The Singapore Free Press, 6 August 1948

Microfilm: NL3668
Total Pages: 8
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
Page thumbnail Page 1
  • Title Section
    Masthead
    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRroAY, AUGUST 6, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTO
    17 words
  • Article, Illustration
    Rebels face defeat by October
    332 1 Rebels face defeat by October Two phases of war on Reds jyjALAYA'S war on the Communist insurgents has been planned m two phases, and the first the suppression of open resistance should be completed before the rainy season begins m October. Revealing this to a United Press correspondent m Kuala
    332 words
  • Article
    FIVE ARRESTED IN SINGAPORE
    34 1 FOUR Chines: and an Indian were arrested m, Singapore yesterday by the| C.I.D. under the Emergency; Regulations. Six persons were released after screening yesterday. The total nuw detained is 122.
    34 words
  • Article
    NOT GOUDONOV
    27 1 FR the first time m 50 years there will be no New York Metropolitan Opera this season. Reason: wage demands by the Musicians' Union.- AP
    AP  -  27 words
  • Article
    GENERAL DIES
    22 1 Maj. -General C. H. Dequant of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army, died on his way to Holland on sick leave.
    22 words
  • Article
    Campbell S'pore business
    8 1 rter I W* 1 1
    8 words
  • Article
    COUNTERFEITERS
    19 1 4 MERICAN and French r\ police have smashed a dollar-counterfeiting ring, recovering $2,145,200 and arrestIng 12 men.- UP
    UP  -  19 words
  • Article
    Moscow meeting likely today
    296 1 LONDON, Thursday. T*l£ thre« Western envoys m Moscow are expected 1 to make a further approach to Marshal Stalin tomorrow, through the Foreign Minister, Mr. Molotov, informed quarters m London said tonight. At the same time, reports from Berlin indicated that the Russians were relaxing some
    Reuter; AP  -  296 words
  • Article
    U.S. WARSHIPS FIRE SALUTE
    95 1 Free Press Staff Reporter FREE United States warships, the 16,500-ton heavy cruiser Toledo and the destroyers, Higbee and Chevalier, arrived In Singapore this morning on a two-day goodwill visit to the Colony. The AmerYans announced their arrivaL- In port with a national salute fired from the
    95 words
  • Article
    Constellation was 'hoaxed'
    106 1 Free Press Correspondent ■T»HE grounding at Sydney 1 last night of a Quantas Constellation bound for Singapore with two cases of small arms ammunition was the result of a hoax. Australian police announced thlj morning. The Constellation grounded for two hours wnlle police searched the plane following
    106 words
  • Article
    MASKED MEN RAID JOHORE VILLAGE
    106 1 Free Press Staff Reporter a GANG of seven armed and masked Chinese who iKft Site JoWe pott» »»K1 >•»» The raid took place on Tuesday but was not reported to the police until yesterday. The gang went systematically through ten village shops, taking what they
    106 words
  • Article
    Dato Onn's Hari Raya message
    189 1 Dato Onn's Hari Raya message DESPITE the troubled times, the Malays m the Federation have managed to uphold law and authority, maintaining friendly relations with all people of peace and goodwill, said the Mentrl Besarof Johore, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, m a special Hari Haya message, this morning. Hari Raya
    189 words
  • Article, Illustration
    HUSBAND & WIFE ROTARY LEADERS
    202 1 HUSBAND WIFE ROTARY LEADERS AT a dinner at the Cathay Restaurant last night, Mrs. L. Cresson, the wife of the president of the Singapore Rotary Club, was formally installed as new President of the Singapore Inner Wheel (Women's Rotary). About 150 Rotarians, InnerWheelers and friends attended the dinner. Mrs. Cresson
    202 words
  • Article
    AID FOR CHINA
    28 1 China and the U.S. have signed an agreement for the establishment of the Sino-American Commission of Rural Reconstruction to be financed from American aid funds.
    28 words
  • Article
    2-year-old boy hit by lorry
    59 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE twc ~r-old son of Mr. 1 Chui Chong Wee, living at 83, Tanjong Rhu, was knocked down by a motor van at about noon yesterday m front of his house. The van waa reversing when the rear portion struck the
    59 words
  • Article
    STREET CHASE
    44 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 50-YEAR old Chinese alleged to have molested a school girl yesterday morning m Victoria street, and who was chased and handed over to the police by a schoolboy, will api pear m court m Singapore u»--1 morrow.
    44 words
  • Article
    To the rescue—in vain
    61 1 To the rescue— in vain Free Press Staff Reporter. AN ambulance from the Central Fire Station travelled 13 miles this morning but came back without a patient. A young Malay who had been knocked down by a military lorry at the 6\ mile, Bukit Timah Road, refused to be taken
    61 words
  • Article, Illustration
    3-nation control for Indies trade
    243 1 Republican proposal Free Press Staff Reporter INDONESIAN representatives will ask the 1 Singapore Government to give consideration to a proposal to institute a Dutch-British-Indonesian control for the successful operation of a system of barter trade with Republican Sumatra. Dr. Zain, of the Indonesia Office, Singapore,
    243 words
  • Article
    PENANG CALLS OFF RACES
    65 1 PEN ANG CALLS OFF RACES Frre Press StaiT Reporter PENANG, Friday. rE Penang Turf Club committee has decided I to abandon this afternoon's races. The course is unfit for racing following 48 hours' continuous rain. It was still raining heavily this morning. If the weather improves, tomorrow's programme, which includes
    65 words
  • Article
    Reds menace Burma rice
    167 1 Reds menace Burma rice RANGOON, Thursday. OURMESE Communists were today reported to have looted and destroyed 50,000 tons oi n Bassein, one of the country's biggest ports. British women and children are now being evacuated to Rangoon, 90 n away, from Bassein because of the disturbances there. It is feared
    Reuter  -  167 words
  • Article
    THREE MEN IN DOUBLE ROBBERY
    47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IN Woodlands Roac night three Ce>: or.c of them carrying a krrf^ robbed a Chinese of $50 Two hours later, the same three men broke into a house and lobbed the occupa: $200 and a fount ate pen.
