The Singapore Free Press, 25 August 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA !hsiO SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    S'PORE AGREES TO JOINT COMMITTEE
    904 1 S'PORE AGREES TO JOINT COMMITTEE gasman tax report inquiry pre< Press Staff Reporter >in a) Advisory Council agreed this r nn r t» a up a Joint Committee with m a a v ari Inion to consider the Heasman Kf on "income tax. The Committee will be WZ^d »f tour
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    Cabinet holds lollar crisis meeting today
    124 1 Cabinet holds lollar crisis meeting today r.: tbinet meets again Prim I nn&s from ide at silica that 3r.ia.ri f avert Llity eritog inl I liars V r: re before L v :::vci r a* :ni>t '-V.-...:^-. Itc the Goiern--5 lai yesterday o D >1 Mir.er the six dav P
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    JEWS' 'TOTAL WAR' CALL AGAINST UK
    232 1 1 JERUSALEM, Sunday. PALESTINE'S Jewish terrorists last night called on Jews throughout the world to boycott British goods and British law and to declare "total war" on Britain. This "war declaration" as a retaliation for the sending of 4,400 blockade-running Jewish immigrants back to
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    BULLDOZER USE 'NOT UNLAWFUL'
    99 1 BULLDOZER USE 'NOT UNLAWFUL' Free Press Staff Reporter THE demolition of squatters' homes in Trafalgar Street, Singapore, by a bulldozer "was not in the circumstances unlawful, and the facts disclosed no criminal offence," the Advisory Council was informed at its meeting this morning. At the last meeting, Mr. C. C.
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    FORD PRICES UP
    34 1 Henry Ford II announced on Sunday that prices on most models of Ford Motor Company passenger cars and all truck models "are being raised from $20 to $97 (U.S.) effective immediately.
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    MUSLIMS WREAK PUNJAB REVENGE
    183 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. HRESS despatches from the Punjab tonight report that en--1 raged Muslims are now repeating in the Pakistan half of the Punjab the scenes of slaughter and bloodshed which began in the Indian half. They are wreaking vengeance on Sikhs and Hindus. Pandit Nehru,
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    REBELS BURN GREEK- TOWN
    43 1 THE Greek township of Nlgrita, in Northern Macedonia, was reported in flames yesterday after an attack by guerillas, the second in one week. Heavy fl ght i n g continued throughout the nigh, dispatches from Salonika report.- Reuter picture.
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    U.N. action on Indies unlikely
    274 1 JHE Security Counci, of th e Uni^Na^&^hree will KkTn ZtT??' wit little P r <*Pect that any action Belgium moved today to test the Council's right to act at all, suggesting that this issue be put before the inter Tlf C t°w- tv Th r
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    STOP PRESS
    136 1 By a majority vote of 13 to two, unofficial members of the Malayan Union Advisory Council this morning: defeated the Government's resolution that the Council should approve the appointment in conjunction with Singapore, of a joint committee to consider the Heasman report on income tax. An amended resolution,
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    SEVERE QUAKES IN NEW ZEALAND
    40 1 A SERIES of earthquakes shook three country districts on the eastern coast of New Zealand on Saturday between midnight and 4 a.m. The quakes are described as the worst Since that at Nani in 1931.-
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    34 1 tree Press Staff Reporter |X)UR Chinese, two armed, broke V into a house in Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore, at 8.30 p.m. yesterday, and robbed a Chinese family of $775 cash and valuables.
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    SHOT DEAD
    31 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 70-year-old Chinese fruit seller was found shot in the chest in Telok Blangah Road early yesterday morning. He died on the way to hospital.
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    SOVIET WARNS IRAN
    33 1 A.P. The Soviet newspaper Pravda said yesterday that the Iranian Premier, Ahmed Qavam, was trying to break the Soviet-Iranian oil agreement, and warned him against following "that dangerous road."- A.P.
