The Singapore Free Press, 16 July 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, SATURDAY. JULY 16, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    BRITISH RUBBER PACT PLAN
    334 1 71 T 1 Ma Lay a puts her case i uvJ/At l r ?.f Staff Correspondent will be asked to conclude new international agreements on rubber and tin as a result of proposals made at yesterday's meeting of the Commonwealth Finance .Ministers. Larger rubber purchases From
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    50,000 Colony voters
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    Markets rise despite crisis
    139 1 LONDON, Saturday. THKKK was no indication on the London Stock 1 Exchange yesterday that Britain had a crisis or a dock strike or any other unpleasantness, says Heuter's financial editor. British industrial shares scored their sixth msecutive advance, raising their index to the test level since
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    New Berlin traffic checks
    43 1 v, ASHINGTON. Sat. ATTORNEY General Tom r\ Clark said yesterday that rte Federal Bureau of Invpsrin is checking at least 28 ali^n* attached to United Maheadquarters In New determine whether they are spies. FBI "want- to mate I U.P.
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    360 killed, injured in German explosion
    118 1 OBLENZ, Saturday. ABOUT 60 people were killed and 300 injured when an ammunition dump exploded m Pruem, near I Coblenz m the French zone of Germany, last night. Hundreds of tons of old German ammunition, i all marked down for destruction, were m the
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    25 1 Film star Greer Carson, who was married In tit* Mexico yesterday to ('<»' K. E. ("Buddy") FoUelson. prominent Dallas oil operator. It was her third marriage
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    12 KILLED BOMBS
    26 1 Bomb throwing Vietnamese killed 12 persons and wounded .118 throughout Indo-Chino during Bastille Day celebrations by the French on Thins day- A. P.
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    CHURCHILL TO TELL
    26 1 Mr Winston Churchill will set out the Conservative Party's policy for the 1950 election m a "speech on next Saturday at Wolverhampton.— A.P.
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    44 1 Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and their daughters m happy mood. They are going to London for a short holiday at the end of this month. This picture was taken on July 5. Juliana's and Bernhard's Copper (12| years) Wedding anniversary.
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    Attacked wife, got 7 years, now to hang
    127 1 LONDON. Saturday. LEONARD Jack Thomas, 46. sentenced m March to seven years' imprisonment lor stabbing his wife was yesterday condemned to death for h^r murder. His wile, Florence, died after the first trial. Pie j'iry strongly recommended mercy but Mr. Justice Devlin
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    British to probe tribal murders
    74 1 PRETORIA, Sat. 'PHE British High Commas JL sioner, Sir Evelyn Bering, yesterday appointed Mr. G. I. Jones. Lecturer m Antnro- pology at Cambridge University to inquire into the ■ignlflc;.«nce of the recent large number of murders m Basutoland. The increase is believed to be directly
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    ATLANTIC PACT
    25 1 THE U.S. Senate lias agreed to vote on the North Atlantic Pact next Thursday. Senate leaders are confident the pact, will be approved.
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    RACEHORSE OWNERS' WORRIED
    181 1 Pice Pres> Staff Reporter RACEHORSE owners are alarmed by reports that their latest importations will not be registered by the Straits Racing Association. The Association on May -1 this year partially lifted us ban on the importation of race hnrses to allow of the importation of 80
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    24 COAL TRAINS GOING TO SYDNEY
    135 1 NEWCASTLE, Saturday. 'TWENTY four trains carrying about 8.000 tons of coal from northern New South Wales pitheads arrived here last night on the way to Sydney. The coal, which has been standing idle m trucks since the strike began on 27 June, is urgently
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    NEW DEMAND BY DOCKERS
    234 1 LONDON, Saturday. I ABOIK Ministry negotiators met dockers' leaders J last night m an effort to end the strike which is paralysing the Port of London, but the dockers asked the Ministry to settle first the Canadian seamen's dispute which led to the dock strike. The
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    Twelve villages washed away
    78 1 NEW DELHI. 8 t\,m.vk Tillages Dear P JL ala, 14<» milea North <>i L> 1 l;.iv,. been washed away by floor! > irts. Moi i.li.in 10 in< fell yrsterdny m Patiala and inal on the cil > burst its banks m placet. Par^ of the city
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    S'PORE DRUMS IN U.K. PARADE
    82 1 DRUMS which wen lost fti the fall of Singapore and latei recovered by a woman Red Crou welfare officer win head the parade In Cambridge tomorrow when Freedom Wisbech, is conferred on the Cambridgeshire Eteflmeni now tlie 629 th Llfcht AntiAlrcrtfi Rrgmvnt, R Artillery. The
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    Indo-Pakistan Mater query
    49 1 PAKISTAN and India are discuss sharing water J supplies, it was authoritatively learned yesterday. Representatives will probably meet In New Delhi on Aug. 4. Indian agreement to give Pakistan a fair share of water was regarded as essential to the prospern p of Pak'* tan. Reuter
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    Territorials on Rhine
    42 1 The first British :erritoriaU to train abroad m peace time i left Germany yesterday for Britain. As an experiment the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders carried out their a:nuai fortnight's training with f he British Army r»f thp Rhine A.P.
