The Singapore Free Press, 16 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA m SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1948 PRICE 111 CENIB
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    315 1 Urgent talks in London RANGOON, Tuesday. [HE official translation of Premier Thakin Nu's *we go Red speech last Sunday was released today, while, m London, the Foaeign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, had urgent talks with the Burmese Ambassador, Sir Maung Gyee. Thakin Nu said that, although Burma was surrounded
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    'Dog fight' in the Council
    246 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IIfHAT promised to be the beginning of a "dog fiffhi" between two Indian unofficial m the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday was arrested by the interruption of a Chinese Inofficial citing the Standing Order* which governed procedure m Council. Governor, Sir Franklin
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    26 1 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, addressing the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East conference which has just concluded at Ootacamund, southern India.
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    ARMY STAFF CAR IN COLLISION
    50 1 ARMY STAFF CAR IN COLLISION Free Press SUIT Reporter A MILITARY staff car was involved m a collision with a Chinese motor cyclist. Chia Ah Tee. m Beach Road op- Raffles Hotel at about •oi last night. The motor cyclist was ited as an outpatient at General Hospital for a
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    2 MILLION WORKERS
    20 1 Australian employment figures reached a record level at the end of March, with 2,344,900 people m work.
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    4 1 S C Goho Afr.
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    49 1 i iflane. who led the British forces into the compound, and Mrs. D. Moffatt at whose oh home Mrs. Kathinasu completed her book on Japanese terrorism just before >he died. mple floral tribute inacribed: To My Darling Mum■M placed across the grave from her 11-year-oid daughter. Dav^Ti. Reuter
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    THE RATION: GOVT 'DOING ITS BEST'
    181 1 Free Press Staff Reporter OEFERRING to a report that Government rice retailers might go out of business if the quality of ration rice was not improved, an official of the Secretariat for Economic Affairs told the Free Press that Government was doing its best
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    HAWKER'S GOODS SET ON FIRE
    45 1 CINGAPORE poiice were re- movin« Roods from hawkers stalls into a lorry m South Bridge Road yesterday afternoon when live charcoal ignited the goods causing a small fire which the fire brigade extinguished. No damage was done to the lorry.
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    HIT BY TAXI
    39 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese pedestrian knocked down by a taxi at the 10i mile. Chua Chu Kang Road at 8 o'clock this morning sustained a fractured arm and was taken to the General Hospital.
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    ROBBERS GO BACK TO WORK
    172 1 Free Press Staff Reporter F}UR armed robberies involving cash and property totalling $4,085 took place m Singapore yesterday, breaking a three-day period m which no armed robberies were reported. At 4.15 a.m. m Ang Slang Hill, four Chinese armed with pistols climbed over the back
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    3,600 DOCKERS IDLE
    22 1 Thirty-three chips were yesterday tied up m the pert of London owing to an unofficial strike by 3,600 dockers.
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    THE DOWNTRODDEN
    85 1 BURMA. India and Iran are the only Asian countries among the 11 nations listed as infringing workers' freedoms m a memorandum from the World Federation of Trade Unions calling on the United Nations Economic and Social Council to investigate its charges at its next session m Geneva. The
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    'ACCUSEDNOT THE KILLER 'SAYS GIRL
    168 1 'ACCUSED NOT THE KILLER 'SA YS GIRL A 16-year-old Chinese girl told the Kuala Lumpur ftrst magistrate yesterday that the J oun chi nese charged with the murder of her 60-year-old father, was not the actual killer. The Rirl. Kok Kwai Fong. said the accused, Wong Hon Mun was m
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    Two arrests for year-old killing
    274 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rWO Chinese, believed to be connected with (j, e 1 murder of a Marine Police corporal and a constable at tf« mouth of Kallang River m June last year, were arrested by the C.I.D. last night. The men, who are believed
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    STOP PRESS 3 planters shot dead near Ipoh
