The Singapore Free Press, 19 July 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS. V
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    ATTLEE MAY SEE TRUMAN
    171 1 Talks are likely on Britain's finances LONDON, Thursday. sources reported yesterday that Mr. Attlee may make another trip to Washington late next month for talks with President Truman and other American leaders. He is expected to go over the whole range of Anglo-American relations and world
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    CRAZY DIVE
    59 1 CRAZY DIVE Mr. Johnny Johnson, Singapore Swimming Club instructor, giving an exhibition of clown diving at the Tanglin Club Swimming Gala last night brought roars of laughter from spectators. Rain marred the show and after the exhibitions of swimming and diving by the experts the competitive events were called off
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    Walcott K.O.s Charles
    33 1 MERSEY JOE WALCOTI won 99 the heavyweight championship of the world at Pittsburgh last night with a knockout victory over Ezzard Charles m the seventh round of their title fight.
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    WOMEN CALL FOR M.P.s
    74 1 Extra police were called to the House of Commons last night when 500 women marched to its gates chanting we want equal pay" and "we want our Members of Parliament." Doors were closed against them by police but several women hammered at them, continuing their calls.
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    KOREA WANTS TO SIGN
    72 1 The U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson. yesterday declined to comment on reports that South Korea has asked to be included among the signers of a Japanese peace treaty and Is asking that it be given the Japanese island of Thushima. He told his weekly
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    Colonies told: no more dollars
    170 1 LONDON, Thursday. I K. Hugh Gaitskell, Chancellor of the Exchequer, iTI yesterday warned the 90 Colonial leaders here for the Festival of Britain that for the period ahead there was not going to be any chance of allowing more dollar purchases. Mr. Gaitskell said that
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    QUERY ON PRICE CONTROL
    165 1 QUERY ON PRICE CONTROL MR. Stanley Awbery, Labour, asked m the Commons last night wh.at action the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Griffiths, was taking m response co representations by the Singapore Trades Union Congress to the Government of Singapore for the setting up of a system of rationing and price control.
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    SHIP SINKS AFTER FIRE
    41 1 The Danish freighter, O. E. Amdrup, 900 tons, sank yesterday off Norway's south coast after being wrecked by fire lasting six hours. The crew of 29 and 14 Danish passengers including five children were taken off. A.P.
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    Negro singer arrests man for insult
    112 1 Negro singer arrests man for insult LOS ANGELES, Thurs. A Texas salesman arrested rx by Negro singer Josephine Baker, who accused him of a slightiTig remark against her race, has paid a US$lOO fine m lieu of spending ten days m jail. The incident occurred m he Baltimore Hotel, Los
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    U.K. using $ reserve to replace lost oil
    208 1 U.K. using reserve to replace lost oil I>RITAIN has started buying United States oil to replace the loss of Persian supplies, and production has been increased m the Middle East. If Persian production Ls entirely unavailable Britain would need some 25,000,000 to 30.000,000 tons of oil yearly from other sources.
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    COMET BREAKS RECORD
    69 1 In the record time of 17 hours, thirty minutes nine hours less than the time taken by present airliners the De Havilland Comet jet airliner yesterday flew from London to the Rand (South Africa). Flying at 30,000 to 40,000 feet, the Comet covered the 6,212 miles at
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    Juliana for U.S.
