The Singapore Free Press, 8 July 1952

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    PORT DELAYS RECORD LINER
    425 1 40tn.p.h., but no berth LE HAVRE, Tuesday. TflK 1 ran>-Atlantit Blue Riband victor, Ame--1 s nvw 53,000-ton liner, the United irri\ed in Le Havre, France, yesterday ahead of schedule that trains, customs and dock>ide facilities were not ready for her. raged approximately 40 miles an cnots)
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    Acheson's talk not for public
    37 1 him tary B aent in I tade some the fact that nment was of the Amerita on i both enicnt and lich :.,i confiden- addresses in Mr AcheB ts far No Reuter
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    Anericans to salute R.E.
    34 1 -abrejets. flying close formation, will flash Rochester. Kent, on a salute to men of k ßntkih Royal Engineers. *neir appearance will be Mights of the *°y^ En x Dav Reuter
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    U.K. STEPS UP OIL OUTPUT
    124 1 U.K. STEPS UP OIL OUTPUT LONDON. Tues. GEOFFREY LLOYD. Minister of Fuel and Power, said yesterday the British oil industry was expanding rapidly in spite of the loss of the Abadan refineries in Persia. Mr. Lloyd told tne House of Commons that refineries in the United Kingdom would produce 24.000.00
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    Beggar pupils did 'homework'
    73 1 ISTANBUL, Tues. A SCHOOL for beggars where men, women and children were instructed in methods of faking crippled arms and legs and the use of crutches has been disbanded by Istanbul police. The school, police reported, had been flourishing during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
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    Let trained officers be 'doctors' of crime
    109 1 MELBOURNE, Tues. A7EW approach to treatment of law breakers suggested is that a court should decide a man's guilt and trained officers should decide the period of detention just as a doctor had the say when a patient was fit to leave hospital.
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    TITO MEETS MOUNTBATTEN
    47 1 picture. MARSHAL TITO (right), Yugoslav Chief of State, chats with Admiral Earl Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, aboard Mountbatten's Flagship. H.MS. Glasgow, recently. Mountbatten was "showing the flag' off the Adriatic Island of Brioni. where Tito has his official summer residence. A.P.
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    Speed the Regiment, Laycock urges
    194 1 Free Press Staff Reporter If R. JOHN LAYCOCK will ask the Singapore Government at the Legislative Council meeting on July 15 to give an undertaking that steps will be taken for the formation of the nucleus of a Singapore Regiment before proceeding further with the
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    Plea on visas
    49 1 Free Prefis Staff Reporter. MR. Tan Chin Tuan, the Deputy President of the Singapore Legislative Council, will ask Government at the Council meeting next week to Issue "continuous" re-entry visas valid for six months to businessmen who have to make frequent trips between Singapore and Indonesia.
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    POLICE SEIZE PHONE WIRE
    57 1 Telephone wires and seven blocks of lead, believed to have been stolen, were seized by Singapore police in a raid on an attap house in Alexandra Road yesterday. One hundred and sixty yards of overhead wires were cut and removed from a railway line near the
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    RUSSIANS EVICT 2 EMBASSIES
    118 1 RUSSIANS EVICT 2 EMBASSIES MOSCOW, Tues. THE Indian Embassy here is understood to have received notice to vacate its building near- the centre of the city. The United States Embassy said last night it had received from the Soviet Government six months' notice to quit its present premises. The Soviet
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    $10,000 FOR TRAP
    24 1 The American Humane Association is offering US$lO,OOO for a mousetrap which will either kill instantly or hold the animal unharmed. A.P.
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    Car costs higher now
    62 1 LONDON. Tues. TAX on running a popular make of car in Britain is now 78.155. sterling a year against 19.195. sterling in 1939 and 15.85. sterling in New York. Mr. G E. Beharrell. Dunlop's managing director, said at Scarborough. The cost is based on an annual
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    GERM INQUIRY: NEW VIEW
    30 1 Pakistan favours the appointment of a neutral Asian commission to enquire into Communist charges of American germ warfare in Korea according to reliable sources in Karachi.
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    50 1 picture. THE AGA KHAN, under a huge umbrella, is wheeled to a plane at Orly Airfield, Paris. He was flying: with the Begum to spend few days at Geneva, Switzerland. The Agra Kh*n is recovering: from a heart ailment. In the chair with him is a pair of crutches.- A.P.
