The Singapore Free Press, 30 July 1951

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    AMINAH APPEAL FAILS
    54 1 AMINAH APPEAL FAILS •d the V 0* Aminah around L had not paid J23BT involved m court proceed- Manlf j xm* heard. Krnnn; of the tet ta tstfd tor he I ■Bttaf her. forces of I pßfcff I Isorcum when the Chief Sir Jttt* Spenser— WiiI ?cergency iiandiSHr- 1 1
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    HOPE OF OIL TALKS
    326 1 favourable reply to proposals by Britain TEHERAN, Monday. pKRSIA last night replied to new British proposals on the oil dispute. Persian Cabinet sources said ihe response was "favourable and should result m discussions". The British proposals were discussed dming the day at Dr. Mossadeq's house by
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    Street dance
    24 1 Photo. Anouk. the French film star, dances with a young soldier m the streets of ParU durin? the July 14 celebrations. Popper
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    YOUNGER OFF
    34 1 The Minister of State, Mr. Kenneth Younger, together with Secretary of the Treasury John Edwards, left London yesterday to represent Britain at the opening of the World Economic Conference it Geneva.- A.F.P.
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    Protest at Army plan
    18 1 Protest at Army plan ttew farmers and fy iguut piin> to Jfte US Army's P-■-■'i-'v lot o 1
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    JOBLESS
    3 1 Leo- A.P.
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    Princess opens new club
    36 1 Photo. Princess Elizabeth is welcomed by Lord Nuffield as she arrives at th« new N'uffield United 9»r*?ces Officers Club m St. Michael's Road. Ports month, to preside over the opening ceremonies. Reuter
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    'It's madness to think of war'NEHUR
    230 1 'It 's madness to think of war NEHUR NEW DELHI, Monday. JNDIA'S Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, told a meeting last night that it was "sheer madness 0 for anybody to talk of war. He expressed the hope that after India had taken steps to defend and secure her borders there
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    INDIA'S VIEW
    20 1 The Indian government has sent its comments on the draft Japanese peace treaty to the United States. Reuter
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    Tip' led to 12 bandits
    185 1 Tip' led to 12 bandits KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A DDITIONAL information regarding the killing of 12 bandits and the capture of a suspect m the Gamat District of Johore on Saturday has been released. The successful action took place after Security Forces received information on a bandit camp. Leading scouts
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    MISSING
    30 1 No mention is made of Marshal Stalin m 18 slogans issued today by the Chinese Central People's Government for the 24th anniversary of Chinese Army Day. on August Reuter
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    Tribe threatens to boycott Tshekedi
    116 1 PALAYPE, Bechuanaland, Monday. at which he was present, i Representatives of the tribe told the District Commissioner, Mr. J. A. Germond that the British Government had given Tshekedi permission to return to the r eserye without consultation *.tn -he tribe Jfcw/ no faith They would
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    Anti-colour bar fight in Africa
    81 1 Anti-colour bar fight in Africa JOHANNESBURG, Mon. LEADERS of the principal political organisations of Africans, Indians and people of mixed race m South Africa decided at a joint meeting yesterday to set up a planning council for a mass campaign against colour bar laws Tfce meeting was attended by national
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    S.A. TO ATTEND
    33 1 South Africa has accepted be invitation of the United states to be represented at be conference opening at San Francisco, September 4 to conclude a peace treaty vith Japan.— Reuter.
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    Princess's visit
    34 1 Princess Royal, 54-year-old ister of the King, spent yeserday on an excursion to Che 6.000 foot Kanzelhoehe Peak above the Ossiacher In Carinthia. She is on i five-day visit to Austria. Reuter
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    AIRLIFT MAY GO INTO REVERSE
    212 1 BONN, Monday. TPHE Western Allies are planning a Berlin airlift A m reverse m case the Russians refuse to lift their restrictions on exports from the city. The Russians insist that i "(Jertiflcates of origin" shall accompany all shipping papers for Berlin exports to West
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    RED YOUTHS SENT HOME
    63 1 WEST German border police have arrested about 750 Communist youths who tried to cross illegally into East Germany during the weekend on their way to the World Communist Youth Festival m East Berlin. The youths were later sent back to their homes. Thousands of West German
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    KOREAN REDS PESSIMISTIC
    236 1 TOKYO, Mondaj. PYONGYANG radio, apparently preparing Its listeners for possible breakdown, last night said the cease-fire talks were not progressing favourably and accused the United States of "paying lip-service to peace". The United Nations briefing officer said yesterday's 13th session at Kaesong began and ended deadlocked on
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    'PAY UP' CALL
    17 1 Indonesia asking U554,000.--000,000 m reparations from Japan for damage suffered during thf occuoation A.P.
