The Singapore Free Press, 25 August 1949

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press i^CESI^APIERNOOH SALE IN MALAYA i:,s^' SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGfTST 25 I^Q price 10 vmm
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  • 507 1 MALAYA SLUMP F TALKS FAIL T T O T T T7" LJ lS IK LONDON, Thursday. WARNINGS were uttered yesterday that failure talks m w P I^ g An^ o -American financial effect m thI a w ln^ On apart from ettect m the West— may involve the complete collapse
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  • 80 1 News Arabs agree to M.E. survey LAUSANNE. Thurs. I the Arab States lere yesterday to In an economic lof the Middle East !»t hastening 1 settlement (Palestine refugee pro•<.a.s proposed by Mr. 1 Porter. American member Nation* Concilia- alch has cabled Nations Secretary :c for his help. I that plans
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  • 22 1 Italo-Greek Repara■Agreerr.ent will be algn- *eek, an ItaUan Ministry spokesman y^erday. Under expected to pay f £26.250.000 over fWe A.P.
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  • 170 1 BATAVIA, Thursday. rpHE Central Joint Board composed o* Dutch, x Republican, Federalist and United Nations delegates supervising the cease-fire agreement has ordered local committees to investigate fights m which it is alleged that 27 Dutch soldiers have been killed and 88 wounded since the agreement came
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  • 53 1 SYDNEY, Than. WHEN she received a marriage proposal by phone from London yesterday, Miss Elizabeth Schwartiopf had just enough voice to whisper "yes." Miss Schwartitkopf, a famous operatic soprano who was m Singapore recently, has a severe throat infection. Her husband-to-be is Mr. Walter Legge. a gramophone
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  • 130 1 A CIVIC reception awaited 30-year-old Stanley Smith and his 29-year-old brother, Colin, when they arrived In Dartmouth, Devon, after a 42-day battle across the Atlantic m their 20-ft. homemade yacht Nova Espero last week The yacht, m which they crossed from Halifax m Nova Scotia, is seen
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  • 60 1 'Support Far Easternpolicy Acheson Asks Republicans WASHINGTON, Wednesday. rrHE United States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean 1 Acheson today appealed for Republican support of the Government's Far Eastern policy. Commenting at his weekly press conference on criticism of the recent State Department White Paper on Sino-American relations Mr. Acheson said
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  • 120 1 Free Press Staff Reporter OWING to a number of unsigned and unwitnessed application forms being rejected, the total number to register as voters for the Colony's next Legislative Council and Municipal elections has been reduced from 11 875 to 11.727, the Free Press was told
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  • 36 1 An American Army L-5 observation plane crashed on a take-off on Tuesday at Odenburg, near Nuremberg It struck a tree, burst Into flames and set fire to three houses. The pilot was killed
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  • 56 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A MUar jungle squad raided two houses m the squatter area at Kampong Salak i)..'it night Eleven Chinese suspected of supplying food to bandits w :*e arrested m one house, while m the other two Chinese m possession of an
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  • 50 1 s'p ore ship turned back HOXti KONG, Thurs. THE Singapore-registered ship Sin Soon Tec Is returning to Hong Kong after being turned back from Tientsin by Chinese Nationalist blockade warships. The Chinese Foreign Office yesterday told th«* British Embassy that from Saturday next the Nationalist coastal blockade will be extended.
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  • 166 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Police and Gurkha Rifles screened 900 orople In Jemaluang vlllaep. between Kota Tin™i and 'uir yesterday and detained 19. The Department was "working at that task In the hope that a completely bipartisan approach will facilitate the evolution of oar national poilcy,"
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  • 47 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Twelve naval aircraft six Seaflres and six Fireflies from the British aircraft carrier Triumph flew to Sembawang this -nornin^, passing over the city a', 8 40 am. The Triumph itself docked at the Naval Base at 11 a.m.
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  • 42 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Four arrm*d Chinese bandits entered the house of a Chinese at the Ist mile Labis Yong Peng Road Johore. and shot him dead last night. The man was murdered for political reasons, pollen believed
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  • 16 1 Singapore C ID. yesterday r rested flvp ~hlnes-* allegedly connected with unlawful, secret societies.
