The Singapore Free Press, 27 August 1949

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA >o. 1 7 563 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY. AUGUST 27. 1949. PUKE 1U CENTS
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    BRITAIN MAY SLASH HER ARMED FORCES
    541 1 Chinese family of three women and three children were all slightly injured when .his car came into collision yesterday afternoon with a lorry at the junction of Arab Street md Roohore Canal Road. An ambulance took the ininjured to hospital. Move after 9 parley
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    Onn calls for patriotic co-operation
    95 1 Onn calls for patriotic co-operation Prcn Staff Reporter BUTTERWORTH. Sat. DATO Onn bin Ja'afar. pretlt of U.M.N.0., today I on both the rulers and if Malaya to co-operate r the benefit of the y. iressing the Province •y Youth League at the ling of tlie U.M.N.O. geneE&J assembly here this
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    Arms decision on Monday
    204 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. npRUMAN Administration leaders yesterday delayed I A until Monday a decision on what cut, if any, should be recommended in the proposed U.S.$ 1,450 million foreign arms assistance programme. The combined Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees are also expected to vote on the
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    JOHORE BANDIT CAMP FOUND
    75 1 A BANDIT oamp flying the Cammunist flag and consisting of well-built huts and a parade grounu was locked by a patrol of police and military operating in the Muar area of Johore yesterday. Bandit sentries fired on Ihe approaching patrol but retired after a short engage-
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    Today at B. Timah
    53 1 Today at B. Tim ah Going likely to be very good. Best Bet: OREGON. Jockey to follow: McPherson (Oregon, Natural, Norton Ministrel Boy Stable to follow: Heddle's (Oregon and Natural with Toboggan as a good outsider). Latest stable tips and track work See Page 7. i think id wrre-p iut/i
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    U.K. SHAREHOLDERS PROTEST ON MINE
    65 1 A six man committee, headed by Mr. A. Croucher was elected yesterday by the? Hongkong shareholders of Marsman-operated Philippine gold mines to carry out appropriate action and protest against the management. Shareholders have been dis satisfied with the "defeatist" attitude of the management of these
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    FORGED INDIES NOTES FOUND
    37 1 FORGED INDIES NOTES FOUND A Singapore Customs party on an opium raid yesterday afternoon accidentally came upon Indonesian curivnry bt lieved to be forged, with a face value of 64,050 ruplas in a house in Jeddah Street.
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    250 die, 500 hurt in Somaliland riot
    198 1 ADEN, Friday. TWO-hundred-and-fifty-nine were killed and more than 500 injured in a tribal clash in French Somaliland mer the local election results before French troops restored order, it was revealed here today. Reports said the rioting began when Jamaali. a Somali leader, returned
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    ROOSEVELT TO WED
    26 1 Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Miss Suzanne Perrin, New York society figure, obtained a marriage licence in New York yesterday. A. P.
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    Mid-ocean dash to save polio victim
    103 1 NEW YORK, Sat. A DOCTOR and an iron lung to treat an infantile paralysis victim were put aboard the liner Parthia yesterday as the ship ploughed through heavy seas off Halifax. The transfer was made from the U.S. Coastguard cutter Goose Bay which sped
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    KOREANS TIRED OF 'EXPERIMENT'
    125 1 SEOUL, Friday. PRESIDENT Syngman Rhee of Korea declared today that South Koreans were growing impatient with being "guinea pigs" in an international I experiment. Referring to North Koroan Infiltrations along the 38th Parallel border between South and formerly Soviet-occupied North Korea, he said: ''Nobody likes to
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    58 1 Ihere seems to be a good prospect of a dust up here as Dolly, a two-year-old Indian bear appearing in a circus at Bristol is given a going-over with a vacuum cleaner. While Dolly's keeper tries to hold her interest with titbits, an accomplice cautiously creeps up to apply the
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    Gambling dens aid seamen
    267 1 Gambling dens aid seamen TO RESIST DEPORTATION SYDNEY, Saturday. A USTRALIAN wives of Chinese seamen, including several from Malaya, threatened with deportation, made appeals in Chinese gambling dens last night for money to meet legal expenses to defend their husbands. Toward midnight they had already collected half tjie money needed.
