The Singapore Free Press, 21 June 1948

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1948 PRICE Hi CENTS
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    Police round up 300 suspects
    396 1 K.L. Red HQ found empty Free Press Staff Reporter JN their country-wide swoop on elements sus--1 pected of directing the wave of terrorism m Malaya, armed police this morning raided headquarters of the Malayan Communist Party m Kuala Lumpur. Simultaneously, throughout Malaya, raids were made
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    EVATT EVADED THE ISSUE'
    21 1 EVATT EVADED THE ISSUE' not Ausmst ppliI the policy Ma- r iero- -.id ject- bo I cer.ows ■toe.: exan? seap*. ourim-
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    Police round 10 illegal immigrants
    21 1 Police round 10 illegal immigrants Jk RCporttr first he in^I H an- ■nded at :hev nine 1 have -:r. f| 030
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    INDIGESTIBLE
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    GANG ROBBERY
    45 1 Pree Press Staff Reporter Fiv e Chinese all masked, one armed with a pistol walked through the open door of a shop m Guthrie Lane at 8 p.m. yesterday and robbed a woman, Sim Bek Khing. of cash and valuables valued at $180.
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    KICKS PISTOL
    44 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Walking across a piece of wasteland near Havelock Road, a European kicked a parcel which was lying on the ground In it he found a brand new .38 Wembley Scot revolver, which he handed over to the police.
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    THIS HAPPY BREED...
    117 1 i A SEMEN YIH (Selangor) contractor was charged at Kajang, with committing mischief by causing damage to the tombstone erected over the grave of a Semenyih towkay. It was alleged m court that because he was not given the contract, though he had been consulted as to
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    Moscow men in Malayan 'push'
    165 1 Moscow men in Malayan 'push WASHINGTON, Sunday. VI ALAY AN officials warned several months ago that Moscow trained Communists were being infiltrated into the Malay Peninsula and were disappearing into villages of the interior, according to Intelligence officials here. The Malayan officials claimed definite proof that the agents infiltrating into
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    DANGEROUS DRINK
    29 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese woman was admitted to the General Hospital after she drank washing soda m her room at Amoy Street yest rday afternoon
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    TWO CHARGED WITH MURDER
    103 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rO Javanese were charged m Court this morning with the murder of Tan Lai Swee, Chinese rag-and-bone dealer, whose decomposed remains were found on Saturday m the blukar m Winchester Road near the Alexandra military area. Police believe that the man was
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    St. Lucia town centre gutted
    75 1 PR the second time m 21 years fire yesterday complete'y destroyed the main part of Castries, capital of St. Lucia m the British Windward Islands. Not a single grocery or drug store was left standing and last night the 20.000 inhabitants faced serious food and
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    BOTTLE HIT WOMAN
    36 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Malay woman received minor head injuries when hit by a broken bottle m Palembang Road yesterday afternoon. Th? bottle was alleged to have been thrown by a child.
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    NEW KARACHI AIR LINK WITH SPORE
    112 1 TWO air lines, Orient Airways and Pak Air Ltd., haw been granted licences by the Pakistan Government to operate routes linking Karachi. Rangoon and Singapore, and Karachi to Colombo. Licences have been granted with effect from July 1, and the services will fly three
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    STRIKE ENDING
    18 1 The five day B lgian strike involving 250,000 metal workers may end tomorrow. Tension eas'd yesterday.
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    No blackout tonight
    63 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Distribution Engineer of the Electricity Department of Singapore Municipality, Mr. W. C. D. Ball, said this morning that repairs to the generator m the St. James* Power Station were still going on. They would be completed "as soon as possible." Mr. Ball
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    CAR CONVOYS IN PERAK
    67 1 CAR CONVOYS IN PERAK Free Press Special Correspondent IPOH, Monday. PW travel at night m Perak while m daylight Asian and European alike travels at speed, or occasionally m self-arranged convoys of three or more cars. Insurance companies have given a clear indication of what they think of the situation.
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    JOHORE O.C.'s SUDDEN DEATH
    67 1 MAJOR John How, Officer Commanding the Military Intelligence Wing, Johore Bahru, collapsed and died while out with a party m the Kota Tinggi area. He was taken ill while resting at the Lee Saw Mill factory and died before he could be brought back to Johore
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    CABINET MEETS ON DOCK STRIKE
    138 1 LONDON, Monday. T*HE British Cabinet, meets today to discuss A measures to deal with the week-old London dock strike, m which over 15,000 men have stopped work m sympathy with 11 who refused to handle "dirty cargo" without extra pay. But any decision to use
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    'OPIUM' SHIP STILL IN S'HAI
    40 1 THE French liner. Andre Lebon, whose departure from Shanghai with 168 passengers was delayed after the discovery of opium and other contraband by customs officials, is still m Shanghai 12 days after her sailing date.
