The Singapore Free Press, 19 July 1952

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA »4K SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    Singapore remembers former Jap Pows
    52 1 Singapore remembers former Jap Pows NtafT Reporter Thorpe, ds of dm d the i ion. of happy the durr. flags. P.OWs at return from .1 out on the ph. I Force. Acted as .toed of the during H W B-l c, who T. X an Cornhe Ex- of Singapore p.d
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    Ambush victim better
    35 1 :T Reporter MH. Morgan. j hay? with Morgan. onetLs early this to Sydney by this morningFre? Press: v.uch better returning. m the Federa- so kind and n was :4tn Yons R ad.
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    JAPS WANT RED CHINA TRADE
    262 1 5-power talks to review ban on exports TOKYO, Saturday. gRITAIX, the United States, France, Canada and Japan will open talks m Washington late this month to decide on a policy of trading with Communist China. The Japanese Foreign Office said yesterday that the discussions will
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    27 1 PADRF. H. r> Thorpe, a former POW. ncv on a \i>it to Singapore, laying a wreath at today's Cenotaph Service for dead British and Australian. Jap POW's.
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    HY IS OFF
    28 1 Mus Hy Hazell. British actress, who arrived m Singapore on Thursday, left for Penang this morning byMalayan Airways with her troupe to entertain 'troops there.
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    SATA fund will benefit
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rE Singapore branch of the Malayan Chinese Association will donate to the Singapore Anti-Tubercu-losis Association Destitute Patients Fund an amount of money originally earmarked for a cocktail party to honour Sir Cheng-lock Tan and Mr. Yap Pheng Geek. An announcement by the
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    Truce talks in secret
    50 1 UNITED NATIONS and Communist delegates met m secret session at Panmunjom for 41 minutes yesterday after a four-day recess requested by the Communists. Amid a flood of speculation and possible big developments the delegates refused to make i any comment on the progress of the talks.
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    I'LL SOLVE OIL CRISIS—GHAVAM
    215 1 I'LL SOLVE OIL CRISIS— GHAVAM TEHERAN, Saturday. THE new Persian premier, Mr. Ahmed Ghavam, said yesterday he would use all his efforts and exercise his full powers to attempt to settle the Anglo-Persian oil crisis. Mr. Ghavand, who broadcast a statement after his audience with the Shah yesterday, said the
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    THROWN FROM PILLION
    60 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Mr N. Boudwyn, brother of Mr. H. L. Boudwyn, an assisiant superintendent of police, suffered head injuries when he was thrown from the pillion of a motor-cycle m East Coast Road, Singapore, on Thursday night. Mr. Boudwyn was admitted to the General Hospital
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    KISS WITH CARE
    66 1 BERLIN, Sat. r THE Communists urged unmarried women today to kiss with caution. Anna Welch, leader of the women's committee of the Soviet Zone railway system, told a Comuu?nist women's meeting: "Our unmarried colleagues should make certain their friends and sweethearts are ideologically safe." Western agents and
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    S'pore threat to stab
    97 1 Free Press Staff Reporter MR. Chia Choon Phuan and a friend were robbed of a watch, a total of $27 which was m their purses, and their identity cards at the Mount Emily Pool, Singapore at 10.20 last night. Four men came up to Mr. Chia
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    'Malaya's stuffed shirts lose Empire'
    132 1 'Malaya's stuffed shirts lose Empire' LONDON, Sat. THE left-wing New Statesman published today a satirical poem by "Sagitirius" entitled the "Dead that lost the Empire," which says that "stuffed shirts" m Singapore and the Federation are contributing to the British Empire s downfall. The theme of the poem is the
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    Eva Peron sinking
    52 1 BUENOS AIRES. Sat. A COMMUNIQUE on Senora Eva Peron's health said her condition had "noticeably worsened" yesterday. A bill awarding Senora Peron the Grand Collar of the Order of the Liberator i General San Martin. Argentine's highest honour, was rushed through and approved by both Houses of
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    FAIRY DANCE AT COLONY CHARITY BALL
    63 1 picture. MISS CHAN SIEW LEI a well-known Hong Kong stase and film actress, perform js; the "Fairy Dance" last night at a gala ball m aid of the British Red Cross Handicapped and Disabled Children's Home The ball took place at the home of
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    Opium raids put up price to addicts
    281 1 Free Press Staff Reporter OOLICE raids on Singapore opium dens have caused the drug and opium-smoking: utensils to go up m price and forced operators to seek premises m "safer* areas, the Free Press was told today. "A small packet of opium, sufficient
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    NEW ZEALAND CRUISER WILL ANCHOR HERE
    106 1 Free Press Staff Reporter mHE first New Zealand 1 cruiser to come to Singapore will arrive at the Naval Base at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow. The Bellona. commanded by Captain G. V. M. Dodphin. D.5.0., wi£l stay m Singapore for three days. No special arrangements
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    GIRL SENILE AT FOUR YEARS
    54 1 CHU AGO, Sat. A FOUR-YEAR-OLD ffirl who weighs only seven pounds, 12 ounces is dying of old affe at the University of Illinois hospital. She is a victim of progeria or premature senility. Doctors say it is on* of the rarest ailments whose cause and
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    NEW NAME URGED
    30 1 HELSINKI, Sat.— Pakistan seeks to have the British Empire Games renamed Commonwealtn Games Federation, Wing Commander Soofl. secretary of the Pakistan Olympic Committee, told Reuter last nteht.