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    'Immoral' films attacked
    82 1 CHICAGO, Sat. THE Rev. Patrick Masterson, executive secretary of the Roman Catholic National League of Decency, charged yesterday that this year's motion pictures are more immoral than at i.ny time in the Legion's 15-year history. Rev. Masterson also attacked indirectly the extra-marital activities of film stars. He
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    BRITISH STEEL EXPORTS RISE
    49 1 BRITAIN'S iron and steel industry which the Government plans to nationalise next year, exceeded its export target last month in spite of a setback in British exports as a whole. Exports for the month totalled C 11,410,000 compared with a target of j £10.500,000.- Reuter
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    Colonial Corp. to get U.S. loan
    176 1 Colonial Corp. to get U.S. loan LONDON. S T'HE President ol I x International Hank Reconstruction and D lopment, Mr. Black, said the British Colonial D lopment Corporation v seeking a series of do) loans from the hank. He Added U.S. $10,000,000 won, be ratified ihortly for purchase ol equipment
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    Work starts at The Hague
    50 1 THE HAOUE. I THE Jive main DOmmlttf I the round tai l< m Indonesia work this morning on political, military, financial, tural an Ail of them dealt m. with prellminai general procedure das l Cultural Committees journed after an ho. u agreed agi nds Reuter
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    SIX ITALIANS DIE IN TORNADO
    25 1 Six u.siy injurf which i suburb I Italy) The W:. whl-h M ther Bui- worst in mated at 5,000,00 U.P.
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      The Moa may still be alive
      488 2 CHILDREN! —here's your own WORLD SPOTLIGHT THE astounding prospect that living ■laiens of the moa, Uia giant wingless bird generally thought to have been extinct for hundreds of years, may vet be found has been raised by recent discoveries in New Zealand. If a
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      Adventures of Pennv & Koni
      153 2 Adventures of Pennv Koni Cmttd by clockwork toys Koni, th« monkey, (M|int to with ha had iyyfr wound them up. Thin ha th* door of the room and rushes towards it. Poor Koni is always patting himself into trouble. Mora than 'ever he longs to b« hack in the real
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      World's Largest Sunday School
      211 2 tvtner instalment tomorrow) THE largest Sunday School in the world is the claim of Australia's Postal Sunday School Movement. It caters for about 22.000 boys and girls in isolated parts of Australia. In addition about 4,000 New Zealand children belong to the movement, and there is
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      STAMP CORNER
      129 2 ua»i tnis ortrait iorgl DimitroT, late Bulgarian Premier, on sale so soon after his death six weeks ago in Moscow, where experts say the stamp was printed. Few commemorative s are rushed out so quickly. Perhaps this Is a tribute to a man who acted swiftly in a
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      Tiger Leaps In The Well
      839 2  -  UNCLE GEORGE By "lIE wasn't a bad chap," sighed the squirrels who thought that Mouse-deer would now be eaten. "Picy he's leaving us so soon. Got a bit conceited at times, but who wouldn't with his brains?" "Hoo-hoo," blubbered the baby owls. "We were playing
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      How To Dive
      328 2 S WIMMING LESSON 1 1 By WINIFRED GIBSON swimming affords a grand way of learning what you may and may not do, since water allows you to do as you like only within certain well-denned limits. For example, when running into the sea, if you do not
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      Trick corner
      42 2 I)LA('E a 10 cent piece on the palm of your outstretched hand and challenge someone to brush it of\. They will not he able to do it either if you place the 10 cents r>ei\r the base of your thumb.
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      BRITAIN HAS GIANT LOCO
      110 2 BRITAIN S n fill railway engine the 90ft. -long I arly 181 tons The driving i arranged Ui two wti of el each; its boiler is 7ft. in diameter; the water su is In front, and the carried at the rear It is meant to "bank
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      Keep A Length
      62 2 /I&C' /jttCvS- LENGTH and dirt-. the main bowling. Good length can he tered on'v bv const tice I* f varies accoi the pace of the bowler Ideal is that which bataman undecided he should play bi I .t re! This length will, of c vary ftllghtl: to
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      29 2 I I I I J.I I Jbvi Children's RecordsiLj Forget The Ijcunssters/ BD 173 THI HP THE ORAv THRFE I I BD I BO NANdtitNO&CQ^,, 103-105. SELEOIt «OAO. SINGAPORE.
