The Singapore Free Press, 11 August 1949

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  • 23 1 The Singapore Free Press APTERNOOH SALE IN MALAYA ADSF SDF DS FD DF SDAF DSF SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 315 1 Pacific Union proposal PRES.DENT SSTftt.. said here yesterday that he hoped that his proposed anti-Communist Pacific Union would include Malaya, Nationalist China, India, Burma, Indo-China, Australia, Indonesia and Korea, and that it would get moral backing from the U.S. He said also that Marshall Aid
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  • 84 1 RUBBER PROBE URGED viay. to the 1 the Fedit ps from r George Maxed a scien-r-ause of per pound i plantation for up to statistics X Lticle In the Finansaid: "If. and v irld still rerubber, both resent controiiay as?:re that the C pr I ibber must When all n
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  • 60 1 death by misre returned re Coroner, Mr. this morning at if the inquiry is of Sqd. Ldr. taer, RAF., and his bcl, who were a head-on collision Buklt Timah that as concerned ■n the proper i. he did not idence provldhar^ing the Cpi Peterslngho of Ceylonese Pioneer the Penal
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  • 19 1 1 Charlei knocked -wnevich in the jMd in New York to retain the version of the cham---C.P.
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  • 73 1 KATFIELD. Thurs. A TEST pilot yesterday took Britain's latest "top secret" airliner, the fourengined all-jet De Havilland Comet, to a height of 36.500 feet (nearly seven miles) but still 3.500 feet lower than the normal operating height, it was announced last night. The Comet
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  • 17 1 The Singapore Anti-Vice Squad arrested four Chinese and Javanese women in Queen Street last night.
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  • 34 1 i Fifteen charred bodies were j recovered from the burnt out i wreckage of a bus, which j crashed into a bridge near Blooming on, Indiana, yester- 1 dnv A. P.
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  • 219 1 BATAVIA, Thursday. Mtu 2,000 Indonesian guerillas attacked the Dutch garrison after infiltrating into the Central Java town of Solo, but were driven off after heavy day-long fighting on Sunday; it was learned here yesterday. The Indonesian Republican Prime Minister Dr Mohammed Hatta, due by air in
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  • 93 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES will this week begin exclusive publication in Malaya of the confessions of Haigh, the "Vampire Killer" and one of the most amazing murderers of all time. In this remarkable scries of articles, Haigh relates the bizarre incidents of his career, from his days in
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  • 38 1 A EUROPEAN estate manager, a Chinese contractor and a Malay driver were attacked by about 20 bandits while travelling in the Jasin area of Malacca yesterday morning. They were wounded but managed to escape.
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  • 127 1 GUAYAQUIL, (Ecuador), Thursday. MORE earth tremors yesterday brought new terror to the people of Central Ecuador, harassed by disease, food shortages and looting Indian raiders since the disastrous earthquake last week-end. With many survivors plagued by typhoid and whooping cough and threatened by pneumonia epidemics, the Government
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  • 35 1 Peiping Radio said last night that Peiping, ancient capital of China and traditional cultural centre, would be transformed from a nonproductive to an industrial city with the co-operation of the Communist Government. Reuter
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  • 37 1 THIRTY ONE people were drowned in the swollen Mahanadhi river, India when a b.irge with 90 persons aboard capsized in midstream. The crew of 10 and 39 passengers were rescued, the report said. Reuter
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  • 109 1 NO PUNS FOR CHINA AID -OMAR BRADLEY WASHINGTON, Thurs. GENERAL Omar Bradley. Chief of Stall of the United States Army ruled out any immediate plans for aid to China. He said there was "no immediate effective way" of giving military aid to China. Gen. Bradley said most of the arms
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  • 27 1 A Singapore schoolboy died lii the General Hospital yesday afternoon, after he was suddenly taken ill on his way home from school. Police are investigating.
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  • 16 1 Gurkhas, operating east of Yong Peng in Johore. killed a Chinese bandit yesterday.
