The Singapore Free Press, 3 August 1949

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press f^fESTAPTERNOOH SALE IN MALAYA ■5, SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, lW PRICE 10 CENTS
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    44 1 I ICO. Cuprys, agent for a ftrm, colleagues Jennie", a 32-foot lold of a le it -bound ist. tiarge irq including Keys and ipe from the coax cage but I uaky and MisS scared to the ended on It Reuter unknown MISS CIVRYS
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    BANDIT KILLED
    12 1 I Staff Reporter oandit and I In the n'aI 'ay
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    STOP PRESS
    12 1 |;v;d at Hong l m morning. t0 .Nucf speed for
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    TIN ORE FIGURES
    50 1 Free Press Staff Reporter European controlled tin minrz produced 26.034 tons of tin ore during 1948 while Chinese tin mines produced 16,368 tons and dulang washers 2,413 tons, It was stated at the Federal Legislative Council meeting today m reply to a question by Sir Sydney Palmer.
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    GOVT. TOLD: 'GET OF THE AIR'
    2007 1 RADIO RECOMMENDATIONS sponsored radio plan VHF PnH^f n reSS S<aff Re P or ter ]Uk end of Government responsibility for broadcasting m Malaya is recommended by the Committee appointed by the Federal Legislative Council to investigate the working of the Department of Broadcasting. The
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    War on Huks intensified
    78 1 MANILA, Wed. THE Philippine government appears to be stepping up its campaign against the Communist Hukbalahap army m Central Luzon. Philippine Air Force planes are preparing the way fur ground forces by a strong strafing attack. Unofficial Constabulary figures reported 586 prisoners were captured m July
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    NO DUTY-FREE CIGS.FOR ARMY
    57 1 NO DUTY-FREE CIGS. FOR ARMY Free Press Staff Reporter The Federation Government is not m a financial position to allow duty-free cigarettes and alcohol to the armed forces m Malaya as a token of appreciation, it was stated at today's Legislative Council meeting m Kuala Lumpur, m reply to a
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    Britain wants 180 B-29s
    193 1 LONDON. Tuesday. r PHE U.S. Ambassador m London, Mr. Lev/is 1 Douglas, has recommended Washington to grant an urgent R.A.F. request for 150 to 180 B-29s (Super-Fortresses), and millions of dollars' worth of arms for Western Union countries, U.S. Embassy officials said here today. Their statement
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    Attlee at work —but in bed
    49 1 Attlee at work but in bed THE Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, will direct Bruam s Government aiffairs from his sick bed fcr another i week, his office said test nii?ht. the fi6-yeax-old Premier has had a chill ."since Saturday at his country house at Chequers', north of London. A.P.
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    'No Treatv violation'
    23 1 Britain has rejected as unfounded Soviet accusations that Italy had violated her peace treaty by Joining the Atlantic Pact. Reuter
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    53 1 Another frigate for the British Far Eastern Fleet. II M.S. irdkan Bay steams •ul of Valetta Harbour, .w ilia, on her way to Hong Kong. Built m 1944, Cardigan Bay displaces l.(> 00 tons, ana has a main armament of 4.4-inch guns. More troops are also due m Hong Kong
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    56 sampans missing
    25 1 Fifty -six sampans are still 1 missing following a heavy storm on the coast of East I Sumatra on Saturday. Reu ter
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    Chiang seeking Koreansupport
    95 1 Chiang seeking Korean support SEOUL, Wed. fENERALISSIMO Chiang U Kai-shek, China's -Nationalist leader, may 'cave for Korea today to discuss the proposed Pacific union with President Syngman Rhee. Credence to the report is lent by the arrival m Seoul of a Chinese transport Diane carrying ten officers of the Nationalist
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    CYCLISTS HURT
    34 1 TWO motor cyclists. Chan An Bah, Lawrence Jansz, are lln the General Hospital :as a result or a collision at I the 4th mile Upper Serangoon Road shortly after midnignt this morning.
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    MR. GILMOUR IS A DAY LATE
    164 1 TOKYO Wed. STERLING aroa representatives—except lor Malaya's delegate, Mr. Andrew Gil- mour. who will arrive m Tokyo today— and senior SCA P. trade officials met yesterday morning for the start of"t:ilks to decide on a new trade agreement to COTJT the year from July,
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    $33 million more for emergency
    210 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. FWIERGENCY items account for more than $33,000,000 of a $43,000,000 bill for supplementary expenditure which has been approved by the Federal Legislative Council's Finance Committee. Largest single item m the bill is $27,000,000 for salaries of special constables.
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    U.K. rubber price protection move
    183 1 PARIS, Wednesday. BRITAIN'S proposal to introduce new international "emergency measures to control primary commodity especially rubber prices was tentatively approved today by the Executive Committee of the Interim Commission for the International Trade Organisation at Annecy m South France, The proposal will be referred to
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    Manchuria to be Red Republic?
    88 1 Manchuria to be Red Republic? WASHINGTON, Wed. OFFICIAL circles here speculated on the possibility that Russia may be preparing the ground today for the eventual proclamation of a Soviet Republic of Manchuria separate from Communist China. This theory was advanced m the wake of the Moscow Radio announcement that the
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    JOHORE AMMO FIND
    47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter In Johore yesterday, a Malay labourer found a box 1 of 65 rounds of .303 ammunition m a stream m Tangkah i District, and a Chinese, bathing near the customs Wharf. Batu Pahat. found 115 rounds of Japanese i ammunition.
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    $451 pension for Lady Gent
    138 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. LADY GENT, widow of Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner for the Federation, who was killed m a Hying disaster m the United Kingdom last year, is to receive an ex gratia allowance of $451.79 a month from the Federaf- n Government. An
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    More English schools
    47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Government English schools will tn i opened at Gem as anc? Mental early next year, it was stated at the Federal Legislative Council meeting In Kuala Lumpur today. Whether more- English schools are opened will depend on Cunds being available.