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  • 100 1 SINGAPORE RIVER'S TOLL Fre« Press Staff Reporter rpHE body of a Chinese was 1 found floating In Singapore River this morning. Yesterday, two persons disappeared In the river. One was a Javanese who was painting Colernan Bridge. He fell off his perch on a plank which was struck by a
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  • 64 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Singapore Turf Club's total sweep figure for the Gold Cup meeting which starts on Saturday was $1,161,570 up to yesterday when an additional $111,715 was received by the Club Since the sweeps opened nine days ago an
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  • 150 1 SAIGON, Thursday. r\ROPPING from 50 planes, French paratroops have retaken the towns of Phucyen and Vinhyen, 30 and 40 miles north of Hanoi, m Tongking, North Indo-China, from the Vietminh rebels led by Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minn. Recently, the rebel troops were on the outskirts
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  • 133 1 Big air attack on Karens RANGOON, ThUI DURMA Air Force heavily bombed i strafed Karen rebel concentrations around Taunggyi. Shan BUI capital about 300 m north of Rangoon Government troops c tinued their drive on town, Burma Arm> i claimed last night. Government troops tured Seikkyi. m the Ann district
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  • 50 1 Free Press Staff Reporter IMPORTS into Malaya month exceeded exix>rts by about $7,500,000. 1 imports amounted to $13°,--948.950; exports $125. 174 Over the first smonths of this yeir the adverse trade balance is approximately $150,000 000 cumulative totals lor in*and exports are $1,009,574.77] and $915,055,177 reipecf.
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  • 55 1 SPtCIAI Market cum, ent jive* the prices of rubl-.r (tn cents pet Ib i at II a.m iodu aa Miowt: Bayer* SH»i* No. I 188 Spot: loose ls\ 3<i Fob In balm Sept No. 1 R.S.S. t*% No. 2 R.S.S. 13 V ZV^ No. 3 R S.S. J»y,
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  • 660 2 I) I) IC T S of spiritual patent < medicines are more numerous m America < than m any other country. mean thai nowhere else do human beings m more desperately nnxious m their search joi so m c wonderking nostrum thai i enable them to the crosses
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  • 104 2 Foois Rush In. by Tina Spencer Knott. (Hammond, Hammond 10s. 6d.) From the same hatchery as "The Egg and I": a goodhumoured account of two adventurous young people, with no previous experience of any kind of farming, who jumped head over heels into the problem* and perplexities of
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  • Article, Illustration
    34 2 Nineteen-year-old Miv Dorothy Joan Rice of Clapham, a "Nippy" at the Strand Corner House uho icon the title of "Miss Lyons of 1949. seen with film stars John McCailum and Anne Crawford, the judges.
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  • 19 2 Elected Silence. Tne Autobiography of Thomas Morton. With a foreword by Evelyn Waugh. (Hollis and Carter. 155.).
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  • 165 2 Adventures of Penny Koni By dodging a/id twisting and turning and running vtry fast. Kom tht monkey escaped the dolls who wert chat ng him m Toyland. And then, suddenly, it grew dark. Although the moon m Toylanc' was *cry bright, poor Kom was frightened. H t wou d havt
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  • 391 2  -  GEORGE HULL New 'find' reveals.. I EXPERTS m London, J New York, and Jerusalem are studying original Old Testament texts which were Israel's "Authorised Version m the days of Christ. The texts were found m a cave on the shores of the Dead Sea. They comprise
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  • 509 2  -  JAMES BROUGH rNKW YOKK: AM A H (i A l\ E T lfl MITCHELL, who wrote "Gone With The Wind." alter an acddenl thai kept her on crutches for three years, has died m hospital after being knocked down on Ireeshaded Peach tree
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    253 2 A heinous bruige crißM was committed In to but probably most players would be guilty of the same mudeed If they found themselves m the H players ptei \V»\st opened the deuce of diamonds, and East won with the returned the tk\ diamonds. ;\nd south thought for a
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  • 45 2 Hilton Br»n> ttmpt Bun uf II ih rt p: m is IT ly writl ml and n«-v Tennjnti n the inrviUW I thumou* dfCiiw m IMi SKELirrONIM rtrr D» in.tr, i"" till if CWM \iici I I. *hita" intrrprtt" hl J"^ will lmduj_
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 722 2 isH'BBC). j Id Uutin iiib\_i. 9. SINCiArUKL Kuoyu (BBC). 9.30 Burmese kiii. NhrunKiv. <BBC>: 9.45 English: News 1 «ii 1 1 Rubber Prices; 10. Radio News 484 and il.l meires. Reel (BBC); 10.15 'London Studio Emergency news from ft.L. concerts' (16); 10.45 'Something at 10 a.m. Always Happens on Holiday'
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    • 159 2 {Another insiatnunt tomorrow) YCu& LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are essentially the individualist, but you have the facility for adapting yourself to all kinds of conditions and to all types of people at will. This chameleonlike tendency can be an asset if it is not overused. But if you change
