The Singapore Free Press, 24 July 1951

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    Masthead
    17 1 The Singapore Free Press j^«GESI AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    OIL TALKS DECISION
    454 1 Persian cabinet has hurried night meeting ohtf p i TEHERAN, Tuesday. jHL Persian government met hurriedly lasl night to discuss a new set of proposals by President Truman's special envoy, Mr. Averell Harriman, on the oil dispute. In London, Mr. Herbert Morrison the British Foreign Minister, today
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    CRISIS DUE IN PEACE TALKS
    193 1 CRISIS DUE IN PEACE TALKS Peace Camp, Tues The ceasefire negotiations m the 13-month old Korean war will reach a crisis tomorrow. The Communist delegation is expected to disclose its attitude on the vitaj issue of troop withdrawal. Since the armistice talks started at* Kaesong on July 27, the Reds
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    BANDIT LEADER KILLED
    114 1 AH LOONG, second m command of 'the Communist Armed Labour Corps at Masai. Johore. was killed on Sunday by security forces during an attack on the terrorists' jungle hide-out. There were six terrorists m the camp five Chinese and one Malay. They ran acrosr- a stream to
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    FLAHERTY DIES
    25 1 Mr. Robert J. Flaherty, famous explorer and producer of d/cumentary films, died yesterday at his home after a long illness. He was 67.—
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    Grain ship beached
    78 1 'PHE Economic Co-opera-tion Administration received word yesterday that the ship carrying the first wheat to India under the United States loan programme for famine relief had been beached m Suez Bay after a collision. She is the John Chester Kendall. E.C.A., administering the $190,000,000 loan, had little
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    Borneo ars two American fliers
    87 1 Borneo ars two American fliers tfd 03 Con-, jettheßrifohinties m North C d trieir j L^ permit them to from |^i have been [g -odesirablp imLfcß been m Lab:ar. «fe and irt I RTjadsaid the a lid rrfosKl to allow tfIKT uid ais^» re|l ril prtrol 10 C||tat couW cor.
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    Glassworks picketed
    17 1 Glass y :his ©■I atny would P™* -rned f Crl^ '~> v do not mnot Li*
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    Robbery In Park
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    'ULTIMATUM' TO NAVAL BASE
    79 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. The Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union has given *he Naval Base authorities 15 days m which to make a decision on their cost of living allowances. In a letter to the Admiral Superintendent sent on July 20. the union said "if for
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    PAKISTAN GETS READY
    116 1 KARACHI, Tuesday. iII Pakistan has been asked to organise civil defence throughout the country and the National Guard has been told to be ready for an emergency. This is a result of no reply being received from Mr. :i. premier of India m r -^ponsp to Premier
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    Photos help hunt gunman
    66 1 SYDNEY, Tues. PROM 135,000 photographs of newly arrived immigrants, oolice selected 400 that could *ielp find the man who attacked a woman and robbed her of A£1.600. The proprietress ot a dry clewing shop Mrs Mune. Willick. went to the tack of her shop to change
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    POLICY SPEECH
    23 1 United States Sectary of State Mr. Dean Acheson Is tO de V /d r res a s TX at De- Reuter
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    MORRISON TALKS TO PRAVDA
    165 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison, yesterday gave a 1,500-word interview— its subject is not yet known to the London correspondent of the Moscow newspaper Pravda which promised to publish it m full. Last month Pravda accepted a challenge from Mr Morrison to print
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    U.S. DEMAND REJECTED
    46 1 Czechoslovakia has rejected a United States request for immediate release of Associated Press Staff Correspondent, William N. Oatis. Oatls was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on July 4 upon conviction of espionage following a trial which the VS. Government contended was farcical. A.P.
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    No U.S. tin decision yet
    135 1 No U.S. tin decision yet WASHINGTON, Tues. THE United States Govern- ment has made no decision as to when and at what price it would resume buying tin, officials said yesterday m Washington. A high source said there was "absolutely no truth" m reports m Bombay that the United States
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    Petain coffined
    31 1 The body of Marshal Petain, former head of Vichy government, who died on Yeu Island yesterday at the age of 95. was last night placed m a leaden co/ftn.
