The Singapore Free Press, 4 August 1950

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA >'"• SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950. KH'E TKN I'HM*
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    22 1 Th;- ta Wr. Elmo A MJlly, mho has been appointed nuna^in? director of the Motor Company of He will take office immediately.
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  • 376 1 U.S. 'NO MERCY' AIR ATTACK Scores of villages flaming ruins JJNITED STATES warplanes reduced scores of villages behind the North Korean lines to flaming ruins today m preparation for a decisive battle. The battle may start at almost any hour and may turn into the American counter-offensive which will end
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  • 137 1 'Violets.... lies' storm at U.N. LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. |)H<UO(.K\PHS— published the day after w ar ••f Mr. John Foster Dulles, adviser to the Department, with American officers m a Korean trench were produced by Mr. Jacob ik, president, at yesterday's session of the I nit^d Nations Security Council. rtiber could
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  • 209 1 A.A. backs the speed limit, but... THE Singapore and Johore Branch ol the Automobile Association of Malaya stated this morning that it wished "to make its attitude clear toward the recent imposition v'l a speed limit m the built-up areas of Singapore and toward police action m enforcing such speed
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  • 221 1 AN OLD WOMAN HER DOG... KOREAN Front. Fri. By LIONEL HUDSON (}NE of the thousands of refugees running before the tide of the Red invasion that I passed on the road to the front today ivus a frail old icoman being led by a brown dog. She was blind. When
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  • 29 1 Early action on setting tip a national disaster radio network to meet any emergency —armed attack, explosions, hurricanes, earthquakes or floods— was announced yesterday m Washington Reuter
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  • 32 1 All ships m Singapore harbour were dressed this morning because of the Queen's birthday— and not because of the birth of another baby to Princess Elizabeth as many readers inquired.
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  • 31 1 Western Germany set a new post-war high for exports during the first six months of 1950, and cut the gap between imports and exports by almost one- half. U.P.
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  • 84 1 "MR. MALIK'S behaviour lfl at the Security Council has been to all appearances so hopelessly clumsy that it must be a deliberate Intent," The Times said yesterday. "Any chance that the problem of Chinese representation could at that stage be discussed on its merits was immediately banished/ the
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  • 152 1 BIGGER U.S. RUBBER PURCHASES HEAVIER defence stockpiling urged yesterday by the United States' House Armed Services sub-com-mittee, m view of the Korean war. is expected to result m bigger purchases of rubber from Malaya, the Free Press was told today. A report from Washington said the sub-committee was putting pressure
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  • 25 1 Air Vice-Marshal C. R. Bouchier arrived m Rangoon yesterday on his way to Tokyo to become British liaison officer to G^n. Mac Arthur.
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  • 18 1 British European Airways yesterday announced that it has ordered 28 new Vickers Viscount prop-jet airliners.- photo
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  • 159 1 THE HAGUE, Friday. T*HE Dutcji Government has authorised *he Netherlands Consul-General m Singapore to act as guardian to Maria Hertogh (Mrs. Nadra Adabi) on behalf of her parents, an official spokesman said yesterday. The Government has already instructed ihe Consul-General to take all possible action
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  • 39 1 The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were witnesses at the marriage m Cannes yesterday of Mrs. Lucy Waiin, 44, widow of R A.F. Air Commodore Archibald Warm. and Mr. Hermann Rogers, 59. 01 New York A. P.
