The Singapore Free Press, 18 February 1948

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1948 PKirt 10 n«\i
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  • 267 1 Two were dismissed Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. p)WN bus services in Kuala Lumpur were strike bound this morning when three hundred employees of the General Transport Company stopped work, demanding the reinstatement of two of their number. Office workers were held up,
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    36 1 The barriers are lifted. The opening of the FrancoSpanish border near Irun, closed for the last tico years. The picture was taken from the Spanish side of the frontier, as the first French visitors walked across.
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  • 110 1 TOKIO, Tuesday. E fir^t Japanese woman accused of wartime tried in Yokohama on charges murder eight American B-29 f merciless medical experiments. sutsui, a former army nurse, who ,!je co-defendant with 27 men also accused of i Five will face an additional te 01 cannibalism. says the rancements us.
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  • 80 1 PARIS. Tuesday. FIFTEEN people are feared killed and 20 injured according to first r ports, in a rail crash near Doual. northern Frar.ce, tonight. A freight train ran into the back of a passenger train completely wrecking the rear bes. In another railway mishap reported
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  • 197 1 SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Tuesday. ORESIDENT Gonzalez Videla of Chile, who arrived today at the newly-established Chilean permanent army base in Sovereignty Bay, off the Britishowned Greenwich Island, in the south Shetland Islands, is to broadcast a reply to the British statement that Britain would
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  • 86 1 BRUSSELS. Tuesday. THE police today arrested Suzanne Gregoire Cloes. a Communist deputy for Brussels, as she was ladimg a group of Communist^ distributing strike leaflets to the workers entering: a Brussels power station. She was later released. Gas and electricity workers, who have been on strike
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  • 22 1 Britain has informed the United Nations that 1,300 refugees are being admitted into the United Kingdom weekly- A.P.
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  • 117 1 Kinstler jailed for 5 years MELBOURNE, Tuesday. THE Criminal Court, at Perth late last night, sentenced Isreal Hersz Kinstler to five years' jail for illicit exportation of gold from Kalgoorlie to Singapore in the Blue Funnel ship Charon. The judge told Kinstler: "You obviously were one of a ring smuggling
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  • 62 1 JAPANESE stragglers in the mountains of Lub a n g Island, near Mindoro, shot a Filipino farmer and left him to bleed throughout thnight. The farmer ?.nd seven others had started out Monday afternoon last week to look for cattle that had mysteriously disappeared from their ranch,
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  • 167 1 BELGRADE, Tuesday AN alleged plot to kill Yugoslavia's leader and supporters of Marshal Josef Titio's regime with phosphene gas, typhus germs and anthrax was disclosed in a Zagred court today. Twelve Maehen Peasant Party bloc members were accused of treason and attempting to overthrow the
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  • 49 1 DED Star, publication of the Russian Ministry of Defence, said categorically yesterday that there "is no danger of war at the present moment." In a front page editorial Red Star declared however, 'One should not engender a feeling of complacency in the armed forces."- A.P.
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  • 45 1 Th? Austiian Foreign; M nister. Mr. Karl Gruber, arrived in London yesterday to appeal to the Big Four Foreign Ministers Council of Deputies for an early Austrian peace settlement. He expressed confidence that a solution would be found at the coming meeting.— A.P.
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  • 40 1 Ex-King Michatl of Rumania, his mother ex-Queen Helen, and Princess Anne of Bourban-Parma may leave Switzerland for the United States "within a week," a member of the ex-King's star! told the Associated Press in Lnusann" yesterday. A.P.
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  • 23 1 Heavy loss of life is reared in severe floods which have caused serious damage to property and communications in Southern Turkey.
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  • 89 1 TEN persons were sentenced to death for killing a police officer and planning to assassinate Greek political leaders, an Athens military court announced yesterday, says A. P. Eleven others were sentenced to life and 29 to lers?- prison terms. The puiice officer was shot dead
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  • 88 1 AFTER several years of marriage, three Bish sisters of Detroit. Neaoni, Orena and Audrey, have parted with their husbands, the Cey brothers. Claude, Robert and Vernon. Last October Neaoni was granted a divorce from Claude. Recently Audrey filed a divorce suit against Vernon, which is pending.
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  • 45 1 Indian authorities at Allahabad reported about 100 cholera deaths in an area near where Mahatma Gandhi's ashes were committed to the sacred waters. The victims included several who came to take part In the ceremonies. One hundred others were re- ported ill.- U.P.