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    'U.S. on brink of disaster'
    148 1 'U.S. on brink of disaster' NEW YORK. Mon. MR. William Douglas, A** ciate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, today charged m an article m Look magazine that the American people had become victims of a military philosophy which dragged them to the brink of disaster m Asia. He
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    Glass strike statement
    100 1 THE General Manager of the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Company. Mr. A. 3. Atkins, told the Free Pr«->« that he would make a statement this afternoon on the strike situation m the factory. The factory has so lat engaged just over 200 work'-rt and more will be <-ns?ageS
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    Untitled
    31 1 The West German government yesterday outlawed tht National Council of the A>* ciation of Victfm s of the Nazi Regime because iu> activities were held to be unconcti Jinnal. A .P.
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    Travel holidays for the Germans
    957 2 SPOTLIGHT OH HOLIDAYS A mass outbreak after years of war and post-war penury rpHE Germans are indulging m the summer luxury of travel this holiday season as they never have before. All Western Germany seems to be engaged m a /nass outbreak from the claustrophobia
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    172 2 DORN today, literature will probably be your bat field off expression. You have talent, both m fiction and poetry, if it is adequately developed. You are highly adaptable and know how to fit m any kind of swrovndinga. Your sense of humour is well developed. Your sharp
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    Solution to Crossword No. 417
    57 2 Acrws: 3. We be* to. 7. Differ. 8. Mortars. 9, Throbs. 10, Inr.es. 12. Bein». .13. Robey. 16. Gladys. 17, A priori. 18. Inside. 19, Harding. D»wa: 1. Edith 2, Afore. 3, Wembley. 4. Eros. 5, Eating. I, Turner. 10. Ink. Mng 11, Hoopia. 12,'
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    All done on a shoestring, Paris steers them away from Britain
    571 2  - All done on a shoestring, Paris steers them away from Britain S. L. SOLON by OARIS m high summer needs no festival to show off its charms, which are already almost suffocating m their hyacinthine fullness. After a wash-ed-otft spring the whole city is now shimmering m a sunlit orgy
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    STUDIO GETS HITLER'S CAR
    231 2 TWENTIETH Century Fox has acquired the 80.000--dollar bullet-proof car that Adolph Hitler used. The studio hired it from its present own/r, a Chicago importer, and will use it m a scene showing a meeting between Hitler and German Field Mar&hal Erwin Rommel. The seven-passenger armoured sedan
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    Up in the hair
    248 2 lIP on the 20th floor of the new United Nations headquarters building here is one small room where any subject under the sun may be discussed except politics. It is the place where the delegates come for a shave and haircut the U.N. barber's shop. Although
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    UNDER-CVOER GIRL
    565 2 UNDER-CVOER GIRL The^"! othf :L who ._»<» s/, onned 1 traitor tells FREDERICK COO* 1 "OUSH a moment, Christine", said the darkhaired young mother. She passed her baby a toy and turned again to talking about the days when she used to hear people muttering about "That traitor" as she
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    AFFRAY HAS KEY TO NEW SUBMARINES
    439 3 AFFRAY HAS KEY TO NEW SUBMARINES No hull damage observed Navai t LON DON, Monday. veaUH fUFVH ex P r f ssed Mi that secrets ren»,Xi f2 V^ the sunken submarine Affray lyina would* brin^« hOmS d P K in the En lish Ch.nn5 Auction Im P° rtan t changes
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    Uniformed Gunmen
    22 3 Two gunmen wearing police uniforms and badges held up a bank m Somerville, Massachusetts, yesterday, and escaped with U5533,059. A.P.
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    U.N. carts nedal for Korea
    9 3 U.N. carts nedal fo r Korea i Sec- J
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    SIX EXPERTS FOR COLOMBO
    7 3 SIX EXPERTS FOR COLOMBO L I Reuter
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    Climber scales Himalayan peak
    26 3 Climber scales Himalayan peak E mountain i r- Pv 'h I of m letder of -xiKh M Rar.ikhet ished a i Hi The report Riridi- U.P.
