The Singapore Free Press, 16 August 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA >.. 17.862 SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 16, 1950. PKICE TEN (BIS
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    REDS CROSSING RIVER IN FORCE
    480 1 It may be their final push (From SEFTON DELMER) a mMnM TOKYO, Wednesday. I more massed crossings by Communists of the Naktong River, Nvhich guards the west wall of the American perimeter, make it > t om that their long-expected end-it-all offensive has begun at
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    'City wiped off the earth'
    247 1 'City wiped off the earth RED CHIEF ON U.S. BOMBING MOSCOW. Wednesday. I^IM DU BON, chairman of the Presidium of the 1V Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, said yesterday that American bombing, had wiped the once prosperous city of Khynnam "from the face of the earth." Its only "strategic
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    Red attack kills pig
    43 1 \Rl SSIW-MADE North Korean Yak plane strafed and dropped two 500-pound bombs at the communications centre of Masan near the southern battlefront yesterday. It was the first Red air activity reported in some days. Total casualties: One pitf.- A.P.
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    Geylang Serai house gutted
    107 1 AN attap house In Geylang Serai. Singapore, was completely destroyed by fire about two o'clock this mornIng. The blaze Is believed to have started m one of the rooms. The house was occupied by an Indian. Mohammed Ismail, and his two sons. 20-year-old Mohammed Noor and
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    DERAILED
    17 1 Bandits derailed the up f rain from Gemus to llentain Pahang yesterday but ►re do casualtl
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    MISSING WOMAN NAMED
    177 1 Mrs. Stutchbury from Singapore TH£ European woman A reported missing after a bandit attack m Pahang is 28-year-old Mrs. Nora Evelyn Stutchbury, a former] Singapore resident, the Free Press ivas informed this morning. Mrs. Stutchbury daughter of a well-known European family m Hong Kong named Witchell, came
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    FAMILIES SENT TO SIBERIA
    235 1 GENEVA. Wednesday. RELATIVES of deserters from the Soviet armed forces are liable to exile "to the remote areas of Siberia" for five years, Mr. G. T. Corley-Smith, British delegate, told the United Nations Economic and Social Council yesterday. Mr. Corley-Smith read to the Council a section
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    Australians in flypast
    78 1 AUSTRALIA will be the only Dominion represented m the flypast of R.A.F. aircraft m Singapore at noon today m honour of the Royal birth. The Australians will fly their Lincolns and the R.A.F., Spitfires, Brigands and Lincolns. The New Zealand airmen In the Colony have only Dakota*
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    7 YEARS FOR HOARDERS
    32 1 The Indian Parliament enacted an emergency law on Monday giving the government power, to send food hoarders to prison for seven years and fine them 20 times A.P.
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    FIRST ROYAL BABY GIRL IN 14 YEARS
    179 1 FIRST ROYAL BABY GIRL IN 14 YEARS LONDON, Wed. I WO ROYAL salutes boomed forth m London yesterday to herald the birth of Britain's first new Princess m 14 years. The new Princess and her mother both were reported doing well m a bulletin signed by the four doctors m
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    President sworn in
    26 1 Dr. Ptcdcrico Chaves was sworn m as President of Paraguay yesterday after an election m which he v. :is the sole candidate.- Reuter
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    BELGIUM HAS A NEW CABINET
    53 1 BELGIUM HAS A NEW CABINET A new all-Catholic Cabinet was formed m Belgium yesterday, ending four days of crisis since King Leopold's renunciation of power. The country had beon without a government for that time. The new Cabinet of 15 ministers will serve under Senator Joseph Pholien, a former Minister
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    June rubber production highest ever
    116 1 June rubber production highest ever WASHINGTON, Wed. THE Secretariat of the Rubber Study Group, an international organisation m Washington has estimated the world production of natural rubber last June at 157,000 long tons. This is the highest monthly figure ever recorded. The figure exceeded consumption by 20,000 tons, according to
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    New legs for lions
    51 1 J^ONDON civic authorities yesterday prepared to "amputate' 'the two fore legs of one of the missive stone lions carved at the base of towering Nelson's column m the famed Trafalgar Square. The legs, damaged by Germ*" HAmti* during ih» Mlt«. wili be replaced by new limbs.-
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    FORMOSA: U.K. TOLD 'DECIDE'
    254 1 LONDON. Wednesday. THE British Government has been urgently asked by the United States to make clear just what stand Britain will take if Communist China sends an invasion flotilla against Formosa, it was learned yesterday. The question was considered to be of such importance by the
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    Wants to stay in Africa
    96 1 SEROWE. Wed. RUTH KHAMA.due to leave by air for London yesterday with Scretse and her baby, told a correspendent. "It is a wicked lie to say I am anxious to return to London. I came to Africa to be with my husband's people and that
