The Singapore Free Press, 6 July 1948

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1948 PRICE HI (BIS
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    Dew crisis powers hailed
    375 1 Dew crisis powers hailed Nine defence committees Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE appointment was announced this morning of nine advisory committees for the purpose of assisting to implement the special emerigency regulations which were passed by the Federal Legislative Council at its meeting yester!day. A new clause
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    32 1 te Lanaxs, 29-year-oia actre**, to<is found bed at her Los home y ester da I n ported to the police was unable to Miss Landis. Cause ■*a;h ftas not yet been determined
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    MAJOR FACES COURT MARTIAL
    195 1 Free Press Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A RISING out of incidents m a Batu Road milk bar A on the night of May 17-18, Major K. F. Cole, [Royal Engineers, faced charges at a Kuala Lumpur court martial today of drunkenness and conduct to the
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    Profiteers, beware
    59 1 SIAMESE Government officials have decided to "crackdown" on "underground" radio and parcel-post networks used to exchange commercial information with China and Malaya. The unlicensed transmitters and private posts have been used to circulate information on commodity and exchange prices with the result that financial killings have been made
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    Five arrests by S'pore police
    258 1 Free Press StaiT Reporter P.VE more arrests under the emergency regulations were made by the C.I.D. yesterday, Your of them were Chinese and one Indian, making total under detention today 46 of whom 24 are I hinese and 21 Indians, and one Malay. The Singapore
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    MORE VOTERS REGISTERING
    75 1 Press Staff Reporter REGISTRATION oX new n for the Singapore Council elections week by about the rate m the first weeks after the re- of the register on re 1,211 new registered up to June more were added I week. tnber of new electors I stalled 2,176.
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    DETECTIVE SHOT AT AND ROBBED
    155 1 DETECTIVE SHOT AT AND ROBBED Free Press Staff Reporter A YOUNG Chinese detective was robbed and shot m the arm near 10th mile, Changi Road, at about 11 o'clock last night. He was going m his car toward a kampong known as "Three Hundred Acres" along a cart track when
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    45 1 STALIN THE YOUNGER Major-Gen. VassUy Stalin, son of Russia's Prime Minister, seen at the controls of his plane m command of the air Section of a military Parade m Moscow's Red Square This picture was published m a recent issue of Ogonek, Soviet picture magazine.
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    12 HELD IN RAID
    39 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TWELVE Chinese were brought back for interrogation irom a raid on Lok Yang village, m the Jurong area, by a combined party of uniformed police and detectives at 5 a.m. today.
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    TWO FALSE ALARMS
    24 1 The Singapore Fire Brigade w;is called out twice to false alarms yesterday, once at Bencoolen Street, once at the railway station.
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    U.K. TO COLLECT RUBBER SEEDS
    194 1 LONDON, Monday. ■TOE Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, said today that an attempt was being made later this year to collect rubber seeds on a large scale m Malaya. If this was successful, it was hoped this potential source of oil would be used commercially
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    'Radio in every village' plan
    65 1 BANGKOK, Monday. tTTOE Siamese Government is JL planning the establishment of a radio station In every province m the kingdom. These provincial broadcasting station* will relay the Bangkok radio programmes and organise their own local programmes. The Government Publicity Department is also working on a
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    Council attack on Ministry
    308 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. (THE U.K. Ministry of Food was attacked m the 1 Federal Legislative Council yesterday for alleged discriminatory treatment of Malaya, as compared with Oylon, m the price of tea. Lt.-Col. G. D. A. Fletcher initiated the debate with a
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    INDIA'S BLOCKADE
    25 1 Hyderabad alleged yesterday that because of India's economic blockade goods intended for Hyderabad worth millions of rupees are being held up at Bombay.
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    WE MUST HA VE MARSHALL AID, SAYS CRIPPS
    271 1 WE MUST HA VE MARSHALL AID, SAYS CRIPPS LONDON, Monday. 'PHE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stai Cripps, tonight urged the House of Commons to accept the Anglo-American agreement govei i Marshall Aid to Britain as "a fair and kh document m no way interfering with our right to regulate
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    POLICEMAN FOUND SHOT
    74 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE Special Constable who was found shot m the chest early this morning near the Arab Street police hut. died later at the General Hospital. Police investigating officers b> that the shooting was accidental. The bullet went clean through the constable's chest.
