The Singapore Free Press, 27 July 1950

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALS IN MALAYA \gfdggdg SINGAPORE. THURSDAY. JULY 27, 1950. *HHM ItN I
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  • 580 1 DOZEN NATIONS TO GIVE TROOPS A Hies may total 40,000 AN allied expeditionary force, comprising ground force units from as many as a dozen nations, is today being forrped behind the United Nations flag to fight m Korea. Britain's announcement thai sin- would send her soldiers to tight beside the
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    29 1 lar Angla-C nines- School •i the intt*r-N i hool relay. s \rthur Yount Tup from at |1m ni 115.4 pore inter- at Jalan B«^ir Stadiy rrp«>rt m page H.
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    43 1 pictures. ABOVE: A I.S. jet fighter screams m for a belly landing on an emergency strip m South Korea as smoke trails from th^ damaged fusilage. BELOW: The jet has landed safely— with a shell hole just above the wing root. A P.
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  • 242 1 TOKYO Thursday. iMiantrvmni struck m a surprise iv against the North nmantots who h.ul thrust into f^r southmen a mystery force s are official secrets— went I eo-ordiruited attack with South I US Air Force and Navy reTiZ~. "3 danger ad- ■r'r. roast So«th Kor
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  • 54 1 How Reds see it A COMMUNIST correspondent m Korea said yesterday that American air activity m Korea is increasing notably with "bombers pt*sinjr over all the time md fighters roaming and blasting every moving thing." He said that air attacks undoubtedly would increase but this would only stiffen the resistance
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  • 110 1 TIED UP —THEN GUNNED ADVASCE AIR BASE IN KOREA, Th k tall, young American r corpvr' dey that Sorth Koreans bound and two comrades, jorced thei I down, and then mad -:ned them. The corporal, a 21 -year-old Irish America* from York City, said, "I MNU the only one to
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  • 49 1 Th? U.S. Defence Department has issued a new casualty list identifying nine men killed m action, two wounded and 37 missing. The list brought the number of casualties identified to 57 killed, eight fatally wounded. 251. wnunded. 78 injured and 367 missing m action.- U.P.
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  • 42 1 To celebrate the bi-cent^n-ary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach on July 28. the All-Indian Radio is devoting practically th* whole of its Western 'music programmes for the week from July 23 to J jly 29 to the composer.
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  • 175 1 LONDON. Thu r rHE Prime Minister. Mr Clemftii Attlee, declared last night that thf best way to preserve the poace of the world was to "take definite action again n aggression and by allowing that aggression has not tucceeded He was speaking at the
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  • 190 1 BRUSSELS. Thursday. SOCIALISTS and Liberals whose party followers have launched a wave of sabotage and strikes throughout Belgium, yesterday walked out of the Chamber of Deputies refusing to give the AllCatholic Government, which supports King Leopold, a vote of confidence. Liese. centre of anti-Leopold Wallonia. was
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  • 34 1 India is likely to have her first series of postage stamps produced by the photogravure .process at Nasik, Bombay, m about a year following the recommendation made by the Philatelic Advisory Committee.
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  • 34 1 TEA GOING ON FREE MARKET The British Government stated yesterday that tea auctions "would be resumed In April, thus restoring the free market m tea for the first time since before the war. U.P.
