The Singapore Free Press, 24 September 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press ARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 5 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    50 1 picture. Britain's largest flying boat, the Short-Saro "Shetland", is seen taking the water at its launching by Short Brothers Ltd.. at Rochester, Kent. The aircraft, which can carry 70 passengers and a crew of 11 at a maximum speed of 267 m.p.h., has a cruising ranae of 4,650 miles.- Planet
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    PAKISTAN WANTS UNO OBSERVERS
    675 1 f%r threat m Western India NEW DELHI, Tuesday. MitfgXStiaii that Pakistan and the Union of India sih a-k for the despatch of United Nations vcrs to India came tonight on the heels of reports litae Union has >eni troops to the Kathiawar states rotect them against
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    GIFT TO HOSPITALS
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    BIGGEST U.K. AIRBORNE EXERCISES
    150 1 BIGGEST U.K. AIRBORNE EXERCISES LONDON, Tuesday. DRITAIN today staged its biggest airborne manoeuvres sino* the war. The Army and Air Chiefs of Staffs, Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery and Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Tedder, saw 1.000 men, with guns, jeips and other equipment parachuted on to the dropping zone of Salisbury
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    STILL TOO FEW SAVING POWER
    140 1 Free Press StafT Reporter Singapore Chinatown, New Bridge and North Bridge Roads and the Geylang area stood out to air observers as the best Ul districts m the island last night. Th s observers were members of a Press party who were taken on a
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    I.E.F.C. SUSPENDS SUGAR CONTROL
    77 1 I.E.F .C. SUSPENDS SUGAR CONTROL Washington, Tuesday. 'pHE allocation of world sugar A supplies is suspended, at least until the end of this year, the International Emergency Food Council has announced. The action has been taken as a result of the unexpectedly high sugar supplies coming forward, and prospects for
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    SHARP U.S. SCRUTINY OF AID PLAN
    188 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A SEARCHING American scrutiny awaits Western Europe's estimate that it must have $22,440 million worth of help m the next four years tc get back on its feet. State Department officials said today that the report of the■l6--nation Paris conference will be
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    Arabs warn UN on partition
    258 1 NEW YORK, Tuesday. -THE Arao countries tod^y threatened counter-measures x against the United States after Syria had predicted a complete rupture of relations with any member supporting the plan now before the United Nations General Assembly tor the partition of Palestine The spokesman said the
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    KILLEARN FOR JAPAN TALKS
    70 1 London. Tuotia*. I OKI) KILLEARN, Special Tom. missioner m South. East Asia, is expected to l>e Britain, chief representative at the coming Allied pence conference on Japan, Foreign Office —feci Indicated today. *»lr. Malcolm Mai Donald, Gov-ernor-General of Malaya, will lake over tin* functions of tbe
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    U.S. TO CUT GRAIN EXPORTS TO EUROPE
    146 1 U.S. TO CUT GRAIN EXPORTS TO EUROPE WASHINGTON. Tuesday. PRESIDENT Truman is weighing recommendations today for voluntary food rationing at home and smaller grain shipments abroad as the most feasible approach to soaring domestic prices and threatened unrest overseas. This information came from officials m a position to know, but
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    BOY ON MURDER CHARGE
    77 1 I RATING a plum, a small boy whose name and age were not given, walked into a courtroom m Birkenhead (Lanes) yesterday to face a charge of murdering a nine-month-old baby girl. It was alleged that the boy took the baby from her pram outside her
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    ROBBERY VICTIM SHOT IN LEG
    54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE was shot in the leg, at two this morning, when one of the four robbers who broke into his hut, three miles oil Seletar Road. Singapore, fired as he left. The robbers had ransacked the hut. and collected $5
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    U.S. WILL BUY MORE RUBBER FOR STOCKS
    291 1 U.S. WILL BUY MORE RUBBER FOR STOCKS Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. THE U.S. Government will again be m the market for rubber for their stockpile programme this th-ft it^ 6 w l3 V Tele .S ra P h > which understands from 2?onni^?* ln entlon ls to raise
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    Dutch not to send army to Germany
    147 1 Dutch not to send army to Germany THE HAGUE, Tuesday*. UOLLAND will not take part m the Allied occupation of Germany next year as was planned, according to an official report on the Dutch war budget for 1943 issued tonight. Holland's economic and financial position and military commitments m the
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    U.K. EDITOR ON SEDITION CHARGE
    66 1 BRITAIN'S High Court on Tuesday granted leave to the British Government to begin a prosecution against James Caunt. a provincial newspaper editor, on urges of seditious libel because of an allegedly anti-Semitic article m his paper, lhe "Morecambe and Neysham Visitor.'' ili-" article was published
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    PREMIER IN PEIPING
    12 1 Premier Chang Chun lias arrived m Peiping from Manchuria.