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    British A-bomb mystery deepens
    218 1 LONDON, Wed. WfHETHER Britain is about to put the atom bomb into manufacture or not, it is untrue that America ha/s been asked to up the uranium she gets from Belgian Congo mines. This was made clear last night by a Foreign Office spokesman. The bomb
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    Rubber prices
    54 1 J^ ■raCIAL Market urn >p«mdent five* the prires of rut»h*r (In cents per Ib.) at 11 am ted.iv as follows: ttuyers No. 1 R S.S. Spot: loosr :<3 F.o b m bales Aug: So. I 8.5.1 33 Nn t 111 31 31 No. 3 R S S H
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    Watch your gums
    880 2 WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS lyjV uncle, aged 4.">, is suffering from pyorrhea with its resulting dizziness, etc., nnd he Ikis been medically advised to have all his teeth extracted. He does not feel inclined to do this, if he i and another cure, tie has heard' that
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    Compound stops stomach ulcers
    260 2 4 NEW experimental chemical compound for the treatment of a certain type of ulcer m the human being was reported at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association h*ld recently. The chemical was demonstrated at the scientific exhibition by Dr. S.P. Bralow of the Hines
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    MURDER & MADNESS
    652 2  - MURDER MADNESS PETER LANG DON By DAVIES QN January 20, 1843, Edward Drummond, private secretary to Sir Robert Peel, the Prime Minister, was shot dead as he was walking down Whitehall. The murderer was a wildeyed young Scotsman from Glasgow. Daniel Macnaghten, who admitted that he had been lying m
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    Knowyour snakes
    152 2 ANEW snake identift cation service for al] British East African territories is being provided by the Coryndon Museum Nairobi. Kenya. Instruction In flrst-aid for snake bite and advice on reducing snake populations, as weU as help m identifying snakes, are ottered by the museum, announces the Colonial Office
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    Chapman Pincher Column
    483 2 Chapman Pincher Column FORCING a naturally left-handed child to be right-hand-ed CAN en use stuttering. That belief is no fireside fable. EVIDENCE: The percentage of left-handed people m mental hospitals is three times higher than among the general population. Why this should be li explained m U.S. Professor Norbert Wiener*!
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      78 2 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint I Barbara Halt KKO Holl •i* I New gown fashfeaturing plunfed-<lown ne«.kI Mrs ihould inevitably inspire Women to take the utmost beauty of tin- throat an«l neck area*. 1 hi< riav call for regular skin cream treatment tor these arras. mi that the skm there may be
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      54 2 We have a very wide n of the PHARMACEUTICAL A! TOILET STOCKS of the leading Houses a which art: MORNTS Ardkns Yardleys Nestlets I Allenburys Revlon I Dearborn Sharpe dohmi MAYNARD CO LT CHEMISTS PHONE 11. BATTERY ROAD I 6115 SINGAPORE »-M (Hawkins V, PRESSURE COOKIMG Hawkins UNIVIRIAL PRESSURE COOKER
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    S billion attack on U.S. slums
    161 3 111 time In her history America appears iv for a nation-wide attack on slums, and House have approved a billionir the next five years. It should make tru* down -blighted areas" m which city dwellers live. [the plan I the slums I c area
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    28 3 I from the Belleville arena. Ontario is during a speech by the Progressive ider. George Drew, during the Canadian ii which resulted m a sweeping I ilxral victory.
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    THAMES SWAN ROUND-UP
    116 3 HUNDREDS of swans on the river Thames are to be rounded up and have their beaks marked to distinguish ownership. One of the three brothers who will do the job, Mr. F. T. Turk, Is the King* Swan Master. His skiff will fly a Royal banner surmounted
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    UNKNOWN
    31 3 I Chiang antiPacific Union .1 re- making -•'ess. 5 SLfti^o again anan "^r lunche•ough jncement wls >,7 g 5 a special wjated as a Arming a economic a] 11- Reuter
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    36 3 Ic-Vy -Williams. I ion was I Com- mphtosing by I the Bri••v:ro m I had been I "f the I it no press I ided the law I ecurI n. m I had nnr Reuter
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    THREAT TO U.S. ATOMMONOPOLY
    275 3 THREAT TO U.S. ATOMMONOPOLY British bid for Congo ore B American J2"+ trying l break the I?clK?an W y dcm and »>8 a K««d share of the •tossus? 1 ore hithert sent nij purchaLtTi^fft fl Yf-y e ar contract for exclusive And the British, informed sources m Brussels say' bomb
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    British air widow cleared
    146 3 MRS. Muriel Grace HardieBick, a London widow, was acquitted m Geneva on charges of aiding m a €15.000 insurance fraud on the life of her husband. Colonel Peter Hardie-Bick. killed m an air crash at London Airport m March 1948. Mrs. Hardie-Biok wai not m court
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    59 3 A reproduction of cartoon which appeared recently m Shanghai's Liberation Daily News. It shows Chiang Kaishek (left* looking stunned after ramming his head against the -wall marked United Government (Communists). Uncle Sam (U.S.) is shown following his example. The caption says; "Banging up against an empty wall, the bad eggs."
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    INDIA MAY BAN OPIUM
    43 3 THE Indian Government is likely to ban opium smoking throughout India, Mr. L. M Patil, Bombay Excise Minister said recently. From Jan. 1 next the Government will restrict the use of opium to scientific and medicinal purposes, he added.
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    Press article 'fantastic' says MacA
    184 3 y Arthur has described as almost fantastic" the con- L^ 101 m an article by Helen Mears appearing m the Saturday Evening Post In a fetter to the Post, he denies that the Japanese bud get is huge"' because of the very high cost of
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    Tom Clark as judge
    39 3 President Truman has announced that the Attorney General, Mr. Tom Clark had accepted his offer of appointment to the Supreme court and that Senator J Howard McGrath (Democrat., Rhodp Island* wnnlri snpr«o^r» Mr. Clark.- Reuter
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    39 3 six < hildr-n wlm leffl ampton by H.viny Itoit t»> spend Ihelr manner holi« da\s with Ihcir parents* Four vent t(i ll<»ne Kon«, one to Rangoon and th«> Other to Calcutta. I ndrr a no \c. ■cheme tkeji f«< balf-prtoe.
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    Bridge Hands
    234 3 THE deal described h:re yesterday reminded Lee Hazen 01 one he played 'n a California duplicate on a rtotnt flying trip to the coast. You can hardly biivnie Wes> for doubling the six diamond contract, for it looked like the opponents couldn't run to anj other makable aid.
