The Singapore Free Press, 22 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE I*) MALAYA i:.i* SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1948 PRICE 10 IK.MS
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    Angry planters in Singapore
    381 1 Angry planters in Singapore n boy maestro, ar-old Pierino Gamba, uho conducted the Liver" pool Philharmonic Orchestra before 10.000 people at :.jndon Music Festival, -incay. He conducted ■Mj-amme of Mozart, Beethoven and hout a score. Meeting on lawlessness Free Press Staff Reporter lOHORE planters representatives met m Singapore this morning
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    POLICE PUT OUT LALLANG FIRE
    55 1 POLICE PUT OUT LALLANG FIRE Free Press Staff Reporter pOLICEMEN played the role of firemen yesterday when approximately 500 square yards of lallang caught fire at the 12 1 4 milestono, Jurong Road. The police extinguished the flames before the arrival of an engine from the Central Fire Staion. No
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    FORD WAGE RISE
    34 1 The Ford Motor Company m Detroit has offered a 11 to 1! cent an hour wage increase to its 110.000 workers. The union had asf.ed for a M) cent increase. A.P
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    NEW 'RIOT' RATES FOR INSURANCE
    149 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE increased insurance rates announced by the Insurance Association during the present "period of apprehension" refer only to cover for damage occasioned by civil riot and* commotion. As stated m the Free Press on May 24 the new rates are applicable
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    CHINA FEARS RED BURMA
    45 1 Free Press Staff Reporter "fF Burma becomes Com--1 munist, China will have to take necessary precautions," said Mr. Tan Kok Chor. a member of the Eexcutive Yuan of the National Government at Nanking, m an interview with the Free Press yesterday.
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    HERE THIS MAN DOTH?
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    iam-Jap barter hopes
    45 1 ::ese Darter Siam nee, tin and ruD>?r for Japanese experts and r'P.dtfavour to arrange at m sterling instead of ■d States dollars. He expressed the nope that :he International Food Counwashington would permit Japan to import Siam rice for Japanese exports. Reuter
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    Moscow backs Malayan Reds
    174 1 Moscow backs Malayan Reds LONDON, Monday. INVENTS m Malaya are a grave accusation of the A policy of denying colonial peoples their elementary civil rights," said»a Moscow commentator m a broadcast heard m London yesterday. The killing of British managers of Malayan rubber plantations was "the result of a spontaneous
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    H.K.'s STATUS I N^LESTIO.NLD
    37 1 THE official Central Daily a said m Nanking '■rday that China was hat considering making any den: change m the present status of Hong Kong. ,n attempt to halt the -al from the
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    U.S. officials in S.-E. Asia meet in Siam
    110 1 UNITED STATES Foreign j Service officers from seven South -East Asia countrie* yry-tcrday began a three- day conference m Bangkok with the United States Am- bassador m Siam. Mr. Edwin F. Stanton. as chairman. Besides diplomatic and consular officers from India. Burma,
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    BOLLAERT FLIES TO SEE BAO DAI
    42 1 THE French High Commis- sioner for Indo-China. M. Emile Bollaert flew this j morning to Paris to resume negotiations with Bao Dai. former Emperor of Annam. concerning Indo-China 's fu- j ture relations with France, i
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    Soviet HQ in S-E Asia
    51 1 RUSSIA has rented a 40-room Bangkok hotel for her legation, the centre of Soviet diplomatic activity m South-East Asia. In October the legation will move into the Thailand Hotel, known pre-war as the Hotel Royal, and which senior Japanese officers used m a transit mess.
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    BLIND V.C. DIES
    36 1 Captain Sir Beachcroft Towse, president of the National Institute of the Blind and holder of the V.C. died m London yesterday, aged 84. jj e ewforAri t.hp army 65 years ago. A. P.
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    KIDNAPPED AT END OF A ROPE
    190 1 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. LEE Kirn Meng, son of a Scudai contractor, who was freed by the police after being m the hands of kidnappers for several days, told the story of his abduction m court here today when Pang Sew
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    Blackouts may be less severe
    87 1 Free Press Staff Reporter LAST night Singapore had its second successive power cut, but now that repairs have been completed future blackouts—if they become necessary—may be less severe. A statement m the Free Press yesterday that there would be no blackout last night was not
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    Spore left-wing ready for raids
    159 1 •f Free Press Staff Reporter SUSPECT left-wing organisations and certain secret societies m Singapore are known to have •cleared the decks m anticipation of police raids on their premises similar to the Federation— wide swoop yesterday, m which 600 people were detained for questioning. Like
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    THIS HAPPY BREED...
