The Singapore Free Press, 9 September 1947
1947-09-09
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Title Section18 1947-09-09 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 10* SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS.18 words
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Article, Illustration421 1947-09-09 1 800 KILLED IN DELHI RIOTING Panic spreads to Karachi JHE sky glowed red over Delhi last night, as troops poured into the Indian Dominion capital after a day of grave rioting. Between 300 and 400 people were killed, and many buildings were set on fire. Panic meanwhile has spread to421 words
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71 1947-09-09 1 RABS WARN: 'BLOODSHED' IN PALESTIHE "V- 3 I High i m F- thai United NaPj ni rt ot pi tat Jewish :i3 ad r^-.le a;.: an d P l BUT." threat :ame m Jamal Fr v:- in of the signer C Dr W| K Pa] Arab F Diane for fA.P.; U.P. - 71 words
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132 1947-09-09 1 INDIA PROTESTS AT SINGAPORE HEALTH RULES GENEVA. Monday. A PROTEST against the requirements of the Governments of Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong that Indian smallpox vaccination certificates must be countersigned by a government or municipal medical officer, has been made by India to the World Health Organisation Interim Commission, says132 words
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Article61 1947-09-09 1 HPHE U.S. Navy announced in 1 Washington last night that a German V-2 rocket has been fired from an aircraft carrier at sea :he first time such a missile has oeen fired irom a ship. The rocket was launched on Saturday from the flight deck61 words
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Article216 1947-09-09 1 F.ee Press Staff Reporter VHK first primary school in Singapore, which will teach English, Malay, Chinese and tamil, will be opened at the Bukit Panjang English School in January next year, if plans made by the Education Department are carried through. This will bring together in216 words
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Article112 1947-09-09 1 Free Press Staff Reporter f pHE condition of Singapore's A water supply, which had been affected by oil leakages at a pumping station, has improved .his morning, says.- a statement from the Municipal Water Engineer, Mr. F. G. Hill. Where no unpleasant smell is evident in112 words
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Article50 1947-09-09 1 A FULL arbitration court in Melbourne has granted members of 53 trade unions a 40-hour week, effective the first pay period next January. This is a cut of four hours in the 20-year-old 44-hour week standard. Some 900.000 workers throughout Australia will be affected bv the change. A.P.A.P. - 50 words
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Article240 1947-09-09 1 Free Press Staff Reporter LONDON, Monday. ONDON Press comments indicate that the United States' decision to relax control on the use of natural rubber, except in the case of the biggest consumers the tyre and tube industry may mean that the Americans may buy a further240 words
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Article, Illustration60 1947-09-09 1 MR. EDEN FLIES WITH R.A.F. picture. MR. ANTHONY EDEN, MP and former British Foreign Secretary, is seen adjusting his flying kit before leading six Mosquito night fighters of No. 500 (County of Kent) Auxiliary Squadron, R.A.F., of which he is honorary Air Commodore, for an hour's flight at 2,000 feetA.P. - 60 words
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Article237 1947-09-09 1 LONDON, Monday. 'THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, returned from his 1 holiday today to preside tomorrow over the first full meeting of the Cabinet since Parliament rose. Primarily the meeting has been called to approve the export plan which Sir Stafford Cripps will present toReuter; U.P. - 237 words
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325 1947-09-09 1 AIR DEFENCES ALERTED FOR LONDON 'RAID' LONDON, Monday. THE Air Ministry disclosed today that it threw wartime procedure into operation when it received word that an attempt might be made by Jews to bomb London last Friday as a reprisal against the return to Germany of the "Exodus" Jews. TheU.P.; Reuter - 325 words
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Article121 1947-09-09 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rREE armed Chinese robbers this morning shot dead an old Hokkien labourer in labourers' quarters in Paya Lebar Road near the Geylang Police Station, while Singapore police patrols were busy combing this area for armed robbers. The labourer heard noises and went121 words
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Article22 1947-09-09 1 A CID ambush at Queen Street, Singapore, yesterday resulted in a Chinese being arrested in possession of an automatic pistol.22 words
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Advertisement94 1947-09-09 1 pS _'l i ■I m -B__fl*« y ;j tf **-i£ 4 S happy mother and her sleeping T t\ I I J P* chiW! Yes worry and anxiety '^IVIrnAN cheerfulness-BABY IS ON VP.Tllr.f__ cow AN GATE NOW— "''w HrDUAArN his Health and Happiness ,L r\nUUU are bein bui,t fa •**>94 words
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Advertisement86 1947-09-09 1 Tour Favourite Brana is back again PIGEON SPORT SHIRTS In a wider cheaper rang* TELLY CO., 377, North Bridge Bead Tele: 3131 Anne ZIEGLER i__>-i__* *'_-I!_l_k. _i____l W^mmWf^^^^^Amwi _U __Hl 4fl__H__k "H H _m He ____p' __f $_it__bP^ v «F _&4 R_ffl m jSSjHSaMi W _Br% BP ■■W$W «____^_F K86 words
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FEATURES...
