The Singapore Free Press, 20 September 1950

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 696 1 India 's motion is lost 33 to 16 NEW YORK, Wednesday. 'pIE United Nations General Assembly last night refused to give China's U.N. seats to the Communist regime of Mao Tze-tung. The vote on an Indian proposal, which would have given the Chinese Reds I
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  • 85 1 NEW YORK, Wednesday. 1 i?n Minister, Andrei Vishinsky, pslerdai th.it the Russian delegation to the GeMral Assembly would work for (thentag of peace and of co-operation iidship UMMg people." who arrived m the liner Queen ad a prepared statement, which said: n the General Assembly will
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  • 425 1 NAKEDAND THE LIVING From LIONEL CRANE BKFOKE SEOUL, Wed. \MEKICAN marilu's began their attack on Seoul across the Han river last night. Twelve nude marines, their facei and bodies blackened, led the advance. They swam across seven miles northeast of Seoul where the river is 200 yards wide. T.i'- v
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  • 84 1 DURBAN. Wrd. DR. D. F. MALAN. the South African Prime Minister. told a Nationalist Party con- > m Durban last night lor the hrst time m history the two major white I of th-> Union would stand solidly together if another war broke out. He said
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  • 35 1 K 'liable sources reported lay that the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Mr. A. H. Isphahani. will relinquish his post and :rn to Karachi about the >nd ol this fear. U.P.
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  • 430 1 LONDON. Wednesday. r PHK (Government last night defeated an attempt by A Mr. Winston Churchill to force new election. The vote was 306 to 300. Voting came on a motion by Mr. Churchill to put the House of Commons on record against placing the steel
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  • 224 1 Powerless HANOI, Wednesday. I)\KIIA, a French army post near the Chinese border, has been under attack for the past three days by Communist-led Vietminh forces, it was learned yesterday. It lies about 125 miles west of Dong-khe. which the French admit has been captured by
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  • 108 1 LONDON. Wc-d. I ORD Mancrofi said today J ;hat Malaya is making no attempt :o prepare for solfgovernmeni U id Mancroft. cnalrman oi tin* Conservative Speakers' A.^ociation mad- he commn*t as he arrived by plane fiorr Singapore after a tour of F'alaya He said: 'The Malayans
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  • 57 1 TOKYO. Wed. 'I^HE Japan Communist Party lost 7.2-7 members during August, according to the Attorney-General's office yesU rday. The office said that as oi Aug. 31. only 85.148 Communists were registered. The Communist Party itself, c'aim.s membership of 1.30.000. The Attorney-GeneraTi office estimated that there are
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  • 47 1 GREEK BRIGADE FOR KOREA A Greek brigade is to be ent to Korea to fight with the United Nations forces against the Communists, the Prime Minister of Greece. M. Sophocles Venizelos. .said. He said it will consist entirely of volunteers now serving m the armed forces. A.P.
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  • 67 1 Mr. Attiee admitted m the House of Commons yesterday thai one of the seven men appointed to the new Steel Board is a former Communist. The appointee is Mr. William H. Stokes, 55. He is an organiser for the Amalgamated Engineering Union. "I left the Communist
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  • 273 1 Reds attack own patrol 1 AEG I, tted. •TPHE North Koreans lost at least 12 dead and some prisoners as the result of an abortive attack on an Argyll platoon position on the British left flank early yesterday morning The Communists cave themselves away when two attacking groups each of
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  • 21 1 The Chinese Reds ara building new airfields m th« Soutli China province of Kwangtung and extends* old ones- A.P.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 665 2 SING A PORE DOCTOR r<AN you please tell me what causes nose bleeding? I have been suffering- from it for nearly a year. I get an attack every few weeks. E.X.L. Singapore. ANSWER: The causes of nasal bleeding may be due. either to local factors m the
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  • 112 2 THE man who operated on George Bernard Shawwas Mr L w. Plewes, orthopaedic .^iireeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. Recently he formed a nonprofit making company to provide occupational work for the badly disabled. Through the company patients make surgical appliances designed r.nd perfected by Mr
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  • 30 2 A SURPRISING method ol protecting animals, and possibly humanj against the < ffecU of atomic rays has bet-n discovered by Belgian scientists giving weak ;nJectlOOS of prussic acid.
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  • 764 2 THOUGHT-READING EXPERIMENTS [EXCITING new exDeriments on longdistance thought-read-ing, which might enable secret agents to use telepathy for sending and receiving messages, are being made by a London scientist. Government security officials are actively interested m the project, since it offers a possible method of sending signals which could not be
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  • 240 2 VHE astonishing case of Gracie, an 11--year-old girl who pulled together a disintegrating family after expert psychologists had failed, was described to British Association scientists at Birmingham recently. Gracie was one of five children aged between three and 14 living m a dirty, neglected home near
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 38 2 New fliraclc Drug for Cold* M&SI is ANTlhislamine SOLE DISTRIBUTORS* The Singapore Dispensary w <)Rltl\i:i) ROAD TEL. KOfMi I yfii, r^ij cooling f' a^ m j a i ns^Bß^j|» REFRESHING S p# •A 4 frambozltd!^^! J ESTo. 1304
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    • 181 2 WHICH OF THESE AILMENTS DO YOU SUFFER^JjffI x/^^ 5^ warnings jfr** fle**" —or worse may c y»mr doctor tf" you i 1 at o't«* t*- 1%% M«f wtfi m Ctlchin f r^. W mrrnmt i j.-h -MINERAL ANO hm'ok. Ht|». V.TAMiN OtflvfiENCY thu Vtim.M I, and 0 t rou'r* *ot
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 245 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR g!>KN today, you hive a. of your mtuie. Vnckrstrong character and neath you are something of considerable individuality. a "softy" when it comes to You care little what others your close friends and think as long as you can those you love, because of a I go
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    • 238 2 B 1 rv^ H^ JKt^^^K Km afIHBS -t jt^i: a j i ■M|^^?^^~~^ (13 9HI HHf HhI fIHH —^-szh rT 1 1 J .j± HHBi JHJHJ HJ 'S2)^2? io ■Wu^^i 1 Whence Napoleon v.:»s able lO eoaw aack <!• 3 A baui nan la such covering ,G>. 8. Cheer a
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  • 233 3 Police fail to stop racketeers LONDON, Tuesday. British housewives, ready to buy nylon stockings at any price, are encouraging the black marketeers who are giving the London police one of their biggest headaches. Every time the housewife pays the extra few shillings above the controlled price,
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  • 34 3 P.I. sends welfare unit to Korea s"IL A. Tues. m service Philippine •7 rosi will be PI tr: fora to t- nea to a!Ch Of ombat team .1 by the the nmiulI and Reuter
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  • 29 3 M ACHINERY ORDERS Recent arrivals m Hong X ag from Communist China said that the Peking Govment was placing abroad largf orders for industrial maeninery and raw materials U.P.