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    Flying discs seen again
    85 1 mHE metereoloffical observatory at Semmering mountain, 50 miles south-west of Vienna (Austria), reported that on Friday night a biff illuminated disc was seen in the skies there, says U.P. The disc was of the size of the sun at noon, and its light, was similar to
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    Pickets prevent SHB men working
    294 1 Pickets prevent SHB men working Free Press Staff Reporter THOUSANDS of Singapore 1 Harbour Board workers are still prevented from entering the wharf area because of strong pickets posted at gates by the 3,000 men still on strike in protest against the shooting dead of an Indian road-worker by a
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    14 APPLY TO IOIN COLONIAL LEGAL SERVICE
    169 1 Free Press Staff Reporter PLAIM for entry into tne v Colonial Legal Service of all members of the Straits Settlements Legal Service serving in Singapore have been examined and recommendations submitted to the Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr. C. C. Tan was
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    DE GAULLE STATEMENT
    28 1 Gen. Charles de Gaulle will publish a political declaration today —the third anniversary of his triumphant entry into lihpmt^H Paris on Aug. 25. 1944 Reuter
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    ONE-SHOT REVOLUTION
    164 1 QUITO, Ecuador, Sunday. DRESIDENT Jose Maria Velasco 1 Ibarra was ousted from office tcday in a bloodless "sinsle.shof revolution led bv the Minister ot Defence, Colonel Carlos Mancheno wiio has assumed complete control of the Government in the name of the armed forces. An attempt by Velasco Ibarra
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    SAVING THE LAND FROM CORROSION
    1161 2 SAVING THE LAND FROM CORROSION Malacca is growing more food by by Oscar Fernandez Free Press Staff Reporter WITH a large acreage of Malacca's rich sawah land out of cultivation due to neglect during the Japane*eoccupation, and with the experience of poor yields from the last harvest because of flood
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    KIND AND FAIR
    88 2 KIND AND FAIR MOST attractive mother out of 24 who took part in a competition at Cawthorne. near Barnsley, Yorkshire, for a £10 10s. prize was Mrs. Olive Hepton, 33, of Hastings-street, Bradford. Mrs. Hepton. whose husband has been in hospital with spinal trouble for two years, said the money
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    WHERE CRIME IS MAPPED
    166 2 A SPECIAL room eU Scotland Yard Britain*! police headquaiur—where crime is mapped was reopened last week. This follows six months lecret testing of its efficiency under postwar conditions in pin pointing criminal aetiviies That this particular method is successful is shown by fact that arrests of
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    QUIZ Answers
    48 2 1 Bob Fitzsimmons. 2. Jackie Paterson. flyweight champion until last month 3. Yes. Two. Hobbs <16> and Hammond <15'. The most Br;*d man scored in a season wa.s 1 1 1 4. 1937. Derby won in 1936 5 Wrong. Middlesex won in 190:-, 1920 and 1921.
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    232 2 NORTH got cold feet abut h.v spades when South bid MO othtr suits, but he would hMC i ia* no difficulty making fiw flMdi i whereas South didn't fare so «efl ai five diamonds. However, t n-c, red astute defence by East to dpfcr-: the contract West
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      733 2 SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA S.E.A.C. Blue Network in tm u ii.ii vlm is mL**"* 0 s^ c "*~*?"«nf i toediam wave band A 1 12 megacycles <M m VUM| I3 M metres and 19.38 metres. 11 30-12 ajn. i. 4i i««rf »eg*eycle«; f.M *.m. to 11.15 pm 19.84 metres. 12 noon-5 p.m.
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      241 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people t>orn today BORN today, there is a contradictory streak i' your nature which often makes you misunderstood, even by your closest friends. You appear to be aexible, tractable and very versatile an easy mark. You have very strong likes and dislikes of people
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    BRITISH MISSION WAS INDECENT
    537 3 BRITISH MISSION WAS INDECENT goscow newspaper's allegations «1 Moscow Bolshevik, allegations against members of the British trade delegation who were recently in Russia. Mr. Harold Wilson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, who headed the delegation, has replied to the allegations. The Moscow Bolshevik said: "Having enjoyed t.iemselves on the beach [at
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    Britain expects good harvest
    106 3 LONDON, Sunday. BICI Hm weather > un kindness with floods and snow earlier I m [h e year, it ha.> beei doing Us best to make amends ii hert Is a pnansc of a good harvest. S lib England many fields ol autumn suwn ccrn bee
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    GERMANY IS TIRED OF ALLIES
    188 3 GERMANY IS TIRED OF ALLIES at the final session) of the conference on German I educational reconstruction, in t London, Professor Wolfgang Priedmann said that two years ago the Germans were in a state I complete physical and moral disintegration, and were there-! fort ready to accept the Allied; occupation
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    BABY INHERITS £10 MILLION
    61 3 EKBBK r eli hi an a tortuw estimated through the death W tin I fl m I s r m young > Qve Mrs Louia CAr•null naire Andrew are s.:U ars i.l as Louise ?nree. and n iresa who 4 --:-ta:-..ci Ed:::- M: J F Gordon
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    TOO MANY ARMY ILLITERATES
    84 3 APPALLING numbers of illite- rate and semi-illiterate men are entering the British Army, declared Mr. John Bellenger, Secretary for War, at the passing out Parade of cadets at the Army School of Education in Buchanan Castle (Glasgow). "I think you will agree," he said. "there will
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    HE WAITED 66 YEARS
    34 3 Eighty four year old miner i William Woolsey. of Bloxwich Staffs, has started a three-weelc holiday —his first for 66 years. He said: "I think I am Britain's! oldest miner."
