The Singapore Free Press, 24 June 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE CN MALAYA .N SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948 PRICE 111 CEMS
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    s'pore now in state of emergency
    340 1 Police given full powers Free Press Staff Reporter THE Colony of Singapore has been placed under an emergency ordinance similar to that m force m the Federation. The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, signed the ordinance yesterday. It will be published this afternoon. C.I.D. detectives
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    ARMYASSURANCE TO ISLANDERS
    151 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ARMY Ordnance officers have completed inspections at Pulau Tekong Besar and the seas around the pier, where a number of underwater explosions have taken place m past months. Their visit followed a plea by Mr. P. F. de Souza m the Legislative Council
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    REFUSED HELP
    32 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Singapore motor cyclist m collision with a taxi at the I junction of Middle Road and Queen Street yesterday, refused to be taken to hospital.
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    TROOPS SEEK ARMED GANG
    38 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A PARTY of armed Chinese were seen last night on Mengkibol Estate. near Kluang (Johore). A military patrol sent to the area failed to find any trace of the men.
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    M.D.U. PUTS UP SHUTTERS
    96 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Malayan Democratic Union decided at a meeting of its committee last night to voluntarily dissolve the organisation. No details are yet available, but the Union has announced that it is issuing a detailed statement later today. The Free Press understands that
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    EBEL' MP TTACKS AN ON M.F.T.U.
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    TREE S'PORE LLANG FIRES
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    5. flotilla for Spore
    36 1 uapore on Aug. 6 and 7; Trinilee, Aug. 12 and 13; hi Aug. 18 to 23; and Aug. 25 to 30. Rear" Admiral Roscoe F. Good will command the forces. A P.
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    Bangkok police smash rackets
    198 1 Free Press Staff Reporter BANGKOK, Wednesday. SIAMESE police today cracked down on one of the biggest rings of Chinese racketeers operating m ;kok, m Premier Phibun's war against corrupUtn. These racketeers were found to be operating ye illegal banking and postal business, and mtrol all goods
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    Malay Regt. in Johore clash
    55 1 Free Press Staff Reporter \La ang. central last night, a deA Milay Regiment ag In an area Paya Besar, sighted who ran away at of the troops. pi ned fire but m scaped into the trom where they reel the fire. troops searched the but
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    FLED FROM ESTATE
    36 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A PARTY of three armed Chinese were seen last night on Voules Estate m the Labis District of Johore. They fVd after being fired on by a Malay guard.
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    New trade union adviser coming
    90 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE new Assistant Trade Union Adviser for Singapore will be Mr. A. Simpson of Glasgow. He is expected to arrive early m August. Formerly of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Mr. Simpson is one of the two experienced trade union
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    SIAM AND MOSCOW
    21 1 The Siamese Government has appointed Phra Bahidhanukorn. at present Minister to Switzerland, as first Minister to Soviet Russia.
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    S'HAI'S 3,000,000
    17 1 Shanghai's population last month was over 5.091,000 with three times as many births as deaths.
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    Slam s dangerous 'toys'
    85 1 EVEN if the weapon iv the hands of a holdup man is obviously only a wooden imitation of a pistol. Bangkok's citizens hesitate to offer any resistance. The "toy" Runs too often have deadly dagger blades concealed m their handles. The "trick" wooden pistols, on sale
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    34 1 picture. This drawing, from the American magazine Aviation Week, is said to be bated on a film smuggled out of Russia showing the Soviet version of the German Jet plane, DFS 346. A. P.
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    OUT MNE TIMES
    23 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The ambulance service at the Singapore Central Fire I Station was called out nine times yesterday.
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    Immigration: Federal move
    153 1 Immigra tion Federal move Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. MOATS to tighten up the control of immigration into the Federation are being made by the Immigration authorities but, says a Government statement, today, this "presents a rather difficult problem." Reason given for this is that neither the Siamese
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    POLICE FROM PALESTINE?
    57 1 QUESTIONED m the House of Commons yesterday about the possibility of employing former members of the Palestine Police m Malaya. Mr. Creech Jones said: "Staff requirements are bein* re-assess-ed m the light of the pre--cnt disturbances. The whole matter was being actively explored and (Mscussions were going
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    TAXI COLLISION
    33 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese motor cyclist fractured his leg when his machine collided with a taxi at the junction of Queen Street and Albert Street, about 4.50 p.m. yesterday.
