The Singapore Free Press, 12 August 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA M SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1952. PKICE FlKlfcjLi > t .S
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  • 754 1 Talal removed on grounds of I insanity AMMAN, Tuesday. HI SSEIN, 17-year-old Harrow I WMS \csterday proclaimed King m place of his father King Talal, insane and unfit to rule. m ision of the Jordan dical reports that Talal ted by insanity so that he
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  • 42 1 MOTHER, I AM KING' Hus>ein, 17-year-H Trow schoolboy. g in Lausanne, uhen he ret«v<»d cabled news from Premier. Tewfik nska. of his accession to ihbed a lumped into a taxi »nd hunted for hi* mother, out at found i r the news
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  • 31 1 A Chinese last nght visited a watchmakers shop m North Bridge Road. Singapore. 1 handed two watches, worth $90. for inspection. The man took the watches and ran away.
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  • 147 1 Dare-devil cracksman quits gaol on bicycle ABERDEN, Tues. DA RED EVIL Johnny Ramensky. so good at safe-breaking that the British Government once hired him as a cracksman, slipped over the granite wall of Scotland's toughest gaol yesterday, and got clear away on a girl's bicycle. Guards found a dummy m
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  • 60 1 A 'matter of importance LONDON. Tues. rE Australian Immigration Minister, Mr. Harold Holt, interrupted his European tour to fly here last night for a matter of "great importance. He said on arrival from Vienna that it was "another government matter that has nothing to do with immigration." He would not
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  • 40 1 U.S. buys more English cars Mr. Joseph Dudley. Vice President of the Austin Motor Company said here yesterday that sales of British cars m the United States have risen because the American public l'kes the sms 1 economical English mode's
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  • 29 1 Fr Georges Germain, 57, a French priest who formerly was rector of the Catholic University of Aurora m, Shanghai, was expelled from China early this month.
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  • 63 1 THE sarUndtil I.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, betrays no emotion, as a Hawaiian dancer performs near him on the verandah of the Roy.al Hawaiian Hotel m Honolulu. The Secretary who went to Honolulu for the first Pacific Mutual Security conference between the U.S. A Australia
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  • 158 1 NEGUIB: I TREASURE ENGLAND'S FRIENDSHIP CAIRO, Tuesday. SECTIONS for a new Egyptian Parliament will be heltf next February, it was announced yesterday fro*n the headquarters of General Mohammed Neguib. The Comn: r.aer-in-Chief also announced that he had asked the government for a> series of reforms, including limitation of land ownership
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  • 116 1 NO MORE GURKHAS DEMAND NEW DELHI, Tues. FVE members of India's Parliament yesterday demanded that British re- j cruitment of Gurkhas m j Inaia should be stopped immediately. A statement issued by members of the Opposition from the Communists, rightwing Hindu Mahasabha and Praja parties, urged Mr Nehru to end
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  • 53 1 A H kkien woman, living m 3eylang Road. Singapore, lost a gold ring with five diamonds and two wrist watches worth $700 when her room was entered yesterday. The woman was visiting her mother m Katong when a neighbour reported that someone had climbed over the partition
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  • 59 1 'Joking' nurses are sacked A servant and two nurses ■;ave been dismissed from a Blackpool hospital where king plaster was placec over the mouth of a patient said to be talkative. An official at the Victoria hospital said they stuck the pla-ster as a joke, but his wife complained and
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  • 82 1 MELBOURNE, Tues. Twenty-four British scientists taking part m Britain's first atomic weapon test arrived by air yesterday at Onslow. on the Western Australian mainland 85 miles from the Monte Bella Lslai They flew direct from Singapore m an RAP Hastings aircraft which had previously i
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  • 21 1 An English alpinist, Roy Bumstead, crashed to his death from the south wall of Mont Blanc on Sunday.— A.P.
