The Singapore Free Press, 15 March 1948

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 0- SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 15 194R~ PKM fr lit U-NjS
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  • 500 1 6 AID_PLAN STATES MEET TODAY Europe 's eyes on Britain PARI&, Monday. JHE second conference of the 16 Marshall plan countries opens here today as the United AuT ouse of Representatives prepares to debate the proved $17,000,000,000 credit for £uropean recovery, voted by the Senate late on Sat urday night.
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    39 1 picture. Leader of the party of American businessmen which arrived m Singapore thin jnorning, Mr F H Bedford fright) discusses the days programme with Mr. R. B Holgate. The party w on a round-the-world tour by air.- Free Press
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  • 213 1 NEW YORK, Sunday. THE United States will on Wednesday vote m favour 1 of inclusion on the Security Council agenda of Chile's request for an investigation of the recent events m Czechoslovakia, an spokesman of the United States UNO delegation has announced. The American decision
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  • 48 1 LYING U.S. BUSSINESS IN S'PORE giant Supi plane. Sky /jndr.ad their first •ore this T 43 F. H. ri Jr pr the -id a Standard Oil -di-s-1 xoort before it carries Ww-to-date aviation :V.ete •s automotive Jf round trio the It 30 •n to *°*0 on Ann! 14
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  • 12 1 hap:osio- AusH. j. jJJST^t -rge'd a ice of "m--ho cells mon-
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  • 95 1 USAW, former Burmese Premier now under sentence of death for his 6hare m the Burmese Cabinet assassinations last July, on Saturday told a Burmese court trying Major C. H. Young, a former British Army otticer, on charges of violating the Arms Act that the Bur-
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  • 33 1 The Hopei High Court to-' day rejected an appeal for rt trial by the 'Jap'Mata Hari' and Manchu-born Prince Yoshiko Kawashima under sfl.tcnce of death for espionagt on behalf of Japan
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  • 41 1 A Singapore clerk reported j t<> police yesterday that he! had been held up by two men, one armed with a pistol m Guillemard Road on Saturday night, and robbed ofT $30 m cash and $22.50 m valuable s.
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  • 217 1 Princess is not a play girl f ft™» LONDON, Sunday. lbR writers to the Sunday Pictorial today defended Princess EHiabeth ftx>m that papers criticism of the Princess's social life, and the charge that her public appeal is being "utterly wasted" m fashionable restaurants, nifrht clubs and the theatre The theme
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  • 127 1 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE military autho- rities last night handed over to the Police two of the three locally- enlisted army personnel who escaped from police custody m the Beauty World Amusement Park m Bukit Timah village, i The men, both of the
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  • 99 1 HATTA QUITS BATAVIA CONFERENCE BATAVIA. Sunday. TIHE Republican Premier, Dr. Mohammed Hatta who conferred with the N.E L Ueut.-Governor-General, Dr Hubertus Van Mook. three times last week, returned by air to Jogjakarta today. He is believed to have demanded 40 per cent, of the seats m the Dutch-sponsored interim government,
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    50 1 iH,fJl 9 fl saining experience m Girl Guide training am i aU P €i t, °l l he British C °™<*l Che Lily Bintx Abdul Majeed of the Malay Teachers' College, Malacca, Miss Ng Eoi Chan, Captain of the Ist Taiping Guide Company and (right) Miss Hilda Mizzi from Malta
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  • 91 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Sunday. THREE members of the crew 1 ot the Dutch motorship Japara were badly cut by a sailor who ran amok and stabbed them when the vessel was 25 miles out of San Francisco liound for Manila. The vessel returned here on Sunday.
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  • 77 1 LONDON. Sunday. MR. Winston Churchill will act as "President of Honour" at the Congress of Europe which convenes at The Hague on May 7. The Congress will discuss the "United Europe" movement proposed by Mr. Churchill two years ago. M. Paul Ramadier. French Socialist leader, end former
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  • 59 1 CROWD NEAR 'TRAFFIC OFFICE A LARGE crowd milled outside the Traffic Office m Maxwell Road this morning to have driving licences renewed. A Traffic Branch spokesman said this morning that hitherto people had queued inside the Traffic Office to get their licences, but they made a great deal of noise,
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  • 24 1 Four Chinese pounced on a pedestrian m Syed Alwi Road on Saturday morning, and took $150 m cash and valuables from him.
