The Singapore Free Press, 23 May 1949
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Title Section18 1949-05-23 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA to SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAX 23, 1949. PKICE 10 CENTS18 words
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239 1949-05-23 1 Ex-PMFTU men on radio HONG KONG, Monday. piRST overt sign that the triumphant Chinese Communists are interesting themselves m Malaya came last night when Peiping radio devoted an hour to attacks on "the British imperialist murderers m Malaya." The first people to openReuter; A.P. - 239 words
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Article83 1949-05-23 1 UK DOCK STRIKE SPREADS BRISTOL. Mon. I dockers I by the r vdian Seal spread r lay. 600 Bristol nded a mass Avonmouth dfi'idfd on 'day. stol m^n I I *he df- > r' port for h dcc.<ers I o-ic because •hem are -^fusing to Montreal involved MMft L'nton 1:Reuter - 83 words
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Article30 1949-05-23 1 JET AIRMAN'S SPEED TROPHY J was in's top Saturday vperimental -v closed i I a De Havil-'-•)8 f.ve- circuit a "lie an J has a unit and *v;eD? A. P.A.P. - 30 words
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Article, Illustration43 1949-05-23 1 Mr. M. A. M.ijid. president of the Indo-Malay Pakistani Seamen's I nion. is seen garlanding Mrs. Reed, wife of Mr. oeorge Reed. Special Commissioner of the International Transport Workers Federation m South East Asia, on their arrival m Singapore on Saturday from India.43 words
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Article31 1949-05-23 1 rit) 15 expected Important I m which he iiv plans the West < s by r.*r satellites .^P^ech may lay, his and the openYugoslav, a's 1 Parliament. A.P.A.P. - 31 words
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Article71 1949-05-23 1 A BRITISH bridge foursome defeated the visiting American team m London on Saturday by 2.905 points In a 96-board match. The British team had built up a lead of 2,150 points at the end of 64 boards. The American team cut this down to 710A.P. - 71 words
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Article20 1949-05-23 1 Police and military patrol operating m the Kajang area i yesterday morning shot and 1 Killed one bandit.20 words
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Article477 1949-05-23 1 SHANGHAI, Monday. AS Nationalist forces yesterday successfully beat off furious Communist attacks outside western Shanghai, and m Pootung across the Whangpoo River opposite the> heart of the city and Woosung Fort conviction grew that the Nationalists fully intent to carry out their avowed intention toReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 477 words
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Article69 1949-05-23 1 CAIRO. Mon. rE possession of Communist pamphlets will be punishable under a new bill approved by the Egyptian Council of Ministers last night. The bill fills gaps m the present Anti-Communist law Lnd provides punishments for tactics the Communists have devised to escape the law. TheA.P. - 69 words
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193 1949-05-23 1 RANGOON, Monday. DISSENSION is reported to have broken out among the sever rebel groups on Western Burma over whether to make peace with the Government. Iwo groups the White Band People's Volunteer Organisation led by ex-Minister Bo Po Kun, and a small band of193 words
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Article68 1949-05-23 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE value ol currency notes m circulation throughout Malaya amounted to $401,--652.885 on May 1. The average amount of currency notes m circulation during April was $401,350,980. These figures exclude the pre-invasior note issues amounting to $238,804,963 These ceased to be legal68 words
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Article86 1949-05-23 1 LONDON, Mon. SIX months ago tenants moved into a block of new low-cost apartments reserved for old people. A radio commentator asked Mrs. Mary Ann Sty gel, 81. what she thought of her new home with its up-to-date labour saving devices, including a refrigerator and electricA.P. - 86 words
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Article101 1949-05-23 1 SHANGHAI, Mon. SIX silver dollar dealers were executed at different places before large crowds on Saturday. They were charged with disturbing the financial market under Red orders. The three received bullets at the back of the head from police guns at the intersection of Tibe Road andU.P. - 101 words
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Article70 1949-05-23 1 U. S. INQUIRY ON FORREST AL A U.S. Navy Board of Inquiry will study the case of Mr. James Forrestal, former U.S. Defence Secretary, who threw himself from a hospital window. The order was issued by Rear-Admiral Morton Willicutts, Chief Medical Officer at the hospital. The Board's job will beA.P. - 70 words
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Article24 1949-05-23 1 Storms which lashed the mid -Western states of America on Saturday night, killed at least 45 persons and Injured A. P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article18 1949-05-23 1 Seven persons died In Chile m landslides and flood* during the past three days. A. P.A.P. - 18 words
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Article76 1949-05-23 1 Freezing sneezing YOU can freexe a sneeze, but it thaws out, Michael Hippisley. a Leicester schoolboy, has learned. Michael has been sneezing with uncomfortable regularity for 14 lays. Many remedies have been tried, but none has worked. On Saturday he entered an ice company s cold storage room, where theA.P. - 76 words
