The Singapore Free Press, 5 August 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA jtyf SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1950. PRICE rBM (KVK
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    11 1 picture. The scene outside the RedifTusioii offices this morning. Free Press
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    Jilted
    6 1 ulted bv Errol sUn below.
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    REDS REGROUP UNDER U.S. FIRE
    297 1 REDS REGROUP UNDER U.S. FIRE Major assault m South expected j \MLRICAN counter-attacks supported by field guns are stemming' th r! e t ?»A c °J the 7 n N Hh Korean divisi «ns taking part m the! thrust towards husan. 40 miles away. The enemy attack is described by
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    'Admit North Koreans'
    102 1 MALIK INSISTS' LAKE SUCCESS, Saturday. he adoption by the Security Council last tl the one item agenda the U.S. motion :i£ North Koreans as aggressors Mr. Malik. Soviet delegate and Council president, kMi a Communist China representative uke part in the Korea discussions. 0 resolution also asked
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    Dispute over procedure at SHBSA meeting
    175 1 Dispute over procedure at SHBSA meeting A DISPUTE has arisen over procedure adopted at the fourth annual general meeting of the Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association, h^ld on Friday last week. At that meeting a large section of the members walked out during the election of office-bearers. The chairman had
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    NO PASSPORT FOR ROBESON
    79 1 •pHE New York Times yesA terday reported that the US State Department had asked the Negro singer and leader of left-wing movements. Paul Robeson. to surrender his passport, but that he refused to do so. The newspaper said that the State Department has ordered all officials
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    'VARSITY MEET
    21 1 The Associa-iou of British Commonwealth Un e j? iu f* will next meet m inaia m January 1952- Reuter
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    FLYING WINDMILL GOES IN
    164 1 FL YING WINDMILL GOES IN By ROBERT MILLER KOREA, Sat. r VHE Marines introduced a new weapon into the Korean war yesterday the helicopter. The flying windmills,' m action for the first time, carried out reconnaissance flights, evacuated injured, men and ran general messenger and taxi service. I flew on
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    Double rescue
    49 1 Double rescue ***** KN fire struck the f f Pittsburgh. U.S.A., home of Robert Rihn. a one legged railwayman. he dragged his four-year-old son to safety. His slx-yrar-old daughter. Dolores, ram? running out of the burning house behind him emfryng her father's artificial leg m both inns. A .P.
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    REDIFFUSION MEN STRIKE
    364 1 DEAR ING slogans like "Right to combine a farce if officials are victimised", and "Support Government policy of encouraging trade unions,'* about 100 employees mostly Malays of RedirTusion (Singapore) Ltd., went on strike this morning, picketing their offices m Clcmenceau Avenue for an hour. The strike is
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    HOLIDAY MOOD IN BRITAIN
    59 1 MILLIONS of British families turned their backs on -k and worry yesterday t join the big rush for the coast and country for the traditional August Bank Holiday ■<-end With ihe promise of warm sunny weather— of which there has been little this summer— it looked
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    TRADE OFFER
    22 1 The Russian Ambassador to Persia. Ivan Sadchikov, has offered a barter trade agreement to Persian Premier, General Haji Ali Razmara.
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    OIL ROYALTIES
    22 1 Britain and i i have reached an agreerv 1 on the question of royalty payments for Iraqi oil supplies. U.P.
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    Best bets for today
    41 1  -  ALLAN LEWIS Frcm PENANG, Sat. \|V best bets for today 1 are KING ARTHIR, LITIFER and PEROSTAX. The weather is fine, and the suing; is expected to be K-od. Trespasser's best bets are ASHOK and GRECIAN PKIXCE.
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    Two Wide Boys
    14 1 There's Pcnang, Ceorge. I hope it'll be well worth our trouble."
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    JILTS PRINCESS FOR ACTRESS
    154 1 HOLLYWOOD. Saturday. C*KROL Flynn has jilted a princess for a Kansas redhead. The new love m the Hollywood actor's life is Patrice Wymorc, leading lady of his last film. She will become his leading lady m real life m about three months. I The 41-year-old actor
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    THREAT TO CLOSE
    26 1 Issaeli shopkeepers, rebelling against the governments new austerity order rationing clothing and footwear, threatened yesterday to close every store m the country.— A.P.
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    23 1 QUAKE KILLS 100 One hundred people arc reported to have been killed m an earthquake In the Venezuelan town of El Tocuyo. Reuter
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    Surprise check at Commons
    85 1 LONDON, Sat gCOTLAND Yard officers carried out a surprise security checkup on hundreds of workmen at the Houses ol Parliament yesterday m the first big-scale screening there since the recent wave of sabotage m Britain. The big check-up led t;> reports that new evidence of gabotage
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    RED BILL TO BE PUSHED
    40 1 The Australian Foreign Minister Percy Spender, said m Sydney yesterday that because of the Korean war, the government would insist on early enactment when Parliament convenes m September of its bill to outlaw Communism.— U.P.
