The Singapore Free Press, 7 August 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 4t>l. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    GROMYKO SEES KOEN
    10 1 GROMYKO SEES KOEN to, the ador to I on I
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    TAX PROTEST
    9 1 hotels Bomba' v m a the proposal
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    TEST FLIGHT
    10 1 on at Perth yesLts return I ar service
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    PERSIA ON BRINK OF RED RUIN
    381 1 Britain fears Russia may strike south LONDON, Thursday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, ha- tailed a Cabinet meeting today to study ning reports" from Persia. vteriorating situation m "that country is approaching "breaking: point." Growth of > paved the way for the Communists
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    FORGERS GET $50 A LICENCE
    23 1 FORGERS GET $50 A LICENCE Reporter. Police who are iing a gang rg -.r.ving ooniture of left the Traffic a: -day D de-
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    BOUQUET FOR PILGRIM
    52 1 picture. Free Press The Tungku Ampuan, wife of the Sultan of Selangor, smiles and says thanks as she receives a bouquet from Master Miles Templer, son of the High Commissioner, at the Kuala Lumpur railway station. The Sultan and the Tungku Ampuan later sailed from Port Swett^nham
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    Japs may sell to Red China
    140 1 Japs may sell to Red China WASHINGTON, Thursday. 4 GREEMENT has been reached between the United States and Japan which will permit shipment of non-strategic materials from Japan to Communist China, said a state Department spokesman, Mr. Lincoln White, yesterday. Mr. White said that discussions on the lifting of previous
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    Their name was Farouk
    28 1 CAIRO, Thurs. HUNDREDS of fathers yesterday besieged council offices throughout Egypt to have their sons' names cTianged from Farouk to something more fashionable. A.P.
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    MAN DIES IN LORRY ACCIDENT
    119 1 Free Press Staff Reporter "V|R. A. K. D. Nair a senior itl employee of the SingaWar Department, was killed yesterday when he was thrown from a lorry which skidded and overturned at the junction of South Buona Vista and Pasir Panjang Roads. Mr. Nair was
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    Ceylonese and citizenship
    70 1 COLOMBO, Thurs. •THE CEYLONESE Premi 1 Mr. Dudley Senanayake said In Parliament yesterdv that the present citizenship laws will be suitably amended if Ceylonese nationals m Malaya and Singapore were unduly inconvenienced by the citizenship laws there. Answering a question, h? said, he would enquire what steps
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    ENVOY FOR LONDON
    21 1 Dr. Subandrio. Indonesian idor m London, will -'lcrily be succeeded by Mr. Darmasetiawan, secretary ernl for Foreign Affairs
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    Thieves take dinner coat in booty
    118 1 Thieves take dinner coat in booty A DINNER jacket and a pair of linen trousers were among articles stolen oy burglars who broke into the room of a European m Meyer Road. Singapore, night. The owner also missed a brief case containing an identity card and driving licence .three lighters,
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    FASHION SUBSIDY
    26 1 The French fashion industry, hard hit by high overheads and textile prices, will set a 400,000,000-franc (£400,--000) subsidy, says a Paris report. A. P.
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    RHEE LEADS IN S. KOREA ELECTIONS
    106 1 PUSAN. Thurs. PRESIDENT Syngman Rhee was assured of re-election I last night m the Republic of i Korea (South) elections. Returns from about half of South Korea's electoral dis- tricts gave him a lead of more than 1,500.000 votes over his nearest rival m
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    STOLE FROM CAR
    30 1 Two baskets containing clothing and fruit were stolen yesterday from an unlocked car, parked outside the Raffles Library, Singapore. Th? property belonged to a European woman. A.P.
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    Yvonne wants a brainy man
    124 1 LONDON. Thurs. film st.\r Kj Yvcnne de Carlo came to London yesterday and announced with a sigh thai she is looking for a man with "character" because good-looking males "have no brains." Yvonne, gorgeous m a flaring jacket of silver mink, told newsmen at London
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    Egypt, Britain pledge to keep in 'close touch'
    281 1 Egypt, Britain pledge to keep in 'close touch' CAIRO, Thursday. ORITAIN AND EGYPT affirmed their friendship yesterday and said they would keep m close touch during the "present critical situation." A joint statement was issued by the Egyptian Premier, Aly Maher, and the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson, after a
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    Dispute will be discussed
    80 1 Dispute will be discussed Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE General Labour Union representatives will meet officials of Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox tomorrow m an effort to settle the labour dispute at the Pasir Panjang Power Station Mr. Peter M. Williams, th union's president, said thu^ he received a letter from
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    50 WOUNDED IN CLASH
    30 1 Fifty people including high government officials were wounded by gunfire m a flareup of armed violence yesterday m north central Guatemala over recent agrarian reform laws.
