The Singapore Free Press, 19 August 1950

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1 4 The Singapore Free Press
  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA sa. 1* SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950. PRICE TEN (EMS
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  • 401 1 Tokyo talks of a 'landing west of Seoul' TOKYO, Saturday. UNCONFIRMED reports m Tokyo this morning stated that about 4,000 Australian troops had landed at Inchon, 20 miles west of Seoul many miles behind the North Korean lines. These reports which should be taken with reserve followed
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    8 1 fctatektag ig ilotl. is taken fwmm riare»ue London.
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  • 48 1 I --DON. fl l« Market Ministry of handsome on American ..chases tin M.nistry B and h to the Ameri--.770 ms the Bri:n How m cost:oi3sands of ary and m order ibbc snoi;!d be ihe United b footing the ■.erestin? M all-in In."—
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  • 549 1  -  SYDNEY SMITH From TAEGU, Friday. HPHE main offensive on the Taegu-Fusan road began lat quarter to three this afternoon —I was told 'backed by all air support m Korea." It was supported as well by the heaviest concentration of artillery and mortar fire yet seen
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  • 35 1 al Air Forc< li< r and Vampire jet fighters and twinengined Mosquito nightfighter planes will take part m Western Union air exercises m France, Belgium and Holland Reuter from August 25 to 2<.
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  • 32 1 Russian furs worth US$l3B 888 are to be shipped back to England m the Cunard White Star liner. retania. because York dockers refuse to un- lxid them A.P.
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  • 68 1 The North Korean government has sent a lift of 50 American prisoners of war held by th« i North Korean forces to th? central prisoners of war agency m Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday. The names of the prisoners were
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  • 27 1 Five months of Communist rule at the south coast tin mines of Heinda. Burma, ended yesterday with the rebel faction surrendering to government troops-
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  • 21 1 NEW GREEK GOVT The Greek Liberal Party leader Sophocles Venizelos, wa, yesterday entrusted with th e formation of a cabinet.- A.P.
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  • 182 1 BRIGHTON, Saturday. A CROBAT John Fossett finished the first 24 hours of his sit-down strike atop a 40-foot pole yesterday. "Feel fine.' he shouted down. "Won't come down until I get me way." Mr. Fossett struck atop the pole, which he uses m his
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  • 33 1 Senator Scott W. Lucas (Democrat, Illinois), declared m Washington yesterday that if Communists attack any Atlantic pact nation, the United States "will start tossing atomic bombs where It hurts."- A.P.
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  • 137 1 WITH THE U.S. 25th DIVISION IN KOREA, Sat. A MERICAN troops, who cap- tured three heights m a fierce counter attack east of Hamen on the 35th Regiment's front, found photos on the bodies of dead North Koreans shounng them m Chinese Red Army uniforms.
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  • 93 1 WASHINGTON, Sat. rIE U.S. Department of Justice yesterday announced the arrest of a former U.S. Navy civilian engineer. Norton Sobell. on charges of giving national defence secrets to Russia. FBI. agents took Sobell. 33. New York electrical engineer, into custody at Laredo. Texas, yesterday morning. He
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  • 86 1 BiiUSSELS. Sat.. TiHE Belgian Communist A Party leader. M. Julien Lahaut. was assassinated at his house near Liege last night. M. Lahaut. wno was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, was killed by two men who drove up to his home m a car. A
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  • 57 1 TOKYO, Sat. UP to now correspondent* m this war, unlike World War IT, had not had to wear a shoulder patch or other insigrnia proclaiming their profession, This matter has now been discussed at the Tokyo Correspondents Club. The most popular suggestion was that the patch be
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  • 40 1 picture. North Korean prisoners assembled m a courtyard before they were marched away to a prison c?mp. Note the extreme yout>i of the prisoner on the left the average age of the captives is 19. Reuter
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  • 184 1 PENANG. Saturday. TRADE unionism m South-East Asia needs experience m organising as well as m overcoming union difficulties, Mr. Fred W. Dalley, chairman of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions mission now on a survey tour of South-East Asia, said at a press conference last
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  • 157 1 DEAUVILLE. France. Sat. pOUAD al Misri Pasha, alias King Farouk of Egypt, said yesterday that he would not marry pretty 17--year-old Narriman Sadek during his current visit to this resort. Thirty-year-old Farouk made it known through a spokesman that he had come to the
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  • 41 1 Hundreds of ex-servicemen, retired officers and civilians are continuing to throng the Siamese Ministry of Defence to sign up for service m Siam's 4,000-man "Korea" contingent which the United States has agreed to accept A.P. as an ally.