    25 1 Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands will make an official visit to the United States and Canada next year.— Reuter
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    Muslims protest
    25 1 The Muslim communities m Israel have protested to the Israeli Government aga? t the Bill to give women equal rights with them. AFP
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    George nedallist killed
    56 1 George nedallist killed !e lieutenant who >d m the Kiunun oa Tue>di\ ui> nt O Hartley. 1S awarded the fatal tor .mUtandtt on April »5 this Hartley win bandit> jtiicked re Tehiele> t went off the road taniD. Thf :»andits i^?ed b> the repolice »Uce constable and I constable were
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    Rita lib says 'no neconiliation'
    60 1 ■KBLLfI Calil rnia, I Thurs. I vorh has made I Ib >»Jt h^r I Prince I \r- In. Phi she has decided fr ..i'. r. Whe. ■■^•igr-d Prince f^- i* leagt ip"m before divorcing I'W disclosed I I W Yorlt Duly New* PWertHthat Ri\i HayF'tomi
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    TURPIN'S PLANS
    16 1 r Tarpm wor i d PAampion. will BSf 8 ii for l.i, n Reuter
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    Menzies offers to mediate
    52 1 The Pakistani Government last night officially confirmed having received an Australian offer of mediation m the Kashmir dispute. The Kashmir problem was personally studied by the Australian Prime Minuter. Mr Robert Menzies, m New Delhi and Karachi when he passed last December on his way to
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    AIRMAN LOST IN BOAT ACCIDENT
    59 1 AN RAF man is missing, believed to have been drowned, following an accident when sailing with a girl companion off Chanel yesterday. Their boat got into difficulties at the height of a storm and capsized. When a rescue traft reached the spot, the girl was
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    U.S. CASUALTIES DOWN
    54 1 United States battle casualties m Korea reached a total of 79,139 yesterday— an increase of 413 since last week. This is the smallest increase since the first weekly summary was issued on August 7 last year. The list showed only 49 killed m action during the week
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    QUARTER OF WAR CLAIMS PAID
    119 1 LONDON. Thurs. The Colonial Secretary. Mr. jam/s Griffiths, said yesterday that about 31.000 out V ion nnn war damage ce e s S and Private mdivl- the Commons. Separate figures for each class were not available as claims were divided into categories as follows: private
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    DECISION SOON ON AMLSU CLAIMS
    224 1 LONDON, Thursday. jyiß. Stanley Awbery, (Labour) asked the Air iTI Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, m Commons yesterday if he knew of the dissatisfaction among the civil staff of his department at Singapore because of the delay m dealing with the claims of the Air Ministry
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    Reds insist troops must leave Korea
    402 1 Reds insist troops must leave Korea LONDON, Thursday. pOMMUNIST negotiators, m Korea will insist on the withdrawal of all foreign tro«*ps from the peninsula m the truce negotiations now underway m Kaesong, Moscow Radio said yesterday. The broadcast quoted a Tass dispatch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on
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    BRITISH P.O.W.s 'VERY FIT'
    50 1 HUNDREDS of British prisoriers survivors of the Gloucester ltatlalion't stand m April on the lmjin are itill m prison camps m North Korea. Chinese Communal jteurn 'lists said m Kaeson* ycstt-i-\»av. They sail *he Itrilish troops were "very fit" and were beintc well treited. Reuter,- AAP
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    RUNNING GIRLS GO MODERN
    150 1 LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH women athletes will no longer be "old fashioned." A new regulation has been passed which will allow them to look the equaU of their rivals on the track. They may now wear shorts and vests m keeping with the modern age. Hitherto, the
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    Kiddies Wallace typeslO,ooo words a day
    884 2  -  EVELYN IRONS By pNID Blyton, th« children's Edgar Wallace, has published a complete list ol her books. Her fans have to pay 6d. for It. It shows that this prodig ous yarn-spinner, still m her forties, has 250 books m print. She estimates that
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    Should this book be censored?
    507 2 MEMOIRS OF HECATE COUNTY. Edmund Wilson. (W. H. Allen). UfHEN this book was published m the U.S.A. five years ago it caused the kind of stir that publishers dream about. On the one hand, it was acclaimed for high literary qualities, on the other, denounced
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    HE WROTE IN COM LINED ROOM
    976 2  - HE WROTE IN COM LINED ROOM GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON h read about the writer than will ever read hi* masterpiece. For Proust is one of the most fascinating men of bis age, as nobody will doubt who reads Charlotte Haitian?^ brief, convenient guide to his HTe. THE THOUSAND DEATHS OF
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    Wedgwood a famous incendiary
    320 2 Wedgwood a famous incendiary By Robert Otto way "JO6IT' Wedgwood was a famous British incendiary and, no one could put him out. A selfless campaigner for any measure that might enlarge the area of liberty m the world t he spent 37 Parliamentary years m guerilla warfare, often alone, never
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    Clarkson's payement
    113 2 W^IHW Tom Clarkson, of Hull, left school his first job was a draper's assistant, men bad health took him to Italy. On the trip he met Edward Garnett who encouraged hfan to t?o on the stage. He won an OW Vie schotarsfriip but Jots afterwards were few W!