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Article59 1949-05-23 1 THE United Nations Kashmir Commission held its first full meeting m Srlnagar yesterday but decided not to open India's sealed reply on the Kashmir dispute until Pakistan's answer had also been received. The Indian radio announced that Pakistan's reply was expected during this week when anotherA.P. - 59 words
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Article28 1949-05-23 1 A Chinese named Yong Yeow described as a "dangerous secret society man and an undesirable character" was arrested under a banishment warrant m Singapore yesterday.28 words
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Article139 1949-05-23 1 TEL AVIV, Monday. ARAB LEGION troops yesterday completed their withdrawal from the edges of the former Arabheld triangle m Central Palestine when Israeli forces coming from the north and south joined up at A^a. This opened to the Israelis the strategic road leading from theReuter - 139 words
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Article23 1949-05-23 1 One hundred persons were reported drowned on Saturday after a river boat stuck a sand bank m East Bengal.— A. P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article132 1949-05-23 1 HONG KONG, Sunday. THE Formosan Independence League asked the authorities here today not to send Hong Kong's Chinese refugee population to Formosa, but to other points. The League said that Hong Kong was seeking some arrangement whereby Formosa could provide a haven not only for theA.P. - 132 words
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Article92 1949-05-23 1 LONDON, Mon. BRITAIN'S nationalised railways face the possibility of a "more general" strike, a Railwaymen's Union official warned last night after a token Sunday stoppage had reduced main line services to five per cent, of normal m the north eastern region. The regional stoppage, which alsoReuter - 92 words
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Article46 1949-05-23 1 With the withdrawal of American security forces from Southern Korea nearing completion, a member of the United Nations Commission for Korea last night warned Washington that the removal of American troops will only bring on a Soviet attach against democratic Mouth Korea ReuterReuter - 46 words
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Article35 1949-05-23 1 The U.S. Air Force has announced that 15 F-80 ShootIng Star jet fighters will be flown across the Atlantic next week as replacements for the 36th Fighter Group at Furstenfeldbruck, Germany U.P.U.P. - 35 words
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Article58 1949-05-23 1 SINGAPORE C.I.D. Chief. Mr .E. V. Fowler, thi^ morning said he was giving a reward to a Chines 0 woman servant, who while digging m the garden ot l East Coast Road house during the week-end found 98 rounds of Sten gun ammunition. 12 hand-grenades and58 words
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Article26 1949-05-23 1 In the 24 hours ended !;ut night there were 34 arrests m the Federation: 25 m Ttencganu. eight m Perak and one m Parang.26 words
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Article53 1949-05-23 1 A SPECIAL Market correspondeat riv« ">* prices »l rubber do cents per Ib.) at II am tods? m fellows: Buyers Sellers. No 1 ISS Spot loow SSS 35* F.o.b. m bales June NO. 1 B.S.S. 355. 35< 4 No. 2 R.S.S. 11*.« »4 No. S R.S.S. SI 3t>,53 words
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Article, Illustration245 1949-05-23 1 'I've done with princes Free Press Special Correspondent. LONDON, Sunday. THENGKL Indra Petra, son of the Sul- tan of Kelantan, was the respondent m a divorce suit m London last Friday when his wife, Mrs. Annette Edith Olive Petra, of Southbourne Grove, Bournemouth, was granted a decree nisi and costs245 words
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Advertisement49 1949-05-23 1 TECKYtOW&CS, 15. The Arcade. Raffles Place, Spore. W^^ High I \B Clatt SHOES OVERSEAS RECEIVER 8C 4f7} (A C) BC 4«n (D C/ A C $275.00 LtSS lOi FOX CASH GUMtANTEED FOR II MONTHS \DVT. OF THE CiJfci.,^ AJu Kl.KC.uai <X). LTD., OF ENOLAND SINOAPORB KUAUV LUMPUR IPOH PENAN)49 words
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697 1949-05-23 2 Even in public madam, you speak well I x That fatal "er-er-er" and the woman who cures it are des- cribed by INCRID ETTER. UNACCUSTOMED as we may be to c r to public speaking (quick, a gulp of water and a desperate <( glance at those notes! we may697 words
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Article, Illustration252 1949-05-23 2 Norib-Soutb vulnerable. East dealer lj/ included Cbarlej I^cjiriUge, Morris Elis, Larry H'rsch and his partner of ihe above deal, Henry Pishbein, won the Vanuerbllt team of four championship this year. Nevertheless, that event saw Hazen take the biggest set-back he has ever taken In such a match when252 words
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Article, Illustration65 1949-05-23 2 Stinker, the Rockhopper I penguin at London Zoo, could hardly believe his ears when he heard young Peter, a fellow Rockhopper daring to challenge his exhalted position as King of the castle. Watched by the King penguins who share the same enclosure, Stinker from his rocky perch carried on a65 words
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Article753 1949-05-23 2 CHARLES LYNCH - Mosquitoes made em work harder CHARLES LYNCH By PORT CHURCHILL, Hudson's Bay. MOSQUITOES m moderate numbers cause men to work more efficiently during summer m the Canadian north, according to a study made by Dr. D. C. Williams of the Department of Psychology, of the University of Manitoba. Dr. Williams'Reuter - 753 words
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Article, Illustration399 1949-05-23 2 IITHAT is Grand Guig- nol? As a quiz question, this would nowadays rate very few marks. Most people are familiar with this realistic type of horror play,^ and everyone knows that its home is m Paris. Few, however, have firsthand knowledge Starred m Paris m399 words