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    SPEEDSTER MAY REACH 400 mph
    311 3 JOHN COBB, a tall, ambling British fur broker, expects to be the first man to reach the speed of 400 miles an hour on lard— and in what he calls "a 1938, second-hand motorcar," At Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, soon he will start testing his
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    20,000 GERMANS SEEKING MINES
    181 3 THE wartime job of clearing minefields is still under way, the responsibility of 20,000 blue-clad Germans who are known in Bremerhaven as "fishermen of death." Hundreds of small wooden vessels are roving the coasts of Germany and Denmark to make the sea lanes safe again, reports
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    Will wed for 2-room flat
    76 3 Will wed for 2- room flat UNDER a Notice to Landladies" advertisement in a Vancouver newspaper a harried house-hunter wrote: "If you are single, goodlooking and have qualities that every man could expect of a wife, or a single daughter with the same Qualities, PLUS a tworoom furnished suite, with
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    FRENCH PAID MORE
    48 3 i All monthly salaries in France j under 150,000 francs are to be in- j creased by 11 per cent, with effect from July 1, 1947. Salaries over 150,000 francs are to be in- creased by 1,600 francs (about l £3y 2 a month.- Reuter
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    SEPTUPLETS BORN
    30 3 SEPTUPLE TS BORN n young momer is reported to have given birth to septuplets, all seven boys at Ningtsin, on the Hopei-Shantung border. 11l are reported to be doing well.
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    'SHOULD SEE NAGASAKI'
    460 3 THEY should have roped off Nagasaki without restoration 1 and saved it for posterity, writes an Associated Press correspondent. This Japanese port city is where Gen. U.S. Grant planted a banyan tre e in 1873. But two years ago, Nagasaki was visited by an even more enduring
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    U.K.'s FOREIGN DOCTORS
    43 3 ABOUT 2.000 foreign doctors will be given permanent registration in Britain under Mr. Bevan's Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists Bill. During the war their services on the home front and in the Forces relieved the strain on the British medical resources.
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    U.K. SCOUTS ADOPT NEW WATCHWORD
    197 3 U.K. SCOUTS ADOPT NEW WATCHWORD LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN S Boy Scouts. now nearmg the 500,000 total. have adopted an unofficial slogan; "be repaired." This is because post-war shortages are compelling them to improvise in homes all oveT the country. Lumber rooms and cupboards are being ransacked for oddments which, repaired
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    The Singapore Free Press Co-operation in S.E. Asia
    810 4 The Singapore Free Press Co-operation in S.E. Asia MONDAY. AUGUST 25. 1947 THE importance of the international social welfare conference, which has just concluded in Singapore, lies not only in the wide measure of agreement reached on a whole range of subjects in this particular field, but also in the
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    SUCCESSFUL OR OTHERWISE?
    1062 4  -  DENIS WARNER Has MacArihur's Occupation Democratisation of Japan been By Keuter Correspondent ACROSS the Allied Council's conference table, the big four of the Far East ihe United States, Russia, China and the British Commonwealth have heatedly debated an issue that all powers at the peace conference will
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    Geneva Battle
    720 4 CORT Y-s even nations will convene today at Geneva to do bailie with the monster of want which helped to wreck the peace of the '30's. They will strive to get woild agreements to a system which they hope *ill prevent the periodic wild swings i n food
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    DOLLAR INQUEST
    769 4  -  JOHN HALL By I N the first six months of this year Britain paid £1,398,686 to the United States for bladders, casings, and sausage skins," mostly sausage skins. And if you include supplies from other dollar ateas, Canada and the Argentine, the dollar cosLs for "b.,- c, s.s."