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      355 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR rftN today, you are a natural leader and nave eoavsMerabte posse aad setf-ossnl-dcsM«. Tour keen perception ■takes It oasy for you to aeo Into the heart of any situation. no matter how complicated It may be, aad find an adoauato solution to the problem. CapaMo of underroinx
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    BOOKMAKERS DO THRIVE' ON BETS
    376 3 BOOKMAKERS DO THRIVE' ON BETS £4, 774 award to widow A BOOKMAKER'S yearly income was estimated by Mr. Justice Roxburgh m the King's Bench Division, m London, a s £830. The bookmaker, Mr. Harry Leader, who died from injuries aner a car-taxi crash, was described "ttt said judge. from his
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    U.S. STRENGTH BASED ABROAD
    67 3 Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, former Chairman of the UJS. International Advisory Board, stated that the United States "no longer contains the basis for its own security within its own borders." He said the United States nas grown so dependent on foreign sources for its raw materials that
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    62 3 BISHOP ORDAINED The day for which the small community of Russian exiles now living m London have been waiting, came at long last yesterday when a new Bishop was ordained at the Cathedral m Buckingham Palace Road. Amid an atmosphere which could have been m old Russia itself, Archimandrite Vitaly
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    NO APPROACH
    47 3 A British Foreign Office spokesman has stated that the United States h\d not approached Britain on the question of whether West Germany should become a member of the North Atlan tic Pact, and had given no consideration to the possibility of Wet Germany's admission Reuter
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    Graham in Karachi
    24 3 The U.N. Kashmir mediator. Dr. Frank Graham has arrived m Karachi to confer with the Pakistani Foreign Minister. Zafrullah Khan.— A.F.P.
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    Economic chief
    20 3 Mr. Colin Clark, well-known economist and statistical expert, is to take charge of economic development m Indonesia.- Reuter
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    Atom leaks closed
    28 3 ■om- don. a continuation of conferences held by the three' L-untries m Washington last year, were mainly concerned with plugging leaks of secret A P.
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    NEW ZEALAND PREPARES ROYAL CHAIRS
    145 3 NEW ZEALAND PREPARES ROYAL CHAIRS i *t W -F, LLINGTON ThuK. NEW Zealand- wide scheme has been started under the direction of Lady Freyberg^ wife of New Zealand's Governor-General, to work tapestries for a set of chairs to be used m the vice-regal residence. Government House, Wellington, during next year's
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    Warm pyjamas for Mr. Pringle
    59 3 Warm pyjamas for Mr. Pringle Peter Chandler Pringle, known as Oom Piet, was 121 years old on Tuesday. He lives m Germiston, a reef town near Johannesburg. Every birthday since 1946. Mr. Pringle has received gifts from the mayor of Germiston Yesterday the mayor asked Pringle what he would like.
