The Singapore Free Press, 10 January 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA f 17, SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    24 1 H.■ »b, 64--railway chief of i ish Transport fen to wane ■n he has time: n he is pressed he UnderorowM raiiadQuarters at W
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    ALL WORK STOPS IN PORT
    313 1 5, 000 men are now on strike Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S port is now at a complete standstill as a result of the strike called yesterday by the Harbour Labourers' Union. None of the 5,000 dock labourers turned up for work this morning and
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    US manoeuvres off Greece
    158 1 H'IDKLY Interpreted :us a United Males warning 10 Greece's Balkan neighbours not to recognise the i Free Greek Government" of the Communist rebel lor l.di. Markos. the T.S. Mediterranean Fleet is holding exerdsea in the Eastern Mediterranean and the lonian Sea within si^ht of South-west Greece.!
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    Customs Union not opposed
    112 1 LONDON. Friday. DENYING British press reports that Mr. Harold Wilv>n. President of the Board of Trade, was opposed to a European Customs Union, a Board of Trade statement today said that Britain is giving close attention to "forms of economic co-operation which are capable of making
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    ARMED GANG TAKES 11,000
    38 1 ARMED GANG TAKES 1 1 ,000 17OUR Chinese, three armed, 1 r entered the first floor of a house in Canal Road at 845 !/clock last night, and took 51.000 in cash and jewellery irerm the Chinese occupants.
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    MARSHALL DENIES HE'LL RESIGN
    203 1 WASHINGTON. Friday. THE United States Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, today denied reports that he would resign if Coniiress failed to give him adequate funds to carry out the Marshall European recovery programme. "It would be inconsistent with everything I have learnt in public service."
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    INDIAN TROOPS KILL 250 RAIDERS
    209 1 NEW DELHI, Friday. SPEAR-HEADED by armoured cars and supported by Tempests and Spitfires of the Royal Indian Air Force, Indian infantry launched a surprise attack on a substantial force of raiders less than 12 miles from the Pakistan border and killed 250 of them. This
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    Arabs attack from Syria
    258 1 JERUSALEM, Friday. npilE Palestine Government has protested to the A Syrian Government against the invasion of Palestine this morning from Syria of Arab expeditionary forces estimated at between 1,000 and 2,000 strong and attacks on Jewish settlements in the Tiberias and Safad districts. Waiting Eritish troops
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    FLOODS IN JOHOUE SUBSIDING
    145 1 FLOODS IN JOHOUE SUBSIDING Free Press Staff Reporter FLOOD waters in Johore are beginning to subside, if Rood weather continues, the situation may be under control by Monday, latest reports indicate. Kota Tinggi town is still under water but there are s that the worst of the floods are over.
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    MACDONALD CALLS ON MAHATMA
    89 1 MACDONALD CALLS ON MAHATMA NEW DELHI. Friday. THE Govrrnor-General of Malaya. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. <>n his way to England, called on Mahatma Gandhi hew today. With Mr. MacDonald was the British Secretary for Air. Mr. Arthur Hondtrson, who is on his wa> homo after representing Britain at Burma's independence celebrations
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    FREE OF CHOLERA
    44 1 No new cholera cases havrbeen reported in Syria for the past nine days. It is hoped that the end of the epidemic will be ofllcially announced next week. when normal transport and mail communications with other countries may be resumed.- A.P.
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    WAR ON CHINA SMUGGLERS
    78 1 AS the result of negotiations conducted in Hong Kong and London, the British authorities are reported to have accepted th Chinese proposal for an agreement d signed to curb smuggling activities In Hong Kong and Kowloon. says Router. The signing of the agreement is sa'd to
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    C-in-C OF ARAB ARMY
    38 1 C-in-C OF ARAB ARMY Kernel Effendi Arakat ttt* c nd from right) chief of the Fujuwah Arab Army :n Palestine (the Mu Hi's private army) inspect* recruits during a parade in the village oj Abu Dis, near JemnUeiH.
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    MARINES FOR JERUSALEM?
    72 1 THE United Slates is considering sending Marines to guard the recently bombed consulate at Jerusalem, the State Department revealed last night. It added that no I decisions had been reached during "informal"*disous.sioi s with the Palestine Government. Simultaneously, the Arat> Office in London issued a statement that
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    BANK ROBBERY
    47 1 FOUR armed men raided a branch of the Hibernia National Bank in New Orleans yesterday and escaped with cash estimated at SI 00.000. They forced their way into the bank half an hour before opening time, and forced the manager to open the vault. Reuter
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    DUTCH SET TIME LIMIT IN INDIES
    232 1 rPHE new crisis in Indonesia is expected to reach its climax early next week. Reports from Baiavia and reliable information available here indicate that the Dutch have set a time limit believed to expire on Tuesday for a Republican reply to the latest cease
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    MALAYAN LOAN TALKS ENDING
    69 1 A COLONIAL Oflice spokesman said yesterday the preliminary financial negotiations between the Malayan Union and the United Kingdom, including a possible British loan, are nearly completed. Details were not disclosed. The Financial Secretary of the Malayan Union. Mr. W. D. Godsall. is expected to leave for
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    GENT AS HIGH COMMISSIONER
    49 1 The appointment of Sir Edward Gent, as High Commissioner of the Malayan Federation, has been approved by the King, a hish Whitehall source revealed yesterday. Sir Edward is expected to assume this post as soon as the new contitution is implemented early in February'. A.P.
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    DOMINIONS HEAR OF NEW U.K. POLICY
    202 1 LONDON, Friday THE Prime Minister, Mi Clement Attlee and members of the Cabinet met the High Commissioners of the British Dominions today and summarised for them new but still secret diplomatic decisions aimed at curbing tho spiead of Communism, says Associated Press. The meeting
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    COPRA PRICE
    53 1 A record price of U.S. S?l5 per short ton was paid yesterday for a limited amount ot Manila copra, c.i.f. Pacific coast -port*. The new price was $15 a ton above that paid for a small quantity last Tuesday and compares with $240 per short ton paid on
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  • FEATURES...