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    WORLD RADIO TALK PUT OFF
    54 1 WORLD RADIO TALK PUT OFF The Dutch Governmeir terday confirmed that a world congress on radio frequencies, due to start at The Haeue on September 25. has beer, postponed at the request of th« United States. The Post Office Department said the other 82 cipants had agreed 'V t unanimously
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    'Terrific' earthquake in Asia
    276 1 'Terrific' earthquake in Asia rkNE of the greatest earthquakes m occurring somewhere m Asia, probably near the Sino-Burnn border, was reported yesterday by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey m Washington. Unconfirmed reports from India state that Calcutta, Patna, and West Bengal suffered severe shocks, a. d that the damage
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    Treatment For Syphilis
    921 2 Treatment For Syphilis SIXGAPORE DOCTOR \1 T H.4T are the symp- toms of syphilis end is there a definite c i re for it. leprosy develop from i AXXIOI'S it is caused by the d corkscrew d par betes. Tl:e tnfi tr;.:>:erable only to human 3 and to it :o
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    THE CASE OF A PARANOIA
    436 2 SINGAPORE DOCTOR replies to a correspondent I am very worried about *t| younger brother, now 24. who until two yer-s ago was a normal, harmless chap. The trouble began uhen he had a Qua r ~el with a man employed m the same camp. He
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    58 2 J^7^e_ j per/ec^i£^ma^2^as floun m to London trornDusseldorfto^ta^e^up nef~i)Ostt7?Tr~at th-e Foo^ Fair, Olympia. London. The 7-stone, 5 feet tall transparent model revolves on a stage to the accompaniment of a recording which explains the nor kings of her body. Keeping time u\th the recording ere a series of flashing lights
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    'Ware' the Woman Driver
    399 2 'Ware' the Woman Driver dds HOW much truth la there m the masculine jibe that the Average woman just hasn't EOt what it takes to make a good motorist? Plenty— according to a scientific inquiry just completed at the Government's Road Research" Laboratory. Searching tests for accident-proneness were made on
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      28 2 SOLUTION TO Crossword No. 125 4nHmON. fiL. 1 Rear- A^n:..-.U 7. Brcntes. 5. Pie 9 EMbtt. U. Decatntated. lj, j Down: i. R*but. a. A go 3. An>-
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      418 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOKN today, you have a high and inflammable. v keen and penetrating Learn to control it fn mind. Good at mathenvi- youth. tics, the sciences probably Actually, you are goodwill attract you especially humoured as a rule and the physical branches enjoy a food time a* Much
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    THE LAND OF SILENT ANIMALS
    494 3 THE LAND OF SILENT ANIMALS Notes froma war reporter's diary WITH U.S. TROOPS IN KOREA, Tuesday. QNE THING you notice about Korea is that it is a v land of silent animals. They are as stoical as the people. In ten days of driving about the countryside I have heard
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    67 3 picture. Air Vice-Marshal C. A. Bouchier is checked aboard his 8.0.A.C. aircraft as he leaves London for Japan to take up his post as liaison officer on Gen. Mac Arthur's staff. The Air Vice-Marshal is not new to Japan, for hewas A.O.C. Air Group. British Commonwealth Occupation Forces m Japan,
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    GERMANY MAY GET ARMY
    187 3 FRANKFURT. Tuesday. rHr Korean war is steadily convincing the i 46.<u)0.000 West Germans that the day is not far D 1 when the Western Allies will tell them they have an army again. Dgh official western Allied spokesman, and out of Germany, persistently and reclaim their
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    Gadget rids ships of barnacles
    185 3 LA JOLIA, CALIFORNIA. Tuesday. \N electric shocking device which causes mussels and barnacles to commit suicide may some day save ship owners and sea-shore industries millions of dollars a year. The inventor. Mr. Henry T. Burkey. a Los Angeles electrical engineer, believes that with a
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    'RECRUIT JAPS,' —U.S. ADMIRAL
    58 3 Rear-Admiral B. W.DecKer. retiring after tour years' duty m Japan, said that the Japanese could be recruited into a United States army, and that General Douglas MacArthur was "the greatest living American." Admiral Decker said, "The Japanese know we have done them a tremendous favour and
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    PEASANTS TRAINED
    35 3 The training of more than 100,000 peasants to supervise the forthcoming land reform movement m East Chin ft has begun m various areas m the districts, according to Chinese reoorts from Shanghai.- Reuter
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    Old textiles for museum
    64 3 COLOMBO. Tues. TEXTILES woven m Ceylon A during the reign of the Sinhalese Kings are to be housed m a special room, now being prepared at the Colombo Museum The room— being re-decor-ated at an estimated cost of Rs. 20.000 will be equipped with twenty specially
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    Traders from Germany
    35 3 The Chinese Communist news agency reported a trade delegation from "the Democratic Republic of Germany" (East Germany) has arrived m Peking by plane, to promote trade relations between China and Germany.- A.P.