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Article458 1949-05-23 2 JACQUES POUTEAU - JACQUES POUTEAU By LONDON: fyENNY KAYE, the American comedian who has just returned to the txrndon Palladium for a sixweeks season, can only be described as a phenomenon. To conquer London as he did last year was already an outstanding achievement, but to do it a458 words
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Advertisement68 1949-05-23 2 Undc new jngc-ment the weekly issues of the Straits Budget can oe sent by Air Mail to any address .n the United Kingdom at an inclusive rate of $24.00 foi -ii month* It you want the "Budget" while on leave, or wish to make an "Air -subscription' on behalf ot68 words
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Miscellaneous144 1949-05-23 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, your nature has a tremendous store of energy. You are vivacious and always on the go. Since you are influenced by those about you, it is important that you select your constant companion* carefully. For, unfortunately, you can be as energetic getting into trouble as144 words
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Miscellaneous250 1949-05-23 2 SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from K.L. at 10 a.m. TODAY 10.00 News from Kuala Lumpur, 10.55 Schools:— Nursery Rhymes. How Things Began, and Literature for Standards 4 5. 1. Monday Matinee David Le Winter <Xc His Orchestra. 1.30 News. 1.45 Cowboy Songs. 6. Programme Summary,250 words
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Miscellaneous136 1949-05-23 2 (BBC); 11.45 Music; 12.00 Close Down. AUSTRALIA 16. 19. 25. and 31 Metres. TODAY 4.00 Music lor Teatime Salon Orchestra 4.30 Australian News 4.40 Music .'or Millions 5.30 "Forces Favourites'-for men and women m the services 6 Composer of the Week Richard Strauss 6.30 Overseas 6c Australian Ne-vs 6.45 Melody136 words
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Miscellaneous149 1949-05-23 2 F.F. Crossword No. 695 llLlliillLLl __M l l ~Z~!LIZiZiIIi ■■-.■!L!L w l 9 L_ Zil*" pi—il x ""ZZL o CLUES ACROSS A •2_, c 5 y charm < 6 >: 6 Imitated (4); 8 Inspired with dread (4): 10 Emit <7U 11 Offsrping (3); 12 Untruth (3); 13 Rest (6^14149 words
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Article353 1949-05-23 3 Britain 's new beef 'arsenal s 2ro undnuts and tsetse fly seemed to be the iA ma n topics m Tanganyika, I sought oat the tural and veterinary officers for the province. \v. Government official would discuss grounda newspaperman, but the Scientific and ry Officer, Dr.353 words
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Article135 1949-05-23 3 Vatican joins radio war v Rw la stepped; offensive m; t war her own broadcasts j spoiled by BBC has denied that i Jtmnrtngl out from I p might have cied wave- j I man said. *hen one of t tre starting m Gerr ikmbte jam j > ild be135 words
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Article24 1949-05-23 3 UK DENOUNCES 3 COUNTRIES I* d|| dcthe Dt -U> m gotctn- r the rtel ol 15 and the Timoil was .iciatins the vhurch.- U.P.U.P. - 24 words
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Article21 1949-05-23 3 |>RINCE Charles. Regent of I Belgium has dissolved the parliament and «ftnnounced that national r.nd provincial June 26 U.P.U.P. - 21 words
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Article21 1949-05-23 3 The first merchantman that Japanese shipyards have built since the war wil. be delivered on May 31. APAP - 21 words
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Article94 1949-05-23 3 THE Swedish Foreign Office has rejected a request by the Soviet Embassy for its officials to interview a 27-year-old Russian air force lieutenant who landed on a military airfield near Stockholm m a fully armed Soviet fighter and who asked for asylum m Sweden. The Ueutenant,Reuter - 94 words
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Article78 1949-05-23 3 CARDINAL Copello has told President Peron that the Catholic Churoh Is flatly opposed to the Argentine Senate Bill which would legalise prostitution. This bi? has the backing of scvera Cabinet Ministers. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religion Dr. Juan Bramuglla. andU.P. - 78 words
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Article27 1949-05-23 3 Thirteen demonstrators were wounded In Kobe *hen 400 union members clashed with police while protesting against the new municipal regulations restricting mass demonstrations.- U.P.U.P. - 27 words
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Article88 1949-05-23 3 COURT-MARTIAL sentence of eighteen ninths' hard labour on Aircraftman John Henry Harvey, 36— charged with deserting for three years and nine months has been remitted. At the court-martial, three weeks ago it was stated that Harvey found his home demolished after an air-raid. He dug m88 words
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Article101 1949-05-23 3 »an receive the blood of a non-Moslem if no doubt as to the curative effect of the transfusion the published decision of the If TA. Com:roup of professors at the thousand-year-old I niversity of Al Aihar m Cairo the decision m reply to a request from Tunisia. North101 words
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Article, Illustration121 1949-05-23 3 The United Nations is the world's largest "court." Scattered all over the globe are mediators settling small disagreements which might develop into international incidents. Here are some at work on the Indian Pakistan border. A report ha« been received that Indians have stolen cattle from a Pakistan121 words
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Article1109 1949-05-23 3 GREGORY BAXTER - MURDER Could not Kill GREGORY BAXTER mm The story i>o Jar.—^uerwood Dexter, U.S. businessman, is shot dead while driving with his daughter Laurette Dexter, near Marble Arch, London at midnight. Robin Foster, aji artist, see> the killer run from Dcxier's saloon to a nearby limousine but is thrown off the1,109 words
