The Singapore Free Press, 8 June 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press. LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1950. l-KIC'K fES CENTS,
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    ACHESON ON SOVIET COERCION'
    28 1 ACHESON ON SOVIET COERCION' I <-outs ml J Nations ie were sterdaj by Bury of heson, ed atercion". l In of orI or repres i phed Dr- U.P.
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    P.M. to bring Leopold back
    14 1 D I soon p in l b the A.P.
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    NEVER SWIM
    6 1 percent oath, hcfor A.P.
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    29 1 Mrs. Anth ny Edrn. who is beiiu sued for divorce. She WMii ypNterday that she \*.i-* no w livin? quietly m N**vv Vnrk md would continue to do so
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    COLONY'S FINEST BIRTHDAY
    529 1  - COLONY'S FINEST BIRTHDAY PETER HILL Helicopter Slim 's jeep By THE King's Birthday Parade on the sundrenched Padang this morning was the most spectacular ever held m this Colony. The parade was outstanding because ot [\w arrival, for the first time at such a show, of Malaya's Air Chief m
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    Eden sues for divorce
    164 1 LONDON. Thursday. MX. Anthony Eden, former Foreign Minister of Britain and now deputy leader of the Conservative Party, is suin£ his wife for divorce on the ground of desertion. The action was set for hearing today by Mr. Justice Hodson. The case is undefended. Mr. Eden,
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    Soviet chief recalled
    74 1 BERLIN, Thurs. RUSSIA today called home her Berlin representative. Major General Alexander Kotikove the man who wrecked the old I- cur-Power Kommandatura by too frequent use of the veto In announcing the action, the Soviet licensed news agency A L» m.. &aid that Koilkove 'was recalifc-i from
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    LIE PLEASED
    37 1 A spokesman for Mr. Trygve Lie said yesterday that the Secretary-General was pleased by Dean Acheson's statement on Lie's efforts to ease the cold war and end the EastWest Impasse m the United Nations U.P.
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    NARCOTICS SOURCE
    25 1 Turkey was yesteruuy leged to be the chief source of supply of a multi-million dollar traffic in narcotics to the United States Reuter
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    No separate pacts
    19 1 President Quirino or the Philippines saH yesterday that he opposed separate neace treaties wi'h Janan Reuter
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    Coca-Cola victory
    74 1 TIIF. French I pper House has defeated legislation aimed at banninu CocaCola, criticized by Conservative wine growers and an ti -American Communists a^ a threat to French drinkini; habits. The bill was approved by ihr National Assembly, the Lower House, last February. The Assembly could still enact the
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    Danger in newsprint shortage
    191 1 Danger in newsprint shortage QUEBEC CITY. Thurs A PROPOSAL to change th> name of the Empire Press Union to something more appropriate m view of Republican India's continuing membersnip is one of the first items on the agenda of the seven f h Imperial Press Conference, opening here today. Nearly
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    To Africa in open boat
    52 1 FREETOWN. SIERRA LEONE, Thur:. GERM4N research chemist Paul Muller. 63, and his 18-year-old daughter Aqa, arrived here yesterday thJr 16-foot sailing boat Berlin after a M-dayJso--mile voyage down the West African coast on a diet of ™ce*t potatoes and a tables oonful of lard a
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    R.A.A.F. planes 'not o.a.s.'
    79 1 MELBOURNE. TttUK. THE squadron of transp. r Dakttas being sent Malaya m thp next fortnight is to be known as No. 38 Squadron. Royal Australian Air Forco. it was announced here yestercThe iqcuulron will number about 168 aircrew and ground stall, and a ienrtce spokesman said
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    U.S. PLEDGE
    31 1 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said yesterday that America opposes any rearmament of Western Germany as a means of bolstering the security of the West. A.P.
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    UK rubberresearch station opened
    203 1 LONDON, Thursday. THE LARGEST Commonwealth research centre for rubber was opened at Fort Dunlop, Warwickshire, yesterday by Sir Lawrence Bragg, Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge I mversity Housing 50 fully-equipped laboratories, the centre was built by the Dunlop Rubber Company to serve its 25 British
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    SIAM'S GIFT
    17 1 Siam is sending 450 tons of rice aa a gift to theU.N. Children Emergency Fund.
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    JAP WELCOMED BY SENATE
    85 1 The United States VicePresident Mr. Alben Barkley, expressed hope yesterday, for a long period or peace and friendship between the U.S. and Japan as he welcomed Japanese elder statesman Vo l lo Ozaki to the floor of the U.S. Senate. Ozaki sat m a front row
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    ILO PRESIDENT
    16 1 The Indian Labour Minister Jagjivan Ram. is now President of tha International Labour Organisation.