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  • 116 3 photo VATICAN CITY, Tuesday. |HF shinj steel f wtij of one of the worlds most 1 powerful radio stations wiil be a tangible and mark ftf the 1930 Hol> Year. Pope Pius XII upon the occasion ;bilee— April 2. 1949— Vatican ili be completed
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    277 3 A 7 table at which played m a --of-f our match. Soi.th lad mad* a contract of three ro:p. as described -lay. H_s opponents predicted -am-mates when the/ held the North-South card* -ach four hears and ge. ,_htered. The first r.a.f of that :e vnen :he bidding wen.
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  • 21 3 Korea Rhee i right to gowrn ol the 33:h m Ambassador Mr John II 3ar As- A .P.
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  • 27 3 liam DougD He* Delhi on ir iald he does major il de- Persia m the mli ss they come nf a TmrW process A.P.
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  • 50 3 Preliminary steps for what is pxpeo'.rd to be inrreasea military assistance to the Philippines w rt re ta«en when leaders of the United States military mission plunged into a se:ies of conferences with President Quirino and th^ chitts of national rief^r* ar.d armed forcet.— U.P.
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  • 270 3 CHICAGO. Sunda>. 4 BIRD EXPERT said that people who say owls are wise are stupid. Crows are much smarter, said Austin L. Rand, bird curator at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. Crows are Sc smart they out-smart people sometimes. Mr. Rand said. But owls
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  • 49 3 Coloured pipes for smokers KPOOL. LANCS T BRITAIN S p:p pu c an br:ar A factory m Blackpool will sr»on be turn.- *m out m b'.Uf. red or v t> m the familiar b: wn and b!.i I later t ciuce club pip \s inniimprahlp tball far R euter
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  • 33 3 Four hundred million yen 1 -100,000 1 worth 01 postage stamps have gono v] flames as the two-.-' rey Na- yi Central Post Office was i to the ground- Reuter
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  • 306 3 photo IRIX. FRENCH-SPANISH FRONTIER, Tuesday. yEN THOUSAND tourists a day are crossing: this border station since Spain legalised "cheap' pesetas for visitors on August L They have- literally flooded the Irun-Henday< frontier, forcing customs and police guards to wort 24-hours a day to clear them. Border
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    2 3 BUCK LEY
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  • 26 3 Reuter is to send a inteer fore I X remit 50 men. The force is exp< rporattd m thp 1.000 sir ng Belgian force.
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  • 191 3 'People must fight Reds', says Ouirino MANILA, Tuesday. npHOROI'GHLY convinced now that CommunUm has become a very serious threat to the Republic, Philippine President Elpidio Quirino has put the peace and order issue squarely before the people themselves. He appealed to them to do their "voluntary" part to assist the
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  • 116 3 LEED.< V 1 PEOPLE m Leeds <Yorks- go to the cinema t<s hr.d a house. An enterprising c* agent ha> Installed a miniature cinema m his Alb street office where he shows a 15 -minute documentary colour film of Le^ds This covers all
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  • 91 3 Thousands of hungry zens of Incncn. South Korean port capuied by United Nations troops, flocked td :.ouses and walked off sacks of rice. Thcv claimed The rice had oe. to them and had been nscated by the Comrrr. M°anwhile United Na..c::> forces tried to re t
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  • 25 3 Be' T iv i r.om 43 v: throughoir J In Tokyo to i paign to oppose the m? piu ge of < rs Reuter
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  • 11 3 Ifr J A < wouic ■ie end ol Reuter
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 93 3 lama coHtractorand A'-Wf^^t^r'^. I need a truck that s jfg y v j(M^ gj^eaeni^K^ n a fowsoM THAMES wi7/i a /ios/ o/ B/G Wf W FEATURES The New Fordson "Thames" Trucks Available m 3 wheelbases 122 are "Precision Built" throughout 128" and 1 57" (heavy trucks). 128 and packed with
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 245 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Sing: r-r:] (BLI'E NETWORK) 445 pm Procramme 10 a.m. N^ws from Singjpo. 4.47 Ficm the London Bditortell 10.50 For the Schools; U Pro- B BC.: 4.55 Composer of the grammes m Malay; 1 p.m. Dance Week— Sira\:nsky; 5.15 Report Music— Horace Heidt Orcnestr.'.: ,om Bri:ain (BBCr 530 Band--1.30
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  • 337 4 ON IHi: OCCASION of the Sultan of Johore's birthday, the Regent of Johore. Tungku entertained at a formal hinrheon. From the left la this photograpr. are I v !<i:K ihr- Beting Bes;ir of Johorr. Tunsku Ampuiui Besar. the si ter n. the K^vnt of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 22 4 ProtecVgour^operl^ v^^°\ tlmcs the total fe to>^ vta> \v^» o\ Installation cost, ot^ C C^^ S 0 4 9 at the Burglar's
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    • 89 4 P§& KODAK FILM f IN ROLL. ..AFTER ROLL... 1/ AFTER ROLL... AOU need -iple speed and latitude io the 61m you use. But abov .11, you need these qualities m constant measure for dep»»- iable picture taking. So why take chances? Use Kodak Film— the him that delivers uniform quality
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  • 38 5 Psychiatric probe into war causes IRIS, WYd. Ured ps>\ S -s to conferback in'<» rst Annual k ric Conoid, of ...rornia. on.' »a:d the i "put the i couch and ..it makr [1 will if wmi DSTChlatrlc A.P.
