The Singapore Free Press, 6 October 1949

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    24 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 7.597 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1949. i i i i i PKU E 10 KMS
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    GOVT, SMAC CLASH OVER MILLIONS
    408 1 Claim versus counterclaim Free Press Staff Reporter JN reply to a claim by the Singapore Government against the Municipality for more than $12,500,000, the Finance Committee of the Municipality has recommended that the Government should be pressed to meet a counterclaim of more than $14,600,000.
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    UNKNOWN
    108 1 h a sufl h^rter -,t ippe.il th:*. morntof for lt er nhtod donors to i t he General Hospital .od to Mr. A. M. 1 the Singapore *ho was stabbed t courts on Tuesday. ir members of the staff .dio Malaya answered .ppe.il immediately. Macdonald is now rgting an
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    UNKNOWN
    69 1 I* roN, Thun. I U.S. State Department h inced that I I serious view tack on American p ll by Chinese ."ships trying a blockade of the F 1 coastline. rt i spokesman said American P d ofl ShangI -:ng Clipper and L ndent, J.V be released until m
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    30 1 t Snyder. United Treasury Secren,cu day emphasised to raising the enr^ T easurv have tw°off ls,n th h oiH r l2 10s an $«J£ B T port€ri at Reuter
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    PRESIDENT TO REPLY TODAY
    186 1 FRENCH P.M. RESIGNS PARIS, Thursday. PRESIDENT Vincent Auriol, who has promised to give his decision today on whether he would accept the resignation of the Queuille Cabinet, has called an emergency session of Parliament for Saturday. The Assembly, now m recess, was not due to meet
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    KOREAN APPROVAL
    34 1 The Korean People's Democratic Republic (formerly Russian-occupied Northern Korea) has decided to establish diplomatic relations with Communist China, according to a Tass Soviet news agency despatch from the capital of Phyeng-Yang.— Reuter
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    H.R.-JAP TRADE
    29 1 The Hong Kong Government may send a representative Tokio to discuss with AP the lifting of the ban on importation ot Japanese goods into the colony.- A.P.
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    RUSSIA SEEKS CENSUS OF WORLD ARMS
    124 1 RUSSIA SEEKS CENSUS OF WORLD ARMS NEW YORK, Thurs. RUSSIA served notice to the United Nations Security Council yesterday that it plans to make some proposals ln connection with the plan for a census of the world's armed might. Jacob Malik, returning o the Council after lpave *n Russia, asked
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    3 NATIONS ON A-BOMB WORK
    131 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. rpHE United States Under-Secretary of State, Mr. James E. Webb, said yesterday that the U.S., Britain and Canada are considering a 'partnership" m the field of atomic energy. He said that the three- power discussions, which were adjourned last week-end, had made good
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    157,000 SACKED
    23 1 Japan's Government has discharged 157,000 employees ln the past few months but still has more than 1,400,000 on the payrolls. A.P.
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    40 1 Seuhor Julio Salcedas, the Portuguese Consul m Singapore, greets Sir Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, at the cocktail party held m Singapore last night to celebrate Portugal's National Day, which commemorates the Proclamation of the Republic of Portugal m 1910.
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    SERVICE FOR WAR DEAD
    40 1 A NATIONAL religious convention will be held m Tokyo today attended by Christians, Buddhists, Shintolsts and Mohammedans. They will hold a memorial service for the war dead throughout the world and a prayer for world peace.—
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    LABOUR WIRE TO CHINA REDS
    109 1 LABOUR WIRE TO CHINA REDS LONDON, Thurs. THE live members of the Independent Labour Group m the British House of Commons last night sent a telegram of greeting to Mao Tse-tung. chairman of the newly-formed Central Government of the Chinese People's Republic. It salrj that the party would call on
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    Plane allowed in Lhasa
    83 1 r pHE United States State Department announced yesi terday that' American officials had been granted the "rare" permission of landing a plane m Tibet to rescue Lowell Thomas, an injured American news commentator. A Department spokesman said that the Dalai Lama, ruler of the remote country
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    The fish go to sea
    74 1 The fish go to sea FISH on India's southwest coast are migrating oat to sea. evading the fishermen's nets, according to Mr. J. P. L Roche Victoria. Madras Food Minister. The Minister, who has Just returned to Madras after a tour of the Western coast, said that fishermen had told
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    'UN observers spies for US'-Ukraine
    158 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. THE Ukraine yesterday asked the Security Council to abolish the United Nations Indonesian Commission on the grounds that the military observers who are members of the mission are only collecting intelligence reports for the United States. The Ukrainian delegate, Dlmitri Manuilsky, made
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    Rival Govts, in Germany
    147 1 BERLIN, Thursday. A NEW Russian-sponsored government is to be A proclaimed m the Soviet tone tomorrow, claiming jurisdiction over ail Germany, it Is learned. This is Russia's reply to the formation of the West German Government at Bonn. The Russians indicated yesterday that they would soon
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    Jets for U.S. air services?
    92 1 SAM FRANCISCO, Thurs. MR. William Patterson, President of the United Airlines; suggested that American manufacturers should -build Jet planes if commercial airlines wanted to use them. Mr Patterson said he did not plan to buy any jet transport planes from Britain even If they are
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    ROSE IN CHINA?