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  • 36 1 The New York Times war correspondent Mr. Richard J. H. Johnston, m a despatch from Korea said that the United States Army had never had a plan for the defence of South Korea. Reuter
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  • 26 1 A Meteor jet fighter crashed into the sea near Penzance. Cornwall, yesterday within sight of hundreds of people pants weir killed. Reuter
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  • 76 1 I\R. Serge Udovikoff, an Australian doctor stranded m the Aiii.arctic, f»"ho had said he would cut his own appendix if aid did not come m time, "has yesterdiy reported out of danger. Radio communication with Heard Island, where he is lying, was re-established yesterday after more
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  • 244 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. rjNE of the best pieces of news to come out of Korea m a long time was made by an American officer standing on a hilltop and casually discussing the day's fighting. *"I looked down the road." he said, 'and saw some Communists
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  • 91 1 LONDON, Thurs THE efforts of the Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, to bring the Korean fighting to an end were referred to yesterday m a two-day debate m the Hou« of Lords on foreign policy. The Lord Chancellor. Lord Jowitt. said: "Premier Nehru may
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  • 211 1 U.S. Is stronger than ever -JohnsOn WASHINGTON. Th,; THE U.S. Defence S tary. Mr Louis Jo. son. said yesterday til the over-all '•potential* of the Un:' States was greater at start of the Korean than at any time si:. after the United S demobilised after World War 11. Mr. Johnson,
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  • 27 1 Leading world Coaunui have flown out of East Berlin, apparently for a meeiine of the Cominform at an iv closed spot In Battern E
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  • 19 1 Rangoon barbers are forbidden to snip til en Mondays because E sup believr is unlucky for hair-
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  • 663 2  - Murderer In The Family PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m U.K. IJAND on neart, is there a man or woman who can honestly claim that he or she has never looked forward—and looked forward eagerly to the reports of a murder trial m the daily newspaoers? Such reports have a
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  • 497 2 THE scene is a slum m Whitechapel. m m i d— Victorian En^md, 7*2 yean a?:o. Amid jecrinu s*arba°:ethrowing mob a pa*- na ingelist, WilI mo Booth. la proclaiming his war-cry of salvation through blood and tire. He lifts a little girl of 12, lv> daughter, on
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  • 138 2 Stendhal. by Howard Clewes "Arthur Barker 7s «d Asked which great novelist decided to record the beginning of an important love affair by having a crucial date embroidered on his braces, any well-inform-ed student of literature will, of course, reply Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal, author of
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  • 390 2  - Gospel Made 'News' JOHN HALL gOMETHING new on the bookstalls and m the stationers 1 shops of Britain appeared one morning recently -a 24-page sixpenny magazine which looks like one of the popular picture weeklies. Name of this newcomer is 'The Man m the Street It has all the gloss,
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  • 423 2 The King Was Not Amused ROBERT OTTAViAY ON BOOkW it has J been said, sell their lives as dearly m peace as m war. The itch to reminisce about battles long ago has led to some very bleak books indeed, written, as it were, at attentionHut General Carton de W:art,
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  • 166 2 BRITAIN'S RICKEST WOMAN YOU are 54 years old. A You have Just inherited £9.000,000 from your laj-e husband WiKii will you do with the money? Lady Anne Henneiu > who <j»ea recent laced that problem wher. David Yule died m I miking her the richest moiu Great Britain. Four passions
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    • 434 2 New Crossword No. 109 rjfl EJjm/A Hes2fi dK-^3 jS^^l YOUR LUCKY STAR U aJ ■~i(~jJ DORN today, >our highly choose «m- as your profes- 75 f^^l T^ i^ sensitive nature is do- sion. Your mind is well- i I minuted by a powerful m- balanced and your sense of I
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  • 359 3 INDIA IS IN A 'POOR WAY' SAYS BOOK Choice between reform order NEW YORK, Wednesday. AN American writer who spent six months walking and hitch-hiking through India has reported that the newly-independent country is m pretty poor shape. He predicted that "with india. as with the rest of the world,
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    61 3 Mr. Winston Churchill (dark hat. dark coat. i-entn*) leaving the dais after his speech at the Plymouth Fair m Saltram Park. Plymouth. England. In his speech Mr. Churchill said that worldwide Soviet pressure now Imperils the west more gravely than at any time since Hitler stood on the ver*e of
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  • 65 3 DANGER UNABLE TO QUIT JOB HONG KONG. Wednesday Birm willowy Miss Chen Ching-mei is one of and a half refugees from Communist <>wd the British colony of Hong Kong v not a Kuomintang reactionary nor was she purged from the tnist Party for leftist adventurist or r mist counter-revolutionary devia•an
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  • 41 3 A "riger" was wedded to a 'dragon m Rangoon this :< when 23-year-old Aw Chen Sin. niece of Tiger Balm Aw Boon Haw promi:,e\i love, honour and obedience K\ Maung Sein. cosmetic director whose trade mark is a drason A.P.
