The Singapore Free Press, 26 June 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fdfrt SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1948 PRWV Hi CK\ IS
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    Three murders in Johore
    366 1 Three murders in J ohore Police jeep ambushed Free Press Staff Reporters THREE Chinese were slain in Johore last night in two gang shootings. One of the victims was brutally hacked about the body with knives before being riddled with bullets. In a third shooting, a police jeep was ambushed
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    27 1 Or lemon, secretary I Student Chrisent, arrived in I crday from Q EngHe met the Secretary Welfare, Mr. T. P. and members Singapore branch of Christian Movement.
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    19 1 Singapore police recruits taking -part in riot, squad practice at yesterday's passing out parade at Thomson Road. Free Press
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    India 'holy war' threat
    190 1 India 'holy war threat WHILE Pandit Nehru, India's Premier, was yester- day threatening that "the time may come when hah have to send our forces to Hyderabad", the im vv.is recehing an offer from the leader of the \lridi tribes to declare war on his behalf. The leader of the
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    Louis retires
    25 1 IMBIEDIATELI alter the fight Louis announced his retirement. He said: "For my mother this is for her thi> wa> my last fieht A.P
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    $300,000 LAND DEAL BY HOTEL
    47 1 $300,000 LAND DEAL BY HOTEL r i iff Reporter Rr > quired cii oining piece of land ,58. 360, 382. and Road and .iind H with twj hoi. ..nd 21 Seata Street. price was $300 000. s belonged to i .id Ftanke] and Mr I :-l R Aaron.
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    SULONG TRIAL IN AUGUST
    49 1 SU LONG TRIAL IN AUGUST BANGKOK. Saturday. THE treason trial of Haji Sulong and four other Muslim religious leaders baa been adjourned to August, when 60 prosecution witnesses are due to testify. Yesterday witnesses said that seized documents, in the Malay language, showed tha there was a separatist plan.
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    RADIUM FLOWN FROM CANADA
    84 1 RADIUM FLO WN FROM CANADA Free Press Staff Reporter THE second postwar consignment of radium for Singapore hospitals, amounting to about 150 milligrams, has been flown here from Canada in special containers. This amount, received during May and June, partially replaces the radium which was lost from hospitals during the
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    SIAM HAS MORE RICE FOR SALE
    55 1 SIAM HAS MORE RICE FOR SALE THE Siamese Commerce Minister, Phya Mahai Sawan. said in Bangkok yesterday that Siamese rice: experts estimate the total ex- j portable rice surplus this year at 700.000 tons. This Ls 100,000 tons more than the previous official estimate. Nearly 400,000 tons have been exDorted
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    LOUIS WINS
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    BAIL REFUSED TO ESCAPEE
    72 1 Free Prcai Staff Reporter f^AiL was refused yesterday 13 to T ng Eok Teng, a 45--d Chinese, who was charged in the Singapore Second Police Court with assisting in th»» management of a Chap Ji Kee lottery, and with escaping from police custody. Tens who was
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    ANGRY JAPS
    26 1 Sixty thousand Japanese demonstrated in the square before the Imperial Palace terday against the 70 per cent rise in prices announced four days ago.
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    Rita has some French blood
    104 1 PARIS. Friday. BEAUTIFUL, red-haired film star Miss Rita Hayworth in hospital with anaemia, has been given blood transfusion but is expected to recover with a few days. "Miss Hayworth has not been feeling well since the cocktail party given for her hen- nearly three weeks
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    NEW HELICOPTER
    32 1 The "Gyrodine."' an unorthodox new helicopter with an airscrew in place of the Dial tail roter, is to try to I win the world helicopter M speed record for Britain.
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    ROBBED OF TAXI, STRANDED
    119 1 ROBBED OF TAXI, STRANDED Free Press Staff Reporter A MALAY taxi driver, Salamat bin Haji Bakri. was robbed of $14 in cash and hts taxi by two Chinese, one armed w'th a pistol, at Henderson Road at 2 o'clock this morning The robbers hired Sulamat's taxi up »n Jalan Sultan
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    Voice from the past
    63 1 Free Press Correspondent A two-year-old kidnapping was reported to the Central Kedah Police yesterday. Th« victim. Mr. Chiam Joo Chua. «on of a wellknown rubber dealer in Bedong, near Sungei Patani, has been missing since the beginning of 1946. Mr. Chiam, a middle-aged Chinese, is believed
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    CAPITALIST LOOK
    26 1 Russian W.A.Cs in Berlin have been instructed that it is a punishable offence to alter their uniform or civilian t skirts to "capitalistic lengths.
