The Singapore Free Press, 1 September 1949
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Title Section16 1949-09-01 1 The Straits Times LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. I.Mi" SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1949. foTS16 words
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Article, Illustration263 1949-09-01 1 POSTAL PLAN FOR SINGAPORE Twenty-eight districts Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE is to be divided into 28 postal districts the same as m London to facilitate the delivery of an average of 31,000 letters daily. Raffles Place and the area adjacent to it will probably be known m postal correspondence263 words
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Article130 1949-09-01 1 U.k. tin POLICY CHANGE LONDON. Wed. ■HE Financial Times said 1 15 hat Britain's sus- sales of tin for would -allow time f< J r r ;:snment of official to me new situation v free New York gh level of Malayan, and Belgian tin during June, d the world out-post-warA.P. - 130 words
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Article63 1949-09-01 1 LONDON, Wed. GOTLAND Yard hinted tS--5 day that it had founc i a band of Inwe\ thieves m a box. The bo 3 I \urith a fortune ii li and emerald; -ung up t< OTicia'.s said that the ban] the jewel, -A along with U.S dU.P - 63 words
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Article40 1949-09-01 1 Fugs obtained b Health Orn m Washington t m outbreak of ir FSia m India, wi m New York o lay the first deliver lungs obtained j organisation m re* an appeal for 20.40 words
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Article42 1949-09-01 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Selangor Turf Club's report for the six months of the year says that up to June unclaimed winnings on the totalisator were $2,740. In the same time, unclaimed cash sweep dividends totalled $2,280.42 words
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Article196 1949-09-01 1 TOKYO, Thursday. NINE persons were killed and 54 injured when the worst typhoon m years struck Tokyo and Yokohama last night, disrupting communications over large areas. Fourteen ships were torn from their moorings m Yokohama harbour and driven ashore. A steamer with 50 Japanese aboard andA.P. - 196 words
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Article32 1949-09-01 1 Free Press Staff Reporter The Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, left Singapore by R.A.F. plane this morning for Tokyo. He will break his journey for 24 hours m Hong Kong.32 words
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Article58 1949-09-01 1 YEHUDI MENUHIN. the violinist, decided yesterday he would rather play on Yom Kippur. most sacred day m the Jewish religious calendar, than be sued for breach of contract. When he signed a contract to play at a Manchester charity vt ncoft last March neither he norA.P - 58 words
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Article16 1949-09-01 1 i Staff Reporter Singapore Chine wmen were arrested for allei w Ping yesterdc 'm16 words
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Article35 1949-09-01 1 Japan has been unofficially notified that she will be admitted into the international wheat agreement concluded m March between five exporting countries and 37 importing countries, Japanese newsnaners rpnorted yesterday ReuterReuter - 35 words
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Article169 1949-09-01 1 BANGKOK, Thursday. SI AM S rice exports to deficit countries have already passed the official target set for the year 850,000 tons. Up to July 31 the Asian rice bowl had sent abroad 804,449 tons, including 72,867 tons during July. Foreign exchange earnings from rice exports169 words
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98 1949-09-01 1 Bolivian rebel chief commits suicide BUENOS AIRES. Thurs GEN. Carlos Pena Y. Llllo. retired army officer who led the Bolivian revolt, has committed suicide m Cochabaoiba and other rebel chiefs have fled by air to Peru, according to overnight reports received here. While these reports were not confirmed, the collapseReuter - 98 words
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Article73 1949-09-01 1 Free Press Staff Reporter NO one was hurt when a taxi and a fully loaded Singapore Traction Company bus came into collision at the junction of Oeylang and Mountbatten Roads this morning. Both vehicles were travelling towards town when the accident occurred. The taxi, which73 words
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Article64 1949-09-01 1 i^OUNT Giorgio Cmi, whose Kj name had been linked romantically with that of Merle Oberon, was killed m a plane crash yesterday m full view of the movie actress. Miss Oberon had gone to the airfield to see the Italian count off. The plane m which64 words
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Article30 1949-09-01 1 The official Vatican radio yesterday broadcast a plea on behalf of the world's 400 million Catholics asking rhat the United Nations Assembly establish international control of Jerusalem. A.P.30 words
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Article20 1949-09-01 1 The Czechslovakian Communist led Government, through the controlled press yesterday threatened ruthless suppression of all underground activity. A.PA.P - 20 words
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141 1949-09-01 1 LONDON, Wed. MR. David Rees- Williams, Colonial Under-Secretary, today called lor a 'square deal' by the industrial nations towards Colonial territories and for security m prices and marketing for Colo- nial products. In a speech at a lunch liven bf a nanuiacturlna fli- Rt«Reuter - 141 words
