The Singapore Free Press, 23 August 1951

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA moM cMtt 1 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1951. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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    HARRIMAN: NOT THE END
    648 1 But Stokes says 'Useless to carry on* TEHERAN, Thursday. 11R \\erell Harriman, President Truman's -oil mediator**, said last night that the nego♦iation^ between the British and Persian govern«lnt> had been suspended and not broken off. S Harriman said, "Discussions revealed the tfn r tmaum on the
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    Stokes is in the dark
    70 1 TEHERAN. Thun. Mr RICHARD Stokes, Britain > chief oil negotiator said last night that hr did not know what was m ihf lait Persian proposals. -Just be tore the Premier ht hr handeji me two enwloprv u.thout comment and 1 afterwards learned ther ***** lined
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    Soviet spy rings in U.S.
    58 1 Soviet spy rings in U.S. WASmWOTOB, Thurs. |AJOR General Charles WUloughby said yesterhen are Soviet spy r.ow operating m the touted States similar to those operating m East A i Gen Willoushby. Gen. Macformer Intelligence tt-H told the House Unrican Activities Committhat he is prepared to the names of over
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    FRIENDSHIP PACT
    17 1 FRIENDSHIP PACT f friendship and 'roe be-.ween Israel and -nited States will be -^d m Wishington today.
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    'Door not closed in Egypt' Morrison
    137 1 'Door not closed in Egypt' Morrison ]LfR. Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary m personal messages to the Egyptian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister has made it clear that there is no question of the door being closed on Anglo-Egyptian treaty negotiations. This was stated m London yesterday by a Foreign Office
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    Reds active in South Siam
    76 1 BANGKOK, Thurs. pOMMUNIST underground workers of South Siam have established headquarters at Tambol Nabom, Amphur Tungsong, m the Nakorn Srithamaraj province. Nai Kularb Keowvimol, parliamentary secretary of the interior Ministry, said that the Communists had buried arms m various parts of the S °Nai' Kularb
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    JAPS TO SEND MISSIONS
    15 1 japan will .establish diplomatic missions m 62 lor full sovereignty Reuter
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    GOING HOME
    33 1 The Emir Talal. heir to the throne of Jordan, will ie» ve me^wis, clinic where he Is cSnvalescing and return g Amman won hw Pn va te nhy^ician said yesterday. Reuter
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    Severe- earthquake
    6 1 1 STVwere earthquake. AFP
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    A-SUB WILL BE BIGGEST YET
    94 1 WASHINGTON. Thursday marine, with its virtually inexhaustible source of power. wm be able to remain submerged for a long period and Sill have aa unlimited radiu* There Tare three main pro* biems to be solved before work can be started on a wlrSTc-an^stand up to
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    Tampico hit by hurricane
    8 1 taMPICO MEXICO. Thurs. homes.
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    Help backward areas—U.N.BODY
    395 1 Help backward areas— U.N.BODY GENEVA, Thursday. rHE United Nations Economic and Social Council I yesterday called for an increased flow of capital rom international agencies and advanced countries to help develop under- developed areas. By a vote of 14 to none, with four abstention* -Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia ana Chile— the
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    'Smell money' for workers
    68 1 SYDHEY, Thurs. ANY tears *hed over the unloading of Japanese onions from the freighter Anking must have been of joy by wharf labourers and of regret by housewives. The wharfies get 4'^d an hour extra as "smell money" but comparatively few of the thousands of onion
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    SENATE MOVE TO CUT AID
    104 1 SENATE MOVE TO CUT AID WASHINGTON, Thurs. Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees voted yesterday to trim about $1,000,000,000 from the Administration ':> $3,500,000,000 foreign aid programme. The committees, meeting jointly to consider the programme, approved the amendment which cuts military aid funds by five per cent and economic
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    College chief fired after a suicide
    156 1 TAIPEI, Ttiurs. AFTER investigating the death of an assistant woman professor who drowned herself m the Sun-Moon Lake n August 8, the governor of Formosa has suspended a college president from his duties. The suspended man is Dr. Wang Shi-han, 54, native of Anhwei
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    'Life on Mars,' says Red
    38 1 'Lif e on Mars,' says Red A Soviet astronomer, G. T!k»*, has wme vu M Ul A clusio. that there art RTto* weU a* rete4^»V^ on the plants Hars Vemir.. ii^**^P«r ihe FUneU ij»it«c Satuw »»d Neytune. A.F.P.
