The Singapore Free Press, 19 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE 111 MALAYA I SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    One arrest in Perak murder
    320 1 One arrest in Perak murder Strike threat on mines Free Press Staff Correspondent 'HE Sungei Siput police last night arrested a Chinese m connection with the murder of Mr. A. E. Walker, on Elphil Estate on Wednesday He is Chin Piang Nam, a 24-year-old labourer on the estate. As police
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    MORE PAY FOR GAS WORKERS
    161 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal gas workers will get double pay for Sunday work, if they have worked the full week and, by checking on procedure m other Municipal departments, a ruling will be fixed regarding Sunday pay for men who have not i
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    THEY ARE SILENT
    46 1 THEY ARE SILENT s -.porter H or I m com- S to to :he uve tre of w-pt s Pac lyan pro- i Jit n of n: ha, and. sterto for 3 ight t. C m We thia n of i Qaor i P sit i.
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    POLICE THEFT HAD SKELETON KEYS
    6 1 POLICE THEFT HAD SKELETON KEYS a
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    ALACCA RD OPEN
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    Died after bus fall
    57 1 porter woan a movJ»a'. I3U) mUe It is believed that the woman fell to the floor of the bus but got out of it unassisted when it stopped. She was walking towards her home nearby when she collapsed on the roadside. Sergeant Hingston of the R
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    Dockers' strike meeting tonight
    171 1 Free Press Stall Reporter A MEETING of the Singapore Mechanics and Engineering Workers' Union will decide tonight whether 600 dockyard workers will go on strike. A strike originally set for today was averted after a meeting late yesterday between workers' representatives and the legal representative of
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    SWEEPSTAKE ON DEATH
    73 1 Free Press Special Correspondent BITTER European mine and estate managers m Tapah and Bidor. m Perak. have organised a sweepstake among themselves the winner is the one who guesses rightly when, where and atMinst whom Malaya's terrorists will strike next. None of the dates picked go beyond
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    'MUST BE MET WITH FORCE'
    98 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON. Friday BANDITRY and Communist- inspired terrorism m Malaya can only be met by force, says the Economist m a long editorial on the outbreak of violence m the Federation. The journal says that the Communists have attained their present influence m
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    TURTLES TURN
    51 1 THE iormal transfer of the* Turtle Islands from British to Filipino sovereignty will be mark d with a oeremony at Taganak Island on June 26 Dr Diosdado Macapagal of the Philinnines Foreign Affairs Depart Vent will accept the nine islands (pop. 500 > from a Resident of North
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    POLES SIGN PACT
    15 1 Poland and Hungary have signed a 20-year pact of mutual assistance.- A.P.
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    REWARD OUT FOR SECRET SOCIETY CHIEF
    191 1 REWARD OUT FOR SECRET SOCIETY CHIEF Pree Press Staff Reporter 'PHE C.I.D. has offered a 1 reward of $500 for information leading to the arrest of the Chinese who ftred two revolver shots at another Chinese m Blanco Court on Wednesday. The victim died at the Oeneral Hospital. The wanted
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    Creech Jones 'gets the bird'
    92 1 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. A. Creech Jones, was hooted and heckled by colonial students last night when he spoke to a Fabian Society meeting on the economic problems of the British Empire. Once it took the chairman several minutes to restore
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    Sweeney' is friendly now
    77 1 Free Priss Staff Reporter A -HOST tint for months has alarmed a bachelors' mess m Singapore with his errie visitations is now on good terms with the occupants, and has been nicknamed "Sweeney Todd." The spell was broken when an Irish member of the mess came
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    S'HAI CUSTOMS ON STRIKE
    58 1 TWO thousand Chines? Customs employees at Shanghai began a sit-down strike yesterday following the rejection oi their demands for one month's advance m wages and pay adjustment Oil the scale given Government bank staffs. High Customs sources intimated that the strikers were being stirred up by
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    'DO YOUR JOB', H.K. UNOFFICIALS TOLD
    165 1 HONG KONG, Friday. THE duty of unofficial members of the Legislative 1 Council was the representation of public opinion, but they were too much afraid of being unpopular by adverse criticism of the I administration, said Mr. Charles Loseby, a lawyer, addressing the "V"
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    VIETNAM THREAT
    28 1 Reuter Dr. Ho Chi-minh, Vietnam) leader, yesterday broadcast to his followers to increase sabotage m areas occupied iby French troops and to I "shoot the colonialists."