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  • 48 3 A new search for oil has begun In Queensland, Australia. With Federal and Stats Government backing, a syndicate has promoted a survey m the Longreach district, centra! Queensland, by two geologists. If prospects are sood. the investigation will be carried further with s^nmographs. Reuter
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  • 94 3 Blood-signed covenant read at service ADELAIDE, Wed. 42-YEAR-OLD "covenant with God" signed with blood, was read at a special service m Adelaide for Commandant J. ("Helinre Jack"* Mead«, Salvationist, who died at the age of 84 A yoar~ before his death he wrote his own memorial service, >p]pc f eri
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  • 95 3 Hungarian Reds flay trade chiefs BUDAPEST. Thurs. T*HE leading Hungarian A Communist newspaper Szabad Nep yesterday published an Important resolution of the political commission of the Hungarian Communist Party which sharply criticised the work of the loaders of the trade unions The resolution declared that the leaders of the trade
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  • 49 3 ADELAIDE. Thurs. PHENOMENAL rains have converted 6.000 square miles of salt-caked desert m the north of South Australia. called Lake Eyre Into an inland sea again. Gra^s and Shrubs are reported to be growing at an extraordinary ratp In the surrounding desert.
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  • 42 3 Archduke Otto von Hapsburg, Pretender to tne Austrian and Hungarian thrones, said he would m future devote himself to the "liberation Of the Danubian peoples" as. m the present state of Euvo*)e. talk of restoring his monarrhv was useless.- Reuter
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  • 13 3 a of mpany I 510.000.000 £2,083.- m O ;ana L' Reuter
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  • 26 3 A 16-year-old youth was killed and three others **<* wounded during a davhgn: imilwiiil by rebels of a ,y on the Mandc.iu} Monvwe highway.- A.P.
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  • 152 3 STKOMXESS. ORKNEY ISLES, Wednesday. DRITAIN is shipping artificial cherries made from seaweed to America. This latest product is one of many British chemists have learned how to make from the seaweed, most of which is taken from areas off the north and west of Scotland. The
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  • 96 3 COLOMBO, Wed. /COMMONWEALTH economic v> experts are meeting m Colombo to discuss details of an £8,000,000 plan for technical aid for undeveloped countries of South-East Asia on lines proposed at the Sydney Commonwealth Conference last May. This Standing Committee, of the Commonwealth Consultative Committee, will
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    334 3 North-South vulneiabl« and 30 on score. North dealer. SOUTHS bid was slightly shaded, but since North had passed and he didn't intend to rebid short of being dynamit'-ci by his partner. South felt ne could come to no groat harm. However, when North bid thi' c diamonds. South
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  • 40 3 Tue India Ministry of Agriculture estimate wheat production this year at 5,949.000 tons, compared with lj a t year's 5.815.000 tons. The area und^r wheat Is placed at 22.378.000 acres against 21.656.000 acres last year. A.P.
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  • 153 3 VIENNA. Wednesday. DEALISM is not realism if it portrays things as they really are. In that case, it is naturalism, which only reflects bourgeois decadence. That is the latest art lesson being: taught m Hungary, according to reports reaching Vienna. Hungarian artists have oeen
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    37 3 picture. Derricks hoisting the statue of Frederick the (ireat from the pedestal m the Soviet sector of Berlin where it had stood since IX." l. The statue was moved to Sans Sou i Park m Potsdam. A.P.
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  • 287 3 LONDON, Wednesday. ORITISH industry is facing the most critical phase yet m its post-war development. Rehabilitated and reconstructed it has spent lavishly on expansion and new equipment. Now the question comes, will it get the world markets it expects and what lies ahead, boom or slump?