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  • 162 1 ROME. Sunday. THE Italian Premier, Signor Alcide de Gasperi today bitterly denounced Communism and warned Italians to beware of losing their freedorr to a "dictatorship of men from another country." Speaking In the Southern province of Catanzaro, the Christian Democratic Premier charged that the Communists
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  • 248 1 JERUSALEM Sunday. INTENSE weekend activity m the seven capitals of the Arab League states indicated tonight that the Arabs were planning important new moves m Palestine. The Arab League announced tonight that the Foreign Ministers of the Arab states would meet 011 3**^* Beirut "to
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  • 111 1 ACCRA, Sunday ARRESTING six men under emergency powers without preferring charges, the Gold Coast Governor, Sir Gerald [ifeasey, announced today that he had learned of agitators who might try to seize power. bl^ fO /mation had reached him. he declared In a broadcast, that certain
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  • 158 1 can'twage war new' he says SYDNEY, Sunday. WORLDWIDE talk of war with Russia 'S without foundation, because none of the gteat powers is m a position tc wage war, Professor M. L. E. Oliphant, prominent British atomic research scientist said today. With three other wellknown scientists. Sir Howard Florey, Professor
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  • 91 1 AN urn containing the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi is expected to arrive at Kallang Airport by a Cathay Pacific Airways plane between 7 and 8 o'clock tonight. The Mahatma's favourite song "Raghupathi Raghava Rajaram" will be chanted when the urn is handed to the Representative of
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  • 28 1 THE Southern Governors conference has decided to oppose the re-nomination of President Truman owing to his civil rights programme recently recommended to congress.- A.P.
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  • 1083 2  -  Hall Romney LONDON^ LETTER TOLL the bell at the Victoria Institute. The old Malaya, after 33 glorious years, is to go to the shipbreakers. Well, she has had an adventurous life, more than justifying by her record m two wars the patiiotic ge ture of the Sultans
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    190 2 NORTH S decision to double one spado for a takeout was highly questionable because hih hand was not strong m hi,:h cards and not particularly well distributed. Therefore he crrtainly should have refrained from making any further bid. a.s it happened, when Sou.ii respondent m North's best suit
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  • 749 2 By CHARLES LYNCH WITH the object of educating the public m the new science of atomic energy, an exhibition designed to explain the nature of the atom, was held m Melbourne, Australia, m January. In common with other countries Australia has been investigating the possibilities of developing
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  • 471 2  -  TOM CHASE By A.P. Correspondent 4 GRIM war for bases on the moon from which to launch guided missiles against the carth n may develop within 50 years, says a report published m the Journal of the British Interplaneta Society. The society numbers among its members
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  • 164 2 A WIFE NINE POINTS 1 drew up for her hush*? aaree to before 5" go back to hir... saidj Barnard, Si •c Court, had lefi Judce. and conduct at n she m: 1. H<.' must n ape. 2 She was to be a housed more; 3 Bbc d or a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 109 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DoRN today, you have a v Rreat deal of enea-py which, unlevs it is directed m the proper channel m early life, may tend to make you restless. Pin your mind down to one thinff at a time and attach your
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    • 602 2 RADIO LISTENING SINGAPORE f f mve bands Btoll 30 a.m. Blue Network 'JJ met a re i «-38 metre* I 30-12 a.m. 13.84 metre*. 12 From 12 00 noon to 2.00 p.m. **>°n-5 p.m. 16.88 metres 19 Si 526 metres m the medium ware metres and 49.38 metres 5 530
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  • 58 3 isiimeM- d v< miunt has outlawed poppy cultiUhmi Nf <piurn thrtmghout the country, H was h\ the ting Minister of Finance, Kukrit inounced ttio step as an answer parliament that poppy hundivds of thousands of acres Siani. i I I I Persia i, i: I ruins
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    28 3 for British firerri^i has 'U-jfit that a more efficient pattern, made like an airman's aterial, and fastened with one c<t. en I uniform are seen- Prencw uniform (centre).
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  • 129 3 Japs killed one in four prisoners ONE of cwry tour Europeans ?nd Americans captured by the Japanese during the wai killed or died of ill— itment, Lt. Col. T. F. Mornan<i of Australia, told the International War Crimea Tribunal an Tokio. Col. Mornane. summing up casualty figures for the prosecution
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  • 61 3 1M through with flying." snid young Anthony Wick-nam-Jones, D.F.C.. veteran H missions, when ho left H A.F. The theatrt- was his main interest: he'd been an actor i. went into management ntlng "Better Late" m lon with Beatrice Lillie. \M\ week he Hew to Brusio
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  • 29 3 'IDEAL WOMAN' ARRESTED Frau Gertrud Scholz-KJink. m r women's leader ot the i Party and Hitler's "ideal German woman." was arrestn the French zone with H B. general husband
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  • 25 3 TO NY. IN 17 HOURS A transatlantic service to be introduced by Irish Airlinos will bring New York within 17 hours flying time I Liverpool.
