The Singapore Free Press, 6 November 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fgdgdf SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    U.S. RUBBER PLEDGE IS DENIED
    233 1 U.S. RUBBER PLEDGE IS DENIED 'Not committed' in new pact TXT 4U A WASHINGTON, Tuesday. IN the Anglo-American trade pact recently concluded at Geneva the United States made no commitments to reduce in favour of imports through Britain, the amount of synthetic rubber that must be used by United States
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    ONCE WAR LORD
    49 1 ONCE WAR LORD Once Supreme Commander of the German armies opposing Allied invasion forces in Northern France. Field Marshal von Rundstedt. aged 72. now a sick, broken man. is seen taking the only exercise of which he is capable— a slow, painful hobble in a PoW camv in Wales.
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    27 1 berta Police ftfc' for GaL I r /r/i /fw feetyc: <ingham tiiultveititure. jtfmt WatU acted as a pinkUrctptino a man alattacki y n on wkj Common, Lond
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    SULTAN'S PALACE DAMAGED BY FIRE
    83 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent The Sultan of Johore's Astana at Batu Pahat was slightly damaged last night by ftre, a section of the roof and rafters bt-in^ burned out. The caretaker called the local nre brigade, who promptly dealt with the outbreak. Earlier in the
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    FLEES HUNGARY
    36 1 Mr. Zoltan Pfeiffer. leader of the last major Hungarian opposition party, fled from Budapest on Tuesday and Is now staying with friends in Vienna. He was accompanied by his wife and daugh- ter- A.P.
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    CHINESE GEN. HELD
    38 1 Maj-Gen. Wang Shi Shai, Deputy Information Director of the Garrison Headquarters at Mukden, and eight other persons have been arrested on the charge of spying for the Communists, it was announced in Nanking yesterday. U.P.
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    AMNESTY IDEA FAILS
    32 1 The Government has rejected the proposal to grant an amnesty and reduction of sentences to deserters from the British armed lorces on the occasion of Princess Elizabeth's marriage.— U.P.
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    CHANGI AMOK DISARMED BY SERGEANT
    133 1 CHANGI AMOK DISARMED BY SERGEANT Free Press Staff Reporter A 40-YEAR old Chinese carpenter, who ran amok in Changi village yesterday evening, killed one Indian, A. Saban, a tailor, and slightly injured another. The amok, though armed with a hatchet, was overpowered by a Malay police sergeant, Yacob bin Abdul
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    SIAM TO REJECT BORDER RULWG
    94 1 CIAWS Cabinet yesterday in- formed the House of Representatives ki Bangkok that the Government was rejecting the recommendations of the International Conciliation Committee which sat earlier this yesr on trie lodo-Chkva border queatton. All recommendations of the commifisioav— m«wie up of British, American, Peruvian, FVenoh
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    LUXURY HOTEL MEN CALL STRIKE
    96 1 LONDON, Wednesday. EMPLOYEES of three London luxury hotels the Savoy, Claridges and Berkeley tonight rejected the advice of their union leaders and decided to strike at six tomorrow morning. The hotels affected were expected to accommodate hundreds of wealthy overseas visitors planning to stay in
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    CANADA SEEKS LOAN
    29 1 Canada has asked the United States for a loan of between $500,000,000 and $*****0.000 before the end of the year, state Treasury officials in Washington. U.P.
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    BOER WAR PENSIONERS
    21 1 About 3.000 ex-Servicemen are still receiving pensions for disablement due to service in the 1899-1901 South African War.
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICE UP AGAIN
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rE price of rubber in Singapore this morning jumped up 1J cents on yesterday's noon prices. Yesterday's price for No. I R.S.S. spot loose was 404 buyers and 40i sellers. This morning this rose to 41 i buyers and 41} sellers.