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    Ike wins the first round against Taft
    433 1 CHICAGO, Tuesday. PEN. DWIGHT EISENHOWER won the first round in the critical fight for disputed delegates yesterday when the Republican national convention unanimously adopted a "fair play'' rules amendment proposed by the Eisenhower forces. Immediately after the rule change was voted, Senator Henry
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    S.I.T. pulled down 'only empty huts'
    83 1 S.I.T. pulled down 'only empty huts' Free Press Staff Reporter Only uncompleted or uninhabited huts in Bendemeer area, Singapore, have been pulled dcwn by the Singapore Improvement Trust, the Trust's Chairman. Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, told the Free Press this morning. He said there was no question of giving
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    T.B. PILOT SURVEY
    53 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. SINGAPORE Government Medical Department and the University of Malaya will soon carry out a pilot survey of the number of T.B. cases in the Colony. University statisticians are drawing up plans for the project. The survey will be confined to a small section
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    Yard man says: 'Our leg was pulled'
    158 1 Yard man says: 'Our leg was pulled' LONDON, Tues. OOLICE yesterday searched the Hoi. of Parliament for a bcma after an anonymous telephone warning that the buildings would be blown up. Just before Members cf the Hou-'i of Commons began to iixble, delectives searched the vaults where, on November 5,
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    Special robbed of $1,480
    95 1 Special robbed of $1 ,480 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE robbtn ransacked the attap house of a Malay special constable in i Cambridge Road yesterday and took cash and jewellery, valued at $1,480. The robbery was discovered by the constable at 11 a.m. when he returned to his home to
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    America's First Lady
    694 2 WHO WILL SHE BE? nno all Americans she 1 is "The First Lady". Her official standing is nil. But the President's wife takes precedence over all other women in all things American, and is always a person of consequence. If she is a great person in her
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    226 2 OORX today, vou have thai unusual combination of seriousness contrasted with a sharp sense of humour This te apt to make you a oenon of substantial and important ambitions; but one who does not take the burdens of life too seriously. Ynn work hard when you work
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    26 2 Here is the latest women's hat from New York. It is a straw crhioJ.ne, with Cupids bow trimming. Tne title of the model: Rings and Loveknots.
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    YOU and your FACE
    1191 2  - YOU and your FACE Kenn Passingham Does it shape the pattern of your life? Does your life change your features? Do men worry about their looks? Can you judge people from faces? This article helps you face the facts AS soon as someone comes into the news his face is
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    Why Should Nurses Polish Floors?
    543 2  -  ELIZABETH TEAGUE —IN BRITAIN That's one question u many a would-be n i uit to a great calling is asking^ and answering by hoki, elsewhere for employment by HOSPITAL waiting lists are long in Britain yet some hospitals are having io close wings through lack
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    RECRUITING WOMEN FOR U.S. ARMY IS TOUGH GOING
    108 2 T*HE U.S. Army li finding it tough going to talk women into uniform. A recent much publicised recruiting drive which was to have brought 72.000 women recruits into the armed forces has fallen ifirnominously short of its goal— in spite of hand-picked.
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      40 2 Solution to Crossword No. 707 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Across: 1, Separable 7. Broad '■aster. 8. Lefk 9, Beyond. 11. Employ 12. Amen. 15, Good for- tune. 16, Reflected. Down; 1, Shcwer-proof. 2. Pads. 2. Reaped, 4. Button-mould. 5. Eaied. 6. Ab?l.
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      143 2 New Crossword No. 708 ic IB CLUES ACROSS 1. What Fagin's boys were trained to be (11). 7. In which the Ashes should be presented (3). 8. Hostile gratecrasher, as it were (7). 9. Is this 12 the wear for a woman compositor? (5). 10. on her roses, roses" (5).
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    'Air eyes' uncover Reman secrets
    50 3 'Air eyes' uncover Reman secrets iphs which V n the A v! beini i i Oxford :rom Joseph, photoCam the dar on th m ancien buried w how air d w taint: wheat l1 r nt agr.cu s :n the fens v re also >hi also red ie a Reuter
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    Car drivers in Germany need armour
    31 3 Car drivers in Germany need armour M ■■».>». lu drive 1 ermany arm.th rea 556.000 are German nation's rocketed 13 in the increase. G( tnana and are very month ■vernment offl- A.P.
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    160th BIRTHDAY
    8 3 i^e. Inhis 160. h with. U.P.
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    GREEK DENIAL
    24 3 The Greek Foreign Minister. Mr. Sophocles Venizelos, i:a> denied that Greece had violated an understand- j in? with Britain by recognis- A.P.
