The Singapore Free Press, 7 July 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA asdfadsf SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN (IMS
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    IKE-TAFT CLIMAX TODAY
    399 1 fjsen howermen man attack on 'stolen votes CHICAGO, Monday. QENERAL EISENHOWER and Senator Taft tome up tor the final round of their bitter political baitle m Chicago today with the opening of the Republican National Convention, which will choose the party's presidential candidate this week. The actual
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    $***** bet on Taft
    79 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. rFH! PITSLISHFR of a b.. ter m a has accepted a New York Attorney's offer to bet $30,000 th tor A. Taft will lose the m t mi! Mr. Harry Doolev took up the bet proposed by Attorney Leo Gottleib. who 7 to 5
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    'SUPER' RED RADIO
    38 1 East Germany has announced the opening of a new super broadcasting station at Koepenick, on the eastern corner of Berlin which will be one of the most powerful voices of Communism m the world.— Reuter
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    NEW GRADUATES SEEK ADMINISTRATIVE JOBS
    239 1 A "GOOD NUMBER" of the University of Malay- students who obtained their Bachelor of Arts degrees m the 1951-52 examinations have applitd for jobs m the Singapore administrative services. The Free Press was told i yesterday that applications were now being considered and those accepted
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    India will remain neutral Nehru
    16 1 India will remain neutral Nehru 1 1 idia of :ons s to of -I V Reuter
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    ECLIPSE OF SUN IN JUNE, 1954
    11 1 ECLIPSE OF SUN IN JUNE, 1954 m the 't ir A.P.
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    French beat off Red bid to seize fort
    165 1 HANOI, Monday. LOYAL French units launched several small harassing attacks following a successful repulse of a Communist attempt to seize a fort near Hanoi, the French Command said yesterday. A communique announced that 30 Vietminh dead were left behind m barbed wire
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    Singapore wedding
    33 1 picture. MR. Iv. M. BASIL, of National Carbon (Eastern) Ltd., and Miss Mary Mariamma. who were married at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, m Singapore, this morning. Free Press
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    Peers had a surprise for Commando
    189 1 SATURDAY was a great day for Mne. Donald Bend of Number 40 Royal Marine Commando. It was his 21st. birthday and he was spending it m the British Military Hospital at Alexandra recovering from a chest wound. But Donald got the biggest birthday surprise
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    POPE WRITES TO A MOTHER
    44 1 VATICAN CITY, Mon. The Pope m an unusual gesture, sent a personal letter of comfort and blessing yesterday to the 88-year-old mother of St. Maria Goretti, the 11--year-old country girl who a half century ago died defending her virginity.
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    SCHOOL HEAD ROBBED
    160 1 SCHOOL HEAD ROBBED Free Press Staff Reporter TWO aimed Chinese last i- night stopped the principal cf the Chuan Bin School, m Kampong Tiong Bahru. Singapore, as he was coming out of the school. The men, one tarrying a knife and the other, a revolver, forced him «.o h m
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    The captain is confident
    63 1 S.S. UNITED STATES, (At Sea), Mon. rIS new American 53,000--ton liner on the third day of her maiden Atlantic voyage covered 814 miles at a speed of 36.17 knots. This is equal to almost 42 naval miles an hour. Commodore Harry Manning, her captain, predicted that
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    Nepal Govt.may recall Gurkhas
    67 1 Nepal Govt .may recall Gurkhas KHATMANDU. MEPAL'S Prim£ Minister, Mr. M. P. Koirala, said yesterday that his Congress Party is pledged to recall Gurkha soldiers now serving m Malaya with the British Army. The government could not act on it now because there are no rehabilitation facilities for repatriated soldiers,
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    CRASH: 8 DIE
    22 1 Eight people were killed when an aircraft crashed yesterday during an air regatta at Bron Airfield, Lyon, France. Reuter
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    JUMPED 124 TIMES
    22 1 Neal Stewart, a 27-year-old paratrooper, set a new world record of 124 parachute jumps m a single day.- U.P.
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    CABARET GIRLS' SECRETARY KILLED
    86 1 CABARET GIRLS' SECRETARY KILLED Free Press Staff Reporter MADAM Annie Chi:, 36, secretary of the Sin- gapore Cabaret Girls' As- s ociation was killed m a car crash m Crawford Street Singapore, at midnight on Saturday. The driver of the vehicle, whioh was involved m a collision with a stationary
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    170 in opium cases today
    82 1 1 70 in opium cases today Free Press Staff Reporter 'A TOTAL of 170 people i\ appeared m the Singapore Third Police Court this morning due to be charged with opium smoking and posse -iion of pipes and bowls. They were among those arrested m raids on alleged j opium
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    COTTON FOR CHINA
    15 1 Pakistan has sold 30.000 bales of raw cotton to Communist China.- A.P.
