The Singapore Free Press, 9 July 1952

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    21 1 The Singaproe Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N( IS 1 59. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENT
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    TAFT IS LOSING GROUND
    608 1 Ikes forces may 'steamroller' convention CHICAGO, Wednesday. SENATOR ROBERT A. TAFT lost ground j esterday as the Republican national convention ended its second day. Gen. Eisenhower's forces were attacking and show ing every sign of making substantial, if not decisive, gains in pledges of support during
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    THE QUEEN GIVES THE MEDAL TO WIDOW
    95 1 THE QUEEN GIVES THE MEDAL TO WIDOW n Wed. I I il German-born win received bv tt Buckingham and t:on won bv her husband for heroism H rtl the i Fritz, came nd the ti \r- investitures ■ng Queen will i :^e Mej oA bandits I\OV OI children in D
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    Truman is adamant
    82 1 PRESIDENT Truman yes--1 terdav rejected another plea to change his mind and run for re-election. Once i- i n he refused to name his personal choice for the democratic nomination for president. Representative William J. Green. Democrat of Penn:nia a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. opening
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    MISSSING JEWELS ARE FOUND
    23 1 .-aid at .a. yesi return the police .ng hairaued r jewels on n an inI 3elgian I ring the
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    TERROR REIGN
    34 1 C\ mmunist rebels burned hoit?es. looted shops and killed at least two persons on Sunday during a four-hour "reisn of terror" at Daiku in Northern Burma, say reports reaching Rangoon today. U.P.
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    MALAYA TROOPS SWITCHED
    81 1 MALAYA TROOPS SWITCHED LONDON, Wed. THE War Office announced yesterday that the Third Commando Brigade will relieve three infantry battalions- in the Middle East in September. The Commmdos will come from Malaya. The Ist Bn. The Buffs, the Ist. Bn. Devcaisnire Re-giment and the Ist. Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers will
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    ROBBED OF CASH
    31 1 Four young Singapore Malays robbed Mr. Kee Sue Keng of $10 ?nd an identity card at 4.30 o'clock this morning as he was walking along St. Andrew's Drive.
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    CAR ACCIDENT
    37 1 A Chinese woman was injured and admitted to the Singapore General Hospital after she was knocked down by a car driven by a Chinese at the junction of College and Outram Roads, Singapore, this morning.
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    WEST BERLIN SETS UP ROAD BLOCKS
    221 1 BERLIN, Wednesday. THE WEST BERLIN CITY GOVERNMENT has ordered barricades thrown across roads leading to the Soviet zone of Germany as a precaution against further kidnappings after a prominent West Berlin anti-Communist was abducted and taken behind the Iron Curtain yesterday. Special police guards
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    41 1 picture 'SNOW came out of a hose to extinguish a blazing: aircraft when men of the School of Aircraft Handling demonstrated the fire tender "Nubian", the latest type of equipment in service, at the Royal Naval air service station, Lee-on-So#nt. Reuter
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    U.S. liner out for new record
    212 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. A MERICA'S newest liner, the United States, which docked in Southampton last night after her record breaking run from New York will try to beat the westbound record when she sails back tomorrow, her captain, Commodore Harry Manning, told reporters. Thte record
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    FOUND DEAD
    18 1 An unidentified Indian was found dead by a house in Queen Street, Singapore, shortly after midnight.
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    21 1 Concerning Panmunjom Wise Man he sayNever in the field of human conversation has ■io little been said in so many words
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    BEVAN GETS MORE UNION SUPPORT
    113 1 BEVAN GETS MORE UNION SUPPORT SCARBOROUGH, Wed. THE left-wing Labour leader Mr. Aneurin Bevan, yesterday won the backing of Britain's 400,000 strong Railwaymen's Union for his plan to cut rearmament costs. Only two of the 80 delegates at the Union conference here voted against a pro-Bevan resolution which called on
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    CELEBRATIONS
    34 1 A high mass for pupils of Christian Brothers' Schools in Singapore was celebrated I in the Cathedral of Good Shepherd, Bras Basah Road, j this morning, last day for the schools' centenary celebrations.
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    SWEDEN JOINS
    17 1 Sweden has joined the provisional inter-governmental com-mittee for the movement of migrants from Europe.— A.P.
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    DIETICIANS MEET
    21 1 The first International Consress of Dieticians, attended by near'.y 300 delegates from 33 countries, has opened at Amsterdam.— Reuter.
