The Singapore Free Press, 24 June 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 11.508 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    LONDONTALKON MACAO AND H.K.
    442 1 Red danger to Colonies mw? v c LONDON, Friday. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, and n M t U P e ?f Am ">assador to London, the Duke of Palmella met at the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon. Diplomatic quarters said the Duke and Mr. Bevin
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    EDICAL EXAM ESULTS
    339 1 EDICAL EXAM ESULTS ,-ai students ol j^g Edward VII 0{ Medicine have their professional J; and dentistry examt- LfffSrtic* i I bint* Mohd aßg Chi*. Ahmad AJi iDistinction In y B&lacaandran, Ch3n tlXstUi- lion In Blo- Chi Wt! Jamc» Chew 'r* Cbe« Kim Swee, Miss -k Kb M J cho°
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    TOP PRESS
    54 1 iw KnSeral and State mli are giving Attention to the mplementation of Httttm Committee N»>d the Chief Sit Alec New- l il this morning's fli P"s s conference officers 'V^n seconded for ser- <t> states. nd the £wnunent had ir L h t0 live legal JMMhe resettlement SrtUn^
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    25 1 Mr. J. B. rif gins, secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, who has been negotiating with the Government over the recent British railway strikes.
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    36 1 TrfS Chairman of the UJ3. Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, Mr. Brien McMahon, said yesterday that an Oak Ridge atomic plant worker took uranium chips home, while another hid a uranium block in a locker.
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    2 BANDITS KILLED
    28 1 rOOPS in ambush between Swee Lam Estate and Poh Lee Seng In the Kulai area of Johore killed two of three Chinese bandits last night.
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    Alleged secret head
    23 1 The Singapore C.I.D. yesterday arrested a Chinese a leged to be the "headman" o the Illegal society. "Gee Khoon Tong."
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    WELDING PROCESS
    29 1 Britain has developed a new process for welding metals without the use of heat or power, reports William Dubilier, vice-president of an American electrical company. A. P.
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    Third bombing of Anchises
    169 1 Third bombing of Anchises HONG KONG, Friday. NOTWITHSTANDING a Canton apolory for two Nationalist air attacks on the British ship Anchlses near Shanghai and promise to pay compensation, Nationalist planes again bombed the ship yesterday in what appears to be a bid to sink the vessel and thus block the
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    GERMAN RAIL MEN'S OFFER IS REJECTED
    106 1 BERLIN. Fri. THE British military government ordered German police in its sector yesterday to prevent non-Communist railway strikers from operating an "emergency" service without permission of the Russian-controlled management This was only one of a series of snags struck by the offer of leaders
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    P.I. PROTEST
    35 1 rE Philippines Government has requested the Chinese Legation in Manila to establish stronger controls at such South China ports as Amoy, in Fukien province, to prevent smuggling and illicit immigration into the Philippines.
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    BURMA RD. TOWN IS RECAPTURED
    112 1 WANTING, Friday. /CHINESE Nationalists have recaptured the Burma Road town of Paoshan, about 40 miles from this Burma Road frontier post, according to the Yunnan Provincial authorities. Six thousand Nationalist troops stormed the walled town, killing 800 Army and police mutineers and capturing 400, tne
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    Pahang convoy ambushed
    40 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IN Pahang yesterday bandits ambushed a convoy going from Gambang to Jerantut. Four soldiers wert wounded, two seriously and two slightly. Three Malay police constables were slightly wounded and one bandit was killed.
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    DEAD BANDIT?
