The Singapore Free Press, 18 August 1949

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    18 1 |Pt Z'-V ■■'■'i B^Bv LARGEST AFTERNOON S/LE IN MALAYA P" SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1949. PRICE 10 VESTS
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    LIBBER SHIP TO RUN BLOCKADE
    252 1 SingaporeTientsin dash Free Press Staff Reporter \yiTH 1 000 tons of rubber now being taken on board in Singapore, the 8,000-ton American freighter Hying Clipper intends to run the Nationalist blockade of North China to Taku Bar at the entrance to Communist-held Tientsin. lhe Plying
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    47 1 1 l<> k v »up«-rinten dent of the Children's Aid I »h«» returned this m ornins to Singapore by the B after i three months holiday in Australia. She here with three girls from the Society's Home, I KuNdale (left). Miss Mariette Kerr and Miss June Thomas.
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    AGUE TALKS PEN AUG. 23
    122 1 THE HAGUE, Thursday. BMENT was reached here yesterday among jtDnf Kepublican and Federalist delegai?j the round-table conference on Inanext lucsday, it was learned last night. day the Dutch delegates met the pre-Federal Government at Batavia who are now in Holland. The leaders and deputy leaders
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    Press Takes to the air
    74 1 Press Takes to the air the Free >u a giant:i:nt of 12 news, views iddition to ail eight unrivalled and foreign mtu 1! pages are k full of readout this air a&e in I* live. i Is Hill shrink ie"; "Controlling the •in;;"; "UniverIhe Flying •w spreads its 'i aero
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    30 PLANES IN AIR DAY FLY-FAST
    142 1 30 PLANES IN AIR DAY FLY-FAST Free Press Staff Reporter ABOUT 30 aircraft ranging from a giant Consteiiation to a tiny Piper Cub will participate in the Singapore Air Day mass fly-past at Kallang Airport at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday. Fifteen other types of air- craft will be on "static"
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    Acheson hints at Anglo US 'union'
    198 1 Acheson hints at Anglo US 'union WASHINGTON, Thursday. WHILE denying the possibility of an economic union between Britain and the U.S., the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, told a press conference that officials were considering how Britain's economic problems would be affected by a "closer relationship between the two
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    Indian pig-iron
    37 1 The 7.660 ton Calcutta steamer, Indian Shipper, is discharging 3,296 tons of machine-cast pig-iron at. Newport, Wales, from India's Tata works the first such cargo to arrive since the early days of the recent war.
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    Grenade hurts child
    25 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A hand grenade thrown into a house in Kulim in Kedah last night slightly injured a Chinese child.
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    E. Germany may vote
    56 1 BERLIN, Wed. POLITICAL quarters said 1 today that the Russians are expected to set up an East German Communist government before Christmas. The Soviet plans were said to have been spurred by the elections in Western Germany last Sunday when over 23.000,000 voters elected their first
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    KENYA TURNS DOWN MOTION
    47 1 KENYA Legislative Council yesterday rejected a motion by Mr. A B. Patel, leader of the Indian-elected members, calling for the abolition of immigration control. Government members joined with European, African, and Indian Moslem members in opposing the motion during a two-day debate.- Reuter
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    Police arrest alleged pimp
    35 1 Police arrest alleged pimp Press Press Staff Reporter THREE Chinese arrested in Singapore yesterday comprised a man alleged to have lived on the earnings of prostitutes, an alleged Communist and an alleged secret society member.
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    Honour is satisfied
    55 1 TWO Cubans took their political differences to the field of honour yesterday and one, the Minister of the livterior Sr. Ruben de I*on, suffered a three-stitch scalp Sub-^,retarv of SanitUion Sr. Martin Castellanos. was cut on the shot-'itr. After bei^ patched up, Sr de Leon walked over
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    NAZI GEN. HELPS MAO
    80 1 FRANKFURT, Thurs. EX-NAZI Fieid-Marshal Fredich Von Paulus, who commanded the attack on Staiingrad in 1942, was sent to China by the Russians this summer to make written recommendations on warfare in the Far East, the Berlin correspondent of the Frankfurt Abendpost reported yesterday. Quoting "usuaiiy well-in-formed
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    DEATH FALL
    29 1 Free Press Staff Reporter AN ELDERLY Chinese fell from the first floor of 24 Temple Street this morning and died shortly after admission to the General Hospital.
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    38 1 Watched by hundreds of people, Malays provide a lot of fun as they climb the greasy pole at Siglap last ni?ht when over 5,000 people helped Indonesians celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Indonesian Republic's proclamation of independence.
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    Let Germany in—Churchill
    178 1 Let Germany in Churchill COUNCIL OF EUROPE STRASBOURG, Wednesday. lytß. Winston Churchill today called for the adLT mission of Western Germany to the Council of Europe at a meeting next December or January or, if that was impossible, at least the full question of Germany's admission could be debated then.
