The Singapore Free Press, 14 June 1948

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    15 1 l4 *K*# LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1948 PRILL l« CKMS
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    Bore shootings in Johore
    346 1 Bore shootings in Johore Gang trapped by police Free Press Staff Reporter PHERE were two more shootings on Johore estates on Sunday night, a few hours after the High Commissioner, Sir Edward Gent, warned of coming emergency legislation to crush the gunman and political terrorist. On Sagil estate a Chinese
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    Pay proposals for teachers
    222 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IMPROVEMENTS on the salary scales and other recommendations in the Trusted Report, affecting principally the Education, Medical and Technical Departments, have been proposed by the Select Committee of the Singapore Legislative Council. The Select Committee has recommended two rent scales for teachers.
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    SLINK IN COLLISION
    36 1 rIE American freighter Southport limped lack to Cherbourg (France) yest?rday bearing the 28 man crew of the Finnish vessel Finnberg after the two collided. The Finnberg sank after the accident in heavy fog.
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    CHINESE RAPPED TREE CRASH
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    ttest note I.S. envoy
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    ANNIVERSARY
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    ocodile' at Kallang Rd.
    40 1 s Reporter f**«*s oc their ■< rain which lashed against the vehicles resulted in water killing 1 their engines. A particularly long "crocodile" of cars was stationary on the stretch between the Singapore Airport and Kallang Bridge.
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    THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL'
    67 1 tree Press Staff Reporter THE compound of the Singapore Police Courts in nth Bridge Road was Hooded this morning and •urt staff, witnesses and -ed persons had to remove their shoes anil ■ude through the water in rdfr to enter the building. Trishas did a roaring
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    UNKNOWN MAN KILLED BY BUS
    57 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE pedestrian was knocked down and killed I by a Singapore Traction Com- pany bus early this morning at ;the Junction of North Bridge Road and Cross Street. He suffered serious head injuries, and death Is believed to have been
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    WELL OILED
    43 1 A diesel truck dropp.d the cap of iU oil tank in Paris on Saturday night and spread oil over a mile and a half of road. Eighteen cars and motor cycles skidd d into tiie ditch and 13 persons were injured
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    TAMIL CONGRESS
    18 1 Kamraj Nadar, on Sur.day was unanimously r?-elected for the third time Premier of \t\e Tamilnad Congress.
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    C.I.D seeks 'Guy Fawkes'
    53 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore C.1.D., on Saturday night, found two sacks containing 2 cwt. of gunpowder in a house in Purvis Street, off North Bridge Road. The seizures were made by Mr. J. Embury, A.S.P. Police btTesUgattoai are proceeding into the origin and ownership
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    30 1 PORTRAIT OF A DEFEATED NATION: The armed might of Italy parades in the vast square outside the Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, for the inauguration of Italy's new President, Luigi Einadi.
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    Good boy who became a peer
    102 1 LONDON, Sunday. AT her Welsh village home, Mrs. Mary Williams noticed that a Thomas Edward Williams had been made a peer, but she did not pay much attention to it. Her son, Thomas Edward Williams, one-time grocery clerk and son of a miner, was
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    H.K.-'BEST PORT IN FAR EAST'
    125 1 Free Press Correspondent HONG KONG, Sunday. pLANS which, it is hoped, will not clash with Sir Patrick Abercrombie's town-planning recommendations have been drawn up by the Hong Kong Government for developing the colony into the best international port in the Far East. Lon^-term development schemes
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    Attack on U.S. tin subsidies
    306 1 Free Press Staff Reporter PIIE United States policy of subsidising tin smelting 1 was criticised by Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson, chairman, addressing shareholders at the annual meeting of the Straits Trading Co., Ltd. in Singapore this morning. After commenting extensively on the domestic affairs
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    THIS HAPPY BREED...
