The Singapore Free Press, 25 July 1950

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA <«. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1950. PRICE TEN CKVI'S.
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  • 155 1 G .I.'s HOLDING THE BIG ATTACK Reds are throwing everything m Till an ncking North Korean Communists hammered jagged 150-mile American and South Korean oss Korea throughout last night and sent patrols down the west coast almost to the south-west tip the peninsula* •.quarters aav that rican infantryrtilleiy, dim hills
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  • Article, Illustration
    24 1 picture. >lr. V X Viidu. who hHprd rescue p<*oplt* trapped i" hist night's Ka!lan» Bridge traj;<*dv. points to Ui<* wrrtkcd taxi. Y. C. Lee
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  • 17 1 picturr. American troops moving up to the front from the port of Fusan. Reuter
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  • 270 1 WASHINGTON. Tuesday. THE Indian Prime Minister, pandit Nehru, was reported yesterday to have sent a secret personal appeal to the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. m a further effort to have Communist China 'seated' m the United Nations. The message has been withheld from
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  • 25 1 Norway has officially announced that she is ready to place Norwegian shipping at the disposal of United Nations forces m Korea. A.P
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  • 398 1 MARINES BLOW UP RED RAIL TUNNEL AN AMERICAN FAR EAST NAVAL BASE, Tues. A DARING Commando raid far behind the battle line on North Korea's east coast was told yesterday by the naval landing party which arrived at an American Far East naval base aboard an American light cruiser. Smail
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  • 59 1 Korean troops rap♦s tured two bare-foot North Korean soldiers m filthy mustard-coloured uniforms yesterday. They were a^ed 19 and 31. They were foraging for food when they were captured The North Korean army is living off the country but not well. The prisoners' bijf complaint: Pay is 15
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  • 124 1 'HID LEWD PICTURES IN HIS BIBLE' ROCKFORD. Illinois. Tups. ANON-denominaiional minister, who allegedly hid pictures of nude women m his bibles. U expected to testify on charges that he raped" his sister-in-law. Robert J. Hansen, 42, was called before a Justice of Peace to determine if he should be bound
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  • 173 1 NEW TEST FOR 'BUMPER ROCKET COCOA, FLORIDA, Tuesday. a TWO-STAGE "Bumper" rocket weighing many tons thundered into the air yesterday on the first horizontal test firing which is expected to take it hundreds of miles out over the Atlantic Ocean. It was the first, firms: from the long-ransfe proving ground
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  • 58 1 The British Governmenannounced yesterday that II has re-opened civil defence schools to train atomic air raid wardens m the realisation that Britain is a likely target for an atom bomb attack m the event of war. The Government made the announcement m the House of Commons In
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  • 50 1 TOKYO, Tues. rHE Textile Bureau of the International Trade Ministry estimated that the total exports of cotton cloth m July would drop 50 per cent below the June exports with only 44,636.000 yards exported during the first half of the nonth. June shipments totalled 216,949,000 yards.
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  • 73 1 LONDON. Tues. DADAR search beams, pro- jected ahead of aircraft and capable of detecting storm clouds as far as 40 miles away, will soon be making flying safer for the British Overseas Airways Corporal ion. Orders for this b^am-throwine equipment- -latest product of radar scientists—
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  • 20 1 Dr. Eanion De Valera, the Irish Jeai?er, ha^ arrived In Rome on a Holy Year-piigii-ce.- A.P.
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  • 68 1 THE night bombing operation carried out by six Lincolns of No. 100 Squadron (Malaya's Own) on a target m Central Perak on Sunday night was the first such attack ever made by this type of aircraft. Bombing took place under a near full moon, and an
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  • 41 1 Britain's Food Ministry has asked that its purchases of bulk tea- be exempted from the new Ceylonese export tax of 15 Ceylonese cents p~r pound. It said that the extra duty would cost Britain £1,000,000 more.
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  • 33 1 A Communist newspaper report from Canton disclosed yesterday the mass suicide of a family of five who jumped to their deaih ivem the eSffhih floor ©f th* Oikwan Hotel. U.P.
