The Singapore Free Press, 3 September 1949

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA <o. 17,569. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    reds in canton in 2 Weeks
    296 1 reds in canton in 2 Weeks Regroup for last drive HONG KONG, Saturday. JJONG KONG observers predict that Canton, Chinese Government emergency capital since the capture of Nanking early m the year, will fall to victorious Communist armies within a fortnight. In Canton itself, Nationalist military sources say they could
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    KASHMIR HOPES IMPROVE
    128 1 KASHMIR HOPES IMPROVE York, Saturday. O:;.SM Is gr owing tig high United NaMfflcials for a successor c to the latest >ring about a set- i the long-dead-I indo-Pakistan dispute Kashmir. i Foreign Minister. ir.mied Zafrullah Lid m Karachi last that hfc country would iv .arable considerathe appeals from Truman and
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    Flood menace wanes in Japan
    84 1 TOKYO. Sat. mHE threat of a major flood 1 disaster following the recent typhoon waned this is the rain-swollen north and east of Tokyo ceased rising and streams the city began to sub- newt brought hope and millions of Japanese Yd sections of eastern Tokyo
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    NEED FOR LOCKS
    25 1 The m Ministry of .'i try yesterday offprizes of about 50,000 for the bt'st of ladies handbag 9 n Ibag lork. U.P
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    World Y.M.C.A. chief in S'pore
    84 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE work the V.M.C.A movement was doing m the world, by breaking down barriers between different peoples, was spoken of last night by the president of the World Alliance of Y.M.C.A.s. Mr. John Forrester-Paton, addressing more than 150 guests at a
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    Don't use them change them
    217 1 Don't use them change them Free Press Staff Reporter AT A BIG Singapore bank yesterday morning I asked for a dollar's worth of one-cent coins and got sixty of the post-war square ones, thirty old round Straits Settlements cents dated variously from 1853 to 1897, live British North Borneo cents,
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    U.S. POLICE ARREST STUNT JUMPER
    53 1 Jack Niles, 23. who parachuted off Golden Gate Bridge. New York, last April, did a repeat performance on Wednesday off George Washington Bridge above Hudson River. Niles floated dovvn 225 feet to the water and swam about 200 feet to New Jersey shore. wher- fl
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    World rice control to end
    36 1 T'HE international conx trol and allocation of rice will end on Jan. 1 next year. This was decided m Washington today by the Rice Committee of the International Emergency Food Council.
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    KING OF LAOS IN SINGAPORE
    58 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KING Sisavong Vong of Laos In Indo-China and Queen Kham Fan arrived m Singapore this morning m the French liner La Marseillaise which is on her maiden voyage to the Far East. The King and Queen are returning to Indo-China after
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    PLEA TO PORTUGAL
    36 1 The National Congress party of Goa. the 1.500 sq. mile Portuguese territory on the West Coast of India, has appealed to Portugal to "quit the settlement forthwith," New Delhi WoHir» rannf+ari day.- Reuter
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    LORRY GOES OVER WHARF
    104 1 LORRY GOES OVER WHARF Free Press Staff Reporter A THREE -TON lorry, fully loaded with the baggage of Chinese deck passengers leaving Singapore for Hong Kong m the Anhui. ran into the sea at the West Wharf this morning. The lorry driver Jumped out just before it fell Into the
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    Barbados typhoon
    30 1 Seven persons were drowned and 27 houses smashed on Thursday as the tail end of a hurricane struck the British Coiony of Barbados off South America. A. P.
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    South Borneo strike may end today
    193 1 BANDJERMASIN, Saturday. r rHE general strike m Bandjermasin, South Borneo A capital of 100,000 people, entered its third day yesterday with hopes that it will end when Maj.Gen. Suhardjo meets the guerilla leader, Hasan Basri, today. Dutch observers m Batavia claim the strike is
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    HK-Korea trade decreasing
    82 1 HONG KONG, Sat. LOCAL businessmen foresee drastically curtailed trade between Hong Kong and Communist North Korea m the coming months. They say local trade with North Korea, which reached the peak m volume m July. Is tapering off and will be negligible m, probably two months time.
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    'Killed with kindness'
    28 1 The Burmese Foreign Minister. V. E. Maun*, returned m Rangoon ypsfcruay Tom Britain and the U.S.A., where he "was almost killed with kindness." A. P.
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    TONY ZALE DIVORCE
    34 1 The wife of former world middle-weight champion Tony Zale filed a suit for divorce m Crown Point, Indiana, yesterday charging Zale with "cruel and inhuman treatment which impaired her health.— U.P
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    Strauss has relapse
    30 1 Richard Strauss, world famous German composer, was reported yesterday to have suffered a relapse m his heart illness and to be m danger of dying.- A. P.
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    GURKHAS KILL LABIS BANDIT
    182 1 Free Press Staff Reporter /^URKHAS operating m the Labis ana of Johore opened fire on two bandits yesterday. One was shot dead. The other escaped. Another patrol of Gurkhas operating nojth-east of Tenang m the Segamat area lo- cated and destroyed a bandit camp. In an
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    Trade talks in jeopardy
    172 1 £100,000,000 PACT LONDON, Friday. FUPLOMATIC officials said today that Anglo- Russian talks for a one-year trade pact involving nearly £100,000,000-worth of business are near breakdown and that the negotiators were said to be trying to salvage a series of separate deals out of the negotiations. Under
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    NO S-E ASIA PACT YET
    65 1 PARIS, Saturday. THE French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, revealed yesterday that he and the United States Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, would review a "vast range of problems" when they meet In Washington later this month. He told a press conference that there
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    TAXI DRIVER ROBBED
    75 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE taxi driver early today fought and escaped from two Chinese who posed as passengers and tried to rob him m Kirn Keat Road. In a second case, a Chinese passenger ordered a Chinese taxi driver to drive from Bukit Timah to
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    Man fined £337,500 appeals
    273 1 Man fined £337,500 appeals CALCUTTA, Sat. MR. S. K. GHOSH, lor- mer chief administrator of the now extinct Burma Refugee Organisation, has appealed to the Calcutta High Court against sentence of five years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of E337,500 (or one year's •igorous imprisonment m lieu of the fine).
