The Singapore Free Press, 4 October 1949

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA In. I"- 595 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY* OCTOBER 4, 1949. PKII X 1* b.StS
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  • 278 1 HK business falls off Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE trade m American luxury goods bought from the Hong Kong market will be hard hit as a result of the rise m the free exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar and U.S. currency. Prior
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    27 1 The Sultan of Kelantan presents a Harl Raja cake to A.S.P. Che Wan Ibrahim, who is receiving it on behalf of Kelantan police force and Malay Regiment
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  • 59 1 BIG FALL IN U.K. GOLD AND RESERVES LONDON, Tues. <r Br. ish Labour Govern--1 rlsis piling [H> Mil anBe iek another It and dollar re iv drag the 300,000,H yesterday. I r of the Exd Crippt, H '..inouncement or as at the end o' leh tke ad•i at the naJ
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  • 41 1 has asked •:.> rev- ship H HI Plan offl- ported to be h n koi waj made m b y Ambassathe Soviet n KOW on j «ed by the rday i X b ill R 8 'ithern J with a Kunsan,
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  • 34 1 IM Mud on a Id. Second Police was stabbed m lN h n( s ualk►ur| this morniken to the hospital KM came to wrested a man. took place »wd of 50 people
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  • 99 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE ban on car parking m the centre of Coilyer Quay came into force at 6 a.m. today. All private cars, taxis j and motor cycles may henceforth use the Clifford Pier car park, but will have to park only In the
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  • 27 1 The Va r nasumi Mam arrived at Mnizuru Honshu, yestrrday from Dairon. "arrying the second batch of 1,754 Japanese repatriates from Communist- held Manchuria. U.P.
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  • 248 1 WE'LL DEFEND TO END— TITO BELGRADE, Tuesday. \f ARSHAL TITO, dictator of Yugoslavia, m a speech to 600 Yugoslav generals and officers at the end of large-scale manoeuvres, said yesterday that the Yugoslav army was prepared to defend Yugoslavia "until the last breath and regardless when the attack comes." Tito
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  • 72 1 DRITAIN is building a v pipe-line under the ocean to dispose ot radioactive wastes from its new £8,000,900 atomic station at Sellafield, Cumberland. The Ministry of Supply, which directs British atom research has confirmed that the pipe-line, shielded m lead, is being constructed from the Sellafield
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  • 34 1 Several new kinds of postage stamps will be issued for Japans •'Postal Week" which will be held m November to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the International Postal Communications Agreement Reuter
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  • 123 1 LONDON, Tuesday. T»HE Metropolitan Police yesterday banned all x political processions m the London area for three months. The ban became effective from midnight, eve of a planned march through London's East End by Sir Oswald Mosley's Union (Fascist) Movement. The order was signed by the
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  • 70 1 REX Ingram, a 54-year-old negro actor, was sentenced m Kansas City yesterday to 18 months In a Federal institution for taking a 15- year-old white girl across a state border for <m moral purposes. Last May he pleaded guilty to this and to a second charge of
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  • 71 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Tues. THE Soviet Ukraine yesterday accused the United Kingdom and the United States of planning to divide Italy's former colonies "among a group of Interested States." The Ukranian Foreign Minister Dimitri Manuilsky, told the United Nations Political Committee that the plans advanced by Britain and
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  • 27 1 THE new Hollywood film 1 "Forsyte Saga" has been chosen for a Command Performance before the Kin* and Queen m London on Knr 17.- A.P.
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  • 15 1 Twenty-seven Chinese were arrested for (ambling by the Singapore C.T.D. during the week-end.
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  • 103 1 FORTY horses went to rharch m the English county town of Hereford. So did hundreds of dogs and cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, goldfish, a goose, a cock, a grass-snake, a canary, a calf, a goat and a tortoise. Once a year, the Very Rev. Hen lev
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    57 1 Photo. i-ieven girls who competed for the title of "Miss Singapore 1949" at the Singapore Amateur Weightliftinß Federation's annual championships at the New World during the weekend. Miss Yvonne Peterson (No.l) who won the title, is pictured on the extreme left. Runner-up was Miss Madeleine Ng (N0.3) and third was
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  • 30 1 Since June 1946, 3.150 Greeks have been sentenced to death and 1,223 have been executed for aiding or taking part m the Communist revolt, according to official figures
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  • 256 1 'AFTER CHINA, YOU NEXT' HONG KONG, Tuesday. A xNNOLNCING that the Chinese Nationalist Goveminent has deeded to sever relations with Russia, the Canton Foreign Minister, Mr. George Veli. said his Government feels that the anticipated Kussian move to get China's seat on the Tnited
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  • 46 1 CiONRAD Hinz. a 49-year-old German, was sentenced to 10 years m prison yesterday oy a British Military Coirt Tor espionage activities m the British zone of Germany. Hinz admitted that he collected information on military installations and airfields for Poland. A.P.