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    $8,000 HAUL IN 3 ARMED ROBBERIES
    103 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THERE were three armed robberies m Singapore yesterday evening, involving cash and property totalling $8,361. Seven masked Chinese horded the occupants of a house at the junction of Grange Road a~d Patterson Road, into a room and stole $2 900
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    CHINESEWOMEN FOUND IN FIGHT
    39 1 CHINESEWOMEN FOUND IN FIGHT Free Press stall Reporter FOUR Chinese, including two women, who i stated to have been fighting, were taken to Jurong police station A man and a woman wore treated m hospital for I minor injuries.
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    Planter, on 'death list', retires
    174 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MR W J Wallace, on whose life an attempt was made on June 7 by seven armed terrorists m Johore, left Singapore by Constellation aircraft to Australia this morning, on retirement. He is believed to have been high on the terrorists'
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    TALKS TO END TIN STRIKES
    41 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. NEGOTIATIONS for a settlement began two days ago m throe strike-bound tin mines m the Puchoncr area of Selangor. The strikes on these mines have now lasted several weeks
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    '4-way on Malaya
    231 1 4-way on Malaya Free !'re*s CWYSsftMMad LONDON, WediK Ml VIOLENTLY disagre nig wiih L>>rd Killea; description of Malay:* n an address to the R<.\:A Empire Society today a country with gi ministration and oompi tivc stability, Mr. Wa Fletcher (a Conservauve M.Pj vigorously atiacki d the weakness of the G
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    NOT WORTH WINNING'
    73 1 Pk«C I'rt^ stall orre^pondent CPKAKING U> the Royal v Empire Society m London y<M«*rda\ Mr. NTaltec 1 letcher said great improvements have made recently but the Em 4 remains that the >lala>a" rice ra ion ifi still much less than the Japanese ration. It was hardly worth
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  • FEATURES
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      TESTING A KRIS
      720 2 A Malayan Bookshelf by A SPECIAL Correspondent IT is remarkable how misleading a book title can be, sometimes. Take, for example, Mr. Ivor Evan's M Papers on the Ethnology and Archaeology of the Malay Peninsula v v. hich is now available m the Singapore bookshops at $10.50.
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      Bridge Problem
      386 2 West beld the flnt trick u:iij th° heart queen. He did m>t fail to note that dummy's ri nibli ton club was a th: had a solid spad-- suit. whereat dummy's four hearts made it tonp Ibk for declarer to avoid an other heart loter if south still
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      This little pig went to Hollywood
      552 2 This little pig went to Hollywood PETER QUENNELL reviews a new book m U.K. n I R T V EDDIE was a growing pig. That was part of his charm he looked so fresh and unspoiled, besides being from every camera-angle highly photogenic. But the tact that he continue to
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      HE HAD COURAGE
      476 2  -  JOHN LEHMANN By IN the great Dark Age of conformity, which m one's blackest mood? one sees approaching like a pea-soup London log of the old days, one of the most mysterious puzzles that will confront the licensed research-stu-dents will be the extent of -the heterodoxy tolerated
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      QUICK LOOKS
      190 2 The White Goddess, by Robert Graves. (Faber Faber. Si Prodi g < yrionstrous Uupefyin indescribable are the epithets that the publishers thimseives apply to this vastly learned excursion into mythology and ancient history' A jungle of a book lit up by thination of a brilliant h: ical novelist
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      17 2 MODEST MAIDENS M g^«k "7>V careful of that guy he's just n woif m Uncle Sinn's dnthing!"