    47 words
  • Article
    PLANES COLLIDE
    34 1 Six people were killed m Miami, Florida, last night when a Navy Dakota collided with a small private training plane. The two m«n m the trainer baled out and were unhurt. Reuter
    Reuter  -  34 words
  • Article
    STOP PRESS
    49 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LLMPI'R, Fri. A large combined military i and police force at dawn today made another sweep of areas near the Batu Arang coalfield. 26 miles North West of Kuala Lumpur. where insurgents who escaped last week's attack are believed to be hiding.
    49 words
  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 1 Advertisements Column 1
      95 1 r rf^RADIO lib ;*il OUAUTt/ KHT RADIO CO. r^CHAROrr SINGAPORE. «a V.naJtor even extonda co and it makes a most delicloua 14 vi Jly swee t oranKf flavour it v jNi^Si«,»<WilUon to your child* dietary. It l» Wha^^Pyp*! protective food prepared from the tocorporatin^ the results of up-to-data S?SnSjL v
      95 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 1 Advertisements Column 2
      21 1 6.E. 1948 SPACEMAKER REFRIGERATORS 8 cubic feet Model NB-8-EB-avaitoble ex stock $700.00 MARDEN COMPANY PHONE: 3252 S2, ORCHARD 1 ROAD, SINGAPORE
      21 words
Page thumbnail Page 2
  • Article
    U.S. Goes Spicy
    479 2  -  CYNTHIA LOWRY IJv A. P. Correspondent THE American housewife is spice conscious again for the first time since her great-at-grancimother disguised jerked venison vith a judicious measurement of fennel. For more years than a '.ikes to contemplate the cooks of An" 1 erica ed for salt and
    479 words
  • Article
    Marriage code for Russians
    202 2 Marriage code for Russians DESPATCHES iiom Russia will soon promuUrmaxriage and div. de wV be the most restii Europe. Divorces will be forb. to all couples with children, and adultery In those cases will be punished with pi Persons by 10 or m< will not be allowed to marry. m
    202 words
  • Article, Illustration
    Hot and not bothered
    70 2 TWO outfits (sketched joreqround) which would compliments because o) r crisp look, cool colours, and good oca A J -tailored tropical v grey, with white pique neck, white acces- n right, uncrushable blue-and-urhite cotton, low necked and high waisted, with navy boater. In background, left, i$
    70 words
  • Article
    SHAPES & TRIM MINGS
    274 2 SHAPES TRIM MINGS THE wide brimmed "parasol" hat.s of the Paris spring collections will give place next autumn to small models with a great variety of shapes and trimmings. Hats will be worn mostly on the back of the head, or well to the srde. Autumn tints will prevail, with
    Reuter  -  274 words
  • Article, Illustration
    Bridge Problem
    241 2 WS r- double wi 1 I I five play. rolourt i th he tho when ie bid five dill it be wi clubs and iv<> hNorth .should have gone t 'lubs without n) leart &uit. While on iand.^ !->ur h- arts Q 'nade vh«r»- five clubs mould be
    241 words
  • Article
    Slim and Ladylike
    137 2 By DOROTHY KOI ndent. THE American horn 1< >ok forwar d shopping autumn, clot? being by the nation f i on pi wha; red. that shu. mind of her ow:. I k. H Ttl« only thing ■uette is the lon, th— about Hi: the floor li time
    137 words
  • Article
    The only one
    127 2 UISS Birtha Last month took her cc as the n m the world who has become the j> it leader I nphony orchestra. -en has acting leader of the II bourne Symphony c> for the la by unanlmoui request of members of the orchestra, she received this
    127 words
  • Article, Illustration
    FEEDING PROBLEMS
    131 2 THE feeding blems of chiM aged two'can be I back to the time .minjr. I 4 which U;. have b< them m brea UK Since it U for thbreast, early or to. is likely to i Nor is it mother n up i sons. A demands very hard
    131 words
  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 2 Advertisements Column 1
      36 2 w/ti tie ZA7FST BROCADE LAMI from FRANCE WASSIAMULL'SJi'^!.;-™--FOR ACCOMMODATION v^it KATONG RESTHOUSE (A health resort by the sea) DXNCE TO-MORROW NIGHT and WEDNESDAY, 11th AUGUST. Music by the Kaloha Royal Hawaiians. ADM ISS IQ N FREE
      36 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 2 Advertisements Column 2
      57 2 NEXT TO CARPETS JjH WOOLLEN DRUGGETS m ultra-modern d< 1 they cushion cw v Kvailable from TEL: 4649 31 RAFFLES PUCE, «g Z I I ROM I EURY.V ca: I r:i I *jr Rafael X I OBFRON I I N'SEL and GRETFL Parts 1 and 2 B j GREATEST ;i:l
      57 words
  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1
      157 2 Your LUCKY STAR DOKN ttid.tv >ou !ia\«- .m e\« t-ptij,Mall> BCBI .mil intuitive nature, twm thin im-tinu-s btfore i hey .utui!l> happen, anj reai t b to \our in\ :nn ment \ithuuk;h vi>u ir sturtuiiiN and l<u e hooks •ire not tl M t«» retr«at to .m i to.vpr. •)n
      157 words
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 2
      147 2 I SINGAPORE from 12.04 anon to Z 00 p m 185 metres id the medium wave band and 7 20 mefacyelr* to fh. tl metre band from 6.00 p.m to 7 4ft p m from 930 p m to II 00 pml q 485 metre* id the medium wave band
      147 words
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 3
      389 2 d Up; 8 30 Bti Thy Od H s Orch. with D::. Hh\thm 1 1 30 10 1" m '.ude; 11.15 1 11 45 Musical Imc A: 12 01 Ravuui K:\< liana Orchestra; N I»rograr men's 30 AUSTRALIA H0 pm to 11 15 p m VI. A 6 19 71
      389 words
Page thumbnail Page 3
  • NEWS
    • Article, Illustration
      BEST LOOKING M.P. WEDS SCOTS PEER
      41 3 BEST LOOKING M.P. WEDS SCOTS PEER I of both Bouses of .j at St. Margaret's Grant. Conservative M P. eedsmuir, 37-year-old y hn Buchan"/, who was Govie is the 33-year-old isau Grant. Grenadier Lady Grant, icho has as "the best looking
      41 words
    • Article
      REDS HAVE ENORMOUS ASIA PLAN'
      361 3 REDS HAVE ENORMOUS ASIA PLAN' Diverting Allied troops from Europe? J*HE New York Herald Tribune regards Communist unrest m the Far East as part of an enormous and complex pattern that will continue for years to come, but emphasises that the crisis m Europe is of more immediate importance. The
