The Singapore Free Press, 24 July 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    ARMY APPOINTS EGYPT PREMIER
    788 1 Aly Maker Pasha to form Govt. for rebel general mvi? r 4 CAIRO, Thursday. |Hh hgyptian Army yesterday staged a "bloodless revolt and by last night had installed the elder statesman Alv Maher Pasha as "Emergency Prime Minister." The cou D was led by Gen. Mohammed
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    Scandals roused military anger
    84 1 Scandals roused military anger Tthe fourth crisis this my the* .<ed through reu>m of h posiy.onarch he offlot the ar with ced three from the Jews other and 13 men t«d I itical *lon r.e a d of Jfross at lnhad bribes r defeat M war. Pllfsine v now we
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    MORE TREMORS
    16 1 j day e:\rth.vntmuec a. A fairly v \vs:erday 20 seconds m hamlet of Reuter
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    FIRE IN THE RAIN
    39 1 Fire razed a Singapore Traction Company station box m Geylang Road yesterday. The fire broke out m spite of a heavy downpour. It was caused by a short circuit of the wiring m the box.
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    ROBBED IN BOTANIC GARDENS
    157 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A WOMAN visitor to Singapore. Kwang Vi Chow, was robbed m the Botanic Gardens yesterday afternoon by three youths. One of them -xer by the throat and took her attache case. The other two relieved her of a watch. It was drizzling
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    CRASHED INTO BEER HALL
    38 1 Seven persons were killed when a U.S. twin-engined transport plane crashed into a Japanese beer hall m Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, yesterday. The dead included five men aboard the aircraft and two bar maids.- AP
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    Party urges wage laws minimum
    79 1 Party urges wage laws minimum Free Press Staff Reporter. A SINGAPORE Progressive Party sub-commitfee on labour and trade union relations has recommended, m an interim report, that minimum wage legislation should be introduced m Singapore. The report is due to come up for consideration at a meeting of the party's
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    Wo undue delayin Singapore'
    216 1 Wo undue delayin Singapore QUERY ON BRITISH STATUS MR. WOODROW WYATT, Labour, asked the Secretary for Colonies, Mr. Lyttelton, m the House of Commons yesterday if he knew that none of 135 applications for naturalisation from non-English speaking citizens of Singapore made since October 1951 had yet been granted and
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    POPE'S LETTER
    32 1 Pope Pius XII yesterday published a letter to the people of Russia, urging them to join with him m prayers to the Virgin Mary for liberation from Communist domination.- Reuter
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    'STRIKE WORSE THAN BOMBING'
    208 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. PRESIDENT Truman personally intervened ia the steel strike yesterday as the Defence Secretary. Mr. Robert Lovett. indicated that the walkout may force the rationing of ammunition m Korea. Mr Truman called President Benjamin Fairless of the United States Steel Corporation and CIO President Phillip
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    Shah gives in to Mossadeq in 2-hour talk
    628 1 Shah gives in to Mossadeq in 2-hour talk TEHERAN, Thursday. A HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL said yesterday that "all differences between Dr. Mossadeq and the Shah have been ironed out." The re-appointed Premier conferred for more than two hours with his Monarch last night. There was no official communique, but the
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    Delegates leave for rubber talk
    88 1 Delegates leave for rubber talk Free Press Staff Reporter. J^JALAYA'S strongest three-man delegation left Kalians: airport this morning by Qant-as-BOAC to attend important meetings of the International Rubber Study Group's working party m London on July 30 The team comprised Dato Onn bin Ja'alar, Member for Home Affairs, Mr. Oscar
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    TALK ON M-EAST
    33 1 The Iraqui Minister n Washington, Mr. Abdullah Ibrahim Bakar, discussed Middle East problems yesterday with Mr. Henry Byroade the Assistant Secretary o State for Near Eastern Af fairs.- UP UP
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    18 missing after crash
    54 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Thurs. EIGHTEEN people were re ported missing after a Brazilian military B-17 Fortress aircraft collided In mid-air with a training plane yesterday. Both aircraft crashed lnti the sea. Four men have been saved Ten are reported missing from the B-17 and eight from
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    SLANDER SUIT AGAINST NBC
    40 1 Charlie Chaplin the famous comedian has filed a suit for U553,000,000 against the National Broadcasting Company and a radio commentator. He alleged m New York that they implied he was a "Communist and a liar."— AP
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    WARNING FLIGHT Off CHINA
    163 1 WARNING FLIGHT Off CHINA HONOLULU, Thurs. PARR lER- based ravy jet fighter bombers thundered along the mainland coast of Communist China yesterday m a warning demonstration of United States Pacific fleet air power, the navy an» ncunced yesterday. A spokesman for Pacific Fleet Commander, Admira Arthur Radford, said a Pearl
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    DEFICIT IN TRADE
    48 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. MALAYA'S imports from foreign countries exceeded her exports by $23,223,000 last month. Imports for June totalled $298,983,000 and exports $275,759,000. The cumulative foreipn trade for the first six months of this year aie $2,040,000,000 imports and $1 9W 50 000 exports.
