The Singapore Free Press, 3 August 1948

Microfilm: NL3668
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1948 PRICF 10 l KN m
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  • Article
    Stalin sees envoys of The West
    209 1 Using of llie tension MOSCOW, Monday. HiL Stain received envoys of the three n m the Kremlin for a twoyjfvieu tonight. The Soviet Foreign Molotov, was also present. ent was issued after the c sources said progress the four power tern envoys had visited
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    Olympie records Inthe mud
    8 1 Olympie records In the mud I -all I
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    HIT WORKMATE WITH AN AXE
    93 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A quarrel between two labourers occupying a cubicle m Bernam Street, m the Tanjong Pagar area, yesterday developed into a fist fight and ended tragically when one of of the labourers grabbed an and felled his room-mate with a blow on
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    DECREE FOR MR. A. J. BRAGA
    45 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IN the High Court this morning, Mr. Justice Brown granted a decree nisi to lawyer, A. J. Braga. Th€ petition of Mr. Braga's wife was dismissed. The decree will be made absolute m six months.
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    SPIVS AMONG THE WINNERS
    150 1 OLYMPIC Games ticket profiteers weie ordered off the premises at Wembley yesterday. Besides the [usual London louto, a number af toreim officials and petitors said U re selling tickets to get ugh money Lo live fa London." 2 One foreign offl ial s We were allowed
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    Siamese Army on frontier
    179 1 BANGKOK, Monday. THE Siamese Army today ordered its troops to comb-out the southern border area m an effort to capture Malayan Communist insurgents fleeing across the frontier m the face of British police and military pressure The Army took action after a strong force of guerrillas
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    UNICKY NUMBER
    12 1 There were 13 road deaths n Singapore during July. and
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    27 1 Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Communist leader who was wounded by a gun assailant three weeks ago, has relinquished leadership of his party to Pietro Seechia and Luigi Longo.
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    SNATCH THIEF ARRESTED
    53 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore C.I.D. yesterday arrested a Chinese believed to have been involved m a robbery m Geylang Road on July 16 when 10 persons approached a coffee-seller and snatched his brief case, conThe complainant alleged that the 10 persons had first demanded protection
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    ADRIFT FOR A WEEK
    33 1 After drifting for about 650 miles northwest of Fremantle Western Australia, since July 23 the steamer Papachristidis Vassilios (7.132 tons, registered m Montreal) was taken m tow yesterday morning.
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    Starving, he sold his wife
    97 1 CHANGHAI police are looking for Chow Nan-fu. a Kiangsu war refugee, who, they said, sold hies wife for 55 million Chinese dollars to save himself, and her, from starvation. The man who bought the wife and two middlemen who assisted m the deal, were arrested
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    OLYMPIC OPENING
    73 1 OLYMPIC OPENING Eighty thousand people packed Wembley Stadium for the opening of the 14th Olympiad. In the foreground of this A. P. picture is John Mark, the "mystery." athlete who was chosen to carry the Olympic flame on the last lap of its journey from Greece. In the centre of
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    Indians safe from 'terror'
    241 1 NEW DELHI, Monday. •THE lives and property of 650.000 Indian national* m Malaya have been little afVtcted by the "marauding acts" of Communists, Mr. J. A. Thivy, Indian Government Representative m Malaya, said m an interview with the Statesman today. He said the uprisings m Malaya
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    ROBBERS FOILED BY S.H.B. POLICE
    144 1 HELD up by two Chinese whom they had stopped to assist, under the impression that the Chinese were having trouble with their car, two A.P.O's of the Singapore Harbour Board were held up but disarmed one of the robbers, who escaped. 1 The A.P.O.'s were
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    17 1 Twelve Chinese were arrested by the Singapore C.I.D. during the week-end for being members of secret societies.
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    KING'S HOMECOMING
    29 1 WHEN young King Faisal, of Iraq, arrived m Baghdad yesterday from London to spend his school summer holiday, he was cheered by thousands who lined the streets.