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    QUIZ
    115 4 1. Bruce Woodcock is to begin the come-back trail which he hopes will end with the world heavyweight championship. Who was the last British holder of that title? 2. And what is the name of the last British boxer to hold any world title? 3. Denis Compton, English batsman,
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    MALAYS VERY KEEN' ON ELECTIONS
    319 5 'An experiment 7 9 worth trying jr-c rress Man tveporoer V j' a > ot Singapore will give full support to the TftirtlifoiDing elections because they consider txrv T-unt worth trying/' ienl of (he Malay Union, Tuan (old \hv Free Press: "If other s s
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    PEON FINDS GUN UNDER CITY BRIDGE
    98 5 P v peon was tia S It< the hidden mdei :uMtn Indersoi Bridge vered and sent La < <ti ic ain MooameC e Chlel M Jus lef x... walJuns m igc past B atten- Chinese some. bridge Buttress "o nncl boul f s a
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    BOOK EXHIBITION
    9 5 1 BxhiMttod Say A n on Satur-
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    KING HONOURS SURVEYORS
    125 5 rLLOWINU upon me nunuui conferred in May 1946 upon the then Chartered Surveyors" Institution" by Um King, in •ummanding thai it should 'henceforward be known as The Royal Institution oi Chartered Surveyors." trie King has now made an Order-in-Council giving tormal approval to the change in title
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    AUG 27 HOLIDAY
    46 5 THE Chinese Government has proclaimed Aug. 27, the anniversary of the birth of the great sage. Confucius, a national boliday The Government representative will be accompanied by Duke Kung Teh-chung, lineal descendant of Confucius and heriditary keeper of the sage's mausoleum.- A. P.
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    SHAHRIR IN N.Y.
    81 5 SHAHRIR IN N.Y. picture. Sutan Shahrir (left), former Prime Minister of Indonesia, and plenipotentiary -at-large, is photographed during a Press conference, in his New York hotel after his arrival by plane from Cairo, Egypt. Shahrir has presented the Indonesian case at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, charging
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    Chinese appeal to Jogjakarta
    927 5 BROADCASTING from Batavia to Jogjakarta o n the atroV cities perpetrated on the Chinese in Indonesian areas, the Chinese Consul-Genera], Mr. Chiang Chia Tung, asked that, as in the case of Dutch occupied areas, the Republicans allow the Chinese in their territories to form self -protect
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    AIRLINES BOOM IN NEW GUINEA
    177 5 AIRLINES BOOM IN NEW GUINEA LAE, flattened during the New Guinea fighting, is going up again as a shanty town, according to a civil aviation mission which has returned to Sydney after three months in the area. The leader of the mission, Mr. A. H. Affleck, said that old Lae
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    UNION TO HELP GOVT CLERKS
    353 5 Liang, 48, DAlmeida Street, Sings pore. H. B. Noon c o Chartered Bank of India. Australia China. Singapore; Poo Hee Lim. Rodney House Singapore; M. N. Menon 101, Mctr shall Road, Singapore. This list is by no means complete, but, is published to assist trade
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    BAN ON COLLECTIONS
    58 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday.— The ban on house to house and street collections will affect collections made for the upkeep of any place of worship, or house of prayer, or for any purpose which s purely religious. A relevant amending clause is to be proposed for the Bill
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    BUILDING BYLAWS OUT OF DATE
    386 5 rree rress sian Keporcer AN indication that Singapore's building bylaws have become outmoded is given by the Municipal Arch i tec Mr. D. C. Rae f in his annual report which was recently tabled before the Municipal Commissioners. Mr. Rae says: "It is apparent that
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    WEEKLY CHINA AIR SERVICE
    105 5 k REGULAR weekly air service between Shanghai and Batata, with stops at Saigon, Bangkok ind Singapore, will be inaugurated 3y the China National Aviation Corporation within four weeks. 3oL C. Y. Liu Director General oi 2NAC said after his arrival at saigon on Sunday on a
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    RADIO MESSAGES TO JAPAN
    56 5 ALL classes of private radiotelegraph messages may now be nied from Japan to Great Britain, North Ireland, Australia. New Zealand, India, Malaya. Ceylon, Gibraltar, and Malta. SCAP's civil communications section announced on Saturday. Previously, only troops, press and Governmental messages could be filed. The service was
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    SMALLPOX IN UNION
    34 5 [ZUALA Lumpur, Sunday. IV Perak, with 14, out of a total »f 24 cases reported, had the lighest incidence of smallpox in he Malayan Union for the week nding August 16.
