The Singapore Free Press, 24 July 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA M SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1950. PKICE TEN CENTS.
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    BIGGEST RED SETBACK SO FAR
    561 1 BIGGEST RED SETBACK SO FAR New U.S. division smashes 25 tanks 'THE United States First Cavalry Division shattered a tank-led attack by 6,000 North Korean Communist troops on the Taejon front yesterday m what appeared to be the beginning of a decisive battle. Front line advices indicated that it was
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    38 1 Sir Alexander C.arr-Saund-ers seen admiring Chinese paintings at the art exhibition which he opened on Saturday at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. With him is Mr. Lee Siow Mong. President of the China Society which sponsored the exhibition.
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    Refugees told to stay put
    121 1 KOREAN. FRONTLINE, Monday. .1 authorities yesterday banned (he > ..uthwards of civilian refugees, orderv should be regarded a s "enemy troops" fired on if seen m the Korean combat Mia began fighting m Korea. has been the infiltration of North Korean troops disguised as h
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    HORSES GIVE A TIP
    156 1 HORSES GIVE A TIP WASHINGTON, Mon. A U.S. Armjj briefing officer, j\ noting a recent communique reference to an attack oil horse-drawn artillery piece used by the North Korea army, said yesterday that if a modern army has anything else to use, it doei not use horse-drawn equipment. A Navy
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    REFUGEE SHOT AND STUFFED
    37 1 A new kind of rrfut;«v flc d to Austria from Yugoslavia this summer and was killed by an 1 -ial. Therein tall no i 39J and mounted. Official! >a:d 11 bear shot A.P.
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    Burma rice exports drop
    84 1 Burma rice exports drop WASHINGTON. Mon. BURMA'S rice exports pick< d up m June but totalled 4U0.0U0.0U0 lb. loss lor the lir.s; halt of 1950 than for the corresponding period last rear. the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported yesterday. Dunns Juno. Burmese rice experts were 356.000.000 lb. eom•i V.(i with
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    10 YEARS LONGER
    20 1 Japanese are living con years longer than they did before the war, according to official statistics. Reuter
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    North has lost up to 18,000
    64 1 North has lost up to 18, 000 ISHINGTONi >lon. K«.K! \N lommu- iw suffered I the tirst four m?, a miliin.in said ye»--i nan added s .rth Korean N s-rensth was ued at about however, mdi the R^ds were 4, '-merits from i to amplify. >aid that such > i
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    Prince injured
    27 1 Prince MouAir. 20-year-old cousin of Egypt's King Farouk was among four persons seriously injured m an automobile accident on the Tunin-Milan highway m Italy. U.P.
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    GRANNY LETS 'ALL HELL LOOSE'
    86 1 GRANNY LETS 'ALL HELL LOOSE PRAGUE, Mr»n. fHE Pino Common! oewppaper, Rovnost, lima published a letter from a reader who is worried aboui his 64-year-old grandmother. The letter, signed V. Rihak. said the woman, a hurl worker, has some peculiar habit. Sbe keeps a big pile of pre-war magazines among
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    Night mail derailed
    53 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. IjiARLY this morning, the j pilot train ahead of the Pcnang-Kuala Lumpur night mail train was derailed m Perak. On investigation. It was found that about 40 yards of rail had been blown up. There were no casualties, but as a result, the night
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    FRANCE TO HALT REDS IN AFRICA
    212 1 FRANCE TO HAL T REDS IN AFRICA PARIS, Sunday. I*HE French Premier, M. Rene Pleven, has ordered a big new effort to halt Communist intrigue m French North Africa one of the important strategic outposts of Western defence. Government circles said yesterday that M. Pleven has put some of France's
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    RIVAL FETES FOR BACH
    54 1 RIVAL FETES FOR BACH The Soviet zone and the Western zone m Germany yesterday held rival ceremonies commemorating the 200 th anniversary of the death of Johan Sebastian Bach. The Eastern ceremonies were held at Leipzig where the famous composer died m 1750. The Western gathering was at Goettingen m
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    Italy greedy for birds
    90 1 Italy greedy for birds PRAGUE. Mon. ITALIANS' "appetite for little birds" which are caught by npts has caused a shortage of them m Czechoslovakia, the weekly Svet Prace says. r reported that some Bohemian barns that m the past seasons have harboured live or six swallows' nest hai none at
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    Italians fear native attack
    78 1 ASMARA, Man. FOLLOWING the murder last week of Longhi Vittorio, a man of pan Italian parentage, the Italian representative committee yesterday cabled the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Try«ve Lie. stating that it feared the incident may mark the beginning ot a new wave of terrorism. The
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    THE 100,000TH GETS GIFTS
    55 1 Hans Christian Anderson's native town of Odense has just got its 100.000 th inhabitant- a girl born at the hospital to Mrs. Christian Nitlsen. The Mayor Mr. H. Werner, on behall of O'dense town, presented Uie prominent baby with 500 Danush kroner (about £25> and a
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    ROYAL INVITATION
    27 1 The Queen Mother Alexandorine of Denmark has invited about 200 orphanage children on a summer holiday at her summer resut "Mar.seliborg" m northern Jutland. A.P.