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    PAYMENT FOR JEWS
    35 1 Agreement was announced at The Hague yesterday on a first draft of a treaty under which West Germany will pay Israel compensation believed to total $715,000,000 for Jewish victims of Nazism. Reuter
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    NEW U.S. ENVOY
    22 1 Mr. James Moose, the new American Minis ter to Syria, who is 47, arrived at Damascus yesterday, says Reuter
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    SHE'LL SING TO TROOPS
    28 1 CAROLE CARR 8.8.C. sinking star of "Calling All Forces," wil soon be entertaining British troops m Korea. She leaves London 1 on Sept. 3.
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    Bubonic plague
    16 1 An outbreak of bubonic plague m a village m southern Saudi Arabia has ended.
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    Peking ban on outside Chinese
    233 1 Peking ban on outside Chinese HONG KONG, Thurs. rE Chinese Commu: have established a new unwritten law denying the Cninese their bir of returning home when they are not wanted by foreigncountries. They allow exceptions for certain types of Chinese, however. Tnis unwritten law had a sequel m a Hong
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    U.S. PLANE CRASH
    28 1 U.S. PLANE CR AS H An American B-29 Superfortress crashed into a mountain near Tokyo yesterday and three of the crew were killed. Nine others escaped injury. Reuter
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    Church and labour
    32 1 Pope Pius XII said yesterday that the Roman Catholic Church has always had the interests of workers at heart and was effectively co-operating m their social "I VOC-C Reuter
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    Murder, Robbery, Blackmail
    604 2 Murder, Robbery, Blackmail This story of a famous U.S. deiective agency has them all. THERE are some k parts of the Amorlcan scene, such as fried chicken, Presidential elections, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, that pie who v not Americana never quite id. In England, for Ine, crime is
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    THE Great Living Art Expert
    445 2 THE Great Living Art Expert 77?3 men whose verdict brought joy or sorrow to collectors of Old Masters looks back on a full life. Xl MOm AND REFLECTION, by Bernard Berenson. (Constable). WHEN m 1944. shortly after the libe of Florence, a of America i se diaries In his neighbour
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    Farewell appearance
    91 2 DOROTHY Morrcll. Singapore's leading dramatic actress, wiN make her farewell appearance m the Arts Theatre production of "This Was a Woman", the drama which opens at the Victoria Theatre on Tuesday. August 19. She will play the part of Olivia the woman whose desire for power brings ruin
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    69 2 Six men and a girl intend to float across the Mediterranean to prove that philosophy is greater than love. They believe that intelligent people cm live m harmony away from civilization even when they are of different sexes. The party includes Muriel Grand a Hull nurse, an ex-Naval officer, an
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    Beauty in a Tale About Fish
    750 2  - Beauty in a Tale About Fish Pat Murphy Book Reviews by mkile Peter Quewmll is on holiday UNDER REVIEW The Book of the Sea Trout. by liamish Stuart (Jonathan Cape) The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, by Carson McCullers. iCresset Press). T ITERATURE is the greatest of the Arts if
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    This is Just Vulgar Rot,
    377 2  -  NANCY SPAIN says September m Quinze by Vivian Connell. The Baby Snatcher by Carol Kendall Witchcraft by Pennethorne Hughes \T one time I thought Mr. Vivian Connell, whose new novel SEPTEMBER IX QI'IXZE (Hutchinson), is published today, was capable of producing a novel that was
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    BOOKS in the SHOPS
    16 2 BOOKS in the SHOPS 1 ford I hoy thu retin n ord- 1 int 0/ .v.v.v.
