The Singapore Free Press, 14 August 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fdgsdfg sfdgdf SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    12 KILLED: 200 HURT IN RIOTS
    570 1 Death penalty threat to workers m Egypt ALEXANDRIA, Thursday. tONG mechanised units of the Egyptian k my last night occupied the riot-torn fire gutted industrial area of Kafr el Dawar, near Alexandria, after 24 hours of armed clashes en workers and police. official reports
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    RABIES: S'PORE IS READY
    87 1 RABIES: S'PORE IS READY Pn>N Staff Reporter. r.pore City Council -perat^ with the m the event of an t of rabies m the Council's Health decided. :tee. which was ip.at there was nc danger of an outalso approved a "rieme for deal. do if it an. proposed is r rv
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    GIRL FALLS 40 FEET
    38 1 GIRL FALLS 40 FEET staff Reportrt a Singapore s seriously fny before midnight when she fell 40 the second storey I th« junction of Br.r.2e Road and Ucper S reet. 1 authorities this reported she was -iMgerously D
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    Does this explain the flying disc?
    144 1 HOME-MADE 'SAUCERS' A UNITED STATES Army scientist. Noel Scott, has succeeded m producing fiery objects that look like the "flying saucers" seen shooting through the night skies over the U.S. recently. Scott created these orangered mushrooms and discs by introducing molecules of ionised air
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    MONEY FOR TALAL IS DEBATED
    98 1 MONEY FOR TALAL IS DEBATED AMMAN. Thurs. THE Jordan Government is considering how much •nonev it will allow ex-King Talal who left the throne a relatively poor man. after reigning for only one year m fhe former King now consdering mentally HI *»*h mtl. hope of recovery, must have a
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    THEFTS IN SINGAPORE
    66 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A Chinese businessman of Kirn Pong Road, Singapore, on awakening yesterday missed his trousers and shirt m which were $172, a writing set, worth $43, and a key. A dinner jacket, belonging to a European, was stolen from an unlocked car, parked m
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    WINDSOR CURED
    28 1 The Duke of Windsor was reported yesterday "virtually cured of his stomach ailment and was expected to leave with the Duchess for France on Sunday. U.P.
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    Hitler alive or dead? MILLION S QUESTION
    272 1 Hitler alive or dead? MILLION S QUESTION VIENNA, Thursday. A LAWYER looking after Adolph Hitler's legal interests m Austria has asked a court ta rule on whether the ex-Fuehrer is dead or alivr. Most Allied and West German authorities have assumed Hitler is dead. The commonly accepted story is that
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    RETIREMENT AGE: COUNCIL QUERY
    105 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. E. M. F. Fersusson, member for the Singapore Chamber of Commerce will ask the Government at the Legislative Council meeting next Tuesday what action has been taken on the question of reviewing the retiring age for Government employees. The Council passed
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    RAIDS ON REDS
    19 1 Casablanca police yesterday raided the homes of several Communist Party members and hrlri four for questioning.
