The Singapore Free Press, 28 December 1948

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1948. PKU'E m t-KN r>
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    SOVIET LOSES VOTE ON INDIES
    300 1 SOVIET LOSES VOTE ON INDIES Hatta shifted out of Java? BATAVIA. Tuesday. WHILE the Dutch claimed more successes m their final mopping up" operations m Java yesterday the Security Council did not support a Russian resolution to end the Hutch police action n within 24 hours. The Dutch claimed the
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    J.K. CHIEF ON AVTATION TOUR
    8 1 J.K. CHIEF ON AVTATION TOUR a ger air
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    JAP BASKETS DEAL
    33 1 m chile! :dy OUt Army lunch ba^kr.^ The npany of York has signed a contract to t 100.000 baskets which Japanese Army ha :he end of the i U. P.
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    JAVA MOPPING UP' BEGINS
    109 1 BAT A VIA. Tuesday. I\l TC H forces, m their nine days "invasion", have *J driven Indonesian Republicans from all key points m Java, an Army communique said last night. •After one week it is possible to start mopping up operations m the whole of Java,"
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    Francesca gets her dream doll
    126 1 Francesca gets her dream doll Free Press Woman Reporter FVtANCESCA A jirl who mad>' new* m today's Si rait Times because she could not be found bu Mr F. E. Bent, icho wanted to h a doll dry m bridal clothes, rece morning. about Francesco, through a ure published m
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    THEY'RE MILL DIGGING
    70 1 I rr»- Prrs> Staff Reporter AFTER more than three weeks digging there is no sign of the -treasure" at the junction of Stamford and North Biidge Roads Operations have been hampered during the pas week by water flooding c Pumps have been used to take out the
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    French C.-in-C. arrives in S'pore today
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    Parents to die for murder
    119 1 EDINBURGH. Tues. •■THREE judges yesterday in- terrupted their Christmas vacation to hear m the Scottish Criminal Appeal Court details of a Glasgow tragedy m which three young girls 'fiat 'heir IS The appeal was brought by the' giris parents. William Park. 42. railwayman, of Glasgow,
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    RVHR CONTROL PACT TODAY
    160 1 LONDON, Tuesday. PRECISIONS of the six-power London conference on control of the Ruhr, being published today, will reveal tt substantial concession by Britain and the United States to the French viewpoint, according to a usually reliable Paris source The draft statute for an international authority for
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    Two billion food spots
    65 1 LONDON, Tuesday. nOREDOM with the British diet and the lack of table napkins are said to account for two billion food spots removed from the clothing and carpets nf Britons last year. The dry cleaning industry, which is booming as a result, estimates that a Briton
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    SNOW SLOWS FIGHTING IN CHINA
    269 1 SNOW SLOWS FIGHTING IN CHINA NANKING. Tuesday. OITTER cold weather has brought snow and ice to battlefields m central and north China, causing a lull m the fighting, while talks of early peace mount steadily. Reliable sources said that Dr. Sun Fo's new cabinet has begun disiussions with President Chiang
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    ENTERPRISE
    27 1 newspapers were pubI m London yesterday but one or two men with bundles of papers dated Dec. 24 under their arms did a brisk trade.- Reuter
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    XMAS AMNESTY
    32 1 As a Christmas gesture the Mayor oi Manila, Manuel de la Fuente, yesterday ordered the release of all persons arrested m the city on Christmas day for minor offences. Reuter
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    Phone wire in lorry: Six arrests
    97 1 Phone wire in lorry: Six arrests Free Press Staff Reporter persons were arrest- ed and 33 coils of telephone wires were seized by a Singapore police patrol, at a military depot In Jervois Road on Sunday morning. On rounds at 6.20 a.m., the patrol came upon a lorry parked near