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      167 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOK\ today, your disposi- inclined to hide them under tion v rather stern and a soft exterior. You have the not as pliable as it mi s ht t>e. well-known iron fist m a velou like tbingH done your vet fflove! You may look soft. o*n wav
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      127 2 New Crossword No. 734 VLVEB ACBOBB I ject sa PP er>s flLse < 6) <• It's giand to h. ye all the tfldn (4). 7. Fiery old bed-heater s (7, 4). 9. Be sad about it (5) 10. Eve' s all right at heart (5». 11. Raise an oriental inn
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      42 2 Solution to Crossword No. 733 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION Across: 1. Sedative. 3. Pi oof Spirit. 8. Tide. 9. Redeem. 11. Eyelid. 12. Brat. 14. Spring water. 15. rft'l. Down: 1. Sword-bearer 1 D»ft. 3. Tippet. 4. Vertebrates. 5. Spotless. 7. Tempters. 10. B:r-
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    BALLOONS WILL TAKE BIBLES TO MOSCOW
    74 3 BALLOONS WIL L TA KE BIBLES TO MOSCOW EDINBURGH, Thurs. balloons, II pits of b ated o^ to m the proved by 300 tie Internamcil of Christ. from thj MclnU.S.A. i Rs v .-.mane money to laun.?h tbc Bible and: I I igil t::e Middle vluded balloons i regularh rities
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    Siar makes final bow
    38 3 Siar makes final bow LC I Thurs. ELDS, who came more, M .n the Bri- > "Bur Bow* :ed 73. at D on Sunday ting a brief turn on Lancashire :np where she sang ton Ber od collapsed A.P.
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    More alcoholism in Australia
    27 3 Mor e alcoholism in Australia ttnditions and .ive re cases of proBritj iern people strain had upsurge of B neurotic per:.t!y turn to health ex- Reuter AAP
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    NO INSULTS
    22 3 icns that I Bul..ted E i and Neuter. :h of Sir Goc* 3. formerly Chief the Government i home igharnLon-
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    Warship is woman s second son'
    186 3 NAPLES, TL:an m Pai--1 Massachusetts, U.S. A i special interest m a jrcr m the Italian I:aiian warship is :he Andromeda. The womar is Mrs. We sod. Once. the called them in honour ofl only son, Lt Wesson. killed m World Wwt 11. January,
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    DUST-UP OVER THE DUSTMAN
    64 3 When the dustman refused to include a dead cat m his take-away, and two other council employees made a special call with horse and cart to remove the corpse, a Malvem (Australia) resident complained m a newspaper letter that dustmen were becoming "pernickety." Australian dustmen earn
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    26 3 The Jordan Regency Council has called an extraordinary session of the national assembly for next Monday to discuss the health of the aili.ir King Talal. Reuter
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    'TIGER HUNT' BRINGS CRISH TO RED CHINA
    328 3 'TIG ER HUNT' BRINGS CRISH TO RED CHINA XTEW Chi» i HONG KONG, Thursday WMmmm, The Communist officially- I designated "tiger hunt" spearheaded the Communist leacer. Mao Tie-tune's mpt to hasten New Cmna's transition from successful revolution to the complete socialist state. l Played the major role m *ha t
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    'Radio brolly' covers sea, ail approaches to British Isles
    219 3 LONDON, Thurs. ALL approaches to the British Isles, by sea or air, are now under an invisible, though very real, radio umbrella that provides a complete navigational coye r and allows an accurate .andfall to be made m any weather. This
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    BUCKLEY
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    THE BIG LIFT
    35 3 A gust of wind lifted a 10 ft dinghy 100 yards from the at Cottesloe. Austraover a steep sand hill. k wall, across a street and nroush a cottage window Reuter AAP
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    U.S. MALES SLOPPY, SAYS STAR
    221 3 U.S. MALES SLOPPY, SAYS STAR NEW YORK, Thurs. AMERICA'S "great big hemen" must perk up a bit if they want to hold the interest of their wives and girl friends, says Gloria Swaason, who at 50-plus is still i glamour girl. Mr. America has failed to keep pace with his
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    ESCAPE FROM REDS
    23 3 Four young Hungarians escaped from a Communist forced labour camp to Austria by wading three miles through Budapest sewers U.P.
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    Pedlar denies deaf woman's allegations
    245 3 Pedlar denies deaf woman's allegations LONDON, Thursday. T>EAF and white-haired, a 49-year-old woman. who walked with the aid of a stick, gave evidence against a travelling pedlar at Henley, Oxfordshire, by answering written questions. The man, Herbert Wynne, aged 43, was sent for trial at Oxford Assizes. Bail was allowed.