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    U.N. DECISION ON COLONIES
    67 1 The United Nations special committee on non self-gover-j ning territories yesterday »p--i proved an Indian proposal asking countries which have not yet sent information I about their colonies to do so m future. The resolution was pas>rd Iby five to three, with In Epypt, China, the
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    Rubber prices
    56 1 A srtllAL Market rorrcp .11 lent gives the priMi ol niMel (In cents per Ibj at II am l«4aj a» follows: Buyers Sid.ik No 1 X 1. 1 Spot: loose ..37 37 F.o.b In oales S4 (»t NiIRSS. 37 :c. No. 2 R.S.S. ISM 13 No. 3 K.S
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    They Risk Their Lives For A Flower
    404 2 They Risk Their Lives For A Flower THOUSANDS of chil- dren are risking their lives m the mountains of Switzerland this summer and all for the sake of a tiny, white flower. The flower is the world famous "Edelweiss," queen of alpine vegetation, which grows m an altitude where all
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    Breaking The Ball
    110 2 Fbowl the off-spinner the ball is held largely between the first and second nngres and resting on the ball of tbe thumb. The ball is spun by the index finger, which should bt- pressed on Oil seam. When delivering the bail the hack of the hand should
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    140 2 "lough Penny was disappointed tt.nt her pet monkey could not go to the seaside with her, she wat cued because «*t* «v Rom* on <<oi<day. Kom tat and watched ncr out h«r bucket and> «p*«t He wo rattier tad, at the tota him <bi--jt the lun it would La »n
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    Mouse-deer caught in a trap
    903 2  - Mouse-deer caught in a trap UNCLE GEORGE Page For Children By "U7ANG LI has a cup made from the horn of a white rhinoceros," volunteered Amat. "He sells drink from it for ten cents. It cures people's headaches. Is a rhino horn cup worth a lot of money, Radin?" "It
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    SWIMMING LESSON—12 They learned in 5 days
    273 2 SWIMMING LESSON— 1 2 They learned in 5 days By WINIFRED GIBSON IN the summer of 1948 an educational experiment was carried out to discover how much a school child could learn about swimming m five half -hour lessons m the water and to record the details on a film.
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    18 2 Young Fred Derkj o; U.S.A. crosses the line ah+at of the Cleveland orroit entries to kit, American scupbo-
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    COWBOYS USE PLANES NOW
    513 2 MODERN cowboys ride the range from the cockpit of a single engined monoplane. The grandsons of the hard-drinking, fast hying quickou-the-draw frontiersmen have traded m their shooting iron for a station waggon. The horses are no longer between their legs but beneath the bonnet of a
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    STAMP CORNER
    145 2 OUNNY Monaco, six miles v of holiday land between France and the Mediterranean, earns a lot of money from Its stamps. Now it has issued a set of 14 to commemorate Prince Albert, a sea-loving ruler who left the sun to bunt whales m the Arctic. Albert, who
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    Build A Pet Mice Home
    183 2 Build A Pet Mice Home HAVE you thought ing pet mice 0 young readers Charmian. and J wood, of Oxton, ne. head offer you thf-. We give our mv and milk, oatmeal and some greens In di from a discarded dot. set. Cheese is bad for coats, but they like
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    Puzzle Corner.
    23 2 A blind beggar had a sister 1 never had a brother." sairi the sister. Who was the beggar? Answer: Her sister.
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      27 2 Perfumes by CHANEL YARDLEY SCHIAPARELU COTY FORVIL GOYA MORNY Obtainable from The Singapore Dispensary 265, ORCHARD RD. TEL. 8O9Q( PUTS f§jSs«^ ITS SPARKLE into every occasion IWATER
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      203 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACBOgS.— 3, Oracie r ■■nfTMg^'C" I U I Fields made her famous. 6, Lead- IJBLJHLJZ—^JL—^J ing Tory MP. 7, England's only |J poisonous snake. S, Metal mixed I (j with rock. etc. 9. Male of the b Lmd LmJ honey bee 14, Rodent related to L —^J
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    TIGER OF MALAYA RAILROADED?
    409 3 TIGER OF MALAYA RAILROADED? Trial is now called 'farce' A CRUSADING young lawyer who as an army captain defended General Tomoyuki Yamashita, has charged that the famed Japanese Tiger of Malaya was railroaded to the gallows m a "farce of justice as flagrant as the Mindszenty trial." Although his famous
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    Blockkade of S'hai blessing in disguise
    131 3 -ilist blockade of Shanghai and other -occupied ports of North China may d<- a blessing m disguise for China's Itl :r m Mao Tze-tung down it the fact that their crenf all Western influence from China. Or.- tbc Party 5 primary Klnu is to
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    Skating for G.I.s
    22 3 1p r-nnel 3in will probably I and < orapany lini a rtafe The th- *>p«.r:land .ma. trmti tteaka and A.P.