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    U.K. MAY GET A-BOMB SECRET
    172 1 U.K. MAY GET A-BOMB SECRET WASHINGTON, FrL OECRET talks between Pre* sident Truman and high officials last night weTe od the question of giving Britain technical information about the production of atomic bombs. It was learned unofficially today. No decision was made at the conference, which wa* called because the
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    Japan 'rapidly recovering'
    83 1 TOKYO. Saturday. Japan was moving economic stability »nor» rapidly than many Burop countries. Mr. Chester FVpler. Supremo AH I immtnd i bour chief, > United StaW's financial il aid. combine the Induttr people, Wi Japans "tniljf cd,' M: Ut adaed Japan might shoi ence re-ad; of temp
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    NEW HUK CLASHES
    33 1 Prea reports m Manila yes tercay laid 36 Hulu ar.d constabulary soldier were ed In renewed clashes bet Government forces and d. dents In natangas and B can U. P.
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    Rubber prices
    45 1 »PH I\r .MaiUri roirrkpontffnt «i»«^ th« prui-i of rubt*-r (m t fitis prr Ih i at II am lodn* Buyer« NHi»r« So. I R S S. Spot. loos* Fun m bale* July. No. I X >* Ik t 1.1.1 :ti si X*. t 1.1.1
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    Trek of the Piper's Pied children
    542 2  - Trek of the Piper's Pied children E. P. BONE. VJIX Hundred and sixty years ago—on June 26, 1684 was born one oi the worlds best loved legends, the tale of Uie Pied Piper of Hamelin, the ratcatcher, who with his flute to his lips is said to have danced through
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    The Backstroke Is Easy
    544 2 LEARN TO SWIMS YOU can learn to swim on your back m two or three minutes m water only 18 inches deep if you know these two things before you get m: 1. What it reels like to lie absolutely tint. 2 How to perform the
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    STAMP CORNER
    92 2 STAMP CORNER U7HFM the Puritans went to America all vvaa not plain sailing. Indians anc differences of opinion amorm themselves caused them to seek new parts of the New World m which to settle. In 1649 a band of them sailed from Virginia to the town now known as Annapolis,
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    Mouse-deer drinks the river dry
    911 2  -  UNCLE GEORGE by "YOU scr now what a harmless beast lie is," strutted Mousedeer on Tiger's back. Let this be a lesson to you all. Boasting is like the wind m an empty shell. Be generous to a beaten enemy and you will make him
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    STRAIGHT DRIVES
    121 2 M&v /jcjC**/. pOR th< <>:T and drive tin- princi] are the same as In the rover drive, except that the ball Is hit i 1 a differ- lon. The on drive \m to a ball pitched on the middle and leg stumps, and also to a ball pitched
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    SCOUTING HINT
    52 2 gEFORE off on a out ail the equipn. and let the patrol tail. Weigh up th> de-merits ol eve: m SO tl mise on v This app ii you plan le camp F it's only neerut: heftj br.t cap I Th m by experien ke so: :ki i■
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    9 2 REW,.TRW Roaming CfOIC, pretty little C Peach, of Toi
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    The Golden Orb
    4 2 The Golden Orb i
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      53 2 "p-fc _-mobs— ft Singapore J. H. VAVASSEUR CO. (M) LTD 9. Weld Quay, PenangWhiteaway, Laidlavv Building Kuala Lumpur. Sub-Agents: V. R. Vick Co., Ltd. HOBKkoog Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE. TOMANGO ATTENTION TANGLIN RESIDENTS? SHOP 41 VOIK NEABBffI (111 MISTS THE SINGAPORE DISPENSARY ->tts O!«;HAKI) ROAD (Opposite Coal SttrMc Creameries) Teli-pho.-ip KtPtt.
