The Singapore Free Press, 19 June 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA V,. I" SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    RAIDED SCHOOL'S REPLY REJECTED
    343 1 Council will decide future By KOH PEN(; LONG FOLLOWING an emergency conference by; directors of the Chinese High School, Singapore, at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the Governor ill-Council is expected to consider the case of the school, which was raided on May SI. 11
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    21 1 pict i»nr o( the »k part m wrddms at the i| Hall >esI :i hehalf of •r thr cere- Free Press
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    31 1 picture. P.mJ <. Nehru (left) si-jns an autograph for an ad piirer at Johore Bahru and (ri?ht) lays the foundation Rtonc :it the Ciandhi Memorial ceremony m Racecourse Lane yesterday. Free Press
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    'Stolen' ships anger Reds
    211 1 HONG KONG, Monday. FIE pro-Communist captains of two of the three fishing trawlers which bolted from Hong Kong 1 ixt week said yesterday that the ships were stolen •by Kuomintang officials and their foreign accomplice f They added m a statement to the press, that the
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    BANDIT KILLED
    27 1 A patrol of tiic Green Howards killed a bandit m the Kuala Pillah area of Negri Sembilan yesterday afternoon. A pistol and ammunition were recovered.
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    MORE RICE AND
    25 1 President Truman on Saturday approved a bill allowing for the controlled rice acreage for 1950 to be increased by 7,965 acres U.P.
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    5,000 die ...
    23 1 5,000 die In the epidemic of cerebo spinal meningitis that swept Africa this year, more than 5.000 people died In Nigeria alone.— U.P.
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    SHIP FOR MALAYA 'MYSTERY'
    148 1 LONDON, Monday. P'IVE hundred tons of shells tracer shells and machinegun bullets for Malaya were "secretly and hurriedly loaded' into a steamer m the Thames Estuary during the week-end, the communist Daily Worker reported yesterday. The paper added that the Government adopted this new policy "apparently
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    ISRAEL REPLY TO SWEDEN
    13 1 n. I In by air quest by i A.P.
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    JAP AGENCIES
    16 1 Ind. jtified Japan of it to the Jap. ■t up three over- > m Inc.
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    H.K. REDS IN NAT. CLASH
    121 1 HONG KONG. Mon. MORE than six Chinese were injured, throe seriously, during a day-long series of clashes yesterday between leftist trade unionists and refugee Nationalist soldiers. The soldiers said the union- ists carrying Red flags tried to persuade them to join the Chinese Reds The
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    Working his wav to jail
    53 1 I \RBKIT" is a popular word a!non<4 students i Japan. It means to earn <vay through college. One Tokyo student's arbeit found out, recently, lie 1 confessed to police that he stolen several parcels and other goods at Yokohama station and aboard trains on the
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    SENATORS WANT LIE DISMISSED
    117 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. DEPUBLICAN Senators Styles Bridges. New Hampshire, and William F. Knowland. California, yesterday accused Mr. Trygve Lie, the UN. Secretary-General, of being a tool, if not an actual ally, of the Communists. In a joint statement, the Senators ur^ed the U.S. Administration to try to
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    Anhui salvage hopes fade
    78 1 HONG KONG. Mon IJOPK faded yesterday for salvaging the British mer Annul which struck a Chinese Nationalist mine on Friday while entering the Communist port of Swatow. Captain a. Nalsmltb of the Annul beached his vessel on Saturday after two unsuccessful salvage attempts were made b\
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    R.A.A.F. SUPPORT
    21 1 Aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force, Australia's contribution towards Malaya's anti-bandit campaign, are expected In Singapore this afternoon.
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    QUAKE IN N.Z.
    18 1 Wellington, New Zealand, had a short sharp earthquake Sunday mornins. No damage was reported.- A.P.
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    Vision and reality
    130 1 THE following is an extract from the introduction, by Richard Cl— man. M.P., to "The (iod That Failed": 'Here six intellectuals set down how they saw Communism at first from a long way of! just as their predecessors saw the French Revolution as a vision of the
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    CHINESE SLAIN AT KLUANG
    42 1 TWO armed bandits— one a woman —went to a kongsi house un Qua Musang Estate m Kluang yesterday and shot dead a Chinese contractor. He was resting on a chair after his lunch when the bandits murdered him.
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    Top Red at Swedish party
    74 1 GEN. Chou En-lai. Premier and Foreign Minister of Communist China, for the first time attended a diplomatic function given tw a Western nation m Peking when he appeared at a reception given by Mr. I\ L. Hammerstrom, the Swedish ambassador at Peking, m celebration of
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    WHEAT FOR JAPAN
    23 1 THE Japanese Government hai signed a trade agreement with the Pakistan Government to buy 100.000 tons of wheat.- Reuter A.A.P.