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    Truman gets set to seize steel
    215 1 Truman gets set to seize steel WASHINGTON. Sat. rpHE White House ha* m S A structed the Department of Justice to draw up papers to seize the strike-bound i steel industry under the Selective Service Act. A high Government source said yesterday that seizure under the terms of the Act
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    MAGNA CARTV ISLE FOR SALE
    61 1 Magna Cart a island, where King John put his seal on the great charter of liberty k in 1215, went up lor sale yesterday the asking price is £9.500 The three-acre island m the river Thames opposite Runnymede is owned by Lady Mannon. The Buc!ham
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    Junior Essay Contest
    192 2 Junior Essay Contest IN past weeks' I have had I several requests for an essay con rest from you children so Hiis week I want you to do any essay and ffciwit it to me. TVere wl be the usual prizes two $5 prises for children under re« tmd two
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    THE OTTER
    104 2 \JR OTTER is more at A home m the water than you arc on land. sleek, streamlined coat ar.ct his paws make him a derf ul swimmer. This is as welJ. as he lives on td has to tackle them m their own element 1 netimes you will
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    Saturday CHILDREN'S PAGE
    365 2 Saturday CHILDREN'S PAGE CITIES of the WORLD-6 Ravenna Was a Seaport Once capable of sheltering 250 ships THE picturesque old city of Ravenna, lies m a marshy plain near the Adriatic Sea, 75 miles south of Venice. In the days of the Emperor Augustus, Ravenna was a great Roman naval
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    28 2 Snarling starlets, battling for the limelight, are three Immi cab triplets bound to be an attraction for many months at Bristol Zoo. The cabs are three weeks' old.
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    How Many of You Know Singapore Well?
    757 2 How Many of You Know Singapore Well? OINGAPORE is quite a small island compared with some- Borneo, New Guinea and Australia, for instance but it is surprising how little of it many of us see Some of us go around m motor cars or on bicycles and we cover a
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    Valuable Bible Found
    391 2 IN 1936. a Belgian business man, Emil Devis, bought a lot of old books at a sale and got into trouble with his wife for wasting his money. The books were put out of sight m an attic Now one of the books has turned out to
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    Onward the "Onslaught
    616 2  - Onward the "Onslaught SEAFERAR m ISLANDS SIGHTED TIM Manderly the hero of this tale, left his home m Plymouth, went to London and joined the "Onslaught" as a cabin boy. The "Onslaught," on a voyage of discovery to the Eastern Seas called at Sierra Leone on the West Coast of
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      191 2 CROSSWORD SOLUTION A( 5. Wa; 7 Bo* 8. Squash 10, Tat II.C ID 13. 15. Hip. 17, Limer Tw 2 II 11. Cuoid 12. Decks 14 Reel 16 Pip JUNIOR CROSSWORD M-HH ACROSS— o. \vnere the Duke of Welir.. _n aefe^. napoleon m 1815. 7, D. Compton is a n
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    SUGAR KiNG SPENDS MILLION To oust PREMIER
    345 3 SUGAR KiNG SPENDS MILLION To oust PREMIER GENEVA, Saturday. EGYPT'S richest man plotted the downfall of the Hilaly Government. And the campaign cost him a million pounds. The new Cabinet has secretly agreed to obey him. That means the Wafdist (Nationalist) Party may get back into power. The man behind
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    Bridge Hand
    49 3 I dm n I k nd- hide I death. >oh his r^.enBd Eddi* I of the o::d u'd s I be won b\ never M reied: r .e queen fhe ace 1 he did He won nueen -uclcl delycu give I two diamo: •<; is marked ace aloi
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    RADIO TARGETS
    13 3 i conduct secret h radio launched p on a v roast,
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    46 TARS MAROONED WITH 400 GIRLS
    184 3 EASTBOURNE, Saturday. CORTY-SIX American sailors were 'stranded' here 1 one night recently— and not one of them minded a bit. f with them were 400 attractii jolly girls. Separated from the Amerion land by half-a-mile of tossing seas were 200 of their shipmates, siorm-bound
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    Patients opened sealed covers
    159 3 Patients opened sealed covers DUBUN. Sat. SHOULD a hospital doctor put into his patients hand a staled note giving details of diagnosis and treatment Mr delivery to the patient s own doctor? The British Medical Association discussed this at its Dublin conference recently. Dr. E. C. Warner, of Harleystreet. was
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    Urgent business might be ended
    48 3 Urgent business might be ended Captain Harry Crockshank, leader of the House of C mons. has declared that the Government hoped it would be possible to complete all essential b to enable the House to adjourn for the liner holidays "before the August Bank holiday m ust.- 3
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    INDIAN TALKS GIVE NO HOPE, SAYS U.S.
    207 3 WASHINGTON, Saturday. A STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman has asserted the United States believes the Indian and Chinese talks on fhe Korean war would produce -no new element," which might lead to a hope tor an early truce agreements Mr. Lincoln White, State Department Press
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    COURTESY VISIT
    13 3 Three E?yntian corvettes left CVasena, Sp^ln, g w?"i after n flve-
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    BUCKLEY
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    E. Germany can't enter
    75 3 HELSINKI, Sat. "THE Internationa) Olympic Committee, having attempted to resolve some of the conflicts from the EastWest political situation, now faces another international problem. It was whether to admit East Germany to the Olympic Games. But, Mr. Avery Brundage, newly-elected president of the lOC 'and chairman
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    Protection for politicians
    44 3 Protection for politicians President Truman has signed a bill prohibiting radio and television stations from charging political candidates more than regular commercial rates. Th c l a w was enacted after some congressmen complained they were being charged extra rates for broadcast time.- U.P.
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    He squandered £14,000 in a fortnight of foolishness
    184 3 He squandered £14,000 in a fortnight of foolishness LONDON, Sat. DETER Ncel Dennis inherit- ed £20,000 when he war 21 and spent 14.000 of it m a fortnight. That was net quite three years ago. Now he earns £5 to £6 a week as a farm labourer. Dennis agreed that
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    RIOTERS GAOLED
    37 3 An Egyptian military cour has convicted three more people on charges of participating m the Cairo fire riots on January 26. Two were given seven years' hard labour each, <md one four years.- A P.