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      MULBERRY IS IN TOWN
      973 2 MULBERRY IS IN TOWN A MAMMOTH M model of Mulberry Harbour has arrived in Singapore. It is on show here at the Victoria Memorial Hall and later it will be taken to Kuala Lumpur for exhibition. Th.' Colonial Office sponsored the sending to Malaya of this model. It came from
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      37 2 "Burlesque." the Americati musical show, has just had its f/SSX! 11 JS!*!!"*!^!* thc °P era Ho Manchester. l,n J, C ol cano and Mar joru- Reynolds. Lauqh-inj-eycd Zoe Gail toasts thc opening in a glass of bubbly
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      Bridge Problem
      186 2 are trumps. South leads. North and South •re to win s of tin- mtcq tl ck any defence. South makes the club ton ten, NctUi disrardln*: the luart km*. South leads the diamond North*! ;uv wiiLs and North returns a diamond whlrh South trumps with the kin*. South
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      WOUNDED TEETH REPAIRED
      531 2 WOUNDED TEETH REPAIRED By T. ROSENTHAL, A. P. Correspondent A METHOD of healing cariona troth biologirally like bodily wt-unds, whereby th«' tocth £i'"W jk-w enamel, waa described to Uu> Associated Press by Swedish dentist. Dr. sten Forsliulvud of Gothenburg, who said his method, After .several years research, ii now ready
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      'JAVA MAN'ROW
      412 2 'JAVA MAN' ROW By Rennie Taylor A.P. Science Writer TOE Dutch disA coverer of the "Java Man" and the American who is the leading authority on the "Dawn Man" have been sharply criticised for making "inconsistent and arbitrary" statements which are doing a disservice to the science of anthropology. Dr.
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      Hollywood's HIGH & LOW
      147 2 Hollywood's HIGH LOW and low p Bi. the year: V. Oomin i •< B*. man's A Newsiest r Ch Bri on U.S. fl] I Besl I Exr Most ent "Perils of 1 est Best art! ing Becomes I in "Gel I I! William Father"; T.. "Nightmare a: Redgrave in Comes
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      89 2 Quafer Day v£2&^ THE^FAMILY! W When vour f.,miU s, ls do« nIO crvamv. C.ous breaklast ol Quaker Dais, tluv re i <n|o> k because Quaker Oacs is |usl all aaMiesi breakfast \<>u can serve AndQvak. *s hole grain oats nature s most *ereal source of lood-encr^ v f«>, J «mJ
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      300 2 \£*jTpjm"] f ;*f;fv* SINGAPORE Blue Network Vrom 11 .M noon to <»0 p.m. 526 metres in the medium wave band and 20 meearyrle*, in the 11 metre band. From b 00 p.m. to 1.41 p.m: from 9.30 p.m. to 11.00 pm.: f>26 metres in the medium wave band, and 4.825
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      326 2 > n ZO p m. to 8 15 pro. VLC4 M nwtrcs 15.32 megacycles; 10 00 p m. to 11 55 p m. VLC9 16 82 metre* 17.84 mrjracyrle*; 10 00 pm to U.M p.m. VLIM 2o 40 metres 11.81 mrracycles. SATURDAY 930 a.m. "Hits from the Ml y 45
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      217 2 new.v: 6 45 "S<-ft Lights and Bweet music" with Norma Pntkin; 7 p.m. "tenors of Renown"' BeniI ninino Gioli, Giovanni Martinelli Tito Bchips; 7.20 •Famous Overtures"; 7 30 Talk- -••M:u;az i ne of Jthe week"— a weekly topical featurr written by Harry Reidy, 7.45 Men and their rnir.ir 1 Pro
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      210 2 Grttt White Way; 6 p.m. Tl^rty to Oik-; G.3) World and Horn* Nows; 6.45 mnnniMßor. 7 p.m. Let's Go; 7.30 PeraoPttl DwcotMy; 8 p.m. Wr>rld and Home News; 8.05 Yours for tha A.skmß; 8 45 Rhythm in the Sun, 8.58 Programme Announc»ments; 9 p.m. Sinfonietta; 9.30 Starlit Hour; 10.15 Polk
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      89 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DOKN today, you have na- lural business ability and you have a gift of making almost anything you tackle pay favourable f dividends for >«>ur efforts. You are the type to make romiiirrrial fttcctti of something that usually is considered merely
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  • CHINA NEWS...
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      CHINA TO AVERT WORLD WAR'
      571 3 CHINA TO AVERT WORLD WAR' Call To U.S. NEW YORK, Friday. fOXGRESSMAN Walter H. Judd, discussing aid to China, said "Our best chance of preventing VVorld War 111 is to make §w~ if we can, that Russia does not get control over the Chinese." Failure to help China now, he
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      Jap criminals to hang
      44 3 Jap criminals to hang picture. Three Japanese war criminals Gunkivtii Tanaka, Ginoda and Toshio Mukai were given the death sentence in a four-hour hearing at the Military Tribunal in Nanking. The three men were found QUilt* of murdering Chinese during the war. Chinese Official
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      CHINA WANTS 'JUST PEACE FOR JAPAN'
      90 3 CHINA WANTS 'JUST PEACE FO R JAPAN' \KING. Friday. country world who ar peace with a high inese Gov- Reuter. U nee or ild not be feme light obstructively i the Security I r stating veU as to tsi claims the full oon- i ndent Policy claims, China I -thc-road
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      69 3 The Chinese Ambassador to U.S. Dr. Wellington Koo. awarded the decoration of the Order of the Brilliant Star 10 ten directors of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China at a recption in honour of the tenth anniversary oj its founding, Mrs. Roosevelt, Jr. was presented with a testimonial
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      44 3 Guests at the United Nations Exhibition in Shanghai, dnnking a toast to the United Nations Organization. RiQht to left are: Mrs. and Mr. P. H. Chu Director of UNO Information Office, General Ming of OMEA, MiU Ting and Gen. Huanq North China's Daily News
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      NEW TAXATION EXPECTED
      25 3 enue hall oi the ).000 >:b\f> ex- as be deli b>.nd from i i i >l recial nai tonal ;»y ttlC Reuter
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      28 3 Dr. Hu Shih. famed Chinese scholar and former Ambassador to the United States, irill represent educational circles in Peiping at the March Meeting of the Chinese National Assembly.
