The Singapore Free Press, 10 August 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ..348. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    U.S. ARMS AID TO BE CUT IN HALF
    280 1 Vanden berg s plan accepted WASHINGTON, Wednesday. SENATOR Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican Party's foreign affairs adviser, proposed yesterday that the first year's cash outlay for the European arms aid programme should be cut in half. The Secretary for Defence, Mr. Louis T.phnson,
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    UNKNOWN
    95 1 ACd. come ughout ••night. hot ir< sln .-Indonesian tie lmave left indi led by the the \i nee o open on agreement Lsion to' sian R»- d a I rl it in action." I >eratlon regulars! i inst ir- bandits. ..d Sumatra any cease :al level. I),ik»> of Edinburgh
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    Polish priest on trail
    39 1 .Out 1 I prt< st m Krakow, of -und»Tmed at the newspaper reported I r alleged thai .r-r Ourgaczow, vounii people was working a i booty." Czechoslovak claimed to::\md 7.*as prothe Vatiran decree for U.P.
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    TITO DENIAL.
    11 1 I perl, Premier lied le•vould ir.ee t I Y
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    'Living beyond her means'
    255 1 'Living beyond her means MALAYAN FALLING LONDON, Wednesday. THE Singapore correspondent of the Financial 1 Times in a dispatch published yesterday, says that Malaya, including Singapore, is living beyond het -^"growing adverse trade' balance has forced mark inJ T down of the Malayan dollar in terms of s a teTnng
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    RED BOYCOTT
    26 1 The United Nations announced yesterday that Russia had decided to boycott the United Nations' scientific conference on the conservation and utilisation of resources. A.P
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    Karens active near Insein
    92 1 I RANGOON. Wednesday. THE Burmese Army reported yesterday that Karen rebels are active in the Hmawbi area, 30 miles north of Rangoon, testing the Government's strength in anticipation of a possible offensive for the northern Rangoon suburb of Insein. The Karens are fighting ior an autonomous
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    MALAYS HELD AFTER SHOOTING
    168 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rpWO Malays were arrested 1 —one on a charge of attempted murder-*n Johore Road near Jalan Besar, at at midnight last night, after a shooting incident. During the incident, which involved the two Malays, a Malay detective and an old Chinese medicine
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    'QUAKE DEATHS MAY BE 10,000
    33 1 QUITO, Wednesdaymowth American diplomatic official just the final count. kn Fro?n the UU'-e town of Qu F e r ro inhabitants reponed 1 kii4Mliwi and neiav Reuter A.P.
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    Accident inquiry
    17 1 Free Press Staff Reporter accident on the Bukit Timan Coroner. Mr. w. v*. this morning.
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    Man or tailor's dummy
    74 1 mAVILE Kow tailors threw up their hands S over a new -If -"rested dinner jacket. Thj ±L wing «o" a wlth I fthodox dress sends shivers throw: I. Duke. Aose often unoithodoxdre AM)an> Britain's leading tailors, tuni ea u binati m Club on Monday nisht ii.
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    AIR TALKS IN INDIA
    20 1 India and Norway are to begin air talks in New Delhi later this mom h Reuter
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    After 90 years, they did it
    58 1 After 90 years, they did it DEVELOPMENT of a felt made entirely of cotton has been announced by tne j Mendel? Mills of Walpole, Massachusetts "after nearly: 90 years of experiments^ Dubbed Webril NonWOTec Fabric Type B. the material is strong, flexible and free from fluff and can be impregnated
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    UK to get less M-Aid than she asked for
    121 1 PARIS, Tuesday. RRITAIN will get only $900 000 000-worth ol B Marshall Aid this year l«»tead of $1 518,000,000-worth she has asked for, It was learn Y e e d ste n rd P ay rlS the as. Senate approved the
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    INDIA TO BAN OPIUM
    58 1 OPIUM consumption, except, for scientific and medical purposes. Will be totally banSed in India within ten year* A conference of Excise Ministers of the Princes and States Unions, wnich met here recently, decided to reduce the consumption ol opium in India to the international per capita
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    TWO BANDITS KILLED
    32 1 Free Pre*s Start Reporter i DOLICE and Gurkhas operI ating in the Muar area yesterday afternoon found three bandit ramps and killed two twndlti a Malay and a Chinese.
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    RED 'BAN ATOM BOMB' BIDFAILS
    121 1 GENEVA, Wednesday. A SOVIET resolution that atom hombs^nd chemical A warfare should be banned was ruled out of order The Soviet nml ttton atom bombs and bacteriological and chemicil warfare were "Incompatible with «.ne elementary princiolrs of international law and contrary to the honour anl
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    Bus grenade victim dies
    84 1 Bus grenade victim dies Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH. Wednesday. ONE of the five, police con- stables injured in the hand-grenade attack on a police patrol bus here last Sight died in the hospital Inter The attack, was made at Pasir Puteh area less than a mile from town as
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    Aga's jewels
    32 1 The French police sam uts* nighi that recovery of the Asa Khans jev:fel.« sto Jen i a week ago on the French Riviera is expected at an early date.- Reuter
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    P.I. ARMY WARNING
    31 1 A warning that me rninppine* Army may be called to operate Manila's water district was issued yesterday to 400 workers who threatened to walk off the job. A.P.
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    Woodcock WILL fight Savold
    110 1 Woodcock WILL fight Savold DONCASTER, BRUCE WOODCOCK, British heavyweight champion, will ftght I Savold for the h< weight championship <>t the world lluropei version), but the d the contest is n until Woodcock ha nice rest and B short holiday," said Jack Solomons, the promoter, atseeing Woodcock last iciinuy do
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    SHOT PLAYING MAH-JONG
    34 1 Free Prrss Still K«u<»rt. r Two banmts went Kajanß town. 15 mlta ioulb of Kuala Lumpur, last and shot a Chinete who playing mah-joim In shop. The man was ly WOtUI
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    Indian-Bhutan treaty
    19 1 India ha* coi treaty with the H kinudom ol Bhul I position f«>rmorly I bv Britain. A.P.
