The Singapore Free Press, 18 October 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA Ifgdm,mkfmfg SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951. PRICK FIFTEEN < EN'TS
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    EMERGENCY IN EGYPT
    60 1 Cairo plans new teps against Britons I CAIRO, Thursday. nent, yesterday declared throughout the country and reserves stood by Mr. Herbert staying in for the entire d the Egyptians h 1: od prothem. 'rom Cyprus il M terday to d u itfa fixed bayonets If 3> e
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    Egyptians face hard ships—PM
    269 1 Egyptians face hard ship s— PM DREMIER NAIIAS Pasha told Parliament yesterday: "We have chosen our course and we shall continue with it no matter what hardships and d "From this day forward there will oe ration with any occupiers, oppressors or enemy of our country." Nahas Pasha warned that
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    Election: longer odds an Labour
    138 1 Election: longer odds an Labour LONDON. Thurs. HkVV betting on the Con.\ti\e Party to win the \1 Election on Oct. 25 drove the odds still longer the Labour GovernI vt*stcrday. books of Douglas ..art. one of the nation's bet takers, backers <>f the Labour Party can put up El to
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    U.S. backs Britain's resolution on oil row
    222 1 U.S. backs Britain's resolution on oil row NEW YORK, Thurs. THE United States yesterday gave full support behind Britain in the Anglo-Persian oil dispute and demanded that the United Nations take action to help bring about a peaceful solution The chief U.S. delegate, Mr. Warren Austin delivered a strong challenge
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    U.K. loses 2 scientists
    105 1 TWO BRITISH scientists who have vanished abroad with their families are unlikely to have carried away any secret information. But security men are checking on the recent movements of the men, Dennis OConnor and William Campbell, both 26, who failed to reairn to their jobs at
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    ALLIES 3 MILES FROM KUMSONG
    207 1 TOKYO, Thursday. A MERICAN and Columbian troops drove to within 1^ three miles of Kumsong today and remnants of five Chinese Communist battalions were trapped in a mountain fortress south of the town. A 24th Division officer said' the capture of a hill dominating the
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    LEFT-WING PAPER TO BE BANNED
    35 1 The Capetown left-wing newspaper. Guardian, has been given 21 days to show cause why the Government should not ban it under the terms of the Suppression of Communism Act.— A.P
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    26 1 picture. U {> radio r:.\st> in jrartU" of "Hie Lo3i A Oakleigh Park Xortii, the Tass news listening post agenc closed down by the British government.— Popper
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    oppose coalition
    324 1 Singapore Member system Free Press Staff Reporter THE extent to which Progressive Party members In the Singapore Legislative Council should participate in the Member system which the Government proposes to introduce, will come up for discussion at the Party's committee this afternoon. One of the main points which
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    LADY GURNEY IN LONDON
    35 1 Lady Gurney, the wirtow of Sir Henry Gurney, High Commissioner of the Federation of Malaya, arrived in London yesterday by air from Singapore. She was met by her two sons.— A.P
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    Plane 'kidnapped' for escape
    194 1 ZURICH. Thurs. A Yugoslav Airway's plane "kidnapped" by two of its crew landed at the Zurich international airport yesterday with 22 unwilling passengers and a radio operator trussed up with ropes. The plane had been on a regular flight between Ljubljana and Belgrade. As it neaied
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    EMPIRE TALKS ON MID-EAST
    148 1 Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, yesterday analysed with Commonweal in Commanders-in-cniel the results of Britain's largest post-war army manoeuvre*, held in southern Englau i in:.; week They were also understood to have discussed the general military situation in the
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    LOSES HIS LEG
    32 1 Mr. Gurnam Bingb Bull, a Singapore school teacher, had his leg amputated in hospital yesterday following a motor cycle accident at the 3rd mile Bukit Timah Road yesterday morning.