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  • 574 3 Produces half U.S. requirements JHE VS. Government's Longhorn tin smelter continues to produce more than hall the «m«? n re S UII *««»t8 for the metal. Only such nhil .i. 81 nifican ce m the Western Hemisphere, the gigantic Texas City installation is f In?,!!* f°*
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  • 44 3 B.B.C. 'SONG PLUG TREATY THE BBC. and the Music Publishers' Association are preparing a legal agreement to end song -plugging. It is being drafted by Sir Valentine Holmes, K.C., who conducted the BBC. inquiry last year. Terms will be published when details are settled.
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  • 122 3 'Communist century', says Pravda PRAVDA. the Russian Communist Party paper, says "the 20th century is not the century of the dollar, as the imperialists are fondly thinking. H is the century of Communism. "The camp of Socialism and democracy, headed by the Soviet Union, Is growing m strength. It is
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  • 73 3 CEYLON MINISTER LOSES SEAT A NOTHER Cabinet Minister lost his seat In the Ceylon Parliament on Saturday, following an election petition when Mr. Justice Wlndham declared void the election of Mr R. S. S. Gunawardene. Minister without Portfolio am. Chief Government Whip to the Gampola seat m the House of
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  • 25 3 Hawkshead (Lancashire) Women's Institute, have rented an allotment. They call it "The Women's Own Cabbage Patch." Rule 1 Ls— no gossip.
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  • 201 3 r|ISCLOSURE that Antonio Agostini, now aged 45, has served his sentence but is being detained m Sydney ponding deportation, recalls a case which attracted world wide attention the "Pyjama Girl" case. In 1944, Agostim was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for tho manslaughter of
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  • 236 3 Rich promise of W. Java r icefields REPUTED pre-war to be th c world's richest and best rice-growing area, the Krawang plains of West Java promise to be soon restored to production, according to the Netherlands Indies Information Service. "There is a striking difference between the economic picture presented by
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  • 38 3 A "salvo oi shells," which fell near fishing boats off Walton-on-Naze, East Anglia, wa^ riccchets ot shells lired by the frigate Cowdray carrying out practice firing lor a boys' training class Irom H.M.S. Ganges.— Reuter
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  • 195 3 Yard watch on 'Queen of the underworld A YOUNG woman living m a quiet London suburb is believed by Scotland Yard to be Ux brains behind a number of recent smash and grab raids. Her name and address are known to the police, who have watched her activities for several
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    96 3 A former British Army commando, Ismail Yihia. (top) is now a member of the Arab guard m the mobile force policing the Arab city of Jaffa. Like his comrades of the guard, Ixmail is armed with a British rifle and uears British battle dress. In the picture above, Arabs are
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  • 65 3 HULA HULA TO STOP INFLATION THE Japanese Government tried to slow inflation by hii ing a group o: scantily dressed girls, who tied up traffic at a busy downtown intersection of Tokio by the fine exhibition of an imitation Hula Hula from th third storey balcony oi a department store.
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  • 92 3 Two Foreign Office men to be accused TWO Foreign Office official i are to appear at Bowstreet (Lonaon) on suir.monses concerning alleged irregular passports. Arrests are ?xpected short'v m Glasgow aud other parts of the country, sequel to weejcs of investigation by Scotland Yard Special Branch. Two aliens recently arrested
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  • 74 3 A SUNDERLAND (D«Tbtm) firm making mobile cranes and farm tocii hud to accept £35,000 worth of coffee from Portugal to Da y for cranes. The coffee was resold Amsterdam. Stockholm p< land. Switzerland. Beta and Denmark to ob'a: lin? Th»s was r?T9aleH X* mJ.
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  • 64 3 'PHE diplomatic Immonft* A iffl cl lmed b y tlfr En uumn) an Amerran v consul m London, when Mrs Imclda Catherine Price' or Splihull. Warwickshire, sued nirn last month for al!"^e i breach of promise, has been waived by the U.S. State Department. Application can now be
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  • 75 3 NO 'RED LIGHTS' FOR MANILA T*HE establishment of a Too A light" district m M.mila which is under consideration by the Municipal Boa' d has been declared illegal by the city attorney. Jose P. Bt-ngson He said that while the chartor granted to the City G >vernment by the legislature
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  • 40 3 KORDATO KARN DOLLARS SIR Alexander Korr»a expect* that six nims of his London Film Productions will produce between €1.500 000 and £2,500.000 m dollars for Britain. He obtained an advance payment of £375.000 for three films m the United States.