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  • 85 3 CHICO'S PARTNER IS COBRA RANGOON Wed. CHICO is 18 inches of performing Burnose monkey with the itrmo est choice m dtenrtnf partners. When he goes into his side dance he does it >"ih a snake. Audiences sape with ->pm mouths as Chico twirl* a three-foot lon^ cobra -o-v i his
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  • 206 3 MACAO. Wednesday. IVAR iii Korea and its possible extension have faiied to disturb the outward calm of Portusues«Macao, oldest and smallest western colony m thr Far East. x The colonial authorities wise m a 400-year-old tradition, no doubt realise they can do little to in-fluence-international events
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  • 81 3 2-way radio saves trips to roofs LONDON. TV, TWO-WAY radio has -1 b*'^n used m London m explore a maze of chimn serving one of the city.-, largest blocks of flat*. By nvans of Marroni walkie-talkie sets, two mp< visors on« on the roof another vi.sitin" each Ba( i turn,
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  • 100 3 'ACCEPTABLE' BREAD FOR BRITONS LONDON. Wed URITONS are to ha\ a whifer and "generally more acceptable' loaf ai>r Sunday. The Food Minister Mr. Maurice Webb, told Parliament !his m announcing that t'ae extraction rate of Hour from wh<at would be r^du.-ed Iroin 85 percent to 80 permit. This means that
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    • 219 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] (BLUE NETWORK) 4.45 p.m. Programme -summary: 484 and 41.7 nitres. 10 a.m. News from Singapore Week"— Bach; 5.15 "Balar.ce oi followed by the Emergency N*ws Europe" (BBC); 5.30 "Crime fron, KuaU Lumpur; 10.50 For ?$*Fti?7S£L!?%2Z the Schools; 12 Programmes m and Programmes (BBC); 'i.30 News MaJav i
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  • 494 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, July 27, 1950. The folks at home SOMETIME today you cease to think about your own pleasures or troubles for a bit. and instead send your thoughts winging half a world away to the United States of \meriea. 3 :re a thought for the parents
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  • 988 4  -  Sefton Delmer says- TAIPEH, (Formosa): VLJE were just going m for lunch at noon when a young man arrived with a telegram for my host. ••Trouble, sir*, he said apologetically, as they dir.aDpeared into the office. The trouble, as I learned a little later over iced
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  • 625 4  -  DUDLEY HAWKINS By A CHAIN of mystery cities m central Africa, and monster animals never before seen by white men. are objectives of a man and wife expedition into the remoteness of the African jungle. In search of the animals, believed by many authorities to have
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  • 78 4 Letter to the EZditor WE WERE interested to read the paragraph regarding 8.0.A.C.s white? painted aircraft m the London Letter on page 4 of your issue of July 24. About a year ago we carried out experiments on similar lines and found that the temperature inside our aircraft
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  • 849 4  -  POLITICO by THE Press, which has so often brought bad governments tumbling down, is rightly suspicious of any official regulations concerning the industry of disseminating news. Despite frequent protestations to the contrary, there are few administrators, even m the democratic world who would not delight to
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    • 12 4 Exquisite B.P.deSILVALtP INCORPORATED IN CEYIOM) MANUFACTURM JEWELLERS OVER 75 YEARS Of RirUTATtOH
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    • 90 4 WAR or E Cutnmings disguised as XS<*^\ Moioto v, r^>^z penetrates to f the centre of f C A the Kremlin Sj \j£tr £o* dues 10 a.m. Situation looks grave i But at 11.0, drlnki ftrou I cocktail and eats hamburger with enjoyment and contemplates. 10 fcinister develop*** sombrely, busts
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  • 487 5  - GAMBLERS ASKED 'SPIRIT' FOR HELP ROGER YUE and a trishaw rider cashed m By J^ LEAN young man with watery eyes who did a flourishing trade by selling joss on the spot at the south end "of Elgin Bridge, Singapore, where a man hanged himself two months ago has closed
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    22 5 tnMt of! -vr for Ilin? airport. la%e Dv Feu. who -ipore aboard ,\ere married s t athedral rno«»n. Both ir r- X'iNtralians.-
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  • 178 5 Fret Mm Staff Reporter HißMftl for the civil work m conh Singapore's $9,000,000 new power Pasii Panian* will be ready for issue Payne. Municipal Electrical Engineer. Press yesterday. involves the construction of oline water intakes, foundations, d a wharf amen? other things. i te of n Id3een
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  • 54 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TLE\EN boys ana girls arrived m Singapore yesterday by QEA-BOAC Confrom Britain to spend a holiday with thenparents m either Singap re or the Federation. Under a BOAC concession they get a return ticket to London for the price of the T
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  • 197 5 'FIRST CLASS ROW', WARNS C. C. TAN Free Press Staff Reporter jyjß. C. C. TAN, preside of tiie Progressive P.ir-v, Singapore, said to the Free Press this morning thai he could promise "a first class row" if the recruitment of 35 officers from the United Kingdom for the Malayan Civil
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  • 30 5 Rum Gopal, 20. was acquitted m the Singapore Third Pojce Court yesterday of stealing $750, two gold rlngl and a pair of ear-rings from Ketar Singh, of Serangoon Road.
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  • 21 5 The Governor has accosted the resignation of Major E.C. Watson of his commiss}r«n m the Singapore Volunteer Corps Liaison Regiment.