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    C.G. off to Hong Kong
    57 1 THE Comrafesioner- General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, accompanied by Mr. William Addis. Deputy Commis-sioner-General for Colonial Affairs, left Singapore today for Hong Kong, where he will spend a few clays m cotisultatieTi with the Governor and others m the Colony. He expect* to return to
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    $200,000 S'pore hotel offered as hospital
    205 1 $200,000 S'pore hotel offered as hospital Free Press Staff Reporter Jt|R. Lee Kong Chian, Singapore millionaire and leading Chinese rubber merchant, who recently bought the South Winds hotel at Tanjong Balai for $200,000, has offered it to the Government for use as x hospital. No time-limit has been placed on
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    Med. command idea dropped
    57 1 WASHINGTON, T < J^RITAiN and the Ual 1 States have agreed j drop proposals for a tingle Supreme Commander In \\\e Mediterranean area, i.'sualiy reliable sources said yesterday. Tentative ai»rfement.< reached here were said to envisage a split command involving the creation (if a new Middle
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    Ex-Mufti 'on way to Palestine'
    230 1 JERUSALEM, Tuesday. rpHE Middle East's mystery man, Haji Amin El Husseini. ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, a sinister figure on the Palestine scene for the past quarter of jl century, left his Cairo home yesterday, reportedly for Gaza. And tension m Jerusalem increased. The bearded Muslim spiritual
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    Joint Europe army plan
    91 1 *"7*iE German Government X announced yesterday that ...ince, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Western Germany had reached "agreement on important points" at the Paris conference for the formation pf a joint European army. The agreement was reached after five months of talks between the five nations.
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    The stuff for home leave
    424 2  -  Iris Ashley By HAVE you heard yet of Street Velvet"? For once the name accurately describes f£e material. It U not the rather hardribbed corduroy with all the lovely depths of which we are all familiar but is a soft velvet ivith colour irhich only
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    Next time
    144 2 NEXT time you bake apples, core them as usual and fill cavities with mixture of brown sugar chopped nuts and raisins, honey and lemon juice. Mix together and scuff into centre of apples. SERVE fried apples as extra with meat or fish course. Core apples. Peel as thinly
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    Hard future for Mrs. America?
    887 2 A WOMAN LOOKS AT THE Ui. Her dollars won't go as far as they did, «ays Kay Murray from Mew York MRS. America, who had a nodding acquaintance with austerity during World War 11, is being warned that the government's mobilisation programme may mean a
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    Teen-age Taffeta
    183 2 WILL mothers and young daughters please note that simplicity is the keynote of youthful chic. It is so much more becoming than elaborate drapery —let's leave that to old age and the curtains! We met a Rood example of the charming youthful style unbeatable for a girl of
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      199 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN on this first day of the incoming sign, Leo, you have a dominating, fiery independent nature. But you will also inherit some of the I characteristics of the outgoing I sign. Cancer. This gives you i a highly intuitive and pro- phetic wisdom which could <■
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      205 2 Solution to Crossword No. 412 Across: 1, Battledress. 7, Third. 8. Pathe. 9. Asp. 11. Loss. 13. Pellet. 15, Adore. 17. Nipper. 19, Gain. 21. Web. 23, Cruel. 24. Abash. 25, Sleepwalker. Down: 1. Bottlenecks. 2. Twins. 3, Leda. 4. Dipper. 5, Extol. 6, Sheet Anchor. 10. Spore. 12. Sap.
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    EX-WARSHIP A FLOATING ATOM LAB.
    301 3 EX-WARSHIP A FLOATING ATOM LAB. I Trial vessel to I fight jet-plane nRITIIW c LONDON, Tuesday. JJKITAIN S top-secret ship, the floating laboratory Cumberland, has completed unpublicised Admiralty trials. She is beginning experiments that will decide how future warships will be armed— with remote-controlled guns, rocket*, r electronic-guid-ed missiles. The
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    TRANSPORT
    15 3 RST exprr^ tram *"> ,nd»n roarm, [?Lfr»«dfd «oavhes I the huntlrtMiN "J%|orf the tram .tiipprd
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    GIRLS PROVE SENSE OF ADVENTURE
    63 3 M i I 19 will I and nUi ther Fo: Ctx ttae the 0 itwird Cq xtik a hula.ng a E** .junI :e n I {iris will I paid I r will be I sponsored by emirs. I weeks' her 6 to I be basir
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    Do Your ears click?