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    St. Swithin does well
    81 1 Swithin. the traditional English rain maker, is so O far keeping up a good average for 1950 legend has it that rain on St. Swithin's 4)ay, July 15. means ram erery day after for 40 days, and so far the Saint hasn't missed a trick since
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    'NO MORE BIG U.S. RETREATS'
    255 1 TOKYO, Monday. (GENERAL Mac Arthur says that a new phase has been reached m the Korean war and this is supported by some frontline observers who are familiar with the heartbreaking fall-back war to date. These observers say that there should be no more major
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    No plans for total call-up -yet
    229 1 No plans for total call-up -yet WASHINGTON, Mon. 'pHE Chairman of tha A Senate Armed Services Committal- IWr. Millard Tydin?s, sa d yesterday that there w^rr no plans at present for an a«l-out call-up unless the Korean Rfhttef flares into a world war. He made the stau: as the Air
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    Explosion in stadium
    40 1 PORT DE BOUC. Sor France, M T explosion early destroyed part m a new s Port tie Bouc. France, which was to named the n The name comrovc lound lium for wan' r'.o'.hine to c<> wi'h Reuter
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    STOP PRESS
    31 1 Last night, aircraft <>{ the Royal Air Force carried a night hombini; att i k against bandit DMM mi i tions m P«*raK. No r n 5 are yet avaiianir.
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    Everyone Has A Secret Fear
    1052 2 Everyone Has A Secret Fear By A Special Correspondent 'PHE lives of most people are ruled by fear, fear of poverty, I fear of war, fear of dcnth and illness, fear yf the sack, fear of accidents, fear that their children will get killed corning home from t ooL \o
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    33 2 Clerks, typists and other publishing house workers busy on their blitz site garden under the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral. This area devastated by Na^i bombers is now being turned into a vark.
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    STALIN WAS 'OUTWITTED BUNGLER'
    319 2 STALIN WAS 'OUTWITTED B UNGLER MR Winston Churchill m The Grand Alliance," Ms third volume of wartime memoirs, describes Stalin and his Commissars as strategically and politically 'the m^ S{ completely outwitted Bunglers of the Second World War." When Germany attacked Russia Mr. Churchill told nil private secretary: 'If Hitler
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    JEST A MINUTE!
    14 2  -  GEOFFREY EVANS H. "Quit grumbling. on« day the Yanks will advance!
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    Fate Of 1,000 ex-Nazis Hangs On One Trie
    540 2  -  Anthony Terry -by- BERLIN: A THOUSAND former Nazis are waiting anxiously for the outcome of the biggest "graft" trial to be held m Germany since the war. If the three accused senior legal members of the Stuttgart "denazification court" are found guilty,
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    Soccer Smugglers
    85 2 THE imuggling habit ba*; >ad to international fooibali. Au^triaii fo B tour abroad have taken to 4 v herever they go. In the early post-wai v.as sacnarm that was ried across the border sugar-sta-aved Austria Then sugar became note plentiful. the Black Maiket price of .saccharin feil and
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      432 2 gfgfr News and Programmes < BBC > 6.30 News m Cantonese »BBC>: *45 "Music m Miniature;" 7.15 News m French <BBC» 7.30 Enprlesson iBBC); 800 Piano Intermission;" 8.15 Thui: News and Talks <BBC>; 8.4S News m Dutch (BBC»: 9.00 Kuovy. News and Talks iBBC>: 9.30 News m Burmese »BBC»; 9.45
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      417 2 New Crossword No. 106 K_js'3|^^H b^^^^^^S KT*^E!Sj Fi9^^rijp ri ii;s across 1. Not necessarily a bounders Raiment (6>. 4 Draughty way to leave the door <4». 8. Legal La\ern (1). 9. Explain what's BOY devalued (7). 10. Sweets for theatrical soldier? tlO). 12. Need to write to fellow on ship?