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  • 47 1 LONDON, Fri. WITHIN an hour of the British Army, Navy and Air Force canteen service asking for voluneers to serve with the British contingent m Korea, a special telephone line had to be reserved at its Headauarters to coDe with calls.- Reuter
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  • 123 1 'Turko' case for experts LONDON. Fri. ORITAIN'S Foreign Offi:e legal experts will study rhe proceedings of the Singapore court, which yesterday upheld the appeal of Captain Turko" Westerling against extradition to Indonesia when full reports have been received m London, a Foreign Office spokesman said yester day. He said it
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  • 28 1 The Washington Post said yesterday that the American Army would reach a strength of 1,000,000 or more men by the end of this year. Reuter
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  • 74 1 ;ifcTNAM£SE .-vieiu..- *ye tagun a scries of human experiments to try to find a cure for trachoma, .he dreaded eye disease widely prevalent m Asia. Under sponsorship of the Marshall Plan mission to Indo-China, the Vietnamese Institute of Opthalmology at tlanoi hats started using the new antibiotic
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  • 293 1 TAIPEH, Friday. THE United States has decided to five full diplo- matic support to Nationalist China and, for the time being, to oppose any United Nations plebiscite m Communist-held mainland areas, it became known yesterday. A restricted memorandum circulated to U.S. State Department officials m the
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  • 61 1 THERE will be another 16 1 page Free Press on Monday. This will cover every phase of the weekend's bumper sports programme as well as the second instalment of Joe Louis' "inside big boxing" Buries. An interesting and lively eight-page supplement will mark the highly successful trade
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  • 33 1 Tne Rubbtr Study Group In London yesterday announced that m June, world production of natural ruDber totalled 157.500 long tons against 150.000 m May. and consumption 137.500 against 140.000 Reutor
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  • 299 1 Britain's new arms plan easts £3,400 m. LONDON, bi\. T*HE bntisii Jovemmerit yesterday announced a bi £3,400,000,000 ment programme effective over the M three years, partly conditional on the receipt more United States dollar aid. The announce m tn the form of a memoran sent on W^dnesdav t Ington, and
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 115 1 ijjH i3[ !fj^ "IRS MMfIL ESAL£ £>' RETAIL V TTTcRCHARD RD. SPORE %>?; r.ffi* f/rrf.v a $plrru{id y Wither Drink V P^R^^C^ drtnk for the hot day» t\ Ovalnne* mixed cold. It ha tempting. r-.«m\ Havour all it* own, and *end» a •rr.hinn co*>lnrN« through the i-odv on rnic^rday- Hy
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    • 78 1 SINGAPORE RESTAURANT 4 BAR 79. Bra» Basa> «oj* Tele 40f« Ist class service Special Cocktails Cold Beers Selected Menus of European Chinese Food Appetising Curry Tiffin fuller contentment /^^^^^^y^OTa^k (H VNKN 'A' and '^^^^^^^^^^^f^glß^^^^X you'll knov that §g//f < A 1 b err cigarette *QI I<i iti ii 4 fJf
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  • 633 2  - How Children DO Grow IRIS ASHLEY meets Elvira— and gets a shock. SO the schools are breaking-up this week. Judging by the amount of juveniles suddenly loosed upon the London scene, they are fairly smash-ins-up A few parental dreams will soon be m a similar condition Not the least of
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  • 213 2 WEST End shop man- a°:ers are talking about a new American gadget as a means of defeating Britain's early closing rules The gadget, which acts as mechanical clerk, contains a microphone and is attached to the shop window. A customer arriving after closing hours Inserts half
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    16 2 An ciQUisite Chinese model Spring fiat with a piquant tilt, made of red embroidere d satin.
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  • 394 2 Paris fashion front EDNA McKENNA FLIES TO THE IIfELL! Here I am m Paris on the eve of what may be the biggest fashion offensive ever even for France. It is the battle of the little "button-through" dress against the best fashions that Paris can offer. This is a real
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  • 409 2  -  CANON H. C. WARNER By Church of England Marriage Adviser "My husband has always earned good wages, but I have been given only sufficient to live on To save I have had to give up all enjoyment such as going to the pictures. I hardly ever go
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 85 2 J Csti VtWl/ who decides It's baby who decides about the milk. Steady growth, lots of energy, contented days and peaceful nights they tell a mother m the happiest of ways the milk baby prefers. And it's surprising how many babies choose Ostermilk. The formula of Ostermilk is such that
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    • 148 2 0/ It I Latest model gowns I for all occasl* CM Orcbard Kd For A Wider and Lp-to-date RanmDIAMOND GEM SET ENGAGEMENT WEDDING «f «O3 pUase call Mi LANKA JEWELLERS 20. Battery Road. Phone doni/o qeode/o \he \Me okop Collection of French Lace CncklmL^racts Hxxttleo hotel /Dlnqapo>Le We offer our
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 296 2 Solution To Crossword No. 115 SOLUTION- Acrusc: I, Gold rearing. 7, Rtmit. 8. Manor U. I interim. 10. Buy. 11. Nmi. 12. ICIMUI 13. No man. 15. N. 16. Town-dweller. Down: 1, Oor- dian knot. 2. Limited. 3. Ent«r- t :i.ed. 4. Rt'in< mbrunco. 3. Inn. 6. Ger:yir;nder. 10. Bestul.
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    46 3 picture dust nses .i> i wartime 1.000-pound bomb i the Tii-rgartrn m Berlin. The explosion v r rater and scattered dust across the Mt,» the Soviet Sector. The bomb was 1 msinecrs 200 yards farther away from ■•Mai (background) before it was V M UD. A.P.
