The Singapore Free Press, 4 August 1952

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENT*
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    DR. M. SAYS: "WE SHOOT"
    382 1 I 'Rule as I like' I w passed I m Persia TEHERAN, Monday. v.cd .Mossadeq's Persian Governhidi the Shah was forced to accept mob violence, has warned the al that the military will use v similar demonstrations ..or of Teheran, Brig. this threat m face
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    FORMER BANDITS GO HOME
    24 1 FORMER BANDITS GO HOME -raff Reporter I ban--1.000 P 6 Colt. d be Colony cane from 000 pamphleu conUning n '^ree One of them
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    GRAND PRIX THRILLS
    65 1 picture. The most exciting of the three motor cycle events m the Johore Grand Prix programme yesterday was the event for machines over 350 c.c. Picture shows Seremban's ?2 -year-old R. Sivagnanam (45). who thrilled the crowd with high-speed cornering, getting all set to flash past Victor
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    Officers rushed back to Suez
    197 1 HOLIDAY CANCELLED CAIRO, Monday. SEVERAL senior British Army and Royal Air Force officers on holiday at the services leave camp at Troodos, Cyprus, were urgently recalled to the Suez Canal zone yesterday. They flew out m a special air force plane. About 700 British women
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    Gold Cup choice
    47 1 ENTERTAINMENT II is tipE* ped to win the Penang Gold Cup today by Allan Lewis. His other best bets are Dance Hall II and Elegant Kid. TRESPASSER recommends Entertainment II and Quarter Deck. THE GOING will be food. Latest course information m Pise 7.
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    JAPS WANT TO GAOL 2 BRITONS
    114 1 JAPS WANT TO GAOL 2 BRITONS TOKYO, Mon. A JAPANESE Government prosecutor yesterday deaded five years m prison for two British sailors who ar? being tried for robbery m a tsst case involving British Japanese legal relations. The court set Aug. 5 for the verdict after allowing the prosecution to
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    CINE-CAMERA STOLEN
    42 1 CINE-CAMERA STOLEN Free Frc*s S'aflf Reporter x^n Air Ministry official. Mr. i ton, of Pay a Lebar, lost a i cine-camera, worth $225, while shopping m Singapore yesterday. He had left the camera In a car which was when P^ r H
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    S'pore road accidents
    79 1 S 'pore road accidents A CHINESE was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital this morning with serious injuries after he had been involved m an accident with a lorry at Syed Alv.i Bridge, Rochore Canal Reid. He is m a critical condition. Four women were Injured m road accidents yesterday
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    CABINET QUITS
    26 1 LIMA, Mon. The entire Peruvian Cabinet has resign-, ed m a "government crisis" of unexplained origin. President Manuel Odria's office •v .S yesterday. U.P.
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    She's queen of nudes
    83 1 ST. **"'.AV C V?~-2iy. A^l-YFAI'Oin girl, standing naked m the sunshine, was today crowned "Nu de Venus of Britain" before more th^n 1.9*0 British nudists gathered at a camp near here. The grirl wh~-e name was not disclosed, was ehoscn from ntne o<H<?r competitors. She was
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    TERRORISTS PANIC BEAUTY PARADE
    102 1 SQUSSE. Tunisia, Mon. r r O persons were killed and five seriously wounded when terrorists fired a submachine gtin into a crowd watching a beauty contest here yesterday. About 1,000 people on the terrace of the Sousse casino fled m panic when the assailants, who were
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    CHRISTENING IN SINGAPORE
    66 1 Shriey Eileen Pereira, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Pereira, of Singapore, was christened at St. Joseph's Church yesterday. Father F. A. Bctta officiated. Picture shows (from left) Mr. W. E. Paley, Mrs. Paley (carrying infant), who are godparents, Miss Marjorie Pereira, Mrs. Pereira and Mr.
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    Woman shoots her doctor over unpaid bill
    180 1 LIVEOAK. Florida. Mon. A STATE Senator-elect was fatally shot m his medical office yesterday and the authorities whisked a Negro woman state to the state prison for safe keeping, outrunning a group of angry citizens who chased 1 them. Suwanee County Sheriff Sim
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    Death threat to cyclist
    97 1 Free Press Staff Reporter RUSHING from behind some bushes, a Malay youth, m khaki shorts, stopped a Chinese workman, Oh Tay Swee, cycling along a road off the 11th milestone Sembawang Road, Singapore. Oh, when asked, produced his identity card. The Malay then took $8.20 from
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    PILOT DROPS IN AT WINDSOR
    52 1 A girder i-m a pilot school at Famborough m Southern England called m uninvited at Windsor Castle a round lunch time yesterday. The pilot was caught m a down current and made a successful but forced landing on a long walk m front of the
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    U.S. buys British
    32 1 Americans bought 6,000 British cars during the first four months of this year, is an increase of 21 per cent, over the number sold m the 1951 January-April period.—
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    METEORITE FALLS
    24 1 A large meteorite, as bright as the sun, fell In the Adriatic Soa 31 mi'rs east of i Ancona Friday night. A.P.
