The Singapore Free Press, 4 July 1949

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1349. PKMK 10 (K.Ms
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  • 372 1 'We have no quarrel, but. MANCHESTER, Monday. Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, 1 yesterday delivered a strong attack on Communism m general and Russia m particular. Speaking m Manchester, he said that Britain would resolutely oppose any attempt by Russia to drag Britons down to the Russian
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  • 19 1 f^nm BUfl Report* I md dt -ad i the Mble I ■k! ay -tour
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  • 8 1 aci to Chinkden and —all
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    38 1 Jill Daly, daughter 01 Mr. Daly of American President Lines, and Mrs. Raly, enjoys a Cot a Tola at yesterday's celebrations of American Independence Day by the American Association of Malaya at the Thomson Koad Polo ground. Singapore.
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  • 24 1 rIE Italian Flat Motor Car Company Is planning to build a factory In Argentina. It was learned m Turin yesterday. Reuter
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  • 26 1 Seven persons were burned to death and at least 12 others wete Injured m a hotel fire m WashlnjrtOii yesterday.- U.P.
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    35 1 photo. Cuinese suop m ttungjao tillage, west of Shanghai, being reconstructed from bricks salvaged from the wreckage after Nationalists had levelled the place. A half-burned down foreignowned house is m the background.— A.P. Burni s.-iirct
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  • 82 1 NEW YORK, Monday. rE U.S. Government has taken steps to see that Judith Coplon. a convicted spy. does not try to flee the country. Airlines officials at Le Guardia Field said they had been asked to be on the alert for any attempt by Coplon to
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  • 8 1 FREDS THROW PAPERS Reporter Worid I V of
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  • 207 1 f in an attempt to speed up the overthrow of Marshal Tito, has imposed a military blockade on Yugoslavia and is expected to follow this up by giving support to a rebellion by partisans of the "Macedonian League" aided by Greek and Albanian guerillas. Reports from
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  • 19 1 The Western Allied Airlift brought its two millionth ton of supplies to Berlin on Saturday night. A.P
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  • 30 1 Tliere were 17 arrests In the Federation m the 24 hours ended last night one m Selangor, one tn Trengganu, eight m Perak. and seven In Negrl Sembilan.
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  • 26 1 The Indian Government Radio plans to preserve Mahatma Gandhi's voice for posterity. It has a set of 150 recordings of Gandhi's speeches.- A.P.
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  • 101 1 RANGOON, sunaay. REBELS lost 61 killed and several wounded m ar unsuccessful attack on government pos itions m the rail town of Tadau, 15 miles south of Mandalay, tonight's Burmese Government communique claims. In another battle In the area 17 insurgents were killed for the loss
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  • 86 1 PESOS FOR HK 'JUST ROUTINE' SHIPMENT ofs 115,000 (US) worth of Mexican pesos to an unidentified agent In Hong Kong was described yesterday by a Bank of America spokesman as "first a normal trainsacloz, like many similar shipments. The Bank of America acted as middle man In the sale of
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  • 75 1 Fre«e **ress Staff Reporter rE Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. left by Malayan Airways this morning for North Borneo where he will spend the next week on tour. He will visit Jessleton and Sandakan and neighbouring areas. Mr. Mac Donald and Mr. James
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  • 70 1 BELGRADE. Sunday. AS FART of a five-year plan which Includes a "people's K»r«A breeding programme" to supply the Army and rirulture wfth gwd horses, the Yugoslav Derby, which iS wo« "by MaUS Tito's three-year-old gelding, Robot*ot that that will help breeding much— was run yesterda
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  • 29 1 Any government servant In Madhya Bharat (India) who \ises English m official work will tace a fine or dismissal when the Hindi Urn BIU btcoxnet law-
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  • 208 1 Two Red forces driven back CANTON, Monday. THE Nationalists officially claim to have defeated the Communist forces advancing on Foochow, capital of Fukien, and m North Kiangsi after inflicting severe defeats on the Reds. These claims follow Canton's announcement of intention to "defend South China to the last" and of
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  • 64 1 PONDICHERRY. Monday. FAEMONSTKATOR3 shouted mJ anti-Indian slogans here yesterday and tried to pull down the Indian national tricolour from the premises of the "National Liberation Front." Police dispersed them after making a few arrests. The night before other demonstrators, believed to be pro-French, hmuted the Indian flag rrom
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  • 30 1 Ships of Britain, America and the West Indies squadron will tour ports m the United States, Canadian and Caribbean waters from their Bermuda base thU Summer. A. P.
