The Singapore Free Press, 14 June 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA So. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950. PRICE TEN I EMS
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    15 1 the World itiivition beint; by P.iris point* 1 ■>* n m front of N iti-Mii! IMCM-
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    'MAKE ENGLISH COMPULSORY'
    654 1 Free teaching m Federation SAYS REPORT Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. pHE ultimate desirable objective of education m the Federation should be free and finally compulsory primary teaching m English, says the first report of the Central Advisory Committee on Education which was tabled at
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    RUSSIANS SELL GOLD, DIAMONDS
    55 1 RUSSIANS SELL GOLD, DIAMONDS [NGTON, Wed. :ern I i rela selling diarti r^arhin?: l the worlds told the d about U.S. i h since the 7 ippemr to ant Mv sold tnd the Italian kmarkf T o its actual reported to id to Ts agents i i ich pianos as
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    AGENT KILLED
    6 1 MitT Reporter .>. killed rday
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    BANDIT KILLED IN RAID
    52 1 ONE bandit was killed and another believed to haw been hurt when a party of p >lice and military raided a house m the Muar-Segair.at Road m J rt yesterday. A qamctttj of food ai.l acnt b iika were tound m the h use AC n**i
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    Schools chief criticised
    649 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. CRITICISM of the Federation's Director of Education (Mr. M. R. Holgatc) Is contained m the final report of the Commission of Inquiry which was set up to investigate incidents at the Sultan Idris Training College, Tanjong Malim, last December. The
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    German Reds stop meeting
    70 1 DUSSELDORF. Wed. CO M iM UNI S T blue-shirt youths, swinging chairs, rushed an election rally platform here on Monday night and broke up a meeting of the Right Wing Free Democratic Party. They prevented a speech by a former German tank general. Hasso Eccard von
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    BRITISH MEAT RATION CUT
    34 1 BRITISH MEAT RATION CUT The British ration of fresh mea* to be reduced by 2d. wort jr head per week, making a week's ration equivalent to one shilling and four nence o'T head Reuter
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    2 BUSES FIRED
    28 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Bandits set fire to two civilian buses m the Kampar area of Perak yesterday. They took identity card* from tne passengers.
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    Best bets for today
    43 1 Free Press Racing Correspondent. XL ALA LIMPIR, Wed. MY best bets for today are RELEASE II and SUNNY VALLEY. The coin» is likely to he soft as heavy rain fell yesterday. Trespasser's best bets are LORD FREDERICK and BEAUCHAMFS.
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    P.I. EARTHQUAKE
    25 1 •An earthquake lasiin;-* 20 seconds rocked the fsland of NLusbate, m Cental Phiiinplnes, early yesterday. No casualties or damage wore reported A. P.
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    Finn P.M. sees Stalin
    32 1 Marshal Stalin last night received the Finnish Prime Minister. Dr. Urho Kykkonen. who is m Moscow to sign a new flvp-year Soviet-Finnish trade agreement says Moscow radio. U.P.
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    U.S. REACTS TO RUBBER BOOST
    158 1 LONDON, Wednesday. MR. A. Conway, chairman of the British Rubber Development Board, has announced a plan to promote the wider use of natural rubber m the United States which is progressing satisfactorily. The campaign, with the support of the planting industries m Malaya and Indo-China.
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    GOVERNOR LEAVES
    19 1 Governor Sir Alexander and Lady Grantham left Hong Kong by air yesterday for the United Kingdom. Reuter
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    29 1 The massed bands of ilie Brigade of Guards march, Off the Horse Guards' Parade. London, after the ceremony of Trooping the Colour, at which the King took the salute.
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    Border talks
    37 1 Talks between Britain and the Yemen to set up a clearly defined frontier between the Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden probably Will be held this summer, a Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday. A.P.
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    Flag at half mast for Dato Onn
    211 1 THE Kedah branch of UMNO flew its flag at half mast on Monday as an indication of its sense of loss" at Dato Onn's resigna- tion from the presidency of the United Malay National Organisation. The branch will shortly convene an emergency meet-
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    Hindu joins Cabinet
    55 1 7\WARKANATii ;>arori. the first Hindu to be appointed a provincial minister m Pakistan, was sworn m at Dacca yesterday as a member of the East Bengal cabinet, thereby fulfilling an important provision m the IndoPakistan Agreement on minorities. Bar oil is a lower -caste Hindu member of
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    FED. TO USE $60 m. MORE
    249 1 From Our Staff Correspondent Xl ALA LI'MPIR, Wednesday. STPPLEMENTARY expendituit* totalling 5G0,000,--000 m the Federation has been approved by the Standing Committee on Finance m a report tabled here at the meeting of the Federal Council this morning. This figure does not include about
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    Slim denies 'war' talk
    70 1 CHIEF of the British Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, now m Brisbane, flatly denied a Cairo report that he told the Egyptian government during his retent talks that "war is certain." "On the strength of the Commonwealth depends the future of the world."
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    USS BOXER DOCKS
    42 1 The U.S. aircraii-carner Boxer, back from a tour with the U.S. Western Pacific Fleet, docked yesterday at the Alameda naval air base near San Francisco. The carrier's 80 planes came m a day p^'*^^ n th#»ir mother shio.- A.P.
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    61 feared dead in 2 air crashes
    187 1 PARIS. Wed. PLANES scoured the windswept Persian Gulf yesterday and search parties hacked through forests m I wilds of Mada^as lookine for possible survivors among 61 p< feared dead la lit ,i n two French air dis; ters. Only when c and ho
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    SOONG STILL IN KMT
    73 1 ,^THE iecreUuy oi Mr T. v. Soong said yesterday that Mr. Soong had igned from the Kuomintane Party ;is reported recently Formosa. He said that Mr Soon* v ill ist-ue a statement m a few davt clarifying his position Mr Soonp. brother-in-law ol Gen. Chiang Kai
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    Diet For Chinese TB Patients
    900 2 SINGAPORE DOCTOR IS it possible to pre- pare a diet sheet for Chinese patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis? INFORMATION PLEASE. ANSWER: —In sickness and m health a well balanced diet is essential. The body requires fuel such as carbohydrates and fats. Proteins are also necessary
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    Whose Baby?' Blood Tests Improve
    656 2 Whose Baby?' Blood Tests Improve The Chapman Pincher Column I- 1 VIEW blood tests might be able to prove that one of the two women Lj a disputed baby case is not the mother. Until recently scientists believed that only four different types of human blood existed. Njw they have
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    20 2 "You see, doctor, we are identical twins except that 1 do all the worrying and he has all the fun.'
