The Singapore Free Press, 10 July 1952

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    U.S. BUILDS UP F. EAST AIR POWER
    25 1 U.S. BUILDS UP F. EAST AIR POWER TierMi er- he *o r-36 re- lmne»d felt S tc Russianriga cf air nld-ap P. dfhndsoflsdnfud (Pig) U.P.
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    First bus for K.L.
    30 1 iff Reporlt-r. T RE K; bus ser- today <en- for the :.umpur .incl $6 for >nlj one npur The K. L. to arrive in 0 p.m.
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    Self govt. for the Sudan
    35 1 LONDON, Thurs. MR. ANTHONY Nutting, Foreign Under-Secretary. said yesterday the British Government hoped that a self-governing constitution would be in effect in the Sudan by the end of this year.
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    BROADER ELECTIONS LIKELY
    272 1 lyttelton on S'pore move LONDON, Thursday. N Uffeasc in the number of elected members A Singapore Legislative Council is to be nsidered shortly, -aid the Secretary of State Monies, Mr. L>ttelton, in the House of non jj last night ase in the City Council would. considered when
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    Malayans miss a Royal supper at the palace
    211 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. SINGAPORE'S Olympic team, now due to arrive in London on Friday evening, missed something yesterday a Royal buffet supper at Buckingham Palace which the Queen gave in honour of Commonwealth Olympic teamsnow in Britain en route to
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    HOUSES TO BE BUILT QUICKLY IN S'PORE
    117 1 HOUSES TO BE BUILT QUICKLY IN S'PORE Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Joint Relief Organisation will build. U last M it can new houses for the resettlement of Kampong Bugis fire victims. Mr. G H. Kiat. acting president of' the Organisation, told the Free Press this morning. He was
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    French drop napalm in new attacks
    97 1 SAIGON, Thurs. FRENCH Union forces have launched a most important offensive against the Vietminh rebels in Annam, scoring "initial successes" with the support of naval and air units a French communique disclcsed yesterday. It said 'Operation Quadrille" ncMinst the Communist-led Vietmirh forces began on
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    Robbers who got nothing
    66 1 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE robbers broke 5 into two houses yesterday and got nothing. The first house in Medan Road is occupied by Mr. P. R. Krishnan, a labour officer. The intruder used a skeleton key to open a side door. The second house in
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    INDIES REFUSAL
    28 1 The Indonesian Government has refused a United States invitation to send observers to investigate conditions in the Koje Island prisoner of war camp in Korea. Reuter
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    Taft makes a compromise on delegates
    292 1 Taft makes a compromise on delegates CHICAGO, Thursday. GENERAL EISENHOWER "and Senator Taft each won a -victory" yesterday in the bitter fight over contested delegations which is holding up the Republican convention's nomination of a presidential candidate. Senator Taft scored in the conventions credentials committee by aecur! its approval of
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    Truman is 'afraid'
    60 1 Truman is 'afraid WASHINGTON. Thurs PRESIDENT TRUMAN. 1 told reporters yesterday that he was "afraid" his "favourite candidate. Senator Robert Taft, will be defeated for the Republican presidential nomination. The President also denounced as a "damned He" allusions at the Republican convention in Chicago by Senator Joseph McCarthy to the
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    ACHESON HOME
    23 1 The U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson, returned to Washington yesterday from a 17,000-mile trip to Europe and Latin America,
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    SUNSPOT
    22 1 LONDON, Thurs. A moderate-sized sunspot was reported yesterday and this is likely to disturb wireless conditions between now and July 22.
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    CLARK REJECTS BRITISH PLAN
    42 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. GEN Mark W. Clark, Supreme United Nations Commander in Korea, has objected to a British proposal to appoint a diplomatic and political adviser to his staff to weigh strategic moves in Korea, it was revealed yesterday.