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  • 240 1 LAND SURVEY BEGINS S 'pore plan to grow food Free Press Staff Reporter TWO surveyors have started preliminary work on 2,500 acres of land which the Singapore Government has earmarked for food production. The land is situated m Sungei Bedok Valley, beside the area on which squatters from Paya Lebar
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  • 29 1 West German border police yesterday reported that planes, including Jet fighters, from Czechoslovakia, flying at 30,000 feet violated the Bavarian border 15 times over the week-end.- U.P.
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  • 26 1 West Germany has appointed Dr. Gottfried Kau- mann as her first Minister to Siam, says A.P. He will leave for Bangkok m October.
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  • 100 1 Pact nations plan 'battle' off Russia COPENHAGEN. Tues. THE free world will deploy its naval power along the North European rim of the Soviet empire next month m the biggest combined exercises ever staged by the Atlantic Pact nations. From the Russian-dominat-ed Baltic sea m the south to the Norwegian-Soviet
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  • 58 1 Mr. Camilo Osias. majority leader of the Philippines Senate, arrived m Singapore this morning on his way to Switzerland to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Conference which begins on Aug. 28. Mr. Osias. who is accompanied by his wife, was met at the airport by the Philippines Consul.
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  • 172 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. BRITAIN and the United States were continuing to exchange views on the Persian situation both m London and Washington the State Department spokesman, Mr. Michael McDermott said yesterday. The two governments had been m close consultation on the Persian political situation for some
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  • 337 1 Eden to wed niece of Churchill LONDON, Tuesday. THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, Mr. Anthony Eden, will soon marry Miss Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, niece of the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, the Foreign Office announced yesterday. Mr. Eden's first marriage was dissolved m June 1950 on grounds of desertion by his wife, the former
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  • 103 1 CZESH ENVOY GETS ASYLUM IN CANADA 3. DR. Jiri Marea. Cz3choslovakian Consul-General m Montreal, has been granted political asylum In Canada after he was called by th i Czech Foreign Ministry but refused to return home, the Canadian Foreign Affairs Department said yesterday. The 43-year-old lawyerdiplomat has been m Montreal
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  • 81 1 SEOUL, Tues. US. MARINES smashed over bloody Siberia Hill east of Panmunjom yesterday riding it of all Chinese Communists and leaving nobody alive on the crest. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Chinese by the American Marines who struck with flame throwers, grenades and everything they
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  • 117 2 ...and the only snow Hollywood star Merry Anders could find to enjoy m California was m this set on the Twentieth Century Fox lot. Merry has a part m "With a Song m My Heart", now showing m the Federation. RIGHT: Actress Hazel Court wears a
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  • 144 2 WANT to be a beauty queen? Or perhaps your daughter does? If so then beware that you don't fall into the trap that Miss Turkey < 1952 fell into a few weeks ago For a few minutes after ected "The most beautiful girl In Turk--19-year-old brunette Gulengui
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  • 963 2 They learned which colours go well before the cameras, says Dorothy McCardle WOMEN have learned a lot about clothes from Chicago's two big political conventions. It may sound frivolous, but. actually, these Uds on dress are Just as important to women's future before
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  • 585 2  -  CEDRICK SALTER By —^for the summer, TN Spain this is the season of two capitals. It is the season when Madrid remains the capital as far as the mao is concerned, but m actual fact gives way 10 San Sebastian. The reason is quite
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  • 429 2 THE AMERICAN TEEN ACB WHO is the girl who will dominate this month's dress shows m London, Paris, and Rome although she will not be at any of them? She is the girl every top dress designer is out to please although she