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    WILL POWER ONLY CURE FOR 'DRUNKS'
    225 2  - WILL POWER ONLY CURE FOR 'DRUNKS' Howard Blakeslee By DETROIT: ILTILL power Is still the only cure for alcoholism. Antabuse, the newest drug, is useful, but no home remedy. This was reported to the American Psychiatric Association by 12 American and Canadian doctors. They said Antabuse by itself is saf<\
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    TELL-TALE TEETH
    41 2 ith can bt j unset by mental worries, psychologists now claim. A 49 students at the Department of Oral Patho logy. Boston U.S showed that those nearest to being neurotic had more bad tpoth than the thoroughly stable people
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    Sunburn Warnings
    58 2 •3 with sleep pills cai skin trouble. So can ex] the sun af 1 1 i some pcrfuin dyes. or Th Dr. X' York skm tells of pi a suj b!y. But trouble. A ma! all over Thfchemir: Dr G< aiso i and I you're ultr;. with m
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      224 2 WHICH OF THESE AILMENTS DO YOU SUFFER^JJgJ Uol°d these mrmngs Jf-\ yjer* dr worse may come f Your doctor »*lfl te' 1 you that often then ree<? ara wirn nj »ijn» c' MiNERAL AND pc- roil VITAMIN DEFICIENCY "—warning* t»-at you're not (ettmg enough Mmerale and enurelji Iron Vitam nt
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      213 2 Solution To Crossword No. 71 SOLUTION Across: l, p a risienne. 7. Plain-spoken. 8, Wattles. 9. Doe. 10. All. 12. Wet days. 14. Extemporary 16, Grandsires. Down: 1, Pop. 2. React. 3. Single women. 4. Expositions. 5, No kid. 6, Inners. 8 Weasel. 11, Later. 13, A pair. 15, Yes.
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      419 2 New Cr**«s«sw«r«* No. 72 '■'1-' I I I I I LIES ACROSS I. Food that provides a curb on hosts <3. 5. 3». 7. Bcott'i sequel to "The Mcnastory" (5). 8. .v a id Tueeaiedum -Contrariwi^e." said Tweedledee (5). 9. It's gpm, with a missi'n X it>nn (3). 11. See
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    AMAZON TRIBES GUARD 'SECRETS'
    197 3 World 's supreme isolationists mwn WASHINGTON, Wednesday. TWO primitive Brazilian tribes— reported to have been just contacted by white men for the first time— still jealously guard th e "military secrets" of a forgotten civilization. Dr. Kalervo Oberg of the Smithsonian Institution has now told of
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    12,159 BAD CHEQUES IN 1 MONTH
    47 3 12, 1 59 BAD CHEQUES IN 1 MONTH ing House of ted 12 I ■> which ost 50 ban m April. Informant mm involved equivalent :i mm piao 10 1;.)0 Shan- p. bai de- the ird fdf di.s- up t month Chen Yi's U LC X* w Reuter
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    Runways will replace turnips
    18 3 lighter s:anon B I of BriOBM an airfield shortly h up and re- Reuter
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    26 3 photo. r fishing outfit, displayed at a Rome fair, t»>herrn.in to >t i y under water for up to one hours. Note the fishing eun. A.P.
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    NEW MOSCOW RESTAURANT
    171 3 NEW MOSCOW RESTA URANT MOSCOW, Wednesday. t restaurant to be opened m Moscow lid of the war has started business. The Ararat" and is operated by the of the Armenian Republic of the I U.S.S.R. The opening of this restaurant begin* an active competition m the lield of Middle- Eastern
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    Reds step up radio war
    93 3 HONG KONG. \V»d. (^hinese Communist* have joined In the tattle of the air waves. The I >n People's Government has unnounced that immediately the pow< of their broadcasting stations would bf stepped up In order to "combat reactionary propaganda" from the outside world official announci
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    WEST TO BAULK BERLIN THREAT
    68 3 MAJOR-GENERAL Geoffrey K. Bourne, British Commander m Berlin, has promised that the Westerx Powers would ward off "al threats" to Berlin, as the Communists plotted a new campaign of unrest m the western sectors. The East German Communist Youth Organisation saic that thousands of its
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    BAGUIO 'YES'
    25 3 The Australian Government has officially endorsed the proposals put forth at the recent Baguio Conference of South-East Asia and Western Pacific nations. A.P.
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    Why not give it away?
    79 3 M prize of £A13,000 m an interstate lottery has ir-oid Melbourne bachelor who doesn't »c says he has never travelled further than 25 >me. never wished for anything, doesn't want have i motor mower or a wife; insists on l his job requiring early morning
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    U.S. to buy excess tin
    43 3 U.S. to buy excess tin T /TON. Wed. :v.rnerce Detnnounced that purchases i dp fence stock--1 to absorb v production at also re■*'ho have ex- f what might U.S. decided to kpiled tin on m xhich proi produeciit pro:::vr? "agairsr- >: thtfli n»ital A.P.
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    CLAIMS ON BURMA
    16 3 legation included disLlie Burmese bat their mpensa".me and manivment were not re- Reuter
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    Historic woods saved from axe
    86 3 LONDON. Tues of Britain's most O historic woodlands where Julius Caesar's Roman legions fought 2,000 years aso and where mediaeval pilgrims sheltered on their way to erbury, have been saved from the woodcutters. The Kent County council has ordered the preservation of the woods, which
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    Foreign names remain in P.I.
    92 3 Foreign names remain in P.I. |?0R several reasons the F Philippines Department Of the Interior has enjoined municipal councils all over the country not to change the names of public places and prpjects bearing names of foreigners. Such changes may be permitted, however, if they are really "meritorious". A circular
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    69 3 Watched by 170 veterans of the historic Dunkirk evacuation, the Mayor of Margate fills a casket with sand which he, his family and the veterans took with them on the pleasure steamer Royal Daffodil with the intention to exchange the sand for sand from Dunkirk. But Brit i/ 1 customs
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    Papal rosary for Jap Dr.