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    1,200 toll of quake, flood
    234 1 SHANGHAI, Friday. A dearth toll of over 1,200 was reported today from the typhoon area of North East Hunan Province and the quake devastated regions of Chengtu. near the Sino-Indian border. Chengtu has had a total of twenty severe shocks, but news of the extent
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    6 DIE IN TRAIN FIRE
    29 1 Six people were burned to death and others injured when a flre broke out m a passenger train m Central Franco last night.- Reuter
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    BBC TO HAVE $6 MILLION RADIO HERE
    243 1 BBC TO HAVE $6 MILLION RADIO HERE Free Press Staff Reporter WORK is shortly to begin m Jonore on the erection of four giant radio transmitters for the British Broadcasting Corporation. There is to be battery of four 100-k.w. transmitters, which will make the new station the most powerful m
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    THIS HAPPY BREED...
    77 1 I AN amateur lire eater is undergoing treatment at Bangkok's Central Hospital for internal burns. At a farewell banquet for a friend he mistook a red hot coal for a piece of red roast pork and popped it into bis mouth with his chopsticks. A.P. 2 FROM
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    MASSES BACK IN MALAYA
    63 1 Free Pr«ss Staff Reporter THE Australian Com: sioner for Mala-. Claude arrived b m Singapore last nishr a five -week visit to Austr. visiting "all th^ Australian officials who are interested m Malaya 'I have no commt make just now" he told I Free Press, when
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    HOLLYWOOD ANGRY
    23 1 Hollywood is to ask the State Department to protest vigorously to Britain against the new British 45 per cent film quota.
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    STOP PRESS
    31 1 The Hong Koiik cricket team won the toss and are batting m their two-day match against the Singapore I Civilians which started on the padang at 11 a.m. toda.v
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    BOX FOR SALE
    2957 2  -  Moyle Caddy A SHORT STORY by SAMUEL JOHN McQUIST hesitated before the fastidious show window of Monmart's, his curiously goatish eyes restlessly sliding over its contents. He was dithering again. He tried to shaKe off the slow, awful feeling of irressolution that was creeping over his mind
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    17 2 "No, I didn't say he was mad said he's a cad, as m Cadillac convertible!"
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    Bridge Problem
    149 2 'J'HERE arc no trumps. South leads. North and South are to win four of the five tricks against any defense. (This problem was composed by P. C. Bazett Jones of England.) South makes the spade nnc and: 1. If West discards a club North throws a diamond and
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      1095 2 SINGAPORE I STTCTDn* TB I Alessandre Valente; 7.20 Famous Yours for the Asking; 1.55 Comr w«** HUaiWlUfl Overtures "Der Freischuta" by posits Programme Summary; 6 Pnia li-Ot bood to 2 04> p.m. I 4. 0f p.m. to 11.15 p.m. VLAS Wober; 7.30 Sunday Night Station Opening; 6.02 Thirty to 485
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      244 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are rather imperious by nature and are much too inclined to keep aloof from others. Strictly an individualist, you do not easily confide your hopes, aspirations or ideals to another. In similar fashion, you find it equally difficult to tell anyone of your dis-illusinnnv-nts
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    MORE SIAMESE GIRL STUDENTS
    5 3 MORE SIAMESE GIRL STUDENTS DFGDFG
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    RAPID RISE IN U.K. EXPORTS TO NEI
    108 3 chairman of the British t for the Netherlands East hat the ability of British P&Ctt*: upply capital and consumer goods pidly increasing. i i i ii > I i i and effectively rehabilitated. But the contribution of British men must be limited ;ire
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    Stalin wooed US as ally in 1941
    335 3 WARTIME SECRETS REVEALED DURING ihe summer of 1941 Stalin wanted America to fight Germany while Winston Churchill wanted tie I.S. to stop Japanese aggression with a Mreat of possible war, says Robert E. Sherwood m Colliers magazine. Sherwood, one of President Roosevelt's intimate
