The Singapore Free Press, 10 December 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA LU& SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Article
    20 MILLION TIN LOSS CHARGE
    615 1 20 MILLION TIN LOSS CHARGE Consequence of plant delay Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. British Government's failure to ensure that the Malayan tin-mining industry received much-needed equipment has resulted m an avoidable loss of £20,000,000 sterling, according to Mr. H. Ashworth Hope, chairman of Malayan Tin Dredging Ltd. In
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    U.S. USES MORE RUBBER
    77 1 repress Correspondent TrW YORK. Tuesday. United States rubber consumption m ber sot a new record 102 293 tons against «4 tons m September, ,jntiining the steady, uni trend of the past imontha .mption of natural *3ber m October was jtftoofl against 51,708 -"September, while synused totalled
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    Declines to accept resignations
    155 1 klsaj dfks dfks dkfls dfkls d Free Press Star! Reporter HE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, has informed the two the Singapore Advisory Council, Mr. Tan van and Mr. C. C. Tan, who resigned m protest n trod uc t ion of income tax m the face
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    TRUMAN INTRODUCES BILL TO RATION U.S.
    188 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. rpHE United States Government submitted to Congress today legislation proposing the rationing of meat, petrol, and other commodities. Mr. William C. Foster, Undersecretary of Commerce, told a Senate Judiciary Sub-Com-mittee that a bill handed to the group by the Secretary of Commerce,
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    TRAFFIC JAM EXPERIMENT
    77 1 OINGAPORE traffic police yester- day evening carried out experimental diversion at the Kallang Road-Lavender Street bottleneck. Traffic from town down Beach Road was diverted into Sembawa Road, and traffic from Geylang was routed via Crawford Street. Traffic for the Lavender Street and Serangoon Road area made a
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    DRUG GIVES NEW HOPE FOR LEPERS
    64 1 Dr. Gordon A. Ryrie, medical secretary of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association and formerly Superintendent of the Malayan Leper settlement, yesterday announced plans for a new big leprosy research station m Nigeria, West Africa A British drug of the sulphones group is bringing
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    TWO SHOT ON CLUB LAWN
    104 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. ON Monday night In Malacca three Teochews, who were visiting a Hokkien dub. were dragged out by six Chinese, four of whom were armed with pistols, and were shot at on the lawn. Two of the three Teochews
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    HEASMAN TO HEAD NEW TAX DEPT
    209 1 Free Press Stair Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Today. I UNDERSTAND from a most reliable source that Mr. R. B. Heasman is to be ComptrollerGeneral of Income Tax for the Malayan Union acd Singapore, having with him Mr. E. M. MacDonald as Comptroller for the Malayan
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    12 STAR FLAG IS HOISTED
    133 1 THE twelve-star flag sponsored by the Council of Joint Action and Putera was hodsted m Singapore this morning m front of the Malayan Democratic Union premises m North Bridge Road. The ceremony was attended by about 200 people. Mr. Taha Kalu. President of the left
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    FOUR GUNMEN ROB WOMAN
    49 1 An elderly Chinese woman was robbed by four Chinese gunmen who broke into her attap house En Paya Lebar Road at 230 o'clock this morning. She lost $290 m cash and Jewellery. The gunmen kicked the door down when she refused to let them m.
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    FRENCH REDS YIELD AS RUSSIA ACTS
    345 1 FRENCH REDS YIELD AS RUSSIA ACTS T_ PARIS, Tuesday. HE Communist-controlled Confederation of Labour tonight gave m to the Government of Premier Robert Schuman and called off the widespread strikes which for a time brought France to the verge of civil war. The last one million strikers will go back
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    LEGION MEN LAND IN PERAK
    106 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. rpEN soldiers of the French JL Foreign Legion sailed into Sltiawan, Lower Perak, m a tongkang yesterday morning, the end of a five-day adventure which began when they jumped off the troopship Marechal Joffre as she steamed down
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    Jews killed in border clash
    267 1 JERUSALEM, Tuesday. A CCORDING to reports from Damascus, Syrian villagers repelled Jewish attacks across the border yesterday, killing three Jews with machine-gun fire. Three Arabs were seriously wounded. British police flred on Jews today m a new outbreak of violence reported from the all-Jewish city
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      Things For The Menfolk
      982 2 Things For The Menfolk Around Singapore Shops TN the course of the last few weeks I have worked my way through quite a lot of my shopping list. At any rate I have got most of the things I require for the children, and have now started to work on
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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      291 2 Season's Best Offers m Post-War creations of Platinum set Diamond and Gem Jewellery. Tableware m Silver and E.PNS, m widest range available. SINGAPORE PENANG Mcrfce Ik is Xmas Grander 0 Better than the last one rh: decorate your home ith Artistic and Latest Range of CARPETS Mir/apur, Persian and Kashmir
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      911 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR tulLuue iouciist lur the details of the work. DOOple born today ou Ulll happiest when BOKN today, you arv exc«p- with ideas. Inlexs tionally intuitive You re- somehing is a challenge to your art to everything like a human anilities, you become disinthermouieter and henc*. your tf
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  • NEWS...