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  • 296 1 RAF jets best in the world LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN'S jet fighter planes "are still ahead of the world," the Chief of the Fighter Command, Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry, said here last night, summing up at the end of "Exercises Foil* the R.A.F. manoeuvres which have tested Britain's air defences
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  • 69 1 DUCKS are being used successfully by the Madras Agricultural Department to combat plant pests. The Department's bulletin says a flock of about 1,000 ducks completely destroyed m five days striped bug: pests that infested 13-acre paddy farm land m Trichirapalli district. "The result wa s astound
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  • 64 1 IN his parish magazine, the Rev. R. Kennaugh, Vicar of St. Mark's, Barrow- in Furness. writes: "The chances of doing well on the foot--1 ball pools axe as remote a* the chance of striking a match on a lump of wet soap 'or opening a tin of salmon
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  • 38 1 WHILE a former Chilean navy captain was being buried with military honours, the guard of sailors fired a rifle volley m salute. One of the bullets killed Ernesto Rodriguez, a. naval petty officer.- A.P.
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  • 131 1 CHIFLEY HITS AT STRIKERS SYDNEY, Mun. pHE Australian Prime Minister, Mr, Joseph ;h)fley, said yesierday ,hat he would rather vo<urn to private life than 'bend my knee" to the 12,000 striking coal niners. Speaking at Katoomba, m the New South Wales centre, Mr. Chifley
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  • 55 1 Free Press Staff Krporicr A HAWKER fell to his a from the roof of a I storey building tn Hokki*n Street yesterday afterno>v hundreds of people m street below watched his fall The hawker. Tan Hock fW-nr aged 34. when first seen on the roof, appeared
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  • 19 1 The Assam Government nma sold flvo rhinoceroses \t $6 00 e*\ch to foreign zoos.- A.P.
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  • 20 1 Chines* Nationalist bombers and fighter* today raided Shanghai for the fourth day m succession. Bombs were dropped.- A.P.
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  • 49 1 A SrKCIAL M*rk«t cot respondent Ihe prlr»» ol rubbrr (In ocnU per Ib.) at 11 m today ma f*n««w»: No. I K9I Spot Ko b m oalca Jun No. 1 RS.S. 31^4 33 No. 2 R S.S. 31* 3IS Nt. I.S.S. 2H'» M Tonr of market <luic«.
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  • 398 2  - The Passing Of The Ricksha SEMPANG LIMA By jniGHTEEN years ago a Singapore Free Press staff reporter, R. N. Walling, writing m an amusing little book "Singapore Sorrows," quoted the then Registrar of Vehicles as saying that ten years from then there would not be any rickshas on our streets.