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  • 201 1 Ships for radio blasts at Reds WASHINGTON. Sat. THE United States is thinking of using ships to broadcast American radio programmes to remote and critical areas as part of its newly announced psychological warfare offensive against Communism. This was disclosed Dy eminent officials m t) of the state Department announcement
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  • 79 1 DENVER I A^ OUNG machine-cumi f who lost his rigiu ;r action with the 24th In! Division m X pa said day thai he Mai iGeneral William D> but "nol ki 1 d n lulj U n-'Hr TaCorporal Donald Bie'.il tint the Gtn»:al vn.ii ah
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  • 26 1 General J Lawtoi. and Admiral Forrest P. Bhei man, US Army and leaders, will leave Washi:.. by air tomorrow for Tok A.P.
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    • 13 1 OPMUEMi TO LAST-.-.. there can^be no improvement to a I^PLAYeR'S U^\ N° 3
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      75 2 Four screaming Rolls-Royce jet engines shot the veteran Clyde passenger steamer Lucy Ashtoji over the Firth of Clyde to make marine history as the world's first jet propelled ship. Object of the trials icas to solve problems of measuring the resistant of a full-sized hull. The jets serve this purpose
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    • 877 2  - African Assignment C AP T. W. E. JOHNS By Tommy Soutar, son of a Scottish trader m the Übt has reported that his father has disappeared. On his last trading trip, old Soutar had jound some of the nctives drunk, but a friendly Übeni had given him a little tin
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      83 2 Stamp corner gTAMP of the Week shows the White House, where President Truman lives In rdngton. The stamp is issued to celebrate the city's 150- h birthday I A ital. Th; Wash- i he vac River. A French er. Major L 'Enfant planned the graceful avenues. The Irish all "cr
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    • 1297 2  - Fisticuffs With A 'Middie' Midshipman Andrew < hristie and his friend, Ben Noakes of a privateer recently returned from sea, are pressganged on to a Naval warship at Plymouth. They both suffer ill-treatment at the hands of the brutal skipper, Captain Bracher. Andrew is ihi\> an ordinary seaman. The warship
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      35 2 N*geriuu c#i«ty hi., ILgtine^t, tlejti and one of his many wives, Ohan ful touch to London Airport when he five dress, on a visit to Britain. The < ed hat whilst his wife's coijjure is 1
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    • 262 2 A READER AND HIS Pc: HAVE been fbllowR ing Miss Liau Nyuk Oi's series of articles on chickens m the Children's Page and I think I have a more interesting tale of a chicken which was my pet once. She was b Umber 1947 along w, other
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    • 37 2 I 4P M ///i the Really mmmri for the i dil Modern Gown Sluffi s No. 9, Stamford EVERYBODY'S STRONG i ff if M i/V XJ^^ Uft'i Fun wh#n you># f 1 > BORNEO Company c*» im ff^
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 97 2 Ju.?»£©r Crossword CXIJEfI ko^s \v t it cognised by a while patch. 2 lßp~ Iflp 5. He nent m search of the "Gol- H|^|~~"^]"~™^| fa a prayer. 9. Mother horse. 7 I* Bj JL B 10. Port commanding the south- F~" B"^~T em entrance to the Red Sea. 11 Hfl
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    • 127 2 Penny tells hcrfrlcnd SylwaRays A concert partyr says Sylvia, l»u«led, Penny take* Sy:via back wary Newton, etar of the show. w:io You eavcd my iifo, Penny and »f el the «<>"«• «or Sylvia Bui it ill In hospital. Without tmr In »ul not evarybody can t? an ih« .ho. pcr}iap$
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  • 246 3 Peking tries 're-education HONG KONG, Saturday. WESTERN-EDUCATED Chinese students, who had been influenced by Communist propaganda into returning to China to participate m national reconstruction, are finding Communist rule indigestible, according to one of them who recently arrived m Hong Kong. The Chinese Communists, on the
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    39 3 picture. I »XS The Town N wcastle-on-Mr John Atkinson > m the ii> I M. > the fir-t ■tact i 1 t> K.nr \«ould he !lowin< diy. with ion that every krri> the Kind's i.\t ordinary iv>t to t-arrv V Reuter
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  • 16 3 DNEY. SUL red c r'.v toN r Wales. n do >m shock
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  • 8 3 Amnenred Cars For Sheep an < .en' Ar A.P.