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      Asia as giant awakening
      322 3 -WASHINGTON, Tuesday realise that the Asia world, m spite of nnains essentially one," Mr. Herbert m\ of UNRRA and ex-Governor of New today at the academic convocation of the Asia dedication of its new building. He said it y of aims have a direct bearing on
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      UNKNOWN
      57 3 9 prevented 'he Greece d Premier In an oxcluBangkok with iintry had I some un•.vhich he atpolittcal backed by illeby a group Free Thai. Panomyong's said, Siam was i we have more ims^id he nal against recognition, tuition was ne when the nations •a of the good inki of
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      7 DIE IN SMASH
      14 3 ere killed and a CalcuttaExpress rain near miles Irom Reuter
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      Pakistan's fears of Indian aims
      145 3 Pakistan's fears of Indian aims IF India would only leave Pakistan alone for some years to develop our State according to our own genius, we shall be able to prove to the world that Pakistan's fundamental ideal is the establishment of a democratic State pledged to uphold peace within its
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      JAP WHALE OIL FOR EUROPE
      67 3 OVER 7,200 tons of whale oil, obtained by the first Japanese Antarctic whaling expedition, will be exported to European countries suffering from deficiencies of fats and cooking oils. Japan will be credited with U. 5.52,800.000. 52, 800. 000 on her foreign trade account. The second
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      STATE FUNERAL FOR LECLERC
      87 3 LARGE crowds m Paris on Monday saw the body of Jacques Lech re. France's hero general m World War 11. borne on a simple gun carriage from Notre Dame Cathedral, where the funeral service was held, to its resting place m the Invalides Chapel, where Napoleon,
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      US PRINTS CURRENCIES FOR GERMANY, KOREA
      37 3 The U.S. Treasury has printed a new currency for occupied Germany and Korea, to be issued m the event of failure to reach agreement with the Soviet on a peace settlement.
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      TROOPS LEAVE ITALY
      21 3 The final contingent of British troops m Italy left Venice for repatriatian aboard three British ship on Monday.
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      RUSSIANS FLEE TO CHINA
      60 3 YMJRTY-FOUR Russian Bapr list refugees, who nYd Russia several years aeo and lived m Lanchow, capital of Kansu Province, have arrived Shanghai by CNRRA air transport. Their evacuation was arranged by the Baptist Foreign Mission. The Russians spent several years en route via Sinkian*. It is
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      EGYPT CHOLERA OVER
      38 3 Egypt ceased publishing the daily cholera communiques on Monday when, for the first time, there were r.o new cases or deaths to report from the epidemic which began two and a half months ago. U.P.
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      Mme. Sun romance denied
      35 3 Tfci-n TANNEBAUM told Baltimore reporters that the story oy t «,r,r? b^ a^as h beo W n ld orUi0 rUic o il of .he" present I«^>U.. »dmi- nistraiion m China.-- A.P.
