The Singapore Free Press, 26 August 1949

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press f^RCESI AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA If I'- 58 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26. 1949 PRICE 10 CKMS
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    NO U.S. LOAN OR GOLD PRICE RISE
    413 1 NO U.S. LOAN OR GOLD PRICE RISE But UK wants more M-Aid ORTTWH WASHINGTON, Friday. D^Vld officials here made it clear last night that Britain would not ask at the September dollar talks for a new loan or for another form major dollar assistance from the United States. Nor would
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    Guillotine warning to fire-raisers
    57 1 of the death future cases 'under con»nel Jean rueUe announced ■•io fence headBordeaux. including two een arrested m h the fires m esta m south"t Minister of The official u-hrd 100 Max plane toshort shower vastated pine Bordeaux by ■try ice In the llrei flared up
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    GARBERS' PAY CUT
    51 1 Mali Keporter a pore Chinese this morning pt a wage cut trber shops, thus an end a 2Jagreed to have tit share of the I by live per the employers tpone the date ncement of the ptember 1 to re Acting De•ner for LaW Lyle was in-
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    Suez Canal dispute
    17 1 a] to allow the inkers through mal may be Israel m the il. A.P.
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    Miracle story from Warsaw
    59 1 Miracle story from Warsaw THE Greek Orthodox Chr.rch m the Praga workingclass suburb of Warsaw was shut down by police toda as great crowds gathered to see a "miracle." People queued since early morning to get into the church, where last night an elderly woman reported she had soon the
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    MORE JOBLESS IN AMERICA
    35 1 The United States Government last night named 22 more areas of the nation as having a critical unemployment problem meriting special Federal aid, thus increasing the list to 32. Reuter A.P.
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    U.S. LIFTS TIN RESTRICTIONS
    173 1 WASHINGTON, Friday. *T*HE United States Government last night removed J eight-year-old restrictions on the use of tin. Officials said the action may result m increased imports of tin and pig tin from Bolivia, Malaya, Holland, China, the Dutch East Indies and theßelglan Congo. The Commerce Department
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    Money in books
    86 1 LONDON, Fri. WHEN Viscount Hambleden, sole owner of the giant \V. H. Smith and Son chain of book stores, died recently he left an estate valued at $8,000,000. But the Government levied an inheritance tax of £6.000,000, so to meet the tax the Viscount's heirs have formed
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    MOTHER, CHILDREN DIE IN BLAZE
    30 1 A 31-YEAR-OLD mother, three of her six children, and their grandmother, were burned to death m a fire which swept their home near Prlstol yesterday.
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    JOHN DUNNE DEAD
    25 1 John W. Dunne, author of "An Experiment With Time" and designer of Britain's first military plane, died on Wednesday, aged 73. A.P.
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    NAZI PRESS TO OPEN UP AGAIN
    145 1 FRANKFURT, Thursday. A U.S. Military Government oilicial, Mr. Em est Langendorf, said yesterday that many former Nazis were moving back into the Press of southern Germany m alarming numbers, now that the Military Government had given up its licensing control over newspapers. As soon
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    10 CHINESE HELD
    35 1 Singapore police yesteiday arrested ten Chinese six for allegedly assisting m the management of an lilt gal chap-jl-ki lottery, three alleged secret society members, and one alleged member of the Communist Party.
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    P. Brani tin theft—ll arrested
    120 1 P. Brani tin theft— ll arrested Free Press Staff Reporter ELEVEN Chinese were arrested by a party of Singapore Marine Police just after midnight last night while allegedly removing 58 heavy ingots of tin worth about $15,500 from the Straits Trading: Company's smelting works on Pulau Brani. The police party,
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    MEAT AGREEMENT
    31 1 The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, announced m Perth yesterday that negotiations between Britain and Australia for the purchase of Australian meat would begin this month. Reuter
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    Pistol-packing M.P.