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    'RUSSIA HAS NO MORALS-TRUMAN
    172 1 KANSAS CITY. Monday PRESIDENT Truman today I flatly accused Russia •>( blocking a peace settlement through ret live up *o agreements, but added, '"There are certain leaders m the Russian Government who are exceedingly anxious \o have an understanding with He did n t identify these
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    Alleged '108' gangsters held
    74 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Chinese, alleged to be headmen of the "108" gang, were arrested by the Singapore C.I.D. under the Emergency Regulations terday. The two men are believed by the police to have been j concerned m several gang fights, and to have had
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    Shots fired in Berlin clash
    295 1 WIESBADEN, Tuesday. OIK I'nited States military police and one German policeman, arrested on Sunday when they crossed into the Soviet zone m two jeeps, were returned safely last night. An eye-witness reported that about 20 shots were fired between the American patrol and Soviet soldiers
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    TWO DIE IN GANGWAY FALL
    52 1 'TWO seame.i from the SweA dish steamer Benares lost their lives yesterday when the gangway which they were repairing broke and they fell into the sea at Shanghai. The names of the deceased were given as Kazimiers Glovacki. a Pol", and Arthur Harry Martinson, a
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    FOLK AREAS 'SCREENED'
    51 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE police sea; 47 houses at Changi and Siglap and "screened" 174 persons m security checks yesterday. About 1.000 people were screened" and 225 houses starched m checks at Bukit Timah village and Yio Chu Kang areas on Christmas Eve No detentions were
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    S'PORE ARRESTS
    30 1 Singapore police yesterday arrested three Chinese alleged secret society gangsters. One Chinese gambling promoter was arrested on a banishment warrant, and another will be charged m court today
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    P.I. to embark on austerity
    72 1 MANILA. T THE long-awaited i: 1 control order, which :> exp?cted to b«-> signed b> sident Quirino today, coi rules and regulations for limiting impor.s of luxury and non-essential produr and laundry soao vi! totally banned The order will bt effective for a period of
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      15 1 ole%0 le Luncheon Change FRESH AUSTRALIAN LOBSTERS FITZPATRICKS FOOD SUPPLIES T EL. ORDER D«FPT 5281
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      45 1 SEASONS BEST BARGAINS m JEWELLERY, SILVERWARE E.P. 600DS. LAIKA JEWELLERS.. U BatUry Iml Sin»»»or« For over half t century AfwßSrW 3<!X? fHPORTED •V^H^ft havt maintained FROM LONDON v^JuaSe&M)^ lheir reputarion as the be« cigarettes m r .M*.'^r AADATM TOftACCO OHM KIM* CtOICf f L tt.rt-l^
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    Set A Woman To Catch A Woman
    379 2  -  F. G. PRINCEWHITE By WOMEN have now achieved equality with men m the practice of an art once confined to a few of the bolder spirits among them— the ancient art so long ago the prosecution of a woman for deliberately atto evade
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    Woman Of The Week
    127 2 By Our Woman Fashion Expert Portut -name, on the Sinn a- ho his r At the about forthcoming trip to I America. She ruary and hi B I tight the will uable. m Bra c of ardrobe tind I liked 'y her ning Her mother dei
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    Bridge Problem
    217 2 T<HERE I ♦■xpt-r- l ih t kind of re hi ra'her than his distributla However, the a° r.d U> make it unw i for players to bid on handy which include mmn mi.in f' I bid This is b< denied aces or >hown an are as the be
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    The Old-New LOOK
    137 2 THE New Look is now the normal look, a top style expert said recently. A wuman m a k no longer is the ob curious stares. The style is now accepted. Mr. Sidney A. Block, president of a large drmaking firm, said that the woman m a
