The Singapore Free Press, 2 September 1950

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ***** SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 320 1 FIGHT TO THE DEATH TODAY Red tanks renew drive at dawn North Koreans renewed their offensive along tjie south coast of Korea a fe i hours before dawn today with a tank-led attack against the American 25th Division defending the approaches to the vital MippU port of Pusan. The second
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  • 186 1 Fleets howled like dogs From. JOHN SHAW 1M SAN. Saturday. fPIIE Communist offensive was begun by two men H>wimmin» across the Naktong river. Machinegu fire turned one back. Then they be«ran swimmi uti^n m droves. •»v swarmed over undv. bridges built up wl* ;ndbags. They crossed m fifteen places o;
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  • 144 1 Survivor comes ashore ROY \L Armi I Corps Cton and orderlies went out to the naval frigate, Morecambe B.iv. m the Sin►re outer ro.ids this morning to Drin^ back the sole sur?iYor of the R.a.f. Dakota crash m the China Sea. He is an Arn.y officer, a Bri* jor. who
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  • 27 1 The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday approved a resolution condemning the action of Greek Communist guerilla forces m abducting thousands of Greek children.- U.P.
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  • 24 1 American officials have said there is some evidence that the Russian Zone of Germany is planning an air police force.- A.P.
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  • 31 1 'Q UAKES IN P.I. The weather bureau m Manila reported that earthquakes of varying intensities rocked a number of place? m Mindanao and the Visayan Islands on Thursday and yesterday.— Reuter
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  • 216 1 'NO WAR UNLESS- TRUMAN WASHINGTON, Sat. P RESIDENT irumau declared last night that the fighting m Korea U 111 not develop into a, "gen- cral war" unless the Com- munists pour other armies, and governments into the battle. The President, m a broaacas: report to the nation, aliO beamed throughout
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  • 23 1 Burmese budget estimates for 1950/51 presented to Parliament yesterday by Finance Minister, U Tin, disclosed a deficit of Rs. 9,048, 000.-
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  • 28 1 Lieut. -Gen. K. N. Derevyanko. Russia's No. 1 representative on the Allied Council for Japan, has been freed from his duties to take another job.— A.P.
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  • 51 1 rtflE going for today's rates at Kuala Lumpur will bf very heavy. There was a heavy shower last rvrning and the weather is ■ill] cloudy. Best bets by ALIAS LEWIS for today are: THE BLESSING. SEVENTY SEVEN and HAIUMAN. TRESPASSER'S selections are: SEVENTY SEVEN and BROWN
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  • 10 1 U.S. LOST 6,886 IN TWO MONTHS Spuurtof n X Reuter
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  • 42 1 THE BOLEH IS THERE SALCOMBE, 80UTB EL VON. 8l •r.: .val officers. 1 da g nore i y S on Jar. T I I a C c- ■feci g i-UVe Jr reach Sal r Tp built by C s en a Reuter
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    17 1 'No. en I .oni rilCUgbtf, this Trojan HorM idea won't work at Bukit Timah.
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  • 155 1 WASHINGTON, Saturday. IniE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, is expected to discuss soon with Britain and France means of plugging trade loopholes through which war potential material might slip to the Soviet bloc. Diplomatic officials forecast he will bring up the problem
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  • 57 1 NEW DELHI. Sat. THE Hindustan Times said yesterday that the Chinese Communist Government has assured India that it does not intend to wage war to annex Tibet. The journal said that Communist China has told India that China has agreed to "explore the avenues of a
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  • 19 1 The Iraq Petroleum Company has denied earlier reports that the company will close Us refinery at Haifa.
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  • 57 1 riWJN Tarl kerlinf, leader of the Army w of the Heavenly Host, was resting m a Belgian country hide-out alter a week of nisht -clubbin? m Brussels. After Westerling's wife arrived from Holland, the couple left for an undisclosed country plane near Muar. He Is watched nijfht
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  • 71 1 V. -.iNGTON. Sai JOSH WHITE a V t who saws be h-t :i his ra tdlv n b' 1 demot twttfr than Commun R hr Houix Un-A ltiei Co:nn. blow against Communism ar.d r tell tbt world thai I would not fieht foi thf* inst Sovift
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  • 35 1 The Eelgrade Court h&s ;entenced Mihail Karajeorgiev press attache oi the Soviet Legation m Belgrade. o 10 years' imprisonment. Karageorgiev and four Yugoslavs were charged with Vying tor Russia.- n Reuter
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  • 202 1 Film star's funeral CAIRO, Saturday. THE BODY of the beautiful Egyptian film star Camelia. who died m the Star of Maryland catastrophe on Thursday, was turned away from the doors of Saint Joseph's Catholic cathedral m Cairo yesterday. Thousands of Camelia's fans, who jammed the church
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  • 114 1 WASHINGTON. Sat. pENERAL Hoyt Vnndentrr<?. VI U.S. Air Chief oi Staff. yesterday suspended MajOTQeneral Qnril Anderson aa commandant of the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force base. Montgomery, Alabawa. because of General Anderson's remarks on a preventive war. A* Montgomery, General Anderson denied that
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  • 68 1 Investment ban goes LONDON, Sat. "DRITAIN yesterday abolish- ed almost all restrictions on investment by foreigners m sterling securities. The Bank of England announced that, generally speaking, foreigners would m future be able to switch into any sterling area security, on a stock exchange m the sterling area and not
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  • 34 1 A Chinese Communist delegation which visited the Com-munist-held area of Korea agreed that the North Korean forces were "perfectly humane," and sent a telegram to that offset to the United Nations.- U.P.