    54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rnHE body of an unarmed, A and, as yet. unidentified Chinese, was found this morning In the Sawah Ring. Muar area of Johore. This followed last rent's attack by 19 bandits on the kampong guard at Sawah Ring. Muar. The guard returned the fire
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    Red exchange
    32 1 The People's Bank of China official exchange rates yesterday were: U.S. Dollar 1,650 jenmlnplao, Sterling 4,300, Hongkong Dollar— 27o. Rupee —325, Swiss Franc -415, Australian 3,450, Straits Dollar— soo. Reuter
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    49 1 photo. American businessman, Mr. Walter J. Weldon, and his wife who spent their honeymoon in Singapore 29 years *ffo, having a Chinese dinner at the Happy World last night. Mr. Weldon, director of exports for the Coleman Lamp and Stove Co., Ltd., Is on tour of the Far Eas
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    13-year-old schoolboy electrocuted
    74 1 13-year-old schoolboy electrocuted Free Press Staff Reporter k 13 -year old Singapore schoolboy, Tan Hal Tong, was found dead apparently killed by electric shock near a radio aerial In the ceiling of a four-storeyed building In Rochore Canal Road at about noon yesterday. The boy is believed to have played
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    ...and the pig laughed
    55 1 TWO thieves crept into a pigsty in a Westphalian town and tried to chloroform the 300-pound occupant. The farmer was disturbed by the porker's grunt*. When he reached the sly he found the pi* still conscious, but the two thieves were unconscious be«ide aim —knocked out
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    'Battle of roads' in Commission
    200 1 Free Press Staff Reporter /CANCELLATION of a $7)0,000 contract for re- surfacing Singapore roads will be opposed by Mr. J. V. West, nominated Unofficial, at today's meeting of the Municipal Commissioners. Mr. West will move reference back to the Municipal committee which decided to rescind
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    'FINISH THE JOB' —RHEE TO U.S.
    182 1 'FINISH THE JOB' RHEE TO U.S. n m SEOUL, Thursday. HR. Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea (American-occupied South Korea) today appealed to the United States to finish the job she had started by securing the unification of South Korea with the Communist-controlled northern territory. The President said
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    Afghans didn't ask Pakistan
    71 1 KARACHI, Frl. r THE Pakistan Foreign 1 Minister. Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, said yesterday that Afghanistan had made no formal demand for Pakistan territory from the present border to the river Indus. He made this statement in ccwnmeiiting on a report that the Afghanistan Ambassador in
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    SIAM MORE RICE PLAN
    78 1 THE Siamese Government has decided to allocate 13.200,000 tlcals ».U.S. $660,000) next year to encourage rice and cotton planting in special settlements In the north, central and southern provinces. Th* scheme will be under the control of the Co-opera-tive Department of the Ministry cf Agriculture. The
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    NEW CINEMA LAW FOR P.I.
    36 1 The Philippine* Government yesterday passed a rider to the revision of the Manila City Charter under which all local cinemas will have to show at least 10 per cent. Philippine-mad* pictures.
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    NEW SHIP FOR U.K.-S'PORE RUN
    40 1 THE Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company announced yesterday that the construction of an 11,000-tori carjjo liner, designed for service between Singapore, the Far East and Britain, would start before the end of the year.
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    GRENADE INCIDENT
    31 1 Unidentified persons last night threw a hand-grenade In the Jogjakarta garden of the house of the Republican Minister for Religion. Hadjar Dewantero. according to Aneta. the Dutch news agency.
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    EndS'pore petrol rationing
    101 1 EndS'pore petrol rationing PLEA TO U.K. Fr«e Press Staff Reporter HPHE Singapore Govern- ment has applied to the British Government for permission to lift petrol rationing here. Feeling here Is that the present ration Is adequate for motorists' needs and that there Is therefore no need to continue rationing. It
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    Rubber prices
    57 1 A SPECIAL Market correspondent five* the priree of rubber (Id cents per Ib.) at 11 m tudaj as follows: Buyers. Seller*. No. 1 R S 8. Spot loose MM, 32H Fob. in Dates Jmy No. 1 R.S.B 32', 32^, No. Z R S.S 30\ 3U No. 3 R.B
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    ANTI-RED CALL TO FILIPINOS