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    UNO WAR ON DRUG SMUGGLERS
    399 3 UNO WAR ON DRUG SMUGGLERS Troops m China: Planes m Mexico LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. THE United Nations are carrying on a war against drug smugglers and clandestine manufacturers. In Mexico and China it has been real war with infantry and even planes. In the United States, Canada, India and several
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    ing and Queen the Royal tournament
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    NO USSR LAW BANS STRIKES
    87 3 T>ADIO Moscow says reXX ports that strikes are forbidden by law m the Soviet Union are a "downright lie from beginning to end." In reply to the "slander talk" about living and working standards m Russia, the English language broadcast says that no law ever
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    JEWS FLYING U.S. BOMBERS TO PALESTINE
    120 3 ITNITED States Government departments are investigating the illegal departure of three "war surplus" B-17 Fiying Fortresses which are said to be piloted by Jews and to be bound for Palea-ine. Before war surplus property can leave the United States, a licence is required from
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    Killed 'good time girl'
    131 3 A.P. I^HE iirst death sentence was pronounced since Home Secretary Mr. Chuter Ede revoked the blanket reprieve established on April 16 for all murderers. George Cyril Upton. 41--year-old London engineer, was senUnccd at the Old Bailey to be hanged for the murder of a young woman,
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    KASHMIR REPORT IN SEPTEMBER
    50 3 iTKE United Nations Ka^h- mir Commission hop s to finish the iirst stage of its .mediation m the IndiaPakistan dispute m time to r port to the General Assembly opening m Paris m September. The commission will fly to India at th end of June Reuter
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    W. INDIES PROTEST
    39 3 The Barbados House of As- sembly has tabled a motion protesting against the "apparent hostile attitude of the British Government to news of the arrival m Britain of 500 skilled West Indian workers i seeking employment."
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    He missed his boat-and how
    175 3 THE captain of a Destroyer, charged at a court martial! with failing to board his ship before she went to sea. des--iv, rw. „,nH hv hiK t cnbed ho* he raced by**,L police car, taxi and motorboat -and then missed the boat by Gorge Herbert
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    P.I. fear Jap trade rise
    95 3 THE Philippines Secretary of Finance. Miguel Cuaderno. on his return to Manila from ECAFE conference, commenting on recent trade agreements with Japan said won't be lone; before Japan's economy is again at the 1930--34 level at least. .Here is food for thought for the countries
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    African security and fate of Italy's colonies
    232 3 COUTH Africa has told the Big Four Powers that the future of Italy's pre-war African colonies if "inextricably bound up with the security of the whole Simonis African continent." The Dominion laid down three "general considerations" for the Big Four m their job
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    BOY MAESTRO
    61 3 Aii audience of kj.ouo packed the giant Harringay Arena, London, to watch the 10-year-old Italian boy, Pierino Gamba. conduct the Liverpool Philharmonic Or- j chestra m a programme of I Mozart. Schubert. Wagner and Beethoven. OLYMPICS J: Miff Anne Curtis, record-breaking .swimmer, is to marry Gordon Cluneo, California,
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    50 UN guards for Palestine
    100 3 LAKE SUCCESS. I D B A "FHE United Natti na A .srnd 50 uniformed men i the U.N. Guard F- Palestine today to help s, i| vise the Holy Land tnu Almost all will be Anit- •c they make up i i per cent, of
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      59 3 TAItZAN Unseen B\ Edgar Rice Burroughs "t^ANWK~LE" ONCE AGAN m m 6 ELEMENT ANS UNMAA\P£SE3 IV&W 4 1 v^^ /V.l. t r "i^ j, \V^ -"#n AS^ 3-T MOVEMENT BElOw *i?riN 5?=£25 THffOoGH TMg TREE -TOPS lW\ I f|A\^\ J^> Jisi2Ktt>' il A., V -># ATTRACTED MiS ATTenton »'hAEEE..nS o*=
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, June 19, 1948.
