The Singapore Free Press, 2 August 1951

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFXERNOOM SALE IM MALAYA :•-dadaa SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AI'GUST 2, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 64 1 1 know whfther. irf the uavttled '^..BJfnilKr of the ft I**.1 Malaya r fommt-nunes Th^v broad JU"'"" #sellsesub r im ure •ill iifff that the^ e Mr J«»o ire r^jfith^ noddi-d his 1., urffmfnt when W« him t0 patting a small quinine copies of j^, broadcast talks fclMsr t>'
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  • 507 1 Afete> /ted I propaganda campaign IN ADVANCE BASE BELOW KAESONG, Thursday. JHE Chinese and North Korean Communists last night asserted that the cease-fire talks will collapse unless the United Nations Command agrees to a truce line along the >th Parallel. A blast of Red propaganda
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  • 92 1 Driberg on the Press laws Lion briber* (Lab.. Maid on) yesterday joined t vinlev Awbery (Lab., Bristol, C.) in mm Mr. James Grilliths, the Colonial itwut the new emergency newspaper Jrias in Singapore. kMn. asked if the ■KKHId make a .>tate- Emaper regula- t*R published mi July ,\s latCouncll 1
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  • 88 1 CAIRO. Thurs. THE Egyptian Press Syndicate yesterday called a general strike for Aug. 5 :n protest against the proo.> *d amendments to the Press law. No newspapers will publish on Aug. 5 The syndicate, which represents publishers and editorial workers, also announced that it would call a
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  • 25 1 Foreign and Defence Ministers of the 12 Atlant'c Pact countries will meet twice this autumn to settlt Germany's role in Europe s A.P.
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  • 22 1 Freedom Front, a Chinese third party P« bl lon J" Hong Wong, described the ran 9 c «i feVoft^'Bo^'Mlion.'*- A.P.
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  • 291 1 CHANGE FOR MOSCOW READERS MOSCOW, Thurs. ORAVDA'S exchange of x views with the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison, was posted on 1,000 bulletin boards in Moscow yesterday, and Western observers believed it might be the beginning of a public debate beneficial to both Russia and the West. Pravda is
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  • 150 1 AFFRA Y'S 'SNORT' WAS FAULTY LONDON, Thursday. T*HE submarine Affray lost in the English Channel A last April with 75 men on board had a faulty snort underwater breathing apparatus the House of Commons was told yesterday. Mr James Callaghan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said the srvort was below
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    33 1 t>enlse **arce! French him star (above) has hired a bodyguard to protect her against her husband. She says that he started "caveman stuff" in an attempt to win her back after they separated.
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  • 121 1 LONDON, Thurs. THE first two Malay cadets to go through the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst will pass out at the Sovereign Parade there today. Tomorrow the cadets. Sergeant Abdul Manon bin Abas and Sergeant Shokar bin Chik, will be commissioned as second lieutenants
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  • 17 1 The United States Navy want* $4,497,869,000 for the next phase of its aviation buildup. Reuter
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  • 77 1 HONG KONG. Thurs. /iHINESE sources who reKj ceive regular reports from Fukien discount the rumour that the Malayan Chinese leader. Tan Kah Kee, has been executed by the Communists. The rumour. emanating from Formosa, said Mr. Tan was slain at Amoy. The sources point out
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  • 23 1 The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization will send three specialists to Pakistan to make recommendations on basic education. A.F.P.
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  • 79 1 MANILA, Thurs. THF Zamboansa correspondent of *he Manila Time, reported that one aboard the Hong -owned *A H.i How, whet* 000 pilgrims for Mecca are 'herded together like animals." A Philippines custom! and immigration the times correspondent saW "are helpless and unfble' to So aoythinc about
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  • 281 1 'SHELTER FIRE VICTIMS M.C. rpHE Attap Dwellings Committee of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners should immediately find ways of giving shelter to some of the families made homeless in yesterday's fire in Kampong Bugis Mr. S. M. A. H. Chishty, a Municipal Commissioner and a member of the committee said today.