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    JUDGE REVILES 'SILENT BULLY'
    261 3 A FATHER told a judge that for years he had given A his son £2 a week. If the money was not paid the son would wear down his mother's nerves by silently dogging her footsteps round the house. "My wife has had to leave home
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    French warned: 'don't delay'
    65 3 French warned: 'don't delay' THE Minister for External Affairs m the Chandernagore Administration. Mr. Chandra Dutt, said recently that further delay m transferring this French Territory to the Indian Union might result In an upsurge against officials. Mr. Dutt urged the Indian Government and the French Ambassador to India to
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    NEW CARILLON FOR LONDON
    122 3 rpHE City of London will resound with music again shortly. The Royal Exchange bells, silent since 1939, are to be replaced by a new electric carillon. Before the war. the bells played 21 English, Irish and Scottish airs. Now, the list is to be revised and
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    GERMAN DRUG 'RING' BROKEN
    54 3 STUTTGART police reported recently that five well organised narcotic rings have been smashed by German police m Wurttemberg Bad en. About il pounds of cocaine, opium and other narcotics, mostly from former German army medical stocks, have been confiscated and more tVian tpn nprvnnc Vtavp hppn
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    Suicide wrecked 25 houses
    106 3 I 41 -YEAR-OLD miner, beset with marital troubles, committed suicide and nearly wrecked a block of the city's residential section m doing so. He tore himself and his car to bits by touching off a heavy dynamite charge which he had rigged up m his car
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    INDIAN ANTHEM CONTROVERSY
    236 3 a* HE final session of the Indian Constituent x Assembly this month has to decide several controversial issues, among them a national anthem, a national language and probably, a national dress. The controversy over the choice of a national anthem has been raging loud and long. Two
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    60 DOCKERS PUSH A SHIP
    97 3 gIXTY dock labourers at Port Adelaide recently pushed a 7,000-ton ship off from the dock, and saved a companion from being crushed. The man was working on the dock when a sling containing two bales of cornsacks hit him and threw him between the dock
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    WANTED IN UKA 'PIED PIPER'
    106 3 PIED PIPER oi EUmlln* would make his fortune m Britain today. Britain's 40.0C0.000 rats are costing tho country £25,000,000 sterling m damage a year and their annual food bill If 2.000.0(10 I A single rat is es v: eat 50 lbs of food a fear
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    OLYMPIC TORCH
    31 3 Australian Pboriginrs will carry the Olympic torch across Australia from Darwin to Melbourne m 1956 if this proposal, which is before the Games' Organising Commit- tee is accepted- Reuter
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      142 3 Just arrived Lovely luscious strawberries arrived to-day by air. Why not give your friends and yourself a treat by dining at the Airport Hotel to-night. SINGAPORE AIRPORT HOTEL LTD. Kallang Air Port Phone 3351. |yf Thirstv 9 JM Wp y£\ if v lomango TOMANGO TOM Pur« South African Fruit Squashes
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      413 3 CiXl/"» fi D/"iDF 1 News Analysis (BBC); 11.45 Music: aiWVjivrV^nr. 12 00 Close Down. (BLUE NETWORK) HITQTllAT TA 484 and 41.7 metres. AUblKALlA Emergency news from K.L. 16. 19. 25. a>»d aJ Metres, at 10 a.m. toua* TODAY 4 'Dinner Music" with Decca 10 New* from Kuala Lumpur Salon Or
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    LET'S GO TO THE PARK
    397 4 LET'S GO TO THE PARK QINCE the war, Katong Park has become Singapore's mosi popular and most cosmopolitan playground. Here, poor and rich, Asian and European, young and old, mingle and relax m an atmosphere of democratic out -door gaiety. At week pnfis and liolidays hundreds of families come to
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    TITO SPLIT IS IRREPARABLE
    358 5 \i\ises to toeKremlin line v Special Correspondent jiving (or five days behind the Iron ml convinced that only the o f Marshal Tito will prevent from standing up to Russia. The Tito and Stalin is complete and ■hie Vnd this is tne reatest opporUnited States has
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    63 5 Kg! n-ho thren himself I"' -kof dynamite a I it explodI th saving six a caved -in WT..<: A second miner H. Boucher m. former D.P.s i dynamite I a 200 foot level trapped I nt for M -wed with six I the dynamite hand of Boucher I th
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    72 5 I vertI a rnptI man. I wife I was atH her I taking their I Sunday Biard that her I ay. I I ;te men be^a: I s of the thp town I as dra me. Th 3 mob 1 1.500 and stat* i the scene, I id blocks
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    18 5 Incharia year Moscow the agency recently. s ipply soya maize receive Indusmotor vehi:jducis, textiles. I achine Reuter
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    Unions too big
    112 5 AKCHBISHOP THE Archbishop of York says British trade uoionj may be too big. In the "York Diocesan Leaflet.'' Dr. Garbeit, comments "It is possible that the unions have become so large that they have 'osc coordination and that the officials at headquarters are out of touch with
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    Father defies school order
    167 5 MR. Joe Revell took his son into the classroom at Cheltenham Selective Grammar School. Then he mounted guard at the door. Son, Gerald had been excluded from the class tor more than a week by order of the governors. It was an indirect result of his
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    ISRAEL 'ARMS RACE' THREAT
    76 5 ISRAEL has threatened an arms race with the Arab states unless the UN Security Council reinforces its embargo on shipments of weapons to the Middle East. Mr. Aubrey 8. Ebun. permanent Israeli representative to thp United Nations, said the Security Council must take action on this
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    30 5 *<£^ at ce S la la Government soldiers aim their guns from a shattered window m the N ational Palace to defend the building during the military revolt against the government.
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    444 JAPS GO TO 19 COUNTRIES
    114 5 GEN. Douglas MacArthui's Public Information Office reports that, to date, 444 Japanese have made trips to 19 foreign countries for cultural and commercial purposes, and as technical advisers to SCAP delegates or observers at international conferences. Twenty-four were allowed to go abroad to visit
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    CANADIAN ROW OVER A STATUE
    65 5 dfasfasdfasddfasdfasdf J P le of London (Ontario) are anxiously a reply from Eire to their bid for a statue victoria, which Dublin no longer wants. I banished f P^ens Green, Ontario) Eire will ed as a may be bur that is not from r askutle
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    CUT SOON
    13 5 i I I-dullar I ->rts S '■< m. from tie 'v- Reuter
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    Red-handed justice
    181 5 THIS is one story now going the rounds to illustrate the administration of justice m Communist-occupied Shanghai: A youth was caught red -handed stealing a bicycle. Taken to the Public Security Bureau, he confessed and told the examining inspector that he was jobless and had not eaten for
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    500,000 guns 'loose' in P.I.