    47 1 r>OLICfc at the PaleUades I Amusement Park (New Jersey) discovered Bobby Thompson, aged 6, wandering by himself m a crowd. Arp you lost, sonny?" they asked. "No, I'm not lost," the little boy said. "But Daddy is." Police located his father through loudspeakers.- U.P.
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    49 1 A DEFENDANT before a Lucknow (India) magistrate demanded that the magistrate should give judgment m his cas^ immediately. Soon afterwards he hurled a brick at the magistrate, who was slightly injured. The man said that he did not consider that suflftctent notice was being taken of his request. Reuter
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    IMPORT BAN: CHALLENGE BY CHAMBER
    227 1 Free Press Staff Reporter pEPRESENTATIONS have been made to the Gov- eminent by the Singapore Chamber of Commerce on the Government's import policy, and the method of reaching decisions to prohibit various categories of imports. The action was taken at the request of the Motor
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    END OF THE NEWS
    28 1 A demand that the South African Radio Board stop rebroadcasting the 8.8.C. news was made yesterday by Die Transvaler, the Nationalist Newspaper m Transvaal.
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    3 more unlawful society arrests
    60 1 Free Press Staff R«porter THHREE more Chin. X arrt.su dby the C.I.D. UTday m the drive on n bers of unlawful m Singap>ore. They were Hokk;« were taken for enquir. Apart from Urn c ar--1 rests and a number m cm. lion with gambling, then
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    Why you brush your hair
    605 2  -  Jane Carpenter HOUSEHOLD PROBLEMS DEAUTIFULhairis only possible for completely healthy people. You can take as much trouble with your hair as you like, camouflage it as you will m various styles and shapes but if you yourself are riot I your hair must be a
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    COLD FEET
    73 2 Clever studio technicians and the power of suggestion can fool even the actors at times. In a woods scene of "Blood On The Moon," the now was real m some spots, and artificial m others. Barbara Bel Geddes, standing m a portion of the real snow for a
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    Cocoa For Us?
    256 2 LONDON LETTER I HEARD son:, ui.mistake■ablo titters— they seemed I .;;nine Lord Usro-},\i sugd m his ABM speech -'ly that Malaya might to add cocoa-growing present agricultural acWhy the remark M haw been the cause b I canrot for the me If the cccoa 1 grow m
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    Bridge Problem
    297 2 WEST, who had passed hoping that tin- vulnerable opponents would get too high, pounced on the three no-trump bid. But tJouth wa6 Charlie Lockr.ctee. sometime* called "Queal 1 one of the deadliest dummy play. s fver to sit at a card tablo. particularly wh^n the contlßCt w No-trump.
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    238 2 DOKN today, you have a rather unusual MMM of responsibility. You often fetl that the weight of whole world fenc <>n y (>U r shoulders, alone, and that you must ha-rn to solvo the problems of the uniwrsvl While it is well for you to take a
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    There's gold in those lids
    633 2  - There 's gold in those lids ALAN WATERS "Now, pay attention!" says Jennifer Duckett, aged lour, shown taking a clc months-old Cocker Spaniel puppies, at the "Doggo" Academy of which she is Pnn at her home m Angel Street. Petworth. NEW YORK. POLITICIANS, pundits, and pollsters tackling the far from
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    Star the Still
    8 2 Sta r the Still I I H 1
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      666 2 SINGAPORE n Last News Summary Pro- Lighter Vein; 12.30 Band of Urn grammes m Malay: 12 Programme Week; 1 p.m. World News; 1.05 From I^o noon to ZN p.m. Summary; 12.05 Musical Inter- Bing Sin*3; 1 15 Heard Melodu-. 480 metres m th* medium wave jiude. 12.45 News m Malay
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    WAR UNION MINISTER IS SWORN IN
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    ISH Films et spirit Australia
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    ang backs R. campaign Wife's story of husband's fall from cliff
    456 3 ang backs R. campaign Wife's story of husband's fall from cliff 3uch--1 next m ißftannrt k r m i 'TRIED TO MURDER ME' FTER listening to 23 year-old Doris Mary Gallop A for two hours, the Hastings England, coroner said that he could see no evidence that she murdered her
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    Ingrid Bergman to make a film in U.K.