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Article205 1949-05-23 3 ijiVERY organisations m Hamburg, including the Communists, has given a message of thanks to Mr. Vaughan Berry, the city's regional commissioner. This man, who has tried so hard for three years to revive Germany's largest port and second largest city, is one of the205 words
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Article30 1949-05-23 3 PVE hundred people broke up an auction sale of Marshall Petaln'g personal belongings when they shouted. "Vive Petain and then sang the "Marseillaise." The sale was suspended.- U.P.U.P. - 30 words
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Article254 1949-05-23 3 BRITAIN IS SHORT OF GIRL TYPISTS A SERIOUS shortage of shorthand typists m hindering the British export drive and the Ministry of Labour is starting a campaign to persuade young girls to take up office work as a career. "Britain needs thousands of shorthand typists," a spokesman said, "We are254 words
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Article70 1949-05-23 3 A 24- YEAR-OLD German girl was sentenced In Munich to 30 months m jail by a United States Military Go- "rnmert court for stealing olflcia' documents for the soviet ?n telllgence. She said the Russian* tv* her into the American zone to get a jobU.P. - 70 words
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Article85 1949-05-23 3 'STOP FIGHT NEAR DIKES' HOANO Minh Giam, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ho Clv Minh's rebel Indo-Chlna Government, has appealed to French military officials to suspend fighting around dikes during the rainy season He is quoted as saying, "With the raining season coming up, I propose that the commander of FrenchU.P. - 85 words
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Article133 1949-05-23 3 MARRIAGE m its old form is over," Mr. Richard Hauser, Viennese sociologist, told the Sydney Marriage Guidance Council. Mr. Hauser, who recently came to Australia to sett>. added: "The future lies m community life, not just mac ried life. The great trouble is not sex, about which th-.reReuter - 133 words
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Article29 1949-05-23 3 The right arm of St. Francis Xavier. preserved is a relic, was placed aboard a Trans- Atlantic plane m L\<bon on Wednesday night for Tokyo. A.P.A.P. - 29 words
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Article27 1949-05-23 3 President Truman has asked C« ngress to appropriate $50,000,000 more aid for Greece and Turkey dur ing the fiscal year ending June 30. A.P.A.P. - 27 words
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Advertisement82 1949-05-23 3 SPECIAL CONCERT by POPULAR REQUEST "RAFFLES HOTEL SUNDAY 29th MAY at 9.30 p.m. by RAFFLES CONCERT ORCHESTRA (30 MUSICIANS) with LUANNE SHAW, vocalist Leader: COR RYF. Conductor: FRANK PICKFORD. PROGRAMME m the Tnderworld 6. Suit. London Again Coates OfTenback 7. Songs-Selected Sung by UwtjM S^V**— n L h 8. Se.ec.ion82 words
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Miscellaneous170 1949-05-23 3 DAYS' POLO J r VHE team we're meetL ing to-day," said the v f captain of the Beavers, "defeated the Chipmunks o i yesterday. They're good." It was the fifth day of Puffbury's Polo Week. Six teams were competing, each team meeting each i of the others once. So t170 words
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Miscellaneous31 1949-05-23 3 WOLSEY NYLONS IN FOUR NEW FASCINATING SHADES AUTUMN HONEY DUSK W^k ALMOND BURNT £f§ WINE TOAST I/ 1 MIST to fni to io| io| $3.95 PER PAIR Singapore k.uala iumrur p«enang31 words
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611 1949-05-23 4 The Singapore Free Press Monday, May 23, 1949 BEHIND THE FRINGE FORTUNATELY for the peace fof mind of the average Singapore elector and Government official the horrors of the Colony's rural districts are mainly hidden behind a discreet fringe of jungle. The traveller on our roads gets only fleeting glimpses611 words
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1495 1949-05-23 4 HALL ROMNEY - Britain will see a little bit of Malaya HALL ROMNEY LETTER FROM LONDON by fONDON'S Oxford Street is the last place one would expect to see a Malay Penghulu, a Chinese mining coolie, or a Tamil rubber tapper. Yet, when all three appear there next month they will not seemFinancial Times - 1,495 words
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Article168 1949-05-23 4 i NEW kind of paint makes heat and cold visible as 'yellow light, and takes the place of thermometers. No temperature is too cold and none too hot to be seen with the aid of this new paint. It is a phosphor, and the heat and coldA.P. - 168 words
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Article, Illustration24 1949-05-23 4 "I suppose It's m keeping with bureaucratic minds that they can't think of anything more roma^ than a gasworks to nationalise on May Day.~24 words
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Article486 1949-05-23 4 NEW DELHI: THE princely order m India is faced with a serious problem unemployment. More than 500 of these one-time "absolute monarchs" m India will have to rind new jobs for themselves. In less than two years, these Indian potentates have been reduced to titled gentry mReuter - 486 words
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Article16 1949-05-23 4 The gift of God is eternal life throufh Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6, 23.16 words
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Article193 1949-05-23 4 Buffaloes on the move THE great iy buffalo trek is use way again Tens of thousands buffalo are being cr.>: from breeding the Northeast across more I miles of jungles i plains to the M provinces There, the sold for plougl ground prplanting crop. It takes £b<'.' or so forA.P. - 193 words
