The Singapore Free Press, 31 July 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948 PR It I- HI t'LMS
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    Fresh approach likely to Whitehall
    331 1 Fresh approach likely to Whitehall Stronger steps are urged f ONDON representatives of Malayan tin and rubber interests emphatically disagree with the many suggestions that adequate forces are now available in Malaya, cabled the London correspondent of the Free Press this morning. They propose to put their viewpoint to Whitehall
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    Malayan air survey by RAF
    185 1 Free Preivs Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. MALAYA, Borneo and Sarawak are U> be included in Britain's gigantic air surrey designed to map the urces of the colonial empire. A small group of R.A.F. men. armtd only with leru, are Britain's newest pioneers. The men are
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    Strike hits 8 UK newspapers
    140 1 JHEKE will be no publication on and from Aug. I of Northern editions of the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 1 Daily Mail and Sunday Dispatcii. Daily Herald and The People, News Chronicle, and News of the World .is a result iof a strike by
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    CHIANG IN S'HAI: 'DRASTIC' PLANS
    241 1 CHIANG IN S 'HAI: 'DRASTIC' PLANS SHANGHAI, Saturday. GEN. Chiang Kai-shek flew into Shanghai from Mokanshan, a mountain resort near Hangchow last evening. His visit and recent conferences with his top economic advisers at Mokanshan are believed to be linked up with the efforts of the E.C.A. Chief, Mr. Roger
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    GIANT SHELTER GOES AT LAST
    63 1 BRITISH Army sappers succeeded yesterday in blowing up the massivj reinforced concrete air raid bunker in the Tiergarten Berlin The great shelter collapsed under a thick blanket of smoke following the burst of a 35- ton charge of explosives. Two previous attempts last year failed
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    ROAD ACCIDENT
    32 1 A 7. 15 p.m. yesterday, an old Chinese pedestrian, was involved in m6tor accident at the junction of Havelock Road nad New Bridge Road and takoo to the General Hospital
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    Batu Arang: 7 of killed were known Reds
    148 1 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. SEVEN of the 22 Chinese shot dead In the attack on an insurgents' hide-out in Batu Arang yesterday have already been identified as known Communists, said a i Selangor police officer today, i Early this morning,
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    Two robberies by taxi gang
    127 1 Free Press Reporter Three armed Chinese, using I the same method, robbed a 1 Chinese couple in Pasir Pan- jang Road at 9.30 p.m. yesterday and 45 minutes later j robbed another party in Bedok Road at the foot of Bedok Hill. The robbers took
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    NO RUSH FOR TIN SUPPLIES
    7 1 NO RUSH FOR TIN SUPPLIES p p.
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    $1,500,000 DRUG CHARGES
    60 1 A FRENCH seaman, Lucien Ignaro, was held in New York yesterday on narcotics' charges. Authorities said he had netted $1,500,000 in three 1 months by selling pure her- oin. Though posing as a seaman, i Ignaro is alleged to be the head of dope ring which has
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    FALLING BALE KILLS THREE
    52 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THREE Malays were killed last night when a ship's sling broke and a heavy bale fell on four men. The fourth man was injured. The accident occurred, while goods were being transferred by winch and derrick from the ship to a Harbour
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    SIAM CORONATION
    20 1 Court astrologers have selected March 2 as the day on which Siam's new King will be crowned. A.P.
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    Can't join best parties
    83 1 XY/HEN Eliot Joshua Friedman, a Boston lawyer, decided rr to change his name, he thought it loould be nice to be known as Forbes. But the socially-important and exclusive Boston family of Forbes went to court in Boston to stop him. There are hundreds of good
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    Kuomintang chief says 'Siamese are anti-Chinese'
    265 1 Kuomintang chief says 'Siamese are anti-Chinese' I NANKING, Friday. THHE Secretary-General of the Kuomintang, Mr. A Wn Te-chen said tonight that the banning of the Kuomintang in Siam, "would indicate the influence the Communists have gained in that country/' Asked to comment on the report that the Siamese Government had
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    FELL FROM BUS
    27 1 At the fourth mile Bukit Timah Road just after 7 pjn. yesterday, a Chinese passenger fell while alighting from a bus and was injured.