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    Transport Pool
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    TREATY TALK
    30 3 Th> Philippines Minister m London. Mr. M. Jose E. Romero, is expected to discuss the Anglo-American Japanese peace treaty draft with Mr. Morrison, the Foreign Secretary, today.- Reuter
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    NEW APPROACH
    25 3 President Vincent Auriol of Franc? yesterday called a special meeting of party leaders m a new approach to end the cabinet deadlock.- U.P.
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    FOOD THREAT
    40 3 Officials have expressed fears that they may have to face a grave food shortage as a result of floods from the Braifrahputra and Übsi Rivers which have submerged 150 square miles of farm lands m Kamrup district.— A.F.P.
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    CROC FORTUNE
    38 3 Coastal natives of Arnhem Land are making small fortunes hunting crocodiles. In the last two months, natives from Elcho island and Millingimbi missions have sent a record £1,200 worth of skins to Darwin for sale.- A.P.
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    GOLD BULLION STILL LOST ON SEABED
    142 3 S BRISBANE. Mon. ALVAGE work so far failed to reveal any trace of five bars of gold bullion valued at A £35,0*0 m the wrekage of a Qantas airplane which crashed off Lac, New Guinea, on July 16. Australia's ace salvage expert Captain J.
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    HIS LAST AIM -THE CUP
    47 3 HIS LAST AIM THE CUP Mr. O. R. Porter, Australia's greatest stake-winning owner, said here "I have now only one ambition m racing —to win the Melbourne Cup." The victory of his horse Fpjten m the recent Leamington hurd:\ brought Porter's stake winnings to £29,896 10s. A.P.
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    GIFT CIGARS FOR TWO
    55 3 Mr. Morris Dreicher, president of the American CigarSmokers Association, presented one of the world's "two finest cigars" to the Finnish composer, Jan Si^ belius. The second of the two cigars Mr.. Dreicher took to Europe for Mr. Winston Churchill. The cigars cost US$l5 each and are
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    First Commissioner
    13 3 Raden feudarto Hadinoto. first Indonesian Commissioner to Dutch Guiana (Su- Reuter
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    340,000 WAIT
    26 3 The Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry has published a "White Paper" stating that 340,000 Japanese were still t«> b? repatriated from Russia or Ghina.- A.F.P.
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    Council Meeting
    21 3 The Ministerial Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is expected to meet at Ottawa m late September. Reuter
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    Bridge Hand
    322 3 iVcither side vulnerable South dealer QOUTH'S was the two no trump response of a player who has parsed initially. His contract wound up at sixes and sevens but when properly diagnosed sixes and sevens can mean the difference between success and fail-jre. Wen opened the diamond kin?. South
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    RUSSIANS CAN STAND NO-DRUG SURGERY
    210 3 NEW YORK. Monday. 71/lAJOR surgery without anaesthesia is a common iTI practice m Russia, Dr. Macdonald Critchley, director of the Institute of Neurology, London, told the annual convention of the California!! Medical Association m Los Angeles. He said: "I have personally witnessed such major operations
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    Just like Jane's
    67 3 V ING Farouk's bride has a figure "just like Jane Russell's." says the woman who says she is planning an expensive wardrobe for her m Beverley Hills Cali. fornia. Statistics: Bust, 38.5 inches (same as Russell's); waist, 26 inches (one inch smaller than Russell's). Queen Narriman 17,
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    Vietminh in Peking
    13 3 A 14-member Vietminh "friendship delegation" has arrived m Peking.— Reuter
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    300 FIGHT ON BERLIN 'FRONTIER'
    74 3 THREE hundred West an* East Berliners fought with fists and stones on the border between the Allied and Soviet sectors of the city as a result of a Communist propaganda meeting. The CommimUls h«-id th* meeting at '.he boundary, advertising that a Communht youth rally
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    BODY IN SACK
    44 3 Police m Nice said y« s? tdav that they were conviii the torso of a woman foun4 m a sack under a bridge n if Cannes is that of Madam* Maria Smigly Rydgz. wi# t of the late Polish marshal A.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July SO, 1551. The Mask is off
    465 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July SO, 1551. The Mask is off THE whole basis of the Dulles draft treaty wnich Japan is to be offered rests on the extraordinary assumption that the Japanese have taken democracy to their hearts But the facts clearly indicate that no such transformation has
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    Malaya's hostel sets an example in London
    1631 4 What kind of accommodation is most satisfactory? conflict rages between students and authorities fOLONIAL students m London are on strike. 45 of them. instructed to leave the British Council hostel at Hans Crescent m Kensington to make room for new arrivals from overseas,
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    'INFRASTRUCTURE' IS THE BIG WORD
    740 4 y> fflllCj f Gerald Pawlt ITNTTL last week I U had never heard the word infrastructure. Now it is pinging m my ears. A two-page staff paper defines the word, which has cropped up atrain and again during conversations I have been having over m
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    Eisteddfod Moth
    55 4 WISCONSIN 1 m is ther "> birthpiar*. ar< uptarnec i«iic# their red sfa^-w but a fft cf jeiiW to I far tivaJ I E Eifiti :< sen: 18 cwotwi. own with whirh am- ••L J I SC camr 3 500 mite t»JJ m to we tt*!* l^ anpadfar.
