The Singapore Free Press, 19 August 1949

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON S/LE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    ASIAN ARMS AID PLAN REJECTED
    296 1 Kurope help cut m half mvi, WASHINGTON, Friday. lib House of Representatives last night rejected by 164 votes to 92 an amendment to the Administration's arms aid bill which would have authorised $100,000,000-worth of military aid to the Far East— $75,000,000 for China and $25,000,000
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    Kallang gangster lorry found
    56 1 Kallang gangster lorry found j eater- Lorry, besame vehicle Chlped after unLg to rob a m Lorong id. Late last i detained. Incident early :iese was while grapinfractor m a t'.ssession of a me irud guard abandoned m -.id not far thf at-.'mpteri C.I.D Chief. uii.s mornIbute to the conplrlted
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    Forest fire sets off 12,000 bombs
    77 1 E -LE. Fri. .1 aircraft ■d round an r here were exby one yesterday Ire swept through surrounding the m of women and om a radius of six I r h? airfield was d gendarmes reill available vehlc:n .away. stopped on all area, electric
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    Buenos Aires strike
    16 1 and other port B noa Aires yeaa three-day s expected to a tandstill.
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    US RUBBER EXPORTS
    16 1 3 s exports of d gums and goods i );r ppfTt. frnm A.P.
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    'Red bid to take over Finland'
    198 1 FINNISH ARMY ALERTED HELSINKI, Friday. 'rROOrs were called out yesterday following the j first outbreak of armed violence m a new nationwide Communist strike offensive which Government officials said is designed to overthrow the Social; Democrat Government and make Finland a Communist state The
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    Martial law follows Chile riots
    86 1 Martial law follows Chile riots SANTIAGO, Chile, Thurs. MODIFIED martial law was proclaimed m Santiago today m a Government move to end two days of bloody i rioting officially described as a Communist revolutionary attempt. Troops and police m campaign equipment threw a cordon around downtown San_ tiago after the
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    'EUROPE LTD'
    52 1 A COMPANY. United Europe Movement Limited." has been registered m London "to promote the unity of Europe m the political, economic and cultural spheres. It is controlled by an allparty Council which includes Mr. Winston Churchill and has been registered as "a company limited by guarantee without share
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    Take it along to the show
    42 1 mHERE'S plenty to read A m today's Special Air Supplement: but remember that Air Day is tomorrow. so keep the Supplement and take it along with you tomorrow when you take your children to the show.
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    NAPLES ARMS DUMP SWOOP
    52 1 NAPLES police yesterday ended 24 hours of raids on illegal arms dumps by arresting 73 people and seizing vast quantities of arms and munitions. Among the booty found was 1,500 lbs. of explosive, svvin anti-tank mines, thousands of machine-gun bullets and rifle cartridges and many time
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    BURMA CALL FOR U.S., U.K. CAPITAL
    100 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. A COMPLETE reversal of the Burmese Government's attitude to foreign capital is revealed by the announcement here by the Burmese Foreign Minister, U. E. Maung, that Burma would welcome American and British capital to finance the development of the country. Only the
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    Move by India to boost trade
    32 1 The Government of India has announced it is reducing licensing restrictions on exports of cotton piece goods m an attempt to boost textile exports. A. P.
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    SCHOONER ADRIFT IN ATLANTIC
    120 1 SCHOONER ADRIFT IN ATLANTIC HALIFAX. Fii. A LATVIAN refugee schoon- er, cairying 60 people, including a sick woman, was reported disabled m the Atlantic yesterday and a plane was sent to investigate. Two American ships sighted the little crafi drifting m a heavy swell, Its sails torn and flapping. The
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    Cripps leaves Swiss clinic
    35 1 ZURICH. Friday. SIR Stafford Crlpps, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is today leaving the clinic where he lias been under treatment for four weeks. Is much improved m health,
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    Marshall plan tour
    28 1 E. C. Administrator Eaj. Hoffman and a group? of American experts left j for Athens yesterday to contlhue their tour of Marshall Plan countries. U.P.
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    NEW RECORD?
    55 1 i POSSIBLE trun.s-Paeific A record for passenger air-, crafi was claimed yesterday; he Canadian Pacific Air Lines' Empress of Sydney. The i lane landed at vancouver. British Columbia, on j Wednesday night, just hours and 55 minutes flying time out of Hong Kong-more, than six hours under the
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    RITA'S BABY —OFFICIAL
    48 1 PRINCE Aiy Khan yesterday officially confirmed that his wife. Rita Hayworth, is going to have a baby. Th- Prince confirmed the pending birth by an announcement at DeauvilJe mack thro persons! secretary. Aiy declined to reveal when or where the baby would be born. A.P.
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    Aust. drought threat
    17 1 The drought threat to Australia's main wheat crop ha now reached a critical stage
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    Atlantic sailing epic
    114 1 TRINIDAD, Thurs. FIVE exhausted Spaniards who said they* had fled from Franco's regime rested m Port of Spain after an pic 3 OOU-mile 98-day voyage across the Atlantic from ihe Canary Islands m a i7-foot open sailboat. But their voyage is not finished The five gaunt men.