    112 1 Vol' can always find some one to do anything says Harold Welch, manager of a freak show at Salt Lake City. Ue advertised for a "man or woman willing to be buried alive. Good pay. Anybody too-large for a six -foot cofTin need not apply/' Twenty men
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    MALAYAN BAN ON U.S. CARS
    144 1 MALAYAN BAN ON U.S. CARS Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYA has banned the import of cars of over 20 h.p. from any place other than the United Kingdom. An official of the Import and Export Department told the Free Press this morning that the ban would preclude the importation of
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    LINER DEMOBBED
    19 1 The 20.000 ton liner Franconia completed her service as a troopship when she reached the Mersey yesterday
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    'MALAYANS ARE ANTI-SIAMESE'
    153 1 BANGKOK, Sunday. HPHERE is a "real anti-Siamese movement" xat work in northern Malaya, says a special correspondent of the Siamese newspaper, Thai Rasdr, now back in Bangkok after a tour of Kelantan, Trengganu and Perak. He said that the Malays are angry with the Siamese, "because of
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    SIX JETS TO FLY ATLANTIC
    56 1 FIRST Atlantic crossing by jet aircraft is due soon, says the British Air Ministry. Six Royal Air Forces planes, Haviland Empire 111. are due due to fly to Canada and the United States to take part in U.S. Air Force exercises. The Jets will fly
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    EUROPEAN HURT
    28 1 At Clifford Pier this morning, B. Olas, a Hungarian, was knocked down by a Municipal vehicle and seriously injured. He was taken to the General Hospital.
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    M.D.U attacks police action
    184 1 M.D.U attacks police action i we Pre>> Staff Btpgf ir IsiE Maiayan D. cratic Union, wniie not condoning crirn nal activities, "deplores anjustiiiabie shootings, indiscriminate use of Banishment Ordm: and t 1 extension <•! police powers". This resolution was passed at thr M.DU. annual general i meeting yeslcrday. Another resolution
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    DE CAULUSTS DEMONSTRATE
    77 1 DE CAULUSTS DEMONSTRATE NEVERS France >. Sun. pENERAL Charles de \J Gaulle's rally here was highlighted by a demonstra- tion of 10.000 of his followers 1 against the local prefect. Local members of Gaulle's party uhe RPF» said that the prefect had "ttterted pressure on Government employees and j certain
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    SHIPS FOR TI'RkEY
    24 1 Turkey has received 11 small ships irom the United States eight min sweepers, a retlayer. a patrol tender and repair ship.
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    Duals in S'pore
    428 2  -  N. S. F. By IVE have read of d flag pole squatters, peanut-up-m' :i pusher-. yo manipulators the like N hat about a tmething to bri our daily lir city abou* ithe it oatte.i :.nt b- I I r evci approx ..d the K ..z be ..in
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    INFANT EYES TO BE AIDED
    112 2 r THE iLse of pencillin in--1 stead of silver nitrate to prevent blindness in new-tx>rn infants is t>-ing studied by U.S. public health service. Most American *Lat'-s require that attending p:.;.i.--cians drop a mild solution of Hirer miraie in a Daoy 5 eyes to kill
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    Earthauake man
    336 2 EDWIN DAMES JOHN Johnson man Britain only heard about when *he w->rld tremble, has di* d, aged 74. Shax vii the belt kg individual recorder of earthquakes officially caJ .oaists in the five cor. •>■ as the rr newspapers t-elephoned wh f -n •quak s w*re t ads
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    HIGH-SPEED SALESMEN
    352 2  -  COURTENAY EDWARDS By NEW expon orders fot Britain were written in exhaus: smoke along the valleys of the j Isle of Man as the pick of the country's racing motor-cyclists ran for the Tourist Trophy RactS. Arid, not only in tae crder books d cur motor-cycle i i^'Ar.uf
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    Bridge Problem
    214 2 NmKTH 1 Aa» 10 9 6 2 0 I A K J 4 WEST F \SI AJIO*Q 5 4 1 <? A I I <£? 7 4 3 CA9 8 6 4 4722 A g 6 80l T II |KI VK Q J K J 5 1 10
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    28 College Graduate Never heard!