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  • 101 1 WHEN 16-year-old Shirley May of Massachusetts tries to swim the English Channel soon she will have to be content with being escorted by a private schooner because the U.S. Navy has refused a request by Shirley s manager, Mr Ted Worker, for a destroyer or
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  • 66 1 LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN'S adverse trade balance fell by CIS,--500,000 last month, according to provisional figures issued h> the Board of Trade today. In Jul>, the adverse balance was €40,700.000 compared with 1*54,200.000 in June. In May the figure was 1 37,800,000. Exports in July were €111,500.000 €1,700,000
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  • 194 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. REPRESENTATIVES of the 12 Atlantic Pact £V nations will meet here soon to begin work on putting the 20-year defence alliance into operation, the State Department said today. The meeting will probably be held before' September 1. The announcement came as the
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  • 214 1 REPORT ATHENS, Thursday. 'FHE Greek Minister for War, Mr. Cpnellopoulos, yesterday described as "fantastic" an Albanian report that Greek troops had invaded Albania on a 30-mile front. The Tirana Radio had announced that Albanians had killed and taken prisoner "hundreds" of invading Greeks. A Greek Govt. spokesman
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  • 66 1 RANGOON. Thurs. ANEW "double aggression" pact between renegade White Flag P.V.O.'s and rebel Karens was announced officially yesterday. It was stated that the pact was signed at a small village In the Pegu district, immediately norl'h of Rangoon, between the rival rebel leaders. The Government communique,
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  • 65 1 BRUSSELS. Thurs. THE Belgian Liberal Party last night agreed to join the Catholics In a new twoparty Government, ending the country's 4f;-day-old Cabinet crisis The Socialists had earlier refused a final offer to join the Socia.' ChrLstians 'Catholics) and Liberals in a three-party coalition. The now
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  • 20 1 The 14th Field Regiment R.A. sailed from Liverpool for Hongkong last nteht in the troopship Lancashire.
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  • 29 1 Cuba has walked out of the third session in Anr.ecy (France) of the 23 nations which signed the 1947 Geneva agreement on tariffs and trade— Reuter
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  • 135 1 Manyships sunK or seized CHINESE NAVY IN ACTION HONG KONG, 'inurs. QFFICIAL Nationalist from Formu.s;i say Nationalist gunboats intercepted, detained or destroyed 13 vessels lighters of foreign turns off Taku bar, gateway to Tientsin, on Tuesday. The reports say this leUun or destruction will close ih»* Communist ports of Tlent
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  • 74 1 Mr Jdhn LeiglUon Btu United States Amhuifinr to China, is expected t to the Secretary of State. Mr Dean Acheson. to d to see President Truman s ly aftei wards Mr. Stuart reached W.. ington last night by piano from San Francisco, where h» arrived
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  • 52 1 A inClil M.trkn .•rrt»Npi>ndrnt gives the pricrs of rubl>»r (in cents per Ih.) at 11 a.m. tmi.«\ tui followBu>er» Seller* No. 1 R S 8. Spot: loos* 34 F.o.b. in Dales Aug: Nk 1 1.1.1, 33 31 No. I 1.1.1. II No. 3 R.S S. 28 Tone of
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  • 576 2 Oh, for a nice loud voice! PETER I QUENNELL Reviews new I books in U.K. She released her wrist, lifted her right arm tovards Heron, lifted her body with it it was a kind of shuddering elongation like iclding of a racked limb, aid 'Kill that man. 1 urn drove
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    111 2 "DRIDGE dectectivea can unl the bluodhound the crime and Uu> riminal in W< thi CjUft'n of li the dub fineaae was n king. E< tnonda i I lost tO V. trumi 'ore yo; on. t!:e crira Th< v.-hole play should h lplan In to thi I imOl W
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  • 328 2 By JACK TARVER. 'PHIS is one of the few 1 countries in ;he world where it is possible not only to kill someone without fear of punishment, but also to do it In a manner carefully prescribed by law. As strange as it seems, Uruguay,
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  • 120 2 CHURCHILL IT is a most undignilied tiling to be B rwan on the River Phames these days. Pa and Ma, having ust become used to the Mtrental Jcys of padlling proudly up and n strei m with iheir bab and ol ihowim m off
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  • 89 2 AV clock it In Arundel 9 I It no i.3( is All that day th< I been m In th» I :ets months viom for certain I the Princess mould the b Tlio pollci v Just In cas* ih< laid out oil lan p guide ihr
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    • 92 2 Advent it i ir» nii Hurry .o »tcjp« N IM, Koni humped nio »atl« ThMf j 'h» l«DI* 4n i .i f^\ rtc»r io*|rn\ Ki n i I mt ««citd J Monktii tiu>i niif n^rrtl r.,,r |H| 'lunnid Kom von muitn i •t. g r* Wit «'.OUsly nu-t »T J
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    • 234 2 Qu ick Looks Doctor Himself. An Unorthodox Biography of Harry Roberts, M.D., by Winifred Stamp. lHamish Hamilt 10s. 6d I The unorthodox biography of a brave and uneonveii\al man who, besides being an industrious writer and a pugnacious controverst, for 30 years practised medicine among Lo?idon s poor. There Was
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    • 1023 2 BbrnfaJBaiMMH i JHkiiiiiiml fes*AA5s$i&^^ :^w. Metres and Hetrea mi) v\ t 45 p m Ei Summary; News Head darket Report; 5.00 Alfred C< —at the piano; .VI 5 "Mid-W t'ftik 1 <BBC>; 5.90 Symphony Con•nf; is 'Colonial Comi iBBCi 6 3o v Can1 n. iBBC». 6.45 Indonesian: New* Bt Programme;
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    • 281 2 at I bu; And so In 1920 Lt passed n mi c. tie t 193 1 nor outlaw ing I. but s the nanner in whicn it must be held. 3 I its purp been killed sii Btl rial duels, the latrst having taken place but several Brt the amount
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  • 574 3 Bitter battle in prospect A L J^V GH there is stiU a >' ear to eo before the British general election indications are that the t will be unparalleled in political bitterness and acrimony and some believe that a deadlock soluble only by the
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  • 25 3 Devastating forest fires roared out of control in Montana aud Idaho as more than 1.000 men battled without rest to check them.