    34 1 Subhas Chandra Bose. proAxis leader of the war-time Indian Natidnal Army, is alive and is with the Chinese Communists m Peking, the daily newspaper, "Netaji," reported ln New Delhi yesterday. U.P.
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    JOHORE ARRESTS
    25 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Forty-flve Chinese and an Indian were arrested under the Emergency Regulations m Johore between Sept. 29 and Oct. 5.
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    ENVOY RESIGNS
    16 1 Dr. Tsien Tai. Chinese Ambassador m Paris, has resigned because of ill health. Reuter.
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    GANG SMASHED
    34 1 U.S. Army criminal Investigation agents have smashed a counterfeit ring flooding Austria with bogus occupation currency. It was announced ln Vienna yesterday. Nine Austrlans and two American soldiers have been arrested A.P.
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    Jogja says Holland must pay
    233 1 Jogja says Holland must pay THE HAGUE, Thurs. INDONESIAN negotia- tors have told the Dutch that they do not owe Holland for debts which Holland claims were incurred on her behalf. The statement was made m the round-table conference m a reply to a Dutch bill for 6 3 milliard
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    Rubber prices
    56 1 A SPECIAL Market Correspondent fives the price* of mblirr (m cents per lb.) at 1' ajn. today as follows: Bayer* Sellers. No. 1 R SS. Spot: loose 43 J« 41 1* F.o.b. in bales Oct. No. 1 R.S.S. 43>, M No. I R.S.S. 42K 45'i No. 3 R.S.S.
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    A Badly Written, Pretentious Book
    623 2 PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. VINCENT SHKKAN, ns from his previous books you m;iy have already learned. is the possessor of a Social Conscience. He bears his burden dufidenty yet proudly, as a famous invalid puts up with the hereditary gout or some
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    QUICK LOOKS
    96 2 QUICK LOOKS A Little Tour of France by Henry James. (Home and Van Thai, 155.) envy the reader chose holidays are just beginning, and who can take with him on a tour through France this collection of delightful travel essays illustrated with good photographs by one of our greatest modern
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    She Loved Life In The Tropics
    439 2 LAND BELOW THE WIND, by Agnes Keith. Michael Joseph. pOPTJLAR demand has brought this pre-war novel, by the author of Three Came Home, the great novel of the Japanese prison camp m North Borneo, into publication again. And it is not often that a
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    The Modem Pentathlon
    172 2 A HANDBOOK on now to train for the modern Pentathlon. that unique athletic event, has been written by Lieut. Geoffrey Brooke, DSC, RN. 8.-jokt one of Britain.-, Olympic tram m 1948. was a bUb-lieutenant m the Prince of Wales when she went down m the war. Later
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    This writer muffed it
    182 2 Liltle Boy Lost. By Marghat.ita Laski. The Cresset Press. djhai a pity! Marghanlta Laski has muffed it. Gifted. witty Marghanlta Lask* who hit upon bo poi^nar.. a theme. Tbt theme? A little boy los: m the night of war. A Ut*ie boy whose mother is kiilo^.
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    IN BRIEF
    628 2 BRAT FARRAR. by Josephine Tey, Peter Davies. Who is Brat Farrar? That is the question taiat goes unanswered foa- the greater part of this tnrllling novel. Is he really Patrick Ashby. righttul owner ol Latchetis. who was thougait to have committed suicide at the age of thirteen? Or
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    A SUCCESSFUL FIRST NOVEI
    195 2 The Far Cry. By Emma Smith. MacGibbon and Kee. HERE is a clever young woman! Here is a girl who can write! Emma Smith. You remember "Maidens Trip" which told, with such aaiety and verve, the adventures of three girls on Britain's can^s during the war?
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    Good adv on wines
    39 2 A BOOK husoar.c borr Calendar ol Food all comp.'i-rc Anire S Faber Tht Cal< Ddai Heaton's iv ments on the co* and her suggests making up th« son guise. And for ea r o' w
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      70 2 dffdfdf SINGAPORE (Bl l'b NKTWORR) IXI And 11 7 metres Emergenev new*, from XL. at 10 a.m HHIAI 10. a.m. News Irom Kuala Lumpur. 10.03 Close Down. 10.55 F r the Schools: Stories 1. Together 2, Literature 8 9 12. Programmes m Malay. 1 p.m. Light music, 1.30 Time Signal
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      265 2 patients own request. 7. Time Signal, News Si Singapore BbaK Market Report. 7. 10 This is Communism—Some snapshots of living conditions ln a communist rtate. 7 20 Art Tatu at the pi^o. 7.30 Joe Loss Si Harry Parry. 8. Forum of the Air— lmpromptu i r.swers to listeners questions. 8.30
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      335 2 idi' i ~2 i. lu.4d •(Jeneiaio o;< p a'ing' iBP.C). 11.00 Dance M'-i* 11 45 Special Dispatch U.BC 11.30 News Sc News Analyst' BBC): 11 45 Lk'ht IfUSlc: 12 00 Close Down. AUSTRALIA 16. 19. 15 and 31 .Metres. ItMMt 4 p.m. Dinner Music with Alfredo Campoli and his Orchestra
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      52 2 against your will. Unless you follow your natural bent whatever that may be- you will never reach your highest peak of production. Highly intui.ive, you should be able to judge situations accurately at first sight. Depend upon your "snap judgment" and you will rarely go wrong. it ba.ng kiiinappod. bBBBiC^
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    NEW PLAN TO SOLVE INDIA'S RICE PROBLEM
    322 3 Burma, Siam deal urged oir v ai BOMBAY, Thursday. S iif V R 5 X1 ?»*rts> eminent Indian adminisR M,c,n •Sreements wits Baraia tad Siam for the import of rice m c c^E* f texti, s > and steel foods. bach an arrangement,
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    SHE ALTERED THE BORDER
    40 3 SCOTSWOMAN, Mrs. A v.nd> od e a,, R, rwick-on- otesl a?a nst wn thr most .rthumberpari of Fng:.<>>.t metr ing, I her to tht bridtre n>e-d\ •ra. s whitetcresi the road, c line she .Im;.."— Reuter
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    U.S. TO BUY MORE RUBBER
    23 3 0 'vtrn- luetics ior unouat of synthetic u--.1l be rr.aking car .nd similar rot Ameri- ximateD a rural
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    53 3 raaaililai Mobes, 11. wrote RillbilTy Ban oleaster W.Uum I Ihtvis that abe would like ta srrsg est has :adm scsfraaaas, Davis. 22, listened ta her arng. them h:r?d her 1 h-a fell m love and were mam i hi at Ra» \lahama ISA. Five dars later, Shrrkr? eelebra ted her
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    Army may conscript doctors in U.K.