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  • 117 1 LONDON, Tuesday. pRINCESS ELIZABETH this 1 morning visited the Tower Hill Juvenile Court, causing varied impressions to the small boys and girls, who suddenly realised she was listening to the misdeeds wnich had brought them there. "Coo." murmured one small ooy accused of theft.
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  • 229 1 TRIPOLI, (Libya), Feb. 18. BRITISH troops used gunfire and tear gas to quell Arab mobs rioting against the British military administration of Libya in Tripoli on Tuesday. Three demonstrators were killed and eight wounded. The rioting began when angry mobs stoned the offices of the
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  • 238 1 DEPORTED MALAYS CSV Free Press Staff Correspondent SYDNEY, Wednesday. AS Sydney police yesterday took nine Malay "prohibited immigrants" into custody for the night, pending their deportation today in the troopship Kanimbla, they called out to onlookers "Australia will hear more of this." To avoid
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  • 13 1 Italian Communist arid Government party deputies have agreed to a truce.
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  • 68 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Two rival Chinese gangs fought a gun battle in Kim Seng Road last night. Several shots were exchanged but no one was injured and no arrests have been made. Early this morning four Chinese, one armed with a postol, entered an attap
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  • 43 1 Thirty-four persons were killed and throe injured in outbreaks of violence scattered across* the Philippines, reports reaching the Interior Department in Manila said on Tuesday. A three-day constabulary drive against Hukbalahap peasant guerrillas around Mcunt Banahaw in Luzon, killed 23 dissidents.
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    • 115 2 PARIS is slimming down S the New Look. The spring: fashion col- I lection opened with I Lelong and Schiaparelli showing very little hip I padding in dresses and i suits, with skirt fullness flattened in intricate pleats i and drapery. Coats show the hour- I
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    • 127 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom today DORN today, perhaps your m very greatest handicap i.s your extraodinary personal charm, and your loving nature.^ Deep un demeath. you have an iron will and will go after an objective, eio matter the opposition. But you make friends so easUy
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  • NEWS...
    • 272 3 Menace in North, hope for South East t r will sec |tiM for freedom and J r;it> in the countries of South-East nniuHO from Communistic impen the torth of the continent, said U.S. j u > Walter H. .Judd, in an interview k iL judd a
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    • 147 3 Spurned £3000 back offer, says defence COUNSEL for Mr. Robert C.>ssrrove. former Labour Premier of Tasmania, told the Criminal Court at Hobart that his client will say in evidence how he "kicked out of doors" a man who asked if £3.000 would be any use to Labour Party funds. Mr.
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    • 47 3 i up. the Woi k jur n a and re- :.'.J- :n He tlked :u)0 feel :inyi p. his feet, but and wrist were I ne from his right tl his ilgeUmond dismissed his I f o u r 1 1 Tur- cu*. to his Reuter
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    • 49 3 s court Eliza an American I a agency Budapest, to •nt on "she m :nployer ties for e Karoiy H nga- was y ars* lmf n charges or t '-'.rov,- of the i.. hum- th high •M to Piskl Schmidt conspiracy I ere ImpriIrojn 0..e to thi Reuter
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    • 18 3 RANCO-SPANISH ONTIER PROTEST &WCSX l, af *rench-SDanish •••sav'-mieht of •all Vayo, for•ubiican 'tis, the UI ah tim Reuter
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    • 169 3 IJNDER the terms of the will of Sir Hugo CunlifTeOwen, the industrial magnate, now made public Miss Marjorie Cunliffe-Owen, formerly known as Marjorie Daw, dancer, is to receive the bulk of the £540,000 left after death duties have been paid on the £1,353,744 estate. I
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    • 134 3 CCOTLAND YARD men believe tney know the J identity of the Army deserter who made £250,000 in a year from jewel thefts— but they can't prove it. He boasted to a detective about his exploits im a cell at a London police station, but *V re
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    • 92 3 r£ net result of the Australian Government's acquisition of special accounts of private banks deposited with the Commonwealth Bank would be to destroy assets. Mr. A. Barwick told the High Court in Melbourne during a hearing of Australian banks against nationalisation. Mr. Barwick, leading counsel
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    • 75 3 MRS. Ruth Barbes, (22), ate three slices of bread and drank a glass of milk for her dinner yesterday in Chicago as she entered the fourth day of her two-week, "fast" in protest against the high cost of living. "It will take more than a
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    • 114 3 U.S. ARMY IN ASIA'S 'HOT SPOT' picture. picture Tti>- Soviet Union has set up a "democratic peoples' repubc# northern Korea. Asia's "hot spot." The United States has called this "on obvicus propaganda manoeu1 h \i S tro °Q s guarding the. 38th parallel which dnides northern Korea from Aiuerican-occupiod zone
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    • 359 3 INDUSTRIALISTS in South Africa are concerned at the prospect of the Union's markets in the adjoining British colonies being closed to South Africa under Clause 9 of the American "aid to Britain" agreement. One estimate places the possible loss to S</uth African markets at about
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    • 42 3 DAKISTAN will not neces- sarily accept UNO Security Council findings on the Kashmir issue. The Governor-General, Mr. Jlnnah. asked in Karachi yesterday if Pakistan would abide by whatever decision the Security Council reached on Kashmir, decision." A.P.
