The Singapore Free Press, 15 August 1952

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I 1,171 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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  • 1002 1 Divorce: public standards lower LONDON, Friday. MflG influential Anglican newspaper. Church 1 1 said editorially yesterday the I day of Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign try that his re-marriage after divorce "how far the climate of public opinion tter has changed for the worse" since Edward VIII
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    50 1 picture. THE SERVICE fimilies special, the 10,900-ton liner, Cameronia, speeding troops home from the Far East, docked m Singapore last night from Hong Kong. No sooner was the gangplank secured than a stream of servicemen and women shot off for a spot of shore leave Free Press
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  • 21 1 BOMBS IN S'PORE: ALL-NIGHT INQUIRIES Reporter condv i Traction I at the H^ppy r.c: >ay which occurld 930 ii ov the
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  • 35 1 LAUSANNE. Fn. HusseKi of go back to his :n August 24, he lanomced yesterday. I he would remain IkM m his capital. then travel to c will enter for three U.P.
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  • 65 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. rpHE Comet service to Sin--1 gapore will take at least another month to get started, a BOAC spokesman m Singapore said today. Flight schedules are still awaited by the BOAC's office nere. The present proposal is to start a weekly service, carrying
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  • 218 1 DOCTOR SENT BY CABLE PARIS, Friday. A DOCTOR went 1,000 feet down into the earlh into the Pyrenees yesterday to treat a cave explorer who had fallen and broken his back and jaw. The physician travelled two and a half hours on a steel cable
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  • 89 1 NEW 3-NATION PACIFIC PACT SOUGHT TAIPEI. Fri. KOREAN Ambassador. Kirn Hong 11, revealed yesterday that Nationalist China, the Philippines and South Korea are negotiating for a mutual defence alliance patterned after the ANZUS Council. The ambassador told a press conference that al though negotiations had no reached a concrete stage
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  • 79 1 An 11 -year-old Chinese servant admitted a stranger to a house m Race Course Road, Singapore. The girl was alone. The man searched the hall and dining room. But when the intruder tried to unlock a bedroom door, the girl ran from the house to
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  • 57 1 qppkin^ a divorce on grounds o f cruelty. Bessy giapman testified at Derby that her husband tried i to strangle her on he r wedding day slapped her face, took alfl her earnings on her first pay day after the wedding and threw a knife
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  • 8 1 P?k'st»n celebrated its dependence anniversary yesterday.
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  • 101 1 OFFICERS TO GET TRAINING Free Press Staff Reportrt A NUMBER of Singapore Police officers will be sent to the new Police Training College at Kuala Kubu, Selangor which will be opened shortly, a Police spokesman told the Free Press this morning. He said they would be given higher training similar
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  • 30 1 The Director of Broadcasting, Mr. H. W. Jackson, and Mrs. Jackson left by QantasBOAC this morning fo r Switzerland. They are expected to return Xo Singapore next January.
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  • 21 1 A camera, worth $930, was stolen from an unlocked car. parked m front of the Capitol Cinema. Singapore, yesterday
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  • 28 1 J:panese press reports yesterday said the Tokyo government has drafted a plan for a 2,000-plane air force m 1955 powered by Japan-made jet haters. U.P.
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  • 139 1 JOHANNESBURG, Fri. SOUTH AFRICAN police, engaged m opposing the campaign against the Government's "Jim Crow Law.' 1 yesterday held for questioning a Time magazine correspondent, Alexander Campbell. Time recently carried a cover story on the Nationalist Premier, Dr. Daniel Malan. Plainclothes detectives entered the
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  • 90 1 MEXICO CITY, Fri. MISS Agnes Kelly, blonde American secretary of a Chinese Air Force general charged with embezzling U5525,000,000 of the Chinese National Government, said yesterday that she did not know why she was being held m a Mexican gaol with her employer. She said: "I
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  • 42 1 Prince Aly Khan, with four packages which he said contained toys, books and other gifts for his daughter, yesterday left New York for Los Angeles to visit his estranged wife, actress Rita Hayworth, and their daughter, Yasmine.
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  • 18 1 Approximately 600 Chinese m Siam left Bangkok yesterday for their homeland m communist China. U.P.