    110 3 4 CONSIDERABLE number of doctors registered under th<> national health scheme may be r^uu-ed next year to take over military practices In j oritain and not civilian ones. c of the alarming shortage of ITS. The No. 1 be U*m-\ the which is Ministry
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    Daily shave tor morale
    52 3 I U mon i, \u at md "W"""** is a stitTener **7 osaka Cit has ordered a Use neat creases on uniforms for the city's I'litions a)se prohibits policemen from tbfir hiZ t*li ion at any place other than -and then only to their close relatives.
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    40 STORM DEATHS
    27 3 Damage caused by the weekend cloudbursts m Southern Italy is estimated at more .than £3.000.000, with the loss of 30 to 40 lives.- Reuter
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    A-BOMB OUT OF DATE
    182 3 A-BOMB OUT OF DATE TEE atom I jmb is out of date 1 —it is has been superseded by a biological product seven ounces of which is enough to kill everybody m the world, says Dr. Brock Chisholm. Canadian Director General of the "World Health Organisation. Dr. Chisholm says the
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    New chestnut discovery
    89 3 CHESTNUTS, the size of hens' eggs, may be exported by the Japaiie.se. A Kyodo dispatch from Orfu. unverified from other sources, said one Kankichi Thuchida, of Okuwa, after years of experimenting and "grafting has produced such chestnuts Kyodo said a candy manufacturing firm will process the chestnuts
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    SECOND THEFT FROM DEPOT
    59 3 rE Philippine Army Ordnance Depot, on Corregldor Island at the entrance to Manila Bay. has been cracked a second time by thieves Some 57 cases of blasting rap#? worth approximately US$4O,OOO were taken. A loss of 1,000,000 blastin* caps worth U***** .000 was reported earlier. Caps
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    TITO GESTURE
    14 3 Marshal Tito has freed half the Yugoslav Cominformists held m Jails. --UP.
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    Bridge Hands
    350 3 Polish op the magnifying glasses, lor here la one all our crime hands. West opened a heart, dummy winning with the ace. The trump finesse lost to West c king, and the heart return was trump-d by South. Declarer drew two more round of trumps. exhausting these held
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    Manila arms missing
    52 3 A SHORTAGE m the arna and ammunition inventory of the Philippine Army Ordnance Depot at Manila has been reported and investigations are under way m connection with reports that the arms had found their way into Illegal gun traffic. The number of weapons missing has not been
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    Self-government plan for W. Africa
    150 3 I>RIT AIN expects to give near self-Government to "27 million Africans who live m Use West African colonies of Nigeria and the Gold Coast, within a year ar two. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, late this month wiU publish the report or the
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    STATEMENT ON TOM RATE
    67 3 THE Japanese Finance Minister, flayato Ikeda, has again announced that the Government would not revise the yen -dollar exchange unless "there was an unexpected grave change m the economic situation. He said any change m the exchange rate was -nadvisable at present In view of the
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    Hang together,
    37 3 sars Tedder LORD Tedder, Chief of the Royal Air Force, told the Randolph Air Force base cadets at San Antonio. Texas, recently that "if we hang together we may not have to tight the world.