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    Swam 5 miles in storm to safety
    256 1 Free Press staff Reporter when a sumatra blew their sailing boat on a coral reef in the Banka Straits, some Indonesians tmy island of Pulau Labu five miles away to o aid for other crewmen clinging to a sampan which Aiinj boat was
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    PARIS ARRESTS
    22 1 Paris police yesterday arrested people lor obstruction whe;strikers attempted to demonstrate despite a police ban— outside the City Hall.- Reuter
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    SOVIET SATELLITES: UK MAY PROTEST
    201 1 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN is considering referring to the United Nations the question of violation of the conditions of the peace treaties by the Soviet satellite countries, Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, told the House of Lords today. Replying to a debate initiated by Lord Vansittart,
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    'BARTIMEUS' KNIGHTED
    24 1 Captain Lewis Ritchie—"Bartimeus," the naval writer, wartime Press Secretary to the King and now retired— was knighted yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Reuter
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    PERSIA'S 'NO' TO USSR
    24 1 The Shah of Persia yesterday ratified the Majlis rejection of oil concessions to Russia In the Drovince of Azerbaijan.- U.P.
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    Mopping up in Kashmir vale
    231 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. INDIAN forces in Kashmir have thrown back the raiding tribesmen threatening Srinagar, the capital, and have broken their main strength, a Kashmir Government communique stated today. "The corner has been turned", it said. "The raiders are being mopped up in four pockets
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    TYRE PRICES DOWN
    38 1 ItHE Automobile Association of Malaya has been informed by the Motor Tyres Importers' Association that a 12J per cent, reduction in the price of passenger and truck tyres and tubes came into effect from yesterday.
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    SIAM WILL TAKE HOARDED RICE
    62 1 THE Siamese Government announced on Wednesday a vigorous programme to requisition hoarded rice in northern and north-eastern provinces of the country. Twenty officials left Bangkok to carry out the programme in which the Government expects to uncover 100,000 tons of rice. Hitherto, compulsory sale of
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    CORPORA TION WILL GIVE AID TO ESTATES
    219 1 From Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. FINANCIAL help for rubber companies on an ordinary commercial basis will be within the scope of the Overseas Resources Development Bill, which is to have its second reading in the House of Commons tomorrow. The primary object
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    Aid Europe plan ready this week
    180 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. 1 George Marshall, said today that he would have his complete programme for aid to Europe ready to present to a joint meeting of the Congress Foreign Affairs Committee next Monday. Mr. Marshall said he did
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    ARAKAN REBELS BATTLE GURKHAS
    67 1 THE Burma Government is sending reinforcements to the Arakan, oil the west coast of Burma, where Gurkha troops have been battling thrusts by Arakan rebels. The situation in the Akyab and Sandoway district* of Arakan is described as "very acute." A combined force of troops and
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      29 1 JEfjj/TrAMrOJ9O MB. I I i»f>f/f CAPI7QI THIATM POPPY DAY Selling Day This Year C F^ V f^ ML. *\f 7th November, GIVE GENEROUSLY Spate donated by Malayan Tobacco Distributors
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    3 AMERICANS
    909 2 A Malayan Bookshelf By A Special Correspondent MR. Ernest Hemingway is something of a novelty among novelists; a writer wh o has had a very great influence upon otlier writers of his generation and has yet maintained a Bteady reading public i'or his own works. Three writers may
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    BRIDGE PROBLEM
    258 2 THIS deal produced a swing of over 700 polntl In favour of the winners of the VanderbUf Team cf Kour Championship but through no particularly creditable act of their own The bidding went thfl «une wny at both t.h'.os until Souths final bid when, at the other table,
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    IN THE TRADE
    61 2 fj^RED JACKMAN Jr lumbia studios, has d* a new lens for colour graphy designed to improve t quality of outdoor ■oenes. Mounted In i mits the Mining of shots to emphasize I keeping the foreground sphere actors subdu perfect focus. Jackman said he lens for the first
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    A Star's Paving Hobby
    444 2 A Star 's Paving Hobby NEARLY every movie star has a hobby, but surprisingly few devote serious attention to vocations which might, on some fatal day, replace acting as a livelihood. Most of the composing, painting, farming and carpentry as practiced on thp lush efltttt a of cinema celebrities can
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    A New Blind Landing