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    PARIS REMEMBERS
    49 1 Lawrence Kelly Stadium, erected m memory of the nrst U.S. soldier to enter Paris during the battle of liberation, was inaugurated yesterday at Saint Cloud. Staff Sergeant Kelly reached Porte de Saint Cloud with shock troops on August 25, 1944, and died a month later of wounds
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    Man shot dead in Taiping
    233 1 Man shot dead in Taiping Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH, Monday. MORE than sixty arrests were made m the Ipoh area m early morning raids today. Among the prisoners were ten women. In Taiping, a few hours before the raids began, a Chinese was shot dead at Ayer Kuning by
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    INDIAN HURT IN AFFRAY
    73 1 Pree Press Staff Reporter THE Municipal ambulance service was called to two police stations yesterday. The first call was to Kandang Kerbau police station about 1.45 p.m. to attend to an Indian who was involved m a stabbing case. The other was to Rochore police station
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    RACKETEERS BATTEN ON MARKETS
    177 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Food Control authorities expect to uncover shortly certain price rings operating m Municipal markets, who by intimidation are preventing retailers from reducing their prices The Deputy Food and Price Controller, Mr. A D. Butler-Madden, told the Free Pjress he already had
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    THE PRINCESS
    24 1 Princess Elizabeth has been told by her physicians that her baby probably will be born on October 16, says the Sunday Pictorial.
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    S'pore 'secret society' arrests
    62 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE CJX> have arrested five Chinese and one Javanese over the week-end m connection with secret society activities. Om> of the prisoners had a detonator and some safety fuses. In addition two Chinese were arrested on a ban. ment warrant. They were
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    MRS McKERRON
    41 1 Mrs. PA B. McKeiron wife or Singapore's Cola, ial Secretary, was resting comfortably on Sunday at a suburban ho6pdLal aft r an operation on Saturday A hospital spokesman said her oondition "ls as eood as can be expected." A.P.
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    LADY MOSLEY DIES
    43 1 Lady Mosiey mother of Sir Oswald Mosley. leader of the pre-war British Union of Fascists, died m London last night. She uas an active worker for the Fascists before the war. and attended many Fascist ceremonies In black shirt uniform.
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    DO YOU KNOW SWEENEY?
    771 2  - DO YOU KNOW SWEENEY? ANTON By THE baleful, maio volent phant o m whose itations caused many sk nighty and a cable perturbation m a young war veterans 1 mesa m Singapore is still a frequent visitor but ions no more m. by mess members ;;>w regardance. i n m
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    Lake's lock is cut
    118 2 X'ELL. it has happened. Veronica Lake has cut her famous forelock, end Hollywood has lost her trademark. The shorn Miss Lake is very happy about it all, ye no id:a what a nuisajice all that hair she confided, moying her new coiffure of lose to the
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    15 2 can take dictation. 575 a week, and any unattached man m the office!"
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    Bridge Problem
    268 2 v\ 01 upt'iu-a we spade king I the «ijj lifin hi and d with the ace anc j another, when East rufTtd. r that, declarer still hac to lose a club and a diai: be vent down 80U points cr a hand where, with U breaks, he had
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    Malayan get-together
    710 2  -  Hall Romney By "A LOT of non- sense/ was the rather unmerited comment I heard from two quarters upon the speech which Lord Listowel, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, delivered as the principal guest at the A.B.M. dinner at Park Lane's Grosvenor House,, It would, perhaps, he
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    Listening by Light
    81 2  - Listen ing by Light ALTON L. BLAKESLEE By A NEW i he; the human never heard I and offers I p roach toward < trolline heart di. IW that turns the a be;it n<r h b^am- of Uiki-s pic sounds, recording a-; squii^pho' The m University ,f Mfd: live and
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      561 2 SI.NGAP(JK£ ammo Summary; 6.05 Youth me, wave bands: 8 to 11 30 am Efforts; 6.30 Personal Choice by 19 .81 metre* and 19 3H metres From 12AQ noon to Mlt p m Tadza Za'ba; 7 Time Sii^al: 7.01 11 30-12 am 19 84 metres 12 485 metres m the medium
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      211 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Doii.N today, >ou have v Hanj talents and r<ul pour of concentration m» that you can make the best use oj then ai all tim s. You know irhen the proper time comes lo make a decision and even if called upon m i i enter sency,
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    Britain U.S.A. confer on Middle East action
    33 3 J II G M..: shall, Britain and the United States m understanding that they tction intended m United States recognsulting Britain, this was an 1 I
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    OIL SUPPLIES CUT BY HOLY LAND WAR
    451 3 OIL SUPPLIES CUT BY HOLY LAND WAR European recovery threatened rE Palestine war has reduced world oil production by well over half a million tons m the past two j months, since the great refinery at Haifa became m- active, according to oil experts m London. Spokesmen of two big
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    U.S. colonel on Bataan 'death march' horrors
    95 3 far Fac- tarings of k by L y comm try-high-rai s for for I I pri- s Of the town oi .:id. Price American by Japan:iey could with the other The wounds were From 1 Ferthe treatment became md no rest halts *ed
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    U.S. TO ADMIT DPs
    25 3 U. S. TO ADMIT DPs R m- The Queen, visiting a Lancashire cotton mill, chats across a ivindcr to one of the operators. Mirror picture.