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  • 322 5 Free Press Staif Reporter SOON after the opening of the Red Cross Society's first Medical Loan Depot m Singapore on Tuesday afternoon, a 49-year-old Sumatran Chinese, Chua Tai Cheok, went m to borrow a pair of wooden crutches. Chua, who had his righ'. leg
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  • 321 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WEXTY-EIGHT of the 35 Australian airmen who arrived m Singapore two weeks ago got their first chance yesterday to strike at the terrorists m the Federation. Four Lincolns, operating from Tengah airfield, made bombing and strafing raids on bandit positions m Central
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  • 24 5 The Governor has granted two Commissions of Acting Sub-Lieutenants, Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, to Mr. DO. Huartson and Mr. R.J. Godfcer.
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  • 70 5 Art show in Singapore Frre Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Art Society will hold its first open exhibition of the wqrk of local teachers and art students m the British Council Hall, Stamford Road, from Oct. 21 to Oct. 29. Work m any medium oil, water tolour, tempera, pastel, etching,
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  • 278 5 TREES AND A HEDGE TO HIDE 'EYESORE' Free Press Staff Reporter OECAUSE the public convenience at the junction *^of Sumbawa and North Bridge Roads has been considered an eyesore, Singapore Municipal Commissioners propose to plant a hedge and trees round it. A plea for the re-siting tha public convenience was
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  • 30 5 The Singapore Co-operative Stores Society's new branch at Tiong Bahru will be opened by the Deputy Fcod Controller, Mr. A. D. Butler Madden, at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
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  • 130 5 Mr. F. James to seek re-election Free Press Staff Reporter ]\JR. Frank James. -Progressive Party Municipal Commissioner for East Ward, has agreed to stand fo.- reelection to his ward at ihe next Municipal elections ha December. With Mr. James' acceptance of nomination by the Progressive Party, the Party's list of
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  • 131 5 ITTHE Singapore Juvenil* A Court, which has been operating as a police court under special circumstances since the liberation, will be legally recognised when the n?w Children and Young PerOrdinance comes Into force next Tuesday. Four probationary officers will be gazetted to serve m the court and
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  • 216 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'T»WENTY-SIX year Old I A Maria Proof who will tiv from Germany next week join her fiancv Sq:adr Leader Trett ofR.A.F. S(letar. will be Singapore s first post-war German brice. Squadron Leader Trett met Eva 18 xr.unlhs ago when
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  • 36 5 Five masked men aimed with knives held up a Tamii, Muthusamy. at his house m Alexandra Road at 12.30 p.m. yesterday, and got away wttb cash and }c I wcrtli abo :t $55.
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    • 34 5 MAIL Surface mail is expected m Singapore today from the Federation. Latest times for posting surface mail at the GP.O. today are r.oon for North Borneo, Labua.n. Brunei and MM; 5.45 pjn. for Federation.
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  • 1571 6  - MITRA HERO OF RAFFLES' VICTORY CRUSADER Exciting tussle at schools meet By Beaten at the tapes £0 close was the competition at yesterday s Singapore inter-school athletic meeting at Jalan Besar Stadium that it was not until the last event that the schools' championship was decided. Raffles Institution took the
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  • 251 6 STKATHSPKY. a five-year-old chestnut geldinjj owned by wealthy British sportsman, Mr. James Kink, sror d a popular vktory m the Goodwood stakes (two miles three furlongs) the main event of the second day's programme at Goodwood (Sussex) vest *rday. A iartt to one favourite, 5 earned
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  • 76 6 IPOH. Tlmrs. QNK of ihe best Indian club rer teams, Bhawnipore Football Club of Calcutta, are ihie to visil Malaya m October and it is warned tliat the Kinta Indian A^ riation have made arr«a<j«*menta to have them play In I poll. Seven of the Bha\v\
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  • 58 6 •yHE annual seneral mretir. St. Andr ws Old Boys' AMD.>n at St Andrew 'a School hall. Woodsvillc on Saturday al p.m. Tea will be s r\ed aft r rh»- me ttaf The annual Past v P .sorter match for the Lim CbOQg Pani; Challeni^f Cup will b? Ed
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  • 58 6 pOLLOWING players tjave been rhosen to rep-esv*ni Old Rafflesians at cxi against Ciiristian Brothers Schools on Saturday a: the KnaUa ground: A. P. Rajah <capr.» G. WesterhoQt S. X Sundram, K. Muthucumaru. G. Valberg. B. Barke R. Barker. Ali Yunos, M. S. Gill. Choor SinfT'i. I B Surata,
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  • 448 6  -  ARCHIE QUICK By THE great coaching: scheme inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Association is paying: dividends On the track, even m the field events. Britain can now hold her own with any country m the world, with the exception of the United States and Australia.