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    U.S. DEFENCE TALKS BEGIN
    238 1 Gen. Chiang for Tokio? TOKIO, Monday. FHERE is speculation here that top Chinese Nationalist oflicials, including Gen. Chiang Kaishek, may confer with the r.S. Defence Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, and the chairman of the IS. Joint Chiefs-of-StafT, Gen. Omar Bradley, now here "to learn facts affecting
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    EGYPT BANS PICTURE POST
    36 1 EGYPT BANS PICTURE POST THE Egyptian Cabinet yesterday banned the British magazine PW Post and the French Bunedi Soir from circulation In Egypt. Picture Post recently ran an article on King Farouk and his sisters.— Reuter
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    Crowds greet Nehru at K.L.
    230 1 Crowds greet Nehru at K.L. From Our Staff Correspondent K. LUMPUR, Mon. PANDIT Nehru. th# Indian Prime Minister, was greeted on arrival here this mornine by the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, and local Indian leaders. Police precautions were well organised and the Indiana who had flocked to the airport
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    Explosion in Melbourne
    56 1 MELBOURNE. M i AT LEAST 20 v. shoppe; by Qyinf jlai a I Kploslon In heart of the busines Damage was at hundreds of th< uf pounds. A nun re&identia I wrecked umi 18 t ho\. maged. plosives experts ii bet;a!i Ini ion 1 beOeved faul y
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    DUKE SEES KING
    22 1 The Duke of Edknbu. -i arrived m Amm;»n by yesterday and v m special audience by I 1 Abdullah.
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      72 1 53 days on soda water GAUNT, but grinning, Willy Schmitz, 45-year-old "hunger artist." came out of his glass case m Frankfurt yesterday, claiming a new world fasting record of 53 days on a diet of soda water and cigarettes.... He lost 72 lbs. In Lille, Fakir Burmah, who is trying
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    They Are Looking For 'John Doe'
    822 2 afja faf NEW YORK: SENATOR JOSEPH McCarthy, the Congressman who has been conducting his ov private "witchhunt" for Communists m the State Department for the past three mmths, recently proclaimed that he had "another shocking disci, xure" to make. But foe the first time
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    A HINT TO COOKS
    115 2 'THRIFTY Scottish scienA tists have been studying how to stop meat shrinking when it is cooked. They found that m?at shrinks, first, because it expels water during the first 20 minutes of cooking, and second, because its fibres contract suddenly whTi the temperature touches 145 decrees
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    RUSSIAN LOGIC
    50 2 The Russians have a logic all their own. A few weeks ago, the Bismarck Platz m Eastern Berlin was renamed Kotikov Platz. when a deputation of local residents protested at the sudden change, they were told that Bismarck had been a Alexander Kotikov is a general.- NAN A
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    THERE'S A BOOM INISLANDS
    717 2  - THERE'S A BOOM INISLANDS George Hunte by years ago a 15- 20-acre island off Grenada or St. Vincent mi n the South Caribbean could be bought for £200-£3OO. Today there is a boom the price is four times as much. An English Naval Commander has just paid £12 500 for
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    'WAR & THE WORST EVIL'
    364 2 'WAR THE WORST EVIL'- Niemoller tells Germans BERLIN |>ASTOR Martin Niemoller is gettine an increasing following m distraught Germany today The other day, at Dahlem. when he expected to talk Just to his old congregation, ho found a crowd of several hundred people waiting to hear him. The militant anti-Naiu
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      122 2 afafafjaf SINGAPORE i:i i i IWORK) 184 n1 II 7 r>— Emergency news from K.L. at 10 am ronw 9.35 a rr, F<jr the Schools: <t Movemeni: 9.55 Interlude; 10 News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.50 Prof. Shrirr.pwhisker's adventures; 12 Programmes m Malay: 1 pjn. c— Phil Moors <fc The All
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      291 2 •BBC': 4.55 Interlude; 000 'Sweet Serenade'; 5.45 The; Debate Continues" <BBC> 6.00 Indonesian: News and Programmes BBC); 6.30 News In Cantonese) BBCt 6.45 'Melodies from British Radio"; 7.15 News In French (BBC-: 730 English Half-Hour: News. "London Opinion. English lesson BBCt; B. Co "Piano Intermission"; 8.15 Thai: News and Talks
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      70 2 tending the theatre or a concert and you will find your energies, and optimism, returning quickly. Learn to master yourself. You are sympathetic, friendly and have a magnetic personality. You are happiest when surrounded by those you love. Although your acquaintances may be counted m the hundreds, your intimate friends
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      140 2 "Shori beck tad s.^ci trad no po!:r;.:s New Crossword No. 76 r^ PHBBMBI 11 tS ACROSS 1. lit 1 pays no tax on beer, wines and spirits (.9) 6. Bwaß of Avon (11>. 8. Hertii tlie CO. at the head (7). 10. Dien" (3). li. Foreyo the second half (3>.