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  • 100 3 —ALLEGATION orld's press missed the greatest story in »n not reporting the slaughter of 60,000 Madagascar by the French last year, ac- j '"•Dr. Uston Pope, Dean of Yale University I ...IV Vf.l->-...l 'V 1MMI1. who \va s sent to ha ago by the T. R Founclae leaders from
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  • 193 3 1 ,500 year-old Christian remains found gVIDENCE of the existence Of an early Christian I community which lived in the Samaria hills in Central Palestine during the fourth century was unearthed by Dr. Ovid Roger Sellers, Director of the American School of Oriental Research, while he I was conducting excavations
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  • 166 3 FRENCH REPLY 'ONLY 15,000 WERE KILLED' FRANCE'S reply to the allegation that Colonial troops "slaughtered 60,000 Madagascans in 1947" will be sent shortly to the United States Government, it was learned in Paris. The French statement denies the allegation and makes these points. 1. It is untrue that French Colonial
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  • 54 3 '.'TiHE Commissioner fur 1 France's Indian settle-, ments, M. Jean George Chambon, has assured the Chanuernagore Administrative Council that the de facto ■.transfer of Chandernagore to (India will be made as soon as 'a drart treaty had been drawn up in New Delhi between the Governments ot
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  • 117 3 BAO DAI SETS UP 70-MAN ASSEMBLY A VIETNAMESE National Consultative Assembly has been set up by a neeree signed in Dalat on July 1 by Bao Dai, ex-Kmpercr 'of Annam and Chief of State and Prime Minister of Vietnam. The 45 members and 25 substitute members of the Assembly will
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    25 3 Princess Alexandra of Kent, l?->ear-old daughter of the Duchess of Kent, riding her eight-year-old mare Trustful at the International Horse Show. White City Stadium, London.
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  • 30 3 Mr. Hamibul Chauhdury, East Bengal Finance Minister, I disclosed that the Pakistan jute crop might be I as low as 5,000.000 .to 5,550,000 i Daies mis year.— Reuter
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    66 3 Gar Wood, inventor and speedboat racer, at the wheel of his "Venturi," the 188-foot twin-hulled vessel he designed and built at his estate. He believes it is j the most stable boat in the world and the prototype of future express passenger liners. It cruised at 26 knots on a
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  • 88 3 Synthetic fur is mothproof fur may neap .ink problem wrear in form, a snow ir, a maCanadian Svelte and fur can and dyed tsl -:;nd of fur »nly experts Terence. II mothproof, shable with hard to tear Its cost retail price at present se wives. ices 1 standsaid to be
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  • 17 3 Germany e 'JO ,000 noeuv- this r In Rhine E i re exImport- Western
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  • 119 3 Japs ate my father, says girl FOR the first time in the history of war crimes trials in the Philippines, a girl recited before a commission how Japs killed, stewed and then ate her father. Juanlta Sayam, 23, a native of Sumilan, Bukidnon, said five hungry Jap soldiers (members of
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  • 91 3 A IRCRAFTMAN Waltei Thackeray, of Hillstreet, Sheffield, smacked hi* wife's face because he objected to her usiifg nail varnish said Mr. Commissioner Essenhigh in Sheffield Divorce Court. The husband, he went on, threw the bottle of varnish into the fire. He had alsc said: "She smacked
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  • 175 3 VUHEN a 52-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Beatrice Resch, said to be the liaison agent for a million dollar counterfeit ring, surrendered to the New York Federal Authorities, she was engaged in a hairpulling incident in the U.S. Attorney's office with another woman who was alleged to have
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  • 117 3 'No incentive to study Orient' MR. E. R. de S. Sarathchandra, Lecturer in Pali at the Ceylon University who returned U Ceylon after a two-year stay in England on study leave said his impression was that Oriental Studies In England were almost dead. "I do not know about Oriental Studies
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  • 287 3 THE new Director of the Far Eastern Regional office! of the U.N. Division of Social Activities, Dr. Jal F. Balsara, until recently Deputy Commissioner of Bombay Mumcipality, leaves New Yor* on Friday for Bangkok. The office is being opened) to implement the programme of advisory
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  • 270 3 AN economic conference to be held in Washington next month will discuss means of closing the gaps in the Western bloc's ecoriomic defences against Communism by a series of commodity stabilisation agreements, according to official quarters in Washington. Officials said the British Treasury
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  • 35 3 THJt: United Nations Commission for Korea will t-xiay resume daily press conferences, which were suspended when the Southern Korean Government last month arrested six reporters at -ached fed the Commission for 'communistic reporting.