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    TRADE SPIVS' BAULKED Y GOVT.
    154 5 TRADE SPIVS' BAULKED Y GOVT. fc^ materials m O f building Free P**" Staff 01^' I tTJI action taken by the Government |> to nd the building: trade of ■^Tefforl to ease the flow of materials I I construction work, has borne fruit, W* i -under-the-counter" have not been W
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    Youth Festival
    82 5 \'>ITORS and students m the U.K. from Singapore. Ceylon 3^a many other parts of th* arid met Lady Mountbatten this week afl the Festival Centre of Youth ir. London. The visitors, uho were in\itcd the Standing Conference of the National Voluntary Youth Organisations, are all connected voluntary youth
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    THE 'BUTCHER' IS 'COLD MEAT'
    77 5 picturr. -TCTCIIEir MI'CKLE. mho re♦wee* tfce «*ht bttmtu Kin* Kon* and "The Angel" at tho H»ppy Warrld on Saturday •if** was himself knocked o«t whr« King; Koag slammed him on to the canvas and Is *?en In this picture being carried out •cold" during the
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    LIFT BAN PLEA
    145 5 RE-EXPORT OF PIECEGOODS Free Fress Staff Reporter l EADINO merchants have approached the three Chambers of Commerce m Singapore to make a joint representation to the Government to lift the ban on the re-export of piece goods to other countries, the Free Press was told. Government had
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    New indenting & receipt systems
    261 5 New indenting receipt systems ALLEGED MALPRACTICES IN SMC Free Press Staff Reporter HOLLOWING allegations of malpractices m connec- tion with the indenting and receipt of certain goods from the Singapore Municipal engineering stores, the Public Works Committee of Municipal Commissioners has proposed that a new system be tried out. This
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    No repairs in 15 years
    187 5 (Free Press Jotaore Corre»po»4cPt) gUSINESS concerns m Johore have been much concerned over the condition of the Endam-Mersing Road, which, they say, has not been remetailed for over 15 years. Its present deplorable state has resulted m motor traffic avoiding using this road as the
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    BIG WELCOME AWAITS THESE VETERAN FIGHTERS
    75 5  -  TONY BALCH Rv S,^ fvieSSSi. reUin North Indo-Ch.na. The Legionnaires J£f^"^ for six days at Nee Soon RASC driver is seen, with Ho of hte foreign Legionnaire comrades on board tne Xo^f the quaydde to welcome c "Ct e "B.ttal to n, who left
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    THESE SAVINGS BANK CLIENTS GOT CONFUSED
    182 5 Free Frees Staff Reporter. Illiterate people wh« fe to withdraw money from the Port Office Saving* Bank arc »P--parenUy u»mf—nl «v«r the word "pety" which b Matey for "box." Derinc mh hours, the cierk* who help them to pnt their thumb prints on their
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    Blackout areas
    10 5 2TS?r^Rd Upper SwangooiK Bou aMry^ x,Anovt Printing Barracks.
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    Burma .War Hero (M.C. + Bar) needs a job—'All I want is a chance...'
    567 5 Burma .War Hero (M.C. Bar) needs a job 'All I want is a chance...' Free Press Staff Reporter 'THERE is a 31-year-old former British and Burma Army Intelligence officer x m Singapore who wants a job here within a week In less he gets it he will have to leave
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    More taxis proposal 'disquieting'
    189 5 More taxis proposal 'disquieting' Free Press Staff Reporter 'J'HE recommendation made by the Vehicles and Transport committee of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to increase the number of taxis by 400 will have a most disquieting effect on many taxi drivers, Mr. T. A. Simon, President of the Singapore Hire Car
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    Brilliant record of Military Service
    333 5 Dl KMA-BOBN Mr. X C. Ywin (it was m the Shan States that he first saw the light of day) won a commission In India after being wounded In battle m Chindwin m 1941 with the Duke of Wellington* Regiment. He was then attache* to
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    MR. DEWEY FOR K.L.