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    MORE MEN TO AID PRICE CAMPAIGN
    147 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Food Control Department is Irain--1 ing more men to aid in its "cut the prices" campaign in the markets. They will make daily inspections to see that retailers display prices pro- perly. They will check up retail prices
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    I stand against Reds — Phibun
    263 1 I stand against Reds Phibun Free Press Staff Reporter BANGKOK, Saturday. WARNING that Siam was ringed by countries where Communist influence was strong, the Premier, Marshal Phibun, declared he was resolved "to stand firm against the infiltration of Communist ideology." Malaya, Burma, and Indo-China were struggling with terrorist campaigns by
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    YOUTH FALLS UNDER LORRY
    105 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 15-YEAR-OLD Chin Tan 800 Heof vmi involved in a collisio.. with lorry in front 01 th- Oi Cinema, Oeylang Road 5 p.m. yesterday H admitted to the l, Hospital with muHipl" jurii-.v Tan v. ug a b, and had knock ped
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    STORE GOC POSTPONES DEPARTURE
    158 1 STORE GOC POSTPONES DEPARTURE Free Press Staff Reporter MAJOR General L. H. Cox, G.O.C. Singapore trict, has postponed his departure for weeks. He was to have left on June 30. but he now await the arrival of his successor. Major <•*"- era! Dun lop. There have been no incidents in
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    25 1 The youngest member of the Australian Olympic sloimm e r s, 13-yecr-old Marqie McQuadc. the national junior champion, in the Singapore Swimming Club pool yesterday
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    Message to 'murderers'
    79 1 DARWIN, Friday. MR. W. J. Wallace, former rubber estate manager in central Johore, whose life was threatened by terrorists, addressed a message <>n arriving here today to the "Murderers in Malaya. 1 "Im out of the country now." he said, "V staff and successor ai< Mr. Wallace,
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    The Most Beautiful girl in the World
    1835 2  -  Frederick J. Lyons A SHORT STORY-fry lITHO is the most beautT tiful woman in the world? I have been a^ked that question, I suppose, as many times as any man alive. That is one of the penalties of being a successful film director,
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    Bridge Problem
    140 2 QLUBB are trumps. South leads. North and South are to win all seven tricks against any dcfonce. South leads the heart ace. North discarding a diamond. South leads he-art seven and North ruffs with the club nine. On this trick: 1. If East undertrumps, South can ruff a
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    MODEST^T^jJ
    9 2 •■Cosh! That fmmUy slorped J** coughing all ,An'
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      193 2 YOUR WEEK-END LISTENING SINGAPORE Prum 124)0 noon to 2 00 p m 485 metres in the medium wave Dana and 20 megacycle! in the 41 metre oand I- com b (Hi p.m to 7.45 p m from 9 .10 p m to 1 1 00 p m 485 metres m
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      376 2 ,7.30 New- In Milay; 7.45 Musnai Interlude. SUNDAY Programmes in Knglish: 1 Julien Foorman Ac Orchestra from The s.-a View Hotel; 1.3U News; 1.40 Rt-c.tal; 2 Relax to Music; 2.45 At the Piano with Biiiy rl. 3 Coiu;«-rt H^ur; 4 I leners' I'ost; 5 Pat Forbes <^r His Sou tli
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      359 2 Success: 8.45 Special BBC. Show; 9.1") Talk Australian Topics; 9.20 Waltz Tim*-; 9 30 The Scrcon Presents Music fl Br.tish films; 9.45 Australian Radio Reel; 10 News; 10 15 Recorded Music. Featuring CM I Moncri« ff and Colin Crane. SVNDAY 9.30 Tunt-s from the Opere: 9.45 Music in Dance T.-mpo
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      210 2 posite Programme Summary; 6 j Station Opening; 6.02 Thirty to' One; 6.30 World and H in. News; I fi.45 Swingtime; 7 Picture Parade; 7.30 Music for the Dance. S 1 7,'jrld and Home N'*ws; 805 ra for the Asking: 8.45 Radio; Wewsrecl; 9 Gramo-FUe; 9 30' Merry -Go Round; 10
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      252 2 YOUR I LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have a deep and pe net rat Ing mind; an excellent memory for all fact* and figures as well as the ability to do a great deal of highly intensified work when called upon to do so. You have very strong pergonal convictions
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    U.S BID TO REBUTT CRITICISMS
    294 3 ninese see Jap 'armed 9 forces TOKYO, Friday. AT the request of the State Department and in the apparent hope of stilling criticism from the Orient and Russia that the United States is building up armed forces in Japan, the U.S. Army conducted correspondents on
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    6 3 I Princess walk arm-in-arm. at .Lausanne.