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  • 704 2  -  'DRYDEN' By rjMIIS tragic spitting business m Singapore is not without its comic side. In a town-bound bus the other day I looked up to see three livid posters stuck on the aluminium roof, warning all and sundry that spitting might cost them $25 since
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  • 286 2  -  VARBOROUGH (Colonel G. G. J. Walshe) By IlTtinw When the deaw ai.d his dummy hold 11 cards m a suit and X x are outstanding the play for the drop or the esse *t so nearl y even chance that one should i>e guided by
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  • 576 2  - So I Learnt To Drive KATHLEEN HICKLEY By "JUST think/ I said. "If I learn to drive, we shan't need the syce, and that will save us 80 dollars a month, won't it?" "Yes." said my husband, without much conviction. "So will you teach me?" "All right. 1 he said
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    • 801 2 ISINGAPORF 1°'°am F the Scnool<:: -Literature Market Report: j on The \daiHU4U'UK£. 2 Adventures in Music. Current ventures or P. c 49 <3> 6 30 (BLUE NETWORK) ffa rs or Fg" ia Programmes 'All the Latest r 5.45 The Ur-iver-484 and 41.7 metres. 1? y< t Light Music b y
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    • 5 2 SoEutloo To Crossword No. 730
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    • 231 2 YOUR LUCKY BORN today, you are a self-willed individualist. You are never going; to let someone tell you what to do nor how to do it. You v. til listen to all the advice hi the world, but will act ir your own sweet way. Fortunately, you have a good
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  • 398 3 Bootlegging menace grows PROHIBITION is creeping over India and m its trail is bootlegging, home brew and "speakeasies". Bootleggers and police have dramatic battles on the nish seas. Illegal drink factories are at work, so are toddy tappers. Complete prohibition is still some years away, but
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  • 54 3 :n m Rome an unofficial Church Information Service, has i letter from a reader protesting against [ion of birth control m Japan with Allied tor? permission. Allied authorities m Japan had the law legalising abortions for inomic reasons and also to perlanufacture and sale of contraceptives.
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  • 78 3 THE 21-year-old son Picardo del Ivento, of tho Mayor ol Manila was among flve people arrested following a tumnght between rival political factions which resulted m the death of a bystander and m the wounding of three others. Councillor Insauro Santiago, whose suspension was ordered
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  • 47 3 MORE than 300 foreign Import and export firms have applied to the Foreign Affairs Department of the Shanghai Military Control mission for permits to resister with the Foreign Trade rol Bureau. The French Tramway and Power Company is said to have been granted Licence 1.- Reuter
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  • 129 3 TWO natives convicted m the Rabaul court recently of killing their wives claimed they had only meant to punish them for neglecting domestic duties, the court was told. The verdict was manslaughter and both were sentenced to terms of imprisonment. It was stated m court that
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  • 79 3 rpHE first serious violence 1 was reported In i Czechoslovakia's Church-State I conflict when tommygun- j armed militiamen subdued a minor uprising of Catholic parishioners In four villages m the Turfcanscky Svaty Martin area when police tried to arrest four priests. Meanwhile, there <*as wide- spread speculation
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  • 35 3 An Argentine -J apan c s c trade agreement, valid for a year but which can nbe ended by either side at 90 days' notice Is announced from i Buenos Aires.- Reuter
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  • 32 3 Routed Marquis gSenl waving Frenchmen IJJth! »oction .ale is JJ lithen Police pithf room 'old M s thr^uzh a ho tbf I"" Jithe French UlanJ Hp h elutting with
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  • 15 3 ltd re.l to ary have irry X and a i.ICO A.P.
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  • 120 3 THE Ifadraa newspapers have se-ved the provincial government with an "ultimatum" that ministers and legislators will get no press publicity if the proposed tax on newspaper advertisements is not withdrawn immediately. The newspaper editors denounced the press advertisement tax as "a tax on
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  • 117 3 PRACTICAL as well as theoretical sovereignty may be transferred to Indonesia this year, Mr. J. H. Manrseveen. Dutch Overseas Territories Minister, said recently. Mr. Maarseveen told reporters before leaving by air for Holland after a ten-day visit that he expected The Hague conference on the transfer of
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    52 3 The Duchess of Kent with Lord Riverdale, chairman of the Council of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund. The Duchess had just attended a meeting of the Council m London. The chairman before Lord Riverdale was the late Duke of Kent who was killed m an R.A.F. air crash during
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  • 53 3 AN appeal for the "free growth of democratic movement" m the Himalayan homeland of the Gurkha warriors, was issued m Calcutta by Mr. B. P. Koirala, former president of the Nepali National Congress. Mr. Koirala, was recently released from jail at Khatmandu (Nepal capital) after la
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  • 37 3 President Truman has asked Congress to appropriate $25,000,000 for temporary aid to Korea pending final action on his over-all $150,000,000 proposal. Congress will not complete action on the full proposal for several weeks.- U.P.