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    World priority for malaria control
    155 1 GENEVA, Friday. AM All ARIA control is to have "highest priority" m new Inked Nations plan to help underdeveloped countries. This has been recommended by experts from the U.S., Britain, France, Pakistan, India, Venezuela and Holland m a report for the World Health Organisation. The
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    S'pore baby is born....
    112 1 S'pore baby is born Free Press Staff Reporter WHEN an ambulance from the Central Fir*' Station was called to Colombo Court. Singapore yesterday afternoon to take a Chinese woman to hospital for the birth of her child the ambulance m^n are reported to have refused to take her. because it
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    Chinese Reds' victory plans
    228 1 HONG KONG, Friday. AS the Ked armies, estimated at 600,000 strong, continued their drive yesterday toward Canton and Hong Kong, the top Communist Red leader, Mao Tze-Tung, was reported m Nanking yesterday as having disclosed that Peiping, to be renamed Peking, will become the new capital
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    Wasp kills woman
    94 1 LONDON. Thurs. HENRY I.eggate told a coroner's jury today that his wife died m agony five minutrs after being stung by a wasp. The 53 -year -old farm wife was stung on the little finder of her right hand while working m her kitchen. I.eggate said she
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    Arms found on Murray yacht
    158 1 Arms found on Murray yacht HONG KONG, Thurs. KENNETH M. Put, a 43--year-old American peared before the mm trate this morning charged with lon of three hand grenades and 177 rounds of ammunition. These, police found yesterday by p when they Marched ht Mistress boion 1 to Geori^e Murray, an
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    1200 homeless after 'quake
    42 1 A; td and In an -ehtthquakt rocked thf I North Eastern Anatolia. Semi offlc mating th< add' 1,200 home]The. official Turkish ncy said It »-xp' th toll workers i the (1 alien 1. Agakeuy villa beli of the
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    Beautiful Clothes Are Ageless
    620 2  - Beautiful Clothes Are Ageless SARAH LANGTON Ji.Y BEAUTIFULLY designed clothes, like exquisite works of art, arc ageless. This strange truth was proved over and over aga.n when Charles James; foremost of American couturiers, gave the most unusual fashion show London has seen. For the clothes were old me of them
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    A 'shallow water' marriage
    187 2 A 'shallow water' marriage A. MAN and wife at Newport Divorce Court recently were told that they had been '"tip-toeing m the shallow water of matrimony afraid to get their feet wet.'' Said Commissioner O. Temple Morris: "It is time they got into the deep water and gave the marriage
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    Frau Erna rebels over her 2,500 dishes
    167 2 She says housewives are -unpaid serfs' FRAI" Erna Schroder. 38-year-old housewife of Dresden, m the Russian Zone of Germany, is worried, not by Communism but by the "slavery of housewifery." She advocates revolt among German women renowned for their devotion to "Kinder. Kiiehe.
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    More & More Stripes
    139 2  - More More Stripes MARY BAXTER by We remove the JACKET and discover a itrapiess blouse top with detachable sleeves m beige We now add an t g skirt rich brown velvet teamed i th a bustle-back m those übiquitous stripes. Last change of all. The strapless blouse, transformed with a
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    London Has A Fashion Club
    302 2 f PO put London m the forefront of the fashion world, a Fashion Industries Club is to be Bet up m Brook Street, M a y f a I r. \v. it will undertake the entertainment of foreign buyers and provide them with a nation-wide
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    Leaves Are So Smart In Paris
    134 2 Leaves Are So Smart In P aris From IRISH ASlll PARI pNORMOUS leaves of multicoloured velvet i feature of Schi Ui' a autumn collection, which has opened here. These leaves are use form one side of as:, bodice, or to maki bodice And Unto make a hat. Here are some
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      261 2 Adventures of Penny ftp Koni Koni the real monkey M <- M 'Jn bewildered at everything he V Sft l*• i sees m Toy land. He has been J jr// /"^X taken to the factory where tka f v,/ 'f! Cnomes and the Eves make the jm^L 141 ti toys.
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      77 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR pOKN today, you are a serious student by nature. You can endure superficialities and want to know the basic truths about everything. You enjoy the tine things of life and will make it a point to earn them. You are conscientious about your work and have a
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    COLONIAL RULE NOW TIGHTENING
    343 3 COLONIAL RULE NOW TIGHTENING pnomist takes lid off S.E. Asia, says- 'United Malaya' plea by expert II Jacob,, forLT p pr"„&"„, r V;' Mr Erkh Ba*a«s £c? »rs Whe^h/^to^ Phft?, from Nazi -Germany years there he had the n?'"? 8 surto*5 urto his four agrarian probleWta £ace £Sfl dSrin^ n°
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    Bootlegging evil hits hry' Madras
    36 3 Bootlegging evil hits hry' Madras J are Madras— ly dry 5.581 tricti of all 01 llcll dls- said is the :n Disdry pah S raptted I sumpsugar •June n for icture Inl >\i- tieivenient fling, A.P.
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    Sin union's plea
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    Struck oil in a weed
    142 3 JMIKLK men took hold of x carpidium conophorum. And they struck oil. I or the conophorum is a Wert African weed, which I "i produce conophor oil— a substitute for the scarce and expensive linseed. The men, scientists at Liverpool University, have been working on
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    World farms need brains
    82 3 JpAKMrf throughout the :id need brains, more n money or mechanization. This is the conclusion of Norris E. Dodd, Direct oreral of the United Nations i Food and Agricultural Organlon, who has just returnfrom a global survey. He says that the viorid can produce enough food
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    Flood control, U.N. move
    51 3 A THREE-MAN United Nations Committee has arrived m Manila to study uniform flood controls for Asia. The Flood Control Bureau of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East has already completed survey of control systems m India, Pakistan, Burma, French Indochina. China and Formosa.