    155 1 STOP PRESS 3 planters shot dead near Ipoh Three European planters were shot dead this morning by armed Chinese on an estate twenty miles from Ipott. The victims are: Mr. A. E. Walker (Elphil Estate). Mr. J. M. Allison and Mr. Christian. The Chinese were armed with sten sons and
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    Traffic police in crash
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter k 46-year-old Chinese woman, Ong Sai Gwee, was involved m an accident with a member of the Traffic Police Mobile Squad m Sims Avenue at 4.40 p.m. yesterday. The woman was crossing the road, carrying a poi rice, when the policeman i
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    Eight in ten share one room or less
    196 1 Eight in ten share one room or less Free Pre*s Staft Reporter 20-year housing and slum clearance plan was outlined ye>terdav by the Colonial Secrelarv, j Mr. P. A. B. McKern.i m his annual Singapore port, as a Social Survey statement revealed I eighty per cent, of fair m Singapore
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      Around Singapore Shops WEDDING PRESENTS
      1054 2 Around Singapore Shops WEDDING PRESENTS DEOPLE may differ fin in their views on the exact type of I present modern-day newly-weds really ap- j predate, but I have never yet met anyone who had anything to j say against crystal as f an effective present, I and B. P. DE
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      240 2 DOKN today, you have P a keen mind and a quick intellect, However, you may find that concentrating on one thing: to the exclusion of all also is difficult unless you school yourself to apply yourself industriously to one job at a time. You are one to
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      800 2 WEDNESDAI ana Home Nc\^. 8.45 Morrung si-NVjAIrVJKr. 10.30 Newt; 10.40 Requot star; 9 Merry-go-Round Melodies; Priim t9An tn 9Qa Records; 11 Musical Comedy 8.30 Programme Summary; 9.40 From 124>0 nwn to 200p m. Grms; n. 15 M;usUt PianisU; Mi interlude; 9.45 I.T.MA.; 10.15 485 moires m the medium wave chft
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  • NEWS...
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      39 3 pictures hjjgfh A.P. A'ab prisoners, taken m the Palestine fighting, are teen above) entering the gate o f Acre prison. The "cease Ire order of the truce is being given < beiow) bm a Jewish area commander. A .P.
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      75 3 I: M Maureen. Although we have been happily married for 1 years, and work for the same Srm. I was a total strano her. I said: How are you? You i m<\ dont you? But she know me. Oh. I cidn't know I wJUI she said. 'I like you.
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      Ruin feared for many English seaside hotels
      157 3 FINANCE houses heavily involved m mortgagee on English seaside private hotels and boardingre wonied at the possibility of a record num--4 failures and bankruptcies at the end of the seaML Unless the later part of ihe season ls an abnormally success :'ul one
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      They fiddled while violinist was delayed
      158 3 4 RTISTIC uinperamenu I A erupted freely when English channel weather obliged YehudJ Menuhin. the Vlolinst. ito face an audience after "half a rehearsal The London Symphony Or- chestra was at Harringay j Arena to rehearse with Menuhin, but he was m Paris and
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      S'HAI TREASURY BALANCE
      41 3 the nrst time since Japanese surrender g] i city treasury a favourable balance. ,al authorities said ■celeration In tax collec- before the Dragonbi^at festiral resulted In a sorsl6o billion CNC t equivalent or nt^> at the black U.P.
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      30 3 The flooded Vistula and its anes have subsided -arm? 25.000 homeless m tnd On 250.000 acres. n 40 and 70 per cent t the era m crop was desd U.P.
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      29 3 The Duke of Edinburgh with Princess Elizabeth greeting the crowd which watched them drive to the Guildhall, London, when the Duke was made a freeman of the city. A.P.
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      ARRIVED-ROBBED
      29 3 Playwright Frederick Lonsdale arrived a t Southampton with 2.000 special American cigarettes (only ones he can smoke', pai-l nearly £16 duty, then discovered that the parcel had disappeared.
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      At last: man bites dog
      109 3 "When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a doQ that is news" Charte* Anderson Dana. Now York Sun, 1882. HENRY Strachan of Park -street, famhuslang. Lanarkshire, can claim to have made news. For when he appeared before
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      TOWER LEAP
      18 3 An unemployed Italian mechanic of 30 jumped to death from the leaning Tower I of Pisa.
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      VETO NO. 24
      24 3 Russia used her 24th veto to block a Security Council plan to investigate the Com- munist coup m Czechoslovai kia.- A.P.