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    Rubber prices
    42 1 Sl'fcClAL MurkH nd A ent «i%™ thr P"<- »l ru tin rents jmt It, at 11 ni as follow*-: Bu no. im.i.i loose s F.o.b. in t>al«"v Aur: N,. 1 N« H n SI No. 8.§.« Tonr of market: Qll
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    PARLIAMENT IS THE BEST CLUB IN TOWN
    1591 2  - PARLIAMENT IS THE BEST CLUB IN TOWN GRAHAM CAWTHORNE By npHIHTY thousand people wrote to Parliament hist week. iThirty thousa n d letters reached t h at temporary, but efficient >( *t Office in the corridor off the Central Hall that led to Ihe Members' Lobby before the bombing. They
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    Donat thinks it's worth it
    138 2 ROBERT DoAjii la finding the triple roles of producer, director met star of •The Cure for Love" at lslev.'orth something of a strain, but he says it is vorth it if only because it has taurht him a lot about other people's problems A leading
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    Bridge Hands
    167 2 gOUTH should have bttd d ed at his slam oODtnu days hand, but hr n'amged i cook up an Ingenious to deceived Wer.t We«t opened the que^n of club- 1 and dummy won with u\t > South saw that if he leal trump finesse West would undoubtedly return
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      47 2 [Ha u k in s v^ i PRESSURE COOKING i VJ^ /ir /m Hmr kins UNIVERSAL PRESSUfU COOKER H.A.D'COHNORBH.t lA/PIAW SMP.'KG •A K nu i H< >\V .^OON GOT YOU HROR L/ I""" KEEP COOL Baft you m We think repose; tf.e and oi mag *•< SHANGHAI MAIRDHKSStMS
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      224 2 YOUR i LUCKY STAR pOKN today, you have a tremendous store of persona", courage. Nothing daunt you and the more ha/.ar;l«ui the project, the nior^ rueigy and interest y>i will show in tackling it. You are a born executive and know how to get others to do the detail work
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      850 2 Adventures of Penny Koni Poor little Koni. the /{/jvEfekj f^^K ab rei monkey Iro m f ~//c\ "fsV Ulafl Borneo. Whan, he taw V VS^ fc» -^V H^^^> Penny s co. all S^m^'^K.'^^^^^^K A st&rmg m\ M'm hO W» V __J 'a^Eiafl rem«mt>er#C a tnghen- l^ ing idol he had
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    Rried to Beat Niagara
    25 3 Rried to Beat Niagara I tin the till ;it>ids beilill hours •d nsrd at 4«r of thf r ipids he- of th»* rhe falls ind.
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    UNKNOWN
    42 3 MARTH/ KALWAIC, loglst, how to iccustd 15-month- 1 :i'ment for Hor meti bumping »atl Pennsyltj Mrs Kalwaic told :•< child had tcmner i".r she diagnosed spts anrifiv a two old sister, of >us. LfiJwalc diughter of a t's wife, and xpecting an-
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    They build heir own town
    42 3 They build heir own town 'he centre a new ;y u group 1 ex-Ser-ip is named s builders tei the •rprise in i satellite zena will nsored Cooperabcrship InvestThe So- town's rs. the will ants, j com- I 850 j D Of
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    Years to live -jailed
    23 3 was only two need in >. Court SOlldounts I of T ook 1 busing on me a wreck the er-AAP.
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    PS TO JOIN HP TOGETHER
    13 3 PS TO JOIN HP TOGETHER •luring -war 'heir •.ring two hull II i
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    MECCA PILGRIMAGE TO BE BROADCAST
    429 3 First time in history (MOSLEMS throughout the world will have this year's pilgrimage to Mecca, birthplace of Vlohamed, brought to their homes by radio for the first time in history. When this important event in the Muslim ?alendar is broadcast in August, millions of poor
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    JAP ATHLETE BECAME RED
    124 3 ONE of Japan's best known pre-war athletes Shigcru Mizuhara, who returned, from Siberia, admitted to reporters that hr had joined' the Communist Party while i a prison-of-war. "I had to join to return to Japan," Mizuhara, one-time captcin of the Tokyo Giants professional baseball team, said
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    More power for German unions
    243 3 tj^Oß the first time in 20 years the voice of labour Is speaking out with authority in Germany where unions have become one of the most important i factors in daily life. In west Germany the unions have grown to the point where they exercise
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    'Flying drunk' is divorced
    93 3 A MAN tried to fly in Sydnty under his own power. He didn't hurt himself. He tried it again. He still dido t hurt himself, but his wife sued for divorce. In court, Mary Binns, 26, told the judge her husband, Graham, had asked one night
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    SHOP THEFTS UP
    54 3 Last year 10,938 people in Bngland and Wales were found guilty of theft from shops, the Home Office said recently. In 1947 the figure was 8,428. Number of under 17 offenders convicted of larceny rose by 25 per cent, over 1947. And 13,712 more people were found
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    BOY WHO 'WENT TO HEAVEN'
    71 3 I ITTLE David Walker, teenlJ age Indianapolii evangelist, is in Luiidoii to nuid seven meetings and, as ne puts it, "to preach the gutpel and heal." He ilew in from New York witn his manager, the Rev .Raymond Hoekstra. He tuid reporters how he turned
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    Treason trial ending
    19 3 The U.S. Government expects to conclude its treason case against Tokyo Rose this week. A. P.
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    'Flying burglar' gets 4 years
    299 3 (SIDNEY GOLDER, the flying cat-burglar, a man without nerves, who during the week was a respectable member of the Portsmouth Aero Club, and at week-ends a robber of public-houses, was at the Old Bailey sent to jail for four years. He became known to Scotland
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    Carrier Seeks Theme Song
    73 3 A USTRALIA'S first auJ\ craft carrier, H.MJL.S. Sydney, is looking for a catchy tune to adopt as her own them e song. Many hopeful composers have sent along offerings since the carrier arrived in Australia from England but according to Commissioned Band Master George Hooker, none
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    U-charges dropped
    30 3 Charges against four Germans of attempting to sell uranium have been withdrawn. A British official said the Germans were making "legitimate use" of the mat- i erial A.P.
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    VATICAN ON 'THE ILLUSION'
    297 3 VATICAN circles are disturbed at the growing modern tendency to consider nationalisation as a cure-all for collapsed national economies. Since the war, th«.y state, many countries have Indulged 'n the luxury of nationalisation in the hope of freeing thf'ir productive forces from the economic and social
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    UNDERGROUND LAKE MAY WATER DESERT
    194 3 LARGE tracts of barren desert in the Rajastan Union (Central India) will become evergreen fields and pastureland if irrigation experts are able to exploit for that purpose a vast sub-terranian lake just located* by geologists. The underground lake is about half a mile from the
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    FLOODS IN TURKEY
    24 3 Three days of heavy rainfall has flooded two rivers in Giresum province (Turkey) destroyed bridges, inundated villages and started landslides. U.P.