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  • 888 3  - MURDER Could Not Kill GREGORY BAXTER Tfie story so far Sfter wood Dexter, U.S. businessman is shot dead while driving with his daughter Laurettt Dexter, near Marble Arch, London at midnight Robin Foster art artist sees the tiller run from Dextefs saloon to a nearby limousine but a thrown off
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  • 187 3 They 're off to find the ark LKHJR Americans arrived here on their way to look for Noahs Ark. They hope to find it on Mount Ararat where it is supposed to have been left high (17,160 ft.) and dry after the Biblical Deluge. Ararat is on the Turkish-Armenian border.
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  • 36 3 A SURPRISE security check-up m the Defence Ministry wing of the Secretariat compelled about 300 military officers to return home to fetch their identity cards. These included some brigadiers and colonies.- A.P.
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  • 73 3 A ROUTINE police investigation of 'red-light" districts m Xagawa Prefecture led In the arrest of a Japanese pair m neighbouring Kochi Prefecture on charges of conducting an extensive brokerage business m girl slave traffic. A former licensed broker, 59-year-old T. Teraoka, and his 42-year-old mistress,
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  • 41 3 IMGHT people were injured a when police dispersed shouting grenade throwing demonstrators In the J3lbpur suburb of Calcutta. The demonstrators shouted slogans and threw crude hand grenades at the police, who retaliated with a lathi charge. Reuter
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  • 162 3 UNESCO plea for Press priority rHE Director-General of th«v* United Nation* Educational. Sclent! md Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Las re:ommcndcd preferential wire facilities for the jr<\ss. In a statement addressed :o the International Tind Telephone Congress meeting at the U.N. Edu Lional Scientific and Cultural Organisation Sunor T >rres Bodel. said
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  • 111 3 THE Communist courts m Nanking go to the hou the poor when he cannot afford to go to the courts to settle disputes. A settlement was effected m this fashion of a suit regarding rentals invoMns some 16 impoverished families. The case was first referred to
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  • 23 3 Italian police ha* said that a raid on several hundred private residences m Rome netted 148 illegallyoperated radio transmitters. U.P.
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  • 615 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 4, 1949. 2ND ROUND COMING UP /\N the outcome of the .struggle between two violently opposed forces m the United States depends the economic future of "Western Europe md .hose territories all over the world bound up with them. Last week's attempt by forces
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  • 1306 4  - You Reach Malaya Through A Jungle Hall Romney COLONIAL EXHIBITION i LONDON I LETTER By jyjALAYA House was gay with flags and across its frontage a 20-feet banner proclaimed to Londoners that it was the first day of Colonial Month. Across Trafalgar Square, behind the Beatty and Jellicoe memorials, flew
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  • 812 4 "C T O W AWAY." Every British merchant service captain hates to hear that word, but if he's on the West Indian or West African "run" it's rarely out of his ears these days. Hundreds of stowaways from the Colonies have poured into Britain since
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    10 4 "Now suppose tie drop this referring to me as Qot^cqus
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  • 97 4 COME hUI miles dvPort Australia, head;: the Ant i are two stl li probably the la tralia-England race. They are tiu bftrq mir ami I tween them of wheat and b Pamir, vldted by and hundreds of Londoners when she lay Ui I Dock
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  • 350 4  - Nationalists Reds stir the boiling pot in Formosa TOM LAMBERT By REFLECTED heat from the war and Communist successes on the Chinese mainland are bringing the political pot here to a slow boil. Into that pot has Ireen tossed a bewildering variety of ingredients, including the Formosans' rising resentment against
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  • 34 5 CALA LUMPER, Sat banI ed from the Federa--1 rtng 3-ne. It WM m Kuala al numfor 1949 01 138 übvicted of and two movgood was 983 aliens s undpr 17C fa17D.
