The Singapore Free Press, 16 July 1952

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ty.gl SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1552. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 473 1 15 Democrats hope 'lightning will strike' CHICAGO, Wednesday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN passed word yesterday lhat he would not accept renomination at next week's Democratic National Convention because he does not want to be "carried out of the White House m a pine box." The President's flat decision
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  • 46 1 Evicted rank No. 1 for new homes Reporter Government preference to ssessed r>n the proJ. A. nlssloner of Press he moget the of acres n the r.d. _> done, allocaI I not be a ill be gone added is .ad Offic- Council ernpiec of be required approved
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  • 39 1 Bid to end U.S. steel strike fails GH. Wed. to end the :>wide i rday and Steelworkers I Wage next week Q*s future ..ition of Mr. Murray 'ate lhat g steel dispute solved." dtchned to ac break h U.P
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  • 111 1 NEW YORK. Wed. G\ N Dwight Eisenhower looked forward eager1> yesterday to a trout fishing holiday and perhaps some golf before turning full attention to lons, hard campaign" as the Republican presidential nominee. The General and Mrs. Eisenhower arrived at Denver. Colorado,
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  • 15 1 r ft! Gillre it .ed at -2 from :i no evidence oroken open.
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  • 60 1 LONDON. Wed. RUSSIA was warned yesterday that British security re are watching Russian Embassy men said to be indaf.n 2 refugees to return to Russia. Lord Reading. British Foreign Under-Secretary. said m the House of Lords the Government was aware the embassy had tried to induce
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  • 104 1 BRITAIN FIRM ON SUDAN LONDON. Wed. BRITAIN has emphatically reaffirmed m Washington her standpoint on the status of the Sudan. It was restated yesterday by the British Ambassador, Sir Oliver Franks, m his talk with the Secretary of State Mr. Acheson. A Foreign Office spokesman discounting reports that the United
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  • 41 1 Mrs. Donald Maclean, Am-erican-born wife of the missing British diplomat .told the Foreign Office yesterday that she may move permanently with her three children from Britain to France or Switzerland to escape the slare of publicity. A. P
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  • 225 1 Crucial court papers vanish ROME, Wednesday. POUNT EITORE DE LA ZONCA, Italian organiser of the first attempt to export nationalised Persian oil. m defiance of the British-owned Anglofranian Oil Company, said yesterday that documents" m the legal battle starting today m Aden over the tanker, Rose Mary, had disappeared. He
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  • 115 1 SAN MARINO, Wed. TINY San Marino is appealin* to the "high sense of justice" of the Queen to settle the Republic's war claims against Zn?land. Mr C T Ewan, San Marino's Consul-General m London, yesterday notified his gov- ernment h e wiH personally deliver
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  • 30 1 ty.gyllg HERBERT HOOVER, America's only living former president, waves from the rostrum as cheering delegates parade with state banners before him at the Republican National Convention session- A.P
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  • 209 1 HINT BY U.S. ARMY CHIEF SEOUL, Wednesday. THE U.S. Army chief of staff, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, hinted strongly yesterday that the Allies are ready to use an atomic weapon, if necessary, to prevent the Reds from driving them out of Korea. The general
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  • 89 1 BOLIVIAN TIN OFFER TO U.S. WASHINGTON, Wed. ATWO-year contract for the entire tin production of Bolivia at U.S. $12iy 2 cents a pound has been offered to the United States Reconstruction Finance Corporation the sole American buying agency. Mr. Leon Henderson, economist and former U.S. Government offi cial, said he
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  • 50 1 HONG KONG. Wed. THE Chinese Communists are suffering another setback m their control of trades unions here. A large number of the members of the Com-munist-controlled South China Movie Workers Union have announced their intention to quit the union and form their own free union. U.P
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  • 63 1 BERNE. Wed. PROFESSOR Andre Bonnard. who was caught jarryiog documents attacking the International! Red Cross m Russia's germ warfare propaganda against the United States, was charged with espionage yesterday. Bonnard, professor of literature at the University of Lausanne, is chairman '>f the Swiss branch of the
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  • 31 1 Lieut.-Col. Elmer Darosa. U.S. air force Pilot, was killed on Monday when his Tnunderjet fighter exploded over Iwojima on a mass jet flight to the Far East. U.P
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  • 177 1 Free Press Staff Reporter T*HE Singapore Improvement Trust has amended its points system of determining priority to applicants for Trust housing. The amendment will afTect applicants suffering from tuberculosis, and m cases of overcrowding. In the past the Trust awarded three points for T.B.