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    Earl, fiancee at Harewood House
    52 3 A new picture of fcarl Harewood. nephew of the Kin:>;, with his fiancee. VitMiese-born MKs Mnrion Stein in the grounds of Harewooi Houv. i t wis Miss Steins first visit to Lord Harewood's ancestral home. The King's consent to the wedding in the Autumn has
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    Hit by bunch of keys, gets £1,271
    93 3 Hit by bunch of keys, gets £1,271 Damages Lrtalllng v: l2 7 1 were awarded at Li Aulset to Mrs Muriel 3. D. Frearson. of Southwick, who lost the sight of one eye when she was hit in the face bv a bunch of keys. She told Mr. Justice Humphreys
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    QUIET TOWN
    34 3 Model aircraft wili not take off on Sundays from ilkesto:!, Derbyshire, Corporation land, the council has decided. Also on the banned-on-Siindays lift are cinemas, cricket, bowls, tennis, ar.d concerts in the park.
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    Soviet films win Czesh awards
    152 3 Soviet films win Czesh awards CO VIET films won t 'he 13 awards at I niationa! film festiv.il here nou.iced by the all-r committee Four more of the prJ went 1 o othtT 'iron curt nn" countii Russia took the premiei international av \vtli a.i Drizi s for the )^t
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    Juries to get 10s a day
    178 3 INSTRUCTIONS hav<- now 1 gone out to all British courts, both civil and criminal, on how to deal wi'h claims by the LOs-a-day juror, who, under the new Junes Act, takes on j :us from October 1 Ail jurors will be paid compensation, tmvt'll.
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    No boat, no swim
    33 3 JOSE Cortinas of Cu to call nil his effort to swim the English Channel night when the boat which was suDposrd I imoanv him failed to arriv A. P.
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      88 3 tKing Smiler orders the world-wide use of Cow and Gate Milk Food, And we are trying hard to 1 arry out the wishes of this J^^** wise and beneficent Ruler for we know the Vt orld't Babies are waiting for Cow and Gate. Something a little better, something a little
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    KOLEKS, SAMPANS AND TONGKANGS
    703 4  -  NAN HALL flßi j STORY by~ ON Singapore River, Roehore Canal. Kallang Basin, Tanjong Rhu and on the Beach Road waterfront, boat-building has been for many years, and still is, a thriving local industry. The busiest area is the Beach Road waterfront. Here, where brisk winds
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    U.N. BID TO HALT
    392 5 Prevention is given priority A I«S atlona e ro »P. °f experts, meeting at Lake Success to advise the United Nations on crime prevention and the treatment of prisoners, has adopted a report laying down principles whereby penal systems\ o *ld be ssa a? jaa 5=S
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    Sailor 'trapped' wife and guest
    322 5 FALSE NOTE piHAM Navy oilicer Thomas Franklyn Jeni who was described as being (I v.ilh the germ of suspicion," had a n! to his wife and then k^pt watch thought he was at sea. as related by Mr. Commissioner Divorce Court when he granted a
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    CORIES WANT WAR, SAYS MOSCOW
    63 5 CORIES WANT WAR, SAYS MOSCOW Izvestia in clared the Party y publishramme for world war. proved unce more, d, that the .ad never for--4 and had neI anything. Party prothe same In K. but was by force of u upenly reac- d the Izvestla was entitled :io same coin." nservatlTC
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    BEACH MORALS
    24 5 ;op of Genoa i; -he b costumes veil as \vohes "open worst kind in a he "liand shame- commonly beaches cermoral law."—
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    H.K. CRISIS COULD BE 'EXPLOSIVE'
    88 5 H.K. CRISIS COULD BE 'EXPLOSIVE' ■GKONG may be the spot where the East-West hot, in the opinion of British high *l plann. rs who regard the situation there as ft •'the same explosive Importance as the Berlin is Inited I'ress. r hat Britain is prepared to fight in Kong is
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    23 5 Private iris Gibson of N.—i.e <^ y^''tnf^ picting the various uniform; and ut f. d r .u'iu a d mto be exhibited at the
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    Nine Wrens went cherry picking
    152 5 Nine Wrens went cherry picking riMIE friendly man ihe nine j A Royal Marine Wrens met in th e NAAiT at Gillinuham, I Kent, ottered them 2?>. an hoar to pick cherries. They were enthusiastic. When they had changed into cotton frocks the stran* ger took them to an orchard
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    33 5 Mrs. Eva Peron (centre) wife or the President of Argentina acknowledges the applause of her supporters in the Teatro Cervantes, Buenos Aires during a convention of the lady members of the Peron movement.
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    60 5 Princess Elizabeth (second from left > and the Duke of Edinburgh following the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher in procession to Canterbury Cathedral where they attended a service for the Kent County Playing Fields Association. The Princess and the Duke, who is president of the National Playing Fields Association,
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    PI ANTI-JAPAN MOOD SOFTENS
    71 5 PI ANTI-JAPAN MOOD SOFTENS PHILIPPINES Cabinet Minis- ter Bernabe Africa declared in Tokyo that expanding commercial relations between the Philippines and Japan were eliminating his country's war-born bitterness against the Japan*»s*». Mr. Africa, in a speech in Tokyo, said anti-Japanese sentiment is still noticeable in the Philippines but has subsided
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    Operation on 'Siamese twins'
    96 5 ITANGAMMA and Oauramma, M Siamese twins i of Bangalore who have led a I healthy life for more thnn 1 f ony years, are to be scpa- rated shortly through a bur- 1 gical operation, as one of them la afflicted with par- tial paralysis. The
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    U.S. air force held superior to Reds
    284 5 A MERICAN military leaders, after careful study of x reports about Russia's "sensational" Air Day show, say that their belief in the superior quality of new American planes remains unchanged. However, they concede that Russia may have numerical superiority over the U.S. Air
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    JAP STUDENTS RESIST REDS
    92 5 OTUDENTS in many Japan's universities and colleges are resisting Red domination of their campuses, according to S.G.A.P. Leaflets isaued y jy the new- ly-organiscd Student Movemrnt Democratisatlon ComtnlU.ee and circulated at 600 i educational institutions deI nounced Zengakuren. the Student Communist Association, blaming it for the
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    Device Locates Watch Defects
    62 5 'THE first "time beat re- cordcr" a device to diagnose watch defects invented in Britain listens to th e tick of a watch and records tuning errors on a graph. A weak mainsprincj produces on the tim e heat recorder graph a pattern likr the track
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    'SWEET BOY' KILLED HIS GRANDMOTHER
    139 5 'SWEET BOY' KILLED HIS GRANDMOTHER QORDON SCARRATT, 18, Is 1 a "sweet natured boy," I his mother told Chester 1 Assize Court. "He would sit !.on the edge of a settee rather than disturb a cat." But soon afterwards she heard him sentenced to death for murdering his seventy-six-year-old grandmother.
