The Singapore Free Press, 30 August 1951

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    Literature sells easier by weight
    274 2 1 ITERATURE sells easier by the pound. That is what Frau Anne Louise Voeltz reports since she started hur super-market m se-cond-hand books a few weeks afio under the slogan "two marks per pound". Whether poetry, novels or a scientific booklet on the sex life
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    A thriller from real life
    785 2  - A thriller from real life PETER QUENNELL by OSCAR SLATER: THE GREAT SUSPECT, by Peter Hunt (Carroll and Nicholson). CITIES, by Rupert Croft-Cooke and Noel Barber. (Wingate). IT always astonishes m e that of every hundred readers for whom a detective novel is as important a part of their holiday
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    THE MAN WHO LEAPED TO FAME WITH ONE BOOK
    660 2 THE MAN WHO LEAPED TO FAME WITH ONE BOOK THE CRUEL SEA by Nicholas Monsarrat. THIS is the story— the long and true story— of one ocean, two ships, and about a hundred and fifty men. So begins Nicholas Monsarrat's foreword to his novel. The Cruel Sea, which is soon
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      144 2 M-G-M RECORDS BIG NEWS FOR FILM FANS JJALSE \WTAL JBL I^RKDASCMKE >^^^^ HOW COULD YOU BELIEVE ME WHEN IIVI I SAID I LOVED YOU WHEN YOU KNOW Jn^\& IVE BEEN A LIAR ALL MY LIFE' J^m from the sound-track of the film *0 mXXX* t%^ NOW SHOWING AT the CAT
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      271 2 WHAT PLANE ISI THAT? I Afosf people don't know unU I o/ i/ie well-known airliners thai X Singapore every day. But they an fl it has a right to be there, that m aircraft. fl BUT.. THE ONLY WAY WE CAN MAKE < R J EVERY AIRCRAFT OVER SINCAPOrTi fl
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      252 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR I)0!tN today. you are one of I _.«>»» "h<> se-ms to take I f* as it com*-s. You seem to know instinctively what to do and when to do it. You disli.r conflict of any kind and will co a very lone way around od an unpleasant
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      49 2 Solution to Crossword No. 444 Across: 1, Toffee-apple. 7, Rustier. 8, Ant. 9, Soiled. 10, Slur. 12, Pine. 13 Manual. 16, Nob. 17, Heretic. 18, Pre-eminence. Down: 1, Tarts 2, Fashionable. 3, Exiled. 4, Airy. 5, Pearl button. 6, Enter, 11. Pa iron. 12, Pin-up. 14, Lucre. 15, Sham.
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      136 2 New Crossword No; 445 Hlflß BB Bi" I'll Bfl 1 J 1 CLUES ACROSS 1. See 8. 4. Pointed stimulants— maybe drops (5). 8, 1. Who's «n the locality? (3, 3, 2, 3, 4). 9. Left without any dirt (5, 4). 12. Unruffled folk don't (4, 1, 4). 16. Hatreds
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    HOW WE RAN OFF WITH SHIP
    382 3  - RAN OFF WITH SHIP SEFTON DELMER By Two Poles tell their story THF _-___m i a^ VIENNA, Thursday. HE mutiny m the Polish Navy's hydrographic survey ship H.G.1l goes back to a very hot day m the middle of last month. r_f oland omm unist President Bierut and two or
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    B.C NOT TOAN2SONGS
    110 3 Dicture. LONDON, Thursday. B a i>>lk> conference the 8.8.C. have ts to ban two new popular songs, known m another form as unprintable ballad "Sweet Violets" (American) and British). The tunes remain the originals, but the words have r vised to render them fit for m. i
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    C'wealth talks on Materials
    68 3 The Australian Commerce and Agriculture Minister, Mr. John McEwan, has left by air for London to attend the Commonwealth materials conference which opens on September 24. Delegates who will confer m private for a week or 10 days, are also coming from India, New Zealand, Canada.