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    "Only one Colony can ban press"
    52 3 "Only one Colony can ban press" "MALTA is the only colony where the Governor has power to suppress a newspaper, Mr. Rees Williams, Colonial Under Secretary, told the Commons recently. "Malta has responsible selfgovernment, and it is matter for Maltese Ministers to decide whether they will reorganise their Press laws,"
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    FIRE HOSE FOR RICE
    25 3 Prefectural authorities m Saitama (Honshu Island) have ordered their fire brigades to spray water over rice fields threatened by drought. U.P.
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    Defied Nazi High Command
    60 3 Kurt Von Cbolits, Former German General, testifying In Paris at the War Crimes trial of Otto Abet/., who was Hitler's ambassador m occupied Paris. Cholita said he and Abets disobeyed the German High Command orders to transform Paris Into a mass of rubble and light from
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    ALBANIA PROTESTS TO U.N.
    153 3 ALBANIA PROTESTS TO U.N. ALBANIA has protested to the United Nations against Alleged invasions "of «S *°ms£* by Greek troops, the Albanian radio announces. The broadcast, monitored £r*no ndon said that the i.rana government had telegraphed the UN Secretary General, Tryv» Lie 'protesting against repeated acts of provocation perpetrated by
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    NAZIS MADE JAP SCRIPT
    75 3 11/-AR-TIME Radio Tokyo ff broadcasts about wives ana sweethearts of United Slates troops "running aad with other men" were probably made m Germany, it was stated m court m San trapcisco. Charles Cuusens, radio announcer from Sydney, Australia, was giving evidence for the defence at the
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    Behind the limelight
    53 3 High m the dome of the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden. London, Electrician Arthur Manders stands by his limelight, following the gleaming figure of Margaret Forteyn as she leads the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company m The Sleeping Beauty. Arthur, m picture (left) is perched one hundred feet
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    ARTHRITIS DRUG IN BULK SOON?
    191 3 rpHE U.S. Public Health Service reports that a two- man American team is m Africa collecting samples of a plant which, scientists believe, may -produce a drug that has proved potent m the treatment of arthritis. The only present source of the drug, a hormone
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    Bridge Hands
    306 3 WHAT do you bid? It is important not to forget your part score m this deal: but it is equally important not to be too conscious of it. Your partner may have bid two hearts on a comparatively weak hand with a long heart suit, because with the
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    U.S. CAN BAN ANY ALIEN
    34 3 President Truman haJ signed a proclamation authorising the Attorney-General to b:ir from America any alien whose entry he considered Is "prejudicial to the interest of the United States." Reuter
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    U.N. OPENS 'WAR' ON STARVATION
    131 3 U.N. OPENS 'WAR' ON STARVATION UNITED Nations Secretary General Mr. Trygve Lie, has now announced that the United Nations was embarking on a new scientific phase of its programme to "buiid the foundations for a permanent peace," when speaking to delegates to the first United Nations Worid resources con f
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    36 3 Part of the vast "floating city" on the Pearl River, Canton, where there are shop boats and amusement and restaurant craft to provide for the needs of river-dwellers. The Communists say they will soon capture Canton
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    Arnhem 'Parson' ran pilgrimages
    197 3 r FHE man known as the Rev. Charles Bral. ran a society called the Friends of Arnhem organised pilgrimages to war graves At Binning bankruptcy court recently he was revealed as just plain Charles Bralee. a £6-a-week checker I factory. Bralee of Ladywood, Birmingham appeared m
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    Burma needs foreign cash
    52 3 BURMA'S F >relgn M n r v B Maung, lias annowv m Washington the m oy li ernmenl to open Burma to tale foreign Investment* to il resou rr Tin- plan, he said at con: of talks with the Amei i but also to the United
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    MALTA CHIEF ON OIL WAR
    37 3 MALTA CHIEF ON OIL WAR SPEAK b luncheon In 1 n tional Comn said that th<' li sumption of oil In B consumpt on of oil b\ An woi Id l< >ke ever,' In her enemi* A.P.
