The Singapore Free Press, 10 September 1947
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Title Section20 1947-09-10 1 The Singapor Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA L. *J» SINGAPOKB, WEDNESDAY, SE7TBHBER 10, IM7 PRICE 10 CENT S.20 words
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Article, Illustration422 1947-09-10 1 UE's TO SPEND $3 MILLION Expansion plan is approved Free Press Staff Reporter APPROVAL in principle was given by Singapore's n Municipal Commissioners at a special meeting yesterday to a $3,000,000 scheme for the expansion and modernisation of workshops of United Engineers Ltd., off River Valley Road. The scheme will422 words
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Article209 1947-09-10 1 t WASHINGTON, Tuesday. acting Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies, ir Bg o n van Mook, said today that the United > ir .it least, ha\e caused a "delay" in settling is Indonesia. He said he believed Dutch P&mM be allowed t.) -eliminate irresponsible armed mA.P.; Reuter - 209 words
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50 1947-09-10 1 8,000 FACTORIES HIT BY U.K. COAL STRIKES B^ Um ai field s ad Barnsie; day K -r. 44 :r. ::<•.> KM U OJ to ti-.e t< in the K s ft ipptiea ail ton an im- in I ause Austria K -i ably un- B' c H. LI '~1V” K50 words
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361 1947-09-10 1 1,000 DEAD IN DELHI IN THREE DAYS DELHI, Tuesday. of Muslims are now fleeing from Old and New Delhi, where communal carnage has taken an estimated 1,000 lives in the last three days. The rioting appeared to be slackening late on Tuesday, but the situation remains very tense. There are361 words
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Article22 1947-09-10 1 The population of the United States passed the 143,000,000 mark in April, the Washington census bureau reported yesterday. A.P.A.P. - 22 words
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Article77 1947-09-10 1 TWENTY people were reported killed when the excursion steamer Island Queen exploded and was destroyed by nre at Pittsburgh iPenn.) yesterday. The dead were all crew men. The explosion occurred shortly before several hundred excursionists were to board the vessel for an afternoon trip onReuter - 77 words
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148 1947-09-10 1 NO 'RADIO WAT IN ASIA, SAY AMERICANS MANILA. Tuesday. THE opening of a powerful American State Department shortwave broadcasting station near Manila on Thursday is intended merely to improve reception of American programmes in East Asia and not as an opening gun in a "radio war." the United States EmbassyA.P. - 148 words
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Article73 1947-09-10 1 Free Press Staff Reporter mHREE Chinese, in a motor-car, A believed to be on their way to rob a tea dealer who was due to draw a considerable sum of money, were ambushed by a posse of C.I.D. men under Inspector Cheah Teng Cheok at the73 words
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Article13 1947-09-10 1 Premier Recap Peker of Turkey and his cabinet resigned yesterday.13 words
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Article272 1947-09-10 1 LOiNDON, Tuesday. RETURNING tonight from a visit to Germany, the Secretary for War, Mr. F. J. Bellenger, hinted at further reductions in the British Army. Some correspondentsj^ook the hint to mean that part of the British Army in Germany may be withdrawn. "I have beenA.P.; Reuter - 272 words
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Article259 1947-09-10 1 PARIS, Tuesday. EXPERTS coordinating the work of the 16-nation "save Europe"" conference here have decided that a credit of $21,900,000,000 will be required from the United States to finance the proposed four-year economic recovery plan. This estimate, says Reuter, has been approved by the experts, but259 words
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Article97 1947-09-10 1 BANGKOK, Tuesday. THE inaugural meeting of the 1 South-east Asia League was held in Bangkok last night by a group of young men representing the South-East Asia countries of Siam, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya, Laos, and Cambodia. Burma and the Philippines wern not represented. The League's aiaiU.P. - 97 words
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Article82 1947-09-10 1 The possibility of bringing tuberculosis under worldwide control "within a reasonable period of time" was foreshadowed in a reDort of the expert committee on tuberculosis of the World Health Organisation now meeting in Geneva. It has been agreed that small demonstration teams should carry outU.P. - 82 words