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    LIPSTICK GIRLS
    50 5 Miss M. Scudamore, headi mistress of Richmond and 1 East Sheen Girls' County Grammar School, told parents at a prizegiving that she objects to young girls 'looking like 40." using lipstick, and wearing New Look dresses. Some went to bed late and 'were not awake at 11 a.m.
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    Sultan is new leader of Indonesians
    421 5 Sultan is new leader of Indonesians A NEW Indonesian leader has come to the fore. He is the 36-year-old Sultan of Jogjakarta, Hamengkubuwano IX, upon whose slim shoulders rested the responsibility for the orderly reoccupation of Jogjakarta by the Kepuhlican Army in the irafco of the withdrawing Dutch Army. In
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    UN can avert great dangers -Attlee
    98 5 UN can avert great dangers Attlee THE British Prin Mr. C F Attta -a .1' linat pes&lmUm. iaW ultimate rocreM or failure i of tho ITo told n U N A R'liiv in tb« around of r'o'it Aninc! I it fif i f Norf (lie, UNO h'H founds* T+n, h*
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    £10,000 left to ex-soldiers
    59 5 '■MiE Lord Mayor r»f Loi 1 will shortly receive Gl for needy dependents of Rr!tam's ex-aervlcemen The money was 1*- i t In will of Stanl.-v Banki wealthy retired chemist Cape Town who also th^d €16.000 for similar purpose in New z< nlmnd South Africa A
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    'HOUNDED' VICAR QUITS
    62 5 TANON W H BlllOtt, I of St Mary's Church Warwick has announced "acting on the I h\> doctor," ho is retiring private life as soon as p bie. His resignation 1 medical :iy. Some time ago he j volved in con tin i his pariahlonera, and said
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    Youth's 'war' on society
    98 5 PLANNING the "perfect crime," an 18->ear-old J »i»th, who obtained a job at a Sydney eaqplilTti and studied safe-blowing methods iv the puhli'- libri was recently arrested at gun- point while preparing blow a cinema safe. When the youth was rt-mandec' for sentem Im counsel said
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    The Singapore Pree Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 1949 THE WEAPONS OF THE FREE
    640 6 The Singapore Pree Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 1949 THE WEAPONS OF THE FREE K NI IIE «*aa economic cy Are rue two I ivona in r ne I ist the reread oi I imunism. Tou many think it necessai) to obscurantist weabe Reds ro light m, to impose totalitarian fictions
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    Guinea pigs live another day
    593 6 Guinea pigs live another day By A Special Correspondent VTERVOUSLY at first, 11 but with a confidence that will grow day by day, the last dozen of the world's most battered men will soon be leaving a hospital at East Grinstead, Sussex, to walk back again into civilisation. They urr
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    Malaria has been beaten in white man's grave
    832 6  - Malaria has been beaten in white man' s grave MALARIA, dread scourge of Ihe tropics, and creator oi many a "white man's grave,* 1 has been beaten in British Guiana. The slim, long-legged, striped anopheles iixvlingi mosquito which, until as recently as five years ago, killed one in every five
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    JAP REPATRIATES ARE WARY
    723 6  -  KAY FALK By MAIZURU. JAPAN: INTERVIEWS with Japanese repatriates from Siberia indicate that the Soviets have thrown a tight security wall around that land. At the same time, a tough battle is being fought here by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters and the Japanese government to
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    Singapore's greatest need is an orchestra
    660 6 Singapore 's greatest need is an orchestra LAST week I had something to say about Singapore music's great need a professional symphony orchestra and I mentioned that an "Action Committee" was being formed to find the dollars with which to finance a visit from the Batavia Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. On
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    16 6 itering impatience at being London Zoo— Susan, Coinpo, So-So u attraction, look for the kteptrt who
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    GUARDS FOR KAMPONGS
    35 7 GUARDS FOR KAMPONGS 01 r. --pondpnt In Force dur--1 iptnese ■■-:>' formip»: j guards rp ports Malay ciin, th- Sulhaa furred ry k .a in course of ru kamnoim been espe\n tißhtenins around re bandits have
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    29 7 picture. ;;<n,i ai, Singapore, n r uu i :*.ak-shiri)>. speaking at the -Ist anniversary dinner of In, Sins:.,pftrc Chinese EnJineerino Association at -:pMss Hctel on Monday night.- Free Press
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    EIGHT FINED FOR GAMBLING
    45 7 lese women, and two boys e SingaCourt 3 "one IW( i boys fined in-Ch of Suppression td the court t u a house n and found playing "pal dominoes). accused said not playing "tin kow." Id they v.ere j use reading
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    DUTCHVICE-CONSUL
    14 7 The Governor has recognised Mr. A. Jarizcr. as Netherlands w ice-Consul at Singapore.
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    THRIFT GROUP OFFICIALS
    87 7 OFFICE-BEARERS t'iocted ut the annual meeting in Singapore of the Mab.v Settlement Co-operaTlve Thrift and Investment Socle. r. Ltd.. ure: Tuan M. Hassan J.P., President, Che Mohd. Tamini b. Hj. Omar J.P., Vice-Presi-dent, Che R Hamid b. Rahmat, Chairman; Che All bin Haji Yunos, Hon. Secretary; Che
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    EXAM FOR CLERKS
    20 7 A clerical promotion •xam!rution for Slngaoore General Clerical Service clerks will be held on Thursday. «S?pt 15.
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    FIRE-FIGHTING DEMAND BY S.M.C.