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    CARDINAL REETS RED PRESIDENT
    10 3 CARDINAL REETS RED PRESIDENT greeted a: the ■nal Joseph P
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    ENES GLAD HE HAS RESIGNED
    126 3 ex-President cf -t having re- as i statesman his life keeping l:i and m finishing his n irs. idt-nt Benes was reng from an illness when of the February damaged his vvant to change doc: n and his friends ye that he continued too inder
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    ead hunting n N. Luzon
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    Vo 'TIRED TIMES' IN BRITAIN
    27 3 Supply, said it was 11 to speak of the ..sh life down to the try Willieountry you II find such t b
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    Occupation failsto kill Nazism NO DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT IN GERMANY
    466 3 Occupation failsto kill Nazism NO DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT IN GERMANY Wonder Boy— 7 TWO-YEAR-OLD Kenneth Lichmann fell from the sixth floor of a New York building. He landed on grass and toddled away unhurt. B.U.P. Wonder Boy 2 A demented mother threw her jour -month-old son from a second-floor windoio at
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    CHINESE MUST WIN BACK!LAND
    59 3 i a ,fciRS who tailed L refused to take part m I corp^ after farms and other proper.zrd by the R* ds qoI b<> entitled to restord. -he Hopei Provinnment has announced. Th* announce ment wan thousands of refugees m the :hat those to tend was
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    Australia's buffaloes on the run
    209 3 Australia's buffaloes on the run BUFFALO hunting with all its thrills, its dangers and its cruelties is now m full cry m Arnhem Land, that torrid area m the far North of Australia. The last rains of the tropical season have fallen and the long "dry" which lasts until November
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    DEATH NOTE TO MAYOR
    88 3 POLICE have been asked to Investigate a letter n celved by Bristol's Lord Mayor and Housing Chairman. Alderman Charles Gill threatening to r his wll er complaint; of the Lord Mayor's support of a prouncil house .■>. ts signed "Juicy Jo<\ the Bri and said: will
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    SIAM BAIN ON FOOD HAWKERS
    45 3 /IHINESE food hawkers are \s the victims of Sian \r-old d >rbid- .by fo-f-m c school \s bern resurrected. stated obj-ctions to the hawkers are thai they sell at i prices, are untidy m apranc and unclean m pr^rood A.P.
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    Will This....
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    End in this
    71 3 German children seen playing at rear with rusty Russian tanks m Berlin. In a few years thnc they will represent Europe's great question mark. The success or failure of Allied policy m Germany wUI decide whether these children develop peaceful interests and pursuits or iDhrther, (as right),
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    Australian 'gold rush7 if
    132 3 Australian 'gold rush 7 if Reuter DIRECI\>R of mining int-rvstfi m Australia and South Africa. Mr. C. J. Turle ■^"ho arrived In Aastralia recently i'n«n E:: -:Ltnd, intei^ds to place before tiie Prinv? Mtnijteg Mr. Chifley. plans for the fnc< ira exneni of the gold indu^ry. "Au.stralixi could recover the
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    FOUND DEAD FTER EXAM
    4 3 FOUND DEAD FTER EXAM
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    Verdict to the Chamber
    93 3 FE Chinese Chamber of Commerce is functioning again, following Nanking Government decision overruling the Chines? Consul General m Siam, Mr. Sun Ping Chien. The Chamber wanted to accept individual members as well as business firms but Mr. Sun opposed this, saying it would allow Communist ele-
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    THE END OF A U.S. SHIP
    70 3 Cauaht m tlie grip of the -ious Goodwin Sands oj the Kent coast, the American Liberty ship, "Helena Modjeska," was battered by Britain's worst dale for 3:> pears with this result. Her back was broken and her caryo worth £750,000 vms I Here are
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    NEWS.
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    SCOUTOi IN GERMANY
    75 3 BRITISH authorities are the first provisionally to lift the ban on scouting m Germany. They are permitting the Catholic, Evangelical and non-denominational chr.: to form three scout associations. A prohibition against uniforms will remain m force. A.P. Mrs. Lily U nizby of ALirincham, Cheshire, has had her
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    Oldest skull 'safe' from black market
    222 3 "THE Neanderthal Skull, said to be older than the Pckin Man, the Java Man or the Piltdown Man, is now resting m a cardboard box m a small villa m the German university town of Bonn. The skull, two pounds of brown fossilised bone
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    Dying' M.P.s last salute
    98 3 TWO University dons, whose constituencies are abolished by th c Representation of People Bill, took farewell of the House m Latin. Professor Savory (Queen's, Belfast), Jo* at the Home Secretary cried. '•Inipt-rator Clutter Ede morituri te sulutamus." Emperor Chuter Ede, who ar t > about to
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    HUSBAND-CHASER
    63 3 BLONDE, v. ur-oid divot Wn. Dorothy Lawlor, who offered lion the marriage market at $10,000 leas returned hoy Mew York. She is stdl umsuited. t a fortnight s hu-ba-ing expedition her as jar south as the D "linican Republic, West Inc. "I had a wamderfn she eiclaivi Mrs. d
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    EMPEROR NO MORE
    67 3 T'nt, King hjus relinqu his R)>al style and I of "Emperor of India' b\ p r clamrition m in<« London Ainu the trancfet of power t<T Inaia and Pak > tan. Eilect will be to exdnd words "Emperor of India" British coinage, mt-nts. m« j dais and
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      39 3 TA^ZAN The Voice B\ Edgar Rire Burroughs "yyHV CO yQU n^^^^^ JL '-^sz y^. lOi s> Su"*j*uniiJ rTs'iin sji>*c»i«. wl < WE KNOW LETHA ALSO WORKS k I j^^^J HyH^Kflifl^ I yf^s LF^EO^HEySIBAMSMftN' Ifv^ Jtl^"//// W//^j H^VL KXJNO,A^E USUALLY C*XN6£gQUS.H
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    LEADER.