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    REPUBLIC WONT GO HUNGRY'
    537 6 ripsftitp Inss of Java crot areas "THE Dutch army have cut deeply into more than half the 1 voung Republic of Indonesia's territory and have severed the Reoublican Government's communications with what once were some of its richest lands, but high RfPublican Government officials are confident
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    SEA CADETS SAVE RACER
    170 6 PEDERICK TUCK well-known Bristol speedway rider, plunged 30 feet under water when the boat which he had built to attack the world outboard motor speed record overturned on Bedfont Lake, Middlesex. Tuck said "I owe my life to the Feltham Sea Cadets who rushed to rescue
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    ROMANS DRIVEN MAD
    25 6 At least eight people have died, others have gone mad. had fits, or tried to bathe naked in the fountains in Rome.
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    POPE WILL STUDY HOLY LAND ISSUE
    220 6 THE Palestine problem and Communist infiltration Ihrough--1 out the Middle Eastern countries are two of the main questions which the Pope is studying during his stay at the Pontifical summer palace at Castelgandolfo, Reuter's Vatican City correspondent learns. Considerable importance is attached to the
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    U.S. AID FOR GREECE
    33 6 Over 200,000 tons of "urgent military supplies" are en route from the United States to Greece as part of the Greek aid programme. Thev include trucks and food.— A.P.
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    LEARNING TOUGH JOB
    137 6 LEARNING TOUGH JOB Since'war's end hundreds of young men in Britain, tired of office and factory, have decided to go to sea. Now they are training for one of the ivorlti's toughest jobs— the life of a trawler man at the Grimsby Nautical School where they are taught all the
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    New industrial belt in Siberia
    211 6 TREMENDOUS industrial and agricultural developments are I foreshadowed in Eastern Siberia following, a conference just concluded in Irkutsk, nearly 4,000 miles east of Moscow. The conference was called by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to study the productive* powers of the region. Facts which emerged
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    GERMAN ROCKET MAN AIDS U.S.
    55 6 GEN. Dornberger, who during the war. was in charge of German experiments on rocket bombs, has been flown to the United States from a PoW camp in Britain to assist American scientists. He was taken to Germanj about three weeks ago to see his family
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    £10,000 GIFT A TRIFLE'
    75 6 MR. Kenneth G. C. Knowles. a research worker at the Oxford Institute of Statistics, whose aunt left him £10,000 on condl. tion that he "shall not have adopted or shall not hereafter adopt Communistic principles," is just not interested in politics. His wife said: "I just
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    PEACE USE OF THE ROCKET
    170 6 PEACE USE OF THE ROCKET THE former R.A.F. station at Mfatottt, a 1 Aylesbury, Bucks., wher e the Ministry J\ n«% up Britain's rocket propulsion research es'tabli h P^ closely guarded against unofficial visitors j, tnt -Uw*| cd for the first time to newspaper correspondent^ °2 At Westcott, Britain is
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    TAFT MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENCY
    189 6 TAFT MAY RUN FOR PRESIDENCY SENATOR TAPT at™, he will FeSS"* Republican n mta£2» J«* election and fc The atmouncematf **> at a meeting in his n^L"} Columbus Ohic He ffi.j* bitter atto i r :r:-;^ and outlined own vSS ioreigi. j> Ht prop .'d that f l for Europe
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    SHORTS STORY
    39 6 Albany capita. c::\ York Btott, htt :-ce: alj controvers) by permitting to wur shorts when playing* nis. According to May« B*J Corning- '■The. UK Wimbledon and Queen IWJP to Wimbledon andiffcW can stand th< m, w€ car.