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      78 3 A man who vxis crippled by a booby-trap m Burma, and a girl w)io wan crippled by a spinal injury while m the ATS met m the same hospital m England, and are now planning to marry. The man, Mr. John Robert Murrell, of Lingdale, Yorks, who is now paralysed
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      GERMAN ARMS KINGS ON CRIMES CHARGES
      230 3 WHEN the trial of 12 former high officials of the giant Krupp munitions combine opened before an American war crimes court m Nuremburg, the prosecution alleged that the firm's Essen factory evaded the Versailles disarmament order after the World War I and manufactured 315
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      18 3 Seafront amusements last year brought Felixstowe Town Council a profit of £18,449— equal to a two-shilling rate Reuter
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      MILITARY HELP MAY BE EXPANDED
      512 3 MILITARY HELP MAY BE EXPANDED 'Aid China* demand m U.S. growing NANKING, Tuesday. IT is learned reliably that preliminary planning is under way m both Nanking and Washington for manifold expansion of United States military advisory groups m the event the United States Congress directs large-scale military assistance to Generalissimo
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      PUBLIC EXECUTION FOR ARMED MEN
      32 3 DUBLJC execution by firing squad will take place "within the next few days" of persons guilty of retaining unlicensed arms and ammunition, a Burmese Government announcement said.
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      Vatican fears Soviet-US war
      354 3 AUTHORITATIVE Vatican sources warn that Sovietn United States relations have so deteriorated that the "differences between the two gTeat powers may lead to a new conflict" unless the present trend is reversed, says Virgil M. Pinkley, United Press Vice President, cabling from the Vatican City. This
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      PREFERRED RICE TO SHINTO
      66 3 A 72-YEAR-OLD farmer m the village of Koichi, m northern Japan, set fire to the town's shrine and burned dt down, and then hanged himself from a nearby tree. The farmer left behind this note: "Increased production will not come from praying to (Shinto) God. It
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      UNRRA EXPOSES S'HAI FISH RACKET
      243 3 WITH United States preparing to send U.S. $25,000,000 worth of post-UNRRA food supplies to China, private fish interests m Shanghai have succeeded m limiting catches by UNRRA fishing vessels to less than five per cent, of the normal, according to UNRRA officials m Shanghai Prices
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1947. The Public Services and the Future
      659 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, DEC. 10, 1947. The Public Services and the Future fpHE report of the Trusted J. Salaries Commission is an Important and valuable document not only because it recommends reasonable and practical means for granting assistance to officers of all branches of the public services who
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      ARE YOU CRUEL?
      1024 4  -  K. Jalleh By WHEN some people wish to lid themselves of unwanted kittens, they tie them up m a gunny sack and throw them into a river. Perhaps this is a merciful <?nd for them. But the cruellest method is employed by some, who take them enclosed
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      Russians Prepare
      272 4 THE Russians, apparently with an eye to atomic warfare, are intensively seeking out and adapting secrets of German underground factory construction, according to Allied intelligence reports. Previous report* from German technicians deported into the SovK-t Union to help the revasstinblinß factories removed for preparations have said that the
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      AN OCTOGENARIAN KING
      518 4 AN OCTOGENARIAN KING By GUSTAV SVENSSON A. P. Correspondent CIGHTY-nine-year-L old King Gustaf V of Sweden, who completed his fortieth year on the throne last Monday is making a strong stand against the usual attributes of old age. Although the King was compelled by his doctors to give up tennis
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      FAKE SOVEREIGNS
      146 4 THE Bour:*.* COiumAfl o. Italian financial papers now carry two black market quotations flor "British Sovereigns." The gold i%)Ms?reign— genuine— is valued at 10,000 lire as against tine official price of the pound sterling at 900; and the gold "sovereign" —Italian— is cfuoted at 3.000 lire. This latter
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      FAITH
      10 4 („id make all «»cr abound toward you: that ye.
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      PROFILE OF A MAN
      564 4 PROFILE OF A MAN THE big figure at the Foreign Ministers' meeting m London is George Catlett Marshall, the American Secretary of State. Who is this man? We know that Wirjlen Churchill once called him "the true OTpnn lk i <>i victory." We ku m 'hat. xs Chief of SUxfY
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      BUILDING SHORTAGE CHECKS NEW BANKS
      320 5 BUILDING SHORTAGE CHECKS NEW BANKS Start of business is delayed Free Press Staff Reporter TWO new Chinese banks— with capital of $10 million and $5 million respectively which are among the 64 newly-formed companies registered under the Companies Ordinance m the past three months, have not been able to start
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      51 5 picture. WMtifca negara (aqgvt'j, me piay oexng siagea oy omen's Welfare Association at the New World park. wrtim hands a golden fcris to a King of ancient nal actors of Yern's Grand Nooran Opera members of the Welfare Association who partici" are seen (below) making up behind the scenes. Free
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      43 5 One of the two modern oceangoing tugs built m Australia for delivery to Singapore lying at its Melbourne berth prior to departure on the 4.000 miles journey to Malaya. The tugs are now at sea and are expected m Singapore about Dec. 18.