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    TRADE TALKS
    15 3 Trade talks between the Soviet Union and Persia have begun at Teheran Reuter
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    Bridge Hands
    297 3 ling North Eut !NT Paaa T s an old tr.it %ho hesitates is lost .Of true of the bridge D the unethical rately hesitates to c opponents. Anyone fooled twice by on can thereafter i hint that the hesital zot whatever it is. doesn't condone the ie actor".
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    U.N. to hear Cyprus plea
    94 3 LONDON. TUB*. DELEGATION from the British Mediterranean colony of Cyprus, which has been m London for a week to press for the union of the island with Greerc\ announced m London yesterday that they will go to the United States "m the very n^ar future"
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    J. Roosevelt proposes mass evacuation
    112 3 J. Roosevelt proposes mass evacuation SACRAMENTO, CALIFOANIA, Tues. YTr. James Roosevelt, eldest son of the late U.S. President Mr. Franklin U Roosevelt, has proposed evacaution of over 4,000,000 Californians from key cities "at the first warning of danger." Addressing the Democratic State Convention at Sacramento, California, recently, he charged the
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    MIXED PETROL IN FRANCE
    47 3 French motorists will no longer be able to buy pure petrol but will have to use mixtures containing at least ten per cent, alcohol. Deputy Philippe Monin announced this after an interview with M. Jean Louvel, the Minister for Industry and Commerce.- A.P.
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    More anti-U.S. acts in Japan
    149 3 TOKYO. Tuesday. QFFICIAL sources report an increasing number of v petty anti-American disturbances m Japan. The Japanese Government alerted the police force for additional trouble yesterday on the fifth anniversary of Japan's defeat and Korea's liberation from Japan. Tokyo Municipal authorities banned all public gatherings
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    68 3 picture. Mr. Riad Ghali (left), who married Princess Fathia of Egypt and aroused the wrath of her brother, King: Farouk, is fingerprinted by Mr. Herbert H. Rickey of the U.S. Immigration Service at San Francisco, California, after applying for the status of a displaced person. His passport had been recalled
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    Press bacKS Nehru on Korea
    331 3 Press bacKS Nehru on Korea NEW DELHI, Tues. T«HE defence ol India's lor- eign policy on Korea by the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, m Parliament, has been fully supported by the Indian press. It has been variously described at> a simple and lucid statement of the problem, a "masterly
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      249 3 QTMr APORE BFEBS [Singapore] AUSTRALIA OlWorir WXUrf 445 pm programme Summary; V LB 6: 19.74 metres 15.20 me/*. (BLUE NETWORK) VLC4: 19.59 metres 15.32 mc/s. 484 and 41.7 metres. w^.^?delss C ohnrTl5 Of "Re! VLA4: 25.32 metres 11.85 me/, 10 am News from Singapore; port from Britain" (BBC): 5.30 4.