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  • 278 1 MARSEILLES, Fri. THE advance scout of the pingpone ball raft "Kentooki" arrived here yesterday, twenty-four hours ahead of the raft itself— a log craft supported on barrels filled with pingpong balls. t At present it is being towed along the Rhine
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  • 320 1 500 rioters face Cairo army court CAIRO, F.iday. A FTVE-MAN MILITARY COURT, empowered with final authority, was convened yesterday for a mass trial of 500 workers arrested m Wednesday's textile riots near Alexandria. The military tribunal's sitting was delayed while the Egyptian cabinet met to authorise its establishment as a
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  • 218 1 U.S. acts to stop car parts for Mao WASHINGTON. Fri THE U.S. GOVERNMENT k action yesterday ta slop tiie continuing trick;e of American truck and jeep spare parts into Communist China. It ordered a closer screening of exports of such parts to Singapore and the Federation the Philippines, Burma, Indonesia,
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  • 99 1 Free Press Staff Reporter VI R. Tan Tee Soon, v cond ifl Assistant Secretarj' of the Singapore City Council, died I at the Gener&l Hospital yesI terday. He was admitted to I the hospital about a week ago. He is survived by two soni
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 565 2  -  IRIS ASHLEY says AS we go dashing around Paris from one dress show to the next, we pause occasionally to eat, drink, and make notes and diet. This week most of it has been done m a ill open-air cafe about 100 yards
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  • 121 2 'TROUBLE has arisen m London Zoo's Mappin Terrace pool, where two penguin eggs are being oated. One pair of kings George Baby, change over en their egg every few days. But with the other pair Tubby and Mary, Tubby in--8 on having sole charge. He carries
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  • 978 2 ANN TEMPLE'S hobby is collecting— with a difference THIS week-end I shall be looking for a house. Not to live m but to add to my collection. The collection is only In my memory, I hasten to say. I can't think what
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  • 415 2  -  IS the professor whose 1 absent mindedness affords comedians endless themes for funmaking much different from the rest of us? I've not noticed it! I'm sure we've all experien- ced the embarrassment and annoyance of names and small details slipping our memory. There's little we
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 133 2 New Crossword No. 741 1 j j CLL S ACROSS -4»w J Llke Motner Huobrds cupboard (8). 6. Fruit* s .et Phnn Ddy s t tart < 6 5) Her car s upset by bowmen <7). 10. !?i ?9 5 a wk letter <3) 1L If irs sweet itl& nol
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    • 49 2 Solution To Crossword No. 740 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: Acress: 3, Parking. 7. Places. 8 Skaters. 9. Wapiti. 10. Sneaker 13. Giraffe. 17. Overdo. 18, Closure. ,19, Inkpot, 20, Spirits. r )own: 1. Spawn. 2, Lamps. 3. Pes^ 4. A king for it. 5, kitbag. 6, Nerves. 11, Filip. 12, Caesar
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    • 236 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR HP HE tftars have given yon outstanding talents m a variety of fields. It is up to you to decide early m life what you want to be and then 9ft sail toward a definite goal. Learn to understand yourself, your ambitions, and your ideals. Then make
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  • 273 3 GAY WIFE' WEEPS FOR HUSBAND Tells judge: 7 was selfish' ivnxnv v JOHANNESBURG, Friday. 4 WOMAN who left her husband for a gay life wept as she clung to the dock m which he stood charged with theft and pleaded for him. "If you must sentence somebody", she sobbed, "sentence
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  • 341 3 overcome vet y ista*tes for fractions. method of valuing ■rill give you greater c 4 3 2 l Aces' count is ace 3. l Jack 12. The s together total 6 12 average hand total high card value or l 26 points. If yoo partner hold the c:
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  • 35 3 is verting bet own use fcr I n medern hisi three-way grain' ntina will ship of maize Franc &%2 cf barley to trie s and the United end 200.000 tons Argentina. Reuter
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  • 26 3 United Nations c-m--n on German elections, ftnal report to Secretary Trygve Lie. said tne inored the Comppeals to enter -occupied zone oi A. P.
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  • 23 3 rcc hundred Muslims .r rested :n Cawnpore n they organized a proprocession against tne '"on of seme articles Hindi news- U.P.
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    8 3 'YOU «EM£MBf« BUCKtEr.OUR CAMOUf lAGE EXPERT? *m—
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  • 85 3 Lover gives up Lady Nicotine for another LONDON, Fri. Fwas no ordinary notice that appeared m a London weekly paper announcing the engagement of Mr. Lan Robey to Miss Pamela Elbourne, of Bristol. It told a tale of manly sacrifice. ."in view of the' above engagement, Mr. j Robey has
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  • 43 3 JUDGE Fenwick told a defendant m a case at Barrow County Court: see from your fingertips that you don't smoke. This method helps me to calculate what a person can afford to pay. It is an excellent test as to means."
