The Singapore Free Press, 28 August 1950

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 17.872. SINGAPORE. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS,
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    Reds 4 miles from Pohang
    247 1 Reds 4 miles from Pohang I£ KIN FORCED North Korean 'ommunists thrust to within four miles west and six miles northwest of Pohang yesterday in a lull-scale attack on the eastern flank of the United Nations line in Korea. Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters late yesterday said that the enemy was beinjj
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    TOUGH JOB FOR U.K. TROOPS
    365 1  -  SEFTON DELMER rnve today: Reds stavt big 1)11 <:h From U'HFN the main bodv of KritUh a u Monday. rover of the eeK-end. buniN yet the :r.v have successfully i ked, first along the inyong axis: :idly. on the east, and thirdly they a*Wk:ns a?ain
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    62 1 A long journey lies ahead for these two Irish settlers consigned to Australia by their master. .Mr. L. Vm Frost at present in the Red North China port ot Tientsin. The dogs are in the Breconshire which arrived at Singapore yesterday from the Red ports of Dairen. Taku Bar and
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    NEXT MOVE UP TO SOVIET
    254 1 NEXT MOVE UP TO SOVIET WASHINGTON, Mon. ITS. State Department officials yesterday said they believed that the Korean struggle had now entered a critical period in which the Kremlin must disclose its real intentions for the future. Diplomat* say 'hat the significance of the stiffening battlefront If that the Russians
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    Amy going to Australia on sick leave
    107 1 MISS AMY Laycock. Progressive Party Municipal Commissioner for East Ward, will fly to Australia tomorrow for further medical treatment. She experts to return to Singapore at the beginning of next year. Miss Laycock recently went down with tuberculosis and was granted leave of
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    ARMY TAKES OVER
    34 1 The U.S. oimy took over control of the nation's railroad yesterday and the two unions which had set a strike for today renewed their pledge 1o keep the trains rolling. U.P.
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    60 1 The small tiger which was said to have roamed about Ponggol for about three days last week has been seen in Pulau Übin again, according to Dato C. J. Paglar. Dato Paglar, who turned out a small hunting party for the tiger on Thursday, took the above picture of the
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    HEDY LOSES U.S. $250,000 IN JEWELE
    99 1 HEDY LOSES U.S. $250,000 IN JEWELE NEW YORK. Mon. TWO detectives yesterday said that they tried in vain to interview film actress Hedy Lamarr about the disappearance of U*****,000 worth of her jewels from a New York hotel. The detectives said they talked to Miss Lamarr by telephone, then travelled
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    LOVERS FLEE TO THE HILLS
    306 1 HI:KACLION, Monday. A BEAUTIFUL 19-year-old Cretan girl yesterday defied th? consequences of a bloody hundred-year-old feud to stay with her lover on Mount Isa— legendary birthplace of Zeus and Jupiter. Tassoula Petracojfeorgi. daughter of a Liberal Party M.P.. was abducted five days ago from the
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    PROFESSOR LEAVES
    29 1 Prof. A. V. Stephens of the University of Sydney, left Singapore for Ottawa by Qantas Airways this morning to attend the British Commonwealtn conference on aeronautical research.
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    PENANG BOMB
    27 1 Last night In Georgetown. Penang, a home-mack bomb exploded Inside a public telephone call box. Only slight damage was caused and no one was hurt.