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    ZIK WAS TOLD NOTHING DOING'
    169 6 ZIK WAS TOLD NOTHING DOING' ZIII, oix-ioot, ebuny-black Gandhi o| Nigeria, I Colonial Office with Bowing robes, a golden cicjl «m Rolls Royces, and high hopes of an aarly Qu; 1 mise from the British. He left three hours and fortyone minutes later saying. "We've got nothing. We've been told
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    MAKE BELIEVE IN EARNEST
    48 6 4 N attempt to improve ac^ A hypn< tising P^r** lieving* they rea% characters thej W^r .4 will b^ mad( in >** pnotist, will try to pw of a comodv -Papa a trance between wjjjj second acts Critics JJ*^d if they notice any in*ill thA
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    JAPS 'PURGE STATUS
    29 6 The tei to; Tokio ol Fi« ;r: Aritomo Vamagata the Japanese r.+rxP ed down by ordei e:; Governm»p.t :n a :B>d:ng Japan of milita u.p. _^h
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    UMPIRES DECISION WAS CORRECT
    674 7 UMPIRES DECISION WAS CORRECT Recs Beat SCC In Padang Cricket By The Sports Editor rEN Singapore Recreation Club batsmen, Jimmy Sanderson, was caught by Singapore Cricket Club fieldsmen, Norm Coleman, leaning on the boundary line .in yesterday's padang cricket, the umpires' decision which ruled Sanderson out was perfectly right The
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    Sing Tao Made A Good Impression
    421 7 ALTHOf Sing ran Spoils Club of Hong Konu were beaten h Hamlet by five goals to two on Saiur- I c. rhe open gaim o| their scheduled nine-match fcng- tahttv, be (1; S€ soccei tourists from Hong Kong made gwd es ?hf 14,004 crowd
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    Good Badminton By Smallest Woman Player
    152 7 Good Badminton By Smallest Woman Player I" Cnitcdl r* the fW*' fa ton h&mpkxt- j r. .i. t x law lOaa n- uie Hk in- 1M I h V r -l ..la; -:.J P"wnL and h i' r h this i PJ I t :.i i t' 1 M xt
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    U.S. DAVIS CUP PAIR WIN
    174 7 U.S. DAVIS CUP PAIR WIN /CALIFORNIA'S Jack Kramer and Ted vi Schroeder won the men's final in United States National doubles tennis championship, defeating Australian Bill Sidwell and American Bill Talbert. 6-4, 7-5. and 6-3, on Saturday at Brookline, Massachusetts. Victory assured Kramer and Schroeder of the doubles both versus
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    PADANG SHIELD SOCCER ON AUGUST 30
    62 7 THE pre-war Padang snieia rootball competition between the Singapore Recreation Club and the Singapore Cricket Club will be revived on August 30 when the two clubs meet on the S.R.C. padang. The shield, which was presented by the late Mr. Conrad Clarke, was won
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    Gem Hoahing Wins North Of England THIe
    103 7 Gem Hoahing Wins North Of England THIe THE diminutive Chinese player, Miss Gem Hoahing, won the women's title in the North of England lawn tennis championship when she beat Miss O. V. Cooper 6-2, 6-0 in the final at Scarborough on Saturday. Indian Ghaus Mohammed was beaten in the final
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    SLOW WORK ON YIELDING K.L. RACE TRACK
    408 7 Free Tress Racing Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. To-<iay. THE going was yielding this morning after a heavy shower yesterday when only a few' horses running on Wednesday, the second day of the Selangor Turf Clubs August meeting, were galloped on the second track. The
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    EURASIANS BEAT SCRC IN KL SHIELD CRICKET
    369 7 EURASIANS BEAT SCRC IN KL SHIELD CRICKET KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. THE Selangor Eurasians entered the final of the Stonor Shield competition today with a three wickets victory over the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club. The Chinese fared badly when after winning the toss, they went in to bat and lost their
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    OPENING BATSMEN
    32 7 J. Luff and F. T. Homer, S.C.C. opening pair, photographed yesterday as they were going out to bat in the two-day cricket match against Vie S.R.C. on the S.C.C. Padang.