    96 2 28 College Graduate Never heard! By CLARK BEAI II A. P. T W E N rY- young women never I their pr are among t American col dents to dejrre* I a gaj gradu; ly deaf, the G collejre alma n rytkmica] g-.--b hands ai:d a i for the g
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      674 2 ,mu Umie; 945 laa Scene; SINGAPORE AUSTRALIA ,9W Toni«ht« pi Pom Kinf M 40« p m (o 11 15 p m VLA6 5^6 mefres ib the medinrr wave 100 p m to *15 p m Vl^.B Ufht I band ai»d IM BtßWfClai to »3 89 metre* WOO «J«»^; SEAC 1
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      225 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR I against hu, will is iwver a full beli«\er. You are spiritually minded, although >ou will never become bigoted along religi«>u* line>. You are highl> impressionistic and your intuitians are exceptionally keen. You sense things rather than analyse them. It you try Co analyze anything too much,
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    een sees anchester regiment
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    lenty of en space Australia'
    7 3 lenty of en space Australia' Br_ Reuter
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    vas the best s M. Bidault
    7 3 vas the best s M. Bidault VI
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    EAD'USED AS GOLF BALL
    4 3 EAD'USED AS GOLF BALL
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    WOMEN AS SAKE'TASTERS
    63 3 WOMEN AS SAKE' TASTERS JURY bureau offic .:> d Jap women to appiy for being flooded With j ol them to become go t appointed tasters Aine on the ame conn—that they could drin* l they wanted, oaid. 'I never get lals said the bureau the job to women for
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    UGLY ANDRE' KILLED HIS GIRL FRIEND
    484 3 UGLY ANDRE' KILLED HIS GIRL FRIEND 'Kiss of death' trial drama HOUSES TAX FREE OINCE early childhood Andre Demaurizi, 20-year- old son of a bank manager at Nice, has been known as "Ugly Andre" because of a growth on his cheek, a scar on his neck, and his pinched, drawn
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    Honours awards 'too cheap'
    200 3 HIE London ''Daily Mirror", urginpr a review of the 1 whole quest fn of Honours, writes "They should be handed ou-t for purely political purposes, neither old they be given as consolation prizes. People •ill get honoured or ennobled on retirement forced rwiae! and not because
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    Music—murder
    45 3 Music murder ,roup of Huk Com- mandos. disuuised as stroll- ng minstrels, mingled with tto vflteccil near Caba..ituan. P.I.. serenaded the v <»un; women with guitars MMf, und then riddled a hou> with rifle fir e killin? Special Policeman w and wounding il Policeman (ion-
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    'MANFROM GUYS' HOAXES HOSPITAL
    246 3 'MAN FROM GUYS' HOAXES HOSPITAL A SQUAT lititle man walked into heeds Infirmary with a stethoscope, a medical book, and a soothing bedside manner. "I'm a siudent from Guy's," he told the Mail. "If there are any messages, you know where to find me." He borrowed a white coat from
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    U.N. to debate Dutch action
    216 3 THE Security Council yesterday overrod" a plea by the Netherlands delegates Dr. Elco van. Kleffens and decided to debate next Thursday charges that the Dutch were being permitted by the United Nations to "stangle the Indonesian Republic". Dr. van Kleffens asked the Council to leave
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    MONKEYS WENT TO SCHOOL
    62 3 CHICO, Jacko, and Minnie, three monkeys who escaped at Great Yarmouth enjoyed a seven-hour burst of freedom during which they Cli ibed in and out of houses, threw crockery out of the windows, and turned on taps; Played hide-and-seek with firemen on rooftops; and visited a
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    ALL AM: IN JAPAN
    36 3 Australia's regular army now numbers only between 3.000 and 4,000 men, all of whom are in Japan, claimed Mr. Henry B. Gullett. a member of the Federal Honse of Representative! In Parliament.
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    R.A.F. OFFICER ON 'MURDEROUS ATTACK' CHARGE
    527 3 R.A.F. OFFICER ON 'MURDEROUS ATTACK' CHARGE A REMARKABLE story of an armed R.A.F. officers alleged attack on his aunt and her daugiiur after breaking free from arrest by chloroforming his escort, was told at Luton Magistrate Court wb;>n tt-year-old Jack Hobbs of Luton faced a number a! charges of attack
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    Woman sues U.S. envoy to Vatican
    92 3 MYRON C. Taylor, Presidential envoy to the Vatican, and a friend, were yesterday sued for $2,000,000 (U.S.) by a Chicago woman who alleges that she is Taylor's illegitimate daughter. Named as defendant with Taylor, who is ex-chairman of the United States Steel Corporation is
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    MacDonald on the Franchise
    107 3 ■ELECTIONS will be held for Ei the Federation Legislate, Council as soon as local leaders can agree on an electoral law. the CommissionerGeneral for South-East Asia, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. told a press conference. Malaya's Communist problem "appears to be under control, although constant j vigilance Is
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    Chinese fears derided
