The Singapore Free Press, 2 August 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA K.;:3 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1948 PRIO Mi IK.\ IS
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    37 1 "Bluebottle," the Dragon class racing yacht, which iptfi be presented to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, out on sail-stretching trials off Hamble (Hampshire) passes the world's greatest liner, Queen Elizabeth homeward bound from Sew York.
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    Crisis talks in Kremlin likely
    364 1 Crisis talks in Kremlin likely A ttlee may meet Stalin LONDON, Monday MARSHAL STALIN ri xpected to receive diplomatic representatives of Britain, France and the United States at a joint meeting in the Kremlin. Well-informed observers believe that this will be followed by talks by all four Foreign Ministers or
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    Berlin has two arms of the law
    71 1 b BERLIN, Sunday. night up in a Soviet-West struggle of their city today faced the if they obeyed orders of their In the battle of the city's rival j by a deputy of Col. Paul <ored chler, read: "All possirrest, will be taken
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    CRIME TAKES A HOLIDAY
    34 1 Free Press Staff Reporter (HUME took a virtual t holiday in Singapore during the week-end. No armed robberies or other major crimes have been reported to the police since Fridav
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    JAPS IMPOSE STRIKE BAN
    52 1 THE Ja; Government night issued a er effective immedia prohibiting all rnment workers from striking and collective action. The action is a stopgap measure pending the Diets re-fc-iaion of the National Public 3afety Law as called f MacArthur in his l< :<> Prime Minister Hitoshl \shida
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    Mc MULLAN IS GOLF CHAMPION
    125 1 Mc MULL AN IS GOLF CHAMPION WMcMullan won the Sin- gapore Golf ChampionI ship at the Royal Singapore Oolf Club this morning, when he beat H. Tooke. four and three. In the final. Tooke became erratic over the second nine holes, and was then no mat<;h at all for the
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    B-29s IN MANILA
    23 1 TWO globe-circling B-29s of the US. Air Force are due to land at Clarkfleld, Manila) this morning, from Ceylon.— A.P.
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    INDIAN CONGRESS FOR ELECTIONS
    139 1 Fre« Pres^ Skiff Reporter I'H£ Malayan Indian Congress has decided to contest elections to Municipalities and Rural Boards, Singapore Regional Indian Congress was told yosteriav bv the M.I.C. President, Mr. Budh Singh. At the meeting yesterday in Race Course Lane, MIC mbers asked Mr. Budh Singh
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    CZECH LEADER'S DAUGHTER WEDS
    48 1 CZECH LEADER'S DAUGHTER WEDS IniE youthful Czech Com munist Minister of Justice. Mr. Alexej Ceplcka, yesterday married the only daughter of President Clement Oottwald i of Czechoslovakia. Ceplcka was an obscure local Communist until he appeared !n the I as r of Dome lic Trade, st December.- UP.
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    Flying boat missing off Africa
    134 1 Flying boat missing off Africa BORDEAUX, Sunday. A trench flying boat, with an estimated 40 passengers and a crew of 12 on board is bflieved to have been lost at sea today 400 miles w .st of the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of French West Africa. French planes
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    THEATRE-LESS WASHINGTON
    71 1 AMERICA'S capital is now without a legitimate theatre because the city's only theatre is closing down as a result of refusing to lift its ban against negroes. The actors' equity association had ordered its members not to take part in any more performances at the theatre, known as
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    LUDWIGSHAFEN MASS FUNERAL
    67 1 MASS funeral services will be held this afternoon at Ludwigshafen for the victims of the I. O. Farben chemical plant disaster last Wednesday Meanwhile separate German and French investigations of the cause of the blast are continuing. The known death toll is now 175 dead and 75
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    HAPPY BIRTHDAY
    30 1 Ivy Baldwin, famed trapeze artist, parachutist and wirewalker, on Sunday celebrated Ms 82nd birthday by walking a 300 -foot cable stretched across a mountain canyon In Colorado, U.S.
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    Lepers go on strike
    74 1 ABOUT 60 out of more than 200 lepers at Manila's San Lazaro Hospital are reported to have escaped and the remainder are on a "sit down strike" as a result of a Department of Health order transferring them to central Luzon leper colony. The Philippines Government
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    H.K. RENT SLASH ANGERS HOTELS
    127 1 IN an attempt to lower the high cost of living in Hong Kong the government yesterday published drastically reduced ceiling rates for hotel and boarding house accommodation thereby infuriating hotel managers all over the colony. Not one boarding house— not even the Y.M.C.A. has escaped
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    'J' accuse': de Gaulle
    25 1 'J' accuse' de Gaulle De Gaulle on Saturday night accused the government of Premier Andrie Marie of seeking to postpone or annul the October elections.