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    Ex-PoWs want compensation
    71 1 BIRMINGHAM, Mon. [RELEGATES from ex prisoner of war organisations all over Britain yesterday set up a National Committee to lead a campaign for compensation from the Germans and Japanese. The Committee will represent over 100.000 men who were in German or Japaneseprison camps. Speakers said they wanted
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    Water on black market
    81 1 A pitcher of water brought 325 lire or $1 50 (Malayan) on the blick market yesterday at Argento and half a dozen other townships on the southern coast of Sicily. Nobody asked even if the water was polluted. An estimated *****0 inhabitants of the coast between
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    'Atom victory would create new problems'
    266 1 'Atom victory would create new problems M* p.,,- WASHINGTON, Mondav. R. Philhp Jessup, a high U.S. State Department spokesman and one of the most trusted advis< i of the IT.S Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Iffccmi said yesterday that if the United States opened wir and knocked out Russia with
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    BOMB IN WIFE'S FLAT
    54 1 A BOMB explosion in a Durban flat was described by Mrs. Eileen Minnie Goetzep. when h**r ex-P husband appeared on char of attempted murder. Mrs. Goetzee said a 'black sizzling object" was thrown into her room by h» j r husband after he had been refitted
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    'Wrong' horse was placed at K.L races
    129 1 'Wrong' horse was placed at K.L races |f ANY K iftla Lumpur iareuoers left the raeecounc on Saturday under the lmpretfkNl that Pegasus bad hnish-.'d third in th^ seven race. Prgasus nuinbrr WMs pt>stf'd as thr third horse bill although the mistake was rectified, the semaphore in the rent re
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    STOP PRESS
    70 1 .\fw i inn < .*rw^ ngr ii MM brnad«<»t fr.»:n Ppkin: toda.v said that the Cliin«*>* CNMMnU dim rximr'il had protested to the Amran <iovprninrnt Ul%| eritiii plair > h:«d JuMlirJ installations in >1 ••>; Ituri i >estfida\ A <>|HikeMinn Im t 1 W%t Bm| Air lon in
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    Power from the Moon
    398 2  - Power from the Moon PATRICK NICHOLSON O_ r rpHE romantic dream of making the moon work for man may soon come true and provide cheap power even more quickly and more slickly than atomicenergy. The immense power of the Atlantic tides on Canada's coast could be harnessed to make the
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    Pay-as-you —murder
    150 2 Pay-as-you murder MURDERS are on the Increase in Tokyo, and one of the reasons seems to b»ihat murder can be made to pay at a standard »ate of 4:50 a corpse. Police revealed this recently when they arrested a?2-year-old criminal who confessed that lie had agreed to kill a wealthy
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    .....AROUND TOWN
    1070 2  -  JEANNE By iy|R. F. Wakkerman, who told a reporter the other day that he could tell a person's character by the way the heels of his or her shoes were worn down, has caused me a lot of trouble. My heels wear down differently, and according to Mr.
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    11 2 I t xamplei models- m-a-ylitss-bottU' oil riftr at a London exhtUi-
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    'Lost City', Found
    181 2 ATLANTIS, the Lod Cltjr that |g constantly b<ii I erroneously being "found" has been discovered auairi and this time iomewl»'te onder the North Sea. The North Sea theory is held by 10 German sciential \*ho have just set out in 150-ton schooner to try an, l prove
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      40 2 JT FEDERATION 1L \OF MALAYA j TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 1950 Copies nui\ be obtained from The Straits Times Press Ltd, Cecil Street, Singapore, or from our Branch Offices in Kuala L Lumpur, lpoh or Penang PRICE $1.50 PER COPY Including Postage)
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    GHOST GAVE HIM A BLACK EYE
    287 3 GHOST GAVE HIM A BLACK EYE The haunting of Mr. Dalton m«R r°? T J F UZABETH South Af »ca. Sunday. ill B J- Dalton. of Oudtshoorn, has a black eye, strangle-marks on his neck, a broken-down Jjrry, an empty pocket and a deep grudge against his assailant— a ghost.
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    43 3 photo. v >n of Ntm York, reached the Polish ia UUi plan- (t!>i>> 100 miles off the coast of I'nited Stales. Newton u> lakev aboard toother > pl.mo but ut S;>«-h^'nntnn he w:i s taken off >pe(ial Bran. -h ortuers of Scotland Yard A.P.
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    VETERANS FOR KOREA
    122 3 SYDNEY. Sunday. •HI W/\< S «»f A istraliu un d New Zealand who will fi?ht i!i Korea will be almost entirely battleretenun of World War 11. Zt-aianders will provide the artillery leni of the Anzac force and the Australians ind o:her supporting units. Aastrav m Zealand decided
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    Yemen names first envoy
    74 3 r'dE forbidden Kingdom cf Yemen has announced the appointment I t its nrs: Minister to the outside world. The Ministers of Statf. M' hammed Ibn Abdullah Emiri and Hassan Ibn Ibrahim, told the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohammed Salah Eddin. that All Moayed has been named Yemen's
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    21 3 Eleven representatives of Japanese labour and butoa have be^un a uvo-moi.' 1 study of U.S. labour man a ment policies- A.P.