    91 1 MANILA, Fri. rE Chief-of-Staff of the Philippine armed force*, Major-Gen. Mariano Casters ada. In a press conference here yesterday, warned that the responsibility for making the Philippines secure from Communism resU upon Filipinos. "We cannot always expect and be sure of military assistance from the United
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    Types I don't like
    398 2 Types I don't like IT'S not that I hate women. I just dislike types and if you don't think of yourself as a type (who does?) this acid drop does not apply to you, or even YOU 1. The pseudo-Intellectual. This comes in two sizes very thin. very. fat. For
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    To Keep You Up To Date
    472 2  -  EDNA McKENNA By IVIUTED shades of coloured nylons will soon be on the market. Women have been protesting that they would need a different pair for each suit or dress they possessed, but the muted shades will be the rage all the same. The
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    No Two Skins Are Alike
    1020 2 No Two Skins Are Alike Beauty hints By A Special Woman Correspondent VTO two skins are quite alike and every woman has her own special beauty problems. Today I will go into the case of a woman with special beauty problems. First "What to do for coarse pores?" That's such
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    New York Is Crazy
    273 2 Says K. MURRAY U7OMEN In New York do ff the stian^es: things— but it pays to keep an eye on them. Here art some of their latest ideas FLOWLRS. They're being worn anywnere and everywhere: massed on a Rrosgrain choker on the ends of a sash
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      98 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have excessive imagination which can lead you into all kinds of trouble unless you learn to curb it with reason! To control it means yon learn how to use it constructively in writing, inventing or creative art but not in day-dream-ing or extravagant storytelling
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      5 2 Solution To Crossword No. 7x2
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      49 2 F.P» Crossword No. 723 1 I l z I "F""] pn ir~] i6~i _SZ2ZSZEZS 7 I j| 9 '0 if if" ULlLll JkWOt l9 20 30 3i |ppsr~ HHU m H XX ™^*M» ft***A*«* m^nm J J ,cf CLCM ACROSS m C'LltS DOWN s^«i.-j» s sarsn sk i srSss!
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    RED PLANS FOR E. EUROPE
    213 3 RED PLANS FOR E. EUROPE finding land ownership .tj. land ownership behind the Iron n will be abolished completely by the tf according to reports received in 1 j from Eastern Europe. -v Bulgarian flve-year-plan, the text of lUSI reached London, reveals that 60 per Bulgarian peasants are to be
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    BOOKS ON INCOME TAX
    16 3 Tax $10.00 [ncome Aei 15^00 9.00 Tax 30 00 v of Income
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    KELLY & WALSH LTD.
    9 3 KELLY WALSH LTD. I el* Stationers %J^ "'tt. Maapon
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    U.S. PLEASED WITH NEW VIETNAM
    140 3 U.S. PLEASED WITH NEW VIETNAM FORMATION of the new French-sponsored State of Vietnam in Indo-China has been hailed by the U.S. State Department as a welcome development. Head of the new State is Bao Dal, former Emperor of Ann&m. It Is opposed by forces led by Communist Ho Chi Minn.
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    INTELLIGENCE TEST MR. PINK
    167 3 INTELLIGENCE TEST MR. PINK I yOU may recall that >>! colourful island where \l there are three races, in-S> distinguishable save in respect of their attitude's towards the truth. A BZue<<l > always answers a ques- > tion truthfully; a White always lies, a Pink, an- <$ swering two or
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    S'HAI TO START BARTER
    105 3 S'HAI TO START BARTER THE Chinese Communist press In Shanghai announce that broad plans are underway for an interchange of commodities between Shanghai and other liberated cities. The Shanghai General Trading Company is reported to be contacting merchant representatives from other cities with the object of importing additional products into
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    33 3 picture. The Royal Party <jrom left) Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth, King Oeorge and Prince Philip at the races at Ascot a few days ago when the King's filly, Avila, won the Coronation Stakes
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    Ancient ruins in Poland
    54 3 THE Prehistoric Research m Centre of Lodi says a cemetery dating back to 700 B.C. has been found in the nearest village of Wardzyn, Poland. It was also claimed that ruins of a settlement datine back to 1300 B.C. were disS?M re i.°2. trlbutar y of
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    KIMONO GIFTS
    28 3 Three sets of Japanese bridal kimonos are being sent to the Metropolitan Opera Guild as a gesture of goodwill from the land of "Madame Butterfly." A.P.