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    YUGOSLAV REBEL
    30 1 Radonja Qolubovich, Yugo- slav Ambassador to Rumania, has resigned from his post In protest at Marshal Tito s attitude to the Comlnform resolution on the Yugoslav Communist Party.
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    Stalin will decide today
    172 1 LON DUN, Monday. THE London Daily Mail said this morning that the three Western envoys will see Mr. Molotov again "within the next 24 hours." "By then, it wiil be known whether Marshal Stalin is to join in the discussion," the newspaper said. Disclosure of the
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    REBELS TOOK THEIR DEAD
    83 1 Free Pre** Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. POURTEEK bodies are b«- lieved to have been taken a* ay by the insurgent* who had escaped into the jungle after last Friday battle near Batu Arang coal mine In which police and troops reported to have killed terrorist*
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    Siam boosts rice exports
    69 1 BANGKOK, Monday. THE Ministry of Commeroe declared today that Siam will export about 1,500.000 tons of rioe this year. The Ministry said an overall export of 10.000.000 tons was required from the rice producing nations to relieve the world shortage. World food experts have estimated that
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    CRICKET: NO PLAY
    17 1 CRICKET NO PLAY There was no play this morning in the North-South cricket match on Singapore padang.
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    58 1 Many of the people of Venice are using a novel method of transport along the labyrinth of canal* in the city water skis, propelled by ordinary ski-polef. Their size compares with the conventional type, with th§ ettra feature that they are unsinkable. Venice's gondolier's, fearing competition, have threatened to sink
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    S'HAI BEATS MANILA
    28 1 SHANGHAIS combined football team won Its seventh victory in eight game, on Saturday night in Manila defeating the combined Manila Terminal-Chinese collpdnnK O~ 1 A.P.
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    'I was dead scared': Valberg
    233 1 'I was dead scared Valberg LONDON, buna LLOYD VALBRRG year-old Sii: high jumper and M sole representative in Olympic Garr.es scared" at jumpir, in front of 80,000 Wembley. "It is one t home where competition but it was qu. different matter to jump in front of all those people. I
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    Man and wife hurt in trisha
    77 1 Free Press Staff Reportrr TWO passengers in a trisha which was involved in a collision with a motorcar in Orchard Road near the junction of Scotts Road at 8.15 this morning were taken to the General Hospital with severe injuries. The p; gers were
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    A FLASH-BACK FROM UK
    1327 2  -  Hall Romney LONDON LETTER by IT was a strange coincidence that within a day or two of reading in the "Free Press' the references to Mr. John Fraser, founder of the Singapore broking tirm .of Fraser and Co.. I should have met another Mr. Fraser whose
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    Parrof caused a stampede
    72 2 A PARROT spoke out of turn and 200 film extras broke up a spectacular ir "Christopher Columbus" at Shepherds Bush Studios. Florence Eldridge. as the Quf-n of Spain, was about to welcome Fredric March. as Columbus, when the parrot p.p^d oa« "The break." in a gcxv!
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    Bridge Problem
    310 2 THREE no-trump would have taf contract, and :h's second bid might have been tuo n<>-trump Instead of three clubs However, five clubs the contract, arrd it was up to South to make It. West <>jxned the heart eight. Dummy played the nine. East the lea and south won
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    60 2 These ironioor/cs factory typists rehearsing for an amateur show know they can listen with respect to their teacher, Miss Phyllis Beard, analyst at the factory laboratory, in Chapel- i town, Yorks. For Miss Bear a danced with h'. guette, the Paris star, and has danced threc-qw of the way round
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    Musical Families
    471 2  -  MARGARET LAWRENCE By r TO recapture the per--1 formances of other days, and fc> stimulate the practice of music in the home, is the aim of a radio programme to which Australian^ 1M« n ry week. Entitled "Musical Families," this session is the brain-child of condm Hector Crawford
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      293 2 5 Programme Summary. 6.0? Youths Effect; 650 Personal Choir <? by Zahrah Zaaba; 7 Time 7.01 Arts Corner, 730 in Malay: 7. 45 Egyptian Music AUSTRALIA 4 00 p m. V 11.15 p.m. VLA« 19.74 metres lI. M megacycle*: 4.M p m U 115 p m VLM 11.89 metre* 11.