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  • 25 5 WOODEN, BUT UNNATURAL knowi —invented by >t of the has beer. .000 refr troop- Scythi ing iikf a ,r «na and is obthitmgli 240 i.nds
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  • 15 5 id n thar .1 'A.'fpk m Reuter I ..d tha? ■^asod trade U.P.
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  • 220 5 LONDON, Wednesday. TPWO hundred children were asked to write down 1 truthfully all their fears. Not one of them, boy >r *irl, could ay: "I'm not frightened of anything." And not one was afraid of his or her father— "a ?omplete and very welcome reversal of
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  • 69 5 Mock war 'jammed' The American. British and French mock war m Germany. "Exrrdse Rainbow.' ended at noon yesterday In a breakdown of radio communications caused by jamming Two unidentified transmit-. wer»* responsible. A com- I munications omrer said they were not Russian. It was disclosed that Germans had tiled more
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  • 45 5 The car of Mr Jayaprakash i van. I nd. an Socialist leader, was *T.>nf*d recently n hf wa touring strike-bound mill ar^a m ">ay. Mr Nmrmymn was unharmed but six textile worker* who were followina his car were f !y injured- Reuter
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  • 25 5 A Hungarian trade delegation hats arrived at Peking 'fade talks Trade missions visited Poking recently from Poland. Czechoslovakia, md Eastern Germany.- U.P.
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  • 294 5 WIFE WAS 'CRAZY FOR BABY' Talked friend into it NEW YORK, Wednesday. A PRETTY, twenty-five-year-old wife, "crazy for a baby," says she talked her husband and an unmarried woman her best friend— into having a child because she could not have one herself. The wife, Mrs. Edward Hartman, is defending
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  • 210 5 SAN SEBASTIAN. Wednesday. KIN(i I AROIK had dinner hist nifht with the Duchess of Valencia Spanish royalist who has been jailed by Franco at the Nicolasa Restaurant. San Sebastian, famous for its fish cwrifl Also present were the two Ministers who are travelling with
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  • 97 5 SOVIET TEST OF ROCKETS REPORTED STOCKHOLM, wea. RUSSIA carried out largescale combined V- weapon and radar manoeuvres m the Baltic area last summer, reports the Stockholm newspaper. Aftonbladet. According to what the paper called "reliable information." seven-ton guided, missiles were launched lor several weeks from three bases on the Baltic
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  • 73 5 NO RELENTING ON JAPAN The Philippines is adhering to i T s polity of a hard peace with Japan, but there I indications it will be modified by the time the coming i treaty conference convenes. President Elpidio Quirmo said at a luncheon for newsmen that he was not aware
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  • 246 5 MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS PARIS. Wednesday. AS soon as her husband rubbed his eyes', stretched out his arms and woke up each morning, the wife j leaped from her divan bed and whispered: Darling, what did you dream last night?" And always the reply came
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  • 50 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. THE U.S. Slate Department said there have been no knovui peace ovcrtnrc-s from the North Korean Communis's. Mr. Lincoln White. Press Officer, said the Department lias no confirmation of a London report, published m an Italian newspaper, that feelers had been put out A.P.