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    HUGE FIRE HAVOC
    27 1 The entire market district and upwards of 2,000 homes were razed yesterday m a fire sweeping through the western Anatolian city of BaJikesir. A.P.
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    Ex-queen wants aid
    76 1 X7X-QUEEN Joanna of Bulgaria has approached the InHi ternational Refugee Organisation to find out whether she is eligible for aid as a displaced person. The Queen would have to send documents to the 1.R.0. m Geneva and All m a fairly complicated questionaire framed to determine among:
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    'Little plane' is touring Malaya
    142 1 THREE membcri of the Sm- gapore Flying Club KaJlang Airport at 7 a.m. today m a small OesflUl aircraft on a flight round Malaya over the August Bank holidays. Their firs; stop will be Kuantan and then Kota Bahru this afternoon. They will arrive m
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    Nehru bits back at critics
    270 1 Nehru bits back at critics NEW DELHI. Sat. DEFERRING to a LX> "warning to inc. given by a member of the Indian Parliament against "dollar imperialism". Mr. Nehrn m id yesterday that youn Americans who were fighting in Korea v. not taking part 11 "dollar diplomacy or u other intrigue".
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    S. AFRICA GIVES FIGHTERS
    37 1 The South African G eminent has decided offer a nghter ■quadron ground personnel t'i aid United Nations tote Korea. U was announr -c Pretoria yesterda> The squadron will be a gulir ui Reuter
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    HEATED ITALY
    24 1 Tornadoes, violent l*orn_ c'nd hea; the death of one p« more than 2.000,000 <'(•■• damage ;o property In during the past 24 hou >
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      African Assignment
      653 2  -  Capt. W. E. Johns By- Another 'Biggies story n oi a S ttish trader m the Übt has refather i. i. On ftis U trip old Soutar had but a frien him a l:Ule tin > t > Africa to mysterw. Tommy 'o the abandoned the little box
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      28 2 j b it Daphne?— London Zoo's five month old t. >( > spoon clean after keeper R. S. Smith hid fed them during their nrst public appearance at the Zoo.
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      'BIGGLES' CREATOR
      101 2 W. I- JOHNS, well known author of the 'Worrals' and 'Bi sales' books was born m Hertford m 1893, and was educated at Hertford Grammar School. In 1913 he entered the Army. He wis transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, serving m France until September of 1918, when
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      Malaya-bound With Raffles
      1451 2  - Malaya-bound With Raffles S. C. GEORGE continues his exciting sea serial "In Days of Old Midshipman Andrew Christie and his friend, Ben Noakes of a privateer recently returned from sia, are pressganged on to a Naval warship at Plymouth. They both suffer ill-treatment at the hands of the brutal skipper.
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      'Snowie' Falls in Love
      382 2 I AST week I told the v story of "Blackie". the chick. This is the story of a snow white hen, "Snowie". Snowie was very proud of her pure white feathers. She used to preen herself often and she kept herself scrupulously clean. When she came
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      FROM THIS TO THIS
      37 2 FROM THIS TO THIS Ab dropp< d Ldnca«' airc boats' four to op tM r< ue safely on (I I right I The stranded airmen have climbed << ire sorting oitt the equipmen 4 air-sea rescue recently dc
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      244 2 Junior Crossword CLUIfl across.— 3. Proaan SOLUTION i which falls in flakes. 5. w»w**w»*w*^ v.ater Ii h wirh red fins. 8. ACROSS.— 3. BdoW. 6, Roach. Oam( played on a court. 10. A 8. Tennis.10. Colon. 11. Act. 13. punctuation mark. 11. Division Hop. 15. Foil-. 1C. Aviary. 17. of
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    The GOD That failed
    2863 3  -  LOUIS FISCHER-1 bfcgj .gjghjhg LOUIS FISCHER was born m 1896 m Philadelphia. After a few years as a schoolteacher, he found his vocation as a journalist, when he was sent to Berlin m 1921 by the New York Post. He spent most of the next twenty-five
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      Human race
      173 4 Human race 'J'HERE will be little bought for Korea. hydrogen bombs or! »ren Commissioners 1 allowanc m the minds ot many Maiay- They will be too busy propelling themselves over tl Mind at the fast I rate or leapin: towards thn sun or c tins heavy weights om their perF
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      Sir Stamford
      149 4 Jl -T ore d< mocratic Henry VIII, not Edward's rulni to Inmanly pursuits These" included barre" for -".ivy weights to the Incredulous n ol his flatt i 1 U di> d But In the 1 ol ibout nding n strar: a ish and Ived m everwho brought a
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    Allied Strength Is Building Up
    1314 4  -  H.J.Wickenden I Major— I analyses the latest I situation m Korea. Korean War Map GENERALLY last week the main weight of attack shifted from the North West to the West and the South West. This iceek we can expect the Communist attack to continue, with
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    USI Want Bureaucrats
    244 4 Indonesian Nation--1 ulist leaders have discovered that the oftdecried bureaucrats are more necessary to the community than doctors, technicians and Army officers, as they Try to replace their former Dutch rulers. The Indonesian Republic, which is facing the sail problem In taking selfrule as India and Pakistan
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    Talking about Singapore by Citizen.