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    • 133 2 F.P. Crossword No. 775 HP IP 111 F ILI I i ACROSS 2 Answered (9); 7 Nation (4); 9 Anger (3); 10 Pure (6); 12 Bird (4); 13 Begin (5); 14 Accompany (6); 18 Discussion (8); 20 Widened (8); 21 Take ill (6); 24 Faction (5); 27 Lily (4); 29
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  • 201 3 U. K. INDUSTRIAL WARNING employment and a reduced standard oHhTne of the Federation of British Industrie/ C UnCll The statement expressed concern #iw> j quate appreciation of the situation and went on*: JTS art m grave danger of being unable to obtain the food and raw materials we need. We
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  • 75 3 Rebels loot villages in South Korea REBEL activities m South Korea caused eight deaths over three days, according to a Government spokesman. He said that small rebel parties have attacked villages m the Soonchon area m the', southern part of the Republic, confiscating property and distributing anti-Government handbills. In riots
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  • 152 3 women, as do most women m Asia, 10 much with little efficiency, said Mrs. a who, with her husband former I first and only Christian to hold that has returned to Tokyo from Europe and trie United States. Sbo was referring to labour -saving devices
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  • 45 3 tnent official no consirving given to h| a Marshal] plan to United States ical assistance Truman's ramme for the ireas would needs of Asian confirmed the at In Madras of v*es Ambassador Loy Henderson, Is keenly inters prosperity and fare." Reuter
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  • 64 3 JUST TO BUY K.G. RUBBER buy ternrubber proa to help if-r position, an mal Terrlt- 'be sche-ri'-unced m vernment, had made with New •reducers to Australian i rub- Reuter J^ 1 lon'i .smoke gj members of the Royal ObservaJJ studying the 2, ['©m historic <astle m v Pil ■>">■ shows
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  • 11 3 (the Mom of N iiions Sore bf"r\ff
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  • 161 3 PLEA FOR SINGLE CURRENCY nELEGATES to the European Assembly striving for unity among the 12-member nations have been blaming selfish national policies as a root cause of the grave economic crisis. Appealing for swifter action M. Paul Reynaud, former French Finance Minister and an international authority, said: "Everyone agrees that
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  • 139 3 pRENCH delegates are now expected to attack the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation during the economic debate m the European Consultative Assembly. M. Pi.ul Eeynaud (moderate! one of France's leading financial experts, intend to lead the criticism of the O.E.E.C. on the ground that the organisation,
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  • 204 3 FAT men make the best husbands and school teachers the best wives, the Director of t*e U.S. National Institute for Human HeteUons Dr. James F Bender, of New York City, told a meeting of the Buffalo State Teachers College. The fat man is the least likely
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  • 278 3 New eye' to aid cancer study A NEW eye that tells what one is made of, and what happens m sickness, has been developed m Columbia University. This eye is a big machine that can probe the secrets of single human cells, the smallest bits of living matter. The body
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  • 39 3 (CAPTAIN Charles Nadley, j 85, who claimed he fired the first shot that started the Battle of Manila Bay m 1898 t has died at Bath, Maine. He was aboard Adra. Dewey's flagship, Olympia. U.P.
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  • 157 3 FOREIGNERS QUIT S'HAI CUSTOMS ALL 140 foreign employees of the Shanghai Maritime Customs are resigning and preparing to quit Cilna because of an order that all customs business must be transacted m the Chinese language instead of Llnglish, says the Communist paper Wen Wai Pao. Seventy- two of the foreign
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  • 73 3 THE Showmen's Guild of Britain are puzzled by delay m receiving Government permission to go ahead with a plan for importing up to 3,000,000 coconuts a year fiom Ceylon. Coconut shies were one of the most popular features of fairs and fetes m Britain before
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  • 172 3 'TIME FOR THE WEST TO MAKE STAND IN ASIA' 'J'HE white man is not through m the Far East or the Orient and it is time for the white people to make a stand m Asia— just as it was made a year ago m Berlin, said the editor of
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  • 98 3 MR. K. R. K. Menon, Indian lf Government Finance Secretary, is at Washington, where he had talks with United States Government officials on the proposed treaty of friendship and navigation between America and India. This relates to the burden of double taxation to which traders are subject
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  • 172 3 VfRS. NELLIE BURBERRY told the Esher Surrey iT coroner that Just before her husband shot himself he said: "I feel lost. I am going mad. I may not come back. If you hear two shots, that's me." Mrs. Burberry, widow of Jtobert
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  • 67 3 A REGIONAL drought m the Seoul area has blasted Korean hopes for a bumper rice crop this year. In June Seoul received only 1.7 Inches of rain instead of the normal four inches or more, and only 5.7 inches m July, the last month for planting rice.