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    INVENTION CLAIM
    16 3 A Japanese claii Invented a oc of propeller which per cent, of f:, j
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      403 3 m, nr .„r News Programme. 7.15 News m MNVj/VrUKc* French (BBC). 7.30 English: News (BLUE NETWOKii) Far Eastern Affairs; English Les--484 and V 7 ntstres. son (BBC). 8.00 Siamese: ProgFmrreenrv news from K.L. ramme News 8.15 Siamese emergency newsirom i*.ii. rBBC) 830 News (English-BBC). ai iv a.m. g45 Dutch (BBC)
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    The Singpore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 19. 1949 PROGRAMME PLEASE
    653 4 The Singpore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 19. 1949 PROGRAMME PLEASE Ci O M P L E T E Nationalist t withdrawal from Canton is now only a matter of days.' Foochow was given up alter only a token resistance, just as Shanghai was It Is plain that the Nationalists have
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    Israel Finds It Hard Getting On Its Feet
    854 4  -  George Weidenfeld by JIE caught my pitying look, Joshua the carpenter was squatting m Oriental fashion m front of his ramshackle workshop, which was merely a shed propped up inside the walls of a ruined Arab house. But Joshua was undaunted. He
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    Vatican Touches Reds' Conscience
    441 4  -  JOHN TALBOT By VATICAN CITY: npilE Papal Decree of ex-communication against Communism has led to a flood of inquiries for elucidation from the faithful throughout Italy, and Vatican circles expect that the next few months will see largescale dissociation from all contact with the Communist party
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    32 4 W'l Allen Bishop, aged IS month?, preterits a bottle of pop. Scatty, Australian sulphur crested cockatoo at the London Zoq. promptly accepte-d-en if that form of glassware is just a bit. ijiconv?-
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    The Amazing City Of Warsaw
    1010 4  - The Amazing City Of Warsaw ALEXANDER CLIFFORD by WARSAW: |N a few sizzling phrases the Polish Communist called for a bottle of vodka. Then he turned with a confident smile and asked the question I knew he would ask "What do you think of Warsaw?'' Everybody asks it automatically here,
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    31 4 Friedrich Hofmann of Vim, Germany, is seen on his water skis on Bavaria's Stat nberger lake. Since 1926 he tas covered 25,000 kilometres on the skis he developed and built himself.
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    Italy makes a new racing car
    99 4  - Italy makes a new racing car C. R. BRUSINI By A NEW model I racing car will compete m th< t and Prix of Europe In V m September. Enzo rtrrmrl whose have won ma.ior Europe, cent months, told of hi? i model m The new l "will summarise ti
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      9 4 UIM.S P. H. HENDRY 7* North Bridge Kd Spore
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      113 4 Recipe for Jugged Hare 1 Hare -2 c pepper 1 gam" 2 tablespoons 5 doves good p and grated lemon water wme^3b< (optiona n a tablespoon pepper Fry until brow with rema-nder of fl< put the joints of hare bacon cut m dice acloves. Add herbs and stock or water
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      4 1 Friday, Aug. 19, 1949.
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      ALLANG to be IMPROVED
      451 1 Aviation Correspondent \t four years $3,000,000 is likely to be spent 0 Kalians Airport described as "probably the X sited and most convenient airport m the more than $2,000,000 has been spent re-occupation, improving, extending and v miking Kallang a city airport worthy of .(nm City.
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      S'pore to lose its flying boats
      191 1 S'pore to lose its flying boats week, the last of xl the 8.0.A.C. flying boats leaves Singapore. Since the end of the war, thousands of them have arrived at Kallang safely. An hour before every flying boat lands, three Civil Aviation launches, painted yellow and black, take to the sea
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      What you will see tomorrow
      468 1 What you will see tomorrow FREE PRESS AVIATION CORRESPONDENT TWO Constellations will be among the 20 aircraft m today's fly past before landing at Kallang. It will be the first time since Kallang was opened m VJ'}7 that two Constellations have been on the airstrip. At the Singapore Air Day
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      Visitors spend $500,000 a year
      258 1 FREE PRESS AIR REPORTER QVERNIGHT air transit passengers m Singapore spend approximately $500,000 m the city a year— as near a true figure as can be reached. These are the people who arrive m the evening and leave the following morning, as opposed to those
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      DO YOU KNOW..?
      145 1 rr\HE first tnriruit to hind at Kalian^ did so th months before the I r aas v Dutch KLM airliner a DC on a flight from Batat la to Am 'iter dam The pilot uas the late ace Dutch aviator, mander X I) Parmcrr (killed m a
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      New BOAC jets will 'shrink' the globe
      967 2  - New BOAC jets will 'shrink' the globe SIR MILES THOMAS by- who became chairman of British Overseas Airways Corporation last month THE chairmanship of a nationalised corporation is no sinecure. One works m the fierce glare of public and parliamentary watchfulness. And rightly so, for the cost to the taxpayer
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        353 2 W Jm c_____g naa^uaaw *^^^k] wffr "jib_|* I prrnf p^~ L I I I I I I -I "V'/ff/P t^ Time marches on. Man strides -"~~~r""7j confidently forward towards fh« -f' brave new world of tomorrow. Scientists and engineers all over 'he globe dedicate their skills, their experience, indeed, their
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      Shell Looks To The Future
      558 3 Shell Looks To The Future I Aviation Sers ;jOvears old was ns as 1919 the ins <> j Cml dial the ser- the begin- had confidence m th of Civil Avia- considered that jould contribute to •ks of fuel ng facilities routes »r the aired with the the new and
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      The Flying Dutchman spreads its wings
      639 3 The Fl ying Dutchman spreads its wings M MI3ER of lending personDutch comhunking and »l circles met 7, 1919, at Ha Rue lo discuss foundation of the 1 Dutch Airlines to main'n 8 air services m I the Netherlands Me overseas lerri- did not take the nrst d the first
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      Controlling the air over Kallang
      749 4  - Controlling the air over Kallang Alan Wolstenholme by TWENTY Four hours a day throughout the year, aerial policemen are on duly keep intf the air traffic lanes of South East Asia sale. Ordinarily, one does not hear of this body, known as the Singapore Area Control, under whose jurisdiction comes
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      Singapore trains its future air engineers
      1066 5  -  Alan Wolstenholme by lind fee I .md liSt gain iian Uunl Miich one ands s rids nidad 1 1 rica, ast, reach m- a.nch I .icenI ineers I re. s in and I h a 5 mall m 19 riving, with a over 100
