The Singapore Free Press, 22 April 1948

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA -ir, SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948 PRK t It' i KM>
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    TROOPS CALLED OUT IN ITALY
    451 1 TROOPS CALLED OUT IN ITALY Danger near, warn Reds ROME, Wednesday, ITALIAN troops and aircraft were alerted today m a wide area south and east of Milan, a Communist stronghold, where armed Popular Front elements were reported to be mobilising: m the hills. In Rome, it was officially announced that
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    UK INCOME TAX ON MALAYANS
    128 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. HAL WIN (iovernment officers who, having relayed their six months leave m Britain Bin* to shipping hold-ups, are now receiving fcound> for British income tax, can expect no relief km thr I nited Kingdom *ax authorities. at Somerse: v:
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    U.S. AIR EXPANSION
    21 1 I secretary. I ■> al. agreed I day to »P '■■wliate expansion of I -i from 35 to Reuter
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    DUTCH WANT BRITISH ARMS BAN REMOVED
    118 1 THE HAGUE. Wednesday. THE signing of the Western Union pact would enable the Dutch Government to resume talks with Britain on lifting the embargo on the supply to the Netherlands of surplus military goods stores In the Far East, the Dutch Foreign Minister, Baron
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    2 DIE IN JOGJA GUN FIGHT
    53 1 2 DIE IN JOGJA GUN FIGHT TWO Indonesians were reported dead, two wounded and 53 arrested m an action taken yesterday near Jogjakarta by the Republican police, a Republican communique stated. The communique said the action against lawless elements ended m a *un battle when the police were attacked by
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    Malaya gets priority for mining plant
    139 1 Malaya gets priority for mining plant From LESLIE HOFFMAN LONDON, Wednesday. \IALAYA will get priori-"* ity lor tin-mining machinery from Britain, said Mr. R. K. Bacon, deputy head of the Economic Information Unit, speaking today to the Malayan Press delegation now visiting the United Kingdom. Mr. Bacou gave an assurance
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    DOMINIONS TO WATCH E.R.P.
    73 1 A "WATCH DOG committee to observe the effect of I the European Recovery Programme on the economics of the British Dominions hai been formed with the agreement of the British Commonwealth Relations Office. It is understood .to be the result of persistent advocacy by Mr John
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    PISTOL SEIZED
    20 1 A .38 revolver was seized from a North Indian Muslim on the Singapore side of the Causeway yesterday.
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    M. P. CRITICISES STORE ELECTION
    190 1 LONDON, Wednesday. MR John Plafcts Mills, a member of the extreme left wing of the Labour Party, suggested m the House j of Commons today that, as only six par cent of the people entitled to vote m the recent Singapore elections voted, this amounted
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    Radio control for UK buses
    89 1 Reuter LONDON, Wednesday. P A D I 0-CONTROLLED 1 buses are to be used for big sports meetings to get crowds away easily. This decision was taken following an experiment with ra-dio-control at the Epsom races. There was no time to put the scheme into
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    SS SQUADRON COMING ON TRAINING TRIP
    109 1 SS SQUADRON COMING ON TRAINING TRIP GAINSBOROUGH. Wed. A STRAITS Settlements squadron which saw service during World War II taking a part m major operations m Europe, will fly 26.500 miles m "Operation Red Lion," setting out from England n?xt Wednesday for Singapore. The squadron will consist of six Lincoln
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    PRECAUTIONS FOR ROYAL JUBILEE
    152 1 LONDON, Wednesday. niCKED men of Scotland Yard are taking final precautions to ensure the safety of King George and Queen Elizabeth on their two Silver Wedding drives on Monday. Detectives have begun an exhaustive Investigation of houses and public buildings along the routes, interviewing "undersirable" persons
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    43 1 An aerial view of the train wreck caused by a ScotlandLondon postal train smashing into the rear of a passenger express which was stationary at Winsford, near Crewe, because a soldier had pulled the emergency cord. 24 people were killed and many injured.
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    Battle rages in Haifa streets
    230 1 HAIFA, Wednesday. ATHREE-cornered battle broke out this evening between British, Arabs and Jews as a bitter struggle opened for the control of Haifa, most of which was evacuated by British troops yesterday. Arabs and Jews are battling to establish themselves m the evacuated areas of
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    Bevin weighs U.S. proposal
    99 1 LONDON. Wednesday. THE British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, today postponed a statement on the Government's attitude to future commitments m Palestine after the mandate ends on May 15, which he was due to have made m the House of Commons. It was thought m London
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    ARMED HOLD-UP
    29 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Two Chinese both armed with pistols, robbed two other Chinese of $72 m cash and valuables m Kirn Chuan Road i last night.