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    ON HOLIDAY
    25 1 Mrs. Winston Churchill and the Duchess of Marlborough have arrived to spend some time at Montecatini. a health resort near Florence.— A. P.
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    New bid to break deadlock
    198 1 LONDON, Wed. |>RITAIN was consulting with the Indian Government on ways and means of breaking the deadlock in the Korean armistice talks, a Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday. He said the British Government was also in constant touch with the United States on this issue.
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    Who tests army drivers? Thio wants to know
    179 1 Who tests army drivers? Thio wants to know Free Press Staff Reporter JI/IR. Thio Chan Bee will ask the Government at next week's Singapore Legislative Council meeting S! steps will be taken for closer liaison with the military authorities in granting driving licences to Army drivers. He wants to know
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    Best bets for Bukit Timah
    63 1 Best bets for Bukit Timah BEST bets today at Bukit Timah are Galway Greet, Payeur and Counsel 111, says Allan Lewis. He recommends the Hobbs-Flannery combination as the best bet all day. Lewis' best outsiders are Observation and Fifty Grand. His double tote selection: Flap of Peace and Ambassador. Trespasser
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    Warmonger charge
    59 1 NEW YORK. Wed. THE United States yesterday accused the Soviet Unicn of "warmongering" by spreading charges of germ warfare j in Korea and called on the Security Council to condemn ,such propaganda. Mr. Ernest Gross. U.S. said a Communist "hate campaign" was directed at the United Nations itself
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    60 SHIPS FOR JAPS
    23 1 President Truman yesterday signed a bill authorizing the loan of 60 U.S. patrol ships to the Japanese government.- U.P.
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    Steel, strike hits motor men
    71 1 DETROIT, Wed. MORE than 250,000 CIO United Auto Workers were idle or working only pan time yesterday as the steel strike threatened to brine, nmaxlj all car and truck output to a stand in a matter of days. Hardest hit by the fiveweek steel deadlock
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    Jaundice is NOT a Disease
    938 2 Jaundice is NOT a Disease {SINGAPORE DOCTOR] Advtses You I It is a symptom of disease JAUNDICE is a yellow coloration of the skin, the inside organs and body fluids. The condition is not a disease itself but a symptom of many diseases. Jaundice SJSM believed to be due to
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    "YOU, too, may be one of the MILLIONS who suffer from VITAMIN & MINERAL deficiency
    194 2 "YOU, too, may be one of the MILLIONS who suffer from VITAMIN MINERAL deficiency When tow're anaemic, feel nervous, have Any speiu, no energy for work ono appetite. *nd when your no latck that i^arkie, and "roaw ram4 brifciir». mi when vou feel old before your taaaa, it means «Aty—
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    SOLDIER'S NEW SILHOUETTE
    608 2  -  CHAPMAN PINCHER News to make the 'oW sweats' marvel By T«HERE is a break for fche footslogger at last. For years he has marched with a lumpy load on his back while boffins have produced refinement after refinement for the men who drive and fly Now they
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    Yes, It's Cancer... But It's Not So Bad
    516 2 Yes, It 's Cancer. But It's Not So Bad "It's cancer", said the doctor, and for 36 hours KENNETH HARE SCOTT was haunted by fears "like that of the lonely soul in the condemned cell." Then he learned there was a good chance of cure and in this article seeks
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    155 2 BORN today, you are a creature of moods and much, too much, inclined to give in to them! Yttu are sensitive to criticism and if anyone finds fault wi'h what you are do' rig. you lose confidence in yourself. You step aside and let ©iher* surge ahead
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      45 2 Solution To Crossword No. 70a y STEKDAT'S SOLI'TION. Vrn«s. 1 PickncKjcet^. 7. Urn 8 T twacler. 9. Mai. 10 Strew 12' Dress. 14, Ember. 15. Infant 17 Jjw. 18. Oran4flthtf. Own: 1 m pi'driJng. 2. Connne 3 (P^^nt. 4 C^v PS 5 j^fi 6 screw-
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      140 2 Hew Crossword No. 709 ■rr H H CLI'KS ACKOSS 1. 7. Tom Cuttle's nut Is sheepish «6. 7>. 8 Famous snowman who seems to object to 4s head <6> 9. A generous pniiijcian (7). 10. So a ram makes scents (f>. 12 A mere tit's become an insect (7). 17.
