The Singapore Free Press, 7 April 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA p»* SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949. PBICE 10 CENTS
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    RED ENVOYS FLY TO NANKING
    244 1 Li rejects ultimatum mwn r NANKING, Thursday. P u Communist representatives flew here /u r °v ei ln X yesterday with an ultimatum to the Nationalist Government to surrender its armies by April 12. President Li Tsung-jen, according to reliable sources, has, however, rejected the
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    GANGSTERS ROB MAN OF $1,800
    53 1 GANGSTERS ROB MAN OF $1,800 r r ,v. M.»rT Reporter robbery asked ng pisshop In ige and •.garette collect. on X Thoo Huat H:n. had l .m and lilt h:S .mother t 1 Free keeper and the shop. entered. told me indls] to hand i my $20 .irn- the pot
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    SIAM EXPORT TRUE SHOWS BIG INCREASE
    80 1 3ANGXOK. Thurs. is .ma Detounces that Bar.gkok cteteg 1948 were worth i-i compared 1 mwar.A worth 1.587 Bangkok port M per cent, of ■simpor -export trade. Corn:r.?ri-e Minister. [a interview, said that 4 s:arr. s first balance '1542 F-.nal figures are ■jMle. but exports
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    Planter in jeep attacked
    37 1 Planter in jeep attacked Siaff Reporter Jjttpean planter accom 3> Gurkha special ET*i\ n Jeep at Batu ssm^ ,era were J«eieiaav morning oy **w* to :^p off lh^ fire but the away into the i*L special constable
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    U.S. WARNING OF LONG WAR
    190 1 CHICAGO, Thursday. fllE U.S. Army Secretary, Mr Kenneth Royall, said m an Army Day speech here yesterday that if the United States let an aggressor army sweep over Europe, the resulting war would last ten or 20 yean "perhaps more." Saying that war was unlikely
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    AMNESTY FOR BERLIN NAZIS
    70 1 AMNESTY FOR BERLIN NAZIS piciure. rE three-pow°r Western Kommandatura m Berlin yesterday ordered an amnesty for youths, old and disabled people and certain other categories of former Nazis m the city.- Reuter Mrs. Robert Eu (We>t Ward Prog ressive with a file under her arm. looks thoughtful as she conies
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    BOOBY TRAP
    101 1 A WOMAN m Kirkmichael. Scotland, got a food parcel from New Zealand but did not like the look of it so told the local police who sent a worried report to the Ministry of Food. "Twelve canisters, marked 'Mine. apparently explosive." the message said. Then another message: "One.
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    'BAR REDS FROM COUNCIL'
    53 1 rtMIE United Europe move--1 ment has asked the 10--power conference m London to bar Communists from 111 proposed Council of Europe. A delegation from the European movement said that membership of the council should be limited to people who would "contribute loyally to the establishment of
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    59 1 picture. Malay women examining handmade paper flowers at one of the Malay arts and crafts stalls at 'the Malay Welfare Council's "Variety Night" show at the Happy World last night. Under the patronage of Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Mentri Besar of lohore. over 30,000 Malays from Singapore and the Federation
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    SOLDIER HIT BY BANDITS
    68 1 YESTERDAY, a Royal Artll lery patrol discovered near Muar a bandit camp capable of accommodating 50 people. While they were returning to base, the patrol met two Chinese tappers, who ran away when they approached When the warning to halt was ignored, the patrol opened fire
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    KARENS TO HELP BURMESE GOVT.
    149 1 RANGOON, Wednesday. SAW Ba U Gyi, President of the Karen National Union, said today that th e Karen revolt had ended and that he would support the Burmese Government. He said that Karen commanders were complying with hi s order for a cease-flre on all
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    'Empty' cases full of gold
    45 1 CALCUTTA. Thursday. TWO Indians arriving from Singapore by air ye3ter- day declared to the customs that six suitcases they had were empty. Customs officials helped them open the "empty" cases and found they contained over 100.000 rupees m gold.! A.P.
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    5,787 SCREENED
    38 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Two men, one a European, were arrested for alleged identity card offences m the course of 13 road block check% from 9 p.m. till dawn today, m which 5,787 people were screened
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    TRAIN DISASTER
    24 1 Twenty Cambodians were killed and 16 injured when I two goods trains collided yesterday about 45 miles west of Pnompenh, Indo-Chlna.— Reuter
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    ARREST WARRANT FOR STANLEY
    107 1 A LONDON police court yesterday ordered a warrant for the arrest of Sidney Stanley, the man without a country, for falling to appear l n court on a bankruptcy •imTions. The prosecution said that Stanley, central figure In the Government's bribery investigation last year, had not
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    'West must finance Indian Ocean bloc'
    236 1 LONDON. Wednesday. Olaf Caroe, former Indian Government Secre- tary for Internal Affairs and Governor of the I North -West Frontier Province, told the Royal Kmpire Society today that the Atlantic powers must underwrite an Indian Ocean defence system. He said it was doubtful whether
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    ITALY SNUBBED
    30 1 REPRESENTATIVES of the Somali Youth League yesterday said they would like a United Nations trusteeship limited to 10 years "under the administration of any country but Italy."- U.p.