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  • 204 1 HONG KONG, Tuesday. AS the I.S. Government prepared to lodge a "strong protest" m Canton over the Nationalist seizure of two blockade-running fsbrandtsen ships oil the mouth of the Yangtse, the local agent for that American line said that a third vessel, the Flying Trader had
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  • 129 1 RUSSIA BE A TEN ON KOREA NEW YORK ItMM. f nHE United Nations P >litical 1 Committee, against So viet opposition, nas deed* d tc keep m being 'ho Unitvl Nations commission on Korea to )bserve and report on arj developments which mi«mt lead to. or •therwise Involve, military conflict
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  • 59 1 AMI. Florida, Mon. AFIRE ate through paper stocks Inside the Herald building last night and firemen predicted it might take ♦wo more days to extinguish it. Fifty -five of more than 200 firemen fighting the blaze were overcome by the fumes. Firemen said it was
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  • 30 1 Sixty-six oils and 67 Iftsw ings by Van Gogii, valuer 1 U. 5.53,000,000. 53,000,000 prr.u-? America Yesterday tor c noil ion m New tfoik and Chicago. A.P.
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  • 171 1 Britain to tackle Jap treaty LONDON, Tues. ORITAIN has detenninerj on a new approach to the problem of a Japanese peace treacy. a Foreign Office ■pokesnmn disclosed last ni°:ht. Usually WtU-tnformed sources believe the policy has been drawn up tn conjunct i with the United States a~d has been agree
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  • 74 1 BUENOS AIRES. I aes. rE Argentine Central B ;>k yesterday reduced its fr-e market value ot the p 0 47 per cent The Bank also co l the decision not to devalue the peso so far as m tt ports to Britain are c cerned. Its
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  • 59 1 A SPECIAL Market t ent gives the prices of r (m cpnts per lb.) at 11 a.m. torfaf as follows: Buyers S" I 1 R.S.S. Spot. loose 43 i -Ji" F.o.b. m bal^s Oct. N«. 1 R.S S. 43' i 13 i No. t R.S.S. 41 4> No.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 40 1 is Cleaning t oi iounts v ivlllM Lpeiiorttf of ire PARIS 4J6 CO. 1J843 I INFOR MATSON LAMB'S LIVER •AMB'S SWEETBREADS OX SWEETBREADS OX BRAINS ARE IM T ENTIFUL SUPPLY AT m|| *m* im ATR|(K'S FOOD SUPPLIES I^^^ORDER DEPT. 5281
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    • 54 1 20 BATTERY ROAD H^* ,^g ll DAI If' fi T% A |*k PARALUX SYNTHETIC ENAMEL t^lS PARAtIN ENAMEL PAINT £lO|fc >/* STRUCTURAI STEEL PAINTS gg FERROL ANTI-CORROSIVE •f&iSTtMfIIRAOf MARK p A|MT ALUMINIUM p A|NT SOLD BY AC,D HES,ST,NO PAINTS If^ASc'p^ }l MARINE PAINTS INTERIOR PAINTS WALLTONE DISTEMPER SOLS AGENTS: MANUFACTURERS:
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  • 623 2 The Erotic American Male RITA CANNON ANSWERS IRIS ASHLEY <it Small hat worn on one side many without trimming •jr Hair very short 'straight— often shingled or Eton-cropped. *jr White collars with small bows— and no more low-cut necklines *Jr Lower and more accentuated bustline— much less uplift Jt Waistline
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  • 114 2 N UPTOWN PUSSY, a seven-week-old greyhound, has been brought up since birth by a crippled tabby cat which is now teaching it to clir-jb trees and catch mice. When the dog was born, Mr. Walter Hetherineton, trainer at Nuptown Greyhound Kennels, Warfie d, Berks, thought it would
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  • 487 2 Some Italian menu tips From Portofino Alexander Clifford sends some suggestions from Italian cooks adaptable by British house- wives ITALIAN cooking, he writes, is based on something every British housewife can get. Its generic name is pasta, and, according to its sb,ape and size, it is subdivided into macaroni, spaghetti,
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  • 146 2 Niemollers down under' PASTOR Niemoller who was imprisoned f or eight years by Hitler is touring Australia at the invitation of the Australian Council of Churches and the Open Air Campaigners, a non sectarian evangelical group. During her stay m Australia, slender, white-haired Mrs. Niemoller wants 10 convince Australian jvomen
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  • 198 2  -  ANN EDWARDS yOUR Autumn Analy- sis m detail, showing how the original New Look (which was broad at the hem and narrow across the shoulders) is slowly changing into the typical 1949 dress broad across the shoulders and narrow at the hem. But don't be
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  • 377 2 AMONG the almond blossom and Shinto temples of Old Japan the beautiful 17-year-old Massa Ilzuka met an Englishman and fell m love. Through "go -be tweens" as decreed by Japanese tradition Morley Weale, resident partner of a firm of mer chants, courted Massa and
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  • 266 2 Housewives Who Boost Exports WOMEN'S Home Industries were begun two years ago to give thousands of British housewives the chance they wanted to help Britain's export drive. Today it's a flourishing business with a showroom m New York and another In London. At the London neadquarters. index cards cover 2.000
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 61 2 Impeccable clothes reasonably priced il far s**^ fyme of today 9 S9 loveliest TERNOON COCKTAIL GOWNS aw 0 Cocktail Cowna from our Gown Department, First Floor. Sizes aro available m 31, 36, X and 40 Bust. ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE SPORE WOW AVAILABLE I ll— —Ml FASHION ABLE EM.IN AWEKKAN COMPACTS
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    • 62 2 i EXPRESS YOUR PERSONALITY IN CORDW Chic and Inexpensive Suits I for the Wintry Days at Home. Doucet G. H. Bldgi 18L, Battery Road. Singapore, ft* nerc's some goj <j ncwsl BisssVrii^vl/ 1 V \r9* *wWe have pleasure m announcing tlu of New Stocks of Miss Arden's prep. All lines
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 31 2 If you fOBBf think that you can makB yourself to distracting,/ beautiful that tha txchanga bloks will abjent-mindedly give us tha old rati, by all msans ha*#« a go." —by SEB
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    • 334 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DO R N today, you have v one of those genial, magnetic personalities. You make friends with everyone and look upon life as an exciting, if not always happy, adventure. You see the trouble and trials but also are able to analyze them and often find remedies.