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404 1949-05-23 4 COLOMBO: I>EFORE his deparfrom London to India, Pandit Nehru, gave an important message to the people of Ceylon to counter any suggestion that it is the policy of the Indian Government to interfere m any way with the independence and sovereignty of Ceylon. InU.P. - 404 words
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Article, Illustration72 1949-05-23 4 borne of Britain s finest, craftsmen are now at work In fashioning Interior woodwork for the new House of Commons chamber. English oak which has stood m Shropshire and Herefordshire forests for some 300 years, is being used m this important task. The old chamber was burnt out m the72 words
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Advertisement29 1949-05-23 4 INVALUABLE FOB ALL AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES &HUND3EOS OP OTHER USES. BUfiNS OML9 6*/ FUEL 947 C AIR. SCLE ■>.;-! ii- 1 I DIMRI ROBERTS E [I immny t». srott rwowE toia.29 words
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Advertisement33 1949-05-23 4 2nd. Floor. 13. Battery Road. Sale Starts Wed. 25th including Home Suits Coats H. B. WINTER MERCHANT TAILOR For Tailoring m the hi Traditions of Quality anJ Craftsmanship 18-E, BATTERY ROAD FIRST FLOOM33 words
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Article523 1949-05-23 5 Welfare officials get ready Free Press Staff Reporter COMPREHENSIVE measures involving the rounding up of children found begging, offering anything for sale or performing m public are being prepared by the Social Welfare authorities for the time the new Children and Young Persons Ordinance comes523 words
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Article, Illustration59 1949-05-23 5 picture. CINGAPORE people had a glimpse for the first time of Gurkhas m the uniform of the Singapore Police when these members of the Gurkha contingent stood outside the Records Office m the C.1.D.. waiting: to attend to some routine staff duties. The Gurkhas are undergoing a course of trainingFree Press - 59 words
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Article127 1949-05-23 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent rIE price of gold m Singapore rose by about 40 per cent, during the past week to reach an all time record of $250 per tahil on Saturday. The tendency was m sympathy with the skyrocketing price m Hong Kong, which127 words
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Article, Illustration17 1949-05-23 5 picture. A jK BM tnc Chia baritone) singing at the Talrti'ime *«mcert at U>t Friday Free PressFree Press - 17 words
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Article105 1949-05-23 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A 15 years friendship between a Singapore Chinese businessman and an English firm manager, now dead, is behind a $3,000 gift to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. The gift is m memory of the late Mr. H. C. Luetthford, pre-war general manager105 words
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Article31 1949-05-23 5 Two new classrooms have been added to the Convent School. Johore Bahru. The Building of the new Convent School at Muar has started and considerable progress has been made.31 words
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Article21 1949-05-23 5 The next meeting of the Legislative Council will be held on Tuesday. June 21 at the Victoria Memorial Hall.21 words
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Article259 1949-05-23 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Malayan Airways will open a new weekly air service from Singapore to Sarawak and North Borneo from Monday, June 6. The airways authorities hope that the traffic will justify increasing the frequency of the service to twice weekly m the259 words
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Article, Illustration47 1949-05-23 5 picture. Miv. and Mrs. Yang Tai Fong, who were married at lb, Queen Astrid Park yesterday. The bride was the former Maggie Wong Sye Chee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Won* Shian Vein of Singapore. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. Yang Sin Hua. Free PressFree Press - 47 words
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367 1949-05-23 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent T»HE Singapore Malay newspaper, Utusan Melayu, x today criticised the Federation's AttorneyGeneral, Mr. S. Foster Sutton, for having made what it called "an unstatesmanlike and uncalled for statement" on the Chinese. Mr. Foster Sutton, m the Legislative Council last week, had referred m strong367 words
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Article33 1949-05-23 5 The Sultan of Tohore presided at a meeting of the Johore Executive Council today for the first-time since his illness. This meeting will be his last before he leaves lor Europe.33 words
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Article149 1949-05-23 5 rtIVERS are working to remove the wreck of the 4,914-ton Norwegian vessel, Hoegh Transporter, which sank m the Singapore Outer Roads 10 years ago after striking a mine. It will take nearly six months to cut a fairway over the vessel. The cost to the149 words
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Article237 1949-05-23 5 Fre« Press Staff Reporter A PUBLISHED report entitled "One Year of the Progressive Party m the Singapore Legislative Council" says that as a result of the work of the Party's members on the Council six Bills had passed into lav/, one was still before Council and237 words