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    MURDERER OF LIAQUAT WAS HIRED
    303 1 MURDERER OF LIAQUAT WAS HIRED KARACHI, Thursday. THE killer of Pakistan's Premier Liaquat AH Khan 1 was "in all probability" hired to commit the murder, government authorities said here tonight. Police recovered 10,000 rupees from the assassin's home in Abbotabad and had found 2,040 rupees on his body. They are
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    PERSIANS FREE TERRORISTS
    53 1 The Persian Government yesterday released irom prison 15 members of the ultranationalistic Fedayan Islam They were jailed following disorders two months a?o. The organisation's leader. Navad Saffavi. was not released. The Feciay'ans were held resDonsiblp for thp sassination of t.h P former J Premier. Razmara. 1a s
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    MORE A-WEAPONS'
    21 1 The U.S. Senate-House of Representative Atomic BnCommittee yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution calling for maximum ansion of atom plants.
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    Shops close in Singapore
    99 1 File Press Staff Reporter. f><vKIST/-NIS in Singapore closed I shops yesterday afternooi mark of respect U Prime Minister of P Mr. Liaquut Ali K! The Pi Chamber oi Commen D. T Assomull. .sent round a circular to all members of the Chamber a>kiiiß then elosr their
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    The man who is hated by the women of his country
    1067 2  -  GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON r I* TIIK MASTER OF SANTIAGO, and Four Other Plays. By Henry de Mmtherhint (Koutledffe and Kejjan Paul.) WOMEN hate him. TT Most of his fellowcountrymen dislike him But, when a poll was taken the other
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    205 2 BORN today. progressiveness is one of your outstanding characteristics. You will never do anything in the old. conventional way. if you can think of one that is different! New ideas, crusading projects and all experiments are your delight. Your mind is always a few steps ahead, in
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    Was Dickens Insane?
    773 2  -  Margaret Fare By CHARLES DICKENS Julian Symons (Arthur Barker). IT must be alarming, 1 as well as flattering, to be singled out by a publisher to dissect a Scott, a Fielding or a Dickens into ninety-two small pages— life, work and character all to be laid bare
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    HE BROKE FROM TOtyfl AND TORTURE
    678 2  - HE BROKE FROM TOtyfl AND TORTURE Peter Quennell By i among whom we recognise the silent figure of Francis Bacon. IN the dungeons, deer imder the White Tower Topcliffe. sadistic torturerin -chief, prepares his racks and thumbscrews. while Gerard dangles by the wrists from a hook. sweating and eroanlng, experiencing
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    SOARING PRICES WORRY BRITONS
    87 3 S OARING PRICES WORRY BRITONS Vol a big issue m,it elections f LONDON, Thursday. I ,1 mk» a London bus conductor, had I ier nisht. "I woke up and told f out it and we both started laughI 1 $i***. i j rea ml that prices were falling." I »;he^
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    THIS PLANE CARRIES A LOADED BUS
    100 3 LONDON. Thurs. BRITAIN on Tuesday re•d details of a giant nilitary plane that is ol carrying a loaded li the GAL-60. a mili4ght plane second in .ong British planes \t Bristol Brabaworld's longest land The GAL-60 has a :un of 162 feet, twohat of
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    No parties on Shah's birthday
    37 3 No parties on Shah's birthday Governm rdered its foreign 3 to cancel all celeof the Shah's 33rd ..day on Oct. 27 for reaof economy. .ons have already out, the Foreign Instructed diplomats >e invited ex- A. P
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    'SACK LIE'
    30 3 A. P ive LawS a < Republican) v demanded in a House that U N Secretary-General. Trygre Lie. should re-' bi fired because "he for socialistic a lit aria-
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    52 3 IN MOTHERS FOOTSTEPS: Although Benjamin Stanton Ga^e. is only two years old, he is already almost as much at home in the swimming pool as is his famous mother, Esther Williams. Her e they are at their home in Pacific Palisades, where the swimming star has a small pool in
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    Mysterious foot-prints found
    62 3 Mysterious foot-prints found BANGKOK. Thurs. ]\JYSTERIOUS human footprints. 63 centimetres long and 35 centimetres broad, were discovered outside the town of Nakorn Panom recently after a violent storm. Now. a shrine Is being built over the two over-size footprints, which are spaced about eight metres from each other. Hundreds of
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    INSPECTION TOUR
    25 3 Representatives of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff will arrive at Saigon on Oct. 23 for a three-day in- spection tour. Reuter