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    FOR INDIA
    11 3 tn EndI to sail! Calcutta] vent H ccl- AFP
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    Bridge Hand
    336 3 W E6I *c e*ed Nofttoj two noW trump b:d as gi^£ a heart opening and led the ciuo queen. South took time out to eW his losers and »»nf "J» tonaled four; two m one m spades and one UP d T^ foitS dfamond m time for a
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    BUCKLEY
    219 3 the Polish Artillery School. He is one of the many Polish-uniformed Russians commanding the Polish Army. What the general had come for was revealed at dawn next day. The H.G.11, instead of setting out on another survey cruise, took a target ship m tow, and dragged it slowly along
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    THREE-MONTH SEARCH ENDS
    59 3 The Europe-wide hunt for Pieter Jan Bruin, a young clerk with out" ears wanted m connection with the fraudulent conversion of 113.000 guilders from the Amsterdam Public Works Department, has ended. He was arrested- m Paris. Bruin disappeared on May lb and it was discovered that receipts
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    LAND REFORM
    793 3 Tiie East Bengal Tenancy .Bill will come into force In East Pakistan today. Cultj■vtfors will hold land directly and fell P r °P er V,,\J^.^d than 35 acres will be divided among agricultural workers. AFP 1 the 12 mutineers went ashore as 1 political refugees. I do not
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    Cocos 'not out of this world'
    473 3 COCOS-KEELING ISLANDS, (Indian Ocean), Thursday. npHE leathery -faced, coffee -coloured coconut A collector, who never m his life has seen a river, a hill, a train or an income tax return, smoothed the frills of his heliotrope organdie jacket. He fixed a pink rose
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    U.S. COLONEL SUSPENDED
    71 3 The U.S. Secretary of the Army Mr. Frank Pace, has suspended Colonel S. W. Mcllwain as Commander of the Army Ordnance Depot at Toledo, Ohio, pending further investigation of alleged "improper dealings" with defence contractors. At the same time, Pace held up the transfer of Brigadier General
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    JAPS FOR U.N.
    25 3 Japan intends to seek admission to the United Nations immediately after the signing of a Japanese peace treaty at San Francisco.— AFP
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    ZANZIBAR frOST
    24 3 Mr John Dalzell Rankin* Chief Secretary of Kenya. has been appointed British Resident m Zanzibar succeeding Sir Vlrm* Olendav I u_hnl.rPtlr.n_.,. Reuter
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    An eye bank follows blood bank
    137 3 An eye bank follows blood bank MANILA. Th.. rE "eyf* bank" has g r the "blond bank Manila now To maki <% story v c'.:\ sui bjnk" I :ib;«d a t :n Hollo Bias T.:lla. to t>< 1 Before he und< '.pcration recently, he had o''en Mind for til rs
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    FOR KARACHI
    29 3 Tiie U.N. Kashmir Mrd.%tor, Dr Frank Graham, left for Karachi yesterday new conference with Prime Minister Llarr: 11 n Khan and other Pakut m: officials.- S P
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      233 3 FOORMAN'S MUSIC STUDIO 37, Orchard Road, Singapore Tel 4739 Apologise that their prices of Mod. 32 of the "SCANDAI II" PIANO- ACCORDIONS appeared m the Free Press dated 25th August 1951 was incorrect. It should be Mod. 49—34 keys 48 bass— 3 sets treble rerds 4 sets bass Double Irver
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      68 3 kAio PORE Medley— L ra; 100 Danei Winter 615 .line Refill be 7.20 mened d oy A p. In 20 830 Htt se I Our Diets: News: Ira -c It Mo_e -5 OrSmgapore) <n tcei Xc M n. 9580 31.3. 1 ***** 2 I: *Jn 1781 16.81 6 ..B» *****
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    LOST TAHILS
    175 4 the daching, the gantang. The daching. as everyone knows, is a Chinese weighing instrument with a lot of dots and dashes on its weighing arm. whicn many people do not understand. Singapore's Municioal Commissioners have decided to ban the daching from mari and hawkers' shelters unci t its
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Aug. 30, 1951. Votes and debates
    349 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Aug. 30, 1951. Votes and debates 1V T HEN Singapore's elec- toral registers were -opened for revision lour months ago, the Supervisor of Elections expressed the hope that by the end of this ar there would be one hundred thousand names on the books, lt
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    Hoa Hao women fight Reds with swords and pikes
    1240 4  - Hoa Hao women fight Reds with swords and pikes In South Viet -Nam ■By- Harvey Day lenged to duels and killed her opponent. No one knows where she came from or how she managed to get into the Legion. The only fact that can be checked is that her name
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    It Seems to Me....
