The Singapore Free Press, 2 July 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press ARGISST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA t» SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1949. PRICK 10 CENTS
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    CHINESE THREAT TO SINK SHIPS
    346 1 CHINESE THREAT TO SINK SHIPS 'Heave to or C <f IQ)P fiVP rxr 4xr CANTON, Saturday. [N AN effort to tighten the blockade of Com-munist-held ports, the Cabinet last night authorised the Nationalist Navy to sink any Lhinese ships resisting or attempting to escape search. The Cabinet also offered rewards
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    DUTCH REPORT JAVA UNREST
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    STOP PRESS
    22 1 >mb explosion the ratskirti of i in toda> 'i i Natinnta »ir raid. No planet hffB Ml n in thC
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    BAO DAI FORMS GOVERNMENT
    34 1 BAO Dai, head of the nevv state of Vietnam, yesterI day announced the formation I of a Government and pro- claimed himself in charge of 1 i affairs of state.
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    TAMIL PAPER ON CONTEMPT COUNT
    217 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPI K, Friday. rHE Attorney-General, iMr. S. Foster Sutton, today applied in the High Court for an order nisi for writs of attachment against the two proprietors of the Tamil vernacular newspaper Nesan, S.R.N. Palaniappan and M Malayandi Chettiar, and
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    IRAQ WANTS MORE MONEY
    41 1 IRAQ W ANTS MORE MONEY rIE Iraqi Minister of Economics. Dr. Dhia Jafar, and the Director-General of his Ministry, Dr. Nadim Al Pachachi. are in London to seek a higher royalty for Iraq's oil It la at present 9s. a ton
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    'Painless' war next?
    69 1 11HE IS House of Representatives was told yestprda? in Washington that the Army Medical Corps "maj with proper incentives produce a painless war •Such a prospect is not pure fancy." said Representative I F Sires (Democrat. Florida), ad'linjj "The Arm> MMUdl&ni may not be far from the
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    36 1 photo. Walt Disney with his wile and two daughters, Diane. 16. and Sharon, 13, on arrival at Southampton aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Disney is in England to make 4 "*reaMire Island." his first all-live film. Reuter
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    Saturday Magazine
    68 1 117* regret that the SingaT? pore Free Press Saturday Magazine cannot be published this morning. Import restriction prevent us from using more than a fixed quota of newsprint each week and the amount still outstanding this week is not sufficient to allow us to publish twelve pages today.
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    200 Viet Minh men capture French post
    93 1 PARIS, Saturday. rN French soldiers* were killed or gravely Injured when 200 Vietminh IndoChinese autonomists attacked and captured a garrison post at Pnorang, near Lao Kay, North-west Tonking. The French Garrison, about 40 strong, put up a "desperate fight," a French High Command
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    5 SKYMEN KILLED
    33 1 Five rcara troopers were killed and six others injured by a violent explosion when they were waiting to board a naval dispatch boat at a naval-ah" base near Brest A.P.
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    BIG FOUR DEPUTIES DISAGREE
    105 1 BIG FOUR DEPUTIES DISAGREE LONDON. Sat. THE Big Four Foreign Ministers" deputies for Austria ran into serious disagreement about the meaning of instructions received from their chiefs in Paris when they held their first resumed meeting in London yesterday. Mr. George Zarubin. the Soviet Deputy, maintained tliat the final communique
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    UK-HK PHONE SERVICE NOW
    49 1 THE British Post MasterGeneral announced yesterday that a telephone service with Hong Kong would be available :'rom July 4. It would operate from 0600 hours to 071!) hours GMT on weekdays, and the charge for a three- rn^ n I^'* paii wmii^-i ko 3.155.- Reuter
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    UK rail men suspend 'go slow' strike
    208 1 LONDON. Saturday. DKITAIN'S National Union of Railwaymen last u night suspended their threat to disrupt the country's rail system with a "go slow" strike from midnight tomorrow in support of claims for a 10s.--a-week wage increase. The Labour Minister, Mr. George Isaacs, announced
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    S'HAI REDS CUT $ RATE
    76 1 S'HAI REDS CUT RATE SHANGHAI. Sat, THE Communists have lowered the exchange rate on their dollar in a move aimed apparently at halting the rocketing price of rice. The price of rice has increased 200 percent in the past three weeks. It would have been 300 percent higher on Thursday
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    Fewer jobs in U.S.