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    INDIANS WILL BUILD UP NAVY
    240 3 Bu 1 1 0-year plan is held up LONDON, Monday. VICE Admiral Sir William Parry, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, said m London that it was India's intention at the first suitable moment to balance her navy with her army which was so much bigger
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    38 3 photo. m ht^r car at London airport to walk to h to«.k hrr l« Belfast where she visited Im (.r.inville. the wife of the Governor N m Ir Itud. and carried out a number of oublic r!iia;tufnt». A.P.
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    RATS WEAKEN ON RICE DIET
    161 3 BOSTON, Monday. .an get along on the rice diet of hungry poor, at least American i experimenter reported to the American nil liTflitl— qcc of the inadequacy of the rice diet. P. Derates of India pointed to the rats developed at Ohio State Univer- ition
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    P.I. town is named after MacArthur
    68 3 P.I. town is named after MacArthur MANILA, Mon. MUNICIPALITY m Leyte has been christened IfacAnhur by executive order m honour of the famed U.S. general. President Quirino's action was taken shortly after he had returned to the Lower Chamber House Bill No. 141 which proposed to create the same municipality.
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    To study in Peking
    67 3 HONG KONG. Mon. EIGHTY overseas Chinese students, including 14 £i;\s. have tailed from Hous Kung for Tientsin to take up their university education at Peking. A spokesman for the group, Mr. R. Y. Cheng, said the saidents are "looking forward' to college life under the Communists
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    Roman finds in Ceylon
    17 3 Roman finds in Ceylon nave belong d, m a oneCeylon, potnd two feet An >mall ny four
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    Bridge Hands
    36 3 Bridge Hands FDSFDF Ka#t Pass A All fMi itch. hoy many t n i b b: do a h> DOJOQ and n m i > drop S i North's I who Ideci a dou-J ra f.v» fine--!
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    U.S.I. elections
    36 3 U .S.I. elections General elections to transform Indonesia from a federation into a unitary republic should be held shortly, representatives of the Federal Government and the Jogjakarta Republic* decided at a two-day conference at Jakarra.- Reuter
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    Czechs use 21,000 foreign workers
    157 3 PRAGIE, Monday. 21.000 foreign workers, have helped Czechoslovakia to solve her po!>t-war man-power problem. M. Evzen Erban, Minister of Work and Social Welfare, reported the figures to the National Assembly's social-political committee. In addition, he said. 191,334 hs and Slovaks have ;rned to Czechoslovakia South
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    Anti-King sabotage
    78 3 CIIARLKROI. Belgium Mon. A BOMB exploded m a power plant before dawn yesterday m what appeared to the first act of anti-Leopold sabotage sine** the kin? was returned to the throne on Saturday after five years of exile. Charleroi is a Communist. Socialist antiLeopold stronghold. Police said that
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    Ammo vessel in Plymouth
    70 3 PORTSMOUTH. Mon. I^IIE British naval anna- monts ship. Fort Rontte, Involved m la.st week's b v Portsmouth harbour explosion, sailed for Plymouth yesterday to continue the loading of munitions tor the Far East interrupted by the explosion. The bl.vr. set off by fire, ci 'roved nine
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    P.I. Govt. plans ahead
    57 3 Tilt: seat of the Philippine Government may be moved Quezon city, north west of Manila, m the event of an invasion or another world war. This is projected m Philippine Government plans for civilian emergency protection, and is part of a general plan of population dispers.il
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    39 3 Colour-sergeant Jack Binns. 70 (left), bt'inor shown Chelsea Royal Hospital from a Lancashire Aircraft Corporation machine while Busier B, W. Warsbee, Hi. looks on They were amon; fourteen Cheisea Pensioners who were invited by the Corporation for a flight.
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    READY TO SHOOT THE BABY
    70 3 READY TO SHOOT THE BABY SYDNEY. Monday. READING actors m a film being produced m Sydney are three kangaroos. And all the stars are expeciant mothers. Aim of the film. "Birth of a kangaroo," is to show how the offspring gets into the pouch. Because no one knows the length
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    Tokyo scuffle
    49 3 The secretary of Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, the Japanese Prime Minister, and a news photographer suffered minor bruises m a scuffle which followed Mr. Yoshida's refusal to let news cameramen photograph his meeting with petitioners representing the f3milies of those Japanese ?till detained m Russian territory. U. P.
