The Singapore Free Press, 8 April 1948

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  • 15 1 The Singapore Free Press ■HMM|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^i^^^^^^^^l *****21 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1948 PKH I It i|a|n
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  • 407 1 SHOWDOWN NEARS IN GERMANY Russian note to Powers BERLIN, Wednesday. |HE British, American and French military governments moved today towards closer cooperation m the face of stronger Russian pressure. It was disclosed tonight that the three Commanders-in-Chief have received "an important communication from the Russians/ The nature of the letter
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    21 1 llocana/i <,'■'■ armed with tlm^ Sten gun, moti i ftort beCM SautA ctf| of Tel Avi~ ai the ad'^mnp Arab >een raging
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  • 76 1 HSGKCK Ardnesday. IJKW Govt.r.nient, under- dby cxhßarluar.* Thamrong and liter Nai Duen, te* I following ■P&i. Khuang •totwocg C ibinet. which <•* point ulti- f m°m:'r m said r Royalvders had i i appeal for .ast the ■■J by the r-in Chief. ■Hhfha: Phibul
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  • 10 1 r.eci with -obbed a tag la >h and
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  • 233 1 New Holy Land truce moves AS FICHTINC INCREASES- JERUSALEM, Wednesday. WHILE Jews were waging a bitter battle to kee] open the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem "lifeline" route foi their convoys, and heavy fighting continued for tht settlements of Kastel and Mishmar Haemek, ne? efforts for a truce m the Holy Land were
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  • 130 1 15 MILLION MORE PEOPLE EACH YEAR WASHINGTON, Wed. THE world Is still desperately short of almost every foodstuff, and the world population is increasing at the rate of 15,000,000 to r0.000.000 a year, said the Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Orga- isation. Sir John Boyd Orr. here j today,
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  • 179 1 Free Press Staff Reporter f\F 54,000 tons of Brazi- lian rice due to Malaya under last year's programme, only 9,000 tons is m sight, Malaya's representatives complained at this week's meeting of South East Asia Liaison Officers. Brazil's failure had caused considerable hardship to Malaya
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  • 81 1 MANILA, Wednesday. npHE session hall of the i- Philippines Congress was rocked yesterday afternoon by a fisticuff encounter between Senator Carlos Tan and Congressman Domingo Vfloso. both of Leyte province, m a forceful attempt to settle a long-standing political feud between them which started m
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    52 1 picture. Last night Customs officers m Singapore seized about $100,000 worth of opium from the baggage and personal effects of passengers who arrived by the Van Heutz from Amoy. Picture shows the false bottom of a bucket m which opium was found, and a pillow which also concealed the drug.-
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  • 144 1 'NO BABY WIFE GETS DECREE NISI LONDON. Wednesday. CHILDLESS Mn. GwendoKj line Rosina Baxter was sranted a decree nisi today m a sequel to the recent historic decision m the House of Lords that constant use of con- traceptives did not nullify a marriage. Mrs. Baxter was awarded her decree
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  • 152 1 LONDON, Wednesday. Foreign Office today denied an Evening A Standard report that the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, had collapsed from a heart attack on Monday at a party at the U.S. Embassy to honour Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. "The Foreign Secretary has st'ftered a
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  • 25 1 Three bystanders were killed and 60 wounded m a street battle on Monday night between J«^? gangsters and 50 Koreans near Tokio.
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  • 21 1 Four Chinese, all bound tor Anoy by ship, were detained by the Manila Customs for attempting to smuggle gold.
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  • 62 1 F^AlDill^ ca^ualues m five I* months' fighting m Jammu and Kashmir were estimated at 3,000 de? J and 9.G00 to 10.000 wounded. Lt. Gen. K. M. Carlappa. Indian G.0.C.. Western Command, said yesterday. He Dut Indian casualties at 250 killed and 750 wounded. There were 14,000
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  • 40 1 The U.S. House of Representatives Armed Forces Committee yesterday unanimously approved a resolution calling for an Air Force of 70 combat groups. This would represent an increase of more than 27 groups m the present strength. A.P.
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  • 291 1 MPs attack 'capital levy' LONDON, Wednesday. OIR Stafford Cripps' imposition of a special levy on income investments was the main target for criticism by the Opposition m the House of Commons today, when the debate on the Budget was resumed. The Conservative press is united m its attack on the
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  • 92 1 CEVENTEEN Koreans were v killed m an outbreak of Ccmmiuiist-i«isti£ated violence on Chejudo, so— called Amazon Island off the southern tip of Korea, report U.S. military authorities ki Seoul. More than 100 persons, some wielding Japanese swords, are said to have attacked ten police outposts.
