The Singapore Free Press, 14 February 1948

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    21 1 dasfdsf dsf f The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1948 i:Jfl PKll'fc l«i il^iS
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    U.K. CHEERED AS PRICE 'WAR'OPENS SION TO MOSCOW
    466 1 U.K. CHEERED AS PRICE 'WAR' OPENS SION TO MOSCOW v of I Housewives greet 'freeze 9 LONDON, Frida>. RITAIN today faced hard living and hard with comparative cheerfulness, despite the warning that more goods will leave (he home market for a trip abroad. House- >\ hra at least are pleased
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    UNKNOWN
    73 1 LONDON, Friday. tetween the Ministry of Supply, the and the Malayan Chamber of i> due to take place this week-end to discuss Ifftrnment's bulk purchase price and the |b()!" a premium for Straits tin. Economist, writes m its Ministry of Supply raised I from £423 to £500 a ton
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    Adm Fraser is First Sea Lord
    58 1 ADMIRAL Lord Fraser, who signed the Japanese surrender document for Britain, has been appointed First Sea Lord (highest Service member of the British Admiralty Board) a.nd Chief of Naval Staff. He succeeds Admiral Sir Jorui Cunningham who has been promoted to Admiral oi *he
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    SENATE CUTS AID TO EUROPE
    174 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. THE United States Senate Foreign Relation Committee today slashed America's first contribution to the Marshall Plan by $1,500 million and limited the $5,300 million expenditures to 12 months. The bill goes to a full debate j m the Senate, probably on March 1,
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    DUAL AMBASSADOR
    26 1 President Truman has submitted the nomination of Mr. Henry F. Grady. United States Ambassador to India, to act also as Minister to Nepal. Reuter
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    5 DIE IN TORNADO
    26 1 Five persons were killed and more than 20 injured i when a tornado ripped through the town of Newton (.Mississipi) yesterday.- A.P.
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    NEW BURMA AIRLINE
    23 1 The Burmese Ministry of Communications announced yesterday that a Burma Union Airways Company is to be formed shortly for service
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    11 PERISH IN NEW YORK FIRE
    68 1 ELEVEN persons were believed to have perished In a fire that razed a two-story house m New York yesterday. Five bodies, including those of three children, had been recovered six hours after the fire broke out. Firemen said that 14 other persons had escaped.
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    WALLACE BEERY SUED BY 'EXTRA'
    53 1 FILM star Wallace Beery was named defendant m a paternity suit at Los Angeles i yesterday by a "bit" player. Gloria Whitaiey. who asserted that he is the father of her son born last week. She demanded that Beery be ordered to pay medical and
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    MALAYS MAY STAND TRIAL FOR TREASON
    160 1 BANGKOK. Friday. AN official of the Siamese Public Prosecutor's Department, who has just returned from a visit to the Siamese districts bordering North Malaya, has reported that enough evidence has been collected for the prosecution on treason charges of Haji Sulong and other Malays
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    Gandhi's son arrested
    89 1 DURBAN, Saturday. UANILAL Gandhi, son of the lato Mali u ma, will appear before the Durban magistrates court on Ft-b. 26 on a charge of contravening the immigration regulations of 1913, prohibiting Asians from moving from one province to another without permission. The charges are a sequel
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    GERMANS TOLD 'NO PERSECUTION'
    37 1 THE American military government has refused to let the Crcmans organise a "league against Fascism." Authorising such an organisation "would be tantamount to licensing intolerance, class distinction and persecution," the promoters were told.
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    GUARDS REPULSE ARAB INVASION
    152 1 JERUSALEM, Friday. UNITS of the Irish Guards repulsed several hundred Syrian Arabs attempting to cross into Palestine this morning. There was a sharp fight m which two British soldiers were killed and five wounded Arab losses included eight killed, Jewish fighters who entered i fhree villages
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    REWARD OUT FOR ARREST OF KILLER
    124 1 REWARD OUT FOR ARREST OF KILLER Free Press Staff Reporter SINCAPORE Police are still s. aching for the young Mala 5 who stabbed two to deaf nvA woir.u*. <i another m an attap house m Geylang on Thursday night, after he was refused the hand of a girl m marriage.
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    THEY KILLED A MILLION JEWS
    115 1 NUREMBERG, Friday. rpHE American War Crimes A Tribunal was asked today to "judge with firmness" the cases of 24 Nazi Storm Troop otticers accused of supervising rhe murder of over one million Jews, Russians and gypsies. They are accused of commanding some 3,000 storm troopers
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    TO FIGHT GRAFT
    42 1 Pakistan is to set up a special police force of 400 omcers ami men under the direct control of the Central Government, whose main task will be to deal with bribery and corruption m central and provincial administrations. Ruter
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    Soviet troops mass in Dairen?
