The Singapore Free Press, 9 August 1952

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 466. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, ,J952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    U.S. LIFTS BAN ON EXPORTS
    19 1 U.S. LIFTS BAN ON EXPORTS 9. Commerce Deanncunced m s of fountain pencils -g to rt term reg:: Reuter
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    NEGUIB DICTATOR HINT
    468 1 bgypt needs purge: wants link with West CAIRO, Saturday. G E Jf: I0 »;^ED NAGUIB, Commander-in-t niet of the Egyptian armed forces and the man who brought about King Farouk's abdication a fortnight ago, said m Cairo last night that Jie saw no reason to proclaim a
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    Pacific Big Three agree to revive Jap power
    99 1 Pacific Big Three agree to revive Jap power HO U, Sat. -sters oi i d States. AusNew Zealand :eed that the revival Japai r l r m East a Is an un -.:'d r. m the explored by ::c Defence Council Dean Ac U. s of Casi and Mv Webb.
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    SQUATTER FAMILY ROBBED
    112 1 SQUATTER FAMILY ROBBED Free Press Staff Reporter. rVO armed robbers and thl up a Teochew squatter family m a Road, Singapore, night and took je lery, wor:h $900. and $400 cash from their house. All the robbers were young Chinese. One of them was a*rned with a revolver, and .ether
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    ROBBED BY CYCLIST
    46 1 A Teochew woman was walking near the junction of Bras Basah Road and Waterloo Street, Singapore, with her child, when a Chinese cyclist rode up to her and snatched her handkerchief, m which were wrapped a wallet containing $14 and an identity card.
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    FOUND HANGED
    24 1 Henry W. Hume, an American working m a private import-export firm. was found hanged m a hotel room m Hong Kong yesterday.-
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    U.S. 'SPY' ESCAPES FROM RED PRISON
    156 1 U.S. 'SPY' ESCAPES FROM RED PRISON WASHINGTON, Sat. A YOUNG American, gaoled as a spy m Communist Czechoslovakia, was officially i-eported yesterday to have escaped. Officials here said the Czech Government told the State Department that he fled from prison on Jan. 2, and the Czech authorities do not know
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    Two injured in car crash
    77 1 Two injured in car crash Free Press Staff Reporter TWO Chinese passengers were severely injured when their car was m collision with a lorry a: the junction of Victoria Street and Jalan Sultan at 4.14 this morning. Three people were hurt two other accidents early today. They are two Malays,
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    Sullivan to act for Thomson
    53 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. MR. Frank Sullivan, editor of the Special New Service of Radio Malaya will, it is announced, act as Public Relations Secretary* Singapore, during the absence on leave of Mr. G. G. Thomson. Mr. Sullivan was senior Public Relations Officer m the
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    VISIT TO CHINA
    23 1 A seven-man Japanese parliamentary goodwill mission will arrive m New Delhi on Aug. 12 for a five-day visit. A. P.
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    FRIENDS AGAIN
    12 1 Yugoslavia and Japan have agreed to renew diplomatic relations. Reuter
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    Theft from doctor
    61 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE doctor found yesterday that property kept inside the boot of his car had been stolen. The missing articles included a spare wheel and a Dag containing medical instruments. In Balestier Road yesterday a Chinese lost a loudspeaker, 20 records, 80 bottles
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    U.S. in peril—Dulles
    79 1 U.S. in peril— Dulles MR. John Foster Dulles s aid m Denver, yesterday that he and General Eisenhower agreed that the Truman administration's foreign policy was, tending "to put our nation m the greatest peril m the entire course of our national policy." Mr Dulles chief author of the foreign
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    BULGARIA PROTESTS AT SHELLING
    105 1 BULGARIA PROTESTS AT SHELLING NEW YORK. Sat. BULGARIA sent a vigorous protest to the United Nations yesterday against what it called aggressive action by the Greek army on Bulgarian territory. The protest followed Thursday's Greek shelling of Gamma island m the Evros River which separates Bulgaria and Greece. The Greek
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    U.K. MAY REFUSE PERSIA OFFER
    208 1 LONDON, Saturday. BRITAIN is expected to reject Premier Moss?deq's latest proposals as a basis for settles the Anglo-Per.~i^"> nil d! -ate. Qualified sources said last night that Britain might, however, try to keep the door open for negotiations for a wider Anglo-American effort to make
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    BALLET STAR
    50 1 picture. HOLLYWOOD 'star Gene Tierney poiirays a ballet dancer m "Never Lei Me Go", a British film. But since she had done no ballet work since childhood, she had to undergo a strenuous refresher course. Here, Miss Tisrney is caught by the camera preparing to start rehearsal. Popper
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    Two-month pomp for coronation
    333 1 WHIRLWIND OF CEREMONIES LONDON, Saturday. A GLITTERING two-month programme of pomp and pageantry for next year's coronation of the Queen was revealed last night by the comnv'ttee m charge. The young Queen, accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, will be caught up In a
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    WORKERS HIT BY TRAIN
    42 1 Three railwaymen received fatal injuries near Utrech yesterday while working on the line. Two others were also injured. The men m stepping clear of an approaching express were caught by a train coming m the opposite direction. Reuter
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    3 abortion deaths in Singapore
    246 1 3 a bortion deaths in Singapore Free Press Staff Reporter THREE cases m which illegal abortions were performed m Singapore by the use of "abortion sticks" are reported m the latest issue of the journal published by the Alumni Association of the King Edward VII College of Medicine. All three
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    WOMAN DECEIVES CHILD
    94 1 WOMAN DECEIVES CHILD Free Press Staff Reporter. AFTER deceiving a tiine-year-old Indian girl that she was her mother's friend, an elderly Chinese woman robbed her of a gold chain, worth $80, m Simcn Road, Singapore, yesterday. The girl was walking along Upper Serangoon Road when she met the woman The
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    FOUND-AFTER 11 YEARS
    55 1 FOUND- AFTER 11 YEARS The frozen body of an Italian alpinist, who was k ed m a fall 11 years ago, has been found by guides m a glacial crevasse on 10.000--foot Mount Simillaun. The victim was Professor Carlo Giapsoni of Verona. Identification was possible because the body had been
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    INDIA POST
    22 1 Dr. Leon Stelning left New York yesterday to take up his post as Resident Technical Assistance Representative tn India. Reuter
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    MISSION TO CHIN
    21 1 Mr. R. G. Senanayake, Ceylon's Trade and Commerce Minister, will shortly head a trade delegation to China. Reuter
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  • Saturday CHILDREN'S PAGE
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      Exams Interfered With a Contest
      872 2 Writing an essay would have prevented you doing homework I'VE been so busy lately I haver been c to- catch up on yckir letters. This week, hewever, I've made a ?nds. of your letters :ly have been replies to the scolding I gave you over
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    Rupert's Spring Adventure—5
    174 2 Rupert's Spring Adventure 5 ****** very cauiously Rupert enters the bushes and Quite **Off*t* he finds the creature he has been seeking ST I ■f**** run away but looks keenly at the little- ffear. Vow to catch him as Pong-Ping T H urmurs Rupert. He edges round to try and
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    23 2 'A J i.-^hip worth follow, n:; up' thinks MATILDA, the lamb, as she meets VALLI, the baby elephant, trunkfirst at Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire.