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    Stand-in Queen
    724 3 sday short story by HOWARD JONES «V| were sitting out s Bob's place i babob !><»!>, z light 1 our cards le, and >f strange happenThousand •Did tell of the Lobobo?" how the f Jgfe)/ up in the valley zJJSlinned a white woman." I never knew drink as
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    Fechteler to tour East
    49 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. ADMIRAL William Fechteler will leave here by plane on Friday on his first trip to the Pacific and the Far East since he became Chief of Naval Operations. He will go to Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Formosa. Tokyo and Korea U.P.
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    GENE TIERNEY LOSES JEWELS
    47 3 GENE TIERNEY LOSES JEWELS Thieves got at the jewel case of Gene Tierney while she and Clark Gable were filming scenes for their new picture, "Never Let Me Go" near Newquay. A diamond ring, diamond earrings and three strings of pearls, worth about $8,000 ar? ir.i>s'n» A.P.
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    Napoleon at the ball
    46 3 picture. When a fancy dress ball was held in Paris in the Court of Honour of the Invalides, Napoleon^ (Mr. Albert Dieudonne) turned up too and chatted with members of the Republican Guard who were on duty in full dress uniform. Popper
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    ALLIGATOR AT LARGE
    30 3 Police issued a general warning yesterday that an alligator was loose in Derby. The alligator, a one-year-old private pet, had escaped from the owner's backyard pond.- Reuter
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    Serbian rite
    36 3 picture. Ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, with some 3.000 members of the Serbian Orthodox community in London, was present at the consecration of the new Serbiaji Orthodox Cathedral tii London. Bishop Nikili Veltinirovic officiated. Popper
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    JUDGE'S BLOOD 'RAN COLD'
    237 3 JUDGE'S BLOOD 'RAN COLD' LEEDS, Wed. BEFORE sentencing a woman to 12 months' inw prisonment for concealing the birth of a baby, Mr. Justice Stable said at Leeds Assizes: "I think it is important that people should know what is happening in this island." He instructed counsel to read a
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    Bridge Hand
    395 3 YOU can figure out forty-sever different ways of bidding this hand more scientifically Aroon them is the artificial two-club opening bid that will permit much more exchange of information at a lower level. But the MCI remains that once North indicates he isn't busted, it's difflcu for South
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    A PARADISE FOR REDS
    536 3  -  R ichard O 'Regan by LAVISH villas, servants who once were members of the old aristocracy, big cars and royal meals this is how Russia's military and civilian "advisers" live in Kast Europe. In each country behind the iron curtain, Russian military men are present, in
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    Korea: No offer of mediation
    71 3 LONDON. Wed. MR. Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, has been asked in the House of Commons by a Labour Member what offers of mediation on questions of repatriation of pflsoners-of-war in Korea had the British Government received and what action it proposed
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    ARABS MEET ON ISRAEL
    38 3 A secret decision on an effective policy for dealing with the Arab Israel Armistice question has been referred to Arab State governments by an inter Arab armistice conference which ended in Damascus Monday. Reuter
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    13 DROWN IN RAGING RIVER
    51 3 A riverbank crowd helplessly watched 13 passengers drown on Monday in the raging Brahmaputra River at Gauhati, Assam, when a ferryboat overturned in midstreams. Two rescue boats, which put out in an attempt to save the passengers, were themselves swept downstream by fierce monsoon winds.
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    Anniversary
    27 3 Fifteen years ago on Monday the "North China Incident," near the Marco Polo Bridge outside Peking, occurred but the anniversary passed almost unnoticed in Japan A.P.
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    FREEDOM FOR 1000
    16 3 France will release 1,000 military prisoners on July 14 Bastille Day in IndoChina.