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      US. TO EXPLAIN JAPPOLICY TO CRITICS
      312 3 US. TO EXPLAIN J APPOLICY TO CRITICS Nibbon's neighbours still fear future Self-sufficiency not yet defined fTHE United States is planning an intensified propaA ganda campaign to try to explain to other countries its policy in Japan. Increasingly disturbed by protests in China and other countries against American plans to
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      'KILL P.I. INDUSTRY'
      235 3 A MANILA Times editorA ial entitled "We've Heard This Before," referred to the United States campaign to explain its policy m Japan. There are nearly one billion people m Asia, and the resources of East Asia ere mostly outside Japan," the paper said, "but the State Department
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      Shanghai Press deride Truman
      216 3 •THE morning English language newspapers m 1 Shanghai were unanimous m expressing double over President Truman's declaration that "Marsh;- 1 Stalin is a good fellow but a prisoner of thePoiitburo." The concensus of the editorials is that Stalin is still running the Politburo, as well as
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      MOTHER LIKES TWINS, HAS FOUR SETS
      108 3 MRS. Lily Whitby. 42. of New-Street. Altrincham. (Cheshire) said: "I am very fond of twins. Thpy'rp interesting." And she knows all about twins, for at the loot of her bed her fouth set lay sleeping. They had arrived a ronnight too early, and weighed
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      OLYMPIC 'STAR'
      51 3 Mr. Forbet, Cariile, official coach of the Australian Olympic swimming team, says that Marjorie McQuade. ag»d 14. of Melbourne, will b< i sation at the Olympic Gam."At this stage I feel thenwill be very few girls m th*world who will beat her m London next August. he said
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      NO ENQUIRY ON NAVAL PAY
      45 3 /X)MMANDER Noble (ConVv servative* was told m the Commons by Mr. Dugdale, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, that there would be no inquiry m the Navy to see how far officers and men can meet living expenses on present pay
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      VATICAN AND INDIA
      30 3 Diplomatic relations have been initiated between the Holy See and India with the establishment of an internunciature In India and an Indian Legation In the Vatican. Reuter
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      "SECRET" TRIAL CLEARED ENVOY
      154 3 MR. Joseph Hartfield. the New York lawyer of Mr. Myron C. Taylor, Presidential Envoy to the Vatican, who is being sued by a woman claiming to be his illegitimate child, has said m Paris that two courts have already refuted the charges. Mr. Hartfleld, said he
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      NO STRINGS TO MARSHALL AID
      138 3 NO STRINGS TO MARSHALL AID MR. John Platts-Mills, who was recently expelled from the Labour Party as a pro-Communist, asserted m the House of Commons on Monday that the Americans wanted to control the British rate of exchange and tariff policy. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Christopher Mayhew, replied
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, June 16, 1948. Red Threat to Burma
      564 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, June 16, 1948. Red Threat to Burma "POLITICAL unity m Burma is cracking. The AntiFascist Peoples Freedom League, the instrument of independence and the repository of Government since the British left the country, may now be near disintegration. It can be held together. thinks Burma's
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      The real league of nations
      1117 4  - The real league of nations H. CHALLINOR JAMES By TOR more than a quarter of a century the defunct League of Nations at Geneva was a popular butt for the gibes of vm thinking people throughout the world. "Utopists, dreamers, fanatics," exclaimed the scoffers.... "Never will the nations of the
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      COTTON RACE
      515 4 By DENYS SMITH Reuters Correspondent DOSTERS appearing on hoardings all over Lancashire, Britain's cotton-pro during country, bear the slogan: "Britain's Bread Hangs by Lancashire's Th r e a d." And that slogan is literally true. This year, the drive to regain Britain's prewar prosperity by harnessing her industry
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      91 4 Jtmior Cx.dei Harold Keeble, 17, of Ipswich, Suffolk, son of an agricultural engineer, takes the 103-ton ketch Moyana's helm during a trip m the Solent off Southampton. Thirteen cadets make up the crew of the ship; ten of them are students of the juthahipAom U+ivertity j> School of Navigation, and
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      4 4 BEWARE OF THE JIMP
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      PAID TO GO TO JAIL
      685 4  - PAID TO GO TO JAIL HUGH SAVAGE SY TN spite of legisla- tion having been introduced m Singapore just before the outbreak of war m the Pacific, providing penalties for professional jail-goers, there are still a few people m Singapore today whose profession is going to jail. A professional jail-tfoer,
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      FAITH
      19 4 The eves of the Lord are m every place, beholding the evil and the good. Proverbs, 15, 3.