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    U.K. SERVICE CHIEFSMEET ON BERLIN
    330 1 U.K. SERVICE CHIEFSMEET ON BERLIN LONDON, Friday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, met British Chiefs of Staff and are believed to have discussed with them the possible deferment of releases from the forces. Final decision on this issue was expected to be
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    Coroner for 19 days, he quits
    109 1 Coroner for 1 9 days, he quits Tree Press Staff Reporter MR. Mahomed Yunus Zyllwyn -Stewart, Coroner of Singapore for 19 dmyi by road for his home in Butterworth this morning. "I am quitting," saic Zyllwyn Stewart as he got into his Ford VB, "because the salary is inadequate. I
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    B.B.C. TO OPEN HERE AUG. 8
    76 1 The BB.C. said last night i that it will operate from a base outside Britain for the first time on August 8 when it takes over the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Service in Singapore from the Foreign Office. The announcement said no changes in
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      'Of No Fixed Abode'
      2010 2  -  Jain Coventry A SHORT STORY By f'E stood in the gutter, apparently indifferent to the hustling crowds, but, actually, acutely sensitive to the bitter atmosphere and conscious of all who passed by. The basket of flowers at his feet flurvg a defiant splodge of passionate colour
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      Bridge Problem
      134 2 rjIAMONDS are trumps. u South leads. North and South are to win all sixtricks atrninst nny defend South loads tk jack. If West rovers. North ruffs and leads a heart which South makes the good spade and North dJ the club king. South leads a club for North
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      INDIA-GERMAN PACT
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      DEATH DRAMA
      32 3 Ifn LI- anor Milh >liand. 58. ile of a v a doctor in ;in play at Atlanta. liapsed dur tnr A physician was called and pronounced her dead irt attack
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      U.K. SAVED FLOUR
      31 3 Dr. Edith Summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary to the Food Ministry told the Commons that two years of bread rationing saved 960,000 tons of flour. Bread rationing ended on Sunday.
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      SIAM'S 3-POINT RUBBER PROGRAMME
      313 3 SIAM'S 3-POINT RUBBER PROGRAMME Planters forming 'co-ot> 9 grouts CJ BANGKOK, Friday. j^Hfc Siamese government has announced a threepoint programme to promote the development of the rubber industry in the southern provinces of the kingdom. As its part of the programme to help rubber planters, the Ministry of Agriculture is
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      The truant
      37 3 {S eight-year-old boy who A was said constantly to have played truant from school, kept Fleetwood (Lanes.) juvenile magistrate waiting 25 mtnutes recently because he had gone to school instead of answering a summons. Reuter
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      820 TOWNS SAW CYCLE MARATHON
      263 3 4 T about four o'clock every afternoon for 26 days during July, French people exhibit a marked apathy toward their work. A visiting Briton would be reminded of a London office at tea time during the football Cup Final or a cricket Test Match. An
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      CA THOLIC MAYOR 'NOT WANTED'
      147 3 CA THOLIC MA YOR 'NOT WANTED' LDERMAN H. E. Lane is a Roman Catholic. He is also the Mayor of Wolverhampton. As Mayor, he attended three Church servicesChurch of England, Noncomformist and Roman Catholic— in connection with the town's centenary celebrations. Roman Catholic* he intended to go to an evening
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      U.S. SAID 'DUE FOR A BUST'
      91 3 A FORMER Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Mr. Harrines Eccles, said that the United States "c tainly going to have a bust." He told the Banking Committee that he did not kn when inflation would set in, or in what degree. This, would
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      VICAR SAYS 'I QUIT'
      139 3 rTWE Rev. W. H. Elliott. X who complained of "idle, ungodly gossip" in his parish, St. Mary's. Warwick, announced that he will give up the living as soon as he has somewhere else to go. He said: "I am ill. 1 have I no money, no
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      CHEYNE WALK DEMOLITION
      63 3 HISTORIC houses in Cheyne Walk. Chelsea, where he ruins of the house <■: famous p i lurnor. stand and where Carlyle. Oscar Wilde and Rossetti also lived are t re further consl)n before demolition plans proceed. The houses are involved .n p proposed plan to rebuild a
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      13 Farben men convicted
      123 3 13 Farben men convicted NUREMBERG, Friday. THIRTEEN Directors of the 1 giant I. G. Farben Chemical Trust, were convicted today by a United States tribunal of war crimes and sentenced to prison terms ranging from 18 months to eigth years. Ten others were acquitted on all counts. As the defendants
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      TEN BRITONS KILLED IN ALPS
      98 3 TEN British tourists on holiday in Switzerland have violent deaths in t iour days. On Monday, three Oxford undergraduates fell 3,0 to their deaths while climbi the Matterhom 14.732 1 hi;h Alpine peak. On Tuesday, a British pie were killed, when a motorcoach hurtl- d
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      KING LOANS PAINTINGS
      56 3 A SPECIAL police guard stood by at London Airport recently when paintings from King George's personal collections were loaded Into a Dutch airliner. Valued at £500 000. the paintings are being loaned to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands an a personal tribute from the King on th?
