The Singapore Free Press, 19 February 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA apt SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1948 PRICE: Hi CENTS
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    COLONIES AND EMPIRE CITIZENSHIP
    280 1 Dual status for some 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A new national status for British persons, in. eluding British subjects in the colonies, will be created by a British Commonwealth Bill published in London last night. The Bill establishes a common citizenship, and a dual citizenship
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    42 1 Tnc a-i.'i?s oj Mahatma Gandhi on their last journey in India. Contained in an urn on top of this whitepainted amphibious vehicle, they+were on their way to the confluence of the Rivers Ganges and Jumna, at Allahabad, for immersion on Feb. 12.
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    SNOWED UNDER
    19 1 Black Sea snow-storms yesterday piled six feet of snow across many areas of northern Asia Minor- Reuter
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    FIVE ROBBERS SPLIT $3
    73 1 Free Press Staff Reporter CEVENTEEN Chinese, who were armed, committed six robberies between them, according to reports made to the Singapore pohce yesterday an.l today. The total loot was $796 and onet rishaw. Those who got least for j their trouble were five, in- j eluding
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    U.S. INTERVENTION IN GREECE LIKELY
    161 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A HIGH U.S. State Department official tonight gave the broadest official hint so far that the United States might eventually intervene more directly in the Greek guerilla war. "International communism in its desire to obtain control over Greece may venture so far as
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    Eire elects a new Premier
    84 1 DUBLIN, Wednesday. p John Aloy^ius Costello, 57-year-old barrister, ns toni-ht elected Prime Minister of Eire to tiddioalition government. Mr. Eamon de Valera wlo t this office, which he held for 16 years tout a break, In voting when the Dail (Parliag met tor the first
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    DUTCH DOLLARS
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    TRUMAN ASKS CHINA LOAN
    62 1 PKLSi-D^NT Truman has asked the U.S. Congress to approve the U.S $570,000,000 programme of aid to China to assist the Nanking Government to bear the double burden of "civil war and the rapidly deteriorating economy'' The programme Includes no military aid. The President proposed that U.S
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    DECREE GRANTED
    35 1 The Chiet Justice, Singapore, Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley. i^i s morning granted a decree i.isi In a divorce suil brought by Mr. Harry Miller, journalist. The decree will be made absolute in three months.
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    Former Jogia leaders face treason charge
    139 1 Former Jogia leaders face treason charge BATAVIA, Wednesday. A FORMER Republican Foreign Minister, Dr. Subardjo— with 16 other former leaders of the Republican movement in Indonesiawill appear at a military court at Jogjakarta tomorrow, charged with attempting vo overthrow the Republican Government in June and July 1946. Dr. Mohamad Hatta,
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    Dresses Which provoke crime
    63 1 SYDNEY. Wednesday. WOMEN and girls who dre&s in a "provocative manner" help to inflame the 1 passions of sex criminals, says the Sydney Church Standard in a 1-eading article. Tlv paper urges severe punishments for meni who i commit crimes against women, but demands that Christian
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    NEW SMEN FLAY SCAP CENSORS
    39 1 ALLIED correspondents im Tokio yesterday charged SCAP officials with having frequently attempted, under' the guise of military security, to impose "airtight censor-; ship at the source despite gua-j rantees against censorship! by Gen. MacArthur."
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    U.S. control of rubber feared
    186 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent ini* u., LONDON, Wednesday. TUh Malayan rubber industry may face the threat of permanent control of price and production through American manipulation of synthetic rubber, warned Mr. J. C. Bennett, chairman of the Rubber Trade Association, today. •-Are we to be
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    CHURCHILL TO ASK DEBATE ON DEFENCE
    131 1 ONDON. Wednesday. r. Winston Churchill will cite recent Chinese attacks on the British Consulate at Canton and the Argentine and Chilean "bellicose attitudes" in the Falklands as examples of the absence of the Royal Navy lowering British prestige, when he presses for a debate
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    DON DWIGHT
    30 1 Radio Moscow said last aiight the appointment of General Dwight Eisenhower as president of Columbia University showed ho*- the military were gradually taking ovo r the States. U.P.
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    35 1 picture. Arrested bg Purls pulice for fraud. "Mile. Marle-Andree" has been exposed as a man, Andre Schwendenhammer who for 20 years posed as a woman and allegedly used the disguise to commit numerous crimes. A.P.
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    COBBLERS ALL
    20 1 Twenty thousand Czech workers, all from the Bata shoe factory, yesterday demanded the nationalisation or all Czechoslovak industry.