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      175 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLVES ACROSS.— I. One of \hv n j Tj HJT~ B4 chief centres of Scotti.'h herring r^THT'IBB^ fishing. 5. Mediterranean island. < L-__HB iH^J He coines from north of the p I Tweed. 9, Famous London ar' If WO gallery. 10, Ruler of Yugoslav-a JHi '■^11 11, 'Word"
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    TOUGH GOING FOR REDS
    238 3 TOUGH GOING FOR REDS Problems in S'hai, Tsin Commumsts-often described as "agrarian reform Now, in a surprising admission, the official Communist press has Acknowledged that Shanghai a city of 6,000,000 (Mi— must I„ tein P»fary step oack before embarking on the road to complete Communist control. The official Shanghai Liberation
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    Soviet 'no man's Land'
    69 3 THE Russian command on 1 the British-Soviet zonal border at Luebeck-Schlutup has declared a 500-yard wide strip as no-man's land and banned all civilians from entering it. reported the German news agency Dena. Slit trenches are being dug under the command of Russian officers from the
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    'Keep Red ban' Bengal told
    104 3 THE Indian Government is 1 nou prepared to advise Uie West Bengal Prow.^Kii Government to lift its ban on the Communist Party of West Bengal. This was stated in a communication received by Mr A. K. Pillai, a prominent member of the Indian Civil Liberties
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    A blind man can see again
    201 3 A 63-YEAR-OLD masseur who suddenly regained his sight July 6 after being blind 28 years says he is now completing the most exciting month of his life. "It has been like living all over again," said Edward R. Ray. "Everything's so colourful the 'automobiles,
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    FRENCH, INDIA REFERENDUM
    85 3 MEDOUARD GOUBERT, leader of the FrenchIndian Socialist Party, said at Madras that the settlement of French India's future political set-up would have to be by referendum M. Goubert. returning after a 10-minute conference with France's Overseas Minister, said his party claimed a majority following in French towns.
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    Bridge Hands
    133 3 Spades are trumps. South leads North and Sout'n are to win all weight tricks against any defence. BRIDGE PROBLEM SOLUTION South leads the spade jack West docks, snmh leads the club k*~« rwertata with the ».c to lead the spade king. East discards a diamond; South a heart.
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    PAKISTAN TRAM
    45 3 Sweden and Austria arc likely to open negotiations Pakistan in the near future on bilateral trade ts, it WBfl learned in Karachi recently. Pakistan's Minister for Commerce and Industries, Mr. Fazlur Rehman, visited Sweden during his tour of Europe earlier this year.- Reuter
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    No cure yet for A-bomb radiation
    277 3 gCIKNTISTS have reported "encouraging pro£ress toward development of a radiation injury test which would be invaluable in case of an atomic disaster. But they added that treatment of radiation sickness is about where "treatment of many other common diseases" was half a century ago.
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    JAPS TO GO WHALING
    66 3 JAPAN'S i wo major fishJ eries companies are planning to increase their capitalisation, substantially to finance Antarctic whaling operations. Directors of the Ninon Marine Products Company, which ha. financed one of two whalin» fleets dispatched by Japan in every postwar Antarctic expedition, have decided to double
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    Bevin blamed
    27 3 Posters at the Gorman Gelsenberg Synthetic Petrol Works dismantling of which started recently said: "Who is responsible for our misfortunes? the Labour leader, 'Bevin.' Reuter
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    Manila actress missing
    110 3 PHILIPPINES actress, Carol Varga, who on Tuesday gave a statement to the National Burenu of Tnvestil gaLion on the slaying of the American businessman, George Murray, was later reported missings. Miss Varga, on-. 1 of the last persons to see Murray alive, had previously requested police protection
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    CODED CABLES STOPPED
    67 3 DUSINESS firms and diplo- matic oflicials In China who use coded caries will have no more secrets from the Chinese Communls's A new regulation reauires everyone in Communls -heiii areas wishing to sernl a coded cable to supply a decoded copy of the i ho local authorities
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    Radar is catching smugglers
    173 3 tfMUUGLLRS will have to •J think and mo\ I r ,f f hey expec* to have a g\ (>t a chance to outv Hntlsh. Br'tish Customs* offi. ait* usln/ radar now to trap smuggler who race aci Channel fiorr the Continent tn 'ast launches They hrvf
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    RIVER PIRATES ATTACK SIHP
    83 3 RIVER PIRATES ATTACK SIHP THE motor Men. loaded with pe h enters repulsed .1 pirate r a brisk 20 minute gun battle in the Pearl River on Wednes The vessel, wmi two hours out of Canton en route to Hong Kont; when it enc< I a motor launch c I