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    U.K. strike threat averted
    145 1 southsea, Thurs. "THREAT of a cripplinc; I strike m Britain's vital defence and export industries yesterday was aver'rd for at least a month as the Confederation of Ship-build-ing and En? s serins Unions authorized new wage talks with emolovers. The Confederation's annual conference unanimously approved a
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    'Swindle $s' for China, not Gen, Chiang
    261 1 'Swindle $s for China, not Gen, Chiang MEXICO CITY, Thursday. AN officer of the Chinese Air Force, held here on charges of embezzling U525,000,000 from the Nationalist Government, has promised the money will be returned if "it goes to the people of China instead of the pockets of Generalissimo Chiang
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    BANDITS, A HAZARD TO FORESTRY
    138 1 OTTAWA. Thurs. BANDITS provide a special hazard to forestry operations m the Malayan states, the 6th British Commonwealth Forestry conference was today yesterday. Mr E. J. Struggnell. conservator cf forests for the Federated Malayan states, told the conference that bandits considerably hampered exploitation of Malaya's
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    Mediator in Labour Party row
    105 1 Mediator in Labour Party row Free Press Staff Reporter EFFORTS to end the dispute between the General Council of the Singapore Labour Party and iis president, Mr. Lim Yew Bock, over the nomination of I Peter Williams as Ihe South Ward contestant at the c Council elections m December, are
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    Canada will see A—tests
    63 1 Canada will see A— tests OTTAWA, Thurs. CANADA is expected to send a team of scientists to Australia by air within a month to take part m the British atom tests m the Monte Bello Islands. This will be Canada's first direct participation m an atomic explosion and her first
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    SYDNEY HIT BY THUNDERBOLT
    43 1 A thunderbolt wrecked four brick kilns and gales tore the roofs of 12 houses, collapsing one, m a storm at Sydney yesterday. No 4ne was injured. Torrential rains caused floods, holding up traffic and suburban train services. Reuter AAP
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    DR. PANNIKAR
    22 1 Dr. X M. Pannikar is flying to Cairo before the end of the month to become India's ambassador to Egypt.
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    GIFT TO U.K.
    35 1 Canadft's Defence and Production Minister, Mr. C. D. Hcwe, said last night that Canada would provide Britain with about $150,000,000 worth of armament this year as a free gift under mutual Reuter
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    Churchill will be best man for Eden
    235 1 Churchill will be best man for Eden LONDON. Thurs. MR Anthony Eden, out for his last fling as a bachelor, threw a stag party last night at his big Greysione house m mid-town London. Today, the British Foreign Secretary will be married to Miss Clarissa SpencerChurchill, niece of the Prhne
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    10 percent for peasants
    53 1 TEHERAN, Thurs. DR. Mossadeq, the Persian Prime Minister, issued sweeping agrarian decree yesterday giving tne impoverished peasant a greater proportion of wha; he produces. The decree specifies that land- owners <_ re than 10 per 1 rent cf their income from holdi to peasants, and dono^it
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    English Live, French Learn
    1000 2 UNDER REVIEW Pat Murphy reviews new hooks m U.K. Ucnte forilialr. by Nadia and Roland Grant. P» kct Guulc to British Birds. B. R. Fitter and R. A. R r i>on. (Coil.: 1 I rkcl all the 1 «"-r. by Ne- F|O you knew that stout,
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS
    153 2 Knkerton Stci by James D. Ho ran and>/ Howard Sw^gett. (Heine- < mann, 18s. A first -class piece of work. For those addicted to the time -spinning relaxation of crime and detective novels, here is a guide for ever. It tells, documentarily of detec-\ tive happenings
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    RIDDLE OF THE 'BUSH BABIES'
    465 2  - RIDDLE OF THE 'BUSH BABIES' PIERRE JEANNERAT reviews a book which sheds new light on the Australian natives 'back of beyond.' VOTHING could look 11 more innocent than a slender book on mv desk: CHILD ARTISTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN BISH written by Mary Durack Miller m -ociation with Florence Rutter,
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    FIRSTCOMPOSER OF JAZZ
    711 2  - FIRSTCOMPOSER OF JAZZ GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON MISTER JELLY ROLL. By Alan Lomftx. (Cassrll.) The rise andfallofMr Jelly /,> "M V folks were m the city of New Orleans long before the Louisiana Purchase, and all my folks came directly from the shores of France, that is across the world m
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    4,000 miles in 72-foot yacht.
    178 2 HAMILTON, (Ontario). QIX men and a woman, including two Englishmen, who sailed across the Atlantic from Britain m a 72 ft. yacht. have reached their journey's end m Hamilton harbour, at the western end of L: Ontario. Their '4000-mile .age from Falmouth via the Azores.