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    BIGGER RANGE
    22 3 Tho Australian rocket range is being extended in order undertake more long ranse weapon projects than was originally intended.— A.F.P
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    SCHOOL FOR CHEATS
    48 3 HOW to cheat at dice or cards is a required United States Army tourse at Csmp Atterbury, Indiana. Lessons are designed to protect G.l.s from tricksters Says schoolmaster Tim Mulloy: "Dice is a game that a man shouldn't play, even with his mother." the tribesmen.—
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    BULLS DO NOT SCARE PATRICIA
    347 3 BULLS DO NOT SCARE PATRICIA EL PASO, Texas, Thurs. DATRICIA McCormick is tall, slender, blonde, 21 years old and determined to be a bullfighter. It i s her courage that the fans cheer wildly. One August afternoon she tied her long blonde hair back with a ribbon, pulled on her
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    SENTENCE REDUCED
    41 3 A Municipal Judge has reduced Hollywood actor John Agar's sentence for drunken driving to two months in jail permitting him to get out of the country Honour Farm on Oct. 25. Originally Agar drew a 150- day penalty. U.P
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    WELCGME-WITH MILK AND DATES
    55 3 picture. Gen. Augustine Guillaume, new French Resident General of Morocco, was officia lly welcomed on his arrival from France at Rabat, cap ital of French Morocco. The General is seen taking the traditional welcome offering of milk and dates, symbol of hospitality, helped by the Pasha
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    A wife for a few spears
    238 3 NZARA, ZANDELAND, Thursday. /CIVILISATION is coming to the Zande tribesmen in Central Africa. The Zandes are primitive Africans. They wear little or no clothing. They eat cassava roots, snakes, monkeys and ants and their moral code is very low. Trial marriage Is an accepted
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    TRADE MOVE
    13 3 Indonesia will sign the Torquay protocol on concessions for import tariffs
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    Dogs to help in drive for Reds
    101 3 Dogs to help in drive for Reds MANILA. Thurs. QNE hundred and fortynine German shepherd dogs arrived in Manila recently from Japan aboard two Philippine navy LSTs to help local armed forces in their unrelenting drive against the jimgle-wise Communist, Hukbalahap dissidents. The trained animals which are the offspring of
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    PAPER TEST
    42 3 Tests are to De held to find out if it is possible to manufacture newsprint in South Africa from pine pulwood grown in Eastern Transvaal. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will arrive in Australia on March 2 U.P
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    NO BUYERS FOR 7,000 NEW CARS
    326 3 CANADIAN MOTOR MARKET COLLAPSES LONDON, Thursday. STEVEN THOUSAND new British cars, lying unsold and deteriorating in Canadian £ara»es, w.ll probably have to be shipped back home in the next I weeks. The Canadian motor market ha s collapsed. Altogether this is likely to t~involve
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    U.S. CASUALTIES
    19 3 United States battle casualties in Korea have reached 90.935 nn Inrreas* of 1.553 ■since last week.- A.P
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      114 3 MSDClrdkB Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya n J^""^ TRAVEL r^j MUFFED IT? r—J KNOW WHAT. exclusive to the iVe» Pres Mqlayu I —^r— 7 -^rj r^ K >^ nv^'-vi I WONDER vs«=R c VNU> SHOULO\ NE6DXX) ASK, DARLING r i ThOuGmT Tha"" <p WASW^ THEY B3EED EM
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      177 3 Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 p.m. Light Music Med'ey Earl Towner Orchestra: LH i^me Signal News; 1.45 Dance Mus.c played by Joe Reichman I tra; 2.00 For th? Mi Together A: Rudio Si Son? Book; 2.50 Clos«- 615 Programme Summary; 6 17 C:.!!in? il I tals with requcs s foi patiei 6.55
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Oct. 18 1951. Liaquat Ali Khan
    481 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. Oct. 18 1951. Liaquat Ali Khan I lAQUAT All Khan has "been murdered, and one more distinguished name joins the long list of men who havefallen victim to political assassins in Asia's recent history. It is .nitU-ant that the j news of his death j
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    Getting acquainted by bus ride
    614 4 Getting acquainted by bus ride IF you want to make the acquaintance of a city quickly there is no better way than taking a bus ride through it Washington, probably the world's most important capital today has long, silver buses which try to recruit passengers with the slogan: "It's work
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    It Seems To Me...