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    MINISTER IN DUEL WITH 'MP'
    48 1 DEFENCE Minister Francisco Forteza of Uruguay and Representative Antonio Amot roso, fought a pistol duel after j exchanging insults m Con- gressional debate last week. Both their shots were wild Their seconds declared that the honour of the adversaries had been vindicated.— U.P.
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    RUSSIAN PAPERS LAMRAST PACT
    211 1 MOSCOW, Wednesday. Ij*N BLOC, the Russian Press came out today with J the longest and strongest denunciations of the Atlantic Pact so far. The papers also said that a great part of the world's people desired peace but that the 'capitalist minority" wanted war. Prominently displayed
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    U.K. ACTOR DEAD
    20 1 Sir Seymour Hicks, distinguished actor, producer and playwright, died yesterday m London. He was 78.- A. P.
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    FOUND ADRIFT
    35 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Straits Steamship vessel Belaga which arrived i.n Sinagpore yesterday towed Into harbour a disabled Singapore motor-boat which it found drifting m the darkless 110 miles east of SingaDore.
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    More jets for India
    17 1 The Royal Indian Air Force is to receive more Vampire jet fighters. Reuter
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    Federation arrests
    14 1 In the past 24 hours tberc A-ere 33 arrests m the yederition
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    Senator holds Dutch to blame
    264 1 U.N. AND INDONESIA WASHINGTON, Thursday. ACCUSING the Dutch "imperialist" leaders of being: responsible for the war and bloodshed m Indonesia, Senator Frank P. Graham likens "tha Dutch imperialists to their Russian counterparts, who fear the coming of civil rights to Europe, the Far East and
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    HORSES BAN MAY GO
    160 1 HORSES BAN MAY GO Free Press Staff Reporter IT was proposed at a meeting of the Straits Racing Association on Sunday partially to lift the ban on the importation of race horses into Malaya. The scheme, the details Ji which have been circularised to all racing clubs m Mala\;i for
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    TWO ALLEGED REDS HELD
    42 1 AN alleged member of th« MPABA and an alleged member of the Malayan Communist Party, were arrested under the Emergency Regulations m Singapore yesterday. A police spokesman said the total emergency detentions up to this morning was 181.
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    Rubber prices
    54 1 A^ SPECIAL Markat rorrnpordent givaa the price* of raaber (la renti per lb.) at 11 am tod«» a« fallows: Buyer* Setter*. No 1 B.S.S. Spoi <mm US SSH Fob In bale* Apr. No. 1 B.S.S. %i\ 3S7* No. S B.S.S. 33 34 U No. S B.S.S. SI?, 3f^
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    When you're asked to be a juror
    889 2  - When you' re asked to be a juror M. T. LEONG DON'T FORGET YOUR THINKING CAP by TF your turn comes to serve as a juror, don't forget to take your thinking cap along it's no child s play. Some people may think that all you have got to do
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    QUICK LOOKS
    71 2 Surregars Raft, by Peter Kenley (Earl, 6s. Buried treasure on the banks of the Wye leads to battle, murder, and sudden death. First person treatment not over -successful. Shadows on the River, by Andrew MacJCenzie (Ward Lock, Bs. 6d.). Man loses memory, is plunged into murder mysteries reaching
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    She can cure Stammering
    328 2  -  ANDY ANDERSON By 4N American 'woman with 60 years of stammering m her family has teamed with her husband to devote their finances and the latter years of their lives to correcting the stuttering of others. She is 54-year-old Eleanor Weston Emery. He, Theodore, Is 60.
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    Ancient & Modern collections
    477 2 Ancient Modern collections GUY RAMSEY reviews new books published m U.K. while Peter iQuennoll is on Holiday T*WO collections of short stories: one by a minor figure of the nineties, the other by a modern; one a thing of delicate shades that are almost shadows, the other a sequence of
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    Bridge Hands
    349 2 /CIRCUMSTANCES sometimes make the most daring o' plays so obvious as to be commonplace. It was thus m todviy* deal. West opened the diamond eight. Dummy's nine, East's jack and Souths ace completed the trick. Now declarer was faced with a problem. He had to set up dummy
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    UNDER REVIEW
    62 2 The Stories of Ernest Dowson, edited by Mark Lonjraker 'Allen "s yd.) The Wrong Set, by Anrus Wilson (Seeker and Wat-bur*. Is 6d.). A Wreath of Roses. b% Elizabeth Taylor (Peter Davies, ts. «d„ on Monday). Straw to Make Brick v by Alan Marcus (The Bodley Read. 12s.