    230 1 SHANGHAI, Friday. BOlT, 100,000 Soviet troops are concentrated m the Soviet-controlled Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, according to a report m today's Shun Pao, one of the largest Chinese dailies here. Quoting informed circles m Mukden, the report said defence measures m Port
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    THREE GOOD BETS FOE BUKITTIMAH
    434 1 THREE GOOD BETS FOE BUKITTIMAH By "CALL BOY" rpHREE horses stand out as exceptionally good bets x at Bukit.Timah this afternoon, the iirst day of tne Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting. They arc Golden Grove, m the second race, Exeter m the third race and Suivi m the fourth race.
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    'Epsom Jeep's' final hints
    180 1 rXETER and Suivi were freely L tipped on the course this morning as the two best bets on the card. Further rain fell last night and the ffoing will be yielding. Both Exeter and Suivi are strong stable lancies. Donneli Abu is a strong tip for
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    SOCCER FANS FLY
    19 1 Several airplanes have be^n chartered by Fulham supporters for the Everton Cud Tie replay today- Reuter
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    The 'Hitler' of the theatre
    1009 2 The 'Hitler' of the theatre CEW people who go to see a play realise the exact function of its producer, or are conscious of his part m the making or marring of their evening's entertainment. This is as it should be, for a producer's work should not be conspicuous, and
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    Bridge Problem
    168 2 gPADES are trumps. South leads. North and South are to win four of the seven tricks against any defence. South leads club jack, and if West cowrs. North ruffs. North leads a trump and South discards a club. West wins and leads heart ace. on which North drops
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    'ARTSTEDDFOD'
    490 2  -  Pierre Jeannerat reviewed by TVER since Richard v Wilson, the first great British landscape painter, who was born at Penegoes, Montgomeryshire, i n 1714, Wales has held a notable place m painting, either as the motherland of artists or as a grandiose inspirer for visiting masters. But until I
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    He banned wife's 3s. 'hair-do'
    143 2 He banned wife's 3s. 'hair-do' FIFTY SEVEN YEAR OLD Mr. Samuel Holroyd Htaggas lost a divorce action at Leeds Assizes and was called "parsimonious and dictatorLil" by Mr. Commissioner Bush James, X C. Mrs. Ethel Haggas, 39 of RegenWood, Sfcipton, was awarded a decree nisi with casts on the ground
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    UNKNOWN
    231 2 Orville Wright, first pilot m the world to tly an engined, heavier thanair machine (at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903)] has just died, aged 76*. Here is his own description of the 12-second flight that gave man wings and reshaped hU story: DURING the night of
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      631 2 From 12.00 noon v. 2.00 p.m. «Pm.toll so VlSi -Ma^n-of '"w 5 J 1 World Np <" H.-adli™? 1.02 Fom' «t Mia 1. U» noil.. 25.10 mrlr*. ll.si meVurclM Ji o' The W.-ek;"_ a ball Results; 1.15 Yours for th* J" 1 1 I meocte, to SATIRDAY m c y
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    S, 'satisfied' with China reform plan
    9 3 NANKIN n Dr.
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    URMA-CHINA EIENDSHIP
    26 3 SHANGHAI. Friday. BYUNO-TAN China'a to Buri to- tbouring relations and the pon ol as to 1 n mded that his problem* n of and
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    McNutt now USC Chief
    157 3 THE ioimer V.S. Commission, r to the Philippines, I Mr. Paul V. McNutt has ac- d the post of chairman -c Board of United Service to China, for 1948. Serving with him as honor.ury chairmen are Mr. George Marshall, Mr. Paul G. Hoffman and Mr. Charles
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    CHINESE FILMS FOR WORLD
    332 3 pOX the first time m 30 years, since it made its appearance, the Chinese film industry is carving for itself a definite niche m Shanghai where, before the war few first-class theatres could be induced to show Chinese productions and then if they were it was
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    'THANKS FOR THE TEA'
    106 3 A letter from Princess Elizabeth expressing "warmest thanks" for the two chests of Keemun tea as a wedding gift has been received by the Anhwei Tea Company, one of China's largest tea exporters. //<r letter said: "I want *o send mv warmest thanks to the directors
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    $6 MILLION GAIN ON U.S. GRAIN
    161 3 $6 MILLION GAIN ON U.S. GRAIN THE most successful of all financial or commercial enterprises In Hong Kong during the past year were the Chinese banks, some of which made a profit amounting to "dozens of times" their paid-up capital, says the Far Eastern Economic Review. The profits made by
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    Abacus beats calculator
    84 3 THE Chinese, who have refused to accept the modcrr Western type adding machines, have streamlined their abacus, an ancient reckoning table with sliding balls. Demonstrating his new invention. 36-year-old Hai Pipoo, a Mohammedan Chinese. raced an ordinary Chinese abacus and a modern calculator and his improved abacus
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    U.S. ENVOY TO BROADCAST
    58 3 11HE United States Ambassa- dor to China. Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, is expected to arrive m Shanghai today from Nanking for a series of addresses before Chinese audiences. He will .remain m Shanghai until next Wednesday. His scheduled addresses Include a broadcast at 9 o'clock tomorrow
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    GEN CHEN CHENG
    31 3 General Chen Cheng, director of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters In Manchuria, has returned to Nanking from Mukden to resume his original post as Army Chief of Staff- A.P.
