The Singapore Free Press, 5 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    Indies on the brink of war
    274 1 Indies on the brink of war Jogja army's new threat BAT A VIA, Friday. THE Indonesian Republican Army will take matters into its own hands if the Hatta Government accepts the Dutch demands now being negotiated at Batavia, according to the Netherlands news agency, Aneta. The threat was made by
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    PRINCESS TO HAVE BABY IN OCTOBER
    21 1 PRINCESS TO HAVE BABY IN OCTOBER I I m Kb f* lays Dd m H i I i X X Reuter
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    1,851 'GARBAGE' OFFENDERS
    3 1 1,851 'GARBAGE' OFFENDERS
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    US-MALAYAN TRADE
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    EUROPEAN HELD
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    42 1 (See story m col. two.) Mr. W. Macmahcn Ball, who is leading the Australian Goodwill Mission on a tour of South-East Asia, is greeted on arrival at Kuala Lumpur airfield yesterday by the Chief Secretary of the Federation, Mr. A. T. Newboult.
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    Mission goes round & round
    148 1 Mission goes round round Free Pre>s Staff Reporter pONKUSION as to the landing place occurred when L the Australian goodwill mission, headed by Mr. Macmahon Ball, arrived m Singapore this morning. The plane circled Tengah aerodrome before bem^ 1 1 -directed to Kallang. Mr. Ball landed at 10.30 a.m. There
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    More new buses for S'pore
    68 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Friday. SHAREHOLDERS of the Sin- > Traction Company, at the Company's anng today, were told xas no reason all the new vehiI would net be on m Singapore by the fcT. T yen moi jept 30 had been satisit was stated,
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    DUTCH DAVY HAS FOUND ON US
    130 1 DUTCH DAVY HAS FOUND ON US -Dr. Oetoyo Free Press StalT Reporter II/HILE vital negotiations were proceeding in Java the Dutch Navy has violated territorial waters and tired on coastal areas in Republican territory, declared Dr. Oetoyo, Ind n n R« presentative in Singapore, yesterday. Dutch ships had also fired
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    23 1 Gandhi' t> alleged Assassin. Nathuram Vinayak Godse, whose trial has been fixed for June 14 when he will appear with ciaht other accused
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    PLANE DELAYED
    21 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Malayan Airways Sin-gapore-K.L.-Penang plane was forced back to Kallang by b.iri weather this morning.
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    AM EXCUSE IS BETTER....
    46 1 Iiee Press Staff Rcoortcr CHARGED with assaulting his wife in a Singapore! court yesterday. Toh Boon Thiam said that he did not wish to keep his wife any longer because his business was very dull. He was sentenced to ten week-; r.i.
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    $100 REWARD
    37 1 100 REWARD Free Press Staff Reporter A $100 reward has been offered by the C.I.D. fur the Of Oh Ah Chong. who wanted on charges of mpted intimidation and Lsting m the management, of an unlawful society.
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    Banishment: 2 more held
    56 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONE of the vice-presidents oi the Singapore Federa- ticm of Trade Unions. Byzar bl.: Ahmad, alias Byzar Abdullah Ahmad, and another official of the Union. Mamon Djuana. have been arrested by the C.I.D. on banishments warrants. Both men were a"rested on the
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    Their master's voice
    48 1 FOUR schoolboys have been arrested m New York for administering corporal punishment to their master. Defore forty of their fellows m a classroom. Police answering an S.O.S. from the headmaster found the science master, Morris Krapes. bem* beateu. He had reprimanded a boy of 15.
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    Union demands chief's release
    152 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rIE Singapore Rubber Workers' Union will today demand from the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. /he release of its president, Mr. K«h Swee Guan, who wa.s arrested on a banishment warrant on Thursday. The new leader of the union. Mr. Lim Teik Sin.
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    POSTAL LOSSES INQUIRY
    144 1 POSTAL LOSSES INQUIRY Ire* Press StafT Reporter THE committee of the Singapore Association intends to take up with the Post Oilice the question of letters containing cheques and other documents which have been going astray. This was decided at the annual general meeting of the Association Members said that there
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    18 1 Nineteen Chinese charged m the Second Police Court yesterday with gambling were i fined $25 each.