    57 2 A New Blind Landing problem T^ Portion in gOW ii it done? Rnt^ a formal andTenuT on ihe^* *v an a.rcraf! hZi weather corded rlfhtdoStii 1 movie camenil nose ofThis nim is then proc« d into a ng aa projectoc to the cii 01 V. *he pitat at the fi:m
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    FAST CUTTERS
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    55 2 Princess Elizabeth inspecting the Colours at the ceremony of the Presentation of the Freedai the Burgh of Stirling both to her- on her own behalf, and to the Argyll and Sutherland U landers, of which she is Colonel in Chief, at. Stirling Castle. The Argyll and Sutherland Hi landers were
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      142 2 short period, what hopes and fears are crowded Is he gaining weight— ls his flesh firm and healthy— are sound bones forming in that little body— miniature of the man to be. Happy Mothers all over the world, feeding their babies on Cow Gate, unhesitatingly answer-Yes. You will build his
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      532 2 RADIO PROGRAMME SINGAPORE LnH rT k,v- R U fi°iA AU A Stri 11ll lla n s Viriet y <*****; 2 Pm worw i>, i! F l^.™* 630 Australian N.*w*; News Headlines; 2.02 Yoars for inBlue Network 6.45 -jiM Cmpoaar IVrform*---Frite Asking; 3 p.m. March of the Movi's 1? W-B.M p.8.-4U
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      115 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today. >ou have a restless nature and uill want to travel a creat deal. You never will be the average tourist but will want to study people rather than famous buildings and nnisnims 1 You have a vivid imagination and
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    'WAR ON POLISH CATHOLIS' PREDICTED
    298 3 f s ca ped leader says Church is only 'free centre' [<minated Polish Government will soon ner.il ittack on the Catholic Church in Poland >h Peasant Party leader. M. Stanislav an interview with Associated Press, at his where he is resting after his 15-dav m
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    58 3 This photo ikoics German worker* dismantling the war plant at the huge Krupps factory at Essen, in the Ruhr. This plant, which tea* heavily ocmoed during the war. is being stripped of all machinery tc fitch. could be used for war pur-poses The directors of Kmpps *ri shortly to face
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    'Dream tip' won him £3,500
    34 3 'Dream tip' won him £3,500 I:e- re the ->e in •.hat ugn not Enni* oei and j st t«n .-.e didn't one rec«iv- bet- 00 of :t lift. er fron. it Lsl I was
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    UK's food parcels for Britain
    23 3 i A:." IStUffS .-.ires i I Will lard or r. meat krt* r. ycirat.es Md OQA- rmseelUnited Reuter-AAP
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    £400,000 steel mill for Australia
    169 3 \NEW cold-steel rolling mill to 1 be built at Port Kerr. (N.S.W.) will cost £400.000 and will be the largest m the Southern Hemisphere. The plan; has been ordered In England by the G mmonwealth Rolling Mill Pty. Ltd It will treat strip iteel, will
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    HAM AND EGG'S MAN JAILED
    11 3 ntenent for B| to acr 3r«tkfa«t
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    GERMANS TO MANAGE RUHR COAL MINES
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    RISING SUN FLAG FLIES IN TOKIO
    57 3 JAPANS Rising Sun flag flew over the Imperial Palace on Monday for the first time since the occupation General MacArthur authorized the flying of the flag on May 3. but the Japanese waited until the annirersary of the Emperor Meijis birthday and of promulgation
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    Actor accuses B.B.C drama dept of 'monopoly'
    198 3 Actor accuses B.B.C drama dept of 'monopoly' I ACCUSING the BBC Drama Department of prejudice bis and creating a monopoly within the Corporation." a West End stage star has beer, accorded the exceptional privilege erf stating :nis case in a person*! interview with Sir William Ha>y, the 1 Dir^cror-General. The
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    GIRLS DEAD ON MOUNTAIN
    85 3 TWO girl .scretaries at th« Lo^ Alamos atomic energy project have been found dead on the 13,275 feet. Truants p^olr. New Mexico's highest mountain, where they had been trapped. The girls were found after a rescue party of poliae and c* Ldiers, summ<medi by their guide,
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    'CUT DOWN ON BATHS'
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    NO CHECK ON U.K. EXPENDITURE IN GERMANY
    144 3 A LTHOUOH British taxpayers s\ spend £140,000,000 a year to support Germany, there is no on-the-spot check on expenditure. This disclosure by M.P.s who toured Germany is recorded with "astonishment" in a report of the Select Committee on Estimates just published. j No
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    Proxy bride deported
    120 3 EILEEN Green, a proxy bnde who was deported from the United States after ten days detention on Ellis Island, re-avowed her lov f > for her husband. Barney Hagtn Bill.ngs. of Montana, when she arrived back in London. Miss Green said: 'One thing is definite. I am
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    PEDICAB STRIKE
    41 3 More than 100 STiangtiai pedicab drivers have been arrested for going on. strllce. They trued to torce a widespread tieup of traffic, stopping pedicabs and releasing tHe air from the tyres. The police intervened and arrested air releaaers.- U.P.