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    All quiet in Syrian capital
    71 1 DAMASCUS, Thurs. i LL army units have returnA ed to barr;; from picketing the Syr capital after Sunday's coup i "tat and military censorship has been stopped. Both picketing and censorship lasted 48 hours. A number of people detained by the last government have been
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    MRS. ZAIM IN TEARS
    37 1 With tears in her eyes, the #ife of the late President Zaim. ot Syria, left her husband's luxurious mansion in Damascus yesterday for her brother's homp in Alenno her native city. A. P.
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    159 Johore arrest
    31 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Arrests under the Emi rgency Regulations in Johore from Aug 10 to Aup 17, totallpd 159 141 Chinese, n Indians 1 and seven Malays.
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    S'PORE MAN FOUGHT SHOT ARMS DEALER
    137 1 MANILA Thurs. INVESTIGATIONS into the X murder of George Murray, young Amcrioan surplus arms dealer, have revealed that Murray recently had a fist fight in the lobby of 'he Gloucester Hotel with a British subject from Singapore, says a private informant. The nght is
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    Floods in Slovakia
    17 1 Sixteen people have been killed by strong storms and j Hoods in Eastern Slovakia
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    'March into Albania' demand in Greece
    165 1 'March into Albania' demand in Greece ATHENS, Thursday. 4 NGEKfcD by reports of direct Albanian aid to the defeated Greek guerillas, the extreme Greek Nationalist press and the people are demanding that the Government forces should march on Tirana N and "settle this long-standing score with Albania now." This feeling
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    290 people screened
    34 1 Free Press Stuff Reporter Fol'ce and troops of the 16th Field Battery screened 290 ix»opie ten of whom were arrested in an area north of the Jiinth mile Muar-Lengga Road yesterday.
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    CURFEW IN CANTON AS FIGHJ LOOMS
    211 1 FOOCHOW FALLS HONG KONG, Thursday. AS Communist armies occupied Foochow major South China port and capital of Fukien, and the Canton Government ordered the civilian evacuation of the Kwangtung border town of Kukong in the face of the Reds advancing on Canton and Hone
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  • CHINESE PROTEST TO
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      BRITAIN
      139 1 HONG KONG, TOUTS. THE Chinese Government has lodged a 'v nous protest" with the British Embassy In China Kfainst recent hostile actions by British naval vesseis ai the mouth of the Yangtze The protest deman such incidents shall not be repeated, the Agency laid "Pho Chines* Foreign <)(!<, e
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      Rubber prices
      54 1 SI'LCIAI. Market rorrr^puiident fivrs the pi ice* of rubber (in rents per Ib.) at II am today as follow*.: Buyer* Sellers No 1 K S S Spot: loo**- 34 4 Fob. In bales Sept. Ki 1 1,1.1, 3i .11', No. 2 R.S.S. IStt IK I 1.1.1, 20', 29',
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    QUICK LOOKS
    152 2 Murray'*- Berkshire Architectural Guide, edited by John Bet j eman and John Piper. (John Murray. 18s.) A new and welcome form oi guide-book. The architural fabric of an Bngttrb county, from its earliest remains to its newest gimc*°ack I -a lows; presented in lucid text and admirable illustrations.
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    HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint
    52 2  -  Max Factor Gie n HCILYWOOO A'»e E .l^r tco n.n, "»fc« wnd.rtoliw c chong* hair ntal Mri«.j t .y «iii, t ip a ,i M? »a« |V C ,S. Kc wi row o-| af)d or%d l ef 4how ell MM>tlll J im u m h > Itcrriog
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    Riddle Of The Sphinx Of Stratford
    647 2 PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books in U.K. PART from the titles of his plays and poems, nil that we definitely know of Shakespeare's life could be summed up without serious overcrowding on two sides of a postcard. The oiographer who reaches for a second
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    Bridge Hands
    243 2 INSERT A. Both sides vulnerable. North dealer 'pKK bidding wa.s a bit ambilMM* but, curiously enough, it was identical at both tables of a recent team of four match. Tin play was far from identical, however, and the results were equal K different. In the first rcom the
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    They're Looking For The Golden Library
    690 2 They're Looking For The Golden Library By F. H. FRAWLEY. 'pWO American exA plorers, Dana Lamb and his wife, Ginger, have resumed their quest for the lost city of the ancient Mayas, an* expedition interrupted eight years ago by World War 11. In a letter to friends in Los Angeles,
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    51 2 A }cv: yearn ago, this girl's plac e icas taken by a German sentry, patrolling the beaches of Norderney, an island off the coast of Ger- matiy. Sow the bunkers and barbed wire have been torn aicay by the British Military Government, and the holiday maker reads the 7ieus from
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    It's The Spirituar Mayor's Birthday Today
    270 2 It's The Spirituar Mayor's Birthday Today By HUANG HSIENSHENG TODAY is the anniversary birthday of Ch'eng Huang, the spiritual Mayor of the town; and (Chinese believers, particularly the female folk, all over Malaya, pay him homage in the form of sacrificial offerings. Ch'eng means city; and Huang mean? a moat.