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    Joy rejects Communist complaints
    247 1 MI'NSAN. Thursday I7ICE- ADMIRAL C. Turner J.j today ftaUy V communist claims that Allied farce* had violated Kaeson*s ne.tralit? and told the E«di the resign SS for any fai.re to mainUln order m the neU^e StoMiSSd ffins negotiators s^o-wordj statement, with six -enclosures/ w^ *»"<*<* to
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    Kaesong talks off
    29 1 A rnlted Press bulletin from Tokyo received m Singapore at 10.45 a.m. today said that the Kaeson* cease-fire talks have been broken off by the Communists.
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    UP TO U.N. TO KEEP PEACE LIAQUAT
    79 1 UP TO U.N. TO KEEP PEACE LIAQUAT KARACHI. Thurs PREMIER Liaqual Ali Khan *>aid yesterday that th* United Nations wai responsible for maintaining peac« 1:1 the Indo-Pakiatan sub-con-tinent. Addressing a public meeting at Lahore, he said. Pakistan has done Its best t<» maintain peace. If the Influential countries do nothing
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    NEW SULPHUR SUPPLY FOUND
    63 1 The Freeport Sulphur Company of New York yesterday said that it haa made the first major discovery of new sulphur supply m the past 20 years. It is m Garden Island bay. 100 mile* southeast of New Orleans. Freeport will build a plant thrre at a
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    NOT PAID FOR
    40 1 The Leopoldina Railway Company announced m London yesterday that the Brazilian government, which agreed to buy the railway from its British owners over two year* ago, still has not oaid the purchase prtce— du« ljust February.- Reuter
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    COLETTE
    865 2  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON THE DANCER WHO SCANDALISED PARIS EARNS VENERATION WITH HERBOOKSABOUTTHESEAMYSIDE CHERI. and THE END OF CHERI. By Colette. (Seeker and Warburg). IN the end, dancing naked on the 1 vaudeville stage of Paris was not what conferred fame upon Madame Gauthier-Villars. True enough, one of her daring
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    Eastern Beauty meets the Beast of War
    821 2  - Eastern Beauty meets the Beast of War PETER QUENNELL by A DRAGON APPARENT Travels m IndoChina, by Norman Lewis. (Cape). A CENTURY, even half a century, ago huge expanses of the globe slumbered for years at a time m profound, respectable obscurity. Nobody bothered about them, and m their turn
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    'Smoking is Red Indian revenge'
    488 2 Hitlers secretary writes German fc««. said the fug/, SHORTHAND notes ol Hitler's* dinnertable conversations during 1941 and 1942, published m book form, arc becoming Germany's best seller of the year. Issued by the "Institute for History of the National Socialist Epoch," the book is likely
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      51 2 Solution to Crossword No. 4S& YK§TFRr>AYS SOLUTION Acrtt»: l. Cathedral. 8, City. 9, Tianwpt*. 10, IUK li. Partisans. 14.-AmM6r<lam. 19, Aitc.' 17. Tlimin7in /f :s, Or.it., 19. £ftbrteter. Do«r: 2. Atr4»T. Hand U •irt'nli. rjer »c f n-j ranks I v 1 7. H«h^ M^^ine. 13. Inrek li, Al?c. 13.
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      372 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have a great deal of steadfast courage which, when combined with a great store of physical energy, makes it easy for you to accomplish almost any job you set o*i( to do. Reserved, tow cover your innermost feelings so that very few know exactly
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    CANADA FINDS IRON ORE MINES
    372 3  - CANADA FINDS IRON ORE MINES air-magnet Discovered by WSilL.^"! poshed ahead ta CaMuU brought out. A 360-mile railway is to be run north to the ircn-fields Terminus of the line will be a new port, on which construction has begun, at Seven Islands, Quebec Province, at the mouth of the
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    'MEANS WAR'
    34 3 Peking Radio auoted a Shanghai newspaper as raying that if Japan signs a peace treaty without Communist China and Russia, it will mean a declaration of war against those two countries."— A.P.