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    THEY ARRECHANGED YET STILL ALIKE
    387 2 THEY have chanj and yet they are th une. The iv lox m the many'B younger pc pie today, a paradi more pronounced than I had expected to find. 1 have just returned from a thr< k trip to Frankfurt-on-Main. 1 talked to many of
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      124 2 7Vif Singapore Society Photographer— Peter Robinson— at Lloyd Studios 255, Orchard Road Telephone 4424 far appointment SINGAPORE STEAM LAUNDRY LTD. W' have pleasure m announcing the re-opening of our PRE-WAR RECEIVING DEPOT ON WtI)NKM)\V nU BfTfl DECEMBER \1 No. 7 GRANGE ROAD (FIFE HOUSE) near the corner of Orchard Road
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      61 2 <OM EKTO> De THE GRAMOPHONE CO LTD. SINGAPORE. **-> fgggr DONT MISS JLj f < Smoked Tit' Special Dinner Dince \K\\ YEAR'S I Extension till l 00 a.i AIRPORT HO ill For Reservations king JiS l TNi COMdNTHATiO f GOODNESS OF *f J PRIME LEAN Tf**^ W■ "'^k Ju*l M"i
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      16 2 rwue eNoucH i '••^wsttt? c*^.rtr COCM C«" WVU*CM- -*0,000 \\*><WL gv.C PPuxJg^... £3er vR i^e^^ coe^^ze
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      50 2 C f oss word Solution voi I ion in < RO8SWOBD no 57s I 27. Set. 28 V Era J. ■Mi i* ■■^t^M |P^' luncheon was helc n g Lrw^venor House, to the n n:ewber s of the th n A (trade ot ide t sh design in fabnc has
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      55 2 YOUR LUCKYsfIi? fine mind r and Your or;. o though? ahead of your tinn In ad diti. !l «*poi«-r n t (us( people. Thalone, shctuld p 4 M ltuallx pohtr diplom.i ht I it iv_ the f> yo "r a /5 not by training or I, a. tJfrojnd fitted for
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    prehuman Pygmies Were Intelligent
    468 3 II ttt tact gmies I i iropoloin has ounced Vmerican Phys ived I :000,000 average iDOUt 100 :ed erect, h clubs, d the bodies propordis- f A j F A of a Ukt characteristic* and which are believed to be related remotely to the prehuman pygmies.
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    Atom-Ships
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    COLD WAR OVER ICY WASTES
    423 3 yHE proposed InterA national discussion of the Antarctica territorial problem will have to "thaw out" a Held of diplomacy and international law as big and cold as the icy wilderness that is involved, according to international experU In Washington. Diplomatic annals of many countries reveal
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    MORE AIR LINES
    170 3 BY July 1949 three aii services, capable of carrying more than 10,000 passengers a year, will be operating between Australia and the United Stages and Canada. The companies are monwealth Pacific Airlines, Pan-American Airways and Canadian I' flc Airlines. The Comn. h Government hope their senrice will
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    MODEST MAIDENS
    21 3 *I Ju£T can't that commercial? 11l UZVZK l)£E ANY Of THEIR SHAVING O&KM AC LONG AS I LIVE 0
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    She Chases Alligators
    535 3  -  CHRIS MACGILL By Celeste Roess, who likes to take alligators alive because "they look so pathetic when they're dead," has a job few men and fewer women would envy. She's right-hand assistant to Mr. Ross Allen, Florida reptilt authority. Among other things, the Job requires long nighty
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    BLOOD SNAPS ITSELF
    70 3 I IVIDUAL red olood own phoiograi Geor-e A Boyd and hi sociates of the I Rochest j: b jrted o the.the Adva During n :n bone mar; teins havr i < oroorate ra 14. when on of later explodes its produces an In photograph: I In the
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      384 3 ut'.a H JM t 11.3 v 4.00 Music 7.18 British Band Box. 745 I? trli i*m\m *i* f>r <I>a < n Harmonic for the Asking; 830 World and !Ld I •xa r» m Orchestra: 415 Re-fc^abh ,hment Home News; 843 [IMA: m p ioday Wednesday 3ynphor o 4 100 Dane,
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  • The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY,Dec.28.1948