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  • 85 1 SAIGON. Tues. THE French authorities m Saigon yesterday offered to exchange prisoners with Russian-backed Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietminh rebels m Indj-China. The offer was mari.^ m a broadcast which said that something could be worked oia with Hos guerillas "if the Vietminh radio
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  • 202 1 TAIPEH, Tuesday. OCOIT planes of the IT.S.l T .S. Seventh Fleet patrolled the Formosa Straits yesterday as Nationalist China prepared to send help to two sentinel islands Kb spite of President Truman's 'cease-fire' request. The islands of Quemoy and Little Quemoy, just off the Red-held "invasion
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  • 380 1 2 more police die after Kallang crash TWO more Malay constables— victims of last night's Kallang Bridge tragedy— died m the Singapore General Hospital this morning of injuries received m a multiple car accident which took place when police were investigating a terrorist attempt to burn down Messrs. Louis Dreyfus*
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  • 22 1 Security forces m Perak bathed with bandits last night and sustained some casualties, according to a police headquarters communique thil morning.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 32 1 UttIABLE DRYCLEAiNINC SERVICE... Try PARIS DRYCLEANING CO. Un St.. Spore. phone ***** KUbli>hed 1921 WATCH YOUR PRICES SPECIAL THIS WEEK LIBBY S TOMATO JUICE ISoz. .4Octs FITZPATRICKS j CASH CARRY i STORE.
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    • 33 1 GIFTS TO BE ADMIRED must be perpetual, valuable serviceable. Get them from: LANKA JEWELLERS 20, Battery Rd., Spore. laW?rT s x DISTEMPER (manufacturers: >. RA.R MALAYAN PAINT WORKS LTD. distributors: jIM|. JARBY &.CO. LJa
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  • 615 2  -  Gwyn Lewis By BRITAIN'S problem of 100,000 spiteful husbands and wives is so pressing that 104 M.P.s of all parties are supporting a motion culling on the Government to appoint a royal commission to overhaul the marriage and divorce laws. Eve." year itiagistra'es make approxima.ely
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  • Article, Illustration
    27 2 Forrest, film actress, pedals the air as if riding an imaginary bicycle. Her wewht is on her stiouJders. elbows and neck. This is a coorf slimming exercise.
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  • 473 2  - Feminine Curves Are Back Again Dorothy Roe .yiv- NEW YORK. 4 MERICAN tfirls will be girLs again so m. The last hint of the flat-chested silhouette, the boyish bob and the flapper slouch has been removed iirmly from the autumn fashion picture. The designers vote unanimously for feminine curves. Autumn
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    60 2 The Governors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Osaka, Japan, were entertained to lunch at the House of VomTnms. m return for hospitality afforded the British Parliamentary delegation which visited Japan m 194<. Tokiko Seki (left) and Miss Toneko Kimura, both of Tokyo, who formed part of the visiting group, photographed as
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  • 612 2  -  Kay Murray By THE "million-dollar give- away show" is still pending, but meanwhile the National Broadcasting Company has come up with acceptable substitute their "Live Like a Millionaire" programme. The winner of this radio talent contest will live like and m the company of millionaires for seven
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 186 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have a great deal of talent. Decide early- m life what you want to do and specialize. While you appear a "hearty fellow well met" on the surface, there is an inner part of your nature which very few know or appreciate. You have
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    • 310 2 New Crossword No. 107 HMBWwftmSßfffi Bf*s P^kß Bui CLUES ACROSS I. Murphy Clan? (6, 4>. 7. The htlm we'd got about submerged (7». 8. Ration for ihe worshipper (3). 9. Rice mixed with tar <7>. 10. Animal seen m Selkirk (3). 11. Does one get this with BBC time? (3).
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  • 312 3 BURMA'S DILEMMA IN A 3RD WAR Would like to be neutral RANGOON, Tuesday. rHE Burmese will find themselves right out on a limb should Korea develop into a third world war. They would like to be neutral as Ion? as they can. but fear that neutrality will not be tolerated,
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  • Article, Illustration
    16 3 picture Bastille Day celebrations at the Bastille Metro Station m the east end of Paris.— A.P.
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  • 57 3 BOMB HOLDS UP BERLIN COLD WAR BERLIN, Tuesday. •••I. interrupted the cold war m Berlin i i bomb is so hot it may go off any i.id it. Russians are standing around thing will stay dead for a while. to figure out a way to set rid lunr i aimed
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  • 57 3 LACK OF FUNDS HINDERS WORK Th- Un; Nations Educational, Scentific and aral Organisation will »1 o functioning properly uniess it gets more money, the Director-General, Dr. Jaime I 3odet. said m Geneva. :ar our resources have remained quitf inadequate to the responsibilities laid upon us by our constitution. he told
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  • 175 3 JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. WITCH-DOCTORS still have a tenacious hold on credulous Africans m spite of the spread of Christianity. Ritual* murders, smelling-out and barbaric initiations are still practiced throughout South \:::ca. Secret herbs many unknown to medical science, are used. Father F. Schimlek, ot the Miriannhil! Mission,
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  • 69 3 NEW DELHI. Mon. THE government of India's External Affairs Ministry baa strongly contradicted the report published by the Americyn magazine news'.veek that m a bid lor Indian favour m the Korean conflict, a secret Soviet message has been despatched to New Delhi suggesting that India be
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  • 28 3 The Netherlands Army Headquarters m Jakarta says the Dutch military establishment m Indonesia will have been reduced from 260.000 to only 60.000 persons by July A.P.