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      160 3 The Velox fix-cylinder saloon lillustrated above) W A*^#^Absl LJhLJLiJu gives 25-28 miles to the gallon and is one of the GCOf]OfT7V fastest cars on the road p in terms of average spec A /)Gff Of/77 &/7CG or journey from door to g M door. With a genuine 75 L^^ CO/TITO
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      344 3 ciKir AUOUI- NeWl Keel (BBC; 10.15 Lght MrHj/vrw*t£» Music- 10.30 Algernon Black(BLUfc NETVVUKii) WO od Tells a Strange Story* (1 4ca *nrt 117 metres 2) 10 45 *R n y tnm Records'. 484 and ™«"J es^ L frO m Radio Malaya: 11.15 'GeneEmergency news from li.L.. fally Spcakinj? )B BC>;
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      144 3 Solution To CrosswoH No- 7T6 isW FleW 0 i jwjfc ill NwjTicjulMli ste jwH F.P. Crossword No. 777 FT [FT [Tl [4~| [Tl ITT I 25 E| 27 'jip 29 B 1 Wholt lien 12 liaSLdl ui; b r>xpungo (6> 13 15 Ease oflf 16 Sign <4>; 17 Bow <9>;
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Aug. 27, 1949 SENSE ABOUT RUBBER (2)
    638 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Aug. 27, 1949 SENSE ABOUT RUBBER (2) ATTACKS on the rubber production industry nowadays take two forms. First is the cry thai growers by [illation schemes try to hold the consumer (meaning the United States con.<t> to random; the •nd charge is that proare Inefficient
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    Russians set a trap for footprints
    923 4 Russians set a trap for footprints Kara, Eastern Turkey. T STOOD on the Soviet frontier at a point which, if Russia started another war. would be the central buttress of a vast Allied front stretching from Finland in the Far North to Korea in the Far East. For in the
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    CONFUCIUS LIVES ON
    537 4 TF you take eight books out of ten on Chinese classics, turn to any page and put your linger on any paragraph, you will lind that it contains a reference to Confucius, either to his anecdotes or to his writings. As a teacher, Confucius completely captured the
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    PEOPLE MAKE JVEWS Visitors From Siam
    781 4 PEOPLE MAKE JVEWS Visitors From Siam /\N the Invitation 1 of the British Government, two representatives cf the Siamese Civil Aviation wew present nt the Air Display in Singapore. One wat the 78-year old chairman of the Civil Awation Board in Siam. Lieii te-nant-General Phya l)e .1hastin. who Is Aide-C
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    Robots would do the work
    9 4  -  RENNIE TAYIOR A AP
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      59 4 TNEPHOROPIOR INSTRUMENT This Scientific Instrument is the result of many years of Research. It not only measures up to the highest ttindards but is very accurate and positive. You can be very •ure of eotting a proper r isured-leni glasses if you only come to us. THE GREAT CHINA OPTICAL
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      131 4 HI if ■'SP'^B' 'ff CONVERSATION I V V Why so glu- ?hj Victor, "whit V mic situation or 1 ought to be en I after that lovtly. co^ 44 Oh, I'm quite ha call you Vic —but ust a sometimes." •'Puzzled/ my pet Victor with* can help ••Well Stand why
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      Free Press Saturday magazine
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      HAPPINESS-FOR TEN CENTS A DAY
      643 1  - HAPPINESS -FOR TEN CENTS A DAY NAN HALL i\ < VPORE'S ties, the (lest and cted of kids are into an- children ilike in ll s. look like they are midday is part of 5' daily rou- in clothes, 1 and the sound sleep do lor them miraculous. »'hers are
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      What's in a name?
      520 1  -  THE Chinese take things literally. In no other way is this more apparent than in the way they give names to our Malayan roads. Precisely for the same reason, we do not find much romance attached to road names other than in Chinese. When I first
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      WHEN CONFUCIUS WAS STUMPED
      508 1  -  HUANG HSIEN-SHENG by TODAY Chinese all over the world coriiinemorate th e birthday anniversary of Confucius, China's (greatest sage. Today is also celebrated as the Teachers 1 Day because Confucius w;is China's greatest teacher. Many readers are familiar with the poliKethical system of Confucius, for who
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      Bough doesn't rhyme with buff
      260 1  - Bough doesn't rhyme with buff ERIC MITCHELL by JK YOU are dissatisfied with the outside world and wish to qualify for admission to a lunatic asylum, try teaching a foreigner that the word "roughis pronounced ruff but "bou^ir is not pronounced buff. Try telling him that a "bough" is not
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      PRIVATE LIVES
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      Film Folk Like 'Maggie' Lockwood
      930 2 vui; sipped our tea from plain white nips, munched crumbly biscuits. We were seated in Margaret [^ockwood's Hat, waiting for her. Sealed, in fact, in what should have been the dining-room. But the only table held a typewriter. There was a row of fan-letter files.