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    HE SEEKS A PEOPLE'S MONARCHY
    385 3 HE SEEKS A PEOPLE'S MONARCHY Count of Paris coming home PARIS, Monday. jyiLLE. Paulette Olivier, 56-\eai -old clerk at Saint- Lazare Railway Station, is waiting anxiously for the Council of the Republic the French I'pper House to confirm a bill which the Assembly passed on May 16 and which will
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    67 3 I In I %m KipnTin. a "JO-year-old Turkish journal-•u:id\the-world tour on a 7.3 horsepower He left Istanbul. Turkey, seven months igo urt*d m New Delhi after he had covered M Pen i Myhmistan. Pakistan and I I ilnitti he will take a boat to nm-k'»k. he will v«» to m.^mm.
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    CAMPFIRE ON A MOUNTAIN TOP
    50 3 DFNVER, Monday. impfirp on a mountain top m the State Id i> laboratory of human relations. -section of college youth who Fellowship, founded 14 "years a d] quarters of globe thoroughly nd ideals I each > on Cl 3ud- r-x pound r.day :.clude a H
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    29 3 Wr. < r».trks Arthur Coilin^wood (left) and Mr. cf William Gorman, two nrw judges m- seen j> they arrived .»t the il<>u>e of L<»rls. London, for the swearing m cprrmoii\.
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    New way of making petrol from coal
    195 3 LOUISIANA, Missouri, Monday. 4 NEW demonstration of making petrol from coal was begun here by the I.S. Buroau of Mines. ich day about 100 tons ot coal, ground nearly as tine as talcum powder, is < unverted into about 150 barrels of gasoline,
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    CEYLON DRINKS MORE ARRACK
    68 3 CiKYLON'S consumption of j arrack last year was 1.151.213 gallons, compared With 1.100,000 gallons m the pr^rious year. Th<* pre-war annual consumption was 350,000 gallons. Th»' Excise Commissioner m his report states that "one of the factors which has contributed to the heavily Increased consumption of
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    PROBLEM FOR U.N.
    22 3 Afghanistan may approach the United Nations to solve the question of independent Pukhtoonlstan, if other peaceful methods fail.- A.P.
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    48 3 Th ijj ccj b&rwntiac, Aimermnte s i dsnha, a Brazilian training ship, is towed into Barraw-in-Fnmcsa (where she was built m 11K53) for overhaul prior to visiting olh-»r Piiti sumairr c/uise m European watv-.a. She haj a complement 01 ZZ oiliccr*, J9 midshipmen under training and 318 men.
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    Bridge Hands
    241 3 I'-.m South Ins .id of shown the re two I reck- five i ?ocd o r<»--s you I tried oul your deal by cold-decking it into the rur I Bast didnt m brilliant spade bid. so Nurth got to four spades East's lead of the heart ace was
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    The perfect judge
    65 3 n m the JMlllMin Hmh < ourt Bem-h. i i.s i.i Rich. a-4fd ST. hus reUtejl to »w (I Uuifful of detective ston \perience. h** ?ives the formula for a >n»» who: md iourte>% md the übilit> to fc •>!.» emotion from his mental processes and nportant
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    U.S. atomic worker hold
    97 3 NEW YORK. Mon. rE arrest on spy chu of a former United S' Army non -commissioned ofllcer, whom the government i worked on the atomic bomb itself," was announce yesterday. He was Identified by the F. 8.1 as David Qre.mglass, of New York, a form -r
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    90 3 Dr. i red K. Carle (r.ght), Professor of .-'.oology at Tulane Cniversity, Louisiana. U.S.A.. and a student examine two green water snakes they have just captured during a field trip m swampland near New Orleans. For four years Dr. Cayle has led students on such field trips to observe the
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    CEYLON TO ADVERTISE BY RADIO
    136 3 COLOMBO. Mon. (JOMMERCAL broadcasts beamed to India. Pakistan. Malaya and other parts oi the world may soon be a feature ol Radio Ceylon's vice. Disclosing this. Communications' Minister, Mr. C. Sit here that all of this proposal" had been agreed upon. Only financial details remained
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    RED DIPLOMATS LIVE APART
    207 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. THi: Soviet Embassy— a Red camp behind IS. lines m the cold war is m the heart of Washington, only a few blocks from the President's White House. It is a busy spot, people coming and going convinually. But what goes on inside is
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    HARD TIMES AHEAD?