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    THE WOMEN OF KOREA
    217 4 photo. A KOREAN WOMAN grindi it »»?ll m the ki.:'i n of her home. The Koreans are distinct fro *i hoxh rhinrsr and Japanese m facial characterises, though dark tlraiflil hair, dirk oblique eves and a tinge of bronze m th skin are always presen*. I
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    The GOD That failed
    3360 5  -  STEPHEN SPENDER-2 BREAD, AND THEN FREEDOM! *y TH p E ublSe a dSa/ r m best seller The G That Failed". i s of thI h «Ji| U w. Or St l e P,| len 1 s Pi > »der, poet and literary critic and son
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      94 5 JlfiT S,frt9 First ow ate OO(^ is ma<^ e a s P ec a process from the milk of world-famed pasturelands. f The most modern and scientific methods ar« applied to j •very stage of its preparation, so that the valuable and exceptional nourishment of the purest and richest rr.ilk
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      43 5 American i^\ 1 NTERNATIONAL \j>j|iy Underwriters ltd. tJ n MANACINC AGENTS FOR AMERICAN fir BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANIES ACCIDENT AY.AT.ON BURGLARY HOUSEHOLDERS' fi fl. jf MARINE *y^ fs MOTOR M WORKMEN'S S. H. PEEK Manager Mac Donald House, Singapore. Telephones: ***** Office: 7785 Manager
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 16, 1950.
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      Two main tasks....
      264 6 Two main tasks.... 'HERE are many fask things to be uod in the annual I port of the Singapore ice Force for 1949. is. for Instaj tr»? tion that re is B Peruvian TtDfl In the auxiliar•nployed by the Singapore Harbour Board. There is the men! that no ••Rash Acts"
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      The Chinese
      199 6 r |\tl h'ttn. are, inevitably, less happy aspects of the irt wnrk revealed in this survey Though the Malayan poiice forces are easily the corruptible in Asia, 35 Singapore policemen were d.imisied last year for taking bribes. But even this works out at about one per cent. a
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    A Sister For Prince Charles
    666 6  -  AF about 2,000 babies born m Britain during the past 24 hours one is third m line of succession to the Throne. For the second time m less than two years the world is given news of a birth m the English Royal House, and
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    'Best-Fed Army' Pays The Price
    539 6  -  G. Ward Price By TOKYO. "Y ou are the bestpaid, best-fed, best-housed Army m the world. Re-enlist and secure your future." Every military newspaper, motor-bus, and cinema screen m Occupied Japan has been plugging that slogan 'or the past five years. The American "Army lere
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    CONCERTO 'THRILLS'
    627 6 JjiACETIOUS layman friends have unhelpfully drawn for me nightmarish pictures of what could happen during a concerto the conductor's cue missed, an important entry overlooked hiatus, and the orchestra floundering m every direction! My answer is that one doesn't play concert! if one is prone to do that
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    THAT 'S'PORE MEMORY'
    779 6 THAT 'S'PORE MEMORY' Action studies at rehearsal of Mr. Glan Williams, who will conduct the Singapore Musical Society orchestra at the Friday and Sunday concerts. Music Topics by PRESI rrHERE are two concerts at the Victoria Hall this week on Friday and on Sunday. The solid core of musical enthusiasts
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    CHANGI ADOPTS SELF-AID MEASURES
    476 7 CHANGI ADOPTS SELF-AID MEASURES Move to detect infiltration Free Press Staff Reporter 'pHE names, addresses and identity card numbers of all the residents of Changi district are being kept m registers by members of the Changi District Rural Committee so as to facilitate the issue of new cards m case
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    35 7 picture. Twenty- two-year-old Capt. Akbar Mallal, the son of Mr. Bashir Mallal. Editor of the Malayan Law Journal, is pictured here with his bride, Shimshad Begum, on their arrival at Kallang airport yesterday.- Free Press
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    Newsprint shortage, says Swede
    89 7 Newsprint shortage, says Swede nuIT Kc porter .vsprint short- the world, A. Thorsell, an KM AB. SchrodLtd_ Gothen- ire he left y by X.L.M. I -i.irta. wbo is m n the Far New Zeathat this was as ouying tOO of DC inadft. The rest d pended on upplies. .1 is
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    The story of a strange girl
    55 7 is Stall K-porter Jennie Dl at the Ca- .c story of fJehniires a 1 >eph Cot- a beautiful ...;.:::ies m .:ch- I I and screen I a moving In! its and excellent -> In E:he! lovable, if j ling spinster, j cd. tone poem
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    88 7 picture. Mr. Pierre Lim Poh Hin, a businessman, woo arrivru m Singapore yesterday afterno on by QEA-BOAC Constellation from Jakarta en route to Holland carrying: a painting of a French landscape. Mr. Lim, who would not disclose who the French artist was, is taking the painting, which is partly destroyed,
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    3 private roads being rebuilt
    319 7 Free Press Staff Reporter yHREE private roads m Singapore— Hillside Drive, 1 Highland Road and Flower Road, off Upper Serangoon Road— which have been m a deplorable state for many years, are now being re-constructed at a cost of about $26,600. Measuring a total length
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    More midwives required
    171 7 Free Press Staff Reporter AN urgent plea for more mldwives to keep pace with the public demand is made by Mr. J. A. Harvey, Chairman of the Singapore Rural Board, In his annual report for last year. Midwives of the department attended 7,849 cases during the year
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    OPENING OF NEW GIRLS' HOME
    31 7 The Governor will declare open the new Girls' Home of the Good Shepherd Convent at Thomson Road, 4i m.s., on Tuesday. Aug. 29. at 5.30 p.m.
