The Singapore Free Press, 30 August 1950

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N... H.874. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    BRITISH GET BAZOOKAS, FLOWERS
    642 1 BRITISH GET BAZOOKAS, FLOWERS They will plug breakthroughs {JARD practice with the American anti-tank bazooka is the main preoccupation of the two British battalions which arrived near the front line in South Korea last nigrht. They will soon be in action as a mobile force to "plug: up" any Red
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    Back home to China
    22 1 picture. MM »5J0 Chinese ;>»»rrurrs boarding: the I jMiian for Hainan and Swatow at Singapore docks Free Press
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    Red build-up in the south
    346 1  - Red build-up in the south SEFTON DELMER By TOKYO, Wednesday. DAYBOOKS taken from dead Communist soldiers in the southern sector, where the North Koreans have been probing for a chance to re-open their offensive against the vital supply post of Fusan, now make it look as though this after all
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    'TRUMAN HAS CLEARED AIR'
    173 1 LONDON, Wednesday. yHE influential Daily Telegraph said yesterday that President Truman has now put an end to the ambiguities which had been allowed to creep into American policy towards Formosa. The newspaper added that General MacArthur, in advancing his proposals for Formosa, which the President ordered
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    32 1 picture Schoolgirls at the opening of the Marymount Vocational School of the Good Shepherd Nuns, Thomson Road, yesterday. The Governor of Singapore. Sir Franklin Gimson. performed the opening ceremony. _S«4 Free Press
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    1,500 FISHERMEN LOST OFF CEYLON
    119 1 COLOMBO, Wednesday. l,.">00 fishermen were reported to be missing at sea yesterday after a strong gale scattered and swamped their fleet of 600 li^ht canoes in what may prove to be one of Ceylon's greatest disasters. Men, women and children jammed the beaches as Royal
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    Workers defy Bombay ban
    90 1 BOMBAY, Wod. |>O1 ICE yesterday used tear I ga s against 20,000 Socia-list-led textile workers who met at a mill area in defiance of an official ban on meetings and processions imposed as a result of the 16-day old textile strike by 250,000 workers. The strikers
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    ALLIES REGAIN POSSESSION OF HILL
    67 1 T T KEGIK Wed. ::i Kji alien .>. Hiirifm KTD C mmunia i klUe ;x>int s ieriI ia-a:ia-I :ican 5 ith Korlo Ider was cut oiT for U shatC >.oodR ...°cl In strafed too near sanded ADI .eu bg up to T conposlrion. id peak.
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    Daggers at conference
    87 1 LONDON, Wed. ARAB delegates from the Yemen, wearing picturesque white and gold robes and lon^ daggers in their belts, began political and economic talks with British officials yesterday in London. A reporter asked a Foreign Office spokesman at a news conference whether the British conferees carried any
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    Police guard Kravchenko
    79 1 BUENOS AIRES. Wed. A ROENTINE political police A whisked Victor Kravchenko <"1 Chose Freedom"* of! hip, Brazil as it docked at Buenos Aires yesterday. They explained that he was "being given protection" and held for routine questioning.'" Kravchenko is on a lecture tour of South America. Later
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    FREED AFTER SECRET TRIAL
    61 1 British Army Parachutist Sergeant Francis Arthur Elliott was founa not guilty of •top secret" charges at a court martial behind closed doors at Colchester, Essex, yesterday, He was released. Sgt. Elliott, of the Somerset Light Infantry, was tried in secret "for reasons of State security and
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    STRIKE BILL
    37 1 The Canadian Premier, Mr. Louis St. Laurent, asked the House of Commons yesterday to act immediately on a bill ordering the resumption of raffle on Canada* strikebound railways "at th« «ar- liest possible momeni. A.P.
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    RED COLONEL DIES SUDDENLY
    54 1 The Russian army paper, Red Star, yesterday announced the death of the chief of a section of the Minister of Internal Affairs. Colonel Alexander Davydov. The obituary, signed by the Minister of Internal Affairs and other high ranking officers, said Col. Davydov died suddenly at the
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    Press ban on Crete lovers
    119 1 ATHENS, Wed. QREEK officials put a clamp: on the press yesterday In I an effort to minimise tension I in Crete between two power- fui political families, now taking part in a real-life performance of Romeo and Juliet. The Athens pro ecu r banned all
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    OFFERS WHEAT
    34 1 Pakistan announced yesterday that it can send no troops to aid the United Nations forces in Korea, but offered to send 5.000 tons of wheat for the Korean war tffort.— i U.P.
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    TODAY'S BEST BETS
    47 1 BUST bets by ALLAN LEWIS for today's racing at Kuala Lumpur are: BLACK VELVET, JOHN and -BONNIE GREY. There was further rain last night and going at best will be soft. Bright Menffsen* will not start. r?«st bets by TRESPASSER are: MEATH and KKIVIN
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    SABOTAGE TRIAL
    25 1 SABOTAGE TR IAL Nine Yugoslavs will be on trial In the south Serbain capital of Ni.s on Monday, j charged with being Comiriform saboteurs. U.P.