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      250 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORX today. y u have an Material wealth means less mereial life, you do have a ino.misitive mind. You l^ i yOU tha do lnte»ectual rather lon* head for business like to know everything and JJ? th L^T"* 5 ,/k" m tte and seem to make ryuun*
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      143 2 New Crossword W«. 740 L^ M^^^^M w *m^KVV IMMH CLUES ACROSS 3, 7. Areas for packing pearls (7. 6). 8. They make streaks, on the ice (7). 9. I paw it, the little dear (6). 10. Has he a spl't personality? (7». 13. This creature holds its head high (7)
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      39 2 Solution To Crossword No. 759 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1, Caress. 4. Isle. 8. Kingdom come. 9 Trimmer. 10, 8.8.C. 12, Nag. 13, Puss-cat. ]5. Thunderclap. 16. Rope. 17 Seesaw. DOWN: I, Cake-tin. 2, Running jump. _3. Sedum. 5, Shoe
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    ONELY CLERK CHASED CABARET GIRLS
    494 3 ONELY CLERK CHASED CABARET GIRLS -With Foreign Office funds LONDON, Thursday. T^HE loneliness of his one-room lodgings m Basra A made a Foreign Office clerk so desperate he stole <'U8 from a safe at the British Consulate and squandered it on two cabaret girls m Baghdad, it was said at
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    Bridge Quiz
    168 3 Bridge Quiz 4 ft new -rable may ftnti -iowever. cnhave if you y cxv or «e--:>u a Mm, Tn* Sottß Ka»t Wt. North bid wlta m f tfei following hands* |«l 5 3 &3? X 6 I 0 A 10 7 i A4J I 2 <•> 4 5• < 8
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    Thoughts will be 'watched'
    26 3 Thoughts will be 'watched' c Ministry of Public has anno: irity committees. c immittees v-ill have J to arrest people ci ing from crimi°"ences to wrong
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    SEX-LADEN POEM ANNOYED BARDS
    280 3 CARDIFF, Thursday. THE best poem submitted m the competition for the Bardic Crown at the National Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth was so '•immoral" that the adjudiors refused to award the crown. The announcement disapted 8.000 people who ed to see a new poet crowned, and brought anticlimax
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    BUTLER WILL NOT BE THERE
    54 3 Mr. Richard Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will not lead the British delegation to the annual meetings of the World Bank r.nd the International Monetary Fund m Mexico City next month. Mr. Butler will remain m Lcadon to prepare for the November meeting of the
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    Rich man was slave's son
    48 3 Rich man was slave's son MR. C C. BpraUinf, a former slave's soil who ros? from poverty to b- come one of America's richest NefTOes, has died at Durham, North Carolina, on his 77th birthday. He he id ?U an £11,785,--000 insurance company and a 1.783,900 Negro bank.
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    Who wants to be 100 years old?
    223 3 Who wants to be 100 years old? JOHANNESBURG, Thurs. A MEW health craze here H promises to smooch ill wrinkles, renew youth and energy and prolong life by years. The fat, it is said, get thin. The thru get fat. Tho.se suffering from high blood pressure, lose it. Those whose
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    Business is booming with Indo-China taxi-dancers
    194 3 Business is booming with Indo-China taxi-dancers HAIPONG, Thurs. TAXI-dance girls are doing a thriving business m this busy port city m northeastern Vietnam. An hour's dancing with anyone who asks them brings from 100 piastres to 200 piastres (Malayan $15 to Payment comes .quick after the first dance. By that
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    Twins out-sail the Duke
    66 3 LONDON, Thurs. ADRIAN and Stuart Jardine, 18 year old twins, outsailed the Duke of Edinburgh m their yacht Starletta at the recent Cowes Regatta Flying Fifteen. The twins learnt yachting as children when they were m Palestine where their father, Col. Murray H. Jardir.e. was stationed.
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    ROSSELLINI IN U.K.
    29 3 Mr. Roberto Rossellini, film producer husband of Miss Insrid Bergman, has arrived m London for talks about releasing his latest film, "Europe 51," m Britain. Reuter
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    BUCKLEY
    9 3 HANG ON MEN, HERE IS ANOTHER SHARP TURN!"