    17 3 the others to hear. •he American n go. penKin tube the of 'oad
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    LAKES VENUEFOR WORLD JAMBOREE
    186 3 i'UW BAD ISCHI A «stria t Tuesday. >parklinir backdrop of mountains and '^es. a 5.000-tent city is being prepared *H for the 7th World Boy Scouts Jam- ear s. the jamboree will be a ether. The "simple life" from August 3 to 13. 20 000 m
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    Monty's 39th ribbon
    76 3 i i* v>l Order 0* «3»- AWARD of the Grand Cros* ami Marsha i Viscount by the King of Nornay i° jiMrorded to the Montgomery is the 39th decoration to be awar for Field-Marshal. The King has «iven I^^. Field-Marsh»J Montg ojoery to wear he J"* c
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    Persian general is no athlete
    442 3 ABADAN, Tuesday. THE six-foot Persian general whose troops re--1 occupied Azerbaijan from the Russians m 1945 is m command of dangerously explosive Khuzistan m the British-Iranian oil dispute. He has three British warships at hi s port, an aroused Persian populace determined that 2,000 British
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    SECRET CARRIER PLANS
    33 3 A background of cottonwool clouds emphasises the clean sharp lines of the Royal Navy's new and secret jet fighter, the Sea Hawk, which has just completed its carrier proving: trials.
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    'Free Europe' university
    73 3 PARIS. Tues. rpHE American National 1 Committee for "free Europe" is to create a "free Europe University m exile with branches or ''colleges m various cities of western El The e first colfege will be set up m Paris with the approval of the French Government. The
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    WANT UNION
    10 3 Military government authoBBSS Marshal Tito ior Yugoslavia Reuter
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    20 3  - JON hy /ff.sf b«ca v h I'm vailed the nhip of the fle*nrl, I hope you're not netting nn\ ideas'*'.
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    THE ISZAUCTON
    40 3 A new instrument which works like radar to find faults on power and transmission lines send out electrical pulses along the line, which are then reflected back. The Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario calls it the iszaucton. A.P.
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    Bridge Hand
    356 3 North-South vulnerable* North dealer EAST cue-bid the clubs as a defensive measure. He felt that he could successfully outbid the opponents if they played the hand m clubs and wanted a club opening if the played the hand at pades. West believed hi s partner. Pie figured that
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    140 CHINESE GO HOME
    42 3 The Dutch liner Tjiwangi brought 140 Chinese passengers from Indonesian ports yesterday. The group later left for their native village by way of Canton. Other passengers abrqpa were 40 Indonesian tourists who are here on a businespleasure trip.
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    RED CHARGE
    27 3 Indo China's Vietminh Radio yesterday said that "American imperialists' ware plotting to transform Vietnam into a base for attack against the people of China Reuter
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    £10,000 LEGS
    67 3 A girl wnose legs are insured .or £10,000 wears a sunny smile under a parasol m London. She is Gloria Nord. star of 'Skating Vanities of 1951/ an American musical running for six weeks at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Reuter Five occupants of a p^.vate plane were killed
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    SWISH FASHION
    36 3 Swish is decreed for women's fashion this autumn. To swish properly they will need three petticoats under day or evening dresses. It is part of a back-to-Victorian-ism movement, even to fans and smelling salts.
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    INTER-THUGS
    38 3 Bank bandit Joseph Palame was nervous when he started to hold up the Marine Trust Company Bank at Buffalo. New York State. So he shot fellow bandit Theodore Sikora. Both are m jail recovering from their jitters.
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    Sea and air fight staged for radio
    174 3 Sea and air fight staged for radio QNE of the mast complicated technical ft I m the BBC's history is involved m the sea-and-air battle which is being specially staged m the Channel for Light programme listeners today. The Royal Navy are putting to sea the aircraft-carrier Illustrious and her
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      359 3 M»£ST£lS£^ 8.8.C.- ISingapore) Movement; 9.55 Interlude, (General Overstas Service) 10 00 Emergency News frfcm MST Kc/S> M Kuala Lumpur; 10.10 Close: 10.40 7#30 a m 8.30 a.m. 9580 31.32 to 12 00 For the Schools: -Singing 7#30 a .m— 8.30 a.m. ***** 25.5.3 Tnffether Adventures m Music, 60 0 p.m.—
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, July 24, 1951. Managing the city
    556 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, July 24, 1951. Managing the city VUHZIn a business is doing badly, one factor usually the principal i actor is faulty management. The Withers Report pronounced this verdict on the Singapore Government's out-of-date administrative machinery. If there were a similar report on the city's management,
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    IS ANOTHER HITLER RISING?
    1483 4  - IS ANOTHER HITLER RISING? SEFTON DELMER By This is the party badge which thousands of ex-Nazis are today wearing m the lapel where under Hitler they used to wear the Swastika.., And this is the first fall story of the Man Behind The Badge -and his meaning to Europe today.