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    THAKIN NU'S FALL PREDICTED
    134 1 RAGOON Wednesday. HIGH official said today that a political crisis will be precipitated shortly by the forced resignation of the Prime Minister, Thakin Nu. with whom the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League is reported to be displeased. It was predicted that the Deputy Prime Minister, Lei Ya
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    T.U.C. ACCEPTS WAGE 'FREEZE'
    58 1 THE Trades Union Congress has accepted the British Government's plan for "freezing" wages, providing that the Government "pursues vigorously a policy designed to reduce profits and prices." But the Congress also decided that "it is not practicable to propose that unions should actually withdraw all wage
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    UK NOT JOINING HOLY LAND ARMY
    190 1 UK NOT JOINING HOL Y LAND ARMY LONDON, Wednesday. THE defence of Jerusalem "is now the United Nations' 5 reponsibilitv and the British Government cannot undertake it," the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said today. j Mr. Bevin ruled out the possibility of any assurance that British troops will guard
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    REBELLION IN SARAWAK, MPs WARNED
    250 1 REBELLION IN SARAWAK, MPs WARNED If Anthony Brooke goes hack LONDON, Wednesday. THE presence in Sarawak of Mr. Anthony Brooke, 'pretender to the throne of Sarawak/' would probably lead to insurrection, Mr. David Rees Williams, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, told the House of Commons tonight. He was replying to Opposition
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    Naval report on Malaya to stay secret
    164 1 Naval report on Malaya to stay secret LONDON, Wednesday. THE Admiralty announced last night: "Adm. Layton's contemporary report to the Admiralty on the Malayan campaign written in 1942 before the Commanders-in-Chief of the other two services, both in captivity, were able to give their considered account and analysis of this
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    TRUSTED INQUIRY INTO ADEN RIOTS
    51 1 Sir Harry Trusted, formerly Chief Justice of the F.M.S. and author of the Trusted Salaries Report, will preside over an inquiry into the Aden riots early in December over the United Nations decision to partition Palestine He will leave for Aden in about a week.—
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    GANDHI ASHES
    27 1 Ceylon's Premier, Mr. Senanayake, wept yesterday as he received part of Gandhis ashes, flown from Delhi. The ashes will be immersed at five sacred spots.
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      A SHY GENIUS
      874 2 A Malayan Bookshelf By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 1 CAN remember, many years ago, being told with a wealth of circumstantial detail that Ernest Bramah was really Cninese. Then the Kai Lung stories appeared in the Penguin edition and I hoped to find out the truth from the
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      15 2 &-SSK&£££ SSUSJ ST.S7 K Britain to g tve displays of Danish national dancing and gymnastics
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      Can the tiger turn back into a cat?
      571 2  -  PETER QUENNELL reviews new books in U.K. ■"■•••■m ■■■■■illinium iiiiiiiiimihiiiiiiiiiiiiiii BETWEEN 1939 and 1946 a new form of aggression was perfected, named psychological warfare.' Teams of eccentric exports, cosily established ail over the Country in mysterious little offices laboured diiy and night
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      Bridge Problem
      289 2 THIS Is the same deal as described yesterday. but for convenience In following the plr.v at four heart! (doubled by West to keep his partner from bidding four lOMtet) the directions have been chancrd to make South the declarer. What do you think? Can South make hi* contract
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      LAST YEAR'S BEST BOOKS
      333 2 By Professor B. IFOR EVANS MOW that some 1 weeks of the Neu Year have passed one can make a more comprehensive a n d balanced judgment than was possible lier of the m< memorable boots published in 1917. One has to remember that it was
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      228 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DiHIS on the cusp of the outgoing sign, Aqua uus you will find that you borrow somrthing from the incoming sign and must Itum to understand Uus teitain duality of nature if you are to be successful. \ou are a nalur.il
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      101 2 RADIO LISTENING SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12 00 noon to 2(* p. m 2 ™*tre* in the meduim mm tend^ and 7.20 mrocyrl« to "»e il mure band. t>om 6 00 pan to 7 15 p.m: from 9.W pm UOQ i» metres iu the mrdimn wave »and and 4 825
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      230 2 •;J^c: 11 L; Ust N( summarv PrOCnUBaM ul Malay SJpS pramme Summary 12 05 m Usi( -.i n-orlMd,, 12 45 Kew. m Maty t> I ro^ranimo Sumtnriry; 6 05 uAi |io« Hoar: 8 30 WoS; n Hour Tlmo Snnal; 701 Culture- 7 15 Mus; al Interlude: 730 N,w s n
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      203 2 Su^an Barrie and read bv Patricto S.E.A.C. f£ At l 10 StAC bro *<»«stinjc from Colombo; CVylon. on the FoUo* 11 ?n metres n l»-3« metre.. 11 30-12 am. ls>B4 metres 12 noons p.m. 16.88 mttrei ly xi Tm" ,rf t 49M Pm. 19 84 metres and 4U <^ metrea,
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      4 3 II 1954 A.P.