    68 1 OERONISTA Deputy Eduardo Colom tried to draw a I revolver when tempers gave way during a debate on the Anglo-Argentine meat pact m the Argentine Parliament m Buenos Aires yesterday. The incident took place after 18 hours' continuous session, during which the debat* was frequently interrupted by heated
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    Europe recovery is slowing down
    220 1 Europe recovery is slowing down WASHINGTON, Friday. 'FHE pace of European recovery has slackened, the A Economic Co-operation Administration reported last night m a review of its first year s operations. The dollars earned by European nations during the period were enough to pay for only one-Hfth of their imports
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    India cables for polio aid
    66 1 GENEVA, Thurs. INDIA today cabled for urgent aid to combat her infantile paralysis epidemic, asking the World Health OrIganisation here to send 20 portable iron lungs. The World Health Organisation immediately ordered its regional bureau In Wash- ington to buy the lungs and fly them
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    RITA'S BABY FEBRUARY
    47 1 DITA HAYWORTHS baby is expected m February, 1 Prince Aly Khan, husband of the film actress, disclosed to reporters yesterday as he landed at Croydon airport from Cauvilles, France. The prince, who came here without his wife, left imme- diately for York races. A.P.
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    Abdullah visits King
    20 1 King Abdullah of Transjordan left for Scotland last i night to visit the Kina At Balmoral. U.P.
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    30 1 Men of the First Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, waiting to go on board the trooper Georgic at the Harbour Board wharves yesterday after a year's successful bandit-hunting m Johore.
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    Cease-fire is working well
    206 1 BATAVIA, Friday. rpHE U.N. cease-fire agreement m West Java is x being observed well by both Dutch and Republicans, but both sides are plagued by the bloody terrorism of a fanatical religious group. f Dutch officers at Bandung and Garoet and Republican Army officers at Tasikmalaja,
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    SHIP SENDS OUT S.O.S.
    91 1 PERTH, Thurs. NO word had been received today I'rom the 7,000-ton British freighter Avismort which yesterday sent out a distress signal when m midIndian Ocean. A message said that the Aorangi, a 10,000 tons vessei from Southampton, had gone to her assistance. The Avismort, sailing from
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    Where is Edith Moller?
    134 1 Where is Edith Moller? SHANGHAI, TtllirS. T^HE whereabouts Of tftM A coastal steamer Edit v Moller remained unknown by its owners here tod^ay. nearly 48 hours after she was halted b Nationalist warship while trying to run the block into Shanghai. Company officials said thry had had no word from
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    Reds blamed for Jap clash
    60 1 AKYODO news ftgencj patch from Bhimonothekl, Japan, yesterday said police there had arrested 113 reans after clashes leftists and rightists six daj i ago, but since have r»»l»--49. Of the 64 still hoi police said, 22 are admitted Communists. The was attributed to the C
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    Rubber prices
    57 1 A SPtLIAI Markri rot n spond ent ffivn the prirrs of n (m cents prt Ib.) at 11 i.m iml.i* as follows: Uutrrt (MMH No. 1 X S S Spot: loose 36 Fob. m bales Sept No. 1 R s S 36', Ni. I 1.8.1, M No. 3
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      28 1 Pot the best Pood G Wint m Town Visit THE SINGAPORE RESTAURANT tfAR 79, BRAS BASAH ROAD Reservations: Phono 408 b If M I*'"tobacro amithe cork-tip for cleaner
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    Back-stage in Paris
    524 2 PARIS, AS you know, by Au gentlemen's agreement," we may report but may not show actual drawings of the new fashion collections until an agreed date. This is to avoid premature copying. So Francis Marshall anrt I went back-sta^c for our picture. Marshall has sketched the frantic
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    Adventures of Penny & Koni
    152 2 Adventures of Penny Koni Kom, lh« pit monkty Mho has fccco-ne pi iiontr m Toyland, lakes no notice ot the warning that the mtehantc*! toy* m>j<t not be wound. All monkey* am mischievous, and Koni wants to Wnow *hat hau.)"ns MkMi a n.«clnnic\l toy wound up So he winds them
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    Paint cam work .wonders
    289 2  -  EDNA Mc KENNA HOME HEALTH BEAUTY by pAINT can work quicker magic than Aladdin's lamp ever did. It's the cheapest and easiest way of transforming the home ard it need not frighten even the anoteur. Baroque mirrors, va^s, lampholden, Edwardian what-nots. dark stained chairs and tables
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    Women hold big U.N. jobs
    350 2  -  LISA SERGIO rpODAY the highest 1 ranking woman member of the UN Secretariat is Mrs. Alva Myrdal of Sweden, principal director of the Department of Social Affairs, perhaps the highest post m International Civil Service ever held by a woman. This department is responsible for
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    FRECKLE CURE
    72 2 MANY people arc asking how they can get rid of freckles. H«re U a simple cure from a Harley-street skin specialist Buy a small quantity of oxide of magnesium ordinary magnesia p»>* der and mix it with the juice of a lemon. Smear this 'pack" over your face
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    Her figure was shapely 2500 yrs ago
    152 2 BAKARA near Cairo. rvtHE 2,500- year-old cofflm 1 of temple scribe Kanufeir ("Beautiful Personality*) and four of his companions have been opened. This time, three weeks after their discovery, the glare Of electricity probed tlv tombs It was piped down the 100 ft.