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  • 617 4 TheSongaporeFreePress MONDAY. MARCH 15. 1948. European Union THE conception of European unity which is the basis of the remarkable motion sponsored by 73 members of the British Parliament already commands the strong sympathy of a number of leading European statesmen. It is a sympathy that Is encouraged by the principles
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  • 1329 4  -  Sir Alfred Duff Cooper STALIN ON THE MARCH by WHEN a civilian is threatened with violence he seeks the protection of the law. The free peoples of the world are so threatened today, but there is no law to protect them. Law, m the full sense
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  • 30 4 FAITH "And (iod shall wioo away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow for the former thinss are passed away." Revelation 21. 4.
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  • 161 4 pROBABLY one of the most I exceptional records for staying m public office m the Far East is held by Raden Adipatl Ario Tjakraningrat Head of State for the r.ewlylcrmed independent Negara (state) of Madura, which has entered the ranks of prospective members of the United States
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  • 333 4 •THERE are two cities iof Jerusalem today. One is the Jewish section to the west, with several suburbs on the south linked by a single arterial thoroughfare. The other, comprising the east and north, is the Arab, Moslem and Christian zone. The residences of the British military and
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    60 4 vfifnn' i a nJSn? a h« CGrt horse I 5 K ear f service < disparagingly views at Marylepone cathode t Tb e tyw of mechanic ««Lh« d introduced inn British Railways. About 80 of these vehicles are to be U6ed oy Bntish railways for short distance road transport. Eventually,
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  • 775 4  -  LAN COX By IT HAVE been spend- ing some time recently looking at one of Britain's newer entei-p rises opencast coal mmmg and m it I have found much that is of interest. Vital as the coal is to Britain's national economy (opencast mining produced m
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  • 342 4 By GLENN WILLIAMS A. P. Correspondent COME sort of a v United States of Europe will be operating before the year Is out, London diplomats believe. It may not be known by that name. It may cover considerably less than all of Western Eurgpe. It may fall con-
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  • 371 5 Commoms told ping married airmen home' Free Press London Correspondent ground that the presence of married L« overseas mitigates against the whole n if mobility, which should, m the fullest nnf f P" the motto of the Royal Air Force, Group- Wilcock, labour MP for Derby, urged, l ipt the
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  • 59 5 fVnm« < <>urt has sentenced the minder and two guards f£ Siicaporr military lament camp to terms jSSiimrnt for malinn: hf w>ir Ar camp commander. il, b-ithirm, wm sen!Ld to 10 rear* 1 impriJjL, n t while thr guards. JJj Rankow and KyouU Hiromilsu were senJ,*d
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  • 127 5 EXERCISE AT AIR HQ ON THURSDAY nor for n of Maard Gent, and Singapore, n, will be Thunder.dquarters, Air Far East, on I t I and 19 ree Services will s it the idy the F Bomber Comn£ and US. Strategical ive during -d from January 1943 Iflie end of
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  • 121 5 IUALT DISNEY'S cartoon on tuberculosis will be shown by tJie Public Relations Film UiVit to the students of Yeong Cheng Chinese School on Friday evening. Public Relations staff will give a run-nlr^ com- j mentary of tih^ film ir. Cantonese. As many of the students
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  • 21 5 Two Chinese houses situated less than a mile from each other m Chanei Road were robbed early yesterday morninp:.
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    87 5 The usually-long queue at the Food Control Office tn Singapore, where rice cards are changed, or altered, has been even longer during the past week, when heeding official advice, people with irregular cards turned up m force to surrender them. This was part of a queue of those with proper
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  • 120 5 IMPORTS of rubber into 1 Singa.rjc>re during February amounted to 18.786 tons, bringing the total for the first two months of this year to 40.291 As usual, Sumatra supplied the biggest quantity duxjng February— 11,584 tons, followed by Sarawak with 2,331 tons. Other suppliers were
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  • 23 5 The fee payable on postcards addressed to places within Malaya for delivery by air will be eight cents per card.