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  • 95 3 "we- became engage! during the week-end," sh^ said. "I thought that too much of my nance's money was going up in smoke, and I told him so. "I asked him to give up smoking, at least for the time being. He agreed. "After all, when we marry I shall be
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  • 42 3 India's leper population has reached I,2oo,ooo— and government officials say there might be more. The Health Minister, Raikumari Amrit Kaur, declared m Parliament that Indian medical research officials ran* the leprosy problem among their mam targets.- A.P.
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  • 33 3 Lieut-General William Haskell who directed American relief for millions in.Rumalia Greece, Armenia and Ru%ia between 1919 and 1923, died m hospital at Greenwich. Connecticut, on his 74th birthcWV- A.P.
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  • 45 3 MOIRA SHEARER, the British ballerina, who lave birth to a daughter m a London hospital on Tuesday night. Miss Shearer, aged 26, is the wife of author Ludovic Kennedy. Her latest film is "The Jealous Lover," made m Hollywood by Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer.
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  • 169 3 HAREM LADIES VIE FOR NEW PARISIAN FASHIONS PARIS, Fri. I N unnamed Eastern potentate, renowned lor hU diplomacy not only m State affairs but" also m the harem, keeps all of his wives happy by keeping all of them equally supplied with the last thing m Paris fashions. Like every
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  • 63 3 LONDON, Fri. a PAKISTAN army major, A Nazimiddin Ahmad. 28. committed suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed by ill-health, said the Coroner's Court here. He died ONm coal a: poisoning. Ahmad was found dead m a Kensington hotel on July 13 with
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  • 31 3 Authoritative sources m London said that while the British Government opposes Israeli's plan to make Jerusalem an official diplomatic headquarters, no final decision has beea taken m London. U.P.
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  • 22 3 A Japanese academy for training National Police Re- Serve and Maritime Reserve officers will open at Tokyo next April. A.P.
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  • 55 3 American oil companies m Hong Kong have received in•tions from the u.& Department not to supDlv fuel oU to ships plying I between Hong Kong anci Portuguese Macao. I Shippers took the order tc mean that Washington feels too much bunker oil is being diverted
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  • 23 3 Four buildings were defrayed and about 100 mule. dYed m a fire which blazed through the stockynrds at Joplin. Missouri- A.P.
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  • 9 3 The Government of India bSHSos Board.- U.P.
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  • 168 3 BALTIMORE, Fri. tcittallY cheery British L^ tte Mtimore Health SJgBSS of the Manipur to take. They; had bought their pets m, India foSr months ago and ?e« told by American consul/the parakeets would be Stowed m ports as long as they remained aboard tne ship. This the
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  • 290 3 ENTICED ME, SAYS MAN LONDON, Friday. A MAN who asked a woman neighbour for something to read was given a book of "not very good literature and some nudes", the magistrates at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, were told. This he took as an "invitation to immorality,"
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  • 57 3 THE CYCLIST THE 95 EGGS Bicyclist Tsang Chung-fan 12 whizzed out of Church Street Hong Kong, onto Main Street and crashed into bicyclist Hung Yu-dau, who was carrying 95 eggs. Fifty-five of the eggs didn't break Magistrate N. K. Lo made Tsang pay Hsl4 for the other 40 and fined
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 10 3 it* HOSAtT L JlaJei.T on Ttufe *eAwa_oo£r ■nife'poo.tiM& JkNOj=^ yf^-
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    • 254 3 Radio SINGAPORE 10 aun News; 10.05 Matinee; 11 Brass Bands; 1 pJ». Radio Orcn.; 1.30 News; 145 Art Van Damme Quintet; 6.15 News; 6JO Announcements; 635 Man Behind The Camera; 6.50 Forces' Favourites; 730 Light Orch. Songs; 8 New out of Africa; 8.15 "«tte and Harry Hackmeyer; 130 Friday Prom;
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  • 554 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, August 15, 1952 Many tongues IS there an emergency •m Sarawak or is there not? The men who should know and who give Press conferences are talking with many tongues. Fo.owing the two Incidents of murder and extortion by the Sarawak-Indonesian Peoples' Liberation Army a
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  • 1183 4  - The Dominion of Distrust G. WARD PRICE by A report from the land where Boer and Briton are still fighting a political war JOHANNESBURG. ANE word supplies th w clue to the Soutl African situation— com plex and cumulative a it is. That word is fear As the result of
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  • 690 4 RESETTLEMENT GIVES HOPE TO MANY INDO-CHINA REFUGEES Bumper rice crop m first year of aid <> r»OMMUNIST aggresl sion m Indo-China has created a refugee I problem m Vietnam but 1 thanks to the combined efforts of Vietnamese Government and American aid a happy solution is being found. The refugees
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  • 196 4 THE "about turn m their 1 own length" miracle ct London's taxis is a constant source of amazement to all tourists— and tourists from Greece are^apparently no exception. After admiring the agility of London taxis one group of Grecians capitulated to the extent of a long
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    • 23 4 I EHSASZMENT WEDOKis r;!»6S Our New Rings Will Interest You and Enthrall .Her P. H. HENDRY, Manufactuiißg Jeweller 73 NORTH BRIOCE ROAD SINCAPORE-6.