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    'New order' in Vietnam
    66 3 HANOI. Thurs. A "NEW order" is being established m North Vietnam by its energetic, hard-hitting Governor Pham Van Binh, who is pushing a -clean-up" within the national guard, security services and all branches of government administration. His object is to weed out all "bad elements" who
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    MISS TRUMAN
    24 3 Miss Margaret Truman inspected American troops m Berlin on the second day of a two-day visit to the former German capital- A.P.
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    VISIT BY PRINCE
    33 3 Seventeen-year-old Prince Alexander of Abyssinia, who is a student at Britain's Royal Naval College, visited the Naval Academy at Annapolis and joined nrdsh :T>> ~'en ?t a canteen Jun^l:. A.P.
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    SIR A. NYE
    22 3 Lt.-Gen. Sir Archibald Nye, 57, Britain's new High Commissioner m Canada, has left Liverpool by sea for Ottpv- Reuter
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    LAWYER FLAYS COUPLES WHO COURT IN PARKS
    318 3 INVERNESS, Thursday. TS a man who watches a couple courting m a public place such as a park a "Peeping Tom"? And can he be put on trial under an ancient law ruling that such a man is committing a breach of the
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    JAP MISSION
    28 3 A Japanese goodwill mission of seven parliamentarians, led by the former Cabinet Minister. Mr. H. inaeaki, has arrived at New n»lhi from Tokyo by air. Reuter
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    There is no wedding, sir, she said
    206 3 There is no wedding, sir, she said CORK. Thurs. rE eagerly awaited Cove affair between the beautiful Irish milkmaid and the American ex-soldier whose note she found m a bottle is not to be, she says. Brenda O'Sullivan. 24, told reporters: "There is no romance, and there win be no
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    BELGRADE VISIT
    16 3 Mr. Frank C. Pace. 'Army Secretary, has arrived m Belgrade for a visit. A.P.
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      292 3 dlNGftPOKb' s 1: An •Agrloilu: I ma-' i ,azine; 7.45 Cricket: Engiand v. 10 a.m. News; 10 05 M sic Fourth Test Match at While You Work; 10.45 Perry e f Oval Commentaries by Rex Como Show; 11-11.30 London Als.on and John Arlott on the Studio Me odios: i p.ru.
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, August 14, 1952 Unwanted gift
    179 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, August 14, 1952 Unwanted gift >'O-ONE m ing that a iortui or t: si. of sold do not fro the Those cl. b< tO t: BSt it IS hire mor. D It la m Asso- fa I I tun m t prc"jud: the ad. o
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    Cars and parks
    199 4 "^JOW it is multi-store ?ara??s which Singapore needs to solve Its city parkem. Tnat is the s'W7fst cn offered by the H rar of Vehi •T9 a R ■ke his mind on the i jectri: was to call fcr pwoula* take m 5.00 D ear. T>» plan
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    Taking the plunge
    136 4 Taking the plunge JF an., v: er midday, you see a man. boy r suddenly da et towa of Ron ral but 1 and P-ii r: don't i or try to prevent a cide." It is nothing than an attempt to the humid heat has been beating down on to
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    Cyprus for Greece
    212 4 Bishops Wish 4 THREAT to co-oper- at ion between West crn Powers and Middl? st countries are the subtle schemes of anti-British Archbish Ifakarios, Greek Primate of Cyprus, who the British colony to be handed over to Greece. Archbishop Makarios has paid a visit to Athens to
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    ONE STEP on this 1,000 mile, path MEANS DEATH
    579 4  - ONE STEP on this 1,000 mile, path MEANS DEATH Frank Sergeant THE NEW NO-MAN'S-LAND IN EUROPE LAUENBURG, U.S. Zone I HAVE just returned from a 100-mile trip along Russia's new and formidable "Death Frontier"— the srim belt of land laid waste by the Russians to stop refugees pouring into the
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    Looking....