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    MURDER could not kill
    1103 3  -  GREGORY BAXTER €31 Th% story so far Sherwood Dexter, US businessman, is shot dead while driving with his daughter Laurette Dexter, near Marble Arch, London at midnight. Robin Foster an artist sees the <Uler run from Dexter 1 s saloon to a nearby limousine but is
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    Labour hits at Government
    236 3 BRITAIN'S trade union leaders have recently be- come increasingly critical of the Labour Government which they helped to put into power. The Trade union Congress (T.U.C.) heard a report at its monthly meeting that "several unions nave noted weaknesses in the consultative machinery" by which workers
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    NEW BRITISH ENVOY
    27 3 Mr. Alfred John Gardener, Counsellor at the Foreign Office In London, has been appointed Ambassador at Kabul in succession to Sir Giles Squire Reuter
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    RADIO SETS FOR CEYLON VILLAGES
    85 3 RADIO SETS FOR CEYLON VILLAGES ANE hundred radio receivv ing sets have boen installed in remote villages of Ceylon in the first stage of a Government scheme to have radio sets In the villages for educational, cultural and publicity purposes. These, seta have been installed in school*, community centre hall*
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    Ready to fight Pakistan
    69 3 Ready to fight Pakistan I EADKRS of the Hazara }*te*, Uving in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, have assured the King of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahlr Shah, of their "readiness to take active measures against Pakistan'* aggres siona," according to the A J£ an news *B«ncy, Bakhtar. The King told them the
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    Bridge Hands
    329 3 F DIDN'T come here to pass.' A observed South smugly as the bidding ended in the hand shown above. By the time the play of that hand had ended, both he and his partner bitterly regretted South's philosophy of bidding. West opened the jack of spades and continued
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    SCIENCE IS WINNING IN ANTI-TB WAR
    512 3 SCIENCE IS WINNING IN ANTI-TB WAR SCIENCE is winning the battle against tuberculosis, but the final blows are yet to come. Some of those knock-out punches may be found in new research projects, just announced by the National Tuberculosis Association of New York. In all, grants to 22 investigators have
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    AGRICULTURE AID PLAN
    47 3 THE Council of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation in Paris is preparing a report on a programme of technical aid to backward countries to be submitted to the Economic and Social Council, which Is scheduled to meet at Geneva nex* month. U.P.
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    U.K. Trade Unions
    37 3 BRITISH trade union offlclass have been completing plans for the international conference at Geneva this week-end to establish a new world trade union organisation in rivalry to the Communist-led World Federation of Trades Unions.—
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    Major factor
    39 3 United States Senator Herbert R. O'Connor told the 61--nation International Labour Organisation's conference at Geneva that President Truman's 'Four P< plan for aid to under-devel-oped countries 'may weil income a major factor In United State* foreign poll'
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      405 3 oru/'unnor On C*>J 6.00 Mumc, 6.15 'Sj-ecwi »*WV3MI*\JIIfc Dispatch' (BBC). 6.30 News in fRIITP vkTWHRKt Cantonese (BBC). 8.45 Indone(BLUE NfcIWORK) slan Newg programme. 7.15 484 anr) 417 metre*. News in French (BBC). 7.30 Emergency news from K.L. English: News; Far Eastern at 10 a.m. Affairs Vernon Bartlett; InterrnnAV lude, English
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1949 GIVE THEM ALL A CHANCE
    631 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY. JUNE 24, 1949 GIVE THEM ALL A CHANCE MALAGA'S wave of crime, his largely died down today. It came in the wake of tie troubled years of thH Japanese occupation ani grew in the excitement ot the liberation until at one time it threatened to
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    Labour Is Wooing The Kiwis Again
    1103 4  - Labour Is Wooing The Kiwis Again LACHIEM MacDONALD New Zealand, long In the grip of Socialism, i§ wondering whether it's time for a change of government WELLINGTON N.Z. *JHIS hilly capital of Britain's most distant dominion has resounded for ten days with ideological catch cries. They have come from the
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    Can Japan Stay Neutral?
    477 4 TOKYO: /GENERAL Mac Arthur speaks of Japan becoming the "Switzerland of the Pacific,'' but a great many Japanese still aren't convinced the idea will work. Most Japanese agree that it would be nice for Japan to remain neutral and To keep out of future wars but
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    127 4 been at the Norcross depot of the Ministry of Pensions at Blackpool is the prototype of what is considered the ideal car for disabled men. It is a new allweather three-wheeler seating one person, and is designed to take the place of the Ministry's old hand' propelled invalid chair. The
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    The First Asian To Win Mate's Ticket
    1015 4 PEOPLE MAKE NEWS fHE first Asian seaman to recieve a certificate of competency for Home Trade Mate, is a former Malacca Malay school teacher, 37--year-old MAMUD BIN MASAHID, Chief Officer of the Straits Steamship vessel Sedenak, in Singapore today. He believes that the
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    Chifley Speaks Out....