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  • 90 1 Slain girl feared thin man— report NEW YORK. Wed. |>OLICE began searching 1 yesterday for a bus driver who may have shot to death the pretty 18-year-old secretary at her Columbia University desk on Monday. because she repulsed his advances. Eileen Fahey died instantly from six bullets fired at her
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  • 26 1 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, pioneer m jet aircraft engines, will resign his post as honorary jet advisr to British Overseas Alnrayi on Saturday.
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  • 133 1 LONDON. Wed. A LABOUR M.P. said yesterJ\ day there were n?any eligible bachelors m Britain and he hopes Princess Margaret will marry a Briton and not a foreigner. Richard Stokes, former Lord Privy Sea', expressed his wish m debating: the Royal Family civil list which gives
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  • 50 1 SIX TRY FOR SWIM RECORD FOLKESTONE. land. Wed— Six Egyptians will attempt to set a new English Channel relay swim record frcm England to France today. The existing record is held by an Egyptian team 11 hours 11 minutes but today the Egyptians' hope to cross nbcut 10 hours. U.P
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  • The SINGAPORE DOCTOR Advises You
    • 749 2 /APIUM, the dried juice of unripe white poppy shells, is smoked mainly where it grows from the Mediterran; across to the China Sea. including: Turkey. Persia. Nortnern India and China. And from this part of the world the opium habit has spread, through direct contact
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    27 2 L Cpl. Evelyn Hunt, a brave Territorial, is assisted by W.R.A.C. Captain Audrey Wing as she signs on for 22 years* service m the W.R.A.C. m London
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  • 794 2  - Condemned Miner Lives 0n James Lessor Can Faith Heal? By rPHE night a stranger knocked at the door of a miner's home m a Welsh village was the night when death retreated and hope moved m. James Bishop, the son of a miner, was lying ill m bed. He had
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  • 619 2 'HUMAN' WOODEN LEG From A v stria ANEW freedom v a vigorous outdoor life for five million disabled persons who have lost one or both legs m battle or m accidents j will now be available to all if a completely new. revolutionary artificial limb is adopted throughout the world.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 226 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, >ou definitely have a duel nature. You combine the introspective dreamer with the self-reliant individual of action. The only trouble is that no one least of all yourself— seems to be able to tell m advance, which "self" you will be on any particular day!
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    • 152 2 New Crossword No. 71 5 n^^BßHf B ii!3Bl BHh ill* i i ■m^ i I i I I i j j CLUES ACROSS 1. This precludes all voluntary effort (10). 8. Naturally describes the haste of the untamed (7, 4). 9. Nat groped for his sponsor (9). 11. Good living
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    • 41 2 Solution To Crossword Ho. 714 YESTERDAY'S WMX'nOV Across: l. Back* up. 5. £o<p bubhJ«s. 1. Llkeir. i& 10. Leek. 11; Tod*u<>.j '13. Ctppei plaie.^ 13. Retrk'a/t I? own 1. Black; pepper. 2. Cutyii. n^ Scbs. 1 4. Pafac? *G«rrtr ?>. Sdlt^tfc. 6.