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      154 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are a natural leader and must be strictly "on your own" if you are to reach th>- heights to which the Nulls indicate you should soar. You have more than vo'i. share of daring and adventuresomeness. N<»♦hing daunts you and you will *set out
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      162 2 FJP. Crossword Ho# 776 W ~**llir I ri fir r\ I 2 rhrottlcd 19); Drug (4>. i Dflifilueil LI rlfl (5); 13 Measure (,3>; 14 Low (4>, 10 Gratuity (3>: 17 Guided <3); 19 Moisture (3); 21 Faint <3>; 22 Sailor i. > 24 Small portion (7); 26 Stitch (3>;
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      6 2 Solution To Crossword No. 775 |TiElMTE|MiElSmsMtoiE
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    YARD' SEEKS A BIG GANG
    195 3 YARD' SEEKS A BIG GANG f oh(;ers slow up race i s iarah holding i who is m v v York for an LWn; *t hi> parents' r n t i hums that a obtained ht r and guardian ,bal valid b«" aus«* she was i fide resident of 2,1^
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    CONTRABAND SEIZED
    19 3 wd two crew Mtiese vessel, I In Japan U Hongkong, •'d on chargMore than of contraband Reuter
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    Korean Navy celebrates a victory
    65 3 JHE pint-sized navy of the Republic of Korea, feeling perley after its capture of a patrol ship from Communist North Korea last week, held a review ior President Syngman Rhee. Admiral Song Won Yil, the Navy chief, said two Nonh Korean sailors were killed and
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    45 3 Sentries march forlornly behind the railings of London's Bu'k'i._-ham Palace while labourers tear up their old lUmpm- ground. The harder you stamp the more the t loves it, and the result was that holes were torn ii- the pavement necess itating fresh slabs being laid.
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    4 big Finnish Unions expelled
    83 3 THE Executive Board of the Federation of Finnish Trade Unions have now expelled four big Communist-led unions for continuing to strike m defiance of the Federation's return-to-work ultimatum. A Federation spokesman said the four unions totalled more than 62,000 of Finland's 300,000 organized workers. The
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    ANTI-BLACK MART MOVE
    57 3 \HE International Monetary Fund has ruled that foreign exchange contracts contrary to a member country's exchange control regulations shall be legally unenforceable m the territories of any other member country. The United States has agTeed to this ruling, which I*:, m effect an attempt to limit black
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    39 3 Mr. Christopher May hew. Labour M.P. for South Norfolk and British Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, leaving Felthorpe Parish Church. Norfolk, with his wife, the former Miss Cicely Ludlam. after their wedding. The romance began m Geneva m May last.
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    Navy sets a speed film
    150 3 A HUNDRED feet of cine film developed m a bath room may provide revolutionary information for the British Admiralty. TJie film was taken by Donald Campbell when he drove- his speedboat Bluebird II faster than anyone had qver travelled on water during trials for his
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    U.S. group hopes to reach planet
    233 3 A GROUP of Rhodes University College senior students investigating the possibility of interplanetary flight has decided that the easiest planet to reach would be Venus, not Mars but it would be a "one-way tri*}." "A much smaller velocity would be necessary to escape from
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    Shoppers hunt jacko
    118 3 UJOMKN shoppers and ex- citec children joined shop assistants m an hourlong chase after "Jacko," a four-year-old monkey, who escaped from the pets seclion of a large Birmingham store. The monkey climbed out of i fifth -floor window and walked a parapet 80 feet above the traffic
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    'Underground plot' in Japan
    69 3 JAPANESE police have ar- j J rested an alleged Com- munist and former railway worker several hours after a train plunged off the tracks near Fugushima, overturned and killed three persons. It was the third train derailment m Japan m two days. Meanwhile, the Japanese Cabinet
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    Big jump in U.K. cow insemination
    157 3 Big jump in U.K. cow insemination I 4 RTIFICIAL insemination of British cows increased steeply m the 1948-49 period, states Britain's Milk Marketing Board. A total of 256,054 cows, belonging to 33,249 farmers, were inseminated durinsr the 1? months ended March 31. When the Board started its artiiicial insemination experiments
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    32 3 M. Edouard Herriot (right) temporary President of the Council of Europe, congratulates M. Paul Henri Spaak. of Belgium, after the latter was elected President, of the European Consultative Assembly m Strasbourg recently.