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    NEW PLANTS FOUND IN MALAYA
    219 7 Free Press Staff Reporter WORK on the revision or the flora of Malaya proceeds steadily, but has been somewhat slowed down by the impossibility, or at least the inadvlsability of undertaking field expeditions m the Federation, said Mr. M. r Henderson, Assistant Director of Botanic
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    US Vice-Consul arrives
    77 7 jyiß. Oscar V. Armstrong had arrived m Singapore to take up his duties as American Vice-Consul. Mr. Armstrong came from Saigon, where he has been on temporary assignment. The new Vice-Consul was born at Hsuchowfu, China, m 1918 and graduated from the Shanghai American School. He received
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    Malayan Naval Force to be 3,000 strong
    326 7 Free Press Staff Reporter T<HE Malayan Naval Force, raised and maintained by the Colony of Singapore with the help of the Admiralty, plans to increase its strength to nearly three thousand officers and men over a period of six years. This was disclosed
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    Site tests for 9-storey flats
    170 7 Free Press Staff Reporter n ROUND tests for the building of three nine- storey blocks of flats on the land between Upper Pickering and Upper Hokkien streets are now being carried out by the Singapore Improvement Trust. The actual foundations willbe laid when these tests
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    INDONESIAN DAY
    32 7 PENANO, Tues— The Penang Indonesian community will celebrate their independence day on Aug. 17 with two functions at the Vermorn Road home of the Indonesian. Government Represent itiv Inche Machsoes.
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    More work at Ceylon Office
    264 7 More work at Ceylon Office Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE appointment of an assistant to the Ceyloi Government Commissioner m Malaya, Mr. IM. Saravanamuttu, will be made shortly. The offic r appointed will be a member of the Ceylon Overseas Service. He will be stationed at Kuala Lumpur and will
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    63 7 A shy little pilgrim, bound for Mecca, shields her face from the Free Press cameraman and waves a stick. There are more than 700 pilgrims on board. They are from all parts of the Philippines and are spending all their life savings to pay the fare (930 pesos or about
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      159 7 GOING HOME WITHOUT CARPETS YOU CAN HAVE A LOOK AT SHROFFS Leading Carpet Stockists of the Far East. We can assure you will find it useful when back home. We have always a wide selection to suit every Pocket Taste. We have also adequate arrangements to send home direct from
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      50 7 MAIL Surface mail is expected m Singapore today from Great Britain. N. Ireland, Eire, Europe. North and West Africa. West Indies Egypt Ceylon Australia, Medan and the Federation. Latest times for posting surface mail at the G P.O. today are: noon for Hong Kong. China, Japan. Trenpeanu (parcels only); ration.
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    LABOUR DEPT. ONLY MEDIATING
    655 8 LABOUR DEPT. ONLY MEDIATING Mr Davis replies to Councillor Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Labour Department did not contradict a statement made by Rediffusion, Ltd., parts of which were termed "false" by Mr. Lim Yew Hock (Nominated Unofficial), because m all disputes between employer and employee, it acts m
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    43 8 picture. Second Lieut. A H Thomas of the Royal Artillery and Lieut. J. M. Ross of Ihe Royal New Zealand Artillery, who arrived m Singapore yesterday by 8.0.A.C. Argonaut from Hong Kong for a 12-week artillery training course m Johore Bahru. Free Press
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    'FLARE-UPS' IN CO-OP SOCIETIES
    186 8 Free Press StaiT Reporter 'f LASHES of personalities have been too frequent m some of the larger societies", says Mr. T. F. Carey. Acting Director of Co-operation, Singapore, m his annual report, tabled at yesterday's meeting f the Legislative Council. He adds: "There is perhaps a
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    Hibernian win 6-0
    25 8 UIBERNIAN. playing at home. trounced St. Mirren by six goals to nil m a Scottish League Cup Division "A" fixture yesterday. Reuter
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    'GANGS' PUT OUT OF BUSINESS
    179 8 societies m Singapore were virtually put out of business last year thanks to the Emergency Regulations, says the annual report of the Colony Police Force. The annual Singapore Police report published yesterday says that full use of the powers given under the Societies Ordinance was
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    The right answer....