    114 3 ROME, Tups. POPE Piu s XII has lent a specially blessed rosary to Dr. T. Nagai, the Japanese Catholic author, who was crippled m the Nagasaki atom bomb explosion. The rosary was presented to Mr. Nagai m Nagasaki, by the ApostolicDelegate, the Most Reverend Maximilian
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    Bridge Hands
    370 3 WHEN M. J. Sullivan of Brisbane, Australia, described the play of this doal. he didn't give the bidding beyond the first three calls, and the final contract The bidding show n is the way we imagine it might have gone with Victoria bidding the East- West cards. At
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    NEW AIR CAMERA
    33 3 A camera that can photograph a 26-mile strip of the earth m two seconds from a plane flying at 10,000 feet has been developed by the U.S. Air Force. Reuter
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    East Java to fight crime
    86 3 JAKARTA. Wed. THE Defence Minister of In- donesia, Sultan Homenku Bumong. has announced domestic measures to cope with the rri-^n of crime now prevalent m East Java. The minister's announcement ram»' m a radio .speech and follows the dismissal on Thursday of Ihe military Governor
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    New gadgets may exceed technicians
    208 3 NEW VOKK, Wednesday. SCIENTIST warns that the United States laces the danger of its supply of new gadgets outrunning the supply of technicians to man them. Dr. Hector R. Skitter, president of Airborne Instruments laboratory of Mincola. New York, says the shortage is not severe
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    24 3 The U.S. Navy has announced that the Bank of America has been licensed to operate the only bank on the island of Guam. A.P.
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    U.K. spooks draw U.S. $
    319 3 U.K. spooks draw U.S. LONDON, Wednesday. DKITAIN is putting its spooks to work to attract foreign tourists this summer. From the haunted Tower of London to William Shakespeare's sleepy hometown, Stratford-on-Avon. anxious-to-please guides and inn-keepers are memorising the fascinating national legends and ghost stories tourists like to hear— the more
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    EGYPT'S ASSETS
    25 3 The Egyptian Senate Finance Committee has urged the Egyptian Government to obtain settlement m full of Egypt's £300.000.000 sterling balances m Britain.— Reuter
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    P.C.s wait for Mao to make up his mind
    139 3 P.C. s wait for Mao to make up his mind LONDON. Wednesday. FOR several months already two policemen s.and ffuard outside the Chinese Embassy m Portland Place. They are waiting for Mr. Mao Tse-tun« to make up his mind. But Mr. Mao, Communist leader of the new Chinese People's Republic,
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    Police told, 'Go easy on lovers'
    82 3 Police told, 'Go easy on lovers' ATHENS. Tues LOVE received sum* 1 lr^al assistance here when the Chief-of-Police ordered nis men to take it easy with affectionate couples. He said that the statute* against promiscuity should not prevent a boy sitting on a park bench with his girl, nor an
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    It takes courage
    62 3 A FFEARANCG of girls m scanty costumes at heauty J\ parades surest* rourase rather than inimodfNix, says a leading Australian Methodist, the Rev. C. lrvin? Benson. He was commenting: on the Houscun criticism. Dr. Benson added: "But lam ill-informed on how beauty contest j;irls drrss and I
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    RAIDS IN TOKIO
    20 3 Tokio police have raided left-wing labour union offices, searching for antiAmerican leaflets. No arrests were rerjorted. U.P.
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      116 3 f < I? H4 J~hc <~>Hulc anX tke u<C^ea&on STURDY limbs, firm flesh and sound bones together with the happiness of abounding health these are some of the gifts bestowed by this famous food. For there is everything your baDy needs m a tin of COW AND G* T E!
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      244 3 SINGAPORE BFDBS [Singapore] 484 and i\l rr>- IJUAY Emergency news from K.L. 4.45 p.m. Programme summary; at 10 a.m. 4 47 'jp rom the London Editorials" 10 a.m. NSS A1 from Kuala lBBC>; 4.55 "Composer of the Lumpur; 10.50 For the Schools; Week"— Wagner; 5.15 "Report 12 Programmes In Malay;
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    S'PORE SALUTES PANDIT NEHRU
    353 4 PANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, v. ill arrive m Singapore on Saturday for a three-day visit, his second since the end of the war. He will confer with Government and Indian community leaders and on Sunday at 5 p.m. he will address a
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    MOTHER OF 5 SENT TO JAIL
    82 5 LONDON, Wednesday. MOTHtK ol five children was jailed for three months for violent behaviour m a school. She M i Winifred May Prangnell, 43, of Albion I halfont St. (liles, Buckinghamshire. stratea at Beaconsfield were told that Prangnell went into the school she: nl
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    ARABS FIRM ON JERUSALEM
    17 5 ARABS FIRM ON JERUSALEM J. -»nd >:ial m and the I ouncil m :r>id by Awn] I
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    30 5 Crowded Dunkirk beaches but this time it's for the ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the evacuation of British troops m which the little ships played so Rreat a pirt.
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    25 5 m the m*m uniform issued to WRAF bandswomen > une Butler, from Sutton. England, beats it out at the Ixbridge Depot of the Royal Air Force
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    TITO ASKS HELP
    34 5 >Hal Tit.^ hai i m\ a mission to West Germany to l*k a US$lOO,OOO,OOO aorth of eco nomic aid to help Yugoslavia survive m its Qght a^ains Russian clomina ion.- A.P.
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    Contract rejected
    21 5 The Philippines Cabinet has rejected a U555,750,000 conto an Italian firm and ordered public bidoing lor tie award. A.P.
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    'NO WILD WOMEN'
    62 5 fHE U.S. Sta*e Deoartment said wmcichat angrily this week that it is not using wild women at parties 10 influence Congressmen. Its indignation :cas groused by a press report (hat a party given by the Departmen; was attended by i:o~ men seeking to cajole congressional votes, mv
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    SIAMESE TWINS 'DOING WELL'
    160 5 HOBART Wednesday. arthlight of press and radio has now «d away from the Siamese twins of northmania, the problem of their future remains. twins, joined at the head, are at present with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Erskine tone, and the cenire of the family's life.
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    JAP GIRLS FOR IS
    25 5 The U.S. Congress has advanced legislation to permit several Japanese girls to so to the United States an« marry American servicemen.
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    JAP TRADE
    351 5 Prejudice is disappearing TOKYO, Wednesday. INDIA and Australia are expected almost to double their purchases from Japan under the new 1900 al Japan-sterling area trade agreement, which is expected to be negotiated m Tokyo before the expiry of th e present agreement at the end of the month.