    354 5 500,000 guns 'loose' in P.I. T<HERE at at least 500,000 firearms "loose m I lie Philippines today, according to official esttaUltCS. Only 77,000 are licenced or carried by special permit. In this new republic, menaced by the Communist-directed Hukbalahap uprising that refuses to be squelched, this serious firearms situation has
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    Jogja press is free again
    135 5 RESTORATION Indonesian Republic i capital city given the nationalist Pi Indies a new rolce li» other areas, newspapers pro- Republican sentiments an' :nufTled under blanket «f Dutoh government o ntr»l When the Dutch t.x.k nv«-r the Republic lust D< they closed down 30 <* newspapers.
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    U.S. 'FAIR JOBS' BILL APPROVED
    47 5 THE U.S. House Labour Committee approved :< b<n to carry out on. dent Truman's most controversial campaign pl< the bill to let lip I Practice! Commission. The bill, approved to- 11, xould prevent job dlacrimtnat.tnn hprmnip nf rncp i iti.l nr colour.- U.P.
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    Bobbies get New Look
    72 5 LONDON police have hlossoiied out m oprn ihm k t»ni«s for the first time since the creation of tin* Metro* politan Police m 18'!9. Scotland Yard said all London policemen are hrin? rhansed to the Ne^- F.ook uniforms with tollMT and tic instead of the high
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 1949. The Broadcasting Report
    582 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 1949. The Broadcasting Report IT is difficult to believe that \im' Federation Committ( c on Broadcasting li .v nous when it recommends that responsibility for broadcasting m Malaya should be handed over to the recently formed Rediffusion Company which has Just begun a
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    Their battle school is the jungle
    1059 6 Their battle school is the jungle Graham Stanford who is on a 30,000 mile tour of the British Commonwealth gives hi report on Malaya. TAMPOI, Malaya: \yiTHIN 24 hours of his troopship docking at Singapore, 21 year-old Alfred Peters, Lonsdalea venue, East Hum, wonders whether the jungle really is tralMonkeys
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    58 6 Smiling Guider Olufunke Cole of Lagos, Nigeria u earing her nationa 7 custujnes takes charge of Geraldine Michael (left) of Churchstoke, Montgomery, and Heather Jay of Wel- Unuborough, Northampton' shire, at thd Girl Guides' training centre at Foxlease, Llndhurst, m the New Forest. Members of the movement look after young
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    Blow up your own house
    197 6 Blow up your own house MILITARY experts of j many countries are taking an interest m a !'house" developed for the U.S. Air Force and now un-der-going tests at BafTalo, New York It is a "balloon house"— flexible extremely strong, almost impervious to weather—mad' up only of air. fibre-glass and
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    42 6 Donald Campbell, con of Sir Malcolm Ca nipbell, the famous racing driver, is to make an attempt to lower the icorld water speed re- cord soon. H: Collision Water, I preparing for th, h uill be modi? In bird 11, fcmoi<\ rat
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    FACTS BEHIND THE £-$ CRISIS
    1010 6  - FACTS BEHIND THE CRISIS SYLVAIN MANGEOT By THE completion of th c Commonwealth Finance Ministers' Conference m London has deepened the conviction that the search for a financial modus vivendi between the sterling and dollar areas is a postwar problem comparable m importance and magnitude with the search for a
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    Music is looking up in S'pore
    388 6 Music is looking up in S'pore ftltin Imm t«,. I review of niuMt ni I I pore wiM appeal on t 1 pagf perj cdi is it |ig IK tl to kr< p m lovers it' tmuh with I ;i< Hi Hi. s of lo( .1) h 1 1 deal
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    NEW MOVE TO PROTECT RUBBER
    497 7 NEW MOVE TO PROTECT RUBBER Secretariat may be set up A PROPOSAwi^.W^" Wednesday. nve-yelr ruble? and^d?*, $22 000 000 gramme may be carried out develG P m^t prostated that the Malayan Rubber Advisory Committee had sponsored the proposal to establish a Rubber Secretariat to safeguard the interests of the Malayan
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    36 7 AfISS Margaret Holiday, ITI who will help on the coconut shies at the children's garden party to be held at Abbotsford. 26 Cuscaden Road, m aid of the Poppy Day Fund on Oct. 15.— Lloyds Studios.
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    Col. W.L. Rolleston
    19 7 Col. W. L. Rolleston has been appointed to act as Principal Assistant Secretary to the Commissioner-General.
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    Anthem try-out: mixed reception
    297 7 Free Press Stair Reporter SINGAPORE theatre managers disagreed yesterday on whether the cinema-going public is now showing more respect for the National Anthem. During the past month, as a result of a decision by motion pictures exhibitors and Public Relations, "God Save The King" was played
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    CONCERTS BY GIRL PIANIST
    118 7 Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE'S talented 28- year-old pianist. Hovita Anciano, who has made a name for herself during her studies m London, will leave the U.K. for Singapore by the Canton on Aug. 26. She will give ihe first of a series of solo concerts
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    SOAP IMPORTS
    28 7 Malaya imported 2.909 cwts. of toilet soap m June. The quantity oi v/ashing soap was 8,658 cwis. Soap manufactured m the country amounted to 37.882 cwts.
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    JOBS FOUND FOR 634 AT EXCHANGE
    21 7 Reporter 1,393 >< nt pore ires yed has 'hs, inci- he ::th p of ong 35
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    REPORT ON TRADE UNIONS ACCEPTED
    178 7 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE recommendations of Messrs. S. S. Awbery and A F. W. Dalley on labour and trade union organisation m Malaya had been "generally accepted" by the Federation Governmant, it was stated at today's meeting of the Federal Legislative
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    They will fly to work
    129 7 THE o.ngapoie Municipal Water Department will shortly call for tenders to clear ground In the Pont lan area of Johore for the construction of a private air strip. The air strip is to facilitate travel by officers of the Water Department to and from the
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    DEATH OF MR. B. ETLIN
    55 7 Mr Benjamin Ellin, a wellknown Singapore sharebroker, died m Singapore yesterday morning He was 62 years of age :ind had been m Singapore for more than 40 years. During the Japanese occupation he was Interned m Singapore. Mr. Etlin's son, Mr. Robert Etlin, ts an
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    LIQUOR THEFT
    52 7 Allan Youle, aged 20, and John Griffiths, aged 19, bcth of Nee Soon Transit Camp, wero sentenced to one da "s simple imprisonment and also fined $50 each, m the Second Police Court, Singapore, lor theft of two-and-a-half bottles of liquor from a nop m Sembj 8 Road
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    $4,000,000 in tax from Britain
    109 7 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. rFHL Income Tax Department's representative m A the United Kingdom up to the middle of June had collected $4,388,867, most of which was for tax on the income of registered companies. This was revealed at the meeting of
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    MRS. J. ELIEZER
    67 7 Free Preas Staff Reporter Mrs. Jayaratnam Eliozer, eldest daughter of the Rev and Mrs. J T. M. Handy of Singapore, has arrived m Singapore from Ceylon on a three-week visit to her parents. Mrs. Eliezer, who is married to Ceylon's youngest professor, left Singapore last year to
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    GOVERNOR AND CONSUL
    41 7 The Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson toasts the Swiss Confederation at a cocktail party given by the Swiss Consul, Mr. G. A. Falquier. m Singapore on Monday night to celebrate the «5 Bth anniversary of the Confederation.