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      Monty: 'Empire is wonderful'
      92 4 FIELD Marshal Vl* Montgomery, c Imperial General that "if w» could Empire to speak with voice, then we could m^o rv body off."' Addressing sctn*»l boys at East borne College, ho added "We could say to the oth^r countries: You do what like: this is what
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      LORRY & TAXI PETROL CUT
      331 5 LORRY TAXI PETROL CUT A THIRTY-THREE and one- third per cent, cut m 4 he petrol ration for lorries and taxis m respect of the quarter beginning from July 1, and the tightening up of the rules governing tfce tendering of petrol coupons when drawing supplies, were announced yesterday. Owing
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      Hubby winked at girl, wife stabs herself
      117 5 OECAUSE her husband winked at a restaurant waitress, Eleen Evans quarrelled with him and then attempted suicide by stabbing herself. Eleen was one of three women who appeared m the Singapore Third Police Court on Monday to answer charges of attempted suicide. She
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      European fined for bad driving
      142 5 A EUROPEAN, Mr. A. J. Masterton, was fined $60 m the Singapore Traffic Court on Monday for negligent driving. The case was a sequel to an accident at the junction of Victoria. Street and Rochore Road on the morning of Fob 28. be- tween Mr.
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      GIRL INJURED
      34 5 A YOUNG Chinese girl, the daughter of a squatter m Yio Chu Kang Road, was admitted to the General Hospital with serious head injuries yesterday afternoon following an accident involving a lorry.
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      EUROPEANS AND ASIANS ON EQUAL FOOTING
      331 5 EUROPEANS AND ASIANS ON EQUAL FOOTING A METHOD of tan from <the old to the new salary scale, wh eh will place locally-appo.nt-ed officers wh 0 have t* holding posts form* r!y occupied by Europeans m the same position as their European counierp. was adopted m the Legislative Council yesterday
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      India HQ for Health Office
      66 5 THE Government of India is putting forward a proposal for the establishment of a regional organisation m India before the first session of the World Health Organisation commencing at Ger on June 24. This regional organisation may conveniently serve the following countries: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
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      MEW HOMES FOR 36.000 PEOPLE
      534 5 MEW HOMES FOR 36.000 PEOPLE $31* million for3-yr. plan THE Singapore Government has mapped out a definite programme of slum clearance and new housing spread over the next 20 years. For the immediate three years from 1948, plans have been made for the building of 4,336 new dwellings consisting of
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      Better meals from public restaurants
      80 5 I I for I n ol meals m 3 public I for the' I I n m g ad, the E s rred I .rants -cier the porei ment B ped to X I II aa necesI World I rhe Social I the I <:r
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      Lepers need not be isolated
      26 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r:nent ndiws as not E R Koek. D Chu ation A B n eDer Able r o-
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      INFANT BOY ABANDONED
      16 5 INFANT BOY ABANDONED IV. Tamil a 1 m Health Dr. K. I by The to the
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      49 5 Tne Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald arrived back in Singapore yesterday from China to which he paid a week's visit. He is seen here at Kallana Airport with the Chinese Consul-General, Dr. Wu Paakshing. Sir Ralph Hone, Deputy-Cnmrni<i*in'n£> r Lnw, 0 mi walking behind on the right.- Free Press picture
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      5 YRS FOR ARMS
      42 5 Yesterday, In the Singapore Assize Court, Teh Ah Boey pleaded guilty to possession of a loaded revolver and was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment. He was stopped at the Causeway on his way from Johore to Singapore.