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    Ship for Royal voyage
    85 4 I M 5*S E? 1 Pa( ;*/'c i7l r impress of France, a 20,448 ton passenger r«»g tnat will take the Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh I to Canada on the royal visit. She will sail from Liverpool to Quebec m I 1 f,
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    Paris bakes in heat after cold spring
    1043 4  -  PETER CHAMBERS By AndPansienn eS(a J have looked any OVe/i l IT was, they say, a cold, uncertain spring this year. Viticulturists swore terrible oaths among the tardy vines, and the headwaiters of terrace cafes along the Champs Elysees bit their nails and
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      176 4 M You'd be a wonderful actor 1 "Not a sufficiently lucrative job support this family! 'But John, I've been reao r, f thoughts during tiff. rv— your srons are superb!' "Susan if yo«i won't tell me »*>\ Selectable connection is, I must be registering element curiosity "...and approval' so |W
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    ELIEF IN ORCERY, SPIRITS, HEDIUMS ON THE S'PORE
    99 5 ELIEF IN ORCERY, SPIRITS, HEDIUMS ON THE S'PORE I r Ocularly the call UP E* these "k* m bon x CJTftff did rriHv P ..th wKJreds [ikjljaid that i" Hi Li** frf hundmN the •ccult CJJe S*>me prafE"JJgpltv but m<L^^ m their own Etftk Mr i«uld nut do L«i» kno»n
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    Presentation of Awards
    41 5 eivation of eight Kings Eta for the Boys* Brigade and tw« RSPCA. bronse medals for Btapipon Fire Brigade will made by the Governor. Sir Frankim Gimson. on the SVC padang on Tuesday next «July 31) 1 30 p.m.
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    COLONY CHINESE IGNORE RED THREATS
    298 5 COLONY CHINESE IGNORE RED THREATS Remittance 'blackmail' campaign THE rIT re^ Staff Reporter 1 demann f nCSe ommuni Government's Chine™ hL ?I| C^ remittances from overseas oS, 8 J'' ed t0 Sin^P«™ Chinese J ?hiwam M J*' I has been described as the SiiSSSK of M b 'wkmair, a member
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    DECLINE
    94 5 Radio Malaya helped him.... MR. ALAN ELLIOTT abovej of the Colonial Social Science Research VcmMcU, has discovered a -selective way to contact the peomit who know" all there is to know about Chireligions. October last and June this he broadcast over Radio ya on Chinese religions, spirit jnediums and
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    GOVT. WILL BUY RICE IMPORTS
    184 5 GO VT. WILL BUY RICE IMPORTS Free Press Staff Rcporler THE Government of Singapore 1 will Issue import licences for a limited quantity of rationed grades of rice from Thailand. French -Indo China and Burma to merchants who can show that they imported over 450 tons of rice during the
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    EDUCATIONAL FILMS AT "Y"
    111 5 T'HE following educational films will be screened, at the V MCA. hall m Orchard Road tomorrow at 8 p.m.: 'Men of Tomorrow." "People of Canada." j Hoover Dam." "Bushland Fan*asy" (technicolour,> "Pine Feathers" and "Australian Diary No. 12." Latest U.S.I.S. films will also be shown. Admission
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    SAFETY FIRST EXHIBITION FOR SCHOOLS
    215 5 SAFETY FIRST EXHIBITION FOR SCHOOLS »pHE Singapore Junior Safety First Council, consisting of about 40 school children of both sexes, is planning a mobile exhibition for 11 English schools m the Colony, beginning on Sept. 10 this year. The exhibition will be a follow-up to the Safety First Exhibition held
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    RURAL BOARD TO SPEND $1,760,000 FOR ROADS, HALL, SPECIAL SERVICES
    312 5 RURAL BOARD TO SPEND $1 ,760,000 FOR ROADS, HALL, SPECIAL SERVICES Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Rural Board has budgetted next year to spend more than 1 SI 760 000 on special services, of which two of the biggest single items--S4BO 000 and $300,000— will be for the reconstruction
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    77 5 THE following substations wil* 1 be liable to load-shedding Rangoon Road Kolam Ajjg. Govt. Printing Office. Wood.eign Park Braddell Heights. AthurRoad Tanjong Katong. Broadrick r^S: Teiok Kurau, Bedok, Chang. 91, mile, Changi Prison. Tana Mera Besar. Selarang Barracks. Atlas ice. Happy World. AjaßubBatten Network. Spore Swimming £o?ks. Cathay.
