The Singapore Free Press, 8 October 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 NO. II SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    HEALTHIER CITY BUDGET IN 1950
    385 1 1949 deficit may go Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY'S 1950 draft budget will show a deficit of some $2,000,000, compared with budgeted deficit for the current year of $4,200,000, the Free Press understands. It is likely too that the 1949 budgeted deficit will have
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    58 BLOOD DONORS IN TWO DAYS
    72 1 lire Pre* s, n Reporter Fv volimtetn "have iv :i bl x'd to the 'General Hospital D the last two n urgent apday donors This increased possible to qs 1 Mr A.M. Singapore •aus stabbed I p.V.ce Court .-.ber ot donors yes34_w.\s the largest
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    Requisition of land bill
    46 1 |'r, ,> >i it\ Reporter \BILL ride for the >f the rekin lands m ted period •d m the rtatn remain other de says J am Lnate th- itquieitlon-ns* most ipqulh« adds. latlon seeks to where npees--13 months, Legislative the period by a
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    MALAYA SELLS RICE TO CEYLON
    319 1 Free Press StafT Reporter SINGAPORE and the Federation of Malaya Govern ments are selling 15,000 tons of Egyptian rice to Ceylon. Ten thousand tons will come from Federation stocks and shipment will be completed by the end of the year. Mr. K. Alvappillai, Food Commissioner
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    CREEK RANIUM
    10 1 CREEK RANIUM Itperti m Athens fasibilities of lum m Greece.
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    This beat the Customs
    115 1 IT was only a bird m a gilded cage, but it almost caused Frank Mr Hugh to miss the liner Queen Mary yesterday. McHugh, who works for the New York Ballet Theatre Foundation, bought the bird and th 4-ft. cage which goes with it m Paris
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    US flays China Reds' news ban
    82 1 THE United States State Department sharply rebuked the Chinese Communists yesterday for "flagrant disregard" of generally accepted international standaids m dealing with foreigners A strongly worded formal statement said a new order muzzling American and oth^r vVestern correspondents a; Shanghai is the latest m
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    CANADA GOLD STOCKS FALL
    44 1 PANADA'S reserves of gold and United States dollars dropped by $2,000,000 m September, the Finance Minister, Mr. Douglas Abbott announced m Ottawa yesterday. Reserves at the end of the month amounted to $985,000,--000. A year ago they totalled $855,000,000. Reuter
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    LONG HOP
    19 1 A Navy Neptune bomber has completed the longest non-stoD flight from an air-craft-carrier a 4,863-mile hop A.P.
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    Lord MHverton finds out
    76 1 LORD Milverton, formerly of the M.C.S.. and a former Governor of Nigeria, said at Orpington (Kent) last night: "I returned after a life's work abroad trying to teach freedom and gradual diminution of controls m Colonial administration. "I Joined the Labour Party, but found that every
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    W Java bandits loot, set fire to a town
    136 1 BATAVIA, Saturday. AS Dutch and Indonesian leaders continue their talks at The Hague on the future of Indonesia, banditry is becoming increasingly rampant m Western Java. A large bandit force has attacked Soemerang, m Western Java, killing 20 Indonesians and burning
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    Carr-Saunders answers critics
    306 1 Carr-Saunders answers critics Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Friday. 4 11^ the evidence which has come to hand since my commission reported goes to show that the case for a University ol Malaya is even stronger than supposed by the commission/ said Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders tonight m a statement to the
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    NEHRU TAKES GIFTS TO U.S.
    63 1 PRIME Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru departed for the United States by air yesterday with several crates crammed with oriental work pieces and curios as gifts for officials. Informed sources, quoting a member of Nehru's household staff, said the gifts Included ivory walking sticks, carved boxes,
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    READY FOR SNAILS
    22 1 U.S. Government scientists are gathering their forces to repulse a threatened lnvason by giant snails from the Orient. A.P.
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    PATROL FINDS 2 BIG CAMPS
    89 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE kt-paia who had been reported missing was found dead yesterday some distance from the usual route to his kongsl on Fraser Estate, K. Kulai. He had t>een ahot twice ln the head and chest. A Seaforth patrol yesterday destroyed
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    ROBERT LYND DEAD
    15 1 Robert Lynd. English essayist and journalisi. died In London yesterday aged 70.
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    Move to limit Jap fishing
    83 1 INFORMED sources said that Nationalist China has asked the Far Eastern Commission to forbid an extension of Japanese Ashing ln the area m East China Sea any closer to Chinese and Formosan coasts at least for the time being. Sources said the FEC at a
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    $25,000 GIFT
    17 1 Imperial Chemical Industries (Malaya). Ltd. has donated $25,000 to the University of Malaya Endowment Fund.
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    PESO DEVALUED
    13 1 Chile yesterday devalued ier peso to 43 to the U.S. dollar.