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    24 5 The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery m full dress engage m a musical drive m Birmingham at the 1950 Bath and West Agricultural Show.
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    T.V. CREATING 'MORONS'
    89 5 BOSTON. Wed. liHE craze tor television. warned Dr. Daniel Marsh, president of Boston University, will produce "a nation of morons." Said he: 'The habit of reading is necessary to create intelligence and with TV the young people will uot bo able to acquire the habit of reudirg."
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    FUKIEIN CRASH
    23 5 Taipch reports say a X sian-made je' plane bound, for Foochow (Fukien) crashed m the southern par) of the' province. A.P.
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    NEGRO WINS 'RACIAL' CASE
    127 5 NEW YORK, Wed. TLMER HENDERSON is a Government official. He also happens to be a negro. Recently he travelled by train into Alabama, deep In America's South, on Government business. At lunchtime he felt hungry and walked to the dining car. Sorry, he was told, we
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    12 5 I'lIK hottot heat wave for many years has been reported from Britain.
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    BOAT'S NEW ROLE
    49 5 The Eastern Princess, Great Yarmouth pleasure craft,, is now sailing daily into peaceful waters she knew well m her former role— as the Naval patrol vessel M. L. 347. During the war she helped to protect the English East Coast, and shot down four German planes.
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    US warning on tin supplies
    65 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. PRESIDENT Truman's abmi--1 nutrition restcrday urged Congress for continued authority to opera'e the government's USSII.COOCOO tin smelting plant at TexmJ City, until June 28. 1939. A government spok-v>man warned thai the world's I tin ore supplies were m South East A*ia. "where :he
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    3 NAVIES IN 'COLD' WAR
    256 5 LONDON, Wednesday. pRENCH, Dutch and British naval units are this month continuing a summer programme of combined operations intended to add fact to the political theories of unity enunciated by the Foreign Ministers of the Brussels and Atlantic Treaty Powers. Pessimistic predictions that Frenchmen m
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    NAVAL HERO DEAD
    31 5 NAVA L HERO DEAD Admiral Sir Henry Harv.ood hero of the first major nava action of the Second World ;War, the battle of the River Pfate, has died at Goring-on-Tnames. Reuter
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    NO MORE P.O.W.s
    25 5 The Soviet news agency Tass has termed "invented" reports that Russia still holds a large number of Japanese prisoners of war. A.P.
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    243 Marry at eighty
    68 5 TWO HUNDRED and eleven men and 32 women over the age of eighty were married m the United Kingdom during 1948. nine of them being over ninety. But the most popular age for embarking on matrimony, according to the RegistrarGeneral's Statistical Review which has just been
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    Communist purchased dutiable cigs.
    210 5 LONDON, Wednesday. ***** BARRETT, Communist general secretary of U the Amalgamated Stevedores' Tnion, said after he was fined £3 at Tower Bridge London, for buying duty-free cigarettes: "I don't know if I shall lose my union job. It all depends on what is made of this
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    'GROG' MEDAL
    53 5 The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, has received a medal struck to mark the popularity of Admiral \ernon. This eighteenth century seaman had a claim to fame as the inventor of grog Finding undiluted rum harmful to sailors In the tropical climate of the West Indies, he ordered the
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    FLEET FLIERS
    36 5 The Navy i "week-mid fliers", the RNVR air squad- rons. will be flying fighters and anti-submarine planes m exercises against the Home Fleet m the North -Western approaches of the Ir<sh Sea this month.
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    JAP, U.K. TALKS
    34 5 The Japa Ing a?«*a trade talks entered their sixth day yesterday with the conferees anxious to boost the trade volume bat beset with regional problems and «he world du'.iai- shortage. U.P.
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    Witchdoctors buy trilbys
    116 5 Witchdoctors buy trilbys BIRMINGHAM, Wed. WHEN second-hand clothier. Maurice Blackevsky, ot Handsworth, Birmingham, did his wartime service with Army Signals he learned a good deal about the clothing requirements of coloured nationals m several parts 01 the world. To him a woman's cast-off overcoat meant a walking-out showpiece tor an
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    49 5 Village postman delivering letters at the Cambridgeshire village of Shepreth is Major George Scurfleld M.C., 8.A., who lives m the 12th century manor house there. Ke does it "to keep my wife and I'm cigarettes." he says. His ambition is to be a sue- .il novelist.
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    127 5 TAIPEH. Wed the Reds continued preparations for the invasion ;of Formosa, the Execu-.ive Yuan decreed the death penaj lty for and regimental commander who orders retreat with -out approval from a higher authority It also decreed that if a regimental commander dies m action
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    32 5 Brigadier General John Weckerling. chief of the Louisiana military district, states that the United States has a gui led missile capable of destroying plane flying at supersonic speed U.P.
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    164 5 LONDON', Wed THE night was warm thermometer wa near the eighties A good U drink of English v be just the thing with din: thought the Man from li laya. Mr. F P G Pritoh Two glasses of v please,' he said to a
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    IN CAST FOR 4 1/2 YEARS
    89 5 five years ago Jim i Campbell, young cro: Letheren. Caithness. Scotland. was sitting on a pile of equinment being taken by lorry to Army stores when he fell Into the roadway and injured bis back. For 4* 2 hospital wrapped m i cast from
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    31 5 An overhead travelling crane controlled by radio transmitter 200 feet away is being demonstrated for ttM first time m the mechanical handling exhibition whicii pened at Olympia. London.
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    KARACHI TRADE
    26 5 Pakistan's sea-borne irad j through Karachi m Apnl showed a favourable balance of 11.200.000 rupees «US3--360.000'. Exports amount 71,100.000 rupees and In. 59.900.000. A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, June 14, 1950. State of the union
    513 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, June 14, 1950. State of the union rr»HE British Labour Party, after weeks of hesitancy, has now taken the plunge and rejected United Kingdom participation m the Schuman Plan. Thus end idealistic dreams (at least while the present GovernWteni is m power) of a ur.ited
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    1193 6  -  MARTIN CHISHOLM (IT HAPPENED} IN 4,000 B.C. f By ASTRONOMERS watching the skies at the beginning of this year saw for the first time the flare of a shattering cosmic explosion which happened m space at least 6,000 years ago. What the astronomers saw was
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    Lament Of A 'Man Mountain'
    379 6  -  Stan Swinton By TEHERAN: 4 MAN mountain from Persian Baluchistan has this city of 1,000,000 m a state of wonder. Poolud Kurd, 32, is: E:ght feet two inches (249 centimetres) tall. Weighs 300 pounds (136 kilos). Has feet 22 inches (55 centimetres) long (he binds
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    LP Records—Boon or Bane?