    91 3 nERIDING charges by Chinese educators that the United States is enlarging Japanese shipyards and supplying the Japanese police with destroyers and submarines, the U.S. officer in charge of scrapping the Japanese navy, said no destroyers or submarines had been turned over to the Japanese. Only four Japanese
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY June 14. 1948. Defeating the Lawless
    708 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY June 14. 1948. Defeating the Lawless THE High Commissioner's statement to the press in Kuala Lumpur yesterday on the action which the Government proposes to take to combat violence and subversion is reassuring up to a point. The Government intends as a matter of urgency
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    Banking operation
    1030 4  -  JOHN J. McCLOY by nURING 1947, the national Bank for Reconstruction and Development launched its operations along two main lines: as a lender and as a borrower. In so doing, the Bank began to fulfil the principal function for which it was creaited at Bretton Woods to act
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    FOOD PRICES
    209 4 [Letter to the Editor IT was pleading to read that freedom of the press in Malaya was one of the points recognised at a gathering of Press and Government representatives in Kuala Lumpur. Doubtless therefore your columns are open to free discussion even of the declared policy of
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    CHINA'S COLOURFUL FORCE
    439 4  -  TOM HASTERSON Leamt from books By A. P. Correspondent THE 82nd Division the most unique and colorful force fighting in China's civil war is using American tactics learned entirely from books against the Communists. Its commander is a Muslim. He is Gen. Ma Chi- wen, 24-year-old son
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    To show their hands
    237 4  -  NOEL MONKS COMMONWEALTH COL UMN By INVITATIONS have 1 been sent by Mr. A:tlee to the Prime* Ministers of Canada, Australia, Sou<ih Africa, and New Zealand to attend a Commonwealth Conference in London in Sept ember. The Prime Ministers are likely to bring with them their
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    FAITH
    15 4 God is able to make all grace abound toward yon. 2 Corinthians 9, 8.
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    Air column Malaya's resent
    385 4  - Air column Malaya 's resent Geoffrey Geldard by AT a re-union dinner of the members of the pre-war R.A.F. Special Technical Corps last 'week the C.-in-C. Air Command Far East, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyds, announced that efforts were being made to reform the Corps. Also last week, the Singapore
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    Britain has 'still much to offer'
    45 5 Britain has 'still much to offer' u rifices f ..rarily dematefiml much to said the for the Creech --ned the vurk of gJJ Bristol remoral resent, is deverule conto inr times," Britain en suffl--ting uncil rseas ite the tn last up an con;he terrin he
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    TAIPING MAN TO TOUR U.S.
    25 5 RR L x>ng of I in t the in ::am, t to M il to tal Trade United London penOlympic
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    VISAS NEEDED FOR MACAO
    16 5 Portuwtii s to by a I *ial. to of a bents of
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    BRITISH COUNCIL TO HELP NEI
    313 5 Bandoeng branch opens this week Free Press Staff Reporter THE British Council will set up a new office in the Dutch East Indies this week with the departure from Singapore on Friday of Mr. J. P. Lucas who relinquishes his post as Singapore representative. In
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    POLICE TRANSFERS
    30 5 BENTONG. Sun. Inche Wan Moharr.ed, OCPD, Bentong. has been transferred to I Batu Gajah and Inche Hus- j sein, until recently OCPD, Tanjong Mallm. has succeeded him here.
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    Bill seeks closer dentistry control
    225 5 r VO ensure more effective control over the practice of 1 dentistry in Singapore, a Bill will be introduced in t he Legislative Council to provide for the repeal and re-enactment of the law relating to the Registration of Dentists. A new principle introduced by
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    Australian to join monastery in Kowloon
    176 5 Australian to join monastery in Kowloon ARTHUR Lindsay, aged 35, artist of Melbourne, Aus- txalia. is going to China to find peace in a Buddhist monastery. "I am going to a wellI known monastery outside Kowloon." he told Reuter. "1 used to stay there at week-ends when I was a
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    DEATH OF MRS. S. KATIUGASU
    79 5 MRS. Sybil Kathigasu, the only Malayan holder of the George Medal, died on Saturday in St. Mary's Hospital, Lanark, Scotland. She will be buried at the Catholic Cemetery, Lanark, tomorrow. Tortured by the Kempeitai for nine months in an effort to make her talk about
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    Identity cards to enter Canton
    116 5 pHINESE returning to Can--1 i v ton and other parts of Kwangtung should obtain a certificate of identity issued either by the nearest Central Government organisation or L by the commercial commu- nity of their city, according to a Chinese report, quoting a spokesman of
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    Privileges for U.N.O. men
    72 5 TJEPREJSENIATIVES of such IV international organisations as United Nations Organisation wiil be glvt>n diplomatic privileges and Immunities in Singapore under a Bill, the Diplomatic Privileges Bill 1948. to be introduced in the Legislative Council. The Bill provides for the publication of lists of persons who are