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    Government statement on flags
    589 1 Government statement on flags Free Press Staff Reporter V^O clear-cut decision has been announced by the Singapore Government about the flying and selling of the Chinese Communist flag m the Colony. The flag made its first appearance on the streets and m shops yesterday. On Tuesday the Free Press handed
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    PACIFIC PACT RUMOUR
    63 1 MANILA. Sat. THE Sunday Herald quoted well-informed circles m Canberra m claiming that rt Pacific regional defence pact m which the United States will participate will be made before the end of the year The Herald said the signatories will be Britain, the United States. Australia. New
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    INDIES 'QUAKE
    22 1 Fordham University m Hew York yesterday reported "fairly severe" earthquake about 10,000 miles away, probably m the Indonesian archipelago.- Reuter
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    Mousedeer tells a Tall Story
    777 2  - Mousedeer tells a Tall Story UNCLE GEORGE —By \Y II E N Monkey climbed back oul of ihe King's Palace window he had a magnificent turban of yellow silk cocked over one eye. His hairy arms protruded from the sleeves of an embroidered jacket. A bright sarong was wrapped over
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    Shirley is 'more than a Genius'
    773 2 Shirley is 'more than a Genius 4 T the age of 19, Shir- ley Moscov, of Can insburg, Pennsylvania, will become the youngest nuclear physicist m the world. That means that she's going to do important research work connected with the atom, but it won't be at a-i dimeult for
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    STAMP CORNER
    147 2 WHERE the hills rise dim blue round the village of Glendalough. In Wlcklow. people still talk m their soft Irish brogue about Kevin, a goodlooking young saint who studied there. They say he built a little hmise and liv^d happily until a colleen named Kathleen took his mind
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    THE HOLES CHANGE THE VALUE
    136 2 THE HOLES CHANGE THE VALUE A PERFORATION gauge can be obtained cheaply from any stamp dealer. An absolute fit of the perforation of the stamp with one of those marked on the card will give the perforation of the stamp, it may be anything from 12 to 15 perforations. A
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    A CENTREHALF IS A 'STOPPER'
    243 2  -  Leslie Compton By DEFENSIVE tactics are nearly always moulded around the centre half. His position is usually m tV >c middle of the field between tlie two backs though, of course, he moves with th** play He must be a good head of a ball,
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    LESSONS IN ATOMIC ENERGY NOW
    407 2 LESSONS IN ATOMIC ENERGY NOW ATOMIC energy is penetrating American schools. In a growing number of cities and towns m the U.S. boys and girls are learning that there is far more to atomic energy than devastating explosions with the power to kill, injure and destroy. Slowly they are learning
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    Book for boys
    60 2 m tX3R young sportsmen and perhaps some of their sisters too it's worth saving up for "The Boys' Book oi Soccer." published thi? month by Evan s Brotheis at 10s 6d. Fr c colour plates. 32 pages of other photographs, stories and articles, puzzles and quiz pages
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    URL LINGUIST
    61 2 NINETEI Reglna girl with i job She Li usher and lnl Sydney i of her quest: lians who canr stand Engl i Norwegian Neilson ipeal lish. Qerman I sian Ltthuanl French and Ital LB people m ing m A parts I E has quite a pulatlon N visit
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      134 2 JUNIOR CROSSWORD CLUES ACROSS.— 3 All the world, accordmg to Shakespeare. jH P_-L__! L 1 6. Name of se\eral Russian rulers. I I J JjW \W_\ _H 7. Wood from which pipes a»< ■■^1 made. 8, Uttle children. 11, Kirn T of England known as the Lion- 1 PB|__P_l__^H heart.
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    RED PLAN TO SWEEP INDIES
    157 3 'Same tactics as m Japan MANILA, Saturday. A U\GK ranking Philippine Army officer believes that Russia plans A t 0 extend the conquests of international Communism from China athwart- to the Philippines and Indonesia. 1 ;nist plan follows the same general >anese conquests," the officer,
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    A CAT JOINS WHITTINGTON PROCESSION
    120 3 ANOTHER stray cat strayed into the story ot Dick Whittlngton on Thursday— s26 years after the death. The uninvited black .at strolled m to a parade of mediaeval pageantry opening the celebration marking the death of the Lord Mayor of London, whose fortune, legend says,
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    28 3 J. Albert Guay has been committed for trial m Quebec on a charge of murdering his wife by dynamiting the aeroplane ln which she was a passenger. Reuter
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    MacA. move to aid Jap trade
    81 3 GEN. Mac Arthur's headquarters have announced a further relaxation of regulations governing private commercial entrance into Japan. At first they permitted com•ial entrants to stay indefinitely m Japan as long as their presence contributed to the achievement of the objectives of the occupation, and
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    BRIDGE PROBLEM
    125 3 Clubs are trumps. South leads. North and South are to win all seven tricks against any defence. South leads diamond. North ruffs with club queen and cashes m art king, then leads clubs four. South makes two clubs by finesse against East's six. West can discard one diamond
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    Japan-Thailand pact may hit H.K.
    251 3 pXPORTERS m Hong Kong look for a sharp drop m trade with Thailand as a result of the recent Japan-Thailand trade agreement, the Far Eastern Economic Review reports. Most of the goods heretofore shipped from Hong Kong to Thailand were re-exports from abroad, largely Japan,
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    Serious strike threat in P.l.