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. June 24. 1948. A State of Emergency
    545 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. June 24. 1948. A State of Emergency THE enforcement of emergency police powers m .apore last night does not denote v worsening of situation which this i itry Tacts. Applu' he Colony of emergency which parallels the Federal Government's ordinance is a precaution which the
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    IT SEEMS TO ME...
    852 4 by POLITICO TS there any proof, not suspicion but proof, that Moscow is behind the outrages m Malaya? And if there is, why hasn't it been produced? Those are questions which everyone is asking, and of course the answer is that if proof fa demanded m
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    10 point plan for Britain's
    904 4 A FEW months ago the Government issued a White Paper which was the most alarming economicstatement ever to come out of Downinpstreet It confessed that Socialist England was now dependent upon the overspill of a capitalist Amel ica and that without Marshall Aid we would
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    Friendly Exchange
    94 4 INFORMATION been received at the office of the All-India trends of the SvmvX Lnion m Bombay that the ISSR Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKSj is sending 11 Soviet films, 150 records of Soviet music and an exhibition entitkd Thirty Years of Soviet Power' to India
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    U.S. wants better packs
    93 4  -  JOSEPH S. ROSAPEPE A. P. Correspondent By UNITED States shipping interests and underwriters are seeking to improve packaging of American exports to reduce losses through pilferage and damaged shipments. Shippers are particularly concerned with prospect* of increase d shipment of #oods to Europe under the Marshall
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    FAITH
    374 4 Every man shall nlve as he is able, according to the Messing of the lord thy God which He hath given thee. Deuteronomy 16. 17. Of that o: many American exports. Packing products m some types of cardboard or wooden boxes, they added, is adequate for shipment by railway
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    Letter To The Editor
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    FISHY FACTS
    65 4 SOME A. B. IfcKerron a "cut the pi m the Bingmp tive Coun The Pood I D t has Ln h. plans m mr campaign launched .niai Secretary, :al re.spcr.s public has not couraging. Most dL r been the iailur the campaign on 1 1 those who cou!<i
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    PRINCESS' HOUSINGPLAN DELAYED
    374 5 PRINCESS' HOUSINGPLAN DELAYED Hitch over S. I. T. powers Free Press Staff Reporter A LEGAL difficulty and the question of suitable n site are now delaying the building of the first blocks of workmen's flats under the Princess Elizabeth Wedding Celebrations Fund scheme. Tenders were to have been called for
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    E.I. areas to be re-opened
    246 5 menl reached between the iihlicans, the C.-in-C of the Vt\y will gradually reopen L now closed to maintain > ivs an announcement from te -General :ii will be thrown open m )ping: the coast of Bantam, Api, the Siak River, Bengkalis, Koeala Toengkal and Special
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    FLOOD RELIEF
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    Y.W.C.A. MALAY CLASSES
    53 5 Y.W.C.A. MALAY CLASSES rE YW C A will hold Malay classes beginning tomorrow, with two sessions at 9 15 m the morning and 5 30 m the afternoon. The classes will be held on Fridays and m the Fort Canning premises not Raffles Quay. The fee for the whole course
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    Workers told: 'Your jobs are safe'
    113 5 PROPRIETORS of five pineapple canning factories m Singapore and the Federation yesterday assured their 500 workers that employment would not be affected by the recent introduction of canning machinery m factories. After a two and a half hour meeting with workers' representatives m Singapore
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    280 tons oil pipes stolen