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  • FOR WOMEN.
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      TOURIST VIEW
      827 2 Around Singapore Shops CURE, Momma. Sure I'll help you arrange your notes for your4;alk to the Women's Club. What was the title? Ori Yes, v Shops of All Nations/ You're doing Singapore now, eh? Well where do we start? THE CHINA COMPANY! Wa-al, that was the place whore
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      RUSSIA'S HUNDRED 'SECRET' ATOM CITIES
      382 3 RUSSIA'S HUNDRED 'SECRET' ATOM CITIES cmntic development m remote areas ANL hundred huge new industrial cities and atomic energy V development centres comparable to America's Oakridge atom plant are being built up in Russia today with so little fanfare that they are as unknown to most Russians as they are
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      14 3 BVVCB m I' t,\ A thi H Berlin 1 had J* *l€ o/ Planet
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      AUSTRALIA FEARS RIVALS FOR N. GUINEA
      46 3 -pea" t might for r< »m ie Territory is he declared. Bri>n "and to hold the or do i '.rnen our 'o mere.. n the condition ■Mir. pital from LIz 0n!o 5 r ,r deil sur- be C'lntinued Reuter AAP
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      LOVE VERSUS U.S. OFFICIALS
      55 3 IU I PAR, husband of American actress Virginia Bruce, beHeres that love will surmount I'nited States Immigration barriers, but American officials are not so sure. Officials said Ipar b?came m. eligible for American citizenship because he refused, during his live years m America, to enlist m
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      U.S. OCCUPATION COSTS ARE INCREASING
      108 3 OCCUPYING Japan, Korea, Germany and other former enemy territory is going to cost the United States many more millions than ordinarily expect-r-d. the Senate Appropriations Committee reveals. Estimates on the increase ranged from $265,000,000 to $500,000, 000 over the fund allotted by Congress. The apparent
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      NEWSPRINT FROM COMMON CLAY
      88 3 THE manufacture of newsprint i from common clay is the lates; ■Ugcettton for saving millions of American and Canadollars, and supplying every need to Britain's hard hit news- i papers. Mr. Rob Edwards, tcttng General Secretary of the Chemi- I ca] Worker, Union reveals that there
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      DEATH OF ROYAL ORGANIST
      92 3 SIR Walter AkOCk, former organ's-, at Salisbury Cathedral. iius died at Salisbury, aired eighty-five. Hp. was organist at Twickenham Parish Church at 20 and later of the Chapels Royal, and assistant organist at Westminster Abbey. Played at th P coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra.