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    $1250 JOB PROPOSAL OPPOSED
    493 5 $1250 JOB PROPOSAL OPPOSED Appointment of woman doctor clearing all the dumps in town. Tlie Commissioners' powers in clearing such dumps. which form a Dotential breeding ground for mosquitoes, are limited. This subject was brought to the Government's attention labt year. a \nTn*Jlt? F ress taff Reporter A N UMBKR
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    24 5 picture «k> Beatrir Biker and Miss Christina Hall, who will ULrfnrm in Spotlight on Nee Soon," which will be 7.1 Nee Soon Camp tonight.
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    Culture note for the Councils
    182 5 Free Press Staff Reporter M[\\is knows how much need of good spoken Hjngiish there is in the colleges, schools, and e and municipal councils," says the Grad, irVan of Baffles College graduates, commenting on hit-aching of Enfllsh in the University of Malaya. ng article in
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    TALK ON S.V.C.
    36 5 To-day is the 90th birthday of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, and to-night at 9.45. 1.t.-Col. R. W. Watson-Hyatt will broadcast from Radio Malaya. Singapore, about enlistment tor the reconstituted corps, which starts to-day
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    JOHORE C.S.A. APPEALS FOR SUPPORT
    158 5 JOHORE C.S.A. APPEALS FOR SUPPORT Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. UNGKU Abdul Aziz bin A. Hamid, who was elected president of the Johore Civil Service Association yesterday, called upon members to give the association ttroneer support in the coming year. Their association, he said, was a member of
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    STRAYING COWS
    28 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MUAR, Thurs. Kumarasamy, who allowed five of his cows to stray on the public road, was fined $10 by the Muar Magistrate.
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    SPORE BOYS BRIGADE
    34 5 SPORE BOYS BRIGADE picture. A GROUP of the 9th Sin gapore Company of the Boys Brigade, composed of lads from the Bukit Timah Boys' Home, pictured at their second annual sports day and inspection.
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    $700,000 in loans to build homes
    195 5 Free Press Staff Reporter $700,000 in loans have been advanced to 11 a number of Singapore people who want to build or buy their own homes. The loans have been made by the Building- Society of Malaya, san organisation that lends money to prospective
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    38 5 picture. THK Colonial Secretary, Mr. F.A.B. McKerron, is seen presenting a certificate of naturalisation to Dr. J. [Ilovsky, one of the two Hungarian nationals who acquired British citizenship, at a ceremony at th* i.ouncil Chamber, Government Secretariat, yesterday.-
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    Professional actors group plan
    232 5 Professional actors group plan Free Press Staff Kepwtec A PROFESSIONAL re- per lory compa.iy based on the Viet 01 la Memorial Theatre ma\ formed in Singapore fore the end of this year, the Free Press understands. The repertory Cumoany it Is learnt, will have a nucW <is of Drofesslonal nlavers
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    DEEP CONCERN AMONG MALAYS
    254 5 RULERS AND MENTRIS BESAR Free Press Malay Correspondent npHE President of UMNO in Selangor, in a statement published by Utusan Melayu yesterday, said that reports that some Mentris Besar intended to resign owing to differences with their Sultans had caused "deep concern** among Malays. Inche Salleh
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    MAILS
    44 5 Surface mails are expected to reach Singapore today from the U.S.. the U.K.. N. Ireland. Eire. Egypt and Ceylon. Closing times for posting surface mails are: to N. Sumatra. N. Borneo, Brunei. MM and r>abuan Is noon, and to Java and Sibu: noon.
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    NEW BRITISH SUBJECTS
    99 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AT a ceremony held yesterday at the Old Council Chamber. Colonial- Secretariat, certificates of naturalisation were given by the Colonial Secretary Mr P. A. B. MeKerron. to 16 people. They are: Mr Tan Ken« Kang, Mr. O. Candillotis. Mr. E. Joseph. Madam N.
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    IGNORANCE PLEA
    27 5 IGNOR ANCE PLEA JOHORE BAHRU. Thur* Syed Agil bin Syed All of Singapore, was fined $15 today for entering the Federation without a permit. He pleaded Ignorance.
