The Singapore Free Press, 15 September 1948

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1948. PKH 1 lit iI.N is
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    Hyderabad issue goes
    126 1 I, U.N. nctl meets In Thursday t LONDON, Tuesday v ion> Seouritj Council \vi!l dfsmTi dispute with India at a s on Thursday afternoon, een called by Sir Alexantain, president of the Counr.tatives sent 2 ion. spokesman said tonight: *p rabad to the Security Council H .1
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    It can't happen here
    32 1 $15,000,000 W3s paid by the United States Philippine War Damage Commission m August to more than 73.200 private claims for war damages and aid to Philippines rehabilitation. Reuter
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    STOP PRESS
    61 1 rrt* Prt-vs Maff Reporter. KIALA I IMPI R. Wrd 4 EI'ROPEAN miner was murdered hi BfllMfff this morning. His body was found at a spot between Suagei Sim pan hoh and ■id.ih. 18 miles north tl Kuala Lumpur urther details are not availahlr. and the name of the
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    Chiang on the air
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    Changi hold up: Govt. silence
    184 1 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 N olluial statement may be made on the hold-up m the $10 million Changi airport scheme, the b ree Press was told this morning. In the meantime, otlicials will say nothing. work on the Changi months a^o, when sub-s^ the
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    2 TOWNS SEIZED BY KARENS
    111 1 2 TOWNS SEIZED BY KARENS RANGOON Tuesday. KAREN insurgents seized the towns of Shwegyin and Kyaukyi m thy Central Burmese dLstrlet of Toungoo on Sunday, it was officially stated today. There was no violence at either place, Police surrendered to Ihe Karens but People's Voiunteer Organisation units refused to surrender
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    ANTI-SEMITISM CAUSED SUICIDE
    34 1 ANTI-SEMITISM CA USED S UICIDE A 41-year-old German Jew ish refugee, Mrs. Erna Rowe. committed suicide because .she became disillusioned at the growth of anti-Semitism m Britain, a London coroner's kirv found yesterday. U.P.
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    R.A.F. FLY PAST SALUTES 'THE FEW'
    107 1 Free I'ress Staff Reporter SPITFIRES, piloted by "Battle of Britain' pilots. flew low m salute to "The Few" as Royal Air Force ensigns were hoisted at Changi, Seletar. Tengah and I Sembawang to commemorate the "Battle of Britan" m 1940. The Spitfire formation was
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    ADMIRAL BOYD IN SINGAPORE
    73 1 Free Press Staff Rcnorter THE transfer of British Paciflr Fleet Headquarters from Hona Kon« to Singapore is complet?d this morning with the arrival of the Com-mander-in-Chief. Far East Station Admiral Sir Denis Boyd. m H.M.S. Alert at the Smsapore Naval Base. Th 1 Admiral was met
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    Plane hit- bungalow
    28 1 A Spitiire crashed on to a bin salow at Mayford, near Woktng 'England) yesterday, killing the pilot. Nobody m th? bungalow was injured.— A .P.
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    Juliana in London
    15 1 Queen Juliana of the rland> paid a surprise to London yesterday Bernhard.
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    ALL SMILES AFTER KREMLIN MEETING
    218 1 ALL SMILES AFTER KREMLIN MEETING MOSCOW, Tuesday. THE faces of all the British, American and French envoys *^re wreathed m smiles as thtV stepped out of their cars into the hall of the British Embassy after the shortest meeting they have ever had at the Kremlin. looked more cheerful than
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    GOVT CLERKS 'ARE HEAVILY IN DEBT'
    145 1 GOVT CLERKS 'ARE HEAVILY IN DEBT' Free Press Staff Reporter AN ALARMING state of inn debtedness prevails amons members of the Singapore Government ServauU' Cooperative Thrift and loan Society, particularly amonn clerks and hospital assistants. says a statement issued by the Society this morning. These clerks and assistants are seekine
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    JOINT ACTION AGAINST REDS
    48 1 JOINT ACTION AGAINST REDS A SIAMESE Services Mission arrived m Saigon yesterday with the reported purpose of studying with the IndoChinese authorities the possibility of joint action against Chinese Communists m IndoChina and Siam. Besides an Army contingent, the mission included high air force and naval officers- Reuter
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    Food dropped by air
    28 1 army aircraft have re sumed their air-drop of food for beleaguered Changchun. Eighty transport planes took part m >*sterday*s operation. reporU th« United Press.
