The Singapore Free Press, 17 July 1952

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  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 233 1 Generator sales go up m Singapore Free Press Staff Rei*orter \T least 100 Singapore families are no longer worried about blackouts. They have installed their own generators. The Free Press was told yesterday that the recent heavy electricity cuts has boosted the sa^es of Ec
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  • 57 1 Lyttelton says 'no' to plea for conchies sondent Thu: T Commons i by [on. for the was no the new law as iiption the xempof .entious the same military m Britain. j rep] 4-. tfcer r of t tha .^nce had i les m Mr that "mpi"ds ir. led: "I
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  • 15 1 porter D worth valuooog the when a .op m pried:or *ere
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  • 19 1 :AY. Thurs. fl jon rains waterlogged ::ng air the diver--1 jet on a test flight It.. Reuter
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  • 86 1 2nd European poisoned in Singapore 1 Maff Reporter A YOUNG European woman tag In Cuicaden Road, as admitted to the I yesterbiiffering poison.:osed. She taken ill m her house. This was the second Euron woman to be admitted :o hospital with symptoms of oning m the past two days. An
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  • 48 1 A PROPOSAL to apply the 30-mile-per-hour speed limit to the whole of Thomson Roaa. Singapore, was due 10 come up for consideration by the Singapore Rural Board at a meeting which started morning. The speed limit tX present covers only part of Thomson Road
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  • 26 1 A bomb blast yesterday :ked the home of the judge who headed the court which recently liberated, thr French Communist leader. Jacques Du:los. U.P.
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  • 25 1 mt 442 forced labour camps with an estimated total of 1,255.000 inmates have been reported m Czechoslovakia. Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
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  • 153 1 rHE Atlantic Pact Forces Southern Europe Command under the American Admiral, Robert Carney, is to be split into two commands, the British Ministry of Defence announced yesterday. The announcement said the split had been made necessary by the assignment cfi Greek and Turkish military forces to
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  • 47 1 MR. CnurJiill told the House of Commons yesterday that "very grave and fir reaching measures" affecting the British itttional life, both domestic and doienslve. would be surveyed m a two-day debate before the summer recess (at the end of July or early m August).
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  • 236 1 CHIC\GO, Thurs. DEMOCRATIC pre-conven-tion pace quickened yesterday with the impending arrival of two frontrunning candidates for the presidential nomination and a skirmish on the explosive civil rights issue. The first two candidates due were Senator Richard Russel of Georgia and Senator Estes
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  • 19 1 Bullet, bamboo bazooka fight Forty Vietnam soldiers fought off bazooka-armci Is with spikes and bam.snears as well as buHpt
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  • 121 1 CHILDREN ROBBED WHILE ASLEEP Free Press Staff Reporter 4 FTER breaking the window bars of an Indian I house m Perak Road, Singapore, last night, burglars en- tered the bedrooms and removed three gold bangles from children who were asleep. The robbers had escaped by the time the father of
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  • 52 1 LONDON, Thurs. A CHEAP and plentiful source of cortisone, rare and expensive hormone "wonI der drug" used m the treatment cf rheumatoid arthritis, has been found m the sisal plant, which grows prolifically iin parts of Africa, the 1951 report of the British Medical Research Council
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  • 95 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. LEE SZE CHOON, a Revenue officer from the Federation, teas taken for a ride by -three Singapore robbers last evening. They forced him into a car after statiny that they had him covered with a gift. Mr. Lee icas walking
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  • 212 1 Are schools shops? Hong Kong wants to know HONG KONG, Thursday. PAN schools be classified as shops? That's the question plaguing Hong Kong today. The Government's answer is yes. But the schools say The controversy was start- eri when the Government recently ordered the 1,000--odd private Chinese schools here to
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  • 45 1 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Achescn, yesterday described as erroneous and m some respects mischievous published reports that the United States was pressing Britain to recognise King Farouk of Egypt as King of the Sudan to resolve the Anglo-Egyptian dispute.- Reuter
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  • 85 1 EXPERTS TO STUDY A-ATTACK LONDON, Thurs. EXPERTS will today begin a two-day study of methods of counteracting the effects of atomic bomb attacks on crowded areas of London. The experts 250 m number—will be drawn from London's local authorities, fire, water, gas and electricity services and the police. For the
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  • 32 1 The Hamburg City Government has rejected a request by Hitler's economic adviser. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. for permission to open an export bank with a capital of 1 1.000,000 Marks.- Router
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  • 67 1 A SUSPECTED case of infantile paralysis curtailed Princess Margaret's visit to Norwich. At the Jenny 1 md hospital for children where the Princess was to have toured the wards, doctors advised her to drive through the grounds only. Here Princess Margaret is seen with the Mayor
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  • 250 1 Singapore swimmer worried a Russian HELSINKI, Thurs. pHWEE KOK, the Singapore v> star swimmer, had a Russian swimming official worried for a little while during his workout at the pool. Believing that the lane was reserved for him. Chwee Kok had covered two lengths when a Russian was seen gesticulating
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  • 32 1 Sir Oliver Goonetil Ceylon's Agriculture and Food Minister, left London by air for New York yesterday for talks m Washington on questions relating to rice sudpiie.s t n.- lJ
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    • 32 1 POCKET CARTOON X OMHKf LANC \s// X O/ con r n^ i n/urt\.< s.n I wmdtiMtmd exactly how the election %vork»— otho ui<c Of\c'< <o a^f to cot «r rxt4i»in€ti to Our.