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  • 346 3 Yard closing in on bullion smugglers AN international currency-smuggling ring which for three years has cheated the British Customs jf hundreds of thousands of pounds is almost within the jjrasp of Scotland Yard. Two of them, looked upon as respectable ausiness men in the City of London, have been d's:losed
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  • 138 3 SALESMEN, SAMPLES FLOWN TO JUNGLE SALESMEN lrom the Union Of South Africa have taken to the air in a oig way in ill effort to booil 'he production Of tlie factories and farm they represent. Commenting upon this new all-out effort to cover the expanse of the |uni n African
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  • 42 3 The Sachst-nhauscn i centration camp near BIs being used as a depot U) provide the Soviet with il labourers, says Mrs. Enka Raeder, wife of the former German Grand Admiral who was released from the camp a month.— A.P.
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    • 102 3 3 wise men from cast REPRESENTATIVE Walter Judd, Republican, has issued a statement in Washington commendinft President Quirino of the Philippines for his effort towards .tahilisin? world peace. He said, while our (iov ernment has theorised and dawdled, three leaders in Asia who face reality, not the theory of Communist
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  • 605 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Aug. 11, 1949 DULL PRESENT, BRIGHT FUTURE RECESSION, slump, decline. whatever ftl the pruper term to describe th? present nation of business— there is no cuubt of a .era] tendency to i»ut off cr refuse to see ail projects which will caM tor expenditure. Yet
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  • 1159 4  - Georgia is where the Negro cannot feel safe James Brough by SAVANNAH, Georgia: DESIDE the shimmering tarmac, with Its fringes of tobacco plants. a Negro plodded barefoot Uodcr a straw hat, ancient as an heirloom, he sucked on a corncob pipe. Where the road threaded through a clump of moss-draped
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  • 934 4  -  George Bernard Shaw by 1 fJEOWiE BERNARD .SHAW, the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence, is young enough at 93 to laugh at himself. "Thank God," he said to me on his birthday last month, 'Tve reached my second childhood. It's a delightful sta'.e of existence. For one
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  • 939 4  -  Politico By IyHILE the description of the Ecuador earthquake as the 'worst ever" is an exaggeration, obviously it ranks among the major natural disasters of this century. The Kwamo ear'.hqLiake of 1523. which destroyed Yokohama and half of Tokyo, claimed many mart Tictims the official featb
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    16 4 I' Don'i be rtdacmtoitfA, I Enttm. you «re»'l I r*qu*r*4 to go 4own w-ttJi I i
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    76 4 Princess Elizabeth had her first trip in her Dragon ('lets yacht. -£> with th£ Duke of Edinburgh at the helm, ihey went for a sail on the B<a... ev i Their Royal Highnesses had been expected at Cowes for the regatta 01 Yacht Squadron and the Island Sailina Club, in
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  • 7 4 This is the place where Negroes fight
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  • 8 4 His £13,000 a year I M 1 1
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  • 728 5 Services' V.D. 7 7 rate reduced Free Press Staff Reporter EUROPEAN police methods used by the Military Police in Singapore for tracing infected streetwalkers and improved social amenities for troops were helping to cut down venereal disease among Servicemen in the Colony, an Army antivice
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  • 67 5 Staff iiepurirr ivea of theas Will Kingdom at at 10 Phoenix invited by I B confer- the AdB Union, said yesthought the lie result of im submitted e on behalf ees of Air Force in i to meet morrow are: aran, S. M. ire Admiralty Unl
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  • 241 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ITAPPIEST and proudest person among the 1,000 wildly applauding people who witnessed Radio j Malaya's Talentime finals at the S.V.C. Hall last night was a slightly greying Naval Base engineer. He was the father of the two young Mulvaney brothers of Kirkcaldy,
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  • 45 5 BANGKOK. Wed About 40,000 to 50,000 eggs, export of which i- prohibited, are being smuggled out of the country into Malaya every month. Tht e™s are smuggled out of Soutti Siam in tins hiddrr In 'h a undercarriage and other parts of trains.
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    73 5 Mr. Lim Tay Boh, acting Professflr of Economics, Raffles College, has been awarded a Queen's Fellowship. Dr. Gwee Ah Leng and Dr. (Miss) Lim Toan Keng have been awarded Queen's Scholarships picture. Hh 80.A.C. advertising representative of Eastin Division, Mr. Geoffrey WVoster, who has arrived in Singapore from
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  • 139 5 FP Chinese Correspondent I ORDERS lor Japanese textiles worth more than $2 200,000 were placed by Singapore Chinese importers ?urin« a twc -month visit to lapan M- Chan Yam Lam. 'n?esldeni of the Singapore "h'nese Textiles and Sundry j SSf Association, said yes- Mr.