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  • 72 3 NEW YORK, Friday. canaries are among exred 105 British firms at Chicago s 1 i-ade Fair which opened recently. manufacturer whose London works 10.000 a woek. said: 'I want to macv for Britain m birdcages." ical Bri- hind -vh. m V r. ?nd ire spi
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  • 19 3 Trawler becomes fishing museum >lump. a ncr, Mr. ut-> provided holiday-makers r kntcd his 50--the Ouse. Into a fishing
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  • 22 3 SOLUTION TO Crossword No. 128 1, Shufbua: to China. I Chins 11. v 14. Conistlc 3. X mental. 6. il 9. Chopper.
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  • 185 3 FR WKFI XT. WKSTERN GERMANY, Friday. 4 GROI P of American negro students and their n professor are touring Western Germany to tell the Germans "the full truth about America." And m Germany, where racial discrimination led to the extermination of millions, they have found now
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    145 3 1 Clubs are trumps BtmKh J^*J Norm and South are to win an nine tricks acainaf ucw defencr. South leads duU ten Wes. covers. North wins and makes two mor* trumps. East can safely discard one diamond and one space. But on the third trump he car80l let
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  • 79 3 S. Africa MAY EXPEL RED ENVOYS CAPE TOWN. Sat. SJOUTH AFRICA is "seriousO ly considering" .closing th t Soviet Consulate-General said Mr. Chark-s Swart Justice Minister Two magistrates had sent him a coniidential report after investigating the Communist menace m the Union he said Steps would shortly be taken against
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  • 27 3 The town and airfield 01 Bihta. 26 miles west of Patna. is submerged by a 23 ft. rise m the River Sone. a Ganys tributary.
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  • 70 3 When one of the drivers of a local bakery m Newcastle •Ntw South Wales' failed to turn up on time his horse set out alone with a full load He followed all the traffic rules m the city are?., stopped at the houses of the regular
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  • 70 3 ROY BI'TLEK, 38 -year-old diver, gave up an attempt to walk 14 miles across the sea bed at Hampton Roads. Virginia. He had only a quarter of a mile to go. He was sick and weary when he was hauled to the surface. As he came
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  • 64 3 Mr. Winston Churchill will address the nation by radio, probably on the subject of Britain's defence crLsis, on the night of Aug. 26 In view ot the decision to take to the air. Mr. Chun hill cancelled plans to issue a statement yesterday about his vain attempt
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    25 3  - GEOFFREY EVANS niiillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllliiiiiM JEST A MINUTE! By "Come on dear— it's Wednesday already. Are you sura this la (he spot whin you burled father itiit!iiii!iii!iitiiiimim!ii::i:iiiiiiiiiiimiiiiitiiiiiii:;iai
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  • 206 3 NORWICH, Friday. /UT of the carriage window as the train moved off from the station at Norwich, England, whined a child's beach ball. Engine-driver Robert Alan Parsley. 31. m charge of a locomotive at a nearby platform, picked up the ball and made to throw it back
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  • 43 3 A new drup:. known as banthine. claimed by US. doctors to be effective m cases of duodenal and stomach ulcers, is to b? tried In Britain. Of 100 American patients treated for a year only seven cases tzot no relief.
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  • 34 3 The Philippines will have a total foreign trade of more than $700,000,000' for the same period m 1949, or a decrease of $125,000,000 or 14 percent, according to latest official figures.
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    21 3 STREET RUNWAY A plane used by the Americans as an artillery fire spotter takes off from a village m South Korea.
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  • 103 3 NAAFI girls for Korea LONDON Sat. "THIRTY-ONE women A mostly ex-Naafl girlsare awaiting their marching orders to Korea. They were amone the first to volunteer after NAAFI headquarters at Claygate. Surrey, haa app»viied for staff to serve In canteens near the battle area. One of the women. Miss D. W.
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  • 232 3 HK 9 8 problem: whose sea? HONG KONG, Saturday THE gun duel between the Royal Navy d«*str<»; Concord and Chinese Communist shore battei ie> has left Hong Kong defence authorities with a lr-:il problem how to define territorial waters. The Chinese Communists control all but the eastern entrance to Hons;
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  • 27 3 Barthquue varying inur.> In Ea-ern Irdu v Poona Obser.. >.;\ [I best equipp'-.. Mil r epicentres we t ana as t: I on Tin A.P
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  • 28 3 A magistrate m X i central Ceylon > fined a sugar profiteer Rs. 1.000 >£T:> having overcharged 2 oen;s t *d' for a quarter pour.i sußar.- Reuter
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    • 121 3 tit Ri^ht uriy an Auvtin -trik^s you a^ bcir.s a trim, gk nicc-lookins 10b— sound a^> a bell. But make m f 1^ J your^ll' hard to arirfj Have a good look at lU: CMchwwk Ac finish the ur^ho. the doot > and see how u^htly they [it S^^ uind
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 438 3 New Crossword No. 129 •^^^m i^km" '■■H Hid BMB~"~~""~^ m CLVES ackoss «,h muitiDlv" (8) 8 Dum or Dee (7). 9. RE..-, taKe 1 -3c and mump> c bunnies (6-5». 12. Not where york a;ain? (4. 4». L il S DOWN MOI this is American doctrine W.J^jyJ««-! here (6. 5).