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    Rescue ship wasn't there
    164 1 T^HE CHIEF OFFICER of the Blue Funnel ship Prometheus denied this morning that his ship had rescued 26 men from the 500-tcn British freighter Whiteson which sank off the Para eel Islands yesterday He told the Free Press. "How can we be re ruing •>!e *rorrd
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    African civic guards raid 'Russian' area
    301 1 African civic guards raid 'Russian area JOHANNESBURG Monday. THREE Africans were killed yesterday when civic guards (an unofficial body formed to protect' the African township at Newdare), invaded an area of the township occupied by the "Russians", a Basuto faction. The civic guards were repulsed m a bloody, ash and
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    Swiss reject new taxes proposal
    50 1 The Swiss electorate has rejected the Government's proposal for raising 1.453.--000,000 francs for defence by means of new taxes for all and a tax on all drinks but i milk. i a The final result of the national referendum was j 352.000 to 255.035. Reuter
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    SHE WON'T WED ALY KHAN
    39 1 SHE WON'T WED ALY KHAN MILAN, Mon.— Liana Zafferani, a pretty 17-year-old Milan stenographer who announced a month ago that she had decided to accept a marriage proposal from Prince Aly Khan, said yesterday she had changed her mind.
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    He hit plane with rifle
    67 1 NEW YORK Mon A SEVEN YEAR OLD marksman shot at and hit an aeroplane on the wing with his lather's rifle, nicking the pilot, Dr. Robert D. Gannon, a Monticello dentist, who suffered head cuts as the bullet spattered m<tal fragments about the cabin. Police
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    First Left For Ephesus
    755 2 Cities of ancient civilisations m Turkey are making money frcm the modern tourist trade. says Henry Thody A NCIENT cities of past civilisations. flourishing m Turkey 3.000 ago, a today experiencing a new life as modern do htr-earners. Ruirs of the great cities of Greek, Roman
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    THE MAID HAS LEFT
    64 2 J BETH ALLAN wonmA i 1 red why every be direc- new film F Wise," wanted to her she received her hu?- office. Th? n she found out. When der pi ..er heme t part, M maid answer- i her one sentence of I —and hung
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    Tilting a Sure Lance
    62 2 Skill m the saddle and a good eye gets PC. Heal a bulls-eye as he gallops dow n on the target m the sword, lance and revolver competition of the London Police Horse Show— bELOW: Three yachts round the buoy during the Torquay Yacht Club's handicap
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    BANDY-LEGGED SOLDIERS UNWANTED IN EVZONES
    552 2 These Greek soldiers Mere among the first troops to fight Communism —m the Ukraine m 1919 WHAT the kilted soldier is to the Scots, the tall white-kilted Evzone is to the Greeks; and as Scottish soldiers claim to be among the best fighters m the
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    Two Fans Foiled a Bomb Plot
    535 2 Two Fans Foiled a Bomb Plot SPOTLIGHT on C( S® ceiled "Conn t loping info a vchr piohlem m WAsny cou where ihe authorities her effect on foutk FORTY per cent, of German youth reads "Kriminalsehmoeker" and other trashy comics. "Kriminalschmoeker" sells for 50 pfennigs, and dogeared copies are resold
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      203 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you have a quiel!y persistent nature which does not exert i stlf fully until y« u adjust yourself m the midst of an emergency. Then you show voor«elf to have a backbone of iron. But there is a change ab'eness m you and your enthusiasms
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      37 2 Solution To Crossword Mo. 706 YESTERDAYS SOLUTION. Across: l, Fair cop. 6, Part policy. 7. Nee. 8. Betroth. 9. Rummage. 10. Hud. 11. Corner House. 13. Chastened. Down; i Forced march 2. IVY. 3 fThnrtlA 4 Pricnn
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      146 2 New Crossword No. 707 ______P I pH p~ l R~l RT" -LLir_i_j J I3LB_Bntß_ v ii i H iirr _B_B_B_B_B CLUES ACROSS 1. Such things can be divided (9>. 7. He "airs" hLs views ill) 8. Vegetable that won't hold water? (4). 9. Don upset by Bey farther on (6).