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    CHINA SEEKS BETTER TIES WITH USSR
    361 3 'It's a matter of necessity 9 SHANGHAI, Friday. TEN. Li Tsung-jen, one of China's six full generals, said China wished to improve its relations with Soviet Russia as a matter of practical necessity." Gen. Li, is probably the most prominent political figure m North
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    79 3 A special court will be stt vp to try two Shanghai Sung Sing cotton mill rioters, some of whom arc seen m tfic picture above, taken after their detention. The other picture shows Mayor K. C. Wu addressing newspapermen at an emergency conference following the rioting, m which three women
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    CHINESE GETS COMPENSATION
    43 3 THE Australian Government hM paid a £3.500.000 on -war dnmapr* claims frjm the white and Asiatic people m the New Quint* mandated territory. Many Chinese »n New Gulne.i have rcrrivca comp^n&fttlon for war damage and hn\e quickly revived their ousinoss.
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    'China will pull thru somehow'
    83 3 'China will pull thru somehow' THE British Consul General m Shanghai, Mr. A. G. Ogden, who is proceeding to England, on leave with his wife and daughter and may never return to China, expressed optimism regarding the future of China m an interview wit": the North China Daily News. "I
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    CONSULATES ISOLATED IN MANCHURIA
    323 3 CONSULATES ISOLATED IN MANCHURIA SHANGHAI, Friday. •THE United States is finding: it increasingly difiicirt 1 to supply its consulates m embattled Manchur a. China's civil war and America's strained relations with Soviet Russia contribute to this condition. Dairen, which the Russians and Chinese Communists jointly occupy, has been closed to
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    General for court martial
    95 3 MAJOR Gen. Chou Wen-o'ni. commandant of K. wan war criminal camp, wII face a military tribunal charges of negligence of duty resulting m the escape or i Japanese war criminal and the suicide of another.. Gen. Chau. recently dishonourably discharged, explained that the. Government had not
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    PULLOUT COMPLETE
    26 3 The evacuation of the American consular staff from isolated Changchun was completed yesterday with the arrival m Peiping of Consul Mr. Allen Siebens. A.P.
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    Nanking plans land reform
    243 3 NANKING, Friday. T»HE National Government Ministry of Land AdA ministration is offering the Chinese people an agrarian programme intended to counter the Communists' land reform programme which has attracted millions of supporters among the formers. Ministry sources said the new scheme provides, m its initial stages,
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    Farming tools left to rot
    113 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. FIVE million American dollars worth of farm i machinery, sent to the Chinese from tiit- United Nations for rehfibikitation and capable of ploughing 6,000 1 acres a day, is lying idle on tin island outside Shanghai. Tom of machinery, some ruining with rust,
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    2,000,000 STRICKEN
    67 3 KALA azar is rampant m 18 provinces and nine municipalities m China and more than 2.000.000 are suffering from the disease, states an official statement from the Ministry of Health m Nanking yesterday. The situation m Kiangsu is particularly grave as over 500,000 persons m 17 counties have
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      72 3 TARZAN Grip Of Steel Jsy EJ^r »fc» Burroughs U UTvl -WH^^'-y JI 1 yt^THEN. [the REmLE STRUCK SO QUICKLY THERE" J I/* jdv* M Y 7 SUODENLV, I COULD BE NO PE^ENSE. SHARP J^^^^i Wtk/l' -*f W i */<^" l/^' VMTH THE SPE^^^KSaRj TALONS WERE BURIED IN TARZAN* "^S^J '^^^^B/\
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1948. The Attlee Challenge
    220 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, FEB. 14, 1948. The Attlee Challenge BRITAIN'S Labour Government has earned more kicks than ha'pence by its unsocialist m directness on prices, profits and pay. Both the Trades Union Congross and the Federation of British Industries would be ill advised, however, to construe present moderation
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    The Puzzle of the Markets
    522 4 THE break m commodity prices and the equity markets remains as big a puzzle at the end of two weeks as the day it began Some of the causes are obvious: for Instance inventories of several basic commodities have been adequately built up But there
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    BEST SELLING TOP SECRET
    746 4  -  Alexander Clifford by THEY'D doublecross their own grandmother if she wasn't a Communist," said the Washington taxi driver (giving a running commentary on life m general to their passengers is an occupational disease with American taxi drivers). "Who would?" "The Russians, of course. Ain't you been
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    Dropped for drink
    137 4  -  LARRY ALLEN By A. P. Correspondent HOLES like to drink their favourite vodka, but when the habit pets to be "notorious," it is even toe much for the Communist Workers Party. The Warsaw District Party Oryar.iaatior. recently announced it had expe'l-d 135 members for "notorious drinking." ALso
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    A 'Red' Treatment
    590 4  -  TOM MASTERSON By A. P. Correspondent "VUHExN a prisoner refused to confess his faults," other prisoners m the Communist prisons m North Shansi province were lined up, ordered to walk m front of him and spit m his face," Father Marcel Bossaer, a Belgian missionary who recently
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    The mix-up in Kowloon
    585 4 the argument about the Kowloon territory goes back and forth, the Cinderella of the colonial powers, Portugal, is sitting watching every move very carefully, for she too has a stake m the game. It is called Macao. Macao is a quiet little colony, not so very
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    FAITH
    16 4 Ciod is able to make all j> race abound toward you. 2 Corinthians 9. 8.