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      95 2 toiight- VICTORIA THEATRE 8, 9 April at 8.45 10 April at 8.30 "THIS HAPPY BREED Br VOFI COWAUD Pamela Titheradge Charles Gibson 4s9HHL Eric Molyneux h Mary Gibson > W THE STAGE CLUB L c^» EASTER PRODUCTION W 1 Seats $1.00 to $3.00 at Robinsons Tel. 5894 >■■ Ex. 4
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      301 2 sjf;ja;s SINGAPORE (Bl.ft NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from X.L at 10 a.m. TODAY 10 to 10.10 News from K.L. 10.55 to 12 Schools' Broadcast; 1 Radio Orchestra; 1.30 News; 1.45 Dance Music Joe Schlnuer Trio; 6 Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme, 6. TO Calling All Hospitals; 7
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      411 2 Vandbrugh; SCO Symphony Concert; 6.15 Baiai.oe of Europe (BBC). 630 NEWS IN CANTONESE; (BBC). 645 Indonesian; News Sz Programme. 7.15 News m French (BBC). 7.30 .iigll.li: News St Commentary; Music Sz The British Poets (9) <BBC>. 800 Siamese: Programme St News. 815 Siames.' <BBC). 830 News; (English BBC); 8.45 Dutch
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      320 2 compered by Norma Patkin 6 "I.T-M A.'— The Tommy Handley Show; 630 Australian Overseas Neus; 6 46 Master Pianist. Berere: 7 Eric W Ich Pr:s?nts 'It Happened m Sport'; 7.30 Background to Australia: 7 40 Radio Australia's Variety- Bandbox. 8 Sonata Recital A programme for the mibk lover. Rubbra— Sonata
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      136 2 LUCKY STAI inil»u lfi htest hint *> Slink ,l hoUl "W K think each, suufe iZI tront of man, Um are -actual]).^' < olll.etK cult and uiJTS ten«»us 4 st u T^s <»ur hf#.. One naming k^, fc matter \S? v inst^d of sS.} |ml> and you .j,^} for you
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    PALESTINE POLICE FOR HK DEFENCE
    256 3 PALESTINE POLICE FOR HK DEFENCE Reinforcements by sea, air UONG KONGS defence forces are being strength- ened by Palestine Police officers who fought errorism m Palestine for years. They are replacing locally-recruited and home-recruited officers em? ployed on short-term contracts after the war The exact number of reinforcements is secret
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    'Sack Reds' says Romanov
    89 3 r pHE Grai.o Duke Vladun.i I 1 head of the Romanov house and Pretender to th»» Russian :hrone. has appealed to Russians throughout the (world to J*ttc m overthrow- lng the Bolshevik regime. The Grand Duke said tl*At all Russians must devot» themselves v. the r*»al
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    I .S. budget surplus
    24 3 The United States Treasury Department has announced a budget surplus of $1,048.--000.000 for the nine months NMJttnf March 31 Reuter
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    Ex-typist in chief's chair stops works
    233 3 Ex-typist in chief's chair stops works ptK\«»\l. from works manager to the lowest paid "*tikr siri stopped work at a Salford engineering wis because of former typist. Miss Mary Dugdale. liifboss al the firm m her late employer's will, she Warmed to sit for the first time m the governing
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    20 3 An anti-Atlantic Pact Italian demonstrator holding his clubbed head is taken away by riot squad police during violent Rome disturbances.
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    BOLOVIA CALLS TROOPS OUT
    26 3 fit GJ ique Hert--1 -i decree putirge of the Ub mn- vu a s Veinte. follow CI a r abou» -m aatmea
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    SIAM MISSION
    30 3 4 FOUR MAN purchasing aA mission from the SlamGovernment has conferred w:th U.S. officials on pi UM for buying equipment tor rehabilitation of war damaged Siamese railroads. A.P.
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    DITCH LOANS TO INDONESIA
    72 3 THE Second Chamber of the Dutch States General has approved a bill setting up a Netherlands-Indonesian company to finance economic recovery m Indonesia The Chamber then passed a bill authorising the Dutch Government to grant Indonesia loans m United States dollars to the value of the
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    £ devaluation 'nonsense'
    92 3 devaluation 'nonsense' BRITISH Embassy spokesman m Washlngon denied that the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, was engaging m financial or monetary talks with any of the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic powers during his present visit to Washington. A spokesman described as "absolute nonsense" a broadcast by columnist Walter
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    45 3 Princess Elizabeth with (right) the Duk e of Edinburgh receives the key of the Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool, the biggest m Britain. The building was begun m 1904 and Is not fat finished. It was opened by the Princess on a recent visit to the city.
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    US READY FOR QUISLINGS
    70 3 4 T fORNEY General Tom J\ Clark has assured the U.S. Congress that if war came now the nation would be "m pretty good shape" as far as subversive activities are concerned. At the same time, Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of
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    'BK ATHEISTIC'
    26 3 Communist youth should "be atheistic and fight religion, the secretary of the Komsomol (Communist Youths central committee, T. I. Yershova, has said ln Moscow.
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    SHE HIT GERMAN WITH DOG LEAD
    215 3 striking a German .x-P.O.W with a dog lead. Mrs Alice Randall former town councillor, was at Ashford. Kent, fined £5 and bound over for a year, it was also alleged she called the German "a filthy Nazi" and struck him m the face. The
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    Mediators not neutral—Dutch
    104 3 Mediators not neutral— Dutch NEHIEUI.nNDS spokesman m Batavia questioned the neutrality of some members of the United Nation* Indonesian CommlsftlOD. but he mentioned no names. The Dutch comment followed local Dutch press reports that W G. TtaporeV of Australia, former chiei secretary of the United Nations Good Omces Commit- tee,
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    ON HIS TOES
    39 3 IT cost W'lham Hensley nf Reading £1 to trample i n the law. That is what bo was fined f «>r stepping on the toes of a p< liceman dtrect nc traffic aft-r a footbail gam.