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    O.B.E. FOR STEEPLECLIMBER
    106 1 LONDON I BRITAIN'S, ace steeplejack. Sydney Larkins who November removed a policeman's helmet irom the central spirn of the House of Commons, receive! an 0.8 m the King's- Birthday HonList published tod Frederick Album, prln reofrapher o! Sa<i Wells ballet, is made a C.8.E.. and an 0.8.E
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    U.S.I. DESIRES JAPAN TRADE
    45 1 A LTHOUGH m feeling In Ii bai not hopes to co-operate ..in economl i m Tokio by an Ind trader, Usman Maji 1 P-csi-dent of tiie Indonesian 'I Ing Company, who retu. to Japan after a one-moniii lo his country. Reuter
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    MacA.ban extended to Red newsmen
    89 1 Mac A. ban extended to Red newsmen TOKIO. Thurs. yHE Supreme Ax. Commander m J*P--Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, yesterday ordered 1h Japanese Governmen 1 Dan 17 Communist ne papennen from put iffic< -thus tending the ban to a total ol 41 top Rods. The new di ol the i the
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    Bomber down
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    H.K. REJECTS PLEA
    11 1 The Hong X to 111 IV.— U .P.
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    Gruesome Exploits Of A Killer
    533 2  - Gruesome Exploits Of A Killer PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m U.K. \IK. BYCULAJI was a Thug— a practitioner, that is to say, of the ancient art of Thuggp^ not the leader of a 01 -and-cosh gang, an expert wielder of I ripened bicyclecrv.uns. or a Humphrey B;-:iit type mi
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    QUICK LOOKS
    195 2 The Autohio^r.iplu and Journals of Benjamin Robert II iv dun. Ed'.t.d with ll tl m by Malcolm I. tid. > One of the best books ot nd m the language. the friend of X und Wordsworth, was a brilliantly girted writer who It heart on as the greatest
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    LUCKY SALE
    65 2 SOME little while ago a BBC producer bought a newspaper from Harry Fowler m Piccadilly. A sequel was a part for Fowler m an overseas broadcast. A further sequel, screen parts for Harry, Lambethborn character actor, m Hue and Cry, and Now Barabbas. A still further sequel, the
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    Books On The Way
    68 2  -  JON HOPE B\ KENS of next novel from 'imptiui Mackenzie will be the islands of Whisky Galore. Story centres on the discovery of a rival to the Loch Ness monster air M m ti- at 1 p.m.. he can throuph the nigr.t— n.< musical accompanime: From
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    ROOSEVELT-THE GREAT REFORMER
    471 2 ROOSEVELT-THE GREAT REFORMER A review of John Gunther's latest book "Roosevelt m Retrospect". NEW YORK: 'VHE life and mind of one of the greatest of modern leaders, the late President Franklin Roosevelt, is the subject of the latest work by John Gunther. author of the well-known "Inside' books m which
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    Britain's 'Pavlova' Is Worried
    498 2  - Britain's 'Pavlova' Is Worried Sydney Mirkin By LONDON: 41 ARGOT Fonteyn. '•'rated the finest dancer of this generation by critics and audiences alike, is worried because, she says. sne is not petting any better. She described herself m an interview as "dangerously near the age where I an; standing still".
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    There's No Boom In Bohemia
    355 2 There 's No Boom In Bohemia Tom Pocock gays Chelsea, London artists* quarter, is facing a slump. Imh. London, artistsquarter m Chelsea La facing an imminent artistic slump. There are too many artists. Backer by indiscriminate Government grants, nundreds of surplus .students are emerging from art schools all over the
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      318 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you are a person of many talents, but until you learn mastery of your moods you will not reach the heights of accomplishment to which these gifts should entitle you. You are practical m some things, while m others, you are flighty and unpredictable. This
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    43 3 photo. The President of France, M Vincent Aunol (centre), flanked by leading government and military personalities, watches the military parade past the statue of St. Joan of Arc m the Rue de RiToli on the feast day of France's national saint. A. P.
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    TIBET'S FUTURE LOOKS UNEASY
    285 3 TIBET 'S FUTURE LOOKS UNEASY 'Reds intend to take it over 9 HONG KONG, Thursday P^VT!^ servers f here extremely sceptical of Tibet s chances of maintaining he r autonomy through negotiations or compromise with the Chinese Communists. The consideration behind the observers' minds is the usual one— you cannot
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    Red China to allow some capitalism
    97 3 LONDON, Thursday ut magazine Bolshevik said yesterday that 1 rtu overcome successfully the economic v hi' China" the i.ew Communist Go V it there would permit some capitalistic I particularly Mgnilicant statement a degree of encouragement to some rial and commercial interests with ram
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    RELIEF PROPOSAL
    7 3 Rettei food a...the P A.P.