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    House was shocked
    73 1 LONDON, Thurs. A SHOCKED House of Commons heard a left-wing Labour M.P. propose yesterday that the Queen should turn Buckingham Palace into an apartment house. The House defeated by overwhelming majorities that suggestion by Mr. Emrys Hughes and others aimed at cutting the Privy Purse. It voted
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    U.S. not claiming riband -yet
    86 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Thurs. (GENERAL JOHN Franklin, I President of the United States Lines, said yesterday that his company would give the record breaking liner United States another Atlan- tic run before deciding whether to claim the Blue Riband trophy. He made t^ ls statement after a
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    ENVOY TO MOSCOW
    22 1 Mr K. P. Sivasankara Menon. Secretary of the Indian Foreign Ministry, has been appointed Indian Ambassador to Soviet Russia.-
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    PEKING REPLIES TO SHUTDOWN DECISION
    224 1 PEKING REP LIES TO SHUTDOWN DECISION LONDON, Thursday. .pHINA has replied to the British note of May 19 t announcing the decision of the Bntish tr adin interests in China to close down their staff, the Foreign Office spokesman disclosed yesterday. He said a summary of the note had been
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    Wireless secrets man liked Red life
    402 1 LONDON, Thursday. WILLIAM MARSHALL, a Foreign Office radio operator charged with giving information to the Russians, denied at the Old Bailey in London yesterday that he had written radio call signs and drawn circuits on paper for a Soviet Embassy official. Marshall, aged 24,
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    POWER: NICOLL MAY GIVE ORDERS
    148 1 POWER: NICOLL MAY GIVE ORDERS Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council plans to amend the Mui cipal Ordinance to enable the Governor to direct the Council to give preference to applications for electrical supply in connection with defence and security. Under the new section, to be added to the
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    MOTOR CYCLIST BREAKS LEG
    34 1 A 28-year-old Chinese motor cyclist. Chan Hock Guan. broke a leg and received serious facial injuries in a collision with a lorry at Kim Chuan Read at 8 a.m. today.
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    $190 STOLEN
    24 1 Early this morning, a shopkeeper, Mr. Kch Kum Seow, of Changi Road. Singapore, missed $190 from his shop, robbed in the night
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    Must put up with nagging
    65 1 NAGGING by a wile was not enough to justify a man leaving norne. a h bane, stipendiary magistrate. I Mr. Mansell ruled in the Summons Court. It was something all husbands had to put up with, he told racehorse owner and city businessman George William
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    FORMAL VISIT
    16 1 Admiral Earl Moun. batten, British Commander in the Mediterranean, will pay a fcimal I
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    The 'Bard' Makes Money on the Avon
    404 2  -  CECIL WILSON A RTISTICALLY there is little to choose between the Qld Vic and the Shakespeare theatre at Stratford -on -Avon But administratively there is a world of difference between them. Stratford strides ahead without a Government grant. The Old Vic stumbles alons:
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    211 2 U(»R\ tod iv to» trt an Independent soul and can be overly imperious klki to« want MBctMDf! Vod hare a very dcflrlW mind of vo*r •wn and like to have things done your way not as «ome•ne else says they shoild be done. Yo«r aspiration* ar« hi<»h
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    36 2 Members of Th e Stage Club rehearsing for their next production. "Goodness How Sad," on July 17th to the 20th at the Victoria Theatre. Left to rijjht: Patrick Slattery. Portia Duffarnott, Vernon Margrave and Estella Shepherd
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    —but he loses on the Thames
    20 2 but he loses on the Thames > ft! Ou >»c in b a.rrtoo Reid, on the banks of the River Thames.
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    A Pioner Flier Tell his Story
    437 2  -  JAMES STUART By Pi«necr Pilot' by Captain WT.iam Arir> rong (Blandford rORTY-OXE years ago a 14-year-old poor Tyneside lad watched one of the earliest airplanes plodding through the sky. Now he is Captain William ('Tim') Armstrong, DFC, 55--year-old airfields superintendent of British Overseas Airways.
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    He Sold Beauty to Big Business
    1228 2 Old Masters were the line of the Master Salesman UNDER REVIEW DI'VEEN. by S. N. Behrman (HamLsh Hamilton 12s. 6d.) fight against fears, by Lucy Freeman. A WAEKEK IN THE CITY, by Alfred Kazin. HOW TO TRAVEL INCOGNITO by Ludwig Bim.elmans. THE COUNTRY OF
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS
    154 2 BOOKS in the SHOPS Chosen Country, by Johr. Dos Passos. tJohn Leh-) mann>. > Extremely readable} nov in John Dos Passos' earlier manner. Two 20th-century American characters analysed and explained in terms of their ancestral background. Footnote on "Capri, by < < Norman Douglas. Sidg- < wlci arid J&cksca). The
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      53 2 Solution To Crossword No. 709 YESTERDAY S SOLI TION. Across: 1. Mutton. 7. Cutlets. 8. Barntan. 9. Liberal. 10, Aromas. 12. Termite. 17. A.-sail. 18. Debrett. 19 Ironer. 20, Reversi. 21. Down: 1. Mobrap i Turbot. 3. Ocul-r. 4. TilllHl— i I Client fi s'ont 11 MerI 14, Earner. 15,
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      144 2 New Crossword No. 710 CLUES ACROSS 1. Where to rock-a-bye-baby (4-3). 6. It's dope it you mix it up (7). 7. I am in the Governfcient <3>. 8. Their ar.istry is always caricatured (11). 10. Prej*nts m?n from being chained so to speak, to ape (7. 4). 11. That b,
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      222 2 BRITISH RED CKOrs RED (ROSS APPEAL mTTi^I JULY FLA DAY hLAo DAY Mrs L P 12 JU L Y CHARITY CONCERT i Happy World, 8 p.m. 7 K &S3.— Mr. KhooS 111l Y HOWCM OPEkA En 2 jULY Opera, New Star 7 t c N:iv World, 7.:0 n n I
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    SICK MAN BATTLED JACKALS ALL NIGHT
    47 3 I Thurs. man's h a 1 ali re:rom North- ctim such lime f x V." mango preirried a few hos- .iced ir. ither in a .thori- one they d and nearwere hut. .irmthe bite--but of a the unbu* off all A.P.