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    COAL HELD UP
    27 3 East German authorities have refused to let ten coal trains carrying Ruhr coal from West Germany pass through the Sovift zone to Berlin.- Reuter
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    He swallowed metal, money and hay
    92 3 LONDON. Thurs. N EA RLY so anau were removed from the stomach of a 20-year-old man Durham k ta »"»»*»»> .He swallowed a doublasix domino, four pieces of metal, a razor blade, a piece or porcelain, a steel file, two stones, a pin, four
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    BUCKLEY
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    A snake at the door
    58 3 DAVID BROWN, of Brighton, England, thinks lie has found a better mousetrap, but there if nobody beat* ing a path to his door. He brought m a six-foot boa constrictor from South America to roam around his kitchen and keep the mice away. Brown says
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    Bridge Quiz
    472 3 WHEN you have opened aj Minimum bid, it Is easy to i know what to do if partner responds one no trump; yon Jnst j pass. But- with certain, kinds _of medium-strong and stroogsr holdings, when partner I&£e «>• no trump m answer to your opening bid needier
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    MACLEAN NO. 2 QUITS
    44 3 Mr. Alan Maclean, brother cf the missing diplomat Donald Maclean, has resigned from the Foreign Service. He feels that while his brother's mysterious disappsarance Is unsolved his presence m the service would be an embarrassment to the Foreign Office. Reuter
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    OFFICIAL DEMAND
    35 3 Five million members of the official Master Labour Organisation m Argentina laid down their tools yesterday m a nation-wide "strike" to demand that President Peron and his blonde wife, Eva, six years. A.P.
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    GONE TO TAIPEH
    18 3 A 16-man overseas Chinese delegation from Indonesia has arrived m Taipeh to meet Nationalist officials.
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    Labour cost delays Jap shipbuilding
    131 3 TOKYO, Thnrs HIGH cost of coofttrwsicm material jind labour m Japan is obstructing the bu.lding ol ships for export. Only three contracts haw* been placed this year «X Japanese «hip builders by foreign firms La*t year. nJA oil tanker of 2.WQ tons eA were ordrred
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    New industry planned for Korea
    167 3 New industry planned for Korea HT>NG KONG, Thurs UR. John R Minter. AnaeI?J rican technical as&lstant adviwr to the United Nations Korean Rec ongtr action Agency 'UNKRA*. hai. arrived m Hong Kong by BOAC from Bangkok on a three-day visit to the Colony "We propose to start new Industries In
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    LOCUST WAR
    30 3 Three American pilots left by air yesterday for London on the way to Pakistan where they will spray a lar^e area of locust-ridde<n land from the air.- Reuter
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    RED CROSS HELP
    18 3 The American and Canadian Red Crosses hare sent supplies to India's famine stricken populations.- A.P.
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    U.S. CARRIERS REFITTED
    63 3 Eight Unil«tS State* Niv aircraft-carriers h*ve Im*. or are beinf refilled to hir die plane* capable of cam ing atom bomta. Three other carrier*. *1! of the 27,000-ton Essex cj£r which h*vt a compiement of to to 90 aircraft, are to fc. re-eqiiipped ia the ane wi
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    JET SMASHES INTO LORRY
    66 3 Ten men were killed whei a Jet trainer crashed mu> i orry-luli of soldier* at th dee of McGuire air baae a Fort Dir, New Jerary. yesterday. The plane bunt Into flames. The pilot and the passenger m the T-13 trainer wtrr killed as well as
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    Aga 'must tell'
    48 3 Rita Hayworth'* lawyer Bart ley Crum. ha* said thai he would ask the Nevada Divorce Court to make Rltt Hayworih's fatfrer-Ua-imv the Aga Khan. disclose his total wealth unless he proposes with a .satisfactory trust fund for his 2©- month old grand -daughter, Yaamin. U.P.