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  • 259 3 Food economy drive in India INDIA is tightening her belt further to ensure minimum waste of foodstuffs. The Government of India has directed the Provincial and Slate Governments to introduce more austere measures and to ensure more economy. Meals m hotels, restaurants and other similar establishments have been restricted to
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  • 127 3 Reds expansion checked Clay QENERAL Lucius Clay, former United States Mili- tary Governor m Germany, thinks that "Communist expansion 3n Europe is checked" but warns against lessening the flow of military "aid to nations outside the iron curtain." Speaking m a forum of military and diplomatic officials of nine Atlantic
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  • 76 3 TOKYO police announce that seven suspects In the Mitaka runaway train investigation were being held and an eighth for whom a warrant was issued, was a fugitive. Six persons were killed when an electric train on a siding suddenly started and overran the Mitaka .station
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  • 79 3 Yoi can't keep a g»o4 ogopogo down "And what." you ask. "is an ogopogo?" A good question. At Okanagan Lakeside City m British Columbi.i th<> are beginning to wonder too! lie used to be known only as a cavorting: sea-sorpent. jßut the other morning, they say, the
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  • 118 3 RUNSTEDT OFFERS TO TESTIFY MARSHAL von RuiisU*<lt haJ offered to give evidence on behalf of his former Chlef-of-StafT von Manstein at his war criminal trial which opened m Hamburg recently. No confirmation that hla offer has been accepted by the defence was immediately available. Von Manstein. also a former Field
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  • 122 3 THE British European Airways Dakota crash m the Penine mountains recently with the loss of 23 lives was the worst air disaster In Britain since July last year I the R.A.F. transport Command plane, carrying the High Commissioner to the Federation. Sir Edward < I
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  • 26 3 cJir Frederick Qaraon, president of the Montreal locomotive Works, already ha* 230 locomotive* on ordci from Canadian manufacturers and wanf.i niore. Reuter
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  • 78 3 MOVE TO HELP ITI O re United States has granted Yugoslavia permission to buy materials for a steeJ mill from an American company, Government officials have disclosed. The decision marks thfl biggest step taken by America to strengthen Marshal Tito m his fight with Moscow Meanwhile, a m< M.jscow says
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  • 407 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Aug. 25. 1949. THE MONEY POURS IN I>ROMISES and gifts to the University of Malaya appeal n<«w total approximately $350,000 Since |Übptions opened ten days ago well over $1 000.000 has bt vn paid fur tickets m th«- j sweepstakes on races at the coming
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  • 222 4 HAPPENINGS at the docks over the week-end have dealt the last blow to the myth that Singapore is still a tree port. According to reports about sixty transit passengers came ashore and went shopping. They spent a fair amount of money but less than $1,000 a head
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  • 86 4 GRAHAM STANFORD presents Ml final report after a 30,000-mile flying, tour of Britain's Colonial territories. He flew all the way by BO AC aircraft and hs ha> this to say of the service: "We flew through the Indian monsoons; across the deserts of Egypt and over
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  • 1109 4 Rolling Red Lava Creeps On I WAS sitting m the 1 Dying-boat 10,000 ft. up when they passod round the dock strike news bulletin. "Have we all gone raving mad?" said the British scientist returning from a tour of Africa's copper belt. "Don't they know that every day counts; that
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  • 673 4  -  Robert Saundby By Air Marshal Sir IT luis been suggested that there is serious disagreement between Britain and the United States on the question of strategic bombing. It is said there is a British school of thought, including Mr. Churchill and Mr. A. V. Alexander,
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  • 643 4  -  POLITICO by QPEN ARMS will greet the United Nations delegates to the E.C.A.F.E. conferences m Singapore. Nobody is happier than the ordinary citizen to see them here because their visit means so much to the city. It means that alter years of shabby dinginess the Victoria
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  • 103 4 A PREMIER WITH A FAN Mail St. JohnNewfomdland "QOD bless Mtimi God bless Daddy, and God bless Smallwood," m unl thousands of sleepyheads as I kneel beside t 1 vnch evening land of codfish childn i 1 The Honoui Joseph S n r of foundland, ibt tiio m tical s
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  • 154 5 Remittances to China down 90% P hinr>e Correspondent iiNGAPORE'S 200 Chinese y cc firms report volume of business by 80 to 90 per mpared with the first ye i r v «ase has been due ing areas m are being brought mnist control and, remittance shop to the reduced wer
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  • 43 5 6 MONTHS GOAL S« ntence of six months' imprisonment w:i^ <>;i Tan Tau Tee In our Police Court yes\t theft of an adding valued at $850. helping Tan to sell the machine. Seah Ah 'v. was sentenced to thre»' ths' rigorous imprisonpleaded guilty.
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  • 24 5 MERCANTILE BA NK DIVIDEND THE Board ot Directors, Mercantile Bank of India. Ltd. have declared an interim dividend of six per rent les tax.
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  • 173 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 N 585,000 tender for the erection and completion of a group of holiday bungalows at Telok Mata Ika*i for junior employees of the Singapore Municipality has been accepted by a Municipal committee and is subject to confirmation at the meeting
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  • Article, Illustration
    24 5 picture. Koran* from Borneo, read. o uiau io ien-.>iMr-old Ramli bin Tayonan also frnm Borneo. They are two of the pilsrims^ho embanked Singapore. P.R.