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      BIG FINE FOR SMUGGLING
      24 3 -old I laboi;: total ol i l pleaded i to I uncustomed goods P-nd to the value him a Reuter
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      PILGRIMS BY AIR
      48 3 A Vickers Vikinu aircraft operated by Airwork Limited of London left Mombasa <Kenya> on Monday to carry Muslim pilgrims from East Africa and the Comoro islands, m the Indian Ocean, to •Jeddah. the Arabian port for a i rive inps WIJI De I made.— Reuter
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      'Bulge' battle was a SHAEF 'failure'
      169 3 THE "Battle* of the Bulge," Hitler's last desperate offensive through the Ardennes just before Christmas 1944, was "wholly unnecessary and due entirely to failure of command" on the part of SHAEF (General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Supreme Allied Headquarters), a staff officer of the late
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      STUDENT TO FILM STAR IN A WEEK
      96 3 FROM student to film star within one week is the record of Conrad Phillips junior, son of a novelist, whose home is at Cedars Road, Maidenhead. Six feet tall. dark, and twenty-three-years-old, hp was mi n the final division at the Royal Academy
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      Film dog gets false teeth
      55 3 CILM ACTING dog Daisy is having her false teeth replaced by Dr. Leo Neimeyer, a leading Hollywood dentist. Dnisy had been gnawing a bone when b^r of four glistening "uppers." Dr. Neimeyer says that Da.s.* lesa nervous than most of his human patients, who include
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      Their music hath no charms
      69 3 Their music hath no charms Member* of the British Musicians Union—both jazz and classical players -recently staged a protest meeting, outside the Covent Garden Opera House in London .against the engagement of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for a season at the Opera House. Pickets will parade outside the theatre every
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      Britain's part in Europe 'self -aid'
      287 3 ORITAIN has promised to try to resume coal exports to Europe next April. The pledge is contained m a statement summarising: Britain's proposed contribution to European self-help under the Marshall Plan, reports a I'nited Press correspondent. Britain hopes to export 6,000,000 tons of coal
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      UK. EXPLORERS MISSING IN ANTARCTIC
      95 3 LONDON, Tuesday. THHEE British explorers are missing alter their airplane disappeared on a flight to the bleak, uncharted, and unexplored east coast of Graham Land m the Antartic. th^ colonial Office has announced. American aircratt have been unable to locate the missing trio. The plane
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      FLOOD DANGER IN TOKIO IS OVER
      66 3 THE worst of Tokio's floods is r.ow over, according to observers who say the water is slowly receding. Thousands of houses, however, are still under three or four feet of water m Tokio's suburbs and it will take several days before any appreciable subsidence
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      BRITISH C-IN-C RESIGNS
      40 3 THE resignation of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Sholto Douglas, as British Com-mander-in-Chief m Germany, was officially announced m London on Tuesday night. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, present Deputy Military Governor win replace him- Reuter
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      FILM STAR DEAD
      38 3 Harry Carey. (69) veteran motion picture actor and cowboy hero of the silent screen, has died at his home m suburban Brentwood (Hollywood). The cause ol death w&_«*. a blood clot m the heart.- A.P.
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      SURVIVOR FOUND
      55 3 The last of the passengers who bailed out of a U.S. Army transport plane over the Philippines on Sunday, Cpl. Vernon Meadows, has been found perched high on a pine tree m a mountainous area of North Luzon. One man was killed m the parachute jump. The remaining
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      POLES RENEW CHARGES AGAINST U.S.
      139 3 WARSAW, Tuesday. M Wiktor Grosz, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman asserted yesterday the Polish Government has confirmed the charges that the American Embassy m Warsaw had had dealings with the underground. Answering the U.S. State De- partment's denial of the charges. M. Grosz said the accusation
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      CHINA LIKELY TO CLAIM BACK RYUKYU ISLES
      430 3 CHINA LIKELY TO CLAIM BACK RYUKYU ISLES A DEMAND for the return to China of the Ryukyu (Luchus) chain of 140 islands, the largest and best known of which is Okinawa, is being: raised by certain small but influential circles m the country as the date for the 11-nation preliminary
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      SIR MALCOLM WILL TRY AGAIN
      124 3 DEPLYING to suggestions that he had given up all hope of attacking his own world water speed record this year with his jet propelled Bluebird 11, Sir Malcolm Campbell says he is certainly not throwing his hand m and the only thing to stop him
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      WINDFALL FROM UNKNOWN AUNT
      83 3 MRS. Florence Colquhoun. wife of a £5 a week fitter and twenty-five year old mother of four, of Sunbury-on-Thamcs (Middlesex), remembered vaguely that her father used to tell of Aunt Edith in America She has received a letter from Wall Street solicitors telling her that she
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      20,000 MORE MEN IN GREEK ARMY
      75 3 A temporary strengthening oi the Greek Army by 20,000 men. bringing the number under arms to 140.000, was announced on Monday night by Mr. Dwight P. Griswold, head of the American aid to Greece mission. "The mission has promised aid for some increase m
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      LOUNGE SUITS FOR ROYAL WEDDING
      155 3 LOUNGE SUITS FOR ROYAL WEDDING MORNING dress, lounge suits or service dres_ will be worn by men guests at the wedding ot Princes^ Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip Mountbatten on Nov. 20. It will b e th c first time lounge suits have been permitted at a Royal wedding. It is
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      CAT RESCUED
      23 3 A fire-engine on Tuesday made a 16-mile journey from Penzance (Cornwall) to rescu c a cat 45 feet up a tree
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      197 2 THE PEKING*C^?^ 81. HIGB BTBECT TEAKWOOD CARVED Pllei teak a camphor wood r N > MADE TO OjtoF?** 1 P R A CX INT BACKING- as-mcc, BLACKWOOD NEST TARI p Qc FROM $95^ SET 0 V I H G~*V 37. STAMFORD ROAD siNGAp CHiNESP: MAH JONg' *J*^l FROM $4 J
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      921 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast fur people burn Luday got; a today, you ha\c y our v own id mm and hold to ihem Mweagli thick and thin— with on exception. Your lam.ly and thoj*e close to you arc a hie to influence you to agree to things which >ou
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  • LEADER.