    269 7 FIRE-FIGHTING DEMAND BY S.M.C. L IT fay more call to Rural Board FrCe PrCSS Staff R <?Porter B !.!«2 i th .t Si ore f're Brigade, maintamed by the Municipal Commissioners, has Vom !H! Werill f a increasi "fT number of calls Irom the rural areas, the Commissioners have decided
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    Nurse gets UN scholarship
    253 7 *ree Tress Staff Reporter N response to an offer of a scholarship from the tnited Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, for the training in the United Kingdom of a Singapore Municipal nurse as health visitor the Municipal Commissioners have selected Mrs Piontr iw S^ afT nUrse
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    'EASY COME, EASY GO'
    110 7 ENDING a round of stage shows at the British Military Hospital a^.d at military and naval estaolishments on the island The Rnwrroft Players <REME Base Workshops, Alexandra) gave their final performance of "Easy Come," "Easy Go' at the Base Workshops, Singapore, on Monday night. Among the
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    CELEBRATION
    34 7 The Singapore Regional Indian CongTess will celebrate the second anniversary of j Indian independence on Monj day, Aug. 15. A public meetins will be held at 5.45 p.m. in the New World arena.
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    Bungalows replace rubber on estate
    94 7 rrHE Colony's largest estate, Singapore United Rubber Plantations, finds bungalows more profitable than rubber and has set aside 102 of its 2,728 acres for building. The chnirmnn, Mr. G. R K Muffliston, says in his an nual report that bungalows. v.i:'cl] can be erected in
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    S.V.C. COMMISSION
    28 7 The G( vernor has approved ♦he gran ol a Commission as lieutenant in the Sini/apon Voiui.'tfer Corps (Liaison Regiment) to Che Abdul Karim bir: Mohamed Shariff.
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    Plea for social security plan
    633 7 CIVILIANS IN SERVICES *>ee Press Staff Reporter I on illtrodu ction of a social security scheme for 30,000 civilian employees of the three Services in is sought in a memorandum which the four Service unions have submitted to the British government Commission of Inquiry at
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    $5,000 GIFT
    15 7 Messrs. Framroz Co., have donated $5,000 to the University of Malaya M.^dowment Fund
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    VAN TO ROUND UP STRAYS
    134 7 AS part of a scheme to round up all stray dogs in Singapore, a van of the Veterinary Surgeon's Department will tour Tion* Baluu. Henderson Road and Braddell Road next Monday and Tuesday to collect unwanted ctoffs. At the same time, the van will issue
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    INNISKILLINGS TO LEAVE MALAVA
    53 7 INNISKILLINGS TO LEAVE MALAVA The Royal In.iiskillmt Fu .siliers, who are due to leave Malaya for the United King dom during the latter uart of August, will spend some time In the Northern (relano I irict on arrival. Later ihey will ko to Jamaica T '.;i^i tnoy will relieve the
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    DELEGATES TO UNMO TALKS
    54 7 DELEGATES TO UNMO TALKS jo CYi-.D Abdul K 0 turned hi 'he Johore B I delegat sembl] i meet at Bukil A.,-. 27 Th pric.i Kn- a Tin siiv. For t; eonferen< i (jn au 2 > division delesat D-itin Onn and binti' Ahnian. Bycd Othman bin A the divUion'a
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    REHEARSING FOR CONCERT
    51 7 picture. 'J^IE Combined X Choir tf .'OO v*ieei and the Sirr;apf>re Iviiior Symphony Orchestra rehearsing nndei theii conclucior Mr. P^u Abisht'sanatlen for the roncert which thoy are to n'no a' the Palm fou Raffles Hotel, on Friday in d <»t r UaJrermity of Malaya F.ndowment Fund. Free
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    FARMERS WILL COMBAT BANDITRY
    240 8 District groups to be formed Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. REPRESENTATIVES of Chinese small farmers from eight areas of Seremban will form committees to discuss evidence of banditry regularly with the District Officer. The representatives promised to give their full co-operation to the authorities
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    STUDY FUND FOR MALAYS
    83 8 rriih Perak Government will 1 introduce a bill at the Dg of the State establish a fund to n ps for Ma- i »r higher studii s abroad. b 11. gazetted today, the Perak Qovern- will budget, $45 000 for irii provides for a i of
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    44 8 picture. THF United States oust vi. ard Academy training ve>s.l Eagle arrived at Shad well Basir Stepney, London recently Aboard the two ships are 360 cadets on a trainIn.: cruist Picture shows cadets of the Eagle waving a irrectinr trom the ship's bowsprit.- Reuter
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    STORE YOUTHS IN RALLY
    93 8 MALACCA, Tues. OVER 300 youths will lake part In a four-day rally of the Southern District Institute of the Methodist Youth Fellowship to be held here from Friday. The youths will come from Singapore. Kuala Lumpur. Klang. Soremban, Raub Kuantan and Johore. Sini gapore will send
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    87 8 SHIPS in port alonsA-^ide the Singapore Harbour Board wharws ye^'iMiay (godowns in brackets) were Mala wharf: Empiiv Wtndrush i?p-.^9'. Leneverett (40-41 >. stc! R|- cr Most Wharf: Carthage d-:>. Tiipanai (.4-s >. Kamunirg r .-B>. Sommelsdijk (9>. President Mon (in. Tantalus (13-14".. Rimau (15). Kmpin 1 Deck: Orestes
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    SIR R. BRADDELL ON LIAISON BODY
    227 8 KUALA UIMPUE, Tuesday. SIR Roland Braddell has accepted the invitation of Sir Sydney Palmer to take his place as European representative on the Communities Liaison Committee made vacant by Sir Sydney's forthcoming departure from Malaya. The Committee chairman, Mr. E. E. C. Thuraisingham, announced
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    Unions ask for more back pay
    230 8 trade unions, claiming to represent the majority of 8,000 manual workers in the Singapore Municipality, have decided not to accept Joint Wages Commission recommendations which would give them pay increases dating back to April 1, this They informed the Municipal President, Mr W. L
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    CO-OP HOUSING PLAN BACKED IN K.L.