    32 3 The Primp Minister <>l Australia. Mr. Robert G. Menzies. \v;irrn i d Australian sheep breeders to save from their :it prosperity for a possible break In wool prices. U.P.
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    More Maoris in N. Zealand
    173 3 AUCKLAND, Monday. TV! AORIS m New Zealand are increasing two and *a half times as quickly as Europeans: one m every 18 persons m New Zealand and one m every nine m the North Island is a Maori. After dropping to a third m the
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    THE ORCHIDS ARE ON THE TABLE
    73 3 Young escorts seeking to make an impression on their j partners have the wherewith- a! right b"!ore their eyes m a Sydney restaurant. The tables carry pots of live orchids. The blooms are for sale, cut from the living plant. A tax-evader has sent
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    Fire destroys 100 Houses
    51 3 Fire destroys 100 Houses FIRE engine stalled, and I as a result more than 100 houses were destroyed m Kochi village m Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Although there was no wind to help the flames, the fire which broke out from a small shop spread unchecked when ten failed to arrive.-
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    BIG 3 TALKS
    18 3 The 'Big Three' foreign 'ministers will probably meet m Nev York m August or September.
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    Tibet seen as a test area
    65 3 LONDON. MOO, SIR Basil Gould, former British Political Officer In Tibet, said hew that there could be no more suitable area lor India and China to co-operate than Tib'-'. Pandit Nehru, he said, might bring about a gr degree of trust between nations m
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    BELL FROM WARSHIP FOR JAP CHURCH
    79 3 TOKIO Mon. THE ship's bell from a British minesweeper will be calling the congregation of a Japanese Anglican Church m atom-bombed Hiroshima. Hiroshima's Church of Resurrection, obliterated by the atcoi bomb, was rebuilt recently. Through the efforts of Bishop Mann, special em the Archbishon
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    PROSPECTS BETTER
    27 3 The indepem'.m' weekly Time and Tid~ «-f London suggests that ihe chances of settling the Kashmir dispute were now better than m tilt past Reuter
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    The Singapre Free Press WEDNESDAY June 19. 1950 The third year
    257 4 The Singapre Free Press WEDNESDAY June 19. 1950 The third year yan Emer-. is now m its It was on 17. 1948, that sp ren ?re pro- c limed over the whole Federation. tie murder European In the Sungoi E il j, about 7 en the battle; injurtbi c haw
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    Malayan Police Force To Be Unified
    1355 4  - Malayan Police Force To Be Unified HALL ROMNEY C.I.D. advise* arriving Reds 'pep vp 9 campaign Concern over Ps.O.W. LONDON LETTER < by William Jenkin, former Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau of the Indian Police, left by plane on Thursday to take up his appointment as adviser to the
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    26 4 n ntJ i*d her Mrector-nusband, iltiocn WUcox, before the premiere of the film "Odette" m which Anna plays a war heroine with the French underground movement.
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    Tory Confusion
    303 4  -  FRANK OWEN A|K ERNEST BEVIN. m bod m a London musing homo, wins a wider support for Britain's foreign policy than ever he did at his do?k. From the Times to the Daily Worker, British i. papera approve the Government's resolve to stay out of the Schuman steel-coal
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    'Demoklassie' IS The Rage in Japan
    529 4  - 'Demoklassie' IS The Rage in Japan Richard Hughes by I AST week I had my translator count the number of times the word "democracy' 1 (or "demoklassie", as the new MacArthurised "demotiats" call it) appeared m a current issue of a Tokio daily n \.spaper. In 24 broadsheet columns (reading,
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    HOUSING AID FOR S'PORE WAGE-EARNERS
    492 5 Building society may dive 100 p.c. advance Free Press Staff Reporter bk the tower wage-earning groups m Singapore to buy or heir own homes, the Federal and Colonial Building Society ed to ad\ance, m some specially approved cases, 100 per he purchase or construction price.
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    Graduates appeal to Dato Onn
    12 5 Graduates appeal to Dato Onn sodenl v with inue A i I
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    ASSAULT CHARGE
    23 5 TELUK ANSON". Sun. jeci a: Tt on with causing hurt to man with vi xc. Sengpa.i was offered b.it of $200.
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    FOR BORNEO
    39 5 MIXED Canadian and British aluminium mis- of nine men from ihe Bn Lsh Aluminium Company and the Aluminium Com- pany of Montreal arrived m Singapore on Saturday on i their way to Borneo from the United Kingdom.