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    U.S. rejects claims to Okinawa 'key'
    200 3 OKINAWA holds the kev tn, +h A and must remain in rni^d sJti'™* Oftile Paciflc American military officials Tokt^ Possession, say top aad FUipino overt.res or contro ToPtlT^' Chinese Associated Press. control of the island, reports •lo S t^^^rt-S e T^t^ e a P
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    Son for man of 73 gives him house priority
    71 3 DLRTH ot a ±cr to his wife, Maud. 42. places the father Mr Anthony Richard Bowles 73 on the council house priority list ,n T OUple> T ho Ilve in one room \?X an^rrrull-lane. Oxley. Hem. yearsh,Mr^ a:)wles a retired chem^:
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    AMERICANS 'TIRED OF HIGH PRICES'
    333 3 AMERICANS 'TIRED OF HIGH PRICES' T»HE American citizen is getting tired of paying f^i-h prices id/iSJn nnn ry th lng J* e wants and needs America has 144,000,000 people whose total income will probably come close to 200 billion dollars in 1948 "but as consumers they are going to be
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    British car is 'tres chic'
    131 3 111 m.p.h. British car. beauf\ 'uhy designed, was the senQ of the Paris Motor Show. It is the 16 h.p. Healey. product of the smallest car factory in England. Among stands packed with huge ultra streamlined American French, and Italian cars, a crowd of people
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    CRIED BEFORE BIRTH
    37 3 Another case of a baby being hours before birth is reported by heard by stethoscope crying 15 Dr. Jean Burton-Brown in the •'British Medical Journal." Previous case was at Trowbridge (Wilts) a moTLth ago.
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    'Commonwealth is best so far'
    99 3 GENERAL H G. Crerar former first Canadian Army CommanVI der. told the annual Map e leaf dinner of the r**?Ai, n Society in New York: "The British Commonwealth ma, t primitive conception to a complete internationalist, but it has" shown unanimity of opinion, action and
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    U.S. OFFICIAL IN MISSING PLANE
    80 3 DLANES are searching for a private aircraft which left Klamath Falls (Oregon) on Tuesday night carrying a group of U.S. State Government officials, including the Governor ot Oregon. Mr. Earl Snell, the Secretary of State. Mr. Robert Farreil. and the State Senate President. Mr. Marsriall
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947. The American Tin Threat
    881 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1947. The American Tin Threat NEARLY 50 years ago. certain American interests planned to obtain control of the Malayan tin industry, but were prevented from doing by the courageous and farsighted action of Sir Frank Swettenham, who was then Governor and High Commissioner.
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    WAS DEATH IN INDIA REALLY NECESSARY?
    1207 4  -  John Crispin By (A newspaperman who has recently spent several months in India) THE transfer of power from British to Indian hands has been marked by a savage outbreak of communal warfare between Hindus and Muslims. In brutality and ferocity the excesses committed have
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    FAITH
    23 4 He that dweUeth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Psalm xci, 1.
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    FINDING OIL IN DESERT SAND
    572 4  -  CARTER L DAVIDSON dfsdfsd A. P. Correspondent TEN miles from this all-Arab desert town, of Gaza, where Old Testament history says Samson's eyes were blinded, a hardy band of American, British aiid French oilmen are sinking a shaft to prove once and for all whether
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    IT SEEMS TO ME...