    166 8 KUALA LIMP! K, Tuesday. HHHE Midlands I rban Co-operative I nion unanlx mousiy decided at Kuala Lumpur yesterday to form a co-operative housing society in which buyers will make an initial payment of the cost of the site and one fifth of the cost
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    WARNING ON CARDS
    150 8 4 SMALL number of bogus j\ ration cards are believed to be still in circulation in Singapore, although voluntary surrenders at the Government Rationing Office have stopped. To date. 20,000 ration cardi have been cancelled by legislation compelling those drawing more rations than they are entitled to
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    GOVT. HEADS TO BROADCAST
    69 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Senior Federation Government officials are to broadcaM a series of talks over Radio Malaya. The talks v.ill doal wiih the Federal and State Governments and the working of the major Government departments. The first of the series will be at 8 p.m. on
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    Gilt-edgedsrise after slump
    213 8 London Stock ExchaT? PRICES Ol Government 1 Exchange, depressed by dilliculties, paused in th day after the bl| Jl on > in prices began two u cial correspondent. if> some hope that the da I dealers were far from cert lin I last. Most market men the
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    VOLUNTARY HELPER
    70 8 picture Mlit. Hell a voluntary helper i Uir Social Wellare chi feeding centre at Chr.Bfl Toint, photographed f»edin? a Malay child. Inch*- Sardnn bio Haji Jubir, who visited the area on Mends), ai pealed for more voluntary helpers. Looking on is Inch* Taminiih inn Hajl Omar! J.P.. who
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    Wall St. rise slows down
    112 8 NLW YORK, We<t ALTHOUGH Wall Street*! upward surge wu«hsited by some expansion in .profittaking yesterday, operator* drew comfort from an accompanying contraction In turnover. At 1,140,000 shares, the latter compared With Mondays peak for the current re- covery movement of 1,660.000. Some quarters v .ud
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      165 8 KfidSldrakß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya I \fu\tt I CAN I I ,>»o> THIS IS TOO MUCH* MANDRAKE*] I CHIEF, SHAME ON YOU.! HuhfWHOAftS EXPLAIN- |HAftOA.s/.*- JOPtoTBCTHS MCKM j DON'f YOU KNOW BY t j YOU? IC-w— J SHOWS* —WHO HAPPENS NOW TWAT MANDRAKE Lf^J--^ l^ TWO
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    These Amazing Americans, No. 3: SALESMEN OF BURIAL
    149 9 These Amazing Americans, No. 3: SALESMEN OF BURIAL ten that in his jives his strict; it some y< ire pious revisiting of his decide that 'the -V coun- with his favourwalks and iit'kis [US. In Califor.listicates refer to n as "the igh counan open this .strange the Fhe Loved without
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    The Place of Death is a 'sound investment'
    1431 9  - The Place of Death is a 'sound investment' BEYERLEY NICHOLS by must be given a twist of novelty. Death must be newer and better and bigger here than anywhere else Death, in short, must be dr it-rent. We turned from the Boulevard into a district which was less haunted and
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    A merica 's Negro aristocracy
    644 9  -  GEOFFREY BARKER by \yiTH the advent of spring flfty-eight-year-old Dr. Theodore K. Lawless is getting ready to close down his 18-room £11,000 town house in Chicago and spend spring and summer on his Michi gan farm. This is not unusual among wealthy, freshair loviny Americans,
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    THE GUN AND THE FLOOR
    1351 9  -  Clifford Eilis SHORT I i STORY j: I by QARDEN was thinking: if the doors were made of wood, if only they were plunk floors, I could prise a length of it up and put the gun there. A touch of stain for the splinters,
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    T.B.A. SOCCER XI
    61 10 THE Tamil Brotherhood Association will play a friendly soccer match this evening against Rocklitea Sports Club at the Geylnng Btadium. T.B.A team will be selected from F. B. Anthony. S. Nadarajah, A. Suppiah. S. Yo^arajah. P. S ;ppiih, Manson Davies, S Chandrm. M. Chandra N. Ganesn- 1
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    POLITICS CAN SPOIL OLYMPICS
    895 10  - POLITICS CAN SPOIL OLYMPICS H. L. V. DAY By Britain should set an example MAN is by nature apolitical animal. So said Aristotle. But he did not advocate men mixing politics with sport and who am I *°;J r^ e Aristotle? And wno, for that matter, is the Amateur Athletic
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    Badminton ties for weekend
    436 10 TIES in the Singapore Badminton Associati on's junior badminton chamoionships for tins weekend are: Saturday. At 2.15 p.m.: Lim Hong Sey (Maytlower) v Too Boor Bng Useful >; Lim Keug Hor (Diehard* v Choo Fook Cheong AAUr Won;: Yeok Yeok (AAU) v Lim Kim Peow (Merryttme);
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    FRIENDLY SOCCER
    35 10 IN a friendly soccer match at i Firrer Park yesterday. lfal*« vnr Airways (Engineering) bf.Tt Malayan Airwnvs (Aircrew* two eoals to one. Bortpm and Wide scored for the Engineering PWiwlds nettt-* only goal.
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    WORCESTER WIN WILL BE POPULAR
    277 10 By A Special Correspondent Cl RIOUS thing about county cricket last year was that everyone— even the staunchest supporters of Middlesex and Yorkshire— was pleased when Glamorgan won the championship. And from what I hear, the same applies to Worcester this season. They have a
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    $ SHORTAGE HITS TENNIS TEAM
    72 10 SHORTAGE HITS TENNIS TEAM The Australian Davis Cup team will nut b» i able to play in the United States national singles championships' rest Hills, which start on Aug. 29. because of a dollar shorts Unless the Australian Go?ernment makes an additional appropriation, the team will leave the U.S. immediately
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    HOTSPURS WIN
    46 10 lx\ a keenly ecu tester cocc.r match played at Geyling St idium on Monday, the Hotspurs defeated the Shell Co.. by tbNC goils to two Scorers for the winners were: S. I>utta. Kim Hlan (penalty) and Rex Leo. McKeish scored both s^als for Shell.
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    HE AVY WEIGHT HOPF COST HIM £35
    650 10  - HE AVY WEIGHT HOPF COST HIM £35 GEORGE WHITING Bv HOW would you like to buy a henvv-weißht hone for £35? r still, how would you l»ke to have one walk ir. on you for nothing? Every nercentage minded manager in the bump-and -thump industry dreams of t'r.e day when
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    19 10 Of court*, I won t us« it if you •bject— but I nnd It makts a change."— by ,veb.
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    Challenge troohy
    24 10 Tlk I±i mil Brotherhood Assodattor individual athleti< championship t: «> I < I challeiv.'p tup which was p.cscnted by Pandit S. M. R. Naidu.