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  • 378 3 RETURN OF HONGKONG lIONC KOVf NG KONG Wednesday. JONG KOM,, on the doorstep of an unfriendly will eventually demand the 'return- of the ToZv The Communists obviously regard the colony as a running sore m the side of China," as onl observer put it. According to a
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  • 73 3 BIRDLIKE WHISTLES UPSET TWO SUN GIRLS RON, Wed. up to a Brighton 1 that oo while they a the H race or. was Beef he said rumbs c produced m from his pocket > pleaded not rharge of using an ture en the annoyance of Evidence *as given by the
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  • 29 3 Communist attack in South Annam GON. Wed. 4 Vietminh A s be start umn Ucoq V tnaupper aprt to the Fourth Fou: ded tc on •-i'-.Q -:d rebe. U.P
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  • 15 3 Two anti-lccust helicopter* orcered to attack ag ever c govtfa Sind Province. Reuter
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  • 23 3 Major-General. A. P. Kislenka. former chief of the Soviet minion m Japan has left by train for Canton enroute to Russia. U.P
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  • 55 3 M Si van of Lttdlcic. Shropshire, was such tei official of the Postal Service that he was en to attend a course on detec J; nn of forgBack at his post office, he *n"ie use of hi" training i for himself. At Birmingham Assizes re'o prison for
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  • 146 3 When a bulldog and a spaniel fought a small terrier. LONDON, Wed. r'O dogs, a bulldog and a spaniel, were fighting a small terrier. The bulldog and spaniel belonged to William Francis Bole, aged 22. and his father. And this is what happened, according to Mr. Lan Ha«lstt. prosecuting at
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  • 176 3 ALLOW WIVES TO HELP THE NURSES LONDON, Wed. WIVES should be allowed to go to hospitals and help nur.se their husbands. Viscounter Ridley has suggested to the Royal College of Nursing m London. Lady Ridley, a member of the North-East Regional Hospital Board listed patients' complaints: That they are wakened
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  • 42 3 Mr. Francis Wu, one of the Hong Kong's best-known professional photographers, is leaving for the United States today on a lecture tour at the invitation of the Photographic Society of America and the Photographers' Asso- elation of America. Reuter AAP
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  • 26 3 President Truman has signed a bill to continue the suspension of import duties on scrap metals, exceot lead, until Jun 2 1^53. U.P
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  • 83 3 ELIZABETH TAYLOR, wearing a poodle haircut and a matching print dress, held her pet French poodle Gee-Gee on her lap when she posed for this picture. But Gee- Gee was obviously quite bored by it all. Elizabeth, who married Michael Wilding, was recently m London where Wilding
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  • 33 3 Nazmuddin Ahmad, 28--year-old Pakistan army officer on the staff of the High Commissioner for Pakistan m London. was found dead near a gas fire m his hotel bedroom. Reuter
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  • 76 3 The development of a new bomb casing which will en- j able planes carrying it ex- ternally to fly 50 miles an boar faster than with the older type was announced j at El Segundo, California, by j the United States Navy, says Router. The casing, formed
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  • 441 3 He tried to save her M LONDON, Wednesday. ARRIED to a girl with a past, an upright and honourable man did his best to give her a happy and respectable life, said Mr. T. K. Edie at the Old Bailey. He was pleading for
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  • 402 3 Bold sides vulnerable Nortli-South 60 on score. Ra«| dealer. NOKTH 4 J 10 8 C 4 K> 7 0 9 7 2 lit! WKST KAST 4 A 5 3 2 ■v/ J 8 4 3 s? K Q 10 t OK 10 864 0 J5 K J 8
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  • 42 3 Twenty survivors of the Brazilian Air Force transport plane which crashed into the sea. near Salvador, Brazil, have been picked up by the navy minesweeper Pirarhbu. Five passengers are known to have died and three are missing. A.P
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  • 37 3 Proposed extension of the Indian Preventive Detention Act, under which enemies of the state can be held without trial, will be debated m the Lower House of the Indian Parliament m New Delhi this week. Reuter
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  • 39 3 Seven Hong Kong factories will participate m th e Seattle Trade Fair for Far Eastern countries m September. The goods on display will be shipped from Hong Kong before the end of this month. A.P
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  • 158 3 MADRID, Wed. JF you want to get m your apartment after 11 p.m. m Madrid you'll need a "Ssreno." 'Serenos." or night watchmen, are .masters of the town from 11 until dawn. Each "Sereno" has the keys of a few front doors. •Together they have
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    5 3  - THE GAMBOLS Barry Applely <nf
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    • 68 3 .BEAUTY A POLITICS ?V It's good politics to f^ 3^^\ know conditions m l^m!w 1 these are your \S JBBff markets! Know I] itf^s. them well make M -^^9m <£* v more profit Move jA)I ,f I \W around m the U&J Orient by C.P.A Wm Orient smaller, vT*"" V>^
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 233 3 T n M Talk^ 6 -4o Interlude; 6.50 From 9.30 a.m. Schoos; 10 N-v,s. th& Editcrials; 7 O(J Mco tmartre 10.05 Rendezvous wxtn tie s.t3r J; Players Directed by H enry Krein: 10—45 12 Schools; 1 p.m Car. Nortnern Journr by WynfO rd Chandler Orch.: 130 News; I^s V aughan
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  • 384 4 TheSingaporeFreePress WEDNESDAY. July 16. 1952. Nowhere to go fTHE squatters of Bende- < meer dominated the attention of the Lee;is- lative Council yester- < day. That is as it < should be, for public '< concern has mounted J high over this mass demolition of houses built by houseless people.