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    STABBED HIS WIFE CHARGE
    76 7 IPOK Tuts.— Alleged to have clubbed his wife with a hockey stick and later stabb<»d her to death, a young Punjabi Raka Singh, appearrd before Mr. Justice Paul tttorr ii- the Assize Court today He W£u charged with the murder of Chet Kaur at TanJong Rambutan
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    MUNICIPAL EXAMS NEXT MONTH
    224 7 Free Press Staff Reporter rNTRANCP. examinations, which will determine wh3ther or not the 49 temporary clerks m the employ of the Singapore Municipality Will be eligible for appointment U the permanent establishment, will be held m the Municipal board room on Sept. 1 and 2. These
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    FEDERATION REPLY TO MR. LAYCOCK
    268 7 FEDERA TION REPLY TO MR. LAYCOCK EXCESS PROFITS TEST Free Press Stall' Reporid Xl ALA LIMPI X, Wedm>s<] THE Federation Select Committee considering (he x War Damage Compensation BfhfßM has nut again and unanimously expressed disagreement with the rider and the observation signed by the Slfi( pore Select Committee unoftirials
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    LIBRARY TO BE OPENED
    72 7 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Socia. Welfare Depart ment'i library at the children's social "centre it T oo Chiai will be opened oy Lady trimson on Aug. 9 at fi 30 p.m. The library is an experime.tt by the social welfare authorities to provide reading centra
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    VARIETY CONCERT
    32 7 A variety concert will be held m the St. Josephs Institution school hall on Saturday at 7 p.m. m aid of the school laboratory and rehab 4 I Utation fund.
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    $18 MILLION IN LOANS TO CHINESEMINES
    83 7 1 rte PrMi Staff 2C« i»orl «-i KUALA LUMPUR, W I THE Chinese Tin UL 1 babUitation Loan* E granted 369 I 51 8.460.883 lip i June, it waj dJ federal LejjislaLiv,. Co meeting; this morn: The Industrial OehabiU tion Finance Board K ranted
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    PROGRESSIVES TO HOLD RALLY
    101 7 PROGRESSIVES TO HOLD RALLY Frrr Press SUIT Kt-|,. i<. THE Progressive P hold it rally on Auk 21 at th< bungalow mi n Pasir P i Mr. \\v Boon Ha a Although a pro; ramn not yet been drawn up. t| rally, if it follows the U the one held
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    CHURCH SERVICE
    40 7 The monthly EhrflUD vice of worship will be at the Methodist Churn Jalan Bukit Meldrum J Bahru, on Sunday. All 4 5.30 p.m. The H S Blasdell of B preach on "Chi 1 ship" and t! will sine
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    More gifts to university
    97 8 liHREE more gifts to ',he University of Malaya Endowm Fund arc announced. Messrs. K. Shewakram and Sons have contributed $5,001. Messrs. Naina Mohamed arid Sons hav e promised to contribute a total of $5,000. piving $2,000 now and the re- mainlng sum by annual in-; B
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    CUTS IN SOCIAL SERVICES OPPOSED
    410 8 CUTS IN SOCIAL SERVICES OPPOSED Report before Fed. Council Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE scope of the Federation Social Welfare Department should not be reduced, it is recommended m the report of the committee whirh the High Commissioner, Sir Henry (iurnej, appointed to investigate the working of
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    NEW BILLS TO CHECK BANDITS
    73 8 NEW BILLS TO CHECK BANDITS KUALA LUiMPUR. Wed. TO combat anti-bandit infiltration on estates, Government, it is understood, is drafting two new bills. The first measures, it is believed, would enforce the compulsory registration of workon rubber estates which v mable the presence of to bo easily detectsecond me-. .ould
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    Heat tests for naval men
    356 8 SCIENTISTS appointed jointly by the Admiralty and the Medical Research Council of Great Britain are carrying out experiments m Singapore to determine some of the effects on man of exposure to hot environments. For the experiments, two climatic chambers with air conditioning and generating plant,
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    SHIPPING IN S'PORE HARBOUR
    112 8 SHIPPING IN S'PORE HARBOUR Ships iii port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday m brackets) were Main Wharf. Mindoro 1 31-32 1. Antiicxhus v 33-34>, Elptnor v3IJ--37 >. Amstelclijk SUawnti 142-43). West Wharf: Tjikampck i4-j>. Maron i 6-7), Riouw (8-9>. Karnuning tll-12\ Sirdmr.a (15--16». Kmpire Do.k Manoen»n <XIB.i. Poochov
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    SOCIETY PLANS FOR AIR DAY
    90 8 MEMBERS of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers (Singapore branch) will act as guides to rhe public at the Singapore Air Day en Aug. 20. This was decided last night at I meeting of the Society. The Singapore branch of the S.L.E.A. will also have
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    Indirect subsidies for airline
    128 8 Free Presa Stall* Reporter KI'ALA LUMPUR, Wednesday Federation Government had fiven Indlre^l sushsidies amounting tv $:{56.3:n to Malayan Airways during last year, it was stated at the' Federal Legislative Council meeting today m reply to questions by Mr. Tan Siew Sin.) Malayan Airwt-vs dir the year
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    JET-DRIVEN AIRLINER
    40 8 picture. mac world's first jet-driven airMner, the De llavilland A Comet (D. H. 106), was shown m public for the first time at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, recently, dwarfing, a D. H. 108 (faster-than-sound experimental plane) m right Reuter foreground.
