The Singapore Free Press, 28 January 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA PRICE 10 CENTS SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949. \nM
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    UNKNOWN
    16 1 Council delay on Indies vote dsfjkl A.P. U.P. Reuter or of the I hi of
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    UNKNWON
    63 1 Free Press Stiff Correspondent Kr Al A Ll MPIR, Friday. n\l V .fltine plane, bombed and gunned a Urje bandit camp m the Poh Lee Sen district of Lrr Bahru at dawn yesterday. Troops followed hhe attack with mortar s and then moved m with r_ .1 1 men.
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    UNKNWON
    19 1 There will be another tort story b\ th c famis American writer, •anion Kun\on. m tolorrow Free PreNS
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    RHODES TALKS FAILURE SEEN
    88 1 RHODES. Friday. liHfc showdown m the dead_^ci Israeli-Egyptian armistice talks, resumed here rday. is expected today and announcement of the or failure of the United Nations efforts may be tomorrow. Both sides were said to be clinging stubbornly to their views on the demarcation lines and
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    S90 million income
    22 1 'Ihe Bethlehem Steel Corporator, m New York reports a 1948 income of $*****.560. equal to *9.36 m common share.
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    TRAIN ATTACKED
    38 1 French Military Headquarter., (announced irt Saißon yesterday that a band of Vietnamese attacked a Frerrch train on the Tourans i Eve line to Central Annam three days ago. There were casual tie* on both sides. A.P.
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    UK industry may have to alter set-up
    191 1 UK industry may have to alter set-up LONDON, Fri. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps. told the House of Commons yesterday that Britain must be ready to make changes m her industrial structure to fit m with the over-all picture of European economic co-opera-tion. Britain's plans to help
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    GRENADE FOUND
    37 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Thirty rounds of .303 ammunition found In the compound of a house m Nassim Hill and a hand-grenade found m a field ln Adam Road were surrendered to the police yesterday.
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    WHY VILLAGE WAS BURNED
    231 1 Creech Jones on LONDON. Thursday. FfOR continuing to collaborate with the terrorists and consistently refusing to assist the security forces, the village of Kachau m Selangor was destroyed last November. This was the explanation given m the House of Commons today by the Secretary of State
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    War veteran's rubber-padded 'hand'
    171 1 LONDON. Friday THE Minister of Pension. Mr H. A Marquan.:, and a number of Members of Parliament r '.sited the Ministry of Pensions emer gency limb centre m London yesterday and saiu one of the latest experimental rub-ber-padded hand, denmn strated by Vi ueai la R
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    Fading peace hopes in China
    365 1 NANKING, Friday. 'rill: Nationalist Government's last hopes for peace are hanging on the awaited Communist reply to last night's latest Nationalist peace appeal but few observers m the capital now believe that the answer would be favourable. A Communist broadcast last night denouncing the two
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    'Marella' is on a new job
    64 1 rpHE Panamanian ship, Cap--1 tain Marcos, with more than 600 European refugees irom Shanghai on board, arrived n Singapore this morning on her way to Genoa. The vessel the former Burns Phllp ship. Marella. which was sold ln December, last year, to a South
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    20 'SOCIETY' MEN HELD
    45 1 Free Press StafT Reporter mWENTY Chinese, suspected I to be members of unlawful societies, were arrested by the Singapore C.I.D, yesterday. Other arrests Included a Chinese woman for allowing gambling ln her house, and a Chinese who Is to D€ banished.
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    SUSPECTED RED
    28 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese suspected to have been a member of the Malayan Communist Party was detained yesterday m Singapore under the Emergency Regulations.