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    UMNO HOUSE
    74 5 I'. P. Malay Correspondent The UMNO branch in Muar plans to build an UMNO House similar to the one in Johore Baharu An appeal to members in Muar to contribute liberally towards the building fund has been issued by a special committee entrusted with the task of launching
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    LOST DIPLOMSS
    43 5 ILL Raffles Co: |< duates who lost th» lr diplomas during ihe war now be able to <iet mv. certified copies But th^ replacements will be subiect to U.o certification of the chairman of the Pan-Malavan Council of the Stamford Club, Malaya.
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    SECURITY: MONEY
    438 6 Shearn gives a warning Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. THE maintenance of internal and externa security in Malaya is a matter of paramouiv importance and of first priority, said Mr. E. D Shearn, the President of the Malayan Associa tion, at the quarterly meeting of the
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    Don't change holidays'
    76 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE Malayan Association has informed the Selangor State Secretary that it would bo "a retrograde step" if the week-end holidays in the State were changed from Saturday and Sunday to Thursday and Friday. The suggestion for a change in holidays
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    FANCY DRESS BALL
    108 6 SINGAPORE'S only Jewish youth movement, the Habonim. will be holding a fane* dress ball on July 2 at the Adelphi Hotel Roof Garden. Dancing will begin at 8.30 p.m. and will continue until 1 a.m. The president of the Habonim. Miss F. Lelah. told the Free Press
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    DIVORCED
    28 6 Mr. Gregory Lee Yong Hoj was granted a divorce against his wife. Lilian Choo. yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court on the ground of his wife's adultery.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    114 6 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Eastern Saga (31-32). Tabian i33-34), Tai Ping Yang (38-J7). Silverplane (38-39), Kampar (40-41). Wee. Wharf. Chanda (1-2). Sedenak (3), Glengarry (6-7), Telemachus (8 9), Agamemnon (11\ Rclau (15). Empire Dock: Stanvac Alcyone
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    INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION
    85 6 (1) Mr. Pink U not the Blue, for If he were, he would say so. (2) Mr. Pink Is not the Pink. For, if he is, his first answer is truthful But, if his first answer is truthful, his third answer is truthful also. Now, however, his
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    DON'T GRUDGE
    35 6 picture. A THREE-DAY education conference began yesterday in Singapore attended by directors and deputy directors of education from British territories in Aria Picture shows the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malmt.^nonAld. nresidinc ©yer the conference. Free
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    TALKS ON RICE IN COLONY
    149 6 INFORMAL discussions have been held amoru British officials In Singapore on what body, If anv could ba set up to deal with the procurement of rice in SouthEast Asia following news i that the International Emergency Food Council may close down. A Singapore Government representative*
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    Gilt-edgeds up on smallbuying
    494 6 FP^ *1 C»T4 !^P 3V'<*J tr-1 1 I '"Lj LONDON, Friday. QENTIMENT in the gilt-edged section of the Lon>3 don Stock Exchange was brighter yesterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Recent heavy selling had halted and prices improved under the cheering influence of small buyers. Fractional gains
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    N.Y. STOCK IMPROVE
    63 6 N.Y. STOCK IMPROVE ten.; I ■•ge yes:, B A lew brighter nS^M business new* tttSLiß Interest and I gain* 1 Attr»rtir I J ihat »otr.e Industrie j-J)j optimlsttr tfut a jonjortTj may b»* av*r R*Ui M m I I 9 I In the third quarter wik y 15. 6 per
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    COURAGEOUS WOMAN FOILS EXTORTIONER
    281 6 COURAGEOUS WOMAN FOILS EXTORTIONER Free Press Si.ut K n ortfr UN)}) I. HOW the initiative and courage 0 J lh woman led to the capture «,f an *Ck described in the Assize (our lt iJu 1 Mr. Justice Paul Storr Seng, alias Chan Seng, to tl\u> s •Jf oQ l^
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    13 HUJOB NOT RUNNING AT IPOH
    251 7 13 HUJOB NOT RUNNING AT IPOH Bin tang Mas in smart sprint Free Press Racing Correspondent *ti „o t. IP0H Friday. least 13 horses will not be accepting for the races tomorrow, third and last day of the Perak Turf Club June Meeting. They are Phar Gay, Cool Play, Merriel,
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    10 7 Personally I never broke a bookie's htirt in my lift."