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      36 2 Puzzle Corner To make a needle on water, drop a ihmJl piece of blotting paper m a tumbler of irate d a needle on the b paper which, when ated. tcill sink leaving I needle afloat
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      278 2 Adventures of Penny Koni I When Koni saw Penr- y mmm^*£~^^^9^S!& and her mother arrive hi j^* looked round for a means r Sy of tscao* There wwas only k fpfjjwa^ ins up the inside oi a ML'- \\V. f^ ./T ch.mncy *asn t difficult [HL Vviv^ (iV^fe <B^\ •&^M
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    STALIN DRIVES A HARD BARGAIN
    1372 3 S TALIN DRIVES A HARD BARGAIN k apers Of Harry L Hooking Harry Hopkins being too unwell to make the journey. President Roosevelt had appointed Mr. Avertll Harriman to continue further talks with Stalin at the Kremlin. He, with Lord Beaverbrook, Churchill's representative, made good progress, Hopkinshaving so skilfully prepared
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      34 3 I fl««|i^ ««^BM S ivJ xJß«^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i i Bft i i i IB^H 1 i BY s < 10 H.P.AUSTIN "A 40" You can depend on it/ SIN: 2M5 v i ,'M IPUH htnANb BUTTERWORTH
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      256 3 sdgfshgkhfj SINGAPORE (BLUE NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Emergency news from K.L. at 10 a.m. TODAY 10 News from Kuala Lumpur; Programme Summary; 1.02 Dance music by The Skyrockets Jack Parnell; 1.30 Time Signal News; 1.45 Weekly Singapore Share Market; Report; 1.50 Interlude; 2 Album of Harmony; 2.30 Swing lime
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      176 3 Reel (BBC>: 10.15 Lieht Music; 10.30 'Parliament People' <4»: How Laws are Made', 10 43 "Rhythm on Records", from Radio Malaya; 11.30 News News Analysis (BBCV, 11.45 Dance Music; 12.00 Close Down. AUSTRALIA 16. 19. 25. and 31 Metres. TODAI 4 Radio Australia'* Sporting Roundup Prepared by Keith Bennie 4.30
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      195 3 Dawson. 10. Australian News 10 15 Hit* from the Movies 10.30 Dance Bands Reg Lewis and His Prince Edward Orchestra Sydney .10.45 Radio Digest 10.45 Australians on Record— Cllv« Amadlo Quintet. 11 Australian News Bulletin. F.P. Crossword No. 742 1 i p I i p r wmmv _LJ IP 9
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      164 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR PORN today, you have a great deal of Ylgour and energy which, when combined with your originality, will make you a person of distinguished attainments, provided you make the best possible usr of your star-given talents at all times. Your principles are high and you are essentially
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, July 16, 1949. STORM CLOUDS IN INDIA
    616 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, July 16, 1949. STORM CLOUDS IN INDIA PANDIT NEHRU'S visit 'o Calcutta has dramatised for the rest of the world the stx>rm m Bengal which lor many weeks has blown around the proyincial Congress Ministry, and from which vicious gusts have eddied through Lutyens' classic
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    Head-hunters in Borneo hunt for oil
    1029 4 Head-hunters in Borneo hunt for oil QRAHAM STANFORD is on a 30,000-mile air tour of British Colonies. He discovered this story of Britain's Battle for Oil on a touch-down during his "hop" to Hong Kong by a Plymouth Flying Boat of BO AC. From Hong Kong he came to Singapore
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    27 4 dress in TtnlL%? hrero orated with t and a aress m the same gay spirit was seen at Henley on the last day of the Royal Regatta.
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    Clearing up the pimples' in India
    446 4 Clearing up the pimples' in India NEW DELHI: 'JMIE liquidation of French possessions m India is a fait accompli, according to political observers here. The pro-merger landslide which marked the recent referendum m Chandernagore, 260-y e a r-old French settlement on the banks of the Hoogly near Calcutta, is regarded
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    SNYDER 'THE MANAT TRUMAN'S EAR'
    719 4  - SNYDER 'THE MAN AT TRUMAN'S EAR' RICHARD GREENOUGH By JOHN WESLEY SNYDER is probably the most influential man m the United States so far ns the President is concerned. As Secretary of the Treasury this stoutish, stylish, bald, bespectacled, 53-year-old former small-town bank olhe.ul and one-time schoolteacher plans the United
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    15 4 Father, dear, let* be honest let's admit that we haven't tot the call ot rKe
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    THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN
    73 4 THE FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN pOMMONWEALTH Oor< m Vj mentl and Administrations hive not been invited to arrange for pavilions or other displays at the Festival of Britain m 19f»l because of shortages of manpower and materials. These Governments had however, been Invited to arrange supporting events and to suggest ways
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      72 4 "Will flosses alone imt>t t/ve your Eyesight?" ~NO Professional services and techBical skills are the essentiaJ aids lo your "seeing ability," your visual "omfort and efficiency. J* is for these services ani kkllla not for glasses alone— t t vnu r\\ <? your fee "Seek Professional advice Not glasses at
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      61 4 KING OF HBtf** C INI DKEN ,iusf thc3 lite runs > *'ua\ md id VM H BNB^ UK? I FOOD agents., JACKSON S CO.. LT: TOMORROW NIGHT IN THE PALA* COURT RAFFLES HOT* 1 THE BAND OF 111 BH. th£ SEAFORTH HIGHUNO^ B) kind 1.T.-(()l I. 8. H. I nn