    857 4  -  Politico by fFHE $5,000 reward 1 offered for the arrest of Cham Tham Lin, the boy gunman of Selangor, clearly puts him on the short list of Malaya's worst badmen. And he is still only 16. Wanted for gun toting, attempted murder, jail breaking, extortion and
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    UNION CRIME DROPS
    182 5 UNION CRIME DROPS 1 grfOorrespoaitßt Prr Ir Mala- saw a Si i0 tl for ■1" e is no of the o: the den are i in- der of P pies he "by lify had bee I dend Chief office' Selangor, the hand ,'h the Pulled. uevfr knew It was a
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    JAIL FOR THEFT
    41 5 ImWcng, 8-yeai old Chin- 5 •reaper employed in the j J6f>r x EMarang Barracks, iJWtrday sentercc-d to six J i.i|orous impri. by < *«nd Police Magistrate, l I C Goh. for the theft of i *»ules of brandy. 1
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    $500 FOR ADMISSION TO PARK
    199 5 $500 FOR ADMISSION TO PARK Free Press Staff Reporter MEXT Sunday evening, there will be no admission tickets sold for the Happy World; admission to the park will be by contributions only. Prominent women from, like v*rk>u6 communities will be at the gates to welcome all visitors. The entire amount
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    96 5 Members of the Singapore Improvement Trust visited the Trust's Kim Keat Road housing estate yesterday, and inspected the new prefabs, some 200 of ohich are being built. Quite a number of these houses are ready, and have been occupied. The prefabs are intended for those in the area whose plank-and-attap
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    45 EURASIANS JOIN UP
    133 5 *rm* Staff Reporter VJINCE the Singapore Eurasian Association called for recruits to join the RAMC and REME a fortnight a«o, 45 Eurasians have joined up— 3o in the Royal Army Medical Corps and 15 to join the Royal Electrical and Mechanical ti% neers. iviajor C. B.
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    WELFARE FUND NOW $599,542
    118 5 rpHE latest lut of subscriptions A to the Malayan Welfare Fund shows a total of $595,542.98. Additions to subscriptions, previously announced as having totalled $5^8,274.79, were Mr. N A Marjoribanks $10 (monthly) Miss W. M. Dorall $10, Sir Edward Gent $100, Mr. Lok Kah Chai $30
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    GIFT EXHIBITION IS EXTENDED
    70 5 OfcAJAUSE big crowds are still u visiting Raffles Museum :o *>ee Singapore's wedding present to Princess Elizabeth, the casket will remain on display up to and -including Sunday, Nov. 9. Postcardii of the gift will be on sale, Che proceeds going to the Princess Wedding Celebrations
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    GEN. NUMATA LEAVES
    29 5 Lieut. Gen. T. Numata left Singapore under escor: yesterday on the Dilwara for Kure where he is wantod for trial by the U.S. authorities in Japati.
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    $11 MILLION FROM JAPS
    105 5 Nteor the initial JaptMM gwons pi v> the jwtepv prising JJ ca^^gories anu sr^.iftJW due for debv rv In IiUIL"" 4 J<<the Phui re advisory cc to Pj^t $11.50fr J^ateis r^.rcie d in maximum for c be ing set at between 30 and 40 per cent.
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    $30,000 BAIL IN TOBACCO CASE
    83 5 DAIL of $30,000 was offered to a Chinese, Tay Uan, who claimed trial in the Singapore Third Police Court, yesterday on a charge of alleged possession of 2,571 pounds of dutiable Siamese tobacco and 57,000 dutiable cigarettes, concealed in a disused rubber smoke house. The
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    TWO HONOURED
    43 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday.— The King has approved the bestowal of the following honours for the Malayan Union: Officers of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire: Mr. Man Wai Wong, of Sitiawan, Perak, and Mr. Chye Sin Wu, of Ipoh.
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    ADC TO GOVERNOR
    24 5 The Governor, Sir Franklin GinLLOin. has appointed Flight Lieut. D.F.C. Ross, Royal Air Force, to be an honorary Aide-de-Camp to him.
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    3,000 TROOPS LEAVING S'PORE
    178 5 THE Talma is due at Singapore today from Madras and will embark 1,584 Indian other ranks for Madras when she leaves on Sunday. The Nevassa, which arrived in Singapore yesterday, leaves for the Unked Kingdom on Saturday with 154 cabin passengers and 1,441 British other ranks.