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    FILIPINOS FREED
    18 1 A Manila Court yesterday cleared ten Filipinos, alleged confederates of the Japanese, of charges of treason.
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    Mothers fly to death cells
    66 1 THREE British soldiers pacing in their cells were told yesterday that their mothers were racing by plane to see them before they arr hanged tomorrow. The three mothers, who learned from the War Office that their sons are to be executed for the murder of
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    BOMB OUTRAGE IN RESTAURANT
    45 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A hand-grenade was thrown into a restaurant in Main Road. Sungel Siput P^rak, last night. There were about twenty people in the shop. One Chinese was killed, and seven other Chinese wen wounded. Three Chinese have been detained.
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    Formosa is put on U.N. agenda
    288 1 Formosa is put on U.N. agenda LAKE SUCCESS. Wed. T^HE United Nations SeA curity Council agreed yesterday to have a lull discussion of the Formosan problem. The vote was seven to two, with Egypt abstaining and Yugoslavia not voting. China and Cuba cast the negative votes The wording of the
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    BOMBER MISSING
    18 1 A B-29 bomber is n: over the Atlantic on a flight from Lagens to Bermuda U.P.
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    The Boy Who Is Always Thirsty
    709 2 I AM very, very thirsty and don't know how to get rid of it. What do you advise 1 SCHOOLBOY. Answer: Thirst is a symptom and not a disease. It arises. either when dryness of the mouth stimulates the nerves of the back of
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    31 2 Holding his 'DandV trophy as the Tailor of the Year is Mr. J. K. Wilson, West End of London tailor. On right is the suit which won for him the trophy.
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    10 2 "1 thought u i said you switched it off, darling."
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    EVERY ONE CAN SLIM IF.....
    574 2  -  DR. CHARLES HILL Says npWO-TON TESSIE has lost, if not a ton, at least some pounds. My guess is— indeed, my bet is that she did it by strict dieting. What Two-Ton Tessie has done everyone can do within limits. I assume that sh^ has
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    Hope For Those 'Bad Heart' Cases
    563 2 Hope For Those 'Bad Heart Cases GOOD NEWS this morning from the doctors. This time their message brings hope for people who have heart trouble. But once again the news is from the other side of the Atlantic. Since the war ended nearly every discovery to help us to live
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      186 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have a light-heirted happy-go-lucky nature which makes you take life as you find it. You do the best you can with it without worrying too much over details. You have considerable personal courage, and are adventuresome when it comes to taking a chance on
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      178 2 New Crossword No. 138 O r 1 14 (i: !n a si:-::!y way (5. 1).7 13, 2. 6•. 8. Do return the doctor round <.4i. 11 Manufactured by a i 2 A diver retormed (6>. 14. All re-i (5. 6>. 15. 16 provides youthful Dpi j back (3). CLUES DOWN
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    HEATWAVE BRINGS OUT RUSSIANS
    397 3 HEATWAVE BRINGS OUT RUSSIANS Neighbours see Red movies CAIRO, Tuesday. AN INTENSE heatwave has brought the Russians into the open. Curious Cairo capitalists have been watching the Soviet way of life with considerable interest and little liking. In one of the streets of Zamalek. district of the cosmopolitan diplomatic set
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    63 3 photo. Delegates from Indonesia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma, representing some 600 people, present in song the moral re-Armament ideology before an audience of 1,000 during the World Moral Rearmament Assembly at Caux, Switzerland. On the left are the Ceylonese singers. Mr. and Mrs. Surya Sena, who have given
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    Cairo problem
    41 3 Sir Ralph Stevenson. British Ambassador in Cairo, may come to London for discussions with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, on the revision of the AngloEiiyp'ian Treaty before the Foreign Secretary goes to New York on Sept. 7.- Reuter
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    PEOPLE TO DECIDE
    39 3 Monsieur M. A. Menard Commissioner for French India, has said in Pondicherry that the people of French India were the final authority to decide whether they tfish to remain within or outside the French Empire. Reuter
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    INVASION DEPLORED
    29 3 The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, in session in Pans has unanimously deplored the violation of international law in Korea. Reuter
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    U.S. POLICY ON FORMOSA
    406 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. ;ID£NT TRI MAN has written to Mr. Warren n. Chi?f Inited States delegate to the Nations, outlining American policv on or the letter is as follows: a on the teleDO Tiling I want on your t ion of the viewi vioverxxr.c:l From .^gresMt 1
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    S'HAI CO. RUNS AT BIG LOSS
    47 3 S'HAI CO. RUNS AT BIG LOSS The French Tramways Co in Shanghai has been reported to be operating a* a bis; loss of several thousand million Jen Mm Piao <J\lP' dollars a month < About JNIP 530.000 eq^ial USSIOO' Trarr.ways Co. all public utilit: f buses. c A.P.