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    Indies impose slate of war on smugglers
    176 1 JAKARTA. Monday. INDONESIA has abolished the state of war and x siese which has existed throughout the territory since 1941, but has imposed a new state of war m her territorial waters to fight smugglers and illegal travellers. Under the new territorial waters
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    Big Three in Pacific meet today
    139 1 Big Three in Pacific meet today HONOLULU. Mon. rE Foreign Ministers of the "Pacific Three" the United States. Australia and New Zealand— meet here today to lay down joint defence plans m the l session of the Pacific Pacr Council. The Council Pa< counterpart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organsation
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    WAVE OF SLICIDES
    35 1 A 36-year-old Chinese merchant leapt to his death from a block of flats m Hong Kong yesterday, adding to the Colony's wave of suicides due to the trade recession, says Reuter AAP
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    OIL CARTEL 'CONTROLS U.S. POLICY'
    158 1 OIL CARTEL 'CONTROLS U.S. POLICY' WASHINGTON, Mon. SENATOR John Sparkman, Democrat nominee for vice-president m the Novemb t elections, has asked Pre1 1 dent Truman to make public a secret controversial report international oil cartels, it was disclosed here yesterday. The report, made more than a year ago, by the
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    Army officera robbed
    71 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THIEVES entered Army ofl£ cers* quarters, off Alexandra Bead, Singapore, and stole cash totalling $189 from live of the occupants. The officers had beti. sleeping without locking the doors of their rooms. Another man lost a waUh, valued at $30, and a pen.
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    TO TOUR U.S.
    27 1 The Norwegian Prime Minister, Mr. Oscar FredriJc Torp will leave Oslo on Sept. 19 for a hqjiday tour of thft United States, sayi AP.
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    MONDAY PICTURE PAGE
    324 2 kjmdjhd ••On Goodwin Sands Olympic Judges Watch the Yachting Princess Margaret drives through London m an open carriage with Hie Princess Royal. Hie Princess is wearing a wfcto chiffon dress. Her hat tat a Mack velvcr crown and a white brim underlined witfi Mack velvet. >«en from
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    A PREMIER EXPLAINS
    52 2 A PREMIER EXPLAINS z a:ouk is finished.,. Thai tha: tfow let me see Who s next on the list? Aly Maker PasKa. made Premier of Egypt after Naguib Bey's coup d'etat m Cairo, five* a Press conference. His act as premier was to i«**ie an ultimatum to King Farouk demanding
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    Playing for England
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    M.I.5 START PROBE INTO RUSSIAN SPY VILLA
    321 3 M.I. 5 START PROBE INTO RUSSIAN SPY VILLA Officers story BERLIN, Monday. 15 is investigating a new Soviet espionage base, housed m a white-fronted, red-roofed villa m the town of Bad Salzuflen m the British zone of Germany. The villa is the official residence of six Russian officers sent from
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    59 3 > her P-imr. and to bt her na- especially when she rack to it. And if anybody wonders how Merry Anders manages to look so cbeeriul posing m a brief swim* -I amid the snow, thp tmamm b simple. The picture MM taken on a forest set at the 20th
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    WEDDING GARDEN GREWO VERNIGHT
    173 3 NEW YORK, Monday. rpHE garden that -grew" m a night has kept A American society talking about the wedding of a British Navy lieutenant and a millionaire's daugh- I ter. It was the marriage between Lieutenant John R. I Symonds-Tayler, R.N., of the frigate Snipe, son
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    Pinza left the models speechless
    62 3 Pinza left the models speechless i WOOD, Mon. F ball artists cut they come to -Fox imfor ToSing." d one day as and looking very strolled off to the nearby Assis--eague. Behind a sroup of young were modelling it a charity scribing to take a trip got m the I
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    An 'innocent little frolic' proved costly
    135 3 An 'innocent little frolic' proved costly LONDON, Mon. fpWENTY THREE YEARA OLD Alex Herd saw an attractive girl sitting m Epping Forest. What followed was called "an innocent little frolic" by his counsel, when Herd was discharged conditionally by the Stratford magistrates after pleading guilty to assault. For the girl
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    Helicopters hop Atlantic
    77 3 PRESTWICK, Mon. r r O American helicopters making the first flying windmill crossing of the Atlanllc Ocean have broken the distance record lor this type of aircraft The two big Sikorsky H-19s, loaded with extra gas and each carrying a pilot and copilot, thrashed across the 850
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    175 DEFY MALAN RACE LAWS
    59 3 Police at Port Elizabeth i have arrested m batchi es 175 Africans, including 43 women, m the charge of contravening the apartheid (segregation) regulations applying to railway travel. This is the largest total of Africans to be arrested m Port Elizazeth m one day since
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    TUNIS REFORMS
    28 3 The Bey of Tunis has formed a 12-man commission to examine France's revised proposals for reforms m Tunisia. He gave them three weeks to report. Reuter
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    SERVING IN INDIA
    23 3 A total of 660 foreigners, mainly British, are serving m various capacities m India s civil and military services.— A.P.