    735 4  -  POLITICO By A TOWKAY m the Federation has bought a python measuring 15 feet long, and weighing 150 katis. Not a very big one as pythons go, but big enough to be treated with respect. It is a beautiful specimen, with a skin which no doubt
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    BRITISH SUMMER SCENE
    24 4  -  GILES by Here's a nice letter.... "Hop* you have a pica.. Nt hciiday get to Lancfs End keep going straight on/
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    'Complet' is the only wor for it
    578 4 'Complet' is the only wor for it Spotlight on the French Riviera 'i^OMPLET' is the word on the Riviera from this v week on. It means FULL. Humbler hotels have notices bearing this discouraging news on their doors so that they will not be harassed by streams of applicants for
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    19,000 VOTERS REGISTER: 22,000 STRUCK OFF 22,000 STRUCK OFF
    373 5 19,000 VOTERS REGISTER: 22,000 STRUCK OFF 22,000 STRUCK OFF From salesman to manager Mr. W. S. Thaddaeus, a former salesman of the National Cash Register Company, who has been appointed Jnanager of the company's Federation office at Kuala Lumpur. A keen Rotarian and a committee member of the F. 1.0.
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    Who started this rumour?
    153 5 I ree *»ress Staff Reporter WHO started the rumour m Singapore that the Traffic Police were going to Mop issuing provisional driving licences? We did not it is definitely untrue cried Traffic thief, Mr. W. R M HaxWRRtmrn, yesterday from under a fresh pile of applications
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    AAM open to all I motorists
    254 5 AAM open to all I motorists Free Press Staff Reporter M ANY chinese motorists m Singapore seem to think that the Automobile Association of Malaya (Singapore and Johore branch) is purely a British organisation but this ls not so," Mr. K. G. Burne, Secretary of the Association, told the Free
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    CHINESE STORES MAKE HISTORY
    120 5 Four leading Chinese stores In the Colony will make history on Monday next, Sept. 1, when they launch a huge combined sale to celebrate their respective anniversaries. For the past month, the heads of these four firms and their assistants have been meeting almost daily for
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    'Efficiency' 6c 'Hardship'
    473 5 VIfHEN the subjects of vehicles inspectors' beats was discussed m committee earlier this month, it was pointed out that the whole question turned on whether it was morie efficient from the Vehicles Department's viewpoint that its inspectors should cover their beats on loot. If lt would be
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    EAST-WEST SOCIETY
    37 5 T<w Kati u.ll he field n YMC A Orchard lomd K3and v 111 iak< M >' »> ii.J Night when mcml* ul an o| t J •hree BlinutM «>ii a »)j» I which they will „J hat.
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    India House Reception
    27 5 The Repreernment of Ind..* S n«i.p rj will gne a cocktail p House on Moi from 6.30 t«. H V mcc* th of India.
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    'Still an offence to use horns in Silent Zones'
    277 5 'Still an offence to use horns in Silent Zones' TRAFFIC POLICE REMIND MOTORISTS... Free Press Staff Reporter r rHE Singapore Traffic^ Police, m reminding the public yesterday that the use of motor horns m certain areas of the Colony was still an offence, has issued a map of the "Silent
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    CALL FOR MORE WHITE LINES & SIGNBOARDS
    120 5 CALL FOR MORE WHITE LINES SIGNBOARDS Free Press Staff Reporter. A NUMBER of Singapore residents, commenting "with great satisfaction" on the Traffic Police announcement yesterday that 120 violators of the no-horn-sounding-areas In the Colony were to be summoned for this offence, called for more white lines and signboards st all
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    Why AAM night service ceased...