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    SECURITY CHECKS
    26 1 Free Press StafT Reporter Police "screened" 958 people m security checks m Joo Chiat and £aya Lebar area* yesterday. There were no arrests. j
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    SITUATION IS 'STILL SERIOUS'
    323 1 SITU A TION IS 'STILL SERIOUS Boucher on banditry Free Press Staff Correspondent Xl ALA LI'MPrR. Friday. THHE bandit situation was still serious and there was no cause for complacency, said the G.O.C, Malaya District, Major-Gen. C H. Boucher, at a press conference this morning, "nor is anyone I know
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    FULL SCALE ATTACK ON KARENS SOON
    90 1 FULL SCALE ATTACK ON KARENS SOON RANGOON. Fri A FULL scale attack is he:ng prepared against the Karen rebels occupying the British-* iwned mines m the Karen State, it was officially announced yesterday Insurgents have occupied Tantabin near Toungoo. midway between Rangoon and Mandalay, a military communique states The communique
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    SHOP HOLD-UP: MAN ARRESTED
    82 1 THE proprietor of a Loron.? 3. Geylang. coffee-sh. ri. who was held up and robbM by two armed men ga\e cha__.e after the men had letr his shop and over-powered man who was later hand >d ver to the police. One of the men who entered
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    Woman Of The Week
    304 2 Woman Of The Week MRS Ruth Fitton i s a new arrival m SingaV she has been here just a rtnight A' f hough still m the pror._>> of settling down she thinks she going to like this place which seems like a iwridise after the austerity v* England Znth
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    Bridge Problem
    350 2 Neither side vulnerable. North dealer WEST opened the- heart king. Dummy's ace won and a 6pade was led for a finesse. When the queen held, declarer went back to dummy via a da--1 mond to take another spade finesse. This time East played I the king. South took
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    Your life and Mine
    712 2  -  IRIS ASHLEY 'Clever Women Are Women Still r by ("LEVER women aren't normal," said the man m the train, looking up from his newspaper. "Women ought to be domesticated, or the world will stop. Though it says this one has children he added grudgingly. It turned
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    His Letter Saved Her From Jail
    186 2 His Letter Saved Her From Jail A LOVE-LETTER from her husband while she was m Exeter Gaol waiting trial for breach of recognisance, saved dark-haired, attractive Mrs. Georglna Nelson. 22. from prison. It was handed by Mrs Nelson to Mr. John Maude. K.C., the Recorder, at Plymouth Quarter Sessions, who
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      235 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you have an artistic nature, but one combined with so much practicality and energy that you may achieve almost any goal wbA'h you set before you. Nothing is too high for your aim. Your talents are many. Your ultimate degree of j success depends almost
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      824 2 MMfS it pnOP Review; ?Jt Dance Muse; 8 IVk: I eramme <fc News; 8.15 Siamese OinUrtrunr, 315 Hawaiian Rhythm; 830 (BBC); 8.30 News (English— 485 metres; 41 metres (12 p.m. Friday Prom; 9.30 News; 9.45 BBC); 8.45 Dutch (BBC); 9 to 2); 61 metre* (C p.m. te Evening Star; 10
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    TURBINE-DRIVEN CARS THIS YEAR
    362 3 hecret work by UK jef team's DRITISH engineers working m secret m London and Birmingham have reached an advanced stage m the development of gas turbines for motorcars. Two firms hope by the end of the year to sWrt road-testing Jet Age cars. They are the
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    CANADIAN P.M. TAKES A RISK
    236 3 n Canadian Prime Minister. Mr. Louis St. Laurent m "taking th e life of hi s government on dolio ai ail-out support of the Atlantic Pact, has C evolution m Canadian foreign policy. He is Lin* on an accompanying revolution m Canadian on foreign affairs
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    Can keep his pistol in case of burglars
    170 3 Can keep his pistol in case of burglars SIR John Henry Maitland Greenly, 63 year old armaments expert and once a crack shot at Bisley was told that the High Court had upheld his right to ammunition 4n his house for his automatic pistol to protect himself from armed burglars.