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    SAIGON WOMEN NOT TO DIE
    9 3 SAIGON WOMEN NOT TO DIE pron sen ten iri
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    Gandhi killers to appeal
    77 3 4 LI the Ac -urr. c r.'.s for tht pcittlaa I r Council bj Nanifi Godse and Narayan ":>. sentenced to death for UMMMttDMtUm of Oat r.ox with the L-ondon Lcttors handling the ap- peal. Th* petition is expected to be ta the next fortr Commenting
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    2,000,000 Israelites in 5 years
    71 3 2,000,000 Israelites in 5 years RABBI Israel Goldstein, of New York, predict that the population of Israel will reach 2.000 000 m the next five years. "'I: ~s :1: :ha: -.here is room. with proper economic topment for foot r .illy he told reporters. Israels present populate is 1 000.000.
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    5 police escape Soviet zone
    139 3 A GROUP of fire armed members c! the Soviet id police era the United States Zone near Hoff recently to escape be jig recruited f:r military j.' With the Corr-rr. it..:'. guerilla form .n Greece an Amen?j.r. Military QofCTßment spokesman m Hcff sa:i rtly The
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    New 'jets' to perform soon
    228 3 New 'jets to perform soon BRITAIN'S latest jet planes will perform this month from this historic airfield at Farnborough. England, where pioneer bailoonists flew long before the Wri?ht Brothers. The Society of British Aircraft Constructors will display the latest fashions m airplanes for both j peace and rear during their
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    Accused of breach with Iraq. Jordan HI ZAIM
    348 3 Accused of breach with Iraq. Jordan HI Z AIM 4 MONG the causes of the military coup m Syria £m second within four months— when Coloner Husni Zaim was shot were opposition to Zaim's financial agreement with France and fears of a breach with France and fears of a breach
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    U.N. HEALTH TALKS POSTPONED
    72 3 U .N. HEALTH TALKS POSTPONED THE United Natksni Regional Health OrtVlftM- meeting scheduled tr> start m Cairo on Sept 12 has been postponed by a decision of high quarters." -veil Informed sources mid .r. Cmlro recently. The p- s*^ n m nt -s br- d to btr connected with I
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    Korean- for
    48 3 Mr Cheung Ku Kung. depvtj lOnlstex or Agriculture and Forestry anci Mr Che Kvu Kar;. chief of itM I 2dr-:n:itra:::n section, i:av--1 been named Korean delegates to :h* Far East Asia Food and Agriculture Council In Singapore on Sept. 26-30 the Korean Government announced recently A.P
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    Solution To Crossword No. 732
    5 3 Solution To Crossword No. 732
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    Europeans quitting S'hai
    210 3 once the most prosperous city of the Far East, has deteriorated so badly under three months of Communist rule that the bulk of its foreign community wants only to get out. This is according to Captain C. A. Roussett. a Soviet citizen who has arrived m Hong
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    AIRWAY FOR KENT?
    106 3 k> application to bu>ld an ele^atfd air-speed railway acros* two milfs of Belvedere Marches is bein? considered by £rith. Kent, C ouncil. The lSrmie Air-Sp-ed service, who recently proposed an air-railwa> will he used for demonstration and tes* purposes and will Le •"on of the hi?hli«Tit> of
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    U.S. TIN SUPPLIES
    148 3 THE DA m Depart- men* said total stocks of tin m the United States I 30 were* 73.044 ior.g mpai id with fi? 6&5 tons on December 30. tS4B. In a report *o Cov.gr the Qofcnußc&t export control ar.d allocation powers the Deparuner.: said tins import In
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    SPOIL SPORT
    27 3 AFFICIALS Of the E v State b York have order N aged 23 U l chir N.. Br:c£ cr:b^c fa for a more sr- UP
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    Bridge Hands
    121 3 :>N"DS ire •.r-rr.p* iMdi N IB I -ire to x-.- e- of tiie rt .iTv defence. BREXJE PROBLEM SOLUTIOti Bamti bcwi r^JT; x::ri tiie OBaOt Mrth ratam a «p«^e v»h.«- I ■aar.« N* ?w If Ea^t returns a .ruirr xir^ with the :&~.t as-c leads h list hear*.
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      24 3 TRANSPORT STORAGE LTO. mONAL FREIGHT FORWARDERS 173, CECIL STREET, SINGAPORE. GOING ON LEAVE? STORE YOUR FURNITURE CAR WITH US PHONE 6577 Director: ROSALD PEEK
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      27 3 ytflkdrltklkdrlkrklre -oAJ>UR£ and 41.7 metres. news from ILL. ai 10 a.m mtiAi 1 C 2 Serenaders I <fc W 1 b-: U .vries Taxi Dar.ce A of
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      77 3 •-r.e :ux:es you have asked p'av. 8 Pencils Please: The second of a new series of this ;> quizz programme; 815 Haii^ar. MeLodie^: 8 30 The Missir^ Bm 845 Albert Sandier Orcr.-?i:ra 9 Four Comers A pro^r*r-.^:e of Heirs «fc stori*i from H ""^r UN »:rld. 915 Dance 9.45 >rrous
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      284 3 Mju-ket Repon. 500 II bej 5 M -Pia.; I Er.gL^ii 13 Great IMWVIMi 6.00 Ught Music. 615 -World AiTau-s BBC I.M Nevs IB Car.tone^e E3C f45 Indon^lar S«?i-s is Prc*rrarr.rr.* T 15 N- i .r. FrT.-h BBC' Ens -j gp^aif for Ifysrlf oy John New^oc. Er. j U BBC 8
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      143 3 FJP. Crossword No. 783 I |2 j 13 j IT""] 15 I 16 I x ";f fc I j %t ,2 1 lb 2b 27 W'Wft IT" i-i 1 1 n niiii i 1 Aisocut* m wcrk •12 .s^. 9 Ca'.'^ei^an 13 Level <4>; 15 Fooiish (s>; i 6 Uncommon
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  • The Singapre Free Press SATURDAY, Sept. 3, 1949.