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Article, Illustration57 1947-09-10 1 picture. In the heart of riot-torn Amriisar, a family, xoith a goat, passes down grenadeblasted streets, following recent communal rioting. In the background on the left it a mosque which a mob looted and set afire. Two British officers, serving with Indian troops hi Punjab Boundary Force Patrols, were killedA.P. - 57 words
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Article, Illustration1006 1947-09-10 2 A CONDUCTED TOUR Around Singapore Shops l ADIES and gentle- men, will you kindly take your seats, and we will start off on our first Conducted Tour of Singapore! And before I start may I warn you that any obstreporous behaviour will be promptly dealt with and the offender ejected1,006 words
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Miscellaneous846 1947-09-10 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast tor people bom today nOKN today, your activity and energy are too often guided by impulse rather than by reasoning. It would be wise for you to think everything over carefully before setting out upon a project. Sometimes when a job is started, it is846 words
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Article436 1947-09-10 3 Hotel HQ of international strategists ~rt*rs of the exclusive group which may some Ht headquar^r^ §taff of thc wor i d s fi^ mter day becom p Vf orce now meets regularly on the crowded national me f a New York hotel, writes Renter's corresfiftefnth436 words
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Article, Illustration57 1947-09-10 3 Women help city's recovery To speed the ambitious reconstruction plans of warscarred Plymouth, aU available labour has been recruited, including gangs of xoomen navvies. Here a gang of six sturdy women enjoy a mid-morning cup of tea before going on with their job of demolishing blitzdamaged houses on the sites57 words
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124 1947-09-10 3 FAILURE OF MARSHALL PLAN PREDICTED f°Sitn£^ecretar general of S^^e^ Monday that I' «i?shaU plan -onference of i::cl m thei wi meet with e i£e obstacles which deve. ?lfS 1929 when M. Anstide S VPrance invited aU EuroirSisteS ot foreign aflairs %^S^reed in principle hr- ■'•sijreed in ail measures to fA.P. - 124 words
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Article92 1947-09-10 3 A :.j.: step :r. car 1; infisat a baa been Wh AlYis, Dai:nIb Hi ari going to ian i oastei m bocbf P»t■di tan tali Lta own wfi i( rign tinguisb the ■ki Beief before tn Brittsfa Mvtndc ton imrdaied flnna ■rt um b iesign. WittReuter - 92 words
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109 1947-09-10 3 KOREAN 'DEVIL' RECAPTURED BY 700 POLICE ATSUO Hanayama, 27, alias "Devil Tatsu." of Korean ancestry, was arrested by 700 arme?l police near Tokio on Monday alter a week-long hunt. Hanayama, who allegedly robbed and killed more than a dozen persons in the Gif u and Aichi prefectures, was dh hisU.P. - 109 words
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Article52 1947-09-10 3 CEYLON CUTS GOODS IMPORTS 1: N KCdteti import r :> than 50 tasses of good t ■'„r.serve c Br q her :r risk A l B kbe fan- r lombo h". r'■ issued 22 ind motor irs sewing J'^. •■^rnetics! S' Canada, o" 1 countries v Brazil as Swit- RReuter - 52 words
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254 1947-09-10 3 Man 'fired' from 500 mph jet plane MR. BERNARD LYNCH, a 29-year-old Irishman, sat In a chair for two minutes suspended hi mid-air thousands of feet above the cornfields of Oxfordshire, hi Southern England. He had just been rocketed from a Gloster Meteor Jetplane flying at 505 m.p.h. at 12,000254 words
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194 1947-09-10 3 THE man who has probably married more people than any one else in the world, Mr. Walter GrimaWi, Superintendent Registrar, has a plan which may make marriage even more popular in London. He has married 35,000 couples in 35 years. When he was first194 words
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Article61 1947-09-10 3 ONE of the police dogs being used to combat crime in Hyde Park, London, found an abandoned baby while on patrol with a police constable. The d °s led his master to a clump of bushes where a three-month-old boy had been hidden. The child was61 words
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165 1947-09-10 3 UC. Consular authorities in Rome disclosed that the State Department ban on US citizens travelling in Yugoslavia includes correspondents representing American newspapers and agencies. The State Department prohibition was contained in instructions sent in June to all Consular representatives abroad. It followed aarinouncemente that theU.P. - 165 words
