free
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    War crimes work will continue
    192 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE yesterday said goodbye to No. 7 War Crimes y. Investigation Team which ceased to exist operationally m this area as the War Crimes Department is moving out of Goodwood Park Hotel. At the end of this month, the building will
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    TRINITY COLLEGE EXAM RESULTS
    113 5 Results of the Trinity College of Music theory examination held m June 1947 are as follows: Advanced Junior: Alice Chan. Junior: Helen Chan, Candida Domingo, Koh Scow Tee, Teresa Lee, Marian Lim, Patience Martia, Regina Matilda Scully, Phyllis Tan, Pearl Rasmalar Williams, and Mary Bridget Yeo.
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    GRANTED DECREE
    58 5 A decree nisi, to be made absolute m three months, was granted to Ernest Percy Anderson by the Chief Justice Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley at the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday when he petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage with Daisy Jean Anderson on the ground of her adultery
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    CONCERT FOR CHARITY
    100 5 QINGAPORE music lovers are re•J minded of the first of the four charity concerts m aid of Katong Boys' Club to be held at the Chinese V.M.C.A. (107, Selegie Road), tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Messrs. Eugene Bong (tenor), Koh Tiong Choo. Heng Chin Hock (baritone) and
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    BUDDHIST SERMON
    38 5 Under the auspices of the pali class of the Singapore Buddhist Association, a sermon will be delivered by Yen. Lokanatha the Buddhist missionary chief today, at The Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96, Outram Road, at 6.00 p.m.
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    S'pore port news
    184 5 Free Press Waterfront Reporter MORE frequent Dutch shipping services between Java, Singapore, South Africa, South America, Australia and New Zealand is expected to result from the amalgamation of the overseas lines of X.P.M. into one company. The new company has been named the Java-China Paketvaart Lines, and
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    SCHOOLSPLAN TO OPERATE NEXT YEAR
    329 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE rebuilding of schools destroyed during the war, the 1 training of teachers, the provision of free places for the poorer children m vernacular schools, and the increase of grants to aided schools will have top priority m the operation of
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    BOYS' CLUB PRODUCES MAGAZINE
    107 5 BOYS' CLUB PRODUCES MAGAZINE Free Press Staff Reporter THE editorial board of the 1 Katong Boys' Club, m Haig Road has published the club's first magazine. Titled, 'The Forerunner,' the magazine contains 15 pages of material subscribed and edited by the boys themselves. The magazine has been cyclostyled to save
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    INQUIRY INTO FOOD SCANDAL IS URGED
    315 5 INQUIRY INTO FOOD SCANDAL IS URGED Free Press Staff Reporter DIG Chinese noodle manufa?- turers m Singapore are facing a temporary setback at present because certain "unscrupulous factories" are producing an inferiorquality noodle, with contaminated flour, which is being sold at between 15 and 20 cents cheaper than the genuine
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    41 5 picture. Mr and Mrs. Edward Nobel Pillay after their wedding yesterday at the Church of the Holy Family, Katong, Singapore. Mrs. Pillay was formerly Miss Nellie Agnes Nobel Bracken, dauahter of the late Mr. E. V. and Mrs. Bracken.- Free Press
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    THREE YEARS FOR PARANG ATTACK
    83 5 |OHORE BAHRU, Wedneaday For cutting Ramalingam, his partner kx a firewood business, with a parang, Muthu, a Tamil labourer of Karai Nagar Estate, was sent to prison for three years by Mr. Justice Bostock Hill at tha Johore Assizes today. The cutting followed a quarrel
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    ABD EL KRIM THREATENS RIFF REBELLION
    682 6 'Morocco must be given independence' EMIR ABD EL KRIM, the exiled Riff warrior, says he is certain to lead his tribesmen against the French Army once more unless the United Nations achieves independence for north-west Africa. "In my opinion the t* ni ted Nations
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    WORLD DEMAND FOR U.S. BOOKS
    292 6 AN increasing world-wide use of American technical and business literature is being retarded m some countries by high prices and a lack of dollar exchange, according to two of McGraw Hill Publishing Company's executives who recently returned to New York from extensive tours abroad, reports
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    STATUS OF JAP WOMEN BETTER
    135 6 GEN. H. D. O. Crerar, former Commander of the Canadian Forces who has completed a twoweek tour of Japan, said m Toklo that he was most impressed with Gen. Mac Arthur's "blueprint for democracy" but he did not know to what extent it had "sunk
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    WITHOUT FOOD FOR 24 DAYS
    59 6 A Korean who was picked up by the UNRRA fishing yessel Washington told his rescuers tha he had been without food and water for 24 days on an oil-drum raft After Japanese tanker Asa Mam sank at the approaches to Dairen. He is the only
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    NO MIDWEEK DOGS
    18 6 The Home Secretary, Mr. Chute Ede, has refused to allow midweek greyhound racing m London.