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    'False story' plea to U.N.
    122 3 'False story plea to U.N. JOUR prominent Moslems In Hyderabad described a complaint filed with the United Nations Security Council by Mom Nawaz Jung, former Foreign Minister oi Hyderabad, as "a false statement." He had written to the President of the Security Council recently complaining that the Indian military administration
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    Ceylon air force bill
    45 3 In the Ceylonese House of Representatives recently, the Parliamentary Secretary u> the Minister of Defence and External Affairs, Mr. R O. Senanayake. gave notice of a Bill to provide for the raising and maintenance of a Royal Ceylonese Air Force. U.P.
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    JUDY WEARS GLASSES
    158 3 JUDY, a U.K. mongrel terrier, had to wait for three months for spectacles after her operation, just like a human. Now she's pot. them and can see again. The operation was m th* best nursing home In Blackpool." says her owner. Be fore she went into the
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    U.S.-AFRICAN FINANCE TALKS
    62 3 THE South African Finance Minister, Mr. Nicolas Havenga, is to see the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. John Snyder, m Washington A reliable source said that he is expected to discuss the possibility of revising the price of gold and make a reference to the tripartite conference
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    TENNIS STARS IN U.S.
    30 3 Czech tennis stars, Jaroslav Dobny and Vladimir Cernik, whj recently went into srifimpG.sed exile from Communist Cwchslovakia, arnvexl Hi Kew York oy air from London A.P.
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    INDIA TELLS OF PAKISTAN VIOLATIONS
    137 3 INDIA TELLS OF PAKISTAN VIOLATIONS I^URTHER detail* have been V released concerning India's protest to Pakistan against "continued violations" of the Inter -Dominion agreement on evacuee property. The protest, li was stated, covers two specific points of infring ement of the agreement. The first related to the sales of evacuee
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    KUOMINTANG CHIEF HELD
    58 3 WU Yau-chiun, prominent Kuomintang burrau fof Hong Kong and Macao, is bring detained by the Hong Kong Special Branch police Authorities declined to comment The Kuomintang office to which Wu was attached was recently closed following tb* Legislative Council enact m°nt of an ordinance prohibiting political organisations
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    U.S. defence cost slashed
    83 3 THE United States Secretary of Defence, Mr. Louis Johnson, said m Washington that 135.000 civilian workers for the armtd services would be laid off m h 4 drive to cut mill vary spending. Navy installations were the hardest hit m the civJlfnn cut. They were flfdtfud
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    Bridge Hands
    283 3 What do you do? Your correct bid is two spades There is a bare possibility that Wist's spade bid was not a psychic but an honest spade suit. (The chanoes of this ere slim because East made no attempt to rescue his partner i double spade overcall when
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    NEI TRADE PACT
    36 3 Western Germany h I ed a new trade an: with the sterline area f exchange of looda v.. more than W0.000.000 (agreement covers the i from July 1. 1049 »n Jw. 1950 Reuter
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      423 3 Signal News; 7.10 Stugapor Metres and 44 Metres -INCiAPOHE Share Market Report; 7.15 Lets TODAY HI ,i Kir-ru/i to th Picture*— A veekly English: Programme nil K NETWORK) revie w of current films by WaUs' Su mn^ Ne ws Headlines] Share IW ii!vi 41.7 metres. n 7 30 Round-up on
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    The Sigapore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 1949. SENSE ABOUT RUBBER
    606 4 The Sigapore Free Press FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 1949. SENSE ABOUT RUBBER SENSE about the future of uth-east Asia has been ken from two very different sources. The New York Times has warned that "a preaslon m Malaya, rering from reduced United States purchases of tin and rubber, might open the
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    Tito, the man the Kremlin hate most
    888 4  - Tito, the man the Kremlin hate most Edward Howe By •J4TO, who fought the war m the Balkans m the name of the Russians, is now the man most hated by the Kremlin Trotskyism has now been replaced by Titoism m the Communist jargon and spat out with far more
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    EDINBURGH NOW HAS No1. FESTIVAL
    547 4 T'HE International Festival of Music and Drama which began this week at Edinburgh has grown to such a stature since first established m 1947, that it can justly claim to rank as the most outstanding event of its kind m the world. One of the