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  • 67 5 Tom-toms as greeting CROYDON. SURREY. Tues. *|K)M-toms b<at J'in&le rhy--1 tthnifl for grotesquely mafked dancers m r Croydon, Surrey, garden last week. It was part of the reception by 500 studenis at Croydon's International Language Club for the Oba of Benin. Nigeria. Kine Aken/ua 11. Kinn Aken/.u-a was visiting )ii
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  • 36 5 Peking Radio has said that Ino early discussions on the I Japanese peace treaty could Ibe Initiated without prior agreement on the subject be- tween China. Russia. Britain land the United States. Reuter
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  • 107 5 NEW DELHI. Tttes. IN the .sunlit orchards and dark ba/aars of Northern India, a young Calitornian named Norman D. Waters Is gaining a reputation as the man who buys rotten fruit. Mr Waters, an entomologist, is combing the vast area for a tiny Insect a
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    68 5 Qen< n«l "Blood and Outs' 1 Patton's ra-.np at Oulton Park. Cheshire, has been put up for auction. Lots Include 425 huts I theatre, a church and a i prison. Wli RICANS CAIX THE Tl NK.-Kussian s«ldhrs In Vienna march past to the muskr' vn American unitary
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  • 20 5 REDS EXPORT BAN The Communist South China Trade Bureau has banned the export of cotton yarns and i-Mtton p>ce-goods. Reuter
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  • 190 5 Bombing immoral if.... LONDON. Wed. ATOM BOMBING and largescaL- ordinary bombing are both immoral. If suffering inflicted is out proportion to the military advantage, says Professor R. E. Peierls. of Birmingham University, president of Atomic Scientists" A tion. m the A'om'.c Bdratl News He declurcs "'The use of any weapon
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  • 68 5 A leven-toot l 1 batross halted tram and ij>c when it waddled ;he Tamline at Boinii. A istralia Fillets of fish lured a spot where it v ;».s cm for Taronga Park Z )O. <*!•*•: }K).sin'4 for nhotonranhers It vas believed that it ha -1 br*-n iniur^d
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  • 33 5 Neutral mirces m Ju nave stated that Com ist groupings m Indon had merely a slight cha: r^ai'.s.ng their annom. plan* of bringing Comtnun-lst-intplred political Da a singl' group Reuter
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 13 5 ark \r vus 5^ BE€R jrs-\, t M THE fA<T ASIATIC CO., LTD
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    • 192 5 —but no sickles? PLEXMISH machinery, nutv nolts. valve« ami suruit-al instruments v.M he inmnj the harvest ftfta laid before the altar at St. Stephen's Church, Southwark. this month. The machinery and other equipments are all made )>r firms within the parish. £iiiiiiiir,iiitii !ni!tc3iiii!!:iitiiiMii:!!iiii'n!iiiiiiimiC3iiimiiiiiiC3iin:iiiniitJuni'^ I THE SINGAPORE I PACKING 1 1
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  • 406 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20, 1950. Prices and the public T HE formation of a 1 Pood and Price Advi- j sory Board m Singapore is a Ions:- overdue step. Ever since the Korean war began two-and-a-half months ago, hoarders and black-marketeers have been playing merry hell with
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  • 533 6  -  RAY FALK By TOKYO: THE successful saturation bombing of North Korean industry by the United Nations' airforce is a tremendous blow to the whole Russian economic pattern m the Far East— a fact that is little known and little appreciated. No one here knows the
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  • 187 6 OALZBURG, home of the world-famous Salzburg Festival, is to have a new Festival j house seating tfcree < times- as many musiclovers as the present Festspielhaus. The present building, which seats only a 1,000 people, was built en the site of > the episcopal stables along-
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  • 648 6 GO frequently performers are asked how they manage to memor so much music and what their recipe is for doing so 0 A few would reply to the effect that it is a gift, most would smile wryly and say. 'Four or rive hours practice
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  • 761 6 L.P. Records-First Impressions week I heard a Long Playing record for the first time. In a month's time you may be hearing them too— but dont bank on it. Some retailers have ordered LP records and equipment and, m the ordinary way, would expect delivery by October but the gramophone
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  • 311 6 Mendelsohn- The H-bridc*" overture pla>rd by the \irnna Philhaimonit' Orchestra iKurtHanglen. HMV. IJ.B. 6941. A good record inn of one of the most vivid lad most popular of all tone poems. The itringfl are belter rt corded and the woodwind Deiter phned tiiaa m !ie Halle version. The
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  • 125 6 When You Jog Your Memory UTHEN yo ff memt thing, litt electricity brain run flesh of you They cm. your skull. The dis< electrical memory was i the America. gical Assof John L X Robert H. of Tuft ford, M This d with I geons tl trical. Tin operation brain
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    • 29 6 CALDBECKS ii "SCANDALU PIANO ACCORDIONS CTIIi til p< ifli f ■^p-51 FOORMAN'S MUSIC STUDIO s 'JOM. J7. ORCHARD ROAD fLOOR T Volt PgNANC: ROBINSON PIANO CO 4E t<^ J^J
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  • 287 7 AIRPORT SCHEME WILL HIT SQUATTERS Eviction when site is chosen Ul Fr ee Press Staff Reporter JHh problem of moving squatters from the site to be chosen for new runways and buildings m Paya Lebar will have to be considered when the Singapore Government builds its new civil airport m
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  • 49 7 T Reporter hours m a French H R. R. bia KivouA case of he brought :ion j plained is ma yes- airport. :> Ing with AlX.l M suphe pre\vn. tssion to he re:his brcv a c of his plane arrived there were left. I he mpm
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  • 191 7 Free Prt^s Stuff Reporter DR. O. Eckmeier, a ministerial counsellor of the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. German Repv.blir. arrived In Singapore yest rday by QEA-BOAC C DStella- en route to London fl secret diplomatic mil A :^tralia. "I cannot reveal the nature oi rr.y mission." Dr. EckmK.