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      SEVERE RICE RESTRICTIONS IN SIAM
      89 5 SEVERE RICE RESTRICTIONS IN SIAM POM today, m the Bangkok and Thonhuri areas of Siam, it is forbidden to sell or move rice, or to exchange it for any other foodstuff, except with a special permit, the Siamese Rice Commission m Bangkok has announced. It is also announced that people
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      Trade Sch oolplan for Malay women
      233 5 EXPRESSING the need for funds to carry out the main L proposals of the Malay Women's Welfare Association to open a Trade School for Malay women, and girls schools for general and religious education, Che Zahara bint* Noor M< >hamed, President of the Malay
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      54 5 Miss- Iris Gomez, a typist employed by a Singapore import and export firm, is seen operating an American electrical typewriter which is one of the first of its kind to reach Asia. One of the special uses of the machine is typing many copies simultaneously on large account and manuscript
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      G-G to visit H.K., Sarawak, Borneo
      77 5 THE Governor -General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, left Singapore for ILong Kong by air this morning, He v expected to spend 3 days ir Hong Kong, where he will "discuss matters of mutual Interest" With the Governor of Hong Kong. On the return journey,
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      AIR C-in-C OFF TO HONG KONG
      62 5 The Cummander-in-Chief, Air Command, Far East. Air Marsha Sir Hugh P. Lloyd, accompanied by Lady Lloyd. leaves Singapore, today by air for Hong Kong on a tour of inspection of R.A.F. units. They will fly on Saturday to Miiigaladon, Burma, calling at Bangkok en
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      HK dollar cut won't harm Spore trade
      141 5 HK dollar cut won't harm Spore trade Free Press Staff Reporter TIIE recerhtly-aruiounced cut m Hong Kong's dollar exchange is not likely to affect trading between Singapore and Hong Kong, a. Government spokesman told fhe Free Press yesterday. There had always been a certain margki of -free dollar trade" between
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      ELEVEN KILLED IN NOV. ROAD CRASHES
      157 5 Free Pre.ss Staff Reporter FIVE pedestrians, including a child, three passengers who fell from public buses, a car driver, a motor-cyclist and a pedal-cyclist, were killed m Singapore traffic accidents during November, Mr. C.J.R. Bembroke, officer-in-charge of the traffic department, told the Free Press
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      M.Y.F. SPONSOR CIVICS TALKS
      61 5 THE Singapore District Methodist Youth Fellowship is sponsoring a series of talks on •♦Civic Attairs" at the V.M.C.A. Hall. Orchard Road. The speaker for this week's meeting on Thursday, at 5.15 p.m. is Mr. F. Thomas, Civics Muster. St. Andrew's School. The lecture is open to
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      IWHANG MINISTERS
      43 5 It is officially learned from the Res'den.t Commission! er, Pahamg, that Dato' Mahmud bin Mat, O BE., M.C.S., and Dato' Abu Saman bin Haji All, M.C.S., have been provisionally appointed Mentri Besar and State Secretary, respectively, for the State of Pahang.
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      WARNINGS BY RADIO
      33 5 Warnings to mariners which are considered to be of an urgent or Important nature will be broadcast by Radio Malaya m English, Malay and Chinese, from Jan 1, next year.
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      Local dentists to get more pay
      230 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE recognition by the General Medical Council m U.K. of 1 the degree of L.D.S. granted to dental graduates of the College of Medicine, Singapore, has raised the status of dental surgeons to the level of medical graduates of the
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      Stage Club show for children
      70 5 A free matinee show of the x Singapore Stage Club "birthday" presentation of J. M. Barries "Dear Brutus" will be given to schoolchildren at 2.30 p.m. at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday. The play opens tonight and will be staged every night till Saturday. The
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      NEW BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY
      190 5 'pHE following new books have bern added to Rallies Library Martha Dickinson Blanchi Alfred, Leete Hampson, The Poems Emily Dickinson: Roland Green. Wins Tips; Andre Guibaut. Tibetan Venture; Derek Hudson, Charles Keene; Collie Knox, It had to be Me; Olga Lang, Chinese Family and Society
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      MR. THIVY FOR K.L
      34 5 Mr. J. A. Thivy, Representative of the Government of India m Malaya, left Singapore yesterday for Kuala Lumpur on an official visit. He will be away for about five days.