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    DANAHAR'S BOXING CAREER ENDS
    258 7 A BAD blow to British boxing is the news that welterweight. Arthur Danahar of Bethnal Green, London, will never enter the ring: again because of illness, reports Reuter from London. Described as "the best British boxer who never won a title" Danahar has been undergoing treatment
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    S.C.S.A. BADMINTON
    120 7 FE inter- team singles in the Singapore Civil Service Association's badminton tournament will start on Sept. b at 2.30 p.m. at the Convenor's ourt, No. 470, Balestier Road. The following are the ties— E. J. Vass v Chan Yeok Seng; Bakar Mattar T Cheang Sens Lock; Chwee Kee
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    Jack Holden Wins A.A.A. Marathon
    165 7 JACK Holden of Tipton Harriers, J favourite for the event, won the British Amateur Athletic Association athon in 2 hrs 33 min 20.2 sec. >r. Loughborough on Saturday. Tom Richards. South London Harriers, was second in 2 hrs 36 min 7 sec. and D. Mcnab
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    SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD WINS GOLF TITLE
    48 7 Seventeen-year-old British player, A. H. Perowne. the youngest player in the event, won the Swedish open amateur golf championship at Tylosand, Western Sweden, yestedray. In the 36 holes final he beat H. G. Bentley. 39-year-old former British Walker Cup player, two and one. Reuter
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    SELANGOR GOLF RESULTS
    74 7 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. Following were the best cards handed, in at the August mixed foursomes (stroke) of the Selangor Golf Club: Winner: W. J. Gibb and Mrs. Boving 45-8J 36£ nett. Major and Mrs. Leete 46-7 38. Mr. and Mrs. Skene 47-9 38.
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    PEP RETAINS TITLE
    37 7 WILLIE PEP successfully defended his world featherweight boxing title with a 12th round knockout of Jock Leslie, at Flint, Michigan, on Saturday. It was Pep's 115th victory in 117 fights and his 40th knockout.
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    MALAYAN INDIANS LOSE TO PCFA
    393 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. AFTER giving a great display against the Penang Stale it-am to trounce them by five goals to one yesterday, the All Malayan Indian Football team failed today against the Penang Chinese Football Association in a keenly-contested game played on
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    MANIAM .7 FOR 17
    60 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. M. S. Maniam, the State bowler, was in deadly form today when the Kilat Club defeated the Malaya Command Signals by eight wickets in the Navaratnam Shield semi-final. With seven for 17, Maniam helped to bundle the Signals out
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    SWIM RECORDS BROKEN
    137 7 •TWO American feminine swimming 1 marks were shattered on Saturday as Nel van Vliet of Holland seized the 200 metre breast-stroke title and Ann Curtis of San Francisco took the 400 metre free-style crown for the fifth straight year in the U.S. national A.A.U. woman's outdoor championships
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    OUTSIDER BEATS ST. LEGER HOPE
    171 7 •THERE was a surprise outcome to I the Trial Stakes over one mile, three furlongs at Goodwood on Saturday when Mrs. Evan William"? colt. After Midnight (Stardust out of Cooce), an outsider of three runners, produced a splendid finishing burst to trounce Merry Quip. Mr.
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      174 7 Free Press Crossword No. 175 CMJBS ACROSS 1, River fish (5) 4, County of Connaught, Eire (4) 6, French caie (9), 10, Christmas to the French (4). 11, Bank of sand at river mouth (3). 12, In which State of U.S.A. Is Chicago? (8), 14, Sixths of circle (8). 15,
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    HOME..
    27 8 It is not an unusual sight to see hardy little sheep dogs driving small batches of sheep across the Welsh mountains down to the dipping pens.
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    LIBERAL CANDIDATE
    25 8 Sir Hubert Young (62) ar associate of Lawrence of Arabia has^ een chosen Liberal candidate for (he Edge Hill, Liverpool, Parliamentary bvetectton.- Reuter
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    Ceylon s rremier an easy victor
    233 8 COLOMBO, Sunday. ABOUT fifty per cent, of voters went t© the booths today as the first constituencies polled m the general election that is being heM under Ceylon's new seJf -government constitution. Two features were the active interest of left wing Buddhist monks, and
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    U.K. PROTESTS TO RUSSIA
    63 8 BRITAIN has joined the United States in protesting to Russia against the death sentence imposed upon Mr. Nikola Petkov. leader of the Bulgarian Agrarian Anti-Communist Party, on his cvnviction of plotting against the Communist-dominated Government at Sofia. This was announced by the Foreign Office in London
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    PETKOV TO APPEAL
    35 8 An appeal is being filed today against the death sentence on Agrarian Opposition leader, Nikola Petkov. Petkov's lawyers said after he had conferred with Petkov in the Central Prison in Sofia U.P.