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  • 74 1 The Communists have put on a psychological warfare effort on one section of' the Korean front line without success. A broadcast in English by a woman from an amplifier purred across No Mans Land for several nights recently. The woman cajoles the troops to desert and
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  • 92 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs PRESIDENT Truman yesterX day formally ordered the suspension of tariff concessions to Russia and a number of her satellites. The President's proclamation was required by a recent extension of the reciprocal tradp law. The law required a suspension of tariff concessions to
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  • 44 1 Boy Scouts from the Western world pitched their tents yesterday only 20 miles from Russian troops for their seventh world jamboree at Bad Ischl, Austria. The jamboree formally opens tomorrow with a march past of 15,000 Scouts from 42 nations.
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  • 152 1 End row over Kashmir, says U.S. WASHINGTON, Thurs. T*HE United States has urged India and Pakistan to halt their border dispute over the state of Kashmir "in tho interests of general peace in Asia". Informed sources said American government, in i note to both parties, urged the mutual withdrawal jf
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  • 55 1 EGYPT, BRIT S I N IN ACCORD Egypt and Britain reached! agreement yesterday Whtt a British merchant s> > searched in one Egyptian pert would not have to b? searched at another point in Etian territorial waters. The Foreign Minister. II jhamed Salah El Din Pasha, announced that Egypt accepted
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  • 39 1 TRYING TO AID NEWSMAN The US Secretary M State. Mr. Dean Acheson, said yesterday the government is taking definite su-p> to obtain the release of As^ ciated Press's Prague correspondent William N O;n I, naoled on an espicn;i charge.
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  • 1130 2 George Malcolm Thompson explores the world of Muntz and Zweistein, where a beard equals a B.Sc. THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES. Edited by E. F. Bleiber and T. E. Dikty. (Grayson and Grayson). THE state of science 1 fiction today calls, on present evidence, for investigation and report
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  • 324 2 OPIES OPUS COMPLETED after seven years rrWENTY Year Old A Mrs. lona Opie got the idea while she was awaiting her first child. She asked her husband: "Why not a Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes? Let's work on it together". That was seven years ago. Since then Mrs. Opie has had
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    52 2 picture. Straight out of the English history book come:; "Queen Elizabeth," screen star. Moira Lister. Her two graceful bodyguards are pedigree Borxois, 'Bossy' and 'Tasha Moira plays 'Hhe Virgin Queen" re-enacting the visit made by Queen Elizabeth in 1558 to Burnt Stub Manor House in the grounds of Chessington Zoo
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  • 169 2  -  Jon Hope *v 1 DUBLICATION next j L month of a 1 volume weighing 21b. 11 oz. will sig- i nal the end of a formidable task un- i dertaken by 58-year- old Professor Peter Alexander, of Glas- gow University. It was in 1944 that
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  • 576 2  -  PETER QUENNELL By PHOTO-BIOGRAPHY, by Cecil Beaton. (Odhams). BALLET, by Cecil Beaton. (Wingate). THE POETRY AND CAREER OF LI PO, by Arthur Waley. (Allen and Unwin). fN far-off days before the' First World War a precocious nine-year-old schoolboy, described by one of our premier literary critics who
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    • 281 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORN today, you have creative imagination, combined with wit, which can bring you into the front ranks if you put them to constructive, artistic use. Sometimes you are too visionary for your own good, but it is likely that the passing of years will bring full vindication
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    • 206 2 New Crossword No> 421 \\O i ■io If I'D ■HIM IB^HT HHBi^i I CLUES ACROSS 3. 7. Outdo the MD. but be careful not to break the disc (4, 3. 6); 8. A simple miss (7); 9. Art in a health resort in old Greece (6); 11. 12. Not the
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  • 372 3 U.S. JOINS LOCUST BATTLE Air liaison with India it has nothtnt vtr R ajasthan dcferts but it nas nothing to do with war talk between thin country and Pakistan. oeiween uiis Pest^hioh 0 11 g inst the locust an insect attacking S &lly SWarms across Northern India damaeestn^H \l ps
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  • 54 3 MUSIC FROM TRINI DAD Hrummer Philmore David- jn hand> during a technical passage in the i ill ->ti^l percussion orchestra's musical proal the "outh bank exhibition. London. The or- first of its kind to visit the United Kingdom, had the people of Trinidad and Tobago who .1 1-,** West Indian
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  • 55 3 A UN. committee of 12, including the Soviet Union, approved in principle a plan to merge the disarmament commission and the atomic energy commission into one single body. The two commissions have for more than two years been virtually inactive, deadlocked by disagreement between Sast and West on
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  • 94 3 LONDON, Thurs. A FILM company apologis- ed in a London court for calling a London newspaperman "the sleeping press photographer." They did so in a commentary to a news film which showed him leaning against a bale of straw at a motor race meeting. The photographer
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    48 3 FOUR GENERATIONS Hearing a tale of long ago are the three-year-old Good quadruplet* on a visit to «*eir rrcat-frandmother Mrs. Clara Fairclough, who to in her 9§th year, at her home in Keynsham, Somerset. The quads, all girls are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Good, of Gloucestershire.