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    • 115 3 MR. Henry Wallace, independent candidate for the U.S. presidency, has called for the resignaton ox the Secretary of the Army, Mr. Kenneth C. Royall, the Defence Secretary. Mr. James Forrestal, and the Commerce Secretary, Mr. Averill Harriman. Mr. Wallace charged that Mr. Royall "reaffirmed
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    • 19 3 The Anglo-American Oil Company retports that it produced 20,000,000 tons of crude on last year.— U.P
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    • 243 3 PXPRESSINO appreciation for the aid of the United L- Nations Good Offices Commission in solving the Indonesian problem, the Dutch Premier, Dr. L.M.J. Beel, in a communique issued at The Hague, denounced press attacks on tht commission and went on to say that the members
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    • 20 3 Paris has been selected as the site for this year's meeting of the U N. General Assembly.
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    • 130 3 MR. H. E. Beyster, president of the Detroit industrial engineering firm bearing his name, who is visiting Manila, said in an interview that the United States offers the best world market for Philippine timber. Local timber, he added, is in great demand in
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    • 262 3 British keen new 'watch on the Rhine' OFFICIALS of the Rhine Barge Control, or v "Blue Tollmen" as they are called a., -v.\% \i t Rhine boatmen, have become a terror lo a!l oa. carrying smuggled goods up and d >wn tli^ jrCa. waterway of Western Germany. The thirteen small
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    • 85 3 RUSSIA has informed Italy that the USSR continues to maintain the view, expressed to the Council of Foreign Ministers in May 1946, that the former Italian colonies of Libya. Eritrea and Somaliland should be placed under Italian protection for a reasonable period, the Italian Foreign Oflice
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    • 124 3 Jail break with a smile A YOUNG woman nr: on remand in Rolh Prison. London, calmly wa ed out of the pri visiting hours recently and escaped. With pertect composure U e girl approacned a t»r nurse and said: "I'm a vis tor and I've lost mi Where is the
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    • 69 3 Il r ELL-informed spokesmen TT in London said the Cr> I Committee of the British Trades Union Cong ess deer ed to recommend acceptance of the Government app^l f^r general voluntary freezing of I wages. The committee will submit i 111 report to the T.U.C.
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    • 40 3 The Peoples Couri In V nim ruled that D.\ u P Laurel, puppet pr< em o/ the Philippines durl j the Japanese occupation. w.;s entitled to amnes'.y under President Manuel Roxas' proclamation. Laurel has bv on trial since Oeto'ce.*.- U.P.
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      • 483 4 THE departure for London oi the Counsellor of the British Embassy in Bangkok Li a reminder that formal recognition has not yet been extended to the government formed by Khuang Aphaiwongse after the Phibun coup. This position will be reviewed when Mr. Wi'tington arrives in London, and
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      • 244 4 FIX/ the masterpieces of un.l der-statement must be added the comment of the chairman of the UNO Commission on Korea on hearing of the formation of a Peoples Republic in Northern Korea. "This is a severe blow to the work of Commission said Mr. K. P. Menon.
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    • 1148 4 WHO FOLLOWS Mr. KING In Canada today the Question is... by CHARLES LYNCH Reutei's Correspondent TWO men the Prime Minister, Mr. MacKenzie King, and the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Louis St. Laurent hold the answer to Canada's No. 1 political riddle today. The riddle is: will Mr. MacKenzie King
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    • 277 4 U.S. major factor in Indonesia BRITAIN has been replaced by the Unittd States as the major foreign diplomatic influence upon DutchIndonesian relations In the Netherlands East Indies, in the opinion oi Dr. Dirk Struik, chairman of the American Committee for Indonesian Independence. Dr. Struik, a member cf the Massachusetts Institute
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    • 12 4 I will not fail thee nor forsake thro. Jtiihua 1. 5.