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    NEW AIRPORT FOR TOKYO
    8 3 NEW AIRPORT FOR TOKYO will be Bav U.P.
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    SAW PRINCE
    8 3 r&ito v -an f ?nce.- U.P.
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    BUCKLEY
    9 3 "HIS UNCLES THE HEAD STEVEDORE AHOUND HERE I"
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    VERDICT ON JULY 18
    49 3 The Internationa; Court ot Justice Is expected to give its verdict on July 18 on the n whether or not it la competent to judge the -PtTiian oil dispute *e!y-owned oc?an--4 American merchant fle^t on June 1 totalled 1,281 Of 15 300.210 d?adiht tons.- A.P.
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    HAPPIER MARRIAGES TO FIGHT COMMUNISM
    541 3 HAPPIER MARRIAGES TO FIGHT COMMUNISM HONG KONG, Thursday. lIAPPIER marriages and a more united family life 11 based on love are recommended by Dr. Douglas Campbell, a psychiatrist at the University of California here, as the best means of fighting the spread of Communism. Dr. Campbell has spent months studying
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    London decision leaves Mao cold
    374 3 HONG KONG, Thursday. yHE official decision of British business men to get out of China is now six weeks old and the number of British businessmen who have not got out of China has been spectacular. A quick chccK-up In the Uade and business centres
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    NEW DRUG MAY BEAT POLIO
    221 3 NEW YORK Thurs. AN estimated 35,000 Houston (Texas' children witi participate in a giant experiment with a biuod medicine researchers think may prevent paralysis due to polio. The mass experiment was announced here recently by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh. It will be financed
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    13 G.I.'s DROWNED
    23 3 13 G.I.' s DROWNED West Germany's blistering I was blamed for the deaths by drowning of 13 Arrencan soldiers at Hidelbv>rg Germany. A.P.
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    H.Q. GOES BACK TO JAPS
    47 3 The seven-storey Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo, general i headquarters for three Far 1 East commanders since World War 11, has been returned to the Japanese. It will be used by its original owner, the Dai Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. A.P.
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    EVEREST PLAN
    27 3 British mountaineer, Eric Ship: on. said at Khatm:ndu Nepal that he would make another attempt on Everest in 1953 equipped with beUer oxygen equipment. A.P.
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    EARLY POSTING
    24 3 Chris ;mas presents are already on their way from Britain to children who live in isolated parts of Labrador and Newfoundland.- Reuter
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    THE MEN WHO ALWAYS RETURN
    147 3 LUCKNOW. Thurs INDIA'S first honour system priscn has been opened here, the capital of Uttar Pradesh State. Inmates of the old central prison no longer wear convict garb and face the constant watch of guards. Instead they have been given civilian attire, are free frcm
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    DRAPED HEAD
    19 3 JEANNE CRAIN, wearing a new model evening gown with a sari effect which quite matches her personality.
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    Operative X-37 gets on the job
    129 3 NEW YORK, Thurs. A distinguished-looking young man, under the delusion he w;.s an FBI agent engaged in counter-spy work, would regularly visit a newspaper office every night. He would slink up to a reporter's table and whisper: "Operative X-37 reporting." The reporter would give
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    SWINTON WARNS
    30 3 Lord Swinton, Minister in charge of raw materials, said in London that Britain might weil have to "tighten up still further" on imports from non -sterling areas.— Reuter
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    VETERANS' BILL
    30 3 The House has approved the new G.I. Bill of Rights to give Korean war veterans most of the same government benefits awarded to World War II veterans.- U.P.
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    GIRL, 17, GREW UP TO A LIFE ON THE RUN
    290 3 GIRL, 17, GREW UP TO A LIFE ON THE RUN LONDON, Thursday. T'HERE isn't much Cecilia Mary Gater doesn't know about the seamy side of life. But then, she has a wealth of experience behind her. Although just 17, she has been in and out of courts, she has escaped
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    U.S. DISPUTE WITH FRANCE
    73 3 The International Court of Justice will hold the first hearing on France's dispute with the United States over the rights of American nationals in French Morocco on July 15. France has asked the Court to declare that the United States is not within her right in
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    RUSSIA CHEAPEST
    19 3 Russia recently outbid three other countries for a Pakistan contract for 130.000 tons of cement, says U.P.