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      174 2 metre* ao4 40. 58 OMtrc*. MONDAY 1 p.m. World News; 1.05 A La Carte; 1.15 Yours for thr Asking; 155 Programme Summary; 6 Station Opening; 6 02 Thirty to One 6.30 World and Home News; 6.45 Bport« Roundlup; 7 Five O'Clocfc Special; 7.44 Nnthing But Music; 8 World and (Home
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      222 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you are a m natural born mixer. You love luxurious things, pleaaant people and expensive surroundings. You must Karn lo curb extravagance. Although you have a knack for money -making, your gift for spending is quite equal to it Hence the difficulty! To curb your
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    Corinth canal ro-opened by U.S. Governor
    42 3 eek inter -coastal route, which smarts in 1944, teas re-opened i'tstooid, Chief of the American the completion of the first of the s undertaken by the American MisGreece and the United States Army rps of Engineers
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    MYSTERY OF LOST 'SAM' SISTER SHIPS
    370 3 MYSTERY OF LOST 'SAM' SISTER SHIPS Radically wrong' hint at inquiry COMETHING "radically wrong" caused the my s terious Joss of three British sister ships in a year, a lawyer-M.P.— Mr. Hector Hughes, K.C.— euggested at an official inquiry in London. All three were American-built vessels of 7,219 tons, with
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    Gratitude
    64 3 TY/HILE collecting for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mrs. Sylvia Mizen, of Ottershaw, Surrey, was bitten by a dog. At Chertsey Session the owner was ordered to keep the animal under control. Ten o/ the si States Boeinn Fortcsses which urr. Britain aero drome.
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    SAYS PHILIPPINES ARE U.S. COLONY
    79 3 ndenct is not real M] enio counterpart of America's column, which he contrbuVs Reporter. Lacson calls the ■vi'dblic. no better and no worse under the Japanese." our rt a of of beggars, bleating and whining piteously for alms. Lacsons solution: "It ts the duty of
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    GERMINATION BY ELECTRICITY
    63 3 A.P. THE prospect of growing tobacco grown in -warmed soil is ii. farmers in Herefordshire, .nd. Raymond Coombes. of -Wye, reported h>- had germinated tobacco seeds this by such a method and that be had also evolved an rely new system of drying tobac nt, agent- said
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    Soviet plastic surgeon's new theory
    146 3 PROFESSOR A. A. 'Limberg, eminent Moscow surgeon who recently won a Stalin Prize, believes that mathematics is closely linked with plastic surgery. In the foreword of his book which won him the priz*. Limberg says: "Mathematics has acquired exceptional significance ifor the development of most
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    U.K. PLEDGE TO BURMA FIRMS
    99 3 THE Foreign Secretary Mr 1 Bevin, said recently that the British Government would continue to give full support to British companies in Burma whioh were expropi on June 1 and to other British Interests in Burma. Discussions, he said, were continuing in Rangoon between the
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    CLIMB ON STILTS
    30 3 TXJIiTY- YEAR-OLD TYriuchi JT Hanazawa climbed Mount Fuji Japan* on a pair iron-tipped bamboo stills last ww that a man can be vigorous rvrn after 40." A.P.
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    Henry knocked-wife said: "Come in, Jack"
    181 3 HfcMlY THOMAS FARNELL, 31, of Birmingham, had doubLs about his wife. One night h* went home withourt warning and tapped on the back door. A voice —his wife's— whispered, "Come in, Jack.** Mr. Commissioner Grazebrook. K.C. giving the husband a decree nisi against his
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    S'hai black market: U.S. Army denial
    92 3 A SPOKESMAN for the American Advisory Group said they had been advised by the Shanghai economic police that no American army officers were involved in alleged black-market operations for which Hans Obronz of Shanghai is being held in custody. Obronz was quoted by local
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    Mid-channel meeting under sea forecast
    225 3 Mid-channel meeting under sea forecast [N about five years British and French engineers 1 may meet 8 feet beneath the bed of the sea in mid-Channel. Motions were tabled in both houses of parliameni during recent renewed consideration of the Channel tunnei project Sir Herbert Walker. 80-year-old chairman of the
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    UNKNOWN
    57 3 /GERMANS in Munich are \J hungry and are crowded into tiny living space but they will not give up their pets. This was emphasised in a summary of the Munich City regulations which showed that 21,500 inhabitants of the city (population 700,000) have licences to keep animals in Lheir
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    S. Koran unity offer rejected
    83 3 S. Koran unity offer rejected inritatio' reun i ffj^^ic parpoM According to Ru nghai I broadcast by Pyon Radio. One Russian or..' the Un:t<d Press chat North Korean i was Quoted in trip br as say in« i gaily elecu-a tafL> n0 righl to The K r was ng watched
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    S'PEARE FESTIVAL RECORD
    168 3 rE 1946 Shakespeare Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Stratford-on-Avon, the poet's birthplace, continues to break all records In the first 13-and-a-half weeks of the 28-week season. 132.000 people saw the Festival productions— 2o.ooo more than in the same period last year. They paid in all £39.500
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, AUG, 2, 1948.