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    PACIFIC TRADE
    30 3 The Pacific South Africa Line is starting operations m September with two modern vessels to serve trade between the United States' Pacific co and South African ports.- -UP.
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    Ugly woman's hate ruined Anna Pauker
    313 3 Ugly woman's hate ruined Anna Pauker HOME, Saturday. AN ugly woman, as ugly as herself, wrecked the career of Anna Pauker, Rumania's Ked Foreign Minister. They hated each other. Anna Pauker was strong. Everybody thought Stalin was behind h* But for years Liuba Chisinevspi watched her and planned her coup
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    Jean Simmons settles suit with producer
    99 3 Jean Simmons settles suit with producer LOS ANGELES Sat. A FEDERAL Court has dismissed the US$25OOOO suit brought by the .star. Jean Simmons, against the film millionaire Howard Hughes a!ter an out -01 -court settlement. Under terms announced by Mr. Hughes, head of RKO. studios, Miss Simmons will make three
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    Royal party in rain
    83 3 Royal party in rain LONDON. Sat. Till: Qaee n was hostess to 7.000 at a garden partyheld m the rain at Buckingham Palace on Thursday She wore si lilac taffeta coa; and Jiat with grey accessories. The Queen moved imperturbably about a forest of umbrellas, smiling and shaking hands. A
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    LONDON PUTS REDS IN GAOL
    66 3 Two young men who took part m a Communisi-spon- sored protest demonstration I during Gen. MaUhew .B. Ridgway's visit to London la?t week have been sentenced to six weeks m gaol. They were found, guilty of causing a breach of the peace by painting, 4>
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    KESSELRING, ILL
    27 3 The former German Field Marshal, Albert Kesselring, has been granted leave from the British War Crimes prison at Werl to enter a orivate clinic- A.P.
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    RECEIVED BY QUEEN
    24 3 The Queen has received Sir Alexander Clutterbuck at Buckingham Palace on his appointment as High Commissioner for Britain m India.- Reuter
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    Peasant revolt in Nepal
    35 3 A serious peasant revolt has flared up m Nepal's eastern Terai district. Public meetinp-> discussing the revolt charged the government with indifference m dealing with the gnof the Nepalese people.— UP.
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    CAUTIOUS
    26 3 Britain's Minister of Economic Affairs, Sir Arthur Salter, has declined to commit, the Government its attitude towards a rise m the price of gold Router
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      18 3 Cr 3 word No. 717 ,n \rrcs«: 1 Ru Upset 9.' w p^oer 1? i- erter m. S.
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      924 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR gORN today, the stars have makp a rf Civen you a galaxy of ife Your imasination is talents and provided you s0 k |h t dh f are, no doubt, interested m fine! If th don l > ou the dramatic arts, li -nature on building some
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  • The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. July 19. 1952.
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      Unity first
      316 4 > T OT everyone m Malaya will aijree with what the Secretary of State lor Colonies had to say m the House of Commons on the subject of if-government for is country. Mr. Lyttel- j be an pr» which must be built up and I re to bi
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      UNWISE
      169 4 rE civilian employees of the Services m Singapore, and tht wives and dependants a re to be asked by the Naval Base Labour Union to boycott future us to the Legislative ineil That is because Unit n members feel tha: the Coun. have not enough power to help them
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    The Battle for the Blue Riband
    1071 4 Five nations, Britain, the U.S., France, Germany and Italy, have held it since the maiden voyage o£ the first Cunarder 112 years ago. THE United Stales' recovery, after sixty ars, of the highly-prized and mucheted Blue Riband of the Atlantic at the beginning of
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    68 4 IThe UNITED STATES 53,000-ton luxury liner has regained the record for America Time; 82 hours 40 minutes. "City of' Paris." the last American holder, crossed the Atlantic m 1889 m just under six days. 2 The "QUEEN MARY (81.000 tons) did her record -breaking: crossing: m 1938. Time 92 hours
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    It Seems To Me'
    895 4  - It Seems To Me POLITICO By rrHE French film "Clochemerle", condemned by the Malayan Catholic News as "grossly offensive to religion" and "indecent and immoral", has provoked a number of anonymous letters and telephone calls from angry Singaporeans since it opened at the Pavilion. Mr Jim Lawl?r, publicity manager of
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    JAP SUICIDES ARE MOUNTING
    142 4 THE Japanese have always been prone to suicide. Not only national suicide, as m the last war. but sonal little suicides t; make up the more horrific columns ol the daily press. Suicides m Jap^n today have now reached the depressing total cf nearly 23.000 a
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      13 4 j*J^ LEE MIN i^ WATCH SA, Change /r^^lL Singapore 1 TeL 3348 |r
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      413 4 Locusts, dreaded plague SH/IH of the Middle East with insects, not with insects from the line before 'hoppers' were hatched the ctoud. Locusts ate swarm- the engine can move for- swarm was expected to ing, migrating m a solid ward, for so many have been migrate south, mass hundreds of
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      22 4 THE makes your set a RADIOGRAM Incorporating Hie 4< Garrard"^|H^ Record Chan, Distributor*: M.& E Hathan 25/20, Orchard Koad Singapore *> IIm u
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  • Free Press Saturday Magazine
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      Masthead
      8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, July 19, 1952.