    195 5 Free Pre«s Staff Reporter. 7/ie ylt-^omobz/e Association o/ Malaya (Singapore and Johore branch), would not resume its night service at present because the number vf members did not warrant such a service, Mr. K. O. Burne, the Secretary, said yesterday. "We have decided to stop
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    GOVT. PLANNING MODERN CLINIC FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN
    225 5 THE Government of Singa- pore is considering the establishment of a modern, well-equipped and centrally situated medical and dental clinic for schoolchildren, l>r J. Coutts-Milne. Deputy Director of Medical Services, told the Free Press yesterday. The present nfltin clinic m North Canal Road and
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    Move to reverse decision by SMC Com mit ted
    168 5 Move to reverse decision by SMC Com mit ted HOW SHOULD VEHICLES INSPECTORS TRAVEL OR DUTY? Free Press SUIT Reporter A TWICE-RECOMMENDED decision of a Singapon Municipal committee will be the subject of motion for its virtual reversal at the meetin <» Municipal Commissioners tomorrow. The recommendation was that vehicles
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    CHANGI WIN THRILLING CUP FINAL
    429 6 Extra-time decides K.A.F. Changi 2; R.A.F. Maintenance Units 1. A WINNING goal during extra time rounded off a A thrilling cup final yesterday at R.A.F. Base Seletar when Changi pipped 390 Maintenance Units to become the fifth winners of the Royal Air Force Malaya inter-unit
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    PAST HOLDERS OF THE CUP
    63 6 pAST holders of the R.A.F. I Malaya inter-unit knockout soccer cup are: 1947, Maintenance Units: 1948, Kuala Lumpur; 1949 Technical Wing, Seletar; 1950 Technical Wing. This year, Changi reached the final by beating R.A.F. Kuala Lumpur eight-two and R.A.F. Butterworth three-one. Maintenance Units defeated R.A.F.
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    MULLOY IN LAST 8
    110 6 seven year old Gardnar Mulloy of Miami advanced to the quarter finals of the United States lawn tennis championships yesterday when he beat Earl Cochell of Los Angeles 4—6, 6—2. 6—l, 6—2 at Forrest Hills. New York. Cochell, ranked seventh nationally, won the first set with
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    DICK BURTON LEADS FIELD
    60 6 T)ICK Burton. 1939 British open golf champion, shot a recordmaking 66 yesterday to gain a twostrokes lead over the field m the first round of the Lotus £1,500 professional tournament at Stoneham. Hampshire. Dick won a close tussle with his elder brother. John, who finished ln
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    TABLE TENNIS
    39 6 THIRTY nations, including 12 from the East, will take part :.e 19th World Table Tennis I Championships at Bombay next 1 February, the President Of the i Tndi?n Table Tennis Federation. A. S. De Mello. .said yesterday.
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    Cowdrey hits polished 71 v. S. Africans
    280 6 A POLISHED Innings by 18--year-old Michael Cowdrey. who made 71 out of his side's innings total of 163 and good bowling by Clive Van Ryneveld, who took Aye wickets for 53, were the features of the rain interrupted first day of the match
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    ITALIAN WINS
    22 6 MILAN. Wed.— Toni BevilacQua 31 -year-old Italian, retained his professional pursuit title when the world cycling championships ended here today
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    Bowlers on top in County matches
    433 6 (Hutton n.o. UO. Lester 52). At Leicester. Lancashire 163 iPlacs 77. Sperry 6 for 22 1; Leicestershire 136 for 3 (Tompkin n.o. 57). At Worcester. Somerset 210 (Gimblett 108. Jenkins 6 for 88) Worcestershire 120 for a (Wyatt n.o 54). Reuter. A. P. CRICKET
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    MALAYA CUP MEN CHOSEN
    91 6 SINGAPORE'S team for the Malaya Cup final against Perak at Kuala Lumpur on Sunday leaves by air on Sunday morning. The team, the same side which beat Malacca, is: Chu Chee Seng; R. J. Davids, Soh Teow Keng: I. J. Vass, Harith Omar, Ho Hin Weng;
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    PENANG TENNIS
    25 6 THE Chinese will meet the Rest m the annual tennis match for the Victory Cup on the Penang Sports Club courts on Monday.