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      A NORMAN PRICE CLOSE-UP
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      No glamour girls, but glamorous
      357 2 No glamour girls, but glamorous -=-and box-office 'tops* approval for Maggie. 'It's cheaper to make hlms With Lockwood." they say. "No re -takes. No delays caused by late nights in Mayfalr, early dawns at Denham No tantrums, forgotten lines. Her work right first time, day aftei day To make '"Cardboard
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      They can't tempt Hepburn's double
      223 2 They can' t tempt Hepburn' s double DARIS'S most glamorous and sought-after model is a 20-ycar-old mother of two children, who is determined not to let repeated Hollywood film offers break the even tenor of her life. She is Marie-Jose Darrene, and her attitude towards Hollywood may be summed up
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      INGRID IS TIRED OF IT ALL
      272 2 INGRID IS TIRED OF IT ALL From EVELYN IRONS Stromboli, |JP a ladder propped against the pink wall of square, llnlroofed villa runs a nimble Italian with a bucket o! water. He empties the bucket into a cistern on the roof and runs down for more. We are on Hie
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      Latest cult on Broadway
      177 2 Latest cult on Broadway f ATEST Broad w a fad, a L W. c. FtalUa cult. People arc Qocklna to a n vival program] aturing Mv Littu Chickadee and Bank Dick. Of the two The Ba ik D has borne its yean the I tcr. perhaps because it wafl so
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        227 2 HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint Starring JAMU CARTER. Columbia HOllYWOOD— Technically. there it no tuck »h;ng o» a cosmetic "tkin food. although tome of the richer oilier tkin creams are occasionally referred to o* tuch Th#>te ceomi do not truly "nourith' the tkin. but they do »erve lr-« voloobte purpoie of bringing
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      Fuel for the poor
      295 3  -  Kenneth Tan by the fruit season just ended, 1 nosed around the ther day to find out i what happens to urded fruit skins. During the season, :ins can be seen tered In every gutter crammed into the Lsh tins, but one ::i sees the thorny
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      JU-JITSU IN 210 PROVOST COMPANY
      502 3  - JU-JITSU IN 210 PROVOST COMPANY D.H. de T. READE by L "vlitnary Policemen in j\ lalaya are being given >»■ of the latest ju-jitsu i dditton to unarmed combai« normal part of the "red caps" training. There are often occasions when members of the Armed Forces, whose duties take them
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      Yards and yards of it
      536 3  -  MARIAN WELLS IN A corner of a fairly large attap shed Nam Seng, his son and another assistant were busy rolling out yards and yards of edible yarn. All three had risen at six o'clock to play at what seemed to me to be a
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      There's something about a kite
      498 3  - There 's something about a kite (]|YCLISTS and pedestrians, apart from the ever-present hazards of ordinary road traffic, face a new menace for the next few months the kite. For with the breezy days and the season in full swing, no thoroughfare is completely safe from the danger of lowflving
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        127 3 SHORT U(JRK of SHOR T- WA VE Turn,* DIISH RADIO Bush Bandspread Radio enables you 10 find your way 4t>>ut 'he short waves with ease and confidence. Band-spread tuning en -i mously widens the gap berveen each wavelength «>n the tuning <.;«ie, and by making accurate tuning easy ensures the
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      SECRET OF FAST LEG DRIVING
      779 4  -  WHEN Coa c h n William Bachrach, of the famous Illinois Athletic Club, was given the t;*sk <>t producing a world's champion in readiness f or the 1924 Olympic Games to be held in Paris, he searched for a tall, slim youth inad of the
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      SPORTSCASTING
      238 4  -  SOCCER with no off-side. That was the startling picture conjured by Vernon Stokes, chairman of League champions Portsmouth after a farcical secret trial of the proposed new offside rule at Tottenham. "I am not saying it would improve the game but I would like to see it given a
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      SPORTINGH Chit-Chat
      303 4 SPORTINGH Chit-Chat WRITER'S cramp, houseYt maid's knee, migraine and a hungry look sire but a few of the 111* reporters learn to overcome with unite in their peregrination* around Singapore helping to turn OUI a readable 10-cent daily. Of late one other disease has crept into the local Journalist*! vocabulary,
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      G.O.M. of cricket
      631 4  -  DENIS COMPTON by IT isn't easy for the average cricket enthusiast to appreciate just how much sunshine has been brought into the lives of the grand old men of cricket and some of the not so old— by the decision recently to admit a chosen few into
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      Umpire's ticklish problem
      159 4  - Umpire 's tick lish problem By N.W.D. Yardley FROM trie number queries 1 rec> week by week it is apparent that umpires i frequently confront with the ticklish pi blem of what constit "unfair play." Here are borne in.which require action by umpire l If a player comply with the
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      The tic-tac to the scorers
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      S.M.C. STAFF WANT BETTER CONDITIONS
      69 5 S.M.C. STAFF WANT BETTER CONDITIONS .cfrom wpi. the rice i ration for Sinjcapore Illl(M ,d by half a m>r oerson. ,1,- from that will therefore, be: j katties a ireek: wokattiea a week; kitties a week. nua ration unchanged ar«d ,<](!itioii to the I <mt above. Some of the large
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      MCU opens 'brick fund' for 'Varsity
      76 5 of the College Sin gapore. b I for the j i Endowtarted a "brick I laying of stone of the will be made d to ill a sum of the Uni- for Oct. be held at nts of a tour and the t the
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      MUSEUM TALK
      532 5 of the Raffles M W. F. Tv. address the Salva- Forchbearer Group Backstage of the the Salvation quarters, 30 Oxley at 8.15 p.m. May ask for weekly pay a pDA P nc e f f Press Staff Reporter A SAL tO k Sin^pore Municipal Commissioners for an early
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      CLERKS TO MEET
      38 5 Temporary clerks who are members of the Government Clerical Services Union will hold a meeting next Tuesday at 5.15 p.m. at the Singapore Civil Service Association canteen. Conditions and terms of employment will be discussed.