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      9 3 travel ea^ 1 i ">^ of the > So^ b«* JB
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      246 3 S*rJf;APOR£ lude; 6.60 From The Editorials; i.. npon f Montmartre Players— Directed 9.a0 am Schools; 1U News. Krein; 7 15 Vera Lyn n 10.05 Rendezvous with the [n Meefc with Tony 10.45-12 Schools; Eddie Grant, pa and DavW Eyans The organ; 1.30 News; 1.45 Luncntime Geor^ e Mitcheel Cnoir% Stanley
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    The red duster
    152 4 C°a£? ATULATIONS t0 the tK rr lcans on thei r liner the United States. wh«ch "San*? BIUP RibaDd of AtJan p In no uncertain manner at the first try. Ml 55*8 ™*d like to see the Quei-n Elizabeth, often credited with a maximum speed in wartime equal
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, July 9, 1952. Dead wood
    401 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, July 9, 1952. Dead wood *T»EMPORARY clerks in I the Singapore Government service are said to be living in fear 01 the sack. They talk of the possibility of "masi retrenchment" next. ye* f her or not these fears ..Is will oe is clear U
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    The 'Powder Keg' General
    1093 4  - The 'Powder Keg' General JOHN ASHWIN Once MARK CLARK has made up his mind he goes right ahead. ...that is why he's called "cannon ball' Clark. A penpicture by "(\UR aim in warfare "is offence and not defence". The words belong to United Nations Supreme Commander in Korea, 56-year-old General
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    A GREAT GUITAR PLAYER
    229 4  -  FELIX By I HOPE lovers, of popular music are not too engrossed in the rhythms of tomorrow to give a thought for a man of yesterday a bop pioneer. Gufcari?:. Charlie Chrtrthan, died 10 years ago. about the time tha: King Oliver. Jelly Roll Morion, and
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    POCKET CARTOON
    24 4  -  OSBERT LANCASTER by And mtt+m me to remind you. Signora, that this i> lite Cftvcitt Qmrden Optrm House, nmt tk* Centre Court
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    A 'Personality' Singer
    556 4  -  FU HSI BY npHE debut of this weekly column last week received a gratifying reception. One reader a Chintz (his lettar appears below voices the hope that ra^ selections will not be exclusively devoted to Mandarin recordings. Of course when I say modern Chinesr music I mean
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    Thank you Mr. 'Fu Hsi'
    197 4 ALLOW me to con gratulate 4 Fu Hsi' for his interesting article on "Modern Chinese Music'* appearing in vour paoer last Wednesday. 'Fu Hsi' serves a tiseful tWtanl dmtdosp in introdiic'nw modern Ch ne S e (I E^efW, Mmi^Hn to be precise) to n on
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    The Next Events 'Hiawatha'
    432 4  - The Next Events 'Hiawatha PRESTO Music topics by "lIIAWATHA", which n the Musical Society are performing this month, won fame for Coleridge Taylor while he was only 23. The music of this son ~of a West African doctor and English woman came like a breath of fresh air into the
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    DIMINUENDO for 'THE BOYS'
    581 4 DIMINUENDO for 'THE BOYS' 4 FEW weeks ago it was Debroy Scmers The most debonair of the band leaders had died. Now it is Roy Fox. A receiving order ha^ been made against *the man with the whisper ing trumpet". 1 j oiaer generations tht names came" as reminders cf
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    'I'LL TRY AGAIN' -SAYS DAVIES
    174 5 'I'LL TRY AGAIN' -SAYS DAVIES MR. E. V. Davies, the 1T leader of the Labour Party in the Singapore City Council, said yesterday that he would again give notice that he would move the resolution calling for a fully elected Council. "My motion was neither rejected nor passed in an
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    Blackout schedule
    181 5 gI'BSTATIONS liable to I load shedding tonight are: Cavrnagh Rd.. Coflyrr Quay. Victoria Memorial Hall, 1 M, Prince St.. Market St., Raffles Place. Malacca St., Boat Quay, Untoß Blilg.. Hint Pipe. Rheeru Ford. Bui Senf. Wire Mesh, P.W.D. Qaarry. Nanyang M'-K Bukit PanjaAf. National Carbos, Princess Elizabeth Estate,
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    Wanted: women for choir
    41 5 The Young Men's Christian Association wants more women to join their mixed chow which will resume practices or> TuesiUT nJ^hts at the assoctettnn hall Thn^p v.-V'n ?re able to either sopr^^n qlto, tenor, or bass are fnvited.
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    EDUCATION PLAN FOR UNIONS
    278 5 LCF.T.U. office in S'pore will run classes Free Press Staff Reporter fHE branch office of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions which will be opened in Singapore will have an educational programme for local trade unionists, Mr. Fred Dalley, a trade union expert, told the
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    Stenographers' Assn. officials
    57 5 Stenographers' Assn. officials New officials oi the Federation Government Stenographers Association are: President: Mr. R. Subramaniam: vice-president, Mr Cheah Phee Cheok; hon. sec- j retary. Mr. S. V. Vadivale. treasurer. Mr. V. A. Kandiah. committee: Messrs. Yeong Sai Wah, Voon Ngit Yoong. T. N. Oomen, K Ramachandram. D. Moses. Auditors.