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    STOP PRESS
    23 1 The Chinese Ministry of Defence announced m Nankin? last night that Nationalist troops had evacuated Yenan the former Communist headquarters. Reuter
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    WHARF MEN FAIL TO GO BACK TODAY
    387 1 Free Press Staff Reporter DESPITE a verbal assurance by over 1.000 Singapore Harbour Board Chinese stevedores and wharf workers that they would return to w>ik, none turned up for duiy this morning. Only 12 vessels were lying alongside the wharves this morning. No
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    CONFIDENCE IN PHIBUN
    46 1 THE Siamese Parliament last night passed a vote of confidence m the new Cabinet headed by Marshal Phibun Songgram after a seven -hour debate. The voting was 70 for the Songgram Cabinet, 26 against and 68 abstentions, Including ex-Premier Khuang Aphaiwongse.—Reuter, A P.
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    GOOD HEALTH IN AUSTERITY
    75 1 T>RITAIN S health was ex- ceptionally good this past winter m spite of meagre food rations, says the Ministry of Health, reporting low figures for many diseases. The death rate teas only 12 J per 1.000 during the first three months of 1948 aoainst 17 per
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    MRS. AUNG SAN
    23 1 Mrs. Aung San. widow oi the assassinated Burmese Prime Minister, returned tc Rangoon yesterday after s five-day visit to Delhi
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    Exquisite Letters
    916 2 A MALAYAN BOOKSHELF By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT JJOR most peopL the reading of i letter m Malay follow; a well-defined course which consists 01 omitting the firs' paragraph altogeUiei and of glancing dowr until something ap pears that seems tc have some sort of i meaning. A letter
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    Did the Madonna move?
    333 2 Did the Madonna move? By FRANK BRUTTO A.P. Correspondent THE mild-faced 16- ton gold plated bronze Madonna atop the noted church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli at Assisi m Italy may not have wrought a miracle for the people of this gentle, pastel-coloured valley, but it has brought them business.
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    Bridge Problem
    296 2 THIS buiding i 5 an eSDCptfcmal ..unj>i#- In- both *\<tea of following -h* avirm rhnt win n hands are frenkish it is sftfcr to atxept ft small k*A ihui risM incurring a bu: inc. P". i fallowed this principle when h declined to leave m the double <<i
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    The man who New York
    345 2 The man who New York HEADERS who, axm 1\ in-arm with Rusty Charley, Harry the Horse and Sam the Gonoph, have made many adventurous expeditions down the world's ugliest, noisiest, and most bright ly lighted thoroughfare will welcome the appearance of Damon Runyon's Short Takes, to which Don Iddon has
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    A 10-YEAR-OLDS LESSON
    306 2  - A 1 0-YEAR-OLDS LESSON GEORDE MURRAY HERE is a short essay on the cow which is also a lesson on how tc write English. It was written by a child of ten, and is guaranteed genuine: "Tli£ cow is a mammal. It has six sides right, left, an UDDer and
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    UNDER REVIEW
    5 2 Short Takes, ft..^.
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      223 2 SINGAPORE Blue Network From 1 i 90 noon to 2.*t p.m 526 metres In the median* win band and mecxryrle* In tbe il metre band from 6.M pjn tm *5 P m from yXt p.m to 11.00 p.m &26 foeim In the median wirf tend, and 4.82a mccacvcie* la tbe
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      584 2 it cc p m ie ii i. v maj* 1(82 metres 17.84 mesacyele*; 10. M p.m. to 11 M p m VIB4 15 44 w—trf II 81 mr*%ejcU+ FRIDAY 10 30 Au^trallar. News Bulletin. 10 40 Record? by Request; 11 Radio Concert HaH London Symphoney Orch. Solomon (Piano) and Richard
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      244 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people horn today BORN today, new ideas. new scenes and new faces appear to be your inspiration. You need something to keep your interest m a job at top peak if you are to do your best work. Don't make the mistake of seeking
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    WAR CABINET FAILED ME WAVELL
    524 3 •jvo encouragement, help, understanding >Hal Ix>rd Wavell, former British ler-in-Chfcf m India, rebukes WinsflChurrhiir* War Cabinet m his despatch pubmim last night for its attitude to the situation m the Far East m 1943. ■rations recorded m this despatch ther encouragement nor help, nor the
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    Madame X stopped blackmail
    36 3 Madame X stopped blackmail Gamester, man. of London) kage adn woman's I a mlslng nar r d the wo- that he I ar- un- 5 he and £5 eonCIDCU- know the I .tckt.'s from -'i- naces.