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      Modern Traffic Laws at Last
      214 4 THE decision to introduce X v ie full provisions of Road Traffic tinance from January 1 and repeal the B.M.A. Road Transport Proclamation was lcag overdue and is necescure greater control over the Colony's over>wded and dangerous \ds. Action which will w be possible under
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    "FATHER" TO 8,000 KIDDIES
    42 4 MR Edwin Alnscow lias just 1 i offli ooodd homeless eh: Ainscow has I of his own. .osen b; I ncU from 98 rling .i 3'ear job. Mr Ainscow hns IS years of child welfare experibehind him— Rev
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    857 4 Don Iddon's Diary FAITH I.rt us hear thr (oiuluMon ot ihf wholr Bailer: Fear Ciod. and kerp Hifommandmfnt.x: for thiv jv th«» wholr duty of man. I NEW YORK: AMERICAN excitement continues be focused on the great Red spy scare. But there is still very little to get your teeth
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    Breaking New Land
    181 4 THE 600,000-square-mile ice rt of Q Maud Land, upon whose blue-bulwarked shores few if any human beings have set foot will be explored b: expedition of \he Norwegian P ute. This sector of the antarctic continent just east of the Meridian of Greenwich was placed under the
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    ATLANTIS NEVER WAS LOST
    335 4 of Atlantis m exis* sea-going scientist claimed ly after 13 yearplorinp: the bottom of the Atlantic Oo Dr. Mauri I Columbia Univ^ has mapped, ph probed, sounded the ocean deep and found no f of the mysterious believed to hay. In great cataclysm historic times. "There
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    Saturday Night In Moscow
    474 4  -  Gordon Young By 'T\EAR old Saturday night' 1 With the days drawing m, M cow's 4,000,000 citizei 8 are having nitfht Out n with facilities which have impn more than m any winter since the war. is better food m restaurants, and playfl are drawing packed
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    A New-old Idea
    29 4  - A New-old Idea J U. TAll.oK Xv MRS H W L l have ai. m a 250 id it to ha dov In im den Tl> built mud price
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    Imperial Princes Go To Work
    11 4 Imperial Princes Go To Work A A 4 N Reuter AAP
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      21 4 ETERNITY RINGS WEDDING RINGS ENGAGEMENT RINGS Gold CIGARETTE CASK Silver FLAPJACKS. Etc U.S.DE SILVA Manufacturing Jeweller 106 ORCHARD ROA-1 Tel. 2466
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      34 4 LEAVE IT i EXP E R T FOR PAR! BIG OH voim COLD STORAGE COMPLETE CATERS IS THE ANSWI SINGAPORE c COLD STORAG CO- l d ORCHARD RD. IELEPHONE S C S 5376 y
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    Terrorists kill shop-keeper
    180 5 KI'ALA LIMPIR, Monda\ B> murdered a coffee shop owner near i at II o'clock last night. ;:.?ed on the door of the shop m opened it. then they shot him dead. H.s r wo companions. Lam 1 dresser of the c and Ibrahim bin Is- jj were
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    Juveniles found among bandits
    234 5 Free Press staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DI T for the number of juveniles found among Communists and Communist sympathisers detained by the Police, Federation Welfare Officers would be prepared to report a "definite easing" of Malaya's problem of juvenile delinquent Dr. C P. Rawson, Chief
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    TRUST BUILDING POLICY IS CRITICISED
    516 5 'High rentals for new flats 9 Free Press Staff Reporter JN view of the enormous amount of money— $s,ooo,ooo— allocated by the Government to the Singapore Improvement Trust for building purposes m 1948, the policy of the Trust should have the close attention of Government,
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    MORE RUBBER FOR RUSSIA
    43 5 A shipment of 4,200 tons of Malayan rubber is now being loaded en board a Russian freighter. MechAiHk Aph&nasiev, at the Harbour Board wharve« Tills Is the last shipment of Malayan rubber to be bought by Russia this year.