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1947. The Real Crisis
      746 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1947. The Real Crisis SOMETHING has gune radically wrong With UNO. It has become a forum ol national passions, as far removed as it could be from the magnificent purpose of its builders. Tlit* proceedings m the new session of (he General Assembly
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      THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
      1320 4  -  Muriel Tern science wonders m by •TAR- aeroplanes, typewriters without ribbons, ultra-violet rays m the kitchen to make tough meat tender, doors which open themselves, refriger ators 44 laid on like water and gas, movable walls m houses, streets and clothes warmed by electricity, wireless which
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      COSTERMONGERING
      613 4  -  IAN COSTER m New Zealand BOOK MAKERS don't exist (theoretically) m this beautiful country of unlimited food. But all the same 2,000 bookies belong to a sportsmen's association. Having made the last hop of this sentimental journey by flying-boat across the 1,300-mile Tasman Sea m eight hours from Sydney,
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      Man who wants to cup Britain's meat
      575 4  - Man who wants to cup Britain's meat NOEL MONKS by V: Hi IN U X Miguel Miranda, the man who is ready to lop 5 1 jd. off Britain's meat rai ion, has the owlish looks and husky voice of Leslie Henson but he's no comedian. He's the most deadly
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      NEW AID IN WAR ON CANCER
      45 4 I; TMAN Kodak Coon j has ann i chemical ccaja r.par.y a**s »1 /.bete* _rc_» pic n 13 which is used mi m a "highly usable" fort* .•mg extensive cm Aim I ;er"cou'_K« .rch. The committee OD S2J A.P.
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      SHARP DROP IN HARBOUR CRIME
      461 5 Port Police commended top cc Staff Reporter HI. sharp drop m crime figures m the Singapore Harbour Hoard area over the past six weeks—from 311 cases m March to 45 m August this year-has earned the commendation of the Singapore mercantile community. Businessmen told the
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      141 5 From plank-and-attap huts, most of which were tumbledown, market gardeners are beginning to move into new concrete prefabs built by the Smgavore Improvement Trust. These pictures show some of the huts m the process of demolition one of the conditions of tenancy m the new Trust houses. A market gardener
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      BRITISH ARMY OFFICER FACES ARMS CHARGE
      169 5 IN the Seventh Police Court I yesterday, Captain charlei Her*y Foss, a British Army officer who wa<s charged witn the possession of a German Lueger automatic pistol, was allowed bail of $1,000 m one surety. Mr. P. F. de Souza, defending said that Mr.
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      11,000 firms on register in Singapore
      17 5 11,000 firms on register in Singapore ra ib- Loe r firms ide I _s in the I
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      CHINESE FINED $8,750 FOR HOARDING RUCE
      24 5 CHINESE FINED $8,750 FOR HOARDING RUCE L Mr 1 t. I ilty to v b*u_ o: junk. Em- :ment I I I four I
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      AWARDS FOR AIDING TROOPS
      32 5 i 'he j<*r, f~ r P. A E If the Rv- to mZ' i panose! f M unt r Tung of 358-6 36 A. Sdi.^2' A irdMr the
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      TUG TO WING US DISABLED SHIP
      47 5 TUG TO WING US DISABLED SHIP I Dh Waterfront Reporter ore on Friday is the 7,165-ton which lo<t a propellor m the. iftcr leaving Singapore. She is [arbour Board tug, Griper, rescuer of i recent months, ran aground off to i Jw" m ktm* j I I
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      35 5 picture. .«att3mmmaamjataaewi»aoei»!:«x\im{im.\i Sox rf Sr-igapore River oit the godoun of Guthrie and Co., Ltd., after the exjA^ion m a ~ar-.^-iudai junk yesterday. Three men were missing and the loss sustained was nearly $25,000. Free Press
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      Political parties Get busy on voting
      222 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Progressive Party and the Indian Mus.im League have 1 returned the greatest number of voters' forms and are expected to be among th e first political organisations to start their election campaigns towards the end of the year. A
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      DOG-OWNER FINED
      49 5 MUAR, Tuesday. -Because he did not muzzle his dog which on two separate occasions bit children a Chinese was fined total of $15 m the Magistrate's Court. The accused said that he unmuzzled the dog at feeding time when one of the children threw stones at it.