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    Traffic cop in collision
    102 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. ATRISHA collided with traffic motor cyclist at 10.45 a.m. yesterday at the junction of G^ylanK Road and Lorong 33. The triMia rider was admiiied to General Hospital witli a fractured k A Malay despatch rider, whose motor cycle skidded m Tiong Bahru
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    SEVEN CRISIS ARRESTS
    55 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. SEVEN persons wore arrested by the Singapore C.I.D. yesterday, five of them under the Emergency Regulations, the other two for being members of illegal secret societies. Of the five emergency arrests four were Chinese and one was an Indian. The two i secret
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    ENVOY IS CLEARED
    37 1 The Federal Court m Chicago yesterday dismissed a $2,000 000 damage suit by a woman who alleged she was the illegitimate daughter of Mr. Myron C. Taylor. United States envoy to the Vatican. Reuter
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    100 G.I. casualties in smash
    141 1 SEOUL Korea), Tues. THE U.S. Army reports that 40 Americans were killed 'and nearly 60 others injured— I 1 most of them U.S. troops— in\ a train wreck 75 mites south of Seoul. The wreck occurred when i train ploughed into another train from behind
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    Dynamite bid on mail train
    234 1 Dynamite bid on mail train Free Press Start Reporter AN official statement will be made on the hold-up months ago, terrorists iried unsuccessfully this morning to wreck the night mail train from Kuala Lumpur, between Layang Layang and Sedenak. A pilot engine which was drawing an armoured car, and pushing
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    Ceylonese taxi gang arrested
    101 1 Ceylonese taxi gang arrested Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Oylnnese who robbed a Chinese taxi drr. $20 m cash and a w: ran into the artns Of a police patrol m Clementi Road just after midnight last night. Tile taxi driver was the fifth to have b^en robbed by small
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    Red plot against Hatta Govt.
    230 1 Red plot against Hatta Govt. 1 ul < .rrespomienl pOMMuMSIS In the Indonesian RapubLe are fomenting riots m order to overthrow the government of Dr. M mcd Hatta, vire-pr dent of the Republic, cording to reports reaching Singapore this morning. The Communists, who clai*n that the Republic is disintegrating under
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    MALAYAN-BORN STAR'S NEW FILM
    533 2 BY OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER IMR. and Mrs. DeniJVJ son, alias Ifala-nn-Mrn film star Dulcio Gray and film Ftai Michael Denison, broadcast m the British Broadcasting Corporation's programme "In Town Tonight on their return from a weeks m Venice and I 1 'loinitIn Italy they had
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    GLORIA JEAN FILM
    22 2 CJ:oriu Jean Is to b- the of the L)i-^a M Alcott story 'An Old fashioned Gin." for Eagle-Lion reh'ajir.
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    RAFT HAS HARD TIME
    345 2 By RALPH DIGHTON r<EORGE Raft has just returned to Hollywood from one of the most difficult location trips m Hollywood memory. The trip, to a French Foreign Legion outpost 600 miles from Casablanca, resulted m 8.500 feet of background and action film for the movie, "Outpost
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    Bridge Problem
    267 2 wit a pre-emptive raise, but the final contract was perfectly .'ogical. In top cfcirds declarer had only three losing treks. It required a good defence for the opponents to establish that esses it. al fourth trick. W.st opened the club king and South ruffed H". led a low
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    TIME FOR DANCING
    418 2  -  ELIZABETH LEE By TONIGHT, ovei Radio Malaya at 8.2 m, we shall not only revise the Bevei Turn, but piece together all the ii.uut we have learned m the Slow Foxtrot into varioi amaliriiniations. The first of these will consist of Feather-Threestep-N atural Turn, danced down the
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    BURMA FACES A 'GLOOMY FUTURE'
    437 3 BURMA FACES A 'GLOOMY FUTURE' Rebels are doomed to defeat but— RANGOON, Wednesday. DURMA'S Socialist Government hopes to end civil 13 strife m the country by October. Then the delayed programme of rehabilitation, shelved since 1946 by political upheaval and internal catastrophe, will get underway, it is claimed. Official pronouncements
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    The jitters
    50 3 MILTON Mitchell, 21, a Brisbane "rugcutter says he holds the world "jitterbug" endurance record. Milton danced non-stop for 24 hours, and tired out 56 partners He wore seven pairs of socks, four pairs of shoes, and had hi s leas massaged four times without rnissino a step. A.P.