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    Problem child gets £1,5000 damages
    15 3 Problem child gets £1,5000 damages J nt m a ned icious. ke a I he
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    'Cold-war wife' left husband to hearthrug
    41 3 lion. I A jand. btdJ 53, on m sleep husband upstairs it j the arei I ife's i she sleep i. He nd, later, i up on A de.vife the ta r e~ And his
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    Radar war on smugglers
    30 3 Radar war on smugglers •vfBO. Mon. c to use against J with us the at modern built It heck ilCeylon. i will jrtly to under the ■hnical Asfor South Reuter
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    LONDON DRIVERS 'TOO CARELESS'
    129 3 K)N, Mon. -rs cancar proi Nrt :oo and id Yard its annual report. c were >f them during 'There on the roads of the metropolis who cannot drive a car competently. "Others are obviously too careless to bother about taking elementary precautions to ensure their own
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    Controversial bill passed
    43 3 The Japanese Upper House has passed a bill to prevent subversive activities —the most unpopular bill introduced m Parliament since Japan's surrender m 1945. In recent months the bill has caused five nation-wide strikes and provoked strong left-wing criticism.- Reuter
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    HUSBAND'S RETURN CAST GLOOM ON SAILOR
    228 3 HUSBAND 'S RETURN CAST GLOOM ON SAILOR Ann k t. LONDON, Monday. 4 WIFE whose husband turned her and her young son out of the house m their night clothes' durinc an air raid was granted a decree nisi m the Divorce Court on grounds of cruelty Mr. Commissioner Newcastle
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    Visa ban: US to inquire
    72 3 W.aSHZNGTON. Mon. rE State Department that it was ''making »nes" into reports tha* ICn Yolanda Lopez Bautista. the daughter of the Philippines Vice-President. been denied permission to travel to the United States. Spokesman. Mr. Lincoln *c. said "we have no record here that any such
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    TARZAN IS MADE A PARTY MAN
    133 3 TARZAN IS MADE A PARTY MAN LONDON, Mon. I^EAR MISTER STALIN." aJ wrote Hollywood producer Sol Lesser, "how come you've got my Tarzan films?" Mr. Lesser. 62 years old, and 45 years m films, is on a visit to London. He told reporters: "Stalin is showing mv pictures m Russia
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    U.S. may stop aid to Denmark
    65 3 United States officials 'n Washington said they may cut off -all economic and military aid" to Denmark if she completes the delivery of a tanker to the Soviet Union. Denmark told the United States that the commitment to deliver the tanker was of long
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    31 3 picture. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON, famous screen and stage star, and Constance Cummin gs find something to amuse them while cycling m Hamilton. Bermuda, where they are appearing on the stage. Reuter
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    FARMERS SHOUT FOR LAND GIRLS
    235 3 LONDON, Monday. FARMERS have appealed to the Government to set up a new Women's Land Army to save the crops. Those lassies did a firstclass job during the war, Mr. Charles Everall, international show judge who farms 450 acres near Shrewsbury, said. I am sure
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    Famous lovers will become phonetics
    117 3 ROMEO and Juliet, some of the world's most famous lovers, are to become phonetic symbols m a new aeronautical alphabet. In a new alphabet for pilots and airmen devised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation "R" is identified by Romeo and "J" by Juliet. But
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    A-TEST SHIPS IN S. AFRICA
    56 3 Britain's atomic bomb test ships the aircraft carrier Campania and her escorting frigate. Plym. have arrived m Simonstown, S. Africa. Stringent security measures preceded their arrival. All vessels have been moved from the west wall of th? dockyard so that the Campania and the Plym
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    TIGERS KILL 60
    18 3 Sixty persons were killed by tigers m Bangkara, South Sumatra, durine the past year. U.P.
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    HOLLYWOOD PASTIME
    23 3 DABBLING m a pool m Hollywood's mid-winter sunshine is pretty brunette Joyce MacKenzie, who is being given increasingly important screen roles.