    139 3 Ingrid Bergman to make a film in U.K. FILM STAR Ingrid Bergman has flown to England for a flvt-months stay m Europe during which she plans to visit France and Sweden a..d maK a picture m England. The picture will be called "Under Capricorn." It will be produced ar.d dincted
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    S'HAI RICE RECORD
    32 3 In spite of a ceiling: price of 10.000,000 dollars per picul fixed by the Shanghai Municipal authorities the best grade of white rice was quoted at 13,000,000 yesterday morning
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    HANDS OFF THE POUND' -U.S. TOLD
    502 3 HANDS OFF THE POUND' -U.S. TOLD I Marshall plan 'shoek 9 for U.K. By U.P Diplomatic Correspondent k LONDON, Monday. IGHTLY or wrongly, the British people believe r that the United States is frying to get control of the pound sterling as a condition of Marshall Plan aid. Even the
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    33 3 The fi st 1,500 Jewish migrants to carry State of Israel visas wetting from the deck as they arrive at Aviv. They were the vanguard of 14,000 due to am the neiv state.
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    CHIANG NOW DIRECTING OPERATIONS
    178 3 CHIANG NOW DIRECTING OPERATIONS PRESIDENT Chiang Kai- shtk is personally directing the Government's forces m Central China as a result of Gen. Pei Tsung-hsi's refusal to accept the supreme command of that area. Gen. Pei, who recently relinquished his position as Defence Minister to Gen. Ho Ying-chin. is now m
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    S'HAI TAX PLAIN
    27 3 Shanuhai factory owners, protesting against the proposed property tax beins: discussed m the Legislative Yuan, have petitioned the Yuan to throw out the proposal.
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    GUNMAN WOKE GIRL, TALKED
    260 3 A GIRL told Brentford, Middlesex, court that youth with a gun woke her m her bedroom, tried to punch her on the chin, then remained with her dozing and talking till dawn and promised to give himself to the police. The youth was said to have
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    Toy-making, a 'racket' in U.K.
    317 3 rY-MAKING is Britain's greatest racket, according to Mr. Jack Carter, one of the partner-operatives of the United Manufacturing Company. He was commenting on Mr. Justice Hilbery's criticism of the shoddiness of many toys offered for sale during a dispute over toy pianos m the King's
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    Colonel to sue the War Office
    91 3 Colonel to sue the War Office WRITS for damage against the War Office nave been issued on behalf of Colonel R W. G. Stephens, former commandant of the interrogation centre at Bad Nenndorf. He claims that he was deprived of his rights under the Army Act by a court of
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    12 ARE DROWNED
    21 3 Twelve people wire drowi ed yesterday when a wha collapsed at Strasa and plunged about 30 In! wa'er.
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY June 22. 1948 After the Raids
    565 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY June 22. 1948 After the Raids MONDAYS raids on Communist haunts m Malayan towns and on branches of the MPAJA were mostly over by dawn, but even so they we r e much too late m the day to yield really valuable results. In office
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1142 4 Don Iddon's Diary FROM NEW YORK THE holiday 18 over and the green lanes of England 3,000 miles away. The change is abrupt and harsh. Always it takes me days to get settled again, and this time it is worse than ever. New York seems a circus city, an enormous
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    FAITH
    33 4 "And (.o i shall wipe away all tears from tluir eyes: and there shall h«> no more death, neither sorrow for the former things ar e passed away." Revelation 21, 4. 1
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    Letters to the Editor Comment on 'coronets'
    452 4 Letters to the Editor Comment on 'coronets YOUR report of Mr. G. G. Thomson's broadcast headed "Uneasy Coronets" and published m your leader page last Thursday, calls for some comment. seeing that the constitutional issues involved are important and the general knowledge of these matters hazy. It is not correct
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    Misplaced apostrophe
    68 4 AS an old Queens' man I must point out that on page three of your paper last week you allowed a grave error to appear m print. Queens' College Cambridge was founded by two of the Queens of England The wives of Henry VI and Edward IV respectively.