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  • 315 6 [London Stock Exchange] LONDON Thur DMALL irregular movements were recanted London Stock Exchange yesterda\ utjr financial correspondent. Trading was restrict** the latest developments m Korea and b\ the led of operators to await the Parliamentary i l>;iited Kingdom defence. Movements m British Governm< -i. of one-eighth
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  • 23 6 M. Nan Bet.» Hen < < iv 48 B- H ger a Pi k pionstiip < »n ;itiP l^corr.' He 1
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 285 6 MSndrdKG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya HHHHBH|| [TvEG~oIIi[RAODREIsTANYHO^r\ I WHAT A CAAZY JOB THIS IS TAKINcI I WHAT DO TMEY WANT WITW SO pHifIHi^HHHHHii^HHI guess they can fisd her. even pictures of every pretty girl i many pictures 1 well--ishouio YOU'RE STILL I THERE WAS SOMETHING tu?^
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  • 257 7 SELECTORS GET NO HELP FROM TRIAL Wright shows consistency a trial match just before the M.C.C. subcommittee meet to discuss team selection for the forthcoming English tour of Australia, the traditional Gentlemen versus Players game, which was begun at Lord's yesterday, disclosed little that was not already known. Though Ray.
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    45 7 Ronnie Sng (centre) clears the first hurdle a split second before Ronald da Silva (teft) and Charles Hanim m yesterday's Singapore inter-school sports. Hanani was the winner with Sng •^coiyl and Da Silva third. Sng and Hanam both represented Anglo Chinese School Free Press picture.
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  • 180 7 F\ their triumph m the third Test, the cricketers went to Sunderland yes-two-day match against^Durham County. il the useful total 0f "375 before their ell just at the tea interval and then got u>unty batsmen for 100 afterwards. .Ed brighter for the tourists when
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  • 81 7 ITALIANS QUIT CYCLING RACE ITALIAN fans, indignant a 1 the attitude of French spectators, approve yesterday's wtthdrawl of the Italian t^ams from the Tour de France cycling race. They had* every reason to quit the race," and "the French were not sportsmen/ were typical comments of the man-in-the-street. Withdrawal of
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  • 127 7  -  DENIS COMPTON By LETTER from a Northampton reader £ivP2 a bright suggestion for improving fielding among young players. He says that when ho was at the Northampton Grammar School twenty-odd years ago the then headmaster, Mr W. C. C. Cooke. a real cricket enthusiast, used to
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  • 296 7 JOE LOUIS STORY FOR FREE PRESS IN his series of articles for the 1 Free Press, beginning next Monday, Joe Louis, former world champion, will take readers behind the scenes m the present world heavyweight boxing set-up, dis* cuss his future plans and teil why he may make a comeback.
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  • 190 7  -  BILLY STEEL IU QF the hundreds of letters I have had from readers Mfctng for advice, less than half a dozen have expressed a desire to become referees. Perhaps that is not so surDri.sing when one considers how much referees wre maligned! If certainly is no ea*y
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  • 292 7 QNE hundred and eighty-one of the top athletes m the Federation and Singapore have entered for the second post war Malayan Amateur Athletic Association meet which will be held on the University of Malaya grounds on Au#. 4 and 5. A team of 28 men
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  • 45 7 Table Tennis finals able ps for n Saiur- p.m. at Lini Ch«o I onzes. r.d Ct ng v. Tooo W«j« Yin v. >ne arv* Quek Har Lam am. rd and fonrtfc iwi t. Chua P <on Weng Hoe jho Tin YicK -?e wUI be 50
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  • 27 7 A soccer te I ten aga: -i Cup XI Navyi TyiJack <Navy>; liehorn lAnqy>; Me- Daj tNavy). Mussey to yi «Anny>. I and trro ?i»yeii.