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    Miles may Fade Out
    239 4 Miles may Fade Out ED^AR(k B^TAL\V craft indnj dangerofj brains^t a when it needs i •^1 it can J J hes c three 4 who^yf ade aviation scene year-old M: Mll ?s; his ("Blossom" V nds); and his* > j r brother. G In the spa-. Miles Aircraft tiny husband-
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    Travellers must be inoculated
    317 5 ■HOSE witho l cholera inoculation certificates will travel by air on the Empire route m Singapore to the United Kingdom, says an jjcial statement. have enforced regulations affect.o have embarked m, or passed .count of the outbreak of cholera passengers disembarking m Egypt ommended to hav
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    BOY FINED FOR STEN GUN AMMO
    62 5 BOY FINED FOR STEN GUN AMMO p. .-spondriU BAHRU, Friday. VLAR-OLD 0 I of m to •hat he *.he Jalan owIt was pened it tits. :.ted rr»s officer mined a fca^et he m a he packet' Prc«se- >: he had 10 carethat a* Dftde-up aed that it -ble h« ha<i
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    RICE CHARGE: CHINESE GETS JAIL & FINE
    188 5 RICE CHARGE: CHINESE GETS JAIL FINE POUND guilty of illegal posJT session of rice and abetment of receiving illegal gratification, a Chinese, Yeo Ban Soon, was fined $5,000 m default six months' jail, and three months' rigorous imprisonment, on the first charge and six months for the second charge, by
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    GANDHI NEW SREEL
    15 5 t na will ex- t aumont f *.n& the I tmi Gand-
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    Suicide finding by Coroner
    64 5 A fLnding of suicide was recorded at a Singapore inquest yesterday on a 30-year-old woman, Chong Ah Foon. uho jumped down an airwell from the second floor of her house m Duxton Road an Feb. 9. Ah Foon's brother, a street singer named Chang Heng told
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    STUDENT SERVICE
    33 5 The International Students' Day will be held at Raffles College on F^b. 23 at 4 30 p.m. There will be talks On student'i life m other countries. All interested are welcome.
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    Call for co-op education
    342 5 Call for co-op education IMPORTANT rex>lutions will be niovtd at the con--1 ference of all co-operative societies m Malaya, scheduled to open at Kuala Lumpur on March 6. One of them will call on the Governments of the Federation and Singapore to provide facitities for co-operative education. At the conference.
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    OCCUPATION DEBTS BILL
    642 5 Banks to meet for discussion Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE banking and legal circles are of the opinion that the Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period) Ordinance, which will be introduced into the Advisory Council shortly, is "reasonably fair." The contents of the Bill did not come as
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    More Malayan $ for China
    74 5 More Malayan for China Free Press Chinese Correspondent MALAYAN remittances to China during January at $2.69o,344— repremiti an increase of $1,081,263 over December's total of $1,609,081. One reason for tin iucr is that the local banks" exchange quotations are now almost on th* same level as those of remittance shops.
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    May increase rent by $1
    108 5 THE Singapore Indian Asso--1 elation, which occupies a building m Race Couxs^ LtA aas allowed $1 Increase In the rent oei a sub-tenant, when its application came before the Rent Conciliation Huard yesterday. The sub-teaant was Mr. V. B K. Nair, who occupied one loom
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    Chance for tambies to earn $200 p.m.