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    Cambridge is a Home of Learning
    560 2 Cambridge is a Home of Learning CITIES OF THE WORLD-9 (CAMBRIDGE, is the county town of Cambridgeshire. It' is 50 miles north of London, has a history dating far back into ancient times before any reliable records inform us that there was a single college. But today, the university overshadows
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    WRITE TO... THESE CHILDREN..
    119 2 Vincent Tan. 40-23, Jalan Senang, Off Changi Road. Singapore, wants pen pal* of either sex. His nobbier are: badminton, swimming and writing friendly corresnondence. Martin Louis Peter. 30-A. Madras Street, Singapore 8. likes dancing, collecting stamps, going to the cinema, listening to music, typewriting, listening to
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    Onward the "Onslaughi"
    633 2 Onward the "Onslaughi" TIM brought the drinks into the cabin and laid one at the elbow of each of the half dozen officers seated there. He placed bottles of rum and wine at a side table and left the cabin. While moving about inside he had heard snatches of the
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      69 2 I The Junior Contest <^ TO win a prixe this week. boys »n4 girls, I waat >) yo« to take fHe jumbled hitters bc'ow and make two y words from them. The words spelt the name of a toecial tyye ol naval shi*. <y It ;s so easy that I
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      153 2 AT THE HAPHY WCku* ShOW VISIT THE STAND OF POMPEIA L. T Pl\ ER (made m France W HAIRLOTIOH PERFUME JE FACEPQWDER-SOAP, etc. f^^^ SPECIAL /Jw^M OFFERS ;f J (3 bottles for the iL price of 2 only for the duration y m of the Trade Show. SINGAPORE 175A/17S Cecil
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      97 2 ~|^^sspjjSjSisn iei.trs trom pen ya^ under 16 answered. Sect Cheng Swee. 8. F»o Lin Road, off Jalan Eunos, Singapore 14. offers the names and addresses of these, his pen pals m England, for you to writ eto: MM Penny Critall, 8. Medway Gdns. Sudbery, Wernblty Middlesex. England. Miss Pam?la Griffiths
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      150 2 CROSSWORD SOLUTION ACROSS.— 3. Pouch. 6, Matron. 7. Reins. 8. Can 9. Gaunt. 13. Ice. 14, Khakie 16. Insect. 17. State. DOWN. 1, Smack. 2, Sting. 3. Torcupine. 4, One. 5, Cone. 10. Tiber. 11, D lta. 12. Chat. 15. Kit. JUNIOR CROSSWORD 6 I MB I L a, m
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    Lone pilot over Mt. Everest kept silent for 5 years
    202 3 Lone pilot over Mt. Everest kept silent for 5 years Marys Hospull/london 6dlCal StUdent at St His night was made after da^ iOn e^ Ptrol to visit Everest. 100 s away n ll^ fl ne an before him. •t through Everest's air-p an( i forbidden territory m But Neame was
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    'Cussing' comrades mar earn a fine
    156 3 'Cussing' comrades mar earn a fine m MOSCOW. Sat. Tfllß x law IfriMl 5 m the Soviet violators are ii punishment. I of the Legislative provides for legal i^.iiM-t :my manihooliganism, obscene lanbc supreme 1 I <>X has explained. newspaper G otte published of from tJeplor: *riru i tic language
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    Bridge Hand
    166 3 1 m otaaing Eut South Wnt 34 Pus 4£> Pats ♦4 Pin t<? All Pas* 1 m was s.me B| v.;h the final i Chicago player. South made 1 elceme your club jack. .nd three j -op the 1 Lag East wl h S h had to ge*
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    Gost town has one resident
    44 3 Gost town has one resident v Is the only of 2has: goldmining A stralia, irished m its time population, and 5 and wire saloons. 4.800 ft. up on i- the only to mark where the on ce stood Her neari '^bour.s are five mUes
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    REJECTED
    38 3 Delegates of African organisations at Lusaka N Mr° d i3> have handed Mr. Henry Hopkinson. Bri- w~ Minister of st ate for the Colonies, memoranda for tneir groups rejecting the proposed federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland
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    FORESTRY TALKS
    29 3 Forestry experts from 20 Commonwealth countries including the Federation of are arriving m Ottawa for the sixth British Commonwealth forestry conference^from Aug. 11 to Sept. lv.' U.P.