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    SUB.MENACE
    29 3 Mr Dan Kimbail, XJB Hnrx Secretary, said yesterday tha l the Soriet nary has about l r > times the number of «iibmarinea oumtl toy Oermanv World War- Reuter
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      307 3 ptur'flDADP Serious Argument, 8.15 Interlude, 8.25 From The Editorial*, 8.30 r^-^.nrv n#ws C!ose <*° wn 530 P-m- Voice of the gp am E^ er B e c > Violm. 5.45 Mid-Week Talk, 6.00 Kua.a I umpor. 10.18 <;«**• Sport Diary, 6.15 Sporting Reight Music cord, 6.30 News News Analysis, ::m:
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      55 3 MSRfIrSkS Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya V T.-V -i \H t H6m6TOWiBHOKmaKO& I THE BRIOG6 Ij^ <J-^ HO--NO-^ JANE Exclusive lo the Singapore Free Press m Malaya BBmbßt TO Tt4£ S> A l l 5, f?| I w IRi! l^ W j JPT j* £f^^r* 7AR2AN How
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    The Singapore Fre Press THURSDAY, Aug. 23, 1951. Troubled waters
    304 4 The Singapore Fre Press THURSDAY, Aug. 23, 1951. Troubled waters THE troubled oil of Persia is m the news. So are the troubled waters of Suez. The Egyptian Foreign Minister has announced that his country proposes to tear up the 15-year-old treaty under which British troops are stationed on the
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    Loans and lallang
    232 4 SINGAPORE'S Munlcipai Commissioners have dken many important decisions recently They hav e decided to float a $30,000.--000 loan to finance huge schemes for power and water. A committee of the Commissioners has rejected an emergency power station plan designed to flli the black-out gap until the Pasir
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  • The Shadowy Figure
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      Behind those comings and goings in Spain
      1195 4 I HAVE just been talk- ing with a young man whom many of us would envy. He lives m a most elegantly comfortable white villa on Portugal's "sun coast", at Estoril. He had just come m fresh and vigorous from a yachting trip
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      It Seems to Me....
      693 4  -  POLITICO By THE name of Itsuki Iwaguro, a former general now reported to be leading the re-orga-nisation of the Japanese Army, was one which meant a great deal m the days when Malaya was under occupation.^ He was the head of one of those shadowy army
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    Japan prepares a new trade assault
    509 4 JAPAN, which has made a fortune out of the Korean war, is now preparing boldly to exploit the advantages of economic partnership with the United States as peace looms uneasily m Kcrea. The Economic Stabilisation Board, m a private report to the Japanese Government,
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    MCs REFUSE EMERGENCY POWER HOUSE OFFER
    276 5 MCs REFUSE EMERGENCY POWER HOUSE OFFER *f million expenditure for 7-month service A N offer by a Sin™ Press Staff Reporter A electricity po We^atfoTfl.T^'i? 1 to provide an emergency cost of $4,000,000 hS hln,, c Municipality, at a total estimated Ml^ c ~^2i by the Public Ltuities station at
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    SMC Loan nnens quietly Bankers confident
    259 5 SMC Loan nnens quietly Bankers confident X HE Singapore Municipality's n~,«!i°" million Vii P* r CMlt >°an opened on a quiet market yesterday, but leading bankers m the city were confident that the public would react favourably once bit investors moved m. Three probable reasons for the quiet opening of
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    Malayan sea thrills for RAF
    63 5 Malayan sea thrills for RAF ,B: Royal Air near Georgetown island of Pcnang „i oe sure of having thrills Id not experience section. arf provided by the i blazer fe*. a kind of ,h have large m? fins, a grn- a Verey p stol o k"to lookout and approach too
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    ECAFE TO STUDY RIVER PROBLEMS
    28 5 •o secure co-wperation m rtMMH of Intern Asia and th# V r :ea by ./led to ECAFEs OaoM, who a joint «udy River
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    G.C.S. Exam to be held next month
    30 5 Examination Srrvice Clerks -!30 per men- Tuesday. Sept. rulidates for h lid be ad:.t Secretary; B J«i Secretary's I reach him not 1951.