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      Here is the news
      467 4 piun.er correspondent rais*l rd in the "Straits Times" morning a question *mcm has troubled a good m **v listeners v> Radio Some of its reporteratinL l w b lrom Lne Fed'u'atedfiK.??* al There are news items which are going to sound depress>>e however they are presented,
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      Berlin: Hope rises
      191 4 Berlin: Hope rises The week-end has brought a note of optimism from Mos- Reports that Marshal Staiin may see the representatives of the Western Powers do not take us very far along the road to agreement, but even the bare possibility of a full four-Power meeting, in Moscow or anywhere
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    Diplomatic shadow boxing
    509 4  -  iDKutrr MacKENZIE By A.P. Correspondent THE Working Com- mittee of the United Nationa Commission for Conventional Armaments (those apart from atomic weapons) has finally decided that armaments can't be reduced and controlled until the big powers agree on a U.N. police force, atomic energy is leashed and
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    IT IS VERY SERIOUS
    191 4 What People Say \FTLR reading an article in your paper last week headed "Asked U.S. $40,000 'Key Money' I just could not refrain from sending in to say that the same Is happening in Singapore today. This racket, if I may be permitted to say. has
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    UNKNOWN
    706 4  -  GEOFFRD Air Column Bv MALAYAN Airannual o verh aiil P ot^S Dakota in their workshops at Kallang Airport. Annual overhaul is a major task and it shows how rapidly aviation is advancing in this country when a local company can now do the work themselves. Previously it would have
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    MORE CASH FOR COL. BUDGET?
    305 4  -  GRAHAM STANFORD By Commonwealth Affairs DHITISH business men back their belief in the Colonial Empire to the tune of £10,000,000 a year. That apart from postwar reconstruction, is the it amount of yearly private investment, in U\r Colonial Empire. And from 1950 onwards scheme* of
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    VENGEANCE ROAD
    233 4 By B. SATAKOPAN, A.P. Correspondent. •J'HE new metalled road linking the beteisgur. ed mate of Kashmir wi*h the Indian Union wa*'an engineering feat" and was completed "with a vengeance." B. fl. Purl. India 'a chief elrll engineer, said in an Interview that "the entire energy of the Government
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    OPTIMISM IN
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    A broken fingernail founl him out
    384 4 A broken fingernail f ounl him out By Jacques Armed-Prevxwt A. P. Correspondent. WITH only the tip of finder nail as a clue, police have found a Moroccan whom, they confess*^ to running down and killing a French Government employee. The courts will decide whether he Is guilty of murder
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    FAITH
    30 4 lei u> hrar the conclu- j sion of the whole matter: Fear God. and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man I Ecclesiastes 12. 13.
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    RUSH FOR ARMS 'STILL GREAT'
    240 5 RUSH FOR ARMS 'STILL GREAT' Private owners force up prices Free Press Staff Reporter DECAUSE of the present emergency, there is a great demand for smaH arms. Singapore firearms dealers have placed orders both in England and the United States and increasing deliveries are expected within the next few weeks.
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    Site for new fire Station
    48 5 tnair are among the more important of the yj*s which the Singapore Municipal ComEgsbave omftrmed. |35sc: site of the $10,000,000 power recorded in the approval of tta to purchase certain lots in I I I B I I 1 I rised ..T.useI sessI
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    Bandits kidnap old woman
    63 5 AFTER robbing a house in Layang Layang. eight bandits last night kidnapped an old woman who was found in the house. The incident took place about 10.30 p.m. when eight Chinese armed with three rifles, a Sten gun and four pistols went to a squatters house
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    Tea Party
    61 5 After a three-month tour of Girl Guide centres in the United Kingdom, Mis* U<r Qi Chen, <^\'^aswelMiss Jessie Kiigour, a former Girl Guide Commissioner. The tour had been sponsored by the British Council. Miss Xg Oi Chan was accompanied on her trip to the U.K. by Inche Lily
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    Servants are easier to get now
    202 5 e unasekar a; Sfte Attributes this to feveral causes: a number of military canteens and messes have closed down in recent months, swelling the ranks of the unemployed servants; more servants are bringing relatives from China to compete for jobs, and food prices are
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    80 Malayans for Jamboree in Australia
    183 5 DEPORTING on the ar- rangements made for a Malayan contingent to the South-West Pacific Jamboree, the retiring Scout commissioner. Mr. Frank C. Sands, says It has been a very great struggle to obtain passages for the contingent. "There is now a hope that we
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    DANCERS GO ON TOUR
    43 5 HHHE Singapore Association X of Teachers of Dancing has sent a team to tour the Federation during the August Bank holidays. The team consists of Mr. Low Poh San, Miss Jenny Quek, Mr. M. Al-Johary. nd Miss Susana Chan.
