The Singapore Free Press, 10 August 1950

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA v, 17.857 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1950. urn i< new iims.
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    RED RESISTANCE IS WEAKER
    438 1 RED RESISTANCE IS WEAKER 'Surrender' call from the air AMERICAN troops cracked the crust of North Korean resistance m the southern offensive yesterday and aerial scouts reported that the enemy forces were preparing to flee their great southern base of Chinju. Marines and infantrymen made gains of five to six
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    'Fix bayonets' —Reds fled
    319 1 'Fix bayonets' —Reds fled From SYDNEY SMITH Impress and Free Press Correspondent) SOUTHERN FRONT. Wednesday. |Nl ,;\l William F. Kean, 55-year-old commanlei ot the Inited Nations Southern Front m today ran through five miles of sniper fire to ratable 32-year-old captain for having t bayonet charge and winning two-and-a- oi
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    They traded angry words
    132 1 BRUSSELS. Thurs. riRIENDS and foes of King JT Leopold traded angry shouts of murderer and assassin m the Belgian Parli -izneiv yesterday m a debate on a bill to transfer the King's powers to his son as I first step toward abdication. A Catholic deputy. M.
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    A USSIES GET A CHEER
    185 1 TOKYO, Thurs. L'FFICIENT action in attackM u ing targets in the Waegwan area brought high praise to Australian Mustang pilots, according to a-' officiul communique uhic.'i summarized R.AA.F. activity over the Korean front yesterday. The text of the communique follows: "Australian Mustang pilots, flying over
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    LONDON WANTS MARIA REPORT
    176 1 LONDON, Thursday. THE FOREIGN Office has told the Netherlands that it cannot assist on points of law m returning Maria Hertogh (Mrs. Nadra Adabi) to her parents and has suggested that the Dutch Consul-Genera] m Singapore take the matter up with the legal authorities there. The
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    CONVOY IN AMBUSH
    48 1 CONVOY IN AMBUSH n 'i° Malay sr> n cial constable was killed, one European police officer slightly wounded and a Malay special constable wounded when terrorists fired on a police convoy m Perak yesterday afternoon. Three Chinese, one of whom was* a woman, were arrested m the area.
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    2 STUDENTS KILLED
    28 1 Two students were killed ■iiui three seriously Injured when Indian police fired over a Communist-sponsored proeesslon In Qwalior, a former Princely state m central India.
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    THE G.-G. CREPT UNDER THE FENCE
    123 1 COLOMBO. Thins. rpHE Governor-General of 1 Ceylon. Ljrtf Soulburv. and other high ofQsi&ls narrowly escaped yesterday when a herd of wild e!e phantf stampeded during a roundup deep in the jungle The official party was Standing in a stock* de watching men trying to
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    SHIP TRANSFERRED
    26 1 WASHINGTON. Wed— The United States submarine rescue ship Bluebird will be transferred to Turkey on Aug.. 15 under the mutual defence assistance programme.— Reuter
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    Red ships head for the East
    47 1 Red ships head for the East SEH YOKK. Thurs. \N shipowners rev Nterday that > assembling drr n hint vessels and l Lulivostok. only »m North Korea. released by the n a lar«e ut Soviet vessels of has been sailing Baltk Black Bt I tn Russia's chief >raport.
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    Duke is nervous
    59 1 Duke is nervous CROWDS gathered outside Clarence House m London yesterday to await the birth of a second child to Princess Elixabeth. Sir William Gillian, Royal Gynecologist, supervised the installation of latest hospital equipment m the royal mansion. The birth was expected late yesterday or today. Friends reported that the
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    M.I. 5 PROBES 'SABOTAGE'
    67 1 M.I. 5 PROBES 'SABOT AGE' F)ETECTIVES of Britain s M.I. 5 Department yesterday began investigations at Salford into suspected sabotage of airplane parts and equipment. M.I. 5 men were called m by Salford police after reports that wings of planes had been gashed were recei\ed from a Lancashire maintenance unit,
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    R.A.F. Regiment gets 71 new aircraftmen
    123 1 R.A.F. Regiment gets 71 new aircraftmen (SEVENTY -ONE Malays from kampongs and towns m Singapore and the Federation who four months ago did not know one end of a rifle from the other, this morning became fully-fledg-ed aircraftsmen of the RAF Regiment (Malaya) At a passing-out parade held at Changi,
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    Atomic secrets stolen
    68 1 CECRECY surnun.^ed a hunt m England last night for a suitcase contaiHnf atomic secrets stolen from a British scientist. The Large brown suitcase, whose contents included a briefcase, filled with atom information, was stolen from a first rlass compartment of the London -Blackpool train. It belonged to
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    'U.S. OUT OF CHINA WAR'
    288 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. MR. W. Avcrell Harriman, President Truman's special assistant on foreign affairs, said yesterday that as a result of his trip to the Far East, he was confident that General Mac Arthur could block any Chinese Communist invasion of Formosa. He said: "If it
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    'Oust Malik' proposal ai secret talk
    336 1 'Oust Malik' proposal ai secret talk LAKE SICCESS, Thursday. T<HE UNITED STATES and Britain were report rri yesterday to have decided against trying to ton Russia's debate. Mr. Jakob Malik, out of thr Security Council presidency for August. In informal secret discussions called b> KM U.S. delegation yesterday, ten Security
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    TRUMAN SIGNS WHALING BILL
    41 1 President Truman yesterday signed a bill committing the United State.* bu the international convention protecting the multi-billion-dol-lar whaling industry. The law provides for United States participation vridi 14 other countries til repulating whaling and conserving whales. U.P.