      Reuter  -  361 words
    • Article
      killed"woman God made for him"
      203 3 Lincoln (England) for .v.n stated to have God had made her for him .*hout her. He is Frtaen?«v George rd, 25, of Branston The ••red girl was Joyce Cecily Harrison. ard was said to have he was the father of a baby she was ex
      203 words
    • Article
      New U.K. film Star discovery
      9 3 New U.K. film Star discovery I I I I
      9 words
    • Article
      Poet is new President of Hungary
      101 3 Poet is new President of Hungary AHPAD Szakasits, a former stone mason, journalist and poet, was elected President of Hungary recently. The vote by Parliament was unanimous. He succeeds Zoltan Tildy, who resigned last Friday, a few hours after his son-in-law, Dr. Victor Chernoky, was arrested and charged with espionage
      AP  -  101 words
    • Article
      U.S. ex-Red's evidence
      102 3 I OUIS BUDENZ, a former United States Communist leader who renounced the party to become a Roman Catholic, declares that the United States Communist organisation has received "a very big financial take from Hollywood." Testifying before a Senate sub-committee inquiring into Communist infiltration into the United States
      Reuter  -  102 words
    • Article, Illustration
      NO THEATRE FOR ORCHESTRA
      89 3 NO THEATRE FOR ORCHESTRA Manila's 75-piece Municipel Symphony Orchestra did not perform ir Shanghai as expected when it disembarked there from the 38. General Gordon for a 24-hour stay. This was bejuuse the sponsors had been unable to obtain a theatre. For the first time since the ivar the (just
      89 words
    • Article
      INITIATIVE TEST
      45 3 THE start at Bristol's puoncity bureau were suri last week by a qu?ue of schoolgirls, all of whom asked questions about the •itv's history Given an initiative test by their headmistress, like girls found the answers to all their s In om oi^ce.
      45 words
    • Article
      Kicked girl like football
      47 3 A BURMESE kitchen port- cr, 36-year-old Maung Powa, was sentenced to one month m jail m London for kicking a girl, Sadie Miller, around the room "like a football* for about 10 minutes. The girl said Powa told her he was Joe Louis.
      47 words
    • Article
      Indonesians "fear being by-passed"
      179 3 Indonesians "fear being by-passed" THE Indonesian Republicans seem to be "afraid of being by passed m the federal negotiations, which show signs of proceeding happily without them," says the London Times m a leading article. "The federal idea has captured the imagination both of local Dutch officials and of the
      Reuter  -  179 words
    • Article
      Red spy clues to mystery drama
      222 3 A WOMAN'S coat over the span of the Golden Gate bridge m San Francisco, a pair of shoes, a purse containing: clippings of stories about the Communist spy hearing m Washington and an unsigned note are the only clues to the identity of a
      UP  -  222 words
    • Article
      REVALUATION PLAN
      24 3 BRITAIN Is going to revalue 13,000.000 buildings for tax purposes. The Treasury says the Job will take a staff of 6.050.- AP
      AP  -  24 words
    • Article
      INDO-CHINA CURB ON NEWS
      75 3 THE French General Staff has notified foreign news agencies that its own communiques will now be the only military news permitted to leave Indo-China. The order affected the French News Agency as well as foreign news agencies. Action was taken. the spokesman said, because General Xuan
      75 words
    • Article, Illustration
      MUSLIM REVOLT IN PHILIPPINES
      153 3 'TROUBLE among the Muslim Moros m Sulu, x southern-most island province of the Philippines, has brought the threat of the first big Government offensive since 1927. Governor Arolas Tulawie told a Manila Times' correspondent that all efforts for peaceful negotiation had been exhausted with 30 leaders
      153 words
    • Article
      OPIUM CASE INQUIRY OPENS
      112 3 OPIUM CASE INQUIRY OPENS THE French Consulate has informed the Shanghai District Court on Saturday that investigation of the opium smuggling case involving two French crewmen of the steamship Lebon is now being carried out by the Marseilles procurate The French snip was delayed m Shanghai for several days m
      AP  -  112 words
    • Article
      Fewer U.S. car exports
      99 3 THE American automobile tti- dustry's foreign market continues to shriik An Automobile Manufacturers' Association report discloses that of 2,448,301 cars and trucks built during the first months of this yrar. oniv 219,555 were expoited In the same oeriod last year foreign markets took 205.51 8 of
      AP  -  99 words
    • Article
      NURSES' WAGE DEMANDS
      182 3 NEARLY 750 nurses, mainly students held an up- i roarous meeting m a London Hall recently to demand a wage increase of £40 a year —£25 more than the new award for nurses. The hall had seating accommodation for only 240. Outside the hall- -In the Royal
      182 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Mates found out his past, so he deserted
      229 3 A CONVICT on licence, who joined the British Army from jail, deserted because a detective visited hif camp, and most of the men m the camp then knew about his past For three years he lived m a flat at Hampslead (London)
      229 words
    • Article
      RED WIVES IN U.K. 'SLAVES'
      56 3 DUSSIAN women married to British subjects encountered "slave like conditions' when they were permitted 10 join their husbands m 8.---tain. Russia's black- bear ded Prof ssor A. P. Pavlov 1 the U.N. Economic and So-tal Council yesterday. These women had paia I dearly for the
      56 words
  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 3 Advertisements Column 1
      10 3 W v Ws Amazing R»4 Healer for [KIN I I
      10 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 3 Advertisements Column 2