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    31 5 Mr. Malcolm IVUciiona v, ceremony of Mac Donald Shanghai Banking TorRoad, on Saturday. 'riiE Commissioner-General, 1 speaking at the opening House, the new Hongkong and poration bidding m Orchard Free Press
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  • 6 5 land tnances Botanic Parand
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  • 64 5 picture. JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. /CAPTAIN Ernest Charles \j George Marion. R.E.. charged with aiding and abetting Sgt. B. C. Taylor In the theft of a cinema projector belonging to the 2nd Division, Royal Engineers, was acquitted yesterday without being called upon for his defence. Also acquitted was
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    30 5 picture. it 1 1 vi it Mrs of the 2«th. A.A Heavy Battery photograpnMe^wHh a pineapple-seller m Singapore Saturday. The Battery is on its way to Hong Kong.— Free Press
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  • 251 5 Free Press Staff Reporter j<HE activities of the World Health Organisation m Singapore is to be filmed by the Malayan Film I nit for incorporation m a documentary picture which the headquarters of the organisation is planning: m Geneva. The finished film will cover WHO'S
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  • 182 5 Malayan and Hong Kong students were hosts last Friday at a reception held at the British Council Buildings m Grosvenor Square, London was one of a series at which Colonial students are entertaining British friends during the Colonial Month. The students addressed tne guests with the
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  • 37 5 Closing time for posting surface mails at the 0.P.0. UxUy Is: to Java and Pontianak: noon. Surface mail* are due to arriv* here today from Medan, North Borneo, Labuan. Brunei, Mtrl, China. Hon« Kong and S&m.
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  • 541 5 MEN FORGET WIVES' NAMES Problem for births office must have two Ts' or that Sidney must be spelt with a 'yv "They also insist sometimes that they want to have the child's birtv registration ntered m the records of Soruei^et Aowit m London, b.ic we do not send our records
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    37 5 picture. MRS. L. J. Lambert gives her 18-month-old son Michael a rock m the barrel when Singapore Americans celebrated Independence Da y at the Thomson Road Polo ground yesterday. Standing behind Michael is Bruce Waiters.- Free Press
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  • 180 5 this has already been obtained from shipping arms contributing U. the Fund. Final approval for this by the Legislative Council Is awaited. The seamen's welfare centre, if set up, will be under the control of a committee appointed by the Singapore Asian Seafarers' Federation. Free Press
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  • 63 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.— Mr. J. S. Cunnyngham Brown has been appointed Commissioner, Lands and Mines. Johore. He relieves Dato Wan Idris who will thus be enabled to devote all his time to his position as Deputy Mentri Besar. Johore. Mr. Cunnyngham Brown was Secretary to the Resident
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  • 183 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE Malayan Chinese Miners' Association has appealed to its members throughout the Federation to contribute to the University of Malaya Fund on the basis of 50 cents for each picul of tin ores produced for a period of one year. Payment
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  • 39 5 Ceriuieato for candidates irho took the London Chamber of Commerce autumn 1948 Examination* have now arrive from London. R< candidates should call toi them a' their n schools Frivate candidate shoul cai ai the Department of Education
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  • 49 5 THE Governor has nominated the following to form m Advisor\ Board on matters connected with the Sikh Religion and Customs for Singapore:Messrs. Sardar Singh, Gu:zar Singh Choor Singh. Amar Singh, Jhancia Singh, Sadhoo Singh, Sardar Tara Singh, Hardi* Singh, Kartar Singh, Balbir Singh Sundar Singh.