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    25 3 An insurance plan to cover private property aqai damaqe is ready for Congress at "ih? drop of a hat." Senator Robert C Hencir.ek^ n Reuter
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    Bridge Hands
    262 3 Both sides vulnerable x;tr 1 hand today because youie supposed to figure out Eas. s Drooerplay. West opens the fl%t Sf^ad^/ You V}*j***n* and it wins the trick. South dropping the four-spot What your next lead, and why. The -book- says you should return the fourth best to
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    'PALESTINE IS VITAL ISSUE'
    68 3 'PALESTINE IS VITAL ISSUE' cyrian Minister in Washington. Faiz el Khouri. had a 75-minu:e conference, i Mr. George IfcObee, i US Assistant Secretary of for Near Eastern Arfairs. He told reporters later. "For us the Palestine problem is verv fundamental and vital. We will oppose the aggression of the Jew
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    'Didn't aid rebels': Dr.
    102 3 RANGOON, Tu.es. £)R. Gordon Seagrave, author of "Burma Surgeon" yesterday denied a Burmese government charge that he collaborated with the rebels in the province of Karen. Dr. Seagrave issued his denial in support of a habeus corpus writ applied for in the Rangoon Supreme Court by
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    54 3 Archduke Otto von Hapsbur?, pretender to the Austrian and Hungarian thrones, pictured as he attended a wedding at Alderbourne Manor, near Gerard's Cross. Buckinghamshire. The 38-year-old claimant lived with his mother, the ex-Empress Zita. in Belgium before the last war. Now he spends most of his time in France and
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    URANIUM LAND CEDED
    59 3 At Russian order. Czechoslovakia has ceded a strip of uranium-b^anns land to Bast Germany. Mr. Edmond Rehak. Secretary-General of the Free Czech Council, said in Paris. He said the land is about 12 miles lon* and two-and-half miles wide along the frontier of Saxony, and added that
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    28 3 The influential Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo has editorially declared that Japan cannot expect security guarantee from the United Nations as long as the Soviet remains a member.- Reuter
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    U.S. has more old people
    155 3 NEW YORK, Tuesday. GOVERNMENT statistics show that the I nited States is rapidly becoming: a nation of older persons. The Federal Security Agency reports that 2.1 per cent, of the population now has reached the age of 65 years and over. In 1900 the percentage
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    310,000 WANT TO JOIN
    26 3 The number of applications for the National Pohce Reserve Corps in Tokyo has exceeded the 310.000 mark. again.it 75.000 persons needed. Reuter
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    ANOTHER VISIT
    39 3 The President of the Unr State:; of Indonesia. Dr. So- Ikarnc. i s scheduled to maKc another state visit to parts of the archipelago at the end 01 this month or the beginning of next month. Reuter
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    FELLING TREES BY 'HIGHBALL'
    174 3 HUNGRY HORSE. MONTANA, Tues rp\VO Calilornia contract on 1 ire ripping down for with their "highball" method of clearing un.ber lana. A pair of powerful d tractors grind through the dei. each paying out an inch-and-a-hi 1 ei cable Attached to r>n tre of the cable
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    Widening the Council
    89 3 Widening the Council STRASBOURG W 1 riE 15-natinn Lun Assembly voted to br rai'nilxr.- ov< territories into clou* touch with the Council of Eur By a roll call rote of 72 t« one with 2! abAssembly— the Coun Wi r Hous at the following recommendation U Committee oi M 'Uppvr
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      49 3 .^aaaaaaaa I•V ji I ff M <»//, actually, it's a pre-trar get >.ff ff ff i mM^Sm I SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] (BLI'E NETWORK) 4 45 p.m. Programme Summary; 484 and 41.7 metres. 447 .-From London Editorials" Music. 2.15 K a n Club> News a nd Programmes BBC). B«taur*nt In Sing»pore.
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    HOSNI JOINS THE R.A.F.
    333 4 LX)UR weeks ago 20-year-old Hosni bin Moham- med Zain was a clerk. Today, alert and smart in his new uniform, he is more than half way towards becoming one of the first volunteers to pass out from preliminary training into the ranks of the newly-formed Royal
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    'Charter' for child entertainers
    216 5 LONDON, Wednesday. *IFLOYMENT of child actors of any age in British r films, under safeguards, will be* made legal if mmendations in a report by a departmental rommittee to the Home Office, just published, are adopted. A separate licence will have to be obtained in ect
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    52 5 J: 1 LKSfI MOGHILS Hamid Shah and his son. tno of the impoverished des!.»nts of the last of the Moghui emperors. Both are on the pension list of the ment of India. About 900 of the descendants lived in Delhi until the 1947 communal "«ts sent most of them fieein?