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Article, Illustration1062 1947-09-09 2 VICTOR SOANES - VICTOR SOANES By COONER or later all parents who take an intelligent interest in the welfare of their children find themselves face to face with the problem of corporal punishment. vhich is correct: the old-fashioned view that a certain amount of corporal punishment "never did1,062 words
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Article, Illustration271 1947-09-09 2 THERE are different kinds of "pysehic" doubles. In this deal. West's was a "sound" double. Certainly it was most unsound on West's own possibilities of beating the hand. It was a "sound' double in that West didn't like the sound of the bidding. This is evidently an271 words
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Article, Illustration282 1947-09-09 2 want them to. After all. they exist primarily for their own benefit, not for ours, and the less we interfere with them the better. We should realise that they are not a bit interested in the tidiness of the home, the preservation of law and order282 words
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Article177 1947-09-09 2 r WHOLES, i n one of which a man's skeleton has been discovered in the Yorkshire fells, are invariably found in cave districts, in streams, or dried-up stream beds. Unlike some of the caves, they were not originally human dwellings. They can range from funnelshaped depressions, in which177 words
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Article331 1947-09-09 2 A REMARKABLi; A pamphlet entitled "Truth about Sex" has just been issued by BAOR with a foreword by Lieut-General 1.. L McGreery, Gene r a 1 Officer Com ma ml in .-j.. Chief, in which he sayg. "Quite recently Secretary of State for v.". sa d that h e331 words
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Article59 1947-09-09 2 About Sex to??*! r :S%\ *«3 1 T oa l Y •.r 9 bricks inA?? h T K feis 4^ r44 a !'44^ the neatest m^S sell a a MofcSflLW read "Don't right ray-nW else has S for sometfebvS for anything^ *< *«*belie*fcj :r SMI P ciptes sod of lift59 words
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Advertisement69 1947-09-09 2 QUIZ Answers 1. The Republic of Panama 2. One hundred and seven years ago when Captain Cook called at Queensland in his ship the Endeavour. 3. Weddings and Funerals __r_ _*c_v >^T erff-l ,_*-?"_^l <■ mc iff Q vx* bcmfi* ant S o utte r f SfMPU for ttefccmdM UFE69 words
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Miscellaneous307 1947-09-09 2 ii2p"*r'^. >^S^^.^*ss_r i^'^*'' *gjfes-l#-^^ w _.jßMß_JßßS^Wfiß9_ro__fi__i& SINGAPORE Blue Network 12.66—2.66 pjn. —485 metres in the medium waft band A 7.22 megacycles per second in the 41 metre band. 8.00—11.06 pjn. 485 metres In the medium wave band m 4.825 megacycles per second In the 61 metre band, except from 7.45—9.36307 words
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Miscellaneous430 1947-09-09 2 6.45 Spotlight Bands Jack Hylton and metres. 5.30-night 19.84 metres snd His Orch; 7 p.m. Song Folio A. Re- 49.38 metres. cital by the Soprano Ninon Vallin: TUESDAY 7.15 Famous Conductors Fritz Busch; Afternoon 7.30 Australian Pianists Featuring Isador Goodman: 7.45 Canberra lP m World News Flashes; 1.02 Report—; 7.55430 words
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Miscellaneous61 1947-09-09 2 YOUR LUCKY STfl Fortune lorec__4_ Dtop [yirr: M_j POKN today, v.j hi<( strort; opmmn. not reticent. In fact *ci o finite a protafonut M,.ke sur that y uar -M nchteouv one. !'t y«n netic personaliu mat*.*! tor vou to seure Mi I**1 Vou should select api career. Your intaitia.l keen61 words
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Article553 1947-09-09 3 CRITICISM OF FOREIGN MINISTER Kuomintang wants stronger tolicv TXT A m NANKING, Monday. CHINA'S foreign policy, which came in for verbal bombarde me t t*»e Central Kuomintang's fourth plenary session last year, will be severely criticised again at this year's meeting for its "servile attitude toward the United states andA.P. - 553 words
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Article, Illustration32 1947-09-09 3 F 4 the Schuyler Col/ax, bought ->'■ v iJ!T/ for one dollar, takes a tor- top} and then sinks stern first into 4 i'.vz -bombed and rocketed the target tbmarhu finished it off.32 words
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Article196 1947-09-09 3 ■EWYOP.K c 4 through what it missed during the 7^: i: ewry street corner. Traffic is in rs and axis have been taken over by G.l.s. m~ Women, particularly if attractive, hardly dare venture on the streets. The only difference is that the196 words
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Article29 1947-09-09 3 'BOOM AND BUST' JP TRADERS B offi- said tnat ause of 4 r St »S IfitlS >»-•:-, .4: Cr:. ia_ :h 4" 1 r 44- i the Lncom- lexperi ReuterReuter - 29 words
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Article59 1947-09-09 3 RESTRICTIONS IN AUSTRALI4 RADIO Australia said that a tourist travelling from Australia to the dollar countries will not be allowed to take out over U.S. $500, according to the Commonwealth's plan to conserve dollars The Commonwealth Bank will be able to use its own discretion, however, in issuing dollars toU.P. - 59 words
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Article36 1947-09-09 3 Shipment of coal from Wakato in Fukuoka prefecture. Kyushu, for the month of A ust was the best since the war ended. Nearly 260,000 tons were transported tn other parts of Japan. ReuterReuter - 36 words