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    'VERY SATISFACTORY'
    25 5 There have been lew comSelangor Telecoms Controller. \t- w Stubbs said tnai ui^j all satisfied' with the Serformance of the new equipment andthe^operawf:
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    CONTRIBUTION FROM GOVT.
    94 5 Free Press Sr^rt Reporter NEXT year's annually recurrent contribution for the Rural Board from Government will b^ 5243.935 ($99,565 for this year) and *1,9«0.360 on wo* l f fpfcUl expenditure (J2.552.740 for "tfe?^ from assessment on rubber and house* are «P«cUgnext year to increase from tnLs 1
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    CALL-UP YOUTHS
    17 5 Twenty-one cali-up youths coranrisine the second batch, ien Penanß ySterday for training m Wardleburn Camp.
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    SATA Week for TB centre
    52 5 SAT A Week for TB centre Free press Sports Reporter T HE Singapore Anti-Tu.erculosis J- Association is ready «> «»n m ence building their ne^ Tube recital at the Victoria Theatre by Madame Phang-and will endw'U, .Ball at Rattles Hotel on Sept. 6. SSrin* the week the A.sociu.lon S^'dJliSSl »nd
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    'Padang is going to waste..,' M.C's plans to deal with 'Seaside Slum'
    298 5 'Padang is going to waste..,' M.C's plans to deal with 'Seaside Slum Free Press Staff Reporter MR. J. M. Jumabhoy, Singapore Municipal ComiTr missioner for City Ward, told the Free Press yesterday that Government's delay m handing the Esplanade over to the control of the Commissioners was to blame for
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    'FACT-FINDING' S'PORE VISIT
    31 5 MR. P'CHARD CJ. 'SE*. Ausiral.an Minis. <i tw L\.?rnal Affairs, who arrived m Singapore yesterday by Qantas/BOAC Constellation from Jakarta on a two-day "fact-finding" tour. Free Press picture.
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    Tea party to Smith-Mundt scholarship winners
    87 5 MR. JOHN L. CiUw.n. IK. American (tnvuJ-Getica!, hrir.R introduced U the Smith-Mundt Scholarship winners by Mr. E. S. Lav. President of the American I n;\rrsi\ Club, at the Club's tea-party at Itie Adelphi Hotel on Sunday. Left to ri; l .i Mr. Wane Tan
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    $110,000 school extension
    171 5 $110,000 school extension Free Pmsn Staff Reporter. pUPILS of St. Margaret's School. (Church of England Zenana Mission School,) will have a proper school hallpart of a $110,000 extension to the present school building by September. Student*, of the school have been handicapp?d for want of a hail for assemblies and
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    27 5 The Federation Government deiled yesterday lhat it was coi.--Iderinu Riving permission for JOO.OOO Chin«se labourers to come o Malaya from Hone Kon« to :as* the lobf.ur shortage.
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    YORKSHIRE PILE UP RUNS v. NOTTS
    630 6 Washbrook hits 209 for Lanes YORKSHIRE, who are still m the county cricket championship race, piled up the runs against Nottinghamshire yesterday, and Len Hutton, who was Washbrook's partner for so long as Test opener, took his Saturday century to 194 not out. Yorkshire,
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    SERVICES LEAGUE PLACINGS
    229 6 SERVICES LEAGUE PLACINGS POSITIONS to date m the Singapore United Services Football League table are: Army League Latest positions m the Singapore Base District Major UniU League are: P W L D P APIs GHQ ID 7 1 2 30 7 16 REME 7 4 1 2 16 4 10
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    AIRWAYS SPORTS CLUB A.G.M.
    27 6 jf ALAYAN Airways Sports Club will hold their annual general meeting tomorrow at 7.30 p.m. m the Malayan Airways Canteen at Kalian^ Airport.
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    SPRINGBOKS FOR U.K.
    249 6 TJRANSVAAL players domix nate the South African Rugby Union team which will tour Britain and France from October to February. Eight of the 30 come from the Transvaal itself, five from Northern Transvaal and two from Eastern Transvaal. The team which will be captained by Basil Kenyon,
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    TABLE TENNIS
    26 6 Tlie visiting Hong Kong University sportsmen will meet University Of Malaya at table tennis at Harrower Hall, Sepoy Lines, at 9 30 a.m. tomorrow.