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  • 141 2 BORN today, there is money m your life lots of h! You have a gift for making almost any business enterprise which you espouse a successful one. No matWr how scatter-brained your idea may seem to your contemporaries, you go right ahead with it! However, you have
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 57 2 Solution To Crossword No. 737 Yesterday's Solution.— Across: 1. Policewomen 7, Romanticist. 9, Tug. 10. Noreen 12, Hear. 13. Trite. 15. Rota. 17, Serial. 19. Sin. 20. Highlanders. 21, Pastmasters. Down: l, Partnership. 2. Lamer, 3, Canter. 4, Whig. 5, Maize. 6, Naturalists. 8. Tunisia. 11, Eta. 12. Her. 14
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    • 169 2 New Crossword No. 738 CLUES ACROSS 3, 7. Proverbially they 13D, 14 (7, 6). 8. Remove the members (7). 9. and it changes to nine (6). 10. They are run, however slowly the boy may go (7). 13. These drinks are snares (4). 15. The responsibility seems to be ours
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  • 172 3 INVASION BY BEAUTY QUEENS BEGINS ROW EDINBI RGH, Tuesday. D kj the growing number of beauty invade- their own terdtorv -home girls ar e beginning to bov--but big money -beauty shows misers of these seaside bathing con! v m a dilemma. v be a "stay away" reauest to vho follow
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  • 25 3 I :S. a xiffep bag c coml .he I b >ag in six Inn en- cam:o cheaper. he cup t 3
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  • 251 3 Beggar drove to 'work' in motorcar OKLAHOMA CITY. Tues. WILLIE Covens, a 34-year- old crippled Negro beggar, returned to the road m his 1952 Lincoln aftei police put a sudden end to his lucrative business here Police officers. E.W. Stevenson and B.R. McDonald, became suspicious when they found Billy Joe
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  • 300 3 aide Tuiner&bU. ;1H IKIII I t 4 lITII 0S Q 'II C OKJI9IT 3 2 Q 4 SOUTH *X 7 4 S <? A J 10 5 0 A 10 1 Tke bidding Sou: a West Nona Dbt. Pu, 40 Past 4 NT. i of .a prc-. It
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  • 30 3 SHE IS JUST LAZING AWAY SUNDAY' m Hollywood, and shapely Anne Baxter of 20th Century-Fox spends her day from the studio m the timehonoured Hollywood way at the swimming pool.
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  • 380 3 ENUGU, Nigeria, Tuesday. TPHE innocent stranger who shouts "taxi" m one xof the towns of this British colony is liable to find his call answered by a scantily-clad African riding an ordinary bicycle. This vehicle, which has no .r^— trailer and sometimes does I
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  • 30 3 VOUTn. t v era-Ellen is nou: on the topmost rung of the ladder of success, but it took grit, determination and hard icork to get there.
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  • 35 3 The new China news agency has reported considerable activity m Australia and Pakistan m preparation for a coming peace conference of Asian and Pacific regions, io be hpld m Peking m September.- Reuter
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  • 47 3 A Chinese labourer was crushed to death m Hong Kong when he jumped off the waterfront to catch a large fish which escaped from the net of a fishing junk. The junk hit his head and crushed him against a wall.— Reuter AAP
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  • 55 3 The Marine police at Hong Kong received a message for help from the freighter Hai Lung which was drifting off the Indo-China coast with rudder trouble.— Reuter. Seven men who threw "go Jiome" leaflets at Gen. Matthew Ridgway at London airport on July 9, drew fines ranging from
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  • 169 3 HE KISSED ME WITHIN A MONTH, SHE SAID LONDON, Tues. A SPINSTER of 64 who said an osteopath aged 72 began kissing her a month after she became his patient sued him for the return of £1,400. The osteopath, Francis Deacon, of Worthing, settled the action for £600 with costs.
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  • 42 3 A Hong Kong-registered Chinese junk was attacked by an unidentified armed junk while en route from Macao to Hong Kong. A member of the crew was injured and taken to hospital on arrival m Macao.— Reuter A.A.P.
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  • 46 3 A group of 50 Japanese 1 including women and children called m at Hong Kong by the Dutch vessel TjLsadane on their way to Japan from South America. The ?roup has not seen their homeland since the outbreak of the Pacific War.- Reuter AAP
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  • 220 3 BOSTON. Tues rE reason American girls are getting married younger and younger, says Boston University Professor Lowell S. Trowbridge, is that they are too lazy to go to work. It is hard work to get a job and even harder work to keep it.