    62 3 ANATION-wide strike threatened the Philippines yesterday after failure of Government efforts to settle iabour disputes m three vital public utilities railways, water supply, and telephones. The workers of each company have asked for wage increases and other benefits. The Congress of Labour has warned that
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    H.K. Jap trade ban temporary
    79 3 TOKIO. Fri. A HONG KONO Government official has stated tnat the island colony's ban on imports imposed on Sept. jJb of Japanese goods is only temporary but admitted he nad no idea how long it would be ln effect. Some business men who export through
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    ATOM WAR MAY END MANKIND
    297 3 NEW YORK, Saturday. AN Atomic War might last only a matter of (lavs, perhaps less. In that short time the nation which struck first might well knock out most of the other's industrial areas, killing and maiming not by thousands but by millions. Cities m
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    Reprisal expulsion
    38 3 The Hungarian Government has ordered an official ,of the British legation m Budapest, to leave the country "as a reprisal for the expulsion of Mihaly Gerencser." an official of the Hungarian i legation m London. A.P.
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    'Hanging most humane way'
    51 3 'Hanging most humane way' BRITAIN'S jail chiefs li ive declared that hanrrint, is the fastest and most humane method of c-.rryin.-. out the death senteno**. In a joint rey>ort to Ihe Royal Commission on capita" punishment, prison governors said they wore not prepared to suffirest a*** alternative system of execution.
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      550 3 i .n.'vRE Hour; 6.15 Dance music— The I KUALA LUMPUR iill. N. 1..01.X) Bachelors; 6.30 Children's Pro- 10.00 a.m. News (also at 1.30, 18! md 11 7 metres gramme; 6.45 Light music; 7.00 7, <_ 9.30); 12.00—1.00 Malay Progs from XL Time Signal St News; 7.15 Pro- gramme (As Singapore)
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      194 3 Solution To Crossword No. 811 F.f»r Crossword No. wtt I IH- H3 W4 I \b |6 |7 I k-Hi""-^ ■ur: m _w w <\<tU<\ .i i a- i maAAAmm -i I irAm,, ijl n «m "ii^ 25 ~~~ISF s/.sS-rSj 1 1 M mmmmmm^ mm t ma mm 30~31 |1*~ 53
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      133 3 WHAT'S OH TM It T Bim £_,_U. REX: Afixa Strains PAI HJON. Its Not Cricket. ODEON: ful Jones. COLISi:iM: Qt.il some Mother-in-law 'Cantone M*.dK\S: a Forgotten Woman Mandarin). CATHAY: Love. Love, and United Love (Mandarin do" 1 feature). CENTRAL: Dillc-i (Hindustan" HINDUSTAN: Viswamithra (Tamil >. PENANG CATHAY and ODEON: Mr.
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Oct. 8. 1949. THE ANSWER IS SILENCE
    631 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Oct. 8. 1949. THE ANSWER IS SILENCE IN these days of increased speed m almost every field ol man's activities, it is pieasant to contemplate one held where speed is unheard of and where time is of no account at all Government departments. Everybody who
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    Britain Cannot Afford Atomic Energy
    878 4  - Britain Cannot Afford Atomic Energy LEWIS HAWES -By BRITAIN cannot afford atomic energy, because it will cost too much to produce. Apart from problems of research, the greatest difficulty confront ing British atomic scientists is the financial handicap under which they are striving to achieve the impossible. In his address
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    'KILL PROFITEERING IN THE BUD'
    385 4 Letters to Editor I APPRECIATE your Wednesday leading article giving support to Ungku Abdul Aziz's idea o.» forming a Consumers' Association. Apparently you forget that those who supply consumers goods to housewives are not importers of the goods themselves. They get them from wholesalers who
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    A DENTIST HITS BACK
    194 4 WITH reference to your article ln Monday's Free PTess on "Singapore to hold exam, for dentists." the statement by the spokesman of the Singapore Chinese Dentists' Association contained several errors: (1) "Unregistered dentist* will have to sit for an exam, this month to qualify as registered
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    Chinese Diplomat in S'pore
    809 4 Chinese Diplomat in S 'pore PEOPLE MAKE NEWS A FORMER diplomat who represented China at the last meeting of the League of Nations held m Geneva m 1946 and the Paris Peace Conference m the same year, is now m Singapore as a publicity officer for the conference of ECAFE
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    IF RUSSIA ATTACKED YUGOSLA VS
    313 4  - - MARK GAYN BY BELGRADE: THE Yugoslav army is small, equipped largely for guerrilla warfare, and based on a huge reserve of men who learned their military ABC as partisans m World War 11. Best informed Western sources here say the army's strength ranges from 220.000