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      FIRE IN THE GRATE
      21 3 Three- N.F.S. unit* raced to abridge National Lnsuroffices only to find an ry coal-fire in the e.
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      20 3 I I I I d the I B [from South Devon to bring back a per>on miles outside Barnet
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      COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL URGED
      434 3 To keep problems under constant revietv 4 SUPREME consultative body of the British i\ Commonwealth and Empire to be known as "the Council of the British Nations" was advocated by Viscount Bruce of Melbourne in the House of Lords. It would be composed of the Prime Ministers
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      43 3 picture. A helicopter hovers over the W ulf Rock Lighthouse while heavy s^as surge around the base of the Lighthouse as food and mail arc lowered to the three men who have b> en marooned on the lighthouse for the past month,. Reuter
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      51 3 A 24-hour strike of clerical and other salaried employees in the combined Bri-tish-American zone in Germany was called in protest against an inadequate food ration. Here, employees of Hamburg's housing office picket in front of their office building. The placard says, "housing office closed by hvnger strike of employees." A.P.
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      Jail? Let's go, says the earl
      116 3 A RURAL, council may defy the Minister of Health a»r>d grant a licence to an exServieeman to build himself a house so that he can live with his family. Mr. Robert Rowe, of SweffliTi« Suffolk), bought a plot of land with his gratuity. Blyth
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      U.S. aid draft approved
      142 3 ON a iormal vote, the S nate Foreign Relations OomrmT^e vvs&endav unar.imoasly approved, withou reservution the drait of the European recovery programme <ER P. > legislation, on which it has been working iti a secret session. The vote clears t" way for the bill to reach
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      'OLD LOOK, WILL BE INCENTIVE
      59 3 'OLD LOOK, W ILL BE INCENTIVE A GERMAN miners' welfare officer, 55-year-old Oowin Puckii'sch, is in London toto bargai.n for "old look" cioth-cs English women won't buv. If su;tabk\ they will be bought bv his coal board, :o go eventually to Ruhr shops When miners reach their coal output targets
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      8 YEARS PERIL
      36 3 Minos parachuted by pla.n<..s will m~ke 8.000 square miles of the North Sea. too vast M area to be swept, dangerous to ships fc/r another eisjht yrar.s, the House of Commons vas told.
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      Theatrical ban hits all Britain
      105 3 k RATTLE which vitally n affects the future of undrods of Britain's amateur r:cal societies, is betas d at Portsmouth After a public informer laid nts, Dolice enforced a r-old A"t of Parlia- ment and ba.iir.ed all amateur performances in the city. The Act, passed
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      'Rice outlook is gloomy' :FAO chief
      260 3 /^EN. Noble Clark, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, says that "the outlook for food supplies in the immediate future is gloomy. World food stocks at the end of the season will be lower than ever," reports Keuter. "Available world
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      PROPOSAL BY FIRST LETTER
      62 3 FIRST letter to a Rouherham girl from Albert Collins. 32-yea r -old Brentford storekeeper whom she has never seen, contained a marriage proposal. Albert, at, Rotherham recently, so liked the friendly atmosphere that he vm>te to he Mayor for oen-friends of marriageable aee. One wrote u
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      SMUTS IS NEW CHANCELLOR
      44 3 SOUTH AFRICA'S Prime Minister, Field-Marshal Smuts, is to succeed the late Larl Baldwin of Be.wdley as Chancellor of Cambridge University. His was the only nomination. He has a long association with Cambridge, and last year received an honorary rie crree.
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      ARGENTINA WANTS THE FALKLANDS
      532 3 OESENTMENT is rising in Argentina over the FalkIV land Islands problem. The Argenine Government, after rejecting the British proposal to take the matter to the International Court at The Hague, is still awaiting a reply from Britain concerning its proposal for an international conference in Buenos
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      45,118 GIRLS ABDUCTED
      80 3 THE Pakistan Government officially aijnounc.-d yesterday that 45,118 Muslim girls were abducted in East Punjab, during the communal fighting that followed partition. The statement added that this fact should op n the eyes of interested parties who issue misleading statements to hid:- the correct position cf the
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      'IT'S MURDER', SAYS THE A.A.