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    New discoveries in Canadian Arctic
    225 3 pVIDENCE that the ice-bound Canadian Arctic was a more inhabitable place hundreds of years before the white man came to Canada was found by an archaeological party recently. The party, a Joint U.S.-Canadian affair, found, m a ruin discovered nearly 100 years ago and revisited
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    39 3 This as a view of the Great l-akes steamer Moronic on nre m Toronto Harbour. Most of the 5.™ aboard jumped to safety, bat more than IM perished m the blase, the cause of which is not yet established
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    Bow street 'Museum'
    85 3 Bow street 'Museum |M)W-STREIT -London) 0 police station, birthplace at the Bow-strwt Runners, is to have its own museum. Chief Superintendent A W. Kou irrson. police chief there, is searching for relics and documents going back ta 290 year* ago, wheat the first regular police force seas recruitd from the
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    Germany leads world's limbless
    272 3 Germany leads world 's limbless BERLIN, Wed. GERMANY has today more one-armed and Line-leaped men than any other country m the world. According to Allied medical experts here, it has gained this doubtful distinction for a variety of reasons which include The amputation rate m the German army was "considerably
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      119 3 WHAFS ON Ol X L. REX: Africa Screams ODEON Strike Tt Rich PAVILION: Ka, Not Cricket. COLISEUM: Quarrelsome Mother-in-law (CarTtoneacj. MADRAS: Nilam (Malay). CATHAT: Rixht To Love (Mandarin). F.MPIRE: Dayalan (Tamil). CENTRAL: Harlschandra Tamil*. PENANG LTDO: Nllom (Malay). fATWAY: Wild Fire CMadarin. obkon Miraculous Journey RXX: For the Love of
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      155 3 Crossword No. 809 Up MT I Mb g\r E fflH IKS f M^L^-HEjaJej gpoM rMA t f]_^A|L| CA^_Jl3!llf M^JHuu It T sslO [V i^y ITiLI _JE F.P. Crossword No. 810 I j^2 5| 4j 5 6 —^np CLUES ACROSS 1 EKiravagsmt representation (12 >; 7 Panicles <s>; 9 Sei a
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Oct. 6. 1949.
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      AN OFFICIAL SWINDLE
      602 4 A PIER weeks of dangling hopes of an Increased tin price to be paid to Malayan producers, an Increase justified because the consumers are laying more m terms of sterling, the British Ministry of Supply is beginning to reveal its real attitude one of betray; 1 Nothing
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    Ex-Nazis Helped Russia's A-Bomb Quest
    695 4  - Ex-Nazis Helped Russia's A-Bomb Quest RONALD DOWNING By IT was just over four years ago on July 16, 1045— that the first atom bomb exploded thunderously in the wastelands of New Mexico, 120 miles south-east of Albuquerque, with a blinding Hash, searing heat, and an irresistible pressure wave. This was
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    LANTERN TIME CHINATOWN
    607 4 WHEN lantern lighting time comes tonight m Chinatown thousands of smiling Chinese children will parade outside their homes, hearing lighted hand lanterns. They will present a colourful array of fish, fowls and dragonflies, with an occasional globular lantern thrown m between. The 15th night of the Bth
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    49 4 Blackie who became an orphan at the age of five weeks, is here helping himself to a nip of milk as he holds the bottle m v guzzling position. His owner, Mr. S. James W. Walters of Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., says he picked the trick up all by himself.
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    Ornamental' Office Girl
    313 4 Ornamental' Office Girl T HE ting P B of Munich Services c nion rightly expressed co;. cern at the po employing more more women m MuniQ, pal offices. Toofi alarm the Mil] authorities wer t enough to inform aF-^ Press Stat! reporu girls diet not warn cipal Jobs, prefer: work
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    37 4 Diomie Wheeler as Miss Occident and Dianne Shinn as MUs Orient put on their bathing suits m San Francisco for a celebration of Pan American World Airways inaugural Stratocruiser Service to Tokyo. Shirley Wilson is the stewardess.
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    It Seems To Me....
    881 4 (SINGAPORE MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONERS have their exciting moments, like the birth control debate not so very long ago, but they have yet to stage a strike like that staged by the Bangkok Municipal Assembly and have all the thrills of illegal ways of forming a quorum and
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    HOLIDAY CAMP FOR YOUTHS
    339 5 HOLIDAY CAMP FOR YOUTHS Spore social welfare project Free Press Staff Reporter JN about a fortnight from today the youth of Singapore will have a big holiday camp to go to. It is being built near the beach at Aver Biru, Job-ore Bahru (directly opposite Ponggol). It Is the first
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    38 5 Photographers. md «ii > L iiin Vun l!(.\se rutting their ng take after their iagc m NingaT>ore. The groom is attached to »r Department. The [-ride tl the daughter of |)r. and Mrs. Tham Ying Knew of Ipoh. Raffles
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    CREWS ON WAY TO HONG KONG
    65 5 CREWS ON WAY TO HONG KONG CROWDING the after-deck of the Sirdhana as the docked at Singapore from India. 185 teamen arrived here ngen on their way Kong to man three I eel auxiliary v r T\ ships are Green Rangt\ Port Charlotte and Brlched to the Royal The men
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    MR. E. J. PHILLIPS
    50 5 TN Governor of Singapore ani tHr High Commissioner of the Federation of Mnlaya Jointly have appointed Mr. E J Phillips, to be tempora:y Chairman of the Board of Mnrr cement of the War Risks (Goods) Insurance Fund m nlaci of Mr. J. J. St. L. Carson.
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    EAST-WEST TALK
    26 5 Dr. F. Benham. Economic Adviser to the CommissionerGeneral, will give a talk on the devaluation of the pound 'o the East West P <iht.
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    MAILS
    47 5 Surface mails are expected to arrive m Singapore today from India. Pakistan and Slam. Closing times for posting surface mall* at the 0.P.0. today: to Hongkong. Japan, China, the Philippines, the U.K., N. Ireland. Eire, Europe. Egypt. N. and W. Africa, West Indies and Ceylon: noon.