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    DROWNING OFMALAYAN EDUCATION'
    222 5 DROWNING OFMALAYAN EDUCATION' Foundation Day messages -wi-* it Pr f ss Staff Reporter T exiSl,?/ 8 f Mala:va comes offi «a»v into Ham hlil r °m y ccr <- m <>ny at Oei Tiong witt^lL aff c Co eff a i "Foundation Day sVsem^ I °\T ng a the Ma,avan
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    chance or youth Malaya
    52 5 "Tor v Of Foundation of I laya. re open this country and cultural adthe attolnwhich the bigger which he m mind, m i are endowUnlverslty ish the people of this should be ready to ■.ard— as one vi them [one-to provide .dowments or other- ite freely
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    INCENTIVE TO STRIVE HARDER'
    316 5 Free Press Staff Reporter lumdaiion Day of the University of Malaya, Mr. l<e Siow Moiig. chairman of the Pan-Malayan Biicil of the Stamford Clubs (association of Raffles radiates) says: Malaya have all time, tying to ny fellow ma gamaI colleges graduates I rs ol higher thai
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    'Sacred task' Mr, C.C. Tan
    80 5 Ml C. C. Tan, Singapore Legislative Councillor and president of ihe Progressive Party, says: "On this red-letter day In the history of Malaya I would like to send a message of good luck to our young university. May success crown all her efforVa ir her
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    RAFFLES' DREAM A REALITY Holgate
    270 5 RAFFLES' DREAM A REALITY Holgate Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. TUE Director or Education, 1 Ftderation of Malaya, Mr. M. R Holgate, sends this message to the Free Press on Foundation Day of the University of Malaya: "Today m the hall of the Collea-F v.hich bears his name
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    'I'm the oldest' says Mr. Mackay
    384 5 Free Press sta ff Reporter A d ?u d somewhat indignant gentleman came into the Free Press office yesterday and claimed that he was the oldest European m Singapore. He is Mr. B. F. MacKay of Katong a? J!S we^ago the Sunday Times published
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    Labour sees 'light of nope'
    248 5 Labour sees 'light of nope' Free Press Staff Reporter "MALAY A m 1949 is overshadowed by economic and political dangers. Among these shadows, the University of Malaya raises a light of hope," says Mr. Francis Thomas, president of the Labour Party of Singapore, m a message on the occasion of
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    Disney's latest film is good
    119 5 "yyALT Disney has made a gooc Job of his latest technicolour film. So Dear To My Heart, the story of a little farm boy who yearns for a prize race-horse but gets the gift of a black ram. The care the boy showers on the
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    S. EAST ASIA RICE POOL PROPOSAL
    194 5 THE Ceylon Government ls interested m plans for an organisation to continue rice allocations m South East Asia next year. This was disclosed yesterday m Singapore by the Food Commissioner for Ceylon, Mr. X Alvappillai, who leaves today to report to his Government on
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    Wrote a letter, fined $50
    119 5 I LETTER to a debtor creat•JJ tug the impression that it wts written by a solicitor resulted m Behramgore R Vakil being fined $50 m the Singapore First District Court yesterday for a breach of the! Advocate? and Solicitors Ordinance. The secretary of the Bar
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    U.S. women hold jumble sale
    76 5 AWIDF range of American c'othes. shoes, toys, maga3*nr* and brie a brae will be offered foi sale at low prices at «t Jumble Sale being orsranif.ed b\ the American Women** Auxiliary on Oct. 14. Tv* 1 sale will be held m thPresryterian Church Hall m
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    Kampong men must find new homes
    227 5 Kampong men must find new homes Free Press Staff Reporter OEOPLE living m unauthorised attap dwelling 1 houses m various areas of Singapore who were given notice to quit towards the end of last year, have now been given until Jan. 1 next year to find alternative accommodation. The houses
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    MR. LIM KIM SENG
    26 5 Mr Lim Kirn Seng has been appointed a member of the Board of Licensing Justices for a luuher period of three year.*.
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    UMNO MOVES HEADQUARTERS TO JOHORE
    156 5 UMNO MOVES HEADQUARTERS TO JOHORE F. P. Malay Correspondent THE work of removing the CMNO Headquarters from Ipoh to Johore Bahru has been completea ana the office has b^gur its normal business. Seveia assistant secretaries wer. appointed to help run th: c/hci- and new clerks were employed. Dato Zainal Abidin
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    N.Z.LOAN IN U.K.