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    Where Malaria Parasites Hide
    759 4  -  Dr. P. C. C, GARNHAM By m I WORK carried out byProf c s s o r H. E. Shortt and Dr. P. C. C. Garnham m the Department of Parasitology of the London School of Hy-T giene and Tropical Medicine on the hidden phase of
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    CHINESE IN JAPAN ARE PROUD
    208 4 CHINESE IN JAPAN ARE PROUD By RAY FALK HOW times change! Not so many J a^o China was suffering from the problems of cx-tra-torritorial rights. 1 spring China sent out her first <»ccupa:ion troops. A group of 40 Chinese soldiers now are on duty m Tokio. They are a token
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    Better than Pissar
    6 4 Better than Pissar H I. I
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    PRICE-TAGS IN MARKETS SHORTLY
    65 5 Also at the party were Mr. and Mrs. Esson. Mr. Esson is with Guthrie Co.. Ltd. Among those who attended the annual dinner of the Association of British Malaya at Grosvenor Hotel m London were Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Pratt and their son and daughter,
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    Legal experts study new law
    71 5 I- Staff Reporter the Singapore Food Control and the Deputy Municipal L lilythe, will shortly result kin- it compulsory for all ill-holders to display priceDefMUTtmeat spokesman told the the matter was being legal espefta. He expectlogislation would be pushed V I <i and B I
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    Govt blamed by Malays
    159 5 I HE Singapore branch of 1 the Malay Nationalist Party, m a statement, says that during the Japanese occupation, many Malays opened up new lands for agriculture, but at a time when their labour have just shoicn fruits, the Government is imposing very high taxes which
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    Acquitted of driving charge
    16 5 Acquitted of driving charge I an a ■\ned r id m .told case 1 x»en i
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    LECTURES ON DEMOCRACY
    23 5 LECTURES ON DEMOCRACY f G G s of I the Road on 1 ires will 28. The I I :;y 26. l'T/^ >nal
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    WARNING ON CHEQUES
    16 5 WARNING ON CHEQUES -sued I üblic I. Pting I India I from X M< ss on
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    480 REGISTER AS VOTERS
    55 5 FUR hundred and eighty four voters registered their names on the electoral rolls up to June 19. The first figures issued, up to and including June 12, showed a total of 169, and the figure of 209 for the following week, therefore, show a slight rise
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    NAMED DATU
    19 5 title of Datu has been conferred on Mohamad Zin Galau bin Matsrudin, says the Sarawak Government Gazette.
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    Institute to study tropical diseases
    347 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, (By Air Mail). "THE Colonial Microbiological Institute, to work under 1 the aegis of the Colonial Products Research < <>uncil. and intended to provide a centre for fundamental microbiological research m the tropics, is to be ned formally m Port-of-Spain,
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    Slum clearance plans outlined
    411 5 OEVERAL big plans the contribution of the ■3 Improvement Trust to slum clearance and the creation of better living environments m Singapore are outlined m a book covering the work of the Trust during the 20 years from 1927 t<> 1947. This is the first official
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    'HELP CHEER THE SICK'
    166 5 Volunteers are needed 4N appeal for volunteers who have "the interest of the sick at heart" to work among the patients m hospital once or twice a week is made by Miss Tanburn, Almoner of Singapore Hospitals. Making a plea for volunteers to help m this
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    FIRST IN 20 YEARS
    139 5 IN the Foreword U» the first official publication on the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. L. Rajman, chairman of the Trust, says: ''In previous years it was considered that the work of the Trust was not intelligible or of no interest to an apathetic puhiic or thai
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    Australia seeks co-operation
    232 5 CANBERRA, Monday. QPEAKING m the Australian Parliament, the »3 Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Herbert Evatt. said the extervt of Australia's co-operation with and understanding for the people of South-East Asia and 4 he Pacific was shown by the gTeatly increased value of Australia's trade m those
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    4,000 AIR RAID DEATHS IN FEDERATION
    258 5 CIVILIAN deaths from air raids and battle casualties are estimated to be not more i than 4,000 for the Federation up to the time of the Japanese occupation, according to official reports. There were many executions by the Japanese, and a heavy loss of
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    NO DECISION YET ON DEBTS BILL
    237 5 NO DECISION YET ON DEBTS BILL Free Press Staff Reponcr THE SELECT Committee set up m August 1 st year to advise the Governments on the Debtor and Creditor Period) Ordinance has not yet reached its final decision yet. Representations and criticisms from many public ana commercial bodies are now
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    RELIEF GOODS FOR SUMATRA
    49 5 SINGAPORE Chinese have d been given permission by the Dutch Consulate here to send a relief ship to Kuala Toenggal, Sumatra. The Overseas Chinese Importers' and Exporters' Association last month received an appeal for food and clothing from the Chinese Fraternity Union at Kuala Toenggal.