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    MORE PARCEL POST SERVICES
    36 3 The British air parcel post services has been extended to India. Pakistan and Burma. Export licensing and security rontrol requirements are t tie same as for parcpls sent by surface route- Reuter
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    Truman plan jolts Europe
    142 3 LONDON. Monday. riOLLAR-POOR Europe has been jolted by the magnitude of President Truman's preparedness programme. And well it should be. The additional U.S. $10,000 million, Mr. Truman asked for arms was more than twice as much as all other Atlantic Pact countries Including Canada are presently
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    Russian bait to India
    64 3 THE New York magazine. Nevsweek said that diplomatic despatches revealed a secret, Soviet message txj New Delhi suggesting the number of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council be extended to six. with India as the sixth. Beside bidding for India's favour m the Korean
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    Had £ A 700—and starved
    48 3 Had A 700 and starved F^II.THY. hungry and ill. a man brought to a Ml bourne benevolent centre has di»'d of malnutrition. He had UA7OO m his porkrt. Others have brrn ii mitted equally hungry and rpparcntly destitute, with sums of up to tAIOO m their pork'ts Reuter
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    NO TYRE SHORTAGE FORESEEN
    166 3 AKRON Ohio. Mon. T^HE rubber industry's 'blflj three Goodyear. Goodrich and Firestone, have reported that the Korean-in-duced panic buying of tyrea has somewhat subsided, but even if X does not drop to normal the increased I "can b*> handled." The Goodyear Tft% and Rubber Company said
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    TOLD NOT TO RUN BLOCKADE
    58 3 The Panamanian Co General m Hon«^ Kong, Mr. E f Linares, ha.s ls.su^d warning to ships flyinu tt«a Panamanian fla<; to refrain from attempU at runnm nalist biockadc of Onaimunist China. The Consul-G^n'-ra] I iliat if Panitnianian ri. ships run the Nation.! blockade, they would
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    Jap fish demand
    23 3 The Japanese Prime Minister. Mi. Bhigeru Yoshio*. has declared m the Diet that Japans fishing area might be extended. Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 24. 1950. A Chinese village
    470 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 24. 1950. A Chinese village I LIT I'LE booklet which *found Its way into tins office over the 4; -end deserves rlo.se attention by the Chinese community m M ilaya. Entitled •When The Commun- j It IS published by the United B e.s l.uormation
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    'Cease Fire' On Govt.'s Malaya Policy
    1959 4  - 'Cease Fire' On Govt.'s Malaya Policy Hall Romney London Letter by IN ANY colonial debate at this time every man's thoughts must go first to Malaya. No debate on the Colonies can have any reality until we have settled the m Malaya." That is an extract from the speech of
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    41 4 Forty-six years as a horseman on the same farm is the proud record of teamster WUlie Dnvrj here pictured with his team at Trevian Farm Uuival, Penzance. Mr Dacey UXU resented to the King at the Royal Cornwall Show at CaUington.
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  • Letters to the Editor
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      Busmen's Holidays
      219 4 fV-KE letter headed A "Plea for Busme.i'' should not be allowed to pass unanswered. First and foremost, public transport workers do not fall within the meaning of the "Weekly Holidays Bill" which came into force a? from the Ist July 1950. Secondly, they are paid very much higher
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      S.I.T. RENTS
      149 4 S.I. T. RENTS MR. Thio Chiam Bee, Legislative Councillor, is to be congratulated and thanked for his public spin; m bringing up before' the Legislative Council the question of Government subsidized public housing. May I point out that safeguards should be insisted upon by Government m the event that the
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    41 4 Dr. Olcpido O O&uniesi of Sa ;cmu, Nigeria, and his bride, the for* femi Oladayo Peters of Logo I'ave St. Matthew's < Church of Eng; t don, after ilieir icedding. FuUowingare six-year -eld bridal attenda and tiny paa? Ouumadc Odufora-Sita,4. of La-
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    STALIN'S PUPIL FOR AN HOUR