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  • 217 3 There 's nothing false about the Russian front MOSCOW, Tuesday. WOMEN'S styles have changed a great deal m Russia, but not the styles of women they still, prefer ample figures with full curves. Nowadays, the women m the cities have highheeled shoes, permanent waves, silk and nylon stockings and the
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  • 176 3 ALMOST DIVORCED MAN WAS BIGAMIST EDINBURGH. Tues. POUR weeks before he was T granted a decree nisi, Michael Joseph Gavin "married" Miss Alexandria McGowan m an Edinburgh tegister office. Six years later the "Gavins" had an argument at their home m Preston Crescent. Subsequently, the police were called and the
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  • 42 3 A Perth mctorist who crossed against a signal and became involved m a minor collision told the constable on the spot he had been m a daze— after a visit to the Taxation Department. He was fined £3— Reuter-A.A.P
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  • 220 3 NEW FINDS PAPHOS, Cyprus, Tues. AN outstanding moi ment of the military art of 25 centuries aeo is amons the important discoveries made by British expedition to o.d Paohos. It is believed to be a siege mound, bi'ili and used by the Persians during
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  • 80 3 TOKYO, Tues. JAPANESE strip teasers will perform m Hong Kong from the end of next month. The Nagata Kogyo Company, by arrangement with a Hong Kong flKn, will shew m Hong Kong theatres for a month. The troupe has six strippers and 22 other performers.
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  • 588 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. August 12. 1952 Sarawak crisis SARAWAK officially joins the trouble spots Of South East Asia, i Alter two terrorist incidents, its Government has declared a state of Emergency m the division m which the capital. Kuching, is located. To judge solely from the information contained
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  • 1246 4 Another article «n Hie series m which eminent personalities discuss careers. says Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of 8.0.A.C. long ago a young 11 man came to me and asked what qualifications he would need to get to the top m British civil aviation. I told him
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  • 864 4 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IT is the proud boast of the American people that any nativeborn American can become President of the United- States. Theoretically, that is so. But. m fact, as Senator Taft so sadly discovered, it is not so easy. Even when the nativeborn
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  • 301 4 IfERONA, the town of Romeo and Juliet, has remained a sleepy, old-world place. Its weather-beaten palaces still breathe the ancient romance, their ironwrought balconies dreaming quietly of past serenades. Tucked away amon? the old houses is a lovely white building with a portico courtyard overlooked by
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  • 46 4 HERI lubber* books. Fewer 5.000 bow E worid by L College i :iecl. Yet oru lie libraries repor week mow thai books fail to More than fron. Un< i ves^eL*-— ar-"flo-tine ondge tt* c( jj leges HQ to W m Balham
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  • 210 5 'It is offered with good heart', leaders told Free Press Staff Reporter jyjANY Singapore Malays yesterday were surprised that their leaders could not make up their minds about accepting the MCA gift of Inche Abdul bin Jafar, a shop keeper m Geylang, said the Malay leaders
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  • 51 5 Trust homes for evicted tenants Free Press Staf Reporter "TVDRTY tenants of two shop- houses it the junction of Wayang Street and Canal Road, to be demolished shortly, have been offered flats m Pickering Street by the Singapore Improvement Trust. The shophouses are to make way for the Y.W.C.A.'s women's
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  • 51 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Inche Taib An dak will relinquish his appointment of President, Sessions Court. Johore Bahru, next week, and proceed to Pahang on transfer as District Officer, Kuala Lipis. Inche Taib Andak was recently promoted from the Johore Civil Service to the Malayan Civil
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  • 23 5 Free Press Staf Reporter Singapore's Olympic team five men and a girl returns to the Colony by Qantas-BOAC tomorrow afternoon.