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      Post Office was set up in nine days
      563 1  -  Peterson by FAMOUS LANDMARK APORES FIRST POST MASTER VED. S6O A MONTH OUT OF HICH HE PAID TWO PEONS. t Post Office large Fullerton which, opulcolumns and commands *ith of the SinRiver. ing that ■■ndaiit he sa: for, from us Euad for
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      A Free Press Saturday short story of Old China
      1318 1  -  F. CANNING by SENG had loncollected curios o! Old China but he would only add a piece to his collection, it* it had :i story .it lacfaed to it. He enjoyed telling these stories and whenever I visited him 1 would
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      WHAT MAKES A MAN WHISTLE AT A WOMAN?
      613 1  -  Tessie Tan asks \yHAT makes a wolf whistle? What makes men ignore traffic, jeopardising life an<l limb, just to stare ;«t a .uirl walking down the street? In other words what makes a woman attractive to men? This is a question which
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      'I Attract Rich Men,' says Zaza
      553 2  -  DAVID LEWIN She likes gay marriages, diamonds and comfort yAZA GABOR, wife ol film star George Sanders, flew to London, with six trunks, a bag of hair-bleach, a casual mink over her arm, and a 20-carat diamond ring about a quarter of an inch
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      They are happy AND married
      428 2  -  CECIL WILSON IJOW to stay happy. 11 though married, is a vexing problem f Or most show folk. But some solve it, and the recipe seems to be— make a business of marriage. Take Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, American hu*band-and-wife team over m
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      10 2 Gloria and Jerry York who arc dancing nightly at Raffles
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      OLD SONGS IN A NEW SETTING
      274 2 3it »C?lj^l!lff "I OVELY TO LOOK AT" (Cathay) is precisely that— and it is not at all bad to listen to either. The songs have been heard before, m the old Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers musical "Roberta", but as they are by Jerome Kern
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      WHY NOT BOOK ALL SEATS?
      193 2  -  ROLAND GILBERT A READER ASKS IS there any explana--1 tion for the disregard by cinema proprietors of the comfort and convenience of patrons unable to afford top prices at cinemas? Mor> simply, why cannot these paying their two dollars book their seats m advance as
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      Midget 'sub' exploits to be filmed
      321 2 Midget 'sub' exploits to be filmed THE heroic story of the midget submarine attacks on the Cer m a n battleship Tirpitz and the Japanese cruiser Takao is to be made into a film by Mr. Sydney Box, now an independent producer. He and his pjfncr, Mr. William MacQu.ty, recently
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      NEW GUINNESS COMEDY
      132 2 ANY Alec Guinness film is rk An Event these days and "The Card" (coming I to the Cathay) should satisfy all Guinness fans. The setting is the industrial Midlands; the time is the tlirn of the century. Alec Gkuinness Is "The Card"the cheerful chappie with the keen
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      A New Death Cell 'Shocker'
      400 2 'THE WIDOW CUTS OFF 40 HiAbs YEAR AND MOW THEME O f AL 4 ABOUT THE GRUESOME OLD LA^l sidneT^J^ describes a film that l stirred f renc h con^ PARIS, Fri. T*HE horrors of the conA demned cell and the last moments of a
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      22 2 Marge and Gower Champion, the new dancing team, whose performances are a feature of "Lovely to Look at" coming to the Cathay.
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      "GOODNESS, HOW SAD!"
      78 2 THE StJ py 'i He w Sad usual S malad:* 1 1 fluid and a c i i people 1$ more I I spelli forman Arm and but &ny d< sion ol 6 lined hei mono! on v charmer I Baroara Noon \>;o matronly urn teutomcally devo;
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      ANA HAS HAD HER DAY
      953 3  - ANA HAS HAD HER DAY DA VID LAIDLA W Mrs. Pauker had reached the point m the Communist hierarchy where the only place for her to go was down. by ONK sumy Gay m Bucharest. bo the ttory fo?s, a friend stopped Ana Pauker m the street and asked: "Ana.
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      HOLLY WOOD Beauty Hint
      84 3  - HOLLY WOOD Beauty Hint Max factor jr. H Hiit assume that kl up cftrcts beautifully m n rvcry instance pose m the daytime. Blur e\r!a>h maks-up is frlanv women except those evrs and it is at its But, if you like nc wear, S >an Ha\o, apply it much iou
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      GREATEST SPY NETWORK PURSUED A-BOMB
      906 3  - GREATEST SPY NETWORK PURSUED A-BOMB William L. Ryan says AN international game of "1 spy" is being played around the world Unlay, with lite and death as the stakes. It is difficult to say who is winning. On the surface, the weight of numbers appears to be on the side
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      What's wrong with London
      478 3  -  PETER HILL OVERSEAS VISITORS TELL BRITONS WHAT do visitors to England find wrong with London? Plenty, if one takes the files of The British Travel and Holidays Association's research department m St. James Street as any criterion. For here are recorded the reactions of hundreds of
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      TREVOR BAILEY PLAYS BOTH
      41 4 'TREVOR Bailey is a sports- man who trains simultaneously for cricket and soccer. Trevor. on c of the leading «ex bowlers and batsmen P^yed for Walthamstow' I Avenue m the Amateur Foot- j ball Association Cup final
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      She was only 6 sec out
      91 4 She was only 6 sec out of a second 1 >:ood between the Hastings 15-year-old schoolgirl Ircm Ceylon. Fearn e (pronounced Farn> Ewart and her ambition— to swim m th? Olympic Games at Hel- But her nomination for final Olympic trials at -ipool was not accepted l because her 100
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      How strong are the Russians?