    489 4  - STALIN'S PUPIL FOR AN HOUR Charles Foley by BERLIN: 'THROUGH the square framed window the R;>ci Square glowed. The Kremlin's oniondomes were cut against the sky. In the foreground, massive m its solemnity, rose the bulk of Lenin's tomb. But the darkened room m which I stood was not m
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    171 unions in Faderation
    13 5 D irade of v.mc: uch T-aci? C p ol
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    ON TRANSFER
    13 5 B jjj p r i on r orr the I phs
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    WOMEN WARNED ON JEWEL THIEVES
    408 5 WOMEN WARNED ON JEWEL THIEVES C.I.D. on how to beat them JjJTATLNG that women s ornaments comprised more than half the value of stolen goods m Singapore's recent wave of burglaries, Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, CAD. Chief, yesterday outlined precautions against jewel thieves. O.ie of the wisest things a
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    15 5 v rt'oririns I I and J! p\ World t in an? n? rlee- Uuocn" for
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    38 5 picture. riVE-YEAR-OLD Con- stance Wee, daughter of the president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship, presents a bouquet to Mrs. R. L. Archer at a welcome reception to Bishop Archer at Faya Lebar Methodist Church on Saturday. Free Press
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    BOYS' CLUB NEEDS A TEACHER
    135 5 SINGAPORE'S newest boys' O club at Mount Erskine. needs a voluntary teacher to teach Chinese to its members for an hour once a week. An official ot the club said :erday that some ot the boys go to Chinese schc -jls 1 "but tiv y
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    Village builds own school
    66 5 MALAY viiiageis of Ramping Paair Gogok, Pengera.ng. nave buiit tneir own )i m a cost of $700. The to] was opened by Inche Abdul Rahman bin Jaffar. Office: of Kotu Ti on Friday m a ceremony tended by most of the 300 s of the kampons
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    TALK ON AFRICA
    23 5 Mr. G. G. Thomson will speak on "Africa and her Future" m the V.M.C.A., Str.mford Road, at 3 p.m. tonitht.
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    NAME CHANGED
    24 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.--QlugOT Barracks, Id Pcnang, will be re-namod Minden Earracks from August 1. irwas stated today m the Fede.ation Government Gazette.
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    27 5 picture. 1 J| V.IPION jumper: Miss Oj? S#tn KjhCßg Kinalaz the hinh jump for %o tat the C jouore Amaieui AUiieiieA^ t^ioiwre Bahru last *nday.— Free Press
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    Rep. braves stormy weather in 'Rain'
    404 5 A LARGE audience gave an appreciative reception to the Singapore Repertory's "Rain" m the Victoria Theatre on Saturday night. This play, based on the story by Somerset Maugham, is finely-balanced especially m the first act, and is an ambitious undertaking for any small urofessionai
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    Youth rally delegate
    96 5 ■fIISS NELLIE MITCHELL, principal of St. Hilda's School, Singapore, and Commissioner of Guides lor Katong district, is to represent Singapore at the forthcoming meeting of the World Assembly of Youths at Istanbul. Miss Mitchell, who Ls a member of the Youth Council here, will be going to
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    TRAINING FOR GUIDES
    62 5 TRAINING FOR GUIDES Miss Andiina Wilson. Commissioner ror Brownies for Scotland, has been appointed Trainer for Guide's In the Federation of Malaya and Singapore. She will train Malayan Guiders m specialised Guiding wurk. She is expected to be m this country for two year. Miss Wilson will sail from the
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    MAIL
    38 5 Surface mai! la expected m Singapore today fium the U.S.A. and the Federation. Latest times for posting surface mail at the G.P.O. today are: noon for Hong Kong, China. Japan and Palembang; 5.45 p.m. for the Federation.
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    Cinema site discussed
    178 5 r r O members of a committee of Singar>ore Municipal Commissioners have stated, at a recent meeting, that they do not accept the findings of the Traffic Advisory Committee on traffic problems which would follow the siting of a cinema at the junction of North Bridge Road
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    LOST CARDS: CALL FOR A NEW SYSTEM
    430 5 LOST CARDS: CALL FOR A NEW SYSTEM Free Trz*d btalf Btparii THE Singapore Government must introduce a A system whereby people who lose their identity cards will not be held by tfee police during road checks before they have an opportunity of obtaining a new one, Mr. H. J. C.