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    • 35 4 M It If you don't feel \our us.ual mad, gay self it's time you tried a gla(or two) of PENFOUTS WIM PENFOLDS CLARET BURGUNDY HOC/C Party wines at Meek -day pric« COLD STORAGE Co. Ltd.
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
    • 9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, August 15, 1952.
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    • 1636 1 The time has come for licensed bookmakers MAI racing. nigh it com- fc vourably with tntries, still M necessary .\nd that is oookmakers. no future m backI know ofl about 50 reasons can be beaten Give.: time to ptc, I could probibout another >v ean:ers of thL?, facility -dya where
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    • 19 1 A 16-hour-a-day man brings the business mund to the racing stables and ho finds it pay < lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIBIIIIIIIBiBI
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    • 334 1 Cook may ride at S'pore Gold Cup meet I EADING Sydney rider, Billy Cook, may ride m Malaya soon if negotiations now taking place are finalised. Cook was approached to ride m Malaya by a leading Singapore stable when it realised their former jockeys would not return to Malaya before
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    • 2255 1 rnHE influence of Bri-tish-bred horses m America is considerable and increasing and there is still the de- Continued from previous Col. odds of at least 2 to 1 and as much as 5 to 1 for his money. Why do bookmakers bet against the
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    • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 8847 2 Guide For K.L. Race Meeting Cobro 8-13. Nose-U-i. 1-14 4/5. Track good. WON: (Ten started) 18-4-52 K.L. 8-2 51F (Charles) Div. 1: 2nd Giltedged 8-12; 3rd Rapid Red 8-8; 4th Nero 8-« li-li-2. 1-9 1/5. Track heavy FORGET-ME-NOT FIFTH: (16 started) 12-7-52 Spore 9-0 cd 8-7 6F. (Padek) Djv. 4:
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    • Page 2 Advertisements
      • 259 2 HUJ§feER The otfristocraS^om Bicycles OLYMPIA Black 22" frame $140.00 SPORTS LIGHT ROADSTER Green 21" frame $149.00 SPORTS TOURIST Green 21" frame $179.00 SPECIAL Green 22" frame $184.00 In Green $4.00 Extra The (yßicycles STOCKS AVAILABLE Sole Agents: ROBINSONS SINCAPORE and KUALA LUMPUR No i Other Radio like this m all
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      • 111 2 FRESH=^ AIRPORT HOTEL, SINGAPORE PHONE 3i>si. F Quality Wureshis "YORK HOTEf Ist CLASS BAR ALL ROOMS WITH ENGLISH BATHS ATTACHED HOT and COLD RUNNING WATER TELEPHONES TO EACH ROOM DINNER and GOOD DRISKS SERVED ON THE LAWN NIGHTLY 14', Scoffs Rood— Phone ***** and ***** strength! zf GEORGE ELLIOT m
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      • 60 3 MUI FONG HOTEL (AIR-CONDITIONED) No. 85, Beach Road, Singapore. fOPPOSITE NEW ALHAMBRA THEATRE) BAR RESTAURANT AT YOUR SERVICE, SPECIALLY FURNISHED DOUBLE BED ROOMS, WITH PHONE ATTACHED PHONE Nos: *****, *****, ***** (3 Lines) Now available Latest Model of the Sturdy and °«P endaW /ur LONGINES MOISTUREPROOF and LONGINES AUTOMATIC WATCHES
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      • 151 3 For extra pleasure and tatinfaction CHURCHMAIN'S Np.l Obtainable m tins of SO or 25 and m packets of It.. Singapore: 16 for 44 CU. C-13-A EMBROIDERY J^B^. AND CROCHET Moßs CB"AUCROIX"^|pr FOR EMBROIDERY OF Ay, S DESCRIPTIONS V€ \^M M BRILLIANT TWISTED COnON FOR HAND O« 1 MACHINE EMBROIDERY I
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      • 152 4 BINOCULARS i" RACES THE IDEAL BINOCULAR for RACE MEETINGS GENERAL PURPOSES FOR MEN BBT 8,40 $245 FOR LADIES BBT Bx3 $1/5 OTHER TYPES AVAILABLE FOR SPECIALISED REQUIREMENTS. These Binoculars are as supplied to the French Armed Forces and carry our own recommendation. OBTAINABLE ONLY FROM SOLE AGENTS MOTION SMITH SON
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      • 162 4 (Me^J Trade Matt- SOLDERENG jk INSTRUfctfIiS Xl mean mm SOUND joints jTI SOUND EQUI l,t Reduce your By jT H. R. JOINTING FAULTS i4n.y w>// range 6/7 to H DESIGNED FOR i TELECOMMUNICATIONS g RADAR WIRELESS I] ASSEMBLY-MAINTENANa A/wt/t' E 3/16" Dia bit Standard Mo4d 1 4" Dia. kit S«aMiard