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    MAO IS UNSPOILED BY POWER
    807 4  - MAO IS UNSPOILED BY POWER JOHN D'ARCY DAWSON By HISTORY is tied up with great personalities, and we remember the personality where we very often forget the circumstances \v hi c h allowed the leader to emerge. The background of General Mao Tse-tung, 54-year old Communist leader. provided the material
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    They Have To Test Airfields
    15 4 They Have To Test Airfields J 1 1 I I I I; i Is 1
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      8 4 P. a. HENDRY 7». North Bridge Rd., Spore
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    LOAN TO BUILD OWN HOMES
    384 5 LOAN TO BUILD OWN HOMES Plan for Spore Municipal staff LOANS to buy or build their own homes, at five per cent, interest, are available on application to locally domiciled employees of the Singapore Municipality. In their efforts to encourage local-born employees to provide their own homes, Municipal Commissioners have
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    43 5 i pi. \V. Stobin gives his pal, Pte. J. Millar, a light for his cigarette while waiting to embark on the trooper Georgic at the Tanjong Pagar wharves yesterday. Both men belong to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who left for the l/nited Kingdom
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    Society of secretaries in Colony
    112 5 Society of secretaries in Colony n of Certified s has formed a In Singapore. meeting will 7 at 5.30 p.m. M C.A., Orchard Rrfrrshments will be X P W. Gosman, the iry, announ- mat ion of the lety yesterday, would give memtred students n Fellows, 18 tnd 137 registered opportunities
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    S.H.B. MEMBER
    29 5 Mr. A. McLellan has been appointed to be a member of the Singapore Harbour Board for a further term of three years with effect from Sept. 1.
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    66 5 picture. Mr. C. S. Jansen. a KinntWw teacher, receives Iroi.i the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, the letter of award of a Canada-UNESCO fellowship. Mr. Jansen will spend six months m Canada studying methods of teaching English. Mr. Roy l-erroa, of the Straits Times, also received his fellowship
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    $100,000 gift to 'Varsity proposed
    202 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T^HE Oversea Chinese Banking- Corporation, Ltd., A Singapore, proposes to make a donation of $100,000 from its profits to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund. Sanction of the shareholders will be sought at the 12th. annual general meeting to be held
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    310,000 more to be spent on Colony roads
    117 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Municipal Com- j j missioners will spend an- other $10,000 on roads sub- icot to confirmation at the full Board meeting on Aug. j 31 The roado committee of the Commissioners has agreed to the resurfacing of
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    Donations to 'Varsity
    172 5 BY the end of last week the University of Malaya Endowment Fund has reached a total of $396,326. Latest list of donations is: SINGAPORE: Mr. Chew Lian Seng $1,000- Mr. Pang Chun Choon $25; Mrs. A. Winters Mary "In memory of the late Mr. Ong Siu Bee"
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    APPOINTMENT
    34 5 Mr. D. W. Burnett-Rae, Chief Operations Officer, Department of Civil Aviation, has been appointed to act as Deputy Director of Civil Aviation, m place of Mr. A. Newark, Acting Director of Civil Aviation.
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    Lack of funds stops projects
    230 5 Johore Bahru Town Board Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Friday. r|WING to financial stringency of the State and the need for economy, the Johore Bahru Town Board is not embarking on any major scheme of town improvement or development of services m the near
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    MAILS
    37 5 WIMMIIIIIMU fIWWJv >i .MWIIMIIII dU Surface mails are expected to reach Singapore today fi>m China, Hongkong and (Japan. Closing times for posting surface mails at the G.P.O. are to Sarawak: nooo, and to Slbu: 6 p.m.
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    OVERSEAS LEAGUE PARTY
    50 5 OVERSEAS LEAGUE PARTY The Overseas League Far East Branch, Singapor i is holding a cocktail party at 7 p.m today at the Straits Merchants Service Gnild. Finlayson Green. The party Is open io members and their friends. Those who intend going are askea to inform the secretary of the League.