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      HELD IN REMAND
      75 5 A remand hi custody until today was ordered by the Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr R. J. C. Wait, yesterday, when three Chinese, Lim Hoe Ec, 48, L'm Ah I Lee, 21, and Lim Ah Ka\ 45, appeared before him charged with intimidation. i They were charged
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      400 COMPLETE ARMY TRAINING
      86 5 C*OUR hundred locally-enlisted V men, who have completed their 16- week training with the British Army, will take part m a *^assing-out parade on Blakang ivlatl on Sept. 30. The parade will be reviewed by he Commander m Chief, KARELF. Gen. Sir Neil Ritchie. and the
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      ALLEGED ASSAULT
      72 5 Alleged to nave punched a Registrar of Vehicles inspector twice m the stomach, a 31-year-old Chinese. Koh Ah Koo. was charged m the Second Police Court yesterday with assaulting the inspector. Chew Kirn San. m the execution of his duty at North Boat Quay on Monday. Police bail
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      KALLANG AIRPORT
      20 5 Kallang Airfield which was closed for repairs last Wednesday, was reopened to all air traffic at noon yesterday.
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      LABOUR FORCING UP COSTS
      322 5 LABOUR FORCING UP COSTS WATERWORKS PROJECT Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Municipality's Gunong Pulai water scheme, estimated before th e war to cost $5,000,000, will cost "considerably more when it is completed m three years' time, Mr. F. C. Hill, Municipal Water Engineer, told the Free Press yesterday. This
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      THIVY TO SEE GENT ON WAGES ISSUE
      100 5 THE representative of the Government of India m Malaya, Mr. J. A. Thivy, is leaving Singapore tonight by train on a fourday visit to Kuala Lumpur, during which he will contact various labour organisations. Ho also hopes to be able to see the
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      RUBBER OUTPUT HITS 463,000-TON MARK
      166 5 PRODUCTION on estates of 100 acres and more from i January to August this year amounted to 277,031 tons, and on estates of less; than 100 acres 186,652 tons, making a total 463,683 tons. Details of production on estates of 100 acres and more are;
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      NEW LIBRARY BOOKS
      223 5 •THE following newly-addeu works will be ready for issue from Raffles Library on Saturday: Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword; J. H. Boeke, The Structure of Netherlands Indian Economy. (For Reference only); Robert Collis anc. Han Hogerzeil Straight On; Philip E. Conway, The Culture Cornetist '2
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      Jail and rotan for extortion
      94 5 AT the Singapore Assises yesterday, Mr. Justice Jobling sentenced a young Chinese, Lira Teow Chuan, to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan when he was found guilty of committing armed robbery of 9-1,050, extortion of $500 and attempted extortion of $10,000
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      APPEAL FAILS
      95 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday.— Yap Seong, a detective working for the Japanese during the occupation, was unsuccessful m his appeal at the Malayan Union Court of Appeal today against the sentence of death imposed on him. He had been convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old Chinese, Wong Cheong,
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  • ENTERTAINMENT.
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      SHORTAGES HIT BRITISH STUDIOS
      564 6 U.K. Studio Notebook DARALYZING shortages of everything from cameras to costumes plague Britain's efforts to free 30,000,000 weekly moviegoers from dependence on Hollywood. British producers have demonstrated their talent and taste, but they lack facilities to enable any substantial increase beyond the 60 odd major films
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      Special film for children
      394 6 DUE for release In Singapore shortly through Eagle-Lion Distributors, the first full-length film ever made for Children is having great success m England. It is "Bush Christmas". made m the Blue Mountains ot Australia by Ralph Smart of the J. Arthur Rank organisation, with an all-Australian
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      "ODD MAN OUT"
      47 6 ODD Man Out" and "A Matter of Life and Death." the J. Arthur Rank films, shown at the him festival at Marianske Lazne. Marienbad. Czechoslovakia, were voted by the critics to be the best shown They considered "Odd Man Out" the finest, directed film.