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    BUCKLEY
    9 3 t "CAN I HAVE A SWING. MIST£* f
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    Jet air aces become bell-ringers
    101 3 Jet air aces become bell-ringers LONDON, Mon. FOR 15 years the bells of the parish church at Stansfield, Suffolk, have been silent, for there was no one to succeed the old band of ringers. Now they are being rung again— by R.A.F. jet fighter pilots, led by one of the
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    German soldiers won't be hanged in next conflict
    418 3 BONN, Monda. WOULD German troops be treated as soldiers of war or as partisans by their enemies m any future conflict? This is an important question for the 400,000 German troops due to join the sixnation European army. Soviet Russia the potential
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    Students want holiday work
    74 3 LONDON. Mon. MORE than 20,000 students throughout Britain will seek holiday work this summer to earn pin money between studies. The National Union of Students will run 21 farm camps in '12 counties. About 9.000 students are expected to take jobs at these camps. Other students
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    Bridge Hand
    336 3 Neither side vulnerable North dealer (Cover the Kast and South) hands) V^OU are West anu 1 ad ihe Kin,? of spachs. East and South follow with mall cnes. What's your next play? This is one of the 32 aeals that were played mor or 1< s» simultaneously m
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    45 AFRICANS FOR TRIAL
    65 3 Behind locked slee. 'm the cell yard at Port Elizabeth's law courts Africans, including 11 women, were formally remanded to July 17 on charges of contravening the South African railway segregation laws. As the name of each African was- called he approached the presiding m.. trate
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    TAX PROTEST
    37 3 About 36.000 of Bombay's 60.000 shops as well as the stock exchange and all other principal markets closed down as a protest against the state's sales tax proposals m the budeet now under discussion. Reuter
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    PRIVATE MEETING
    29 3 The Iraqi Prime Minister, General Nuri Al Said P;> has had a private meeting In i London with the Minister of I State. Mr. Selwyn Lloyd Reuter
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      27 3 Radio Listening I rials 700 Music for Dancing SINCAPORE Victor Silvester and htsltallroom Orch. 7.45 Light Music, b.wu Q3n am Schools: 10 News;| Welsh Miscellany^— t Recorded
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 7 1952 A Vital Choice
    477 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 7 1952 A Vital Choice V the Republican m artg In America hold, their annual convi tir^n. Delegates have oe from all the s and from a. Hawal, Puerto Rico. Panama Canal Zone and the Virgin c will be 1207 of them »bable that
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    Church Versus Science in U.S. Schools
    951 4  - Church Versus Science in U.S. Schools O. H. BRANDON FjOES the American constitution allow schools to teach about disease-creating bacteria? Can one religious grout) demand the banning of a film that it considers anathema while others do not? Otis it compatible with religious freedom to make X-ray examinations of students?
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    42 4 Joan Benny, (left), 18-year-old college girl student, daughter of American comedian Jack Benny, is shown around London by Sharman Douglas, daughter of the former U.S. Ambassador to Britain. They are on the Victoria Embankment with the Houses of Parliament m the back-ground.
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    Pocket car in Piccadilly
    283 4  -  CARDEW By rjAY beret capped Victor BoufTord, 39--year-old Paris engineer, caused a hold-up of Piccadilly traffic when he beetled round Eros m the car he has made for the million. Drivers and passersby stopped to stare at the pear-shaped pocket motor-car. H e calls his runabout
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    BUS TOURS OF LONDON'S LANDMARKS
    464 4 BUS TOURS OF LONDON'S LANDMARKS LONDON likes to feel conscious of its summer visitors, and various organisations and public bodies are indefatigable m their efforts to lay on attractions for sightseers. The latest provided by London Transport is a series ol bus tours of floodlit London buildings, which was inaugurated
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    ENJOY YOURSELF says the AGA KHAN
    595 4 IN AN INTERVIEW WITH GOJICOM YOUNG VERSAILLES. BECAUSE he burns with an inner fire of energy which refuses to be quenched. the Aga Khan, who only last February was flown back to France from India dangerously ill. is now stubbornly fighting back towardhealth and
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    TRUMAN IS THEIR IDOL
    9 4 TRUMAN IS THEIR IDOL I A: i I I
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      14 4 SILVER GIFTS FOR TINY TOTS A S.P.H.deSILVA a^ high st s.ngapore. KUALA LUMPUR IPOH
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    TEACHERS' PLEA TO INDIA, PAKISTAN
    138 5 'Don tallowyour gradua tes to accept jobs on pay offered' Free Press Start Reporter [NDIAN graduate teachers m Singapore are asking the Governments of India and Pakistan not to allow graduates of their universities to accept teaching jobs m the Federation on the salaries now
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    AT DINNER
    39 5 THF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS' OLD BOYS' SINGAPORE) ASSOCIACIATION celebrated its centenary with a dinner at Adelphi Hotel on Saturday nisht. Picture shows the Assistant Superior General of the Christian Brothers. Rev Bro. Lawrence O'Poole, speaking on the occasion.