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  • 36 5 MAI LS Surface mulls are expected io arrive m Singapore tuday lro;n Java. Slam, N. Borneo, Labuan. Brunei and Miri. dosing time for posting surface malls at the C-.P.0 today is to Java and Pnnttanak: noon.
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  • 58 5 Forty-eight-year-old Tay Ah Hin of Pasir Lane, who pleaded guilty to assisting m the running of a chap-ji-ki lottery, was fined $500 m the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. Tay was found carrying 108 betting slips on Aug. 17 at Sungei Road- Weld Road junction. The informer m
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  • 331 5 Free Press Maff Reporter rfiEACHERS should never 1 get into an "educational rut said the Chancellor of the University of Malaya and Commissioner-General, South-east-Asia. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, at the end of the Malayan teachers' vacation course at Raffles Collie yesterday. Mr. MacDoiiaiJ aid he waa
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  • 512 5 Plans must be passed first Nightsearches in river Free Press Staff Reporter COMMITTEE of Singapore Municipal Commissioners has recommended the first step towards checking the practice among certain owners of building a new house, or carrying out alterations, even before the plans have been passed.
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    38 5 picture. Niursinc Sister Kathleen Bentlej tiie iC A I- Hospital. Chaniji, adjusts the sheets over Third Engineer Don Semple, who was successfully operated on for apurndiciUs on board the American oil tanker Pecos on Tuesday nicht. Free Press
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  • 88 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE French freighter Lyons lost its propeller for the third time when two days out of Saigon. She carried a spare, but radioed for assistance and was taken In cow by another French ship, the Nantes, which altered course from 250 miles away.
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  • 239 5 Free Press Staff Reporu-r APPLICATIONS for permits to make public appeals for money average 700 a year, a police officer told the Free Press yesterday. He was commenting on a Free Press survey published last week of the unprecedentedly large number of appeals now being
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  • 29 5 There will be a meeting of Indian women m Johore Bahru tomorrow on the pre.mises of the local Indian Congress, 47 Jalan Ibrahim, at 5 p.m.
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  • 163 5 Free Press Staff Reporter HPHE firj.t branch of the British Red Cross m A Singapore will be formed probably by the end of this week, a representative of the British Red Cross, Miss M. T. Speiis, told the Free Press yesterday. Miss Spens arrived here
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  • 69 5 Declaring that scn'v-Acc of nine months' rigorous imprisonment passed on an opium smoker had been unusually heavy, the Singapore Chief Justice. Mr. Just ire Murray -Aynsley. yesterday reduced it to two months. Teo Heo Huat, An elderly man, h?d boon convicted on two charges of
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  • 78 5 "f FELT giddy and fell into the river, said PS-year-old Chinese woman, Soh Wai Foon, m the Fourth Police Court yesterday In answer to a charge of attempting to commit suicide by jumping Into the Singapore River la*:t Sunday. Soh Wai Foon was found struggling
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  • 17 5 Mr R S demons hoi appointed a Jus* ice of t) Peace ior Singapojf*
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  • 104 5 Scheme for making jobs permanent AWOKLD-WIDF > estah'.h-h on a pen p ace-tin ba> r.radp civilian employe- s wht> no< n. temporary emi> being con b\ ttW Wa- OH T^e w.i Depart Stan Anoclatlon ol tna hv t lie Am.x :iui\ Lumpur The author! ring iM- rm rd b Hit
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  • 60 5 Asub-cunmntUe ol UK Blllgapore Chun Boan' will propo>« ernmtnt that tbfl procedure to be followed for the adoption of children when tin* Children'! Ordinal furrod .should bo The majority ol tni ado; Iren complete dl aspect! ano Orci. which is to troduced, the sub -coir* nv. found
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  • 279 6 CINGAPORES electoral rt>lls v will te open for Inspection at nine centres from tomorrow till Sept. 8 between JO a.m. and 1 p.m. and 2 p m. and 4 p.m. The centres are: the Election.* Office on the fourth floor of Fullerton Building; Room 131.
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  • 400 6 NINE BANDITS KILLED, MANY WOUNDED picture. Suf folks go into action Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. BANDITS suffered heavy losses m two separate attacks m Pahang and Selangor on Tuesday. Six of the marauders were killed m Pahang and three m Selangor, besides many others wounded. In their
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  • 390 6 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. lI 'HEN the office and methods expert, Mr. S. S. Ross, arrived from Hong Kong next month, he would investigate the workings of certain Federal departments, including the Secretariat and Treasury, which, it was hoped, would lead to further
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  • 529 6 {London Stock Exchange! i LONDON, Thursday. THE start of a fresh account m London's Stock Exchange yesterday failed to bring: about any improvement m trading conditions and caution remained the keynote pending the outcome of the talks m Washington on the dollar crisis, says Reuter's financial correspondent.