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    More dollars, fewer tons in Oriental—U.S. trade
    57 3 More dollars, fewer tons in Oriental U.S. trade he Orient are booming in tonnage, the if U.S. trade t\ ng to scrape up sell for export.' ie of its the U.S. d to annual average 1- m. iollar ide between the US was knocked out r and probabl;. rs bei
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    'The moustache' emigrates
    47 3 BRITAIN'S "handlebar' moustache champion, Mr. George Hoffman of St. Albans, Herefordshire, has decided to emigrate to Canada moustache and all. Mr. Hoffman, who sports a 9in. facial adornment, told Customs officers in Montreal that they could search the moustache for smuggled goods. They did.
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    Japs industrial secrets out
    70 3 THE 11 -nation Far Eastern Commission has agret-d to representations from each ntry going to Japan to study technological advances of Japanese industry. The decision presumably covers the right to examine arms and munitions. New Japanese textile machinery and fishing nets are of interest to Lancashire
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    MYSTERY HOAX ON EX-FIANCEE
    203 3 QIXTEEX gay, white-ribboned taxis drew up in >J Broadlands-avenue, Enfleld, Middlesex. The neighbours stared. Then 18-year-old Joan Hills ran out of a house crying "It's cruel hoax," and colla] in her mother's arms. As she did so Uixi-driver; dropped the confetti thev were about to shower
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    45 3 Two new methods of expediting mail. An American Army plane swoops low to pick up messages from a Command post during manoeuvres. Below, Britain's first helicopter mail service uxis opened at Peterborough. The helicopter is taking off with mails collected from a Post Office van.
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    JAPAN OPEN TO TOURISTS
    46 3 JAPAN OPEN TO TOURISTS lAPAN is now open for a J Limited tourist traffic. Gen. MacArthur's headquarters announces. Tourist trade has boon reopened as a means of acquiring foreign exchange which Japan urgently needs. Rerenue from tourist trade in 1937 readied a peak of $23.--000.000- Reuter
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    Missing dockers
    69 3 Where were the dockers? The Royal Albert Dock, usually a scene of bustling activity, is desolate. The men who usually man the cranes and load the ships were (right) listening to a strike leader at Victoria Park Bethnal Green. Number on strike: 14.000; Reason: dispute over "dirty cargo"
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    TRUMAN SIGNS CONSCRIPTION BILL
    37 3 PRESIDENT Truman signed the bill providing for the men aged 19 to 25. for 21 months. It is expected that betvv. 200.000 and 225.000 men will called up in the first vear.— Renter.
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    'Pearl Harbour attack was relief for F.D.R.'
    159 3 'Pearl Harbour attack was relief for F.D.R.' JAPAN'S attack on Pearl Harbour actually was a "great relief" for President Roosevelt, the late Mr. Harry Hopkins, who was F.D.R.'s i confidential adviser, wrote in his secret papers, a further instalment of which was published in Collier's magazine. Mr. Hopkins' biographer, Robert
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    AIR
    32 3 The works committee of A. V. Rose, makers of the Tudor airliner, have sent telegrams of protest to Ministers following a report that British Overseas Aairways plan to buy Canadian plai
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    'Look after me' —boy to police
    110 3 I SEVEN-YEAR -OLD boy, clutching a ration book walked tnto Paddington police station and told the surprised sergeant on duty. "My mummie told me that y u would look after me she cant do it any longer.'' The ohild was se.it to an L.G.C.
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    BANK SALES AS STEEL HIM?