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      'Blacklegs,' says Ceylon MP
      128 5 "AUR men were sent to Malaya because of the growing labour troubles there m order that the Malayan working-class movement might be crushed by using our men as instruments of oppression,'' declared Mr. W. Dahanayake of the BolshevikLeninist Party during the debate on the Ceylon budget
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      HE BEGS ONLY ON SUNDAYS
      78 5 lIM CHOW KAI, a 62-year-old Chinese, described as "an idle and disorderly person," charged with begging at Scott Road on the morning of Dec. 3, told the Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, yesterday that he begged only on Sundays. On other
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      183 5 jn\ MUSEAf a Nrvtnv.nxter Tbealre* ionl >n I iv THE STAGE CLUB, IfAi ÜBTVDAI PRODL'CTIOV "DEAR BRUTUS" Dflifhtful Moderti Comriy >n: J vi rarrik \t H.4S TO-N/GHT ni»htk nee. nth to 13th B Rohinsnn-s Tel. 5*V» !v at ThfAtre Tel. «TC6. hall m <•► 00. r >o. alone imnrove BT"*
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      45 5 THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. I SINGAPORE As from Bth December the TELEPHONE jl NUMBER for the above will be 5151 I with extensions to all departments. W Outside Office Hours:— 5152 Import Department t!^ 5153 Shipping Department 5154 Manager j£ 5155 Rubber Department y
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
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      FUN AND FROLICS
      356 6 Films m Singapore BY OUR FILM REPORTER NOW showing at the Cathay is "Holiday Camp/ Produced by Sydney Box from a story written by Godfrey Winn about the normal habit of ordinary British people taking a holiday. What they do on that holiday ifl almost too faithfully
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      296 6 W£BT op«*jrd ih« damoiid k.i* an which East played the quevn. We*, however, d»d not attempt to put hi* ptw^^T m with th« second diamond. Instead. h.- ra«h^d the ace and shifted to the qu<»en of heart*, which South von. At ftrst blu*h it would j-»«m that South
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      Movies By Phone
      390 6  -  GENE HANDSAKER By A. P. Correspondent A PROCESS for bring- ing movie* into the home by way of telephone wires is beins perfected by S. Sylvan Simon, a film producer, and several associates. Their experiments have been conducted m the utmost secrecy, but Simon m a recent
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      Stand-in
      117 6 AUSTRALIAN stand<V m for English filmstar Jane Barrett is a Sydney girl who works as a typist at Eiiling Studios. She is dark, beautiful stelle Boes. formerly a member of the Australian Women's Army Service. Jane Barrett was wought to Australia by producer Harry Watt for the J. Arthur
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      STARS IN THE MAKING
      228 6 m tk> thtU would Hk et c Brii the through, ruffling" J J* 22 J "is. Mr' I, ««> i f Launder ans a by tb Si ">- -k raa the actors id fc Sir.. u^'. wedbyLau whi. 5 here (he left ay morning for Au.L^li^
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      35 6 LAST DAY p.m.. 4.15. 6.30 9.15 p.m. ALEXANDER KORDA'S "THE CHALLENGE" I BuH>d-Curdling Drama Set Amidst the Grandeur of the Alps m a Story PACKED WITH E X c: ITEM E N T BACK TO-MORROW
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      83 6 I'm .V f.B CHANDU Off the MAGIC ISLAND rATUAY PHONE 3400 TODAY- 11— 1.4.V- 4.15— 6.45 and 9 MI p.m. THE BFM'V^ Fl'V Royal Wedding I aORIOUS TECHNICOLOR i yCte SO Minutes of unforgettable (JO pageantry! mm v TL I JJMES MASOH- JOf)N K f LLlH o^ THE UPTWUIED CIDSS
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      98 6 MdndrdKG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya "1 \T N£ *£MOTE MOUNTAIN VILLAGE] I THE KING H OH --MY I IBBW g:f <j i ALL YOU 00 IS CAY^ 1 A A SU O RPR !I IT L L 1!!L COMINC INTO GOODNESS-/ WIM R& 1 mk JANE
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  • SPORT.,.