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      SHOULD FILM TRICKED BE EXPOSED?
      536 6 SHOULD FILM TRICKED BE EXPOSED? P0 R many year, dating- back to the beginning of aims a controversy has raged between studios and exhibitors. The shown; don't want trickery exposed. Hollywood shrugs and says, m effect, what's the difference!'' And movietone's chiefs continue to practice along this pattern, even m
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      DEBORAH KERR TO HAVE BABY
      66 6 ARRANGEMENTS madp for Deft irt work this MOM's Youn| of Eng land's famed then the E disrupted production ed with th< P expected i December. rners ha? P nc plan,? for th Studios beyond re;, of its badly blitzed sod tures m including Rex Harris*-
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      228 6 IN spite of his fine hand. BoUtb didn't have a good play for game and should have passed when North could take no stronger action than bid three spades over three hearts. Actually, North's hand fM worth three tricks to South, and even a successful club OBMM
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      129 6 Mdndr3k6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya r -rr~^*^ BUT HE DOESN'T >//ji/ii--I'Ll| PIERRE, YOU ARE I YOU FLATTEftI 1 1 COMMANO YOU TO MAKE UNA DADA nn U vcc „L ucc L IOVE ME HE S ,X THAT/ THE LEADING ME,EX-ELLENCY BEAUTIFUL BY FIVE O'CLOCK/ T^Aurrn Imr
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  • SPORT..
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      MALAYAN EURASIANS TO RUN RUGBY XV
      228 7 F* a lent Available for Good Side Bt Our itvgg-r iveponer f! hc m^ l' r r iUS I ,O€,s of th c new rugger season, .feopeeing with wave of enthusiasm that may ♦henext four monthl the most enjoyable the sport 1 r experit
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      52 7 Barefooted Ted Schroeder (US) leaves tho amur,,* baseline drive by Dinny Pails Australia t i« thm!t intercept a set duel, which Schroeder r won il i the Unai nt KL*22X& c tournament nt Forrest urn* m al tfle Dn VIS Cup tournament at Forrest Hills, New York. The U.S. retained
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      SAFA Team Selection On Friday
      43 7 THE S.A.F.A. selection committee will hold a meeting at Jalan Besar Stadium on Friday at fi p m to select the S.A.F.A side (Serricei and Civilians) against the Shanghai Chinese who are xpected to arive here next week.
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      S.C.C. TENNIS FINALS
      11 7 S. C.C. TENNIS FINALS X F r f men*-. •Ticket r.hil!
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      UK RUGBY RESULTS
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      S.B.A. MEEETING
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      K.L. RUGBY TOURISTS
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      SIMBANG SCORE GOOD VICTORY IN CUP
      658 7 __<■ v Free Press staff Reporter .iLfbfvr S „k India Association o. bo], m ,hn la r ed Side that wa strong Dotn m the attack and m defence ll M s ISimbaiig scored a w. 11-doerved victory over the g£feraj-_ -rr «r g£
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      ORIENTAL B.P. WIN
      131 7 IN a frientiiy return badminton match, the Oriental B.P. 4, B'* team defeated the Social B.P. Reserves by oix I games to one on the Oriental court. In the first game, plavcd on the Social t court, the Orientals had won five-two. Results m the return match
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      EUROPEANS BEAT REST BY 6 RUNS IN KLUANG
      277 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent KLUANG, Tuesday. THE cricket season ir. Kluang was brought to a close on Saturday with the match between the Europeans and The Rest. This was the first match of its Kind to have been played m central Johore.