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    Pythons do not go to school
    421 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SNAKE expert told Malayan radio listeners last night how to spot poisonous snakes, warned them against charms to cure bites, and told a story of pythons who were believed to have sat for exams. Capt. M. Meerandonk of the
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    DR. J. BROWN
    41 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Dr. James -3rown. assistant medical superintended of th«Slngapore Mental R. spitai who had been a prisoner of communist forces m Greece, will talk of his exr> nances over Radio Malaya at 7H 1 tonight.
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    SUBORDINATE MEN ASK FOR MORE
    108 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Association of Subordinate Staffs (Persatuan Jawatan Rendah) has asked the special joint committees on salaries under the chairmanship of Dr. F. C. Benham for a reconsideration of salary Sfo.-» wit'^ a v*ew to Increase. The memorandum was
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    FILM CENSOR
    12 5 Mr. J. Evans has been appointed Film Censor In Singapore.
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    48 5 pictures. PICTURED at the ECAFE Inland Transport Conference m Singapore yesterday (Top) M. Thao Nouphat Chounlaphom. adviser to the French delegation, M. Andre Guibaut, French Consul- General. Singapore, and M. Jean Vernisse. (Bottom) Mr. S. Majldulla and Mr. Hassan Ali Vizir of the Pakistan dele gation Free Press
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    'FANCY FAIR' FOR SINGAPORE
    205 5 AN 'International Fancy f iir" will be held at the CYMA recreation ground m Bra.-. Basai Road on Saturday, Ov-t 2y, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. lo raise money for the Good Shti'herc Convent's Girls' Home Building Fund. V/omen of 12 different teeen will run
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    Burma trade at standstill
    347 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OUSINESS of every sort is at a standstill m Burma just now yet, paradoxically, overseas tourist travel from Burma is booming. That is how Mr. W. B. J. Bevan, new manager of Thomas Cook and Son, Ltd., describes conditions m present-day Rangoon,
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    VISIT TO COLONY TRADE DISPLAY
    66 5 Professor Ralph E. Turner, representing the American universities at the Foundation Day ceremony of the University of Malaya, and Mrs. Turner paid a visit to the Singapore Progress and Trade Exhibition at the Happy World Park, accompariea by Mr. Henry Lawrence, Director of the United
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    AMBASSADOR DUE HERE
    93 5 THt United States will De represented at the meeting ol Industry and Trade Coumittee and the fifth session of ECAFE to be held In Singapore by her Ambas sador at Manila, Mr. Myron M Cowen II Cowen is expected tc arrive here on Oct. 10 accompanied by
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    Lectures for sanitary inspectors
    99 5 Lectures for sanitary inspectors rHE Municipal Commissioners are to ask Government |to consider the question of 1 running: lecture courses m Singapore to train more l>^\\\ boys as sanitary inspectors Government wool be asked whether special evening lecture classes, as m the United Kingdom, could be held here. This would
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    ACCUSED OF MURDER BID
    85 5 TWENTY-nine-year-old Loo I Bok Chwee of Thomson Road. Singapore was charged m the Second Police Court yesterday with attempted murder of Mr. A. M. Macdonald. a magistrate, on Tuesday. It was alleged that Loo stabbed Mr. Macdonald In the chest m the court building Inspector Noordin
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    Plan for S'pore Bangkok trains
    241 5 Plan for S'pore Bangkok trains Free Press Stall Reporter THE international express train service between Singapore and Bangkok should be resumed as a through service, it is recommended by the ECAFE Working Group on Travel Facilities. It has asked that this recommendation be considered by the ECAFE Inland Transport Conference
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    TODAYS TALK
    24 5 Mr. K. Abraham wiii oe the speaker at today's meeting of the Young People's Group at the Bethesda Church, Bras Basah Road.
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    48 6 dffddfdf DRLSIDEN'I I runian holds an umbrHLa and keeps a firm grip on his raincoat as he walks ft a— his mill 1 home across the street from L he 1— White Hoose m Independence, Missouri, after making a calL A secret service man fellows the Preside**— A.P.
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      $ LOAN FOR S. AFRICA?
      46 6 LOAN FOR S. AFRICA? k LONDON source says the 11 South African Government will announce a dollar loan as well as a sterling loan The dollar loan is said to be a short-term credit of US $10,000,000 from the National City Bank of New Vnri- Reuter
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      Gilt-edgeds remain firm
      424 6 LONDON, Thursday. riu; new account or trading period started quietly A m the London Stock Exchange yesterday and, apart from the South African gt>ld mining section, market men showed little inclination to deal, says Router's financial correspondent. A note of caution and hesitancy was introduced by speeches
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      Bus drivers warned
      125 6 A BUS drWer vu told by the Traffic Court Magistrate yesterday that hU case "Khoufd serve as a general warning to all bus drivers to show greater respect for the speed limit that had been lmp«vsed In the Interest of the public." The driver. Quek Yew Teng
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    Sentenced for living on girl
    178 6 Sentenced for living on girl tree Press SUIT Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. FOUND guilty ol living on the Immoral earnings of an 18-year-old girl whom he had taken as his mistress, an educated Chinese. Wong Ah Telk, was today convicted and sentenced to nine months rigorous imprisonment by Inche Rani,
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    42 6 ALTHOUOH activity quietened down somewhat during yesterday afternoon. Wall Street again recorded new high level* for IMS The market got quickly Into Its stride and gains up to UJBSI were registered tn practically all sections. The market cl«m< firm Reuter
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    HURT CHARGE
    29 6 B_REMBa\N. Wednesday.— Sever teen year old Yons Korn Tneng was remanded m custody here on two charges of voluntarily causing hurt with a parang to two men.