    20 1 Fewer jobs in U .S. Unemployment in the United States has risen fo 3.778.000, ihe highest sin<:e February, 1942. A.P.
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    M.-aid nations agree to pact
    236 1 EASING EUROPE TRADE PARIS, Saturday. A COMPROMISE financial agreement to ease European trade under the Marshall Plan broke the Anglo-American economic policy deadlock yesterday. The 19 European nations trading under the Marshall plan approved the compromise in principle after eight hours of negotiations, principally among
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    WATER FAMINE LOOMS IN U.K.
    72 1 LONDON. Sat. WATER shortage Is threat- I ening many sections of Britain, as warm wea.hcr 1 and a state of absolute j drought continues without prospect of change. Reservoirs, lakes arid rivers providing London with water i were falling steadily in I level The Minister
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    'END REGENCY'
    35 1 The Belgian Premier. M. Paul. Van Zeeland, told his Social Christian Party Committee yesterday that he planned to call a meeting of the n«?wly-elected Belgian Parliament to end the Regency of Prince Charles.
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    Malaya-India trade outlook
    59 1 INDIAN Trade Commisjsion-rr-Designato for Malaya and Singapore. Sardar Jogindra Singh, told Calcutta busi- nessmen that Malaya offered golden opportunities for expansion of Indian trade to the advantage of both countries. He said India's abolition of export fluty on textiles would ♦>nable Indian merchants to romp^tf- in those
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    5,000 cafes shut
    35 1 MOTELS and restaurants throughout Madras province observed a one-day token strike yesterday in protest against the increased sales tax imposed by the provincial government. Near I v 5,000 establishments closed down.- Reuter
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    Grim weekend forecast
    195 1 Grim weekend forecast AUSTRALIAN COAL STRIKE SYDNEY, Saturday. A GRIM week-end is forecast by all Sta 1 In Australia as the na-tion-wide coal strike enters the sixth day. The most drastic transport restriction since the 23,000 miners stopped work will operate. Sydney will have no &ai !<<r domestic purposes and
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    BERLIN TRAINS RUN AGAIN
    58 1 BERLIN TRAINS RUN AGAIN Truck an. way irtfflr in Berlin sumed normal opera': yesterday but the RussJ threw up new check around the city to keep out unauthorized food supple An American military government survey ci: I that (he Russians had :up 15 check points bet* (he American sector of
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    645 'AGENTS' HELD IN SUM
    32 1 THE Communists in Shanghai have at C49 ("Nationalist undercroui agents, who are d to have been "directed by Ma-jor-Gen Chiang Chin-ku eldest son of the Ocnn, no."
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    50 JAPS FOR U.S.
    22 1 Qen Douglas MacArthur irraaged for 50 JapaneM educators to spend a year of study in the United Sto
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    20 1 photo. [presenting a houquet to Princess Elizabeth Jersey, Channel Island*. The Princess ,w,.h h* th* Uuk of tdinburiih. A. P.
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      Penang's children are taught to love animals
      473 2  - Penang's children are taught to love animals KENNY KAYE By I^IVE hundred and seventy-seven childivn in Penang are i anting how to be kind animals and to help in the campaign conted by the Malayan ;iety for the Prevention of Cruelty to .Viimals (Penang Branch) for a better < >i
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      Friendship Stamp Says Thank You
      106 2 AS American tourists bring dollars to France and American aid speeds her recovery. France says 'Thank you" with a vivid stamp of unusual design. The red-white-blue flags of both nations are shown as shields and linked by an air liner, a ship, and a whirl
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      Mouse-deer Leaves The Sultan
      826 2  -  UNCLE GEORGE E* Coping very competently irith a saddle almost as big us herself, is Sandra Spal(luig. aged two years lour months, youngest entrant in the Richmond 'Surrey) Royal Horse Shoic. She was sceri ut the Show with her seven-year-old grey mare, Kitty, and competed in
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      PUZZLE CORNER
      59 2 To make coloured shadows, place a sheet of white paper on the table and stand a piece of coloured patch while vou hold a small object upright on it. Look at the coloured patch while you hold a small object upright behind the glass. The coloured shadows Hill
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      WATER WINGS? YES.
      408 2 Learn To Swim 3 IF you have no better facilities than water 3ft. deep in which to learn to swim, you are indeed unfortunate, but what an excellent chance to do something about it. Are you an inventor 0 There are hundreds of things waiting to be
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      What Is Hansard?