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Article90 1947-09-09 3 THE Soviet Foreign Minister, M. 1 Vy aches lav Mo'otov. in a note publisher in Moscow rejected United Slates proposals ior Korea's independence put forward cm Aug. 29 by Mr Robert Lovett, U.S. Under-Secre-tary of State. Mr. Lovett had called ior a conference onReuter - 90 words
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Article44 1947-09-09 3 JAPAN is going to pay off her war debts by supplying Canadians with oranges. Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur had ordered the Japanese to ship to Canada 10,000 cases of marmalade oranges and 1,000, 000 cases of fresh mandarin oranges A.P.A.P. - 44 words
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Article255 1947-09-09 3 Russia has 'spy army in Berlin OOVIET Russia has organised a new type of "mass pro- duction" espionage in Berlin, headquarters of Allied military governments, reports an Associated Press correspondent. Western Allied counter-intelligence agents estimate that several hundred "low grade" Soviet-controlled German agents are operating in America, British and FrenchA.P. - 255 words
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100 1947-09-09 3 EUROPEAN SAVES MUSLIM FROM ANGRY MOB A EUROPEAN, Mr. John Kearney, rescued a Muslim from an enraged Hindu mob in New Delhi on Sunday. The incident occurred when a Muslim tonga (two-wheeled jaunting car used in Delhi as taxis) driver who was taking people to church was warned by aU.P. - 100 words
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Article76 1947-09-09 3 WALTER P. REUTHER, of the U.S. United Auto Workers Union, has urged President Truman to call a special session of Congress and recommend the immediate restoration of price controls on food and all other ba.^ic commodities. In a letter to the President, Reuther warned thatU.P. - 76 words
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Article31 1947-09-09 3 Stanley Goodfellow, 26, rang the bell of Cardiff city prison and said: "I have come back, pl°?*se let me in." He had escaped from a prison working party. ReuterReuter - 31 words
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Article51 1947-09-09 3 JAPANESE, working for Allied j occupation forces, have de- j manded that their government give them a special allowance to tide them through the winter, but their Foreign Minister, Hitoshi j Ashida, said there was not enough money to overcome inflation and tide over the economic51 words
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Article96 1947-09-09 3 THE first doctors in England to work a five-and-a-half-day week are in Bolton (Lancashire), which has 100,000 panel patients out of a 169,400 population. Commenting on the scheme Dr. Harold W. Bowyer, chairman of the Bolton Panel Committee, stated it was obvious that theirReuter - 96 words
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Article, Illustration412 1947-09-09 3 QLD Frits Braun and his wife, parents of Eva Braun, y Hitler's mistress, will soon be brought before a denazification court charged with being No. 2 offenders, classified as profiteers and militarists, writes an A.P. correspondent from Bavaria, South Germany. Braun— who complains thatA.P. - 412 words
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Article142 1947-09-09 3 VTEW YORK, Monday. -Russfa 11 declines to waive the veto on anv sanction, even of a minor nature, against violations of the proposed United Nations pact outlawing atomic weapons. She also reaffirms her demand for an immediate pact prohibiting the atom bomb. This statement ofA.P. - 142 words
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Article84 1947-09-09 3 mHE Empire News reported on J. Sunday that Sir Stafford Cripps. President of the Board of Trade, has dispatched a call to all British film producers to attend a special meeting, at which plans for stepping up film production will be discussed. Sir Henry French, chairmanU.P. - 84 words
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Article96 1947-09-09 3 OPTIMISM over the future of Chinese-Australian trade was expressed in Nanking by Mr. Roger H. Star and Mr. A. R. Wood, representatives of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, when interviewed by Cninese reporters. The two bankers, who are in China on a "goodwill mission," said theyReuter - 96 words
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Article76 1947-09-09 3 Th^ Balintawak Bee r Brewery in the northern part of Manila; largest singi e Japanese industrial enterprise in the Philippines, has been sold to the San Miguel Brewery; Inc., for $1,370,000, according to the United States alien property administrator San Miguel and affiliated companies now ownA.P. - 76 words
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Advertisement12 1947-09-09 3 v m tecttai nm- _nom etooiigfc""mOPTlCAUO.. )ruiF OPnr UNS b pLOTCHYM 112 words
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Advertisement83 1947-09-09 3 PCI A _fC ACIFK VERSE AS -AIRLINES \9IAM/ LVD. HAVE COMMENCED SCHEDULE AMD CHARTER SERVICES AS UNDER LUXURY DAKOTA AMD SKTMASTER SERVICES STORE BANGKOK HONGKONG LOS ANGELEB SHANGHAI MANILA (VTA GUA^A^WAKE^SL NEXT DEPARTURES POR BANGKOK On Thursday 11th September. 1-MiC*H* co-U-eeUons as follow* Hongkong— Shanghai Honrkonr Manila FOR ALL DETAILS83 words
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Miscellaneous45 1947-09-09 3 TARZAN His benefactor By Edgar Rice Burroughs -S J-_ J.SC-L6 ICSD'S SKILL *-«4 I.AV ,|E£..- I' ANP -TACTS FOR THE BEACH, j -J2~-]_ Kff t-WTfll^-^ 1 UP ".'«> 4>o THEIg UNEXPECTED BREAKFAST." 5 f--------_______-__-___-________-___--------------aJ I i. 11 I > I I I■■ lmm II 111 I I45 words
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LEADER...