    596 4  -  POLITICO by \T Is a fair tuiess that the Financial Secretary's offer of cho parang to Singapore's rislative Councillors S no less unwelcome than were his cautious proposals for Judicious higher taxation. Nee who his read the speeches of the Unofficial ran have failed to notice
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    FROM SPACE
    34 4 What the human eye would see from a spot 135 miles out in space. This picture was taken recently by a camera-equipped Viking VII rocket, sent up from an American testing ground.
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    What makes a rich man take Holy Orders for $250 a month?
    1024 4 What makes a rich man take Holy Orders for $250 a month? THE REV. JOSEPH LEE WAS ORDAINED A¥/ER 30 YEARS' OP TEACHING IN SINGAPORE Michaelmas ordinations in London alone have sent twice as many priests and deacons as last year out to the parishes of Britain, says JAMES LEASOR
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    'RECALLED TO RRIT(W DARKER DAYS'
    217 4  -  JOHN ASHWN American parade through Lona Qn By^ I E made a -J I I I r IT takes a long time— long time- for the sometime*? a very events of the day in the West to filter through the Iron Curtain to the East.
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    General hospital extensions get priority
    305 5 General hospital extensions get priority Governor to lay foundation stone Free Press Staff Reporter START on the construction of the new outpatients' department, the hostel for 250 nurses and their training school in the Singapore General Hospital, will be made in the near future as priority items, Dr. W. J.
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    Less withdrawals from Savings Banks in 1950
    71 5 r s of deposits over uithdraua!* was $893,591. cornel :<:th $1,462,920 m-1949. The number of accounts c; open at the end .ear uas 80.862. compared Kith 74.246 in 1949— iicrease of 8.9 per cent. The total standing to the f deDOsitors on Dec.
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    'WORKING RULE' CAUSES RAILWAY BLOCK AT K.L.
    72 5 Congestion is already setting In at the KuaU Lumpur railway marshalling yards (above) following the "working rule" policy adopted by the Malaya Traffl'c Operating I'nion, whose members comprise shunters, yard foremen, guards and sleeping car attendant*. The "woikin«j to rule" decision was put
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    Far East students study U.K. elections
    104 5 Mr. T. Pantumasen. a student Of mining engineering from Bangkok, Mr. K. Ponnampalam, from Kuala Lumpur, a Malayan student of social science, and Mr. B. J. Rosarto, a student of law from Ceylon, were among the students from all over the world who have
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    JAP ARMS IN IPOH DUMP
    62 5 PoUec uncovered a dump of 1.200 Japanese bayonets and six Jupuii€^e light machine-guns near the Ipah Road just outside Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. The machine guns wen unserviceable and the weapons are believed to have been hidden during the Japanese occupation. Mr. Eu Cheow Chye,
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    WORK HAS NOT STOPPED ON NEW SKYSCRAPER
    97 5 WORK HAS NOT STOPPED ON NEW SKYSCRAPER Free Press Staff Reporter. U7ORK has not stopped on fT the 18-storey Asia Insurance Building at Collyer Quay, the City Architect, Mr. W. I. Watson, told the Free Press yesterday. The reason why the wooden hoardings were being taken down was because they