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      38 2 Adventui l.md to thr **V *hcrt th« flyf« r* toy. UctOr V. Ol C 1% •e nefrtfd m ih« *o»id iv W 7 Vi 3T^Sa' I ->• I/' l'*' I **s iA Y~4swrf J ftT% m mm? JOSEPH TRAVERS
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      766 2 SINGAPORE SSSLJi"* hy D k Jurs> AUSXKALIA CBLUI network) BFEBS (Singapore) l(i l9 25 aNrt *i Metre*. 484 and 41.7 metres. (Including 8.8.C Kelav) rouA* Emergency news from K.L. 19 Metres 25 Metres <1 4 Dinmr Musl c with Albert .M0 Metros WK N^ul^n^S^om 10 News fronV D Kuala Lumpur;
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    POPULAR IN BERMUDA
    287 3 POPULAR IN BERMUDA ijthout Britons are... Good neighbour test by board T US dollar has made the Briton an un- wanted alien in Bermuda, oldest self govern in* colony of the Empire, and his Bank of E ns land money is not wanted either. g duce his return ticket before
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    Hansom pair memory
    55 3 Hansom pair memory Ld a small ad. lit on :-ior- I d hap- j lived the irth, a country nodded ie Item. i they iord clothier, v wife. bridegroom ho inserted 11 was whi tearing. :;d Who that since appinesa and n makes if happl>o worth home a They would
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    Absentee had on £1,800 spree
    75 3 FOR four months 29-year-old Thomas Surfleld, an Army absentee, travelled the country having a good time and living in the best hotels. The end came when police at Leeds became suspicious of the young man with so much money to spend. This was stated at
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    juirino warns U.S. tind your back door
    168 3 SIDI s I Klpidio Quirino of the Philippines has nrned America on Monday to "stop putting all ittpntiim on Kurooe and remember your back door, on the Pacific." He told a meeting of tne Commonwealth Club %< you may as well learn that
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    S'pore P.o.W. witness 'Tokio Rose'
    78 3 I Japan- se bruUlied war pritold at the tie isoa trial in defence claim broadcast bee v vitnesii, i Coubens, a Liatraiaan Army chokec 1 with ,'i'd tales of in Si 112 d■ntuaDv b a Radio broada^ seen two l< ath, and of days wiili
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    MAUNG TALKS WITH WEBB
    59 3 THE Burmese Foreign Minis--1 ter, U Maung, continued his discussions with American State Department officials in Washington at a luncheon with the Undersecretary of State, Mr. James Webb. U Maung began his talks in conferences with the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, and Mr. George
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    25 3 Sixteen future officers of the Indonesian Navy left by Dutch troopship for Holland, where they will be trained in the Dutch Roval Navv TnsHtute.— U.P.
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    Colombo to see 'drink' films
    68 3 DROHIBITIONISTS have losi the first round in their bout with the Colombo Board of P'ilm Censors on the banning of drinking scenes in films The Board has announced its decision not to ban the screening of films that contain drinking scenes The Board saw reports
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    A LAMENT
    32 3 "Children at State schools can tell you more about next Saturday's 'sure certs' than they can about the four Apostles," a clergyman told a lunch-time Presbyterian meeting in Adelaide.— Reuter
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    36 3 f^bourn! U1 ihis Pi-lure arc Miss Pat Matthews, Jn ilia, and Jimmy Wright, of San two of the stars of "Ire Cycle*," an N Dl boh showing in London. Weddinu s t i.mJo's Earl*s Court, Um-on.
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    LYING TO U.K.
    16 3 arrive by Southampt op-level Eastern visit the discus1. Lonhowever, Has comof the U.P.
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    EXAGGERATED
    57 3 FRAU Mater wrai notified by German authorities recently that her husbind. Johann Maier, had been killed in action with the German army in the last days of the war. Johann Maier opened the letter himself. He was captured by Allied troops, released in the summer of 1945. and has
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    Rules waived for Nepal
    73 3 rE Membership Committee of the Security Council recently approved over Soviet objections a Canadian proposal to waive the rules of the procedure so that Nepal's application for membership ot U.N. could be considered by the General Assembly w^lch convenes next month. Because the Ukraine requested more
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    Transfer continues
    30 3 France's de facto transfer of power in Chandernagore to the local Administrative Council was continuing gradually, a French Foreign Office and Overseas Territories spokesman said in Paris.— Reuter
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    R.A.F. SMUGGLERS CAUGHT; 4 RESIGN
    144 3 ATTEMPTS by R.A.F. officers and men to smuggle goods worth nearly £10,000 have been foiled by Customs officers at British ports and airfields, it is revealed by an Air Ministry Order. The Order warns airmen about the consequents to offenders Fifteen cases of R.A.F men
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    Bid to break Chiang blockade
    171 3 rpHE Chinese Communists appear to be devoting x more military effort toward breaking the Nationalist blockade, which is squeezing the life out of Communist-held ports. A Hong Kong despatch recently said 20,000 Red troops were making an amphibious attack on the Changshan Archipelago, off northern
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    37 3 ■t King George, bare-headed, inspecting a guard of honour of men of the Ist Bn. Highland Light Infantry when he visited Ballater. Scotland, on his way to Balmoral Castle. Escorting his majesty is Major St. George Maxwell.