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    $150,000 fund for Katong schools
    160 5 $150,000 fund for Katong schools MALAYAN Dry burgh Me- jnorial Fund has been i foVmed to raise money for the extension of two Katong schools in which Miss Margaret Dryburgh did so much of her missionary and educational work in Singapore. It is estimated that $50,000 will be required next
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    Resources survey in the Colonies
    276 5 Resources survey in the Colonies HTHE present visit to Far East of Dr. Frank Dixey, 1 adviser on geology <to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is the start of immense plan to add to the prosperity of British colonies throughout the world by locating new mineral deposits, says
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    Crematorium is urged for Singapore
    300 5 Crematorium is urged for Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter rput a stop to the waste of valuable lands in Singapore through their being used a> burial grounds, Mr. Ng Sen CVioy will raise the question, n the Municipal Commission, of building a public crematorium. Burial lands in the Colony now
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    New fish dishes for Europeans
    221 5 i ESS-POPULAR varieties of fish are being prepared into sample dishes as part of the campaign to encourage Europeans to eat fish other than Ikan Merah and Ikan Kurau. Through these dishes, it is hoped to introduce to Europeans such fish as Chincharu, Kerayu, Chermin
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    Special guard powers are extended
    131 5 Special guard powers are extended TOHE Ordinance, conferring A special powers of shooting at night on sentries guarding premises protected places, such as Singapore Harbour Board area and Service depots and dumps, is being extended for a further period of one year. The Ordinance will expire Aug. 15. 1948. The
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    MR. DEMS D'COTTA
    37 5 News has been received in Singapore that Mr. Denis d'Cotta, son of Mr. C. J. d'Cotta of the Registrar of Vehicles Department and Mrs. d'Cotta. has passed his Roman Law and Real Property examination.
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    Radio patrols now record crime reports
    115 5 Radio patrols now record crime reports Free Press Staff Reporter AN interesting feature, in- troduced by the Radio Division of the Police and one that will be greatly appreciated by the public, is the "Emergency Report Book'" that is now carried by all radio patrol cars. Because this book is
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    MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN CRASH
    52 5 MOTORCYCLIST DIES IN CRASH I MOTOR CfeliSl lad ia.s oUli n seriously injured whe;> machine crashed into a: the junction ol Mounti ten Road and Arthur Road at 12.45 a. m yesterday. The dead man. a C!u .sailor was to have left Europe this week. He died in hospial without
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    DEFENCE NEEDS COULD LINKINDIAS
    351 6 DEFENCE NEEDS COULD LINKINDIAS NW Frontier must 15e secure r TH£ hope that common defence problems would 1 help cement relations between the Dominions of Pakistan and India was expressed by Sir Olaf Caroe, former Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, when addressing the East India Association and the Overseas
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    US TO BUILD A-BOMB AIRCRAFT CARRIER
    50 6 The U.S. Senate today passed by a voice vote and j sent to the House a bill to let the Navy stop work on 13 warships and to use the money saved for a 65.000-ton I aircraft-carrier designed to launch atomic bomb planes. I
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    BIG SMUGGLING RING IN H'KONG
    248 6 AN international gang with headquarters in Hong Kong is believed to be directing large-scale smuggling: of drugs and other goods into Japan. United States occupation authorities disclosed at the —week-end in Yokohama. The authorities said that British, Dutch and Ajnerican ships wer, involved in three
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    Jap. Govt may collapse
    75 6 EARLY collapse of the Ajsluda Government is expected following an announcement j by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nishlo Suehiro, that he would v I resign. Suehiro fac s indictment for not registering as party funds 500 000 yen '£L\soo> which he had accept d from a
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    LIGHTHOUSES FOR EAST
    72 6 MR K. c. Sutton -Jones, i lighthouse salesman, said j on his arrival In Sydney on a business visit that the war had created an enormous demand for lighthouses H-e added: "There is not a lighthouse in the East which haa not been smashed loot- ed, or
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    TRAITORS FREED IN S. AFRICA
    82 6 Tilt; new Nationalist Gov- eminent of South Africa will release immediately fivej political prisoners convicted j of treason or sabotage during the war. Mr. C. R. Ewart, Minister oi Justice. Announced on Saturday. "The decision was taken as I a result of a deep desire
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    Dutch attack on U.K. policy
    86 6 DR. MEYER RANNEFT, formerly virP MWlddent of the Indies "Council, sharply attacked British policy in Indonesia after the Japanese capitulation, when he spoke at the International Colonial Study Conference in Amsterdam. The British should have restored law and order in Java immediately and not given