      55 3 'IT'S MURDER', SAYS THE A.A. MURDER cried the U.S. Automobile Association, af:er another look at the New Ijook. Up to now seven men were run down by cars for every two women, because women's lien: stockings show up in the dark. Now. says the A. A., the New Look requires
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        Whitehall Visitor
        322 4 I ORD ListOWeL Minister ot 4 Si ate ior the Col mies. will best help Malaya during his t.hort visit ii he can convince the Federation and tne Colony that the new isiaLivc Councils are not ing to be hamstrung by Whitehall. Even the Governor General's reassurance, made
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        Palestine Crisis
        247 4 rpiME Is running out In Paless ttae. in three months the British Government will and. .1 over its autho- to UNO. and the Arabs e to wage the war lon which they wil not b gin so long as Britain retains responsibility mntry's security. 11 ady an attenuated
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      ATOMIC SHIPS TO THE MOON
      959 4 Within 30 Years By RONALD PRESTON THOUSAN D-ton u atomic spaceships capable of carrying passengers a quarter of a million miles to the moon in four days may be under construction in 30 years' time if the present rate of progress in research continues. But
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      FAITH
      24 4 Trust in the Lord with all 7 thine heart: and lean not unto thine own under- I standing. i Provorbs 3. 5. 1
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      Bulgarian Yoke
      723 4 Wes Gallagher, chief of Associated Prexs in (ierniany, recently visited Bulgaria with other cor respondents. The trip was arranged by the I'niteii States Ministd to Sofia. Bulgaria has be« n off the beaten track for western correspondents, since entry visas are giasiUd only after considerable delay. W H
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      It seems to me...
      887 4 It seems to me IytALAYA has a T strange if slender link with the Falkland islands, now the subject of dispute between Britain and Chile and the Argentine, for it was in Malayan waters that John Davis, the discoverer of the Falklands by Politico and one of the greatest Elizabethans,
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      56 4 Faced with loss of export orders because workers could not find hoaxes, an eng firm is converting twenty-four rail coaches into luxury all- electric bungalows at Slouah Bucks. One bungalow, which has been completed, has a dovbh- bedroom, two tingl rooms, sitting-room, kitchenette with electric cooker and electric water heater
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      S-E Asia wage, working hours indices for ILO
      130 5 S-E Asia wage, working hours indices for ILO Ptcm staff Reporter If.LIVING indicei and statistics on wages *ork in South-East Asia, presented nal statistical conference held ial i lmtesloner'i Office in Singapore to tfie appropriate international he International Labour Office t to the Special Commissioner resided over the conference' ilation
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      MEMORIAL SERVICE
      62 5 A memorial service to th*> K^te Air Marshal Sir Arthur D U s n o ng M a F- KCB KIE. L>.b.O., M.C., DFC APrwill be held at S? Andrei Cathedral. Singapore at 830 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 20. Sir Arthur was one of the passengers on the
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      29 5 picture. An excellent study of the progress of street lighting in Singapore since the liberation a new-type electric lamp stands by the oldfashioned gaslight in Scotts Road. Free Press
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      Unesco 'eager to help Malaya'
      312 5 DROADCASTIKG from Radio Malaya. Miss Mary t> Trevelyan UNESCO representative, said th e T c that she was here was an indication that "the rnUcd Nations are really concerned to know about The no^t war problems of Singapore and the Federation LidTre really concerned to
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      K.L. experts for FAO talks
      69 5 HR. R. C. Burgess, senior 17 nutrition officer at tihe :Lut^ L^r Medi/enl X&--h. KvuTta Lumpur, and I A SimpKoii biochemist at the I. stitute, are attt'ndin^ the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or•>ation conference, which begb-s at Baguio i n the Philij i:.e s
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      EXTORTION IS ALLEGED
      106 5 EXTORTION IS ALLEGED A CANTONESE lrom Australia. Gow Roberts, alias Kim Chai. pleaded .not ami y 111 the Third Police Court erday to t'Ao charges of extortion and impersonation. It wa^ alleged that Gow put 1 Chinese. Teh Nguan. of the Guojii Guan Hotel i n Jalan Besar In f:ar
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      PLAN TO MAKE FILMS FOR SCHOOLS
      439 5 PLAN TO MAKE FILMS FOR SCHOOLS Teachers urge action by Govt. Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE schoolchildren will have an opportunity of seeing Malayan places and subjects on the cinema screen instead of in textbooks if a scheme for the filming of educa K Ol lt P^ t reS "2£
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      99 5 One of the many canine 'recruits' learning to be fighting members of the Air Force at the Dog Training School of the Royal Air Force Police at Staverton near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Many similar animals are already on duty in Europe and the Middle and Far East. The dogs, all Alsatians,