    30 5 Mr. Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York State, will visit Kuala Lumpur today for conierences with the Army and the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney.
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    Schoolgirl's suicide
    43 5 A Chinese schoolgirl, 18-year-old Yap Ah Peck of the Methodist Girls' School, Klang, died m Klang Hospital on Saturday morning after taking poison. She is the daughter of a Klang timber merchant Teachers and classmates attended her funeral on Saturday evening.
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    SMILES OF TRIUMPH
    53 6 > picture. Singapore Swimming Club's water-polo team which defeated Chinese Swimming C lub by seven goals to five m yesterday's Singapore Amateur Swimming Association "A" League match at S.S.C. Back row (left to right): Oliemans.N Bain. Mclvor, S. Wolters. Squatting (left to right): W. Wolters. B. Mitchell,
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    'We didn't deserve to lose'- DOVER
    307 6  - 'We didn't deserve to lose'- DOVER CHARLES BRYCE By 'IT was a good, hard, clean game, but I don't think we deserved to lose," said Dover, captain of the Combined Services XI after last evening's match. Vass, who captained the Singapore team m place of Harith, who was taken ill
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    Stars of Merit
    71 6 Following were the stars of merit as I rated them for yesterday's match: SERVICES: SINGAPORE: Mutton: \\w Chee >mt: xxxi Injhim: x Davids: xxxx Boniface: xxz Teow Km- xxx Butler: xxxx Vass: xxxx Dover: xxxx Hoon Leone: xxx Herbert: xx Hin Wenc: xxx Suleiman: xsx s Madon:
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    Johore XI v.Malacca
    50 6 JOHORE meet Malacca m a two-day cricket match at Malacca on Aug. 4 and 5. Johore will be represented by: D. P. Ross (capt), M. B. Spurway, W. Vias, A. Barthelot, D Barton. R. Van Schoonbeck Abdul Ohani, J. Park, Harban Singh, J. Allport and C. Navaretnam.
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    TRABERT BEATS FLAM
    33 6 Tony Trabert, the United States hard courts tennis champion, upset his Davis Cup colleague, Herbie Flam, to win the Meadow Club invitation tournament yesterday 6-2, 10-8, 5-7. 6-3. A .P.
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    Offer for Savitt to turn 'pro
    97 6 MR. G. Lyttelton-Rogers said m Omaha yesterday that if Dick Savitt could win the United States lawn tennis championship at Forest Hills next month he and his associates would offer Savitt $75,000 for a winter tour as a professional. Savitt has already won the
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    MPs AT TENNIS
    26 6 French members of Parliament beat British MP's by four games to one m inter-Parliamentary tennis matches held at Deauville on Saturday.— A .P.
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    IN. A TIGHT CORNER
    55 6 picture. Referee Butcher Muckle jumps on King Kong and blasts the whistle m his ear to stopbim pinning the Swedish Angel against the ropes m Saturday's wrestling match at the Happy World arena. King Kong was disqualified by the promoter m the third round for knocking
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    SWISS WINS TOUR DE FRANCE
    251 6 UGO Koblet < Switzerland), who had taken over the lead ten' days a&o when the riders were down m teh southwest corner of France, yesterday won the Tour de France with an aggregate time for the 24 stages of 142 hours 20 minutes 14 seconds.