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    28 HELD IN COMBINED JUNGLERAID
    188 1 28 HELD IN COMBINED JUNGLERAID Free Press Staff Reporter Johore Bahru, Tuesday. /COMBINED military and police forces, combing the Senai area yesterday, found m an empty hut 20 rounds of Japanese automatic ammunition, three empty Sten gun magazines and Japanese merical supplies. Twenty-eight men were detained for screening. During the
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    STOP PRESS
    148 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LLMPIR. Tues. A CHILD was killed this morning and el* other people were seriously injured m a kampong m Salak South, just outside Kuala Lumpur, when a rocket exploded m their midst. The rocket was discharged accidentally from a Spitfire on Kuala Lumpur
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    RACE MIOTS
    40 1 SIX coloured men and a white man appeared Liverpool court i -i-end r lying white and coloured r sons m Liverpool's South End m which bricks. bottl kn.vt 's and a pistol are said to have been used.
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  • FEARURES...
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      TRAINING GIRLS
      662 2  -  M.T. LEONG by TT has been unanim- ously agreed by leading figures of the Educational, Social and Governmental departments all over the world that youth training is one of the most ticklish and difficult jobs confronting a nation. Particularly m this part of 'he uorld where the Japanese
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      MODEST MAIDENS
      22 2 1.-».*wrfc fcfuttrtd I. tout* (Mn 1 Vt)U ALWAV4 %fK\V> ANTIQUES WERE VALUABLE. GUE^ MOW MUCH TtHl<; OHE IS WOETH I
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      Mandrake
      9 2 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya
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      Bridge Problem
      371 2 WE could spend the r<-.st of the k rtlPMlssiHl fhi^ hand -use it has so many pitfails that cause player? to lose a lot of points. Thin was the actual bid-: The t>!<J<JTnr: West North East S^utti IC9J 2* lau!l 20 30 A I'ut i «o r l>a
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      RAYON TAKES THE LEAD
      673 2  -  BARBARA STEVENSON By MEW fabrics perA^ fected by research laboratories m France and Britain will be a keynote of the Autumn Fashion Collections both m France and m London. Never has the variety of textiles been greater. Manufacturers are cifering to the public fabrics which comb.ne
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      up setting them
      223 2  -  HAROLD HKFFEKMW By QRADUATION o f strong-willed, sourceful Mr. Howard Hughes into the ranks of major producers may revolutionize plenty of art film-making tacti< For one thing, th. RKO boss may inspi: stitution of the old companies disband<*d a short time ago by studios as an BOCM
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      103 2 YOUF LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you have tremendous self-con-fidence. You know what you want and go out after it without mincing matters. Your opinions will be well-settled by the time you reach middle life and you are not likely to change them very much. You are broadminded enough to let
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  • NEWS...
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      U.K. ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY
      577 3  - U.K. ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY GLENN WILLIAMS "j,ree years Labour rule reviewed fl Jr unusn prosperity—propped by BritVhv!^ States financial crutches— heartens of thi?. k s C i allst Government celebrating the end mor. L fi^ d y car ta .;»H Power. The Government, more confident of its probable
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      18 3 |:m. Mr. W. J. Beas- >. both of ichom are i of Perth who has r, also of P
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      TOMAN 61. HOLDS BERLINT TOGETHER
      15 3 TOMAN 61. HOLDS BERLINT TOGETHER trying to hold ihe quartered, jgij^a Berlin together. I A.P.