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    ARTIFICIAL WOMB MAY SAVE BABIES
    140 3 NtW YORK, Tucs. u may so.ne day save babies lost now llh *a a K riates U would be sort of goldfish bowl, tiU-inr.! ICal fluids and k «P* warm. The premature f^«uiH i P e baby would breathe, and develop transparent boul. lung and
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    'KISS OF DEATH' KILLER WAS SANE
    490 3 Court finding in murder case W AS Muriel Bent killed b^SffiJlTSSierer who spent a day converting an ordinary table knife into a two-edged dagger? Or did she die as the result of an impulse by a gentle and aflfectionofsleeV" 3 man driven temporarily insane
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    REDS USE PRIESTS AS PAWNS IN TIBET
    260 3 REDS USE PRIESTS AS PAWNS IN TIBET Panchan Lama leaves Lhasa HONG KONG, Tuesday. POMMUNIST reports from Tibet said the Panchan Lama, one of the two leaders in the ancient Tibetan church-state, and now a puppet of the Reds, has left the capital of Lhasa for Western Tibet. v~ The
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    Royal colours for women
    121 3 LONDON, Tues. BKIT1&H women, as their thoughts turn to next yeir's coronation, will be ut.irinj gay. warm "royal" colours this winter. Dame Fashion has decrerd that predominant colours for the smartest coats and dresses in LonI We>t End stores this a ~»n will be coronation re
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    Atomic plants for France
    50 3 The French National Assembly i n Paris has adopted the Atomic Energy Development Bill which provides for an expenditure of 37.700.000,000 francs over five years to equip the country with atomic energy P ants, research stations and technicians. Only the Communists voted against tne Bill.- Reuter
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    FOR STAMP COLLECTORS
    69 3 Sump collectors will be catered for on the first flight of the direct air service between Australia and South Africa on September 1 this year. Postmaster General Huoert Anthony announced in Canberra that all mail carried on the flight would be impressed with a special cachet. Return
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    19 3 The international wheat conference will resume discussions on extending the international wheat agreement in Wash'n^ton on Januarv 12- Reuter
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    Woman wrote love letters to two men
    248 3 LONDON, Tues. ON the same day a wile wrote two love letters, said Commissioner Bush James in the Divorce Court In one to her husband sh< i wrote: "I still, and always will, love you." In the other she told another man: "I
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    ATTACK ON TRAMS
    28 3 Bottles of Ilaming petrol were thrown through the windows of two tram cars in a Tunis street. Four passengers were injured by flyinp gla?s.- A.P.
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    'NO' TO CLAIM
    30 3 Britain has rejected Per sian claims to sovereignty over the rich oil-producing Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf, which have been under British protection since 1820.- Reuter
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    BUCKLEY
    12 3 "THEY USED TO HAVE A MOTORCYCLE BEAT IN <U_ UOOKIYNI" l4
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    Farewell lunch to mission
    65 3 President Chiang Kai-shek gave a farewell lunch to the goodwill Chinese mission from Malaya headed by Ong Chin Sicng. 67-ysar-old tin magnate who started life as a labourer. The Chinese Overseas Affairs Commission in Taipeh is planning to cali a conference in Formosa in October to
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    JAPANESE REDS MAY RIOT AGAIN
    32 3 The State Department told Congress that it did anticipate further outbreaks of violence by the Comm ua ists in Japan, but said that thev may boomerang." U.P.
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    NEW ROLE FOR CALVET
    22 3 CORINNE CALVET appears in 20th Century-Fox's musical version of What Price Glory with Dan Dailey and James Cagney.
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    22 ARRESTED
    28 3 Twenty-two Communists were under arrest in CopenI hagen for painting antii Riclgway slogans en walls before General Matthew Ridgway, allied Suprer.e Commander in Europe, arrived.- Reuter
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    A bit of a lad met 2 gypsies
    344 3 LONDON, Tuesday. ALL the actors in a scene that took place in a fortune-teller's booth were in court two oliveskinned gipsy girls in gaily coloured dresses and a 64-year-old barman who, in his own words, was "a bit of a lad with
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    'SEND THEM TO CHICAGO -NOT AFRICA'
    121 3 'SEND THEM TO CHICAGO -NOT AFRICA' SALT LAKE CITY, Tues A 21 -year-old psychology student from Nigeria advocates that Christian churches should send more of their missionaries to Chicago, instead of to Africa. Mashood AdLsu Olablsi Ajala, who has completed two years scudy at Roosevelt Col- lege in Chicago, arrived
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    RECOMPENSE FOR JAPS
    46 3 The United States Congress has passed a Bill to restore to Federal employees of Japanese ancestry the seniority and time in grade they lost during the Second World War because of security measures against Japa-nese-Americans. About 200 are affected mostly postal workers.— Reuter
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    CONFIDENCE VOTE
    33 3 The Madras Stale Assembly has voted confidence in Ifr. C. P. Rjagcpalachah's Congress Ministry after a four-day debate, by 200 votes to 151 in the He use of 375 members.- A.P.