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    JUNE RUBBER
    13 1 Malayan rubber shipments from Malaya during June amounted to 87,368 tons.
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    "SO COMMUNIST INFLUENCE
    167 1 Free Press Stan tv porter BELOW the street na plates (»n Singapore lamt posts workmen ha Juring the past fey. fixing neat circular rtd bearing Chinese eh.i: 'They are n^i Com::. signals" said i; Secretary. Mr. VV. W D> this morning." they I prohibiting hawk ment, but
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  • FEATURES..
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      Penang goes ahead with housing
      664 2  - Penang goes ahead with housing K. S. CHIA By WITH the minimum of resources, the nang Municipal Commission have emharked on an experiment m housing to meet one of the greatest problems and needs of the time. Today, the first result of thy if expi riment, detached om ed huii
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      Bridge Problem
      353 2 THIfl miKh) have L> Is fr«>iii this Foui pionshlp 11 had DO 'he result b< t. the tram climbed ;;11 the way to whu-h went down tv.o tr. The bidding as .<-hown when Ifn v I held th< Soutll hand It !i.>'A- that <»\.-r three dian. a three-heart
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      CONTROVERSY IN ART
      385 2 CONTROVERSY IN ART A PAINTING of Christ on the Cross, very different from the accepted ways of portraying the scene, is causing a controversy m art and religious circles m Spain. Benito Pneto's oil is on c of 380 entered m the National Art Show. It is his first entry
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      MODEST MAIDENS
      24 2 Tit— lll MgMMtf O a Pautit OOm GOLLVf HE WOULD PICK THE LONGEST DAY IN THE yfA*. TO BE MAP AT A^£
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      PICKING COTTON BY MACHINE
      245 2  -  ROBERT DUNNE By A.P. Corrvsponw MONSTROI S machines ntf like evil implement! of war*— will roam alo cotton rows of th*' South- ern UniU'd StaU-s f his autumn. They are mechanical cotpickers now being produced on an assembly U is for the first time. They may
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      88 2  -  Roy Ferroa by EMPRESS L taken on a look, but If thin^r to do I lids or skii Gowmir. lvally no i. part of a which cornea Pul Bztraord C Buc ma' UliC hab found o and tx. Pub^c has planned to p jvaile ti>. me ot the a
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      571 2 \> _< A^taCA I rw ■^Htf L. I w-< •'■> I sr£>'E:r s^ i ivmam Y&i lull ■r:w -the-... > Wni jmBB lit C^l k: I7VV/ f> vn-O-E5O*E airujnruflL PROGRAMMES IN 15 5 FngruUM Summary: 6 From 1?4»1I boob to 2M p m MALAY station Opnilnfc 6 yto 485 metres
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      207 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR a iMitmual IWrt with this attitiM pitifss. li this stirs you #i^ to achieve higher w compl^hmrnl. tlm M li fine But if you use it as* an cx < use to grouse with dissatiMat turn while d nothing to h tl«*r < <»nditions. then it is
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      U.S PARTIES WOO WOMEN VOTERS
      65 3 Petticoat election j :ue: ican hi>tor> more women jible this November to vote for I he men were more numerous. I Republican parties figure ')00 more eligible women th are preparing an emphatic A*ant? One Democrab of women's need peace. Other Democrase m the cost
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      20,000 Chinese 'reds dead'
      57 3 IT Communist columns jare reported to have been .tlists m ■arrow area between Kih- 1 Gov■ngaged m the sur--meet air force planes arc said to be concrn- large fleets m bases -md east Honan to keep a after hour v They said at R- da wore
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      Fascist who escaped to the Foreign Legion
      46 3 BSPPE Bo'.ui. 53. former of Educa- oath by rlaoo- F*m ourts ed to after D the Fr '■-Sb: r -i the reason" gf^-tt r:nans on and s IX ended. I n Mi uad u.i-, ;m-c made a A.P. U.P.
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      AIR MARSHAL REBUKED
      5 3 AIR MARSHAL REBUKED I U.P.