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    HASTI CAUSED 24 DEATHS
    38 3 t.ous to reach n c pulled the em>n the Glasgow <press train near Cheshire. last oausir.g the L-Mjial tcld the :he inquest on Id arI urn Bush p :.es shor to Lor. he had
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    I HINESE TO B£ DEPORTED
    31 3 eg Inunigra■rnm'<a on°r, re. has anI who II "Vng i t mo vonid <<i!d that a been jji s con- ibe a'le'ns, ••Vor. was before U.P.
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    8 3 and acft a ■■•-seaten m I.sl\nd SailIsle of
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    EXPORTS OF TEA
    18 3 Exports of Ceylon tea sub!ec* to licences In February. 1948 amounted to 22.015.603 pounds Reuter.
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    Keep state airlines, says poll
    99 3 ralian Public Opinion Polls askeJ: 'Do you think the Federal Government's airline. T A A should continue. or should not continue to operate m competition with the pr;vaU*ly-owned arl lies?" Forty-eight per cent, said TA.A. should continue to operate. 38 per cent that it should
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    The waiter wins the first round
    187 3 HE CLAMS PREMIER'S HOUSE A PARIS waiter, Hubert Fillatrand, ha* won the first round m Ui le^al battle to try to oust M. Robert Schuman. the French Premier from the Hotel Matignon, traditional reside of French Premier. The court has ruled that he has
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    MacA INVITED TO AUSTRALIA
    48 3 THE Australian Prime Minister. Mr. J. B. Chifley. said m Canberra that he had recently renewed his invitation lo Gen. Mac Arthur to visit Australia. Mr. Chifley told a news conference that he had no information when such a visit would be possible A.P.
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    Cinema emptied by bomb scare
    76 3 PEOPLE were turned out of the Rialto Cinema. Bormondsey (London) recently while police searched for a bomb after a warning had been telephoned to Scotland Yard. A 14-year-old boy, alleged to have made thp call, was remanded at Tower Bridge Juvenile Court accused of stealing
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    WE MUST PREPARE SAYS MONTY
    187 3 FIELD MARSHAL Viscount Montgomery declared m Manchester when taking part as a freeman of the cKy m the East Lancashire Territorial Forces Week "It is not easy to say what will be the outcome of the political and ideological strife we see cjoing on. One
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    FRIENDLY' MacA
    22 3 The BBC's Donald McCullough, now m New Zealand, saw Gen. Mac Arthur m Japan, found him "extremely friendly and unofficial."
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    The President hands out merit awards
    151 3 The President hands out merit awards The 18,000-ton light fleet carrier Magnificent has been commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy, at Belfast. She is to take the place of H.M.C.S. Warrior, another Belfast-built aircraft carrier, which is returning to Britain to be placed m reserve. The Magnificent, ivhich was built
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    THEY WIN VISIT TO DUTCH BULBFIELDS
    67 3 ONE hundred London school children will make a trip 10 Holland to see the Dutch bulbfields m bloom. The children won their visits as prizes for a daffodil growing competition. Half of them will leave this week, the other half a week later. Each
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    NEW C-IN-C RHINE
    40 3 Lieut Gen. Sir Charles Frederick Kei«?htley. D.5.0., will succeed Lieut. Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks as Comman-der-in-Cijief of the British Army of the Rhine, on April 26. Gen. Horrocks is relinquishing the appointment for reasons of health. A.P.
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    Colombo will have modern aquarium
    141 3 Colombo will have modern aquarium (COLOMBO Will shoi ulf have j an up-to-date aquar.um. containing boih iiesh and ba.' water fish, plans for the establishment of which are being made by the Director ol Fisheries Dr. C. Amirthalmgam. A start m this direction has been made at th: premises of
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    OPENING BAR -BY VILLAGE ORGANIST
    228 3 OPENING BAR -BY VILLAGE ORGANIST THE morning service m the village chunh at 1 Broug-hton, Northants, ended later than urn .1 last Sunday. Reason: Mr. Arthur Ackerman. the «>rIganist, played a Bach fugue which went on until eight minutes past twelve. As they heard the last note die away. waiting
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    They want Britain to pay more
    119 3 MEMBERS ol the National Poultry Farmers' A.s.- ciation. at a meeting .11 Melbourne, decided to a6< th* 3 Commonwealth Minister for Commerce Mr. R. T Pollard for an inert per cent, m the export pr r of poultry sent to Brita al'ernalhily that the
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    CHINESE ENVOY
    59 3 m E IN BANGKOK I\R. Hcjieh Pac- appointed <"h n m bassrdor, is px* co e^ ia Er<rk'k at tV enl or I An Fm'Msry s| '-f- ni sa d the Chi- e~e G mrrt's a btc t< vmr« new S arre^e OOVC nr^ j ii^cd^d by Pb
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    FOR LIBKRTY
    42 3 To promote "the print of liberty and j us: ice t< which Britain struggled suffered Lord M I Mejbotirne. S:r Raymond nelly, is It-ading a p ibi. p^al for funds to erri to Austral**. tdft^lmrrti a>. fellowships, for British p