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    Fire brigades to be equipped
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    26 5 R.T/RW .ute the ii litre fLwnl P^ st Office, nfarlj 100 S?V istfred Picture J* int tr?wn officer Mi Thifacini Ef inters flll JM Free Press
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    Term on Commission: Council query
    304 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 CLARIFICATION is being sought by Inche Sardnn A bin Jubir (Rural East) at the next meeting o 'the Singapore Legislative Council on July 28 of the (invernment's course of action m regard to the term of office of the Municipal
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    BAN IMMIGRATION OF LABOUR'
    391 5 BAN IMMIGRATION OF LABOUR' Singapore has surplus U7IIFM FrC PrC S Stalt R «P»rt«r W "bMnS."*'"S' 1 nd nskm d '»!>»»' i» being plentiful. Chinese tfrefer to employ Phirfa n rela 'ives from en na and clan feeling among Chinese communities plays an important part, Mr Bingham observes. It is
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    HIGHER STUDIES
    70 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs Since -he liberation the Government of Johore has seat abroad for higher education six students, and three have been sent 'o Singapore. picture. THE Governor, Sir Franklin (.niiNon, the Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald- and the I.S. Consul-General Mr. William Langdon. at a cocktail party given
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    At The Cinema COPS AND KILLERS
    277 5 At The Cinema COPS AND KILLERS k FIRST-ciass gangster film is to be seen at the Capitol Titled -He Walked By Night the film could well be railed He Knew His Drains" because the story is bared on an actual Los Angeles case of a killer who utilised the emergency
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    City sewerage to be expanded
    277 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE sewerage programme, to cost more than 81,270,000 this year, has been approved by the Municipal Commissioners m committee. This gives the signal for the continuation of the sewerage expansion scheme part of the $19,000,900 ten-year plan approved last year
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    31 T.B. DEATHS
    38 5 Free Press Staff Reporter There were 597 births and 180 dea'ris m Singapore Municipality during the week ending July 9. I Main causes of death were i tuberculosis (31 >, enteritis I «20) and pneumonia '19).
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    CASE MAY GO TO PARLIAMENT
    89 5 THE father, of police sergeant George Frederick Ewin, sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment at Ipoh yesterday for the manslaughter of a five-year-old Chinese girl, will attempt to get thi case brought up m Parliament. Mr. George Ewin declared at his London home last night
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    ARCHBISHOP IN SINGAPORE
    55 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent A RCHBISHOP Paul Yu-pin J\ of Nanking arrived m Singapore yesterday from Rome on his way to Formosa via Hong Kong. Archhishop Yu-pin said -.hat the Catholic Newspaper for Singapore, the Social Welfare Dally News, would probably be published m the Colony towards
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    GOVT. WARNS COFFEE SHOPS
    163 5 "|F coffee-shop owners continue charging increased rates for coftee or tea, Government will take steps to reenforce the control which was lifted last month," Singapore's Controller of Supplies and Price Controller, Mr. A. D. Butler-Madden, said yesterday. Mr. Butler-Madden said that Government's attitude >ji this connection
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    Chinese Board to help Council
    165 5 Chinese Board to help Council rruiK object of th< JL la to develop p* morracy m a iurm which Will makf tli-'in readllj acceptable tf> the Chinese the Governor. Blr Franklin Oimson. yesterc Speaking at the In iun meeting or the Board. Franklin said that any scheme of administration m
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    MR. G.H.D. BLOUNT
    24 5 Mr. G. H. D D.ount has been appointed to oflV Assi.sant Seen or Economic Affa. !?apoit of Mr S. O Burlock.
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      101 5 FOOD MIXER\\ STANDARD ATTACHMENTS The Kenwood Electrical Food Mixer it fitted with rh« following standard attachments /B\ 1 specially designed mixing bowl for ingredient*. /Il\ 2 large mixers for mixing cooking V ingredientv cakes, etc. /-"i v t small whisk for mixing drinks. whipping crtam and whisking eggs. (T\\ 1
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      61 5 Closing times for posting surface mails at the G.P.O. today are: to Kuirrgchow. the U.S.. Philippines, Sibu Australia and Chn Island: noon; to Java: 2 p.m. and to Salm: 6 p m. Surface mails are expected to arrive here today from: the i II, N Ireland. Eire. Europe, Egypt, N
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    3 CUP PLAYERS NOT IN SINGLES
    649 6  - 3 CUP PLAYERS NOT IN SINGLES Seng Khoon and Gin Sooi paired Xv VETERAN least three of the eight Malayan Thomas Cup players will not contest the men's singles event m the forthcoming Malayan badminton championships, scheduled to be held m Kuala Lumpur during the August Bank holidays. Pro- j
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    44 6 picture. fgLIND children have just <_• n ucmonstration m v Kuala Lumpur. Ismail b n Abdullah, aged 13, a blind boy of the State Welfare Home, Johore Bahru, is shown playing draughts with Che' Ann binte Majeed of the Departmr;i of the Social Welfare.- P.R.