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    Killearn's castle too big, 'boy' quits
    83 5 WHEN Lord Killearn's establishment closed down. he had to dimiss his large staff of servants, and they added to the ranks of the unemployed. Mrs. Gunasekara, head of the Servants' Agency told the Free Press. "Lord Killearn took one or two of his Chinese
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    POLIO DEATHS
    7 5 I polio r Jwe-'day reached
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    IDENTITY CARDS FOR FILIPINOS
    214 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FILIPINOS are voluntarily registering themselves with the police as aHens. -With registration card>, we can identify ourselves easily during the present emergency/' a committee member of the Singapore Filipino Association told the Free Press, He added: 'This is also an example of
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    Indian protest over arrests
    111 5 SAYING that the Malayan Indian Congress had reason to believe that mere suspicion had gone a long way in the arrest and detention of a large number of Indians under the Emergency Regulations, the M.I.C. President, Mr. Budh Singh, yesterday appealed to the Singapore and Federation
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    CAPITOL
    47 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PLANS for rebuilding that part of the Capitol theatre which was totally damaged by a mysterious explosion during the Japanese occupation are being submitted to the Municipal Commissioners. The owners of th€ Capitol propose building a dance floor with a roof garden.
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    U.K. schools to learn more about Malaya
    148 5 U.K. schools to learn more about Malaya MR. K. W. Blackburne, Director of Information Services at the Colonial Office, who is at present on a visit to South-East Asia, said that school children in Britain are going to learn a lot more about Malaya and the rest of the territories
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    DANCE HALL PLAN
    115 5 The manager of the theatre, Mr. C. D. Clennett, told the Free Press it was hoped to have the dance -floor opened before Christmas. "We hope to make the Capitol one of the leading theatres in the Far East, and if the plans are approved, patrons can
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    TAMIL SCHOOL IS PLANNED
    229 5 ,~«cct lunds for the building ©f a n«w school at the seventh mile Yio Chu Kane Road. The building: is estimated to cost $20,000, half of Which will h* rnntrihuted bv the Singapore Government. those on the committee ar« ivLi. G Saransapany. the In<iii»a editor and
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    TOWN BOARD SPEED LIMIT
    63 5 A reminder that a maximum a\ speed limit of 30 m.p.h. is in force in all town board areas in Perak is made by the Automobile Association of Malaya. The Association says that it Is not aware of a similar restriction in any other state and
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    PAKISTAN SAYS 'THANK YOU'
    45 5 THE secretary of the Qiiiid- I-Azam's relief fund in Karachi has thanked tne Oversea Pakistan League of Singapore for a Rs. ***** agnation. He wrote to say that the donation was a practical elfort "to reduce the sufferings of helpless brothers
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    Indians are urged to help 'Varsity
    260 5 Indians are urged to help 'Varsity Free Press Staff Reporter INDIAN public bodies should not wa>te time in raising a substantial gift to the University <»f Malaya so that scholarships can be planted tc ik serving Indians, said the Rev. D.D. Chelliah, <peaking in Tamil over Radio Malaya on the
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    Torpedo-boats in 'all-out' practice raid
    38 6 Torpedo-boats in 'all-out' practice raid Royal Naval motor-torpedo boats from H.M.S. Hornet at full speed in tight 'Vic' formation as they i out an 'attack" during exercises by units of the Home Fleet off the Isle of Wight.
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    Buchenwald now red terror camp
    146 6 "•jour than tlirc** ytmn i' ta'd But -henwald. R opc**». Uvrlin R Pr»!fff»» I 10.0 t one 1 red to cnt. detailed report poet way Buchenwald been published by Die •racial German n pa; \e Bri! G T.ment. p says It obtained tS fl r
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    CANNED SEAL MAY GO TO U.K.
    82 6 CANNED SEAL MAY GO TO U.K. THE tush of some of the by a Melbourne tinn may be canned and sent to Britain. Tbo tirm nas bo sun process- n< the fir i of 2.000 5P.115 which the Victorian Goment has derided It will be killed during the next year.