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    • 414 4  -  MORRIS J. HARRIS By A. P. Correspondent QF the four areas in w which the United States is maintaining occupation forces, Korea in the opinion of informed Washing- ton sources, is the hardest problem we have to face." The other occupation areas are Japan, Germany and
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    • 86 4 Motorist* ana pedestrians in London's Park Lane had a shock when they met a highwayman and an old time coach en route. nut it was all part of the annual ctlcbration of the Royal Veterinary College student v at Ortmvenor House Hotel. Then a era.]/
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    • 490 4 A CONTROVERSY, which is provoking worldwide interest, is raging in Sydney, Australia, over the new cancer cure claim of Mr. John Braund. of Beverly Hills, who is a non-medical man. Braund's method,; a distinct departure from orthodox surgery and ray therapy, is one of injecting certain liquid into
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      89 4 Eighty dance hostesses, members of the "Miss Right Club," Falmouth, Cornwall, are protesting against commerits on Falmouth girls which appeared in a U.S. maritime magazine, "The Seafarers' Log." The magazine said: "The girls in Falmouth are lovely creatures or I should say letches. They all wanted romance, but spelled it
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
    • 274 5 Stall Reporter POSED ami 1 unts to Singapore's building remove out-of-date rules and line witli modern building -nulated by the Municipal unlic bodies' architects and prior to final adoption by Municipal Comi ts, originally drawn up European war, do not abolish ht of certain buildinps to two h of
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      34 5 The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was celebrated at the Ophir Road Church on Sunday. These pictures show Bishop Olcomendy on the "throne" at the Benediction and the niche being taken in procession.
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    • 48 5 Bt ftm < trrespondeat m B .»pB B ianf-"• ilieB on W^i during the last V ip. numt B up by V Wednesday B nd group. Totalling Bin in t* 0 days lr rants ferred m K nrrp his boon 1 -ants Bm. '"hey h«ck to Ha. nan.
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    • 121 5 'LITTLE PROM IS POPULAR THE Little Prom," an in--1 formal gathering of enwu f classical music. which will be presented in the Little Theatre, Armenian Street, fortniphtly at 8.30 P.m.. has got off to a good start, some 40 o«;thusiast.s attending last Sunday night to hear Donald Cameron's pr gramme.
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    • 75 5 COUPLE FINED FOR OPIUM 4 CHINESE woman explain- ed in the District Court •relay that she was u.-mpted to buy opium be Gau.se her husband needed it and she could not bear to him sutler from heart a-nd lung troubles. The woman. Low Kim Heoh. and he r husband. Tan
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    • 53 5 Mrs. Anthony Brooke returned t» Singapore vt-ster-day after a six months' visit to Sarawak She toured the country extensively and met with a warm, hospitable and enthusiastic reception wherever she travelled, she said. "I was amazed at the strength of the steadily growing anti-ce&sion movement throughout the
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    • 42 5 THE American Presidt^it Lines, whose application to run a service to the Netherlands East Indies and Malaya was rejected last year, will again request pcrmlsnon before a public hearing of the Maritime Commission in Washington, on Feb. 24.- A.P.
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    • 201 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rNS of Malayan rubber lay on New York pier heads and, because of the state in which they arrived, they had to be down-graded before being handled at considerable loss, Mr. Jim C. Roberts, a representative of the U.S. rubber manufacturing industry,
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    • 87 5 GIRL Guides In Singapore Will celebrate their "Thinking Day" on Fob. 22. ai ni versa ry of the birthday of the late Lord Badcm-Pow 11 M)d the dM they think of the world-Wide movement. The lollowing religious meetings will aLso be held: Saturday at 4 p.m.
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    • 218 5 Visiting jails among duties Free Press Staff Reporter THE first women Justices of the Peace will be appointed in Singapore soon. Twelve will be appointed from among the different races in the Colony, a Government official told the Free Press yesterday. The names will be published
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      36 5 Wr- J. L. Pestana. who has been attached to the Orcn:ds action of the Singapore Botanic GardeTis for the past 21 j/ears. is seen inspecting some of the 150 flasks containing orchid seedlings.— Free Press picture.
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    • 38 5 A Chinese, Wong Ah Meng, who attempted to rob $500 from a shopkeeper, was yesterday sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rattan, by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizeo yesterday
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    • 23 5 The Bishop of Singapore will declare open the Tenth Scout group den at St. Andrew's Sctiool on Saturday t 4 p.m.