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    V.M.M.A. LECTURE
    43 5 Mr. M. Karim Gani, editor of the Malayan Nanban, will speak on the Spirit of Islam at the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society (31, Lorong 12, Geylang) tonight at eight o'clock. The lecture has been arranged by the Young Men's Muslim Association.
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    KOREAN NATIONALS
    20 5 The United States Consu!General has been authorised to pei form full consular services for Korean nationals m Singapore.
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    ALSATIAN ASSN. PROPOSED
    66 5 If there is sufficient support, it is proposed to form an LAlsatian Association m Sin- gapore to run training classes and dog shows. A preliminary meeting will be held at the home of Mr. Tan Chong Chew. 72 St. Patrick's Road off East Coast Road, on Sept.
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    S'pore-Rangoon air service
    85 5 FOLLOWING the withdrawal of tht BOAC service between Singapore and Rangoon Malayan Railways will, on Sept. 5, open a new weekly service fro.n Singapore to Rangoon vk. Penancj and Mergul Fully furnished L>C3 aircraft will operate the service, carrying a crew of five, including an air hostess,
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    ART EXHIBITION
    40 5 The Nanyang Confucian Society are holding an exhibition of Chinese art m commemoration of the birthday of the sage tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p m. at 253, River Vailey Road. The exhibition will close next Wednesday.
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    HOTELS PREPARE FOR ECAFE INFLUX
    252 5 Free rre«B st^n Reporter AN acute shortage of hotel accommodation In Singapore durinp the next two months If anticipated because of the ECAFE (Economic Commission of Asia and the Sai East' conference, which will be held here from the iriaJle 0.~ next month and will
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    RACS men got drenching\then waited all night
    491 5 RACS men got drenching \then waited all night By A Special Correspondent AMONG many tasks performed by the Water Transport Company of the K.A.S m Singapore is that of dumping unserviceable ammunition out at sea. It is not always an easy job. as this story will show. Early Tuesday morning
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    STRONG MEM TO GIVE DISPLAY
    39 5 A Dl at tlic Nf\v < TJ.e displt! I The rntir«- p:u < d There wl] i and endurar.' Lea] d^vel > of tho y I will b:< gymnastic ihon d < his boyi TV- -»ld Wild f
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    OREGON NATURAL HAVE BEST CHANCES
    3970 6 Form guide for tomorrow's races Free Press Racing Correspondent gTRICTLY on race form and figures, Oregon stands out as the best bet at Bukit Timah tomorrow, the opening day of the five day Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting. This four-year-old by Squadron Castle
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    Better tone in gilt-edged
    291 6 London Stock ExTT^^ BUSINESS on London ftfecfc r, "was very slack with opera wait and see policy. A few small buying ord. i some improvements notabl securities which continue to rr bear covering. Among industrials th« miscellaneous leaders were occasionally m demand with Dunlops. Imperial Chemicals
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      217 6 Mandrake &ci**. i. s,™^,, or( FfW PreM T b£= --A^NO GIVE MYSELF C UP--TO H?M" IlAj Cm^ 0M£ H 1 \JIOOK OUTPUT TLE G»RL/U MY POWERS ARE GONE, MANORAKE. MAY 100 OUtI [SUF^HONEY. CCME f^rfN :^sTliiv. >W IVt CAUSED YOU LOT? OF HEART- /^Hfe^ ANO PLAY T BA( 'N TIME
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    51 7 photo. JIMS KKTtT CIIAIiOT 1..X.* *u WI 5 ning the Holland women's athletic S C h l i held at the White City Madjum. London, on Aug. 20 She jumped 18 ft. 2* m The meet was won by Britain £ho scored 67 points against France s 54 and Holland's