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  • 212 2 pRINCE PETER of Greece. 42-year-old cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh, has spent 37 months on the frontier of Lamalanri studying the social life of the Tibetans. T.ie Prince is an anthro- poicgLst. and he has measurea up and interviewed 2.000 Tibetans. Ail of which has produced much
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  • 798 2  -  Peter Quennell REVIEWS NEW BOOKS IN U.K. UNCER REVIEW F. N b > B I milian). HIBI M\EKET. by jaj Powell. tHrinemann.t :OBEB ISLAND, by William r. > I7LOURISKING his r blackthorn, trailing his coat and nti ever and a 2 icous Donnybrook war-cry, Se^n
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  • 131 2 The Watch, by Carlo Levi. translated by John Farrar. (Cassell*. In "Christ Stepped at Eboli Corio Levi grave a memorable picture of a benighted province m the extreme south of Italy, to which he had been exiled by the Fascist Government His new book, halt autobiography, half novel,
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  • 243 2 THE TIGE& IN THE SMOKE. by Margery Allin«ham. Chatto and Windu*. IACK HAVOC escapes* J from prison -by the novel device cf feigning a compulsive neurcsis. attracting the attention of the prison medical authorities and through them of a leading. West End psychiatrist, throttling the psychiatrist
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  • Article, Illustration
    59 2 This snarling tiger is here giving; clear and fearsome warning to trespassers not to interrupt him while he eats his cViilv meat ration at Bristol Zoo. Meat may be short m Britain but no Briton is quite so hungry as to wish to argue with this furry gentleman
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  • 840 2  - ANTHOLOGY TO BEAT THEM ALL DAVID FARRFR MAJORITY. An AnUnlcffy of 21 years of publishing (Ha mis h Hamilton. TWO lull-length novels; two plays; seven short stories; three slices of autobiography two selections of poems; more than 20 authors represented by non-fiction contributions; 15 Thurber drawings: a thousand and thirty-five
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  • 180 2  -  L. G. PINE a by \|R ABNEY was one 1?1 of the last of old-fashioned rare of English proprietors who now 7 only survive among the writers of Romai His chief pleasure arose from expending lit upon himself, and assisting his poorer neighbours, maintaining the same time a
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    • 246 2 ARTIE'S HEADLINE i > r ,i i ,i r-T Solution To Crossword No. 715 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. \cross: 1. Compulsion. 8. Runnin» vild. 9. Godparent. 11. FlesM yots. 14. Necromancer. 15, Grand .G. Sons. Down: 2, Owned. 3. Private road. 4, Loggerheads. 5. [dlot. 6, Nlde. 7, Prigs. 1?. Astra. 11,
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    • 150 2 New Crossword No. 716 RHfi 9flß vi Ci-VE* ACROSS 4. 7. He makes suclr a mean riot (5. 8). 8. Pe .rich's love (5). 9. Its debasing, if daring it might be (5, 3t. 11. Difficult? No nervous (6). 13. A poetic pigeon (5). 15. Goddess of the Northern Lights
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  • 124 3 BLHL Thurs. .limber. E who may npt on s 2 v expedithe top intil the Lein had been t 28,000 bod perhapc lo without aid it any rate of the peak on the t> mountain kter than seen on Everest man. table oxysen v dition 13
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  • 19 3 The Yugoslav Government J* charged that a jet ane carrying Soviet 2™»» violated rh* air of Vug
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  • 38 3 The Egyptian Government has decided to pay an inc'ennity of £5.000 (Eg\pt'an> to the wdow of Mr. Stephen Haas. a Hungarian -born American who was stoned to death by Cairo rioters m the suTn»r of 1948. Reuter
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    54 3 a lit le ail C f v,. bcoiitte meJilng we weren't 22 52?* 1 to U»«al»y that •^iJSr^? th decl a«-.r. and t^mtet^S 0 11 comes Ite Tj** »K«aUon that defeats v a s that Scjth fell *BL w. a bea «iful defensire *mT*£ H^ard Schcnken. the spade jack.