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    21 5 picture. (iHINES! *?s sign their marriage certificates at j yesterV s mass marriage ecrsmom M SinefaDme'ft Victoria Memorial Hall.- Free Press
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    BACK IN S'PORE
    31 5 Rev. M. M. Mahaweera, of I ihe Outram R<«id Buddhist Temple, returned to Singapore yesterday by 8.0.A.C. after attending a one-month preliminary meeting of the Word Buddhist Congress.
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    Bigger vote for T.B. relief
    296 5 Bi gger vote for T.B. relief Free Press Stall' Reporter I^HE Singapore Government nas> tne i. oiony s T.B. Treatment Advisory Committee who come under the Social Welfare Department— s377,soo to spend on the relief of tuberculosis victims this year by extending the original vote of $240,000 for 1950 by
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    RED SONGS AT MASS WEDDING
    243 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WINGED nymphs, tinsel bells and blossoms decorated the Victoria Memorial Hall stage yesterday when 20 Singapore Chinese couples were married there m a mass ceremony sponsored by the May fair Musical and Dramatic Association. The °0 couples, an uh-mcu m white,
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    31 5 Mi*. 'Un Wuh Fn~. son oi Mr. i ban Ko.i lien of Klanf, wiio arrived m Singapore on Saturday on vacation from his law studies at Bristol I'niversity picture. Free Press
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    Book gift to J.C.S.A. library
    119 5 THE latest preservation of books donated by the United Stales Information Service took place on Saturday at the club-house 01 the Johore Civil Service Association m Johore Bahru. At a ceremony held m the library of the Association's club-house. Mr. W. Henry Lawrence Jr.. Director
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    NEW $200,000 CHANGI COAST ROADPLANNED
    481 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TPHE Singapore Rural Board plans to embark next year on the opening of a new Changi Coast Road, on which it proposes to ask Government's approval to spend $200,000. But the projected extension of Dunearn Road, which parallels the trunk Bukit
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    FIRE OUTBREAK
    61 5 A fire broke out yesterday morning m a godown cf £\E. duelling m Wallich Street, but the prompt arrival of the Singapore Fire Brigade brought the outbreak undrr control m less than 30 minutes. PAvi':!i Referi p if md Braddell at night's rrreplion at Peir-e R?ad nivon by
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    Women's role, by Mrs. Gandhi
    390 5 Women 's role, by Mrs. Gandhi Pc tare. Free Press Stall IU->,triv INDIRA Gandhi, Tandit N [laughter and stant companion, addressed B§o or n women at a reception given i i her honi ir at the Cathay by the I.otis C 1 the Won I nion. Echoing her father's br
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    SEVERAL HORSES EARN PROMOTION
    365 6 SEVERAL HORSES EARN PROMOTION Ramillies too good for Cl. 4 By TRESPASSER DAMILLIES' easy victory m the seven-furlong race for (lass 4, Div. t horses at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday has earned him promotion to (lass 3. Although currying top weight of 9 st., he romped home by four lengths
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    Prince Simon ousted
    98 6 \JR William Woodward*! three-year-old AmericanDt>'d roll. Prinre Simon, who has lost his last three races by a nose, has been pushed our v favourite In the race betting on the S' I He is now third favourite The St. Leger is scheduled for r on Sept. 9
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    Chinese Athletic drop vital points
    407 6 By CRUSADER CV^ 1 1 1111^'* defeat b> K..VF. Chmngi m cs \i y svnutr League on Saturday weakenfhls "asoiK m((S Dl reU!lllll< th< Ch »»^nswi Strangely enough, last ason c.A also went dovvn to R.A.F. Chang?!, who improved immensV lv m th e second
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    Mrs. Hilton puts up hard fight
    174 6 \|KS. Betty Hilton put up the finest display of 1 tennis by a British woman since the war when she lost to Miss Louise Brough m the Wightmun Cup tournament at Wimbledon on Saturday. Her victory m the ftrsl set was the first for
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    Big score by West Indies
    125 6 Big score by West Indies A .P. i^VERTON V and, j Prank Worrell, the v. [ndies' b»->t baUmen, were In tremendous form against nshire Tr« Bridge on Baturd Weekei In hurricane it.' m »ci ol Serce drivini ly late-CUttlng and snappy I scored .i bril--279 Hi ie bowlii i him.