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    U.S. strike off
    37 3 United States railwayman have decided to call oil their strike after President Truman had ordered seizure of the railways to avoid nation-wide paralysis. The Unions said they would "gladly" work fur the Government. Reuter
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    52 3 photo Norili Koreans >-»ri<"«*>» their ferrying «v and scramble for the shor»* of the river at the approach of a low-flying jet plane. A partially camouflaged truck was bein* ferried towards the front on the raft because of knocked-out bridges. The pictcre was made from an unarmed U.S. reconnaissance plane.
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    U.S. COMPENSATION
    18 3 States is to < to Portugal to ted by Ame- Macao. Portu- in Kwansi;r;r? the las' Reuter
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    16 3 .'.ill sup:>ly force of about i mport the in- which BriA ralia are jointi Korea. A.P.
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    Great 'mock' air victory over Europe
    96 3 FONTAINBLEAU. Sun. yyESTERN Union fighter planes intercepted and beat back heavy mock bomber attacks on half a dozen French. Belgian and Dutch cities in the initial encounters of the biggest aerial manoeuvres in continental history. The Royal Air Force and U.S. Air Force bombers
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    Britain had more visitors
    60 3 Tourists flocked to Brit lin in record numbers duriug July despite the Korean war, it has been announced. Foreign visitors during July totalled 93.7568. Sir Alexander Maxwell, Chairman of the Brittta Travel and Holiday Association, said the figure was 30 percent above the nrewar average for
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    'Call up doctors'
    33 3 Tile United States Secretary of Defence, Mr. Louis Johnson, has asked Confer permission to conscript doctors and dentists up to and including those aged 45 for the Armed Services. Reuter
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    APPEAL DENOUNCED
    35 3 The United States Hiun I Commissioner at Frankfu'L. Mr. McCloy has denounced the Stockholm Ptace Appeal as "completely hypocritical" and said that the only really aggressive force in the world was Russia. U.P.
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    Bridge Hands
    250 3 1 >pening wouldn M South the uuacc for hi» slam. opened the "safe" South won with the ting, cash* •nd iack of spader low club If West DM club ac- two 'ear 1 dummy's Kins-queen givan «>oum Ivo rlutos three diamonds, si* spades and heart. But it was
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    U.S. Army to have seventeen divisions
    286 3 WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE impact of the Korean war and the rearmament programme will ?ive the United States 11 Armv diyisions. a fleet which will include p carriers of various types in operation and an air force of 69 fr U That outline of the
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    U.K. Denies Red charges
    81 3 LONDON. Sun. A FOREIGN Office spokesman yesterday denied allegations made by General Yeh Chien-ying, Communist Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, that aircraft and a British warship had intruded on Chinese sovereignty. 'There ha* been no flying of aircraft ever Chinese territory." he said. 'The destroyer
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    19 3 Milan's famous La Scala Theatre Orchestra and choir .viil take part in the Ldniburgh Muglo F«*ttval this week.- A.P.
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    Unemployemnt increase in 11 countries
    83 3 Unemployemnt increase in 11 countries GENEVA, Sun. JJNEMPLOYMENT was iii^her this year than during the corresponding period last year in 11 of the 19 countries for which the International Labour Office receives figures, it has been announced. The countries where unemployment increase:! .'urins the period under review were Canada, Britain,
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    28 3 Sixty-four students from 25 foreign countries will take a 2.500-mile tour of the United States next month to got a "feeling of the American way of life". A.P.