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    'SUICIDAL' TO RESTRICT M. BESAR
    370 6 Malays cable Johore Sultan Free Press Staff Reporter |*WENTY senior Malay officers of the Johore Government Service have told the Saltan of Johore that "it would be suicidal to make any attempt to restrict the political activities of Mentris Besar within the limits of their
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    53 6 PICTURED here is H.MS bew.aerv < 1,710 tons), leader of the First Destroyer Flotilla. Mediterranean Fleet, m which the Duke of Edinburgh will return to sea this month. The Duke will Join Chequers' as First Lieutenant and Second m command. He will be executive officer and responsible for discipline and
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    112 6 CHIPS ln por: Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterrfv. g 0^ r| m brackets) were Main Wharf: P 31 32) President Jefferson 33-34, Peleus (36-37 Ste< West Wharf: Cv Slr( j. hana <4-*>. Querirr.ba S-7 Buita !<•). Bentong (9). Pyrrha mi Riman (13). Saparoera 15-16*. Empire Dork: TJfpondoic '17-18)
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    CARD OFFENCE
    19 6 MALACCA, Wed— Ong Tin Mcc was fined $150 for supplying identity card photographs at an excessive price
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    Gandhi fund fails, may be closed
    225 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. f K.MHKKS of the Indian community will hold a ifl meeting at the Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce premises at 5 p.m. tomorrow to decide whether to continue or to wind up the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Fund
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    Pig-iron for Japan
    22 6 Japan last month received from Austria 28.000 tons of pig-iron and expects another 32.000 tons this months.— i Reuter
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    'PRATTLIN' DOES FASTEST TRYOUT
    338 7 'PRATTLIN' DOES FASTEST TRYOUT Very heavy going m Penang rmeemmm ree bwS? Racin X Correspondent JHERE was further rain m Penang last night and a steady drizzle this morning when horses went out for their winding-up gallops on a very heavy track. No horse managed to break 40 sec. for
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    17 7 picture. t'HEE SENG, brings off a save m yesterday's Community League game at Jalan Besar. Free Press
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    36 7 picture. lON, tle Navy goalkeei).*r, nurses with a punch the t'»H After Boon Seong. Chinese centre-forward -sst'd it on with his head from a flag kick. Smith, left-half, (with back to camera) looks on.- Free Press
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    CHINESE WERE TOO FAST FOR NAVY
    345 7 put all they had into their Community N League soccer match against the Chinese at B.'sar stadium yesterday, but their inability to tackle fast enough was mainly the cause of their l defeat. j a welcome return to league soccer after )nR lay-off was
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    Notts buys 2 players
    60 7 Ny Football Club, leads the Third era Section— of Football League, is a lot I f money ln a bid to the Second tc Its playing strength buying Tcmmy lor £7,500 C the Scottish League bl r.dav'a Tjilar sum "of Wi Iverhamptoa •.••re-half. tta County Tommy
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    RAFFLES WIN
    12 7 defeated AnI by five games badminton R.I, hall od I
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    Acceptors & weights for Cesarewitch
    185 7 Acceptors weights for Cesarewitch rpHE following 49 final acceptors, with weights, for the Cesarewitch Stakes, to be run over two and a quarter mil<s at Newmarket on Oct. 12, were published yesterday as follows: Aldeborough 9 st. S lbs; Monticola 9 St.; Lafontaine 8 st. 13 lbs; Miraculous Atom 8.
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    FAULKNER LEADS
    154 7 If AX Faulkner, one of Henry Iwl Cotton's assistants at the Royal Mid-Surrey Club, London led the field at St. Andrew's Scotland, yesterday after th* first 36 holes of the Dunlop Masters professional golf tournament. He had rcunds of 72 ana 69 on the famous old course for
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    MENTAL HOSP. XI
    66 7 A team from the following players win play for the Mental Hospital m a friendly game of soccer against HM. Dockyard and. Fort Canning (H.Q.) tomorrow and Wedn sday at Mental Hospital Bah Chee. Yong Chin. Sahat. Ahmad Thamby. Yousoff Tahir. Thong Eng Kee, Badrcn, Kirn San.
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    Y.M.C.A. HOCKEY
    61 7 The following are united to represent ue V.M.C.A. m a frienuiv hockey match against th e r>ost r d Telegraph XI tomorrow at 615 p.m. at the 'V- Ground at Battier Road: Lee Joh Ming. Bchan niivel. Delikan, D'Wind, Lelah. Son' l°* ar:i i ah Tambyah. Harry Fang.
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    S.C.C. HOCKEY
    37 7 THE following will represent the Singapore Cricket Club hockey team ln a hockey match against the Singapore Colts on the Padang tomorrow. V. Margrave; Theuniessen. Lloyd; Karelse, Lowe, Macrae (Capt), Shepherd, Jamleson. Yarrow. Searle, Smith.