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  • 58 1 GEN. **fli'rt''tiiur i ban" on strikes was flouted yesterday by the All-Japan Printers' Union, comprising 15 000 members and 23 000 work?rs of the Tokio Shibaura electric works, who decided to stage a 24 hours' walk-out. The Union is striking h. j support of one disputing
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  • 52 1 The Under Secretary for Air Geoffrey de Fretas, gave the House of Commons the official one-ni£ht bomb-tonnage records for World War II m Europe on Wednesday. By the Royal Air Force— 5,500 tons on Duisberg. killing 2,400 people. By th* Luftwaffe 1.200 tons on Britain— main target London—
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  • 12 1 Rioting and lootir.g occurred m two centres m Iraq yesterday
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  • 90 1 Free Press SUu Reporter THE Singapore and Johor« 1 Polic* are still searching for the body of the mo: or sampan owner, Kong Hai. who was bound ana gagged by three armed Chinese and thrown into the s a off the south west coast of Johore
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  • 58 1 k STREET hold-up m Keong Siak Road during tfie black-out last nightnetted the two Chinese robber.v 90 cents In cash and 50 m property. The victim waj a Chinese pedestrian. Stopped and searched by two constables m Park Road during the black-out a Sikh was found m
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  • 152 1 Police fire on striking nurses CAIRO, Wednesdir TpHE lives of nearly I.uCD abandoned patients were reported to be 'm the balance" tonight m Cairo's two largest hospitals, where 1,500 striKing male nurses were holding out m a violeni struggle with armed police. The police opened fire and u^ed tear gas.
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  • 850 2 FROM KNOWN TO UNKNOWN SOMOTHING A Malayan Bookshelf By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT \TOW that the movement has been started to give the people of Singapore an increased share m the government of the oolony it has become more and more important that people should have the historical background that is
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    225 2 WEST opened his singleton trey of diamonds. East played the king and South dropped the deuce, leaving East m no doubt wl*o held tho jack. East, therr fore, returned a low diamond I give his partner a run* and aLr to signal a heart return. West duly played
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    62 2 Queenie Howard, an Isleworth (Middlesex) factory clerk, needs no alarm clock m the mornings she is cooed gently axcake by Bing and Dinah, her pet doves. They enjoy sharing her breakfast by perching on teacups or on the book she is reading; and best of all they like to sit
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    42 2 This gay spring hat icas shoicn at a "Town and Country" hat fashion parade at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and consists of real waxed flowers of Nacissus and peach-coloured roses, built on a velvet covered wire game and trimmed by a veil of violet tulle.
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  • 495 2 IF you can sit by a child's bedside and tell a sleepy-time story that will make youiiji eyes grow wide and bright with interest then you may be a candidate for a big fortune. Nursery best-sellers are today's highest money-earners m the publishing industry, which is complaining
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  • 430 2 New Speech For Old CRNEST Heming- way is becoming a cult m Jogjakarta. John Steinbeck is the rage m Batavia. A young woman m Bukit Tinggi can recite T. S. Elliott by the hour, and the technique of Katherine Anne Porter is being studied m Bandoeng. And it's all done
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  • 309 2  - READING WRECKS HAREMS DANIEL DE LUCE Ky A LITTLE booklearning for girlf is wrecking the ancient institution of polygamy. No Arab "legislator;: have had to tinker with Muslim law. It is still legal to have more than one wife m Iraq. But even old-fashioned Sheiks, who think jet-pro-pelled aircraft will
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    • 820 2 CTUrfiDnDP 1 16 82 metres 17 84 megacycle*; 10.45 Forces Educational Broa< Rl.if N?lt!£7lr P m Pm VLB 4 Cast n H re we are AKa- n DlUe IMeiWOrK ISA* metre* 11 HI megacycles. .1130 Roundabout; 12 noon Tr From 12.00 noon to 2.M P-m. THURSDAY Week's Composer; 12.15 Sent
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    • 73 2 LUCKY STAR fortune iorecasi ioi people born today DORN today, you have a v high dcgTee of efficiency and svlf-confidence. Yon have tremendous enthusiasms and enter upon a new project at hirh speed, expecting everyone else to do likewise. You have little use for those whose mental processes and reactions
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  • 686 3 LABOUR PAIN'S HINDER INDIAN INDUSTRY JN some respects the position of labour m India, potentially the greatest industrial power m Asia, is as back as it was m Britain 100 years ago. The size and complexity of India's labour problems dwarf the difficulties that beset Europe, writes a Reuter's correspondent.