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      COLLABORATOR FREED
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      Indian on white Australia
      83 3 rip -ir. O I .ma Reddl. Inc! •v-ferred to the "Wl i policy," and predicted that m time Australia j would absorb a huge Asian on to work her undeveloped hinterland. He declared that "political is hindering Afl jmic re d States was m- :ed m
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      KUOMINTANG RESHUFFLE
      174 3 !TtOP Kuomintana; leaders A met this week at .he party's headquarters m Nanking for preliminary discussion about reorganising the party with the object of tightening Its guidance of the Government. Some of the leaders called on President Chiang Kaishek after the meeting for I further discussion. The party's
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      TARZAN Larson brings word
      8 3  -  Edgar Rice Burroughs By
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      Germans break output records
      297 3 pENERAL Lucius D. Cray said m Berlin last week new post-war records had been achieved m ration levels and m all fields of industry following the introduction of currency reform m Western Germany on July 20. 1 In the most optimistic repor Washington yet, Genay stated
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      Swops unborn baby for house
      99 3 BY an agreement approved by Las Vegas (Nevada) Court, Mrs. Virginia Smith 26. divorced by her husband on the ground of cruelty, will give up to him the baby she expects m October m exchange for a C 2.560 1 house. Mrs. Smith, who has
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      Bevan denies charges
      144 3 THE British Health MinlaMr. Bevan. replying a r- nt statement by Mr. Churchill describing him aa a "Minis. ter of Disease, claimed that Infant mortality hud dropped from 70 per 1.000 m 1926- when Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer- to 43 m 1946 "I am keeping
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      ACTOR DEAD
      34 3 rvAViD Hay Petne, ana screen actor, died m hospital m London on Friday night, aged 53. He was on London stage throughout the twenties and began a movie career m 1931.- A.P.
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      JAP STRAGGLERS HOLD FILIPINOS
      80 3 JAP STRAGGLERS HOLD FILIPINOS MORE than three years after the war. Japanese stragglers continue to hold Filipino captives m their mountain hideouts m the southern Philippines, according to official reports reaching Manila. In both Davao and Cebu the authorities, aided by the military, are continuing to make efforts to rescue
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      CHIANG 'NEW DEAL SOON'
      335 3 A relief— bu* no remady •THE Chinese Government m Nanking is expected 1 to introduce new economic reforms next but observers believe the reforms will jr've only porary relief to China's war-burdened economy. Nanking reports, quoting circles close to the Premier, Mr. Wong Wen Hao, say
      U.P.  -  335 words
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      Australian bridas were 'homesick'
      127 3 Australian bridas were 'homesick' MRS. J. CARr., ly oT Sydney, said on a Sydney aboard the Ra^chi that all of 100 Australian war brides who went to England three years ago aboard the Dominion Monarch ing desperately to rttun Australia with their hush: Mrs Carr. who was accompanied by her
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      GAOLBIRD MAY GET $3.279
      77 3 GAOLBIRD MAY GET $3.279 JOHN Robert Johnson, gaoled easurer of Birmingham, will get a from his He will learn whether the city council has accepted :'s finance committee's dc to pay him £3.279 15s 6d. toial of his payments into the super-annuation fund. Mr. Johnson was tent last November to
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      40 3 the "New Look" has come to the L^o's penguins. x'ou can talk till you're black m the face my dear but 1 refUM4 to be seen m last ymr's feathers" Percy, the Kino Penguin is told by his moulting vi
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  • LEADER...
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      The SIngapore Free Press TUESDAY. August 3. 1948. They see Stalin
      622 4 The SIngapore Free Press TUESDAY. August 3. 1948. They see Stalin LA£] :.g between Stalin and the diplomatic representatives of Britain, t United States and France may have brought the essential Four Power conference a step nearer. That was the meeting's purpose, but It would not do to iume that
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      Don Iddon's Diary
      998 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK: BRITAIN is being smiled on again and embraced warmly as a stalwart Ally. It is pleasant to be an Englishman m America again, and even strangers are pressing thanks upon them and saying how convenient it is that British air bases are available, to 'he
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      TRUMAN'S CHOICE
      458 4 •THE United States DeI mocratic Party's nominee for the Vice-Pre-sidency is Senator Alb: n W. Barkley, an orator of the old school, polished by 35 years m Congress and tested m innumet able political campaigns. Big built, determined and powerfully voiced the 70--year-old Kentucklan if never any happier