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    80 5 THE following substations will be liable to load-shedding toB.A.T Trafalgar street Prince Edward Road, Sago ?£S' Peoples' Park. Nanson 122f Lim Sowi Oil Mills. Guan HtaUJt Network. U.E. Factory. Rver Valley Road. Killiney Road. Sichard Road. Armenian Street Static Capitol, Newton Nos. 1 f U Balmoral Road. <*•***«
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    Reds no longer have own way
    75 5 AN article en Malaya m the "Economist' this week write.s m part: "Writing m nine years time, a Winston Churchill might conceivably look back on 1951 m Eastern Asia as another 1942, a* a period m xhlch the hinge of fate is swinging over
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    4 times the price of Malayan paper
    56 5 The Russian newspaper sold at "a dirty little kiosk, which is owned and run by the Government distributing organisation", costs 20 kopeks, or four times the price of a paper m Malaya. Mr. Eliot Watrous, Deputy Head of the Federation's Emergency Information Services,
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    Raffles Librarian replies to critic
    298 5 Raffles Librarian replies to critic Free Press Staff Reporter THE lack of labels m the shelves m Raffles Library has been the cause of the present slight inconvenience to subscribers, Miss L. Bridges, the Librarian, told the Free Press yesterday. This inconvenience, however, would only be temporary, she added. New
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    CRICKETER WEDS
    69 5 The well-known Colony cricketer, Mr. Paul Edward de Kretser, was married on Tuesday to Miss Doreen Rita Deiilkan at the Cathedra) of the Good Shepherd, Singapore. The bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. Alywn E. Deiilkan, president-founder of the Colonials' Cricket Club. The groom is the youngest
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    HK Gynaecologist visits S'pore
    30 5 picture. Dr. D. K. Samy PUlai. leading fynaeeolofist of Bong Konff, who arrived In Singapore recently by air on a brltf T«t to tht Free Press
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    The Nemesrs of all Forgers
    197 5 Free Pre« Stolf lUporter A QUIET »«n, ritU^r l» special study L^J hi. »ork Va S done. iaiM k.y letter! lik« M r. and "r" In hitters written by three men, on« of whom was suspected of forcing a letter U> another In the name
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    Cafe singtrs aid Fire Victims' Fund
    41 5 Girls employed as sinters In eafrs m Singapore's amusement parks held a joint charity performance at the Happy World Stadium on Monday nlf ht m aid of the Kamponf BngU Fire Victims' I und picture.
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    Leper Home's need for Community Hall
    241 5 Rotary Club's offer welcomed... Free Press Staff Reporter A COMMUNITY hall was one of the essential amenties most needed at "Trafalgar Home", the Colony's Leper Settlement, Canon R. K. S. Adams, chairman of the Leper Welfare Committee, told the Free Press yesterday. Canon Adams,
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    EAST-WEST SOCIETY
    29 5 Mr. C. Gopala Menon. Indian Government Representative m Singapore, will address the EastWest Society In the British Council Hall at 8.30 p.m. today on "The United Nations".
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    MORE DOLLARS FOR S.A.T.A.
    140 5 fHE Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association acknowledges with thanks the under-mentioned generous donations: Mr. Lim Chai Wee $2,000; Gammeters Limited $300; The Globe Trading Company $200; "Anonymous" $500; Lyall Evatt $50; Gammon (Malaya) Ltd. $250; Mr. Sevia Singh $10; The Chinese Association $100: Postal General Clerical Services $66;
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    LESS FOR LIGHTING
    31 5 Small consumers of electric ty In the Federation rill pay lek.s for their liKhtirur supply und r r.>\ fa d charges which come Into effect from Sepi. 1
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    SELANGOR BUS FARES
    29 5 Biw companies In Selangor art considering a move to obtain Government permission to Increase th« rates of bus fares It was sUleti In Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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    COMMERCIAL LABORATORY FOR STORE
    140 5 Fr?e Press Staff Report** A PRIVATE consulting laboratory to serve :h« needs of commercial firmj and private Individuals is to be set up shortly m Singapore. Commercial laboratory work, which had hitherto been don# by the Department of Chemistry. cannot be undertaken In this country at
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    CEYLON'S FINANCE MINISTER DUE
    92 5 fEYLONS Minister of Plnanc*. Mr. J. R Jayewardene, accompanied by Mrs. Jayemardene, Mr. R G. Senanayake. MP Parliamentry Secretary to th« Minister of Defence and External Affairs, and Mr. R Bodinagoda. Private Secretary to the Minister of Finance, will arrive at Singapore at 4 pm.. on
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    S'pore at Adult Education talks