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        161 5 It used to take several hours to travel from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur. It novv takes but 90 minutes by Malayan Airways. It used to take several minutes to prepare a cup of coffee. It now takes but a few seconds with XT t ix escai t. NESCAFE Is exclusively
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        Raffles would call it a dream
        669 6  - Raffles would call it a dream ALAN WOLSTENHOLME by JF Stamford Raffles could stand on Tengah airfield one afternoon and watch a giant Qantas Empire Airways Constellation land from Sydney 19 hours by air disembark 38 passengers and a crew of nine, he would indeed rub his eyes and say,
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        Malaya's Own Airline
        889 6 MALAYAN Airways has now been operating for a little more than two years and is quicky graduating from the minor to the major airline class. The Company was started m 1947 by the Ocean Steam Ship Company of Liverpool and the Straits Steamship Company of Singapore and
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        The Risk
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      'Flaps up' in a Stratocruiser
      1253 7  -  GEORGE H. WALTZ, Jr. By jT had been quite a l fligh! All that remained was for us to grope our way down through thick weather instrument landNew York City's |_a(iuardia Field. Rough air had quite spoiled our first approach, and we had gone around
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      Of Stunt Flying
      143 7 toyZ. X,n for Pictorial Man listed that *md f me m down Hind Z(i m "> Per hour Mam. Wu l blowing," «£m sa,rt ,<so this remr to touch thc Ci v 105 m P« Had* nsU ad of 65. It f Yer > great differu H,
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      Far East Air Squeeze
      425 7  - Far East A ir Squeeze GRAHAM STANFORD By YOU cannot cover the A Far East air front very long without hearing of what the English air operators call "putting the squeeze on Britain." Wherever I follow the Empire air tracks here I am aiked to give the facts for home
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      Malaya's young men of the air
      441 8  - Malaya's young men of the air JOHN C. BE HAGUE by *WE have had the lesson before us over and over again nations that were not ready and were unable to get ready found themselves overrun by the enemy So said Franklin D. Roosevelt m a mes sage to Congress
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      Flying 'ships' & kites
      469 8  - Flying 'ships' kites HUANG HSIENSHENG By OURS is the age of the "Shooting Star" and the "Vampire"; and It is but fitting that Malaya Is air-minded, or rather, becoming airminded. This is indicated by the increasing interest shown m air travels and aviation m general. Our youths too seem to
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      WHEN FLIGHTS WERE $5 A TIME
      976 9 WHEN FLIGHTS WERE $5 A TIME Royal Singapore Flying Club T. ,h Singapore Flying Club lasil was hen called > was rounded m 1928 at a site near to (he Royal Singapore Yachl Club, under the Presidency of Mr. F. Lundon. who still holds that title. There being no aerodrome
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      KALLANG TO CLOSE
      118 9 FREE PRESS AIR CORRESPONDENT II wi' eventually be necessary to close Kallang airport completely fci a minimum of nine mouths m order thai reinforced concrete on the main runway can be replaced. This i.-i lecmmended m a *-eport on Kallang made by the Senior Executive Engineer of
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      Needs more aid from Government
      589 9 PENANG FLYING CLUB By A SPECIAL AIR REPORTER ()NE of the pleasant- est spots on Penang Island is the Penang Flying Club at Bayan Lepas. Although it is eleven miles from George-town, the drive out there, flanked m places by vivid green padi fields, is
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      'And Now Nobody Will Go Up With Me'
      529 10  - 'And Now Nobody Will Go Up With Me' ERIC MITCHELL says I WAS bringing the Auster m perfectly. The ground was coming nearer every moment, and the aircraft was flying like a bird. I gazed vacantly out of the window, and dreamed of getting my "A" licence. We skimmed over
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      Turns to gliders
      338 10 PERAK FLYING CLUB Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH: THE Perak Flying Club is at present m process of adapting itself to the operation of glider aircraft m an effort to make flying available within the means of young people. Conditions m the Kinta Valley have been adjudged
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      How to listen for SOSs
      248 10 How to listen for SOSs a Royal Air Force Halifax aircraft disappeared recently on a meteorological flight over the Atlantic, some radio amateurs, to whom an appeal was broadcast by the 8.8.C. for news of any calls intercepted from the missing Halifax, have been asking on what wave-length* such calls
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      They like their food
      263 11 T hey like their food pASSENGERS' food placed aboard long-distant aircraft leaving Kallang has been described by the chairman of 8.0.A.C. as second to none. A complimentary letter containing these remarks is one of the proudest possessions of the managing director of the Singapore Airport Hotel. Ltd.. Mr. Y. S
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      Clouds like rocks
      321 11  -  THOMAS R. HENRY By 4 THUNDERCLOUD is a lot of rocks m the sky. Someday, with improvements In radar apparatus, an airplane may be able to steer through them without any bumps. On^ of the findings from the intensive study of thunderstorms carried on for two years
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      'University of the air'
      522 11 MELBOURNE: r THE inclusion on sex ccndary school syllabuses of pre-night training and the elements of aeronautics is being considered by the Commonwealth and State educational authorities m Australia. If approved, it will mean that boys will m future study under the general heading of physics,
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      Far East air boom on the way
      277 11 Far East air boom on the way MANILA: AIR transportation m the Far East will get another big lift with the proposed improvements now being blueprinted for the 5,000,000 runways of the Manila International Airport. These improvements, it was disclosed by Secretary of Public Works and Communications Prospero C Sanidad
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        217 11 t^___WlO YE AT FIRST SIGHT I *LJ „s*«* In one famous Chinese love story Si Siang _S >o_fl ■6^-^____ Chee tells how Chang Shen. the romantic Lv scholar fell m love with the 19 year old M ■jM Bfc beautiful daughter of a State minister He m 1 JL\ Erf^S
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      G.O.C. SAYS GOODBYE
      44 13 Singapore r pHtrirl Maj. Gen. D. rig to men of i, Inniskilling FusiK.trracka Etc went to and good luck I'tbem I" I they leave Standing Duniop is I lea of the Bi tueen them mere is the office! com- M Shaw.