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  • 251 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Aug. 19. 1950. War Is Peace /vh the numerous periodicals whi c h enter this office at odd i mes, one or the must welcome la Freedom" v hich describes itself the organ ol the Singapore P* AnU-BrUisri 1 1 It heartens 11 < for
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  • 1033 4  - Padi Cultivation in Malaya P. McNEE By Director of Drainage and Irrigation for the Federation. HE completion of an x irrigation scheme iceording to plan is only the first step m the conversion of swamp jungle to productive oadi land: the colonisation of the area and the operation and maintenance
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  • 559 4 Talking about Singapore by Citizen. I 1 ran narUl> u«- said 1 Unit the 'Children and Young Persons Ordinance— which provides that youngsters under certain ages may not be employed— has got ufl to a happy start. For there is nothing happy m this for those juveniles who are being
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    14 4 "The advert, said: 'Take a holiday at out quiet hotel, AWAY FKOM IT ALL
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  • 586 4  - Tito Will Stay— Unless Stalin Attacks ERIC BOURNE says r pWO years ago the 1 telephone rang m my Prague flat and a startled, nervous Czech, Communist asked me if it was true that Tito had been thrown out of the Cominform. I was able to tell him it was.
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  • 236 5 COLONY HOUSE- HUNTERS DESPERATE List closed, but 12,000 apply Free Press Staff Reporter gO desperate for accommodation are people m Singapore that, despite the fact that registration for Singapore Improvement Trust flats closed m December last year, the Estates Trust Committee has received 12,515 applications for houses since then. At
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  • 63 5 Deaf mute makes a fresh start .n stuff Reporter D\D DUMB tailor B x after :> as an em:p his <>wn Waterloo Street •--d him yester- '.-ply engro&sed I an -ictlanfuage interu.im. sajra hat he has liloring business learnt measure and f ten In usic xkv almost DC can ok-
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  • 23 5 BAN ON 21 PAPER S irT X: porter ced a 9 D x ooe!; I n. on I for I P Education 1.
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    6 5 picture. just been finished. Free Press
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  • 129 5 E VA CUEE INQUIRY TO BE LAUNCHED rim w. frnfi™ ll^* 1 Correspondent pit. West Pahang branch of UMNO is forming i special committee to investigate into condition* Malay families who were evacuated from their homes under the Emergency Regulations to KamPMKf lamir near Pekan. Itusan Melayu reports incite Hitam
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    41 5 picture. iOIER A. de Burgh Mo is, n< rommandei of \Uh Garkha Brigade m Pahan:,\ who has just returned lrom six months' leave. With him is his brother. Mr. N .Morris, Assistant Commissioner of Police (Special Branch) m Singapore. Free Press
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  • 332 5 THE Singapore Musical Society Orchestra won further laurels last night at he Victoria Hall when they gave the first of two concerts -the next is on Sunday— to an almost full house This is not to say that they have not far to go to attain the
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  • 162 5 Free Press surf Reporter STUDENTS ol the Chung O Cheng High School, Sfn eapore. have been warned by the school authorities that disciplinary action would be taken against any students :nd discussing proposals lor staging a walk-out m the classrooms. an official of the school told the Fn
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    35 5 picture MEMBERS of (he crew uf the Tatsuhi Maru. first Japanese ship to enter Sin^a pore since the liberation, look and point at the territory on which they are not altowed to land. Free Press
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  • 278 5 Free Press Sta/T Reporter FHK first merchant ship to fly the red flag: m 1 Singapore harbour, the Hai Hsuan "landmark"' m the outer roads for the past six months while the IS. and Chinese Communist Governments disputed her ownership may soon tranship her l\S.