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    U.K. Turf turnover $26-million
    27 7 U.K. Turf turnover $26-million t'<;MOR turnover in a Y n n 1948 was n ordlng to the Race- Board, ,-ribed 16,427 the proMd., mite for haritta to
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    20 7 SOCCER: Guthrie B.C T Singapore Improvement Trust S C Farr^ Park. TENNIS: YJK.C A. tournament. Bras Baaali Road
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    FORM GUIDE FOR TOMORROW Captain Yule, Greetings may score once more
    1356 7 FORM GUIDE FOR TOMORROW Captain Yule, Greetings may score once more Krtr hi ss Kacing Correspondent /APTAIN Yule and Greetings won so convincingly in their first runs at the meeting th?t they must bMoneedrd strong chances to complete doubles at tonornn* v Perak Turf Club races at Ipoh. long-striding Captain
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    Hutton on way to new record
    93 7 IT was Len Mutton's 33rd birthday yesterday, and he marked the occasion with a polished century, which was largely instrumental in giving Yorkshire a useful first-innings lead against Sussex. It also brought him 1.000 runs in the month of June, the first time this
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    MAYFAIR B.P. WIN
    26 7 MAYFAIR B.P. beat Jacques B P. by five games to four In a friendly badminton match clayed at the C.U. Hall on Sunday:
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    Not interested in London bout-Charles
    296 7 EZZARD Charles, the Cincinnati Negro who on Wednesday night became the world's heavyweight champion as recognised by the National Boxing Association of the United States, said yesterday that he was not planning to go to London to see the Woodcock-Savold fight. The winner of the
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    H.K.U. CRICKET XI TO PLAY COLLEGES
    41 7 rpHE Hongkong University X cricket and tennis teams are arriving in Singapore today by the Sirdhana. The cricket side will play a team representing the Combined Colleges. Singapore, next Monday, on the Padang (S.R.C. end).
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    Chinese Athletic too good for Tamils
    294 7 C.A 6, Tamils 1. {CHINESE Athletic took a step nearer the S.A.F.A Senior League championship when th*y trounced Tamil Brotherhood Association 6-1 at Jalan Besar Stadium last evenln*. C A. were clear!/ superior and if it had not been for the sodden ground, which
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    Goalkeeper is alert
    32 7 picture. O. Suppiah, the Tamil Brotherhood Association goalkeeper, jumps to intercept a header by Ha Tee Siang, the C.A. inside-right, in yesterday's Senior League match C.A. won 6 l.
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    Yorkshire will oust Worcester
    451 7 VORKSHIRE, many times county champions, 1 should be in the county championship lead tonight for they are well on the way to the win required to overtake Worcestershire, who have no engagement in the present series of games. Glamorgan, present holders of the county title, looked
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    All 8 seeded men's singles players win
    650 7 All 8 seeded men 's singles players win A LL eight seeded players reached the last 16 in the men's singles yesterday, the fourth day of the Wimbledon championships, although Robert Falkenburg, the holder, and Jaroslav Drobny, seeded No. 6, were taken to live sets before winning. The lanky Falkenburg
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    CHINESE REDS NEAR FOOCHOW
    337 8 Pessimism over aid plea to U.S. HONG KONG, Friday, AS Chinese Communist armies in their resumed push southward steadily advance toward Foochow, capital of Fukien Province, and on Canton, the Nationalist emergency capital, little hope is held out for any immediate or favourable response to the
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    41 8 photo. The Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Shigeru Yoshida had a toothache but wanted no publicity. A press photorrapher bided his time and waited until Mr. Yoshida sat wide-mouthed in the dentist's chair and then snapped this picture without encountering any protest.