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    OVERLOADED SHIP
    23 3 Costas Pontikos, the Greek captain of the freighter San Andrea, paid a 1,000-rupee fine in Bombav for overloading bis ship.- A.P.
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    Bridge Hand
    398 3 Both sidfs vulnerable. North dealer. NOKTH 10 2 0 t t« A J 10 9 7 6 5' WEST KAKT AA72♦ Q J 8 6 10 9 7 4 <? K 0 J U S 0 K ift t 4 1. A :5 A K 4 2 SOUTH
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      289 3 SifICiAPOItE 8.8.C. 9.30 am Schools; 10 News; 525 p.m. Programme Summary; 10.05 Music While You Work; 53Q Frank Walker and his Minia--10.45 Schools. 1 Thomas Peluso ture orchestra with Arthurs Riand His Orch.; 1.30 News; 1.45 cnar ds (baritone); 6 Mid-Week Ray Anthony Orch.. 2—5 Schools; Talk; 6js sports Round-Up;
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 10, 1952. Love and the Snobs
    278 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 10, 1952. Love and the Snobs ONOBBERY is not found only in the clubs of Malava. The head ut a London marn bureau tells us that working girls in Britain will no longer marry men who have to wear overalls to do' their jobs.
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    Tito talks
    217 4 MARSHAL TITO is u.e heaa of the anti-Russian Com muuist Government o I goslavia. He is a true patriot. There is much support for him in tne It is part of tne ideology of the free nation^ tiiai country may have any form of government people want as
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    BURGESS
    871 4 Mystery Man Stayed in Italian Mountain Village The missing British diplomat. Guy Burgess, has been traced to Asofo. near the frontier of North eastern Italy. He was there in June. After months of patient and persistent inquiry investigators hove picked up the trail that his eluded Hie professional and
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    19 4 U ouid it help i/ I wmjm report thgt i haw never given a proper signal in my life?"
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    The Disappearance
    252 4 O. kGLSS ana Mac ean :area SUtUUui* on Min -tf 2S, 1951. after a dramatic car dash from London to Southaynpton to catch the cross -C ha teamer s*. Fa.a>se. sailing a t mU 1 night for Si Malo. Then went ashore at St. Malo sight-seeing with the
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    THEY'RE ALL JOHN'OR GEORGE' IN TURKEY
    582 4 THEY'RE ALL JOHN' OR GEORGE' IN TURKEY says Henrv Thody IT'S all very coniusin Some 21 million Turks use only their personal names with the result that the Turkish 'George Smith" Just calls himself "Mr. George". The Turkish "John Brown", just "Mr, John" and so on Miraculously, however, the system
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    Rubber Pitches
    80 4 PRICKETERS may soon be batting on a rubber wicket as a result of experiments by the British Rubber Producers' Research Association. The exueriments are aimed at turning out a suitable rubber compound for artificial cricket pitches. Thr new comDcund would replace the traditional concrete-and-mntting practice pitches at school,
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    'The Richest American'
    255 4  - 'The Richest American' Frederick Gook They call himx \}ll I EW YORK. OF all the 1< v millionaires of as (where the;. themselves that lionaires are counted b$ the gross), probablv none is richer. inf, none is rm than a more-than-h; unknown char., named Harbison L Hunt. few friends and
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    WAR DEPT. MAY REVISE SALARIES
    151 5 'Good employers are asked for rates of pay Free Press Staff Reporter gALARY scales and service conditions of more than 30,000 employees of the War Department establishments in Singapore may shortly be revised to avoid competition in recruiting labour with fc< good employers", the Free
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    Wives plead with Welfare officials
    168 5 LET US KEEP OUR HOMES* Free Press Staff Reporter piFTY worried Singapore housewives waited outside the Social Welfare Department building yesterday while friends pleaded with the authorities to stop the Singapore Improvement Trust from demolishing their houses in Kampong Alexandra. Police were there in case
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    200 QUIT SCHOOL AFTER RAID
    147 5 200 QUIT SCHOOL AFTER RAID Free Press Staff Reporter pUPILS of the Yock Eng School in Tanjong Katong Road, Singapore, who wish to continue their studies when the school reopens on Monday are being re-regis-tered in accordance with the new policy of the school management, a school spokesman told the
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    Co-op may shut ship at T. Bahru
    46 5 Co-op may shut ship at T. Bahru r i staff Reporter vHRU branch .ipore CoSociety losed down iseof lack of members, chairty, told :ry on Ascted if I douo. The jles a conbe a were thrift Employers :ng that being 'wisely" van to n one store
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    Moneylenders will be kept out
    160 5 KEEPER FOR CITY HALL PLAN Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE City Council plans to prevent moneylenders and "other people whose presence is not welcomed'' from loitering in the corridors of Citv Hall. Mr. W. Irving Watson, City Architect and Building Surveyor, told the Free Press
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    FEWER TRISHAS IN S'PORE
    19 5 FEWER TRISHAS IN S'PORE >s Muff R< porter i today has and ol 323 by '.37 cars an year
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    Police oppose bail for 4
    54 5 Police oppose bail for 4 SEGAMAT. Thurs. Police opposed bail when lour men. Ong Cheng Leng. 30. Tan Yew Leong. 22, Chun Poon Ton, 21. and Tan Ken?. 52, were charged with being found in possession of 250 katis of noe under circumes \*:nch raised a re..ible presumption that it
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    NEGLIGENT
    20 5 MUAR. ThUTS.— For negligent driving at Jalan Bukit lr, a lorry driver. Tan Bah. was fined* $30 at Muar.