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    NEW ANTI-U.S. CAMPAIGN
    57 1 NEW ANTI-U.S. CAMPAIGN NEW Communist ami- American prsss rampaii;n raised fears yesterday Piat the Russians may be getting ready to try aj;ain to force the Allies from Beilin The new propaganda drive centres around charges that an Ameriran plane with th* identification No. S 45". dropped fiirl> .r.bs over a
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    Scarlett of the Herring Fleet
    805 2 PETER QUENNELL reviews new books in U.K. *r|O you realise that Mr. Skene is known and trusted all along the Baltic? Why. he's an authority, he knows as much as anybody today alive about the life of the herring... Don't you c that he's the
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    QUICK LOOKS
    161 2 Here They Dug the S Gold, by George F. Willison. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 165.). The true story, stranger than most fantasies, of the Colorado Gold Rush, introducing prospectors, gamblers, gangsters, and all the assorted riffraff that collected m the < boom-towns, a m on g others those picturesque
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    In Brief
    346 2 DAKLIN<. DON'T Keith Campbell. Mac Donald. In this novel the author Involves his hard hitting, whisky drinking Canadian agent. Mike Brett, m a plan to sabotage the Marshall Aid Programme. THE MIRACULOUS BARBER. Hh«l Ay me, Bodlty Head. Translated from the French, this novel is a blend of
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    'Broke'—He Wrote A Best-Seller
    573 2  - 'Broke'— He Wrote A Best-Seller J.P.W. Mallalieu By -^himself a house in Ajijic, Mexico. When the house was finished, Dane Chandos was broke. So he wrote his bestselling "Village in the Sun", about Ajijic, and turned his house into an hotel. Amateur hotel-keeping gave him the material as well as
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    The Unknown Disciple
    251 2  -  FRANCESCO PERRI By TPHE birth of Christianity and the death of pagar.ism is the theme of this long and intense new novel. Told through the experiences of Marcus Adonais, the unknown disciple, it is the first of three novels. The second and third will deal with the
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    There's Money in Murder
    431 2 WHY do women write the best detective fiction? Perhaps this kind of writing requires, above all, a tidy mind. And women, I find, are never happy with loose Certainly the queen of tidiness is Agatha Christie. No woman has made more money out of crime. One
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      376 2 SOLUTION TO Crossword No. no SOLITION'.— Across: 1. Blockheads. 8. Menai. 9, Midße. 10. Ice-skating. 12, Heat stroke, m, Scala. 17. Hoist. 18 Side-saddle. Down: 1, Lunge. 3. Cricket bats. 4. Hem-stitched. 5. Arden. 6. Seer. 7. Amain 11. Teeth. 13. Eland. 14. Oriel. 15. Isis. YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN
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      171 2 New Crossword No. 121 CLUES ACROSS 1. Inhabitant.* of these temporary quarters saw the wood < 6, 4 > 7. You i ant do this straight up to anyone (5). 8. Dye gives a sitter an article back (5). 9. What you stand on when you're put on the mat
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    SOFTEST SPOT IN S.-E. ASIA
    357 3 SOFTEST SPOT IN S.-E. ASIA Second front m Indo-China? THIS pivot At c SAIGON, Wednesday. A softpft L South-East Asia country is the Derhnlt^r E? day alon the Western power CtESta Ko^a 1 ASia SimUar pvni^^flf iS K d^ nger that the Kremlin may try to intir^i inn^^^ m nd
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    Ten million homeless in China flood
    47 3 KONG. Wed. 6T IMIMtI persons n i Eastern prohave been 3 by the area's I m history. Chirifet newspaper be Huai X away 890.000 represent about •<>n m the north::>.ce. U. adous with abou. 4 cultivated laml .rum some .<.:-, U .P.