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    No business for Jap firms
    116 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T^HE absence of a pea< treaty with Japan is probably preventing six Japanese business firms from starting m Singapore again m their i own ricrht, the Free Press was told yesterday by a spokesman of the Custodian of Property Department. The
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    38 5 I MISS Koh siew Vinu. who was frowned *'Happ> Queen" for 1930 at the Happy World cabaret last ni?ht. She obt mM fi ZHi votes auainst 3.181 for her nearest rival, Mis< Than Lfll Ting. F ree Press
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    BATTLESHIPS IS A GOOD STAYER
    1187 6  - BATTLESHIPS IS A GOOD STAYER ALLAN LEWIS Held on gamely to win Cup By DATTLKSHIP and Snowy Owl II took the honours on Saturday when they annexed the two most important races on the final day of Singapore Turf Cluh's July meeting. When winning the Singapore Cup, Battleship displayed the
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    GOLD MERIDIAN AGAIN UNLUCKY
    403 6 IMMITOY'S success m the seventh race on Satur- day was not as big a surprise as his dividend of $.>7 for a win. Forgotten was his performance the first day, when ho was slowly away, yet managed to finish a creditable fourth. Smartly away from the
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    Why try to turn useful sprinters into stayers?
    582 6  -  TRESPASSER By A STRIKING impression of the Singapore Turf Club July meeting just ended is the tendency of racehorse owners to attempt turning reasonably good sprinters into stayers with a view to winning the major long-distance events on the Malayan Turf. In
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    TITLE FIGHT
    32 6 pAY PmmccbOO Y::n\ce's V European weiht champion, sunecl on Friday I lo mcci Louis de Sai. Madrid m a title bom m Madrid'! bull rini on July 29 A. P.
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    CA and Tigers fight hard drawn battle
    100 6 CA and Tigers fight hard drawn battle TT was a hard battle for supremacy i M i X Senior League tie between Tfferi an j Athletics at the stadium which ended m draw. We saw the best that both m attack and defence and ther choose between the two sides.
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    Marshall, Furuhasi to clash
    233 6 Australia's John MaraA sh'dU and Japanese swim- m:nK ace Hlronoshin Furuj hashi will m^-t at tl Olympic p to] m Tok A 13-man American I Which is being rirc\nt*r\ mmpetitively at the national ou door swimming champion Jjbips is expected to arrive m Tokyo by air
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    Misra, Cernik level in final
    14 6 Misra, Cernik level in final sing V had men'! R the mixed d Reuter
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    4 COUNTIES MAY FIGHT OUT ISSUE
    232 7 4 COUNTIES MAY FIGHT OUT ISSUE Lancashire most likely to win [»HE result of the County cricket championship is seldom known until the last week of August, and this season's competition is not likely to prove an exception to the rule. Yorkshire, Warwickshire, Lancashire and Surrey are the most generally
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    30 7 picture. Hardy (Sheffield United Harriers) winning the seven-mile walk at the British A.A.A championships at White City. -London. His time. 50 mins. 11.6 sees, is a new British record Keystone
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    Draw for S'pore golf tourney
    118 7 Draw for S'pore golf tourney I times Dv qualifying -a pore golf Island I vJuly 29) a A O. to F Murphy I A HamilEu: 2.15 J. C. A. R. H B. Rigg; F G. Mian*; er J. F. fee ft M J. W. Watson If. D. Gor--2 55 Perrier
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    Sullivan, Lim in hard fight
    711 7 SBA JUNIOR TOURNEY By VETERAN nFNMS L. Sullivan (Useful) and Lim Chin Aik (Marigold) provided the best game of the weekend when they engaged m a point-for-point struggle m both sets. There was little to choose between the two players, apd it was Sullivan's slight
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    Title shared
    49 7 Because of rain it was not possible to play any of the games scheduled for the final clay of the Welsh lawn tennis championships at Newport on Saturday. K. H. Ip of Hong Kong and I. Tloczynsky. Poland, were declared joint holders of the men's single title.
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    Water polo results
    142 7 Water polo results rVO Chinese water-polo teams from Tiger Swimming Club, received severe beatings from Singapore Swimming Club at Tanjong Rhu yesterday. In the first fixture, an "A" League game, the Europeans beat the Chinsee by five goals to one, and m the second, a "B" match, S.S.C. were victorious
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    Mrs. Todd wins
    55 7 MRS. PAT TODD, of California, retained her women's singles title m the Essex County lawn tennis championships at Frintonon sea on Saturday. She defeated Betty Wiford of England 6-1, 6-0 m the final. Billy Sidwell beat his Australian colleague, Geoff Brown. 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to win the
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    S.C.F.A. GET READY
    92 7 S.C.F.A. GET READY In prep for the:r forthcoming tour of Burma .the following players have been Invited to turn up for the Singc\pore Chinese Football Association against the Eurasians m a friendly ,;ame on Wednesday at SRC. ground. Sect Yew Chang, Patrick Yee, Soh Teow Keug. Kwok Siew Toiig. Tiane
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    IRISH OAKS
    28 7 CURRAH. Co. Kildare. Eire, Sun..— Marcel Boussac's French challenger Corejuda, starting 4-7 favourit?, won the Irish Oaks run over a mile and a half here vesterdnv.