    617 4 Talking about Singapore by Citizen. 'Professional Commissioners Jobs for local-born THE belief thai local A government In Singapore should have no place for professional politicians was unanimous among the Municipal Commissioners who debated the $300 question last Monday. At the same time, they were also unanimous that an allowance to
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    Cyprus—the 'Big Ear'
    363 4  - Cyprus— the 'Big Ear' W.T. KENT I By— CYPRUS. I OCATED m Cyprus is the "Big Ear" which listens to what goes on behind the Iron Curtain What Russia says over the radio to her own people, and to the people of the satellite states, ran be an important pointer
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    New Guinea Unsolved
    15 4 New Guinea Unsolved I*Ht I up Ti were whilmen The i wtoki h duct: i
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    1 4 RfcBOOUD
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      28 4 I The PEKING Co! 81. HIGH STREET. SINGAPORE. j i i CURIOS CRAFTS j PORCELAFS j DINNER TEA SETSJ YING j 37. STAMFORD ROAD. SPORE., PHONE ***** J
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      60 4 BETTER THAN BDTTERF^ faff S ,'th^J\ w i"v **-s. A~ "V > N A\ 111 v:ut is LB 1" i KOU n ILtO IV 2 it*. A 5 »bi ll\s "V CcnU«M noi Lm^ tk*n Int: TnlU of V Mtarnln und n In: rniu rain rm AN AUSTRALIA PRODUCT Stocked
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    BIG SCHEME FOR PUBLIC PARKS
    529 5 BIG SCHEME FOR PUBLIC PARKS Mr. Rae outlines S. M. C. proposals Ivr Fr <* Press Staflf Reporter [< I\ L or six large inland swimming pools, open to the public, and three or four public parks —m addition to the baths and parks already existing— should be provided m
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    WORK FOR HOSPITAL
    60 5 picture. Members of the Women's Service League. Johore Rahru, at work m the General Hospital. Left to right: Mrs. Hussein (wife of Captain Hussein bin Onn). Mrs. Warrick. Mrs. Ismail (wife of Dr. Ismail). Mrs. Murks Mrs. D. P. Rees (both .standing), Mrs. Carpenter. Mrs. Lena Yam.
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    First Asian in dept. to get senior post
    88 5 i R 81 Andrews n ho joined Municipality r clerk m 1927, has Asian m Department ed to a senior 3©(- appointment. Tan Beng Lay. Assistant Municipal Class II of the I 1 salary scheme at of $560 a recently returned i
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    Sikh stabbed
    16 5 \fch taxi-driver. Dara Singh, round lying I nead bleedStreet. Tiong Police that he oed.
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    Swimming pools, too
    110 5 rpHESE are some of the plans JL for the development o) public parks and construction of new swimming pools m Singapore: Conversion of Hong him Green nvhen vacated by the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club next year) into a public park with sports facilities. Building of a promenade
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    KEPT COWS IN HOUSE
    56 5 FR keeping three cows m his house, art Indian cattle-keeper was fined 50 cents by Mr. C. H. F. Blake m the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. The 'Indian. Segamuthu, of Ceylon Road, pleaded guilty to a charge of using his house as a cattle-shed without
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    Free buying of flour from Sept.
    315 5 Free buying of flour from Sept. Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. IT is the avowed policy of 1 the Government to return the trade m foodstuffs of this country to its normal channel of commercial procurement and sale, without restriction. at the first opportunity that -it Is deemed
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    $17,000 debt, nothing to offer
    143 5 $17,000 debt, nothing to offer p M Abdul Kader. of Joo 1 Chiat Road, told the Chief. Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. m the course of hus public examination ufl bankruptcy yesterday, »hat his total liabilities amoved to approximately $17,00 4 Tie was a married man -th eleven children. Kader attributed
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    'Don't expect too much from life'
    592 5 'Don't expect too much from life' DRAMA OF A SPORE ENCINEER By MAI KEEN MALLAL IN a little back office J over the Arcade m Ritt!^': Place sits a pleasant-faced, energetic yoiint* man who runs an unusual enterprise— a private investigation and inquiry bureau. The name of the young man
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    Police fully alert during holidays
    159 5 A LTHOLGH the main administrative offices of the Singapore Police Force will be officially closed this week-end the Force will be fully alert for any eventuality, an official of the C.I.D. told the Free Press yesterday. "As far as we are concerned", he said, "we
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    26 5 MR. H. SHAW. Administrative Officer. (West) Besut. Tren££anu, who has succeeded Mr. M. C. Compton (on leave) as Principal Assistant Financial Secretary. Financial Secretary's Office, Singapore.