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    BUCKLEY
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    Bey is told: 'speed decision'
    67 3 Bey is told: 'speed decision' The French President. M. Vincent Auriol. is believed to have urged personally on TU)isifc'£ 71-year-old Bey that he take a speedy decision on French plans for giving the protectorate greater autonomy. A message from the President was handed to the Tunisian Premier, Salah Eddine Baccoucho.
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    Speeding driver is penalised
    63 3 The State Department has lifted the diplomatic immunity of an American chauffeur for the Saudi Arabian Embassy. He is accused of driving a car at 90 m.p.h. through Washington. The chauffeur, Walter Hook jr., has a record of at least 13 traffic violations m ten years.
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    Wife insisted on 'night out'
    274 3 BIRMINGHAM, Saturday. nANCING has led Donald Neil Simon, once of the Canadian Army, to the shadow of the gallows. The trouble was his wife loved it and he didn't. At first it didn't matter very much, for Donald was very much m love with his
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    GERM WAR? Russia said THAT IN 1945
    160 3 GERM WAR? Russia said THAT IN 1945 TOKYO, Sat. THE first letttr from a Japanese war criminal imprisoned m Russia has reached his family m Tokyo, j Mrs. Otozo Yamada. wife of former General Otozo Yamada who commanded the Japanese Army m Manchuria, said she received a post card asking
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    CABLE RESTORED
    30 3 Brita n's nationalised Cable and Wireless Company's j direct cable between Porth- curno, near Land's End. Eng- land, and Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, has been restored after nine years.
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    Bride, wed in sister's name, is fined £6
    220 3 Bride, wed in sister's name, is fined £6 PLYMOUTH, Sat. Al9-YEAR-9LD girl who used her sisters name to get married because her father and Torquay magistrates had refused their consent, heard that the ceremony was legal. As she left Plymouth Magistrates' Court after being fined £6 for making false statements,
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    Protest not pressure
    70 3 LONDON, Sat. BRITAIN'S protest to Japan against the sentences of two and a half years imprisonment imposed on two British sailors by a Japanese court was not meant to influence the current negotiations on the status of United Nations trocps m Japan, a British Foreign Office spokesman
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    POLICE SEIZE CAMERAS
    37 3 Australian security officers have seized cameras belonging to passengers arriving m the motorship Koolinda at Fremantle The Koolinda had Bailed close to the Monte Bellu Islands— site of Britain's first atomic weapons tests. Reuter
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    Boy of two was 'locked in cupboard
    140 3 LONDON, Sat. A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy, too weak to stand, was left locked m a small cupboard under the stairs for 40 minutes, it was alleged at Weob 1 c y Herefordshire, magistrates' court. Thirty year old Cyril George Ingrain, a farm worker, was
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    DONALD PEERS CALLS JUNGLE 'A NIGHTMARE'
    325 3 LONDON, Saturday. jY| OPPING a fever-drenched forehead m his bed at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases m London, singer Donald Peers smiled ruefully and said "Now I know just what those boys are up against m the Malayan jungle. It is not only the
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    CZECH ACTION
    27 3 Reliable sources m Vienna said that the Czechoslovak Government is deporting thousands of members of the former middle class from the nations key cities. A.P.
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    Dancer, 5ft. tall, hit policeman
    223 3 Dancer, 5ft. tall, hit policeman M LONDON, Sat. FRANCES Baker was only sft. 4ins. tall. But when the appeared before a, magistrate at Bruges, I gium, she was charged with: Slapping a policeman, scratching his face, pulling off his helmet, tearing gold braid from it and jumping on it. Frances.
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      389 3 1 Radio a;«GftPORh 10 ajn. News; 10.05 Hoir>eCaoice; 11 New 1 p Hackmeyer. p 1.30 New<=: 2 Album of Harmony; Corner: 2.45 Lc: Melodies: 3.15 Fun wi'h I Music: 3.30 Tea Dance. 4.15 SouUiern Serenade: 6.17 Children: Spotlight on the Emergency 7". 2 6 I -c: 8 PC. 49: 830
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      55 3 Solution to Crossword No. 735 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1. Tap. 3. Low down. 7. Roust. 8. .Nacre. 9. Buyer's tray. 11. Boys' Brigade. 13. Calyx. 15. Lehar. 16. Resists. 17. Gay. Down: 1 Throb. 2. Poultry. 3. Letterboxes. 4. Wind shields. 5. O.T.C. 6. Needy. 10. Road hog. 11. By
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      483 3 YOUR LUCKY STAR DOBN today, your originality IUfYIUKiwVY m, lh v n hi t l nd RORS -row, you have a action is very likely to influ- r> ence the eventual direction of J t hl&h m^ l dt oi your entire life. You know adaptability good common perfectly well
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    The last word
    137 4 A WORLD news agency oerforms a useful service when it translates news into the vernacular for the use of papers m the countries it serves. It should definitely make sure that terms it uses will be ierstood abroad. But why does a British news agency translate English
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. August 9. 1952. An oiiy customer
    360 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. August 9. 1952. An oiiy customer APPARENTLY Dr. Mcs- sadeq has seen the writing on the wall and is alarmed because it is red. could mean more bloodshed and this time M would be the turn of Dr. Mossadeq and his friends to receive the
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    This Is not for You
    899 4  -  L.J.F. Brimble AFTER SCHOOL—SCIENCE? says Eminent scientist and botanist, joint Editor of 4t Ndtu;e," lecturer, and author. THE ramifications of science are now j>o extensive and complicated that they might well, and certainly do. form a trap for ttte unwary. When considering the possibility of
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    SUSHEELA DEVI PLAYS TOMORROW
    156 4 SUSHEEL A DEVI PLAYS TOMORROW IyfISS Susheela Dcvi, who gives a recital at the Victoria Hall tomorrow, is a violinist of unusual talent who has returned to Singapore for a year after five years study m Britain. She gave recitals m London at Proms Circle Concerts, at the Queen Mary
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    It Seems To Me...