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  • 925 7 Free Press Staff Reporter PENAXG. Wednesday. A TOTAL of 194 entries has been received for the Penang Turf Club's four-day August Bank Holiday Gold Cup meeting to be run on Aue. 5, 7. 9 and 12. Fifty-nine horses have entered m Class 1. 84 m
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    34 7 Raffles Girls' School team, winners of the girls' relay at the Singapore interschool athletic meeting: at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Left to right: Saravathy Rajaretnam, Mavis Scharenffuivel, Joan Ferreira and Pakiavathv (sister of Saravathy).
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  • 122 7  -  ARCHIE QUICK By ARTHUR Gilligan, England's cricket captain m 1924. has some trenchant remarks to make about the England captaincy. "H shocking that my old job is being hawked around the country." he said. "The Australians must be laughing. It will not br the slightest use sending an
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  • 319 7 RESULid of yesterday's lawn tenuis m the V.M.C.A tournament were: Class A H'cap Siagits: X.. H. Aug 3O» beat H. M Mapuz (—l5) 6-0. 6-2; Dr. dd.ii Ah Kow i— 3o) beat Chia Chin Bian* (—3Ol 6-1. 6-4; L. S. Th;vy <— 30i beat Tan Hock Seng
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  • 50 7 RA.F. iTenfatt) defeated Jullilads A. U. by nine goal* to two m an S.A.FA. Junior A-Loague Allan at the 8.0.D.C.A. ground yesterday. Outside-left Blair &'-ored five goals, and Murphy, Weldon, Baldwin and Turpi3 one each for Ten«*ah. Sorers for Jollilads were Juruml and Ibrahim.
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  • 23 7 Jimmy Watt. 28-year-old assistant to James Adams, professional at Went worth Golf Club, has been appointed professional to Baberton. Edinburgh.
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  • 20 7 SOOCnt: Singapore Malaya Cup XI v Army-Navy at Jalan B^sar stadium. TENNIS: T.M.C.A. »nd Tanglin Club tournaments (cont.).
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  • 358 7 F ANCASHIRE, current leaders m the English county cricket championship, began none too wt U m their match against Middlesex at Manchester. Batting first, they totalled only 191, Titmus taking three wickets for 32 runs. In the time left for play. Middlesex replied with
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  • 36 7 fXDUR horses, two E» and two Frcnc.x, contest today's Goodwood Cup itwo five furlongs > They are. wiih Native Heath (A. Ben Aldborou^h <G. R\c v Val Drake <R. Poinrr Bagheera <C Sr k Reuter
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  • 18 8 BIRT H OAKLEY. To Judy. Wife of, .tme Oaklry, ,v Kandan? iv Hospital, on July 25th, a daughter.
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  • 41 8 RICHARDSON DA VIES: At Singapore, en 26th July. 1950. Douglas Richardson, son of the Dr. and Mrs. R. I. Richardson of Liverpool, to JVaa Elizabeth. nter of thp lat* Mr. and Mrs. B S DtWftsli of Kalamunda, w ri Ai.
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  • 32 8 AC KNOWLEDGMENT MR. .v MRS. A? A. PEREIR\ of Serembin thar.k all those who cUd. sent congratulatory mes- and valuable presents and r •ne'ered oe on the ocr:tof tht-.r wadding h»-re ly.
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  • 329 8 'DODDERER' SHAW'S NEW PLAY 'I'm 94 don 't remind me AYOT ST. LAWRENCE, ENGLAND. Thursday. GEORGE Bernard Shaw, who says he has decayed into a dodderer, had a birthday yesterday his 94th but said no one was to remind him of it. The old man did celebrate, though by announcing
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  • 51 8 The youngest airman and airuom m cut th- oirthd:iy cake at the party h*!d at the Malcolm Club, IAF Station, Seletir, to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the founding of the Malcolm Club m memory of Wing Commander Hugh MaKolm, an RAF VC of World War
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  • 134 8 DORKING. Thurs. INTO Wing-Commander V. Byrne's garden m the Surrey village of Newdigate. near Dorking, there fell a Most Mysterious Piece of Mechanism. It was loins, long, looked like a dynamo with a number of small fins, had an aerial attachment, and tied to
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    9 8 I'm going for my holidays m it N«mt year."