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    HAD CHANDU
    29 5 MUAR. Thurs.— For possession of 24 packets of chandu and charidu dross in a house at Jalan Abdullah. Kan Boon Swpe was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment.
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    ASSAULTED: $10
    26 5 KUANTAN, Thurs.— Musa. a fisherman of Tanjong Lumpur, was fined $10 in the Kuantan Court for assaulting Lee Yam Kiam. a saU fish dealer.
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    27 5 MK. IJSU taJ KWASG, a Singapore Improvement Trust land surveyor, who has been, awarded a £500 UNESCO fellowship to study modern topographi/al surveying methods in New Zealand.
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    JAPS SAY: 'THESE ARE OUR WARES'
    179 5 JAPS SA Y: 'THESE ARE OUR WARES' JAPANESE want to sell to Singapore farm appli- ances, sports goods, asbestos and other building materials, rice polishers, steel plates, noodlemaking machines and a score of other manufactured articles. Sports goods merchants said yesterday that they are interested in importing ping pong rackets.
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    NO REPLY, SO HE WAS SHOT DEAD
    54 5 SfcGAMAT. Thurs.— A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded by the Segamat Coroner on a 38-year-old toddy tapper, Sirukandan, who was shot dead by security forces on Aug. 23. last year, because he did not answer a challenge. repeated three times, at
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    Blackout schedule
    142 5 gUBSTATIONS liable to loa^j shedding tonight are: Cambridge Rd., Tan Tye Pl/F. Canning, Sean St. Waterloo St.. St. Andrews/High Stamford, Albert St., Short St., New Ice Wks., Firestone, MacKenzie Rd., Bt. Timah Pumps. Balestier Rd.. Jalan Ampas. 8.M.8.C., Mcßitchie, Kraddell Rise, Alsagoff's Fst.. Island Golf Club, Windsor Pk..
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    DEFACED CARD
    23 5 BEOAMAT Trmrs A Ti omo Guard. Ishak bin Mohamed. 21. was fined $10 at Seeamat for having a defaced identity card.
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    Show to aid St. John Brigade
    43 5 The Concert Organising Committee of the St. John Ambulance Brigade (Overseas) Singapore, will hold a charity show in aid of the new building fund on July 24, at the Heng Fong Lin Cantonese Theatrical Management, New World.
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    20 5 MISS ELSIE AMARASURIYA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Amarasuriya, of Singapore, who has left for Britain to study journalism.
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    School plans concert
    118 5 School plans concert CONVENT of the Holy Infant Jesus will stage a concert on July 12 to raise money for the school. The school needs $55,000 to pay for a $476,000 block of 22 classrooms, three science laboratories and an assembly hall for 900 students which was opened In February.