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  • 198 5 Speed-up in S'pore trials Free ret* Staff M FROM 1 list Of from 100 to 125 ca.sf. hi the Singapore t&Slae calei dar m the second half of last year, the mi iity o, whirl hid been Ing tria. f:r over six months, th July lis» has bt «-n redll
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  • 1450 6  - Mike stops FarrSchmeling title bout HARRY MARKSON —by- After Joe Louis took the world championship from Jim Brad dock, Mike Jacobs heard from England that the National Sporting Club was planning to match Max Schmeling'-' who once beat Louis with Tommy Farr. The winner of this fight, Joe learned, was
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  • 152 6 I TNTIL Wilson and Milton come together at Bristol, the New Zealand bowlers— Bum In particular were masters of the Gloucestershire batsmen on Saturday. Then at just under a run a minute, the sixth pair, by enterprising methods, added 69 valuable runs. The close of play score
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  • 45 6 O. ARMSTRONO who !»cor«i a total of 87 point*, won the American Cup at the Singapore Rifle Association shot held at Nee* Soon yesterday morning. Forty-seven competitors took part. Mrs Harris, wife of the US. Army Liaaon Officer, presented the prises.
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  • 253 6 I (HISE BKOI (ill Oi B Hi,, retained two Wimbled day and barely iiiisn»<i fcnotl est marathon performa tllf (rta. history of Mf-tttM t<M; In five hours and 20 iintiles title, and sii ionL the mixed don: Bromwich of Au.s She wou
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  • 21 6 Oxford drop many catches N i E Missed By One h n U 1 i v I I U V i
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  • 67 6 RICHARD Orupe. No J weight m Crtrnr.u:.. knocked out Pace Banish champion m the fifth r of their fight tn Berlin Last harlng bevn .-v per lor from start to the flnl-h. This was the first p«^-t-»a: lr-g matrh b tveen n a foreign boxer m
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  • 40 6 TIE annual attlMCl Raffles Institution v I on Saturday. July 23. at 3 pn th« school ground. There will be two c. Boys over 30. 100 >a: undPr SO, 440 yard.* Bnti be receive on thr field. Reuter
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  • 429 7  - FROG, GOOD LUCK BEST ON 2nd DAY TRESPASSER By Class 1 races very open J^UUI* and Good Luck should make sound bets on Wednesday, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club July Meeting. Frog came through with a sustained spurt m the home straight on Saturday and, although running
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  • 355 7  - 2-year-olds cost punters $30,535 TRESPASSER By ,-IKT from Mcr&ereoii s Drimant riding, which him four winners, and Longchamps IPs I duel with Natural over the last hundred m the mam event, a feature of Saturday's Zi< Bukit Timah was the failure of the much-Uo-vear-olds. m managed to finish m the
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  • 69 7 TH E Cosmopolitan Cycling Team, organisers of the Singapore Best All-Rounder open cycling competition, have obtained permission from the Deputy Commissioner of Police and the Office-in-charge Traffic Police Branch, Singapore, to rerun the Singapore Open 100-mile massed-start Dicycle race. The race will be held on Sunday.
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  • 676 7  - All-day regatta at Seletar EDWARD ELLIS By IjiIGHTY-FIVE boats of various sizes and equally varied hues took part m the programme of six events at the Seletar Naval Base Sailing Club's regatta yesterday m the Johore Straits. It was an all-day affair favoured by bright, sunny weather with a moderate
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    44 7 Competing mil line up r the start of the RJIJ V dinghies' race a* the 8« r Naval Base Sailing < lul» i ffttta .vest»Td»v. I) 'T (Fryer), on the xtr I)** ri^ht. was the winner 111 1 hr. 49 mlns. 5S sees.- Free Press
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  • 42 7 ALBERTO ASCARI of Italy. driving a Ferrari, easily, won the Swiss Grand Prix automoLil^ race of ttU kilonvties ye terday Luigi Villarese (Ita!y> also driving a Ferrari, was second and Raymond Sommer (Franc wa.« third on a Talbot A.P.