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    Bandits hanged
    54 3 Two Eritrean Shiftas, Elias Mebrahantu 25, and Zigai Herimeskel 25, captured early m July and sentenced by a special court, were hanged m Asar Prison.— A store of nearly 100 rifles, of a type dating back 50 years to the Boer War. has been unearthed by workmen m
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    Bridge Hand
    299 3 Sast-West vulnerabta. Nqrjh dealer NORTH Q 9 8 4 0 Q 10 9 5 X WEST f» T s i Q 8 4 10 S.i SOTTH 4|| <? A X 10 OAJ 7 3 J 9 6 6 The bidding North East Soutb West pass Pass 10 P
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    FILMS ARE CHIEF RECREATION
    231 3 LONDON, Thursday. QOING to the cinema is the modern English school- child's chief recreation, and favourite films are "thrillers, murders, and mysteries." It seems to have taken the Government about four years to come to this conclusion, after officials had studied results of an exhaustive questionnaire
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    Britain and U.S. In same boat'
    98 3 Britain and U.S. In same boat' NEW YORK, Thurs. THE New York Herald TrU bune In a leading article stated yesterday: The mystery of the missing British diplomats gets deeper and more disturbing The paper said that at the time of the Alger Hiss Cftfct "we thought that some of
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    Air marshal test pilot
    68 3 MELBOURNE. Thurs. CHIEF of Australia's Air Staff, Air Marshal O. Jones, maintained his record of piloting every type of aircraft m service when he test -flew the first CA22. a. training plane designed for the Royal Australian Air Force. The all-Australian-built CA22 is undergoing extensive tests
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    NEW BRITISH STEEL WORKS
    76 3 Europe's biggest steel works it took four years to buiii and rost £60.000.000 has been opened at Port Talbot, South "Wales, by Mr. Hugh. Gaitskell. Chancellor of the Exchequer. The cre^m-coloured plant built by 8.000 workers Wretches W'2 miles along the shore of the Bristol Channel
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    'AFTER YOU'
    36 3 The American H- 1 Cc~missidtier for Auniria, f Walter J. Dcnn<:H. ci^clarrq that the kll powers wanted to Austria, but •they would i do it before the la t B soldier has left. A.F.P.
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    Japs criticise
    32 3 The General Council of Japanese trade unions has issued a statement criticising the peace treaty arrangements for failing to require the participation of both thfl Communist and Nationalist Chinese governments.
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      487 3 SINGAPORE 8.8.C. [Singapore] 10. a.m. Emergency News from Kuala Lumpur; 10.10 Close 10.45 (General Overseas Service) to 12.00 For the Schools: Singing MST Xc/% M Together. Radio Song Book ft m ftam Qt; o 0 Literature for Standards 8&9; V A m iS R& Y£ S 2553 1 p.m. Light
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. July 19. 1951. Thedeluge begins
    502 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. July 19. 1951. Thedeluge begins WHEN the rain fell m torrents yesterday morning, many people m Singapore temporarily forgot their blackout troubles as they found themselves literally immersed m a flood problem. Happily the problem subsided after a while. This long-standing problem of flooding of
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    Economy in Manpower Observed at S.H.A.P.E.
    908 4 General Eisenhower's head quarters has fewer than 200 officers Men ot 12 nations work together m Paris, writes GERALD PAWU WESTERN COMMANDERS IN a small Paris side- street off the Champ Elyees m the shadow of the Etoile. stands the Hotel Astoria. In part
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    FANTASY AND SUCH VIOLENCE
    234 4 LETTER to the EDITOR Sir, rpHE Municipality Special Powers Committee's electricity quota system suggestion is testimony of the hestitant and bewildering attempts by the Municipal Commissioners to appease the anger of the people. The disadvantages of this fantastic proposal emerge with such violence that it is
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    It Seems to Me....
    608 4  -  POLITICO By VI ANY people listening ***to yesterday's broadcast race commentaries accurately placing the first four horses m each race must have wondered why commentators m other fields of sport find it so difficult to give a true word-picture of what is going on. Take football
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    Where Wordsworth Walked
    31 4 i»ie new foliage 01 tne irees ana snruDs ?round 1 nirimere g English Lake District, are to be seen, m July, at the peak of tfc2 beauty. M
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    In Cooks Bush the natives live legally
    622 4  -  DAVID DIVINE Br In 10 years the coloured population of Capetown has increased by over 68.001 T*HE road between the hutments \\as like a water-worn gully m eroded land. Its walls were the walls of huts made out of rusted corrugated iron, flattened
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      34 4 Vo you know that the tiger displays great impatience of heat and thirst and retires by day to shady cover m the neighbourhood of water. reiser v ix»%6 ti,m. Cout, Lumbafo H«^ ache, Insect
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    UNWAR RANTED DELAY' ON U.E.S. PLAN
    252 5 1 eachers Union flays 'Govt. tactics' I#P xr I tte ?reSs Staff M n Scha !L en ?«'vel, President of the won^rinfwS^lt w^ th hat *™°n was tactics of delaytoS thhS .mtt, U t l ual Government "absolutely fed up- Or wh^hl U L
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    life for Timers'
    46 5 life for Timers' tf iHN thrt will These old I racers were donated to the MfcnHpl Club by the Association! The picture above shows \ouag Zuim, one of the right being l.rted on board the frtighter Querimba for the journey to India.- Picture by Tony Balch
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    Plans ready for new Outpatients Dept.