    113 5 REPRESENTATIVES from Singapore. Malaya and Hongkong mere amongst the colonial delegates attending the conference on Ad A' Education In ti.e Colonies mht« h began on Aug. 17 In Sidney Sussex College. Cambridge. Continuing until Aug 24 the conference is being held vi rooperatlon with the
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    Swifts for Malacca
    104 6 Swifts for Malacca rE Singapore Swifts will make a trip up to Malacca to partake m a triangular athletic meet < n Sunday against Mercury Athletic Club of Kuala Lumpur and the Malacca A. A. A. Tht following have been selected to represent Swifts mnd are re-q.:es:-d to contact serretary
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    MARINE DEPT. SCORE 11
    45 6 MARINE Department netted eleven times without reply against NeUji Memorial P.C. m yesterday's Div. 3A league soccer match at Gcylang Stadium. Netajl iiirougijout with ten men Scorers were: Ibrahim (3>. Wahab Abu t3>. AM Sagor (3>. Sor»n Surdin and Omar Awanjr
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    R.A.F. (M) SWIMMING HONOURS SHARED
    975 6 R.A.F (M) SWIMMING HONOURS SHARED picture. Free Press Aquatics Reporter UONOURS were shared by Royal Air Force Tengah and 390 Maintenance Units at the annual R.A.F. Malaya Swimming Association Championships Keld yesterday at R.A.F. Base Seletar. Two records were broken and one equalled. Average performances were not up to expectation
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    SPORE H.A. MEETING
    27 6 r FHE first committee meeting of the Singapore Hockey Association for the year 1951/1952 will be held on Friday Aug. 31 at the SRC
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    S. AFRICAN BOWLERS WORRY HAMPSHIRE
    216 6 <T«HE South Africans dismissed Hampshire for 180 J- at Southampton yesterday and at the close of the first day of their match had replied with 50 for one wicket. With the pitch giving the I South African bowlers some help*; Hampshire were never at ease
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    133 6 HAMrMIIRF J-.1 teas. McCorkeil b McCarthy t Roß«r* c Mr> b Van Fvurvekl S7 Harrison c and b MrUe fUyment c UansK! b Van RyarveJd M Walker Ibw b Tayfleld 3rar Jbw b Mellc Editar c Chubb b Tavfleid i Hill c McLean b Me'.le Siiackleton c McLeaa b
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    MAYFLOWER B.P.
    22 6 'J'HE closing date of entries for the Mayflower BP. open tournament for the mens' singles and doubles is Aug. 27
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    495 6 Leicester out for 45 v Derby: Eato takes 5 for 14 H w last bowling «th *h I Sans H '•nphamrtun. H for I lor t j,, I Kenyonn.o 70. f I Bed-n 6 lor «s.~|£b »r H )nf I 52 B.IW Sf," 52. Es«x 107 fa th» •Lambert 61.
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    KAI SOW NETS 4 v. ARMY
    152 6 KAI SOW NETS 4 v. ARMY SINGAPORE Bat Dkk m down by five |otit to or* H scrappy soccer maid, tgti- H a!:eor at Kuala Lumpur i«r» H O: Morn-art Xt; Sc saw I four of Selaagor's fht col: H iMt-kA Bin Ke^ giwc I other. H the Anrv nntrr-ivnri,
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    PENNYWORTH DOES BEST GALLOP
    598 7 interesting tria* by Hobbs 'strine From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. ALTHOUGH conditions were again ideal for last work there were not many horses out to morning N 2 track thls rwJd^ u°H tStanding worker was Pennyworth BokTIL. w S ROin easily alongside Coureur Dv fates**
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    INTER-UNIT CHAMPIONS
    52 7 picture. LAC LLOYD (right) of 390 Maintenance Units and FLt. Wadams of R.A.F. Tengah receive the R.A.F. Malaya Swimming Association inter-unit championship cup from Mrs. J. L. F. Fuller-Good on behalf of their respective teams which tied for first place m yesterday's R.A.F. Malaya meet held at Seletar.-
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    Big profit for Sands in U.K.
    410 7 P™™ FrOm GEORGE WHITING jJI tY e stories abou t Dave Sands, Empire middleweight champion, running back to Australia m a pique at not having had the opportunity of a shot at the world championship, or of putting u a lvc T a iv
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    Injury keeps Ikin out of India tour
    123 7 Injury keeps Ikin out of India tour JOHN IKIN, the England and Lancashire cricketer, has notified the M.C.C. that on medical advice he has decided not to take part m the Indian tour this winter. lkin is suffering from a severely strained back and has been ordered to take complete
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    BROWN OUTPOINTS LLOYD BARNETT
    73 7 IN a 10-round heavyweight fight m Porthchawl last night, Mcl Brown of the United States outpointed Lloyd Barnett, Jamaica. Brown plans to fly to New York this week to assist Randolph Turpin m his preparations for the defence of his world middleweight championship. Last night's fight
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    S.V.C. BEST IN M- CYCLE TRIALS
    123 7 Team scores of the R.A.S.C. motor-cycle trials held on Sunday, are" 61 Coy A' Team 69; 61 Coy B 1 66 575 Coy 'A' 58^; 75 Coy B 1 44-' 37 Coy 'A' 106' 2 37 Coy 3 118'- 4 S.RD. 75. Dvr. Tig.