    228 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A NEW order has been made by the Singapore Police Force to prevent the job of police tamby becoming a "blind alley' occupation m future. Under the new scheme, within two years of their Joining, it is hoped Police
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    ELECTIONS: SIXTH N-E CANDIDATE
    173 5 ELECTIONS: SIXTH N-E CANDIDATE MR. M. J. Namazie, the Singapore lawyer, has decided to stand for thi electio- i a* an inde,txtidetit candidate for the Municipal north-east division. There are DOW .six candidates m this division. In a statement to the Press yesterday, he said he would er.deavour "to hasten
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    Malaria starts in the liver
    136 5 the current i^>u<. of the British medical journal. .Lancet, reports that an imI poriant discovery has beeci made by two British scientists about malaria. Lancet aLso speaks o>X it In a leadkis: article as "a dis- coverv of great important The experiments, just concluded, clear
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    MR. C.F. LEE
    52 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent Mr. c. F. Lee, Chinese Trad Commissioner In Singapore, ha^ left for China to repor. to the Nanking Government He expects to be away for six weeks. The Deputy Trade Commissioner, Mr. K. T. Lee. is acting for Mr. C. F. Lee during
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    CASE FOR TENANT TO ANSWER
    242 5 CASE FOR TENANT TO ANSWER T 3 Rent Conciliation Board 1 ruled yesterday that a sub-tenant could onty take action against the party to whom he was paying rent. This ruling was made to a case m which the well-known Singapore spokesman, Mr Nnel Hay. and the Eastern Commercial Corporation
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    FOUR YEARS FOR THEFT
    68 5 MR. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes yesterday sentenced a young Malay. Hamdi bin Adam, for the theft of a jeep wheel and tyre. Hamid. who was employed as a driver by Uw NAAFI, took a jeep to a garage on May 28 last year arid
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    SPCA MEETING
    34 5 The annual general meetIng of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to A. lmals will be held on Feb 18, at 5.15 p.m. at the Old Council Chamber, Government Offices. Singapore.
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    CHINESE REFI GEES
    23 5 Another groao of 240 Chinese refugees from Amoy. Swatow and Hon^r Kon<z arrived m Singapore yesterday by the Hons Siang.
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    Indian war hero served in Malaya
    193 5 UERO of the pitched battle betwee n Indian troops and a vast hoard of tribesmen, which was recently fought near the North-West Frontier town of Naushera, was Brigadier M. Usman of the Indian Army, according to a military observer. It was officially estimated that,
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    U.K. CHALLENGES SOVIET: PRINT SECRETS
    401 6 Full historical record wanted A NSWERING a Russian charge that Britain and France connived with Hitler m hatching World War 11, the British Government has challenged the Soviet Union to join with her and France m publishing all German Foreign Office documents of the immediate
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    He was the perfect husband
    150 6 He was the perfect husband WILLIAM Moore burst into tears m the Derby Magistrates' Court when the woman he was accused of marrying bigamously was 1 giving evidence. "I could not speak too highly of him," Miss Margaret Jean Metcalfe Collier told the magistrates. "He was the ideal husband. He
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    U.K.-Argentine pact signed
    107 6 U.K.- Argentine pact signed TiiE iv w Anglo- Argirniinc 1 trade agreement was Initialled m Buenos Aires on Thursday. The United Kingdom will make a single cash payment of •i: 10.000 000 as a contribute, to the increase of Argentine production. Britain will supply during 1948 certain goods speciallyrequested by
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    7.000 ROUNDED UP IN GREECE
    182 6 dafdas fdsf f MOfcfc than 7,0U0 persona Were searched and questioned by 2,500 policemen m Piraeus (Athens) m the past three days. Many of the detained were afterwards released. All underground water and telephone installations had been carefully inspected m a search for explosives A
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    GOLD, CURRENCY HALL IN SHANGHAI
    77 6 \|ORE than 2.000 ounces ol ill Kt))d. approximately 8i>.0()0 United States dollars and 20,000 Hong Kong dollars. were confiscated by the auI thoritics during tiie peilod from July tt> December la^t year, official sources disclosed m Shanghai. The Finance Ministry's records show»ed exactly 2.171 ozs.