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    ALTAR BOY HIT IN CHURCH
    88 6 Something broke a stained -glas.s window over the high altar during Mass in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church at Havant (Hants) and hit altar-boy Graham Betts in Xho leg. But nobody knows what it was. Polico think it may have been a pellet from an
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    SLUMP WOULD BRING STRIFE
    204 6 ANV lulling off in United Stutes demand for rubber 'might have serious political repercussions in Malaya. the linancial weekly, The Economist, said "Political conditi us la Malaya arc nom too happy.* it adds. Labour troubles culminating in destruction of property and threat to human lives on
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    TASMANIA BUYS 'CONVICT' TOWN
    299 6  -  W. H. CUMMING By Reuter Correspondent T'HE Tasmanian Government has bought almost th« 1 whole of «the picturesque town of Port Arthur in order to preserve and restore Mi historical buildjnjrs. For Port Arthur is No. 1 tourist attraction in mania and every year yields a
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    Uproar over Chinese PM's speech
    114 6 Uproar over Chinese PM's speech THE policy statement of the Chinese Prime Minister. Dr. Wong Wen-hao in the Legislative Yuan on Friday, evoked a general wave of dissatisfaction among legislators, with 122 of them requesting to give their criticism when Mr. Wong finished his one-and-a-half-hour-long report. Only 10 legislators were
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    SIAM MISSION FOR JAPAN
    51 6 SIAM MISSION FOR JAPAN A SIAMESE trade mission :s leaving for Tokio shortly with the object of t: conclude a barter urreement, Siam exporting law materials and Japan tending finished goods in exchange Siam was the second la buyer of Japanese coods imported 18 per cent of the total Japmete
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    Rich man 'Controls from his grave
    198 6 ERl< H TURK urn with it. but thorr l IHWroaitf, for the man vhv i mining and other Compai money even after he had iriven it Ml 'And even now he is dead. added his brother-in-law Hugo Daniels, in his Hyde Park Hat in
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    'HOUDIM' TOUCH IN GEM HAUL
    28 6 £20 of street? to w New M i that fro:.' anc diamorv box*-.-esta unc:> ness I thr shi< he pu: m&d< op- r^
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    'Must open UP Asia'—Russia
    20 6 'Must open UP Asia' Russia r r i in India in a stxessec lop to the i H I A.P.
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    AUSTRIA'S APPEAL
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    33 6 LORD I 27-year les Ladt Lcn. the title j father He ow:. horses Hous« and inu cludinp [iverpa aero pri\ OBVI Ml t re i 1 sfth w
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    GLAND MUST BATALL TO DAY
    891 7 GLAND MUST BATALL TO DAY Still 223 runs in arrears From BILL BOWES WHEN the first Test enters on its fourth ff day at Trent Bridge today, the question on all English lips will be: Can England bat all day and carry on for a couple of hours tomorrow, the
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    SEDGMAN WINS KENT TITLE
    23 7 -°l L 5 inked I Jack Jia 6-4. :ham- .man John I .nque s. 11 of f Rodthe A.P.
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    Louis will wait for Walcott
    167 7 d flight camp has its way, iK ott will have to do two 5s then he meets l.ouis for the heavyweight Mariium on June 23. come to Louis instead of I he will have to forego the on to the top rope with one .;ith
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    Britain beats Holland, 4-1 in Davis cup
    125 7 Britain beats Holland, 4-1 in Davis cup BRITAIN entered the semifinal of the European Zone Davis Cup tourney, defeating Holland by four matches to one at Birmingham on Saturday. Britain won the two remaining singles on Saturday having won two singles on Thursday and lost the doubles match on Friday.
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    Czechs Win
    42 7 Czechoslovakia defeated Belgium by three matches to two in Prague. Each side won one of the remaining singles. Jaques Peten of Belgium beat Vladimer Cernik 6-4. 2-6. 6-1. 6-4 but Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia beat Philippe Washer 6-2. 6-4. 6-2.
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    Danes Beaten
    55 7 Italy have beaten Denmark In the doubles in Rome yesterday Del Giano Cucelli and Marcello Del Bello beat Kurt Nielsen and Torben Ulrich 6-2. 6-3. 8-6. Italy had won two singles yesterday and so load by three matches to zero with two singles to be played. Italy meet
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    England will play 14 soccer matches
    143 7 England will play 14 soccer matches CNGLAND will have a busy season of international in the 1948-9 season with matches against continental countries apart from the home games. The int?rnational list of 14 j games is as follows: Sept. 26. Denmark vs England ats Copenhagen; Oct. 9, Ireland vs England
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    Hogan wins U.S. title
    100 7 DEN HOGAN won the United States open golf championship at Los Angeles on Saturday with a recordbreaking 72-hole score of 276. Hogan has won most of the tophonours in golf, but this was his biggest triumph. His 276 was eight strokes under par for the course.