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  • 231 3 cash d 'he Jcing and ace of hearts and then the king and ace of diamonds. West won the third round of dlamcnds and East signalled with a high dub. Declarer trumped the s cond club lead and now if he had led the queen of harU h?d have
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  • 148 3 Drunk, he went to court EDINBURGH, Thurs. THREE minutes after the 1 start ol a trial at Edinburgh the city prosecutor, Mr J D. Heatly, interrupted lo question the sobriety of one of the accused, William Thomas McKelvie, Grassket. Edinburgh. Tr*» court was adjourned while iXc was examined by a
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  • 31 3 Air Commodore Walter Joseph Martin Akerman will become Air Officer m charge of administration of Britain's Far East Air Force next month with the actim? rank of Air Vice-Marshal. Reuter
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  • 434 3 Refuse to be 'nosey parkers' DUBLIN, Thursday. nOCTORS have refused to modify their rule of "strict secrecy about their patients. They will tell only when the law requires it A move to relax the rule was rejected by the rThiinTf? f the i ßritish Medical
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  • 201 3 One million dollar plan for S. -E. Asia broadcasts LONDON, Thurs. T"HE Commonwealth broad- casting conference which has concluded its private sessions here has planned further developments to facilitate into working m the field of news and the use of correspondents. The conference was attended by Britain. Canada, Australia. New
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  • 193 3 AN ELEPHANT VANISHES IN THICK AIR LONDON, Thurs. NAGRA. flve-year-old elephant, who for nearly four months has beeA making stage disappearances m British theatres, vanished into not-so-thin air. She was being flown by the United States Air Force from Burtonwood. Lancashire, to Plymouth, to appear at the Palace Theatre, when
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  • 221 3 LINCOLN, Thursday. MISS SYVIA WILES, 17-year-old telephone iTI operator, collapsed at the switchboard of Lincoln Exchange after saying she had been hypnotised by her boy friend who had read a book on the subject. She told her landlady, Mrs. F. Smith, of Lincoln, that
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  • 32 3 President Quirino, on the eve of his departure for a 10-day state visit to Indonesia, urged a further tightening of the existing close ties between the Philippines and Indonesia.— Reuter.
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  • 35 3 Vice Admiral Philippe A v b o y. newly -appointed French naval commander for the Far East, arrived m Saigon on Tuesday to take over his new post from Admiral Louis Orotli— PP.
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  • 24 3 France suffered a total balance of payments "deficit of U.S. $1,058 million m 1951 compared with ontv U.S. $238 m'.Uion'in 1950.- A.P.
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  • 54 3 WHEN next p^u see a smiling picture of your favourite film star, remember she may have been photographed somewhat after this fashion. It is not always easy to wear a natural smz.'e atop a precarious perch under hot. -glaring lights and experienced eyes watching critically, but Debra Paget,
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  • 266 3 TABLE MANNERS TO BE TAUGHT BY TEACHERS GLASGOW, Thursday. fpHE school teacher as a maid-of-all-work Is fast becoming a reality, said Mr. H. K. Clarkson, spokesman of the Scottish Schoolmasters' Association. He was commenting on the latest obligation imposed on teachers by the Meals Service (Scotland) Regulations under which they
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  • 178 3 BRUTE TOOK OTHER WOMAN INTO WIFE'S BEDROOM LONDON, Thurs. MANY brutal and cowardly men make attacks on their wives which would result m any other person being imprisoned, said Judge R. A. Wiles at Derby Divorce Court. But because the assailant was the husband, he added, there was a belief
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  • 57 3 Four .strike processions blocked Karachi's streets on Tuesday. One was by the editorial staff and press workers of the English-language Even- ing News, a second by 500 Central Government press workers, a third by 4,000 employees of the Public Works Department and a fourth by schoolchildren
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  • 36 3 Railway services m the Gold Coast, Africa, were paralysed on Tuesday because engine drivers and ftremen throughout the country went on strike over a demand for the same pay as was formerly given to Europeans.- A.P.