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    BAN ELECTRIC FISHING CALL
    66 3 The British Government has been asked to help draft a by-law banning the use of an electric fishing machine, except by licence, on Norfolk's Great Ouse. Electric fishing machines were developed m Germany. An electrode is put into the water and fish nearby receive a 5-volt
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    London gift centre closing
    79 3 The Commonwealth Gift Centre m London will close on October 31. After that date the Food Ministry will no longer be able to receive bulk gifts for general distribution or pay the charges for sea and inland carriage to the point of distribution. "The British Government
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    Britain's first A-bomb arrives
    30 3 The closest security guard yet imposed at Freemantle was imposed when the escort carrier Campania —believed to be carrying the first British-designed atom bomb, arrived.— AP.
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    GRATITUDE TO U.S.
    32 3 The British Government has decided to show its gratitude to the United States for the European recovery programme by founding 12 scholarships for American students m British Universities Reuter
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    Two talked in library—and exam leakage was revealed
    136 3 Two talked in library— and exam leakage was revealed NEWCASTLE, Mon. TWO boys at Heaton Grammar School, Newcastle. I who received advance copies Of two examination papers from a printer's apprentice have been suspended by the school and may be expelled. Several other boys and 4 girls are suspected or
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    Daughter was silent for 2 years
    205 3 LONDON. Mon. A DAUGHTER living In her father's house did not speak to him for two years and had Jier meals m another room with her mother. "She was a self-willed woman behaving m a way to outrage the feelmgs of any father," said
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    Hollywood looks after its aged
    310 3 HOLLYWOOD, Monday. ABOUT two miles from Hollywood and Vine, nestled m rolling hills at the far end of the San Fernando Valley, lies a little-publicised paradise where the movie industry cares for its needy, sick and aged. The setting Is a six acre tract of
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    Argentine fears petrol shortage
    44 3 The Argentine, which rationed petrol m January, has cancelled all special petrol permits because of a looming supply shortage. Reason given was the need to build up reserves of fuel for harvesting and transport of the next grain crops.— Reuter
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    'GET FIRE IN YOUR BELLIES'
    62 3 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Deputy Supreme Commander of North Atlantic Forces m Europe, opened a YMCA war memorial hostel m Manchester with this advice to youth "Get a fire m your bellies Do not be content to chu? along. Go out into the world and
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    She never knew real birthday
    82 3 She never knew real birthday Alice Leighton, a 47-year-old lift "girl" m a New York office building, will celebrate her first birthday j next year. She told a New Jersey j court that she was kidnapped as a baby and never knew her real birthday. Judge Edwards Knight has chosen
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    FRIGATE FOR U.S.
    30 3 One of the Royal Navy's i fastest anti-submarine frigates will visit the United States next month to enable American authorities to view new British anti-submarine devices. Reuter
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    Bridge Hand
    287 3 The bidding: West North Last South Pass Pass Pass a 40 44 All Pass Fourth-hand pre-emptive bids, such as Smith's, are made on hands that may include sufficient strength to warrant an opening one bid. Nevertheless, there are advantages to opening pre-emp-tively, especially when vulnerable against non-vulnerable be
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    HE ASSAULTED US, 3 MARRIED WOMEN SAID OF DOCTOR
    491 3 DINFERMLINE, Monday. A LLEGED to have spent more than two and a half hours m the home of a woman patient despite her attempts to get him to leave, a doctor was to suffer from a type of mental disease known
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    Work to stop dally for Eva
    100 3 Bl AIRES, Mon. ARGEMIN General Labour Confederation has ordered workers to down tools for 15 minutes three times a day for a full month m honour of Eva Peron, who died five days ago. AH trains will come to a stop for fire minutes
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    Strong beer brought on 'mob rule'
    156 3 LONDON, Mon. A REMINDER that Dai^ lington beer is really strong went out to Z Reservists from Scotland after a magistrate had protested against "an outbreak, of mob rule m the town." Said the magistrate (Alderman A.J. Best): "The police here are having a
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    RED LINK COST 58 THEIR JOBS
    65 3 A total of 58 British civil servants have been removed from their jobs m the past three years because of their Communist affiliations, Hrn House of Commons was told. Mr. J Boyd Carpener, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, expressed satisfaction over the Government's present
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    RACE LAW DEFIANCE
    35 3 The Natal Indian Congress and the African Congress said m a Joint statement tin Durban that Natal would soon Join other provinces m a great defiance campaign against unjust laws." A. P.