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    BOATMAN ON 52,000 BAIL
    61 5 BOATMAN ON 52,000 BAIL gINc.APORE Customs offi; led a ChlneM- boati:. Ang Hway Choo, m the Si rait of t Johore on Christmas day. He is alleged to have b» transporting two bags containing 130 lb. of Chinese on which duty had not been paid. Charged yesterday m the Sin-
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    TWO CHINESE REMANDED
    87 5 GED, to have committed three robberies .ne of which was at a church between Dec 6 and Chiistmas Day, Lim Ho Koh. 17, was remanded In Police custody for 48 iiours when he appeared m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesttTday. The proceed>i of one of the
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    'GUILTY'PLEA
    61 5 A EUROPEAN, H R. M pleaded guilty m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday to a charge of attempting to enter the houL-e of a European woman, Margaret Chen, m East Coast Road, m order to annoy her. The incident occurred about 2 .35 a.m. on Boxing Day. The
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    MENTAL HOSPITAL NURSING PROBLEM
    152 5 '^HE question of nursing m the Singapore Mental Hospital has been a cau concern, says the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers. '•Apart from a small trained staff reliance has always placed In the past on -d hospital attendants and knowledge is far from
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    HOUSE-OWNERS TO PAY MORE
    180 5 HOUSE-OWNERS TO PAY MORE Free Press Staff Reporter fTHOrGH the 194fr rate of Municipal assessment A has not been increased, owners of several thousand properties, including dwelling houses, business premises and vacant lands, will be paying more m the New Year. The reason is that these pr< revalued by the
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    STEEL FOR NEW S.M.C. QUARTERS
    131 5 AN early start on the tirst blocks of the $5,000,000 housing plan at Monk's Hill for junior members of the Singapore Municipal slaft has now been assured by the latest decision of the Municipal Commissioners to pay $191,815 for the 500 tons of steel required
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      104 5 LATEST ARRIVALS EJUOR WARP QUALITY MATTING ROLLS P M ml>. EACH KOI I Sea- Grass Mats from Indo-China 12 12, 9 i 12. 9 9 and 3 6 Limited Stock WASSIAMULL'S CARPET MUSEUM 35 HIGH STREET SINGAPORE fe^M^ -a I Bill Kll XI -OVI RUKt i.ra; nap I- M. A.
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      35 5 iA /V\\ /K>//| MY FEET I I WOULD NT BE SO I V^ I UNCOMFORTABLE I I /F HAD TAKEN I I Robinson's advice I MEN'S SHOES I AWD BOUGHT I CROUHD FLOOR l^j $H()ES
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    TELEVISION-BOON OR PARASITE?
    112 6 TELEVISION-BOON OR PARASITE? Hollywood is alarmed is casting a shadow of economic x uncertainty over the whole of the rest of America's sports and entertainment industry. Even radio is a/Tected for television is threatening to take away from it the one thing that keeps it alive the advertisers' dollar. After
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    WAR BRIDES' DEADLINE
    100 6 A WAR bride airlift" it rushing hundreds of Chinese, Japanese and Filipino wibe x of U.S. service men to the United States before Ihe expiration of the War Brides Act tonight. Immigration officials here estimate that 450 to 500 brides have arrived m Honolulu since the first
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    Australia will do without Jap pearlers
    76 6 Australia will do without Jap pearlers JAPANESE pearler* definitely will not be returning to Australia's rich pearl shell along her northern s even if the industry should wane m consequence, accoi the Australian Immigration Minlste ell. •The leeiing oi mothers and i Australian vic•icsesav.. portant t!. material eve the people
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    ALEUTIAN QUAKE
    160 6 Ing a: vbly near Manufacturers of television sets have not yet caught up on demand— and do not expect to do so for another three years In 1947. they produced 180,000 sets, m the first Dine months of this year, they made 500 000 This fact has. however,
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    Japan may become 'economic menace'