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  • 66 3 The UJS. Embassy at Rome has announced that Ali berto Morravia. Italian novelist whose works are bestsellers m America, has been refused a visa to visit the United States. Morravia is the author of "Woman of Rome". "Conjugal i Love and others on bestseller lists.
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  • 30 3 More than 50 persons were injured m Calcutta on Tuesday when poCice arrested 25 marchers m a "more food" rally which developed Into a near riot.- UJ 5
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    • 16 3 K-^^C I ;tAK^AST UP ANO I'LL COMfc P&&L THAT ILL) I Qj^ _}y rccu ih^i ilij
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    • 239 3 SINGAPORE Artist: 10 Tim- for Music: 10., o ,«T n*ifv ll M u*«c for Dancing. 9.30 a.m. Sc'.iorls; 10 News, 10.05 Music Whi'e You Wo k; 10.45 12 Schools; 1 p.m. Said- D.D.V*. enberg and Rebner, piar.os; 1.30 News; 1.45 Ray Ellington Quartet; 5.25 p.m. Programme Summary; 2—3 Schools; 6.17
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. July 17. 1952.
    • 554 4 ••-I PA KHABAR?" The news is that Mr M. P. D. Nair, a Singapore City councillor, wants his fellow citizens to greet one another with the words. -Majulah Singapura!" bar bait ck> you think" 1 He believes that m this way the people who live here
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  • 791 4  -  Chapman Pincher EXPLAINS HOW TO SPOT THE RED DEANS FAKE EXACTS and photo- graphs published by the Communists as proof that the United Nations forces are using germ weapons m Korea and and China convince me that the charge is entireiy false. This conviction was strengthened
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    25 4  -  GILES by 'There uj/1 be two minutes' silence uhile this delegation proceeds to the truce talks m sing 'Happy birthday to you."
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  • 439 4 WATT Mr. Blythe Said in 1948 SO the Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L. Blythe. is to have electricity while the rest of us ruin our sight with candles, suffer the heat of pressure lampt. or the inconvenience of paraffin. To ensure this happy state of affairs a cable is to
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  • 337 4  -  Pairkk Nicholson says 'THE Mother of Par--1 liaments has fallen into disrepute m Canada for showing towards Earl Alexander what Canada considers less than that minimum" of manners and horse sense required even m politics. Canadians are furious at what seems an overplayed attack on their
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  • 574 4  -  JAMES BARTLETT Forget the old a? —A NEW TYPE C says Lord By LORD Goddard, the Lord Chief Justice of England, wants power to thrash the thugs who attack young women m the streets and maim old men at their jobs. He said *> recently—
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  • 342 5 Work on 35-acre station will start next year Fre e p ress Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government's new animal quarantine station at Henderson Road will occupy 3a acres of land. Preliminary plans are ready. Work on the building for which $3,000,000 has been set aside, is expected
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  • 51 5 MANY S'PORE SEAMEN JOBLESS > StaJT H porter Sina officials said be Sea:i Jen- ploymcnt new, Sinher port said. .r, president Ses :en's recent inyment has leu eir other t to .-aid. Ch;- n and the It a wail fa amended by the i ami HO ac-ion I makes t
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  • 113 5 3 FIRMS STUDYING CRECHES Free Press Staff Reporter OIG industrial firms- m 1J S re ma- up creches for the "children of [r employees, said an offiof the Singapore Coun'A'omer.. Ye have ap■d th? Lee Rubber Factory mi n Gey lan g, the yan Brewei and the Archipelago Brewery BR
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  • 38 5 MUAR. Thurs.— Three land owners. Lim Kene Soh Lim Ng and Ng Ooi, who did not clear their land of undergrowth 50 yards from the centre of the road, were each fined $25 at Muar.