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    'IMPROVE METHODS' MINERS TOLD
    198 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. CHINESE miners must improve their working methods to combat the decrease m production, said Mr. H. S. Lee, president of the All-Malaya Chinese Mining Association, at the annual meeting m Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Mechanisation, said Mr. Lee. might be one solution as it
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    48 5 picture. A COCKTAIL PARTY was given on board the Indian Naval frigate. Jumna, on Saturday night. From left: Officer K. J. Karnik, Dr. F. Benham, Mr. T. P. F. McNeke, President of Singapore City Council, Lt. S. S. Vankat Eswaran and Instructor Officer P. K. Menon.- Free Press
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    Fed. builders 'can stretch resources'
    135 5 Fed. builders 'can stretch resources' CONTRACTORS m North Maiaya can stretch their resources more fully if they adept the block construction system now popular m Singapore, Mr. Lim Kocn Teck. a Colony contractor, told the Free Press. Mr. Lim was commenting on a report tabled at the Federal Legislative Council,
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    RAIDS HIT COLONY 'HOTELS'
    58 5 RAIDS HIT COLONY 'HOTELS' Ftrr Prt^ Staff Reporter 4; VICE squads of ,apore C.I.D. Welfare tarried out 150 n Colony hotels June. been the pace rs of hotels tc are comb tsiness," Welfare report. led out m •Service*. ns juvenile being the cid. 16 year-old found living woman who of
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    Scouts say: 'Thank you'
    29 5 Scouts say: 'Thank you' Chong. the -:.*nt secretary Associa- thanked thsupport to the appeal of the ti ,irn- .< from odd Ie xpand vnd to nt to them in Syd-
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    RASC weekends
    23 5 M n. :day nd a march by the -< b of F. holic hes bell at noon arters, Malaya. :nembers of the
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    10,000 'L' MEN WAIT FOR LICENCES
    125 5 1 0,000 'L' MEN WAIT FOR LICENCES Fre< Prees Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Traffic Police which received more than 20 000 applications for driving -icences during the first six months of this year, is employing five more testers to ?peed up driving tests. Two titers are expected to n work this
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    TRAFFIC CONTROL MEASURES 'A SUCCESS'
    187 5 TRAFFIC CONTROL MEASURES 'A SUCCESS' Free Press Staff Reporter 'TRAFFIC control x schemes by Mr. W. R. M. Haxworth, Singapore Traffic Police chief, have been successful, says an editorial m the Automo- bile Association's Juno I magazine. The article which attacks i Mr. Haxworth's critics, says: "A spate of criticism
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    U.S. gift for memorial
    132 5 Free Tress Staff Reporter ST. Anriew's Cathedral's $20u,000 War Memorial Hall, to commemorate those who fell In Singapore ana the Federation during the last war, will be officially opened on Aug. 29. The memorial will be a Christian social centre, a centre for youth work, a
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    Blackout schedule
    122 5 gUBSTATIOXS lialle to load sh< hling tonrght are: Alexandra Brickworks, Fasir Panjang. Reformatory Rd., Oxygen 1 a?iory. resronite. St. James, Miri Rd.. Silat Rd.. Bukit Pasoh, BAT Ma.'ayan Refrigerating Co., Trabfear St.. Anson Rd., Johore Bahru, Sago St.. Ramah St.. People's Park. Sanson Rd.. Lam Soon Oil Mil
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    They accept pay offer
    121 5 A PENANG. Mon. FTER a heated five-hour debate, the Penan B Harbour Board Staff Association at an emergency meeting yesterday agreed to accept m principle tne Board's offer oi a 50 per cent, increase m basic salaries, with a new cost ot Jiving allowance of 24
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    Dance to close Safety Week
    42 5 TAiPiNG, .ese Mon dance will be held *t the Circus ground on Saturday. July 19. to mark the close of Safety rirst Week. There will also be a demonstration of good and bad driving and trick motorcycling
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    JUBILEE FUND AID FOR TWO
    77 5 Free Prees StafT Reporter P^ 13-YEAR-OLD boy, who is suffering from the effects of poliomyelitis, and a Malay, who lost a leg during the Japanese bombing of Singapore, were assisted last month by the Silver Jubilee Fund. The boy was granted $85 for a walking
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    Woman charged with cheating
    62 5 TELUK ANSON. Mon.- Tan Chin Poh. 34, appeared M the Teiuk Anson Court on three charges of cheating. He was alleged to have induced a woman, Verathammah. to deliver to him $370 and Coi Beng Thuan to deliver to him two radios on May 28 and
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    Factories studying appeal for creches
    258 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE rubber factory m Geylang has asked i the Singapore Council of Women for particulars about the establishment and management of creches i for the children of women workers, Mrs. Shirin i Fozdar, president of the Council, told the Free
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    Boys' club may lose playground
    157 5 Boys' club may lose playground Free Pre«» Staff Reporter. than 100 members lof the Prince Edward Road Boys' Club will be deprived of their playground and football field when work on the extension of Shentcn Way to the Singapore Har- bour area takes place this year. An alternative piece of
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    Assistant D. O. transferred
    38 5 PORT DICKSON, Mon. Inche Mohamed ShamstickMn bin Mohamed Ya acob, Assistant District Officer, Port Dickson, has been transferred to Durian Tipus. Jeiebu. Pie is succeeded by Inche Wan Salaidin bin Wan Ismail, from Seremban.