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    Snake goes on hunger strike
    104 5 Snake goes on hunger strike LONDON. Wed. AN 18in.-long South African egg-eating snake which has gone on hunger-strike at Regents Park Zoo. London, will be forcibly fed through a glass pipette if it still takes no food during the next few days. The snake, an "ex-pet." was given to the
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    'U.S. POLICE STATE'
    43 5 A Pravda article by its New York correspondents, M. I Rassadia and M. Filippov. j said that the "process of turning the United States into a police state has been especially intensified in ".onnection with American aggression in Korea." Reuter
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    MILITARY TALKS
    35 5 Britain's Defence Ministry has announced that Britain and France have agreed that military talks at a local command level should be held at Dakar in French West Africa, beginning on Aug. 23 Reuter
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    Psychological warfare
    75 5 NEW YORK. Wed. f\ELIOHTED with the news u that the Highland troops to fight in Korea have taken their bagpipes with them, the New York Dally News said: "Why, MacTavtsh. wh»n those Scotsmen march against the North Koreans with a full bands worth of bagpipes skirling and screeching,
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    DOGS OBJECT TO CAMPAIGN
    50 5 The campaign by Health Commissioner Stephen Moran to limit the people of Newark. New Jersey, to Just on3 dog or one cat for earh family has been abandoned What defeated htm— a delegation of dogs, aU wearing Placards, led to his office by lawyer William Ciuv.ans.
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    REDS 'PREPARE FOR FORMOSA'
    271 5 1,000 pilots in training HONG KONG. Wednesday. /COMMUNIST China is training 1,000 fighter pilots who are expected to play a "major part" in the invasion of Formosa, states an English-language Hting Kong newspaper. The paper was quoting a Chinese flier, described as a former pilot of
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    20 5 COMMANDO CHlEF— Lieutenant-Colonel D. B. Drysdale, Mho will command the Royal Marine Commando force to be flown to Korea soon.
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    Original Adam was single
    130 5 ROME, Wednesday. THE Pope has condemned modern philosophies like materialism and existentialism, and strongly criticised some scientific theories of evolution. In a 5.000-word encyclical, he instructed Roman Catholic theologians to go back to the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th century philosopher. And he reminded
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    IRON EXPORT BAN
    16 5 Japanese exjwrters wilJ not be given permission .0 snip pig iron abroad. Reuter
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    THE WINDMILL THEATRE —OF WAR
    150 5 THE WINDMILL THEATRE —OF WAR WITH THE FLEET. Korea, Wed. r PHE tall youngish man with tousled hair banged a map-board down on to the table, tossed his flying helmet on to a chair, and zipped his suit down from a sweat-dark-ened patch at the neck. A lieutenant-commander looked up
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    'Third force' in China
    89 5 HONG KONG. W^d. A SIZEABLE force of Chinese guerillas, railing themselves the "Peopled AntiCommunist Army" is reported to be organised inside Communist China. A newspaper quoted a retired high Nationalist general as saying that these guerillas were formed last July and had no connection with Nationalist
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    Prominent Red dead
    32 5 Moscow radio has reported 1 the death of Prokofv Vasilei--1 vich Mayorov, Deputy ChairI man of the Council of MinisI ters of th» R"s#«»a Soviet Fedeial S• dt*t Republic
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    WRONG TO BAN ATOM BOMB
    156 5 ARCHBISHOP LONDON, Wednesday. HUGE armed forces are as jreat an anomaly in a civilised world as atomic weapons, says Dr. Fisher. Archbishop of Canterbury, in his reply to a "peace" appeal by the heads of the Russian Churches. Dr. Fisher, addressing his reply to Alexei,
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    Protests at banning of racial film
    69 5 Protests at banning of racial film PROTESTS have poured into Chicago irom Negroes and whites against banning a new film. "No Way Out." which attacks racial prejudice. Police censor Captain Harry Fulmer gave this excuse for his ban: "We already have a racial problem here. This film might cause more
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    DEAD WOMAN WAS BRANDED
    56 5 A word was written "with some indelible substance" across the forehead of Mr3. Eliza Wood, 36, of Oldham, whose body was found in an :iotel room at Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, it was stated in court there. James Henry Coxbitt, 37, waj remanded for a week ciiarged with
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    ON ABILITY
    38 5 r^OR the first time a Negro r girl will play in this year's women's tennts championship. The U.S. Lawn Tennis Association has accepted the application of Althea Gibson, a 22-year-oKI New York player, "on her ability."
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    ORGANIST WHO SEES BY EAR
    133 5 ORGANIST WHO SEES BY EAR LEEDS. Wed. DOES th*> wearing or earrings improve a person o sight? Dr. Reginald-Dixon. v>rganist at Lancaster Cathedral believes It does. He said so at the Congress of the Incorporated Association of Organists, in Leeds. He claimed that he was able to discard his special
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    American blind spot
    77 5 NEW YORK. Wed. NOTHING can beat the Americans, said America's elder statesman Bernard Baruch, as soon as they realise what they are up against. He told his friend Winston Churchill the same nine years ago. In an 80th birthday Interview, Baruch added that the Americans have one
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    ANTS ATTACK STEEPLEJACKS
    55 5 Six steeplejacks repairing the spire of Salisbury Cathedral had to take shelter twice when thousands of flying ants attacked them. At first, the steeplejacks tried to fight off the ants, after a two-hour battle they let the ants take over, and retired each man with bites on
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    Not an American dish
    40 5 TyjYSTERY has been added to the flyin? saucers mystery. Frank Edwards, an American radio commentator, sad: "They are real and they are not ours." What he meant neither Mr. Edward n er military officials would say.