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  • 200 1 U.S. will stay at 'readiness' after Korea WASHINGTON, Saturday. A MERICAN land, sea and air forces m the Pacific will be maintained at "battle readiness" following the end of hostilities m Korea as insurance against any more Communist aggressions. This was the answer of Slate and U,;e ice officials to
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  • 15 1 Haifa airfield which b?cn closed since January will be re-opened shortly.— A.P.
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  • 22 1 T former At tm- ion M:: Arthur Calwrll. said m bourne yt^tcrciay said Australia should resisi Indonesian Dutch Nf'.v Ouin<
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 10 1 f NINA ANTIQUE HOUSE [TIVHTM UMC OW RIUINCV RO.S'PQK Ai^
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    • 109 1 M. Flinter S. Grinberg Diamonds Jewellery o 67, Stamford Rd., (En Court Bide Spore. Telephone 7923 COrLU M B f A HAVE YOU HEARD THESE FIRE RECORDINGS of the music m the fir PRELUDE TO FAME" /Ppjjjp now showing m Singapore '/A MPHOMY NO. 4 m A Major Op. Mendelssohn.
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  • Page For Children
    • 738 2  -  Capt. W. E. Johns By a new "Biggies" adventure story ••I'VE a sticky job here I shall have to ask you to look at". Air Commodore Raymond, head of the Air Section at Scotland Yard, pushed the cigarette box on his desk to within reach of his operational
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    • Article, Illustration
      36 2 7h, 9 replica of the 140-ton 10-engined 'Princess flying boat, th^e of which are toeino built at Coires Isle of Wight, it an object of admiration it the Model EnQmeej^exhAbihonin London. The "Princess can carry lMj^ssengers
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      88 2 Stamp corner JJOLIDAYS have lUrted. How would you like t<> spend one on an island m the South Pacific? All the exciting things you could do there are shown m a new set of stamps just issued for Niue (pronounced /2e.?/,/». an island administered by New Zealand. Boys paddle out
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    • 991 2  - An Attack By Pirates S. C. GEORGE By Midshipman Andrew Christie and hit friend, Ben Noake* of a privateer recently returned from sea, are press*anged on to a Naval warship at Plymouth. They both suffer UI-trMtment at the hands or the brutal skipper, Captain Bracher. Andrew is now an ordinary
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      18 2 Schoolboys inspect a racing car built in a home by amateurs another "Model Engineer' exhibit. 1 *f thal\TJW^nrv^K~
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    • 449 2  - Model Engineering Marvels PETER LOVELOCK By THE most interesting exhibit at the •'Model Engineer" Silver Jubilee Exhibition, which has been filling London's new Horticultural Hall with its usual throngs of young and old fanatics, was not a model at all. It was a genuine racing car, capable of more than
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 120 2 FREE PRESS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS SITUATIONS VACANT— SITUATIONS WANTED— ACCOMMODATION VACANT Sffi^VS^SS?-"* ">» SAL O^ A A C N A T? D T Wr.t. vo «c adverti^ment here m BLOCK LETTERS five words to a line II Coit ocr Will III! 4 fcdrt |1 lnie f t on 4 lines $2
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    • 83 2 AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION I OIL PAINTINGS I kf em went contmcntrl Art^H w'l kx RAFFLES HOTEL I from Sept. 2nd to Sept. 10th Km arc cordially I. vited to tiVu. H OPEN 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M I ALL PICTURES ARE FOR SALE BB3f'v?w II WI I For wkolCMlc price*,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 327 2 Junior Crossword > of the oak tree. 6, First King ot fc H| M| WM Israel. 7. lialian. composer pi Rigoletto. 8. Headquarters of the Hb__ fßi^ Surrey County Cricket Club. 10. 1 J JB__jH First name of a» George Ehot M'■ M character. 14. Fruit that growp on B|^
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  • 385 3 AMERICANS AWAIT NEXT RED MOVE A II eyes on satellites WASHINGTON, Saturday. SOME Americans may bet asking themselves: how many Russian satellites will this nation fight before it decides to challenge the real source of the trouble, Moscow? Right now all efforts m Washington and m other Western capitals are
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    30 3 KAIS ING FlND— Students •rm a ballet at the fart! I party at Fairfield LodX i< in?ton. London, m i >f the building fund of thr Royal Academy of Dancin«.
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  • 34 3 from Yant ..> c-nce o'a ID nc rthAlja:. .re an' unnnmbri cf officers :s of ihe Greek ed oy cruerillas 1949, are disj live under appalling like ■^ie;i m A.P.
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  • 143 3 INN REVIVES CHALLENGE TO DRINKERS HAMPTOM COURT. MIDDLESEX, Fri. ♦PHE Topers calendar has A been revived at the picturesque low-timbered Kings Arms Inn m historic Hamp ton Court, built for Cardinal Wolsey. On it are inscribed the names of those men of prodigious stamina and insatiable thirst who were able
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  • 41 3 Britain got US$2. 539.500.000 m Marshall Aid from April 1948 to June 1950. This was disclosed m the British Government's report 'o the Economic Cooperation Administration for the second quarter of losn nnhiishpri m London.- Reuter
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    137 3 ,J are trumps. South 1 IZmth and fl c of Urn >-x incks lefcaat. ds a trump. North i c!-ib. It c. Imi Bul or West dis- South leads r .ig a trick bu >:;}od Heart* m I! W rd a sp.ide fc then leads clubs to Nartb'i
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  • 201 3 ROME, Saturday. •yHOSE colourful flower stands the tourist sees A along Rome's broad avenues and narrow ancient streets combine to make up one ef the eternal city's fast growing businesses. In fact, flower sales have increased so much since the war that the city's picturesque wholesale
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  • 27 3 Jews will oppose Internationalisation of the Holy City 'if necessary, even by force." the Mayor of Jerusalem, Mr. Daniel Auster. caid m London.— A.P.