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    MUSEUM TRAFFIC
    20 3 One-way traffic has been established lor Holy Year pilms m the Vatican museums to avoid congestion.- A. P.
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    Bridge Hands
    101 3 I AllPw Sov.Ua .on Is re«d dur.n v Is Hsc 'mend h the d shown clujs 1 1 be able to lad the The onhr c defeated not SOIHI CUt h^ proper he will vided h- can fourth and declarer his suit does not I Clv iS, i<M
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    BURMA ROYALTY ASK MORE MONEY
    129 3 RANGOON. Thursday. OIRMA'S ageing princes and princesses, hard hit by high living costs m the Republic of Burma, want increased royal pensions. These descendants of the once mighty King Mindon who ruled Burma before the British, banded themselves into the Burmese Royal Family Association and
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    U.S. using more rubber
    62 3 WASHINGTON, Hum, .^MERICAN consumption of new rubber rose by 9 4 per cent In the first four months oi i960, it was stated tcdaj. amounted to 376.707 long tons, an increase of 32.446 tons over the corresponding period last year. In April rubber consumed was 95,853
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    Golfer says he was beaten up
    109 3 Golfer says he was beaten up LOS ANGELES, Thurs J^ PROFESSIONAL golfer, Mr. Lloyd Mangrum, has filed a suit for US$lO3,OOO damages against Mr. E. J. Turner and his Son, Mr. E. J. Turner, Jr., alleging they beat him so severely last Nov. 1 after a traffic accident that he
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    U.S. ARMS AID
    35 3 Thr U.S. State D^p.irtmerr is preparing to tell Congress m secret the exact amount and types of American weapons to be shipped to friendly countries under the arms aid Mmme. A. P.
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    ASKED TO LEAVE
    29 3 The French Military Attache m Budapest has bwn d'-clan-d persona non grata by the Hungarian Government and ordered to leave the country within 24 hours. Reuter
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    35 3 photo. Mr. Rudolph Boehlen. 5£ a Swiss, wears his hat-shaped wm*s before he jumped from a plane at 7.0#0 feet at Berne airfield. He glided down to 1.000 feet when be parachuted to earth. A.P.
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    Queen's rug still unsold
    100 3 Queen's rug still unsold QUEEN MARY'S hand-ma'de'ca^t vriu"bf return- ed to Britain unless American or Canadian buyers come forward m the mxt ten days PSi« s of the Umted K T'gdom High Commissioner s Office said the carpet has not yet been sold new YorK on exhibition at the Metropolitan
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    C'WEALTH VISIT
    80 3 LONDON. Than. 'JHE Common *^alih Relations Office announced yesterday that the Governments of Australia and M Zealand have invited the Secretary of State tor Commonwealth Relations to visit Australia and New Zealand this summer. With the approval of the Prime lister, Mr. Attlec, the Secretary. Mr. Ifctrkk Gardo:>\V
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    King's song a success
    58 3 King's song a success PHILADELPHIA. Wed. fHE young King; of In scored a modes: hit as a songwriter here m the world premiere of Micha- 1 Toads Peep Show. Nothing was left out m staging his composition, a hunting song "Blue night M The lavish act for the first act
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    CHINA QUITS
    15 3 Nationalist Chira as decided to withdraw from the >nal Civil A Organisation. U.P.