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      BORSTAL PLAN FOR COLONY
      115 5 •THE necessity for the establishment of a Borstal 1 Institution for the attention and training of offenders between 17 and 21 years of age will be among the subjects for discussion at this afternoon's meeting of the Prison Inquiry Commission. The meeting will be held m
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      10 eager to study m S'hai
      97 5 NO overseas Chinese students have registered for Chinan University m Shanghai although two of the University staff have been m Singapore for a fortnight to enrol students. To date, only about ten students have interviewed the university officials, Mr. Su Chien-ying and Mr. Chen
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      Not banned for the present
      78 5 "THE present position is that 1 the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions is not banned, and I ea.n speak only of the present," said Mr. G. W. Davis. Deputy Commissioner of Labour, amplifying a statement reported m the Free Press on Monday. "I would like
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      'Complainant ought to be prosecuted'
      449 5 pIE Ipoh District Judge described as "disgraceful" the behaviour of the Secretary of the Eurasian Association of Ipoh, Mr. C. Atkinson, who alleged ihat one Francis Valentine Perera had attempted t o extort from him. The Judge, Mr. Adams, said he was sending the case
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      SEVEN MEN ON ARMS CHARGE
      211 5 Free Press Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Tues. BAIL was refused to an Indonesian, Ahmad bin Hassan, who, with six Malays, will stand trial at the next Kedah Assizes on a charge of illegal possession of 103 rifles, 51 rifle barrels and 18,540 rounds of ammunition. The
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      12 5 WHERE HE OUGHT TO LIVE Trust-built quarters for artizans off Balestier Road
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      78 5 RICARDO PEREZ the International Dancing Stars are APPEARING TONIGHT at RAFFLES HOTEL INFORMAL DANCE 9 p.m. to Midnight PATRICK FORBES HIS ORCHESTRA Admission to Non-diners $1.40. SEA VIEW HOTEIT MOOWUI LAWN— THLKSDAY A SINDA* D Lf\l)|\(, .\GAIX WITH A MUSICAL NOVELTY \N D INTERPRETED BY JULIAN FOORMAN mCMBim OR(HISTRA JA
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      128 5 A Selected List Of Fiae Recordings. NOZZE DI FlGARO— Overture (Mozart) CO6I FAN TUTTE Overture (Moeart) Berlin State Opera Orchestra D 1224 CAPRICE VIENNOIS Kreisler) COPPELIA BALLET (Automatons' Dance and Waltz) (Delibes) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. D 1272 VALSE TRISTE (Sibelius) SERENADE, Op. 63; Flight of the Bumble Bee (Volkmann)
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  • ENTERTAINMENT...
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      10th Tarzan
      449 6  -  BOB THOMAS A.P. By Correspondent, THE screen's tenth and latest Tarzan is muscular Lex Barker. Alexander Crichlow Barker is his full name and, as Johnny Weissmuller's successor, he farces a life of keeping fit. After all. as the screen's loin cloth actor, he has to keep a shape
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      MUSICALS ARE BETTER
      385 6 By BETTY GRABLE, A few years ago theatres around the United States used to put signs on the marquees promising, "This Ls Positively Not a Musical/ Luckily that day is gone I hope— forever, for musicals are what I like to do, what I ■do best, and
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      FILMS ON CHINA
      306 6 By Ralph Dighton, A.P. Correspondent PRODUCTION of lilnw 1 about religion, and especially religion m China, is assuming important proportions m Hollywood. Latest to be released is a documentary movie titles "My Name Is Han." dealing with what its makers call "the Dew era of Christianity m
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      30 6 MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT makes a radiant picture with film star JAMES CAGNEY at Broadway's May fair Theatre which she attended for the gala premiere of Cagney's "Time of Your Life".
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      Bridge Problem
      432 6 WEST opened the spade fiv« Dummy ducked and East's kng won- South dropping the sixspot. The contract htnged upon East's return and dp did not fail to realise it or to make the proper play. It was a low club, away from the kinp. right into the teeth
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      FILM WAR?