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  • 247 3 NEW AID PLAN FOR U.K. FIRMS 'Employ more men 9 benefits ACTION is to be taken by the British Government to break the "hard core" of unemployment among men m areas which were selected for development schemes. Too many men have stayed workless m these areas because the new firms
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  • 98 3 Nils inspector who coined the "Overtaker slogan for the town's road safety It was a ffood idea so terse and So did the Middlesbrough (Yorks) i manager. Mr. Frank Lythgoe, who award priic lor it and displayed posters 1 on all his buses. who i
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    45 3 sejf evtrA fri as been m the water P ,a >ed a k-ame or two, and even made himdo until V^ y t wards th visitors at London Zoo— and now there's nothinf to ieeaing time comes around once more. Except, of coarse, to yawn.
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  • 36 3 A petition for the reprieve Df pretty, young Mrs. Margaret Laughlin Williams, senteucad to die for the murder of her husband, will be sent to the Home Secretary, her solicitor said m London.- A.P.
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  • 67 3 THE Barber Steamship Lines 1 have announced the arrival at Baltimore of a new Norwegian motorship, the Pleasantville, the latest addition to its fleet m the Far East trade. The American company said the ship would sail on Oct. 9 for San Francisco. Manila. Cebu
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  • 91 3 UYSTERY shrouds the moveUI ments of a Chinese purchasing mission now m the Philippines, the Philippines Herald says. The group, a five-man Nationalist delegation, headed by Mr. Hong Chiao, arrived m Manila more than a week ago to purchase supplies for Chinese Nationalist armies, the
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    79 3 Model 'jet' aircraft were a feature of the rally held at Radlett Aerodrome. Hertfordshire, by the St. Albans Model Aero Club. Enthusiastic flyers of models saw all types including gliders, 'elastic'-engined models familiar to most children, and others powered by petrol, diesel and Jet engines. Picture shows Ronald Stovold, of
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  • 28 3 Rebel activities have forced the Burmah Oil Company to suspend operations at the important Minbu oilfield on the west bank of the Irrawaddy River. Reuter
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  • 213 3 Lost village found in U.S. 4 MYSTERIOUS ghost village, with the bones of rm humans strewn m its rotting buildings, has been located about 30 miles west of Fort Lauderdale m the desolate everglades a vast sub-tropical swamp near Florida. The Fort Lauderdale Daily News said today three men— Hully
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  • 26 3 Tlv Czech Government has begun wholesale dismissals amonr Foreign Ministry personnel to weed out "political unrellables" and replace them wltn Communist- trained :>eopls A.P.
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  • 28 3 The solution to today's crossword (No. 808) will appear as usual* tomorrow. It is regretted that an error occurred m publishing yesterday's crossword which made its solution impossible.
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  • 188 3 A DEVICE which records radar images and may be developed to record television images on standard sound recording equipment is claimed by its inventor i\lr. James Peaden, 29, a Navy chief aviation electronics technician m San Diego. Cal. Mr. Peadon said the "Video Image Recorder," which
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  • 64 3 A CHINESL repor? from Bangkok says that the Siamese Government has accepted "m principle. President Quirino's invitation to attend a Southeast Asia conference m Manila to discuss closer cooperation on political and economic matters. The report adds that the Deputy Foreign Minister, Na, Potserassln. has
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  • 252 3 FOUR HUNDRED yards from Leyhlll. Gloucestershire's prison -without- bars, convicts from Horfleld Jail. Bristol, are working to turn 60-roomed Tortworth Court into a prison -with-bars. Tortworth Court, set m 500 acres of parkland, was once the home of the Earl of Ducie. The girl left for
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  • 316 3 'THOUSANDS of millions o* dollars worth of surplus 1 equipment has been sold destroyed, put into 'mothballs*', and otherwise disposed of by United States authorities since World War II ended m 1945. Factories, arsenals and shipyards from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the
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  • 27 3 India's rime Pandit Nehru, will arrive la Washington on Oct. ll a President Trunin's quo i a month's visit to the United States. Reuter
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  • 368 3 ~HIS probably will seem prettj elementary to vm." writes a.g.m. of Jersey City, "but it has caused a certain amount of coolness between me and m> favourite partner, who happens to be my wife. Human nature being wh.it it is. my wile refuse! to accent my decision b.nyi
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 122 3 ALBERT SANDLER HIS ORCHESTRA CHANSON DE NUIT (Elgar, Op. 15 No. 1) CHANSON DE MATIN (Elgar. Op. 15, No 2) —DB 2203 FASCINATION (Marchettl) WHEN DAY IS DONE (Katscher <fc de Sylva; DB 2168 OUR WALTZ (D. Rose) EVENSONO (E. Martin) _db 2309 LIFE IS NOTHINO WITHOUT MUSIC (Hartley) TRISTESSE
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 504 3 Wh>*Jk» -<i. 'flat Tmm w* I I I I I A ft l• I I*^l., r^»Tv» SINGAPORE Summary; News Headlines: Share Bill NiTunou Market Report; 5.00 Strictly AUSTRALIA r lw, Ra > Instrumental; 5.15 'Science Re- lfi 1Q i r l °d *1 7 metres vlew 5.30 'In Concert 16
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    • 186 3 F.P. Crossword No. 808 W^~~\ Fl Fl Fl F~ §l i7 ift IP 19 &W- W fl 21 H 22 23 24 25 M CLULS ACROSS 2 Rescued (9); 7 Prolific (4); 9 Made reparation (6;; 11 Get to know (5); 13 Grass (3); 14 Cruel (4); 16 Indian coin
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    • 116 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PAVILION Mystery of the River Boat. REX: Greatest Drama ODEON: Bomba. COMMELM: Quarrelsome II thsr-in-law (C°.ii tooese). CATHAY: The Phantom MADRAS: NUam (Malay). CAPITOL: NUam (Malay). HINDUS. TAN: Hatamtai (Hindi). <EN TRAL: Harischandra (TamU> EMPIRE: Chi'ra (Tamil). PENANG CATHAY: The Ba 1 Lord Byron ODEON: The
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  • The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Oct. 4. 1949.