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    REMEMBRANCE DAY-NOV. 11
    54 5 Remembrance Day will be observed on Sunday. Nov. 11. There will be a ceremony at the Cenotaph at 7.30 a.m. at which the Governor will lay a wreath on behalf Of the Government of Singapore The President of the Ex-Services Association of Singapore, and the Service Commanders
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    THREE MORE FAMILIES SOUGHT FOR KRANJI FARMS
    278 5 THREE MORE FAMILIES SOUGHT FOR KRANJI FARMS The Committee of the Far Eastern, Relief Fund have now settled nine families on the farm which they built at Kranji to accommodate ]2" families who had been rencl- ered destitute as a result of the war in Malaya. The Committee are now
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    Traffic accidents in September
    88 5 A TOTAL of 995 traffic accidents occurred during September, causing 12 deaths and numerous injuries, compared with 802 cases in August. There were 253 accidents involving personal injury compared with 212 for the previous month increase of 41); whilst the number of accidents without injury amounted
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    BLACKOUT AREAS
    59 5 The following sub-stations w.ll b» liable to load-shedding tonight. Tanjong Katong; Bioadrick Road; Sea View Hotel; East Coast Road; Telok Kurau; Bedok; Chang i T mile Chansi Prison; Tanah Merah Besar; Selarang Barracks; AU^t Ice Happy World; Asia Ruober Ug3; Sims Avenue Sawmill, Shell Co.; Lee Rubber works
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    'HISTORIC OCCASION'
    43 5 When Mr. J. M. Brander. Chairman of the Kin la Town Board, opened the monthly meeting of the Board yesterday he said it was an "historic occasion" because they were to welcome their fir. si woman member Mrs. Chin Swee Onn.
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    NO REQUESTS FOR WORK LAST YEAR
    155 5 School-leaving boys girls.... Free Press Staff Reporter AVENUES of employment for Singapore boys and girls leaving secondary schools have been "so many and so wide" that no request for assistance was received from them last year by the Employment Bureau operated by the Department
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    BUREAU WAS INACTIVE
    62 5 RETURNS on boys and girls leaving secondary schools in December 1949 show that of 72 boys from an aided English school, 43 indicated that they had no definite career In mind. Seven wanted clerical work, six teaching, four accountancy and four Journalism. Others favoured broadcasting, engineering, architecture,
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    FEDERATION CUSTOMS
    29 5 The Federation suffered its biggest drop this year in Federal Custom Revenue in September, when a decrease of more than $7million was recorded from the August figures.
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    Standardise
    31 5 I SINGAPOREANS WEDt IN AUSTRALIA Miss Miriam La Brooy and Mr. Winston Kraal, both former residents of Singapore, pictured after their wedding rccenly m St. John's Church. Scarborough, Western Australia.
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    Council plans to build staff headquarters
    249 5 EXPANSION OF ADULT EDUCATION Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE Singapore Council for Adult Education, which x aims to wipe out illiteracy in the Colony, plans to build suitable headquarters to house its administrative staff as well as other facilities for expansion work, Mr. P.