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709 1947-09-09 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1947. A Matter Of Opinion ASIA is about to become the target of the radio forces of half a dozen nations. Whether this is good fortune or bad will depend on the quality of the programmes, but on the whole it is probably709 words
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Article1317 1947-09-09 4 THE delegation of dollar diplomats has departed for Whitehall. It came, it saw, it concurred. Although its members talked in millions, the net value of the mission is put down by the cynical in cents. Once again Britain made a dubious deal and perhaps were taken for1,317 words
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Article679 1947-09-09 4 lan Coster - lan Coster in Australia CR 0 M Heathrow, shimmering i n English slimmer, to Darwin, glimmering by sweaty night, was 52 hours and ten minutes, which is pretty slick flying. Four hops in a 8.0.A.CQantas Lancastrian did it. The longest hop was from Karachi to679 words
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Article, Illustration534 1947-09-09 4 Guy Ramsey - Guy Ramsey by T PLEAD Not Guilty to the indictment for Conspiracy to Murder, ingeniously, emotionally and equivocally framed by Mr. London Laing on this page last week Herr Werner X, a German Prisoner of War "leased" to Mr. Lain;*, is distressed thai his bosom friend has534 words
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Advertisement18 1947-09-09 4 _____?^s___i Is P%&£2k^m\ If '4fPji£^gmm ____^3H B_S^ ;s£SB K§:"v> >:■■' Kii__i I _____slp^^^^^^^^s 4H_I Bfe3|_J l^^s^B ___n4 BtmwM*Sm^B*B***B*M^i*Vm(M 4___B18 words
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Advertisement78 1947-09-09 4 QUIZ rESE questions are taken from yesterday's Free Press. See if you can answer them without back reference. 1. What is the country referred to in the article headed "The Flag that Waives the Rules" and* what was it about? 2. What was the first recorded appearance of the flying-78 words
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Advertisement185 1947-09-09 4 in tne nvotttJi |flSfc «z^ _EA SY~> QUICK «W BY breaking up at once on the tongue-or in a lut^^^ Alasil tablets possess advantages to mc L.; 0U r profession attach the greatest _mn '4.r-^ rapid and complete disintegration Ala.-;. V, c r i* l to the stomach. No particles185 words
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Article93 1947-09-09 5 r- 4 Id Public pla -.v rts at l Fgrouod r i pia P I M px lay I ft ng- penis C :-s. J var_s of tb« E the Q wing ring a ...< a-4 ft bi iffairs and D'• md regis f voter93 words
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Article, Illustration12 1947-09-09 5 in rd ma <-■ er *4M Depart- mo perai m jj, r. Other12 words
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Article17 1947-09-09 5 I Don-op Rubl Malaya Ltd ici men party l 1 Satui L I? a«J bv17 words
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Article175 1947-09-09 5 AFTER a trial lasting for more than three weeks in Rangoon, when 18 Japs have been on trial for being concerned in the killing of 26 Burmese at Moulmein in July 1945. D Japanese were sentenced to death. The remaining eight received terms I imprisonment175 words
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Article250 1947-09-09 5 CONCESSIONS IN SPECIAL CASES Free Press Staff Reporter yHE Food Control Deportment in Singapore is prepared to I grant concessions to certain members of the public who in the past have lost their ruse, sugar and flour rations due to their being unable lo collect them250 words
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Article614 1947-09-09 5 Placards appear «____> __-t» also in markets Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S price-tagging campaign, launched by the Price Control Department at the end of last week, has got off to a flying start. No fewer, than 1,700 shops in all parts of the island have614 words
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Article144 1947-09-09 5 CHINA TRADE MISSION IS DELAYED Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE Hong Kong Chinese trade mission, composed of repretSrers L eS ?l hi 2 ese ™nufacS2_.n hc.^ CQlony and in &por h e aS defCrred its to lei?Hn 1 5S < missi n was to have left Hong Kong at the144 words
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Article226 1947-09-09 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SUM of approximately $500,000 is being asked for by the trustees of the Singapore Khee Fatt Chinese School who have had to sell, against their wish, the school property in Hill Street to the Government. An inquiry has been opened226 words
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Article57 1947-09-09 5 THE latest return of voters registered for the Singapore elections is 6106 up to Sept. 6. The detailed figures are 2056 for Municipal Southwest, 2117 for Municipal South-East 3f>2 for Rural West and 545 for Rural East Another 1036 forms have been received, without yet57 words