    • 609 4 OCRAPS of torn-up treaties and denounced agreements flying like snow before the winds of national hatred have tangled into a blizzard that threatens to clog finally and lastingly the working of the United Nations Organisation. Rus fin's break with Canton latest of the storm bla./s to
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  • 1230 4 Don Iddon's Diary HOLLYWOOD: IN the beginning it was all celluloid and capers. I asked for a single room and bath at the Beverly Hills hotel and was allotted a bungalow. I was unpacking my bags when the telephone rang and a husky voice said: "Is the Prince there? This
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  • 350 4  -  PETER FEN TON r pHE dingo is a fierce, 1 wild dog whose origin is obscure. Some zoologists link him with the primitive wild dog of fndia. and they think he came down to Australia as the companion of primitive man. One theory is that
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    31 4 Princess Elizabeth of Hapsourg, daughter of the last Emperor of Austria, leaves the church at Lignere^ France with her husband Prince He nri of Lichtenstein, world's smallest monarchy, after their wedding.
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  • 948 4  - This is not a 'new' Germany Dr. Otto Strasser SAYS (hie of the founders of the Nazi Party tehn fell out with Hitler m 1930 and formed a Right-Wit* movement, the "Black Front." Expelled from the party, he fled to Czechoslovakia when Hitler came to power m 1933. When Hitler
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  • 134 4 S'pore Dogs' Home 'bat hos LETTERS TO THrj, rpHE very depths of bathos, nay stark callous materialism, can best describe the half million proposal of the Municipal Commissioners to build a dogs' home m Singapore. A miserable $114,000 for the human unfortunates, lepers; not much more for the human T.B.
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  • 79 4 hrn **a candid Spring m Bhorthand j* the 12th M note that 01 our h-trd year, the bur] oil and oelriiihortl Hat. ited m F who mu,our utter grim r lowing reas >m-(-1) T of one c r room from which thereby ma to room
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  • 75 4 11 killers no bars to prison QEMOVAI ol prii sent crimes of v: manded by G authori* The count Police C ed io protei Office agal prisoner at I Tta c< mn from tht> C Colonel W F I of th< Who S7SJ of seven v robbery hours, and I
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 16 4 ■> SIL VER E.P.N.S. i I BEER MUGS I U.S.deSILVA: Jewellers B 106 Orchard Rd. Tel: 2466"
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    • 46 4 SMALL MEDIUM OR GIANT PORK PIES The small size is just righl person. The lib size is suitable a small family. And to SfX we w,ll make pie* up to lOlbs but please give us at least T- hourS notice' DELICATESSEN PE?T SINGAPORE m COLD STORAO
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  • Article, Illustration
    42 5 picture. Sl\i AiOK: s champion woman weightlifter, I*j Mins Ho l.ye Ying, and her husband, Mr. Tan Leng Huat. former middleiieifhtliftinf champion, after their wedding ii: SingapwSi Mrs. Tan was last vi;u's winner of the •Miss Singapore" title. Free Press
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  • 94 5 Lotteries: Bishops are silent Vr. Press Maff Report P indications are Ither the Catholic Luglican Churches m ill oppose the idea Ing Government Mice social welhemes. an Bishop, the Ri Uev H W. Baines, told i Press yesterday that txpress an n the matter since ting of Anglican church had
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  • 306 5 SINGAPORE TALKS TOO MUCH Especially on race days Free Press Staff Reporter fOO many people m Singapore use the telephone every day as a medium of correspondence, and when they do they don't know when to stop talking. This was stated yesterday by the general manager of the Oriental and
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  • 278 5 Call to intiest in S.E. Asia T Free Press Staff Reporter HE need for foreign capital investments for agricultural development m Asia and the Far East i s stressed m the report of the Food and Agricultural Organisation meeting which has just ended m Singapore. The opportunities for the productive
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  • 46 5 The British Council has made a gift of 93 books on Municipal matters to the Singapore Municipality. The books, which were specially selected to form the nucleus of a Municipal Lib- 1 rary will be available for I Commissioners and staff members.