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    SCHOOL CONCERT
    20 5 The Manneseh sisters will not appear with Trevor Macs Band at the Happy World Stadium as originally scheduled.
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    3-day youth convention
    88 5 rVELVE girls and :>3 Loyt all members t tv gapore Wesh v Mcl r :th Fellowship irom Furt Canning morning tv August Bank ho".:days m .1. convention at the V Council camp Johore. A programme, romp: Bible st-jdie.s ditt talks, camp-hres devot:services, community sin and oruamsed gam^s
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    135 Technical graduates to get diplomas
    675 5 135 Technical graduates to get diplomas Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. rvNE hundred and thirty five Technical Co graduates wiU receive their diplomas. 57 m absentia, at the first graduation ceremony to be held at the College Hall m High Street. Kuala Lumpur, at 4.30 p.m. today: The
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    NO REGRETS SET FOR ANOTHER VICTORY
    1731 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Prospects for Monday's races From PENANG, Saturday. A WELL-BALANCED field, including No Regrets, will face the starter in the top-class sprinters' event on Monday, second day of the Penang Turf Club August Bank Holiday meeting. Persian Lord, Uninsured and Raj Mahal will
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    Korea causes bear selling
    352 6 LONDON, Saturday. A WAVE of bear selling m me London Stock Exchange followed reports at reinforcements for North Koreans and checked an early upward movement m prices yesterday, states Reuter's financial correspondent. Some initial gains were 1 eras* d and the markets showed irregularity. Domestic issues
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    Bridge Problem
    63 6 /^LUBS are trumps. South leads North and Soutn are to all s:x trices any defence. Sou'h lf>3ds low spade ruffed with North's kins. Nori.h l^ads club six to South s eight. Scuth makes the spade :»ce. West cannot keep two cards m fcoth red suits: North discards from
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      141 6 HOW SHOWING j MOW cijaui. qoooooo^->o ooo /OOCOCC »w%^»r r *Ulv|JiC TONIGHT MNITE t jCSftl A Universal Serial m* j^Sk BUSTER CRABBE «^WBi Af Hi mv "FLASH GORDON o**£e%, tonight M«/r <-* f£u^ i ami -MARGARET SCLLAVAN <.l\K.s PERFORMANCE IN THE MOS'I COi'RA< OE THE YEAR" (London A N. M
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      113 6 T3k6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya ME EVEN WANTQTOKN3W IP I"" QJIET. THIS IS KQI [f"|^ HH^JHvvF^rHEftfcTD -'3 W S mX I T L_ YQI) WON'T f FT JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya JSSrr^JJJr^Si V U I^ 'OSA/^ 1/ MAY I HAVE /JEWELL
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      137 6 YOUR 1 1 ir.K Y STAR OORN today, you arc highly artistic and need beauty and harmony for happiness. You are exceptionally intuitive and should depend upon your so-called "hunches* when nuking important decisions. Your first impressions are usually the right one. Although you are energetic and have a lot
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    KING ARTHUR MOST FANCIED
    527 7  - KING ARTHUR MOST FANCIED ALLAN LEWIS Good going m Penang From PENANG, Saturday. T»HE going for today's races here is good and the x strongest stable Fancy is King Arthur m the fifth race. Stable connections say that the only horse to beat him is Park, while Rlcksmead, who will
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    SENG KOOI SETS NEW MAAA MARK
    337 7 VALBERCS Malayan hop, step and jump «»t 4i ft. 7 ins. set at the Malayan AAA KmLi Lumpur last year was shattered m I inf round for the event by Chua Seng I lore, who cleared 44 ft. 1? ins. at the first 5
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    Sutton wins golf prize
    96 7 Norman Sutton. 41-year- old professional at Leigh, scored his second major success of the season and the third of his professional golf- ing career yesterday when he 'took the first prize of £400 m the Oak £2,000 golf tourjnament on the Royal MidSurrey course. Sutton had
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    HABONIM SPORTS
    26 7 Habonim (Singapore), the Jewish youth organisation, will hold its third annual sporta at St. 1 Andrew's School on Sunday. Aug. 13 at 230 p.m.