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    Rifle Shooting In J.B. Soon
    139 10 Free Press Sports Reporter JOHOfUf BAHRL. Till pACILI'IIES for small bore shotting as a bpoit will shortly be available in Johore Bahru as the r of of the Johore Bahni Rilfle Association. The inaugural meeting which was held at the wet ken d h re,
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    Horse-racing means big business
    346 10  -  GIMCRACK Bv IVHEN the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroiia decided to move his 18 highly-bred racehorses from I n <1 Armstrong's Newmarket place to Tomim »i« on Epsom :>owns. he was transferring bVfllieti worth more than £25,000 in annual stable Income. It cost- more than ei.OOO t
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    TAMIL B.A. HAS MADE GOOh HEADWAY
    38 10  - TAMIL B.A. HAS MADE GOOh HEADWAY EDIN PLTERS Ky THE Tamil Brotherhood formed in 193 with score of members is tod sports organisations In S n The Association Their first clubhouse In R u garage v;hich had i
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    Big Entries For 'Autumn Double'
    86 10 Big Entries For 'Autumn Double' OWNERS hft?< Usu kg BUPP I comprl double." r\tul I v of 2'IIS 1 ed for the The Osnrowitch f two-and-a-qu.v. ted enti The welghti will b Ushed on Srpt 1 will be tw on Oct 4 The Cambrid furlon which run at New M
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    Ex-Services Assn. Golf Results
    20 10 SIR Hugh i (Singapore) pla- o R S C day EUcha ,1 by d> Lloyd pn-
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    U.S. TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA
    47 10 AUI ..if I nca t- nnis play< br Invited tc mal Januarj or Dcroi I" The Itsi m I to| i Ctouncli I t|M Atn»"M> i oiil In th< An plonship' ;.nrt In tl r rnatioi eel bv th I T A A
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    ANOTHER BRITISH HOPE WILL VANISH
    775 11 ANOTHER BRITISH HOPE WILL VANISH Woodcock only con tender ANOTHER British hope for world heavyweight honours will vanish if Bruce Woodcock retires. It will also move the clock back sixty years when Britain first made an effort to produce a world heavyweight champion with the right combination of brains, punching
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    36 11 picture. OVER SHE GOES: A pupil of the Methodist Girls' School competing in the vaulting competition at the M. G. S. Sport* yesterday. Mrs. E. Strickland stands by in the event of a "mishap." Free Press
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    PULAU BRANI UNITED BEATEN FIVE-TWO
    210 11 Lt*Oi: 5 Pulau Brani United t CuESt: asuali did welt to beat Pulau Brani 1 1» five goals to two at Jalan Besar Stadium LflUy in S.A.F.A. Senior League game. to* Whye and Ah Yik were in scoring mood, uoal.s between them. Peck Whye scored
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    TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS TIES
    72 11 'T'IES for tomorrow «n the Tangiln Club tennis competition are. Men's Open Single*: Kuiper v. Frewen; Holloway v. Cooper-Key: Harries v. Bayley; Walters v. Whitmore; Dowling v. Fay; Kermer v. Greenwood. Women's H'cap Doubles:. Mrs. Cowe and Mrs. Bleakley v. MLss Sheddon and Miss Holiday; Mrs.
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    SCOTTISH LGE. FIXTURES
    83 11 tXDLLOWING are Scottish League r football fixtures for the opening season 1940 50: "A" DIVISION Celtic v Rangers, Dundee v Clyde, Hibernian v Falkirk, Patrick j v Motherwell, Queen of ihe South i v Third Lanark, Raith R. v Ea.st Fife, St. Mlrren v Aberdeen, Stirling Albion
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    TABLE TENNIS
    38 11 Entries for the Singapore Table Tennis Association Imor-old Bnys' j (English School) League, wh.ch close on Aug. 25 should be sent to Mr. Chong Kow Thye, 126. Moulmein Road, Singapore. Entry fee is $10 for team.
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    PLAY IN KABUL
    11 11 iiid -nocicey Kabul, U-'e ng tt>e .-^f «han
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    Woodcock: still hopes
    185 11 JACK SOLOMONS, London s boxing promoter, has gone j to Doncaster to try to arrange a new date for the Bruce Woodcock-Lee Savold fight. Bill Daly, manager of Lee Savold said "I think Wood- cock will go through with the fight. ••I believe he is making his
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    COTTON OUT OF TEAM
    125 11 BRITAIN S Ryder Cup learn to meet the United States in the professional golf international m.itch at Ganton. Yorkshire, on Sept. 16 and Sept 17 will be chosen in London on Aug. 19. Henry Cotton, who has signified his intention of playing in the match play
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    DRAWN GAME AT NOTTINGHAM
    289 11 SET to score 224 runs in 130 minutes to beat Nottinghamshire yesterday, the New Zealand cricketers ran into trouble. The match ended in a draw and a curiosity was that only four wickets fell in each of four innings, three of which were declared closed. The
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    37 11 picture. FIRST GOAL: Clark, Pulau Brani United'* goalkeeper, makes an unsuccessful attempt to save from Peck Whye, the Chinese Casual's centre-forward, during yesterday's Senior Division league gam? at Jalan Besar stadium. The Casuals won 5—2.- Free Press
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    EZZARD CHARLES FAVOURITE
    268 11 EZZARD CHARLES is expected to enter the ring a firm favourite to defeat Gus Lesnevich, former lightheavyweight champion, in their 15--round contest for the National Boxing Association's version of the world heavyweight championship at the Yankee Stadium tomorrow night. Charles, who won the title lesi than two
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    Worcestershire are on top again
    582 11 WORCESTERSHIRE'S good win over Hampshire yesterday coupled with the defeat of Middlesex in their vital match against Surrey, enabled them to join Middlesex at the head of the county cricket championship table. Each has 140 points, but Worcestershire have a match in hand, having played
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    Boxing revival in Singapore is at hand
    409 11 OINCiAFOKE, once the Mecca of boxing, is r;«ht on the path of assuming its former rolo, and, with some tactful handling, there is every hope t /ml will, in time to come, see Orient fitir fiuhts st hfA*e again. Promoters have, since of
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    SLOW WORKOUTS AT K. LUMPUR
    69 11 THERE was no fast work of the Kuala Lumpur course this morning. Ail horses were confined to trots and canters, on the third and sand tracks. Therv has been no rain in Kuaia Lumpur for the pa-ss 10 days and the going is very firm.