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    Conscription for Israel
    90 3 ANNOUNCING two years i compulsory military service for Israelis between 13 and 26, Israeli Premier Mr. David Ben-Gurion told tho Knesest (Parliament) that Lsrac 1 had asked Eastern and Western countries to accept Israeli officers for training I in military academies. Under the Security Service bill, peace
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    16 salvoes for Merz
    43 3 Sixteen salvoes were fired by ships of the Israeli Navy and sirens sounded as a fighter escort went up at Haifa to meet the aircraft carrying the remains of Theo- d ore Merz. founder of Zlon- I lam*- A.P.
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    He got £20 armour for Is
    129 3 A SMALL boy stood for hours in front of a largo crowd at an auction sale of antiques at Horley, Surrey. Nfar the end of the sale an impressive suit of Japanese armour was put up. "How much for this?" said the auctioneer. A
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    Wife given a second divorce
    165 3 Wife given a second divorce MRS. ELIZABETH HOSE went to Liverpool Divorce Court to ask for a second decree and for her first to be cancelled. Judge Fraser Harrison granted both her petitions H e said:— "I remember this case very well indeed. In January 1 gave Mrs. Hose a
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    ALL BECAUSE A BOG BARKED....
    248 3 AS Hugh Alfred Owens, aged 28, arrived at his home in Stockport, and sat down to read the paper the dog next door started to bark. He turned up the radio to drown the noise, but "could not find a reasonable programme." His mother, the
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    DODGED POLICE FOR 8 YEARS
    61 3 KELLY, 38-year-old sapper in the Royal Engineers, was sentenced by court martial at Barton Stacey, Hampshire, to a year's detention for eight years' desertion. He said that throughout the eight years he eked out a living by odd jobs, and managed to dodge the police
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    'TOO COSTLY'
    52 3 AN elderly Jew Is back In Bombay after a short stay in Palestine because he found che promised Jewish home- land -too costly", i However lie landed at Santa Cruz Airport without the proper immigration papers, and arrangements i were being made to send him back to the
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    25 3 Jaroslav probny, self-exiled Czech tennis star, said in London that the Czech Government may be holding his family and that of his partner, V. Cernik.
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    Alarms, but no burglars
    93 3 C COMPLAINTS about frc*que.it ringing of burglar alarm j bells has brought an appeal from Scotland Yard to shopkeepers and office owners to make periodic checks of their alarm systems. Disregard of the appeal may lead to prosecutions. M>st burglar alarms are very sensitive, and vibration
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    Fights over new food tax
    319 3 Fights over new food tax RANGOON IS ANGRY piGHTS are taking place nightly in several of Rangoon's scattered restaurants and hotels between managements and irate customers refusing to pay the Hotel and Kestaurant ia\ in forec In since Aug. 1. I nder the new law ail public ran houses, refreshment
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    36 3 Hudding regimental instructors giving a dispi.t\ „i massed physical training at the Army S< hool n\ Y\\ cal TraininK, Aldershot. Climax t«» tht disp;.iv v\ is this dive through a paper hoop nvrr the hi>fh h.rse.
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    Soviet goods on sale in Manchuria
    97 3 Soviet goods on sale in Manchuria CO VIET goods are reported to be on sale regularly In Manchuria. They Include textiles, grass, bicycles, jeeps, trucks, tyres, radios, photographic equipment, canned goods, >hoes and tobacco. Russ.an. gasoline Is also on but an increasing number of vehicles is being converted into charcoal
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    IN JAIL FOR 25th TIME
    52 3 BRUSH -MAKER Ernest Burde crossed the DanishGerman border illegally for the 25th time and had to face a Flensburg court for the tenth time. The court sentenced Burdo to five months In Jail. When he entered his cell, he found that fellow-prisoners had decorated it
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    TRAIN EXPLOSION
    25 3 Twenty persons were In- Jured. seven of them seriously. when an ammonia gas container exploded in a train In j Figu prefecture, Japan.
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 1949 THE SILENCE IS BROKEN
    578 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 1949 THE SILENCE IS BROKEN pASIR PAN JANG folk have imething to look iorward to. They may have a post oftice some time next year. After doing without for three vears another year should be a supportable wait, and there Is compensation for
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    I Am Watched By The Red Army's Eye
    1220 4 I Am Watched By The Red Army's Eye by G. WARD PRICE, who is continuing his tour of the Frontiers of Fear At the foot of Mount Ararat: the end of the narrow ravine where I write rises Mount Ararat, coneshaped, capped with snow, looking like a bulkier reproduction of
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    53 4 The bnyiitiy-puucrncd head scarf and basket of potatoes suggest, that here i\s a smiling peasant girl from the European plain. But the girl who teems to ch the soil is spending her holiday at the Lulsgatc S set) agricultural volunteers' camp, helping with th,-- lifting of this year^ bumper potato
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    Navy gives the spies a freat
    520 4 4 NY foreign spy with an inclination to rummage round Britain's No. 1 naval base at Portsmouth can do so on payment of Is. 6d. entrance fee. Last Bank Holiday was the first of three Navy Days during which some 50,000 footsore holiday makers
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    12 4 "Wingless ch.cks may be all right, but legless cows be danged Iwl
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    IT SEEMS TO MR...