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    SPIES GAOLED
    30 3 Five men and a woman. sent to goal at Stock- holm for spying, were said to have made plan help the Red Army if Russia invad<> Fwrriea^- Reuter
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, August. 4. 1952. A good start
    340 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, August. 4. 1952. A good start FROM the v of be Bendemeei deiru ions blows an wind which is going to do a lot of good to a squatfc ipore. s of delay, the vernment has apparently come to the conclusion that it cannot go
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    Space Ship Trips Ready by 2000
    828 4 MANCHESTER. II'ITH the rapid ad- vances m rocket development that have taken place during the last decade, it appears that the first space ship may land on the moon by the end of this centu: This possibility Immediately raises the allimportant question: Having got
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    Jet Cargo-Planes Planned
    1060 4 Jet Cargo-Planes Planned BRITISH aircraft designers are planning ahead for a great expansion of commercial aviation, which, experts believe, will parallel the growth of merchant shipping at the turn of the century. Just as the "Ocean Greyhounds" of those days were quietly supported by hundreds of cargo vessels whose speed
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    After Farouk-what?
    322 4 rpHE BEST THING I could expect from the departure of King Farouk and the advent to power of General Naguib? That Egypt comes under the rule of a strong man ready to make unpopular decisions because he knows they are right and necessary. For the past year I
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    'EQUALITY' IS A MYTH
    36 4  - 'EQUALITY' IS A MYTH MERE MALE I I I I I be: I that I I I I and h I i I In I I arcc equ. could a bcic i worn* the i the
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    THEY WENT OFF THE ROAD AND CRASHED
    86 5 THEY WENT OFF THE ROAD AND CRASHED irs rrashed at the Johore Grand Prix v#»* RIGHT: Aik Hj;U (h m skids an d crash,^ n the third lap of the race for produc rti I »r> 1.:>00 c.c. and under. The rear wheel of I damaged. Chan was unhurt. Negotiatine
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    CALL FOR MORE LADY ALMONERS
    187 5 IPOH, Monday. TI'LKAK Anti-Tuberculosis Association at iurday's annual meeting decided to write lo mment again stressing the need for at least r three lady almoners m the State and for a t to undertake the treatment of patients. Report ing on the settlement scheme m
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    DROWNED WHILE BATHING
    86 5 DROWNED WHILE BATHING A LUMPUR, Mon. A told the .r Coroner ..t her 11-year-ft home tarly bathe m a nd later m the ur recovered m the bottom of Kensr Yoke ffcer >he and :i left for work 29, her daughr Kirn L:n went to n the pool 500 yards
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    Jakarta man weds in S'pore
    43 5 Jakarta man weds in S'pore Limn, presi- ila van Chinese Singapore ited at the wedrkn Siong Beng Kok Eng at Restaurant. n Saturday. 3eng is the son and Mrs. Tan Goen Jakarta, and h!s th c daughter of Mr. Seh. an exporter 'oduce.
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    17 5 picture MR. WEE CHOO HIN and Miss Yap Siew Kwee who were married m Singapore. Free Press
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    Two new villages get schools
    92 5 Two new villages get schools KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. SETTLERS m new villages should be grateful to the Government for the vast j amount of money and attent tion spent on them, Pahang's I Mentri Besar, Tengku Pang- lima Perang Tengku Muha- mad, told the people of Jer- koh and Bent
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    Factories told of creche
    45 5 Factories told of creche Singapore Labour Depart- ment has told a number of factories employing women workers about the availability of creche facilities at the Oversea Chinese Child Care Centre. Balmoral Road. A spokesman of the Department said yesterday: "Tl?e centre asked us to help.
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    Blackout schedule
    136 5 T.STATIOXS liable to load shedding tonight are: Serangoon, S#nnett Estate, Kolam Ayer, Boundary Rd., Florence Rd., Ippei^ Serangoon, Yio Chu Kang, Govt. Printing Works, Woodleigh Park. Braddell Heights, Tg. Kutong. Broadrick Rd., Sea View Hotel, East Coast Rd.. Teluk Kurau Ocean Park Hotel, Bedok, Changi 9!- milestone, Changi
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    50 will build a church
    138 5 ELEVEN Methodist Youth Fellowship members from Singapore will be among the 50 Christian youths from Malaya and overseas who wiil attend Malaya's first international work camp at Pendamaran new village, near Port Swettenham, from Aug. 12 to Sept. 3. Leader of the Colony delegation is
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    Calligraphy competition
    36 5 The China Society, Singapore, will hold its first Chinese calligraphy competition at the Chinese Swimming Club at 8 p.m. on Aug. 27. It is being held to commemorate the 2503 rd birthday of Confucius.
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    Cathedral to hold fair
    31 5 A fete and fun fair will be held on Sept. 20 In the grounds of St. Andrew's Cathedral. The event is being organised by the Cathedral's Council.