    68 3 THE Bank of England has sold more than two-thirds of its large holdings in one of Britain's major steel companies. The Conservative 'Evening News,' which reported the sale of all but 430.000 of the Bank's original holding of 1,500,000 shares in the Richard Thomas and
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    Bricks thrown as family are evicted
    182 3 STONES and half-bricks were flung at a hairdresser's shop window in St. George's-way, Peckham, London, after a family had been evicted from an upstairs £l-a-week flat. About 60 women stood in the street jeering while bailiffs piled the furniture on the pavement. Then, as
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    Ordnance works in new 'Battle of Britain'
    266 3 Ordnance works in new 'Battle of Britain' DRITAIN'S Royal Ordnance factories, which proLJ duced the bombs and bullets for the figfiitiny: forces during the war, are today waging a new bill He against shortages at home and to boost the trade drive abroad. Large sections of the 22 government employing
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    Cut in rubber would hit U.S.
    100 3 A DECREASE in rubber production in Malaya as a result of preseftt disorders, might have a serious effect on industrial production in the United States, Dr. R. P. Dins- more, vice-president in charge of research of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co.. said in
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    E. EUROPE'S'NO' TO GREEK PLEA
    62 3 E. EUROPE'S 'NO TO GREEK PLEA THE seven count: Eastern Euro;, jected Greece*! app: al for the return of Greek abducted by guerr moved to tl The British and I": States Gh rt n n f the Greek appeal, have condemned tl children to th< and asked (> r their
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      66 3 TARZAN TO the rescue Edtar Rice Burroughs „,Ag v a I I' 7MIMM I 'NEVERTHELESS/ HELEN MAINTAINED. 'I J 1 ZV^E^Bfi SfetyZj^S •THAT/ REMARKED HcLEN. AS A >\> fit^ l/^ Z^B£& WOULDN'T WANDER O^F AS LETHA mTBJ^K^. CrH ROARED NEARBY. *iS -V> ft Jt/ "^WSS?^ DOES.' AGAIN THE LON ROARED
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY June 26. 1948. Asia's Communists
    534 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY June 26. 1948. Asia' s Communists ANY attempt to explain the and pattern of terrorism m Malaya sug- number oi different although not necessarily ofliciing theories. Little •wn oi the organisation within Malaya which is directing terrorist activity, or ptrhaps it would be more correct
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    LOST PATROL?
    822 4  -  GRAHAM by THE prospect of Singapore getting a number of exPalestine policemen is being considered by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech-Jones. Meanwhile, what axe the prospects for the remaining members of the Palestine police force? Fifteen hundred more arrived back in Britain this
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  • Letter
    CRABBED?
    154 4 Letter to the Editor THANK you for your rts to bring down prices in Singapore by printthe real news about trad"rackets Perhaps you might be abl* to help me by explaining the following facts. I accompanied my wife during the week on a shopping expedition to see prices for
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    FAITH
    17 4 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner dMtroyeth much good. Ecclesiastes: 9, 18.
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    SQUADRON 82 ON THE BEAM
    870 4  -  GRAHAM STANFORD b> "YOU'RE on the beam. Men of 82 Squadron hear it in their sleep these days, for on those words depends the success or failure of the RA.F.'s most important peace-time operation the photographic shooting of East, West, and Central Africa The No.
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    78 4 This is the new type of taxicab made by the Austin Motor Company, of Birmingham, which has been passed for use on London streets. It is of stressed steel construction, upholstered in hand buffed leather hide, with toughened glass all around. The driver's compartment is completely enclosed, and a glass
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    St Bernard monks to leave the Alps
    750 4  -  Challinor James by MEWS that the famous St. Bernard hospice, which sentinel-like has stood for centuries at the summit of the great alpine pass between Italy and Switzerland, is to be abandoned, except for a skeleton staff of priests and novitiates, has caused
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    UNKNOWN
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      24 4 MM I aXtnent of Timber with Solignum ensures a per!- i safeguard apaanst dry and _Tjm\ through the inroad ifjj I'*li3 Ae«nts in M
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    TRADE HITS NEW RECORD
    540 5 Big increase in exports Free Press Staff Reporter TRADE in Malaya last month rose to nearly $306 million, again topping all records since the liberation, and beating April's new high of |2MH million by about $6' i million. It was only in April that the first
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    AID CHIEF IN SHANGHAI
    9 5 AID CHIEF IN SHANGHAI dsfdlfksdopfilm joip Ifsd fff A.P
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    VOTERS URGED TO REGISTER
    186 5 K ,t the Singapore Legislative rest or slacken in their efforts hbs in Singapore and until we child, adequately equipped •i li\ing. complete elimination he local people in the public i hangs which we of the promised you/* said Mr. C. C. Radio Malaya last night.