      260 2 "yOU often see 'Hansard' quoted in the newspapers. especially during election times. Hansard is the official report of Parliamentary Debates. Only the very best reporters are suitable for this kind of work. They must not only be able to write shorthand much faster than is \isual for
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      100 2 AUSTIN 'A4o* 10-CWT. ((I SAVES TIME AND MONEY S^^ t. cry modern business need is met by this handsome Get full detail* nowfmn\ and handy Austin Van. It is speedy, economical to and completely dependable even when unusual Ur QTJk Kg KILfl C Xj| E demands have to be made
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      359 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD actress who became leading j^ [mHJ hair, found in Asia. 11, Hood L^ ■•^^■"BB" oi the chapter of a cathedral. l_ PHL__^^U-JB^— f^^ 12. Left side of a ship looking pj B* I 1 r 1 plants 18. -Peach' in p rencn tary to the Ministrj' of Food
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    MURDER
    880 3  -  GREGORY BAXTER s U'-Wjsr- df asdf asdf sadf Tnt story so far Sherwuud Dexter US businessman is shot dead whVe anviny icith his daughter Laurettt Dexter, near Marble Arch, London at midnight Robin Foster an artist sees the tiller run from Dexter's saloon to a nearby limousine but It
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    Bridge Hands
    170 3 pLUBS are irumps. South leads. North end South are to win flvo of the eight tricks against at.y defence. South cashes the diamond ace; lie then leads the dub queens. North discarding the diamond queen. If West ducks. South leads a second club to put West In, and
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      116 3 ■HP v j* C 1 Mr •jit.-* -^^mSl^hP^ i -!A»* SUNWYCH 1 I du 9t ta v# C lJ,^-9 F**«" onltM y Kov. P*"'*"" '0 k-P »h.». P'OC'l* po-MylofW p«'""«n« «o '"hTfiOi'to 1 9'« mot m tok# 7v trit ho do unl V»^ o ton ton n T son* CaTHaYI
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      93 3 RADIO ON PAGE 6 Race Night at RAFFLES HOTEL TO-NIGHT SPECIAL ATTRACTION 2 DANCE BANDS THE SV.ING SECTION OF H.M. ROYAL MARINES ORCHESTRA OF H.M.S. BIRMINGHAM FRANK PICKFORD and his ORCHESTRA also floor show by NORMAN LAWRENCE EXTENSION TO 1 A.M. TOMORROW NIGHT IN THE* PALM COURT THE POLICE BAND
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      333 3 Solution To Crossword No. 7X9 MMsiAJPlPJglEJHiEJNlD] F.P. Crossword No. 730 1 pi) 2 P 1 I 4 WOTW; b ill 8 I l!i_ 111 1 l5 PI gl6 17 18 191 Q~ 27 1B 2T TT"B 3? \^.'jl^_MMZ. w B I t 1.1 (S ,\v. .;OSS 2 Flowering ptfUtt (6);
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      114 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are one of the free souls perhaps a little too independent, at times, for your own best good. You have a restless, inquiring mind and are always flitting from one thing to another. Don't let yourself become specialist in generalities and neglect specifics to
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, July 2, 1949.
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      NEWS FROM CHINA
      591 4 MORE light on the road cninese Communism may take in its relations with Russia and the Western democracies is shed in igeney reports of newspaper controvtrsy inside the Red occupied territory. One writer in Harbin is takm? a strongly anti-Russian line on the grounds thai she is
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    Anak Krakatau Won't Blow Up Just Yet
    1073 4 Anak Krakatau Won't Blow Up Just Yet By KENNETH LIKES BANDUNG, JAVA: J£RAK A T A U an island volcano that blew itself oul of the water in ***** and killed :W,OOO persons, left more behind than a fearful memory. A new volcano island is rising from the same spot
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    This Drug Prevents Sea-Sickness
    578 4  -  DAVID BRIGGS Bv oEA D L I NE S in American papers have been telling of new uses for dramamine, "the drug that conquered seasickness." Discoveries resulting from research into the effectiveness of this drug have brought promise of relief to large numbers of people plagued
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    No Direct Labour—Rajah
    199 4 No Direct Labour— Rajah LETTER TO THE EDITOR DEFERRING- to your Edi- torial "Mandate Is Needed" which appeared in your paper of Monday, Jure 27, I regret that you have misunderstood the position with regard to the refusal by the Commissioners to refer back the earlier majority decision not. to
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    What About Malaya's University?
