The Singapore Free Press, 22 August 1950

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA wrwerwer SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. 1950. »"RirE FKN IttNTS.
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  • 112 1 UK COMMANDOS TO FLY OUT Leaving shortly: talk of 'urgency' mioii moment said. c eari > cuspatcn, reason^ of operational secnritv i» i n ando unit to as reol urgen* it wai the anil by rsarded as I I >• a: tnc i X iracn- MI hy Drysdale, the R
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  • 43 1 An empty ricr bowl fwsidr hrr. this abandoned South Korean fM, mud-spattered and hungry, cries fur attention. American soldiers rescued her and took care of her until they found a South Korean family to take care of the waif.
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  • 166 1 Fighting dock wallopers' WITH THE 27TH REGIMENT. TAEGU FRONT, Tuesday. FIVE American "dock-wallopers" from Fusan turned up at »his 27th Regiment command post yesterday and announced that they were tired of unloading: ships and wanted to fiffht. The five men. privates m a quartermaster corps, went absent without leave and
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  • 36 1 An Air Franco DC-3 passenger plane crashed yesterday as it took oft from the airport at Seno, m Lacs, about 350 miles north-west of Saigon. The passengers and crew are reported safe.
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  • 42 1 Thf* body of Mrs. Nora Evelyn Stutchbury. wile ol the District Officer at Bcntong. who was murdered by bandits last week following an ambush, left Singapore by air this morning for Hong Kong. where she will be buried. A.P.
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  • 27 1 Nine fishermen were drowned m a storm last night off the Cape Verde Peninsula m the French West African Colony of Senegal. Reuter
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  • 260 1 NORTH LOSES 15,000 KOREAN FRONT. Tues. fOMMUNIST casualties yesterday soared to possibly 15,0G0 for three days of Korean fighting after their attempts to crack United Nations defence lines were thrown back on all fronts by Allied air and ground attacks. The Reds massed new buildups for possible offensives on the
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  • 84 1 VENICE. Tups. C»IR Laurence Olivier yesterO day was awarded the Silver Ribbon for 1949-50 by a Committee of the 11th Film Festival m Venice as the "director of the best foreign film of the season." The award w.i.s made for Sir Laurence's "Henry V Other foreign
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  • 212 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. pTSSIA failed again m a secret session of the Security Council members yesterday to ffain the admission of North Korean representatives to the United Nations debates on the Korean war. In a 40-minute-closed-door informal session, the West and Yugoslavia rejected flatly a proposal
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  • 27 1 For the fourth time. American longshoremen yesterday refused to handle shipments of Russian goods- this time a cargo of furs aboard the Queen Elizabeth. A.P.
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    12 1 pit- Captain "Turko" Westerling. sitting m the aircraft this morning. Free Press
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  • 108 1 PAPTAIN A. N. Brown, the vQANTAS pilot who brought the London-bound Constellation into Singapore yesterday afternoon, was congratulated on arrival at Kallang airport on becoming the father of a second son. born earlier m the day m Sydney. 'Before driving to Mascot airport, Sydney,
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  • 31 1 A European. Miss Lily Dymand. riding pillion on a motor cycle, was taken to hospital m a jeep with face injuries after falling at Adam Road. Singapore.