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    8 3 "All with yov'4 tak« qH fem tun gtonttt"
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  • 25 3 Press censorship ended yesterday in French Morocco after 12 years. It was imposed on both French and Arab newspapers In 193 d.
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  • 134 3 AIR HOSTESS HAD BUS OF GOLD L CAIRO, Thurs; ANCELOT SULLEN, an. Englishman, employed a£ an air purser on the TranaWorld Airlines, was acquitted by an Egyptian court martial in Cairo on charges of smuggling gold. The court is to announce its verdict on T.W.A air hostess Cynthia Blythe on
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  • 39 3 Mr. Emanuel Ha Idem an Julius, 62. publisher of the "little blue books" read by millions of Americans for the last 30 years, drowned last night in the swimming pool of his house in Girard, Kansas. U.P.
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  • 22 3 The Indian Republic's first general election will begin on the first week of January and end within three weeks. Reuter
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  • 270 3 FLUSHING MEADOWS, Thursday. PGYPT gave no indication yesterday that it was prepared to lift the blockade of the Suez Canal and it appeared that the Security Council would be forced to vote a resolution instructing her to stop interfering with traffic. Diplomatic observers agreed that there
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  • 41 3 Dr. Soemitro Djojohadlkoesoemo. Indonesia's top economic and financial expert Wro arranged Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's stay In Jakarta, yesterday resigned from all his government Jobs because "I disagree with the government's lack of action in the present economic troubles."- A.P.
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  • 77 3 LKISTON, England. Tues. VISITORS to a Festival of Britain exhibition in this Suffolk village will not see "Statue of Liberty Back View/' a picture indicting American lynching*, it shows two Negroes swift- tical and gnmomt. A.P. ing from gallows, with the Statue of Liberty in the background
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  • 319 3 LONDON, Thursday. ftrUWATT, small Iraq sheikhdom at the Persian v Gulf, has stepped up oil production by about one- third over last year's record, it was announced yesterday in London. The announcement of the Anglo-American-x>wned Kuwait Oil Company coincided with the "closing down of tte refinery
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  • 168 3 MONTREAL, Thurs. CANADA served notice on her Atlantic Pact allies today that she is suspending major arms shipments to Europe until the Anglo-Ame-rican rift over a common rifle is settled. The Defence Minister, Mr. Brooke Claxton, in a statement on the rift, made these points
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  • 26 3 A United Nations sub-com-mittee has recommended that the U:N: create permanent machinery to plan and direct economic war aeainst future aeeressoi-o A.P.
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  • 45 3 The French Defence Minister, Mr. Jules Moch, has arrived in Washington on a 48--hour visit to attend a technical conference of Atlantic Pact nations on standardisation of fire arms and the adoption of a standard rifle for all Atlantic Pact armies. A.F.P.