    858 4  - What About Malaya's University? ROY FERROA by MALAYA has in her midst a milliondoliar baby and from the look of things its parents are facing a bleak future f e w have come forward to give the baby a helping hand to help him along in his early years. The
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      65 4 "Will glasses alone Improve your Eyesight?** —NO I Professional m rvices and techt skills aw the essential aids la your "seeing ability," your l comfort and efficiency. Ii is for these ser\ic ani for glasses 'one— 1 ir your fee. ■k Professional advice Not glasses at a price." >(.. O.
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      85 4 ofac{amati OfK King "Smiler" w4« of Cow ami Gait Milk And we are trv.n^ hui wiu and bctutuct.t H Babies arc WttWag Im I little better, Wthing I Cow and Gate prr-mir ,r Thai is why Mothers I! nothinj,,' »o good v f ROYAL BABI& A«cnU in Southern Malaya JACKSOI
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    BRIGHTER ROADS IN S'PORE
    337 5 Lighting plan speeded ui> *i7ni>ir ree F, ress Staff Reporter \yORK on public lighting in Singapore has been stepped up with a view to completing the programme for 1918 and 1949 by the end of this year. k also been Parted on the provision of an
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    28 5 picture. it.|R. Gilford Remington, American State Department Kiif ducatlon 4 a 1 1 m officer in India and Ceylon, seen in Singapore with his wife yesterday. Free Press
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    Record output of power
    97 5 SFree Press SUIT Reporter T. James' Power Station broke all records on Wednesday by generating 466,000 kilowatt hours in one day, with a peak load of 27,800 kilowatts which was also a record, Mr. C. C. Payne, Municipal Electrical Engineer, told the Free Press yesterday. There
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    Pier clock for repair
    152 5 Free Press Staff Reporter U/ORK is beginning ca the repair of Clifford Pier and will include the repair of the clock which has not worked since t^e pier was damaged during the war, the Director of the Public Works Department. Mr. W. A. Kirk told the
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    UNION DEBATE IN SINGAPORE
    89 5 An inter-union debate between the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers' union end the Army Civil Service Union will be held at the premises of the former union at Rangoon Road on Monday at 6 30 pTm. The subject of the delyue will be "that the average
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    FRANK BUCK TO 'SHOOT BANDITS'
    251 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYAN "bandits" will be featured in Frank iTI Buck's forthcoming film of a boy and girl romance in Johore's jungles. Mr. Buck, who will return to America on Monday, told the Free Press that the "bandits" would be members of his
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    PROMOTION
    50 5 IPOH, Fri.— D. S. Ferguson State Drainage and Irrigation Department Engineer, Perak, who is going on promotion to Kuala Lumpur as Deputy Director of Drainage and Irrigation, Federation, was entertained to dinner at the Eastern Hotel Jast night by senior members of the department from all over the State
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    ON TRANSFER
    31 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Mr. Richard West, private i secretary to the Commission-er-General, will leave on Monday on transfer to Teluk Anson, where he will be Administrative Officer, Lower Perak
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    D-Day OC was waiting
    442 5 THE SUFFOLKS ARRIVE Free Press Staff Reporter AN the dock at Singapore yesterday afternoon to w greet the troopship Dilwara and his old unit, the Ist Battalion Suffolk Regiment, was a decorated, high-ranking British Army officer whose eyes glistened with pride as he saluted the regimental
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    JOBS FOUND FOR 535 IN COLONY
    178 5 JOBS FOUND FOR 535 IN COLONY UJHILE a demand for 2,000 labourer: to work in a palm oil estate in the Federation was answered last month by only 15 applicants, 1.511 registered t employment in Sinuapore during the same period. Of these, 535 were placed by the Employment Exchange of
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    FEWER PEOPLE GO TO CHURCH
    66 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THE emergency has aflected attendances at Anglican churches in the Federation, says the Selangor Parish Magazine. In Kajanj;, writes the acting Vicar of Selangor, the Rev. T. Eric Currie, there are practically almost no people who can come
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    BIG PROMOTION
    34 5 President Truman has announced the nomination of Mr. W. Walter Butterworth. Foreign Service officer, to be Assistant Secretary of State. Mr. Butterworth's first post ws.s Singapore where he served 1929-31 as Vlce-ConsuJ.