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  • 74 1 CALCUTTA, Tues. \RED glow m the sky m the area of last week's earthquake centre m Tibet was reported last night from North Rakhimpur and Sadiya. Geologists m Calcutta believe this means volcanoes have burst forth, mwhlle. reports that the qaake cracked a dam m the
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  • 76 1 IHE CL'NARD Line Queen Elizabeth arrived m New A York dock yesterday after a midnight to early morning tussle with a hurricane, which churned the Atlantic and, passengers said, gave the huge liner "a corkscrew shake," making; walking her decks "like climbing a wall." Members of the
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  • 322 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. JOHN THIESSEN Jr., who left Singapore today with Captain Westerling. served with him m the first and second Dutch police actions m Java as a propagandist. He came to Singapore from the Hague just over two months ago to Rive
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  • 546 1  - Turko flies off —after kippers bacon eggs PETER HILL By DAYMOND Paul Pierre (Turko) Westerling. the broad-shouldered leader of the once fabulou> and now extinct rebel Indonesian Army of the Heavenly Host, flew from Singapore this morning under deportation order. He nearly stayed behind -much to tiv- dtaOMj correspondents of
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  • 77 1 CAPTAIN "Turko" Westerling, is expected to arrive m Holland by air on Thursday from London as a deportee it was learned m official circles at the Hague, yesterday. Captain Westerling will not be handed over to the Indonesian Government as Holland, like other countries,
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  • 52 1 A special Government mediator m Canada worked continuously yesterday m an effort to prevent a nationwide railway strike due for today But 17 Unions. representing 1 24.000 workers, went ahead with itnke preparations and railwav> curtailed freight to prevent spoilage m the eveni of a aloppage
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  • 629 2  - W omen N ear The Battle Zone Adelaide Kerr By NEW YORK: IyOMEN are working for the United Nations today on the fringe of battle zones, m political hot spots, m Jungles, deserts and remote mountain hamlets More than 200 of them are scattered around the globe m jobs that
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  • 440 2  -  IRISH ASHLEY -By VICTOR STIEBEL showed us some becoming clothes recently. His top-coats are much m line with those neen so far, with wide collars and narrow hems. His suits have slimfronted skirts with flat or fan-tail pleats at the back. He makes much use of pleats
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  • 13 2 The 'exit' dress is new, neat and elegant ONE OF ITS FEATURES IS:
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  • 644 2  - Should she Marry Her Boss? Rosemary Elliott By WE are often asked by both employers and employees if marriages between people who work together daily are usually successful. We find that the answer changes from one generation to the next. Twenty or thirty years ago, speaking generally, such a marriage
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 354 2 SOLUTION TO Crossword No. ISO SOLUTION. Arrow: I. Ether. 4. SwHim 7 Bet'y M;ir 1 1 n. 9. Saf. 10. Woll 12. New day. 14. Abuse. 16 Rotter 18. Draw. 20. Teg. 22. After dinner. 23. Elegy. 24. Tfetth. Down: 1. Elbow greaie. 2, Hotel. 3. Ray?;. 4. Skates 5.
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    • 151 2 New Crossword No. 131 C 1.1 KS ACROSS 1. "O come all ye faithful. Joyful and 8 Huniai'. iihootin". and fLshin 1 (5. 6). 9 The carpt-ntfr has no fish <5' 11. Both ships and horsemen may ride here (5> 13. His pupil is m a class by himself t5.)
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  • 520 3 KOREA WAR ENTERS 3rd. MONTH UN gaining the upper hand WITH THE EIGHTH ARMY IN KOREA, Tuesday. HTHE Korean war enters its third hot month on Thursday under battle conditions more favourable to the United Nations forces than at any time since the Communists spilled over the 38th 'Parallel on
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  • 137 3 A FRIEND OF SICK ANIMALS CAIRO. Monday. P U H ir a frail, ffrey-haired Englishwoman b come-N to t.gypt to inspect the work which for fifteen years has been o ne of her main prethe care and welfare of animals He: innual visit to E^ypt is a busy time for
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  • 28 3 Drugs found effective against colds N Mon. •he are a bi tom- at the i vernment oldo m iIM 'rested! :h^i: ezperln 'uce hai :n nendl Jour- U.P.
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  • 12 3 Ar'hur has ::ripr-in-h K( i bo held atrocities A.P.
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  • 76 3 Speed photo will aid the police PHILADELPHIA, Men. DOLICE m Philadelphia will be given at exhibition of ;\v technique ha: may 'v roduce the time required to transmit photons, fingerprin s ana other aacumentt used m poliot work. The process kno'.vn as ed photo" consists of a receiving and sending
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  • 255 3 Care to join motor ride through Africa? PARIS, .Monday. CARAVAN of 80 automobiles will set out this autumn to travel through the heart of Africa. You. too. can probe the wilds of the once-dark continent if you have enough money and time for the trip. The venture is known as
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    69 3 The City of Ottawa, 7,600--ton (gross) cargo and passensrer vessel built by Vickers Armstrong, Walker-on-Tyne. for the Ellerman Lines, pictured here on her trials off the Tyne. Designed to serve on any route to which she's called, the City of Ottawa will make her first voyage to the Far East
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  • 126 3 Parts of 2 ships joined into one GENOA, Mon. 'J'HE prow or one I.iberiy ship wrecked m the Rec Sea. and the stern of another blown m two by a mine oil the Italian coast have been joined m a siant shipyard surgical operation to make a 'super-liberty" shin. The
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  • 61 3 U.K. Customs to get radio cars LONDON. Sat. CARS used by Customs oiTicers m Britain are to be fUted with two-way radio to help m the battle af&inst smugglers. This will link the men on shore with the revenue cutters Vigilant, Valiant and Vincent, patrolling the coast. More than a
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  • 34 3 Th- itudent teacher needs as much help as the beginning pupil, says the Metropolitan School Study Council a group Of superintendents and supervisors of Schoool systems m and around New York. A.P.