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Article250 1947-09-09 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A CLUB to help needy Eurasians in Singapore and to encourage sports among the younger members of the community has been started in Singapore. Although its name, Katong Eurasian Sports Club, implies that the club is intended to cater chiefly to250 words
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196 1947-09-09 5 AN outstanding leader in international affairs and a great leader of a young women's move- ment is expected to arrive in Singapore toduy enroute from Indonesia to China. She is Miss Ruth WoodsmaU General Secretary of the World's YWCA who is making contacts196 words
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340 1947-09-09 5 MALAYAN IN INDONESIA INTERNATIONAL UNIT jj^ESPriE wild reports to ihe contrary, the Indonesian Repu- bhe's "International Brigade" consists only of about 0 y'^r,:4 untrained Chinese youngsters and 450 Indians who deserted from th e Allied army of occupation which Eefl Java last November. It is not an elite combat unitA.P. - 340 words
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Article111 1947-09-09 5 Clad only in a pair of shorts and wearing no shoes, a young Singapore police constable, Jonat bin Dollah, was charged in the Seventh Police Court, yesterday with the murder of a 40 year old I Chinese. Cheng Tham, in the 1 compound of the111 words
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Article, Illustration59 1947-09-09 5 picture. Major-Gen. L. H. Cox. GOC Singapore District, and Mrs. Cox were among those who went on board the Oranje recently to wish boil voyage to Major van Heyst, commander of the Dutch military forces in Singapore before he left for Batavia. Major van Heyst has assumedOrient - 59 words
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215 1947-09-09 5 GG 's PRIVATE SECRETARY NOT TO BLAME Road Death MR. George Sheldon PaUci.i.on, ifl Private' Secretary to the Gov. emor-Oeneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. was yesterday exonerated from blame at an Inquest Into the cl ath oi a Chinese by ran J Jwe v ran fi > the car i 3215 words
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Article68 1947-09-09 5 ON the occasion of the re-open-ing of the Chung Hwa Institution at 56 Short Street, a party is being held at the school this evening at 7.30. The function coincides with the eighth anniversary of the founding of the school. The building previous to this was68 words
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Advertisement61 1947-09-09 5 1 SPONGES I I Real Honeycomb (PREPARED IN ENGLAND) FOR THE 111 BATH and I TOILET I J ••->-*__'_& JT -____9__,' j___^ _t'^_if___, ill ___C"_i____s_w J _>"• _^^^mf _^^N__tJ"j ff_T 111 _!T_p J_P *"^^c _ri _flt__ 111 I from^SO to S5O 00 I j|l I SMALL SIZES SUITABLE I U61 words
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Article, Illustration571 1947-09-09 6 'Prestige declining in eyes of world 9 THIS year's meeting of the General Assembly mt Flushing 1 Meadows on Sept 16, faced with a series of frustrations in the Security Council, is considered by informed observers to have the last chance of restoring the571 words
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Article172 1947-09-09 6 THOUSANDS KILLED BY CHINA REDS TSENGTAO (N. China), Mon. REFUGEES brought here from Jihchao, 50 miles south-west of this Shantung port, described a Communist reign of terror in Jihchao, in which they said thousands were killed and tortured on Aug. 27 when the Reds fled the city following the NationalistA.P. - 172 words
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Article79 1947-09-09 6 IT took the owner of a hardware shop in Shanghai one week to find the one dollar note which he was ordered by a Shanghai District Court to pay the owner of another hardware store as damage for slander. In days of worsening inflation79 words
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Article40 1947-09-09 6 Reports that the expansion of the supplementary budget is essential caused some of the listed shares to induce selective buying on the Tokio market. An 8-yen rise occurred in the Tokio eleetrir apparatus and Telkoku ravon shares. ReuterReuter - 40 words
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147 1947-09-09 6 THE draft of the proposed international agreement on freedom of information, prepared at the request of the U.S. State Department and made public in Washington, covers those aspects connected with the gathering and international transmission of news nnd information. It guarantees, among other .hings, the147 words