    557 4  -  POLITICO m: rpHE City Council pr sicient m a broadcast appeal urges people to turn out all unnecessary lights and so reduce the electricity 4 load'. The experiment; fails. Why? because many people with a radio never heard the appeal. They had a 'black-out. A traffic
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    Egypt -WHAT NEXT?
    431 4 Egypt -WHAT NEXT? THERE'S no use pretending: Farouk's abdication or for that matter the military coup which produced it was not expected m the Middle East. The suspicion Farouk might one day ulg the army as a shield for iace rule to govern himself or throuch I ouri:es behind its
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    Court Fines Should be Increased
    210 4 CO. I. and wages are up 50.... ITNDER our present laws, which were revised m 1936, the maximum fines for offences committed under the Penal Code and other laws of the Colony and the Federation are certainly not adequate now, nor commensurate to the value
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    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    30 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I yJJu I to an th v > <ii the eu: to the pro this su m i eht but bi he can cor B <Tampenis I
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    Bid Vehicles to blame
    28 4 WITH uce R imposition -;on, ice accident the tured. and concause the cxc those v.ho le auth< a sed a: worthy T the source
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    A'SHOCKING' ROAD
    167 4 A'SHOCKING' ROAD XT is gratifying n--1 deed to see that at least one of our City Councillors is taking a hand m trying to settle a very thorny problem. I refer to Miss Amy Laycock's action with regard to Wilkinson Road. This road has be:n m a most shocking condition
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    Wanted—More Red Slaves
    101 4 Wanted More Red Slaves DETERMINED to squeeze the last drop of prod tion out of her satelk: Ru-ssia is now launching a new "intensification of work" programme throu out Eastern Europe. At the moment faced with mount: Western strength the Russians are far from satisfied with tfie shape of things
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    DISTRICT COUNCILS NOT PRACTICAL
    453 5 'Rural areas not advanced enough for this reform 9 —SAY DOCTORS Free Press Staff Reporter £]REATION of district councils m place of the Singapore Rural Board, as recommended by Dr. L. C. Hill m his report on local government reform, is not practical, says the journal
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    Chettiars want to start a bank
    164 5 Chettiars want to start a bank MPUR. Sat. ETTIARS m the Federation are conproposal to Uae t tneir idle capital bank. osider it the only tive to money lend- j wh they stopped ihe Money Lenders came into force of them are said to r of such an enI jmber
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    HAD KHAKI FOR BEDS CHARGE
    20 5 HAD KHAKI FOR BEDS CHARGE -L:m Joo Chee In custody .Muar with of some khaki i lor terrorists. jottponed to
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    POLICE CUSTODY
    27 5 ANTAN Sat.— Puteh bin :ged m the Kuan- j m b criminal of jewellery Deionging to Tuan Kemaman, was to be handed to n police.
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    30 5 CHOU CHENG CHIEX, of the Chung Cheng Senior Middle School, Singapore, who left the Colony yesterday for the United States to study at Santa Monica City College. Santi Monica California.
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    Youth Council officials
    74 5 Office-bearers of Ihe Perak Youth Council for 1952-53 are as follows: Chairman, Rev. A. C. Dumper: hon. secretary, Mr. D. R. Daniel; hon. treasurer. Mr. Neon Thean Chye; Committee members. Mr. P. Raja Gopal, Inche Zabidi bin Snamsuddin, Inche Nuruddin Tak, Mis s L. Havelock. Miss Vivien
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    60,000 pupils begin 4-week holiday
    130 5 60,000 pupils begin 4-week holiday SIXTY-THOUSAND boys and girls m Government, aided and private English schools m Singapore yesterday—the end of the second term— began a four-week holiday. Each school held a closing ceremony before dismissing its pupils. The schools will reopen on Sept. 8. picture. MRS. ELIZABETH CHOY (left)
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    Perak to inoculate all dogs
    178 5 IPOH. Sat. mHE campaign of compulX sory inoculation of dogs against rabies m Perak will begin on Monday. Rabies has been found m all districts m the State. Any dog found without the special inoculation tag after Ocl 10 will be destroyed and the owner
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    Fisheries station will go up this year
    279 5 PENANG, Saturday. THE FIRST PHASE m the building of the British Commonwealth's $2,500,000 Fisheries Research Institute at Sungei Pinang, Penang, is expected to start this year. It had been h nl d no for several months. Dr. C. F. Hickling. Fisheries Adviser to
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    FOOD SALES RESTRICTED
    42 5 SEREMBAN Sat.— The sale of uncooked rice products, cereals either tinned or loose, including biscuits and uncooked flour and flour products is restricted m Port Dickson district except under a permit issued by Mr. D. W. Stewart, District Officer.
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    DIDN'T OBEY
    34 5 MUAR Sat.— Goh See Jin, was fined $100 at Muar for failing to demolish an unan thorised temporary house at Tangkak after he had been served with a notice to do so.
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    EIGHT TALKS ON CAREERS
    215 5 EIGHT TALKS ON CAREERS Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Rotary Club and the Young Men's Christian Association are arranging eight talks on careers during the August scnool holidays. The talks will be given at the V.M.C.A. hall m Orchard Road. The first talk, on "Pharmacy." will be given by
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    A SHOUT FOILS THIEF
    39 5 PENANG Sat.— A snatch thief failed on Thursday to wrest a necklace from a woman shopper returning home from the Kuantan Road stalls along Kajang Road. The man ran away when she shouted for help.