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    233 3 Both sjdeg vulQertbie sjuta dealer. The suggested bidding: South Uesi North Eut iy Pats 2? 44 All P*M HERE is a deal to test whether East i S the kind of player ,rhfl Dins hi* fai^ luck or j£S tart into the bidding to £S tne certainty that
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  • 29 3 On<?-hundred and fifty people are belived to have been drowned when a mo cor launch carrying 200 passengers capsized m the swollen Karnafuli River m Upper Bengal.
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  • 16 3 Pravda yesterday reported a concentration of United States troops m the Danube area. A.P.
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  • 81 3 'THROW U.S. OUT THIS MONTH' HONG KONG, Mon. T^HE North Korean Premier. Khn II Sung, has ordered his troops to complete the occupation of all Korea uy the end of August, the Communist New China Agency reported. Kirn said 29,000 American and South Korean troops had been killed, and 40,000
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  • 49 3 Japan's birth rate m May this year dropped to the lowest recorded since the surrender, the Welfare Ministry reported. There was a total of 173.098 births m May which was 85. 000 less than m January rind 30.000 less than May of last year Reuter
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    67 3 One-time American citizen, Junior I'nder -Officer Thomas Arthur Linley, 20, receives from the Duke of Gloucester the King's Medal as the best cadet at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, Surrey, at the Sovereign's Parade. J.U.O. Linley, who was born m America (where his British parents took up United States citizenship) had
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  • 191 3 TRIPOLI, LYBIA. Monday. THE first United Nations experiment m bringing independence to a colonial people is getting a rugged test m North Africa. More than 1,000,000 Arabs once ruled by Mussolini have been promised a free state of Lybia by 1952. The independence plan for
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  • 98 3 TURIN. Mon. YE KILLED HER', shouted a man rushing out I his house. •I ye killed her and this knife drips with hr*r blood." the man bawled. Frightened neighbled the police With v- roar of sirens r truckloads of policemen arrived The man offered Ms
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  • 61 3 Pressure was mounting rapidly at Lake Success for the? United States to innounce KJ "\sdr limt* m the Kurei.i conflict. It already resulted m an exploratory discussion of ;< scheme to put North Kore*. under temporary Uniter tions trusteeship until int elections rould be held
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  • 61 3 Rpo Moors has anntni at Lan< nv. Michigan, I started mass production ot us new 2 X 2 VBO Eagci H<a trui4: lor th^ U S Aiinv. The vehicle is an all-our-)Yj>r, all-veather truck uni^ii Rpo Motor .says will oparvlq normally at temppr«*turei ranging irom
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  • 21 3 Sun spots, telephone blacky out and' new regtrtcttoni Mi aerial travel by war o>rr»\w pondent> Impmtetf and Kor^a U.P.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 273 3 Gmfr\n<\f h For the man who travels many miles tv d r r a day. the Prefect has eyerything he I. The refe ct ls beautifull* diM^ned. needs comfortable seating plenty of I d B c nd v Vr k^T' uT leg room, adjustable driving seat" and I ~™P «>•
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 102 3 SINGAPOPP Week"— Brahms; 5.15 "Commoni»m «^tt Surve y" BBC> 53 V TXVORK) ventures of Captam K ettle"--4: A 1 »1 metres. Matter of Justice'; 600 Indone•na Sintapore sian: News and Programmes M-iaTl Vm i3BC>: 630 New. In Cantonese mn 130 Time 'BBC»; 6.45 Mu«tc 'Jj! Danet Mutic Screen": 7.15 News
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  • 252 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Aug. 22, 1950. Mao and Nehru PANDIT NEHRU is invited to Peking, and it is said that he may accept if he considers that talks with the Chinese Communist Government will contribute to world peace. Meanwhile, what should we m Malaya, with our^ Chinese Communist"
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  • 206 4 INTI-COMMUIST utterances such as ihe.sr 'remember his Singapore blast at the Malayan lerrorlstl have earned Panciit Nehru some vitriolic attacks m Communist newspapers throughout the world newspapers who take their policy lines direct from MOSCOW Yet this dis1. vci'i has not prevented Madame Ban Yat-^en from extending a friendly
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  • 1165 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK. EVERYWHERE I have gone this week people have handed me pamphlets. Jehovah's Witnesses stand at the street corners distributing red. white, and blue strips of paper which say: "Can you live for ever m happiness on earth?" Youths and sirls at Columbus Circle and Grand
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  • 96 4 REPLYING m hus magazine to Dr. Edith Summerskill's statement that fighting with fists and atom bombs is uncivilised," Canon A. W T ellesley Orr, 65-years'-old Vicar of St. Paul's, Kingston Hill. Surrey, agrees about the atorr bomb bit. but thinks the reference to unarmed combat bilge.