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    Virtue's reward
    60 3 A I) MXV I \KMER m Xustralia who did "a job of wcrk~ for amm friend was rewarded wiih i: A3.OM. Hi> friend will receive a similar amount. The farmer woaM not hear of payment for hi> work and told his friend to Niv a lottery ticket He
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    NEW BODY TO STUDY WORLD DISCORD
    86 3 NEW BODY TO STUDY WORLD DISCORD PRINCETON, <NY" J pRINCETON announced Mm ment of a new research centre to find out wliv the people of the world ciorft team up easier. Dr. Harold W Dod&s. F sident of Prir. :iid the unit would be known as the Research Cen;re tor
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    Nehru visit is a symbol
    130 3 JAKARTA. Wrd. TPHE Indonesian M r of I Information. Mr Arnold Mononutu. io a nation-wide broadcast yesterday on the eve of Pandit Nehru's ten -day visit to Indonesia, said it would have deeper significance psychologically and geographically than merely a routine visit by one head
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      584 3 New Crossword No. 67 CXxr I** II 3^i^K ILI i > \tKw>N 1 fl and tnere, but not t'\'rywherp (8> 7 Smcorhs Uie viay '0. <">>. 8. Tb(B mark ot Klttl (^>. 9. Tours become disorderly <si. 10. He la never at honif. even to him N bez tight uor
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, June 8. 1950. Fitting tribute
    395 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, June 8. 1950. Fitting tribute Mr. A. P. Rajab is right. It is niuh time that this town of ours was clothed In the dignity it deserves. Which means that Singapore should be raised to the status ot a city, with all the pomp and
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    Thousands Become Spies Every Week
    952 4 ANTHONY TERRY describes an incident typical of the fantastic^ war of nerves 1 m Berlin. BERLIN: lIERR Otto Schaldach, a 35-year-old w.iiter, fell asleep m a Berlin tube train last week. He works 12 hours at a stretch m a Berlin ni^bt club, and when
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    'King of the mountains'
    164 4 MOW many can challenge the moun-tain-climbing record of "The King of the Mexican Mountains'? He is a Scottish-American by the name )f M'Allister, who went to Mexico some thirty years ago, and now at the age )f 62 is still climbing the highest peaks In thirty
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    Atom Bombs From 'Subs' Now
    490 4  -  Chapman Pin cher reveals a secret Dr. Klaus Fuchs was not able to pass on to the Russians. i MERICAN scientists have discovered how to make atom boiiib.^ which can be carried by pilotless Dlanes no bigger than a v'l "doodlebug". If this secret passes
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    22 4 Princess Margaret With the Duchess of Kent icaitiiui at the rail for the parade of the runners before the Derby at Epsom.
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    27 4 Remind mo m the morning to put up a notice making it clear that the 2s 6d tnos round the manor do not include bed and breakfast
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    IT SEEMS TO ME...
    930 4  -  POLITICO By of Britain's ablest foreign correspondents, who followed John Strachey around In the Federation and Singapore, have told m e how the Minister "blossomed forth* 1 during his tour. [1 may be necessary to explain that Strachey is arj idealist, mtellec- and poet. He is
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    FIGHTING FUND FOR S'PORE ELECTIONS
    403 5 FIGHTING FUND FOR S'PORE ELECTIONS Progressives get ready tr^ Press Staff Reporter JN preparation lor the next Singapore Legislative Council and Municipal elections, to be held early next year and at the end of this year respectively, the Progressive Party is making an appeal to all its members for the
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    Knighthood for Chief Justice
    256 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KNIGHTHOODS have been conferred m the Kings I Birthday Honours list on Singapore"s Chief Justice. Mr. C. M. Murray-Aynsley. and the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Air Force, Air Marshal F. J. Fogarty. Mr. Justice Murray-Aynsley becomes a Knight Bachelor and Air Marshal Fogarty
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    9 5 Mrs. Helm Wessells, chief of the 1.5.1.5. Library Branch
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    16 5 picture. S Director of Mr. V \Y. I tl the anI IIM Old \vsoriation on Lido
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    SECOND CHANCE TO GET VOTE
    123 5 Free Press StalT Reporter L\l prospective Singapore voters who have not i'J tilled m their registration forms correctly are w\\ en another t hance. ::<>t tu-ar thr quired witre illegible. m back to r «'f P on id forms because i ioso the right to
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    SMC contract terms
    132 5 CJINGAPORE Municipal C( m O missionen will continue to retain 10 per cent, of the contract price of any Municipal work carried out by contractors, until the job has been finally pronounced fyA proposal was made by 'ii Master Contractors' Association that this percentage should be reduced
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    AID FOR WOMAN WHO LOST ALL
    302 5 Free Press Staff Reporter f\S a ship arriving m Singapore from the United w Kingdom next month will be a £35 machine for physio-therapy. It is the gift of the Far Eastern Kelief Fund to an elderly Englishwoman, Mrs. Evelyn King, who was a
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    Bad teeth in schools
    88 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Medical DcO part merit is taking steps to reduce the high percentage of denial caries (holes m the teeth t among schoolchildren by expanding the medical and dental schools clinic service. The Deputy Director of Medical Services, Dr. J. CouttsMime, said
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    CHIEF OF LIBRARIES ARRIVES
    296 5 Tree Press Stall" Reporter "IfRS. Helen Wessells, Chief iT ni the United" Slates Intion Service's Library Branch, arrived m Singapore yesterday on a worldwide Inspection tour ol USIS libraics. She told the Free Press yesay, "USIS libraries are m way competing with the .blished libraries of
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    TOAST TO A BRIDAL PAIR
    41 5 picture. TWE G.0.C.. Singapore District, Major-Gen. D. Dunlop, toasts Capt. Geoffrey Hugh Drummond, R.A. and Miss Sheila Margaret Scudamore. who were married m St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. The bridegroom is ADC. to Gen. Dunlop. Free Press
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    COLONY CREETS THE KING
    63 5 Free Pres-s Stall Reporter i ON the occasion of the King's Birthday, the Governor <>f Singapore, sir Franklin (iimson. has sent a message to London ionvryinji "the humble greeting! and sincere good wishes of all the loyal subjects of His Majesty m his Colony of SingaponThe
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    CERTIFICATES
    34 5 The Governor has aw i Singapore Certificates of Honour to the following: Mr. Ong Piah Teng, Mr. Yeo Chan Boon. Mr. Alfred Charles Willis. Mr. Leong Hou Cliou and Mr. V. Pakrisamy J.P.