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  • 70 5 i DEAUTIFUL Yvorae Je CarD lo and Howard Duff Rood performances in Calamity Jane and San Bass, opening at the Capitol today. This technicolour film, produced by Universal-Interna-tional, tells the story of a shrew of old-time America's i Wild West. The programme includes a I short
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    26 5 picture. .1, i«, Tolict' Adviser to the Secretary of State for rolonies who has been inspecting police work in Singapore during the past week.— Free Press
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  • 46 5 He'll be dry waiting MR. Henry Hochstadt, well-known Singapore amateur actor, has been given an umbrella by fellow actor John ForbesSempill. Reason: Mr. Hochstadt sails in the Carthage for the U.K. today, and the umbrella will keep him dry while standing in pit queues for theatres.
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  • 236 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IT was unlikely that the Chinese Communists would for some time become a military threat to Hong Kong because of the risks and complications involved In a frontal assault, said a special correspondent of New York Herald Tribune, Mr. A.
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  • 374 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN indication as to when work on the assessment of claims under the War Damage Com per. sat ion Scheme likely to begin is being sought by Mr. John Laycock (Municipal North-East) at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council on
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    26 5 STANDARD seven boys of Raffles Institution, Singapore, photographed outside the Singapore Free Press building on Tuesday after they had been shown round the office and plant.
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  • 32 5 Surl.ice mails are n a .o arrive In Singapore today from BUun. Closing time for \y surface mails at the GP.O. today Is: to Burma. India. Pakistan. Australia and Java: noon
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  • 211 5 Action at Births Registry queried MR in UM B Council on a ther it applir.-mt for a c^rtlfi trart ol in > try in I f B ls required by tl r to fuxnl&l blm In vrlttnc with lor the application not the rant section o! th<- lav. |t* tory
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  • 28 5 KOTA BAHRU, H J A Park":. Assistant tr >l!er of Customs K has loft 1 Europe on leav< U led by Mr Hi I Province Wellesley.
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  • 273 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A UTHORISED police officers will be given the power to inspect bankers' books after permission for inspection has been given by the Chief Secretary, Malaya, under a new emergency regulation to be gazetted tomorrow. This new power has*
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    55 6 picture. jyiK S. G Mohd. Ghows, the retiring headmaster of lfl Outram Road English School, speaking at a teaparty given in his honour by teachers on Tuesday. Picture shows (from left) Mrs. Ben Dudley, Mr. S. G. Mohd. Ghows, Mr. V. Sinnathuray, Mrs Mohd. Ghows, Mr. Ben Dudley and Mrs.
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  • 35 6 Members of the Y.W.C.A. from many parts of Malaya will take part in a Summer Camp to be held next week at Tanjong Buneah, Penang. The Camp will be held until Aug. 24.
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  • 70 6 N.Y. STOCS IN NEW ADVANCE yHE New York Stocfc Exchange resumed its forward march yesterday as the trading paco j quickened after a slow, Indecisive start Fractional gains predominated although selective issues scored advances of one dollar or moro. Traders continued to bid up prices in moderate dealings. Gairvs were
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  • 210 6 Free I'ress Staff Reporter pHE Singapore Municipality proposes to lay a J stretch of asphalt road with rubber powder shortly. The work will be sponsored by the British Rubber Development Board. The Municipal Engineer. Mr. G. Edmond, has recommended that the experimental stretch be laid
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  • 326 6 POLICE HUNT 'MAN WITH RED EYES' Reward offer in Federation Free Press Staff Reporter BANDIT with red prominent ears, and eyes "that are always red" is one of 18 members of the Batu Arang Gang on whose heads the Federation Police have placed a price. He is Yap Khoon who,
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  • 155 6 CORPORAL HAD FOUR WIVES Free Press StatT Reporter PENANG. Wed. A POLICE corporal, who had previously been advised by a superior officer to "part with three of his four wives." was today sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for criminal breach of trust of jewellery, valued at $^.635. The corporal. Abdul
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  • 407 6 LONDON, Thurs. THE recovery in British A Government stocks ir the London Stock Exchange of Tuesday proved short-lived and a further sharp fall in prices was recorded yesterday when the market came under fire from sellers, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Losses of up to
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    32 6 THIS item in the programme presented h> ||m Kourn.t Workshops in Singapore on Monday evoked much lain party of tfe 'Tazzy Twenties nerforming at a pier p^nZ 7>, Orient picture. >u P*r-Mat>
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  • 113 6 MORE than 1,200 Singapore schoolchildren filed Into the Palm Court at Raffles Hotel yesterday evening to near a concert by the Junior Symphony Orchestra and thf £Jffi? b u n d School* Choir which Included a movement from a Beethoven Symphony 2 SI orks b y Bacn
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  • 164 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ,Cory (W.) Son. 80 9 Courtauld (5/-J 32 ti 3 De Havilland 37 6 Distillers 24 6 Dorman Long 28 6 Dunlop 59 g H9 Guest Keen 37 3 i Oen. Elec 80 6 6 Imp. Chem. Ord 40 9 Imp. Chem Pref. 30 6 3 Imp.