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    Schools need visual aids
    137 5 CINGAPORE scnools are very interested in visual education— teaching by films but they need more equipment to expand use of this means of instruction. This is the view of an American State Department education officer, Mr. Gilford Remington, who visited Singapore schools yesterday. Visual education was
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    UMNO PLEA TO DATO ONN
    114 5 F. P. Malay Correspondent THE Johore Bahru branch of UMNO is planning to hold a big demonstration parade to the house of Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, Mentri Besar of Johor<\ the Malay press reports. The parade will be the occasion for UMNO members, including women
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      259 5 Introducing OUR NEW RADIOGRAMS FITTED WITH THE COSSOR i;^SiBf* Ai^t B ~SZI* > *^RSa ssi3sv? Be r I 5 VALVE SUPERHET RECEIVER Here is a top combination console, incorporated in a Polished Teakwood upright cabinet embodying the Famous Cossor 5 Valve Receiver with Bandspread tuning on short wavebands. Th« Plessey
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      40 5 o ing Til r*- for posting surface mails at the G.P.O. today are: to Sarawak. N. Borneo, Labuan and Brunei: noon and to Siam and N. Sumatra: 6 p.m. Surf aop mails are expected to arrive tomorrow from Southern India.
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    GEYLANG ROAD REPAIR HELD UP
    525 6 GEYLANG ROAD REPAIR HELD UP High cost of idhoxiT Free Press Staff Reporter FHERE is no likelihood of 14 lorongs off Geylang Road being metalled and drained, ind taken over by the Municipality, until the Singapore Municipal Commissioners consider it advisable to adopt a more vigorous policy in regard to
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    This film offers a challenge
    211 6 ANOTHER challenge to progressive cinemagoers in Singapore Is presented by "Le Diable au Corps'* in French with English lub-titlet (Pavilion, next w< -*k > You will notice, if you are not too enthralled with the story the different treatment In taking fadeout shots, and In
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    CHEAPTER PETROL
    31 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— The new prices of petrol and kerosene oil announced yesterday by Shell Company will also apply in the Federation. I new price makes petrol rents cheaper.
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    DANCE GIRLS ROBBED IN BACK LANE
    113 6 Free Press Stall Reporter PENANG, Fri. TWO Chinese who said they were waiting in a back lane to be introduced to two girls were today sent to prison for highway robbery. Tan Lye Hock and Ooi Beng Chew denied that they held up two
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    Singapore shipping
    99 6 SHIPS in poit alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: DoiliLs (31-32). Ruya (33-34), Maetsuycker (36). Bentong (38). Bp.ku (40-41). Nnuw Holland (42-43.1 West Wharf: Dilwara fl-2>. Kampar (4-5). President Polk (6--7). Sloterdijk «8-9), Kajang (13), Kertosono (15-16). Empire Dock: Brarieverett (It*
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    MURDER TRIAL
    57 6 IPOH. Fri. Twenty- two year old George Fredrick Leonard Ewin. a British police sergeant, was charged in the Assize Court yesterday on a charge of murdering a six-year-old Chinese girl, Lai Ah I Mooi, at the sth Mile. Jelapang Road, on June 8. Ewin claimed trial and hearing
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    What's on in town
    119 6 CAPITOL: "Rope" Stars James Stewart. John Dall, Farley Granger, Sir Cedrie II irdwieke. Constance ColUef and Joan Chandler. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Midnight: "When My Bab] Smiles At Me." with Betty Grahle and Dan Diiley. Technicolor. PAVILION Life and Doath of Col. Blimp," in Technicolor with
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    DINNER PARTY
    75 6 picture. MR and Mrs. Loh Heng Kee, who were married in Hong Kong recently, gave a dinner party to their Sin&anore friends last Thursday. The picture shows the main fabfe (from !eft> Mr. Yap Kiat Serf, Mi Henry Yap. Madam Yap, Miss Yap, Mrs. Loh Hcng Kee, Mr.