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  • 31 3 The bullion market was doing active business m refined silver. June trade returns show Imports well up at 972.000 fine ounces, and exports similarly at 1.906.000 fine ounces. U.P.
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  • 195 3 LONDON. Mon. THE King, m a tribute to Mr. MarKenzie King, former Canadian Prime Minister who died on Saturday night, said his service t. Canada would receive an honoured place m history. In a telegram of condolence sent to Field Marshal Viscount Alexander, Canada's Governor-General, the
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    36 3 picture. Mangwazan Ngobo won the first prize of four guineas with his magnificent head-dress of Turkey feathers, sparrowhawk winss. and beads, topped with a heron's head at the first ricksha parade m Durban recently. A. P.
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  • 10 3 on r by It I A.P.
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  • 9 3 C inmunists passb< thf French has dis-
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    210 3 4 b Weat 20 Alt Pass •d the value 01 -fn>m North's j s he expected 4 :he high > his right West's de::c!ud« mor a s His double South mi^ht have mad-, his contract. But East validated his own d0..--,v a brilliant falsecard play, 'west opened the
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    15 3 Honestly. Beryl Qrey means nothing to me. I iust said I'm sorry she's got married."
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  • 60 3 The first two shiploads 01 United States military aid to French Union forces flghtin» Communist "inenllas m InuoChina are expected m SaiK«»:i this week. The cargoes will comprise equipment for forces being organised by Indo-Chiaa's three Western recogn!sed states. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, and aircraft
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  • 43 3 The Japanese Lower House has pa., ed by <j majority vole the controversiaJ Tax Law Revision Bill which provides for revision of the Governments present plans to tax foreignen up to 55 per cent of their incomes.— Reuter
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  • 34 3 Mr. David M. Johnson. Canadian High Commissioner to Pakistan, will represent Canada at a meeting of Commonwealth officials opening m Colombo, Ceylon, to plan the Commonwealth aid to South East Asia. A.P.
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  • 30 3 The Japanese AttorneyGeneral's office is expected to order the dissolution of two large Korean organisations m Japan which are known to be (forth Korean sympathisers.— Reuter
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  • 152 3 LIEGE, BELGIUM, Tuesday. r PHE younger your mother was when you were born, the longer you may expect to live, according to a new study. If she was 20 or 25 you may get from 10 to 15 more years of life than if she was
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  • 42 3 Six Japanese students have won scholarships to study for a year In France with expenses paid by the French Government, the UNESCO announced m Paris. Two will study literature, and the other four music. medicine and sciern Reuter
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  • 28 3 Official* In Washington said thai plans are being oonxid- ered to put more Wctl EuI ropean factories to work producing weapon* and military supplies.- A.P.
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  • 19 3 Another earthquake shaken rh<- southern Ph pnjv.mv O f Buiif M) N lania^ 1 or c Reuter
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  • 274 3 BRITAIN'S 'DUTY TO ARM' LONDON. Tuc.v THE British Defence Minister. Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, has declared that it was Britain's plain duty, 'm a world gone mad," t 0 build up her military strength, even at the expence of her Labour Government's domestic policies. At the same time, the British Health
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 225 3 CTWrBDnPF 4 47 "From the London ElitonaV dino/irUAL (BBC»; 4.55 "Composer of the (BLUE NFTWORK) Week"— Bach: 5.15 -Conimon--484 and 41.7 metres. wealth Survey" (BBC); ft.3o "Paul f Qin^nnrp Temple and the Sullivan Mystery' 10 a.m. News from Singapore g Hayi a Wonderful followed by the EniBr B e c
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  • 536 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. July 25, 1950. The open air i jr. Yap Pheng Geek lj aa voicing the wish 1 1 numerous Singaporeans the other day whea he culled tor the speedy development of public parks and open i town, as well p its. seaside and shady In
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  • 1372 4 Don Iddon's Diary LAKE SUCCESS: THE lake is not m sight and the success has still -to be achieved, but this little New York suburb is no longer making apologies for itself. After being a poor impersonation of the world capital for too long the United Nations headquarters at last
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  • Letter to the Editor
    • 221 4 IT IS clear for those who care to see that the present policy of the Labour Party of trying to make the most of the recent stray instances of resignations from the Progressive Party is nothing short of a desperate struggle to make up for the long period
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  • Article, Illustration
    49 4 Four delegates to the world conference of Girl Guides icjre the costume of their homelands. Here Mrs. H. C. Captain (left) of Bombay is displaying a mascot doll to felloio delegates deft to right) Colette Roullet of Paris, Miss Nita Siniossoglov of Athens, and Begum Khalib Malik of Lahore.