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    Civil Service exam results
    49 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed The following have passed Part Two of the Johore Civil Service examination: A. Rahman bin Ahmad, Ahmad bin A. Ghani. Mohamed bin Haji Omar, Osman bin Mohammed, Syed Othraan bin Ali, Wan Abdul Hamod, Yacob bin Hitam and Zainal Abidin bin Ahmad.
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    600 skilled workers will varn cotton
    138 5 600 skilled workers will varn cotton free Press Staff Reporter A $750,000 textile mill is being built by a group of Singapore and Hong Kong merchants at the 9* 2 milestone Bukit Timah Road, Singapore Th e capital for the enterprise is HK$5 000,000 The mill will be owned by
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    COLONY MAY RECRUIT SURVEYORS FROM ABROAD
    133 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government plans to recruit experts from abroad to survey land for food production in the: island, said Mr. J. W. Ewart, the acting Food Production Officer, yesterday. The surveyors wer2 not available locally, he said. Most of tne swamps,
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    KLANG CLUB OFFICIALS
    72 5 KLANG Wed— Officials of newly-formed Young Malayans Club. Klang, are: chairman, Mr. Chen Sin Poh; president. Miss Ong Ah Poo. t founder > vie e- president Tengku Abdul Aziz. hon. secretary Mr. Lee Son Chai. asst secretary. Miss Rosy Lee. treasurer.. Mr. Tong Kok Pau: vice treasurer,
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    They want leave pay
    111 5 SEREMBAN. Wed. INDIAN school teachers should be given leave pay when they return to their homeland it %as decided at the third annual meeting of the Negri Sembilan Tamil Teachers' Union held in Seremban. It was also urgea that Indian estate teachers and committees of management
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    Transfers
    41 5 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. The Collector ot Land Revenue and Assistant District Officer, Kuaia Kangsar, Mr. T. M. Ainsworth, has gone to Pekan. Pahang, as District Officer. Inche Shamsuddin bin Nairn, who has returned from Britain, succeeds him at Kuala Kangsar
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    49 5 picture. MR. HUIN CHEE HOONG and Miss Lew Chui Fong, who were married at the S ingapore Registry yesterday. Mr. Huin is the third son o f the late Mr. Huin Kok (nor and Miss Lew is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Tai Sook. Free Press
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    He will study in the U.S.
    90 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHNNIE Lim, a student of J the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, will leave the Colony at the end of this month for the United States to study at the Butler High School in Butler. New Jersey. After studying for a year
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    Malavan Educator
    33 5 The Malayan Educator, the "official organ of the Singapore Teachers' Union. which used to be published in the Colony, is now beinc: printed by the Pen a n g Teachers' Union.
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    STUDENTS WILL BUILD NEW CHURCH
    138 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. BETWEEK 40 and 50 students «jnd other young men will work for more than ZO days to erert a new building in Pandamaran new irHage at Port Bwptt*nham. '"^ifor. Ther will *et no ftIVJ Hut they wW %et ***j1J«« wages," a sense
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    Improve these roads, says Amy
    195 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MISS Amy Laycock, a Singapore City Councillor for i East Ward, has urged that the City Council improve the private roads leading from the main road to Marine Parade, i She mac^e the proposal at a i meeting cf the Council's
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    MCA lottery
    20 5 The tenth draw of M.C.A's million-dollar sweep will be held in the Happy World Stadium. Singapore, on Sunday.
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    MILK FACTS
    27 5 Malaya imported 3.087.667 I cai>es of condensed milk la.^i year. Chinese consumed 80 per cent of this.— Singapore C ernment Economic Informa- 1 tion Bulletin.
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    10 Christians volunteer for church work
    132 5 rN members of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, have volunteered for church work, in response an appeal by the Archdeacon, Ven. Robin Woods. They wM become lay readers, Sunday School teachers and medical workers. Professor F. Mason. Y Kion e x Hock Hai, Chr Blake
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    New Scout troop
    45 5 ANEW Scout troop, the Bekok Bahru Troop been formed at Bekok. There are 23 Scouts in troop under Scoutmaster Bong Heong, an Eni teacher in the village school. Other troops will soc be formed at Gemas Bahru. Tomentah, Buklt Siput Kampong Abdullah.