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      New Yard test to prove identity
      63 3 New Yard test to prove identity SCOTLAND Ya QWIXI have superimpo^- photograph of A 45. n on a picture r» tion of in a pond at Potters h They found it fUt< But without more d. I is not k yet v :>e ac cepted as legal proof Dr J
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      PLAY WRIGHT DEAD
      30 3 OUSAN QUspell. M. autl. O a many .successful and discoverer of the 5 wright. Eugene ON Province Town (liMsi U >m Tuesday.— U.P. I' blocks of flats
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      'Stolen day': Vicar wont change mind
      103 3 'Stolen day': Vicar wont change mind THE Rev. G. A. Finch, who refused to accept two Sunday school scholars as confirmation candidates because they went on a Sunday outing and "stole a day from God. said he will not change his decision. Mr. Finch, vicar of St. Hugh's Market Harborough.
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      She fights 'drink crave'
      200 3 pUBSI speaker at the meeting in London of the Alcoholics Association. Mrs. Marty Mann, from America, said: "In London, where I spent ten years. I was always drunk. I decided U> try to stick to sherry instead of whisky and gin. But found the only result
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      56 2 •Jt I*9KB I HOUSEHOI l> [jjjy UMMP NQMH i.' Obtainable from I All HMV Household Xpp for a period oi si\ month Oistribu^ors E. S. ISAAC 4 CO for 4// De/ccf« o^ '^l Cr>n- I M. EZEKIEL SONS b Established 1916 mM <>i \i iiiki) or in m i IS
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      118 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Dors t»nla>. ysjsjj < apa- < ity for untiring wi»rk and >our ability to handle detail tan be a real awt if used proper I flow* ver if you permit yourself to set bogged down with non-essentials; i»Mru eneriry which should be used for more important things,
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      194 2 fdsfasadf SINGAPORE from IZM hood to 2. 0f p.m. 485 metres in the medium ware band and 7 20 megacycles to the 41 metre band from 600 p.m to 1 45 p.m.: from 930 p m to 11 00 p m: 485 metres in the medium wave band, and I
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      346 2 NDAI Pr- in English: 1 Jul ei kO 1.30 N 2 45 AH'»ur; 4 5.30 Sui.rfciy S- nice from Ptci>b>ttrlj.n Church, Srnga; 6 30 Ch ldr. n's Oocn r; R 15 PraSiimnKixy. Niwj Summar>- <fc A 820 F..uiio OrcJ. 9 Spot the Talk 10 "GilbBull van"; 11 Uust News Summary.
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      294 2 Show; 9.15 Taik— A ents; 9 45 a 10.15 Re- ttOtX I MM] prano). SUNDAY 9 30 l\in»s from the Op. rettas Tile mtUic <>f Jofuuin BCrWMI 9 45 in IX\ Cairt»ll G bbons; 10 r 10 05 B R«-nawn; 10.20 Around tlio Band I <•: H.M. Wekb Guards; 10.30
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      182 2 rty tfl Or.e; 6.30 Ifc^rld &rd 3.45 SwingtlTne; 7 M i :c r^r the Dance; 7 30 S» Scotland Yard; 8 World and 8.05 Your? for the ..ng; 8.45 Radio Newsrcci; 9 Gramo-File; 9.30 The StanU Hour (BBC— Sport and Music On> 16. 49 and 88.3 metres 10.30 Rdin' Down
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      11 3 or sei I GREEN DOLPHIN STREET CAPITOL? B HOT m n
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      131 3 g|p FOR LASTING STRENGTH pi AUSTIN 2 and 5 TON TRUCKS fctrcogih u built into every Austin truck lust where lis needed strength in the six-cylinder o.h.v 11 j r mgme ,0 meet the most gruelling road condit.ons Get full .details. nou\ from strength in the massive springs and the
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      60 3 TARZAN Triumph in battle By Edgar Rice Burroughs .i> muSCHS STOOD OUT UKE /^~^-^i]l j SURRENDER. TARZAN 'S 6RIP RELAXEO. WS^^Z^&^m^C^M^^V^ y*6 AS ME AoO€o PC€SSOR£ _\V\/—^ZJ| AND HE STEPPED OAC<. 'NAUA i!RvC?/Sl>^sS^P r 5 r/ W "C JhWß^ T0 OR9° ND fl \^^^Hl chattering weißtxv. lumbered' j^^sfc^>L V^ LAST.