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      VAMPIRE MAKES 'ALARMING NOISE'
      321 5 VAMPIRE MAKES 'ALARMING NOISE A Free Press Staff Reporter WARNING that the noise made by the jet-propel led Vampire "is even more alarming than that of the Meteor." was given last night over Radio Malaya by Fit. Lt. J. W. Wilson, in a talk on the Vampire last ni.^ht. r
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      Lokes form association
      173 5 k N't WLY -FORMED assoolan tion, extending member j ship only to those bearing the Chinese surname of Loke, 1 hold a general meeting recently and elected officebearers for 1948. The association is called Lokert Association, and the office-bearcr-nre: Patron, Mr. Ix>ke Hock NgaiPresident, Mr. Loke Wan
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      HOUSES FOR POOR
      25 5 J^UALA LUMPUR, Wednesday.—The Kuala Lumpur Town Board decided today to ask the Government to give priority to housing schemes for the pooc
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      Army imports guard dogs
      267 5 Army imports guard dogs Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE military authorities hope to get their M v fir c ™^uncnt of guard dogs from England in May. The doss, whlC h will be Alsatians and sheepdogs will be Dficd to protect military stores and camps in different parts of the
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      WOMEN ON GOODWILL MISSION
      222 5 WOMEN ON GOODWILL MISSION Free Tress Chinese C'orrespontleni Jl GOODWILL mission or- Raniscd by th? Wo.iJ Federation of Democratic Women, is due to arrive in Singapore shortly m the course of touring Asia. The mission. or<\Z'rrscd by leading women in En ain France. China. Soviet Russia and the Unite* s
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      JAIL FOR OPIUM
      29 5 A Chinese boatman Sim Cnw e Low, was sentence] to 13 months* rigorous Impr mpnt in the District yesterday for possession ?,t rpium worth about $25,000.
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      REMEMBRANCE
      32 5 TAIPING, Wednesday. Ta.- ping residemts of all da. uotialities gathered at ah Saints' SchSol, Taiping' for a service of remembrance to 5£- V- Subramaniam who aied ner e on Jan 29
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      BOOK ON MALTA BY AIR CHIEF
      166 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AIR Marshal Si r Hugh Lloyd Air Commander-in-chief, Far Eastern Command, has told the story of wartime Malta hi a book 'Brief to Attack." which will bo published in London by Hodder ar.d Stoughton late in th e autumn. Sir
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      2 DECREES GRANTED
      166 5 TWO decrees nisi were 1 granted in Singapore yesterday. One of them, to be made absolute in three months waa granted by th e Chief I Jistice to Mrs. Jane Mjriam ciumeck, when sri^ petitiOi.e.i for a divorce from her hus- bar.d, Mr. Nathaniel Clumeck on tlie
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      Diverting rain, snow from cities
      105 6 A YOUNG scientist who never finished secondary school is working to fulfil this prophecy within three years cities like London should be able to divert rain or snow storms. Prophet is Nobel prizewinner Irving Langmuir. Vincent Schaefer, Langmuir 's research laboratory assistant, found the secret
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      RACING IS A BUSINESS
      54 6 RACEHORSE owners anr trainers in Britain are to be allowed petrol to enable them to supervise training Horse-racing is to be regarded as a business, states the Ministry of Fuel, because of the importance of the bloodstock Industry. But petrel will no'* be allowed where there
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      ACCRANATIVES RIOT
      41 6 Rioting Accra nativ.., yesterday stoned windows of the United Africa Company. The Accra Government warned that it would invoke a curfew if disturbances continued. Natives for two weeks have been boycotting European stores in an anti-infla- tion campaign. U.P.
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      U.K. SOUGHT 'SECRET PEACE'
      365 6 New Soviet allegations DtiSSIA has accused Britain and the United States of having held secret peace negotiations with Germany in 1941 and 1943 behind Russia's back, in the fourth instalment, of the Soviet Information Bureau's statement in reply to the United States publication of documents of
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      31 6 picture. Priticess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leaving St. Margaret's Church. Westminster, after the wedding of Miss Sarah Ismay, daughter of Lord Ismay, and Mr. Wentirorth. Beaumont, heir to Lord Allendale. A.P.
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      Clash on Nile dam projects
      329 6 FAR-REACHING plan to build a new dam four times larger than the great I.S. Boulder Dam, near the site of the present Aswan Dam, has been drawn up by IVIr. Adrien Daninos. Egyptian consulting agricultural engineer and sponsor of the Nile Valley Authority, in consultation
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      27 6 rORTY YEAR OLD Mrs 1 Ifargaret Walker of Syracuse i U.S.A.* ha.s pi von birlh to her second set of live trirl. making American medical history.