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  • 77 4 Answer To Air Problem with Dr H Ge: prop rtroppii an.sv stair fM root or you air r« you: Dr gru\ A' of their frir:. mo le c I" 1 SOCi- Wt anc i dual ha^ I from thfor more >nds have tM elm for th» The el< peri. Di
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  • 1001 4 Are These Hardships Really Necessary? A CANADIAN LOOKS AT BRITAIN— 4 RICHARD NEEDHAM m his last article M life m the Mother Country comments on some of the frustrations that he found so exasperating ami so puzzling. Y'JSITORS to postwar Britain have to put up with a good many difficulties
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  • 39 4 In the first half of this year an estimated 1,612 factories and 6,800 shops m Shanghai applied to the authorities for permission to close. These figures do not include enterprise! which folded up without permission. Reuter
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 18 4 :::3!iitt(iiiiu:jiiii Finert Dianor I Rings and Et*smitf Rings U.S.d3SiLVA Jewell* n 106. ORCHARD ROAD Tele. 2*66. si ,M'iiij::!::?!i!:;;uui:ii:n;:ni«tii:!:"
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    • 72 4 'ry -A note from Oaty J Remember to get somt FARLEY'S RUSKS When it's ttme for a little >on between meals, Farley s is the answer famous rusk<, made m the heart c and Cornwall, are a great btano b, Baby rusks to help the development c r goo^ sound
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  • 74 5 CO VT POSTS Stall K.portrr v.,1" auiruI for London, loc3l portunlty 9 share •he Mawould rtakGovernment .<:e on the C -ion. I. president Parly, to ruing on a iblished on hrertia newspapers Kingdom invilor admipolicc officers' The report een i flood '.VMS .101. event m Sin-
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  • 18 5 Raj :ng. Land For- re d SunBong en a He will be ii a week. I
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  • 377 5 NEW JOBS FOR LOCAL MEN FIRST Motion to clarify S.M.C. policy Free Press Staff Reporter A RESOLUTION that Singapore Municipal Commissioners should give preference to suitably qualified Singapore-born candidates m their recruitment of new employees will be moved by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek at the Commissioners meeting next Monday. cT
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  • 70 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. T TMNO youths of Johore Bahru want the Government :o distribute more fire- 'o kampone people for self-protection This is one of the proposals from the Johore Bahru UMNO Youth division to be tabled at :he UMNO Youths Conference on Sunday at Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 21 5 The next meeting of the apore Legislative Council will be held on Aug. 15 at the Victoria Memorial Hall.
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  • 58 5 Surfice mail Is expected m Singapore today from Great Britain N Ireland, Eire. Europe, North 'and West Africa, South Africa We~,t Indies, Egypt, Ceylon. Siam and the Federation. Latest t mes for posting surface mail" ft the G.P.O. today are: roon for Rangoon, North India. Pakistan South India (letters
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  • 23 5 The Malcolm Club, at RAF. station, Changi, wili be ho:ding a dance and cabaret on Thursday to celebrate its seventh birthday.
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  • 141 5 F. P. Malay Correspondent rHE Johore Government has definite plans to ease the shortage of schools m various mukims In the State. Syed Nasir. Johure Malay Inspector of Schools, told Utusan Melayu. It Is estimated that In South Johore alone, there are about 4.000 Malay
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  • 126 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. PONTIAN has informed the Johore Bahru division of UMNO that 200 delegates, representing every kampong m the district, will attend the meeting: of UMNO delegates who on Friday, will demonstrate their loyalty to Dato Onn bin Ja'afar and reauest him to continue
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  • Article, Illustration
    70 5 picture. SWIMMING is one of the best exercises for muscles paralysed by polio. Those who have already passed the acute stage and are on their way to recovery are beinff treated at the St. Andrew's Orthopaedic Hospital. They are taken into the sea every day when the tides are favourable.