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  • 206 3 M REMBERG, Saturday. |7iGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD Elfrieda Sandncrova toss*J ed her thick chestnut hair and laughed scornfully when a U.S. Military Court m Nuremberg jailed her for nine years as a spy. Elfrieda, a Sudeten German, was a B] yfarr until la ;t winter. Short,
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  • 88 3 The D:itch Government has said that religious consideration must not be permitted to enter Into talks on the future ststus of Western New Guinea. The Government added m an official statement that it could not agree with a conclusion m the Dutch section of the
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  • 37 3 A delegation of the World Federation of Democratic Youth is m Prague on its way to China for the October 21 celebration of the First Anniversary of the proclamation of t^p f!hinpsp Peonle's Republic- A.P.
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  • 19 3 Three Indonesians have left Jakarta for England with scholarships to study at specialised institutes In Britain. Reuter
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  • 52 3 7RAFFIC slopped around the Cathcd/ai- square m Netv-castle-ou-Tyne to allo \v Mr. John Atkinson, the Town Clerk, to proclaim the opening of Lammas Fair, according to the charter granted by King John m 1216. But no one will attend ihe fair. It ceased to exist many
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  • 206 3 Fabians saved RuSSia— Says G.B.S. LONDON, Friday. npHE playwright and political campaigner, Mr. A George Bernard Shaw, claimed m a letter to the London Times that it was he and his fellow Fabians who saved Russia from ruin after the Bolshevik revolution. He was making the "sane suggestion" that Britain
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  • 92 3 BOMBAY. Frl. rVO persons were kf.led and 22 wounded when police and home guards opened rire yesterday Qn riotuigr strikers In the Dadar-Lal Bans mill area of Bombay. A Government spokesman gave thete casuilty figures. but a Socialist spokesman said t^ere were three killed and 35
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    37 3 IN THE RUNNING 1 Larl of Dal'.ceith with his father and mother, the Duke and Duchess of P.i: cleuch, and his sister, Lady Caroline Scott. Recent rumours have coupled the Earl's name with that of Princess Margaret.
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  • 109 3 SENATOR FEARS THE WORST MANILA. Fri. A THIRD world war "Inevitable. says Philippine Senator Avelino. who has just returned to Manila from a month trip abroad as President Elpidlo Quirino's ambassador of goodwill. lie visited the Unit?d States, South America and Europe with his wife and th» v.idow of the
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 261 3 w Crossword No. 14H iM^pgpj-»^^A«^»^^-^—^ fc^M^M^_ 14 I 1 DOWN 1 if he a wood I <6>. 6. J Solution to Crossword No. 1 40 Acres*: 4. Black. 7, and Blue. 8. Gr:>:. 9. Dilemma. 11. Sundial 12, Augusta. 17, Pitcher. 18. Prado iy, Tea-room 20, Rolls. Down: 1, Cardiiiurper.
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  • 483 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Sept. 2, 1950. A hit on the jaw MX Pat Johnson can appreciate "a fair and square hit on the jaw". Bui to "hit a man below the belt", he .vs. savours more of gutter press". This flurry of old. old cliches apparently denotes that
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  • 669 4  - Atom-Powered Ships By 1955? LEONARD RULE By- who was formerly attached to the British Ministry of Supply. IN five years time the first atom-powered ships may be sailing the seas. That statement is an indication of the progress which has been made m developing atomic energy for industrial purposes since
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  • Letter to the Editor
    • 140 4 IT seems to me that Politico (Thursday this week* is slightly off the beam. When "Time" talks of the British Government's fearing to be "beastly to the Chinese Communists" surely it is referring to the Peking administration and not to the Malayan terrorists. Otherwise the magazine's comment
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  • 644 4 Talking about Singapore by Citizen. "IT is generally agreed that the biggest menace on the roads m Singapore are trishas closely followed by taxis", says the annual report of the Traffic Police. 'There are far too many of both types and an attempt is being made to reduce the number".
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    6 4 J VfRO WU. r*U THE CAT
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  • 121 4 DR. W. R. INGE, 90-year-old former Dean of St. Paul's, spoke recently of the "gibberish" of the 30th verse of Psalm 68, beginning "Rebuke the company of >pear men." "I am told the correct translation of these words Is 'Rebuke the hippopotamus,' he said at
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  • 565 4  - They Take A Bath To Get Rich W.H. POTTER By BRITISH GUIANA: ttUPER S T I T I O U S Guianese whisper the word "Obeah" with bated breath and fear m their hearts, because Obeah is what the rest of the world calls black magic. The people of this
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    74 4 Seen on the reviewing stand during an international mass peace dem staged tn Soviet-occupied East Berlin are (left to right > JacQues Duc\ Palmiro Togliatti. Italy; Wilhelm Pxeck. East Germany; Mikhail A *>usiov, Union; Otto Groteuohl and Walter Ulbricht. East Germa vj. three men a senior officer of the newly-created
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 14 4 The PEKING Co. 81, High Street, Singapore. CURIOS CRAFTS YING'S 37. Stamford Road, Singapore.