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    New view of jungle law
    210 3 NEW BRUNSWICK. New Jersey, Sunday. IS THE LAW of the jungle to kill or to be killed? No, says a scientist. Instead the law seems to be cooperation. And. he adds, "man is born for co-operation, not for competition or conflict. This is a basic
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    Priest forbidden to teach
    61 3 Dr. Charles James Wright, Anglican priest who attacked the church of England's dogma on the Virgin Birth, is to be stopped fruni teacnin? theological students on orders from Dr. Geoffery Fisher. Archbishop of Cunerbury. Dr. Wright has said that "few Christian scholars have any confidence that
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    N. GUINEA VISIT
    31 3 Thf Dutch destroyer Kortenaor. now on its way back to Holland from Sourabaya naval base in Eastern Java, Will call at New Guinea ports on the voyage. Reutrr
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    U.S. LOAN TO SPAIN
    29 3 The U.S House of Representatives has approved a US $62,500,000 < £22.320.000 > loan to Spain in a rebuff to President Truman and the State Department. A.P.
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    COURT URGED FOR EUROPE
    44 3 The European Consultative Assembly at Strasbourg has voted unanimous support for a European Supreme Court to enforce a bill of human rights in member stairs The vote, on a roil ra!l ballot, was in favour. There were no abstentions. A.P.
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    REFUELLING BASES TO THE MOON
    132 3 LONDON, Sun A RTIFICIAL moons" some day bo usori television, with fuel itlti tn* thrown in The British Interplanetary Society says it has model* u( rocket ships, which will b-» used as way it at tons for tr ;;s to the moon itsolf "Grou;K of
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    NEW NAME FOR ARMY RANK
    60 3 South Africa'f Department of Defence has announo-d ibat kbe Union Army rank of "lifLH 'nant-j-oloii^l' i* be replaced by Hurt ♦< M comniandant. n Tnis ruling is retarded at another st^p in tltf Malari Korernmeiit policy 01 b me with Rrjtisli ♦r*^ •Commandant" vaj a
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    PORT SHUNS REDS
    32 3 The New York Dirri Council of the International Longshoremen s Aanrii ha.s announori rh»l men v.oukt no lon?ei unloii or load Soviet i New York p >r A. P.
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    Gardener's paradise
    55 3 AUSTRALIA'S first tea plantation hi> been %tjr^d in thi* highlands of New Guinea by Mr. R. M. Williams. who tTins the highlands "a gardener paradise." Several arr*»s of tea bashes have b^en prunrd hark bt Mr. Williams' staff so that experiments with merhani il pic kin- ran W
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    EX-PRINCE GETS RED SUPPORT
    282 3 BELGRADE, Sunday. A MAN who might have been a king pedals his bicycle through the drab streets of Yugoslavia's capital— lean, gaunt and listless, almost forgotten by the world which once knew him as the country's "red prince." He is Prince George, now 63-year-old, elder brother
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    64 3 photo. Sweden's r.;i.;-tv-two-year-old King (iustaf (centre, head of table) seen during a Summer meeting of his council at Solliden. the King's castle on Oland Island when they granted funds for the Swedish Ambulance unit leaving for Korea. Clockwise around table Per-Edvin Skold. Minister without Portfolio: Josef Weijne. Minister of Education:
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 28, 1950. Another fable
    515 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 28, 1950. Another fable ALEXANDER Chakov- j sky is Russian journalist, and a good one. What he wrote i last week-end deserves to be widely read, not in the Soviet Union alone but also in the freedom-loving nations uf the world Unfortunately for Chakovsky.
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    Hundreds Join Malayan Police
    1376 4  -  Hall Romney London Letter by DECRUITING for the Malayan police force is going ahead well, I learn from the Colonial Office. The statement means little in terms of numbers, but an official spokesman told me: "We shall get all the men required, and you can say
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    What They Are Saying On Korea
    661 4 Correspondents report on the reactions of the Man-in-t he -Street in the U.S. France and Germany. MERICA today is a land of shattered illusions. For two years everyone has known that the cold war might flare into a shooting war, but everyone remained optimistically
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    'Insult to Catholics'
    183 4 Letter to the Editor A LLOW me u> poini -jut that the absence ol final' quote marks in your report of the sermon allegedly delivered at. St. Andrew'! Anglican Cathedral. Singapore, on Sunday by the Rev. Kinross Nicholson, makes it impossible to know just how much of
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    UNREST IN THE PACIFIC
    289 4  -  ALAN HARDCASTLE IN the Pacilic the British Commonwealth is at present faced by a thousand pin-pricks which while not great in themselves, are symptomatic of large-scale unrest. While the war in Korea casts a shadow over Britain's Pacific territories generally, there are other shadows no less
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    TAX-DODGERS REPORTED TO GOVT.