      52 3 RAFFLES HOTEL Tonight— INFORMAL DANCE 9 p.m. to midnight Floor Show RICARDO PEREZ PATRICK FORBES HIS ORCHESTRA FROM TUESDAY 10th. AUGUST THE LUNCH "Hf," 1 milllim EVERY EVENING (except Monday) from from 7 to 8 p.m. 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. with SPECIAL DISHES FRANK PICKFORD from the AT THE PIANO
      52 words
  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
Page thumbnail Page 4
  • LEADER
    • Article
      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. AUGUST 6. 1948. Pakistan and India
      244 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. AUGUST 6. 1948. Pakistan and India RELATIONS between Pa m and India, rather more cordial m recent >nths. onc< i show Isisns of strjin It is not .iul to the primary reason is the presence m India of the Ui oointed to enquire In Ishmlr
      244 words
    • Article
      The Siamese Frontier
      178 4 nment'j i the i front: (1 to prThe movement is South from Siam, and n«jt J from M into but point Is pposed tllat Mar!bun's I tnent friendly to Commu- or that it would ike pr< urrection within own borders. It has, however, been slower to fulfil
      178 words
    • Article, Illustration
      BALI MUDDLE
      864 4 Terrorism V. Tourism BALI is now m the troubled interlude between terrorism and tourism. The days of fear and firing are over. But the days of peace and plenty have not quite returned. Cloth is m sshotr t supply and prices are too high. TIDA ADA, the local
      864 words
    • Article
      Book review PROUD DESTINY
      136 4 Book review PROUD DESTINY RECOLLECTION of 1V JEWS SUSS, one of the classics of modern fiction, will persuade many to reacquaint themselves with Lion I wanger's Pitori) dfstin> -md thr olv all too a cii aware that c the h table que.-\ Is tne PROUD ther JEW 8U8S? X li
      136 words
    • Article, Illustration
      FAITH
      80 4 II the N|>irit of the ruler 1 rise up against thee, i«*u\ c not thy place; f«»r j ielding p.K ilivfi I r;tt Offen s, 1*). 5. Who v th.s Brudman fellow? Nifty fielding fa all that's led to pet him out and I'm just the man you want
      80 words
    • Article, Illustration
      Trieste: Tito v. Stalin
      640 4 By ALEXANDER CLIFFORD TRIESTE: IU S T round the corner of the bay from Trieste there are a few square miles rolling, undramatic Countrywide where the swelling grapefl are already as big as peas and the maize stands tall and green round the pink farmhouses. It
      640 words
    • Article
      People in S'pore Make News
      100 4 THE ne\ ;mlv Public Prose m Singapoi A. V. WINSLoW comes from a known Ceylon famih. His father, Mr. Winslow, served for many years with the Medical Departm. Penang, where his went to the Penan? School. Victor Win Queen's Schola: award >f>niur si he was
      100 words
  • Page 4 Advertisements
Page thumbnail Page 5
  • Article
    T'phone Co. to double dividend
    36 5 T'phone Co. to double dividend Free (UT I idajr. ne and ■3 ;jublI ..i on its I ordinary I A 12 I <- > un.l I 1947 evious I ment I v was I >4m\ from 3 I
    36 words
  • Article
    MR. VAN DER GAAST
    5 5 Nil
    5 words
  • Article
    JAIL FOR FALSE REPORT
    48 5 I ■M I to (he tiou and to a police con two Chinese, one armed with a knife, haci robbed him of $50. The defendant gave notice of appeal and the v ate Mr. L. C. Goh granted Inii of $500 m two sureties.
    48 words
  • Article, Illustration
    CHINESE RUSH FOR PASSPORTS
    354 5 Trie C-in-C, East Indies Fleet. Vice-Adm. C. H. L Woodhouse < extreme left facing camera), is seen on landing at Clifford Pier with the Flag Officer, Malaya. Rear Adm. Clifford Caslon, Lieut. Dolphin,' Flag Lieutenant to the C-in-C East Indies Fleet, and Spencer, Flag Lieutenant tc
    Free Press  -  354 words
  • Article
    HIT AND LEFT ON THE ROAD
    54 5 The victim of a hit-and-run motorist was picked up m Dunearn Road yesterday afternoon and taken to the Street Accident Ambular.c? Service by a European employee of the Singapore Municipality. The European noticed the victim, a Chinese, lying beside Dirnearn Road as he passed
    54 words
  • Article
    Croc attacks fisherman
    205 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ijL'IIEN Chang Ho Loh, a resident of Pulau Tekong Besar, went fishing m one of the kampong ponds last week, he was attacked by an eight-foot crocodile. After biting Chang's thigh and struggling with the hardy Chinese fisherman, the croc suddenly released its
    205 words
  • Article
    $350,000 MEMORIAL
    89 5 THE memorial to the Yen. Archdeacon Graham White, who died m Singapore during internment, will take the form of a parish hall— diocesan and parochial offices, library and bookshop to be erected on the Coleman Street side of the Cathedral con\pound. Collections for the fund will start on
    89 words
  • Article
    Rural accident service planned
    237 5 Rural accident service planned tihit F ree Press Staff R eporter Ht extension of Dunearn Road, construction of a To d P arallel to this extension, the establishment of an ambulance service and the nEf 1 la !> ourers "to«« are among the major plans of the Singapore Rural Board
    237 words
  • Article
    FOUR 'DEATH' APPEALS ARE DISMISSED
    117 5 FOUR 'DEATH' APPEALS ARE DISMISSED Free Pres^s Correspondent KLALA LUMPUR. Thurs POUR appeals against con--1 viction and sentence of death under the new Emergency Regulations for carrying and possessing firearms, were dismissed by the Court of Appeal m Kuala Lumpur today. The appeals were by three Chinese. Yap Loon Tiang,
    117 words
  • Article
    Ginsberg faces two more charges
    150 5 Ginsberg faces two more charges HAVID Wolf Ginsberg faced v vo additional charges when he appeared m th*> Seventh Police Court ye^terThe charges were In r expect of ng m the di t two led at £716 Qt, id £401 othey ion to were sf xrty. The dates on which
    150 words
  • Article
    COMMISSIONS IN M.R.N.V.R.