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    The train held up the queen
    176 5 The train held up the queen EDINBURGH, Wed. rwUEEN ELIZABETH Of Bel- gium. mother of K Leopold, and her two granddaughters. Josephine charlotte and Maria Pia. wen; Edinburgh for a week at ths Festival of Music and Dram*. The train from London the Capitals Limited due at Waverley Station at
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    FUSILIERS LEAVE
    30 5 Th» garris n < will be without an InftAUf bailahon for the iirst ii!:ie in 250 yi-ai>. when the Fir>.t Royal In.sh FuriUen .11 leave for Nofthern Ireland Reuter
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    APPEALS REJECTED
    34 5 Tlu> GiePk "Conn.-il of Mercy" has rej«-'.ed ippeali by 11 ComuiunisLs benierved to death by the Athens Military Court on Aue 10. aficr a 24-day hial of 61 P.< f members.- Reuter
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    Six-month extension
    32 5 The Burmese Parliament has extended martial la a further six mon.iis from Sept 1, to assist the Government in its sirui:".le aga:r t. the Karen and Comimir.i.- 1 rebellions Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30, 1950. 'Quitting Malaya': 2
    478 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Aug. 30, 1950. 'Quitting Malaya': 2 IF British troops, admi- nistrators and technical experts were to withdraw from Malaya In the near future, as suggested by various influential and wellmeaning people, the result would be immediate civil strife far exceeding anything yet experienced in this
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    Atom Control: The Red Record
    1121 6  -  Harold Bun ting the facts on Russia's attitude to international control of the Atom bomb. It throws a nezv light on Russia as a "peace-maker" By DUSSIA is fighting **for peace in a world of warmongers. Russia has demanded the control of atomic energy; the
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    SPOTLIGHT IS ON EDINBURGH
    516 6  -  CYRIL RAY By r)NE night in the first of the war the Glyndebourne Opera was playing in Edinburgh. As Mrs. John Christie, the wife of its founder, and Rudolf Bing, its general manager, walked away from the theatre that evening through the blackedout streets they thought
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    OUR ARMY IS THE BEST
    335 6  -  TOM WHITNEY -RUSSIAN BOAST By MOSCOW: IT is claimed here by Soviet military publications that Soviet military science is immeasurably superior to Western military science. Id particular that of the United States and England. It is stated repeatedly in articles in the military press that
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    Plans For Music Festival
    717 6 Plans For Music Festival PT present negotiations are successful Jacques Genty, the French pianist who played with the Batavla Symphony Orchestra in Singapore last year, and his wife, Lola Bobesco, the violinist, will appear in a Music Festival next March at the Victoria Hall. The Singapore Musical Society plan to
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    MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCES IN JUNGLE
    445 7 MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCES IN JUNGLE Dogs died, but men lived HNB «f A Special Cor respondent in swampy country deStroy a bandit gan Jung]? tt?cl fe in f tf 30 The track openThe dog cast around for a o H m f£ t to check the scent s»lashpH nra Ced ahead:
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    Now opposed to allowance
    59 7 D! !"M»Kv r r C V ess MalT .NOtNT Municipal Commissioner for Citv t to as to i pone d an E towns ie C id in \ot fair* a >m and pe and ;n. I vaa told first time they have Municipal Comare tr.in^ t<
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    200 students on strike
    105 7 rrvt- *res* Malaj <; O rr. AB<v T 200 pupils Qf the K Khudin a h in Pekan, Pahang have been on strike since "Sday, Utusan Melayu repor "-e Sattan of r has left for Pekan to look into toe complaints of the pup is Main
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    OFF TO HONG KONG
    34 7 If^Jor-O neral J H M Poet:. Chief of Staff. G.HQ FARELF, left on a routine to Hong Kong this morning by BOAC plane. He will return to Singapore on Saturday.
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    KATHI AGAINST MARRIAGE BILL
    196 7 I ree Press Malay Correspondent All SLIM leaders in Singapore yesterday gave a ITI mixed reception to a Bill to be introduced by Mr. John Laycock (Municipality North-East) at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council, which if adopted will nullify marriage between persons either
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    New course for river
    158 7 New course for river THE Singapore Government's approval for a deviation in the course of the Singapore River at Kim Seng Road to permit the replacement of a Drid»e has been sought by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. The bridge, which carries a constant stream of traffic between the south and
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    Listeners asked to pick plays
    207 7 I n> Tress Stall' Reporter J^ISTENERS are being invited by Radio Malaya to choose their six favourite plays among those which have been broadcast in the past 12 mont] The most popular choices will be broadcast, one a day on weekdays. beginning Sept. 24. The
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    BOOK GIFTS
    108 7 The United Slates Informa"ion Service has presented 29 '»x>ks on sociology and education to the Teachers' Training College in Singapore. Miss* Margant K. Beadles. U.S.I.S librarian, mp.de thf presentation a few days a 2O to Mr J P. Joseph, principal of the college, at Cairnhill Road M.C CHANCES
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    ENGLISH CLASS
    31 7 Seletar Tamil Association School will open a class in English for adults in the evening on Saturday at 3.45 p.m. at the Association's premises, 13 i 2 milestone, Seletar.