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Article37 1949-09-01 1 AUSTRIAN-CZECH FRONTIER CLOSER Austrian foreign Offic sources stated that Czecl guards yesterday sealed th frontier between ihe tw countries. No one was allowed to ente or leave Czechoslovakia, th sources said. No reason fo the closing was37 words
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Article58 1949-09-01 1 A MOTOR fishing boat— S.F. 2187— blew up and sank off Mersing, Johore, on Monday. Two members of the crew, both from Singapore, were drowned. The remaining seven— six with burns and one who is not expected to live— were brought back to SingaI pore.58 words
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Article53 1949-09-01 1 Fourteen American nationals, first batch of foreigners I evacuated from Karen-held Taunggyi, capital of the southern Shan states, arrived lin Rangoon last night by i chartered plane. The evacuation of 18 Britons there is expected to be carried out In a day or two, EmbassyReuter - 53 words
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Article112 1949-09-01 1 PLAN FOR US- UK TRADE COUNCIL LONDON, Thursday. PLANS for a joint Anglo-American Council on trade development between Britain and the United States may emerge from the "Big Three" dollarsterling crisis talks m Washington next week, political quarters here said yesterday. The new Anglo-American organisation visualised would be a permanent112 words
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Article16 1949-09-01 1 A Singapore vehicles inspector was detained on a charge of accepting a bribe yesterday16 words
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Article, Illustration272 1949-09-01 1 'Keep your fingers crossed' Free Press Staff Reporter MRS. T. MCCABE, wife of the captain of the Singapore ship Leong Bee which slipped through the Nationalist blockade into Shanghai on Monday night, told the Free Press yesterday that she had received a cable from him before272 words
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Article179 1949-09-01 1 —YUGOSLAVIA BELGRADE, Wed. LTUGOSLAV IA, through 1 the Communist Party lewspaper Borba, tonight iccused the Soviet Government of changing its attitude on Yugoslavia's claim to Slovene Carinthia for "foul reasons." It alleged that Russia had accused Yugoslavia of "betraying" Slovene Carinthia because she herself was "bargaining179 words
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Article51 1949-09-01 1 Britain plans to build a fleet of fast Anti-submar<ne craft, it was orhcisliy stated yesterday In Ottawa. Plaiib J for the fleet expansion are still m the blueprint it i i but the new fdiirli will be I similar to those DJW unri'T construction for th<? Canadian Navy.—51 words
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Article61 1949-09-01 1 A SPECIAL Market corri>poiid cnt fives the prices ot rubber (In cents pet Ib.) at 11 am >oda> as follows: Buyers Seller* No. 1 RS S Spot: loos* 36" N 37 F.o.b. In bales Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 36- N 37> N No. 2 R.S.S. 35* 35 m61 words
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Advertisement76 1949-09-01 1 jAT A V (Mutton) Chicken uted within a hours RESTAURANT MgA North Bridge Rd. lubilee Theatre) IMmnf 6193 Whitebait *ts is an excellent canning: it has ppt all the flavour of fresh whitebait )rT > the icy waters of New Zealand's alps. Drain thoroughly, then fry until they are crisp76 words
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Advertisement68 1949-09-01 1 Ready Today You h»v« been waiting for a GOOD Post-war Directory This is it The Straits Times I DIRECTORY i Of Singapore aid Malaya (THE BUKU MERAHI The only post-war Directory with a compUte alphabetical cross-index of all information given m the various sections of the book. 8.000 ENTRIES 20.00068 words
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Article, Illustration698 1949-09-01 2 PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m U.K. GOME months ago I was writing of <4 Bel Ami" a magnificently readable book, but one of the savagest studies of a thoroughly mean -spirited and undeserving adventurer m the whole extent of modern firtion. Et reflects698 words
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Article19 1949-09-01 2 A WOMAN'S LIFE, by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Antonia White. (The Novel Library, Hamish Hamilton 65.)19 words
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Article151 1949-09-01 2 An American Visitor, by Joyce Cary. (Michael Joseph,) Joyce Cary is one of the most interesting yet most exasperating, most eloquent and at ti7ncs most apoplectically over-exuberant oj contemporary English novelists. His books are noiv appearing m a uniform edition. Here is a reprint of his second novel,151 words
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Article480 1949-09-01 2 The Poor Girl. Maxenee van der Meersch. (Pilot Press). DOVE R T V, real poverty, is an ugly subject. Every one of us, if we were only poor enough, would become dirty and sordid. It is rare to find a pure heart or a noble character480 words
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Article, Illustration7 1949-09-01 2 Adventures of Pennv Koni {Another instalment tomorrow)7 words
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Article155 1949-09-01 2 RATHEK than rest content with fines and imprison men 1 for bad driving, the Danish authorities are offering diplomas and even prizes to careful drivers, noticed an*' recommended by the police Aircady a number of Copenhagen motorists have ieceived diplomas from the Chief ol Denmark's Road155 words