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    THE FOX' IS AT HIS OLD TRICKS
    150 2 FRANZ VON PAPEN, German envoy m Turkey during the war, confirms m his just-published memoirs, the story about the Albanian valet (Cicero") who was alleged, to have robbed his employer, SIR HUGHE KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, British envoy m Turkey, of secret plans and to have
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    This Story Must be Nailed as a Lie,
    894 2  - This Story Must be Nailed as a Lie, SEFTON DELMER Says Mi* motes of Frana Von Papen, Andre Deutsch OX ISTANBULANKARA EXPRESS. fXLD von Papen is at v it again. It is just 12* years ago that I climbed on to this train to travel up to Ankara to report
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    The Second Man was Real Traitor
    322 2  - The Second Man was Real Traitor James Leaso? sayj ruu the spy called Cicero, valet to Britain's wartime envoy m Turkey, really get aw~y unaided with top-secret plans that included the D Day date? 1 talked recently to a man who has made a close study of the casehistory of
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    Trade Unions
    996 2 CECIL Sharpley completes the exposure of Communist corrupt and immoral practices begun by Douglas Hyde m "I Believed His book, "THE GREAT DELUSION", published by Heinemann will shock all its readers, and the more the better. Trade unionists In particular must read it. Its disclosures of bal-lot-rigging will
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    A 'MODERN' NEW TESTAMENT
    213 2 A 68-- YEAR-OLD Metho- dist minister has spent 20 years on a newtranslation from the Greek of the NewTestament. It is written m what is called simple English Few "thees" and "thous". No long sentences. And, says the translator, the Rev. Charles Kingsley Williams For the
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS!
    146 2 BOOKS in the SHOPS! Geoff ry Household! Michael Joseph. Fast-moving up-to-the minute adventure story of the more unlikely kind. A dash of Buchan, but the hero is almost undiluted Bu v <dog Drummond MAN AND BOY, by Wright Morris. Gollancz. An odd mixture of se7i- timent and farce, iellinc of
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      223 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, tou arc i«- you caxuiot do your best woi*. A* pulsive warm hearUd. al- If you can conquer this ha»thourh you have a claak of dicap, tou wiO find succew natural reserve whtok makes more easily attainable, t difficult t»T y O to Mtmit Tow
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      164 2 New Crossword No. I*2 BBI^M^ I I 1 1 I I [-a^^^^ CLUES ACROSS Q T^ >: t E an w ed up (7) 7 He cai «ht a thousand m a trap f V, back the car m for the spinach (5). 9. It's just a plain blaae m
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      49 2 Solution To Crossword No. 721 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1, Seal. 3, Middle. 8, Riper. 9. Scare. 10. Prevailing. 12 Secretions. 16, Organ. 17, Odder. 18, Ensued. 19, Prey. Down: 1 Scrape. 2. Apple. 4, Insulation. 5, Drawn. 6, Even. 7, Pre-arrange. 11, Astray. 13, Edges. 14, Ordei. 15. Pole.