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    Marshall Plan States to meet
    235 6 ANEW conference of the 16 European nations who took part m the Marshall Plan conference m Paris last year will probably be held m the French capital m three or four weeks time, it was learned m usually well-informed circles. It is understood that the
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    AID TO U.K. TO GO TO AFRICA
    76 6 Mr. George Marshall. American Secretary of State. refused to comment oO an American Senator's claim that Britain had "secret plans" allegedly developed by Sir Stall ord Cripps to divert all h«>r Marshall plan funds to a programme of Empire reconstruction m Africa. The
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    Free rides cost Rs. 80 million
    101 6 THE Government of India estimates that passengers travelling without tickets on the government-operated railway system are cheating the treasury of between 80,000,000 and 100.000,000 rupees a year. Ticketless p.assengers bolt from railway coaches at each station, usually before the train has come to a
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    13th CENTURY HALL GUTTED
    81 6 CIRL swept the main wing of historic Naseby Hall, onetime shooting box of the King ana Queen, on Thursday destroying valuable paintings and antiques. Colonel and Mrs. R. L. Findlay slid down a rope of knotted sheets to safety. Mrs. Findlay then drove a mile to
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    DROP IT, JOE
    27 6 Th<? 8.8.C. has banned from the air a new British son* •Hold it. Joe." sune by Pat Kirkwwd m the London revue Siarlight Roof
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    Babies die—fed on dried milk
    117 6 Babies die— fed on dried milk TWO inquests were held ki Leeds on babies— one aged 11 we<ks and the other two mcfnth.s— who died after brunfi fed on dried milk The coroner. Dr. a j Sw ail ton. recorded a verdict of death by misadventure m each case. Afterwards
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    GURKHAS AS TO TRAIN AT SANDHURST
    308 6 GURKHAS AS TO TRAIN AT SANDHURST THE first step m a M.-hcme by which r will go to England to train Z^S Sa n<lh urst, h; ;:i^ b^ It is announced that M;. n p formerly Commander of th, nd InnDivision, has been appointed m ia force set up under
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    'GOOD OFFICES REPORT OT COUNCIL
    38 6 t ttkiJ I to th:)ort was Umit TSI the Dutch iS the I •mentonib •j Batavia, it lsm« cci tl ii fresh .^-•asail I federalijj Ultl W •V ted Press "ati* a «rJ
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    'Living wage' plea by bishops
    10 6 A LIVING by I In
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    MENZIES WANTS $ CONFERENCE
    57 6 MENZIES WANTS CONFERENCE MR. Robert M Opposition U-ador m the Australian Fedor.il Parliament, called m Sydney lor an Empire conffronco of. the d crisis. "Australia has used up more money, including doll j and more man -power attendin? International conferences during the last two years than oerhrips m the rest
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    WEST INDIES SCORE 447-6
    411 7 WEST INDIES SCORE 447-6 Crowd resents umpire 'sdecisions From NORMAN PRESTON PORT OF SPAJ N, Trinidad, Friday. 4 T the close of play on the third day of the second ♦i. T S i match at Port of Spain, Trinidad, yesterday the West Indies had scored 447 for six wickets
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    SCOREBOARD
    118 7 ENGLAND Ist. Innings 362 WEST INDIES— Ist. Inns G Carew Ibw Laker it? A. (lantcauiw c Ikin b Howorth 112 E. Week* b Butler 36 F. Worrell c Evans b Cranston 97 C. L. Walcott c Butler b Howorth 20 G. Gomez Ibw Laker 62 R. Christian! not out
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    FAST RED HEAD
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    England out for Rugger revenge
    165 7 England out for Rugger revenge INTERNATIONAL Rugby 1 union form has been so plex this season that the a today between EngI and Ireland at Twickenham must be regarded as a >pea issue. England have lost 11-0 to the Australians and drawn 3-3 with Wales- Ireland on the other hand
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    FIGHT BROADCASTS: BOARD EXPERIMENT
    80 7 AFTER a f .ur-hour meeting between rrpresentatives of the Boxing Bf ;ird of Control and the BBC. on the subject of future fight broadcasts, secretary of the Board, Mr. C. F. Donmall, stated"By way of an experiment m protecting the interests of small promoters who promote
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    BUDAPEST, Friday.
    38 7 Richard Button (U.S.A.) today won the world figure skating championship. Hans defending champion Hans Geswichler. (Switzerland). Third was Ede Kirey (Hungary). Then came John Lettin Garver (U.S.A.), James Grogian (U.S.A.) and H. Graham Sharp (England).— A.P.