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    ON PARADE
    25 5 SEGAMAT. Wed. About 150 special constables from 12 'es mar. i:ed through gamat town in the the Segamat Circle dri!' shooting e Uticn.
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    ONE PUNCH ENDED SUGARS DREAM
    642 6 ONE PUNCH ENDED SUGARS DREAM JOHNNY WILLIAMS sums up Britain's heavyweight champion gives his impressions of the recent Robinson v. Maxim fight. VOUTE heard of fighters turning on the heat. Perhaps no one' has done it more often in the course of an illustrious ring career than Sugar Ray Robinson.
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    110 6 i COMPETITIONS for women v will be included in the next world shooting championships in 1954 as an experiment, it was decided at the Congress of the International Shooting Union on Saturday. Women will be allowed to compete, mainly in the smallbore rifle class, but
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    RUSSIAN ATHLETE HAS TYPHOID
    60 6 NIKOLAI Kalinin, Russia's Olympic Games hope has been taken home to Moscow seriously 111 with typhoid fever, It was learned at Helsinki yesterday. Informants said Kalinin was secretly placed aboard a train last Thursday. Callers seeking to reach him at the Karelia Hotel, Russian headquarters in
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    REJECTED
    33 6 TTHE International Tennis x Federation yesterday rejected Germany's application for affiliation because one German tennis federation West Germany's is already a member The Saar's application was adjourned to the next meeting.— A.P.
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    171 6 By MATMAN AM ASKED wrestlers, Mighty Marvel and Battlinr Bonzo, take the Happy World ring a^ain this Saturday night. Marvel meets King Kong and Bonzo grapples Wong Buck Lee. The Kong v Marvel bout is a challenge match Marvel being the challpm Immediately ator M
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    69 6 T'HE annual cricket N tween Old B> Present I Boys of the Engl.. v Johcr Bahru. for the Lowe Cup. r©- suited in a tii.iu thi* year Scores and bowling xnalvses were ntesEM b<»>n b Po: b Ra:as.uKam 7. B j H not i Ei 1
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    22 6 rTHE first major group of American Olympic athletes and officials landed in Finland -in a chartered plane from New York.
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    438 6 By PETER HILL Dont talk to 59-year-old Frank Sfcerwcod about dishes! This former British jockey end bookmaker who claims he has won and lost about £50 000 in 30 years of racing in Britain, the Continent and Calcutta, hsus an version for them. And nobody blames
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    1471 7 Billdaw 's Blb.. penalty will not stop him By ALLAN LEWIS pOLLOW the Hobbs Flannery combination for a profitable day seemed to be the general opinion at Bukit Timah this morning, when this afternoon's prospects were under discussion. Billdaw. Sporting Gesture, Sudan and Parmiter are
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    43 7 SINGAPORES Olympic Games contingents departure has been delayed for 20 hours. They were scheduled to leave thi«r morning. The team will leave Singapore tomorrow at 5 am They expect to arrive n U ndon by 4 p.m on Friday.
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    JOHNNY GRECO OUTPOINTED
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    48 7 The following have Oeen select'ed to represent S versus ChiL^tl.in Old Boys Association (Malaya a- Malacca on Saturday: Yew Chans: C Kum, Ah Samijan; Hee Jong <capt.i. Yassin. Rashid; B Rozario. Ismail Yusoff. Ah Hoe. V. Roberts. Ibrahim Yusoff. Reserves: Naravan&n. Ha lim, Ahrr.a: Yusofl.
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    53 7 In a friendly encke: ruitcn on rhe Victoria School ground venterVictor.a School beat Ar.;:>- i Chinese School by seven wicke s. toria: 50 for three num 18 not out. D. Hay 17. Ja I tilal 2-19 >. A.C.S.: 48 tChantacial I 14, Lim Cheng Ean 11. M Laily
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    109 7 ROYAL Air Fore* Chantf beat Rcyal Electrical and Mechanieal Engineers by the only Boel j scored In their Se: vices Junior fixture at Aver Ri.ja Road yes- terday. ROYAL Air Force Teneah b> Headquarters Royal Army Service Corps by two to one in a Junior Leapue
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    191 7 R.N.A.S 4; R.A.F. Selctar 0. THIS, the only senior match played in the Siiu.ipore United Services F.A. League yesterday, was a triumph for Scmbawang, who held a three-goal lead at half-time. Centre-forward Leversedge and inside Dawkins each notched a brace of in a K tussle on
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    27 7 PHILADELPHIA. Tutt.s Kd Gav'an of Cuba k( pt lita world welterweight nitht by a tprhqictl knockout o\er GU Turn*r of Philadflphia in the lllh round.