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    Chew Bee wins tie easily
    355 7 Chew Bee wins tie easily ONG CHEW BEE, the Singapore triple champion, had an easy passage in his singles tie in the Malayan tennis championship in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, beating M. V. Ramu 6—2. 6—0. H. J. Sinclair and Goon Kok Ying were the first players to be out ol
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    Likely scratchings for Monday
    76 7 NON-ACCEPTORS for Mon- 1 day's racing at Penang are: Persian Lord, Uninsured, Raj Mahal. Mata Hari. Tudor rnde. Double Aries, Bonnie Prince, Autumn Balloon, Oregon. King Midas. Nanette and Crispian. Trainer Rodgers has not made up his mind as to whether Bright Eyes or Dark Brocade
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    Aftermath
    16 7 It's always ihe tame on. the last day can't **e rtis place for 'smashed patters'!
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    W.I. spin bowlers beat Surrey
    365 7 VLTEST Indies beat Surrey by an innings and 69 runs m spite of a heroic innings by Laurie Fishlock, the former England left-hander, who failed by three runs to complete his second century against the tourists. Surrey's hopes of avoiding I reverse were never bright,
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    County cricket reslts
    119 7 County cricket reslts dEsults ot count; At Bristol umptons! .:e m.. 180 and 178 for <;ne 98<; Gloiutsor LOO iv und 78 for 4 i}■ At Blackpool. morgan by an mnn. 1 Lancashire 413 Glai i Hi.ton 6 for \t (U< ton I x ij wickets. Essex 324 Bad fi4
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    TOMMY FARR GETS LICENCE
    54 7 TOMMY FARR GETS LICENCE 'TOMMY J-..IT. for.r.. i and boxing champ:o:i. wh h fought for for a licence in t d fvtx rd v b Board of Confo Farr. who is L with Joe Louiii for in the United he lost on p sparred with Jack Oal on vbe for
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    ZATOPEK BREAKS OWN RECORD
    39 7 ZATOPEK B REAKS OWN RECORD h:s own vorld record 10.00U n:< A time of II Zatope i 10.000 metrt- c running la i:r. I letic conit I land. He set v th- cord of 29 mins. 2 year.- Reuter
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    All The Latest Selections
    210 7 ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 FOUNTAIN LADY FOUNTAIN LADY DEVON BOOKLAW II FOUNTAIN LADY 2.30 Prattlin' Devon Fountain Lady Fountain Lady Dev»n Devon Prattlin' Prattlin' Devon Booklaw II RACE 2 CARAVAN EVENING STAR CARAVAN CARAVAN LITTLE LADY 3.00 Epsom Downs Epsom
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    Today's acceptors
    509 7 RACE 1—2.30: CLASS 5, DIV. 1—6 F. 000 Royal Bounty 9.00 002 All Boloney Bagby 8.10 000 Kakama Lansdown 8.07 002 Prattlin' McPherson 8.05 040 Booklaw II Jones 8.05 403 Red Plane Ayres 8.04 000 Kinta Valley Little 8.03 031 Devon Ingram 8.02 100 Lobau Lady Dunwoodie 8.02
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      48 7 Today's sport ATHLETICS: MiUun A.A~A. hampionkhips. (coat.) at University grounds from S pm. SOCCER: Slnf»p^e Malmya Cap XI T The Rest at JaUn Bear Sl*diuno. CRICKET: SJI.C. r Army at Nee Soon. B.C.C. Cwafc. School* *a PadanK. GOLF: Colony Championships quarter-finals at R.S.G.C. SHOOT: S.R.A. Bisley Meet starts.
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    TWO REDS SACKED BY PARTY
    209 8 TWO REDS SACKED BY PARTY Chose another ideology CAUX, Switzerland, Saturday. TWO former veteran Communist leaders told the 1 annual assembly of the Moral Rearmajnent movement Caux, Switzerland, on Thursday that they were expelled from their party because they found an ideology superior to Communism. Mr. John Reynolds of Birmingham,
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    NEHRU HITS 'OLD HABITS' OF THE WEST
    247 8 NEW DELHI. Sar. PANDIT Nehru has commanded India's policy ■aylng it was trding Korea to the Indian Parliament declaring it was good for India, ior Asia and tor the world. He charged the statesmen of the Western world with pursuing "old methods and
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    MEDAL FOR MOTHER
    57 8 picture Prince Baudouin of Belgium. 19, m whose favour his father. Kin? Leopold, has agreed to abdicate, pins a medal on Mrs. Emily Herman, mother of three, who rescued a child from drowning m the Aurthe River. Behind is his brother, Frim-e Albert. This is the Belgian
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    Not succeding Koo
    39 8 Th»> Ci i rOf Formosa. Mr. K. C. Wu. has rlatly donietl renorts that he would be n;uned If ailoß a 1 i .n r Ambassador to the United! Btates m luccesiion to Dr.Wollm»ton Koo. A.P.