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      SURVIVAL DIET TEST MADE ON U.S. SOLDIERS
      205 3 pE Umied State, Army ha* just concluded ex--1 W*te test, to discover the ideal survival diet acued from 35 days on a 900 calories a day ration. iSimilar WsU were recently conducted by the British nary were reported yesteru&y.) The aim or the
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      KRUPP TRIAL VERDICT SOON
      111 3 \r!can war crimes Nuremberg are considering their verdict m case of the House of leading n isers for 150 y^ars ted m about Tu-. t major officials of the. :;ions combine have qd trial since last Deber 8. I Krupp v>n Bohlen I lar head vast
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      63 3 picture Three unary Commandos come a s h o r e at St. Ives, CorntoaU, from their 18- foot boat m which they had spent seven days cud four hours under voni ditions such as might be experienced by men adrift, dowers David (YCallaghan has a bath while George Baicson
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      Aussies vote: let wives stay'
      99 3 A Gallup poll on the .question 'should the Asiatic v. of an Australian be allowed to remain m Australia" revealed that 63 per cent, answered "Yes" and 26 per cent, "no" with 11 per cent., undecided. In an carl; n the deportation of aliens, the
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      Then there were five
      55 3 Candidates lor the Republican Presidential nomination at the opening of the Philadelphia < vention Left to rictit. arc Harold E. Stassen. Minnesota: Joseph W. Martin, Mas.sachusc Gov. Thomas E Deivcu, Sew York; Sen. Robert A Taft, Ohio; Got Earl Warren. California; and Sen. Eduard Martin. Pennsylvania.
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      BONDER CLASH
      48 3 FIFTY gunmen toDowen of the Fakir of Ipi wren killrd m a cla^h with Pakistan police at Bannu m northwest frontier province, adjoining Wazinstan. Officials at Peshawar the Fakir had denounced Pakistan as a British colony and ordered hLs followers to wage war against the country.
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      Indonesian issue at Dutch polls
      264 3 rIJLAXD will elect a new Parliament tomorrow. It is expected lo ratify changes m the Netherlands Imperial structure to permit formation of a DutchIndonesian Union. The present Parliament was elected m 1946 and ordinarily would serve until 1950. However, the relationship between the homeland and
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      NEW CURRENCY FOR JAPS' HIM
      73 3 4 CCORDING to widely spread rumours. American occupation authorities will soon either devalue th<? Japanese currency, or replace It with American military currency for general circulation ax a measure to stop Inflation. A member of the House of Councillors told Reuter that the Japanese Government
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      Knock out Nazis first was US policy
      368 3 Knock out Nazis first was US policy CHURCHILL DID NOT WHEEDLE ROOSEVELT THE decision to whip Germany before cotw«eniraiiii£ 1 on Japan m World War II was President U<h,-<--velt's owi decision, and k surprised even *l)e Briti-h. according to the secret papers of the late Harry Hopkins. This is disclosed
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      BID TO BLOCK HOPKINS' STORY
      37 3 THE Da. columnist O'L< lhat h' syndicate to Mr. York and 1 V iaunci move m quest C( pubLc I ip Mr. B .n's. blocked by Mr. Ciiurrhi.l himself. H»' said U.P.
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      WAR BY AUGUSTCHURCHILL
      251 6 Labour M. P. reveals 'prophecy MR. Winston Churchill has predicated privately thai, m his opinion, there would beawarbv August and thai he would be returned as Britain s Prime Minister according U> Mr. Richard Crossman, Labour M.P. writing m the London 'Sunday Pictorial". In his column "World
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      15 6 imPttl ,»J Wtnd to London Her Majesty is talking to J. T. Holdcn, tht :cr
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      Unanimous
      79 6 C' A M has abandoned plans to abolish Sundays as official holidays arid substitute the Buddhist sabbath, which varies with the moon. The Minister of Commerce said it tpould create -iess confusion. The Minister of Foreign Affairs said foreign interests opposed the plan. The Minister of Finance said tax
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      SLAVS WANT TO FIGHT FOR U.S.