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    NEW SCHOOL ON PULAU BUKOM
    115 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ANEW school for Chinese j boys and girls will be opened m Pulau Bukom on June 27. Its construction has been financed by the Shell fompany, and has now made it possible for Chinese and 1 Malays to have different school
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    HEALTH COURSE NEXT YEAR
    278 5 A NINE months' course of instruction for stud sanitary and health inspectors will open Government Health Office m Fullerton Building on Jan. 3, 1949. The examination for the Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute, London, which takes place on the completion of this course, will occupy
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    WOMAN LOSES ARMS APPEAL
    157 5 IPOH, Monday. T*WO appeals involving illegal possession of arms and ammunition were dismissed by the Court of Appeal today. The appellant m one of the appeals was a woman, 00l Kirn Kee, who had been, sentenced to five years' imprisonment for possession of a hand-grenade and
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    U.S. MAY LOOSE UNITED NATIONS
    68 6 REPRESENTA'IIVE SOL BLOOM 'Democrat' said on Sunday that the United Stat.es wa.s m danger of losing the headquarters for the United Nations because the House of Representatives had failed to approve a US$65.--000,000 loan authorisation for needed buildings. He predicted that a move would be
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    JAPS FAIL IN RUNNING OWN AFFAIRS
    512 6 JAPS FAIL IN RUNNING OWN AFFAIRS Tokio not ready for autonomy AMERICAN occupation autihoriwes are still trym to decide how much autonomy to give lh Japanese Government. Several attempts have been made to encourag the Japanese into accepting more authority and mor responsibility for domestic affairs, but someihin usually happen
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    POND DEATH STILL MYSTIFIES POLICE
    177 6 IMPORTANT information, which fias reached Scut--1 land Yard detectives investigating the Potters B^r, Hertfordshire, golf course pond murder, has enabled them to build up an almost complete picture of the last movements of the murdered man. He is believed to be Albert Welch. 46-year-old railway
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    Ceremony that didn't
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    Plans for U.S. naval grouth
    96 6 •THIE Uniu-d States Senate 1 t&M accepted a $3,749,059.--250 bill to maintain and expand the Navy and Marines during the coming year. The bill— a compromise of the annual Navy appropriation passed earlier by the House of Representatives was List night sent to President Truman
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    MANY VOLUNTEERS FOR UNO ARMY
    65 6 UNITED Nations Secretary General, Mr. Trygve Lie, told the American press he was working: on details of a proposal for a small armed United Nations guard force to perform peace-keeping missions. He had discussed the plan with some great powers. Htsaid he was contemplating a
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    Jap people are religious, says Radio Priest
    144 6 wide circulation has been tt a umong Japanese Catholics to a sermon preached by Monsitnior Fulton n m Tokio. Monslgnor Sheen said that Amer.cans and the world should look for what was good m Japan and not for what was bad. "I say
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    STAFF CUTS IN CHINESE GOVT.
    54 6 /considerable retrench\J ment of stall is to tx- undertaken by the Provincial Government offices m an economy measure it is reported m the Chinese press. Some 500 employees are to lose their jobs next month They will be given two months' salaries and rice as
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    QUADS HAVE MANAGER AT FIVE DAYS OLD
    134 6 BRISTOL'S four quadruplet Rirls born premature- i ly by ceasarlan operation got i a business manager five days latfr— Britain's expert m managing the affairs of quads. Mr. G. B. Clements, a i Fleet Stre t journalist, made an agrevment with th? parents.
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    'Painless birth kills love' called nonsense
    194 6 I MEDICAL men m London described as "MOMMe" a [VI suggestion that investigation should be made into the t hot ay that the use of anaesthetics to give painLess births destroys mother love. The suggestion for an inquiry is made by Dr. J. A.