    691 6  - LP Records— Boon or Bane? PRESTO Music Topics By lET'S take gramoJ phone records as our subject this week— and m particular that latest phenomenon from America, the Long Piling record. We have, now and again, heaid a lot about this new wonder and to record collectors the prospect of
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    NEW RECORDS
    190 6 Chopin The lwent>-foar Preludes (Op. -Xi played by Benno Moiseiwitth (piano) IIMV :772-5. Those records will be welcomed not only because Chopin lovors are legion but because of the clarity of the recording. We have had Chopin Interpretations galore but most have suffered from inadequate recording. The piano
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    38 6 Pin-Uv Girl Meets War Hero: On the set of My Blue Heaven, Betty Grable greets Capt. Don S. Gentile, mar ace who shot down 32 German planes. He flew to Hollywood for the premiere of Twelve o'clock High.
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    JAP REDS GET TOUGH
    181 6  -  RUSSELL BRINES B% TOKIO: lAPAN'6 Communists a preview recently of what may be bolder and more violent anti-Occupation tactics. They also adopted for the first time their new strategy of sparkIng a major demonstration with young students and excitable Koreans. The result, a series of small
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    HEN LANDLORDS REFUSE RENTS
    636 7 HEN LANDLORDS REFUSE RENTS S 'pore clerks have a plan Free Press Staff Reporter RECOMMENDATION that the Singapore Government should appoint a public authority to whom rents tendered to and refused by a landlord may he paid by tenants or sub-tenants, has been made to the Select Committee of the
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    The 13th centre
    47 7 Stefl Reporter ions Office m Buildin ff has !L T another registration 0? im uould-be voters u-h thrre are alMuh centres m few people the Elections be registered. tn were EuroM ponnudoray. Asii'it pervisor of Elects sai yesterday that no application m had been
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    VICTORY SAVINGS
    8 7 MPUB, Taes.— Savings d i::clud0, amounted
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    THIEF STOLE THE CURRY
    186 7 Free Press Staff Reporter BlKi-l \KY and petty thieving have become problems for truants of Singapore Improvement Trust flats m Chenj Van Place (off and Albert Street, Singapore. .dents told the *hat bebtd they window be kept i lor i tl he hud tenslls I I
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    Kept brothel, sentenced
    123 7 Kept brothel, sentenced Free Press Staff Reporter A 42- YEAR-OLD widow. Yong Ah Wee. who said she was a seamstress, was sentenced to four months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. P. C. Claque. Singapore Fourth Police Magistrate, yesterday for allowing her premises to be used as a brothel. Yong was arrested
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    R.A.F. PLANES DELAYED
    55 7 The two K.A.F Vallettas which were expected to arrive at Changi yesterday for two months" tropical trial have been delayed. The Valletta is the militarised version of the Viking, i and the Transport Squadron Of the Middle East Air Force has already commissioned these twin-engine aircraft on
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    RETIREMENT
    25 7 AFTER 15 years as Medical Superintendent 'if the Mental Hospital. Singapore, Dr. B. F Home, has gone on leave to England prior to retirement.
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    34 7 picture. WOKK m progress on the new Indian Association building m Balestier Road. Singapore, the foundation stone of which will be laid by the Indian Prime Minister. Pandit Nehru, on June 17 Free Press
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    FILM SOCIETY
    31 7 The Singapore Film Society will hold its annual general meeting tonight at 8.30 m the British Council Hall m Stamford Road. The fikn "Daybreak will Precede" will be shown.
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    MUTUAL AID SCHEME FOR BARBERS
    190 7 MUTUAL AID SCHEME FOR BARBERS Free Press Staff Reporter rE Singapore Chinese Barber Aiisistants Union is starting a scheme under which unemployed members who are m distress can get help from a common fund to i which members will be asked I to contribute one dollar each, j This resolution
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    MAHJONG DRIVE
    18 7 St. Andrew's Mission Hospital Linen Guild are holding a mahjong drive at Raffles Hotel this morning.
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    Malay education survey urged
    269 7 Free Press Stall Keportc/ KUALA LI MPI R, Wednesday. A COMMITTEE should be set up to examine the whole subject of Malay education m the Federation, says the Commission of Inquiry which was set up to investigate incidents at the Sultan Idris Training Clole^e, Tanjon^ Malim,
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    CHINA STREET HAWKERS
    320 7 'Snobbish' hawkers give trouble Free Press Staff Reporter "^NOBBISH" licensed hawkers have been giving more trouble than unlicensed ones to the Singapore Hawkers' Association, which is running a campaign to prevent hawkers littering the streets and obstructing traffic. The president of the association, Mr. Teo Peng Bok,
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    COUNCIL QUERY ON BANNED SEX FILM
    212 7 COUNCIL QUER Y ON BANNED SEX FILM Free Press Staff Reporter QUESTIONS wiU be asked m the Singapore Legislative Council next Tuesday by Mr. C. C. Tan (Municipality South-West) on the film "Secrets of Life" which the Censor, Mr. Jack Evans, has banned from public exhibition m the Colony. One
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    127 7 Free Pr< Man* Reporter QUESTIONS on the Colony's film censorship with particular regard to the appoint ment of Mr Jack Evans will be asked by Mr. N. A. Mall a 1 second member for Municipality South- West). Mr. Mallal asks when Mr. Evans was appointed, what previous
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    FEDERATION FILM BOARD PROPOSED
    454 8 FEDERATION FILM BOARD PROPOSED Expansion of Unit urged Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. A FEDERATION of Malaya Film Board to control the Malayan Film Unit is recommended m a report by the producer-in-chief of the Australian National Film Board, Mr. Stanley Havves, who came here m March at
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    A PREMIER ON TOUR
    42 8 picture. PAKISTAN Premier Liaquat AH Khan (right) talks with Canadian Foreign Minister Lester B. Pearson during the Premier's appearance with his wife, the Begum, at a reception giren them m Ottawa on their tour of Canada. A. P.