    208 5 TAX- DODGERS REPORTED TO GOVT. But information is 'vague wat L ree Press Sta ff Reporter H t»hL s< J? le the is vague Mr D H^Tudor^Comptroller of Income Tax, toldTthe Free Press yesterday. He appealed to. the public ior "real evidence" when they give information of persons evading taxation
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    44 5 te R. H. M. Achmad, former chief of the Chinese Desk at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, pictured on board the Oranje last night. Mr. Achrrad is on his way to The Hague to be First Secretary in the Indonesian Hi?h Commissioner's offii-e.
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    Assessment proposal welcomed
    169 5 Kree Press Staff Reporter PROPOSAL, approved by a committee of Singai Municipal Commissiono exempt from assessot the properties of welbodies is warmly welby the Young Men's stian Association. Rowland Lyne. general \irv of the Y.M.C.A.. said erdag that the Y MCA In the past been crippled ent,
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    Move to ban child weddings
    56 5 JJOTICE of a Bill to nullify nantelM between persons either of whom is under the of 16 will be piven at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council by John Laycock 'MuMcipa-NorTh-East- .intr in the proposed Bill will affect any marriage mnised or contracted
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    MAIL
    57 5 Surface mail is expected In Singapore today from Great Britain. N. Ireland. Eire. Europe. North and West Africa. West Indies. Egypt. Ceylon, and the Federation. Latest times for posting surfnce mail at the G.P.O. today are: noon for Medan: 5.45 p.m. for the Federation: 6 p.m. for Kelantan <
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    Onn resumes leadership of UMNO
    96 5 Onn resumes leadership of UMNO Free Prej>s Staff Reporter DY 66 votes to three, Dato Onn bin Jaafar was elected president of the United Malays National Organisation at its fifth annual assembly at Kuala Kangsar, Perak, yesterday. Dato Onn resigned the presidency in June after criticism" of his leadership and
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    PLAYFUL 'GHOST' HAUNTS HAJI
    206 5 PLA YFUL 'GHOST' HAUNTS HAJI Free Press Malay Correspondent A GHOST is running amok In Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Utusan Melayu reports. At present he is haunting a small shop in Jalan Besar owned by a Malay. Haji Abdullah bin Yacob. Ihe ghost visited Haji Abdullahl shop on Aug. 15 anc
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    28 5 picture. MALAYALEES in Stafapcra < i Urotnl their Onam festival with spor^ sn dcoinpi'titions in New World Park. Picture shows women taking: part in the memory test. Free Press
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    AID FOR COLONIAL TRADE UNIONS
    309 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rr»HE International Commit--1 tee of the Federation of Trade Unions estimates that help to colonial trade union organisations will rost them £37,000. This figure Is for development in the next two years with the inclusion of £10,000 for follow-up visits maintenance
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    THEY GOT THEIR WISH
    41 5 picture. CARRYING banners and slogans, 2,000 Perak Malays marched in procession in Kuala Kangsar yesterday to call for the return of Dato Onn to the leadership of t'MNO. Picture shows a section of the demonstrators. Free Press
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    Urgent need for girls' hostel
    387 5 Free Press Staff Reporter (SUBSTANTIAL progress has been made in all the Singapore Social Welfare Departments projects for this year under its Five-Year Plan, with the exception of the building programmes which are "behind to a certain extent." The Secretary for Social Welfare Mr r
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    S.M.C. CHIEF MAY GET MORE POWERS
    372 5 S.M.C. CHIEF MAY GET MORE PO WERS Free Press Staff Reporter £O that there will be no unnecessary delays in dealing with routine administration. Singapore Municipal Commissioners are considering how thev may delegate certain of their powers to the Municipal President and to the various standing committees. Such delegation of