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    DAILY WORKER TO EXPAND
    68 6 THE Communist Daily Wor--1 ker. the "only daily paper owned by its readers", ■will increase its price to l^d on November 1 when it expands to full newspaper size. Expenses for a new sixstorey building and printing presses make necessary the raising of £30,000 m share
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    The ceremony that did
    50 6 (Above Field-Marshal Smuts m academic robes, leads the procession a being installed at, Chancellor of Cambridge Un (Bclowt: The same day sergeants of the Coldstream Guards m full uniform ana war medals which they thould have worn for the ceremony of Trooping the Colour. Reuter ptc.'
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    BRITISH AIR POLICY "FANTASTIC"
    127 6 BRITISH AIR POLICY "FANTASTIC" I GOVERNMENT policy at vf London Airr was sharply criticised to the 'ommons. when Mr R i.am Shepherd, Cons. MP lor Bucklow, declared: "It is absolutely fam^ that thLs country could conduct 1.500-bomber raid* on Germany during the war. but cannot maintain five air at Heathrow
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    Butcher boy of Id became her low
    116 6 A WIFE BUCCettfully pleaded band condonf*d her mi- I boy. hut had her cross-;- at Liverpool Assizes be the court." Mrs. Mary Linda Adams 28-year-oid mother of thr t admitted misconduct Edward Johnson now 24. and married, a butcher's assistant. The commissioner. Sir
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    BUTLER NEARLY BRINGS OFF SURRISE
    747 7 BUTLER NEARLY BRINGS OFF SURRISE Opening day at Wimbledon BRITAIN'S Don Butler came within an ace of providing the first surprise m the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships which began at Wimbledon yesterday m showery weather, when he was within two points of beating last year's runner-up Tom Brown, of the
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    H.K. face defeat by innings
    181 7 By CKISADER »HE Hons k jring cricket team are m nings defeat m their second game Minst the Combined Services, whom ling yesterday, first day of a two- .tin bowlir Owen to a v ball t to a i and •ket. Is \n the of
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    INDIANS DEFEAT KRANJI TEAM
    115 7 INDIANS won iht ir Second I Division League sccer fixture against the Kranji W/T. on the Padang yesterday; the score bejing 3 l. At half time th>; score was oneall. Nadarajah and Woodgate being the respective scorers. Soon after the resumption th<> Indians took the lead
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    CHINA OLYMPIC XI WIN TWICE
    39 7 »|*HE China Olympic football I team, touring the Indonesian archipelago. won their last matches m Macassar by five goals to two against a Union tram and the MCS team by four clear goals. U.P.
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    Coal average not decisive in Cup soccer
    115 7 IN the event of a tie m the Malaya Cup soccer competition, goal avwajpe will not be the deciding factor. The two teams will have to meet m a replay to decide which team wiJI qualify for the final. This statement, made by
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    3 quick goals give victory
    389 7 R.A.F. (Changi) 4; M.F.A 1 'PUREE quick goals scored with perfect timing and precision paved the way to victory for R.A.F. ((hungi) when they beat 4he Malays four-one m an v \.F.A. First Division League fixture at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. Although the Matey* were
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    LOCKE WINS VICTORY GOLF TOURNAMENT
    65 7 METHODICAL Bobby Locte of South Africa won the Victory Golf Tournament In Chicago on Sunday with one of golf's greatest onp man shows. He hammered out a final round score of 66 for a 22--hole total of 266. That is 18 under par for the
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    VICTORY MARCH DOES FAST TIME AT K.L.
    216 7 Free Press Racing Reporter \7ICTORY March did the best V gallop at Kuala Lumpur i this morning, when covering three furlongs m 36 sec. The track was very fast but j only a few horses running at the Selangor Turf Club's meet- ing
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    TOO SOON
    89 7 The closing scenes m the First Test match at Trent Bridge, produced historic pictures. Above you see Barnes, the Australian batsman, at the end of his race to the pavilion with a souvenir stump. He had snatched it up on making a boundary which he thought was the
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    Louis looks vicious in final work
    206 7 From Murray Rose, A.P. Sports Writer. T OOKING sharper and more JLj vicious than he has been for some time, Joe Louis was almost ready yesterday to make his next and perhaps final bid for fistic immortality. Only a few finishing touches remained for
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    Coxon was Test team surprise
    495 7 From Bill Bowes WHEN Norman Yardley, the England and Yorkshire TT captain, greeted Alec Coxon at Bramal Lane last morning where Yorkshire are playing Australia, he said, with a twinkle m his eye: -Well played Alex. I did my best to scotch your inclusion but
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    Glos'ter win in two days
    404 7 8 for 1. Sunes 10 -'.«>- -clared (Jftmei Lm Robinson 5 for r At Lord's M( vs < artibridg:e. Two-day match v i- Cambridge Univ. 129 and for 8 'Dog gar i 101 [nsoh i out 55 >. M.C.C. IS clared 'Bridges n< At Nottingham.