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    BLUE ROVERS
    66 8 "DLL'E Roven JU*J managed to U U full p ran Ith. Supply Reserve Depot RASC irtr S.A.F.A. Junior B. Group ;ihup nuitch kt B1 <■• Road last evening. Rovers won 3-2. Ah Goo (2) L.i hi Muda k;^»' K>m Mr»»'-!iil lr;id m the first half However, Rovers fell
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    Banishee came back: 15 years
    176 8 Xl ALA LIMPITR, Tuesday. ABANISHEE for life, Lim let alias Lam Ah Ng was today sentenced to 15 years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson m the Kuala Lumpur Supreme (our! on a charge of entering the country without lawful authority. Lim was arrested
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    ASCOT AS CAY AS EVER
    122 8 \M <)T \e^terdav was as gay and as fishionable as u^ual. Indeed, there seemed to be more men dressed m morning toils than sincr before the war. while the women vied "with each other to produce the largest and most conspicuous hats to match thrir
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    P. R. department 'well organised'
    362 8 Free Press Staff Reporter KVALA Ll/MITR. Wednesday^ THE Public Relations Department of the Federation is well organised and there is no evidence of inefficiency, states a report of a committee appointed to examine the working of the departmVnt which was tabled at this morning s
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    WOMAN GOT 'BAT IN EYE'
    114 8 MRS. EDITH COULSON of Went'A-orth-road. York, was on holiday at Bridlington when a beach cricketers bat rtew from his hand and struck her on the temple. She told Judge Kingsley Griffith at Bridlington County Court that the batsman. Mr. William Corker, of King-lane. Alwoodley Leeds,
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    SEGURA IS 'PRO.' CHAMPION
    70 8 FRANCISCO SEGURA of Ecuador won the U.S. national professional tennis championship on Monday nisht by default when Irs cramp forced Fran* Kovakl of Oakland. California, to quit m the tourth set. Segura had won two sets. After about an hour Kova!:s was ll Ie to return
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    GOLD CUPPROBABLES
    172 8 SEVENTEEN final acceptors were published yesterday the Gold Cup, Lo be run over two-and-a-half miles at Ascot on June 15. They are: Woodburn. Vie Day. lianreU 11. Colonist 11. Pas de Calais, Suoertelio. Royai Empire, Postillion. Native Heath, G oins Grace. Aideborou°,h. Ciel Eloile. Alinbrake. E.;pree Vital, Lone
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    PHADKAR FOR NELSON CLUB
    80 8 F). G. Phadkar. the Indian Tesl All-rounder, will be playing for the Nelson rlub m the Lancashire Cricket League next year. A. S. De Mello. president of the Indian Cricket Control Board, said yeste'day that he had been approached by the Nelson club In ihis regard
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    A.C.J.S. SPORTS
    24 8 The annual sports of AngloChinese Junior School, Singapore, will be held on Saturday from 3 p.m. a i the Barker Road ground.
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    Old Boys' race
    63 8 AN 880-yard race has been arranged for Old Boys at the annual sports meeting of the St. Joseph's Institution Continuation School to be held on the S.J.I ground. Bras Basah Road, on June 26. Those wishing to participate m the j;ace are to communicate with the hon.
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    WIMBLEDON TENNIS
    109 8 •pWENTY-FIVL tv lonj be repre^. In ihe Wimbledon championpremier lawn ten:, i ;:n--amem of the world, wnich opens on June 26. Though Ted Schroeder. the champion, and Bob Falkenburg. winner m 1948. are notable absentees from the list of ci. announced yesterday, the United States will have tight
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    PROFIT-TAKING HITS WALL ST.
    95 8 "THE New York Stock I pestcrtfaj Mtn(ia\ nilBM buy« limit their ton: m itii allow corrective forces some play. Modest selling proved .sufficient only to push prices to leases mostly of up to US$l or so. Const: sentiment however, continued to be cheerful und this was
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      THE LADY IN A HAT
      1291 9  - THE LADY IN A HAT ARTHUR HILL by -r'jl lad}' m a hat i briskly her car into BuiMinfr glanced :it mion with a smile. :ken a to track but now re the old so sure of answer- -Perhaps making a head, too There's aretaker t.n she careIced. ner, old
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      1355 9  - The thief with the 100 faces FABIAN YARD by roj gfgfgfg A PIGEON settled on the oldfashioned small window sill of the Scotland Yard office, under the high red turrets where I was a fledgling detecfiveconstable clerk. It was a baking July day m 1929. All oV us were m
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      90 9 Backward seats aid survival 4 I f s. Air I ►n o.i rock- Muroc cd. that endurance m this pc have not been retched "It would v c sal to elude that In the backward facing seated r>r d only suitable head r f ar.d cushioning m I the ;<lrli.ip
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    50 10 Brute Woodcock (right), the British heavyweight champion, misses with a straight left m his fight against Lee Savold m their world heavyweight title (British version) light at White City Stadium. London, on June 6....W00dc0rk retired at the end of the fourth end with a bad cut over his left eye.
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    Every boy has chance to score
    398 10  - Every boy has chance to score TAN TOCK SAIK VICTORIA SCHOOL ATHLETICS By VICTORIA School is one oi two schools In Sin- gapore which have a special system of training by which every onp of the 700 students takes active part m athletics. This system, which is still m its
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    PAVILION PROFILES
    295 10  - PAVILION PROFILES JOHN ARLOTT Bj ••/GENIUS", said Tho--1 mas Carlyle, m one of the most frequently misquoted sentences m all literature, "means transcendent capacity for taking trouble first of ali." That quotation fvs perfectly the cricketing genius of Harold Gimbleit, who bats No. 1 for Somerset, and who, with heartening
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    HOW COLONY BEAT SING TAO
    768 10  - HOW COLONY BEAT SING TAO CRUSADER SAFA coach was right Hv WHILE the Sing Tao retinue filed out of the pavilion crestfallen after their defeat on Monday evening there was sreat jubilation m the Singapore team's dressing room. One of the happiest men there was Mr. R. B. I. Pates,
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    26 10 picture. The 121 fmria hardies race m progress at the Singapore Police a'» -vis Th' winner was *»üb-lnsp&ctoi Koh Teck Chung (on extreme left). Free Press
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    OLD RIVALS CLASH
    32 10 Wong Peng Soon (left) and Ooi Trik Hock pose for th*Free Press before their exhibition match at the Happy World Stadium. Ooi won IS— i, lf, 13—13 (I I).