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  • 135 5 WHERE are they going: to live?" asked the Singapore Third Police magistrate, Mr. C. H. F. Blake, before he fined 18 people 51.50 each for offences against building by-laws. The defendants, all from Kampons Amber, had failed to comply with mandatory orders to demolish
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  • 33 5 The annual meeting of past pupils of the Convent of the Holy Inlant Jesus. Singapore, will be held on Aug. 5 at 3 p.m. All past pupils are invited to attend.
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  • 41 5 LITTLE PATIENTS picture. HR. Pamela Ruth Elliott (ex treme left) resident doctor at St. Andrew's O<V,i*uedic Hospital, Siglap, will leave Singapore next week. She has been here since 1927. Picture shows her with the little patients at the hospital. Free Press
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  • 302 5 Free Press Staff Reporter pACED with a possible reduction of 30 per cent m the number of trishaws, the Singapore Hired Trishaw Riders' Association has addressed a petition to the Municipal Commissioners. The association ur^es that m any action to cut down the number of trishaws
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  • 120 5 'Ingenious swindle' KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. REMARKING that the evidence loft no room for douoting that it was an ingenious swindle that ha-1 b* deliberately perpetrated. Ifr. Justice Taylor Ixi the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court today dismissed the appeal of a former warrant officer, Kenneth Wood, sentenced to two years' rigorous
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  • 162 5 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE $350 initial payment referred to m the War Damage scheme for Malaya is a maximum figure, as several claimants have learned to iheir dismay A woman claimant who hss complained that her claim was for $5,000 yet she
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    25 5 pp. THE Suitan of I who arrired at Kail r? airport yesttrdiy I), i Constellation after a f<> r months' hoi^div hi Fur Free Press
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  • 230 5 SPORE HOUSEWIVES TOLD: Free Press Siail K?po.-t r TIOrSEWIVES m Singapore are advised by liie Fisheries Department to buy th 'lr fish dv. the period when there is no moon. This is beca the biggest catches are on dark niciifs uid pr!
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  • 71 5 UAJOR-Ge:i. VY E c. i, and his party of Aiutr* i military oU-ervers, \vl rived m Singapore on F. left for Kuala Lumpur morning to betnn their hand survey of all asp» < the an* i -band: i campaij the Federation. They are exacted to
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  • 20 5 Fines totalling $4-1} imposed on 36 pel n tN* Singapore Third Police C yesterday for ofTeneo building by-laws
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 112 5 Floor Polishing the EASY warWITH THE ELECTROLUX W^^jW A yr 1 f oor is I* I*'1 pride e\en housewife. Thanks to the ELECTROU jtfCT^JS floor polisher, von can alva\- k«eu your floors shiny and u< II polished. /'S^WBH f ne uor^ h Ihe polisher i» simple and 1 <in N
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  • 987 6  -  TAN TOCK SAIK Sports at Singapore's girls 9 schools By QNE of the most healthy signs of student life m Singapore today is the enthusiasm and serious participation m sports by the pupils of the Colony's seven English girls' schools. Never before have so many
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  • 68 6 Chess League next month <^ir lemma h-v- entered for hit v ai tor the Lee c i En| Shield. axe Anglo-Chineae fl 'holders'. Univrr.siv Singapore Chess I Swimming nd Catho- Nation. i, i MesMd a n?€ i ill b d if th:o th- result o: ill :>- n- d;udiE A
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  • Article, Illustration
    18 6 rip p s uould arcvpt the captaincy it tcoitld mean he's out of the country for germ monthn!