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      U.K. Govt. To Aid Sport
      120 7 THE British Gov er nine at announced yesterday that it uas subsidising sports training m a bid to stop the rout of Britisfi teams m international competition The Ministry of Education said that two coaches had already been appointed by the Amateur Athletic Association, and
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      World Soccer Championship Postponed
      188 7 World Soccer Championship Postponed THE world football championship arranged to be hold m Brazil In 19 49 is unlikely to be staged before 1950. This was announced at a meeting of the executive committee of the Federation of International Football Associations m Amsterdam yesterday when it was decided that, owing
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      Old Victorians Beat P.W.D. Six-Three
      155 7 r.YING at the Victorial School Had on Sunday before a large gathering of badminton enthusiast, the Old Victorians* Association defeated the P.W.D. m a badmir.con friendly match by six games to three. (O.V.A. players mentioned first > Singles: S. Abdullah Mattar beat Shahbudddin 15-6, 15-3;
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      CHARITY BADMINTON
      53 7 PROCEEDS from the charity badminton match which took place on Aug. 3 between the Marlgold B.P. of Sfngapore and the Merrydale B.P. of Selangor, amounted to $2,002/-. The whole sum had been handed by the Marigold B.P. to the Singapore Chinese South China Uelief Fund, m aid of
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      Malays Surprise The Chinese
      742 7 K.L. SPORTS REVIEW Fre c Press Staff Correspondent APART trmv, tn r JS£__^ L^MPHR, Tuesday. PART irom the first division soccer match between the anff r ineS fu a,1 I d the Sdan B° r which, incidentally resulted m the biggest league upset this season, and
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      RUSSIANS WIN CHESS
      32 7 nRITAIN yesterday lost an interLJ national chess match to Russia I although three adjourned games had! no< yet been played. The score was' Russia m to Britain's 4J. U.P
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      Asiatics Hold RAF To Draw
      516 7 RUGBY THRILLS IN X.L Free Press Staff Correspondent P f AVTV KUALA LUMPCR, Tuesday. LAYING a great game m the loose, the Scla^-or Asiatics held the R.A.F. to a draw m an excit i~ rugby match on the padang this evening. Neither s de SC
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      CLIFF ANDERSON BACK IN BRITAIN
      43 7 PLIFF ANDERSON. Negro feathert* weight boxer from British Guiara. was scheduled to return to London by pla*>e iVom New York yesterday ho begin training for a bout with Arthur Machterlinck of Belgium on Oct. 25 at Nottingham.- A.P.
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      S.A.F.A. CUP DATES
      61 7 R.A.F. (Tenjah) will meet g.h.Q. FARELF m a S.A.F A cup match ar Jalan Besar stadium toda\. lhe S.A.F.A. cup match between S.R.C. and G.H.Q. Signals which was to have been played m Monday will take place on Sept. 27. The draw f r the S.AP.A. cup
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      186 7 Free Press Crossword No. 197 zI 3 I I 41 5 I P~| MM ___dJ 3 9 vmnaMMm -%m J— I-\ i -i a mmm IT W9F m 9m Jf m WMMmmm 17 W^ \T ao J_P i_■ i 5 _2~ -__■> 26 1 1 1 I E T~J~ CLUES
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  • NEWS, LATE CITY..
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      U.K. currency check on mail
      295 8 U.K. currency check on mail LONDON, Tuesday. T>OUND notes and other valuables illegally sent to people m Britain through the mails will be seized as part of a new drive to tighten up the exchange control field, a Treasury spokesman announced today. Special scientific devices may be used to examine
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      73 8 HOME To commemorate the Battle of Britain seven years ago. hundred, of aircraft of the R.A.F., the Fleet Air Arm, and the United States and Czechoslovak air forces, took part in a fly past over London on Sept. 15. The flight was led by a Hurricane, as a symbol of
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      SOVIET CALL UP 500,000 YOUTH
      103 8 MOSCOW. Tuesday. THE Russian Government has called up 500,000 Soviet teenagen for training schools to prepurf them for labour reserves. It is the third call-up of youth thisi. y«*ar bringing the total drafted boys and girls to 1.200.000. Boys of 18 and 19 will be
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      25 8 Air.ruit-curiitr Vt nuance has' I 1-ortsmouth for the Clyde Bti is soon to go to the Fa r East 1 to believe aircraft-carrier Glory I
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      RAF WILL TRAIN BURMESE