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  • 21 5 Professor T.E. Jessop. of the University of Hull, will preach at the Singapore Weslev Church at 5.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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  • 311 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 'pHERE arc 105 smiling lepers m Singapore tod&r. A They are happy because they have just betn accommodated m the first 28 new semi-detached houses which the Government has built m the T j Chu Kang Leper Camp under the 10-ye
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  • 75 5 HOUSING SOCIETY OFFICIALS Free Pi'-v v; kl K<-portci' ODo n 01 the Binf G >vernm< B Hi man. Mr L. c Mr N A X Mr 8. N Dr C X I h r> h. Armstrong Mrs. En Mr. H. 8. Bfthamparatn Lim Tenu lr M D cran. Mr T
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    • 91 5 For Cosy feeling when the nights are not very cold COTTON BLANKETS FERNDALE 55 SALVADOR GAYDEX $750 >o/f, light, Comfortable Washable rclours Fine and Biue. f tut S&ujA-s P [3ii itiiiitisaitittfimimiii Hiiiimiminminiiiii^j I H. HUSSAIN 1 3H STREET, SINGAFO.Rt g I Manufacturer of Malocca Canes. Walking Sticks V^*^ Dealers m
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    • 55 5 OOTALS '^^T^P'-^Sm and Loose Covers 2/ TOOTALS SELF PATTERNED CASEMENT Will blend with any colour scheme. jo i wash well and give constant lIKneS WmB Pleasi re CA OC Pir Shades of Rose. Lt. Blue, Gold, Jfcfc J v crfJ Rust, Green and Cream %jr^-r« m SOFT FURNISHING lIJ £^k
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  • 281 6 'Compares with best m Europe 9 Free Press Staff Reporter MAKING the "highly organised" schools broadcasting m Malaya, Sir Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore, yesterday said that it was comparable with the best m Europe and was even ahead of that of some countries m Europe.
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  • 99 6 THLY stand no nonsrn.se from rough footballers m Russia. A rough and tumble same between the Kiev Dynamos and Moscow Spartans took i ~Tslaee~reuemly. The All-Union Committee I on Physical Culture and Sports announced yesterday that it j had suspended referee E. Saar for the rest
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  • 69 6 OOLLOWIMG haw been ban to pLiy for GhrteUan B:<- Old B j. s .\.<~;>;.- -j against Ancrlo-Chi: e.<f CWd Boy; J m tr*»ir rvan Woi.' id erte- I k^t at Hong Lim E I* Iferctar <capt j Aexta. J. GalLsian. J Martens, J H 8MBB) Ch»
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  • 52 6 BADMINTON DRAW TOMORROW THE draw for the men's j singles and doubles. \voi men s singles and doubles, rel rani s and doablea, and mixed doubles even; m the Singapore badminton championships will take place tomorrow night at the Clerical Union Hail immediately a:- r the junior famci bi be^n
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  • 54 6 THE folio* in* bay been iel tn play f«f tbC Binh -:on i S< r■ against RAF ■I 1 grounds. W -xlstilk' on Sunday Cfcrial k S«'i»e-. ::\»t:.«* >cap R. Fern^r.do. Majq R KulnMiHti M Pmn Williams. M Crrnelnie*.. Geori^ Rum'un^p Ir«n.<rd Krugtniti. S. C I- mdo Resmrrs,
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  • 176 6 POPLE called up for service a__iocftL?oiunteer^ force, or other than volunteer forces, can now apply for a hardship allowance, according to the Singapore Civil Liability Rules, 1950. gazetted yesterday. Loss of salary from civil employment inability to support wife or family and unavoidable financial commitments, are
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  • 29 6 The following were yesterday s quotations on the Hong Kont; Money txrhange: HKS634 per US dollar. HK$l5 60 per pound slerl- HKS3O9 pvr Lad of «old U.P.