      927 4 How strong are the Russians? TODAY is the official opening of Hie XVlh Olympic Games. The nations of the world have gathered :it Helsinki, Finland, to pit their champions against one another. In the parade of athletes which precedes every Olympiad attention will be toenssed today on the large contingent
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      The way to beat the batsman
      655 4  -  N. W.D. YARDLE Y By JHE faults of batsmanship discussed last week should help the bowler to plan his attack, for if a batsman has a weakness the best method is to attack it. What are the major faults m bowling? No on c
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      Schoolboy played for Singapore 'A'
      471 4  - Schoolboy played for Singapore 'A BILL MOSS By WAGING warfare against germs and infection m Singapore is a quiet, well-manner-ed Malay youth who was nurtured and built up by a clean and active participation m sports. And this energetic employee of the City's H°p t'i Department is none other than
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      They moved for sake of tennis
      47 4 F x, 2 °-y ear ol <l Angela X Mortimer doesn't reach tne top m lawn tennis n won t be through Jack 'of wn enta i encouragement. When Angela shoved promise at school, the whole Mortimer family movr d from
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      CHALLENGE FROM THE NEW STARS
      565 4  -  E. PETERS By A FORTNIGHT to morrow will see the staging of the Singapore Motor Club's fourth annual Johore Grand Prix at Johore Bahru, and there is every indication that the meet will be the finest of the series. As a record number of motor
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      DIPHTHERIA KILLED 469 LAST YEAR
      21 5 DIPHTHERIA KILLED 469 LAST YEAR I Ut-parter laimed ore m. health c of < id welVvee Press one and the t-nt Tht-
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      CARRIED PILLION
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      Hospital will take 4 years to build
      73 5 Hospital will take 4 years to build Free Press Staff Reporter THE 740- oed district hospital at Thomson Road will take at least four or nve years to build "because be staff available m the Public Works Department". A Government statement d last night said the ect was "m its
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      New flying instructor
      33 5 New flying instructor PENANG. ING O.Tu V Pena. .iter m.- course. dron i as a flying m FO 1 the first Asian uctor 'm the MAAF to ein the Central Flying School n.
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      GOVT. MAY RESCIND THIS RILING
      83 5 GOVT. MAY RESCIND THIS RILING ment d a dical A r.am. As- t say Government has not been rcus to its staff regard--v leave, hut to question iity of a certificate is the very roots of the doctor-pat:Vnt rela: He said every patient had bl to choose his own •i\
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      ARCHITECTS ON LOW CEILINGS
      367 5 Ventilation is most important they say the Singapore Rural Hoard is undecided about towering its 10 ft. ceiling height, the Improvement Trust is completing building of 400 flats with 8 ft. high ceilings. This is six inches below normal City Council -equirements. Leading architects m the
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      Balekout schedule
      160 5 SJUBSTATIONS liable to load >^ shecltling: tonight are: Chancery Lane. Wayang Satu. Balmoral Rd.. Daivey Kd I nion Building, Hume Pipe. Rheem. Ford, Bin Seng. Wire Mesh. P.W.D Quarry. Nanyang Mfg., Bt. Pan- anp. National Carbon. Prin«»-v S betli t »t.. Dairy Farm, I'lu ndan. .lurong 1. I
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      OFFERED BRIBE
      39 5 SEGAMAT, Sat.— Two snopkeeners Loo Lam, 62, and Low Lam. 40. pleaded guilty at Segamat to a charge of offering $50 and $20 as bribes to Police Lt. J. Harsent and were fined $250 and $200 respectively.
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      NEW TAMIL SCHOOL
      104 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE Raja Muda of Selangor will open the new £100,000 building of the Vivekananda Tamil School. Kuala Lumpur, at 5.30 p.m. today. The building compiles a hall with stage, seven classrooms, an office, a laboratory and a library. The Vivekananda Ashra- ma's aim is
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      KIWI LEAGUE IS 5 YEARS OLD TODAY
      103 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORES Kiwi Members' League is five years old today, and it celebrates its anniversary with a dance at the Adelphi roof garden tonight of members, now has about 500 on its register. Its objects according to its secretary, Mr.
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      100FT. CHIMNEY BLOWN UP
      47 5 BRICK DUST hangs over the remains of a 100-foot Japanese-built chimney beh ind SATA's new building m Anson Road, Singapore. The chimney was blown up by the Engineering Department yesterday to clear the route for the extension of Shenton Way. picture. Free Press
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      POWER: A CITY COUNCILLOR ALLAYS FEARS
      322 5 POWER: A CITY COUNCILLOR ALL A YS FEARS SINGAPORE'S new power station at P. Panjang will Initij produce 50,000 kilcw^s. present consumption peak ueriod. said Mr. Chan Kum Chee, a City Councillor on the pov station committee, yesterday. This, together l output of St. James Power Station of between 35.000
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      'Package houses' for Colony plan
      199 5 PACKAGE HOUSES', costing, about $2,500 each, will soon be mass produced to relieve the housing shortage m Singapore, the Governor, Mr. J. F. Nicoll. was told when he visited the Bedok resettlement camp yesterday. Mr. Lim fthoon Teck.. of Let Engineers, who intends to build
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      Teachers to discuss pay offer
      96 5 Teachers to discuss pay offer PENANG, Sat rfMii: executive committee of the Federation's Unit- i ed Chinese Teachers' Association, will hold an extraordinary meeting on i Monday to consider the new salary scales announced for Chinese teaYhers. Affiliated associations have j been asked to give their views. A spokesman for
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      Chettiar gift
      18 5 The Chettiars' (N«Ctukkottai) Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, has given $25 to the British Red Cress Society.
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      Police change
      41 5 Kuala Lumpur, Sat. Inche Talif bin Lisut, officer m charge of crimes. Selangor. will leave Kuala Lumpur next week to take up the post of Deputy Chief Police Officer Trengganu. He will he succeeded by Mr. D. McCorkell, A.S.P.