    71 5 /COMMISSIONS m the MaV layan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve have been granted to the following: Dr. A.M. Di Silicon Lieutenant. N A. Harvey as Lieutenant. C F. Gibb.s as Lieutenant, J A. Sharp as Lieutenant J \V Breadalbane as Lieutenant G. -L. Williams as Lieutenant R. L.
    71 words
  • Article
    UNION TO MEET
    34 5 A general meeting of Singapore Harbour Board mandores has been called by the Singapore Harbour Board Workers Union. The meeting will be held at 18, Pattani Street at 9.30 p.m. tomorrow."
    34 words
  • Article
    $250,000 pool for Chinese club
    259 5 Free Press StaiT Reporter are being taken m Singapore to give the Chinese community the biggest and most modern swimming pool that the Chinese have had m Malaya. The Singapore Chinese Swimming Club has launched a drive for funds for a $250,000 50-metre pool to
    259 words
  • Article
    Sold sons to pay passage
    85 5 THREE Chinese, who sold their sons to raise money to buy forged entry permits and passage to Singapore were yesterday at the SingaFir.st District Court, each sentenced to one year's rigorous Imprisonment. Immigration authorities picked up these men together with five other illegal immigrants on
    85 words
  • Article
    FOR ASSIZES
    42 5 Two Chinese Tans? Wah Swee of Keon^ Silk Road and Chan Fook Soon of Upper Hokien Street both aged 22, were committed to stand trial at the next Assizes They were charged with trying to rob a 20-year-cld cabaret girl.
    42 words
  • Article, Illustration
    Cocos may be on world air route
    162 5 Cocos may be on world air route IfOCOS ISLAND, which V/ has lapsed into itolion at the end of war— it was a busy RAF base when the Japs held sway m South -East A is back m the news. Next week. British and Australian aviation expert* *;ll travel by
    Free Press  -  162 words
  • Article
    TO SERVE ON RENT BOARD
    19 5 Peng Liang has been appointed to be a member of the Rent Conciliation Board.
    19 words
  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 5 Advertisements Column 1
      66 5 r ii is Food FITZPATRICK'S at your Service TFL. 5281 ORDER DEPT. Step TERMITE DAMAGE f kr^YOUR HOME/^ rf- -i T 'ermites wo** hiodeh places JBL£J*f^*^ OAMA6E IN A $HO*T TIME JHITE-ANT EXP£fiTs Mudo for oacli other! ire made side by side, to the accuracy and under the same careiul
      66 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 5 Advertisements Column 2
      62 5 Bermuda Doeskin A fine Suiting made from I Pure Botany Wool and I made exclusively m the A fej West of England. /JH There is no substitute for Wool. /I E H 1 1 1 1 «..^«-»p^— ___l r_________fl W A _ft_^__i _^i ___F^_i__H___B Ideal for Ladies Costumes and i
      62 words
Page thumbnail Page 6
  • Article, Illustration
    TELEVISION FOR TAXIS IN CHICAGO
    46 6 vision engi'. I fler, adjusts the antennae .te has de< >r installation I m m a taiicao U.S. The set. adapted from a standard table has a 4k inch by six Inch 'j screen and requires only 70 watts of power.
    46 words
  • Article
    REDS WINNING CENTRAL CHINA WAR
    493 6 REDS WINNING CENTRAL CHINA WAR Chiang's strong points isolated (GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK is losing the battle for Central China at a speed which causes grave concern to supporters of the national Government. Nearly four months ago he told National Assemblymen, who subsequently elected him China's iirst constitutional President, that he
    AP  -  493 words
  • Article
    G.B.S. WAS LIVERISH
    90 6 VEGETARIAN George Bernard Shaw heard with indignation recently that he loas accused of "heresy" because he had had liver extract injections. The accuser was Mr. Syman Gould, associate editor of "The American Vegetarian." He declared m an open letter to G.BS. that it was "a serious violation
    90 words
  • Article
    LET U.S ADVISE' PLAN CRITICISED
    83 6 BRITISH trade union M.P.S. are taking a critical view of the Cripps plan for an Anglo-American council to advise British Industry on how to step up output. They say that It involves a lass of prestige by Britain's industries. Sir Stafford Cripps has been told
    83 words
  • Article
    RED GESTAPO' IN GERMANY
    184 6 THE Russians m Berlin have built up a German spy system m Eastern Germany rivalling the Nazi Gestapo, reports the "Neve Zeitung," official German-language newspaper of the American Military Government. A political police section has been established m the Criminal Police Headquarters of each of the
    184 words
  • Article
    Suppress-Reds rally in Shanghai
    164 6 4 LARGE rebe] suppression rt I uda rally was In Shanghai this v attended by many civil leaders ar.d Government officials. Speeches were made by the Mayor K.C. Wu. the Director oi the S! Kuomln: Headquarters. Fang Chih. and the chairman of the City Council. Pan
    Reuter  -  164 words
  • Article
    BRITAIN'S NEW LOOK" PLANE
    92 6 BRITAIN'S NEW LOOK" PLANE DHITAINS U»k H RlTu craft which is built of non-inflammable magnesium and has its oroueih r In the tail will be presented at the Society of H tish Arc: Constructors' flying display at FarnborouKh Hampsliirf». In September. The Diane, the Satellite, will be flown by Group