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    Kirkwood wins
    47 6 Joe Kirkwood came from behind with a blistering seven under par 64 to win the Milwankee Blue Ribbon open golf tournament yesterday With 271 for 72 holes. Second was Sam Snead with 273. Jim Ferrier and Lloyd Mangrum tied for third place with 274. A.P.
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    SEIXAS WINS
    28 6 Victor Seixas won the Pennsylvania State grass court tennis championship on Sunday, defeating Straight Clark B—6, B—6, 6—3, for the third major title this year. U.P.
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    Bright cricket by women
    425 6 From ARCHIE QUICK MOT until the middle of July did I pluck up courage to watch women playing cricket. I wish I had gone before. I was resentful of this further invasion by ladies upon the realms of the stronger sex. How wrong I was! I
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    SOUTH AFRICANS SLOWED DOWN
    257 6 ttOUTH African touring team, playing their last match before the fourth Test, did not impress yesterday, second day of their match against Leicestershire at Leicester. At the close the tourinj team still required 41 runs to first innings lead with onlj two wickeLs standing. The] scored
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    PAKISTAN INVITES NEW ZEALAND
    59 6 PAKISTAN'S invitation to New Zealand to send a hockey team to tour Pakistan will be considered at a meeting of the New Zealand Hockey Association on Aug. 31. It is understood that Pakistan suggested they were able to offer better terms than New Zealand had offered
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    RAF champion eliminated in SLTA tourney
    445 6 RAF champion eliminated in SLTA tourney rpENNIS enthusiasts 0,, the P a *1 x evening almost witnessed Singapore Lawn Tennis Assort ii vp i 1 when Dr. F. Y. Kho« and l*'^" < hj »l>sS second round of the men's sinei*? ""US The match went to three 1 third seeded
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    NAVY XI WEAK IN ATTACK
    65 6 NAVY XI WEAK IN ATTACK no: be abie 'o hold Clv Excep- poor.- far ii,. wlui, RussriT o-her flank »aj v. •o m r. inclined i The can erue] their 'hf \>inmn X e««! rt n i turned a iolbhti S;.<nd«»n inlo «h f firs' -limf vhot m U»» minup
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    Tennis win for H.K. party
    30 6 ALTHOUGH I ing. i: X E odrf Th( out ol Mm v sißgir* Mrns |»ouhl.* to I. i- R M 8-9 ladies |>ouhlH M.xed I^ublr-
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    EST UNIVERSITY PLAYER A LOSER
    629 7  - EST UNIVERSITY PLAYER A LOSER CRUSADER By Malaya defeat Hong Kong 5-2 STANDARD of badminton m Hong Kong cannot be very high. Most of their University Players are Malayans and, except for two or m?*' ,ey Were outclass ed by the University of Malaya 8 representatives m last night's interVft
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    artindale sets p new record
    99 7 [I Ml AR, Monday. I att rettmi *9* broken at the two-day I championship meeting held on the I ?Firii here on Thursday and Friday m which of 102 competitors took part. i net- j I I ->—■■•'■. b I I rzr«o£ :o d? fc
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    Rugby offer fo Milburn
    72 7 >' EH CASTLE United and I England International soccer centre- forward, Jackie Milburn. has been offered £5.000 with food playing terms and facilities to carry on with a *parc-time job by Hunslet chairman, Mr. Hector Ravvson if he will change over from soccer to Rugby League
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    S.R.C. defeat Varsities 2-0
    95 7 COMBINED Hong Kong and Malayan Universities could the teamwork of SinRecreation Club \*hen they uxkev on the pa dang rday. The S.R.C. team, included eifcht S'aie players. ;v two goals to nil. Recs had it all their own wav c first half sainintr both foala bu*
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    Merrytime B.P.
    50 7 The following will represent UfnrjtkM B.P. m a friendly badn match of four singles and •:ee derbies against Titan B.P at Tanjong Pagar at 7 p.m. en "hursday: M. Sadali. Benny Ke\ Kirn Peow. Chong Siew F* r Ong Tiong Ghee. Ong Tl" Othman, Oon Beng Ci 't'inajat.
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    R.S.G.C. JULY TOURNEYS
    125 7 DOYAL Singapore Golf Club's July Medal (Stableford) competition was played on Saturday afternoon and resulted m a win for J. K. Shafer m "A" Division with a score of 37 18 points. Other cards returned were: H. M. Alexander 36 18 points; M. C. Bain 34 7
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    WELL TAKEN
    24 7 uss fong Siew Muay (University of Malaya) m action during the women's doubles match at last night's intiiVarsity badminton Free Press picture.