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    • 119 6 INDERTHE DISTINGIISIII li l'\l!iiis\(.l (A H E. SIR FRANKLIN OIMSOM K< N.O CHORAI ANDOR('Ht>TK\I < n\( IRT BY TIU SINGAPORE JUNIOR SYMfMiOM 01 TRE COMBINKH s( MKN < iOH AT THE PALM COURT RAFFLES HOTEL TOMORROW AKilSl !th IfM II N OR IF IT RAINS ON \l(.l^l kT7PM BOOK YOl'R
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    • 59 6 BvldnnnikB Exclusive to tho Singapttrv Free Press* in Malaya JANE Exclusive to the Singapore* Free Press in Malaya I for us MEr\ s* 1 i J an /(t silenced while- the. I V couldn't they Vskua isiT>jr>?^ 1 H^Tjrt 1^^^ >a W5 :77 I BE THAT 6 I *MWWB«^" T*
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  • 308 7 AST GLLOPS AT KUALA LUMPUR Best time" by Lovely Bore, Peggy s Choice nnMTrfi 6 wF reSS Ra in Correspondent It < s Pencer) and Sunny Valley (Charles), The Magic Lamp (Healey) and Mamuse (Harper), Lovely Bore (Charles) and Peggy's Choke (J. Donnelly), all broke 39 sec. for three furlongs
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  • 396 7 4; Kurasians iportanities which were offered! nst the run of play, Malays defeated four goals to one in the S.A.F.A. nitv soccer match at Jalan Besar j n their, most dangerous forward j rider, the Eurasians more than! Inst their opponents in the first!
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    35 7 photo. I „„ha.|l Ifl Us m U:BIKU ll in which lljnald uipbell. son o* Uy l BsSsW B attempt to breaK the world's wa-r speed nord < jgL^wS was successfully launched on Lake Coniston, Lancasmrc. Reuter
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  • 147 7 THE U.S. Professional Golfers' Association ytsterday told the managers of the Grand Rapids open tournament that it could not relax its ban on Bobby T.ocko. Herman Miller, Chairman of the $15,000 open starting: on August 18, said he had interceded for Locke with the
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  • 133 7 A SPECIAL drug- Osteotropin is bening imported from London by a Sydney veterinary surgeon to treat a three-year-old gelding^ which collapsed after a race nn July 16. The house Vimy Ridg»\ collapsed in th3 saddling enclosure at Canterbury »one of Sydney's courses) after having finished
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  • 89 7 THE s.c.f.a. will meet f he EuropmiM In an inter-Com- mun: u*- soccer match at Ijalan Besar stadium tod;iy. The following: S.C.F.A. players are ac-ked to bo :.t the stadium by 5. p.m. Cfcu Chee L'n ;n 'iucit Choon, Patrick Yec Tan Chin ,Lve. Kwok
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  • 64 7 rpED BROADRIBB. manager Of litrht-heavyweighl champion Freddie Mills arrived in New York by plane and had a. conference ith j Promoter Andy Neiderreiter eon- cerning a proposed title fight with Joey Maxim. It was understood that Mills hn.s been offered a guarantee of US$BO,OOO to make
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  • 33 7 rPHE California Legislature is ready to open up a US$l,OOO.--000 bank account for the 1952 Olympics if Finland gives up the games and they are awarded to a California city. t
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  • 467 7 WORCESTERSHIRE, joint leaders with Middlesex T in the County cricket championship race, were i out comparatively cheaply against Somerset yester- day, but retaliated by running through nine of their opponents wickets by close of play. Middlesex spent the whole day over a total of 346 against Kent.
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  • 65 7 BRITAIN'S champion Gordon Ru hards, won tl. five- rac°s at Bath yestirdav. Thi> Rave him a total of eight successive winning mount! Including thrtt %t Folk' Among hi- five w day way the 8-1 chance Chaktta In thr one mile Avpn Handicap H.!» other winners
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  • 148 7 LEE SAVOLD TO GIVE EXHIBITIONS RELAX f EE SAVOLD wHI box exhibitions and relax in the l^ country until Bruce Woodcock sets the date for their British version of the heavyweight fight 1 The big American will -i mikp hie hpaHnnart^rv at ihe country home of a friend. Charles MicArthur
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  • 27 7 \\TINSTON Place, the Lancu- sbltt opening batsman, wffl probably accompany the Em; kl tfam of League profetsjoiial* on their tour of India Oils vmr.