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  • 378 3 Demands for rearmament r v. PARIS, Thursday. military successes m Korea have aroused the instinct of self-preservation m trance. The post-war silence on national defence has been broken. Each day brings another spate of demands from national leaders, deputies and newspapers for rapid rearmament. «o^ War
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  • 90 3 I S BTH ARMY IN KOREA, Thursday. s ntfag evidence that Russian officers BeM (Mag tactical advice to the North X »en suspected by military men since I The tactical skill of the infantry, ise of artillery and mortar weapons and jf the entire Red offensive
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  • 60 3 The World Telegram and Sun has closed its New York plant pending a settlement oi the l-weeK-old Newspapers Guild strike against the paper. The management announced the plant was closed at the end of the business day, but business and editorial staffs, who have been working
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  • 63 3 LONDON. Wed. ORITISH, American and French envoys scon will suggest to their Governments that West Germany be given more control over her foreign affairs. :.>rmed sources reported yesterday that a study group reprev.g the three Western powers agreed m principle to reco.Tonend that the Bonn Government
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  • 94 3 LONDON. Thurs. T»URKEY has informed the British government of its desire to join the North Atlantic Pact. Grece also expected to seek admission to the alliance but no official word of its intention so far has reached London. Turkey's admission to the Atlantic Pact will have
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  • 145 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. THE snorkel has added some bizarre new complications to life aboard submarines, says RearAdmiral H. L. Pugh. navy medical officer. One of its caprices can produce a physical effect something like being tossed 10,000 feet m the air. Sudden changes m humidity
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  • 60 3 The United Nations head quarters has announced that the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine plans to held a meeting m Jerusalem to resume negotiations with the Israeli and Arab governments. The commission has decided to return to its headquarters :n Jerusalem after failing to bring the disputing
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    292 3 Neither side is vulnerable aad you ar« North wiih thU hand What do you bid? your partner .should have about two tricks for his two club bid. But he may have taken out on a very long .suit with a weak hand —a possibility that is increased by
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    34 3 picture. Tugs ifianoeuvre the 45,003--ton U.S. aircraft-carrier Midway from her pier at Norfolk Naval Base, Virginia, U.S.A., as she got under way for the Mediterranean to join a U.S. naval force already there.- A.P.
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  • 192 3 LEOPOLDVILLE. Belgian Congo, Thursday. A SERIES of conferences going on m Leopoldville m the Belgian Congo may help to wipe out the locust hordes which annually invade North-east Africa from Arabia. The conferences hope to set up a new international body of nations whose territories are subjected
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  • 54 3 PARIS. Wed. |X)UR Germans went on trial m Paris yesterday before a French military court for the wartime seizure of works of art from Jews. They were charged with having stolen more than 20.000 items, including; paintings, sculpture and jewels, m an organized Nazi effort to
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  • 83 3 BACK to the Ministry ol Health has gone the problem of the two-roomed lockup that the Norfolk village ni Methwold Is too law-abiding to need— and can't sell. The Ministry fixed the price at £35. "Too high," protested the parish council. Now the Ministry has
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  • 38 3 Pravda's diplomatic correspondent, Marinin, said that if America's partners sent considerable ground forces to Korea m response to Gen. Mac Arthur's request, it would "inevitably enta> a deep dislocation of the entire West European economy."— Reuter
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  • 63 3 lIP to £10,000 for a ticket for two is being: paid by Ameriu cans m dollars for a 111 -day world cruise m the British liner Caronia. When the 34,200-ton luxury ship launched by Princess Elizabeth m 1947, sails from New York next January, not one
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  • 199 3 PRIVATE CARS TO BE POWER STEERED DETROIT, Thurs. pOWER steering for private cars may sound a bit fantastic but it is on the way. American car makers are not ready to admit it. but experiments with a mechanical aid for steering passenger cars already are well advancer!. It will be