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    RESUMES DUTIES
    23 8 The Soviet F«»r»-ign Minister Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky. who recently returned from a vacation In y:./.:.->bad, Czechoslovakia, has resumed his post. U.P.
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    ARMY AMBULANCES MORE RECKLESS
    237 8 LONDON, Saturday. OOWERFUL Army ambulances go as hard as they 1 can and are driven more negligently than any other kind of Service vehicle, said the coroner at an inquest at Salisbury, Wiltshire. England. Jwent^^year^oldJriy^^ did not stop, it was said, when he fatally injured a
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    A song for the boys
    35 8 A NEW son? for baritone, male voice choir and orchestra, entitled "Hands Off Korea," has been written specially for the Czech Army Arts Corps, the official Czech news agency said.
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    YOUTH BITTEN BY SHARK
    167 8 SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday. T^INETEEN- YEAR-OLD Derek Shaw, of Blackfield, Southampton, believes he was bitten by a shark while he was bathing at Borth. near Aberystwyth. He and Miss June Millgate. also of Southampton, were about 60 yards from the shore when there was a sudden swirl of
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    16 8 So 'c tljpi this me 'and. m' uy» Nobby, you vc got draft ch<» to Korea!"
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    Burmese repel Chinese troops
    55 8 RANGOON. Sat. JJURMESE Government forces have retaken the township of Tekilet, m Kengtung state, from Chinese Nationalist deserters. Official sources said the township was one of several places seized by between 3.000 and 4.000 deserters who had crossed over from Yunnan, Chirva, Into Burmese territory and
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    REDS SACKED
    24 8 Provincial i pajx rs In Japan have followed thi footstepi of thr natlon'a leading journals m dismissing Communists lorm their payroll.— Reuter
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    BRITISH NAVAL RESERVES ANSWER CALL
    194 8 BRITISH NAVAL RESERVES ANSWER CALL PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND, Sat. JgRI T I S H naval r^ervet i called into active service because of the Korean crisis have begun streaming into Portsmouth barracks. The first contingents, all enlisted specialists numbered 120 men from all parti oi England. Others will report at Portsmouth
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    Colombo on the alert
    50 8 pOLICE and troops are standing by to prevent the victualling of an American naval squadron expected m port this week-end. The ships, one Tusier and four destroyers, ar.^ on ihelr way from the Mediterranean to th? Far East Ootnmunisj port v have 'hrea'enrd not them.— Reuter
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    Universal training
    46 8 The U.S. Defend) Secretary. Mr. Louis Johnson. told 98 mcmbeis of a visiting delegation of girls of the American Legion Auxiliary that he firmly believed that universal military training would have kept the U.S. out of her present difficulties m the Far East.- A.P.
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    TROOPING THE GUIDONS
    62 8 —Sergeant J. Preece of the 14 '20 King's Hussars with one of the Guidons that were trooped before the Colonel, Gen. Sir Richard L. McCreery, at Catterirk Camp. Yorkshire. The occasion commemorated the day m 1798 on which King George 111 approved the Regiment assuming the title
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    30 8 Botn Houses of the Egyptian Parliament havo passed a bill making foreign and local pressmen liable to prison terms for publishing anything about the Royal Family without written permission. A.P.
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    45 SENTENCED
    23 8 Forty-five men. including a Roman Catholic pri^t, were reported to have been sentenced m Ostrava for work against Czechoslovakia's Com-munist-led Governme:.
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    MAID GAGGED BY THIEVES
    177 8 LONDON JHE maid answered as the phone ran, the fla{ x She explained that no one was at home Th, she was told to expect someone to call the television set. Fifteen minutes later tne doorbt;. .of the three men on the step said: examine the
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    'No yielding' on Chinese at U.N.
    31 8 on Chi the a I 1 The q toe! rean" 1. pea eci that r.rt be i of J mo ti Mr 8n^rr> f U.N.-A.P.
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      134 8 Solution To Crossword No. 116 SOLUTION.-AcrOM: 1. ComBUlide4 7. Muitard ball.. 8. Bt3k. 9. Hlium. 11, Emblem. 12, Ic;or. 15, Penally Koal. 16. Som^tlmea. Down 1, Comus. 2. Massed binds 3 Adam. 4. Dodder. 5. Drawing room Chum. 10. Vellum 11. Espy. 13. Rol; .h. 14. Eyot. THE SAINT by
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      189 8 New Crossword No. 117 CLUH 4CKOBB 1. 8. Only p hMle play to begin wttta 1 7. 6). 9. Not the headwear of a XC. (4. 3). 10. On return Nell us bad tempered ui-h us 11. A foreign noble. I reckon 13. A French disaster 1 m the Andes
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      Masthead
      8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, August 5, 1950.