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    DEMAND FOR LITERACY
    102 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. THE Singapore Council for Education estimated that it could organise and run 150 literacy classes and one or tuo adult education classes in 1951. Mr. P. K. Hernon, the Organising Secretary, told the Free Press. But it had gone beyond that. "To date,
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    adoption of children: plea by Councillor
    225 5 adoption of children: plea by Councillor Free Press Staff Reporter THERE mas a real need i«r a standardisation of th« various systems for adopting children in Singapore to make them legal, and it was very important that the Government should bring the Children's Adoption Rill before the Legislative .>. without
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    Gambling stalls & petty thefts
    45 5 Gambling stalls petty thefts Cases of pettj tin be on the liv rease suit of me opening of t\ linp stalls In Alor E according to Utusan Resirifnts of Muk.m K rne:vlv sent .t proU st to I s e < d th* 1 t o
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    COURTESY NOTICE FOR PARKING OFFENCES
    51 5 A r.eu ci ui tesy noti introduced by the Traffic Inform La four I offences and if an offend. found unattended the nff< n< urtff (id tlie notif' ndacreeen 11l t;\f Officer. Foreign I Control Olflre, Sii ■ppointed Deputy Chief Ada e Officer i>» al
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    MCFA DEFENCE IS STILL WEAK
    545 6 But forwards score 6 By CRUSADER M.C.F.A. Combined 6; All-Singapore 2. MALAYAN Chinese Football Association, fielding three guest players 1 Awang Bakar, Rijenberg and Dutton— and a fourth— lvan Vass after the interval, gained another flattering score when pitted against a weak All-Singapore side at
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    KIND REGARDS SURPRISES
    832 6 Yesterday's races reviewed From ALLAN LEWIS PENANG, Thursday. KIND REGARDS surprised when he led all the way to defeat Sealed Orders in the sixth and main race (Class 3, Div. I—6 furlongs) at Penang yesterday. At the distance Sealed Orders looked certain to run down Kind Regards,
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    Bridge Quiz
    396 6 ALL overcaita are iiaught with danger, especially those that must be made, at a high level, or after both opponents have already shown some strength. Quite often, in this sort of situation, the player will be better off to shade a takeout double, or to pass, but there
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    LAST-MEN. PLUNGE ON KELLING
    256 6 THREE Cheeis, the 17-2 third chcice in the betting, won the Cesarewitch Stakes, worth £3,161. over two miles and two furlongs at Newmarket yesterday. The Cesarewitch is the first leg of British racing's Autumn Double. The second leg is the nine-furlong Cambridgeshire on Oct. 31 at
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    PICTURE HOUSE GALLOPS SMARTLY
    257 7 PICTURE HOUSE GALLOPS SMARTLY HfrnlK'lla, refer a lso impress I fmm ALLAN LEWIS i PENANG, Thursday. I isc Mulley), on the outside, was K h bettertfun Nevada (Carrard) at a mile in 52 2 5 sees., the last I Lion :> on the tra ining traek I djs m^rnini:. The>
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    Bred on classic lines
    47 7 r\\uh Channel Swell from Midsuma (by im). is one of the best-bred Australian l i birds t<» have come to Malaya. Channel \ouiii; BnfUsh stallion. He sired Australian Jockev Club Derbv. la ftecidcd la f month at Kandwick. Sydney 1 m W K
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    BILLY BAGBY GIVEN TEST
    111 7 JJII.I.V Bag by. who is apprenticed to Penang trainer \V. lewis, went through a riding test this morning before the Acting Stipendiary Steward. Mr. N. M< I uhlan. Billv rode Atom Age, who went with Dentunny (Spencer) and two unnumbered horses, ridden WaU> Basjby and Herbe
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    All the weights for Saturday
    223 7 All the weights for Saturday E^ G «th€ u,i,ht 8 for all seven races on I third and last day o f the Penang Turf lu «umn meeting m B E |j IB Ik V i mere 7 07 ;i!a (>; Cl. S, Div. l_6F. i Orders 9.00 «rds sl2
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    MCFA team tor H.K.
    153 7 >|ALAYV\ Chinese Football Association's touring partv were entertained to dinner by Mr T W. Ong (president) at his residence last night. Ciroup picture show*: Seated from left to rifht: Dollah Don (Johore), Chu Chee Seng (Spore). l>*p Cheng Eng (Penang). Tan Chin Beng (treasurer. M.C'.F.A), Koe
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    Schoolboys lose 4-2
    80 7 Schoolboys lose 4-2 T^'o quick second half goals by inside-right Lawson save Singapore Recreation Club "A" victory over the Singapore Combined Schools by four goals to. two in a friendlv hockey match played on the Pad an k yesterday Schoolboys were down by two eoals to on P at the
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    MOC XI waiting at Amritsar
    94 7 iyj CC. crfcket team was waiting at Amritsar yesterday to hear whether their tour of Pakistan will be postponed because of the 30 days' mourning for the Premier. Liaquat Ali Khan. The team !s due to play Northern India at Amritsar in a match starting
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    HORSES DOWN A CLASS
    33 7 FLLOWING horses are being sent down from Class four to Class five. Egyptian Queen, Mr. Tin. Barnstaple, Trent Fall, Regal Aire. Ramillies, De-Win. Whispering Sands. Selopian. Musketeer and Unaware.