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    RUBBER WORKER SHOT AT JURONG
    89 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore OLD. are offering $4,000 reward for T information leading to the arrest ottcwgw™* niKn Qhnt a T5-vear-old mandore at the Chua ouan sassssssss by four men. several shots at him. He ran past the men. who nreo^ Umes the
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    S.T.C. meeting 'friendly', but no decisions
    118 1 Free Pres* Staff Reporter AT a three-hour meeting yesterday, the management of the Singapore TracttOO Company and representatives of the S.T.C. Employees Union yesterday discussed a demand by 560 workers for a general increase of wages. The S.T.C. general manager Mr. A. A. Ewlng.
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    Unions: Action very soon now
    132 1 Fret> Press Siaif Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday I>HE Federation's new law lightening up the organisation of trade unions is expected to go an the statute books early next week. This will be done when the nigh Commissioner find a representative of the Malay Rulers formally
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    Gimson warns: liberty in danger
    197 1 Gimson warns: liberty in danger Free Press Stall Reporter A DDRESSING the pupils of Raffles Institution this morning, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, warned against succumbing to the influence of political associations whose ultimai <• aim is the suppression the democratic wav oi life. "There are even m Malaymany associations
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    WHITEAWAY'S BIG PROFIT
    99 1 F reo PKM i»rre>pond«nt LONDON. Frtd WHITEAWAY. Laid! Co., Ltd made a n<-i Of 4; I2ii I m 1946 It Is p: dividends on \\w seven cent "A"' cumulaiiv* {> ence shar(-s for m December I Hd haliyearly dividends <>i. per cent cumulai seven pt ■hmrei to
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  • FEATURES...
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      EXPERIMENT IN TALKING
      761 2  -  K. S. CHIA By AVER melon seeds, groundnuts and Chinese tea, a number of young people m Penang hold a weekly two-hour meeting an experiment m elocution to discuss everything under the sun, from housing shortage to more rights for women. They have this distinction from the
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      Putting laughs back into films
      331 2 MR. J. ARTHUR RANK thinks the public needs a rest from sadistic crime films and has decided to concentrate this year on lighter subjects. So producer Sydney Box, who made "Good Time Girl," and "Daybreak" has shelved his latest murder film, a £160.000 version of
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      Bridge Problem
      89 2 CPADES are trumps South leads. North and South are to wfn all seven tricks against any defence. South leads the trump North winning with the Jack. North leads club eight South wins with the club queen and cashes the diamond king, North discarding the club king South lrads
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      236 2 THERE'S a v of history m I jauntly little hat you bought -last week, although \ou minot know it, contemporary events hh ways had a great fluence on what wear. .especially on our heads. Reports from I Success, for oxm n say that the presence the UNO delega". made
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      286 2 Mr- yA*)?V2yMff#rf mCC JR^H^B^Bj Alter months erf intensive effort and resear. h. :^K* W ar P'e*»ttl to annrvuiue thit the 1941 >^ -^^KJ| r v J edition of "KN< n KKItING oifOHBSE 'S^ With a Foreword by I'rofe^.sor I^.<w. *nd coiitainin^r 255 pa^es of practical guidance, this W^^B V k
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      48 2 1 Outdoor] \J FOOD SC l/ fop ACi IN AiitM husv pt«>p i Mltim lufv tioi ujun Qu*Kt r Djin ht Quaker (.)4i«> arc I touriioi mod rnerg), t Viumin |i i .<urt s wj» m* m St-r u Qo^kir i.)*\* OATS 1 »»»»ikt on Cenxini OuoV*r 0o*«
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      196 2 \YOUR WEEKEND LISTENING SINGAPORE 124A noon to 2.M p.m. &26 metres m the medium wave band and 1.1% m era cycles tn j the 41 metre band from 6.00 p.m to 7.45 p m .from 9.M p. m te 11 00 p.m.: 526 metres m the medium wave band, and