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    RHODES TALKS 'NOT FINAL'
    78 3 RHODES TALKS 'NOT FINAL' rHE United Nations Palestine mediator. Count Folke Bernadotte. said there would be no round-table conference at Rhodes when he arrived at his truce headquarters there last week from Tel Ariv. The Count stressed that the Arab and Jewish representatives who would follow him to the island
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    RFD 'TOO BUSY'
    53 3 RFD 'TOO BUSY French Communist ckputy Pierre Hcrve, a DoUUcal editor tor the Paris Commur. u>i mcr r i rig r. e**spaper L'H will his te In the Nutiunal mbly end of this ion H' it he could r.w ful] a r to hte m the ably, b-cau-s.? he had
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    NAMELESS GRAVE: MANILA MYSTERY
    221 3 NAMELESS GRA VE: MANILA MYSTERY A nameless grave m a Philippine Army plot m Manila excited the curiosity of Manila Chronicle reporters. Assigned t o find the secret of the unidentified body, they uncovered a tangled story without the usual I Hollywood ending. The occupant of the unmarked srave was
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    TRUMAN VETOES
    25 3 President Truman has returned to Washington from his trans-Continental tour still criticising the Republic-an-controlled House and promising more vetoes of its legislation A.P.
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    CANADA PLANS ARCTIC DEFENCE
    73 3 The Canadian Defence Minis l er. Mr. Brook Claxton, said la a luncheon addr ss: that much of the speculation about defence activiti s the Canadian for north was "quite irrrsponsible and exaggerated." "Our first efforts have been concentrated on learning how to exist m the
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    SSR out voted in Jap islands
    6 3 SSR out voted in Jap islands
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    OBJECTS TO U.S. AID FOR P.I.
    7 3 OBJECTS TO U.S. AID FOR P.I. N
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    'Foreign Morals' menace Soviet sport
    116 3 liHE "Soviet hsis asked athletic to purge Russian irda from foreign inttuLhy article was titled •Safeguard the Sport of Biirrom Foreign Morals The article said a billiards >our: being run m he Metropole Hotel and cornHere m a stuffy hall :ull of smoke, gamblin I'-
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    Wembiey 'no' to flags for Olympic Games
    118 3 Wembiey 'no to flags for Olympic Games A plan to spend £1.000 decorating the streets of Wembl?y for the Olympic Gam s was repeated at last night's meeting of the Toryma iority town council Said Councillor L. R Reeee: "The eyes of the world will b^ on Wembl- y the
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    Shrieks while Russian 'held' in flat
    305 3 'WHERE'S MRS. WSGGIHS' ASKS RED M.P. WHERE is- Mrs. Wiggins? "the dark woman m black," said to have been the housekeeper at Flat 19, Rugby-mansions, West Kensington, from which a neighbour heard "awful shrieks" during the time Soviet Colonel J. D. Tassoyev says he
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    JAILED AS SPY
    46 3 GENERAL Karel Janqusek, wartime hero of the! Czechoslovak air force wasj sentenced to death by a mill- j tary court on Friday on charges of espionage m company with a mystery woman. The sentence was commuted i immediately to 18 years m prison.