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    59 3 picture. i :in. vi <»i den. Francos Moorish (iuard Pa.vs the •.-storey structure rising on Madrid's Plaza de Espana. The «iant building, now rapidly ncarin» comon hut still unnamed, will replace the Telephone «n sp.iin's tallest building, and will be rented as md living apartments. With two storeys to so,
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    MORE JAP POLICE
    58 3 General Mac Arthur ha; strengthened Japan's defences by adding 75.000 reserves to the JaDanesp nnii>>> iorce.- U.P. A British vav.il band parading through Athens In the farewell ceremony which was h»?(f aHei th* conclusion of the joint Anjjio-Hellinlc naval manoeuvres m the lonian St-i under the command
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    THEY SEEK THE TOMB OF MIDAS
    137 3 ANKARA, Wednesday. |)K<U ESSOI Kodney Youn^, of Pennsylvania I'ni\er>it\ aid a team of American archaeologists •rkiiu with him. hope to complete next year the tions wh it'll they began this year at Gordion, r PoLitli. about 100 miles south-west of Ankara. this site from
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    Spies operate in Shanghai
    71 3 Hong Kong, Wed. Nationalist tecrei agents are having :i field day m Shanghai, where they are operating secret radio stations, organising sabotage and generally seeking to disrupt Communist procedure. Reports reaching Hong Kong said that five clandestine radio stations were uncovered m two days. They were
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    THREE TO DIE
    23 3 Three men, accused of spying for Marshal Tito's regime, have been sentenced to death by a Bucharest military tribunal. A.P.
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    'PROMISED 2 PROVINCES'
    87 3 SOMEWHERE IN KOREA, Wed. I KOREAN refugee from Seoul said that Russia has promised to give Red Korea two Manchurlan provinces after the war. Captain Kenneth R. Cornell, American Liaison Officer with the South Korean forces, told a news conference this information came from a Korean school
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    64 3 picture. M. Bozidixr Maslaric. l'ugoslav Minister of Transport, snips the red tape to open the new 300-mile-long road linking Belgrade with Zagreb. The road took three years to build, and among the 340,000 woikers who pushed gravel and poured cement were a group of British volunteers. With the opening of
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    Air academy for Ceylon
    108 3 OOLOMBO. Tues. /CEYLON will soon have an \j Air Academy to train pilots, ground engineers and radio engineers. The Academy will be administered by a commandant and a qualified training instructor recruited from abroad, m addition to other personnel to be obtained locally. Two new aircraft,
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    Bridge Hands
    315 3 Botb side* vulnerable West dealer Team of four play TT WM Imfet'ly worth's fault that the final contract was three not rump when game could have been made at spade. he.»rts or diamonds. The greatest criticism of South's bidding is th.u he should have doubled tv.o clubs, yet
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    Australian Red to play key role
    203 3 SYDNEY, Wednesday. EARNEST Thornton, prominent Communist, is believed by Australian labour moderates to be slated for a key role m the Far East with the Redconrolled World Federation of Trade Unions. Mr. Thornton, one of the architects of Communist control m several major Australian
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    84 3 picture Mr. Holier i W. Love (centre) and his assistant. I- rank de Pup have located, retrieved, raised and secured a Navy guided missile. "A Bat." and aacr c swinging it aboard their boat. They are probably the only men m the world who earn their living by searching for
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    GERM WAR DEFENCE
    175 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. r\KFENSIVE measures against germ warfare are being drawn up m the United States. A government scientist familiar with the programme said, that they include no newly-developed rays or other "magic" means of coping with germs. Rather they consist m general of training health officers m
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    TO FLY JETS
    29 3 i Six Indian Air Force pilots have arrived m London to fly back to India the first batch of jet Vampirvs purchased by India m Britain.
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    Reds trouble shipping to & from H.K.
    252 3 Reds trou ble shipping to from H.K. HONG KONG, Wednesday. OONG KONG shippers today are finding out to their regret that the Chinese Communists can be just as troublesome as the Chinese Nationalists. In the past two days, the Chinese Commur. have fired on three foreign vessels and right on
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    'America has 50-50 chance in Korea'
    155 3 'America has 50-50 chance in Korea' CAMBRIDGE, Wed. TAPTAIN B. H. Liddel Hart, distinguished British military commentator, declared yesterday that President Truman has staked American prestige m Korea on what he had previously judged "a forlorn hope." Speaking at the Liberal Party's summer school, Capt. Hart said he thought that
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    No confidence
    33 3 Mr. Carrol L. Wilson has resigned as General Manager of the U-S. Atomic Energy Commission with the blunt explanation that he lacks "confidence" in its new chairman. Mr. Gordon Dean.— U.P.