    85 8 The right answer GEORGE Bernard Shaw, who seldom quotes anyone but himself, turned to Shakespeare for a cryptic observation about his friend, Charlie Chaplin, recently. An official of the London office of United Artists, which distributes the Chaplin films, wrote toGB.S. inquiring whether the playwright would write an article on
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    Many subjects discussed
    1040 8 THE REST OF THE COUNCIL Free Press Staff Reporter YESTERDAY'S Legislative Council meeting, though short compared with previous sessions, was noteworthy for the number of adjournment speeches made by a number of I'norTicials and the variety of subjects introduced. A record number 17 of annual reports by
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    Soviet Talks Aid Market
    296 8 Soviet Talks A id Market jggj: ':.>. '^.vx^X-^v Vi felKfc^- •<&■ *jfe3E' "V LONDON Wtrdiifwd SENTIMENT m the London Stock Exchan day was aided by the resumption of t between Russia and Persia. sUtcg K. v correspondent. Quiet firmness was turnover remained very small. Gains of ud to three six-
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    AUSTRALIA'S CUP TEAM
    12 8 iI.'STKAI U senteci E McGrec'): sr.: G ing ion.
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    Wednesday Short Story The ghost and Ah Kim
    818 9  -  BENG SWEE The ghost and Ah Kirn by I encd alinosl Ah Kirn rich ni;in Men wealth i showered as there s d house, decora..us formed :i:e dwellrurnished. sl aside eared m he neH soup. it way- r"w lavish v new car
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    9 9 dfdsfsdf sw^ms 33J&Z July Jl^\ Copyright Tune Inc. 1950*.
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    I DRINK WITH NAZIS IN TOKYO HOSTILE
    1039 9  - I DRINK WITH NAZIS IN TOKYO HOSTILE RICHARD HUGHES My most exciting assignment— 8 by 1^1 IIS story is nearly 10 years old. It has never been published before J wrote it in Tokyo— in September, 1940, when the swaggering Nazis In Tokyo and the Japanese alike thought that Britain,
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    Just how good is Brooks?
    444 10  - Just how good is Brooks? RALPH MODDER By Il'ST how good is Boy Brooks? Not a world beater perhaps, J but the 28-year-old welter, middle and light-heavyweight champion o f the Orient could safely be classified as one of the best "trial horses" in the middleweight division. This point is
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    Remember Ty the wrestler?
    173 10 THIS impressive-looking figure of boxing manhood is Alan "Ty M L.<«ton. of NVw South Wales, who is applying to the 8.8.8.C. for a licence to box m British rings. Alan is 27 years' old, stands 6ft. 5 1 2 m., weighs 18 st, has a reach
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    Cricket from the outside
    419 10  -  N.W.D. YARDLEY By THIS week I have decided to sit among you watching cricket, and so become a spectator. Perhaps we players should do it more often, and so get to know what the people m the rings think of things. Spectators by their support provide
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    The odds are against Pompey
    435 10  -  Archie Quick By /^AN Portsmouth win the first Division Soccer Championship three times m succession and so create a hat trick record m the game's history? That is one of the big queries of the coming season. In these days of club equality the odds
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    Mixed youth club at Naval Base
    490 10  -  Roger Yue By THE Good Companions Youth Club at Naval Base is the only club of its kind in S for among its 125 members are 45 girls but it is affiliated to the Federat on c Sap rc pore Boys' Clubs. The ages
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    A stalwart of Lancashire
    442 10  -  JOHN ARLOTT PAVILION PROFILES-12 By INHERE is little glory i or a junior partner, be he never so faithful. Thus Andrew Sundi who made 100 hundred* In the shadow of Jack Bobbs, and Percy Holmes. Herbert Suicliffe's most worthy partner, v ere both reduced to less
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      111 10 BURGLAR ALARM SYSTEM j There is an old adage which warns us against being penny wise and pound foolish And yet how many people are like that. They spend large sums of money on acquiring beautiful and expensive things and yet begrudge a trifling amount to ensure their complete safety.