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      Hyderabad and War
      394 4 *PHE talks between HyderaI bad and the Government of India have broken down iiany times, or have appeared to, that it is difficult ro take the latest crisis m their relations very seriously. But this time Pandit Nehru has spoken openly of the possibility of war. and
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      Indonesian hitch
      164 4 IT is a moot point whether the Security Council's new interest m the Indonesian dispute is going to be helpful or whether it will not merely confirm the deadlock. The moment it was known that Indonesia was on the agenda again there was a noticeable stiffening of attitudes,
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    Battle for Trade Routes
    1010 4 U.S. MARINE FLEET DWINDLES By FRANK WALKER Reuters' Correspondent THE United States merchant fleet, once the largest m the world, is rapidly dwindling under fierce foreign competition. When the war ended, the United States had a merchant fleet twice the size of all foreign rleeis combined.
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    THE TRAGEDY OF BENES
    712 4 By H. A. MARTIN CDUARDBENES tenth child of a peasant, second and third President of a State, co-founder of Czechoslovakia, stepped down. "Exhausted dispirited, sick," said a member of his household when questioned about Benes's long silence after the Communist putsch m February of this year.
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    FAITH
    21 4 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. Job: 17 A
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    'AFTER DEA TH MARRIAGES'
    535 4  -  JACK SMYTH By Re liters' Correspondent A SEC RET decree, entitled "After death Marriages/ signed by Hitler on November 6, 1941. is today providing jucL on all parts of Germany with an outsize m headaches. The decree, sent by the Fuehrer to Wilhem Frick, Reich s-minister
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    School for refugees
    176 4 By THOMAS ALDEGUEK Reuters' Correspo? THIN A is ihorq have a uni<jjt university one entirely by ret professors for refi students. The new instit; will be located m Pc former national c. and one of the n*l greatest cultural educational centn is expected to draw 8,000 students
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      8 4 3 Famous COW&GATE tfonc A^eou;^ JACKSON co>l H
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    MUNICIPAL STAFF ASKS MORE PAY
    423 5 MUNICIPAL STAFF ASKS MORE PAY On Govt. scale of allowances MUNICIPAL employees fit Singapore have asked the Commissioners to grant them a cost-of-living allowance on the same scale as that recently approved for Government servants. "It may be argued tha/t because the scales of basic salaries proposed for Municipal employees
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    PENANG TRADE RECORD
    53 5 PENANG TRADE RECORD i.iidrnt i illed > of April kaUMd ex:V356 I the Car ada the <ing -jbber at 2 85(i >082 5 415 r xport _s the m the rest One of Holland's greatest musicians. Jo Juda. is commg to Singapore where he wrll give recitais. Juda is a
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    RECORD PEST DESTRUCTION
    9 5 pests k does houI oeen •plies.
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    FELL 20FT, DIED
    35 5 SUNGEI PATANI, Friday A Chinese mason, Cheong Ah Tan, died from Injuries received when he fell 20 feet while working on the house of the Executive Engineer, Central Kedah (Mr. R. Waddle.
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    'The more you learn, the better' – C.-G.