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  • 109 5 ALOR STAR, Thurs. POTENTIAL British Army recruits will be interviewed at the Alor Star police station from July 21 to 23 Capt. W. H. Blakemore. Assistant Recruiting Officer, will interview candidates from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are Invited from Malayan-born Chinese, Malays Eurasians and
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  • 199 5 SINGAPORE City Council was to have started repair of the seawall at Marine Parade, the seaside resort at Katong. But at high water time yesterday there were no workmen at the place. The seawall must be repftired before the resort is developed is a
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  • 85 5 Muslims plan religious Affairs Dept. Free Press Staff Reporter PEOPLE'S Religious Affairs Department, Malaya, would shortly be formed and its office would probably be m Province We'.lesley or Penang, says the Utusan MeJayu. The paper quotes an informed source m Kuala Kangsar, Perak, as saying that it would have its
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  • 137 5 f^ARGO BOATS will arrive "m the near future" m waters around Pulau Tekong, an island about two miles off Changi point, Singapore, to carry sand to Japan. The sand will be used to manufacture glasswcre and lenses. The ships will ply between Singapore
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  • 28 5 MR. L. D. O'REILLY, of Adelaide, Australia, and Miss Barbara Cecilia McGreath, of Singapore, who were married at the Church of Christ the King, Tanglin.
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  • 65 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OINGAPORE Chinese Chamber of Commerce is concerned over Government action to demolish huts m the Bendemeer and Alexandra Road areas. Dr. S. Y. Wang, the secretary, told the Free Press yesterday. "Thousands of people without houses will be a social problem," Dr. Wang
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  • 35 5 NEW NAME FOR ASSN. Singapore Kheng Keow Coffee Association "has been renamed Kheng Kewo Coffee Merchants, Restaurants and Bar Owners' Association. The association, m Malabar Street, is a Hainanese organisation with a membership of 426.
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  • 134 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Family Plants ning Association plans to widen the scope of its activities. A financial sub-committee has been formed with Mrs. Elizabeth Choy. Mrs. S T. Gaw and Mr. Tan Sim Hong 1 as members. More people are attending the
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    54 5 picture. COL. A. E. YOUNG. Commissioner of Police, Federation, inspecting 450 special constabulary instructors at their passing-out parade at Taiping on Tuesday. With the Commissioner is Mr. B. R. P Edwards, A.S.P., Commandant of Special Constables Training School, and behind him is Major J. R. Pawlett. of the Malay Regiment
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  • 55 5 The annual pan-Malayan meeting of the Alumni Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine will take place m Kuala Lumpur' on Aug. 2 and 3. Prof. A. A. Sandcsha. president of the association's southern branch, said yes- terc.ay: "We hope 20 to 30 cf our
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  • 457 5 X-ray will cut death rate, says Sheares THE high mortality rat- during <! x continue until l!:c provides an X-ray plar.t for v Kerbau Maternity Hospital, D Professor of Midwifery and University of Malaya, told the Free I Dr. Sheares, who returned to the C week after an absence of
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  • 24 5 Incon siderate MUAR, Thurs.— Raju, who drove a car without considerp'ion for the safety of o 4 users of the re *?S ?t Mot
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  • 136 5 SUBSTATIONS lUbie to load shedding tonight are: Prince Si. Market St., Raffles Place/Malacca St., Boat Qua?, Malayan and A.B.C. Breweries. Diethelm Co., Tanjrlin Rd.. Alexandra kd. 5.1.T.. Phoenix Park. Alexandra South 5.1.T.. Alexand. a Brickworks. Pasir Paniang. Packing Hill. Reformatory Rd.. Oxypen Far tory, Cressonile, St. James. Miri
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  • 156 5 WIFE BIT WEDDING PICTURE, HE SAYS PENANG. Thui 4 COFFEE shop Urn Ciieow Huat, i the F( inagist i court yesterday his wife bit their wedd; picture to pieces wh his mother went to her m school. d wa- he trial of his father-in-] Wong Kirn Hoon, en a chi.