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  • 803 4  - Royalty in Exile Leopold Next? J. L. HAYS By J^ING Leopold of Belgium faces the prospect of exile as a result of recent events m his country. How are other Royal exiles faring? Perhaps 27-year-old Peter of Yugoslavia has had the most chequered career. lln was at B pr» -para
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    10 4 A sculpture whetl from the Black Pagoda of Kor Orissa.—U.U.S.
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  • 423 4  - Beyond the Dreams of Livingstone Cecil Hartley By Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, WITHIN a century of their discovery by David Livingstone m 1855, the mile- wide Victoria Falls Africa's greatest natural spectacle will be rivalled by jet-propelled De Havilland Comets using the great new airport here. Natives, tearing the I as
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  • 96 4 Her French won holiday 4 FRENCH bold prupn- has been so surprised at the standard of French among the girls of Wimbledon High School that he has offered a fortnight's holiday at his hotel m Brittany to one of them. Seventeen-year-old Ruth Ellingham. of Leopold Road. Wimbledon. leaves next month
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 15 4 WEDDING GIFTS In SILVER OR E.P.N.S. U S. de SUVA Jewellers *C 6, ORCHARD RD.
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    • 78 4 A dress from Paris Shes just back from leave M I ome heavenly clothes and a lot of new idea her house. She gave a home-corn ng and had the catering done by Cold Storage. I loved the pineapple filled t prawns and made a hog of myself over the
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  • 457 5 THOUSAND APPLY TO BUY HOUSES Alkaff plan to be speeded up Free Press Staff Reporter JN only one month more than 1,000 people m Singapore have applied to buy the 1,400 houses including shops, bungalows and terrace residences which the Sennett Realty Co. Ltd. has provisionally planned for its 170-acre
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  • 112 5 rt Press Staff Reporter Marshal Sir Fian- :.d Lady Mellersh, ad women studems he University of members of the nd other people I audience LvOk B the stage of the a Memorial Theatre with the Rep?-- now appearing «n us Corner." ted finished, and manager John
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  • 45 5 Mr. J. Thivy leaves Mian 500 Indians and IM ><iders of other .esttrday bade ..\n Govt. l m Malaya. Mr. when he sailed re yesterday for :h^ Ruys. -inied by his Mr. Louis Mr? T. r.d her and his Eugene. Theresa. Sa'Dhashini. Mr. Thivy dog.
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  • 35 5 SUICIDE BID BY WOMAN i :an. Kum A Nagapa d ver tn tht* P c Coun iix n nthi lor ->v jumping 2 .•rd r to h ia tr^at»-i! face and court that j >less
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    22 5 V w iih T^ lARSHAL Sir Fran Me»er S h takes a drink «itn actor-manager John Forbes- Sempill on the Repertory stage.
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  • 229 5 Free Press Staff Reporter COMMrNITY cemetery m Thomson Road m which stand the graves of more than 100,000 Singapore Cantonese and Khehs is to be extended because of congestion. LAn Th e burial ground, of 300 acres, is to have 100 acres added to it.
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  • 92 5 T'HE man m the street m Sweden is far more politically conscious than the average person m South East Asia, says Mrs. Brit t a Sten-strom-Rogbertf. a writer and newspaper co: respondent, who is now m Singapore m the course of a six-months tour of this
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  • 211 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent OFFICIALLY there is no objection to the use of Indonesian textbooks m Malay schools m this country. This was stated yesterday by Mr. T. S. Dempsey, Inspector of Schools m Singapore, commenting" on a suggestion by the Penang and Province Wellesley Malay
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  • 114 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE fate of the lake at the former Alkaff Gardens has not been decided yet, said Mr. C. W. A. Sennett yesterday This lake was really a hole m the ground rilled with rain water and breeding mosquitoes, he added. "People would
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  • 137 5 Free Press Staff Reporter RESULTS of Singapore Municipal elections will m future be announced with more ceremony than has been done m the past. The Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Municipal Commissioners has agreed that at the next election m December, thp Returning Officer (Municipal Secretary
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  • 32 5 Chang Kam Loons. SI, of Woodlands Road, was fined $800, or five months imprisonment, m the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for possession of IS lb. of dutiable cigars.