    259 5 Free Press SUff Reporter outpatients department which will be able to deal adequately with all casualties and patients seeking consultations has now been traced on paper m connection wtih the Ten year Medical Plan. The original estimates for an adjunct of the General Hospital
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    Curious requests come to Advice Bureau
    384 5 Curious requests come to Advice Bureau Free Press Staff Reporter. MR B. L. DUNSFORD, head of the Social Welfare Department's itiien Advice Bureau. S ets many curious requests from people who come seeking advice and assistance from his bureau. There was, for instance, the Singapore mother who wanted him to
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    K.L. RUBBER CONFERENCE
    42 5 Free Press picture- Inche Salleh Hakim, one of the members of the Indonesian Rubber Producers' delegation, chats with Mr. H. H. Facer, President of the Malayan Rubbe Producers' Councfl, after the Malaya-Indonesia Rubber Conference m Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.—
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    Dealers' role recognised in building materials control
    162 5 such dealers, should be attached, giving details of stock, sale and whether the goods are intended °^SSer«d dealers will be allowed 10 per cent of the goods for lobbing. rhe control covers pipes, roofing tiles and ridges and related materials Free Press Staff
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    EAST WEST SOCIETY
    42 5 The usual weekly meeting of the Singapore East-West Society will not be held today (Thursday) because of arrangements being made at the British Council Hall for the exhibition of Malay arte and crafts to be opened on Saturday afternoon.
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    This 'Bucking Truck' costs $25,000
    128 5 This 'Bucking Truck' costs $25,000 Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE "bucking truck" which doing a Wild West bornch'o act m the picture above is one of six new ScammeU oilfield trucks which have been ordered by the Shell Company for their Seria, North Borneo, installations. Specially designed for heavy duty
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    Third Annual Trade Fair
    109 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TLffR. G. G. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary, will open the Third Singapore Annual Trade Fair at the Happy World on August 4 at 6 pm. The fair will continue until Aug. 19. The Public Relations Department will have its own stall showing
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    AIR MINISTRY STAFF WANT COL ALLOWANCE
    98 5 AIR MINISTRY STAFF WANT COL ALLOWANCE Free Press Staff Reporter REPRESENTATIVES of the Air Ministry Local Staff Union, headed by its president Mr. A. M. Nair, will meet the Air Officer Commanding, Air Marshal Sir Francis Forgarty, tomorrow to press for the granting of cast-ofr-living allowances to Air Ministry staff
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    BLACKOUT AREAS FOR TONIGHT
    81 5 The following will be liable to load-shedding tonight: Ho Hong Oil Mills, Alexandra Incinerator, Tiong Bahru, Havelock Road. Alexander Brickworks, Malayan Brewery, A.B.C. Brewery. Diethelm Co., Tanglin Road. Phoenix Park, Pasir Panjang, Opium Pactory, Reformatory Road. Oxygen Pactory. Cressonite, St. James, Miri Road, Silat Road, Bukit
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    NO RATIONING, BUT NEW RESTRICTIONS
    2220 5 NO RA TIONING, BUT NE W RESTRICTIONS FOUR-HOUR DEBATE ON ELECTRICITY SUPPLY Free Press Staff Reporter YEW restrictions on the use of electricity for A domestic lighting and power m Singapore, not amounting, however, to a system of rationing, were approved by Municipal Commissioners after a four-hour debate yesterday. These
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    COMPTON, ROBERTSON HIT 230 RUNS
    728 6 COMPTON, ROBERTSON HIT 230 RUNS picture. Ist day of Gents v. Players game A FTER losing John Ikin, bowled off his glove A for a "duck", the Players batted all day against the Gentlemen at Lord's yesterday to put 343 runs on the board for the loss of eight wickets.