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  • 1382 6 With the advent of peacetime American Forces m I ritain a new factor has entered the national life LONDON. WHEN the 11 -strong crew of an Ameri can bomber hurtled to death m a Suffolk field recently, stolid East Anglians stood m neighbouring village streets with tears
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    51 6 This "N" type airship, described by the United States Navy as the largest non-n^H airship ever constructed, is warped into a mooring at the U.S. Naval Air Station Lakchurst. New Jersey. Special refuelling equipment will enable the ship to i>nu aloft indefinitely. The engines can abo be repaired m fl
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  • 424 6  -  Henry Thody Says AS I walked down a, narrow street m the heart of Istanbul recently a wicker shopping basket caught me a sharp crack on the head. The basket was being rapidly lowered on a cord from a fourth-floor window. I had failed to
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  • 152 6 rE job of air hostess, formerly one of the most sought-after m the world, has lost some of its appeal. Hundreds of girls once applied to airline companies every week for jobs. Most airlines had a waiting list, despite constantly reeurrinß vacanices as gtrLs left to be
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  • 147 6 rO of the nancUomest of the London Zoo's larger birds a pair of West African "crowned" cranes— they have tufts of plumes which surround their heads like halos —are nesting at the ostrich, house. Special precautions are being taken to safeguard them. "The female made a 'scrape
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    • 97 6 MdndrdKß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya sPsi^sSii§iß 1 JUST 9£ CAREFUuI ICAWYOOttI J U=:^W^^i \WhATGOK I f'LL PUT THE DUMMY iT^*^^ ■^»r Jjs \n*^=i OKAY? or ONHmt «EAO ON. AND r 'hOPEImAVE I IW4CfU4a«OOM- M M. L-S^f YOU'LL B£RE*OY SOMELUCKJ --g^^p j>.vJf^Y-, /TA YEAH. I (gV, 1/^
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  • 370 7 S'PORE MUST CATER FOR BIG FIELDS Increase tote facilities i>ir h J° m ALLAN LEVVIs X f, durin S the recent Singapore Turf v. y meetin m^e it quite evident that Malayan racing has outgrown the race club i facilities to cater for large fields t w J? orse s
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  • 74 7 Manning Jr. to ride in Penang ;:.4.v lewis J3 will start the coming PcBank Holiday wrtjs on J6 John has ng work for more and after pass- :est recently ssion to ed to his Dine, who '.y for Pe- Yeap should do s3 plenty of ..-> and t Hoe will
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  • 51 7 \1 m eccr mi ten Malays led lead P S Malays o goals by c; Ahmad YusofT by Ahmad after the i a 3-1 lead. r:ed by Lositi deficit for er Malay dc dosing •died Three more Yusoff and Omar Awarg to bring ro 6-2 Rahim
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  • 153 7 OUSSIA'S field events com- petitors went through their stiff workout before the actual Olympics competition yesterday and broke at least one Olympic record. The record breaker is beautiful blonde Zybins m the javelin. Without unduly extending herself she put several throws over .the 150
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  • 96 7 THWEN TY -SEVEN firs; and final JL_ acceptors for the Stewards Cup six furlong sprint to be run at Goodwood on July 29 pubLondon yesterday are b weights); Royal Serenade 99: Malkas Boy 9.6: Stephen Paul 9.2: Srr.okey Eyes and Star Signal 8.10 Orvovlio and Tangle 8.9;
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  • 70 7 /GORDON RICHARDS champion jockey m Britain for 24 of the past 27 seasons rode the 4.50 winner ot his career at Bath yesterday. He won the first two races on the card reachins the 4.500 mark m the se-ond race, ihe Downs Plate for two-year-olds over
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  • 54 7 MR A VERY BRUNDAGE of the Unred SUte s was yes'erdav elected President of the International Olympics Committee. Mr. Brundage defeated Lord Burghley of Britain by 30 votes to 17. Two votea were blank. In totina: >tor lEe vice presidency Armand Massard of Prance defeats Lord Burghley -5
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  • 32 7 MAR. India's leaawoa his second match m the .imptonxhip^ ng G. of Brim;:. 6-0. 6-1. \3j» Rao. of India, was mbc round. He of South r »ea. 6-3 6-3- Reuter
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  • 29 7 Guthrie S.C had to fight very hard for their 2-1 victory over Bata S.C. m a Singapore B.H.P.A. League Se Cup fixture at Clerical Union ground yesterday.