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    • 137 5 THE former president of the A.P.I. (Angkatan Permuda Insdf), Gt-ylang branch, Ahmad Baiki Suib. who was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment by the Fir6t District Judge in January this year, for assisting In the management of an unlawful society, had his sentenced reduced to 12 months'
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    • 87 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tuos. HAHMAT Ali, alias Dr. Ab- dullah alias 'The Burmese Doctor. a foxmer employee of the Japanese Military Police, in Kuala Lumpur, was to day sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Rus^ sell at the Selangor Assizes.
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    • 12 5 Lord Listowel is arriving at Tengah aerodrome at 4.30 tomorrow.
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    • 40 5 Fit. LA J. W. Wilson, t^st pilot of the jet-propelled Vampire, will broadcast from Rndio Malaya on Wednesday nt 8.18 p.m. on- the periormance of the Vampire aircraft, which is having its first tostf, in Malaya tonciraw.
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    • 324 5 THE editorial in the latest issue of Co-operator, magazine of the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society, Ltd., says there is an urgent need for the Government actively to foster and encourage co-operation as the Ceylon Government has done for the Ceyionese movement. "The main factor retarding progress in
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    • 196 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent TLOSE on the heels of the v 249 Malayan Chinese repatriates who arrived in Singapore by the Hong Siang last week, another batch of 126 repatriates is expected to arrive this week. Both batches have been sent back to Malaya at the
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    • 239 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent /CHINESE consular representation in Malaya would V^ be greatly strengthened in recognition of the increasingly important political position of this country following the founding of the Federation, said Mr. Li Chin, in a special interview with the Free Press on the eve
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    • 239 5 THE following new books will be added to Raffles Library within the next few days: Jam* s Agate, Those were the Nights: Trenchard Cox, David Cos; Eve Curio, Journey among Warriors: Jean De Lacombe. A Compendium of the East <R*f.); Anna Freud and others. The Psychoanalytic
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    • 418 5 Orchid 'culture' at the Gardens Free Press Staff Reporter TENS of thousands ot aol--1 lars worth of orchios are being cultivated at the Botanic Gardens, in Singapore, from tiny seeds. The fascirating work of orchid culture is be:r.g carried out by a staff of aocai experts under th e direction
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    • 71 5 Rattan jail for gangster AT the Singapore Assizes yesterday, Mr Justice Brown passed sentence of seven yean' rigoroiu impr;sonjTifnt and 12 strokes of the rattan on a young Chinese.. Chua Boon Quee. who was found guilty of armed gang robbery. Chua. together with a gang of men, robbrd a Ch
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    • 637 6 S'pore is better off I OOKING through L the Singapore cinema announcements the contrast between your film fare and London's is remarkable. In Singapore you seem still to be having a preponderance of American pictures London now has to be content almost entirely with British productions. Britain is beginning to
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      64 6 Actress Betty Grable, famed foi her beautiful leys, talks with her leading man. Douylas Fairbanks, Jr. on th of the 20th Century Fox picture "The Lady in Ermine,*' at Hollywood. She wears a $2,000 gown ichich took 65 yards of material an-, yaids of lace to edge the ruffles. The
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    • 243 6 CXCLUSIVE right* to Hi make a ten reel Colour ftlm of the Olympic games in T .ondon next summer have been granted to an especially formed company of the J. Arthur Rank Organization, it was announced officially. Spokesmen for the BntLsh Olympic Organizing Committee and the
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    • 331 6 A picture to scald the conscience THE Malayan Film Society, a group of cinema enthusiasts, has obtained a copy oi the iilm "The World is Rich" and will be screening it for private showing next Sunday at the Central Theatre, Kuala Lumpur. Hunger and famine arc the stars of Paul
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    • 118 6 THE modern studio at Elstree, which Arthur Rank has equipped at a cosl ul £70,000 for making religious films for chjjrch, Sundayschool and school audiences all over the world, has now gone into production. First film being made is o*l the parable of the Wedding Feast. It will
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      239 6 JT is sometimes advisable to double a contract you are not at all sure you can beat, in order to prevent partner from getting into a contract which threatens an even greater disaster. That was the situation In this deal North should consider doubling four hearts to warn
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    • 248 6 BY OUR FILM REPORTER OPENING at the Pavilion today is "This Man Is Mine", the film version of the play Soldier for Christmas which Singapore Stage Club fans will remember. Bill MacKenzie, a Canadian soldier is billeted with a typical middle-class family for his Christmas leave. He finds
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    • 319 6  - A Film Editor's Job... HOW ARD C. HEYN By p I on a screen, f ew Nl fans realize I editor has on 1 most hiuhly I lized task, i n I Picture produd I »ust be a fli-Oonv-^B well a.< a < I nician. S Pr< I editor cuts
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    • 36 6 We Present The Most Enjoyable Comedy Success To Come From Brita* Opens Today Shows U* 4 6^ [1 At Singapore's Select Cinema £wgne b( l°J BARRY MOUSE ROSALYN BOULTER AMBf k^!Jt MARY MERRALi AGNES LAUCHLAN _^J^^
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    • 127 6 IVldndr3k6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya JANE Exclusi?)e to the Singapore Free Press in Malava \/1t tAe ukt&s dance jS^jf] V^ much, jenny— A I^dunno— quite. N^ leTs dance we may tv V Y^* X/^. rf r Z^4 /ME WOULDN'T TALK! BUT 5/NCE THEN I'VE i/ NOT
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  • SPORTS...