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      53 3 l^S EXPORT DRIVE i 1000 PAIRS; /I g j grand snicnp* of sho£S j LLhAcW 2 Town Stales. Tan or Black. M W T j Semi Brogues Heavy Shoes s 12 DIFFERENT MODELS; (DOC nn^ famous L P JLIL P IR UU 5 "TRUEFIT BRAND uiHiTEnwnvs 5437 (WHITEAWAY. LAIDLAW CO.,
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 22, 1948. The S.H.B. Strike
    599 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, April 22, 1948. The S.H.B. Strike I k the worK of the 1 port of Singapore has been disrupted by one Icli plagued it all too often I nee the liberation. Such terruptlona, if they are prol< nged, affect tho whole this Colony and it
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    BERLIN'S AIR WAR
    945 4  -  JACK SMYTH By Reuters' Correspondent BERLIN: TEARS are being ex- pressed here that the Russians, under guise of adding to the safety of air travel, may insist upon drawing up new flight regulations which will m reality give them additional powers for the control of Allied air
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    FAITH
    20 4 Trust m the Lord with all thin e heart; and lean not unto thine own under- I standing. I
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    FIVE HARD FACTS ABOUT MARSHALL AID
    1063 4 FIVE HARD FACTS ABOUT MARSHALL AID All is QUiet m the top floor room at the St. Bride Institute, Fleet Street. London, where these two serious little girls, with tivcnty-five others, competed for the chajnpionship of one of the oldest gavi^s m the uwrld. Their ages range from nine tQ
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    Brave and
    336 4  -  MARGARET LAWRENCE By DEFORE th. v there were three little sister ship* lying between Singa and West Austral the ('haron, GorgOß, and Centaur. there are two. When the J. brought war to Ma th<-<e ships i d from the Sing; run to undertake •rvice from vmten. Th< packed
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    ships braver women
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    King's Long Record
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      23 4 OXY-ACETYLENE CUT. AUTOMATIC PROFILE CUTTING MACHINE Cutting Range: lit* 7 FAR EAST OXVGEN&ArETYIFNECO^ SERVING THE INDUSTRY OF LA fOR 20 YEAPS SINGAP PENANG
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    $100,000 aid for schools in Colony
    41 5 $100,000 aid for schools in Colony •nl has the at to .00 Is recon- s tO -vquireOD 3u\6 .trnanot buildto a earv "■hat -uuali \\use builds.d xere I *ded. found al lack :ree for 1 :-n is l itiofi the prel
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    LIVESTOCK SHOW
    6 5 Bortt•ck Exito be I
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    US $20,000 gift to Mission
    490 5 US $20,000 gift to Mission *.t n 22 social centre for nurses is planned ffrZTnWnrfl £j h fr 7 traHan nUrSeS who lo^ th?AZEZI2L Yfionnn n€ Of the functions held to raise £fv ht?£t?n?,J,l 00 neceSsar V to purchase a Melbourne ?tars carnival featuring radio and stage rSt?? 9 Pit
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    SHORT STORY ON THE AIR
    91 5 RADIO Malaya is broadcasting the second of a new 'series of short stories written Iby local authors tomorrow might at 10.30. The story is "A Woman i Pays", written by Sonny R. Sammy ot Bencoolen Street, Singapore. He was first encouraged to write by his
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    $2,500 FINE
    71 5 The Second District Court Judge, Mr A. D. Farrell, yesterday found Ng Ah Bah guilty of exporting a controlled article without a permit and fined him $2,500, m default three months' rigorous imprisonm"*: t. It was alleged that Ng Ah Bah on April 13 exported 20 I bags
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    STREET LIGHTING MORE PROGRESS.
    502 5 STREET LIGHTING MORE PROGRESS. Every main road is lit Free Press Staff Reporter lUITH the illumination this week of remaining street lamps installed m Outram Road, one part of Singapore's major street-lighting programme has been fully completed on a 50 per cent basis, and practically every main street m town
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    FORCES TO EMPLOY MORE MEN
    130 5 FORCES TO EMPLOY MORE MEN fTHE Army Recruiting 1 Office, now located m Fort Canning, is now open for the enlistment of a limited number of recruits for the Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers and Army Catering Corps. The period of
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    FIVE ASIAN ASPs
    150 5 THE promotion to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police on one year's probation, of five Singapore Police officers was announced yesterday. The officers are Senior Inspector Sardar Singh, and Inspectors John Le Cain, Cheah Teng Cheoh. Appuduray Thurairajah and Eu Cheow Eang. Further promotions are expected
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    Lady Lint heads women J.P's
    156 5 T ADY Seng Neo Lim, wife of Sir Han Hoe Lim, was elected chairman, and Mrs. Mabel Harvey, secretary, of the Board of Women Justices of Peace at a meeting at the Y.W.C.A. Lady Lim told the Fre^ Press yesterday that at the meeting the
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    PUTERA TALKS
    20 5 PUTERA and AMCJA will hold their annual delegates' conference at the Malayan Democratic Union hall over the week-end.