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      The werewolf bound her feet
      301 1  -  GRACE RAYMOND hgj d Chinese custom, now rAed. is explained by .•uries-old legend. ig geners likely to .t |o wilm sv > of the :Di I most feminine xx -pins. often nowvou see I about the rustom of Iderirmity, I to s custom A can.v.
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      GHOSTS made to order
      520 1 GHOSTS made to order JACK THOMAS exposes the tricks of fake mediums. V havf acted as i nunon fraud I twisted something iu\ have much m it to your dishonest purthose words at Old Bailey the ReSir Gerald Dodiu 56-year-old Glover Botham n for 21 months, meditate on the tag
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      THEY EARN THEIR LIVING SOMEHOW
      563 1  - THEY EA RN THEIR LIVING SOMEHO W K. C. CHIA Do you begrudge a few cents for the wayside singer? says JJK ENTERED the hall of one of the Chinese Clubs m Penang, squatted on the floor and took out his paraphernalia. While the members calmly eyed the intruder, he
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      LOOKING AFTER WAR GRAVES
      450 1  -  STEPHEN SIM Mr, Tan Tong Toh's occupation is reports AVERAGE of two t<> Ihrce persons a day drive Fourteen miles out of town to pay homage to the war dead. This was told to me by Mr. Tan Tong Toh, care inker of Hie Kranji War
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      LOOKING BACK
      239 1  - LOOK ING BACK KLUANGER by Looking back to good old days when people didn't rare What they ate or drank when they perused a bill -oj- fare, You will find, at breakfast time, they had a pint of ale Plus a most enormous steak, and then a brace of quail.
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      The burglar was junior
      64 1 IT was net unusual alter the war to hear of exservicemen meeting iheir former sergeant -majors and others In curious circumstances But it was rather odder than usual m Tokyo recently. Former Major General Osawa surprised a burglar m his house. The latter offered no resistance,
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      Gilbert & Sullivan To Be Filmed
      1099 2 Gilbert Sullivan To Be Filmed From Our London Film Correspondent AT last a film is to tell the whole story Oi those immortals of the English sage, Gilbert anci Sullivan. Before the end of the year, Maurice Elvey tells me, the cameras should be turning at the Isleworth studios on
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      Disney's 'Cinderella'
      231 2 'THERE is an argumerit against reproducing fairy stories like "Cinderella" m any form— except, possibly, the ballet— because they are so vivid a part of one's childhood that any reproduction is bound to fall short of the minds-eye vision that the years have hallowed. Walt Disney has essayed
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      This Will Make Scotsmen Squirm
      551 2  -  IAN GRANT reviews forthcoming films T»HE pride, the independence, the patriotism of the Scot is proverbial— but surely there never lived a Scot so steeped m pride, so aggressively independent and so arrogantly nationalist as the one played by Richard Todd m the nim "TIIK
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      at the Cinemas
      190 2 n inn- o c- of Sher-w-'j-j lopst" 'a another actionpacked Ilia for those who lovitheir heroes tough, their heroines helpless and (heir villains very, \ery Wicked. George Mac Ready. Alan Hale and Paul Cavanouch are the rt«rs m a ca.si of thousands. Good holiday fan pavilion -Om
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      GUINNESS TO PLAY 'DIZZIE'
      221 2 G UINNESS TO PLAY 'DIZZIE' BY A IPtOM CORRESPOND-.,. HOW old are you, Mr. Disraeli?" I asked Alec Guinnes, who plays Queen Victoria's favourite Prime Minister m -The Mudlark" at Shepperton. "Seventy-one," said Mr. Guinness. He didn't look it. but, as he pointed out, Disraeli probably didn't look it either.
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      FIVE CITIES, LADIES
      139 2 VLTHEN Bonar Colleano Tf started- "A Tale of Five Cities" nearly two years ago he was supposed to be an American newspaper reporter touring Europe to write a series of articles on post-war living conditions. Now he Is finishing the picture at Riverside Studios as an ex-trapeze
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      They Say That...
      381 2  -  SHEILAH GRAHAM Hollywood gossip by UCILLM BALL goes to Cuba to make her next film, starring m "The Elaine Tounscnd Story"— about the American girl who took over the night life m Havana. There is a good part m it for Lueille's husband, Desi Arnaz. His family
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      A WELCOME FROM JEAN
      50 2 A WELCOME FROM JEAN riLM i ger re cently from hit pedition t<; K- three Iion> one buffalo One thmt Je Blmm dor. Airjx One thinp the airline erhim (Jowr. m ASaid Grar I anyone who brii again In. Bpoing to s:.-v B never bee But I don their ciolhr
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      SO SORRY!