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  • 267 7 picture. Free Press Staff Reporter LWQI'ISITE sarongs and sarees formed part of a large consignment of clothes, medical supplies, tinned provisions and milk sent by the Singapore branch of the British Red Cross this morning for the relief of victims of the recent earthquake ir\,
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  • 155 7 £EVEX students from Malaya five Malays and two Ceylonese, selected from 150 applicants left Singapore this morning by X.L.M. Constellation for tw o years' study m Europe, sponsored by the United Nations. The party includes two girl students. M:.ss Pakiam and Che Yang binte
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  • 61 7 Free Press SafT Reporter JOHORE BAHRI', Tues. CTATING that he was a watchmsn on a road roller and therefore had to s» wherever the roller went, Saravani m the Batu Pahat Police Court claimed to have no fixed place of abode when he was charged with failing
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  • 123 7 Free Press Staff Koporter A DELEGATION of 15 Boy Scouts from the Philippines arrived m Singapore yesterday on their way home after attending the second National Jamboree of tin 1 Boy Scouts of America held at Valley Forge. Pennsylvania, recently. The party will call on Mr. T
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  • 164 7 Free Press Staff Reporter THERE is still one towchang (pigtail) m Singapore m spite of this ancient Chinese custom having gone out of fashion for more than 50 years. It belongs to 74-year-old Aw Yoke Hce who told the Free Press yesterday that he had no intention
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    71 7 TEARFUL boy m white shirt is seven-year-old Kong Seng Foh, son of a furniture shop proprietor m Koek Road, who was m an acr Jrnt m Orchard Road yesterday. He was whistling as he sit on tre bar of a bicycle on his way home from school,
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  • 238 7 Free Prrss Staff Reporter ALL phases of school activities In the Colony will be featured m a 10--minute documentary film, entitled "The Citizen of Sinpore." which Is expected to arrive m Singapore next month from Britain, v.here It is being processed. Audiences will sre shots of
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  • 74 7 The United States Infor- mation Service has donated 31 medical and nursing books to the Kandan* Kerbau Hospital m Singapore. The presentation was made last week by Miss Margaret K. Beadles. USIS Librarian for Singapore and Federation. The USIS free library at Raffles Place will now allow
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  • 167 7 SINGAPORE people applying for legal aid may qualify as paupers if their worldly possessions are valued at $200 or less, according: to an amendment to the qualifications of pauperism. Fil'tyseven people have been granted free counsel m this way by the Chief Justice
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  • 34 7 THE American President Lines freighter, President Harding, which left Singapore for Penang early on Wednesday, put back for repairs yesterday morning when she struck a fishing stake which damaged the ship slightly.
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  • 150 7 Free Press SUIT Re? r PROGRAMME of m dance and drama v ill "»e presented at the YMC.A II il on Friday at 8 p.m. Miss Rosalind Tan, sopra who recently returned 11 three years m Melboi where she received trail., will sing two groups of
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    • 207 7 EO ENDS MY SEARCH FOR A DREAM— Bey iHE WEDDING SAMBA DP 21T TAP TAP— Sa:r SCOTTISH SAMBA DP 218 LA PALOMA— BoIero EN i"RE CHATOS V SAETAS R 3295 CARA <Quando>— Bolero O MAMA MAMA— Samba I WALTZ OF MY HEART LOS CELOS V EL VIENTO— Dar.za R 8
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  • 1201 8 Controls again if necessary Free Press Staff Reporter AN assurance that the Singapore Government was very much alive to the price situation m the Colony and was prepared to introduce counter measures when necessary, was given by the Secretary for Economic Affairs, Mr. Andrew Gihttoor,
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  • 263 8 Tin prices maintaining progress LONDON. Wed. r |MN continued its slow reA COYery m very quiet conditions yesterday. At the dose spot stood £4* better at £769 and three months was quoted £6i higher at £7651 The closing prices at thn afternoon session were; jSpot L'76B buyers, £770 sellers with
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  • 230 8 Free Press Staff Reporter PENANCi, Tuesday. DESPITE the terrorist campais", tin ore production has increased m the Federation while the output of rubber has been maintained at a hisn level. Tiiis progress Is recorded hv the Penang Chamber of Commerce m Its report on the
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  • 57 8 i BURMESE itratc -'Tdav tli •••ib^r> i.f the Slngai v n Rangoon 40 Burm^e rapm each, wiih the al'^rnative <»f (me month's hard lab<> >r ♦•n'^ring Burma on S^pt. 14 without Immigration •>r valid passp I Tb*> nn ar^ Chan C'^ng Kit N'k Cheoßf Pul
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  • 40 8 FRASER <v NVav. S<\ will n.;»v Imp- rial Clu-inlral Industries S.C. Un Sundiv morning In the inUT-com-m^rclal h iv tM'i^iinton competK Rotterdam TVadinc who rlrt»w :i bye m^f»t the u:n: thta match m the next rot i iid
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  • 31 8 A DAN Dar the pi i d i Park and an Do] vej IDv1 Dv Cour One of and Nee A a I 1 rapabl- i picture.
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  • 337 8 [London Stock Excha^l LONDON, HVdr»,s dn THE Stock Exchange shed its recen, m caution yesterday, and ended th«- trading on a bright note. Small gains wen many sections and followed some b« investment buying. Nevertheless there was an on restraint awaiting the vital itcel c ment.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 204 8 STARTS TODAY 11. I 4.> 4. (i.30 Hi 9.30 p.m. I at Q T» Iv** M jp '^^^^^gJgW'^4 m -jr^^-. L^^gajgr^ B^Sttstk s3ay YVONNE fe CARLO NOW I 14 i SHOWN f 1 11. 1 4J 4. H.JO y.^o p.m. THK FIRST POUERFII. HALAI DKXMATK STORY! '^bb s B^ggßfgg^^^gggggggggg{9BHHyH JifV
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    • 113 8 JUST ARRIVED FROM ENGLAND/ THE BAND FRO 4 S. S. "CARTHAGE WILL PLAY FOR YOU TONIGHT ONLY THE LATEST COMTIKENTAL DANCE MUSIC AT THE AIR-CONDITIONED PLEASE BOOK EARL* //fGREATNESS GHUT staks: QBBAI mi L* f \M» nil RARENESS IH' C^A REACHES CUT VO r^V AM) \I\KI-.n \OI H A^J RVRSY