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  • 187 3 'PURGE' IN EASTERN ARMIES LONDON, Thurs. QNE week after Molotor left Warsaw, the Polish Communist Government staged the biggest political trial in Poland The purpose of the Soviet Vice-Premier's sudden visit to Warsaw and the meaning of his truculent wordf about Titoism are becoming clear. Four generals, three co'onels and
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  • 69 3 SABOTAGE IN BUENOS AIRES Saboteurs yesterday bk'<* up a bridge and cut section* of the Buenos Aires' suburban railways causing severe temporary interruption of traffic. Many railwayman were reported to have b^n arrested. The Ministry of Transport issued a statement sayir^ that four tracks had been blown up but services
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  • 427 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, August 2, 1951. Singapore in 2025 WHAT is the most im- portant news of the week as far as Singapore is concerned? Is it the deadlock in the Kaesong peace talks? The prospect of a settlement in Persia? The fire? The Municipal Commissioners' meeting? No,
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  • 81 4 A TERRIBLE fire brings horror and misery to thousands of people in jSingapore. An even greater tragedy is narrowly averted by a combination of courage and good luck. Lack of water hampered the Singapore Fire Brigade in the early stages of the conflagration. Lack of water! We consider
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  • 826 4 Deportation from Budapest On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays thousands wake and lie waiting f0r.... By A Special Correspondent j ON Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in Budapest there are scores of thousands of people who wake up early and lie waiting and listening in the darkness. Those are the mornings when
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  • 108 4 A book on the royal philatelic collection, which is to be published In the autumn, will cost sixty guineas. The author is Sir John Silson, Keeper of the King's Collection, who has been at work for more than four years preparing a catalogue describing over a quarter
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  • 767 4  -  POLITICO By AFTER meeting Governor Dewey I have lost some of my surprise about Mr. Truaan's election triumph in 1948. The Republican is obviously a supercompetent, streamlined administrator. He has •£reat presence, and not a little charm. But he lacks even a vestige of that "common
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    26 4 Ilhrllted peeiators watc b tc.i^ly a; a slider gets the wind and soars above Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, whil? competing in the National Glider Championships
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  • 633 4 15 MEN HAVE GONE TO SKELETON COAST They hope to encounter^ n* living men have yet seen^ the nearest link to an opt FIFTEEN men have gone beyond the reach of radio, of camels, of help and of the law into a wilderness from which few have returned alive. These
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  • 287 4  -  LINA WATERFIELD By FLORENCE: MOSCOW'S most famous ballerina, Galina Ulanova many times decorated by Stalin would be delighted to dance in London. This I learned when I talked to her in Florence's most luxurious hotel, the Excelsior, where she is staying with a group of
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  • 218 5 A.Cs ACCEPT $5,243,000 U.K. TENDER Two more boilers for new power station Free Press Staff Reporter The boilers will b e ready for delivery i™ 1955 Commiss.oners. A report of the acceptance of the tender frnm *h<* d^*« w and Wilcox was formally made to the Commoner? n t^«™ <***«<*
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  • 62 5 MISS. JENNY WONG SAU CHAN, who was one of the first nurses in Johore to be awarded a UNICEF scholar ship in 1950 to study Public Health in London, has succeeded in passing her final examination. Miss. Wong who was educated at Fair fields Girls* School
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  • 90 5 722 PERSONS (243 WOMEN) GOT JOBS Fret Press Staff Reporter •TOE Singapore Employment Exchange found work for 722 persons, including 243 women, during July A total of 1.080 persons applied to the Exchange for work, -the Fr,ee Press was told. A spokesman of the Exchange said that those for whom
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  • 156 5 SAVINGS BANK WITHDRAWALS: GOVT. VIEW IT will not be in the fnterMi of depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank to increase the amounts of withdrawals. Mrs. Vila si n i Men on. Legislative Councillor for Seletar, has been informed by Singapore's Colonial Secretary. Mrs. Mencn. at the Jane meetinff
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  • 95 5 rj*HE Fenis Malay Transport Company, which waj formed recently with a capital of $100,000 to purchase lorries for transporting kampong pro*iets tor marketing, will launch a second drive this week for the formation of another Malay transport company with a capital of $40,000 to be
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  • 64 5 pOVERNMENT has now authorised the Secretary for Social Welfare to commence payment of relief allowances under public Assistance at new rates, pending constitution of the Public Assistance Board. Payment of the new rates will be subject to the conditions of benefit laid down in the Pubic Assistance
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  • 97 5 T^HE Singapore Municipal Commissioners have agreed that roadwork for building schemes carried out by the Improvement Trust should be undertaken by the Commissioners, if so requested by the Trust. The Commissioners, however, also stipulated that the Municipal Engineer should draw up and supervise the necessary contracts.