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    Firms want grads but varsity men aren't interested
    277 5 Firms want grads but varsity men aren't interested INHERE are at least 12 well-paid jobs available for graduates m two Singapore business houses. But University of Malaya men are not keen on commercial careers. Most graduates, said one business executive, prefer administrative posts m Government than "starting from the bottom"
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    CLINIC IGNORES PROTEST
    96 5 CLINIC IGNORES PROTEST Free Press Staff Reporter DESPITE a protest from four Singapore Chinese physicians' and druggists' associations, the Thong Chai medical treatment, Mr. Ng cided to provide free Western medical treatment, Mrd. Ng Quee Lam, an official of the institution, told the Free Press yesterday. Free treatment by Chinese
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    10 NEGRI SCOUTS TO ATTEND CAMP
    103 5 EMBAN, Mon. rN Nfgrl Sembilaa Scouts unc Chon 1 Huatt Anglq-( School. Seremban, will attend the South-East Asa patr<>l camp at Castle Camp, Kuala I Lumpur, from Aug. 11 to 16 I They are, Chan Kwee Fong. nuipd Hashim bin Sahnm. Tan Mah Thai,
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    NAUTICAL SCHOOL WILL TRAIN 5
    101 5 NAUTICAL SCHOOL WILL TRAIN 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S first poii-war school to train engineers for the mercantile marine will be opened tomorrow. Mr D. Stewart-Charles, the acting principal of the school, told the Free Press yesterday. Fiv e will take the threemonth course. These were selected by the
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    Co-op plans to expand
    85 5 rpHE Johore Bahru CoA operative Stores Society Limited plans to increase its capital from $43,000 to $100,000 m a move to stock more goods to meet family requirements. Mr. Liang Boon, chairman of the Society, said that the store was unable to meet demands for household
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    MALAYS TO MEET ON M.C.A. GIFT
    255 5 MALAYS TO MEET ON M.C .A. GIFT Free Press Staff Reporter REPRESENTATIVES of Singapore Malay organis- ations will meet on Aug. 10 to decide on what to do with the Colony's share of the $500,000 MCA gift to the Malays. I It is not yet known how much of the
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    POWER BOARD WON'T WORK CITY OFFICIAL
    431 5 'Difficulties m Britain ELECTRICITY and gas services should be managed by the elected representatives of the people, says a Singapore City Council official m a memorandum to the Council. The memorandum discusses the recommendation by Dr. L. C. Hill Government should set up a
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    A week to get ready
    82 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Pritam Singh, a Special Con- stable yesterday successfully j protested m the police court against a postponement of his case. He is charged with corruptly accepting $4 from a lorry driver. Pritam Singh said h e had been taken off duty since
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    HOUSEMEN: ASSN. TAKES CASE TO GOVT.
    170 5 HOUSEMEN: ASSN. TAKES CASE TO GOVT. KU.'LA LUMPUR. II THE ALUMNI COU of the King Edv VII College of Medicine has taken up with the Government the grievances of medical housen the Free Press was told yesterday. Youns doctors have plained aboitf. cor. service and treatment durIr i>eriod of ho;
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    Weather delays memorial hall
    40 5 Weather delays memorial hall Tlie recent bad weather m Singapore has held up v on the Cathedral Memorial Hall and postponed its opening from Aug. 29 to Sept. 11. The hall will serve as t centre for all Christ -an*
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    RECORD OLYMPIAD IS OVER
    424 6 176 World and Olympic marks THE 15th Olympiad came to an official close yesterday with the United States winning the unofficial team championship from a strong Russian team, which was competing m the international games for the first time since the days of the Czar. It
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    GOLD MEDAL FOR BRITAIN
    124 6 GEEAT BRITAIN won hrr (.old Medal of the hi the last t-trnt at Helinki yesferday. Britain was pii-rd fir-: the Grand Prix I>;s Nations, the eqaesirian tram event. celebrated bay geH F«xhnnt?r. ridden by Colonel v Llewellyn, clinched ihc ry when th?r rode a tless second
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    CANADA WIN
    16 6 Canada won the ftm North American Davis cup tte from Mexico on Saturday U.P.
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    All the finals
    402 6 SWIMMING MEN'S 1.580-M. FREESTYLE 1. F. Konno (OM.\ 18:30 (Olympic record) 2. S. Hashizume (Japan) 18:41.4; 3. T. Okamoto (Braxll) 18:51.3; 4. J. McLane (U.S.) 18:51.5; S. J. Pernardo (France) 18:59.1; 6. Kitamura (Japan) 19:0.4; 7. P. Duncan (S. Africa) 19:12.1; 8. J. Marshall (Australia) 19:55.4. MEN'S
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    MAAA prospect
    190 6 I. STTART, Singapore's twenty-five-year-old iDm pole-vault sensation has reached a new peak m clearing 11 ft. 9^ ins. to shatter the existing Malayan record of 11 ft. 5 ins. He was competing m the annual athletic meet between Combined Services and Combined Civilians, at the S.R.C. Padang on
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    REFEREE KAYOED
    64 6 REFEREE KAYOED V. Gieslinkas of the Uruguayan basketball team (left) squares up to American referee Vincent Farrell during the Olympic basketball match between France and Uruguay at Helsinki. After the match which the French won by 68 points to 66, Farrell was mobbed by players and spectators, floored by a
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    JEUNNESSE ROMPS HOME AT PENANG
    1141 6 How they ran on Saturday From ALLAN LEWIS lEUNNESSE running right up to her gallop of Thursday morning s h J clean pair of heels to the opposition m the main race, Class l t led a Penang on Saturday. Jeunnesse who gave a little
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    SOUVENIR HUNT AT HELSINKI IS 0N....