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    • 115 8 mSfldrdkC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya S-) .VMAT A BAT TIE/ FM£Y I I Stl il fvVHAI KINO CM |I 1 DOW*T KNOwT I VOW 'l rTRICITV NO CAN lET rC| BtAl A^ J« GUARDS/ LJ ihfM. PLACE iHIS? U LOOKS LMtf A I C>o y/»L/^ IJ^
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  • 1472 9  -  ELLERY QUEEN INNING A GREAT NEW DETECTIVE SERIES by OlKTll s v with gton. 1 udy the ;ary. M veral none and novel inlng annoyp m "I i H s B taid «c DD to the m IS d< rare i have into U bet >gs and
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  • 93 9 Ellen/ Queen is the pen-name of two cousins whose real names are Fredenc Dannay and Manfred B Lee. Theirs is the most successful collaboration m literary history. They hare published fifty-one books of detective fiction including some under the pen-name of Baniabu Ross arid their
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  • 351 9 4 BLACK king A from the African jungle who arrived m Rome !>y ;iii with a leopard skin tossed over his shoulders still appears lo be the 1950 Holy Year's most picturesque pilgrim. He was one of many unusual travellers to Rome who stood out from the nearly
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  • 1145 9  - THE GREEN BICYCLE Wednesday £6tvt £tb*y LISTENING to the nine-thirty news on Hie radio the night before, I had heard the description and although then I had paid little attention to it, somewhere the salient facts must have lodged m my subconseiousness. This morning I was cycling along through Geylang
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 87 9 tcfcty F'>st/ Cow Gate Milk Food is made by a special process from the milk of world-famed pasturelands. The most modern and scientific methods are applied to every stage of its preparation, so that the valuable and exceptional nourishment of the purest and richest milk is available m easily digestible
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  • 666 10 DYSON COACHING COURSE PRAISED 'Best thing for S pore athletics' By CRUSADER T WONDER whether the coaches and sports masters engrossed m the talks now being given by Geoffrey Dyson at the Victoria School hall have noticed it— the chief British A.A.A. coach's knack of keeping his audience fully interested
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  • 360 10 By A Special Correspondent ONE of the most encouraging aspects of British professional golf is the challenge that is being sradually made by up-and-coming youngsters to the experienced players of the country. Ken Bonsrield started the fashion when he not only figured prominently m tournaments, but
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  • 194 10 Freddie has the real Jardine touch By R. GLENDENNING SHOULD any of our Australian friends feel that their cricketers will be on an "Va*J wicket" next winter because the M.C.C. have resurrected 39-year-old Freddie Brown I warn them to think I v, mild so so far as to say that
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  • 59 10 NEW CROSS were last night checked m their bid to win the Natural Speed I k championship v ai were b- at< d by j.»n oy 61 pon's to 23 a' Wimbledon n and C Br :>. borh scored ttv 1 ma\i- 12 p > r Wimbleand
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  • 471 10  -  C.H.O.D. ALEXANDER By ONE of the forms of chess skill that arouses most curiosity and obtains most undeserved admiration is the ability to give simultaneous displays. The performer will normally play against anything from fifteen to fifty opponents, going rapidly round from board to board making a
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  • 600 10 Line-up of BankaBilliton soccer XI rpHE Combined Indonesian soccer team, sponsored by the Banka-Billiton Sporting Association of Djakarta, will arrive m Singapore on Oct. 3 for a series of matches m the Colony. The touring team has been picked from the best available players m Bandoeng. Surabaia. Medan, Purwakarta. Subang
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  • 113 10 ar the prospects of Gordon Richard** thll year beating: his own 1947 record of 269 v inners In one season? Bookmakers offer 4-1 against a new record. Richards is slighly behind his figures of three years ■go. On the last da] August 1947. he
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  • 175 10 IT looks like good-bye to football for me. It's no use kidding myself any more. This old knee, I'm confident, will be good for many more seasons of cricket, hut I can't see it standing th«* strain of seri<»us soc er r:.ain. Bat even if I don't
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  • 326 10 ACCENT ON CRAFT IN BARNSLEY XI By AKCHIK Ul II k »T»HERE is a new look about Barn»le> f.M,t| )di 1 Oak well pattern has always been "get th e all costs and get rid of it quickh rhanged. Even the policy of its manage a Mr. An^us Seed has
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  • 73 10 Rees to play here again By AR( Hit {>{ R T) AI ■*•*••>• Mi« British matt*, title telh m< i VlSlt m? Auslti, MH-ond time ai li^ will dfflnn. the plane ami at Sinsapor«> and < He i> aKn i offer to f?o d«r.< visit to n accompam* i harlie
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  • 98 10 I X Satunu* Ml*, kpvn* Kvlion (bar. I i. ,n I UllljM Huu »i -i,, \f» i i ham K.»i BMI > ttlt uimf balli Mx kkin Hren i nirt <>rin>kt M*n. hr»lrt I < >hrrbr.J I ii .tn|»l..n li-ixtol N »lrr I n ion PI vUioUlll
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    • 17 10 I fc jji i Jfl LIFEGUARD MILK CO., LTD. 3 5 36. Medeiros Building. Spore. Telephone: *****
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    • 113 10 FREE PRESS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS irrnii IiS^ATl iS^AT! lk A C^ N J,T^l TUATIONS WANTED-ACCOMMODATION vACAN' tS^n M D m A s^l N la^o N u T s ED FOR sale ve for sale-was" Write your advertisement here m BLOCK LETTERS f,v. word, to a U« Cost p» 'wjinimum 4 lines*
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  • 386 11 HO-OAKES COMBINE SPLITS photo. 'But show will go on' Oakes •JHE Ho-Oakes combination, which started promoting professional boxing m Singapore five months ago, has split. "There will only be one name m the promoting business m Singapore at present and that will be mine," said Walter Oakes who gave no
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  • 121 11 AT the end of the Singa- j pore Motor Club rally on Sunday cars will be brought to a central point for a few very simple driving tests. The rally will start at 9 a.m j at the Registrar of Vehicles Department ward (to be en-
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  • 33 11 pOSSLYN Park beat Hayle by three polr Is 1 nil m a r by Union match >*^rta t v a sec md YorlaJhire C :p R igby Le: Batl^v beat '.■'-8.