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      R.A.F. POPPY DAY
      34 5 RAF and WRAF personnel are spending their spare time preparing ror the many sideshows of the fair at RAF Seletar in aid of Earl Haig's Poppy Day Fund, on Sept. 17.
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      Corfu to go info dry dock
      134 5 fHE reason why the P. O. mailship Corfu (14,500 tons gross) left Singapore after only 24 hours in port thi r weei was because tomorrov morning she will go into dry dock in Hong Kong. She wil 1 be accommodated in th^ huge Taikoo
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      Gaol sentence on news vendorquashed
      158 5 Gaol sentence on news vendorquashed KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. QENTENCED to six months' 0 rigorous imprisonment and fined $750 for selling newspapers which contained I seditious articles, an Indian newsvendor. Ambalavanan. had his orison term quashed by Mr. Justice Russell in the Court of Appeal here today. Mr. R. Ramani, who
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      AMMO FOUND
      22 5 Singapore police recovered 400 rounds of .303 rifle ammunition from the ground in front of Katong Post Office yesterday afternoon.
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      Empress liner due next month
      207 5 Free Press Shipping Correspondent and Hong Kong are becoming scenes of increasingly greater maritime activity, as more <?nd more transports arrive with troops for the defence of South-East Asia. During the first fortnight of next month one trans-Atlantic liner which made history for the British
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      R.C. Union dance next Saturday
      5 5 R.C. Union dance next Saturday
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      6 SOCIAL WELFARE SCHOLARSHIPS
      77 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. SIX Social Welfare Scholarships for 1949-1951 have been awarded by the Selection Board of the Department ot Social Welfare, Federation of Malaya The successful candidates, who will leave for the United j Kingdom shortly, are: Moha- med Sopiee bin Shaik Ibrahim, i Muhammad
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      ROUND WORLD IN EIGHT DAYS
      87 5 THE BBC has included Singapore in the cities to be covered by its roving broadcaster and commentator, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, who will set out trom London on Sept. 19 on an eight-day world flight. Records of each stage of the flight will be flown to
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      Talk on Confucius
      58 5 THF Chlr.a Society will hold a dinnet at a restaurant h> East Coast Road (Bedoki this evening, at which Mr. E. C. S. Adkins, Secretary for Chmose Affairs, will speak on 'Confuciu as a man." The (unction starts at 8 p.m. and quests of honour are the
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      flee ration Increased
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      MAILS
      236 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent £JHINESE School-teachers in Singapore are celebrating Teachers' Day, which falls today. It is also the birthday of Confucius, regarded by the Chinese as the greatest of all teachers. The Sirgapore Chinese Schools' Association are sponsoring the Teachers' Day celebrations. A commemorative meeting vas held at
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      ONE HOLIDAY LESS
      35 5 yriTH a rlcw 10 reducing M 'he number of public holidays, the Selangpr Government h:is decided to c-li-minate Liberation Diy, Menday, Sept, 12. from he list pi public holidays in the State.
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      S'pore welfare workers meet
      226 5 S' pore welfare workers meet picture. Free Press Staff Reporter yyiTH guest artistes like comic Larry Fenton and -inger Tar Eng Chia entertaining the crowd and expensive piizes being presented lor novelty and spot dances and [■'.r luck/ programmes, Raffles JoLege Students' Union will oe staging their biggest dance /tnture
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      Return land, court orders
      103 5 Return land, court orders MR. Justice Evans in the W1 Singapore Supreme Court. i gave judgment for Mr. Wee Thiam Hock in his claim for possession of a piece of land in Haig Road, formerly used by the Dutch as a military i camp. The defendants. Mr. N I Eliyathamby
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      Siglap Malay Assn.