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1948. A blow is struck
    135 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1948. A blow is struck IT la rating that the tat big Red rebels ■aid have been struck at Batu Arang. the scene earlier in the month of the most impudent of several lmunist h time Intelligence was good, the surprise well-nigh P«Dd
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    Siam and the Chinese
    119 4 IHIE banning of the Kuomintang is much the harshest measure which the se have jet taken n their mid.st. but there may be worse to come if. as >k mess ct, the Siamese Government K) closes down the Chinese pr» against the Kuomini foreshadowed r u
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    A CAVE ON HIGH
    228 4 H\ rOM WHITNE} A I'. orrespond I) 4,000 metres ed ir rly -:s had been teen i lar elm to r< n the cave, when ,:>ers of •edition WS U," tog ol In back o; made ol white stones. the table w.us a bronze candlestick with
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    MODERN DAY PILGRIMAGE
    571 4  -  Guy Ramsey by THE clock turned back 410 years at Walsingham a cluster of three villages b-Hween Norwich and the sea *vhen, by road and rail, by bus and on foot, 10,000 pilgrims restored it, just for a day last week, to its medieval glory. Fourteen parties,
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    FAITH
    21 4 All the lab— I of m.m is (for hi> month .inrl yet thr appetite is "<»t filled. 1 EC 7.
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    The Lady of the White Horse
    256 4  -  Isy GRAHAM BARROW Keuters orrespcnnent "A BEAUTIFUL young maiden, flyii through the night on a pure white stallion at the hea< a column of Burmese bandits" is the description given in the Burmese press to the activities of Ma Khin Nyunt, leader of 300
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    A radio find
    182 4 A tiny the functions of v. n ional vacuum d holdfl wid .•.nd trated n v by Tel •he tip bulb. and two the I lal I thpany expei I device art m >re techr. than p H. is a pin-head i rmmiium. I. duct of zinr.
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    NOTHING TO LEAN ON
    568 4  -  Alex Ander Over Your Shoulder by FIIK pre-wai policj in n of P8 in WHo has once again I 'I by the War Offi In M an Of; wants a drink in his will have to h; j .>. it brought to him table and there
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      8 4 -eVERfTf V^ W Bt OO TBAOE n Asbestos-Cement
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    New trade rule will hit 'bad elements'
    10 5 New trade rule will hit 'bad elements' toil I D.
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    DOCTOR CHARGED
    63 5 The U.S. destroyer Higbee which will be one of the three American Navy ships calling at Singapore shortly. The other two shivs are the heavy cruiser Toledo and the destroyer Chevalier. The ships are on an extended cruise during which they will visit Malaya, Ceylon, India and Pakistan.
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    Area allocations are favoured
    328 5 Textile Quotas \MthllA.> lextuc manufacturers, interested in the r\ proposed introduction of a textile quota system in Malaya, fa\our area allocations for the spending of I\S dollars s This opinion was expressed by Mr. W. V. Saussolte, a textile expert and a director of Montor Lid.,
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    NAVAL C-in-C BACK IN SEPT.
    50 5 THE Commander-in-Chief. British Pacific Fleet, will be returning to Singapore in -r fleet excrnorthern waters and p his residenc- Irweli Bankinge Road. Rear Admiral Caslon's rev Lson House Base, Seletar, dence of the Chief of Staff to the Commander- Bril eet, ;ey House. Woodstock Drii
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    RADIO TALK
    21 5 The Commissioner G«. broadcast from Radio n Tuesday M 945 pm. His subject will br The .> cl the Conflict."
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    Closer U.K. liaison with Colonies
    254 5 ■TOE Colonial Office is appointing a number of Deve--1 lopment Liaison Officers whose duties will be to maintain the touch between Colonial Governments and the Secretary <>f Stale for the Colonies in all for economic development. The intention is that these I oft; ..ould spend
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    U.S. NAVAL UNITS ARE COMING
    176 5 U.S. NAVAL UNITS ARE COMING THE American heavy cruiser U.S.S. Toledo, accompanied by the destroyers U.S.S. Chevalier and U.S.S. Hijjbee, is scheduled to pay goodwill visits to Malaya, Ceylon, India and Pakistan on Aug. 6. It will be the first time United States naval units have visited India and Pakistan
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    PENANGGIRL TO STUDY IN U.S.
    85 5 PENANGGIRL TO STUDY IN U.S. MISS Lily Ng Yook Thong, second daughter of the Federal Legislative Councillor. Mr. Ns Bui Cam. will be leaving shortly for higher studies In the United States. She is joining WYllesley Colic- achusettes, and will take a general training com Mis ider sister. Lilian x
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    SUGAR CHEAPER
    24 5 lUe retail puce of i sold on the ration will b> (hired from 32 cent to 28 cents per kati from Monday.
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    TAXI ROBBERY
    30 5 Three Chinese gunmen took over a taxi in Pasir Panjang Road last night and robbed the Chinese driver and another passenger of $200. The taxi was later recovered
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    MR. WINSLOW IS D.P.P.