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    Australians gain solid advantage
    151 7 IN a days cricket as keen as 1 any Test match. U tralians built up a toUd vantage over Yorkshire 'Sheffield yesterday. On a soft pitch To,r ick f h° left arm medium pace bo? with his sevt n wickets lor Bl runs m a Ions:
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    NO PADANG SOCCER MATCH TODAY
    27 7 r DAY'S second division game on the padang be- tween the Rovers and Pulau Bukom has been postponed owing to the cricket.
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    74 7 AISTRA!.I\ Ist. lMK.~t«| YORKSHIRK Ist Inns *©6 A I STRAI.IA— 2nd Inn m Barms b Smaihs Broun not out Bradman not oat H Extr.iv 4 Total (for 1 «kt.) Ml Wicket fell at 17. fowling. O. M. E \V. AApinaU 3 1 1" Coxoo 13 7 13 t Wardl.-
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    U.S. AID PACT IN NANKING
    96 8 NANKING, Monday. THE U.S. China aid programme, passed by the United States Congress, will go before the Chinese Legislative Yuan (Parliament) tomorrow for endorsement before the Chinese- American bilateral agreement is signed. The American appropriations, which total U. 5.5400-,-000.000 m their present reduced form, will
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    Philip to take seat in Lords
    121 8 LONDON, Monday. THE Duke of Edinburgh and 1 his uncle, Barl Mountbatten of Burma, are expect ed to be Introduced simultaneously to the House of Lords under their new titles m the n xt three weeks. The Duke of Edinburgh, it is understood, has
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    NEW THREAT OF WAR IN INDIA
    329 8 NEW THREAT OF WAR IN INDIA 80, 000 Muslims for Kashmir? WITH the departure from New Delhi of the retiring Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten, and the installation of his successor, Mr. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the over-all political situation m India has deteriorated and civil war clouds have begun to darken
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    MR. TRUMAN ACCUSED
    94 8 PHILADELPHIA, Monday. CLARE BOOTH LUCE, former Congxesswoman and wife of the publisher of Time and life magazines, charged tonight that millions of persons were condemned to death, exile off slavery by secret Roosevelt-Truman deals with the Russians. Mrs. Luce, m an address prepared for delivery to convention
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    DOCKSTRIKE MENACES U.K.'sFOOD
    153 8 DOCKSTRIKE MENACES U.K.'sFOOD LONDON, Monday. THE great dock strike In London involving an estimated 19.000 workers and tying up more than 130 ships, -ported officially today to be threatening Britain's vital food supplies and hamp^nns th-^ export drive. The strikers, now on the h day of their unofficial walk-out," were
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    ISRAEL ARMY FIGHTS IRGUN
    214 8 AS Arab leaders prepared to meet this week to A< discuss the final Arab plan for peace m Palestine r.ri to demonstrate Arab League unity, an Israel Government communique issued m Tel Aviv last ni^ht reported an armed clash between the regular Israeli army and the
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    'ERADICATING' REDS IN S.A.
    81 8 'ERADICATING REDS IN S.A. ImE South African Minister of Justice. Mr. C. R. Swart, said yesterday that he was examining the question of Communism m the Union with a view to "oradicatin" lit Asked whether certain sections of the National Security Regulations which were repealed on Friday would not have
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    ASIAN RELATIONSS CONFERENCE
    49 8 ASIAN RELATIONS S CONFERENCE THE Asia subcommission of 1 the Congress of European. Asiatic and African Peoples, which began at Paris on Saturday called for a re gional economic committee tor South-East Asia. The sub-commission said it was "indispensable" 1 to re vise existing relations between Europe and Asia.