    97 5 TWO hundred and eighty tons of oil pipes belonging to the Admiralty had been stolen from the line between Gambok and Normonton oil fuel depots. Harold Hopmau. fon-maii of works employed by the Admiralty lii Singapore, sad this m the Second District Court yesterday. He
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    Democratic League flays Kuomintang
    156 5 Democratic League flays Kuomintang IN a statement to the Press, the Malayan branch of the China Democratic League blames the Kuomintang for promoting "misunderstanding between the League and the Governments m Malaya." The League says that its sole task is to rally the overseas Chinese to support the democratic movement
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    Red publisher has a case to meet
    268 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate (Mr. B. G. Smith>, today held that liew Yit Fun, publisher and manager of the Mm Sheng Pau Press and Selangor representative of the Malayan Communist Party, had a case to meet
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    WARNING TO HUNTERS HUNTERS
    64 5 fHK Chief of the Johore Police, (Mr. I. D. Macdonald), has asked the Free Press to re-issue the following warning: "People m Johore owning rifles or shotguns should on no account go out shooting pme. Persons seen carrying guns of any kind are liable to be
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    Water project
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    CHINESE WANT ROADS BOARD
    159 5 Free Press Stair Reporter 'THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has 1 ignored a protest made by a joint committee of cargo-handling workers and has decided to recommend to Government the early institution of a Roads Board to deal with cargo handling m the port outside
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    Jury disagrees, retrial ordered
    106 5 BECAUSE the jury could not agree on the verdict In an arms case In the Singapore Assize Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Gordon Smith ordered a retrial of an Indian Tamil, Kannusamy. who was charged with unlawful possession of a large quantity of revolver ammunition Another man.
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    Radio programme expansion plans
    320 5 Free Press Staff Reporter EH)R three-and-a-half hours daily, the British Far Eastern Broadcasting' Service, operating m Singapore, puts on the air English, Indonesian and Siamese programmes, all prepared by the staff m Singapore. The English programmes for the most part are either commercial records or 8.8.C.
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    Commissioners to study 'Back Pay' report
    66 5 Comm issioners to study 'Back Pay' report Free Press Staff Reporter A CONFIDENTIAL report of the tribunal set up by Singapore Municipal Commissioners to consider ex-gratia payments to non-interned Mum; .;>al employees will be discus-ed for the hr-t time a< ;i/i open meeting of the Commissioners on Friday. The report
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    SEAMEN SEEK CHANGES IN DRAFT LAW
    281 5 OINGAPORES mx Seamen s Unions are to seek amendments to the draft bill, setting up a Seamen's Registration Bureau, through the Trade Union re] itive m the Legislative Council. Mr. Lim Yew Hock. The final amendments will be decided on at a met on
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    NEW CONVENT
    46 5 THE Sultan of Job re (Ifaj.--1 Gen. Sir Ibrahim > has donated a 25-acrc lite m Kluang to the Car.ossian Sisters of Singapore to build a convent school. Kluang has no English school for girls The new school is expected to be ready m Jnr.iurv.
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    Indian charged with bribery
    211 5 1 1 ot- Pxibm undent PENAN AN Indian Ifydin, v duc«d b» Judge 'Mr. M. a bribe to a detec as a m him i'rir a r. Nair said I hiir. rould not to lnt'Tfrr. aoi. He ask d ''.in Id h<- o: .vps want I
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    Alliance in East Europe at Warsaw
    7 6 Alliance in East Europe at Warsaw picture.
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    One pinch of salt finds heart trouble
    37 6 One pinch of salt finds heart trouble PI JCH ol atomic energy salt, is furnishing doctors a new and faster way of finding heart troubles. This new stop was shown to the American ::cal Association's annual meeting.