    22 6 Bub criptlon lists in London for the Now Zealand £6.000.000 levin '.vere closed yesterday after only 10 rntnutesw— Reuter
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    3 YEARS TO LEARN MALAY
    348 6 Concession m Govt, exams Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE prescribed period within which European officers on the Malayan Establishment must pass their examinations m Malay has been extended to three years from the date of arrival m Malaya. This temporary concession, made
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    MARKETS QUIET AND SLIGHTLY EASIER
    256 6 LONDON, Sat. THE London Stock Ex- Change was quiet yesterday and slightly easier where changed, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers were generally unchanged, while tins declined further. British Government stocks declined by around a quarter per cent on some scattered selling. S.rall los?e.>, mostly due
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    36 6 r r*H_ New York Stock Exchanges upward trend halted yesterday. Due to internal stiength of the market, fairly persistent pro-fit-taking only succeeded tn a slight predominance of fractional lOMea, The market clc«ed steady. Reuter
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    LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
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    PRATTLIN HOT FAVOURITE FOR TODAY
    280 7 PRATTLIN HOT FAVOURITE FOR TODAY More rain is likely m Penang Free Press Racing Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. OTKONGEST stable fancy today at Penang is 1& Prattlin* m the second race and i s likely to start the hottest favourite of the day The going remains heavy and further rain this
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    All the latest selectins
    192 7 TRESPASSER EPSOM JEW CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 SHEFFIELD PLATE VICTORY VICTORY VICTORY Victory Court Jester KinU Valley Court Jester Kinta Valley SheffloM Plate Briany KlnU Valley RACE 1 PRATTLIN* PRATTLIN* PRATTLIN” PRATTLIN*~ 3 00 Eutern Girl Red Plane SUr R»n f Distinction J«*e Veil SUr
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    SINGAPORE XI FEDERATION
    11 7 ralan .**cied Rid- Btang I are aski n
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    SINGAPORE MALAYS AVE EASY PASSAGE
    264 7 SULTANS' CUP SOCCER iPORI Malays earned the right to meet i- final of the Sultan Gold psacee. competition when they scored an overrlrainf victori over Johore Malays by nine goals nil it Jalan Besar yesterday. out i I I mer of Singapore Malaya had a
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    WARD WINS PLAY-OFF
    85 7 fHARLES Ward of Little Aston, Birmingham, Britain's most successful tournament golfer, yesterday beat John Burton of Hillside^ Lancashire, by a single stroke ln the 36-hole play-off for the Dunlop Masters £1,205 tournament. After being five strokes down at the end of the first round, Ward won with
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    PULAU BRANI BADMINTON
    105 7 pOMPETITORS and supporrers of the Pulau Brant badminton tournament will celebrate the conclusion erf the Open Men's sir-agios and doubles touraamant with a taa party to be held today at 5 p.m. at Pulau Branl. The results of the tournaments are as follows: Open singles champion. Yao
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    Australians arrive
    34 7 THE fifth Australian cricket team to tour South Africa and Rhodesia arrived m Durban In rainy weather yesterday from ."-retnanUe. Their first match. against Zululand at Ekhowe. start* on Oct. 21. Reuter
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    Sino Malays v. All-India XI
    85 7 *l*-a__ following players have i been selected by the combined selection committees of the M.F.A. and S.C.F.A. to turn out for the Sino- Malays against the All-India side next Saturday. ihu Chee Seng. Abdul Rahman. Chan Yew Heng. Salleh. Ismail Bujang. Foo Iter Jong. Harith.
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    EX-P.O.W. JOINS MANCHESTER C
    80 7 BERT TRAUTMANN. a 24-year-old ex-German prlsoner-of- ha» joined Manchester City Pool ball Club as its amateur goalkeeper. Manchester City has been -seeking a top-class goalkeeper since Frank Swift retired at the end of the 1948-mt season. Trautmann's spectacular goalkeepin? for St. HelPns was broaeht M;<ncfte**ier Cltys
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    Symthm Dunn back
    363 7 UNBEATEN Wolverhampton Wanderers, Dir. I leaders of the English Football League, will put their Cup-win-ning forward line into today's game against Derby County. This Is the outstanding game on the day's card. Sammy Smyth who last week played for Ireland against Scotland, and Jimmy Dunn, who has
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    Today's Acceptors
    563 7 T'HE card of events for today's races m Penang is 1 Riven below. Biar, Xachtegaal, Demaratus, Colorado and Hariman have been scratched from all engagements. The Big Sweep will be drawn on race eight. RACE 1—2.30: CLASS 4, DIV. 3— 4> FURS. 013 Sheffield Plate McPherson 9.00 -3D
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    Yankees win 4 3
    38 7 Big John Mite's ninth Inning pmh Mngle touched off a threerun rally yesterday and gave the New* York Yankees a tour-to-thrce vlrtory over the Brooklyn Dodx tn the third game of a world serie*
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    KHALSA ASSN. HOCKEY TEAMS
    54 7 LTHALSA As-soclation hockey tea m.s for the weekend are Against ACS. on the Khalsa ground today: Sudajal: Ranjit Jaswant; Rarbona. Kuideep. Sewa; Kulthar. Bassan. Mohinder, Nartjan and Jesw.nt. Against the Harlequins on the Klialsa ground tomorrow: Anthony; CT.anJU. Sewa; Mohinder. B. 6. ."-sin, Kultar*. Hassan. Harhans.
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    U.K. CYCLING TEAM
    35 7 pOl'R cychMs have been named to represent England m the cycling events m the Empire games at Auckland m February. The*. are Tommy Godwin. Cyril Cartwright, R OeWard and A. Neum.— Reuter
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    CHARLES WANTS A FIGHT WITH LOUIS
    285 7 pZZARD Charles, N.B.A. heavyweight champion, J yesterday said he "certainly was glad* that Joe Louis was planning a comeback and he hoped he would get a chance to meet the former champ m June. Charle« and his manager Jake Mlntz. both were elated over
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    PRINCESS' HORSE PLACED SECOND
    120 7 PRINCESS ELIZABETHS first racehorse. Astrakhan, presented to her as a wedding present by the Aga Khan, ran splendidly on her debut In the 6f. Sandwich Stakes of Ascot yesterday to finish srcond. Astrakhan, by Turkhan out of Hastra. started at the long odds of 100-8. Ridden
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    Friendly Soccer
    31 7 In two soccer mat cho* played at Farrer Park yesterday, the Tamil Brotherhood Association beat Rocklltes three-two and Stanvac lost to Tiong Bahru Rangers by four goals to two.