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    JAP LOOT EASIER TO RECOVER NOW
    108 6 "THF li-nation Far Eastern C— imlirnlon has decided to make it easier for owners to recover property looted by the Japanese in World War 11. The new restitu' rm.s ntifying t:. ther the J>- v d count ri' elalmanti had pro- •adquar cArthur lnt
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    BURMA'S 'ANTI-FOREIGN' CAMPAIGN
    538 6 BURMA'S 'ANTI-FOREIGN' CAMPAIGN Brave bid to run own affairs WHEN the British yielded Crown power on January 4, Burma walked out of the Common wealth, declining Dominion status. She chose a' path leading sharply to the left. Strong forces are trying to le«*d her to Communism and close association with
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    Two who were left plan
    148 6 I ikw fMttITVS rr *~Tr7. the man and the whose wife and hustwc'T the next-door lovers r^ c ham, But2kin«hai; aiea on :i holiday cr Mrs. Anne Rose Escott. 34 widow of Leslie Escott, who killed Mrs Marion Bristow. 45. and c tmmltted tulcidfl .n
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    Weather warfare, secret U.S. tests
    211 6 TNITED Stato xienti>ts in Washington are U ploring i he possibility of ii>mn the weather M IWltHirj weapon. Secret* y. a.-. ik**e as that >urroundini; the atom bomb and jrerm warfare development*, ritata these studies of "meUorolotfical warfare". military scientist! want is a method of
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    Countess says 'I am hard up'
    141 6 TM of Craven 33. <t husbanr. Earl, has £4.000 a worked for three year- on a farm and later in a store to provide for her invalid daughter. Lady Sarah 8. She Li suing the Earl of Craven fur i:365 15s. lOd. owine to
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    TAIWAN TO INVESTIGAT
    24 6 TAIWAN TO INVESTIGAT asfd Adcrcmi I. the Oni o' and head of 4.OCKJ.UOO Yorubas m Nigeria, meets the youngest of his subjects »n England.
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      113 6 JANE Exclusive to Ihe Singapore Free Press In Malaya Spoor old "\/and not\] Know, erk:, i came^v/absoloTely, old "miN6-^^THE conx:eiTofY Yes— for a^N GEORGIE'S SO WITHOUT To TrY ON DRESSES— AND WiThOuT OBLIGATION I ThE. MAN! YOU I HANDSOME SALAKY ABSURDLY REASON J I NOT LISTEN To YOUR JTo PURCHASE
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    BEATY FAVOURED TO BEAT KOK LEM
    544 7 BEATY FAVOURED TO BEAT KOK LEM Today s Malayan tennis finals i^fi^S 1 Special Fre Pr ««s Tennis Correspondent yyiiH one final and most of the semi-finals played off yesterday, the stage is now set in Penang for the emergence of new champions today, final day of this year's Malayan
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    Kailasapathy needs 13 runs for 'double'
    87 7 Kailasapathy needs 13 runs for 'double' fHE eylon Sport* club cricketer, M.C. Kailasapathy, who was not out with 13 in the North v». South match yesterday, has scored 983 runs this season. In 25 in nines played, he has scored two centuries (103 and 100), once not out. In bowling,
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    Dillard will bid for Owens' double
    517 7 Today's Olympic events By VERNON MORGAN THE eyes of more than 80,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium on Britain's Bank holiday will turn to the two great Olympic track events today the 800 metres and the 5,000 metres. After his phenomenal performance on Friday in
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    Best Olympic whoop
    31 7 NORTH ana Latin America blended perfectly to produce the best cheer at the Olympic basketball tournament. It was: "BRAZIL BRAZIL BRAZIL rapido raptdo rapido-hey bobba rebophey bobba rebop."—UJ*.
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    Sure and Stedfast club dance
    93 7 J^ SOCIAL and dance organised by the Sure and 3tedfast Club (The Old Boys' Association of the BovV Brigade, Singapore > w.U be held at St. Andrew's School Mall, Woodsvilk. on Saturday, from 8 p.m. to midnight. Willie and hiß rhythm dance band will be
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    97 7 U,gJ*T South, cricket Jl- J W. J. f** M i MUM i^^wte* total wll- o* b^ySe wtckrt helps l I? t:-> bowlers. P **Saxn Growder, fcSSiW M much L Bowling r P tf£oi:*J the condlp>' i 'ake ft -S and :*cfc colt a and s f *«m* b Bin
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    Shuttler sets a problem
    412 7 From frarry Carrol TSMAIL bin Marjan of Johore set a pretty problem L for Malaya's Thomas Cup selectors yesterday when he beat Yeoh Teck Chye who, prior to this North-South badminton test, had the strongest claims for inclusion in Malaya's team. Ismail wo.- as a result
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    PERRY WINS
    41 7 FRED Perry, three times .bledon champion, icon the men s singles in the Siazanger £1.000 professional tennis tournament at Scarborough. England, on Saturday, defeating Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon champion of 1946, at 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1, A. P.