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    'Sevens' Rugby reaches the final stage
    348 7 'Sevens' Rugby reaches the final stage IfEEN competition was wit--11 nessed m the seven-a-side rugby competition on the Padang yesterday when the quarter-finals were played off. After gruelling tusscls m all the games, four teams qualified for the semi-finals which will be played this afternoon. The teams entering the semi-finals
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    Riza Bey meets King Kong in return tonight
    216 7 THE Turkish heavyweight wrestler. Ali Riza Bey. who was stopped by King Kong recently, will step into the ring at the Great World tonight to fight it out a second Urn with the giant Hungarian. Bey claims that he was not at
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    All The Latest Selections
    108 7 ■■v>vft)W)K>|>j.-jHy«»M. ffnMn nnninnnimiiii... 1 CALL BOY EPSOM JEEP -TRESPASSERS -POINTER" Most Favoared T~ m Selections 1 JtoS S S>y E D^nneU Ahf DONNELLA^" DOXNELL ABU AB^T Donnell Abu rSSuJt v PP Warsplte War.pite c dy Norton Lad.v Kalan* Happy Lass RACE vSEFLSSSSZ TV° e^ ENOROVE GOLDEN
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    S.C.F.A. decide on new policy
    499 7 PIE Singapore Chinese Football Association decided at an emergency council meeting last night to sponsor direct affiliation by its member clubs to the S.A.F.A., but that the S.C.F.A. should remain the controlling body for Chinese soccer m Singapore. This unprecedented step was taken m view
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    TODAY'S CARD
    803 7 Kace 1-2.00: Horses Cl. 2, Div. s— Abt 6 F Val. 1. 00 PORT STAR 2. 132 FINF iVfiv 9 00 (SP^ncer) Lansdowne 3. 000 GAY PRATTLE l\\ <H bbS) Dawson 4. 000 EFiiiri«i 8 U an Breukelen) E. Donnelly 5 104 UDyHut 810 Navies) Robinson *a HsKJJHa
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    Plan to combat big transfers
    165 7 P^ANS for stopping transfers of footballers at enormous prices were outlined by Mr. Harry Curtis, Brentford FC manager, m an interview. His proposals are (1) No transfers by payment of fees during the playing season. (2) Total transfer fees paid during the close season not
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    S.C.C. v JOCKEYS
    49 7 THE proposed cricket match between th<* Malayan Jockeys' Association and th 2 Singapore Cricket Club at the S C.C. tomorrow is unlikely to be played due to the wet state of the ground, but the Jockeys are requested to attend m i ca^e play is possible.
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      425 7 Week-end spcr* events TODAY RUGBY: Seven-a-side tourney. padang. 5 p.m. SOCCFR: SC FA In erdi«»tri(t League Kampop< Java v. C oleman Strdt. (i lang Stadium, 4 p.m.; I;' Bukit Timah v J?llicoe XI S p m.; Blueuhite Rovers 2»il XI v Commercial Hi^h Srho I XI. TeMi Knr.iu, 4 p
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    NEWS, LATE CITY...
    51 8 E '<"' View the build :ng o; the Palestine Post m Jerusalem, the only English-language newspaper m the ntry. A bomb was thrown at the building which burst i>i!o a blaze imm 'diateiw. Mam/ of the 50 people m the building at the time of the explosion
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    U.S. may bring back 'New Deal'
    216 8 U.S. may bring back 'New Deal' WASHINGTON, Friday. THE continued decline m United States commodity markets may bring into play a form of Governmental 'artificial respiration" through the "price support" system introduced by President Roosevelt's New Deal administration. This system means roughly that if prices of certain food commodities fall
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    Ex-champ on fight charge
    55 8 Max Baer, former world's heavyweight boxing champion, is the defendant m a $120,000 assault and battery suit filed by Herbert Seal, an electrical contractor. Seal contends that Baer struck him m a traffic argument. He asks $50,000 for his injury, the same for his wife, and
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    Princess took drugs in error
    110 8 LONDON. Friday. AN overdose of medicinal tablets mistaken tor aspire was stated at a London court today to have caused 34-year-old Princess Indira Dcvi of Kapurthala. B.BC broadcast r and a god-daugh-ter of the Maharanee of Cooch Behar, to drive her car dangerously. The Princess
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    HE DREADED GOING TO WORK
    212 8 Could Hardly Bear the Pains m His Arms Rheumatic pains m hi* arms made it torture to use them No wonder he dreaded going to work. Yet to-day he feels fitter than ever, and work is a pleasure. His letter tells how this came about
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    NEW U.K. TRADE AGREEMENTS
    162 8 A xt a i LONDON, Friday. An^?" Dutch treaty for 1948 has been concluded Rritoi T ague flxin S Dutch exports to escorts S F t^V^ i at 35 '°9°'°oo and British exports to the Netherlands at a slightly higher torffi' Netherlands GovemmerrtZiS Dutch exports will
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    N.E.I. GOVT REBUKES UNO MISSION
    437 8 Political split m Jogjakarta BATAVIA, Friday. THE United Nations Indonesian Good Offices 1 Committee was today rebuked by the Netherlands East Indies Government for exceeding its duties m Indonesia. The strong language of the Dutch communique and its promptness following on a press conference given
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    'Boy friend' whisked girl from husband
    127 8 'Boy friend' whisked girl from husband BLACKSHEAR, Georgia, Friday. THE police are today search--1 ing for a "boy friend" who is alleged to have whisked of! a 14-year-old school Rirl. a quarter of an hour after she had married an 18--year-old farmhand. ,Js? girl blu e-eyed Mildred (Sittie) Aspinwall Teston
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    Canada seizes Red lottery
    130 8 MONTREAL. Fri. CANADIAN Police reported an international sale of lottery tickets to support ItalUn Communists m the Spring elections after the seizure of > 10 books of tickets m a raid on a private house. No arrests were made. The first prize was the choice of
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    Moors ask UNO to intervene
    195 8 Moors ask UNO to intervene NEW YORK, Friday. THE Committee for the Freedom of North Africa, representative of the Moorish nationalist groups, today appealed to the United Nations Organisation to take up the "Spanish Moroccan dispute" as a threat to world peace. Saying that Spanish armed forces had on Sunday
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    U.K. policy on Antarctica
    99 8 LONDON, Friday. officials of the British Foreign Office met today to discuss British Antarctic policy m the light of the two latest notes received from Chile and Argentina, it was learned from a usually reliale source. Like Argentina. Chile has rejected the British protest lodged last
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    COUNTERFEIT GREENBACKS
    49 8 /COUNTERFEIT U.S.$5O and V> $20 currency notes are •filtering: the United States from the Far East, the chief of the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. James J. Malon^y, disclosed m San Francisco yesterday. About U. 5.520,000. 520,000 m such notes has been seized m the past 30 months.