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    Bridge Hand
    384 3 East- West vulnerable. North dealer. (Cover tbe West aod South I hands) NORTH 4 10 8 3 t V Q OAK 5 I J 10 101 1 XST 4Q64 *J9? 10 9 <? J I 5 tj J 7 2 OQIHJ X\Q97 t 6 4 i SOUTH *A
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    $96 MILLION AID
    27 3 Mr. R. A. Butler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has announced that Britain received $96,000,000 of aid from the United StPtes in Juno— Reuter
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      225 3 Jigsaw J| ?c&MPErm@/vw cur this our/ You may win a prize! 1 First Prizt: $100 .i- ra« <*•««, < rM 2 Second Prizes it... 50 3 4 Thirj, $25- t 10 Consolation prizes of 10 (1 cam 24 be4l»H) In Hit event of many entries being «««al pnsr« will Hke«
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      47 3 Radio SINCAPORE N Show; her 9.45 I, 3. ,c CHHord CurI nne 'o B.SC. by Arscu&sei 6 Science R?--6.45 7 45 San--1 8 13 i Home M ate— 930 K C I Orch.: Pun>: ifi Lood Introduci reL Hin on reBE O lIJI 1145 12 a.m. Talking"
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, July 8, 1952. Private roads
    576 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, July 8, 1952. Private roads WHILE talk of an elect- ed mayor, elected aldermen and a fully elected City Council may rin^ bravely in democratic ears, let us not forget that the prestige of a city rests largely on its services to its citizens. In
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    Riddle of the Secret Airfield
    949 4  -  SEFTON DELMER ISRAEL IN TURMOIL Bv JERUSALEM. LOOK what is going on around Natanya, a prosperous little town. Or rather you cannot look. For a few miles from Natanya lies what is Israel's most carefully guarded secret and Israel's greatest mystery. Here in the expanse
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    29 4 A close up of six of the most beautiful gri\s in the world contestants for the Miss I niv erse titl«. tn on shore at Long Beach, Califor nia.
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    THE COLOMBO PLAN
    340 4 T O STATESMEN throughout the world the Colombo plan is much more important than the Marshall plan. It is a plan that involves the lives of 600,000,000 people a quarter of the population of the world. The Colombo Plan area includes South and Sourit-East Asia. In this
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    How many leave?
    176 4 MICHAEL ARNON, Press attache of the Israeli Legation in London writes MR. DELMER says (in his first despatch) "The fact is that already today, disappointment in the economic situation of the country is responsible for the entirely new phenomenon in this country's post-war history more Jews are
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  • The last U.S. Superliner?
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      Ship began an uproar
      487 4 Ship began an uproar NEW YORK. AMERICA has built her last Superliner —at any rate for a very long time. The decision not to go ahead with any more ocean giants of the size of the S.S United States" is the result of the bitter row which has arisen between
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      'Old Sea-dog' in Command
      198 4 NEW YORK. OLUFF. bull-headed Commodore Harry Manning, aged 55. is the first of the U.S. Elizabethans. A spare, scrappy old sea-dog who quotes Shakespeare and Marlowe at the height of the storm, an extravagant courtier and sometimes a devil below decks, Commodore Manning is skipper of
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      15 4 ENGAGEMENT. WEDDING DRESS RINGS U. S. de Silva 106. ORCHARD KOAD. SINGAPORE 9. TEL. *****
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      65 4 4ML II Hji .i BUI i BPll I m j^WB!afcp bS^Km bWSjimL ->- ~S# fe 4MB^bHP!b^BL iSC" i*'''-™^ 1 i^Bßtf^Vi THE NEW SHOP AT TIONG BAHRU Leave the noise and dust of street and step into the cool V* atmosphere of this new Cold Cleanliness is the keynote he: branches.
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    FEWER STUDENTS JOIN VARSITY
    175 5 FEWER STUDENTS JOIN VARSITY Free Press Staff Reporter VINETY.NINE men and 24 womsn one of them from Britain— will start their studies at the University of Malayu when the new academic year begins in October. This figure is lower than last year's, the Assistant Registrar, Mr. H. D. Lewis, said
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    CLERKS FEAR RETRENCHMENT
    199 5 '20 are already on the list/ they say Free p ress Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S temporary Government clerks fear mass retrenchments early next year. They have not heard anything official, but they understand thajt at least 20 clerks ar e already on I the "sacking list." The clerks
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    Rotary leader in S'pore
    155 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. S. CHATTERJIE, Rotary Governor of District 53, which includes Burma, Eastern India, and East Pakistan, is in Singapore in the course of a world tour. Ke will attend the lunch meeting at the local Rotary Club on Wednesday. Mr. Chatter jic
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    'TOOK BRIBE' COURT TOLD
    58 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Tues. Alapitchay, a Marine lance sergeant claimed trial before Inche Salleh bin Eckhardt in the Parit Buntar Court on a charge of taking a bribe of $50 from Ong Keat LfOng. of Kuala Kurau. At the request of the prosecution, the case was adjourned
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    HE WANTS NEW NAME FOR ROAD
    92 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. R. J. FARRER, a former Singapore Municipal President, has suggested to the City Council that Farrer Road should be renamed, as the road was miles away from Farrer Park and caused confusion. Council officials, however, said that no complaints
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    Service for Boys' Brigade
    115 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FOUR -hundred-and-flfty members from 11 companies of the Singapore Battalion of the Boys' Bri gade will take part in the Second Battalion church parade on Sunday morning at the Gimson School for Boys in Clementi Road. The parade will take place at
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    IPOH SOCIAL
    31 5 IPOH. Ti'es. Former students of the Ipoh AngloChinese Girls' School will hold their annual social at the A.C.G.S. (lower hall) on Saturday, July 12. All old girls are invited.