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      Yesterday's Race Results
      108 7 RESULTS of yesterday's Ipoh results are as follows: RACE I:— SIR KEITH $13 and $7; Victory $11; Cranbrook $15. RACE 2:— LADY RIJTH $(iO and $17; Tuconee $22, (hum's Choice $20. RACE 3:— BOOKLAW II $49 and $13; Singing Bird II $8; Lucky Star $16. RACE 4:—
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      ARMY BOXING TITLE MEET TONIGHT
      176 7 ARMY BOXING TITLE MEET TONIGHT CINGAPORE District Individual Army boxin? championships will be held at Nee Soon Transit Camp today and tomorrow Although it is an all-Army affair. service personnel may brine m civilian guests. Programmes on both nights will start at 8 p.m. Today there will be 12 bouts
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      TANDBERG'S AMERICAN DEBUT NEXT MONTH
      70 7 PROMOTER Sol Strauss revealed Uiat Sweden's Olle Tandbcrg will make his American debut at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 9. Tandberg will choose his opponent from among Tommy Gomez, Joe Maxim and Glme Benurno of Italy. Nathar Mann and Arturo Godoy of Chile. At Warlord.
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      LOUIS WANTS TO REMOVE BLOT ON HIS CAREER
      272 7 WORLD heavyweight champion joe Louis told the "Detroit Free Press" m a telephone interview that he wanted to "remove that blot from my record or go down swinging" m discussing last Friday's fight with Jersey Joe Walcott. Asked to explain his poor
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      F.A. XI Meet The Army
      38 7 Jones (Aston Villa), Army goalkeeper, takes a high ball to make a clearance during a F.A. XI raid on the Army goal m the game at Brighton which the F.A. tvon four nil.
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      Eddie Miller To Fight In S'pore
      744 7 Eddie Miller To Fight In S'pore From Merv Williams EDDIE Miller, featherweight champion of Australia, called on me after picking-up his plane tickets for Manila and told me that he would fiijht m Singapore on his way back from Manila. Jack Warner, Miller's manager, said also that Little Paras, bantam
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      Roderick Keeps His Title In Great Display
      250 7 Roderick Keeps His Title In Great Display ERNIE Roderick retained his British welterweight title at Harringay Arena, London, last night when he outpointed Eric Boon, former British light-weight champion, over 15 rounds after a hard clean fight. Roderick weighed lOst. 61b. and Boon lOst. 3 lib. Ernie Roderick, 33-year-old British
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      AUSTRALIAN POLO TEAM
      61 7 AN Australian polo team, the first overseas players to visit San Francisco, since before the war, will start a four months tour of the southern United States this month. Later the Australians will join up with two of India's Polo-playing potentates, the Maharajah of Cooch Behar and
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      Asian Cricket Conference Planned
      108 7 Asian Cricket Conference Planned A SUGGESTION that the Indian Cricket Board of Control should call an Asian Cricket Conference m the very near future, was made by Mr. A. S. de Mello, President of the Board, at a Press Conference m Bombay recently. The proposed conference could comprise the various
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      LESNEVICH HONOURED
      35 7 NEW York boxing writers unanimously awarded the fight games most coveted annual trophy, the Edward J. Nelll Memorial Plaque, to light-heavy-weight champion Gus Lesnevich for having contributed most to boxing during 1947.— U.P.
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      MALAYANS WIN ALL MATCHES
      142 7 THE Malayan badminton stars particle patine m Bombay m the Indian National badminton championships on the opening day of the mixed double* events yesterday won three matches partnered by Indian women. The outstanding match th&t between A. S. Samuel, of Malaya, ond Bella Castelino and S.