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    28 5 picture. |U|H Low Poh San and Mi->s Jenny Qurk. who won the 1950 Singapore Professional Dance hampionsh p at the Victoria Memnn .1 Hall last night Free Press
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    Dance contest winners
    133 5 Free Press Stall Reporter MR Lew Poh San an; Jennv Quek I Championship cup tdwr. Mr. K.L. Lim at last ni-i 1950 Singapore Profo Dance Competition and I held by the Singapore A- ciation of Teachers of T ing at the Victoria II Hall. Datin Paclar present*
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    Why I have decided to come back
    1275 6  -  JOE LOUIS By IT hasn't been easy, making up my mind to fight again. It isn't something I told myself to do easy like. I thought a lot about fighting once more or twice, and I decided it was more than Just me
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    MEN OF KENT ARE SOCCER-CRAZY
    402 6  -  ARCHIE QUICK By I HAVE seen mass hysteria at llampden Interna--1 tionals. Wembley Cup Finals and "Lolal Derbies", but I have sern nothing to equal what is going on at Gillingham. On either side of the River Medway the Men of Kent and Kentish Men
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    Saturday's K.L. races reviewed
    1668 6  - Saturday's K.L. races reviewed ALLAN LEWIS Bv KUALA UMPiu v SATURDAY'S racing started in briffcl but after the fifth rare heaw rain foil running track resembled a miniat^urp With only 20 entries Irom a I prospects of Kuala Lumpur trainers d bright, against the formidable outs: brought here for the
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      164 6 Inclusive to the Singapore irov Pn>s in Malava ■f-^-JtJ THUS B£GM TH§ Ofi V?£J WINNER, WCWPIO F*OU mn\ I "<OU MEAN.I' NO JOKE.MISS.MA JAr 3BAUTY CONTEST- HQM£ f ISNA*vAJ*. CAN'TEVE* TAKES HIS COLLECTING TH£STORY. 'AYITWOUS liK^rT^^^l^U~?7u^' LEAVE THIS HOBBY MOST WBCTONEMT™ fA tARTH. I'LL PICKj m Jt Yf I vTTlTs^g^/
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    Further heavy rain at K.L.
    205 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS From M ALA 1 IMPIK, Mondav y\ h -rses took advantage of the No. > srassbeinz I for fast work this morning. Heavy rain rdav kept the tracks heavy ic iTulloh) was the only horse to make \e covered hulf-a-mile in 57J seconds
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    Price's 57 feature of Cup cricket
    120 7 Price's 57 feature of Cup cricket m t acc :iteri the P.' i 0 Prices^ ined a n the as He runs, f off idin r i wn di a steaiiy 27 ed to be d I breezy uho helped 0 was i km il during hree two is ind
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    Rugby Lge. results
    64 7 Rugby Lge. results L [NG are results of 1 in the Rugby vm(j nn Saturday. Whitehaven 3. in Leeds 25. V Leigh 13 t Barrow 7 Stanley 2. St. I Huddersnvld 25 Rochdale Hornets v rthern 4. Warrd 16. Belle Vue K.ngston Rov. 13. 20. Hull 4. 44 York 2
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    M.C.FA. WERE MASTERS AFTER 30 MINUTES
    781 7 M.C.FA. WERE MASTERS AFTER 30 MINUTES Hong Kong go down three-two [•HE Hong Kong Chinese with the inclusion of m k! X u players from the crack Sing Tao team, th xi V aVe ad visions of an easy victory over i u in their Ho Ho Cup soccer 1
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    5 7 Ku ilt l.umpur on Saturday
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    Ismail b. Marjan gives walkover
    524 7  -  VETERAN BADMINTON By TPHE men's open singles championship of Singapore was sent off to a mild start over the week-end. Eight ties were decided. There were no upsets and the standard of play was mediocre. A keen tussle expected between Ismail bin Marjan (Bournemouth) and
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    IRISH LEAGUE
    34 7 FALLOWING are results of r matches In the Irish League: Ards 1. Coleraine 3: Berry City 2. Bangor 4: LinfiHd 1 Glentoran 1: Crusader.s 2 Portadown 1; Glenavon 5 Cliftonville I.- Reuter