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    Horse injured
    37 7 THE French Oesarewitch entry. Monticola, who was backed m Friday night's caU-ove x, has been injured at his stables and is not likely to run m tb« race on Wed- nesday. Reuter U.P. BOY BROOKS
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    2 BROWNS CLASH
    41 7 Brown of Birmingham lad Alec Brown of London by IS frames to 11 at tha end of yesterday's play In their S7-fr armheat of the "News of the World" £1,500 snooker tournament at Leicester Square HalL London Reuter
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    S.C.F.A. CLUBHOUSE
    34 7 official opening, by Lady Han Hoe Lim. of the Singapore Chinese Football .--Ksociation clubhouse at 10, Farrer Park, will take place at 5.30 p.m. next Friday. A tea-party and dance will follow.
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    Boxing 'invasion' of Singapore next week
    273 7 Boxing 'invasion of Singapore next week SINGAPORE boxing enthusiasts will see the first Orient title fight to be staged here since the end af the war within a few weeks. Boy Brooks, the coloured American holder of the welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight titles of the Orient is due m Singapore
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    Swedes can play here on Oct. 15
    150 7 Swedes can play here on Oct. 15 THE WORLD-FAMOUS Swedish national soccer team, which has just if ft Europe for a lour of tht F ,r East, ls willing to play o ie game m Singapore. Interviewed by the Free Press special correspondent at Manila recently, the representative of the
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    BIRTH
    17 8 AT PENANG on October 7, 1949, to Margaret, wife of Dr. I A. Young, a daughter.
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    DEATH
    18 8 PEREIRA: At Trivandrum, Isaac Peter, age 84. on 4th. October. Father of Calab, John, Alfri'd, and Peter.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    246 8 lISM HELEN KHOO thanks all relatives and friends who sent floral tributes, wreaths, scrolls, loan of cars etc., and those who attended the funeral of her mother. GREETINGS and congratulations to the forthcoming marriage of Miss Saw Joo Suan, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Saw Choo Theng of Penang to
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    ANNOUNCEMENT TO PUBLIC
    198 8  -  I'ir.v.ours have b**en rirculatlng thai the Hanpy World Amusen -rl Park will be moved to Geylang Bmi, thereby depriving many :>eople m the Geylang Road a.t*a of facilities for an evenings id lv-ticn. I -ri t to make it clear that th reports have no inundation whit
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    BONN OUTLAWS NEW RED REGIME
    390 8 Russian sector govt, 'illegal 9 BERLIN, Saturday. THE West German Federal Government at Bonn last night denounced the newly-formed Russian satellite East German Government as an illegal institution which does not represent the people. Meanwhile, it is reported that the entire Russian garrison m East
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    Canton Govt. ready to flee
    161 8 Canton Govt. ready to flee HONG KONG, Sat. WITH the withdrawal of the Nationalist forces m northern Kwangtung to a line only 75 miles from Canton, the Government is now preparing to move either to Chungking, m Szechuan Province, or to Formosa Island. Tlie Communists have taken Kukong. "gateway to
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    Gold now sold on Bombay free market
    170 8 LONDON, Sat. LONDON bullion quarters are intrigued by yesterday's news that the Indian Reserve Bank, for the first time m four years, ls to sell gold on the Bombay free market. It is surmised here that, like the recent sales of sliver, tMs
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    S. AFRICAN $ LOAN
    30 8 S. AFRICAN LOAN South Africa has completed negotiations for a U.S. $10 million loan from a group of United States commercial banks, lt was confirmed In New York yesterday. Reuter
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    Indo-French trade
    27 8 Talks m Paris for a Uade agreement between India and trance, involving several million pounds are near conclusion, lt was stated m Paris yesterday U.P.