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    GANDHI TALK RECORDINGS
    78 8 WHAT are claimed to be the only known official recordings of a speech In English by Mahatma Gandhi will b e presented to the United States National Archives by Alfred Wagg, author, lecturer and former American newspaper correspondent m India The recordings were made by Wagg and
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    ATTACKS ON TURK BOATS IN AEGEAN
    191 8 mPM f ATHENS, Friday. T Jl a^ tacks wer e made on Turkish motorboats m the Aegean Sea during the past fortnight by boats presumably manned by Greek guerrillas, according Turk^S^^ Twenty-two more American soldiers, including two officers one warrant officer and 19 enlisted
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    STOP-GAP AID FOR CHINA
    85 8 THE U.S. State Department yesterday announced its allocation plans for $18,000 000 worth of stop-gap aid voted for China by Congress last December. Thee funds are m addition to the $27,700 000 granted to China under the post-UNRRA relief programme earlier m 1947. Under the new
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    19 8 The Indian Defence Minister, Sardar Baldev Singh, said yesterday that Indian forces fighting m Kashmir had suffered 950 casualties.
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    240 GERMAN PLANTS FOR ALUES
    99 8 BRUSSELS, Friday A total of 240 factories has r ready, ead y b een allocated to the Allies. The Inter-Allied Reparation Agency today allocated sev^n new German plants, from the Anglo-American, zones The plants went to Albania, i Australia, Belgium Denmark France, the United Kingdom'
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    CONFIDENCE IS RETURNING
    478 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. A BETTER feeling prevailed m the London stock market throughout today following yesterday's Parliamentary debate on the Government's White Paper on the wage and profit question, says Reuter. At the close of business, all sections were generally steady with a firm undertone.
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    Rubber prices
    176 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent *ives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today v follows: Bayers Sellers CU. CU. „o m Pfr Ib. per Ib No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 44 40 No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Feb. 40', 40 >. No. 2 R.S.S. foft m bales
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    NEW SYNTHETIC CONTROL IN US
    56 8 THE U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday resumed control over the distribution of synthetic rubber because of shortages. About 73.000 tons will be allocated to tyre manufacturers for the first quarter of 1948. enough to maintain production levels at least as high as those reached m
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    3 MILLION MISSING
    37 8 The Vatican authorities have agreed to permit the International Refugee Organisation to make use of the facilities of Vatican Radio m broadcast efforts to locate more than 3,000,000 European civilians missine throughout Europe.- A.P.
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    ATS RENAME THE WRACS
    78 8 ATS RENAME THE WRACS LONDON. Fttjr THE women's ted I Briti b hi .en's Royal ad of (Auxiliary vice. The air force sec ti called the Women Force lnst< nd ol (Women's Aux.. i Force). More than 500.00) v* served In the ar~ durine the war. The AT?, man] served
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    Reds captur U.S. Marine
    68 8 SAN FRANCISCO. W* ANNOUNCING one of the fl« 1 States Marines the Communists m China on Christinas W died of wounds, the uj Communist Radio acfl* United States of i»J»j eipation In the t war. The :;vc Marines** chief port of the Shantuns; on pand were
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    65 8 the P^ Mi. mSSi Fai Easttod^ m declaration ci Ja -°»j aboir that note must CAH before th e ta sN ?a note H prepared! fumbled cry he prosecutic: although i t was "dSJi, comprehend the jZ that pn c JJ at Wa morning of it is all toe
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      12 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today Sunday Hl*n: l o-j p.m. 1.39 p.m. 95ft. f.lft.
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      53 8 WEATHER Showers Wr I iii.k report for the nrtt 24 hoars compiled by th« RAP: Bright |:fii.xK and scattered showers this afternoon and even in*. Fine to-night and sunny to-morrow morning. Sunset 6.52 p.m. Sunrise 6.42 a.m. Moonset 10.08 p.m. Moonrise 10.30 a.m. Temperat«res yesterday: Maximum 87 der. V.% _minimnm
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