    • 452 7 Minstrel Boy a hot favourite By "CALL BOY" fpWO of Saturday's biggest disappointments, Golden Grove and Suivi, should make amends at Bukit Timah this afternoon, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting when a card of eight races comes up for decision. The going this morning
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      26 7 feper. jumps to field the ball tick with Mclntosh, the Preston centre-tor-s< nal right-half, looking on ant league game at Highbury which ended in a drau.
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    • 187 7 By Our M>ecer Reporter ippeal to all Oiiru-se soccer clubs in Singapore ret together to further their common interests debv Mr Kuk Chong look, manager of the Ufa team vhfch toured the Far East last year, chairman of the Fxecutive Council of the ■ChfcKse Football Association. t Quag hed
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    • 205 7 Sprcial Free Press Reporter THE crack Hung Kong soccer combina.ico. Sing Tao. whipped tfie Shanghai Chinese by lour goals to one In a challenge game played I Hong Kong yesterday. Blnn Tao ran up all four goals in the iirst half. Thev held fthanghal scoreless
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    • 90 7 THE first Far East Army boxing championship tournament will be held at the Happy World stadium. Singapore, on Friday. Feb. 27. There w:ll be about eight championship fights, with two or three special contests and a non-stop inter-unit milling competition. The championships will be decided
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    • 308 7 1 r .Tf J ress SUff Correspondent 'HE St-lungor Cricket Association, decided at it* annual general meeting last "'pnt that this year's interstate matches will be limited 9 two days' duration in order >( > 'ronomise on travel and other expenditure. It was
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    • 588 7 Oriental will start in cup By "EPSOM JEEP" MINSTREL BO¥ will probably start an even-money favourite for the Valentine Cup at Bukit Timah today. Opinion on the course this morning was pretty well unanimous aa> the gelding's chance. Oriental will definitely go to the barrier today. Ridden by Charlie Ellery.
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    • 243 7 *CALL BOY" -EPSOM JEEP" "TRESPASSER" "POINTER" Most Favoured Selections ajygL srss sr 1 %r%i L abd Ir^ ab^ K>lan»; Lady Kalang Foretold Lady Kalan* Lady Kalang WAPE c°m DEN J? R OVE SMILING THRU»~~ GOLDEN GROVE ~SMILING~THRU' TmIlInG RACE 2 Smiling: Thru' Golden Grove Prattle On
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    • 967 7 Race I— -1.45: Horses Cl. 2, Div. 5, Abt. 6F. Val, $2,000 1. 044 DONNELL ABU 9.00 (Turley) Morsillo 2. -00 FORETOLD 8.11 (Martin) Ba*by 3. 040 LADY KALANG 8.09 (Hobbs) EUery 4. 000 GAY PRATTLE 8.09 (van Breukelen) Spencer 5. 000 EULOGISM 8.09 (Davies) Robinson 6. 032
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    • 67 7 The Singapore Cricket Club team to play the RE. at rugby on the padang today at 5.15 p.m. will be: C. M. Quayle; T.A. Roper. C. Milton, J A. O'Brien; O.D. Hargreaves; J. Oates. H.D. Wilson; K.N.R. Wilson. P.M. Pascol/ A. H. Hunter. A. V. de Pranck.