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    • 80 4 t jji i Yes, there you are old boy and what luck! Now I can make that pudding for tonight and perhaps an icecream to follow. I could do with half-a-dozen of you if I could get them, but really you seem so popular now-a-dayj— However, come along, it It
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  • Free Press Saturday magazine
    • 8 1 Free Press Saturday magazine Saturday, September 2, 1950.
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    • 448 1 When they first appeared m Singapore customers were a bit hesitant but today— says George Scow JIIREE hundred young Chinese Is m Singapore cut I congealed pig's I>l<><ml I ;it leasl once every >r I nigh I for health. Their j<>!> demands it. the women I
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    • 47 1 IMPORT AMI relics of the broP7P age have been disMOtal >ite on the moors above Bur- incashir?.. bed for. 3.000 years has revealed a bulal urn ron'airing calcined i b.iked food disco' Tries s i^Lshioned r. rubbing (t sc apers, borers, and b
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    • 655 1  -  KENNY KAYE by uI'XDRKDS of en"thusiaslic boisterous, perspiring couples are jammed ti^ht on the dance floor. It is Saturday nitfht m the Cabaret Giggling girls, perspiring men. Couples trying to jive. The endless shuffle -shuffle of hundreds of pairs of feet. The ceaseless blaring
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    • 607 1  - Out of the way little known STEPHEN SIM by IS ONE OF SINGAPORE'S SMALLEST TEMPLES. NEVERTHELESS. THE TUA PEH KONG HOUSES FIVE DEITIES AND IS OFTEN VISITED. ffUCKED away m an obscure recess m Singapore is a small Chinese temple known lo few. Situated at the foot of Governor's Hill
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
      • 48 1 JUST ARRIVED PORCELAIN COOKING STOVES m/k |H| HH s )M k£ (x j*& \tr*w wh^ AVAILABLE IN 2-BURNER TABLE MODEL 3-BURNER TABLE MODEL 2-BURNER STANDING MODEL I MADE OF STRONG CONSTRUCTION— WITH PORCELAIN TOPS, PORCELAIN BURNERSLAST LONGER-EASY TO KEEP CLEAN— NO WORRY OF PAINT PEELING OFF. OBTAINABLE FROM
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      • 77 1 HERE S THE SHIRT TO KEEP YOU COOL WHEN THE HEATS ON ESSLEY LENO SPORTSHIRT Made or jn airy open-weave fabric of combed cotton that left rH« cool breeze whistle throufk to yovr *kin l\ /fl^/fXi^ CHOICi Of y/*~Z-~-^JfcJ% WHITE lt blu£ LT. TAN ViLV/ V LT. CREEN x^^^^X/^ yy
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    • 795 2 At Last!— Three Good Comedies SATURDAY MACAZINI PHIS stricken old world is dearly m need of a laugh and it has been a general complaint that the screen of late has not given us enough to Jaujjh at. Three films due soon In Singapore should satisfy this need lor merriment.
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    • 64 2 LATEST addition to The cast, headed by Irene Dunne, m Tne Mudlark la Beatrice Campbell, ex-WAAF daughter of a Belfast K.C. Twenty-five-vear-nld Beatrice will provide the only romantic interest m the fllrri, m which she defies h»> Queen by eloping three times With the same Guards officer.
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    • 126 2 *PITO» -ClifToi W*»bb o. dan twm is hack igaia v. .1 \rr\ ftßMHta| ck>rru .-dv h. Which hli l«i.-ge family of n<.i>\ children is excused on (he piound* 'hat they tome heaper By The Un/fn" M' Lov is the -r and .Jeanne C:ain he daughter. C \T
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    • 567 2 'ONE TOO MANY'— AND IT'S ON DRINK A FILM is to be made about Alcoholics Anonymous, the organisation that helps confirmed alcoholics. ii will be called "One too many". The story will teU how Dholism affects the lives ol drinkers and non-drinkers m a small community. Only tew thinga had
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    • 81 2 The documentary film Battle For Iwo Jima 'coming to the Capitol* is a terse tense 20-minute film of the trojan-like struggle to gain a foothold on Iwo Jima the most strongly guarded Japanese fortresi r. the Pacific It is m technicolour and .shows with terrible authenticity the
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    • 311 2  - Rosalind And Ray In A Lively Frolic MAUREEN MALLAL By "A WOMAN OF DlS- TINCTION' la a lively satire on the modern 'career-woman. Rosalind Russell, as Susan Middlecott. the clever, beautiful and socially prominent Dean of Benton College for women, is the same sophisticated Rosalind we knew before she so
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    • 545 2  -  JYMPSON HARMAN i,, CONCLI OES i .sir r\\o\ >/./// SWANSON settled down m the spring of 1932 m Mayfair as West End hostess. British film producer and mother She brought with her Michael Farmer. an Irishman, who had become her fourth husband m the previous summer.