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    18 8 <! I XRIM. hi ,kn \amp»rr J,. clear on h durin i hß plane w is an K\ i
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  • 29 8 The following were the oflk-ijl quotation! at the Hong Kong Money Exchange yesterday: HK56.23 pt-r U.S. dollar. HK515.50 per pound sterling. HKS3H per tael of gold U.P.
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  • 21 8 Briiain and Wost Germany are near agreement for freeIng and boosting their trade to its pre-war level.- A. P.
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  • 184 8 DORCHESTER, Thursday. "IF only the Army could shoot a bit better we should be well on the way to clearing: up the trouble m Malaya," Major-General CyrH Frederick Charles Coleman, 47-year-old Commander of the South-west District, told cadets at Dorchester, England. "The British Army used
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  • 53 8 RANGOON. Tim,.. T'HE Burmese Govcn.n. said yesterday Commumsu derailed a mail train on a bridge near Rangoon, fired on passengers trying to flee tcie overturned coa< ajid captured several guards The Government did not disclose the total number of casualties. The train was en route to Rangoon
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  • 65 8 The 50-year-old British freighter, El Karim, which was loaded with a cargo of military stores including ammunition and explosives m Mombasa on June 25 for the garrison on Mauritius, limped back to Mombasa yesterday with her cargo still aboard. After a three-day battering by heavy gales, her
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  • 68 8 PARIS. Thurs. THE French Government yes- terday announced that it would call up the second contingent of the 1950 class m October for regular military training. This would add an estimated 110,000 men to the French Army. Government officials said that October would be
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  • 37 8 A group of 59 American young men. mainly students, arrived m New Delhi from Calcutta. The party is on a world tour m a chartered plane under the auspices of Youth Argosy an educational organisation.
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  • 53 8 A colony for resettling refugees from East Pakistan lias been opened at Iflftigrun m Assam. This is the first of the five such colonies. Three thousand displaced persons are accommodated there. Smithy, carpentry, weaving, and pottery have been started at the colony to enable the refugees to
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  • 103 8 TIILRE is a good reason tor keeping books on sex under lock and key at the Victoria Public Library, British Columbia. Prof. E. G. Jones, of Victoria College, says some people are so shy about sex milters that they would rather steal a book of this
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  • 142 8 LONDON, Thursday. CjALLY (JRAY, 32-year-old film actress, has been named as intervening m a divorce suit brought by Lady Oranmore and Browne against her husband. The case is m the de.ifended list, and Miss Gray is^appearinp m person, according to the Cause List. Lord
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  • 110 8 LONDON. Thurs. J^EMAND from the continent brought tin to a record height yesterday. At the close of the afternoon session, spot was quoted at £732-1/4 per ton making a total rise of £16-1/2 since the close of Tuesday's market. Three months closed at £731-1/2 £15-3 4 above
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  • 214 8 N. C. O.' s 'REIGN OF TERROR WORCESTER, Thursday. THE British Army ridded itself of an "N.C.O. whose authority over five 18-year-old National Service recruits at Norton Barracks Worcester. wa 3 described at his court martial as a reign of terror. Thirty-one-year-old L Bombardier L. C. M. C. T Youngman,
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  • 56 8 BELGRADE. Thurs. THE V 1 overawe nt will toon announce a chunse hi ide toward Korean war by denoun- N rth X as -ion. Infoi sources c au: :ay. YuLiolavia wis the only member of the Security Council to vote linst the Jui:e 27 retolnauthorizir.u m
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  • 28 8 Two German Industrial groups wen convicted by a US High Commission court at Frankfurt yesterday of negotiating illegal "carte! agreements with Frenc.i ttiid Italian firms.- A.P.
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  • 94 8 FF Frrnrh Forvign Minister. M. Robert Sohuman. yesterday staked the success of his European pool plan on the surrender of sovereignty to a federal sleel-coal authority. Replying to criticism from Socialist. M. Paul Ramacher, m a debate on the pool m ihe National Assembly, M. Schumnn
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  • 32 8 The Lebanese Council of Ministers jesterday voted £17,000 as symbolic assistance to the United Nations army m Korea. No military assistance is to be sent, according to realiable source. A.P.
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  • 52 8 THE Canadian Navy yes'.erday announced that one or more submarines of an unknown nation have probably been In the waters off the east coast of Canada during the past month Russia. Navy officials m Ottawa said earlier, was the only power which could have sent them
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