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    Baby 'rhino' caught
    53 3 A.P. Algernon, believed to be the second baby white rhinoceros m captivity, has been flown to Khartoum from the jungle where he was found abandoned m. Weighing 150 lbs and worth US* $20,000. Algernon is being fed with milk and Kiven tender care until he ls old
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    U.S. CARS, POLITICS SURPRISED GERMANS
    241 3 rpHE calm atmosphere to which the Presidential J election took place, the accessibility of top poilitical leaders, the democratic character of State universities, and the "great number of large motorcars" are a few of the impressions brought back by four German political leaders from a
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    HER SILENCE WAS GOLDEN
    110 3 ■%■_*>. irgma layior oi A*l California won fJSO because she didn't say a word for a week. She taped her lips the first day. I to win a radio quiz prize, but sheer will-power saw her through for the rest of the week. If she even
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    R.A.F. man on murder charge
    84 3 'AIRCRAFTSMAN IMer Riley serving with the R.A.F. m i East Africa, was at Nairobi committed for trial before the Supreme j Court of Kenya charged with the 1 murder of an elderly Africai woman. The woman died of a bullet wound m the stomach on
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    KONG KONG HAVEN FOR REFUGEES
    226 3 FOR fugitive Chinese Hong Kong has become an invaluable refuge. Less than 15 years ago it was a quiot colonial port. The population wavered about the threejuarter million mark. Then m 1937, with the Japanese invasion of China, the people of South China began flocking
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    'Red Shoes' star criticises film
    360 3 ]yf OIRA Shearer, the ballet star of the film "The 1T1 Red Shoes"— her only film— said making it was a ."very miserable experience' and she criticised the story of the film because "only the surface of ballet was scratched." Miss Shearer, who was addressing
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    17 3 Lieut. -General K. M Cariappa, first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian A imy, seen with his son.
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    'Free' Kashmir promise by Pakistan P.M.
    81 3 'Free' Kashmir promise by Pakistan P.M. SPEAKING recently to Kashmir refugees who crossed into Pakistan, the Premier. Liaquat Ali Khan, said that "Pakistan would not tolerate Hindu domination over the Muslim people of Kashmir and would not rest until they were freed." He added that acceptance of the cease-fire has
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    BERLIN'S 'RUBBLE GENERATION'
    249 3 OERLIN'S "rubble generation" is dominantly male. P Boy s outnumber girls by 10 per cent, m births m this war-ravaged and politically-divided city. Sociologists say the phenomenon of an upswing m male births after the blood-letting of a world war is just what they expected. It is
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    U.K. HEALTH PLAN STRAIN
    412 3 'Frivolous' patients blamed DRITAIN'S national health service— the world's P* biggest experiment m socialised medicine with everything "free"— is undergoing a strain. Minister of Health Mr. Aneurin Bevan says too many are demanding too much. But he doesn't think now as he did m October that
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    To education £10,000,000
    116 3 EGYPT will spend i_ 10,000,000 over the next ten years to meet the country s growing needs for education, according to Dr. Abdul Razr-k el Sanhury Pasha. Minister <»f Education. The appropriation will be devoted chiefly to the building of new schools. Giving statistics disclosing the growth
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    NEPAL ENVOY
    41 3 King Georse VI has approved the appointment of Gen. Sir Mohan Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana. a* Nepalese Ambassador i;i London, m succession to senior commanding Gen. Kaiser Shumshere Jung i Bahadur Gana, the Foreign Office announced m Ixjndon Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 28. 1949. Enforcing the Speed Limit
    626 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 28. 1949. Enforcing the Speed Limit RULES under the Road Traffic Ordinance making provision for the imposition of a speed limit of 30 miles an hour ta the builtup areas of Singapore came into force on January 1. but lt may be some little
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    HE FLEW HIGH
    894 4  -  Roy Ferroa Today Success Story by A 15-year-old school- boy from the Victoria Institution Kuala Lumpur, walked briskly across the wind-swept plain adjoining the K.L. flying field. The year was 1936, the youth's name was EDWARD CHARLES Met I EI AND HOPE, otherwise known as "Mac" to
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    57 4 The stage of the small Mercury Theatre, tn Notttng Hill Gate, London, is never empty. When not m use by the famous Ballet Rambert, which is housed there, it is invaded by youthful students of the Ballet's school of dancing. Youngster Janet King faithfully foUow M tha coaching of instructress