    182 5 'The more you learn, the better' C.-G. rE Commissioner General, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald told 50 men. attending an adul: education class m! Handy Road, last night "it j will not only be good for you but also for your country", if they continued to learn. 'The more you learn
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    FIVE YEARS FOR ARMS
    161 5 IN the Singapore Assize Court yesterday Mr. Justice Thorogood told a young man. found guilty of carrying arms, it was possible he would not have been m trouble had he not been sent to Jail m 1946. The man concerned, Lim Kirn Lee, who gave his
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    High post for local man
    98 5 A LOCAL candidate. Mr. G. A. Tissensohn, has been appointed Assistant Administrative officer, a superscale post, m the Department of Civil Aviation. Mr. Tessensohn Is the president of the Government Clerical Services Union, and serves on the committees of the Singapore Recreation Club and the
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    Straits Chinese urged to vote
    220 5 FHE political strength of Straits Chinese British 1 subjects m Singapore is only between five and ten per cent, of what it should be, says the Straits Chinese British Association, urging members to co-operate m geUing eligible Chinese to register as voters m the Legislative
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    Govt. to stop issuing pulot, broken rice
    215 5 picture. THE Government intends to stop the Issue of pulot and very small broken rice. The Food Controller (Mr. S. R. Crocker) yesterday said that all issues to rice retailers will now consist of wholegrain Burmese rice. The issue of high grades of
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    Opium seized on frontier
    59 5 Free Press Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Friday. KEDAH Customs officers yesterday stopped a car near the Kedah -Siamese frontier and seized about 1,200 tubes of opium. A man was detained. The car was proceeding towards Alor Star when it was halted at the 13th mile, Ko-diang-Jitra road,
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    MORE JAP GOODS ARRIVING
    126 5 Free Press Staff Reporter HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars worth of Japanese goods are pouring into Singapore. Reflecting business trends, the Trade with Japan Office during the last two months completely wiped out a huge backlog of orders for all types of Japanese gooda. Ships which
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    Alumni is framing code for doctors
    194 5 rE southern branch of the Alumni Association of the College of Medicine has formed a standing sub committee to "discuss and formulate views on medical ethics m Singapore." This committee is ascertaining the views of members on the subject, states the annual report of
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    EYE SURGEON
    34 5 Dr. Wong Kin Yip, Medical Officer (UA.), Grade I, has been appointed to act as Ophthalmic Surgeon and Physician, General Hospital. Singapore, during the absence on leave of Dr. A. D. Williamson.
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    WORLD CIDs HELP MALAYA
    372 5 THE Fingerprints Bureau of the Police Criminal Registry is m touch wi<th all important organised fingerprint bureaux all over the world and whenever a man is arrested his record can be obtained from his country of origin. The Registry is linked m tlus way with Scotland
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    MUST PULL DOWN HUTS
    124 5 PROSECUTING m a Rural Board summons case, m he Sixth Police Court yeserday Mr. M. D. Bascaran .aid the military authoriti s n Singapore want the Rural Board to demolish 14 huts lear the Ceylonese Pioneers' Uamp at Woodlands because he huts are being os:d for
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    Playground turned into temporary car park
    269 5 Playground turned into temporary car park Free Press Staff Reports ANEW car park sprung up m on» «he busiest and mo>t gested parts of Sin^a, i city. The new parking ntr a triangular plot <»f land m Finlayson Green, apposite the bus terminus. 1 site was formerly Mad a playground
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    GIFT TO COLLEGE
    37 5 KUALA LUMPUR A. G. Shaik ol tnr F Match Factory. TVluk A2 S has given $8,000 to t-nabl- I Malay Girls" College. X Lumpur, to have a much larger and more valuable UI brary.
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    MAN OF THE WEEK Don't rush the 'Boy'
    452 6 MAN OF THE WEEK Don't rush the 'Boy' WHATEVER hyste- ria is worked up over the performances of "Boy" Hilton of Lancashire and they include the wickets of Bradman (twice), Robertson, and Edrich as well fine county form is not shared by the 19-year-old Oldham boy himself, who was the
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    SOCCER BRIBES?