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    36 5 A Chinese living m Boon Teck Street was robbed of more than $400 worth of cash and jeweiury by three Chinese at 3 a.m. yesterday. CXne of the robbers was arm-d with a pistoL
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    700 SEAMEN REGISTER FOR WORK
    185 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MORE than 700 unemployed seamen have so fax registered wiUi the Seamen's Employment Bureau since It 1 opened last Friday. < Capt. F. W. Jaonings, who is m charge of the Bureau, said that about 200 seamen c were being registered
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    FLOODS IN CITY, ACTION URGED
    73 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Ratepayers' Association has asked the Municipal Commissioners if something can be dene to remove the nuisai.ee of floods ia various parts of the town following htavy rain. The Association says that the section ol Orchard Road between Scotts Road
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    FRIENDSHIP LEAGUE SEEKS CLUBHOUSE
    224 5 AN appeal lor the loan or lease of suitable premises which could be used or converted into a temporary clubhouse for about a year, by which time the League would be financially strong enough to erect its own premises comprising of a modern club house, housing
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    PROTESTBY MUSLIMS
    298 5 'Don't make mo* out of religion' OWING o objec on Ly Musl'm meiPb the Sinpap Pc M Commission, a pi to raise by ten ;ime~ the fees for the pn slaughter of ann mais "for domestic, ceremonial sacnfical purpo been referred ba.k committee f<>r further di>eutnon. OWUBCfIUDK on
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    CHINESE FREE IN INDONESIA
    83 5 A CHINESE member of ne Duicii delegation m Joejakarta, Mr. Thio Siong Tiong and MLss Chen. woman journalist of the Djakarta Lite Press, expit sat with ihe s m ard of living and social l dorr, maintained b| bines m Republican territory, m an interview with
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    SINOHiTA HAD ONLY THE VERY BEST'
    597 6 SINOHiTA HAD ONLY THE VERY BEST' It cost U.K. taxpayers £662 WHEN Senorita Victoria Ocampo, an Argen- tine poetess, went to London and stayed eight weeks at Claridge's at a total cost to British taxpayers of £662, the British Council, who invited her, defended the generous scale of her entertainment
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    Siam to open consulate at Swatow
    103 6 THE Siamese Government will open a corisulate m Swatow. seaport of Kwangtung, some time this month, according to reports received m Canton. These reports state that a lar<ie number of Swatows natives are anxious to emigrate to. or re-enter, Siam and this prompted Siam's
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    MAN DIES IN 3d. DISPUTE
    33 6 MAN DIES IN 3d. DISPUTE Following a dispute about a threepenny bit dropped tn a j bus. Bernard Pitt was rei manciei at Brmimjhim and charged with th^ manslaughter of Leslie Harold Wood.
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    £50 TO KNTKRTAIN
    22 6 A £50 annual grant was voted by Norfolk County Council to Its chairman "for the en'ertainmrnt of distinguished visitors."
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    MAY EXCAPE THE GALLOWS
    65 6 (iERMAN war criminals rrsI ponstble lor the death of thousands of people may esc;ipe the Rallot.-s because of th< British Parliament's vote against capital punishment. The BritLsli Army has s. >i:«iht advice from London as to whether derma*] wir crl minals m the British Zone arf*
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    THE NAVY'S MISSION
    28 6 Arrangements are being made to extend the naval memorial* at Portsmouth. Plymouth, and Chatham »n add the names of about 45.000 missing during the war.
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    36 6 JEWELLERY worth 1:2.500 lefi by Mrs. B. I.vi of Wilb-sden-lant'. WUlesden, m a taxi In the West End mi bundod tn at the Lost Pro- ;> r:v O.lico at Scotland Yard by the driver.
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    GATECRASHERS AT CEYLON 'VARSITY
    136 6 PROFESSORS of Ceylon University have discovered from lime to time "gat** crashers" m the lecture halls, and recen<t invest gat ions have revealed that a large number of outsiders we addinp to their store of knowledge by "illicr 4 means. At the samp time, the frequent
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    GETS DECREE UNDER ESCORT
    47 6 riREDERK'K John BrakF spear, of Park-road. Henley was accompanied by two warders when he left Oxford Prison to obtain a decree nisi against his wife. Florence, at Readinß because of her alleged misconduct. He was sentenced last July to s.x years' penal servitude.