      115 6 AT uOO non-Commun >♦ emigre* m Shanghai would like to join An. i projected "foreign ord one of Th who c;ill themselv. I*HOHand wha*e homelands are under Rus- "would w»l.\>me a chance to enlist ud. Ag our hopes to ndment to the s Bill
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      TO SEE ATTLEE
      21 6 S.: ion m Japan and kncnl xTies Gairdner Mr. Attl -Nonal representa.l Mac Arthur. nd m n Aug-
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      BOGUS OFFICER 'PASSED' 61 PILOTS
      189 6 WHEN 1. irrived it the di^niiiieci London offices of the Royal Aero Club from "Group Captain Leonard Andrews/ hard-working orgraniscr of ihe Gloucester Flyinpr lub. they used to *ay: "Gi«od chap, that." And Utters (rum this en,>ris*ng club, run on a cooperative bat»i£. came m
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      43 6 :s of Coude PenntylvanUt US are having visits from thU 250-pound bear The bear usually has a short stroll through t?ie side-street* a look at the houses before he heads back to the The householders don bother him as he hasn't bothered them
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      Mountbatten welcomed to U.K. by Envoy
      50 6 Mountbatten welcomed to U.K. by Envoy Earl Mounlbatten betng greeted at Northult Airport Mr. V. K. Krithna Menon, High Commissioner for 1 on his return to Britain after relinquishing the office of Governor -General of India. Lady Mutntbaiten v on the right and tht Duke of Edinburgh on the left.
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      Beauty Queens break up party
      291 6 Contest result disputed Mrs Mitchell on the ftage. "Of course «he'« pretty, We all like ber. but fair's lkir We art jendicg a peuuoo to the mayor, demandtn^ a retrial A £1,000 beauty competition ux Bright or has created a storm because, of it is
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      S'HAI ANGER OVER FREED JAPS
      251 6 S'HAI ANGER OVER FREED JAPS ♦Let Down' by Shinwen i tie, statement oy Uie Brit-**, Mmi-^ 1 E. Shinwell m the Common* r^Tt? J son for the release of the Japans lh < n,Jf General KinoKhita and M V^ 1 U Kong: without trial, was lac* <* evil!^' 1 1
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      Seven tin Mines are total loss in Siam
      12 6 Seve n tin Mines a re total loss in Siam I A.P.
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      'Name wartime C-in-C
      48 6 THK ronnuuidn v J < tun* of «^u- si:, I Paul Keynaud i I yd m lU I cmamoa mi the budc^t tstmi./ He strand v aitark(»d :S# •<• dn lannr Ttir cordin? t« out -of da t m ::tiM m which th> I tack aircraft' a:
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      6 6 shotrtn9 Klcment Gotttralc %!.'thc official t
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      14 3 iON'T IPLIT HAIRS IROW J^ need! [HOW '^BAND'S AFFAIRS PA]' 'WiLION k i: v
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      88 3 "Why is the bo— J f -o krru on K.L t .M. gB <-■'-• Fw generations, the Dutch have been known throughout the world as skilful, enterprising voyagers. To-da> when you go hy X.L.M., you f^^ C Serrtce* MW+'m ®'mMJ' OTI4IS4UIITIC©tfIBOP{ V'W mWm eiIDOU nd Fit (IST OUST lIDICS OSBBTI
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      41 3 TARZAW Brothers 8* Btaf»m.<** n C&vP --iT n^shT LASSCN S S.OVV-/WOVIN6 B«AiN APPEARED fe^9P W6'fHß l^^i^^'ifc^ <>J r \>/ >4 lT WAS w™E MUNI RiVER COLfm^V? a£chT> PgQBLgM. 'WHAT S£EMS^TP> ;J,^' f?S r)*^**' V V tf- &G Ap E <^>JNTKY,' HE "SAID^STUDYING
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. July 6. 1948. The Offensive Begins
      442 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. July 6. 1948. The Offensive Begins REPORTS yesterday from pulK- ..litary sources unfolded a quiet tale of sueast and guerillas .ipt to by- .nst the more lurid background of murder m In the Sun^ei 1... Negri three out of t Communist ye been arrested, .rth
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      COMMUNISM IN ASIA
      1542 4 COMMUNISM IN ASIA THE British presa has suddenly be* come interested m Asia. It is unfortunate that this sudden discovery of news value m the Far East seems only to have been oceassioned by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald's recent speech about the growth of Communism m Malaya. Communism is certainly
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      POLITICAL ECONOMY
      275 4 What People Say THEAPER says I am "lost m the days of Adam Smith political economy." I am also lost m the days of Newton and the law of gravity, if he likes. So far from there being "no question of the so-called rules of political economy operating
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      THE BIGGER FIGHT IN AMERICA
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      THE YOUNGEST DOMINION
      802 4  - THE YOUNGEST DOMINION Hon. J. L. KOTALAWELA Ky the Mmister of Transport m the new Dominion rEV L 0 N is the youngest of the Dominions, and it 'vas very recently ihat we celebrated our newfound freedom. All over my country, Ihure is a feeling of exultation, a lid a
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      FAITH
      28 4 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by lov? serve one another. Galatians, 5. 13.