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    DAUGHTER WAS MOTHERS TRIANGLE
    152 3 BIRMINGHAM, Thursday. fflDOff MH awarded £50 damages for breach it Birmingham Assizes against a Ked her to marry him then went htr 18-year-old daughter. Mr. Sidney Cox, 52, of Birmingham, and the daughter, Miss n d 21, told the court they in--0 as they could after
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    Helicopters don't trouble sunbathing Marilyn
    176 3 Helicopters don't trouble sunbathing Marilyn LONDON, Thurs. VVF.R since they made an appearance m America, French swimsuits have been lashed by beauty experts and film stars. But now the French briefies ha\e acquired a champion m Marilyn Monroe Of course, it is possible that >he is merely anti-clothes. She is
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    Sheila, 17, is girl they cannot tame
    53 3 Sheila 1 7, is girl they cannot tame I N num. n the Ln approved Yorks, from t:ie called there detention ked. doer I schcol was i- H cc ..-:.ur:s: field There id whistles S C prosehad ab"ht she ba a another ke a Ano: that I •^d of r
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    FREE DEGREES FOR OFFICERS
    298 3 Army has new scheme LONDON, Thursday. THE Army— urgently m need of scientifically x trained officers for new weapons— has announced that they will give suitable National Service men commissions and a free university education. Young men with the right qualifications already doing National Service can
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    Fake coins from behind Iron Curtain
    177 3 ZURICH. Thurs. A SWISS bank has discovered a big fake currency racket involving Iron Curtain countries. A large quantity of fake French golden louis has been found among £2.000.000 ot gold coins sent from Bulgaria for sale to banks m Switzerland The coins carved
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    Two presidents visit Bali
    29 3 President Quirino of the Philippines and Pres dent Seckarno of Indonesia have arrived m Bali by air from Jogjakarta. They will stay unMl tomorrow.- UP
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    NO BUSINESS FOR LECTURERS
    57 3 NO BUSINESS FOR LECTURERS Newsweek magazine has reported Because this ;on year, foreign dipits at the United Nations are losing much of their usual lucrative side income from lectures. •Their agents hesii ate to .en:s for fear anything they say will have political implications. Philippine ambassador Carlos Romulo will drop
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    Head winds beat helicopters
    36 3 Head winds beat helicopters Btroof he.id winds have forced back two United States Air Force helicopters attemotir.g the first trans-At-la::tic helccpter flight. Afcer flying 323 milos acthe i:?cer2; s irdded North Atlantic, they returned ;idcr.- Reuter
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    WHEAT PURCHASE
    32 3 Pak i sta«i's Food Minister, a] Sattar Pirzada said m Karachi that 90,09) ?at had been purphased from abroad to meet the shortage caused by iast year's monsoon failure.— Reuter
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    Bridge Hand
    210 3 i I ur, he.idfailed was i the b they W-^yer vtho was traoped by East's fine pas- and hair-trig?er double was perhapi most conservative player on 'he champion's team, B. J. Btc- k^r He assumed that Eu! had a h.-.r.d indeed, an.i expe* to find some merchandise of
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    British troops may stay on
    36 3 Japan has decided to sign an interim contract with the BrLish Commonwealth forces so that they can stay m their present bazes m Tokyo pending negotiations on a longterm agreement.- UP
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    BURMESE MISSION
    20 3 The Eurmsse economic and military delegation which hcs spent four weeks In Yugos'jivia has left for Sweden.- Reuter
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    JAPS HEAD LIST
    22 3 Japan led the list cf importers of Indian scrap iron ani steel m the JanuaryM.iv "d of 1952 \.P
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    POLICEMAN TELLS COURT WHAT HE SAW
    273 3 LONDON. Thurs. A RRESTED after a cons- j table had peered into a parked car late at night, a motorist appeared before Mr. Paul Bennett, V.C., the magistrate at Malbcroughstreet, London, and was fined 40s. under an L.C.C. by-law. The motorist, Arthur Vivian Burbury.