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    He talked about Colony's progress
    51 5 He talked about Colony's progress Mr. Kwek Soan Loh. president of the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers and Exporters Association, m a television broadcast at the Happy World spoke of the role of Chinese m the development of Singapore. Mr. Kwek also traced the industrial, -political and economic progress of the
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    SINGER WINS PRIZE
    41 5 In yesterday's Free Press Trade Supolerrent it was stated In the caption of a photograph showing Exhibition award winners that the fourth* prize went to the Singapore Sewing Machine Co. This should have read Smsrer Sewing Machine Co.
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    MAN WOOED GIRL, 15, WITH THREATS
    139 5 MUAR. Sat. A 15-YEAR-OLD girl, converted to Islam, Goh Kirn Hong alias Aminah binti Abdullah, said m the Muar Sessions Court on Thursday that a former special constable. Amat bin Lons, practised witchcraft on her widowed mother and lived with her as man and
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    RUBBER FUTURE GOOD, HE SAYS
    154 5 r|R. W. E. Cake, president of the Marayan- American Plantations, said yesterday that natural rubber, at its present price level, would not lose ground to synthetic. Dr. Cake has just completed a three months' tour of his rubber estates m Malaya and Sumatra. He is
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    They plan classes for unionists
    70 5 They plan classes for unionists SINGAPORE trade unionists who attended the course of lectures given by Mr. Fred Dalley, the British Trade talon expert, recently are planning to hold classes for other unionists. They will teach them languages and trade unionism. They will also study the trade union laws of
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    Reds burn bus
    20 5 About 30 tjrrorsts set a Dus on fire m the Kuiai are a of Johore on Thursday.
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    CONCERT FOR CHARITY
    44 5 The Singapore Anti-Tuber-culosis Association and the Chinese V.M.C.A. will s^are equally the proceeds cf a charity concert to be held at Happy World Stadium on Sept. 10. The Governor. Mr. J. F. Nicoll. will be invited to declare the concert open.
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    BLACKOUT SCHEDULE
    108 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: Bukit Pa>oh 8.A.T.. Malaian Refrigerating Co Trafalgar St.. An-.n Kd.. Tione t'.uhru >ago M katn...'. M Propir'v Park Van-on Rd. Soon Oil Mil.s- Guan H n I J Hork, I.E. FMtorj I.'iV'T VaVrv Rd.. KiUn^y Rd.. Orchard Rd WAI I. Armnian
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    Mrs. Eu may sell vegs. in markets
    143 5 Mrs. Eu may sell vegs. in markets Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Consumers' Association is planning to retail vegetables m Colony markets. The association will also act as a liaison body V large hostels and farmMrs. Robert Eu. of the association, told the Free Press that she had asked the
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    POLICE NEED LEADERS
    138 5 POLICE NEED LEADERS "xEAN. Sat. EADERS Jtd to Li increase the effective? of the police force m its dual role of restoring law and order and maintaining it. the Com\.n;FsiLner of Pollct A E. \oung. told 120 policemen yesterday. He was addressing c police officers who have just completed a
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    ORANGE JUICE IS OUT
    262 6 ORANGE JUICE IS OUT By HAROLD MAYES •VTO stimulant other than cold water sprinkled on the body, or used as mouth wash, shall be used." Is an instruction to seconds In the British Boxing Board of Control regulations That's why Board secretary Teddy Waliham removed a bo: the corner of
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    SPORE TIPPED TO WIN TODAY
    332 6 SPORE TIPPED TO WIN TODAY But Negri may Free Press Soccer Reporter (SINGAPORE, holders of Malaya's top soccer trophy, the Malaya Cup, have no easy task when they take the field at Jalan Besar Stadium today for their Cup tie against Negri Sembilan. The Colony team has to date played
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    Kelantan draw in Cup dash
    52 6 IfELANTAN and Trenjganu drew two-all m a Malaya Cup East Zone soccer match here today. Ke'.antan led one-nil at half-time. A penalty goal enabled Trengganu to score the equaliser. Trcngfanu forged ahead, and looked set for a narrow win but m the closing: stages Kelantan
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    SURE CHOICE
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    STADIUM PLAYERS ORDERED OFF
    328 6 STADIUM PLA YERS ORDERED OFF R.A.F. Seletar 3; Pulau Brani 0. T^HIS was a lively tussle between two evenlyA matched sides, Seletar deserved their victory m a hard-fought Singapore Amateur F.A. Senior Cup replay at Jalan Besar Stadium. Ground conditions were far from good and ball control was difficult. But
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    RUSSIA IS FAVOURITE FOR 'CHESS OLYMPICS'
    92 6 RUSSIA IS FAVOURITE FOR 'CHESS OLYMPICS' RUMANIA and Egypt hay; withdrawn tiieir entries m the 10th Chess Olympics" m Helsinki, thus dropping the number n' participating nations to 25. The international chess tournament will begin on Saturday m the festival hall of the Commercial High School, Helsinki and continue for
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    Rupby referees meet Tuesday
    74 6 A sp.v.v general meeiing of the ?m?np.-> p S xierv of Rugby Union Referees will b^ held at the Sjivhpore Cr k: Club on Tie da'-. Aug U at IM p.m. one interested m joining Urn y eii-her a=; a referee or on a non-active baMi
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    HE SPENT ALL HIS RACING EARNINGS
    406 6 HE SPENT ALL HIS RACING EARNINGS By ARCHIE QUICK rpHE trouble with Steve Donoghue was that money burned holes m his pocket. There never was a more generous, improvident man than Gordon Richards' predecessor as Britain's champion jockey, and. although his annual income ran into thousands of pounds, his expenditure
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    Cricket with thrills
    260 6 Cricket with thrills By ALL-ROtNDER THE Lancashire Cricket League is now about tho richest for professional ta!ent; certainly it serves its mission to provide goodclass local cricket m a compact and thickly populated area. "Derby"' games, fought with a real spirit of rivalry, help to stabilise club finances with their
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    COSMOS LOSE .