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    All the weights for Wednesday
    337 7 l-roin Our Staff Con espondfiit K I.I.MHK. Sun. FOLLOWING are thr wrighls for all nine laces^on Wedn*sda>. serond dav of the Selangor Turf Club's Auk- September meeting. CL. 4. DIV. 1 '.'<F Sunn> alley 9.00 Garnfair 8.11 Pilgrim-i Way 8.09 Boleh Jadi B. OK Kentucky
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    GOALMOUTH SCRAMBLE
    25 7 GOALMOUTH SCRAMBLE picturr. A SCRAMBLE in front of the Hong Kong goal during yesterday's Ho Ho Cup soccer matth at Jalan Besar stadium. Free Press
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    Aussies rout U.S. in Davis Cup
    202 7 Aussies rout U.S. in Davis Cup i TOM BROWN, Jr., put on a terrific rally on Sunday io j overcome Ken McGregor of j Australia 9-11. 8-10. 11-9, 6-1. j 6-4 in the last Davis Cud match and make the fin.il j scor e four to one matches in favour
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    MIDDLESEX 228 FOR 4 v W.INDIES
    159 7 y Mind < i.tury by Kntertaan, Middi opening Outsmen. feah'i'.d play fettWKSI -hx and ihe West Inai^s nlfkm toaristi 3t Lords 01 li V. »l -on, in determined :han aggressive mocr, n;nd« 105 in nearly f:>ur it 12 fours. By lose oi play Midc-
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    Malayans in semi-final
    90 7 I^HE MALAYAN i*air. T-r Jin Eong and A. P;r won their way to the i finals of the mm* doub: the Cricket Club of India championships yesterday. beating H. Per* :ra. India's No. 3. and K. M Rangnekar, 15-6. 15-2 The Malayans gav. thi ponents six points
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      40 7 Today's sport MX TF.R: R.A.F. Seletar Tigers S.A. at Jalan Besar stadium Hum new H«»u*e A: Hong Kong Bank v Sime Darby at Gevtang; Malayan Publishing Hse. r Shell at 8.0.P.: Bu^. Hse B: Gathrie S.C. v Overseas (hine»« Bank.
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    BIRTHS
    32 8 JACK— On August 26th 1950. to Lilian > P J.^ck son RITCRTE: To Enith, wife cf lie, a daughter. MarI e ai Bitj Gajah Hos- on Mtb Maj., 1950. A for Ahm.
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    ENGAGEMENTS
    11 8 THE enga'-zer-.pnt is announced ..ild John Charles >ir.d Elspeth Jones.
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    MARRIAGES
    77 8 THE MARRIAGE took place In K L on 26.8 50. between Mr. Ki:n Seag, 2nd son of Mr. Mrs Lamv BoOf Keng. and IfiM J-uny Mm. of KL LONG-LAKE: The marriage I plan at St Ancitew's Cath?- <*• >l. S.nsiaporf. on 26th August, :i Lieutenant J A. long. RN
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    DEATH
    41 8 I YE XEE FOOK: Asp 68. passed peacefullv at his residence 2. Lorong 32. Geylang. SingaI 25 8. '50. at 4 30 a.m.. leaves. 5 diughI -or^-m-law. 5 daughter*ix and 22 grandchildren, to his loso>. Cremation at 10 a.m. Deeply
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    BRIDAL SUITE NOW USED AS COURT
    314 8 BRIDAL SUITE NOW USED AS COURT Ford sued for £89, 000, 000 LEAMINGTON SPA, England, Monday. TUBBY, silver-haired Judge Robert McCurdy Marsh has established his Southern District Court of New York in room 17— the bridal suite on the first floor of a Leamington Spa hotel. The double bed was
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    17 8 ON THE WAY American tanks rumble across bridge near Fusan on their way to the front line.
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    Soviet court sentences Briton
    76 8 Soviet court sentences Briton MOSCOW. Mil. JHK Russian News Agency Tns.s r»'P'rted yesterday that the Arehangelsk Pet)p!es Court sentenced to three montlis' imprisonment for iissaulti.' an English navigator named Barnes of the British freighter. Tintern Abbey. Barnes pleaded guilty to having deliberately without provocation struck a Russian stevedore with a
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    Kayan recaptured
    23 8 Burmese -<>•.■ h;iv»- recaptured Kayan. 38 miles BOUth Of Rangoon which White Band Pvn's id ;p:-'d llnce A 1 must 194 A.P.