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    Guards seized in gaol riot
    63 3 BOSTON, Thurs. RIOTING broke out at Massachusetts state prison when convicts seized three guards as hostages, started several fires and holed up m the prison shop. Twenty prisoners led the outbreak, which started m the correctional section known as 'Cherry Hill." Later, the bulk of
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    MORE TUNGSTEN
    34 3 The South Korean Government has begun a $2,000,000 project to boost the production of tungsten ere from the current monthly production of 250 tons to 500 tons by May next year. Reuter
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    COMPENSATION
    22 3 The Japanese cabinet has decided to compensate Indians for property lost or damaged m Japan during the Second World War.— Reuter
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    PEOPLES FESTIVAL SNUBBED'
    203 3 PEOPLES FESTIVAL SNUBBED EDINBURGH, Thurs. EDINBURGH Festival SoJIJ ciety have refused a request for "co-operation with the organisers of the Leftwing "People s Festival, which will run for three weeks at the same time as the official Festival. The "People's Festival" wanted th e society to share expenses of bringing
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    GIFT TO ROTARY
    38 3 Mr. Mum Ul Hug, leader of the Indian Olympic team, has presented a club pennant made cf India silk from the Rctary Club o: Patna to Helsinki's Rotar> Club at a luncheon at Helsinki.- Reuter
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    Student set out to wheedle away wife's affection
    212 3 LONDON, Thursday. A WIFE'S affection for her husband, nearly 20 r% years her senior, was said to have been "wheedled away" by Rennie Noddle Leverett 28, mining student. He was ordered to pay £500 damages and costs. I Judge R. C. Essenhigh
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    Hiss motion turned down
    70 3 NSW YORK. Thurs. FEDERAL judge Henry Goddard has deried a moticn fcr a new trial for the convicted perjurer. Alger Hiss. Hiss, a former State Department assistant, is now serving a five-year prison term for perjury m denying his association with a conlessed Communist spy, Whittker
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    NEW TRADE PACT
    32 3 A Pakistan trade delegation of 14 officials led by the Commerce Secretary, Mohammad Karamatuliah has arrived m Delhi by air from Karachi to negotiate a new trade agreement.- Reuter
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    JAP ENVOY
    21 3 The Japanese Ambassador m Paris, Mr. Kumao Hishimura has called on the French Prime Minister, M Antciiie Pinay.- U.F.
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      79 3 THE FLOORSHOW EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT Peter Sorters Luminous Floor show "South American Rhythm" featuring Lilian Sorter at the Dinner Capitol or Restaurant A la Carte In all things... f^^m V*^ FINES'* fVOCS^^^. >"■ 'H That is why, all over Uie ft V^^p 6^^) world BOOTH'S is acclaimed as the essential
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      6 3 TME" GAMBOL€ 6aAAu A&?-&£x- -jjpr^op^ H^^^^
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      229 3 Radio SINGAPORE 9.30 am. School; io Hews; 10.05 Mumc While You Wok; 10.45 12 Schools; 1 p.m. Andr« Kostelanetz his Orch.; 1.30 News; 145 Jimmy Dorsry Or 2—3 Schools; 6.17 Calling All Hospitals; 6.55 Announcements; 7 News; 7.15 Radio B 7.30 Rid o Orch 8 Have A 8.30 PI II
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 24, 1952. Corrupt & dying
    565 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 24, 1952. Corrupt dying T happenings m pt and Persia are; a warning against politic corruption and nepotism. They indicate, too. that democracy is not simply a matter of self-gov-ernment and the outward form of parliamentary institutions. Kfli the Qcance of the Egyptian coup.
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    Life is Happy and Gay on H.M.Aircraft-Carriers
    1232 4  - Life is Happy and Gay on H.M.AircraftCarriers GERALD PAWLE By Crews of the Navy's ugly ducklings have the carefree spirit of the average sailor, though one would think nothing light-hearted could happen m the world m which they live. ITNLIKE most of Her U Majesty's ships, which have lean, graceful
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    Off to Sea—by Taxi-Cab!
    753 4 Off to Sea— by Taxi- Cab! Bernard Wicksteed pays a visit to Holy Island nothing ahead but sea. But Dai:tU.ess Cnarhe plunged m. Deeper and deeper we went till the sea was up to the bonnet and we were sending out a bow v. aye like a torpedo beat. l-cok
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    STALIN DROPs A THIRD IRON CURT
    578 4 STALIN DROPs A THIRD IRON CURT ALL up and down the 500-mile border separating Germany from Western Germany, Communist People's Police have been busy clearing an "insulation belt" three miles wide. In every village and farm from the Baltic to the Czech mountains trees have been felled, crops levelled and
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    Dehydrated Beer Now
    299 4 AFTER dehydrated eggs and milk the scientists are now serving up dehydrated BEER. They have found a way of concentrating beer, stout, and pale ale so that they can be sent out to troops overseas without taking up much shipping space. Here is tneir recip c reconstituting
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      75 4 I *^Sw THE BULLDOG ANT Suspended by its feet an Australian Bulldog Ant can hold m its jaws a glove more than a thousand times its own weight. Comparatively, for a human feat, a trapeze artist would ham to grip an 80 ton steamroller with his teeth while BAT 4-
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    CITY WARNED ON EXPAT. PAY RISE
    415 5 it may cause discontent among local men —says Juma bhoy Free Press Staff Reporter \NY attempt by the Singapore City Council to revise the salaries and expatriation allowances of its senior officers would create discontent among the local senior staff, said Mr. I. M.