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    55 5 picture. THIS PLATOON" of B Company. First Suf folks proudly display the flag: of the bearded Kajang Gang leader, Liew Kon Kim, after one of the officers, 2nd Lieut. Hands, had killed him on Sunday afternoon. They also killed Liew's mistress and his vice-commander. Liew's death ended the battalion's three-year
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    Rural Board plans collecting centres
    107 5 rE Singapore Rural Board will consider setting up collection centres in the suburbs for the convenience of ratepayers, a spokesman of the Board said yesterday. The Board has more than 30,000 ratepayers in Singapore and the neighbouring Islands. They have all to come to the
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    Query on War Damage Commission
    176 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Nazir Mallal, member for City, will ask the Government at the meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council on Tuesday to state the total amount paid to claimants by the Wa r Damage Commission and the total amount paid out to
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    Japs keen on S.E.A. trade
    99 5 XHERE w"uld be very keen business competition In Malaya if Japanese 'traders were allowed here, Mr. Lim Ena Siang a Singapore businessman told the Free Press yesterday. Mr. Lim returned to the Colony Kst week after a three-months' trip to Japan. He $>dded that the
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    Blackout schedule
    140 5 gt STATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: Jalan Pekan. Aljunid Rd.. Sims Ave., Paya Lebar Pumps, Dunman Rd., Joo Chiat Place. Jalan Yasin. Jalan Eunos. Rangoon Rd., Towner Rd., Serangoon Rd.. Sennett Estate, Kolam Aver. McPherson Rd., Kim huan Rd., Boundary Rd., Florence Rd., Upper Serangoon, Yio
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    STORE SCOUTS PLAN ANOTHER 'WEEK'
    86 5 Frer PiPM Staff Renorter A SECOND Scout "Job Week" will be held in S'ngapore. Mr R§ E Ince. ihp Colony's Chief Spoilt romm'ss'oner told J^e Free enrteri on Saturday. Mr. Ince said he plans to discuss with the District Scoi't romrri.^loners when this .c*~ond job
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    NEGRIRIDA TO HIRE TRACTORS
    156 5 NEGRIRIDA TO HIRE TRA CTORS KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. SEMBILAN is to start a tractor project si--11 milar to that in Perak, the secretary of the Rural and Industrial Development Authority, Mr. D. C. Horton, said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The State Development Board would buy tractors and hire them out.
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    Factory for village
    67 5 p>IDA has agreed to build a $355,950 rubber factory at Gresek. Ulu Muar, Johore. A sub-committee will be formed in Kuala Lumpur to look after the building. The manager of the factory will be appointed from among the residents of Gresek. The factory is expected to produce
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    27 5 MR. FRANCIS MORSINGH, 25, a 1951 Queen's Scholar, who will leave for Britain from Penan; on Saturday to study in Oxford for his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
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    MOVED RICE
    47 5 PARIT BUNTAR, Tues. Chua Peng Beay, a pig rearer at Chersonese Estate. Kuala Kurau, v.as fined $30 by luche Salleh bin Eckhardt in the Parit Buntar Court and had his ten gantangs of rice confiscated when he pleaded guilty to moving the rice without permit.
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    Sewerage plan for new SIT homes
    116 5 Sewerage plan for new SIT homes Free Press Staff Reporter OINGAPORE City Ei neer's Department proposes this year to extend the sewer system to new housing estates bein? developed by the Improvement Trust, if funds are approved. This will add $200,000 to the City's approved sewerage programme for the year
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    More learn English
    66 5 STUDENTS in Singapore Chinese schools learning English are increasing everv year since Government started paying a grant to cover trie salaries of approved English teachers, said Mr. R. M. Young, the acting Director of Education, yesterday. Eighty-three Chinese aided schools are receiving the grant, approved two years
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    Concert to aid fund
    66 5 rmiENDS of the Con-, r Singapore, will hold a charity concert at the vent halJ in Victoria St at 6.30 p.m. on Saturda aid of the school bu.; fund. Admission Ls by programmes but tickets priced at $2 and $3 will be sold at th( trance
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    BILLDAW FOR A DOUBLE
    756 6  -  ALLAN LEWIS Second day of S'pore races By ]{ILLDAW, with only 8 lb. extra for his first start win on the opening day, should be equal to completing a double tomorrow —second day of the Singapore Turf Club's July meeting by annexing the main sprint again.