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      BUILDING PLANS DELAY REMOVED
      304 5 BUILDING PLANS DELAY REMOVED Rural Board takes action Free Press Staff Reporter AS an example of the benefit to the general 11 electorate of behind-the-scenes work by elected members of the Singapore Legislative Council, a long-standing complaint regarding the passing of building plans by the Rural Board has now been
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      68 5 For the first time m the history of Singapore an educational film show was held m the Changi Prison by the Public Relations Film Unit last Monday. Arrangements have been made to hold such shotos regularly to form a part of the prison reform scheme which aims at reforming the
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      Pay for work, not qualifications'
      203 5 > Correspondent Xl ALA LI MPIR, Monday. I .1 r> of the Federation, >Ir. ■I during <he debate on the Hiial committee on salaries. the Malayan public services X «»f work they did. not for possessed. m the main, called for scales for I *enricea
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      Gandhi Fund $100,000
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      REV. GREGORY
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      GENT: MALAY PAPER SENDS CONDOLENCE
      127 5 INCHE Abdul Manan. acting 1 managing director of the Utusan Melayu, yesterday sent a telegram to the acting High nmissioner, Federation Malaya, expressing deep regret at the sudden and tr death of Sir Edward G Inche Abdul Manan asked the acting High Commissioner to convey
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      Control over trisha, riders is sought
      116 5 Control over trisha, riders is sought Free Press Staff Reporter OOWERS are being sought by Singapore Municipal Commissioners to bring not only trishas but their riders within the control of the Municipal authorities. Proposed amendments to the Municipal Ordinance which will achieve this aim have been approved by the Municipal
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      BANK GIVES TO FLOOD RELIEF
      70 5 THE Committee of the Poochow Relief Fund has received a donation of $100 from the Hongkong Shanghai Bank. Singapore. The bs. k h;us a^retd to remit money for the Fund to Hong Kong either by draft or telegraphic transfer at the inter-bank rate of St.ss3'
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      FOR ASSIZES
      41 5 The Seventh Police Court Magistrate (Mr. A. G Sheares) yesterday committed a 48-year-old Chinese. Soh Chong Chua of Ah Hood Road, to stand trial at the next Assizes on a charge of possession of 150 rounds of .48 ammunition.
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      46 5 picture Mr. Joseph Chifley, Australian Prime Minister,- (m dark suit), being greeted by the Australian Commissioner m Malaya, Mr. Claude Massey, on his arrival at Tengah aerodrome on Sunday on his way to London to discuss economic and immigration matters with the British Government. Free Press
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      Chinese naval cadets
      116 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent ITHE Chinese Naval Academy m Nanking is to hold an I entrance examination for I cadet trainees m Singapore shortly, under the supervision |j of the Chinese Consulate(neral. A similar examination is 'being held m all prinI cipal cities of China, as well
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      Coffee shop has power rationed
      82 5 Coffee shop has power rationed Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE coffeeshop is the first Ll] d only establishment so far have its supply of electricity rationed under the newly-introduced regulations prohibiting the use of curron^ for outside lighting and window lighting. The shop was rationed after it had ignored
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      FIRED AT POLICE FROM HIDE-OUT
      177 5 FIRED AT POLICE FROM HIDE-OUT JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. WONG Siong was \t\sieiday committed to the Assizes on a charge of making preparations to commit eanu robb'Ty at Kill it the preliminary inquiry, a Detective Sergeant. Wong Chan said that on Jan. 28 he left Kulai together with the officer-in-charge of
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      Two Theatres Change Hands
      85 5 I*WO Singapore nas. Alhambra and Marlborough theatres, have just bet-n taken over by Mr. Loke Wan Tho and the J. Arthur Rank organisation. The Alhambra. which is temporarily closed, will be installed with British projection equipment, and will become the first theatre to be so equipped.