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    WASHINGTON TALK
    43 3 The South African Finance Minister, Mr. Nicolas Haven- ga, will confer with the U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. Dean Acheson, the* Secretary of Treasury, Mr. John Snyder and other high level officials following his arrival at Washington on Sept. 16.— U.P.
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    SPIT AND POLISH
    45 3 SPIT AND POLISH picture. STREAMLINED Windmill girls take polishing rags and paintbrush to Windmill Girl (the Theatre's plane) to give it an extra gloss. The Jiard-working lovelies (from left) are Madeline Hearne, Brenda Gilbert and Jane Bowman, normally showgirls at the famous Windmill Theatre. Reuter
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    LONDON BOUND
    30 3 The Heian Maru, first Japanese ship to dock m an Italian port since the end of the war. has berthed at Geona from Ynlrnhama bound for London.- A.P.
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    Pre-emptive Bids
    639 3 AMONG the better English bridge players, the preferred system is Acol, a bidding method developed primarily by the late S. J. Simon and the present leading British player, Terence Reese. Acol's style is free and easy. It includes no artificial bids, but uses many so-called "limit" bids bids
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    Married for revenge
    61 3 NAPLES. Thurs. AN 80-year-old Italian has married an 18-year-old girl m Naples "to spite the Government," he said. For years he had fought for a pension. At last he won. Said he: "I know I shall not live long, but they will have to give my widow
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    ROSSINI OPERA FOUND IN ROME
    55 3 An Italian conducter announced m Rome that he has discovered «an unpublished opera by Gioactvno Rossini, early 19th century composer of the "Barber of Seville" and •William Tell." Tne finder, Natale OallloL said the previously unknovn Rossini work was titled Oedipus at Colonus. based nn
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      277 3 SLfWfiAi'OPP Aniit Ue uj.; 10 •3iJ*or\x-^nri Time For ufunc: 10.3j-11 Music 10 a.m. News; 10. '5 Music For Dancing. While You Work; 10.45 Perry Como Show; 11—11.30 London n ri Studio Melodies; 1 p.m. E?ri Tow- JB. D. C ncr and his Concert Orch.: 1.30 News* 1.45—2 Jerry Gray's Orch.;
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  • The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, August 7. 1952
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      Japs will be Japs
      300 4 T. vssivc tvvo-and-alf year sentence led by the Japanese on two 21 -y ar-old :appy Brr ines the tor the Government m London m its demand t* rv icemen, m t b tuld be a: military I cotui T Japanese In I .nee the OCC m
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      Passed to you
      274 4 >TO longer will files m U c I Singapore Government Secretariat be "passed to you for comment ?rd necessary action" any). Ph P efficiency experts have decided to end at any rate tho mechanics of this traditional means of passing the can. Memoranda will b? written instead,
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    Adventure Didn't Go Out With Sail
    878 4 Adventure Didn't Go Out With Sail AFTER SCHOOL -THE SEA? THERE'S A MAN'S LIFE AFLOAT, SAYS CAPT C. M. FORD, FORMER CUNARD COMMODORE WHO COMMANDED THE QUEEN MARY AND THE QUEEN ELIZABETH T>OES the sea offer that something "worth while" for which, as I becomes more complex and competition more
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    FOR JOHN SOYER THE BELL TOLUD JUST ONCE
    339 4 A story off the war that has never b .en tc it happened m Frcnse on a day m l^\T Eight years on... the French recall the great events of the Liberation ...in Britain thousands of ex-Service men, recall vividly the stirring
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    Austria Makes Clocks, Too
    180 4 ONE always associates clocks, watches and all time-pieces with Switzerland. You might just as well associate them with Austria for, m a turret-shaped 17th century building m "Old Vienna" is probably the biggest collection of chiming clocks and watches m the world. However, much Switzerland may
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    The Iron Duke and a Marble Emperor
    565 4 APSLEY HOUSE, LONDON, HOME OF A FAMOUS SOLDIER-STATESMAN IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SAYS PIERRE JEANNERAT ONE-MAN museums are popular throughout the world. To the Rembrandt, Rubens, Beethoven, Goethe, Keats, Burns, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Franklin D. Roosevelt homes and their like is now
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    BUILDERS WANT CONTROL LIFTED
    236 5 Ban on luxury buildings is harming Colony ■WXPOR^"*? Staff ReP rter leading contractors yesterday t> SIT overnm ent to scrap the Control of building Ordinance as quickly as possible. Under theT>rdinance, builders of homes costing over j>50,000 must get special permission from the Control Board. They
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    A PROTEST & GOYT. RESCINDS A RULING
    28 5 A PROTEST GOYT. RESCINDS A RULING Governs rescinded its ring medical led to its private be counter Government •er. *ion ruling Stan a medical rr a sandoshaxn, VssoBranch>.