    121 5 THE Third Singapore District Judge, Mr. A. V. Winslow, will be assuming duties as Deputy Public Prosecutor after the August holidays. A (Duron's Scholar in 1934. Mr. Win slow joined the Straits Settlements Legal Service in 1940. He graduated from Camj bridge University and was called
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    More but not cheaper
    93 5 JAPANESE rayon, silks, cotton and pessibly porcelain, are expected to appear on the Australian market in greater quantities as a result of the trade negotiations now suing on in Tokio. Commerce officials in Melbourne, however, have given an assurance that cheap manufactured goods are not likely
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    RICE TEST 'SUCCESSFUL SO FAR'
    275 5 Experiment to be continued Free Press Staff Reporter EXPERIMENTS with the feeding of children with Premix (a vitamin-enriched rice) at the various centres run by the Social Welfare Department have shown very satisfactory results. The Secretary for Social Welfare Mr. f.P.F. McNeice, told the Free
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    To entertain islanders
    34 5 picture. Islanders aromid Singapore are provided with film fare by Public Relations. Pictuvß shows the Public Relations Film Unit embarking on a Government launch for one of the neighbouring islands. P.R.
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    NEW FOLIO CASE
    97 5 One case of poliomyelitis, a European woman, was reported yesterday in Singapore. Since the epidemic si in April there have been 117 I, with 16 deaths. picture. Mr. K. W. Blackburne, Director of Information at the Colonial Office, who arrived in the Colony from Hong Kong yesterday.
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    Life insurance for S.M.C. staff
    367 5 Free Press Staff Reporter QTEPS to insure the lives of Singapore Municipal 3 employees working in Johore, a^ain-i the mm fit state of lawlessness in that area, have bten take by the Municipal Commissioners. This follows similar security measun which had been adopted to protect
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    Types of rice on the ration
    93 5 ALL rice retailers have been instructed by the Food Control Department that with effect from Monday and until further notice, all I issues of rice will contain two parts whole grain rice and one part large broken Siamese rice. The position is const under
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    CREMATORIUM FOR COLONY
    71 5 SINGAPORE missiom-rs agreed ai Lion of a Colony, and assigned of drawing ui Municipal commit The decision ■> after a 60-minu-which Muslim c expressed strong dpi the pi Opening hoy quowhat it co -iin bur.al gruu!. $100,000 Burial ph.xs alon.- took If tin- $100 .COO h. ed
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    ROAD HOLD-UP
    25 5 A Chinese was robbed of $63 In Kim K night by th patriots, one of whom 1 1 ened him wuh a knife
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      M.C.C. tours in danger
      219 6 By A Special Correspondent FUTURE English international cricket tours in the 1 Wrst Indies, South Africa, and India are clearly in jeopardy, judging from a clause in the report of ion and Planning Sub-committee's recom■aations to the M.C.C. Accepting the impoverished standard of post-war county cricket,
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      Henry Cotton is in demand
      87 6 NO time was lost by Americ- gulf promoters in tryto cash in on Henry Cotton's Open championship success. Hardly was the last putt sunk than cabled offers beto reach him. One was lor a month's tour Mrs. "Babe Zaliarias <sen. the American who turned professional
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      The boy from Bowral
      294 6  - The boy from Bowral J.H. Fingleton by Aust Test player U7ROTE one famous Aust- rattan critic: "If Bradman can't bring a better spirit to the fame than that this (last) season, then it would be better if he retired and concentrated on business.'' Such criticism might or might not have
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      HIS TOP SPEED IS 24 m.p.h.
      286 6 HIS TOP SPEED IS 24 m.p.h. By A Special Correspondent rW an almost exhausted athlete summons up ii energy when cheered by spectators is one of the uncertain things America's Dr. T. K. Cure ton will try to find out at his trackside laboratory a* the Games. With the other
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      Man of the week MEET CEYLON'S BOXING 'HOPE'
      272 6 Man of the week MEET CEYLON'S BOXING 'HOPE' DRITISH followers item boxin .hfui to old friends, hav .ned the return to I the t tie the Albert 1 ylon l twi feather be hai rarely conceded n half a stones thi Add to th- .<- urs award of ercry major
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      An end to these Olympic scenes
      128 6 LONDON'S <;hi v J W_, By A esuor^ 1 E have not jret b S yet another Olympic I ring. lls tr\ will not liave mai.\ V in vici.iry, but I one* men e that th< But to make nt^M Olympic. record and free
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    BRITISH HOPE
    36 7 Maureen Gardner, holder of the world record for the 80 metres women's hurdles seen in action. Miss Gardner, aged 19, is competing in the 80 metres hurdles in the Olympic Games now in progress.