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    100 7 Rest of soccer \IARINE Dti-.ranerv ir.i aTI Rock.it€s b> < go* Is to nothing in a &.A.F.A. Div. 2 i league match played on the 1 B O.DC.A. ircund vest err Scorers were Wahab 3. Karlm Iciios 2, Kam-s Eedoi. tartM •r d On-iar Wang mKERE
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    The pound is stronger
    84 8 LONDON, Wed. St. Rl 'N*o yes* sodden'urned strong against both" the United States and in dollars. Sterling in demand and dol'ars were i ffered in both Eurcp n ari North American markets. Against the U.S. dollar, I at the week-end was n to barely übove its
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    'MAD MIKE' TRIAL DRAMA
    575 8 Boy witnesses anti-British HANOVER, Wednesday. A STRONG protest against the "anti-British attitude*' of German prosecution witnesses at the trial in Hanover of Major "Mad Mike" C hert was made last night by defence counsel. Mervyn Griffith -Jones, who appeared for Major Calvert, said: "This is a
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    110 8 SQUATTERS TOLD: QUIT SHANTIES JOHANNESBURG. Wed. TW3 hundred and fifty African families living in squalid self-built shanties on •Reno Square', an open space in Newclare (the African township in Johannesburg > were yesterday ordered to quit the area by midnight tomorrow. The Johannesburg magistrate granted *an urgent application by the
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    India's C.-in-C. impressed
    44 8 India's C.-in-C. impressed I n d i a s Commander-in-Chief General K. M. Cariappa said in Lon.on yesterday that he was "much impressed by the first class equipment, latest methods of training and warfare and keenness and efficiency of the British army personnel." Reuter
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    323 8 'U.S. let victory escape '—Mac A. CHICAGO, Wednesday. GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHI K yesterday strongly indicted the Democratic administration's foreign 1 policy and assailed the President on the U.S. pattern of collective security and its empliasis on aid to Western Europe in his -keynote" speech to the 1952 Republican National Convention.
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    83 8 PARIS. Wed. TWENTY EIGHT members last night resigned from Gen. Charles de Gaulle's French Peoples' Rally and let up a new parliamentary group. The rebels had earlier helped the Premier, M. Antoine Pinay, gain a com- fortable vote of confidence. With further resignations likely
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    TALKS IN TOKYO
    18 8 Britain and Japan have opened negotiations in Tokyo on a civil air transport agreement.— A.P.
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    RUGGED QUADS WEIGH 16 LBS
    44 8 Quadruplets weighing; a total of 16 pounds. 14 ounces and so rugged that all were out of incubators nine hours after their birth, were bom yesterday to the bu*c» 35--year-old wife of a Portland, Michigan, carpenter, Silas Pinkham.— A.P.
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    257 8 w ao^to LONDON. Wednesday. r abouk Members of Parliament were yesterday J" given their leaders' permission to vote how they like in today s House of Commons debate on the incomes of the British Royal Family But there is little likelihood that any move
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    50 8 Avalanche hits army camp Thousands of tons of rock avalanched 6.500 feet down a 10,000 -foot Dolomites moun- j tain near Bolzano. Northern Italy and crushed a summer camp of Italian Alpine troops. Its roar gave the soldiers ample warning to evacuate the area and there were no casualties. Reuter
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    199 8 LONDON, Wed. DR. HOWLETT Johnson, the Dean of Canterbury, opened a small brown attache case here yesterday which, he said, was packed with evidence that the Americans were carrying out germ warfare in the East. The 78-year-old churchman who came norms on Monday from
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    61 8 Special plainclothes inspectors have been detailed by the Finni-h Government to roam the Helsinki area in search of any sign cf profiteering at the expense of visitors to the Olympic Games this mcnth. Officials say offenders will be severely punished and ask visitors to
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    78 8 HONG KONG, Wed. THREE -robbers" staged a "political raid" on the Chinese Communist-owne.l Bank of Communications here on Monday night. They stole no money but pasted anti Communist slogans all over the premises. After gaining admission into the bank premises the "robbers" tied up the watchman,
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