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      190 4  - COURTENAI EDWARDS ANEW generation of airliners will set high standards of luxury m North Atlantic air travel when the Boeing Stratocruiser illustrated above, comes into service next year. Six have been ordered for British Overseas Airways at a cost of £3,000,000. With first-class and second-class accommodation, they will be able
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      Fuzzy- Wuzzies get democracy
      880 4  - Fuzzy- Wuzzies get democracy NOEL MONKS by Khartum, Sudan: THIS is the sizzling season m the Sudan-— it was 114deg. Fahr, at one outpost I visited and this summer it isn't only the sun that's sizzling. The Fuzzy-Wuzzies and all their Sudanese brothers are going to have an election, the
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      Berlin women laud Allies
      89 4 FIVE THOUSAND Berlin women recently paid tribute to the "Western pilot* who are supporting Berlin's tight for freedom and democracy." The meeting was arranged a* a memorial to two Americans who died a week ago In the crash of their iood- I carrying plane on a
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      Brain waves cure nerves
      16 4  - Brain waves cure nerves ALTONL BLAKNE A.P. "> B I I I i I i j i
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      U.K. WONT ACCEPT LIABILITY
      498 5 Expatriation pay for Covt. officers Would rather pay pensions Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Monday. THE Colonial Office has turned down a Select Committee's suggestion that the British Government should meet the cost of expatriation pay for officers of the Colonial Service. A possible alternative, says
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      Bonus' rice only for a limited period
      36 5 Bonus' rice only for a limited period L^S( per card .ble by B idcast staI look r- v n as SS :V" es -N r I ...t--\n per for I and I" and ■ker to for
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      Dutch buying Chinese cloth
      283 5 picture. Free Press Chinese Correspondent T»HE N.E.I. Government is negotiating for the A purchase of 200,000,000 yards of cotton textiles, chiefly from China. Negotiations between Chinese manufacturers and the N.E.I, have reached an advanced stage, a source close to the China Textiles Development Corporation informed me.
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      RECITAL AT THE THEATRE
      72 5 TPHE Shanghai 1 soprano Miss Ellen Wang A: Loon, will give a recital at the Victoria Theatre 30 tonight. Miss Wang, who received her vocal training at the Shanghai College of Fine ArU and later at the National Conservatoire of Music, has given numerous recitals all
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      CABLE $ WIRELESS
      3 5 CABLE WIRELESS I
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      THEY CAN LEARN TO WRITE-FOR 90 CTS
      216 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A NEW Government publication, selling at A 90 cents, will help heads of Government departland precision In MUSi o^B, 5E7^ 1*" X pondence. The book, a thin volume of 90 pages. Is entitled "Plain Words" and is written by
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      M.I.C CHIEF ON BY-ELECTION
      127 5 IN connection with the question whether the Singapore Regional Indian Congress could take part m the by-election caused by the death of Mr. S. C. Ooho. the President of the Malayan j Indian Congress. Mr. Budh Singh, writes as follows: "In answer to a fjuentlon In
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      WATCHING FOR NEW MOON
      66 5 THE Chief Kathi In Singapore will head a party of observers out to »ea Immediately after sunset on Thursday to keep watch for the new moon. The appearance of the moon will herald the biggest festival of the Muslims— Hari R*ya Puas£ If the new moon
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      S.M.C. decision on staff leave
      102 5 S.M. C. decision on staff leave VACATION lea\ d m respect of the J. occupation period but not taken will not be given to a Singapore Municipal employee on his resignation. Deciding that this rule should be retained. Municipal Commissioners have added the rider that earh be considered on its
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      BURMESE RICE FOR INDONESIA
      34 5 BURMA has set aside 5.000 tons of rio* for the Republic of Indonesia. Indonesian news agency, Antara, reports. The Republic, m return, has promised to send Indonesian produce to Burma.
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      64 CASES IN ONE DAY
      31 5 THE Fourth Police Court, Singapore, which was the only court sitting yesterday disposed of 64 cases. Eighty-four persons, Including nine women and one Juvenile, were concerned.
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      32 5 picture, Col. Victor Hivoo, veteran of the Chinese Air Force, is Commandant of the Chinese Air Force training base at Hangchow. considered one of the best air training centres m Asia.- A.P.
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      'We are not Reds,' says Union
      287 5 English school teachers Free Press Staff Reporter AN emphatic denial to the charge that English school-teachers m Malaya "are veering towards Communism" is made m an editorial of the Singapore Teachers' Union magazine Monthly Bulletin, which says: "The time has come to dispel fears
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      MONEY BY CABLE
      27 5 Indian telegraphic money order service with Malaya, limited to Rs.3o per day per remitter, la now available, according to a Government of India announcement.