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      425 2 SUNDAY j 1 Juaen Foorman Orchestra from The Sea View Hotel; 1 30 Kew»; 1.40 Recital; 2 Relax to Music; 2.45 At the Piano With Mon;a Liter; 3 Music Lovers Hour; 4 listeners; 1 Past; 5 Light Music; 5.30 Sunday Service from I The Presbyterian Church 6 Half an hour
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      324 2 Around the Bandstand Band of the Royal Artillery; 10.30 Australian News; 10.40 Request Records; 11 Oreat Music The LoDdoo Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; 4 Dinner Music Queen's Hall Light Orchestra; 4.30 Australian News; 4.40 Fine Music— presented by Leon Williams 5.15 Magazine of the Wetk; 5.30 Australia's Amateur
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      250 2 South of the Border*; 11 Stringt time"; 11.30 Composer Cavalcade'; 12 noon Hand made Music*; 12.15 The Radio 6EAC Show; 1245 Yankee Quarter- 1 World News Headlines; 1.02 Yours ifor the Asking; 2 World News Headlines; 202 Programme Bumimary; 5.30 Station Opening- 532 Music of tne People"; 6 Thirty to
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      182 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you must v learn to curb your impuLsiveness if you are to find any degree of placid contentment In your life. You are quick to love; quick to hate. You make important decisions on the spur of the moment The next instant you want to
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      49 2 and one along art lines, literature, science or diumc All of you should mark (artfully the years when you are seventeen, tu\ nt\ four and thirty one. At those periods ><>v likely to experience an important event that will determine, m lart* dt'^ree. j your future outlook on Ufe.
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      Tale of two cities
      38 3 BERLIN: American troops (above/ examine passes at the Russian- controlled railway administration building m the American sector TOKIO: feet k< children happy at this I croivded Japanese "Coney Island" (left). A.P. pictures. and Pix
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      HONG KONG'S BID FOR MORE TRADE
      396 3 HONG KONG'S BID FOR MORE TRADE rear plan for harbour, airfield THE British Colony will be turned into one of the 1 best international ports and <he most progressive city m the Far East within the next 10 years, according to plans drawn up for Hong Kong's development, writes Frank
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      Food crisis talks in Madras
      6 3 Food crisis talks in Madras I
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      U.K. DEFENCE PLANS
      10 3 U .K. DEFENCE PLANS told that "c m rent U.P.
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      Refused to move
      62 3 FREDERICK Cobb. Labour Member of Parliament, was fined 10 shillings for refusing to move his parked car when the Royal car was expected on the street. A police constable testified that when he asked Cobb to move Cobb replied "I pay for royalty of this country and
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      U.S. SWITCHING TO BOMBERS
      117 3 Till IS Air Force plun> to push construction of long-raagc strategic bombers with its new workinu fund of nearly $2 000,000,000 (U.S.). the planes the Air re B-50's. This bf ion the war- B-29 Superfort, but with greater bomb capa\n, listed I ition for 70-groups, 243
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      TWO BOWS FEWER
      38 3 The presentation of diplomatic credentials to President Chiang Kai-shek. already shortened by eliminating all speech-making, will be still further simplified by reducing the number of bows from three to one m the official ritual. A.P.
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      PETROL HOARDING
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      H.K. GOVT. BACK PAY
      141 3 J^HE Secretary of State for C has approved X rig's scale of awards >t back salaries for Governs, volunteers and members of the Civil Defence iriio were not interned, m respect of the period during which the Colony was under Japanese occupation. (Government servants and volunteers
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      'BRUTAL' MALAN IS PREFERABLE
      71 3 'BRUTAL' MALAN IS PREFERABLE wt the Nationalist I rican elections, Mr. P*_ Mahatma *aid I oruial frankiuss' oi f .jle to "death by Pany government of Blr X X known to hold ttronßviews m ur of the colour bar. They are Mr J. G. Strydom ter of Landt Mr. E.
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      Sex appeal or equal rights?