    AP  -  92 words
  • Article, Illustration
    John and Billy break a record
    155 6 THL ho; sit s Billy— Buiv Ptxiisiaa The man's name Is John Penistan. Is fourteen and s*. fifteen and a half hands hich In his horsesh< John is fort-. ad stands five foot ten and a half In his socks Together they hay? gone
    155 words
  • Article
    CRUSADES VAULTS FOUND IN HAIFA
    163 6 IN an unsuccessful Jail break attempt nine months ago. 20 .1 prisoners then m Acre Pi :i. discovered subterranean vaults undisturbed since the Crusades, it has now been revealed The prisoners were being held m the prison by the British at the *.ime for political
    UP  -  163 words
  • Article, Illustration
    4s-a-day soldier loses £24,000 claim
    169 6 4s-a-day soldier loses £24,000 claim A BEWILDERED 19-year-old Army dr bo wu allowed 4s. for Ills lunch and bus fares for his attendance at the High Court last week, left the court having been held responsible f cldent which caused severe injuries to a doctor, whose damages were assessed at
    169 words
  • Article
    3 girls tried to die for him
    104 6 GIRLS try to commit suicide because of aged I of Sou". M idiesex— "b« says Leslie, "'I can't understand w>. Last week he stood ouUs. a hospital room In New Orlear A while inside 27, a pn brunette, who had just slashed herself
    104 words
  • Article
    BROKE NECK DIVING
    60 6 A "dead-man Vdive"— made I with the arms at I the side— from a high diving I tform broke the aeck of I Robert Burns. 24. of Ross- 1 street. Cambridge He dived Into fi ft of water and hit the bottom of the swimming booth. He
    60 words
  • Article
    Mao talks of coalitions 'think it over'
    194 6 I fHINAS Communist lead over th< Hong Kong leftist grouj I coalition government m in ak I "You better think it ov< 4V| «t in^H The Hong Kong Lett convening of a political I pave the way for snmm and establishing a deny
    194 words
  • Article, Illustration
    "It is sheer defeatism," says Evatt
    24 6 "It is sheer defeatism," says Evatt T cra/f, fu replace I bj/ /our Brisfo/ Hf a< I Aas a range of 3260 mil?* I
    24 words
  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 6 Advertisements Column 1
      87 6 S c a m at HARI RAY A NOW 11 M \l5 M wii MS P M THE HIGHLANDER IN ACTION LARRY PARKS swofism an .TecmcoioZ* AIM) A NUt "STOOGES" (OMKDY British Movietone News Opening Of The Olympic Games. We'll do youPRINTING STRAITS TIMES] Cathay TEL. 3400 TO DAY 11
      87 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 6 Advertisements Column 2
      38 6 Alhambra TEL. 6<»o:« TODAY at J-**- v: A: 9.30 p.m. X/ I I. J I mH' il i j, J I •»*< tt UAIS Sf ll£R tmtm m ti B*»Y*N FOt CARMEN IS TZRRIF C Controlled By RANK-LOKE COMBINE
      38 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 6 Advertisements Column 3
      78 6 THE PLEASURE WILL Bi YOUK WHM YOU s£f 7H/5 SCINTILLATIHC. SOPHISTICATED COMEDY BY UMH 23DinnPrSQE^/K Opens ro^ay 4 $kn lilßSWroifer^^ 2-4.75-6.30-9.30p.»' I OBIRO% DOIGUSi IHAT. ®tt££iU). <t FEILIMC airT OIT V ■NhITIONtD JK% JCi A» TO I OIK MISLIM PATK< f KlO»» SELAMAT HARi RAYA PUASA v TODAY! *m TOMORROW
      78 words
  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 6 Miscellaneous Column 1
      96 6 J/^NE Exclusivp fn th<> Singapore Froo Proas m Malawi' '?VE HAD GLORIOOsVaND HELPED^ KwHY DOMV M)U WORk\ L/^l'M AFRAID I'VE ON^YOU TeMPtH FUN TRYING OM /ME SELL SOME 1 FOR US AS A GOT To HELP /THE OLD SFY-CHASIMG \ME ERICJTHOSE DRESSESJ ffflbTHE BARGAMJ MAMNEQUIN A6A/N?- I GEORGIE. TRACK S7utfr?-frt
      96 words
Page thumbnail Page 7
  • SPORTS
    • Article
      70,000 CHEERED WINT'S VICTORY
      580 7 70,000 CHEERED WINT'S VICTORY tvlore thrills at Wembley S<V\ EDEN'S clean sweep victory m the 3,000-metre steeplechase; Giant Jamaican Arthur Wint's 400-metres' victory equalling the Olympic record, after Larsson of Sweden, the only European, withdrew; and a very easy win by Mrs. Klankers Koen m her heat m the women's
      AP; Reuter  -  580 words
    • Article
      Doctors had field day at Wembley
      20 7 Doctors had field day at Wembley ,> hlev of a I I I was France, tetres off b lap I Reuter
      Reuter  -  20 words
    • Article
      REFEREE FAILS TO TURN UP
      8 7 REFEREE FAILS TO TURN UP I" I 3C.
      8 words
    • Article
      Attendance records at the Games
      108 7 RhrORDS m London's Olympic Games are not confined to athletic achievements. Attendances at Wembley Stadium have established the Games as the most suceessfal since the Olympics were revived m the modern form m 1896. The total record gate takings m Berlin m 1936 hive been
      Reuter  -  108 words
    • Article
      Dutch mother's bid for third medal
      341 7 Dutch mother's bid for third medal TODA Y'S OL YMPIC EVENTS PHE athletics part of the Olympic Games is x now nearin^ its end. There are only two more days m which the track and field events will hold sway here before giving way to other events such as gymnastics.