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  • 281 7 AN underdog Luxemburg XI crashed home four goals m extra time to eLm ,1 c 3 tng.and 5 3 from the Olympic football championship m an astounding upset yesterday to join Brazil, Italy and Egypt, yesterday's other winners, m the tournament proper. The four teams now
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  • 119 7 YOUNG Bob Mathias says this is his last Olympic decathlon and his friends warn him it had better be his best. It may take another world re-cord-shattering performance for the strapping 21 -year-old Stanford University athlete to beat out Prance* versatile Irace Heinrich. The hardy Frenchman was
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  • 47 7 (GERMANY beat Poland by seven goals to t w i R their Olympic hockey championship fixture after being a goal m arrears at half-time. Germany frill now play Holland, who wer* -rVinted third m the 1948 London Olympic hockey championship. France .trounced Itoly 3-<T.— Reuter
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  • 42 7 fPHE American Olympic team is not point? without home-baked bread and doughnuts. Every day 500 loaves and 600 doughnuts are being flown from California, the gift of a I*>s Angeles baker. Any surplus is being distribu'ed to local hospitals.- Reuter
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  • 30 7 HTHE two-way cross Channel reley swim by two teams of Egyptians was postponed last night for 1« hours because of rough seas m the Straits of Dover. UP.
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  • 41 7 SOCCER DIV. 1: BODCA v Rovers at JaJan Besar. DIT 2: Indian R.C. 'A' v KoU Raja A,!* GYM A. WV* CUP: Marine Dept. v Polh;# 'A* at Geylan?. BUSINESS HOUSES: Malayan Airways t Jacks S.C. at Fairer Park.
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  • 465 7 MANNERS AND TURNER IN ROUSING FINISH rrVKE FARELF Royal Army A'*prdnance Corps held their* annual athletic championships meet at Nee Soon yesterday. Though there were no spectacular record breaking performances m the programme of 21 events, there was keen rivalry. Most thrilling moment In the whole meet was the great
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  • 771 7 Free Press Athletics Reporter yESTERDAY was a red letter day for Raffles InstiA tution. It was a day of triumph m a record inter School athletic meeting. At Jalan Besar Stadium the Rafflesians ran to victory m both cup relays and walked
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  • 393 7 One miie: 1. Mohd. Zain bin Ahmad (R.1.); 2. S. Gunasegaram (V.S.); 3. Siak Cnong Leng (A.CS). smin. 17.5 sec. P«ie rau!t: 1. Goh Siew Kang (R.1.); 2. Yeo Meng Yong (V.S.i; 3. Scow Teng Kee (.V.S 9ft. 9in. (.record). 100 yds.: 1. Lian Boon Khiam (R.1.); 2. Loh
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  • 63 7 The Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's annual championships will take place at Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow and Saturday. Admission prices are $1 to the main stand area and 50 cents to the outer ground. Programmes are on sale at the gates at 50 cents each. The
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  • 22 7 Star Soccerites beat Police "B" m a SAFA. Junior Cup replay yesterday at Geylang Stadium i>y 3 goals to nil.
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  • 25 7 Th« Singapore B.H.P.A. League Cup fixture between 1.C.1, and Breweries which was scheduled to be played at Thomson Road yesterday was called off.
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  • 26 7 In a SAFA Junior Cup league soccer match played on the 8.0.D.C.A. ground yesterday, Windsor Rovers and C.V.M A. (Portugue*e Mission) shared four goaJjj.
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  • 30 7 NETHERLANDS Trading Society had to fight very hard for their 2-0 victory over Borneo Co. S.C. m a Singapore B.H.F.A. League <fc Cup fixture at Farrer Park yesterday.
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  • 267 7 TACK YOUNG, the 39-year-old Middlesex and bf- land left arm slow bowler m his benefit J became the first bowler to take 100 wickets this season when he dismissed Donald Carr of Derb>shire m the match at Derby yesterday. Young s feat is
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  • 45 8 GI -To Dma Maria mus at Randans \u on the 15th July, a sor. an Marinas. On July 16th. at pital. to Anne, wife o' Hta, a son, Michael \RMINGTON— On July 15th, Bungsar Hospital. Kuala )ur. to t W if e Arang— a
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  • 338 8 ASIAN COOPERATION ESSENTIAL FOR PEACE Stansgate tells House of Lords—* LONDON, Thursday. 'Tin: Labour Peer, Viscount Stansgate, asked m the House of Lords yesterday whether Mr. Nehru, India's Prime Minister, had indicated, and Britain's Defence Minister, Earl Alexander, had conveyed to the British Cabinet the trend of Indian opinion on
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  • 42 8 Red Dean w on't recant LONDON. Thurs. rE Dean of Canterbury it derantly re-vr-C fflHmmtrt U.S. airmen germ warfare :n X m told admirers .n an sDeech that he the evidence with h;s own ey "the Swiss be trustthe germ V A.P.