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    17 6 Walker-on-Tyr.e shipyard. N. England, has launched its laot vessel. It is closing down.— Reuter
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    'WAITRESSES HAVE MANY TEMPTATIONS'
    137 6 BECAUSE waitresses who had lost their jobs face too many temptations to resist. Mrs. Gin Asanuma, president of the Tokio Waitresses' Union, has called on the Government to reopen the 3.000 restaurants closed throughout Japan since June 1. The Government In ordering the closing of the
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    37 6 No love lost Chori, a new arrival at Taronga Park Zoos Sydney, doesn't like the Zoo or her attendant. Joe Morsillo. Here. Joe is seen taking a flying leap for safety with Chori hot on his heels.
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    'BACK PAY' FOR OLD PEOPLE
    74 6 ILL post offices In Britain now have forms for men over 65 and women over 60 to olaim their postwar credits for 1944 and 1945. There are about 2,000,000 people who can claim their money. If they have not already claimed their credits for the
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    FRIENDS AGAIN
    53 6 An Italian Foreign Office spokesman said on Tuesday that Italy may negotiate a friendship treaty with Great Britain as wU as with the United States. He said that the situation m regard to treaties with the eastern European countries, aside from existing pacts with Czechoslovakia and Poland, had
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    SYNTHETIC VITAMIN A
    36 6 Two Dutch chemists. Dr J. F. Arens and Dr. D. A. van Dorp, have announced m Amsterdam that they had succeeded m finding a method for the synthetic production of Vitamin A. U.P.
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    CANCEL VICEROY
    24 6 Because there will be no Viceroy of India soon, Vicker*Armstrong announced that Its new Jet airliner, the Viceroy, will be renamed Viscount.
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    THANK YOU FOR SHOOTING ME'
    170 6 I EWIS BRANSOM, propped up m a Bromley hospital bed. L turned to Father Francis Welch and said: "Thanks for the bullet. Father." Father Frauds shot him as he was trying to enter the Holy Ghost Fathers' Missionary Home at Bickley, Kent. And Lewis, 25-year
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    'OLD CONTEMPTIBLES'
    17 6 The "Old Contemptibles"' will leave London on Saturday for the 1914-18 battlefields m Flanders Reuter
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    JAPAN WILL AGAIN SHARE WORLD TRADE
    266 6 JAPAN WILL AGAIN SHARE WORLD TRADE rpHE United States Government n businessmen hope that Japan nHr f Vat W through private channels last v k v lnU) W «HC Japan is again becoming a se!f-sunn,,V ti SI WO However, both Governmental ai m the United States believe that il he
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    PRINCESS ELIZABETH
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      106 6 JANI Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya WELL, I SUPPOSE VyeS, LYDIA WHAT WILL^ f\ DONT CARE— MY T I MIGHT EVEN SOPPOSt you're feeling wants us to I w lord iovace I /boss is so pleased i get a paiOnership-] i'o better PRETTY BUCKEDy FORGET THE ffl
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    GOOD TIMES IN FINAL K.L. GALLOPS
    380 7 G OOD TIMES IN FINAL K.L. GALLOPS Rosewell's Boy, fine Lady Best h ice Press Racing Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Today. j a i umpur racecourse was a hiv e of activity this T !!I In when ovei 1/3 hor-t\ entered for the Selangor t nj which starts on Saturday were
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    SOCCER POSTPONED
    18 7 I"^^; :c 5? (northern] fcaSd n f r a 5 d N•- Brighton. KSSIO^ has been
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    TENNIS WASHED OUT
    22 7 NE We dr.esday fc:ed pla J in the >-,r-V\ oal doublS e Qair -Piunshins h Bra rata, Reu ter
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    Inter-Club Cricket
    37 7 ■picture. Photograph of the Singapore Cricket Club and Singapore Chinese Recreation Club cricket teams which met m a two-day game over the week-end at Hong Lim Green. The S.C.C. won by nine wickets. Free Press
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    S. AFRICANS ALMOST FORCE VICTORY
    753 7 Bruce Mitchell 189 n.o. OVAL, Wednesday. SOUTH AFRICA failed by 28 runs to force a dramatic victory over England m the fifth cricket Test which ended m a draw at the Oval today. Facing what appeared to be a hopeless task of getting 451 to
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    U.S. Davis Cup Team Unchanged
    89 7 NEW YORK, Wednesday! THE same players who represent- ed the United States last year m the Davis Cup matches were nominated today for the defenoe of the trophy against Australia at Forest Hills here on Aug. 30 to Sept. 1. They are Jack Kramer, Ted
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    Yardley Pays Tribute To Tourists
    158 7 Yardley Pays Tribute To Tourists LONDON, Wed. AFTER the final Test Aian Melville, South Africa's captain, said: "Naturally we are disappointed we have not done better, but I think we have put up a much better display than results might at first indicate. This is the first time a South
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    GUS LESNEVICH v MILLS AGAIN?