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      Plan to crush Communists
      201 3 SHANGHAI, Friday /AXLY recently installed as new lommander-in- Chief for all North China, General Fu Tso-yi, veteran commander and a national hero in the eight-year war against Japan, is reported to have completed his plans for a major offensive against the Communists. These plans arc a
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      BIG REWARD FOR ARMY
      78 3 BIG REWARD FOR ARMY THE Chinese Ministry of Na- tional Defence has announced the receipt of a large monetary donation from Chinatl nals in the Philippines in appreciation of the strong and successful resistance put up by the Chines* -arris* >n at Petaishan in north-east Sinkianu Province :.st outer Mongolian
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      FEWER SHIPS CALLING AT SHANGHAI
      153 3 FEWER SHIPS CALLING AT SHANGHAI SHANGHAI, Friday. SHIPPING circles say that foreign shipping has dropped 50 per cent during the past year dn the port of Shanghai. one of the most flourishing ports n the world before the war "and the prospects for the coming year are not very bright."
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      RAIL REBUILDING RECORD CLAIMED
      187 3 NANKING, Friday. THE Chinese Communications Minister, Mr. Yu Ta-wei, told the United Press he believed greater progress was made during 1947 in the development of China's communications than in any similar period during the last 50 years. Despite constant Communist destruction, the total mileage of rails
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      Kuomintang rebels have no arms
      297 3 Kuomintang rebels have no arms SHANGHAI. Friday. (IHIN.VS newly-formed Kuoj mlntang Revolutionary Committee, which sects to overthrow the present Nankins Government. has one major defect lack of military backing. Dispatches from Hong Kong quote Marshal Li Chi-sen. chairman of the new group, as saying it has no army, but will
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      CUSTOMS CHIEF ON TOUR
      62 3 THE Deputy Inspector-Gene--1 ral of the Chinese Customs in Shanghai is scheduled to leave on an inspection tour of the South China ports and to study the smuggling situation at first hand. He is expected to be away for one month, during which time he will
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      Big UNO aid for children
      210 3 Big UNO aid for children rE Assistant Director of Field Operations, Mr. Donal Sabin said in Washington yesterday that the United Nations' Internotional Children's Emergency Fund has allocated UJS. $5,000,000 to children in the Far East 70 per cent. t 0 China. He said the fund reaches "only one out
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      17 3 The Chinese Shipping Guild in Shanghai has asked for Nanking's approval for 70 percent freight increases. U.P.
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      Minister ivill discuss aid with Truman
      246 3 Minister ivill discuss aid with Truman NANKING. Friday. THE Minister of Communications, Mr. Yn Ta-vvci, 1 and the former Central Bank Governor. Mr. Pei Tsu Yee, will take the Chinese Government's plans for rebuilding war-torn China with internal resources and American aid when they go to Washington soon. They will
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      US. ATTITUDE IMPROVING'
      71 3 NANKING. Friday. THE attitude of the United States Press towards China is changing for the better, according: to Mr. Chang-zans. Director of Information Department of the Foreign Office, who has returned to Nanking after attending the I" nit d Nations General Assembly in New York. Mr. Chang
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      Britain donates 70,000 books
      120 3 SHANGHAI.. Friday. SOME 70,000 volumes of all kinds the gift of the London Book Centre have arrived from Britain for distribution among China's wardevastated libraries and educational institutions. They followed two shipments from the United States totalling 270.000 volumes. Another 30.000 books are expected shortly to
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      MORE AUSTERITY
      33 3 The Amalgamted Austerity Movement Committee in Shanghai has announced a series of resolutions putting new austerity price limits on restaurant!, and asking for a reduction in the use of newsprint. U.P.
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      SCRAP METAL SOLD TO U.S
      71 3 THE first shipload of guns and tanks in a one mil-lion-ton purchase of scrap war equipment from the Chinese Government has arrived at Baltimore for the Patapsco Scrap Corporation, a Bethlehem Steel subsidiary. Another 100 shiploads are, expected over the next 18 months. The first
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      28 3 TARZAN Ooome<s; 7>'y £kfettr gfce Burroughs "e£'V>3 JC£M4l£ hA*:£ P£RR> THAT (3HAK AS A 6UACD Vb^Lm 11 v Said "n^e via».4<i:f; pepehP T^^SttMß^n^ might oet them \J^^^j|^^jl i'-
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JAN. 10. 1948. Dollars from Tin
      625 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JAN. 10. 1948. Dollars from Tin liHE Malayan tin production figure! published yesterday gave an indication of the recovery of the industry in 1947, when some 26.500 t"ns wore won against jU6t under 7.000 in the previous year and output is now running at about
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      A BETTER TIME COMING
      870 4 A BETTER TIME COMING London Letter From Hall Romney IJSJONE of us here are sorrowful over the passing of 1947. I suppose few of you in Malaya are sorry to see it go. It brought you a certain improvement in living conditions, and, I suppose, a gradual movement in the
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      UNITED NATIONS' THIRD YEAR
      634 4  - UNITED NATIONS' THIRD YEAR MICHAEL FRY By Reuters' Correspondent THE third year in the life of the young Doited Nations will, in the opinion of informed observer! at Lake Success, be the supreme test of whether the organisation can survive in ib> present form or whether it will be submerged
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      145 4 One hundred guests went to a wedding feast on Christmas Day in "little Ukraine" Shenstone, draffs. It urns a gay affair, though the guests were a thousand miles from home. At the head of the table was Omelan Leilsiki, with his fair-haired bride, Ereka wira Shyanowych- For Wira who was
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      When The World's Oil Dries Up
      1207 4  - When The World's Oil Dries Up Kirtley F. Mather By Professor of Cteotoffy, Haward University, in a broadcast from the RB.C J PRESUME that everyone is well aware of the fact that petroleum was looked upon as strategic mineral No. 1 during the war. Almost everybody now is well aware
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      53 4 Twelve years ago, Britain's Prime Minister, Mr. C. R. Attlee, took his da the original production of "Alice in Wonderland' with Nancy Price at the I. itLondon. So when "Alice Through the Looking Glass," adapted for the sto Nancy Price, was produced at the "Q" Theatre, the Prime Minister visited
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      SCHOLARSHIP TO A.G.C.S. SENIOR CLASS
      83 5 SCHOLARSHIP TO A.G.C.S. SENIOR CLASS lioiatton Chinese I has Lp lor a a,te class Singapore 1948. The cxand text Irahip is the com- r. is in the v .stuteavo are eqi lard of IB It is 1! Mich Raise Funds are I the to 0 _v be ary. Wli g,
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      83 5 The Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic, Dr. Amir Sharif uddin. is photographed ivith Dr. Haji Agoes Salim, Indonesian Foreign Minister, at the Singapore airport yesterday. Dr. Sharifuddin made a special trip to Singapore to meet Dr. Salim and Sutan Shahrir, and to take them back to Jogjakarta for a
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      NEW MOON DAY
      46 5 New moon day, which falls today, will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple 96, Outram Road, Singapore, by the Singapore Buddhist Association. All are invited. 6.00 p.m. Illumination. 7.00 p.m. Buddha Puja. 7 30 p.m. Sermon by Ven. M. M. Mahaweera Thera.