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      Sedition trial defence opens
      237 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. I lEW Yit Fun, publisher and manager of the Mm Sheng Pau and Selangor representative of the Malayan Communist Party today made his defence before Mr. B. G. Smith, the Kuala Lumpur District Judge, on charges of publishing s^dKious
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      CONCERT FOR CHURCH
      168 5 THE Catholic Young Men s Association (Church of the Sacred Heart) will stage a variety concert on Saturday at 8 p.m. at the St. Joseph's Institution Hall m Bras Basah Road. The proceeds of the sale of tickets will be used for the rehabilitation of the Church
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      May be banished for Chap-ji-ki
      136 5 pHE Fourth Police Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, yesterday recommended a 71-year-old Chinese for banishment. He was Tan Ah Sens:, who had been found guilty of assisting m the management of Chap-Ji-Ki. Tan was fined $500, m default two months' rigorous imprisonment. The fine
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      ARREST ORDER ISSUED
      88 5 A WARRANT lor the arrest of C W. Roberts, a former officer-in-charge of the Singapore Food Control Inspectorate, was issued t>y the District Judge <Mr E P Shanks' yesterday. Roberts had failed to pay a $250 instalment of a $500 fine imposed on him on Mar. 25.
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      CEYLON WARNED AGAINST REDS
      53 5 CEYLON WA RNED AGAINST REDS MR E. Goonesinha, Ceylon- e.se Minister Without Portfolio, yesterday described Russian objections to Ceylon join!: c the United Nations as "a deliberate open show of arm.He warmd the people to •guard against being misled by Russian agents who are scheming to hand over Ceylon to
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      New radio for Police: Tests are successful
      219 5 New radio for Police: Tests are successful Free Press Staff Reporter A LARGE number of the latest -type mittting and rece sets, each weighing only a few pounds, are on o> dt r from the Uni l ed Kine «»rn for the Singapo Lice Force. These sets wiil rep present
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      Y.M.C.A. LECTURE
      17 5 The Public Rfr. Singapore (Ml Thomson* delivered his lecture on 'Den. r i.M.C A niel
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      SILVER SEQUIN SHAPES WELL ON TRACK
      680 7  - SILVER SEQUIN SHAPES WELL ON TRACK Fast work at Bukit Timah By CALL BOY CLASS three horses and griffins returned the best times at Bukit Timah this morning when there a large turn-out for fast work on the second ek m preparation for Saturday, first day of the Singapore Turf
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      63 7 These pictures of the Louis Walcott heavyweight title fight m Sew York on June 26 when Louis retained his title, knocking out Walcott m the 11th round, show: Top, Walcott driving m a left and taking a right to the face m return and below, Walcott falling to the canvas
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      'Test selectors are right'
      213 7 Bill Howes have named the following i ht>ter for the third Tes4 on •■mpton. Edrich, Yount;. Bedser, Laker, Dollery. Evans, d are Hufcton, Cozon and m Emmett, Crapp Crap are Gloucestershire well with the bat d Pollard Lancashire IM Start n ■r i I I I
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      Sembawang hold S.H.B. Police
      33 7 RALLYING m the M •he RAF. Sembawang. managed to draw with the Singapore Harbour Board two-all m a second S A FA. league match played on the Padang yes-
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      CRAPP 91 n.o. v TOURISTS
      389 7 I A FTER Australia had set up their highest tota of the tour 774 for seven dccl. at Bristo yesterday, Gloucester replied with 261 for seven at close. It was disturbing to English cricket supporters to see George Emmett, 35-year-old right-hand opening bat who is
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      Scoreboard
      237 7 A I STRALIA— Ist IWs Barnes c Crapp b Cook 44 Morris c and b Scott V*i) Ilawtl st WHson t. (ook 1 Miller c Cook b S< ott I Harvey c Allen b Cook Loxton not out I VJ M< (ooi b Barnett M I. Johnson <■ and
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      English Test selectors 'panicked'
      10 7 English Test selectors 'panicked' f r ■:i to be Reuter
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      Rovers win by odd goal
      169 7 Rovers S.C I: MJFJL 1 ;in a closely-contested Division I fixture at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday the Rovers Sports Club beat the Malay Football Association two -on i. The Malays struck form during the first half and led i one-nil through a goal scored by
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      Britain to bid for heavy weight fight
      597 7 01 T of the mist which at present shrouds the manner m which a world heavyweight champion is to be produced to fill the place relinquished by Joe Louis, comes a declaration by the London promoter, Jack Solomons, that he intends to do
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      TODAY'S NETBALL
      36 7 'pHE aetball team of the Girls Sports Club will play the first match of the 1948 ne'ball s ason igafait an ATS. team ftom Neesoon on the S R.C. padang at 5.15 liiis e\ening.