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    Today's sports events
    76 7 Div I—R.a.F. Seletar Navy StleUr; Div lII— S.C.S.A y Inicorns' Club, McNair Road Naval Stores XI v. R.iSC Training School, Naval Base. (AU games will start at 5.15 pan.); < X t. Selangor "Authentic*," at K I GOLF: Singapore champion. >hip. R.S.G.C. coarse. Bukit Timah. SWIMMING: R.A.O.C
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    Fastest human will be decided
    169 7 Fastest human will be decided qtf'S OLYMPIC EVENTS l^ th tad errors of the Olympic Games ntesl over, today's programme Sights for most of the competing I the d ndoubtedly the final h at approximately 9.20 p.m. <>claim to the world its fastest I .lldS 9 I .ibout 11 p.m.
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    THREE RECORDS BROKEN AT OLYMPICS
    385 7 Czech runs great 1 0. 000-m. race wniMn™ By VEKN °N MORGAN A r f ecord breaking run by the great Dv^m^ OS J°T ak dlstancc runner Emil "Demon h^hhVh* ek U ln the 10 000 metr *s, was the monlrn n, f C J
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    KEW SENG TEAM TOMORROW
    70 7 The following players have been selected to represent the Kew Seng soccer team Naval Base against the 2nd. Echeloi:. Nee Soon, tomorrow at Nee Soon <kick-off at 5 pm.): c. Kum Hon. Peter Therr, T. N. Seng Tnam Chai, Lee Kin Seng, Chay Fatt. L. H.
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    Eire out of Games
    155 7 lI r ITHDRAWAL of the whole M Eire's team from mpic Games was ollicially oounced in London yesterI day. move follows a de* [nternaUonsJ Swim■n that illow the Eire .swimming team to compete bee some Of the members had D b >rn in Northern Ireland and
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    Petra reaches the final
    78 7 YVON Pt-tra, ol France, giant Wimbledon champion oi 1940. overwhelmed ammed All. Egypt's leading tennis pr 6-2. 6-0 to r«\irh the final of the m»-n i :n th^ £1.000 Slasenger'a toun ment at Scarborough. England Petra packed all his strength cannon-like service and swuns; thp ball
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    Lesnevich & Mills again
    67 7 Lesnevich Mills again A BOX INC. doaMc header featuring world title bouts between light heavyweights ius LesneTich, I 8 and Freddie Mills, England, who recently took the title from Lesnevioh. and middle-_-it Tuny Z.ile. IS., and Marcel Cerdan. France. was announced yesterday in New York by the Tournament «»f Champions
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    MacDonald Bailey gets great cheer
    263 7 THERE were few surprises in the first 'tea' a of the i Olympic 100 metres track events at Wembley Stadium yesterday. Britain's Alastair McCorquodale, however, brought j the crowd to its feat by a great effort against Barney Ewell of the United States and it
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    27 7 In the Olympic games vamatches jvst- r day Italy h> it Australia 90, India boat Chile 7 4 and the United States defeated Urucruay 7 0- U.P.
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    Ceyfonese in hurdles final
    106 7 rpHERE was a tremendous 1 battle to get on c ol the coveted plac<\s in the finals of the Olympic 400 metre hurUy Ceylon's Duncan White did extremely well to get one of taking third place in the semi-finals by a matter of I in front
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    Latest Olympic Scoreboard
    317 7 ble r. -ults on the first day of the Olympic I at Wembky yesterday HIGH JUMP FINAL (MEN) j Winter (Australia) 8 ft 6 in- B. Paulson (Norway) 6 ft. n.; G. Stanich (US>. 6 ft. 4} in.; Fourth. T. Edloman <CS>; F f'h G. Damitio <Frar
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    Valberg fails at 6ft, 3in,
    89 7 Valberg fails at 6ft, 3 in, LLOYD Valberg, Singapore's only representative in the Games, and <»urm;in Singh, the tall Indian jumper, who had just managed to qualify for the high jump finals, failed to get any further when the finals began. Both were eliminated at 6ft. 3ins. John Winter of
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    Britain meet Holland at soccer today
    147 7 Britain meet Holland at soccer today THE first round of the Olympic bll tournament will be held at various grounds in th^ suburbs of London today. The most interesting match wil probably bo that between I and France at Ilford Essex, wh' re a rapacity crowd Ls likely to see
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    Schoolmasters shine in County cricket
    234 7 'THE only two County championship matches in the current series did not affect the championship table although Hampshire, in the fifth place, were surprised by lowly Somerset who won more easily than the 212 runs margin indicated as they declared their second innings with only
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    OLYMPIC ACCIDENT
    39 7 THE in >t serious accident of the London Olympic Games to date occurred yesterday in the second beat of the 800-metres trials when Denmark V H. E. Christensen broke his leg and was taken to hospital U.P.