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    CANTON FREES 2 SHIPS
    124 8 CANTON FREES 2 SHIPS WASHINGTON, Sat. THE Chinese Nationalists have released two American merchant ships detained outside Shanghai since last week. A spokesman ol the State Department said the two ships, the Flying Independent and the Flying Clipper, were proceeding to their destinations. He said the Department had received no
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    'Act invalid; says Court
    116 8 SYDNEY. Sat. THE High Court hero has ruled that Australia's Free Medicine Act ls invalid. The court's highest legal authority m Australia gave its decision at Melbourne m response to a Government request to declare the Act valid. The Act listed drugs doctors could prescribe with
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    Killer of 13 found to be insane
    194 8 Killer of 13 found to be insane CAMDEN, New Jersey, Saturday. OOWARD t'nruh, who massacred 13 persons here 11 on Sept. 6, has been found insane and will not stand trial, the Camden County Prosecutor, Mr. Mitchell Cohen, announced yesterday. Mr. Cohen said that four psychiatrists who had been examining
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    U.N. flag decision
    35 8 The United Nations Trusteeship Committee will decide next week whether the blue and white flag of the United Nations should be flown over trusteeship territories ln the Pacific areas and Africa. Reuter
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    High court upholds Sharkey conviction
    165 8 MELBOURNE. Saturday. THE Australian High Court yesterday upheld the conviction of Laurence Sharkey, General Secretary of the Australian Communist Party, on a charge of sedition. Last June the Sydney Central Criminal Court found Sharkey guilty of uttering seditious words m a telephone interview with a
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    Freeing the peasants
    91 8 THE Government of the United Provinces has launched a campaign which will liquidate feudal estates m the rich Ganges valley In India. The campaign, aimed at abolishing the Zamindari system (feudal landlordism) will "liberate' 7.500,000 peasant tenants and will cover 42,000,000 acres of agricultural land m the
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    Duel over actress
    64 8 PARIS. Sat. A FILM producer and ft critic duelled over a lady's honour yesterday. Will Rozier, producer, nicked the arm of Francols Chalais, a critic, ln a three-minute clash of swords m a forest whereupon Chalais dropped his sword. The duel was over an article Chalais wrote
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    BURMA ENVOY RECALLED
    46 8 BURMA'S Ambassador In Nanking. U Myint Them. has been instructed to return to Rangoon for consultations, the Foreign Office announced last night. The Burma Government has not yet received a request for recognition from the Chinese Communist Government, it was authoritatively learned. Reuter
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    BRIGHTENING UP WEDDINGS
    136 8 LONDON, Saturday. yHE craze for popular songs at weddings is getting out of hand, and the next thing you know people will be dancing the conga m the aisle, writes Rev. Arthur, Beale, rector of a small village. In a sarcastic article m his parish magazine, Rev.
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      65 8 BOOKS OF TODAY Parflament by vv Ivor Jennings -n $15.00 Om Parliament by Strathearn 5.10 Mother of Parliaments by C. R. Benstead 4.50 Parliamentary Representation by J. F. S. Ross 9 00 Thf State m Theory Sc Practice by Harold J. laski 5 10 Some Proposals for Constitutional Reform by
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      58 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 11.31 a.m; 11.56 p.m.' Tomorrow: 11.52 a.m; THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris X WELL lIS^SSuS nSSSa >^IOUE6STH,eV| WELL, MR HORNER THE )anD VET < REALLY Xi M_K_____M /ESSK ALL-TlMff J PIRATES WERE ROuTEdXthB CHWt^^ < ASD YOU FOUND YOJR^AS RH3htJto THE lh^>/ UTTLE Trlnklt^ TTv s, *<-
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      Masthead
      8 1 Saturday Magazine Free Press Saturday, Oct. 8, 1949.
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      Brunei enters its second 'golden age'
      970 1 n the 25th of sss sue- ihe throne stors, I NS good tor the (he -S 1 1 1 mci", i ge m a Brunei's Tuesday, on the appointHonorary i i mder of Empire rk the silver tad is the a link age of
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      GOOD USE FOR FIG TREE
      344 1  - GOOD USE FOR FIG TREE THE fig tree ls still an uncommon sight m Singapore gardens. Few are aware that it makes a graceful corner, with its lowdrooping branches and quaint clusters of fruit clinging thickly round Its trunk. A keen rural botanist has also found it very useful and
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      Kedah Malays ask for more schools
      709 1  -  MALAYS m Kedah are clamouring for more English and Malay schools. While official figures are not available, responsible Malays have indicated that literally thousands of Malay boys and girls m the State were refused enrolment m Government schools last year because of insufficient accommodation
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      3 pioneered Penang hill railway
      426 1  - 3 pioneered Penang hill railway PENANGS famous funicular railway one of two m the East, the other being m Hong Kong— enters a new phase m its history as the machinery is set m motion to transfer it to the control of the Settlement administration. Very few people, however, remember
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      HOLLYWOOD Beauty Hint
      119 2  -  Max factor sy Hollywood You can get more ftamorous make-up results by using two kinds oi check rouge than you can just one The one you may not he acquainted with is cream rouge. Apply it just after the application of your invisible make-up foundation. After blending
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      Hollywood to have film 'clean-up'
      290 2 Hollywood to have film 'clean-up' By A Special Correspondent HOLLYWOOD: POSSIBILITY of a fresh censorship fight that may involve Hollywood m another long-drawn-out clash over "morals" m films is foreseen following the "indecency" blast directed at the industry by the Rev. Patrick J. Masterson. Executive Secretary of the Roman Catholic
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      Film Star—At 80
      127 2 Film Star— At 80 k E. MATTHEWS, who began his stage career as a call-boy C 3 years ago has officially become a film star at 80. The film that establishes him li The Chiltern Hundreds." from William Douglas Home's political comedy. Matthews missed the London preview. He was m
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      A Delicate Subject
      332 2  -  THE film "Sword on the Desert," soon to be released, is reminiscent of tight-rope walking, for its chief concern seem*, to be the problem of balance. Laid m Palestine m 1947. it deals with the struggle between British troops and the Israeli underground. Obviously this is a
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      At the Cinemas
      237 2 At the Capitol "Sj I'ear !<• my Heart." This is Walt Disney latest experiment m Rei.l Life. It is a straw-ln-the hair tale of a rustic Indian community turned upside down by a small boy's devotion to a black sheep. The orphan boy is played by Bobby
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      Glamour-1950 style
      215 2  -  T"HE face of glamour is changing. After a decade of supremacy, the Hollywood face that sulky square mouth with lipstick over the edges, pencil line eyebrows, spiked eyelashes and a masklike expression is giving way to something else. The new beauty is a dewy out-of-the-nest look ragged-robin hair;
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      The Hard Road to Stardom
      712 2  - The Hard Road to Stardom HOLLYWOOD: JJISTORY is full of tales of dauntless folks, who undismayed by early failures, hammered their way to eventual successeven immortality. Hollywood ls no exception. LUCILLE BALL is one who should be awarded some sort "I citation for both courage as well as acting ability.