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Article51 1947-09-10 3 4 NISEI (American-born JapaiV nese) second lieutenant convicted in Toklo of demanding thousands of yen from Japanese motion picture studios and having immoral relations with a woman provided by the studios foi his entertainment, has been ntenced to a year's hard labour and dismissal from the U.S. reportsA.P. - 51 words
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Article64 1947-09-10 3 MR. LOUIS STARR, former commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Organisation, which has 2 000.000 members, has urged President Truman to call a special session of Congress to rebuild the U.S. armed forces. Mr. Starr declared that peace could be maintained only if Russia64 words
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Article94 1947-09-10 3 TTiOUR American soldiers are Ml being held in a Tijuana, (Mexico), jail without trial, and have been there since January, charged the commander of the American Legion in Wickenbury (Arizona). He asked Arizona Legion posts to demand a jury trial for the quartet, who were arrestedU.P. - 94 words
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100 1947-09-10 3 NO STANDS IN STREETS FOR ROYAL WEDDING mHE Ministry of Works has 1 announced that "in view of present-day conditions no stands will be erected in the streets for Princess Elizabeths wedding. The statement followed the passage of a resolution by the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers asserting that the shortageA.P. - 100 words
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Article, Illustration500 1947-09-10 3 INQUIRY INTO US GENERAL'S 'LUXURYLIFE' AN on-the-spot inquiry being conducted into the command of Lieut-Gen. John C. H. Lee, Commanding Officer of the 20,000 American troops in Italy, has already been anticipated by a demand on behalf of an ex-servicemen's organisation for his immediate recall, reports Renter from New York.500 words
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Article137 1947-09-10 3 'INFLATION OF BOWING' IN JAPAN THERE is too much bowing In Japanese government offices, according to the first woman appointed to a high government office in Japan. Mrs. Kikue Yamakawa, chief of the Women's and Children *s Section of the newly established Labour Ministry, described the condition in government precinctsU.P - 137 words
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94 1947-09-10 3 A RECIPROCAL air transport agreement between the Philippines and Hong Kong is at present under study by both governments. Col. Jesus Villamor. Philippines director of aeronautics, is leaving for the British colony soon to" discuss the terms for such an agreement with the Hong Kong Government.Reuter - 94 words
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Article70 1947-09-10 3 A crowd of visitors saw the Paris Zoo's 3001b. Alaskan brown bear grab its 55-year-old keeper and maul him to death. A policeman had to shoot the bear before the terribly injured man could be dragged away. The ke«per had looked after this bear for 1570 words
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Article61 1947-09-10 3 mHE British delegation to the J. United Nations at Lake Success (New York) has suggested that the Security Council should shorten its meetings and introduce "more order" Into its sittings and make some specific arrangements for vacations. Many United Nations employees, for whom dinnerU.P. - 61 words
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Article83 1947-09-10 3 WHEN Sir Steven Gilsland, Chairman of the "Enterprise Scotland" Exhibition, conducted the Queen over the Exhibition on Monday he pressed a button to illuminate a large scale model of Queen Elizabeth but the lights failed to operate and he had to select another button. The83 words
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Advertisement163 1947-09-10 3 Terry Anglepoise Lamps, Std. Portable Typewriters, R C. Allen Adding Machines Manual or Electric, Calculators, Card Index Cabinets, Steel Cupboards, Drawing Papers, other stationery supplies. REPAIRS: Expert Mf*rftftP*f*OFFICE EQU*P ME iT COMPANY, Ist Floor,- 14D/E, ChMb Street. Singapore. TEL:— 697O PTIII. >J_^ M_ MUSIC INSTITUTION "FOORMAN' XEfc: 4739 Registered Name163 words
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Miscellaneous53 1947-09-10 3 TARZAN H«w alarm By Edgar Rke Burroughs fi^Bf 1^0" f .^j%m*«w ABB^^DHBt^s I I /fi ~^w^ u \^^B wSw J t—m-t-\ tVB- l^v i I ii^X t* *^EF^^^B /^L n Ii I i^^M C-j^~^B^^^|j^p^^Mß|flßßjßßL J^flß rSßl'^^i lt*7*\* W2 V^&"^n if'iTP BrNE FACTOR WAS AT THAT l^^ttl HI //jl BuT WHEN53 words
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The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1947.