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    Mountbatten leaves today
    70 3 THE retiring G i G- M rml of Inc. Lady ilountbatten with daughier. L: Pa: Mountbattcn. will leave New Delhi for England UM At a Inr (well party Lord Mountbatu-n said: "Vv\ learned to love this country and the idea of leaving upall the Mountl family, for
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    REBEL REJECTS
    35 3 the v the Indo-Chines leader Ho Chi Minn has rejected the recent accord be- the French government and Bao Dai. former A mese emperor. re< the independence of Yi< within the French Union.
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    DOMINION REPRESENTATIVE GOES HOME TO EAST END
    128 3 MR. "BILL" JORDAN, High "i Commissioner for New Zealand, took an afternoon off to visit some of his old i haunts m the East End of London. It was also a reunion party for Mr. Jordan who was born In Hoxton. educated at
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    1947 MEN GET QUICK DEMOB
    82 3 A MINISTRY of Labour announcement shows that not only will releases from the Forces be completed by the end of the year for all men serving on December 31. 1946, but releases of later recruits will begin m November. Total releases and discharges from mid-June,
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    THIRD WHALING
    18 3 A third Japanese whaling expedition to the Antarctic has been authorised. General Mac Arthur's headquarters announced.
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, June 21, 1948. Let the people know
    527 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, June 21, 1948. Let the people know yu. i beei ide *N public concerning either > meetings at the CommissionerI Mr Malcolm Maci CommisSir Edward Gent. the G ol Sinsaklin Glmson, i rrhe mtry. No Executive Coun- the Federation and k re b»ung kept •mcd.
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    China & modern medicine
    750 4  - China modern medicine H. G. W. WOODHEAD By THE difficulties of adjusting a civilization that has remained virtually stationary for several centuries to modern scientific methods could not, perhaps be better exemplified than m the case of Western medicine. The pioneers m the introduction of Western Medical science have been
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    Planes for sale
    686 4  -  GEOFFREY GELDARD AIR COLUMN By ESTATES, a n d a proposed Flying Club at Kluang, are among the bidders for 28 Auster V aircraft offered for sale u> the British Stores Dis^o sals Board (Singapore). The Austers aiv R.A.F. surplus and most of them are m good
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    EYES for the WORLD
    284 4 BRITAIN, with the eves of the world on her economic situation. is earning dollars by giving eyes to the world. Overseas orders for more than a million artificial eyes, a trade monopolised by Germany before the war. have been placed with one firm alone. Not only
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    Second eleven at Empire talks
    487 4  -  NOEL MONKS By THINGS aren't go- in ii too well with Mr. Attle« I immonwealth get together, and it is doubtful if any of the Prime Ministers of the Big Four countries will attend. If they do it will be separately. But the Prime Minister
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    FAITH
    19 4 Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knoucst not what a day may brine forth. Proverbs 21: 1
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    Flying motor cycle
    6 4 Flying motor cycle T KTENAI EM
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    USSR OUT FOR MORE RUBBER
    366 5 USSR OUT FOR MORE RUBBER picture Steadying effect on the market Free Press Staff Reporter DUSSIA, whose purchases of rubber have L amounted to about 20,000 tons in the past j five months, seems to be keenly interested in considerable quantities of this commodity, according to trade sources. While it
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    U.K. TEACHERS FOR MALAYA
    46 5 Iv kj new appointments to the Colonial Education Service m Malaya have been announced by the Colonial Office. Mr. G. Sutcliffe. of *iTWtflftcr. is to be a mathematics master and Mr. James Sutherland, of Tayport, Fife, is to be a science master
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    NEW MALAYAN LAW BOOK
    8 5 NEW MAL AYAN LAW BOOK 1 he I
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    MALAYA JOINS EMPIRE DRIVE
    241 5 Food for Britain Free Press Staff Correspondent TMF Tv T tm LONDON. (By air mail). THE T.N.T. (Spare lime and talent enterprises) orI ganisation m Malaya is taking part m a movement which, m two years, has brought 200.000 tons of food m sift parcels to
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    Selangor CID holds Jap Army doctor
    161 5 Selangor CID holds Jap Army doctor KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. j Japane.se ex-Army doctor, Capt Takashibashi Riutaro. his Chinese wife, and Chinese— three ol them ged to b member* of strong arm squads of a power: ul secret society— w re rounded up early this mcrnmi by the S langor CI.D
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    FELL FROM BUS
    35 5 A 31-YEAR-OLD woman, Luh Quee Eng, who fell off j moving omnibus near the junction of Orchard Road and Phoby Ghaut shortly before midnight on Saturday was admitted to the General Hos-
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    'Lessons forgotten,' teachers say
    254 5 Frtc Press Staff Reporter YOUNGER pupils m English schools have to cover a 10l of lost ground, m the opinion of their teachers. Except m the primary classes, school children are now attending classes on Saturdays. Teachers are of the opinion that children m the primary
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    'Prison babies' unknown here
    295 5 Free Press Staff Reporter DABIES born to women prisoners m Singapore do O not bear the stijjrma of having been delivered m a prison, because it has always been the practice to send expectant prisoners to the maternity hospital. Commander G.E.W.W. Bayly. Superintendent of Prisons, told
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    PARADE
    43 5 THE VS'IOX JACK IS SARAWAK: Pictures taken during the King's Birthday parade m Kuching, chief town of Sarawak, showing the presentation of an award by the Governor. Sir Arden Clarke, and Sir Arden taking the salute at the march past of scouts.