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      6 promoted inspectors
      91 5 SEREMBAN. Sat. INCHE Lokman bin Yusof. the Acting State Secre- tary, Negri Sembilan. Is one of the seven members of the First Company of the Seremban Auxiliary Police, who were recently promoted honorary inspectors by the Federation Commissioner of Police. The other six are: Mr. Chin See
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      THIEF GAOLED
      34 5 S^GAMAT, Sat.— For Theft of a wrist watch and $90 from the room of a labourer on Gomali Estate, Batu Anam, Ramu, 19, a rubber tapper, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
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      Leaders stale their views
      235 5 SELF-RULE Free Press Staff Reporter \|R C. C. TAN, pen A?1 dent of the SinProgressive Pa: yesterday: never be able to achieve responsible self-govern-ment m Malaya so long as the racial parties are taking a big and active part m polities'. He vrai commenting or. he
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      Library has 667 members
      57 5 KUALA LUMPUR. E fourth anmu;l genera ing of the X :.ibrarv vail be at the Coiht Housp Klang, on Monday at 5 45 p .m The library has noi a total rmmber.^hiu of 607 m circulation 4 192 hich 3 €05 '\r° kl 110 In Ma
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      THRILLS PROMISED IN S.A.A.A. FINALS TODAY
      622 6 Ow^ record goes m the heats pOO POH LAN, a new woman long jump >en*ation brilliantly cleared 15ft 3 Jin, at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday to break the Singapore record of 1 Ift 7 Jin. set by Tan Siok Ngoh, last year. She
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      ATHLETES IN ACTION
      46 6 ATHLETES IN ACTION JOYCE DEANS <ri*ht) takes the lead m Heat lof the women's 80 metres hurdles m yesterday's Singapore A.A.A. heats. TAN ENG YOON (right) winninf Heat lof the men 1 !M yards, m v^i,-* gapore A.A.A. heats held at Jalan Besar Stadium. Eng'Ymm «i
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      OLYMPIC RECORD
      29 6 Reuter HELSINKI. Fri A record number of 5.870 competitors < 5.297 men and 573 women* entered the 1952 Olympic Games at Helsinki. beating the 1948 London record by
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      Hutton hits 16th Test century
      382 6 Rain curtails play OAIN again interrupted the Test match" between England and India at Manchester yesterday, and England, with a score of 292 for seven, will resume on the third day with their first innings still unfinished. It is possible that Hutton mi^ht declare first
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      PATES LEAVING FOR ENGLAND
      87 6 Mr. R. B. I. Pates, Singap've A.P.A. honorary coach, who will leave fcr Eng'and nexr Saturday on Ion? leave, ni given a iarewell dinner by SA.F.A. at the World ye>terday. While m England, Mr. Patefl will try to arrange for an BDgliab professional B team or
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      THE THRILLS CAME IN EXTRA TIME
      555 6 Army Cup Semi-final SE.R 1; K.A.SC. Sup. Grp 0 ]T took Singapore Engineer Regiment 75 minutes *to score against Royal Army Service Corps Supply Group m their Caldbeck Cup semi-fina (Singapore zone) at the 8.0.D. ground,- Alexandra yesterday. In the 15th minute of extra
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      31 6 pictures. Over the hurdle m fine sty le comes Lloyd Valberj to win the first heat of the 120 yards hurdles m 15.8 sec. at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.- Free Press
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      JUNIORS HELD
      37 6 In a SA.F.A. Junior Cup-tb o.t Geylang Stadium yesterday, Rovers Junior and H.M. Dockyard drew 2 2. Chan Muu scored both the goals for Dockyard while S. A. Rahman and Mahesa scoreJ for Rovers Junior.
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      Overloaded with officials
      94 6 Al3-MAN squad, consisting of three athletes and 10 officials, is Indonesia's representation at the Olympic Games. Participating m their first World Olympics the Indonesians have overloaded the delegation with officials who are m Helsinki to take lessons from more experienced Western countries on how t« plan and
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      Fighting G.H.Q. go down 3-1
      358 6 v. R.A.F. Tetfgah R* I I Cm? Rm X R.A.F. Tengah 3: G.H p H.Q. FARELF went down fifhtii 9 Air Force Tengah m their Senior League fixture at Taiifilin The Airmen fully deserved I played good football and the: man passing was a delight
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      ONE GOAL WIN FOR 390 M.U.
      24 6 ONE GOAL WIN FOR 390 M.U. JUKICR LEAGUE nov U Pay Junior I RAF T>:. m rev at 1 TVtiizah Piom. OOYAL 111 their
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      5-0 victors for R.E.M.E.
      13 6 I I winning I See D. ippr. the S
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      CEYLOSESE TEAM
      19 6 meeon the P« The CSC C S D V. Saba; dram X S nam J. M Pen
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        117 6 Rf?S^wr3!CG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya WE Gr a_ V-'^:?AKE'S INTERESTED] Ii? Th£> S£\o ME TO ONE 1 1 MAYBE. II I WAS HELD UP ThiS IS THE I y— *:\OS IN rIN YCuR xV SILLXSTUPF" MORE OPHCE- IS THIS r 1 WHAT'S LASTM6HT-BYA PLACE. SiT WELL.