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      Club putting off $300,000 plan
      309 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PLANS to construct a new swimming pool, which would have cost well over $300,000, for the Singapore Chinese Shimming Club are likely to be deferred jus a result of the Control of Building Ordinance passed in the Advisory- Council last Thursday.
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      LORRY DRIVER IS JAILED
      80 5 FOR driving a lorry without a current curfew permit, the Second Police Magist ra <\ Mr. A. G. Shears, yeJitorday, senternoed Neo Itu to one mouUh's rigorous imprLsoiunemt. ASP GrifflUi said that* nt 10.50 p. m on Jan. 8 he was with a par^y of police
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      NEW SMC HOUSES BY YEAR END
      284 5 Work to start on big scheme 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Municipality will go ahead this year with some of its building programme <o house the staff, and expects to complete a large proportion of the proposed bungalows, flats and houses before
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      KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT
      59 5 a FINDING of death by misadventure was returned by the Singapore Coroner yesterday at the inquiry held into the death of a 15-year-old Chinese, Cheng Chooi Hock, who died after an accident in Yeo Chu Kang Road on Dec. 23. The deceased Cheng came into collision
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      CONCERT FOR FLOOD RELIEF
      73 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rwiO rai.se funds for Malay A fU>od victims in north Malaya, the Tclok Blanga branch of the Singapore Malay Union Is planning to hold a concert at the Happy World at the end of this month Thp collections will be used largely
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      Still champions T.B. lotteries
      103 5 "I AM not in favour of State lotteries Jus: fur the sake of having Stale lotteries," Mr. N. A. MalJal told the Free Press yesterday. He said that if Government could provide sufficient money, 'for the necessary medical services, then he did not want lot) eries.
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      18 MONTHS FOR THEFT
      67 5 SENTENCE of 18 months' rigorous imprisonment was passed at the Singapore Assizes, yesterday on a Chinese, Ong Ah Noy, when he was found guilty of stealing two motor-car headlamp glasses and two larno rims, valued at $20. Onff was arrested by two policemen on the night
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      Malays may spring election surprise
      183 5 Free Press StafT Reporter THE President of the Singapore Malay Union, yesterday refused to comment on a report that the Malay Union would be nominating candidates for the forthcoming election for the new Legislative Council. The President. Inche Saardon bin Haji Jubair, told the Free
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      RICE HARVEST MAY BE 326,275 TONS
      223 5 TTHE Department of Agiiculture estimates the 1947--1 1048 rice crop in Malaya at 326,275 tons an increase of 21 per cent, over the 1946-1947 figures. The increase is largely due to the 100,000-acre expansion in the area under padi cultivation. The estimated figures for
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      Dutch help to stop smuggling
      163 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rIE Netherlands Government is doing everything possible to prevent the smuggling of rice and other food cargoes from N.E.I. islands into Singapore. There was no truth in a recent report of smuggled rice being transhipped at Tanjong Balei, said Mr. A.
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      WOMEN GET DAY'S JAIL FOR OPIUM
      108 5 TWO Chinese women, Lim Suit Moi and Chan Moi, were yesterday sentenced to one day's simple imprisonment by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, for importing opium. Mr. E. J. Selby of the Customs Department who pro.seciKed said that on Doc. 29
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      WOMAN CHARGED
      46 5 WITH CHEATING A 24 -YEAR -OLD Chinese woman was charged in the Fourth Police Court yesterday with cheating three different people of various sums of money. The total amount involved was $208. She claimed trial on all charges and was allowed bail of $500.
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      BODY IN CANAL
      39 5 Singapore Police yesterday morning removed the body of a 45-year-old Indian from Rochore Canal. He had injuries on the head and face. The body was taken to the Singapore morgue, and has not yet been identified.