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    Louis says he may fight in September
    168 7 TOE LOUIS said yesterday m Detroit that his plans for the future, involving a possible return to the ring, awaited a ruling by the United States Internal Revenue authorities on his income tax. Negotiations have been going on m Washington, reportedly over a
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    Exciting finish in Varsity cricket
    311 7 ITNIVERSITY of Malaya retained the L. T. Ride Shield for cricket against Hong Kong University when their two-day match ended m a draw yesterday. Scores were: Hong Kong 115 and 120; Malaya 179 and 55 for four. There was an exciting finish. Hong Kong were
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    SPRANG BIG SURPRISE
    46 7 picture. Katonr Boys' Club soccer team, who created a big surprise yesterday when they beat Singapore Harbour Board Boys' Club by two goals to one m a quarter-final of the Singapore boys' Cup soccer competition. Last year S.H.B. were champions. Y. C. Lee
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    Goddard denies W.I. challenge to Australia
    152 7 JOHN GODDARD, the West Indies cricket captain, categorically denied yesterday that a challenge had been sent to the Australians to meet them "anywhere, anytime.'' "Such a statement is this and others to the effect that we are going to score 1,000 runs m an
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    CRICKET U.K. SCORES
    146 7 SATURDAYS nose of play w scores m English county cricket championship games were: At Cardiff. Glamorgan v. Sussex, no play owing to rain. At Bournemouth, Hampshire v Somerset. Somerset 107 for 2 (Gimblett It) no further play ouing to rain. \t Birmingham, Warwickshire v Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire 8
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    Navy win 3-0
    76 7 ROYAL NAVY bear Urn BOD. Civilian A.s.>oration by three goals to nil m an S.A.F.A. Challenge Cup tie at Seletar yesterday. Scon rs for Navy were Stubbert and Haig (2). Cheerful Lads, the unbeaten side m the Junior "E. Group 1 League, had little I difficulty m
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    TEAM-MATES CONTEST I.A.F. AWARD
    298 7 THREE team-mates, drivers of the new Italian Alfa Romeo cars which have been dominating the motor-rac-ing world this season, are having a tussle between themselves for the honour of becoming the world champion driver. They are the Argentine ace, Juan Manuel Fangio, and the Italians, Guiseppe
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    Schoolboys shine in S.C.A. Senior Tournament
    546 7 Schoolboys shine in S.C. A. Senior Tournament OINGAPORE Recreation Club, the Singapore Cricket Association's Senior Tournament champions, were m a bad way at Balestier yesterday, •when they met the Indian Association. The chamtpions Had lost seven wickets for 47 runs, but school"boy Patrick Scully, Basil Barker and Earle Ebert .came
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    Junior results
    23 7 T3EGISTRAR of Vehicles S.C. jumped to a 7-polnt lead over Y.M-C.A. In the junior tourr.ament series when they beat R.A F
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    BIRHTS
    40 8 HU To Gsok Tin. wile of Hu Wei Ming, at Penang Maternity *ii en July 22. 1950. a son. I 'ell. c 'LENDER: On 19th July, at X ng K rb.m Hcsp.'tal, SingaDoris. v.le ol Marshall v a tThomas).
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    156 8 nent is announced n A. Gordon Groves, son of M .v Mrm A. G'oves of Walsall I' Beivl Mo:gan, Kgh'er of Major E. F r^rgan of Sandhurst, Gloui I ient is announced Morton SMnway, elder f the Hte Mr. F. V Stimpson. F. C. A. Pr.in. of Dunfermto BBS
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    SILVER WEDDING
    22 8 S\IITH-TYRIE: Forfar, 3cotL'3rd July. 1925. by 'he p Hmn Aitken. James T. BmUll Anra Tvri\ Present <;:_ Madingley Es:atr. 5 S^lan-or.