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    U.K. RUGBY
    30 6 RESULTS matches j uere: Cas lief ord 10. B dersfield 40. H vers 8. Leigh Town 2; Satford 19; S. Wakefield Tn: Northern 12. V 5; Yo: A.P.
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    S'pore swimmers win FARELF cup
    481 6 I Free Press Aquatics Reporter I npHE first name to be engraved on the Generals' Cup A will be that of Singapore Base District, whose competitors won all but one championship event m the first annual FARELF swimming gala held yesterday at the Singapore Swimming
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    Tottenham and Arsenal score fine doubles
    414 6 (CHARLIE Vaughan, Charlton Athletic tamth ward who earlier yesterday was cr uu transfer request, cracked m three London Club m a night game m wh „0r, ,0r J ,u trounced Preston North End 4—2 p„". without winger Tony Finnev wasted in# Ui approach work
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    DANES COMPLETE SHUTTLE TOUR
    61 6 THE DSD team won j final two-d.iv t Africa by ntn i last night. The Danes It of the first da] to win ttan I ll last r.ight. Resui- v.o first): Paul 15-3, 15-6. 01. J don Byram l and Mrs. Ai-. Steele and B 15-8;
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    GOLD RISE GALLOPS 3 F. IN 36 1/2sec.
    403 7  - GOLD RISE GALLOPS 3 F. IN 36 1/2 sec. ALLAN LAWIS rrom Should do well on Saturday rOLI) rk K p UA^ LUMPUR, Thursday. (,'iLU RISE ridden by Wallv Hagbv And when he disposed ofVhree M > flm^wfrMce e under°si 1 ir e t^ tt,ed since hi back. He was
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    Lilian players in brilliant form
    186 7 COMMONWEALTH v. ENGLAND XI PHI Hinmonwpalth team who met an England XI 1 afl Kingston-on-Thames yesterday owed much to three representatives from India— Mankad m«l I mrigar— and to Khan Mahomed from tan ,Bf dismissing a strong opposition on an paced pitch for 189. England
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    Chestprotectorsfor Ray's sparmates
    194 7 TURPIN WATCHES TELEVISION WHILE GEORGE GAINSI ORD LOOKS FOR TJANDY Turpin took a four-mile walk before breakfast yesterday and then relaxed on the advice of his trainers, who do not want the world's middleweight champion to over-train. Randy later visited a nearby boys camp and gave the
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    H.K. invite Helsingborg
    131 7 rE Helsingborg football team of Sweden has been invited to Hong Kong to play three soccer games In November. At the Hongkong Football Association meeting Chairman J. Skinner said the Swedish team originally asked for Hongkong HK557.000 but this was refused. The Swedish team then came back
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    KLRACE WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY
    315 7 r all I n i n |i>. 1 da v of Turf >rpt. Cl. J, Div. 1-6 F. «.rr«r Ml i Om h n *how 8.11 *rd* k.io Bo\ II 8.88 li-lr aaa 8.07 *rr 8.03 \<«- UH l*intr\ Idsll 8.0? :on 8.01 I *«rgr*ea 8.00
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    Former boxing champ dies
    87 7 ALBERT Badoud, former Euro-' pean welterweight boxing champion, died here today at the age of 58. Badoud won the welterweight title m 1913 by knocking out Johnny Basham British and European champion, m the fifth round of a fight at Manchester. He repeated this knockout In
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    A GALLANT ATTEMPT THAT FAILED
    23 7 MUTTON, Combined Services goalkeeper, dives full-length, bat fails to stop a penalty by YVing-kenng at Jalan Besar yesterday.