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    TO STUDY IN U.S.
    28 5 MR. ABDUL MAJID bin Othman who leaves for America on Aug. 5 to study International Relations on a scholarship at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
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    Fair will show 500 years' progress
    171 5 Fair will show 500 years' progress Free Tress Staff Reporter THE first Philippines Internal! jnal Fair, to be held m Manila from Feb. 1 to April 30 next yrar, will covor 500 years of the country's ess. Tne director-general of the fair, Mr. Arsenio N. Luz, arrived m Singapore yesterday
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    USED CAR AS TAXI
    9 5 Chan I SlOO for using
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    Improved service scheme for 1,000
    53 5 Improved service scheme for 1,000 n staff Reporter ,'immand Secre--1 War Depart:;ments m informed Civil Servi< the War lo conditions to storekeeprtaln oti ne are reArmy .gapore. wrote m London sideration of m of the for better pay tus. rs want the their former industrials, g of dv t:on of
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    25 for police
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    Kept stolen bicycle
    55 5 MUAR. Thur?.— Yeo Han' Choo. who had tv. o previous convictions, was charged at Ifuar with dishonestly re- taining a stolen bicycle at Kampong Kuli, Malacca. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and j fined $200 or a funher three months' imprisonment to be j followed
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    Fewer seamen unemployed m Colony
    165 5 THERE are fewer unemploy- ed seamen m Singapore now than there were at the end of last year. Figures supplied by the Registrar of the Seamen's Bureau show that over the last six months the number of unemployed seamen has fallen by 162. At the
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    Blood bank for Muar
    39 5 MUAR, Thurs. A bCood bank has been formed at Muar. Eleven Malays, one Eurasian and one Indian have donated blood. More donors are wanted and they are asked to write or telephone Mrs. Muar 77.
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    Fed. capital may take over buses
    137 5 Fed. capital may take over buses KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. AT a recent meeting of the Municipal General Purposes Committee, Mr. S. C. E. Singam suggested that, as a long term policy, the Kuala Lumpur Municipality should consider taking over the public transport facilities m the town. Mr. Singam said that
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    New girls' school will be opened in Jan.
    155 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S new secondary girls' school at Haig Road will be opened m January next year, Mr. R. W. Watson-Hyatt, Senior Inspector of Schools, told the Free Press yesterday. The school, with 16 classrooms, is expected to be completed
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    More demand for Indian medicines
    63 5 THERE is an increased demand for Indian-made pharmaceutical preparations m Singapore. Most of them are manufactured m Calcutta, some m I Bombay and Madras. The sale of Indian-made patent medicines was almost negligible about three years ago. These preparations are popular because they are cheaper
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    Klang Liabrary officials
    56 5 Klang Liabrary officials PORT SWETTENHAM, Wed.— Officials of the Klang Library for this year are: .President, Mr. J. Miller; treasurer, Mr. Lee Eng Teh; secretary, Mr. Wong Ah Patt; committee: Da to Hamzah bin Abdullah, Mr. Lee Eng Teh, Mr. George Labrooy, Mr. N. Francis, Mrs. M. A. Hamer, Rev.
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    DRUNK—FINED
    84 5 DRUNK— FINED KUANTAN. Thurs.— Muthan told the Kuantan Magistrate that he was so excited when he saw his wife, who had deserted him two days ago, he went and had a few drinks. He was fined $5 for being drunk and ir.canable. picture. DR E D B. VVOLFFE, Principal Medical
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    THEY NOW GET MORE WATER
    175 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pEOPLE living m the Outram Road and Holland Road areas are getting better water supplies, the Singapore City Water Engineer, Mr. W. S. Stredwick, said yesterday. This is because links from both areas have been joined to the Johore main. People
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    Doctors want tax exemptions
    97 5 Doctors want tax exemptions Free Press Staff Reporter THE Alumni Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine plans to ask Government for certain exemptions from income tax to private practitioners who go abroad on study leave. The association suggests that the Government should allow a deduction from net
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    Ruler to open Indian Fair
    56 5 SITIAWAN, Thurs. The Sultan of Perak will open the two-day fun fair at the Dindings Indian Association at Sitiawan on Saturday m aid of the Gandhi Memorial School Building Fund. The fair will be open from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. en Saturday and 10
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    THREE PASS EXAM
    32 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs.— Inche Ibrahim bin Ahmad, Wan Abdul Hamid and Unpku Mohsin bin Mohamed, of the Johore Civil Service, have passed part three of the Johore Service examination.