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      AFTER TEN YEARS
      638 4 TEN years ago today Great Britain entered World War II on the side of the democ I tic nations embottled against the threat of polio- state domination. HiNeritt. Germany then stood fci all the horrors of rt gimentation and subs' -vierc- to the ideal of th itatc
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    The Neighbour Russia Respects
    1018 4 Ward Price At the end of his Asia-to-the-Arctic tour along the frontiers that touch the sprawling muss of land that is Soviet R ussia t h c Frontiers of Fear. Ward Price talked witji Moscow's smallest but toughest neigh- bours, the Finns. PETSAMO, Finland: STRONGEST of
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    A BEECHAM OVERTURE
    107 4 SIR Tnomas Beecham a I fe* hours before con'iurting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival gave a virtuoso performance as a commentator on: BRITAIN. We are broke—! write that down and underline i three times. The rountry ha^ gone to pot. We have n? moral
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    POCKET CARTOON OSBERT LANCASTER
    41 4 POCKET CARTOON OSBERT LANCASTER Govaness gracious, 61 bongo, now many ttmes have I told you that t* we wish to do our bit to hefo the sterlino bloc we can no longer exvect to have our tourist trade and eat it?"
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    WITH THE RAINS COME THE BANDITS
    653 4 WITH THE RAINS COME THE BANDITS By J. L. HAYS ERITREA: AS the grey rain clouds deepen over this former Italian colony— ruled by Britain since our East African victory of 1941— British officers are studying a huge map on the wall of a closely-guarded office m the six-storey-high headquarters
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS Globe-trotter From Hollywood
    619 4 PEOPLE MAKE NEWS Globe-trotter From Hollywood jyjK. U. E. Houghton, now m Singapore, has gone round the world three times and is still moving. "As a foreign representative of the Paramount Pictures," Mr. Houghton said, "My job is to get m touch with publicity agents everywhere and advertise our latest
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    The Waves That Rule Britannia
    329 4 The W aves That Rule Britannia fllK seas thai sur. I round the British 1 Isles are eating it 1 away. Every yeai 180 I acres of Britain slip 1 into the shallow North I Sea And yet the Brii j Isles are getting la For the sea gives I
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      37 4 r There is a feeling of restfulness throughout JC the house. Worry and anxiety have given >o Look at him! All chuckles and chubbiness brimming with health* happiness and vitality. D^FOOD o/°RQYAL BABIES agents:. JACKSON CO., LTD.
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    S.M.C WANT $3,750,000 U.K. GIFT
    300 5 S.M.C WANT $3,750,000 U.K. GIFT picture New abattoirs, infant clinics Free Press Staff Reporter PROPOSALS for a gift of $3,750,000 from the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund to finance certain Municipal projects m Singapore are being considered by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Free Press understands. If
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    BANKRUPT TWICE
    64 5 A man with ten children, Ismail bin Abu Bakar, asked Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley, the Chief Justice, to make him a bankrupt m the Singapore Bankruptcy Court yesterday. Ismail was already an undischarged bankrupt, paying $10 a month towards debts incurred m his previous bankruptcy. The Chief Justice ordered
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    57 5 Mr. Mrs. N. N. Leicester after their Vtfiaing at the Singapore Registry office yesterday. Mrs Leicester, the former Mrs. Alma L. George, is the daughter of the late Mr. C. W. Mitchell and Mrs. E. 1. Mitchell. Mr. Leicester is a Solicitor m Singapore. A reception was held after the
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    Turf Club mirrors for women punters
    231 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TPHI Singapore Turf Club is not forgetting its women members m providing additional amenities at the grandstand. It proposes to install mirrors m the lifts for their use. "The ladies may like to look at themselves and titivate, hence mirrors
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    Donations to Bovs Town
    87 5 TDg recent dona- the building Town, which is stablished to provide an elementary education and vocational trainMr boys who would tiOt learn a irade, _l the present tcr.al to I iO: Mrs. T. A. 1100, Sng Soo I, Tan Ah Chua $30. H 0 W8 Tun
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    D.C.M. FOR TROOPER
    142 5 A TROOPER of the 4th Hussars has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. He is Trooper William Frederick Alden. He was one of a crew of an armoured personnel carrier that was ambushed while patrolling the Kuantan-Jerantut road. The carrier driver was shot m the head and
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    THEFT CHARGE
    26 5 TELUK ANSON, Friday.— Ahmad bin Mohammed Arshad was remanded In custody on a charge of stealIng a pair of trousers from Choo Seng Ngot.