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  • 41 6 MAI AY Sj I held a H:tn Rays celebration for members and their families on Sunday. A magic show and novelty Items for children by a buffi D irty. Mrs M >d bin Raj I Yusofl save the prl
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  • 197 6 Not enough races f or lower class stayers TODAYS SPORTSLETTER IDO NOT agree with Trespasser that UiU r«»uiHr> has a dearth of stayers. Nobody can pr.»\e correctIv whether we have K<md stayer> or not. Real stayer* m Class 11. HI or IV have no chance whatsoever to prove their worth,
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  • 85 6 Gurkhas beat J.M.F. 4-1 Free Pn-ss Stall reporter TJOHORE BAHRU Tiles HE 1 10 Gurkha Rin >s defeated Johore Mil. Forr-s at soccer on the Ist i adang by row yesterday. At the «'nd of the Qnrt I winch was evenly (■•■•itrv the Gurkhas h>d by a ro&i mom by
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  • 114 6 JWENTY-one crack have been declared probables for the S rewards Cup. to be run over six furlongs at the opening stage of the Goodwood meeting today. Probables, with jockeys air: Luminary (E. C. Elliott i; Decorum •A. Bn.\.tsley>; First Counsul <E. BritM; Spartan Sacrifice iD. Smith); Leica
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  • 181 6 DFGDASFDSF LONDON Tut < n VERYOISNESS regarding the Kr.rran xl and ministerial hints of new taxation t possible increase of Britain's expenditun dullness in the London Stork Fxdian-. vested states Router's financial correspondent Among overseas Issues, Japai countered heavy selling and declin points, European bonds were i
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  • 40 6 CERNIK WINS SWISS FINAL y. ckrnik the exiled C iaw n teonii i iter- b*Mt Endia'i Bun ra in *he ftnaL r»f pionships at v •Mcd by ran :ill In -he cieci Bnml icl 6-3 [n the i■• v < Reuter
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    • 180 6 Kxclusirc t> the Singapore Free Press m Malaya i'llGU TOTH& B n Tr^ A COME SACK. 1 I WANT T WELL/ OF 4S THE MAN fWNS t MANDQAK£ MC/-- TOIALKTOYOU/ ALL THT j GESTURES KYPNQtiCAILY--3SK2 -\t 7- r^7 jTJi .^''t !^i J/\fS|E Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya
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  • 294 7 ENGLAND IN FEAR OF DEFEAT 3 wickets go m last half hour J]NGLAND, with five wickets m hand and a lead of 15 runs, are heading for defeat m the Third Test match at Nottingham. This was after a brilliant start to their second innings, the first wicket realising 212
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  • 52 7 Kent rid inside expense of stershlrc resrren: series ericke; •hes. sc of play matches Surand Yorta 149 :«i for 3. IWI Lei--155 palIV jolf r and 239 Minor 1 for J4> rv 204 anu i-.im 4 for IMh 3 «rwirkGodciard 6 H D .'or
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  • 20 7 JOHORE PICK M.A.A .A. SIDE hero 1 ::\rn and j to be held Pad- Da [>• R. P A LMMWL 'he
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  • 85 7 ENGLAND— l*t. INNS. 223 WEST INDIES— Ist. INNS. 558 ENGLAND— 2nd INNS. Uashbrook c Worrell b Valentine ii>: Simpson run out 94 Parkhouse low Goddard 6* Dewes not out 55 Vardley b Ramadhin Insole st. Walcott b Ramadhin 0 Extras Total <for 5 wkts.) BOWLING O. M. R. \V.
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  • 50 7 JJNIVERSITY of Malaya lost three-nil to Macao m tri^k hockey match m the Portuguese Colony yesterday. R. McCoy was outstanding m The Malayan attack, but hod no support from the rest of the line. In defence B. Marks. Scharenguivel and B. K. Sen were most prominent.
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  • 78 7 SEREMBAN, Mon— A contingent of six athletes has been selected to represent Negri Sembilan at the forthcoming Malayan Amateur Athletic Association Championships at Singapore. Those selected are:— X. J. Brohier (hop. step and jump and hurdles). J. Kanagaratnam (100 yds. and 440 yds.). N. Selvarajah
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  • 91 7 I wifl play 29 matches, including five tiaaj Australia and two against New Ze\- r I^so-51 tour. xtainvt Australia will be played at Brisbane M»*lbi>ur ne beginning; on Dec 22. Unißg on Jan. 5. Adelaide beginning on Feb. fe -inninj? on Feb. 23 The first four will
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  • 259 7 FOLLOWING their creditable performances at the Singapore Turf Club's July meeting, six Class 2 horses have b»en promoted to Class 1. They are Ambassador. Gold Meridian, Vasco da Gama, River Moon, Steel Age and Arabian Knight. Three Class 1 horses— Everest. Bright Star and Madasari
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  • 34 7 from Onr Own Correspondent Johore Bahru, Mon.— The Sultan Ibrahim Girls' School. Johore Bahru. will hold their first postwar annual sports on Aug. at 3 30 pm. at the school grounds