    39 6 COSMOS LOSE Dominating play for the greater part of the game, Seletar Ville beat the Cosmos S.C. by three goals to nil m a S.A.F.A. Div. 3B soccer match played at Geylang stadium yesterday. Scorers for fiplpt.nr VIIIp tpprp-
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    Maxim asks for plenty
    86 6 |>KOMOTER Jack Solomons I would like to have a world light heavyweight fight m London between Britain's Randolph Turpin and Joey Maxim. But. he moaned yesterday over trans-Atlantic telephone from New York, if he gives American manager Jack Kearns all he wants. He will have to
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    8-0 VICTORY FOR INDIANS
    100 6 T'HE Indian hockey team, wiihou; four of tiie stars who helped them b ccrne Olympic champions, gave an 8-0 beating and a demonstration m the ar.s 3f the game to an Indian Gyxkhana Club side at Ost rley Middlesex, yesterday. The Gymkhana team never gave j
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    GROUND UNFIT
    28 6 Due to the water-logged ground a S.B.H.F.A. league mst:h sche- < duled to have been beti ween Haade'«iL B j Co. at Farrtr Paik yesterday waa postponed.
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    BADMINTON TOURNEY
    26 6 BADMINTON TOURNEY The Singapoir Mai too A-ssocatioc 19 pionships begin Union Hall, I tomorrow A good entr from the lie Association 74 > es and 44 ir
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    SHELL S.C. WIN 4-2
    32 6 SHELL S.C. WIN 4-2 In a Singapore E F.A. league nai ley Roa. Club beat M House by four Scorers for Choong. Andrew Lin: RA. g Kwa: scored both goals for Mr
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    SANDGAR SOLD
    38 6 \f Marcel Bcu^s. A Old been scld privately to an uniunwc purchaser m Bra Sendgar was ont Prenci and his wins me: Jockey Oub (French Dei 1947 Hr a to have b tn a Braxil Rev
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    SKIPPER CAN LEARN MUCH FROM HIS XI
    518 6 Says NORMAN YARDLM V^OTHING is more important (ha. 11 ship, and m no game does it play a |i than m cricket, with its rapidly c! tions, requiring vital decisions on t moment. There should be nothing stereo,.* about cricket captaincy. eot^ Originality,
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    NORSES PREPARE FOR S'GOR AUG. MEET
    308 7 Lively gallop by Mona 's Kuda \!O\VS kS? LLAN LEWIS JJONAS KLDA, who created a good impression when she won first up at Bukit Timah m July, showed a nice turn of speed to real off BUlj Bee and Buffalo Bill at Kuala Lumpur
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    JIT IM IS CHAMP WITH 4 FIRSTS
    339 7 MAKING first place m the 100 yards, 220 yards, I iimp »JU| long jump events Lim Jit Im of! won the individual open championship Afternoon School yesterday, at the annual sports meet held at Jalan Besar. :n asso- Second I d Day I
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    IT'S FLAG DAY TODAY FOR ATHLETES
    41 7 IT'S FLAG DAY TODAY FOR ATHLETES Hi Amateur sociaticn ting a Flag Day h fund> to my continthe Milayan at Ipoh on IS. -c the deamptons and their third victory. letca selected tm >.n«ap«re are h<* at Victoria *> pJB, on Tues-
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    STURSESS AND DROBNY IN FINAL
    105 7 J\ROSLAV Drobny of Egypt and Brie Sturgess of South Africa seeded No. 1 and 2 respectively reached the final of the men s atncles In the German Uvn tenSldtomptonships at Hamburg ye££bn£ defeated Tony Mottrair i of Britain 6-2. an J i Sturfceas beat S\en
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    SHELL SPORTS MEET TODAY
    30 7 Shell Snorts Club will hold ofVe^en^rJll Include an open three mUe» race, which has tt tracted more than 20 en^^vSiv an inlcr-Mbool 4xllo yards reia> race.
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    AUSSIE GAMES TEAM HOME
    115 7 star woman sprinter, Miss Marjorie Jackson, said en arrivr.l m Danrtn last night that she is looking forward to visiting j Japan. Marjcrie—the "blue str?ak"— said she had received an invitation to go to Japan m October and if permission was grantee she would like to
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    STTA TOURNEY
    26 7 The Singapore Table Tennis Asso:iation will hold their annual Junior inter-club championships at the Singapore Badminton Hall at 7 p.m tod°y Admission is free.
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    Game drawn -but Adhikari gets his 100
    400 7 IN spite of all efforts by bcth sides to overcome the depressing conditions of frequent rain storms, it was im-' possible to obtain a decision i on first innings m the game between Warwickshire i and the Indians at Birmingham. Altogether m the
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    WEIGHTS FOR K.L. Ist DAY
    378 7 HANDICAPS for first day of the Selaiigor Turf Club's August meet. Saturday (Aug. 16): Cl 3, Div. I— s?iF. Observation 9.00 Cobro 813 Golden Lotos Ml Proctor Rapid Red 8.69 Mona's Kuda 8.08 Enterprise 8.07 Three Rings B.M Inspiration 8.05 Airmail Loveset 8.»4 Flag Of
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    The baton drop made Marjorie unhappy
    641 7 The baton drop made Marjorie unhappy WHERE is little doubt that the pride of Australia today is> a 22-year-old stenographer. Her name: Marjorie Jackson, winner of the women's 100 metre and 200 metre' events at Helsinki. It was not her easy wins that surprised her friends m Australia, but it
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    Surrey lead by 40 points
    360 7 ilflTH Surrey the potential champions not engaged m a county cricket championship game m the series that ended yesterday, Yorkshire managed to close the gap by winning their encounter, but they have played one game more than Surrey, who still Enjoy a 40 points lead.