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    • 248 7 LONDON, Tuesday. FREDDIE Mills, British lightheavyweight cham- pion, retained his European title here tonight, taking only two rounds to batter Spanish champion Paco Bueno into submission in their scheduled 15-round contest. The Spaniard was subjected to terrific punishment in what little time the fight
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    • 100 7 THE following will represent the South against the North in the annual hockey match at Kuaia Lumpur on Saturday: V. N. Pillai (Singapore): R. H. Barth (Captain, Singapore), Dominic tiendrofff (Malacca); G. Clarke (Singapore), S. D. Williams (Singapore), E. Doraisamy (Singapore); D. Ross (Singapore), J. Stanley
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    • 123 7 GEORGE TOW. (British Guiana >, Tuesday. (1. O. ALLEN, captain of the J M.C.C. touring team, bald on his arrival hero by air from Trinidad today that the crop of injuries his players had sustained had been "absolutely demoralising." Stressing that the t.am had never been at
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    • 233 7 F.P. Cro ss word No. SI 4 CLUES ACROSS 4. Delightful (6). 8. Kind of grass (7). 10. Undivided (3). 11, Stir (3). 12. Dust (6). 15. Feign illness (8). 17. Series of years (3). 18, Seed (3). 19, Unfavourable (3). 21. Storage chamber (4). 22, Troublesome person (4). 24.
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  • NEWS, LATE CITY...
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      27 8 Horn* Picture For Malayans A fishing village, 15 miles outside Port Swettenham, Pvlau Ketam (crab, island) in the Straits of Malacca, populated by several thousand Chinese fisher-folk.
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    • 252 8 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. rpHE United Nations 'Good Offices' Commission told the Security Council that Indonesia has achieved a delicate peace which, with good faith, can blossom into greatness and helpfulness to the whole world. The United States member, Mr. Frank P. Graham, in his speech to
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    • 177 8 LONDON. Tuesday. BRITAIN today paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi in the ancient burial place of her national heroes. WestmlnttfT Abbey. Christian prayers were ■aid that the policy of nonviolence and co-oDeration for which he gave his life mieht increasingly prevail, in the words of
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    • 25 8 The Somerset Light Infan- try. the last British military unit in India, will leave for the United Kingdom on Feb. 28 A.P.
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    • 27 8 Damage amounting to 6.140 million yen was caused in Tokio duriiiK 1947. says Reuter. In January this year 185 fires occurred in Tokio. j
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    • 104 8 CINCINNATI, Tues. THE United States Atomic Energy Commissioner. Mr. Summer Pike, pleading for aj better public understanding of I thp possibilities of atomic energy today listed "three great benefits of the atomic age." They are: (D new ways and materials to treat disease; (2)
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    • 147 8 Man detained in sensational U.K. killing LONDON, Tuesday. A FIVE day man hunt for the man wanted for questioning about the murder of London policeman Nat Edgar ended today with the detention of Donald George Thomas <23> and Mrs. Noreen Winkless. After seeing a photograph of Mrs. Winkless described as
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    • 171 8 TOKIO, Tuesday. THE Allied prosecution at the trial of 25 Japanese war-lords alleged that the conspiracy which drove Japn on her carter of imperialism and ultimate ruin involved 17 successive Cabinets, from 1928 to 1945. I Of all those conspirators new living and capable of
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    • 95 8 ROME, Tuesday. DOLICE searching a borab- blasted factory in Turin discovered a Communist shop with 41 Italian and "foreignmade" machine-guns, 9,000 rounds of ammuMtion. 48 hand-gnnades, two .75 mm shells and six German timebombs, the Government alleged tonight. The official announcement said the police had
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    • 50 8 The five-man crow of the United States Army plane which flew the U.S. Ambassador. Mr. Stanton Griffis. back to Warsaw from conferences in Washington, are still being held by the Polish authorities for "trespassing," reports A.P. Government authorities said that' they crossed into Poland without a clearance.
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    • 45 8 WEATHER Showers WEATHER report for the n*xt 24 hours compiled by the RAF: Occasional nh-> wr rs and short brifht periods this afternoon J and early evening. Fair tonight and tomorrow morning. Wind: variable. Temperatures yester day maximum 90 deg. F., minimum 73 dejr. F.