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    30 6 picture. THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson speak- ing at the foundation »t one laying of Radio Malaya's new offices and studios at T homson Romd yesterday. Free Press
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  • 746 6  - Spurs should win today ARCHIE QUICK U.K. soccer review By 'iniK ball is set rolling for the Football Leagues 52nd season, and, with all eyes focussed on the streamlined Spurs, what better opening attraction could they have than a visit to White Hart Lane of Blackpool with their Stanley Matthews
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  • 323 6 C iv> »"iv^ Mfe^-* '^C** tfc'" ifcj -<v**<s ACTIVE interest m the London st« yesterday was checked by the trend ol Korea and by the usual week-end reluct tend commitments, states R«uter' S Rti i pondent. Profit-takiriK on the reoeo setback to British Government were falls
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  • 19 6 Guide trainer f or Singapore I B I I and Hoi k I il'T p> I I. ar#« H
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    • 205 6 -y I conies 5 those GraMe 4HK^__^rift stems so M&m fast'tnatf me that I wonder if it is all done with mirrors.** *W N-rr- «f the tturid. LAST DAY n-!.i.»-»-K.3» Ml E Portrait Jennie Plus THE MARCH OF TIMt "MID CENTURY: HALF WAY TO WHERE?" S'ASON /fom WNITE TONIGHT i
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    • 122 6 W^Hdr3nB Exclusive to //?f* Singapore Free Press m Malaya I Jr fißf f\ IITVVtNIL.KE j YOO'RS LUCKY/ I |/U^^\ *V A VNTIB ONTIMt'/^ CLOCKWORK/ MR.JAYUMA^t /^^M\ V\^/A 'are you gar n'f\r Ffr* YQUPICHrt?RT><^ r ~^»fe :v ■4iir3r' I^l JANE Exclusive to ///<> Singapore tree Fress m Malaya la^V^tav'^L I X^
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  • 234 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS Today's track work at K.L. From KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. QNLY locally trained horses worked this morning when official training for the Selangor Turf Club's August-September meeting began. The No. 2 grass track was open. The going was very good. Very few horses were sent
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  • 100 7 decided to contest the Thomas Cup national badminton competition m the The decision was taken at a meeting o f lriia Badminton Association this week India competed mi n the American zone last time losing to Canada. Other countries competing m the Pacific Zone m the
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    35 7 WARMING UP: Members of the all-American musical show "Aqua Parade" rehearse for an act m Buster Crabbe's presentation m London. The American show also features the Olympic high and spring board diving champion, Vicki Draves.
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  • 78 7 AUSTRALIA'S Jack BromM wich and Prank Sedgman (holders) entered the semifinals of the United Stat/s national doubles tennis championship yesterday. They beat Vie Seixas and Herb Flam, the third" seeded pair, 4 6, 6—4. 6—2, 7—5. Seixas suffered a cut over his right eye m the eleventh game
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  • 121 7 The film taken by the Malayan Film Unit of the Johore Grand Prix and other races at that competition will be screened for members of the Singapore Motor Club. The Unit took aboiu 2,500 feet of 34 m/m. film, part of which is being incorporated
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  • 540 7 rPHE following will play for Tn- dian Association m the Singapore Cricket Association senior tournament against S.C.R.C. tomorrow at 11 a.m. on the I.A ground. Lall Singh (capt.), GurdUl Singh, Choor Singh, M. B. Singh, R. Sitharam. L. S. Thivy, Yacoob Madari. Dr. M. Abraham, Dr. Sen
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  • 329 7 COMBINED Europeans might have won their Community League soccer match against last year's champions, Singapore District, if Inglis, their centreforward, had been more accurate with his shots at goal. District won one-nil, but they had to fight their hardest to win. nn A cracking pace was
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    29 7 QUEBEC TENNIS "DARBARA Knapp of Birming- ham (Canada) entered the final of the Canadian women's singles tennis championship at Quebec yesterday defeating Gladys Heldman 8-4, 6-4.— A.P.
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  • 640 7 ANCASHIRE experienced little trouble m gaining their 15th championship success yeste day thanks to a pitch which became a slow bow < i I paradise following sunshine on a pitch damaged I y rain. Roy Tattersall, with his ofT-spinners which he bowled at
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  • 155 7 THE ni^tch between Su., v and Lancashire starting at the Oval on Aii*. V> is likely to have an important benrin? on the declination of the County .inket championship this son. Lancashire, with iluir fine victory over Hampshire yesterday, now have j point lead at the
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    • 31 7 ;/s sport Singapore ReMhlrtic Teams UMh at 3 p.m. K'ia Kaja v Presi I XI :j Rehabilitation n Besar: Business .11 At liey- r. i P.W D. at p m.: < v
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  • 392 8 Ministers to discuss Korea LONDON. Saturday. A COMMON policy on Formosa will be one of the main aims at the meetings of Foreign Ministers to be held next month m New York. The possibility of the Communist actions m Asia being a diversion likely to be
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  • 105 8 Reached her ship despite mishaps SOUTHAMPTON, Fri. WHEN Miss Catherine McMenemy. 39-year-old schoolteacher of Bar^eddie. Lanarkshire, was arried aboard the Queen Mar/ at Southampton, she said: "At last, at last. I though T g never make it." Miss McMenemy was chosen to go to Texas for a year on a
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  • 24 8 The Belgian House of Representatives gave Premier Joseph Pholion's new all Christian Socialist government a 107-to-78 vote of con- fidence yesterday. U.P.
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  • 47 8 MINE-YEAR-OLD Michael Wilkie, son of Mr. L. A. Wilkie, of Santa Barbara, California, is big-game hunting with his parents m East Africa, and ha« killed a wildebeeste and six zebra. Next, the Wilkies are going to India, where Michael hopes to shoot more trophies.