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  • 95 3 P.I. warned to prepare MANILA. Wed T^HE Philippine President. Mr. Elpidio Quirino. m a speech opening a 10-day special session of Congress warned the nation yesterday to prepare for a possible world conflict, saving: that "ftght we must if fight be needed" to preserve democracy and freedom. He asked Congress
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    • 68 3 CQMF. TO THE RED CROSS FETE! PUN tor OLD and YOUNJS lOM DANCE MUSIC MERRY-GO-SOUND CINEMA GAMES-OF- SKILL VARIETY SHOOTING GALLERY ARCHERY LUCKY DIPS PONY RIDES PUPPET SHOW CARTOONIST GOLF JOGET MODERN GUESSING COMPETITIONS l.'iivly and valuable prizes FORTUNE TELLING Prof. Imulhiin C^ Madame Fh INTERNATIONAL FOOD STALLS BAR ICE
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    • 90 3 Play safe! Brylcreem your hair. Dry hair, tight scalp, excessive loose hair on your comb these are danger signals that point I /mMAI the need for Brylcreem's double benefit: (I) Day-long smartness, v #ftTtW (2) Lasting hair health. Massage with Brylcreem stimulates 1\ JtMil the scalp, encourages natural hair growth,
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 112 3 rOl R LUCKY STAR You have the ability to p rit-ption. make money. But you I iNUMV, \«>u do have must be interested m a t making job before you will put i ome 'true. your whole heart and due «»t energies into it. Other•ntrated work wise, you will be
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    • 238 3 3jyw3v£ WgS' C? gf jet V ;\j *^>S tt tj &*L ft? 8&BB& STN^APORF ri;lIs tBBC>; 4..V1 M Compotef of .nJUrtrUKL thc vveek' 1 Haydn; 5.13 'Special (BLUE NETWORK) Dispatch" (BBC>; 5.30 "London 484 and 41.7 metres. Studio Concerts"; 6 Indonesian: 10 a.m. News from Singapore; News and Programmes (BBC);
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  • 446 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY Aug. 4. 1950. The shores of Korea Ijy I X S T O N Churchill once recalled hearing a piece of music which he could not get out of his head for days. The tune was "To The Shores Of Tripoli", the stirring march of
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  • 926 4  - The Russian War Machine JOHN HARRIMAN WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN? THIS ARTICLE, BY PIECING TOGETHER ITEMS OF INFORMATION THAT OCCASIONALLY REACH THE WEST, CONJURES UP A STARTLING PICTURE OF RUSSIAN-DIRECTED PREPARATIONS FO& WAR. —By IS Russia arming? If so, how fast? What is the meaning of
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  • 268 4 THANKS to American 1 aid, Turkey now •'has the foundation of a good system for training her armed forces m modern methods of warfare", according to Major General Horace Logan Mcßride, Chief of the United States Joint Military Mission for aid to Turkey. General Mcßride was
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  • 671 4  -  DAVID LEE By TRIESTE: HOW many enemies has Marshal Tito? More than the Communist Balkan dictator likes to admit. It is understandable that there is opposition to Tito. His is a complete Communist dictatorship, backed by a ruthless state police force. His people work a sixty-hour week,
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    37 4 London's Festival Bridge— when being thrown across the Thames b| plunged its nose into the river. One of the spans slipped durxny qj buried its steelwork m Thames mud. So one was injured, and there to equipment.
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  • 611 4  -  Alwyn Tebbitt By NEW DELHI: INDIA still dreams of industrial expansion, of mighty new industrial cities of the Orient to transform her from a nation of farmers to the greatest manufacturing power m Asia. No nation has more plans for development. In the first flush
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 16 4 I POPULAR HOUSE SPORT UPS MEDALS if Tin P. H. HENDRY, Jeweller North Bridge Rd. Spore.
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    • 60 4 August Bank Holiday Our Singapore Shops will be open as follows: SATURDAY sth AUGUST Normal Shopping hours and deliveries MONDAY 7th AUGUST Open 7 a.m. till 12 noon Deliveries as usual COLD STORAGE ORCHARD ROAD KATONG KEPPEL HARBOUR NAVAL BASE t£venim>! relaxation m musk Sea View Hotel OPEN AIR DINNER
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  • 302 5  -  GEORGE SEOW Canossa Sisters 9 new project By £JANOSSA Sisters, a Catholic religious order, are building a $100,000 home for blind and handicapped children m Singapore. It will adjoin the Canossa convent and orphanage situated on the Order's six-acre plot at Al-Junied Road. This project has been made possible
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    43 5 photographer (#tf k Ibis picture of a PcM wf resisting capture ,it«T it h.i run amok m the hM rt of l.torgetown, goring rtMfjr-.'ld woman and on. on Tueslhr animal put up a •rrai siru««le before it was d to vh- Municipal abattoirs.