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    Sewerage system needed in Johore
    240 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE KAURI. Friday. QXE of Johore's main needs, from a public health viewpoint, is a sewerage system m place of the present method of disposal of nightsoil by buckets. But, like many other major projects m the State, this has to
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    New Brother schools plan
    145 5 THE Congregation of the Brothers of Christian Instruction of St. Gabriel plans to establish more schools m Singapore and the Federation when members are availaole from Canada for teaching. The Congregation, wh.c.i has its chief centre m St. Laurent. France, at present conducts two schools m
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    DR. VICKERS ON ANTI-T.B. DRIVE
    315 5 AUT-PATIENT attendances V by tuberculosis sufferers iii Singapore hospitals and clinios hove gone up more than six times the pre-war number and are still going up Thi. c fact was emphasised by the Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers, KftlcE h* opened the
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    Bankrupt has 3 wives
    102 5 THE Chief Justice, Mr. Jus--1 tice Murray-Aynsley. put m a word for a bankrupt with three wives m the Singapore Bankruptcy Court yesterday. A TJie bankrupt, A. S. Sultan Abdul Kader, a former tongkang owner, said his salary was $300 a month and it cost him
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    Y.W.C.A. Flag Day-Sept 10
    136 5 1K£ c ress Stafr Reporter HK Young Women's Aisocintion is holding its Fla-> Ilav on Sa.urday. Sept. 10. Collectors will be stationed m the morning at various points m the city to sell flairs. The Flag Day is bein? organise.! under the paronage of Mrs. P.
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    NEW POSTS
    45 5 SEGAMAT. Fri. Tuan Haji Mohamed Noah bin Omar, District Officer, Segamat, and President of the Town Board is leaving shortly to become President of Religious Affairs, Johore. Inche Abdul Rahman bin Musa, at present Administrative Officer, Pontian, will succeed Tuan Haji at Segamat.
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    MAILS
    37 5 Surface mails are expected to nrrive here today from Java Closing time for posting surface malls at the G.P.O. today are: to India Pakistan. Indo-China and Sarawak: noon, and to Terempa, Siam and Sarawak: 6 p.m.
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    Sir Roland'S plea or University
    220 5 WOULD say to any true friend of Singapore, lend X your support, your influence and your goodwill to the furtherance of the project called the University of Malaya." This appeal was made by Sir Roland Braddell, president of the Friends of Singapore, at the society's
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    AVIATION POST
    21 5 Mr. H. I. Wetherell, Operations Officer. Department of Civil Aviation, has been appointed to act as Chief Operations Officer
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    $37,000 BREACH OF TRUST CHARGE
    58 5 SEGAMAT. Fri. The former manager of Tong Le° Estate, Bekok. was brought before the Segamat Court charged with criminal broach of trust m respect of over $37,000 realised from rubber sold from the'i estate. Accused. 42-year-old Khoo Khee Choo claimed trial. Police opposed bail and
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    UNESCO DECISION & STORE
    194 5 UNESCO DECISION STORE Free Press Staff Reporter IINITED Nations EducationU al, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has decided 10 appraise all Governments of the need to introduce school courses on the protection and conservation of wild life and natural resources. There has been no specific move m Singapore, however, for such
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    $ 1,000 GIFT
    17 5 1,000 GIFT The S.H.B. Staff Association has forwarded a cheque for $1,000 to the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
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    HARDSTAFF REACHES HIS 2,000
    371 6 Warwick set stiff task l OE Hardstaff and C. B. Harris added 89 for the fourth wicket before Nottinghamshire declared, leaving Warwickshire to get 289 m a possible 185 minutes m their county championship cricket match yesterday. When Hardstaff reached 51 he became the third batsman
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    JAP BONDS RISE ON PEACE PACT HOPES
    477 6 Reuter LONDON, Sat. OUYING of Japanese bonds and a subsequent rise m values provided a feature m the London Stock Exchange /esterday, says Reuter's financial correspondent Hopes of early peace treaty i discussions put a spotlight on outstanding Japanese liabilities and encouraged a
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    179 6 DORN today, you are very observant and have excellent judgment. You have been given mechanical ability and ar artistic, literary and philosophical. In faci, the stars have given you a multitude of talents which ra 1 be used to forge a real and lasting success m life.
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      147 6 MdlidrdkG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Mnl (lyQ N^l^^l |-"CALLEO*THE MAD SCIENT/ST.* I1 1 DO GET MAD,FO'JR Oft HE HAS AI OH, DEAR WHY AM I c /V?S^l N^tXl NAROA WASN'T SO SURE SHE WANTEO FIV£ TIMES ADAY,WHENj -BEARD-' SILLY JIT WAS ONLi A y UELLO UOWUI PROFESSOR
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    CROYDON HAS BEST CUP CHANCE TODAY
    348 7 CROYDON HAS BEST CUP CHANCE TODAY Reuter photo Kaiserine and Stymie safe bets Free Press Racing Correspondent fROYDON is at his peak and I nap him to win J the Liberation Cup for top class sprinters at Bukit Timah today. Rodgers' connections seem pretty confident of Bright Eyes' chances and
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    ARMY RUGBY All the latest selections
    40 7 ARMY RUGBY All the latest selections of tbj Singapore f) Rucbv Footd at Fen Can- r Robertson- ;tod chairman R Uawt- a^ the honll Capt A •..i committee J. MooreCol si.ddabv, Mrl s L c Dillcn, and R SM C
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    P. Brani beat S.C.C.