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    M'sex out for 139 v. Derby
    290 7 M'sex out for 139 v. Derby (JUUNTY cnampionshlp leaders Middlesex, who need to win 1 their final match against Derbyshire to make sure of at last sharing the championship, were given a shock yesterday when Derbyshire shot them out for 139, thus taking a first innings lead of 89. BuY
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    Qutschoorn hits 215 n.o. v NortHants
    134 7 Qutschoorn hits 215 n.o. v Nort Hants LADDIE OLTSCHOORN, (Worcestershire), former Singapore player, completed the first double century notched for his County for 10 years. He Northamptonshire's attack for seven and a quartf-r hours and hit two sixes and 18 fours m his 15 not out before Worcester declared, at
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    KINDER GOLD, BRIGHT EYES VERY FIT
    260 7 KINDER GOLD, BRIGHT EYES VERY FIT Colbay has good chance tomorrow •nOC" Rodl^. «t Clng Correspondent D Timah out on uJf* P.""*" at Buhlt morning. The Pen track for slow work this entered for this SCf ff a^T L USeful team ate Bo f^^P/'^-S n l t Lc h^ brlghteSt
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    Place, Dawkes in Empire cricket XI
    128 7 WiNSTON PLACE, Lancashire opening batsman, and G. Dawkes, the Derbyshire wicketkeeper, are among the 16 players who will form the British Empire team to tour India, Pakistan and Ceylon shortly. Both have received permission from their countries to make the trip. Eleven of the
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    U.K. SOCCER & RUGBY RESULTS
    44 7 U.K. SOCCER RUGBY RESULTS RUGBY LEAGUE St. Helens 1%, Wakrfield Trinity 18. FOOTBALL Third Division Southern): Northamton 4, Newport County 3; Watford 1, Readin* 1. THIRD DIVISION (Northern): Doncater Rovers 0, Rochdale 0. IRISH GOLD CIP (first round) Dallymena I'nited 1, Derby City Reuter
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    Palestine wins Gimcrack Stakes
    46 7 'pHE Aga Khan's Palestine won the Gimcrack Stakes run over six furlongs yesterday afternoon. He beat Mr. C. Harper's Foxboro, the only other runner, by foui lengths. Palestine won at odds ol 25 1 on Pachademis and Janus II did not run.-
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    S.A.R.U. meeting
    31 7 'VHE Singapore Asiatic Rugby Union will hold their general meeting on Tuesday. Aug 30 at 515 p.m. at the S.C.R.C. All representatives of teams are asked to attend. Reuter
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    AIRMEN HOLD ARMY TO ONE-ALL DRAW
    325 7 picture. K.A.F. Combined l; Army l P A.F. Combined did well to check the Army's run of successes m the Community league yesterday, when they held the formidable Army side to a one-all draw m a second round match. The game was one of
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    Kent avoid follow on
    152 7 ALTHOUGH the New Zearl landers dismissed Kent yesterday for 184 m reply to their own first innings total ol 358, they did not r enforce the follow on. At close of play they were 139 for four m their second innings. Only Todd, Davies and Pawson
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    Boys' Brigade sports
    47 7 THE filth annual athletic meeting 1 of the Singapore Battalion ot the Boys' Brigade will be held oi, Saturday at 2.30 p.m. at St. Andrew's School ground. Wood- I sville. Mrs. P. A. B. McKerron has i kindly consented to distribute the i prizes.
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    Army boxing meeting
    24 7 THE Singapore District <Army> Boxing committee will meet at Fort Canning H.Q. at 2.. 30 p.m. on Tuesday August, 30. i
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    DEATH
    11 8 CJ.VILT. Evelyn Howard. Sud,l,l.lV m London on 24t -h August.
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    12 8 Pt'El-YATES: A I Johannesburg -v. wife of John Pcel-Yates tor Christina.