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    BENHAM REPORT
    53 7 It is "almoic certain" 'hat the Benham Report for the Federation will be tabled at the meeting of the Federal Legislative Council on Sept. 27 and 28. th? Chief Secretary, Mr. M. V. d"J Tufo, saici in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. He hoped it would be published a fortnight
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    Hawker report out soon
    172 7 Hawker report out soon Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore Hawkers' Inquiry Commission is to publish its report in the first week of next month. The tnmission is to hold its ti and probably last prie meeting on the subject Sept. 4, when it will diss the final draft of the
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    S.M.C. TO DEBATE RETIRING AGE
    192 7 Free Press Matt Reporter T'HE monthly meeting c; Singapore Municipal Commissioners tomorrow promises to be comparatively quiet, with only one motion for debate. This is tabled by Mr. E. V. Davies, new leader of the Labour Party. He will propose that as a general rule
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    Post-Normal courses for teachers proposed
    484 7 Post-Normal courses for teachers proposed an*, nu u ,Z ree rress Staff Reporter S° at k e 8S 1 a qu h l cation s »f teachers in Malayan English schools may b e raised and they may be admitted to a unified eduction service, the Singapore Teachers Union has
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    Revised pay scales sought
    517 7 Revised pay scales sought Free Press Staff Reporter jyjALAYAN English school teachers should be classified as Normal-trained; graduates of Raffles College and graduates holding pass degrees of any university; and graduates holding honours degrees. This is proposed by the Singapore Teachers Union in a memorandum to the Select Committee on
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    HARITH WAS MASTER OF
    730 8 Hong Kong XI outplayed ALL-MALAYA should have won by at least six goals" that was what most of the 10,000-odd fans were saying after Malaya's game against the Hong Kong Chinese at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday. The cheers were for All-Malaya as a team, but there
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    HONG KONG CHINESE FEDERATION TOUR
    85 8 LJONO KONG CniDCM WUI play ■VHII Kames In the PsdcradOO. They will le»ve Singapore nn B^pt 12. Tlie Federation j?amr s arc: 13 v SWangor: Sepi. 14 f SembUan; Sept 15 v a. St-pt. 17 v IfalafftD Malajrs at Ipoh; Sept. 18 I hnk; Sept.
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    FORCES KILL, CAPTURE 92 BANDITS
    100 8 FORCES KILL, CAPTURE 92 BANDITS Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Communist I bandits were killed or captured in the six weeks ended An?. 25. stated the Director of Operations, Gen. j Sir Harold Brings, at a Pr> as conference thus morning. There has been a drop in serious
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    C.P.O. CUP FINAL TOMORROW
    112 8 final of the Singapore Police Triangular Footba!! Compeutun f>r tIM C P.O. Cup oe played at tJ;e Police Training Depot at 5 p m tomorrow. A Divisional XI will meet Auxiliaiy Police Officers for the Cup. The Divisional XI beat the Auxiliary Poh< Officers two-nil in
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    SQUATTER PLAN GOING WELL
    267 8 KIALA IXMPIR. Tuesday. ASSESSING the achievements to date of the Brisks Plan, the Director of Operations. Lt.-Gen. Sir Harold Briefs, said in a Press conference today that resettlement and regrouping were going well throughout the country. These measures are bcine carried oui realistically and humanely." he
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    Australians liven market
    339 8 LONDON, W((h, rpHE most striking feature of the U*i« 1 Exchange yesterday was found in Usll industrial shares, states Reuters fin* pondent. These moved into the limeli?}, of the record prices that are brins obtain in the Sydney sales. The small turnover in London, i. that the
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    INTER-CLUB BADMINTON
    59 8 JTNTRIES i<)T the u Junior Km mercifcl Himici Ba champions:, date u SeptembeIn the junior the rules Rove: event will be id the open Interthat only pL the curren; pionship* wi] parucipaie Earh par'', ed to aend 1: Entry tee events L* jw.i and entry t tained Iran
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    THE MAN WITH THE UMBRELLA
    685 9  -  Shamus Frazer 1/)er/«e4t/ay £Ae*t £tcuj by PXG Goh See \\js one of the > jlthicst of Singa- towkays: a ibman of note and ilron of music or U'cist of singers i they happened \<>un£f. attractive male politician ■enius for comu businessman :::o\ver with a avoiding
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    Scienlist compiles atlas of disease
    437 9  - Scien list compiles atlas of disease JOE WING by 4 N iitlus oi' disease A Ikis been started by the American Geographical Society ;is a new approach to health. Already ths Society has made a world map of polio, the first in .1 projected series of 25. Next, cancer. Tim
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    23 9 a convov moves clang a Or 94k roa I brfngina supalisi to tJ.e Qreekommmnl iorce A convoy rnvn fighting Communist rebels near Konitza.