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    DJEDDAH TAKES ECLIPSE STAKES
    73 6 ARCEL Boussac's Djeddah I*l won the Eclipse Stakes, run over a mile and a quarter tt Sandown Park yesterday. Miss Dorothy Paget's Ten- nyson was second, and Mr John Dewar's Faux Tirage third. Seven ran. Betting was 6—4 against the I ante Djedciah: 25— 1 t
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    Marts not hit by $ cuts
    380 6 Marts not hit by cuts R.LTRE LONDON, Saturday. VTEWS of the 25 per cent, reduction m United Kingdom dollar imports wa s received calmly by the London stock exchange yesterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Some of the issues likely to be affected were fractionally lower at the outset but losses
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      221 6 STOKE CHURCH FESTIVAL Our Lady of Lanka, repre- •^r.ted oy a statue of Madhu (Ceylon), will arrive at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Ophir Road. Sing iP re, today. There will be a procession at 5.30 p.m Tomorrow there will be Mass at 6.30 a.m. and 8 am.
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    DARK BROCADE DOES BEST GALLOP
    237 7 DARK BROCADE DOES BEST GALLOP Track work at Penang rree J'ress Kaong Correspondent A r Plrm 4 r PE X A^!'' Saturday. (U MCIAL training for the Penang Turf Club August Bank Holiday Meeting began this morning, when a few horses from local stables were given fast work on the
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    21 7 T/ELROIT The start of the hurdles race ("B" division) at the Rangoon Road School's annual athletic- snorts meeting >rsterdaj Free Press
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    Sparkling play by N.Z. batsmen
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    Soreboard
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    Borneo Co S.C.
    43 7 The following have been ch^stn Bent Borneo Co., Ltd. Club m a soccer match to agaii itlites" ai CV M A Ground on MondUr. Charlie Kang. G. E. 3. Campbell, H. Tan. D. Sabaiu. Moiq J. JameSamri AJls b. All.
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    SMC 'Photographic' rally tomorrow
    401 7 j'lIK Singapore Motor Club will hold a "photographic" rally tomorrow morning, starting at Princes Restaurant at nine o'clock. There will be about 30 competitors. Each will be given an outline map of the island. I her with a route sheet and a series of snapshots. Each
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    Army head the league table
    88 7 LITESI positions of teams m the S. V. A. Intt>r-rommunity i are: P \Y L F A TU. \un\ 4 4 (I 0 15 3 8 4 3 10 9 T. 7 Na\j S 1 2 1H 8 > Malayi 3 2 0 1 6
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    YMCA TENNIS
    76 7 RLSUI.TS of yesterday's ties m the V.M.C.A. open tennis chum;ps are: Handicap doubles: K. H. Ang Fong Pin Chee (scr) beat Dr. G. Handa* and Dr. Foo Chee Guan <.^cr) 6-2 6-4- Lim Bong Soo and P X Vto (—4O. beat Ong Kheng Chua and Tan Hoon Slang
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    Schoolboy takes 7 for 6 runs
    234 7 Schoolboy takes 7 for 6 runs Prte Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, oat. GOOD bowlvng feat by R. Haiusmgam, who took seven r i for 'ix runs, enabled Johore English College to defeat the IndoOvlmese at cricket on the College ground yesterday. The College declared at ih for then dismissed
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    Colony golfer runner-up
    80 7 Colony golfer runner-up D r J. BATON, of India, yesterday won the Lucifer Golfing Society's first post-war competition for British Empire players home on leave, with a score of five up on bogey at Walton Health, Surrey. Dr. E. Laidlaw Thomson (Malaya) was runner-up after a tie at one up
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    PLAYERS WIN BY 4 WICKETS
    283 7 PLAYERS WIN BY 4 WICKETS A SEVENTH-WICKET partnership ot 70 runs m 40 minutes between Godfrey Evans and Roland Jenkins prevented the Gentlemen gaining their first victory at Lord's since 1938. Ignoring trie peculiarities of the wicket, which was refresh- j ed by over night rain, they hit out boldly
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    39 7 The SHangor Chinese Recreation Club open mixed doubles tennis final, played off at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, saw G. B. Bull and Mrs. Hartley (left) win 7 5, B—d8 d against Mrs. Gladys Loke Chua and Goon Kok Ying.
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    JAP SWIMMERS FOR U.S.
    77 7 Four Japanese swimming stars will compete In the United States A.A.U. men's swimming championships at Los Angeles on Aug. 19 21, it, was announced yesterday. Their appearance against the best swimmers of the U.S. will mark the first visit of Japanese athletes to America since the
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    First 3 A.A.A. finals go to foreigners
    247 7 4LL three finals which were -decided on (he first of the British Amateur Athletic Association's championships at the White City, London, yesterday went to foreign athletes. Hungary took the first two places m the throwing the hammer final, won by the Olympic champion,
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    AMPON ENTERS FINAL
    35 7 FAMPON of the Philippines beat If. Ifatoua of Caechi vakia by 6—4. 4—6, 6—2 to the Mini-finals of the men's singlet m the Welsh lawn tennis championships at Newport lasi evening Reuter
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    83 7 r> ai I robbed V «f thi to Iheii position a( the top of the eour. icket eh s p int. tht ir lc.td Mx to eiuht jx>;nfs. ire nov, la'.j 113 p<int.s from |9 ItBMB, iht Dtnnber piaye York.' ln c. li-d I ;>• afftaet
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    R.I. DEFEAT J.E.C.