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    IPOH SPENDS $4,700 ON WELFARE
    158 5 IPOH. Thurs mHE Ipoh District Welfare 1 Committee spent- $4,712 during the 18-month period from January 1950 to the end of last June. The total receipts during this period was $9,223. This was revealed at yesterday's annual meeting of the committee, held at the Perak
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    BIG DRIVE -BUT ONLY 31 RECRUITS
    67 5 BIG DRIVE -BUT ONLY 31 RECRUITS Tire Press Staff Reporter QNLY 31 women have joined the Singapore Civil Defence corps despite a vigorous recruiting campaign. ."Many women's organisations helped in the drive. The Commissioner for Civil Defence, Col. L. T. Firbank, said yesterday: "Some of the 31 women have completed
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    Owners must repair homes
    252 5 Owners must repair homes Fret Press siai; <*r T'HE responsibility of A repairing houses in Singapore rest s and squarely" with o ers of buildings and not with the tenants, the City Archil Mr. I. Watson, told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. Wats n. irno i meriting on the Colony
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    Cook gets state aid
    71 5 Cook gets state aid SEREMBAN. Thurs. IJELIEF grar.' me< lan State Weilare I in Seremban on Tu Lint Din Haiisan. whose house wadown recently, w. to rebuild h;> h<~ Mrs F. C M man of N< men's Service Ijeagi. I $600 to buy t marhir.es and cl villages in S«-r
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    EVANS HITS 144 IN 110 MIN
    450 6 Bright play at Taunton (JODFREY EVANS, Kent and England wicketkeeper, made a sparkling contribution to brighter cricket yesterday when he scored a whirlwind 144 in 110 minutes off the Somerset bowling at Taunton. In the best innings of his career, Evans reached the century
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    24 6 photo. Short Hairs (Lansdown), winner of the third race at Bukit Timah yesterday, beins led in by owner Dr W. B. Dennehy Free Press
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    CORINTHIANS XI
    48 6 The team to represent Sirica pore Corinthians against the Singapore Traction Company in a! friendly soccer match on the P. T. ground tomorrow will be chosen from: Arshad. Jaffar. Endot. Ariffln. Pani. Daud Roslan. Hussein. Hamid. Ahirad Haji Ahmad. Bu&ng Tumin. Idris. Yusoff Halim. Balan i
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    Indians deserved to survive
    295 6 Chinese 0; Indians 0. TUIE Singapore Amateur F.A. Community League fixture between Indians and Chinese at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday brought a packet of thrills and excitement but no goals. Credit must go to the never-say-die Indian players for their stubborn stand in the face of
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    JUNIOR BEATS STAR IN 2½-HOUR MATCH
    182 6 COUTH Africa's 17-year-old •5- junior champion, Tony Fancutt, upset Brazilian stai Armando Vieira in a marathon two and a half-hour tennis match at Birmingham yesterday 12-10, 14-12. Fancutt's surprise victory came in the second round of the men's singles of the Midland County lawn
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    And not a word was spoken
    250 6 And not a word was spoken AMERICANS MEET THE RUSSIANS— AMERICAN Uiympic athletes had their first encounter with the Russians last Friday. It was a social flop. Both groups just stared at the other. No one spoke. The Americans said there was no intentional slighting. "Everybody seemed to be just
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    Yesterday's B. Timah finishes
    87 6 photos. PRIDE OF BURMA (Tulloh) beats Galway Grew (E. Donnelh off b v hair to win the first race. Lundy Isle (Ellery) was third and Redouble fourth ar Free Press SHORT HAIRS (Lansdown) hits the front to beat Applause <M<O«ud U a win the third race
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    A STRONG FINISH SAW PARMITER WIN
    1309 6 How they ran-By Allan Lewis Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $G70.90« 1. No. *****5 $181,143 2. No. *****8 90.571 i 3. No. *****0 50,317 Starters ($5,031 each): Nos. *****2; *****9; *****3; *****6: *****0: *****9: *****1; *****1; 238fV>8; *****0. Consolation ($3,019 each): Nos. *****9; *****3; *****3;
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    3 CUP CANDIDATES IMPRESS
    571 7  - 3 CUP CANDIDATES IMPRESS ALLAN LEWIS ertainment does best 1U By x; t WYNIKNT II (Tulloh), Technicolor K p a( j and Birthday Gift (Jones) did -a (rial in preparation for their Singapore meal on Saturday, on the second Uukit Timah this morning. 1 ed from the nine furlongs post
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    MELBURY COURT IS BOUGHT FOR $15,000
    37 7 MEL BURY COURT IS BOUGHT FOR $15,000 lIT Hrs 1 i ■iviiw I a ill new I 01. T. L. •id F.ng- j Kin. >!r|jndra. and s| prolific stake *t \t.ir. >he l in about I Sumi
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    JOHORE GRAND PRIX CARD
    12 7 Prix mee* S 3 J < n ex 3?0
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    DEATH
    5 7 Road. 5 p no.
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    INDIANS CALL OFF GAME
    47 7 The match between Cumberland and Westmoreland and the Indian touring team. arranged to be played at Carlisle on Sept. 13. has been cancelled. This is because the Indians wish to spend several days in London before leaving for home on Sept. 16.- Reuter
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    LODGERS WIN
    44 7 Lodger Unit beat Seletar by five wickets in a JLA.F. interunit tournament match at Changl yesterday, thanks to good bowlIng by Midgley who took eight for 25. Scores: Seletar 72 (Wakelin M. Midgley S-25); Lodgers 74 for five (Vidale 31. Reed 3-21).
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    JULY MEDAL
    30 7 The fadta* July Medal (Stroke) played last Monday afteriMOa resulted win for Mrs. Daly in "A" Division, Mrs. Holt in "B Division and Mrs. Pullen In C Division.