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  • 72 5 THERE will be a round -table discussion on the future of trw> Theatre m Malaya from Radio Malaya tomorrow at 9 45 p.m. Those taking part m the discussion are Joan Grant Little Theatr: Players), FramcLs Thomas (St. Anorew's School), Vcrnon Mars'rave < Stage Club). and David
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  • 191 5 ANOTHER English clasn for beginners will be started at St. Andrew's School Woodsville, m the next forlnijrht by the People's Education Association. The Woodsville class will he under Mr. Dong Chui Sinj?. Interest m the Association's work is increasing, and it is hoped to start classes
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  • 247 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PINGAPORE will soon have a chance of seeing films, J presenting classical music and educational topics not normally exhibited m the cinemas, if the Municipal Commissioners confirm a committee recommendation to inatal sound film apparatus m Victoria Theatre immediately. There was
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  • 58 5 T^HE Bishop of Smgap; re (the Right Rev. J L. Wilson) last night made a radio appeal for fund* to maintain a home which has to turn back hundreds of blind children and for a radio for crip pled children In hospital. The institutions are the Orthopaedic Hospital
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    43 5 picture. THE CHIEF SCOUT OF SINGAPORE, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, speaking to over 2.000 Cubs, Scouts and Rovers at the Scout Rally at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sa.turda.it. With Sir Franklin is the Commissioner for Mai nun Mr Frank X/rnrf? Free Press
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  • 249 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN appeal for more public co-operation with the firefighting services was made by a Fire Brigade spokesman In an Interview with the Free Press. "There seems to be an idea afoot among the illiterate that the Fire Brigade charges fees,"
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  • 340 5 500 RATION CARDS CANCELLED A DAY Time extended Free Press Staff Reporter UOUR thousand rice card cancellations have been carried out by the Food Control authorities m Singapore during the past week, and by the end of last week, cancellations were made at the rate of 500 a day. At
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    52 5 picture. Weeping relatives of some of the 80-odd men who are facing trial on a charge of attending a triad society ritual m Reformatory Road recently. A big crowd of relatives surrounded the accused as they were about to be taken m Police vans to the remand prison Tlast Saturday.
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  • 270 5 Navy plan hailed by Malays Free Press Staff Reporter •THE President 0 the 1 Singapore Malay Seamen's Un.on, Mr. Sar i'uddin Adam, welcomes the proposed formation of a Malayan Navy. He told the Free Press m an int?rviow: "Such a N^.vy will be a boon to a large number of
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  • 49 5 THE new 10,000- ton Silver Line cargo-passenger liner, Silverbriar. now m New York on her maiden voyago, may soon visit Si. gapore on her round-the-world service. Silverbriar is the first of six ultra-modern vessels which the Silver Line is building to replace war losses.
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  • 140 5 A YOUNG New Zealand Warrant Officer, Arthur Mansfield, who has been piloting planes on the Hong Kong-Bangkok service, carrying Chinese football teams, bananas, boots, and lots of other things, plans to set out on a solo flight round the world m a single-seater plane. From
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    • 41 5 ISPORTS SHIRTS BLUE. FAWN, GREY AND WHITE SHORT 8c LONG SLEEVES |I=| FROM 12. SO |=U 1 ALSO a large selection of Fancy BOW TIES Now m stock iE»HHl|Jijk IpS 1 1 l/ pk, f 'j J B RAFFLES PLACE SINGAPORE.
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  • 356 6 ARE WE U.S. SATELLITE', ASKS UK PAPER Military position is 'strategical nonsense' UAVE we become so much an American satel- lite that we are willing to provide the first line of defence for the United States, whatever her policy, m Western Europe, the Mediterra- J nean, the Middle East, Africa,
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    7 6 Mr, Ernest Bevin, B Uish Foreign Secretary.
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    51 6 The De Havilland Dove aircraft are rolling off the assembly lines at the De Havilland Hatfield (Herds) factory. They are being exported to Sweden, the Gold Coast, Canada and South America. The largest single order so far placed is from the Argentine, who are buying 3G Doves for their internal
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  • 73 6 A WARM overcoat and three three days sleep. That was the demand made by Mr L. A. Plummer, chairman )f the Overseas Food Corparation. when he got back to Waterloo station. London, alter his 40.000-mile tour of Australia., planning more food f.-T Britain. He had
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  • 38 6 Guerrilla chieftain General Markos threatened m a broadoast to execute a group of Greek Army officers captured recently m Epirus unless over 300 guerrillas seized after the shelling of Salonika are fre^d within 43 hours
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    57 6 picture. Wreckage of the Belgian Sabena Airlines Dakota under guard at London Airport, Heathrmc, Middlesex,- as a preliminary to investigation ir.to the cause of the crash, m which 19 of the occupants were burned to death and three others seriously injured. The plane, on a flight from Brussels, crashed m
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  • 33 6 President Carlos Julio Aro-semt-na last week awarded Ecuador's Grand Gross, Order of Merit, to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. President of China. Chinese Premier Chang short rations with food sudWang Shih Chieh. A.P.