    153 6 Japan i s lesi likely to become again .i mlllUrj menace than an economic one, according to Mr. .m M Martin, recent Chief of Occupied Area momic Affairs, In the IS. Department of Mat II Ja I i Jap i with h< !ar industries." a
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    A DEFENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICISTS
    127 6 DISCRIMINATION against women In academic and industrial laboratories is not usually Justified, according to Dr. Walter C. Mlchels, Physics Professor at Bryn Mawr lege. Writing m th*> D issue of "Physics Today" says: "The suc< of women p: I known convinces me that much of
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    JAILED MAJOR WINS APPEAL
    24 6 MAJ r Samuel I Jubbulpore. :il Pro\ 0 August nee. na* illj app I P ipeclai aJubD n 1944 Reuter
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    $ BAN CAUSES U.S. TO LOSE CAR MARKETS
    108 6 BAN CAUSES U.S. TO LOSE CAR MARKETS MOTOR vehicle export* from the United States dropped sharply this year and a continued downward trend is indicated during 1949. The automobile -V ition 442.000 cars I k« exported *ar asalnst 512.333 abroad m 1947. Dra imposed si: >•- caiLs* of lack of
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    NEW SEAWEED WOOL FABRIC
    73 6 WOMEN will soon I outfits made from i °d substance known a.i "Alginate" a super-light-t wool fabric made Icshlre. The material s only six ounces to a yard 54 Inches wide. Most of the new iabric is earmarked for export, though some is now appearing m
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    Submarine rescue buoy
    55 6 are ft mcy A reel m the r e carritg wire cable which unre-^ k€ buoy rises. A then lowerer. cable to -icken submarine. loped by the U.S. Saw :ned to speed submarine rescue rl by noting the need for deep sea divers. The buoy :eased by
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    SEABED TELEVISER
    17 6 A fnab t-bed down, to be c from a si hj by a Cuxha- Reuter
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    SIAM FEARS NEW RED THREAT
    93 6 SIAM FEARS NEW RED THREAT Indo-China moves SIAM ha s ordered strong antic ,m^ m the north-eastern prZiu^TT**^ china from which area a r '^f^ ij? expected to develop, according authorities. They base this successes m China, the pr of the Vietnamese fighting and reported Communist districts. Siamese security auth'
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    Russian army evacuates North Korea
    7 6 Russian army evacuates North Korea R A.P.
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    Ceylon starts bribery'purge'
    9 6 Ceylon starts bribery 'purge' r be^n no q Reuter
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    "Nation ot old folk
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      40 6 R~£ X LAST DAY TOMORROW! TOHWAUS (AROt HAT! I WHILE I I LIVE 2o CAPITOL OPENS TOMORROW FIVE SHOWS it 11 i.«. 2 p 4.15 6.30 49.15 EXTRAVAGANT BEAUT OPULENT BEAUTY STUPEFYING BEAUTY Is 4 a GLENN FORD IN COLUMBIA'S
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      103 6 .iiSntlrSke Exclusive In the Singapore Free Press m Malaya HF~~' ~T^^ r I •f-RAiO I I THE WHOLE COULO HAVt I KIN I v' 4 IT- BU^NEO UP. TOO LATE TO F'NO '/Vl-". -ANONAadt thT -fi AMY TAACESO^ MH I JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya Y2k
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    PIONEER YEAR FOR MALAYAN SPORT
    740 7  - PIONEER YEAR FOR MALAYAN SPORT THE SPORTS EDITOR By Ach ievemen ts of 1948 reviewed A LT HOUGH the Emergency curtailed interState and inter-district games, 1948 will go down as a pioneer year for Malayan sport. For the first time the country was officially represented at the Olympic Games. For
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    Aston Villa avenge defeat by Wolves
    311 7 V'l programme of Football League matches, fought out on frost-bound grounds and watched by more than a million spectators, produced remarkable happenings at Villa Park, Bolton and Swans. Aston Villa, without a win since Nov. 13 and Wolverhampton Wanderers on urned the tables and
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    TABLE TENNIS TEAM BACK
    14 7 I Kong. i rport matches: P Hatches: Played m.itches: Played