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    'Give worker due share'
    95 3 NEW DELHI. *'cd. WARNING that m. capitalism reorn itself and showed respect human personality and i workers their due share, ti would be a revolution m world, has been given Indian Labour Minister, Mi. Jagjivan Ram, m New Delhi Speaking at the National I the Labour
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    BELGIAN ARMS BUDGET UP
    71 3 Belgium is To rai.se iU defence budget n.000.000 Belgian Cranes, the P: Minister. M. Jean Durtent announced belt rv Paj The Premier warned expenditure ol public v i k might have to be cut I The government wili of increased defence c> to consider modifications m
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    Two trusts
    39 3 The Maharaia of B.< I* jis to form two tract*: one for the Uni versi'y of B-a: < and the other lor rural uplift m Baroda. each :th a fund of Rs. 10 million his private propert es <„
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    RUMANIA BANS TYPEWRITERS
    13 3 Typewriters and mimeograph machines have become "strategic materials" m Rumania.
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    35 3 The Ministry of Intel ior has issued an order that no one may possess such a machine or "any other materials for the duplication of written matter" without permission of the state police. A .P.
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    Chinese students support Chiang
    37 3 Chinese reiugee students j m Hong Kong have announced their full support for President Chiang Kai-shek and his Government m an open letter to Mr. Karl Rankin, newly-appointed American Minister to Formosa. U.P.
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    S.A. LAW OPPOSED
    25 3 The South African Indian Congress has called a special ronference to launch a campaign opposing tht Union Government's segregation laws. A. P.
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      186 3 SIrJ^APOPP t.«l "From the London Editorials" M NKTivVrRK, BBC 'i 455 "Composer of the NKiWOKK) Week"— Liszt; 5.15 "Stock-taking" 11.1 metres. ,BBC)- 530 "Crime Gentlemf-n. from Singapore; P i ease !'-_3 We Haven't a Clue'; Malay: 1 p.m. g Indones ian: News and Pro--1.30 Time g rammes (B BCi; 6.30
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY Aug. 10 1950. The Indian case
    422 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY Aug. 10 1950. The Indian case U'HAT The Times writes about Asian affairs (or any other affairs) is not to be lightly dismissed. 'The Thunderer" is fed by authoritatiw reports from correspondents on the spot— men who nave had lons experience of interpreting local ieelinir
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    If The TEPID War Gets HOT
    1256 4  -  ALEXANDER CLIFFORD THE DEFENCE OF EUKOPE-2 By 'PHE tepid war— the A warm war, if you like— has started. It started not with Korea itself, but with recent decisions round the free world to readjust the balance between guns and butter. it started with
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    Enter Bradley —Exit Johnson
    303 4 AS the dreary succes- sion of envelopments and withdrawals m Korea unfolded last week the American mood became resentful. Defeats have the same effect on Americans as they have on Britons and public opinion is so far ahead of President Truman on war mobilisation necessities that
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    IT SEEMS TO ME..
    1085 4  -  POLITICO by IT is an odd thing that dictatorships, with their cast-iron sets of rules covering both thoughts and acts, should always have the lead m unorthodox warfare. Improvisation and spur-of-the moment plans are sheer heresy m totalitarian structures. Yet these qualities are encouraged m their
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    PETROL TANKS BLOW UP
    43 4 Six violent patrol g: xptosiaoc ceatly hook the centre of Santiago, Ch le. injuring 42 persons. The explosions disrupted the 5t ret car service for several hours and knocked out electric power lines and 1 %0 telephones. A .P.
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    THIVY PLEADS FOR INDIAN LABOURERS
    490 5 THIVY PLEADS FOR INDIAN LABOURERS 'Still a landless class m Malaya Free Press Staff Reporter '"JHE economic insecurity of the hundreds of thousands of Indian labourer; m Vlalaya constitutes the gravest problem of Indians m this country", said Mr. John A. Thivy, retiring Representative of the Government of India, m
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    'Salaried workers in widespread dept'
    79 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. Hi not wanting that debt is widespread 3 :e- class salaried workers m towns of salaries", states the Director of Mr. T. F. Carey, m his annual report isuied yesterday. Mr. staple food- customary r.ade it na to
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    Swim-suit from sarong
    71 5 HUl.Li WOOD'S Esther W:i::am$. who received a Malayan sarong from Susan Lim. a Singapore is turning it into Susan a pupil of the \le:h Girls' School, sent Miss Williams the sarong together uith a picture of herself. She received a personal reply from the <H*n star thanking
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    MAIL
    60 5 Surface mail la expected m Singap r«? today frcm the Federation. Late tlznea for posting .curfacemaU at Uie G.PO. today are: 545 p.m. for the Federation; 6 pm. for Pont:anai: a:id S.am marcel- cnlyt Ev e..vn C-«. -> «»>> >' >*» -tJ* bCi F her I gS^-T tair-style, »s
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    Women active in Co-Op movement
    211 5 r rrc rrcss ouui p*p» KUALA LUMPUR. Thursday. THERE are indications that members of women's societies may be more thrifty than their menfolk and more credit worthy unless it be that they save their own and spend their husbands' earnings, says Mr. T. F. Carey,
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    Lower Perak H.O.