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    Good going for today's races
    697 7  -  EPSOM JEEP From /GOODWILL, All Worth and Caravan, all sfronstable fancies, are safe each-way b ?\s in Penai.s today, the first day of the Penang Turf Club August Bank Holiday Meeting. The weather this morning was bright and ole^r, and the going this afternoon should
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    Selections by "Call Boy"
    59 7 Race I: CARAVAN J»Hi»a JhMh Ra<vr 2: I >I < M *'l V»orfh rear*. Nipht Race 3: B*TT» r »nf Race 4 MRMAfI I.p«!.\ \cf I vtOOd Race I: HOV |MO ORB. I Rare 6: t 9mmt 14 HH I Race J »"H> \s< I Ph.i-
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    Never agin for Olympic Games
    58 7 R 1 pa: s an authorisecman told United 1 Bucharest on Thurod He said that after sion to withdraw London concluded that the would not only withdraw but would never r again He declined U the reasons for the dt but said a statement few
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    LIANG CHIANG OUT
    32 7 SINGAPORE Chin Liang Chiarrg n China m tho Olympic Gam fourth in hi? h< a: in dfc mtircs bardlet ard Auk iU.S A %on the h»at in 54.7 sec.
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    BIRTH
    25 8 GECKS -Tt Irene, wife ot h V. H. Geeks, a sister for beth. Jane Kathryn. at ans Kerbau Hospital. Singapore, on 28th July. 1948
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    INDIANS AGAIN RAID HYDERABAD
    486 8 INDIANS AGAIN RAID HYDERABAD Bitter debate in Commons fHE Hyderabad Government yesterday officially charged that Indian Army troops, supported by tanks, had attacked and pillaged a second Hyderabad village inside that Muslim State's north-west border, withdrawing into Indian territory after a clash with Hyderabad police reinforcements. This allegation of a
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    Reds leave port in Sth. Manchuria
    252 8 Reds leave port in Sth. Manchuria PEIPINO, Friday. THE Communists have withdrawn from Yingkow, South Manchurian seaport, which they occupied several months ago. according to the newspaper Ping Min Jih Pao, which is owned by the Nationalist Commander of North China, Gen. Fu Tso-yi. The paper says that arrivals at
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    NANKING RIOTS
    23 8 ry citizens around NunSouth Gate rioted >•»■*- terday. After the expectec supply of rationed rice failed to arrive on time they A.P.
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    PHILIPPINES BOYCOTTING JAP GOODS
    118 8 TOKIO, Friday. JAPANESE goods have be- come very difficult to s* 11 in the Philippine! market the Tokio representative of the General Export Company of San Francisco Mr. Alexis TrigubofT. told the Japan Economic Weekly. It has become necessary to cancel some contract in Japan betxiuso
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    Hunger aboard drifting ship
    65 8 AN attempt to fly food to the n Canadian ship Papachristidis Vassilies (7J32 adrift for six d.i the Indian Ocean. frilled yesterday when an R.A.A.F. Caftlina returned la I rn Australia, out of petrol without sighting the crippled vessel. The vessel had last Sunday reported that
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    Jap unions to fight MacA.
    194 8 TOKIO, Friday. BFT-WING Government labour unions, claiming nearly 1,000,000 workers, confirmed today that they would fight the legalisation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's ban on strikes by Government workers. Indications are that the "fight" will be limited originally to political pressure, propaganda and possibly demonstrations. Union
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    JAPS LIVED WITH HUKS
    49 8 JAPS LIVED W ITH HUKS T W O Japanese accompanied I by Hukbalahaps arrived yesterday morning at Mauban, a town in the Tayabas province of the Philippines. They said they had been "living with the Huks and' would like to live with them forever." They are now in jail.
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    YOUR MONEY OR—
    29 8 Thirty wealthy Shanghai Chinese have been given three days In which to contribute to the special "soak-the-rich' levy or have their names published in the newspapers.
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    Sun scores a victory
    67 8 LONDON, Friday. nr*HE Board of Trade today made a concession to Britons sweltering in a heatwave which showed no signs of abating as the annual August Bank Holiday week-end was about to begin. The Board announced that, "in view of the weather," bathing suits originally due
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    DR. EVATT'S PLEA FOR JAP NATION
    177 8 DR. EVATT'S PLEA FOR JAP NATION GENEVA, Friday. "PHE Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. x Herbert Evatt, today appealed to nations to encourage a peaceful and prosperous Japan to play a full part in the life of the Far East. Speaking to the 10 -nation Economic and Social Council
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    GOLDPILE GROWS
    42 8 GOLD is piling up at Fort Knox, Kentucky, reports A. P. The U.S. Government has buried $2,000 million more of it there in the last 12 months and the Treasury s Kold reserve is now more than $23,500 million. A.P.