      78 8 AIR Marshal Sir George Pirie, Air Commander-in-Chief m th 0 Far East, yesterday assured the Burmese Government that all assistance would b P given it towards the formation of a Burma Ai r Fon> after the transfer of Power, it w a .s stated officially m
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      SOVIET KICK EXPERIMENTS
      64 8 Soviet experimental stations are developing new varieties of rice for temperate zones, enabling rice cultivations, formerly mainly confined to Central Asia to be extended to the Kuban River Valley and the Ukraine. The rice crop area m the Soviet Union by the end of the first post-war
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      3 MISSING IN JUNK EXPLOSION
      176 8 TWO Chinese tongkang men and a Javanese Tabourer were found to be missine: after a tonckang loaded with 470 drums of carbide had blown un m Singapore River yesterday with an explosion which shook the entire river waterfront. c Singapore Police Yesterday dragged the river
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      COLD RECEPTION UNO FOR PEACE PLEA
      675 8 •Soviet ignore Lie's warning WASHINGTON, Tuesday. P)E LEGATES to the United Nations General Assembly today coldly received an extraordinary appeal by the UNO Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, at the close of the Assembly debate, m which he urged the Great Powers to show willingness
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      37 8 Field Marshal Lord Montu arns coal miners as he chats to one < h S^'^^^Bt al Coal Board's -Miner Com- $%s&*< Arch, London. 'Monty' was >how n ttoolahthm***?. c; i ings and saw various modem c 1^ Wi
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      BULGARIANS HANG LEADER OF OPPOSITION
      145 8 BULGARIANS HANG LEADER OF OPPOSITION SOFIA. Tuesday. THE Bulgarian Government announced today that it had hanged Nikola Petkov. opposition leader whose conviction and sentence both Britain and the Umited States had bitterly denounced The United States had stated that the execution would jeopardize the establishment of a representative democratic gov-c-rnmont
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      UNP CHIEF TO HEAD CEYLON CABINET
      190 8 UNP CHIEF TO HEAD CEYLON CABINET COLOMBO. Tuesday. MR. D. S. Senanayake, as leader of the largest party, the United National Party, m the newly-elected House of Representatives, is to be asked to form a cabinet tomorrow, it was learned today. He is expected to submit a list of ten
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      10 GUINEAS TO VIEW ROYAL WEDDING DRIVE
      235 8 10 GUINEAS TO VIEW ROYAL WEDDING DRIVE LONDON Tuesday. TICKET agents disclosed tonight that all window space m buildings alone the routp of the Royal Wedding procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, had been sold with the average seat price ranging from seven to ten guineas One agent is
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      OIL SHARES IN NEW RALLY
      443 8 London Stock Exchan^ Q\ the London Stock Exchange today. dealers S_ one of their Quietest days for aJZ I eri d ♦u llt A Ie f i l 1 terest bein displayed m Z tion with the possible exception of Oils which aft' start, rallied
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      New York stock
      21 8 tinned i nt pivotal si aotxiM lm '■■■-HI I m The The Dow Jones »i*nj*' I md Reuter
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      N.Y. rubber up
      7 8 1 May 16.4 A.P.
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      China $ slumps
      11 8 China slumps CHIN' A Bl I J j J 1 A.P.
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      68 8 4 SPECIAI Mart«i«'"s A ent riW* the mva** Al 11 m today 3s fnjn fts >, per.'b No 1 *A§ tP* fl ■fHtJI >„ I K^s mi baka «>■' X > s M a Ml iii talM I s,sb *^3B*SC-j merce Runwr w at n Nt
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      PUSHED BUTTON -FLEW ATLANTIC
      377 8 I PIHMnn .i n BKI E NORT ON, Tuesday, i I NHtU a button and we flew the Atlantic S,n "SK__t J "'!<«. 52-year-old flying vctera rem s.ui Antonio, describing the flight of the first nilotTh. H ane CfOSS fr m Newfoundland to Br ftaln The
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      70 8 WEATHER Cloudy WEATHEB report for the next 24 hours compiled by the 8.A.F.: A few bright periods this afternoon. Otherwise cloudy withseattered thunderstorms. Isolated showers overnight, bright tomorrow morning. Wind south south-easterly to south south-westerly, 10 m.p.h. Moonrise: 2.09 p.m.; moonset 2 27 a.m. Temperatures: Max. 87 dec mm. 74
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      9 8 SPOKE Hlc;iJ TIDES! H"«h: fi.lli.m: 5 pm. Lou: i0.32a.m;
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