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  • 13 5 The police band will perform at Katong Park at 8.15 tonight.
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  • 36 5 Local motor dealers „tre to be invited by the acting Registrar of Vehicles to submit ideas of what they consider would be a properly constructed taxi cab conforming to Municipal requirement.
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  • 130 5 THOUSAND IN LANTERN PROCESSION Free Press Staff Keport ABjiT 1.000 schoolchildren fion about 16 Cmncs. SCilOoJs ir Singapore will takepar* !r a lantern procession organised by the May fair As scci: t.or on the night of the Do 'l j Tenth (O 10) at th. Qrent World Amusement Pari In
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  • Article, Illustration
    43 5 VIAL 1 KEEN Teo, 10, and Teresa Thivy, 8, who will i-Tl perform this Baiinese butterfly danre at a daneo recital by pupils of Willy Blok Hanson's Fine Art <U vtovcment Academy at the Victoria Theatre on Dp«. 1^ 1" n ni 18.
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  • 87 5 SEGAMAT, Mon. Pleading guilty to a charge of desertion a 22-year-old special sergeant Mohamed bin Lambak, was fined $2°o, with the alternative of two months' hard labour While a member of the vigilante force on Sungei Bekok Estate, accused was fr rant »s a few days
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    57 5 pictures. MOON cakes, sweetmeats ir 0111 China, decorated lan- ,em s Pumeloes and ora nges make a brave show at these Singapore Chinatown stalls, which are doing good business as the Colony's Chinese prepare to celebrate their Mid-Autumn Te stival. During this festival, which reaches its climax on Thurstlav rhinoc.
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  • 137 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent C'OKMATION of a consumers association was T advocated by Ungku Abdul Hamid bin Abdul Azia, Lecturer on Economics at Raffles College, when he addressed Johore Bahru CMNO members on the effects of sterling devaluation on Malaya. 3y handing together m such an
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  • 49 5 l-ree l'r«*ss Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Tne contention that the teep belonged to the Singapor Municipality nnd therefor*' was not responsible for licens Ing di not prevent Gopala Pillay beinp fined $40. He) brought a letter f'om the ongineer thai the :e<?p m Y.(.oiy l'r oritur]
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  • 231 5 Free Press Woman Reporter LMFTY children, aged between two and 12 will take part m a 15-minute "Tin Soldier Ballet" which will be one of the items m a Christmas dance recital to be presented at the Victoria Theatre by the noted Continental dancer, Willy
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  • 210 5 Application for Bar admission Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. THE adjourned hearing of the petition for the admission of inche Sardon bin Jubir. of Singapore, to the Bar of the Federation came before Mr. Justice Laville m the Supreme Court yesterday The Judge said that he would give
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  • 18 5 TELUK ANSON, Mon. Mr. H. D Matheson has assumed duties here as the Agriculture- Officer. Perak South.
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  • 38 5 Mr. Clifford Huntsman is giving piano recitals at the Royal Johore International Club at 7 p.m on Saturday and at the Tanglin Club on Sunday at 9.30 p.m Members may take guests to both these recitals.
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  • 47 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.i'hree fresh cases of polio.Myelitis, two m Selangor and one In Johore. were reported during the week ending Sept. °A None were fatal. Ten cases of scrub typhus and five of urban typhus were •ertorrori for the same period
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  • 137 5 rree Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. P»OR the RAF m the Federation, September was the busiest month since the emergency. On 163 areas Dakotas dropped 1,132,250 surrender leaflets printed m Chinese, Tamil and Jawi. Supplying the anti-bandit forces by air was also extended
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  • 56 5 TLLUK ANSON, Mon.— Ismail bin Ilias pleaded guilty to using his mother's identity card by altering her photograph and refixing his own m the card. He was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment and to three months (to run concurrently) for not taking out an
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 175 5 NELL OWYNN CANDLELIGHT \L? %/V %i\<? A ABm\ ~__d_Sfi_l^9fe_w In themselves Nell Cwynn Candles form a lovely adornment to the dining tab'* 3 but light them and see how beautiful is Nell Cwynn Candlelight; soft, mellow and alluring Watch how the silver sparkle^ and the glassware gleams Nell Cwynn Candles
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  • 119 6 rpHE request for details of religion of persons applying for advice on family planning at the Prinsep Street Welfare Clinic Is described as "a little inquisitorial" by a Singapore Municipal Commissioner. Mr. D. Robertson (South Ward). Protesting against this requirement, Mr. Robertson teg that the decision to
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  • Article, Illustration
    29 6 Mi and Mrs. Tan Toon Sen* after their marriage at the hurch of the Nativity m Singapore. Mrs. \g was formerly Miss Hong Mui. Picture by J. Tay e
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  • 390 6 FEDERATION UNFREEZES PRICES Rice will not cost more Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. J'HE Federation Government will lift tomorrow the order "freezing" prices at the level ruling on Sept. 17, but warns that if there is a general and unjustifiable increase m prices it will be necessary to
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  • 24 6 IPOH. Mun. The Chinese Consul. Tuan Hajl Ibrahim T. Y. Ma and Mrs Ma are giving a tea party on Oct 10.