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Article171 1947-09-09 6 BOURSES of instruction to prepare serving men and women L for marriage may soon become part of the British Army's education scheme. All the Services may be included later. Dr. David Mace, director of the Marriage Guidance Council, and other specialists recently conducted experimental coursesReuter - 171 words
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Article127 1947-09-09 6 THE U.S. Commerce Department has reported that the supply of newsprint in all parts of America remains "insufficient, with market newsprint practically unobtainable." The Department noted a prospective increase of 2,000,000 tons in all paper products for the year but said the prospective output ol127 words
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Article78 1947-09-09 6 WITH the Frencii High Commis- aioner, M. Emile Boilaert. about to broadcast French peace proposals to the Vietnamese, it ii learned that Hong Kong Is becoming the centre for negotiations between the parties. M. Cousseau, official representative of the French High Comm_.sic-._ier, arrived by air78 words
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Article181 1947-09-09 6 A PLEA to all scientists io fight against official secrecy over their work, was made by Sir Henry Dale, atomic energy •idviser to Mr. Attlee, at the first meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science since the war. It was an emotional181 words
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Article365 1947-09-09 6 SAVING THE P.I. COPRA INDUSTRY AN American industrialisation pro -im J toonfo, the Philippine copra industn in thT_l!?^s_L ensure its long-term stability, h. is (n ttw o v^7 Meximo Kalaw, general manager of th nc M fcj_ National Coconut Corporation. e (i °^rniJj In a radio speech, Mr. Kalau WA.P. - 365 words
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Article99 1947-09-09 6 ROOSEVELT MOVED HER TO TEARS P o: pulled irv'wt"'** Bar > Vi_r\-;^ hurr l r*Ji kiee! a,n<j w» t jjj,i I Bfe Dunn _r Granada, *ho *ew 'f M s fli for li £s*l 514.0( n pA?\.. 1 l*: r/ Plane flv h^ r* U:..;- 4 a Car::.,. tttallntt^^J my99 words
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Article108 1947-09-09 6 MANILA, Haft A PROMINENT FIUPING ail Filipino OmmJjfM man Ken sh t and three then, wounded fcf m men believed U haw corj_ec___. with the H ikbalahajM agsx rebt 4 n Sunday in a "fflgi th- n< rtherti lt-fcLrb r :'M_. A mi it-ary108 words
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Article28 1947-09-09 6 IM. BUDGET PROSPECTS THE C"V ol •-wi^ economic T--z Cuad PPJIvTi Rnan -"4 Unit* Nati ns said "Tin Phiiii idustrj 4 pend nfor :.'-i men b. ot U.P.U.P. - 28 words
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Article14 1947-09-09 6 Th. Kan P°J suppi: ««*s« consuw n waifi „>~ electr be ReuterReuter - 14 words
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Advertisement151 1947-09-09 6 Air-Conditioned ICAPTIOL Phone 5159 OPENS TO-DAY 1 1 —3— 1.15— ».15 v^^^m B** tC__i*n. s w B6^"^_^B_H-y_< f »IV V mi ____P£r<i I -'""HtOOIALI im_ FOSTER m HMSON *Oth Directed b» Produced by *K_ M LOUIS KING ROBEiT BASSLEi Opens Today 4 Shows 1.30 -4-6.30 -9.30 p. m. One of151 words
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Advertisement29 1947-09-09 6 Tonight at the Vktoria ""Jj CHINA Ml SIC,O^I nts i ''Patriots A modern C J A Supported by Q t& ll 9 r. j(j HI jCr> Tickets. sJf Telephone29 words
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Miscellaneous76 1947-09-09 6 J/\ N E Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava ZZYnOW _>0 TWO RON ALONG^ s*^l5 I j P^^^^THATfc A MATTER^ KaMO IF VOU WANr\ LATE R MJ AND LEAVE LORD LOVACE L- 1 i OF OPINION 1/ To MARRY LYDIA /BRING MR ACE > IMI r M5_77i <E76 words
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Article476 1947-09-09 7 MILLS STOPS BELGIAN IN "BOUND 4 Roderick Wins: Paterson TKO'd British and Empire cruiserweight chamfoo^ V u essful start on the road back to another r piu». vorld's title when he battered Pol Goffaux, t** %X sin into submission in the fourth round of fciuni"- 111 5 loun d European476 words
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62 1947-09-09 7 v ■■■itm win p ,a y Ht Son- i n of the 1 l^Lol when the, meet < ruket v f rrickH Hud on the Joho e rad e School ground, ,ohore Rihru at 1 1 a.m. on j^nt the S..n Binders: 162 words
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184 1947-09-09 7 DOBS am* n England and _dd_ese_. tan v^o scar- d it n 9 -th Ol Hng- M i W dfiSßttS. ft* 199 by Sir j PHiiaai Warner's team at Has.is vrsterdas n w requires 35 rurLs :o tea: the best season's a;_Te-..:-184 words
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Article223 1947-09-09 7 AT the S.R.G. padang where one of the two opening games in the S.A.F.A. cup competition was j played yesterday, it soon became that the Chinese Juniors would have little difficulty in knocking a weak Singapore Cricket Club out of the competition. Dominating the exchanges from the223 words