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    Cablemen beat St. Andrew's
    212 7 GOOD bowling by F. Noronha *ho took seven wicket* for 18 runs, enabled the Cable and Wireless cricket Uaxn to beat 6t. Andrew's School by 91 runs at WoodsvUle yesterday. St. Andrew's School: J. Cheliiah B H*Lge b Noronna 5; B. Roe* c Theeelra b Noronha
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    TEE SIANG SCORES THREE GOALS
    54 7 •THE Shanghai football ttftJß 1 defeated the Chinee* Eafiee of vt?t>!> six-nil at Rial stadium on Saturday. Han Lun-hal and Lee Foo scored the first Shanghai goaU in the ftrs; half. In the second half Ha Te«-«lan« scored three «ucce c aiTe sroala and Loo
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    British soccer team's surprise
    102 7 BRITAIN will enter the lists a3 serious challenger to Italy's Olympic soccer title by their surprise 4 3 defeat of Holland In the first round on Saturday. Holland who with Yugoslavia and Sweden, were generally expected to provide the main dangers in the tournament were only
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    Olympic films screened
    151 7 ITILMS of each day's events in the 14th Olympiad are being sent' all over the world the next morning. Camera records of <-ach contest are hurried away to all-ni«»t process staff and at dawn are rushed to London's airports for dispatch t« all points of the compass.
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    D.R.B.HASNOWWON OVER $30,000
    429 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent jyR.B. boosted his turf earnings past th e $30,000 mark on Saturday opening day of the Penang Turf Club's Bank Holiday mteting. The grey thus proved that his Bukit Timah win was no fluke. Responding gamely to Albert Spencer's call at the top
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    Loveliest
    33 7 Brenda Helser, 24-pear-old member of the United SU Olympic swimming team, has been described as "the loveliest of the Olytainans." Here she is resting at the Empire Pool, Wembley, after a practice.
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    British riders win French race
    61 7 R GRAHAM of Britain riding an A.J.S. won the CommlngeB motor cycle Grand Prix at St. Gaudens near Toulouse yesterday with the record average speed of 90.67 miles per hour. Second over the 123J miles course was another British rider on an A.J.S. Jock West,
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    Star God and Mandalay best
    887 7 Selection* by "Call Boy" From L?SGM JEEP STAR God and Mandalay, two strong stable fancies, should be the best bets in Penang 'oda>. xcond day of the Penang Turf Clubs Augus^ Bank Holiday meeting. The going remains very good. Devon, another stable fancv, should win
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    INDIANS WIN 8-0
    41 7 INDIA beat Austria uy ci^iit goals to nil in the Olympic preliminary hockey payed at Lvtma sports ground. Subbury Hill, on Saturday. The game »M a foregone conclusion a» the two teams were not in the same clas*.
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      226 7 F.P. Crossword No. 452 I |||2 |I|3 H4 I 15 16 17 I 9 i5 M Hi! "^C 0 14 js£ 30*31 P5"55 54 pa I ||5r CUm AtKO>S 4. Folk (6). 8. Stoppage of trade (7). 10- Hazard (3). 11. t: »3). 12 Fruit (6>. 15, Scorn (8) 17.
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    BIRTHS
    32 8 At Penan* on 27th July, to Norma. wife M F. O Ingiis. Taiping. a daughter. VANICEK —^To Annemarie. wife of Karel. at K.K Hospital, on the 30th July, a baby boy.
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    DEATH
    89 8 s. Ho Si'-w Tian (allaa I Lip Nto> passed :.y at the a*e of 77 at her i 47 Lorong 29. 30th July. 1948 at d p.m rtafl her H s:ew Tian. fl sona and seven daughter* Ho Cheow Chan, j I Huat. Cheow Cheng and [adam Cheow L
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    ENGAGEMENT
    43 8 The engagement U announced, and the marriage will shortly take place, between Richard the only son of the late S. K. West and rripps of 77 Cranraer Court. and Winifred Ruth ('Ann') Moriev. younger daughter of Rev. -:py of Stoneaston. Nr Bath.
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    MARRIAGE
    28 8 RICHARDSON -WAIT On Saturday June 26th at St. Mury'i h. Old Alresford. Major m hardson. The Royal Ulster R to Miss Ursula Walt of Railings. Swarraton. AlresHants.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    36 8 MR PANG HITC BOOK of "Sinli New Book Co., and family th ir heartfelt thanks to friends relatives who so kindly ha, scrolls, telegrams; :^rrtes: paid ni;?ht visits and rendered assistance duriru th ir b°r?avement
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    U.S. GETS 5 FIRSTS IN 8 FINALS
    1060 8 U.S. GETS 5 FIRSTS IN 8 FINALS More Olympic records fall THE United Stftes track and swimming stars have scored five victories during the first two days, Friday and Saturday, of the 14th Olympic Games of the modern era now being held in London. The Americans, who have taken first
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    Greek army takes Red fortress
    89 8 Greek army takes Red fortress PREEK Government troops U have won a fierce battle for the Kleptis Height, key to the Northern Smolikas mountains. About 10 days ago it was announced that the Greek Army had taken Kleptis but this proved to be incorrect. The Army captured the peak several
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    4 killed as explosions rock Cairo
    114 8 CAIRO. Sunday POWERFUL explosions rocked the centre of Cairo afternoon. The first occurred behind the Egyptian State Telegraph Office causing damage. A second explosion occurred a few minutes later on the first floor of a building in the Mustapha Kemal Square. Four were killed
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    YACHT 'PIRACY' CAPTAIN HELD
    79 8 YACHT 'PIRACY' CAPTAIN HELD CAPTAIN Waller I <edly pirated a yacht on the high seas rday held on a grand lara; Maryland, U.S. was arrested aboard the luxury ketch '"Halafter a month-lung covering the eastern ird of th- united State*. I who made the arrest said he had stolen the
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    STALIN, ATTLEE MAY MEET
    392 8 STALIN, ATTLEE MAY MEET Continued from Page 1 "separate West German state," General Clay said: "A West German governmental structure of specific powers will be created with certain powers reserved to the occupying nations as provided by the London Agreement. What It will be called will be left to the
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    SWISS CELEBRATE
    19 8 SW ISS CELEBRATE Switzerland celebrated on Sunday the 857th anniversary of her iniiepenci lOOtta anniversary oi the u-er* button.