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  • 45 8 Fifty strike lemdera were arrested m Bombay yestortiay after police and itriking textile workers fought at three points m the city I factory area. Some of the 150,000 So-cialist-led striken defied a police ban on meetings and processions m the dlstiict.
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  • 119 8 £I8.OOO— AND HE CANT SPEND IT! LONDON, Friday. jytß. Percy Thompson had bad lock with £18,000 iT1 he won m francs m the Casino at DemnviUe. He had to come to London without it. The French Financial Attache m London said: "We cannot let the money out of France, but
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    19 8 OFF TO COrNCM— Mr Churchill leaving Bi?cin Hill K.A.R. airfield. London, for Strasbourg to attend the Council of Europe.
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  • 239 8 LONDON, Saturday. /COLONEL (ierald Carnegy. 76, returned home from a walk with his two spaniels expecting to find tea on the table. Instead, a shot was fired and he was hit m the left arm. "I wondered what the deuce was Koing on", he told magistrates
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    16 8 I'm (lad to get out of those silly clothes on* hjs to wear at tht seaside
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  • 21 8 Twenty-one-year-old b!ond»\ blue-eyed. Princesi Alix ol Luxembourg yesterday marrim Belgian Pnii<v Antninc de Lignp. 25-year-old air force captain. A.P
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  • 12 8 A cloud of flyinn ants landed amid hottdaymaken at Bo.irn«-iiiu;ith.
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  • 74 8 Seven men, includin a bank rit-rk and a posial official, working free In their spare time cut £A5OO from UM labour cost of a £A1.500 Baptist Clmrch at Beaudeiert 'Queensland*. Part of the job was tIM casting of 3.200 concrete stumps. A 95-year-old woman j who
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  • 34 8 Mr. Louis Johnson. U.S. Defence Secretary, yesterday gave the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a privaie review of the world military situation, including Korea. Chairman Tom Conally described the report as "very encouraging. A.R.
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  • 20 8 Princess Elizabeth and her daughter had another good night yesterday and are continuing their excellent pro- gress.— U.P.
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  • 157 8 Federated Europe advocated STRASBOURG. Sat. SENTIMENT for a more powerful Council of Europe surged at Strasbourg as the European Consultative Assembly discussed its future political makeup. Assured of wide backing on the Assembly floor. Mr. Ronald Mackay. British Labour, urged a series of amendments to the Council statute, which would
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  • 93 8 COLOMBO. Sat tiEYLON'S Public Str j Commission within last few weeks has disr> 9l a further 16 cases of officers found guilty of corruption by the Bribery Commissioner, and has ordered the dismissal of eleven officers In three ease<\ the Commission, on furthur evideoce, has exonerated
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  • 75 8 Hundreds of people, many d! them oveneai visitors. v.«t»- startled i ne bright sunny ulternoon m Piccadilly whrn Eros. London a winged god I love itatue, erupted a sr. of shimmering water from fight dolpmns around the base of the statue. For i he first time
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  • 32 8 Drowned near his fiancee Sidnt v Marcel Gibbs. iwlut- icross the Thames wrh M drowned Chertiey Bridge. Surrey. Many holldaymak Gibbs m difficulties. T jumped m to the rescue ba Gibbs sank.
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  • 24 8 A;i estimated 70.000 v from the general public an Sunday saw exhibits of 47 United States International Trade Fair at Chicaeo.- U.P.
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    • 200 8 iN town TOni AT RAFFLES HOTEL FOR HER FIRST APPEAR/ "ROSALIE THE PERSONALITY WITH CASTILLO'S ORCHESTRA THE BEST DANCE MUSIC THE BRIGHTEST ATMOSPH: BOOK YOUR TV Tomorrow, SUNDAY 20th AU I SPECIAL NASI GORENG r I SERVED IN THE BALL! 12.30 to 230 p.m. MUSIC BY CASTILLO S ORCHESTRA BOOK
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    • 211 8 YOUR LUCKY STAR POKN today, you have a rather imperious and dominating: nature. Still, you are kindly and sympathetic and one to whom others turn for help and advice. You have good business judgment and probibly will be able to make a comfortable living at a number of things. Your
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    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday Maganize Saturday, August 19, 1950.