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    Fresh easing of prices
    280 6 asdfa sdfs dfs dfsdf LONDQ fiAITIOX and hesitant > V; the London Stock Exchange Reuters financial focrmnndtm prevailed for the greuln part „i u,, prices were slightly easier ui Operators wen V markets to their own < whilst awaiting developrm In the endeavours to arrive at
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    N.Y. STOCKS IN NEW ADVANCE
    7 6 N.Y. STOCKS IN NEW ADVANCE c I
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      194 6 phone W A HfI|CMI 5159 A^er the RACES follow the crowd to the CITY S most patronised "SPOT" I PHONE t0day ,00. 0p. .30 GREAT WORLD CABARET Lstday"^ HnONE mans HANDS KOI»I IS A DBA DMT WtoNW. r a, 1.-Jn* SSPsT*^~^' *I (MALAYA'S LARGEST BALLROOM) Dromofic Court Scenes As I
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      213 6 ds fasdf asdfasdf d SINGAPORE (BLI'E NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from K.L. at 10 a.m. TODAY 10 New.< from Kuala Lumpur; 1 Programme Summary; 1.02 Dance music by Skinny Ellis Orchestra; 1.30 Time Signal News; 145 Weekly Singapore Share Market Report; 150 Album of Harmony; 2.10 Racing
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      220 6 News in French iBEC) 7.30 Eng- lish: News Comment; 'I Speak for Myself— by Pichard Hughes; EngMsh Lesson '830 8.00 Siamese: Programme Sr News. 8.15 Siamese BBC). 8 30 News (Eng-lish-BBC >. 8.45 Dutch (880. 8.45 Dutch (BBC 9.00 Kuoyu (BBC). 930 Burmese (880. 9.45 English: News Rubber Prices; 10.00
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    YEAR-OLDS MAY SCORE TODAY
    294 7 YEAR-OLDS MAY SCORE TODAY Latest hints from track r^ T Ff *e Press Racing Correspondent fHL two-year-olds Baroda Prince, Princess *u o i u "J 1 M «sketeer were freely tipped on the Bukit Timah racecourse this morning as being very good things for the opening day's races of the
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    553 7 OELOW is given the card of events for today's races 9 at Bukit Tiinah. The double tote will be on races five and eight and the big sweep will be drawn on race seven. 3right Rocket, Mayloong, D.R.8., Purple Knight Spring Up and Austerity Maid have been scratched
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    Three upsets at Henley regatta
    331 7 BG. BVSHNELL and R. D. Burnell, the Olympic double sculls champions, were eliminated in the semi-finals of the event at the Henley Royal Regatta yesterday. Their conquerers were E. W. Parsnea and A. Larsen, of Denmark, who not only gained their revenge for their defeat
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    COLLEGES AND JOHORE DRAW
    64 7 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAH'ttJ. Sat. fOHORE drew with the J Combined Colleges. Singapore, in their two-day cricket match which ended here yesterday. Scores: Johore 132 and /0 i (Kailasapabthy 3 for 12. Bhupalan 2 for 6, Schubert 3 fOI 23): Colleges 137 (Schubert 43,
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    B.O.D.C.A. BEAT SHELL S.C.
    120 7 I^HE 8.0.D. Civilian Association beit Shell Sports, Club 4-3 in a friendly badminton match played lat the Victoria School Hall on Wednesday Results (BODCA player«: mentioned first) were: Singles: Andrew Tan lost to Ismail bin MArjan l*»-Wi jT eo Boon EJig beat Choo Piang iLim 15-9,
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    RUMOURS OF TURNING 'PRO'
    138 7 pROM the early days of the Wimbledon championship, particularly when Jaroslav Drobny und Ted Schroeder emerged for the final, reports had been flying around that both would join the da] ranks. la some quarters it was even stated very •onfldently that whoever won would definitely take
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    NEPAL CUP
    30 7 rE opening game in the Nepal Cup soccer competition for Gurkha units will be played in Kluang today. The teams are 1/10 Gurkha Rifles and 1/2 Gurkha Rifles.
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    C.A. half-backs shine in Cup-tie
    442 7  -  CRUSADER By Singapore Chinese 6; Johore Chinese 1. A FINE display by the C.A. half-back line— Tian Chye, Hee Jong and Hoon Leong paved the way to a 6 l victory for the Singapore Chinese over the Johore Chinese in their M.C.F.A. Cup encounter at
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    18 7 TED SCHROEDER, winner of this year's Wimbledon men's singles tennis championship. He beat Drobney in the final yesterday.
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    Colonials v. S.R.C.