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    Robberies: 'No cause for alarm' say police
    218 5 Robberies: 'No cause for alarm' say police Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE C.l.D.'s crime graph shows a slight increase m the number of burglaries and simple robberies dv: the last two months. But the incidence of crima over the last tix moi been well belcw last >> average. "There is
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    Blackout schedule
    177 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to I shedding tonight are: Dunman Rd.. Jo© Chiat Place, Jalan Yasin, Jalan Eunos, Serangoon Rd., KoUm Ayrr. Boundary Kd., Florence Rd., Ipper SeranfWß, Vi« Chu Kan* Rd.. Govt. Printing Works, Woodleigh Park, BraddeU Heights, Arthur Rd.. Spore Swimmin* Club, Tanjonjs Rha, DJL Shipyard, Rhu Crow,
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    There's nothing wrong with Britain that work can't cure
    1198 6 There's nothing wrong with Britain that work can't cure From DON'T know about the rest of Britain, but Cherry Tree is undaunted. Cherry Tree is a village just outside Blackburn, m Lancashire. It is a pleasant little place of solid houses, solid people, two or three cotton mills, some drab
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    641 6  - Men of the PrairieLast of the Independents ROSE MARY ANN SISSON By In the American West there's no pity for the incapable. ...a man, like a horse, must be good at his job. YOU can see them x still m the great West of America, m Montana, Wyoming. Texas, Arizona,
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    Russians Show Their Weapons
    154 6 RUSSIA'S armed forces on manoeuvres m Eastern Germany now show a new and formidable array of weapons some of them superior to those of the Allies. But m general Soviet war material from tanks and supporting 'planes to anti- aircraft guns and small arms is poorer
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    A GIRL!
    127 6 A MERICAN baseball fans -f* have had a brief 24 hours of horror. A minor league club, Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Senators, paralysed the nation by signing up a GIRL— Eleanor Engle a 24-year-old stenographer. Pretty, too But that 'didn't prevent baseball fans up and down the country giving vent
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    7 NEW RECORDS AT HELSINKI
    246 7 7 NEW RECORDS AT HELSINKI Russia m close tussle J\\ O new world recortls and five new Olympic records were set and two other Olympic records were equalled at Helsinki yesterdiy Fferreira da SUva (hop, step and jump) and Australia^ Shirley Strickland (omen's 80-met^e hurdles The new Olympic records were
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    All the finals
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    1st GOLD MEDAL FOR THE JAPS
    320 7 Olympic wrestling RCSSIAN wrestlers won Olympic gold medals erduy b> taking the heavyweight and middleweight 111 the free style wrestling finals. time m this Olympic Games, the 'isar.^v r..nop.L;! anthem WU played aa S'noiuu'hi rded his gold medal for winning the bantamweight title. K.