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    LOUIS PUMMELS ABEL CESTAC
    77 7 JOL Louis, retired world heavyweight champion slammed Abel CesUc. Argentine heavyweight round the ring m Washington m the hrst of a series of exhibition matches. Louis though he appeared flabby around the waist weighed only ll pounds more than when he knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott
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    PORTSMOUTH BEAT CLYDE 3-0
    47 7 PORTSMOUTH, English league champions, beat Clyde, a Scottish "A" Division club, by three goals to nil m a friendly soccer match at Clyde yesterday. Linfleld beat Distillery by three goals to one In the Irish Gold soccer cup seml-nnal match at Mnfield yesterday.
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    T.B.A. SOCCER XI
    46 7 The team to represent Tamil Brotherhood Association at soccer against Rocklites Sports Club at '•arrer Park tomorrow at 5 pm will be: K. O. Supplah, Rahlman, K. Thambiraja, A. Ganesan P Supplah. M. Chandra. 8. Dutta Paul Davis. 8. Chandra, Nadarala O. Thanga.
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    YANKEES WIN 1-0
    227 7 JsJEW York Yankees. American league champions, yesterday won the opening game of the best-of-seven-games world baseball series with a I—o1 0 victory over Brooklyn Dodgers, winners of the national league, at Yankee Stadium. New York. A home run by Tommy Henrich m the ninth inning broke up
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    U.K. soccer fixtures
    260 7 FOLLOWING are football fixtures for Saturday. Oct. 8: ENGLISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION: Arsenal v Ever Ion; Birmingham v. Portsmouth; Bolton v Hudderstteld; fturnle> v. Newcastle; ChHaea v Manchester C; Derby v. Wolverhampton; Liverpool v Middlesbrough; Manchester 0. v Charlton; Moke v. Fulham: Sunderland v. Blackpool; West Bromwtch
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    R.I. SWIMMING CARNIVAL
    72 7 The first post-war onnual .swimming carnival of Raffles Institution will be held on Friday, Oct. 28. at 2.15 p.m, at the Chi?^ese Swimming Club. The Old Boys' even: will be over 50 metres free style Competitors for this eve-, are to send their names the Sports Secretary
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    27 7 A hat-trick by Yong for CR E featured yesterday's friendly hockey when the Engineers beat St Patrick's school by three goal* to two on the school ground
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    SOUTH JOHORE RUGBY F.C. BEAT R.E.M.E. 18-6
    327 7 SOUTH JOHORE RUGBY F.C. BEAT R.E.M.E. 1 8-6 COUTH £I** P^, ess Sports Correspondent gOLTH Johore Rugby F. C. chalked up their third LJR ME. Base, Singapore, were defeated by 18 points and a* fry*)* <» The Club began very promisingly when two goals were scored within 15 minutes of
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      Women have big plans
      153 7 Women have big plans WITH more women interest- ing themselves m hockey m Singapore, a general meeting of the Singapore Women's Hockey Association will be held on Friday Oct. 14 at the Singapore Cricket Ciub to organise the game on a bigger scale m the Colony. The Singapore Women's Hockey
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      Witt in fine form for S.C.C.
      127 7 k FFATURE of yesterdays cureless draw on the padang when the S.C.C. "A" tean met R.A.F. Changi "A' at rugger, was the fine di-* play by the S.C.C. scrumhali Witt Witt was the mainstay ol hi: three-quarters and he >s a playeT to watch
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      U.K. Rugby results
      41 7 yESTERDAYS U.K. Rugby I Union results were. Cardiff 22. Bristol 3; United Services Portsmouth 9, Rest of Hampshire 3. Lac;tshire beat Yorkshire by 22 points to 13 m a Rugby League county match at Warrington. Reuter. and A.P.
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    BIRTHS
    50 8 VOICE: On the 4th October, to Joan, wife of T. B. Voice, a daughter. LLOYD: To Mary, wife of Bclwyn Lloyd, at Bungaar Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on sth. October, a daughter. MERRICK At Youngberg Memorial Hospital, to Elizabeth Cane, wife of W. R. Merrick, on October 4th.. a daughter.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    76 8 QUAH-NG: The engagement Is announced to-day between Charlie Quah Ting Kang 2nd son of the late M' 6z Mrs. Quah Seng Hoik, Lucy Ng Lee Phon sth daughter of Mr. A Mn Ng Kirn Moh of Spore. THF ENGAGEMENT is announced to-day of See Yew Kah. second son of
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    35 8 MR. MRS. L. CHIN YUN HOWE thank all relatives and friends lor their kind attendance at the wedding on 2-10-49 and for th ir valuable presents and the loan of cars for th" occasion.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    28 8 IN ME MORI AM IN AFFECTIONATE memory of Mrs. Daisy Lim Boon Hin. who passed away on 6th October 1948. Ever renrmbered by Hin A Children, and Phyl.