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  • 218 6 NEW TRIALS IN PADI CULTIVATION KUALA LUMPUR M< |>ROMISINO results ob« 1 ed m exp Timents :n hanlcal agriculture dux- tag the past two wirs h ded the Agricultural Department to embark on *l turther series ol »»xperim< m tii»- course ol ie coming p -di planting season Experiments In
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  • 62 6 SINGAPORE Progress Exhibition has been drawing huge crowds at the Happy World amusement park. A park official told the Free Press last night that about 19.000 persons visited the exhibition on Saturday, the opening day. On Sunday, there was also a crowd of 19.000 Up to
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  • 32 6 A Chinese woman, walking along Mohamed All Lane m Singapore yesterday titer*2°», waa stopped by a Chinese youth and robbed of her handbag containing %&Q identity card and other document-
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  • 148 6 Privilege Bill query in Council KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Legislative Council (Privileges and Powers) i Bill, 1948, which seeks among other things to establish the legal privileges of the Council and to give it powers to order the attendance of witnesses and experts, Is being considered "In the light of
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  • 53 6 The aircraft-carrier, H.M.S (Triumph, under the command of Capt. R. m J. Button, R.N., arrived m Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong. The first Indication of the carrier'! arrival m Blngai n was known when 14 Fireflies and Beafireg from the Teasel flew over the island. They were met
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  • 30 6 RAUB, Mon. Phua Slew! Huer. a 17-year-old Hokklen girl, was acquitted and discharged by the Sessions' Court President when chargi d with killing a calf belong- i ing to Perlasamy.
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  • 206 6 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Monday. THE Sultan of Johore today denied the charge made x by Dato Onn bin Ja'afar m his letter of retirement that he was indifferent to the political awakening of the Malays and that he forbade political activities by Dato Onn
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  • 48 6 Imotor cycle RACE WINNER picture. V 1 l Beng Sin. who led from beginning to end to win the Singapore Motor Club's race for motor cycles 351 cc and over at Johore Bahru on Sunday 2 10, Js seen receiving- his cup from Tungku Mahkota. -9 Free Press
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  • 93 6 j«X>UR cameramen of the Malayan Film Unit will film the University of Malaya foundation day ceremony at Raffles College, Singapore, next Saturday. Sound equipment will also be used. After processing here, the film will be flown to London fcr worldwide distribution through newsreels. It is
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  • London Stock Exchange
    • 429 6 LONDON i,, Ptr OVERSEAS buying of British Govern;," »t\ dated stocks resulted m rises up to i oru cent, m the gilt-edged section of the J Exchange yesterday, says Reuters fii M, *k pondent. Advances were* well held I COrres medium and long-dated issues. N l
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    • 22 6 j TRADING Stock. B early dealt] KB* Irregular «nd lng. ICOKt or cancelled The market jwith a pn gain*. Reuter
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    • 70 6 CONCERT TO AID FUNDS L J"lThre Committee. Ramakrishr.:. ch<" vp I c^rt at R 1 on Sur The CO! D^tr' m Ampuan B j the pror. go for a Diatiict I Johore for Thi.^ is !> the lib 1 Indian ci:'/ Singapore 1 mrtnre m J j Anion** i were
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  • 481 7 ALL-S.C.C XV FOR COLONY LIKELY 2 Police players catch the eye By CRUSADER it is still early m the season, indications are that the team to represent Singapore Civilians m the H.M.S. Malaya Rugby competition, which is being resumed this year after a season's lull, will again be an aU-Singa-pore
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 7 picture. M,{> l» ROPES and Sgt. Dowdeswell m a tussie lor the ball m jresteriay*- hockey match between the S.C.C. Women and a team from the Railway Institute. Kuala lumpur. S.C.C. women won 2 l.- Free Press
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  • 171 7 I Free Press Racing Correspondent ANLI a few horses went out to make time on a v rj h «vy track at Penang this morning. Ramillies (Wahab) and Frog (Harper) returned »st time when they ran 3 f. m 39 3/5. Ramillies m front
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  • 70 7 The Municipal Engineer's department will be starting an Inter-Sections football competition for the Municipal Engineer's Cup next week. The present Municipal Engineer. Mr. o. Edmond. had donated the Cup to be competed annually amongst all the staff of the department Including daily Dald employees Mr.
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  • 32 7 'pHE following will represent Singapore Cricket Club at hockey gainst Harlequins on the Padan;z oday at 5.15 p.m.: Browne: Dennis, Tresling; Reymekev, Oecks, Brands; Mclnroy, Tabor Moolenbt'rg, Kuiper, Bell.
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  • 56 7 WALCOTT FLIES SACK HOME I m ivy weight J Walcoit, night- next year. a: rived m London by air lam yesterda* i fear hr j i 'at r Scotland, cnrouta m Cam American heavywei,: .t been touring the conit and Great Britain stnct lata champion Tandberg at Stockholm m with
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  • 46 7 li'- ball Association yester- suspended G. Lowrle. In- in^;de forward now «th Bristol City, for 28 days. i apparently resulted from an on August 27 when then 0 f Newcastle was wfcred off the field at Wolver"on. was later transf^rr^ tn E C'.'y.- A.P.