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409 1949-05-23 5 'CARETAKER S.I.T. TENANCIES ARE ILLEGAL Free Press Staff Reporter A NY tenant of a Singapore Improvement Trust flat frho wishes someone to "take care" of his flat while he is on leave should not transfer his tenancy to a friend or relative. A member of the Board of Improvement trustees409 words
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Article59 1949-05-23 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A TOTAL of 597 births were registered m Singapore lor the week ending May 14 while 194 deaths were recorded during the same period. Chief causes of mortality were Pneumonia 29 deaths), enteritis <20> tuberculos-s 16), and convulsions (14). The infantile death rate59 words
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Advertisement188 1949-05-23 5 Jpfcs His Master's Voice i Radiogram j r.t lio record changrr, lishtw^ight pickup i bint t arc all specially "matched" by l Master'- Voice craftsmen m Enj?Und. AC, DC $1085 i I Hire Purchase Terms rranurci. S MOUTRIE CO MALAYA LTD. r* 75 i JOHN LITTLES BUILDING *^MI S'NGAPCRE TEL:188 words
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Advertisement83 1949-05-23 5 Lovely to look at TOOTAL Namrit PRINTED SPUN RAYON lasting m wear, C^m OOtal > a m r i I Printed Spun f^^^^TK Rayons ar<- for fllr^W women who apprc- /jJftffimL ciate llif econonij at &&fcf superfine quality. For Day or Evening ft? im^ rSUL Frocks and blouses. I^-' (ss!({83 words
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Miscellaneous77 1949-05-23 5 Airmails are due to arrive m Singapore Ooday from the U.S.. Central and South America, Holland. Siam, the Philippine* and the N.E.I. Closing times for posting airmails at the G.P.O. today art: to Padang and Medan: 1.30 p.m.. to Dabo Singkep: 4 p m.. and to Sourabaya. Palembang, Batavia, the77 words
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Article, Illustration2169 1949-05-23 6 HARRY MARKSON - Somebody else fought for Jacobs' millions HARRY MARKSON by Introducing the most dramatic boxing story of the century the story of Mike Jacobs. For 20 years, the New York boy who became a millionaire has been behind the scenes of the great world title fights. He knows the inside story2,169 words
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Article235 1949-05-23 6 MEARLY 30.000 cricket fans went to Lord's on Saturday hoping to see those gay cricketers from New Zealand bat against a powerful Marylebone cricket team which contained eight players who have represented England. The fans were unlucky because Wally Hadle; lost the toss and the M.C.C.235 words
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305 1949-05-23 6 Willie Jones' century saves Glamorgan HOT sunshine on rain -affected wicket* th^ out Britain brought quick successes to bowlers on Saturday, but as the pitches dritjj batsmen came into their own. County champions Glamorganshire w rescued from disaster against Essex by hander Willie Jones, who drove and puiied o^l andReuter - 305 words
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Article75 1949-05-23 6 rIS Is how British soccer teams fared In matches abroad yesterday. Fulham lost to Royal Madrid Soccer Club 2—3 at Madrid. Queen's Park lost to the Norwegian club Larrik Torn o—2 at Oslo. Queen's Park Ringers Deat Genclerbirllgl Club 3—2 at Ankara. fTney lost to De-A.P. - 75 words
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Article24 1949-05-23 6 T<HE British soccer team, Chmrltxm i^ailettc, beat ttoe Tivfclah League champions, Glatasarry, by two goals to one at Istanbul yesterday.- A.P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article82 1949-05-23 6 rE University of South California* half-mile relay team. led by Mcl Patton. 200 me res Olympic champion. has broken the world record for the third time m eight days. The team covered the four-by--220-yvds relay distance m. l mm 23 9 sec. on Saturday nightReuter - 82 words
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Article22 1949-05-23 6 CV AMPON. <: L was tftaftM men's singles he p'tenni* champ jrwterday He lost B-drW (Ufi.) 7—5. 6— fourth round ReuterReuter - 22 words
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Miscellaneous115 1949-05-23 6 IfP^RftrflkG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malawi aßawaai?^" gS£ v^»asBg?s iss«K ANO M£ ALL TH£ TWCKS HGAEAT- FIRSLYtXiMUST I I LET ME TRY, MASON WHY- Of H«S TRADE. HE WAS AH IVEREAO LEARN TO r^r 1 1 I DADDY. r ITtaiTl< "1 |nOP£,H£RE IT is/ Jj li M115 words
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Article, Illustration593 1949-05-23 7 CRUSADER - CRUSADER Latest placings of the teams By JF figures count for anything, Negri Sembilan appear to be heading for their second Malaya 2up triumph this season. Up to date they have the most impressive record among the teams taking part m this national soccer593 words
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Article266 1949-05-23 7 3; Indians 0. tii'£.K dull game marked the opening of the .apore Amateur Football Association's Interiniij League at Jalan Besar Stadium last i iie standard of play m this 'match was no than that of an ordinary Senior League re. Eurasians fully deserved their two points266 words
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Article510 1949-05-23 7 Letter to the sports editor JN reply to Ken Jalleh's article m the Sunday Times yesterday, I must point out that the delegates who attended the annual general meeting of the Singapore Badminton Association elected a committee to handle the affairs of the Association. J~hey did510 words
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Article464 1949-05-23 7 rAMS and players m the Singapore Table Tennis Associations Inter -school League or*: Ranks Institution 'A": Loke Sieu- Hoong (capt >. Koh Cheng Yam. Boon Kok Peow. Reserves: j Teh Choon Pong. Ang Siang Teck. j Kaillrs Institution "B": Giam Choo S»ng icapt>. Choy Weng Yang. Sim464 words