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  • 201 6 A DEFENCE counsel at the Tokio war crimes trials *i threatened m court to take action against the Tribunal President, Sir William Webb. The throat was made by Mr. Aristides Lazarus, counsol for General Hata. who said that Sir William ad accusod him m court
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  • 45 6 ]U«^ kTV i ball Wind moa- grell. is to receive the National Canine Defence Lemgue'f bronie modal from he Mayor of Croydon (London) :or Kivkig the alarm when the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Pirn, of AKxandriadrive. Uoper Norwood, caueht fire.
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  • 106 6 U.K. newsmen form new organisation DELEGATES of the National Union of Journalists and tne Institute of Journalists met m London on Saturday to draft the final rules for amalgamation of the two bodies into an Association of Journalists. The new organisation will Include almost all working British newsmen and will
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  • 73 6 rriHE Musicians* Union has 1 warned the BBC. that all outside music broadcasts will stop at the. end of April unless higher fee talks begin. Only studio musical broadcasts will bo allowed. The union already bans relays from theatres and music halls. The dance band
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  • 73 6 MX. C.unster R. Lessing. viee -president of the Walt Disney Studio, denies that bad wages at the studio breed Communism among the workers. Mr. Lessing, answering charges made before a Congressional committee hearing that sub-standard wages at the Disney studios bred communism, said: "The wages
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  • 119 6 SEVEN Jamaicans, jailed for 14 days at Bristol for stowing away on a banana boat, asked that "loyal British subjects" should get work rather than Germans and Poles, "because of the last two wars The mm. said to have gone on the ship Ariguani at Port
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  • 166 6 HAVING begun to "eat up" the Argentine Railways, m the shape of meat and other products figuring m the recent mixed-up food-rail-trade-currency, agreement, Britain is receiving nothing to help out her rations for the railways it owns m Uruguay, which the government there has now
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  • 34 6 Two of Britain's newest destroyers. Crossbow and Battleaxe, are to go the West Indies and the United States this summer for joint exercises with units of the U s fleet. A. P.
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  • 87 6 THE President of the Board 1 of Trade. Mr. Harold Wilson, announced on Saturday that some of the prolits from the showing of American films m Britain under a new deal could be used to help British hotels and the tourist trade. Mr. Wilson
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  • 21 6 Mr. Anthony Eden. Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, has entered a London nursing home for an ooeration for appendicitis.- A.P.
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  • 44 6 Asia rice body No power to allocate !A C °MPROMis E 2* ;>* n rirf but jU!: OWtflS reaten? U.S. i i^m The U.S. d. Cl}de m a protest al" when be no c nflict wiu ca] m I Ambassador to :J that U.P. Reuter
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  • 27 6 'SUCKED' BY JET TO DEATH A ft v craft man T \.r Force I ihe engine. When freed Causton. who ed from l»is proper to t' Reuter
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  • 591 7 GRAND PRIX TO GET A REST Fails for first time at K.L. Free Press Racing Reporter pRAND PRIX II failed for the first time over the \J distance at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, when he was well beaten finsftung fourth m a field of five. It was an expensive defeat,
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  • 87 7 :JD Bailey, the I nampion, that ration"' his appea- to the Olympici nmclc from which s completely B .is fit ..n time of iraining Park Ranvhom he d replay ::s to proceed toady buil.iino: ud ill brine -*ak of perfection Olympic .rig. nit can be
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  • 14 7 rODud B Ifium drew nal Football each nee. their soal fdfgdf Reuter
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  • 267 7 CHIN Kee Onn, former Malayan champion, entered the men's singles semifinals of the Singapore indoor tennis championships yester- day at the Happy World Stadium. However, he was taken to three sets by Low Kee Pow before winning. He will now meet Pakir, m the
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  • 126 7 AMONG the many duties of the organisers of this year's Olympic Games m London is the provision of fuel for the torches during the run of 1,325 miles which starts from the village of Olympics m Southern Greece and ends m the Wembley
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  • 83 7 THE iollowing players have; been seleoted to piay football for the Jollilads second team against the Singapore Cricket Club second team on the Padang on Wednesday Narayana, Arumugam. Nadarajah. A. S. Pillai. Ghani, Sintlix F. Govindasamy. N. Narayau.a, Salahudin, Suppiah, Osman. Noordin. The team to represent
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  • 84 7 HARRISON Dillard of Baldwin Wallace College. Chicago, cracked the American indoor records for both the 70-yard low and high hurdles m the 17th running of the Illinois tech relays on Saturday. Bill Porter of North-West-ern also matched Dillard m shaving 1/10 second from UnAmerican
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  • 360 7 From VERNON MORGAN THE value of international sport is at least appreciated by one eminent Government official for only last week the Premier of the Australian State of Victoria, Thomas HoWoway, declared: "If Australia could send more teams and fewer statesmen overseas it would
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  • 761 7 I ATEST positions of the L. teams m the English soccer leagues are given below. They include Saturday's games. FIRST DIVISION P W D L P A Tot Arsenal 32 20 9 3 61 23 49 Prtston 31 17 6 8 51 65 40 Burnley 31
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  • 454 7 Mortensen's goals his best ever MANCHESTER United, the classiest team m the U.K. and Blackpool, will contest the final of the Football Association Challenge Cup tournament at Wembley Stadium on April 24. In semi-final games, watched by an aggregate crowd of 140,000 on Saturday, United beat Derby County 3 l
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  • 23 7 Representatives of Italian. Austrian. Hungarian. Czeehoslovakian and Swiss soccer teams voted on Sunday to postpone the European championship competition until 1949.- A. P.