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Article765 1947-09-10 4 THE Singapore Advisory Council at its last meeting heard what was a renewal of the plea for a united Malaya— this time on the grounds of the greater efficiency and economy that would result from a single co-ordinat-ed administration for the whole country. This plea was765 words
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Article1009 1947-09-10 4 THE Nationalist movement among 70,000,000 people of the Arabic speaking world is approaching a crisis in Palestine and Egypt. Along the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean, from which the western Allies bombed and fought their way into Europe after the Nazis had overrun it, Arab1,009 words
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Article185 1947-09-10 4 (^AIRO is planning a J Fleet Street, It will not, of. course be called Fleet Street, but Sharia Al Sahafa, or Press Street. Press Street is already takine shape. Within a stone's throw of the "Journal d'Egypte" building, the new premises of ''Vkhbar el Yom". Arabic weekly with185 words
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Article49 1947-09-10 4 Is there a Marshall Plan? Does Pandit Nehru hold any other office in the new Indian Government beyond those of Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs? The Cesarewitch and the Cambridgeshire have been won by the same horse in the past 60 years? Answers in Page 6.49 words
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Article510 1947-09-10 4 THE 'BOATING SEASON' THE 4,300 Jewish refugees who tried to make an illegal journey from Germany via France to Palestine have now, after nearly 8,000 miles of wandering and hardship, been taken back to Germany by the British Government, You may be thinking that the hundreds of thousands of other510 words
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Article19 1947-09-10 4 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. Psalms. 74. 17.19 words
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Article840 1947-09-10 4 ALEXANDER CLIFFORD - EUROPE'S SICKEST NA TION ALEXANDER CLIFFORD by THE mountains are still as picturesquely rugged as ever, the meadows as brilliantly green. Cowbells still tinkle across the Alpine valleys in the evening, and the wide-eaved wooden farms still have the toy-like perfection of cuckoo clocks. The villages with their painted houses840 words
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Advertisement34 1947-09-10 4 jll ill \r\re//fo 6tt66 /tot AND GUARANTEE jjf" tI The Superb TONE QUALITY MODB^ always associated with "His Master's Voice" product? is very evident in th.s M latest model radio receiver SOLE MALAYAN WSTR«BU]JJJ34 words
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Miscellaneous8 1947-09-10 4 ii *ft— mr~^v~ r* nfiTT THE PRODICAL PARENT8 words
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Article289 1947-09-10 5 POSTAL MEN ASK MORE ALLOWANCES Free Press Staff Reporter T\ hundred members of the Singapore Union of S u r>! -i n«l Tdecww Workers are holding a meetW Sunday to consider Government's attitude rein *f! V their a PP |ication for an increase^ cost-of-l'vins al 5 secretary, Mr. M. Bala289 words
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Article31 1947-09-10 5 I-'"- rf aCi DtTCd b De soua, SJH and Ng KaJ Pan. y&srs efl Jeßoad Singa- I ir were fteii defence Mr. L. McFall C irl yester-31 words
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149 1947-09-10 5 15,000 RUBBER WORKERS TO FEDERATE Free Press Chinese Correspondent PLANS are afoot to form a PanMalayan Federation of Rubber Workers' Unions with the object of promoting the interests of workers and getting better terms of employment. The proposal to organise a Pan-Malayan Federation of Rubber Workers' Unions was made at149 words
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Article94 1947-09-10 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FOl'R representatives of the Malayan YWCA will be going to China to attend the World Council conference at llangchow from Oct. 15 to 27. Yesterday, Miss Ruth Woodsmall, General Secretary of the World YWCA, arrived in Singapore from Indonesia on her94 words
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Article337 1947-09-10 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, By Air Mail. r rHERE is general agreement in London commodity circles that there are reasonable prospects of a fair expansion in the tin and rubber output of the Netherlands East Indies in the not-distant future, states a review published337 words
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Article300 1947-09-10 5 Malaya will get more China cloth Free Press Chinese Correspondent fHINA'S plans for expansion of the South-East' Asia markets for cotton textiles and yarn have not been fully realised, Mr. K. T. Lee, Chinese Trade Commissioner, Malaya, told the Free Press. He gave as reasons for this the civil war300 words
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Article50 1947-09-10 5 Two Chinese, Kon Jik. alias Koh Jik Sing, and Chua Tae Keow were charged in the Seventh Police Court yesterday with conspiring together on Sunday to abduct Mr. Tan Kai Tiang. A remand in police custody for 48 hours was ordered by the Magistrate Mr. B. L. Chua.50 words