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    U.K. LABOUR DECLARES WAR ON COMMUNISM
    165 3 i declared war on the D m Great Britain, ut result of the recent five-day Margate. The 100 del' representing rejected every Communist move, of vital importance to :inciples. I :nmunist motions on such W °n of steel, foreign policy, Sin state employ and
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    U.K. employers appeal to Govt.
    114 3 THE National Union of A manufacturers, representing 5.000 manufacturers and 52 trade associations m Britain, whil e '•wholeheartedly" endorsing the appeal made by Sir Stafford Cripps at the Trades Union Congress for lnised industrial production declares that this is "only one part of the problem"
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    SCHOLARCHIP FUND FOR U.K.
    138 3 SCHOLARC HIP FUND FOR U.K. BRITISH Memorial Fund D opened m M»!--bourne, Victoria, to put into We form Australia's adtion for the spirit of the British people. It is proposed to raise £500.000 to establish fellowships and scholarships and to ncourage visits 10 Australia )f British experts. Everywho mvt'.s tl
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    REFORMING JAP CIVIL SERVICE
    124 3 REFORMING JAP CIVIL SERVICE MORE than 300,000 Japanese j government officials be required to prove theii fitness by competitive examin itions if proposed civil service reforms are approved by the Diet. This move revolutionary m Japan is one of numereous reforms designed Ko reI place the powerful bureau- cratic system
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    WORLD BANK TO MEET
    175 3 NGTON Fl of the U.S. and other countries will get a good opening for talk. r cur- valuations and other probi :ionth. At the third annual conference of th vrmors of the Worl I ry i 4 nd and the World Bank. ±i\m conlcrences are to
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    MORE U.K. COAL FOR EXPORT
    64 3 THE British Minister of I and Power, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell said yesterday thai he hoped Britain would eventually double her present coal export target of 20 million ir and exports up to the pre-war level. Mr. Gaitskell said that In the first eight months of
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    Lyrical praise for Jap spirit
    305 3 HONG KONG. /^NLY nations suffering from an "m feriorit\ complex" can object to the "remarkable results" Japan has achieved toward national rehabilitation under American guidance, said the Far Eastern Economic Review. The magazine praises me Japanese post-war spirit. "Against a tragic background of turmoil m
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    Jews told: 'aid Arab refugees'
    124 3 Jews told: 'aid Arab refugees' RHODES. Moiic r«OUNT Fol.-: rnav dottc. United Nations Palestine mediator dered Israel today to readmit Arab refu to three Pale< villages and to rebuild their shattered homes. He said 8.000 Arabs driven out and their homes smashed by Israeli troops m violation of the truce.
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    £25.722 million debt
    25 3 Britain's national debt at the end of the financial w on March 31 £25.722.387.153, according to a Government White Paper issued yesterday.
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      101 3 REGAL -ZONOPHONE RECORDS Sung By GENE AUTRY JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE IM A COW POKE POKIN 1 ALONG MR 3666 SIERRA SIE BLUEBERRY HILL MR 3404 YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE MARY DEAR MR 3588 ILL WAIT FOR YOU LONELY RIVER ME 25 GOODBYE. LITTLE DARLING. GOODBYE WERE YOU SINCERE ME 11
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. Sept.. 15. 1948 War Claims again
    816 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. Sept.. 15. 1948 War Claims again AGRF: m advance that \\ar Damage Compensation Scheme should be examined by a Select Committee severely limited the debate on it la islative Council yesterday, but enough was said by Unofficial rmmoers of the Council to indicate that the
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    Bader, war hero, paying a visit
    786 4  -  GEOFFREY GELDARD AIR COLUMN BY ANL of Britain's v.arair heroe.s, legless Group Captain Douglas Bader D.S.O. r D.F.C., will land m Singapore m Percival Proctor V early next month. After six years of remarkable adventures m the R.A.F., Group Captain Bader is now Shell
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    BURMA 'NO' TO WAR CLAIMS
    67 4 THE Burmese Government 1 has denied liability for war damage claims. Filing m the Burmese High Court a written reply to claims amounting to 600 million rupees by British and Indian companies, the Government contended that the destruction and demolition of plants In Burma during
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    Surplus of sugar
    367 4 By JOHN HALL LX)R the first time 1 since the early days of the last war there Is a world surplus of sugar —160.000 tons of it. One snag about this year's world surplus Is that it is held by countries which want dollars for It, and
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    TOURIST BOOM IN FRANCE
    592 4 By Odette Laguerre, Reuters Correspondent PARIS. TRANCE expects h total of 1,700,000 foreign tourists this if— record fi.uure since the war, and almost as high as that Of 1,900,000 reached m 19^9, the best pre year. According to official statistics, 950,000 tourists visited France between Jan.