    589 4  -  POLITICO By IF things go on much 1 further say another couple of hundred thousand years or so- it seems to me that we're going: to start reverting to something like a sealion or small whale in shape. This deep thought all started with reading a
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    OIL FROM WEEDS
    222 4 THE Colonial Offlce announced that a West African weed is "extremely promising" as a source ol oil to replace Unseed oil which is mainly imported from Argentina, Uruguay Canada and India. Lord Hankpy, chairman o the Colonial Products Research Council, had previously told the House ol Lords
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    Unions to discuss weekly pay
    149 5 Unions to discuss weekly pay Free Press Staff Reporter -THE question of having salaries paid weekly instead 1 of monthly is being considered by some employees Singapore, the Free Press was told 1 r(la>. I Government Civil Service Union has d Government to consider fortnightly he president, Mr. G. Tessensohn
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    35 5 picture. i |l6 jj M Cnciiton. a hpJ^per, shows lady Gurn i (I Some of the beautiful hand-made flowers at the U .'xhiliilion of arts and crafts at the British Council Chamber, Kuala Lumpur.- PK
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    Dr. C. Subrahmanyam
    14 5 C. Subrahmanyair, i Officer, has been 0 be Senior Path gapore.
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    ROBBER ROAD TEST IN K.L
    137 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. PREPARATIONS have been completed tor Kuala i Lumpur's forthcoming tests of rubber roads. At the Municipal Commissioners' meeting this morning, the Deputy Presiitient, Mr. H. O. Hammett, announced that eight strips would be prepared— four for i testing
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    T.B. SPECIALIST
    19 5 Dr. C. E. Smith has been appointed to act as tuberculosis specialist. Tan Tock Senn Hospital, Singaoore
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    RECORD CALL ON PUBLIC CHARITY
    770 5 Dig post-war rise in appeals rrnPPirn r u e^ ress Wom *n Reporter l U^fi LD h y th University of Malaya Appeal, nu 21 ui P u V lic generosity in giving to charitable and other institutions have enormously increased both in number and
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    VARSITY TALK
    33 5 Dr. G. V. Alien. Vice-Chan-ceilor of the University of Malaya, will speak on the "University of Malaya" at 6.30 p.m. today at 8, Cairnhill Road. Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim will preside.
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    AVIATION CHIEF
    24 5 Mr. A. Newark, Deputy Director of Civil Aviation. Federation of Malaya, las been appointed to act as Director of Civil Avaition. Malava.
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    TAX APPOINTMENT
    23 5 Mr. D. H. Tudor, Senior Treasury Accountant, Federation of Malaya, has been appointed to act as Comptroller of Income Tax. Singapore.
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    HP, STOLE BLANK CHEQUES
    109 5 HP, STOLE BLANK CHEQUES Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR THAMOTHARAM, an Indian Special Constable who pleaded guilty *0 B charp<? of theft of five blank cheques, \us today sentenced to one month's rigorous Imprisonment by Mr. D K. Grant in the Kuala Lumpur sessions court. Inspector R. P. J.
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    MORE PEOPLE GO TO HIGHLANDS
    222 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MORE people are staving at Cameron Highlands low than during the last few months, Mr. D. Robertson, a Singapore Municipal Commissioner. who has returned j from a five weeks' stay there, j said vesterday. The area was comparative\j free from bandit
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    17 5 SCHOOLBOYS of Victoria School, Singapor.., p..i)i«»;raphe.i ui*.u liu\y visited the Singapore Free Press offices and plant yesterday.
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    'Wayward girl' stole jewellery
    217 5 'Wayward girl stole jewellery Free Press Stall Kt'iioiter PENANO. Wed. Defence counsel, Mr. C. O. Lim, today described a 22-year-i.M woman Jewel thief us "a wtyward and most untracta'ol girl." The girl, English-speaking On] Chai Chin, pleadf-d guilty to four charges ol stealing Jewellery, valued at $289. from four small
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    S.M.C. decide on taxi deals
    247 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'FHE Registrar of Vehicles in Singapore need not in future take into account the sale price of a taxi when considering an application for the transfer of a taxi licence. This decision has been made by Municipal Commissioners following questions raised
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    28 5 pictures. MORE than 800 Portuguese troops arrived in Singapore yesterday by the trooper Nyasa on the way to Macao. Pictures show two groups in Singapore's streets. Free Press
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    LABOUR POST
    17 5 Mr. W I Galletly has been 'Pointed to act as an \ssis-Comrr.t>-,ioner for Labour, Singapore.