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  • 13 5 ffZZti -He Aca I ri' r re I t 5,.-.. r.r--p r"
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  • 71 5 A "PEOPLES" School at Kam- pong Kasar. Pasir 'Man. Kelantan, was officially opened b.v the Mentri Besar, Dato Nik Ahmad Kamal last Saturday. The school was built to serve children who could not be accommodated in the Pasir Mas Malay School. The new building was built
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  • 65 5 The fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the Theosophical Society In Singapore will be celebrated today with a public meeting at 6.30 p.m. at 8, Cairnhlli Road. The proceedings will commence with the offering of prayers of the different religions. ■> Mr. T. Martii* will address today's meeting
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  • 101 5 picture. A proud day 'or nine noncommissioned officers of the Singapore Battalion, the Boys BriradT and the two Singapore Firemen who were decorated by Sir Franklin Glmson, Governor of Singapore, yesterday. From left to right: Chief Foreman Lim son, Leone (R-S.P.CA. Bnmw Medal and Certificate),
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  • 60 5 rE following substations will be load-shedding tonight:— SumSawa Rd.. Joo Chiat Place, jalan Eunos, R*^oo" R^' Towner Rd.. Serangoon R<l.. Kolam Aver. McPherson Rd.. Kim SanM.. Boundary Rd.. Upper Seraruroon Yio Chu Kang Rd. GOU Siting Office. Woodleigh £?k Braddeli Heights Arthur Rd Tan long Katong. Broadrick 2d
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  • 20 5 Members of Queen Stmt Boys, Club will go Panicking at Ayer Biru Camp on Sunday. Aug. i».
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  • 28 5 Varsity Council Court Christian Amianandom. Dip Arts- Dr Che Lah bin Mohamed LDS. <re-«lect*d>. eganaden. DIP Arts Free Press SUB Reporter are the result! of 7th October. lw&.
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  • 104 5 Free Press Malay Correspondent MALAYS in Muar are in the throes of a lively discussion Does margarine contain lard*? The question is reported to have arisen from an article in a magazine issued by the Johore Religious Affairs Department, according to the "Utusan Malayur Malay
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  • 160 5 r[E Federation of Singapore Boys* Clubs, parentbody of all Boys' Cliit>s in the Colony, is considering the possibility of erecting a $10,000 clubhouse for the Malay Settlement Boys' Club in Jalan Eunos, the Free Press was told yesterday. The suggestion for
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  • 64 5 MALAY classes, open to all com--11 munities. under the sponsorship of the Malav Teachers Union of Singapore will be held at TarSlin Tlnwri. Telok Kurau. and Kota Raia Malav schools. The classes S Probablv open of students began veTterdav and will continue up to A Only 5 ni*ht
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  • 75 5 TIHE final rehearsal by members of St. John's Ambulance Brigade before their annual general inspection this year will take place at the Victoria School ground tomorrow at 5.25 pjn. This will be a dress rehearsal and the police band will be in attendance. The inspection will
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  • 169 5 Free Press Staff Reporter )M -iiumired-and-one exprisoners in Singapore were found employment, or given assistance, by the Colony's After-Care Association during the first six months of this year, Lieut. Col. F. W. Harvey, Secretary of the organisation, told the Free Press yesterday. A number
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  • 60 5 T.ie Rev. Chew Heck Hux.paUor of tte Paya Lcbur Methodist Church, and Mrs. Chew, who will be leaving by air on Aug. 9 on a vacation tour of Europe and Britain. They will be joined in the U.K. by the >■ daughter, Mrs. Eric Wee and
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  • 127 5 AN APPEAL TO MOTORISTS... Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S Police Traffic Chief, Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, yesterday appealed to motorists to give signals clearly whenever necessary especially ,at roundabouts. "The necessity of giving signals at every traffic circus cannot be over-emphasised, he said. "If a
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  • 97 5 The morning bottleneck of traffic going over Anderson Bridge into the city has disappeared thanks to the division of the road at this spot into three lanes. "There is now scarcely a hold-up and traffic is going over very much quicker," Mr. Haxworth said yesterday. But, Mr.