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    128 8 MR AND MRS. A. E. YZELand family thank all reiaand friends who attended tie funeral, sent messages of fcvmpathy. sent floral tributes and gave assistance during their bereavement. CHIAM SENO POH and family tender their heartfelt s to all relatives and friends who sent wreaths, letters end telegrams of
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    WE WILL FIGHT ON FROM CHUNGKING
    444 8 WE WILL FIGHT ON FROM CHUNGKING Chiang's call to Nationalists r*EN. Chiang Kai-shek appealed to Nationalist China yesterday to "fight to victory against the aggression of the Communist international." The Reds answered with a new push on uneasy Canton. In a statement issued from Canton after his arrival m the
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    Chiang still gets U.S. arms
    195 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Frl. RATIONALIST China Is still W receiving arms from the United States despite the American Government's "abandonment" of the Chiang Kai-shek Government, but further aid would be 'wasted," according to a representative of the Rockfeller Foundation m China. Dr. Harland Paul, who arrived
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    Finnish Reds' plan bared
    113 8 HELSINKI. Thurs. PREMIER Karl Fagerholm I charged today that the Communist-led strikes here \*ere aimed at delaying war reparations to the Soviet Union and thereby forcing Finland to pay "high penalties Fagerholm warned that although many walkouts called by the Communists have been "Ineffective, they would
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    Balloons for party
    76 8 ALL balloons for the child- ren's garden party which is being organised for the Poppy Day Fund will be flown from Australia. When Mrs. A. E Smith, wife of the General Director of Australian Consolidated Industries, heard that Singapore did not have any balloons, she offered to
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    Airabu arms men pardoned
    148 8 Airabu arms men pardoned SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs. THE Daily Oklahoman said last night that Connie W. Seigrlst and the two other American fliers who were convicted of arms smuggling at Tanjong Pinang had been pardoned by the Dutch Government. Seigrist, Albert W. Onstott and William E. Hallam have been m
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    TO SMASH RICE RACKET
    89 8 SAIGON. Thurs. MEASURES to force down the price of rice from four piastres <1.3d.) per pound, to two <7 l 2 dJ and generally to reduce the cost of living, were announced m Salmon today by the Governor of South Vietnam. Mr Tran Van Huu. Only
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    U.K. rail strikes off
    23 8 Railwaymen at London's King's Cross station voted yesterday to call off their week-end strikes a^. "lodging turns" schedules. U.P.
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    Jap potters for India
    24 8 Six expert potters will leave Tokyo m September for India to introduce Japanese teehnioues to the Indian ceramic industry. U.P.
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    RIVAL CLAIMS FROM VIETNAM
    126 8 Tw r, SAIGON, Friday. HE Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) will have before it applications for associate membership from both the Vietnam Government of Bao Dai. ex-Emperor of Annam and the rival government of Dr. Ho Chi Minn Vietminh (Nationalist) leader, when
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    WHITE HOUSE PACT PLEDGE
    42 8 IN a simple White House ceremony, the United States has committed itself through the Atlantic Pact to resist any attack on Western Europe. Russia thus is confronted with one of history's greatest peacetime combinations of potential military power.
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    JAPAN MAY JOIN ILO
    31 8 Japan will be reinstated m the International Labour Organisation "m the not distant future," according to Masato Kato, Japanese observer at the ILO conference m Geneva. Reuter
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    Senate puts limit on Arms Aid Bill
    177 8 WASHINGTON, Friday. TWO U.S. Senate Committees voted last night to place a I .S. $450,000,000 limit on the amount of excess arms that may be sent to "friendly nations" under President Truman's military aid programme. Combined committees on Foreign Relations and the Armed
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    CHURCHILL BETTER
    20 8 Mr. Winston Churchill is recovering from his chill and plans to fly to Strasbourg on Saturday morning. Reuter
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    What will I.E.F.C. say?
    71 8 The Philippine^ Foreign Office announced >estcrday that President Clpidio Quirino had been given .">() sacks of Siamese rice by the Siamese Premier Marsh »1 Phibun Songgram. The gift was personal and made **as a token feature of the cordial relations" existing between leaders of the Philippines
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    Calamity Jane
    51 8 NEW YORK. Thurs. WHEN police found 45 automatic .32 calibre revolvers, a pair of brass knuckles and a home-made dagger m the home of Walter Groo'iiel. 49. a Brooklyn Negro, today, he explained thut his mother had willed the small arsenal to him when she died m 1942.
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    'Germany in Council of Europe soon'
    176 8 'Germany in Council of Europe soon STRASBOURG, Thursday. M PAUL-HENRI SPAAK. President of the Euro- pean Consultative Assembly, said today that m his personal opinion (lermany would m a comparatively short time become a member of the Council of Europe. He said the Assembly would probably advise the Council of
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    REDS RAID IRANREPORT
    90 8 REDS RAID IRANREPORT TEHERAN. Pti UNOFFICIAL sources In TeU hentn say that an Iranian border post at Sari Asian, m the Southeast Caspian province Of Khorasan. fftl wiped out by Soviet troopi on Aug. 2i A military Informant said that a considerable number of Soviot tr ray into Klnrabhan province
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    Soviet to free British student
    53 8 Soviet to free British student TWENTY-iour-year-old Gorman Green, Cardiff Technical College student, arrested by the Russians after ne had crossed the Soviet borde< from Finland last month, wii' soon be released. This message has been sent from Moscow to the FtrtUih frontier guards, their commander told Reuter on tCM long
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