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    'Open the way to Kashmir'
    155 6 TWO hundred tribal chiefs of the North West Frontier demanded a rijzht of way through Pakistan territory to help their "Muslim brethren" :r Kashmir. They said they w< uli not res t until the state hv ber>n cleared of Indian troops. They made the demand
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    U.N.approves Indian 'curb press' rule
    251 6 U.N. approves Indian 'curb press' rule 4 GAINST strong United States opposition, India A has secured indiusion m the projected I n Nations covenant on human rights of a provision alkming governments to prevent by law the q matic diffusion of deliberately faW or distorted re ports which undermine friendly
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    Dead for a century
    46 6 taIELD Marshal 1 South African Pi ♦old the British Emplr< Cap- next 10 vast u.s the alter the Hundred Teaif v "It is a dreadful thi has happened. It is my conviction that we shall not n qX the German menace tor
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    Fastest U.K. India air service
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    Ceylon must speak English
    98 6 DECLABING that Kaftfafc should be the compulsory src(tnd language m all Ceylonese schools. Mr h Nugawela. Minister of rdj cation, m his address at the annual celebrations of X lonna Vidyala>a. K«»l< wa. said that the> couid not afford lo neglect Knglish m their schools a*
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    Air-mapping of NEI next month
    76 6 <'|UiH£E officers of 1 Netherlands tod graphical S- I ofbcen of the DvA;r Force art k lor Tokio and M May for disc American auth. I I aid Indonesia. A large numb- r m«>: have already b. iphical S' n n the HI rumetttt ar.
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    19 6 Ci>m«»dian Sid Flel m England from American trlD a ston< v than when he IH ago.
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    BOOKLAW DOES FINE GALLOP
    35 7 ftood times m da v's workouts r\\ il did one of Ibis morning wh jrday. the nmer meet m the s sent on 5 sec. co He is ii md should
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    COUGH PLAY DISCUSSED
    70 7 COUGH PLAY DISCUSSED 1 i local m the 1 Itin s 1 was 1 B C m emerW;*-'" g of the I R.C. J Malayan J imber of i that 1 <ed such I liett! 1 led to 1 the I that -are 1 .ould I .ims I *anI pi^Ji
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    Acceptors for the Guineas
    643 7 Acceptors for the Guineas Ilba 2.000 i one .r. V. X n- rid I Ft Ky iS 111 1 1 1 m 1 .mcd i CALL BOY the best gallops at Bukit len a number of the horses first day of the Singapore ing, were given their final eeond track.
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    Olympic boxers may fight here
    321 7 beat us m the heavier weights, but I am confident that tile smaller men m Singapore will prove fonnidabk opposition to them." The Singapore Amateur Boxing Association has done a solendid lob towards encouraging interest m amateur boxing here. Although the AasociaTicn made a slow
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    Convincing win for P.&T. XI
    122 7 Convincing win for P. &T. XI tu rE Postal and Telecoms. XI scored a convincing victory over the C.V.M.A. m their Third Division League encounter at St. George's Road yesterday. The Postal and Telecoms dominated play from the start and scored thrice without reply Scheerder opened trie scoring. The C.V.M.A.
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    Don appeals to press
    97 7 |\ON Rradman. captain of Hie Australian cricket team, appealed to the British press yesterday to make the Australians, forthcoming tour "one of friendship and rood will, free from unfortunate incidents and sensations." Bradman was speaking: at a luncheon at which the Institute Journalists was host to
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    Le Mercier takes 7 wkts for 8 runs
    165 7 r THE f.iie bowling of E. Le Meicier. who took seven wicketa for eight runs, played an important part m the Singapore Recreation Clubs 18 run* victory over H.Q. Sing.iixire District at cricket on the Pa dang yesterday Le Mercier also top-acored
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    LUCKY GOALS GIVE AMICABLES VICTORY
    270 7 ALTHOUGH they proved superior m every department Lei the first half and led one-nil at the interval, the Chinese Athletic collapsed badly m the second session to lose two-one to the Amicable Athletic Association m yesterday's S.A.F.A. First Division game at Jalan Besar Stadium. But,
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    ENMARK'S DAVIS CUP TEAM
    48 7 nENMARKS Lawn Tennis Union yesterday announced its team for the first Davis Cup match against Egypt m Copenhagen on May 2, 3 and 4. The team, captained by 31 -year-old tennis veteran Anker Jacobsen, will be: Erik Bjerre, Kurt Nietsen and Torben Ulrich. A.P.