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  • 36 5 l^fß. Chia Toh Meng, Staff i?1 Clerk of the Municipal Secretariat, has been appointed an Assistant Municipal Secretary subject to confirmation by the Singapore Government. Mr. Chia joined the Secretariat in 1941.
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  • 55 5 J^ Singapore Municipal Committee dealing with v meters was generally agaii.si the use of a one main water meters for multiflat buildr The President of the Municipal Commissioners was informed of this view and has been asked whether the possibility of importing water meters from other
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  • 462 6 WARWICK HIT 349 FOR 7 v. LEICESTER Bowlers avert Lanes collapse WARWICKSHIRE continued their championship form yesterday by making 349 for seven wickets against Leicestershire, while Yorkshire and Lancashire, their nearest rivals at the moment in the ohampionship tablt, had varying fortunes. Yorkshire were kept in the field all day
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    35 6 picture. Mrs. I. Sre'.on m^o a return to Miss V. du Feu in yesterday's women's singles Me in t^e Singapore Lawn Tennis Association championship* at the S.C.C. courts. Mrs. Snelson lost 3-6, 0-6. Free Press
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  • 129 6 AN inter-club shoot will b« a feature of Singapore pun Clufe's August Bank holiday meeting on Monday. This comprises three eventsten single rise, ten doubles rise and one round of skeets, and the winners will receive the President's Cup. Teams from Singapore Gun Club, Selangor
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  • 394 6 R.A.F. Seletar 3; Chinese Athletic 1. CHINESE Athletic yesterday lost a soccer match which they should have won handsomely. They had numerous scoring chances, but wasted them in a sorry exhibition unworthy of a side which in 1949 won the S.A.F.A. Senior League championship. Yesterday's match
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  • 104 6 McGREGOR BEATEN ITEN McGregor of Australia, 11 runner-up to Dick Savitt at Wimbledon, was beaten by the United States junior champion, Hamilton Richardson, in the third round of the Eastern United States grass courts championship at South Orange, New Jersey, yesterday. Richardson won their third round maUrh 6-3, 6-2. McGregor
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  • 128 6 LIM Bong Soo and Lim Hee Chin will meet in the semi-finals of the men's singles in the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association Championships. The other semifinal is between Liem Khe Liang and Low Kee Pow. Bong Soo was given a close match on the Singapore
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  • 544 6 From HAROLD PALMER T^HE big question of London soccer next season and let me remind you that season is only just over two weeks off will be: Can Spurs stay on top? I put the question to the Tottenham manager, Mr. Arthur
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  • 93 6 A CLOSE duel for the men's singles tennis championship of the Tanglin Club was won yesterday by P. W Francis who beat Lt Col. N. Power 9-7. 6-2 Semi-finals played off yesterday resulted: Women's singles: Miss C. Ansell beat Mrs. Innes-Hopklns 10-8, 4-6, 7-5. Women's handicap doubles:
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  • 37 6 ■pHE Oxford and Cambridge Universities touring Rugby Union team were held to a draw—ll points all—by the University of Orange Free State at Bloemfontein yesterday. The combined Universities led a—3 at the interval. Reuter
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  • 195 6 LEW Burston, the International Boxing Club's European representative, said yesterday he believed world middleweight champion Randolph Turpin has a "better than even chance" of winning his return match with Sugar Ray Robinson on Sept 12 at New York's Polo grounds. Burston, who arrived in
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  • 50 6 The annuM athletic sports of the Shell Sports Club, to be held on Saturday, August 11 on the Shell Sports ground, will comprise 23 events. Among the interesting Items in the programme is the inter-Business House relay 4 x 110 yards. Twelve teams have entered for this event.