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  • 59 7 picture picture Sunny Valley (Charles) leads into the home straight, followed by Little Lady (McPherson), Frog (Laycock), on tWe rails, Princess Beau (Jones) and Good Luck (Mawi), also on the rails, and the rest of the field. Frog just caught up with Sunny Valley at
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  • 104 7 Airpal Gold Medallist went fastest Free Press Racing Correspondent Gold Medallist (Laycock) Airpal (E. Donnelly) were most impressive at this morning's workout* on a fast track at Bukit Timah. Both clocked 38 3/5 sees, for three furlongs m individual gallops. Couplan (J. Donnelly) beat Pennyworth (Woods) by a neck over
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  • 92 7 Ttf R. J. T. AMEHY S Mile^ia Pride, by Montrose out of Milesla, ridden by H. Wright, overcame the superstition against a three-yfar-old winning the £10,000 Durban July Hand cap the richest race In South Africa when he won easily on Saturday m a field of
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  • 17 7 OWEN Youngsters beat Vampire S.C. 5-3 m a Soccer friendly at McNair Roac yesterday.
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  • 388 7 WEIGHTS for all eight rates on Wednesday, second day of the Singapore Turf Club July meeting, and three races on Saturday, the day, are given below: WKDXESpAf Cl. I. D I Abt r Brirht Eve* Ml j Gold Medallist «iEverest 8.11 Cabaret 8.05 Oaranos 8.03 Lady Hampton
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  • 289 7 VIOST exciting finish m yesterday's second-round iTI fames m the Singapore Cricket Association tournament was seen at Balestier Road when the Indian Association beat R.A.F. Changi on the first innings with the last delivery of the last over. The I. A. compiled 147 (Motiwalla 40,
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    18 7 Piigr.'m's Way (Mcrherson up) corning m after winning the last race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Free Press
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  • 413 7 BY CBISADtR Chinese Athletic. ..1: RE. Singapore 0. /iHINESE Athletic had to fight very hard for the two point* which consolidated their position at the head of the S.A.F A. Senior League table when they met Royal Engineers, Singapore at Jalan Besar Stadium last even\t\ct
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  • 36 7 FE Swedish athletic club, Oevle Idrotta Torenlng, yesterday beat their own world record for th° 6.000 metre* relay— 4 x 1.500 metres when the distant* wa§ covered In 15 mlns. 30 2 sea.-—
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  • 98 7 ASSALLT, A:i.< -i i' Hiint. jrwii" old th<>. of 1y46. made a great come- 1 to win the $58,7;>0 Handicap at the Aqu dv on Saturday beatmv Forpe by tlirc h with Plying Missel Ai »m uintili.K tbp ti. < I Kentucky Derby, m- I ness Stakes
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  • 36 8 TO CORRY. wile of D. Reyneker, a daughter, Karen Evelien. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Both well. PRATT, on 2nd July 1949 to Daphne, wife of A. R. Pratt a Acn (Baillie Alexander Gammack) both vrell.
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  • 15 8 AYTON at Ipoh an 3rd. July, J649. Rene belovrd wife of W. O. Ayton.
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  • 373 8 MacA.— COMMUNISM IS OUTLAWRY 'Why accord it legality?' TOKYO, Monday. BRANDING Communism as "national and international outlawry", Gen. Douglas MacArthur yesterday posed the question whether Communists should continue to have protection of laws of democratic nations they seek to destroy. Gen MacArthur's statement, issued on the eve of the American
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  • 99 8 Berlin rail normal BERLIN, Mon. RAILWAY operations m Berlin were almost normal yesterday when the first Interzonal passenger train since the end of the strike last week left the British sector for Cologne The first incoming interzonal passenger train was 50 minutes late. Goods traffic, which was already running on
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  • 114 8 FOUL BY HORSE ALLEGED A REMARKABLE upset oc- curred In the $20,000 added mile and a furlong Leonard Richard Stakes at Wilmington. Delaware, on Saturday, when Capot, a 10 1 on favourite, war, disqualified because of an alleged foul by his stablemate, Wine List. Sun Bahrain, by Bahram out of
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  • 31 8 THE Indian Commerce Ministry has announced that the Netherlands quota of jut* goods In the last half of this year will be 2.000 tons and Surinarr 200 tons. A.P.