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      Base Workshops Beat S.R.D. Four-One
      112 7 RE ME. Base Workshop's first XI beat Supply Reserve Depot, JJ.A.S.C four— one m a game of football played on McNair Road ground. The game was evenly contested both teams playing good football with REME Base taking the honours m the first half, «\nd the
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      GOOD RIDING FEATURED IPOH RACES
      352 7 forky' Donnelly In Great Form Free Press Racing Reporter IPOH, Today. „HI N I John Keatin^ the S.R.A. Stipendiary Steward, ,11 clear" after the day's racing at Ipoh yes-i-ted great credit on the fine riding of the fields were exceptionally big— there were 15 races—
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      R.A.F. BASE BEAT OFFICERS 1-0
      160 7 JN a slow game of footbal on the mental Hospital Ground R.A.F. Base Headquarters beat the Singapore R.AP. Officers by one goal to nil. The game was fairly evenly contested m the first half, without either team scoring. The officers played well, but lacked direction
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      RUSSIANS TO PERFECT RACING M'CYCLE
      49 7 THE Russians are seeking to per- feet a racing motorcycle that will excel anything used at international cycling competitions m Europe. Recently 21 test machines, products of six different factories, were put through a gruelling 5.600 kilometre test run by leading Soviet cyclists. A.P.
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      Today's Padang Rugger COMBINED R.A.F. MEET S.C.C.
      531 7 Today's Padang Rugger COMBINED R.A.F. MEET S.C.C. rFree Press Staff Reporter E Singapore CYicket Club will face strong opposition on the Padang this evening when they meet the Combined .A.F in the fifth tie of the Singapore five-cornered ***** competition. A good game is anticipated, although the Club will be
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      287 7 ?ree Press Crossword No, 2 >a i fz [3 I [4 1 1 I HT" I 111 i 1 111 CLUES ACROSS 1, One-time slang for a pound note (8). 7, Extensive Drdian territory south of the Punjab (9). 9, Pupils of school or university (6). 11 Number of feet
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    15 8 Home Picture For Malayans A typical scene along the Kelantan coast North-East Malaya. (C.0.1. Picture.}.
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    India-Pakistan financial pact
    325 8 India-Pakistan financial pact DBLHI, Tuesday. INDIA and Pakistan have reached an agreement on financial matters, Including division of all assets and liabilities. The agreement concerns mainly the division of cash balances which existed m United India as on Aug. 14 this year. Announcing this agreement, the Deputy Prime Minister of
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    SPECTACULAR COMET 'SIGNALS END OF WORLD'
    211 8 CAPE TOWN, Tuesday. POMET Honda, streaking across the southern sky m a display more spectacular than any thing since Halley's Comet In 1910, signalled the end of the world to thousands of Orange Free Btate natives at Harrtsmith who spent ill ji last night
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    GOODWILL MISSION
    18 8 The Chettiars' Ooodwlll Mission to Malaya has left India. They are expected here abou Dec. 18
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    INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT, MALAYAN UNION
    206 8 Applications are invited for appointment In the Income Tax Department. Malayan Union as 1. Assessment Officer. S. Examiner. 3. Assistant Examiner. The duties of Assessment Officer* Will include the assessment to Income j Tax of Individuals and certain corporate bodies. Minimum educational qua lfkatlon required
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    COLLAPSE OF N.I. PEACE TALKS NOW FEARED
    536 8 COLLAPSE OF N.I. PEACE TALK S NOW FEARED Deadlock over 'cease fire* BATAVIA, Tuesday. WELL-INFORMED sources, m close touch with the Dutch and Indonesian Republican negotiators aboard the U.S. Navy transport Renville m Batavia Harbour,* predict that a crisis might develop this week over the implementation* of the Security Council's
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    26 8 Former air gunner Wilfrid Carm ?i Carey of Eastbourne College 'SKin^'nlTJ'^ son rural industries centre at'wzmb/erfon u£d£ U l> ing as an agricultural engineer withoth^ei'^ he
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    BELGIAN CRISIS LIKELY OVER KING LEOPOLD
    169 8 BELGIAN CRISIS LIKELY OVER KING LEOPOLD BRUSSELS, Tuesday. A BELGIAN Coalition Government crisis appeared inevitable tonight on the issue of whether King Leopold, exiled since the liberation of Belgium, shall return to the throne. M. Max Buset. President of th€ Socialist Party, will challenge the Socialist Prime Minister. Paul Henri