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    Forces staff unions form federation
    163 8 Forces staff unions form federation Free Press Staff He Dorter THE Singapore Federation of Services Untons was formally inaugurated at a meeting held at the MDU Hall yesterday. Members of the Federation are the Admiralty Local Staff Union. Army Civil Services Union and Air Ministry Local Staff Union. The Federation
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    ADMIRAL BYRD ILL
    53 8 Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Antarctic explorer, who returned from his last trip to the Antarctic in April, has entered the Johns hospital in Baltimore (U.S.) for diagnosis and study. Hospital officials said that his condition is "satisfactory" and added that the nature of his ailment is not
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    SECRET TALKS ON GERMAN INDUSTRY
    185 8 LONDON, Sunday. DEPRESENTATIVES of th e United States, Great Britain and France held another closed session this morning of trie tripartite conference on the level of German industry in the Anglo-American zones of Germany. This was followed by a meeting of a technical sub-committee to
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    N. CHINA MAILS HITCH
    24 8 The postal service from Britain to many places in Shantung (China) and Manchuria, including Harbin, has been temporarily suspended.- Reuter
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    $702,000 FOR FOOD GROWING
    181 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. FNCREASED rates of wages for lTown Board labourers in Pahang and Selangor and higher costs of maintenance of motor equipment will involve government in the payment of an additional $150,000 on this account this year. Details of these and
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    UNION PLAN FOR MORE HOUSES
    613 8 Building trust is suggested Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMP UR, Monday. rS establishment of a Government Building Trust with an initial capital of $5,000,000 to be obtained from Malaya's allocation from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund for large-scale housing i n th e
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    Gls. RELEASED BY SOVIET ARMY
    57 8 AFTEK J tin Arinyaw in K i A:n€:^ J were v sed ai j :-^-'1 tho US Arm; H So iul rri v I Th UN VbG B ::^q b> "in x Iton S] rested iri n >v rr ''2l telephow wins on tbe i?H
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    US loan hopes fade in China
    409 8 NANKING. Sundav HOPES of a large loan from the Doited States toChi faded with the issue of the highly critical farewell a" ment today by Lieut. -Gen. Albert C Wedemeyer |w Truman's special envoy to China. <, n the eve of hM«T for Korea
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    20 DEAD IN U.K. MINE EXPLOSION
    44 8 ONE ol five miners rescued in the Louisa coal mine explosion at Durham (England) on Saturday died yesterday raising the death-toll to 20. Four rescued men are still alive in hospital, suffering frnm spvpre bums and shock A.P.
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    U.S. ATOMIC RESEARCH IS 'MILITARY'
    124 8 U.S. ATOMIC RESEARCH IS 'MILITARY' WASHINGTON, Sunday. MR. David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, said that the principal object of United States atomic research at present is to produce military rather than industrial developments. Mr. Lilienthal, at a press conference on his second day at
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    CHINESE IN INDIES HOLD CONFERENCE
    135 8 BATAVIA. Sunday. REPRESENTATIVES of 1.000,000 Chinese inhabitants of Indonesia drawn from 22 groups of the Chang Hua Hui <the largest Chinese society in Indonesia) met in Batavia today to discuss Chinese interests in the light of the present events, the Netherlands News Agency reported. Representatives
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    15 DIE IN COAL MINE
    43 8 Fifteen coal-miners were killed and an undetermined number injured yesterday in a fire at a coal mine in the Santa Auca Mahuida area of Nequen territory in west central Argentina. The fire Was caused bv psraninc croc A.P.
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    PARIS CELEBRATES LIBERATION DAY
    209 8 »vaotoiaxto PARIS, Sunday. PARISIANS danced, sang and tearfully remembered their I liberation heroes today, exactly three years after the first tanks of Gen. Jacques Philippe LeClerc's Second Armouied Division, rumbled into the square before the Paris City ila.l. They placed flowers beside th e plaques commemorating
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    UNKNOWN
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    GOVERNMENT EVENING CLASS RAFFLES INSTITUTION
    41 8 GOVERNMENT EVENING CLASS RAFFLES INSTITUTION Stpt Hew .-jifrf^ kee, posses, je< exij 'ia Book-* •.> ine E Englisl '"JL^sjf Then P^ Quanti mentar> Elements f»J will th do^ JJ Port isf« I made w JJ Ra*^ Evening '^T^flles in person Monda- jn^/
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      72 8 WE A THER 1 Bright periods WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F.: Bright periods, very isolated sftiowers. Wind: Light south -easterly. Sunset: 6.41; sunrise 6.32. Moonrise: 1.45 p.m. moon set 2 03 a.m. Temperatures. Max. 91.5 defs.; mfo. 80.5 degs. Relative humidity temperatures: Yesterday 7.30
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