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    Hutton out to Brown at 16 runs
    146 7 :e bonDg day profesI c ma.vithout :ree ed n the Brown, E |Otog on sucr 16. c Sou:h bridge pace throughout came tn a 4 72 h and Comp>nce scattered I a six seats. t full strength the caDa of the Lords Lock
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    U.S. TEAM GIVES BULLETS TO THE RUSSIANS
    92 7 U.S. TEAM GIVES BULLETS TO THE RUSSIANS FINLAND'S J. VILXKO won the free standing pistol shooting event on the third day of the Olympic modern pentathlon yesterday. The United states Olympic Pentathlon team gave the Russian* a box of American ammunttioi after the «vent, m which Soviet marksmen lost out
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    Soviet fencers eliminated
    85 7 TWO big scorer* In the Olympic 1 Fencing Folia— the U.S., and Russia— suffered heavy casualties last night. In the second round RuMta swordsmen Mark Midler, Julen CJralov and German Bokum were all eliminated while of Americans only Nat LubeU lasted to see toSa.v's semi-Opals. Egypt's tnree
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    SWEDES RALLY
    29 7 SWEDEN staged a ftne recovery to defeat Austria by three goals to one In their quarter-final soccer game last night at Hel--8lk weden scored all their, goals
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    Hop. step & jump mark is bettered
    162 7 Hop. step jump mark is bettered A.ILEH wend record lumbled yesterday when Brazil's Perreira Da Silva hopped, stepped »nd jumped 53 ft. 2- x j m. to win America's first Gold Medal of the Helsinki games. Da Silva beat his own world record of 52ft. 6V in Leonid Scherbsfcov of
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    RUSSIAN WINS SCULLS
    138 7 RUSSIAN WINS SCULLS RUSSIA'S Jnrij Tijukalov won the single sculls for bis nations first rowing Gold Medal at Helsinki yesterdas'. Australia's Mervyn Wood was second. Tony Fox of Britain finished fourth behind Theodoer Koceoka (Poland >. Yugoslavia's team won the Olympic final for the four oar.s without cox and their
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    S.L.T.A. TIES OFF
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    Equals record Fastest man of 1948 Games
    77 7 Equals record Fastest man of 1948 Games HARRISON DILLARD (Unite* States U the 1948 Olympic 100-metre champion, equalled the Olympic record tor the 110-metre •high hurdles yesterday m winning the first preliminary heat m 133 sec, DVlard shot out ahead of the field, takinc every one of the 10 barriers
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    3 BEAT WORLD RECORD
    237 7 3 BEAT WORLD RECORD HURDLES S^^ ,x tai „i..aa Oi Australia shattered tne worid record for the women's 80--metre hurci.es to lesd the way into tiie finals as she sailed over eight barriers m the sensational time of 10.8 sees. Maria Sander of Germany who was second and Jean Degforges
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    Star event of the day
    93 7 THE star ev.^nt ot the day was the men's 200 metres race, won by the coloured-American Andy Stanfleld. The United State? made a clean sweep of the modals at stake, with Britain's E. MacDonald Bailey. the Trinidari pifmt. only m the fourth place Walter Tane
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    SPORE TEAM IS PUTTING ON WEIGHT
    85 7 FOOD at Olympic Village is so good that members of the Singapore team are all putting on weight, team manager E. Strickland sa?d. Lon bin Mohammed Noor, bantam class weightlifter and the first Malay Olympic competitor, has put on so much weight he is
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    KONG PROMISES TO UNMASK MARVEL
    216 7  -  MATMAN. By MIOHTY Marvel, the masked wrestler, annoyed by the way King Kong treated him when they first met and during last Saturday night's tag-team match, challenged the Hungarian to a lone battle on Sunday. The Hungarian accepted and the two get to grips on
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    Free Fancy is ready for maiden win
    1166 7 Free Fancy is ready for maiden win PENANC TRACK WORK From ALLAN LEWIS OREE FANCY, who made a good impression m his £rst race at Koala Lumpur a short time back, has trained on splendidly and is now ready to open his winning: account m Malaya. Ridden by Mawi this
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    6th. wicket partnership saves India
    206 7 6th. wicket partnership saves India AN attractive sixth wicket part- nership by Phadkar and Gopinath was chiefly responsible for ihe Indian tounsus totalling 362, when they opposed a Commonwealth side at Blackpool, yesterday. The Commonwealth made 24 for the loss of one wicket by the close. The tourists again began
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    EURASIANS WELL BEATEN
    280 7 Malays 5; Eurasian 1. HPHE Malays overwhelmed -I Eurasians at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, m a Singapore Amateur F. A. Community League tie. The issue was placed beyond doubt with a three-goal rush within the first fifteen minutes. Three goals down before halftime is enough to upset
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    P. MARTENS 4 FOR ONE RUN
    61 7 ST. Joseph Ins litu lion beat An-glo-Chinese School by four wickets and 107 runs In an interschool .cricket game at 8. J.I ground on Tuesday. Scores were: St. Josephs' 125 for 6. P. Martens 67. ACS. 18 all out. (Martens 4 wickes for one
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    RAINED OFF
    30 7 The Business Houses League Cup fixtures— Cold Storage "B v. I C.I. (Police ground) and Mansfield v. Borneo Co. (Farrer Park)— were postponed yesterday evening owing to rain.