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    FAITH
    27 4 Judge me. O Lord: for I have walked m my Integrity: I have trusted also m the Lord: therefore I shall not slide. Psalms 26. 1.
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    'PRAVDA,' MEANING TRUTH
    368 4  - 'PRA VDA, MEANING TRUTH GORDON YOUNG By STOCKHOLM. tyHAT do they know of England who only Russia know Recently I have been studying the things which the Soviet newspapers arriving here have told their readers about Britain. Really, you'd hardly recognise the Old Country if your only source of information
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    A city of bouincim cheques
    286 4 African Journey] NAIROBI. KENYA IN this town suckers aren't born minute, th< every second for is the city of bouncing cheques. dishonoured chits, id box Paris. s bark shop assistan* shady characters wh them m" tr polished English at signing jolly old chits and dud
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    Johore urged to open rural banks
    160 5 Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRI, Tuesday. 'Hi ii>hment of rural banks and the appointment of Select Committee to study ural conditions and make recommendations to nprove rural I ••immy were suggested by Mr. S. nnnampalam at today's meeting of the Johore rour--1: Ponmo- to
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    13,700 FIRMS IN THE COLONY
    405 5 Fewerfailures are reported Free Press Chinese Correspondent IP to the end of August, there were 13,70(1 firms m Singapore 13,583 ordinary businesses and 119 limited compinies, according to official statistics. However, there may be quite a number of registered firms which have gone out of
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    Indian teachers
    38 5 THERE aa c two training centres m Johore for Indian vernacular school teachers one at Johore Bahru and the other at Segamat where a total of 75 teachers, chiefly from estate schools. attend classes on Saturdays.
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    PETROL COUPONS
    27 5 ¥)ETROL coupons for comJT mercial vericles for the next quarter are now ready and may be collected from the Petrol Rationing Office. Middle Road Singapore
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    INDIANS 'IN DIRE NEED OF RELIEF'
    254 5 'THE acting Honorary General Secretary of the Singapore Regional Indian Congress, Mr. K. R. Menon. replying to the interview given to the Free Press by Mr. R. Jumabhoy, points out that the fact that no application for help has been received either by Mr.
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    BONUSES FOR GOVT. STAFF
    94 5 •"TO encourage Johore Uov- eminent employees, particularly clerks, to become proficient m book-keeping, typewriting and shorthand, the Johore Government has Introduced a new scale of bonuses for passing the London Chamber of Commerce Examinations m these subjects. The bonuses will now be $150 for a pass
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    S.M.C. elections next April
    65 5 THE Select Committee considering the Municipal Elections Bill reported to the Legislative Council yesterday that the Singapore Municipal Commission should have an elected two-thirds majority. The committee, which was set up m Jure, recommends that 18 of the 27 commissioners should be popularly elected and that
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    Lecture on wages today
    146 5 Lecture on wages today Free Press Staff Reporter. THE first of a series of Peoples Educational Asiatu.li extension lectures will be given by Professor T. H Silcoek m PEA. Headquarten Handy Road, this afternoon. Professor Silcoek will i I "Wag" salaries and Unployment" m the lectures he will give m
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    CUSTOMS STATION
    7 5 JOHORE q mm birthr brat:
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    MARSHALL AID AND MALAYA
    229 5 MEMBERS of the Legislative Council will &oon receive a document relating to Malaya's participation m the Marshal Aid (European Recovery > Programme. This was the reply given by the Colonial Secretary <Mr. P. A. B. McKerron) after a plea had been made by Mr. E. M.