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    • 31 5 Problem serious says fisheries officers tor of Fisheries in f'JLJ S^v' Deputy Dim Colony GSSlttn&2 industry. ut\eiop its nshing tors are lik^ll t lS flirly o^Vous
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    • 50 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. A 13-YEAR-OLD Chinese girl, with a soft voice, today told Raja Chik Jaffar, the Kuala Lumpur Second Magistrate, that her adopted mother attempted to lure her to become a prostitute by telli ing her she could get "lots of money."
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    • 175 5 SINGAPORE Indians are complaining about the "pass" system— introduced by shipping agents— which restricts the number of visitors to certain India-bound vessels. Several of them have asked the Indian Association to protest strongly against the system. The ships concerned are the Rajula and the Jalagopal.
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    • 28 5 Measures they recommend I -od ano Or i^vo ■f sear be meI bioto >r»s. be n N .it may ►Ed nuv be v i Ming ionduc»in? he im-
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    • 16 5 cases one- id the r.th-olti Hosn of In< Q I strict.
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    • 242 5 QUERIES ON CLOSED ESTATES SEREMBAN Frl. \|R. B. H. TAN. an unofficial, will ask the Government how many Asian estates have been closed m Negri Sembilan ana the total acreage affected because of the Emergency, at 's meeting or the bi*an CjiuicU of State. Tan will also ask whether nment
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    • 158 5 SI'BSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: KIT. Malayan Reirig. v Trafalgar Street. An>on Road, lion: Bahru. Sago St. Kaiuah St.. Peuplr Park Nansuo Koad. Lam Soon Oi. Mils, C.van Hin. It Network. 1 factory. Kiver Vallo Ro.id hillincv Rd Orchard Rd. SWII. Armenian >t static Adr phi.
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    • 93 5 SEREMBAN. Fri. Eaidin bin Tamban, 24, was sentenced to one day's gael and fined $75 m default one month's rigorous imprisonment, on a charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Seelapillai at Sungei Gadut railway station on June 28. W??TT» "^.IBERS of the Singapore ciirJs'
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    • 167 5 They may urge resort on west coast THE Beach Development Committee is believed to have found only- one spot on Singapore's west coast which can be developed as a public seaside resort. There are practically no beaches on this cO3St. The sea comes up to the seawall m mos places.
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    • 208 5 The Singapore Association for the Blind has collected $40,000 to build a Home for the blind It needs another $60,900. Sne was testifying m a case m which Wong Yok? Ngoh. her adopted mother was charged with attempting, by intimidation, to procure the girl
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    • 133 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. THE Malayan Chinese As--1 sociation has organised a concert, including music, speeches and films, to boost its campaign to recruit Chinese for the police force. The show will be staged at the open space opposite the Chinese Assembly Hall. Kuala
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    • 29 5 The Sultan of Johore. now m Britain, has given $1,000 to •the Singapore Muslim Trust Fund Association to be spent on orphans under their care.
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    • 64 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. Dr. K. Coomarasamy, of Johore Bahru, has been elected President of the Ceylonese Association of Johore South for the coming year. Other officers elected were: Vice-president, M. K. Chelvathurai; hon. secretary, Mr. P. N. Singam; hon. treasurer, Mr. C. Sellathurai; committee, Mr. A. F.