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  • 52 5 NEW MOSQUE OPENED BY MUFTI lox the Aver Gemuroh ipened yester- of Johore. In Tahir Al m MusnnntttM id bin Mo- president Fund <ed the Rl genero- thf land and g the rnos111 .al opening held, led by the v d reading I a sermon.; ■::*n had tea and speeches
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  • 230 5 'Doctors refuse calls at night' r gINGAPORE panel doctors have repeatedly refused to answer obstetric emergency calls at night, and during the i whole of last year only two i cases were dealt with by them, says the Municpal Lady Medical Officer Dr Mary Tan, m the annual report of
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  • 506 5 ACTINC MHO. REPLIES Free Press Staff Reporter DEPORTING an almost negligible incidence of malaria m Singapore during last year, the acting Municipal Health Officer, Dr. W. E. Hutchinson replies, m his annual review just published, to allegations that the work of the antl-mosquito department of the
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  • 105 5 At a meeting ol the directors held recently. Mr. Elmo A Sully was elected managing director of the Ford Motor Company of Malaya. Mr. Sully arrived m Singapore on July 22 and will take office immediately, bringing to th management of Ford Malaya a wide and varied
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  • 325 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OINGAPORE'S Labour Department has warned a building contractor for employing three children under 14 m carrying heavy loads— a practice m contravention of the Children's Charter" An official of the Labour Department, whose job It is to inquire into employment
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  • 330 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Government of North 1 Borneo m its annual report for 1949— the third annual report of the Colony —says that for 1950 it has been possible to reduce the country's requirements of imported rice by 50 per cent, as compared
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    30 5 picture. Nancy Emma Eddy of Cornwall and Mr. John Benjamin Gundry of the Pahang Consolidated Co., Ltd., Sungei Lembing (Pahang), after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. Free Press
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  • 239 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TESTS on survival at sea will be carried out m x tropical waters by the naval and civilian party which early this year undertook similar tests m the Arctic. The party, which will embark at Liverpool on Wednesday m the
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  • 42 5 A TAXI driven by a Chinese collided with a stationary goods delivered van on Kallang Road yesterday evening. The van knocked into the supporting pillar m front of a coffee-shop. No one was Iniured. The van was badly damaged.
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  • 105 5 I HOPE that aii Ceylon ft Tamils In Singapore would join the Association "and give a helping hand tn running its affairs" was made at the annual general meeting of the Ceylon Tamils Association recently. Members reviewing the progress of the Association m the past year felt
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  • 161 5 Free Press SUIT Reporter "pASIR Panjang District badly requires a post office now to serve the needs of its 30,000 residents," said Mr. H.J.C. Kulasingha, chairman of the Pasir Panjung Rural District Committee to the Free Press yesterc: He protested at the I that
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  • 103 5 ON board the Luxrrn at the Singapore wharves is a Negro seaman, who is going back to his village m the African toush after an ad* turous 33 years at sea. ending m his falling off the brid«e m the engine room of
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 66 5 MAIL Surface man 15 fxpect#»a n Singapore today from < Britain, N. Ireland f North and West Airica Indies, Egypt. Cevlor M> Australia and tht Federation Latest times foi posting pur mall at the G.PO baigj noon for South India Mi India and Pakistan (IsttMl I Padembang. Trengganu «p oaly).
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  • 835 6 King Arthur best m Division 2 event By ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Friday. •CCRATCHINGS will reduce the field to six m the main rue tomorrow, opening day of the Penang Turf Club's August Bank Holiday meeting. The issue appears to be between Four O'Clock 11,
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  • 169 6 Y^LOSE of play scores m the English Count y Cricket championship were: At Bristol. Northamptonshire 180 (Livingstone 61. Barron 53, Cook left-arm slow four for 45 >, Gloucestershire 77 for three. At Blackpool. Lancashire 413. Glamorgan 190 (Tattorsall righttrm medium offspin four for 57 •nd secondly
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  • 48 6 From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG. Friday. I|ORSES not accepting for tomorrow's races arc Tara Street, Battleship. Pat's Fancy. Reve de Gloire. Bijj Surprise. Kinder Gold. Contract, River Moon. Empire Rose. Latin Affair. Golden Slipper, Lucky Ton. Maryland. MUll u/i 11, Snrinz Ip, Wi«t4>«H iJ.lie and Belita.
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  • 1391 6 IN the absence of Latin Affair, my choice m the Class 3, Div. 1 race over 5i furlongs tomorrow is Big Money. He has started only once m Malaya, m the special race for three-year-old maidens at Ipoh. where he finished a creditable fifth. Natural Improvement
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  • 348 6 America slows London buying ASDF LONDON lridav F|ESPITE some hesitancy engendered hv wvt L caution on Wall Street most sections London Stock Exchange displayed firmnesi Z£ day, states Reuter's financial correspondent Sentiment was assisted by the m Korea and the build up of inforcements. Domestic stocks recorded small widespread improvements
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  • 18 6 i afu i don tin were: s, months— iT anc businesi tl t 733 1 U.P.