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Article215 1949-05-23 7 TWO games In Singapore Cricket Association tournament which were decided on the first Innings were the C.S.C-R.A.F. Seletar fixture which the Ceylonese won, and the S.C.C.-R.A.F. Changi match which went to the Club. With seven wickets down for only 39 runs m reply to215 words
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Article35 1949-05-23 7 gOYPT, by winning all tnelr six matches gained the European basketball championship which endert In Cairo last night. France were second with five victories, and Greece third with four. ReuterReuter - 35 words
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Article287 1949-05-23 7 IX)LLOWINO are weights for the second day of the Penang Turf Club meeting to be held on Wednesday, May 25. CLASS S. DIV. I— 5H FURS. Kimbolton 900 True Ganymead 9.00 Security 810 Golden Amusement 809 Newi 8.12 Kirra 8.05 Silver New Verse 8.03 Sequin 8.10 Port287 words
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Article62 1949-05-23 7 BECAUSE Miss Sylvia Still had to leave Singapore today for Kuchlng to take up a new appointment, with the Government, the SL.T.A. women's doubles championship final was played oil at Tanglin Club on Saturday. It resulted m the popular sisters, Sylvia and Mrs. Dorothy Roper, being62 words
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Article, Illustration25 1949-05-23 7 picture. Supplah, the Indians' goalkeeper, saving from Van Huizen m yesterday's Inter-Community League match at Jalan Besar Stadium. The Eurasians won 3 o.- Free PressFree Press - 25 words
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Article219 1949-05-23 7 C^NGLANd wxuid up their strenuous five-match Continental soccer tour with a J- -i victory over France at the Colombe.3 Stadlunri Paris, yesterday ait-r a hectic battle fought out tremendous pace rom start .0 finish. There was little between the teams and the French uid notReuter; A.P. - 219 words
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Article, Illustration41 1949-05-23 7 -Picture by Balasubramaniam winning the one-mile race m record time at the Singapore Anglo-Chinese School sports. His time was 5 mm. 8.3 sec. The old record, set up by Ram Raj m 1923. was 5 mm. 20 sec- S. B. Kwa.S.B. Kwa. - 41 words
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Article144 1949-05-23 7 \JISS Joan Curry, Birtish Wight man Cup i>la>tr, yesterday provided the biggest upset of the French lawn tennis championships so fur when she toppled Wimbledon cnampioii Miss Louise Brough of the United States m the third round of the women s singles. Miss Curry teat Miss Uruueh,144 words
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Article336 1949-05-23 7 Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH, Monday. WHAT Malaya is likely to be represented at the A 1952 Olympic Games by a sports contingent has come as welcome news to local sportsmen. Ever since Malaya's badminton team won the Thomas Cup and Lloyd Valberg became Singapore's one-man336 words
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287 1949-05-23 7 ni'PLICATIXG his 1935 feat m Bombay, where he scored a century m an hour for the Hindus against the Parsees, Lall Singh, the Indian Association captain yesterday showed a flash of his old form m knocking up 145 m an hour and 25287 words
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Article53 1949-05-23 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. SINGAPORE Recreation Club won the Conrad Clarke Challenge Cup for cricket when their fixture with Selangor Eurasian Association was decided on the first innings at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Rain washed out further play when the SeJangor team were nine wickets down for 121 runs In53 words
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Article105 1949-05-23 7 QN the Raffles Institution ground yesterday the Colonials C.C. easily beat Johore C.C. by n!ne wickets m their 6.C A. tournament game. Batting first. Johore C.C. totalled 67. The Colonial? replied with 105. Johore C.C. were o.tt for 61 m their second knock *nd the Colonials105 words
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Article39 1949-05-23 7 J3RITAIN3 chani-s if ier;ipturlnfr the British women's amateur golf utti* -^2gpd \ru--day with th? withdrawal, due to illness, of >Irs. Ardr?n Holm a former winner, from the Jnnnw mer.t opening at Harl eh, Wales*, today.- A.P.A.P. - 39 words
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Article17 1949-05-23 8 IiODLNSON: To Phyl. wife of L. H. Pobinson. on May 20th, Kandansr Kerbau Hospital, a .on.17 words
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Article72 1949-05-23 8 CtOH-ANG The engagement is announced between Mr. Goh I.ing Yew. only son ol Mr. and Goh Hang Hoe and Miss >*nu r Geok Kee, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs. Ang Teng Chan en 22 5.49. THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Lt. Col. John Thornton Miller, R.P.C.. eldest :jn72 words
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Article400 1949-05-23 8 Union 's threat of big strike BERLIN, Monday. THE Western Berlin Trade Unions have threatened to extend the bloody railway strike to every industry m the city unless their demands that workers living m the Western sectors be paid m West marks are met soon.A.P.; Reuter; U.P. - 400 words
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Article, Illustration78 1949-05-23 8 photo. After having been declared "medically dead," Mr. R*id C Lewis, 46-year-old Los Angeles aircraft inspector, smiles from his hospital bed— happy to be alive A week before, Mr. Lewis was "medically dead" for 12 to 15 minutes from an anaesthetic administered for a minor operation Normal methods of attemptedA.P. - 78 words