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    URGE-SCALE SMUGGLING INTO JAPAN
    54 6 r*E extent of the illegal ide now flourishing be- n Japan and China. Formosa and Korea is revealed by the statement m the Toklo Shimon n that 300 to 500 igglers 1 craft, ranging from small boats to large, ng freighters, arc each day m Kan.:
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    caugh
    132 6 r dividing Kyushu from Honshu and since the war the hub of the smuggling and kCk< ts. Incoming smugglers bring suyar. drugs, cloth, rubber ter flints, fruit and i and Koreans. Bananas sold openly on the Ginza iv w at 10,- a banana; yet no hananaj grow m Japan
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    Turkey's policy 'be prepared'
    237 6 IHJRKEY S na defence m. needs wl i to have pr. »rity over all other n« Premier Hasan Saka's new government stated when it made It oefore Par. Turkey's for policy would r< mum f the country had devoted hull Its national bu rial iire ne
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    China rice riot: supplies arrive
    114 6 AN emergency Peiping meeting under Mayor iio fuan appeal'-d to Nank- restriction! on tho i food to China and to arrest the Spiralling charges" of State transport services. Flour and rice prices Jumped to a record height. Thirty ricv shops m Chungking were looted last
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    SINGER'S TEACHER
    59 6 Dr Vincent O'Brit n. n ■her wh taught a great many world famous singere, including the late John McCormack, died at his h, me m D.iblin last night aged 79. Military talks m Washington ROYAL TOURNAMENT at Olympic, London. Ab tug-of-war team from HMS Anson. Below, vipii British
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    US-WESTERN UNION ALLIANCE
    233 6 US-WESTERN UNION ALLIANCE OEPRESENTATIVES of the Western European countries soon will begin military talks with United States defence chiefs. These talks, probably to be held m Washington, will open a new phase m the development of American policy toward Europe. Officials said that the conversations, would be based on the
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    Democratic aim in Jap schools
    85 6 riE Japanese Diet passed a resolution to make sure that everyone In Japan knows Uiat education is lined by Emperor Meiji's rescript maklns :he Stat^ the centre of all learn ing. The resolution said the "'concepts of democratic education aimed at rearing a humanity that
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    WHEN U.S. REDS WENT 'UNDER'
    114 6 /COMMUNISTS m the United V> Stat< s W r:d" mber when the party was neously informed it w itlawed and m raids w >uld occur. F. 8.1. Dlrr J. Edgar Hoover disd. Federal Bureau of Inlon hrad. writing In lie of Redbook Ma| said "pandemo[gn<
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    STUDENT AGENTS
    24 6 Peiping police say there tre "numerous professional students m local institutions who are underground agents of the Reds and who maintain secret
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    REVIVING ROYAL MEMORY OF TOUR
    42 6 •THE King and Queen and Princess Margaret are 1 brushing up their knowledge of Australia and New Zealand m preparation for their Royal tour next year. Every evening after dinner the three meet for a study session.
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    Ban on 'Perms?
    106 6 r rilE new Siamese moral 1 rearmament scheme may take the wave out of school girls' hair and remove love stories from their hands. The Ministry of Education is said to be considering a ban of the wavy coiffures which many co-eds have adopted. The Ministry has
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    M-pian hitch: cabinet meets
    190 6 SIR Oliver Franks, Britain's Ambassador m Washington, has received n< r instructions from London for negotiations on the currency devaluation clause of the Marshall Plan bilateral agreements. Britain is still not completely satisfied with the wording •he revi.Mvi clause and the new instructions were drawn up
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    Women's rights
    97 6 men 01 21 and over will hav< t.. 1 jto vote and financial aid v given [or a bettera preset on Indian r Fully advanced reserves become municipals < r proposals include: Appointment of a con handle disputes over Indian treaty rights; Indians will br exempt from tax
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    'Nochildren' pact blamed
    175 6 A "NO CHILDREN" pact between a husband and wife married when she wafl twenty was blamed by a Divorce Court commissioner for helping to wreck the marriage. The commissioner, Mr o Temple Morris. K.C., said: 'They agreed not to havf children but to continue working while the
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    Right to vote, new deal for Canadian Red Indians
    51 6 4 Magna carte for Canada's 120. ikk) Red Indi was the hya joini Canadian Parliament which revision of the Indian Act. Under the Indians would be given the ripht to vote and bo sume alcoholic beverages on lie side Indian rest
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    Film over eyes
    27 6 uolltwooo ittmos recently com:. a high-powered organisation to find out the reason for th^ box offi»e slump. Th* nsfanhfr na\e now reported: Bad mttmnt
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    BOROTRA, BRUGNON SCORE FINE WIN
    35 7 BOROTRA, BRUGNON SCORE FINE WIN F./O. Howe, R.A.F. Changi, who broke his own A.C.F.E record for the Pole Vault when he cleared 9 ft. 6 ins. at the A.C.F.E. sports meet held at Seletar yesterday.