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  • 168 4 I »pHERE is a gleam of hope for rubber m yesterday's news that President Truman has told a 12-man public advisory board for mutual security to investigate growing trade barriers m the United States. He says such obstacles are ;>urposes wifo the ecurity aims. He ah o called
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  • 605 4 a Menace TWO READERS ATTACK THE MEW CITY COUNCIL BYE-LAW FORBIDDING "HIRE-BY -SEAT" PLAN SO Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridge, the Acting Registrar of Vehicles, has "a secret plan which will rope m the cruising taxis under the new by-law. v What does Mr. Buckeridge
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  • 662 4  -  PRESTO Music topics by HPHE Musical Society is to take what one official described to me as "a big gamble' They are to offer two two-year scholarships, for a bassoon player and an oboe player. The money so spent can be regarded as an investment for the
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  • 139 4 NIELSEN. Symphony No. 4 'The Inextinguishable'; Hanedans from •'Maskarade". Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra. (Launy Grondahl). H.M.V. DB ***** 60. Nielsen's orchestral technique is that of the virtuoso Besides being a composer he was the foremost conductor of Denmark In his day. and be It the massive lury
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    33 4 The English composer and pianist Benjamin Britten an<| the tenor Peter Pears have been visiting: Copenhagen. They made a brief appearance at the Tivoli Concert__Hall but most of their visit has been recrea-
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  • 363 4 YOUR correspondent on "taxis" (front page, Saturday) states that "ALL motorists" back the "no cruising for taxis" plan. May 1 disagree, as a motorist of over 30 years standing who has driven m many parts of the world. I fail to see any adequate reason why
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  • 637 4  - 'GLAMOUR' GIRL WITH A VOICE FU HSI MODERN CHINESE MUSIC BY IN ancient China, music was of a highly symbolical character. Every educated man had to have an expert knowledge of harmony. And. among other conditions, it was not permissible to listen to music if the body had not recently
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  • 242 4  -  FELIX says OQUARE dancing, the craze m America and Britain, is slov catching on m Singapore. The cabarets have not attempted it yet. but the dance is popular ut many local parties. As more and more square dance records a~e new arriving m the Colony,
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  • 15 4 LATEST RECORDS bl!) i or. BEST! v f Of < U i m be h r.i
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  • 40 4 QNE v ca impc: tish p:r. from t lithe Germ a: captr of U before the Most i ports t Tbii effect possit home v ere Pun: c m U X the these satici the cheai'
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    • 9 4 Quality m Jewellery H. SENA LTD. SINGAPORE. PfcNANG. BANGKOK
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    • 49 4 w«^ The (mtttiueut cmesti) I|^P caldblcks iOCrf >j^K Leading Wine J^B Spirit Merchants A# y The Far East NB M I s w CALDBECK ||J MACGREGORi C° L T D ftj^ TEL. 5371/2 People are discovering Til CRfiFISMSN If"** testimony to two w TFI 75^ 302 ORCHARD ROAD tv
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  • 189 5 OIKSfATIONS liable to load 1^ shedding tonight are: Aljunied Rd., Sims Avenue, Pays Lebar Pumps, Cambridge Rd., Rangoon Rd., Touner Rd., Serangoon Rd.. Sennett Kst., Kolam Ayer, McPherson Rd., Kirn Chuan Rd., Boundary Rd., Florence Rd.. I Serangoon, Yio Chu King Rd.. j GoTt. Printing Wks., Woodleigh i
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  • 100 5 Aerodrome area under curfew KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. IN an attempt to stop intruders, who have frequently entered R.A.F. Station. Kuala Lumpur, despitr patrols by police dogs and guards, the police have now now ordered a curfew m the area from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. The curfew covers the area
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  • 1062 5 Harvey defends demolition of 'illegal' huts Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE Government plans to buy large areas of land, part of which would be given to people who have been dehoused through the demolition of unauthorised dwellings, said the Commissioner of Lands, Mr. J. A. Harvey,
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  • 140 5 PENANG, Wed. WORKING of the Eastern Smelting Company yesterday gave their union executive committee full power to negotiate further with the management to arrive at an amicable settlement of their dispute. They had previously voted m favour of strike action if the company failed to grant their
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  • 42 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. In Pahang, home guards, ambushed by a strongly armed terrorist force from prepared positions, fought back and killed one terrorist and wounded two. A home guard was killed md two were wounded. The t v.'is driven ofT.