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    SINGAPORE'S SPEED DEFEATE SERVICES
    701 6  - SINGAPORE'S SPEED DEFEATE SERVICES CRUSADER By Grim tussle m Cuptie Singapore 1; Combined Services 0. POOR Combined services! The luck that had dogged them for 24 years once again deserted them m the Malaya Cup soccer competition. This time they couldn't even emulate Army-Navy's feat of 1949 m getting into
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    7-5 water polo victory for SSC
    402 6 Free Press Aquatics Reporter SINGAPORE Swimming Club water-polo players churned their way to a notable victory over last year's Singapore Amateur Swimming Association *'A'' League champions. Chinese Swimming Club, m a League match at the S.S.C. yesterday morning. The score was seven goals to
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    Indian cricketers doing well
    201 6 INDIAN professionals were again prominent m 1 Lancashire League cricket matches played on Saturday. Vinoo Mankad was dismissed for 15 m the match against Hayward, but captured eight wickets for 72 runs to give his team an easy victory. Mankad's wicket was claimed by George Pope,
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    COLONY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
    39 6 J omen's ttf varfcTlM VA *"m! fourth J..* n ■to* Urn. uTm^ 1( N BFJ.OW a*a> from T »rj re, M lasl the .J. tor SwifU VA TwL* 1 turn*. M Singapore rrcTdan^ Malayan mirk t
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    All qualifiers are veterans
    413 6 All qualifiers are veterans Free Press Golf Correspondent QUALIFYING stages of the Singapore golf championship were completed yesterday; 18 holes had been played by each contestant at Bukit Timah on Saturday afternoon and a further 18 holes were decided at the island club yesterday morning. On both days the conditions
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    Sixth goal
    73 6 r|MIS was the sixth goal A m by Chinese Swimming C lub goalkeeper. Ho Tian C hiao, In yesterday's Singapore Amateur Swimming Association "A League water-polo match ajjainsi Singapore Swimming Club. It was scored from an »nsl« by right-winger Oliemans. who is not m the picture. Looking on
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    Sweden rout Germany
    54 6 SWEDEN compleied \at :M I of Germany m ll* I* peari zone final o' Cup tennis co^ii winning 'he re«itei| singles a* Ba^ I for a fiv Sweden Ihe Ame:. for the traJia m :he c Sweep, hitf fj i the **vm Gulos 6-0. 6-2 In the
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    Jockeys'honour: Cook warded off
    10 6 Jockeys' honour: Cook warded off lOCKEV J k •A A.P.
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    NEW HORSES IN ONE EVENT
    660 7 NEW HORSES IN ONE EVENT picture. Several show promise From ALLAN LEWIS l m i.^—^ FENANG, Monday. 4 1* interesting feature of the second day's racing at the coming Fenang Turf Club August Bank holiday meeting wiU be the six-furlong event for «T?i? f mV 3 hoPSes Th fleld con
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    an Hoogstra ten's crew win Chiengmai Cup
    118 7 an Hoogstra ten's crew win Chiengmai Cup I Liv A Special Correspondent I r fours was won by a crew of whom three had Singapore at Saturday's regatta at Royal Singapore V m Hougstraten. they beat, first of all, a four ni m t*?e final defeated De Jongs crew by
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    AMPON BEATS DROBNY
    108 7 T. AMPON (Philippines) yes- terday won the men's singles m the International tennis tournament at Cologne with a surprise victory over Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny 2—6. c-l f ft-0, 6—l. Just before the game, Drobny was told that his father had been killed m a traffic accident m
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    SPORTS MEET
    23 7 DUNOON, 'Scotland), Sun. A combined England and Wales side won the triangular international athletic tournament with Scotland and Ireland here yesterday.
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    A.R.U. meeting
    12 7 I L I ut the .-ion Au S- 3. at
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    MARSHALL KO'D
    60 7 H^rry "Xll 1 Mathews. oi Seattle, knocked out Lloyd Marshall, of Cleveland, with a UTiftc left hook m 2 mins 25 sees ol the first round of 'heir scheduled 10-round boxinsj match on Saturday night battle. Arthur King of Toronto •Ontario 1 the British Empire lightweight champion, won
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    MITRI WINS EASILY
    71 7 FRMER European middleweight boxing champion, Tiberio Mltri <. Trieste) easily won a decision on Saturday night over former Australian light-heavyweight champion. Jack Marr. m a ten-round bout at Rome. Italy's bantamweight champion, Alvaro Nuvolini, knocked out Guy Joujsseau (Paris) m the seventh of a ten -round match.
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    Peters takes marathon
    83 7 JIM Peters, Britain's 32-y^ir- old Olympic marathon hope, won his first Amateur Athletic Association marathon title on Saturday m 2 hrs. 31 mins. 42 sees. The time beat by several minute* the record for the course established by Jack Holden, of Britain, the European champion. Tom Richards,
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    Malacca foiled
    43 7 JLJEGRI SKMBILAN foiled a bid Pi for victory toy Malacca m the two-day inter-State cricket match which concluded at Malacca yesterday. Malacca required 94 runs far a win but had difficulty m kno^jng up half that number against the Ne*ri bowling.
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    Channel attempts successful
    162 7 .m the Channel m both *rectons. J^t year, he swam from France to England m 14 hrs. 50 xnins., iinishing fifth m the Channel marathon. Philip Mickman. 20-year-old I Yurkshireman who left Dor on Saturday night to Q the BnsUish Channel. -iAve uj> soon after mid-day >sterrfay
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    WINNING GOAL
    202 7 (ComtimKd from P»«e «> rfpfence was sorely tried and Teow sumption, hqtretw. «ettled the ssrJoSir*K£ h Bkr» Ottt Si?3[ Mate. wf« wa. always a ttown to Bwulace. ran ui> bat he did no« centre hl^ u^J t J J JTafSrSauJ? had'dl^nd failed to ta^^^e effect of Ch« Sen*.