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    'REBEL' SCHOOL STAFF TO PAY DAMAGES
    322 3 A HEADMISTRESS whj, said the judge, had been -swept into the corner like a piece of worn-out furniture from the schoM which she largely owned and over which she had presided for nearly half a century" won damages ard costs m the High Court
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    SHOT 438 WOLVES
    24 3 Serge Orbutov, the Soviet Union's chief flying wolf exterminator, has reported a record bag of 438 shot from his plane.- U.P.
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    DOCTOR SAYS TWINS WILL BE BOY AND GIRL
    175 3 DOCTOR SAYS TWINS WILL BE BOY AND GIRL CORPORAL Marvin Settle, 21, of the 59th U.S. Air Depot Group at Burtonwood, Lanes, expects to become the father of twins this month and expects they will be boy and girl. The Corporal said. "I'm terribly excited. My wife wrote that Dr.
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    US Near Easl spending
    35 3 The U.S. State Department has requested $3,408,388 for overseas activities In the Near East and Africa for th^ fiscal year 1950 or an increase of $1,772,018 over the current year.— U.P.
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    Letter-box thief had a secret
    239 3 Letter-box thief had a secret BROW N-P APEiI Benny"' went to jail with his secret ruse tor stealing letters from West End business houses. Thre? other memoes *fffected by Benjamin Am.) d have become familiar 'o the police since h? special***! Ml letter-stealhiß 40 years ago: 1. He fitted a
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    IRO TO AID REFUGEE JEWS
    91 3 DLSPITE Brit.sh opposition the International Refugee Organisation has approved the expenditure of $9,000.--000 <US> for the movement of Jewish refugee's to Israel. I Mr. C. J. Edmonds, the British delegate, abstained trom 1 voting when the budget w;is unanimously approved. He sa a A wa^
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      268 3 /AfL%4< is here M Wr THE PERMANENT WAVE YOU GIVE YOURSELF AT HOME! hair up m curlers /f^h -yet the wave stays m for months! REFILL KIT 12 3t So soft, so smooth, so natural-looking. You'll and you are free to do whatever you like while say your Toni is
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      A DEBT IS PAID
      296 4 REPARATION offered by the Government m Batavia to the men injured when a Dutch aircraft machir.e-sunned the Singapore trading vessel Kian Peng outside Pekan Bahru o i New Years Eve is ade--Bju even generous ludeed by normal compensation standards m Singapore and Malaya. On'v point on
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      From little acorns...
      317 4 From little acorns DUSINESS at the first meet- ing of the newly elected i Municipal Commission yesterday was necessarily formal m the main, but it showed that the Progressive Party is determined to act as a party and not as a series of Individuals as some of its opponents have
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    'This year Siam will grow more rice'
    1263 4  - 'This year Siam will grow more rice' DICKSON BROWN I SAYS- News Chronicle Correspondent who has just returned to Singapore from Siam faith The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope m him. Lamentations, 3, 24. GUAM'S exportable rice production during the current vcar is likely
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    105 4 An Austin motor car arove into the ballroom of the Dorchester Hotel recently, for the first time. The car is one which will go across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary to make an attempt on the American Stock Car Records, and a luncheon was given to say farewell to
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    It Seems To Me...
    888 4  -  POLITICO BY FOR a proper appreciation of the meaning of the Atlantic Pact, a reading of "The White House Papers of Harry Hopkins" may be commended. "This island needs our help now. Mr. President, with everything we can give them." Hopkins wrote to F.D.R. a day
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    This man put the Reds on trial
    668 4  - This man put the Reds on trial WALTER FARR REPORTS FROM PARIS ON THE KRAVCHENKO— KREMLIN BATTLE. PARIS: POR weeks Victor Kravcheoko, the Russian ex-labourer who broke away from an official Soviet Mission to Washington and wrote an antiSoviet book, has l>een fighting a legal battle m Paris against the
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    INDIA plans to use its rivers
    78 4  - INDIA plans to use its rivers DAVID It. U > help S3 prod hon r U r wth »n pniSh hon u lm adv clttei "irrSS area the world iS ;t must put several 2 lion additional J»L cultivation^? rate h adds^ mated 50Q0JM people to 'he popular each year
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    MUNICIPALITY SEEKS GRANT
    307 5 Io cover loss f revenues Free PW >taff Reporter J2 t« ,r increasing revenue, the Munici'^Revcnuo Committee recently appointed ifee financial problems of the Municipajretd to approach the Government on ion of securing a contribution in lieu of occupied by the Services. im ascertained that such a
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    UNKNOWN
    24 5 r.esian D r. are ptaU :n--t^f "ai CoinJ l and .J3d PWTi.vi and J :he *of the Centra] Pro- A D dd&, iiaaiw
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    BOAR MEAT IMPORTATION CONTROLLED
    163 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AS a safeguard against any possibility of poisoning, the importation of wild boar carcases into the Colony has been forbidde.i except under special permits from the Veterinary Department of the Federation. The r?ason for rhe Dan is that arsenic poison is being
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    Demand for barter credit extension
    196 5 Free Pres s Chinese Correspondent T<HE Singapore Chinese Importers 9 and Exporters' Association has submitted a memorandum to the Singapore- Indonesian Trade Liaison Committee asking for an extension to June 30 of the period m which barter credits accumulated by Singapore trader s ln Sumatra
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    70 shacks are being demolished
    390 5 THE demolition of 70 ailap-and-wooden shacks at the Junction of Dorset and Owen roads has began. This follows quit notices issued to the 700-odd squatters by the Land Office, three years ago. Hundreds of Chinese, the majority of them trishapeddlers and their families, camped out
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    MR. LEE KIM HONG
    43 5 Mr. Lee Kirn Hong of Kirn Bian Seng Co.. Ltd vvrites *o say he is not the oerson (of the same nam?) concerned With 'he Singapore Turf Ciub sw- ticket case reported m the Free Press of April 5.