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    Three fined
    20 5 KAJANG. Mon. Three prople were fined $100 each at Kajang for alCowing their dogs to be without muzzles
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    Dr. Vickers will tell them his problems
    189 5 Dr. Vickers will tell them his problems Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE Colonial Office and the British Mcc profession will be to<d about the shortage of experienced staff m the Health and Medical services of Singapore by Dr. W. J. Vickers. the Dtl tor of Medical Bepric He let i
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    Seven died at work
    100 5 j gEVEN workmen were killed and 303 injured month m accidents sustained at work, the Singapore Labour Department announced yesterday. In respect of three of the deaths $9,600 was awa ■by the Commissioner lor Workmen's Compensat Compensation for 12 par disabled people totalled $8,696 Among thase
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    GOVERNOR TO LAY STONE
    30 5 GOVERNOR TO LAY STONE Singapore Governor. Mr. J. F. Nico]]. will lay foundat, ne of the I Cross Home for C Children at Tanah Besar. Chang;, at 5.30 pn. tomorrow.
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    1764 6 Rides three winners to mark return By ALLAN LEWIS pRAXK Flannery who recently returned to Malaya after 1] years m Australia, at once made his presence felt when he resumed riding at Rukit Timah on Saturday, first day of Singapore Turf Club's July meeting. Flannery rode
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    74 6 FUR embers o. Olympic wrestl nz team three ci them *oki medal winners •ie 1948 Games al Tendonhave bfen ousted upon c. .n. AU were reported to have received homes af.er Loadon success^ oee ousted are: Ban'nm..i Akar Ator, BanGaxanfer BJge. Yasar Dogo Dofu and Ea rr
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    74 6 RACE FOUR: Red Wolf (McCloud). owned by Mr. and Mrs T H. Teo. wins the Class s—l mile race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. RACE THREE: Young Billy Bagby romps home on Bunga to win from Majulah Singapura m trie Class 3. Div. 5 6 F.
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    Rough play at J.B. Stadium
    420 6 Rough play at J.B. Stadium Indo-Malays 3; Naval Squadron 0. INDO-MALAYS, keen, fast and showing better x combination and punch m their attack, humbled the visiting Indian Naval Squadron, by three goals to nil, at Jalan Besar -Stadium yesterday. The big crowd, who gathered at the Stadium expecting to see
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    TOO NARROW, SAYS RUSSIAN
    59 6 Vsevolod Bobrov, one of Russia's greatest soccer play- ers and certain to be named to its Olympic team, returned from Finland yesterday after an exhibit. on tour and complained that th e Olympic Stadium field m Helsinki i> too narrow. Russian soccer field are 216 1
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    35 6 BILLY Talbert. United States Davis Cup captain defeated Atsushi Myagi. youns Japanese i player 6-2. 6-3, 6-1 m New York yesterday m the semi-finals of the New York stale lawn tennis championships- Reuter
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    SERVICES XI TOO GOOD FOR NEGRI
    375 6 Services 2; NfEGRI SEMBILAN'S Malaya team disappointed m their fir season when they went down i Services at Jalan Besar Stadium on On their showing, Negri's prospects i are rather dim. ViH n This disappointment m Neiside arose, not so much as a result
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    38 6 ROBINSON CANCELS TOUR arm. doctor ye *erd abandonir.' Europe. m Israel Robii Robinsoi covere-: i the h?at r-xi caused him c j£l har. champion June 23 Robi].^ meet A Africa m j Aviv on ing a Eun A.P.