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    GOOD DAY FOR RAF TENGAH
    306 7 JJOYAL AIR FORCE Tengah had a great day m the S.C.A. junior tournament yesterday. The first team gained an outripbt win over Indian Association 2nds, while the Tengah 2nd XI took ftrst innings points from C.V.MA. In another B. section match Seneviratne scored a century
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    OLSOH'S QUICK WIN
    40 7 Marl "Bobo" Olson, of Honolulu scored a technical knockout over Charley Cato. of Oakland on Saturday night afer 2 minutes 33 seconds of the third round of a scheduled 10- round fight at Richmond, California. A .P.
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    Outright wins for CSC, SCC
    369 7 Outright wins for CSC, SCC picture npWO outright wins resulted from yesterday'% Singapore Cricket Association senior matches. Ceylon Sports Club beat V.M.C.A. by an innings and fours runs at C.S.C. ground, while on the S.C.C. Padang Singapore Cricket Club scored a six-wicket win over Singapore Recreation Club. These two winning
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    Fangio and Ascari in keen duel
    195 7 ALBERTO Ascari (Half). driving a Fer'ari, wod the German Grand Prix molar race yesterday by covering the course of 466 kilometres at an average speed of 134 8 kilometres an hour. Second was Juan Fan .o (Argentina*, m an *H* Romeo, with Froilan Gonz
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    POLIO ON A DESTROYER
    51 8 POLIO ON A DESTROYER Two cases of poliomelitis were confirmed yesterday on the U.S. destroyer Fiske, which was quarantined with three others on arrival m Gibraltar on Saturday. Both were isolated m Gibraltar's military hospital. The destroyers, which earlier called at Singapore on the way, are still m quarantine.- A
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    Spectators had midnight bath
    48 8 Applauding spectators literally "brought the house down" at an open-air performance of the operetta 'Nights of Venice" m a park m Marseilles. Several rows of seats built over a shallow lake collapsed and 100 spectators had a midnight bath. No one was hurt. A.P.
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    18 DROWNED
    31 8 Eighteen persons were drowned and seven saved yesterday when a launch cap. sized and 'sank m the wash of a river boat at Puerto Laborada, In Columbia.- A .P.
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    'WORLD CONTROL' URGED BY TAFT
    415 8 'WORLD CONTROL' URGED BY TAFT 'Too much for US to handle 9 America was "that we i PLYMOUTH, Massachusetts, Monday. THE United States "m co-operation with the British Empire" should undertake to secure sea and air control throughput the world, said Senator Robert Taft (Republican) yesterday at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Senator
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    Menzies studies inflation
    85 8 Menzies studies inflation SYDNEY, Mon. 'THE Australian, Prime Minuter, Mr. Robert Menzies, with six state premiers and top-level representatives of Labour and industry, will sit down at a conference table here today to find ways and me.ans of combating inflation m Australia. The Prime Minister has described the talks first
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    Too much enthusiasm
    74 8 THE Indian Communist leader Muxaffar, yesterday was prevented from addressing his followers because of their own overenthusiasm. Due to address a Communist meeting at Cochebehar, Muzaffar circled over the airfield there m a plane not equipped with radio. His enthusiastic followers wived red flags madly and the
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    6 U.N. PLANES SHOT DOWN
    50 8 Six United Nations fighters crashed m enemy territory m Korea last week, victims of intense Communist ground fire, the U.S. Far East Air Force reported yesterday. All six planes were engaged m low-level attacks on Red strong points. Some of the pilots were rescued- A.P.
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    POST STOPPED
    12 8 Siam has severed all posfal relations with Red China.— U.P.
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    THE LEADERS IN STEAM
    62 8 Mr. Victor G. Vakayev, Soviet deputy Minister of the Navy claimed yesterday m a broadcast that Russia had preceded Britain m the history of steam navigation. Russian sailors first discovered the Asiatic and North American coastlines of the Pacific Ocean and explored many other parts of
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    LOSES JOB
    40 8 Brigadier Genera* David Crawford was formally reprimanded and relieved of his command of the Army's big tank automotive centre at Detroit yesterday for accepting free hospitality from defence contractors ana diverting government prooertv to his private use. U.P.