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Article, Illustration248 1949-09-01 2 "T)ECEPTIVE play ol todays. hand decided a recent team-of-lour maU-h. The bidding was the same at both tables, and In both cases West opened the five of spades One declarer won tne firM trick with the king of spades and took the club finesse at o r ice.248 words
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Article190 1949-09-01 2 I N BRIEF THfc PICK OF TODAYS SHORT THE BRAMBLE BUSH David STORIES. Duncan. S. Low. Each story has been carefully Mlke Ftaaey, an American who chosen by John Pudney for 1U has served tne Spanish Clvli ability to capture *nd hold the w the chanc 7 of endlng readers190 words
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Article679 1949-09-01 2 D. GUNSTON - How Fast Can You Read A Book? D. GUNSTON By QLD books are notoriously valuaable. Recently, a first edition of Shakespeare, worth nothing for centuries, was sold for £15,000. A man once bought a book of poems for five shillings, and realising its worth sold it again for £50. Not679 words
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Article348 1949-09-01 2 BEHIND EUROPE'S CURTAIN, by John Gunther, Hamish Hamilton, 15 334 pp. I have been almost tempted to call this book Inside Outside Russia" says John Gunther m the first chapter of his latest political commentary. The author and his wife visited Italy first, where the Catho-lic-Communist rivalry is348 words
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Miscellaneous476 1949-09-01 2 SINGAPORE BFEBS (Singapore) I AUSTRALIA (BLtt NETWORK) t 16. 19. 25. aud *J (Metres. i« 4 .«h 41 ■> m »tr^ (locmdinf bJJ.C. Relaj) iodat 184 and 41.7 metres. Metrmm- 25. Metre* 3L 4 P m Dinner Music with the LmiTgency news from R.L. IC< W ~'™~Z™' Blue Hungarian Band;476 words
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Miscellaneous136 1949-09-01 2 F.P. Crossword No. 781 ip m^ I CUfV AUItOSS 2 Threw away (9); 7 Ru'ober (4); 9 Dusk (3)", 10 Territory (6); 12 Fall from the sky (4); 13 Postured (5); 14 Stage remarks 6>; 18 Return on capital (8); 30 Trying (8); 31 Fears (6); 24 Small island (5);136 words
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Miscellaneous11 1949-09-01 2 Solution To Crossword No. 7»o 1 1 MBMIUiSfT I EjRM|A|P E11 words
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Article, Illustration390 1949-09-01 3 TALKS TODAY MIGHT FREE RICE U.S. may lift restrictions UNRESTRICTED access to the world rice market may be opened to South East Asian rice-eating nations today when the International Emergency Food Council meets m Washington to consider whether or not to abolish the allocation method whereby global rice supplies have390 words
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Article20 1949-09-01 3 Maritime B told the Koreans Japanese boats I id seized la and Russia back only 11 was20 words
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Article199 1949-09-01 3 lIINSOME Mrs. Frances Adams, of Washington, f f with 2 m. of frilly lace petticoat peeping out under the hem of her black skirt, presided over a meeting m London at which 14 serious-minded young Americans were holding an "Inquest on Britain." They were membera199 words
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Article165 1949-09-01 3 A TWENTY-TWO year old New York divorcee is seeking $1,500,000 damages for injuries she suffered m a private plane crash, contending that the pilot was drunk. Gloria Gerstman filed the suit m the United States District Court, naming Samuel Poole Jnr., Florida, Air Force Captain,165 words
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Article77 1949-09-01 3 HUNGARY has rejected Britain's proposal for a mixed Anglo-Hungarian Commission In investigate British allegations that Hungary has broken the terms of the peace treaty A Hungarian note said Hungary haJ always fulfilled all the term? of the Hungarian peace treaty that there was consequently no dispute77 words
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Article27 1949-09-01 3 Australia is searching the world to buy bulldozers and mechanical shovels for the Snowy River hydro-electric scheme, Mr. Nelson Lemmon. Minister for Works, has announced.—Renter.27 words
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Article123 1949-09-01 3 A YELLOW-ROBED Buddhist monk who arrived at Southampton recently on the Queen Mary spent every night of the crossing from New York sitting meditating m a chair m the third class lounge. When the lounge was occupied he used the cinema. The Venerable Lokanatha, returning to123 words
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Article, Illustration228 1949-09-01 3 A THAMES river flotilla sued for peace with Britain's Gilbert and Sullivan fans, and Thames Water Buses, Ltd., agreed to give up their plan to put a big: signboard on top of the Williams Gilbert memorial. The truce was called at a meeting of the228 words
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Article141 1949-09-01 3 Three islands In Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, are for sale for a total of £50,000. One of them, the IU-acre Kound Island, has a modem house and staff tottages. and is connected to the mainland by telephone and electricity. The price asked for this Is141 words
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Article, Illustration44 1949-09-01 3 Presenting prizes at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society's Show, Field Marsha! Viscount Montgomery inspects a fine Welsh Cob, winner of the George Prince of Wales Challenge Cup for the best cob of the Old Welsh type. The animal is owned by Mr. David Lloyd.44 words