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    COLONY T.B. FIGURES
    82 5 THE deputy-president of the Municipal Commissioners -Mr. W. L. Blythe) yesterday denied a headline .sug^cstnon that last year's tuberculosis figures in the Colony were the second largest in the world. Mr. Blythe was referring to an article in the Free Press which compared T.B. dra:hs in Singapore
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    ADMITTED TO BAR
    36 5 Mr. Justice Jobling yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court admitted Mr. J. 11 M icauslan to practise as a member of the Sinsapcr. Bar. He will be attached to Messrs Drew and Napier.
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    Safety First hints by radio
    233 5 rE Singapore Safety First Committee is approach, ing Radio Malaya for the inclusion of Safety First material in their general and schools broadcasts. The Public Relations Office is preparing safety first slides for screening in Singapore cinemas. At a meeting of the Committee on June
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    Tinned fruit for Malaya
    74 5 TiHREE million cases »f pears, peaches and apricots have been canned this season in Australia, and approximately twothirds of this amount will be exported. This is the jrreatest amount to have been exported in one vear wnce 1939. The bulk of the overseas shipment will go
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    WEST YORKS BACK IN U.K. FROM PENANG
    172 5 AFTER ten years' foreign service, the second battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment is back in England. The battalion distinguished! itself in the Western Desert and Burma among its 22 ma- jor campaigns in the last I war. The troops arrived at Liverpool
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    25 5 Inche Mahmood bin On man, who is on the -iuj of Qantas Empire Aincays, and Inche Seni binte Hap Yusoff, after their wedding in Geylang.
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    Ginsberg case postponed
    83 5 THE case against David Wolf Ginsberg, who was charged in the Second Police Court, Singapore, a month ago with dishonestly disposing of stolen property, was yesterday pastponed another fortnight. The prosecution still awaits instructions. It was alleged that, last September and November. Ginsberg dishonestly disposed i of
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    AWARD FOR K.L. SCIENTIST
    46 5 THE Clialnicrs Memorial 1 Medal has been awarded to Dr. J. W. Field, senior malaria research officer of the Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur. This is in recognition of the "outstanding contributions" made by Dr. Field to knowledge of malaria.
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    CHINESE JUNK SAILING TO U.K.
    179 5 IN about ten months' time, a Chinese junk may be seen sailing up the Thames. A globe-trotting American gin, Harriet Harvey, says the junk is now being built at Swatow for a party of British naval officers who will sail it to England next winter.
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    RUSSIANS BUYING OIL HERE
    313 5 RUSSIANS BUYING OIL HERE Free Press staff Rep< THE Chinese Pr ports "a bU oil deal** which S Russia ia neg< n Singapore Talks ai.- understood to 1 between represent! the purchasing certain Chin, m This news Bomei M heels of big rubber n by Rus^ Market renoris ui steady
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    PRISON FOR BRIBERY
    107 5 TWO contractors, who cor- niptly gave $2,000 to an army officer, were yesterday sentenced to jail by the Singapore Second District Judge <Mr. A. D. Farrell). They were Tay Choon Nam i nine months) and Tay Siew Heo;:g (six months), partners of Nam Kok and "Company at
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    MALAY FACES AMMO CHARGE
    64 5 A MALAY. Abdul Malik bin Rahman, was committed for trial at the next Singapore Assizes for the possession of 5.120 rounds of 9 mm ammunition and 797 round* of .303 ammunition. Mohamed Yassin bin Jaiz, who was also charged with the I possession of the same
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    NEW HOLIDAY RESORT IN JURONG
    127 5 NEW HOLIDAY RESORT IN JURONG A NUMBER of Singapore businessman have banded together to start a new holiday resort by the sea at Tanjong Balai off Jurong Road. The proposed resort will be called Coney Island, and there will be facilities for swimming and excursions, miniature golf, horse riding, fishing
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    New racket in oil