      263 3 THE biggest obstacle m women's fight for equal its has been fear of "losing ipp^l. says an expert m the field. For more than 3,000 years, rts Dr. Ida Bobuia, visitlecturer at New Jersey College for Women of Rutgers University, men have been quick to
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      FRIEND OF GANDHI HELD
      86 3 FRIEND of Gandhi and former Premier of Ben Hassah Suhrawardy was detained under a public safety order on his arrival at Dacca by air from Calcutta yes! day on a goodwill mission an official statement by the East Bengal t Pakistani Government said Suhrawardv is susDeeted
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      Newsboy leads protest at school ban on work
      304 3 SIXTEEN- YEAR-OLD Douglas Marl borough, Bs. 6d.--a-week newsboy of Sunny Garden-road, Hendon, went to Hendon County School m his best blue suit to speak to a meeting of newsboys and their parents who were protesting against the Middlesex County Council's proposal to
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      JAPS LEAVE PRISON CAMPS
      82 3 FIVE Japanese repatriates who have completed their sentences for war crimes m Rabaul. New Britain, have arrived at Kure. Southern Honshu. They have been returned to Japan as free men. Also aboard was another Japanese, Tsukidaira Kamataro, who claims to have spent 17 months m the
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      PRESIDENT QUITS
      15 3 The Paraguay army deposed President Hi^inio Morinigo yesterday and named a provisional president,
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      Jap boat sunk by Chinese
      75 3 J^HE Chinese Navy has dis- closed that one Jap. fishing vessel was sunk when a gunboat captured another outside the Yaimtse River on May 29. The crew is detained for questioning. The Chinese claim that the crew members are Japanese nuvv men "sent into Chinese
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      15 3 Football pools m Denmark were legalised by a Bill passed yesterday by the Lower Chamber.
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      40 killed in gun battle with bandits
      139 3 40 killed in gun battle with bandits A GUN battle, lasting for ten hours, was taught out between Government troops and a group of armed bandits along the Canton-Tsun^fa highway, according to belated reports m Canton The battle occurred I the bandits were preparing for an attack on three tonnes
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      'WOULD POLICE FORCE' NEED
      88 3 I ORD Bevendge. author of :he Bcvcride Social Security Plan, baa advo a World Court of Justice and an International Police Force. Speaking at Wesiev Church. Melbourne, he said: "The United Nations has failed to keep peace even m the sphere of Palestine. I won't say
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      GLIB PAY THIEF DOES IT AGAIN
      197 3 MR REED." th cottiid man with the polish d technique, has done it agi The :785 wases of Bristol Royal Hospital nur;>.s are n m his pocket after 11..I 1 lapose as the "perfect name clerk." Half an hour alter Mr l< F Clark,
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      Australia's 'national calamity'
      84 3 Unless c iai BuppiiM improve. th< Ltd.. wii. -c-hj to I r th. result m a r output. Already re; man firms, w; handle .~k.ni ba lea oi hiKh-quality m urgently ne ed :n lid: "Au.v--i hai manufacturing count! n that could h lor by A a
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      34 3 An official spok sma foi Cardinal Spellman said tha 1 John Dyer Spellman. lulled m a tavern brawl m Etuckville centre. Lone Island, on Sunday was not the Cardinal'! cousin as had been reported
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. June 5, 1948. Singapore and the Federation
      628 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. June 5, 1948. Singapore and the Federation SOONER rather than later. the question ol Singa.is with the Federation of Malaya will require solution. The point kl raised by Dato Braddell at last night's meeting of the Singapore Association, and though not everyone will go all
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      THE FAITH OF A CONSERVATIVE
      1118 4  -  HAROLD MacMILLAN By WITH one or two exceptions I can see nothing m modern Liberalism different from modern Conservatism. Conservatives have never accepted anarchy— the law of the jungle. Their whole effort was to moderate and modify the sterner application of th€ slogan "The devil
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      47 4 Under a centuries-old charter Pinner has its annual fair in the streets of Pinker, Middlesex. Originally much trade wan transacted but m modern times it only amounts to a holiday with all the fun of the *air and no trade of toy cream pap>r ha*^ end rr
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      BIG NEWS IN BATAVIA
      349 4 BUSINESS success stories have been rare m w.tr Batavia. but the city's newspaper readers have had before them daily lor almost three years a shining example m Nieuwsgier. a roneoed publication which last month blossomed into a four-pa^c printed tabloid. Nieuwsgier was born m the hectic
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      16 4 Malay women. The market fe a riot oj colour throulh the 'apparel worn by (he women.