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    No more 'bad' stage Negroes
    87 8 NEW YORK, Mon. CORMATION of a Council to campaign against caricaturing Negroes m theatrical presentations was 'announced yesterday. Known as the Co-Ordinat-ing Council for Negro Performers, it will be headed by Mr. Lester A. Walton, former United States Minister to Liberia. "It will be the
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    The condition
    33 8 Four thousand German former paratroops declared yesterday that they would not fight for the Western Allies until Kesserling, Raeder, Heurath. Doenitz and other sentenced war criminals were released from gaol. Reuter
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    UNIONS WANT PRICE ACTION
    284 8 LONDON, Monday. T*HE British Government received a clear warning yesterday that its vast trade union following expects drastic action to halt the rising cost of living. Unions representing 250,000 workers, many of them m the vital rearmament industries, came out solidly with a sharp liand that
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    FRANCO PROTESTS
    96 8 MADRID, Mon. SPAIN has officially protested against British and French opposition to U.S. Spanish negotiations. The Spanish ambassadors m London and Paris delivered the notes on Friday. The Foreign Ministry's announcement said the notes warned the two governments that they bear complete responsibility for the unfriendly attitude shown
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    Non-explosive bomb
    76 8 atomic scientists have constructed a nonexplosive radioactive bomb capable of altering: the physical and chemical properties of substances expotwtf to their radiation. An announcement by the Brookhaven atomic labotf tories m New York, said that the bombs /which were Of exceptional radioactive power, were composed of cobalt and
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    10 HURT IN FIGHT
    59 8 Ten persons were injured last night In a free-for-all as Palestine's campaigning reached a peak before tomorrow's parliamentary elections. A truck carrying young men to a party rally outside Tel Aviv ran over a child. Whin the rally was over, the truck went through the same
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    22 8 Infectious jaundice, believed to have been caught by swimming m Korean rivers, has killed several men of a United Nations Division Reuter
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    11 NATIONS AGREE ONREFUGEES
    269 8 11 NATIONS AGREE ONREFUGEES GENEVA, Monday. ■c»LEVEN nations signed an international treaty here yesterday, laying down a new code of rights for refugees and stateless persons. The treaty was drafted during the past month and will become operative after ratification by at least six of the countries. Dr. G. J.
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    The future by Mr. Lee of Taipeh
    161 8 TAIPEH. Mon. LEE Yu Chia, has the future all figured out. Mr. Lee is an astrologer and many Chinese lay much store on his predictions. Here is what Mr. Lee sees m his crystal ball. 1. Cease-fire talks m Korea will break down
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    REDS ACCUSED
    30 8 Sweden and Denmark last night jointly accused Russia of encroachment upon the freedom of the seas by arbitrarily extending her territorial waters m the Baltic to 12 miles.
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    De LATTRE IN PARIS
    57 8 General de Lattre de Tassigny, French High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief m Indo-China, arrived m Paris by plane from Saigon yesterday for talks with Defence Minister Jules Moch and other government officials. The General is expected to spend several weeks m France before going "to Washington at
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    JUNK SUNK
    25 8 Tn* Chinese Nationalist Defence Ministry said a Nationalist warship sank an armoured Communist junk on Friday near Quemoy, defence outpost near Amoy.- A.P.
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    U.N. meets in Geneva
    136 8 first major United Nat mk V I A Mr. Jacob Malik's June > > nf^| due to open here this morning For the next seven weeks th, c have a chance to demonstrate m t h M Economic and Social Council how* 1 was contained m
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    We're ready to talk-Malik
    161 8 LONDON, Mon. MR. JACOB Malik, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, told a visiting British delegation that Russia was ready to take part m great power negotiations at the highest level, members of the group stated on their return here yesterday. Representing the Society of Friends of
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    To CHECK ON LOST P.O.W.
    60 8 To CHECK ON LOST P.O.W. A special United turn commission, to ummrn the fate of missing W oric I J II prisoners will aoc ::< fid sitting m New Yrttdij Members are Omm Bernadotte, now i late Cuuir Folke Berai* Jose Gustavo Gumn n»l president of the Ir.ietnMß Court of
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    Suez proposal
    34 8 The Asm v *k*fc Mr Jpflt-rsun day handed li tsV* Foreign M Saleh pi Din P. Ed American prop- settlement by d;pl«w channels r f!S restrictions imjr^d by V$ on Suez Cana
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