    90 5 ANOTHER racket has been n uncovered in Singapore— the selling of a mixture of mineral oil and coconut oil as genuine coconut oil. One Chinese buyer in Hong Kong reported that he imported 100 tons of coconut oil from Malaya recently. When the consignment was used
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      MAN OF THE WEEK Angry champion
      489 6  - MAN OF THE WEEK Angry champion F.G. PRINCE WHITE ey IRRITABILITY has long been recognised as one of the less desirable by products of genius. Dr. Johnson, for instance, used to fly into a rag* at the dinner-table and hurl his plate across the room merely because the pudding was
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      THE LIGHT
      66 6 PROFESSOR L H. Martin. Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne, said it might take up to half an hour to properly test the light on cricket grounds with photographic light meters. •'It would be very difficult to beat the judgment of a i good umpire as
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      World record in danger
      347 6 ONE of the outstanding events of the Olympic Game s. appropriately tabled fur August Bank Holiday, is the 800 metres. The Olympic record is certain to be broken, perhaps the worlds record (Rundolf HaTbip, (iirmany Imin. 46.65ec. in 1939). Britain's past winn< rs were: Albert Hill
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      IMPROVING YOUR CRICKET
      63 6 TIIK fingers you see here are those of England cricketer Bill Edrich. They show you how to hold the ball for an in -swinger. Note that the fingers are clo-e together with the thumb hi line with the ■ran of the ball at the bottom. And this
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      30 6 Confident Miss Maureen Gardner, a p*J^ M oz lW*f 'horn'' clears a hurdle in fine style to inn the 80 metres Hurdles Final in the Southern Counties championships at Chisuick.
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      Priceless —Maybe
      243 6  -  GEOFFREY SIMPSON B, |F Priceless Border, world record-breaking dog. wins the Greyhound Derby tonight at the White City (L mdon) his Irish owner. Mr. W. P. O'Kanc, who I flies n gularly from Delfast to London to see him race, will possess the n valuable greyhound aince the
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      MAILEY, MANNION & OTHERS
      351 6 MAILEY, MANNION OTHERS ARCHIE QUICK TALKING SPORT ARTHUR Mailey, famous Australian .spin bowler of yesterday, speaking to a meeting of the Nottingham Youths Cricket Association, said the trouble with English cricketers is that they are overcoached. MOTTINGHAM is full of IN rumours that internal ional footballer Wilfred Mannion, dissatified at
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      END OF 'BATTLE'
      146 6  -  COURTCRAFT By TOR every week in the last or months, Si; Malay badminton players have been "ha inp; each other for title of Singapo Malay champion. Tonight and torn*night the curtain v ring down on a m<'nt which hai l> I subject of cont: among badminton fai
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      74 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava Pll l^SURELY IT COU Ld\ I KaLAS !-*THE LlTrLE^B|] f\ WONDER WHAT Hr ||ji NOT HAVE BEEN I LEARNT AT l^Tftn MEANT BY THAT?— /JjHm CARRIED THROUGH! WIN7lGATOMSPMTzE*4 IMjff AH WELL.'— I'VE GOT **<■ WITHOUT YOUR fll SCARCELY ALLOWS x^li VA
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    LINDWALL SHATTERS ENGLAND HOPES
    961 7  - LINDWALL SHATTERS ENGLAND HOPES Bill Bowes Finest bowling since Larwood rrom [N two of the finest spells of fast bowling seen at ha ince the days of Harold Larwood, Ray Lindwall played havoc with the hopes of the England batsmen to get a lead over the Australian first innings total
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    40 7 The British Olympic hove, E. McDonald Bailey of Trinidad, is here seen being beaten by A. McCorquodale of the London Athletic Club in the 100 yards sprint for the Kinnaird Trovhy at the Polytechinic Stadium, Chiswick, London, on June 19.
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    Scoreboard
    217 7 \i S i km 1\— 1st. inns. Barnes c Button b Coxon 0 Morris c Hutton b Coxon 105 Brad man c Button b Bedser 38 llxssett b Yaxdley 47 Mdler Ibw b Bedser 4 I Brown lbw b Yardley J4 Ian Johnson c Evans b Edrich 4 Tallon
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    Malacca were worth their 2-1 victory
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    China meet MCFA today
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    OLYMPIC SWIMMERS PRACTISE AT S.S.C.