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    $$shortage hits food supplies
    870 4 shortage hits food supplies By CHARLES LYNCH D APID narrowing of Anglo Canadian food contracts m the last two years may mean that by 1950 wheat will be Mie only foodstuff that Canada will ship m significant quantities to Britain, according to observers m Ottawa. Canada has been Britain's major
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    WE MUST HAVE A NAVY
    731 4 By JHGHJG Commonwealth countries can ever exist without adequate navies of one sort or another ls complete fallacy. Even if UNO becomes a living world power, subscribed to and sponsored by all nations the British Commonwealth must still make its contribution to armed farces— call
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    People Make News
    441 4 People Make News LEADER of the British Air Armaments Mission to R.A.F.units m the Middle East and Singapore, 37-year-old, moustaehed Group Capt F. C. BERESFORD PEIRSE, was formerly Deputy Director of Intelligence at the Air Ministry. A specialised armaments officer, he has had a varied and colourful air force career,
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    FAITH
    22 4 Command ti»< nildit* of Israel, that tbej unto the Levur> d inheritance of their sioo citi«s to dwell la Numb- 2m-
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    MUNICIPAL SPENDING INQUIRY IS URGED
    703 5 MUNICIPAL SPENDING INQUIRY IS URGED Emphasis on tenders Fre« Press Staff Reporter (WREFUL spending of the Singapore ratepayers' money and, m this connection, an inquiry into the basis of calling for tenders and letting of contracts by the Municipality will be among the main objectives of the Progressive Party candidate,
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    90 5 SDGFDSD The Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Leslie Hollinghurst, who i. inspecting RAF. units m the Far East, arrived m Singapore yesterday morning by Lancastrian from Ceylon. He was met by the C.-in-C, Air Command, Far East Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd and the Station Commander,
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    INCREASED PALM OIL PRODUCTION
    55 5 INCREASED PALM OIL PRODUCTION produced of palm Uxos ot oared s of oos res•otal experts of oalm tan *3.1.8 4 ;*54 tons. ■--i-hw for l_->r month JJtfea. .jse ur.::r_ FederaBon tv- a December: _in-.a-Italy -I m France .oore. a for ailed for De- tons and :er 5.096 *:ion _r.d over
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    MORE MILLS MAY CLOSE DOWN
    278 5 I Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE milling industry m Singapore, handling x rubber, sago, coconut and timber, faces a bleak future, now that producers, mostly m Indonesia, are shipping raw materials direct to consumers, according to Chinese industrialists. These direct shipments have deprived Singapore mill
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    OVERSEAS LEAGUE
    23 5 The Overseas League, FarEast Branch. Singapore, will hold a general meeting at the Adelphi Roof Garden on Thursday at 5.30 p.m.
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    Report cases of over-charging
    298 5 Traction Co. fares Free Press Staff Reporter INSTANCES of Singapore Traction Company bus 1 conductors trying to "squeeze" more than half fare from school children should be reported immediately, the Company's general manager, Mr. A. A. Ewing, said yesterday. J a Into paying full fare. Mr.
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    $1 MILLION BRITISH AID
    91 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A SUM of $1,100,000 has been allocated by the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund for establishing a marketing syndicate for the purpose of stabilising the economy and Improving the financial status of the fishermen of Kelantan and Besut m
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    Mr. S. Guneratnam
    35 5 Mr. Sam E. Guneratnam, formerly principal of Penang English School, has been appointed principal of Dryburgh English School, Singapore, In place of Mr. M. W. Paterson who Is proceeding: to England shortly.
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    TRAVEL EXPERT
    48 5 One of Britain's leading travel experts and deputy general manager of Thomas Cook and Son Ltd. (Mr. Cecil Garstang) arrived m Singapore yesterday by air from ■the United Kingdom Accompanied by the general Manager for the East (Mr. George Brown), he visiting all the firm's offices
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    MEW YEAR MANDARINS
    33 5 picture. Symbol of vrosperity, m.iri larin* (oranges) have an honou.cu place m Chinese hemes during the New Year season. Here a fruit vendor tit seen doina good business. Free Press
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    PIANO RECITAL ON SUNDAY
    50 5 A piano recital by the younger pupils of Mrs. Lucien Wang will be held on Sunday night at the Singapore Community Church, 120 Balestier Road. Sixteen pupils, including 12-year-old Cheung Mun Chit who has given solo recitals m Singapore and Hong Kong, will be taking part.