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Article96 1947-09-10 5 ESTATES IN SUMATRA TAP AGAIN THE political and economic situation is generally improving on Sumatra's east coast, according to Dr. J. J. van de Velde, Government Commissioner for Civil Affairs there. Various plantations in Delhi Asahan and Simeloengan have resumed operations. Dr. de Velde stressed that recovery and rehabilitation were96 words
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Article190 1947-09-10 5 THE Rent Conciliation Board has been constituted in Singapore, with Major R. N. S. Zehnder as .president. The other members are Mr. A. Greenhill and Mr. J. F. L. Cowin. The Board shall sit at the Civil District Court, Singapore, and an application to the Board shall190 words
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Article360 1947-09-10 5 lu men going from Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter MR. R. P. Bingham, Commissioner for Labour, will 111 head the Singapore party of ten out of possibly 28 Malayan delegates who will attend the Asian Preparatory Regional Conference of the International Labour Organisation at360 words
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Article, Illustration32 1947-09-10 5 MISS RUTH WOODSMALL, General Secretary of the World YWCA, who is in Singapore en route to China for the World Council meeting in Hangchow from Oct. 15 to 27. Free Press picture.32 words
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Article, Illustration65 1947-09-10 5 MR. CLAUDE MASSEY, Australian Government representative in Singapore is seen shaking hands with Mr. OTTO FOORMAN at the classical concert staged recently by Otto and Regin Foorman at Haw Par Lodge in Pasir Panjang. The concert introduced the pupils of the Foorman Music Institute who played before a large and65 words
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Article36 1947-09-10 5 MALACCA, Tuesday. Malacca's one-day "hartal," organised by the Chinese in protest against the proposed new Constitution ot Malaya, was marked by a complete crippling of the Settlement's transport services. Busmen and trishawmen were idle.36 words
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Article63 1947-09-10 5 I The Singapore lawyer, Mr. S. C. Groho, will appear in the Singapore High Court on Sept. 16, to answer allegations of contempt of the President of the Rent Assessment Board, Mr. H. E. Kingdon. This was decided by Mr. Justice Brown at the High63 words
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130 1947-09-10 5 MR. H. N. Balhetchet, chairman of the Singapore Teachers' Union, asked to comment on the action of the Malay teachers in boycotting the Singapore elections, said that the stand taken by the Malay Teachers* Union was eminently correct. He further str.ted that at any rate six130 words
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Article65 1947-09-10 5 A Chinese, Lee Ah Puay, was charged in the Second Police Court yesterday with using nis room at 4, Chitty Road, for the purpose of administering morphine not being a medical practitioner or licensed dentist. After the charee had been explained he was allowed bail of $250 by65 words
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Article27 1947-09-10 5 The output for the month of August of the Henrietta Rubber Estate Ltd. was 156,300 lb., and of Sungei Matang Rubber Estate. Ltd. 43,300 lb.27 words
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Article149 1947-09-10 5 FOR the information of the Chinese, the Controller of Immigration, Malayan Union, announces that application for entry into Malaya should be addressed to their respective State Immigration Officer or Deputy Commissioner for Labour. In Selangor, applications should be sent to the Controller of Immigration, Kuala Lumpur. Applications149 words
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Article203 1947-09-10 5 THE following newiy-addi-d aonfiction and fiction works will be ready for issue from Raffles Library j on Saturday: Richard Crossman. Palestine Mission; Robert Graves and A. Hodge. The Reader over your Shoulder; Holbrc k Jackson, The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear; R. C. McMillan. Plant- j ing203 words
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Advertisement104 1947-09-10 5 "R, Start his f& The QuajcWl^f^^ PEP AND ENERGY Jj l\ ARE VITAL r/ Jrlt^ FOR SUCCESS M' J There is no better way to <j supply extra stamina than ri I i^^m by a healthful breakfast of MgM nature's energy food nMH^^^^«H Quaker Oats. Whole grain oats are abundant104 words
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Article, Illustration329 1947-09-10 6 HUNTING FOR A HORSE WHEN Paramount w Studios a few months ago launched a nationwide search for a horse, veterans on the lot shook their Meads in despair and suggested that the script be completely rewritten without one. Horses, hprses and more horses were "interviewed." Owners and trainers of race329 words
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Article142 1947-09-10 6 FIFTY hefty, middle-aged actors are wanted to play American tough guys in Mae West's awn play, "Diamond Lil." in London. Mae, who turned down 2,000 a week to play in London before ths. war, has packed her bags for Britain due on September 11 to start142 words