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    STORE WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY
    383 7 tgHJr.HTS f«r Satff urdu>s Singapore races: CL. 1. l'.M. A ItT.I Ourlet* 907 j Technkolttr 9.«2 Raj Mahal 9.00 Om* Three Oite Entertahunent II 9.90 The Bosun 809 Brave Wind B.ft9 < Snapdragon ft.»7 Fair Anita B**s j MaMin^h 8.04 Twelfth of Au» 8.03 j Baltleskip
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    Daly returns a record 67
    438 7 Daly returns a record 67 T 0 greater excitement for the next stage in the 1 British Open golf championship could have been provided than was the case after the first round proper at Lytham (Lanes.) yesterday. Fred Daly an Ulsterman with a new record 67, Peter Thomson, the young
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    Singapore Olympic team leaves
    71 7 Singapore Olympic team leaves THE Sinsapare Olympic team three men and a sirl— left Kalian* Airport at 5 a.m. today on the first lap of their ji>. u> Helsinki With t K n went the teim's manager. Ted Strickland and Kfe Soon Bee. coach to swimmer Neo Chwe« Rok. Others
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    Kumar reaches semi-finals
    90 7 T ARESH KUMAR (India) I lan Ayre Australia* and Brian Woodroffe (South Africa) reached the semiAna's of the Irish men's singles lawn tennis championship in Dublin yesterday. Kumar beat J. D. Hackett (Ireland* 6-3. 7-5: Ayre beat R. C. S^r? n (United States 6-2. 5-7. 6-3: and
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    S.A.F.A. LEAGUE TABLES
    822 7 ATEST positions in the Singapore Amateur Football Association leagues are: DIVISION ONE P W D L P APts Tigers 12 10 0 2 52 920 R.E.M.E 13 8 3 2 22 12 19 Rovers 10 8 1 1 24 11 17 Chinese Ath 11 5 3 3
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    C.A. recover to win 2-1
    165 7 CHINESE Athletics "A" turned on tne heat in the second half to beat Tiong Bahru Rangers by two goals i to one in a SAFA Div. 2 game at Geylang Stadium yesterday. They were a goal down- at half time. Tiong Bahru opened the scoring
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    RAFFLES WIN BY SEVEN WICKETS
    78 7 Highlight of yesterday's Interschool cricket match at Woodsville s between St. Andrew's and Raffles i was a splendid double by "P. s Nathan (30 not out and four for 5 runs), which enabled Rafflesiana to win by seven wickets. Nathan and Verity GUI (four for
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    JENKINS WINS 120 LAP RACE
    35 7 Raymond Jenkins. 21-year-old airman, yesterday won the 120-lap .irass track cycle race at Hong I4m Green. Jenkins beat SulUman Awang In a thrilling finish. Third was another airman, Ernest Hillier.
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    HOCKFY 'NATIONAL
    13 7 Du'rh selected t^am bv tv> wp*li to one, at Eindhoven yesterday.
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    Gavilan is after Ray's title
    121 7 WORLD welterweight champion, Kid Gavilan, the conqueror of Gil Turner, may challenge Sugar Ray Robinson for his middleweight crown in Philadelphia in September. Promoter Herman Taylor, who staged the GavilanTurner welterweight title fight, said yesterday he would try to arrange the Robinson-Gavilan match. "Both Robinson
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    ACCEPTORS FOR ASCOT
    93 7 riIHERE are 17 final acceptors A for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes to be run over one mile and a half at A on Saturday, July 19. Together with weights th?v are: Zucchero. Nuccio, Niederiander. County Delight. Ma: De Cocoßne. Le Sage. LAmiral. Frais
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    FICHT POSTPONED
    38 7 THE title bout between European heavyweight Kein Ten Hoff and Heinz Nelhaus. planned for Dortmund on Sunday, has been postponed for a WMk. Ten Hoff requested the pos'ponemem because cf a light attack of lumbago.— A.P.
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    SOVIET TEAM AT HELSINKI
    320 7 TpHE first big Soviet contingent for the Olympic A Games moved into their own special camp, with 'entrance forbidden" signs nailed to ninetrees, at Oianiemi, seven miles northwest of Helsinki v terday. The Russian athletic advance guard of 35 horsemen with eight grooms, 56 oarsmen and
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    Never have the Indians halted so poorly
    465 7 Never have the Indians halted so poorly rFHE Indian tourists gave their it batting display of the tour when they were dismissed n an hour and a half for 86 by Derbyshire at i bcttl rfield yesterday. Derbyshire had been dismissed earlier for 162 and scoring 29 without loss in
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    Boiteux breaks 800m record
    46 7 Boiteux breaks 800 m record FRENCH SWil n Boiteux yesterday the European 000-metre tree style record, i distance in nine minutes 38 J nds The old record of 9: 50.2 was set la- by the Hungarian, Gycr; das.. Ford Konno. Ha "•orld record of 9: 50.7.