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Article239 1947-09-09 7 STARTING times and scores for the qualifying round of the Racecourse Cup competition at the Island Club on Saturday 13, are: FIRST TEE 3 p.m. R. A. Haines (18) and W. A. Jordan (18); 3.05, D. A. FerrierSmith (14) and Sim Teng Boon (18); 3239 words
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338 1947-09-09 7 Free Press Staff Reporter. MR H. TOOKE was presented with the 1947 Golf Championship Trophy of the Singapore Island Club at a social function held at the Club and attended by 200 members and guests on Saturday. Runner-up was Mr. Yong Loon Chong.338 words
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Article, Illustration69 1947-09-09 7 Sam Ichinose, Dado Marino's manager, signs the contract for the fight between Marino and Rinty Monaghan for the world flyweight title at Harringay on Oct. 20. Smoking a cigar is promoter Jack Solomons. J. B. Potter, Singapore's former Rugby captain, gets down rugger-style to field69 words
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597 1947-09-09 7 1 2 GOALS SCORED IN OPENING CUP GAMES Twelve goals were scored in the two opening games of the Singapore Amateur Football Association Cup competition played I yesterday. Nine of these came from the game at Jalan Besar where the Malays beat the Police second team by eight goals to597 words
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Article27 1947-09-09 7 r DAY'S games in the S.A.F.A. Cup competition are: Jalan Besar, Chinese Seniors vs. Naval Base; S.R.C. padang, Police Ist XI vs. Indian Association.27 words
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Article930 1947-09-09 7 Letter to Sports Editor By The Sports Editor A LETTER challenging the statement made in this page yesterday that the former* Singapore State players, Choo Seng Quee and Chwee Chua, had seen their best days and should make way for younger players who were capable of930 words
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278 1947-09-09 7 3 Barnes For S. China: Dates Confirmed DATES for three games for the South China footballers in Singapore have been confirmed. They are: Saturday. Sept. 13, v AllMalayan Malays. Sunday. Sept. 14. v Singapore Chinese Football Assn. Wednesday, Sept. 17 v Singapore Amateur Football Association. suggestion in his very next278 words
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Article192 1947-09-09 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent IPOH. Today. HEAVY rain fell this morning atj Ipoh, holding up training for Saturday, the first day of the Perak Turf Club's meeting, for more than an hour. In spite of the heavy going, however, some excellent times were returned, the192 words
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Article86 1947-09-09 7 THE following are results of English Football League matches played yesterday FIRST DIVISION Aston Villa 3 Everton 0 Blackpool 1 Blackburn 0 Burnley 0 Manchester U. 0 Sheffield U. 3 Liverpool 1 Stoke City 0 Preston 1 SECOND DIVISION Cardiff C. 5 S'hampton 1 Leicester C. 3 LutonReuter - 86 words
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Advertisement119 1947-09-09 7 MUSIC INSTITUTION -FOORMAN' TEL: 4739 Registered Name No. 4326 TEL: 4739 Directed By Prof. OTTO dc REGIN FOORMAN Conservatory of Marie Vienna— Prague 126 Orchard Road 2nd. ~loor Telep hone 4739 NEW PIANO CLASSES WILL START ON MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15th Beginners (age 6 9 yrs.) term 3 mths— 2 Lesson119 words
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Miscellaneous236 1947-09-09 7 Free Press Cross word No* 186 1 F*^F F I s F I 7 I 6 I 9 I■■ E 1 I■ I -KhJ-Lb-Mih^Mi 1 i irnr l <■ LIES ACROSS v-_ *-0-ua 3 Pr.ac- 0 f w "JU*m of Jmm 1; died insane in the Tower (6). 7, i236 words
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Article, Illustration480 1947-09-09 8 A PROTEST has been made to the Indonesian Red Cross by Mr. Hans Schweizer, delegate for Malaya of the International Red Cross, over an Indonesian broadcast from Radio Jogjakarta that Dutch officials had damaged Red Cross supplies sent from Singapore to Jogjakarta last month. Mr. Schweizer's480 words
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122 1947-09-09 8 NEW MOVE TO SETTLE ANGLOEGYPT DISPUTE LAKE SUCCESS (New York). Tuesday. AN attempt to solve the Egyptian problem by a new compromise proposal, acceptable both to Britain and Egypt, will be made in the Security Council today by Dr. T. F. Tsiang, leader of China's delegation. The proposal recognises "Egypt'sReuter - 122 words
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Article47 1947-09-09 8 A Tokio moving picture company will make a film of United! Press Correspondent Ernest Heberechfs novel "Tokio Ro-' mance" shortly, probably next I month. The company hopes to arrange with Hollywood to! borrow an American st»r I tray the role of a hero, U.P.U.P. - 47 words