    115 7 IN a game of missed chances, particularly by the losers, Pulau Branl United beat the Singapore Cricket Club In the senior division league at Jalan Besar yesterday by two-nli Mat Nor, the veteran "wizard," showed flashes of his old brilliance, and his opportunism and that of
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    Max Faulkner wins Lotus golf tourney
    138 7 MAX FAULKNER, one of the youngest members of Britain's Ryder Cup team, yesterday won the Lotus professional golf tournament with a 72 holes aggregate of 277 at Little Aston, near Birmingham. Faulkner played the most consistent golf of the competition with rounds of 69,
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    123 7 TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RAC. I JOXLANO^ JUTLAND S Precle- Street freele,, Stre^. 5^e?.C»U EACE I STYMIE STYMIE STYMIE STVMIir Teberrw U»*le Willie Lerd Frederick immaVL _S__s_S Leri FieAertcfc Debra__^ DoW?^ M S < 2L? AIAANT S2 < S! fc ALLANT LAST DOUBLE RACE 4 BHAWFORD FINE FEATHERS
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    TURNESA BEATEN
    43 7 RUFUS KING of Wichita Falls, Texas, defeated defender Willie Turnesa two and one yesterday and meets Charles Coe of Oklahoma City today for the 1949 U.S. Amateur Golf Championship. Coe eliminated William Campbell of Huntington, West Virginia eieht inri seven.- A.P
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    BOYS' BOXING
    42 7 rr»HE Inter-boys' clubs boxing tournament will be held at St. Joseph's Institution at 6.30 p.m. today. The programme of nine fights Includes an exhibition bout between Jimmy Archer (bantamweight champion 1948> and Halim (Katong Boys' club flyweight champion of Singapore).
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    Doncaster Cup
    43 7 SPHERE are nine acceptors for x th<? Doncaster Cup to be run over two miles and a quarter at Doncaster on Sept. 8. They are Alycidon, Slue Coral, B. Vulgan. Turmoil, Two Admirals, Ald borough. Harlech. Siam and Alin drake. Reuter
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    New jockey
    25 7 Colin Tulloh, one of the loading jockeys In West Australia vi4> be coming out her* 1 shortly to ride lor Trainer Jimmy Martin.
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    Dr. Lim wins chess title
    313 7 THE Singapore chess championship tournament which was completed recently, was won by Dr. Lim Kok Ann who became the first winner of the Urn Boon Keng Cup. Dr. Lim scored 8# pts. out of a possible 10 and there was a close finish for second
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    Another feat tor Close
    133 7 QRIAN CLOSE, the IS year -old Yorkshire all rounder, y eater day became the youngest player m history to complete the double of 1.000 runs and 100 wickets when he had scored 19 runs In Yorkshire's second Innings against the M.C.C. Close Is also the youngest
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    U.K. soccer fixtures
    230 7 Following are midweek English League football fixtures (or next week, from September S to September 8 Monday, Sept. 5: First Dlviaftoa: A*ton V. v Portsmouth; Blackpool v Newscastle; Bolton y Derby; Burnley v Stoke. Srcood Division: Cardiff C. v Hull; Sheffield U. v Leeds; Tottenham v Sheffield
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    Colonials C.C. XI
    81 7 (X>LONIALS C.C. Cricket fixtures for the weekend are: Today against 223 8.0.D.. at the B.OX>. grounds. St. George's Road: Chopard (capt.). Woodford Miller, A. Fernando, Mlcklethwaite. Humphries, Donaldson, Thiyagarajan, Lee Serg Kirn, Boudvllle. Jansen. Taylor. Tomorrow against R.A.P. Bembawang at Sembawang. Transport will leava the Colonials' Chummery
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    Tanglin tennis
    48 7 The following are the results of ties played yesterday m the Tanglin Club tennis tournament: Men* h'cap doubles (Semi-fi-nals) Fay and Capt. J. L. Whitmore (-30) beat Johnson and Guest (+4) 0-0, 6-1; Maj. Dawe and MaJ. Greenwood -4) beat Mathieson and Grace 15) 6-2; 6-1,
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    Brough, Hilton in U.S. semi-finals
    277 7 CiAVOURITE Louise Brough rallied m the final set to enter the semi-finals of the United States tennis championships yesterday, beat ins: Beverly Baker, 6—l, 2—6, 6—2. Britain's Mrs. Betty Hilton, top-seeded foreign entry, put on a brilliant rally to oust Gertrude "Gorgeous" Gussie Moran m
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      902 7 DELOW is the card for Bukit Timah today, the third 1J day of the Singapore Turf Club Autumn (Gold Cup) Meeting. The Double Tote will be on Races 5 and 8 and the Big Sweep on Race 7. Tiber has been scratched for all engagements. Race 1 2.15: Class 2,
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      21 7 TODAY'S TIE Today's tennis tie at 330 p.m.: Handicap Mixed Doubles. Droogleever and Mrs. Nasslm r. Lieut. Odr. and Mrs. Hearn.
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    BIRTHS
    56 8 WISHART: Td Betsy, wife of Noel Wishart, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on September Ist, a daughter. HILL: To Joy, wife of Austin Hill, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on Ist Sept.. a daughter, Pamela. Both well. PEARCY: On Sept. 2nd. 1949, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Spore, to Esme, wife of
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    DEATH
    239 8 MADAM ROSALINE Teo Siew Nex> (Kuru) passed away peacefully on 1.9.49, at her residence, No/ 190-A Kheam Hock Rd.. Spore. She leaves behind sons: Tay Kirn Teck (John), Tay Swee Teck (Michael), daughters, daugu-trvs-in-law. sons-in-law many grandchildren to mourn her los*. The cortege will leave 190-A Kheam Hock Rd.