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    Compensation committee to report
    376 5 AT the instance of Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipal South- i west), the Singapore Legisla- tlve Council yesterday appointed a Select Committee to j examine and report on the War Damage Compensation Scheme and to hold joint de- liberations with a similar com- mittee appointed by
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    Here to take over ship
    137 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent. THE Managing Director of the Chinese Mercantile Steamship Company m Shanghai, Mr. Yeh Chuan-fang, is now In Singapore ready to i take over the steamer Monjtoro recently purchased by his firm. The 3,000-ton vessel, due to arrive here from Australia on
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    Prayers for Jinnah
    35 5 THE flnal prayer meeting for the soul of Mr. Jlnnah will take place at the Sultan Mosque this evening. The poor will be fed at 'he Sultan and South Bridge Road mosques.
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    SCHOOLS TO CELEBRATE
    52 5 The celebration of the Sultan's birthday on Sept. 17 will take place at schools throughout Johore. At Johore Bahru, there will be land sports for English and Malay school children on the morning of Sept. It followed by sports for the public m the afternoon of the
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    OVERSEAS LEAGUE
    46 5 In crdor to bring the list of members residen* In the Colony up to date Captain G. v Secretary of the Overseas League Singapore, would much appreciate if all members would register \helr names and addresses with him. Captain W p.o. Box 674. Singapore.
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    2 sentenced to death
    164 5 Free Press Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. CENTENCE of dtath was passed today at the Selangor Assizes on two young Chinese. Chin Sin and Won«z Kirn. who were found guilty of unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. They were arrested at Kampong Gerlsek near Rasa m Selangor
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      75 5 CHARITY FILM SHOW A gay If.-G.-M. nautical, "Fiesta" will launch the appeal for the Leper Settlent Chapel building fund with $15,000 as Its target sum. The money will cover building cost* for a Catholic chapel for 70 persons at the ler>er settlement at Yio Chu Kang. To date, Catholic lepers
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    'AFRICA CAN ASSIST BRITAIN'S RECOVERY'
    178 6 IMPERIAL Imperial social I 1 Intern I payments and the economic •'opment of Colonial Empire are some of the is to be rd at the first post 3 of the federation of Chambers of Commerce ie British Empire In Johannesberg from Sept. 20 J4. The
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    CHINA BID FOR 'BIG FOUR AGREEMENT
    355 6 CHINA BID FOR 'BIG FOUR AGREEMENT Anxious for early Jap peace treaty SHANGHAI, Tuesday. CHINA will make a number of concessions m order to bring the Big Four together during the United Nations General Assembly session m Paris to reach an agreement on an early Japanese peace conference and thus
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    RUBBER OUTPUT
    34 6 I^HE worlds natural rubber production m July v. and c 110.000 tons. S the m d of the month tiled 792.500 long tons. Synthetic rubber production 45.000 long sumption. 37.000 A .P.
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    Dentist cured his amnesia
    119 6 A VISIT to the dentist cured George Wallace of Leeds of his loss of memory. Under an anaesthetic he repeated a name several times. The dentist recognised him and traced his home to Leeds. Among other things, Wallace remembered that he was separated from his wife
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    BONGO BECHAM BOOGIE
    116 6 BONGO BECHAM BOOGIE DEECHAM, Boogie woogie and bongo bongo were all In town' at Johnnesburg recently. Sir Thomas Beecham was conducting a combined orchestra of 105 members drawn from the South African Broadcasting company's orchestra and the Johannesburg, Durban and Capetown Municipal orchestras. The Hot club of Johanmsburg 4 which
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    U.S. 'RETURN SHIPS' DEMAND TO RUSSIA
    155 6 U.S. 'RETURN SHIPS' DEMAND TO RUSSIA l-laying my deOJUMI for the ieturn ice-brear. and 28 navy fru J-leased to her during the uar. The first United States demand made m January. In add.tion to l: takers and oiUd Stat.? Ed 95 merchant sntna and small navai eratt. <. i have