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    Princes cuts prices
    86 5 FALLING m line with the official appeal for a voluntary reduction of prices, Princes restaurant has cut its charges for a wide range of food and drinks. Giving some examples of the cuts, the manager said that a whisky measure had been reduced from $1.20 to $1.00.
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    STORE C.Y.M.A. CENTRAL H.Q.
    70 5 THE Central c.y.m.a., beadquarters of the various branches of the Catholic Young Men's Association m Singapore, has been opened at the former Royal English School m Bras Basah Road. The Bishop of Malacca, Monsignor M. Olcomendy, has donated cups for football, badminton and table-tennis. The football
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    FISH CATCH DROPS BY TWO-THIRDS
    133 5 FISH CATCH DROPS BY TWO-THIRDS SINGAPORE ate In m't 10.9 million kattic^ 1 1 i cipal markets compared \x h 9.6 mdU -;i h landed J« 1946. This is believed to be principall] fact that m 194G the Colony rid i fresh foods than during the imported foodstuffs and a
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    Laundry rates 40 p.c. cheaper
    114 5 A FLEET of vans will soon be collecting clothing irom agents all over Singapore under a scheme launched by the Colony's ne? mechanical laundry. Equipped with American machinery of the latest type, the Joyce Electro-Steam Laundry is capable of handling 4.000 pieces of clothing a
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    CHINESE IN P.I BOYCOTT JAP GOODS
    380 6 CHINESE IN P.I BOYCOTT JAP GOODS MANILA, Sunday. •pWENTY-four powerful Chinese business associa--1 tions, under the leadership of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, have clamped a rigid boycott throughout the Philippines on Japanese goods. In the most decisive action yet taken m the Philippines against Japanese trade revival members by
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    NEW UNDER-SEA RESCUE SHIP
    57 6 HMS RECLAIM, built as a deep sea diving and submarine rescue ship, was delivered to the Royal Navy on Tuesday. She is fitted with diving bells m which men can submerge to a depth of 800 feet, and carries submersible guns to fire steel-tipped air lines
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    NEW INDIA ENVOY
    25 6 Sir Rama Rau, Ambassador and Chief of the Indian Mission m Japan, has been appointed Indian Ambassador to the United States. A.P.
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    ENERGY IN SAND
    72 6 Australia is concentrating thorium from the sand on her east coast beaches for use m atomic energy projects. Ei-Kina MUhddl of lloumama and hLs bride. Princess Anne of Bourn n Parma, leave the private chapel 0/ the Greek Royal Palace m Athens, after their wedding. Also m
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    DOCKS FOR KARACHI
    38 6 Pakistan will establish twin dry docks at Karachi, one fur naval retteli up to 10.000 tons and the other for merchantmen of 15.000 tons or monIndia has dry docks nr rii cutta and Bombay A.P.