    158 4 TOURING the flights around my parish from country to country, I find all too often that I have forgotten the names of my' parishioners. One name, however, from this last trip I am sure I am not going to forget is 4&at of Ismail Bashkan. On this somewliat disillusioning
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    So Drummond Dropped in for a Drink
    536 4 So Drummond Dropped in for a Drink Sir Jack Drummond and his wife and child were savagely murdered m France tasr week. Here Kenneth Pip«, a friend of Sir Jack's, tells something about the man who planned Britain's wartime diet T KNEW Sir Jack 1 Drummond murdered with his wife
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    A MAN I SHALL NOT EASILY FORGET
    293 4 A MAN I SHALL NOT EASILY FORGET ...between the eyes c/ Tun Sefton Delmer sets.. In rry iiLh is son thing that ccujd r< happened when I Turkey fcur years ay Four years ago no car could have got to I The roads w^re Bat, since thi I cans have
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    FOOD: ASSURANCE BY CAREY
    302 5 'Considerably more home grown supplies m two years' VIR T p Fr r C Pre n Staff Re P<>rt€r M X Commissioner for Co-opera-n.,h uLh^- Pmen Says m his annua report published th.s morning: "It is confidently expected that a considerable increase m supplies of home-
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    NEGLIGENT
    5 5 .R. Thurs.— flnr&l for
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    Untitled
    32 5 MR. E. V. SMITH. Superintendent of the Singapore Police Training School, who leaves for Sarawak by the Rajah Brooke on Saturday, to take over the Sarawak Police Training School for two months.
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    Sultan will open club
    58 5 IPOH. Thurs.— The P./ Club. looh. the main objsc: of which is to foster understanding, unity and goodwill among the various cojnmuniUea will be officially declared open by the Sultan of Perak on Sunday. There will be a cocktail party at the club premises on "the
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    SHE HAD STILL IN HOUSE
    56 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Thurs.— An elderly woman. Tan Lung Hooi was fined $450 m Bagan Serai for possession of a still and 20 gallons of fermented mash. She was arrested after a raid on her house at Lean Seng Estate on July 23. The still and
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    COLONY TO STUDY DEFENCE ECONOMY
    46 5 COLONY TO STUDY DEFENCE ECONOMY S I Reporter PORE Govern--3 soon set up to study menta LviUan an emerthe N fflce de--Solems of s in Li provided •5 budget for exthe 9 have to deal uith !:ave advised to set up be raised at Ooandi meeting
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    RED CROSS TO LEND AIDS TO CRIPPLES
    138 5 RED CROSS TO LEND AIDS TO CRIPPLES TlxE Singapore branch of the British Red Cross Society is re-organ-ising its Medical Loan Depot. Yesterday it received 15 crates of medical stores from Britain. The depot which is at the Generil Hospital will now lend out at a nominal fee wheel chairs,
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    Mother of 2 wins claim
    65 5 SEGAMAT, Thurs. A mother of two children told the Segamat Magistrate she was beaten by her husband, neglected and illtreated by his parents and then left unprovided to live with her own parents. The woman Tan Hwee was claiming maintenance from her 27-year-old husband. Saw
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    RAILWAY FARES
    30 5 Special rail concessions for the blind who travel on Malayan railways came into operation m November 1950 and were not made recently, the Straits Times has been informed.
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    Compensation Bill pleases unions
    182 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. •TRADE Union circles m Kuala Lumpur said yesterday that the revised rates of payment under the new Work-men s Compensation BUI "appeared to be acceptable. Mr If. Arokiasamy. sec-retary-general of the Malai van Trade Union Council, said* "The several new features m the
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    NEW BRANCH FORMED
    50 5 KUALA LUMPUR., Thurs.— Rembau branch of the Negri Sembllan Adult Education Association was formed on Tuesday at a meeting at the Rembau English School. The meeting was sponsored by the Rembau Youth, Organisation. Inch e Osman bin Ali was elected president and Mr. V. B. Param secretary.
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    DESERTED POST SECOND TIME
    47 5 DESERTED POST SECOND TIME TELUK ANSON, Thurs. Atan bin Long, a Special Constable at the Bidor River Tea Estate, was fined $500 or six months' imprisonment for desertion. Atan had previously deserted from his post at Teluk Baru Estate and was fined $250 or three months' imprisonment.