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      'Abolish stage censors'
      109 6 'Abolish stage censors' STAGE censorship should be abolished this was one of the recommendations made at the British Theatre conference in London Sir Lewis Casson. who proposed it. said there were already sufficient powers in law to safeguard the public; and England was too dependent on institutions. The conference appointed
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      Menzies calls: 'save Britain'
      93 6 MR. ROBERT MENZIES. leader Of the Australian Opposition has repeated his call for a Commonwealth conference to h< lp Britain, which he said "must never be destroyed while an Australian is alive to help." "If Britain rocs, Australia is left a mere wandering atom in the
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      B-29s IN 'RAID' ON ENGLAND
      63 6 B-29s IN RAID' ON ENGLAND KRITISH and American planes joined in a practice aerial encounter over Southern England. Six B-29 Superfortresses of the U.S. Air Forces in Germany flew to England on what U.S. Adr Force headquarters in Frankfurt described as a training flipht. As they crossed the English coast,
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      OLD AMMO CURES THE BACON NOW
      214 6 HIGH explosive shells are helping to cure Britain's bacon. Old bombs are providing fertilisers for the land. This is part of a successful scheme by the Ministry of Supply's disposals section for the recovery of scrap metals and chemicals from surplus ammunition. It is
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      He is BBC's Director of 'Spoken Word'
      113 6 He is BBC's Director of 'Spoken Word' MR. GEORGE BARNES, 44--year-old controller of the 8.8.C. Third Programme has been appointed Its Director of the Spoken Word. Often called "the Don" by his staff, tall, fair-haired Mr. Barnes dislikes "lazy listeners." and believes in giving the public "something substantial." An ex-schoolmaster
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      JUDGE STANDS IN THE DOCK
      50 6 THE Recorder of Lccidon, Sir G-erald Dodson. went into Uie dock to act as an Old Bailey prisoner, a.nd the clerk Sir Wilfrid Nops. sat in the juc' e's chair. Reason. A trial run for a hearing aid system for deal wr .nesses and prisoners.
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      SHOWGIRL SHIP TOUR
      64 6 T ONDON'S famous Wind- mill Theatre— non-stop revue highs pot off Piccadilly Circus is for sale. Price asked is £500,000. If he finds a buyer, the owner, Mr. Vivian van Damm, plans to get a yacht pack it with showgirls, and tour the world with a Cruising
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      'Safety first' boy killed
      80 6 AN essay on 'Safety First." written the day before he was killed, was read at a Birmingham inquest on 11--year-old Henry Charles Hemmings, of Wobum-grove. Acocks Green. "Never climb on a vehicle, or hang on to it," he had written. But the coroner was told that
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      ISLAND VANISHES
      32 6 Fou Island, oa e of a group 240 miles north of Mauritius, was completely washed away I] a recent cyclone a.nd four nuai disappeared, say reports to the Colonial Office
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      NEHRU SAYS 'NO' TO NATIONALISATION
      138 6 DANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru, Prune Minister of India. has rejected immediate na- tionalisation of India's key industries. Production was' the essential thing, he said. He opjx>sed in the Dominion Parliament a resolution recommending that the Government should immediately adopt the principles of (nationalising key industries, collective
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      63 6 Exclusk}e t0 the Si "g<*Pore Free Press in Malava rilnvVllf nuT r>kj wt al,v vt AU aimo^l tVLKYXr WFLL, IT 5f FMS HF.S /Bi»T Wf{AT V VOli 'M Af RAin' -To lililLt-***** R EVADER <\ L^Yn,,^^ ~I TO FRASM^ S V o°m\ WdOES w J H l h! MlliHff^l LVANDER
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      42 7 MAIDEN VICTORY ft lead I in his Honev Comb (Laioraces. This was Honey this country. Iron Duk€ (Tail) returns to scale ajtrr hi* ea*M victory in the fourth race. Iron Duke carried only 102 tickets on the win tote and 1 $190.
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      M. BOY WAS GOOD THING BEATEN
      793 7 Squeezed at start checked at bend TF ever there was a "good thing" beaten, it was 1 Minstrel Boy in the Valentine Cup race at Bukit Timah yesterday, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Spring meeting. Nicely drawn in the centre, Minstrel
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      Cricket Club Beat Sappers 15-3
      258 7 Cricket Club Beat Sappers 1 5-3 A FTEU holding the S.C.C. for most of the first half L without score, the R.E. were finally defeated by 15 points (5 (ries) to 3 (a try) in (heir rugby match OH the Padang yesterday. Tenacious tackling by (he R.E. prevented the S.C.C.