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    Lindwall has severe trial: Test team
    1023 7 Lindwall has severe trial: Test team AUSTRALIA'S team for the second Test beginning at Lord's today will be selected from the following 14 players. Don Brad man, Lindsay Hassett, A. Morris, S. Barnes, W. Brown, K. Miller. Lan Johnson, Bill Johnston, Don Tallon, C. McCool. D. Ring, Ray I.indwall. N.
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    Annual R.I. be drawn
    48 7 cution hool Jraw the Tung 44 runs School I Tung four I 1 Low 53; I >sham < b I I X m Hui I tan 0: r 0: M 11. I 37: .-.one 34. -:<» b ims c r :h c m not Ex--44 40:
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    lard Tussle in women's tie
    532 7 I Ch.n I i D P. I com- U.P. When I looked m at botn dressing rooms just before the start of the game the Suigapore era mvre laughing. Joking and >moking. On all sid^ there was ik of complete nonchalance. I; was just the
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    S.A.F.A. must build anew
    113 7  -  By CRUSADER ATANY reasons, ranging from the unprintable to the ludicrous, have been advanced for the defeat of Singapore by Negri Sembilan m the Malaya Cup competition at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday, but the real reason lay m the fact that the Singapore players, like
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    FRED DALY LEADS
    515 7 FRED Daly, British Open Champion, led the field into the final rounds of the Penfold £1,050 Golf Tournament with a 36 holes score of 133 on the 6,577 yard King's Course of the Qlcneagles Hotel m Scotland yesteiday.— A. P. Although there was never a trace of
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    TENGAH WENT DOWN FIGHTING
    116 7 R.A.P. Ten«ah went down fighting yesterday at Geylang Stadium when they met Kota Raja .n an S.A.F.A. Second Division League fixture Kota Raja won two- nil. Sherif Madon missed many chances m the first half. 'lue score-sheet was blank at the interval Soon after the resumption
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    Indians took it too easy
    405 7 S.C.C 4; Indians. .4. AN over-conlident and easygoing Indian Association side, resting on a four-goal lend for almost 40 minutes of their S.A.F.A. First Division League game against the Singapore Cricket Club yesterday, were perhaps one of the most unhappy teams to heave Jalan Besar
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    D!V. 1 GAME OFF
    18 7 THE first division League soccer match between Seaforths and GHO Signals has been postponed.
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    Bowlers' day in county games
    70 7 IJOWLERS had much the better of the argument on soft wickets m yesterday's County cricket matches, and at Stourbridge Worcestershire and Sussex each completed an innings. Worcester appeared to be m trouble when they were put out for 163, but they hit back hard and
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    AIRPORT DOES BEST GALLOP AT K.L
    69 7 Free Press Staff Racing Reporter AIRPORT did a sensational gallop at Kuala Lumpur this morning when clocking 35 3 5 sec for three furlongs. Two stop-watches timed Airport at 35 3 5 sec while a third caught him 35 1 2 sec. On this
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    769 7 OAD weather has forced a postponement of the Louis- Walcott heavyweight title bout m New York until tonight (Thursday). Louis earlier weighed m 213.5 lb. registering an 18.75 Ib. advantage over Walcott, who scaled 194.75 lb. Louis at first planned to stay m the city overi
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    Auction to help SATA fund
    82 7 MR Yup rhent Geek ha.s kindly nted to air which Li to be used for the football match between the E Combined Jalan Besai on 1 match to the Singapore Ar. Association and the i I Mr. Pheng Geek's am. to the funds. The auction
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    UNO NEI TALKS RESUMED
    126 8 UNO NEI TALKS RESUMED LAKE SUCCESS. Wed. rE United Nations Security Council today resumed discussions on the Indonesian situation. The United Nations Good Offices Committee, which is trying to work out a final settlement m Indonesia, notified the Council that the Dutch had asreed to resume Pt .\c? talks. The
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    Rajaji praised by Mountbatten
    132 8 LONDON. Wed. EARL Mountbatten arrived at Northolt airport tonight where he was welcomed by his nephew the Duke of Edinburgh, and by the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee. Of Mr. Rajagopalachari he said: "My successor is a great statesman and a charming person, ideally suited to
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    2 MINISTERS QUIT ISRAELI GOVERNMENT