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    'TRUMAN ORDER MOCKS NEGROES'
    157 8 PRESIDENT Truman took last week a step that mocked the hopes of all de- mocracy-loving Americans, and most particularly the 15,000,000 Negro Americans, I who are the nation's most subjugated minority, said Mr. Henry Wallace, In a broadcast last night. Presidential candidate for i the third
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    U.S. money plan to aid Europe
    113 8 U.S. money plan to aid Europe WASHINGTON, Friday. THE Economic Co-operation Administrator, Mr. Paul Hoffman, today announced a new plan of European currency clearance which he called "a milestone in the real co-operation among European countries for economic recovery." Mr. Hoffman said the system offered to free currency and thus
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    British and US combined ops off Japan
    100 8 British and US combined ops off Japan TOKIO. Friday. A COMBINED minor exercise Jbe held by the Brilsh Pacific Fleet and United Jtates Support Group Naval \>rces on Aug. 2 and 3 off the oast of Japan, it was announced tod.. American naval auth> I aid the exerciy s would
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    Cambodia King is satisfied
    93 8 If ING Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia < French Indochina) said on his return to v>n from France yesterday that the French Government had assured him Cambodia would have true same status as the Vietnam Republic. He had asked, he said, for the titV\ "associated state" to
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    DE GASPERI WARNS REDS
    101 8 THE Italian Premier, Signor de Gasperi warned Italy's Communists last night that they must stop preaching revolution or suffer the consequences. In an extemporaneous reply in the Italian parlia- ment to the Communist par-! tisan leader, Signor Luigi Longo, who had denounced the Government, de Gasperi
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    RICE FOR U.K.
    22 8 A small quantity of rice >eing imported into Britain or general distribution will >c retailed at 9d. a pound.
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    BERLIN MOVES HIT TRADING
    403 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON FridaN |r PHE latest moves in the Berlin < i K apparent reluctance of the So\i*t Fort Minister, Mr. V. Molotov, to meet the Western coupled with yesterday's Parliamentary annou '< ment of a slowing: down of demobilisation of forces, have had
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    CHINA'S RAIL DREAM NEARER
    84 8 CHINA' S RAIL DREAM NEARER THE prospect aid has revived an old dr- in Chinese leaders the forcing a railway UnJt between riches of Chinas Wtst and the coastal cities o! the So it reported k og my officials realise eminent must tac jrces of the V. st Communist rebelli^t.
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    U.S. ULTIMATUM ON PETROLEUM
    51 8 U.S. ULTIMATUM ON PETROLEUM •y :E Journal r« Slati ie full miliU vju:r Me of beini'ed. Admiral E H Y man of th< Petroleum Pur> told the Natioi I Council that stock tary neodb were i built up in a manner mensurate with 1 1 situation and a world cr.
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    THOUSANDS PERISH IN CHINA FLOOD
    53 8 THOUSANDS PERISH IN CHINA FLOOD THOUSANDS of villagers an t.arJ^ H I 4 in the YttijrispfUK, tt !\***JP merged rich farmland ah. a u l hlch S J both sides of the r, Millions of formers, I dykes along ti,. 1 vests, have flod to thand epidemic uir I 1
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    N.Y. stocks
    65 8 JN one of the most a witnessed sine* New York Stock Exahanee terda» suffered it* r seujfcck since lLocses of up w tr vere widespread through >u; the Op raiors buunr ir-i infltttoo I ary moves u. Wa&hiog: continued apprchensioc w: Berlin «ituauoo &.<- -faclon. LaU-r in the
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    Arctic dioces for Monty's vicar brothe
    13 8 Arctic dioces for Monty's vicar brothe I I uo:--:! anc ±a- I A.P.
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    Italy's colony claim
    74 8 Italy' s colony claim THE Italian Ambassador in London. Duke Tommaso Gallarati-Scolii lias renewed Italy's claim to trusteeship o f her former African colon Commenting on the recent reports of the four rxmt-r committee of investigation 1 to tne lialian depj ference the Duke pointed "Tho Oomn recosnised that there
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    RED PURGE IN E. EVROPE?
    20 8 RED PURGE IN E. EVROPE? yHE resignation tori.. I Hungary appears I pattern developing in I United B I I
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