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  • 72 5 PENANG, Wed.— The hope that before long the Hiudusthan Co-operative Insurance Society would launch land development and housing schemes m Malaya, was expressed by the Petiang branch manager, Mr. S. G Subramaniam at a tea party yesterday at the E. and O. Hotel Mr.
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  • 120 5 KALLANG WORST ROAD FOR ACCIDENTS Free Press Staff Reporter QNE thousand and ninety-six road accidents involving all kinds of vehicles were recorded m Singapore last month. Twelve people lost their lives and 41 were seriously injured. Nine hundred and ninetythree of the accidents occurred m the city area. Kallang, Geylang.
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  • 114 5 PENANG, Wed. PUPILS of the Penang Westlands School were urged yesterday to be kind to animals and help to end unnecessary suffering among neglected, diseased or stray anKnals. friends and relatives that if they see a wounded animal m the streets, they should not pass it
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  • 120 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CJINGAPORE Chinese Cham»s ber of Commerce has renewed it? appeal to members for contributions to build new premises for the ''The results of the first r*nr*»al. made early this rouraging," an official of the Chamber told the Free Press yesterday. Mr.
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    35 5 picture. SIX CHENG-LOCK TAN president of the Malayan Chinese Association (with hat), during a tour yesterday of Kampong Alexandra, talks to a soldier of the Royal Signals whose attap home has been condemned. Free Press
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  • 43 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed. Chuah Yew Hena was fined $80 for driving a lorry at an excessive speed. Khoo Thian Jin. the owner of the lorry, was fined $30 for having permitted his lorry to be driven at an excessive speed.
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  • 25 5 Aii American woman living m Wilkinson Road, Singapore. was admitted to the General Hospital last night after she was found unconscious m her room.
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  • 31 5 Sir George Pepler. the town planning expert, who returned to Singapore on Saturday, will be m the Colony for about six weeks. His headouarters will be m Alexandra Road.
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    55 5 picture. MR. E. M. Glacer, Professor o f Physiology m the University of Malaya and four of his students yesterday began a fortnights experiment on types of low ceiling houses at the Bedok settlement. Yap Tian Beng (standing) is measuring the wind velocit y and Gerry Goh is taking a
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  • 170 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. THE Mining Staff Union of Selangor and Negri Sembilan warned members yesterday that disciplinary action will be taken against those who make unauthorised statements to the Press. The warning was made by Mr. C. A. Mathews, secretary of the union, who said
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  • 63 5 BATU PAHAT, Wed. Hassan bin Md. Ali was cautioned and discharged m the Batu Pahat Sessions Court for not having an identity card. He said his card was destroyed by rain. Two other charges of not having a letter 'L' when driving a car, and
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  • 128 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ly/lOST of the villages along the main roads m Singapore will be lighted by the end of 1956, an official of the Rural Board said yesterday. Street lights are being installed along Holland Road from the City limit to Queen
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  • 47 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Singapore's recent wet spell has put the prices of vegetables up. A government official said yesterday: "Food prices are. on the whole, showing a slight downward trend. 'Prices of vegetables, however, vary with changes m the weather.'