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  • 48 5 Surface mail is expected la Sinßapore today from Java. Hong Kong, China, Japan, the U.S.A.. Siam and the Federation. Latest times for posting surlace mail at the G.P.O. today are: noon for Java, Siam (parcels only); 5.45 p.m. for Siam and 'he Federation; 6 p.m. for Djambi
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  • 54 5 WfOMEN special constables are among the members of Malay forces who take part m the Malay Forces Broadcasting Programme." Picture shows Che Azizah Karim at the microphone singing Malay songs. Two Chinese women special constables also appear m the broadcasts regularly. They are Miss Cecilia Pang
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  • 204 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Chinese students from Britain arrived m Singapore on the Canton last night on their way back to Hong Kong after absence of from two of three years. But unlike the majority oi people returning to Hong Kong and China after such
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  • 228 5 MALA Y FORCES RUN OWN BROADCASTS Free Press Malay Correspondent A "MALAY Forces Broadcasting Programme' 1 relayed once a fortnight by Radio Malaya is proving a success. Run entirely by Malay members of the police and various branches of the military the programme is popular both among members of the
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  • 78 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Labour Department is to prosecute a number of shopkeepers on charges of violating the Weekly Holidays Ordinance which came into force m the Colony last month. Three of these cases, the first under the new Ordinance, will be heard on Aug. 31.
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  • 104 5 KOTA BAHRU. Mon rPHREE Scouters from inn A 6th Scout Troop. Vict< Schoo!. Singapore, are at sent visiting Kelantan. Tncy are the Central District Commissioner Mr. W E. Ni and Rovers Koh Eng Kiat Edward G. Leonard. They have extended their stay here and intend fi
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    43 6 picture. ■/■Of! uniii m? work and devotion *o duty. Major «Miss> B, F. U. M. Jolly. haA week received the Royal Red Cross (Ist class) from the Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson, at an investiture at Government Hoti**. Free Press Kl BBfr.K*
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  • 308 6 Govt. unwilling to give facilities Free Press Staff Reporter THE Education Department and the general public favoured boys' schools to the detriment of jerirls' schools. Miss Mabel Marsh, retiring principal of the Methodist Girls' School, Kuala Lumpur, said today. The Education Department did not appear
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  • 103 6 MALACCA. Mon At a meeting of the Malacca division of UMNO here, the following were elected to the Executive nonunlttce: Inche Sudin bin Abdul Rahman chairman; Inche Jasmi bin Haji Abdul Hamid. vice-ch.iirma.-r Capt Mohrmel Ah Din Maiden Inche Mohamod All bin balleh. secretary Inche Mohamad D.i.i
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  • 112 6 riERE Is a-tragte-nced for the care of animals m the Colony, said Mrs. R. S. demons, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals m a talk at the Y.W.C.A International Fortnightly Club yesterday. She urged people leaving Singapore not to forsake
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  • 104 6 Vf ALAYAN cycle racin;j enthusiasts will have a busy time next month when the Cosmopolitan Cycling Club stages three of the six ->vents which make up their annual Best All-Rounder Open Cycling Competition. The first of the three races to be held next month is a 25-mile
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    45 6 "I had a grand leave and am glad to be back m Sin*a- pore," slid Singapore's Attorney -General, Mr. E. J. Davits, pictured here with Mrs. Davies on their return yesterday on the liner Canton after six months' lea re m Britain. Free Press picture.
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  • 280 6 Bandit morale is shaken Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DROOF that the morale of the bandits is suffering because the police no longer reveal the exact location of bandit activities is contained m a Malayan Communist Party document recently found m Johore, says a Federal Government Press statement
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  • 131 6 KUAI.A LUMPUR. Mon AS a result of a fight between two Malay women. Samad bin Tahir was bound over today by Raja Sulaiman In the First Magistrate's Court. Kuala Lumpur, to be of Rood behaviour for one year with a personal bond of $100, and to
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  • 148 6 I^E man who believes m miracles returned to Singrrpore last night—3s-year-old Australian schoolmaster Mr Basil Phelan, on his way by QEA-BOAC Constellation to his home m Australia after immersion and prayer m the Holy Grotto of Loardes. Although his condition deteriorated during his two weeks m France.