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  • 44 6 VJ through v Char. leasi Thf 44 m median. ba.k to work Fra^r retu:: aboard the Queen M afte: a ■he CtMUinei H- h go back la'e: int, tf backers who bad demn'e haci been fo cause of v. A .P.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 78 6 SUNBEAM TALBOI WINS AGAIN! Once again Sunbeam Talbot cars have excelled m the ln< national Alpine Trials of 1950. just examine these results: SUNBEAM TALBOT: First and Second -2 litre class First -2 litre class. Acceleration and Braking Test. ALL CLASS CHALLENGE CUP Best A&. Pcrfontun Three cars sanu 1
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 166 6 m2ndrdk& Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya BB^^^H I I POSED AS A CENSUS TAkER.MR.JAy! f\OYAL BLOOD.' VA HO/; PERFiT' M^ I fr^- NtbHl. OUTSIDI \'ARM% HOUSiI --^TJB HER NAME IS MAROA/ SHE IS US- TA9TE ft/ GOOC WORK.JENKS.' r i II TMc CENSUS TAKER? 1 OiON'T KNJOW
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  • 302 7 MARSHALL, WALCOTT IN GREAT STAND W. Indies score 434 v. Surrey 4 HUGE partnership between Marshall and Walcott put West Indies right on top of Surrey yesterday and was chiefly responsible for the tourists amassing a total of 434. This gave them a first innings lead of 273 and then
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    27 7 ii of Blarkmore House, who won the thr .Method ist Girls' School swimming From left to riifht: Ivy Yin. fhiii I mi Swan N>o and Sylvia Yin
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  • 170 7 Utes defeated BODCA by three goals n \F.\ Senior League match played at ulium yesterday to take third place :.ible. ll game. are run- j t Both 1 the same 22) bu: goal S .tr.d 15 A had 39, hi >upa halfred j minutes Kok
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  • 189 7 SOCCEK HTOIREE overseas soccer teams, the Banka-Billiton A Sporting Association of Indonesia, the Hong Kong Chinese F.A. and the Bhawanipore Club of Calcutta, have allied to the Singapore Amateur Football Associa^m for permission to play m Singapore. the S.A.F.A. Council meetCricket Club last night.
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  • 104 7 THE European Boxing Union yesterday picked Jan Sneyers of Belgium to challenge .Terry Allen of Enpland lor the European Flyweight title Allen lost Ms lorld <tle to Dado Marino In Honolulu on Tuesday night but his Euro■pean Crown was not at stake. The match probably will
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  • 45 7 GORDON Richards England s champion jockey, ysterday denied a report from Colombo that he had declined an offer to nd^ m the Governor's Cup m Ceylon on Saturday. Richards, engaged at Bath races yesterday said no offer had been made to him. Reuter
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  • 32 7 From ALLAN LEWIS. fAPT. Lindsay Years, well- known racehorse owner. celebrates his 68th. birthday today. Anecdotes by (apt. Lindsay Years on Malayan racing m today's racing supplement.
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  • 194 7 i OINGAPORE Base District j Army cricket team against S.C.C. m the Padang on Monday will be: Maj. B. P. Smyth-Plgott OHQ FARELF) i captain). Col. J. !F. Knox iGHQ FARELF t, IA- Col. D. V. Henchley (REME Base Workshops*, Maj. E. A. Cooper-Key (GHQ FARELF), Mai
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  • 96 7 QINGAPORE Cricket Club sprang 3 a big surprise by defeating the strong RE. XI by two goals to I nil In the S.A.P.A. Senior League I match played on the Padang yes- terday. Strengtheneo by two n f w players frcm Fraserburgh. Scotland. McGregor and McDonald The Club
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    61 7 \AI Tuwan, v harci-hitting Siamese middleweight has cabled his acceptance ot a ten-round bout with flashy Sebastian at the Happy World next week, the Free Press was told this morning. The Singapore Boxinc; Board of Comrol have yet to sanction tht- fight. "Sir Stafford regrets he is unable
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  • 111 7 From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Fri. rr*HE going was good this 1 morning when horses went out for wlnding-up workouts m preparation for tomorrow's races. The following horses spurted dowo the straight: Billy Carol (Lansdown), Caravan tßagby. Hector (Poshni>, Merlin (Healey) (veryimpresisive). Texas McPherson i Lucifer (Woods^
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  • 285 7 TV\D() MARINO'S first defence of liis new world flyweight boxing title may be m Manila. There is 1 nothing definite, but the new champion's manager said on Wednesday that Dado's ancestral home was a definite possibility. The new champion, the first American citizen to
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  • 105 7 T3ESULTS of yesterday* ties m xv the V.M.C.A. tennis tournament were: Class B H'cap Singles: Liir. Cheng Chuan l5) beat Un Hon Kun (—3o* 6-2. 6-2 (semi-final i; Nayagam (sen beat Tay Yew We? (sen 1-6. 6-1. 6-2 (semi-final > Novice* Open Singles: W. E. Tan beat Dr.