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    U.K. Trade Commissioner
    132 5 JHE United Kingdom Trade Commissioner In Malaya, Mr. R. B. WlUmot, has been appointed United Kingdom senior Trade Commissioner m one of the Dominions, and will be taking up his new appointment m the middle of April. Mr. Willmot ls proceeding to the United Kingdom at the
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    Bid to save girl's life
    161 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH. ThursdayT<HE Central Welfare Council m Kuala Lumpur is providing funds to fly a four-year-old Chinese girl to Melbourne to receive radium treatment for cancer. Upon this treatment depends the child's life. The mother is accompanying the girl to Melbourne. Radium
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    MONK. JAILED ON AMMO CHARGE
    190 5 MONK. JAILED ON AMMO CHARGE A BUDDHIST monk at. tached to Singapore's biggest monastery, who sal 4 he had "renounced thi world." was sentenced to flva years' rigorous Imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor ln th* Singapore Assize Court yet* terday. He was 24-year-old Kee Seng Wong who was found m
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    COMEDY AT THE PAVILION
    65 5 J)AN"NY Kaye. Dlr._h Shore and the famous Goldwyn girls are featured In th* brilliant Technicolor Up In Arms which opens May at the Pavilion. A musical-comedy, m whien Danny _c>ye get? involved m a romance on board a troopship the film has been specially brought back
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    'HIRE'S DETENTION ORDERED UNDER CRISIS LAW
    1024 6 Police evidence at Airabu arms trial Free Press Staff Correspondent T ANJONG PIN ANG, Thursday. AN order had been issued tinder Emergency Regulations for the detention of Carlton Arthur Hire before the case started, Mr. F. G. Minns. Assistant Superintendent of Police, Singapore, told
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    MUST BE FED
    34 6 MUST BE FED Feeding of the people, especi ally the children, presents a problem for the Dutch armed forces m Indonesia. Children like these have first pr iority m the Dutch feeding sche mes.
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    NO ARMS PERMITS WERE ISSUED
    591 6 my Johnson'," said Mr. Minns. Mr. Minns told how Clark (a Singapore broker) was arrested under the Emergency Peculations. Clark was found at his home. He produced two written documents, one signed by Hire," said Mr. Minns. Then on Sept. 18, Mr. Conatl (a pilot*
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    TINS STILL ON DECLINE
    414 6 n. -„1-ni -ir __F_F!iTmM___R LONDON, Frt. WITH the exception ot Arf? gentine utilities. and South African gold minings, which showed useful gains on buying demand, the London Stock Exchange was idle yesterday with prices remaining steady, says Renter's financial correspondent Rubbers were unchanged and tins irregularly
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      197 6 IVl3ndr3k6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya flHH________________HH QUE.EN £BONY--A PUPPH ON ~"B 11 MflW^ _Sp^P*H 2^- F~~ JANt Exclusive to the Sfngapore Free Press m Malaya r You needn't have jumped\ Xt's not That, Aubrey— /thanks, jane!- that's nice^ W\ don't qu.Te h get"^ down my throat,
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    404 7 Selangor Gold Cup Prospects Free Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. gCLIPTIC, Natural and High Street should finish m that order m the Selangor Gold Cup racer main attraction of the current meeting:, at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Ecliptic's record as a stayer last season has been unsurpassed. He won
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    Heavy scratchings for K.L.