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      EXAM. IN MALAY
      9 13 m Malay ers wiil on Dec.
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      FERGUSON FOR COUNCIL
      69 13 IPOH, Thurs.-Mr. J. S. Ferguson, vice-president of the United Planting Association of Malaya, has been appointed a member of the Federal Legislative Council for three years, it was learnt here today. He succeeds Sir Sidney Palmer. Mr. Ferguson, who came to this country *3 years a°o, is
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      'VARSITY FUND
      32 13 The University of Malaya Endowment Fund had received $348,782 up to Aug. 13. Latest gifts included $100,000 from the Shell Co. of Singapore and $5,000 from Framroz and Co., Singapore.
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      PROTEST OVER BIRTH CONTROL QUIZ
      586 13 PROTEST OVER BIRTH CONTROL QUIZ Dr. Mary Tan m*/ answers critics Free Press Staff Reporter COMPLAINTS by potential seekers of birth control advice have been made that the Lady Medical Officer, Dr. Mary Tan, at the Municipal Infant Welfare Clinic asks too many personal .questions before she will give any
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      It's true, says Dato Onn
      133 13 JVATO Onn bin Ja'afar, Mentri Besar of Johore ard president of the U.M.N.0., states that most of the reports on the SultansMentris Besar controversy published m the Kuala Lumpur paper, Majlis, are factual. He was replying to a warning by the chief Kathi of Perlis,
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      AIR CADETS TO FLY SOON
      75 13 WITH the promise of air scholarships, cadets of the Malayan Air Training Corps will begin flying as soon as faci itles and opportunity permit. A senior officer of the Corps stated yesterday that at least one cadet would begin training with the Royal Singapore Flying
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      20 STUDENTS FOR H.K.
      82 13 20 STUDENTS FOR H.K. Free Press Staff Reporter TWENTY candidates from Singapore have been accepted fo- the Honkong University's Faculty of Medicine. Thcv a^e Tan Song Chua. Xlok Yev Hee, Chew Chin Hin, Ur^ Khcn Hua, Lim Siew Kai Low Choon Neo. Ta^ Khens Khoo. Tan Kwang Joo Tay Hul
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      DISTRICT JUDGE
      27 13 Mr. Tan Ah Tah has been appointed to be District Judge j and First Magistrate. Singa- pore, m place of Mr. E. P. Shanks, i
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      FISH MERCHANTS ASK FOR AID
      220 13 Free Press Chinese Correspondent ANY Government attempt to control the collection and marketing of fish to bring down prices was likely to encounter practical difficulties, the president of the Singapore Fish Merchants Guild, Mr. Chan Peng Lim, said yesterday. He was commenting on reports that
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      Barter trade plea fails
      88 13 F. P. Chinese Correspondent THE request of the Singapore Chinese Importers and Exporters Assoc&ttor t«- open four ports m Na': Island to barter trade has been turned down by the Indonesian authorities, the a sociatlor* has been inform- 1 d Tne four ports are Lahowa. Sjrombu.
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      GIFT OF SWEETS
      37 13 Abou J 1.800 Indian children m about 40 Singapore schools were given sweets by Mr. J. A. Thivy the Representative of the Government of India m Malaya on the occasion of Indian Independence Day.
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      MR. C. CAIRNS
      30 13 Mr. C. Cairns, Senior Assistant Conservator of Forests. Malayan Forest Service, has been appointed to officiate as Forect Officer, Singapore, m place of Mr. C. O. Flemmlch.