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    N.Z. AIR RESERVE
    26 6 A Territorial Air Force of five squadrons totalling 2,000 men. and an Air Force Reserve is to be established In New Zealand imme
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    This month crucial for new gold yuan
    289 6 This month crucial for new gold yuan SHANGHAI. OEPTEMBER will tell whether China's new gold yuan, upon which is pinned the nations hope for an end to inflation, will retain its value, says the China Weekly Review. "When a nation geu a new currency, related problems usually turn up a
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    NEW ANTI-HUK DRIVE IS ON
    60 6 THE long txptcted Govern--1 meat offensive against the Communist -led armed peasants m Central Luzon cently. Five thousard Constabulary troops and officers have been alerted for the drive m lour rice- bowl provinces. Ph:. pine Air Forre observa* planes and light artillery v! with mortars
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    MORE UPSETS ARE EXPECTED
    437 7 MORE UPSETS ARE EXPECTED But Happy Lass is "certainty" By CALL BOY IN spite of the fact that the going will be very good 1 if there is no rain and several horses stand out as safe bets, it was generally predicted on the course this morning that there would
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    Woodcock is centre of conjecture
    70 7 Woodcock is centre of conjecture I, M,»k m VP em frc oac Joe *B adW "and i;, -.self j ing X n he s "tuetly Confident" 3 sueI HUT at I said k -Ing Ml |> i conflde •toe not rat price of t U i Hursts ML .ity. li
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    I.C.F.A TEAM FOR CUP GAMES
    17 7 I.C.F.A TEAM FOR CUP GAMES ihan a I 2?* lie Ha ot lit Cte on* on swee
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    Happy Lass best bet
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    Tigers nearly lost their last chance
    491 7 4 1 THOUGH they beat the Indians by two foals to one at Jalan Besar Stadium m a S.A.F.A. firstdivision match yesterday, the Tigers had a bad fright, when their opponents retaliated strongly m the closing stages and nearly forced a draw. The surprise
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    Boys Club and Customs draw
    173 7 THE s ngapore Harbour Boys' Club fought a rugged battle with the Customs S.C. to draw one goal each m a S.A.F.A. third division league match p'ay•d at Geylang Sttd urn yesterday. Th« Customs displayed better teamwork, while the Boys Club missed a number of
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    U.K. FOOTBALL RESULTS
    49 7 YESTERDAY'S D. K. Football league result? v. 2nd Division: Gi m.sby Town 3 Chesterfield 3. 3rd Division: (Northern": Oldham Athletic 0. DODCMttf Rovers 2; Southport C. Crtwe Alexandra 0; Traninero Rovers 1, Bradford Civ 0. IrL«h Gold Cup Zvd round >rv 0. Color? ino 1 Reuter
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    55 7 THE fouowtllfl will represent the Australasian akk against the U.K. at crick ?t on the ppdang on Sunday, starting at 11 am. Claude Mas*ey F T. Homer. B. A. Burnett. H. V. Thome. A C. Growder. J Ewat. G. Hyslop. W W. Gore. J. Day,
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    324 7 ANEW end-of-the season soccer championship has been inaugurated for ompetltlon In Singapore between the lnter-Servlces. In addition to the trophy, the interServices medallion will be awarded to the trainer and each member of the winning team. Idea behind tho venture. I was told recently, is to
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    Australians win by innings
    171 7 WITH all the Australians except Don Bradman and the wicket-keeper, Ron Saggers, taking a hand with the ball m the Scottish second innings the tourists easily won their two-day match ftfainsl Scotland at Edinburgh yesterday, dismissing their opponents for 85 and 111 m reply to their
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    R.J.I.C GOLF
    62 7 AT hf Royal Johore Intern^. Club the September If Ada] Q titkw play i «a« by C J lx>\ ret'irn«<l a net acore of 66 The follruing were c on:j» ol ii-< b?* score.* returned C. J. Lowe BG— 2O 66. I X Cheah 85—18 67 J McFi
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    37 8 MARRIAG E On S 1948 at St. LawNorth Wingfleld. UM R 1 Dr. J. F. W B W ratef. Rector. The R Col d X formerly of the d pt to Ida -ter of Dr. A •^o-.-e
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    9 8 KIRKEHIDE Wi'liam Norman a: I on Sp* 11th.