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    HAD NO LIGHTS
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    PUBLIC MAY NOW SEE THE ROLLS
    158 5 Free Press Staff Reporter C*LECTORAL lists of the Singapore Legislative Council and City Council are available for infection by the public for a fortnight from today. They may be inspected at all the post offices. Any person who applied for registration as an elector
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    School stages 'The Merchant of Venice'
    122 5 School stages 'The Merchant of Venice' KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. C H O O L-CHILDREN m Kuala Lumpur had a preview on Tuesday of I Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" staged by Victoria Institution Dramatic Society. The acting was good and back stage workers also earned credit for their stage settings,
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    'CUT TAX ON TEA' PLEA TO FORMOSA
    91 5 'CUT TAX ON TEA' PLEA TO FORMOSA OINGAPORE Cim. *c Tea l^ Importers and Exporters I Association has asked the Government of Formosa to reduce export charges on green tea I Mr. Lim Kong Licm. presiof the association, told the Free Pi -erday that new charges enforced by Formosa last
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    Five apply for varsity job
    32 5 Five have applied to fill the Chair m Geology at the University cf Malaya. Of these one" is from Briine from India and one from the Federation.
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    YOUTH GAOLED
    39 5 Teluk Anson. Thurs— Hussin bin Hashim, was sentenced to six months' gaol on each of two charges of criminal breach of trust of bicycles, the sentences to run concurrently. It will be followby six months' Police supervision.
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    33 5 MR. HONG S.EW IEN^ director to. Pens Traders LJ»U^ .SlnwjjJK. gave a dinner to Pye Radio C Irrs M p M Thre lf a ll. Kxport Manajer S T,ade C-»«-^ »Wa^^taW««- SV. Mitch.lL
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    Kajang success
    22 5 On an estate m the Kajang area of Selangor yesterday, a police patrol spotted a terrorist and shot him dead.
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    PLANS FOR SULTAN'S BIRTHDAY
    137 5 PLANS FOR SULTAN'S BIRTHDAY KOTA BAHRU, Thurs. r 0-DAY celebrations will be held when the Sultan ,of Kelantan celebrates his 55th birthday on Saturday. There will be a thanksgiving service on Saturday morning m the Mahmudiah Mcsque. Kota Bahru, and m I other mosques m the State. At Balai Besar,
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    Broke holiday law-$12
    32 5 Broke holiday law-$12 MUAR. Thurs.— ln the first case of its kind m Muar. the manager of Wah Kwong and Co. was fine;* $12 for an offence aeainst the Weekly Holidays Ordinance
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    THIS SPORE MARKET COSTS $225,000
    40 5 THIS SPORE MARKET COSTS $225,000 THIS MARKET, built by the Singapore City Council at Ravnian Estate, off Balesti er Road, costs $235,000. It will replace shelters used by hawkers and will be ready m six weeks. Free Press p icture.