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    PROFESSOR GOES OVER TO REDS
    212 8 LONDON. Monday. DFIIIND the Iron Curtain today is 38-yt*ar-old Pro- lessor l>ajos Janossy. Britlsh-trmined cosmic ray expert. After VI years' research at Manchester I niversitv and in Dublin, he has flown to Budapest and. it is reported, does not propose to return. Only two days
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    PORTUGUESE STAND
    28 8 The Portuguese A r m y Minister. Brigadier Adolph Abranches-Plnto. yesterday advocated increasing arms and equipment to strengthen the Portuguese army against any Communist aggression.— U.P.
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    NEW QUAKE IN ASSAM
    46 8 NEW QUAKE IN ASSAM A sharp earthquake shook Ibfrgherita and parts of Upper Assam on Saturday. Moving from north to south, the shock was described as the longest in duration and severest in intensity ol all felt since the great earthquake tremors two weeks apo. Reuter
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    ITALIAN HELD FOR JEWEL ROBBERY
    97 8 ITALIAN HELD FOR JEWEL ROBBERY NICE. Mon. A 23-YEAR-OLD Italian has been arrested at Nice in connection with the theft of 20,000.000 francs worth of jewels from the home of Mrs Norman Winston, near Cannes, on the French Riviera. Among those who reported losing gems in the burglary were Schiaparelli,
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    URANIUM IN NORTH WALES
    133 8 LONDON. Mon. rtEPOfrro <>; about 1.000.--u 000 ions of uranium, major tource of atomic enerpy, haw been Found In Wales. u was officially announced in London yesterday. This la the most Important covery ever made in I A icrt by the Drpartm»nt of Scientific and Industrial
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    Six killed in train crash
    70 8 PENMAENMAWR, North Wai »\s Mon. \T LEAST six petaflßg were killed and v>p'S injured when a mail train packed with holiday-maker* returning from Ireland crashed at Pomnaenmawr. North Wales, t :irly yesterday morning Hundreds of radii Kf and midentl i>f IMi MUUI t.iwnship wcr*' continuing
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    PARLIAMENT TO DISCUSS STRIKE
    57 8 An nerjeency session ot the Canadian Parliament railed for tomorrow will discuss ways and meang of setTttrrs Canada's railway strike by 124.000 workers, now in :ts sixth day. Negotiations between the railways and the trade unions, resumed at the urging of the Prime Minister. Mr Louis
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    UK RESTRAINS SOVIET TRADE
    187 8 LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN is withholding all vital strategic material in her trading with the Soviet Union. Mr. Arthur Bottomley. Overseas Trade Minister, said last night in London. Commenting on Mr. Chun-hill's radio statement, that a British firm was supplying Russia with some' materials of the class
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    To sell house for ideology
    72 8 CAUX SUR MONTREUX Switzerland. Mon. JAPANESE Sena" or O. I 1 said yesterday ;hr. f he would sell Ida summer house to raise funds to carrj the ideology of moral re-arma-ment to his people. I must hvt t!u> Id of change roysrii tnd then i.
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    32 8 On ek :!1 la conducting "raiding and sabotaging" miss 1 near the northern Greek border and :s getting aid chl I n Bulgaria, the United Na Balkans Committee i U.P.
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    BACK TO SAIGON
    21 8 Franco's High Commissioner in Indo-China, M. Leon Pi< r n<>n, left Parla yesterday to rolurn to Saigon.- Reuter
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    26 8 KING WITH AN APPETITE— Farouk of Kfjpi u ,th > of his guests at a dinner he save in Deauvih. his right is the Begum Ag.i Khan
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    Bride met her other husband
    127 8 HUSTON OKTIRNINCi from her seaside honey m 'husband' No. 2. a 23-vear-old girl I<h>l the carriage wu.d >w when the train station. She found herself look. man leaving out of tlie next carri was husband No. 1. The girl, auburn-hair d Gwendoline Emily t,' of
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