    98 7 LONDON, Wednesday. DROMOTER Jack Solomons an- nour.ced today that Joe Vella. manager of Gus Lesnevich, has cabled his acceptance of the terms for Lesnevich to defend his JighTweight crown against British champion Freddie Mills. Solomons said the bout will depend on Mills' showing m Mis
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    BOD Civilian Assn Badminton Team
    132 7 THE following will represent the 1 223 BOD. Civilian Assn. m a friendly badminton match aeainst the Fraser Neave Sports Club consisting of three singles and two doubles to be played at Trafalgar Street on Sunday at 9.30 a.m. Transport for players and supporters leaves
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    RANGERS WIN 1-0
    22 7 RANGERS beat Partick Thistle by one goal to nil m a first round game m the Glasgow soccer Cup.
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    GOOD BOWLING & FIELDING GIVES S.J.I. VICTORY
    422 7 GOOD BOWLING FIELDING GIVES S.J.I. VICTORY ST. Joseph's Institution maintained their unbeaten record at cricket this season by beating their strongest ri\ r al. St. Andrews School, at Woodsville yesterday. Keen rivalry and a thrilling finish were the highlights of the game, and though St. Andrews had their popular principal,
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    NOISY BOYS ANNOY NORMAN VON NIDA
    67 7 BRIGHTON, Wed. AUSTRALIAN golfer Von Nida threatened to call the police when noisy boys disturbed his play in the News Chronicle tournament here today. At the fifth hole where, after mishitting a drive and sending the ball barely 200 yards, he walked away three
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    BALTAZAR PREPARED TO FIGHT HEANEY
    452 7 'Even Under No-Foul Rule* By Our Boxing Reporter BABY Baltazar, the Filipino welterweight, is just as anxious to meet Leo Heaney m a return bout as the Australian is anxious to meet him. Baltazar told me yesterday that he was even prepared to fight Heaney
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    M'sex, Gloster Well Placed
    354 7 LONDON, Wednesday. MIDDLESEX and Gloucestershire, who are struggling at the top of the County cricket championship table, aacr c b«'h on the road to victory m their matches which began today. Middlesex did well to score 253 on a tricky wicket at Derby and their score
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    HAT-TRICK BY B.O.D. BOWLER
    301 7 IN a cricket match played at Alexandra Depot, 223 8.0.D. iefeated R.A.P. Base Headquarters by nree wickets on Saturday Base batted first, and had lost the wickets of (Jenkins and Chinnerv fcr only six runs. Makepeace played an aggressive innings of 28, including six fours. n«i
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    Movements Beat District 4—o
    166 7 68 M.U. ...4 Spore Dist 0 TWO goals scored m the first five minutes of the same by cen- tre-forward Swan set 68 Movements Unit comfortably alone the path to a four-nil victory ever Singapore District m a game of l soccer played on the padang
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      210 7 Free Press Crossword No, 173 I I 1 CLUES ACROSS 1, Gratuity m the East (9). 7, Coal tar product; source of many dyes (7). 9, Polish military leader (6). 10, Alkaloid m tea (6). 12, Gland disappearing m youth (6). 14, New England State (5). 16, Baden is a
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    MINE MANAGER FINED ON SAFETY CHARGE
    208 8 MINE MANAGER FINED ON SAFETY CHARGE Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH. Wednesday. MR. R. J. S. Biddick. resident manager of Southern Tronoh Tin Dredging Company Limited. was today prosecuted on three charges under the Mining Enactment m the District Court before Mr. J. G. Adams, District Judge, who convicted him
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    CHINESECHARGED WITH SHOOTING
    106 8 Free Press Staff Reporter MUAR. Wednesday. A 56-year-old Chinese Si Boon > Chai, a coconut estate owner, was charged before Che Hamid bin Mustapha m the Muar District Court today with causing grievous hurt to a Malay woman by a neligent act by shooting. It was alleged
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    UK NATIONAL SERVICE
    26 8 Ir. Britain youths bom between Oct. 1, 1929 and Dec. 31, 1929 are to register for national service on Saturday, Sept. 6.- Reuter
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    MARRIES WIFE A SECOND TIME
    75 8 LORD Inverchapel, British Ambassador to the United States, remarried his former wife m Edinburgh on Tuesday. They planned to leave by air for Washington yesterday. Inverchapel, formerly Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, was made a Baron last year. He was married to Lady Clark Kerr (Marie
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    15 8 HOME Ayrshire Cattle under the trees of Hanchurch farm m Staffordshire (Staffordshire Weekly Sentinel Picture).