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    ANGLO-INDIANS' PAKISTAN PLEA
    202 6 LAHORE. THK An^ltHlndian community m Pakistan has 1 demanded Christian ministers. Resolutions to this effect were passed recently by Die Sind and west Punjab branches of the All-Pakistan Anglo-Indi m Asisociatifm. r the Wi Mr. E. '.iie AU-I ol the ?st Pun- asked to face such ser
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    The fascist who forgot
    52 6 An involuntary Fascist salute is given by an Italian volice sergeant as he tries to calm the people m court who clamoured for the head of Herbert Kappler (r: former Na:i S.S. officer, on trial for killing 335 Roman hostages m the Ardentine caivs massacre m
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    "Ultimatum" to stop smuggling
    183 6 "Ultimatum" to stop smuggling CHINA feels Hong Koiifc i s r cewt anti-smuggling pm t Ml fia^ demand a change m the statu- h thai Knlis j' colony if the illegal flight of t hirt apital^JJ cea»e, an unimpeachahle fjovcmmwit source United Prt^- I orob n H China considers the
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    STRIKERS OUT TO BUY STORE
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    STRONG ALL-MALAYA TEAM SELECTED
    603 7  - STRONG ALL- MALAYA TEAM SELECTED CRUSADER By China will get a close game r *c.v wndi must nave Deen a hard task not t< make it an All-Singapore side, the Football Asso Kit ion of Malaya selectors have produced an All Malaya side of nine Singapore players and two fron
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    Phillips routs Sel. batsmen
    202 7 II of bowline b > ne Perak skipper, A. H-Philh; um&mtA the first four Selangor tsmen for m r ids m the second innings, helped nk I victory over Selangor m their fe match pi »w l a Ipoh on Saturday and yesterLnnings lead of 27
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    PARKER IS 5-4 FA VOURITE
    266 7 WIMBLEDON OPENS TODAY rile cream of the world s amateur lawn tennis players will begin the 62nd contest for the Wimbledon championships, regarded as tantamount o the world title, at 2 p.m. B.S.T. today. The United States players who, with the Austrasharinp: In the mixed
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    'Louis is in for surprise of his life'
    21 7 I i i i the t I for k :;:r util>ns A. P.
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    HK cricketers disappoint
    511 7  -  CRU SADER By lIONG KONG'S cricketers were a disappointment m their first match m Singapore m which they were beaten by eight wickets by the moderately strong Singapore Civilian side on the S.C.C. padang yesterday. After Saturday's play which saw Singapore gain i a first innings lead
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    INDIANS WIN BY THREE WICKETS
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    Scoreboard
    208 7 Scoreboard HONG KONG—lst. lows. 88 SINGAPORE CIVILIANS—IstInns. 135. HONG KONG —2nd Inns MM. Little lbw Colling 21 A. D. Pantun lbw CoUtn* T. A. Pearce lbw Kaila.sa.pit thy 4 J. P. M. Hope b CoUlng 4 H. Owen-Hughes c Kaila*apathy b Growde* 5 J. M. Gosano run out 35
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    Bradman signs 3,500 bats
    93 7 DON BKADMAN. trie Ausralian Test cricket >tain last night completed one ol tii biggest autograph jobs 0| his can tr— the signing of 3.500 cricket bats which are to be s nt to Australia this week. This is also the Australia:. s' contribution to the British
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    BRITAIN ANNEX BRIDGE LEAGUE
    76 7 BRITAIN won the European Bridge League championship on Saturday, defeating last year's champions, Sweden. by a very narrow margin.. "The British and Swedish teams scored a total of 16 match points each but earlier m the tournament Britain had beaten Sweden and thereby finished as the
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    13 7 Br. tain's oivmpic soccer team wore defeated two-one by a Dutch A .P.
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    SEVEN DROPPED CATCHES HELPED AUSSIES
    318 7 SEVEN DROPPED CATCHES HELPED AUSSIES From James R. Chambers FRTY thousand Yorkshire cricket fans saw their county eleven once acain shake up th<* Australians at Sheffield on Saturday. Many more thousands couldn't get m to the ground as the eatrs were shut at half past twelve Earlier this season Yorkshire
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    Indian jockey successful
    509 7 Indian jockey successful From Free Press Racing Correspondent A M. Poshni, only Indian jockey on the Malayan turf, made the grade at his first meeting: here. He gained his initial success on Raffle in the griffin handicap on the second day and on Saturday he steered Silver Spear home in
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    Barnett out of Test team
    269 7 T^NULAAD'S team for the second Test m against Australia beginning at Lord s on Th day will be selected from the following: ('captain,) Kdrich, llardstaff, Huti i Washbrook, Dollery, Bedser, Wright, Evans 1 Young, Coxon. The selectors, as was expected, are B leave the bulk
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    Philip's team beaten
    29 7 Philip's team beaten pKINCE FhUip, D oner :esi> h Philip made Tint )Oscd of hi 'ricnds, imeludit taval officers, against am :leven of R<>pal Household faf 7 3- A.P.