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  • 128 6 gHIPS m port alongside Ihe Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowna In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Frederick Lyfc\s (31-32), Rajula (33-34), BenmacUhul 1 36-37 >, Manchuria (38-39) Tydeus (40-41), Glengyle (42-43>. West Wharf: Oeorglc (1-2-3). Calchas (6-7). Steel Vendor iB-9>. Asphallon (11), Elpenor li-14), Denbighshire (15-16). Empire Dock:
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    • 60 6 ANOTHER OSCAR-WINNER FOR LOMTTA YOUNG TIM OPENS TODAY FOUR SHOWS 2-4.15-6.30-9.30 p m. E 6903 r m Id sam "p if* Under a .iew arranßennant ff^ i Stralr* Budget can b« sent by A th« United Kingdom M «r lrv 24*00 It /oo wvant rru wish to mak€ an AJ»-subv
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    • 187 6 M3ndr3K6 Exclusive* to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya 1 AI4VOAAK£ kV^fIKS Ol^fl MS I |WtLL?|| TRY RAISIN 6 THAT VASE. I I CANT SEEM TO -WHAT DO I I vn,,J,. ir^nTTj./^ I HYPNOTIZED BROTHER 1 /TT^Sn THAT WAS ONE OF OUR 00-f I CAN'T REMEMBER™T^L£^ r 6?NTHESLE6r FORGET- WHEN
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  • 554 7 EMPIRE ROSE CROYDOW IMPRESS Final gallops for Saturday A 37 KJ f o In 1/5 > L °ngchainp s II (3f. In (4f In 50 fM P FnifnT 1 C T rOydon and Indian Heather evoninL^rhP t S r^ mg whlch should be due this "ssy?%£2ari^ fastrf plenty of in*
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    28 7 picture. MGLL STRICKLAND (left) and B. Clements, go out to open the English Schoolboys' innings against the Combined Schools yesterday. The schools won by two wickets. Free Press
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  • 95 7 TIILRL are only four pronable runners for the he rf,« 6 Gimcr *<* stakes! to ilnn v Ver six f urlongs at HOO hours GMT at York to--9 n( h f y re <with weights and jockeys) Paehademis, nine stone, W. T. Evans. Palesune, nine stone,
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  • 264 7 'pHE Singapore Combined Schools second tram defeated the Engli: h Schoolboys? xi by two wickets m an exciting finish on the S.R.C. padans yesterday. Regs'!o Sandasham of Raffles Institution helped his side v with a fine knock of 79. The English Schoolboys batted
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  • 125 7 THE Army beat the Royal Air Force by 6| to 5| In an inter-Services golf match played at the Island Club yesterday. Results m full: Air Vice Marshal Blucke beat Gen. Kirkman 5 4. Grp.-Capt. Johnston beat Brig. Rogers 4 2, Sq.-Ldr. Newbould beat Brig. Witt 3
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  • 434 7 By ARCHIE QUICK lIOW Jack Johnson, Tommy Burns, Jim Jeffries, £1 James Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, John L. Sullivan, must be turning m their graves and groaning at the unholy mess the once-prized world heavyweight championship has degenerated into! Only once before has the issue been
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  • 197 7 U.K. soccer Rugby results Following arc yesterday's U.K. Soccer and Rugby league, results: FIRST DIVISION: Birmingham 2, West Brom. 0; Charlton 2, Wolverhampton 3; Chelsea 1; Arsenal 2; Everton 2; Newcastle 1; Huddersfield 2. Fulham 2; Manchester U. 3, Bolton 0: Portsmouth 1. Manchester C. 1. SECOND DIVISION: Barnsley 2.
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  • 64 7 MR. H. Halmshaw's Miracu- lous Atom won the Ebor Handicap run over a mile and three quarters at York yesterday. Major J. R. Hanbury's Clusworth was second and Sir Eric Ohlson's Bonnet Club third. Sixteen ran. Betting 100-7 against Miraculous Atom, 10-1 Closworth, 8-1 Bonnet
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  • 345 7 T^HE opening of the English football season on Saturday brought proof yet again of the magic appeal of soccer. Undeterred by a heat wave, throngs of enthusiastic fans, packed the grounds to welcome the start of another campaign. The aggregate of 1,135,510 spectators at the
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  • 237 7 WOMEN'S HOCKEY WOMEN'S inter-State hockey matches, a feature of prt -war hockey seasons for many years, might be revived this year. Mrs. Dorothy Roper, captain of the S.C C Women's Hockey Team told the Free Press yesterday that she would consult up-country captains of women's
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  • 137 7 A SEVENTH wicket stand of 140 by Martin Donnelly (68) and Verdun Scott (74) helped the New Zealanders put on 358 In their first innings against Kent at Canter#iry yesterday. Donnelly and Scott brought the scort from 191 for six to 331 m a record
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  • 18 7 THE S.C.C. will be holding a 1 hockey practice at 515 p.m. on the padang tomorrow.