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  • 378 6 [London Stock Exchange] LONDON I ryHE recent advance m British Government slo; was resumed yesterday when fresh institution buying lifted prices by up to three-eighths si Reuter's financial correspondent. All issues were affected but the demand «v mainly for long-dated stocks. Other domestic issues m the
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  • 45 6 IPOH Dr a •fd Kin I ago on a graduate turn«d i a diploma In .ise. H. will i is a blot Oiher 1 arriv«'d by th*» sa the Cant n— a.< I Wfrf Mr 1 AngkM i B ship R
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 194 6 Exclusive Iff th<> Singapore Frpp Press m Maiayo :wa t window sw? tvJi«is| -u: k.nd HB?t~i i I i i rf A'lTifm I• I 111 -JER SQUIRT- DOS.',.\ OF PLACE IS iW^lkV 71 FVCN MORE MAMA AWAKES IN A BEAUTIFUL ROOM- AT A^ ft S/LE^fMALL T H: r? O n
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    • 125 6 SINGAPORE SHIPPING SHIPS m the Singapore Outer and Inn^r Roads and alocgs.de Harbour Board godowns yesirrday were: Outer Roads: Hai Rsuan. Salavali Chip Lam. Tanjer, M. Brander, Natirina. Benreoth. Bela. Avon Venturer. Hai Lee. La Colorada. I man Moor.. Kasho Maru. Hai Inner Roads: Hah dan. Man* m lling Hua.
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    • 96 6 Sor*c:ra 8-9; Radnorshire 6-*7. Ruvs 4-5 fulao Bakooi: Bullina. Pcntoporos. Albert Dork: Stan B"iia*e' Krpprl Pock: KtunUn, Dl Jamtt J Mac^-ire, E. Tescorr.be Martra. Antonia Kinc'a Dock: San Meliio. Fred Clover. I' Stbarok: Dona, Fdes. LaM-Ip Anchorage: Esmera'.d.r i Slang Tr. Balel. Western Anchorage: British Character >hip* »xp*rted Today: Van
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  • 614 7  - MEATH BEST WORKER AT K. LUMPUR ALLAN LEWIS Winning gallop by Jaunty From THFRP Xl ALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. jtifcKE was very little galloping when the No 2 mor\w t£* OPened for fast work here tnis D m a ttA majority of horses were confined to t J" r J he
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  • 64 7 p ICCSTERSHIU collapsed a second time t the spin bowling of Sonny Ramadhin and HfrHi ilentinc at Cheltenham yesterday and West k) mm lnninsjs and 105 runs with a day heir nrst Innings Gloucester. West Indies for 271. but were then Skittled out for P7
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  • 118 7 VV»>, INOIES-IST INN. >io»4inr»ri lhv» laentH-rt U4lr..u M,.rt,m..rr |J Ue-n.., Hjilf* b r,.«k rrrxir«ii v (N n b aillt(rr *i < hn>ium h Mortimi.rr Mut.n h i I .hnvor, t „,n b „o |l X uiunh r »ub r> ...,W ii i i, 1.-I.U til r.owi m,, i „,.o
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  • 30 7 POl LOWING .rr fH I Ruxbv I.t-.igue result Hovers 12 Roch- It Hf)i :.t s 15 Oldh.»:r. WurtOKtoa 8 Working i on Town 24 H \en 0 Reuter
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    52 7 Picture. fPI-. K. SLAOE, ot the W X A(' steps out to a ball flu ring her innings «.f II not out against the W RAF on the Officers' lub ground at Aldershot. The \V R A stored 72 m reply to 147 for 6 (declired) by the \V RAF
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  • 122 7 pRINCE SIMON reported l.imr la-t ueek Mill headed rh» St. I.eger Ifarkrt when th*- f c I s cHed over at the Vie tonClub last night The Dig K- rtuclcy-tred hoi\-e had a h.ilf-«peed spin over a mile ar Newmarket earlier v•• clay and pulled up
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  • 88 7 'T'HE Singapore Swimming Club \*cvp surprisingly beaten 6-4 by the Tiger Swimming Club m their W Polo League 'A' encounter A Haw Par Pool on Suncifl v Wee Hock (S), Sin Ho (2) and Heng Fonu scored for the Tigers and Barry Mitchell and Van
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  • 48 7 A LAST minute equaliser by Ronnie Barth saved Cable ->nd Wtrtkem from defeat when they me', the S.T.E.C. Sports Club m a S.A.F.A. Singapore Business Houses "B game on the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. The O.T.E.C. were leading ■I tht interval by one goal scored by Salim.