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    BLOOD BANK RUNNING VERY LOW
    416 5 Special appeal to Chinese Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Blood Bank is so low that the autho- rities in charge will welcome a voluntary move by S&SSZ* practice to he3p them build «p The scheme the doctor-in-charge informed the send to the Blooci Transfusion Service
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    37 5 picture. MR. J. CARSON. Commissioner for War Damage Claims, who has returned from talks in London. He will report to the Governors of the Malayan Union and Singapore, before makinn n statement to the Press. Free Press
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    105 5 A model in clay made by pupils of Standard I of the Con* vent of the Holy Infant Jesus. This is one of the hundreds of exhibits of hand-worked articles in the Convent exhibition and sale held on Tuesday and Wednesday at the School premises in Victoria Street. More than
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    11 countries may get food gifts
    210 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pOOD parcels may be sent from Malaya to the United •a Jrfi? T and 10 other Eur °Pean countries, provided the nett weight of each parcel does not exceed seven pounds. fKof InSir J gal iP re y est *rday,
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    DOPE SMUGGLED INTO MALAYA FROM SIAM
    167 5 DOPE SMUGGLED INTO MALAYA FROM SIAM DOPE smugglers are reported to running increasing Quantities of opium and hashish from Siam into Malaya and South China. A survey by The Bangkok Post indicated the opium smuggling trade into Malaya involves at least 20,000,000 ticals— US $1,000,--00 A smaller amount goes to
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    RKO ANNOUNCES ESSAY WINNERS
    159 5 MORE than 350 entries were received for the "Best Yeara Of Our Lives" essay competition. Most of all the essays were of a very high standard and it was by no means an easy task to select* the ten best. Some extremely, good efforts missed gaining
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    VICTORY SAVINGS
    17 5 Sales of Victory saving certifl* cates up to Oct. 29, 1947, amounted to $636,022.50 cents.
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    RECORD TRADE YEAR FOR P.I.
    412 6 Rapid strides toward recovery WITH long delayed machinery beginning to arrive at last Philippine economy is making rapid strides toward rehabilitation in the closing months of 1947, an Associated Press survey discloses. The total volume of foreign trade during the first seven months was nearly
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    Explosive Banners In Jerusalem
    62 6 Explosive Banners In Jerusalem Banners carrying anti-Parti-tion slogans were strung up in the main streets in Jerusalem recentiw bp Irgun gangsters. When British police and army personnel set about removing them, they -were found to be loaded with explosives. Many shop windows in Ben Ythusa Street, (pictured here) were damaged
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    72 6 I\R. WAND, Bishop of London, 7 In his presidential address to ttie London Diocesan Oon lorence, said the <jj**>at>on. of compulsory cliurch parudes had weakened the ccmection be twe«n the soldier and the Church. "One would wish Uiat there couid be some modiiication of tiie present Services
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    38 6 Five hundred women gasped In dismay when Robert Montgomery the fllm star, told r.he Washington Committee investigating Communism, that he was forty-three, and beginning to give up "the acting biMine**' for TUm-directing
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    43 6 British housewives are hoping to have a little extra cheer this Christmas. The Food Ministry Parliamentary Secretary. Dr Edith Summerskill. reDlvlne to a question In the House of Commons, said the question of additional rations at Christmas was under consideration Reuter
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    185 6 rE UruUxi States OovtTnmeiH has taken a partner into the busluess developing atomic energy for useful purposes. The partner i« American private induatty. Ttie Invitation was extended by Mr. David Ulier.thal, chairm.in of the United States Atomic Energy Commiasioc.fr. Mr. LftttentlMU, who once
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    INDIAN CLOTH OUTPUT PLANS
    42 6 Vne Government of India has disclosed plans to increase the output by 800,000,000 yards annually, and has ordered standardization of the production scheme to come Into effect on Dec. 1. Cloth will be coarser and varieties reduced. Reuter
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    90 6 Crown Prince' a bright boy' MRS. ELIZABETH GRAY VININ*; told the District of Columbia League of Republican Voters on Tuesday that Crown Prince Akasiho of Japan, whom she tutors, is "an exceptionally bright boy." She declared he has a very appealing personality, is very perceptive and is naturally democratic. Mrs.