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    BIGGEST EVER U.K. EXPORTS
    146 8 LONDON, Monday. ORITISH exports last month were greater than 13 ever before m both value and volume, the Board of Trade announced today. The adverse balance dropped m May to £40,400,000— £12,800,000 less than m April. This balance represented the excess of imports over the total
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    40 Greek navy men to die
    183 8 40 Greek navy men to die ATHENS, Monday. tiORTY officers and ratings F of the Greek Navy were sentenced to d* j uth by a military court m Athens tonight on charges of sabotage on behalf of the Communist Party. Thirty-eight others were sentenced to imprisonment, including 19 for life,
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    Good-bye but no tears
    169 8 KARACHI. Monday. DAWN, the Official organ of the Muslim League, said good-bye to Lord Mountbatten "without tears" today. "On more than one occasion Lord Mountbatten .said Ihe regretted the violence 1 which took place m D^lhi last September." the newspaper said, "but he did not regret
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    CHIANG FLIES TO BESIEGED HONAN TOWN
    117 8 NANKING. Monday. OFFICIAL sources said today that Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek had flown to Communist -besieucd Chenghsien m Central China. ChenglMleix, junction of China's main east-we^L and north-south railways *is 40 miles west of Kaifen- ann 76 miles ea^t of Loyang. both captur
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    P.M. DEFENDS AIR H.Q. PURGE
    66 8 I^HE Prime Minister, Mr. C. R. Attlee. today defended the decision to ban the employment of Communists and Fascists from British Air Ministry headquarters, but refused to reveal whether the ban would be extended to local government and the armed forces. He told the House
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    GIRL'S LIFE OK AGONY
    91 8 A 11-YEAR-OLD girl, Whooe skin bruises at the slightest touch, is uiven six months to live by physicians, who say there is no cure for her rare skin ailment. For nine yean Masine Perry of Denver (USA) has suffered from a disease which leaves her skin
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    92 8 BUDAPEST, Monday. CARDINAL Mindszenty. outv spoken Catholic Primate of Hungary, renewed his open defiance of the Government seizure of 4.813 church schools. He declared that the Church never will relax its efforts t«> j regain control of its educational system. Most schools were nationalized on
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    AMNESTY FOR P.I. REBELS
    50 8 PRESIDENT Quinno of the Philippines yesterday signed an amnesty for the rebel Ilukbalahaps effective unconditionally if their leaders give up their arms and surrender within 20 days. After the signing the President shook hands with the Hukbalahap leader, Luis Taruc, who surrendered to the Government Reuter
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    13 8 Vatican quarters last night officially denied reports that the Pope was "gravely ill.
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    N. Y. stocks
    54 8 THE New York stock market dropped yesterday for the sharpest over-all decline m over a mynth. Lasses of one to two points wore numerous. Only a few stocks notably oils finished with pains. Transfers totalled 1.750.000 shares. The Dow Jones Averages were Stocks 70.04; Industrials 189.71; Rails
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    TWO WOMEN MAY BE CANONISED
    137 8 VATICAN CITY, Monday PARDINALS met m a secret v consistory, held by the Pope today to decide whe- ther two new women saints shall be added to the calendar Church 0 Roman Catholic The Prefect of the Congregation^ of Rites Clemento. Cardinal Micara. read a
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    STRIKE HITS INDUSTRIALS
    446 8 LONDON. Monday London Stock Exchange T»HE Gilt-edged section was one bright spot m the i London stock markets today, with buying orders result in^ m an all-round rise. say> Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers were lower and Tins irregular to lower. Other l otiOM were dull on scattered
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    NEW MARK IN RED ZONE
    61 8 T»HE German Economic Commit I x zone, meeting m a special session I doors tonight, adopted a draft de< reform m the Soviet z«»n, IJh k^^J German news agency reported The Russians today not 1 Powers that "owing to might not be able U of
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    AMOK KILLS 4
    38 8 FUR people were killed and six wounded when a Bugis ran amok m Balik Papan, Borneo. He was final ly overpowered by a local police officer who r echred serious injuries m dcrt.g so U.P.
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    123 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent gtrea the pricea of rubber a* 11 a.m. today m follow*: Bayers SHler* Cta Cta. per Ib. per Ib No. 1 B.S.S Spo4 l«ose 4^>, No 1 R.S.B. r«D m bales July 46 l No t R.S.S for m bales July 45»No S R.BS.
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