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      Colbay up to class one
      146 7 FOLLOWING his fourth win m Malaya on Saturday, final day of the Kuala Lumpur races. Colbay has been promoted to class one. The full list of the latest SR.A. classifications is: From Class 2 to Class I:— Colbay. From Class 2 to Class 3.— Dale
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      SURREY OUT FOR 42
      288 7 TPIIE first-class cricket matches m England x yesterday provided an amazing contrast m batting fortunes. While the Australians scored the season's highest total of 774 for 7, Surrey were m such a plight against Yorkshire at Sheffield that they collapsed for 42, the lowest total so
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      Oxford 152 ahead:Webb 145 net out
      122 7 Oxford 152 ahead:Webb 145 net out H>b. scoring 145 not out, helped O.v d ani over Cambrid terda; nual Var Cambrid kern for 12 r. ;nn:i. We! B IMBRIDGL l I (Bail 1 I foi ."iij. OKI -t Inns. Kt-iichl I Van K>nc\< !d < In Karda: el Mir) \\«bb
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      SELETAR WIN 3-2
      15 7 R." R.A.F. I m a S-A.F.A. Division league i played at Chan
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      210 7 F.P. Crossword No. 429 1 iw p i j r i. i i i 5 1 6 7 +r i io m BiLZZiSZ"^Z~Z"^ 14 15 ?6 ?7 28 m whw\ 1 11 111 CLUKi At KUSS 2. Instructed (6). 6. Ringlet (4). 8. Sketch (4). 10. S< 1. Continued series
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      DEATHS
      75 8 MARIE Hyr.dman passed •peacefully on sth July 1948 a: Kanda::? Kerbau Hospital. ,c at 5 15 p.m. Service at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd and thence to Bidadari Cemetery for ir.UTnHonsr Kon«r papers please Henry Richard Lubbock Dyne parsed a way on July 5. 1948 a«?ed 70 years,
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      JET FLIGHT DELAY
      25 8 :i winds have forc<\i another postponement of the rt of the trans-Atla.tu-flight by six Royal Air Foroe jet planes from Stornoway Scotland.
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      BERLINERS TO APPEAL TO UNO.
      374 8 BERLINERS TO APPEAL TO UNO. 'Neutral state willing to act' BERLIN, Monday. TPHE Germans themselves today took two steps towards breaking the East- West deadlock m "blockaded" western Berlin, while the three western allies were discussing the timing of their next step a diplomatic note direct to the Kremlin. Dena,
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      AGREEMENT ON INDIA'S DALANCES
      141 8 AGREEMENT ON INDIA'S DALANCES LONDON. Monday. DRITAIN'S agreement with India on the release of India's sterling balances will be signed here tomorrow if the British Government receives official notification m time of the Indian Government's approval of the proposals it was authoritatively learned today. Signature of the agreement with Pakistan
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      MONTY FOR PARIS PARLEYS
      128 8 MONTY FOR PARIS PARLEYS LONDON. Monday. FIELD Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Chief of Imperial General Staff, is going to Paris this week on a four-day official visit to meet the French Minister of Armed Forces. The visit, which begins on July 8, is unofficially linked with Western Union military talks which
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      SOVIET HARVEST UP
      27 8 The Russian wheat harvest is well ahead of 1947 levels and all areas are reporting bumper crops, the Tass news ncy announced.— A P.
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      Reds' big drive in Malaya
      216 8 SOVIET BID FOR ASIA WASHINGTON. Monday. T>l SSIA is now aiming at domination of Asia, and to this end Communists "are working prodigiously m Malaya. Burma and Indonesia, and are raising all sorts of trouble m Pakistan," the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign
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      CHINESE REDS KILL PRIESTS
      31 8 ist prksu of Yangiciapinj. nothern Manbelieved have ned to cUa'.h by C mi thf ...ition was received I a Chinese who had escaped from a Communist prL>o...
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      BIRTH
      25 8 BORN to JENNY of M P Th Leenen. a son Bart I s:h July at K. X Ho.: Sineapr-- r and ion doin* fine.