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    S'pore favourites in Cup match v. Johore
    336 7 S' pore favourites in Cup match v. Johore pREAT interest is focussed on the result, of tomorrow's Malaya Cud match between Singapore and Johore, which will be played Jalan Besar Stadium. The Colony will be at fall strength with Cup skipper Harith back en the field. Singapore wiil take the
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    STEVENSON VOTE TODAY
    403 8 Democrats paten up differences on Negro rights CHICAGO, Thursday. THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION 1 droned through its third day yesterday with nothing much to look forward to except today s expected nomination of Governor Adlai Steve^on of Illinois as presidential nominee to fight Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
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    TRUMAN CHEERS BARKLEY
    96 8 CHICAGO. Thurs. -^RESIDENT Truman tele- phoned from Washingn yesterday m give his i /ndolences to Vic?-Presid-\lben Berkley, who b>v.o<| out of the race for fVmorratic presidential n ntion with bitterness i heavy heart. Barkley took the call m Ml Hotel room where he hvi asked to be
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    U.S. MAY NOT CUT AID TO TITO
    136 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. A PROMINENT diplomatic official said yesterday that high American defence authorities recerXy told Marshal Tito that they would recommend that the cuU made by Congress m foreign military aid should either not apply at all or only to a small extent
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    RUBBER UP IN CEYLON
    42 8 Ceylon rubber prices shot up 15 cents on Tuesday on news that another ship was calling at Colombo m August to take rubber to China. This will be the eighth vessel to load for China from Colombo.- Reuter
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    ILO MEETING
    27 8 International Labour Organisation experts will meet at Ceylon 6 ancient capital. Kandy. early m December this year to discuss employment of domestic servants. AP Reuter
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    Eleanor reads FDR's last words
    267 8 DRAMA AT DEMOCRAT CONVENTION NEW IUKK, inursaay. MEMBERS of the Democratic party, at their convention orr Tuesday night, rang cowbells during a 15-minute ovation for Eleanor Roosevelt, 67-year-old widow of the man who had led the Democrats to victory m the most turbulent years of
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    42 convicts give up
    52 8 BOSTON. Thurs. 17H3RTYTWO prisoners who JT had barricaded themselves m a workshop at Massachusetts State Prison for 15 hours released two hostages unharmed and surrendered early yesterday. Co-.Timissioner Maxwell B. Grossman said yesterday no promises were given to the prisoners and added: "They'll get the maxmum
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    Eva's condition still critical
    61 8 Buenos Aires doctors on Tuesday night said that Eva Peron. wife of Argentine president, was still m critical condition despite a week-end turn for the better. There has been no official announcement on the nature of her illness, but she underwent a major operation last autumn
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    CHILE APPROVES
    17 8 The Chamber of Deputies at Santiago. Chile, has approved thP ru*ii**% trpntv with Jap? UP
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    U.S. CASUALTIES
    19 8 U.S. battle casualties m Korea have reached 113,363, an increase of 520 over the Drevious week.- AP
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    Massacre at dinner time
    119 8 SAIGON, Thurs. FRENCH Headquarters have charged that a Vietminh raiding party massacred 21 unarmed men. women and children at a French Army convalescent centre. TueVy-two others were serious'y wounded wtlen th? rcb^s swarmed over the unprotected centre on Monday night. Survivors said 21 Communists attacked the
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    U.S. loan for P.I.
    34 8 Representatives of the Philippines and the United States Governments yesterday signed an agreement under which the ExportImport Bank will loan U5520,000,000 to the National Power Corporation of the Philippines.- UP
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    Labour may force a row on wages
    211 8 Labour may force a row on wages LONDON, Thurs. EVENTS are fast moving towards a show down between the Government and the trade unibn movement on the demands of 8,000,000 workers for higher wages. The National Coal Board an Tuesday rejected the claim of the National Union of Mineworkers. claiming
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    BRITAIN WILL BLOCK ILLEGAL OIL SALES
    205 8 LONDON, Thursday. \|K ("mm- hill said yesterday that Britain would take "all practical steps'' to block Persian sales of disputed oil. Mr.Churchill told the House of Commons that the British Government considers that all oil taken out ot southern Persia by Persia's nationalised oil
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