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  • Article, Illustration
    39 7 picture. Dunn, Wolverhampton outside right (nearest camera) and Wally Barnes, Arsenal left back, duel for the ball during the game played at Highbury on March 6. The game was played m thick fog, and Arsenal won fivetwo. A. P.
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  • 313 7 SINGAPORE 1 st DIV SOCCER FIXTURES pOLLOWING are further fixtures i for the First Division of the Singapore Amateur Football Association League. Friday, April 2: R.A.F. Selct-ar v Rovers S C Monday, April 5 C.A. v. Ist Scaforths, R.A.F. Changi v. G.H.Q. Signals, R.A.F. Changi, and S.C.C. v. S.R.C., I
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  • 249 7 CIVE Hampshire County Cricket Club professionals are to get their benefits through a fund raised during the next three seasons, instead of the usual procedure of each having a county match earmarked for him They are J Arnold, J. Bailey, N. McCorkell, O. W.
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  • 22 7 SOUTH Africa had won all eight matches when the Anglo-South African tennis matches ended m Johannesburg yesterday.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 59 7 Sports Events For Today SOCCER: S A. FA. League, Div. I— S.C.C. T. A.A.A padang, 5.15 p.m.: Navy v. R.A.F. Changi. Jalan Besar stadium, 5 15 p.m. TABLE TENNIS: Singapore Chinese trials, Chinese Sports Association. Ann Slang Hill, 8 p.m TENNIS: S.L.T.A. Indoor Championships, Happy World Stadium. 6.15 p.m. BADMINTON:
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    • 212 7 F.P. Crossword No. *35 wkm ir i? I~p r~ Q j~n CLUES ACROSS 2. Kindly (6). 6. Cleanser (4). 8, Affirm (4). 10, Runs at full speed (7). 11, Till (3). 12. Curve (3). 13, Top (6>. 14. Supreme happiness (5). 16, Attributing (8). 20, Noble lady (8). 23, Attempt
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  • 325 8 Social security for all in U.K. LONDON, Sunday. rpHE British Government's Social Security Scheme, operation of which m the first year is estimated to cost £452,000,000. has reached its final preparatory stage with the issue of official enrolment forms to all working persons m Britain regardless of means or a^e.
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    33 8 HOME Trout fishing m the River Frome m Dorfc *set is a popular pastime. A local saying is: Fished by the rods, poached by the villagers, the trout get no peace at all."
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  • 52 8 BODIES LYING ON GLACIER THE bodies of 30 persons m an American airliner wrecked on Mount Sanford, about 200 miles northeast of Anchorage. Alaska, may never be recovered. Rescue parties would be up :::st heavy snow m trying to reach the scene, which is on a glacier on the mountain.