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    Traffic problem
    92 5 These Free Press pictures show the traffic congestion at the trolley-bus terminus at the junction of Upper Serangoon and Yeo Chu Kang roads The prohibition of park ing on the left side of the road along the block of shop houses just before the terminus has not relieved
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    JOBS FOUND FOR 624
    91 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent JOBS were found for 624 persons registered with the Labour Exchange last month. They Included 67 clerks, 102 labourers, 93 fitters, and 68 maid-servants, according to official statistics. The number of job-hunters registered with the Exchange ln March totalled 1,912, or 406
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    Fewer T.B. deaths last year—Vickers
    187 5 Fewer T.B. deaths last year Vickers REVIEWING health statistics m Singapore for last year, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers yesterday reported a drop m the death rate to the lowest on record, fewer T.B. deaths and an increase m the birth rate. He reported steady pro-*
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    MORE INTEREST IN ELECTIONS
    374 5 ADDRESSING the reconstituted Municipal Commission, the President, Mr. W. L. Blythe, referred to the greater public interest m elections. He spoke m particular of the Municipal elections and said: "Observation and inquiry show that there was considerably more enthusiasm over these Municipal elections than there was
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    SVC EFFICIENCY DECORATION
    72 5 The Governor has authorised the award of the Efficiency Decoration to the following Stra:ts Settlements Volunteer Force Officers: Lt.-Col. T. H. Newey Lt.Ccu. W. E. Hutchinson. Major R. Lyne. Major L. A. Williams. 08.E,. Major H. J Rae. Major J. Ford, Capt. Yap Pheng Geek, Capt. D.
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    SOLDIER IS ACCUSED OF ROBBERY
    80 5 GW. David Tiinms. 23. of the Royal Army Service Corps appeared m the Fourth Police Court. Singapore, yesterday on a tentative charge of armed robbery. Timms was alleged to have robbed a taxi-driver, at the point of a knife, of cash, a wrist watch and
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    COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH
    34 5 The Secretary for the Colonies Is considering the appointment of an advisory research committee on geology and mineral resources m the Colonial Empire to assist the newly-appointed Adviser on geoloeical matters.
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    UNIVERSITY FUND
    34 5 PENANG, Wed.— About 40 public and educational leaders have been invited to sit on a university fund appeal committee which the resident Commissioner, Mr. A. V. Aston, is setting up m Penang.
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    Governor reports
    142 5 REPORTING on Ibe Municipal elections .o the Secretary of State tor the Colonies the Govern ur of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson. said: "The presence of l abour and Proi;r. smvc Parties, with construe m programmes of soci.il >- velooment, added SMdi the interest displayed 'n the election cauoaun
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    TO STUDY IN AUSTRALIA
    53 5 rE second Australian Goodwill Fellowship holder from Malaya, Dr. Au Kee Hock, of the Singapore General Hospital will leave for Melbourne next Tuesday aboard the m.v. Maetsuycker for higher studies. Assistant to Dr. B. M. John at the General Hospital Dr Au is a ear, nose
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    RAF RADIO EXPERTS GN MISSION HERE
    125 5 AN a visit to Headquarters, Air Command. .<ar Ea?t. is the Inspector of Radio Services, Group Captain B H. Boon, and members of th* Inspectorate. GrouD Captain Boon ana members of his staff irrived m the Lancaster Iris, which has previously flown on missions
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      65 5 Airmails are due to arrive m Singapore today from the US.. Holla n'V. Australia, Ceylon, Siam and Nt.E.I. Closing time for posting airmails at the 0.P.0. today is: to the U.K., V.S.. Africa, Holland, Matavla, Palembang and Sourabaya: 6 p.m. Surface mails are due to arrive today from Siam. Surface
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    COLONY SHORT OF 35 DOCTORS
    398 6 COLONY SHORT OF 35 DOCTORS Position likely to be acute Free Press StaiT Reporter THERE are available m Singapore only 40 Government doctors while there is work for about 75. Making this statement at a Press conference yestddav, tiie Director of Medical Services, Dr. W, J. Vickers, said that Singapore
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    43 6 .**r. a. K. Ciaw (West Ward— Progressive > signing for his Municipal Commissioners identity card handed to him by Miss Christie Chong. of the Municipal Secretariat, before the start of the Inaugural meeting of the newly constituted Municipal Commission ye sterday.— Free Press picture.