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    This law will hit 20,000—taxi men
    120 5 This law will hit 20,000— taxi men SINGAPORE Hire Car Association has asked the Governor not to approve a recently passed City Council bylaw prohibiting the hiring of taxis by seats. The association said m a petition that a considerable number of people hired taxis by seats and the takings
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    OFF TO MECCA
    29 5 picture. THE SULTAN oi belabor waves to friends as he left Kuala Lumpur yesterday by train for Port Swettenham for a pilgrimage to Mecca. Free Press
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    Youth seek new leader
    115 5 PENANG. Thurs. rE ALL-MALAYA UMNO I Youth League will hold j its annual conference at Butterworth on Sept. 12, 1 when a new youth leader and deputy leader will be elected Nominations should reach UMNO headquarters by Aug. 20. Inche Sardon bin Haji Zubir is now
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    13 WILL HELP POLICE DRIVE
    82 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— MCA leaders and representatives of Chinese guilds and associations yesterday visited the Kuala Lumpur Po- lice Depot to see recruits be- ing trained. They will tell the people ot their districts what they saw m order to help m the drive for
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    RULERS' HELP SOUGHT
    80 5 RULERS' HELP SOUGHT Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA Pilah branch of the UMNO wants Rulers, Mentris Besar and State Secretaries to contribute towards the fund for i building UMNO headquar m Kuala Lumpur. A resolution, passed by a J general meeting of the branch and which will be submitted to
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    100 will attend this parley
    97 5 1 00 will attend this parley I ree Press Staff Reporter tl/-"»RE THAN 100 boys and Ifl girls from St. Andrews St Hilda's Schools ID -Tapore will attend the first combined conference of the schools' Student Christian Movement which will be held en Saturday. The conference will take place at
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    Ranks for 11 guards
    145 5 Ranks for 1 1 guards SEREMBAN. Thurs. rE Acting Meniri Besar of Negri Seaibilan, Inche Abdul Aziz, has gran: Commissions to officers of the Negri Sembiian Home Guard. The office rs and I are: The rank of Li Slate Home Guard ri Sembiian, Mr. s. H X r: Inche Mchamed
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    STIFFER ENTRY FOR STD. 6
    111 5 STIFFER ENTRY FOR STD. 6 STANDARD Five pu] m all Government schools m Singapore who want to enter the condary school next must do well m the December examination. Only the "brightest pu will be admitted to Standard Six. This step is being taken because of the insufficiency of places
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    24 5 KUANTAN, Thurs. M. Chinniah, a Town Board labourer, was fined $3 for letting his coats stray into the Ki. tan police station
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    My Trip to Rhum Was Utterly Idiotic
    963 6 My Trip to Rhum Was Utterly Idiotic WICKSTEED of the ISLES It's an island of spirit THE ISLAND OF RHUM, Inverness-shire. > T OW here is a wonder- f ul island. The moment I heard of it I said: "We must include that m our tour of the isles. That
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    U.S. Radios for Greece
    135 6 AMERICA takes another step forward m the War of Words with the issitf of free radio sets to hundreds of remote Greek villages. Ttxe sets are being supplied by the American Economic Commission to Greece and have been distributed to towns and villages which have previously
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    20 6 Even if* WE took m exiled kings, I knou SOMEONE tiKosc trashing would still X han^in^ out ull the t
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    Most Important U.S. Zoo Animals is Hot Dog
    773 6 SPOTLIGHT on ZOOS The desire to watch wild beasts at close quarters and m safety seems to be almost universal. Here correspondents review how this instinct is catered for m various countries. rj\H£ most important A animal m many oi America's twenty-odd
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    NEW MALAYAN MARKS EXPECTED
    1332 7 NEW MALAYAN MARKS EXPECTED Sprint should be thriller records are expected to be set at the J»l8t Malayan Amateur Athletic championships to be held on the Ipoh padang on Aug. 15 and 18. Perhaps the event that will attract most attenS2? J* 2 18 10 yd where Singapore's ace sprinter
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    16 7 -?v Am that new you have wen a'l t'«<*«* <? n \A s practically bankrupt a^ain." Icn
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    VALBERG BEATEN BY SCHOOLBOY
    119 7 S lone representative to the 1948 id Olympics, Uoyd Valbcr^. was wrprisinjly oolboy yesterday. The boy, Dona-d burst the tape about a foot ahead o; the ICO yd. hurdles event to return a rday padan? S rhools did 23 i fven*. ft :hree I was of.od
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    3rd TITLE FOR ONG CHEW BEE
    138 7 3rd TITLE FOR ONG CHEW BEE oN\> CHL-.,' BEE claimed third Singapore L Ten: tourlent title yesterday v. I Chin to f dcbules m C.A. had pr-evi-ly won the m and. m partnership with Sirs. Gladys Loke Chua. th^ mixed doufc. am Be? also won three /.e 1950 championships. V
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    PAKISTAN LOSE AT HOCKEY
    29 7 •T»KE Dutch Olympic ..ockey I -earn be I I idtam :me scare wa H°'smki O ri"the Dutch t€-iir. n l_o. but l«t 5-1 1 A.P.
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    RECORD NUMBER OF 'HITS'!