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  • 326 6 SOMERSET dismissed the South Africans for 235 üby tea on the opening day of their match at Taunton yesterday and by the close had scored 152 for five wickets in reply. The South Africans lost thiee men for 49 on a pitch which seemed easy
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  • 627 6 Day of records at RAF Seletar swimming g,^ pool yesterday afternoon a s LJ!?' B^iM nual Base Swimming cham^i CjM of existing Far East Air Force .£2? tw Cl Only two records were not from 390 Maintenance UniK re<l ">»*■ times to win every cham^on^ «t«SB programme. *"°nshi p tl^
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  • 625 7 PARKER'S HORSES PLEASE ON TRACK Vincent holds Red Carnation From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Thursday. pARKER'S horses showed up well this morning when the outside of the course proper was opened for fast work. The track is still in excellent condition, but horses were not out to break the watch. Red
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    66 7 picture. This 3% Maintenance Units foursome won the R.A.F. SeIctar inter-Win; relay race at the annual Base swimmin* championships yesterday. They returned 1 min. 53.1 sees. 1H sees, faster than the previous Far E**t Air ,f e f ord for thc 4x M y* rds rel »y- c k row:
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  • 396 7 SUDAN (McCioud) went attractively when he was holding Avalanche (J. Donnelly) at the end of three furlongs in 38 4/5 sees, on the Penang training track this morning. Sudan ran two promising races at Kuala Lumpur and will be hard to beat over seven here. White
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  • 453 7 3 changes in soccer laws T*HREE alterations to the laws of the game made xby the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) came into force on July 25. These changes have been notified to Singapore Amateur Football Association and all other bodies in membership with FIFA. One of the changes
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  • 13 7 The Island CMb women's bogfv do*m and Dr. K. Tapper
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  • 52 7 RESULTS of soccer matches played in Britain yesterday were St. Mungo Trophy final Aberdeen 2, Celtic 3. Festival of Britain competition semi-finals Dumbarton 2 Airdrieoriians 1 Ayr Utd. 3, Hamilton Academicals 3 (after extra time). Ayr won toy the toss of a coin. Score after 90 minutes was
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  • 52 7 THE RSGC July mixed foursomes Competition was played on SuriSa-y afternoon and resulted in a win for Mrs. M. I. Malone <fc E. M. Scarfe with a net score of 33' 2 Other cards returned were Mrs. King J W. Smelfie (35^>, Mrs. M C. Bain J. J.
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    28 7 picture. w ir h*™h return irom Miss V. du Feu in A fatekV b »f^^l* [Iwn Tennis Association Chamyesterday's S*?***"? cwurt*. Miss du Feu defeated Mrs. Free Press
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  • 138 7 VEUILLIN WINS GOOD WOOD STAKES VEUILLIN. who Jailed when 'favourite in the Ascot lisa XffandTcap in the Eng- loSng a shoe during the race-.. starting M-f^*™ 1U J SStte with the 20-1 outlider.^u^ jWrd th and a ha»lf length by Librarian ancl Lake Placid. Colonist It how to be flvtn
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  • 84 7 TOLLILADS lost by two goals to nil to Customs S.C. yesterday in a junior soccer cuptie replay at BODCA ground. One man short In the first half, Jollilads found themselves two goals down at the interval through goals by Customs' in-side-right Ariz and inside-left Iksan. Second-half play
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  • 56 7 T3KITISH referee Walter Muller D told the Argentine Football Association yesterday that members of the Club Argentino de Quilmes punched and ki<|:ed him in the dressing room after a match last Saturday. The Huracan Club, where Muller was previously attacked on July 15 has been closed
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  • 142 7 OINGAPORE Hockey Associa- tion will hold their annual general meeting on Thursday, Aug. 16. at 5.30 p.m. at the S.R.C. The convenors' meeting to arrange fixtures for 1951 -52 will take place on Friday, Aug. 17, at 5.30 p.m. also at the S.R.C. The accounts for the
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  • 392 7 POSERS FOR THE REFS. OFFICIALS faced throe stiff soccer posers #hen the Federation Internationale de Football Association Referees* Committee met in Paris recently. The questions had been sent in by the Swiss Association. Posers, and answers cy the F.I.F.A. referees, given below: Question No. 1: The P* keeper is beaten
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  • 60 7 TWAM to represent Singapore Malay* against Malacca Malays In the semi-final of th« Rulers' Shield cricke't competition at Malacca on Aug 4 and 5 will be: Ibrahim Isa (capuin), All Yunos. Hussin Shah, Mohd. Shah, Ismail Jabbar, Abdullah Ashgar, Omar A. Rahman, Aman Puteh, Aziz Shariff,
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    • 45 7 Today's sport SOCCER:. First Div.: Rovers v REBfE, SUdium; Second Div.: Kota Raja A v RAF lengab, St. George's Road; Third Div.: Socials v HMS Terror, Geylanf. TENNIS: Colony championships. S.C.C.; Tanflin tlub Ues r Tanflip. ATHLETICS: Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus annual sports
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  • 233 8 Ex-priest in love is unfrocked THE Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated Luciano Negrini, the ex-priest who fell in love with a young American girl. 21 -year-old blonde Claire Young. A Vatican spokesman said the 43-year-old former missionary has been suspended "a divinls" (which means he no longer can say mass),
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  • 339 8 In bombers will also take lead LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN'S new Hawker interceptor fighter plane is the fastest in the world— faster than jthe American F-86 or the Russian MIG-15 the Air Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, said yesterday in the Commons. The Hawker fighter— known as the
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    32 8 picture. FERRY SERVICE This vessel with the streamlined funnel and spacious deck has b«en built in Denmark for the French Railways. It will go in service on the Dun-kirk-Dover ferry service. P.P.