    22 7 Heavy scratchings for K.L. ->poodent f Friday. "•morrow's r are I t Utrie I \Ludi f f Three I I .rig I
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    COTTAGE RAKE ALLOTTED 12.5
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    Indian bowlers fail again
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    TWO GOALS SHARED
    24 7 COMBINED Europeans soccer XI drew one-all with the Joililads at Farrer Park yesterday. Jeason scored for the Europeans and Hussaii. equalised
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    MRS. BOLTON TO PLAY MISS HART
    66 7 MRS. Nancye Wynne Bolton, the holder, will defend her women's singles title against Mis* Doris Hart, the United States Wightman Cup player, m the final of the Australian lawn tennis chmpionshlps. In the semi-finals played m Adelaide yesterday Mrs. Bolton beat Mrs. M. Long
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    Guide on Cup horses
    1434 7  -  ALLEYNIAN AS Croydon and Liberty Man are doubtful starters, a field of nine will contest the Selangor Gold Cup over a mile and a quarter at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. Below are details of the past performances of the nine candidate.. BYRON 1944 eh g Noble StarValiant
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    Tomorrow's weights
    325 7 A PART from the Gold Cup race, eight other races will be run at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The weights are: i CLASS DIV 2— s', MRS 'fiber t.Ofl Victory Fair March 8.09 Flown t 13 Lucky Saldan 1.11 Three 8.09 Smiling Empire Through til Rom 8.07 Royal Judaic
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    TRIBUTES TO TURF CLUB OFFICIALS
    413 7 CEVERAL tributes to officials of the Singapore Turf Club were paid at trie annual general meeinc held yesterday. Mr. A C. Smitn. the chair--man. said: "In July Mr. C. A. Nlveti former secretary) left us on well-earned retirement and V« are Indebted to him for
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    1948 season a milestone in STC history
    526 7 1948 season a milestone in STC history T'HE 1948 season the first full year of racing _inc_ x the liberation was referred to as a milestone m the history of the Singapore Turf Club by Mr. A. C. Smith, chairman of the committee of management. at the annual general meeting
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    SCC women score easy victory
    198 7 SCC women score easy victory w WEAK tackling and the Uuk t more force m their mo\r_ cost the Girls Sports Club a 3—o defeat against the S.C.C. Wom.-u m a hockey match played on tn* SRC. padang yesterday It was a victory well de,for the S.C.C. team Vjok U
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    Rugby results
    27 7 RESULTS of yesterdays Rugoy Union matches are: Cambridge Univ. 13. Trinity College. Dublin 5; Leicester 12, R.A.F 5- Oxford Univ. Greyhounds 25. Oxfordshire 5. Reuter
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    F.A. GETS £14,327
    29 7 *pKE t-um rece.vt. by rhe Football Association __5 a result of the Olympic Games football tournament wa* £14 327. lt wa* announced m Tondon vest£rd;*.v Reuter
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    CYCLING ASSN. INAUGURATED
    104 7 THE Singapore Amateur Cyclinß Association was inaugurated on Wednesday. The affiliated clubs are Cau.se-a-ay C.C. Chung Hwa C.C., Cosmopolitan C.C. Magnet C.C. Singapore Malay Cycling Team and Singapore Island Ramblers. The following office-bearer-were elected on Wednesday: chairman, Mr. M M. Fteeland; secretary, Mr. Edln Peters, treasurer. Mr.
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    BIRTHS
    103 8 A Penan.: Maternity Hospital to Vlcki, wife of P. F. Kavanagh. brattMV for Marsha. IO FLIP. »vife of O.Bargmar.n. at X K. Hospital. 27th. a son I Ka<jens. both well. RR. On Saturday 22nd, .7 to Mieke. wife of W. J. at D'Cotta CUnic, a <• -Ver-Judy Helen, both
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    PREMIER MAY DISCIPLINE PARTY 'REBELS'
    584 8 'Bevin to quit speculation LONDON, Friday. THE Cabinet, shaken by the unimpressive vote of confidence on the Palestine issue m the House of Commons, is considering possible disciplinary action against 50 Labour Party "rebels" who had failed to support the Government by abstaining when the
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    U.K. made him left-handed
    72 8 GENEVA. Friday. UIGHT-HANDED Swiss strong man. Victor Canetti, who appears as the left handed woodchopper on the Swiss 50-franc banknote and the right-handed wielder of the scythe on the 100-france note, has died at the age of 87. The mistake on the 50--france note was discovered
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    BURGHLEY FIGHTS ANTIHUNT BILL
    126 8 LONDON. Friday. AMOVE by Labour M.Ps. to propose a bill to abolish hunting and coursing is being vigorously opposed by Lord Burghley. the Olympic hurdler and chairman of the committee which organised the last Olympic Games m London. Lord Burghley is trying to rally support on
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    Train hold-up by 46 bandits
    59 8 HONG KONG. Friday. 4 DARING hold-up of a _A holiday Kowloon-Can-ton train resulted m the death of one gendarme, rough handling of 20 passengers and theft of thousands of Hong Kong dollars m money, jewellery and other valuables. Two robbers were wounded m the holdup,
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    HOW 'PAIFORCE' HELPED RUSSIA
    171 8 LONDON, Friday. 4 FTER the Germans had overrun Greece m 1941 they sponsored a rebellion m Iraq and to meet this threat to British imperial communications reinforcements on the way to Malaya were diverted. These reinforcements, one Indian brigade and one field regiment crushed the rebellion
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    Rubber prices
    77 8 A SPECIAL Market correspon. dent gives tbe price* ot rubbei (In cents pet lb.) it 11 i m toda* a* follows SINGAPORE CHAMBER OlCOMMERCE the Singapore Chambei ot Loon j merer Rubber Association* noor prices resterdaj were In cent* per lb.: Bayer* Seller? No. 1 KS S Spot
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    Air trophy awarded
    33 8 The Royal Aero Club has au aided thp Britannia Trophy for 1948 to Group-Captain John Cunning for establishing an aeroplane altitude record for Great I Britain at Hatfield last March.