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    APPEAL COURT
    19 5 The Court of Criminal Ap0< al will sit m the Supreme Court building. Singapore, on June 12.
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    Petitions to authorities on Chinese school
    366 5 Free Press Staff Reporter I>LTITIONS are understood to have been sent by the Singapore Chinese Schools Conference to Mr. R. Watson-Hyatt. Assistant Director of Education (Chinese) and Mr. E. C. S. Adkins, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, yesterday asking the authorities to consider the effect
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    SINGAPORE ART EXHIBITION
    69 5 Free Press Stuff Reporter The Singapore Art Si is holding an exhibition In Singapore m conjunction with the British Council, at the British Council Centre from June 17 to June 25. The exhibits will consist of 35 contemporary Australian paintings, examples of fine book production from 1890
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    School for blind kids in Colony
    199 5 School for blind kids in Colony I ret* Press StafT Krpm it-r CJINGAPORE is to have a 9 school for blind children. It is 'j be part of the handicapped children's home which is to be built at Bukit Tin under the Five-Year Sot Welfare Plan and a Red Cross
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    GRIFFITHS TALK
    17 5 Secre" Droadcast to people of Malaya at j o'clock tonight I Network of Radio M
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    APPOINTMENT
    15 5 Mr G D A. Fox has br. appointed an Assistant troller of Immigration. pore
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      128 5 l^f rf ll What a treat to open and close curtains II; .*\l r H at a touch on "Rufflette curtain r. I|l t^' l If This is the rail with the eye-level screw I r at enables one person to secure the I §j& V ft j complete rail
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    SINGAPORE RECRUITS FOR M.A.A.F.
    334 6 Call for air volunteers Free Press Staff Reporter THE first unit of the Singapore section of the 1 Malayan Auxiliary Air Force will begin to form m Singapore shortly, it was officially announced last night. A total of some la officers and 130 airmen and airwomen
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    62 6 picture. COMMITTEE members of 4he Old Rafflesians Association taken at their annual dinner and dance at the Capitol Blue Room on Tuesday. From left to rijjhW-sitting nr V P Mrnon < Vire President), Dr. C. J. Poh (President) and Mr. h. H. R. Menon. Mm VhooTnn lJ»n Th^Afk T Hale.
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    Indians win
    68 6 THRU Indian p: Ifkn Naiendra Nalh ar.d Naresh Kumar won their men > b) 'he lawn u>nms tournament er yesterd;i> I w!.o b^at JP. Pinrk .:and> 6-4. 7-5 v N who def at( i tl P Row I ien 6-0. 6-2 reached the quarter-fh while Kumar, who boat
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    Work on housing survey soon
    248 6 on a master plan for housing m Singapore is expected to he begun this \ear. the Manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, .Mr. J. It Fraser, indicate! m his annual report for 1949. Mr. Prater states that proposals f«»r the appointment «>l tram to carry
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      Good start for new account
      463 6 Good start for new account LONDON, Thursday. 1 HE new account m the London Stock Exchange made a bright start yesterday, says Reuter. Industrial share prices were marked higher at the outset to meet an anticipated wave of buying and gains were widespread m breweries, tobaccos. textiles and miscellaneous leaders.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    133 6 OHIPS m (lie Singapore Uu 1 .r and Inner Roads mid a.j;.*side Harbour Board godo* ns ye* terday were: Outer Roads. Hal tfanU, Dlysies Hoi Wong. Van der Ha«r:,, Van Riemsdyk. Empire PTOOIMf Chip Lam. Ville d« Bnn-re Atlanta. Inntr Roads: Sin Saa Stia. Knjang. Rajah 8.0, ik
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    HEAT SLOWS DOWN PLAY IN £1,350 GOLF
    139 6 HEAT SLOWS DOWN PLAY IN £1,350 GOLF LEEDS. Thurs. r rHE energy-sapping heat of near tropical conditions had dire effect on contestant! m the first round of the Yorkshire Evening News 1.350 golf tournament at Sand Moor. L*edj. yesterday. Large crowds who hoped to sc<' the stars "buni up the
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    28 6 The N>w York SUxk X rallied yesierday from a BMI irk and final prtrw verr DOS to US»3 a share hifl t4>;allt*d 1 8«>0.(K)0 shates- A.P.