      23 2 Amongst P. letter from a j i North Londv [1 was lovely Film c friend tried your hair SI ly apologia
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      A FRIEND IN NEED
      830 3  -  BERTIE TAN Free Press Saturday Short Story by \K the bed 1 said "A n need is a indeed**, must mini for I the time of and 1 will Ihe reason iesc terms. :*ning when In my not so i.op is a little side postwit h
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      A present for Moira
      74 3 A PARCEL FROM TOKYO for Miss Moira Shearer contained a wedding kimono, the gilt of Miss Tani Momoka. Japan's prima ballerina, m recognition of Miss Shearer s performance m the film The Red Shoes" Flown to London by BO. AC, the package was presented to Miss
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      Have we lost the art of writing love letters?
      845 3  - Have we lost the art of writing love letters? W. O. MURPHY asks fHKRK are many who will tell you that the art of writing love letters is lost, and thai modern love letters cannot compare with those of other days. Of course, it is extremely probable that the best
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      HOW THOU SANDS DO VOLUNTARY SERVICE
      708 3  -  KATHLEEN COURLANDER Britain's self -sacrificing 'Women m Green by IN ALL parts of the world today there is a great need for voluntary workers who will give their time, their bruins :md their hands to help others, sympathetic but practical people who wish to
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      £500 FOR FOOD PLAN
      275 3 £500 FOR FOOD PLAN JWE British Royal Society of Ails have just Mmounced a scheme of mnjoi importance for fn<><l production. It is planned as part of the society's contribution to the Festival of Britain next year. Thil marks the centenary of the world-famous Groat Exhibition of 1851 p London
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      Inglis gave up athletics for soccer
      520 4  - Inglis gave up athletics for soccer KOH PENG LONG COLONY'S MALAYA CUP PERSONALITIES— 3 By A PLAYER who has made tits name well-established m Malayar soccer is Bert Ingiis, a 21 -year-old Scot, who arrived m Singapore with the Army m May, 1948. Inglis, who started playing soccer when he
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      FLIGHT OF AN UMPIRE
      350 4 COVER PC.^T fact r cricket Is pj umpire Is lally r i the c- of ord is or dt renn |ud Court of v Council Into one. but neither of counsel or m. His me! i- raucoi all event.- I :.s seldom rectitud i his d
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      Vass, a fine all-rounder
      352 4 ■VAN .1. Y.vss, Singapore's Malaya Cup right half. was educated at St. Joseph's Institution and St. Anthony's Boys' School, Singapore, where he made a name for himself for his all-round performances m sport. Vass is one of the fastest and most versatile olayers m the same
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      45 4 photo BILLY REES (rijrht. the Welsh International footballer who tormcrfcr r f^r tenham Hotspurs, being welcomed by Arthur Banner, the caDtaln of ***><' mT Claptoti Orirnt^Prom left to rigrht: Arthur Banner, Bob Roon^ Xmuny Patibi Cyrtl TraHor, fSllly Rees and Gilbert Gldden (trainer) **«5«a, I Fox
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      Jack Gardner is the new 'hope'
      373 4 Jack Gardner is the new 'hope' V) JIMMY WJLDE fa-WorM flyweight king la not often that 1 indulge m an inquest, but \mm things have stuck m my mind since the Jner Williams fight. First, if Gardner gets irlv meeting with Woodcock and keeps the fi •> kt ftlMwUI m
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      Singapore C.F.A. team
      92 4 KGAPORE Chinese F.A. O team to meet Johof section linal f m Chißese Football Association i ;;> com.>n ;it Jalan Bear »»n M -ndav trill be chosen from the following 19 player**: Cbee Seng. v»-w Chang S;»w Tons. Yt-w Heng. Patrick Ytv. Hood Li I -long. Tian
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      7 4 Freddie Brown 6/7. 'Jin, and 75 storit'
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      They want to be 'tops' at soccer, boxing
      245 4  - They want to be 'tops at soccer, boxing ROGER YUE P^ BRANI BOYS CLUf By OOCCER and boxing take up most of ti Jr •3 the members of the Pulau Brani Bos, they are sparing no effort to gain major i m these two sports m the annual Inter rim
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      Freddie Brown—no better choice
      409 4  - Freddie Brown— no better choice Arc hie Quick By 2O Freddie Brown of Northamptonshire is to be England's cricket captain m Australia this coming winter after all. At the age of 39. and 18 yean alter lie last toured there, he |Mf as third choice following the refusal of Norman
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      New post for A. Stevenson
      9 4 New post for A. Stevenson FC mi i rltti
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