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    HIGH TIDES
    12 8 Today: 10 .95 vm; 11.58 p.nv Sat.: 10.;.'; am; midnight.
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    Red Fifth Column in America
    6 8 Red Fifth Column in America x;ldkz
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    'Rid India of Corruption'
    83 8 CALCUTTA, Friday. SARAT Chandra Bose, brother of Suba_ Chandra Bose who headed the Provisional Government of India during thf Japanese occupation of Malaya and who recently returned from England, issued a statement yesterday saying that official corruption was rampant m India. He called for an inquiry
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    POPE RECEIVES FILM STARS
    304 8  -  LIND CHRISTIAN ROME, Friday. TOHE 35-year-old star of dashing Hollywood roles, Tyrone Power, and the Mexican-born starlet, Linda Christian, 25, both Catholics, received the Pope's blessing In a ten-minute private audience after their Hollywood-style wedding In th e Catholic Church of Santa Francesca Romana here yesterday.
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    Feather twists steel bar
    73 8 PITTSBURGH. Friday. II ESTINGHOVSE scient- ists rested a feather against a steel bar—and then measured how much the bar teas twisted. The occasion ivas a demonstration of their new device to make better torque metres, which measure power delivered by plane propellers, jet engines and other
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    Squadron-leader killed
    31 8 A jet Meteor on a flight irom West Rayt.ham R.A.F. Nation crashed near Massingham. Norfolk, yesterday. The pilot. SquadronLea der Neville Reeves. D.S.O. D.F.C. and Bar. was killed Reuter
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    TOAST OF 'NINETIES NOW A CHAR
    219 8 NEW YORK. Friday. THE bright lights of Broad--1 way hurt Easter Zanini's eyes now, but they used to make them dance with joy when she was the toast of champagne-drinking operagoers m the Gay Nineties. Today Miss Nanini, 74, once was a famous ballerina'
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    U.S. warning to Scandinavia
    125 8 U.S. warning to Scandinavia WASHINGTON, Friday. AS the Foreign Ministers of the five Western In ion nations met m London yesterday, m what is expected to be their final talks preceding the conclusion of the Atlantic alliance with the I nited States and Canada, a blunt warning was uttered m
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    U.S. experts to help Malaya
    201 8 WASHINGTON h PRESIDENT Truman said today that th* X Co-operation Administration <X \> menting the plan to aid the UI-der-develorl#J* ,l of the world. He has asked the State L N Agriculture and all other departments 0 t plans for carrying out his aim t
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    Hong Kong fire: 1,000 homeless
    38 8 ABOUT 1,000 Chinese m Hong Kong were rendered homeless yesterday by a fire which destroyed 250 squatters huts m the suburban Kowloon area. A similar fire also made 1,000 homeless, two weeks ago.
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    MONITOR MAN HELD IN P.I.
    53 8 I\AVID STERNBERG. Manila correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor, was arrested yesterday on a charge of illegal possession of a 45 calibre pistol with which he is alleged to have faTally shot a prowler on Dec. 29. Sternberg applied for lelease on a bail of
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    TRADE ENVOY
    19 8 Australia Ll I Commission f the Prime Mm Chlfley has I The United S\- H niaaaaaaM A.P.
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