      Reuter  -  341 words
    • Article
      I.A. CRICKET XI
      58 7 T 1 '.Ret for the Indian Association 2.3 BODCA on Sunci I 2 p.m. BODC\ Ground at I Ml- <p] o v 'reot at 1.30 p.m.t Ray !al N. M (O I). T. Pa'ol. R. S. M Abral A. Maryland C S n. F. red Campos. p
      58 words
    • Article
      TWO SWIM RECORDS BROKEN YESTERDAY
      961 7 record). 2. B. B:>nte (Ho.land> 2. 48; 3. C. Perez (Argentina) 2. 55: 4. S. Jonsson (Ice'ar.:b 2. 56.4; 5. H. Widmer (Switzerland) 2. 56.7; 6. J. Davles (Great Britain) 2. mlns 56.6; 7. B. Salmon (Canada) 3. 1.5 The old Olympic record of 'a
      UP; Reuter; AP  -  961 words
    • Article
      Girl swimmer collapes
      143 7 GRETA Anders>n of Denmark collapsed yesterday while swimming m ihe third heat of the 400 metres freestyle Olympic event at the Empire pool. Miss Anderson, winner of the 100 metres women > Ertestylfl on Monday, was seen to be m difficulties as the swimmers were going down
      Reuter  -  143 words
    • Article
      Amicables struck form in 2nd half
      373 7 H O Shrnals were unable to maintain a half-time G. Vad of two-one against the Amicable Athletic Association m a S A FA. First Division match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Improving considerably m the ■econd half, the Amicables scored 'our more goals and
      373 words
    • Article
      U.S. leading easily
      153 7 THE l/nited States had established a comfortable 'cad m track. field and swimming < .-vents by last night's tiost- of the sixth day of the 1 lth. Olympiad. The Americans have compiled 218 points up t« d-te according to ■nofficlal statist-is based on -six placings m each
      Reuter  -  153 words
    • Article, Illustration
      King Meets Officials
      31 7 The King greets members of the International Olympic committee at the opening of the 14th Olympiad of the modern series at the Empire stadium, Wembley, on July 29.
      31 words
    • Article
      Pope wins race for "double" SURREY BEAT DERBY
      359 7 Pope wins race for "double" SURREY BEAT DERBY DISMISSING M. R. Barton of Surrey at Chesterfield yesterday, George Pope, the Derbyshire all-rounder, became the first cricketer this season to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets. He won a race for the feat with several others who were
      Reuter  -  359 words
    • Article
      KEPPEL GOLF CLUB MEETING
      79 7 CINGAPORE Harbour B will bear tht? cost of tue rehabilitation of the Kcppel Golf Club. At a special general n Ing of the club held last evenIt was resolved to make ava. liable to the Harbour Board the proceeds of the club's war damage claims if
      79 words
    • Article
      BASE GROUP NET THIRTEEN GOALS
      53 7 T.use Group K.L. 13 Police 0 THE Ba^e Group RE. champion. 15 who are standing m the second c. league of the S A F A. league, fcad Id day yesterday when th^y scored 13 goals without reply >t the Police m a league h
      53 words
    • Article
      BOYS' CLUB WIN
      34 7 "*HE Bingtp r« Harbour Board Boys' Club defeated the Singapore Civil Service Association by I three goals to one m a S.AF.A third division league match played 'at McNair Road yesterday.
      34 words
    • Article
      Big struggle forecast in rowing events
      133 7 Big struggle forecast in rowing events A BIG struggle fa Oi.vir.pu- gold medals was forecast by the ng of the rowing ev^nte at Jay. heats of the single sculls it one of th vill be b. Wood of Australia f th« v diamo!. p American whose Jean Fr nch Rowe
      Reuter  -  133 words
    • Article
      Warwick score 90 for three
      70 7 d 90 lor the th* :r game .-t Birmingham match The Au d 254 m ♦!r :r i remarkably well ufor 1 07 runs ITAKWICKSHIKB— tai .nas. K. Taylor o HeCod b I.i- u\» 0 J. Thompson nn- uf Ord b B. lahaalHl !4 M.
      Reuter  -  70 words
    • Article
      ITALY IN WATER POLO FINAL
      12 7 |TAI I day Thu i scoring 14
      12 words
  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 7 Advertisements Column 1
      169 7 rTAOIT/il TOMORROW 1 C**PITUL AT MM™ ifeAfl |gELF <>Rtt ROBFRT R\ AN I GREAT WORLD ARENA-Tomorrow at 9p m WPiR WRESTLING By SUPER MEN i W I MOT X IN R!\<. nSIOBI I HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF EUROPE \\n ("in MBBAft KING ALI I KONG VS RIZA BEY I I H
      169 words
  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 7 Miscellaneous Column 1
      248 7 F,P. Crossword No. 456 r~| IT"! [FT [4~| |s~] IF] lIIIIIIIIIZI 7 "8 "p9 X) II "12 m mk WWi 18 W L L 111 IP PP H^ 30 3i wsr 33 CUMM IOMH 1, Peerless (12). 7. Throes (5). 9, Gazes (6). 13. Toward* shelter (4). 15, Corpulent (5).
      248 words
Page thumbnail Page 8
  • NEWS, LATE CITY
    • Article
      BOYCOTT INDIA CALL TO MUSLIM WORLD
      414 8 BOYCOTT INDIA CALL TO MUSLIM WORLD Tension rising m Hyderabad KARACHI, Thursday. rpHE President of the Pakistan Jamiatul Islam (Body of Religious Heads), Maulana Shabeir Ahmid I'smani, has appealed to all Muslim countries of the Middle East and the Far East to enforce a complete economic blockade of India, as
      AP; Reuter  -  414 words
    • Article
      FOOD RIOTS IN EAST GERMANY
      174 8 LONDON Thursday. WIDESPREAD food shortage disorders m the Russian zone of Germany, and increasing unemployment In the Western sectors of Berlin because of currency exchange difficulties, were reported today. The British licensed oiHcial newspaper Die Welt quoti::? "reliable sources m the Soviet zone" said hunger
      Reuter  -  174 words
    • Article
      West challenges Russian move
      230 8 West challenges Russian move DANUBE CONFERENCE BELGRADE, Thursday. CHARGING Russia with economic exploitation of the Danube basin, the United States delegate, Mr. uwndish (annon. submitted a draft convention calling for "fret- and open" commercial navigation at today's mttofl of the ten-nation Danube conference, dmimtrctai navigation should be "on a footing
      Reuter; AP  -  230 words
    • Article
      KING AT BALMORAL
      23 8 The Royal family left London last night for Balm Castle, Scotland whtre U will be on holiday until September 11.