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  • 284 7 \I I. OSMAN, Indian Recreation Club's outside- 1"* left, piayed a great part m his side's three-nil victory over the Indonesians m a Senior League tie at Geylang stadium yesterday. It was from one of his centres that Indians' centreforward, Salahudin scored the first goal
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  • 356 7 FOLLOWING ties m *he Singapore junior badminton championships will be played this week-end: Saturday at 2.30 p.m: Tan Guan Honjr and Mak Kirn Hong (Mayflower) v. Wong Yeok Yeok and Poh Kirn Van (AAU) j Neo Seng Kez and Tan Chin Jin (Mayflower) v. Aziz Mohd
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  • 769 7 Washbrook Simpson raise England's hopes FULL DETAILS OF PLAY and though Ramadhin continued to demand the greatest respect the 200 came along with the pair' still together. Soorir.g slowed down as Washbrook approached his century and he was at 98 for 15 minutes. He took a single for 99. but
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  • 143 7 KOTA RAJA, last year's S.A.F.A. Cup champions and undefeated leaders of this years's Senior League, will come up against their closest rivals. Chinese Athletic, m a Senior League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium today. The teams played a scoreless draw last year, when C. A- won
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  • 102 7 PLAYING thur first horSey match. Singapore Teachers' Training College trounced Serangoon English School Staff and Students XI four-nil on the S. E. S. ground yesterday. Fook Shin opened the scoring early m the first half ond just before the interval John Rajah put the
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  • 217 7 Tanglin Club tennis "DESULTS of yes "prday's ties ut the Tanglin Club were: Women's Handicap Double Miss Lame and Miss Squ 'es »3) heal Miss Wilson and Ida Hayne i 15 1 7-5, 6-3; M Veall and Miss Garnett beat Mus P. J. Taylor and Mr?. N. G. Morris (—15.3)
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  • 42 7 NOOR W INS INULEWOOU. Cal MJn piGHTING a 9 st. 6 ib. i^a ><:i nis back the great Irish iMi handicap champion Noor bare.y flashed to a half length f over Dharan on Saturday m ft* $50,000 added American H at Hollywood.
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  • 120 7 gRITAIN S ace driver, Stirling Moss, wa* injured on Sunday m a race when his car crashed against a tree Moss was racing a British H. W.M. m the third Grand Pn\ of Naples for 500 cubic-centimetre supercharged engine and 2,000 c.c. normal engines. Moss, who had
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 42 7 SEA VIEW HOTEL DINNER DANCES NIGHTLY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS) DINE DANCE IN A PLEASANT SEASIDE ATMOSPHERE TO THE RHYTHM OF JULIAN FOORMAN'S ORCHESTRA 8 P.M. MIDNIGHT PHONE ***** ftm lA4UOOM IHTAUIANI MjiS iA &AY ATC^©SPIffIEIiME A mT snnpiEKiß cmnsEKiE j ICMpMnONJ:
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    • 7 7 Rained off be blowed— them's flying bjilj.
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    • 92 7 »«E«W/S^^^ R^TMC, PAYS6BROK£THC"I-MlL6ar XJ 3-NlLEl> So cowv^^t^oor Ni*N3€*'^ S^'^ ">iTM^T h/£ 5C66C57 M£ A*AS A V^ f •sF^K£a>RDS^e«OktN)/ T CRAcK AT THC CRAMb ft?|X <M Uomoßc^BAm^u wfnT month m <^^^&-\e %^//iffl!L-L=*4£-± J&H& iL HEIGHTS N£V£R iVWiiBUCHtRS ATTAtNCD »NM^V/} iTn£ AADI6S »WD' V BCFbRfi.'NTHEfbu k,WAN MUM ->OMR£C>> G*M£S TOO; U6M V
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    • 27 7 Today's sport SOCCER: Snr. Ige.: Chine-e Athletes v Kota Raja at Mtoa Bwar stadium; SJI.C. v. Chines Casuals, SJt.C. TEVVIS. V.M.C.A. and Tan lin Club Uvrmament (cent
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  • 39 8 DPAPEri: To Clemency, wife of uchn Draptr. at Bungsar HosKmia Lumpur, on 24.7/50. a dvighter. ISAAC: On July 20. 1930. at Kinrara Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, to Pamela, trtii of Capt. R. J. Isair. HC, a son (James Robert*
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  • 53 8 LANGLOIS BERTHELOT PROUST: At St. Andrews Church, Kuala Lumpur, on the 24th July. 1930 by the Rev. S. S. T. Evans, Guy. second son of the late Marc I an«;loi*-Berthelot and of MadameM Unglois-Berthelot. Paris, to Madeleine, only daughter of the I A. Proust and of Madame M Proust,
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  • 20 8 SCANDRETT: Hvlda Natalie,; v of the late A. J. Scandrett. j A^'d CB. Funeral at Bidadan 3 ?0 p.m
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  • 424 8 Than have his wife back BIRMINGHAM, Tuesday. LIFE changed suddenly for Alfred W. Langford, 48, Birmingham's head postmaster, when his wife left on a trip to South Africa he realised what it was to be "free." according to a judge at Birmingham Assizes. Two
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    28 8 MEETING A (iUEST The Queen, wearing: a invv shady hat built up of graceful whorls, rhats with one of fi.ooo guests at a garden party m Buckingham Pilace.