    14 5 Hoey. Lower sco 9 > Pre--5 Dp] »ma n Canada he rder
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    INDO-CHINA HAS VITAL ROLE—MELBY
    159 5 INDO-CHINA HAS VITAL ROLE— MELBY Free Press Staff Reporter JNDO-CHINA is the key-, stone to the arch of j South East Asia, said the head of the special United States Mission, Mr. John F. Melby. m Singapore ye^'erday. Failure there, he told a Press conference, would have great consequences. We
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    Sultans will aid students
    149 5 F. P. Malay Correspondent AN Assurance that Malay Rulers will contribute materially towards the welfare of Malay students m Egypt was given by the Sultan of Pahang m his speech to the Overseas Malays' Association m Egypt, who entertained him when he stopped over m Cairo
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    Malayans leave for U.K. today
    55 5 Malayans leave for U.K. today Free Press Staff Reporter pOURTEEN Malayan winners of scholarships to the United Kingdom leave for England on the Corfu at noon today. They Include Mr. John Puclos of Radio Malaya. Miss Chua Sui Bog, Inche CXyhaman bin Wok, a Malay journalist. Mr. L. R. Estrop
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    Malay writers form assn.
    29 5 F. P Malay Correspondent AfALAY short-story writers and novelists m Singapore have formed an association- called "angkatan Sastrawan Tahun '50' fI9W) Generation of Litprary Writers^
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    Rediffusion celebrafe
    38 5 Photo. Members of the Sales Department staff of Rediffusion (Singapore), Ltd., held a dinner on Monday to celebrate the firm's first anniversary. Mr. G. H. Oldridge (seen at the centre), was the guest of honour. Lilywhite
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    Aik Hoe fire victims helped
    226 5 Free Press Staff Keporter TWO people m Singapore— one a Dutchman and the other an anonymous donor have given SlOO and $10, respectively, to the Social Welfare Department for use m helping the victims of the recent Aik Hoe Rubber Factory fire m Paya Lebar.
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    VICE-CONSUL ARRIVES
    104 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AFTER spending their honeymoon in Bru«in. Mr A. E. Tait, wh(fis to be the new U.S vice-consul in Penang, and his wife, arrived in SingapDre yesterday afternoon by QEA-BOAC Constellation Mr. and Mrs. Tai: were married in the U.S. In June, and stayed over
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    School owns estates
    73 5 Free Press M.ifT Reports Xl ALA Lt'MPIR. Thurs. KEDAII has a school co-operative society, the only one <>t it? kind m the country, Mr. T. F. Carey. Director of Co-operation, reveals m his annual report for last >« .r just issued. The school, he says, has more
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    Co-Ops tackle housing
    210 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPCH. Thurs. CO-OPERATIVE soci ties have done invaluable work m keeping salaried workers out of the hands of moneylenders, says Mr. T F. Carey. Director of Cooperation, m his report for last year. They contain many aDie men who are taking v
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    TWO WOMEN APPEAL
    55 5 TWO WOMEN APP EAL The Chiei Justice i Charles Murray-Ay:* served his fincir. 2 m an appeal by women. Chan B. 1.:- Chua Olat Chia 1 1 conviction and :n<<nths> i!~ for procuring a girl ot der 21 years 5 poses of pros* it v;. Mr. A. P J 0
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    S'PORE-HAINAN TRADE AT A STANDSTILL
    338 6 S'PORE-HAINAN TRADE AT A STANDSTILL But remittances continue Free Press Staff Reporter IMPORTATION of goods from Hainan has completely ceased as a result of the Chinese Communist occupation of the island, the Free Press understands. A large number of Singapore firms run by Hainanese have been importing goods from their
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    THESE GIRLS WANT TO BE INDEPENDENT
    446 6 By TAN TOCK SAIK fTTNDREDS of Chinese educated girls m Singapore are undergoing training m the city's dress-making schools m order to embark on a career and thus make themselves independent. Many of them plan to open their own tailoring establishments. A few intend
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    Locke, Mangrum tie
    42 6 BOBBY loik,' of E Itll Africa and Lloyd Mtingrum tied for first plare In the final round of the $2 500 All American Golf Tournament m Illinois jcrtcrdtj. They uill play off today. Each h^d flKgr??atrs of 282. Reuter
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    'No imposition of alien methods'
    409 6 Free Press Staff Reporter on the part of the InternaConfeb!eration~of Free Trade Unions to impose on Asian trade unions forms and methods of organisation alien to their national traditions", says a Government statement commenting: on the coming visit here of Mr. F. W. Dalley, chairman
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    TAKUAPA VALLEY TIN OUTPUT
    13 6 B at inn f Dn I London Stock ExchapgJ
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    New account opens slowly
    287 6 New account opens slowly lONII( >V Tl, urs H lv A SLOW start to the mw account In displayed the only real J( Iv r *k» on the London Stock Exchantj, Im (I! day progressed to show a wide ments by the close, states n correspondent. Issues with a war
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    147 6 SINGAPORE SHIPPI NG CHIPS m the Singapore Outer »nd Inner Roads and alonjjridc liarbnii Botfi gooo*n* terday w Outer R*ads: Ht! Hsi^n Gornzavodsic. FUbnovsk. G:e.iobiC ,M. Brander Rajula Orb;: a. Inner Roads: Halvdan TTotanica, Katonsr. Ifentakab, Batoe- bahru. Grenadiez. Dane!. B Hua Hnf, Seroei. Keoong. S^nai. Van den Brook. Renong.