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Article33 1949-09-01 3 Efforts by General Claire Chennault to move his China Air Transportation airline from Canton to Manila haw not been successful so far. an m for™ znurra m Manila said. A.P.A.P. - 33 words
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Article147 1949-09-01 3 jpHE United Nations Palestine Conciliation ComI A mission has completed a plan for the internationi alisation of Jerusalem, under which both Arabs and Israelis would remain m occupancy of the Holy City !as they are now but the area would not belong to either of147 words
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Article301 1949-09-01 3 MISSIONARY TASK II T OKI.I> missionary-at-large Dr. Frank C. Laubach of New York, has set about the task of teaching some of Korea's 10,000,000 illiterates to read and write. He claims it is the 193 rd language m which he has attacked illiteracy. Dr. Laubach came301 words
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Article72 1949-09-01 3 AFTER she had advertised the loss of a purse, and had offered a reward for its return, a woman living m a Sydnpy suburb answered a telephone call and was told: Look m your letter-box.' The purse was m tho box, but of the A lBRouter; A.A.P. - 72 words
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Article149 1949-09-01 3 S^EEN and unseen volcanoes play strange tricks m the South Pacific. The latest stunt doubled the size of Matthew Island, a tiny spot on the Pacine. 200 miles east of New Caledonia The change m Matthew Island was found by the New Zealand naval frigate Pukaki. UntilA.P. - 149 words
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Article89 1949-09-01 3 MAN has learned to burn coal underground, giving him a new potential source of energy and fuel m centuries to come the United Nations Scientific Conference was told. The new technique under- ground gratification of coal is now being tried m the United States. Russia. Btlgium89 words
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Article, Illustration32 1949-09-01 3 Dr. M. S. Mehta. new Indian ambassador to the N.v. lands, inspects a guard of honour before entering the Royal Palace at Amsterdam, to present his letters of credence to Queen Juliana.32 words
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Advertisement24 1949-09-01 3 V V. Enjoy the Svveet taste and ff mellow companionship of tNs line Dutch cigar. HAGEMEYER TRADING CO. (Malaya) LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG24 words
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317 1949-09-01 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Sept. 1. 1949 FORGET THE MONEY M u important than the JM charges for water supplies m the Singapore Rural area is the supply itself Too many people still have to depend for their drinking water on contaminated wells and other sources open to infection317 words
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Article283 1949-09-01 4 MOST of Penang's Municipal IT Commissioners seem to have their heads firmly buried m the sand. Instead of welcoming eagerly Mr. Ong Joo Sun's suggestion that a committee should make preparations for popular election to replace the present system of nomination to the Commission they have283 words
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Article, Illustration1124 1949-09-01 4 fHE First European Parliament is a gawky, shapeless infant, making its first tentative endeavours m a harsh and complicated world. It has sometimes been extraordinarily exciting to watch, and sometimes bleakly discouraging. The atmosphere has been strangely variable and very hard to define. At times1,124 words
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286 1949-09-01 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Sense About Rubber IN the first of your leaders on the above subject you refer to two ways In which Malaya could produce rubber more cheaply. I would like to suggest there is a third, and the reluctance to put it forward is quite understandable, inasmuch286 words
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542 1949-09-01 4 GRAHAM STANFORD - Colonial Exhibition Is A Smash Hit' GRAHAM STANFORD. WHEN it was decided to hold a Colonial Exhibition m Oxfordstreet, London, there was much shaking of heads. For what did the Colonial Office Quiz show? That only one person m four knew the difference between a Dominion and a Colony; that542 words
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Article1023 1949-09-01 4 by Politico READING about food is always comforting to a man on a diet. He learns what lie is missing, but he builds up a happy picture for the future, though perhaps psychiatrists will probably write to the editor m shoals to prove it does nothing1,023 words
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529 1949-09-01 4 The Dollars Are Here, Sir Stafford By RICHARD GREENOUGH HAMILTON, Bermuda: IF Sir Stafford Cripps wants U.S. dollars he should come here to Bermuda. Though official currency Is the Bermurtian pound, this is a dual currency island, thanks to the volume of American tourist traffic. Dollars and cents circulate as529 words
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Advertisement10 1949-09-01 4 On* ¥4 OF A Cf*w*yZ /I'/AfL 19-21 H/CN ST., $'PO*e.10 words
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Advertisement76 1949-09-01 4 rniioi ctct r wumrLtit b.^.Rii mH^^^lJ 'HIS MASTER'S VOICE LA TKAViA'IA iV-Uui c 7240 v LA BOHEME (Puccini) n B fA* 1 SSSffi TO ««Sr u > z z z z f I z z B B ii OTELLO (Verdi) Z Z 710V00K S^ WAtS^^ l^ (R StraUM) C tH7/J?76 words
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Article65 1949-09-01 5 I' tax m res- and sweep- curing the first j lai by the Se- Turf Club totalled This is revealed m oi. nt* for the halfn to members yesi of income over! i xoluding provi- depreciation and for the half year 150.76 i. rlub spent65 words