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  • 91 8 BIRMINGHAM lAla). Mon. A METHODIST minister who exposed a series of East Alabama floggings by hooded men said here yesterday that he had bmi warned that hia name was now en "the whipping list." The Rev. Lutlier Brown, of the Millersville Llnthodla 1 Church. 80 miles
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  • 109 8 rK wife of a missing; U.S. Air Force officer, CoL Archibald Smith, has informed Sheriff Charles Raab of Humboldt County, U.S.A., that a red bearded "wild man" seen eating chicken feed m a farmer's yard m Humboldt and Mendicine counties might be her husband. Col. Smith disappeared
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  • 117 8 LONDON. Sunday. BRITAIN again sweltered as the heat wave, almost general throughout Europe, continued today. It was the fifth day of "absolute drought," which ts the official way of saying that no rain has fallen for 20 days. An absolute r,:\ r -:.r )g q
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  • 46 8 THE Communist victory m China has put the whole Orient m a situation of fear of Communism" the Right Rev. Thomas J. McDonnel. Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of New York, said yesterday on his return from a five-week visit to the Far East.
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  • 255 8 PRAGUE, Monday. THE Czechoslovak Education Minister, Mr. Zdenek Nejedly, yesterday issued a warning of punitive action against the Archbishop Josef Beran, head of Czechoslovakia's 9,000,000 Catholics, and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church, if they continue to oppose their Communist Government. He said that
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  • 65 8 ILLINOIS, Mot. FISHERMEN at Lake Storey are on the kokout for a snake with false teeth. Eric Carlson was shouting to a companion thai he had hooked a big fish when his false teeth slipped into the water. He was fust about to retrieve the
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  • 50 8 rE United Nations World Health Organisation's second assembly has endM tn Rome with the adoption of a U.S. $18,000,000 programme to combat disease and its causes throughout the world In 1950. Malaria, tuberculosis and. foi the fiist time, mental health, figure high among priorities on the budget. Reuter
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  • 36 8 Seventeen American writers, including five Pulitzer Prize winners, launched a drive m New York yesterday to transform the United Nations into a limited world government as the "only alternative to a world war." U.P.
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  • 68 8 BOSTON. Mon. AYOt'NG couple charge that Archbishop Richard (ushin& of Boston poshed them bodily from his residence when they appealed to him to lift the ban he had placed against their marriage as a result of a heresy dispute. "He pushed us out of the door,"
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  • 129 8 MADAME SUN SAYS RED VICTORY NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. MADAME Sun Vat sen. widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic and sister-in-law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In a statement broadcast by the Com-munist-controlled Peiplng radio, says the complete victory of the Chinese CommunlsU 1 Is already In view.* Although
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  • 121 8 A BRILLIANT Indian graduate student, Mr. Vainu Bappu of Hyderabad, collaborated with two other members of the Harvard College Observatory staff m the discovery of a new conic 'i on Saturday night. Announcing the discovery, the Observatory director, Dr. Harlow Shapley. said the corner found
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  • 30 8 Tho £3.875 will of John Stamford Speechley, of Bmtton. Yorkshire, stipulated the gift of £100 to his sister Mary "for her future attendant the cinema. 1 photo Reuter
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  • 186 8 HONG KONG, Monday aiRENGTHENING fears that Communist China 1 v will be used by Moscow as a disrupting influence m Asia, the Chinese Red news agency New China quoting New Delhi press messages to Shanchai' attacks "feudalism" and landlord terrorism" m India The Communist
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