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  • 67 8 PANTYFFNOON, Wale*, Sunday. Yf/ILLIAM King, the Welsh f miner who set up a record weekly output of 71 tons of coal m January, has smashed his own record. Working on his knees m a seam with only two feet six inches headroom, King last week hand-cut
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  • 119 8 BURMA PRESS CLOSING DOWN IN PROTEST RANGOON, Sunday. A JOINT meeting of journ- alists and publishers today decided to suspend publication of all newspapers m Burma for three days, beginning from March 17, as a protest against mob attacks on three Rangoon newspaper offices last Friday. The mobs were reportedly
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  • 64 8 17OURTEEN of the crew of F 19 of the 358-ton trawler Opine from Hull. England, perished yesterday when the ship was stranded on a rock off the west coast of Iceland, battered by a gale and swept by heavy seas. One man was washed ashore
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  • 214 8 LONDON, Sunday. RUSSIA has offered Britain 2,000,000. additional tons of coarse grain m exchange for industrial machinery, says Empire News, adding that this offer will be discussed when the Anglo-Soviet trade talks are resumed m a few weeks. Such a contract, m addition to an
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  • 455 8 'Crush ing 'blows m Manchuria SHANGHAI, Sunday. T*HE Chinese Nationalist Army is experiencing Ks x blackest days m the 20-year-old civil war with major reverses reported from four widely-scattered fronts. In Manchuria, the Nationalists have lost Kirin and nearby Siaofengman with its huge hydroelectric
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  • 147 8 Free Press SUIT Reporter r Kuala Lumpur, Today 3 weights for the remaining three races on Wednesday, second day of the Selangor meeting are: Horses. Class 1, Div. 1. 6 furs Oriental 9.10; Minstrel Boy 9 7 Liberty Man 91; Kashmiri Son* 8.12; Some Class 8.9;
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  • 202 8 YEMEN GOVT FLEES AS SANAA FALLS CAIRO, Sunday. SANAA, the capital of Yemen, has fallen to the troops of Prince Ahmed, a son of the recently assassinated Imam Yehia, according to press reports here quoting the Sanaa radio. The radio announced that Prince Ahmed, who has adopted the name of
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  • 57 8 THE Iraqi Army yesterday 1 recoi/<^i its firit batch of warplanes from Britain. War equipment and other e&sential materials to equip an army on a modern scale would be arriving continuously from Britain from now on. The Iraqi Government last summer placed orders for £5.000.000 worth
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  • 168 8 CAPE TOWN, Sunday. •DEQUENA SICKNESS" has 1 come to Tristan de Cunha, a tiny British territory m the South Atlantic with a population of 250. reputed to be one of the most healthy m the world. "Pequena sickness" is the islanders' name for common J
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  • 24 8 The Riverview observatory at Sydney recorded an earthquake m the vicinity of Guam 3 300 miles to the north-west yesterday. A. P.
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  • 161 8 THE Greek War Ministry reported tonight that between 120 and 150 guerrillas were killed m an attack on a Tillage near Kozani m northern Greece. A rebel band estimated at 700 strong raided the village and tried to kidnap children, reports said. Army losses i
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  • 36 8 'CROWDS MOB CHURCHILL Crowds surged round" Mr. Winston Churchill when he made an 11-mile tour of North Croydon m support of the Conservative candidate Mr. Fred Harris, who held the constituency with a majority of 11,000.
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  • 344 8 LONDON, Sunday. rpHE immense task of listing war criminals has almost come to an end. In the Far East, the total brought to trial many Japanese has been 2,674 Of these, 667 were sentenced to death and 1,593 to imprisonment, while 414 were acquitted. The
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  • 253 8 Stalin ordere Finn talks to begin '"day th-i I i{? v Uill aid L k i ntl ■Mo .*i b( 111 <» Marc 1 simism h,-r<. v. *t that Finland. LH land:;., s.,v I,tb;1 ,tb;w w H I co""' another r ,-1 The Soviet tw the opening of the iSH
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  • 60 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent girt* the price* of robber at 11 a-m. today M follows: Bayer* Sellei> Cta. eta. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot PerH> loose 38^, 39% No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Mar. 29% 39% So. I R.s.S. fob m bales Mar. 37*, %g No. S R.S.S.
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  • 75 8 Free Press SUfT Reporter A 29-YEAR-OLD Chinese woman. Tan lew Huey died m hospital early this morning, as a result of injuries received when 6he fell while alighting from a bus m Tiong Bahru Road at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. At 10.20 last night, a 15--year-old
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  • 28 8 The vice-Prtsident of China. Dr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Vat-sun. is considering participation m the Chinese vice presidential election i next month.- U.P.
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  • 26 8 THE mot turn i>; Ex-Kmperor I to th< Tlu cordinu to >■ J Pri^ tha* Ba i D i hi? a.s Bmper r In tir>n:il mo
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  • 153 8 VIZAGAPATAM. Ma PANDIT Nehru. Indian Pr M.nistor. launched from the Scindi- y.irds l»re tl Indian-built ship the 8,000-ton c thei lUsha. Hindu priests chanted I scriptures "invoking the aid mighty an elements for a long and pitMPi r career. The Jala Usha is 415 feet j
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  • 21 8 THOUSANDS of P 1 t Czrc shriru the v Masaryk who 3d "world citlf elgn last V\ is
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    • 60 8 —WEATHER— Showers WEATHER report (or the next 24 hoars compiled by the Occasional showers during the afternoon, otherwise fair Wind: lijfht. northerly. Sunset 6.46 p.m. Sunris« 629 a.m>Moonris« 11.42 am Moonset 11.12 p.m. Temperatures y«st erd a y maximum 89.7 deg. F.. minimum 74.7 def. F. STORE HIGH TIDES Today
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