    147 8 TELAVIV, Wednesday. TWO Ministers resigned tonight from the ftve-weeks-old provisional Israeli Government less than 24 hours after a bloody battle between Haganah Jewish soldiers and Irgun Zvai Leumi truce breakers who ran an arms ship ashore and seized the northern beach at Tel Aviv. They
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    Canton train is ambushed
    343 8 AN attempt by bandits to hold up a Canton-bound train from Hankow was foiled after a three-hour batti with provincial troops. Several bandits were killed and three captured. A message from Waichow, mid-wav between Canton and Hongkong says that bandits raided two villages m that area,
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    BERLIN FOOD
    23 8 The Food Committee of the Four Power Kommandatura reached complete agreement yesterday on increased rations for Berlin workers. Reuter Pakistan accused
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    SWISS ACCUSED
    240 8 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. "IT has to be openly recognised that Pakistan is now openly waging war against India," declared a member of the Indian Constitutent Assembly, Pandit H.N. Kunzru, on his return here today after a week's tour of Kashmir. "It is generally believed m Kashmir," Pandit Kunzru
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    FENNY FOOLISH
    436 8 Louis Tragonette, 33. yesterday pleaded guilty to attempted suicide by s-, allowing 30 pennies m London. A doctor testified he had recovered 23 of them by an one ration.- U. P. of caution was evident. Losses m industrial shares Wi re small. Breweries and Tobacco were generally 1/32..
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    Rubber prices
    732 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent tfrt* the prices of rabbet a> 11 a.m. today m follow*: Buyers. Seller* Cte. CU per Ib. per Ib No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 46 4*V No 1 R.S.S. fob m bales July 46' M 46-s, No. t R.S.S. fob m bales July 4V,
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    27 8 AT DONC ASTER. England, on June 21. 1948. to J y. wife of D D. am. Surveyor On. of Ships' Dtpt.. S'ocre a son. Bo:h well.
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    'Battle of the mark' in Berlin
    262 8 BERLIN, Wednesday. THE "battle of the mark" flared up m Berlin tonight as the Western and Soviet sectors barred each other's currency and the Russians threatened measures against the whole economy of the Western sectors. The Russian threat came from Herr Heinrich Rail, chief
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    DEWEY STILL IN THE LEAD
    275 8 PHILADELPHIA. Wed. A FEW hours before the first voting, tomorrow, In the I Republican convention ballots which may decide the aext > President of the United States, supporters of Senator Robert Taft and Mr. Harold Stassen had failed to oust Governor Tom Dcwey from i
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    CHINESE MPs DEFEND FREE LOVE
    117 8 NANKING, Wednes. CHINA'S Legislature today rejected the efforts of woman legislator. Yu Juchow, to make illicit love illegal as well. Members voted down her Marriage Reform Bill which proposed control of what she called "the four capital evils of marriage," namely: illicit love affairs, polygamy,
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    Growing Aussie interest lauded
    86 8 Growing A ussie interest lauded LONDON, Wednesday. A ITSTRALIA'S growing interest m South-East Asia A since the end of the war is "a factor the importance of which cannot be exaggerated," Lord Killearn, until recently British Special Commissioner m South-East Asia, told the Royal Empire Society If any one wanted
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    DOCK STRIKE CUTTING S EARNINGS
    142 8 DOCK STRIKE CUTTING S EARNINGS LONDON, Wed. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, told the House of Commons this afternoon that the strike of 20,000 dockers, which has paralysed the port of London for 10 days, will cut off millions of dollars of British export earnings. He was explaining why
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    DOCK STRIKE HITS TRADING
    47 8 LONDON. Wednesday. rrilE continuation of the strike of London dock A workers has restricted trading m the London stock markets, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Business was at a low ebb today, prices were inclined to move to lower levels and a marked note
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    46 8 QN the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, rails paced the shsirpest over-all advance m the past two weeks. Many rails reached news highs for a year. Transfers totalled 1,760,000 shares. The Dow Jones Averages were: Stocks 61.05; Industrials 190.73Rails 62.72: Utilities 36.00. A.P.
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