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    Whoshouldweat the pants
    62 8 A WRITER in the Moscow ■S*- newspaper Izvestia suggests that factory administrators producing poor quality goods be sentenced to wear or use their own products. He says the heavy -set director of a Riga garment factory should be forced to wear the suits, with narrow, short breeches
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    Ultimatum to London dock men
    126 8 LONDON, Friday. pHE Port of London 1 Authority has sent an iltimatum to striking stevelores that they would allow 10 ship entering London to )e unloaded until work began >n two Canadian strlke>ound vessels, Argoment and 3eaverbrae. Feeling rose high as gang ifter gang refused
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    KAILAN COAL FOR H'KONG
    43 8 THE Chinese Communist Government has given the Sino-British Kailan mines in North China special permission to export 360,009 tons of coal to Hong Kong over a period of six months, according to a Peiping radio message heard last night.
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    MY BABU GOING TO THE STUD
    67 8 FRED Armstrong, the trainer of the Maharaja pf Baroda's colt My Babu, states that the four-year-old, winner of approximately £30,000 In stakes, including last year's 2,000 Guineas, has been scratched from all engagements. My Babu will cross on Monday to the Maharaja of Baroda's
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    Ships back home
    38 8 rO destroyers lent by Britain to the Soviet Union during the war sailed back into home waters yesterday in the Firth of Forth. They are the Zhyvuchy, formerly the Richmond, and Dzerky. formerly the Chelsea.
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    R.S.A. WANTS N.Z. SUBVERSION PROBE
    30 8 The New Zealand Returned Services Association decided yesterday to ask the Government to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate subversive activities in New Zealand Reuter
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    Failed student's loss
    87 8 LACK of a college diploma has cost George Harvey Clark of Sacramento (Cal.) U.S. $25,000. In 1923, his grandfather died, leaving him the sum on condition that he rot his college degree by the time he reached the age of 25. Otherwise, the money would go to
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    CHIEF'S WHITE WIFE CHEERED
    194 8 SEROWE (Bechuanaland), Friday. MORE than 6,000 Bamangwato tribesmen, after IT four days of parley in his remote African village, yesterday acclaimed their 27-year-old Chief Designate, Seretse Khama, and his 24-year-old white wife, former London typist Ruth Williams, whom he had refused to give up. Only about
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    Greek Govt. needs planes, warships
    151 8 WASHINGTON, Friday. lEUT.-GEN. James Van Fleet, head of the United RJ States Military Mission to Greece, said yesterday that Greek regulars need United States planes and small warships in their fight against Communist guerillas. Van Fleet told a news conference that planes and warships previously
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    JAP TREATY IS F.E.C.'s JOB
    67 8 THE U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, said yesterday that the Western powers informed the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vishinsky, that the nation* on the Far Eastern Commission were the proper authorities to settle a Japanese peace treaty. Mr. Acheson said that Mr
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    New test for death
    49 8 T)R. Victor Balthazard, of Paris, claims to have established a new test for death. He says that a small and harmless injection of ether will remain in the living body, but is ejected spontaneously after death A. P. Ct,..^, i*H nw r*k h— T«t^w im
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    Lords' no' to steel measure
    212 8 LONDON, Friday. THE Government was defeated four times in the predominantly Conservative House of Lords last night during clause-by-clause discussion of the bill to nationalise Britain's iron and steel industry. An amendment moved by Lord Rennell (Lib), tnd seconded by a Conservative to ensure that
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    RESULTS
    221 8 Continued from Page 1 DENTAL First ltofc«ion»J Ex- ami nations CHEMISTRY, PHY- I SICS, and BIOLOGY: Chang Tuck Lee. Kueh Yan Nee. Lee Chin I Kung, Lee Khee Wee, V. I. Lytord, I Mohd All bin Mafuz All, >oh Khong Guan. Toh Teong Ohee. i Wong He Deong, and
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    ROWAN WINS
    53 8 STAN ROWAN, British and Empire bantamweight champion, won a unanimous ton -round decision last night over Amleto Falclnelli. the Italian title-holder, at Liverpool. It was Rowan's second win over the Italian champion. Falcinelli relied mostly on his counter punching, but his blows lacked sting." Rowan used his speed
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    Have full backing of my wife: Sabu
    203 8 HOLLYWOOD, Friday QABU, the Elephant Boy film star, has the full understanding and support of his actress bride, he says in his denial of paternity charges made bv a British ballet dancer, Brenda Marian Julier, of London. He is due to appear again
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      13 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 10.01 a.m. 9.1* p.m. roiaorrow: 14.50 a.m. 9. 50 p.m.
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