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    Uninsured outclassed rivals in main race
    558 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS //OW^ THEY RAN YESTERDAY By /CONTRARY to expectations, Uninsured handled the heavy track as though he had webbed feet and thoroughly outclassed the opposition m the main race at Bukit Timah yesterday, for Class 1, Div. 1 horses over six furlongs. Uninsured
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    BIG SWEEP RESULTS
    44 6 TOTAL $458,605 Ist *****8 $206,373 2nd ***** L $103,186 3rd *****2 57,325 Starters $8,189 each: *****0 *****2 *****3 *****8 *****8 *****9 *****3 Consolation ($3,439 each): *****5 *****1 *****2 *****2 *****6 *****3 *****3 *****1 *****1 *****8. DOUBLE TOTE 284 tickets, each $68.
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    Corazon well away, makes amends
    404 6 pORAZON emphasised how unlucky he was to have been beaten by The Bosuri on Saturday by easily accounting for the field m race five (Cl. 3, Div. I—61 6 f.), yesterday. He jumped well away this time and was always well placed. Securing a run
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    Tantieme clear favourite
    120 6 FRENCH champion Tantieme, joint favourite at four to one with Arctic Prince on Monday, regained his position as clear favourite at seven to two at the Victoria Club (London) call-over on the Festival of Britain Stakes last night. There were few changes m the market, m which
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    Yesterday's race finishes
    89 6 pictures. Uninsured (Mulley) canters home five lengths ahead of Snowy Owl II (Mawi), who finishes fast to beat Oidine (Charles) into third place m the sixth race at Bukit Timah yesterday. Kirs srov, (MePhcrson) finishes with a sustained run 10 beat Zalovix (Lansdov.n. and Sportine Wrk Tb'sX)
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    24 6 Free press picture. Decanter 'Crowe) returning to scale after romping home m the eighth race (Cl 1, Div. 3 6f.) at fiukit Timah yesterday.
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    SWEDEN BEAT PHILIPPINES
    93 6 CWEDEN and Germany will contest the European zone final ofthe Davis Cup competition at Baastad (Sweden* on July 28-29 for the right of challenging the American zone winners. Germany had already survived and yesterday Sweden who had won the first two singles against the Philippines, took the
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    S'pore fans will have to travel
    25 6 S'pore fans will have to travel v ruu I >how B:!-- Cup ma: J pore and Johore OH 711 «J Pd from encou August 25
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    TURNPIN NEW YO ON AUG. 1
    37 6 TURNPIN NEW YO ON AUG. 1 J I i J N Ammcaa J^^ Wll tarn i London on aJ jT* yesterday. UQtu The Aami^ Sweden. R°V ANKARAH B r ea^ 1 London talk^ 3T Box!!, b -ijM
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    BILLDAW
    27 7 X „m i> all spicture. r «.i i miles as she le*»Js m Snn- S&2 f£&J* fir Div 3 T >It was Sando^ns n /st *?n
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    erby rally after bad start
    230 7 rm Urkan* did well to dismiss Derbyshire for GVS X Pitch on the first day of their irb yesterday. At the end of the day (Ulew the South African opener, played jj£ O v f r from (iladwin when the tourists [T»iifir rfpl v 1
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    VSC soccer fixtures
    127 7 A FRIENDLY soccer match will take place at the PTJS. ground on Sunday at 5.15 p.m between the V.S.Cs. of Central Police Station and the VSCs of Joo Chiat Police Station. The following are requested to turn up at the pitch: Central Police Stn.: William Ho Thomas
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    OTEC WIN 3-2
    48 7 In a Business House League Cup soccer match played on the Police Training School ground yesterday. Oriental Telephone Electric Company beat Borneo Motors by three goals to two. The scorers for O.T.E.C. were Fox. Or ton. and Minaoot. Halim scored both goals for Borneo Moiors.