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    'I will make Welch fight' says Sands
    81 6 f'EORtJF Sands, whose last a t f Hippy World tomorrow night w Jimmy Welch over 10 rouini to give Welch a chance to bn\ him fight (\er\ inch of thr w bf- b I Ifea thai Ga. by lhe B Q kncx A
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    Ceylon riders withdraw
    115 6 ISLK OF MAN I; TWO Ceylonese riders, W t took part m the Tour." Trophy rr. races on the L>ie of Man had trouble with their ma D>- S;Ua riding a Tti ..p tn the with engine trouble, and In the junior race Si! 1 trouble at
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    LONDON TIN
    22 6 "PIN pri I ft* highest I Thref moo m up id at £610 i Tl over was 350 tons U.P.
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    YMCA CRICKET XI
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    Tigers in runaway victory
    53 7 Ti Club met little when they REME m Division league at the stadium they ;nts n Ah ntre by :,«llowed j i] by Hin W< d by '■per nd B-'*'ii S I i'ld Hin >ivd I S a rah rr me I leers' I r the
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    M.C.F.A. TEAM
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    BEAUCHAMPS DOES FASTEST GALLOP
    558 7 BEAUCHAMPS DOES FASTEST GALLOP Good try outs this morning Free Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. gEAUCHAMPS (three furlongs m 37 seconds), Liberty Flag (f\ve m 1 mm. 4 sees.), Rob Roy (three m 37 4/5) and La Traviata (three m 38 1/5 easing off) were the most impressive workers
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    24 7 picture. Low Kee Pow seen m action m the StaffftMrt lawn tennis t hmipionships now m progress on the S.C.C. t nurts. Free Press
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    Gardner misses his third 100
    344 7 /\NE of the unluckiest cricketers m yesterday's big county programme was Fred Gardner, 28--year-old Warwickshire opening bat. who failed by only two runs to register his third consecutive century. Gardner and R. T. Spoomr. Test trial wicket-keeper-batsman, laid the foundation of the bit: Warwickshire total
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    Reiff wins 1,500 metres race
    52 7 Reiff wins 1,500 metres race p 1 ASTON Rfir! Belgium won In 3 mir.s. 46.6 sees falling m his world record 21-year-old I chamr* t nek Ifabrour, ;n 3 m;n< 48 4 Marcel Haiwnne iFr.un-' m 3 4s< 8 m Sweden'i Linnari Mr. rid. who the world record m 3
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    'Louis to fight Walcott'
    93 7 'Louis to fight Walcott' JOB LOfJIS is koiiik i« have a comeback bfetMc r/zard Charles tannot tit;ht ;i i v more." Felix Bo< chicchio. joe Walcott's ■UUUger, said at his arrival m Copenhagen's K.istrup Airport vesterda> "When he Sgfcts/ 1 Botchicchio added, "he will tight Joe Walcott and that fi«ht
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    Glittering offers to Savold
    296 7 LEE SAVOLD of the I'nited States, who won the world heavyweight title m London on Tuesday night, has glittering offers to fight Joe Louis. Ezzard Charles or Jersey Joe Walcott Abe Greene Commissioner of the National Boxing Association, made public yesterday bids from an unidentified promoter.
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    Combined Schools team v. S.C.A.
    91 7 fyHE following will represent mi Singapore Combined Schools against the Singapore Crick* elation this week-end <startmp on Saturday at 2 p.m. at.d on Sunday at 11 am.* on ihe SRC LT'f 111 Chin X I ok 'Rl.i '"-*P' R Bandosham -R.I C. G. Kr'sh(Rl), V.