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    • 179 8 MacA. WARNS OF BLOOD -BATH WASHINGTON, Tuesday. TENERAL MacArthur, in a u letter read today to the United Rates Senate, said Japan would undergo a "blood-bath of revolutionary violence" unless occupation forces broke up the concentration of economic power there. Democratic Senator McMahon had asked Gen. MacArthur to comment on
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    • 32 8 There are still 765,272 Japa- nese overseas, while approximately 5.841,000 have been I brought back since the re- patriation programme started shortly after the surrender, reports Reuter from Tokvo. I
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    • 309 8 Claim22BJew casualties JERUSALEM, Tuesday. TN attacks on three Jewish settlements in Northern 1 Palestine yesterday, 300 Arab guerrillas using mortars and automatic arms killed 78 Jews am wounded more than 150 others for the loss o: 13 Arabs killed and 37 wounded, the Jerusaleir headquarters of the Palestine Arab
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    • 109 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. SIX men who attempted to ship 60,000 pounds of T.N.T. explosive to Palestine pleaded guilty today to Federal Court charges of making false export declarations. The judge placed them on probation for one year and said he did not regard the men
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    • 115 8 LONDON, Tuesday. FE British Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, has declined a suggestion that the Communists should be outlawed in Britain and their funds confiscated. The suggestion had been made by the Conservative member for Orpington. Sir Waldron Smithers, who alleged that the Communists worked under
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    • 49 8 Edgar Snow, the American > writer, yesterday called American aid to the Nanking Goveminent "unjustified." The j Americans, he said were en- tirely wrong in supporting I the Kuomintang "despotic i regime against which the i Chinese people arc struggling j for elementary human i rights. A.P.
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    • 168 8 NANKING, Tuesday. TPHE establishment of the North Korean "DemoJ ratl v. Peoples Re P u bHc" has the "gravest political a d lllta 7 for China, according to official circles here. The immediate effect of the new Soviet move will be to bolster greatly the
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    • 561 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesday. OATHER better feeling was displayed at the opening: of today's London's stock markets, but it was left to the Kaffir section to provide the major upward movements, says Reuters financial corresi pondent. Tin shares rose sharply while Rubbers were unchanged
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      51 8 Two boj/s, held on murder charges at Cook County Jan U.S.A. ..listen to a Bible reading from the Warden durina the jail's Thanksgiving meal.The 15-year-old on the left is held for the alleged killing of a pastor's wife the 12--year-old on the right for the alleged killing of' a play-
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    • 61 8 fJNE-SIXTH of the 30 per v cent of the Japanese in- dustrial assets available for reparations has been allocated to Britain for immediate relief in Burma, Malaya and other British Far Eastern colonies^ the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, told the House of Commons
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    • 129 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent sives the prices, of rubber at 11 a.m. today i* follows: Buyers Seller* Cts Cts. p«r lb per \b No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 38', 38 l No 1 R.S.S. fob in bales March 38S< 38 No. 2 R.S.S foo in bales March VI
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    • 164 8 Mukden,*^' I Chiang iwZSI save the tott 1 I commanded \c*M turn t hat reared V^SB leaders, such i r?^ hsiang and I caller! ud ma Popular support i j nst the ComaS^B II fan-" Ma air e H fare a«a I I Manchuria. aß *^H Battle for A>
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    • 62 8 WASHINGTON 7- 1 THE I tee approved a 8... -^H Of I T: March 31. H Government to ken capacity at 675.0J0 annually, to make 225,000 tons of syr.thfS^M ber yearly, and '-C manufacturer.- Tht> BUI must tv PrjM both the Houses o: sident. This is /Jtß likely, as
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    • 37 8 f HINA has P^2S3 to the &P;-;^s| I Bank on a 1941 l^-gjl esc EmbW "JlrJb announced yesi China a j 650.000 worth I Reconstruction^ I :nc co. trac ,'uj'jiß I from s»te^| gjptffl Ei A.P.
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    • 74 8 LONDON, Tuesday. THE former Prime Minister. Mr. Winston Churchill threw the House of Commons |n an uproar by accusing Prime Minister Clem?nt Attlee and Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison of br aeh of faith which he said, "has but few parallels Mr. Churchill charged 'hat thp two
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    • 192 8 S'TI'ATIONS VACANT UANTFD: Two experi nands for En«lish-lan«uage v.spn'v.-i. Sa'Ti-y. H.C. L. A.. !<••. Provide^*: Funi and pall nnual hold-ys. Anpy ProdOC i nl IfMMger, Straits Times. BRITfPH Importing BOHI re quires services of one Shorthand Typist and two Accounts Clerks Applv in writing stating a«e, qualifies tions and salary
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