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    JOLLIADS WIN 4-2
    19 11 In the Joillladi dui well Sinn.<pore Re w r» 1 B H C through A Rod
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    BIRTHS
    31 12 McC U I On 3rd August 1919 of Francii M- Call. tat*. Kuantan, a PA I RICIA. «if« of D. W. Skinner, son, Charles. at M.iUrnlty Hospital on I R.
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    DEATHS
    268 12 Me ARTHUR. —At Stirling cr Sunday, 3rd July. 1949. Mary Tait. wife of me late Charles Me Arthur, formerly of gown House, Tarbet, and nl of Singapore. MR. W. A. ROBERTSON passed fully away at his R. Lothian House. Rd yesterday Be will ;va t.'-ly cremated at 5 p.m.
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    CHINA REDS IN ALL-OUT PUSH
    338 12 Plan to invade Formosa HONG KONG, Wednesday. nrHROWING all available men into the battle, Communist Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh is thrusting his armies forward in eight directions on a 1,320-mile front in a bid to speed the end of the civil war and set up a
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    Had millions in dud notes
    49 12 RIO I)F. JANEIRO. Wed. SAU PAULO police yesterday arrested a man carrying U.S. $10,000,000 in counterfeit notes. The authorities are on the track of a vast ring of dollar forgers, equipped with a printing press, and said to be operating from Argen- tina.— Reuter
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    Czech priests to defy Reds
    83 12 PRAGUE, Wed. IN expectation of an intensified Communist campaign against the Catholic Church in September, 6.000 priests loyal to Rome and the Czechoslovak Church hierarchy are said to be ready for prison in preference to appeasement. Churchmen are confident that they will be supported by
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    51 12 photo. Sabotage is suspected in the derailment, of a seven -car passenger train at Mitaka, a Tokyo sukurb. in which six persons were killed and 14 injured. Picture shows the train after it had jumped the rails, smashed through the station depot to a street outside and wrecked two homes.
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    Scrolls from Cld Testament found
    254 12 Scrolls from Cld Testament found GREAT BIBLE DISCOVERY LONDON, Wednesday. FRAGMENTS of the Old Testament in Hebrew over 2,000 years old found In Palestine are believed by British archaeological experts to have been part of ancient records hidden by a lost monastic Jewish sect when st niggling for religious and
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    European 'Cabinet' acts
    123 12 European 'Cabinet' acts STRASBOURG, Tucs. F REIGN Ministers forming the Cabinet of the Council of Europe tonight acted to counter suspicions that they intended to limit the scope of Europe's nist international parliament, due to open here tomorrow. They proposed that a joint committee of the Ministers, and of delegates
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    CALCUTTA TO HAVE TUBES?
    44 12 THE Prime Minister of West Bengal, Dr. B. C. Roy, arrived In London yesterday from Stockholm. It is understood he will discuss construction of an underground tube transport system in Calcutta with the Minister of Transport Mf. Alfred Barnes. Reuter
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    NEW INDIAN ENVOY
    22 12 Dr. Mohan Singh Mehta, the first Indian Ambassador to the Netherlands, arrived at Schipol airport from London yesterday.— Reuter
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    POLICE TRAP 3 WHITE SLAVERS
    149 12 COPENHAGEN, Wednesday. POLICE arrested three Danes yesterday in Aalborg (Jutland) in connection with an American-led white slave traffic gang said to be- operating in Denmark, the newspaper Ekstrabladet reports One of the arrested Danes is said to have confessed to acting as assistant to "a
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    EGYPT'S BUDGET
    20 12 The Egyptian Senate adjourned yesterday after approving Egypt's 1949-50 budget, including £52 million for the armed forces.— A.P.
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    400,000 QUIT SHANGHAI
    37 12 THE Peiping radio reported last night that 400,000 refugees had been evacuated from Shanghai for work on farms. This was one of the steps taken to smash the Nationalist blockade, the radio added. Reuter
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    Choosing sex of baby
    102 12 SCIENTIFIC evidence that parents may be able to choose between having a boy or girl baby has been found by two doctors of Duke University. Deryl Hart and James D. Moody, after studying results of artificial insemination, and experiments on rats. It is all a matter
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    46 12 Miss Kate Ferguson, library adviser to the British Council speaking at the official opening of the Katong public library in Joo Chiat Koad yesterday. Others in the picture are (from left) Miss R. Handy. Lady Gimson, Mr. T. P. F. McNieee, and Mr. G. H. Kiat.
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    FISH TOWS A BOAT
    60 12 OTTAWA, Wednesday. 4 49 -POUND sturgeon A measuring 4 ft. 9 ins. towed a boat in the Rent River, giving two American fishermen a 45-minute ride. Hooked by Edivard Brown with a 15-pound test line, the fish battled for over an hour before Brown landed j
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    TRIED TO 'BUY' EXAM. PAPERS
    200 12 SALFORD (Lanes.). Wednesday. TWO Turkish students, attending Saliord Royal Technical College on Government grants, were fined under the Corruption Act yesterday, when they admitted offering a English girl clerk £40 if she would get them advance copies of examination papers Usnu Oturmn, 3.1 i lined
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    'We will fight to last man'
    270 12 QUIRINO PLEDGE TO U.S. WASHINGTON, Tttttdaj ADDRESSING Congress today, President Elpidlo Quirino of the Philippines pledged his count i "fight to the last man" on the side of America ii any new world conflict. "While many countries in the world are still at a
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    2 DOCTORS' ILLEGAL OPERATIONS
    145 12 2 DOCTORS' ILLEGAL OPERATIONS JOHANNESBURG. Wed. AFTL'R a sensational t: two doctors and two women WCTC yesterday found guilty in the Johannesburg magistrate's court on a terlea of counts of procuring tions Sentences will be pa today The emm Uoire<l .1 police raid made in 1947 0a [Mtmlm IB Johannesburg
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    INDIAN REFUGEES
    16 12 Th»» first batch of refugees from the K ntral Burn, arrived in Rangoon »> Reuter
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    NEPAL TO U.N.: 'WE ARE FREE'
    7 12 NEPAL TO U.N.: 'WE ARE FREE' Reuter
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    MORE PEARL RIVER PIRACY
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