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      Mauriello to fight Mills
      152 7 TAMI MAURIELLO. American heavyweight who knocked out British champion, Bruce Woodcock, in Ne\* York in 1946. wants two rights in London against Woodcock and Freddie Mills. the British and European cruiserwedght champion. The London promoter. Jack Solomons, received the following cablegram from Mauriello yesterday: "I have
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      6 Winners In Final Race Tips
      177 7 6 Winners In Final Race Tips Flifct: PRESS final racemorning hints for yesterday's races at Bukit Timah included six winners, MMOg them the Valentine Cup winner, Everest ($97) and San Demetrio ($133). Summin? up the prospects of the (up race, **Epsom Jeep" said: "lor those who like a flutter, there
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      Chinese plan for London Games
      86 7 4 m ren-man committee of th^ China National Amateur Athletic Federation decided at a meeting in Nanking yesterday afternoon to raise funds for sending an Olympic team to London this summer through Government appropriations and contributions from sports enthusiasts. The veteran diplomat, Dr. C. T.
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      171 horses entered for Penang races
      957 7 A TOTAL of 171 entries have been received for the r\ Penan? Turf Club's three-day Leap Year Meeting to be held on Feb. 28, March 3 and 6. Entries are: Horses Class 3 I Five handicaps— Northern Handicap for five-year-olds and upwards, over 7
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      NEW TABLE TENNIS CHAMP TO RETIRE
      337 7 From Archie Quick DARK-HAIRED Dick Bergmann. Vienna born of a Polish father and Italian mother and a naturalised Englishman since his war service with the R.A.F. is a^run the world champion of t;ible tennis. He resumed his long rivalry with the Czech, Bohimil Vana,
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      THE OUTSIDERS WINNING
      11 7 These pictures siiow yesterdays three- fivure AinM-mA &BBBBRBSB*
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      S'pore race weights for Saturday
      274 7 S'pore race weights for Saturday WEIGHTS for the remaining five races at Bukit Timah on Saturday are: THE SPRING CUP Horses Class 1— Div. I— Abt. 1 Mile. Grand Prix II .94 Some Class Rosewells Boy 8 13 Princess Guinevere 8 9 Ecliptic s j Courtenay 8.4 High Port 8
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      JAP BOXER DIES AFTER FIGHT
      77 7 TOKIO. Wednesday. OHOGO Koyama. 23. bantamlO weight boxer, died on Wednesday without regaining consciousness two days after a first-round knockout by Haim Yasuda. Koyama. was knocked down after 2 min. 28 sec. Physicians said Koyama was not in serious condition. Tho death is the third
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      21 7 Mahmoud El Narim. Egyptian Squash ace, has- entered tho Irish open championship to be played in Dublin on Fob. 28.— A.P.
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      40 7 IM °RTAI AGAIN TO THE LY D S :XIGS SUNG BY THE i TENOR!— BOBBY BREEN in WOW ON THE WET tnetads lks at Home" I iptown Races" oo\» on the Rivor" y** rrv Flowers" T- AT MIDNIGHT 4j ATHAMBR4
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      250 7 F.P. Crossword No. 315 M IO v I ■->o lit CLUES ACROSS 1, Agreeafato (8). 7, Majestic (6). 9, Subsides (6). 11. French coin (S). 12, Kill (4). 14, Massage (5). 16, Flap (3). 17 Put to (3). 19. Figure <4>. 21, Perpendicular (5). 24, Head-dress (s*). 25, Rapacious bird
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      27 8 Canterbury Cathedral, mecca of the an- cient pilgrimsand headquarters of the xrremier Archbishop. Canterbury was one oj the fohalpoZts °f Christianity in Britain after 597 AD.
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      TRANSFUSIONS IN FLIGHT
      41 8 MRS. John Peters, wife of a Shanghai businessman, hat! several blood transfusions while airborne from the East Sb° had purpura. a malady which prevents congealing of the bl'M)d. She was resting comfortably y<>f>rday 'in Rochester. Min- nesota.— U.P.
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      Chilean leader warns U.K.
      242 8 TENSION OVER ANTARCTIC PRESIDENT Gonza.es Xmu^C^l^T^H warning Britain against "trying to snatch these ands of ours" tonight declared hi! country's right! in Antarctica were indisputable." He was inaulurS'HiL?" ChUea S W and naval base of^rnfrdo OHiggins on British-owned Greenwich Island. Meanwhile, an Argentine naval expedition now
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      'Malays best pearl divers'
      110 8 SYDNEY. Wednesday. MALAYS and Koepangers make the best pearl divert. said 2^-year-old Stanley Johnes. one of the lew European divers at Broome, North Queensland ID an interview with the Sydney Sun. Johnes, an Eiißlish-born jormer sailor in the New Zealand Navy, said he "didii t think
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      PAKISTAN STAND ON JUNAGADH
      230 8 Wu™ NEW YORK Wednesday. HEN the Security Council today began discussion the Pakistan case against India on the Juna^adh issue, the Pakistan Foreign Minister, Sir Zafrullah Khan demanded that India "should of her own account, or through the agency of the Security Council, withdraw her forces
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      SULTANS 'WILL WORK FOR PEOPLE'
      471 8 9 Rulers in historic talks Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. HPHAT they will work for the welfare and interests of those domiciled and resident in the Federation and for progress towards self-government, was the pledge made by the nine Malay Rulers, when they
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      32 8 This snow-plough made short work of the eight-feet-deev drifts blown across the highway between Varysburg and Warsaw, in Wyoming County, New York State, after a blr zard swept the countryside last week.