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    Coffee men get a week's grace
    148 5 Coffee men get a week's grace F. F nin«s<- orrrspondrrt r tNTROLLED prici CUM of rot 4 Impa iiin th< cuffee-ihuu* do nut i ite in keeDint ortcei .t cer: ■■Is. Thi U \e. KiVPn b- nir.v d to »f control on Jum Appiovt-d pn< milk 10 c Hint cup
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    OVERCHARGE FOR FLOUR
    61 5 ".u phcpta i.n d a total S'nuapo-' Flnfl i Con 'erday t< >r «>•. (har f !in^ lui wheat flow failing t'< display i pi They WtTi Chi a Ben| I oi Trengpanu Street and i 8f« oi Uppei Nankin; dem was flven ti, i Control Inspector
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    TEACHERS' COLLEGE
    15 5 Mr. J. D Joseph has Oi i appointed f Teachers' Training t\ !!<<«<• Singapore
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      41 5 Bui lci< e uijiis arrive in Singapore today from W. Australia. Siam and S. A; Cloning times for posting surface mail* at the G.P.O are: to Trenggmnu and Riam (parcel* only): noon, and to the V S mid Canncla 6 f).m.
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    WAR ON 18. TO BE STEPPED UP
    383 6 WAR ON 18. TO BE STEPPED UP New measures in Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S campaign against tuberculosis is to be intensified. The opening of a new treatment centre on Sept. 2 by the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association is among further measures to be taken. This was stated yesterday when
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    31 6 picture. Mi&&t& liiailammai and Athiletchumi, slum ..».s of me Ramakrishna Mission S ardamani Girls' School, photographed during a concert on Tuesday in celebration of the birthday of Lord Krishna.— Free Press
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    New setback to gilt-edgeds
    520 6 mmmW^^m^^^r <5S *^r*r^^r^^l i LONDON, Thursday. THE feature of yesterday's dealings in the London Stock Exchange was the setback given to British Government securities by the statement on the economic crisis issued by the Federation of British Industries, says Reuter*s flancial correspondent. The announcement accentuated the
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    WARNING ON SWIMMING
    69 6 During an inquiry yesterday into a drowning tragedy, the Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, told the father of a 19-year-old electrician that he should prevent people from swimming in the disused sandpits near the Bidadari Cemetery. The electrician, S. Darat, went swimming with his younger brother on
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    26 6 THE New York Stock Exchange rallied yesterday after a sluggish .start and gained fract ons to over US$l. Transfers totalled 1.500.000 shares.- A. P.
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    'Employers unwilling to help'
    188 6 'Employers unwilling to help SINGAPORE'S adult education movement Is being hampered by the reluctance of sorrif Colony employers to help their manual workers, an official of the People's Education Association said yesterdr.y. Such employers, he said, believe that their workers will go away to better Jobs after being helped to
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    100 6 SHU'S In port alongside tra Singapore Harbour Eor-id wharves yesterday (godowns ir. brackets) were: Main Wharf: Polydoms i3l-32> Autolycus (33-34). Modjerkoto (36). Presidor.t T>Mer (38-39). Kars.k (40 W>et Wharf: Surat 14-5), PlflOg Clipper (3-9). Radnorshire (11 >. City of Liverpool (13-14). F.nripirc Dock: Rix-pat (17-18>, Bumslde (19-20). Sitsen
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    $3,900,000 for jungle road
    182 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A SUM of $3,908,000 from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund has been allocated to Ma! for the building of a road between Temerloh Mid Maran in Central Pahang and the installation of ferry across the Pahang River. The
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    MUSIC EXAMS IN COLONS
    51 6 The Associated Board the Royal School London, will bold examinations in S.:; from Sept. 3 to 29 T. i ing examiner is Mr. 0. H. Stuart Duncan. There are 382 canjni including se\ en for th< LRSM Schedules for the examinations are available at the .Education
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    TROOPS FOR MACAO
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    INDIAN HOCKEY XI MAY PLAY HERE
    255 7 INDIAN HOCKEY XI MAY PLAY HERE East Punjab HA plan tour Hockey Council materfilnS the Malayan Udham Singh *JX? 5 N> Oehler s. President of the Malayan Hockry CountU told the Free Press yertorday that he had received a letter from the East &h HA t0 the Effect anni y
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    42 7 picture BOBBY NJOO (left) and Phol Prapridaeng spent most of their time punching the heavy bag at their training tamps yesterday, the final day of training for their bout at Happy World arena tomorrow. Both fighters are in excellent condition. Free Press
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    Ayres to ride for Yong
    85 7 U IIMPIR T »>"rs. A M.W Australian jockey, 11 31-year-old Arthur Ayres, will be making his debut on the Mala van Turf at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. A lightweight, he can tip the scale at 7 st. 9 Ib. He J'i 11 r >de for