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  • 292 7 THE following ties m the Singapore Badminton Association championships will be played off this week-end at the Clerical Union Hall: SATURDAY at 2.30 p.m. Inter-school semi-finals: St. Andrew's v St. Josephs. Tournament Official: Tan Cheng Chia; Umpire: Teo Boon Eng; Referee: Lee Hock San. SATURDAY at
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  • 127 7 SAM BURMISTER, the Jewish heavyweight wrestler, was not a happy man when he left Singapore for Fremantle m the Gorgon yesterday. Said Sam from the gangway a few seconds before the ship pulled away: "You can take it from me buddy. I'm not going to give
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  • 62 7 UISITING Malayan badminton stars. Tan Jin Konjj anjd A. Pirus, won an easy 15-4, 15-1 victory over M. Dukle and W. Dukle of India m the third round of the Cricket Club of India open doubles Badminton Ch impionships. The Indian pair were no match for the
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  • 88 7 'TWENTY -FOUR International IWinMIMII. itprescnting 1-' countries hwve assembled Ur the internationiil marathon swimming race across 'he 21 -mile wide X: gli&h Channel from France to England. They i!. elude six women. If conditions were [afourabie they were 10 embark yesterday evening for Cap Gris Nez. Franci
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  • 129 7 tVJI'R players from Singapore and four from Penang are m the Malayan Chinese side which has been selected to meet the Hong Kong Chinese m the annual inter-port competition for the Ho Ho Cup. The mate!) will be played at the Jalan Besar stadium
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  • 39 7 LEN HUTTON makes a forcing: stroke off Valentine m the fourth and final Test Match at the Oval which the West Indies won by an innings. Hutton scored 202 not out m England's first innings
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  • 495 7 A HAT-TRICK by Trevor Bailey, Essex and England pace bowler, and another quick victory for Lancashire were the features of yesterday's country cricket. Malcolm Hilton and B. Statham shot Leicestershire out for 86 m their second innings yesterday to take Lancashire a step nearer the championship
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  • 80 7 A CRICKET match between Raffles Institution and a team representing English boys who are spending their school holidays m Singapore will take place tomorrow on the Raffles Institution ground, at 2 p.m. The following will represent Raffles: R. Sandosham. G. Krishnan, Chin Yook Fook
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  • 52 7 SOCCER: Boys' Club Final (replay), Prince Edward Boys Club Katong Boys at S.R.C. padang 5 p.m. Jnr. Cup-tie: SJM.S.W.V. v Indians R'C. "A" at Geylang; Bu»ine» Use. A: Tijct Standard v Malayan Airwkys at Police Depot. FrieijdjV: KiW Mcmberj League v Y.M.OIA at VMSm j TENNIS; Tanelin Club
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  • 190 7 Ames certain to lead C 'wealth I ESLIE Ames said yesterday that it is almost certain that he will be able to accept the Invitation to captain the Commonwealth cricket touring side m India this winter He was sseffln Derby where he is raptainine the Kent team against Derbyshire by
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  • 72 7 pOLLOWING are the results of English League football matches played yc*terda> FIRST DIV»SIOX Aston Villa S Sunderland I Blackpool 1 Rurnley 2 Sheffield Wedn. 2 Portsmouth SECOND DIVISION Blackburn 3 Brentford 2 Chesterfield 2 Grimsbv 2 Coventry 1 Leeds 0 THIRD DIVISION SOI TH Millwall I Southend
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  • 45 8 HARKIES: On the 19th August, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Singapore, to Peggy, wife of Dr. J R. Harries, a son. TO JOY HINDMARSH (nee Berry >. wife of J. H. Hindmarsh. Police. a son John Hamilton, at the Bungsar Ho^- XL on Sunday. Aug. 20th.
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  • 24 8 THE engagement is announced Arthur Denis Farrell, r» Counsel. Singapore, ani (>r. ibeth. cau?h?er of Commandei lira. B. V. of X r.<ir.ij on.
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  • 17 8 APniSON-BURNETT At Kota n 19th August, between 1 Addison. Malayan I Berriee and Olive Domett. Tr-en^anu.
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  • 28 8 LRAGHER: Leslie raragner 1 suddenly at his residence. ing Read. Kuai., Lumpur, on 'ay morning. The funeral pi ice m M ndaj afternoon 3t Cheras Road Cemetery.
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  • 29 8 MR MRS. LESLIE CHE. AM 1 k all friend and relatives for r very kind wishes and pr"--on" the occasion of trnir kft on 12th August. 195 U.