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    HUNAN REDS PUSHING TO KWANGSI
    307 8 HUNAN REDS PUSHING TO KWANGSI Flare-up on two fronts HONG KONG, Thursday. AS the Kiangsi Red forces continued their drive m Northern Kwangtung toward the vital Canton-Hankow railway, the main Red army m Hunan yesterday began a general offensive m the direction of Kwangsi Province. The Hunan Red forces are
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    32 8 l>a. mitiftfde ttitiTllamfi*. it:alter of the German Christian Democrats, who gained an overwhelming victory m the West German elections. The Russian-backed East Germans are to have a rival "government for all Germany.**
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    62 8 tfovelkt Christopher Morely (left) with the steering wheel used by seaman-author Joseph Conrad on his first command, the Otago. It is to be preserved In the sloop Wellington, floating headquarters of the Hon. Company of Master Mariners, moored at the Thames Embankment. Mr. Morely found the wheel m the broken
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    22 8 Korean C.-in-C. resigns The South Korean Army announced yesterday that the Chief of Staff. Major- General Chel Byung Duk. had resigned.- Reuter
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    New move to peace
    102 8 LOaNDON. Thurv PYCHOLOGICAL, economic and cultural analysis of causes of tension between East and West has been proposed for the next conference of the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation by its Indian executive chairman. Professor Sir Sarvepalll Radhakrishnan. He added that there had been
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    ARMS BILL TODAY
    31 8 The White House said yesterday that President Truman would today slgTi the bill authorising U.S $1,314. 010.000 to be spent on arms aid to the Atlancic Pact nations.
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    TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS: NEHRU
    142 8 NEW DELHI, Thursday. OANDIT NEHRU, Indian Prime Minister, last night 1 appealed to the Indian people to "tighten your belts and make India self-sufficient m food grains by next year, instead of the year after as originally planned." He said the problems with which the country
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    Invention to expand U.K. textile output
    109 8 Invention to expand U.K. textile output MANCHESTER, Thurs. THE British cotton textile industry has smashed a oottleneck by an Indention called an "automatic duffer ot ring bobbins." It took 12 years to develop. In dolling, the operator remove., full rlag bobbins of yarn from tne spinning spindles and replaces thetn
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    £8,000 stamp auction
    78 8 LONDON, Thura. SOME oX the Ant postage stamps ever issued ln Asia I will form part of an £8,000 auction m London on Oct. 11 and Oct. 12. The collection! Is a notable Indian one form, ed by the late CoL L. T. RoseHutchlnston, a British Army
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    Press protest
    34 8 The Empire Press Union has protested to the Pakistan Premier, Llaquat All Khan, expressing Its "deep concern at the recent suppression for three months of the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore)."— Reuter
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    CHAMPION BOXER DIES AFTER BOUT
    154 8 pNRICO Bertola, Italian heavyweight boxer died ■a m Buffalo, New York, yesterday of a brain injury received the previous night m his ten-round fight against the American heavyweight. Lee Oma. Bertola never regained consciousness after collapsing In the dressing room. An operation for a blood
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    Must be better to oust men
    120 8 Must be better to oust men MONTREAL. Thurs. "WHEN a woman handles a Job which would normal, ly go to a man, she must be better." says pretty Mrs. Virginia de Quia, she la chairman of the Appropriations and Finance Committees and head of the Planning Board of Baguio, summer
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    'Floating showroom'
    31 8 Plans to send a "floating showroom" of Japanese export products on a 90-day voyage to major ports ln Siam, Burma. India and Pakistan were announced ln Tokyo yesterday. U.P.
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    U.N.E.S.C.O. TO INCLUDE JAPAN
    51 8 THE Assembly of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Educational Organization has adopted a resolution to extend its activities to Japan. A Philippine proposal, supported by Australia, to exclude Japanese from meeUngs of experts, seminars and other means of direct cooperation with UNESCO activities, was defeated-
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    Grim housing problem
    98 8 JIHE Luropean Economic Commission, after surveying F«r«i.« L dan a ac* c an normal deterioration m 17 2Kf*.. countric reports that, even if the pre-war take °2 ~H2 n cons,r »ct»on were doubled ft wo™ •tk ye *f" to meet housing needs. linn wer? lS v? 0
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    Canton shooting: US explorer charged
    238 8 CANTON, Thursday. 'THE American explorer, Leonard Clark, aged 42, x was yesterday charged with manslaughter m connection with the deaths from gunshot wounds of an Englishman. Harold Harris, and an American, Willard Freeman, following a drinking party m the Freemans' home on Sept. 8. Clark,
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    TIME-BOMB AT 'MURDER IN AIR' TRIAL
    131 8 TIME-BOMB AT 'MURDER IN AIR TRIAL QUEBEC, Thurs. AN alarm clock, fitted to set off an explosive, was produced at the "murder ln the air" trial here yesterday and stated to be similar to one supplied to J. Albert Gury. charged with murdering his wife to collect $10,000 Insurance by
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    JAP LEPROSY FIND PROBED
    87 8 TOKYO, Thurs. THE Japan Leprosy Research Academy convention, opening m Aomori Prefecture today, will determine whether Dr. Kelzo Nakamura's claim to have artificially grown the leprous bacilli is true. This has hitherto been regarded as impossible. Or. Nakamurs. of the Disease Research Institute, made his claim
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    TURNING GOLD INTO WATER
    131 8 W PORT ELIZABETH, Thursday. HY not make use of this immense stroke of luck r^/ Ur X th na lon s ol <* into water," asked Field Marshal Jan Smuts, former South African S&S lni ter^ referrln yesterday to the windfall which devaluation had given to
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    JAPS TO REFINE CRUDE OIL
    50 8 CCAP has given permission to Japan to Import 4,000,--000 barrels of crude oil for Japanese refineries which were allowed to reopen recently. The refineries will start operation m January SCAP estimates that refin ing m Japan will cut Occupation costs hv natin nnn nnn A.P.
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