    55 7 >TINE Australian swimmers I who are on their way to Olympic Games in Lonarrived in Singapore by were: John Marshall. n Davies. Bruce Bourke. Lyons. Margie McQuade. Den'.se Spencer. Judy Joy Dav:es. Kev. Hallett and r>rv.-id Norris. They some time yesij evening at the SingaSwimming
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    Glamorgan now 20 pts ahead
    373 7 /^LAMORGAN, by their easy victory over Notts, now M lead the County championship table by 20 points have won ei^ht of their 11 matches. Their rivals. Derbyshire, had no match in the -eries. Welsh rountry will itch Yorkshire who. without L. Hutton, N. YardA Coxon,
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    SERVICES VETERANS: SKETCHES
    317 7 SERVICES VETERANS SKETCHES THK following are thumbnaii sketches of the Combined Services Veterans' team which win m«*«t the Chine.* Veterans tn ■MM in aid of Ibc Singapore AntlTubcrcuiosis A*sn. Fund at Jalar Be^nr Stndi'im on Tuefsday. S<tt. Jwnieson Age 44 RAF. Chan^i Played in Sco'tish Junior Football for Greenock Academicals,
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    Air Port most fancied today
    883 7  -  From EPSOM JEEP CTRONGEST tip on the course at Kuala Lumpur u this morning was for Air Port in the seventh race this afternoon, opening day of the Selangor Turf Club's Summer meeting. Stable fancies are conflicting in most races, indicating that there will be
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    Selections by Call Boy
    82 7 SELECTIONS by Call Boy for to-day's races at Kuala Lumpur are: Race 1: IX) NBA LAD Peggy's Choice F Capricorn Race 2: THE MAGIC LAMP Kaiser! ne Cham's Choice Race 3: MARCHETA III R Borough Warspite Race 4: TRICOLOUR I ady Kalang Windsor Laddie Race 5:
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    Swede beats Parker
    619 7 WIMBLEDON UPSET T ENNART Bergelin, Sweden's tennis star, scored J the greatest triumph of his career and put n e Wimbledon singles crown in the melting pot yesterday by eliminating American first-seeded playrr Frank Parker. 5 7, 7—5, 9—7, o—6,0 6, 10—8. The game, witnessed by a
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    U.K. may use more troops
    178 8 TO END DOCK STRIKE LONDON, Friday. rHK Labour Government is understood to have decided on calling out enough servicemen next week to break the London dock strike and save the food ration, unless the 19,000 strikers resume work in the meantime. The Prime Minister, Mr.
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    D.Ps FOR U.S.
    24 8 President Truman last night d a bill to let 205.000 in war refugees enter United States in the next two years.
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    69 8 Two-year-old Prince Carl Gustaf nestles back on he lap of his sjniling mother, Princess Sibylla, as they share an open carriage xith the Prince's great-grand-father. King Gustaf, on a State drive through Stockholm in celebration of the King's 90th birthday. The King is waving in respon to the cheers of
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    Berlin industry at standstill
    269 8 BERLIN, Friday. INDUSTRY in the British, French and American sectors of Berlin practically came to a standstill tmlav after power cuts made necessary by the Russian action in cutting oiT electric supplies. By economy measures, Allied experts hope to keep the electric svstem running for nearly
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    AID PLAN FOR ASIA URGED
    77 8 SAN FRANCISCO. Friday. STRONG plea for a "Mar- shall Plan for all the A>ian countr es" in eollaborawlth the West, was made by Mr G. AHana. Pakistan employers' delegate to the International Labour Organisation Conference before the rifth plenary sitting today. Mr Allana. who is
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    Soviets reject Allied protest
    82 8 ViENA. Friday. BRITAIN, the United States and France protested at the Allied Commission against the Russian arrest of the Austrian police chief, Anton Marek. who disappeared from his Vienna home. The Russian Commander-in-Chief re1 fused to accept their protests. United States is also protesting over the
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    CHINAS FOOD THREATENED
    55 8 MILLIONS of acres of China's farmland are pounded by i vat r from Lanchow In the northwest to Canton in the south. Officials express ve concern over the effect on China's food production. S veral hundred persons I have been drowned and 2,000 houses washed away in
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    STRIKE WAVE SWEEPS ITALY
    195 8 ROME, Friday. T^HE Italian Government met tonight to consider the large-scale strikes now spreading throughout Italy and threatening the nation's economy. A nation- wide strike of food workers is due to begin j tomorrow. 1 At Milan today, while heavy police forces watched, the II Communist-led
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    Gandhi witness has own cell
    74 8 NEW DELHI, Friday. NATHURAM Godse, Gandhi's alleged assassin asked at today's hearing ol his trial that Digambar Ramchandra Badge, who turned King's evidence, should have no means of communicating with any of the right accused as it might prejudice the defence. Judge Ata Charan said
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    LEWIS WINS
    36 8 I John L. Lewis, U.S. miners' leader, said most of the soft coal owners signed a new coal contract yesterday, including i a one dollar a day wage In- crease starting from July 1.