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      INTIMIDATION CHARGE
      71 5 Jabin bin Haii Shaddin, alias Kamil bin Sappi. a 20--year-old Malay R.A.S.C. soldier, was produced before the Sixth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. R. W. P. Rule, yesterday, and Charged with criminal intimidation. He is alleged to have obtained the thumb print of Samiah binte Kassanraji by threats. The
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      65 5 picture. An interpretation of the Balinese dance sjeen at the concert held by the Arab Association of Singapore. The concert took the form of a vaudeville show, in which some of Singapore's leading actors and actresses took part. After the stage show, the Association screened the film "Seribu Satu Malam"
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      5 YEARS FOR ABETMENT OF ROBBERY
      130 5 A SINGAPORE Malay won man, Maya binte Bawl, who was the victim of an armed robbery, noted the number of the taxi used by the robbers. This led u> the arrest of a young Malay, Ali bin Awang, who was yesterday ."sentenced to five
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      UNION COUNCIL
      26 5 The next meeting of the Malayan Union Advisory Council will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 27, and may. if necessary, continue the next day.
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      DUTCH CLAIM 'NO NEI CRISIS'
      195 5 DUTCH CLAIM 'NO NEI CRISIS Free Press Staff Reporter THERE is "no crisis" looming in the Netherlands East Indies according to the highest Dutch authorities in Singapore. This was the comment made yesterday on the news that tn« Indonesian Premier, Dr. Amir Sharifuddin, had arrived In Singapore to pick up
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      CHINESE FINED FOR LOTTERY
      56 5 A DETECTIVE, who searched a cyclist In Kelantan Road on Thursday for arms, fc-.md instead 'Chap Ji Ki' slips. The total betting represented by the slips was $99.40. The cyclist, Ng Lau Min, pleaded guilty yesterday in assisting in the management lof public lottery and fin-Jd
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      IEFC-FAO MERGER
      46 5 The amalgamation of the International Emergency Food Council (1.E.F.C.) with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (F.A.0.) of U. N.O. was announced at yesterday's meeting of the I-E.F.C.'s Singapore SubCommittee on Rice for South-East Asia. The functions and responsibilities of the Sub-Commit-tee will continue unchanged.
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      35 5 i Commencing Monday 12th January 1948 il ■i^^fe Ladies' Morning. 11 x*N 2fe"N r4*k Afternoon and I Blouses, Skirts, «)jj i/ v I 51 f* \c 21 f! 1 1 j^^yp^RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE. P\ t
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      ECAFE IS THE HOPE OF ASIA
      357 6 ECAFE IS THE HOPE OF ASIA Planni ng for reconstruction THE United Nations Economic Commission f for Asia and the Far East would play a great and significant part in the economic development of all Asian countries, said Dr. P. S. Lokanathan, well-known economist and a member of the Commission,
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      RED TAPE BEAT THE ROBBER
      87 6 AN armed robber entered ri an Atlanta (Georgia) post office and ffrowled at the clerk: "Hand over your registered mail and make it snappy/' The clerk replied: "Sorry, sir, the next counter deals with registered mail." The robber went to the next counter and repeated
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      Aliens register to be set up in Australia
      138 6 Aliens register to be set up in Australia THE Australian Federal Government will establish a register of aliens ibis year, It will be done under the provisions of the Aliens Act of 1947. Obligations the Act will impose on aliens aged 16 and over are. To register names, addresses and
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      NEW PAK STAMPS
      37 6 A British firm of printers has received orders from the Pakistan Government for the printing of Pakistan commemorative stamps in three designs. The stamps are expected to be on sale in Karachi shortly. Reuter
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      Judge allows childless wife to keep a dog
      118 6 BECAUSE childless Mrs. Edward Stowell felt frustrated without something to lavish her affection on. a judge allowed her to keep her dog. though the Stowells landlords objected. Mr. Stowell was summoned at Brentford < Middlesex "> County Court by Hanger Hill Garden
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      Labour's Red purge falters
      170 6 Labour's Red purge falters THE British Labour Party's campaign to purge Labour unions of Communist in- fluence has suffered a setback The South Wales area of the National Union of Mine Workers has re-elected all five retiring CommunLst members of the Executive Council in a' secret ballot. The London Regional
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      Their 'consciences' are boosting output
      161 6 POUR thousand workers of a Birmingham firm are 1 finding that their "consciences" are driving them !u r^ at l? u iP ut Thp y are vouniary members of the E Club, formed in five of the factories of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., who make car
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      NEHRU GETS FATHER'S GUN
      44 6 NEHRU GETS FATHER'S GUN gun which was confiscated Jjß 1931 from the late Pandit Motilal Nehru, father of India's Prime Minister •Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was returned to Pandit Nehru at a meeting in Allahabad. Pandit Motilal Nehru's name is inscribed on the cun Reuter
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      KASHMIR CHIEF TO SPEAK AT UNO
      37 6 KASHMIR CHIEF TO SPEAK AT UNO Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah head of Kashmir's emergency administration, leaves New Delhi today by air for New York. He is a member of India's delegation to the Security Council session Kashmir.— A.P.
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      Malay pearl divers barred
      113 6 CO few pearling luggers are now operating from Thursday Island compared with pre-war, that the Dutch are reported to be re-establi-shing their Aroe islands' fisheries to work in the Torres Straits pearling beds with Malay divers. The Australian Government's refusal to agree to use 1 Indentured
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      P.I. firms sued for failure to deliver copra
      119 6 MORE than (U.S.) $750,000 in damage suits have 1 been filed in Manila as a 1 result of alleged failure of Philippine dealers to deliver copra according to contract. The Pacific Vegetable Oil Corporation of San Francisco has filed suit in the
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      'Boom town' becomes 'ghost town'
      140 6 Wiin nousing and business accommodation one of the biggest problems facing most pans of the world today there is in Australia a wellequipped town with all modern amenities which may soon become a ghost town with its costly buildings and equipment lying idle. 1 Wiluna.
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      49 6 picture. A Bristol firm has become the first in Britain to build motor car frames with light tubular steel. Because of the difficulty of getting seasoned ash for the frames, the makers of the Allard sports car have adopted the tubular steel design, adapted from Italian manufacturers. Bristol World
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      Boycotted film to be released
      227 6 'The World Is Rich* DOYCOTTED by the big cinema 'circuits as "con- troversial," the British-made documentary film "The World is Rich," is now to be released for public showing in Britain. This month it will go t 0 at least one in every four of
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      PHONES CUT
      32 6 Syrian telephone and telegraph communications with Palestine were suspended yesterday by order of the Lebanon Government. Air services between Syria and Lebanon, halted during the cholera epidemic, were resumed.— A.P.