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    69 3 Historic scene m the U.S. Senate when President Truman delivered his "stop Russia" address to a special-ly-called joint session of Congress. "Until the free nations of Europe have regained their strength and so long as Communism threatens the very existence of democracy, the United States mult remain strong enough to
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  • 193 3 HXTY young flying enthusiasts m Sussex who cMkd t'lrt-th^r to buy a two-seater plane for 5 lave been "warned off" Shore ham Municipal 3Ht by Ministry of Civil Aviation police. the plane a Miles Magister trainer d not afford to pay £4 an hour South
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  • 28 3 Prefabs from Finland refabri--1 be- and ..d In d Asiatic Dreamti h timI formed eoold -refabrlAostralia -"3 and culd shioj be nical Govemio of the i Tou. Reuter
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  • 89 3 potentially the greatest Dower m Asia THE American authorities m 1 Berlin are lodging a protest over the four-day detention by the Russians of Mr. Charles Bear. Paris manager of the Time and Life Eroup of magazines. Mr. Bear, an American, was picked up near
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  • 103 3 EIGHT nominations to diplomatic posts, including the first Moro diplomat have been announced by Vice President Elpidio Quirino. of the Philippines, who is also Secretary of Foreign Affairs. The nominees are: Sofronio Abrera, consul for New York; Melquiades Ibanez. consul for Nanking; Benigno A. Pidlaoan. consul
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  • 9 3 .t new i was KJ 000 fixe
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  • 96 3 filing from re the udSCAP *n under t ns of i be sold to the highest bidder. If the plan is approved it might open a way for the sale later of some of Japan's millions tons of scrap steel which is m worldwide short
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  • 35 3 Mr. John L. Lewis has agr?ed to braßam with reDresentatives of the soft coal mine operators on the pension dispute, which has caused the coal mine stuke m the United States AP
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  • 32 3 The British military mission, which for 20 years, has been training the Iraqi Army has been dissolved. The last party of its staff has left Baghdad for Britain.— Reuter
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  • 144 3 Indian airways to fly over Pakistan IjNDER the draft of a civil v aviation agreement reached here between I^tiia and Pakistan, India will operate 15 routes to and across Pakistan, three being to the Middle East and oue to Britain. The agreement wili be m force after ratification by the
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  • 68 3 TONGA WOMAN IN SCENE A WOMAN refugee plying a tonga created a local sensation In Delhi the other niirht. About 2,000 peopK collected round the tonga, some of them arguing obout the propriety of a woman hawktr.s for passengers. The trnffic police objected because the woman was not personally authorised
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  • 137 3 'UNITED NA TIONS WAS F.D.R.'s IDEA IN December, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, spent hours discussing a name for the "grand alliance" of nations against Germany. The next morn'ng, as he was dressing, the President shouted, "I've got it" and rushed to Mr.
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  • 99 3 DLANS to make Manila the* hub of a Far Eastern entertainment circuit featuring American and Filipino talent were disclosed to the Manila Daily Bulletin by Miss Donna L. Murphy, managing director of the Far Eastern Entertainment Enterprises, who has opened h^r central office m Manila, after
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  • 87 3 LONDONERS are getting <* lazier. Last year they used their legs less than ever before and London Transport vehicles ran a record mileage 12,000,--000 more miles on buses and 11,000.000 more on the Underground. The last report of the L.P.T.B. before nationalisa- tion states that m spite of
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    58 3 Gen. Clifton B. Cates. recently appointed Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, was one of World War ll's most brilliant island hopping campaigners m the Pacific. An energetic man of 54, he confessed when he received his present appointment that he hated to think of taking a job that
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  • 292 3 Duty of press to defend peace A LL journalists are und?r i an obligation to be.v maintan peace an I urity m the world, and promote respect I»I iiuman rights without discriminat on the United Nat ons Freedom of m formation conference ai Geneva resolved un; mously. This point, forming
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  • 47 3 THE police fired on rival political demonstrations ar Uda.pur. 370 miles north of Bombay, killing two and injuring six. A battle with sticks and stones developed over the flying of party flags. A 12-hour curfew was later imposed on the city. Reuter
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    • 61 3 Looking b3€l Ry Edgar Rice Burroughs "~3 ST //j=\ ~nwi dismounting on the bank, mis captor sudoenly clampeo V.* S&jM JTS^K" M t A HAND OVER GRiDLEY'S /KOUTH AND DOVE INTO THE WATER, 1 l/ F x^ CARRYING 6RIDLEY WITH HIM. nr E SHORE OP A LAKE WHECE HCRIBS T
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 8, 1948.