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    Arsenal beat Rangers 3-2
    64 7 ARSENAL, the English First Division club, beat Glasgow Rangers, one of the leading Scottish sides, by three goals to two in their floodlit match at Highbury Stadium. London, last night. There was a huge crowd of 62,012 who paid £10,--222. a record for floodlit football inside
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    BBBC suspends Billy Thompson and manager
    144 7 B sK monilTTn'H iTJZI BrUish VI Ii «htwei ff ht champion, was suspended for Both intend to appeal against the decision. yesterday. jiunougn mere was no official statement from the Board after a lengthy meeting, Thompson said that his suspension was from Aug. 28
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    'Drastic action'
    102 7 'Drastic action "I think this is a most drastic decision and I shall certainly appeal." he said. "I told the Board that as I was the manager of both Thompson and McGovern I thought it right and proper that I should remain neuiral and not viAt either training camp. I
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    U.K. SERVICES WIN
    37 7 Singapore Combined Services lost by 52 runs to the Hong Kong Combined Services in a two-day cricket match concluded on Tuesday. Final .scores were: Hong Kong 115 and 144; Singapore 117 and 90. Reuter
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    All Blues forced on defensive
    355 7 ALL THE RUGBY RESULTS SINGAPORE All Blues played a defensive game when they met Singapore Cricket Club "A" at rugby on the Padans yesterday. They were without the PoHce and St. Andrew's 0.8.A. players, thus being forced to field a weak side. The Club were
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    Airmen, YMGA share 6 goals
    53 7 Y.M.C.A. shared six goals with RA.F. Seletar in a second division hockey league game on the Y.M.C A ground yesterday. The match was played at a cracking pace throughout. Scorers for Y.M.C.A. were John Cooke (2) and Barton (1). R.A.F. Seletar scored through Ingham (2)
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    Mulley not riding in Caulfield Cup
    42 7 JOCKEY Athoi Mullty will J not b P going to Australia to ride Shaw Brothers' Great World in the Caulfield Cud. The reason i s that he cannot be spared from his riding engagements in Malaya.
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    YEW CHANG BEATEN
    28 7 YEW CHANG BEATEN picture. siop uus tirive by Awang Bakar uhic-h produced the fourth geal in yesterday's soccer at Jalan Besar. M.C.F.A. Combined XI beat All-SintraDore 6-2 FreePress
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    U.K. RUGGER RESULTS
    43 7 U.K. RUGGER RESULTS VEW Zealand Rugby League touring team beat Bramley by 24 points to 20 yesterday. Rugby Union results were: St. Marys Hospital 8, Cambridge University 18; United Services (Portsmouth) 22, United Services f Chatham) 3; Glamorgan 16. London 11.— Reuter A.P
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    EIRE DEFEAT GERMANY
    65 7 gIRE beat Germany by three goals to two in their international socccer match at Dublin yesterday. Eire led two-nil at half-time. Thirty thousand people saw Eire gain a rather fortunate victory. A draw would have been a fairer result, for while Eire were the better side in
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    SAFA JUNIOR CUP FINAL TODAY
    60 7 pATHUL KARIB will be at full strength in their S.A.F.A. Junior Cup final against Marine Department B.C. at J;<lan Besar Stadium today. Both Yasxin and S. Y. Ali will be back in the side, which will be: Osman Angullia (Capt.); Hu> san, Johan; Mahmood, Yassin
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    PICTURE TIP
    30 7 TRFE press rirtfirt McLeod's Picture Tip yesterday was ,a winner. The solution is Steel >n. r of race five. Solution to last Saturday *g Picture Tip is Evergreen.