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    TENNIS TITLES ARE SHARED
    94 7 HAILSTORMS and h rain Hooded the Qu Club courts and caused abandonment of the linals of the London tennis championships on Saturday. All titles and pri: shared. In the nvn's singles California's Bob Falkenburg split the crown with Eric Stui of South Africa. America's Doris Hart
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    $-MILLION GATE
    39 7 uul oiitAuss. aciing aireeO tor of Twentieth Century Club, predicted yesterday gross receipts would one million dollars <U.R the heavyweight title b< ut between champion J and Jersey Joe Walrott. He said that the vii. $700.0(K U.P.
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    TWO BURMA BOXERS FOR OLYMPICS
    40 7 THE Olympic Assod I Burma has selected I Thant, V. and Hard at\, to I Burma fit the Olympic b tourn m Lon The team will 1< ay« Burma by air on July S.— U.P.
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    KRAMER WINS TITLE
    28 7 JACK KRAMER. 1. Wimbkdon chamnion. w.in thp American pn 4 tennis Lh?mpi" B« bby Ra.. I, 6—2. 3— t at For New York. day. Reutrr
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    FLOW OF AID GOODS TO BEGIN
    310 8 FLOW OF AID GOODS TO BEGIN Cuts m funds are restored WASHINGTON, Sunday. MARSHALL AID goods will begin to flow to Europe almost at once as the result of President Truman's dramatic week-end victory m the Congress battle over the European Recovery Programme. Only the President's signature is now needed
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    BEAU GESTE FATHER
    121 8 BEAU GESTE FATHER SOUTH ALL (Middlesex), Sunday. WOM Baxter, SS, is alone and nearly broke at his home here today. He is suffering from an incurable lung disease. But he is happy. He knows that his 14-year-old daughter Margaret will have a better chance than he did. Yesterday he stood
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    UNION CALL TO LONDON STRIKERS
    95 8 UNION CALL TO LONDON STRIKERS LONDON, Sunday. THE Transport Workers' Union local committee for the port of London today called on the 15.000 dockers, whose strike has paralysed the port, to resume work tomorrow. Similar appeals by trade ua on and Government leaders have so far failed to end the
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    140 SOLDIERS POISONED
    54 8 AN army cook's accidental use of insecticide powder m preparing the midday meal on Friday poisoned 140 Nationalist soldiers at Tuiiu. 10 miles south of Tientsin. Fifteen of the most serious cases were moved to hospital m Tientsin. Two died on the way. The rest are m
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    'Peacerests with Stalin and Truman'
    215 8 'Peace rests with Stalin and Truman' NEW YORK. Sunday. ONLY a meeting between President Truman and Generalissimo Stalin can bring an over-all clarification of controversial issues between the two countries, a general easing of world tension, and the peace and tranquility the world needs. That, at least, is the opinion
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    INTERNATIONAL YOUTH BRIG ADE
    37 8 YOUTH labour brigades from 13 countries will soon join 250,000 young Bulgarian volunteers on national reconstruction projects Among countries represented will be Albania, Rumania. Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia. France. Denmark. Switzerland and Austria. A.P.
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    STORE HIGH TIDES
    14 8 TVxiay 11.19 a.m.; 10.19 p.m Tuesday 12 04 p.m.; 10.55 p.m
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    Hyderabad may appeal to UNO
    274 8 LONDON, Sunday. AS New Delhi crowds and the Indian Government bade a warm farewell today to the retiring Gov-ernor-General Ix>rd Mountbatten, and Lady Mountbatten, tension continued to mount between Hyderabad State and the Indian Dominion over the accession crisis. It is reported from Karachi, capital
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    POLICE SWOOP IN ARGENTINE
    52 8 BUENOS AIRES police arrested 200 Communists m an early morning raid yesterday on their headquarters m suburban Avellaneda but released nearly all of them. Only those wft-h police records w§re held for further tioning. Arrests were made because the party was meeting without special per--5s >n.-
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    ENGAGEMENT
    41 8 TAN—FONG. The engagement I place on 20th. June 1948 bttwW Mr. Tan Moh Choon, eLiest son of Madam Goh Kiat :h:k and the late Mr Tan Teck arid Mm Nelly Fong Kiang youngest daughter of Mr. Mrs Fone Piane Chov.
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    MARRIAGE
    36 8 JENKINS—CARTER. On June at St Man's Cathedral Perth W. A. Miriam Brenda (Bumf) daughter of Mr. Sc Mrs. W W. Jenkins of Singapore to Joseph son of Mr Mrs. D O. Carter of Perth W.A.