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    ST. JOHN FLAG DAY PROCEEDS
    12 6 ST. JOHN FLAG DAY PROCEEDS I I h I Dona Iron; X
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    PERMITA DORMEZ IN FINE GALLOP
    446 7 PERMITA DORMEZ IN FINE GALLOP Park best of Cup horses Prom ALLAN LEWIS nriMl T PENANG, Thursday. pERMITA DORMEZ, working on the outside of the No. 1 track m good going, ran three furlongs m 37 seconds— the fastest gallop this morning. Bright Lyes (Bagby). clocking 37 for three, was
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    Today's sport
    40 7 SOCCER: Junior B Final CheTtul Lads Katonx Sajarah at lalan Besar stadium; Jnr upie: a Q. Spore Dist C usUrns a Ge>Unf, Bit iiauae B: Borneo C. C.uthri^ af C.T.MA. IT.NVIS: YM.C.A. and Tan«lin lub niunumm s ront*
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    DAMS CUP TENNIS
    104 7 "pRAKK Sedgman of Australia and Lennart Berjel::i of Sweden have been drawn u> meet m ;he firs; singles match In the Da\;s Cup inter sone final a: the Winchester Country club. New Yoric. tomorrow. The second singles on the same day will be between John Bromwich of
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    EURASIANS BEAT NAVY TWO-ONE
    231 7 'THE Navy lost to the Eurasians m the opening gam* of the S.A.F.A. Inter Community League at Jala* Besar yesterday evening tw o goals to one m a disappointing match. Eurasians were fortunate to have won. Navy had the better of the exchanges, but were unlucky
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    Another day of upsets
    494 7 Yesterday's races reviewed From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Wednesday. t'PnFl^ asuin marked the racing here yesterday, rd day of the Penan* Turf Club August Bank meeting. Only two favourites won. of the day's racing was the riding of who rode a winning treble Loch gaa] and Cold
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    Probable jockeys for Cups
    89 7 Probable jockeys for Cups m pROBABLE jockeys for Satur- day* iwo Cup ra«es at Penan^ are: PENANG COLD (TP Four O'Clock Charles Clynor Dvnwoodic I Silver Spear Healev I Park Tulloh t Haydee In train Rhrer Moon Ayres 1 KH Orm Pasrby Achille* Woods C.lorifv \ot fixed Friars L*st Not
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    BEST BRITISH ATHLETIC TEAM EVER
    213 7 Britain has ■ejected her strongest team ever chosen i for the European games tn s i Brussels on Aug. 23 to 27. The Team manager. Mr t Jack Crump, said yesterday •hat the 33 men and 14 wo- men who would participate m games formed,
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    C'wealth team
    79 7 A PROVISIONAL list cf players u r the Commo:.Cncket Team to tour India tbb winter has been ar.nounced tAS de MHlo. President af the I Board of Control for bQ India. The list includes France Wor- rell Jone«. Ramadhin and Valentine <West Indies* Les Am?- lU and Jim
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    Ray Robinson just makes the weight
    143 7 RAY Sugar' Robinson, world s welterweight boxing champion, won a dramatic and grinding right against the weighing scales in New York yesterday, by the narrowest of margins. A: th< mird attempt with nrals between ashing he was one ounce under the ten stone seven
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    22 7 MISS A. MACLEAN, winner of the women's 50 yds freestyle event at yesterdays R.A.F. (Seletar> inter- winf swimming meet. Free Press picture.