      47 5 The Si^lap Malay AssoeiaCion will hole a tea-party at Jalai S^p&dan, East c Road at 4.30 p.m. tomoi. The part: is in honour of lt> p-esideri InchP Tamimih bin Haj Osman, who w» CfnUj J tiic 1 and Inche M. patron ot A .1.
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      CURFEWS LIFTED
      32 5 The curlews in in the Tampin and Manttn police districts, the ivlantin Town Board area and thp Raiuuig. Parol and rental areas, all In Ne^ri S'-mbilan. .vere lifted lasi niph'.
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      Prices of 2nd handcars drop in Singapore
      336 5 Prices of 2nd handcars drop in Singapore Free Press Staff Ke|x>rter pRICES of second-hand motor-cars in Singai>ore during the last six months have dropped hv about ten per cent while those of a number of mak« n of new ears will go up by about five per cent, next month,
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      GOODWOOD SETS THE LEAD
      4 6 GOODWOOD SETS THE LEAD
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      Ipoh post for Rev. Doraisamy
      81 6 THE Rev. T. R. Doraisamy. who returned to Singapore by the Corfu on Tuesday after having been to America on a Crusade for Christ scholarship and obtained his MA. degree at Boston University, desires to meet all MYF members of the Singapore District today at
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      GILT-EDGEDS MAKE USEFUL GAINS
      792 6  -  LONDON, Sat. BRITISH Government, securities continued t tieir upward movement during yesterday's London Siock Exchange dealings, says Reuters financial correspondent. Bo:ir covering In the longdated issues and some small investment support for shorts and mediums resulted in some useful gains being red although, in many >
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        209 6 Mandrake teix** Singapore in* fclL-. i4>4fc*» 'flttWy l^ |-T//ffl£ #4 SCREECHING Cf A|% MM^< Y TAUT/ iTpUfHTn IOfOEK RUSKS TO THE UTTL£ GIRL- "ZL P^HED HER QUTQP THE WAY-JUST lANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free I* u VP.f YOU'RE RIGHT /-^W OF COUR66,^ I YOU KNOW, ITS TT^,, 1 THIS
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      OREGON IS THE TODAY
      127 7 lire. This morning's stable fancies -hhfrf £m\ PreS ?iH cing: Co "espondent. look a pretty hard pair to beat y Oregon was freely tipped on the course this morning as the best thing on the card The%oin| is likely to remain very good g g Dance
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      Compton hits 97 in M'sex victory
      242 7 r'.vo exciting finishes to matches concerning Idlesex and Yorkshire, each of whom won by ir ee wickets, packed yesterday's cricket with rama rigle day this season can have carried so itement. While news travelled that Yorke having shocks from Gloucestershire, were losing five wickets
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      U.S. GAIN 2-0 LEAD IN CUP
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      PATERSON WINS ON KO
      682 7 At Nottingham. Nottinghamshire vs. Somerset match drawn. Notts. 443 and 95 fcr 5. Somerset 318 (Harvey 8 for 122 >. At Clacton. Lancashire beat Essex by 10 wickets. Lancashire 331 and 3 for 0, Essex Ifi4 (Deighton 5 for 53) and 169 (Roberts 6 for 29).
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      Ames hits 152 n.o.
      177 7 LESLIE Ames yesterday scored 152 not out and defied the New Zealanders' attack for four hours to enable Kent to retain their unbeaten record against the tourists. At close of play Kent were 250 for 5 in their second innings. They had made 184 in their
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      SPORE DIST. (A) WATER-POLO
      1136 7 TOMORROW, the eight-mile stretch of Lim Chu Kang Road, off the 10th mile Bukit Tim ah Road, will be the course for the most gruelling cycle race of the season the 150-mile massed-start road race. This event, the fourth in the Singapore Best All-Rounder Open Cycling
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      TANGLIN CLUB TENNIS
      160 7 CINGAPORE District (Army) will be playlnqj two waterpolo matches against the Singapore Swimming Club at the Club pool at 130 a.m. tomorrow. The teams to represent the Army will be: Team 1: Capt. Whltmore, S 6gl Richardson. Cupt. Marshmnn, W/O Towr.send, Pre. Morgan, C.'tr. Revi?. CHM Apps.
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      TIP AT B. TIMAH
      193 7 TIP AT B. TIM AH [All the latest selections TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RVfs I ESS HALL 2 ANCE H LL DANCE HALL DANCE HALL Black P°°' Edmond Dante* Blackpool Blackpool RACE I STYMIE NORTON THE RAVEN NORTON~ 2 45 it Firemaster Stymie The Ra tn >M SolUr
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      Today's Acceptors
      58 7 Today 's Acceptors DLLOW is the card of events for the first day o* the Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting at Bukit Timah today. The double tote will be on Races five and eight and the Big Sweep wili be drawn on Race 7. Gold Caste, San Demetrio
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      Ceylonese hold Indians
      107 7 CIONTRARY to general ex- pectations Ceylonese held Indians to a creditable icorelesi draw in the Intercommunity League soccer match played on the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Ceylonese fielded one man short but despite this handicap, played well up to a man. Indians had all the territorial advantage
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      BIRTH
      15 8 I'HERSON. At Malacca, or 1949, to Alison, wife of Dr Hector J. McPherson, c
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      THREAT TO CANTON!