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      CHWEE KOK MEETS FURUHASHI
      400 7 CHWEE KOK MEETS FURUHASHI Olympic swim heats draw XEO CHWEE KOK, Singapore's 21-year-old, Olympic Games shimmer, has been drawn asrainst th e favourite m his heat for the 400 m. freestyle. He will be swimming against Hironoshm Furuhashi, Japan's "Flying Fish." In his heal for the 100 m. freestyle Chwee
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      5,870 ATHLETES COMPETE TODAY
      125 7 ORLSIDKNT Juho Paasikivi of Finland today formally opens the XVth Olympiad, a moment f 0 which the 3.870 competitors have waited for mnnths And the Finnish nat>,n almost 16 years. shoU |d have happened 40 but the war then 1 *-.~4 Finland of the Games. f
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      KEECHAN WINS HARD FIGHT
      13 7 KE ECHAN WINS HARD FIGHT poir.'s Som I Leliy Kid on points; "amp-
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      INDIA WIN
      12 7 teams drawn 6-6 w;:h Fin»nd tost ta Ar^ennru 0-1! Reuter
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      EGYPT WIN: 14 PLAYERS SENT OFF
      214 7 Basketball IJV3YPT beat Italy by 66 E* points to 62 m one of the closest and best game played m ihe Olympic basketball elimination series to qualify for the final round. The half time score was Italy 27 pt 25. It was a fast
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      GERMANY OUT
      22 7 i^ERMANY was eliminated from t^e Olympic field hockey tournanienr at Helsinki yesterday 1 vben it lost to Holland 1-9.- U.P.
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      The smallest Olympic team
      52 7 THE smallest team m the Olympic Games belongs to the world's smallest duchy Liechtenstein, The wee duchy, neighbouring Austria and Switzerland has entered two athletes, both cyclists. Liechtenstein Is 64 square miles, equivalent to eight miles long and eight miles wide. It has a population of
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      Lashings of caviar
      107 7 FOUR members of the British Olympic Association were lavishly entertained to dinner by the Russians on Thursday night ft. S. Sandy Duncan team manager. Percy Cranmer, transport officer. Jack Crump, athletes team manager, and Harold Abrahams, assistant team manager, were the lucky quartet For more than two
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      SURREY TASTES Ist DEFEAT
      523 7 SURREY TASTES Ist DEFEAT rO long a tail— their last four batsmen failed to score prevented l Middlesex from closing the gap with Surrey at the top of the championship table yesterday for they were beaten by Derbyshire by 52 runs after Surrey had suffered their first defeat of the
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      PAKISTAN TROUNCE FRANCE AT HOCKEY
      179 7 PAKISTAN TROUNCE FRANCE AT HOCKEY PAKISTAN beat France by six goals to nil In their Olympic championship quarter-final hockey match at Helsinki last night. Abdul Hamid. Pakistan inside right, who was playing an electrifying, game, initiated many Pakistan attacks. One of his spectacular runs took him from half way into
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      Seven entries —-race off
      135 7 rE I 1 -mile race iOT class Two stayers on the las day of the Penanp Gold Cup meeting I has been cancelled. Only r.even horses have tren entered for this race and they will be included m the Ittfur. event instead. Amended schedule: First day.—
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      Malaya Cup tie
      41 7 IPOH. Fri The Malaya Cup soccer match between Per3k and ren;\ng scheduled to be piaved m Saturday, Au^. 9. ha.? ironed at ihe request oJ Penan^. The game will be played on the following Saturday. Aug. 16 at
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      STAKES HIGHER IN S'PORE T.C. CUP RACES
      123 7 STAKES HIGHER IN S'PORE T.C. CUP RACES SIS (.AFORE Turf C'!ub's 1952 Sta.ers' (up (I s -miles) at Bakit Timah m November will carry $8,000 m stakes $3,001) more than did the corresponding race last year. There wi 1 be a rac? lor CWjs-i 2 stayers at the same meeting.
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      FIJIANS RETURN 9. 8 FOR 100 YDS.
      284 7 HPHE 100 yards m less than 10 seconds was recorded at an official meeting m Malaya for the first time on Thursday when two Fijians clocked 9.Bsec. m the heats of the 100 yards on the first day of the Negri Seinbilan Services
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      Little Mo mows them down
      81 7 Little Mo mows them down MAUREEN CONNOLLY, 17--year-old American and Wimbledon tennis queen, mowed them down three-ma--bunch to move into the semi-finals of the Pennsylvania and Eastern States grass court championships yesterday. The little San Diego girl, who knocked off three opponents and ousted another by default m the short
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      S'pore entries for badminton championships
      211 7 T'HE Singapore Badminton Associalion met last night to draw up the elimination rounds for their entrants to this years Malayan Association cl nipionships which will be held m Singapore during the August holidays. Each State may send m only four competitors for each event at
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      F & N CUP GAME
      51 7 F N CUP GAME yESTERDAY Fraser and Neave had to win; victory meant the Singapore Busine^s Houses F.A. Div. 1 championship while defeat (or even a draw» the poor consolation of third place. But win they did. They beat Sime Derby by seven goals to cne at St. George Road
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      OLYMPIC FUND IS CLOSED
      28 7 The S.O.S.C. Olympic Fund has closed at $33,986.81 according to ihe latest statement of Mr. G. H. Kiat. chairman oi the S.O.S.C. Finance Committee
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      BANKERS SURVIVE
      27 7 Chartered B -"k jurvived another round m the Singapore Business Houses FA. League and Cup competition by defeating Pulo Bukom 3-0 on the Padang yesterday.
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      TULYAR REMAINS FIRM FAVOURITE
      167 7 rE Aga Khan's three-year-old Tulyar, winner of afll his 1952 races— including the Epsom Derby, ranked a firm favourite last night to I take Britain's richest prize, the £27.650 King George and Queen Elizabeth stakes at Ascot today. The bettors rated TuCyar at nine to four.