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      URUGUAY EMBASSY
      24 6 The Italian Foreign Office announces that Uruguay is raising the status of its legation in Rome to that of an embassy. a
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      SOVIET BARS VULGARITY
      67 6 rpHE Soviet authorities A have given orders to stop production of what are termed "vulgar" photographs of Hollywood film stars, which have been on sale at barber shops in Russia. Mounted photographs of American stars, including Clark Gabfe and other male actors, produced by a Leningrad concern,
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      Nazi remnants broken up in Austria
      131 6 Nazi remnants broken up in Austria A -DANGEROUS organisation of Nazi fanatics' has been broken up in Austria and its leaders arrested Oscar Helmer, Austrian Minister of Interior, announced in Vienna. The Minister said the plot, which if neglected would have become dangerous, had been completely stamped out. He advocated
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      U.S. tyremakers to turn to synthetic?
      218 6 FACED T ofnai n the Par E manufactui products more inch operation synthetic rub p^ abalamv their raw to hold down writes William in the N v. Tribune. The industry i QtlnQM couch its st war synthetic rubber D r<2¥" tion in terms curity
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      No spivs—only beachcomcers
      22 6 No spivs— only beachcomcers A snokesn^n n S P ivS Said a F^";»| (.overnmen. But thpltomf.lV a alysin ff record employment fuurrs
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      Expedition to Arnhem Land
      85 6 A scientific exp. Jrt Arnhem Land. In 1 country of North* rn Austi lia. will leave Ifelb March. It wfl eompii United States ai Australian scientist? The party will natural history of Land and the cu j conditions of I health of the abort] party, which
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      78 6 LAST /C£v FOUR IJJfy SHOWS! IJ I 2 p.m.. 4.15 p.m., 1 1 6.30 9.15 p.m. i U-H milling dfnwo o* cifl I^^ (map' (•arlvtt ~v~dfq'Ound woy itt inaihmq lit* Nom Starring LUISE RAINER ARTURO DECOROOVA PLIS THE BRAND NEW .M.tlU'll OF TIME _;*YOUR DOCTORS— I947' SEASON STARTS TO-NIGHT AT-MIDNIGHT
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      19 6 CATHAY SEE THE 3RD DEGREE POLICE METHODS CJSI D TO FORCE A MAX TO CONFESS TO Ml KIUK OBtoAH/IAiIEWS
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      62 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava PERSONS AREN'T ALLOWFD IN M WS&£sB&: *X \^V^JpfcPw*S» /WELL, WKAt\X ASK MH ANOTHER*^ THESE WORKS'- HOW D«D WmSSmk T^C^k- K4u^ttßnHߣ W»^KAWDPAf CRAZY. I SH(X/LD SAY YOU Gl! IN? WHAT Dn/^ g^ "Jl V T T UWLESS HE'S SOME SORT V^^ M
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  • SPORTS...
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      BRITAIN WILL BE HOST TO THOUSANDS—
      764 7 BRITAIN WILL BE HOST TO THOUSANDS— 1948: Great Festival Year Games, Tests And Tennis From GEOFFREY SIMPSON VVITH over 4,000 of the world's finest athletes descending on London for the Olympic Games, with Don Bradman and his Australians coming for another tilt at our cricketers, and America's tennis champions planning:
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      The "BROWN Blur"
      3 7 The "BROWN Blur"
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      HERB McKENLEY TO ATTACK 440 RECORD
      202 7 HERB McKENLEY TO ATTACK 44 0 RECORD n existing Irtish quarter-mile track running re- will be in danger c»f ecHpse next timer Herb McKenlev. of Jamaica, is goini; to rland well in advance of the Ohinpic Games to haven't heard of "Hustling" Herb v student, who twice crackYards record in
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      Indians Lack Confidence
      310 7 By An Australian Correspondent INDIAN cricketers are not primed for big cricket, and therein is found the first reason for their instability. They don't play the game with the background of a hundred hard Test fights. Throw in their inferiority complex, resulting in a lack of self-reliance
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      JOHORE C.C. SCORE 3-1 VICTORY
      122 7 JOHORE C.C. SCORE 3-1 VICTORY nOMINATING play throughly out, the Johore Cricket Club had little difficulty in beating the S.C.C. by four goals to one at hockey on the Padang yesterday. Johore opened the scoring through Wassan Singh early in the first half and a few minutes later the same
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      Two Withdrawals From Olympics
      70 7 PARAGUAY (South America) have withdrawn their entry from the Olympic games. The reason, they have informed the organising committee in London, is that "the training of our athletes has not yet attained the necessary efficiency." They hope to participate in future competitions. Guatemala, too, will not
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      FRIENDLY SOCCER
      49 7 PLAYING at the Victoria School Ground, the Jalan Sultan district eleven beat the Bras Besah Road district eleven by three goals to one in a friendly game of soccer yesterday. Scorers for the Jalan Sultan district eleven were Ooi Slang Eng (2) and Cheng Hon Fong (1).
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      K.L. TABLE TENNIS VISITORS WIN
      258 7 rE Yoong Yoong Club of K.L. proved too good for the Rest of Singapore in their table tepnis tournament at the Great World Stadium last night, when they yron by three matches to two. j Two of the* five matches were very closely contested, going
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      To Meet In Return Tonight
      67 7 (left) the Poli»h heavyweight champion, and Kino Kung, receiving instructions from the referee, Mr. J. Sloan, before their first fight at the Great World on Dee. 27 When King Kong stopped Zbtiko in six rounds. They meet m a return tonight in ivhich Zbisko will
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      JACK DRUCE DOES GOOD GALLOP
      202 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent OFFICIAL training for the Selangor Turf Club s January meeting which starts next Saturday, Jan 17, began on the Kuala Lumpur track this morning when the going was slightly yielding. The best gallop was a three-furlong tryout in which Grand Prix
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      TELEPHONE NETWORK FOR OLYMPICS
      31 7 Anew telephone exchange, aptly named Corinthian, is being installed at Wembley to cope with the flow of telephone traffic to and from the Olympic Games this summer.