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    MANGRUM WON $48,898
    41 7 ILOYD -Tie Ithe year among U.S. golf prorith a total &f $48,898 Ben Hogan. the Amei op t »n and hamth $36,812. Demaret was I with $26,074. Bobby Locke, the South African professional was fourth with $23,468.- Reuter
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    Inquiry into race mishap
    388 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent THOI SANDS of racegoers saw a dramatic accident A involving two horses at Penang yesterday. Everbright (Dawson up) was making her challenge and fast gaining on the favourite Eddy Fraser m the seventh race, when she stumbled and fell about 10 yards
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    OUTSIDER WINS SUMMER CUP
    87 7 Y|R. J. C. Ryan's Regal Son. i*l starting at 20-1, yesterday won the £3.000 Sydney Summer Cup run over one mile five turlongs at Randwick here. Regal Son drew away after entering the straight to score itn easy three-length win over Mr. N. S. Cohen's 12-1
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    EDDIE MILLER RETURNING
    40 7 A USTRALIAN featheri\ weight champion. Eddie Miller, who has been fighting ir> England for some time, will arrive back m Australia <»n Jan. 10. He will be offered a lightweight contest with Archie Kemp on Feb. 11
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    474 7 Won by 2J. ihort head 1 Time: 1 mm. 15 1 I Cash Sweep: N« 111 1354 ($618) 1751 ($343 ($5l eachi: tf«t. 452 1112 667; 59*. 683. ESS. 1081 14? 7: BIG Sv\U»' TOTAL POOI CMI S:6 FIRST SE< OND THIRD STARTIRx N« :;0l20: *****4;
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    Malay F.A. beat Penang Chinese
    9 7  - Malay F.A. beat Penang Chinese KI'SADER sowhich Piilau re
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    MALAYANS TO START PRACTICE TOMORROW
    75 7 Bwith them curry powder, rice and sauce. the Malayan Thomas (up team arrived m England on the which docked at Tilbury yesterday >ndon. where laying i-manager, Mr. :ved m London f ter which n Club, they I 12. R- India's Dig de- md n even
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    England has promising heavyweight
    131 7  -  VERNON MOR(.AV r|NE of Bn boxer cap- i. Bruce Wood- cock, is no more than another of these and his chances of becoming world champion now be considered remo' On the san at Lee Savold of America was dishsht with Wooci ere appeared m the San
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    Record crowd see new Test record set up
    116 7 Record crowd see new Test record set up THE biggest crowd to watch a cricket match m A South Africa saw history made on the first day of the second Test yesterday at Ellis Park, Johai burg, between South Africa and England. \t the close of play England had scored
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    C.G.CUP HORSES IMPRESS
    150 7 C.G.CUP HORSES IMPRESS Free Press Ra< Correspondent PENANG. IV SEVERAL of the cand: for the Ccmmi-Gent-ral's Cup wore gal. on the outer strip of the cour.se this morning. Among that impressed was Clynor (Tankard), who a mile at a steady pace, running the lav In 44 seconds. Little Ned (C
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    RETAINS TITLE
    17 7 BARCELONA Soldevilla retained middle* c ght champici terday by Knocking out Jo bout hi A.P.
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    U.K.RUGBY RESULTS
    20 7 U.K.RUGBY RESULTS VESI m i Urn. B Hull Kingston R Trinir 13. Leigh The Home O'dham v. Salford; S Reuter
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    Yugoslav threat to Red bloc
    107 8 BELGRADE, Tues. THE Yugoslav Prime Minister, Marshal Josef Tito, yesterday threatened to divert Yugoslav exports of raw materials to the West if the Cominform (Russia and her European satellites) countries continued "to late trade agreeits." Marshal Tito, speaking m the Yugoslav Parliament debale on the
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    Rubber prices
    34 8 MarfcCi corrr-i- n dent fives the price* of rubbct ho rent* per Ih al II m tndA^ Buvett Srllrr* »;■»•<■ spot K0.6. m balr^ Jan so. 1 X > -s X i: n I
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    9 8 20 ran < I bid. bid; A.P. 1 nominal.