    108 6 ILLEGAL payments to Enc--1 li.sh Soccer players, trie subject of special Investigation* by the Football League, still remain to be proved. At the Len<*ue annual n m London pn Mr W. C. Cull said no real evie had b >en found. "An informant/ said Mr CufT. "had named
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    America's athletes
    265 6 America' s athletes AMONG the Olympic athletic events m which the United Statcfl may hold the upper hand at Wembley Stadium this summer are the two hurdles races and the long jump. With such stars M Harrison Dillard and J. W. Smith m the hurdles, and Willie Steele and Lorenzo
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    THE FASTEST GAME IN THE WORLD
    648 6  - THE FASTEST GAME IN THE WORLD KEN JALLEH By EJASKE TBALL the fastest game m the world is gradually superseding football m popularity among Malayan Chinese. Introduced into Malaya by some of China's greatest basketball players over 20 years ago, there are more Chinese throwing the ball today than .there
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    Speedway surprises
    6 6 Speedway surprises than: I I I
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    STARS OF TOMORROW
    418 6  -  C OURTCRAFT By THE favourites are m grand form, and there is every indication that' each of them will win through their respective quarters and hattle it out m the semifinals of the Singapore junior badminton championships. In the men's sin three Mayflower r^presentati are strong favourites
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      294 6 _£^J Great World Wrestling Arens^ '0 Another Triumph Of Great h\? fFIVE THRILL FILLED CONTESTS VI j| A TERRIFIC TOP LIN. I ki\(. 01 nu hint. KING KONG HEAYI VM IGHT < H\Mri<»\ «>! I PROVED BIS I \*> HV Hl> Dl I OF MORRO IN 4 KOI MX IX^l
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      83 6 {WELL, I MUST STiCK To»\ Y\ WONDFR WWITU nr^ 1/ T r7~ HY SARCA.N, FR.TZ-AMdV >IhoSE BOVS^of VED ISeltTad" Too -S DEAR- ,TS MUCH EAS.ER 1 V JLVc£'o E <? R P S A >THE PROBLEM?^! iT MAXE f UP FACE THAW \FORA PROPOSAL/ .RATHER HOPE \T WAS < UNWORLDLY'-
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    HUTTON BOWLED
    36 7 Len Hutton has his stumps shattered by Keith Miller after he had scored three m trie first innings of the first England v. Australia Test at Trent Bridge which Australia won by eight wickets.
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    Favourites in demand today
    688 7 From EPSOM JEEP DUNTERS are going solidly for the favourites at Penang today, final day of the Penang Turf Club's Summer Meeting. The weather is clear and the going remains firm. Hottest favourite of the day will be Dear m the Sprinters' Handicap. He is likely
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    SHELL SPORTS CLUB SOCCER TEAM
    127 7 T*HE Shell soccer teem to play ■CataKt SRC. on Tuesday. Padane is follows: Wor.g Leong Yuen. Chon^ Pitt Chong, John Loh G Davies. J. V. H. Geeks. Lav Horn? Pook. Ttoang Chocrjg Hee. Boon Yoon Cheong. Np Heng Kwang. Loo Eng Whatt pnd Phua Boon
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    China Olympic XI beaten
    60 7 THE Chinese Olympic foot- ball team was beaten for the first time on its Indonesia tour on Tuesday by the Macassar, Celebes team. The Chinese lost 3 to L after trailing one-nil at the half-way mark. The Dutch captain allowrd the Chinese to bring two new
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    CRICKET TOURISTS A STRONG SIDE
    621 7 By KEN JALLEII WHEN the Hong Kong cricket eleven lost to Malaya by an innings and 112 runs m the last inter-port cricket "Test" played here exactly 22 years ago, one of the reasons for their heavy defeat was the absence of their finest all-rounder,
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    Singapore v Negri in Cup Today
    62 7 i imf the .hen i»"" k on jit** sf mbi C^s^nie of their sup- foil* ir J m the forward j^nt about LfLthf lin«"- u P toda >- S«yiiam» tock m thc pi.iv it ruht mJl think Ike J«» iiS Rahman SalKamid hye He*.