      766 6 By OUR FILM REPORTER A CONTROL committee of British Government experts and American film chiefs m London is being formed to interpret and carry out details of how Hollywood may spend the film earnings it has agreed to leave behind m Britain. The Anglo-ÜB. film agreement was signed
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      DANCE TIME
      75 6 P 1 the' 1 them r th< I I I I and I of L I Convi I P v. I arro* I back) I THI \X'| KM Tl- I «*mv I you m*\ I wd :/> l expla I during I and I lint oJ dan as-^li
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      34 6 RESTAURANT t\) ORCHARD J|]v TELEPH AV^y We nrc pleas/\Jr A GENERAL V l REDUCTION IN PR ICEb on nil items possibl* \m i- our high rfaadhri QUALITY SBRVKt ll GRILL ROOM OPEN NIGHTLY TILL
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      138 6 mdndrdkß Exclusive lo the Singapore Free Pres* m Malaya I DON'T TRY ANYTHINGFUNNY,BIGBOt:| I PLEASE" h r- 1 THE GENT WHO I I W-WHAT II FOR THE GHOST PLANE/ OR IIL DRIU YOU. M- WHAT WILL HOPPED THE PUNE? ARE WE YOU'RE GOING ON THE VNDEfiGRUUNU.IN JjSL 7S J-J_. T^v^/n
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      COMPTON'S GREAT EFFORT FAILS
      863 7 COMPTON'S GREAT EFFORT FAILS Australia win by 8 wickets wto™> From BILL BOWES AUSTRALIA beat England m the First Test which ended at Nottingham yesterday by eight wickets, Compton's magnificent innings of 184 runs failing to save the game. Miller, the Australian fast bowler, was booed for the manner of
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      Scoreboard
      199 7 ENGLAND Ist Inn* —165 AVST9LALMA I*l. Inns —5*5 ENGLAND— 2nd. Inns Hut ton b Miller 74 Wash brook c Tallon b Miller 1 Edrich c Tallon b I. Johnson IS Comptan hit wicket b Miller 184 HardMaff c Hassett b To&hack 43 Barnett r Miller b BUI Johnston g
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      7-0 WIN FOR KOTA RAJA
      51 7 paying with the nrst to the Cub m a 1 BP v-ague ;.ing vester- x 7—o. :n all »forf bal' tune he O.irhan. Ich had n *3ls 1-0 was more Malays r own red three I 1 vi midand Rittivaa; 1 Shantf Ihrahhn Ub Greer;
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      Indians win at Johore Bahru
      85 7 •vole S ngapore he J ban CYMA ao at table n Sunday. aos en* am Principal j Leslie rianJced Qim display ■6 hope-: >s boys do rix'.ures. ed on t S:r.gapore Indians, i Catholics. I Chin j j SP. S Naidu < D Suppiah 3,
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      BAD NEWS FOR IAN JOHNSON
      18 7 BAD NEWS FOR IAN JOHNSON n v it at a. cable that had ■*hen he .■.I his R
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      BID TO SMASH 3 WORLD RECORDS
      26 7 BID TO SMASH 3 WORLD RECORDS vT... l been V*. .->\"u.< f\i< .<> ?ra«ue rrc Ta s n a tres .tr.d f.-. and records or, th. A.P.
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      Eurasians & Airmen Draw
      96 7 Eurasians Airmen Draw KATONQ Eurasians held the RAF. (Tengah) to a goalless draw m a second division SA.P.A. match played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The R.A.y. attacked throughout but they found the Katong defence hard to gtt past. Credit must go to C. Alphonso, the Katong custodian, for bringing off
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      No Orchids wins Ascot stakes
      397 7 T*HE most fashionable crowd since before the war packed Ascot's green lawns to watch the opening of the four-day Royal Ascot meeting yesterday. The afternoon was notable for the thrilling finishes, the victory of French horses m the first two races and the success of
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      Don's 'Duck'
      47 7 l -^..OMAN'S duck was only his third during three tours m England. The tioo previous occasions were m 1934 when J. Davies, playing for Cambridge University, clean bowled him, and later m the same month, against Hampshire, he was caught by Mead off Barm. Reuter
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      NINE U.S. WOMEN WIN QUEEN'S CLUB TIES
      295 7 NINE U.S. WOMEN WIN QUEEN'S CLUB TIES AMERICAN tennis stars gained a stranglehold on the women's singles m the London tennis championships at Queen's Club yesterday. Nine Americans and one South African, Mrs. Sheila Summers remain m the event. Six of the Americans are m the quarter-finals, the rest m
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      Edrich may be dropped
      84 7 ENGLAND'S team for the second Test against Australia, starting at Lord's on June 24, will be announced on Sunday. The inquest on the same, ended yesterday, will bring inevitable changes. Bill Edrich is right out of form with bat and ball while Bar nett has failed
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      U.S. tops seedings for Wimbledon
      127 7 FRANKIE Parker and Mrs. Margaret Dv Pont, formerly Margaret Osborn, both of the United States, are seeded number one m Uae men's and women's singles events respectively m the all-England lawn tennis championships which begin at Wimbledon on Monday. An indication of the almost complete
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      Stadium Soccer
      33 7 Indian goalkeeper Razak m a scramble for the ball with Yin Kee and Peters m yesterday's first division game at the stadium which the Rovers won by four goals to one.