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Article35 1949-09-01 5 The closing date for the receipt of applications foi the 1950 Australian scholarship and fellowship awards to Asian students m the British South-East Asia territories has h**"> r vf parted tc Sept. 5.35 words
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290 1949-09-01 5 S3 000 000 FOR ANTI-MALARIA SCHEME Work to spread over 5 years Free Press Staff Reporter $3,000,000, five-year programme of anti malarial works iiTSingapore, which will entai an expenditure of more than $600,000 a year oi new and existing works from 1950 onwards, ha been approved by the Municipal Commissioners290 words
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Article, Illustration47 1949-09-01 5 > 1 i i «>> lay lor Dance 4. st idi<> hJio will dance at the ioncrrt to be hold at the hinese IM.r.V on Oct. 8. II and 11 m aid of the Cathedral building I \n\, who is 8\ years old iv wea doing a maid's dance.47 words
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208 1949-09-01 5 Temporary clerks' exams 'were rushed Free Press StafT Reporter THE Singapore Municipal Commissioners will know when the examination papers come m whether they have rushed the temporary clerks' examinations or not. The examinations are to be held In the Municipal Offices today. This was the reply given by the Municipal208 words
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Article, Illustration27 1949-09-01 5 An aerial view of the new MessageriesMaritimes liner La Marsellaise as she is put through her trials. The 16,000- ton vessel is due m Singapore on Saturday.27 words
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Article323 1949-09-01 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent trttmu v YA h& LUMPUR, Wednesday. gUFFOLKS and Police killed two more of the Kajang Gang yesterday afternoon when they contacted three bandits at Broga, 26 miles south of Kuala Lumpur. A civilian was killed m the battle. A carbine323 words
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120 1949-09-01 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A LL members of the Ceylon Pioneer Corps serving m Singapore will have left by next Christmas, an Army spokesman told the Free Press yesterday. Six hundred and eleven of the 1,748 Ceylon Pioneer Corps personnel m the Colony120 words
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Article48 1949-09-01 5 Sir Angus Gillan, until recently head of the Empire 'Division of the British Council and at present visiting Malaya on his way to Australia as chief representative, will broadcast about the work of the British Council from Radio Malaya tomorrow at 8 p.m.48 words
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Article320 1949-09-01 5 Free Press Start Reporter 'VyHAT is more pressing and vital than water, f? medicine and schools? We submit that these are three essentials worthy of the Immediate attention of the Government." This statement was matie to the Free Press yesterday by the chairman of the320 words
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Article43 1949-09-01 5 MAIL S Surlai c mulls are expected to reach Singapore today from North Borneo, Labuan. Brunei, Mlri, Australia and Slam. Closing times for posting surface malls at the 0. P.0. today are: to Pontianak: 10 a.m and to India, Pakistan and Indo-China: noon.43 words
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Article350 1949-09-01 5 F. P .M.i l.tj Correspondent "rpHE best thing that can JL happen to Malaya is to make al 1 who live m Malaya to feel that their first loyalty Is to this country, so that whg.+. Dato Onn advocates for the Malay; Is really the350 words
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Article241 1949-09-01 5 THE proposal by the Over-sea-Chinese Banking Corporation to donate out of its I profits $100,000 to the University of Malaya Endow- ment Fund was sanctioned at i the Bank's annual general meeting yesterday. The managing director, Mr. Tan Chin Tuan— who Is one of the241 words
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Article195 1949-09-01 5 WE are English, and we always have been English, and It's because we are English, we demana the right to be Burgundians" is one of the dellciously Illogical comments of a character m 'Passport to PlmUco" (at the Pavilion cinema) It Is this BTitlsh cftaracteiistic195 words
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Article253 1949-09-01 5 Rent motion to come up again HPHE Singapore Chinese x Chamber of Commerce will hold an emergency committee meeting today to review the resolution adopted at its committee meeting on Aug. 24 suggesting a maximum increase m rentals on dwelling houses m the flve-to-20 per cent, bracket to 25 per253 words
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Article153 1949-09-01 5 ted F. P. Shipping Reporter rpHE largest liner completed A m France after the war, the 16.000-ton La Marseillaise will dock at Singapore on Saturday morning with 400 passengers, the most important of whom are Kin? Sisavong Vong, ruler of the State of Laos m153 words
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Article390 1949-09-01 6 Suggestions at S.M.C. meeting Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S road users would not learn how to 0 use the road, but must be told what to do; m ot*-er words, they should be told to "pakai kepala" ("use your head"), said Mr. Duncan Robertson (Prog.390 words