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    UNKNOWN
    475 11 England score 282 for four LLN HUTTON, of Yorkshire, with a wonderful display of batting technique and concentration, made a brave effort to place England m a winning position but time still remained on the side of the West Indies at the end of the third day m t
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    45 11 pa lure •M liil N year-old left-hand bowler who t twice m on e ntaUh and who is pUvinr i the last M match against the \\e\t In* g, p I fiance. era Walmsley. a swimming > whom hp plans to marry on Sept. lb\— Keystone
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    Surrey secure full points
    243 11 From JIM CHAMBERS I most of the county cricket games to Ibe drawn yesterday. but m two of the vital were decisions. Surrey beat Essex by 7 runs and so cut down Lancashire's points as the leaders m a tight finish were of first-innings points by
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    Selangor Club hockey section
    173 11 (CONSIDERABLE interest were shown by the Selangor Club members at the an- nual hockey meeting held last night at the Club. Mr. Norman Grenier, who presided, referred to the successful season the Club had last year. A suggestion by the chairman that more outstation fixtures should
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    Proviso for S.T.C. Cup race ambiguous
    596 11 TURF TOPICS By ALLAN LEWIS SINGAPORE Turf Club m their programme for the coming Gold Cup meeting; advertise the stake for their main race as 512.000. Their proviso of "Stakes and added money will not be lfss than $20,000 is ambiguous. Does this proviso
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    FULL DETAILS OF YESTERDAY'S PLAY
    792 11 Fourth Tesf •TWERE was a threat that rain would delay a re- sumption of the final Test match due to enter its third day at Kennington Oval yesterday. Slight rain began to fall a few hours before play was to begin arxi the official forecast
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    COMMUNITY LEAGUE
    46 11 picture. A WANG BAKAK -> a drive at the Eurasian goil from close quarters but the hill is fielded by goalkeeper Van Huizen, while Law t her (behind Bakar) looks on m their Community League game at the Stadium yesterday. Malays won 4-1. Free Press
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    Business Houses League results
    64 11 RESULTS of yesterday's Business Houset soccer League matches are: •A" League: Sime Darby beat Malayan Airway.* 5-1 Scorers for Sime Darby were Hussien 2. Rahim 2. Spiers 1. Hon Yam scored for Airways. •B" League: Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation S.C beat Mansfield S.C. 3-1. Gim T>nsj.
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    S.R.C. MEETING
    33 11 A special gamer meeting for the election of hockey and billiards f s of the Singapore Recreation Club will be held at the bRC. on Fnday a f 5. 30 p.m.
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    DRAW, TIMES FOR R.A.F. GOLF
    252 11 rpHE R A.F. Cup will be played 1 for at tlw Island Club on: Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Phv win be over 36 holes mum handicap is 18. The draw and starting times for Saturday are Riven below, Sunday's second round play ro <*>„ arranged
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    CHARLES WEIGHSIN AT 183¼ LBS.
    65 11 gZZARD CHARLES, NBA. recognised world heavyweight champion, weighed m at 183 4 lbs. for tonight's 15--round title fight m Nev: Yur^ with Freddie Beshore. The challenger scaled 1% lbs. lighter at lSO^lbs. Though heavier than his usual fighting weight, Charles looked trim and on edge
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    West Ham win
    44 11 WEST Ham beat Harr:in a National Speed League match at West Hara last night by 52 points I Rob Lawson. Austral: m challenger for the I; match race champions was top-scorer for the v. i ners. being unbeaten In rides. Reuter
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    MALAYS SCORE 4-1 VICTORY
    144 11 MALAYS SCORE 4-1 VICTORY It* EURASIANS went down fighting to the Malays m a Community League m: at the stadium yesterday, losing 4-1. It was Malays first ie game. They were the first to score through Beins who headed a corner kick taken by Wright Malays were Harith, Sharif Ifadon
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      63 11 Today's sport SOCCFR: ctimmanlty Lgc: C hine?* t Royal Navy at Jalan Besar stadium: Snr. Lgt; Casuals v Singapore Cricket Club on padan;; Business Hse. B. Bukom S.C. v Guthries at Geylanf; Jur. Cup lie: Indonesian A v Mental Hospital S.C. at C.YJf.%.; Jnr Cup lie (replay):. Tuan. Mon C
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    BIRTH
    27 12 ARM IKONG. A the Bangsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur, on the 14th August. 1950, to Irene (n?e Gremen wife of Vincent. C. or.?, a sister for Cedric.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    27 12 THE engagement is announced betwe en Lieutenant Lawrence Lamb. D.S M.. R.N and Miss Vera Mac Lean. daughter of Mr. Mrs. J Mac Lean of Tengah
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    MARRIAGE
    76 12 HOLMES- -BARTELS. On Saturday August 5th at St. James' Pftriatl Church. Paddington, Char-?s Stephen Holmes of Manchester and Sincapore to Vivienne Gertrude Geraldine Bartels of London THE WEDDING took place on 15th August, at St. Columbas' pel London, of Colin W. A. Muiray of Pilmoor Estate. Bam Tiga, eldest
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    DEATH
    25 12 CHAM TIAN MOH. age 58, on Bmerald HUI Rd.. bind his wife. Lee Neo Hock Cliye. Hock daughter, Alice Chan. ***** at 11 a.m.