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    Indian slake over Sandur
    68 8 Indian slake over Sand ur MADRAS, Sunday. THE Government of India has taken over the administration of the small South Indian State of Sandur without its ruler's consent, it was reported in Madras today. The ruler of Sandur said in an interview with the Bangalore correspondent of the Hindu that
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    An ex-Minister flees Prague
    66 8 LONDON. Sunday. A FORMER Czechoslovak Minister of Education, Dr. Jaroslav Stransky. has arrived in one of the Allied cupation zones in Germany, the exile Czechoslovakia information Service In London stated tonight. Dr. Stransky is the member of the Government to escape from Czechoslovakia since the Communist
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    YANGTSEFLOOD IS SPREADING
    243 8 SHANGHAI, Sunda>. JjViOOD waters rushing inland through the long itretchei of collapsed dykes along the middle Yangtse Kiver, are overwhelming towns and villages, drowning thousands of people. In Klangsi. where 52 dlsti are under water, 800 villagers were drowned when lan entire villas was wiped out, while
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    Alleged pirate tries suicide
    114 8 HONG KONG. Sunday. A CHINESE peasant, accused of engineering the piracy attempt on a Pacific Cathay flying-boat, has tried to commit suicide on two occasion^. The accused man is Wong Yu, sole survivor of the crash of the flying boat in whlcn 25 passengers and crewmen
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    HAGUE STRIKE
    22 8 Tho Hague's transport -s partly paralysed on Sunday for the second day In succession by a strike of tramway employees.
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    TIBET PRAYS FOR RED DEFEAT
    114 8 NANKING. Sunday THE Dalai Lama temporal ruler of remote Tibet has launched a religious war st Communists. On hundred "living Bucidhas" and 3.000 monks are participating in Commu-j nist-suppre^sion prayer at I L.nai,a, tne llDetan capital. Under the golden roof oi 1,000-lamp Tachao Lamasery they
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    WHALES COULD FEED EUROPK
    59 8 DR. H. R. Lillie of Dundee, Scotland, an authority on whaling, said yesterday that all Europe could be fed for j four months on the whale meat wasted In the Antarctic* each y«ar due to "antique" methods of killing. Soon he said this meat will be
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    TUSSLE OVER KRUPP'S ESTATE
    203 8 TUSSLE OVER KRUPP'S EST ATE NUREMBERG. Sunci. T^HE Krupp war crimes trial has touched 'off a A battle for U.5.51,000.000.000, it became apparent today. Perhaps only the U.S. Supreme Court can settle the issue. In convicting Alfred Krupp of slave labour, malpractices and plunder of foreign industry, an American court
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    Arabs seeking Asian support
    238 8 "THE Palestine Arab Higher Committee is sending a i delegation to Muslim and Oriental count r explain the Palestine situation and ask for mai. and moral help to resume the in PaleMim until i, is successful." it is reported in Damas< The United Nations mediator in
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    Britain's plea for 300,000 Arab refugees
    41 8 Britain's plea for 300,000 Arab refugees HEW YORK. Suj yHE Sthe 300.000 The British reprt xander C m is an u Israel objects tary a^t u?r« tok listing t« Haifa would be the Arab stAtw ab states added- Reuter A. P.
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    UNKNOWN
    106 8 |i|R^ Andrei M Minister, today accu I present in* an ultimatum th- 1 Conference meeting he- andli li I Insisted "the door K?*«|l Britain and Fr;r I on keeping their rij= I waterway, acquii' i if the results of thr nv^ittoS Mr. Vyshin&ky r> 1 this Convention ha placed
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