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    Today's sport
    46 7 SOCCER: Community Lge: Eurasians v Europeans at stadium; Jar. Cuplie: KaUnff Sajarah v *tar Socceritea at St. Genres Ed.. DW. 3A: KS-iS Se«bawans I SCSA at GeyUnc; TENNIS: Colony and Tanglin (lub tournaments. HOCKEY: Honf Eon« Fmversity t I'nivcnlty of Malaya at SRC. 5.15.
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    DOES FASTEST GALLOP
    520 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS By This morning's track work B Sr# < Ch rl^>' h hissed his engageami?« w y t Ster u ay> showed is nothing 5?^L S- im by reeli^ off three f urlon^ s hr Jt k- 'f mori n S on number two grass track,
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    ALL BLUES FIXTURES
    161 7 SINGAPORE Asiatic Rugby Union have had an offer of a coach to train their team m the coming season, but the old problem of lack of players will still be with them. Despite a scarcity of talent last season, Singapore Asians, reached the final of the AllBlues
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    Hassanein wins French title
    93 7 HASSANEIN, the Egyptian Open champion, yesterday won the French Open golf championship with an aggregate of 273 for 72 holes on the Saint Cloud course near Paris. His rounds were 67, 70. 68, 68 and he led from the first round. Jimmy Adams, the Scottish and
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    JLTA tourney
    30 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. THE annual Johore Lawn Tennis Association's Championship 26 and 27. Thp Dromramme comprises nine evenS-SS's women's veterans' and junior singles and doubles and mixed doublet.
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    RAITH WIN 2—0
    23 7 RAITH WIN 2—0 "DAITH ROVDtS beat Queen of the Bouth by two foals to nil m a Scottish league soccer match played yesterday.
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    PICTURE TIP
    13 7 Solution to McLeod's Picture Tip yesterday is Sealed Orders (race two).
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    All the weights for Saturday
    356 7 WEIGHTS for all eight races on Saturday, third and last day of the Singapore Turf Club July meeting, are: S PORE GUP Cl.l,lHv. l-l|sa. 36 yds. Four O'Clock 9J3 Technicolor 8.13 Tara Street B.lf Raj Mahal 8.09 Toboggan B.tB Birthday Gift 8.07 Kew Gardens 806
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    15 nominated for S'pore Cup
    154 7 AFIELD of 15 has been nominated for the Singapore Cup (1J miles and 36 yards), main event of the Singapore July meeting to be run on Saturday. Four O'Clock heads the handicap with 9.3, but he is not here, so that Technicolor, second m the
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    S.T.T.A.