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    FAMECHON ASKED TO DEFEND TITLE
    71 7 "C^RANCE'S Ray Famechon Euror pean featherweight champion, has been ordered to defend his title against Britain's champion Ronnie Clayton, the European Boxing Union announced m London yesterday. The fight must be held before Dec. 28. Olayton. who won the European crown from Al Phillips of
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    WIGHTMAN CUP STARTS TODAY
    55 7 WIMBLEDOM champion Doris Hart will meet Britain's Jean Quartier m the opening match of the Wightman Cup tennis M>uC" ament at Longwood Cricket Olub here m Chestnut Hills. Massachusetts today. Five singles and two doubles matches will be played today and on Sii urd'i v b^t
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    ALLEN TO FIGHT MARINO AGAIN
    59 7 MANAGER Sad Sam Ichinose announced m Honolulu last night that world flyweight champion Dado Sfnl will defend his title against Britain's Terry Allen on Oct. 23 m Honolulu The 15-round bout m Honolulu Stadium, will be the first defence of his title made by Marino
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    Bob wins Ebor Handicap
    63 7 MR John Hetherton's Bob won the Ebor Handicap run over a mile and three quarters m YorK yesterday. K The Judge, after consulting the i.hoto. placed Porg«t second and Heltophlla third m M «»t B-tUn« 8-1 Bob, 100 6 rorget 25-1 Heliophila. Woo bj one and
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    EGYPTIAN SWIM STAR CHALLENGED
    63 7 GIANNI Gambi of Italy has challenged Mareeh Hassan Hamad, the Egyptian winner of the recent mass Channel swim, to a race from Naples to Capri, a distance of 21 miles Gambi did not swim m the Channel race. The challenge was made m letter to Milan's
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    U.K. soccer results
    130 7 YESTERDAY'S Enflfah soccer 1 r "Tm£ e nivisiON Bolton Wanderer, t. NewcwUe I'nited 0. S h .^el- ArB Tri S S. Manche.t'nll*d 4. Middle.At^ U v C erSa«pton Wanderer. 1. Derby CounCy SECOND DIVISION Birmliifham tily 1 I~*» lnl Rover. 1. BUc«>«rn *°:?^t i BreaaordO. Nottingham Forrest
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    HMS TERROR BEAT CYMA THREE-ONE
    64 7 HMS TERROR BEAT CYMA THREE-ONE picture. T-J.M.S. TERROR beat C.V.M.A. (P.M.) by threj goals to one m a Div. 3 A league soccer encounter at St. George's Road yesterday. Murdoch. Jacks and Moss scored for T. rror. Clive scored for C.V.M A. LAC Ted Lloyd, of 390 Maintenance Units who
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    U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
    58 7 RESULTS of U.K. Rugby League matches played yesterday were: Barrow 9. Wigan 16; Balle Vue Ranpers 7, Oldham 2; Bradford Northern 34. Castleford 6: Bramley 5, Leeds 5; Cardiff 10. Widnes 27; Dewj-bury 10, Hull Kingston Rovers 14; Peatherstone 19, Doncaster 5; Leigh 18, Huddersfleld 3: Swin'on
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    43 7 Div. 1. S.R.C. v. Rovers. Jnr. Cup Tic: Spore Dist. Signals v. Taun Mont; 0.8.A. Geyiang; Mr. 3 B: X a lent; Sajarah A v. Customs 8.0.D.C.A. ground. BADMINTON: Foonr Scon* Cup tie: .1 uh ore v Singapore at Johore Bahru.