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    302 8 Jet planes for overseas LONDON, Tuesday. THHE British Government announced today a three- phase rearmament programme to prepare itself and other Western powers against the dangers of The world position "gives cause for anxiety," the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, declared gravely m
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    108 8 LONDON. Wednesday. ERIC Clifford Wigglesworth 22-year-old Leeds University student, was committed for trial at Bridllngton (England* yesterday, charged with the mercy killing of his widowed mother, a bed-ridden asthmatic. Tlie prosecution alleged that Wigglesworth told a doctor he strangled his :nother on July 27 as he
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    178 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. fNLESS anything very unforeseen occurs, the statistical position of tin should steadily improve, >u>n the Metal Bulletin. It is. therefore, not surprising that there should be fresh indications that leading world producers would like to re-establish some sort of
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    JAP SWALLOWS ARE SUSPECT
    76 8 THE swallow, whose graceful night is the theme ot many Japanese songs and is, is suspected today or being the deadly carrier of encephalitis germs. which have caused 338 deaths and made 2.400 ill m Japan thil year. Brig. G«n. C. F. Sams, chiet «>f Allied
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    Korea parallel in Germany
    275 8 LONDON, Tuesday. POLITICAL observers here are discussing how far 1 events m Korea— the only country besides Germany and Austria where the United States and the Soviet Union share the military government and occupation -provides a key to future /Soviet tactics m Gennanv. This question beoomei
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    74 8 SEVEN U.S. PLANES HIT MOUNTAIN THREE American fighter pilots were killed and four injured when seven oui of 16 fighter planes crashed into a mountain peak m south Formosa on Monday. They ran into the typhoon weather on a flight from Luzon, a Nanking radio message revealed today. The wrecks
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    165 8 Continued from Page 1 The Hatta government, has appealed to the population In I Surakarta not to take airaction on their own initiative and said that no matter en what grounds the men had been kidnapped th v should be handed over to the Covernment at once. Reports from
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    Russians block pact on colonies
    140 8 PARIS. Tuesday. RUSSIA held out today against Big Four agreement to put Italian Somaliland under Italian trusteeThe Soviet Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ai !iinsky. Insisted at today's ting of the Big Four Po discuss the former Italian Colonies that tin future of Libya. Somaliland
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    De Gaulle to run one-man referendum
    163 8 De Gaulle to run one-man referendum PARIS. Tuesday. pENERAL de Gaulle is to hold a one-man referendum to find out whether the French people want general elections and to secure funds for his -French Peu; Rally. Voters will be asked to buy a 50-franr stamp which they will be required
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    ESCAPES FROM TREASON TRIAL
    50 8 ONE of the defendants m the mass treason trial ol 84 Hungarians yesterday outwitted his guard and escaped during the recess after a 200--page indictment had been read. He was still at large yesterday afternoon. The defendants were said to have headed an anti-Gov-lernment political committee.
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    ROYAL BABY IN SIX WEEKS
    208 8 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Queen has completed 1 flnul arrangements at Buckingham Palace today for the birth of Princess Elizabeth's baby. Alter accompanying the King to the State opening of Parliament, the Queen conferred with Royal Physician Sir John WUr, who reported that contrary to earlier
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    523 8 London Stock Exchange W.™ A LONDON, Tuesday. 1 1 11 the current account terminating today, business m most sections of the London Stock Exchange conducted on extremely modest lines. H Keuters financial correspondent. Rubbers and Tins were unchanged to lower Oil shares after suffering some early losses
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    60,000 Germans die under Reds
    263 8 CAMPS OF ANNIHILATION BERLIN. Tuesday. PRESCRIBING the Russian concentration camps m U Germany as "camps of annihilation/ 1 a German doctor just released from Sachsenhausen camp today told the American-licensed Tagesspiegel that 60,000 Germans have died m the camps m the past three yea.rs. "All
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    80 8 THE Paris Soir said yesterday 1 that Mr. Winston Churchill had a.^ked the Duke of Windsor to stop writing his memoirs. In a iront-page story from its correspondent m Ca:.nes. the paper reported ChurchHl mad? the request when he and his wile visited the Duke
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    26 8 Terrorism UK warned 3 years a 4 gui all fyt I I M v W a I U such m For n i^H to govern. t>e
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    140 8 PARIS. Tuesday. THE British, Frtncii 1 Belgian delegates today Ked out of the Nations special 16-nation committee on self-governing ts a protest aga a speech by the Soviet delegale. They returned after the Russian had nded his t| If. tJarr.au < Franc the first to
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