    53 7 picture. Youug Zulu, one of eight a.R.A. deleted Morses sent v«>terdiy by the freighter Querimba for Calcutta, bein? pushed on b*ard. The other veterans shipped were F^her Ryan. Miss Linor. Hurricane, Silver Star, Fair Week, Te Taki and Victory March. They are being consigned to the Tollygiingt? Amateur Racing
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    Kim San nets 3 for Chinese
    124 7 (CHINESE Athletic did not fully extend themselves m defeating Tamil Brotherhood Association by four goals to one m a Singapore Amateur Football Association Div. I soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Scoring all their goalf m the first session, Chinese were content to
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    DISCUS RECORD RECOGNISED
    80 7 •THE discus throw of 175 ft. 9* ins. by Giuseppe Tosi of Italy at London last Saturday was recognised yesterday as an official British allcomers record by the British Amateur Athletic Board. An. all-comers record means the best performances m this country by an athlete regardless of
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    RJIC GOLF RESULTS
    122 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. T»HE annual golf competition for the Wayfoong Cup at the Royal Johore International Club will be completed shortly. Results to date are: First round: R. H. Browne bt. Dr. Dr. J. N. Dugdale 2 and l; A. W. How bt. E. A. Clamplt 7
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    30 ATHLETES GO ON TOUR
    73 7 A BRITISH team of 30 track and field athletes will make a ten-day tour of the Balkans and the Near East starting on Auk. 24. The Amateur Athletic Association said on Wednesday that the tour will include meetings against Yugoslavia m Belgrade on Aug. 25
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    NOW HE CAN B00 EVERY ROUND
    166 7 OOXINO fans liked the new boxlne Scoreboard tried out at Portland, Oregon on Tuesday night when flan* Matthewa knocked out Baby Dutch Culbertaon m four rounds. The board measures about mix feet square and lights up t?lrttne crowd know how the judges and referee
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    PREPARING FOR WORLD TOURNAMENT
    328 7  - PREPARING FOR WORLD TOURNAMENT CRUSADER By SINGAPORE Table Tennis Association are preparing a* team of four to compete m the world championships scheduled for Bombay next February. While collecting funds for expenses the? will train a carefully picked side. The S.T.T.A. selection committee are considering the names of six players
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    TABLE TENNIS
    102 7 £iugapo:e Municipal Se e Union will play a tabk-.fn-nis fnenaiy ronsi^iing of t n singles against Maosneid Spuitx Club at the la tier's premises «n Saturday at 2.30 pjn. The following have been -elec id to represent Singapore Munlc«naJ Services Union Leow ÜbK You. g (captain), Koh Coeng
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    Times hits at Govt.
    33 8 The Times attacked the Labour Government yesterday for opposing proposals for a direct Spanish-Ameri-can military alliance.'saying "It is time for inquiry and suggestion rvther than blunt opposition. M U.P.
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    EUROPE PROTESTS OVER FRANCO
    363 8 US alliance plan condemned WASHINGTON, Thursday. 4 M ERIC A has begun talks with Spain to find out what General Franco might be willing and able to contribute to Western defence, it was revealed m Washington yesterday by Mr. Dean Acheson, U.S. Secretary of State,, Mr.
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    ABBEY THEATRE BURNT DOWN
    159 8 ABBEY THEATRE BURNT DOWN DUBLIN, Thurs. THE Abbey Theatre birth place of Irish revolutionary drama and for nearly half a century training ground for some of the world's greatest stage stars was burned to the ground yesterday. The main building was gutted by a fierce blaze that defied the efforts
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    RETURN PLAN SPEEDED
    40 8 The American Army is speeding up the return of servicemen from Korea under the rotation plan. The rotation rate should reach 30,000 this month A total of 32,000 men have been returned up to July 10 Reuter
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    GOLD SEIZED
    33 8 A Hong Kong magistrate yesterday ordered the confiscation of 1,900 tlels of gold which Revenue officers seized aboard the Norwegian ship Sandviken as she was about to sail for Bangkok.- Reuter
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    Reds want polls
    37 8 The Italian Communist leader, Palmiro Togliatti, formally asked President Einuadi yesterday to dissolve Parliament and call new elections to get a popular verdict on the pro-Western policy followed by Italy since the war.- U.P.
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    Nehru denies Indian 'aggression' plan
    243 8 UNITED NATIONS, Thursday. T*HE Prime Minister of India, Mr. Jawaharlal x Nehru, yesterday sent to the United Nations Secretary General and the President of the Security Council a denial that Indian troops were massing on Pakistan' borders with any aggressive intent. Mr. Nehru also sent
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    JAPANESE BONDS IN DEMAND
    133 8 T LONDON, Thursday. HE start of the new account on the London Stock Exchange yesterday touched off a fresh buying wave m Japanese bonds, states Reuter's financial correspondent. Prices soared m an active market to close with advances of ud to four and a half points.
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    58 8 pic t v re. Film star Robert Taylor, now m England to play the lead m the new film "lvanhoe." Soon after his arrival he visited a barber and had that famous moustache shaved off. Here he is making friends with some of the Empire Girls when he gave a
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