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      Indian player sent off
      303 7 Rovers 4 Indians I WITH their defence weakened by the absence of Osman Angullia, the Singapore goalkeeper, the Indians suffered a 4 l defeat ait the hands of the Rovers, who not only maintain their Div. 1 lead but have improved their goal average. Ttere was
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      Selections by 'Call Boy'
      56 7 gELECTIOXS by "Call Boy" fur today arc: Race 1: ADVANTAGE Totland Wonder Bird Race 2: HARVEST MOON Golden Slipper Olympic Flame Rare 3: ELEGANT ART Carlton R«p 4: ROYAL 801/NTY Sylvan Lass The Raven Rac« 5: EVEREST Crispian Ecliptic Race SPRING IP Neptun* ullinan Race 7:
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      KANE TITLE FIGHT
      53 7 THE European bantam ntlo fight b v. t I Perrachln of Itnly. the h Britain's Peter Kan- ha back from July 16 ue-rau-M 1 the Italian chair.: injured himself. No announcement va- ir. to tho nature of the Ferrachin who won tbe trie by beating Kane m
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      Leading County sides win again
      302 7 rIBY, Glamorgan and Warwickshire, the three leading Counties m the championship table, won their matches which concluded yesterday. Derby are first with 84 points, Glamorgan second with 76 and Warwick third with 68. Derby beat Leicestershire by 141 runs, Glamorgan beat Kent by 278 runs
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      CRISPIANFOR BIG RACE
      669 7 From EPSOM JEEP FLEGANT Art and Crispian look the best beU a t Lj t Penang today, the second day of the Penang Turf Club's summer meeting. The weat! t T is fine and Uie going is likely to be very firm. CrLspian, with Bagby vp t
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      272 7 F.P. Crossword No. 412 l WMI WMI WMA I 15 |6 17 I H" ||I 2 i 3 14 i5~ 16 pi? W%b 71 m m W?-. TfT ?o Wfi. W%. w mm 30 31 E|s"sr 54 mi jib mw' *H I 1 11 wk bi U CLUES ACROSS 4.
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      PALESTINE WATCH BEGUN BY UNO
      411 8 PALESTINE WATCH BEGUN BY UNO Arabs offer solution THE United Nations Security Council last night de--1 cided, without discussion, that its President should ask all member and non-member governments to help prevent immigration into Palestine or Arab States of persons likely to infringe the truce. Meanwhile, the uneasy Palestine truce
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      NSW towns flooded by rising river
      101 8 SYDNEY. Tuesday. HUNDREDS are homeless. towns have been flooded and crops ruined m the wake o* the worst cyclone to hit northern New South Wales for 50 years. An official warning said the cyclone was still .iifying. Army supplies have been sen: lo distressed
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      3-power split on new Germany
      225 8 3 -power split on new Germany PARIS, Tuesday. I FOLLOWING a conference between the French Foreign Minister and the British and American ambassadors, it is reported that France has appealed to the United States and Great Britain to accept last-minute changes m the six- power agreement on Germany before th«
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      Nizam has to decide today
      78 8 THE Nizam of Hyderabad has asked for and the Indian Government has conceded 12 hours extension time m to give his final reply to the Government's draft agreement a Ministry of State official m New Delhi said last nignt. Members of the Hyderabad state delegation
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      RED PURGE EXTENDED IN BRITAIN
      108 8 LONDON. Tuesday. A MATERIAL extension of the scope of the "purge" of Communists and Fascists working for the Government m security poets has been decided on. the Ciril Service Clerical Association asserted tonight. It stated that the Air Minister Mr. Arthur Henderson, had Informed his
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      'Dual' citizens should not vote
      126 8 IN the Legislative Council yesterday, Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipal South- West) said it wt& no argument for extending the franchise to those people who were "playing the game of dual nationality, namely British subjects who &aw fit to take passports of a foreign Government."