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    Americans call Warsaw talks 'propaganda'
    181 8 Americans call Warsaw talks 'propaganda' WASHINGTON. Fri. THE Warsaw declaration by 1 Russia and seven other East European countries, -ailing for a new attemur. to reach four- power agreement on Germany, was termed "a blatant attempt to win over the German people by propaganda'* by American official sources here today.
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    'Ike' unlikely to fight Dewey
    101 8 /^OVKRNOR Thomas E. vl Dewey, Republican candidate for the United States presidency, yesterday chose Governor Earl Warren of California as his candidate j lor the Vice-presidential nomination. For the Democratic Party. Gen Eisenhower. though silent on the subject, had been regarded as the possible al-
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    COURT SEX RULINGS REVIEWED
    239 8 LONDON. Friday. i THE British Medical Journal i presents, without comt ment a digest of recent deciy sions on marital sex relations I showing a wide difference of opinion on the question in the courts. The article was inspired by the fact that doctors frc- i
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    U.N. CHARGES TRUCE BROKEN
    182 8 U.N. CHARGES TRUCE BROKEN TEL AVIV. Friday. UNITED Nations 'tease lire' observers are being withdrawn from Egyptian-held territory in Palestine as a protest against Egyptian violations of the Jewish-Arab truce by refusing passage to an Israeli food convoy and by air attacks upon UNO aircraft. The Egyptian Premier, Nokra.shy Pasha.
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    BIG CHINESE HOARDS IN H'KONG
    251 8 BIG CHINESE HOARDS IN H' KONG $60, 000 millions kept in banks HONG KONG, Friday. THE extent of the flight of capital from China is indicated by a confidential report, disclosed to Reuter, placing the total of private Chinese fortunes now banked in Hong Kong at considerably over HK$6O,OOO millions,
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    Mountbatten on Burma
    67 8 LONDON, i r VHE Burmese feel friendship toward British than ever bej Lord Mountbatten Supreme Command* South-East Asia. London rally of men fought in the Burma paign. 1 was told over and again that of this new frit laid bv thf that the B havc.d in Burma
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    C N $4 MILLION FOR U.S. $1
    119 8 SHANGHAI. Friday.— The city went on a wild bu> spree today as the Chi:, dollar made a sensational plunge in the black mark. I hit the CNS4.000.000 mark for one U.S. dollar —a drop of over 3n per cent in 24 hours. While
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      TINS, RUBBERS DECLINE
      417 8 LONDON, FrkU ALL sections on the London Stock Exchange MR dull today, a fresh note of caution and un certainty having been introduced by the Berlin tension, says Keuter's financial correspondent There was, however, very little selling. Rubbers and Tins declined. The recent firmness of the gilt-edged
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      N. Y. stocks
      66 8 T;HE New York stack n. closed with more losses than gains yesterday after one of the slowest sessions of the month, tne over-all decline leaving the market just about where it was a week ago. Rails and some rubbers and oiks improved. Transfers totalled i 1.150.1*00 than
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      N. Y. rubber
      46 8 i^EW YORK crude- rubi* i lutures i closed five to 23 points higher roster day. Sales totalled 259 con- tracts. Offers were: July 21 M (U.S.); Sept. 21.85 bid; Dec. r 21 88; NO. 1 Hhhe/1 cmnW^ «>w~,. 22 3 4 nom A.P
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      Rubber prices
      62 8 I radio v and ging en\ A SPECIAL Market cwt»-;-gives the prices of rubber 11 am today as follows Buyers SasVri Cta Oh per lb per <« No. 1 RS S Spot loose 15', No 1 I.SS foe in bale* Jul\ I No. t I totin bales Juh
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