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    Old Boys beaten
    42 7 ,ot Anthony > Pi B i the Old Boys by three 1 to tv< i at loccer yesterday. Bcorera for the Presen: B were: Chia BSonf Hock <2> ;-.nd Steven de Bousa. Klas*. and Re- Kored for the Old Joy*.
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    WEST INDIES PICK 13 FOR Ist TEST
    219 7 WEST Indies yesterdayC U named 13 players from whom their side will be chosen for the tot Test i match against England, smarting today at Old Trafford. Coddard said he would oelay his final choice imtil after he inspects the pitch this morning.
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    CRAZY SPORTLINE
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    All-India team may play here
    196 7 By CRISADER ALL-INDIA table tennis team, which took part m the last Swavthling Cup world championship. will play a series of matches here if terms offered !by the Singapore Table Tennis Association are acceptable. The S.T.T.A. recently sent an invitation to the All-India side to
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    P.I. champions to play here
    86 7 picture. The basketball team of the Mapua Institute of Technology of Manila arrived m Singapore yesterday. Picture shows Mr. Koh Hor Khoon. Singapore representative of the team, with Mr. Johnny Scholbohm. the team's coach Behind them ar.- the three Olympic trial players from left to
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  • BASKETBALL
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      S'pore Comb, just beaten by Goldies
      102 7 Gl /WING G ball team of the B«i mas University of the Philips k«pt their record the Happy Woild radium nieht when they deft pore Combined by S6 potnti to before 6 000 peojile. the end of the I t were only one pom,
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      U.S. TEAM FOR WIGHT MAN CUP
      58 7 Tlu re were no surpi i mn. m< British to meet I b man Cun tourn, biefion on Ju;,e 16 ad 17 Tiie six B ton, Mrs. T Cur !i Queitu Turkey and Mrs. J. J. Smith. The American tea:: Doris Hart 1 Mrs.
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      144 7 ALL STAR PE7V Vv RESTLING HAPPY WORLD M SATURDAY AT 9P.M. A MAGNIFICENT r PROGRAMME ALI RIZA BEY (lIAMPION OF TIFIKI KING KONG TDK MGMTI (HXMFION «ll I 1 KOPt X JIM ASKINS Vs THOMSON CONNORS Vs ANDERSON ■fe^BsAM BURMISTER f^^ I WISH (HAMTION BUCK LEE CHINA'S I>ROP KICK STAR
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      77 7 Today's sport CRICKET: Non-Bender« S.R.C. on padang: S.C.C. v .lohore on padang: St. \ndre» Old Boys v V I Old Boys (Evan \Von K Shield) at Khalsa ground. S.C S.A. Cevlonese c.s.c GOLF: Island Club, Men I Women. 3 p.m. BXSKETBALL: Mapua in>l (Manila) v Chinese High School Old Bo*s
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    BIRTH
    16 8 JENSEN: To Adeline Nancy ot J.P Jensen, a daughter. G -neral Hospital. Malacca, on :r.e.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    28 8 THE ENGAGEMENT Is announced between Malcolm, only I Mr. Mrs. K. L. Johnson. Singapore. and Lily. eldest Shier of Mr. <fe Mrs. L. D. Dvmnnrt of Singapore.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    37 8 THE FAMILY of the late Mr. and Mn Chew Cheng Bow wish to thank all relatives and friends who sent wreaths, lent cars, lorries, etc.. and those who at-t-r.dr»d the funeral of their beloved r Henry.
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    FORMOSA WARNS R.A.F. IN H'KONG
    267 8 Low flying over warships HONG KONG, Thursday. THE Nationalist navy headquarters m Formosa yesterday warned that their warships might open fire on British military planes which have been flying low over Nationalist warships patrolling the Pearl Riwr delta, Canton's outlet to the sea. The Nationalist
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    25 8 contingent of the East Berlin polite, wearing sports, attire with some carrying Woxin? gloves, is here seen marching m the recent monster Communist Whitsun rally.
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    Formosa warns of new war
    167 8 TAIPEH, Thurs. GEN WU TE-CHEN, Minister withoutpurtfolio, said he was more convinced than ever that a world war was inevitable and that Formosa wvxs the strongest bastion against Communism m Asia Gen Wu, former Forty Minister, made this statein to interviewers on his return I
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    Smuts making progress
    51 8 PRETORIA Thurs. FIELD Smuts COnl ues to mak«' progress. yesterday 's bulletin .stated The doctor said "The ft :*rt ♦ting on nicely. I am Wi happy about the position, out must stress that the Field Marshal Is not out of the 1 yet." Visitors are still forbidden.