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    SELANGOR LEAGUE SOCCER POSITIONS
    94 7 THE Selangor Football Association first division fceague table brought up to date is as follows: P W D L F A Pts TPCA 6 6 0 0 19 1 12 Eurasians 6 5 0 1 14 1 10 SC.R.C. 5 4 0 1 13 4 8
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    Lesnevich will face new Mills
    421 7 By Bill Macklin, A.P. Sports Writer A NEW, Freddie Mills will fight champion Gus Lesnevich for the world light heavyweight title at White City Stadium on July 26. A once rough and ready product of carnival rings. Mills has polished his tactics since he lost
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    NEW EMPIRE TITLE-HOLDER
    59 7 NEW EMPIRE TITLE-HOLDER In the fight for the middleweight championship of the British Empire between Dick Zurpin (Warwick) and Bos Murphy (New Zealand), at the Coventry football ground, Coventi-y, Dick Turpin stopped Murphy in 2 mins. 55 sees. This picture shows the nexo champion, Dick Turpin, photographed with his mother,
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    Asian players have done well
    776 7  - Asian players have done well COURTCRAFT S.LT.A. TOURNAMENT By •yilE first week's play in the 22nd Singapore lawn 1 tennis championships have been a triumph for the Asian players for they have removed, match by match, the formidable "foreign" invasion of European and Australian players who, it was at first
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    JOCKEY WINS SECOND DERBY
    47 7 MR. C. Vandammt-s Bey, ridden by W. Johns: one (winner of the Derby) yesterday, won the Pr;x Du Jockey Club, the French D< rby. by one l« Dgth Prince Said Toilttoan'f Tanagrello which was a neck ahead of Madame Robert Forget's Flush Royal.
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    S. L.T.A. TIES.
    34 7 Due to the bad condition of the ground, today's tennis will be played tomorrow at 4.45 p.m. If the weather remains bad. the ties will be n poned to Wednesday evening.
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    Gold Medallist has now won over $20,000
    490 7 Gold Medallist has now won over $20 000 Free Press Racing V .'porter GOLD Medallist boosted his turf earnin s past <^e $20,000 mark when he scored a fine win in the Cup for top class sprinters n Perrm** on S. o< opening day of the Penang Turf Clmli nmrayr
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    FRANCE DELAYS PLAN FOR GERMANY
    435 8 FRANCE DELAYS PLAN FOR GERMANY Allied parley postponed THE three military governors of Western Germany have postponed indefinitely the conference, scheduled for Tuesday, to lay plans for the rebuilding of a new German government. This postponement had been requested by the French Military Governor, Gen. Pierre Koenig, because his Government
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    POLITICAL MURDERS IN JOHORE
    321 8 REN GAM. Sunday. RENGAM and Layang Layang villages in Johore are in state of alarm, following the dcr of three Kuominfang leaders in broad daylight. A number of other Kuomirtans leaders are said to ie into hiding. In Rengam on Saturday afternoon, five armed Chinese entered
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    British fire on Tripoli rioters
    102 8 TRIPOLI. Sun. IN anti-Jewish rioting in Tripoli 12 Jews and five Arabs were killed yesterday and 33 Jews and 17 Arabs were injured. British troops and police are patrolling the streets. Troops opened fire and both Arabs and Jews used hand grenades. Many places in
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    BERLIN WAGES
    29 8 The British, French and American commanders for Berlin announced yesterday they Intend to try again to get four-power approval for city-wide food and wage Increases in Berlin.