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    Horsesnot accepting
    36 6 FOLLOWING horses will not start tomorrow: Ladies Flame. Birchgrove, Springbok. Magic Oak, Free Entry. Guilty. Salmon Lore, Haoma, Gadzow Glen, Star Lodes. Bow Tie. Nero and Brilliant Marc. Quarter Deck is a doubtful starter.
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    AMBASSADOR IS A SAFE WAGER
    244 6 TAKING a line through first race form and handicapping. Ambassador looks a safe bet in this Cl. 1. Div. 2 6F race. Ambassador is penalised only 4 lb. for his first start third to River Patrofl and New Look. With these two horses out of
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    Sturveta will be a best bet of day
    348 6 Sturveta will be a best bet of day STURVETA, winner of three out of his last four starts, looks a good bet in this Cl. 3, Div. 1 race over seven furlongs. He won over 5£ Furs, at Penang, then failed over six won by Rapid Red. He then won
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    Even the horse is happy
    38 6 photo. Mrs. A. Gordon, Jockey Frank Flannery and even the horse, Billdaw, are all smil es as they come through the winner's gate after race five at Bukit Timah on Saturday.- Free Press
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    Payeur best in 'Youth Stakes'
    637 6 'THE race for Cl. 3, Div. 2—6 Furs, could be called A the "Youth Stakes." These are all newcomers three-year-olds. Lianda and Payeur look the pick of the field on track work. Short Hairs has not been seen much in training, but will run well
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    TOUR DE FRANCE
    48 6 JEAN Nolten of Holland won the 12th lap of the Tour de France bicycle race yesterday over 241 kilometres (9.156 miles) from Sestrieres, Italy, to Monaco. Jean Dotto of Prance was second, followed* by Pierre Molineris of the French South-East team. Jean Bertaina of the
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    Take Flannery's choice to win this 6F. race
    644 6 WITH Thaumaturgy, Inspiration. M a iu akl fc ings, Lord Dhoti and Flag of Peace M °«i winners, engaged, the Cl. 3, Div I-J4 I aM looks very open. Urv rac, Besides these five horses. Cobro Oh Pedigree and Our Friend all
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    WORLD RECORD
    39 6 i QTANLEY Syares set up a new. world hyrdoplane spe< d record of 178.479 miles per hour en Lake Washington beating by over 18 MPH his own j 1950 record in the same speed--1 bc\- o-Shon IV
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    SERVICE LEAGUE PLACINGS
    142 6 SER VICE LEAGUE PLACINGS J ATEST pore Association Leafw M MOR DIVISION P W t RAF 4 1 30 II X RAF 16 9 4 3 4 REME 1 3 34 IT RAF 16 7 4 5 RNAS 14 5 5 4. HMS Ten LI 6 3 t RAF RAF
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    Dawson KO's Len Dittmar
    47 6 Da wson KO's Len Dittmar \MERICAN NI frtw Knocto out Au*ir a 1 i a champion Len I in Ihe duled 12-round boy! in Sji* last night Onlv A p SM* and N« ou; D: won bv Hiru the fifth roui 10 -round non 101^ m. A.P.
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      122 6 MdndrdKß Exclusive to the Singapore tree Press in Malaya JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya WHY, DONT TELL y N- NO, Of WELL, IT'S ABOUT T| ME^^^BUTl- 6R- DONt' W^^D HE X(4S INVITED GEOQGiE COURSE NOT- HE DID!-HE CANT GO T WANT HIM TO GET If ME
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    NEWCOMER IMPRESSES AT B. TIMAH
    356 7 NEWCOMER IMPRESSES AT B. TIMAH Hioniti runs 3 in 371/5 sec By ALLAN LEWIS [JIONITI (Smith), a stylish black Australian gelding by High Caste, who has not v e t raced m Malaya, went attractively this morning when he was going better than Retinue (Russell) to dispose of three in
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    H.K. Ip is homeward bound
    99 7 H.K. Ip is homeward bound PETER HILL D bound at the onth is the :ple chamHong Kong. for the third I o blast r rst round singles doubles he •1.- his compttar'ened; he For an n 1 In and vou hope so m:.>hip of dcub'.es do le* c: ;n '930
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    NETAJI JOSE 2-1
    21 7 1 Sport* Club o goals -A FA Div 3A I CYMA ground I e for I.S C. N>taji.