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      BMA REJECTS BEVAN PLAN FOR DOCTORS
      184 8 LONDON, Wednesday. WITH the publication todaj of nation-wide ballot figures, the British medical profession has decided to reject the Government's National Health Act part ol the scheme for social security "from cradle to the srave" based on the Beveridge Plan. Results of the plebiscite
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      Tudor IV loss: Govt. admits training fault
      131 8 LONDON. Wednesday. A GOVERNMENT spokesman in the House of Commons admitted today that there was some Justification for the inference that the training and maintenance standard of British South American Airways one of Britain's three State- owned airlines were not as hi^h as
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      CROCODILE TEARS FOR EN DONESIANS
      189 8 Soviet charges US. LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. HPIIE Russian delegate to the Security Council. L M. Andrei Gromyko today accused the United States of shedding "crocodile tears" over the Indonesians while at the same time helping the Dutch break down the Indonesian Republic. He said the
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      BANDITS KILL TO GET ARMS
      66 8 i^HINESE frontier officials' 1 Vj near Hong Kong yesterday said bandits, primarily Inter- I ested In procuring arms, were becoming a serious problem on the Kowloon Kwangtung frontier. They said bandits took 20 rifles and ammunition on Feb 13 after killing one soldier and wounding
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      Life exists on Mars, say scientists
      123 8 Life exists on Mars, say scientists MOUNT LOCKE. Texas, Wednesday. TEXAS astronomers at Mo--1 Donald-Observatory said that latest study oi Mars provided tentative evidence that life in a primitive lorm exists there. What the scientists called "a practical close-up" of Mars was obtained early today when the planet was within
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      Soya cause of 140 deaths?
      73 8 DOISONING deaths through eating rationed bread in Tokio have increased to more than 140, according to the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The authorities have instructed bakeries to stop using soya bean flour In bread as this is believed to be responsible for the
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      Women cry as Malays leave
      62 8 SYDNEY, Wednesday. WHITE a^d coloured women wept openly and bitterly when the 15 Malays, being d. ported irom Australia were escorted up the gangplank of the troopship Kanimbla today. Prior to the embarkation. the Malays were allowed to visit their homes to bid farentla to
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      'ENTHUSIASM' FOR N. KOREAN ARMY
      108 8 SEOUL, Wednesday. THE Soviet-controlled radio at Pyongyang announced today that North Koreans are supporting the new People's Army "vrt'h r.newed excite-' ment and emotion." American sources in South- ern Korea say that the army I estimated at 200,000 strong. has been equipped with Russian materials,
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      TINS, RUBBERS DECLINE
      552 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday rpHE absence of any incentive once again resulted i in some dullness in most sections, says Reuter's financial correspondent. In the Oil section, British Borneos, assisted by further Eastern buying, advanced 6d. to 44s. Rubbers and Tins were marked down. Among the
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      Rubber prices
      133 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent rives the prices J of rubber at 11 a.m. today as I follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. _r o i wmrnm, mm m No. 1 B.S.S. Spot loose 38*., ,1.1; No. 1 R.S.S. fob in bales March 38 J9 l^ No. 1 K.S.S. rot)
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      111 8 PRAGUE. TPHE Foreign Ministers of three B x attacked the Big Three zonal Germany as "an action which will ultim the source of a new attack agalnsi Europe." The Foreign Ministers of Czechcsia Poland and Yugoslavia issued a 1,500--ation at the end ci a Two-day c ucrmany. Assorting th-ji
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      82 8 TOKIO, v i m Figures Wew fnaUr^ tv-Pha^e of thf Hideki Toto?,,** A total of a* to Japanese handi 1 died at Japanejfß captivity. Amom the mag, 5,000 Chinese atfi! February 1942 Burma-Thaiia--' construction, out of a total of «S| Prisoners. mA vation. disease and J In addition 60
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      14 8 A 50-, farmer yestenL and a:e parts He stabbed h •>? throat f*ads an
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      40 8 WEATHER Mainly Fair W LATHER report for the next 24 hours complied by the RAF: Mainly fair. A few isolated showers this afternoon. Wind: Northerly. 5 to 19 SINGAPORE TIDES Today Tomorrow High: 5.36 p.m. 8.20 p.m 6-ift. 6.5 ft
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