    56 7 JAC :I?^ y tie- 1 an ?!l-t: T ne Brooklyn Dodder record when he was hit by a Ditched ball thrown by Nev, YoVk-s Jira Hearn m a baseball Tfl-ne a- u .e Polo Grounds. the nth ttpe Robinson H^d been hit thia reason, tnig tne
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    Indian footballers win in Berlin
    40 7 INDIA'S Oiy.nDic football XI b^at the' West Berlin Hertha team 2-1 m a match before 12.000 peoDle m Berlin yesterday. The Indians, most of jhom clayed barefooted, were quick and de?e7 showing excellent ball control.
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    SOCCERITES win
    15 7 beat H.M. oy two goals to nil match yesterday. *W V. Robeft.s and
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    SCORELESS DRAW
    21 7 The friendly soccer between Corinthians and Singapore Jnd^n FA at Farrer Park yesteraay ended m a scoreless draw^ Reuter
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    SPORTING GESTURE BY HAZARE
    289 7 LESS than two hours' play was possible at Birmingham yesterday when the match opened between the Indian tourists and Warwickshire, and the Indians made 60 for the loss of two wickets. There were several interruptions through the weather m the short time the Indians batted, and
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    RELAY TEAM
    41 7 The above quartet from 390 Maintenance Unit won the inter-unit 4 x 50 yards freestyle relay at yesterday's swimming gala at R.A.F. Seletar. They are, from the back, left to right: Cpl. Frank, Cpl Reid, LAC Wise, SAC Bryce.
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    Sheppard hits 1st 2000 runs
    473 7 Sheppard hits 1st 2000 runs HAVID Sheppard, Cambridge University Sussex and England batsman yesterday became the first player to top two thousand runs this season. Sheppard reached the mark when he had scored four against Lancashire. He went on to make 70 before being caught brilliantly at short mid-wicket by
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    Army backs carried the day
    261 7 Army backs carried the day Army 3: Malays 1. SINGAPORE Base District fielding a side without five ol their regular players played like real champions yesterday to create a major upset m the Singapore Amateur F.A. Community league when they beat the unbeaten Malays at Jalan Besar Stadium. Credit must
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    L.A.C. Smith lakes four firsts ia Seletar gala
    698 7  - L.A.C. Smith lakes four firsts ia Seletar gala WATERMAN By A 19-YEAR-OLD National Serviceman from Brighton walked away with every individual freestyle championship event at the annual swimming: gala held by Royal Air Force Seletar at the Seletar pool yesterday. At the end of the afternoon LAC David Smith found
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    Olympics tied, says Soviet
    61 7 gOVIET newtpi displayed as by Romanov, leader o: i he Soy: '■.a red ri m the final score dded that Hun.-;: .«> third. Heretofore the local pretf has said that f he Union alone won first place. Yesterday's statement f**e Russia and the Untied Si;- t^s
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    JACK IVERSON FOR COMEBACK
    75 7 JACK Iversim, Mar A spin bowler. hoi>es i•» be available fo; selection p.-.. South Africa ne.v the tour of England I Iverson who announced hfti retirement from cricket for I ness reasons after the Test series against En*. not play against the VI last season. He
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    WALKOVER
    34 7 WA LKOVER C> ne < j A A'- received a walkover m their SAFA Div. 2 pa me which vac to have been played at BODCA ground. Kiumg rah 'A- fai!*d to field a team.
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    India is delaying plebiscite Pakistan
    170 8 India is delaying plebiscite Pakistan WASHINGTON ThurS. 4 HIGH Pakistani a] V yesterdai ;h t d that Ind ling 1 a United Mscite to Kashmir hold on part of the prir. :ned by Indian es. f of rerence 'he Prime Mr aides were usii r alna.nients United ,ns repre^ s
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    Ammo dump blow up
    35 8 One block of an ammunition dump blew up as American troops fought a fores: which they mastered early yesterday at Le Poteau camp near Bordeaux. Nobody hurt by the explosion.— Reuter
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    Police want two men in shorts for three deaths
    317 8 Police want two men in shorts for three deaths FORCALQUIER, Prance, Thursday. ALL the police of South-Eastern France last night joined m a vast hunt for two Frenchmen m a small lorry. They are wanted for questioning about the savage slaying of Sir Jack Drummond, 61, and his wife and
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    West 'can learn from Germany'
    205 8 BONN, Thursday. THE West could learn best to fight the Russians from their new allies, the Germans, General Sir John Harding, newly appointed chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff, said yesterday. "I think that German military thinking will contribute tremendously to Western defence. After all.