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Article, Illustration35 1949-09-01 6 picture. A close-up of the armament on one of the new Daimler j armoured cars attached to the 4th Hussars in Kuala Lumpur. The armament consists of a two-pounder and an automatic Besa.- Army P.R.Army P.R. - 35 words
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511 1949-09-01 6 gdflklkgflkf.ldf.kkdf LONDON, Thurs A NOTE of caution was evident m the London Stock Exchange yesterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Reports of Russian troop movements on the Yugos- i lav border created a dullness that enveloped all sections. Markets opened on a quiet- ly firm511 words
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Article196 1949-09-01 6 nOKN today, you have a great deal of originality an* will push through you r MttM no matter what the opposition. You believe m them implicitly and often resent the fact iha* the world is not as ouick to recognize your capabilities, as it should be. You196 words
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Miscellaneous116 1949-09-01 6 MdntlrdkS Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya fliOVie -'THg MAD SCteNTISrTB IMY DEATH ftA*/ IV/R£ft TO [I UxC^J I OONALO/ II I Mill IMI Mil I', hinl v mmMmmhbmJß USB IT NOW/ NO ONE CAN f—^ KASfr 1 (TMQudHT YOUOIEO IN PICTURE "^ME. LET'S fS T«/S NOW--cjcA/fl.rf^AZB-YOU'uP STOftMI-_M116 words
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324 1949-09-01 7 This morning's trial sprints Free Press Racing Correspondent IZAISERINE and Cabaret (31. In 36 2/5), Fine Feathers, Shawford and Stymie (4f. m 49 4/5 and 3f. m 36 4/5), Last Double and Trousers (3f. m 36 3/5) were outstanding on a very fast track at324 words
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Article, Illustration40 1949-09-01 7 SCARLET TIGER II (on the rails). Just gets his nose m front of Charlemagne to win the fifth race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Scarlet Tiger II paid the highest dividend of the day ($77). Abby Kay (No. 4) was third.40 words
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Article103 1949-09-01 7 DLAYINO over his own i course, Charles Ward, one lof the seven British Ryder I Cup golfers taking part, 1 smashed his own record ty I two strokes with a 96 to lead the field at the end of the first round of the Lotus 1.500Reuter - 103 words
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Article55 1949-09-01 7 MACDONALD Smith, for 40 years one of the world's great golfers, died yesterday at Olendale, California, from a heart attack. He was a native of Carnonstie, Scotland. Mr. Smith, who was 59, had been In 111 for years, but had (kept up his golf, playing55 words
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Article67 1949-09-01 7 YESTERDAY'S Rugby league reft suited were: Lancashire Cap (Ist Round. 2nd 1*1): Barrow 7, Wldne* 5; Leigh 38, Liverpool Stanley 7; Oldham 19, Wlgan 9; Rochdale Hornets 5, Belle Vue R. 5: Swlnton 23, White haven 2; Warrlngtoo 17, Salford 2; Worklngton T. 7, St. Helens 4.Reuter - 67 words
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Article414 1949-09-01 7 Fulham gain first win in Div. 1 vyiTH the season leu than fortnight old only two football league teams Bury and Bradford City are now without a point. Three teams previously pointless broke the spell yesterday. Newcastle gaining a convincing 4-0 win over Everton. Ipswich taking full point* from BristolReuter - 414 words
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Article109 1949-09-01 7 IN a game of badminton played at the Hospital Assistants' Union Hall, the Medical College Union team defeated the CUE (N&E) Sports Club by five games to one. Results were (M.C.TJ. players mentioned first) J. Supramaniam beat Vincent Gomez 15-4, 15-11; Chan Kami Chuen beat109 words
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Article62 1949-09-01 7 T*HE following will represent Nee 1 Soon BP. m a return friendly badminton match against the Merry Union BJ». at the Happy World covered stadium at 7.00 p.m. today: Wee Teng Hoe, Sallah. Bak Chua, Slow Watt Peng, Chia Eng Ouan, Oeorge Tan, Lim Ong Huat, Ong62 words
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Article24 1949-09-01 7 'J'HE Tiger Swimming Club will hold 'Swimmers' Day* at the Haw Par swimming pool, Paslr Panjang Road, at 3 p.m. on Saturday.24 words
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Article, Illustration23 1949-09-01 7 picture. SHINING WILLOW. (Mawi op) winner of the fourth r»r» at Bakit Tiraah, is led In by Mrs. B. S. Chua.- Free PressFree Press - 23 words
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259 1949-09-01 7 TEN HUTTON, Yorkshire and England batsman, established himself as the outstanding batsman for the second season m succession when he became the first player to complete 3,000 runs this year. He reached this aggregate, for the first time m hia career, during a brilliantReuter - 259 words
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Article246 1949-09-01 7 BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES ALTHOUGH the date of the S.A.B.A. championships :x has still to be Axed, a good many of service boxers have started training, with the hope that should they put up a good show m the S.A.B.A. championships they might be chosen to represent246 words
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Article532 1949-09-01 7 Tempest scores maiden win HEMPEST, a five-year-old Australian gelding, scored his maiden win at Bukit Timah yesterday. Results m brief are: Big Sweep Total Pool: $191,041. Ist. Prixe: No. *****1 ($85,968). 2nd Prize: No. *****4 ($42,984). 3rd Prize: No. *****0 ($23,880). Starters ($2,985 WMfc): Nos. *****9, *****8, *****4, *****0, *****4,532 words