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      Jeunesse runs the fastest three-furlong
      434 7 Penang gallops begin From ALLAN LEWIS 'THOUGH conditions were ideal for galloping this x morning, trainers made little use of the out \de of the second truck at Penang, which was opened for fast work. Jeunesse (McCloud), who worked on the outs de rail, went
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      Schoolboy clears lift, pole vault
      216 7 School boy clears lift, pole vault /CLEARING ll feet m the pole vault final. Taiping schoolb< Cyril Pereira shattered a 13-jnr-old Perak state record on the Ant day of the Perak athletic chamI pkmships at lpoh vest er da-. Pereira beat W P Shanta's re* cord of 10ft. lOin set
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      ROMULO, DEWEY CALL FOR UNION IN PACIFIC
      412 8 ROMULO, DEWEY CALL FOR UNION IN PACIFIC Anti-Red pact can keep peace NEW YORK, Saturday. fENEKAL CARLOS P. ROMULO, Philippines Ambassador m the United States, and Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York agreed last night m a radio discussion that Formosa must be held against invasion, and that Asia
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      32 8 ■photo. A PRISONER'S DREAM, painted by a 30-year-old prisoner who had no previous art experience, shown at the Exhibition of Prisoners' Art held at the Imperial Institute Gallery. South Kensington, London. Reuter
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      Calls for inquiry into germs
      136 8 Calls for inquiry into germs LONDON, Sat. MR. AMARNATH JHA, a member of the recent Indian cultural .mission to China, said m London yesterday that definite conclusions on the Chinese allegations against the United Nations of I germ warfare m Korea "can be arrived at only by neutral 1 international
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      23 8 Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns, Australian-born brain specialist died m Oxford. y;sterday. He was 56 and had been ill for several months. Reuter
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      DEATH
      48 8 Francis Low Moey Sai of 16 Flower Road Singapore 19. Parsed away peacefully on Friday. 18th I behind his t .:ow. two s^r.s. -law. o: ,hter iw and three grandren to mourn his loss FuneraJ ake place at the Bidadarl at 5p m. en Saturday 19th July
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      DOCTOR CUTS MARCHES FOR U.S. INFANTRY
      167 8 WASHINGTON, Saturday. T lEIT. COL. FRANCIS D. THREADGILL, a doctor J m the U.S. Army hospital at Fort Ord, California, yesterday recommended easier marches for young joldiers m training to help save their feet from injury. He reported there was evidence that recruits sent
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      Colombo to be terminus for Comets
      86 8 COLOMBO, Sat. /COLOMBO will soon become V' the terminus of the Ccmet jet services from the United ivingdcm eastward. Until recently it was doubted whether Colombo could even be Included m the route. After a number of proving flights. BOAC expects to begin its
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      S'pore whispers annoy paper
      224 8 Mac Donald attacked LONDON, Saturday. Dt'MOURS of some new permanent agency to coordinate British, French and American policy m South-east Asia are referred to by the independent right-wing Daily Express m an editorial taking Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Commissioner General for South-east Asia, to task. There
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      Democratic age
      77 8 CHICAGO. Sat. WHEN the Vice-President of the IS, Mr. Alben Barkley, was told yesterday that he would be favourite candidate for the Democrat Presidential nomination if it were not for his age, he replied: "Gladstone was Prime Minister of England at 86, Cato was studying Greek at 80,
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      57 8 picture. SOME SORT OF a facial for Stalin? Not really for appearances are deceptive This actually is Polish film actor Stanislau Zienciakiewics receiving attention from make-up man John O Gorman for the cameras at Elstree studios where Stanislau plays Stain m the British film lop Secret Stanislau, 45, has portrayed
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      TRIMAN CHECKS IP
      31 8 TRI MAN CHECKS IP President Truman has entered an army hospital at Washington for a checkup. The President, who is 68. was stricken with a mild virus infection on Sunday. I
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      REDS FIRE ON EACH OTHER
      52 8 A Chinese Communist patrol boat mistook a Communist junk for pirates off Ladrone Islands, 30 miles southwest of Hong Kong, on July 16. The patrol boat opened fire and the junk fired back. Three Communists were killed and 11 wounded, before the boats identified pnrh
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      33 8 President Truman signed into law yesterday a Bill continuing Government support of prices for cotton, wheat, corn, rice, tobacco and peanuts at 90 per cent of parity until the end of 1954.- Reuter
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      SUBSIDY FOR SHIPBUILDING
      39 8 WASHINGTON, Sat. President Truman signed into law yesterday a bill which expands Government subsidy aid to the shipping industry. It was designed to promote shipbuilding and the replacement of old vessels m the merchant marine. UP.
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      FM NOT NUTS, SA YS KILLER
      78 8 NEW YORK. Sat. BAYARD Peakes. confessed ■layer of a girl he had never met. was sent to a hospital for mental examination when he was arraigned yesterday. Peakes. 29-year-old pseudoscientLst. objected to the court appointing a lawyer to defend him for the slaying on
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      Riband crew honoured
      49 8 HARRY M crew of the record breaking liner, the United S:ate*. paraded up the "canyon of heroes" In New York today. About 150.000 persons lined the route to cheer as the crew of the pride of the American merchant fleet marched to :h^ city hall.- UP.
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      Bill for doctor
      31 8 President Truman has signed a bill to admit to the United States a Yugoslav doctor. Steven Durovic. discoverer of alleged cures for cancer and high blo^d pressure.- UP.
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      Competition hits Britain
      55 8 LONDON. Sat THE British Treasury's monthly bulletin for industry published yesterday enphasized the rise m Japar and German competition during; the last three years. During the three years. Japan and German share m world exports rose from to six per cent, while Britain\> share fell from 12
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      50 8 The Western Allied Commandants of Berlin yesterday ordered their military police patrol units to give immediate aid to West Berlin police m the fight to stamp out border raids and kidnappings. The commandants at a routine meeting also decided to increase military pa/o* activity m West Berln.—
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      North clashes with South over election
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