    71 6 SOUVENIR HUNT AT HELSINKI IS 0N.... SOUVENIR hunters began stripping Helsinki on Saturday, 48 hours be fore th« end of the Olympic Games. Someone took all the numerals used on the basketball score hoard. No score was shown for the first ten minutes of the Brazil-Chile game until a new
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    U.K. cricket
    110 6 SATURDAY'S County cricket results:— K*U t Smrey (Oral): Notts S4 (Alec Bedaer 5-38, Surrldge 5-38). Surrey 65—1. Gloucester t SinTft (BrfcUl; Gloucester 340 4, (Crapp 60. Tom Graveuey not out 113. Miltoo 56). Nortfcamts v Leicester (NTiamp ton): Leicester 236 6 iPalmer 9b. Jackson 54). Smkx t MMAeaex
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    INDIAN HOCKEY TEAM TRIUMPH
    49 6 INDIAN hockey champion* defeated a European combination, five-one m Amsterdam on Saturday. India delighted a crowd of 10,000. At half time India had a fournil lead over the team, billed as an "outstanding eleven of individual players that European put on a hockey tieid" U.P.
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    WHITEHORN LEAVES
    139 6 WHITEHORN LEAVES PETE WHIT] known S star, leaves i Kingdom tomorrow the troopship Dunera He captained REME to victory for the last Friday m tHe match a Royal Air Force Whitehorn has M cer seasons m ..ore, having arrived v: the Colony m August 1948 Ha is the only active
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    DIVECHA 8 FOR 74
    174 6 DIVECHA 8 FOR 74 P*INE bowling by Rama&b Divtcha, the Oxford blue. who. i with lltUe assistance from tfae I pitch, took eight wicketa for and a fighting inning of 75 by Jim Pleas*, highlighted the fir*; day's play at Swansea between I the Indian tourists and Glamorgan. Pleas*, with
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    DAVIS CUP
    40 6 FE United Cuba on Saturday II flr*t round of the Da\is Cup tennis eliminations at I The United States thu* qualified to meet Canada at Montreal next week-end m the final round of the North American v»*-~ A.P.
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    800 7 Dance Hall to win first race From ALLAN LEWIS T.IK roiilt of the PeMßf (iold Cup, main race this afternoon, final day of the Penang Turt Cltb'fl Aimust Hank Holiday Meeting, is a fore- >iv lusion as far as public opinion is conrtrned, beiau>e nothing else but Kntertainment II ua>
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    Singapore in Polo final
    275 7 Singapore in Polo final IN a thrilling and hard-fought game. Singapore Polo Club year s winners, defeated Selangor Blues by the odd goal m five j P s erday "on the Thomson Road polo grcund to enter the final against Selangor Polo Club m the Malaya Polo Association tourna■Mat which
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    Goalkeeper sent off
    65 7 'rrOWN Rangers' goalkeeper *as 1 ordered off the field by 'he referee In yesterday's S.A.P. junior Cup match against Windsor Rovers at Jalan Besar Stadium. The incident, occurring early m the match, left R« n K CT wi j£ ten men and Uiey lost by six Salleh
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    233 7 ALLAN LEWIS IBSSfASSEB EPSOM JEEP CAI4. B«* POINTER Rare 1 ,T7 NC F DANCE HALL~ DANCE HALL DANCE HALL DANCE HALL 215 h.irdm Rit "fire Lefebvre full Till Master Touch Master i ouch Master Touch Rimfire Lyon Kinr ™!_I!H Race 2 DftMNIA DEWAR STYMIE GRAND DOMBEY
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    666 7 Race 1— ?.15: Cl. 2, Div. 3 -6F. 1 000 Piercebi id** C.iarlts 9.00 2 -2 Dance Hall II l'ulloh 9.00 3 236 Kimfire MiCloud 8.13 4 —0 Trims vie Smi h 8.12 5 029 Lyon King Russell 8.08 6 940 Full Till Pe 'rival 8.07 7 —5
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    NORTH LEAD ON FIRST INNINGS
    247 7 VTOfcTH with five second innings' wickets m hand lead South by 204 runs m their annual cricket "Test" match on the padang. When stumps were drawn yesterday, North had scored 136 for five m their second knock. North totalled 277 m the first innings. South
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    Penang enter MCFA final
    117 7 Penang Chinese beat Selangor Chinese by two goals to nil m the replay of the M.C.F.A. Cup semi-final on the Victorian Geren, Penang, yesterday. Penang will meet Johore m the final. Both goals were scored by inside-right Poh Beng m the fourth and 50th minutes. Selangor
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    GERMAN GRAND PRIX
    63 7 ALBERTO Ascari of Italy yesterday won the German Grand Prix lor the third successive year. Driving a Ferrari, he covered the 410.58 kilometres course. 18 lap* of the specially constructed circuit m the pine clad mountains, In three hours six minutes 13.3 seconds. His average .speed was