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      STATE HOCKEY POSTPONED
      56 7 The inter-State hockey fixture between Johore and Singapore, will not take place today, as several of Johore's players resident in Batu Pahat, Muar and Segamat are unable to reach Johore Bahru owing to the floods. The Johore side have drawn up a scratch team which will play
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      3 NEWCOMERS IN WELSH XV
      180 7 WELSH Rugby selectors have chosen three players new to international football in their team to play England at Twickenham next Saturday, Jan. 17. The new players are fullback F. Trott, Cardiff and forwards L. Anthony of Heath and D. Jones of Lanelly. W. B. Cleaver
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      TONIGHT'S WRESTLING AT HAPPY WORLD
      58 7 mONIGHT'S wrestling card 1 at the Happy World covered stadium should provide plenty of thrills, with the giant Sikh, Dara Singh wrestling a masked fighter, Mad Monk. It will be interesting to see whether the Sikh would succeed in unmasking the Monk. The programme is
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      M. C. C. 230 FOR SEVEN
      277 7 M. C. C. 230 FOR SEVEN rpHE M.C.C. were probably surprised by the high standard of the Barbados bowling and fielding on the opening day of their tour in Bridgetown yesterday. In scoring 230 for seven wickets at the close of play, they owed much to J. D. Robertson and
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      Joe Louis Signs For Return
      140 7 TOLLOWINO heavyweight r champion Joe Louis's signing an agreement yesterday with the 20th Century Sporting Club. Jersey Joe Waicott said that he had not vet signed for a return bout v/ith Louis, and he would not do so unless he received 30 per cent of
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      50 7 S.A.F.A. NOTICE. Applications are now irw^i from affiliated and non affllif* d Clubs Associations for affiliation to the S.A F A. Applications accompanied of Affiliation Fees of $10 should reach tho Honorarv Secretary: Mr. Llm Yone Liane of the Municioal Engineer's D^nartment Su.gn pore; not later than 15th January. 1948.
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      98 7 Sports Diary rODA Y HOCKEY: Singapore vs. Johore, a* Jobore Bahru, 5.15 p.m.; Clarke Rangers vs. Johore Cricket Club, at Johore Bahru, 5. 15 p.m. SOCCER: S.C.FJk. Inter -district League opens, Jalan Besar, 5.15 p.m.; Indians vs. No. 7, MT RAF. Govt. Printing Office ground, 5 p.m Indonesian XI. vs.
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      240 7 F. P. Crossword No. 283 i tf^ i^lSshE PBwSb Hrs^ftrf ißPtr^ 1 I'l I I CLUES ACROSS 2, Alort (9). 7, Restaurant (4). 9, Exalted (6). 11, Class (5) 13, Trap (3). 14, Cook (4). 16, Mountain (3). 17 Bath (3) 19* Moisture (3). 21, Pronoun (3). 22. Overseer (7).
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      New output records by Lancashire cotton mills
      156 8 MANCHESTER, Friday. BRITAIN'S cotton production reached new post-war peaks during November as a result of the introduction of overtime work in some mills and an increase in the total labour force, the official Board of Trade Journal announced today. New high figures were
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      12 8 HOMF Snow scene from the banks of the Ouse at nvmc... YoTk
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      UK-INDIA TALKS
      22 8 Formal talks on sterling balances b?tween the Indian and the United Kingdom Governments besran in New Delhi yest rday.— A.P.
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      S'hai swoop on racketeers
      84 8 SCORES of black market operators, including responsible people in banks and native banks were arrested by the Shanghai security authorities in a series of lightning raids yesterday. The arrests, carried out in deep secrecy, were still going on last night and may continue this morning. This
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      40 NATIONS TO ATTEND FOOD TALKS
      120 8 40 NATIONS TO ATTEND FOOD TALKS WASHINGTON, Friday. THE Philippines Minister, Mr. Nariciso Ramos told the United Press that the Philippinef Government will hold a 40-nauon conference of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in February and March. t He said the conference would primarily discuss Far Eastern agricultural problems.