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      NEW MAGISTRATE
      35 5 Mr. E. V. A. Peers, 0.8.1, who held many administrative positions In India from 1920 onwards, has been appointed a Singapore Police Magistrate, and will probably take over the Singapore ninth police court.
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      $20,000 RAISED FOR CHURCH
      98 5 rE St. Matthew's Church Hall and Building Fund now amounts to about $20,000 bringing the sum raised to date to within $***** of the target. The new church hall is to be built on Crown land which has been leased by Government on condition that the
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      'Monty' sees helicopter 'rescue' pilot
      33 6 'Monty' sees helicopter 'rescue' pilot At t g-out parade of at -shot a display included rescue by helicopter of a pilot "o n thc parade ground. Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Comman l :e pare
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      PEER'S WORLD GOVT. PLAN
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      RED GRIP ON HUNGARY TIGHTENS
      220 6 RED GRIP ON HUNGARY TIGHTENS Mystery of President's downfall THE sudden resignation of Hungary's President Zol--1 tan Tildy has giv.en the Commtfnists a chance to strengthen their position m still another Soviet satellite country. Tildy, who held his post for more than two years because of his willingness to "co-operate"
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      CAITSKELL BY-THE-SEA
      91 6 FOUR m ten houses m Margate, Kent, lack bathrooms, Judge Clements was told at the county court. "Some people have moved the baths out of their homes so they can let their bathrooms." explained Mr. Robert Crittenden, estate agent. George Baughton, pier ticket inspector, appearing m a house
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      23 6 Count Bcrnadotte with members of the Jen. riyht, William Burdette, acting U.S. C sil, Jean Niewenhuys, Belgian Consul and >er tions spec ie
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      HELEN KELLER TO VISIT ORIENT
      68 6 MISS Helen Keller, blind and deaf American authoress who Is at present visiting Sydney, plans to tour the Orient on her self-appointed task of raising money for the welfare of the blind m countries which she visits. With the backing of General Mac Arthur, she
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      Royal tabu on films
      101 6 A tabu of the British Board of Film Censors is that 1 the names of the Royal Family must not be mentioned m films. The censor insisted tha* a line referring to Princess Elizabeth's mink coat must come out of the film "Here Come the Hugsetts."
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      ROAD DEATHS FALL
      19 6 DEATHS id acci n durlnp J .'.led 345. T 1931 Wb moiyhly .statistics were fl A.P
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      Wife alleges husband tortured her Jap-style
      186 6 A HUSBAND who, with hi> wife, \va> a prisoncj 01 the Japanese m shanuhai, 'alleged at Manchester D,\ Court (England) that SM <* had committed misconduct m the camp dispensary. lin. Sir ,ed 30. her b Shanghai I Burt was a I .ml. H-
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      JANE
      10 6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Mo lorn
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      S.O.S. FOR TRUCE PERSONNEL
      91 6 TH: head of the T A Nations secretariat In Palatine, is leaving foe Lake Success to speed up d of truce supervision personnel and equipment requested the mediator. Count BernaSo far only 30 of the I quired 125 American obsen hay i and four transport aircraft
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      13 men on search for magnetic pole
      205 6 13 men on search for magnetic pole THIRTEEN nun have left Ottawa by air for the Canadian Arctic to search for the North Magnetii Pole. Tl committing an oj Ico" which began m 1947 and approxim. magnet m the of Pri: m the Arctic Ocean. Only four of n ar«re
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      Cash brook, in big Partnership
      13 7 Cash brook, in big Partnership I I 9 M.-y -s- ■g^or. jnhimpt— I
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      HORE BEAT TENGAH
      8 7 HORE BEAT TENGAH I I H ■tag 1^
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      METRES FINAL WILL BE FINE RACE