    • 623 4 INHERE was a time m the 1 days of the old Federation when people there used to talk about "the shackles of Bingapore," to express the view. that policy which they believed was framed m the Colony was not always m the best interests of the Malay States.
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  • 675 4  -  WES GALLAGHER Today m Berlin By A.P. Correspondent CINCE April 1 nothing makes much sense m Berlin. The guns are real, the soldiers grim, the threats m any language are ominous enough. With very little effort on anyone's part someone could get hurt. But the plot for this
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  • 667 4 By 6. M. KELLY A. P. Correspondent THE police report some of those accused of plotting the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi are proud of the crime and hope to brag about it m court. As the investigators portray it, those men consider Gandhi's teachings of love
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    7 4 Map showing the four xoneg of Berlin
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  • 808 4  -  Politico By YESTERDAY'S first public meeting of the new Legislative Council attracted a gallery of five spectators, one of them a woman. It is to be hoped that they did not feel unrewarded, but we shall be m for a sad disillusionment if subsequent meetings follow
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  • 430 4 By MAX MACGRATH Reuters' Correspondent gCRMA will usher m her tirst Buddhist New Year's Day since she attained her independence with the traditional water festival carnival starting on April 12. For three days commencing April 13, the Burmese will greet the New Year with an orgy of
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  • 12 4  - One-time No. one men DANIS WARNER FITRS T 1 .1 i I
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  • 15 4 H,.i me 0 l««l >n 1 and I bf W lin m» prai* j
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  • 244 5 Municipality takes action Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE Municipal market bylaws have been amended to enforce price-tagging m all Municipal and private markets, while all licences issued under the Food Shop Bylaws will, where applicable, contain a condition requiring the exhibition of the selling price
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  • 89 5 THE design of India's "swaraj stamp", featuring Buddha and Mahatina Gandhi, has not yet been approved by the Government of India, say s a Press note Issued by the Government of India information Services. Thig design was °ne of the four which were recently selected for
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  • 79 5 ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the Hindustani prachar Sabha, Malaya, to hold a Hindi examination m Kuala Lumpur, Penang, and Singapore, on April 11. Candidates are requested to report to the superintend-ent-in-charge of the examination not later than 9 a.m. on the day of the examination.
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    6 5 Mr. Ikhican bin Abang Haji Zainie.
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  • 40 5 ipur <ide by :he m the ear Burfar r :on Dti tiill I i five I I I t I Epte: ice. I '!:ex3 I meI heir I-"" I was 1 I x- ved I Trerp
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    57 5 Involved m a collision with d military ambulance along East Coast Road near Still Road junction, the driver of this car died of injuries m hospital. A fellow passenger icas seriously wounded. The driver of the ambulance was also treated m hospital for shock. Traffic policemen and a soldier are
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  • 30 5 DIED ON OAD LAST MONTH uit I" 503 ireh. as Feb!ive Peb:ed f 1 es in--5 only. an iich ye- of 26 J** Vood»ere the 3! -v .11 H acci-
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  • 97 5 10-YEAR SCHOOL PLAN FOR INDIES 20 r -.iih'hat n the rs of r.mary ■:l be c- who mc- Uons, however, will be 1 made. This expansion of elementary education calls for a large number of teachers. It will be necessary to have 200.000 teachers for seven million pupils. Apart from
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  • 225 5 rHE Federation Government is being asked to for--1 mulate a policy for a social security scheme for widows, orphans and the blind m the peninsula. A resolution to make this request was passed by the Central Welfare Council at a meeting held m Kuala 1
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  • 191 5 POSTAL UNION ASKS 'WORKS COMMITTEE' JHE Singapore Union of I Postal and Telecommunications Workers has asked the Controller of Posts to introduce a system to ensure 'better improvement In the relations between the management and workers." along the lines of the Whitely scheme m the United Kingdom. The Union has
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  • 303 5 NEW BOOKS FOR RAFFLES LIBRARY I rE following new books will be added to Raffles Library within the next few days: Barlee (John) Birds on the Win* Docßey t;R.V.C). The Quest Brook (Donald). Conductor's 'Gallery. ColUs (Maurice), Foreign Mud. Jarvia (H. Wood). Let ttie Great Story be told. Oox (8.H.M.),
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  • 332 5 Advice To Trade Unions A DVICE to trade unions to make it clear tfmt they A "will not plead for inefficient and incorrigible wotkers and are as eager as the employers to sret rid of them to save the reputation of the unions" was given
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  • 68 5 J^ $10,000 scheme to establish a Tamil school m Geylang was referred to by Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir, Unofficial member representing Rural East, m the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. Inche Sardon said that one of his friends had such a scheme and suggested that, if the Government
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  • 29 5 The annual general meeting of the Singapore branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya will be held at the Adelphi Hotel Roof Garden today at 5.15 p.m.