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    Lost in the skies over Greece
    1028 9  - Lost in the skies over Greece KEITH BUTLER MY MOST EXCITING ASSIGNMENT-10 A TELEPHONE call in the middle of a 1947 Christmas party smashed all hopes of festivities for me. It sent me from a cosy Athens <i reside, by plane, jeep. mule and by foot, to a bleak mountain
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    BIG SUPPORT FOR MILL WALL
    343 10  -  ARCHIE QUICK By \IILLWALL may have finished at the bottom of the Third Division Southern Section table last season and had to apply for re-election to the League, _but_ not even these setbacks can diminish the tremendous support that is given by the public of
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    A patch of Australia....
    113 10 A patch of Australia.... I gAMPLES of the wicket (I at Adelaide Oval have I been sent Co Maurice Tatc. former England and > Sussei bowler, by Bert ss Rogers, groundsman at j Adelaide. They came in < tico 7natc?ib>jxes. > One specimen is "fine" and looks like sage mixed
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    Sajarah, an undaunted side
    423 10  -  Koh Peng Long By I\ESriTK the fact that it made its debut in com- petitive soccer only this year, Katong Sajarah SjMjrts Club has not onlv made a name for itself by innexin? the S.A.F.A. Junior 'B 1 championship, but has also proved its soccer prowess
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    KISSES FOR NIKOLAI
    95 10 NIKOLAI KARAKOULOV. veteran Russian athlete of the Soviet, and winner of the 440 metres relay race at the fourth European track and field championships in Brussels, was the most kissed man in Belgium. As Nikolai raced over the finishing line, he threw his aton high in the
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    R.A.F. Seletar rugby in full swing
    668 10  - R.A.F. Seletar rugby in full swing WILLI BRETT By nURING the first week of September, over forty rugby enthusiasts will take part in the Rugby Union Trials at R.A.F. Seletar. Meanwhile organised training has been arranged for Monday and Friday evenings arjd the Seletar teams have affiliated with the Sin-
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    Scripture teacher's Channel swim
    357 10 HILEEN FENTON. i'-year-old. pot -ket-sized hlfh*J school Scripture teacher, who learned to swim in the public baths at Dewsbury. Yorks was the first woman among ZA competitors t > swim the Channel last week. She is 5 ft. 1 in. and 8 St.. 6 lb.. and
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    'Do we or don't with Germans'
    215 10  - 'Do we or don 't with Germans' Harold Mayes By IT'S high time someone put the matter <>r >p relations with ex-en<;nics on a pro Either we want our sportsmen to perform against (iermans, or we don t. Personally, I don't, but if the mi it. for heaven's sake let
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    All The Latest Selections
    146 11 a^ ■-JLT p 8 =58= ssss^i lOHN J BonoitGrwr BcnnfcOr,, J*n OI N JOHN NOM*n M-NSV VALLEY C.^NFAI. SsT 5 Slrt CM gay- s^"° s~" r WHISPERING SANDS I WBSPER,N G SAN^T M A-^-^t -lath SIS -1^; 1^! Musketeer Mu^kttr^r x MEATH M FAT II 1
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    Saturday's U.K. soccer fixtures
    114 11 Saturday's U.K. soccer fixtures KG are football fixj" Saturday. Sept. 1: t s,,l l^H LEAGIE HKST DIVISION ?..-fl&eid Wed: Aa- \erpool; Burnley C arltoa v TOtHuddersfield; Brorawlch: ManBlackpool; Ports-5-^ce v Der- DIVISION Chesterfleld Orjoasby: Lu'on v BirN E v CarHam s SOI TH> r tham t NorPort D DIVISION (NORTH)
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    Two Wide Boys
    16 11 "Could we see where the horses sleep? We're studying for our Nature Badge?"
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    Today's acceptors
    603 11 fODAY'S race card at K.L. is given below. Double totes will be on races 5 and 6; 8 and 9. Big Sweep will be on Race 9. RACE 1—2.15: CLASS 4, DIV. 3 s| F. 1. 000 Northwell E. Donnelly 900 t. 000 St. Quenttn Wahab 8.10 004
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    Mohan Mas too good
    151 11 DAVINDER Mohan, India's badminton No. 1. easily bear A. Piruz of Malaya 15-4. 15-2. yesterday to retain the men's singles title in the Cricket Club of India Champi nships. It was a nervous Piruz who faced the Indian and there was no real need for Mohan
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    Deciding county match today
    684 11 SURREY'S last county match of the season, against Leicestershire starting at the Oval today, will decide whether Lancashire win the county championship outright or Surrey share it with them. The important match between Lancashire and Surrey petered out in a draw yesterday, but Surrey's four points
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    U.K. soccer results
    55 11 FOLLOWING are the result* of F matches In the English Football League played yesterday: FIRST DIVISION. Burnley 0, Blackpool. THIRD DIVISION (SOUTHERN). Southend United 0, Mill wall 3. THIRD DIVISION (NORTHERN). Oldham Athletic 1 Chelsea 0; Rochdale 1, Bradford 2; Southport 0, New Brighton 1; Tranmere Rovers
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    ARMY TEAM
    67 11 T^HE following will represent I Singapore Base District (Army) at cricket on Saturday igainst the Indian Association on the Balestier Road ground. Maj. B. P. Smyth-Pigott (capt), Ll.-Col. J. F. Kziox, Maj. W. L. Simpson, Maj. E. H. Sweet, Maj. I. C. 8. Munro, Maj. A. R. Dawe.