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  • 154 11 SMC to run race in Malacca SINGAPORE Motor Club propose to run a half-mile sprint m Malacca on Oct. 29. The course is described as a 'very sporting" one, the layout of which is very similar to "Shelsley Walsh* m England, although the gradient is very much less. The ioad
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  • 70 11 SHANGHAI is to Witnesi a or.c-^ay cricket revival says a Hong Kong repcr*. This wiO be \he first game of this season m Shanghai and ly the las: 10 be he former Shancc■. club ground m the racecourse The mat to place on Sunn iv.
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  • 85 11 >o( KM: *Xi II Cup Final. BaM Workshops. R\ IE Keft. at Jaltn B*>>ar stadium. BHtatM Hou** A: ShHI v I ra*n A Nfa\e at CifyUng. Buy Hv. IV Chartered Bank v BuWom at CYMA; Friendl* Tionjs Bahru Han»ers v Indian K.I. at I arm Park. Xl <;RV:
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  • 52 11 PHI for 1 FAHELF Cup soccer Unal jalan Besar S i Hum will be at 5 p.ir. r. 3 15. as prtstated. Grr. ral S.r John Harding, n-C., FARELF. w. sent the cup at the end of the game. The Band of the Is: Devon* will b
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  • 120 11 Free Press Safl Reporter IP.OH. Wed. a BRILLIANT" spell late m r\ the game saw Hong X Chinese wipe c rX a three-goa! and force a draw with Ferak m their soccer match here yesterday. Perak. who lit-lded several players, scored u*h Hr.niila In the
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  • 134 11 UDDIE Thomas, the British welterweight champion, has been nominated by the European Boxing Onion to fiKht Italy's Michele Palmer 0 for the Italian's European title. The E.B.U. said the contest must take place by Nov. 26. The place for the fight has not been
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  • 63 11 'piir Mixed Pour:::ber pi. mi: k D. H Bun i ff7 9 N G H. I -II 73 <: .Mrs. S X G.iw A: E. S M Khatena .93—20 73 >: F v :<7— R J.»: iM— 23*i 74^4); Ifn H veil A: I. J. Walsh
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  • 39 11 LONDON, Tuea \V. S. von ihe Seiangor age Cup at the annual the Senior G Malaya heic: Coodenbeach, BexhUl, after a triple tie with W. H. Elkii former Malayan champion, and A E Mullaly.
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  • 71 11 pATI CH Karib (at pn In every department (be Royal Ar::.. P..y Coip.--INf c Soon) m th-ir' SAFA Junior Cuj) tic at Oeylang jresterday. They won by six goals to nil. The wiantn scored nve of their poal^ ]n i he first half through I-rjail. who notched
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  • 26 11 Tne third annual athletic meeting of the Singapore Medical Services Union will be he.d at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday, beginning at 2.15 p.m.
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  • 18 11 Col: T- Ur Friday for a it m P rth 7 c be t r. 2
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  • 181 11 T EFTFIELDER Charlie Keller and rightfielder Tat MnlHn, a pair of veterans who had been used recently only as pinch-hitters, started for the Detroit Tigers and went on a batting rampage which helped blast the Philadelphia Athletics, 12 to 4. m an American League baseball
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  • 501 11  - Three famous jockeys to start stud ALLAN LEWIS By lIELEN LEE, a pupil of the n Malayan Seminary, demonstrating the proper handling of a limp body m the water at the Mount Emily swimming pool yesterday when she was tested for her intermediate certificate of the Royal Life Savnig Society.
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  • 110 11 Perth invites Singapore Motor Club CINGAPORE Motor iub have received an invitation from the Western Australian Sporting Car Club to send competitors to the Australian Grand Prix next rear. The event is being organised by the W.A.S.C The Grand Prix will be held on March 5 at Norro£in, near Perth.
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  • 98 11  -  MORE than 300 people X re entertained oy Mr ChiO at a house war: party at his new proper joining thf S:r.gap-:>rr I Farm, 9i m..t-> Buk:t T n Road, on Sum.. W '.-'.coming the gu» Loh Chin apologised being able to a.low his friends to
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  • 59 11 JOHORE BAHRV Wed THf ved at X B I I the K. tig I c. betwee:-. the X .::ese ar. Q ol $2 000. K. to c B. h cups as souvenirs. p:e'by D: S:ew r. These were handed r to the cap;. :^.e teami by
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  • 82 11 T^-IE !ol.o*;ng ru»'-e i chosen to repre«er.* the MorJu Hill B.P. a^airut the Registrar of Vehicle* S;:. I a friendly badminton match, ror.ng of four men s singles d three men's doubles, at t ROV.S.C. court on s 2 pjn. Goh Tiang Seng Yeo Km Cheng. Tay
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    • 88 11 of THE :£AT d .rd p.m. AMATEUR KRONCHONG CHAMPIONSHIP < MALAYA n i!n>ny .f Prizes 9m*S& i ft" -:«FKTION!BT 'I!! i rv- E FREE PRESS i Jpore or jnch Office m C?!d Storage 0 char^ Road. TABLE TENNIS EXHIBITION ALL-INDIA Team is using DUNLOP BARNA Balls delusively m all matches.
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    • 35 11 LUNCH TIME CONCERT SATURDAY 23 rd September with Rocchi 's Quartet featuring Cor Rjif Solo violinist EN|OY GOOD rCOD TO GOOD MUSIC C^ +i if I T 1 fi n p i! y mm w
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  • 28 12 THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Noel V. Lange. eldest son of Mr. Mrs. P. Lange. and Sybil A. Youn*. daughter of Mr. Sc Mrs. V. A. Young.