      121 8 City 95 miles awaytnenacea HONG KONG, Saturday. AS a major battle rages along the KiangsiKwangtung border, about 140 miles northeast of Canton, other Red forces, having either taken or bypassed Tingnan, Chienan and Lungnan, are now threatening Wengyuan, only 95 miles from the Nationalist capital. The Nationalists
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      Anti-Red rising near S'hai
      86 8 Anti-Red rising near S'hai CANTON. Sat. NATIONALIST intelligence reports, last night said that 100.000 peasants are in revolt against the Communists in the Lake Maihu area, between Shanghai and Nanking. The reports said that Red attempts to suppress them have so far failed. The Executive Yuan, meeting here, named a
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      OFFERS TO SPEAK FOR MANSTEIN
      303 8 OFFERS TO SPEAK FOR MANSTEIN HAMBURG. Sat. QEVERAL former officers and soldiers in the armies of Field-Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein have come forward to offer evidence in defence of their former leader after an appeal by Mr. R. O. Paget, K.C., chief defence counsel. At yesterday's session the court,
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      PRINCESS NOT GOING TO U.S.
      53 8 DRINCESS Margaret, who had been reported to be planning to visit the United States, will not go this autumn it was disclosed yesterday. Officials of the New York State Fair which opens next month, have received a letter regretting that the Princess will not be
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      STRAUSS WALKING
      29 8 Richard Strauss. 85, famous German operatic composer. has improved to the extent he can now walk about his home. his Dhvsirian reDorted yester- 1 day A. P.
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      Marshall Plan pessimism
      248 8 CEVERAL leading IS. Administration oflicials say that the British financial crisis may make necessary a re-examination of the Marshall Plan to determine if it can put Europe on its economic feet bv 1952. The Economic Co-operation Administrator, Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, is said to believe that the
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      Missing guilders: U.S. arrest
      299 8 Missing guilders: U.S. arrest STRASBOURG, Saturday. A BRITISH Labour M.P., Mr. Will Xally, told the European Consultative Assembly here yesterday that "we are not going: to have the fate oi social security developments in Europe determined by the threats or blusters of a handful of stupid but powerful American politicians."
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      ST. PETERS TOMB DISCOVERED?
      39 8 VATICAN CITY, Saturday. THE Vatican radio has urged the faithful to av. 1 ii "great revelation" by the Holy See concerning I the tomb of St. P ances.— death.- Reuter I this week.— Reuter A.P.
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      SPRAINED NECK ON POLIO 'TEST'
      41 8 PHILADELPHIA, Saturday. SOMEBODY told Bernard Loughery, 19, a sure way to diagnose infantile paralysis. "If your neck gets stiff but you can touch your chest with your chin," he was told, "you are still all right."
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      N.Y. STOCKS
      126 8 ACTIVITY was at a low ebb in Wall Street yesterday, with many operators marking time. Prices drifted a trifle lower before rallying tendencies in motor shares spread to some other sections. This left the over-all balance slightly higher. The markets closed Irregularly. Reuter. SAN FRANCISCO, Sat. THE use
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      THE SAINT
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      Parrot fever conquered
      185 8 Parrot fever conquered LAUSANNE, Friday. WITH the entry into their fifth month of the peace talks between Israel and four Arab states, the I'nited States Palestine Conciliation i Commission yesterday decided that economic stabiIlity in the Middle East is the best way to bring about harmony between the two sides.
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      14 blondes responded
      89 8  -  rnilK Japanese Government has received enough blond 1 hair to keep its official hydrometer at Mi/usaw:i Latitude Observatory supplied for 20 years. Japanese HlCttion Ministry officials in Tokyo said yesterday. Because Japanese black hair is too coarse for sensitivity needed In measuring moisture in the atmosphere, the
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      Tito may appeal to U.N.O.
      379 8 Tito may appeal to U.N.O. LOIN DUN, sal. AS the Chinese RedSj joined in the RussianYugoslav quarrel yesterday with strong denunciations of Marshal Tito, Belgrade sources said that Yugoslavia may seek to bring Russia before the United Nations for meddling in Yugoslav internal atTairs. These observers said that the final
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