      585 7 METRES FINAL WILL BE FINE RACE Great finishes m yesterday 's races A race as close as that m the 100 metres final is exH^Zlly t!sa y GameS athletics P^amme T *l e l i K)^ metr es winner, Harrison Dillard was McCo^n^'l^^ ""T"* Ewell and the 'Scott McCorquodale, have
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      JAP POLE WON THE VAULT
      73 7 JAP POLE WON THE VAULT OSE oj 50 Javanese bamboo poles sent the American Olympic team by the Japanese as a goodwill gesture helped G. Smith of San Francisco win the Olympic pole vault with a leap of 14 ft., Urn. He used the standard American Olympic pole at the
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      DETAILED RESULTS AT OLYMPICS
      653 7 Pirst two m each heat enter the final. Heat I: 1, Fanny BlankersKoen 12 sec. Shirley Strickland Australia t— 12.4. Heat 2: 1. Dorothy Manley (Groat Briiain) 12.4; P. Jones (Canada* 12.6 sec. Heat 3: V Myers (Canada) 12.4 C. Th<»mpson (Jamaica) 12.5. Women 1 100
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      DEVONS BEAT S.C.E.A. 2-1
      256 7 niSPLAYING better team work 1/ the Devoirs did well to boa' the Singapore Chinese Engineering Assn. two— or* tn a BA.P.A. second division league gamplayed at GTlang stadium yesterday. Both the Devons »mgcrj> played a flroe game, and were responsible -or the goals scored. Siak Seng
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      Olympics will show profit
      69 7 Sale of Olympic tickets for Wembley Stadium brought the attendance figures for the first four days to well over 300.000 As the 14th Olympiad today entered its first full week it was certain that not only would all expenses be paid but that a profit would
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      China lose four-nil to Turkey
      188 7 China lose four-nil to Turkey SOCCER TURKEY beat China four-nil m the Olympic soccer competition yesterday. Both teams played really good foottxill tc appaling conditiems for teams which have tjeen developed on hard grounds. The Turks swung into precise atttuki from tne btart and went ahead m nine minutes as
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      25 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. The Colonials C.C. of Singapore beat the Selangor Sinhalese Assoc iation at cricket here today by three runs.
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      SEMBAWANG WIN
      20 7 The RAF. Sembawang defeated 223 BOD. 3—l m an S.A.F.A. second division ue game played at Sembawang yesterday.
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      China beat Belgians
      152 7 pHINA scored a thrilling victory over the American -trained Belgian basketball team by 36 to 34 yesterday m the Olympic Games. But China's victory was overshadowed by the overwhelming 53 28 victory the United States scored over Ciechoslovakia, one of Europe's best teams. The Americans are firm
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      FLAME IS LIT
      35 7 John Mark, the final torchbearer whose identity was kept secret until the very end, lights the Olympic torch during the opening ceremony of the 14th Olympiad at London's Wembley Stadium last Friday.
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      Beaty played superb tennis
      493 7 Free Press Special Correspondent OELDOM has I'enang seen such superb tennis as v that played by the former all-India srtar and new Malayan champion, S. C. Beaty, yesterday m the finals of the Malayan tennis championship. He took two titles, beating the Penang champion, Goon Kok
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      LAWLER, LANSDOWN SHARE HONOURS
      452 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent PILL Lawler and Gordon Lan<lsdown were m great riding form at Penang yesterday, second day of the August Bank Holiday races* sharing seven winners between them. Once again favourites failed and it was not until the eighth race that punters managed to
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      Peng Soon is still best
      428 7 Peng Soon is still best From LAKRY CAKKOL DOUBLES matches m which ihe North had moK the trumps wound up the North-South ctSflm m Kuala Lumpur over the week-end by the Malayan Badminton Association to help find a team and funds for the forthcoming Thomas Cup world series. There was
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      North lead on first innings
      194 7 NORTH had Uttl m leading the South n first innings when 90 mir. play was possibl lay afternoon, the last day of the three-day North vi nth annual cricket match on the S.C.C. padang. North scored 115 for four m reply to Souths 78. th