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    F.A. XI win 9-2
    54 6 I\ih touring English il national soccer t< am defeated Ontario AH -Stars by 9-2 before 4,000 spectator! on Saturday Wainwright gaw a braurlful display and icored the -hat-triek 1 lor England. The English team b*«Ht ;V Unitrd Stales World Cup Mfip (ine-nil at New Y( rk
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    MAPUA TECHS SUBDUE COLONY'S BEST
    213 6 MAPUA TECHS SUBDUE COLONY'S BEST ,VFAR -STUDDED Mapuai O Tern. Cardinals of Manlia subdued a full strength Sin- i gapore Combined team by (54 points to 49 at the Happy World Stadium last night. A crowd of 4,000. while disappointed by Singapore s poor showing, applauded the brilliant display of
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    CHURCHILL STAKES
    44 6 ABCOI Bun Ihe final day's feature rda; was the one and a half mile Churchill StHke> with £1.200 added money. The five-year-old Jai M owned by Frank Moore, won the event by neck rrom Royal Dr.ike Solar m third nla p A.P.
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    NOOR BEATS CITATION ONCE MORE
    196 6 TUi Irish-bred Noor, third m ie 1948 Rpsom Derby when owned by the Aga Khan, scored his third 8UCll?e victory over Aniet: mighty Citation on Saturday, when he won the $10,000 •abou- £3,571) Fortyniners idic.ip. Noor broke the record for nine-furlong journey vilh 1 mln.
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    NANCY GETS READY
    61 6 Reuter pi< ture. For the Best l>w weeks, America*! Naaei Chaffee will be putting all this <onceatmti— into mm object the women's title at the Wimbledon tournament She i> pictured at Wimbledon during practice for the championships. Nancy, a California!!. has bee* named as America's most glaitf—
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    Brown beats Sidwell
    95 6 (jfciOF* BROWN wo;: the Ken: County Saturday. He b Au.sBill Sidwell 3 17 15 m a match more than three ho J Dn.bny won the W champi beating his fellow I 10--8. I M al Of And'- D R B" I) S M I von and 0
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    Yorks hit 355 for 5 in Sims' benefit game
    252 6 Yorks hit 355 for 5 in Sims benefit game From JIM II IVIItKKs p KEY-HAIRED Jim Sims v,« Mi rounder, smiled a lot at Lords on v crowd of over 20,000 paid more than 1! tribution to his old age. It u.js h\% sec< match. The first, some time back
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    TEST CRICKETER DIES
    22 6 A.i OR By< Ali fOI BM Iv. TV ket-er. died heie m Karachi on Saturday foil ration 46 Reuter
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    Gussie only a 'fashion model'
    47 6 Gussie only a 'fashion model' A> n is not i;k m lusti An I i th-*t th< X sidered h rath»r than Irn pi >>» On Saturday the women S m i\u- Km; ionships hei m a British toui t N m v 1 v I Reuter A.A.P.
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    Are Aust. racehorses slower now?
    8 6 Are Aust. racehorses slower now? Rac:\ b A.A.P.
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    SING TAO WIN 3-1
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    POLLERY, LAKER OUT OF 2nd TEST
    257 7 POLLERY, LAKER OUT OF 2nd TEST Park house one of 12 picked [•WELVE players were named yesterday for the England team to meet West Indies m the second Test cricket match, which opens at Lord's ground, London, on Saturday, June 24. They are Norman Yardley (Yorkshire) (capt.), W. J. Edrich
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    FRENCH GRAND NATIONAL
    57 7 A I ELI MELO. a gelding own- ed by Madame L. Auros--eau. yesterday won the Grand Steeplechase of Paris. France's equivalent of Britain's Grand onal. on the Auteiul track, outside Paris. Mcli Melo came from behind to finish two lengths ahead of Grade Toi. All Blue was
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    Onesided games in junior badminton
    215 7 By VEI'ER ri'.r i;adm:nton championships i i .i\ins start over the week-end, lecMed at tht Clerical Vnion hall. p.mary rounds, when the best rr? to grips, most of the games sided. r ot the week-end was Goh B P v:j won his match over I
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    NEW RECORD BY HOLDEN
    191 7 EMPIRE champion Jack Holden looked almost as iresh as when he started when he trotted Into Chiswick stadium on Saturday and won the annual Polytechnic Marathon from Windsor Castle for the third year m succession. He broke the record for the race with a time of
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    G.S.A. draw 2-all
    26 7 r j" E S.A.F.A. pmkm league A between keae Sports Association and refttion Club "A** at ::um yesterday reItcd m a two-all draw.