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  • 43 5 THE LEADER (left) of the Indo-China Scout contingent to the South-East Asia patrol camp at Kuala Lumpur is met at the station m Kuala Lumpur yesterday by a French representative. Members of the party speak only French and Vietnamese d'alccts.
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  • 262 5 BABCOCK and Wilcox Ltd., who were alleged by Mr. P. M. Vfilliams, president of the General Labour Union, to have victimised a labourer by dismissing him without cause, yesterday issued a statement on the dismissal. The firm, contractors at the new Pasir Panjang power station,
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  • 39 5 Captain Hugh Birch, manager of Qantas Empire Airways, who left Singapore on Friday for a four-day RAAF reserve training course at Negombo, Ceylon, returns tomorrow. Captain Birch is a Group Captain m the R.A.A.F. reserve.
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  • 70 5 KUALA LUMFUR, Tues. riE Federation Court of Appeal yesterday enchanced the sentence imposed on a soldier of the Malay Regiment, Yusoff bin Abdul Malik, who raped a mother of five children. "We regard this as a very bad case," said the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice
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  • 111 5 PENANG, Tues. WORK on the restoration of Penang's historic Fort Cornwallis as an ancient monument Is likely to spread over a number of years, the Settlement Secretary, Mr. G. C. Dodwell, said yesterday. For research into its history, a six-man committee has been
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  • 103 5 OUISSTATIONS liable to load t3 shedding tonight are: Albert St. Short St.. New Ice Works. JaJan Pek.in Julan Sultan. Sumbawa Rd.. Beach Rd.. Odeon Cinema, Alhambra. Raffles Hotel, Boon Tat St. Aljunid Rd.. Sims. Avenue, Pava Lebar Pumps, Dun man Rd.. Joo Chiat Place. Jalan Yasin. Julan Eunos,
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  • 167 5 THE committee of the Singapore City Council Cooperative Thrift and Loan Society agreed at an emergency meeting to deplore the statement made by its chairman, Mr. D. E. Siddons, to the Press, that indebtedness among City -employees was due mainly to betting on horses. The
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  • 206 5 npHE Singapore Adult Education Council will ask the Government to increase its grant by $70,000. The Government has provided $270,000 for adult education m this year's budget. The literacy sub-committee of the Councih has pointed out to the Executive Committee that it is necessary to
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  • 19 5 SEGAMAT. Tues.—Mohamed Nor Din Pajar, 44, was fined $5 for killing a wild boar without a licence.
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  • 52 5 rpHE first of ten lectures on A Chinese religious beliefs, painting, calligraphy, music and drama will be given by Mr. Lee Siew Mong, president of the China Society, at the British Council Hall m Stamford Road, Singapore, at 6 o'clock this evening. The talks will be held
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  • 154 5 $114,000 plan for market Free Press Staf Reporter fTMiE Singapore City Council JL Health Committee has approved a $114,000 scheme for the conversion of Telok Ayer market Into a hawkers' shelter. The market, now used partly lor selling cooked food and partly lor wholesale business, will be converted to accommodate
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  • 235 5 Hospital Reserve 'call-up' in Sept. Free Press Staff Report <r SINGAPORE'S latest civil defence unit the Hospital Reserve— vWll expand the Colony's medical services during an emergency, Dr. W. E. Hutchinson. Assistant Director of Medical Services (Civil Defence), told the Free Press yesterday. Recruits for the unit are expected to
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  • 15 5 Fifteen cars were imported direr t into Malaya I i c ,t year.