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    28 NEW HORSES
    348 7 JEWNTY-EIGHT new horses have been classified, the Straits Racing Association announces today. They comprise six m Class 1, 11 m Class 2 and 11 In Class. 3. The new classifications are: Class I—The1 The Mcare b.e.g. by Othodox— Her Awakening; Scotch Express b.e.g. by Honey way or
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    INDIA FORMS BOXING BOARD
    79 7 AN all-India professional boxing board of control has been formed m Colcutta to revive professional box'n? m the country. It is nearly ten years since professional boxing was staged m India. The secretary of the new board is C.W. Monteiro and his initial venture will be
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    Referee slapped
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    Chess tourney
    48 7 "gUWE (Holland) tied with 4\ 2 points with the Argentinian, Pilnik, m first place m the international chess tournament at Dijon after the ex-world champion had defeated Rico (Spain) m a postponed match. Euwe beat Rico by 46 moves. This was the only match played yesterday.
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    New record holder
    104 7 CHEILA Lerwill (formerly Sheila Alexander), who recently beat Mrs. Fanny Blankers-Koen's world high Jump record of 5 ft. 7 4 ins. by a quarter of an Inch, is a secretary m a Kensington office, and was married 4^ months ago. A member of the Spartan Women's Athletic
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    Seedings in BAM championships
    240 7 F. P. Staff Correspondent. PENANG, Tues. ALL those who have received seedings m the singles of the Malayan badminton championships to be held at Penang over the August holidays are former Thomas Cup men. They are Wong Peng Soon. Ooi Teik Hock, Law Teik Hock and
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    BRITISH GOLFERS BREATHE AGAIN
    202 7 ORITAIN'S top golfers breathed a sigh of relief yesterday. The English tour of Patty Berg, Ba'.je 1 Zaharias and company was at an end. The play-for-pay girls from the United Stars gave the game a shot m the arm from the spectators standpoint, but the home-bred
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    Brash wins July Medal
    193 7 T'HE Island Club's July < i lie medal competition played o\er the week-end resulted m a win for M. B Brash m the "A" Divis n with a net score of 69. The "B" Division was won by WC.T. Bnscoe who returned a net score of
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    U.S. team v. Mexico
    52 7 Art Larsen, Herbie FI. 31 and Vie Seixas were named yesterday to represent the United States against Mexico m the second round of the North Ameircan zone of the Davis Cup tennis contest. The match will be played m New York on August 3. 4 and
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    SCC WIN SOCCER
    43 7 In a friendly soccer match ved on the padang yesterday, S:. pore Cricket Club beat Woodb: Hospital Recreation Club by lour go.ils to thr«e. Excellent goalkeeping by J. Murav ?aved the hospital from goinf roo. n by a ulcer margin
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      65 7 Today's sport SOCCER: Div. 3A: Blue s v Aston, Geylang; Div. 3B: BODCA *A* v Jollilads, St George s Road; Business Houses: Rotterdam V Mansfield, Padang; Straits Times v IC.I. Farrer Park. Pulau Bukom v H.K. Bank. Breweries ground. Services: R.A.F. Tengah v S.E.R., Tengah. CRICKET: Combined Universities XI v
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    BIRTH
    17 8 HOWE: To Eileen, wife of John Howe, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on July 23rd, a daughter.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    19 8 LBONO-PONO: The engagement is announced between Mr. Leong Mm Fatt and Mis* Iris Fong Yit Chan, on 22.7.51.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    51 8 MADAME OAN ENO NEO and family tender their heartfelt thanks to their relatives and friends and business associates of the late Mr. Lee Slew Kow, who sent wreaths, scrolls, telegrams •nd letters of condolences, attended night visits and funeral of the late Mr. Lee Slew Kow. Malayan papers please
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    SUN SETS ON GOD'S DESCENDANT
    805 8 'Business genius goes to gaol LONDON, Tuesday. AN the career of a man who claims descent from the sun god Rama, the sun itself has set And Dr. Narayna Das Chopra, ex-chairman of Darwins, the million pound Sheffield steel firm, was sent into the inner
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    HARRIMAN IN PERSIA
    21 8 Mr. Averell Harriman. Presid eat Truman's oil negotiator, with Dr. Henry Grady, the V .S. Ambassador m Teheran.