      23 words
    • Article
      BRITAIN'S MEAT
      51 8 Migt-<1 Miranda. President of the Argentine National Economic Council. goes to London m September lor talks with Sir Stafford Crlpps on renewal of Britain's meat contract. British manufacturers shipped a record of 20.200 motor vehicles overseas m June, worth £68.000.000 and kept only 8.000 for the homp market.-
      AP  -  51 words
    • Article
      Walks unaided at 114 years
      104 8 SAINT ASAPH (N. Wales). Thurs. MISS ISABELLA SHEPHERD, aged 114, was the guest of honour at a birthday party at the emergency and county hospital m Saint Asaph today and was congratulated by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, Rear-Adm. Rowley Conway, on behalf of the
      Reuter  -  104 words
    • Article
      OLYMPIAD RUN BY FASCISTS'
      47 8 THE Executive Committee of Rumanians Popular Sport Organization yesterday explained that Rumania is not participating m the Olympic because the Olympic Committee is run by "war criminals and Fascists." Rumanians objected to the presence of "Greek Fascists. Spanish Fascists and Chinese reactionaries."— AP
      AP  -  47 words
    • Article
      FLYING BOAT'S SEATS IN SEA
      58 8 THE Mew V It Guard A that the e pbell picked up two pi sea* to be from th" Ing French flytngboat In I :flc yesterday. The Coast Guard said an rican plane sighted other wreckage nearby and that the 'Campbell* had been ord to
      58 words
    • Article
      Taken at her word
      90 8 SHANGHAI, Thurs. TRYING to scare off a suitor whose attentions were unwelcome has resulted m Miss Hsu-chi being sentenced to one year's imprisonment. The girl wrote to her suitor, a policeman, that she was a Communist and therefore she was not a proper person for him
      U.P.  -  90 words
    • Article
      ATOMIC WEAPONS WILL BE BANNED
      230 8  -  Truman —says WASHINGTON. Thursday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN, on the third anniversary o: 1 the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, said today h< was hopeful for peace and hopeful that atomic weapons eventually will be outlawed. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur today sent Kreetinss and i'<>nKratulations to the "worthy
      Reuter; AP; UP  -  230 words
    • Article
      YELLOW RIVER BREACHES DYKES
      84 8 THE Yellow River has smashed its dykes at Kaoteun In weit Shantung, and flood waters are racing over part of West Shantung, East Honan and North Kiangsu. Because of mlllt;^ operations In the area, details are lacking, but officials said that "dangerous currents" backed by rising
      AP  -  84 words
    • Article
      FRENCH AID FOR NEW VIETNAM
      190 8 SAIGON, Thursday. THE President of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnah, Gen. Nguyen van Xuan, told Reuter today that he was assured of "extensive financial help" from the French Government to aid m Indo-Chinese reconstruction m damaged areas. "I expect to receive about 20,000,000 piasters
      Reuter  -  190 words
    • Article
      Kramat Tin resumes dividend
      167 8 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thura. AT the annual general meetings of five tin companies of the Anglo-Oriental group, the chairman, Mr. D T. Waring, thanked the staff and labour on the mines for their continued loyalty during the emergency. Mr. Waring reported on the tin
      167 words
    • Article
      Living Death' in chain gang
      137 8 THE Governor of M sey <U.S.A.>. Mr. Alfred Drlscoll, yesterday refused to return John Coller. a Negro to what his attorney said would be a "living death" on a South Carolina chain gang, escaped from the chain Kang 11 years ago after serving nine months
      Reuter  -  137 words
    • Article
      TRUMAN LAUDS INDIA'S RECORD
      89 8 THE new Indian Ambassador to the U.S.. Sir Senegal Rama Rau, presented his credential! President Truman yesterday. Accepting the credentials, the President said that the United States' interest m India would continue '"intense and sympathetic." Congratulating India on "a record of unusual accomplishment bf said: "I
      UP  -  89 words
    • Article
      PRICES KEEP STEADY, FIRM
      453 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. tyiTH dealers awaiting crystallisation of the < come of the talks on Berlin, once again the very little trade m the London Stock Exchai today. Hiyi Reuter's financial correspondent. Pr. m all sections, however, held quiet and with occasional firmness. Rubb<
      AP  -  453 words
    • Article
      Arabs insist on DPs' return
      74 8 Arabs insist on DPs' return ISRAELI PEACE Offf THE Arab turn nun, ts WIU any Arab- Jewish p« m proposed formally for I the Israeli Government m Vesw^^H is first found ol the \rab Z tyi V* Ur ***k3M learns from Arab soared I fhe Israel .a Shertok. ha^g meanwh.
      AP  -  74 words
    • Article
      Trans-Polar air defences
      30 8 JOINT American C< trans-Polar a James Forre> One of thf be on the a radar netv the approach of ing 01 and *s and basbomber volv UP
      UP  -  30 words
    • Article
      INDIAN NAVY C-in-C.
      6 8 W E AP
      AP  -  6 words
    • Article
      S'PORE HIGH TIDES
      4 8 I
      4 words
  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
      Page 8 Advertisements Column 1
      330 8 BIRTHS At Singapore, on 3rd August, to Dr. and Mrs. T. Lyall. a son HARDAKER— To Stella and Kenneth Hardaker on August* 4th at Kuantan. a daughter. MAYSON on July 24th at Malacca General Hospital to Margaret wife of Howard Mayson a son. DEATH BURNHAM. Kenneth Assheton Witt, beloved husband
      330 words
    • Advertisement
      Page 8 Advertisements Column 2
      79 8 i Y nviic SELKT RUYALS 2TO 1 LOOSE LEAP BOOKS •MAGIC MARGIN £m*A ik'r'V •TOUCH CONTROL FIN6ER-FIOW KEYS <^^ ORDER HOW FOR EARLY: l)w*j_ SSE?^. HEOPOST Of m HEWBS7 > f ///^Sf^W DUPLICATOR V N/ PERFECT COPIES IMII QUICK COLOUR CHANGf EASY OPERATION < w ijjj)fijfjii>p uj ™i« •g| FOUHD
      79 words