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  • 96 7 THE following will represent the Silngapore District Cricket XI In a two-day match against the Indian Association on Saturday and Sunday on the I. A. ground: Col. Rev J. W. J. Steele (OHQ); MaJ. Smyth-Pigott (Green Howards.; MaJ. A. R Dawe (HQ. Spore Dlst): MaJ. I. C
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  • 308 7 being three goals down m 40 minutes, and with the run of play against them from the outset, the Singapore Cricket Club r.urpri&ed their opponents. Mie Kota Rala B.C. to hold them to a three- all draw m a Senior league game at Jalan Be^ar Stadium
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  • 567 7 Bailey takes 1 0-90 and Outschoorn hits 156 not out T»REVOR BAILEY, England fast houlrr, fdlerdaj x took all the 10 wickets for Enei Rfainsl I cashire. He is the fourth bowler to pcrlorm tlizs feat since the war, and the first English amati ur |o do so since 1932,
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  • 97 7 I 10, (1 I 11, Penan *iEi Tn I (W» Porak vs. BeUng or X Kantjsar; c „s. johove vs. Ifalaect 25. <N> Perils Hangar: Oct. 7. <E» R TroriKKanu at X Baharu. fN> Kedah vs P.rlis .it Alor c Od I, (W) N Scmbilan I
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 209 7 TJJAY I II jmi 15 I 15, 31 pin. ffYsK SCORCHING I E N »GHT WITH VIOLENCE I CUMMIHGS m H 1 .i! I hru* La«le-Lion SAT. AT MNITE M.GJTi Silver Anniversary indentation ££4W£JV£W7 ii\ B1 CHAM River. $3.60; The the Dark, Courts of i rning, Hunting Tower. ges, Orpenmantle
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    • 78 7 NOW SHOWING 11-1.43, 4.00. 6.30 9 M) p n From OSCAR UII.DI > "Lady \Vind'Trnrr..v n JfANNf MAOCLKINI cm* mm I SAHOfRS'UttWf .2a SAT. M NITE! The Latest Mala\ I ilm To Come From J.t\.i 'GADIS BASA" (The Village Girl) Starring The Sensational NY* Dramatic Actress RATNA RLTHINAH Released Thru
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  • 40 8 THE WEDDING between! Leonard John Bowyer frahnson Phyllis Ka'therine Nickoils will take place on Saturday. Sept. 3rd, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Church, Kuala Lumpur. No invitations will be issued, all friends will be welcomed at the Church.
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  • 86 8 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. "Vrc Aik Chay of Johore Bahru tender their grateful thanks to nil relatives Hz friends who sent p.cro'ls wreaths, lent their cars <fe rridered assistance at the funeral of the late Mr. Yeo A l Chay. S V. MARTIN thanks all yes «fe
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  • 306 8 GEN. CHIANG MAKES PLANS FOR LAST STAND Pessimism over Kwangtung HONG KONG, Thursday. QENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai-shek's sudden departure by air for Chungking, capita) of Szechuan, after spending only 19 hours m Canton, is said by observers m Canton to be for the purpose of establishing a last Nationalist defence line
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    59 8 The Mayor of Strasbourg. -M. Charles Frey (left), presents a diploma to Mr. Winston Churchill, making him a Freeman of the "Capital of Europe." At centre is Mrs. Churchill. In accepting the honour, with tears m his eyes. Mr. Churchill said he could never have done what he had, m
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  • 167 8 Red plan to enslave the Asians MIAMI, Thurs. DR. PHILIP C. JESSUP, who was recently selected by the U.S. Secretary of State to head a high level study group to plot future American policy m Asia, yesterday warned Asia that Communism was encouraging national independence merely as a stepping stone
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  • 31 8 U.S. bankers for Korea The Economic Co-operation Administration m Washington has announced that two banking specialists will soon visit Seoul to assist Korea m her soft currency and banking problems. A.P.
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  • 234 8 Stalin to act against Tito this week? WASHINGTON, Thursday. PREDICTIONS by high Washington officials that Marshal Stalin this week will reveal his hand against Marshal Tito coincided with ft statement by the U.S. State Secretary, Mr. Dean Acheson, that Communists the world over would have difficulty m reconciling Russia's violent
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  • 110 8 WASHINGTON. Thurs. pONGRESoIONAL advocates Kj of American military aid to Nationalist China said yesterday that the prospect! for some assistance to the embattled Canton Government have brightened perceptibly during the past fortnight. They believe that, now that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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  • 175 8 Man stein is accused of 'foul crimes' HAMBURG. Thurs. FIELD-MARSHAL Fritz Erich von Manstein. smartly dressed m a brown suit, sat m the dock of a hushed court room here yesterday and i heard the prosecutor, Sir Arthur Comyn-Carr. accuse him of playing a major part m j "the foullest
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  • 65 8 A young Indian woman, Mrs. R. Devadas, has become the first foreign student to address the Ohio State Legislature. At the invitation of the Speaker she gave an address on social and economic conditions m India and afterwards the House passed a re- solution of
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  • 33 8 Britain's armed forces dropped to 769.900 men and women on July 1 compared with 785,000 on April 1, the Ministry of Defence announced. The loss was not explained.— A.P.