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    Schoolboy in Penang Cup XI
    439 10  -  K. WOO By >'INKTF:f:N -year-old Chuah Poh Beng of IVnant; on Sunday had the distimtion of being the lir>t schoolboy selected to play for the Malayan 'him -se Football Association, against Sing Tao tourists from Hong- Kong. A fast-rising bivt unassuming pi Poh bhas the
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    340 10  -  BILLY STEEL By T»Hh present trend of forwards' tactics is, lam x sure, leading us to brighter football. The thought L prompted by a letter from a reader, who pleads for a return to the two-back ?ame and an end of the stopper centrehalf.
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    88 10 Thomas Cuppers as good as ever I OBBCSrONDENi MALAYA'S T1 teta Cup m considerer. Judging anc re*> i da. Hamn W On X tltlV' appeared line. L. piayr-r H. hon which k was Fine Comfainr m o i i con. morv He t. 1 doi: 1 combinat von l Supreme
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    RELEASE II IS A NAP SELECTION
    216 11 Latest hints from track Free Press Racing Correspondent OFIF4W if KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. JS«n ff nf ?S e °f the day. Intake him my Nap selection The going is likely to be yielding after yesterday's rain. Bright Mengseng is fancied by his connections m
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    85 11 pKIMO Camera. ex -heavy weight boxing champion of the world, who has turned wrestler, will not be arriving m Singapore for his fifht against King Kimg until towards the end of this month. Camera, who is at present m Guam, has not yet com pie I j
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    111 11 SEBASTIAN MAY FIGHT IN S'PORE FLASHY SEBASTIAN, former welterweight champion of the Orient, who will be •mbered by Singapore fans for his sensational four- round knock-out victory t Mohamed Fahmy, the Egyptian middleweight, at the Happy World arena m 1939. may tight here again Pr Razak is m communtcaUon with
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    35 11 BOD. Perks ShieM ioadquarters v 2 Sub Depot General by three «oals to one vbtn met on BODCA ground day. Scorers for General Store were Angullia and Heard. Jablal i goal for Headers.
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    37 11 photo. ROBERT YILIEMAIN, th« French middleweight, covers up and goes under a right cross from Ray "Sugar" Ro»n m the seventh round of their 15-round fight at Philadelphia, Pennsylyania, on June 5. Robinson won on points. A.P.
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    Mapua beat Singapore
    51 11 MAPUA Institute of Technology beat a combined Singapore side at basketball by 73 points to 40 at the Happy World last night. It was their fifth successive victory. Jose Lim top -scored for the visitors with 20 points. Singapore led 16-15 at the end of the first
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    BAILEY CAN'T RUN IN BRUSSELS
    75 11 FE British Amateur Ath letic Board has refused to give permission to K. MacDonald Bailey, the Jamaican who is British sprint champion, to run m Brussels on June 21. Bailey said the Belgians had told him he had been barred by the British because he
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    203 11 INDIAN R.C. HOLD TIGERS TO DRA W INDIAN Recreation Club sprang a surprise m the opening match of the S.A.F A. Challenge Cup at 1 Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday when they shared honours with Timers, both scoring once. The IRC. goalkeeper, Narayana, was In splendid form, ing shots from all
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    237 11 LONDON, Wed. A 'POWERFUL" Commonwealth cricket team has been selected to tour India this winter, Mr. *i S. De Mello, president of the Indian Cricket Control Board, said m London yesterday. "I have the list of players reafy but cannot disclose it at tjhis stas:e."
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    90 11 RESULTS of yesterday's Singapore lawn tennis tournament matches were: Results were: Men's Singles: Ong CTiew Bee oeat Y. P. Wee C-0. 6-1: A. G. B. Pakir beat Tan Kock Seng 6-3. 6-1: Urn Hee Chin bnat K. H. Ang 6-2, 6-3- Llem line Lian« bent Low Kee Pofc
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    229 11 TRESPASSER Fres Press Racing EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER Correspondent RACE 1 J5 R i?5 T MENGSENG DARK ROMANCE BRIGHT MENGSENG BERTON ROSALINE Dark Romance Bright Mengseiif Dark Romance Rosaline Greetings S0 Bcrton Rosaline Berton Bright Mengseng Bright Mengseng RACE Z THE MAGIC LAMP NACHTEGAAL NACHTEGAAL
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    536 11  -  VERNON MORGAN From DATCHY weather did not prevent nearly half a 1 million people attending the opening of the Royal meeting on the famous heath at Ascot (Berkshire) yesterday. They saw some wonderful racing of an international flavour after the meeteng had been started by
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    BERCMANN IS SUSPENDED
    65 11 RK 'HARD BERGMANN. world tabie tennis champion, has been suspended indefinitely by the English Table Tennis Association. An E.T.T.A. announcement states that Bergmann is suspended from June 30 for breach of the regulation respecting a playing trip abroad m spite of previous warning. The operation of this
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    601 11 BDI'L Kardar, former Indian Test all-rounder, yesterday played a big part m Warwickshire's fifth county victory of the English season with his brilliant left-arm spin bowline: a?ainst Leicestershire. Finding his best form lur the championship leaders, Kardar completely turned the course of the match after Leicestershire had
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    27 11 picture. Mr. Yeo Hock Sen? leads m Mata Ilari (Ingram), winner of the fifth race (Class 2, Div. I—.">jfj1 ."> jfj at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Free Press
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    St. Andrew's v. Old Boys
    92 11 St. Andrew's v. Old Boy s nPHE follow the Ssent boys fa Dr. S H. T. Shield on IMB. t»nd Sunday at 11 a.m. on ttM gToimd. J. Anchant. J. Ross, J I) H Sh.ih R. Tay E P TVe. A f%. Armstroni:, C. da S:!v^.. A C. Neubn oner,
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    ALL BLUES TOP J.B. LEAGUE
    79 11 Free Press still X p t>i JOHORE 13AHRC ALL Blues, by defeating mos by three goaLi to are now at the top of tbe local soccer 1 ague In first half All Blu?s led by a goal scored by Majid off a penalty. Dollah Don
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      37 11 Today's sport SOCCER: Snr. l*e: Roven S.C. v 8.0.D.C.A. at Jalan Be*ar Stadium; Jnr, B. 2: C.V.M.A. (P.M.) SUr Socoertte* at C.V.M.A. CRICKET: Raffles Inut. v St. Andrew's at Raffles ground. TENNIS: Singapore championships at S.C.C. (cant.).