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    UNIVERSITY TUTORIAL CUSSES
    75 8 UNIVERSITY TUTORIAL CUSSES For the Senior London Matriculation inter Arts, Law, Economics Commercial subjects. Latin. Frenrh nnd Malay. Business Training or Prof?ssion is the Weapon for Economic Independence and Security. Instruction given by Cambridge University Graduate holder of Master of Arts degree and titleof Bachelor designate m Arus and Law
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    TITO ENDS PACT WITH RUSSIA
    333 8 Red attack fears grow LONDON, Saturday. gALKAN tension has been further heightened by Yugoslavia's action yesterday m ending her sea and air agreement with Russia as the Cominform journal reported that Russian satellite countries would give "total support" to a revolutionary movement m Yugoslavia led
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    54 8 photo Many women were among Greek guerillas captured m the Vitsi Mountain battle m which the rebels suffered an estimated 5,000 casualties. The blonde seen on left with other prisoners said the guerillas forcibly recruited her and the others, but she stayed behind to surrender when the rebels fled before
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    ASIAN ANTIRED PACT PROGRESS
    124 8 MANILA, Sat. THE Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Felino Neri, said yesterday that preparations for the formation ol a south-east Asian union against Communism "are proceeding according to schedule," and preliminary steps already have been completed. President Quirlno said that the Philippine Ambassador to the United
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    N. KOREA TOLD TO ATTACK?
    83 8 SEOUL, Sat. RELIABLE sources here say that the Russians are demanding return of weapons loaned to the North Korea Communists unless they invade the Southern Republic by the end of this month. A U.S. Embassy intelligence officer said the report was "possibly true." He said
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    NO PROOF HE WAS JAP SPY
    83 8 MANILA. Sat. THE Supreme Court here, reversing a lower court decision, granted Filipino citizenship to a Chinese resident of Cebu, Jose Co who, it was alleged, had collaborated with Japan during the occupation. Ths L'.wer Court had ttfmttird that Co complied with naturalisation requirements
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    Chinese Reds accuse Nehru
    94 8 SHANGHAI, Sat. THE Chinese Communist news agency charged yesterday that "British and American imperialists and their running dog," Pandit Nehru, are plotting a coup d'etat m Lhasa for the annexation of Tibet. The agency said Tibetan authorities m Lhasa under foreign instigation, had shut Lhasa's telecommunications
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    EVATT MAY NOT ATTEND U.N.
    36 8 An Australian Government spokesman said yesterday that Dr. Herbert Evatt. President of the United Nations General Assembly, was not expected to attend the Assembly meeting at Lake Success on Sept. 20.
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    KILLER OF DOLLFUSS DIED REPENTANT
    118 8 ROME, Saturday. /YTTO WAECHETER, Nazi S.S. organiser of the assassination of the Austrian Chancellor, Engelbert Dollfuss, expressed to a priest his repentance before he died, II Giornale d'ltalia reports. Waecheter died Thursday m Rome, where he had been hiding for the past three years. He
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    German's 'Bell of Peace
    117 8 WHEN a former German officer apologised, at the Moral Rearmament conference m Switzerland, for the wronss Germany had done to Poland and returned a soinenlr bell, the Polish delegate deeply moved, embraced the German and expressed the hope that the gift would hprome "a bell of
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    Muslim nations bloc own plan
    237 8 KARACHI, Saturday. THE first international Islamic economic conference, scheduled to meet m Karachi on Nov. 25, will study proposals for the establishment of a Muslim World Bank, an Islamic Monetary Fund, an International Islamic Chamber of Superintendents for certification of cargoes, collective development of ammunition
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    SCENTING TROUBLE
    46 8 COPENHAGEN, Sat. A IRMAIL letters which arrived here from Paris yesterday bore a delightful and. unmistakably feminine scent. To protect innocent husbands from suspicious wives, the postmaster hastened to announce that a bottle of French perfume had broken m the Paris mail sack- UP
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    Chu Teh thanks US & Russia
    139 8 Chu Teh thanks US Russia BUCHAREST, Sat. GEN. CHU TEH, supreme commander of the Chinese Communist armies has attributed the Red victories m China to Russian aid and to American-made weapons. He made the statement m an article m the Cominform Journal, organ of the International Communist Information Bureau, but
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    U.S. GENERAL'S GRIM ASIA WARNING
    148 8 U.S. GENERAL'S GRIM ASIA WARNING LOS ANGELES, Frl LIEUT. -GENERAL Robert L. Eichelberger, former commander of the U.S. Eighth Army In Japan, said today of Communist moves m the Orient: "If I were a praying man, I would be praying." He made his remarks Just before he took a plane
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    Council of Europe to admit Germany
    243 8 STRASBOURG, Saturday. ENTRY of Western Germany into the European I'liion m the near future is indicated by disclosure here yesterday that the General Affairs Committee of the European Consultative Assembly had agreed unanimously that the Committee of Ministers should consider the question of admitting
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    Swiss prepare for air raids
    38 8 BERNE, Sat. THE Swiss Federal Council has decreed that all buildings put up under government licence m towns of more than 1,000 people must m future be fitted with air raid shelters.- Reuter
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    N.Y. STOCKS IRREGULAR
    78 8 New York Stock Exchange closed irregular yesterday vath mostly fractional changer and th» composite average rate unchanged. Host of the list was fairly steady during the morning. By noon prices showed mainly fractional variations both ways with losses slightly m the majority. While most issues fluctuated narrowly
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    ROBESON TO HOLD ANOTHER COIN CERT
    32 8 Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, has announced that he will give a concert tomorrow a mile from where a riot broke up his meeting last week.
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    BELGIUM RECOVERY
    31 8 An ECA official returning from Belgium to New York said yesterday that the country had made the most advanced recovery m Europe and no longer needed American aid. UP
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      61 8 THE SAINT by Uslie Charteris PBBBHBBHBIHBr yea- that's r L g- -c^ g^.,-^ ac tj I and i a- _c various 5-a^<s s«^- ,^c< s:w M~l 50-^^s LIKE A WHAT IT 1 oo' r v ""O OO \&O ABOUT TUgiR Cw\ BJ5 1 -i A=s ES^ "-E Cr"_^_A 5-A3<s -<E
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      10 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 7.18 p.m. Tomorrow: 10 a. m; B.43pjn.