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    THAUMATURGY IN GOOD GALLOP
    410 7 THAUMATURGY IN GOOD GALLOP harak also m form ILLAN LEWIS V (.John Manning) showed a urn ot mtti on the second grass track ikil Tsmah this morning to reel off three V iticdj on the bit. attention to Thaumaturgy's m the six-furlons: race for 1. He is a last-start winner
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    118 7 da/velttrda!,~?nL^ P 7 9 ne f Ma a ya'sbest known racin a drivers had vet another successful racing aay yesttrday when he set up three new records, at the Singapore Motor Club's ha 1 f -mile standing start speed trial held on the Lim Chu Kang stretch. Pen a Han
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    Indians are 349 for two
    25 7 am hit it the s he al «>■ 70 lunch c i :<to for mmt !-t Innings 14? 70 17 349
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    145 7 Cot: p :he ma nded oi Saturday art: D I Dtc Inn* lnn< Pt« W L -w 1 10 0 3 0 0 0 2 128 1-i 10 3 1 0 0 0 0 120 13 8 1 3 0 1 0 2 104 12 6 14 10
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    McQuarrie runs 100 in 10 sec.
    372 7 A NUMBER of Garrison re- cords were beaten at the Nee Soon Garrison athietic meeting held at Nee Soon on Saturday. Sgt. McQuarrie of the Ro\al Army Service Corps equalled the Malayan record ot 10 seconds fer the 100 yards. nal unit placing*: Ist
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    DENIS WRITES TO TEST SELECTORS
    145 7 LONDON, Monday. r |\HJE England selectors will discuss a personal letter from Denis Compton when they meet next Sunday to choose the team for the third cricket j Test against India beginning at Old TrafTord on inursaay wee*. Compton saiu yesterday: Tt is true I
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    SURREY WELL PLACED v. YORKS
    408 7 ITEXNINGTOX Oval and its nearly 30,000 sunbaked 1V fans took on all the atmosphere of an EnglandAustralia Test match on Saturday as Surrey, leaders of the county championship, took a firm grip on third-place Yorkshire m one of the key fames of the season. Brilliant
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    35 7 A team of South African j Indians were beaten 6-2 by a South African Zulu side m a soccer Test match m Durban i yesterday. The winners led 3-1 at half-time. i
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    WINS £10,000 HANDICAP
    54 7 DURBAN. Mon. MR. A. R. Ellias' four-year-old *lowgli (Kipling-Tix-all Lock i won South Africa's richest race the £10.100 Durban July Handicap run over one mile two furlongs 110 yards. Mowgli who parried 8.00; started favourite at 3—l m the field of 20. He won by a short
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    NARESH KUMAR LOSES FINAL
    31 7 NARESH KUMAR LOSES FINAL Luis Ayala of Chile beat Naresh Kumar of India 8-6. 6-2 m the final cf the all England plate at the Wimbledon law n tennis championship meeting.
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    'My biggest thrill' —Little Mo
    396 7 'My biggest thrill' —Little Mo LONDON, Monchr jytAIREEN ("Little Mo") Connolly, at 17 the world's queen of lawn tennis, left by air tor Dublin yesterday to compete m the Irish ih^mpionships. The new All-Eneland women's singles champion—she beat Louise Brough m the final at Wimbledon championships— will spend a week
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    SINGAPORE RACE WEIGHTS
    483 7 VyEIGHTS for Wednesday, the second day of the Singapore Turf Club July meeting, are: CI. 1, Div. 1-6 F. Bl!uaw 9.00 Cherry Ling: 8.12 Parmiter 8.09 Best Bet 8.08 Sporting Gesture 8.08 Rfver Patrol 8.07 Melburv Court 8.04 Gay Co-ed 8* Rising Glory 8.02 Sudan 8.02 Ladies
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    BRITAIN PRESSES FOR JAPAN BASES
    222 8 BRITAIN PRESSES FOR JAPAN BASES TOKYO, Monday. THE Rritish Commonwealth will press Japan ■fl the conference table for full of the giant Kure naval base and equal iment with American troops m Japan. r of eight Commonwealth representatives i ted to a United Nations delegation, prelim;:.. negotiations with the rernment
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    BRITISH REDS PLAN PROTEST
    39 8 »f«7 form when Ot B F Atlan- > here on Wednesral Ls his to Bnta'n s. :ig over the command I oral Eisenhower He will stay for s part of a generection of North countrl Reuter
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    Jet flight to Japan
    101 8 Los angel: I m, THE I States Air Force's first mass movement oi jet fighter ph. 9.000 miles across the Pacific to Japan began yeste: with the take-off of a squadron of F-84 G Thunderjets ior Honolulu. The jets— all from the 31st hter Escort V/ing
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    Jumabhoy wants radio telephone to India