    70 7 TiHE Co'.onials C.C team for the tournament match against the B.R.C. tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Hong Urn Green vill be chosen from: W. Ratnayike (capt): G. Woodford: L. Boudville; O. N. i Woodhull; F. Chopard; Lee Seng Kim; D. Miller; J. c. Cooke: Tham Koon Poh;
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    UK BOXERS BEATEN
    109 7 BRITISH boxers acre outpointed bv South Africans In the main bouts at Umbilo Stadium, Durban, las i night, both V. Hawkins, former British middle a eight champion and Ronnie Clayton, British and Empire featherweight titleholder, having verdicts given against them. George Angelo 1 1st. 41b.), Sou Ii
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    A.C.S. may take chess honours
    129 7 rj'HE Chess Clubs first team spoilt their chances in the Chess League when they lost to their stcond team by 2'<i to 3'*. As the mfltch bc'ween the An-glo-Chine** School and the Colleges I was postponed. A.C.S. are In a vtrong position, hiving conceded only
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    MRS. MENZIES TO LEAD CUP SIDE
    72 7 MRS. M. Menzies will captain the British Wightman Cup team to meet America on Sept. 9 and 10 and which uT.I also play in the American lawn tennis championships. The other members of the team are Mrs. N. W. Blair, Mrs. B. E. Hilton,
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    29 7 npHE Hong Kong University 1 Alumni (Singapore branch) beat \i\p visiting t*am from Hong Kong University by seven games to two at t^nni s at Rafflos College cour:s yesterday*
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    MIDDLESEX JOIN YORKS IN LEAD
    317 7 A WIN over lowly-placed Lancashire sent Middlesex to the top of the county championship cricket table with 83 point*. They now share that position with Yorkshire, who could only manage to take first innings points 2 Sussex. With 12 games plaved. Yorkshire have a game
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      95 7 Today's sport RACING: First Day, S.T.C. July Mtng Bukit Tlmah 2.15 p.m. CRICKEI: Victoria Sch. 0.8.A. A.C.S.O.B^*.— VictorU frnd; 5.A.0.8.A. v. R. 1. 0.8.A. Farrer Park (Evan Wong Shield): K.R.C. v. S.C.C— S.C.C; S.C.C. t. SheU S.C— S.C.C: I.A. t. Non-Benders 1. A.; S.C.R.C v. REME Base U'hsop —S.C.R.C; St.
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    BIRTH
    25 8 YARROW. On 30th June 1949 nt The Oeneral Hospital Johore Bahru to Paula (nee Douetil; wife of Colin D. Yarrow— a daughter (Carin Francis.')
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    DEATH
    57 8 WIFE OF A. SHAIK AHAMED passed away peacefully at her home No. 38. Paterson Road Singapore, yesterday a.m. She leaves behind several children and grand-children. The late Mrs. A. Shaik Ahamed is the i jhter of late Serang Mohd. Yusoff of Singapore Harbour and daughter-in-law of late Serang Sayna
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    40 8 MR. A. SHAIK AHAMED and v wish to thank all friends :incl 'relatives who has kindly n assistance, lent cars anJ lorries, s*^nt wreaths and letters of condolence, on the occasion of (.•<» death of Mrs. A. Shaik Ah uned.
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    CHINA FLOODS HALT RED PUSH
    373 8 Canton more optimistic HONG KONG, Saturday. t»HE Chinese Communist drive to the South, now bogged down by extensive floods in the angtse Valley, is widely believed to have been postponed until September. Reports of this respite for the Nationalists coincided with a statement in Washington
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    60 8 photo The University of Southern Talifornia's new diving bell, called the benthoscope, is here seen beinjf lowered into deep water at Long Beach, Cal. on its initial descent into the sea. It is four-and-a-half feet in diameter, made of thick cast steel and suspended by a steel rope to enable
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    Russian war plan secrecy
    120 8 Russian war plan secrecy TOKYO, Saturday. RUSSIA is taking extraordinary precautions to keep her military preparations in the Far East secret, according to some of the repatriates returning to Japan from Siberia. Japanese war prisoners leaving the Russian port of Nahodka were stripped even of casual clippings from Ninon Shimbun
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    Czechs group against Govt.
    58 8 VIENNA, Sat. PARTISAN bands are being formed in Czechoslovakia to fight, for the Catholic Church against the Communist Government. accordIng to a diplomatic source here. Many field gendarmerie officials are said to have joined the group known as the "White Partisans." The movemennt is said to
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    Burma rebel reverses
    85 8 Burma rebel reverses RANGOON, Sat. THE Burmese Government last night claimed new successes against Communist and Karen rebel forces in widely-separated areas northeast and north-west of Rangoon. Government troops occupied Htongyi. railway town midwav between Rangoon and Pegu: captured 12 Communist -held villa* e.s in ihe Tharawa^dy district to the
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    18 DIE IN AIR CRASH
    21 8 Eighteen people were killeci when a DC. -3 aircraft crashed yesterday eight miles from Perth A.P.