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    ARMY WANTS HOUSES BACK
    142 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THE War Office is to take legal 1 action unless about 800 Army married quarters are vacated by families who were allowed to occupy them during the war to ease the housing shortage. A War Office announcement states: "These quarters are the property of
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    Welfare talks on communal feeding
    351 8 THE international social welfare conference, which has been 1 m session m Singapore since Tuesday, "has reached certain useful conclusions/ says an official statement issued yesterday. These conclusions recognised the importance (?f Government control of communal feeding centres, and the value of voluntary agencies m
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    GALLOWS FOR HITLER'S DOCTOR
    81 8 DR. Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician, was condemned to hang for conducting) inhuman medical experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates by an American Court m Nuremberg yesterday. Karl Gebhardt. S.S. General, president of the German Red Cross and personal physician to Heinrich Himmler, was also sentenced
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    DATO PANGLIMA'S FUNERAL
    73 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH. Wednesday. The funeral of the Dato Panglima Kinta. which took place this evening, was one of the most impressive seen here m recent years. Among those who attended were the Sultan of Perak. the Raja Muda of Perak. the Raja Bendehara. the
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    YEARS TO REBUILD WRECKED CADIZ
    236 8 MADRID, Wednesday. LIFTING its ban on the publication of casualties m th e Cadiz disaster, the Government today permitted the official news agency to announce thttf more than 400 bodies had so far been recovered m the areas of Cadiz devastated by tks explosion of
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    BRITISH EXPORTS HIT NEW RECORD
    390 8 Morrison warns it 's not enough LONDON, Wednesday. BRITISH exports m July were the highest on record, Mr. Herbert Morrison told a press conference m London to day. Mr. Morrison, who is acting as Prime Minister during Mr. Attlee's holiday, added that employment was also
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    PROFIT-TAKING IN KAFFIRS
    433 8 London Stock Sxehanj, ONCE again little transpired m i lon don stock^' today other than m the Kaffir < i where tlT* prices were not fully maintained owing t, nM-'erabr taking but a harder tendency Hti noticeable at says Reuter's financial Domspond< v s fO( X INDKIs
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    BRITAIN SCRAPS 154 WARSHIPS
    37 8 BRITAIN SCRAPS 154 WARSHIPS DRITAIN h«s &L.*; p-d and sent D to breakers yards since the end of the war 154 warships, including the battleships Warspite and the Iron Duke, the aircraftcarrier Argus and nine cruisers. Reuter
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    JAPAN MUST PAY FOR IMPORTS
    75 8 THE U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Mr. W. Averell Harriman, told a news conference at Seattle yesterday that the United States must do business with Japan, "if we are to abide by our objectives m that country." He said Japan must have imports m order to
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    CHILE PURGES REDS
    34 8 The President of the Chilean Republic, Mr. Gabriel Gonzales Videla, has announced that all Chilean Communists holding high public office will be dismissed immediately. They include maior.e and provincial governors. U.P.
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    PRINCESS MARGARET 17 TODAY
    204 8 DRINCESS Margaret Rose, young. 1 gest member of the British Royal Family, celebrates today her seventeenth birthday officially regarded as the "coming out" age. Gifts and congratulatory messages for the future Queen's "little sister" have been received from all corners of the world. The birthday increases
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    116 8 A sra vi mm i wn ?ives the prices of tUto 11 am t<»da> as follows Bof«n H IV ft «rl r ,No 1 R. > spo; Loo>f i No 1 E> S f.c m bai>-> Sent W-, •< No 2 R.S S fob m bale*,
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