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    TIGERS WIN 14-1 -BAKAR SCORES 9
    160 7 14; Kota Raja 1. 1( »rK Spwti Club's ace-entre forward, Awan< r was magnificent yesterday. He scored >ne (rand iloa i s j n Tigers 14 victory over Kota in the Singapore Amateur F.A. Senior League Jalan Besar Stadium. ve minutes wh eir only
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    SAFA TO AID YOUTH CLUBS
    82 7 T'HE^RE are a lot of youth organisations in Singapore that are doing good work for the community, and the Singapore Amateur Football Association last nuht decided to help them with funds by arranging an attractive fixture to be played off after the Malaya Cup series.
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    'Flame of the Midnight Sun'
    101 7 A FINNISH Olympic torch lit by the rays of the midnight sun is being carried by a relay of runners through Finland to merge its flame h the main torch brought from Greece The flame was kindled three days ago from the rays of the
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    YOUTH TO FORE AT WIMBLEDON
    292 7 A A AH... Got it! T<HE 1952 All-England Lawn Tennis championships A will be remembered for the accent on youth and the almost complete domination of the men's divi- sion by Australia. Three 17-year-olds shone as orightly as the sun that flooded Wimbledon's grassy acres
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    KAZARE OUT 4 SHORT OF CENTURY
    318 7 KAZARE OUT 4 SHORT OF CENTURY AN admirable partnership bet- ween HardstafT and the lefthander Poole pulled Nottinghamshire from a dangerous position on the second day of the match with the Indian tourists in Nottingham yesterday. After being 71 for three wickecs the county side finished lie day with a
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    WASHED OUT
    33 7 H avy rain washed cut the opening of the Irish Lawn Tennis Championship in Dublin yesterday. The field Includes Maure2n Connolly, the new Wimbledon women's singles champ'on, and Mrs. Todd— AP.
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    Weetman sets course record
    243 7 THE battle for the greatest golfing honour in the world the British Open Championship Crown began yesterday with the first of two qualifying rounds, half the field playing at Fairhaven while the other half went round the championship links of Royal Lytham. (Lancashire*. Most of the
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    BEINS NETS 3
    39 7 CY.M.A. beat Indian Brotherhood Soccer ites by three goals to one in a S.AJP.A. Div. 3A league match at Oeylang Stadium yesterday. Beias scored a hat-trick for CY.M.A. Loganathan scored a late goal for the Indians.
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    LEACH & BERGMAN
    18 7 LEACH BERGMAN gRITTSH table-tennis R'.ars. Johnny I.pach and Richard Bergman, yesterday defeated an all-Shikoku team flve-nil in To-
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    DOWN BUT NOT OUT
    64 7 It was a sensational match at Wimbledon when the holder of the men's singles title, R. Savitt (U.S.A.) was beaten by M. G. Rose (Australia). Photo shows (above) Rose falling during the match, but came out on top. (Below) Mrs. Pat Todd (U.S.A.), with mouth open,
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    Compton hits his 1,000th run
    536 7 CURREY yesterday consolidated their good start against Yorkshire, one of their nearest opponents at the top of the county cricket championships table. rr-^ Surrey brought their first i innings score to 285. to Bead by 148. Len Hutton (82 not out) and Frank Lowson gave
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    RUSSIANS BEGIN TO ARRIVE
    282 7 —And up goes an Olympic Screen A SCREEN of red tape was raised yesterday to I -^shield Communist athletes from We>trin before their appearance at the Helsinki Oiym stadium on July 19. Although only a handful of athletes technicians have arrived at the Eastern lands' I
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    Temperature of water
    131 7 THE Olympic Comm' 1 e prop:r fim? r.i'; wat*r in the swimming pool. The sponsor uant 21 ftm entgradc, whirh Hawaiian 2nd Japan suimmtr>, ma\ find a I on the coo! kid but v diravians uoulJ thri\ •.1 it.— U.P. NiTie flights v..-tlr and soie^d over li
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    EGYPTIANS ARRIVE
    21 7 til and OS, numbe'in* 40 pin arrived at Helsinki by n- on Srncay night for the Ol c G:.mes.
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    U.S. AID ONLY FOR THOSE HELPING U.S.