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    FEW AMATEURS IN U.K. OPEN GOLF
    406 7 RARELY has there be such a lack of first-class r talent m a British golf championship as ise this year. :le many Scotsmen are Qg the opportunity to m the event, at Troon starting on July 3. the recognised big men of British amateur
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    BURMISTER, KONG TO MEET IN 100-MIN. BOUT
    177 7 SJAM Burmister, the singing Jewish heavyweight wrestler, who has made short work of his opponents of late, will have his wish fulfilled at the ll appv World arena this Saturday, when he takes on King Kong for the third time since his arrival
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    As -a catoonist sees it
    6 7 As -a cat oonist sees it
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    CYMA (St. Teresa) create big upset
    378 7 S.C.A. JUNIOR TOURNEY p V.M.A. (St. Teresa) created the biggest upset of 1 roent yesterday when they beat the leaders Rej Club on the first innings. Time saved R.O.V. from outright defeat. They could only collect 83 runs m their first knock m reply
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    Singapore cricket XI score easy victory
    179 7 TtfO task was set for Singapore m their annual twox^ day cricket match against Malacca at Malacca over the week-end, Singapore winning by an innings and 12 runs. Malacca were all out m their second innings for 95, Ratnayake taking four for 15, also
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    Harris wins sprint
    87 7 BRITAIN'S Reg Harris won the first match of an International cycling event at the London Herne Hill track on Saturday In the 1.000 metres sprint, he beat Holland's Jan Derksen by half a wheel. In the .-ccond match, a 4,000 metres pursuit, Lucien Gillen of Luxembourg. <5
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    Wait-and-see policy by English League
    369 7 A 111. Arthur Drewry, president of the English Football League, said m Buenos Aires yesterday that the League is adopting a wait-and-see attitude towards British players who have gone to play m Colombia. Mr. Drewry is on a brief ?lslt to Bufnos Aires with Sir
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    Points win for Golden Boy
    223 7 Free Press Kuaia Lurr.pur Staff Reporter IN ten three-minute rounds of hard hitting Golden Boy. the Selangor champion, last night beat Johnny Cinto on points at the Bukit Bintanp Stadium, Kuala Lumpur. Both boxers weighed lOst. Golden Boy, who wa c fighting fit, was confident
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    France beaten in Davis Cup quarter-finals
    296 7 France beaten in Davis Cup quarter-finals QUARTER-FINAL stage of the European zone Davis Cup competition was completed yesterday with the final singles of matches m Brussels, Copenhagen and Stockholm. Poland had already survhed their tie decided earlier m the month. The outstanding happening yesterday was the defeat of France, who
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    BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
    60 7 THE star Argentine racing motorist, Juan Manuel Fangio, yesterday won the Belgian Grand Prix m an Alfa Romeo, covering the 494 2 kilometres m 2 hrs. 37 mins. 26 sees, at an average speed of 177.099 k.p.h. Second was Luigi Faggioli, 'Italy) also m an Alfa Romeo
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    NANKEVILLE WINS AT AMSTERDAM
    180 7 NANKEVILLE WINS AT AMSTERDAM 11/ILLIAM Nankeville <Br!T¥ tain* won the 1.500 metr s event of the "Olympic D.. programme m Amstei yesterday m 3 mins. 52X H. Hartin (Holland' ws cond m 3 mins. 53.4 sees. Arthur B-/ain> was beaten m the 400 I event by a narrow n i
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    NEW AIR SERVICE
    24 8 The Northwest Airlines announced yesterday that it is opening a new United StatesHong Kong service via Formosa beginning June 26 U.P.
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    'Exclude S.A. from C'wealth'
    199 8 JOHANNESBURG, Mon. T»HE Transvaal Indian 1 Congress Working Committee has cabled all Commonwealth Premiers asking them to exclude South Africa from the Commonwealth unless she changes her policy and redresses "the wrongs being inflicted on non white people." The cables were sent after the committee had
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    Ruhr election
    24 8 The first of nearly 8.500.000 voters m Germany's industrial powerhouse yesterday began electing the Ruhr's first state government m four years. U.P.
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    'NO LIBERTY WITHOUT DISCIPLINE'
    85 8 'NO LIBERTY WITHOUT DISCIPLINE' SYDNEY, Mon. FE Chief of the British Imperial General Staff. Field Marshal Sir William Slim, said m a broadcast here yesterday that H Wai impossible to have discipline without liberty and imp- Bitble to have liberty without discipline. The Field Mar.->h il. who itending the Commonwealth
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    NO RUSH FOR CHINA TRADE
    250 8 HON(» KON(;, Monday. 4 MONTH after the Nationalist evacuation of the aA husan islands, there is no sign of any rush on the part of Hong Kong merchants for trade resumption with the Chinese mainland. Most merchants are adopting a wait and se P attitude.