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  • 49 7 photo. I iw*i» (IP WINNER: J. N. Somers. a 40-year-old London businessman, who learned to fly when on a week's holiday In Sussex in 1936. won the King's Tup Air Kace at Edmonton. Birmingham's airport recently. He flew a Miles Gemini and averaged 164.25 m.p.h Reuter
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  • 115 7 YY^ally Langdoii. Western Auft- tialian left handed batsman, s^id yesterday that he has fcgtf to are' pt an Invitation to play for the British Empire which to tcur liidia lromJ October, 1949. to March. 1950. Lttngdon, who bM I reputation as a batsman in She
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  • 40 7 SIR Donald Bradmun. who has ret. red from Br»tclasi QrtcKel recently {mined I another title that of «olt Champion oi ar. Ariel., club. Sir Donald had previously the ti'\ 15 v ars ai A.A.P Reuter
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  • 68 7 reh key practise n,a'(h at 5 y m thla evening: I. R grtre. R G v. h. T. Brar.ds M. burgh. J. C Smith J. II 'II Boinds. A J Details. R» H C Kingsmill. O. W .1 Ci- h R J. ,D E. L R.H B A.H.W
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  • 26 7 )fN a friendly soccer mir <d at Farrer Park y .ndian Casuals beat Young Cora- panion Athlotl^ Association by i 'hree goals to tu.o.
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  • 337 7 B. Sutcliffe hits 243, an sets record OEKT SUTCLIFFE yesterday stored Ml "Essex at Southern! to set up the highest Indi score ever made by a member of a New Eeal ind touring side in England. Previous best", was 225 not out by R C. Bl 1931. Sutcliffe helped the
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  • 76 7 EE ALAN II i in Suf< !HTf t I > Vlffßl Srntt b I t(h I ili Dmnellj r i v Rnnt b r aitb Burk* tu.( «iu* Csve c I I! r V. i Ist 1: Tot.il Wick. Is fr|| a t tin BOWLING O M R U
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  • 81 7 THK B OlrU' vpo Raffles' In.s 1 Itutlon watched by over 2,000 1 and despite an. eai n shower which ma field wet, lv tQ bo a 1 H event on I gramme was the sch< which M dlst Girls' School W( uirent. 11 toam
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  • 28 7 Cli: 1 Club on thl i I .1 ban J w .1 le. H. N. B m h rton Q A W 1 .< i (1
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    • 19 7 IfIAMBRA 1 'I. 6909; b<KC TODAY! iy/ lalSfecl f tg Wt W Hi. ING f )ARDS EH**"*""""— f i
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    • 69 7 m -r m SHIMS i:\lllllt ROUNDHEAD The ideal Wall (Jock for Offices, Factories Schools, etc« Wall Clocks, this dear and can be supplied in mah Inch polished brass bu l and i I »fron SMITHS CLOCkSI fck QUARTET^ HAS A QUALITY J!!M CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED iS MAGK TODAY FOUR
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  • 361 8 photo. Govt. exodus speeded up I HONG KONG, Thursday. WITH the main Chinese Communist armies Tf pressing steadily into South China in their all-out offensive, observers predict that the Nationalist capital at Canton will fall to the Reds within three to six weeks.
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    60 8 photo. The tripartite military conference among the representatives of Pakistan, India and members of the United Nations Kashmir truce sub-committee which was held in Karachi last month. Members of the United Nations sub-com-mittee are seen in background facing camera and in foreground with backs to camera. The Indian representatives are
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  • 233 8 VAMPIRE KILLER HANGED LONDON, Thursday. JOHN GEORGE HAIGH. vampire killer of nine! persons, plunged through the hangman's trap to his death at the end of a noose yesterday. The dapper, cold-eyed little businessman, who killed for profit, drank the blood of his victims, and then
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  • 57 8 1 TOKYO, Thurs. INEXPENSIVE alarm I clocks will run 48 hours without reioinding instead 24 hours through a Japanese clockmaker's ingenuity, SCAP observers report. The trick is the substitution of glass for the usual steel bearing for the balance wheel. Without other material changes, the frictional
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  • 58 8 LAS PAZ, Thurs. DOLIVIAN Government offl- cials announced yesterday that they have broken up a revolutionary plot and arrested five of its leaders. They said that plans for the revolution had been made by the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR), the party of the revolutionary left P.0.R..