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    Indians go down six-nil
    205 7 Indians go down six-nil THE Army proved too uood for the Indians in an inter-Community league match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterdav. winning bv siv goals to nil. The Army have so far been unbeaten and with such a strong combination, shouH have little difficulty in winning the championship. Highlights
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    S.T.C. racing schedule
    165 7 S.T.C. racing schedule RACING schedule for the Singapore Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting is: First day (Saturday, Aug 27): Class 1, divs 1 and 2, 6f and one mile: divs. 3 and 4, 6f Class 3, divs. 1 and 2. 71 Second day (Wednesday Aug. 31 Class 2. divs. 1
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    TODAY'S GALLOPS
    154 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. BEST workout on the training track this morning was a testing trial by Kinta Valley (Little) and Ked Plane (Poshni). They ran naif a mile in 54 1 5 sees, and the last 3f in 40 2, 5 Kinta Valley was a length in front
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    Mixed foursomes
    59 7 T-HE Island Club Mixed Four- somes which were played on Sunday resulted aa follows: Mrs. O'Geary J. Nicol (win- j ncrsi 73 lati 8-65. Mr. Mrs. K. S. Murray 90 lers 20 70. Miss Christina Lee F Jones 87 less 17-70. Mr. Mrs. H. Tooke 90 less 20
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    Seletar unit win cricket
    95 7 TECHNICAL Wing. R.A.F. Soletar, yesterday won the final oi the R.A.F. Malaya inter-station knockout cricket competition played at Seletar. They beat the Changl Lodger Unit by 135 runs. Batting first, Technical vVing scored 200 runs for seven. The captain of the team. F/Lt. Syrett. top scored
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    Singapore junior badminton ties
    402 7 Singapore ju n ior badminton ties T<HE following ties in the Singapore Badminton Association's Junior championships will be played at the Clerical Union Hall this week-end: SATURDAY, 2 15 P.M. Heng Sink Thii.l3 United j Familyi v Ng Cheng Hua <Mr.ri- j gold); Wee Tlii^m Beck iS^oial) f Chua Sv,ee
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    Punters took it easy yesterday
    714 7 rree Press Racing Correspondent DACIN'G at Kuala Lumpur yesterday brought back memories of amateur racing in the good old days. There was not too large an attendance to jam the grandstands and betting on the totalisator was easy and in one race only 900 win
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    U.K. SOCCER RESULTS
    94 7 FOLLOWING are results of yesterday's Scottish League soccer matches: "A" DIVISION Aberdeen 4 Celtic 5 Clyde 1 Parlick 2 East Fife 3 Stirling A. 1 Falkirk 1 Queen of the S. 0 Hearts 5 Faith R. 1 Mother well 2 Dundee 0 Rangers 5 St. Mirren 1
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    U.K. SOCCER LEAGUE FIXTURES
    370 7 FOLLOWING a»e football fixture* from Saturday. Aug. 20 to Wednesday. Aupr. 24. SATI RDAY, ALCi. 20 ENGLISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION: Arsenal v Burnley; Bimingam v. Chehea; Blackpool v HuddersfVld; Bolton v Stoke; Derby v Manchester Utd.; Fulrram v Wolverhampton; Livorpool v Sunderland; Manchester C. v Aston
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    TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS TIES
    64 7 I^ODAY S tics IB I Club itonli flandirap mi\rd ImMm <fc Miss Walker Taylrr Mrs. Dub; Mr. u Mai. <t Mis. K. OrMOWOI Holloway At Mrs Rop«r J L Whitmorc A Mlsi I i Smith; Droovl. d Palmer a >I<n's handicap doultW s i Jamii w
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    N.Z. WIN 17-3
    37 7 the New Zealand Union tOUI terday beat Mort hex n I i sin Pretoria h it i (one R(»al. two pei and two trl< altv goall The New Eealandei d 6-0 at hnlf-tlmt'..- Ron
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    Big Sweep results
    61 7 Big Sweep results rE Big B day*! KaiU i raeej wu drawn TOTAL POOI i FIRST |v SFCOM) THIRD: STARTERS: V, 284*31, |S4 1929t1, 3811M, H *****5, *****8. CONSOLATION MlfZI Nnv 17C75C, h"• I *****0, 129t4t, «60(N 2911 *****'!, *****9 DOI7BI f TOTI S URST DOI'KI I C kets paying
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    THREE-NIL VICTORY
    32 7 IN a friendly succor match i>iayf-d at Geylan- Stadium yesterday Commercial High School beat Municipal Store.s by three goals to nil. The ■coren w?re Edward Tan <2\ and Hong Slew.
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    Middlesex in strong position for honours
    478 7 Middlesex in strong position for honours THHE )ieadiii£ counties in the cricket championship x table all made good starts in their count v matches which began yesterday. Middlesex. \\\u* are 20 points in the lead, took one more step tou.mK winning the title by placing themselves In a \cry strong
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    BIRTH
    23 8 r the 15'h r. :M9. at the Eun> a Bliaru Kelantan, vli. wiio of Bernard Catchpole. M C.S a brotr.pr for Ann
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    25 8 MRS. i. THOMAS ana family nds v.ho attended the il ol the late Mr. I. Tr.omas rind also for wreaths and letters cf condolence.