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Article176 1949-09-01 7 SKEE KIEGEI. yesterday established himself as a firm favourite for the United States amateur golf championship when he eliminated Prank Stranahan, former U.S. and British champion, by 3 and 2 m the third round. In a match followed by a gallery of thousands, Rlegel played a brilliant outwardReuter - 176 words
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Article60 1949-09-01 7 'J'HE Victoria School will pUy a cricket match against ihe Malayan Airways on the School ground on Saturday. The following win represent the School: V. X Phandy. Balakrlahnan. Tan Sooo Lock. Tan Soon Hock. M. Fernandes, P. F«rnandei, H. Singh. Mendl*. Mohd. Amln, Quan Joo, MahadeTan, Reservwi:60 words
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Article404 1949-09-01 7 Gaucho has makings of a champion Free Press Racing Correspondent rpHAT smart three- year-old Gaucho has all the 1 makings of an up-and-coming champion. He chalked up his third victory m six outings at Bukit Timah yesterday and it was a splendid performance with 9.0 m a pretty smart field.404 words
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Article53 1949-09-01 7 CERVICE sportsmen from Belfium. Prance, the Netherlands, Great Britain and probably Greece will take part m the fourth annual competition for the Britannia Shield during the Battle of Britain week from September 12 to 18. Comi>etitiOH will be held In boxing, fencing, shooting, swimming «.nd cross-countryA.P - 53 words
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203 1949-09-01 7 Drobny in 3rd round of U.S. tennis JARO6LAV DROBNY, voluntary exile from Czech-Slovakia, yesterday defeated Hugrl Stewart of San Marino, California, 4 6, 6 4. 6 3, 6 2 to enter thn third round of the United States tennis championships. Earl Cochell beat Buddy Behreksi (USA) 6—l, 6 3, 7—9.U.P. - 203 words
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Article60 1949-09-01 7 H MALCOLM, the South Hampstead batsman, scored 150 not out for the i Club Cricket Conference m I their one-day match against the New Zealanders which ended yesterday m a draw at Guildford. Conference scored 217 for six wickets declared, and the New ZealandersReuter - 60 words
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Article33 1949-09-01 7 TN a friendly soccer match played x at Farrer Park ye«t«rday. Indonesians beat the Coleman Street XI by one goal to nil. Indot scored the only goal of the match.33 words
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Advertisement98 1949-09-01 7 CAPITOL Phone 5159 NOW SHOWING 4 00, 6.30 930 p.m. V^Steup SATURDAY M'NITE UHDOJH NANCY Z. SCOTT KELLY CESAR ROMERO IJP^ BINNIE BARNES JHQI JOHN CARRADINE^LITTLE THEATRE, ARMENIAN ST. A HUNDRED YEARS OLD" R^ S iV J A. Quintero s<pi Ird. t.th. 7th. Bth. "th and I'Uh at X.30 p.m.98 words
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Advertisement101 1949-09-01 7 IT'S HERE! ITS ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL! IT'S MAD! IT'S HILARIOUS! IT'S CRAZY! ITS A GRAND TONIC! OPENS TODAY ilMf 11 Mf^l 'a air CONomoNCDi v> 2-4.15-6.30-9.30 p.m. PHONE 6903 mum u«R mu**n 4 MtCHjm. micom moovlinh STANLEY HOLLOWAY HERM lONE BADDELEY MARGARET RUTHERFORD PAUL DUPUIS n PASSPORT to PI MLI101 words
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Article169 1949-09-01 8 HUNAN REDS RESUME BIG PUSH WASHINGTON, Thurs. AS the large Communist forces m Hunan resumed its drive toward the Kwangtung border to loin m the all-out Red push into the main Nationalist province, the U.S. State Department yesterday strongly protested to the Communist leaders m Peiping over the continued detention169 words
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Article52 1949-09-01 8 CAPETOWN, Thurg. SEGREGATION has been officially introduced into Capetown post office, where notices dividing counters into sections for whites and non-whites are being displayed. There has been no disturbances. It is part of the Government's announced programme to bring about segregation m all sr 1 w AfricanA.P. - 52 words
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Article244 1949-09-01 8 S. KOREA FEARS INVASION Urgent plea for U.S. aid who said m an interview WASHINGTON, Thursday. A MERICAN-sponsored South Korea feels she is m imminent danger of large-scale invasion from Communist-dominated North Kjorea and has asked for speedy American military and economic aid to meet the anticipated onslaught. This appealA.P; Reuter; U.P. - 244 words
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Article, Illustration51 1949-09-01 8 This young man, equipped with waterproof cap, bamboo pole and lifebelt ventures forth m his "old tub" on a trip along Rue Bourgeat. m Shanghai, where miles of streets were inundated by the worst flood to visit the city. The tall building m the background is the Cathay Mansions. A.P.51 words
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121 1949-09-01 8 CANNOT DEAL WITH CHINA REDS-BADGER SAN DIEGO (CaU, Thura. A MERICAN businessmen m i\ China have found they cannot deal with the Chinese Communists, Vice-Adm. Oscar Badger, who was relieved on Saturday as Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces m the Western Pacific, told a press conference after arrival hereReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 121 words
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Article272 1949-09-01 8 LONDON, Thursday. ORITAIN'S trade union leadership yesterday 13 warned its 8,000,000 strong following that any departures from the Government's present policy of moderation and restraint m making claims for increased wages would be "disastrous." For 12 months the Trade Union General Council has been probingReuter - 272 words