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Article103 1949-05-23 8 REVERS MEETS BAO DAI DALAT, Mon. GEN. GEORGES MARIE REVERS, Chief of Staff of the French Army, and M. Leon Pignon, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, arrived here last night to pay a courtesy visit on Bao Dal, ex-Emperor of Annam. Gen. Revers will Inspect French troops In CocninChina tomorrow,Reuter - 103 words
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Article62 1949-05-23 8 SIR Harold Hartley, retiring chairman of 80.A.C. said on his arrival In Southampton by air from the Mediterranean area yesterday that the nationalised airline next year, would have ten double-decker Strato-Cruis-ers—the world's largest airliners—ll Constellations, 22 Canadairs, 25 Hermes and 18 Solent Flying Boats. SirReuter - 62 words
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Article24 1949-05-23 8 Italy's farmworkers' strike yesterday spread from the north to the south and by last night a million men were out. ReuterReuter - 24 words
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Article13 1949-05-23 8 Communists demonstrated outside Brixton prison, London, yesterday against th* arrest of Gerhardt Eisler.13 words
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Article89 1949-05-23 8 A LONDON Cockney baby, Elizabeth Philips, born on Nov. 14— the same day as Prince Charles —has been sent two food packages from the United States which the donors hope will be multiplied into others Americans read of the hirth of the "Cockney princess" and promised lavishU.P. - 89 words
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202 1949-05-23 8 CAIRO, Monday. UNLESS the United States' Middle East policy is based on different principles, the Arab world "will be driven to Communism," King Abdullah of Transjor dan told a special correspondent of the Egyptian newspaper Al Misri m an interview. King Abdullah said that, nowReuter - 202 words
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Article87 1949-05-23 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. /GOVERNMENT scientists \J at Langley Air Force Base m Virginia have disclosed that the bomb capacity of the mammoth B-36 type bomber planes on 10,000-mile combat missions might be increased from the present five-ton limit to 30 tons. Officials of the National Advisory CommitteeU.P. - 87 words
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Article83 1949-05-23 8 PRAGUE. Sun. PRESIDENT Klement Gott wald has granted full pardon to two American soldiers sentenced to terms of imprisonment m March by a Prague state court on espionage charges, the U.S. Embassy announced today. They will be returned to the U.S. zone m Germany. Strong" representationsReuter - 83 words
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Article31 1949-05-23 8 The Canadian Post Office m Ottawa announced on Saturday that mail service has been suspended to ail parts of China except Fukien, Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces A. P.A.P. - 31 words
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Article24 1949-05-23 8 The All-India Congress Committee yesterday overwhelmingly approved a resolution accepting the agreement reached at the London conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers. ReuterReuter - 24 words
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199 1949-05-23 8 Laurel gets Philippine nomination MANILA, Monday. JOSE P. Laurel, puppet president of the J a p a n c s e-sponsored Philippines republic, has secured momination as the minority Nacionalista Party candidate for the Philippines presidential elections. With the count half completed Laurel had received 222 votes to 28 forA.P. - 199 words
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109 1949-05-23 8 CALL FOR U.S. ATOM CHIEF'S DISMISSAL WASHINGTON, Mon. SENATOR Bourke Hickenlooper, Republican member of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, called on President Truman yesterday to dismiss Mr. David Lllienthal from the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission. He charged "Incredible mis. management" of the commission and "highly publicised fiascos" onU.P. - 109 words
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Article56 1949-05-23 8 ONE hundred and seventeen people have been arrested so far m municipal election clashes m Cyprus. Four hundred leftwing supporters attached with stones and sticks the rlghtwing propaganda centre following an earlier rightwing assault on the trade union premises. Twenty people mainly suffering from stab woundsReuter - 56 words
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Article158 1949-05-23 8 WASHINGTON, Monday rpHERE is no way to export a high standard of living x m the opinion of Mr. Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who heads the governmental committee drafting plans to carry out President Truman's programme for the world'sU.P. - 158 words
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Article60 1949-05-23 8 SALEM (Oregon), Mon. r PHK faculty of a junior high school turned up m class dressed like pupils and puffing bubble gum. Women teachers wore short socks and short dresses, while male teachers hung out their shirt tails. The Principal, Mr. Carl Aschenbrenner, clad m overalls, explained,U.P. - 60 words
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Article91 1949-05-23 8 KARACHI, Monday QIR HENRY HOLLAND, fam- ous British opthalmic surgeon, who flew to Kabul on .May 12 to treat King Zahir iSnah of Afghanistan, said on arrival at Karachi yesterday that the King was suffering .from an eye infection caused by a bad tooth. ItReuter - 91 words
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Miscellaneous82 1949-05-23 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 7.41 a.m; 8.26 p.m. Tomorrow 8.44 a.m 8 50 p.m THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris LEI!'!) "JPHHT^i tU| fT. HOffV MO V I lUT VMM Ml -nnf OW-WWa m fOtltf :T lIF TOU WOV MOtt OMBNUT HOfTV 1 I^T^jy /HKTS KUF YO« IYI ON TH4T TO PCOUCMf82 words
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