    142 8 Jumabhoy wants radio telephone to India MR. R. Jumabhoy, member for the Indian Chamber of Commerce m the Legislative Council, will ask at the Council meeting on Feb. 15 that radio telephone links bet ween Singapore and i principal Indian cities i>e i opened early. Mr. Jumabhoy said he j
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    80 8 LONDON, Mon. BRITISH girls turn up their noses at the prospect of ■airjiat a man who earns his living hv the sweat of his brow. I i London marruse •ii chic. Mist M Blu r Girl irho themselves work m es. shops or domestic service want lo
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    28 8 Lady Parmoor. stepmother of the late Sir Stafford Cripps. formerly Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, died at her London home after a few hours illness Reuter
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    78 8 LONG BEACH. California. Mon. MIRIAM Lynn. 25-year-old Miss Belgium m the recent Miss Universe beauty contest here, yesterday reported the loss of jewellery worth $5,000 and other valuables. She said they were stolen while she wacompeting m the contest. MLss Lynn told the police she left
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    25 8 The Voice of Anerica will report the Republican and Democratic conventions to t overseas listeners as an "example of democratic aci tion.' A.P.
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    285 8 'We 'll protect our neighbours '-Tito BELGRADE, Monday. MARSHAL TITO suggested yesterday that Yugoslavia would help defend Greece and Turkey if they were attacked but declined to negotiate any formal pacts o r to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He made a 60-aiinute speech before 150.000 people at the
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    POLICE FIGHT JAP REDS
    45 8 picture. STEEL HELMETLD Japanese police struggle with a demonstrator m the recent Communist riots m Tokyo. Police used tear gas and clubs against the mob who hurled acid and fire bombs. More than 60 police and 50 demonstrators were hurt. A.P.
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    THEY WOULD NOT LET HIM GO
    522 8 800 sang with Peers and— OVER 800 servicemen and families gave British singer Donald Peers one of the most rousing receptions of his Malayan tour at the Singapore Volunteer Corps Drill Hall, Beach Road, Singapore, on Saturday night. Mono; with Donald Phillips (accompanist). Bert
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    SHIP SINKS IN COLLISION
    37 8 The 70-ton Norwegian fishing ressei, Baken. £-ank early yesterday morning off the feast Coast of Iceland after being m collision with the 355-ton British trawler. The Norwegian vessel's nine crew were saved.- Reuter
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    BONN TALKS TO END SOON
    31 8 A German Foreign Office spokesman predicted yesterday that West Germany's reparations negotiations with Israel and the world Jewish organisations would be satisfactorily settled this month. A.P.
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    Specialist will decide King's future
    189 8 Specialist will decide King's future Beirut. M«m. rE Jordan Government has asked all Us legations abroad to help :n the selection o: a psych be brought to Amman to examine Kmg Talal. The spec. on the mental health of the King will determine whether he is full power or ded
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    MORE AID FOR YUGOSLAVIA
    31 8 The United States, Britain and Fance. this week, will present the Yugoslav Govi einment with an aide memo- ire on future aid they plan for Yugoslavia.- Reuter
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    COMPULSORY
    30 8 The West Berlin newspaper, j Teiegraf, reported* the East Zone Communist Government has put into effect sweeping decrees making virtually every fit East German liable for compulsory labour. A.P.
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    JUDY WANTS TO STAY IN U.S.A.
    191 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. MISS Hong Kong," spending the weekend here as guest of the Chinese American alliance, said she did not miss Hong Kong a bit. "I hope I can stay In America. Everybody here is so kind so friendly," said Miss Judy Dan.
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    Mother wrote girl's love letters
    316 8 M)\lK)\ v A SOLDIER who wrote love letters I day girl got replies signed Mary ij MN by the girl's mother- for Mary i dIL* I'^1 When the couple went t 0 the cinerr sister or mother went with them. When they married, the soldier
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    39 8 The Foreign Office nounced yesterc. Foreign Secretary. Mr. I Ls making good J after his recent attack of jaundice. The Duke of Edinbualso suffering from jaundice, was reported making good progress a few days ago.— Reuter
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    9 8 NEW MAJLIS NAMES DR. M. PREMIER I session votes.
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