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Article38 1947-09-09 8 The bodies of 16 victims flung into the River Plate, Brazil, after a collison between two ferryboats in Rio harbour have been recovered. One of the ferryboats sank and about 20 people are still missing. ReuterReuter - 38 words
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198 1947-09-09 8 LOiN'DON, Monday. MR. Arthur Humer, Communist Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, tonight, warned that another coal crisis such as Britain suffered last year could bring down the Labour Government, and menace the future of the country. He denounced the Grimethorpe miners whoReuter; U.P. - 198 words
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Article429 1947-09-09 8 Troopsfirm but restrained HAMBURG, Monday. THE Empire Rival, second of the ships carrying the 4,350 "Exodus" Jews, docked this afternoon in the same berth where the Ocean Vigour earlier today disembarked 1,400 immigrant Jews.' Disembarkation of the Empire Rival will begin tomorrow morning, officials said. Unarmed429 words
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207 1947-09-09 8 LONDON, Monday. THE Anglo-French treaty of alliance, signed by British Foreign Secretary Mr. Ernest Bevin, and the French Foreign Minister: M. Georges Bidault, on March 4 at Dunkirk, was ratified today at the Foreign Office in London. Mr. Bevin performed the ceremony for BritainReuter; U.P. - 207 words
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135 1947-09-09 8 US MAY TAKE KOREA CASE TO UNITED NATIONS WASHINGTON. Monday.— The United States Department formally announced that the four- power meeting on Korea, originally set i for today, had been "postponed". The United States proposed the meeting about a fortnight ago as a means of breaking the United States-Soviet deadlockReuter; A.P. - 135 words
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Article33 1947-09-09 8 President Chiang Kai-shek, returned to Nanking yesterday from the summer capital at Ruling to prepare for the fourth plenary session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, which opens today. U.P.U.P. - 33 words
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Article326 1947-09-09 8 300 KILLED IN DELHI RIOTING Continued from page 1 the trains and cut them to pieces. I U.P. co-respondent Joe Mi-! chaels, reported that he counted at least 50 Muslim bodies piled on the plattorm or lying in the train compartments. Order was finally res.ored in j the station byReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 326 words
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Article21 1947-09-09 8 Monsignor Cyrille, 94-year-old Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria; Jerusalem and all the East since 192* rfiprf yesterday at Alexandria. ReuterReuter - 21 words
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Article, Illustration96 1947-09-09 8 Seven employees of the General Electric Company received long service certificates and cheques at a function at the G.H. Cafe, Singapore, yesterday. Seated (left to right): Mr. J. G. Clemetson, manager, Kinta Electrical Distribution Co.. Ltd., Ipoh; Mrs. Steed, who made the presentation, and Mr. P. H. Steed, generalFree Press - 96 words
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Article511 1947-09-09 8 INDUSTRIALS IN NEW ADVANCE London Stcck Exchaa^ LU.NDOX. Mo.^ rnHE markets on the London Si (inM4^ moved in a seesaw Fashion loda n iitUetoaccm for the movements either wa> a! hoi h the risewasj3 ed to inflationary fears, says Reu I lanciart con3 dent. The industrial mark°t was ol the511 words
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Article80 1947-09-09 8 RANGOON. Monday. If YAW Myint, Rangoon High Court judge, has been aj>I oil. ted President of the Special Tribunal which will try ex-Pre-mler U Saw and others alleged to be involved in the assassination of U Aung San and six of his Cabinet Ministers. Members80 words
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222 1947-09-09 8 THE HAGUE. Monday. QUEEN WILHELMINA of the Netherlands, when she opens the Dutch Parliament on Sept. 16. will announce that the Dutch are to form interim governments in the areas they took from the Republicans in the recent fighting ln Java and Sumatra, theU.P.; Reuter - 222 words
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Article79 1947-09-09 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY St 11 m tatos a> follow t* i per It No I Bv> >P«< fc !<. j I No I H>> t > in n No B4> t° b H i„ ba --ut Si, .I.^ «*> jj, m i '4 s V|, P l r r79 words
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Miscellaneous80 1947-09-09 8 WE A THER Thunderstorm WEATHER report fot the next 24 hours compiled by the R A.F.: Cloudy with frequent thunderstorms. Wind light southerly, rusting west to sou'*h-west at 15 to 20 m.p.h. in storms M »onris 1.53 a.m.; moonset 2.29 p.m. Temperatures Max 88 dig; min. 75 dee. Rainfall .0180 words
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