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    Big jump m importsfrom Germany
    170 6 Big jump m importsfrom Germany ]\IALAYA'S trade with iYI Germany m 1948 'showed a marked in- crease over the previous year, according to official statistics. Free trade with Germany started early m 1946 but the volume of business In the first two post-war years was m no way comparable to
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    3 MONTHS FOR TELLING LIX
    107 6 A YOUNG Malay. Arshad bin Pathali. was warned by the First District Judge yesterday that it was very serious to tell lies to the police or m court proceedings. Innocent people, the Judge said, were sometimes sent to prison because of lies told by i
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    SCRIPTURE UNION
    48 6 The Singapore branch of the International Scripture I Union is to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Union on Saturday at »he Bethesda Church, Katong. at 5 p.m. The rally, under the chairmanship of Mr. T. W. O. Knowies. will be addressed by Mr. Lan Morrison.
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    Exchange questions for Council
    184 6 MR E. M. F. Fergusson (Singapore Chamber of Commerce) will ask at next Tuesday's Singapore Legislative Council meeting for the cost of Foreign Exchange Control m the Federation and Singapore, for 1946, 1947, and 194&. and the estimated cost fori this year. He will ask whether
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    POLICEMEN ACCUSED
    157 6 TWO Malay policemen. Mohamed bin Hajl Amin and Ngah bin Yusof, were m I the dock ln the Third District I Court yesterday facing a j charge of criminal irespass. There If an alternative charge of theft of $4 m cash. Complainant, a vegetable planter Tan Cheok. said
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    48 6 Lt. Col. JeiTors. 0.8. E., wa£ riven a farewell tea-party ar :he Kallang airport hotel yeserday by the R.A.S.C. civilian jtaff, on the eve of his deparmre to England on transfer. A silver jug was presented to Lt. Col. JefTors, who came to Singapore m 1947.
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    HOSPITAL PLAN
    27 6 An Austral an hospital architectural advisor will shortly arrive In Singapore to advise on the medical plan for Kandang Kerbau Hospital and the General Hospital
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    Few changes m dull market
    492 6 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thursday. rTCtADING m the London Stock Exchange was at a low level yesterday with dealers awaiting details of the British Budget. Price changes were few but a generally firm tone was maintained. Rubbers and tins wer c generally unchanged. Government securities
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    25 6 Mr. Tan hon* heu\ 1-mpi, hH<K r ,7^^^ who won prizes for being the J *f 1 the best exhibit m the U?nt i,"^ JmS
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    $40,000 claim by bank
    89 6 $40,000 claim by bank AMf 11-Mh.VI of pepp., f lum Si A out to be copra when i( arrived It^ it was stated m the Hi^h Urt a'" Kfi suit m which the Overseas -Chine*, k!" l < poratlon are the plaintiff v na «kinso The Bank claimed -4 mo
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    LONG CHAMPS SHOWS UP WELL
    367 7 LONG CH AMPS SHOWS UP WELL Today s winding-up gallops p ro ss Racing Correspondent r IPOH, Thursday. Ife ilent times were returned on a heavy Rr this morning when the majority of the FLning on Saturday were gfven their EL no gallops. Heavy rain fell last night Rffoin* f'
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    Coach Gammed, says Verrall
    615 7 Malayan Cup selections i^EOKGE Vcrrall, a member of the Singapore Cricket Club soccer team last season, gives beiovt his suggestions on the selection of the Colony's 'Malaya Cup side. I His observations, he points out, are not tht result of watching an occasional game he has
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    TEN MONTHS' TRAINING
    97 7 j nPHE Australian women's cricket! I 1 team of 16 players and a manager, to visit England m 1951.' will be chosen at the end of the; 1949-50 playing season ten months before sailing date. Australia's Women's Cricket Council, national controllers of women's cricket, decided on this
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    Back from 5. Africa
    44 7 Back from 5. Africa picture. Three members of the M.C.C. team which recently concluded a successful tour of South Africa, photo graphed on board the Stirling Castle on their arrival at Southampton. From left to right: Len Hutton, Denis Compton and Alec Bedser- Reuter
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    Malaya win 6-0 in Stockholm
    32 7 .o-O m ■tV )an :ay. St- vls fWi Inse B T.berg t Kee Rri ODg F oeat I- B 1 Hock £m*W r 13-4 Nils Peng Reuter
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    25 7 m^r :!.:.ckle> jidign •neu AMI am nurea Hi i i v-' ---<- to no i a to be i*s f-^ids 3t IfOt. If we Reuter
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    RUGBY RESULTS
    43 7 KB yest*:~?y Rugby Ik Stture* I «»<k >von 9. Monkaitcan Brist/i 3 Netth Services r kKir:jr|. Germany, a -earn Kktri Ur. 10-18. mat* MUlts mmnK **k: Ommhe ..--.A 14. t» »lfvw: 3-.;fri NorI' .VJ:-- -r.e I Wlgar. km: MM A.P. Reuter
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    34 7 IR Vi: left for New Jttterday by the Bixabt-T. without 1 8>7 action or. his I I rU light J|K champion Fred's k a boxer.' :er. Ted he does no: c lust AP
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    29 7 L PEM\o Wed. |-*j*^ no' her today -a hen they i eight k > --comfc/y* ,ved on kT 4 Gr^n a•: u?h the T/^-sded. the EurasteM miy-y *tp full <'•••»•
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    Today's Sport
    32 7 K*3tCCU| s nr r T* Tamil BA.- J. 1* if* IBC4 **mbawang [J J PBd. S4 eone', •If 7 r G P Lebnr *M>» M "Till {pj" v ta^f> Inst.—
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    CRICKETER'S DEATH
    32 7 STANLEY Christo-pherson, (87) ex-Kend cricketer and President of the Mary lebone Cricket Club from 1939 to 1948. died m a London nursing home on Tuesday night A. P. and U.P.