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    FIVE YEARS AFTER THE STORM
    265 12 FIVE YEARS AFTER THE STORM Japan sees a new one TOKYO, Wednesday. TPHE fifth anniversary of Japan's surrender, which A marked the end of World War 11, finds Japan still occupied today, but with most of the Occupation troops fighting a new aggressor m Korea. It was on August 15.
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    30 12 picture. MR. EMANUEL SHINWELL, British Defence Minister, leaves the Ministry of Defence building, followed by his Parliamentary private secretary, Col. G. E. C. Wigg, Labour M.P. for Dudley. A. P.
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    14 YEARS FOR SOVIET SPY
    39 12 k U.S. High Commission court at Ansbach yesterday sentenced an East German youth to 14 years imprisonment for spying for Russia. Kurt Muecke. 21. confessed that he had tried to collect military information A.P.
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    HUSBAND SEEN WITH TYPIST
    228 12 LONDON, Wednesday. \IRS. IRENE POWIS, 43, made many fruitless lfl journeys m her car m the hope of finding her hushand and a Miss Lilian James together. She displayed energy and assiduity which would have put a private detective to shame, said Mr. Commissioner Temple-Morris at
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    Officer 'robbed' of his wife
    155 12 Bristol. Wednesday, A NAVAL ollicer whose cousin 'robbed him of a wife to whom he was devoted" was Riven £500 damages when he was franted a decree nisi it Bristol. ai The Judge said th<> officer, Lieut. James Mattick, 31. of Southlands, Holcombe. Somerset hid
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    Blind—but not drunk
    46 12 Blind but not drunk piIILIP *ORSTER, 32, of 1 romley. Kent, England, was led before a magistrate yesterday on i charge of drunknness. The police said he could not walk a straight line when they arrested him. The charge was dismissed. Forster is totally blind. U.P.
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    Indian ships to call here
    56 12 CASTERN Shipping Cor- poration, (he first Gov-ernrnent-sponsored line m India, pUns to extend its service shortly to Malayan ports, including Singapore, Malacca and Penang. At present the Corporation, which was registered on March 24 last, is operating only on the India-Aus-tralia route. It intends, however,
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    LOAN TO DANES
    23 12 The ECA allocated 5300.000 to Denmark and $265,000 to Norway to purchase manlla or abaca fibra m the Philippines. U.P.
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    S'GOR GETS EQUIPMENT FOR T.B.
    178 12 F. P. Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. EQUIPMENT for the detecG tion of tuberculosis has arrived m Kuala Lumpur and will be m operation m Selangor by the end of this year. This was stated at a meeting of the publicity committee of the Malayan
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    Russia meets Iran demand
    89 12 TEHERAN, 'Ycd. RUSSIA, bowing m part to Iranian demands, returned an Iranian, officer and three enlisted men vosterday after holding them for seven months. The Iranian Premier, General Ali Razmara. told the pre^s that the four soldiers were turned over to the Iranians at the border
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    SHIPS TO BE LONG-SIGHTED
    200 12 LONDON, Wednesday. A BRITISH firm has just put on the world's mari- time market a new radar 'blind eye" for ships. It can see 40 miles— nearly half as far aeain a* existing equipment And it is far more compact than any other mercantile radar equipment.
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