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    'A drink with Stalin won't alter things'
    448 8 'A drink with Stalin won't alter things Morrison criticises Churchill LONDON, Thursday. \JR. Herbert Morrison, yesterday attacked Mr. Churchill's call for man-to-man talks with Stalin and saW: "You can't change Russian policy just by having a drink with Mr. Stalin. He is not that sort of bloke. Anyway, Mr. Churchill
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    U.S. asks Egypt to reconsider defencepact
    231 8 U.S. asks Egypt to reconsider defence pact WASHINGTON, Thurs. T-HE U.S. Secretary of 1 State, Mr. Dean Acheson, yesterday urged Egypt to "reconsider'' the West's offer to join in a Middle East defence ment. Mr. A told a n conference that no na should "carelessly precipitate n." ed questions the
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    S.A.F.A. to discuss Gothenburg visit
    95 8 S. A.F.A. to discuss Gothenburg visit gINGAPOHE Amateur Football Association Council will consider the possible replacement of Helsingborg by another Swedish team. Gothenburg, at its next meeting. The Swedish F.A. has refused permission for Helsingborg to play either in Singapore or the Federation. Gothenburg are scheduled to play in India
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    'PROPAGANDA'
    32 8 The U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Dean Acheson, yesterday described the East German proposal for free general elections throughout Germany to establish German unity as a gesture of pure propaganda.— AFP
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    FAILURE
    30 8 A United Nations Committee reported yesterday that it has been unable to get South African agreement for U.N. supervision of South Africa's mandate for the South-west Airica area.— A.P
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    CALL OF FOOD WAS STRONGER
    183 8 MOUNDSYILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, Thursday. AN 18-HOUR REVOLT of 1,308 prisoners at the West Virginia State Penitentiary ended without casualties yesterday. State Police Major R. W. Boyles suddenly appeared on the steps of the administration building leading into the two-acre exercise yard where the prisoners had
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    GANDHI FILM NEXT YEAR
    38 8 The life of Mahatma Gandhi will be filmed in India next year. Producer Gabriel Pascal said in Hollywood that Devadas Gandhi, son of the late Indian leader, will assist in preparing the screen play.
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    A smart wife-bwt old Wilbur was awake
    275 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. \IRS. Trellis Nae Peebles, a New York housewife, tried "sub-conscious psychology" to get a fur coat from her husband. She recorded a personal "message'' on a gramophone record, telling him not to be mean. This she played continually near his
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    GIRL MURDERS: ACCUSE A BABE IN ARMS'
    110 8 GIRL MURDERS: ACCUSE A BABE IN ARMS' LONDON, Thurs. A jury at Taunton court yesterday found John Thomas Straffcn. 21. insane and unfit to plead to charges of murdering two little girls at Bath. The judge ordered his detention in safe custody. Straffen was accused of strangling Brenda Goddard. 6,
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    REBELS KILLED
    43 8 During an intensive "mopping up" operation started three days ago, Indonesian army and police units killed 18 members of the subversive "Army of the Islam" organisation and captured seven on the southern slopes of Salak. a volcano in western Java. AFP
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    Odettes medals returned
    56 8 Ofiett. Churchill's medals. won for her bravery hi a Gestapo torture chamber, have been returned hv a thief who stole them from her London home. Her George Cross, her Wttatk Lesion of Honour, anil the D.S.O. won by her husoaiiri. Capt. Peter ChmrchitL m p«?;ed back with
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    U.S. NOT PERFECT DEWEY
    344 8 HARTFORD, C^nn. Thurs. NEW YORK'S Governor. Mr. Thcmas E. Dewey. said last night that the United States ought to stop trying to make the rest of the world into an image of the U.S. because its own government was net beyend criticism. American propaganda agencies which
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    PRINCESS HALTS THE TRAFFIC
    183 8 ■font REGINA. Thurs. DRINCESS ELIZABETH and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived on a special train at this home of Canada's famous red-coated 'Mounties' and traffic was brought to a stop by eager crowds waiting to see them. Mr. W. J. Patterson, Lt. Governor of Saskatchewan, greeted
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    THE SAINT
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