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  • 26 5 Paterson, Simons Co., Ltd. reports the following outputs for March: Henrietta Rubber Estate Ltd. 144,450 lb. and Sungei Matang Rubber Estate, Ltd. 42.950 lb.
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  • 23 5 The monthly meeting of lhe Singapore Rural Board will be held on April 15, m the Land Office, at 10 a.m.
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  • 169 5 BAIL REFUSED FOR ALLEGED KIDNAPPING Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. THE prosecution asked for further remand m custody when Pang Sian Chin, Chong Fui Pheng. Ec Chin and Chin Kwee. Keow. who were charged with having kidnapped Lee Kirn Men; on March 1. appeared today before the magistrate Ungku
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  • 51 5 rE Singapore Food Control Department announces that while surplus ration cards may still be handed m to the Rationing Office m the Victoria Memorial Hall for cancellation or deletion without fear of prosecution, persons who continue to draw rations m excess of entitlement will be liable to
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  • 199 5 Listowel 'did not keen his word' IN an interview with I Free Press fMtcfdi Mr. Ikhwan bin Ab Haji Zanie, Gviieral Sc^ tary of the Arigkau v Semangat Anak Negft Sarawak, and son of President of the Mak.y National Union of Sa. wak, said that. Lord L Itowel, Minister of
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  • 91 5 APPLICATIONS to sit for the Cambridge school cer.if.cate examination this Should be submitted as eariv as possible before Ma\ 1 o thf Inspector of Schools. Singapore. After May I. no applies r Aill be received. Applications for the wr (theory) examination of the Associated Board of the
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  • 377 6 Navy lose 1918 "victory log' THREE mysteries are puzzling Naval officers m charge of dismantling H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth at Portsmouth before the scrapped battleship is towed to the Clyde and broken up. Mystery No. 1 is: Where are the records 01 the surrender of the
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  • 158 6 AS the Zionist General Council began a five-day conference m Tel Aviv yesterday to clarify the Jewish stand on proposals for a truce m the Palestine fighting and on America's plan for United Nations trusteeship, the UNO Palestine Partition Commission cabled to Its advance
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  • 126 6 THi, Governor of Bombay, Raja Sir Maharaj Siruh. tered at U-asl one immediate convert whan he spofce on prohibition and the evils o. drink recently m a working -class area of Bombay. Sir Mnharaj Sin«h declared that he had se n many a family ruined
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  • 216 6 THE New Zealand Defence Minister, Mr. Frederick Jboca, announcing the Government's defence policy, said tliat the New Zealand armed force* muxt be organised so that they could play their nart m the defence of the Commonwealth, and discharge the country's obligations to the United
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  • 86 6 A ROYAL ATtxUtry J\. colonels' training device originated from a model m which he used gingerbeer bottles and fl bootlace, it was stated when hearing of claims amounting to more than £80.000 m respect of the toar-time Dome anti-aircraft trainer uas opened before the
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  • 42 6 Several RAF. planes, the H.irtlepools lifeboat and shipping vainly searched for a Wellington trainer aircraft missing since Monday from Topeliffe Airfield. Yorkshire, with a crew of three. The plane is believed to have crushed 4n the sea.
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  • 20 6 Lambeth (London) is to have a "Lambeth Can Make Tt" exhibition to display the products of the borough
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  • 39 6 GOOD SCOUT TOOK IHE BADKN-POWELI FUR 'Good Scouts," accused at Chathem < England > Juvenile court of stealIng goods from a barge which foundered m the River Medway, were dealt with under the Probation. The name of the barge was Baden-Powell.