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    U.K. REJECTS OFFER
    20 8 Britain has turned down an Indian offer of sugar because the Indian price was too high. Reuter
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    BERLIN FACES BANKRUPTCY
    31 8 BERLIN is threatened with Municipal bankruptcy, a budget deficit of 321 million marks lU.fl $6,300,000) faces the Allied-recognised C.ty Government, just as its railway strike troubles ended A.P.
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    WORLD DROP IN PRODUCTION
    48 8 THE United Nations Bulletin of Statistics yesterday reported the first quarterly decline in world industrial production since the end of the war. Output for the first three months of 1949 was 14 per cent be'ow production in th« last quarter of 1948. A. P.
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    Smuggling of emigrants
    87 8 kN immigration smuggling ring plying its illegal trade between Amoy and Manila, and possibly also to Malaya, was disclosed to ihc Manila authorities yesterday by a Chinese immigration broker identified by the constabulary as Richard Dee, in a confession made before Government investigators. Dee. said to be
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    Jap 'dollar' trade to be attacked
    197 8 TOKIO, Saturday. [XFORMED sources expect that Japan's post-war classifications as a "dollar bloc" country in foreign trade will be challenged when the British Commonwealth-Japan trade talks open here on July 18. The sterling area trade representatives are expected jointly to ask for .a revision
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    STOLE SECRETS FOR RUSSIA
    39 8 lUDIT7I COF^AN. a U.S. Justice Department employee sentenced in Washington yesterday from 40 months to 10 years in prison for stealing Government secrets for Russia, has been released on U.5520.000 bail. She is appealing. A.P.
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    Pakistan Jews go to Israel
    59 8 A JEWISH party of about 12 men. women and children If migrating from Pakistan to Israel in July. There are about 400 Jews in Karachi and this is the first contingent to migrate. They include business people who have been there for years. They say
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    RUBBER STRIKE
    28 8 Three trade union organisations in Colombo decided at a joint meeting yesterday to call a one-day protest strike of 50,000 rubber workers on July 15. Reuter
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    Banzai shout drove him off
    53 8 MANILA. Saturday. PRESIDENTIAL candidate Jose P. Laurel, who headed the puppet Philippine government du>- :ig the Japanese icartime regime, quit the platform n the middle of a campaign speech near Manila lest night ichen hecklers raLed a Japanese flag and -honied "Banzai." Police look precautions
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    LOAN FOR INDIA
    26 8 The first instalment of a World Bank loan "in the region of $125,000,000'- will be available to India In about two months. Reuter
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    Jail rather than tell
    58 8 MANILA, Sat. HIS appeal having: been rejected, a 40-day imprisonment term imposed by the Supreni" Court on Angel .1. Parazo, a local reporter, h:is heuun. Parazo was sentenced by the high tribunal for contempt of court for refusiiiß to divulge the source of informaiion resardinfc a
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    Cyrenaican chief
    30 8 Cyr en aican chief The Emir fchis el Senussl. recently recognised by the British Government as head of an internal government in Cyrenaica. is to visit London ihis month. Reuter
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    NEW OIL STRIKE
    23 8 Ine Sur.-na Oil itomp announced her ,y that oil hart been struck at Chakwal welt, i^nr R-f alplndi. Pakistan Reuter
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    Plan for world economic parley
    159 8 Plan for world economic parley PARIS, Saturday. rpHE Eire External A Affairs Minister, Mr. Sean Macßride, has submitted a plan for a world economic conference to the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (0.E.E.C.), It is learned here. The Consultative Council of the O.E.E.C. is probably meetIng at the beginning of
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    ILO BACKS TRUMAN AID PLAN
    129 8 ILO BACKS TRUMAN AID PLAN GENEVA. Sat. THE United Nations International Labour Organisation yesterday passed a resolution favouring an "expanded programme" of technical assistance in line with President Truman's recommendations for undeveloped regions, including Asian territories. A report adopted by the I L.O. conference here said the urogramme ••.should contribute
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    MACDONALD ON 'ARSITY ROLE
    273 8 'FIU: Free Press has received the following letter A from the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac-Donald: I should like to correct a mis-report which appeared in your account of the speech which 1 delivered at the Graduation Day Ceremony at Raffles College on Wednesday. I realise thaf
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