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    • Page 2 Advertisements
      • 40 2 __cJ FEDERATION 1_ OF MALAYA P" TELEPHONE DIRECTORY 1950 Copies may be obtained from The Straits Times Press Ltd., Cecil Street, Singapore, or from our Branch Offices m Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh or Penang PRICE $1.50 PER COPY 'Including Po»U f
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      • 101 2 We recommend VERITAS MULTIFIL (Hill Type) Rosette Fold Mantles LAST LONGER GIVE Br TIER IK, MI For all types of Pressure L:«« VERITAS JOO/400 CANDLE>OWW MAM C •vC.ANO If unablt* iw •tu.tiii. apph to Fat-tor* KcproniUtiv M^srs. W G THI RSTON (0.. t» «t, Thr %n Singapore, for address of
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    • 1310 3  -  K. V. VOON Free Press Saturday Short Story by world knew Mr Shen Hoi as m;m who had worked his \v;)\ to the top of the social ladder. He neither drank nor smoked and \\;is. m fvciv w;i\ s;ive one. an exemplary character He was
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    • 447 3 The beautiful empress had big feet QRACE RAYMOND related m Hie Free Press magazine some weeks ago a legend of how bound feet became the custom m ancient Cathay. I remember another story told me by my grand-aunt of how small feet became the fashion m the Flowery Kingdom. Empress
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    • Page 3 Advertisements
      • 207 3 WONDERFUL /'^^Wf now showing _J* Vv. TV /TT TPIT/^l GUYROLFE A I Hh S M %> l^k KATHLEEN BYRON KATHLEEN RYAN 1 1 li-j Sr^v IVIUOIV^ prelude TO FAME PAVILION THEATRF -JEREMY SPLNStR X Lj X AXI JLj JT\ IX\ £j P NENRY OSCAR JOHN Si AMR Iht teyal Pmin*rm«o»c
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    • 433 4  -  HAROLD MAYES by MOST coveted thing In British boxing, apart from m«n. is Ihc lonsdale Brit. Since these trophies were iirst instituted by the National Sporting Club In IHS, lighters have always been trying to earn themselves a third notch to make a
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    • Article, Illustration
      26 4 i:\PTIW Chanm-1 swimmer. Hassan Abdel Rehiin. mt rff hi> massive shoulders as he returns to his esMtd aflM his record- breaking swim of lOhrs. o* ■tat.
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    • 910 4  -  GEORGE CREIGHTON By < iirHFM ih* newsoaners announce that a swimmer has again conquered the WSsh Channel few apart from those actually concerned m the accom- J^n, r, a Vise the terrific feat of endurance successfully overcome. Prior to the second world war. no
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      9 4 This 2k«c»«nt c K^»b»t laJLes Mi u««tlrn>«*»*. 1 CRtcKer*
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    • 546 4  -  Cover Point By AS I had occasion to last week. Ratnayake is one of the best all round cricketers m the Colony. This fact was well known before this season started, but by his performance anyone would have thought he was out to try and convince a
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      4 4 r photo. ACROBATIC Reuter
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    • 188 4 ryHE ends of a "tandem >ied' mmutMche on it- the pride and joy of a Royal Air Force bomber have been mounted into a trophy lor annual competition between the workers* cricket teams of the General Electric Company. WUlun, Warwick. It iras on a fateful suiwners
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    • 480 4  -  Archie Quick By I ESS than ten hours after he left London Airport. Jack Holden, the 43- *J year-old Staffordshire sports groundsman, was being hailed as the greatest marathon runner m Europe at the Continental Championships m Brussels. There is something of the Reg Harris
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    • 126 4 A i key match merit. The or.:v is the Chin Club lwith v dash m the final r League. The Unj bin the fti match, when Le<' V playing on In lor tht Be* himself to the tack. Ann adopted the < against Dr Yeah m
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    • 61 4 \-TRALIA beat El tv 53 ll and final Specd Maich at Wemb!»" g on Thursday thus bi the score to three England \s favour It was one oL t. flghts of the series. W breath to «o. the Au> held a sl^nd*-r two and m thr
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      • 49 4 THE SINGAPORE PACKING COMPANY In Association with SINGAPORE BAGGAGE TRANSPORT AGENCY LTD. for PERFECTION for POLITENESS for PROMPTITUDE 65. The Arcade Tel. 4658 ***** 3rd. Floor Cable Address:Singapore "Bagtransag" DUPLICATING j TYPEWRITING SERVICE FOR COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, SCHOOL, (W, MM A T C CHUA I I fr*#*»tfW m Ttl *****
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      • 124 4 Sampling a RUBBER bale I A t ~~m yi. roirt of Vast quantitic* oe" rubber W^^msm -M an handled at the Port of LOVl&OVl London and £M3litie» for quick •ftd efficient checking and Th,, iterate. rf The iUu.tration abow» one many feciliuca oflcred to .Vup««faod uaed by PJ.A. A pen
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    • 205 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE householders consumed more gas last ar than m 1948. establishing a record figure of 1*43 949,000 cubic feet, says the annual report of the [Singapore Municipal Gas Department. Doir.es' u- consumption bu In 11)49 showed an m- t of 32.239.000 cir
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    • Article, Illustration
      37 5 picture, T^INE-YFAR-OLD Wendy Gieenberg was picture*! tni.jN Niamlin? on a stool m Raffles Hotel giuunds to set a closer picture of a bust of Sir Stamt.,rfl KitTles »\hich was cemented onto a brick pillar \»Nierilav. Free Press
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    • 650 5 Parties must be suited Free Press Staff Reporter \[EW legislation has been drafted to make it unlawful for any body of persons m Singapore to make arrangements for the adoption of a child unless that body is a registered adoption society or a local authority,
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      54 5 picture THE funeral of Mr. G. A. A. Denne, manager of a rubber estate m Pahang, took place at Cheras Road Cemetery m Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Mr. Denne was murdered by terrorists on his estate on Thursday. Picture shows some of the mourners awaiting the arrival of the cortege at
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    • 54 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ALOR STAR, Fri. A MALAY cigar manufacturer m Sungci Patani and* bis employees slept through a fire which was burning up their shop until the arrival of the Fire Brigade woke them up. The fire, which caused Sl.OOO damage, was put
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    • 143 5 Trade m ission 's plans in Malaya Free Press Staff Reporter PHE Indian trade delegation, which is arriving m 1 Singapore on Sept. 20, will also visit Kuala Lumpur and Penang, on their way to Bangkok, it was announced yesterday by Sardar Jogindra Singh, the Government of India Trade Commissioner.