    239 7 R.I. DEFEAT J.E.C. TN A cricket matcn pl.r.od yesterday on the Raffles Institution ground, Raffles Institution bet Johore English College b> r »8 runs.. Batting iust the Raflletlftnfl scored 155 runs for fi\ e witkrt-, of '.vhirh g. Krishnan mule bright 86. His mriirigs :ik. d 12 fours and a
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    INDIANS MADE FLATTERING START
    343 7  -  CRUSADER R.A.F. Combined 4: Indians 1 T>.A.F. Combined gained their x first victory m the s.A.F.A. i Inter-Community League last evening at Jalan Beaar Stadium at the expense of the Indians. I I Tlie Airmen tried out a MaV*y j player, Sulaimsn, v. ho proved to
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    Surrey beat Somerset by big margin'
    433 7 Surrey beat Somerset by big margin' OI'RREY outplayed Somerset at the Oval m tho 1° county cricket championship. When the home county declared for the second time yesterday with an aggregate of «G8 runs for five wteketl m the two Innings, Somerset collapsed badh Seven wickets fell for 96. but
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      168 7 COLUMBIA RECORDINGS Messiah r Handel) laobel Baillie. Norman Walker, with I lety nnd the Liverpool I ronduMed by Sir MADAM BTIT7T-:RFr.Y < Purer. I In I nl and P: m. I I )X MM) TRISTAN AMD ISOI,I> x'\ and the P conducted by Ar;ur Rodainal tOMX)N PAKTABIA (dive Rich Columbia
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    BIRTHS
    92 8 WANG GEOK HUAY. wife Of s-i it, at Kandang on July 1 3th, i PfKgy. wife of Maj<"/r Drove "th Gurkha Rifit- 3 tI X L. on July h i flauph'rr. DUNNILL— On 12 July 1949 at H Ml, Singapore, to I ut Colonel A. L. I) HA PC—
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    57 8 T?re scene m a tent at Cairo whl^Tf the start of the Ramadan dusk-io-dawn 30-day fasting period prescribed by the Koran was announced to world's 225 million Muslims. From left are: The exiled Mufti of Palestine. Haj Amin el Husseini. two members of the Muslim Supreme Court, and the Governor
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    Burma amnesty offer to rebels
    270 8 LONDON. Saturday. THE Burmese Supreme Commander, Gen. Ne Win, said here yesterday that the fighting m Burma would go on until all the Communists and Karen rebels gave up their arms. The Burma Government would treat the insurgents "as friends" if they surrendered. The General
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    Czech stars as 'traitors'
    108 8 PRAGUE. Sat. PRAGUE Radio last night I accused the two Czech leading tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny and Vladimir Cernik Of treachery because they have refused to return. The Communist radio broadcast a statement claiming they had "gone over to the pay of capitalist entrepreneurs." The radio
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    Bomber crash: 7 die
    28 8 A RA.F. Lincoln bomber f-rashed and burned yesterday m a field near the RAF. bomb dump near Lincoln. The crew of seven were killed
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    HUSBAND IS FREED ON RAPE CHARGE
    141 8 HUSBAND IS FREED ON RAPE CHARGE LONDON. Sat. A JURY here acquitted Edward Clarke yesterday of a charge of raping his ov. n wife. Clarke, a 35-year-old truck driver, admitted making love to his estranged wife, but said she was willing. The wife's version was different. She said that Clarke
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    RIVAL CLAIMS TO CELESTIA
    174 8 SYDNEY. Saturday. pRLIT Salesman Leo Brandt, of Newton a naturalised British subject who came to Australia 11 years ago from Harbin, has announced that he is "the only legal owner of all space past the earth's atmosphere and that nobody may travel into space without my
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    50 8 announcement tha- a s>:ei »tiike had been averted for a' least 60 days helped the New York Stack Exchange more or less to eliminate early losses that had ranged up to one dollar. Technical ronfilderations and rhe approaching week-end weir held partly responsible for the *uri« setback.- Reuter
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    China Sea exercises
    28 8 Joint US Navy- Air Fbrce exorcises will be held m the i China Sea, west of Luzon, for about, two weeks beginning July 18.- U.P.