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    BIRTH
    21 8 ON T G: On 23th August, at (Meat C.in<c. to Dinnie tnelozrll*). wile of Robert Ong. a daughter. Deora Anne
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    NEW ROUTE FOR 'BATORY'
    46 8 The Polish liner, Batory. is leaving: Southampton tcday to inai^urate a new Far Eastern service. On her way to Karachi and Bombay the shiD will call at Gibraltar. Port Said, and Ader. and will reach Pakistan and India on September 10.- AFP
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    LESS I.S. REDS
    39 8 The total number of Communist Party members m the United States has dropped by nearly 11.000 to 43,217 m a year. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, revealed yesterday.- A.P. AFP
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    JAPS HOPE RUSSIA WILL SIGNPACT
    279 8 JAPS HOPE RUSSIA WILL SIGNPACT China problem still unsolved TOKYO, Thursday. -THE belief is growing m Japan that Russia will 1 spring a surprise and sign the Japanese peace treaty at San Francisco. Reliable Japanese circles believe that Russia will sign after making strong efforts for the inclusion of one
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    London stock EXCHANGE
    186 8 London stock EXCHANGE OIL TENSION CAUSES CAUTION LONDON, Thurs. '"PENSION m Persia introda--1 ced a strong note of caution into the London Stock Exchange yesterday states Reuters financf 1 correspondent. The start of the new account found traders reluctant to extend commitments while awaiting news m the oil dispute and
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    'DANCING LEADS TO DIVORCE'
    118 8 JOHANNESBURG, Thurs. FPULAR modern dancing was condemned yesterday as "heatnen" by the Dutch Reformed Church of the Orange Free State. A report by the church's Commission for Combatting Soc.al Evils said that 75 per cent of divorces started on tiie dance floor. "Chastity disappears and sexual
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    MacA NEEDS TO BE ASKED
    35 8 The Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson. yesterday said that General Mac Arthur would noc address the Japanese peace conference at San Francisco unless the nations attending invite him.- U.P.
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    H.K.MONEY
    22 8 Yesierday's closing quota. tions on the Hongkong money exchange were: HKSS.S4/6.57 prr US<;i HK515.60 per sterling H.KS32I per tael of gold
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    U.S. BATTLESHIP AGROUND
    28 8 The United States Navy's newest battleship, the 45,-000-ton Wisconsin. ran aground m the Hudson River yesterday and was towed free about two hours later.- Reuter
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    Navy refuses Mr. Christian
    92 8 rpHE Royal Australian Navy has rejected for enlistment Fletcher Christian, 18, a descendant of the man who led the Mutiny on 'he Bounty. The authorities said the youth was 'not of substantial European descent/ They said, however, he could join the army. His angered father H.
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    Killers ring up the White House
    198 8 NEW YORK, Wednesday. TPHREE thousand six hundred and twenty-nine x times crackpots telephoned or wrote to the White House m the last 12 months that they wanted to kill President Truman. Arrests and detentions of I would-be assassins went up to 84 from 44
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    STEEL TO BE POOLED
    69 8 Bill to ratify the Schuman Plan for pooling West Europe's steel and coal production was introduced m the French parliament last night. The Foreign Minister, M. Schuman, who proposed the project l£L3t year, predicted that France will complete its ratification by the end of October. Other
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    CLEARED
    36 8 A. P. The United States Court of Appeals yesterday reversed the con\nctio n of William Remington, former government economist, on charges of perjury In denying he had ever been a member of the Communist Party.-
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    France urges talk on Italy
    259 8 PARIS, Thursday. THE French Government has proposed to its allies to hold an exchange of views to find a formula for the moral rehabilitation of Italy because Italy has given proof that she is a democratic country and a member of the Western community, a
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    MORE 'SUPER' CARRIERS
    35 8 The U.S. Navy Secretary, Mr. Dan .Kimball, revealed yesterday that his department would ask that several "supsr" aircraft carriers be laid down as soon as the-one now under construction has completed trials.-
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    RICE FOR EACH
    32 8 The Siamese Government is sending one ton of rice each to the Indian Premier, Mr. Nehra, and the Pakistan Premier, Liaqujt Ali Khan, as a symbol of continuing friendship.-
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    61 8 pENERAL J. LAWTON Collins, United States Army Chief U of Staff, told reporters yesterday that the VA Army w.as developing: a bullet-proof vest for infantrymen. But it was abo trying to produce a rinV bullet capable of piercing the vest. Reuter A.F.P. A. P. il-mitiu vxa PuuLshtti
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