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    40 7 picture. THE iiiKhi Kajarauiam sisters of Selangor who are taking part m the Malayan A A. A. From left to right: Juliet (relay), Betty (high jump) and Neela (100 yards, 220 yards, high jump and relay). Free Press
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  • 70 7 »TANGLIN CLUB tennis ties played yesterday resulted aa follows: Women's H'rap Doubles (semifinal): Mrs. K. Greenwood A Mrs. Dearcy (—15.3) beat Miss Veall Miss Oarnett (-15) 7-5, 9-7 Heap Mixed Doubles: Capt. Turnei-Cooke Miss P. J. Taylor (—3O) beat Maj. R. W. Smith Miss L. Walker-Taylor l5 2)
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  • 337 7 M.L.T. A. tourney results THE opening ties m the Ma- layan terniis championships were played off Ml Selangor Club courts ye> day and there were no rr. upsets. Mrs. De Vries Batten, champion of Sumatra, easily b? it Miss M. Fawbert m strr sets. Results were: Men's Singles: I. A
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    • 66 7 PUBLIC NOTICE It bas hreii hrought to our :i«m that the preseaf Anchor Coatcsl i- a eoiitra\«iiti<>ii r 36 of tin- Laws of llie Colony. r the eireumstaiiees the i- h«rrl)\ eaneelletl with* to those members of imlic who ha\e already -ulnnittnl their entries. ARCHIPELAGO BREWERY CO., (1941) Ltd. Singapore
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    • 222 7 jggT^t^W STAR 0F POPULAR tt+*L±jJ ENTERTAINMENT IN TODAYS I" |f BIG HITS! f^ t DORIS DAY i -4r* IT HAPPENED AT THE FESTIVAL 4~^ S OF ROSES W y l DON'T WANNA BE Kl!=SFn BY ANYONE BUT YOU —DB 2690 1 Max bE WRONG BUT, I THINK YOU'RE WONDERFUI THE
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 73 7 Todays sport Today: Athletics: Malayan A.A.A. Championship* begin at Tniversity grounds. Tomorrow: Athletics: Malayan A.A.A. (hampionships. Socccer: Singapore Malaya Cop XI v The Rest. yricket: S.R.C. v Army at Nee Soon. S.C.C. v Comb. Schools on Padang. Golf: (olony (hampionships quarter-finals at R.S.G.C. Shoot: S.R.A. Bisley Meet starts. Sunday: Cricket:
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    • 13 7 HIGH TIDES Today: 2.53 p.m.. 8.7. Tomorrow: 3.07 a.m.. 85. 3.24 p.m.. 8.6.
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  • 23 8 .;.<. Anne Carol oorn to Mr A Mrs. S. E. Nelson A :?t 2nd at Youngberg Memopltal, Singaore. Twin sister wot eii7.ib?th, stillborn
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  • 26 8 THt MARRIAGE took place; at the Registrar of Marriages. ipore. between Mr. Cheng Liew K°e fz Hal Fong Joo Hlok J o^ 2 8 50
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  • 339 8 HE PUSHED WIFE'S FACE IN DINNER 'Empty your pockets' order BIRMINGHAM, Friday. a BIRMINGHAM man, Kenneth Mantle who was A alleged to have pushed his wife's face into her dinner after a quarrel, became 'indignant and angry" when his mother-in-law accused him of stealing her wrist watch, said Mr. Justice
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  • 228 8 LONDON, Friday. ORITISH detectives are going to attend a baby show on August 12 to look for a man who has boasted he murdered a man a year ago to the day. The murdered man, Cyril Ellis, a young Jewish student, was bludgeoned to
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  • 184 8 HONG KONG. Fri. "THE British-owned North 1 China Daily News, which is the sole surviving independent foreign newspaper m China, celebrated its centenary yesterday. The paper came out yesterday with a 32-page supplement of articles and pictures tracing the growth of Shanghai Irom a mudflat to
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  • 54 8 TURKEY OFFERS NO COMMENT A Turkish Government spokesman m Ankara yesterday declined to comment on widespread rumours that Turkey will apply formally for inclusion m the Atlantic Pact. But political commentators sa-.v such an application as a desirable sequence to Turkey's decision to contribute 4.000 men to the United Nations
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  • 21 8 European statesmen met m Strasbourg yesterday to pre- pare for next week's opening of the Council of Europe.— JA.P.
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  • 80 8 CAPE TOWN. Fn. IjiIELD Marshal Jan Smuts, who is making excellent progress m recovering from his long illness, yesterday took a long walk round his farm just outside Pretoria. Th 80-yrar-old statesman is putting on some weight and feeliqg stronger, although lie Is not seeing
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  • 42 8 The GeneFal Tyre and Rubber Company of Ohio, U.S A yesterday increased the prices on tyres and tubes for the second time m less than a month. The new price increases ranged from five to 20 per cent. U.P.