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    GLASS FACTORY FOR SINGAPORE
    59 8 AUSTRALIAN ConaoUdated Ini\ dnttrtef is building a factory to make (lan cOHtallKfl at SinKajxire. and the MOiCCi is expert rd to expand ♦vt-ntually into engineering, plastics and other branches of industry Production of glass container? will be^in early m 1948 if soda ash is available The
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    ALL SECTIONS QUIET, STEADY
    452 8 London StockExd^ ALL sections of the London Stock Exchane^uW today, the last day of the present account, h^^ trading volume small but with price levels gen ral h v ing steady, writes Renter's financial corresindem O4lt-edgeds were without alteration on the day. whilst movements among Industrials
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    BACK PAY FOR VOLUNTEERS
    102 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. MALAYAN Union members of the Volunteer Forces and passive defence services now resident m Singapore will be paid their dues under the Worley Report early next year. This statement was made today by Capt. Syed Shaid All, Officer m Charge
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    S2BIMILUON LOST ON SYNTHETIC
    176 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. rrXHE United States Government 1 lost U.S. $281,972,000, making and selling synthetic rubber, Mr. G. Hadlock. executive of the Construction Finance Corp. Office of Rubber Reserve, told a Congressional committee today. Mr. Hadlock said he does not believe private companies can afford to sell
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    MOLOTOV MOVE DISPELS FEAR OF BREAKDOWN
    142 8 LONDON. Tuesday. SOVIET Foreign Minister Molotov dispelled fears of a quick adjournment of the Council of Foreign Ministers today by compromising a little— but sum.-irntly -U) get the Big Four down to work on major German problems. There is considerable hope now virtually non-existent
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    URANIUM FIND IN S. CHINA
    55 8 URANIUM FIND IN S. CHINA MINERALS containing uranium have be<-n discovered m large quantities m the mountains near Chungshan and Hoshen. m Kwangsl Province, according to Chinese press reports On orders from Pai Chung -hsi Minister of National Defence, the Kwangsi Provincial Government is forming a special committee to make
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    LIQUDATED 60.000
    37 8 A military tribunal sentenced Peter Leideritz. a former Nazi Gestapo chief, to be hanged for "liquidating" 60.000 Jews m a wartime concentration camp near Warsaw. Leideritz was extradited to Warsaw for trial from Germany. A.P.
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    AID BILL CLEARS MAJOR OBSTACLE
    232 8 T™ WASHINGTON, Tuesday. HE House of Representatives has turned down by a vote of 136 to 109, a proposal to ban the shipment of any relief goods abroad unless the United States had more of those goods than are needed. Thus the House bill, authorising
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    U.S. PILOT INCREASE
    34 8 The United States Air Force has revealed plans to triple its pilot training programme, which will increase the number of aviation cadets from 1,000 to at least 3.000 aimng 1948. A.P.
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    HOW IT FEELS TO BE A PRINCESS
    237 8 LONDON, Tuesday. ■TITTY Scott, who used to live m a Fulham back street until she married Prince Harcunal Rashid Abbasi of Bahawalapur (India), wrote to her mother an excited ten-page letter, received here on Saturday, from the dazzling Sadiqgarh Palace and told how
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    RUBBER PRICES
    166 8 A SPECIAL .Market eormptod' ent *Jvm the pricts of rnbbei at 11 a.m. today as follows Buyers >ellen Cts. CU per Ib ocr li No. IBS S. Spot low* 3«", tt% No. 1 X S S. fob m balrs Dtt 3V\ No. 2 X S 5 foo m
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      18 8 GODOWN WANTED WANTED. j-arite Kodown. concrete floor, for immediate occupation on lone tenancy. Box No 67. F P
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      73 8 SALE BYJENDERTh- Johore. |i under Motor I SiSll" T^ncth feft Jg. Breadth Draucht st\KD6' Petrol Drivrt Encmr chrvsler4sHP. HtnM Bahra 2 AppU»tioni sh^ w S«« Senior V T iOr pen,, «|e« the 3. Tenders shouj4jj r^ W eistered utvt addressed to v Comber of .CurtO^JW;!; should for the Durd»«« ol
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      67 8 WE A TIIER Showers WEATHER report for Uie next Cl houn compiled by the RAF: Scattered «howrn or th understormft, (x-< ommt f*Jr overnight. Temperatures: Mai 78: mln. 74 Relative humidity prrccnla*e»: Yesterday 7 30 am 99: 1 30 p.m. 85; 7 30 pm. 93 Today 7 30 am 100.
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