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  • 137 7 R.A.F. win in last 8 minutes COR 50 minutes of the SA.F.A Community League game between Combined R.A.F. and Europeans at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, a handful of spectators saw faulty passing, miskicking and hardly a suggestion of team work. Then, eight minutes from time, when the scores stood at
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  • 179 7 NEW YORK Yankees. American League champions, are etglrt to five on favourites to beat Brooklyn Dodgers, national leagut winners. m the baseball world series which b'gin tomorrowMany experienced baseball followers, however, give the Dcdeers a good ehanc~ to win. They point out that the Dodfen outhlt the
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  • 99 7 Eddie M iller retires AUSTRALIAN featherweight boxing champion, Eddie Miller, who recently returned to Australia from England, where he was knocked out by Ronnie Clayton m an Empire title bout. has announced his retirement from boxing. Miller has been one of the most prominent boxers m Australia during the past
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  • 552 7 Following are the weights for the first day of the Penang Turf Club Autumn Meeting to be run this Saturday: CI. 4. Div. I— 5H furs. Golden Slipper 9.00 Pilgrim's Way 8.13 Duke San g.lO The Magic Lamp 8.09 Ramillies 8.0? Axad 8.0? Berton
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  • 80 7 IMIE Welsh international soccer team to meet England m Cardiff on Oct. 15 contains only one new "cap" m spite of their three defeats on the close-season continental tour last May. Swansea Town's 24-year-old inside-left, Serine, is the new international player. The team is: Sidlow (Liverpool);
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  • 75 7 -he Tamil Brotbarbood Aaaodanon and the Tiong Bahru Rangers drew two-all m a soccer match v.hich was played at Farr°r Park yesterday. S. Chandra opened the score foi the TBA. Soon In the 10th minute and shortly afterwards scLred the second goal. In the second hall the
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  • 102 7 (JIiANGI Boyi B.P. beat Kulin B.P. Dy seven games to nil m a return badminton match. Results were: Sect Cheng Hua bl John Chan 15-3, 15-6; Wee Kirn ivng bt Edmund Ho 15-1, 15-4; Sani bin Mohd. bt Hussein 15-7 15-2; Quek Yean Chong bt Lim Loo
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  • 41 7 gINGAPORE Cricket Club A XV against R.A.F. Seletar "A" in a Rugby match to be played In the Paoang tomorrow will be: Lines; Oates, Mcintosh. Wylde, Bennett; Fralne, Witt. De Franck, Cocks, Seask, Read, Grt-tat, Killick, Leviseur, Newton.
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  • 20 7 J)UNDEE United beat Hamilton Academicals 4 l m a Scottish League Div. "B"' soccer fl_Lure yesterday.— Reuter
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  • 161 7 pRANKIE BARKER of Los Angeles and other foreign stars advanced easily over the week-end m the men's division of the Pan-American tennis championships being pl.\ved at New Mexico. Parker won his first-round match from Angel Roldan of Mexico 6-2. 6-1 Vladimir Cernik.
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  • Article, Illustration
    25 7 picture, MRS. LANDHOLT, the S.C.C. Women's left- winger, attempts to beat Mrs. Koelmeyer (K.L.) during fh* women's hockey match on the pidang; yesterday.— Free Press
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  • 36 7 picture. l «U >HOLM, the Grimsby goalkeeper, saves from Bainbridge, the West Ham outside- left, who looks like sitting on Chisholm, while the Grimsby defence look on. West Ham won 4-3.— Sport and General
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  • LETTER TO SPORTS EDITOR
    • 356 7 J AGREE with your contention that the important trophy events on the Malayan racing calendar are too closely packed and that our stayers could do with more breathing space. Far too often good horses have been taken out -ISS^SZ "classics" to be kept for
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  • 232 7 Ortiz beaten in U.K. debut MANUEL Ortiz. Mexican hol- der of the world bantamweight title, was outpointed over ten rounds m Manchester last night by Ronnie Clayton, British featherweight champion, m a non-title bout. It was a fine all-action contest m which Clayton's superior boxing skill made him master almost
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  • 73 7 'pHE English Channel provrd too rough for a relay team of the Folkestone Swimming club which attempted a swim on Sunday from Prance to England. Twenty three swimmers wh> took turns m the water covered abort 35 miles, but a strong southwesterly wind blew them far
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  • 35 7 JOHNNY Morris, the Deih\ England inside forward will -emain m a hospital for about "14 days following an operation fo< Tppcndicitis on Sunday Morris collap-ed during a earn.' with Arsenal on Saturday.- A.P.
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  • 68 7 PJOOER DANNISTER. the Oxford mile», said yesterday that he could not run for England at the Empire Games m New Zealand next February. Dannlster. a medical student he could not afford to miss important university examinations «c Wkj due to run the half mile and one leg
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  • 17 7 YESTERDAYS Rugby Union results were: Ebbw Vale 6 Pontjrpool 3: Neath I AtJUSUI 3 Reuter
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  • 13 8 LEUAT.— To Mary, wife of T. W. Legat, on 3-10-49. a daughter
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  • 34 8 KWA—LIM. The engagement is announced between Mr. Kwa Soon Chuan. fourth son of Mr. Mrs. Kwa Slew Tee and Miss Ivy Lim Scok Cheng, second daughter of Mr. «*j Mrs. Lim Chong Pang.