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      NOT ENOUGH TO MAN U.S. NAVY
      86 8 THE UJ3. Navy has more tonnage in commission than it has ratings to man it. the UJS. Navy Personnel Chief, Rear Adm. Thomas L. Sprague. said in Washington yesterday. Enlis.cd personnel is down to 362,000 from last July's high of 434.000 and men would
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      KIDNAP THREAT
      68 8 V|RS. Jane Bean admitted to ITI agents of the FBI that she tried to extort U5.55.000 from actress Be'ty Grablo o n a! threat to kidnap the actress's' baby because she was tired of being poor and hungry. She said: "It seems everyone in Hollywood has lots of,
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      NEW BRITISH AIR SPEED ATTEMPT
      233 8 r LONDON, Friday. E Gloster Aircraft Company next Tuesday is to attempt to improve the international closed circuit speed record captured from the United States last August by Group Capt. John Cunningham. Squudron Leader W. A i Watmon. former member of Die RAF High Soeed
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      '300,000 killed in Vietnam'
      204 8 RANGOON, Friday. PIE deputy Premier of the Vietnam Republic, Dr. Pham Goc Thach, said today that the French had killed more than 300,000 Vietnam villagers with bom)**, bayonets and torture in "a savage and barbaric war" within the last two years. "The French are throwing everything
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      HOW TO CURE PRICKLY HEAT
      97 8 LONDON, Friday. A REMEDY for prickly heat which, he says, he has never known to fail is advocated in a letter to the British Medical Journal by Dr. C. F. Wilson, a member of the Colonial Medical Service, writinq from Nairobi, Kenya. "If a solution
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      BRITISH COINS ALTERATION
      99 8 AS King George VI has ceased to use the title "Emperor of India. the Latin contractions of the words "Indiae Imperator" are to be omitted from future British coins and the remaining words rearranged to give a balanced inscription. Prior approval of all the Dominion Parliaments is
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      HINDUS QUIT KARACHI
      91 8 THE Governor-General of Pakistan. Mr. Mohammed All Jinnah, drove through riot-scarred Karachi last night and found the situation under control after this week's series of communal riots in which 228 persons were killed and 250 injured. The Pakistan Government yesterday opened two refugee camps for the Hindu
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      SECOND CAPITAL
      17 8 Reuter U.P. The Nanking State Council yesterday decided to make Peiping China's "auxiliary capital. Reuter
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      £62 MILLION CLAIM AGAINST FORDS
      193 8 STOW -ON -THE- WOLD. Gloucestershire. Friday. jyf R. Harry Ferguson. British 1 inventer and manufacturer of farm tractors and implements. *aid today it was primarily on "moral grounds" he had filed the suit in New Vi r ft k BC f °r damages of against
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      MONTY'S PLAN TO DEFENt EMPIRE LIFELINE
      259 8 'Safer 9 routes in Antarctic SYDNEY, Friday. THE recent simultaneous Australian landing on Heard Island and the South African occupation of Prince Edward Island, in Antarctica, are widely interpreted here as part of an over-all plan of Empire defence devised by the chief of
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      54 8 picture. A group Photograph taken at the chmtenina JlT^^ St. Andreio's Cathedral of Susan Jane 21^*' and Mrs. C. S. K. Bovell (on the left, Mtsk'XZ* *I ing baby Bovell) and Mr. L. F. Knight a,. Ti S Mr vetl u Officer Superintend*, > ,'>■ Johore, while Mr. Knight is
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      TURKEY GETS U.S. SUBS
      66 8 THE United States is trans- ferring to Turkey four ncet type submarines and united States Navy crews will deliver them to a Turkish port, u was announced In Washington yesterday The submarines are amons 15 Navy vessels of /anous types which the Navy announced are being
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      USSR-NORWAY PACT
      17 8 USSR-NORW AY PACT The Soviet Government has announced a new trade treat v with Norway.- A. P.
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      BIG TURNOVER IN FUNDS
      439 8 London Stock Exchange j nrrrcT-fvniv^ t LONDON, Friday, UTSTANDING feature on the London ft y Exchange today was the strength of Britishh following strong investment demand, says Reu> financial correspondent. Substantial recorded throughout th e list. Transport st< K k gained. The turnover in this section
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      MICHAEL MAY SETTLE DOWN IN AMERICA
      150 8 COPENHAGEN, Friday. PRINCESS MARGARET, mother of Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, told the Dutch newspaper Berlingske Idende yesterday it was possible that Anne and former King Michael of Rumania would go to the United States to stay "immediately after" their wedding. The question of where
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      Women witch doctors hang for slayings
      105 8 DAR-ES-SALAAM. (Tanganyika), Friday. rpHREE women and four A men were hanged today in Dodoma prison for taking part in the "lion men" murders in Singida district of Tanganyika early last year. Sixty-one native men and women were arrested during inquiries into 29 murders allegedly
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      2,100 OFFERS
      43 8 The Berlin newspaper Nact Express reported that a German fraulein received 2,437 offers of marriage in reply to an advertisement in the paper that she was 23 years old, pretty, occupied a two-room apartment and received two food packages monthly U.P.
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      GERMAN STRIKERS ASK MORE FOOD
      198 8 TmiT>rr^r ESSEN, Friday. I thousand strikin- Essen workers, including i 1,000 miners, demonstrating against the food shortage in Buen'a former Hitler Square today, cheered enthusiastically for the "future undivided German republic." The strikers carried placards reading: "Unity of Germany will end hunger/' Gas, water, electric,
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      CHURCHILL & PASHA
      171 8 CHURCHILL PASHA MARRAKESH (.Morocco). Ttt^ Friday. HE nrst public visitor to see Mr. Winston Churchill since Lord Moran issued a reassurance about his patient will be Si Hadj Tami-el-Glaoui Pasha of Marrakesh who is to lunch with the exPremier tomorrow. El-Glaoui Pasha, one of the richest men in all Africa
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      MISSIONARIES SAFE
      42 8 A spokesman of the U S Embassy in Nanking said yesterday that three Ameri can missionaries and a child, who had been reported missing en route from Honan Province to an harf arrived safel? in the Yangtze port A. P.
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      Rubber pit
      105 8 4 SPECIAL Market conpondent gives the orof rubber at 11 am tod* follows: Tone of market: Q_ie. and 44:. easier. SLNGAPOKK .UMBER 1 COMMERCE The Siiiffaporr lumto; Commerce Rabbet mmt tion's prices at not day: r.uvm S4 (l Na 1 R.S.S. spot loose No. 1 R.S.S. fob in
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      N. Y. stocks
      49 8 ON the New York Block Ex: J terdav. ndnfl develoucd m idM of earlier mxw crease ol ores I I tionally chan *fl slicht mau.ritv I 2^J i olosed barelv itea mostly fracti The Dow J Stocks 65.08. I Rails SS.tS; I it'M Reuter A .P.
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      N. Y. rubber
      22 8 NEW YORK crude i closed M yesterday s tract*. Prta cent* "U.S. > I July 20.42; Si v ribbed smoked
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      64 8 WEATHER Showers WEATHER report lor ih,. mil 24 hours rompilrd by the RAF*: Cloudy with afternoon showers or thunderstorms Fair overnight and tomorrow morning. Wind: Lisht north -easterly. Temperatures for the past 24 hours: maximum 87 deg. F; minimum 73 de*. F. Rainfall: 1.7 inches SINGAPORE TIDES II T. 9.44
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