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    • 104 5 IPOH. Fri. A SYSTEM of one-way traffic has been set up for the Malayan Amateur Athletic Association's championships here today and tomorrow, effective from noon each day until the end of the day s programoie. Vehicles going north and south will go by way of
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    • 144 5 CO-OP TO DISCUSS CLOSURE A SPECIAL general meetA ing of the Singapore Cooperative Stores Society will be held on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. at the British Council Hail, Stamford Road, to discuss whether the society's three stores should wind up business. Mr. T F. Carey, the ComI mlssioner. for Co-operative
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    • 174 5 GOVT. CUTS AID TO SCHOOL Free Press Staff Reporter r[E Singapore Education Department has decided to reduce I grant-in-aid to Yo k Eng School from Jan 1, an official of the Board of Management told the Free Press yesterday. The school was raided by the police on May H some
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    • 117 5 PENANG. Fri. AMERICAN consumption of Penang rubber snowed a big drop last month Against the June total of 3.247 t valued at nearly $6,000,000. the United States bought only 1.792 tons, worth $3,488--309, m July. As a result of this smaller demand, total shipment last month
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    • 159 5 MALACCA. Fri. SELDOM had there been a clearer case of perjury m the courts, said Mr. Justice Abbott m Malaca High Court yesterday when he sentened two proseution witnesses. Suppiah and his wife. Vallia- 1 mah. to three months' hard labour and seven days' simple
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    • 733 6  -  First day of S 'gor races ALLAN LEWIS By iVITH RED WOLF and Short Hairs certain non-starters and Sturveta very doubtful, the main Cl. 3 race over 7F. at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow, opening day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting, should resolve into a
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    • 218 6 THE following horses will not start at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow: Golden Lotus, Three Rings. Inspiration, Bottletop. Applause, Box Office. Shahpere, Lifebuoy. Grandeur, Straits Code. Calypso, Palio, Foire, Skyrider. Cinder's Prinoe. Large Scotch. Red Wolf. Short Hairs, Beech Pool. Whaler, Pedigree, Seal Prince. Oomaridairn. Hypnotism and Windy Island.
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    • 56 6  -  Thank* for your letter. I am sorry I cannot MKVtff it m ten ana as i; wculd take up ux> much spp.c?. However, let me have your address and I will reply direct or you cm call a* the ita Tnr.es Office. Kuala Lumpur, any morning between
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    • 18 6 p>R: [SB v. I given p rimsslon to enter the nij coir.pt titiorv I mule
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    • 299 6 I AM DOf looking past Palitoy for the winner of the Cl. 3 Div. 2 race over 7 F. I really think this horse has made as much improvement since win- i ning at Singapore as he did I there between his lirst two races.
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    • 486 6 MONA 'S KUDA IS TOO GOOD MONA'S KUDA, who won her first start at Singapore last month, then finished fourth, should be able to account for the field m the main sprint, CH 3, Div. 1 over s£f. at K.L. tomorrow. Mona's Kuda is brilliant and this is a decided
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    • 218 6 Another Newcomers' race rE cl. 3. Div. 3 race over 54 F. is another newcomers' race. These races are becoming a regular feature of meetings now which is not good for racing generally. However, this field of 16 will probably dwindle to about ten or 12 runners. Cynosure finished his
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    • 801 6  -  ASTRA (By ARMY Football Association's generous gesture last week m releasing: Tpr. Hird (13/18 Hussars) for Nesri Sembilan's Malaya Cup clash with Singapore, following a request by the N.S.F.A., failed to pay dividends. Unfortunately for Negri Hird's presence failed to prevent Singapore from soundly defeat.ng
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    • 423 6 THIS IS THE PROBLEMRACE OF THE DAY milE Cl. 4, Div. 1 race over 7F does nftt to pick. Bright Sagittarius i anta Light, Haoma and Bodybelt hay, dromL rt K 2 without a run m Cl. 3. pped f 'o Bright Sagittarius and Bodyb<- M performed of these five.