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    S.C.S.A. DRAUGHTS
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    VON NIDA WINS
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    GLAMORGAN HEAD COUNTY TABLE
    343 7 Middlesex fail by three runs GLAMORGAN went to the head of the County cricket championship table with a magnificent innings victory over Essex. Following their record first innings total they shot Essex out twice m spite of interruptions by rain For this they had to thank
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    ROYAL ASCOT MEET ENDS
    222 7 a at^vsi o iuur-a»y rouyai meeung concluded yesterday with the Queen Alexandra States, the i longest race m Britain, which was by the French -bred but British trained Vulgan who had been second m the Ascot Vase on the opening day. Vulgan, a five-year-old son of
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    Perry plans to help British tennis
    164 7 I Brit -s In IT. r. do v i Sob be rr -v -x> go JWfcsrionai --vent at title worth having m the tworld, but he has an but retired frnen oompftitive tennis BS "Since I left the American Army m October 1945 I
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    Pakir could not match experience of Kamis
    287 7 rE speed and youth of A.G.B. Pakir, recent indoor tennis champion, were of no avail against the experience and crafty play of his elder brother, Kamis, by whom he was beaten him m two straight sets m a men's singles tie m the
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    AMBER B.P. WIN
    130 7 IJN a badminton match played on Wednesday between the Amber B.P. and the Oriental B.P. at the former's court, the Amber B.P. came out winners by five games to two. The following were the results Amber B.P. players mentioned first). Singles: Gan Be Keng beat Lim Hu
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    Selections
    49 7 SELECTIONS by Call B«y for U today's races are: Race 1: SPRING UP Waif Race 2: MARDI GRAS Race 3: FIRFMASTFR PIuU The Grand Abbot Race 5: SILVER SPEAR Ecliptic Mao Scott Race DEAR White Socks Race 7: SKYSTREAK Ilaydee Kirra Race 8: JOHN HAM Bon Ami ■mm
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    'My punch is sharpening'
    490 7 'My punch is sharpening From Joe Louis, special to the Free Press I^VERYONE seems to know better than I how I fer!. Additionally, there's a number people m tne United States who should know by this time i»*:ii gym workouts can be deceptive. Because I am not knocking: out sparring
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    RED ZONE CLOSED TO W. GERMANY
    394 8 Reprisal for money reform BERLIN, Friday. A NNOUNCEMENT tonight of currency reform on Sunday for the British, French and American zones of Germany, was followed immediately by Soviet counter-measures tantamount to closing the frontiers of the Soviet zone. Reports reaching the French Government tonight
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    300 perish in South China floods
    128 8 300 perish in South China floods CANTON. Friday THREE hundred persons were reported dead and thousands of others made homeless as flood waters inundated Taishan county, 70 mi] s south-west of Canton. This is the worst disaster m the area m 80 years. Meanwhile, the rain swollen East, North and
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    U.S. DOUBLES FIGHTERS IN GERMANY
    131 8 U.S. DOUBLES FIGHTERS IN GERMANY WASHINGTON, Friday. THE United States is 1 doubling its fighter Diane strength m Europe by shifting a unit of jet planes from Panama to Germany. An Air Force spokesman said the transfer of the fighter wing should be viewed "as part of the normal training
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    U.K. STRIKE: TROOPS MAY UNLOAD FOOD
    103 8 luinlmjn, *Tiaay. BKITISH Ministers were today believed to be discussing the use of trooos to save perishable foodstuffs held up by London's fivei day-old dock strike, involvi g more than 16.000 men and tying up more than 100 ships. News ot this developm nt
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    WORK JAP SHIPS
    21 8 SCAP has authorized the Japanese Government to build ■an additional 28 steel car^o I vessels for coastal use.
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    Chinese dollar slumps again
    165 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. THE Chinese dollar dropped another 15 per cent m value today. It took $2,300,000 (Chinese) to get one American dollar on Shanghai's black market. Commodity prices jumped proportionately, although strict control and threatened punishment kept the retail price of rice at the 510.000.000 a
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    Chinese Reds release nuns
    85 8 CHINESE Communists have released 41 foreign and Chinese Catholic nuns held since November at Hsinhsien. 90 miles south-west of Tient--rday A courier delivered a letter to the American Consulate 'it Tientsin, saying the sroup „:ng for Putowchen on the Grand Canal and would board the boat
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    TOJO WON'T HANG SAYS U.K. JUDGE
    149 8 TO JO WON'T HANG SAYS U.K. JUDGE IjR S. Comyns Carr, K.C., Britain's chief 11 prosecutor at the trials of Japanese war criminals, said on his return to England, "It s doubtful whether any of them will hang. rhe matter is one for Gen. MaeArthur, who ias the right of
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    Former US Nazi chief retaken
    71 8 MUNICH. Friday. FRITZ Kuhn. one-time leader of the German American Bund, was recaptured while trying to get a chemists licence. He escaped four and a hall months ago from Dachau I Internment Camp, where he was awaiting trial before a German denazification court. Kuhn said:
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    PLANES TAKE 222 TROOPS
    62 8 TWENTY -EIGHT new troop and cargo planes, each capable of carrying 222 fully equipped troops for 2,400 miles without refuelling, have been ordered by the U.S. Air Force as running mates for new long range bombers. Ramps m the nose of the plane will permit loading
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    TO QLELL RIOTS
    29 8 The Colonial Office announced last night that the 1.350- ton frigate Sparrow is ipe ding to Georgetown. British Guiana, where riotine broke cut this week. U.P.