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    'U.S. would take Indo-China'
    227 8 'U.S. would take Indo-China SAIGON, Sunday. r France abandoned Indo-China, the country would be occupied by the Americans or delivered over to the Communists or to a neighbouring power, the President of the National Defence Commission of the French Overseas Assembly, Gen. C. Bert in, said here today. Hi.s reference
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    Landing craft against pirates
    52 8 HONG KONG. Monday THE Chinese Government is to use wartime landing craft in an effort to smash pirate gangs on the China coast. Four landing craft aie being converted to accommodate at least 100 soldiers each and a/r bring equipped with quick-firing guns and steelprotected spotting
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    ATTACK ON U.S. TIN SUBSIDIES
    209 8 Continued from Pace 1 ras about 40,000 tons, thus showng that we hare a long way to go before any British smelter is on jerma of throughput equality with live artificial Industry being fos*red by government subsidies in fcm erica. "America has never at any
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    Quake kills one, wrecks village
    72 8 ROME, Sunday. A WOMAN was killed and tour people injured today by masonry falling from a church during an earth tremor at San Sepoloro near Arezzo (Italy). The 'quake damaged about 90 per cent, of the houses. Most of the inhabitants huddled in drenchine rain
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    PETAIN ILL
    20 8 Marshal Petain, the exil-d war-time Premier of France, is seriously ill in prison on the Isle of Yeu.
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    BRITISH WARSHIPS RESCUE CHINESE
    185 8 LONDON, Sunday T«HE full story of the rescue by British destroyers x last week of 61 seamen from the 3 492- ton Chinese collier Hwah Jang, which ran aground on Piting Rock, off the Chekiang coast, about 100 miles south of Shanghai, was told by the
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    20 8 ture. treaty The Finnish Russian agreement being ratified at Helsinki with the Russian representative, Lieut-Gen Savonenko, signing 1h? Planet News
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    Indians will resist S.A. 'ghetto act'
    120 8 JOHANNESBURG, Sun. rE Transvaal Passive Resistance Council has resolved that the Indian people would never accept the "ghetto act" aimed at their segregation. They also decided to fight racial oppression "on all fronts." Professor Z. K. Matthews, chairman of the African members caucus of
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    10,000 MASSACRED
    23 8 Fifty-seven defendants Including a Rumanian General and five Colonels are on trial In Bucharest for the "Jassv massacre" of 10,000 Jews
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    'MUST WATCH RED MOVES'
    226 8 LONDON, Sunday. THE International Committee for the Study of European Questions today said Russia already controls armies totalling 3.800,000 men, and probably will exert heavy pressure on other powers in the next few months. The Committee said that reports of Russian plans to invade France, Italy
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    NEGRO •INTRUDER'
    33 8 A 12- foot cross was burned outside the home of a negro radio engineer who had moved into all-white district in New Jersey to avoid travelling 58 miles daily to work.
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    'Desperate' China needs aid, US told
    165 8 'Desperate' China needs aid, US told WASHINGTON. Sunday. AS the United States Senate Appropriations Committee last night voted in favour of the restoration of most of the 26 per cent cut in Marshall aid for Europe. Lieut.* Gen. Albert Wedemeyer and the Economic Co-operation Administrator. Mr. Paul Hoffman, today asked
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    CHURCHILL'S CALL TO U.K. YOUTH
    219 8 LONDON. Sunday. rpHE Conservative leader, Mr. Winston Churchill] called on Britain's youth to give up dreams of emigrating and to remain at home to help in the mother country's fight for economic recovery and survival as an Independent nation. That fight, he told a mass
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    23-DAY TRIAL
    30 8 Mr. Patrick Craigmile Duff, a young Kenya civil servant, was found not guilty of murdering his wife in their Nairobi home last January The trial lasted 23 days.
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    Palestine truce in balance
    260 8 rpHE truce in Palestine hangs in the balance J- with isolated fighting continuing on in various sectors. The Arabs have threatened "a general offensive on all fronts" if the Jews continue to violate the truce, while the Jews have announced that their forces in the Lake
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    LAWLESSNESS IN MALAYA Special powers for emergency
    120 8 LAWLESSNESS IN MALAYA Special powers for emergency Free Press Staff KIALA 1 I A BILL is to be rushed throutl Sui < of the Federal Legislative f miJ extensive powers'* to the adnj in any area where a public er, Disclosing this in a P detjjj which he outlined the
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    Arab Stand
    127 8 In C«uro yesterday, Axzan Pasha, .said. "The Arab states, by means of negotiation* or by war, 1 will pursue their objective regard- j Ing the Holy Land creation of an unified Palestine state. the 9ec-reUry-Oneral of the Arab League, Airatm Pasha denied a Russian report that a former
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    Rubber prices
    49 8 A STECIAI Harfc* miK— g^m ibt prtca tt t***\ 11 am u»ix* m foO^ »tr ft No. 1 ft .S Sptf l-nr HI No 1 K s IW In hal^ Iubc in ImUo Junr 44 No 5 R f<* ♦n bai«* iurf «i Tonr of mar** "1
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