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Article460 1947-09-10 6 QOME strange advenhave befallen Sara All-good (who has the loveliest voice of any living actress) since she forsook the Paycock of Dublin for the pay-cheque of California. But none stranger, I imagine, than to find herself the mother of the Dorsey Brothers. She has this experience in 'itoe460 words
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Article28 1947-09-10 6 1. No. General Marshall suggested that Europe should evolve a plan. 2. Yes. Minister for Scientific Research. 3. No. Plaisanterie won the Autumn double in 1885.28 words
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Article124 1947-09-10 6 TWO most informative documentaries seen at a press show last week are to be screened at the Cathay tomorrow when the programme changes. One is entitled "Chinese in Britain" and the other is No. 8 in This Modern Age series "Sudan Dispute." "Chinese in Britain." although filmed during the124 words
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Article358 1947-09-10 6 Studio Chatter A DAY'S break in her holiday meant a round air trip of 1,600 miles for Norwegian star, Greta Gynt. From her native Oslo, where she attended the Royal Command Performance of the Cineguild film 'Take my Ufe," she flew to Northolt Airfield London,358 words
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Article112 1947-09-10 6 QOME earnings of Hollywood film stars and film chiefs for last year are given in a Treasury list published in Washington. They include Leo McCarey (director', £88.856: Darryl Zanuck (producer). £65,000; Betty Grable. £52.000; Olivia de Haviland. £51 750 Ray Milland. £40.458 Bin fc Crosby. £43.750: Charles Boyer, £33,750;112 words
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Article, Illustration241 1947-09-10 6 ARE you looking for South 's doublt It doesn't exist except in the fact that the opponents can make hearts (six, if South doesn't open a spade) and that West can make six clubs against any defence. To many players the mystery n this bidding is not241 words
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Article, Illustration166 1947-09-10 6 JEAN KENT'S LIFE famous 4 l dancer, viv^i*, Kent. fc Corner to flni^gjf takm^ :,.r mother* < WStUHM -r.d:ookh«SS i ■kllelte Si rated ia Uie wtacs *2J to be mtdoesi Thatai J* snort-aghJT Jean .aced her mother' J to; he rest ol Uietow lSttt Ing tremendoos ova-.iOQ6 I*. ever shr166 words
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Miscellaneous154 1947-09-10 6 MSIIm^riCS Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya 3 I THEN -AN EMPTY CAR DROVE I I YOU SIMPLETON/ I WATCHED/ I I- AND DROVE I lIT WAS-^ L i-_ AWAY-THEN THE PLANE WAS NOTHING OISAPPEAREO/ THE OFF WHILE L BLACK SIRE,WE-WE <? ARE YOU THERE AGAIN- WHOLE CROWD154 words
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Article155 1947-09-10 7 Missed At 22, Scores 86 HASTINGS, Tuesday. vr rar >uth of England against Sir Pelham P 1 v V O Denis Compton lived up to the great ex- irn 0 his admirers who almost seemed to demand pete**" 6 l should surpass Tom Hayward's 41-year- runs155 words
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Article, Illustration30 1947-09-10 7 Chinese goalkeeper Chee Seng has an anxious moment when faced by Naval Base inside-right Logan in yesterday's Cup soccer at the Stadium, but the opportunity was missed.— Free Press picture.30 words
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Article93 1947-09-10 7 THE following have been selected to represent the 223 8.0.D. Civilian Assn Juniors against the Red Rocket B.P. in a friendly game of four Singles l and three Doubles on Saturday at 7 p m. at the Brighton B.P.'s court at 177 Haig Road. Players will assemble at93 words
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Article73 1947-09-10 7 t\ r the IV am tc IS Port- r N< v round scor» f6l Id it J mat Park I witti the e«w; :vvc rounds iIC use go fdr- B a Oi *r:^ rcra: d )nal mat h aln tl r p team, bad 71,A.P. - 73 words
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34 1947-09-10 7 car tbc i-~.i ;-r.-r... mer'xs recently 5 --o^ar^r^ toe v k Adam M- L-v Bee Cho« r. o. f7' v v- cm fc v W Kan 3MI QM CMB34 words
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Article29 1947-09-10 7 A "r- the Brt- r r; A ►ccupa- r ad to the k am i■ H- c 3 f ta the 100 r 'oil ReuterReuter - 29 words
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310 1947-09-10 7 F AMOUS CYCLI NG TRACK TO BE REBUILT Mil I granted I 7 I sad I I I Until Harris captured the title the j honour had stayed abroad for 25 years qune fittingly, the NCU gave a 1 d^r.ner |a mark the occasion on the j ever.mc ;f theReuter - 310 words
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Article, Illustration817 1947-09-10 7 and he has one of the deadliest leftfoot shots in the game. He is soccer-craay, has declined a West Indies cricket tour this winter In rcer to play it and declares h;s biggest ambition is to win an England cap at Hampden Park or Wembley.817 words
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Article230 1947-09-10 7 88. RUSSELL, 28-year-old in- surance official from Kilternan County. Dublin, was killed when his machine, a Moto Guszi, crashed on the fifth lap of the lightweight race in the Manx Grand Prix motor-cycle races for amateur riders held over the famous tourist trophy courseReuter; A.P. - 230 words