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    BIRTHS
    38 12 HOBBS: To Joan Estell, wife of Flight Lieutenant Leonard :e Hobbs. R.A.F.. a daughter. at R.A.P. Hospital. Changi. on June 13th. FLETCHER: To Ruth, wife of B. rietchor. twin daughters, »t Nelson Nt'W Zealand, on S h
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    MARRIAGE
    18 12 THE MARRIAGE between Mr. v Hoe and Miss Wong Wan. took place yesterday at Neil Road. Singapore.
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    SETBACK TO RED PLANS IN CHINA
    303 12 Admission by Mao Tse-tung HONG KONG, Wednesday. CHINA'S No. 1 Communist, Mao Tse-tung, has officially stated that possibility of a third world war still exists, admitted that serious Nationalist guerilla resistance is continuing on the mainland and warned that a fundamental change for the
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    72 12 Scenei at the funeral of Field Marshal Farl Wavell show (above) the hearse Hanked by Yoeman Warders proceeding from the Tower of London for embarkation on the Thames for the service at Westminster Abbey and (top) N.C.Ot. and other ranks of the Field Marshal's own regiment, the Black Watch, placing
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    Dr. Tsiang is not impressed
    97 12 NEW YORK. Wed NATIONALIST Chinas chief UN. delegate. Dr. Tsiang Ting-fu. said Mr. Trygve Lie's 10-point programme for world peace is amateurish ard that the UN. Secretary- General would not got lar with his plan. Mr. Lie's solution of the Chircse case. Dr. Tsiang said,
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    A new Tokio 'Garry Davis'
    83 12 TOKIO. Wed. A 25-year-old American Air a\ Force lieutenant said yes-tt-rday that he planned to remain m Japan and promote the programme of 'world citizenship" founded m Europe by Garry Davis, a former United States Air Force bombardier Lieut. Robert D. Farnii*ton, whose home is
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    New tanker
    35 12 AN OFFICIAL of Kawasaki Heavy Industries stated yesterday that turns m Kobe dockyard would deliver the 13,234 gross ton oil tanker Fernmanor to Fearniey Eger Co., of Norway on June 17. Reuter AAP
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    The Swiss store up war food
    78 12 BEKNE, Wed. TUIK Swiss Government \rsterday ordered that tin* emergency food stocks to be laid up by ever\ Swiss household m case of war must be assembled by the end of September. For the two-month p which the Government estimates food imports would be
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    Asked to tea, then shot
    69 12 HONG KONG. Wed. AN unidentified Chinese yesterday snot and wuunded his prruy tea-time companion m "The Gripps" room of the colony's fashionable Hong Kong Hotel, ttfen escaped into the streets. Two bullets struck the woman m the shoulder. Most of the 200 customers In the
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    U.S. assurance
    35 12 AMERICAN officials on Tuesday reaffirmed their confidence m the government of General Plastiras which for the past two months has been subjected to a nerve war conducted by its Right Wing opponents. A.P.
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    100,000 Japs m China
    79 12 OF more than 100,000 Japanese men and women remaining m Red China, about 62,000 are serving with the Communist forces, Japanese repatriation officials m Tokio claim. The statistics are based on letters written by Japanese m China to their relatives m Japan. The Japanese are distributed
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    FLOODS KILL 48
    29 12 At least 48 persons have died In the Tokio area In floods and landslides caused by torrential rains. Seventeen people are missing and 10 Injured. A.P.
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    Women's heaven on Pacific island
    180 12 MAM'S (Admiralty Islands), Wednesday. AUSTRALIAN scientists are exploring a tiny "Shangri-la" island m the Pacific where native men spend long hours combing: the hair of beautij ful, almost white native women, reports Sydney Sun correspondent George Johnston. The correspondent says that the women on the
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    DULLES FOR JAPAN
    27 12 Mr. John Foster Dulles, adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, will leav<? Washington today for a two-week tour of Japan and Korea. Reuter
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    FOREIGNERS MAY INVEST
    60 12 LONDON Wfd THE Allied High Commission will today declare Western Germany open to foreign Investment for the first time since the end of the war. it was learned yesterday from a usually reliable. ■ouree. The decision follows a recentlyreached agreement be' ween the Western Allied High Commissioners
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    17 ARRESTED EN RAID
    58 12 ANTI-COMMUNIST police squads were reported yesterday to have arrested* 17 persons m a midnight raid on Rodel Farag district In north Cairo. The police were Mid 10 have closed m on a number of houses m a search after a long period of surveillance. They seized
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    DOCTOR'S PIQUE CAUSES DEATH
    108 12 HONG KONG, Wednesday "INSUFFICIENT indoctrination' is blamed by the 1 workers union of a Shanghai municipal hospital for the_death_ of one of trie hospital's patients. According to a report from Shanghai, a doctor after a probe by the Hospital Employees Union admitted that his lack of
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    HK industries alarmed over Jap 'invasion'
    69 12 ■ONG KONC, UYd n <>,j lv TIONG KONG'S young industries cannot c u Wl(h 11 Japanese cut-throat com(>ctition. i chief manufacturers said ycstirday. This remark followed th,- c first post-war exhibition of Japanwhich throngs of pushing and sh< businessmen left little doubt about I
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    U.N AID PLAN PROGRESSES
    222 12 NEW YORK, Wednesday OOME representatives of under-developed coun- tries, including those from Asia, expressed gratification yesterday that thi I.V technical aid the initial effort was inadequate to the high purport 7 involved. Despite the Soviet boycott, the 51 nation conference now appears sure to reach its
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    FORMOSA MISSION TO I.C.
    32 12 Taipeh. V/od. "pHE Nationalists King 1 to repatriate the 30.000 Government troop ned m Indo-China sinoe fleeing across the border from the Reds. Nationalist Gen P:rig Heirn v,
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    W. Germany joins
    37 12 W Germany joins The Lower House or Bundestag of the West German Parliament yesterday approved West German entry into the Council of Europe after a riotous session marked by the expulsioi of Communist leader Max ftelmann. U.P.
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    NEWS PAPER STRIKE
    17 12 Editorial and commercial employees of ihe New York World-Telegram Su on strike yesterday. U.P.
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