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    RED CHINA ASKS RUSSIAN AID
    299 8 Mao hits at foreigners LONDON, Saturday. THE Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, declared m yesterday's issue of the Cominform journal m Bucharest that "Chinese and foreign reactionaries" must be destroyed before Communist China can resume commercial and diplomatic relations with foreigners. Victory was impossible without
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    3,420,000 are taken prisoner
    67 8 A CHINESE Communist army communique de- clared that the Chinese NaI tlonalists lost 5.691.400 men during the past three years of I civil war. Of this total, 3.420,--000 were prisoners of war The Communists are now m occupation of over 50 per cent of China with
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    Pest menaces P.I. rice crop
    74 8 MANILA, Sat. A PLAGUE of caterpillars known as 'army worms" is threatening rice crops m Central Luzon, Philippines, an official announcement says. Ravages have increased to such an extent m the past few days that President Elpidio Quirino, after a meeting of the Combined Cabinet
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    60-DAY STEEL STRIKE TRUCE
    52 8 A MAJOR United States steel strike was averted at th<* last minute yesterday when all the "big three" steel corporations accepted President Truman's plan for a 60-day truce and a fact-finding panel to seek a solution to the wag»? dispute. The workers' union had already accepted
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    An expert liar sought
    111 8 4 ST. LOI'IS firm is advertising lor a salesman who M r m "st b e a super-salesman, an expert drivor. talker, liar, hunter, fisherman, dancer, traveller, bridge-player, poker player. golf player. authority on palmis try. chemistry. physiology. dogs. oaU. horses, blondes, brunettes and red heads
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    Ceylon tappers to strike again
    75 8 COLOMBO Saturday rHOUSANDS ol n,bt workers m Ceylon staged i token strike yesterday In protest against the Government'! exemption of the rubber industn from the Wl Board Ordinance The exemp Mon was granted as a relW neaiure for iho rubber Ind i and Neboda dittii
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    India seeks U.S. loan
    37 8 Mn v ayalakshml Pai Indian Imbauad i who urlnt the United States, told Mh\ businessmen and Industrial Ists m Lo« Angeles that one ol her official dut press for ai v utn Reuter
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    Conscription in korea
    29 8 i The South Korean Republic has passed Its Qrst conscription bili making men between n and 40 liable for riMinii^ into the Army or Navy Reuter
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    CANTON STARTS ATTACK
    170 8 HONG KONG, Sat. THE Chinese Nationalists are reported to have taken the initiative at several points iin their struggle with the Communists. They have occupied islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Chihll. which i is the sea outlet for Tientsin, lin order more effectively to
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    2 Czech Ministers attack the Pope
    202 8 PRAGUE, Saturday. AS the Communist Czechoslovak Government, which fs the only Russian satellite still maintaining diplomatic relations with the Vatican, announced its Intention to place all churches and their administration under state control, two Czech Ministers attacked the Pope and the Catholic Church. The
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    Red plan to set up 'black' republic in US
    147 8 WASHINGTON. Sat. A COMMUNIST Party plan to set up a 'Black Republic" In the Southern United States by armed revolt was described by an admitted former CVnmunist. Manning Johnson, to the House Un- American Activities Committee. Ed r Her the Negro
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      7 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine JULY 16, 1949.
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      CHINESE FADS AND FESTIVALS IN SINGAPORE
      730 1  -  A.S. LEE KSH m Slll--1 bscrve s<> s—most- from their -thai il is a they recelebrate New fear's celebrate major and -inor festivals. •s on the various gods and L^ Is of the Ej o! spring, of "Ching Dragon Boat, nd .vmrand tending off
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      81 1 Norm™ rL d V ?i aQ I F^ C Press Sta^ Photographer nth^r I Catte T ell > ™*o Knows a chap who knows another type who is a pilot, went for a jaunt over Sinaavore and this is what his camera saw- AboveLlookUia down fm Orchard Road with the
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      Grousers are in the minority
      604 1  -  DRY DEN' h' ARE the public satiswith the cinema fare they are now getting m Singapore? Periodically, complaints that they are not appear m the press. However, I recently did a survey of public opinion and the enquiries revealed that the grousers are m a
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      KATI OF MUD PER DAY
      487 1  -  KENNY KAYE 1)V jyjUD— rich, black mvd has been put to a good many uses, among them bein^ bricks for houses and mud-packs for international beauty. But surely the niost unusual purpose it served was when it was used by Penang's mudeating Indian who ate
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      A day's fun for only $2.50 each
      895 1  -  K.S. CHIA by pEOPLE usually go to great expense to do something out of the ordinary, just to get away from the monotony of everyday life. However, not so long ago, six of us spent a Sunday on the beaches, just like every
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      HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint
      107 2  - HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint Max factor «i Hollywood The only women who shouldn't use eye shadow are those whose eyes are very deep »et. All others should take advantage of the fact that the eye*, jwhen accentuated by properly 'applied eye shadow, are presented to much more beautiful advantage than they
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      Her Accent's Not Good, But She Will Go Far
      930 2  - Her Accent's Not Good, But She Will Go Far ANTHONY SOUTHLAND By f ET'S turn the pages 01 the family scrap-book and §o back to Austria m 1938. Hitler's goosestepping legions had strutted into the proud Viennese capital and swallowed up the last remnants of the Aus-tro-Hungarian Empire. The claws
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      Romance in them thar hills...