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    REDS MAY BLUNDER INTO WAR
    324 8 REDS MAY BLUNDER INTO WAR Nearer 'point of no return 9 LONDON, Monday. THE great nations are very near the "point of no return" on the road to the third world war, states the current issue of the British weekly, Public Opinion. It expressed the fear that Stalin, deceived by
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    26 8 GOVERNMENT JOKE— Mr. Raymara. Prime Minister of Persia (centre) sees something to laugh at as he enters the Parliament building at Teheran to present his Cabinet.
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    U.S. STEEL OUTPUT UP
    100 8 CLEVELAND. Mon THE United States 81 producing rapacity is "1i.000.0n0 tons greater than required m 1944, the biggest year m \V. »rlcl War II M C M Wl president R- p Corporation Ii all steelmaking fui i he us. operated at c.< would turn 13.000.000 more
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    FEW USTROOPS LEFT IN JAPAN
    261 8 TOKYO. Monday. r rlll\ Korean war has turned Japan into an oci -upi- d country with only a skeleton occupation fori'p. Seventy-live per cent of United States occupying troops have none to the Korean lighting fronts. Only one of four divisions remains to police the
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    Nehru peace move dies
    182 8 NEW YOKK, Monday. THE controversy raised by Pandit Nehru's move for Korean and world peace has practically died down, with the official indication that the correspondence on the subject is closed. While the issue was still open, India and Pandit Nehru were mentioned m almost every
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    Round the world by water jeep
    81 8 HALIFAX Nova Sco'.ia, Mon. Australian war veteran, Major Ben Carlin, and hia wife, Elinor?, flashed a '•adio > the Canadian mainland yesterday saying that "all la well" m mp: to cross ep. ci up by MaJ Carl reported thuf ::ortl. of Sah^e Island Kp
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    'Boxer' makes record voyage
    88 8 TOKYO. Mon. S authoriiies last Qlghi named the Boxer as tr.e 27,000-ton aircraft carrli-r v.liich arrived at Tokyo yv;terday with what it is "believed to be the largest number of planes ever stowed aboard a carrier, probably more than 100. The Boxer ls brlirved to haw
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    PEPPER PRICE GOES UP
    61 8 PEPPER PRICE GOES UP Fantastic ris^s m the price jf pepper, of 30 to 35 cents m all positions were noted last week on the New York Slock Exchange. For many weeks the trading has been mostly to deale s, but tiie Korean situation is now forcing the grinders into
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    DEFENCE COSTS £780,000,000
    55 8 DEFENCE COSTS £780,000,000 The British War Minister, Mr John Strachey. told a meeting at Entteld. Middlesex, yesterday that the Guvernment'f defence policy would be announced inertly Britain, he said, was already spending c 780.000 .000 on defence and If heavier defence expenditure became necessary, the wealthier classes would have to
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    A Borgia in Opera
    105 8 A PRINCE who will soon he singing for a living m Australia has passed through Colombo. He is Prince Peter Enrico of Caraco, whose mother Anriree Margeurite. is a direct descendant of the Borgias. Twenty-nine years old. Peter has done many odd jobs to make a
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    U.S.I. cool to U.S. mission
    96 8 JAKARTA, Mon. TPHE American military mission, making a SouthEast Asia survey, will be received m Indonesia only on an "informal" basis, a Foreign Ministry information chief, Mr. Rous Salim said yesterday. This is because of Indonesia's determination of remain neutral and the government wants "to
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    POCKET CARTOON
    27 8  -  OSBERT LANCASTER by h ou.'a it oe better to sta r t u> i h YetU -cay was a vroua Rrttish croquet.' or >C>:e end?"
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    Russian at UK 'peace' meeting
    338 8 Russian at UK 'peace' meeting LONDON, Mon. A "PEACE demonstration" m Trafalgar Square London, yesterday, drew several thousand people. Torrential rain, however, drove away the bulk of the crowd just after Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer, had spoken The demonstration was organised as part of the British Peace Committees weekend
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    CRASH KILLS 33 AIRMEN
    60 8 Between 33 and 36 U S reservists, returning from inanix urns, died when their transport plane crashed n Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, yesterday. Roaring flames kept rescue workers from the wreckage for three hours. Eyewitnesses said the aircraft —believed to have bt\ n C-46 Curtiss Commando
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    $500,000,000 ordeer
    47 8 The United States Government wiU order $500,000,000 worth or radar ami oijifr eleci ionic equipment m next six months for ihe armed forces. Reuter Italy Is to expand her army from "170.000 to 250.000 men, the limit imposed by the Peace Treaty, with the Allies
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