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      NATIONAL ANTHEM ONCE A DAY
      120 13 THE playing, of the National Antrum m Singapore r-ineiuas only at the end of trie last performance for the day t be continued. This was 1 decided at a nesting o: cinema manager at the Public Relations Office, when reactions to a recent experiment on
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      'Trade unionism faces crisis'
      256 13 Free Press Stall Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. IT will be a long time before the trade union movement m this country can live down the events of 1948 either with the employers or the workers, states the Federation's Commissioner for Labour, Mr. R. G. Houghton, m
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      FUN FAIR TO AID BUILDING FUND
      59 13 FUN FAIR TO AID BUILDING FUND fun fair m aid of the Carmelite Convent Building Fuiic' will be held ln the ne vlv-built extension to the Carmelite Convent, Buklt Teresa o*_ Sunday, Sept. 4 at 10.45 a.m., under the patronage o* Mensignor M. Olcomendy Bishop of Malacca. The fair is
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      Waited 12 years for fresh water
      117 13 Waited 1 2 years for fresh water Fn-.- tOmm M.ifT K<-port« r A $10 coo sehenv o > P 1"! yearr au;o to pr< Nt cf Tanjong X Rlngapon with has i ii put Infc Municipal pipes ha\ isid u» to the end Klin her o< stftudpipes are b Infilled
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      5 YEARS FOR CUSTOMS THEFT
      37 13 5 YEARS FOR CUSTOMS THEFT SEREMBAN. Thurs. A 20-year-old Tumi) hnan 1. sentei to Hee r Imprisonment Bembilan Assizes hen I theft of cash and clothing worth $418 from ths I customs shed Krlshltftn admitted five vietions.
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      Tiger scares off pupils
      122 13 F P. Mftlftj Correspondent ATKiMt was responsible for a decrease m the daily attendance of pupils .tt the Kot 4 Sita Mftlftj Bchool at Kuala Perak, the headmaster, Inche Mohamed bin Sulaiman. told t tusan Melayu Pupds living at Kampon* Bandar Air and Scjagok could not
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      GOLDEN GATE TO SCORE A DOUBLE
      2407 14 Form guide for tomorrow's races sixth to Lucky Tom over 7f with 8.6 202 Devon 8.13: Ran Fair Court to half a length over 7f on Sat m 2nd div. with 8.10; tailed leader and made good run tn last furlong Bred to stay
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        214 14 RESPITE the «entTal feHni^!, ,N j M prevailed m m «,st sections »f if"! 11 w hi<h Exchange yesterday, prices remained steady, says Renter's financial corresponded edgeds, however, again declined sh were neglected and unchanged, while fn Rubbf regularly higher. ,ltls were i r The fresh
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        219 14 m3sl"r3kG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya y* 6 l^*^ P tem£._-- I 1^ h bwt2fr MV I |??J^ c T V:" ATT^ v :rv^ ii've::-::r. >*~ I --DANJGPQriJC L I I'll nn.mu„r ANU H T FLL 6 oTHE g___l. FIGURED I WAS BEING SOCLEVER. OJT OF TOWNac
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      699 15  - WE CAN'T RELY ON CLIMATE FACTOR IN 1952 FINAL VETERAN By British badminton expert says B. Clements, 15-year-old medium-pace bowler of Cranleigh School, Surrey, getting ready lor tomorrows cricket match on the Padang. Clements is one ol 15 boys from schools m the I'nited Kingdom who are m Singapore enjoying
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      Europeans used right methods
      132 15 Europeans used right methods >i Malayi 0. ovec j met Intur- .Lan d their ffort by hoi by the hi ball bout i up a most eao fore team outside n'wlpa- many jiving of >ing. M Improves 101 Lmof (he i the Dd half (8 \*e. '-rf p: the firstth^
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      Prapadaeng fast and accurate
      306 15 By LEFT-HOOK V'AI Phol Prapadaeng, who was ranked eighth best bantamweight m the world by the Ring magazine (New York) last month after his points victory over David Kui Kong Young m Bangkok recently, will step into the ring at the Happy World arena tonight an
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      88 15 ASTON Athletic Club will play R.A.F. Police at SembawariK on Sunday at soccer and badminton. The following players are requested to meet at the Aston Cub at 1.30 p.m. for transport: SOCCER: Frank Tan, Douglas Teoh. Low Kee Seng. Leong Keong. lim Kee Hian, Tan
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      New Zealand 417 for 3
      184 15 New Zealand 417 for 3 A GAINST some moderate bowling the New Zea- landers found runs easy to get against Durham at Sunderland yesterday m their two-day match, V. J. Scott, F. Smith and F. Mooney all scoring centuries. The New Zealanders declared at 417 for three wickets and m
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      248 15 VDW thai the I matches are o\er. mit-rcst during ihe next fortnight will be centred on the struggle for the county cricket championship title. Present indicati ,ns are that J Middlesex will Succeed for the j second time m three years, but county form, so often
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      225 15 p. B. LUCAS, captain of Bri- tain's Walker Cup golf team, j surprised many people yesterday when m announcing his order of play for today's foursomes he show-j ed that he nad dropped himself and Ernest Milward from tlie ten men who travelled to America. The match
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      46 15 FRANK SEDGMAN and George Worthington (Australia) furnishe the major upset ln the United States m^n's doubles tennis championship yesterday by eliminating the defending champions. Gardnar Mulloy and Billy Talbert. The score was 6-4. 1-6. 6-5. 9-7. The tip was a quarterfinal.- ana Reuter U.P.