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    U.S. make good start
    143 7 DAVIS CUP ITNITED States made a good start m the North American zone final of the Davis Cup competition yesterday when Herb Flam won the opening singles against Canada s Henri Rochen. Winners oi this tie meet the other inter-zone winners. Italy or India for the
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    Toweel v. Mousse
    60 7 pEORGES Mousse, French featherweight, has asked for an undertaking that ne will be given a world bantamweight title fight if he beats the champion. Vie Toweel, m an overweight bout at Johannesburg on Aug. If. Toweel agreed, althous'i he is already committed to defend his title against
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    7 NATIONS ENTER BASKETBALL
    96 7 Seven countries are expected to participate m the first South-Ea&t Asia basketball tournament (men and women) to be held m Singapore next month. Four women players and two reserves from Perak have beer invited to play for Singapore and the Federation. They are Yap Kwan Thye,
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    OLYMPIC TEAM DUE WEDNESDAY
    27 7 The Singapore Contingent to the Olympic Games at Helsinki will return by BOAC on Aug. 13, arriving at Kallang Airport at 3 p.m.
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    WALK-OVER
    37 7 As the Woodbrldge Hospital team did not turn up to meet Cheerful Lads m their BAJ.A. Div. 2 league soccer match scheduled to have been played at Parrer Park yesterday, the latter were awarded a walk-over.
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    5 NEGRI RECORDS BETTERED
    241 7 FVE RECORDS were set up on the first day of the 12th Negri Sembilan A.A.A. championship meet in Seremban yesterday. Two of them were by a Fijian, Pte J. Kobiti. Representing N.S. Services. Kobiti wen the hop, step and jump with 44 ft. 10 l in.,
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    'Slippery Slee' scores three in REME win
    329 7 'Slippery Slee scores three in REME win R.E.M.E. 5; G.H.Q. 1. HTHE Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers x swamped G.H.Q. FARELF on a waterlogged ground at Ayer Raja Road yesterday m their Singapore United Services F.A. Senior League tG.H.Q. defended stubbornly but had no answer to the Craftsmen's teamwork, which
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    Services Junior League results
    69 7 pLYiNG 3v,at Wing beat, Royal I* Army Service C-rps by five §mk a nil m a United .Services 3VM League match played fct Be] U°r on Thursday. YESTERDAY S Singapore X United FA. Junior League results wore: 443 B.A.D. 2. R I Bd XI ayed at
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    League race finish near
    122 7 League race finish near jVr victory at TenI gah bring* RAJ?. M.U. 2nd ,XI level once more with Flying Boat Wing m the Service Junior League, each team having played 21 fixtures and having won 38 points. With one tie remaining to be played by each of the two rivals
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      146 7 Today's Sport SOCCER MALAYA CUP: SAFA vN. Sembilan at J. Besar. DIV. 3A: Tempenis Rovers Indian Brotherhood at J. Besar, 4 pjn.; X.M.L. v Netaji at CYMA. DIV. 3B: Customs v YMMA at Geylang. BUSINESS HOUSES: Jacks v Ford S.C. at Thomson Road; Breweries v Cold Storage at Farrer Park.
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    Aggressors warned they will get tougher time
    320 8 H^XO SUPPLIES SIOW DOWN, BUT- WASHINGTON, Saturday. AMERICA'S Secretary of Defence, Mr. Robert Lovett, yesterday admitted that there had been a reduction m United States mi!i l ary supplies to her allies and said that the ''total goal" of the North Atlantic Treaty
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    ASIAN BOY: COLONEL IN FRAUD TRIAL
    142 8 LONDON, Sat. COL. John Cromarty-Tul-loch, who led the Karen underground forces m Burma m the last war, was committed for trial m London yes:erday charged with fraudulently converting to his own use £1,240 entrusted to him for the education of a youth. Mr E.
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    59 DEFY RACE LAWS ARRESTED
    89 8 ?T ELIZABETH. Sat. T>OLICE arrestec 59 Africans I here yesterday for conracial segi ons m the railway n of New Brighton an .\n suburb. nndreda of South Africa"s coloured Defiance Army have been imprisoned for breaking curfew and using Europeans C public facilities m protest
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    GOODWILL VISIT
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    NINE DIE IN BIS
    21 8 A bus plunged into a ravine yesterday 50 miles from Bogota m Colombia killing nine passenger A.P.
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    MOROCCO FOR U.N.
    40 8 Iraq yesterday formally requested the Secretary-Gene-ral of the United Nations to place the question of Morocco on the agenda of the forthcoming General Assembly. Mr. Awni Khalidy. Iraqi representative s.\id there wn^ dangerous condition :n Morocco.- Reuter
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    Germans to pay prewar debts
    51 8 A 26--vesterday approved a plan by which the West German Government will pay off vir:iy all of Germany's huge prewar debts. Over a period of up to 42 years, West Germany will gradually repay to creditors the world over about £840.--000.000 to £1.000.000.000 German debts.