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    329 6 NUREMBERG, Wednesday. pVIDENCE that I. G. Farben demanded, got and exploited J sljlw labourers by the thousand, including children as youmg as eight years old, was introduced by the United States prosecution at the Nuremberg trial. Alii davits were also offered from three condemned Nazi criminals
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    THE COUNCIL SLEPT ON
    106 6 SPLAKIM. at the Fmchley > Muldlrvi civic dinner at the Park Lane HoteL Piccadilly, Lord Latham of fiendon. the I ord Lieutenant of Middlesex, recalled the day in 1914 when he led a deputation headed by a band, to the Finchley Council offices. "The deputation was
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    SAW COMPANION MURDERED IN CAR
    79 6 A STRANGER with a rillr thrrw open the door of a parked car at Dracut, Massachusetts and killed Edward Pane. 32. who was sitting in it with Mrs. Marion Richards. 24. 0 She said: "The killer dragged me to u car and made me undress.
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    THIRTY WOMEN WENT HOME BAREFOOT
    38 6 Thirty women travelling by bus from Eire to Northern Ireland arrived home barefooted. They left Eire wearing fur-lined bootees and did not declare them for duty. The bootees were confiscated by the Customs.
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    327 6 THE PRINCESS WILL KEEP 'ONE SECRET' pRINCESS Elizabeth, still fearful H. copy her wedding gown i, that so m suggestion that replicas be evhihw* Ve^ thl n? storesin the Unite P d s "h.b.ted in t he d^JJ The heiress to the Empire who v, world except privacy wants to
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    57 6 Scotland Yard hunts for 'tinned nylons Yard vent Seg&S nylons"^ fl iS?« I as much M rs,*« the West End £3a ten of exporS-^M* were resold unopened JIM This is a new van,..-! racket which came to 'wil this year when CiwcJJß v,ere warned toiook o W'»ii labelled "Dehydrated ]^M
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    84 6 Robot to report rocket flight A "robot commentator" k -,M investigated by Coral wealth scientists examini^gtaß range weapon probiecs ll Melbourne. When the M <^n the Australian range-per^B in 1949— 0ne of these :obc>iM prjbably be -ifl give a runnin: I iand-based Ktenl Statistical details o( $M direction, aittiude. fuel
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    70 6 me British Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan have selected a rare Japanese gold lacquer box which took 10 years to make and Is 150 years old, as a wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth It Is to be flown to London by a special courier. The box dep
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    RACING MEN GATHER AT B TIMAH
    1147 7 RACING MEN GATHER AT B TIMAH After Break Of Six Years By -CALL BOY" A FTER a break of six years— the last Singapore races were V*L 12 Y^ d 15 .V?. 19 ™**ng men gathered at Bukit Timah at dawn this morning to get their first glimpses of horses
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    37 7 DADO MARINO of Honolulu shuts one eye as he sways away from a ramrod left from RINTY MONAGHAN of Belfast during their lz-round flyweight contest at H arringay Arena recently Monaghan won on points.
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    35 7 I J B "iP* rugm sfappered B CC. rj when h' played I "ij-Mal-iy.: :he p xn as •hat s <-- should new ■a-r Mpftta d;sy En- M*sii*e 1538 IB POT'
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    HORNETS HAD NO STING
    251 7 SCC 2 Hornet* 1 THE Singapore Crickft Club beat th»- Singapore Hornets by tVO als to one in a game of hockey played od the pa dang yesterday. The SCC. played enterprising hockey, but the Hornets seemed to have left their ustial sting behind them. They
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    42 7 JN a friendly soccer match played at Race Course Road yesterday, the Keppel Bus Co. defeated the s.«. Eumeaus by three Roals to one. Scorers for the winners were. Hamid. Halludln and Gani and for the sailors, O Connor.