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      Good support for Johore Grand Prix
      278 15 EXCELLENT entries have been received from Singapore and the Federation for the Johore Grand Prix, to be h*ld on Sunday, Oct 2 The rally is being organised this year by the Singapore Motor Club. It Is open to all members of the Automobile Association
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      Harith misses header
      31 15 picture. A tussle for possession m the Malays' goal area m yesterday s Inter-Community League soccer. Harith has missed m attempting a header. Europeans won one-nil. Free Press
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      258 15 I^HE Japanese swimming stars won the first three places m the National Amateur Athletic Union 1,500 metres free-Style championship event at Los Angelt-s OKI Wednesday night and a Japanese swimmer also was first ln the final of the 206 metres race. Hlronoshin Puruhashl, the champion distance swimmer
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      171 15 THE NeWI Chronicle 500 professional foil tournament ended at Brighton terday m un amai I I for Dick Burton. eompa tive veteran, who li one of the Ryder Cup selector* With an he shattered by two stroke! the British competition cord for 72 hole.s set up
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        61 15 Today s sport SOCCER: SAFA Community League. Chinese v. Royal Navy, Jalan Besar Stadium. 5.15 p.m.: Junior A. Group 2; League: C usloms v. Hong Kong Bank < C, BOD ground. 5 15 p.m. Kriendly: QfJthrles S.C. v. Shell XI. Geylang stadium. 5.15 p.m. BOXING: Phol v. Bobby NJoo, Happy
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      BIRTHS
      43 16 SAUNDERS: On 18th August, j: u idang Kerbau Hospital, to Enid, wile of J. A. H, Saunders, lighter. ARCHER: To Mollie, wife of A L. Airher of B* radin Estate Paloh at Bmunton Nursing Home. i on 6.8.49 a brother for Simcn
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      UN PLAN TO POOL WORLD RESOURCES
      364 16 Reds boycott conference NEW YORK, Friday. WITH the object of taking stock of the resources of the world and marshalling them for the maximum benefit of its peoples, especially m underdeveloped countries, the first United Nations-sponsored conference of scientists, technicians and resources experts met
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      Union of Muslim states?
      164 16 TEHERAN, Fri. THE establishment of lslami- stan, a world Muslim State, will be proposed at the forthcoming conference of the Arab League, which will nominate which country will lead the Muslim union, according to a semi-oilicial source here. However, the Persian Foreign Minister, All Asgar Hekmat,
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      Can better living standards
      209 16 Can better living standards NEW YORK, Friday. THE world's fast growing population does not dodsti it to a lower standard of living because science can "find and develop food, fuels and materials, to raise the living standard everywhere," according to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Mr. J. A. Krug.
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      LANDSLIDE BURIAL
      18 16 Thirteen persons have been j buried alive m a landslide m 1 Westrn Kyushu island. Japan.
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      'NEW U.S. POLICY TO SAVE ASIA'
      194 16 rw~w m.iii MANILA, Fndav. I'HE Philippine Ambassador to the United Nations Bng-.-Gen. Carlos P. Romulo. architect of the projected Pacific Union, said here yesterday "A new American policy toward Asia and the Far E-isi is being shaped." "We can expect from them a redefinition
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      Cholera after eating turkey
      36 16 ROME, Fri EIGHT members of two families m Pisa who ate a turkey that had died have been stricken with cholera, reports II Message, o. They have been isolated m hospital. A.P.
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      LAST RITES
      50 16 HUNDREDS of persons stood outside a small stone chapel at Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., yesterday as the last rites were held for Margaret Mitchell, author of the famous Gone With The Wind. Miss Mitchell was struck down by a speeding* car on Aug. 11 and died on Tuesday. A.P.
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      ROMANISING JAP LANGUAGE
      113 16 ROMANISING JAP LANGUAGE -TOKYO. Friday. A PETITION is before the Japanese Government which, according to plans of its sponsors, would eventually do away with all complicated Chinese and Japanese characters and substitute English phonetics for them. As an initial step, the petition proposes that the study of Roma.ii be made
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      Britons sail Atlantic in 20-foot yacht
      333 16 THEY PLAN ISLAND UTOPIA DARTMOUTH (DEVON), Friday. 'THE Smith brothers, Stanley and Colin, who landed here yesterday after a 43-day Atlantic crossing m their self-built 20-foot yacht, Nova Espero, hope to raise enough money to found on Vancouver island a model village m which
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      European court of human rights
      264 16 STRASBOURG, Friday. THE European Assembly will today study a proposal for a European Court of Human Rights with broad powers to demand action from any member nation where it found human rights violated. The proposal, submitted by Mr. Winston Churchill, is backed by the European
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      N.Y.MART FIRM
      81 16 T^HI: closed >' upward movement continUi the morn Inst and. with tn riOnaUy tending to expand on an Improved volume of short < ing and rein\ demand, th market .showed pt] f 1 to U.S. $1 by DO Although buying ll ibakto during the afternoon. the ensuing profit
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      'One and only Coco' dies
      83 16 COCO, world-famous circus clown from Calcutta who performed before kinj;> and qut'ens and played m at least 40 countries, died m Jackson Yille (Florida) >psterday at the age of 77. "The one and only Coco," whose real-life name was George Herbert, he was a native
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        138 16 HIGH TIDES Today: 636 a.m; 5.31 p.m. Tomorrow 850 a.m; 6 54 p.m. THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris !_9^^SSlS^^lil THAT'S HOW IT HAPPENED \\W DON'T TE. IMP vr* i H^ "*S HI I TrT! 1 j^^^^ "^X SAINT/ THE ONLY THING 1 F IPT P^lrrTA^r,, T 1 HOrV VOJ HAVE
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