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    JOYFUL JUNIORS WIN SEVEN-ONE
    55 7 SUPERIOR teamwork enabled the Joyful Juniors Sports Club to trounce the Sa Hua XI by seven goals to one m a friendly game of soccer played at the Pasir Panjang School ground yesterday Scorers for the Juniors were; Wah Kee (3), Peng Yew (2), Eng Huat
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    Bowes meets Bradman
    46 7 Bill Bowes (left), former England and Yorkshire fast bowler, shakes hands with Don Bradman, captain of the Australian Test cricket team, aboard the "Strathaird" at Tilbury, London, on April 16. Bowes will cover the Tests exclusively for the Singapore Free Press m Malaya.
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    CHANGI DRAW WITH RAFFLES, BEAT MEDICALS
    412 7 CHANGI DRAW WITH RAFFLES, BEAT MEDICALS JN cricket matches played at Changi over the weekend. > R.A.P. Combined Changi had the better of a drawn game against Raffles College on Saturday and the following day beat the Medical College by the comfortable mar- gin of 131 runs. Scores m both
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    Some old players will be missing
    1000 7  -  James R. Chambers ENGLISH CRICKET PROSPECTS-2 By Sports Writer A. P. rjUVE Test matches against the Australian touring team, captained by Don Bradman, will dominate the English cricket season, beginning April 28 when Australia plays Worcestershire. The County championship however, although playing second fiddle,
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    U.K. FOOTBALL RESULTS
    83 7 The following are yesterday's U.K. football League results FIRST DIVISION Bolton W. 0 Derby Co. 3. Liverpool 4 Everton 0 Manchester C. 0 Preston 3 Portsmouth 0 Arsenal 0 SECOVD DIVISION 1 Fulham OSouihampion THIRD DIVISION (Southern) Aldershot 1 Torquay U. 0 Exeter C. 0 W&lsaU 6
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    TRELOAR IN U.S.
    28 7 gPRINT ACE; John Treioar arrived by plane on Monday to begin a nine-week training proqTamme on cinders before going to the OhirvDics m London. A.P.
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    SGT BULAT SCORES FINE WIN
    239 7 SGT BULAT SCORES FINE WIN A FITTING climax to last night's boxing wrestling, bacminton and table-tenn.s exhibitions held at the Great World In aid of the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association was provided by the Singapore welterweight champion. Sgt Bulat. who knocked out Burma's representative to the Olympic Games, O. Marshall, m
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    RANGERS WIN
    17 7 RANGERS beat IfarU n i nenil m the Scotttfh F.A. Cup final replay vesWdav.— Reuter
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    KETSALL PRACTICE
    22 7 THE G.rL<' Sport! CM wH hold netbali practice H the Singapore H m Club this evening at 5 p .:n.
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      318 7 Today's sport SOCCER: S.A.F A Lfa«iie Dir. I—RAF.1 RAF. Selet&r v. Seaforths, Seietar, SIS pni Rovers v. RAF. Chan^i Ja'an Besar stadium. 515 pm GH Q Signals v Naxv Signals rroond 5 15 p.m.; Div. II Rovers v Sinrapore Distrnt Signals. Geylatif stadium. 515 p.m.; Police v. 19 Air Force
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    CHURCHILL ATTACKS RUSSIA
    566 8 Europe union needs U. S. aid LONDON, Wednesday. IN a bitter attack on Russia, Mr. Winston Churchill said today, "There will never be any settled peace m Europe while Asian imperialists and Communist domination rule over the whole of Central and Eastern Europe." He was addressing a
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    370,000 Reds in Manchu push
    267 8 NANKING. Wednesday. MORE than 370.000 Communists are poised for an attack on the Nationalists' two remaining Manchurian bastions^ Mukden and Changchun Oh Government Army spokesman. Gen. Teng Wenyi, announced to the Press this afternoon. The main Communist lorces, approximately seven armies, are said to be
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    $111,000 FOR CONVICTION OF GUNMAN
    147 8 DETROIT, Wednesday. REWARDS totalling U.S. $111,000 hay.i been offered for the arrvst and conviction of the gunman, who last night attempted to kill the United Automobile Workers' president. Mr Walter P. Reirther, one of American's most important labour leaders who last year won re-election over
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    Coal strikers ignore plea
    103 8 WASHINGTON. Wed. AS the Federal court today issued an 80-day Injunction against any further soft coal strike, on ground that the national peace and safety are threatened. Idleness was still widespread m the coalfields despite an appeal for a full return to work made by the
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    NIZAM'S FORCE REPELS GANG
    66 8 SIX armed raiders were killed m a clash with a patrol of Hyderabad Statr forces on- the HyderabadMadras border on the night of April 13. the Hyderabad Government announces. The party of raiders from Bhawanipur. m Madras Province, attempted to blow up a b-idge on the
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    Chifley stops debate on Communism
    100 8 CANBERRA, Wed. I7HDR the second time m a r fortnight the Australian Government today blocked a debate on Communism In the House of Representatives. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley. raised the bar by moving that Government business take precedence over general business, preventing
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    49 MISSING IN BERLIN
    50 8 THE United States Military 1 Government m Berlin yesterday published a list of 49 psrsons who have disappeared m Berlin since the occupation m 1945. The list included persons from the American. British and Russian sectors and persons who reached Berlin from the Soviet Zone. Reuter.