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  • 54 8 India will seek atomic power DR. SHRE SHAIDHARA NEHRU, cousin of the Indian Premier, Pandit Nehru, said at a press conference in Heidelburg that India lntend~"ed to go in for atomic research. He claimed India had a monopoly of world supply of thorium, a vital basic metal for the production
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  • 24 8 President Truman announcJ^>d yesterday that Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, has accepted his Invitation tc visit the United States
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  • 111 8 TIBETAN -INDIAN ACCORD? WASHINGTON, Wed. DIPLOMATIC authorities said today that Tibet, taking advantage of the Nationalist Government's plight, may break entirely away from nominal Chinese suzerainty which has been exercised since the 18th century > and possibly effect a diplomatte and economic under- j standing with neighbouring India. Dispatches have
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  • 92 8 JOHANNESBURG. Thurs. TWO doctors and their wo- men assistants were sent to prison yesterday after i having admitted in their de- I fence to M a gigantic practice" of procuring abortions in the main centre of Johannesburg. They have appealed. Dr. Oerhardus Buchrwr was sentenced to
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  • 46 8 NINETEEN Chinese National Airways Corporation aircraft flew 400 cases of silver coins to Canton and Hengyang. These silver coins were part of a large consignment for the Nationalist Government arriving in Hon;* Kong from America in the p; A st two weeks. Reuter
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  • 146 8 jtjRS. NORMA EILEEN iTI wife of the Australia divorce in Sydney yesterds tion and adultery. She told the court that she and a private inquiry agent found Von Nida and a, woman in the back seat of a car parked on a golf course early
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  • 82 8 A SUBMARINE volcanic action has more than doubled x\ the size of tiny Matthew Island, near New Caledonia in the Southern Pacific, the New Zealand naval sloop Pukaki has reported after a cruise in those waters. Until recently the island was merely 30 acres of land i
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  • 26 8 Former U.S. president, Mr. I j Herbert Hoover, observed his 75th birthday yesterday as tributes poured in from all A .P. over the world.—
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  • 134 8 Jap M.Ps. predict Red rising TOKYO. Thurs. THE recent Communist troubles in Japan are a 'prelude to a full dress re- i volution by force." according to a special examination i committop of the Japanese House of Representatives. The committee's attack against the Communists is contained in an interim report
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  • 148 8 11/IDESPREAD press repi cure for malaria "wit have been described as 4 p by a University of Chica.u;i Dr. Lowell Coggeshall, dean ol the University's division ol biological sciences, said many obstacles still remain to be overcome bofore a cure can be claimed, and
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  • 40 8 11 //f.V coal strikes doted a large refrigerator factory, the oicner, Mr. E. J. Haltetrom. amiouneed that his firm would riieet all instalments and time-pay-menta contracted for by his 550 employees during their lay-off. U.P.
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  • 37 8 Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Co-operation Administration chief, left New York by air yesterday for a 16-day tour of Marshall Plan countries. Britain has contracted to buy 2,700,000 cubic feet of building timber from Russia.
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  • 189 8 'No room for Germany -GERRIOT STRASBOURG, til PRANCE announced at the tpenini x European Assembly last tiifhl that th» oppose any move by Mr. Winston un Western Germany M. Edouard Herriot. P: National Assembly, made -address as acting President of I opening session, atte: 12 European Q&tioi He paid tribute
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  • 47 8 Private tnterpH Netherl Interest In the foundat new In I one of the momb- n financial mission whl turned from the d. the Netherlands »>n '1 told Aneta, the Du» agency. The mission, whi ed the Dirctor of tlu mic AtTairs Department, Mr.
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  • 7 8 'HOPES OF PEACE ARE BETTER' -TRYGVE LIE
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  • 28 8 Tne Export-Impon R lias refuUM to gra: Spam. Mr Herbert i Q the bar.K. I in, told U.S Senate banking i tee yesterday. Ren'rr
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    • 354 8 BIRTHS BATTERS. At 0300 hours inth August, to Beverly and Norman at Mi]. Hospital, Singapore, a son. All three well. O'TOOLE: To Christina, wife of ERL O'Toole on 9th August at I Youngberg Memorial Hospital— a daughter. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAN SOON CHEW and CHAN SOON SENG wish to thank all frtor.ds
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    • 71 8 I He bAINI by Leslie Chartens S- J/Z/Jj^^^^^^SS TAKE (T EASY 9UTCH. IbUTWHATIsI I A MAN LIKE BIG TONY PRiNCPE I I/nQ UZA. l-E WASN'T WCA/WT/ VKltt EVER>TTntNG'$ ALL /THIS ALL A CANT TAKE CHANCES... BUT HE VOuff PWT^E«?...VObC? IU^!r? Pi\ SAINT* JXiVi »GHT...JUSTASUGhT] ABOUT? I SENT THEM AWAY AS
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    • 11 8 HIGH TIDES j Today: I «U ).m. Tomorrow: 00 30am. I.Sftpm
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