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    Yui-fak dives the wrong way
    45 7 picture. COMBINED SERVICES centre-forward. Slee. beats Yu Yui-tak. the South China goalkeeper .with a header. Lav Yee (left. South China) and KingHarmes (Services) both closed m to join the goalmouth scramble but a defender cleared on the line. Free Press
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    EVERGREEN SHOULD BE A TOP CLASS STAYER
    1001 7 YESTERDAYS RACES REVIEWED From ALLAN LEWIS EVERGREEN, a solid looking bay English gelding by Big Game from Kozuka, came with a well sustained run over the last two furlongs to defeat Artist's Rifle m the sixth race at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, second day
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    Services e^nn hie in secona half against S. China
    345 7 Services e^nn hie in secona half against S. China South China 4. Combined Servk 4 N unfortunate accident midway through second half ended a close duel at Jalan Bbbbi Stadium yesterda.v between the South Chins v« tourists and Combined Scr\iees The visitors were leading by two when Services centre-forward. Btee,
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    BADMINTON TIES FOR WEEKEND
    112 7 BADMINTON TIES FOR WEEKEND at the Clerical nd nmm m i i m Men's junior singles is.mifinal) ie lan Men* ;ii immmt* Hj Sail* \M)_»i H v Tan Kok Ann Kwff: Seah Kee v Heng Kw (n« Soo ThoSeah Kirn le< k v Lim lean<: Women's junior ftlngli Ong Sif
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    Australians win Speedwai Test1
    57 7 Australians win Speedwai Test 1 AUSTRALIA beat Engl;.: points to 49 m the filth and final speedway test match of the n at VIM Ham England last ni«ht winning the I_»51 series by lour matches to one. Australia's chief scorer v.;.s Graham Warren \.iM_ 12 points while S. Paterson m.h
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    Veto won 't block new Italian pact
    142 8 Veto won 't block new Italian pact WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said yesterday the Soviet Union would not be able to prevent a Western revision of the Italian peace treaty by a veto. Mr. Acheson discussed at this weekly press conference t the question
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    MORRISON LOOKS AT THE WIRE
    303 8 'It illustrates Red stand 9 OSLO, Thursday. 'THE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Morrison turned back 1 to official life yesterday and gave the Norwegian Press his first comments on world affairs since he left London on holiday two weeks ago. He expressed a guarded optimism on
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    U.K. companies to appeal
    73 8 THE two British insurance 1 compares banned by the Argentine Government yesterdaj appealed to the Treasury Minister against the order to liquidate their business m the country. Tne companies, the Royal Insurance Company and the London and Liverpool Globe Insurance Co.. announced their stand m a
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    REDS PLAY UP 'PEACE' DRIVE
    56 8 REDS PLAY UP 'PEACE' DRIVE Russian papers yesterday printed front page articles and editorials on the Soviet Union Peace Committee decision to hold a nation-wide campaign next month to collect signatures supporting a five-power peace pact. Pravda, Communist party paper, and Izvestia, Government paper, accused the United States of hindering
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    POLIO EPIDEMIC
    29 8 Four Austrian children have died ot infantile paralysis and 23 others are ill m an outbreak m the Soviet zone iof Bruck An Der Le Tha.— A.P.
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    HONOURED
    27 8 The Prime Minister of Vietnam. Tran Van Huu yesterday received the Grand Cross of Legion of Honour from the President of France, M. Vincent Auriol. A.F.P.
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    BRITISH SHIP FREED
    57 8 The British freighter Henry I. Abbott, arrived m Hong Kong yesterday under tow from Keelung. Formosa, after being detained by Chinese Nationalists for nearly a year. She was intercepted last September by a Nationalist warship off the China coast while being towed from Hong Kong for delivery
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    ULTIMATUM
    28 8 The Indonesian Premier. Dr. Soekarno. last night threatened all-out military action against 4,000 rebels tn the South Celebes if they do not surrender within five days. A.P.