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  • 69 6 /COLONEL General Vladimir V, Sura&iov, Russian High Commissioner for Austria, has I promised "severe punish ment" for the Russian soldiers i who killed two persons m a Ju-efsberg dance cabaret on j March 29. the Austrian ChanJ cel'.or m Vienna. Dr. Leopold I Figl. told the Austrian
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  • 131 6 THE British Food Minist?r. Mr. John Strachey. said that if Olympic committees m other countries wish to supplement their rations or provide certain items of food m particular to individual countries for consumption by I*»Ht own teams con^ion- ments of food from these committees
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  • 124 6 ROYAL SCOTS DIG IN AT TRIESTE Ttcture. British troops stationed m Trieste have Deen moved up closer to the Jugoslav frontier. Here, men of the Royal Scots, of 24th Infantry Brigade, are digging m a new position near the frontier. A. P. One of the most popular artists m the
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  • 168 6 THE British Medical Association described a n tion by the Royal College of Physicians on th» health service as" a "step forward." A spokesman said that they welcomed it for that reason "bu does not by any means go the whole way U n doctors'
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  • 20 6 This summer British I pean Airways w:li o Viking seats weekh r from Bnrair. and b tirent
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  • 29 6 VILLAGERS m East Anslm <E gland > have bxnded .< n\selves into squads of lantes" to guard against cplejaek th:eve s who strip I ad from church roofs.
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  • 63 6 Japan's trade is below expectation JAPAN'S export trade m M, foreign trading v rb 4 I Tokio daily economic n< declared m a special rcviem «,|'jL Nlh kj dustry. Salet. of Japan yM items, valued at (Is Primary mison for the re-opening of pr I limited scale on which jfl
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  • 72 6 A $20,000 cargo of quality cobra skin> largest and most valu&l be airsrupped from abroad recently arrived at La Guardia airport. Intended to m-et the spring fashion tradt this two-ton shipmen* sisting of more than »kins was loaded at Ba: and Madras.
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  • 47 6 NATIONALIST lead. Municipal cou:. were among 32 p**o; ed yesterday afvr Su election riots a; Chai m the Rumale sub-pre: of Algeria More arre^ expected The police were fir'c on fr demonstrators, who set I cars and a house on Sunday Reuter
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  • 62 6 THE YOUNGEST GRANDMOTHER Mrs. Michael Rapa bourne t Victoria ciairm at 30 she has become a p mother at a younger ag< anyone else In the B Empire. Mrt> Rapa married she was aged 13 yearis and 11 months and gave birt: daughter 10i months Her daughter married at 15
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  • 8 6 AUSTRALI NO TO BAN RED THE j Reuter
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    • 86 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Mala** WELU-TUA"fyN-NO!-|T\| /^ER-DID YOU KNOW I /WELL. I HAW TmOOCHT You^^ajoT WiTH YOU bALL DIDNY /SEEMED To WHO KISSED YOU WOULDNY.'-AWD THIS (S >S mc Tftnß RLIIFFFP' REACH TfcE LAB.I HAVE LANDED A VT'OTHER NtGHT, JAME?7 I JUST THE PLACE FOR A
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  • 244 7 Rain holds up track work Free Press Racing Reporter lIEAVY rain fell at Penang this morning and track 11 wo J k wa h el <* "P an hour. No attempt was made to make fast times but some interesting gallops were recorded. 6 The best
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  • 110 7 LONDON. Wednesday. THE Football Association today announced the cancellation of the International match between England and Czechoslovakia, arranged for PTague on May 8. The FA. announcement said that, having been informed that the organisation with which it conducted negotiations for the match is no longer m being,
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  • 60 7 SFRANGOON Association beat the Social Athletic Party by two goals to one m a SA.F.A. third division league match played at St. Georgp's ground yesterday. All the three goals were scored m the second half of ?ame. K;m Chwee. for the S.A. Party, and Chee Tang
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  • 118 7 MATEUR BOXING JOURNEY OPENS 1 m the priliminary bouts of Jg m Boxing championships ippy World last night. r Association. Torught's card is: Flyweight: P C. Mahmood vs. L. Joseph (Katong Boys Club); A P. Gannon vs. Sonny LOS Club). Bantam weight: J. Archer (EOS Cib> \s. Dennis Lazaroo <
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  • 56 7 LONDON. Wednesday— Jack Butler, manager of the Crystal Palace Football team which plays m the Third Division Southern Section of the English Football League has received an offer from the Danish Football Association to coach its national side for the Olympic games tournament. Butler coached the
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  • 117 7 Mr. Aw Kow, son of the millionaire philanthropist. Mr. Aw Boon Haw, has t ndered his resignation as Chairman of the Malayan Chinese Organising Committee. 'Heavy pressure of work recently" has necessitated his resignation, Mr. Aw Kow wrote m a letter to the honorary secretary of the
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  • 38 7 i d a i Bel- I not ipart y. r.ore \rmy at r.ch a the ■IRON I I 2 0 2 1 3 ■RBON li I f) m m- Southern 1 I I I
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  • 81 7 NEW YORK, Wednesday. The British women's amateur champion Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zachrias found an official "for men only" sign barred her from the National open golf championship on Wednesday. The "Babe" indicated she would like to play m the 1948 tournament at Los Angeles on June 10 12.