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  • 96 5 II|R. C. C. TAN, president of the Singapore Progressive Party, announced at the opening of the Seletar district headquarters that the party planned to contest the next Legisla- tive Council elections for representation of Seletar. The opening ceremony was performed by Mrs. Robert Eu. A
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  • 212 6 Malayan A.A.A. Records and Holders. 100 YARDS: lOsec, Poh Kirn Seng (19.1), L.D.E. CuHen (1933), Kee T#nf Chin (1!>..7>. Sidique Merican (1951). 220 YARDS: 21.8 sec, L. D. E. CulJen (1931). 410 YARDS: 50sec, L. D. E. Cullen (1131). SSO YARDS: lmin. 59sec, Alr.m Sher (1939). ONE MILE:
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  • 87 6 WOMEN'S DISCU S RECORD CLAIMED ACCORDING to Pravda, a Soviet girl has bettered the world record m th© discus throw. The official Communist organ said yesterday that Nina Romashfcova. Olympic discus winner, tossed the discus 175 feet 10 Kins. m a track meet at Odessa. Another Russian g:rl, Nina Dumbadze.
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  • 1561 6 M.A .A .A THRILLS THIS WEEKEND 329 athletes from 12 States By FRANCIS DANIEL TUI climax a keen, record-breaking season, athletes from twelve States will go into action on Friday and Saturday m the fourteenth annual Malayan Amateur Aihletic Association championships, which will be held at Ipoh. The meet is
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    35 6 Eleanor Ross (left) and Joyce Deans m one of their many neck-and-neck finishes this season. These two Singapore schoolgirls will renew their sprint rivalry at lpoh m the Malayan A.A.A. Championships this weekend.
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  • 51 6 President of the Singapore Table Tennis Association is Mr. Choo Kwai Low. Tel. 5293. Mr. Choo is also Vice -President of ihe Asian Ta"We Tennis FedoraUaftv Dttails a s to tfcp sale of tirke+6 for trfis month's eixhibitiop b Ball matches 'by the HftiHem not yet a^aTlTlio Singapore
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  • 204 6 r«ZECH officials probably will think t '^allowing Olympic track star Em. his wife to visit the United S sources said yesterday. A move to invite the couple States was urged by S< Charles Salver m a letter to President of the United S
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  • 90 6 IUAN Manuel Fangio. ArgenUna's w orld famous motor racing driver, will resume Grand Prix racing next month after two months spent m recovering from a crash. The organisers announced yesterday that Fangio will drive a two litre Maserati m the Italian Grand Prix m Monza on
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  • 261 6 By ARCHIE Ql'K'K SEVENTEEN wins m 21 matches is a record whif tells its own story of Surrey's superiority m tm County Cricket Championship this sea the figures alone do not reveal the real reas< the title will go outright to Kenninftoii O the first
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  • 116 6 ZATOPEK THE GREAT ■PHI great Ccc i. Zatopek m 1947, \^her. I i writes E. McDoThere team compcteam human r. race with the brt his tirr.f 188 nal record Th c is one of ber it for A sight I was a group going on They streamed a: 'rinto to
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  • 810 7 Pedigree is destroyed From ALLAN LEWIS DIGREE, a three-year-old brown Australian 1 feMiftf, by Beau Son from Ancestry, was i this morning, when he met with an K nt while working on the second grass at Kuala Lumpur. c (Ellery) and Sunstream (Wahab) Ing from
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  • 73 7 Sedgman loses final in straight sets X- r A :ay beat United Wimbledon t.tle- Ahan -i Grass chamh Orange. cted to a :.g to the ■1 th~* previous McGregor w 6-4 hi two Australians had befc semi-finals against the c-rar.xed Americans. SedgBiily Talb:rt 4-6 6-"i 8-6 and McGregor beating 3-6
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  • 45 7 0 r.ited S*ate Main (Canada* -1 n the first of two 'Jie North i^al m the Davis esrerday at rlrst *\.o a th? doubles, for winead of 3-0 'he UriLed Statw* had already qualified for a meetpean atme viUßCis* or India rone> their
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  • 42 7 Mon. I***" horseraces here '-"aay because of a strike i horse owners. "ike was called because ifefeg committee did not Jut enough prises m the races. 1050.000 lire (US* 1.300) Monteca'inl prize was and will be held at one mUL- A.P