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    Czechs expel U.K. diplomat
    62 8 OZECHOSLOVAKIA'S latest v expulsion of a British diplomat contained the usual wild, unsubstantiated charges which have become customary In such incidents, the British Foreign Office said yesterday. A note received by the Foreign Office from the Czech Government has requested that Mr. Adrian Lei?h McLaußhlin. ViceConsul
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    CROSS-CHANNEL T. V. LINK OFFER
    113 8 LONDON, Monday. THE British Radio Industry Council has ottered to establish a cross-Channel television link with France and maintain it for a year. The offer was made m a memorandum to tru* Postmaster-General. The Council, which represents all sections of the British radio industry, .said,
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    AN AUSTERITY ASCOT ENDS
    51 8 Informal dress replaced the grey toppers, cut a way coats, summer dresses and picture hats as the race meetng, at Ascot, England, ended on Saturday. The Royal part of the meeting ended on Friday. The Royai Family drove to the track m cits from Windsor Castle.-
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    Self-rule can be dangerous
    148 8 WARNINC TO COLONIES WASHINGTON, Monday. SELF-GOVERNMENT is not necessarily the path to democracy for the world's colonial areas, says a report by the Foreign Polio Association. This non-official but influential organisation, which studies international iisues, made out a case for combining caution with speed m helping
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    UK, C'wealth trade up
    74 8 YORK. Monday. jjritain'S trade with the Commonwealth has be^n rising In the past iwo years, Mr. Arthur Bottomley, :y for Overseas Trade, said here yesterday In th- flnl q lO'iO Imports from the Commomrealth wore £368.000.000, compared with r-2i.000.000 In the sanif period of 1948 Exports
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    EINSTEIN'S PLEA
    25 8 Dr. Albert Einstein the scientist, yesterday suggested that the US. and Russia surrender their stockpiles of atomic bombs to an International autho. A.P.
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    HIGH TIDES
    12 8 Todax: 1 IS m Tomorrow 10 a. m; 1 ."..'urn.
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    Crab talk ends in slaying
    75 8 Crab talk ends in slaying N' argument over the best way to cook a crab resulted m the death of one person Mid the sentencing of another to 15 years m prison. A 19-year-old clerk Hou Fu- employed m a Shanghai the finer s of cooking .1 i rub wi'h
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    'Peace appeal' in Moscow
    75 8 JOINT session of the Supreme Soviet will hear an appeal by the Permanent Committee of the 'World Partisans for Peace addressed to the Supreme Soviet and other parliament of the world. The Soviet prm reported that millions of signatures were being leathered for tr.e document, which
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    Jan boats held
    35 8 THE Japanese coast guard reported yesterday that a vessel dying the Chinese Communist flag seized two Japanese fishing boats m open sea oft* the China coast southeast of Shanghai on Saturday. U.P.
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    PLANE HIT TRAIN
    26 8 Fifteen passengers and a crew of four escaped injury when an airliner crashed into a stationary coal train at Mascot airfield. Sydney.— A.P.
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    Income tax killed him
    53 8 ALAUNDRYMAN. Yataro Wada, hanged himself before his ancestors' shrine m Tokyo yesterday because he could not pay his income and business taxes. Wada. widowed father of six children, had warned tax collectors last Wednesday that he would commit suicide if the Government seized his property for
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    Jap Red party 'in the red'
    36 8 TOKYO. Mon. THE Japanese Communist Party is "m the red." The clerical employees of the party headquarters m Tokyo have not received their salaries for the past three months. U.P.
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    Blind love
    36 8 A blind Japanese resident of Nagano drugged his blind wife, sold all their household goods and elopod with his blind mistress The runaway couple left behind a note for the wife m Braille. A.P.
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    LABOUR PARTY SPLIT ON SOCIALISM
    266 8 LABOUR PARTY SPLIT ON SOCIALISM Deviation, cry left wingers LONDON, Monday. A SERIOUS split within the Labour Party threatens to develop into a challenge against the present party leadership. In the weekly Tribune, edited by left wingers of the Labour Party, moderates of the party are charged with veering away
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    Pamela was not afraid
    111 8 ADDIS ABABA. Mon. HTHE Jungle held no terrors for three year old Pamela Gafford, who s; three ci v eek beside p on the wild Ethiopiaii-Somuiilund border. "It was Just like a picture. she .-.aid as. clutching a doll. Ac can^? down V.. of the rescue
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    HUSBAND WAS CAUSE ENOUGH
    61 8 HUSBAND WAS CAUSE ENOUGH MA PIU-KING. 26. smiled happily at her husband-to-be. Kwan Huk-yik. 28. during a marriage ceremony m Hong Kong. When the registrar reached cr*e passage; "If anyone here can show just cause why this couple shall not be wed a man named To Siu-w.in rushed m. He
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    Landslide victims
    34 8 yyORK parties said terday they had dug 36 bodies from the ruined houses around Darj» and expected to fi;>d many more following last v landslides, the area"s worst m 50 years.- U.P.
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