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      • 103 6 P^!ldr3w6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya Hi I BOY, THAT WAS S HE'S AB»GONE.ANO B WhAT DO WHERE DIG L^^JKB|BB J/\Nt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya f[f- WONOfiR WM6R6 /^QM, IV4£gg YOU ARE, ?^^l JAN 6 GOT ID?- A f<^?\ f PARLING! NOU v
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    • 104 7 N G BID FOR NEW 220 yd RECORD May skip 440 yd. hurdles »<1 AN i;:iir.es hurdler, Ng Liang Chiang, will I understood, .kip the 410 yds. hurdles fOyd. m the excellent time of h::les Club's athletic meet rd for this L D 4 sec. la the Singapore best return-
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    • 35 7 I i m penis Rovers t I>fiil \P. v HOUSES U 1 i PllijU v SCC padang. 1 j[ I .irre: soccer final. l RH KFT K;lish/ Australian England total 264 for 2
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    • 129 7 DAt\ir\ iMAi m*,m I a arnstp mst Indian tourists. KADIO MALAYA Sh 11 was a da y triumph for BROADCASTS si^h P Tesl "baite^neSvly thl Radio malaya will broad- so achieved his first century caat commentaries O n the for England. frnm^K VV V f
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    • 71 7 Twen-y— firs' and final acIceptors for the Ebor Handicap, to be run over cl threequarters a: Tcrt on Wednesday were published m London yes! I They are. with weights: Philantrope 9.2: Star Spangled Banner j3; Holmbush 8.13; Tufthunter .md Anamnestes B 8; Metaton Orler 8.6; Border Cutler
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    • 37 7 JACK X champ. on Max. ordered 10 are the New Vi i tic Commission on A to explain British promoter Jack Solomons' charges that he "efused ict to mcc? Ranp:n m Lond« A.P.
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    • 497 7 HOCKEY TEAM IS HOMEWARD BOUND 'THE Indian hockey team, which won the Olympic tournament m Helsinki last menth, left Paris for India yesterday by ered plane. They are expected to arrive m New Delhi early tomorrow morning. The team has been undefeated m 10 matches of their short European tour
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    • 27 7 *SQUk*B JHT. INN*-: flutton c PtaadWarb Kamchand j. lkin not out >Uv not ..I lota for wfcts.) i«4 JoNvu^:^^".-';''.-:..^?: kai X"'."K h ',"h™,H ii" r' Reuter
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    • 236 7 Hat-trick came in sixteen minutes I. Dept. 4; Wonderlads 2. A FIRST-half hat-trick rx by Kadir Yassin enabled Immigration Department to beat Wonderlads 4—2 m their S.A.F.A. Div. 3A League tie at C.V.M.A. ground yesterday. Play was even and fast to begin with, both sides taking their chances. Kadir slammed
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    • 97 7 After a blaci.^ had prevented Dlay m the first session last night m the Singapore Table Tennis junior inter-club tournament, a I good crowd saw a big upset m the second session when the fancied Chung Hwa S.A. were beaten m a key match by the
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    • 52 7 Results of the Singapore Business Houses League soccer matches played yesterday were: East Asiatic S.C. beat Malayan Airways S.C. 5-3. (Scorers for East Asiatic were: Ahmad Aman (4). and Nielson Airways scored through Bohran (2) and Wan Khong Malayan Breweries beat Imperial Chemical Industries 2-0 (Scorers, Krishnan
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    • 52 7 IPOH. Thurs. The replay of the Caldbeck Cup (Federation zonet final between the Ist Bn. Worcesters and the Green Howards will take place on Saturday on the Chinese Assembly Hall ground. The previous match, played last Sunday, m Ipoh ended m a 2-2 draw despite 30 minutes
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    • 61 7 The team to represent I.R.C A m the quarter-final of SAFA Junior Cup-tie against Windsor Rovers at Jalan Besar Stadium at 4 p.m o n Sunday will be chosen from Paul, Velu. Phillip. Ragunathan, Kalimuthu, G. Suppiah, Majid, Z. M. Kassim, N. Nadarajah, V. Nadarajah, S. Krishnan,
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    • 90 7 A9TRING of 20 thoroughbreds sent by the Aga Khan to the ■earling auction sales m New York sold on Wednesday for a total of '•13 COO about £61,760 (Sterling). shire's Leo Harrison, who hit his third century of the season after being missed when 11 and 53. Surrey
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    • 514 7 ri^Hi- r MTI swimming 1 sea n H* under way m full swing last night as five swimmers began criss-cross-ine the English Channel and nine more waited to take off. Bob Paysour, gangling young fireman from the United States, plunged m at noon from the coast
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    • 230 7 DRITISH professional golf*7 ers had a great day on the second round of the Lotus £1,500 tournament at Moor Park, Hertfordshire yesterday. Bobby Locke, South Africa's holder of the British open title was unable to increase his advantage. Wednesday's first round when Locke beat the
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    • 182 7 I£UALA LUMPuRS Methodist AY Boys School soccer team kept their unbeaten record yesterday when they beat Victoria School 1-0 m a thrill-packed match on the Victoria School ground. M.B.S. owed their victory m great measure to the fine display put up by their centre-forward Loli Poh Wah.