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      BRITISH COMEDIES IN $ HUNT
      155 2 BRITISH COMEDIES IN HUNT AIICHAEL TRUMAN, a film editor at Ealing Studios, has returned to London from New York with a now recipe for turning £500.000 worth of Britain's most prized comedies into dollars. The pictures are "Passport to Pimlico," "Whisky Galore," and "Kind Hearts and Coronets." Truman's job was
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      A WINNER 'FOUND'
      143 2 UOIXYWOOD has handeo ■J a big bouquet to London film critics for discoverlnB" low-budget film which had a record run on a studio shelf— "They Live by Night" starring Farlev Granger and Cathy O'Donnell. The story of the film tarted m 1937 when tht tudio bought a
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      PINE WOOD IS BUSY
      376 2 By our London Film Reporter LONDON: ALTHOUGH "redundancy" notices have been served on a large number of technicians there, Pinewood Studios are as busy as any of the other British film-mak-ing centres, and the luncheon-tables m the studios' restaurant are more star-sprinkled than any m London.
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      The undertaker is proud of his work
      880 3  - The undertaker is proud of his work NAN HALL paid social calls this X chatted 6-***' To( coffins and cl, r'| and cost-of-dy- graces and cemeien'e"; mortuaries and m^Su've got to look .{(fit thing from the MdertaKefs point ot '::f True, he deals m but he is a man, io
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      A peer and his millions
      599 3  -  IUHEN the second Vis- count Leverhulme died m an American nursing-home, aged 61. last May. the City reckoned that he was worth more than £12 million. But recently it was announced that he left only £2.257.039. "as far as can at present be ascertained." So.
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      AND SO I STOOD CONDEMNED
      536 3  - AND SO I STOOD CONDEMNED •"THERE are times I've x been accasea of m venting relativity theories; of splitting hairs, atoms and skulls, and of being drunk and incapable. Criticism of my abominable behaviour sometimes inspires me to borrow a guitar, stand outside a window and sing m a beery
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      'ALERT' FOR 'THE BRAB'
      101 3 U/HEN the 130-ton Braba- zon makes its first i .-nciing at London Airport, the v/hoie of the emergency •iganisation will be mobilised. Th*> aircraft should ha*,c no difficulty m landing on the runways. During early flight trials -t is expected that test land■nga*. and take-offs will
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      'No flower can bloom a hundreds! ays'
      471 3  - 'No flower can bloom a hundreds! ays' AMONG the lesser festivals m China is one celebrating the birthday of the Medicine God. Yao Wang. Yao Wang is also called the King of Remedies. As such, he heads the second of the three departments of the Celestial Ministry of Medicine. Eight
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        122 3 "OUOW THS CROWDS fo tha j LNJONG km\i MiUr i,...,.,,, Koad) A MISS MALAYA 1949? PROGRAMME *tiirdav Ith Oct. Dinner Dance 8 to 12 p.m. Oct. Tiffin Dance 12 to 4 p.m. •All DANCE 4 to S p.m. BEAUTY CONTEST V'lO to 7 p.m. lmk_u ,N <! Per head in
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      ARMY THROWS A PENTATHLON
      983 4 ARMY THROWS A PENTATHLON /^APT. P. A. Duckworth, of the sth. Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, is today's outstanding all-round sportsman of the fighting services. At Aldershot he has become Britain's 1949 national modern pentathlon champion m spite oi having barely recovered from a rugby injury followed by a fall on
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      SPORTING CHIT CHAT
      649 4  -  OO now we know: our aZj amateur boxers are no good— at least not good enough for the Empire Games, not even that brilliant little scrapper from Burma who has made his home here Jimmy Archer. At least that is what has been inferred by a certain
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      Speed Swimming No. 70 Championship tips
      802 4 Speed Swimming No. 70 Championship tips EV3R Malaya's swim- mers of all nationalities, all roads will lead to the Singapore Swimming Club's spacious land pool this afternoon where the 1949 Championships will be contested. The pool surround is ablaze with flags and bunting and the blue water of the pool
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