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  • 79 7 Halrston of New York t J* «nd Carl < Bobo^ Olson, of J^Wu. rated— in the U.S-A and No. 2 contenders of Ray Robinjons world Itewcteht crown, are to meet Their fight wiD open •Jrtumn boxir.g season at J"}"" Square Garden. New AP A R N Kranji
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  • 519 7 2URREY gained four valuable first innings points yesterday when, after a blank Saturday, 16 wickets fell at t)\e Oval. These points may be vital m getting Surrey home for the county championship as Yorkshire, their nearest rivals, cannot be certain of a first innings lead, let
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  • 358 7 TBA CRACK IN 2nd HALF LOSE 5-1 FAYING wi;.h ten -men. Tamils went down 5-1 to Police S.C. m the Dlv. 2 SAFA League game at GeyLang Stadium yesterday. Tamils played with nine men for about 10 minutes. Police pressed hard from the very start and had Tamils on the
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  • 278 7 IN a day when 18 wickets fell for 213 runs before bowlers who seized the opportunity to exploit the rain affected pitch at Cheltenham two men Homu Adhikari of the Indian tourists, and Tom Graveney Gloucestershire s Test player, showed how determined batting achieves its
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  • 510 7 Dave Sands' death shocks S'pore fight fans rpHE death of Dave Sands, British Empire middle- weight champion, came as a great shock to Singapore fight fans this morning. Sands, who was seen twice m action m a Singapore ring— and that was against Orient champion Boy Brooks, whom he beat
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  • 287 7 'BIG BLOW' TO LITTLE NENE F. P. Boxing Reporter NEWS of Dave Sands' .death came as a Mg blow to Singapore boxing promoter, Little Nene. "I am groggy," said Nene this morning, "he was such a nice fellow." .j;ie explained that he was negotiating: with Sands, to fight m Singapore
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  • 60 7 The team to represent Singapore Indians against Eurasians m today's Community league soccer match at Jalan Besar will be chosen from the following: Narayanan, Muthiah, G. Suppiah, M. Velu, M. Ghani, P. Suppinh, Rashld, Muniandy. Bala. liOgonathan, Salahudin, V. Roberts, Paul Davis, S. Chandra, Avtar Singh, N. Nadarajan,
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  • 33 7 In a SAFA Division 3B league soccer match played on the BODCA ground yesterday, Haikowyu Sports Club txounced BODCA by 6-0. The scorers were: Salim (3), T :^nr?my (2) and Yusof.
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  • 145 7 NEWS of Dave Su.icis' death caused profound grief among boxing followers m the United States. Mr. Nat Fleischer, editcr of The Ring and one of the leading boxing authorities m the United States, said: Boxing has lost one of its really great fighters.
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  • 35 7 rpHE annual cricket m:\h beI tween the Char ?red Bank and the Hongkong Bank wa.s played at Shell S.C ground on Sunday and ended m a win for Chartered Bank by 64 rurs.
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  • 417 7 AIRMEN HAD AN EASY WIN R.A.F 5, Indonesians ROYAL Air Force, displa fine combination and speed m attack, had little difficulty m beating a scrappy Indonesian eleven by goals to nil m yesterday's i Singapore Amateur F.A. Com- munity League ;ie played at Jalan Besar S.;dium. The Airmen stormed Indonesians'
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    • 323 7 WORLD GOLF TIED CARY Middlecoff and Julius Boros tied for first place m the "World Golf Championship* 1 at Chicago yesterday In the tournament played at the Tarn O'Shanter Country Club they each had 72 hole total of 276. 12 under par. They will play off today for the $25,000
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  • 313 8 TOKYO, Tuesday. nriiE BRITISH AUTHORITIES m Tokyo yesterday refused Japan's first positive offer of a settlement m the case of the two Brit:sh sailors gaoled b\ a Kobe court. The Prime Minister, Mr. Yoshida's government, already under heavy British and American
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  • 41 8 BUSINESSMAN SENTENCED d 43. •rab:d bus an re- radited from Bri--3 :ace charges ol cheating and usir.g forged doenmmts, wai c a a: Dombaj and ed to three ar.d-a-half years' rigorimprison rr. He was also fined Rs. 15.000 (about I.l2s». Reuter
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  • 37 8 The former Indian Am--1 bas^cicr to Ireland. Mr Lshna Menon, yesterday was admitted to the Irish Bar at Dublin's Four Courts. It was the first time that a for tional inted m admission. U.P.