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    FIVE DIE IN CRASH
    25 8 Five people died yesterday when a blazir; train came into collision with another train 40 miles west of Buenos Aires. Keuter.
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    Supplies by 'flying saucer
    64 8 THE United States Army is trying out a "flying saucer" container to supply five gallons of water, petrol or other liquids to troops m the field. The "saucer." two feet across and five pounds m weight, is disc-shaped and made of synthetic rubber. Specimens have been
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    U.N. weapon bodies merged
    219 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. A UNITED Nations committee of 12 yesterday adopted a United States resolution recommending the merger of the Atomic Energy Commission and the commission for Conventional Armaments. The committee, consisting of the members of the Security Council and Canada, passed the American proposal by
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    Comet leaves for Pakistan
    90 8 LONDON, Thurs. BRITAIN'S record-breaking jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet is due to leave London airport today on a round trip to India and Pakistan. Flying via Cairo, it will reach Karachi tomorrow, and continue on Saturday to Ahmedabad and Delhi. After stopping the night at
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    EXPORT CHECK
    19 8 Reuter. The Japanese Government will shortly take action to tighten up the inspection of export cargoes. Reuter.
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    IF RUSSIANS ATTACK TITO
    66 8 WASHINGTON. Thurs. Mr. Dean Acheson declined to comment yesterday when asked whether President Truman's special Ambassador Mr. Averell Harriman had discussed with Marshal Tito during his visit to Belgrade this week what action would be taken by the United States if Russia were to attack Yugoslavia.
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    GREEK PROTEST
    32 8 Greece yesterday protesV ed to the United Nations against the "murder of a Greek villager" by three Albanian soldiers who were said to have penetrated into the Greek territory.- AFP.
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    416 CASUALTIES
    19 8 United States battle casualties m Korea reached 81,422 yesterday an increase of 416 since last week.- Reuter.
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    let Reds see they can't win'
    151 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. SENATOR Tom Connally, Democrat, yesterday urged the U.S. Senate to approve a $735,750,000 foreign aid Bill to convince the Kremlin leaders that "they can't get away with" their hope of world domination. He urged "a policy that seeks to avoid war by
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    Prague won't free Oatis
    124 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. CZECHOSLAVAKIA'S new ambassador here. Dr. Vladimir Prochazka, said yesterday his government "will not yield to any propaganda or economic pressure" to free the American journalist, Mr. William N. OatLs, fro 1 prison. Mr. Prochazka said this to reporters after a 30-minute conference with the
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    RITA TO LET COURT DFXIDE
    44 8 Rita Hayworth will let a Reno divorce court decide on financial arrangements with her estranged husband, Prince Aly Khan, her lawyer indicated yesterday. She was originally reported to have demanded that Alv settle U553,000,000 on their 19-month-old daughter Yjlrmin.-
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    £30,000 FIRE
    4 8 Reuter A.P.
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    POLIO VACCINE IN FEW YEARS'
    154 8 One hundred families were left homeless and an estimated £30,000 worth of damage was done by Are m Asian quarters at Mombasa yesterday.- COPENHAGEN, Thursday. rjISCOVERY of a vaccine against polio will come "m my lifetime", said 59-year-old Mr. Basil O'Connor, President of the U.S.
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    STRIKE GOES ON
    27 8 U.S. union leaders refused yesterday to end the nationwide copper strike, despite the fact that it is threatening to curtail American defence oroduction.- A.P.
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    REFUGEE AID
    37 8 The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees have decided to allot $40,000,000 each to Israel and the Arab states from the economic aid proposed for Europe to handle immigration and refugee problems.- Reuter.
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    Yugoslav exercises
    22 8 The first large-scale manoeuvres by the Yugoslav Adriatic Fleet since the end of the war have just been completed.- A.P.
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