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      TALKS FOR UNION OF INDONESIA
      164 8 BAT AVI A. Monday PVING the way lo r tne creation of a sovereign United States of Indonesia m a Netherlands-Indonesian union under the Dutch crown, nonRepublican leaders are expected to discuss the transfer of Dutch power to the Indonesian provisional federal government when they
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      UNIONS DEFY COMMUNISTS
      217 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Monday. A CLOSED conference held on Saturday between leaders of the Inter-American Confederation of Workers and the newly-formed Asian Federation of Labour was seen as the first step towards the formation of a worldwide anti-Communist trade union movement to challenge the position of the World
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      19 8 An armoured car and two armoured jeeps of the U.S. Constabulary on patrol m the American sector of Berlin.
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      Truman hopeful of world peace
      64 8 BOLIVAR (Missouri) Mon. PRESIDENT Truman said today that the world must expect more "delays and disappointments" m its quest for lasting peace, but expressed firm confidence that "We can succeed." Without specifically mentioning the troubled relations with Russia. Mr. Truman expressed faith m the future
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      ELECTIONS FRAUD, SMUTS ALLEGES
      193 8 PRETORIA, (South Africa), Monday. •THE Nationalists won the South Africa elections x by foul means, declared former Premier, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, at the opening of a nation-wide tour today. He said that Nationalist propaganda on the colour question was dishonest. Field Marshal Smuts said "the
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      GALES LASH U.K. EAST COAST
      55 8 |N the worst July weather for years a 60 miles an hour gale struck Yorkshire and Norfolk on Sunday night. At Bridlington (Yorks) the wind snapped the minute hand off the clock of the tower. The hand, which is three feet long, was found embedded
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      U. S. PAPER RAPPED FOR 'ORIENTAL'
      148 8 NEW YORK, Monday. CITING the concentration camps of war-time Germany as leaving "little to choose between the East and the West m the refinements of man's cruelty to masi and beast," Lieut Col. A. S. Meek m Washington, who described himself as a "British
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      RED SETBACK IN FINN VOTING
      99 8 HELSINKI, Monday JOSSES suffered by the Communist-dominated Democrats m last week's national election have come as a shock even to thPir opponents. The setback may involve 11 or 12 Parliamentary seats. It appeared the Popular Democrats may lose almost a fourth of the 49 seats
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      FRESH HOPE FOR PEACE IN HOLY UNO
      185 8 FRESH HOPE FOR PEACE IN HOLY UNO CAIRO, Monday. WITH the month -long United Nations supervised "cease-fire" In Palestine coming to an end on Friday, con flicting reports are being received of the Arab and Jewish attitudes to the settlement proposals of the UN. mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte. Earlier report*
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      B.O.A.C. MAY BE REORGANISED
      42 8 rr*HE British Government JL may reorganise British Overseas Airways Corporation. 8.0.A.C.. one of Britain's nationalised airline. has bt-t n losing moru y hoavily. I a deficit of £8.( for the 12 month* ended March 31. 1947 A. P.
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      OPERATORS CAUTIOUS
      439 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Monday. VTERVOUSNESS and caution continued to their effect on London Stock Exchange pn< < levels today, says Reuter's financial correspondent I The immediate attention of the operators continue to be centred on the Berlin crisis, and from today's tendency it would appear that another
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      YUGOSLAVIA IS RUSHING DEFENCES
      43 8 YUGOSLAVIA IS RUSHING DEFENCES fkITWARDLY maintain, *<> V toward Russia and th, aujj Yugoslavia today i^ rusl <**2 and maintaining night and frontiers. Meanwhile, it is report) following its break with*' a meeting m Bucharest anc d< expulsion of the lft«J I A.P. U.P.
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      Rubber prices
      126 8 A SPECIAL SUrkei correspond* di n ftreo the prices of rubber a* 11 am. today m Km per ft. Ocr Ib Buyer* Seller Ots CU No. 1 8.5.8. SM loose 46- No. 1 8.8.6. m bale* July II No. Z 8.8.8 folk m bales July 45*. 46 No.
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      50,000 HOMELESS
      18 8 At least 50.000 are aft-er two days of floods Morava and Isheva Southern S f rbia.
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      Whitehall backs Mountbattd
      62 8 LONDC THE Finar. vn. V.Mohammed, stated m Lo: -I Mou: which followed partition. :ng m the P sprang from a cor. by militant Sikhs and tl of the Rashtriya Sv ak to throttle I by eliminating M fore partition the Goven of India knew of the^o I
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      PEIPING RIOT
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