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    16 8 De Beers, world famous diamond's firm, made a profit last year of £8,790,000 before 'x deductions.
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    AFRICAN FEAR
    42 8 A deputation of the Dutch Reformed Church m South Africa have told the South African Minister of Labour. Mr. B. J. Schoeman, that they do not favour recognition or coloured African Trade Unions because European agitators might abuse such organisations.
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    HYDERABAD ARMY READY
    227 8 HYDERABAD, Friday. lI YDERABAD State fortes are deployed at potential "invasion" points on the frontier as the Nizam and his Muslim ministers tensely await the Indian Government's next move following Pandit Nehru's warning of possible war. Despite the past three months' Indian blockad of Hyderabad which is
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    Colorado pest gains in Europe
    84 8 WASHINGTON. Friday. THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has received reports that the Colorado potato beetle is gaining ground throughout Western Europe from Portugal to Russia and a.s far south as Czechoslovakia. The pest is causing concern m such areas as Poland, where potatoes
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    Pit explosion: 61 Japs die
    71 8 FIFTY -FIVE bodies have been recovered, six mineis are missing and believed dead and eight have been injured In a gas explosion at Mitsubishi Katsuta mine at Umimachi. a few miles e^st of Fukuoka. Kyushu. The explosion occurred about 2.000 meters below ground. There were
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    RESPONSSIBLE SUDAN GOVT.
    42 8 THE Sudan will today receive 1 an ordinance srantins: elected and responsible Exe- j cutive and Legislative Ass?m- blies. These measures Ion" idrocated by Britain, have bocn delayed because of Egyptian i criticism of t.hp Hraff «r-^i nance Reuter
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    150,000 left U.K. in 2 years
    175 8 LONDON. Friday. THE Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, Mr. Patrick Gordan-Walker. told the House of Commons today that 150,000 Britons have emigrated to the Dominions m the last two years. Major Tufton Beamish, Conservative, said the British 'are cluttered up m an island m an
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    U.S. CONSCRIPTION
    35 8 The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill providing a form of conscription after Feb. 1. The Senate last week passed a different bill providing for immediate conscription for two years' service.
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    JAPS KILLED MEN TOO WEAK TO WALK
    163 8 YOKOHAMA, Friday. AN American Army Sergeant. Mlslard C. Smith, testified today he saw Japane.se troops mercilessly bayonet or crush with trucks captured Americans and Filipinos during the Bataan Death March. At one time In the march between 30 and 50 prisoners went crazy.
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    GILT-EDGEDS STAY FIRM
    537 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Fridav BRITISH Government securities once agaii provided the only firm note in the stock markets says Reuter's financial correspondent. Dul conditions were widespread in Industrials, whil Tins and Rubbers were irregular to higher. Proceeds from small sales of Industrials continued to find their
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    Rubber prices
    64 8 A SPECIAL Market corresponfen rivea the price* of rubber 11 A.m. today m folloir* Buyers. S«*ier> CU Cto per Ib. per It *o. I B.S.S. Spot loom 45 S. 45-^ «io. 1 K.S.S. rob In bales July 45-, 46 «o. I R.SS. fob m bales July 44 45
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    50 U.N. GUARDS
    26 8 Filty United Nations guard: n new tropical uniforms an :o leave the United Slates to lay by air for emergency iuty m Palestine.
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    Dutch arrest Indonesians in new round-up
    73 8 Dutch arrest Indonesians in new round-up rpWENTY-TWO Indonesian Kepuhli Ff^ 1 visiting Batavia were arrest,^ security force last night on chart** activities," it was reliably Warned *!S second mass arrest on subvers charges which Batavia authorities h' U l The United Nations < >e *a* Indonesia asked the Dir it
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