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      31 5 A simple technique was used by this dog-catcher at Singapore Docks yesterday. All he did was whistle. The bag? Two dogs, one of which is pictured being captured by an attendant.
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    • 200 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T'HE Ist Battalion, the Devonshire Regiment, will leave Malaya for the United Kingdom, it was announced by G.H.Q., Far East Land Forces, yesterday. They will be replaced m Pahang by a battalion which has completed refitting and training so the Army's
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    • 202 5 Free Press Staff Reporter VjUHERE quarters have been allotted to a Singapore Municipal officer for his occupation while m service, another Municipal officer has no right to live m the same quarters, or to occupy them on the death of the tenant. This rule has been
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    • 71 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. T*HE High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, will leave by air for London tomorrow. Sir Henry is going to London for official talks concerning South East Asia. He will have a short period of leave before returning to the Federation m November. In Sir
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    • 26 5 There were 633 births and 204 deaths m Singapore Municipality last week. Chief causes of death were pneumonia (25>, tuberculosis (24j and convulsions <20>.
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    • 47 5 The Malayan Youth Council will have its inaugural meeting m Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and Sunday next week. Delegates from youth councils which have been set up m the States and Settlements and representatives of federal organisations will arrive m Kuala Lumpur on Friday night.
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    • 90 5 ALTHOUGH there were 658 vacancies for labourers m the Singapore Employment Exchange register last month, the Department managed to fill only 105 posts. Of 260 jobs going for maidservants, 183 amahs were placed, A total of 1,222 people, including 221 juveniles, sought work through the
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    • 69 5 |X)UR Chinese were charged F with trespassing m the compound of the Alexandra Brickworks. Pasir Panjang Road, m the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. Ng Swee Hock, aged 20. Tay Tian Sang, aged 22. and Tan Ghim Au. aged 19. pleaded guilty and were each fined $5.
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    • 129 5 Free Press Staff Reporter F)EPOSITS m the Singapore Post Office Sa vines Bank totalled $13,886,952.52 m l'J49, while withdrawals amoui.'ed to $12,424,062.42, states the report of the Director of Audit, gazetted ywfgWli At a result of the ciivi- /i of the reserve invesimc.'s and other assets
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    • 138 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THERE will be a iheauical 1 world premiere m Sir. pore tonight. A play written by the Repertory net ormanager. John ForbesSompill. ha? Xl first-eyei showing at the Victoria Memorial Theatre. The play, "Th/y Marnr-d A Crook." is a face sot I I
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    • 69 5 Free Press Staff Rep**:ter. KUALA LUMPUR Fri For dishonestly retaining a stolen bicycle, an elderlyChinese. Lim Nge. was today sentenced to one yea: s imprisonment by Ifr. A P. Jack m the First Magistrates Court His sentence is to be followed by a years police supervision
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      • 69 5 MAIL Surface mail is expected In Singapore today fnm South Airica. North Borneo Laoaan. Brunei, Miri, Java and the Federation. Latest times lor posting surface mail at the Q.P.O. today are: noon for North Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Miri, Slam (parcels only), Java. Kelantan (parcels only), and Pontianak; 3 p.m. for
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    • 720 6 BROOKS, SEBASTIAN IN HECTIC BATTLE Jimmy Welch wins easily arena last night. Here were two clever boxcr^ watching each other like hawks and hitting uith all they had-but seldom squarely, to win a fight which both could not afford to lose; and they lost n th Sebastian fought a great
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    • 270 6 'Lurid jokes': women doctors reply ,cipal I .fant Welfare Clinics. i-ie uiu) r m charge of [nlant Welfare Dr. Mary Tan.; int, Dr Maggie the M signed jointly doctors 'as lividuall and nor I Otticers. that Mr. Johnson ited the made to him tuents before mi.-> lona m a dudlc
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    • 31 6 s.c. bes I by four gor Sin re A FA. Bttslneai Boon "B 3at the C V gr und Jaffar '3» and W a:;d H. Ch lliah fc Pi
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    • 26 6 T'HE ring were jrester--1 :is on Che H'>nK Knn'j, Money cha: 33 per US HKSIjhO per pound Ing. HK$297 er f.iol i I U.P.