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      U.S. Protects Japan
      860 4  -  DENIS WARNER By Reuter— A.A.P. Correspondent TOKIO. ALLIED observers today see m the gradual reshaping of American policy toward Japan the beginning of a new phase m the Occupation. Instead of the American force remaining purely as the occupier of a defeated enemy's territory, primarily it will
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      TEXTILE TRADE UNDER REVIEW
      35 5 TEXTILE TRADE UNDER REVIEW vi ImExports, 1 bury, itement imports ng n < ;st be way B hard :rom rir.tuin. on till k* iwccn will Wlthi d tht| failed >ther the c this' Bn- the now
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      Teachers to make up for lost time
      97 5 Fmake up for school days lost due to the polio epidemic, Singapore English ol teachers are willing to cut down by half their month's holiday m August. The teachers also would like to cut out the end-of-term examinations and concentrate on teaching These
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      Professors from S'hai
      77 5 TWO representatives ol the 1 NatK«. al Chi Nan Uni- versity m Shanghai—Prosors Su Chien-ying and Chen Yuan-dM are now m Singapore to conduct an en- mination for Chin- I *hu wish to further their studies m the University. The National Chi Na*i Uni- versity was established
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      65 5 vie- nr,H A X at ten I tlon being paid to animals m Singapore, Vh~* i 4r lI naZ Infirmary is kept busy tending to animals that are sick or maimed m a cddents. Upper picture gives an idea of the work at the Infirmary— Dr. Nair is attending to
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      Factory shooting: Police $1,000 offer
      170 5 T»HE Singapore police last night offered a reward of x $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the "person or persons responsible for shooting two male Hokkiens" m the Aik Hoe Rubber Factory at 3 a m yesterday. f This follows a day of
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      Legal Service qualifications
      151 5 CANDIDATES for the Colonial *> Legal Service are now required to have three years' practical experience instead of four years and ttafe may be further reduced m suitable cases. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has had this rule under consideration. It is felt that the
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      I.E.F.C. MEETING
      48 5 THE sub -committee of the International Emergency Food Council on rice for South-East Asia held its 16th meeting m Singapore yesterday. Dr. W. Clyde presided. Rice-shipping programmes for July were considered and confirmed. They included the loan of 15,870 tons of rice from N.E.I. to Philippines. <
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      MR. S.G. PILLAY
      25 5 Mr. Sandy G. Pillay has been appointed the representative of the Singapore Association on the Parking Problems Committee set up by Government,
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      HIREPURCHASE HOUSING PLAN
      304 5 HIRE PURCHASE HOUSING PLAN SINGAPORE Government servan4s will have an opportunity of buying houses on the hire purchase system when the first co-operative housing society, proposed for Malaya, goes into operation. The society will be called the Singapore Government Servants Co-operative Housing and Building Society, Ltd., and it is hoped
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      BIG JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN
      445 5 BIG JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN Municipality 's new policy Free Press Staff Reporter I OCALLY-recruited staff of the Singapore Municipality will have a predominant share m running the hub of the Municipal machinery the Secretariat under the terms of a new scheme. Under this re-organisation, local employees for the first
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      REMOVING SINGAPOREFEDERATION FRICTION
      382 5 REMOVING SINGAPOREFEDERATION FRICTION SAYING that "a current of friction does exist and seems to be increasing" between the Govern•ment of Singapore and the Federation, Dato Roland Braddell, president of the Singapore Association, at its annual meeting yesterday, called for immediate action to create Malayanmindedness. "I am sure," said Dato Braddell,
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      DIVORCE SUIT DISMISSED
      86 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A petition by a Eurasian woman for the dissolution of her marriage on the grounds of her husband's alleged misconduct with unidentified woman and alleged adulterywith another woman, was today dismissed by Mr. Justice Russell m the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court. The petitioner was
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      SECRETARIAT STAFF IS COMMENDED
      227 5 SECRETARIAT STAFF IS COMMENDED Free Press Staff Reporter THE splendid manner m which the locally-recruit-ed employees of the Singapore Municipal Secretariat has risen to the responsibility of carrying out preparatory work formerly done by senior offic- ers has enabled the three i senior officers of the department, Mr. W. W.