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  • 118 8 Smoker is cancer guinea-pig LONDON, Tues. IN THE cancer research department of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. London, there is a human guinea-pig with an ideal job. Day by day he smokes popular brands of cigarettes throush a holder. The ash produced is carefully collected and put into one weighing bottle; the
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  • 84 8 NEWPORT. Tins. HENRY GEORGE WEST. 66. rmei platelayer. of Hopefield. Newport Monmouthshire, who hanged hlm- m a toolshrd. was said at r he inquest at Newport to have become depressed because he had done nothing since his retirement m 1943 The coroner. Mr. D. W. Evans. "Unlike
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  • 23 8 The Philippines steamer San Antonio. < 1960 tons>. sank yesterday after hlrtinn a mine a Lloyds report from Shanghai stated. Reuter
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  • 28 8 The U.S. President, Mr. Truman, yesterday ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to tighten its enforcement programme against "espionage, sabotage and subversive activities."- A.P.
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  • 81 8 IN the vault of a Kilmorc hank. .17 miles north of Melbourne, lies a crop of gold unearthed by two small boys who impatiently await legal determination whether they or the Kin^ own it. The boys, aged eight and seven, found 83 sovereigns behind a loose
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  • 158 8 Killed his father-no regrets LONDON, Tues. ROBERT William Ferris. 24. told a jury at the Old Bailey. London, that he killed his father m self-defence and had no regrets that he was dead. The father. Albert Thomas Ferris, of Offord-road. Islington, London, was describedby prosecuting counsel as a drunken beast"
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  • 37 8 Thrcf resolutioni condemning the Apartheid policy of Dr Malan. Prime Minister of Spilth Alrica. appeared yesterday on the preliminary agenda for the annual enn-f.-rence of the British Labour Party to be held m Otob-r.— Reuter
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  • 187 8 LONDON, Tuesday. (^AMBLING started Albert Prices troubles. He always lost. His money went; his job went; one hardship followed another. As he stood m the dork of the Old Bailey. London, he waited for the last blow of all sentence of death. He murdered his
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  • 283 8 SHE CHOSE SON, NOT HUSBAND LONDON, Tuesday. MHS. Lillian Annie Miller was torn between her husband and her only son. Her duty, said Mr. Commissioner BUnco-White In the Divorce Court. London, lay to the husband. She chose the son. The husband was given a decree nisi because of desertion. The
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  • 66 8 MELBOURNE, Til s Radio ytsterdmy guid»-d a .ship on a mercy mission to a young doctor stricken with appendicitis, on lonely H .ird Island m the Antarctic Dr. Serge UdovlkofT. tinonly dector with the Australian Antractic rxp^dition on the island, was ready to rUk using the
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  • 68 8 BOMBAY. Turn. ]UR. Ivor Thomas Beechey. 28-year-old Yorkshire engineer, was drowned off Bombay's Juhu beach while attempting to save a young girl raught m a whirlpool. Mr. Beechey. who came to India last month, went to the weekend seaside resort With his family and Indian friends.
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  • 35 8 Mr. E. K. Thompson, chief engineer of the freighter W. R. Arbutus said at Hamilton. Bermuda, yesterday that the ship sighted two unidentified sub-marines during her trip from Jacksonville to Bermuda.
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  • 114 8 LONDON. Tues. THE price of spot tin rose another a: 16- 7 8 at the afternoon session of the London tin market to stand at *:716- 4 per ton. only £8 be--lmv thp p^air p r i<-p established on July 14 and £127-* 8 above the
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  • 69 8 rpHE Philippines may still send an armed force \o join the United Nations float m Korea. President Elpidio Quirino l olc a news conference yesterday fchat the possibility of sending a lone to Korea In accordance with the commitment to the United Nation* "'will be
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 13 8 INCH TIDES Today: »Um.m; 6 3! p.m. lomorrow: 9 10».m; 7 43 p.m.
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