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  • 410 7 women's competition for April (Stroke) at the R.S.GC. resulted m a win for Mrs. W. MacMullan w<th a net score of 32. The following were the best returns: Mrs. W. McMullan 48-16 —32; Mrs. W. H. Smart 47-12 35; Mrs. A. W. Scott 53-18—35; Mrs. E. A.
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  • 317 7 DEFENDERS ON TOP IN SECOND DIV GAME S^iLID defensive work on both sides was responsible for the fact that only two goals were scored m the S.A.F.A. second division league soccer game between the Indian Association and the Puiau Bukom Sports Club, which was played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. On
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  • 62 7 A.C.S. Old Boys who are interested m sports are requested to attend a meeting at the Middle School Hall. Coleman Street at 5.30 p.m., tomorrow. Included m the agenda are the reports ot the previous year's activities, arrangements for tne old Boys' events m the forthcoming school
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  • 67 7 Picture shows the cups that will be presented to the winners at the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association championship now being held at the Happy World Stadium. Cups have also been donated for the best boxer and best loser. Wui Mun goes up jor a save while Ah Bee
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  • 514 7 MX. Sundram, probable Singapore candidate for the World Olympics m London m July, could do no better than clock 54 4/5 sec. for the quarter mile under unfavourable ground conditions at the R.A.F. Sembawang sports meet at Sembawang yesterday. Sundram was running for the Police m
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  • 317 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent Xl ALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MAKING their debut m first division of the Selangor A.F.A. League, the S.C.R.C. scored an overwhelming victory by six goals to one over the Selangor Malays yesterday. The 'match, which was played on the T.P.C.A. ground, fell below
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  • 85 7 LOS ANGELES, Wednesday. World lightweight champion. Ike Williams, of Trenton. New Jersey, has Mgned articles to defend his title here on May 25 against Enriques Bolanos, of Mexico City, over 15 rounds. Two years ago Williams beat Bolanos m eight rounds, but the Mexican has not
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  • 501 7 2-1 WIN FOR A THLETES Free Press Soccer Reporter I>Y far the best league soccer of the present season was seen at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when the two S.C.F.A. teams, the Amicable A. A. and Hie Tiger S.C. met m a S.A.F.A. first division game, the Amicables winning two-one.
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  • 125 7 LONDON. We Jr. ,-sday. Sumant Misra a. d Warendra Nath reached the last eight m the men's singles of th l Paddington Club lawn ten is tjirrnament when play was r< sum d to day. In the third rou. d matches. Misra bat Lord Ronaldshay 7-5.
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  • 27 7 TORONTO. Wed— Barbara Ann Scott, Canada's Olympic skatinj* champion, admitted she was considering turning prefer iona\ but added it '"depends upon offers".
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    • 71 7 Today's sports SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, div. 1: Rovers S.C. v. Chinese Athletes, Jalan Besar; div. I: Kota Rajah v. Devons, Geylang; Spore Chinese Engineers v. 223 BOD. St. George's Road; Police v. Dockyard XI, Thomson Road; S.H.B. Police v. Singapore District Signals, Thomson Road div M F A. v. La
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    • 221 7 F.P. Crossword No. 354 CLUES ACROSS 2, Innumerable (9). 7, Glass substitute (4). 9, Round (3). 10, Water-diviner (6). 12, Confederate (4). IS. Rigid (5). 14, Weaken <6). 18. Primitive (8). 20, Attractive (8). 21 Delay (6). 24, Educates (5). 27, Pillar (4). 29. Produce (6). 30, Stretch out (3).
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  • 58 8 INCOME tax dodging is a blllion-dollar-a-year racket m the United States, says the Under-Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. A. L. M Wiggins. He said there are five billion dollar m taxes outstanding. He said the one thousand investigators assigned to run down income tax evasion are
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  • 460 8 'C. China now top priority 9 NANKING, Wednesday. T*HE Yellow River has become the Government's main defence line against the Communists and top priority, even above Manchuria, is being; given to prevention of the Reds from establishing bases south of that river, the military
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    31 8 HOME And here's what it means to Australians. This beautiful Australian seashore and countryside is one of the views from Bald Hill looking down the south coast or New South Wales.
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  • 15 8 A slight earth tremor was felt at Pekalongan m central Java, on Tuesday.