    357 8 U.S. AID ONLY FOR THOSE HELPING U.S. Foreign policy of Republicans CHICAGO, Tuesday. THE Republican Party drafting committee has charged the Truman administration with inviting aggression by pulling American forces out of Korea before 1950. In the "foreign policy plank" of their dralt platform for presidential election in November, they
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    H.K. TRADERS PLAN TEXTILE MILLIN S'PORE
    70 8 HONGKONG. Tues. A GROUP of Singapore and Hi.ng Kong merchants are going ahead with plans lild a large textile mill in Singapore to produce yarn and cotton textile scods lor the Malayan market. T.ie new enterprise will be capitalised at HK35. 000.000 to equally
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    Colonel's wife charged
    65 8 DSBADEN, Tues. Ax American colonels i it on rday cm 1 -S. i y and rationing reioas in occupied G rThe first prosecution .i G rman servant. i he acted as a black «t ao-between for her. herine G. Reed. buxom social leader of Weis- hen her
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    U.S. to export Buytl rubber
    32 8 US. Commerc? Dent announced it will e export of 2.500 long vernment-produc- rubber in the third time In overseas shipnthetic known ire cf i. j been peril
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    LAND FOR VIETNAM PEASANTS
    114 8 LAND FOR VIETNAM PEASANTS SAIGON. Tues. THE new Vietnam Premier, N'Guyen van Tarn. last night announced a sweeping land reform programme aimed at wooing landless pea* gantfl from Communism at the expense of the state's rich landowners. The Premier, who pledged to "intensify" the struggle against the Vietminh Communists when
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    42 8 picture. THE SMILING pair are Senator Estes Kefauver, leading Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the I'nited States and his wife. Senator Kefauver supported President Roosevelt's 'New Deal' but does not favour Federal action compelling States to end discrimination apainst Negroes.- Reuter
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    Spain ban was lifted because of 'economics'
    215 8 LONDON, Tues. ritfiE Minister of State, Mr. A Selwyn Lloyd, said yesterday that Britain has partially relaxed her ban on the export of certain military equipment and goods to I Spun because British companies are being deprived of "important commercial advantages." Replying to
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    He went quickly
    34 8 William Gallacher, British Communist Party leader, hurried out of Rome on Monday after police ordered him to leave Italy and gave him six hours to get out of the citv. A.P.
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    Mad Mike denies charges in Rhine Army court
    550 8 Mad Mike denies charges in Rhine Army court HANOVER, Tuesday. MICH-DECORATED British war hero, Major James Michael Calvert, aged 39, yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of gross indecency with German boys before a general court martial at Hanover. Four charges were preferred under Section 41 of the Army Act,
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    DANNY KAYE FAILED TO GATECRASH CLUB
    152 8 ST. ANDREWS. Scotland, Tuesday. pOMEDIAN Danny Kaye yesterday failed to charm the exclusive Royal and Ancient Golf Club in this Mecca of golf. The doorman refused him admittance after he had stepped from a Rolls Royce and entered the club waving cheerfully to a
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    COMET ON NEW TRIAL FLIGHT
    68 8 A British Overseas Airways Comet jet aiiHiner arrived in Manilla yesterday on a proving flight to Tokyo after covering the 8.344 miles from London in 22 hours and five minutes flying time. The plane—the world's first jet airliner— is expected to continue her flight to
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    KING FEISAL FOR U.S.
    23 8 Prince Regent Abdul Ilah of Iraq will accompany King Feisal II on a month's visit to thp UniteH fitatps—AP
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    Heat wave kills 40 in Italy
    210 8 LONDON, Tues. TyjORE deaths from heat were reported from Europe yesterday as temperatures remained in the 90s in many countries. In Italy the heat wave death roll rose to nearly 40 yesterday with six new deaths reported from various parts of the country. Florence,
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    A SMILE FROM RUSSIA
    32 8 MR. DEAN Acheson (left), I.S. Secretary of State, chats with Gen. Swiridow (right). Russian High Commissioner in Vienna, at a reception during Mr. Acheson 's recent visit there.
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    200 DROWNED
    25 8 About 200 Chinese died on Saturday when a sudden squall overturned 29 fisaing boats Only 10 survivors returned to Hong Kong yesterday. A.P.
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    FAREWELL CALL
    22 8 The Pakistan Ambassador Mr. Shuaib Quere'hi, paid a farewell call yes:erday on the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vy^hinsky. A.P.
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    EGYPT TALKS
    30 8 Mr. Michael J. Creswell. Bri'ish Minister to Cairo, ar.d Hussein Sirry Pa^ha. Egyptian Premier. met foi 40 mini: their firs: meeting rinct Sirry Pa, ha became Premier.- A.P.
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    OWNERS WANT NO RENT FOR HOMES
    53 8 OWNERS WANT NO RENT FOR HOMES BRISTOL L offer,,,. h free U) fh, < it.^""""! ■n a r. as nahlf W P»ir. ».n ft J" Per I; UUM or v **fc Pair it. M h.II hav. demolished and c th- oomniiidati.,n found occupants lor Repair con- d and n-ntv hm
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    SECURITY IS TIGHTENED
    13 8 SECURITY IS TIGHTENED Securv wartim trcducc dock pcss:: d£: hk poli< day.- Reuter
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    PLANE CRASHES
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