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    • 90 7 Yorks' tourney bid set back YORKSHIRE'S slender hopes of catching Surrey, x run away leaders m the English county championship, received a set back yesterday when they conceded first innings points m their match against Hampshire at Scarborough. Only a last wicket partnership of 33 by Vie Cannings and Ralph
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    • 6 7 RAF LODGERS WIN SERVICES SENIOR LGE
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    • 382 7 JJOYAL Air Force Lodger Units have won the L% Senior Division of the Singapore United Services Football Association League. With one tie remaining to be played off— a fixture against G.H.Q. postponed from early m the season Lodgers are beyond the reach of their nearest rivals, Royal Electrical and
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    • 286 7 Europeans 5 Indonesians 2. EUROPEANS, after a poor Lj start, rallied m the second half to score a convincing five-two victory over a spirited Indonesian XI m yesterday's Singapore Ama-t.-ur F. A. Community league match at Jalan Besar Stadium. Europeans had a slight edgp because,
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    • 56 7 AUSTRALIA'S Ken McGregor reached the semi-flnals of the Newport Invitation tennis tournament yesterday, overwhelming his 17-year-old countryman Lewis Hoad. 6-2, 6-3. 6-1. In the only quarter-final match of the day, Vie Seixas, top-rank-ed American, struggled for three hcurs before beating Australia 'z third-ranking Mervyn Ro«s>
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    • 39 7 THE Soviet Unron sports ommitiee has conferred th<» title of "Honoured Master of Sport" cm 12 men and women who won Gold Medals m the Olyn-pic Games at Helsinki, the new^pancr Soviet Sport announced yes Reuter
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    • 63 7 Dado may quit ring SAM Ichinose, manager of former world flyweight champion Dado Marino, sai<S Marino has not yet forfeited! his right for a return mateh 4 with champion Yoshio Shirai, but that he may later on.' Ichinose said the contract gives Dado until Nov. 19 to make up his
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    • 61 7 rE Soviet oaioa has been asked to organise this year's world volleyball championship lor men and women, according to Moscow radio The championships will be held between 4at 17 and 29 m the central stadium of the Dvnrmo Sports Club m Moscow. It is the first
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    • 29 7 In a badminton rr.;;tch at Vicu>ria School Hall yesterday. Methodist Boy& School scored their fourth consecutive v.. when thry beat V:ctoru Schooi by four games to two. AP
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    • 610 8 Ike refuses to see Truman for secrets talk DENVER, Friday. MR. DWIGHT EISENHOWER, the Republican presidential candidate, yesterday refused an invitation from President Truman to a lunch and briefing on the international situation, saying it was his duty to remain "free" to analyse the administration's policies publicly. Mr. Truman's invitation
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    • 67 8 58 bandits die in hectic West Java battle BANDUNG. Fr: FIFTY-EIGHT bandits. 17 members of the army and three villagers- were killed during a hectic three-day battle between units of the army and an estimated 600--strong gang near Kuningan, north-ea^t of West Java, it was reported yesterday. The gang was
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    • 30 8 Italy's famous tenor. Arrigo Pol/., arrived m Manila yesterday morning from Rome for seveji operatic engagements with the Manila Opera Company— his first appearance m the Orient.— A.P.
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    • 544 8 MUNICH, Friday. •T^R." PHILIP AUERBACH, politician and sushead of the Bavarian State office for restitution to Jewish victims of Nazism, was con- victed of embezzlement and taking bribes yesterday. He was sentenced to 30 months m prison and fined 2,000 marks (£200). red brick Register Office
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    • 8 8 BRITISH SAILORS CASE
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    • 263 8 TOKYO, Friday. ORITAIN is "perfectly correct" m protesting to Japan on behalf of the two British sailors imprisoned for robbing a Japanese taxi-driver, it was said here yesterday. A leading professor of international law. Arata Minakawa. writing m the Mainichi magazine, declared it was a mistaken
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    • 302 8 Monarch takes over in Nepal KATMANDU, Nepal, Frl. THE Himalayan kingdom of Nepal has an absolute monarch again today for the first time m more than 100 years. King Tribhuvana, champion of democratic reforms, restored supreme powers to himself because parliamentary democracy appeared to be temporarily on the rocks. The
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    • 23 8 R UBBER FOR MACAO The Polish freighter Hugo Kollataj sailed from Colombo yesterday with 240 tons of Ceylon rubber for Red China. U.P.
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      • 125 8 TRUMAN REFUSES President Truman has refused to increase American tariffs on imported watches as recommended by the U.S. Federal Tariff Commission. AP She* Radiant Her complexion is oaKli»H?. She usx* jeast-pc A beauty treatment m your i own home at your own price. Obtainable from: THE SINGAPORE DISPENSARY 265. Orchard
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