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    Poh Lim loses to A. Piruz
    727 7 LAST ni^ht was a night of major upsets m che Malayan Badm;iiion tournament neid at the Singapore Bad- niinton Hall. Guillemard ftoad. One of the two major upsets was when young Abdullah Piruz of Selangor, who was conceded a walkover on Saturday night, shattered
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    Johore cheered Rahman
    139 7 Johore cheered Rahman rIVIE CROWD had a 1 special cheer for their townsman. 31-year-old A. Rahman bin Haji Siraj astride a Norton Manxman 348 c.c. who m the event for 350 c.c. machines and under decided over 10 laps ripped into the lead m the eighth lap to win the
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    TOURISTS TOO GOOD FOR BUSINESSMEN
    321 7 TOURISTS TOO GOOD FOR BUSINESSMEN South Chnia 5 S.B.H.F.A 1. BEFORE more than 3.500 spectators at J a 1 a n Besar Stadium yesterday, South China A. A. the touring football team. scored a splendid five-one victory over Singapore Business Houses F.A.. m their second match m the Colony. South
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    Maxwell is champion
    171 7 TVTAJOR R. St. George Maxwell, ITX scoring 303 points, became Champion Shot at the Singapore Rifle Association August Bisley, 1952. which concluded a successful two-day meeting at No. 2 Range at Nee Soon yesterday. Major Maxwell, one of King's 100 m the Bisley Shoot m England, was
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    Rubber planters win the two main events
    824 7 Rubber planters win the two main events Results 'pWO rubber planters, Selangor's Derek White and Perak's Reggie Trevor captured the major honours m the Johore Grand Prix car and motor cycle races at Johore Bahru yesterday. White won the Johore Grand Prix co: over 72 miles and 330 yards, while
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    Beaty retains singles title
    62 7 C C BEATY &ur cssfully deo# fended Mi singles Wb day. against Lrcnji Hoe Yeng m the Selangor Lawn Tennis Championship. Beaty won 6-2. 6-3. Highlight n{ tlte dav'.s play was the mixed doubles m which H J Sinclair and Mrs. H Dew beat I V
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    TENNIS TIES
    97 7 The Singapore open tenma single* final will take pla.»e the V.M.C.A at 315 ptn i > The ties are: 3.lft 9 m H»»f«. tiaflr- hn»| Mn Giadvs L- I Mm S M P*U tereon Men s Mit" *o«l: ON f Hrm v Lim H»t- (Li, ».n.: Mra 4ouk«ri.
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      72 7 Today's Sport SOCCER COMMI'MTY LEACiIE: Europeans t Indian* at J- Besar. DIV. 2: Harbour Board t Medical workers at CYMA. DIV. 3B: Rovers \V v Immigration at Geylanf. BI SINESS HOISES: OTEC v I A a i Shell; Rotterdam v Guthrie at Farrer Park. GOLF COLONY championships, RSGC from 8.30
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    RIDG WAY PREPARES FOR SHOOTING WAR
    317 8 RIDG WAY PREPARES FOR SHOOTING WAR SHAPE takes on a new look PARIS, Monday. 4 DETERMINED campaign by General Mathew Ridifway to make his allied garrisons m Europe ready for battle is giving the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers m Europe a new look. Quietly, wriile world interest was
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    GIRL GUIDE LEADERS MEET
    28 8 GIRL GUIDE LEADERS MEET international than I.IOJ eirl guide leaders oper.ed In Paris day. represented lnIndta, Austr: Canada. Kgypt, Ireland, the r States T the French Un:on.— Reuter
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    Communists offered him five women
    182 8 NEvV YORK. Mon. rrvj make him into a wellJL developed Communist, a former New York Red said the party five times tried to get him "to move m with veil- developed OommtmM women." Imony about love m the Communist Party ranks was given at the
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    HAWTREY GETS NEW POST
    47 8 HA WTREY GETS NEW POST Air Vice Marshal Johu Hawtrey. 51. has been appointed Air Officer Commanding. Iraq. Air Vice Marshal Hawtrey been senior Air Staff Officer. Far East Air Force. :e Octo'rer. 1951. He succeeds Air Vice Marshal Gecrse R:bert EcamLsh m the Iraq post. Reuter
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    LATE SHIPMENTS
    25 8 Britain has warned timber exporters m British Columb:.i that a £5.357.000 order will probably be cancelled becauK shipments are not arr'v.ng on A.P.
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    BURGLED BROTHEL
    18 8 Japanese police arrested Frt-n sailors and charged thi-.n wi.h burglary m a brothel m Yokosuka. A.P.