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  • 189 8 GOLDEN PEN UNITED 2 ANCIENT EMPIRES ADDIS ABABA, Tuesday. pMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE of Ethiopia using a golden pen yesterday signed a new constitution uniting his ancient empire with Eritrea, once 1 Italy's oldest colony m an East African federation. The ceremony m the Imperial P?lace ended with toasts to the
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  • 22 8 The U.S. State Department yesterday announced that it has reached agreement with Israel to help her buy mil;- U.P.
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  • 148 8 Fakir 72 days in coffin alive PALERMO, Sicily. Tues. BI'RMAH the Fakir" was taken out of a glass coffin m a tavern here on Sunday after boosting the world fasting record to 72 days three hours three minutes. Forty-five Moroccan asps and a python which were keeping him company were
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  • 64 8 WINDSOR IS IMPROVING Physicians attending tie Duke of Windsor m Mo: caini. Italy, said yester that he was constantly m: proving from "an attack i f tro enteritis." which oth sources said apparently was caused by food poisoning. The Duke was out of hit room yesterday but still hr« not
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  • 57 8 The Yomiuri. large afternoon Tokyo newspaper, said yesterday the U.S. Navy expected to order torpedoes and small warships from the ibishi Shipbuilding C pany. The newspaper said known whether the arms and warships would be used by the U.S. Navy or leased to Japan
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  • 19 8 Chinese Communist authorities m Canton have launched an all-out round-up of men and unemployed women.— A. P.
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  • 14 8 East and West German border guards exchanged shots near Braunlase. Harz Friday.
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  • 50 8 China has abolished her Ministry of Trade and created Ministries of Foreign Trade and Commerce, according to a Peking .radio broadcast heard m Hong Kong. It has also created the first and second ministries of mechanised industries, and ministries of architectural engineerins. eeoloev and food.- Reuter
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  • 15 8 VOLUNTEER SPECIAL CONSTABULARY SpeC nested to parade a: at 6.00 p SHI Q A<? OiT.cer.
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  • 26 8 c children and wore killed, and 19 during the Ger. B resort o n a truck llefa balloons for were b Reuter
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  • 21 8 NC :hat Otxz I La-. :o the Governor for naand that any person By rtvi why nanted sncd Colonial Secrere.
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  • 114 8 INERAL VIEW of the scene m the foothills of the Alps, 15 milts from Grenoble. France, where Sir Jack Drummond 61-year-old planner of Britain's wartime diet, his wife and 12-ye3r-old daughter Elizabeth were found murdered. They had been shot and bludgeoned to death by brigands. Their
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  • 316 8 Anns issue may bring new Bevan Attlee clash LONDON. Tuesday. BRITAIN'S Labour Party executive yesterday published an interim home policy statement which may provoke fresh storms on rearmament between the Leftwing rebel, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, and the party leader, Mr. Clement Attlee, it is reported. The policy statement, entitled "Face
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  • 212 8 PARIS. Tues. GEN. MATTHEW B. Ridgway yesterday said the threat of war is still as big as ever, and there are serious weaknesses m the West's buildup to meet this threat. The Supreme Commander of Allied Forces m Europe told a news conference there was
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  • 246 8 11th hour dash to liberty i HELSINKI, iv A MEMBER of Rumania's team of Oh: shots was reported to be hiding s «.nit Finland yesterday after escaping f rom munist secret police guard. Finnish police say they do not k: went, but he has a
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