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    WAVELL GETS HERO'S FUNERAL
    89 8 WAVELL GETS HERO'S FUNERAL LONDON, Tunis. FIELD Marshal Lord W was given :i hero's funerml yesterday m Westminster AbbThe body o| the veteran < 1 Palestine, Somahlaiid. Crete. Tobruk and Burma wa~s brought to W tminster by boat from Ihe Towei ol London where II nad hi* RepreeentaUvei of th<
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    P.I. EYES SPRATLEY ISLANDS
    95 8 P.I. EYES SPRATLEY ISLANDS MANILA. ThurS. C^OL. Rup*Tto Kangleon, P.I. Defence Secretary, favours ing a naval patrul mission to Spratley Islands, a group of coral atolls about 250 miles of Palawan Island, to counteract possible Chinese Red Infiltration into the Philippines. ident Q'.iinno h.\s said his Government would not put
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    Peking decision
    38 8 Communist China la to reveiop state and private enterprise, side by side, under a policy decision taken at a conference Just ended m Peking, of leaders of trade and industry from all over the c-un-try.- Reuter
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    Belgian MPs hoaxed
    85 8 FIFTEEN Social Christian members of the Belgian parlia- ment lined up outside former Premier Gatson Eyskens' oTice yesterday, each with visions of a ministry m Belgium's new government and each with the same story: ''I was telephoned urgently during the night and told to report here first
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    Mediator off
    26 8 Tiic United Nations X mir mediator, Sir Owen Uixon, left m a Pakistan Air Force plane yesterday for Rawalpindi enroute to Srina'^ar. Kashmir capital.
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    U.S., U.K. OPPOSE NEW RED PACT
    137 8 LONDON. Thursday. THE United States and Britain have announced that they do not recognise the East GermanPolish agreement of yesterday setting Germany's eastern border on the Oder-Ndsse line and thereby giving Poland a large slice of pre-war Gorman territory. The two Westeri allies, repudiating
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    New Red boss for S.-E. Asia
    208 8 SAIGON, Thursday. I^KENCH and Vietnamese sources said yesterday r that they believed the Moscow-trained IndoChinese insurgent leader. Ho Chi Minn, had been promoted and might become Communist leader for all South-East Asia. Suggestions that Ho was side-stepped because of "devtationism" m a "severe purge"
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    Their alarm came later
    31 8 FIREMEN of C 'hirago's Fn- Sine Company .hurried au.iv m response to a false alarm. When they returned, their I v *>:>()() television set was gone. A. P.
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    HE'LL DIRECT ATOMIC TESTS
    43 8 Major-General Robert Lee, of the U.S. Air Force, will be relieved as the Air Force's tactical commander on July 3 He will devote all his time to directing the air phase., of the forthcoming atomic tests at Eniwetok. U.P.
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    MORE TEA NEEDED
    21 8 Ceylon tea producers have offered only 90,000.000 lbs. of tea towards the United Kingdom request for 110,000,000 lbs.
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    JOINT COMPANY
    19 8 The Australian Government plans to form a joint company to exploit aluminium resources m New Guinea. U.P.
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    Socialism is on way out, says Churchill
    154 8 LONDON Thursday \IK. WINSTON CHURCHILL predicted yesterday *-**that socialism m Britain and "the clique of agitators" m the present CJo\ eminent soon will be "expunged' by the electorate. The Conservative leader declared the last general c tion proved that Britain's voters "'do not
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    Strachey busy in Hong Kong
    74 8 HONG KONG Thurs. MR John Btrmchey. B: Seer r War tnrough a bosv schedule j terday conferring with service chiefs and inspect 1113 military installations he: Mr. Strarhev is visiting I! m Kong m the course of h. em tour to assess the lota defence
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    No change in £, says Aust. P.M.
    27 8 No change in says Aust. P.M. The Australian Frime Minister, Mr. Menzies, has denied overseas reports that f he Federal Government will appreciate the Australian pound A.P.
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    STAFF REDUCED
    21 8 The U.S. State Department has ordered a 50 per cent iecluction m the American Embassy staff In Warsaw.- A.P.
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      105 8 HIGH TIDES Today: 4.09 a.m. 352 pm. Tomorrow: 5.3."> p.m. G. 41 p.m. THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris fHHH^J2Hm^2SPi^/ dUT 3E C^= AUSTIN J THERE 5 "1 THEM WE'VE Voh, NO-IT V\AS fv\Y OOOO MAN. A«E/ I HAVE N S r what AN AS5URD IDEA' AUSTIN 1 E0 HE 5
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