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    NZ team strong in batting
    405 7  -  AKCHIE QUICK By rHE fourth New Zealand cricket team to visit Britain is now on the high seas and gets its oaptism of fire at Bradford on April 30 against Yorkshire —a tough assignment for the start of the rive-month tour, which includes four Tests
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    19 ACCEPTORS FOR METROPOLITAN
    79 7 'THE nnftl acceptors, with weights for the Great Metropolitan Handicap, to be run at Epsom on Tuesday. April 19. number 19. They are: Laurentis 9 st. 41 lb. Now or Never 8.13. Urgay 8.11 Locovedis 8.9. Fedor II 9.6, Cresta Cup 85, Bangkok 84. Better Catch
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    222 7 :n the ry ov< r rivalg .e-ided rle- by afh S' n Uriel 'be .-annrng. eat by Hudders.reive* .n tl^e bottom of the table. West Bromwlch Albion deoosed Fulham from econd Dlace m the Second Division and are now al* points behind Southampton with Ivo games m hand. Hull
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    ABERNANT WINS IN CANTER
    65 7 ABERNANT. Britain's champion two-year-old last year, won his first race as a three-year-old ln a canter yesterday. A 1-25 favourite, he romped home by two lengths m the Somerset Stakes at Bath. Abernant. owned by Major R.N. MacDonaly Buchanan, has won all his bi»c races so
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    Six Teams In B. Pahat League
    87 7 Free Prcn Staff Reporter BATU PAHAT, Wed. CIX teams have entered the league competition m B^tu Pa hat District. They are: The Rovers, last year's league and Cup holders, the Police strong contenders for league honours this year, the Malay Football team, runners-up m
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    ROVERS BEATEN BY PENALTY
    779 7  -  CRUSADER By Kota Raja 2; Rovers 1. ALL sympathies were with Rovers at the end of yesterday's titanic tussle at Jalan Besar Stadium before the season's largest crowd for an S.A.F.A. Senior League fixture. They had nearly two-thirds of the play, but only one-third of the
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    I. A. TEAM v. RAF CHANGI
    87 7 THE following will play Cricket for the Indian Association m the S.C.A. tournament match against RA.F. Changl on Sunday at 11 a.m. on the Changi ground (players are to meet at 50, Market Street, at 9.45 a.m.) La II Singh (captain), N. Abbasbhoy (vice-captain),
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    Hurdler reprieved
    67 7 JEAN Claude Arifin, French Olympic hurdler who last year set up a European record of 51.18 sec. for the 400 metres hurdles, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined 6,000 francs ln Paris yesterday for stealing wallets from a Paris stadium dressing room. The prison sentence was
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    'LITTLE OLYMPIAD'
    30 7 FIFTY -five United States athlete* will go to Oslo, Norway, next summer to compete against an all-Scandinavian team m a "Little Olympiad" on July 27, 28 and 28.
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    K.L. qualify for hockey final
    190 7 V V ALA LUMPUR beat Hong Kong one-nil and Technical Wing beat Negombo seven-nil m the A.C.F.E. Week of Sport hockey semi-finals played yesterday. They will meet m the final at Changi at 5 p.m. today. Technical Wing won their match easily yesterday. They scored
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    CHEE SENG REPLIES
    145 7 CHU Chee Seng, Chinese Casuals' goalkeeper, replied yesterday to the statement made by Mr. W. McGregor Watt, president of the Singapore Amateur Football Association and chairman of its selection committee, concerning his exclusion from the Malaya Cup trials held hitherto. Referring to the game between Casuals and
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    USEFUL B.P. COMMITTEE
    141 7 'JJHE following have been elected offlce-beaiers of Useful Badminton Party for 1948: Patron*: Dr. C. J. Pofa. Mr. Lee Song Chua, Mr. Lim Tian Lye and Mr. T. C. Wong (all reelected); president. Mr. Ong Say Yeo (.re-elected) vice-presidents: Messrs. Lim Choo Ann, Tan Puay Choo, Koh
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    WON 10 RACES IN DENMARK
    82 7 TJAPPV Indian, winner of ten races m Dennwk, was placed second yesterday m his English debut, at Newmarket. The horse, owned by Mr. W. Hansen, a member of the Danish Jockey Club, came home i l i lengths behind the French-bred Reve de Gloire m
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    4-0 Win TO NAVY
    36 7 rE Royal Navy beat the i..n "1 Brotherhood Association forrnil m a S.A.F.A Junior A. Group 1. fixture at Geylang S'adium yesterday. Scorers for the Navy were Bonner and Rick:>h\ two each
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    DEARER LIVING' BUDGET FOR U.K.