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    Guardsman & gurkha decorated
    313 8 Guardsman gurkha decorated Free Press Staff Reporter A GURKHA rifleman and a Grenadier Guards r.er- geant who showed conspicuous bravery Jn operations against bandits m Malaya have been awarded ihe Military Medal. They are: Sergrr.nf B Glutton, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards; Rifleman Chabilal Sunwar. 2/7 Gurkha Rifles During anti-bandit operations
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    COMMUNIST POSTERS IN SINGAPORE
    97 8 COMMUNIST POSTERS IN SINGAPORE /COMMUNIST posters wire v> jstuck on Singapore walls and pamphlets distributed m 'he streets, as many as 100 at a time, last week-end. The C.I.D Chief. Mi. E. V. Fowler saici yesterday that two Chinese had be^n detained on charges of handling seditious literatuie. All the
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    WALL STREET CLOSES STEADY
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    Heavy decline in gilt-edgeds
    258 8 Heavy decline in gilt-edg eds AFTER a brief attempt to ment securihts Ua in v, I Stock Exchange yesterday, <l(1 I £100,000,000. says Reut< I This was m addition to last I approached l.snn.ooo.nou I additional to the heavy 1- v g Consols d previous close and yesterdays ally big
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      135 8 I*ii3fl0r3kfi Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya ">"" T* T9 faw mm *thm from all sides'^] \Thbh as all JJ] \3fc) 1 \~Ano oisapkaa JU^ A 4 A f f* OBRM GESTURES RAPIDLY... STARE -Hi fffs THROUGH THE *&MS2> rJi2&, >^M*™PHM ?HE jgrn, fflfSTO /fflSTD IM\ CEILING/ MASS
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    These Amazing Americans, No. 2: ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
    71 9 I mcl the [otel I asank I •he I I I I I I I It's I the 1 -er--1 of take I ..it's take I case I f an resume rol It Bad Bout I I -tines I I 9 he'd I
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    I believe these men will rid the world of drunkenness
    1535 9  -  BEVERLEY N ICHOLS by you haven't tried. 1 y 'Whs.t sort of a doctor is he?" 1 He isn't a doctor. He's her drunk.' i Bill thought, she was J era Hadn't everybody ried to keep him away from other
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    MR. AVERAGE AMERICAN
    409 9  -  Clifford Hulme by THERE is no such tiling m America as the Forgotten Man. Homo Americanus has been so thoroughly indexed, cross-indexed, quizzed, polled, measured and mass-observ-ed that the Government knows everything about him from the size of his chest— 36 inches— to his favourite colour, which
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    91 9 Murses jiom u?li<.c/ol Coll?y< Hospital have a clo*eup view of the 2,500 lbs bomb removed list morning from the spot ivhcre it has lain beneath a partly-de-molished building off Tottenham Court Road, London, since it icas dropped there m the 'bhtz' 'lays of 1940. The bomb icas Hi 'ally declared
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    The Ape In The Bathroom
    923 9  -  Ellis Evans SHORT STORY by ()\H Sunday we wore all silling down to lunch together m (he kitchen and Joan had just taken the joint out of the oven, when there was a blood-curdling yell from the flat above, a succession of great crashes and
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    PRESCOTT TALKS ON COLONY CRICKET
    329 10 PRESCOTT TALKS ON COLONY CRICKET 'Provide more seats for crowd' gINGAPORE loses a promising cricketer shortly when Fred Prescott of R.A.F. Changi goes home for "demob". He told the Free Press yesterday that he has thoroughly enjoyed his two seasons m Singapore and is more than grateful that he has
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    ROAD USERS CO-OPERATE
    237 10  -  EDIN PETERS BY rO things which did not pass j unnoticed at the re-running of the Singapore Open 100 -mile I massed-start bicycle Road race held recently were the ruie cooperation of the other road usts and th» apparent lack of training of most of the competitor*.
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    Always plays a captain's game
    430 10 MALAYAN SOCCER STARS...I 7 By A Special Correspondent QNE of the outstanding men m the Army and Army-Navy soccer teams is Peter Whitehorn, of the R.E.M.E. As centre-half, he seldom fails to play a real captains game and his solid work as pivot has contributed
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    Table tennis stars in Australia
    67 10 UICTOR BARNA and Richard f Bergmann, both former world tal;ie tennis champions, will represent England m a series of matches against Australia and New Zealand They played at Adelaide on July 25. They are due In Melbourne on Aug. 11. The first match m New
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    F.A. bans club' off-side tryouts
    586 10  - F.A. bans club' off -side tryouts IVAN SHARPE By I ENGLAND'S ban placed on League clubs giving J trials m their public practice matches to the off-side experiment seems a high-handed procedure. Why interfere with a legitimate and widely-desired effort to improve the standard of play? Why not live and
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    SWIMMER WAS 'LOST' 12 HRS.
    83 10 TOR twelve hours recently a r 54-ypar-old Darwin clerk swam m the shark and croecdile infested harbour He was otiii ii'wimming offshore when, haled by a policeman investigating the ownership of clothes found on the beach. The clerk said the tide carried him out into
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    Oriental B.P.
    54 10 THE following wU represent 1 Oriental B.P. against Superflight B.P. m a friendly game of badminton at the Happy Worlc 1 Stadium tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. Wee Teck Yean, Lirr. Choon Watt, Lawrence Cheah Teo Kok Hwee, Robert Lim Tay Soy Bah, Peah- Thian. Chwee, Yap Peng Seah
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    Attempts on English Channel this month
    343 10 THE 1949 English Channel swimming season h opened with four avowed challengers. Three are women ben? on emulating the feats of Gertrude Ederle of the United States, Hilda Sharp of England. Frau Wendell of Germany and a few other mermaids. Already training at Dover
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    INTER-CLUB RACES
    8 10 FIFTY Cluh D I I A.P.
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    Army-Navy or Singapore for the Cup final?
    221 10  - Army-Navy or Singapore for the Cup final? CRUSADER ■*> rpHERE is much speculation n u H as T h !!S!r f Bl »tapor c I Combined will qualifj Cup final a«:iinst Setenfoi Amg.Jltt Kuai.. Lnmpar rouowei gain some Idea of th< from their gam Both sides wore not at best,
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    Java tennis champion in action
    47 10 picture. An action picture of Tun IJep Tjiauw. the Java tennis champion, who with his wife won the Malayan mix^d doubles title yesterday. They heat Ong Chew Bee and Mrs. I). (A. Fra^er H l, B—<i8 <i m the final.— Free Press
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    UNITED LADS B.P.