      420 2 BALING Studios Is making the full length feature film "Bitter Springs" m the Warren Gorge near Quorn, South Australia. Behind this decision lies a story as romantic as the film itself. When m London some time ago, the Premier, (Hon. T Playford*. saw Mr. Arthur
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      Britain's Film Crisis Is Over—Stars Flock In
      856 2 Britain's Film Crisis Is Over Stars Flock In BY OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER Americans think, a lot of Stevenson, and "Treasure Island is "required reading" m American schools. IT looks as though the crisis is over m Britain's film industry, at all events for the immediate future. Certainly, as soon
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      Living cartoons
      126 2 WHEN Walt Dij f? arrived m Lo to make "Treasurland" (his first all picture) at Denhan: found i new British toon industry flouri ing under his old r wood lieutenant David Hand. wh< supervise the 1 now controls a unit directors, anin mixers, inkers, paln*r camera-men at .1
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        110 2 What's on CAPITOL. 'Escape Me Never," with Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker. Warner Bros. Midnight: "Dead Reckoning." starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott. Columbia. CATHAY: "He Walked By Night," with Richard Basehart. Eagle Lion of America. Midnight: "Typhoon." which stars Dorothy Lamour and Robert Preston. Paramount. PAVILION: "Vote For
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      THEY FARM IN THE AGE-OLD WAY
      289 3  -  MARIAN WELLS by rf their vegetable gardens nth their obnoxious smell r K \V Ol meon. r marks m -m mof lag. m rein n to ■its Dire ■.nd wl ent aused while DOTTEN fish is bought by the picul from the marke. and
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      'Mussolini was right,' say the new Fascists
      569 3  -  Robert Shearer by *l[ttE Italian Government is very much alarmed by the revival oi Mussolini's Fascist doctrine m the new Republic, and is watching the situation carefully. Today *it appears that at least two hundred thousand young men and women are prepared to
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      Nuruddin and Au study down under
      483 3  - Nuruddin and Au study down under Betty Gill By THE lirst two Senior F c I 1 o \v s hips awarded under the East Asian Fellowships and Scholarships Fund introduced by U.N.E.S.C.O. were given to a 33-year-old Malayan dentist and 47-year-old Chinese doctor, botli fr o m Singapore. They
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      INDO-CHINA100,000 CASUALTIES
      927 3  - INDO-CHINA-100,000 CASUALTIES PATRICK O'DONOVAN by ■JIIE convoy started at dawn. Very early, while only the tops of the trees were yellow m the new sun, and the striped sentry boxes outside the public buildings were still m shadow, we lined up m Saigon's Avenue de Gaulle. There were some British
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        123 3 Ji-fl '^4 SHOE I \\t)KK vsmm feaZii/tc ojr Bush radio Bush Bandspread Radio en.oks you to rind v<>ur way tbOUl tl»t «hon waves with e\se and con'jj.ni'e ll Hand Ipfiad runin« «.n>>mou^ly widens rhe gap berwecn ejeh wavelength on the rum and by making accurate tuning eisv ensures the progr.uume
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      OUR SCOREBOARDS ARE OUT OF DATE
      667 4  -  Denis Compton By /\UK scoreboards are 1 hopelessly out of date. They tell only half the story. Some of them don't tell even that 1 hadn't thought much aoout it until the other day when I heard an argument going on between two of
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      154 4 SIX years ago an American sergeant formed a team of nine Melbourne girls who wanted to learn the softball game they had seen U.S. iervicemen playing. Now, every State In Australia has its women's softball teams, inter-state games are played and visits from American teams
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      A 'MENACE' TO DARTS
      140 4 i^NGLISH brewers and innj keeper^ are concerned over growing darts "professionalism." "It is getting something lik" the Sorcor transfer system," said Mr. Charles Wilkinson, secretary of Medway Licenced Victuallers. "A public house gets prestige from a darts team so the landlord wants to make sure he
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      511 4  - SPORTING Chit-Chat CHATTERBOX CINGAPORE A.F.A. Senior League honours have already been decided though the pro'.'i'amnip has yet to be completed, and this season's champions are the Chin. >< Athletic As&ociation, generally referred to as the Athletes Athletes have one more game to complete the series. Though the result will not
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      520 4 on "THE writing is on the wall" for English soccer. Last year m the close season continental tour the headlines were "English still masters of football." No one has even hinted at that this tour. There's no reason why they should. Except for momentary flashes of brilliance the general
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      Cricket is not 'selfish' game
      181 4  -  N.W.D YARDLEY BY TEAM work and team spirit are just as important m cricket as m football or any other game dependent upon combined effort. Outstanding performances by "star" players tend to dwarf the need for this team work, and many people are even left
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      MY DAUGHTER IS LEARNING TO SWIM
      515 4  - MY DAUGHTER IS LEARNING TO SWIM K. S. CHIA By [T\S a skilful business, teaching girls how to swim. This, I was told by an authoritative sourer, and a mermaid at that For two long years, I had tried to teach Tiy daughter the art of swimming the breast stroke
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