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42 1947-09-10 7 LEN Kenny, a 22-yoar-o!d Queensland ,winger. has accepted terms to play for Leeds Rugby League team, and will sail for England on September 23. Kenny signed m registration forms for Leeds before the transfer ban was im-42 words
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Article150 1947-09-10 7 THE All-Malayan Malay soccer tram to meet the South China footballers at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday will be selected from 12 players from the Malayan Union and three from Singapore. Players from the Union will arrive in Singapore on Friday morning, and in the150 words
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Article586 1947-09-10 7 Free Press Staff Reporter Indians 4; Police I 5 niSPLAYING better team-work ?.ni taking full advantage of the opportunities that ca*ne their wav, the Initial Association defeated the Polce Ist XI by four gca*s to .t\*< in an S.A.F.A. Cup Competition fixture on586 words
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115 1947-09-10 7 Jack Rowley A Rival To Tommy Lawfon JACK ROWLEY (Manchester Unitedi is now. being j plugged on various waieleny*hs j as "King of ceJitre ioriLards." I England selectors' eyes are on Rowley. Nev:s of his four goals against Charlton has percolated to international level. {l is name in now bracketed115 words
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Article46 1947-09-10 7 The following are U.K. football results yesterday. THIRD DIVISION (Northern) I Rochdale 1 Accrington 3 Tranmere 3 Gateshead 0 GLASGOW CUP (Semi-final) Queen'z Pari; 2 Range. -5 2 Rugby Union results: Exeter 0 Llanelly 10- n?>v 6. Elbeu- ler.s I France) 5 ReuterReuter - 46 words
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Article738 1947-09-10 7 By Our Soccer Reporter Chinese Seniors 4 Naval Base 1 IN a game that was chiefly' notabe for two spectacular g ais scored by Ah Yik and Ken; Hock, the Singapore Chinese Football Association Seniors cleared their first hurdle in the S.A.F.A. cup competition at738 words
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Miscellaneous285 1947-09-10 7 Free Press Crossword No- 183 •5 i6 T^"^M W\ CLUES ACROSS 1, French Algerian cavalryman (5 4. Cargo (4) 7, Only all-Jewisl! city m the world (3. 4). 10. Fragments from meals (4). 11, Small shark also called dog-fish (4>. 12,* Libertines (9). 14, Famous painter of court beauties (4).285 words
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Article123 1947-09-10 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. INVITATIONS for an 11-natior. preliminary Japanese peace conference, to meet in the United Static, will "most probably" be i^ued within the next few days. a":ording to informed sources here. It is proposed that the conference get under way during the United Nations GeneralU.P. - 123 words
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Article100 1947-09-10 8 MUNICH, Tuesday. "CJCARFACE" Otto Skorzeny &5 wartime commander of the Nazi 150th Panzer brigade who rescued Mussolini from Allied hands, and nine of his officers w^ re acquitted in a Dachau war crimes court today of charges involving the use of American army uniforms for infiltration100 words
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Article54 1947-09-10 8 Radio Moscow said yesterday <hat Premier Stalin took a 300--mile, one-day cruise acros 5 the Black Sea from the Crimea to th^ Caucasus Oy, August 19 aboard the 6,800-ton Soviet cruiser Molotov. The broadcast gave no hint as to whether Stalin remained at Sochi, wher P he has54 words
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Article331 1947-09-10 8 Chiang says Reds must be crushed NANKING, Tuesday. fiENERALISSHHO Chiang Kai-shek called for solid unity J within the Kuomintang Party to crush "our greatest enemies, the Chinese Communists" and complete the work m the national revolution, when he opened the fourth plenary session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee thisReuter - 331 words
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Article, Illustration33 1947-09-10 8 The River Avon always attracts lovers of boating, swimming and fishing. The lIAMF group in this photograph are fairly representative of people who prefer the cool ilWiWlfc river during the heat of summer.33 words
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Article216 1947-09-10 8 1 ,000 DEAD IN DELHI RIOTS Continued from Page 1 and children, battered, stabbed or shot to death lay In pools of blood beaieath the wheeling vultures. Apart from stray incidents New Delhi was quiet. Five thousand Muslims who had taken refuge in the backyard of the GovernorGeneraTs palace movedA.P.; U.P.; Reuter - 216 words
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Article127 1947-09-10 8 ROME, Tuesday. I TCARM workers in the rice-grow- r ing Veneaia Province—bor--1 dering the Po Valley, where 1 1.000.000 Italian farmers struck i yesterday— today joined in a strike for better conditions. Outside the rice- growing area the real centre of agitation the strike was moreReuter; A.P. - 127 words