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  • 483 8 COLD WAR ON IRAN FRONTIER Guards and barbed wire JULFA, Iran. Tuesday. TWO bored looking Soviet soldiers lounge under a red metal sunshade to ease the impact of the simmering mid-summer heat. A hundred yards away, at the near end of the little white bridge, an Iranian sentry wearing an
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  • 227 8 PARIS. Tuesday. FRIENDS and in-laws were busy drinking wine. "It's a lovely wedding -the bride and bridegroom are so very much m love." they murmured happily. Nearby at the wedding reception m Chaucon. France, the twenty-three-year-old bridegroom and his nineteen-year-old wife kissed each other. Satluenly the bride
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  • 73 8 TEHERAN. Tues. DR. Seyed Hassan Imami. 'Lnam Jomah>. one of the famous religious leaders of Islam m Iran and also pastor of the Shah Mosque m Teheran, was slashed with a razor blade last ni?ht while entering his ca r at the mosqup's door. The as*«ilant h^nHH
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  • 45 8 More than 1.000 natives ol Fort Lamy m Frenrh Equatorial Africa, found .homselves homeless yesterday when over 250 mud houses melted away under unexpectedly heavy rain. The heaviest rain for 12 years fell m the area, riakin»> the desert bloom.- A.P.
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  • 22 8 Yesterday's quotations on the Hons Kong Money Exchange were: HK56.35 per U.S. dollar. HK515.60 per pound sterling HK1302 peFTaerorgom^- U.P.
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  • 19 8 Britain has protested to Egypt against the Introduction of additional restrictions on ships passing through the Suez Canal. Reuter
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  • 80 8 JAKARTA. Tues. PRESIDENT Soekarno last night asked Mohammed Natzir, a leader of the Muslim party, Masjumi, to form the new Republic s Cabinet. Natzir. who is chairman of his party's Steering Committee, replied that he would have to consult other Masjumi officials before doin« so. His selection
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  • 29 8 Dr. Hjalmar Seharht. Hitler's former financial wizard, went on trial at Luen^burg (Germany) yesterday for the fifth time on charges that lie was a Nazi. A.P.
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  • 25 8 One of the biggest hydroelectric stations m the world is to be built on the Volga within the next live years.— A.P.
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  • 106 8 King Ananda: the last witness BANGKOK. Tues. THE Siamese Criminal Court inquiring Into the death Of the late King Ananda Mahidol has received permission to proceed to Switzerland to hear the testimony of the Princess Mother. The Princess Mother is the last of about 200 witnesses called for evidence m
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  • 112 8 LONDON. Tuesday. \IITZI is to have a home of her own provided she A does not become a mother. The housing committee at Cheadle. Staffordshire, has given permission for the home to be built. said the chairman. Councillor John Byatt: 'Can you
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  • 27 8 Tribal lauding m tnr United Nations trust t territory of Italian Somallland has resulted In more than 20C deaths m pitched battles.— A.P.
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  • 43 8 THERE will be some delay before the 22.000 volunteer* New York has recruited for civil defence go to work. They must all pass a loyalty test, swearing that th*r never belonged to any of the 1"5 groups called subversive
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  • 202 8 DIRHAM, Tuesday pRED NEVISON, 65, who has fished the River Tees 1 since he was a boy, stood on* a bridge with members of the Barnard Castle Angling Club. Co. Durham, England, and watched a four-mile funeral procession of fish floating seawards. For twenty years, with
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  • 30 8 Thn Church of England yesJay rejected an appeal for peace" issued by the rhurch men m the Soviet Union on ground* that 1? might lead to nppeasemfm. U.P.
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  • 75 8 After a military ball at Gofforth, Northumberland. QMS. Greenwood w.is found hiding m ihe boot of the car belonging to Gener.il Lockhari, G.O.C. No. 5 A A Group. It was stated at a Newcastle court-martial that he rode to the ball m the car. but
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  • 17 8 Mrs. Martha James, 71, was gaoled yesterday m London on a burglary charge. A.P.
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    42 8 aiiu i i x s»**a plane hrou alongside the I' Baton b> Willian Newton, an IbmHi on ho-ir«« If. ent occurred v h»«n was m the Atl.ifrom N>h Ih said to h«ve Mi < Jan Cwiklinski thai I hi> bearings and r.tr. fuel
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  • 15 8 A.mcd Sa; police have cthan 1.000 people a: day swoop ground ruerl Reuter
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