    55 10 T^HE following will represent United Lads B.P. again.st Simflow?*- B.P. m a friendly name of bacniinton at 45, Loron*j 27A. Qeylang Road, on Saturday at 7.30 p.m. Robert Liin Tay Soy Bah, I'huq Chef Kinj, Edward Koh, Yap Pent; Seah. Johnny Sect. Tun Peng Koon, Wee Teck
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    58 11 Picture. Mrs. Tan Liep Tjiauw (Java), who with her husband won the Malayan mixed doubles tennis title yesterday, receiving their trophy from Mrs. J. A. Dean, wife of the president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Malaya, at the conclusion of the Malayan tournament at the S.C.C. yesterday. Tan Liep
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    HOW IP BEAT TAN Better control of strokes
    102 11 By CRUSADER Hong Kong showed real international the manner he beat Tan Liep Tjiauw li to win the Malayan tennis championship courts last evening. tie all-round game and displaying sistency than the Java cham- the spectators with his excellent j d--a I
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    JOHORE BAHRU RIFLE ASSN.
    67 11 JOHORE BAIIRU, T\l£S. r j"IIE Regent of Johore is convening i* meeting of the Johore Bahu Rifle Association at Johore Civil Service Association on Saturday at 5.30 p.m. to consider the Interim Working Committee's report and to elect the Assocla- > office -bearers. The meeting will
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    AMPON IN 3rd ROUND
    41 11 FELICISIMO AMPON (Philippines) entered the third round ol the U.S. Eastern grass court* !awn tennis championships at Orange (New Jersey) yesterday. He beat Lt. Charles Oliver (Perth Amboy, New Jersey) 7-5. 6-0 m the second round. Reuter
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    MRS. FRASER KEEPS TITLE
    339 11 SLIM, hthe Mrs. D. C. A. Fraser beat the Sumatra champion, Mrs. de Vries, 6-2, 6-4 to retain the Malayan women's tennis title last evening. Mrs. de Vries' performance m the first set lacked initiative, drive and resourcefulness. Perhaps it was because sh e found difficulty
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    COUNTY LEADERS LOSE TO SUSSEX
    675 11 uoggart makes great effort §ISsEX achieved a thrilling victory m inflicting on Middlesex their first defeat yeslerday m the county cricket championship this season. A notable unfinished fifth-wicket stand between G. H. Doggart (68 not out) and James Langridge (50 not out) brought about this
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    CREWS PLAY SOCCER
    42 11 In a friendly soccer match played between the crews of two Norwegian ships yesterday at Fairer Park. "Hoegr.. Silverest" beat "Mandeville" by one goal to nil. The goal was scored In the twentieth minute by chief cook E. Glgstad.
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    DRAW WITH ARMY – NAVY
    6 11 DR AW WITH ARMY NAVY by
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    PULAU BRANI BADMINTON
    105 11 ENTRIES are invited from all badminton players of Puiau Brani and Blakan Mali for the badminton tournament thU year. Closing date is Aug. 15. Entry fees are $2 for men's singles and $3 for men's doubles. The following have presented cups and medals for the winners: open
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    R.A.F. v. EURASIANS
    22 11 The R.A.F. Combined will meet the Eurasians m an imer- Community league soccer match at Jalan Besnr stadium today.
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    F.&N.S.C. WIN 2-1
    25 11 FRASER <k NEAVE Spurts Club XI beat H.Q. Singapore I>kj tnct XI two-one m a game of soccer played at Fort Canning.
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    'Dancing benefits my soccer'-Inglis
    332 11 'Dancing benefits my soccer '-Inglis By A Special Correspondent BERT Inglis, Army-Navy's star centre-forward, advocates dancing for footballers. He himself dances three times a week—hours at a stretch. 'I'm now convinced," he said yesterday, "that dancing makes me light on my feet and stands me m good stead when I
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    KLUANG TO RUN HOCKEY LEAGUE
    292 11 Fre« Press Sail Reporter Johore Bahru, Wed. K LUANG'S hockey prospects for the coming season are very bright owing to the great number of players who have signified their desire to turn out for games. Steps are being taken to run a hockey league. So
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    Glamorgan all out for 73
    407 11 their smallest score of the season, x Glamorgan were all out for 73 m their drawn match at Swansea yesterday with the New Zealanders, who had declared their first innings closed at 378 for six wickets. Because rain had robbed the match of so much
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    41 11 picture. K. H. Ip, the new Malayan m en's singles tennis champion, puts over a back-hand strok e m his match against Tan Liep TJiauw m the final pla yed at the S.C.C. yesterday. Ip won m straight sets. Free Press
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    Reason for big transfer fees
    395 11 Reason for big transfer fees TU)O much money chasing too few players is the A cause of the present big transfer fees, states a Football League spokesman m a contribution to the Football Association year book for the 1949-50 season. Much criticism has been levelled at the increasing amounts asked
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    Warwickshire in 2nd place
    110 11 MIDDLESEX. although beaten by Sussex yesterday, retain the leadership m the county cricket championship table. By virtue of first-innings points over Derbyshire, Warwickshire ousted Worcestershire from second place. Warwickshire now have 120 points from 19 games, being eight points m arrears of the leaders, who have
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    S.T.T.A. MEETING
    23 11 An emergency meeting of the Singapore Table Tennis Association council will be held today at 5.30 p.m. at the Chinese V.M.C.A.