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  • 347 8 BANKER LOOKS AT MALAYA Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. \IALAYA continues to make progress towards recovery, says Sir Charles Innes, chairman of the Mercantile Bank m a statement circulated with the accounts for the bank's annual meeting on April 20, but, he says, the main
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  • 44 8 A Tibetan bear killed a 10- Chinese boy at the Shanghai Zoological Gardens yesterday. While a crowd of visitors watched, the bear reached through hi* cage, seized the boy and mauled him so severeh.y and mauled him fatally. .VP.
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    123 8 Seven Malayan journalists who left Singapore this morning by KLM Constellation for England for a month's tour of the United Kingdom were yesterday entertained to tea at Government House by Sir Franklin Gimson. This picture shows m the front row (from left) Mr. Athi Nahappan (editor and publisher of the
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  • 176 8 BOGOTA, Colombia. Wednesday. A RGENTINA and Guatemala today formally called on the other 19 nations at the Pan-American conference here to support their campaign to rid the Western Hemisphere of European colonies. When the colonial subcommittee began a sludy of toe Guatemalan resolution callkiß for
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  • 98 8 STASSEN VICTORY CERTAIN MILWAUKEE. Wednesday. Jlflß. Harold Stassen former Governor of Minnesota, h^ld a 20 to seven lead over Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur tonight m the fight for Wisconsin's 27 delegates to the Republican National Convendian. The vote count, however, was still incomplete. Mr. Thomas E. D:wey, Governor of New
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  • 234 8 LONDON, Wednesday. T«HE Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, told the House of Commons today that he was ready to compromise with the embattled doctors who refuse to^co-operate with the Government socialized medical scheme. As the British Medical Association was collecting: a "war fund" of £100,000 to
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  • 46 8 The VS. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has conflrmrd the appointm nt of Mr Paul Hoffman as director of the European recovery programme. Senator Arthur Vand nberg, chairman of thr Committee, said he had asked the Senate to confirm the nomination immediately. A. P.
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  • 21 8 The 24-ounce baby girl, born to Mrs. Irene Prescott on Sunday, died m hospital at Ncrwdch yesterday.— A.P.
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  • 15 8 Dance music will be played m the Palm Court at Raffles Hotel tonight.
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  • 160 8 NEW DELHI. Wednesday. T"3 Government of India will welcome foreign cap: ai working m the inlerth country but will not allow any foreign icives:ment for political purposes. Dr. Prasod Mookerjee. Minister o' Industry and Supply, told the Dominion Parliament. He was beginning a defeat? on tile
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  • 238 8 LONDON, Wednesday. •PWENTY-four parcels "pre- sumably containing liquor*' were delivered to the House of Commons yesterday by the Polish Embassy m London. Fourteen were distributed to the members, to whom they were addressed, and the other 10 were returned. Col Douglas Clifton Brown. Speaker of
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  • 437 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Wednrsd OWING spread throughout the Industrial of the London Stock Exchange today follow the announcement of the Budget. says Reu^ financial correspondent. Tins and Rubbers shared m this release of pent-up demand and m som< rose sharply. In the Industrial section. Stores
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  • 110 8 A SPECIAL Market eorre*pon4< nt the prices of rubber a' 11 m. today m follows Barere M#cr Ct* to per Ib pet tt» Ko 1 ES.S. Sp« n*>- 41 No 1 B.S.S tofe m b&l*B Apr 41 No 2 R.S.S tt m b*l«^ Apr. 40 No. S R.S.S
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  • 29 8 VEW YORK crud< closed five u> yesterday S*l»-s total > tract* 6flfor> rents il'Sialb, J 20 50 b.(*. No 1 ribbed f v t»<^« 22 7 8 A.P.
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  • 62 8 ON the New York Store fitchanre yesterc&o rally tn rails to a r.*» IM level influenced seiectec chem trail, rubbers and sp*~ but el»cwh*re the n« wai unchaotred from iruc Rubbers attracted renew*terest followliur the Genera Rubber Comparva pr*optimism re(rardin« futur mand Transfers tote Dec shares The
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  • 48 8 WASHING A FEDERAL I leuder of 400.0«»<' coal mineris n an< the United for contempt foi an order to ei:d weeks' old stopp.* ta:red today by States A T< m Clark. The Attorr sistant went bef< r I I 1 I H 1 Reuter
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  • 22 8 THE 0 J I kousanJs urn *ppw-; to fc «BDtS if CM* V«rc pilots jk U.P. A.P.
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    • 274 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mr S. L. Perumal Si members 01 the family of the late Mr B. Govindasamy. J.P. M.C.H. bog to thank the Chairman Staff of the Spore Harbour Board A other numerous friends for their visits, messages of sympathy St wreaths. They also wish to tharJc the Ex. B C.
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