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    EDEN WINS SELETAR SWIMMING
    262 7 AIRCRAFTSMAN Eden < Technical' became champion at the annual I swimming gala of Royal Air, s Force Maintenance Base; l <FE. Seletar yesterday at j I Seletar. Edt-n won the 50 yards and 200 yards free style and second m the 100 yards free style. The
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    SWIMMING CHAMPION
    55 7 SWIMMING CHAMPION Pic ture. CHAMPION swimmer of R.A.F. SeieUr, Aircraftsman Eden, receiving the Championship cup from Mrs. H. J. Proud, wife ef the Base commander. Eden won the 5* yds. and ?90 yds. freestyle and was second m the 100 yds. freestyle at yesterday's R A F. Seletar's annual inter-
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    O.T.E.C. WIN
    71 7 A superior forward line enabled Oriental Telephone and Bectric Co., Ltd., to defeat Mansfield Jt Co., Lid., by four goals to nil m a Singapore Business Houses soccer fixture played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. O.TJ.C. attacked for most of the first half and netted three goals without reply.
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    Grove takes eight W.I. wickets for 38
    302 7 (\S a pitch, which gave the bowlers plenty of assistance, 15 wickets fell for 243 runs on the first day of the match between Warwickshire and the West Indies touring team at Birmingham yesterday. The touring side, after winning the toss, were dismissed
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    SCOREBOARD
    141 7 WEST INDIES Stollntever c <p««nrr b Gro»e I* WLa» c ip««B(r b nrtu Worrell b (.r«»r S M.«rHi»l c .ad b Or»»* Wal.ott c D«Mar? k Gr*v« 14 I rfUrall b <-ro»r 1 hrlsti jdI H«Mic« b MU barrf 4 Utt4i»Ols ri't»r b K«r.t ,r l.mrv ;bw Crutf i«
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    ROVER SOCCER TOURNAMENT
    52 7 rAMS from Persia. Ceylon. Burma and Pakistan are ttkeH to participate In thls year's Rover Football Tournsment at Bombay, scheduled o commence on Sept. 14. The tournament, considered the blue riband of Western India soccer, completes <ts SOth year of existence with the conclusion of September engagements.—'
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    Worcester all out for 80 v. Lanes
    542 7 T ANCASHIRE who have a clear lead at the top of the County cricket championship table are wHi on the road to scoring another victory as the rest t of the first day's play of their match a?a*nst Vi eestershire a a t
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    Doubles title to Greenwoods
    68 7 MAJOR and Mrs X Oreenwood won ihe married I couples doubles final In the j Tanglin Club tennis tournament yesterday. They be** Maj. and Mrs A_R Da we 9-7, 6-1 m the final. Today's ties: HANDICAP DOUBLES. M Buttrose and Shafer v Maj. X Green wood
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    C.S.C BILLIARDS
    22 7 LrUif.> sue invii«l «.ir »h« Chinese S'\unming Ciub E competitoir. Er.tnes '.arms are available at the Club. The dosing da-ie
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      147 7 .hPH^b TODAY! II abi 4^ 4 I Ml X M 2M n Children under 1? hail privc at 3 day Shows only •TACL TEMPLE OF BBT AND RADIO MALAY FAME KEEPS GOIN<» AT A PA< I THAT LEAVES ONE BREATHLf ULinui OPENS TODAY 3 SHOVrS 9.30 p.m. CALLING PAUL TEMPI!
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    BIRTHS
    158 8 TO HELEN JENKINS at Kar.daig Kerbau Hospital, on sth August. 1950. a son. Both well. HEGELE: To Ruth and David. con, Jonathan Paul, born at Youngberg Memorial Hospital. August Bth. ON AUGUST TTH. 1950. at I Monans Nursing Home. ReadBerkshiro. to Jill »nee Bdth). of Captain Russell Matthews. NT
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    MARRIAGE
    43 8 KITOVITZ-OLEARY On July I 1950. a: the Church of St. DOS, Oxford. Ei.eland. Norman KltOTiU, elder son of the late D.ivid Kitovitz and of Mrs. Kitovitz to Sheila Mary OT elder riauphter of <r>d Mrs. M. P OLeary. lift, B.xr.'ouiy Road. Oxford
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    Marshall aid buys platinum
    88 8 LONDON. Thurs. THE American Marshall Aid Mission in Britain yesterday formally announced the purchase of 34.000 ounces of platinum from British Govi ernment stocks for the American stockpile of strategic materials out of the "Counterpart Funds.'* At the price ruling at the time of acquisition it
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    NEW TRADK PACT
    22 8 A new 12-month trade agreement is expected to be reached this week between Japan and sterling area countries. A.P.
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    THE COLONEL AND THE SINGER
    241 8 THE COLONEL AND THE SINGER He left her £***** LONDON, Thursday. AS dusk gathered, raven-haired Marguerite Clarke, 47, stood outside a twenty-roomed mansion overlooking Cheltenham Spa, fingered an ornate locket with the picture of a dashing young officer and a young woman, and murmured: 'This is a lonelv house since
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    31 8 QUICK WASH Frank Miller, a prisoner who escaped from the General Hospital, Los Angeles, California, rammed his car into a fireplug with this result. He was cornered a few blocks away.