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    W. Berlin chase out invaders
    226 8 RED RALLY FAILS TO COME OFF BEKLIN, Monday. OLUB-SWINGING West Berlin police broke up a ralh by 200 Comniua st youths In the British sector sterday after Ked r>lans for massive demonstrations by thousands cf invaders haa failed. Police cracked as few heads as possible,
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    Trade pact demanded
    41 8 East Pakistan Muslim mer•hants' biggest organisation. Muslim Chamber of Commerce m Chittagong has moved the Government for an immediate trade pact with Red China with a view to import Chinese rice, wheat. camphor, chinpware silk and piecetoor* U.P.
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    PRESIDENT QUIRINO IN INDONESIA
    70 8 PRESIDENT QUIRINO IN INDONESIA liV Pail president. Elpidc Quirino, saw an exhibition of Javanese dancing daring his recent state visit to Indonesia. The performance took place at the ancesiral residence of the Paku Alam, one of tlw feudal Javanese prinip 1 1 at Jakarta. Picture shew* (left to rUht): Tr
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    Court gave thief cash
    65 8 4 MAGISTRATE m a 1\ H.r.is Kono police court sent a Chinese to u>i for a month with HKc!2d m his pocket from the court's poor-box. The Chinese had stolen a mahjon? set to buy milk for his baby. The r.iasistrat? cave the Chinese, charged with
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    U.N. gels $3 m. gift
    44 8 GENE* A, Mon. ■PHE United Nations High Commission for Refi announced yesterday receipt of $2,900,000 from the Ford Foundation m Pasadena, California. The money will be used for programmes fcr a permanent solution of the European refugee problem.- U.P.
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    16 8 The Indian-Pakistan subcontinent is suffering an invasion cf locusts, possibly the biggest m its history. Reuter
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    'JAPAN WILL END THE IMITATING'
    187 8 LONDON, Monday THE Japanese Government are doing all m their power to prevent unfair practices. Japan's first post-war Ambassador, Mr. Shunichi Matsumoto, declared m London. Mr. Matsumoto said that his Government had issued various orders to stop the manufacture of goods \*hich might result m
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    Lantern slides start fight
    41 8 Lantern slides start fight Communists visited a labourers' field camp near Tokyo to give a propaganda lantern slide show. The labourers did not want to look. Result: A free fight, no converts, several labourers injured, nine Communists 1 arrested. A. P.
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    Wife made ladder from sheets for escaping lover
    179 8 Wife made ladder from sheets for escaping lover LONDON A COLONEL'S wife made a lac sheets to let a man out of I The man landed on a passing incident, said Mr. Justice Karminsk Court here was ludicrous rather tha>" The judge dismissed a petition by Colonel Douglas Lyall Darling,
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    OLSO CHEERS KING HAAKON
    56 8 OLSO CHEERS KING HAAKON King Haakon of Norway bra'eri his 30th birthday m o^uring rain He 6: through the streets of Oslo m an open car to the accompaniment of cheering by thousands of Norweig.ans. The crowds had waited for hours and outside hosp the pavements were reserved for patients,
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    Food champions freedom
    49 8 Food champions freedom Mr. Hairy Ford 11. President of the Ford Motor Ccmpany, was named m New York yesterday to succeed General Lucius D. Clay as National Chairman of the Crusade for Freedom, a private organisation which established Radio Free Eurcpe and Radio Free Asia to combat Communism. Reuter
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    PAID WIFE'S FINE
    43 8 CoL Allen W. Reed, former commander of I he D S. Army post at Wiesbaden m Germany has paid m full the U553,982 fine, levied on hi! wife for selling coffee, pe'roi coupons and currency on the black market. A.P.
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    U.S. NAVY PLANES STRIKE
    64 8 U.S. NAVY PLANES STRIKE AMERICA rk war Hormy v Korea y Comniur. with boml chinegui Planrs Pnncet m the down on plar^ power sup] Eleven hits a transform *d an i mci:' two i i surface Bremerton ers R-.. crashed m b barrage on i tions del plar ar.d flew
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    BURGLAR LEFT NAME, ADDRESS
    25 8 BURGLAR LEFT NAME, ADDRESS A New V dropped a tion form for i ment. fillet and adcr The ap nes. 21 that he bery- A.P.
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    EAST GERMANS ASK FOR HELP
    12 8 EAST GERMANS ASK FOR HELP I m W celeb: land", appeal: Reuter
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    14 8 Richard 1 lunteer fire~ en charges which hp then heir out.- A.P
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      52 8 Solution £o Crossword No. 730 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION Aero*,: 1. Ark. 3, Malabar. 7, Sardine tins. 8, Boot-legger. 10, School mam. 14, Butch r blue. 15,' Nostril. IC. Sad Down: 1. Also 2. Kirk o' s:utts. 3, Moist. 4 Liege. 5. Bridge rolls. 6. Resort." 9. Ash-bin. 11, Other. 12. Moral
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