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    • 109 6 LONDON. Sat. °vUT of a turnover of 155 J tons of tin on the meial narket yesterday morning 50 tons were spot. The price of ;pot fell a further £9-1 2 to per ton and three months lost £8-1/4 at [751-1 4. •laftet circles see m the
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    • 86 6 Earl Cochell, of Los Angeles, who was ignored completely by tlip United s\*tes •o>. up*et Pr Sedgman of Ai^.:.ii:\ m a playoff .-5. 5-7, 1-6. 6-2, 6-2 I mnde It an I rtei finals m the I I r:nii!s championships. loading 4-2 In the l r t
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      10 6 Meet e e t I Mary Newton IfflSffil Joseph Roco
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    • 131 6 SCORING the only goal of match m the nrst ten minutes of play. Fathul Karib defeated Kola Raja "A" in a sal-A Junior Cup game at the Gcylang Stadium yesterday. Tlie winning goal waa scored by Marzuki. Although the Fathul Karib forwards tried hard to
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    • 303 6 J^| "i „.,.^;.£S» J{* AJ^Lj V»™^>**? LONDON, Sat. TiHE latest news from Korea tended to hesitancy on the market yesterday which i q sised the general practice of evening up week-end states Reuter's financial corn 3ritish Government stocks orened were showing signs o^ a recovery m
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      • 136 6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya j D? SH) 7^l |Nty^K;.ND LETME[jYES.SIR.T HEAR KO V,QR£j-^. 17/l 7/ k Y. ABOUT TH.S. tfj f Sr^^l J Exclusive to the Singapore tree Press m Malaya YOU DIDN'T WANT^ I/YOU SHOULD KNOW.'- MY ffM 6ORRY, Y"'l/^4 OU£RR > B fi *^9HBHB
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      • 11 6 HIGH TIDES Today: I.sBajn; 1.56 p.m. Tomorrow. 33 a.m. 2.24 p.m.
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    • 195 7 SHOWING much improved lorm. the European XI defeated tne Surasians by three goals to one yesterday it Jalan Besar m the InterCommunity League. The Europe. :'.s Nad the better of the exchanges In the first half. •:tc a ell .»nd constant 1\ press-d U\e Eurasians dfence. In
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    • 585 7 HEAVY GOING AT K.L. TODAY The Blessing is safest wager By ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. EMVE-and-a-half hours' rain last evening will make the going: for this 1 afternoon's race s very heavy. Free Frenchman will not start m the fifth race. His two front joints are enlarged and the
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      16 7 "What's YOl'R worry? So matter how it comes, it's still only eight stones on YOl'R back!"
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    • 68 7 J^EIL FRANKLIN, former Stoke and England centre-half, who is one of four players suspended by the English Football League for playing m Bogota. Colomoia, has applied to the League for reinstatement. Announcing this last night Franklin said he did not intend to return to South American football
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    • 115 7 'T'HE Commissioner General, Mr A Malcolm Mac Donald. will lay the foundation stone of the new $400,000 Island Club building at 5.30 p.m. toasy. Mr Mac Donald will Insert a 15 x €H inch copper casket Into a prepared cavity under the foundation stone. The casket will
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    • 479 7 DOWLING on a piUh v.hich w^s responsive to spin, Valentine and Goddard bundled the Kent batsmen out for a meagre 67 luns m their second innings to give the West Irdian tourists an easy win by 222 runs at Canterbury yrstero»y. The Kent batsmen
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    • 247 7 ALLAN LEWIS TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 SEVENTY SEVEN SEVENTY SEVEN SEVENTY SEVEN ADMIRAL ADMIRAL 2 30 Admiral Kelvin Admiral Kelvin 'Seventy Seven Athlete Admiral Jeanelte Seventy Seven fAth'ete RACE 2 HARIMAN HUNTING MUSIC CINEMA MARCO POLO YOUR LORDSHIP 3.00 Hunting Music Cinema
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    • 434 7 COMMONWEAL TH MATCH DRAWN rilF match between the Commonwealth team and 1 an England XI at Kingston, Surrey, was drawn. The Commonwealth team declared their first innings closed at Wednesday's total of 280 for 7. There was no play on Thursday owing to rain. T>W-» t' 1 l VT i..
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    • 71 7 f^NLY light business was done on the Bt Leper at last night's Victoria Club Call-over. French-trained favourite Vieux Manoir hardened to 7-4 following last night's surprise withdrawa of Prince Simon. Castle Rock, only English bred colt among the six quoted, was made joint third favourite Witt L'Amiral
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    • 51 7 C WEALTH XI FOR CEYLON rpHE Commonwealth cricket team, touring India and Pakistan this winter, will also visit Ceylon, Mr. M. K. M. Ismail. Honorary Secretary of the Ceylon Cricket Board, said yesterday. Negotiations with the Indian Cricket Board of Control In this connection have been successfully concluded. Mr. Ismail
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      24 7 picture. MR. C. P. LISTON leads \n John (bag or up) after wmning the second race at Km la Lumpur on Wednesday. Free Press
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      • 259 7 BURIiLAR AMRM i SYSTEM There is *t% old adage which W3tn% us against being penny wise and pound foolish. And yet how many people are like that. They spend large sums of money on acquiring beautiful and expensive things and yet begrudge a trifling amount to ensure their complete safety.