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      56 7 Sports diary TO-DAY SOCCER: S.A.F A. League, Div. I— Rover S.C. v. S.C.C Jalan Besar stadium: Div. ll— Indians v. Dockyard XI. Gcylang; R.A.F. Tengah v. 19th. Air Formation Signal*. Tengah: Div. III— C.V.M.A. v. Vaval Stores XI, C.V.M.A. ground: Customs S.C. v Singapore District Works R.E.M.E., McNair Road. All
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      229 7 F.P. Crossword No. 4?3 1 1 1 p 1 I p 1^ m%> in* P'9 X) |ll W r ZL ~ZM? _Z CLUES ACROSS 1. Soldiers (8). 7. Excursion (6). 9. Prescripuoo <6> 11 ?i? lU!r Jil. l2 Not fresh (4 >- 14 Material i 5) i 6 Meadow ir^
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      UNO MAY REBUKE P.M. OF INDIA
      277 8 Nehru attack on Pakistan KARACHI, Monday. 'THE Tniied Nations Kashmir Commission is likely I to rebuke the Prime Minister of India, Paridit NVhru. for his bitter speech at Madras on July 25, when he charged the Pakistan Government with not on iv aidinir and
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      12 KILLED IN TRAIN SMASH
      48 8 I^EI" pt-rsons were killed and 120 injured yester•vhen a passenger train Jumped the track be* Call and Popayan (Ceylon) and several coaches tumbled over a precipice. The accident occurred near a mining community ai\d the ra carried on the early rescue work.- U.P.
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      UK sends Corfu mine case to World Court
      121 8 LONDON ly. Britain today presented to The Hague International Court a "counter-memorial" rfu Channel minincident of November strongly contesting the vanced by Albania m her countcr-memo-of June 15. It is now for the Court to decide whether to ddsp iri>ni the B.
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      Little hope of finding giant plane
      187 8 DAKAR, Monday. THERE was little hope left tonight of finding any of the 52 persons aboard the six-engined, 73-ton flyingboat. Latecoere 631. which disappeared yesterday morning m the South Atlantic m what seems to be France's worst air disaster. Planes and ships from three
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      Move to bar Gandhi witness
      64 8 DELHI, MoiiC AMOVE to havo the evidence <■* the prusrcution's star red inadr. today 'he Gandhi assas- trial. tinsel f -,ne of the accused, said that the pardo.: gran I bcj .vho ••d states evidence, wsls illegal and beyond the court's competence. The Counsel arpued
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      42 8 picture. Mr. Frank D. Kelly (above), of Hagerstown (Maryland/, president of the National Aircraft Corporation, has made several flights m this unusual aircraft with wings which resemble halves of a barrel. It was invented by an American, Mr. Willard R. Custer.- A.P.
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      Soviet move to exclude West
      310 8 RED CONTROL OF DANUBE BELGRADE, Monday. I>l sSIA today called on the It-nation Danube lX Conference here to exclude Britain and France from a share m control of Europe's greatest waterway— a rifhl they have POWKSSed since the Danube Convention v.is signed -i 7 years
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      THE CROWDS HAD NO BEER
      76 8 DIUTAIN S three-clay August bank holidjv ended lost n mugKy hrat. traffic md a cigarette and beer shortage. ol the country had dull or rainy weather after two bright "scorcher! and thtre Were heavy showers In some areas as the homeward trek to the cities
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      S'PORE HIGH TIDES
      15 8 S' PORE HIGH TIDES Today: 10 10 a.m; 8.41 p.m Wed; 10.56 a.m; 9.40 p.m
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      Ex-U.S. Red chief on secret trip
      137 8 Ex-U.S. Red chief on secret trip WASHINGTON. Monday FORMER U.S. Communist leader Louis Budenz. who had quit the party and today j said that the American Reds were committed to the task of overthrowing th* United States Government. later said he was leaving the country by plane on a confidential
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      Bid to steal body of Buffalo Bill feared
      148 8 DENVER (Colorado), Mon. and helmeted guards patrolled the steelfenced grave of Buffalo Bill today to forestall any attempt to cash m on the US$lO,OOO oiler for the famous frontier scout's body. The American Legion Post at Cody, Wyoming. Offered the sum to
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      CYCLONE KILLS 3