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      'DOG FIGHT'
      180 8 Continued from Page 1 Mr. Goho was himself one of the biggest capitalists, livir? m "a palace." Mr. Jumabhoy began his I speech by quoting a statement made by Mr. Goho at the last Council meeting. Mr. Goho m commenting on an Indian statement publish- ed m the
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      THREAT TO U.S. VIA ALASKA
      89 8 WASHINGTON. Tues. IF air bases m Alaska were seised by an enemy power, every major city m America would be open to attack. Congressman Bartlett of Alaska, warned the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. Bartlett. tolling of "simply astounding accomplishments" m Siberia, said that the
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      BILL TO REMOVE PLURAL VOTING
      269 8 A BILL amending the Legislative Council Elections Ordinance was read a second time m the Singapore Council yesterday after a lively debate. The main change will be the abolition of plural voting Mr. Lay cock said that it was desirable to abolish the double member
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      WROTE 60 NOVELS
      28 8 Gertrude Atherton (90) who wrote nearly 60 novels, her biggest best, seller being "Black Oxen." m 1923. died yesterday. She was born m San Francisco.
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      56 8 Ruins of St. George's (Greek Orthodox) Church, wrecked m (he fighting between Arabs and Jews m the Old City of Jerusalem. The Arabs blame the Jews for damage to this and other holy places. The Jews say they occupied and defended no holy place which had not previously been used
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      TRANSPORT LAW REPEAL URGED
      207 8 O PEAKING m the Legisla- tive Council yesterday, Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipal South- West* urged that there should be no delay m repealing the Road Transport Proclamation introduced during the B.M.A. period which was designed "for an autocratic military administration." Mr. Tan said that up
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      Rubber prices
      105 8 I M-K 1 \l Mark* correapondem I riTfc ihm priM. «f ntkber at 11 *.m Urfay m foOow» 5E CU. rot UV »n bales Jaw 45V 455. No 2 8.5.8. fob ia baies June 44V U\ No S 8.8.5. fob ta bales Jane MS 4«V Toac *f atarkei:
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      City Fathers Criticised
      183 8 'Inexperienced AN attack on the present Singapore Municipal Commissioners was madf> by Mr. John Laycock, speaking m the Legislative Council yesterday on a debate on the Municipal Efieot iorw Amendment) Bill. He was replying to a statement by the Deputy President of the Municipal Commissioners (Mr. W.
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      LOWER LEVELS ON LAST DAY
      444 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesday. nntiE last day of the current trading period 1 brought lower price levels to most sections of the London stock markets, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Outstanding positions were being closed by speculators who had bought stock during the recent short
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      UNKNOWN
      278 8 HPHE new Chinese Premier fuf *<Uv x today blamed the strained s on Russia's failure to f u! rj> under the Sino-Soviet treat% „f am it? t>h[ ki% the fact that repeated d^J Moscow had proved of no Addressing: the Legislai i .also disclosed that present contemplating a curr<
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      UNKNOWN
      21 8 N 1 cone mbl. mon» her I for a Smubk and ab bed a: •o. N returr and retur Ftv.
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      261 8 BIRTHS TO JEAN, wife of W M Nfa Leod. on May 2€th. In Glnsirm, a *on lan Graham. BANPIELD— To Margaret nee Patrick, wife of Arthur G Banfield, at Dulwich Hospital. sth June, a son. Robert Howard. Both doing well DEATH SOYZA —At No. 8. Hicks Road. Kuala Lumpur, yesterday
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      31 8 Perfect Printing Is almost an impose bility but If Require SPSS! imctEN WORK OONFIDENTIAt NATI COLOI X W (|RK CRAF AVl>l! OR A\ IL trat: K)K STRAITS TIM^ S PRESS tTP
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      17 8 STORE HIGH TIDES Hir.H LOW Today 5.39 a.m.; 6 43 p m. Thurs 7.06 a.m.; 7.34 p.m.
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      36 8 WEATHER— Fair Wr lllttt report for ifee next 24 hours compiKd the 8.A.r.: Fair today, showers tonight and eariy Um«rrow. Wind: Sosth 5 to 10 kasis. Temperature: Max. 85 deg.\ Mm. 75 dej. Rainfall; .3 m.
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      165 8 Tke Uior Veh.clf* (Commerce By) Regulati*. NO IKE OF APPU( ATION FOB A H AILAGI PtKIHT TAKE NOTICE that me. Chop Teri. t, Trus. Johore Bahru. by occupation Pr»" Biscuit Manufacturers, intend to apply to 'J Transport, Federation of Malaya for t> use the goocU vehicle described m the lav
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