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  • 302 5 Duchess may lay stone for hospital KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. T'HE Duchess of K< nt x may lay the foundation stone of Kuala Lumpur's new tubercuj* hospital during her to Malaya m Septemt i The Selangur Gc-vrrnmcnt m a statement yesterday said it had given about 40 acres of land, on
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  • 50 5 BATU PAHAT W>d.— Abdullah bin Awang. <22j said to be on parole from the Singapore Police for one j was arrested at Batu Pahat on a charge* of failing to reoort himself to the Johore Bahru Police when he there. The case was tra to J v
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    • 242 5 lhefnestna^^\ CLASSICAL RECORDINGS i Sortata Ho. 7 I" D. Op. 10, No. J Ciaudlo Arrau Pianoforte > LX 8917/19 Caprtc* ItaUen, Op 45 <ovsky> Columbia Symphony Orchestra f ed by Sir Thcnas Beecham LX 8924/25 r Don Ju»' phonic Poen Op 20 i Straus The Philharmonia aucted by Herbert Von
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    • 76 5 THEY SAY, Jg, NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS! %^OL BUT THAT ISN'T TRUF WE ALWAYS HAVE NEW (Jff'^H^ GCODS ARRIVING j^Bit REMINGTON "Personal' Portables con be had by paying $23/- J^ monthly on easy term* yj (Down payment $90 only) Just Ring 6688 or ***** j| Vr we shall deliver
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  • 649 6  - Old-style life in new Bangkok A. V. Sanderson by LIFE ON THE RIVER AND CANALS OF THE SIAMESE CAPITAL IS LIVED IN PUBLIC. ONLY THE NIGHT BRINGS PRIVACY. 'TODAY, even m this mid-twentieth century, the amphibious industrious people of the canals of Bangkok still live after the fashion of their
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    30 6 photo A.P Hussein Sirry Pasha, the ne w Prime Minister of Egypt, t alks to reporters at I m Alexandria. He has been p remier on two previous occas ions
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  • 361 6 MORE RUBBER FOR USE IN AIRCRAFT (X)NSTRUCTION of hot and cold "torture" chambers to roast and freeze rubber and plastic aircraft parts up to 600 degrees above zero and down to 30 degrees below m their search for better materials to withstand extremes of temperature have been completed by scientists
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    32 6 photo. Emperor Haile Se'assie shakes hands icith a wounded Ethiopian at Addis Ababa. The soldier returned recent' }y from Korea with other Et hiopian troops m the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia. A.P
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  • 29 6 Murders m Italy averaged over six a day during the first three months of 1952. Most of them were crimes of I passion and revenge. A.P
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  • 25 6 India has requested the international materials con.ference to grant her a larger share of nickel for use m her currency system. Reuter
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  • 864 6  -  Ralph L. Finn A Wednesday short story by "YOU know how it is when you're down on your luck," said Willy.' "Nothing goes right. I had a spell like it," he said. "Matter of fact... But I'll tell you." He wiped his lips with the back of
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    • 133 6 m^ndrSKß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya T^^~^^ Hli nnkc i i*c MAani wac tuc Ci qc T T n I 1 IT'S ALL OVERHAULING, I MANDRAKE,! I The ENO Of THE MYSTERIOUS H sai GO THROUGH THE TRAP DOOR, BUT WE BOTH HAD A r YOU'RE PHONE
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  • 355 7 WORKOUTS FOR SINGAPORE ATHLETES Pei Wah was all alone taking things easy for a day, Singapore s Olympic contingent at Helsinki has got down to some limbering up exercises The five competitors all had light workouts yesterday. Teng- Pei Wah. entrant for the women's 100 m and 80m. hurdles, turned
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  • 54 7 r flag 'AJn m 'are yesterday Herrn others the total to d^ n pirade jpore. Gold I \'*!Tl--i r. India. Janv N T- P fdad were raised i-jl.vidiiallv as a Finnish nd played the itipet-tirr national anlt err < uith the 50t j itkjrtcs present standing
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  • 220 7 INDIAN SOCCER XI TROUNCED 10-1 Olympic football begins /I ib Yugoslavia and Russia both v iriea m the Olympic soccer qualifying r Helsinki yesterday. trounced the Indian team by 10 :le Russia had a stiff Hsht to beat after ext: nz. K-erc: v' ccc 1. thalfHungary 2. Rume 1— 0»;
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  • 179 7 8 ISRAEL PLAYERS SENT OFF Basketball /Greece kept tta oiyn-.;: b.tsvl" kecball hopes alive w'erday by coming from behind to beat the fast but small Israel team 54-52 m a rou<jh game m which a *otal cf 71 personal fouls were called. Isra? 1 lost eight of their 12 players
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  • 26 7 Sumrc. Sungkitrat, Siam's featherweight boxing champion, arrived m Manila yesterday for the orient championship fight with Filipino featherweight Larry Bat^n". on July 19. U.P
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  • 22 7 Hcng Kcng Bank A trounced Stanvac 9-2 m a Singapore B H.F.A. League and cup game on the padang yesterd
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  • 23 7 Sime Darby were held to two-all draw by O.T.E.C. In a Singapore B.H.F.A. League and Cup fixture at Shell ground yesterday.