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    HIGH TIDES
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    CARDINAL HELD
    29 8 'rHE Catholic Prim J Hungary. Cardinal Mindnty, was arrested ymorning m Budap> I nlstry of Interior. he Is accused of treason and black market :ency d^ A.P.
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    BIG BATTLE RAGING IN S.PALESTINE
    424 8 BIG BATTLE RAGING IN S. PALESTINE UN observers accuse Israel PARIS, Tuesday. AS the land, sea and air fighting between Egyptians and Jews m the barren but reputedly oil-rich Negev, m Southern Palestine, developed yesterday into a full-scale second "Battle of the Negev", the 26-day truce m Jerusalem was broken
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    SHIP DOES JOB 7 YEARS LATER
    129 8 TOKYO. Tuesday. 4FTER se^pn years, the British steamer Jessie V Moller sails today for Shanghai to complete a mission of evacuating personnel of her owners, Moller Ltd. The ship v. to evacuate M vees and records when the Japanese opened the Pacific *ar on
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    UK APPROVAL IS SOLGUT
    361 8 UK APPROVAL IS SOL GUT 4 KMY Public Relations announced yesterda> that A recommendations on the revised m ale^ of salaries for monthly-paid civilian employers of the three fighting Services m Malaya and Singapore will he submitted to London early next month. Any derision would r< h the Si Mil
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    Dragging for driver's body
    95 8 it: rLICE arc still dragging th? River Alre body of Cyril Robson 38. of ley mear I seen sitting at the wheel hu car when it p!;;nged the river on Christmas I The car was hauled out by a crane, but there VI nd repeated di
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    U.S. turns more to natural rubber
    325 8 NEW YORK, Monday. T*HE value of American rubber production bounced 1 up to r.5.53,500 millions m 1948. At the years end the industry prepared for an extended term of heavy consumption. The chairman of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co., Mr. P. W. Litchfleld.
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    13,000,000 in Russian jails
    90 8 BERLIN, Tuesday. t/XCLUDING prisoners of war, the Russians are holding more than 13,000,000 prisoners, including many i women and some children, I m concentration camp* m the Soviet Union, the US Army Secretary, Mr. Kenneth Royall, told a press conference here yesterday. "I base my figures
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    COAL FOR BERLIN
    34 8 ration of coal which r >v the Allied airlift. The ra' 25 Ibt., has to be very carefurty eked out if the rig of a North German are to be a
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    BANGKOK MAY BECOME ECAFE H.Q.
    60 8 BANGKOK MAY BECOME ECAFE H.Q. THE 1 APE Dr. P. 8. Lokanathan, said In Singapore terday that economy might the choice of Bangkok as EGA* E headqua: stead of Singap -rr I Dr I shall Siam, and if. after a comparative study of fa n thov tport. find that Bangkok
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    Woman to be ship's engineer
    17 8 V Ttra Ska j her •p. and 10 be- an etu A.P.
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    NY. STOCK?
    45 8 ON the Nfw York Stock Ex. -tonal mil I crease* of pressure against leadnu I rails, st«*ls, department stores and mining* found losses clalmn. a slight advantage. Th* m i closed barely steady at rr a: the days lo'a he comp averace Reuter
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    S'pore Union 'has failed to give lead'
    76 8 S'pore Union 'has failed to give lead' Fre, Press Stan T»HE President of the x Administrative Stafl speaking at a dinner mdura, Malayan confer. >c behoves the Singajx responsibility for am< the under dog m ot! "diti^, M them "I failed to proper lead.' R^rrlng union mf^nbe: dural said gap
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    11,000 PACIFIC SCOUTS MEET
    34 8 OR 11.000 Bo> the Pacif. attend Pan -Parr Jamboret Rinkwood. V The jambo -.ue until Jan.. Jed as a d: he world to be held nt^ land. New Zealand A.P.
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    Harriman in Athens
    16 8 Mr. A i Ha European a the Marshall Plan, a Athe: Til! U.P.
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