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    35 8  -  GEOFFREY EVANS By Oh, m father's decided to w«ar his shorts— if that isn't asking for a kick in the pants from the old weather clerk, I don't know what is I*
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  • 58 8 Mr. Geoffrey Wilson, recently apointed director of the Colombo Plan Technical Assistance Bureau, will leave London for Colombo shortly to take up his new post. Mr. Wilson has worked in the Foreign Office and the Treasury, and was private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps when he was
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  • 37 8 The United States Navy plans to start arming its own cargo vessels for the first time since the end of World War 11. Ships now operated in the coastguard will also be armed Reuter
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  • 133 8 LONDON, Thursday. TpHE chief radio operator of the 14,491-ton Shaw Savill liner Arawa. which carries 275 passengers between Britain and New Zealand, has reported a new use of the ship's radar equipment. The traditional ceremony of "Crossing the Line" as the ship wejit over \he equator
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  • 136 8 LONDON, Thursday. rr has been another day of very erratic movements on the London Stock Exchange many of which were due to activities on the part of speculators. Industrial and oil shares 11 encountered heavy sellin early dealings some of :h was again reported as ced."
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  • 59 8 RUSSIA'S new Englishlanguage publication. News, has offered to open its columns for the expression of views by American as well as Soviet journalists. The periodical, under the caption. "Our Offer to the New York Times," said the Times proposed as a real means of improving relations "to
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  • 41 8 Admiral William M. Fechteler was chosen by President Truman yesterday to be the new chief of naval operations. President Truman nominated Admiral Lynde Me* Cormick to succeed Fe£h®^ ler as C-in-C of the Atlantic Fleet. A.P.
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  • 82 8 TEL AVIV, Thurs. JSRAEL'S free enterprise party, General Zionists, yesterday offered to join Labour Prejnier David Ben *Gurion in a coalition government which would exclude the Communists and the proSoviet Mapam Party. Mr. Ben Gurion, whose Mapai Party (Israel Labour Party) ran well ahead of 16
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  • 28 8 More than 200 high-rank-ing Communists, including a number of people holding high posts in the government and party, were arrested in Sofia this week. U.P.
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  • 27 8 NEWSPAPERS in Teheran reported that a Soviet war--11 ship has anchored in the Caspian Sea near Astara at me junction of Persian-Russian border— U.P.
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  • 42 8 The following advertisement appeared 'in a New Orleans newspaper, "Lost Brand new one-car garage, overhead door, red roof. Builder's sample Will sell at cost. Left Kansas City Jul^ 13 by flood, should pass New Orleans about noon July 29.' A.P.
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    • 195 8 TEN; #^1 NATURALISATION Notice is hereoy given th LIEW KWET PA of No 4 Kr.m. Road Singapore i, apply ng t^ the Governor for naturalJtion and that any person who kno-. a^ y easOr^ why naturalisation should not be granted should sen a written and signed •UtemenVwtar e y fa
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