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    20 7 In the Rugby Union County Cham--i>n*hip ye5*f»rd«y Kent lost to Berkshire by 7 pts. to 15. Reuter
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    S'pore Soccer XI v Selangor On Sunday
    73 7 S'pore Soccer XI v Selangor On Sunday T!ir Singapore XI to meet Selanffor on Sunday at Jalan B«sar was announced by the Singapore Amateur Football Association last night as follows: O. Angullia (1.A.) Abdul Rahman, rapt., (M.F.AJ Stevenson (Army) Lloyd (Army) Pearson (K.A.F.) II a nth M.I SharifT Mad.. 11
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    305 7 C.S.C. In Fine Form, Beat' S.R.C. Two-Nil CSC 2 SRC 0; DISPLAYING Mfttant form which 1 ama«ed th<«e who imt their] poor &how acair.st th.- Army h\st wocic when they were Uu,.en thru nil. the Cvjlon Bporta club sprang a big surprise wli.n they beat Singapore R«rr— Uon Club two-n.i
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    280 7 R.A.F. Seletar Ist XV defeated Army School of Education (Changi) by 23 points (4 goals, one, try) to 3 points (a try) In a game of rugger played yesterday at Seletar. Although the Army team were dangerous at the start, Seletar finished having
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    501 7 Five-Cornered Rugger Free Press Rugger Reporter ROYAL NAVY 13 pis. ARMY 11 pis. OCORING two goals and a try in the second half and O snatching the lead in the last five minutes of play, the Royal Navy scored a narrow victory over the Army
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    198 7 U.K. PREPARES FOR OLYMPIC GAMES SOCCER GREAT Britain, the host nation, is making every effort to pet together the best possible team for the Olympic Games soccer tournament, which begin.* on July 31 next year and far which 22 entries have been received. The Great Britain Olympic Games footb&il committee
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    England Held To 2-2 Draw
    335 7 EVERTON (Liverpool), Wednesday. A LAST minute header by Doherty, Ireland's inside left, earned a draw for his country against England after a game full of thrills here today. Eacli side scored twice, Lawton and Mannion scoring for England, and D. Walsh getting Ireland's other goal.
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    288 7 S'pore Police .10 pis. SCC" A" 6 pis OINGAPORE Polict sprang a surprise 0 on the S.C.C. "A" team in a rugger fixture on the Padang yesterday evening when they beat the Club by 10 points (two goais> to 6 points (two tries) in
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    19 8 Among the ruins of a part of Canterbury destroytd by bombing during the uxir, a young hopeful fishes.
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    UNO to supervise Korea election
    318 8 NEW YORK, Wednesday. THE United Natiotis Political Committee today voted to send ils own Comniiijeion to Korea to supervise the general election to be held by next March 31, creation of an independent Korean Government and withdrawal of all Russian a«d American forces from Korea
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    79 8 WORK on Britain's IM^-Ujfi oxperfan«*4ftl airliner kaowft «i "Bis^Men 1" and on a big new flr«i«-bo»t oT a similar stem, will not bcMupp^d by the Government's declikai to carry out Negcale economy tn caf>*tal «epencßture. Tht 1 lining fair Oivii Anktwi, Lord Mittiwi. 9WP9 thte
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    103 8 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITISH coal production soared in the past week to the highest level since the Introduction of the five-day week for miners last May, official figures showed today. Miners dug 4,090,000 tons, beating the previous record In October by 42,000 tons and offering an encouragement
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    173 8 NANKING, Wednesday. IN their "general oOeneive" the 1 Conununtots hare lost more than 100,000 meln and have found their main forces dispersed and ttetr supply problems mounting, a Government military spokesman said today. He predicted the Reds, having failed In their bid to take Mukden,
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    994 8 Independence bill attacked LONDON, Wednesday. A NNOUNCING in the House of Commons tonight that the Conservatives would vote against the Government bill under which Burma becomes an independent state outside the British Commonwealth on Jan. 4 next year, Mr. Churchill prophesied that the "bloody
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    79 8 Four blocks of houses, containing 50 rooms to be used as quarters for sub-warders of the Singapore Outram Road Jail, are now under construction on the prison grounds, and icill be completed by the end of the year. Tenders have been called for the construction of quarters on the same
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    118 8 OUTLAWED CHINA DEMOCRATIC PARTY CLOSES SHANGHAI, Wednesday. MR. Chang Lan. chairman of the outlawed Democratic League, which has branches throughout Malaya, tonight ordered all members to cease political activities Immediately and announced the resignation en bloc of the personnel of the League's Central Office and Its dissolution. The dissolution order,
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    226 8 LONDON, Wednesday. pOR the first time since before the war, the King occupied the Throne in the White and Gold Throne Room at Buckingham Palace today to receive addresses of congratulation from ten of the "privileged bodies" on the coming marriage of Princess Elizabeth. The
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    19 8 The cholera death rate in Egypt continues to decline. There were 247 fatalities and 499 new cases yesterday. U.P.
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