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  • 20 12 MRS. CHITTAMPALAM A. GARDINER passed away on 18th Sept.. m Colombo. The funeral will take place on 20th instant.
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  • 39 12 THE FAMILY of the la' e Mr. Tock Sang of No. 8. Lorong 34. Geylang, thank all relatives is for their wreaths, letters of c I nee. loan of vehicles, atd night visits funeral on 4rh September. 1950.
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  • 402 12 Three-Poiver agreement FRANKFURT, Wednesday. THE United States, Britain and France have agreed to end their state of war with Germany, it was announced yesterday by their Council of Foreign Ministers. The Foreign Ministers also said that their governments had decided to "treat any attack
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  • 141 12 U.S. neglects its gifted children A MERICA is n-slecting its aA "greatest red and talented childrenAmerican Psychological Association was told at the State College. Pennsylvania. Prof. Paul Witty of N western University, said iha' I a fen- states provide special educa'io:i.il fad. Bd 10 ai low proper deve'.opm riu of
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  • 49 12 NICOSIA. Wed NEW British military cantonment, with barracks, married quarters, a flipping centre, and other amenities i s beinu built at Dhekelia. The present B: :<■ ftbOUl Ijttt strong Press :e--porta sitv that it *:11 shortly b*» strerißthened by U Tripoli and Sou'h A::: i A.P.
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  • 61 12 The Marshall Plan's leading fond expert said yestei that, he hopes that -some, ii not ail" oi the jood requirements of war-ravaged South Korea can be met thr< I contributions by the Un U.P. 1 Nations m^n 1 1 More than SAOO tor.s of Indian juio goods
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  • 84 12 MRS. Phillpa GranvilleMartin. of Walton-on-Thames. Surrey, drove a car along a footpath and ran into the backs of two men, knocking them over, it was stated at Chertsey England. One man was her husband. Flight Lieutenant GranvilleMartin. now m Korea. She said she did
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  • 50 12 The U.S. State Department yesterday again insisted that it had received no proposals either from the Indian Government or the North Korean Communists, despite rum»un ot peace moves m Korea. Spokesmen for the Indian and South Korean embassies said they kn*'\v nothing ab )M\ possible mediation. Reuter
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  • 26 12 Yesterdays quotations on ;he Hong Kong Money Exnge were: HKS6 34 per U.S. dollar. HK515.60 per pound sterlL'P. Ing. HKS296 per tael of gold
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  • 105 12 WASHINGTON. Wed. T»he U.S. Senate yesterday ■i- passed and sent to tinWhite House for President Truman's signature four bills under which a US $110,000 Fund It to be established for the education of Iranian students In the United States. The money was paid to the United
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  • 50 12 Seventeen nations taking part m Western Europe's recovery programme yesterday took a step towards freer trade by signing the agreement on the European Payments Union. Th<» Marshall Plan Orgmnisation indicated last week it was ready to provide $350,000.--000 for TTTe union's initial working capital. Reuter
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  • 30 12 jar of mussels at the shop of Edward J. Yanderplank. Kingsley-roac!, Ilounslow. Middlesex, went off with a bans when an inspec tor opened it. Vanderplank was fined £20.
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  • 130 12 NEW YORK. Wed. 117 ALL Street suffered its Tt first setback yt-sterday after five consecutive advances But the amount of profit -taking and other pressure which developed was not alarming, and the composite average rate showed a mild loss at a barely steady close. Dealings at
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  • 167 12 LONDON, Wednesday. EFFECTS of a drug were blamed by a dentist's wife accused of shop-lifting at Marlborough Street Court, London. Mr. Geoffrey Raphael, the Marlborough-street magistrate, said that although he accepted that the drug had had some effect on her, it was not an answer m law.
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  • 140 12 iiimstfh* f i<> n IONl)ON Wednesday. MINISTERS of 10 Commonwealth countries m London yesterday discussed at a dosed meeti, "certain general trade questions, including rece? developments jnEuropean trade co-operation^d commercial policy." This was announced m i press communique by the Secretariat of the Commonwealth Ministers Conference.
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    • 323 12 PERSONAL EUROPEAN couple wishes to a European baby girl 6-18 ha old All answers treat- strict confidence. Reply t 1 Bv-x No. SI2T. F.P. ATTENTION ALL Australian > N Zealanders! A Cocktail bM been arranged by the d Now Zealand As- for TOMORROW night it September, at *he B Room.
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    • 251 12 ENTERTAINMENT TONICHT AT RAFFLES P ANOVA Ballerina ROSALIE Personality Singer CASTILLO and his Orchestn SOLI ANO at the Hammond Or,* -DINE AND DANCE THEREBOOK NOW FOR ANOTHER WEEK-END OF ATTRACTIONS saturday-"MALAYAN NIGHT Atmosphere created by SYLVIA SUDANTn RONCCENC DANCERS. CASTILLO S ORCHESTti ROSALIE. SPECIAL DECORATIVE EFFECTS A COLOURFUL NOVELTY SUNDAY
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    • 73 12 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris Hj7!TFFll|/ I V ZORAS CAN TttA v BE.'BLjT^BfI I WHILE OMTHC SPARTAM COT /wELL.T^ 5 ISONE 1 P XZE 'T -v- vac rV^n vnn^~ A GET THE BUCSSiHASNT IT tA/H/S CH££*L£SS CELL- f WHERE THEY'LL NEVER SAY BQJEVC WE. I ANO KiOD'N^. OuT 0F H
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    • 13 12 HIGH TIDES Today: 5 35 a. m; 3..~>Sp.m. Tomorrow: 8.01 a.m; SI! p.m.
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