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  • 28 8 THE MARRIAGE of Miss Ho Sock Chan of Singapore, and Cesar Aglugub. 3rd officer of M/s Bradeverett took place at the Hongkong Registry on 25th August 1949.
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  • 310 8 Crucial battle this week HONG KONG, Tuesday. LARGE formations of Nationalist fighters and light bombers are ceaselessly carrying out round-the-clock attacks on endless columns of motorised and marching Communist forces entering into Kwangtung Province from Kiangsi and moving to the Kwangtung border from Hunan Province.
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  • Article, Illustration
    78 8 "Abanaan Hope All Ye That En'.er Here" is the ironicwarning over the entrance to the jetty of Messrs. Thomas Ward, shipbreakers of Ivorkoithing, Scotland and so far as warships are concerned, the phrase applies down to the last rivpt. Picture shows smoke billowing from the boll of H.M.S. Rodney as
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  • 118 8 WORSE THAN FIRE CHaBA, Tues. TIRE-WAGON driver Shigeo Kiyomiya responded to an alarm yesterday and caused more death and destruction m this city than is caused by the average Are. On his way to a fire In a warehouse, he lost control o. his wagon which: Killed a four-year-old girl
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  • 99 8 ROME. Tues. COUNT ENRIED PIETRO chief architect of th» Vatican and supervisor of excavations under the BasiDca of St. Peier. said yestertay that discoveries thus far had "definitely proved the site of the tomb of the Apostle." However, he denied ail knowledge of the reported discovery
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  • 162 8 Reds plan E. German Govt. LONDON, Tues. WELL-INFORMED sources here believe that Russia is organising an East German Government to rival the Bonnbased West German regime. They express the view that the Soviet's week-end note to the United States, Britain and France protesting at the formation of this "puppet State"
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  • 51 8 rHE administration of Manipur State will be taken over by the Government (jf India on Oct. 15. the Indian State Ministry announced. Manipur. which figured prominently during the Japanese invasion of eastern India during World War 11. is reputed to be the area where polo
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  • 21 8 Italian police have uncovered a gang of narcotic smu?friers who Jumped across frontier* n «--~ii plane.- A. P.
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  • 52 8 VATICAN CITY. Tues. npHERE are now 4 3,000,000 I Catholics m the world, the Vatican Radio .said yesterday. The radio said the number of f-Uholics increased by 119.000,000 between 1920 and 1949. In the same period the population of the world increased by G00.000.000. a rise of
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  • 71 8 k 11-foot tall wild tusker killed five elephant catchers and fought 15 tame elephants for oyer an hour before it was driven away from a foreot area near Lucknow. In recent months, herds of wild elephants were seen In action m villages and fields near the
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  • 221 8 LONDON, Tuesday. THE American-born wife of the late Sir Hugo Cunhtfe-Owen, British tobacco magnate, has filed suit m the King's Bench Division of the High Court against a former musical show dancer who had changed her name to Marjorie Cunlirle-Owen for "enticement" of Sir Hugo's
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  • 45 8 the Pope warns the Western world that It faces grave dangers unless the refugee problem is solved swiftly. "Political, economic and social dangers are Involved In a policy of further delay he told a fact-finding Committee nf AmprlMn rv\-tn~>no_ men.— A.P.
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  • 226 8 LONDON, Tuesday. T*HE Labour Government yesterday threatened the x British people with still higher taxation if they spend instead of save their money. The Economic Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Douglas Jay, admitted that there was real threat of inflation and a rise m the
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  • 18 8 Osaka prefecture has begun a campaign to eliminate 300 Communist and leftist teachers from public schools
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  • 75 8 A GRAND jury was sworn m n at New York yesterday to investigate disorders at recent concerts given by Paul Robeson, the Negro singer. It has been asked to determine, without racial prejudice, whether groups guarding Robeson were "an illegal private militia." Governor Thomas Dewey
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  • 179 8 MOSCOW. Tuesday. *pHE Soviet Supreme Court has decided to make it 1 harder to get a divorce m Russia. A sudden quarrel between husband and wife will no longer be accepted as ground for a decree. Cases "arising from accidents or transitory causes" will be thrown
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  • 23 8 Aviation Week mafa-Jne says the U.S. Navy rw*?*rrh plane, the Douglas D-558-II skyrocket. Is now the fastest plane m the world.
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  • 18 8 A fairly large sunspot, according to London reports may affect radio conditions over the next few days
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  • 57 8 BOMBAY press reports said vest rday that three presons were killed m riots nea* Cuddapah. Madras province when police fired into a crowd demonstrating against the arrest of nine village Communists. A mob of 900 persons was reported to have stoned the police m an
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    • 337 8 THE SOUTH BRITISH INSIR ANCfc CO_ LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Transfer Books of the above Company will be closed from 14tfc to 27th October. 1949, both dayr inclusive, preparatory to payment of dividend By Order of the Board, W. O. DOVE, Manager. BOOKS BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS A
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    • 307 8 I BRVVCRK« _r f9 if —fe. s^*^ <: M&i^^. *_ii When you brush your hair dtu-r you notice that it is soft as well a^ glossy i B perfect position yet without a trace of gumminess. There's nothing like Brylcreem for gnmg u^ well-groomed look sought after by all men.
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