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      TRUCK RIDE ENDS IN JAIL
      154 5 AN escapade m an army truck which took them from Singapore to the Siamese frontier last November i has landed two British soldiers m jail. The men. Private R. J. Holder, 25, and Private R.J.A. j Forrest, 21, of No. 21 Company, R.A.S.C.. were charged
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      168 UNIONS
      38 5 Two more trade unions have i been registered m Singapore. They are the Singapore Wholesale Fish Merchants' Association and the Cantonese Restaurants Staffs' Union. The total number of trade unions registered m Singapore is now 168.
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      LABOUR ADVISERS
      19 5 Mr. V. Peters and Mr. C. Cousins have been appointed members of the Singapore Labour Advisory Board.
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      MISSION APPEALS FOR AID
      200 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Catholics have formed a special commit- i tee headed by Mr. A F L. Barrow to collect funds for the Redemptorist Mission Mr. Barrow told the Free Press yesterday that it was hoped to collect enough to en- able the Redemptorist
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      MR. S. SINGH
      38 5 Mr. Surjit Singh of Gian Singh and Company, Kuala Lumpur, has been elected President of the Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce In place of Mr. A. A. Mohamed Abdullah, who is shortly going to India.
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      TOO BUSY FOR PARADE
      90 5 Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRI Friday. AS a result of the heavy demands made on the Police m dealing with the present labour unrest m South Johore, the Police are not able to take part m the King's Birthday parade to be held m Johore Bahru
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        UNBEATEN RECORD
        544 6 MAN OF THE WEEK By KEN JALLEH SINGAPORE Chinese hurdler, Ng Liang Chiang, who has been selected to represent China m the Olympics m London next month, has a record that few other athletes m this part of the world can claim he has never lost a hurdling
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        WHAT MAKES A NEGRO RUN FASTER?
        142 6 WHAT MAKES A NEGRO RUN FASTER? IN general Negroes' l- ts are pr iportionately longer than those ol White tn«'n. Sonif think tha them an advantage m running. The Naila used that argument to explain their defeat by iht Negroes Owens. Williams, Metcalfe. Luvalle, Robinson. Pollard, Woodruff, Johnson and Albritton
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        126 6 I ong distance swimmer Tom Blower thinks it will take him 3G hours to conquer the English Channel m a non-stop round trip this summer. One way, he estimates, will take 14 houn. F&tigue and tides will slow him down on the way back Ever
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        282 6  - Britain's burning need Denis Compton REVIEW OF TEST PROSPE By IN a country where everything is scarce, it is not surprising to find that cricket is short of something, In our case, the burning need is a pace bowler. If only we could discover one of the Harold Larwood type
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        A sore thumb in golf
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      Australians win easily
      146 7 j STRIKING back hard after being led on the first ini nines by 78 runs, the Aus- tralians beat Hampshire by eight wickets at Southampton yesterday. Miller and Johnston buwicd them out lor 103 and the Australians, left to get 182 runs in 175 minutes to win,
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      429 7 Johore field strongest side today M^L^ YA CUF yHE team selected to repre- sent Johore against Malacca m a Malaya Cup soccer fixture at Muar today can be described as the best the State has so far been able to put up for a Malaya Cup match this season. Both
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      Kedah Cup XI weakened
      77 7 WITH several players unable to make the trip a weakened Kedah tram will take the field against the northern Combined Services m todays Malaya Cup match at Kuala Lumpur. Hashim takes the place of Omar at full-back, while Lim Ah Ewe shifts to centre-half m place
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      SYMPATHIES ARE WITH 2 MALAY PLAYERS
      336 7 SYMPATHIES ARE WITH 2 MALAY PLAYERS Free Press Staff Correspondent SELANGOR iportraen are looking forward with Interest to the result of the Football Association's disciplinary inquiry into the action of the two Selangor State players. Mohd. Nor Yunos and SharitT Awang, who preferred to play for their own com- I
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      STATE GAME VENUE SHOULD BE CHANGED
      443 7 Badminton By Courtcraft A By COURTQRAFT RRANGEMENTS for <he inter-stale badminton match between Singapore and Penang have not yet been completed as it is not too late for the Singapore Badminton Association to request 4hat the match be played m Singapore. The Singapore Badminton