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  • 31 8 The Earl of Harewood and his fiancee Miss Marion Stein ended their Austrian holiday yesterday and returned to London. They attended nearly every performance of Salzburg city's festivals A.P.
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  • 75 8 LONDON, Thurs. T^OR 27 hours two-year- old Janet Wheelwright was the liveliest person m Leeds. She could not sleep. All night she sarig, danced, chattered and played icith her toys. Exhausted, her mother took her to a doctor. She skipped and hopped the two miles
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  • 58 8 A BULLDOZER, levelling a bombed-out area of Nagoya, Japan, turned up a cache of old gold and silver coins worth about £550. They were turned over to the police, who are now seeking the owner. Meanwhile, the whole city is now strangely interested m cleaning out
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  • 199 8 iiKs i k w v STRASBOURG. Thursday. yyfc^TLRN European nations were yesterday urged to write their own programme for joint Colonial development. Addressing the European Consultative Assembly, the French finance expert, M Felix Qaillard. who has been working with the French section of the Marshall Plan,
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  • 46 8 GENEVA, Thurs. ISRAEL yesterday asked the United Nationssponsored World Road and Motor Conference to persuade manufacturers to refrain from changing the M exterior appearance of cars and to direct funds used for chances m design to improve antomobile safetr drvicv-s.- U.F.
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  • 43 8 DIRECTOR of the Philip- pines National Bureau of Investigation, Mr. J. Pardo de Tavera, says his office has received information that Soviet spies may be found among European China refugees now In the International Refugee Organization Camp m Guiuan, Samar.
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  • 29 8 Tubeless tyres are being manufactured m the Los Angeles plant of the B. F Goodrich Company, it was announced by Mr. T. O. Graham, the vice president.
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  • 33 8 Bad weather forced Mr. Winston Churchill to postpone until today his flight back to the European Consultative Assembly m Strasbourg from his long weekend on the Riviera, his aides reported. A.P.
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  • 142 8 nn OT C ™CINNATI (Ohio), Thursday. HPHE most fantastic convention of all will be held next week when the fantasy fans of the United States open a three-day conference here. A fantasy fan is a person who likes his reading matter full of I ghosts
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  • 315 8 'Must counter Soviet threat' U.S. ENVOY-AT-LARCE MIAMI, Thursday. T*HE Russian "refusal" to co-operate m emirlng 1 world peace is "a challenge that must be taken up, a threat that must be countered," declared l)r Philip Jessup, America's ambassador-at-large. here yesterday. Speaking at the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign
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  • 75 8 LONDON. Til TEOROE BERNARD Si fetterdaj proposed sweeping cure for ct\: abolish prisons and Inmates to death The agt'd play^Tight set forth liis views m a printed postcard mailed to editors from his horn Ayo: St. Lawrence. "If we find a hungry tt«r at large, or a cobra
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  • 14 8 Pakistan has good harvest l> r anr. v t of Mo on i Reuter
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  • 55 8 SEOUL poi. :ay announced tl Dong, national assembly has been indicted a Of accepting a bni won lover U.S. $500 legal exchange Kirn is acvused Ol I Ing the money from t pected Japanese colla He was an investigator the Assembly's special board. which Is
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    • 15 8 NelSoonTheatre I 104 MILESTONE SELETAR Today A Tomorrow at 71% A 9. 15 p.m •SAIGON"
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    • 110 8 RAFFLES HOTEL In the Palm Court at 9.13 p.m. Sunday THE POLICE BAND COMBINATION OF 40 PEEI OEMI By kind permission of Mr I T acting Commission* j i' \kt conducted by Mr. J. C. ***** LEAM-. Al l >! GENTLEMEN S SUITINGS AND LADIES COSTUMES The first essential is
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    • 103 8 i hh;h tides Today: l!Wpjn; 11 38 pjn. Tomorrow: 12.35 mjn. THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris f KOT THff SAMg P'RATEfiV I MZO&4I2EO HIS SCHOONER 1 j "HIS NAVnS iS CAP t*e TAGGA&T 1 1 Nl SAJNT BUT THEY COULDN'T Jl EVEN BEFORE HE CAAAE ASHORE TAGGART ,N SO you
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