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      • 194 7 Today's acceptors Card of events for today is given below. Double totes will be on Races 4 and 5; 7 and 8. Big Sweep will be on Race 8 RACE 1—2.30: CLASS 3, DIV. 6—6 F. 1. OCO Beiio Healey 9.00 2. 000 Bullion E. Donnelly 8.13 S. —0 Seventy
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      • 517 7 3. 004 Big Money Tait 810 4. 401 Lucky Star II Bagby 8.09 5. 010 Tail Light Woods 8.09 6. —0 Announce Charles 8.08 7. 340 Merlin Healey 8.08 8. 134 Ascot Vale Lansdown 8.07 9. 002 Hyperia Tulloh 8.06 10 --0 Full Till E. Donnelly 8.05 SCRATCHINGS: 021 Flying
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    • 352 8 A GAP IN WESTERN DEFENCE Re-armament for Germany? LONDON, Saturday. r<ERMAN rearmament has become the topic of the hour m London, and although it is clear that no decision will be taken before September at the earliest, there is a widespread feeling m London that the controversy has entered a
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      33 8 DOI BLEi) UF— iVv, r y Wallace, world's champion treestyle skater, bickbends her lissom body m her interpretation of an Indian war dance m the Skating Vanities of 1950 at Wembly Pool, London.
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      24 8 I'm interested ir this scheme, bud. Eiport me to Parit. but quick. I ye \utt had my first taste of an English summ>r i
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    • 52 8 DURBAN Sat. MB. Justice Broome has granted an Interdict restraining the Durban City Council from c i -He 142 Indian employ Tley had itayed away from work on June 116. th<. •Daj- of Protest" by nonEurcpeans against the treatment of non-whites m South Africa and th racial
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    • 180 8 LONDON, Saturday. A 74-YEAR-OLD man was told by the magistrate at Old Street Court. London: "The anonymous poison-pen writer is, m the judgment of every decent thinking citizen, the most contemptible criminal of all. "Your conduct— and 1 think it is peculiar that throughout the
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    • 87 8 U.S.-British oil deal TOKYO. Sat. COMPLETION of a £10,900,--000 oil deal t> n Bri- and American companies his, been announced m lon. As from today a si Thames estuary will be acIred by the Vac ium Oil Company, a Bn'i.sh subsidiary of the American Socony Vacuum Company, where m the
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    • 56 8 Hong Kong was Japan's best South-East Asian customer of textile goods daring July. Hong Kong imported $1,627,422 worth followed by Siam with $1,390,974 and Formosa $1,079,281. Other South East Asian j buyers of Japanese textiles during July were Burma $652. 493, Malaya $342,173. Singapore $32,463,
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    • 29 8 Delegates from the world's leading opium-producing and drug-manufacturing countries outside Russia have agreed to the principle of Lting opium production to medical and scientific nerds. U.P.
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    • 197 8 pOHN today, you are ex- ceptionally adaptable While this is a talent which (yi n prove very useful, it can also be a handicap, for \ou will find yourself "Retting alons:" with a makcshilt, rather than Retting out and BfhUnf for thinffl as you want them. The
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    • 131 8 Volga to power two huge stations MOSCOW, Fri. The River Volga, "Mother Volga" to the Russians throughout their long history, is soon to be the parent to two of the world's greatest power stations. Power Station No. 1. to be built at Kuibyshev, will have a capacity of about 2,000.000
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    • 49 8 LONDON. BRITISH Ally, cili' H sian-language weekly newspaper published by ihe British Qnbassy In Ifo will cease publication tomoi row. the Foreign O:'.;iv ,m nounced. The official statemen that "the Soviet authorities have compelled the decision by restrict uv r the of the newspaper." Reuter
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    • 53 8 The itilh Lmba.s.-iy has announced thai an flight of R.A.F. Vampires will arrive m Athens from Cyrenaica on Sept. 3 on a threeday ollicial visit. The flight will carry out public and official flying displays following exercises m which the Greek Army :\nd Air Force will
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    • 29 8 Twenty-five passengers and v were injured, none se:sly. when a goods train ran head-on into a mail train from Johannesburg m Dedoorns Station, near Capetown.— A .P.
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    • 28 8 Canada has announced sharp reduction m .mart controls on United States pods, restricted because of ollar shortage. The relaxaon becomes effective on •lober I.— Reuter
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    • 184 8 CALCUTTA, Saturday. A VAST mudch sea dotted with roofs of homes, uprooted trees, floating: ruins, and bodies of wild and domestic animals, and human being! now marks the scene of the earthquake that on August 15 devastated the North Indian Province of Assam. Hundreds
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    • 132 8 Newly-wed 'missed his friends' SHEFFIELD, Saturday. A MAN told his bride of six months that he thought he had made a mistake getting married because he missed his mother and his fishing friends. The wife told Mr. Commissioner Essenhigh m Sheffield Divorce Court that it made her very unhappy. The
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      36 8 NON-STARTERS Britain's new £200,S00 Grand Prix racing car which attan, miles an hour in trial laps, defies all efforts to start it for the second heat of tt ternational Trophy race at the Silverstone Circuit. Northamptonshire
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    • 31 8 Mr. J ton J McCloy. U.S. Higt) Commissioner for Germany, dismissed as munist propaganda" i •hat Russia has signed a secret peace treaty with F:ist r< rmativ.- U.P.
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    • 19 8 B< half-v ay i... k I volume*-, rea Fivr vali( ..ent h;-. with on i rearh A.P.
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      • 52 8 A NOVELTY "CHINESE" INTERLU at RAFFLES HOTEL TONIGHT featured by CASTILLO'S ORCHESTR ROSALIE Personality Sin.trt *r al>o BOUANO on the HAMMOND OR', Dine and Dance then* tonight and be sure of an ENJOYABLE EVENING THY IHI LATEST \!OI>; 3 TWO WAYS I TO CUT OFFICE COST "a machine to count
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