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    U.S. 'fears veto on A-bases'
    249 8 LONDON, Tues. BRITISH critics of the new United States policy toward Spain are beginning to inject the atomic bomb question into the great debate across the Atlantic. They are suggesting that the United States Chiefs of Staff fear Britain may exercise the veto over the
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    Challenge to Russian
    83 8 FLUSHING MEADOW, Tues SIR Allan Burns, British president of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, yesterday forbade the Soviet member, Mr. A. N. Soldatov. to refer to the Chinese delegate as "the Kuomintang clique" and challenged him :o try to break his ruling. The incident occurred during a
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    YEMEN WANTS NO HELP
    63 8 The Government of Yemen yesterday said it would not 1 allow the Egyptian medicai mission or representatives of the World Health Organisation to enter Yemen territory.. After having appealed for help against a mysterious epidemic m North Yemen, th? Government announced that it was not necessary
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    Goatskin treaty for Japanese
    147 8 Goatskin treaty for Japanese WASHINGTON, Tues. STATE Department treaty specialists said yesterday that the final copy of the Japanese peace treaty will be inscribed on a -special parchment-type paper "designed to last forever." The copy to be signed at San Francisco m September will be bound m dark navy blue
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    GOLD MARKET STEADY IN HK
    55 8 The gold market yesterday again marked time pending the outcome of the Korean cease-fire talks. Slight gains were registered but the market was generally quiet. Yesterday's closing quotations on the Hong Kong money exchange market were: HK56. 235/6. 27 per U.S.$. HK515.65 per sterling. HK5310.375
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    PERU'S OIL BILL
    50 8 The Peruvian Government yesterday published the text of a new bill oh the country's oil resources declaring all oil deposits to be national property and providing for the grajUinjr of §11 concaSloTte tcf private companies on condition^ which Would yield a maximum orofi!. to the state. AFP
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    13 8 yicie-Admiral N. D. Kusnetsov has replaced Admiral Yumashev as Soviet Minister of Navy.
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    JAPS TO HELP
    36 8 All possible help, including finance, equipment and technicians was promised yesterday by true head of a Japanese industrial mission m Karachi which is to study Pakistan's problems and see proDosed industrial sites. A.P.
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    U.S. plan for raw materials to Japs
    242 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. ANY plan to channel some of the raw materials of East and South Asia to the industrial plants of Japan must be approached "with the full agreement and co-operation of the countries affected, the New York Times said yesterday. It
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    Labour pressed to cut arms
    176 8 Labour pressed to cut arms LONDON, Tuesday. OESOLUTIONS urging that Britain slow down m rearming have been submitted for the annual conference of the Labour Party m October. Thirtyone of thirtyseven resolutions on rearmament advocated reductions m the arms programme. The other six, while conceding that the programme might be
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    Duke to marry German princess
    49 8 Ernest August, Duke of Brunswick-Luenburg, 37, will be married m Hanover on September 4 to Ortrud, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, 26. Ernest August, who still holds the titlg of a Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, is a brother of the Queen of Greece. U.P.
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    READY TO FLY OVER POLE
    63 8 An Aires-3, the specially equipped Royal Air Force Lincoln bomber which is to fly over the North Pole to Alaska, prepared m Iceland yesterday for her take off early today. The aircraft is equipped with rifles, axes, fishing gear and specially designed arctic clothing m
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    28 8 A group of sixty African leaders meeting m N. Rhodesia over the week-end unanimously and strongly condemned the proposed federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. A.F.P.
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    Slim in a trance
    64 8 DIET-CONSCIOUS Americans thought they had heard everything about losing weight, but they reckoned without Edwin Baron, of Chicago. A professional hypnotist, he puts women into a spell m batches of 20. Wfiile m the trance, which lasts for weeks, they are said to lose much weight
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    NO JOB FOR SCHACHT
    71 8 The activities m Indonesia of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's "financial wizard," will not be binding for either party, and Dr. Schacht will not be offered any appointment m the Indonesian Government, it was announced yesterday. A.P. The Courtneys, 'om dv acrobats at the Windmill Theatre, London,
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    NERVOUSNES LEAVING MARKET
    100 8 NERVOUSNES LEAVING MARKET dgmnmg T HF •*-■.<--*■ ■Wton, of ttiet ->■ m Jo r(lar dld murh to nJB ness which n,^ nl ln late "t^l Fr 'day, stat,rjH financial corre Sp^J Tht recover; b ,'^H anese bondTJoV I resu: "^H 0 po ln s m the popuia- J^B also harder
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