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  • 133 7 KEEIZO Hasegawa. Japan's hop. step and jump chan;pion and only hope to win a first place m the track and field events was suffering from a sprained right foot yesterday. Track and field coach Mikio Oda said Hase3awa would have to rest for four or five
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  • 292 7 The Reds tricked Sammy rpHE Russians tricked Major JL Sammy Lee into wearing p.tblo pLassos (Communist peace dove) for a while yesterday and the little Olympic diving champion is sizzling about it. "If they show a picture of me m Moscow wearing that dizzy peace dove, it is a r•;
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  • 130 7 TERROR NET 8 H.M.S. Terror G: G.H.Q. Sigs 2. G.H.Q. Sign*] Regiment travelled to Naval Base yesterday and received a beating at the hands of H.M.S. Terror m their United Services F.A. senior bague fixture. Terror were lwo goa?s up ten mlnures alter the kickofl through goals by Ranger and
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  • 68 7 RA F Changi win 3-2 ROYAL Air Force Chang i beat Royal Naval Air Station Sembawang by three goals to two m a U.S.L. senior league match at Sembawang yesterday. Baldwyn (2) and Smith scored for Changi. Jones and Leversedge scored for R.N.A.S. Teams wereRNAS: Studley: King. Botten' Dennet. Lygo.
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  • 62 7 Bobby Locke Sou* n Africa), new British en Golf champion, yesterday won the French Open Golf title with a 268. the lowest score ever turned m for tne event. Locke's card was 69— ov— 64—68 for the two-day 72--hole competition. Antonia Cerda (Argentina) was second with
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  • 8 7 t. i Olympic hoc- A.P U.P
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  • 200 7 INDIAN tourists failed m their attempt to beat Yorkshire for the first time, and the match at Sheffield ended m a draw. Although Vijay Hazare s declaration at the overnight score left Yorkshire 180 behind on the first inning Indian bowlers could not repeat their
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  • 40 7 TULYAR, a three-year-old who is supposed to be lazy but just keeps on winning, was ranked as a 3-1 favourite on Monday for the U5577,420 King George and Queen Elizabeth stakes at Ascot next Saturday.
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  • 198 7 MASKED wrestlers. Mighty Marvel and Battling Bonio, meet King Kong and Tiger Holden m a tag-team match at the Happy World Stadium on Saturday night Marvel and Bonzr. I c i>ecr. unbeaten m Singapore. They •igain promise to unmwsk If the; are pinned
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  • 42 7 Jim Fuchs, United States world holder of the putting the weight record, passes on some hints to the only woman athlete m Korea's Olympic team, 18-year-old Chat Myungsuk, during practice at Helsinki: Fuchs' record is 58 ft m.
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  • 451 7 Surrey take 44 point lead r«ODr KEY EVANS, England and Kent wicketkeeper, injured his left arm while batting against Surrey at the Oval yesterday, but he is expected to be fit for the third Test against India, which begins tomorrow. He received a sharp blowjust
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  • 374 7 Singapore 8. Indian Navy 1 SINGAPORE "A" team, yesterday trounced the visiting Indian Navy soccer team by etfcht goals to one m a 1 frieiiflly soccer match at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Indians started promisingly and lor fully 15 minutes kept 1 Singapore's four
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  • 19 7 Tuan Mcng 0.8.A eliminated Blue Rovers m ysterday's Junior Cup tie at Geylang stadium by 3-1.