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    ANTI-RED MEASURE
    33 8 The United States. Chile. Brazil and Peru yesterday laid before the Pan-American conference at Bogota. Colomi bla. a resolution recommending the adoption of measures necessary to defeat Inter- national Communism. A.P.
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    PRINCESS SPENDS QUIET BIRTHDAY
    210 8 WINDSOR, Wednesday. nRINCESS ELIZABETH today celebrated quietly 1 her 22nd birthday and the first since her marriage —but most of it without her husband. Deep m a six-month course at the Naval Stuff College m Greenwich, Prince Philip was obliged to stick to a full day's
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    99 8 TOLD TO BE DEAF DUMB MRS. Winifred Wilkie brought Mrs M. P. Tope into the Plymouth court yesterday, and for SO minutes, the magistrate, Mr. Scobell Armstrong, listened to both talking at once about the troubles a landlady has with her tenant, and vice versa. Finally, the magistrate shouted: "Will
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    BISHOPWILSON OFFICIATES AT U.K. WEDDING
    227 8 BISHOPWILSON OFFICIATES AT U.K. WEDDING Free Press Correspondent MR. George Patterson, M.C.S., former Private Secretary to the Governor(General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald was married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton. I London, on Apr. 17 to Miss S. M. Worthington, daughter !of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Worthington. of The Grange, Far Headingley,
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    MOVE TO ENSURE NEWS FREEDOM
    176 8 G THE United Nations co information today over first global .treaties eve international law the free Only Russia and its five Communist satellites including Poland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia voted against the draft treaties. The draft treaties will go to the UNESCO and the United Nations
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    P.I. BANS ALL AMUSEMENTS
    40 8 IN connection with the state burial of the late President Manuel Roxas, which takes I place on Sunday, all forms of i entertainment. including j amusement places, have been banned throughout the Philippines this week-end. Reuter
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    H.K. AIRFIELD CRITICISED
    139 8 LONDON, Wednesday. I "THE assertion that aircraft i could not land at night at Hong Kong -which was "rather humiliating" was made m the House of Commons today by Conservative member, Alan Lennox Boyd. Another Conserva tive. William Teeling. said international aircraft were bypassing Hong Kong because
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    455 8 London Stock Exchange Tavoy l S. Tronoh IS j STtX R INDICES Apr 20 A; >a» Indus Ords. ilB 90 119 1' Govt S^cU. 11l 27 Oold Mines 127.79 127 A. Y. stocks j(^ LAST-HOUR dr.ve York Stork Krrh^: day led to new hig^. the year,
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    44 8 A P. picture. Mr. G. Patterson, former Private Secretary To the G nor -General, Mr. Malcolm M acDonald, 'second f T om Ic't m this picture with his bride, after their wedding m London on April 17. The Bishop of Singapore, Dr son, officiated
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    165 8 SPECIAL Market corre»poMdo! r«»« thf price? of rubr<*T i 11 mm today as feUo»« lloren. Cts a •er Ib [ki 1 S: 1 R.S.S. Sr«t loose 4\ 4l\ N« l K.S.S rot m h*l«-» May 41. H No t ESS fofc m b»le* May 41 41 No 1
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    Soviet sold hoard grows
    55 8 WASHINGTON V, RUSSIA wa> power, apart tnm United States, to mcrea^< gold holdings during 1947 v United Statos Federal R^ Board report said today Russia, second only I Unltrd States as a gold ing country, had a stock v $2,575,000,000 at the b of this year.
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    Britain to hold big Navy exercises
    17 8 Britain to hold big Navy exercises > I I I I I I I I I I A.P.
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      42 8 WEATHER Storms I ATHKK report for the mrxt 24 taonrs compiled by the ft A F: Heavy tliiuMttfrsturms thi> t aflernoun. Fine tonifht. Bright tomorrow m»>rntr.< Wind: Variable. 5 to 10 m ph. Temperatures Max. 9* dt% mm deg. Rainfall 03 ii»
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