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    NEW UNION NO SUPER-STATE
    319 8 Dutch view of Indies' future THE HAGUE, Thursday. •JHE Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Mr. Johannes van Maarseveen, said last night that the Netherlands Government did not regard the proposed Netherlands-Indonesian union as a super-state. It was doubtful whether union citizenship could be expected. The Minister,
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    Signed in his own blood
    53 8 MANILA, Thurs. A SSOCIATE Justice Grel\ gorio Perfecto, of the Philippine Supreme Court, who made history in 1934 when he signed the Philippine Constitution in his own blood, died last night of a stroke. The jurist was noted for his attacks on graft and corruption
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    Arms aid 'too much, too early'
    136 8 WASHINGTON. Wed. MR. John Vorys (Republican) told the House of Representatives today that the foreign military aid bill provided "too much ($1,160.--*****0) too soon for Europe and too little v $289,010,000) too late lor Asia." Mr Vorys cast one of the 47 votes against
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    'Pay more for food' advice to world
    321 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. PHL chroiuc cause of the world food shortage is lack of labour rather than shortage of land and the answer to the problem is higher food prices, an Australian industrial expert. Dr. Colin Clark, director of the Queensland Bureau of
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    LAMA EXPELS 100 CHINESE
    45 8 AVER 100 Chinese official* and their families, expelled from Tibet have arrived at Yalung (Nepal) and will go to China shortly. They were expelled by the Dalai Lama because their presence in Lhasa might lead to Communist reaction against Tibet. U.P.
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    WORLD FOOD BANK UR@ED
    104 8 COPENHAGEN. Thurs. THE setting up of a "World Food Bank" wu urged by Lord John Boyd-Orr, former Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, at a Women's International Congress here yesterday. Declaring that science was uow 20 years ahead of politics, Lord Boyd-Orr said
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    Air Day contests
    41 8 All Aeromociellers intending to participate in the Static Exhibition and or compete in the Air Day Control-line and Rubber Free Flight Duration Contests are asked to contact the Hon. Secretary, at 53 Selegie Road not later than Friday.
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    C.S.C. CINEMA SHOW
    24 8 TuiERE will be a cinema 1 show at the Chinese Swimming Club tomorrow at 8 p.m. for members and their families.
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    Boy starts free-for-all
    64 8 A LITTLE boy ndin§; a motor-car in Spezia, Italy, stuck his tongue out at the driver of another car yesterdav The offended driver forced the first car to stop The occupants of both cars, six in all, then waged a wild free-for-all in the middle of the
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    34 8 Scrolls off Bible 2,000 years old Or. Harold James Plendcf Scith. deputy-keeper of the research laboratory at the London Museum, examining fragments of Old Testament scrolls. 2,000 years old, which were found in Palestine.
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    Stalin reminded of debt to U.S.
    208 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. T»HE T.S. Ambassador in Moscow, Mr. Alan Kirk, at x his meeting with Marshal Stalin, called his attention to the long-deferred settlement of Russia's U.S. $11,000 million Lend-Lease account and the Soviet jamming of the M Voice of America broadcasts, the Secretary
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    One vear to flv around world
    51 8 MhS. Richards Morrow -Tail. British flying housewife who left Greenland yesterday for Iceland. Is being escorted j by a Plying Fortress as i safety measure. Her round-the- world flight, which began a i year ago, has been held up due to a series of
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    Channel bid held up
    29 8 Shirley May France, 17- yeai-old American school girl yesterday postponed her attempt to swim the English I Channel because of rising winds. Nt. T«l 1..
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    RED DRIVE AGAINST 'REBELS'
    154 8 KONG KONG, Thurs. THE Communist Nanking commander has ordered a military campaign "to annihilate peasants staging open armed revolts" in the Yangtse Valley and holding up economic development projects. The rebels are accused of being "Kuomintaiig special bandits and receiving material and moral' assistance from foreign
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    'DEAD' MAO'S TELEGRAM
    89 8 HONG KONG, Thurs. THE Communist Peiping radio said yesterday that Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, has sent a telegram to officers and men of the former Nationalist Army which recently capitulated to Communist forces at Changsha, Hunan I"he radio made no mention of foreign radio broadcasts which
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    16 robberies in one day
    76 8 BARCELONA. Thurs. A DOZEN hiehwaymen operating near Barcelona held up the farmhouse of wealthy business man near tne Tillage of San Cugat, locked the inhabitants in the bathroom and renv money and Jewell worth hundreds of pounds. The pang then held up cars on the
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    POLIO HITS VICTORIA
    57 8 A WAVE of Infantile paralysis cases has struck Victoria State, Australia, but the Health I'epartment said yesterday it. was not an er demic. In the firs; six months of 1949 there were 195 cases repoefced, compared with 27 for the sanv? period of 1948, and 22. f0r
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    Dragnet out for Manila rebel
    43 8 POLICE indulgence operttives combed the Manila area for the notorious I Hukbalahap commander, Jore de Leon, better kn )wn as Commander Dimas Alang, following confidential information that the overall dissidents' leacrr is fIOW ope- rating In Manila.- Reuter
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    BERAN PROTESTS AT 'INTERNMENT'
    138 8 PRAGUE, Thursday A RCHBISHOP Dr. Josef Beran of Czechoslovakia has broken a two-month silence to protest against his "internment." in his Prague palace by the i Czech Communist Government, it is learned here. 1 Dr. Beran also protested against the presence of a Government agent in
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