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    Used force on woman charge
    44 5 Used force on woman charge RAUB Thurs— Karuppiah. a P.W.D. labourer. was charged at Raub with using criminal force on Rukmany with intent to outrage her modesty at the labourers lines, Fraser s Hill. Karuppiah claimed trial The case was postponed to Sept. 19.
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    TWO DOCTORS DISCUSS THEORY ABOUT BABIES
    193 5 Free Press Staff Reporter mHE main source of infecX tion of new-born babies is not so much the mothers as visitors. Dr. A C Sinha Gynaecologist at the Singapore Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital, told the Free Press yesterday. "The glass windows m wards are
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    Clinics wait for 40,000 children
    234 5 TTiHE Deputy City Health Officer, Dr. H. R. Morri- son, yesterday appealed for greater co-operation from parents to fight diphtheria m the Colony. Nearly 5,0€0 children took their firs: inoculation during the last- four weeks. It is "very, very important" that J they should be
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    CO-OP CAN BE SAVED, HE SAYS
    134 5 CO-OP CAN BE SAVED, HE SAYS THE cause of the losses sustained for three years m succession by the Singapore Co-operative Stores Society has yet to be ascertained, says Mr. T. F. Carey, Commissioner for Co-opera-tive Development. Singapore, m his annual report published this morning. Mr. Carey, says that at
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    MORE WIVES NOW ASKING FOR DIVORCE
    167 5 Jl/lORE people are asking the courts to end A marriages. Most of these are Asian wives. They are becoming: wiser to this form of legal action to free themselves from unhappy marriages, a Government official told the Free Press yesterday. These are the figures:
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    Varsity chairs: Choice soon
    125 5 IT is unlikely that the Chinese and Malay departments of the University cf Malaya will be opened this year, Mr. W. D. Craig, Registrar, told the Free Press yesterday. The appointments to the two chairs are still under consideration. "We hope they will be made within
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    Blackout schedule
    107 5 qi BSTATIOXS liable to load kJ shedding tonight are: Aljnnid Koad. Sims Avruui Pava Lebar Pumps. Dunman Road. Jou Cbiat P. are. Jalaa Yasin. Jalan Eunos Rangoon Rd., Smnrtt K^tatr. koUm Aver, MrPherson Rd. Kirn Cbuan Rd.. Boundary Rd I'torenrr Rd.. l"pp<*r ScraDKoon. Yio Chu Kane Rd., Govt.
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    ANNUAL MEETING
    32 5 The annual general meeting of the Shuddha Samajam (Pure Life Society) of Kuala Lumpur will take place on Sunday at 10 a.m. at the society's premises m Puchon? Road, Petaling.
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    RATIONING OFFICER
    21 5 MERSING, Thurs. Inche Mohamed Hashim bin Put Asst: Rationing Ofliorr, Kuala Lipis. has taken duties as Rationing Officer, Mersing.
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    He pleads for more loan societies
    249 5 He pleads for more loan societies EMPLOYERS m S J pore mercanf are slow to realise t advantage of thn loan societies to their subordinate staff, says the Commissioner for Co-operative Development, Mr. T. F. Ca: his annual report published this morning. "As a result." he say?, is far too
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    They Do Love to Fish Besides That Seaside!
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    SMART 3 F. GALLOP BY JEANNETTE
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    Chay Weng Yew nearly fell asleep
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    Chye Hin in hospital
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    TENG FOR MAAA
    35 7 Teng Pei Wah. Sinp.ipcre s champion sprinter and hurdler. who returned to the Colony from I j Helsinki yesterday. -Ail! ievc for I Ipoh today, to participate m th? Malayan A.A.A. cha*r.pionshi:<s.
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    F.B.W. beat Seletar
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    Nicholson nets four for M.U.