    564 8 Wage raise demands seen LONDON, Thursday. BRITISH trade union leaders listened glumly last night as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, announced a "higher cost of living" I budget which, they predicted, would provoke wage j increase demands throughout industry. The Govi ernment
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    'Economic position healthy'
    256 8 LONDON. Thurs. rE Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps. preceded his budget announcement m the House of Commons yesterday with an economic survey. Speaking of the stabilisation of pricts and wages, he said retail prices had risen only one point and wag* three points during the
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    Prince Charles 'beautiful boy'
    119 8 LONDON, Thursday. DRINCE Charles, four months and 21 day s old, crawled all over page one of the Briton press yesterday to the delight of women everywhere. New pictures of His Royal Highness were released by Prince Philips friend and photographer, Baron Nahum. They showed Prince
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    3-power talks on Germany
    62 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE Foreign Ministers of Britain and France and the U.S. Secretary of Btate yesterday began the first of a series of three-day talks on setting up a western German state. Mr. Dean Acheson. Mr. Ernest Bevin. and M. Robert Schuman went into conference at
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    PAPER STRIKE IN WASHINGTON
    142 8 OVER one million residents of the Greater Washington area were without their local morning newspapers this morning because of an unofficial strike m all four of tru> dailies. The "Washington Post' difl not publish for the first time ln its seventy-one-year-old history. Union sources say early
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    POLAND HITSUN PROBE MOVE
    282 8 POLAND HITS UN PROBE MOVE NKW YORK, Thursday, OOLAND yesterday vigorously attacked proposals 1 by Australia and Bolivia to have the United Nations General Assembh investigate the recent trial of Cardinal Mindszent) and other Catholic and I'rotestant church leaders m Hungary and Bulgaria. The Polish delegate Mr. Julius Katz Suchy,
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    Unfortunate initials
    55 8 NEW DELHI, Thursday. ,V OT everyont was convm- 1" ced when the Works Minister, Mr. N. V. Gadgil, told Parliament that corruption had been curbed m the Central Public Works Department (CPWD). One member suggested that, despite some improvement, the general impression was that the initials stood for
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    JAPS TO WAIVE INDEMNITY CLAIM
    223 8 TOKIO, Wednesday. JAPAN'S Lpwer House today approved a resolution •to waive Japan's claims for an indemnity of U5513,000,000 for th e loss of the hospital ship Awa Maru. which was sunk by an American submarine on Apr. 1, 1945, while en route to Japan from
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    AIR CONTROL PROPOSALS
    47 8 D E COMMENDATIONS for large airports, improved flying control and network of search rescue stations for Africa and the Indian Ocean region arc* expected to be submitted next week to the closing session of the three-week International Civil Aviation Organisation conference m London.- Reuter
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    CONTROLS ENDED
    22 8 The U.S. Agriculture Department yesterday ended the import controls on copra, coconut oil. palm kernels and oil and rapeseed.- U.P.
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    RKDS ARRESITD
    12 8 Four thousand Communists have been arrested m southeast Hyderabad.- A.P.
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    Atom ray test off UK
    101 8 rpilb 5,220- ton light cru ,er H.M.S. Arethusa, en route d m a ,out h to Portsmouth, is to become the Royal Navy s first "guinea pig" m a simulated atom bomb test. She will be bombarded with deadly gamma rays at a safe distance
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    Kashmir truce deadlock
    59 8 K\W \l.Pl\di w INDIA'S insistance on tiu. disarm/ (Free) Kashmir fore* a d pS^* keep them armed and intact umh I Jammu and Kashmir has been f.„li caused a hold-up m the Kashmir tru* 2* Talks du c to haw b> (]Pr the truce sub-commirt, Jg mission
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    Chicago vice ring HQ raided by police
    178 8 CHICAGO. HednesdaN DOUCE early today raided what they described 1 the "nerve centre" of Chicago's huge prostitutim syndicate and seized a book containing the n a ages of customers, which include prominent businessmen, politicians and one Broadway actor. Police Captain Thomas Harrison refu*
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    Fishes and fisherman
    43 8 HANOVER, Thursday. AT a Registry Office wedding here, Fraulein Aal married Herr Mecht. Their witnesses were Herr Zander and Herr Weiss flsch. The ceremony was performed by Herr Angler. In English their names are Eel, Pike. Perch, Whitebait and Fisherman.
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    BRITONS TRAM AND READ MOR
    163 8 BRITONS TRAM AND READ MOR LONDON Tr.ursdtT.l DRITONS smoked fewer c:2are'te s and dnakl beer but bought mor> books. clothes and rund and did more travelling m 1948 Nfi aJ ing to a Government Whit* Paper on MM national Income. The report shows ;ha national output of goods was ill
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    UNKNOWN
    61 8 BLU.KADL Tton lI 'HI the \U* People I rrwit «f it> two-da» cenjres* I on Naturda? > <v Marshal J<»'P Trt# j claim hi> leantr.' > *<• mi« independence t*J readiness to trade mm with the MM I Reliable aipl«»«K "I mam here think Ik* Marshal Tito congress, hb
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    SEER SAYS WAR BEGINS ON APR.10
    232 8 FRANKFURT, Thursday. A GERMAN astrologer, Fritz Lang, said yesterday that the 16th century seer, Nostradamus, had predicted that World War 111 would start ln Greece next Sunday, last four months, and that the West will win the conflict after atom-bombing the Kremlin. Thereafter, he
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