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    Tighter U.S. control of aliens plan
    174 8 WASHINGTON, /Thurs. HPHE U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously approved legislation which would authorise a drastic control of aliens In the United States. The measure was approved without debate. It goes to the House for further consideration. The legislation one of the strictest immigration bills ever
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    Girl sold to farmer, 71
    230 8 OTTAWA, Thursday. A GIRL of seventeen, said by police to have been sold for £250 to be the bride of a farmer, aged seventy-one, is now m a Canadian gaol. The farmer is m an adjoining coll. In gaol. too. are the girl's brother, who
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    POPE ASKS FOR PEACE PRAYERS
    73 8 The Catholic Church has always opposed war and de--1 ended peace, Pope Pius XII said yesterday. The PontiL left his summer resident m Castcl Oandolfo for his weekly general audience In St. Peters' Basilica. Over 30,000 pilgrims from all parts of the world attended. The
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    35 8 HmniaiultT A. Kobinson, former .Master Attendant, Singapore, who now lives m Leura. m the Blue Mountains, near Sydney. Australia, photographed by the Free Press yesterday on board the Maetsuycker after a holiday m the Colony.
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    Revive whipping post, says vicar
    116 8 A RETURN to the stocks and the whipping post for moral crimes is suggested by the Rev J. B. J. Fisher, vicar of Braekneli, Berks, m his parish magazine. He writes: "The delinquent is tried m the courts, condemned and put m prison. But the
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    U.K. MONEY
    27 8 The following were yesterday** quotations on the Hong Konp Money Exchange: HKS6.3I per U.S. dollar. HKsls.fi5 p#* pouud ster liny. HK$3l4 per ia*»l of gold
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    Bernadotte's diary
    32 8 Bernadotte 's diary The diary of the late Counl Folke Bernadotte. who was assassinated while on duty as United Nations mediator m the Israel dispute, is to be published shortly m Stockholm.
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    7 countries to discuss Reds in Asia
    131 8 LONDON. Thuri OEVEN Commonwealth countries meet m Canada next month to map out a six-year economic development programme to stave oil Communism. Their conference will be a continuation of talks which have been taking place m Sydney and m Colombo aimed «t laying
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    RECORD PRICE FOR TIN
    99 8 LONDON, Thurs. CASH tin yesterday sold at £7?J a tun, thus breaking the all-time high record for the second day running on the London metal exchange. The price represents ft rise !of £22 a ton on Tuesday, and is £20 above the final MinUi try of
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    U.S.I. protests to Holland
    89 8 U.S.I. protests to Holland JAKARTA, Thurs. INDONESIA has protested to 1 Holland over the despatch ol th» i Soerabaja-based Dutch destroyer Kortenar-r to Macassar, main port of the Celebes, according to "official circles" quoted yesterday by the Indonesian news au* ncy. Former KNIL 'Netherlands Indonesian Army* m< n and guerilla
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    Karens reviving
    33 8 Burmese spotting planet have reported unusual rebel Karen activity along the east bank of the Sittaung River, suggesting that the rebels are regrouping lor a new thrust into Central Burma.- A.P.
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    Belgians join U.N. airlift
    65 8 NEW YORK. Thurs. A DO-4 plane and a double crew contributed by Belgium has )elt for California to join the Pacific air lift under the U.S. military air transport service. The Belgian Amba.v->ndor said m a telegram lo the HOT that Belgium m 1 his uay
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    LOST: WHISKY DISTILLERY
    162 8 SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday. A "SEARCH for a lost whisky distillery is being made by Mr. John Evans Laird, president of Amerit i I biggest apple brandy making plant at Scobeyvillo. New Jersey. He arrived in Britain in the Queen Mary and he will spend a month in the
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    Jet engines drive boat
    83 8 DUMBARTON So Hand. Thurs. CONVERTED paddle boat driven by four icre&minf airplane engine made ih( worlds first test yesterday of pure jet propulsion on v. The vessel was the fii'-year-old Ri\fj veteran. 1 a toa. Powered by four Roli> Derwent-flve engines, like those used m jet
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    Big Contract
    24 8 The Turkish Ei>> Mines have placed a 000 contract for a nev preparation plant wiih British firm Simon C*rv« of Stocknort.- A.P.
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    MYSTERY AIRMAN ON LINER
    50 8 MYSTERY AIRMAN ON LINER tui Imerican *ith. a f H* i jn Tue^c lie had mi m» i n nek N *'hich h;n ttM B md (< Quarc i savin. Th plane rumian. Cttf H man foj Corr.pai.v rented by nanw of \1 V'ork Hi plan, gk Tl.^ Irr JHGJ
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    RESCUE SHIP FOR TURKEY
    19 8 RESCUE SHIP FOR TURKEY Ti. I turned mv: I B Conn- <•■ m refits H und* r fl HJJ A.P.
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