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  • 247 7 LODGERS BE AT R.A.O.C. 4-0 IN SER VICES TIE R.A.F. Lodgers 4; R.A.O.C. 0. r EAGUE leaders Royal Air Force Lodger I" nits came out on top m an unexciting I nited Servi( in I senior tie at Changi yesterday. The best soccer came m the first half, but Lodgers
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  • 32 8 IAGEMENT: The engageannounced of Dr. Chen d son of Dr. Mrs i Lan. ant; I.im Im. only daughter of Mrs nx Lay and the late Mr. Lim I ;y of Penang.
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  • 348 8 'PEOPLE ABROAD THINK I'M THE RED DEAN' 'A nuisance/ says Archbishop LONDON, Wednesday. THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, head of the Church of England, last night described the Dean of Canterbury, Dr. Hewlett Johnson, as "a nuisance both to Church and State." He said: "I believe firmly he
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  • 192 8 For 2 years he won't know if he'll be honest NEW YORK, Wed. FRANK Dicicco, a young Cleveland convict, who underwent brain surgery to cure his crimin.ti instinct, was approved for parole yesterday. Dicicco. who was serving a prison sentence m the Ohio prison for forgery, won't know for about
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  • 25 8 A.I r.e*\spapers and other propaganda organs of the neo-Nazi "Socialist Reich party" were banned yesterday, by the West German constitutional court. A.P.
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  • 31 8 Ong Chin Chye. a Singapore bus conductor, found early yesterday that all 42 fowls were stolen from his two poultry yards outside his house m Yio Chu Kang Road.
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  • 33 8 A pair of Royal swarts was flown from London to Dusi seldorf by the Royal Air Force yesterday as a present from the Queen to the people of Kastrop-Rauxel. Reuter
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  • 267 8 'Squealing rats boo Menzies BRISBANE, Wednesday. POMMINIST demonstrators jeered and hooted the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies yesterday as he reported to the nation on his recent conferences m London and Washington. The meeting he addressed m Brisbane caused the wildest political disturbance on record m Queensland. More
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  • 66 8 SYDNEY, Wed. A MAN who defaced £AlO notes with slogans such as "Justice for AH" and "Hypocrisy fails" bus been fined €A5. Police, who took action after complaints from shopkeepers, told the court the man said h e decided on the notes as a good means
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  • 35 8 New Everest bid in October Nepal's Government has approved plans of a Swiss mountain climbing expedition to try again to reach the top of Me. Everest after the annual monsoon rains end m October. A.P
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  • 22 8 A train was derailed and overturned 50 miles north of Cairo last night, killing four persons and injuring seven. A.P
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  • 52 8 'HAPPY' PADRE ADDRESSES S'PORE PARTY picture. PADRE "Happy Harry" Thorpe making an altersupper speech at the party given m his honour by the Singapore Ex-Servicemen's Association at the S.V.C. Hall last night Left to right: Dr C. J. Poh. Padre Thorpe. Mr J. K. Gwinnell, and Mrs. S. S Pavillard.—
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  • 191 8 Romance began m jazz clubs LONDON, Wednesday. MR. GERALD LASCELLES, cousin of the Queen iTI and 13th m line for the throne, yesterday married a former showgirl, Miss Angela Dowding. The romance blossomed m jazz clubs. The Queen was unable to attend on account
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  • 103 8 SACHS GETS 6 MONTHS' HARD LABOUR JOHANNESBURG, Wed. EMIL Solomon Sachs, former General Secretary of the Garment Workers' Union, was sentenced at a magistrate's court yesterday to six months' hard labour on two counts under the Suppression of Communism Act. The magistrate allowed bail pending an appeal. Sachs was charged
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  • 48 8 Polllv ari< id 116 people m Tokyo yesterday as Communists held nearly 200 meetings throughout the country to celebrate the anniversary of the Japanese Communist Party. National poCice headquari ters said there was violence m many cases but no demonstration dewlop^d ser Reuter
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