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    US modifies ERP money conditions
    170 8 WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Willard Thorp, indicated m a cautiously worded statement today that the United States has sharply modified is original proposals for controlling currency values among Marshall Plan countries of Western Europe. The issue is understoood to have been
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    SOVIET SEEKS SIAMESE TIN
    39 8 rE Siamese Government has lifted export control on tin ore which is now exportable anywhere. The Soviet trade representative at Bangkok last week offered to buy an unlimited quantity of tin from Si am. Reuter
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    ENVOY TO CHINA
    19 8 Former Australian Minister to the Netherlands Mr. F. Keith Officer, has been appointed Ambassador to China.
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    'FRENCH DESTINY IS MENACED'
    224 8  -  de Gaulle ■says VERDUN, Sunday. ALL the air-raid sirens m Verdun, heroic fortress rV town of the first World War, scneched lor 10 minutes as Gen. de Gaulle was about to begin a speech commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the 1916 victory. Police rushed to the
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    Rubber prices
    69 8 A SPhCIAL Market currespondtm tivet> the prices of rubber 11 am today as follows: Bayers SNier* Cts Cta per Ib ocr <b Hrn I Spot loose 45 s 46' M So i R.S S. fo6 m bales July 46 H 46 S, No i R.S S tot, m
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    THE CHOOSEY HUSBAND-HUNTERS
    219 8 London, Sunday. DRITISH women learned to- day that they do not have to be Rood cooks, chaste or even physically attractive to catch husbands. In a nationwide poll by Britain's Federation of Psychiatrists British men stated that they did not object, to marriage with a woman even
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    OFFER TO BEVIN
    27 8 The Lusi Woolwich Labour Party is inviting Mr. Ernest Bevin. the Foreign Secretary. to bocome candidate for East Woolwich at the next general election.
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    Republicans to find candidate
    101 8 nELEGATES from 4fi states are converging on Philadelphia for the Republican Party's national convention to select the party's candidate for November's Presidential election. Leading candidate m what is expected to be one of the most dramatic fights m America's colourful political history are Governor E. Dewey
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    REDS CAPTURE HONANCAPITAL
    210 8 SHANGHAI, Sunday. /CHINESE Communist* today stormed into Kaifeng provincial capital of Honan and one of the Nationalist strong points m that battle zone. Severe casualties are reported on both sides. Meanwhile, m a fresh bid to carry the Red offensive into the Shanghai area, scores of Communist
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    25 killed in Cairo blasts
    106 8 CAIRO. Sunday. D ESCUE squads were tonight work i n k desperately among the debris m the Jewish quarter of Cairo where two early morning explosions destroyed eight houses and damaged many others. Casualties were Riven as 25 people killed and 54 injured— 3T seriously.
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    WOULD RICE OUTPUT UP
    77 8 A TWO per cent, increase m world rice production attributed mostly to bigger acreage m India was reported by the United autes Department of Agriculture yesterday Production is still, however, four per cent, below the average prewar production. Tota production was estimated ai 7,150.000,000 bushels compared
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    Greeks begin big offensive
    230 8 THE Greek Army today launched its long-awaited all-out offensive m the grim peaks of the Grammos Mountains along the Albanian frontier rhis American -directed attack aims at smashing Hh mountain strongholds of the Communist guerrilla? under "Gen. Markos." If successful, the offensive will trap and wipe
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    Germany split Soviets blame Britain & U.S.
    64 8 Germany split Soviets blame Britain U.S. IN a letter to the British and m governors tonight. Marshal Vassiii^ N Russian Coir mander-in -Chin m ni L ed the Western German turrrno **J "illegal decision taken without ihe'iJ^JjM agreement of the Control Couik ii He said: "You have a^ currency and
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    DENTISTS' 'NO'
    37 8 The representative board of the British Dental Association, whose members number 8.000 out of Britain's 15.000 denu^Us decided yesterday by an overwhelming majority not to take part m the Labour Government's new national health service.
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    French Govt. bid to cut living costs
    192 8 French Govt. bid to cut living costs PARIS, Sunday. THE Schuman Government tonight prepared to launch a new drive to cut living costs to stave off another wave of strikes. The middle-of-the-road coalition appeared strengthened for the time being at least by the French workers' halfhearted response yesterday to the
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    Dying man laughs at jail sentenc
    35 8 Dying man laughs at jail sentenc Vivr. ha.: I ten I he f»ir.t*d »t he i <*« him ihax hlrr ~<« tte teHe Wlttrrtl JWJ 1 Unu*c "J IK on thf Bank *~2 1 sol < 23 U.P.
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