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      Masthead
      7 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine SEPT. 3, 1949.
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      Through one Chinese ghost month.
      502 1  -  KATHARINE SIM by Al-GUST, the Se- v ciith Moon, is as everyone knows the .id of the Hungry s the month when the Rates of hell open and the lost, iwned, unhappy or >'olenl spirits are ivk'iised to wander i( the earth. the night of
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      SINGAPORE'S MOST POPULAR FRUITS
      521 1  -  MARIAN WELLS by FARMERS with smallhol ding s usually grow fruils which find a popular sale m the everyday market. They do not compete with those dusuns where proves of mangosteen, durian, and rambutan trees provide owners with near-fortunes m the season. Smallholders prefer to rely
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      ....AND INTO ANOTHER
      571 1  - ....AND INTO ANOTHER HUANG HSIEN-SHENG by [IS an interesting thing, this study of the Chinese calendar. The 7th Moon the Ghost Month has passed, but we now enter into what is called the "intercalary 7th Moon", another Ghost Month. Theoretically, all the festivals In the 7th Moon are repeated m
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      The Sunday market
      470 1  -  KATE KENNY by YOU may not be able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but you can get them both and anything you want, from pigs to puppies, from a needle to a haystack (if you have any use for it) at Penang's
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      HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint
      77 2 HOLLYWOOD Several of the currently fashionable st> lings of Hair are ones which sweep up and away from the tin. and leave these features revealed. This is all well and good if your ears are attractive, fcjt the fact remains that those of 4 great many women
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      PRIVATE LIVES Googie, The Girl With A Twinkle
      927 2  - PRIVATE LIVES Googie, The Girl With A Twinkle Iris Ashley By "WELL, I was christened Georgette Lisette she said m answer to my question. 1 said they were very pretty names. "Umm, but not so good with Withers on the end," said Googie Withers. For a long time now I've
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      TAMED!
      41 2 GOOGIE is level-headed, when John McCallum, after months of pleasant comradeship, proposed marriage, she said carefully. "Let me have three days to think it over. 11 Three days later, she accepted during an interval of "The Taming of the Shrew."
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      33 2 Th e old, old story? Whatever it is obviously Dorothy Lamour doesn't believe what Bob Hope is telling her. They are on the set of "Typhoon" m ichich Dorothy costars with Robert Preston.
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      YOU FEEL SUCH AN AWFUL FOOL
      241 2 YOU tell yourself impatiently, "ITS ONLY A FILM But the lump m your throat gets bigger. You frantically try to imagine the scene being shot Continuity-girls, clapper-boys, cameramen, crowding round, chewing gum. You feel such a fool. But the tears will come. You know
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      CLAUDETTE LEARNS JAPANESE
      111 2 CLA UDETTE LEARNS JAPANESE TWO top actresses have taken up foreign languages one for the sake of her art, the other for the sake of her dogs. Claudette Colbert has joined Jason Lindsey's Japanese class so she can learn to pick up her cues *n the movie, Three Camo Home
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      A Film Typhoon
      276 2 A film typhoon can be aimost as terrifying as the real thing. For "Cargo to Cape Town now being made m Hollywood the 82 -foot steelribbed, steel-plated replica of a ship was balanced on a 20-inch steei ball bearing, and tossed and heaved about by hydraulic jacks
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      BRITAIN FINDS A NEW STAR
      785 2  -  LOSES HER —AND From our London film reporter A LITTLE while ago Hollywood completed a iilm called Malaya. I don't know what it was all about but it ought to be good, for Spencer Tracy and James Stewart, two of the stars, rarely figure m
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      If You Want To Win That Man...
      343 2 STAY out of the moonlight, girls, if you want to win that man. Moonlight m the park or woods or on a deserted street any- t where but on the water —is the worst possible light for romance. It has a ghostlike quality,
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      Advice To Girls On "Dating"
      136 2 PARLEY GRANGER, leading contender the No. 1 Hollywood b spot just vacated by -L Stewart, gives advice t on dating. Young Granger is no g hand m this department H has dated Ava Garci: Shelley Winters. Gerald! Brooks and Ann Blyth. "The first date is
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      LUCK WASN'T WITH THEM
      1132 3  -  y NAN HALL Mr. VINCENT by PIVE elderly Europeans are among Ihe 25 inmates of the Social Welfare home for the destitute m Queen Street. All are educated men have known more int days. One was a salesman, one a broker, was m the retail trade,
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      Canada doesn't fear a slump
      464 3  -  Porter by DOWN m the United States everybody fears a slump. In Canada that dark prospect haunts no one. The Dominion Government m Ottawa, the ten Provincial Governments m their separate capitals, and every city and township council, keeps "on the shelf" work finding projects
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      The Malay belief in invulnerability
      987 3  -  L.H. LEE by RECENTLY, we read m the newspapers about the Malay bandit leader, Wan Ali, who boasted that he was "king of the invulnerable cult" and that he could only be killed by a silver bullet. However, this menace to society met with the
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        122 3 What are the features of the Ounlop FORT* that make It world famous t Handle It t Feel the deep felted cover. This s~4ki -v new fabric Is woven so that 80% of th« nap-forming yarn goes on the face of the cloth —the face that has to stand the
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