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    • 243 1 Fisherf oik are contented people v huts may be lop-sided shabby but there -are smil:aces at the windows. MARIAN WELLS n c sur eniei ft huddled white and line palnis k V l^eer aprolk dc they hats r too vlrttora ior xuad ...rr.pang ma* and chillies the salad pase wags
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    • 862 1 IN A little tumble down slunk on the Pampas ;i group oi peons found the bod} of their master, Jose Maril, stockbreeder, rumoured lo Ik- worth more than £i;>O,(M)O. Grazing within railing distance were vast herds; yet Maril had starved to death
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    • 359 1 TT was while 1 was m the worst stage of a cold m the head thiit a small gift of half a dozen dainty handkerchiefs arrived m the mail. Although I was suitably grateful for the delicate wisps of lace ana eambrir that had
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    • 876 2  - That Grable Shimmy: Oh Boy! LAN GRANT WRITES ON FILMS DUE SOON ON SINGAPORE SCREENS. T>ETTY Grable doing the "shimmy" Red Skelton falling downstairs B c t t y throwing tomatoes and lots of abuse at Victor Mature... Red swinging from a roof-top balloon. T use ar»' the comic high
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    • 415 2 BOY TOOK A PEEP AND— 0 lif j November Df m the Nevrn- Enej urchin, ur.--n tticed by tne guards found h.s way into the courtyard of \V:n:is>r Castle. After laßfofi down an open man-hole into a coal cellar, he came upon Queen Victoria's private dining room. The Queen that
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      209 2 CAPlTOl^'Tortrait of Jennie" the Acad.ny-award winning film umh the Magnascrecn and Multi-sound Unit, must not be missed. It is the story of a struggling young painter (Joseph Cotton) who Is inspired to produce a work of art by the haunting spirit of a lovely girl (Jennifer Jones).
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    • 594 2 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IDA LUPINO, one of 1 Hollywood's two women film directors, (Joan Harrison is the other) is making film history by producing movies on a shoe-string budget. The average Hollywood production costs at least £350.000 (The Black Rose.' newest 20th Century epic.
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    • 38 2 Gloria Swanson at the heujht of her fame with Douglas Montgomery m "Music m the Air." Below 15 years later —m 194'J -being greeted by veteran film actor. Edmund Gwenn at a Holy wood party.
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    • 441 2 Fabulous Gloria Returns Jympson Hamum kgtai Holly i glamor c (florid Sum has made come-back "Sunset I SHE began m movies m the same year that Hollywood was born, when she was 15. Charles Chaplin kicked her out of her first part because she would not let him kick her
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    • 299 2 Has Jean Worked TOO Hard? JEAN SIMMONS packed t^'o suitcases and quietly flew away to Rome a few days ago for the first part of a three months" holiday. The nigh; before she is the circle of the Leicester Square Theatre to watch her film, Trio: leeond <H four she
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    • 1149 3  -  ARTHUR HILL Free Press Saturday Short sw, r by \KT Courtland tad aside the i of the hotel room window cred across the it the town Hock which seem(Kit against the ided grey sky of sinal afternoon urned away and the room, woni angrily whether sand would
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    • 762 3 THK aeroplane l<>day is rapidly becoming v maid-of-ail-work. Xot alone is it being used to curry passengers and cargoes to every country m the world, but it is also being called upon lo perform some very unusual tasks It assists work on farms and ranches:
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    • 255 3 (Continued ironi pa^c 1) mer of a carriage lamp they searched for half an hour. Then she pounced on it triumphantly, and her mind at rest, returned to bed. When her son Ned, aged 14, fell and smashed his knee she was too mean to call a
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    • 337 3  - They boost the local product STEPHEN SIM WHETHER it's a U y broom, a basket, or a brush you want, the travelling vendor of miscellaneous goods has the answer With his barrow highly stacked with a variety of household gadgets and utensils, he is a friend of every Malayan housewife.
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    • 187 3  - My unlucky star KLUANGER by 10FTES with Id not been born Beneath the start o f Capricorn. They seem to leave vie all forlorn And terribly neglected. Now people born 'neath Scorpio, They seem to have so viuch more GO' And Hies they lead do not seem so (Blue pencilled)
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    • 1700 4 From casual games to top grade matches THE HISTORY OF WEST INDIAN CRICKET £RICKET had an early start m Hie British West Indies. Many years before Mr. Jingle and Sir Thomas Blaxo staged their famous duel m the Caribbean sun, the summer game was the accepted recreation of the West
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    • 415 4  -  Cova Point By JOHN Pierce is a member of a race heroic m any clime, doubly heroic m Singare. He is a fast bowler. On his day he is probably the fastest bowler m SinsaDore— certainly the fastest m the Sin^ap.'jre Cricket Club though for some
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    • 284 4 RADIO Moscow is telling Russian listeners that American iootball is so •'murderous" that players m Ann Arbor, Mich., "are often carried from the football field straight to the cemetery." Ann Arbor is the home oi the University oi Michigan which turns out top football teams but
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