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    EX-MINISTERS 'CANNOT REVEAL SECRETS'
    244 8 LONDON, Saturday. \IR. CLEMENT ATTLEE, leader of the Labour Party, yesterday rejected the doctrine that former British Cabinet ministers were free to air their differences once a cabinet has been dissolved. ■To accept this doctrine I would be destructive of the collective responsibility of the cabinet
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    Eva's remains to be moved
    72 8 B OS AI.-IZS. Sat. STRONG a. my, police and labour forces will control the big crowds who are expected to watch the transfer of Senora Eva Peron's body > from the Labour Ministry to the Congress building today. These elaborate precautions are being taken to
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    EXECUTED FOR 'LOOSE TALK'
    56 8 Many Chinese living overseas, enticed back to the homeland by the Communist propaganda about the happy and prosperous New China, had the temerity to write friends not to come home. A report from Canton said yesterday that seven letter writers were recently executed at Mc?ihsien for
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    UNIONS CONFER
    33 8 Trade Union delegations from six West African countries have arrived at Abidjan. French Ivory Coast, for a conference to find ways and means of developing closer trade relationships between them. A.P.
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    DECORATED
    33 8 President Syngman Rhee victorious m last Tuesday's k° utr j Korean election, awarded the Presidential unit Citation at Seoul yesterday to the United States Eighth Army Commands Gen. James Van Fle?t U.P.
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    HE WONT CO TO KOREA
    55 8 picture. WHEN PRIVATE HUGH CARTER, a 24-year-old medical corporal m the U.S. Army, whs posted to Korea, he began a one-man sit down strike m protest. The corporal who believes its wrong to kill is here talking things over with Cpl. Harrison Shotberger (standing), a
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    Britain ready to test first atom weapons
    392 8 Britain ready to test first atom weapons LONDON, Saturday. ORITAIVS first atomic explosion is expected to take place within a matter of days on Monte Bello Islands off north-west Australia. The advanced stage m preparations to carry out the test explosion was revealed m an Admiralty warning issued yesterday T/.e
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    Red Air
    49 8 New York, Sat. GEN. Curtis Lemay, who commands the U.S. Strategic Air Force, said yesterday that the post-war development of the Soviet Air Force and the growing Russian stockpile of atomic weapons is the most disturbing threat to our future." vjz% speaking m ColumOblo, at an American
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    Crew risked lives to save blazing carrier
    297 8 Crew risked lives to save blazing carrier TOKYO, Sat. THE navy told yesterday how officers acid enlisted men heroically risked their lives to save the American carrier Boxer from destruction when a jet plane exploded and set fire to its hangar deck. Nine men were killed fP the accident on
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    Korea does not need A-arms
    46 8 Korea does not need A-arms Tne U.S. defence Secretary, Mr. Robert Lovett said m Washington yesterday that the United States has not given recent consideration to the use of atomic weapons m Korea because they are neither necessary nor profitable m that theatre of war. U.P.
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    Blisters on his feet
    61 8 COLOMBO. Sat. THE REV. ERIC Robinson, English Methodist clergyman, was m a nursing home at Hatto, Central Province, yesterday with blisters on the feet received m a Hindu firewalking ceremony. Mr. Robinson was the first European to walk across red hot embers at the Hindu pilgrim
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    FIRST CALL
    31 8 Mr. B. G. Kher. India's lies' High Commissioner to Britain, paid his first official call on Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, at the Foreign Office yesterday. Reuter
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    BELGIAN STRIKE
    22 8 The Belgian Socialist and Communist parties called a one-day general strike today to protest against Belgium's two-year conscription law. A.P.
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    Power 'disturbing'
    147 8 I Legion convention. Gen. Lemay. said Russia had developed her long range i i bombing force cnly since the end of World War II but now had several hundred TU-4s, i cones of the U.S. B-29. In the Soviet Union's active uri'.s there were about 20.000 ?i: craft.
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      8 1 Free Press Saturday Magazine Saturday, Aug. 9. 1952.
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      HE TRIED TO THWART RAFFLES
      642 1  - HE TRIED TO THWART RAFFLES Peterson by ING the Penan I is one rticular ere buried the remains* 1 of ler BanBannerm Honourable East Company's Serv rnor of ben dur: s of Dccc: :ord Lieutenant I Bencoo the port -ice and oi Ind ;o sett: m Ach. new 8n- M
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      Is love really better than ever?
      362 1  - Is love really better than ever? RAY SCOOP by T»YPICAL of the times is a filni title recently seen m Sin gapore propound ing that "Love is better than Ever." Of all the ridiculous descriptions of love which are bandied around nowadays this seems to beat the lot. Love has
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      Girls club rehearse a gay new musical show
      189 1 Girls club rehearse a gay new musical show gIIOW business, 1952, promt? to b£ one of the gayest musicals to l>e presented m Singapore by local :mKJteurs. At left arc two scenes from the show. With a cast of more than 30 eye-filling lovelies from the GirLs Sports Club, and
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      BROTHERLY LOVE
      1446 1 Free Press Saturday short story by WILLIS HALL QUTSIDE the window rears the mountain, the tall mountain with its twin peaks stabbing the clouds. The faintest glow of early morning peers warily over the rim and casts the outline into sharo relief. The hotel has yawned and lifted
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      War's Best Spy Thriller
      785 2 War's Best Spy Thriller 'Five Fingers' is the glamourised story of the Albanian valet who stole war secrets from a British Embassy and sold them to the Germans who refused to act on the, information because they believed it was a British trick to mislead them! rpHE Albanian valet to
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      Will Shakespeare secret agent?
      173 2 AN Italian student of Shakespeare has discovered Spanish documents, which, he beCieves, prove the English bard came to Italy as a secret agent. It was during this journey, said Dr. Franco Colafeuice, that Shakespeare obtained details, colour and exact information used m four of his great
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      NO END TO THIS AFFAIR
      356 2 NO END TO THIS AFFAIR "rpHE FRANCHISE 1 AFFAIR" (Pavilion) occurs m what is sometimes described as a "sleepy old market town"; a place of mellowed brick and stone where the men drink beer at the local tavern and the women gossip m oak-raftered tea shops and everyone knows everybody
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