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102 1947-09-10 8 CLEARING MORIB AIRFIELD OF MORTAR BOMBS Free Press SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. MILITARY authorities state that men of the Royal Engineers have begun the arduous work of ridding Morib airfield and the adjacent Kelanang Estate of "mortar bomb" menace, which had earlier resulted in an Indian labourer losing his102 words
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Article189 1947-09-10 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. fTWO hundred houses of a semi-permanent type are to be x erected here on State land to relieve the housing shortage, if the recommendations of the Malayan Union Housing Committee are accepted by the Government The decision to embark189 words
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38 1947-09-10 8 The two Pip&r Cub fliers on a round the world trip landed at Farouk airfield outside Cairo yesterday. The first set down a,t 4.11 p.m. and tJi* second two minutes later.- U.P.U.P. - 38 words
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Article277 1947-09-10 8 Exodus ship 'battle': bomb found HAMBURG, Tuesday. 1 HOME-MADE bomb was dis- covered on the Empire Rival today alter her Jewish refugee passengers had disembarked peacefully. The bomb was rushed off the ship, but before, explosive experts arrived it exploded with terrific force. Ninety per cent, of the 1,500 JewishReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 277 words
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Article140 1947-09-10 8 Free Press Staff Reporter mHREE Chinese armed robbers A turned a deaf ear to a 38--year-old labourer, Lim Kim Chye, who begged in vain for an hour for his life during an armed hold-up at 12.30 a.m. yesterday. The robbers shot Lim through the brain before140 words
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Article56 1947-09-10 8 SOME 700 officers and men of the 266th Indian Infantry Brigade were entertained yesterday in Singapore at the Cox Social Club for Indian Troops. The Brigade arrived here yesterday, by the hired transport Strathnaver, after having completed 16 months' service with the BCOF in Japan. They56 words
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Article435 1947-09-10 8 Singapore sales half complete HALF of the work of th« British Stow» Disposals Board in H the Singapore area te done, returning toe^itish Treasury more than £1^50,d00 or roughly $10,000,000, thus relieving some of the burden on the British Uuqpjtr who bought the stores for435 words
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Article, Illustration50 1947-09-10 8 EJECTED FROM UNO Ahmed Kamel Kotb. represent ai n Ihc T^^^^l hood, was thrown out of the Vnitea \atiai* f 05 *«fc Chamber by guard*, one of whom cZ had abused and accosted the Kowptian Prim, w ifotb -«SrT Pasha, during the Security Council 'on t?T-**i against Britain lhe «W«n^50 words
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Article501 1947-09-10 8 London Stock Exchange TODAY was one of the most uneventful experience?' J A London Stock Exchange for some considerable tell says Reuter's financial correspondent. Opening mllm owing: to the coal strike situation, a few cheac buvwJH versed the trend. Industrials continued to provide tfead movement501 words
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Article138 1947-09-10 8 AN appeal for members for the n Friends of Singapore was made over Radio Malaya by Prof. T. H. Silcock last night. Professor Silcock said that the Friends of Singapore applied no tests to in tending members. The Friends of Singapore was founded as a society138 words
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Article205 1947-09-10 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. A SINGAPORE girl, winner of a cx Queen's scholarship, is specialising in Soviet administration. She is Miss E Sadka, of Singapore, who won the scholarship in 1033 and who in 1942 obtained a Carnegie grant to carry out research* in Soviet administration205 words
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Article111 1947-09-10 8 4 SPECIAL Market cam A rnt gives the prim 4^ at 11 .i m today as follow Buyers Mi Cts per 1b pel No i a itf spot lo<i-( nominal J^S No I R.J> !■> '"X in hale> s^pt Ms No 2 R.S.S foil in kalH111 words
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Article39 1947-09-10 8 hav< a•• fol S *iM l 20( w a r »t»' shi] ar 1 cruia i The \rl\lJ&* the V- ed N:/ a :ii^ COB f^rt powers *J he« th Security vO a*.^ rhe Russian catri39 words
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Advertisement68 1947-09-10 8 DEATH STARR. Fred Starr, aged 71. beloved husband of Heater, passed away i at 8, Cairahill Circle, this morninr. Funeral at Bldadari today at 5.15 p.m You Like Your Prints To Last Longer 3IVE US A TRIAL Orders can new be executed on fkMf matt rearb or velvet oapw LYON68 words
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Miscellaneous54 1947-09-10 8 WEATHER Bright periods WEAiafcß report Cot the next M hour* compiled by Ike B A.F.: Bright periods with scattered showers aroand da«k. Risk of thunderstorms early to-morrow morning Wind sou -easterly Uyht. Sanset 6.35; sunrise 5.27. Moonrise 2.56 a.m.; moonset 2 *9 p.m Temoeratares: Rfax. M.t dog niin. "5 S54 words
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Miscellaneous11 1947-09-10 8 SPORE HIGH TIDES High: 6.50am; 5 16p.m. low: 10.55 a. m;11 words
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