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    BOTH TEAMS MISS BADLY
    168 11 Ali.Miufui oT support game of misled char.re Raiii met RE.M.E. m »r. S A FA. Senior league game at Jalan Besar Stadium >• The result was a draw, each scoring once Perhaps the slippery turf to blame f X ?rn EXcelleni woik by Shaw In the
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    11 11 The Singapore aa A triangular meet scheduled for lod hmn ptfstpomed
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    Wrestlers 'expelled' from Java
    224 11 r rilE *-:<>ry ol ho.\ Una irith appn lati< n 'finar I i with th pulsion' o]d to Ihs 1 kMf the all-ii The i> v dad, who. both tndooc i n dicr.res In Ja a Tht ed forri i at E Tjan Ghrcn 1 i
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    DYNAMOS BEATEN
    29 11 THS biggest sports v 'ii the Moscow s< Occurred yesterday when the Kharkov team <]> league lrad^r Dynamos, by two > lo one. Kharkov an A .P. the league
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    BIRTHS
    73 12 DUNLOP: At Kandang Kerbau on 30th July, to Mafuife jf Charles R. Dunlop, .1 son WHITEHEAD: 2 August, 1949, 8.M.H., Singapore, to Nan, r D. D. White-head, tovid Duthie. 'A HT: To Rosemary, Lamprecht, a sister to C on August 2nd, at Memorial Hospital. JOT DAN: On July 31st,
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    ENGAGEMENT
    46 12 THE ENGAGEMENT is aned up* ween Mr F. Yin Kok, (barrister-at-btw) of the Federa-ti-n Income Tax Dept., son of the la to Mr. and Mrs. Kok m of Kuala Lumpur, a »id Miss Dorothy Leong, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leong Khean of Penang
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    90 12 MR. NG FOOK his son Kan, wish to tnank all their \es friends fo~ sending wreatfcj ny \sages of condolence In their recent bereavement. H SODHYS AND SAHAIS, nil friends and relatives for the telegrams, wreaths and attnce at the funeral of Hn ikumart, .vife of Mr. J. s.
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    SECOND FRONT HINT BY CANTON
    377 12 SECOND FRONT HINT BY CANTON Reds on border of Kwangtung CANTON, Wednesday. AS Communist forces approached the frontiers of Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces, with a battle raging at Suichuan, 200 miles from Canton, a Nationalist Government spokesman said here yesterday that a "second front" might open at any time m
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    49 12 photo. Cooking food by the sun's rays has been made possible by this French invention, the main part of which is a. large dish-shaped reflector over the centre of which hangs the cooking pot. The reflector follows the sun's movement by automatic control, also powered by A.P. the sunlight.
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    'Israel under US pressure'
    150 12 TEL AVIV, Wed. THE Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. David BenGurion, and the Foreign Minister, Mr. Moshe Shertok, told Parliament here last night they had been under United States pressure about the return of Arab refugees. They were speaking m a debate, punctuated by heated interruptions from
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    BIG LOSS OF FACE FOR REDS
    198 12 Aw's paper says of Amethyst: HONG KONG. Wed. MR. AW BOON HAWS English language paper Hongkong Standard desrribes Amethyst's exploits as a great loss of face to the Chinese Communists. The Standard, saying "that Amethyst'f exploits were much more than a demonstration of heroic
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    SIT-DOWN STRIKE BY EX-JAP PoWs
    154 12 TOKYO, Tuesday. rpROUBLE with Japanese prisoners returning from A Soviet territory was reported today from van-' ous parts of Japan. Four hundred Japanese police stood by m the southern port of Maizuru where 2.000 Japanese from Siberia have been staging a sitdown strike for four
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    Acheson agrees to modify arms bill
    261 12 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. HPHE Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, and the Defence Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, today agreed to some changes m the arms aid programme after hearing Republican complaints that it would give President Truman too much power. The Secretaries met for two
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    TITO AID FOR RED 'REBELS'
    60 12 MARSHAL Tito has pledged Yugoslavia's full help to any popular uprising m Bul^ garia or Albania aimed at overthrowing the present Cominform supporting; regimes. Addressing 350,000 Macedonians Tito said, I think the time will come when the Bulgarian people, ignoring base and shameless slanders, will
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    Siamese prince crashes
    30 12 Prince Birabongse, of Siam. racing motorist and glider pilot, crashed m his own glider near Okehampton, Devonshire, yesterday but escaped with a fftW ruts anri ahmsinns Reuter
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    Big gem haul by gunmen
    58 12 DEAUVILLE, Wed. J^OUR masked men armed with submachine-guns held up a jewellery store at Deauxnlle, France, yesterday and escaped i?i a waiting car with gems estimated to be icorth between 50 and 100 million francs. At Alx-en-Provence, messengers o/ the Bank of France lost 20,000,000
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    9 Pakistan airports
    32 12 Nine airports m Pakistan are to be developed under a £3,000,000 istg.) project. Jiwani, close to the Iranian border, and Dacca, capital of East Bengal, will become international ports.
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    Rowdies close US consulate
    170 12 Rowdies close US consulate SHANGHAI. Wed. THE U.S. Consulate Gen- j which was closed yesterday, will probably remain shut until the 800 i former local employees of the i U.S. navy— Chinese. Indians and White Russians end their demonstrations for six- and-a-half months bonua and severence pay. In Washington the
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    AUSTERITY FOR INDIA SOON
    164 12 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. rpHE Food Ministers of the Government of India A and the Indian provinces and States have endor- sed at a meeting here the Delhi Government's decision to stop all food imports after 1951. They recommended that all the Indian Governments should strive their
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    TO VISIT MOSCOW
    46 12 The Soviet Government vviii send a plane to fly the Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr. Liaquat All Khan, and his advisers to Moscow for an official visit during the first half of i November, it was authorita- I tatively learned m Karachi! Reuter yesterday.
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    TB men on hunger strike
    70 12 ONE HUNDRED tuberculosis patients, employed by the Japanese Postal Ministry, have gone on a hunger strike at a sanatorium m protest against the contemplated dismissal of T.B. patients m the scheduled personnel reduction among communications workers. Th? patients contracted tuberculosis while m government employ and,
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    FLAT DRAMA: GIRL SHOT
    58 12 WEALTHY Irarlan journalist. Parbiz Daryoush, 27, was held by pol cc yesterday on an unspecified charge at Berkeley, California, following the shootini? of Mrs. Judith Korb S'aer. 26. a pretty university of California student m his flat on Monday. She has a bullet m her brain,
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    THIRD DEATH FROM BOLT
    67 12 k THIRD baseball player i*» died yesterday of severe burns he had received when a bolt of lightning struck the playing Held during a game at Baker, Florida, on Monday Two others were killed aimost iiutantly. Tne Lghtning bolt plowed a 20-fooi, furrow m the kiK
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    2 reprieved on way to gallows
    55 12 K\H\( HI. Wed THREE minutes before two Pathan tribesmen were due to be hanged m the Central Jail here, an order was rereivrd allowing them to appeal to the Privy Council m London. The tribesmen sentenced for murder, were being escorted to the eallnws
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