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    TENNIS SURPRISE BY REGRESS
    279 11 I IBM flMl Nr<;ri^ play in the National Term* championships came within one game of scoring a tre- mendous upset at Forest Hills i ye Mi P i d A y Gibson.ofNewyork i Sorm halted the play for the, da Miss Gibson led 7-6 in the
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    BONNIE GREY IS A SAFE BET
    472 11  -  ALLAN LEWIS Further rain at K. Lumpur From KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. only runner mentioned with any confidence this morning for today's races, was Bonnie Grey. The field for the first race is weak, and I think Bonnie Grey should be a good bet There
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    62 11 FLASHY SEBASTIAN (right) wears an expression of K um determination as he sets ready to M-nd over a left hook to the head of his sparring partner at the Happy We-ld arena last afternoon. It was Flash y's last workout b«-fort-he fight/? Boy Brooks on Friday and be has certainly
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    TOURISTS WIN
    34 11 The British Isles Rugby j Union tourists beat a Metfo- 1 politan side by 26 points (four goals, two penalty goals) to 17 points (one goal, four tries) at Sydney yesterday.— Reuter
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    W. INDIES SET NEW RECORD
    754 11 I EFT with 178 runs to make to win in about onc- and-a-half hours, the West Indies scored 148 f«>r 3 wickets and were 30 runs short of the total when stumps were drawn in their match against Middlesex at Lords yesterday. The match was
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    291 12 The crab-meat went back NEW YORK, Wednesday. 'THE tanned, slightly built young veteran of Okinawa who stopped the unloading of Russian crab- meat and furs from British ships in New York, is going further with his campaign. His name is James Condon, longshoreman, and his
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    Colony calls for union
    62 12 I ONDON, Wtd. \I>..LLUATION from th^Br. ..>:and colony (>t Cyprus will tak-- its demand xlth Cir-'ect- Td the United Nations, the Bishop of Kyrenia announ* d festerdaj. The Bishop s.i:d thmi the three-man group will leave for th-> United Btatet this week-end. Tiie Colonial S- cr
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    35 12 PILCiRIMS' PROGRESS Barefooted pilßrims. Frlinjf Kanold and Anne Folk, of Sweden, make their way through the streets of Florence hand-in-hand "in search of truth." They are en route to Rome where they are to marry.
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    291 12 Win £20,000 then stop BE A SUCCESSFUL GAMBLER DEAUVILLE, Wednesday. lIOW to gamble like a king? It is easy. Take the wealth of the Egyptian monarch, a comptroller to hand out the cash, and anyone can gambit* like King Faioiik, who has just left Deauville a richer man. He has
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    TUC condemns 'peace' appeal
    96 12 I ONDON, v. IJEI BOATES of i lie 1.000,000 membei ol Bi rain's Trmdea Union c a reu will he called on at their annual conference next week to repudiate the Stockholm "peace" campaign. This vas made known \vsterday bv the General Council <>f the TUC
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    KOREA WAR DELAYS HIS MARRIAGE
    153 12 KOREA WAR DELAYS HIS MARRIAGE A SOUTH KOREAN PORT, Wednes laj QNE oi the sadden British lOkUtn to arrive a South Korean port yesterday vas Private Ronald Hodgeaon. 20. of Dev. .>bury Moore, Yorkshire. He was to have left for home to be married. Private Hodgeson planned to be In
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    25 lons of spot tin
    54 12 25 lons of spot tin L d rVKMV FIVE Umi o: t:n were b night at CBlO p«-r ton btttiiiesi the London tin market. 1 1 at £809 p*r ton. 1$ upon months w;i.s unchani *:7v»7t The closing Spol and h 1 business a' £B\o Three months bu £795 and
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    27 12 Tin 1 following: were yesterday's quotations on the Hong Kong Money ExchangeHKs6.36per U.S. dollar. HK515.40 per pound ster- ling. HK$3O3 per tael of gold. U.P.
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    105 12 Peking angry at U.S. air 'banditry' MOSCOW, Wed. PRAVDA'S correspondent in Peking yesterday reported that the Chinese are ready to defend their frontiers against U.S. planes. A special dispatch said the American are '"spreading their diversions to territory of the Chinese People's Republic." It reported repeated vlolas by a number
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    29 12 Mr. Edward w. American, and two other people not identified, were killed when an Indian Air Force plane crashed yesterday 15 miles from B i A. P.
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