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    ACQUIT CALVERT PLEA
    395 8 'Charges concocted by thieving gang HANOVER, Thursday. 4 BRITISH court martial was last night asked to give an immediate honourable acquittal to the much-decorated British war hero, Major James .Michael Calvert. The 39-year-old D.5.0., known as "Mad Mike", has pleaded not guilty to charges of indecency with
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    SAVAGE FIGHTING IN KOREA
    151 8 TOKYO. Thurs. SAVAGE SEE-SAW battles and lighter probing attacks flared along the full length of the 155 mile Korean battle front yesterday. The heaviest fighting developed on the central sector where a screaming massed attack by Chinese Communists armed with captured American flame throwers and backed
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    Reds weren't restricted in Hong Kong
    107 8 Reds weren't restricted in Hong Kong LONDON. Thurs. MR. Oliver Lyttelton, Colonial Secretary, said yesterday that members of the Chinese cultural delegation which recently visited India at the invitation of the Indian Government were not denied access to their friends when they passed through Hong Kong. Mr. John Rankin. <
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    TALKS AT TUNIS ON REFORMS
    61 8 TUNIS. Thurs.— The French Resident-General, M. Jean de Hauteclocque. yesterday received the Tunisian Premier. Salah Eddine Baccouche. to discuss methods of applying constitutional reforms proposed by France. According to French Residency sources the Bey of Tunis showed a "cooperative spirit" when the ResidentGeneral discussed th
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    Helicopters to fly Atlantic
    62 8 Two US Air FoFC e S korsky A-19 nelicopters w eave Westoverii; d. Massac 1 use Us, next week for the first transAtantic helicopter fl ght. Equipped with extra fuel tanks, t'ne helicopters, will fly 4.000 miles to Weisbaden. Germany, with stops at Presque I^.e, Maine.
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    Second U.S. protest
    69 8 COPENHAGEN, Thurs. A SECOND U.S. protest against the construction of another 13.000-ton tanker in Danish shipyards for Soviet Russia is reported to be on its way. The first tanker, Apsheron, was delivered to Russia two days ago. The Government ignored the first American protest on the grounds
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    TRIBUTE TO EVA
    25 8 The buildhig of 25 monuments to ailing Senora Eva Peron throughout Argentina j will be^in within the next 30 i day Reuter
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    Thought man in bed was husband
    317 8 KAMSGATE, England, Thursday. A BLONDE housewife testified that she thought A the man who crawled into her bed on the night of May 3 was her husband and that she would "not have allowed intercourse had I known h* was not". Mrs. June Rivers,
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    'SACK TURBULENT PRIEST' CALL
    349 8 Dean evokes storm LONDON, Thursday. THE Dean of Canterbury's findings on germ warfare drew horselaughs from the British press yesterday and brought an angry demand in Parliament for his immediate dismissal. Ten Conservatives asked the House of Commons to petition the Queen to dismiss the 78-year-old
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    New constitution
    25 8 Eritrea's reperesentative assembly at Asmara yesterday approved a 100-article constitution establishing the former Italian colony as an autonomous unit federated with Ethiopia."- Reuter
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    52 8 photo. VAAts jtaANNt SIMONIS, West Germany's first woman diplomat to be sent abroad, has arrived in London to take up her post with the German mission as attache for women's affairs. Frau Simonis. apparently shy, is about to cover her face with a newspaper as she Liverpool Street Station by
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    Family row causes power cut in city
    59 8 DIEPPE, France, Thurs. port city was without electricity for two hours x yesterday. A woman threw a radio at her husband during a family quarrel. The radio missed him, went out of the ivindow and hit a street light. A short circuit started
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    Russia casts its 50th veto
    189 8 NEW YORK, Thurs. THE SOVIET UNION vetoed in the Security Council yesterday an American proposal to condemn the spreading of false charges of germ warfare as likely to increase tension between nations. The vote in the 11-mem-ber Council was nine in favour, with the Soviet
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    US builds atom sub
    84 8 WASHINGTON. Thuis. THE United States Navy on Tuesday exhibited a A l 2 ft. model of the world's first atomic-powered submarine which will be able to travel i thousands of miles at high speed oil only a few pounds of uranium fuel. The prototype, now being
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    REDS ATTACK ARMY TRAIN
    51 8 Waiting Communist rebels halted an army patrol train with a mine 300 miles north of Rangoon, then attacked killing one soldier and wounding nine in a 90--minute gun battle A 200-strong Communist force, also blew up a railway bridge, paralysing through services to Mandalay, central Burma.-
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    KOREA WAR TOLL
    19 8 American battle casualties in Korea presently total 112.--12B—an8 —an increase of 552 over last week— U.P.
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