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  • 27 8 A Rcyal Air Force jet r hed. killing Us pilot. It was the 12th such mishap to R ■F. jets since June 1 A.P.
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  • 19 8 American battle casualties In Korea totalled 112.843 h last Friday, an increase of 715 over last week.
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  • 19 8 Pan American Airways offices m San Francisco said erday it hopes to establish is trans-Pacific serar.- A.P.
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  • 58 8 The U.S. State Department said yesterday it has granted a limited passport to Dr. Unus Pauling, California Institute of Technology professor, so that he may visit England and France. The Department had pre viously denied Pauling's request on grounds that his travel would not be m
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  • 398 8 US marine may fly from Korea SWEETHEART MURDER PLEA NEW YORK, Thursday. A GRIEF-STRICKEN U.S. marine may fly home from Korea to help solve the mysterious murder of his pretty young: fiancee shot on Monday m her office at Columbia University as she read his latest letters. The Marine Corps
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  • 76 8 JAKARTA, Thurs. HpHE Philippine President. Mr. ElpidiD Quirino. with a broad and neighbourly smile, received a hearty welcon c yesterday from thouis of Indonesians on his first state visit to this three-year-dd republic. Welcoming his visitor, the Indonesian Presi Mr. Soekarno, said: 'Wi:h your conjing a
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  • 20 8 West Germany yesterday offered Israel 450,000.000 Deutsche marks (about £37.000.000) as reparations for Jewish suffering?; unripr .he Nazis.-
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  • 15 8 I 'CEMENT is announi Gloria Ong Kirn i Lumpur, and Uwkr, of Sydney A
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  • 40 8 picture. MARGARET TRUMAN, dressed m champagne satin embroidered with rhinestones, dances with Douglas Fairbanks, at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Miss Truman loas m the actor's party at the Infantile Paralysis Fellouship Ball at the hotel A. P.
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  • 112 8 MR. WILLIAM D Hassett, 71, chief 'ghost writer" of presidential letters for 17 years, has resigned after writing more than 300.000 letters over the signatures of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Truman. President Truman accepting the resignation wrote to Mr. Hassett:
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  • 74 8 NEW DEVELOPMENTS m military signalling equipment were demonstrated at the Ministry of Supply Signals Research and Development Establishment at Highcliffe, near Christchurch, Hampshire. Picture shows: Sgt, Derek Bamber of Islington (left) and Sgt. Brian Watts of Cambridge, wading through a mock river -\t HighcHffe with
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  • 186 8 MIRACULOUS WATER IS NOT FIT TO DRINK BAYVBLRGH, Thursiay. pOR A THOUSAND YEARS Britons have been 1 drinking the waters from St. W Alston's we'l, outside Bawb.iirgh Church m Norfolk, believing it effects miraculous cures, i And now a 20th century analyst reports the water is so impure it is-
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  • 168 8 LONDON, Thurs. A CORONER yesterday adjourned the inquest on a Pakistani major, Nazmuddin Ahmad, who was found dead In a hotel bedroom on Sunday with the gasfire switched on near his head. No evidence of foul play was available, but the Coroner said "it
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  • 181 8 Acheson's challenge to Red China I WASHINGTON, Thurs. rFHE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson yesterday challenged Red China to live up i ull> to its newly-professed adherence to the Geneva i convention on humane treatment of war prisoners Mr. Acheson at a news conference voiced the hope that
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  • 70 8 (Continued from Pa<fe 1.) fees and paying their leaching stail low salaries. Som? diagrunt] call their work op slavery-. pite the exploitation, the "school shops" have been do:n<r prosperous bussince there are so few govern- or government-ri.ied schco-s; here that only aboir one-third of the children of school age
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  • 23 8 The Muju area of South Korea was placed under emergency martial law from midnight yesterday because of increased cupi-ilia activity.- Reuter
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