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  • 58 8 The US. Ambassador to Britain, Mr. Lewis Douglas had his second talk with the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee m less than 24 hours yesterday. There was no official disclosure of the subject matter. The London press guessed that the conferences concerned an early announcement of plans
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    23 8 FREY tVANS A nice little outing will do you Rood, I said you don t know what you re missing
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  • 136 8 A YOI'NG man who went to aid a pretty girl when she was being pestered by another man and who later charged with assault, was at Doncaster, Yorkshire, discharged on payment of £3 costs. The girl, blonde cinema cashier Joan Wright. 20, of Catherine-street, Doncaster,
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  • 55 8 ARABIAN OIL LOST IN FIRE Fifty thousand drums and tins of aviation petrol, kerosene, benzine and motor fuel, belonging to the Shell Oil Ctxnpany and the Socony Vacuum Oil Company, have been destroyed In an oTT dump nre at Jeddah. Saudi Arabia. Delayed official reports reaching Cairo said that carelessness,
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  • 140 8 Red Army 'has no dogma' MOSCOW, Fri. r>LITZKREIG theories of mllitary science wore condemand yesterday by Rec Star official organ of the Red Army. The surprise attack, it said, gives only temporary advantages which are soon outweighed by permanent factors. The factor of morale, both m the front and rear,
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  • 353 8 Continued from Page 1 United Nations and we have introduced a resolution which would help to bring an end to the devastation. Referring to the BJovlel Pr< dent. Mr. Austin continued: H:.-. propaganda statement, like many others uhich we have heard m the past, rests on a total and
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  • 79 8 LONDON. Fri. I^HE Fifth Congress of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women yesterday empowered its United Nations committee to make a fighting effort to get the woman's viewpoint represented m the conduct of international affairs. The United Nations committee argued that the feminine voice
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  • 41 8 FIVE YEARS FEWER British Army authorities m Cairo yesterday reduced to 10 years a sentence of 15 years' imprisonment awarded Tr per C. J. Vanrooyen by a court-martial m Fayid on June 20 for the manslaughter of an Egyptian lamidryman A.P.
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  • 30 8 The Food and Agriculture Organisation has offered to send an expert to work witl General Mac Arthur's Command, m providing food anr agricultural assistance to Korea- A.P.
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  • 20 8 Police forces in Western Germany total 126.000 men armed with lisht weapons, it was stated in London yesterday
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  • 21 8 Thirteen persons have dieo m a mounting outbreak of infantile paralysis In southern Germany, health authorities reported. U.P.
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    • 296 8 KNOWLEDGMENT MESSRS CHIN KEE SANG Mah Pvck Wah and families thank those who sent scrolls etc., and rendered services at the funeral of the late Mrs. Chin Choon bam; of Malacca. TUITION S'lAKl'lNO Aagaa] Book-Keep-rvpme Shorthand, English 1-VIH Math? V-VIII. Special h V-Vl Chinese v MCA 107 sel^te Road K»K
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    • 76 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris jrSßjjjET*" ~^X /TH 5 .WAY l^£. P n^ 7^ CrET YOUR^ k/ AND THIS BLANK SPACE f'AND YOU SAY THAT U'm3 l I Aft' N^s y OU SEE, THE ISLAND IN THE NORTHWEST i 5 J A5 CLOSE TO OV- /TEw^A? )I OF JAMAICA IS
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday. August 4, 1950.
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    • 1951 1  - Malayan racing as it was 40 years ago ALLAN LEWIS I XECDOTES BY CAPT. LINDSAY YEARS As told to Lindsay Years, Army officer, amateur rider and one-time A.D.C. to the Sultan of Perak, gives her* an insight to early life m the Malayan racing world. Capt. Years has been m
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    • 199 1 Penang Gold Cup prospects pENANG Turf Club have this year increased the distance of the Gold Cup rare to a mile and three furlongs, as th 1 m 1939. when Royal Worlinftm won. was inaugurated m 1934 H < run ov* Star I v. m 1 mhk. 40 3 In
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    • 12055 2  -  ALLAN LEWIS Compiled by DELOW and m the following two pages is the 0 complete form guide for the Penang Turf Club August Bank Holiday meeting opening tomorrow. HORSES CLASS 1. ABBY KA\ SEVENTH (Ten started) 22-7-50 Spore 8-4 Abt. liM (McPnerson) Div. 2:
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