      42 8 A freak c^.one hit Kawasaki city near Tokio at noon yesterday killing three persons and injuring 86. Houses were swept away and another 50 seriously damaged. The tornado, which is a rare phenomenon m -Tanan. lasted three hours.- Reuter
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      NEW CHINA CUSTOMS TARIFFS
      175 8 NANKING, Monday. REVISED customs tariffs anannounced by the Chinese Government today imposed the highest rates on liqueurs, wines and tobacco and the lowest on machine tools and metals. Duty on all liqueurs, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes has been fixed at 200 per cent. For machine tools
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      KUOMINTANG TO DISCUSS REFORMS
      105 8 KUOMINTANG TO DISCUSS REFORMS NANKING. Monday. k NEW force vtttato the n Kuomintang nvmbers of the Legislative and Control Yuans— will be heard tomorrow as the party opens a two-day conference to study proposed reforms. M mbers of the two Yuxns dominate the conference •h will be held m the
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      Trial makes Tojo a national hero
      127 8 Trial makes Tojo a national hero MELBOURNE Mo., day. JAPANS wartime Premier, J Gen. Hideko Tojo, after his trial as a war criminal. bu become almost a n said Mr. MacMahon Ball, lormer British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Co;. trol Council m Japan. Mr. Bail was commenting en a
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      MADRAS GOVERNOR
      29 8 The Indian Food Minister. Jairamdas Doulatram is unofficially mentioned as successor to the Governor of Madras, General Sir Archibald Nye. who is relinquishing his post m September.
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      SWISS PROTEST
      18 8 All Swiss consulates m Rumania have been closed, following the arrest of a Swiss citizen. A.P.
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      SELLES ON N.Y. EXCHANGE
      87 8 ]\J vJORITY Imm drifted iron lv- New York Stock Exch. yesterday ponding fur.lv r i lopments bc>Ui at Boom ttchn clans beluvo a technical rally is dv- Mild selling depressed Rails with the proup closing at day's lows and losses mostly fractal. Elsowher« mixed tendencies prevailed.
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      4 CZECHS RESIGN
      42 8 THE Czech Consul-General 1 m Sydney (Australia). Karel Hakh and three other i-on.jular officials, have resigned because '"it is incompatible with our concept of freedom and democr. id« als to remain m the service of a totalitarian regime."— U.P.
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      KOREA'S PREMIER
      40 8 General Lee Bum Suk. who led Korean forces against the Japanese m China, became Prime Minister of Korean on Sunday on the nomination of President Syngman Rhee. The Assembly has confirmed the nomintion by 110 votes to 844
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      'WORLD WAR lll TALE PANICS S'HAI
      85 8 SHANGHAI, Monday HUMOURS that war had broken out m Europe today, believed to have been started by exchange and black market manipulators, threw the local financial markets into a panic. The United States dollar rocketed on the black market to CArs9,ooo,ooo m the morning
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      Israel utters war warning
      288 8 TEL AVIV. Monday ISRAEL will reopen the war against the Arabs n the Arab armies continue to break the pr< truce, the Israeli Foreign Minister. Mr M Shertok, warned today. Mr. Sheitok told a press conference, "The sence of invading armies on the borders of Is
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      China leaders confer as Keas advance
      67 8 China leaders confer as Keas advance TOP Army commander 1 areas are concentrated m a r< moned by Generalissimo ChJanV v Sfr I official Centra! News \l A strategy for fighting th, ommunUt^ **> J increasingly pressing b% th, 400,000 Reds belou Che Yelk 1 Meanwhile, with 95 I ready
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      Rubber prices
      60 8 A SPECIAL Markd conrspooden tlvta the prices of rubber 11 a.m. todaf as follow*: per Ib. on it Buyer* Saffcn CU. Cto N«. 1 R.BS. Soot loose 49 No 1 K.S.S. fof m bales Aug. 49 No I ft. B.f tot m bales Aus No i ft.s.s roc
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      CHOLERA OUTBREAK
      15 8 The Governmei is sending 100.00 State to combat break Hyderabad and Se SUJ
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