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      478 7 OHOWERS and fair periods are forecast ior the Derby today, the race of the year, for which one of the largest fields m the long history of this great classic will fight for victory. It will be the lai field for the race for 86 years,
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      99 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malawi I EQUATION 0 92>,tH?-/ WHY, I \f I AINT'- BUT f GOT\ /PROFFSSOR Ml»h fr\ V HOT f MIS^.'^JNDf -F.D?- BUT Bl Fi {R MAKEy^^inN'T KNOW I A BFT OKI WITH <S Ql»l7{ A BFTt/NG/ 'L DON'T KNOW HF's AW ODD
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      138 7 Sports diary TO-DAY SOCCER: Malaya Cup— Singapore v R.A.F., JaLui Besar stadium. 5.15 p.m S.A.F.A. Lea- Tie Div. Ill— La Salle S.C. t C.A.. McNair Rd.; friendlies: JoUjiads y Embarkation lIQ, Victoria School, 5.15 p.m.; Srtetar C. v RAF. Sembawanir, at Isth mik». SHctar. 5.15 p.m. CRICKET: Non-Benders v PoJic*
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      385 8 HOPE OF PALESTINE TRUCE GROWS Only one big obstacle THE United Nations mediator on Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, after lightning truce consultations with Jewish and Arab leaders, last night disclosed m Cairo that he was striving to reconcile them on one main stumbling block that of immigration into Palestine during
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      122 8 NEW YORK. Friday. THE foreign editor of the Scripps Howard newspapers Mr. William Philip Simms, reported today that the Kremlin 'is believed to be worlfmg on a high policy change the most important since 1939. when it switched from the British-French orientation to ti»:
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      19 8 Fourteen people including five police, have been wounded by fuinfre m spreading farm strikes m northern Italy.
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      84 8 THE Israeli Prinu- Minister. Mr. David Ben-Gurion. accused the British Govern ment of active material support to the Arab armies Invading Palestine when addressing the Israel State Council at Tel Aviv. Saying that the "Arab mercenaries of Benin's Government" were continuously shelling Jerusalem "from British planes
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      108 8 PEACE talks open today between ex-Emperor Ban Dai ol Annam and Bmile Bollaert, French High Commissioner m Indo-Chlna, aboard a French warship m the Bay of Along. French authorities m Paris attach great importance to the proclamation on Sun day of Gen. Nguyen Van Xuan's central
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      MUMBLED IN SLEEP, WILL NOW HANG
      88 8 MUMBLED IN SLEEP, WILL NOW HANG SOON after Trapper Isaac Hill. 77, was beaten to death m the Canadian Wilds. Maynard Jonathan, 17. an Indian, was overheard mumbling m his sleep. What he mumbled was. "Isaac Hill will never do that again." The Ontario Appeals Court ruled that such a
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      JEHOL REDS FALL BACK
      122 8 SHANGHAI. Friday. Communist pressure against Chengteh, provincial capital of Jehol, eased considerably today after a surprise counter-attack by garrison forces, who recaptured several important hill positions Government troop.s have also successfuly cleared the railway linking Peiping and the Great Wall pass of Kupeikow of all Reds.
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      116 8 Chicago. Friday PRESIDENT TRUMAN today 1 called for liberal, social. political and economic legislation to givr Americans more and better democracy as the 'only merino of combating Communism. He recalled the time, a century ago. when the United States was a "beacon of hope" .to the
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      18 8 The two months' drought m Western Australia has b»vn broken and a good wheat crop is still possible.
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      36 8 Princess Elizabeth inspecting an A.T.S. guard of honvur, on her arrival at Coventry to visit an exhibition tn connection with the city's export drive. The Princess was an officer m the A.T. S. during the war.
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      202 8 PRETORIA, Friday. THE new South African j Government will protect the particular interests of non-Europeans "to the best f j its ability," the Nationalist J leader. Dr. Danial Malan, declared tonight m his first' broadcast as South African Premier. "Apartheid (segregation) is not fche caricature
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      131 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent fives the prices of robber 11 a.m today as follows: SINGAPORE CHAMBER Of COMMERCE The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday: Buyers. Sellers Cts Cte. per lb. per 08. No. 1 R.SS Spot loose 13', 43 2 No. 1 B.S.S.
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      23 8 President Truman h to the Pacific coast, v supporters hopeful that personal appearanc rail m his camp: for the presidency
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      5 8 REPRIEVE 'ILLEGAL' GODDAR I Reuter
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