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Article82 1949-09-01 8 'J'HE New York Stock Exchange finished fractionally irregular yesterday although the composite average rate showed a very small gain. Trading was extremely restricted throughout m view of the prevailing domestic and international uncertainties. With little to feature the market prices by noon showed fractional variations both ways.Reuter - 82 words
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Article33 1949-09-01 8 A new permanent exhibition of the life of the Indian and the Indonesian peoples opened yesterday m the Leningrad museum of ethnography, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. ReuterReuter - 33 words
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Article70 1949-09-01 8 CHICAGO, Thurs. ATOMIC scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have developed a method of protecting animals from death-dealing doses of radiation. Laboratory tests have shoun that 70 to 80 per cent, of the mice and rats treated with cysteine, which is manufactured from horsehair or70 words
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Article155 1949-09-01 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. MRS. JOAN THOMAS, of Wales, has written t 0 the 1 New York Times, denying that the British are underfed and expressing disgust at the letter one Miss F. Tennyson Jesse recently wrote to that paper alleging that for 10 years BritonsU.P. - 155 words
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112 1949-09-01 8 Girls' second break from 'dungeons LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas), Thurs. ANOTHER mass escape has occurred at the Arkansas Girls' Training School where former conditions were described recently by a circuit court judge as "comparable to medieval dungeons." Eight girls broke out after smashing two dcors m the main dormitory Six ofA.P. - 112 words
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170 1949-09-01 8 STRASBOURG, Thursday. npHE Economic Committee of the European Consulx tative Assembly yesterday called for lower U.S. tariffs to help Europe avoid economic disaster. It also urged the 12 European member nations to make their currencies interchangeable and to combine into one preferential tariff area.U.P. - 170 words
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Article38 1949-09-01 8 A Chinese naval vessel struck a mine ten miles down-river from Canton while escorting a merchantman through a pirate-infest-ed stretch of the Pearl River last Sunday. The ship was able to limp back to Canton.38 words
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Article16 1949-09-01 8 Australia may buy petrol from the Soviet Union, it was day.- A.P.A.P. - 16 words
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Article96 1949-09-01 8 THE Bangkok Ministry of the Interior has announced that, instead of deporting undesirable aliens, which might affect friendly relations between Siam and other countries, Siam will send them to mountainous, isolated Petchaboon Province, m the far north, for detention. Forced settlement of the outcasts m Petchaboon willA.P. - 96 words
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Article166 1949-09-01 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. rpHE U.S. Navy's spectacular— and suppressed— x aerial reconnaissance photograph of Washington taken from a Banshee jet fighter 48,846 feet above the capital was found on public display yesterday m a restaurant. Taken with a new high altitude Navy camera, whose details areU.P. - 166 words
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Article308 1949-09-01 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. /COMMENTING on the reported massing of Russian forces along the Yugoslav frontier, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said that the U.S. Government was closely watching the StalinTito feud and that the American, British and French ambassadors m Belgrade are m constantReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 308 words
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Article59 1949-09-01 8 ALL ten members of the crew of a giant U.S. Navy flying boat died m a crash into the ocean two miles southwest of San Diego yesterday. Only one body was recovered floating m the wreckage which spread over an area of 300 yards. The 30-ton,A.P. - 59 words
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Article168 1949-09-01 8 KARACHI, Thurs. TTHE Pakistani Foreign i Minister, Sir Mohainmad Zafrullah Khan says that "a sense of futility and frustration prevails among the members of the United Nations Organisation," who are beginning to lose faith m collective security. If this feeling should be allowed to continue,A.P. - 168 words
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Advertisement454 1949-09-01 8 BIRTH COOK On 31.8.49, at Penang Maternity Hospital, to Mollle, wife Of .T. Cook, Dept. of Agriculture, Aior Star, a son. DEATHS MORTON, G. M., Assistant Twining Rubber Plantations Ltd.. only son of Col. A. D. Morton and Mrs. Morton, as a result of a car accident on the TaipingTroQf454 words
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Advertisement292 1949-09-01 8 MRS. F.D.R. HITS AT ROBESON M wq n?o E^nI 0 ?v K> ThUrS can Ne^°es to take the offensive KS. Franklin D. Roosevelt m the colour question and to iu>e said yesterday that "I orce to defend themselves against disagree violently with Paul vlolence °y whites. Robeson," but she would292 words
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Miscellaneous10 1949-09-01 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 4.18 p.m. Tomorrow: 7 15a.m: 534 p.m.10 words
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