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    Hiroshima remembers
    67 8 HIROSHIMA. Thurs. JAPANESE bowed their J heads m a minute of silent prayer yesterday and then at 8.15 a.m. exactly, seven years after the first atom bomb used m the war fell on Hiroshima, city bells and sirens sounded. Five children, orphaned m the famous blast, unveiled a
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    100,000 to go on strike
    49 8 ROME. Tnurs. MORE than 100.000 Com-munist-led railroad workers were ordered to begin a 24-hour nationwide strike at midnight last night &fter the collapse of efforts \o prevent a walk-out on e-operated railways. Another 80.000 workers, affiliated with non-Com-munist unions, refused to join the walkout.-
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    CASSELS TO GO TO GERMANY
    55 8 Major General A. J. H. Cassels. Commander of the British Commonwealth Division m Korea since its formation a year ago, will go to I Germany to take over m I December as commander of First Corps of the British Army of the Rhine with the
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    EXPLORER WILL LIVE UNDER EARTH
    213 8 i'ARIS, Thursday. 4 BELGIAN physicist, Max Cosyns, who once plunged under the sea m a bathysphere with Professor Auguste Piccard, started an expedition under the earth yesterday. Wi'ih other speleologists cave explorers >, he will live' m darkness for the next two weeks while he
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    Smack in eye for Russia
    83 8 TORONTO. Thurs. THE 18th International Red Cross Conference have given the Swiss-manned International Committee a thumping vote of confidence m answer to Russian charges that the Committee Is neither "international nor impartial." The Committee, made up of 25 Swiss citizens, is recognised as the neutral
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    9 HUNGARIANS WON'T LEAVE HELSINKI
    102 8 9 HUNGARIANS WON'T LEAVE HELSINKI Stockholm. Thun. members of the Hung- arian Olympic team haw refused to return to Hungary, the Helsinki correspondent of the Stockholm paper. Dagciii N'yheter, reported last night. One Rumanian athlete was reported to have refused to go home. His name was reported as Panai Calcas.
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    Landslide win for Symington
    69 8 ST. LOUIS, Thurs. MR. STUART SYMINGTON scored a landslide victory over the Truman -favoured candidate for Missouri's Democrat Senatorial nomination yesterday. Mr. Symington's bad over the State Attorney-General, Mr. J. S. Taylor, soared past 170.000 with the vote counted m all but 400 of the 4.826
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    KOREA WAR TOLL
    19 8 American casualties In Korea now total 114.310, an increase of 642 over last week's summary. U.P.
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    Vote for preventive detention
    138 8 NEW DELHI, Thurs. JJESPITE last-ditch opposition from extreme left and right-wing members, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament yesterday voted to allow the government to continue Its right to gaol without trial persons suspected of prejudicing the country's security. The successful measure, passed by 296
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    'HORRORS' IN LONDON PARK
    62 8 PASSERS-BY m Regents Park. London, gasped when they saw grotesque animal figures sitting and gesticulating. They wondered for a moment whether they were m the middle of some horrific nightmare. But they were soon reassured, for the "horrors' were merely players wearing their masks for a
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    MORE PAY DEMANDS WILL STAY
    144 8 MORE PAY DEMANDS WILL STAY LONDON. Thurs. BRITAIN'S current wages controversy deepened yesterday aa the Wages Co;; for 630.000 foodshop workers reaffirmed its earlier proposals for an increase of 10 shilling! a week for men and n shillings a week for women. Sir Walter Ifonckton, Labour Minister, had touched off
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    FALL KILLS WAR HERO
    56 8 Francis Campbell won the Navy Cross during World War II for repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire while attending wounded marine? during the fighting for Saipan Island. The 29-year-old former navy pharmacist's mate died on Tuesday of injuries 1 received m a fall dow> stairs I
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    CABINET MEETING
    22 8 Mr. Churchill has called a full cabinet meeting for this evening to discuss next November's Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference. Reuter
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    YOSHIDA ON S.E. ASIA TRADE
    164 8 Japan-Chiang /,<>.„ rnHE Japanese Prime Minister,' M r L Yoshida, said yesterday that it i s hlger conclusion* that the United SUtes-Janan agreement will develop into a PacfU v? s Mr. Yoshida made his obsen of a conference with Gen. Chui envoy of Generalissimo Chiang*
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