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    BATA S.C. HELD WITH LATE GOAL
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    362 8 ROOMS FOR CROWNING BIG RIDDLE FOR LONDON 'Hotel ships' may solve problem OVERSEAS visitors to London for the Queens coronation on June I may find themselves m boarding houses on the south coast 60 miles away, if they haven't already reserved their hotel rooms. The coronation accommodation committee, formed by
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    96 8 The path of glory... TOKYO Thu. n burden ol fame and lory proved too mucl tiie ;\;"ents of two o I star athl A i per reported yester I father 0 H ronoshin Furuhash J a\* hope m th O rimming event at Helsinki, suffered a rvous when his son
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    326 8 NUDISTS' UNDRESS DEBATE NEW YORK, Thursday. VTDISTS of America gathered m a solemn conclave yesterday at Convention Glade, Mays Landing. New Jersey, faced with the bare fact that no one knew who was m charge. As the 21st annual convention of the American Sunbathing
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    41 8 MINE SPOTTED IN CHANNEL The Dutch motor vessel Cape. 494 tons, yesterday sighted a mine floating In the English Channel m the area normally used by South Devon fishermen. A destroyer and a minesweeper left Plymouth to search for it.- Reuter
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    43 8 DR. G. H. GARLIC X, Director of SAT A (left) who returned to Singapore yesterday after attending two tuberculosis conferences m Britain. He is seen talking to Mr. C. L. Edwards, former Chairman of SATA, (centre) and Mr. G. H. Kiat, City Councillor.
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    23 8 U.S. life insurance companies have paid out more than U5516,000,000 m death claims resulting from casualties m the Korean war. A.P.
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    52 8 SHE CYCLED 12,000 MILES IN 100 DAYS picture. EVELYN HAMILTON (above), 46 years old, set out recently to cycle 11,000 miles m 100 days to prove that British cycle equipment is the best m the world. When she ccmpleted the distance with seven days to spare, she cycled another 1.000
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    40 8 The French Foreign Ministry confirmed last night that French businessmen are negotiating a trade agreement of up to U5523,000,000 with Communist China. An official spokesman emphasised that the deal was purely private and still very indefinite.
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    220 8 Output of rubber declines WASINGTON, Thurs. WORLD natural rubber production declined to 127.--500 long tons m June 1952. the lowest monthly output since March 1950. according to preliminary estimates of the Secretariat of the International Rubber Study Group the United States Commerce Department announced yesterday. Production for the first six
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    157 8 LONDON, Thursday. A PARTY, of Britons sailing to Helsinki for the Olympic Games said on their return yesterday that a Russian gunboat had stopped their yacht m the Gulf of Finland, taken them to a nearby Island and questioned them for four hours. Mr.
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    235 8 Clergyman helped plot WASHINGTON, Thursday. A COMMUNIST SCHEME to infiltrate the Bo> Scout movement and feed its members "Communism with a sugar coating*' was described m sworn testimony made public by l\S. Senate investigators yesterday. The Internal Security Sub-committee, m a report to
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    60 8 The first great uranium rush m the atomic age described by mining men as "the most intensive mineral rush m North America this century" is nearly over m Canada. There was a vast difference between last weeks uranium rush and the gold rushes of the "roaring
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    44 8 Rare birds on the Montebello Islands site of Britain's first atom weapon test —will be protected or dispersed by experts before the weapons are fired, the Australian Defence Minister, Mr. Philip Mrßride, told the House of P -;-?sentatives. Reuter AAP
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    41 8 Arrested under new Jap law The first two arrests under Japan's new anti-subversive activities law were made yesterday by police at a village 120 miles south of Tokyo. Authorities identified the two men as members of the Communist Party. A. P.
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    76 8 Reds Plan a F ar East army T HK Chi 2* 1 have d,<id, 7""* sanise out «f fo* armies a "K ar lr peoples r,v«lut,on ar r corps," uhi.h houlh y uiHrj ih of Gen. Roq, Commander-.n-(h.efnfl y Soviel m th the-Th.na'ln,,,^ d her. This d to the a
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